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Frederick W. Butterlin (ca 1905-?), photographer
Frederick (sometimes Fredrick/Friedrich) W. Butterlin was born in Cologne, Germany, in about January 1905, and was the middle of three brothers (Otto was older, Ernesto younger).
Frederick was a well-known photographer and seems to have been the owner of what was almost certainly one of the first art galleries in Ajijic.
Frederick had not yet celebrated his third birthday when his parents brought him to Mexico in 1907. The family had a first class cabin on the "Fürst Bismarck" of the Hamburg-America line, which departed Hamburg on 14 October 1907 for Veracruz, via Southampton, Santander, Coruna and Cuba. The passenger list duly records the ages of each of the family members. Frederick was 2 years and 9 months of age, his older brother Otto was 6 years and 6 months. Their father Hans Butterlin was 37 and his wife Amelie 26. The family settled in Guadalajara but so far I have been able to find out nothing of substance about their whereabouts during the next twenty years which includes the Mexican Revolution.
What is known is that in 1929, Frederick was a witness to his older brother Otto Butterlin's marriage in California. In the 1930 U.S. census, Frederick W. is listed as 25 years old, single, and is said to have immigrated to the U.S. in about 1920. His occupation is listed as "sugar operator". It is unclear how long Frederick remained in the U.S. but by 1934, he had become a noteworthy photographer.
Among other achievements as a photographer, he contributed to the Amateur Competitions in the January 1934 and February 1934 issues of Camera Craft, (A Photographic Monthly). He was also active as a photographer in Mexico, though precise dates are lacking. For example he is mentioned (albeit with an incorrect nationality) in Olivier Debroise's Mexican Suite: A History of Photography in Mexico (University of Texas, 2001): "Perhaps the most interesting contributor to Foto was the Frenchman F.W. Butterlin, another devotee of pictorismo (as he called it), whose interesting composition entitled "Railroad Wheels" recalls the early work of Paul Strand." (p 65)
Frederick seems to have continued his photographic career for several decades. His published photos include some evocative portrait photographs of Mennonites in Mexico published in the Mennonite Life editions of October 1949 and January 1952.
There are also references to Frederick (possibly with his wife) having owned one of the earliest galleries in Ajijic in the 1940s. According to Michael Hargraves in his 1992 booklet "Lake Chapala: A Literary Survey", "Frederick owned the first restaurant and gallery in Ajijic in the 1940s, and was a painter in the classical style." Assuming this is correct, it is perhaps Frederick's wife who is the "Margo de Butterlin" or "Margaret North de Butterlin" pictured in the Life Magazine article (23 December 1957) about Ajijic. In that article, she is described as "both rich and fashionable", as well as, "US-born but Mexican by her last marriage". While not naming her husband, the article goes on to say that "Her present husband runs the Galeria where the painters display their works and also buy drinks."
As always, we would love to receive any comments, corrections or additional information.
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- Unraveling the story of Lake Chapala's artistic Butterlin brothers
- German-Mexican artist Hanns Otto Butterlin (1900-ca 1960)
Poet and master gardener Fred Lape (1900-1985)
Fred Lape, born at Holland Patent, about 10 miles north of Utica, New York, in 1900, spent several months every winter from about 1966 until his death in 1985, in Jocotepec on Lake Chapala. He died in Jocotepec on 1 March 1985, aged 85, and was interred in the local cemetery the following day.
Lape attended Cornell University and received a degree in English literature in 1921. He then divided his time between teaching English as a university professor (at Cornell, Stanford and the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute), freelance writing, running his farm, developing his skills as a horticulturist, and functioning as the historian of the small town of Esperance (population 2000), his chosen place of residence in Schoharie County, New York.
In 1951 Lape, who never married, transformed the family farm into the non-profit George Landis Arboretum. The arboretum's website states his mission: "He aimed to grow every species of woody plant from temperate regions around the world that would survive in the hills of Schoharie County." Fred Lape served as its director until his death. The arboretum closed every year from 1 November to 1 April, allowing him ample time each winter in Jocotepec.
His great love was guiding visitors around the arboretum. His obituary in The Altamont Enterprise describes how, "The arboretum director, a tall, angular figure topped by a plain, undecorated wide-brimmed straw hat shielding a craggy, deeply-tanned face, would lead visitors past that landmark on regular weekend woodlot tours."
Lape's published work included one novel, Roll On, Pioneers (1935), and three non-fiction works, A Garden of Trees and Shrubs (Cornell Univ. Press, 1965), Apples and Man (Van Nostrand, 1979); and A Farm and Village Boyhood (Syracuse Univ. Press, 1980).
He also authored at least 8 volumes of poetry and founded a quarterly poetry and prose magazine, Trails, which published local nature verse from 1932 to when it ceased publication in 1951. His poetry titles include Barnyard Year (Poems) (1950), A Bunch of Flowers (Poems) (1954), My word to you, J.Q.A: Seven scenes in the life of John Quincy Adams (1965), At the Zoo (1966), Along the Schoharie (poems) (1968), Poems from the Blue Beach (1976), and Hill Farm (1976).
- The Altamont Enterprise, Thursday 14 March 1985
German-Mexican artist Hanns Otto Butterlin (1900-ca 1960)
Han(n)s Otto Butterlin (or Otto Butterlin as he was usually known, at least in Mexico) was born in Cologne, Germany, 26 Dec 1900 and became an abstract and impressionist painter of some renown.
He is the oldest of the three Butterlin brothers. Otto moved with his middle brother Frederick and their parents (Johannes and Amelie) from Germany to Mexico in 1907. (Otto's youngest brother Ernesto would be born a decade later in Guadalajara.)
According to his entry in the 1946 edition of Who's Who in Latin America, Part I – Mexico, Otto was decorated by the German government for service performed during the first world war.
Immediately after the war, Otto studied at the Universities of Bonn, Marburg, and Munich (1918-20) and at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich (1920-22).
During his time at the latter institution, he wrote and illustrated a booklet Ixtaccihuatl. Der Azteken Legende vom Berge der schlafenden Frau (Ixtaccihuatl: The Aztec Legend of the Mountain of the Sleeping Woman), published in Berlin in 1921 as a limited edition of 250 copies by Verlag A. R. Meyer. The 14-page "lyrical leaflet" included five original woodcuts (see images).
U.S. immigration records show that Otto Butterlin (5'9″ tall with blond hair and blue eyes) was resident there between August 1924 and October 1929, though he probably made trips to visit family in Mexico during that time.
On 7 June 1929, Otto married Margaret Elaine (Anglin) Dodge (1906-1982) in Alameda, California. Otto's younger brother Frederick was a witness at the ceremony. It was Otto's first marriage, and Margaret's second. Margaret ("Peggy"), aged 23 when she married Otto and described as the "operator of a beauty parlor", had previously been married to Latham L Dodge (1904-1955). From that marriage, she had a daughter Jacqueline Dodge (born 22 March 1925).
Otto made his living as a chemist and supervisor of operations in various industrial plants for at least 15 years. At the time of the 1930 Mexican census (held on 15 May), he and his wife were living in Los Mochis, Sinaloa, where he was working at the sugar refinery.
The following year, in 1931 Margaret gave birth to their daughter Rita Elaine in Los Mochis. (Rita would go on to marry Chilean film star Octavio Señoret Guevara (1924-1990) and live in California).
While Rita was still an infant, Otto decided to formalize his permanent right to residence in Mexico and became a naturalized Mexican citizen in October 1935. Immigration records show that he continued to visit the U.S. several times a year.
It appears to be at about this time that Otto decided to spend more time on his art.
Following the economic calamities of the early 1930s, the U.S. had initiated its Works Progress Administration (WPA; renamed in 1939 as the Work Projects Administration). This was an ambitious "New Deal" agency and employed millions of unemployed, and mostly unskilled, people to carry out public works projects. Hundreds of artists found support from WPA to complete paintings, sculptures and murals, many of which were designed for specific public spaces. A number of these artists, including Otto Butterlin, either had or came to have close connections to the Lake Chapala area.
In Otto's case, he received the support of WPA to paint "New York City Panorama" (1937). The painting is described by art critic Robert Pincus, in a review of a 2006 exhibition called "Art of the WPA Era From Collections of the San Diego Region", as a "nightmarish swirl of faces and electric signs":
"The steep downturn of the American economy turned city streets into huddled masses of people who gathered in soup lines. Many people felt that they were at the mercy of forces beyond their control – forces of a modern, bureaucratic state whose emblem was the city.
This sort of alienation assumed different guises. There is the nightmarish swirl of faces and electric signs in Otto Butterlin's "New York City Panorama" (1937), more expressionist metaphor than visual document. (He was part of the contingency of artists from Mexico who worked in the United States that included Diego Rivera and Jose Clemente Orozco in New York and Alfredo Ramos Martinez in San Diego.)"
By the early 1940s, Otto Butterlin was based in Mexico City and working as an executive in the Bayer chemical company, a position which enabled him to supply several well-known artists of the time, such as A. Amador Lugo (who was epileptic) with needed medications, at a time when they were very hard to obtain.
In 1941, Otto introduced his friend Gunther Gerzso (a famous set designer who later became a fine painter) to gallery owner Inés Amor. A few years later, in May 1950, Amor arranged Gerzso's first solo exhibition in the Galería de Arte Mexicano in Mexico City. Gerzso became a famous artist. According to Octavio Paz, Gerzso was one of Latin America's greatest ever painters, on account of the fact that he, Carlos Mérida and Rufino Tamayo had opposed the "ideologist aesthetic movement into which muralism had degenerated."
Otto Butterlin had been accorded the honor of his own one-man show at the Galería de Arte Mexicano several years earlier. The exhibition, which lasted from November 1942 to February 1943 featured 32 of Otto's works, probably including "The Funeral" (now in the collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art). Otto's paintings were also exhibited at various locations elsewhere in Mexico, as well as in Germany, Holland, and the U.S.
By the mid-1940s, it seems that Otto and his wife Peggy, together with daughter Rita, had decided to relocate to live in Ajijic. In a 1945 article, Neill James, who had arrived in Ajijic a couple of years earlier, described Otto Butterlin as a "well known expressionist and abstract painter who owns a huerta in Ajijic where he lives with his wife, Peggy, and daughter Rita."
His 1946 Who's Who entry says he was the author of a "book of poems" but it is unclear if this refers to his earlier booklet Ixtaccihuatl (1921) or a different, later work.
The list of artists exhibiting watercolors in May 1954 in "Galeria Arturo Pani D." in Calle Niza in Mexico City includes a Butterlin (probably Otto) alongside such famous contemporary artists as Raúl Anguiano, Fererico Cantú, Leonora Carrington, Carlos Mérida, Roberto Montenegro, Juan Soriano, Rufino Tamayo and Alfredo Zalce.
Both Otto and brother Ernesto Butterlin were among the 28 artists who had a joint exhibition the following month, June 1954, also in Mexico City, at the Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes' Salón de la Plástica Mexicana. Other artists whose work was featured on that occasion include Roberto F. Balbuena, Michael Baxte, Leonora Carrinqton, Enrique Climent, José Feher, Elvira Gascón, Gunther Gerzso and Carlos Mérida.
In October 1954, Otto Butterlin requested permission from the Mexican government to be allowed to accept and use "without losing his Mexican citizenship" the "Honor and Merit" decoration awarded to him by the Government of the Republic of Haiti.
Otto Butterlin is reported to have died in 1960. An article by Kenneth McCaleb in The Corpus Christi Caller-Times (15 February 1968) offers two alternative explanations, saying that "Otto Butterlin either shot himself or – as some said – was killed by his mistress."
Partial list of sources:
Kenneth McCaleb, "Conversation Piece: How To Be an Art Collector", The Corpus Christi Caller-Times 15 February 1968.
María Cristina Hernández Escobar. "Gunther Gerzso, The Appearance of the Invisible". Voices of Mexico. UNAM. n.d.
Robert L. Pincus, "WPA captures the soul of a nation", The San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 February 2006, page F-1.
Robert Hilton (ed). Who's Who In Latin America A Biographical Dictionary of Notable Living Men and Women Of Latin America. Part I – Mexico. (1946)
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Western novelist Bruce Douglas (1897-ca 1961)
Bruce Douglas was the pen-name of Theodore Wayland Douglas, who was born in Indianapolis 29 May 1897 and died in Mexico in about 1961.
Bruce Douglas is reported to have been a recent visitor to Ajijic in Neill James' article about life in Ajijic published in 1945, so we can safely assume he visited in 1944 or very early in 1945. It is unknown if Douglas returned later to the Lake Chapala region, though he resided full-time in Mexico City from at least as early as 1943 until his death.
Douglas served in the U.S. Navy during the first world war. Shortly after the war, he was awarded his bachelor's degree from Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, in 1918. In 1922, he received his Masters degree in English from the University of Illinois. He worked as a reporter on the Indianapolis Star 1919-20.
Douglas began his writing career after many years teaching in universities. From 1920 to 1932, he undertook postgraduate work while also teaching English at a series of universities, including Indiana University, the University of Illinois, the University of Chicago, and the University of Oregon. He also taught at the University of Texas and the State College of Washington.
Douglas married twice. His first marriage was in 1922 to Lucretia Lowe in Champaign, Illinois. His second marriage, in about 1929, was to a Mexican girl, Lee Patricia Bohan, born in 1906. The couple had one son. It appears likely that Bohan was a student, or university colleague of Douglas. She gained a B.A. in French from the Southern Methodist University in Texas in 1927, and then presented her Master's Thesis the following year at the University of Chicago. (Her thesis was entitled: "Fielding's Portrayal of the Country Squire (Henry Fielding)". Bohan died in California in 1984.
Douglas was a prolific writer of short stories during the 1930s and 1940s. His first success in getting stories published was in May 1930 when Ace-High Magazine accepted "The Ghost of Oro Gulch". That same year, he also saw at least three other short stories in print: "Code of the Range" in Western Rangers, "The Cowpoke from Coyote" in Western Trails and "For Love of a Bandit" in Ranch Romances.
After 1932, Douglas dedicated himself full-time to his fiction writing. Between 1930 and 1954, he had more than sixty short stories and several short novels published in the U.S., Canada and U.K.
His books include Border Range (1942) and The Strong Shall Hold (1943), in which "Wes Marshall fights for his father's spread" (both western novels) as well as a thriller Tropical maze, published in the U.K. in 1948.
In 1934, one of his stories, "Holdup at Dry Wells" appeared in the same issue of Cowboy stories (vol. 26, no. 3) as "Off the westbound freight", by John Mersereau, another author associated with Ajijic.
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- Ronald Hilton (ed) Who's Who In Latin America: Part I Mexico (1946)
Unraveling the story of Lake Chapala's artistic Butterlin brothers
While researching the history of the artists associated with the Lake Chapala region, I came across more and more references to the "two Butterlin brothers". The problem was that different sources, including otherwise reputable art history sites, gave them quite different first names: Ernest and Hans? Hans and Frederick? Linares and Otto?
There was very little evidence and it seemed impossible to tell which source was accurate, and why different accounts gave such different names, ages and details. They were usually described as "German", but it was unclear whether they had been born in Germany or were the sons of German immigrants to Mexico.
Eventually, I compiled enough evidence to prove conclusively that there were not two Butterlin brothers, but three! Two had been born in Germany and were brought by their parents to Mexico. Safely ensconced in Guadalajara, the parents then had a third son, several years younger than his siblings.
The picture was complicated by the fact that two of the brothers used different names at different stages of their life, with the older brother rarely using his first name on his art once he arrived in Mexico, while the youngest brother adopted a surname for much of his artistic career that had no obvious connection to his family name.
Small wonder, then, that confusion reigned about the Butterlin brothers on many art history sites, some of which even failed to identify correctly the country of birth of each of the three brothers.
The three brothers (in order of birth) are:
- (Hanns) Otto Butterlin (1900-ca 1960)
- Frederick W. Butterlin (ca Jan 1905-?)
- Ernesto Butterlin (ca 1918-1972), also known as Ernesto Linares
There are still great gaps in my knowledge of this family, but the picture that finally began to emerge showed that the Butterlins deserved wider recognition as an artistic family of some consequence.
In future posts, I will show how all three Butterlin brothers contributed significantly to the development of the artist colony in the Lake Chapala area, albeit it in rather different ways.
Gina Hildreth (who wrote under her maiden name Gina Dessart) and her husband Philip, also a writer, apparently lived, at least for a short time, in Ajijic in the mid-1960s. She wrote at least three suspense novels: A Man Died Here (1947), The Last House (1950) and Cry For The Lost (1959). All three works were published in New York by Harper & Brothers. The first two novels were set in New England, whereas her third novel was set in and around Tucson, Arizona.
Gina Hildreth also wrote a stageplay – By any other name, a comedy in three acts (1948) – and had a short story, "Counterpoint", published in the Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine issue of November 1965.
Gina Hildreth was born in 1912 in Chicago, and grew up in New York and Europe. She gained a Masters degree in English. She and her husband Philip moved to Tucson, Arizona, in 1950, following a two month vacation there.
The precise timing, duration and motives for the couple's decision to live in Mexico for a time in the mid-1960s are unclear, but by the late-1960s, they appear to be once again living in Tucson, Arizona.
Gina Hildreth was a lecturer in English and taught creative writing at the University of Arizona in the early and mid-1970s, at the same time that John Lee taught there.
It appears that Philip was also a writer, though I have found no definitive evidence that any of his work was published.
Gina Dessart Hildreth died in New York in 1979.
According to a Kirkus review, A Man Died Here (1947) tells the story of the Macklin family's "attempts to piece out the happenings in the Williams family when as the new owners of the Williams house, their curiosity is first aroused by the house itself, later by the hints of gossip, hatred, evasion, in the town. Bob and Liz fit together each small fact, each tiny segment of character, and write finis to a story of bondage, cruelty, dishonesty, lifting the shadow from the house."
In The Last House (1950), according to one reviewer, a Connecticut gal "gets herself shot in village kitchen. Suspicion falls on various neighbors, male and female." The reviewer, William C. Weber found the book to be an "absorbing and capitally written mystery-suspense tale with interesting psychological overtones."
A review of Cry for the Lost describes it as "a murder story that poses no problem of who committed the crime. The interest and excitement in this suspense story lies in following the effect of the murder upon the characters and lives of the people who had been closely associated with the man who is killed. Miss Dessart reveals with considerable understanding and a searching sympathy the inner probings that torment both the guilty and the innocent when faced with the bitter knowledge that one among them has been driven to taking a human life."
- Mecheline Keating, "Cry for the Lost – review", Tucson Daily Citizen, 3 October 1959, p 13
- William C. Weber, "The Last House, by Gina Dessart" in Tucson Daily Citizen, August 28, 1950, p 12
Betty Warren (1920-1993), portraitist
Portrait artist Betty Warren, later known as Betty Warren Herzog, was born in New York City on 6 January 1920. Her brightly colored portraits were in such demand that she became one of the highest paid female portraitists of the 20th century. In 1940, at age 20, she became the youngest woman in US History to hold a solo exhibit at a major US Museum (Berkshire Museum).
From the early 1980s, she spent winters in Ajijic, Mexico, and had her art studio there.
Betty Warren was the daughter of illustrator Jack A. Warren, cartoonist of Pecos Bill. She studied at the Art Students League in New York, the National Academy of Design, the Cape School of Art (summers, 1937-42) with Henry Hensche, Farnsworth School of Art, Sarasota, Florida, and the Reineke School in New Orleans. Warren was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Fine Arts in 1991 by Hartwick College, Oneonta, New York.
Betty Warren taught at the Albany Institute of History and Art for seventeen years and co- founded The Palm Tree School of Art, in Sarasota, Florida, and The Malden Bridge School of Art, in Malden Bridge, New York.
She had more than 35 solo shows during her artistic career, and exhibited at Artists of the Mohawk-Hudson Region, Allied Artists of America, American Water-Color Society, National Arts Club, Knickerbocker Artists, New York, and the Grand Central Art Galleries. Her last formal portrait was of Governor Hugh Carey for the State of New York in 1991. She died in Albany on 8 November 1993.
She one of the six wives of actor Stuart Lancaster (1910-2000). She had two sons: potter Michael Dean Lancaster and landscape artist John Warren Lancaster. Following her divorce from Stuart Lancaster, Warren later married Jacob Herzog, a prominent attorney in upstate New York.
Betty Warren was a member of Grand Central Art Galleries, National Arts Club, American Artists Professional League,National League of American Pen Women, Pen & Brush.
Warren's portraits can be found in the collections of the The University of Wisconsin; General Electric; University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Albany Institute of History and Art, New York; the Malden Bridge School of Art; Hartwick College, New York; the New York State Supreme Court in Albany; and the Grand Lodge of New York.
Sombrero Books welcomes comments, corrections or additional material related to any of the writers and artists featured in our series of mini-bios. Please use the comments feature at the bottom of individual posts, or email us.
Leonora Baccante is an American novelist who had published two novels prior to living in Ajijic in the 1950s, at the same time as Eileen and Robert (Bob) Bassing. Baccante's novels are not set in Ajijic, but Baccante herself was the basis for the character of novelist Victoria Beacon in Eileen Bassing's novel, Where's Annie?
A 1928 Kingston, New York, newspaper account describes Baccante as a "former New York World staff writer" (The New York World ceased publication three years later.) Baccante worked at Woodstock, New York, for several years.
Baccante's two novels are
- Johnny Bogan: A Realistic Novel Of Violent Young Love (New York: Vanguard, 1931) and
- Women Must Love (New York: Vanguard, 1932).
Johnny Brogan is set in a small town and is a character study and love story rolled into one. The striking cover art by Puerto Rican artist Raphael Desoto shows a young brunette undressing in front of a handsome guy in a bedroom. The novel is about a ladies' man Johnny Brogan, the son of a murderer, who falls in love with Cathy Willis, a girl who initiated their relationship at school. According to Baccante's friends, the character of Cathy is autobiographical.
A short piece by Baccante, "Can't we be Friends?", with illustrations by Ty Mahon, was published in the October 1931 issue of the College Humor magazine. Baccante also wrote an unpublished play, Making the man; a play in 3 acts, recorded as written in 1929 when she was living in New York City.
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Robert ("Bob") Mitchell Bassing, born in Rhode Island in 1926, lived with his novelist wife Eileen and her two sons in Ajijic between 1950 and 1954. The Bassings, who had previously been living and working in Hollywood, where Bob had been assistant story editor at Colombia Pictures. In Ajijic, they were early members of Lake Chapala's Lakeside Theatre".
Bob Bassing wrote short stories, fiction screenplays, and worked on numerous television projects. As Michael Hargraves has pointed out, "Although none of his [Bob Bassing's] published works uses Ajijic or the Lake Chapala area as a locale, he nonetheless was influenced by his being there."
Prior to living in Ajijic, Bassing had worked as a writer for the TV series Studio One in Hollywood (1948). While living in Ajijic, he had a short piece entitled "Lullaby" published in Discovery, No. 2 (New York; Pocket Books, 1953), edited by Vance Bourjaily. Bourjaily had also lived in Ajijic, albeit apparently briefly, during summer 1951.
Published short stories by Bassing include "The Trouble with Arabella" in Woman's Home Companion, January 1955, and "Summer Evening," in Mademoiselle, May 1955.
Bassing wrote several screenplays, including that for his wife's novel Home Before Dark (1958) and for Evil Town (1977), as well as more than 120 scripts for episodes of numerous TV series including The Millionaire (1956), Ford Television Theater (1954-1957), Harbor Command (1958), Assignment: Underwater (1960), National Velvet (1960), My Three Sons (1961) and Shirley Temple's Storybook (1961).
Bob Bassing also wrote a book, Dr. Hudson's secret journal: The Denby story (Los Angeles: Authors Playhouse, 1955).
Bob Bassing was the basis for the minor character "Beau Blissing" in Willard Marsh's Ajijic-based novel Week with No Friday (1965). Marsh and his wife had earlier been used by Eileen Bassing for two minor characters in her own novel set in Ajijic, Where's Annie?.
After Ajijic, the Bassings moved back to California. Eileen Bassing passed away in 1977 but Bob Bassing was still living in Los Angeles and writing about movies at least as recently as 2004.
Related posts:
- Eileen Bassing (1918-1977) , author of "Home Before Dark" and "Where's Annie?"
- "Where's Annie?", a novel by Eileen Bassing, is set in Ajijic, Chapala, Mexico
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University of Iowa
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I have been working at University of Iowa
Nice university. Also you can expect NIH pay scale and good health/dental insurance.
Enjoy safe and relatively inexpensive life here.
Cold Winter. Hot summer. Little bit boring.
Actually I do not have suggestion. Satisfied.
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Bhangra Mixes and Music / Re: PDM Final Mix« on: November 20, 2014, 09:27:47 AM »
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Bhangra Mixes and Music / Re: PDM Final Mix« on: November 20, 2014, 09:27:47 AM »
Thanks for sharing it friend!
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Main Bhangra Discussion / Re: CSUN Bhangra Competition has the PropheC!!!« on: November 16, 2014, 08:23:54 PM »
Thank you for the prompt response and addressing the concerns Aman. I hope this helps teams out that are considering applying.
If you still have pending questions, feel free to reach the committee at: [firstname.lastname@example.com]firstname.lastname@example.com
Good luck to the entire 2014 CSUN committee; hoping for the best and look forward to some reviews of both the competition and the teams performing
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Main Bhangra Discussion / Re: CSUN Bhangra Competition has the PropheC!!!« on: November 15, 2014, 04:46:29 PM »
That link brought back memories. lol . . . I can't say who should've placed but USC didn't deserve to be first and let's leave it to that.
Please stay on topic Yankee paaji. It's fine to reference what happened over 4 years ago, but let's not rehash old topics/issues. I say that with respect & courtesy, only because the last thing we need is everyone talking about the old CSUN placings again.
Only what is in bold in relevant to this topic. Btw, I PM'ed the committee for some clarifications on the topic. I hope they can address some of your questions/concerns.
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Main Bhangra Discussion / Re: Bhangra State of Mind Review« on: November 15, 2014, 04:37:18 PM »
I understand that your team felt sort of the same way we are now with BSM, and I personally like to publicly apologize for any of our wrong doing. The main organizer of RVPD did not reimburse all of the teams fully and since I was the point of contact a lot of responsibility came upon me to clear up the team's funds. Internally I wasn't getting proper responses from the main organizer about reimbursing the teams, so my friends and I (excluding him the main organizer) did a fundraiser and we raised enough money to pay back all the team's money that was promised. This showed 1 aspect that we accepted responsibility and eventually rectified it. Mr. Yankee please let me know if there is anything else I can do to bring peace to the matter of Cal Bhangra at RVPD?
Much #respect to you, Juggie, and your friends for stepping up to the plate and taking responsibility to reimburse teams/give out prize money even though you weren't directly involved with organizing the competition.
That deserves a lot of praises and ALL teams that attended Raunak Punjabi Virsey Di (RVPD) should be extremely thankful for what you guys did. We need more solid people like you in the bhangra circuit.
Let's keep this topic about BSM though. Yankee, please take your issues about other competitions up with the organizers or with the appropriate individuals via PM. Thank you.
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Main Bhangra Discussion / Re: Bhangra State of Mind Review« on: November 11, 2014, 12:01:51 AM »
A big thank you for everyone that is posting reviews/feedback. This shouldn't be just about listing a bunch of shit that you hated or went wrong, so I would definitely encourage people to mention the "pros," things you liked, or fun times you had.
We all know that the topics that are controversial draws more attention, but it's nice to hear what a competition did a good job with. It would be awesome to hear from more people/teams where this was one of their first major competitions and more feedback on ways the committee can improve going forward.
This is type of thread that teams should be researching BEFORE they apply to comps.. i.e. next season/next year, teams should be reading this topic and discussing their concerns with the new committee before applying. The surprising thing, it seems the first year of this competition was actually a success so not too sure why they dropped the ball this year: http://bhangrateamsforum.com/discuss/main-bhangra-discussion/bhangra-state-of-mind-review-feedback-responses-suggestions/
Also please "Bhangra State of Mind 2" committee members, please address these concerns in this topic & individually reach out to the teams that you caused such as an unpleasant experience to when the teams were the main entertainment that drew the crowd to your comp.
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P.S. - Sent a PM to the committee, so I hope someone checks this thread and responds.
Main Bhangra Discussion / Re: Admin Help« on: November 04, 2014, 09:38:36 PM »
Hi shwinerz, please check your PMs. If you need further help, you can contact Swi or myself.
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Bhangra Mixes and Music / Re: need some quick help plzz!!!!« on: October 30, 2014, 04:18:07 AM »
Uploaded to BTF by dholi sabz: http://bhangrateamsforum.com/discuss/post-mixes-and-video-links/songgg-reequesssstttt-d/msg89823/#msg89823
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Videos and Performances / Re: Gurgulshan Singh (desi shmurda) M2D intro« on: October 27, 2014, 12:08:40 PM »
This is awesome man! Thanks for sharing You should make this into a proper small mix and release it. I love the singing; very talented individuals.
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Main Bhangra Discussion / Re: **** WORLD'S BEST BHANGRA CREW FIRST FIVE TEAMS****« on: October 17, 2014, 11:40:09 AM »
Truly a world class competition! Great promo video.
Excited to see these teams face off. Good luck to all.
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Main Bhangra Discussion / Re: Jawani Comes to an End« on: October 15, 2014, 12:30:54 AM »
Sad to hear about such an established team hanging up the vardiyan (especially since there a lack of all female squads), but alas all good things must come to an end.
Let's just hope they inspired some of new generation to take over where these talented ladies left off. Thank you for the amazing performances & for the diversity you guys brought to the circuit.
~ Basim
Off-Topic / Re: Calf Pain« on: October 07, 2014, 11:01:24 AM »
A lot of people use compression wraps/compression sleeves, so those might help.
Also, try giving yourself a few days off in between doing "100baitkan" (nice username ) for your calf muscles to recover. The last thing you want is a severe calf strain that causes your muscle fibers to tear.
I'm no doctor, but during those days of rest/recovery, you can use any products that contain the ingredient methyl salicylate (wintergreen oil) - which causes your capillaries to dilate and allows your blood to flow to areas of your body where it's rubbed in. Products include Bengay, IcyHot, Tiger Blam, Bio Freeze, etc.
Hope this helps,
~ Basim
Bhangra Mixes and Music / Re: What is this song?« on: October 06, 2014, 01:17:21 AM »
You might have had a tough time because it's called "Chardi Jawani" by Aman Sandhu, but you were very close with your words.
You can download the song here: http://bhangrateamsforum.com/discuss/post-mixes-and-video-links/ksn-on-da-mix/msg153235/#msg153235
By the way, you can always try to search our Media Center for a lot of tracks. We have quite a few tracks uploaded. Even if you just searched for the word "jawani," you would have likely came across it amongst the 5 pages in the Media Center.
Hope this helps,
~ Basim
Videos and Performances / Re: **NEW** SGPD Bhangra video (featuring. Me!)« on: September 30, 2014, 07:17:00 PM »
Great dancing Jusi.. you're a natural Glad to see some guys from SGPD still dancing - wish they would bring a team & routine to the competitive scene again.
How'd your visit to Toronto go? A lot different than the U.K.? Thanks for sharing the video sir.
~ Basim
Main Bhangra Discussion / Re: High School Bhangra Competitions/Performances 2014-2015« on: September 30, 2014, 10:34:31 AM »
First off, welcome to BTF! I did a quick search on BTF for you. Here are some recent topics that came up:
It appears you're a little late since the deadlines for these comps have passed; just keep an eye out when these comps start accepting teams for next year.
"High school" specific comps are not very abundant. I think most hs teams just perform at talent/cultural shows, melas, wedding parties, etc.
You could always host/start your own high school competition - I'm sure you would get plenty of teams applying if you promoted it properly.
Good luck to your team,
~ Basim
Main Bhangra Discussion / Re: America's 1st Bhangra TV REALITY SHOW - American Bhangra Championship 2014« on: September 28, 2014, 12:21:28 PM »
Any chance these episodes might be available on youtube in the near future?
+1 - Any place to view the episodes online after they have aired? Would love to catch this series, but I don't think I can watch this when it airs every week.
~ Basim
Main Bhangra Discussion / Re: Boston Bhangra 2014 - Team Lineup« on: September 25, 2014, 02:00:55 PM »
Thanks for posting the lineup here Preet!
Pretty stacked lineup with a lot of veteran teams that have something to prove or to see if they "still got it" as we head into the new season.
I'm also REALLY glad to see that there are no teams competing at both Burgh & Boston - I guess it just worked out like that. I love to see what every team has to bring and a diversity in the lineups will allow just that.
There should plenty of local support with 4 out of 12 teams being from Massachusetts, but Boston always has a great crowd that seeks to be pleased regardless of a team's hometown.
Good luck teams & Boston Bhangra committee.
~ Basim
Bhangra Mixes and Music / Re: The Federation of Bhangra 2014 Mix (Melbourne, Australia)« on: September 22, 2014, 12:34:37 AM »
This is so clean and well done JsK! Having taken a quick listen to it, the biggest part that sounded off key & odd to me was from 7:53-8:02 (the tumbi instrumental just didn't flow well at all all with Soorme imho). Overall, a great job with the mixing. Lots of good transitions without over doing things.
What I really loved about this mix were the combination of of songs used - every single one is an "off the charts" hit. There's a great mix of some older songs & new songs.
Do you think that you could attach a HIGH QUALITY mp3 of this mix? I want to jam to it when I'm not at the computer.
Would appreciate it sir. Thanks in advance.
~ Basim
Main Bhangra Discussion / Re: **Bhangra in the Burgh 8 Official Lineup**« on: September 22, 2014, 12:16:04 AM »
Solid lineup with a very diverse mix of teams! I'm loving it. Good luck to all the teams competing - look forward to the new performances in order to dazzle your fans for the new season.
Also, good luck with the event Burgh committee,
~ Basim
Main Bhangra Discussion / Re: Looking for bhangra team in nj« on: September 14, 2014, 04:14:33 PM »
What's the team in Princeton, NJ ? Is it Co-ed by any chance ?
You may be in luck Haldiholic.
I believe it's Princeton University's co-ed team (that's based out of Princeton, NJ of course): https://www.facebook.com/PrincetonBhangra
Not sure if you need to be a student of the university to be on the team, but definitely reach out to them using the contact e-mail in the above facebook group page.
If you don't get a response soon & need a direct contact of the team, let me know.
Good luck,
~ Basim
Bhangra Mixes and Music / Re: *****Ankhilay Jawan - All state Florida 2013-2014 MIX*****« on: September 13, 2014, 07:30:19 PM »
Full discolure: A few days back, I received a fb message to provide feedback on this mix from my dear friend Sangeen. So this is my take without having seen a performance by this team.
Loved the intro/start - the emphasis on the vocals was great up until 0:43 and I imagine this would have worked great for the team's opening sher.
Good transition from 0:43-0:45, I liked the use of the bass reverb effect to keep it simple & clean.
Great song choice with the song starting at 0:46ish.
I wasn't really feeling the rap lyrics in the background from 0:51 to 0:55ish. I didn't really think it added much and sort of clashed with the Punjabi lyrics (according to my ears). I would have choose a different sample to use here.
0:56-1:02 - Holy BASS. Great time to pump up a listener & crowd. I imagine the team to break out some powerful moves at his point. Really made my subwoofer work.
1:03-1:07 - There was a great slow down effect and a well placed "hoi" repeat effect. Overall this was essential to be placed here otherwise I would have thought the mix to sound quite repetitive by this point (especially due to continous heavy bass).
1:07-1:16 - Once again, the rap was brought in, but it's so faint.. that I don't think it does much for the mix. Maybe that was your goal? Who knows.
1:36-1:41ish - I loved the piano's added into the background of the songs. While this was also a bit faint, it flowed really well with the song. I'm not sure this is part of the original song or if you added it in, nonetheless, good stuff!
1:41-1:42ish - No transition here, which was a bit odd, because it's almost like the team wanted to stop something completely & move to doing something else very quickly.
1:47-2:02 - Very nicely done. A lot of different things happening here, but loved everything you did.
2:02-2:03ish - Good transition with a clip of of Manak-E "Kehndi mere pair dukh dhe" + bruahh sound effect + explosive bass sound. Again, quite simple, but effective.
A bit too much exaggerated bass for my taste with Manak-E's "Pair Dukh Dhe" song.
2:47-2:48 - Transition sounded really weird to me. Not sure where you were going there.. I understand the build up and then drop into the lyrics, but it sounded very "stop & start" between the Punjabi song & the rap song.
2:55-3:05 - Tough transition here due to the next song having such a different tempo, but it worked for you. The small build up & the "bruahhhh" sound effect was really simple - but I appreciated the "hey hey" sound effect carried over into the beginning of the Punjabi song.
3:43-3:44 - I think your transitions are getting too simple. This is another example that sounded a bit abrupt to me. I did like the panning effect of the sound that followed shortly after though (the sound effect that moved from right to left twice)
3:51-4:23 - Good sound affects & strong bass drops at well-timed moments in the Punjabi song
4:24-4:26 - Great transition here. It flows so naturally & well. Great job.
5:07-5:08 - There could have been a better transition here. Again, it seems very "stop & start" with the cut you made.
5:09-5:46 - This was hott. The slow down in satisfya just sounded awesome.
5:46-6:45 - THANK YOU FOR BRINGING BACK & INCORPORATING SOME CLASSICS! YES These are songs that majority of the audience recognize & it's great for the younger generation to be exposed to this stuff!
A good outro at the end, but I couldn't understand what the last words being repeated were. At first I thought it was a DJ tag, but it doesn't sound anything like Sangeen. It sounds like the word "sikhi." lol.
I hope this helps somewhat. It took several days for me to write as I only had the time to listen to the mix in pieces (note: I did listen to the mix as a whole, but it takes me time to get detailed & break it apart to comment). Overall, your mixing has improved a lot over the years.
Hope you can also provide more feedback (especially in detail) to others who are starting off or need help sir. Great mix overall.
~ Basim


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How is this NOT a greatly-reviewed and appreciated Disc? It contains three REVOLUTIONARY games plus additional new content, and all of it has been extremely well-upgraded and faithfully remastered. And even if you don't like the game (or games) in the first place, you should at least be honest about how vital they were (and are) in terms of their influence on the gaming world in general.
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Also, the 3D effects are great... some of the best I've seen in a game that supports 3D. A definete must buy!… Expand
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Oct 17, 2012This is a great game, only made greater by the inclusion of of Doom and Doom II. this is not just a game, but a piece of gaming history. this was a first day buy for me. i don't understand the reason for such bad user reviews. you have to understand that Doom is the reason that FPSs exist, and why they are so lucrative. before MW, Halo, Killzone,... there was Doom. great price for so much content.
Oct 17, 2012I am a 32 year old gamer who hasn't played the original DOOM or DOOM 2 in years. I own a PS3 and I don't have a gaming PC, so I never got to play DOOM 3. So, the release of the BFG edition on PS3 is something I've been waiting for a long time. When I got it, I loaded up and played the first two DOOM games and they look and feel great. I had been intending to only play the original DOOM for ten minutes or so and move one, but I dug it so much I kept playing. When I tried out DOOM 3 for the first time, I thought it was great. It moved as fast and smooth as Rage (which I own and think is highly under-appreciated). If you love DOOM, buy this.… Expand
Oct 17, 2012These negative reviews are whats poor here not the game itself. I personally have purchased and own a copy of Doom BFG edition(because I doubt the ones who have negatively reviewed it even own it) Now to the review. This game is well worth your time and money especially if you don't own previous versions of doom and only own a console. Personally I own a console and this was a perfect way to get my doom on. 40 dollars for Doom 3 and two expansions, doom and doom 2 with everything and multiplayer and trophies included with all of them? WHAT MORE WILL IT TAKE TO PLEASE YOU JADED **** Its cheap and you sure as hell get more than enough content provided! Not only that but they also bumped up the frame rate to a smooth 60 fps from a weak 20 fps but they also created a new expansion pack for a 8 year old game! I think it was very generous of them to release this for the PS3 and I thank them for letting me replay these games for only 40 dollars. Its well worth the money and notice how I am reviewing the PS3 copy, so I already understand that it was pretty useless for them to release it for PC. The controls are good, the game runs smoothly I have not run into problems, and it is insanely fun even to this day. The only issues you will encounter is the multiplayer hiccups a tad and not many people play the old doom games online sadly. Which speaking of the old doom games the biggest draw back and hopefully this will be patched is in order to switch from old doom back to main menu you have to shut down the entire game, but by now most of us are used to that because of games like God of war hd collection and jak and daxter hd and so on. All in all you love ID games? You love Doom? Support this release, let them know we are ready for Doom 4!… Expand
Oct 16, 2012This Game was TOP NOTCH, Multiplayer not much playin YET but the game will be a great filler when waiting for doom 4, this game is a must buy you get Spoiled for the price you pay and thats what i love the most
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Jan 7, 2013Had care and attention been given to those (not to mention some reworked visuals), it would've made for a far more compelling package instead of two classics saddled with three duds.
Dec 4, 2012One thing that won't drive you crazy any more is your flash light. In the original Doom 3 you had to choose. Do you want to shoot your gun? Or do you want to see where you are shooting. Sure, it added to the suspense, but in terms of gameplay it wasn't very practical. [December 2012, p.85]
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If you're looking for a place to stay on the Sunset Strip, look no further than the BEST WESTERN PLUS Sunset Plaza Hotel in West Hollywood. This West Hollywood hotel is the perfect base for a visit to Los Angeles and all it has to offer, especially the nearby areas of Beverly Hills and Hollywood. We provide our guests with all the amenities they need for a relaxing and enjoyable stay, which earned us a 2014 TripAdvisor Certificate of Excellence for our efforts. Among the things that set us apart is cable television including HBO®, free Wi-Fi, Electric car charging stations, and a complimentary hot American buffet breakfast with scrambled eggs, bacon, sausage, English muffins and so much more. Our suites also offer whirlpool hot tubs and combined with our heated pool, exercise facility and gorgeous furnishings, it's no wonder that guests at our West Hollywood hotel leave with great memories to last a lifetime. Being on Sunset Boulevard, we put you close to everything you need. Bringing the family and looking for all-ages fun? Our hotel is near Universal Studios® and just minutes from amusement parks, museums, boutiques, famous landmarks and local beaches. Get discounted tickets to Universal Studios, Disneyland® Resort, and city and star home tours. Or visit the Hollywood Stars Walk of Fame and Grauman's Chinese Theater. Also close by are the J. Paul Getty Museum, Farmers Market, Los Angeles County Museum of Arts and only 10 miles from Los Angeles International Airport (LAX). Those traveling for business will enjoy this Los Angeles hotel's proximity to Cedar Sinai, UCLA Medical Center and the Hollywood Bowl. If live music and nightlife are more your speed, you couldn't ask for a better location than the one our Sunset Strip hotel boasts. The Roxy, Viper Room, Whisky a Go Go, Key Club and Troubadour are among the world-famous nightclubs nearby. Book your trip to the BEST WESTERN PLUS Sunset Plaza Hotel in Hollywood today and see the best of Los Angeles.
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Hotel amenities
- Meeting/Banquet Facilities
- Non-smoking room
- Business centre
- Hotel safe
- Internet
- Lift
- Central heating
- Air conditioning
- Car park
Room amenities
- Writing bureau
- Safe
- Terrace
- Bathroom
- Shower
- Wake up call/Alarm clock
- Pets allowed
A choice of sports
- Fitness centre
- Outdoor pool
Other hotel information
- 24 hour reception
- Car hire
- Information desk
- All public and private areas are no smoking zones
- Wifi
- Free Wifi access included
- Newspaper
- Laundry service
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