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Then the university intervened, and I found myself publishing The Spectator (not precisely an original title), a weekly tabloid of arts and politics at the University of Illinois. I had become too busy for fandom, and found it wise to GAFIA (get away from it all). I have always been convinced that the culture of sf fanzines contributed heavily to the formative culture of the early Web, and generated models for web site and blogs. The very tone of the discourse is similar, and like fanzines, the Web took new word coinages, turned them into acronyms, and ran with them. Think about it. Science fiction fans in the decades before the internet were already interested in computers, big-time--first with the supercomputers of science fiction myth, and then with the earliest home-built models. Fans tended to be youngish, male, geeky, obsessed with popular culture, and compelled to circulate their ideas. In the reviews and criticism they ran, they slanted heavily toward expertise in narrow pop fields. The Star Trek phenomenon was predicted by their fascination years earlier with analysis of Captain Video, Superman, X minus One and Sheena, Queen of the Jungle, and there were learned discussions about how Tarzan taught himself to read.Link (via Making Light) Discuss
36 Responses to "SF fanzines prefigured blogs: Roger Ebert"
Teresa Nielsen Hayden / Moderator says:
I'm sorry that got eaten. I would have loved to read it. Care to give me a summary version?
worldtravel says:
Great article, keep up the good work.
Xopher says:
Teresa 16: You can add the Pagan community's "gatherings" to your list of customs with fannish DNA. Some of the protocols are different, because Pagan gatherings are generally held at a camp (or just a campground) rather than at a hotel, so some of the things hotels normally take care of have to be arranged. But the connection is clear: Judy Harrow (for decades the partner of Brian Burley, and HPS of a coven that has always had a high percentage of SF fans), was a strong influence on the very early days of Pagan gatherings in the US.
Long ago, she also loaned a brooch to her then-boyfriend to wear on his SCA garb. It was in the form of a stylized letter 'H' for Harrow, and had the appearance of a pair of knives.
kip w says:
I'm always glad I managed to happen into AZAPA (more or less shanghaied by pal Gordon, who then vanished), where I met a bunch of swell, shiny people who still pop up in significant places. Usenet? They're there! LJ? There they are! Blogs? Oh, yas. bOINGbOING? Even so.
Hi, gang! The infiltration of society goes apace. Keep up the good work. I'll be back.
lennybai says:
I tried again and am still Not There. Maybe held in the moderation queue for too many URL links? I emailed you the original awhile ago (would have been #22) and will now send you the modified version (would have been #26)
lennybai says:
Fanzines are actually alive and well in the modern age — it's just that not so many of them are printed on paper and sent through the mail anymore. See http://efanzines.com for some current examples.
For an interesting pastiche that provides an inside view of the subculture, I commend you to "Fanotchka," a play written by Andy Hooper that was first performed at the 1996 World Science Fiction Convention. I've finally published an illustrated edition of it for Andy, after procrastinating on my promise to do so for too long a time.
Teresa Nielsen Hayden / Moderator says:
Heya, Lenny. Laurie and Michael, too. And EFergus3?
Antonio Lopez: there's no overlap in personnel that I know of, but punk and skatepunk fanzines trace back to rock fanzines, which trace back to the SF community. It's an Ur-fandom, possibly the Ur-fandom.
More people than Rog Ebert have been pointing out that early online slang owes a lot to fanspeak. However, IMO, SF fandom's biggest influence has been its characteristic social technologies, such as fanzines/blogs, APAs/bulletin boards, and community-run conventions — all of which, in their earlier hardcopy versions, are robust and relatively inexpensive pre-internet systems for enabling many-to-many conversations.
These and other material-culture markers have spread to countless other contexts. We know some of the names and approximate dates for this cross-fertilization, like Paul Williams and Greg Shaw in rock journalism, Bill Blackbeard and Dick Lupoff in comics fandom, and Bjo Trimble in Star Trek fandom (insofar as Star Trek fandom is separate, which it isn't entirely). The people who started the SCA (01 May 1966, in Diana Paxson's back yard) were part of the Bay Area SF community. The names of the early fanfic publishers belong in this list, but I'm blanking on their names right now.
There's a long list of barely-separate subfandoms that incubated in the congenial environment of general SF fandom, including gaming, RPGs, LARPs, cosplay, filking, manga and anime fandoms, et cetera. Also: I've never tried to find out who, where, and when, but there's evidently been enough overlap for the BDSM community to pick up some fannish social technologies. I've seen some of their fanzines and read descriptions of how they run conventions, and there's definitely fannish DNA in the mix.
Less a matter of specific forms than of historical connections: It's known for certain that fandom, especially on the West Coast, has old ties with the gay community. In the case of LASFS, in Los Angeles, that's traceable in print clear back into the 1940s, which is uncommon for any subject touching on homosexuality. Unfortunately, the person who knew the most about this, Jerry Jacks, had it all in his head, and he died before he got around to writing about it.
I absolutely believe that I don't know a quarter of the communities and interest groups that have picked up fannish customs.
Getting back to the many-to-many thing:
I remember an article way back in Whole Earth News, Winter 1987, in which Dr. Ann Weiser (whom I knew to have fannish connections) explained how to organize something she characterized as being like a very slow online bulletin board, only it didn't require computers or online connections, which made it more suitable for communities and interest groups whose members weren't into those things. What she then proceeded to describe was unmistakably a standard fannish APA, like the one Brad Reid used to belong to.
(How do I know that Dr. Weiser had fannish connections? Back in the early days of the Carter administration, I was in an APA with her. Some other members: Robert Charles Wilson, Avedon Carol, and a young fan named Patrick Hayden. And many more besides. Sometimes I feel like blogging and professional SF publishing are just a continuation of fanac by other means.)
Michael Bernstein, my theory is that whenever you enable fast, cheap, reliable many-to-many communication, plus the ability to reply to it, you get a virtual community that displays behaviors and emergent properties we'd describe as fannish. However, I don't think all fandoms are created equal, or that their features are inevitable.
For instance, few other fandoms have had our passion for timebinding and community history. That's had some of the same effects you get online from message persistence and open protocols. A good performance goes on being rewarded. People who weren't around for the original conversation can catch up on it, and add to it. I've retroactively been a participant in conversations that got going around the time I was born.
The SF community's wide range of ages and incomes did away with many nonessential features. For instance, the earliest APAs — Amateur Press Associations — were for people who owned printing presses. The copies of their contributions they sent in to their APA's central collating-and-mailing person might have been beautiful artifacts in their own right; but you couldn't call what was going on there a conversation.
(Pause for credit where due: the person who was familiar with the first wave of APAs, saw the applicability of the concept, and conveyed it to early SF fandom, was H. P. Lovecraft.)
Fandom's take on fanzine and apazine production values was simpler and far more robust: fast + easy + cheap + legible = good. You can still find the original transfer protocol specs explained in The Enchanted Duplicator.
One feature that's so basic it's easy to overlook: Unlike the letterhack fandom of Merry's Magazine, SF fandom never let itself be tied to a single channel. Instead, it's grabbed new channels as they've become available. The most obvious consequence is that the loss of a single channel doesn't kill it off. It also makes it impossible to define or control fandom's content or personnel. Strong minority interest in a new subject generates a side-channel rather than an argument, and everyone goes on talking.
It wasn't fate that killed off earlier fandoms, and I don't think economic considerations did it either. After all, SF fandom got its start during the latter years of the Great Depression. What enabled that to happen was (1.) the prozines' habit of printing addresses along with letters of comment; and (2.) the availability of cheap secondhand typewriters and mimeographs. But what's kept fandom cranking along after that initial efflorescence has been its historic persistence as a body of communication, and its openness as a system of practice.
(Slightly corrected, 9:38 pm EDT, on a fine point of fan history.)
Avedon says:
Man, I'm glad I don't still have to wait at least two months for comments on the last thing I wrote.
Bruce Arthurs says:
Oh, how rare it is to catch Teresa in a typo:
*ahem*, Diana Paxson.
Richard Anderson says:
Teresa, if Schwartz is bad data, then so be it. That said, Schwartz's contention that zines had "more in common with the 'little magazines' of the mimeo poetry scene" seems at least logical, and as a hypothesis I wouldn't want to see it tossed out quite yet.
Obviously, I find it a bit difficult to believe that the medium of zines derives from a sci-fi fannish root. (Might Blake deserve some credit?) The important aspects of technology here are a cost-effective means to print and a cost-effective means to distribute. Given easy access to these technologies, and given an urge for self-expression, it seems inconceivable to me (in retrospect) that zines would not have arisen to provide commentary on culture, particularly pop culture. The sci fi community apparently was first to exploit these technologies to create "fanzines." That doesn't necessarily mean the myriad of culture-related zines published in the 1980s and '90s (dunno if they're still a significant phenomena) resulted from the actions, directly or even indirectly, of sci fi fandom. Of course, that doesn't mean sci fi fandom couldn't have played a significant role, either. You say the latter indeed is evident. OK, my skepticism seems unfounded, but I'm also wondering whether you and I have the same definition of zine.
As for gaming, our experiences differ. No one I knew in the wargame hobby (only 30 or 40 high-schoolers and college-aged folk at the time) was active as well in sci fi fandom, and I saw no evidence of cross-fertilization. Of course, anecdote proves nothing, and there certainly were intersections of interest: my earliest issues of The General, for instance, have articles written by a "Dr. J. E. Pournelle." Still, I remain a skeptic with regard to the significance of sci fi fandom's influence on wargaming, cultural zines in general, and punk rock zines. If I ever dig up the phone numbers you refer to, I'll let you know how the research turns out.
Terry Karney says:
The way I have always described APA hacking to people who aren't in SF/Fanzine fandom is, "imagine a BBS/Blog, where the comments are done by mail; with everything sent to a central person, and mailed back to everyone."
When I tell them they predate SF Fandom, and belong (originally) to print/press fandom, they get goggle-eyed.
I do think the social structures/tool/styles of interaction of the APA/Fanzine world would have evolved, more or less, as they did in APA-hacking, but the seed-kernal of fanzine fans meant that the rules/habits worked out over decades are already present.
As Stephen Jay Gould pointe out in "Wonderful Life", once a form of dealing some problem exisits, the newcomer has a hard row to hoe to catch up, much less overtake.
Richard Anderson says:
Some notes in the margins of post #16:
I'm not sure if there's any significant link between rock fanzines (and their presumed SF-fan-based heritage) and punk/skatepunk fanzines. The zines I read back in the '80s, when the punk scene still seemed a viable alternative to the pop-culture industry, were expressions of the Do-It-Yourself attitude prevalent in punk and reflected the zeitgeist of that time. This DIY attitude certainly influenced the explosion of zines that had occurred by the early '90s.
An essay by Stephen Schwartz in Zines! Vol 1 (V/Search, 1996) notes that the "true zine," the "fanzine," was started in the 1950s by science-fiction enthusiasts, and that "the great advocate for this form was Forrest J. Ackerman." Schwartz observes, however, that "the zines of today [the mid '90s], which typically focus on concepts, rumors, fads and similar phenomena rather than on commercial promotion, have more in common with the 'little' magazines of the mimeo poetry scene."
As for the influence of the SF fanzine medium on gaming, I wouldn't be surprised if it had some role for gamers involved in play-by-mail Diplomacy (such as through the zine Erewhon), but sci fi and fantasy games comprised only a tiny percentage of the board wargames published during the 1970s and '80s. My experience was that people entered the wargame hobby through the magazines published by the Avalon Hill Company and SPI, and these in turn led to the forming of clubs for face-to-face gaming and to the launching of zines like Panzerfaust.
For the cultures of punk rock and wargaming, and the broader culture of zines in general, the influence of sci fi fandom seems largely irrelevant.
lennybai says:
Footnote: a less dyslexic reading of Wikipedia shows me that they don't directly support Moskowitz's claim that THE TIME TRAVELLER was the first s-f fanzine. Sorry. Wikipedia attributes the honor to THE COMET, over here, without referring to THE PLANET.
efergus3 says:
Takuan says:
a very self evident truth
efergus3 says:
Takuan, come on bye sometime.
Gag Halfrunt says:
On the related subject of lost fandoms, kabuki theatre enthusiasts in eighteenth-century Japan produced fanzines and fan art devoted to their favourite actors:
…the outpouring of full-colour wood-block prints, commissioned and in some cases executed by their fans, which record their performances, their personalities, their world. The sheer beauty of much of this material, along with the scrapbooks and the fanzines, immortalises the fans as much as the actors, offering an illuminating model of the modern cult of celebrity, where the ostensible object of adoration or fascination is merely a pretext for the creativity and projection of the fan.
There was a long-running feud between two great kabuki actors, Rikan and Shikan, who exemplified opposite philosophies of acting.
Their fans took up cudgels on either side, though the deepest desire was for the rivals to appear together. As they were about to do so, Rikan died; Shikan continued to the day he died.
Takuan says:
"never moon a werewolf"… I like that.
Brad Reid says:
For a short time in the early 80s I had the pleasure of being a member along with 29 other people of an amateur press association called APA5. The idea was that you sent your apazine (I think that's what they were called) in to the central mailer every month for circulation to the membership. Discussion within the apa was based mainly around science fiction and comic books. Paul Chadwick, the creator of Concrete, and Mike Richardson, producer of numerous science fiction movies, were members of APA5 while I was there, and Frank Miller had been a member two years previously. I'd have to say that the networking advantage given to these blogger-precursors was substantial, as some of the members went on to start Darkhorse Comics.
Anyway, that's enough namedropping for now! ;)
Michael R. Bernstein says:
It is well worth noting Teresa's 'Lost Fandoms' post in this context:
efergus3 says:
I like your wit. I can see you?
Michael R. Bernstein says:
No, you'll get eyetracks all over me.
Teresa Nielsen Hayden / Moderator says:
Richard Anderson:
I'm not sure if there's any significant link between rock fanzines (and their presumed SF-fan-based heritage) and punk/skatepunk fanzines. The zines I read back in the '80s, when the punk scene still seemed a viable alternative to the pop-culture industry, were expressions of the Do-It-Yourself attitude prevalent in punk and reflected the zeitgeist of that time. This DIY attitude certainly influenced the explosion of zines that had occurred by the early '90s.
We're talking about fannish technologies, ways of doing things, not content. Fanzines were a known technology in that sub-universe. You'd have to put your argument through all kinds of strange contortions to make a case for them being a spontaneous independent re-invention in a milieu that was already familiar with them.
An essay by Stephen Schwartz in Zines! Vol 1 (V/Search, 1996) notes that the "true zine," the "fanzine,"
Terms that have seen general use in fandom: trufan, trufannish, fanzine, fannish fanzine. "True zine" was not general fannish slang.
was started in the 1950s by science-fiction enthusiasts,
Ray Palmer, The Comet, 1930. A minority faction back then argued for the primacy of Allen Glasser's The Planet, also 1930. The Comet has come to be generally credited as the first fanzine.
Am I supposed to take Stephen Schwartz as an authority on this subject?
and that "the great advocate for this form was Forrest J. Ackerman."
It wouldn't surprise me to hear that 4E said so. What bothers me about that statement is that Ackerman would never have said that fanzines got going in the fifties. He knew better — he was publishing them in the 1930s.
Stephen Schwartz wasn't using Ackerman as his source, and he sure as hell wasn't using Joe Siclari, Rob Hansen, Harry Warner Jr., or the Fancyclopedias.
You're running on bad data.
As for the influence of the SF fanzine medium on gaming, I wouldn't be surprised if it had some role for gamers involved in play-by-mail Diplomacy (such as through the zine Erewhon), but sci fi and fantasy games comprised only a tiny percentage of the board wargames published during the 1970s and '80s.
I don't think you've got hold of the right end of the stick. When I talk about gaming fandom in the SF community, I mean wargamers who played Diplomacy, Kingmaker, misc. Avalon Hill titles, and other comparable games at SF gatherings and conventions. I'm not speaking theoretically. I was there.
If you think something can't be a characteristic preoccupation of SF fandom because it has no skiffy content, you don't know fandom.
My experience was that people entered the wargame hobby through the magazines published by the Avalon Hill Company and SPI, and these in turn led to the forming of clubs for face-to-face gaming and to the launching of zines like Panzerfaust.
My experience is that a large proportion of the people doing that were also hanging out in fandom. Casual gaming at conventions turned into gaming tracks that turned into gaming conventions.
For the cultures of punk rock and wargaming, and the broader culture of zines in general, the influence of sci fi fandom seems largely irrelevant.
Feel free to think so. The word I'd use to describe the influence of SF fandom on those milieux is evident, and in no few cases acknowledged or documentable.
It's not as though we're talking about the distant past. A lot of the people involved are still alive, and if they're not, people who knew them are. You can phone them up and ask.
Tamu says:
Already in agreement. Although, the central point is included on BB, Roger Ebert's full blog entry is definitely worth reading.
Teresa Nielsen Hayden / Moderator says:
Hi, Lenny, we cross-posted. Wikipedia may not have referred to The Planet, but I did.
Laurie Mann says:
Inside fandom, this isn't news (as almost everyone uptopic has said).
To mundanes…oh, what the heck, maybe it is.
Michael R. Bernstein says:
Laurie, I think (based on Teresa's "Lost Fandoms" theory) that even if the Intarwebosphere had not overlapped (chronologically and socially) with SF Fandom, most of the same features would very likely have sprung up spontaneously (though many specific details would be different).
It's a matter of the medium shaping the community.
Teresa, do you want to weigh in?
cinemajay says:
@10, is a blog meant to be news? I thought it was just…a blog? Like an essay or diary entry.
lennybai says:
I submitted a longer post about the history of claims for the first s-f fanzine (before the footnote one) that may have been eaten. I also speculated on a possible link between s-f fandom and skateboard fandom.
Also FWIW, in re war gaming fandom: I was a test consultant for Avalon Hill in my high school days (1962-64) along with Arnie Katz, about the time we were publishing our first (better forgotten, now) s-f fanzine. Arnie and I submitted evidence to A-H that their board game, "Gettysburg," was unwinnable by the Army of the Potomac — which may have been a factor in subsequent revisions made to the game. We were also test consultants for Avalon Hill's "D-Day."
Arnie went on to become a professional game designer and served as a consultant for Avalon Hill in the '80s, during the years when he was gafia from s-f fandom.
devophill says:
Heck, I don't know that much about early SF fandom, but I know who Ray Palmer was (the original Atom!). I'm pretty sure Julius Schwartz and Mort Weisinger were also fanzine contributors, if not editors. Great comment, BTW, Theresa.
Antonio Lopez says:
Don't forget punk.
Terry Karney says:
Contrary to popular usage, the plural of anecdote is evidence (now, the validity of the evidence is a different subject).
I started wargaming in the late '70s (being but an egg), at conventions AH, and all sorts of things were being played. There were weekends I couldn't be found but in the game rooms.
The earliest of APA (apae?) I know of had nothing to do with any sort of literary fandom, but were the work of people who wanted to show off what the presses they owned could do.
Rather than run off sheets of ipsum lorem they actually wrote things (and one of the firstt 'zines I ever pubbed was to show off that I'd learned to run a linotype; justifying calling myself a printer. That I then locked the type and ran the sheets let me say I was also a pressman, but I digress).
I was an SF Fan, a skateboarder, a war gamer an actory and all sorts of other nerdy-geeky things. Was there cross-fertilization, sure.
More to the point, while it's possible for such things to evolve in parallel; absent some selective pressure, Occam's razor says the odds are SF Fanzine culture shaped the other fanzine cultures, because they have so much in common.
At least that seems evident to me.
Richard Anderson says:
A quick addendum to post #29: I just learned that Mike Gunderloy, who published the influential Factsheet Five, got his start with sci fi fanzines. Looks like there is a stronger connection than I had initially thought btwn sci fi mags and cultural zines.
Laurie Mann says:
C: – it's just the way he said:
"I have always been convinced that the culture of sf fanzines contributed heavily to the formative culture of the early Web, and generated models for web site and blogs. The very tone of the discourse is similar, and like fanzines, the Web took new word coinages, turned them into acronyms, and ran with them."
It's as if he was responding to someone who said,
"Sports fans invented the Web."
khatru says:
Teresa wasn't saying that skatepunk was an offshoot of sf, but was drawing a line from sf fandom to rock fandom to skateboarding fandom.
I've always been interested in seeing how other fandoms develop, what aspects of sf fandom they replicate. The rock zines I saw were usually very dynamic — attitude was at least as important as content. Mystery fandom, on the other hand, is so sercon it hurts. Mystery fanzines contain little but book reviews, and programming at mystery conventions is dominated by panels of writers plugging their new books.
lennybai says:
Another attempt to resurrect my lost post from the bit bucket by stripping out the URL links. (It was originally intended to follow post #21):
FWIW, since enough people may read this eventually to be worth setting the record straight: the first science fiction fanzine we know about is generally considered to be THE COMET published in May 1930 by the Science Correspondence Club of Chicago or THE PLANET published in July 1930 by The Scienceers, a New York fan club. Some scholars of fan history argue that THE COMET doesn't count because it was limited to articles about science, not science fiction. THE PLANET "contained 'fantastic fiction' book and film reviews, and more significant in terms of the evolution of fanzines: "miscellaneous chatter and news
about the fans themselves" (ref: members.shaw.ca/rgraeme/f.html: the Canadian Fancyclopedia.
When Arnie Katz and I interviewed Julius Schwartz, in 1963, Julie proudly boasted to us that THE TIME TRAVELLER (first issue published in 1932, edited by Scienceers Allen Glasser, Julius Schwartz, and Mort Weisinger) was the first science fiction fanzine ever published. (Wikipedia shows an entry
at: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Time_Traveller_(fanzine) ) Some popular belief in the truth of Schwartz's claim may stem from the influence of Sam Moskowitz on early attempts to develop a formal history of science fiction. SaM was a charismatic and prolific figure in s-f fandom's early days, whose many pronouncements about the field have subsequently been scrutinized and found to contain some subjective inaccuracies. Forry Ackerman is another charismatic figure from those days whose memory isn't always as reliable as historians might like it to be. (Wikipedia lists him as a contributing editor to THE TIME TRAVELLER.)
The first postal Diplomacy fanzine that I know about, GRAUSTARK, was published by New York s-f fan John Boardman, in 1963. GRAUSTARK and the Diplomacy fanzines it spawned (RURITANIA:Dave McDaniel, BROBDINGNAG:Dick Schultz) demonstrated their linkage to s-f fandom by publishing inventive press releases and news stories composed by the players with each series of game moves. Boardman, Dian Girard, Dave McDaniel, and Bruce Pelz were all active fanzine writers at this time. They peppered each fanzine issue with vignettes about life in their countries and statements from heads of state–in the spirit of the Graustark and Prisoner of Zenda novels. I played Italy in the BROBDINGNAG game (1964) and was inspired by their efforts to try my own hand at this. A historical note on the games Boardman participated in is that they were all crooked. The games masters were unable to round up seven individual players and Boardman played multiple countries, stringing the other players along for several years until he decided the time was ripe to betray them and sweep the board.
In re Skatepunk fandom: the link to s-f fandom may be a bit more tenuous. You might trace its genesis back to early Internet fandom. Tom Jennings, the creator of FIDOnet was also the founder of a skateboarders' rights group called
"Shred of Dignity." He coedited a "queer punk" fanzine called HOMOCORE from 1988 to 1991. This might also tie into the linkage between the Gay
Community and s-f fandom that Teresa referred to. I don't know whether Tom Jennings was ever active in s-f fandom. I used to read his techie
stuff on BBS configuration back in FIDOnet times.
(Cory has a story that mentions him at http://www.make-digital.com/make/vol13/?pg=16&search=Tom+Jennings+science+fiction+FIDOnet&u1=texterity&cookies=1 ). These days, the link between s-f and skatepunk fandom is probably Scott Westerfeld: see scottwesterfeld.com/books/uglies.htm


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Granted, its not the most sexy topic, in fact, discussing it seems, well, dry.
A couple weeks ago, the Adam Longoria murder trial ended in Barton County. He was convicted of murdering 14-year-old Alicia DeBolt in August of 2010.
As the heat continues, it was, sadly, a matter of time. A 10-month-old baby girl died Thursday after being left in a vehicle in Wichita. She was 10th child that has died in a hot car in the state of Kansas since the year 2000.
Registered voters in Barton County can now apply for advanced ballots for the Aug. 5 primary election, said Barton County Election officer Donna Zimmerman Thursday.
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Noting that it was more than double previous projections, the Great Bend City Council Monday night voted to reject a bid submitted for utility improvements in the Amber Meadows housing development.
We have been spoiled in Central Kansas. July, normally a time for extremely hot temperatures, has been mild. We all knew that we would pay the price, and now we are.
It was a time Monday morning to show appreciation. The Barton County Commission recognized two long-time county employees who are leaving after years of service.
After somber deliberation, a unanimous Barton County Commission Monday morning approved a non-binding resolution calling for the resignation of County Treasurer Kevin Wondra.
Two items in the news of late should act as a reminder to all of us that there are folks out there willing to scam us for our money if we let them.
TOPEKA – Ruling the jury instructions may have violated his constitutional rights, the Kansas Supreme Court Friday overturned the death sentence for Sidney Gleason, convicted of capital murder in the 2004 killings of a Great Bend woman and her boyfriend.
Editor's note: This is the second of a two-part series about the Great Bend City Council's 2015 budget-planning session Tuesday night. Part one dealt with the council's goals. This installment will delve into the budget's numbers and what they mean.
On June 13, Great Bend City Council members toured city facilities as the first step in the 2015 budget-planning process. Next they gathered on July 2 for a brain-storming session with the purpose of establishing their goals for the upcoming year.
To help shore up reserves, the Barton County Commission Monday morning approved transferring money from the Oil and Gas Valuation Depletion Trust Fund. However, the commission was warned this critical piece of county funding will not be around for much longer.
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Mythbuster: Alabama Power Leased Lots – Lake Martin
Alabama Power has leased waterfront lots on Lake Martin for decades. Yet, so much rumor, speculation, and innuendo surrounds the topic it remains mysterious to many people, real estate agents included.
Allow me to try to bust the myth on this subject.
Why are there leased lots on Lake Martin?
Lake Martin was created in 1923 when the Southern Company (Alabama Power) built Martin Dam on the Tallapoosa River. They bought up all of the eventual waterfront at the elevation of 490 feet above sea level. Since old Mr. Ben Russell (founder of Russell Mills), already owned the damming rights to the Tallapoosa, the Power Company swapped him those rights for one half of the waterfront. Pretty much every inch of the 700 miles of waterfront of Lake Martin at one time or another was owned by either Alabama Power or Old Mr. Ben.
When did Alabama Power begin to lease lots on Lake Martin?
Sometime around in the 1960s, Alabama Power allowed people to build homes on the waterfront, but they retained ownership of the land underneath the home. The people own the sticks and bricks, the company owns the dirt. The people paid a monthly lease to do so. Over the years, depending on the opinions of officers at Alabama Power, the homeowners were given the chance to buy the dirt under their homes. No rhyme or reason to it, some years they would decide to sell, other years they would institute leases. That policy continues today. Who knows, they may decide to start selling lots to leaseholders tomorrow. They might not.
How does a lot lease work on Lake Martin?
These days, when Alabama Power leases a waterfront lot to homeowners, they have a written lease, just like you would for an apartment. The lease specifies the monthly rate (currently around $400), the length of the lease (currently twenty years), and the yearly increase of the rate. The key here is that every lot is different, so if you're concerned, consult a lawyer. Alabama Power assigns the lease amount when they offer new lots for lease. They offer the lots in a bid system, meaning, the homeowners bid offers of cash to pay for the privilege of entering the lease. If you are the top bidder, then you must pay the monthly lease rate on top of that.
What happens at the lease end?
Again, you must examine each lease to be sure of how it works. But generally speaking, at the end of the lease, one of 4 things can happen:
1. Alabama Power renews the lease
2. Alabama Power sells you the lot
3. Alabama Power buys the house from you
4. You pick up the house and leave.
My family has been selling real estate in the Lake Martin area since 1953. We have never heard of Alabama Power buying a house, or making someone move their house away. Not that it is impossible, but it is, in my opinion, highly, highly, improbable. Most of the time they either renew the lease or sell you the lot. Once again, if in doubt, talk to a lawyer.
Can you sell a leased lot home?
One word answer – YES. There are plenty of great leased lot homes for sale now (like this one) on Lake Martin and many that have sold in the past. Generally speaking, you can get more house or view for your money on a leased lot house than you can on a deeded lot home, because of the existence of the lease. The transaction works just like a deeded lot sale, except you have the added step of transferring the lease to the new owner. Alabama Power must approve this transfer, but usually it's just a matter of paperwork.
Can you finance a leased lot home?
YES – easily. I almost always recommend that Lake Martin buyers use lenders from around the lake. Not because I am related to any many of them, but because lake financing is usually a bit different than your standard McHouse in McSuburbia. Local lenders are especially handy when it comes to financing a leased lot home. They are familiar with all of the documentation, so it's a lot easier to work with them.
Do you own a leased lot home and have some advice to add? Or maybe you have questions that I haven't answered here. If so, please comment on this post and I will do my best to answer anything else.
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Alabama Improper "¢ » Blog Archive » Alabama Bloggers Carnival, #6 said at May 14th, 2007 at 5:39 am
[...] Next we have Lake Martin Voice with a bit of history while busting a myth on this southern charming little neighborhood. I think I smell an Alabama Bloggers WEEKEND retreat! Man, that is a sweet little place. I am gonna have to get down there and check it out because it really does look like a great little weekend getaway. [...]
Freddie Aguilar said at May 16th, 2007 at 9:32 am
Nice Post! Its so very informative and knowledgeable for your readers.
Thank You for sharing.. Keep up the good work..
More Power,
Freddie Aguilar
Investment Property
KW said at May 16th, 2007 at 2:13 pm
We purchased a property a few years ago on an Alabama Power Company leased lot. The Fire Department burned the house and we have built a new home. We feel so very blessed to have been able to get a beautiful lot on Lake Martin, build a new home and pay approx. $400 a month for the land value. With property values reaching all time highs, leased lots are a great alternative if paying for the lot isn't feasible. I've been involved in the real estate industry for approx. 30 years and have always believed that Alabama Power Company leases are very safe. We have actually named our home
"Blessings" because we feel that strongly about our investment.
shaun mclane said at May 17th, 2007 at 6:09 am
John, you do great work with your blog. I went to school in Alabama, and love reading your local content.
John said at May 17th, 2007 at 9:25 am
Thanks Shaun – like your blog, too.
KW – thanks for your perspective. It's always nice to hear directly from lake owners – there's no substitute for first hand evidence, especially from someone that has a lot of real estate experience.
Are there any other leased lot homeowners out there with their own take?
Henry said at May 23rd, 2007 at 12:57 pm
John, we selected your blog as the best real estate blog in Alabama (most recent post). We created an award ribbon if you'd like, just drop me a line.
johnsons said at June 8th, 2007 at 11:24 pm
good gracious!thanks for this informative information.keep it up,goahead.
Lake Martin Voice » Blog Archive » Alabama Power Seeks Input To Relicense Martin Dam said at September 27th, 2007 at 8:32 am
[...] Every 25 years Alabama Power must apply to FERC to renew its license to operate the dam. As you can imagine, it is a really big deal, and a lengthy, red tape filled process. They are required by FERC to perform all kinds of studies – water quality, water quantity, erosion and sedimentation, wildlife impact, economic impact – just to name a few. [...]
Lake Martin Voice » Blog Archive » Lake Martin Real Estate MLS Statistics - 2007 In Review said at April 21st, 2008 at 8:33 am
[...] 153 Lake Martin homes sold in 2007. Of those, 114 were homes and 39 were condos. Of the 153, 142 were deeded lot homes and 11 were leased lot homes. [...]
Lake Martin Voice » Blog Archive » 4 Points To Ponder On The Future Of Lake Martin Zoning said at April 21st, 2008 at 8:38 am
[...] mere mention of Orwellian sounding "commissions." But practically speaking, if the two landowners that control 99% of the undeveloped land around Lake Martin want to voluntarily [...]
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Lake Martin Voice » Blog Archive » 5 Questions and Answers: Leased Lot Homes on Lake Martin said at June 21st, 2008 at 11:35 am
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Lou DuFresne said at April 6th, 2009 at 1:51 pm
Jackson Lake, Georgia Power lease lots were able to get 30 year mortgages in the past…15 yr lease renewable, thus giving the necessary 30 year. Since the secondary market dried up due to economic conditions, is Lake Martin having the same issues????…we are only able to obtain 20 year (and that from only one lender) , not 30 year and hence, mortgage payments are much higher than a fee simple offering.
Lou DuFresne
Jackson, Georgia
John Coley said at April 6th, 2009 at 7:30 pm
Lou- thanks for the comment – you are right – currently AL Power policy results in many borrowers doing ARM financing, on a 30 year amo. I am openly lobbying the powers that be, to allow longer lease times so that the mort lenders would extend 30 year fixed rates. I will keep you posted on the latest.
JStigall said at April 15th, 2009 at 10:41 am
Lou- Thanks for the information. I am in line with John Coley and his comments. I am in the process of trying to obtain a mortgage that is not an ARM. It seems that since the mortgage crisis, the lease holders are taking back seat to the normal fixed rate mortgages. Lenders should be ashamed of their selves for not wanting to lend money at a fixed rate when the client has above excellent credit and has a proven track record of not fitting into the average american status of living on edge or above their means. I deserve the best rate on the market and can't get it because I own a GA Power leased lot on a lake in Central Georgia. Either the power company needs to sell me my lot or contract with lenders so that loans are obtainable for those that have earned the right to borrow the money. Would love to hear your thoughts.
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Rex Green said at June 10th, 2013 at 6:40 am
We are on a leased lot. We have paid close to $70,000.00 rent over the years. The AL power co has just offered our lot for sale. $225,000.00. If we buy the lot, the payments will drain this retired couple, monthly. If we keep renting, we don't trust the power co. to stay at a reasonable monthly rent. We started at $300.00 a month, and now it is almost $500.00. Who knows what it could go to! With the price of the lot and the price of the house, It would be so hard to sale. They have put us in a bad situation. We loved the lake, but lately we have felt very trapped. The power co has so much power and control over people who never dreamed they would come up with such prices, and the $70,000.00 dollars we have already invested will not count , not even a percentage of it!! Please give us some advice. P.S. I would NEVER recommend anyone leasing a power co. Lot again.
johncoley said at June 20th, 2013 at 9:28 am
Hey Rex, thanks for the comment. Obviously, I don't know the specifics of your situation or lease, but every lease I have ever seen has an escalation clause for the lease amount, meaning, they can't increase the lease at their whim, it is capped per year. For instance, in leases in your era, I think it was capped at Consumer Price Index – which for the past 100 years has been about 4%. Nowadays many leases I see are capped at the greater of CPI or 4%. Also another change that has happened since I first wrote this post in 2007 was that AL Power has in fact switched to a 35 year fixed term lease, which has allowed for 30 year financing. Now I stress, each lease is different, so I don't generalize, especially since they are offering lots for sale as you have been offered. I do agree that it is important to remember that lease payments are just that – a lease. Not a paydown on equity of any sort. You get no ownership credit for it whatsoever. But another thing to consider is that because you don't own the dirt, neither do you pay taxes on the dirt. AL Power does. You only pay taxes on the improvements (home, dock, etc.). Since the bulk of value in lake homes is the dirt itself, this adds up to considerable property tax savings. All I can say in advice is to get your own appraisal and counter offer at what you think is fair.


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Ettlinger and his family were originally from Germany, but they fled to the United States in 1938 because of their Jewish heritage. After several years, Ettlinger joined the army and was eventually assigned to the Monuments Men. Ettlinger served with the team for 15 months, 10 of which he spent in charge of underground operations to recover stolen works of art from thousands of cases stored in two salt mines in Germany.


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The United States Achievement Academy announced today that Kayla Green of Maryville has been named an All-American Scholar At-Large Award Winner. Kayla Green, will appear in the All-American Scholar Official Yearbook which is published nationally. Kayla Green is a student at Maryville Middle School. This award is a prestigious honor very few students can ever hope to attain. In fact, the Academy recognizes fewer than 10% of all American high school students.
"Recognizing and supporting our youth is more important than ever before in America's history. Certainly, winners of the All-American Scholar Award should be congratulated and appreciated for their dedication to excellence and achievement," said Dr. George Stevens, Founder of the United States Achievement Academy.
The Academy selects All-American Scholar winners based on the Standards of Selection set forth by the Academy. The criteria for selection are a student's grade point average, student achievements, and a well-balanced schedule of academics and extracurricular activities.
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A woman threw powder at television personality Kim Kardashian at a West Hollywood hotel Thursday night, a sheriff's deputy said.
The woman was detained by security at the hotel in the 1000 block of San Vicente Boulevard, near Sunset Boulevard, Los Angeles County sheriff's Deputy Peter Gomez said.
Kardashian told deputies she did not want to press charges and a non-criminal battery report was taken, Gomez said.
Kardashian returned to her room where she removed powder from her hair and clothing and returned to the event she was hosting, Gomez said.
Paramedics were summoned to the scene, but Kardashian declined medical attention, Gomez said.
The incident occurred at the where Kardashian was holding an event promoting her new fragrance line, True Reflection, the entertainment news website TMZ reported.
Los Angeles County Fire Department firefighters took the powder and determined it was cooking flour, according to TMZ.
Deputies from the sheriff's West Hollywood Station responded to the possible battery call shortly before 8 p.m., Gomez said.
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Of the 68 coaches in this NCAA tournament, only two made the rarely attempted jump from Division III to Division I. One is Wisconsin's Bo Ryan, who won four D-3 championships at Wisconsin-Platteville before moving on to the Wisconsin-Milwaukee job. The other is Dave Paulsen, whose Bucknell team, 14th seeded in the West Region, will play Connecticut on Thursday night at Verizon Center.
Prior to his stint as the Bison boss, Paulsen led the Williams College Ephmen – yes, Ephmen – to the D-3 crown in 2003 and a second-place finish the next year. (Full disclosure: I graduated from Williams about a decade before he did, which is why I know – but refuse to tell – what an Eph is.)
Obviously, this isn't your typical career path for a major-college coach. Most pay their dues as a D-1 assistant and then become the head man someplace – sometimes in the same place they served as the No. 2 guy. And indeed, Paulsen spent some time at Michigan and Cleveland State early in his career before going the small college route at St. Lawrence, LeMoyne and Williams, his alma mater.
Some have been successful doing this, but not many. Years ago, you may recall, Paul Evans made the leap from St. Lawrence to Navy, where he guided David Robinson and the Midshipmen to the 1986 Elite Eight (before heading off to Pittsburgh). And Mike Lonergan essentially did it when he went from Catholic University to Vermont (with just a year as a Maryland assistant in between). Lonergan had the Catamounts in the NCAA tourney last year.
In Paulsen's case, what made the transition particularly challenging was that he followed the legendary Pat Flannery, who had gotten underdog Bucknell to the second round of the NCAAs in 2005 (when the Bison stunned 3-seed Kansas) and '06. Fortunately, it wasn't the first time he'd been in that situation. His predecessor at Williams was his former college coach, Harry Sheehy (now the athletic director at Dartmouth), who had taken the Ephmen to their first two D-3 Final Fours.
Even so, Paulsen's first season at Bucknell was a nightmare; a 6-foot-11 center transferred to St. Joseph's, two other starters suffered serious injuries and the Bison finished 7-23. But here it is two years later, and the Bison are 25-8 and riding a 23-2 streak. This is no finesse team, either. Paulsen scrapped Flannery's matchup zone for a man-to-man defense and plans to stick with it against UConn, even though the Huskies present many more problems than your typical Patriot League opponent.
"Dick Bennett was a big influence on my coaching philosophy," he said. "When I was at Cleveland State and we'd play his Wisconsin-Green Bay teams, you just couldn't get a decent shot. So when I became a head coach, I decided: That's how we're going to play… . The biggest challenge is going to be to keep UConn off the glass. That and a kid named [Kimba] Walker."
Some might look at the Bucknell program and think: limited resources. Of course, it all depends on your frame of reference. At Williams, Paulsen had virtually no recruiting budget and, when he wasn't coaching basketball, taught P.E. and supervised the JV soccer team. "Supervised" is the correct word, too. He didn't know a thing about the sport. About the only comment he'd ever make on the sideline, he said, was: "Well struck."
"My buddies in D-1 would say, `What are you doing?' he said. "And I'd say, `I'm driving the [team] van to Western New England College.'"
But now he has a budget, a staff – and a darn good group of players. One thing that never changes, though, be it D-1 or D-3, is that "you've gotta sell your school, you've gotta sell your program and you've gotta sell yourself," he said. "I think what potentially made me an attractive candidate to the people at Bucknell was that I understood recruiting real good students and how to sell athletes," having had to deal with Williams' lofty admissions standards.
"The biggest challenge after recruiting these great students," Paulsen said, "is creating a level of toughness in kids who may not be initially so inclined." He seems to be succeeding. But then, he has a lot more time to devote to it now that he doesn't have to coach JV soccer.


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In anticipation of the on Thursday and Friday, Pierce County is offering some ideas for folks to escape the heat.
In Gig Harbor, at 7700 Skansie Ave. will be available for local residents from 9 a.m. to 10 p.m. on Thursday. The church will be closed on Friday.
Residents can also seek relief from the heat by visiting local malls, restaurants, theaters, libraries and other air-conditioned facilities in local neighborhoods.
Although anyone can suffer from heat-related illness at any time, some people are at greater risk than others. Check regularly on neighbors and family members, particularly infants and young children, people aged 65 or older, people who have a mental illness, and those who are physically ill.
Pets may also suffer from symptoms of excessive heat exposure. Do not leave pets unattended in a parked car for any period of time. If you believe your pet may be experiencing symptoms of heat exposure call your veterinarian and seek assistance.
The following locations allow people and their domesticated pets to come in and get out of the heat. Pets need to be on a leash or in a crate and owners must provide water if they plan on being in the store for long periods of time.
• Lowes – 6 a.m. to 10 p.m. (all Lowes in Pierce County)
• PetSmart (all) – 9 a.m. to 9 p.m.
• VCA Animal Hospital (10324 Pacific Ave. S in Tacoma) – open 24 hrs/day
For additional information regarding hot weather personal safety, visit Tacoma Pierce County Health Department website www.tpchd.org/news.php?nid=693.
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In the last Gaza war, our readers generously donated pizzas and cold drinks to the soldiers taking part in the fighting. These soldiers remember what was for them a huge physical, emotional and spiritual blessing.
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Samsung SGH-P520 Armani
Samsung SGH-P520 Armani
Samsung SGH-P520 Armani
Samsung SGH-P520 Armani
Samsung's SGH-P520 Armani phone is a high-fashion cell phone that is meant to take on the likes of Apple's iPhone and LG's Prada phone. It certainly has the good looks, and it packs some solid multimedia capabilities into its svelte form, but has Samsung been able to adapt to the concept of finger basic touchscreen navigation the way the other two have?
Thanks to Wireless Imports for loaning us the Armani phone used in this review.
Physical Aspects
When it comes to physical appearance and design, the Samsung Armani phone has what it takes. It is no larger than 9 or 10 stacked credit cards, 88mm x 55mm x 10.5mm (3.5" x 2.2" .4"), and weighs only 86g (3.0oz). The included case that it snaps into adds a good layer of protection for an additional 34g (1.2oz), while still providing access to the camera and all of the buttons and ports on the phone's edges. It is probably a good idea to use the case, even though the Armani's 2.6", QVGA resolution display seems reasonably rugged.
The display is touch sensitive and intended to be used with a fingertip, just like the one on the Apple iPhone. It senses even very light finger touches on its surface, but also seems responsive to indirect finger touches as well. For example, I was able to fumble through the menus and dial pad on the phone while wearing a pair of insulated leather gloves, something that I found quite surprising. Considering that the touch screen works in spite of leather, paper, or plastic most of the time, it seems quite possible that it is somewhat pressure sensitive, even though the display doesn't appear to have any real give to it. The touch action doesn't work as well as the iPhone's, but overall it works better than LG's Venus and Prada handsets do.
The only two keys on the front of the phone are the call send and end keys. The volume, camera, and hold/lock buttons, along with the microSD slot and power/headset/data port are found on the sides of the phone. A safety latch on the bottom releases the rear battery cover, which sits below the camera lens and flash.
In terms of accessories, the Samsung Armani phone ships with a USB cable, a stereo headset, and an Armani cleaning cloth - all packed in a soft black bag. In addition to the previously mentioned snap-on cover, the phone also comes with a soft pouch for storage.
The overall build of the phone is rock solid and very attractive. It has all of the appropriate hardware keys, and a sufficiently large and useable touchscreen. The hardware design of the Armani phone is a good one.
Having used the Samsung Armani phone for about a month I can only support this review. I love the phone, because of the size and the design, but must admit that the software is bugged, the CPU is slow, and the touchscreen sometimes seemes to live a life of its own. Still love it, though :-).
ive just recieved this phone as a gift and i think that it is amazing, the music player can respond pretty low but over all i love the phone.
i have this phone one year and half now i was was quite happy with it.yesterday i dropped it by mistake and now woun t read the memory card anymore and the battery wount last more than 4 hours.it is very very sensible.
i have bought the set but after one month the set started to restart automatically without any cause it does not get on.when i press the on off button it goes on restarting goes like that always.and softwares does not support
i lost that kind of phone, how can i have another one, is there available here in philippines??
I am unable open mu yahoo email on the phone in Nigeria please help
my phone didnt start but i think it was ok then.... is there any shops offer for repairing love it....
Michael Oryl
Michael is the Philadelphia based owner and former editor-in-chief of MobileBurn.com. You can follow him on Twitter as @MichaelOryl


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When taking a vacation on an isolated coral atoll like Nauru, it is important to remember that many of the resources necessary to sustain the island are imported. Even natural fresh water is limited so electricity and drinking water is at a premium.
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Nauru's Weather
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Money: Nauru uses the Australian Dollar.
Time zone: Nauru is GMT/UTC +12
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Capital: Due to its small size, Nauru has no capital. The government's offices are based in the Yaren district.
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SOCIAL CIRCLE - Hunters and other interested citizens can review proposed changes to hunting regulations for the 2013-14 and 2014-15 hunting seasons.
Hello everyone, hope you're having a good weekend.
THOMSON - Thomas Lewis of Grovetown reeled in the new state-record yellow perch Feb. 27 from the Savannah River, just below Clarks Hill Dam.
National Resource Discovery Day, an event centered on wildlife-profession education, will be held from 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Saturday, March 9, at the Savannah National Wildlife Refuge visitor center.
Howdy, friends and fellow anglers. I would like to dedicate this week's article to my father, Old Tight Line, or Capt. Allen Friley Branch, a great fisherman and fine father. This one's for you, Dad.
During the early part of the 19th century, it was easier to move farm and timber products by water than land. Rivers and man-made canals were the highways of early Georgia.
SOCIAL CIRCLE - Hunter-education graduates can "give it a shot" with a free three-month pass to any of the 18 Department of Natural Resources shooting ranges in Georgia.
BRUNSWICK - Lewis Jackson Sr., 58, of Brunswick, pled guilty Wednesday to acquiring loggerhead sea turtle eggs in violation of the Lacey Act.
MACON - As Georgia wildlife officials draft hunting regulations for the next two years, they will consider whether to change the rules for controversial Middle Georgia black bear hunts.
SAVANNAH - Ogeechee Riverkeeper will present "At Waters Edge!," the 2013 annual awards gala, on Feb. 23 at Fort McAllister State Park.
Howdy, friends and neighbors. I hope the folks who had a three-day weekend really enjoyed it.
SAVANNAH - Researchers who monitor endangered right whales off the Atlantic coast are celebrating after spotting newborn calves belonging to three whales that years ago had to be rescued from entanglement in fishing gear.
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Hello, friends and fellow anglers. Hope all in well in your world. I would like to wish a belated Happy New Year to everyone.
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U.S. Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker recently approved a request by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Fisheries to allow limited recreational harvesting of red snapper in federal waters, according to Doug Haymans, policy coordinator with the Georgia Department of Natural Resources.
In an effort to educate the public about what to do when finding a wild animal that may be injured or orphaned, the Georgia Wildlife Rescue Association (GWRA) has released information about the numbers and types of calls that they have received on their statewide Wildlife Hotline. Barely two months old, the toll-free number has had even more of an impact than expected. Calls average between 25 per day, but the organization reports that they have received as many as 50 on some days.
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By Molly Grotha of Marquette High School
What happens when one man sets out to reach intellectual freedom despite the laws and conflicting views of his community? The answer to this is held in Hazelwood East High School's energetic and intriguing production of Inherit the Wind, written by Jerome Lawrence and Robert Edwin Lee.
Inherit the Wind, which debuted in 1955, was written to reflect the controversial topic of McCarthyism. The playwrights, however, chose a separate topic to serve as the surface of their ideas: The Scopes "Monkey" trial of evolution, which proved to contain more similarities than audiences expected.
In a cozy, religious town called Hillsboro, a young teacher earnestly teaches his students about the then-controversial topic of evolution. This brings the town immense excitement and publicity, along with a famous, religious prosecuting attorney.
The defense attorney, Henry Drummon, is superbly executed by Marquise Middleton. Middleton stands out immediately by using the clearest enunciation in the show and excellent comedic timing. Middleton emotionally commits to his role as the intensity of the trail rises by expressing his emotions through the inflection in his voice.
On the opposing side, the prosecuting attorney Matthew Brady is played by Calvin Payne. Payne effortlessly displays his character with a likeable charm and clear speaking voice. His subtle hand gestures and movements immensely add to the believability of his character.
The supporting roles in this show fall slightly short of the leads due to a lack of characterization. Jasmine Newman and Nathan Battle play Rachel Brown and Bert Cates with clear articulation and projection, despite the lack of microphones. Unfortunately, both lack emotion in their characters which makes the romance between the two confusing. Scenes of heightened emotion make up for this dilemma as both actors grasp and play off of the emotions of the audience.
Ensemble members contribute greatly to the mood of the show as a whole. The chatter from the jury during shocking moments in the trial and their responses though the duration of the church scene add to the overall realism of the show.
Sound, headed by Kristopher Robertson aided in establishing the time of the show by playing period music before, after, and during the show. The set, while extremely simple, serves its purpose and proved to be a wise decision in design because of the numerous locations in which scenes occur.
Inevitably, many actors are hard to understand due to lack of diction and microphones; especially when their backs are turned away from the audience. Also, at many times actors jump on each other's lines and break character when realizing the mistake. This could easily be played off by the general tense atmosphere, but unfortunately was not.
Despite the few technical flaws, Hazelwood East students created a believable and energetic performance of Inherit the Wind, which inspires audience members to delve for deeper meaning. Where is the line drawn between science and religion? It reminds people of a greater message--"All motion is relative. Perhaps it is you that moved away by standing still."
This review was submitted by The Cappies, a program that trains high school theater and journalism students as critics. The students then attend shows at other schools, write reviews and publish those reviews in local news outlets. At the end of the year, student critics vote for awards that are presented at a formal Cappies Gala.


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At purchase time, you can decide whether you need one or the other, or both types of license. For example, if you will only be using a font on web sites, and don't need to use it in Word or Photoshop at all, you only need a webfont license.
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Last night the Section 1 Division 1 Ice Hockey Finals where set as ETB beat New Rochelle 5-3 and Suffern shut out Mamaroneck 3-0.
Tonight is the Section 1 Division 2 semifinals and (4) Rye will host (8) Scarsdale at Playland and (2) Pelham will host (3) John Jay (CR) at the Ice Hutch.
Yesterday's Results:
Sport: Ice Hockey Section 1 Division 1 Semifinals
Game: (3) New Rochelle vs. (2) Eastchester/Tuckahoe/Bronxville
Score: ETB Won 5-3
Highlights: Mark Luciano led the Eagles with two goals and an assist in the semifinal win over New Rochelle. Ian Palfrey. Chris Hagen and Joe Blute also scored for ETB in the win. New Rochelle's Brett Barry scored all three goals for the Huguenots and Nick Sioufas had two assists.
ETB goaltender Lucas Berger picked up 30 saves in the win on New Rochelle's 33 shots.
New Rochelle goalie Greg Feliu had 42 saves on 47 shots.
The Eagles will face top seeded Suffern at 4 p.m. on Sunday at West Point.
Sport: Ice Hockey Section 1 Division 1 Semifinals
Game: (4) Mamaroneck vs. (1) Suffern
Score: Suffern Won 3-0
Highlights: Tyler Stark led the Suffern defense as he pitched a shut out and collected 12 saves in the win over Mamaroneck. Suffern's John Costa, Willie Sanchez and Greg Dgheim each scorers in the win.
Mamaroneck goalie Brett Poniros had 26 saves on the day.
Suffern will advance to play second seeded ETB at 4 p.m. at West Point this Sunday.
Today's Schedule:
In winter track and field, several local schools will be competing in the Section 1 State Qualifier at the Armory in New York at 5:30 p.m.
Weekly Sports Poll:
Jeremy Lin has taken the world by storm and flipped the NBA upside down. He has inspired music videos and a countless number of "Linisms" and the thought of him has everyone in Westchester calling him their neighbor. On Friday, the league will honor their very best in Orlando with the annual All-Star weekend.
"If basketball careers lasted two weeks then Jeremy Lin is a first ballot hall of famer," said Wipeout co-host and life long Knick fan John Henson last week on Mike and Mike in the Morning.
Last week, NBA Commissioner David Stern refused to add Lin to the All-Star Game roster or allow him to play in the BBVA Rising Stars Challenge, but did say he could be included in one of the All-Star Saturday night competitions such as the Haier Shooting Stars, Taco Bell Skills Challenge,Foot Locker Three Point Contest or Sprite Slam Dunk.
After outcry from the public and the media, Stern and the NBA made the move to include Linsanity to the BBVA Rising Stars Challenge, he will also be competing for New York in the Haier Shooting Stars and he will assist teammate Iman Shumpert in the Sprite Slam Dunk. Not only was Lin included in this year's Rising Stars game, but in the new format general manager Shaquille O'Neal made him the third overall pick of the contest behind Blake Griffin and Kyrie Irving.
Now, as a business school graduate, I fully understand the marketability of Lincluding the Linsteria to the weekend, but as a life long basketball fan I have to ask the question; should someone who has only played in 17 of his teams 31 games really be honored at All Star Weekend?
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$1 Million to Ride With Wolf
What does it cost to hang with CNN star Wolf Blitzer and act like a cable newsman? How about a cool $1 million? At least that's what Dave Liniger, chair and cofounder of RE/MAX, paid this month for CNN's "Warrior One," the cable's Iraq war Hummer that Blitzer helped auction off at the famous Barrett-Jackson Collector Car Event in Scottsdale, Ariz. Auctioning the Hummer, refurbished by the TV show Overhaulin', was the idea of those who operated it in Iraq. Their goal: helping raise money for the Fisher House Foundation, which builds "comfort homes" for families of hospitalized military personnel. CNN sent the full $1 million to the charity.
1) Here's a great shot of the winning bidder and the gang! From left to right: Scott McWhinnie, CNN videographer who was embedded with the troops and used Warrior One in Iraq in 2003; Jim Walton, president, CNN Worldwide; Ken Fisher, chairman of the Fisher House Foundation; Dave Liniger, winning bidder; Gail Liniger; and CNN's Wolf Blitzer.
2) Warrior One pulling up on the auction block at Barrett-Jacksonwith a huge crowd behind it!
3) Just before the bidding begins, Wolf Blitzer surprisingly takes the microphone away from Craig Jackson, CEO of Barrett-Jackson, to talk up the Fisher House Foundation.
4) The bidding begins at Barrett-Jackson for Warrior One.
5) Warrior One departs for its new home in Colorado.
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