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The Legend of Newt Knight
If I close my eyes, I can still see him today, just as he looked back in 1955 when I was four years old. He stands forever in my memory in front of the Strand Theater, with his white beard down to the bib of his tattered overalls, selling peanuts and chewing gum and candy bars. That old man scared the bejeebers out of me every time Momma took us to watch the cowboy movies on Saturday afternoons.
It was a measure of courage to approach him, clutching your nickel in your sweaty palm, while he studied you with those old-man, blue-gray eyes. With my heart racing, he would pluck up my coin with his long yellowed nails and then examine it carefully before dropping it into his coin sack. The very second he handed me the little brown paper bag of peanuts I took off, fleeing back to my mother, dizzy from a peril survived.
It was decades later, long after his death in 1956, that I learned who the man was. His name was Thomas Jefferson Knight and he carried secrets that could turn my hometown of Laurel on its ear. I wasn't' the only one he scared. He had a few grownups shaking in their boots as well.
He was around long before Laurel existed, before the sawmills came, when Jones County was wild frontier. The farms then were small, remote, and self-sufficient. Most of the people were poor, with an independent streak a mile wide. They didn't take kindly to authority of any kind, political or military or religious.
Over his lifetime, Tom witnessed it all—the disappearance of the great pine forests, the arrival of industry and commerce, and more significantly, Tom Knight had a first-row seat to the twin conundrums of Jones County. I'm talking about our conflicted history pertaining to Confederate patriotism and racial purity.
I guess there was plenty reason to fear him. That old man knew the ground from whence we sprang.
Thomas Jefferson Knight was the last surviving child of the infamous Captain Newt Knight, the so-called Emperor of the Free Republic of Jones. He began his life as a child raised hidden away deep in the swamps, watched over by a fierce army of renegades who had sworn dying allegiance to Tom's bigger-than-life father.
We learn much about Newton Knight from the little book Tom wrote idolizing his father. He sold it for a dollar a copy along with his peanuts on the streets of Laurel. In Tom's book, his father was a bona fide hero. At the beginning of the Civil War, Newt was a small farmer living near what would one day become Laurel. While serving in the Confederate Army, he came to the conclusion that the affair was a rich man's war and a poor man's fight, and decided he would have none of it. He deserted, returned home and gathered up a band of like-minded men, exerting military control over much of the county. Tom proudly boasted that Newt's army fed the war widows, protected their farms from the Confederate cavalry's foragers, and saved many from outright destitution. In Tom's opinion, there was many a Jones Countian who worshiped this Robin Hood of the Piney Woods.
But Tom didn't write down everything in his little book. There was a sizeable portion of his father's story that Tom would just as soon people forgot.
The truth is, Newt's rebellion didn't end with the War. He also had some very controversial practices when it came to race. In addition to his white family into which Tom was born in 1860, Newt raised up a mixed-race family with Rachael, a former slave of his grandfather. There was established for eternity in Jones County two branches on the family, one known as the White Knights and the other Black Knights.
Not that such a thing was unheard of in those days. This wasn't the Old South populated by rich planters, plantation houses and remote slave quarters. The fact is, very few Piney Woods inhabitants owned slaves. As for those who did, well, let's just say it was understood that when there was only one field in which to work, and one table from which to eat, and only one or two shacks in which to sleep, Blacks and Whites were bound to share a unique kind of intimacy. The boundaries were not as rigid as many of many of my fellow Jones Countians would like to believe. Folks just didn't flaunt it.
What I have told you up to this point can be pretty well documented, and has been by a legion of part-time Jones County historians.
But now I get to the part where beliefs diverge and a strongly expressed difference of opinion might get you shot. For instance, was Jones County of Civil War a true bastion of Confederacy or was it an independent nation or was it nothing more than a no-man's land terrorized by renegades, outlaws and drunks?
Was Newt Knight a patriot, a traitor, or a mere opportunist?
When it came to his relationship with Blacks, was he an emancipator, a bigot, a lover of black women, or nothing more than a rapist?
I have heard each of these viewpoints expressed with great conviction by Jones Countians. Through listening to countless stories told by both Knights and non-Knights, by both Black and White, I've learned some people hold their beliefs about Newt Knight's legacy with great fervor. I've been cussed out more than once for suggesting an opinion that ran counter to what folks have been raised up with.
So, it's with some trepidation that I am going to share with you over the next few columns a few of the rich, complex and often very contradictory stories that I've been told. Since Tom is no longer around to set me straight, I can't vouch for what is factually true or false. But what I can guarantee is that the stories that surround Newt Knight, shaped the customs, the beliefs, attitudes and prejudices of many a Jones Countian, including myself.
Inventing Newt Knight
Some people in Jones County claim two Bibles: The King James and The Book of Ethel, more commonly known as The Echo of the Black Horn. In 1951, Ethel Knight, a distant in-law of Newt's, released her bombshell of a book. In it she spilled the beans, and named names while she was at it. Ethel simultaneously became the most praised and the most cussed-out woman in Jones County.
Ethel Knight had grown furious at how outsiders were portraying Mississippi in general and Jones County in particular. She was especially upset over the national attention given to the Davis Knight trial over in Ellisville. Davis Knight was a descendant of Newt's on the black side of the family, but had been caught passing for white. In 1948, he was brought to court and sentenced to five years for marrying a white woman. It landed in the Mississippi Supreme Court. According to Ethel the national press was having a field day at our expense. She said she was sick and tired of watching outsiders "…distort the facts into wicked propaganda." She wrote Echo to set the record straight.
Of course she wasn't the first Jones Countian driven to revise Newt's image. In 1865, to dispel the notion that the anti-Confederates led by Newt Knight were community heroes, the county changed its name for a while to Davis, after Jefferson Davis, hoping to remove all doubt as to their patriotism to the recently vanquished Confederate States of America.
Years later, as the stories about Newt became meaner and nastier, his son Tom wrote a book trying to redeem his dad. He claimed that Newt Knight wasn't such a bad man after all. He was more like a Robin Hood of Jones County.
James Street, a Laurel newspaperman, came along in 1942 and penned the best selling novel Tap Roots, which for the first time raised the specter of race-mixing among the Knights. Though he didn't use real names, everybody knew who he was talking about. I know of at least one family of black Knights, who at the time were passing for white in Hattiesburg, having to pack up and move to Memphis after that book came out. A few white Knights changed their name and moved to Texas.
The movie of the same title was released in 1948. About the only good thing the New York Times critic had to say about the film was that the star, Susan Hayward, was "… generously endowed by nature and further enhanced by Technicolor." Still, it cemented Street's depiction of the hero of the legend as an honorable man fighting for a noble, anti-Confederate cause. That same year Mississippi took Davis Knight to court for miscegenation. On top of that, Willie McGee had been sentenced to die and while the whole world protested his upcoming electrocution at courthouse. Once again Jones County had occasion to be splashed across the slick pages of Newsweek, Time, Life and Look. The sanctity and racial purity of the old Confederacy in Jones County was in shambles.
That's where Ethel comes in.
She decided to fight back. She rifled through trunks and attics, poured through courthouse papers, studied Civil War muster rolls, tromped through overgrown cemeteries, interrogated the old timers, and pieced together the "authentic" story of Newt Knight. Somehow she even got Tom, Newt's ninety year-old son, to renounce his childhood hero, his own father, on the jacket of her book. Once again, Newt was depicted as a bushwhacking, cold-blooded, no good deserter. A traitor to both his country and his race. For a long while, that image stuck with a large part of the county.
But now it seems the pendulum is swinging back again. Victoria Bynum, a Texas college professor has recently written a highly respected book on Jones County that returns a little luster to Knight's hero status. She even presents his fathering two races of Knights in a more positive light. Producer Gary Ross, whose movies include Seabiscuit and Big, has bought the rights and will be filming "The Free State of Jones" in the near future.
You may ask, how could there be anything left to tell about this old man, born over 170 years ago?
Recently, I was startled when I sat down with members from the black side of the Knight family. It was like I stepped through the looking glass. I was familiar with all the books written by white folks about Newt, but now I was suddenly witnessing a piece of the mystery that has been mostly ignored—those legends passed down through generations of black Knights. In these stories the names were the same, Newt and Rachel and Serena, but the heroes and the villains were reversed. "Where did these stories come from?" I asked.
Yvonne Bivins, one of the people present, told me that when she was a child and there was bad weather, they all gathered at their grandparent's house, the kids huddling by the fireplace. While the storm was brewing, her grandfather would say, "Be quiet. The Lord is working." When the storm subsided, the old ones began telling the stories to the children. It had the sound of the sacred.
I came to understand that these stories were indeed holy work. Each story had a moral, and the stories handed down to black kids taught very different lessons than the ones handed down to white kids. That's when I understood. Folks fill in the blanks of Newt's story to bear out their own truth. If Newt Knight had never been born, we would have to invent him, just to talk about who we are.
That's why the story of Newt Knight just won't die. It insists upon being born again and again. The need for the truth is a powerful thing. We humans just can't abide an unsolved mystery. We turn our mysteries into myths, and myths change to suit the times, like Oedipus Rex or the Iliad. Within the myth of Newt Knight lie the unresolved paradoxes of our age, about race and family and country. The Myth of Newt Knight forever poses the question, "Who are we, really?"
And the truth of the answer, like us, keeps evolving.
Ethel Knight: Conscience of the Confederacy
The Hornes probably knew Ethel Knight best. Carolyn and Keith looked after Ethel the last ten years of her life, following the death of her husband and all of her children. Ethel even willed the Hornes the publishing rights to Echo of the Black Horn because she believed they would keep it going.
And they have. Echo of the Black Horn is presently in its ninth printing and still sells strong locally. Along with the family Bible, it is a cherished item in many a Jones County native's home. A good portion of sales are from people replacing the one they loaned out and never got back. This book has a habit of disappearing.
Keith remembers the day he took Ethel to her doctor in Magee. There in the waiting room was a copy of Echo with a hole drilled in it. "They had run a chain though the hole and attached to the table so nobody would take it home. No telling how many they had went missing." It's true once you get into it, whether you love it or hate it, you just can't put it down.
Carolyn and Keith went over to Ethel's house every Sunday and Ethel would cook for them. And while she cooked, she told stories. Carolyn got smart and began bringing a recorder to tape Ethel as she reeled off one priceless bit of Mississippi history after another. Carolyn says she has hours and hours of Ethel talking while pots clanged and dishes rattled in the background. One day, Carolyn says, there will be another book.
"We might have to leave home if it ever gets published," Keith laughs.
I asked what motivated Ethel to write Echo.
"Having married a Knight herself, she wanted to clear her husband's name," Keith explained. "Newt's whole family was a total outcast. They wouldn't allow them in churches. Some of that still exists. It's a prejudice. People don't even know why anymore; they just know they aren't supposed to like them."
But some people are proud of their associations to Newt. In Ethel's book there is the story of a raid on Knight's gang. Newt escapes, fleeing into the woods. A woman runs along side him, carrying her infant, but she begins tire. Newt snatches up the child and carries the baby in the crook of his arm. "Tomorrow," Keith says, "we're going to interview that baby's grandson. He's probably over 65 now."
"Everybody knew Ethel," Keith said, "and Ethel knew everybody. And she knew everything about everybody. If she had been born twenty years later, she would have been Governor."
People would call her all the time with questions about their ancestry. "Ethel was one of those people who just loved to do for folks. To help you out," Carolyn told me. "Folks were always dropping by to ask her questions about their roots. White and black. She would take time to help them all. She was very generous with her information."
In an age when there were so many Knights passing for whites, people also came to Ethel with more surprising requests. Carolyn told of a woman whose daughter was engaged to a Knight. She called up Ethel and asked, "Has he got any black in him?" Ethel confirmed that no, the man was not of Rachel, Newt's slave wife's, line.
According to Keith, whenever a person in Jones County says they are a Knight, there is always that suspicion. He mentioned one group of Knights who got so tired of it they moved to Texas and changed their names to McKnight, (We'll find out how blacks feel about this mixed ancestry in future columns!)
In her book, Ethel takes a strong stand against "race-mixing" and lauds the ideals of the Confederacy. She even dedicated her book "…to the memory of the Noble Confederates who lived and died for Jones County." Not very politically correct nowadays. I was curious to know how Ethel reacted to this new breed of historians revising Jones County history once more, especially considering how her own account of things stood for so long. I could just hear Ethel railing against this new set of outsiders coming into Jones County to twist "facts into wicked propaganda."
Keith told me of an encounter Ethel had with a stranger who dropped by her house one afternoon. Little did Ethel know that this white woman pumping her for information would turn around and write a popular book casting Ethel as a racist, calling her research into question, and suggesting that Echo was little more than a thinly disguised defense of white supremacy.
When that new book hit the shelves, Ethel was 93 and legally blind. "I had to read it to her," Carolyn remembers. "You can only imagine how she felt. That woman took some mean swipes at Ethel."
Indeed, Ethel felt personally betrayed and defamed, and sure enough her trademark temper was on display. Ninety-three or not, she wasn't going to take it lying down. When the author came to USM to promote her new work, Ethel decided she would go face the woman.
She made sure to arrive early enough to get a seat right up front. And there she sat, stiffly in the third row of the packed auditorium, staring down the professor with a defiant glare. "She didn't say a word," Carolyn remembers. "She was too much of a lady for that."
She didn't need to say anything. Coming to stand with her was an incensed contingent from the Sons of Confederate Veterans, folks who honor Ethel because of her unrepentant stand for the Confederacy.
How did the professor react?
"It must have rattled her," Keith laughed. "She seemed to lose her focus for quite a bit."
Who wouldn't, I wondered, with the full moral weight of the Confederate Army bearing down on you?
Dispatches From Jones County: The Battle of the Newts
I don't know if you've heard the cannon-fire, but the "Battle of the Newts" is raging hot and heavy again. It happens every few years, whenever somebody comes out with a new book claiming to tell the real story of how Jones County did (or did not) secede from the Confederacy and how the entire county was taken over (or not ) by a Rebel deserter by the name of Newton Knight and how he did (or didn't) take an ex-slave woman as his lover.
Newt's been dead nearly a century, but it's just like him to get people taking potshots at each other. I can hear him laughing, "I don't care what y'all say about me, but you better not forget me!" Well, I'm sure he's loving this latest brawl over who the real Newton Knight was.
This most recent book, The State of Jones, (Doubleday 2009) was written by Stauffer and Jenkins, two Yankees who say they know Newt better than his own family, his neighbors, and his fellow Mississippians. They are convinced they have discovered what every slow-witted Southern writer who came before has missed. They actually say as much.
Those they discredit include Newt's own son, Thomas Jefferson Knight who wrote the original book about his father, The Life and Times of Captain Newton Knight and his Company in 1942. And then there's Cousin Ethel Knight, who wrote Echo of the Black Horn in 1951. She comes in for some pretty harsh treatment at their hands. And according to these two Northern know-it-alls, the exhaustively researched books of Mississippian Rudy Leverett (Legend of the Free State of Jones, Univ. Pr. of MS 1984) and Texan Victoria Bynum (Free State of Jones: Mississippi's Longest Civil War, UNC Press, 2001) can't be believed as far you as you can throw them. When asked how they got to know the South better than Southerners, they had the gall to answer that had spent nearly two whole weeks in Mississippi.
Lord, I've was born and raised here, wrote two novels about Mississippi, and 40 columns on Jones County and I still can't explain us!
There's a good story in how this pair got involved with Newt to begin with. It started when another Yankee, one with a lot of money and Hollywood pull by the name of Gary Ross, found himself in Mississippi. Somehow he stumbled across Newt's story. You have to hand it to the ingenuity of Northerners. They come into Mississippi, look around a couple of days and think to themselves, "Darn if these folks ain't pitiful. Sitting on all this gold and either too dumb or too lazy to haul it across the street to the bank."
Ross decides our story needs to be made into a major motion picture. Of course, give credit where credit is due. Ross's instincts are usually pretty good. He had the same idea about "Seabiscuit" and look what happened.
I guess it was about this time he came across Dr. Bynum's book, which had been selling pretty well since it came out in 2001. People thought her book was probably the last word on Newt Knight. But those same people aren't aware that Newt's mischievous spirit never sleeps.
Ross liked that book so much he bought the rights, everybody thinking he was going to turn Bynum's work into a movie. But Ross had other plans for that book. He wanted to bury it. You see, it didn't have the kind of ending that Hollywood likes. Newt needed to be updated for the new millennium. Ross thought it would be a better if Newt was a religious, morally upright abolitionist who was more liberal than John Brown, Abe Lincoln, and Jessie Jackson all rolled up together. And of course, every movie hero needs a good woman by his side. Why not make Rachel, the ex-slave woman, Knight's one and only true love? (You still thinkin' 1860's Mississippi?) Ain't Hollywood wonderful? I can already hear the swell of the violins in the background.
The next thing Ross did was find himself some local talent and said, "Here, take this woman Bynum's research that I bought, and see if you can't duplicate it. I want to publish my own book with my own ending and I don't want to be beholdin' to nobody."
They did what he asked, and threw in a couple of conveniently never-before discovered "facts" as a bonus. Ross then took that information, along with his already written movie script and fat checkbook, and went on a shopping trip to Harvard. There he bought his own very own historian to "research" his book.
Then he found him a woman sports writer to make it read like a potboiler romance.
Their book came out in June and has already been shot full of holes in the renewed "Battle of the Newts." Historians, incensed that history can be bought, rewritten and sold so blatantly, are lining up to write withering reviews in papers like the New York Times and Wall Street Journal. Dr. Bynum is coming out looking pretty good. Her research is holding up better than the Carpetbaggers; and her reputation as a historian, as well as her book sales, have soared.
There is one more piece of bad news for Ross and his army of scavengers. Universal Studios has put an indefinite hold on the movie because of the economy.
But the people I feel bad for are Tom and Ethel Knight, and their heirs, black and white. Every book, dissertation, movie script, and newspaper article in the last sixty years on Newt Knight quotes freely from Tom and Ethel's books. To make their cases, authors, historians and movie producers and directors lift Tom and Ethel's words right off the page. And in the next moment, talk about how racist or biased or ignorant they were. It's like going to your neighbor's well, drinking your fill and then cussing the water. And then everybody feels free to come back and help themselves to another dipper full.
But does anyone say thanks? No. In fact, nobody pays a dime for picking through these treasures. And I don't use the word "treasures" lightly. The works they left behind are both remarkable labors love and a part of our Mississippi heritage. Whether they are factually accurate or not, or written through the distorted lens of racism, white supremacy or family myth, they were written by us, for us.
These two simple people, without nary a Ph.D. or Academy Award to their names, tried their best to make sure that the story of a people would live on after they were long gone. That deserves respect, not scorn.
The truth is if it weren't for Tom and Ethel, the legend of Newt Knight would have stayed in the grave with him. Maybe that's why Newt's spirit is letting Gary Ross, a movie producer, have the last word. None of the three would admit it, but I think Ethel and Tom and Ross are a lot alike. They might have different politics, but they are all more storytellers than historians. They never let a few facts get in the way of a rousing tale, and that's why Newt won't die. He can be anybody you want him to be. It's the storytellers who keep him alive and he knows it.
For columns on Newt's family and ancestry, black and white, see:
Rachel Knight: Slave, White Man's Mistress And Mother To A Movement
White Negro Communities: Too White To Be Black And Too Black To Be White

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As if the beef wasn't already super-heated between UFC light-heavyweight champion Jon Jones and his upcoming challenger Daniel Cormier, things have taken a turn for the worse. After the two had a violent encounter on stage at a recent UFC 178 media day, they exchanged barbs live on Sportscenter, after publicly apologizing for the fracas.
One thing we didn't see was what happened between takes during the broadcast on FOX, and it was disturbing to say the least. MMAJunkie.com first posted the video of a 'hot mic' out take from the recent media showing, and the two engaged in a much more sinister, off-air exchange of words, here are the quotes for your consumption:
Jones: Hey p-ssy, are you still there?
Cormier: I'm here. I'm here. You're just the fakest person. I actually admire that you can just be this fake, and when like that TV comes on, how can you just change. It's like you're a chameleon. It's awesome.
Jones: Hey listen, I'm a professional.
Cormier: It's awesome. It is unbelievable.
Jones: The fact that you're a p-ssy hasn't changed.
Cormier: It's unbelievable how fake you can really be. It's like you're just such a f-cking p-ssy. My God. It is amazing. It is amazing. But hats off to you. You've got a great PR person because they do a great job of training you because you are just terrible. You're the scum of the f-cking Earth. You are a terrible human being. But you can sure turn it on.
Cormier: I wish they would let me next door so I could spit in your f—ing face.
Jones: You know I would absolutely kill you if you ever did something like that, right?
Cormier: You could never kill me.
Jones: Oh, I bet you I could.
Cormier: Then you should try, Jon. You really should try, Jon.
Jones: I will literally kill you if you spit in my face. Literally kill you.
Cormier: Let's try that, Jon.
Jones: I'm not saying I would fight you. I said I would kill you if you do some silly sh-t like that.
Just, wow! I'm still on the fence as to whether the UFC 178 media day brawl was real or not, but this exchange seems anything but staged. Death threats, harsh insults and the bad language to boot; this feud truly is turning out to be very interesting indeed. All this, and still well over a month before the two actually fight.
So what do you think, is this one of the most elaborate, well-plotted media stunts of all time, or are these two just about ready to tear each other's heads off?
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August 8, 2014 at 4:27 pm
DC sucks at talking trash.
August 8, 2014 at 10:05 pm
"You're the scum of the f-cking Earth" Would someome please inform me to what Jon Jones has truly done that is so horrible and evil that has made people hate his guts??? All you Jon Jones haters can't say DC isn't acting like a dickhead as well. You guys act like Jon is the only one doing all this shit, its 50/50 both hate each other. These types of hate fueled altercations and situations outside the UFC would prob be the exact same way with two schmucks on the street. Someones says they will spit in your face, the reply would be "Bitch I will kill you, if you do that"
All I know is that on September 27th 2014, from the MGM Grand Garden Arena, in Las Vegas, Nevada, there will be some Black on Black crime, Live and only on PPV. So as UFC fans not just Jones and DC fans lets enjoy the great fights we get to watch.
August 8, 2014 at 10:24 pm
The point is that Jones sells a whole other persona for the cameras and the crowd. DC is not the first fighter to call him out for his 'fakeness', I guess it's because they see what he's really like when the cameras are off.
I always thought there was something off with Jones even though his press conferences etc. could make him seem like a really laid back nice guy.
August 8, 2014 at 10:43 pm
He actually is a nice guy, just because you call someone a pussy that just automatically makes you a terrible fake person??? Obviously Jon acts differently on camera, he isn't going to swear and carry on if front of kids, the scuffle at the press conference was a one off thing, Jon has never been involved in anything like that. You think DC would say on national TV that he would spit in Jones face??? Does that make him a fake person?? No its a total different situation when its these guys sitting near each other, with voice communication of course they are going to talk shit.
August 9, 2014 at 6:03 am
Jones has been schooled at a young age to perform in front of the cameras as you say thus creating this false persona.
However, that so many jump on the hate wagon shows how many gullible fools there truly are. Jones does a great job of selling his fights. No matter what he does his profile gets raised very high beyond what his ability in the cage raises it and whether by design or by fluke, he puts bums on seats, sells ppvs and kicks ass.
So hate all you want guys; he's achieved more in his short time on this planet than most here will achieve their entire lives.
August 9, 2014 at 4:35 am
You are right, these two guys seem to hate each other. And yes DC is behaving like a dickhead towards Jones. But Jones is acting like a dickhead towards his fans. Like he says, he's a professional. A professional liar and fake.
Remember how he acted on the sportcenter that was aired? You don't see that as fake compared to what he says here above?
That's the difference. It's fine that Jones acts as a DH towards DC. But being that fake is a big F U to Jones fans. If Gus ever acted like this he would loose my support.
August 9, 2014 at 4:53 am
All he did was call him a pussy. Don't you think saying you are going to spit in someones face is a little worse? What Jon has done isn't that bad, its petty crap. The main thing with me is how Jon fights in the cage, the people that dislike Jones have nothing to say about his skills in the cage. If you can't see how deadly and good Jon is your blind. I think DC is a serious threat to Jon, I use to really like him before all this shit started. I still respect his skills as a fighter, he has elite wrestling and his top control is some of the best in MMA. But I think Jon is on a different level with his striking and submissions.
August 9, 2014 at 5:48 pm
After training for nearly twenty years of training martial arts, I have never met a bully with actual heart or courage…
Rather, they get hit in the liver.. they see the guy keep coming forward, taking their shots and hitting back.. and realize the playground is not the place they are now..
You have the brain of an errant flea, and it is probably best that you find a place where your nonsense will be tolerated.. at your mommas…
Now run along, silly silly child.
August 8, 2014 at 4:30 pm
These guys will set mma back 20 years after this feud concludes at the pace they're going.
August 9, 2014 at 1:16 am
Apples and oranges, that was a "dark time" in mma and all the shenanigans were with 2 idiot meat heads with Ortiz and Shamrock, this is a corporate sponsored champ that is a main face of company and the other is the face of many UFC events and now UFC is pretty damn close to main stream. I was exaggerating when I said they'll set mma back but it's not a good reflection of UFC to have your fighters going WWE and threating to kill each other. I am sure it's a bump in the road overall, but overall this is pretty bad.
August 8, 2014 at 4:32 pm
It's mostly jones though. DBAG!
August 8, 2014 at 4:38 pm
Oh these fucking crybabys.. Ye sure for people that already know the mma world this is hype. For the regular person this makes it or breaks it, getting the hype or thinking of these guys as some dudes that belongs in prison.. And people who are against mma are surely gonna use this shit =/
Way to go guys, way to go :/
August 8, 2014 at 4:43 pm
Jones has to be the worst champion out there. Trash talk is one thing, but the level of disrespect he shows for Cormier and the fakeness while on camera and the constant bullshit is something else. What kind of champion and role model says 'you still there pussy?' After the camera turns off. I hope DC fucks him up I really do
August 8, 2014 at 6:08 pm
Man shut your sensitive ass up. All you do is cry about shit like a chick.
August 8, 2014 at 5:03 pm
probably from training with Cain Velasquez
August 8, 2014 at 5:19 pm
If I ever get an interview with DC I'll ask him, just for you!
August 8, 2014 at 8:15 pm
Cormier lost his tooth slamming Dan Henderson
August 8, 2014 at 6:18 pm
Hey Ivy, you got four WEAKS now for saying something foul about their utmost beloved DC…expect to get 80 more before the day is over with. I hate jealous, judgmental crybaby men. It's getting old, LADIES.
August 8, 2014 at 6:28 pm
Jones starts shit off by saying "Are you still there Pussy" and DC is the douche? YEah that makes sense dude…. that makes a lot of sense!
August 8, 2014 at 10:07 pm
What about the interview the other week?? Jon was asked what happened with the altercation, he replied with his interpretation of the situation and DC's first reply was calling Jon "Jon Dummy Jones" How mature of DC totally not douchey at all.
August 9, 2014 at 12:13 am
Probably because he changed his story from the original one he told which confirmed cormiers story
August 8, 2014 at 5:42 pm
Wow. Nice way to deter this fight from occurring. Evidence now that will not be overlooked. Ufc could cancel this fight or be told to scrap this fight by higher ups. Entertainment sure but it could fuck this up.
August 8, 2014 at 6:31 pm
way to go JJ youre a great role model smh
August 8, 2014 at 6:31 pm
Whats wrong with you guys who complain about the brawl and now this video? I remember back in the days in boxing when fighters would fight each other on the streets, at press konfrences and so on… Thats just awesome!! Jones and DC do not like eachother, they train to litteraly "kill" one another everyday… So why act like they are friends? Shake hands and kiss ? Yeah, they are role models and pro atlethes .. But they also have their own private values, that no company can make them put aside, and DC was not taking the head bump from Jones, and Jones was not taking the push from DC, but since both of them are pro fighters, i don't think any of these emotions will show in the cage, but the result will be painfull for one of them.
August 8, 2014 at 6:33 pm
Its been a gang of male bashing going on lately.
Is this site called Lowkick or Lesbokick???
August 9, 2014 at 11:15 am
thats not a threat…that was a warning lol
August 9, 2014 at 12:39 pm
I'm a big fan of Bones, and most of the time his perceived 'arrogance' doesn't bother me at all but there is no place in any sport for death treats.
And because of the inherently violent nature of MMA, it's even more important that it maintains an atmosphere of sportsmanship. Or you just give ammunition to people who want to ban the sport. And don't kid yourself, they all still out there, just ask any MMA fans in New York.
I once bitched about BJ Penn on this site for doing the same thing to GSP, so I'd be a hypocrite if I didn't say the same about JJ. He should shut the hell up and do his talking in the ring. I could care less about his image, but this tarnishes the image of the whole sport.
August 9, 2014 at 1:43 pm
So, Cormier dislikes Jon Jones's personality to the point that he thinks he has the right to spit in his face?
For people that are blaming Jones on this, I ask you, would you let someone spit in your face without wanting to do serious physical harm to the person that did it? There is not a man on this thread that would sustain that action without a serious freaking response. There is not a man on this thread that would sit back and take the threat, without stating what they would do in return.
Further, I would point out that spitting in someone's face would be classified as an assault. As such, any person, including Jones, would have the right to defend themselves.
The only thing that Jones is guilty of(here)is excessive hyperbole.
To me, the one that is over the line is Cormier, not Jones and I think he should get his knuckles rapped for it.
Here is a question, what is more likely to happen, that Cormier will spit in Jones face at their next staredown or that Jones will kill Cormier for doing it? The fact of the matter is that Cormier is more likely to spit in Jones's face, than Jones is to kill him for doing it. As such, the one to worry about in this scenario is Cormier, not Jones. To the point, Dana White needs to talk to Cormier and to ensure that it does not happen. And if Cormier were to spit in Jones's face, then he should be thrown out of the UFC for the action.
His comments were unacceptable and they were based on his dislike of Jones's personality. Sadly for Cormier, his dislike of the Jones's personality does not extend to him the right to spit in the champ's face. To the finer point, it doesn't give him the sanction to even talk about doing it.
White needs to talk to both of his fighters and settle them down. It would be a drag if this fight failed to materialize for some out-of-Octagon action. However, I think the one White needs to talk to the most, is Cormier. He needs to tell him, no spitting at Jones. Of course, the sad part about that is that he would even have to have the conversation in the first place. Cormier is a grown man and a professional fighter, and he should already know this stuff.
As to fans blaming Jones for his reaction, I truly don't understand it. Again, no man is going to allow that to happen or sit idly by and allow someone to make the threat, not without responding to either the action or the threat. For those that doubt it, go out tonight and start threatening to spit in some men's faces or better yet actually do it, and see what happens.
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Head coach Mike Alderson has spent much of the last two weeks tinkering with several lineups as his veteran-laden West Brunswick baseball squad suffered a pair of lopsided losses during the early stages of the 2013 season. After dropping an 11-3 decision to Whiteville in the Waccamaw Conference opener, Alderson tweaked the lineup for his club's next game Friday against cross-county rival North Brunswick.
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David Alton Bullard, 62, was convicted on June 6, 1988, of a first-degree sexual offense for his role in a sexual assault on July 2, 1987.
According to court appeal documents filed in 1988, Bullard was found guilty along with a co-defendant for assaulting a female victim. Both men forced the victim to perform fellatio on them by force and against her will.
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Last Friday was to be the third day of jury selection in Alston's murder trial. Instead, he pleaded guilty to first-degree murder, first-degree rape and first-degree kidnapping of 49-year-old Valerie Burns.
Both the prosecution and the judge said her murder was "brutal."
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Alston accepted a plea deal on Friday morning—it was to be the third day of jury selection in the trial. District Attorney John David and his office were seeking the death penalty for Alston.
The following cases were adjudicated over four days of District Criminal Court on Feb. 20, 22, 25 and 26 in Bolivia.
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An Ash man has been sentenced to more than nine years in jail for selling crack.
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Williams pleaded guilty on July 11, 2012, to six counts of distribution of a quantity of cocaine base (crack).
More than a hundred people reported to the Brunswick County courthouse for jury duty Monday morning.
The prosecution and defense are seeking 12 qualified jurors and two alternates to decide the fate of Carl Henry Alston in the county's first capital punishment case since 2006.
Qualified jurors must not oppose the death penalty and must also be willing to consider life in prison if the defendant is found guilty.
Jury selection is expected to continue next week with opening statements to be presented late in the week.
The following cases were adjudicated over two days of District Criminal Court on Feb. 15 and 18 in Bolivia.
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What is scope?
From wikipedia:
In computer programming, scope is an enclosing context where values and expressions are associated.
Scoping allows you to organize and enclose your variables and expressions in a certain environment. In most cases scope is used to encapsulate and hide information from other parts of the program. This keeps your application safe from modification by other people. For instance in jQuery or other javascript libraries the library authors done want people to be able to modify variables internal to the library so they enclose their library in a scope.
How is javascript scoped?
Javscript is said to have lexical scope. This is also known as static scoping because you are able to resolve the scope of variables by parsing the program text. In javascript this is done by analyzing the nesting of function blocks. As seen in this example.
Also note that if you define a variable in a nested scope that has the same name as an outer scope the variable will reference in the inner most scope. As seen here.
Whats with the var?
The var keyword is used to say this variable belongs to the current scope. Without using this keyword in a function the variable will be put into the global scope. To see this in action see the following code sample.
As you can see when not using the var keyword your variables will "bleed" into the global scope. This is one of the biggest issues when debugging javascript. Always var your variables to avoid pulling your hair out.
Where did the global scope come from?
As you can see when you do not define a variable with var then your variable will end up in the global scope which can then be referenced outside of your function with or without referencing the name of the global scope.
There are other types of scope in javascript....
When we use the var keyword we are actually putting variables in the local scope. This scope is only accessible to itself and nested functions. See this code sample:
As you can see the variable created with the var keyword is not accessible outside of the function. On the other hand you can use the this keyword. The this keyword is used to reference the current execution context and will be available as a public variable as seen here.
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Tony Judt: A Final Victory
Perhaps in part because he was so private, Tony was tormented by the idea of his own absence, not in itself (he was as hard a realist as any) but for his two boys. He wanted desperately to teach them, to love them, to be with them into their adulthood. He had so much to tell them about where he had been, whom he had known, books he had read (and written), and what he had made of it all. Here he did something extraordinary: he projected himself beyond his own death and found a way to reach "back" from the abyss. I didn't fully understand it at the time, but I now see that the dead can extend feelings across the divide separating the living from the ever after. But—and it is a big but—they can only do it if they think of it in advance, before they actually die.
Tony did this. He was fast losing control of his life, but the afterlife was ironically more within his grasp. He didn't believe in it for himself, but he did believe in it for the people he left behind. Not as a supernatural act, although we talked about that too, but as a matter of word and record: of history. He knew it would matter what he wrote. Thinking the Twentieth Century was a labor on behalf of a future he knew he would not share. And to the extent that the book contains an autobiography, it is largely for Daniel and Nicholas.
The book was written from inside the bubble and bears its marks. The future, Tony's plans, and our imagined life together were suddenly erased. The past changed too, every memory a melancholy reminder of a physicality and life that had deserted him. In the normal nonbubble world, as he put it, people accept that they can't predict the distant future, but the present feels reasonably sure. We may not know where we will be in ten years, but most of us know what we are doing today. For Tony this suddenly reversed. The future—even the near future—was all too certain: he would be dead. The present, however, was utterly unpredictable. Would his arms work today? Would he be able to breathe?
This time-switch, an unsettling red shift in the mind, altered Tony's view of politics. Everything became urgent: now was all he could count on. His writings became more radical. We both thought of his book Ill Fares the Land, with its account of growing economic inequality in the US and elsewhere and the widespread betrayal of social democratic principles, as his Eighteenth Brumaire; and in Thinking the Twentieth Century the idea of justice swung hard to the fore. Yet there was something more, too. Justice, inequality, good-faith politics: these had always been the touchstones of Tony's thought, but now other ideas were crowding in, ideas that needed to be made sense of privately and emotionally, but also—because this is how Tony was and how he thought—collectively and intellectually. Humiliation, shame, fear, anger: these were not just feelings. They were political ideas.
Humiliation was the most important. Tony felt it acutely and it was a theme in his correspondence with others afflicted by ALS. Many of these people were younger than Tony and destitute or medically uninsured, with narrow if not ruined life possibilities. They needed help—practical social and medical services. Humiliation was a terrible feeling, but, as he felt strongly, it was also—and should be treated as—an ugly social fact. "Night," his essay describing his "imprisonment without parole,"3 was partly for these new friends, and so, in another key, was the end of Thinking the Twentieth Century, where Tony mounted as fierce—and felt—a case as ever he had for our need to "think socially": to make human rather than monetary gain the goal of social policy. This was not the politics of disability or special interest; it was about collective responsibility and the duty of us all to each other.
By the time he was finishing the book, the disease was taking over and the space for clear thinking was limited and unpredictable, interrupted by respiratory crises and shots of morphine. But Tony's own physical hardship, and his sense of the fragility of human dignity, if anything increased his worry for the world he was about to exit.
Take his discussion of our age—"the age of fear"—that ends the book. Fear of joblessness, fear of lost pensions and financial decline, fear of outsiders and
unknown strangers who might come and drop bombs. It's fear that our government cannot any longer control the circumstances of our lives. It can't make us a gated community against the world. It's lost control. That paralysis of fear, which Americans I think experience very deeply, was reinforced by the realization that the one security [physical security from terrorism] they thought they had they now don't.
The political manipulation of fear made Tony angry. Not upset or disappointed or frustrated, as it had in the past, but truly angry. Fear is the ultimate emotion and he lived at its door: the heart-stopping fear of helplessness and falling backward, plank-like, onto hard cement with no hands to catch you; the panic-fear of a breathing machine that fails (and the ever-after fear that it will happen again); the fear of strangers who drive tubes into your nose and throat (irrationally but understandably, he wanted me to do it even when I had no idea how); and the blank, staring fear of death itself. To exploit fear for political ends, as had happened following September 11, for example, was to him an ethical abuse of the first order.
Tony had always been a forthright critic of social injustice; now he had zero tolerance. Not zero tolerance for halfway solutions—even a halfway solution is a solution—but zero tolerance for political deception and intellectual dishonesty. He acquired, in a way, the wisdom of a child: Why aren't people angrier? Some were, of course, but Tony didn't live to see the Arab Spring or Occupy Wall Street. He would have taken a probing and active interest in both.
None of this made him, in his own mind at least, a "public intellectual." He disliked the term, which seemed to him evidence of the failure of scholars to build links between the academy and public life. This division was our own trahison des clercs and Tony spent the second half of his career trying to remedy it by teaching and thinking and writing as clearly as he could. And by being alone. Tony's idea of what it meant to be an intellectual was rooted in his sense of aloneness, of staying apart from the intellectual crowd, of keeping one's own counsel and not belonging to any group or club—but also of evaluating an event or problem alone, on its own facts, and not according to any blueprint (he was for intervention in Bosnia but against it in Iraq).
Indeed, the greatest torment that the disease delivered was that Tony could never—ever—be alone. By the time he was "talking" Thinking the Twentieth Century, he had lost his students, his classrooms, his desk, his books; he couldn't travel or take a walk. He had lost, in other words, the places that had helped him think through his ideas. Perhaps most seriously of all, he had lost his place: he had a rapidly diminishing sense of himself and a shattered mind's-eye view of his own physical being—of his own "thereness." Writing involves the physical self—pens, paper, keyboards—the touch connecting the mind to the page; it has a rhythm, a feel, a posture and pacing, a pulse through the body. Tony's was gone or severely disrupted. The disorientation he felt was primitive and profound. How could it not have been? To write without this sense of place and self seems to me a near impossibility.
And yet he did it. Which is where the public—his public—came in. His public became, in effect, his place, the only place, paradoxically, that he had to think and be alone. And he really did think out loud, in public, listening to his words echoing electronically back to him in e-mails, interviews, blogs, and critically assessing their effect. Here was a place and people whom he could teach and engage. "They" became his students and his colleagues. And they—strangers all—helped him, not with praise but by arguing.
This mattered because his public was his place but also crucial to his defiance: his ultimate adversary. To hell with the disease, with fate, with the body, with the future and the past. He would keep the conversation going and raise the stakes; his public would fight back—and when you fight, you feel alive. Engagé. He needed that to keep going. Which is why he kept going with Thinking the Twentieth Century; it was part of the fight, from his withering comments on intellectuals who supported the Iraq war right down to his ever-prescient defense of the role of the state in public life. He had a soldier's discipline and even though he was miserable he fought on, saying what he had to say and refining and honing his every word. That was the only kind of public intellectual he knew how to be.
So Thinking the Twentieth Century pours decades of thought and knowledge and days of illness into a lifelong idealism. It is an idealism that under the circumstances could be sustained only by a ferociously disciplined mind, and at great personal cost. I don't mean that Tony believed in an ideal society. The only thing he was an idealist about was serious public debate. This was the one thing, along with love, that was always left standing no matter how much was felled by the disease, and so much was. Tony called it the core. To me it was a narrowing beam of light in the darkness that was separating Tony from us all. And if Thinking the Twentieth Century stands in the no-man's-land between what is and what should be, as I think it does, this is in part because it was driven by the darkness but also part of the light. It was besieged, as he was.
Imagine, if you can, what it was like at his desk, in his room, as he made his way to the end of the manuscript and the environment around him darkened: thick air and layers of dust impossible to clean, smells that seemed almost visible, of antiseptic, flowers, morphine, and the burn and buzz of electricity from the amplifier that projected his ever-weakening voice; windows thrown open for air and light and hastily shut against the unnatural chill in his static and stationary bones.
It was here, in that study, that Tony completed Thinking the Twentieth Century. In a final and terrible irony, his last public task—and this is how he saw it—was editorial: editing his own words, just as he was losing the capacity physically to form them. Thinking the Twentieth Century wasn't exactly right, he said, but it was "good enough." Good enough for what? Good enough for whom? For Daniel and Nicholas someday, of course. But also and perhaps above all for his public; for the world "out there" that had done so much to sustain him. The illness had changed everything—and nothing at all.
Tony's text is dated July 5, 2010. He died on August 6.
3 Published in The New York Review, January 14, 2010. ↩
Published in The New York Review, January 14, 2010. ↩


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Founders \ Directors
LAVEEN NAIDU - Executive Director
Laveen Naidu was born in Durban, South Africa, and began studying South Indian classical dance at the age of 10 and classical ballet at age 14. He entered the University of Cape Town Ballet School on a full scholarship in 1986 and graduated with a diploma in ballet pedagogy in 1988. As a student, Naidu was selected to represent the university at the first National Ballet Competition, where he advanced to the finalist round and received special mention from the judges. He was also invited to perform with the Natal Arts Performing Board in one of the lead roles in Frank Staff's "Lady and the Fool." As a volunteer, Naidu became the first dance teacher in a project that was started by David Poole, then artistic director of the Cape Performing Arts Board (CAPAB) Ballet, designed to introduce young people in the nearby "black townships" to ballet.
Immediately following his graduation, Naidu was accepted into the CAPAB Ballet Company and was featured in many soloist roles before receiving a scholarship from the Dance Theatre of Harlem School. In 1991, he joined the Dance Theatre of Harlem Company, where he performed in works by Arthur Mitchell, Billy Wilson, Michael Smuin, Geoffrey Holder, Garth Fagan and other well-known choreographers.
Five years later, Naidu assumed the responsibility of Dance Theatre of Harlem School Ensemble Coordinator, which involved coaching and preparing a core group of pre-professional dancers for a professional career. Answering the need for the growing demand of educational activities, Dance Theatre of Harlem (DTH) formalized its educational and community outreach activities under the banner of Dancing Through Barriers®. Naidu served as the Director of Dancing Through Barriers from 1997 to 2004, where he was responsible for overseeing all the artistic and administrative functions of the program.
In 1998, in collaboration with Arthur Mitchell, co-founder and artistic director of DTH, and Augustus van Heerdan, ballet master, Naidu choreographed his first ballet for the DTH Company. The ballet, named South African Suite, was commissioned by The Kennedy Center and received very favorable reviews at its premier in Washington D.C. South African Suite has since been performed throughout the United States and in several foreign countries and remains a featured work in the DTH repertory.
In 2000, Naidu took on the additional responsibility as Director of the Dance Theatre of Harlem School, where he oversaw all activities of both the DTH School and Dancing Through Barriers.
Naidu choreographed Viraa for the DTH Company, which premiered in New York City in September 2001. He also served as a visiting lecturer and choreographer at Barnard College in 2004.
In December 2004, Naidu was appointed to his current position of executive director for Dance Theatre of Harlem. That same year Naidu became a member of the Arts Management / Capacity Building Program at The Kennedy Center under the leadership of Michael Kaiser. Additionally, he completed the Executive Leadership Program at Harvard Business School in June 2008.
VIRGINIA JOHNSON - Artistic Director
Virginia Johnson returns to Dance Theatre of Harlem as artistic director having been a founding member and principal dancer. Born in Washington, DC, Johnson graduated from the Academy of the Washington School of Ballet. She briefly attended the School of the Arts at New York University as a University Scholar before joining DTH in 1969. During her 28 years with the company she performed most of the repertoire, with principal roles in Concerto Barocco, Allegro Brillante, Agon, A Streetcar Named Desire, Fall River Legend, Swan Lake, Giselle, Voluntaries, Les Biches among others.
Three DTH productions in which she danced leading roles were recorded for broadcast: A Streetcar Named Desire for Dance in America on PBS, Creole Giselle, which was the first full-length ballet broadcast on NBC, and Fall River Legend, which won a cable ACE award from the Bravo Network. In addition, she was included in two acclaimed television dance series, Margot Fonteyn's "The Magic of Dance" and Natalia Makarova's "Ballerina."
Her choreographic credits include the television film, Ancient Voices of Children in which she danced and an early, self-produced solo concert for Rae Metzger's Concert Socials. Later choreographic works include ballets created for Goucher College, Dancers Respond to AIDS, the Second Annual Harlem Festival of the Arts, Thelma Hill Performing Arts Center and Marymount Manhattan College, where she was also an adjunct professor. The latter two projects were an outgrowth of Dancers Making Dances, a collaborative choreographic project with former DTH colleagues, Judy Tyrus and Melanie Person.
While still performing, her interest in journalism led her to Fordham University where she continues to pursue a degree in communications. After retiring from performing, she founded POINTE magazine and was editor-in-chief from 2000-2009. The popular publication helps dancers prepare for the professional ballet world developing educational seminars and lectures on health and wellness for dancers, auditions and professional preparation.
Her honors include a Young Achiever Award from the National Council of Women, Outstanding Young Woman of America and the Dance Magazine Award, a Pen and Brush Achievement Award and the Washington Performing Arts Society's 2008-2009 Pola Nirenska Lifetime Achievement Award and the 2009 Martha Hill Fund Mid-Career Award. Highlights of her guest appearances include a tour of Australia with Stars of World Ballet, several appearances at various International Festivals of Dance in Havana Cuba, and with the Royal Ballet at The Royal Opera House in London. Her commitment to community service is maintained through volunteer assignments with New York Cares.
ARTHUR MITCHELL - Founder, Artistic Director Emeritus
Arthur Mitchell is known around the world as an accomplished artistic director, astute educator, talented choreographer and extraordinary dancer. Born in New York City on March 27, 1934, he began his dance training at New York City's High School of the Performing Arts, where he was the first male student to win the coveted Annual Dance Award.
Mitchell continued his classical training when he received a full scholarship to the School of American Ballet. In 1955, he was the first African-American male to become a permanent member of a major ballet company when he joined the New York City Ballet.
During his 15-year career with the New York City Ballet, Mitchell rose quickly to the rank of principal dancer and electrified audiences with his performances in a broad spectrum of roles. Mitchell is best known for two roles choreographed especially for him by the late George Balanchine: the pas de deux from Agon and the lighthearted Puck in A Midsummer Night's Dream. Performing in nightclubs, on Broadway, in film, and on television, Mitchell was also a popular guest artist in the United States and abroad.
In 1966, Mitchell was asked to organize the American Negro Dance Company, which represented the United States at the first World Festival of Negro Arts in Senegal, Africa. In 1967, at the request of the US International Association, he founded the National Ballet Company of Brazil in Rio de Janeiro.
Upon learning of the death of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. in 1968, Mitchell was inspired to provide children ― especially those living in Harlem ― with the opportunity to study dance. During the summer of 1968, he began teaching classes in a remodeled garage. In 1969, with financial assistance from Mrs. Alva B. Gimbel, the Ford Foundation and his own savings, Mitchell founded Dance Theatre of Harlem with his mentor and ballet instructor Karel Shook.
As a professional dance company and a school of the allied arts, the continued expansion of Dance Theatre of Harlem into a multicultural institution has attracted thousands of professional dancers and students from around the world. Arthur Mitchell adds to the legacy every day as Dance Theatre of Harlem's founding artistic director.
KAREL SHOOK (1920 - 1985) - Co-Founder, Dance Theatre of Harlem
Karel Shook is recognized internationally as one of the most influential and productive ballet teachers of our time. Born in Renton, Wash., he began his career as a child actor at the Seattle Repertory Theater. At the age of 13, he was awarded a scholarship to the Cornish School of Allied Arts and became the special protégé of its founder, Nellie Cornish, who encouraged him to study ballet. He was, for several seasons, a member of the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo. He also appeared in Broadway musicals and spent one year with the New York City Ballet. In 1952, he joined the faculty of the Katherine Dunham School as director of the ballet department. When the Dunham School closed, he established his own school, the Studio of Dance Arts — where he taught most of the leading black dancers and choreographers of today. In 1957, he joined the faculty of the June Taylor School. In the fall of 1959, at the invitation of Sonia Gaskell, he became first teacher and ballet master of the Dutch National Ballet, a post he held for nine years. In 1968, he returned to the States to become Arthur Mitchell's co-director of the Dance Theatre of Harlem.
Besides his unusual gifts as a teacher, Shook was also a choreographer and writer. While in the Netherlands, he choreographed 24 works for stage, opera, film and television, among which were the highly successful Jazz Nocturne, The Tales of Hoffman, Rigoletto, I Capuletti ed i Montecchi, Alceste, an opera-ballet for television, and Da Capo, out of which came an hour-long television documentary on the making of a ballet. For the Dance Theatre of Harlem, he has restaged two pas de deux: Don Quixote and Le Corsaire, a Dance Theatre of Harlem crowd pleaser and signature work throughout the years. While in Holland, he wrote many articles on dance. In addition, a portfolio of his poems, "Beyond the Mist," with lithographs by the celebrated painter, Sam Middleton, was published in a limited edition by ARTA, The Hague, in 1968. Shook is the author of the book Elements of Classical Ballet Technique, published by Dance Horizons (1978) and "New York, London, and Dancers as Ambassadors" in Unified World (is this a book or magazine?) (1978).
Shook had numerous, highly developed talents as a musician, sculptor, accomplished chef, gardener and linguist. However, he regarded himself first and foremost as a ballet teacher. Outside of New York City and Amsterdam, he taught for extended periods in Stockholm, Paris, Rome, Venice, Barcelona, Seville, Bordeaux, Monte Carlo, Brussels, Frankfurt, Cologne, St. Thomas, Wichita and Tonawanda, New York, where he was artistic advisor to Maris Battaglia's American Academy of Ballet.


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I want to build a home file server eventually and am still undecided on OS choice.
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From some of the comments above by some of the developers then does it mean that ZFS is not a good choice for a root file system on a laptop? Sounds like only good for multi-disk multi-TB environments. Though it has features which would be very useful for desktop/laptop environments.
Has the bug of not being able to use preemption been fixed?
I suggest that you spend some time reading the kernel source code firsthand. You should find it to be an enlightening experience.
As for preemption, there are patches available that makes it work. They are available in the following pull requests:
The patches work well on my desktop, but preemption does not yield much qualitative benefit on my system. ZFS' ARC algorithm improves my desktop's interactive response far more than preemption does.
Also, you can use voluntary preemption without those patches. Voluntary preemption was implemented after full preemption with the claim that it was even better for low latency audio, although you can be the judge of that.
FreeBSD zfs is a good choice for server as well.
Solaris/Illumos has device support issues
A simpler FS like Ext4 will likely be better in your case, unless you actually want to take advantage of some of the features that ZFS provides - in that case, i'd say you could certainly go for it if you want to.
But expect it to be slower on your hardware for your uses. Where ZFS speed shines is when you are dealing with multiple high speed disks, not a single laptop disk that is undergoing heavy writes from compiling.
The best feature of zfs on a desktop or laptop is the volume management. Usually the disks/ssds are quiet small in a laptop and you do not want to waste disk space with partitioning, so with zfs you can just create one vdev and have snapshots of most of the configs/documents and can use compression for home folders. My ratio is like 1.34 on the home folder with documents... what is there not useful on a laptop?
So I guess what was released from Sun is all we have to work with, and the subsequent updates made under the OpenIndiana project (which is probably going to have more momentum).
But as long as we can have a ZFS kernel module like we can have video drivers, it's not too big of a deal. The end-user just has to install it himself.


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The investigation into last week's fatal grizzly bear mauling near Cooke City now involves allegations that a photographer may have been baiting wildlife near the Northeast Entrance to Yellowstone National Park.
Q2 News received a tip from a viewer about the "baiting allegations" last week. The viewer, told Q2 that the host of a campground near Cooke City raised concerns that someone may have been baiting bears two weeks prior to the incident.
At the same time, similar information was posted on an unofficial Yellowstone National Park Facebook page, which generated nearly 50 comments.
Ron Aasheim, spokesman for Montana's Fish Wildlife & Parks department, told Q2 that his agency is aware of the allegations, and FWP is investigating. He added that the agency looks into any allegations that may help explain the bear's unusual behavior, particularly if it might involve illegal activity such as baiting or feeding wild animals.
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