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Dan Mottsman, Doug Ettinger and Bill Kutzer along the trail.
Bill Kutzer on his bike at the Mill Stream Run Reservation.
Dan Mottsman and Bill Kutzer check out a map along the trail.
Bill Kutzer on his bike at the Mill Stream Run Reservation.
Dan Mottsman and Bill Kutzer check out a map along the trail.
Friends Bill Kutzer and Doug Ettinger of Mt. Lebanon and Dan Mottsman of Upper St. Clair have traveled together on three bicycling trips, including a trail from Pittsburgh to Washington, D.C., and another from Buffalo to Albany, N.Y. Their most recent trip was last summer when they took to trails in northern Ohio: the Ohio and Erie Canal towpath and the Emerald Necklace.
The Emerald Necklace consists of a network of parks around the Cleveland Metroparks and Cuyahoga Valley National Park that tend to follow the rivers and creeks there – on a map it looks like an Emerald Necklace. The Ohio and Erie Canal towpath is one of Ohio's largest bikeways at more than 80 miles.
Recently the friends talked about their trip during a presentation at the Mt. Lebanon Public Library. Their goal was to get others excited about bicycling. Both Kutzer and Ettinger had previously been on parts of the northern Ohio trails, but had not completed the entire trip until the Fourth of July holiday last year.
The trio broke up their trip into seven days, riding an average of about 45 miles each day, staying at hotels or bed and breakfasts along the way. They returned the same way by bicycle. To start their trip, the friends first drove to the Cleveland area and parked their car, then biked south to Massillon, Ohio.
Kutzer said if doing a trip to the northern Ohio trails, it's "best to have at least a weekend" or more. Ettinger said they chose the route they did because "we don't want to ride on highways."
"We like to check out the sites," Ettinger added, saying they enjoy looking at the history, geography and wildlife in the area. He said they also enjoyed talking to others they met along the trails.
Day two of their trip consisted of biking south along the trail and then returning back to Massillon. The third day, the group returned to Boston and stayed at the Stanford House hostel overnight and biked east on the Emerald Necklace the next day. That night, they returned to the Stanford House and on day five, biked north to downtown Cleveland and then returned back to the Stanford House. On day six, they biked west on the Emerald Necklace and stayed at a bed and breakfast. On day seven, they biked north on the Emerald Necklace and returned.
Ettinger said that because they drove to the Cleveland area, they didn't worry about transportation. Both Kutzer and Ettinger agreed that it's a different trip to and from even though it's the same path.
For anyone considering a bike trip like the trio's, they offered some advice, including the fact that one must train for such a trip. "The key is 10 miles," Kutzer said, adding that for someone who is just starting to take long bicycle trips, once they reach the point where they can do 10 miles, it becomes much easier to do an even longer trip. They also agreed that it's a good idea to be in reasonable shape and get an OK from your doctor.
The friends said to plan ahead for the trip by researching where to go, where to stay and other information about the destination. Kutzer also offered advice for how much weight to carry. He said they carried around 32 pounds of equipment on their bikes including gear, hydration units and bottles, cameras and other essentials in each of their panniers, or the packs on the side of the bike.
Kutzer said to consider the time of the year to take a trip. They chose to go in the summer because the days are longer. Both Kutzer and Ettinger added that they didn't mind biking in the heat because when on the trails, which were often wooded, it felt cooler. They said that the summer is also a good time to go because one doesn't need to take as much equipment. In the springtime, there is more rain, so the trails can be softer, and in the fall, it is cooler so more clothing is needed and the leaves hide the ruts on the trail – although, the autumn colors are a bonus of going in the fall.
"It is a nice vacation – a nice outing," Ettinger said.
Kutzer said he's been bicycling for "a long time – even as a kid." He said he and his friends would ride from Brentwood, where he grew up, to South Park and also ride to Glass Run Road.
Ettinger, who grew up in the eastern part of the state, also rode bikes as a kid. "I didn't return to bicycling until some friends at work introduced me to a 21-speed bike," he said.
He added he likes doing rails-to-trails trips and works with the Montour Trail locally.
The friends are planning this year's trip, which will be along trails in West Virginia.
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It is possible that I misunderstood and the group members had some sobriety but just less than H(who only has 4-5 months)?? There were some participants whose goal was to go a week without sexual acting out and only use porn???
The mix of people was not like me. At all. Every single one of them could have left their SAWH except one, they had the financial means and family support to do so. Two of them had grown kids, two of them had teens about to fly the nest, one had no kids, one had a spouse whose acting out included abusing her daughter/his stepdaughter. The closest one "like" me was pregnant with their 3rd child (and I had just made SAWH have a vasectomy even tho I wanted another), but his and her whole family knew and her family would have supported her if she left.
I had my doubts. However, that short term group was absolutely invaluable. I saw so much of what I could not see in myself in others. I saw how much I needed IC for myself, how much work I needed to do to heal. I signed up for another group right after it ended (led by another CSAT), and four of the six people in that group came from this first group.
So I am just saying 1) don't discount the group on first appearances and 2) be wary of any SA looking for any excuse to get out of therapy that makes them uncomfortable.
However, the accepting of porn in sobriety isn't really sobriety, that is a red flag to me. I don't know what the CSAT said in response to that, so it may be the SAs who said that are just stupid. If the CSAT is saying that's ok, I would shop for another group.
But again, if it was *my* SAWH saying this about group two years ago, I wouldn't believe a word coming out of his mouth. Not only because of the honesty issue, but he was too wacked out from the addiction to see reality. It takes a long time, even when they really want to make changes, for them to see things as they really are.
It is not H who is saying he wants to leave the group -- he said he wanted to finish out the 9 remaining weeks and just get it over with. This group meets a few blocks from our house which is a huge positive. Though he did say repeatedly last night that he cannot wait for this part of his life to be behind him and be in deep recovery/recovered. I keep on bringing up switching groups. I just can't see paying $70 a session and more the point wasting our valuable family time on this group if another group would be more useful for him. And I don't think we can survive two rounds of group close together -- if H ever does another group it won't be until spring/summer 2014 or beyond.
ETA: Just asked and csat did not call out porn only person or comment about addiction, can't do that etc. H said therapist mainly went on and on (and on) about confidentiality and how brave and beautiful everyone was for sharing and being honest.
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And honestly I think there is advantages to having some struggling with sobriety in the beginning. SAWH said part of the reason he lied about his sobriety so long in 12 step and therapy was he didn't want to be the only guy that couldn't make it week to week. Everyone in his two 12 step meetings that weren't brand new had long sobriety histories. There has to be a feeling that your group/12 step is a safe place to share about your struggles.
What I caution you about is the attitude of "getting past this phase" in terms of time management. Yes, things improve personally, emotionally, etc as you progress in recovery but the time management aspect really does not. He will always have to go to meetings 2x a week. He might have to go to group or IC less often, but not that much less. He will have to work the steps over and over again to ensure they are still working in his life. Addiction of any kind has no cure, only maintenance.
So it sucks it takes up so much time that you feel should be spent with family or together or whatever, but the truth is unless the addiction is managed, you don't get the time with family or together or whatever anyway. It is the price you pay to have time at all.
And for us, that sucks and is a bitter pill to swallow. We continually have to fight resentment because we deserve better. But it is a choice we make to endure this or not. And you eventually learn to accept it and appreciate it for what it is, if it improves your life. Or get out if it doesn't.
Sorry again this is not a ray of sunshine. I just want to be honest. If I knew exactly what all of this entailed in the beginning, I probably would have taken a different path. I know now I was informed what I needed to know as it unfolded for a reason, and that it all worked out for the best for me thus far. But I also feel that I was educated this way to share what I learned with others so they can make educated choices of their own.
CDs - That would worry me too, not calling him out on the porn use! My SAWHs current CSAT is very firm with his patients and does not coddle them. He is big on them becoming men with integrity and not weak little boys. Maybe your SAWH could go to one more session and see if it improves? There are some CSATs that aren't very good, the two of you will have to decide if this is the right group for you. For us, the time management has improved over the last couple of years. Finding meeting at the right time and therapy at the right time have gotten better. I think it kind of gets into a rhythm and everyone is used to the schedule. 5 years out it isn't uncommon for people to go to one meeting a week and occasional therapy. Of course, that depends on how severe their addiction is and if there are any other personality disorders. My SAWH will have to do therapy for a bit longer than others because of his severe childhood abuse.
Every situation is slightly different and we all have to figure out what works best for us. That is one thing the treatment center really emphasized to my husband. He needed to take control of his recovery and guide his treatment. It is true for me, as well. Learning to trust our own gut and path in life is such a gift of recovery!
Sadly,I have come to the conclusion that he is not capable of initiating a conversation of any depth so that leaves it up to me, every time. We talk about the news, weather, family stuff, etc. but, that's kind of where it ends. It has always been so hard for me to talk to him about sensitive topics. Now I know about his passive-aggresive and avoidance issues & why he used certain tactics to cut conversation off when things got too deep. I decided a long time ago to just deal with things myself and leave him out if it was at all possible just so I wouldn't have to deal with his shitty attitude and defensiveness. He was always right about everything and unless you did things the way he wanted it done, it was wrong. I felt like I never could please him but, nevertheless, I kept trying hard to do it.
Now, I'm finding that old habits die pretty hard. I find myself stuffing down feelings that we were able to talk about just 3 months ago. Whenever I bring up something about his acting out, he gets this pained look on his face and closes his eyes. It's as if a brick wall just went up between us. He will answer my questions but, still doesn't offer anything else and his tone of voice doesn't set well with me. He uses a lot of sarcasm and self defeating statements. To be fair, I know that his guilt and shame are huge factors in this but, it is still unsettling to me for some reason. I still don't trust him yet. I don't know if this is something anyone else has noticed about their SA or not but, when I look at H's eyes, I don't see him in there. They look completely hollow and it makes me wonder where he really is.
He didn't want to separate but, said he would go if I wanted him to. I told him I did but, caved when he actually packed his bag. He said he was planning to go to an extended stay hotel. Yep, that's what I needed to hear was that he would be staying at a sleazy hotel by the interstate where all the hookers hang out. I couldn't stand the thought of that or the idea that he would act out due to desperation. I know I can't control things but, my heart got the better of me and I felt like I was turning him loose to deal with his demons on his own and I guess I felt like he wouldn't be able to pass the test. If he didn't, it would certainly seal our fate.
So, what's wrong with me? I feel like a loser. I have no respect for myself that I didn't have the fortitude to actually let him go. To let us see if he has learned anything. See if he would be able to withstand the temptations. No, that just seemed way to risky for me and all I could see is that I was forcing him out knowing full well that he is ill equipped to deal with that kind of pressure yet. If he passed, that would have been a glorious achievement but, I simply couldn't see a way to deal with the possibility of failure.
I see so many strong women on here who have learned and evolved into experts at interacting with the SA in their life. That's where I want to be but, I feel a long way off. I'm not sure I will ever to be able to put this behind me. The repeated acting out for so many years without my knowledge seems to be a mortal wound. My head says it had nothing to do with me but, then why do I feel so violated?
OK, I'm stuck. I guess I'm going to need a gentle nudge from my comrades out there to get me back on track.
I am smart. I know the right answers. It frustrates me that I can't trust myself to be right.
That might be considered a rant because I'm not sure any of it makes sense to anybody. It certainly makes no sense to me.
Also, if you ultimately decide to separate, IME people do exactly what you are doing. Unlike the movies there is not one glorious break . . . the move toward D in fits and starts, bit by bit.
I agree with missymomma that there are other housing options too. If you decide to go this route, check out short-term sublets, sabbatical rentals, and also a good option can be people that rent rooms in their home or house-mate situations. It is back to Craigslist actually but the housing sections!
There is no shame and in fact much to be said in waiting a year to decide. My own view though is that you don't want to just wait during that year--I would start exploring whether you could get a higher paying job, your housing options, etc. I have some idea how terrifying it is - -I am financially OK but I have zero family support and in fact almost zero family left. Hugs to you Outta!
As for me and this group therapy saga, we are going to give it a few more meetings and see it improves. It is really H's call--in my view though there are red flags and as I mentioned I met this CSAT and was not overly impressed. As for the long-term, our thinking had been that around three years from now we would be down to a once a week SA meeting for H, once a month IC for him, and once a month MC (and perhaps after that alternating once monthly IC and MC). Of course it is hard to know how recovery will go but at some point, his CSAT seemed to indicate that while he would need some ongoing support for life it would be more like what I describe than our current reality. Frankly, I am not up for a family life that consists of H working late once a week and then 3 other meetings per week. We would have to D or he would need to change jobs.
Maybe it will work. Maybe not. One thing that scares me is that I have read more about SA than H. I don't really think he could comprehend some of them as they are very clinically written. He reads his white book and big book every day as well as his daily bible reading. I see some of the red flags talked about with the white knuckling but, am helpless to articulate that concept to H. He simply doesn't get it but, displays many, many symptoms. I just don't know what to do about it. I facilate between being concerned for him and being absolutely terrified that it will all come crashing down. Suggestions?
I can't survive another SA crisis. I really can't. So, how do I go about addressing my concerns to him in a way he can understand? Mind you, he is very proud of maintaining his sobriety and thinks he is doing just fine. That's when I start thinking it's just me. My gut tells me something is off but, I just don't know what it is or even how to go about figuring it out.
I express to you all again my gratitude for the help & support you have given me. I really could not have made it even this far without you.
I totally understand whiteknuckling without knowing you are white knuckling, and not being capable of understanding it. It is actually very common with all addicts. Basically that improves with lots of time, practice, and a hardass sponsor or therapist. (((hugs))) Not a thing you can do to push that wet noodle, it is a journey he has to take on his own.
And FWIW, I agree with CDS and Missymomma. If you want to R, and don't need him out to figure out what you want, there's no shame in letting him stay. Separate bedrooms can accomplish a lot that way, I hear. You are just gunshy about trusting yourself, and who wouldn't be under the circumstances. Give yourself time to heal some and get your confidence back. Then you will feel better about making tough decisions.
As for me and this group therapy saga, we are going to give it a few more meetings and see it improves. It is really H's call--in my view though there are red flags and as I mentioned I met this CSAT and was not overly impressed. As for the long-term, our thinking had been that around three years from now we would be down to a once a week SA meeting for H, once a month IC for him, and once a month MC (and perhaps after that alternating once monthly IC and MC). Of course it is hard to know how recovery will go but at some point, his CSAT seemed to indicate that while he would need some ongoing support for life it would be more like what I describe than our current reality. Frankly, I am not up for a family life that consists of H working late once a week and then 3 other meetings per week. We would have to D or he would need to change jobs.
FWIW, there was someone in my group whose SAWH had a similar history and DD to mine but he embraced recovery from the very beginning. They did not have the disclosure issues we had because she didn't want to know past stuff, only sobriety going forward. So her life now is similar to what you are talking about in your future 3rd year out. I think they do IC twice a month (down from weekly, working towards once), had just started MC maybe six months ago so I am not sure how often, and last I heard he was still doing 12 step twice a week. However, he had a 9-5 no overtime job so it was easier to balance that with her and the two kids with activities outside of school. So that scenario is certainly possible with an SA fully committed to recovery.
I would not dare speculate on odds tho. I know in our case, that scenario in year three is not very likely. And SAWH knows he is to blame for that.
I totally understand whiteknuckling without knowing you are white knuckling, and not being capable of understanding it. It is actually very common with all addicts. Basically that improves with lots of time, practice, and a hardass sponsor or therapist. (((hugs))) Not a thing you can do to push that wet noodle, it is a journey he has to take on his own.
What Hath said...and gently...you HAVE to give this up to your higher power. You simply have NO CHOICE. It is out of your control. It is the hardest thing for a spouse to truly get. Especially for those of us in long term marriages where we were essentially single parents who did it all, and thought we could fix everything.
Realistically, everything you are trying to tell him about sobriety, white-knuckling etc is going in his ears and out again, and all he is hearing is what Charlie Brown heard from the teacher "whaa-whaa-whaa." And it's most likely not intentional on his part, if he is anything like my SAFWH, he is INCAPABLE of taking in any more information than he is getting right now.
If he's reading the white books, doing IC and meetings and reading the Bible, he is doing a lot. IMHO, some of the rest of it has to sink in IN HIS TIME. I strongly suspect he is hearing a lot of what you are saying in meetings. It gets through eventually.
It's so freaking hard to be patient. And I know that Sanon didn't work for you. But do try to work the steps for YOURSELF. It can bring you serenity.
As to your physical separation, I would also be afraid of that setup. We didn't separate, except briefly. The mental detachment that I achieved with working the steps was enough. As you know, getting back the attachment is now the challenge. None of it is easy.
Hugs and LIGHT.
I just want you to know that I'm holding you in my heart.
*I* made him do all of that. And THEN I made him start an affair with his Ex-Wife.
Wow. I am some kind of powerful bitch! I must be the most powerful and awful woman EVER!


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Prospective observational study to evaluate the impact of Recto-Anal-Repair (a technique of ultrasound guided haemorrhoidal ligation) in the treatment of stage III/IV haemorrhoidal disease.
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Decent if you have time for it...
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Not many frats or involvement in social scenes
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Pretty hard to find apartments off campus, first come first serve and you're on your own
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Traditional name
Zinc Sulfate 7-Hydrate, ZnSO4 • 7H2O, Zinc sulfate heptahydrate, Zinc vitriol, White vitriol
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The powder and crystals
Minerals; Inorganic; Zinc-Group
Original proving
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Zinc sulfate exists as different hydrates. The physical properties differ according to these different types of aggregation.Zinc sulfate heptahydrate forms from saturated watery zinc sulfate solutions into colorless, shiny, column formed crystals. Above 39°C it transforms into the hexahydrate (ZnSO4 · 6H2O) and at 70°C-100°C we only find monohydrate (ZnSO4 · H2O). The last crystal water molecule vanishes at 240°C (anhydrate).
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Francis Albert Sinatra (December 12, 1915 – May 14, 1998) was a popular and highly acclaimed male vocalist and actor. Renowned for his impeccable phrasing and timing, critics place him alongside such artists as Bing Crosby, Elvis Presley, and The Beatles as one of the most important, popular and influential musical figures of the 20th century. http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=11:iyg9kett7q7b~T1 Profile
Sinatra had a larger-than-life presence in the public eye and, over a seven-decade career in show business, became an United States Pop icon. His brash, sometimes swaggering attitude was perhaps best embodied by his signature song "My Way (song)", and more generally by his frequently gutsy cinematic performances. He also garnered considerable attention due to his alleged connections with the Mafia.
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Francis Albert Sinatra was born in Hoboken, New Jersey, in 1915. He was the only child of a quiet Sicily fireman, Anthony Martin Sinatra (1894-1969). Anthony had emigrated to the United States in 1895. His mother, Natalie Dolly Garaventa (1896-1977), was a talented, tempestuous Ligurian, who worked as a midwife, Democratic party ward boss, and part-time abortionist. Known as "Hatpin Dolly," she emigrated in 1897. Although it is part of the Sinatra folklore that Frank had an impoverished childhood, he was actually brought up in middle-class surroundings, due to his father's secure job as a fireman and his mother's strong political ties to the Democratic Party (United States) in Hoboken. Following his teen years in New Jersey, Sinatra was interested in serving his country during World War II. But on December 9, 1941, close to his 26th birthday, Sinatra was classified as Selective Service System#Classifications at Newark Induction Center, due to a punctured eardrum he suffered from a difficult forceps delivery. This allowed Sinatra to pursue entertainment, rather than being enlisted in the Army Air Corps.
Early career
In September of 1935 he appeared on the Major Bowes Amateur Hour as part a group called the Hoboken Four. The group won the show's talent contest and toured with Bowes. Sinatra then took a job as a singing waiter and MC at the Rustic Club in Englewood, NJ. In 1939 bandleader and trumpet player Harry James heard Sinatra on the radio. James hired Sinatra and the two recorded together for the first time on July 13, 1939. At the end of the year he left James to join the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra, where he rose to fame as a ballad singer. His first and biggest hit with the band was 1940's "I'll Never Smile Again," which spent several weeks at number one on Billboard magazine's then-new chart of America's top-selling records. His vast appeal to the "bobby soxers," as teenager were called, revealed a whole new audience for popular music, which had appealed mainly to adults up to that time. (The complete span of his career with Dorsey was released in the 1994 box set The Song Is You.) It was as a featured singer with Dorsey that Sinatra made his earliest film appearances, such as the 1942 Eleanor Powell/Red Skelton comedy, Ship Ahoy in which the uncredited singer performed a couple of songs. In 1943, he signed with Columbia Records as a solo artist with initially great success, particularly during the musicians' recording strike action. Vocalists were not part of the musician union and were allowed to record during the ban by using a cappella vocal backing. Sinatra scored several hits during the strike, then enjoyed one of his biggest hits when the strike ended with "Saturday Night Is the Loneliest Night of the Week." He also starred on radio programs during this period and was widely considered the nation's second-most-popular singer, behind Bing Crosby. However, Sinatra's career began a decline in the late 1940s, as novelty tunes became popular with audiences, and Sinatra moved into his 30s, causing some loss of appeal to new teen-age audiences. He also strained his voice from overwork, and committed a series of public-relations gaffes -- including the punching of newspaper columnist Lee Mortimer -- that severely tarnished his public image. Of this first phase of Sinatra's career, it can be said that it anticipated virtually every phase of what, in the 1960s, would be called "the youth movement." His sudden--and for many his alarming--appeal to teenagers became a topic of journalistic and even sociological comment. Later musical idols would pass through the same stages of massive initial appeal, decline, and retrenchment, but few, however, would manage to attract as many new audiences as Sinatra did. This became essential to any popular music career that aspired to longevity.
Post-war revival of career
What might be called Sinatra's second career began as a full-fledged dramatic actor when he played the scrappy Pvt. Angelo Maggio in the eve-of-Attack on Pearl Harbor drama From Here to Eternity (1953), for which he won an Academy Awards for Best Supporting Actor. This role and performance became legendary at the time as the key comeback moment in Sinatra's career. Virtually overnight, his career recovered after several years in the wilderness.Eternity The following year, Sinatra played a crazed, coldblooded assassin determined to kill the President of the United States in the thriller Suddenly (1954 film) (available freely online here). Critics found Sinatra's performance one of the most chilling portrayals of a psychopath ever committed to film. This was followed in 1955 by his portrayal of a heroin in Nelson Algren The Man with the Golden Arm, for which he received an Academy Award for Best Actor nomination. Musically, Sinatra reinvented himself with a series of complex adult albums featuring darker emotional material starting with In the Wee Small Hours. In 1953, he had signed with Capitol Records, where he worked with many of the finest arrangers of the era, most notably Nelson Riddle, Gordon Jenkins, and Billy May. By the early 1960s, he was a big enough star to start his own record label: Reprise Records. His position with the label earned him the long-lasting nickname "The Chairman of the Board". The famous Sinatra comeback is the stuff of American legend, and, indeed, there seemed little in either his 1940s film career or his radio and television performances of the early 1950s to predict the dramatic success he would enjoy on screen in the 1950s and 1960s. However, the musical turnaround should not have been unexpected. At the very end of his Columbia recording career, in two performances in 1952 Sinatra had given advance warning of what would become the new sound he achieved in the 1950s at Capitol. In "The Birth of the Blues" it would be the sound of the new and "swinging" Sinatra: a hipper, tougher, more masculine persona than the sometimes boyish Sinatra of the 1940s. In "I'm A Fool To Want You" he anticipated the darker, melancholic sound of the great "torch" albums of the 1950s. Neither performance was sufficient to prevent Columbia from declining to renew his contract, in what must surely rank as one of the great errors in the business history of American popular music. In the 1950s and 1960s, this new Sinatra would become the most popular attraction in Las Vegas, Nevada, the venue of choice for performers of his era as the rise of rock and roll began to reduce the market for their recordings. He was friends with many other entertainers, including Dean Martin, Sammy Davis, Jr, actor Peter Lawford, comedian Joey Bishop, and sometimes Shirley MacLaine. They formed the core of the Rat Pack, a loose group of entertainers who were friends and socialized together--and whose wild and unpredictable antics would dominate show business news for much of the period from 1958 to 63. Sinatra played a major role in the desegregation of Nevada hotels and casinos in the 1960s. Sinatra led his fellow members of the Rat Pack in refusing to patronize hotels and casinos that denied service to Sammy Davis Jr. With the release of the film Ocean's Eleven (1960 film) (1960), the Rat Pack became the subject of great media attention, and this gave the Rat Pack, Sinatra in particular, the leverage he needed to force hotels and casinos to end segregation. In 2001, Las Vegas, Nevada named Frank Sinatra Drive, a new street parallel to Interstate 15 and Las Vegas Boulevard, in his honor. Sinatra was close to the Kennedy family and was a friend and strong supporter of President John F. Kennedy. Years later, Sinatra's youngest daughter Tina would state that Sinatra and mob figure Sam Giancana had helped Kennedy win a crucial primary election in 1960 by helping to deliver the union votes.Union Sinatra is said to have introduced Kennedy to Judith Campbell Exner, who had been a girlfriend of both Sinatra's and Giancana. Campbell allegedly began a relationship with Kennedy; eventually Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy became alarmed and told his brother to distance himself from Sinatra. This soured Sinatra's relationship with the Kennedy family and the Democratic Party, and by the late 1960s Sinatra had become a Republican and supporter of Richard Nixon, who became President in 1968. http://www.nj.com/sinatra/ledger/index.ssf?/sinatra/stories/mob.html Mob Sinatra would lose his Nevada casino license in 1963 when Giancana was seen in the Cal-Neva Lodge casino, of which Sinatra was a part owner.Casino Sinatra resumed his strong film work with the 1962 paranoid classic The Manchurian Candidate (1962 film), in which he played the troubled, frequently blinking, but nonetheless resolute protagonist. In 1965's Von Ryan's Express, Sinatra added dimensionality to a World War II action role. His other film appearances during this time were either cameos or, as in the case of 1964's Robin and the Seven Hoods, critically-panned efforts to trade in on his image. In the 1970s Sinatra staged a retirement and several comebacks, recording less frequently but continuing to perform in Las Vegas and around the world. It was a period during which, by taking to the road again, Sinatra sought to bring the great American songbook of the 1920s and 1930s to a much wider audience than the one that frequented the casinos of Las Vegas. In 1981 Sinatra's Nevada casino license was reinstated after hearings by the Nevada Gaming Control Board. Indeed, journalist Pete Hamill wrote in his book, Why Sinatra Matters, that Sinatra was "the most investigated American performer since John Wilkes Booth." "Sure, I knew some of those guys," Sinatra himself said. "I spent a lot of time in saloons. And saloons are not run by the Christian Brothers. There were a lot of guys around, and they came out of Prohibition, and they ran pretty good saloons. I was a kid. I worked in the places that were open. They paid you, and the checks didn't bounce. I didn't meet any Nobel Prize winners in saloons. But if Francis of Assisi was a singer and worked in saloons, he would've met the same guys." , The Lovo-maniacs, which attempted a fictional insight into his complex personality. Sinatra's singing career continued into the 1990s, most notably with his commercially-successful Duets (Frank Sinatra album) albums on which he sang with other stars such as U2's Bono (U2). He continued to perform live until February 1995, but by then the nearly 80-year-old singer often had to rely on teleprompters for his lyrics, to compensate for his failing memory.
Love and marriage
Sinatra was married to his childhood sweetheart, Nancy Barbato, in Jersey City, New Jersey on February 4, 1939. They had three children together: Nancy Sinatra (born June 8, 1940), Frank Sinatra, Jr. (born January 10, 1944), and Tina Sinatra (born June 20, 1948). Although Sinatra did not remain faithful to his wife, he was by many accounts a devoted father. However, his affair with Ava Gardner became public and the couple was separated in 1950. They were divorce on October 29, 1951 despite Nancy Sr.'s (as she was sometimes known) religious qualms and objections. According to public reports Frank and Nancy Sr. remained on at least civil terms, if not better, and Nancy would recount how Frank still loved her cooking and would send someone by to pick up her home-made specialties many decades after they separated. Sinatra married the actress Ava Gardner on November 7, 1951, only ten days after his divorce from his first wife became final. They were separated on October 27, 1953 but were not divorced until 1957. She was considered to be his truest love, but that did not guarantee marital success and stability in Hollywood. Sinatra proposed to actress Lauren Bacall, whom he had been seeing since shortly after her husband Humphrey Bogart died in 1957, but reneged when word of their relationship became public. On December 8, 1963, Frank Sinatra, Jr. was List of famous kidnappings. Sinatra paid the kidnappers' $240,000 ransom demand (even offering $1,000,000 if only his son would be returned, though the kidnappers bizarrely turned down this offer), and his son was released unharmed on December 10. Because the kidnappers demanded that Sinatra call them only from payphones, Sinatra carried a roll of dimes with him throughout the ordeal, and this became a lifetime habit. The kidnappers were subsequently apprehended and convicted. A movie called Stealing Sinatra has been shot about this incident. Sinatra married actress Mia Farrow, 30 years his junior, in 1966. They were divorced two years later. In 1976, Sinatra married Barbara Blakeley Marx (formerly married to Zeppo Marx), who converted to Catholicism to marry him. She remained his wife until his death, although her relations with Sinatra's children were consistently portrayed as stormy, something Nancy Sinatra (Jr.) confirmed when she publicly claimed that Barbara had not bothered to call Frank's children even when the end was near, although they were close by, and the children missed the opportunity to be at their father's bedside when he died.
Alleged organized crime links
Sinatra has been frequently linked to members of the Mafia and it has long been rumored that his career was aided behind the scenes by organized crime.http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/special_report/1998/05/98/sinatra/94360.stm One of his uncles, Babe Gavarante, was a member of a Bergen County armed gang connected to the organization of Willie Moretti. Gavarante was convicted of murder in 1921 in connection with an armed robbery in which he had driven the get-away car. Sinatra was also allegedly personally linked to Willie Moretti, his first wife Nancy Barbato was a cousin of one of his senior henchmen and Sinatra sang at the daughter's wedding in 1948. According to testimony from Moretti, Sinatra received help from him in arranging performances in return for kick-backs. He had associations with and did favours for Charles Fischetti, a notorious Chicago mobster dating back to 1946 according to the FBI. Sinatra was also friends with Charles's brother Joseph who ran the Fontainebleau Hotel complex in Miami, who arranged work for him and introduced him to Charles Luciano in Havana. After Luciano's deportation to Italy, Sinatra visited him at least twice, singing at a 1946 Christmas Party and gifting the famed mobster with a gold cigarette case engraved "To my dear pal Charlie, from his friend Frank" the next year. These visits were widely reported by the media and used as further evidence of Sinatra's ties to the mob, haunting him for the rest of his life. Among the allegations was the $2 million that Sinatra gave Luciano. As Joseph "Doc" Stacher later recalled of the Havana meeting, "The Italians among us were all very proud of Frank. They always told me they had spent a lot of money helping him in his career ever since he was in Tommy Dorsey's band. Lucky Luciano was very fond of Frank's singing. Frankie flew into Havana with the Fischettis, with whom he was very friendly, but of course, our meeting had nothing to do with hearing him croon. Everyone brought envelopes of money for Luciano. But more important, they came to pay allegiance to him." The "Havana" allegations - while the basis of rumors for Sinatra's mob ties - have never been proved, and Luciano himself denied there was any criminal association in his autobiography. Sinatra had a strong friendship with Sam Giancana who always wore a sapphire friendship ring given to him by Sinatra, and who ordered the killing of about 200 people. A number of alleged incidents have been noted where people who angered Sinatra had been threatened by Giancana's mob. Comedian Jackie Mason has alleged that after mocking Sinatra in his routine, he received threats and his hotel room was shot up in his presence. After he continued, he received death threats and was roughed up and his nose broken. J. Edgar Hoover apparently suspected Sinatra over the years, and Sinatra's file at the FBI ended up at 2,403 pageshttp://foia.fbi.gov/foiaindex/sinatra.htm, detailing allegations of extortion against Ronald Alpert for $100,000. Sinatra publicly rejected these accusations many times, and was never charged with any crimes in connection with them. The character Johnny Fontane in the book and movie The Godfather (novel) is widely viewed as having been inspired by Frank Sinatra and his alleged connections. Indeed, Sinatra was furious with Godfather author Mario Puzo over the Fontane character and reportedly confronted Puzo in public with profane threats.
A frequent visitor, property owner and benefactor in the Palm Springs, California area, Sinatra wished to be buried in the desert he grew to love so much. Frank Sinatra died at the age of 82 of a heart failure in Los Angeles, California, following a long battle with coronary heart disease, kidney disease, bladder cancer, and dementia. He had undergone surgery to remove part of his intestines in 1986, and had suffered a bad fall from the stage in 1994, while singing "My Way". His funeral was held on May 20, 1998 at the Church of the Good Shepherd in Beverly Hills and at St. Theresa's Catholic Church in Palm Springs, California. Sinatra's last words were (according to his daughter Nancy Sinatra, as told to Variety (magazine) senior columnist, Army Archerd): "I'm losing." Sinatra was buried a short distance east of St. Theresa's next to his parents in section A-8 of Desert Memorial Park in Cathedral City, California, a quiet, unassuming cemetery on Ramon Road at the border of Cathedral City and Rancho Mirage, California and near his famous Rancho Mirage compound, located on tree-lined Frank Sinatra Drive. His longtime friend, Jilly Rizzo, who died in a Rancho Mirage car crash in 1992, is buried in the same cemetery as is pop star, former Palm Springs mayor and United States House of Representatives, Sonny Bono. Legend has it that Sinatra was buried in a blue suit with a flask of Jack Daniel's and a roll of ten dimes which was a gift from his daughter, Tina, along with a card that said "Sleep warm, Poppa - look for me." The ten dimes were a habit dating back to the kidnapping of his son, Frank Sinatra, Jr. due to the kidnappers' demands that negotiations be made via pay phone. A Zippo lighter (which some take to be a reference to his mob connections) is purported to be buried with him as is a pack of Camel cigarettes. The words The Best is Yet to Come are imprinted on his tombstone.
Recorded legacy
Sinatra's vocal style represented a significant departure from the 'crooner' style of his idol, Bing Crosby. Sinatra's generation represented the first generation of children that had grown up in the era of the microphone, and the amplification of sound enabled singers to sing in a much softer, personal and nuanced style. Bing Crosby had begun this change, and established a new American singing style based around conversational ease. However Sinatra, as he himself once noted, sang more, by which he meant that he introduced a bel canto sound to the tradition begun by Bing Crosby. And, more importantly, he might be said to have brought the Crosby tradition to artistic completion, taking it to levels of intensity and depth of feeling that, because of the displacement of the Bing Crosby-Sinatra tradition by rock and roll and subsequent genres, are unlikely to be achieved again. Two other great performers of the 1930s and 1940s were significant influences on Sinatra: Billie Holiday and Mabel Mercer. Sinatra regularly heard "Lady Day" in New York clubs in the 1940s and learned from her the importance of authenticity of emotion. From Mercer he learned the importance of the element of "story" in a song. For Sinatra a song is a three-four minute narrative — sometimes even the story of himself, his own life, his own heartaches, his own feelings of buoyancy — and this is why Ella Fitzgerald could say of him, "With Frank, it's always this little guy, telling this ... story." The archetypal examples of the Sinatra song as story could later be found in two selections from his 1958 Capitol LP Frank Sinatra Sings For Only The Lonely: "Angel Eyes (song)" and "One for My Baby (And One More For The Road)".
Sinatra would certainly have been considered a 'pop' singer before the Rock and roll era, and the epithets Traditional Pop or more specifically classic pop have perhaps been coined to describe Sinatra's style. There still exists a much wider debate, as with Ella Fitzgerald, as to whether Sinatra is a jazz singer. Certainly he performed with the finest jazz musicians, and largely performed material from the Great American Songbook. There are very few occasions when Sinatra was recorded scat singing, but minor nuances and slight deviations from the vocal line are a hallmark of the material he recorded, and he is also known for his impeccable jazz timing and phrasing. Indeed, it is impossible to imagine the Sinatra of the great years after 1953 without the influence of jazz. It is no accident that he would be Lester Young's ideal singer in the band Young had hoped to lead, nor that Miles Davis identified Sinatra's phrasing as an influence on his own. The list of Sinatra's jazz admirers is long and stellar, including such figures as Count Basie, Stan Getz, and Oscar Peterson. The question of his status as a "jazz singer" has never seemed to matter as much to such artists as it has to critics and academicians.Jazz
Songs and albums
Sinatra left a vast legacy of recordings, from his very first sides with the Harry James orchestra in 1939, the vast catalogs at Columbia in the 1940s, Capitol in the 1950s, and Reprise from the 1960s onwards, up to his 1994 album Duets II. Some of his best known recorded songs include:
Awards and legacy
Sinatra won ten Grammy Awards during his career, including Grammy Award for Album of the Year for Come Dance With Me in 1959, September of My Years in 1965, and A Man and His Music in 1966, and Grammy Award for Record of the Year for "Strangers in the Night" in 1966. (The Grammy Awards only began in 1958, after two peaks of Sinatra's recording career had already happened.) In addition, Sinatra was named the Down Beat readers' poll Male Singer of the Year sixteen times between 1941 and 1966 and the Personality of the Year six times between 1954 and 1959, and was named the Down Beat critics' poll Male Singer of the Year twice, in 1955 and 1957. Sinatra was also named the Playboy (magazine) Jazz All-Star Poll Male Vocalist of the Year seven times between 1957 and 1963.Seven In 2001 BBC Radio 2 named Sinatra as the "Greatest Voice of the Twentieth Century".Greatest Sinatra was inducted into the Big Band and Jazz Hall of Fame in 1980. Stephen Holden wrote for the 1983 Rolling Stone Record Guide: :Frank Sinatra's voice is pop music history. ... Like Presley and Dylan—the only other white male American singers since 1940 whose popularity, influence, and mythic force have been comparable—Sinatra will last indefinitely. He virtually invented modern pop song phrasing. Two decades later, radio personality and musician Jonathan Schwartz (radio)'s assessment in a 2005 book review for the New York Observer showed that Sinatra's musical reputation had not diminished: :I believe, based on a lifetime of consideration, that Frank Sinatra was the greatest interpretive musician this country has ever produced.
In Japan, Frank Sinatra appeared in commercials for All Nippon Airways.
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Moving Forward: Life after the Great East Japan Earthquake - Global Agenda in Post Fukushima & Reconstruction Efforts of Japanese Architects
"Fukushima Nuclear Accident awakened us." -- Come listen to Dr. Kiyoshi Kurokawa on March 22 as he gives his thought and experiences while acting as the Chair of the Independent Investigation Commission by the National Diet of Japan. Immediately following is a colloquium about the numerous reconstruction efforts of Japanese architects during the past two years.
Royce Hall 306 on March 22, 2013
2:30 p.m. – 3:30 p.m. Global Agenda in Post Fukushima
3:30 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. Coffee Break
4:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. Moving Forward: Life after the Great East Japan Earthquake
5:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m. Reception (food and drinks will be served)
In 2011, the UCLA Terasaki Center for Japanese Studies presented an exhibition documenting the lives and stories of those affected by the Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami. This year marks the second anniversary of this catastrophic disaster and UCLA is proud to host a two-part colloquim presented by Dr. Kiyoshi Kurokawa, chair of the Fukushima Nuclear Accident Independent Investigation Commission by the National Diet of Japan, and Professor Hitoshi Abe, Terasaki Center director, Chair of the UCLA Architecture and Urban Design Department, and world-renowned architect.
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Global Agenda in Post Fukushima by Dr. Kiyoshi Kurokawa
Academic Fellow of National Graduate Research Institute for Policy Science & Professor Emeritus of University of Tokyo
The world has undergone major drastic changes in the last two decades driven by several major factors, eg, explosion of human population and connectivity. Such changes seem further accelerated in recent years and it seems that our future becomes more uncertain and unpredictable. Fukushima Nuclear Accident awakened us and led to creation of Independent Investigation Commission by the National Diet of Japan; Commission Report revealed some of the fundamental issues of Japan's nuclear policy. Meanwhile, multi-stakeholders' engagement has become critical in various social affairs and in policy making domains within and across national boundaries and has contributed in significant ways to affect the processes of addressing and impacting global agenda, such as climate change, food and water, energy, urbanization, biodiversity, human capital with shifting the balance of economy and power. In my view, the principles of our society may be changing quite fast heading somewhat differently from our conventional norm. Science community can and should contribute to these issues in nurturing future leaders, but in what way?
3:30 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. Coffee Break
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Reconstruction Efforts of Japanese Architects by Professor Hitoshi Abe
UCLA Terasaki Center Director, UCLA Architecture and Urban Design Chair, Atelier Hitoshi Abe Principal
As a native of Sendai, Japan, Professor Hitoshi Abe has a deep affinity for his hometown and has been greatly affected by the disaster both personally and professionally. Since the early nineties, Professor Abe has won numerous architectural awards and his designs can be seen throughout Japan. Some of his key projects include the Aoba-tei restaurant, the Sasaki Office Factory for Prosthetics, F-town in Sendai, the Miyagi Stadium in Rifu, SSM/Kanno Museum in Shiogama, the 9-tsubo House "Tall" in Kanagawa, and the Reihoku Community Hall in Kumamoto. As the Terasaki Center director, Professor Abe successfully launched a traveling exhibition and accompanying symposium to commemorate the disaster in 2012 and has since participated in numerous discussions and lectures on the topic of reconstruction. Furthermore, in 2011 he founded and established Archi-Aid together with other Japanese architects. This unique network of over 280 architects supports the reconstruction efforts following the Tohoku Earthquake, including the revival of the region and the rebirth of its architectural culture and education. Professor Abe will discuss what is needed for this type of aid to work effectively as well as the progress made over the past two years.
5:00 p.m. – 6:00 p.m. Reception (food and drink will be served)
Speaker Bios
Dr. Kiyoshi Kurokawa:
Graduate of University of Tokyo School of Medicine, trained in internal medicine and nephrology, in US 1969-84; Professor of Med, Dept Med of UCLA Sch Med (79-84), Chair, Univ Tokyo Faculty of Med (89-96), Dean of Tokai Univ School of Med (96-02, President of Science Council of Japan (03-07), Science Advisor to Prime Minister (07-09), Board member of A*STAR (06-00), Bibliotheca Alexandria (04-08), Khalifa University (08- ), Okinawa Institute of Science and Tech (06- ), Global Science and Innovation Advisory Board of the Prime Minister of Malaysia (11-); President of Intl Soc Nephrology (97-99), Inst of Medicine of US Academies (92). Recently, chaired Fukushima Nuclear Accident Independent Investigation Commission by the National Diet of Japan (Dec 11-July 12). AAAS Scientific Freedom and Responsibility Award (2012), '100 Top Global Thinkers 2012" of Foreign Policy.
Professor Hitoshi Abe:
Since 1992, when Dr. Hitoshi Abe won first prize in the Miyagi Stadium competition, he has maintained an active international design practice based in Sendai, Japan, and Los Angeles, as well as a schedule of lecturing and publishing, which placed him among the leaders in his field. Known for architecture that is spatially complex and structurally innovative, the work of Atelier Hitoshi Abe has been published internationally and received numerous awards in Japan and internationally, including the 2011 Japan Society for Finishing Technology Award for the F-town building, 2009 Contractworld Award for Aoba-tei, 2009 Architectural Institute of Japan Award for the K-Museum, 2009 the Architectural Institute of Japan Education Award, 2008 SIA-Getz Prize for Emergent Architecture in Asia, the 2007 World Architecture Award for M/Kanno Museum, the 2005 Good Design Award for Sasaki Office Factory for Prosthetics, the 2003 Architectural Institute of Japan Award for Reihoku Community Hall, 2003 Business Week and Architectural Record Award for Sekii Ladies Clinic, 2001 Building Contractors Society Award for Miyagi Stadium, and 1999 Yoshioka Award for Yomiuri Media Miyagi Guest House. Principal of his own firm, he worked with Coop Himmelblau in Los Angeles from 1988 -1992 before founding Atelier Hitoshi Abe in 1993 in Sendai, Japan. He recently opened a second office in Los Angeles, to work on a series of projects outside of Japan including invited competitions and an exhibition installation.
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