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Last year during the 16 Days of Activism (November 25 - December 10), Futures Without Violence honored sixteen individuals and organizations for their innovative projects in the arena of health promotion and violence prevention as part of an international campaign to end all gender-based violence.
Your generous donation will advance the inspiring work of the eleven individuals and organizations listed below. Read more about their work, and donate today to support their extraordinary work at the crossroads of health care and gender-based violence (GBV) around the globe.
- Buklod Center & Nagkakaisang Kababaihan (NAGKA), Philippines: These sister organizations have provided assistance to victims and survivors of military sexual exploitation and trafficking in the "red light" districts of Olongapo City and Angeles City. [more...]
- Dilaasa, India: Applying an innovative approach, Dilaasa is a hospital-based crisis centre operating in partnership with the public health system in Mumbai, India. [more...]
- Foundation Rama Levina (FORAL), Democratic Republic of the Congo: Foundation Rama Levina (FORAL) provides free health care services to girls and women, and facilitates innovative solidarity groups that engage gender based violence survivors with other village women in microfinance activities. [more...]
- Hearty Sendai, Japan: Hearty Sendai is a non-governmental organization that provides shelter and counseling for battered women in Sendai, capital of Miyagi Prefecture. [more...]
- KMG, Ethiopia: KMG Ethiopia, an indigenous civil society organization founded in 1997 by Bogaletch and Fikirte Gebre, opened the area's first clinic to improve not just women's health, but their economic empowerment and education. [more...]
- KOFAVIV, Haiti: After losing their homes and possessions in the January 2010 earthquake, Haiti's KOFAVIV reconstituted their organization in one of the sprawling, makeshift camps of Port-au-Prince. [more...]
- Dr. Natalia Lokhmatkina, Russia: Advocate, researcher and physician, Dr. Natalia Lokhmatkina founded Women's and Children's Crisis Center Anastasia, the first hotline for abused women and children in the Russian Far East. [more...]
- Dr. Nguyen Thi Hoai Duc, Vietnam: Dr. Nguyen Thi Hoai Duc is an obstetrician and gynecologist whose work has helped shape the maternal health landscape in Vietnam. She is a specialist and national training expert on gender, reproductive health and social and community health. [more...]
- Project Alert, Nigeria: Defending the human rights of women and young girls, Project Alert on Violence Against Women, is a non-governmental organization in Lagos, Nigeria established by Josephine Effah-Chukwuma in January 1999. [more...]
- Promundo, Brazil: Engaging men and boys around the world, Promundo is a non-governmental organization founded in 1997 that seeks to promote gender equality and end violence against women, children and youth. [more...]
- Sebastiana Vásquez Gómez, México: Sebastiana Vásquez Gómez is a community educator and midwife in Chiapas, México whose training of birth attendants and efforts to battle domestic abuse has transformed the indigenous Tzotzil community of Chalchihuitan. [more...]


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Rabbi Daniel Hillel Freelander serves as senior vice president of the Union for Reform Judaism. A gifted musician and keen observer of the North American Jewish scene, he has been on the staff of the Union since 1975, supervising virtually every aspect of the Unions programs and operations. He has served as a regional youth advisor and director of NFTY, regional director of the Unions New JerseyWest Hudson Valley Council and executive editor of Reform Judaism magazine. He supervises URJ administrative and financial operations and is an advisor for the Movements camping and Israel travel programs and URJ Books and Music.
Well known for lecturing on trends in Reform synagogue life and worship, Rabbi Freelander was the guiding force behind many of the Movements signature programs, including the growth of URJ Biennial conventions. A lifelong musician, Rabbi Freelander has, together with his friend, Cantor Jeff Klepper, composed dozens of popular Jewish melodies including the well known Shalom Rav and Lo Alecha.
Freelander is a native of Worcester, MA, and a graduate of Trinity College and the Hebrew Union CollegeJewish Institute of Religion. A lifetime Reform Jew, he is an alumnus of NFTY, Eisner Camp and Kutz Camp. He serves on the boards of the Zamir Choral Foundation and Odyssey Networks, an interfaith media group. Rabbi Freelander is married to Rabbi Elyse Frishman of Congregation Bnai Jeshurun in Franklin Lakes, NJ. Rabbi Frishman served as editor of the Movements new siddur, Mishkan Tfilah. They have three grown children and live in Ridgewood, NJ.
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Exile in Goyville, Part I
by Bob Schneider
1954 in The Naked City: You could lay down 15¢ for a subway token, take the AA or the CC to 49th Street, flash your G.O. card and pay just four bits for a side-balcony seat at an NBA doubleheader or a Rangers game; 15¢ was the going price for a slice of pizza or an order of fries—always fresh, never frozen; a quarter got you a frank, mustard-and-sauerkraut; a chocolate malted and a pair of pretzel rods would set you back 20¢, cherry lime rickeys were a dime, a 6-1/2 oz. Coke was 6¢ with a two-cent deposit (sodas were a nickel in subway vending machines); and who ate Hershey's when you could get a Chunky, a Knickerbocker Bar or one of Hollander's sublime full-sour pickles for the same price—5¢?
Although I lived in a tenement on Suffolk between Grand and Broome, and my family might be (generously) described as lower middle class, I always had enough gelt in my pocket to get anything I wanted—candy bars, cartoon marathons, comic books.
In 1954, the NBA introduced the 24-second shot clock, Roger Bannister ran the first sub-four-minute mile, and in the World Series that year (The Jints swept the Tribe), there was The Catch—the Say Hey Kid chasing down a blast off the bat of Vic Wertz in deep centerfield, snagging it over his shoulder, his back to the batter, cap flying as he spun round, firing the ball back to the infield—a mindboggler even when viewed on a twelve-inch DuMont console.
In Creature Feature news, Gog was a killer robot, Them were giant ants; The Creature from the Black Lagoon surfaced, carrying a damsel in distress, while Gojira roared out of Tokyo Bay to claim the title "King of Monsters."
My favorite adult-type TV show, which I watched on my DuMont with the religious fervor appropriate for a kid starting the second grade in yeshiva (Jew parochial school), was I Led Three Lives, in which Herbert Philbrick (Richard Carlson) found commies lurking like zombies 'round every corner. I rooted for him all the way, because in 1954 I was also quite concerned with the Soviet threat to our way of life.
And even though it wouldn't impact me in a big way for a bar mitzvah's worth of years later, I would have been very upset, very gung-ho, had I known that in 1954 Vietnam had been partitioned North and South along the 17th parallel after the fall of Dien Bien Phu, which signaled the end of French colonial rule in Indochina; and that it was also the year in which the domino theory, the conceptual foundation for our tragic, mass-murderous, military intervention in Vietnam (and the cause of my Indochinese tzurris those many years later), was first floated.
I was a proud member of the tribe, and a bull-goose Zionist as well, and I surely would have been out-of-my-mind pissed had I understood the significance attached to the fact that Nasser had beaten back the Muslim Brotherhood and grabbed the reins of power in Egypt, or that Alfredo Stroessner had taken over Paraguay and made that country safe for Nazi war criminals including Mengele, Auschwitz's Angel of Death.
But what I knew all too well was that in 1954, the father-mother (see Creation of the Humanoids, 1962) moved the mishpuchah from our edenic shtetl on Suffolk Street to Hell's Kitchen, so that we might live above the store which made possible for us that day, and all other days, our daily babka. It was our own melting-pot Downton Abbey, and I was little Lord Rob-it. We even had a pair of tenants. There was an enclosed kiosk attached to the side of the building where a jovial ginger named Red, of course, shined shoes, and an extension at the rear of the building with a barber shop presided over by Lenny the Tonsorial Artiste, where I had my first experience with the joy and majesty that was the tittie magazine.
All we had done to get there that muggy summer morning was take the D to West 4th and there change for the A to 42nd Street. But the moment I stepped out of the Port Authority, with its cavalcade of belching buses, it seemed more like we had boarded a Stratosled with Flash Gordon, Dale Arden and Dr. Zarkov, and landed on the Planet Mongo.
The legendary Bosco Brother Butchers—where sixteen years later Peter Kubelka bought numerous haunches of lamb, schlepped them up to the Southern Tier, and cooked All Through the Night an unforgettable feast for a cadre of enthralled avant-garde film acolytes who had already been captivated by his masterwork Unsere Afrikareise (Our African Trip, 1966)—was first among a brace of butcher shops that dotted the nabe, unlike any I had ever experienced in the kosher precincts of the Lower East Side. These places overflowed with offal and other exotic cuts—chunks of fatback covered in crystallized salt, oxtails, whatever the hell they were; bloody pans overflowed with livers and kidneys and brains and sweetbreads from lambs, pigs, cows and calves. And hearts, hearts! They didn't let anything go to waste. There were cows' hooves and pig trotters; dead, furry rabbits hung from hooks by their little lucky feet, big floppy ears pointing straight down; outsized rounds of cheese hung right beside them. One had a pie slice cut out of it, had black flecks all through it. I asked my father what they were.
"Maggots, Rob-it, maggots. The Telainishe like maggots in their cheese, dey say it makes the cheese taste better." (Many, many years later, I learned that the cheese was provolone, the specks were black peppercorns, and they were dee-lish.)
I subsequently learned that the Telainische were part of the Bad Element, which included anyone who wasn't a member of the tribe, all of whom, in times of deep economic or military crisis, would show their true, genocidal colors and scapegoat the chosen people at the behest of some latter day Führer, whose coming they await with as much conviction as we do that of Moshiach (Messiah to you members of the Bad Element).
I had been programmed to never forget the six million from the time I was a zygote. Now I found myself living on Mongo among the Bad Element who were itching to add the nukes and me to the body count. I had no friends, nor did I have the prospect of any; I was a displaced person on an alien planet. Is it no wonder my survival instinct kicked in and I became determined to get the lay of the land I had been dropped into? And so I went exploring.
© 2013 Bob Schneider
"Conversations with a Twitter Feed"
By Alex J. Mann
The pilot episode of my web series "Conversations with a Twitter Feed" (CWATF) was conceived, written, shot and edited in about 12 hours. I was working on a writer's packet for a pop culture variety show that I was submitting for, and in the final section, I had to pitch and write a segment. I knew I wanted the segment to incorporate social media, because that's what my background is in, and executives love the sound of "social" and "media" together.
I spend a lot of time on Twitter, so I poked around there, hoping for a breakthrough. At the time, the most important news of the minute was Kanye West's rant about one of his favorite bad words. As I read Kanye's Twitter feed, I commented on his tweets out loud to no one in particular. (I was by myself, but swear I wasn't "talking to myself.") Then, I had that thought that writers often have: What if I wrote down the narrative in my head?
I copied Kanye's tweets into a document and wrote short, punchy responses to them. Eventually, I had reactions/responses to about 15 of Kanye's b-word tweets. It was a one-sided conversation with a Twitter feed. Since it's just the Internet, I decided to drop the "one-sided" technicality and call the segment "Conversations with a Twitter Feed." I had the missing piece to my writer's packet.
I pitched "Conversations with a Twitter Feed" in my packet as a recurring show segment in which comedians have conversations with celebrity Twitter feeds. In order to sell it, I wanted to shoot an episode. So about an hour after I wrote the script, I sent it to David Monk, a DP/editor I'd worked with on previous projects. A few hours later, we had cut a rough two-minute video of me responding to Kanye's tweets. I put the link and script in my writer's packet and sent it in. I was sure I'd get the job.
Unfortunately, I didn't get the job, but I found a solid web series premise. All I needed was more comedians who were interested in chatting with Twitter feeds.
As of writing this, we've released about 60 episodes of "Conversations with a Twitter Feed." We've featured comedians who have performed on shows like Conan, Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, Late Show with David Letterman, The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, Comedy Central Presents and television networks like NBC, HBO, MTV, Comedy Central, VH1 and Adult Swim. The series has received some great press. It's been written about in The Huffington Post, Splitsider, BuzzFeed, Thought Catalog and Tubefilter. Someone told me we were mentioned on one of the Nerdist podcasts.
Views and subscribers are growing. My goal is to continue to grow the series online and eventually get it to where I originally envisioned it: on television. I think that given the speed we can produce an episode, especially around topical pop culture stories, the series would be a great segment on a show like Best Week Ever, Late Night with Jimmy Fallon or Chelsea Lately. It's cheap to produce (all you need is a comedian and green screen), and it uses social media. Executives love social media.
To keep up with CWATF, please subscribe to our YouTube channel, like our Facebook page, and follow us (and chat with, if you want) on Twitter. New episodes every Monday and Thursday.
Guild Nine Win Opener, 8–7 over WABC-TV
by Timothy Cooper
New seasons beget new beginnings. But apparently we, the 2012 Coed Slow Pitch Broadway Division Champions, like doing things the old, tried-and-true way; that is, by winning.
Our abrupt yet decisive comeback in our season opener "surprised us even more than it stunned them," quoth Parnie, and he's not wrong: A deficit of 5 at the top of the fourth didn't prevent us from making a tremendous comeback in the back half of the game to eventually beat WABC-TV 8 to 7. The surprise was shared by literally all, as our skill of rotating in basically everyone was tested to its fullest extent, with 19 different WGAers playing at some point, somehow. Here's how it went down:
The first hit and first run was by yours truly, eventually RBI'd in by Jo, but 6 straight runs by WABC went unanswered until I enacted a substitution bonanza in the fourth, like a corrupt governor handing out pardons the hour before his term ends. (The comparisons end there: No one has offered to corrupt me, and no end to my term is in sight.)
At that point, both Erik and I scored, with Erik and Parnie getting the RBIs. After Mike scored in the fifth and Erin, Erik and Tina (pinch-running for Jo) went home in the seventh, it was all tied up. A rather Purple Haze-y seventh inning took care of the rest of our business.
That's right: The strong smell of Colorado's top reason for tourism wafted over our dugout from unseen sources, threatening to destroy our motivation, but Emmitt was having none of it. After some feistiness with Mike the Ump and six innings of intense third-base coaching, Emmitt stomped in to take his one and only at-bat. With Lisa poised on third to score the winning run, Emmitt ripped into a pitch with the same force that a lioness rips into a young gazelle's throat after it's been culled from the herd. Much like that innocent baby mammal, WABC was exposed to nature at its most brutal, and may never recover.
A big welcome is extended to newcomer Alicia, as well as to returning veterans Mike, Lisa and Erin, who somehow look younger than when we last saw them. All played admirably. Doug pitched quietly and powerful, striking out several and forcing them to bat regularly.
Other notables:
- Marni's roll at first base
- Erin's triumphant return to second
- Scott and Erik looking solid at left; Jake extending reliably at first
- Zach and Mike forming a sharp outfield duo, albeit nonconcurrently
- Sharon finding out she was DH'ing after I said she wouldn't get to play, in one of only 25 about-faces I made while creating a sometimes sketchy but ultimately victorious lineup
- And an impenetrable Stu and Other Stu and shortstop and shortstop, respectively.
Let's play them all like this one: as a team, hitting those singles in the hole, holding onto the ball to be safe, and writing a storybook ending… with plenty of secondhand illegal substances.
Opening Week: 2013 Softball Season
The 2013 Softball Season is about to begin! Last season was a triumph, marking the first time we made it to the playoffs in two years, through a combination of tenaciousness, gumption, stick-to-itiveness, and other qualities probably mentioned in A League of Their Own.
This year, the majority of our opponents are brand new: In addition to WABC "Who's Dave?" TV, there's HipCricket "We're Embarrassed to Work at a Place Called HipCricket," Christie's "We Only Sell Forgeries," and ValueLine "We're Probably an In-Flight Magazine" Publishing.
Our first game is NEXT MONDAY, April 8, at 5:30 (call time 5:10) at Heckscher Field #4. An Evite will be forthcoming. PLEASE RSVP to all Evites, whether yeah or nay; that's the only way I can know whether you're showing up. If I don't know that you're planning to be there, I might not be able to schedule you in to play. Not everyone can be scheduled in to play every game anyway, but I'll try my hardest.
If you know anyone who wants to join (women; we have more than enough men), send them my way. If you don't want to be on this list any longer, e-mail me and I'll take you off.
Note that if you want to find out whether a game is canceled due to rain, I will send an email as soon as I know, but sometimes they don't tell me before I get there. So to find out the official word concurrently or before me, don't call me; call the Central Park/Heckscher Ball Field Hot Line: 212-628-1036. Then press some random numbers to try to hear the updated conditions for Heckscher (the extension is constantly changing, so good luck).
If you want a team shirt, I still have some; they're $19 (cash, thx). Team shirts are required to play.
Learning Digital
by Lowell Peterson
We have seen the future, and it is digital. This is what we read in the trades, hear on the radio, discuss over cappuccinos and beers—it's what we fret about and plan for. I give presentations to writers both here and abroad, and I research the economics and technology of the "new media." We still don't know if the coming predominance of digital production and distribution will utterly transform the way Writers Guild members earn a living, or if it will instead require some adjustments in style and work schedules that are important yet entirely manageable. But we know for certain that the union and its members must be prepared and must actively participate in the development of the new creative and business structures, rather than sitting back to wait and hope.
To this end, the WGAE is pleased to present the next series of digital media training courses funded by the Consortium for Worker Education. This year, we have added workshops and classes on digital animation and storyboarding, on writing for video games, and on Avid editing, in addition to sessions on digital journalism, Final Cut Pro X, and legal issues faced by members who create their own projects. We designed this program after surveying members to determine what insights and skills would be most interesting and useful to them. Enrolment in some of the courses is limited, so I urge you to keep an eye on your email inbox—and the WGAE website—to get details and to sign up.
How the iPad Can Turn Books into Art
by Simon Apter
My bookshelf is my most prized sentimental possession, and I am convinced, after watching so many thrift-store appraisals and absorbing so many oddball-collector tips from Storage Wars, that it comprises the most financially prized objects in my house as well. (Once, after buying a virtual library in an L.A. locker, Dave Hester, the "Mogul" of Storage Wars, lined up the book-filled bankers boxes on the storage lot tarmac and then counted off in paces the serpentine's length, declaring each literary step to be worth so many dollars as the SW cash-register sound dinged along.)
My shelf also comprises my favorite piece of "art" in the house, and not in the rather obnoxious way that people unctuously refer to high literature as high art (I'm looking right at you, ghost of Norman Mailer), and vice versa, but instead because I've arranged my books, from top to bottom, so that the spines form a rainbow. Red to violet from the top down, then whites, browns and blacks underneath.
One of my bigger disappointments in re-arranging the books this way was my discovery that I wasn't nearly as well-versed in the Western Canon as I had thought—my bloc of iconically orange Penguin Classics was woefully smaller than I had expected it to be. A slightly bigger disappointment was my realization of just how few, exactly, of the textbooks held over from college I'd read or, in some cases, cracked open (What the Anti-Federalists Were For, by Herbert J. Storing, is as representative a volume of this collection as any, although I refuse to take complete blame for not having read this one. Upon registering for my rebels-versus-redcoats junior-year history seminar, "The American Revolution," the instructor informed us—after it was too late to transfer out—that his class was actually supposed to have been called "Causes and Consequences of the American Revolution," but that the registrar had deemed the title too long for the Bulletin. That, he explained, was why the syllabus had been stocked with so many excessively dry books).
But as much as I love my books, I'm afraid I may never buy another one again. For I've switched, you see, to tablet.
I'll preface this by saying, mostly seriously, that I've gone electronic for medical reasons: the daily heft of lifting some combination or permutation of five or six books, magazines, and newspapers adds up, and after my second back surgery for a (re)herniated lumbar disc, I decided to lighten my load.
The early returns are promising. Never before have I been able to combine two of my four or five favorite activities—viz., browsing at the bookstore and lying around the house in my underwear—at the same time! Why risk getting kicked out of Barnes & Noble when I can now read the first ten percent of virtually any book I choose, in any room I choose, in any outfit (or lack thereof) I choose? Why spend hours at the store with a stack of books, vacillating Should I, shouldn't I? when I can spend seconds downloading first chapters and then leisurely deciding what to do with my ten or twelve dollars (as opposed to twenty-five or thirty for a new hardcover title, yet another advantage of going digital) after taking in a generous sample?
But perhaps most inspiring is a rediscovered love of reading. Not of books—that affair has never flickered out—but with actual words-on-a-page, solid English prose. Just as one can hop around the Web via embedded hyperlinks in blog posts and articles–from Times science piece, say, to NIH study to university biology department–a tablet-reader can do the same with books. He can even purchase, for a mere $4.27—perhaps one-fifth what I paid in college—an electronic copy of Professor Storing's What the Anti-Federalists Were For from Amazon's Kindle Store.
My first electronic purchase, the memoir of the late Christopher Hitchens, led me to download samples of Arthur Koestler, George Eliot, P.G. Wodehouse (Attempts, naturally, to rectify that aforementioned Western Canon deficiency). Should, for example, it interest me after Hitchens's last chapter as much as it did when he initially mentioned it in the first, I've got the opening chapter of Eminent Victorians by Lytton Strachey ready to go. And all of these siphoned into my device without the hindrance of classical consumerist tyranny of choice–or of pants.
So where do I go from here? Not to B&N, obviously, except for sentimental reasons. I don't know what my paperless future will be like, but I imagine less weight, less boredom, and most important, more reading.
Cartoon Crystal Ball: How "The Simpsons" Predicts the Future
by Simon Apter
No offense to CNN or MSNBC, or even to SNL, The Daily Show, or Colbert. But my place for politics, as it has been since 1989, is Fox; Springfield, U.S.A.; and, of course, The Simpsons. Because I've seen this presidential campaign before, this exercise in quarter-truths, strawmen, and ad hominem attacks. And if you've watched any of the episodes in which Homer, Burns, et al. have gotten involved with politics, then you have too.
We're living in a quintessential laugh-or-cry moment, a time that in its extremism and straight-up ridiculousness resembles the over-the-top satire that The Simpsons utilized to mock the American zeitgeist of the '90s. Now, I'm not talking about the scathing social commentary that the show continues to make hay with in the 21st century's second decade. What's truly mind-blowing to me is how astoundingly accurate the show's over-the-top spoofs of '90s politics and culture have become. That is, real life in the '10s is reprising Springfield life in the '90s.
Take one of the show's early foray into politics, "Two Cars in Every Garage and Three Eyes on Every Fish," written by Sam Simon and John Swartzwelder. The show aired on November 1, 1990, just before Election Day. Mr. Burns runs for governor as a Republican candidate, only to be done in on the eve of election night during, naturally, a publicity stunt/media circus. In an effort to appeal to the common man, Burns ostentatiously eats dinner with the Simpsons, who've been primed by handlers and fed questions by party hacks. Example: Mr. Burns, your campaign seems to have the momentum of a runaway freight train. Why are you so popular?
Burns's campaign comes to an ignominious end when Marge serves for dinner the three-eyed fish whose ocular mutation had been caused by pollutants from Burns's nuclear plant. It's all captured on TV.
But the most interesting part of the "coverage" of the event is the emphasis given to the visual of Burns's spitting the fish out of his mouth in disgust. The "camera" slowly traces the ark of the rejected fish, watching it peak, soar, and ultimately plop onto the floor. And there you have it. The small piece of regurgitated fish, and not the candidate's business practices that led to the disfigured fish, is what's deemed important. The blatant pandering of the dinner-with-the-common-family event is now ignored, its idiocy replaced by proxy with the piece of fish.
I thought of this episode and its relationship to politics in '04, immediately after hearing Howard Dean's infamous Scream after the Iowa Caucus in 2004. Say what you want about his campaign, it was torpedoed by the Scream, which essentially became the metonym for the entire failed bid. In Dean's cry was Burns's fish with its sleeves rolled up, neck bulging, showing the wrong enthusiasm at the wrong time.
The Simpsons of course also featured the greatest campaign ad of all time, for Sideshow Bob in his mayoral candidacy against Mayor Quimby. "Sideshow Bob Roberts," written by Bill Oakley and Josh Weinstein, aired on October 9, 1994. The ad, which accuses Quimby of operating "revolving door prisons," intones, "Mayor Quimby even released Sideshow Bob—a man twice convicted of attempted murder. Can you trust a man like Mayor Quimby? Vote Sideshow Bob for mayor." The last sentence, of course, is ridiculously rushed, lest the naive viewer realize that the man twice convicted of attempted murder is actually the subject of the ad.
Like the three-eyed fish example, the play here is with the naivete that Bob's handlers assume is native to voters. Surely, if you say "Vote Sideshow Bob for Mayor" quickly enough, people won't notice that he's a murderer. Surely, if the contemporary candidate wears the flag lapel pin, we can overlook his lukewarm commitment to upholding the Bill of Rights. Surely, if Mitt Romney throws in a few "y'alls" in Dixie, people will realize he's actually a Bubba who's only wearing a Northern square suit.
"Sideshow Bob Roberts" also features The Simpsons's most prescient and most frightening political pronouncement. After he's convicted of a "masterpiece of electoral fraud," he warns the gallery:
Because you need me, Springfield. Your guilty conscience may force you to vote Democratic, but deep down inside you secretly long for a cold-hearted Republican to lower taxes, brutalize criminals, and rule you like a king. That's why I did this: to protect you from yourselves. Now if you'll excuse me, I have a city to run.
Of course, under similar pretenses, Newt Gingrich et al. were swept into Congress less than a month later in the epochal '94 midterms.
This is the current GOP platform, this mandate to rule Americans like a king and to somehow protect us—especially women—from ourselves. And it was divined by a group of comedy writers almost twenty years ago. So I couldn't watch the RNC in Tampa last month; I just didn't know whether to laugh or cry.
Fighting Silence and Protecting the Rights of Writers
by Marta Gibbons
Revolution begins with a wish for what's right, an aspiration for justice. I've heard it said that abundance is dangerous to power, while deprivation, when carefully managed, is safe. High unemployment ensures a ready pool of strikebreakers and transforms the curse of a bad job into a blessing. Forcing a person to accept the role they are obliged to play allows a relaxation of vigilance. This could explain why low-paying employees remain silent, while relatively well-paid employees strike and demand better working conditions.
I seldom disputed my wages; I did stand up for better working conditions, for the perceived notion of equality and the opportunity to succeed. The guilt of challenging my employer did not prevent me from seeking justice, although my fear often caused me to come out fighting like a bull in a china shop.
The staff of the Writers Guild helped me to understand that employees have a right to fair wages, since their work allows companies to succeed. I want to thank the Guild for their support and for their guidance through the process of negotiation, because standing up for the rights of employees was one of the highlights of my career.
And thank you to this Council for allowing me to serve on this board. It has been an honor to be part of a group that maintains the organization of participation.
Thank you and best wishes on your continued efforts to fight silence while protecting the rights of writers.
Marta Gibbons served on the WGAE Council between 2010 and 2012.
The Episode Recap: Changing How We Watch TV
by Simon Apter
One of my favorite offshoots of the twenty-first-century "prestige drama" genre (which, like so many recent TV trends, began with the debut of The Sopranos in 1999) is the Episode Recap. Made possible by the extraordinary TV writing working its way onto premium–and, eventually, basic–cable, and by the boom of instantly-rendered Internet opinionating, the Episode Recap is an entirely new, entirely modern form of short-form digital journalism. If Facebook digitized the old-fashioned "social" or "mixer," then the Episode Recap is the latter-day version of water-cooler chatter.
While much of online journalism can be ridiculed as mere echo-chamber bloviating–that is, like-minded writers chasing like-minded readers, Birthers uncovering more fraudulent documents with other Birthers, Hacktivists sharing malware tips with Hacktivists–the episode-recap genre succeeds online because this echo-chamber, dog-chasing-its-tail milieu is actually what it's all about.
For the episode recap is not written simply to describe the episode for those who haven't seen it; rather, it's an imaginative attempt to recast and reimagine the show through incisive, 20/20 hindsight. Even if–especially if–you've already seen the episode under dissection, the recap will uncover some aspect, some scene your memory elided, that adds another dimension to your enjoyment of the show.
You didn't read Star-Ledger critic (and master of the genre) Vicki Hyman's weekly Jersey Shore recaps because you wanted to find out what new kinds of trouble Snooki and the Sitch had gotten themselves into; rather, you wanted affirmation that the rest of the world–personified here by mainstream legitimacy of a major metropolitan paper–thought that the two were as batshit crazy as you did. Molly Lambert's Monday-morning exegeses of Mad Men on Grantland gave us pithy instant analyses of characters', well, character:
- Megan Draper: Megan is an actressy mix of highly arrogant and very insecure.
- Megan's friend: Megan's ginger friend is an attention slut.
- Pete Campbell: Pete is an opportunist who sees the potential for exploitation in everything.
- Roger Sterling and Lane Pryce: Roger is a schmuck, through and through. Lane is a depressive realist.
Yes, these are over-reduced distillations, but–importantly–they aren't simplifications. A skilled episode-recapper assiduously avoids casting his "re-casted" characters as two-dimensional strawmen; rather, he works tacitly with the show's writers to add depth and to increase complexity to what has already been developed on screen. These are not mere critiques; they're postmortem examinations.
A good episode recap actually has more in common with fan-fiction than it does with criticism, and a good recapper will suggest backstories that are only hinted at on-screen; predict fallout from an implied future conflict; imagine and report on a character's internal monologue that the show's original writers chose to keep hidden from us. We spend 167 hours each week not watching a particular show; why not enrich and enhance them with intelligence and wit?
The reigning heavyweight champ of the recap is New York Magazine's Chadwick Matlin, who has managed to make his weekly meditations on The Newsroom as anticipated as the Sunday-night program itself. He has also made himself indispensable: Say what you want about "Sorkinese," the dialogue of The Newsroom is too lush, too booby-trapped with double- and triple-entendre to absorb in just one sitting, and this is where Matlin's work becomes necessary.
"If art involves the cultivation of a relationship between creator and audience," Matlin wrote in the introduction to his first Newsroom recap, "then Sorkin is one of our most intimate artists. His success stems from the oblique feeling that while watching his work, we, the audience, get to observe the obsessions of his mind."
But it's tricky to delve, unsolicited, into an artist's mind; it helps to have a guide, and leading us through the obsessions of a writer's mind–real or perceived–is what a skilled episode recapper does best. The recapper is a special kind of viewer, an evolved sub-species of Homo technologicus who can read between the frames, can burrow behind the dialogue as-written and as-delivered. And with the prestige drama, he or she is absolutely necessary. The recapper, not the broadcast, becomes the link between between creator and audience, much like an English professor serves as the link between literature and student.
And what about recapping the recaps? It's only a matter of time before Hyman, Lambert, and Matlin find some enterprising scribe insinuating analysis of an analysis of an analysis.
Dr. IMAX: Or, How I learned to Stop Worrying and Love 3-D
by Simon Apter
I used to rail against 3-D movies. Sure, I'd seen and loved Michael Jackson in Captain Eo at Disney World when I was nine, and I'd bought and enjoyed the 3-D version of Rad Racer, the classic 8-bit car-racing game for the original Nintendo. But the twenty-first-century version of three-dimensional entertainment seemed to represent something else, something divisive and undemocratic.
The new 3-D movies are classist, I'd tell anyone who would listen, insisting that 3-D turned the movies (as in, "I'm going the movies")–that great egalitarian space where executives rub elbows with nine-year-olds, Republicans with Democrats, and rom-com lovers with action junkies–into a segregated, pay-for-play enterprise complete with First and Economy cabins. For a few dollars more, it seemed to me, you could upgrade your movie-watching experience from humdrum 2-D into mind-blowing 3-D. And that didn't sit right. The movies were supposed to be about festival-seating, general admission, and getting there early so you wouldn't have to crane your neck back because of a front-row seat. Mayor Bloomberg's seat was the same as mine, and so was his price of admission.
So naturally, in typical inferiority-complex fashion, I took it upon myself to look down on the 3-D viewers–those gilded moviegoers among us, eyes slightly glazed as they blinked out of their 3-D theatre, special glasses in hand. Surely their visual experience had been incredible, but was it better than mine? With just height and width to worry about, wouldn't my brain necessarily have had more capacity to enjoy plot, characters, dialogue? While the 3-Ders were busy cogitating the depth of the image in front of them, I was pondering the depth of the writing and acting, the talent of the above-the-line and below-the-line folks who'd made the film in the first place. I was closer, I'd think smugly, to the art.
After all, I reasoned in a wonderfully bombastic strawman, Alexander Calder never released two versions of his work: the actual mobiles themselves, for those who could pay to see them; and then 2-dimensional pictures of the mobiles, for the hoi polloi. The Sculpture Garden at MoMA doesn't demand an extra entrance fee for its 3-D wonders.
But I've since gotten down from my high horse. Cultural criticism runs aground whenever it begins to parse the nature, definition and propriety of art, and my 2-D snobbishness was no exception. Because three-dimensional movies, at the end of the day, are neither better nor worse than their 2-D older brothers. Three-dimensional viewing is about the experience of watching the movie, not about the movie itself. Changing the manner in which an object is enjoyed doesn't actually change the object. You'd probably pay more to hear a recording of Morgan Freeman reading Inferno than you would to hear me, but nevertheless, through all 34 cantos, Dante's poetry remains unchanged regardless of its medium.
It's easy to be a stick in the mud about progress, especially when it concerns entertainment. For me, going to the movies always evokes memories of Friday-night trips to the second-run State Theatre in downtown Corvallis, Oregon, where the dollar-fifty double-feature was the place to be if you thought of yourself as remotely cool. In April 1994, I had my first real make-out session during Cabin Boy/Sister Act 2. That night became the platonic ideal of movie-watching in my imagination, and I'm transported to the State for a few milliseconds every time the lights go dark.
A novelty like 3-D feels like a threat to the happy memories and warm associations that we've spent our lifetimes cultivating, a cold reminder that our world is no longer ours, that "fun" itself is passing us by and relegating all that we love to nostalgia and to memories of things past. We can feel like our old-fashioned enjoyment of something has been marginalized and is no longer valid, like we're hanging on to things "the way they were meant to be."
But I've come around. I see neither a fleeting golden age nor a decaying future. I just see the movies now, in however many dimensions to which my ticket has entitled me. Because regardless of the movie, and regardless of the projection, the lights still darken, and I'm still in eighth grade, still making out with Sarah Collins, if only for the blink of an eye.


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Over the last nearly 20 years, the Cole Land Transportation Museum has forged a close relationship with scores of teachers throughout Maine, helping them educate school children about the pioneers who created the state's roads and railways and about the veterans who fought and died to preserve our freedom.
The Cole Museum in Bangor, Maine, offers tours led by knowledgeable volunteers; a student-veteran interview program and essay contest ; class presentations; study guides; books; videos; and publications. Through the Galen Cole Family Foundation, the museum also supports programs that teach young people to make healthy decisions, participate in their community, and be prepared for the workforce and entrepreneurship.
Now the Galen Cole Family Foundation has taken community outreach to a new level.
In an effort to connect with prospective teachers, the foundation has provided up to eight, $2,500 scholarships for students in the University of Maine College of Education.
Scholarship recipients, who are recognized for their excellence in a teacher education program and interest in volunteerism, are asked to become involved in some way with the museum or its programs. For example, these teachers-in-training could sit in on students' interviews with veterans; conduct guided tours at the museum; or partner with a cooperating Maine educator to create a Veterans' Memorial, a Patriotic Community Program, or a service learning project.
"Since our relationship with schools is established initially through teachers, it seemed natural to start building relationships with them while they are learning to become teachers," says John Simpson, who earned degrees from UMaine in 1971 and 1983 and now is Chief Executive Officer of the Galen Cole Family Foundation.
"Our mission is to improve aspirations for young people in Maine, and since the only pathway to upward mobility for many Maine children is through education, we want to help college students who may not be able to obtain their degrees without some financial aid."
Simpson, current head of the President's Development Council, has been a loyal UMaine supporter and has served on a number of boards and committees, including as immediate past chair of the University of Maine Foundation Board of Directors.
The scholarship program marks the continuation of a long and productive collaboration between the Galen Cole Family Foundation and the University of Maine. For more than a decade, the foundation has funded the Reading Recovery Program administered by UMaine. Galen Cole, founder of the Galen Cole Family Foundation and the Cole Land Transportation Museum, is a committed UMaine supporter who was awarded the Black Bear Award for devotion and loyalty and who headed the President's Development Council. Three of his four grown children graduated from UMaine.
Located on Perry Road, the museum is a tribute to the pioneers who cleared and reshaped the land and constructed the highways and rail lines that allowed the state to expand beyond its seacoast. Featuring more than 200 vehicles outlining the history of land transportation and approximately 200 military artifacts and memorabilia from several wars, the collection includes farm equipment, automobiles, carriages, bicycles, sleds, fire trucks, horse drawn equipment, motorcycles, railroads, snowmobiles, snowplows, military vehicles and trucks.
To honor our nation's soldiers and remind this and future generations of the high price veterans have paid to protect our freedom, the museum also features a Veteran Interview Program created by Galen Cole and his son, Gary, a UMaine graduate. Through the program, middle and high school students get a unique opportunity to speak directly to veterans about their life experiences. Students may choose to enter an essay contest in which they write what they learned about freedom from the veteran they interviewed. Winners get a savings bond and the opportunity to read their essay at a Memorial Day celebration at the museum.
A World War II veteran himself, Galen Cole says he is proud that he has been instrumental in connecting thousands of young Mainers with veterans who have such powerful stories.
Each year, the museum welcomes approximately 20,000 visitors from May 1 to Nov. 11. One third of these visitors are children, many of whom likely come away with a new perspective.
"Once young people see what Maine pioneers accomplished with hard work, honest endeavor and primitive tools, they can believe that, with today's improved knowledge, advanced equipment, and similar efforts, they also can become creative doers and builders of a bright future for themselves, their communities and their fellow man," says Cole.
In its second year, the scholarship program is proving a great way to acquaint prospective teachers with the museum and its programs. "Now, when they are hired by schools around the state, they already know about us and are excited to participate in our programs," Cole says.
Kevin Bailey, 20, a UMaine sophomore in the College of Education, didn't know much about the museum until he was awarded a Cole scholarship last year. He subsequently participated in a tour of the museum with students from Oak Hill High School in Oakland. He also watched while they interviewed veterans.
"I came away very impressed," says Bailey. "The veterans gave a good account of what it was like to fight in a war and the kids were completely captivated. As a teacher, I definitely would want to bring a group of kids to the Cole Museum. It's a valuable experience that will complement any kind of history lesson."
College of Education sophomore Meghan Martin is another Cole scholarship recipient who sat in on conversations between students and veterans. That's when she realized that a field trip to the Cole Museum could be used to complement any subject being discussed in the classroom.
"We got to hear about the different places veterans traveled and the language barriers they encountered, so a visit to the museum would be perfect to incorporate into the foreign language curriculum," said Martin, 19, who plans to teach high school French and Spanish.
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PINEHURST — Michelle Wie is the U.S. Womens Open champion.
Let that sink in for a few seconds, if you will, because Wie sure likes the sound of it.
I dont think that will ever get old, she said Sunday, breaking into a big smile.
Wie no longer is the girl who once played against the guys, the child prodigy from Honolulu. She no longer is the 17-year-old who walked off the course in tears at the Womens Open seven years ago, or the one whose name seemed to carry more magic than her golf game.
She finally has done it, won a big one, a major championship. Let the toasts begin. Wie, at 24, has proven she can handle the pressure, the heat, in the final round of the biggest tournament in womens golf.
For Wie, an even-par 70 at Pinehurst No. 2 gave her a 2-under 278 total and made her a two-shot winner over Stacy Lewis, who surged into contention with a 66. Northern Irelands Stephanie Meadow, making her professional debut at 22, was third at 281 after a 69.
Its a dream come true, Wie said. I feel extremely, extremely lucky.
Despite a scary double-bogey at the 16th hole, it was a rock-solid round for Wie on a course that first tested the best mens golfers in the world in the U.S. Open, then the best of womens golf a week later.
A birdie at the 17th hole, after the big slip at the 16th, had Wie pumping her fist. All that was left was the 18th and a par that had her lifting her arms in victory.
Wie again was in tears. Tears of joy this time.
She looked at me and said, What a great feeling it is, the history of this place, all the amazing fans. Awesome, said Duncan French, Wies caddie.
Back-to-back Opens produced a German champion in Martin Kaymer, who won by an impressive eight shots. Wies victory gave the United States an American champion to cheer.
I felt proud being in contention, having a chance for an American to win, Wie said.
Wie shared a four-shot lead with Amy Yang of South Korea after the third round and shook off a bogey at the first hole. An early test was at the par-4 fourth, where Wie bunkered her drive and hit a poor second. She hit a 9-iron 31/2 feet feet from the pin and knocked in a side hill putt for par, and Yang three-putted for bogey.
At the par-5 10th, Wie easily reached the green in two and sank the eagle putt, thrusting out a fist. She was 3-under for the tournament, four shots ahead.
But the worlds top-ranked golfer was lurking. Lewis, not heard from since a first-round 67, was playing six groups ahead of Wie and Yang and making birdies.
Lewis had eight birdies in all, the final two at the 17th and 18th holes to match the low round of the Womens Open.
I thought I had a chance. I knew how hard those last holes were playing, Lewis said.
At the par-4 16th, Wies second shot bounced into the base of a bush near a bunker. For a few minutes, no one could find the ball.
There was a tinge of panic, Wie said. I think I aged 10 years in a span of 15 minutes.
French spotted the ball, and Wie took a one-shot penalty for an unplayable lie. She put her next shot on the green but needed to hole a 5-footer for her 6 to keep the lead.
Nothing really rattles her too much, French said. She shook it off pretty quickly.
Wie hit a cut 8-iron at the 17th. She faced a double-breaking, 25-foot putt, but she hunched over the ball in her now-trademark putting stance and made it.
With that kind of pressure, one of the best putts Ive made in my life, she said.
Most know Wies golf story. At 10, she qualified for the 2000 U.S. Womens Amateur Public Links. At 12, she was the youngest to qualify for an LPGA event and she played in the 2004 Sony Open, a PGA Tour event, missing the cut by a shot.
Wie also was making her mark in majors. She had two top-10 finishes in the Kraft Nabisco. She contended in the U.S. Womens Open in 2005 and 2006, tying for third in 06.
Wie then went through a dark period in her career. During the 2007 Womens Open at Pine Needles, she withdrew with a wrist injury, sobbing as she left.
People doubted me and I doubted myself, she said.
She went to college. Her years at Stanford helped her mature, changed her perspective.
She became her own independent person, Lewis said. Shes having fun, shes taken ownership of her game.
A victory this year in the Lotte Championship in Hawaii was Wies first on the LPGA Tour since 2010, and she was the runner-up in the years first major, the Kraft Nabisco. By the time she came to Pinehurst, she was 11th in the Rolex world rankings.
Wie was on hand to see Kaymer finish off the U.S. Open, saying the 18th-hole scene in the final round gave her goosebumps.
I said thats where I want to be Sunday, Wie said.
And so she was. The U.S. Womens Open champion.
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Webster headed to Nebraska
Lincoln University of Nebraska men's basketball coach Tim Miles has announced the signing of Tai Webster, a move which completes the Huskers' fall recruiting class. Webster, a 6-foot-3, 185-pound guard from Auckland, New Zealand, joins Nick Fuller and Nathan Hawkins, who were previously announced by Miles last month.
"I'm excited to have Tai join us!" Miles said. "He is an excellent player who will thrive in our style of play and has high-level international playing experience which will help him acclimate to basketball in the U.S."
"There is no doubt he loved his visit to Nebraska and is excited about the team, our campus, our facilities and without question our fans! We look forward to Tai joining us next season and helping us build Nebraska basketball into a consistent winner."
Webster, a four-star recruit by ESPN, is a member of the New Zealand National Team, and averaged 13.5 points in the 2012 FIBA World Olympic Qualifying Tournament, while shooting 52.5 percent from the field, including 62.5 percent from three-point range. He also led New Zealand in scoring in pretournament games against both Olympic qualifier Brazil and Greece, which was fourth in the world at the time. Webster also led New Zealand's gold-medal winning squad at the inaugural FIBA 3x3 U18 World Championship in Italy in 2011. At Westlake Boys High School, Webster guided the school to the National Secondary Schools Basketball Championships in October, scoring 24 points in the championship game to earn tournament MVP honors.
Name Pos. Ht. Wt. Hometown (School)
Tai Webster G 6-3 185 Auckland, New Zealand (Westlake Boys High School)
Tai Webster
Webster signs with Nebraska after a decorated career in his homeland of New Zealand and in international basketball Is a four-star recruit by ESPN and rated as the No. 29 rated point guard in the class of 2013 Led Westlake Boys High School and coach Ben Eves to the National Secondary Schools Basketball Championships in October of 2012, scoring 24 points en route to tournament MVP honors Paced his North Harbour squad to the finals of the Under 19 Men's Championship, where he scored 42 points in a one-point loss and was named to the all-tournament team this past year Spent part of the summer of 2012 with the New Zealand National Team, leading the Tall Blacks in scoring three times in six contests in his national team debut...Averaged 13.5 points in the 2012 FIBA World Olympic Qualifying Tournament, while shooting 52.5 percent from the field, including 62.5 percent from three-point range Led New Zealand with 21 points on 7-of-12 shooting in a win over Angola, including 5-of-6 from 3-point range. Made his debut with the New Zealand team at 17 years old and 35 days, which was the youngest player to ever make the New Zealand National Team in a major world tournament (previous mark was 19 years and 299 days by former Wisconsin star Kirk Penny in the 2000 London Olympics) .Topped New Zealand in scoring in pretournament competition against both Olympic qualifier Brazil (eight) and Greece (18)...Shined in leading New Zealand's gold-medal winning squad at the inaugural FIBA 3x3 U18 World Championship in Italy in 2011 also played volleyball at Westlake Boys High School Comes from an athletic background, as his older brother (Corey) was also a member of the New Zealand national team, while his father (Tony) was a standout athlete in his own right, earning first-team All-WAC honors at Hawaii in 1983 and ranking fourth on Hawaii's career steals list before playing professionally in New Zealand Tai selected Nebraska over Pittsburgh, Virginia, Wake Forest, St. Mary's LSU and SMU.
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My Mom makes the best Eggplant Parmesan in the world! Never mushy, bitter or greasy. Just plain perfect. Making this dish is something of an inexact science, from the size of the eggplant to how much sauce you'll need. But it doesn't have to be exact for it to work. It's very forgiving, All you really need is eggplant, mozzarella, and a good sauce. Anything aside from that, like the Italian sausage topping this one is a bonus.
I know that frying the eggplant is a turn-off and can be time-consuming. Not to mention messy. This is an occasional treat for us. You can also grill or roast the eggplant slices. But this is the best way for preventing the mushiness I talked about earlier.
Mama's Eggplant Parmesan
(courtesy of my Mom)
eggplant (about 1 and 1/2 to 2 pounds)
Sea salt or kosher salt
Italian Sausage 12 ounces
Canola oil, for frying
Seasoned Italian Bread Crumbs
2 eggs, beaten
Home-made sauce or 2 jars prepared
1 pound Mozzarella, shredded
Peel the eggplant and slice crosswise into 1/4-inch rounds. In a large colander layer the eggplant, sprinkling each layer with salt. Let drain while getting the sauce started, about 20 minutes.
Home-made Sauce
(by Reeni)
1 large onion, diced
2 tablespoons Olive Oil
4 cloves garlic, minced
1 can tomato paste
28 oz. can Crushed Tomatoes (like Tuttarosa)
1/4 cup water
2 tablespoons dried Italian Seasonings (We use a mix that has basil, oregano, thyme, marjoram and rosemary in it)
1 teaspoon dried sage
2 bay leaves
1/2 teaspoon salt (to start and more to taste)
¼ teaspoon black pepper (to start and more to taste)
Pinch of sugar
If adding sausage slice in 1-inch slices. In a large heavy-bottomed pan saute the sausage and onion in Olive Oil until soft; add garlic and saute for another minute or two.
Add tomato paste. Stir it into the onion and garlic mixture and let it heat through. Add tomatoes, water, and seasonings including bay leaves, salt, pepper and pinch of sugar.
Simmer for 30-40 minutes. Taste and add salt/pepper and more dried seasonings if needed. Remove bay leaves before assembling the Parmesan.
While the sauce is simmering fry up your eggplant. Brush off the excess salt with a paper towel at the same time drying off any moisture on the eggplant slices.
In a large, deep-sided skillet add about 1/2 inch of Canola oil, heat on medium. While the oil heats set up the 'dredging' station. In a shallow bowl place the egg, and in another shallow bowl breadcrumbs. Dip the eggplant into the egg and then the bread crumbs, shaking off excess. Fry the eggplant slices in batches draining on paper towels. You will need to add more oil as needed. When all the eggplant slices are fried you are ready to assemble.
In a large casserole dish (11×13) start by spraying it with baking spray. Add a thin layer of sauce to cover the bottom. Then a layer of eggplant to cover the bottom, topped with sauce, then mozzarella, and repeating until you reach the top, leaving enough room to finish with a layer of mozzarella covered by the sausage slices. You will most likely have three layers depending on how shallow the casserole dish is.
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Beautiful Sunsets, Private Beach, Tiki Huts, 2 HTD Pools in St Petersburg
- bedrooms 2
- baths 2
- sleeps 6
- pool yes
- hot tub yes
- pets allowed no
- type Condo
- community Bermuda Bay Beach Club
rates (USD)
/ night
$ 1,100 - $ 1,500 / week
$ 2,200 - $ 2,400 / month
vacation rental description
Call Kim today to reserve dates through Christmas 2014! Reserve now! A sunny tropical, pool with private beach awaits you! Check Availability Calendar on link below or call me, Kim at number on site. Ask about the 30 Day Minimum Stay Rules! Read our Reviews!!!!
Friendly, Relaxing, laid Back, Tommy Bahama inspired designed Condo with amenities galore! Tropical Get Away that is perfect for Newlyweds, Family Fun (3 Bedrooms available at an $400 upcharge), Romantic get aways,and also
set up for relocation and business needs!
Your Option to Rent as a 3 Bedroom (1340 sq ft $400 extra) or 2 Bedrooms (approx 1100 sq ft at prices listed) with 2 Full Baths
Walk In Closets,Two of the Bedrooms have Queen Size Beds with
Pillowtop Mattresses and the
Other Bed is a Standard Queen. Luxury Linens with Heavy Thread count
Towels! All three bedrooms
have color TV's, Ceiling Fans, Louvered Shades, The Master Suite has
a desk, Armoire,and Mosquitoe
Netted Bed!
Large Kitchen with Dining Room Table that seats up to Six
comfortably. Well Appointed Galley Styled
Kitchen with Stainless Steel Smooth Top Range, Microwave, Dishwasher,
Refrigerator, Food Processor, Gevalia Coffee Maker
Garbage Disposal, Toaster, Mixer, Tropical Stoneware
Dishes, Wine Galley, Crystal Stem
ware, Also lots of Tropical Plastic Party Stemware and Dishes for
taking down to the Beach or Pool
to enjoy!
Tastefully designed Living Room with Leather Loveseat, 2 Micro Suede
Recliners, Wicker Loveseat,
Mahoghany Coffee table, Rattan teacart, Large Wicker Ottoman. Sony
Surround Sound System with 32" Vizio Flat Panel
TV and DVD player,& CD Reciever-stereo System. There are even DVD's to view!
Enjoy Breakfast and meals daily on your own private, tiled, screened
in Lanai-Balcony overlooking
Banana Trees and a peaceful, tropical setting...Stroll down to the
private beach and watch the many
birds from the Nature Reserve that abuts the Beach to the North.
Afternoons are for Sunbathing at the Beach Front Pool with Jacuzzi.
Around 3 pm is when the Dolphins
and Manatee usually frolic in Boca Ciega Bay and you see them from
our pool! Evenings take a glass
of wine down to the park benches or tiki tables to watch the Sunsets.
Relax, You Earned It!
There are two LARGE POOLS! One overlooks the Beach with a Jacuzzi,
Chaise Lounges, Tables, Palm
tree lined Putting Green. The other Pool has a wooded picnic grove
nearby, childrens playground,
BBQ, shuffle board, two lighted fenced Tennis Courts, Racquet Ball
Two of the Top TEN BEACHES IN THE US are within 8 minutes: Fort De
Sota and Pass-A-Grille of St.
Pete Beach. Grocery Shopping is within walking distance, so is a
Marina and Restaurants!
The Black Etagerie in the Living Room is full of Guide
Books, Maps, and other
information for you to explore. Many of my guests return annually
and sign the Guest Book in the
Condo to review. Designer who owns
the Unit and will return
inquiries as quickly as possible. Please call me for a quicker Inquiry response times...leave a voicemail with a number I can reach you at!
vacation rental location
property availability
- dates with deals
- unavailable dates
Last modified on 05-7-2014 at 10:39 AM.
email owner view full calendar
Kim Kubena 414-350-0731
condo rental amenities
Your Own Private Sandy Beach on Boca Ciega Bay with two Large Heated Pools and Jacuzzi Parking in front of Condo with Gated Security, Next Door is a newly dedicated Clam Bayou Nature Preserve with Biking, Hiking Trails where you can walk for miles enjoying Eagles, Osprey, Snowy Egrets, White Ibis, Pelicans, Wood Ducks, and even smaller Alligators! There are walking decks to observe Manatee and Stone Crabs!
2 Lighted Tennis Courts, Racquet Ball Court(tennis racquets in unit)
Putting Green by Pool and Beach, Putters and Balls in Unit
Shuffleboard, Books, Games, Toys
Wooded Picnic Grove with BBQ, Childrens Play Area
Large Capacity Newer Maytag Washer and Dryer, Iron, Ironing Board,
Kitchen is Well Eguipped: Stainless Steel Cooktop Range, Dishwasher,
Stainless Microwave, Refridgerator with Ice Maker , Gevalia Coffee
Maker, Toaster, George Foreman Grill, Utensils, Bake Ware, Pots,
Pans,Dishes, Tupperware,Cookbooks,
Mixer, Stem Ware, Silver Ware, Crystal, Plastic ware, Picnic ware,
two coolers,Car Wash Area,Vacumme and Cleaning Supplies, Shop Vac, Dust Buster
High Chair and Porta Crib for $15.00 upgrade, also extra twin mattress
(for small children or an extra adult)
Rolling Beach Cooler and two small coolers, reusable Ice packs
4 TV's , Sony surround sound system and Stereo, DVD and CD players,
VCR player
Sewing Kit, Beach Towels and Toys
DVD and VHS Movies, Checkers and Playing Cards with Poker Chips
Fully Screened in Lanai with Patio Furniture from the Martha Stewart
This is my own personal VACATION HOME,(well appointed) so it is a
SMOKE and PET Free unit!
activities and attractions in St Petersburg Gulf Coast Central
Montly Jazz Festivals Downtown, Weekly Farmers Markets, Art and Beach
Festivals..... See why they call downtown Saint Petersurg the San Francisco of the East Coast! My Personal Favorites are: Swimming, Boating(rentals nearby),
Snorkeling(Ft. Desoto), Fishing, Para Sailing, Walking, Shopping,
Golf, Tennis, Picniking,Volleyball, Racquetball, Biking, Beach
Combing, Shelling, Sunset Watching(from our beach), and Relaxation!
Nearby Gulf Beaches: St. Pete Beach (10 minutes), Fort DESOTO Park(Voted
#1 Beach in America 2005) (18 minutes), Pass-A-Gille Beach (15 minutes)
Tourist Attractions: Disneyworld (90 minutes), Busch Gardens(30
minutes), Troppicana Field, Johns Pass Village, Baywalk, The Pier,
Savador Dali Museum, Don Cesar Hotel(8 minutes), YBOR City( 25
minutes), Tampa Aquarium (35 minutes)
Shopping: Walmart Super Center (3 minutes), Aldi (5 minutes),
Publix(4 minutes), Organic Farmers and Craft Market ( 3 blocks away) Tyrone Square(15 minutes), Ellerton Outlet Mall
(20 minutes), International Plaza(30 minutes),
Transportation: Tampa International Airport(30 minutes), St.
Pete/Clearwater Airport(16 minutes). There is a Super Shuttle
service to and from the airport for about $22.00 per person.
ICE CREAM: Don Cesar Hotel lower level, or Scoops on the beach....
YOU WILL LOVE SAINT PETERSBURG!!!! IT IS AFFORDABLE, FUN, and
CONVENIENT! BOOK EARLY as Peak Season fills up FAST! Please email
me with any questions. Sorry, No Pets and NO SMOKING! Thanks!
vacation rental rates
Sept 1-Dec 2014: $2,200/USD/Month $1,300/USD/week
January 2015: $2400/USD/Month $1400/USD/week
May-August 2015: $2200/USD/Month/USD/$1300 week
Cashiers or Bank Check Required,12% Tourism Tax Applies, There is a 30 Day Minimum Stay Reguired and no inquiries for less then that will be responded to. Thanks for obeying the rules! Holiday Weeks May Be Extra, ALSO SHORT NOTICE ON BOOKINGS, Wire Transfers of Funds may be required!!! Email or call me to find out.
out ! $5.00 Parking Permit per Car, $125.00 Departure Cleaning Fee (Find out how it can be refundable) $100 Surcharge for Summer Utility Bills June-Sept
*Above rates are based on 2 Bedroom rental, 3rd Bedroom Option is $400 more*
$300.00 Reservation Deposit Required, No cancellation refunds (may be
applied to future stays) (see or ask about my
Baby Porta Crib, High Chair Available for $15.00
Hi Speed Internet Available for $35.00 Monthtly Fee
Refunds for Hurricane Evacuations (see a copy of policy)
Rates Subject to Change without Notice
Kim Kubena 414-350-0731
accepted payment methods
Prior to paying a reservation deposit, always verify payment instructions by calling the phone number displayed on this listing page. By contacting the owner directly and paying by an approved method - credit card, paypal, check or bank transfer - your reservation payment will be protected up to $1,000.Learn more in our Security Center
Top things to do in St Petersburg
- Swim and play on the sandy Gulf Beaches
- Snorkel, Fish, Observe Dolphins!
- Shopping at Nearby Malls
- Salvador Dali Art Museum
- Golf at Award Winning Courses
Top things to do on a budget
- Snorkel or Kayak Ruins at Fort Desoto
- Trolley ride the beaches
- Go Shelling,Biking at Fort Desoto
- Ice Cream Parlour at "Don Cesar"
- Swim at one of the two pools
Top things to do with a family
- Dolphin Tours & Deep Sea Fishing
- Play tennis & Golf as a family
- Visit Disney & Busch Gardens
- Sail for a Day at St. Pete Yacht Club
- Swim in one of two large heated pools
Kim Kubena , owner


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|Embroidery Coop wins Business Plan Challenge
|Tuesday, February 11, 2014 9:26 PM
Times Bulletin Editor
VAN WERT — The opening of a new small business is celebrated throughout the city and the area. Local economic leaders helped make more celebrations possible with the 2014 Business Plan Challenge Award, which was presented Friday to Ernie Geyer and Shelly Becker of the Embroidery Coop.
The process began with the Entrepreneurship Fair in November. From that point, nine persons or groups decided to take on the Business Plan Challenge in which potential business owners put together business plans and presented them to a three-judge panel.
The 2014 winners had already opened their business last year and realized they could take advantage of the help offered through this challenge.
"Going to these classes we really learned, between Gary Corcoran and the people he's brought in, the avenues we can use to market the business better and where to get these facts and figures and the people to talk to," stated Geyer.
"It was a totally eye-opening experience," added Becker. "We opened our business without doing any of this, so to actually put our facts and figures on paper and to come up with a three-year plan that had to be reality, that was the most eye-opening part of it; actually planning it and planning to carry out the plan. I think it gave us more direction."
"Now we have goals. We had goals in our own minds at one point. Now they're on paper. Now they're realistic," Geyer clarified.
Becker piped up, "And now people know about them which makes them even more real!"
The Embroidery Coop opened last year at 126 E. Main St., right across from the Courthouse in Van Wert. They do custom embroidery work on shirts, hats and many other items. They also are the sole Van Wert dealer of Stephanie Dawn handbags.
The second place winner was Paul Barton who plans to open a facility for kids age four and up to use Airsoft and Nerf guns.
For second place, Barton was awarded $1,000 in business development funds, business cards and a certificate for a training program at Wright State University's Business Enterprise Center.
First-place winners Geyer and Becker won $2,500 in business development funds, business cards, a one-year business membership to the Van Wert Area Chamber of Commerce and certificates for two training programs at the WSU Business Development Center.
Monetary awards were made possible through donations from sponsors First Financial Bank, the First Bank of Berne and the OSU Extension Community Development County and City Revolving Loan Funds. The Entrepreneurship Fair and the Business Plan Challenge were conducted through the cooperation of OSU Extension Community Development, the Van Wert Area Chamber of Commerce, Community Improvement Corporation, Main Street Van Wert, the WSU Business Enterprise Center, and the city and county of Van Wert.


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Animal Names in Spanish
Topics : Fourth Grade, Spanish Foreign Language
Go wild for Spanish vocabulary! Beginning Spanish speakers can expand their vocabulary with this worksheet full of animal names in Spanish. They will be learning the spelling and pronunciation of a few new vocab words.
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10) Only manage a mere one case of beer per nine holes.
9) You reach for your 9-iron … snow shovel.
8) You're shanking it to the left. Usually it's right AND left.
7) You haven't had your bikini line waxed.
6) You even screwed up cheating your first time out.
5) Take off your Roethlisberger jersey and put on a polo, Hoosier.
4) Left a divot while putting.
3) One word: chafing.
2) Your handcrafted umbrella/ball-retriever combo is still in the shop.
1) Forget chasing pars and birdies, you go after Tiger's mistress record.


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OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) - Oklahoma City Thunder coach Scott Brooks knows he has really accomplished something by getting his team to the NBA finals.
His 79-year-old mother Lee, who hates flying, is going to get on a plane to come watch his Thunder play for the championship.
Brooks said Friday his mother refused to fly to see him play in the NBA until he was on the Houston Rockets team that played for and won the 1994 title. She held out the same requirements when he became the Thunder's coach in 2008.
She has come to see his teams when they have played in Sacramento, but otherwise she's often parked in front of the television and hollering at it when the Thunder play.
Brooks' mom said last year that if she ever came to a game, she "might be thrown out."
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