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Fraser-Cooper House (Marietta, Ga.)
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Type: | StillImage |
Creator: | Linley, John |
Title: | Fraser-Cooper House (Marietta, Ga.) Bostwick-Fraser-Cooper House (Marietta, Ga.) |
Date: | 1978 Aug. |
Description: | Located at: 199 Fraser Street, Marietta, Ga. Two-story square wood frame house on a brick foundation featuring a two-story portico with entablature supported by four fluted Doric columns. There is a balcony above the entrance and two red brick chimneys on each end. The house has a gable roof with a double pitch including porch roof. French casement windows open onto the porch. Built around 1844 by Charles C. Bostwick, the house was bought by Mrs. John Fraser, the daughter of John Cooper from Scotland, who came from St. Simons in the 1850s. For more information see Linley, John. The Georgia Catalog: Historic American Buildings Survey. Athens, Ga.: University of Georgia Press, c1982, p. 309. Date of structure: 1844. |
Subjects: | Murphy, C. J., Mrs. | Sanger, C. O., Mrs. | Greek Revival | European | Wood (plant material) | Plant material | Brick | Inorganic material | Houses | Dwellings | Architecture--Georgia--Marietta | Architecture--Georgia--Cobb County | Bostwick, Charles C.--Homes and haunts | Fraser, John, Mrs.--Homes and haunts | Marietta (Ga.) | Cobb County (Ga.) |
Contributors: | Owens Library |
Online Publisher: | Digital Library of Georgia, 2002 |
Rights and Usage: | Please contact repository for terms regarding reproduction and use. This work is the property of The University of Georgia. It may be used freely by individuals for research, teaching, and personal use as long as this statement of availability is included in the text. The information contained in this database is the exclusive property of the University of Georgia. Educational use is permitted; however, the content may not be re-purposed, reproduced, quoted without proper citation, or offered for sale in any form without the express written permission of the College of Environment and Design, University of Georgia and/or the owners of the original images if applicable. Cite as: [title of image], John Linley Collection, Box 19, Owens Library, School of Environment and Design, The University of Georgia |
Related Materials: | Forms part of: John Linley Collection |
Persistent Link to Item: | http://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/larc/id:jlc0698 |
Related Institutions: | Digital Library of Georgia Owens Library |
Collection Information: | Historic Architecture and Landscapes of Georgia: The Hubert Bond Owens and John Linley Image Collections at the Owens Library |


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This Week, Fr. Chris, Kathleen Lee, Mary Kait Taylor and Fr. Ryan discussed
- The Pope as Santa Claus
- The Hobbit is coming to the big screen.
- The Daily is closing it's digital doors.
- A new tattoo is giving doctors all kinds of info…
- Students are using facebook to spread anonymous compliments…
- 10 silly reasons you won't pray today…
- There is no announcement about Medjugore coming from the Vatican any time soon.
They also recommended these "Picks of the Week"
- Fr. Chris, The Adoration of Mystic Lamb
- Kathleen, Roy Petifils
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Hi sandy, I am a lurker from some of the other forums. Your Ramona and Warsaw are lovely! I have Ramona and have been so discouraged as she blooms nicely in spring, but gets fried in summer each year, especially the last two. Your hints were helpful, perhaps I need to move her. Thank you! roseberri |
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WASHINGTON - The world Muslim community of 1.6 billion people are unified on core principles of their faith while differing widely in religiosity, a new survey by an American fact tank has found.
"Muslims are unified by core beliefs and in core practices" like faith in a single God, believe in the Prophet Muhammad and fasting during Ramadan, James Bell, the principal author of the new Pew Research Center study, told Agence France Presse (AFP) on Friday, August 10.
But "there are differences, sometimes widely" in religious interpretation, Bell added.
Conducted in over 80 languages in 39 countries that account for 67 percent of the world's Muslim population, the report was unprecedented in scope.
Researchers interviewed around 38,000 people in 2008-2009 and 2011-2012 as part of a larger project on changes in global religions.
According to the survey, between 85 and 100 percent of Muslims believe in God and revere the Prophet Muhammad (Peace & blessings of Allah be upon him).
Putting conversion rate at 10 percent, the survey also found that nine out of ten Muslims interviewed were born into the religion.
Conversion rates are highest in former communist countries, with seven percent of all converts in Russia.
Many of the converts were raised in atheism.
"When it comes to conversion ... it is not playing a large role in expanding or growing the number of Muslims around the world," said Bell.
An earlier study released by Pew research center has found that Muslims make up around one fourth of the world's population and are mostly concentrated in Asia.
It found that Muslims make up 23 percent of the world's 6.8 billion people, the sweeping majority of them Sunnis.
According to the study, based on data from 232 countries and territories, Asia is home to nearly 20 percent of the global Muslim population.
It found that the Middle East and North Africa have 315 million Muslims, about 20 percent of the world's Muslims.
One-fifth of world Muslims (300 million) was found to be living in non-Muslim countries.
Uniting in the core of the religion, the study found that Muslims interpretation for the role of religion in their life varied widely.
The Pew survey found that eight of ten people interviewed in sub-Saharan Africa as well as South and Southeast Asia say religion is "very important."
Meanwhile, six in ten agreed in sample countries of the Middle East and North Africa, and only one in two agreed in former Soviet countries like Russia and some Central Asian republics.
In the Middle East and North Africa, Muslims aged 35 and over are more religious than their younger counterparts. The opposite is true of religiosity in Russia.
In 39 countries surveyed, men are more likely than women to pray at a mosque, which Bell explained "is likely to do with social culture about how women publicly observe their worship."
Still, "in most countries surveyed... women are about as likely as men to read (or listen to readings from) the Koran on a daily basis," the report said.
In countries where Sunnis and Shiites live side by side in large numbers -- such as Lebanon and Iraq -- believers are more likely to accept the other sect.
A quarter of everyone surveyed "identify themselves neither as Sunni nor Shiite but as 'just a Muslim.'"
Pew also found that 63 percent of Muslims in surveyed countries believe there is only one way to interpret Islam.
Only 37 percent of American Muslims agreed with that statement as 57 per cent of Muslims say Islam is open to multiple interpretations.
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War of the Nerds: Star Trek's Wil Wheaton Tells Google 'Go Fuck Yourself'
Wil Wheaton, the actor best known for playing sweater-loving Wesley Crusher on Star Trek: The Next Generation, is really, really angry at Google. According to Mr. Wheaton, Google switched out YouTube's thumbs up functionality for a big, honking "Google+ Like" button. Mr. Wheaton is so angry, in fact, that he has a message for the company: "Oh, go fuck yourself, Google. Just let me thumbs up something, without forcing me to 'upgrade' to G+, you dickheads," he wrote on his Tumblr. Set your phasers to ouch, you guys. Read More


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Alcohol Quotes, Sayings about alcoholic drinks - Page 12
Drinking makes the mind go sober.
Whats the point of drinking if you don't drink till you don't remember you drank ?
A drinker's thoughts are the real face of a gentle person.
I don't have a drinking problem, I have no problem with drinking
I swear to drink, I didn't god tonight, ossifer!
I don't drink anymore, but no less either
I'm sotally tober ossifer!!
I stopped drinking for a while, Then I woke up
My grandmom is 80 she still dosent need glasses, She drinks straight out of the bottle.
Take me drunk im home !
Whats the officer problem?
Person 1 : Are You A Alcoholiic
Person 2 : Naaa I Only Drink In Days That End In Y
To Prevent Hangovers Stay Drunk ..
Save Water ,, Drink Vodka
The drunk tongue speaks for the sober heart
I Have No Drinking Problems.
I Drink … I Get Drunk … I Fall Down … No Problem :- )
Yea I Have a drinking problem. 2 hands 1 mouth no beer!!!!!!
I don't have a drink problem…I can go all day without it…I just need it at night thats all.
Where there's a wine, there's a way!
One tequila, two tequila, three thequila FLOOR! Get back up and drink some more!!!
Take me drunk, I am home!!
Save water,drink beer!
Bob, that quote is both daft and wrong the correct one is:
When life gives you lemons, bring on the tequila! :D
Alchohal Brings Out The Inner Retard In All Of Us…
They speak of my drinking, but never think of my thirst.
I say when I drink what I think when I'm sober
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BUTMAN, Harriet Julia Todd8, (Lorenzo D.7, Marvin6, Daniel5, Daniel4, Daniel3, Samuel2, Christopher1) born Nov. 9, 1848, in East Rodman, N. Y., married in Elyria, Ohio, Dec. 9, 1872, Samuel J. Butman, who was born in Florence, Ohio, April 7, 1848, died Aug. 10, 1919. They lived on a farm near Elyria, O., which is their post office address, R. F. D. No. 2.
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Archive: March 2007
Editor's Note: About Our New Home Page
To our readers, Welcome to our new home page. I wanted to take a few minutes to tell you about some of the key changes, and the thinking behind it. One of the most frequent complaints about our previous home page was clutter, specifically the number of links and lack of open space on the page. In this new page, we've added more white space and cut down the number of long lists of text links. The hope is that these changes give the page more of an open, inviting feel and make it easier to scan. We've also moved to a more modular layout to make it easier to find your favorite home page features. To better highlight our award-winning video and photo content, we've added a multimedia strip to the page. This band will be comprised of videos, photos and interactives, and by using the scroll arrows or...
By Washingtonpost.com Editors | March 30, 2007; 12:57 PM ET | Comments (557)
Edwards Headline Issue
For 51 seconds on Thursday afternoon, washingtonpost.com had an erroneous headline on our home page related to the John Edwards press conference. The headline said, "John Edwards Suspends White House Bid." I wanted to explain how that occurred, and discuss an error I made after we found out what had happened. As we waited for the press conference to begin, our home page editor was planning a new home page that would be published quickly upon learning the status of the Edwards campaign after the anticipated revelation that Elizabeth Edwards's breast cancer had recurred. As is the standard process when we're trying to prepare for multiple scenarios, we plugged a headline into our home page tool that we believed to be the most likely scenario. As you can see from this screen shot of the inaccurate page, the text underneath the headline said, "Democratic presidential hopeful cuts short bid to...
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Recipe Finder Launches
Are you scrounging through your refrigerator at the last minute for meal ideas? Maybe you're planning a dinner party? We've come to the rescue with just the thing to help. Washingtonpost.com's new Recipe Finder lets users search a growing database of more than 1,000 recipes that have appeared in The Washington Post newspaper and on washingtonpost.com. Recipe Finder lets home cooks search for dishes by features such as Fast, Healthy, Meatless and Kid-Friendly as well as by course, cuisine and holiday. You can also just type in your desired ingredients or recipe name, click "Go" and explore. Once you find recipes you like, you can print them and e-mail them to friends. Nearly every recipe has full nutritional information and many have accompanying photos. Recipe Finder will grow each week with new recipes and new features. So, come back often and happy cooking! Stacey Palosky, Lifestyles Editor...
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Don't Eat If Your Blood Sugar Is Over 150 mg/dl
Q: Recently I read an article in Post Graduate Medicine ("Effective Insulin Use," Vol. 95, No. 8, June 1994, pgs. 52, 54, 58-60, 63-64, and 67). The article suggests the patient not eat if the blood glucose is greater than 150 mg/dl. I would appreciate you reading this article and giving me your opinion.
Donna Doty, RN, BSN, CDE
Methodist Hospital
Gary, IN
[Editor: An excellent question. We encourage all our readers to send us questions to answer. Coincidentally, the article you ask about was written by one of DIABETES IN-TERVEIW's advisory board members: Nancy Bohannon, MD. We submitted your question to our board member Peter Lodewick, MD, diabetes expert and author of A Doctor Looks at Diabetes: His and Yours. Before we print his answer to your question, we're presenting an excerpt from Dr. Bohannon's article.]
"My routine advice is as follows: if the blood glucose value is over 150 mg/dl before a meal, insulin should be taken and the meal postponed (not skipped) until the blood glucose is below 150 mg/dl. The glucose level should be checked hourly until it is below 200 mg/dl and then every 1/2 hour until it is below 150 mg/dl. A level that is still high after 1 1/2 to 2 hours without the patient's eating is an indication that it was a good thing the patient didn't eat! In the past, most patients would have eaten, saying, 'my doctor told me never to miss or be late for a meal because I could get hypoglycemia.' However, if the insulin was taken 3 hours previously and the blood glucose level remained above 150 mg/dl, food obviously was not necessary.
"What happens if the blood glucose level is still high after 2 to 3 hours? A few more units of insulin should be taken and the meal again postponed until the glucose level is below 150 mg/dl. Occasionally, a patient in really poor control goes for 8 hours or more without eating because glucose levels remain consistently high despite extra insulin every 3 hours. Again, that verifies that eating would have been inappropriate and usually indicates a need for a total revamping of the insulin regimen.
"When I tell patients 'don't eat,' I mean they are not to eat a significant amount of carbohydrate (no more than 10 g total). To appease hunger while waiting for glucose levels to become acceptable, the patient can consume large amounts of raw lettuce, celery, cucumbers, jicama, and similar foods (with or without a vinegar dressing); gelatin, sodas, and Popsicles (all sugar-free); dill pickles; and other 'free foods.'"
A: In response to Ms. Doty's question, I read the article and agree very much, if not in total, with what Dr. Bohannon (the article's author) has to say-although I can understand the confusion that many may have without further clarification. I believe Dr. Bohannon's point is that if someone eats, especially any significant amount of carbohydrate, when their blood sugars are already 150 mg/dl, it will result in a rapid rise (in some patients over 400 mg/dl) in blood sugar. Blood sugars that high represent a lack of insulin, and eating carbohydrates will only put more sugar in the system. It is therefore better to wait for the blood sugar to go below 150 mg before eating-this may occur if the insulin is given at least 45 minutes before eating. Once this occurs then eating will be all right-again as long as it's not too much.
In some instances, when pre-meal blood sugars are over 300, skipping the meal in part and/or possibly giving a small amount of extra insulin may help bring the blood sugar down-at which point the part of the meal that was skipped could be eaten later. All of this should be reviewed with a patient's physician and/or health care team before making any specific recommendations for an individual patient. As you know, that's why diabetes can be such a balancing act. People with diabetes can be smart in doing this.
Dr. Peter Lodewick, MD
Diabetes Care Center Birmingham, AL
Categories: Blood Glucose, Blood Sugar, Diabetes, Food, Insulin, Low Blood Sugar, Nutrition Advice, Professional Issues


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Mobile Athan
Mobile Athan software is used to get the accurate prayer times, Qiblah direction and hear automatic Athan (Azan) on every prayer time on your Cell Phone like Nokia, Sony Erricson, Motorolla, LG, Samsung, Windows Mobile and lot of other mobile brands. It has Prayer Times for more than 25,000 cities in 252 countries and Qiblah direction.
You can also use GPRS to download the Mobile Athan software directly in your Cell phone. Type the following url in your Cell phone web browser: http://wap.islamicfinder.org
Reference: http://www.islamicfinder.org/mobile/
Ramadan Mubarak
First Bali Drupal Meetup
Bali drupallers, join first Bali Drupal meetup on June 22.
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Accordion Menu Drupal Module
If you want to make fancy accordion menu on your Drupal site, you can use Accordion Menu module to convert your menu to accordion menu. It will show you menu active states there.
To achieve this, you need to download Accordion Menu from:
Because this module is dependent with Jquery UI module, you need to download it from:
After you enable both modules on your site, you can go to "Site Configuration –> Accordion Menu Setting". Then you need to select which menu that you want to show as accordion menu.
You can now go to Site Building –> Blocks, then enable your accordion menu. Then you have accordion menu on your site. You need to add your css to get nicer accordion menu.
Debian 5 'Lenny' Released
Debian project already released Debian GNU/Linux version 5.0 (codenamed "Lenny") at February 14, 2009. Debian GNU/Linux is a free operating system, developed by more than a thousand volunteers from all over the world who collaborate via the Internet.
This release includes numerous updated software packages, such as the K Desktop Environment 3.5.10 (KDE), an updated version of the GNOME desktop environment 2.22.2, OpenOffice.org 2.4.1, PostgreSQL 8.3.6, MySQL 5.0.51a, Linux kernel version 2.6.26, Apache 2.2.9, Python 2.5.2 and 2.4.6, Perl 5.10.0, PHP 5.2.6, and more than 23,000 other ready-to-use software packages (built from over 12,000 source packages).
It is time to upgrade your Debian machine to Lenny. Happy upgrading!
jQuery 1.3 Released
jQuery team announced a major release yesterday. It is about 49% faster than previous engine. The big features of this release are:
- Sizzle: A sizzlin' hot CSS selector engine.
- Live Events: Event delegation with a jQuery twist.
- jQuery Event Overhaul: Completely rewired to simplify event handling.
- HTML Injection Rewrite: Lightning-fast HTML appending.
- Offset Rewrite: Super-quick position calculation.
- No More Browser Sniffing: Using feature detection to help jQuery last for many more years to come.
Magento 1.1.8 Released
Magento 1.1.8 has been released. This was quite a quick release given that their previous version just release in one week ago. They fixed around 18 bugs. Thank you Magento teams.
Magento Ecommerce
Magento is open source ecommerce application. Since launch on March 31, 2008. It has exceeded 500.000 download. Magento has many features to build web store out of the box.
Currently Magento still lack the documentation. I hope since the community is growing fast. The documentation will be better.
If we want to build web store with open source software. You can start to use Magento.
Installing Canon Pixma iP1880 in Ubuntu 8.10
If you are running Ubuntu 8.10 Linux and going to connect your Canon Pixma iP1880 printer, then it is not yet plug and play.
Canon provide driver for linux. But they have not yet provided driver for Ubuntu 8.10. The good news is someone has provided us driver for Ubuntu 8.10.
Download 2 files from this links:
http://nko.computers.googlepages.com/cnijfilter-ip1800_2.70-2_i386-hardy..deb http://nko.computers.googlepages.com/cnijfilter-common_2.70-2_i386.deb
Before you install it, you need to make soflink from cups to cupsys. To do this, open a terminal (Applications-Accessories-Terminal) and give the command.
sudo ln -s /etc/init.d/cups /etc/init.d/cupsys
After you have installed two files from above links. Now you can install your printer as normal under administration—>printing.


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By LARRY VAUGHT
CHICAGO — Here's more with Kentucky commit Dakari Johnson from the McDonald's All-American Game:
Question: What do you weigh now?
Johnson: "Around 255. Coach (John) Calipari sent me a treadmill workout to do every day. I am trying to get down to 240 and then hit the weight room hard this summer to build it all back up with muscle."
Question: Is it fair to say that you like knocking people around and playing physical inside?
Johnson: "I am a physical guy. That is what I do best, so I have to be physical in the paint to score and rebound. Rebounding is my strength. I am unselfish and I have real good post moves. I think I am just a real good teammate."
Question: Can you go outside and score at Kentucky?
Johnson: "I am working on that every day. At the next level I can't just bully guys all the time. I have to step out and hit a few jump shots, so that is what I am working on every day."
Question: Does this McDonald's All-American Game give you a chance to show Kentucky fans what you can do?
Johnson: "A little bit. It is an all-star game, so I don't know how many touches I will get. And also I am trying to get some rest because the next day we (Montverde) have a game in the national championships in (Washington) D.C. I don't know what the plan for the game tomorrow wil be. I am also trying to win a national championship in high school before I get to college and hopefully in college I can win one and then the NBA."
Question: How often do you talk with the Kentucky coaches?
Johnson: "I talk to them every single week. They keep me updated and also tell me what I need to work on. That is one thing I like. They don't just tell me what I am good at. They tell me things that I need to work on."
Question: Since Calipari said this was a humbling season for him, have you noticed a more humble UK coach?
Johnson: "It is pretty hard coming off a national championship to have that type of season, but it should be all good next year. I think we will be really good."
Question: What has the overall experience in Chicago been like for you?
Johnson: "It is great just hanging out with all the guys I have been competing with over the years and getting to know them is really a great feeling."
Question: What does Julius Randle do best?
Johnson: "He just does everything. He is 6-8, he can handle the ball, passes like a point guard, shoots it. He is just really versatile.'
Question: How good is Marcus Lee, the player maybe the most under the radar among UK's six McDonald's All-Americans?
Johnson: "He is really good. Of course, he is another athletic big man that helps me because he is a shot blocker and I am not really a shot blocker. I think he is real good. I think he is underrated. I think he will have to prove next year how good he can be."
Question: Will a frontcourt of Randle, Johnson, Lee, Cauley-Stein and Kyle Wiltjer be one of the best in college basketball next year?
Johnson: "We have to prove ourselves, but it looks good on paper. But we have to prove ourselves first."
Question: Did you want to tell Aaron Gordon he was wrong when he said during his commitment to Arizona here Tuesday that he was going to win a national title?
Johnson: "It is what it is. Everybody has their opinion, but I know we are going to work hard to win it next year. We all talk about it (winning a title), but we all also talk about how much hard work it will take to win a championship."
Question: Do you have everything academically in order to where you will be at UK in June to start summer classes/workouts?
Johnson: "Yes and June 6 is when I am supposed leave to go to Kentucky to start summer school and workouts."
Question: Are you excited just to get out on your own and be on campus?
Johnson: "I am looking forward to it. I am trying to finish high school now, but it will be fun. It will be a lot of pressure, but will be fun. I am used to mixing academics and athletics. My school now is a real tough school academically, so I am used to that part of it."
Question: Since your mother is a guidance counselor at your school, how important are academics to her?
Johnson: "She has me on lockdown. I can't get anything below a C."
Question: Is it true that you are a talented ping pong player?
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AN Assembly planning inspector has given the go-ahead for an enclosed activity area at Usk Prison, despite objections from the Civic Society and local residents. read more
Fear for birds after hedge ripped out
THE hedge which surrounded the former Harold Road Junior School, Abergavenny has been ripped out, leading to complaints from residents. One woman, who does not wish to be named, said she had complained to Monmouthshire County Council and the Gwent Wildlife Trust, amid fears that nesting birds had been disturbed. read more
Letters oppose market
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Search on for the ancient trees
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AROUND 16 football players and match officials had personal belongings - including wallets, keys and mobile phones - stolen from locked changing rooms on Saturday afternoon. read more
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All dressed up for Easter
TINY tots from both St John's-on-the-Hill Day Nurs-eries celebrated the arrival of spring in style with a traditional Easter bonnet parade at Chepstow Race-course on Thursday. read more
Top job for Jo back at home
Jo Trigg has been appointed as the new manager for the Stroud & Swindon Building Society in Chepstow. read more
Recycling kids let fingers do walking
YOUNGSTERS at Llanvair Kilgeddin Church in Wales Primary School have won £350 for their school by collecting Yellow Pages directories in a recycling competition. read more
Bridge to be cut open
An extensive inspection of the M48 Severn bridge will start this month, after signs of corrosion were found on its sister bridge in Scotland. read more
Fear for birds after hedge ripped out
THE hedge which surrounded the former Harold Road Junior School, Abergavenny has been ripped out, leading to complaints from residents. One woman, who does not wish to be named, said she had complained to Monmouthshire County Council and the Gwent Wildlife Trust, amid fears that nesting birds had been disturbed. read more
Six-in-a-row for rugby youths
THE Abergavenny under 15s rugby team has triumphed yet again in the Gwent District cup final, giving them six successive district cup final wins. read more
Drill Hall closure date set
A DATE has been set for the closure of Chepstow's popular Drill Hall, causing outrage among some of the town's councillors. read more
Victory brings respite to relegation woes
WITH all the bottom clubs enjoying a weekend off in Division Four East, Monmouth put their relegation fears to one side on Saturday with a confidence boosting 39-10 friendly win over Forest rivals Lydney. read more
Win eludes Goytre in difficult week at home
GOYTRE were only able to pick up a point from two home games this week, first going down 4-2 to promotion chasing West End, then failing to beat lowly Penrhiwfer. read more
Policy change is criticised
A Labour member of Tory-controlled Monmouthshire County Council has criticised a decision to change the select committees. The select committees were set up to scrutinise the decisions of the cabinet and were always chaired by an opposition member, but that is now changing. read more
Town on winning form
ANDREW Smith scored the only goal of the game on Saturday as Monmouth Town overcame league leaders Newport Civil Service to open up the title race in Gwent County League Division Two. read more
Town are flying
AN UNPRECEDENTED third win in a week for Chepstow Town on Monday night has enabled Barrie Vassallo's men to leap five places up the Welsh League Division Three table. read more
PO investigation after suspension of postie
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Push for county council to be based in town
AFTER recent speculation that Monmouthshire County Council could be relocating to Monmouth, the local authority has confirmed that it is one of several possibilities that are being considered after deciding "in principle" to move. read more
A class act!
SCHOOLS in Monmouth may now be on their Easter holidays - but three in particular have egg-stra cause for celebration. read more
Plea for visual artists to join with festival
MONMOUTH Festival is expanding to include all types of local artists for the annual nine-day event which takes place between July 28 and August 5. read more
Young side look impressive
CHEPSTOW RFC played a development XV against St Peter's second XV last weekend, with the youngsters putting on a strong display to win 61-17. read more
Weather can't hold back on-fire Mardy
MARDY under-12s recently triumphed in adverse weather conditions against Caldicot A, with Ryan Probert netting three times. read more
Four golds for Caldicot
It was a fantastic weekend of results for Caldicot Judo Club who were represented by eight players at the Welsh National Judo Championships in Cardiff - returning with six medals including four gold. read more
Town hang on for win
IF MONMOUTH Town are able to secure the Gwent County Division Two title this month, the record books will suggest that recent big wins against the likes of Llanhilleth, Christ-church and Garnlydan had earned them the honours. read more
Warning of seasonal crime
POLICE in Chepstow are planning to crack down on opportunist thieves carrying out 'seasonal crime'. read more
Fox gets cat calls
Peter Fox, cabinet minister for lifelong learning and leisure and newly-appointed deputy leader of the council, was booed at hissed at last Thursday's full council meeting. read more
Colourful welcome to town
FIFTY-EIGHT lamp-posts in and around Chepstow will soon be adorned with nine different designs of colourful banners, which are aimed at enticing and welcoming visitors to the town. read more
Police chief backs safer carriageway
THE HEAD of Gwent Police has stated he would "welcome" any measures to make the A40 dual carriageway through Monmouth safer - including reducing the speed limit. read more
French links to the chain
MORE than 50 visitors from Abergavenny's French twin town Beaupreau were fascinated to learn about the history and traditions of our mayor. read more
Boogie frights
"IT WAS like something out of a horror movie." read more
Cash boost for theatre group
MORE than £6,000 was raised at the ball organised by Theatr Ffynnon at the Angel Hotel, Abergavenny. read more
Students on course for a 'plumb' career
APRIL Prior has proved that anything men can do, she can do just as well. Twenty-seven-year-old April, a medical supplies product manager from Abergavenny, recently attended a plumbing course at Ebbw Vale Campus, Coleg Gwent for two evenings a week and thoroughly enjoyed the course. She said, "I was slightly nervous at first, as I thought I might be the only woman on the course but was delighted at how welcoming and encouraging the lecturers were. I originally attended the course out of necessity - I had a few broken bits and pieces around the house and was charged a ridiculous amount of money by a local plumber. read more
Abergavenny boss ousted
AFTER one draw and five defeats in their last six games, Abergavenny Thursdays' football management committee has voted to replace manager Bill Mainwaring. read more
Craig's horses have the winning touch
THE horses of Coedkernew trainer Craig Roberts are in a rich vein of form with another win at Chepstow Racecourse. read more
Home Office 'lacking a grip'
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Eggsciting day out
EASTER Monday sees the return of the Redbrook Eggstravaganza, which attracts visitors from the village as well as the surrounding areas. read more
A class act!
SCHOOLS in Monmouth may now be on their Easter holidays - but three in particular have egg-stra cause for celebration. read more
Score could be higher
ABERGAVENNY coach Gary Lawrence was forced to wait until the second half before his men finally broke a tight Nelson defence on Saturday, but later said he felt his side could have won by 40 points. read more
Yes, it's our title say Tintern
TINTERN Abbey were crowned East Gwent Division One champions last Saturday after they beat Caldicot Town 3-1. read more
Putting good food on school menu
The Nation's favourite dinner lady, Jeanette Orrey, came to Monmouthshire on Monday, to help with the county's Better School Dinners initiative. read more
Pitch and mutt
JIM PHILLIS was a popular choice as new captain of Pontnewydd Golf Club's veterans' section this year, but, there again, so was the newest life member - his pet mongrel dog, Deuce. read more
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Saved school row
TORFAEN'S cabinet member for education slammed Wales education minister Jane Davidson for "undermining" the council's school reorganisation programme after her decision to save Ponthir Primary School from the axe. read more
United front against crime
A MEETING between local traders, the police and members of Torfaen Council's regeneration team has been described as a positive first step in the town's fight against crime. read more
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A GWENT man says he is devastated after he was the victim of an unprovoked and vicious gang attack. read more
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BEIJING, May 11 (Xinhua) -- China expects to promote the establishment of
a new-type of military relations with the United States through a senior
military official's visit to the U.S. from May 15 to 22.
Qian Lihua, director of the Foreign Affairs Office with the National
Defense Ministry, made the remarks during an exclusive interview with
The new-type of China-U.S. military relations would feature mutual respect
and reciprocal beneficial cooperation, said Qian, adding China hopes to
work with the U.S. to ensure the complete success of the [during] Chief of
the General Staff of the People's Liberation Army (PLA) Chen Bingde's
official visit to the U.S.
During his visit, Chen will hold talks with Admiral Mike Mullen, chairman
of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff. He will also meet with U.S. Defense
Secretary Robert Gates, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Assistant
to the President for National Security Affairs Tom Donilon.
Chen will address China's position on three major obstacles hindering
China-U.S. military relations during his visit, said Qian.
The three obstacles, namely U.S. arms sales to Taiwan, frequent
reconnaissance by U.S. naval ships and aircraft in the waters and airspace
of China's exclusive economic zones, and the restrictions imposed by some
U.S. domestic laws on exchanges and technical cooperation between the
Chinese and U.S. armed forces, have been hindering the healthy development
of bilateral military relations, said Qian.
In January 2010, the Pentagon decided to sell approximately 6.4 billion
U.S. dollar of arms to Taiwan. That caused the suspension of some military
exchange programs between China and the United States.
Qian noted that China's position on the arms sale issue is consistent and
clear. "If the U.S. continues to sell weapons to Taiwan, China will
definitely respond to the action."
"The U.S. should take the issue into serious consideration and gradually
resolve the problem so as to ensure the sound and steady development of
bilateral military relations," he said.
On the second obstacle, Qian said U.S. military surveillance and survey
operations against China is the source of "accidental conflicts" between
the two countries, which not only undermines China's security, but also
harms the mutual trust between the two armed forces.
Unless the U.S. stops the reconnaissance operations, the accidental
frictions between the two sides could not be ruled out, he said, adding it
will pose a threat to bilateral military ties.
Qian also called on the U.S. to adjust or abolish discriminatory domestic
laws against China, such as the "National Defense Authorization Act for
Fiscal Year 2000", the "DeLay Amendment" and the "Foreign Relations
Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1990-1991", which set limits to
bilateral military exchanges and high-tech exports to China.
Those laws were enacted in the late 1990s when bilateral military
relations fell into a downturn, and now they already run against the
backdrop of the China-U.S. cooperative partnership, he noted.
"China hopes the U.S. will respect China's reasonable concern on the three
issues and adopt feasible measures to resolve them," he said.
With regards to developing bilateral military ties, China has its bottom
line, which is featuring mutual respect, mutual trust, equality and
reciprocity, said Qian.
"Without the bottom line, bilateral military relations will be like water
without a source and a tree without roots, and therefore could not have
comprehensive and in-depth development," he said, adding for China, there
is no room for compromise on the bottom line.
Chen's trip also includes visits to command centers, troops and institutes
of the U.S. armed forces, said Qian, adding the high-profile reception
arrangements showed the importance paid by U.S. officials to Chen's trip.
Chen's visit, the first in seven years by a PLA chief of the general
staff, is part of the efforts to implement the consensus reached by
Chinese President Hu Jintao and his U.S. counterpart, President Barack
Obama, and is one of the most important activities of bilateral military
diplomacy, he said.
The visit will further deepen mutual understanding, mutual trust and
cooperation between the two armed forces and play an important role in
promoting a sound and steady development of bilateral military relations,
Qian noted.
A healthy, stable and reliable bilateral military relation is of great
significance to the building of the China-U.S. cooperative partnership
based on mutual respect and mutual benefit, he said.
He noted that the two armed forces share broad common interests in
anti-terrorism, anti-piracy escort missions, peace-keeping mission,
non-traditional security sectors and the maintenance of the peace and
stability of the Asia-Pacific Region.
China attaches great importance to developing military ties with the U.S.
and has made unremitting efforts in promoting bilateral military
exchanges, he said.
So far, China and the U.S. have resumed military exchanges. Gates' visit
to China in January mended bilateral military ties after several
controversies last year. Also, the defense ministries of China and the
United States held their seventh working-level meeting in April.
The just concluded China-U.S. Strategic Security Dialogue in Washington
also included representatives from military departments of both countries.
Additionally, delegations of the Air War College of the U.S. Air Force's
Air University and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers visited China in March and
April, respectively. Further, delegations of high-ranking military
officers of the U.S. National Defense University and the University's
National War College also visited China in early May.
According to Qian, a PLA's humanitarian relief delegation and a military
medical science delegation, as well as a delegation of China's National
Defense University, will also visit the U.S. in the upcoming months.
Moreover, the PLA Military Band will visit the U.S. in mid-May. It is the
first time for the band to visit the U.S. since the two countries forged
diplomatic relations in 1979, said Qian, adding the band will perform five
concerts in the U.S.
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War of the Vikings gets Berserker class, new mode, new maps
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War of the Vikings launches on the coast of Steam today
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War of the Vikings dated for April
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For reasons probably lost to the mists of time, we started calling this game War of the Horny Hairy Blood Men on last week's podcast.
Alpha and Odin-er: War of the Vikings kicks off a closed alpha session
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Mystery alpha: War of the Roses devs open sign-ups for next project
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War of the Roses rides out in October, pre-orders now being taken
2 October is the date on which you'll be able to sign up for the House of York or Lancaster, as Paradox and Fatshark have announced that this is the release day for medieval multiplayer brawler, War of the Roses.
100,000 sign up for War of the Roses beta, keys going out now
Paradox and Fatshark have announced that more than 100,000 people have signed up to join the armies of the Yorkists and Lancastrians in the War of the Roses beta, with the first wave of keys set to go out today.
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You'll find different opinions about MM and whether it's a currant or not, please see the link below. The origin of the seed for MM was Craig LeHoullier and he says it's pea sized, but that alone doesn't make it a pimpinellifolium. In the SSE YEarbooks it's in the regular sections, not the other species section. But then not everyone can tell the difference re foliage, etc., so that's that. I've linked to a general Google search below and you'll read all sorts of opinions. I've not grown it so I can't say anything about it. Perhaps it's like Matt's Wild, which is a cerasiforme, a half domesticated cherry tomato with a retracted stigma. Perhaps it's a stable interspecies cross as is Sara's Galapagos. It used to be said that the currants had an exherted stigma thus the pollination by insects, but it's now known that only about half of them do, so looking at that trait doesn't say one way or another what it might be. I don't know how helpful this is, but whatever. Carolyn |
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The persons considered to be at greatest risk include all children from 6 months old to 18 years of age, women who are pregnant, adults with chronic illnesses, and healthcare workers. School-age children would be the primary target of the program though, and they may receive their shots at school in large numbers reminiscent of the polio immunizations of the 1950s.
President Barack Obama spoke at the flu summit via audio link from the Group of Eight summit in Italy. "We want to make sure that we are not promoting panic, but we are promoting vigilance and preparation," he said, adding that "the most important thing for us to do is to make sure that state and local officials prepare now to implement a vaccination program in the fall."
Local governments would primarily be in charge of any vaccination campaign, but Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said that the federal government would provide about $260 million to states and territories to help them make plans. Another $90 million will go to hospitals to help them prepare for a possible increase in the number of flu patients.
As for the nation's public school's being heavily involved in vaccinations, Education Secretary Arne Duncan "would absolutely welcome" the idea. He said that schools are "natural sites" and that "to open our doors and be part of the solution really makes sense." Thomas R. Frieden, director of the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), confirmed that schools would likely remain open and would not be urged to close unless the virus proves to be much deadlier than it is now. He told the summit participants that "our goals at the moment are fairly straightforward: reduce illness and minimize social disruption."
These goals are commendable, but individual freedom and parental rights should also be kept in mind. Parents should be allowed to decide for themselves if their children will be immunized, and parents ought to be informed of any possible side effects or dangers. After all, 25 people died as a result of side effects from swine flu vaccinations in 1976.
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Quick trip. Two days driving one day visiting. My favorite part of the drive was coming over the bridge friday evening and seeing the city. It was nothing but darkness and cars and water (intracostal waterway?) and then voila – New Orleans sparkling. Beautiful.
Everyone was friendly and between my guides I had a whirligig tour of a few different areas that seemed to blend seamlessly from affluent, charming, colorful and cozy to beaten. Would have been nice to have time to photograph and sketch. So much stunning architecture, tasty food, new to me flora and there's a quirky feel to the collective interactions. Locals vs. tourists? I don't know what it was. Not uncomfortable though.
Given more time I would have loved to attend Prospect.1 New Orleans which looks fantastic and takes place in different museums, historical buildings and such across the city. I'll have to hitch back before January 18th.
Thanks to Kevin for letting me crash his moving weekend.


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Roaring Good Time: Vinus and Marc Open now
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Gelato Show: AB Biagi Open now
Italian gelato gets a Brazilian treatment at this new downtown shop that offers açai, cantucci and port wine, chocolate with tonka bean, and white chocolate with bergamot.
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Smorgasburg staple Mimi and Coco do one thing, and they do it well: fried dough balls stuffed with shrimp, sausage, cheese, potato, or even octopus, drizzled with teriyaki sauce and Japanese mayo.
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Following in the footsteps of Toshiba in announcing a Bay Trail tablet, Asus detailed the Transformer Boom T300 as being a convertible model (it comes with a keyboard dock) which features a 10.1-inch 1366 x 768 resolution IPS screen, a 1.33Ghz Intel Atom Z3740 quad-core processor, 2GB of RAM and between 32GB and 64GB of storage.
The tablet also runs the soon-to-launch Windows 8.1, has a 1.2MP camera, Microsoft Office Home & Student and comes with connections for USB, micro SD and micro HDMI. You can also tap into USB 3.0, a keyboard and a touchpad with the tablet dock.
Asus says that the Transformer Book T300 will launch in late October, with the 32GB model to retail for $349 and the 64GB version to go for $399. Both prices include the keyboard dock.


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Ceres Bus Liner deploys free Wi-Fi
-A A +AThursday, October 11, 2012
THE tough competition in the bus market industry has led Ceres Bus Liner to deploy free Wi-Fi services in its air-conditioned bus units to provide the riding public an improved "bus-riding experience."
"If we can't compete with the price (because it's regulated), we can compete with the service to sustain the patronage of the riding public," said Ceres Bus Liner branch manager Anselmo Ambos Jr.
He said they realized that Wi-Fi services are already a requirement for many customers.
"This is one way of returning the favor to the public while at the same time setting ourselves different from other bus companies," Ambos said.
The Ceres Bus Liner initially deployed Wi-Fi services with speeds of up to 3.5 mbps to 41 of 85 of its air-conditioned bus units travelling to southern Cebu and 12 of 20 air-conditioned bus units travelling to northern Cebu.
Ceres Bus Liner has 253 buses.
"The goal is to have all air-conditioned bus units Wi-Fi ready by the end of the year," said Ambos. He said they are also considering the possibility of setting-up Wi-Fi services in non-aircon buses.
Ceres has placed stickers on buses with Wi-Fi connections. Ambos said there would be no additional charges or increases in bus fares for the new feature.
Cebu was one of the priority cities for Wi-Fi deployment, along with Batangas, Bacolod, Cagayan de Oro City and Davao because of its growing market.
The Ceres Bus Liner is operated by Vallacar Transit Inc., which is managed by the Bacolod- based Yanson Group of Bus Companies, the same company that manages Rural Transit of Mindanao and Bachelor Express Inc. for Mindanao and Ceres Tours in Luzon.
The company has over 2,000 bus units operating nationwide.
Ambos identified the country's robust tourism industry as the main driver of growth for the company. He said the establishment of the Philippine Nautical Highway that links major islands through roll-on-roll-off vessels has facilitated a seamless
transport system for passenger traffic.
In fact, Ambos said, the company is also eyeing opportunities to expand operations in other areas like Bohol, where tourism traffic surges during peak seasons. Ceres can carry 17,000 passengers a day and the figure soars, especially on long weekends.
On top of addressing needs for public transportation, Ceres Bus Liner also offers chartered services for local government unit's programs and field trips like Suroy-Suroy Sugbo.
Ceres also offers chartered services for educational tours.
Chartered services comprise five to 10 percent of Ceres' total bus operation.
Last year, the company bought fuel efficient bus units to cope with the volatility of fuel prices as well as address the growing demand in public transportation.
Ceres' buses are 80 percent assembled in the country in Yanson's 20-hectare assembly plant in Bacolod.
Published in the Sun.Star Cebu newspaper on October 12, 2012.
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At the heart of "Golden Child," there is what may be one of the great themes of the 21st century: China's confrontation with the West. Though set for the most part in 1918 and 1919, the play's story echoes into the present and the future.
With such a big, important theme, and with some of the best Chinese-American actors brought together on a Broadway stage, this ought to be a major event. It is, instead, a major disappointment.
David Henry Hwang, best known for "M. Butterfly," has reworked "Golden Child" since it was produced at the Public in 1996. He has not, alas, transformed it into what it ought to be a powerful evocation of the dilemmas of China's attempts to modernize itself.
Hwang has certainly imagined a story that should allow his actors to give a human face to the struggles of a vast society. Framed by brief episodes in modern Manhattan, "Golden Child" is the tragedy of the liberal landlord Eng Tieng-Bin and his three wives.
We meet the wives first, squabbling among themselves as they prepare for the return of their lord and master from Manila, where he has established a trading business. When he comes back to their tight, traditional society, he trails the ways of the West behind him Christianity, consumer goods, revulsion at old practices like the binding of women's feet.
There are here the ingredients of a great tragedy, an intimate disaster that illuminates an epic conflict. They are, though, assembled rather than mixed.
Though it has very well-written scenes, "Golden Child" manages the unfortunate feat of being at once too earnest and too flippant. On one hand, it is too insistent on hammering home its theme of China's confrontation with the modern world. Instead of the theme arising naturally from a story and set of characters, both are shaped to its demands.
On the other hand, Hwang seems afraid of the potential grandeur of his story. The large, sweeping tale of the confrontation of two worlds is important enough to justify its place on a Broadway stage. But Hwang keeps undercutting it with one-liners and self-deprecating jokes. He seems continually to lose confidence in his own sense of purpose.
This makes for a strangely jarring journey. Whenever the play is building an atmosphere of doom, it is stopped in its tracks by a facetious aside. And instead of trying to impose a consistent tone, James Lapine's direction often adds to the uncertainty.
The production does have considerable strengths. Tony Straiges' sets are handsome and make clever use of the stage. Randall Duk Kim as the landlord evokes both the imperious air of one used to being in charge and the pained uncertainty of a man caught up in forces he cannot quite understand.
Tsai Chin, Ming Na-Wen and Kim Myori make as much as anyone could from rather confined roles as the wives. And Julyana Soelistyo is quite superb as Ahn, the young girl who witnesses the tragedy and the old woman who tells the story to her own son in Manhattan.
None of this is enough, though, to make up for the play's loss of faith in its subject. If the playwright doesn't believe strongly enough in his own story, all the tea in China won't make an audience swallow it.
A loud clash of cultures was resonating last night in the Longacre Theater, where David Henry Hwang's "Golden Child," a most intriguing play telling of a Chinese businessman living in southeast China in 1918 and his attempt to embrace Western philosophy, arrived on Broadway.
The show has had a somewhat circuitous journey. It started out nearly two years ago at the Joseph Papp Public Theater, but since then it has been partly rewritten, largely recast and has traveled as far afield as San Francisco, Washington, D.C., and even Singapore.
That trip to Asia seems totally appropriate, because Hwang's play is about assimilation and roots. His hero is Eng Tieng-Bing (Randall Duk Kim), the local lord of a small Chinese village who has considerable business connections in the Philippines.
It is during his lengthy stays in the Philippines that he becomes interested in Western philosophy (particularly the stress Occidentals placed on the significance of the individual) and Christianity.
He came from a society that practiced ancestor worship and polygamy, and where women, apart from the peasants, still crippled themselves by binding their feet. Yet it was also a China that the nationalist leader Sun Yat-sen was already leading along new paths, many running parallel to Western thought.
Hwang, in his most sophisticated play so far, manages very cleverly to dramatize this new spirit, borrowing largely, it seems, from the story - as told to him by his grandmother, the true-life "golden child" in the play - of his own family (a modern variant on ancestor worship, perhaps).
We are shown the machinations and tensions within this closed society, with Eng and his three wives (Tsai Chin, Kim Miyori and Ming-Na Wen), his eldest child (an impish Julyana Soelistyo) and a scarcely militant yet humorously persuasive Church of England missionary (the stalwart John Horton).
It's a fascinating picture that Hwang is showing us, a family torn apart, a civilization in flux; but he obviously felt, perhaps rightly, that it was a picture in need of a frame - some kind of setting.
In both the interesting first version at the Public Theater and in this more polished and truly rewarding revised production, the playwright introduces us, in a prologue and epilogue, to Andrew, the grandson of the play's protagonist, and to the ghost of his dead mother. In the original version, Andrew experienced this vision on the way to an airport; this time, it's in a dream. Neither version really works.
This is a flaw - and it remains a wonderfully provocative play without a real resolution - yet Hwang's domestic details of the backbiting wives and their hierarchical henpecking order, his comments on Chinese manners and customs (particularly when faced by the "white devils" of the West) and his concept of the Chinese "web of obligations dating back 5,000 years" is all powerful stuff.
As in the earlier production, James Lapine's staid and leisurely staging is perfect, as is the delicate work of the design team - Tony Straiges (setting), Martin Pakledinaz (costumes) and David J. Lander (lighting) - who circumspectly avoid any fake chinoiserie.
And, finally - yet very importantly - the acting is a joy. That fine actor Duk Kim is handsomely conscience-torn as the businessman caught between two worlds, while his three wives, Chin, Miyori and Wen, strike to the heart with their various concerns and fears. If this transition to the modern world was hard for men, how much harder it was for their women, and how brilliantly these three show the ways!
There is no physical attribute more appealing to Ahn, the bullheaded, 10-year-old heroine of ''Golden Child,'' than big feet. As a daughter in a wealthy family in the China of 1918, she has been forced to undergo the brutal ritual of foot-binding, a ''beautifying'' process so excruciating that she walks as if perpetually stepping on hot coals.
Over the protests of her tradition-bound mother, her progressive father, increasingly enamored of such Western ideals as Christian mercy and individual dignity, answers her pleas and orders her feet unbound. But liberation has a price: the agony of muscle and bone reverting to their natural alignment is twice as unbearable as the binding. ''You do not know,'' says the disapproving mother, ''what a terrible gift is freedom.''
The binding cloth is delicately unwound on the stage of the Longacre Theater, and Ahn, portrayed beguilingly by Julyana Soelistyo, learns a thing or two about painful transitions. It is a moment, in fact, that stands as the metaphor of choice for the evening, for painful transitions are what ''Golden Child'' is all about. David Henry Hwang's family drama, which opened last night, is a gentle, if rather stolid, tale of the unbinding of a traditional Chinese household as it comes increasingly under the influence of the moral, artistic and economic values of Western culture -- a transition, Mr. Hwang argues, that does more good than harm. The play, by the author of the Tony-winning ''M. Butterfly,'' was first presented last season at the Joseph Papp Public Theater, where it received mixed reviews. The Broadway version, directed, as was the earlier incarnation, by James Lapine, has been substantially rewritten. Mr. Hwang replaced some of the awkward plot devices, clarified his central ideas and made the piece more active: the unbinding of Ahn's feet, for instance, merely referred to in the original production, is now enacted.
Still, ''Golden Child'' is unable to buff its dull finish successfully. Mr. Hwang may have brought a smashing theatricality to ''M. Butterfly'' -- which, admittedly, was based on a riveting true story -- but he hasn't figured out how to infuse a less sensational tale with the narrative force and energy necessary to animate a Broadway stage.
Part of the problem may be that ''Golden Child'' has literary pretensions that give it a pacing closer to that of a boiled-down novel than a theater piece. Bookish themes, like the clash of Eastern and Western ideas of spirituality, are emphasized again and again, and characters sometimes are defined as much by what they symbolize for the playwright as who they are to one another. Each of the three wives of the household (polygamy was the norm at the time) appears to correspond to a specific characteristic of the play, as if they were symbols on an astrological chart. There is the hidebound First Wife (played by Tsai Chin), who represents tradition; the grasping Second Wife (Kim Miyori), who denotes power, and the devoted young Third Wife (Ming-Na Wen), love.
A result of this novelistic formality is that ''Golden Child'' plays at times like one of those ponderous costume dramas that ''Masterpiece Theater'' has resorted to showing, now that adaptations of most of the best books by Austen and Dickens and Hardy have already been made. Indeed, Martin Pakledinaz's costumes for ''Golden Child,'' glorious Chinese gowns and robes and frilly Edwardian dresses, constitute the most rousing aspect of the production. They're fun to look at even when the narrative drags.
Mr. Hwang has said in interviews that the play is based on his own family history in China in the early 20th century, and for those unfamiliar with Chinese culture, ''Golden Child'' possesses what feels like authentic and exotic detail. Most of the story takes place in the household of Eng Tieng-Bin (Randall Duk Kim), a businessman who returns to his three wives and myriad children, including Ahn, the ''golden child,'' after three years in the Philippines, where he acquired a fascination with such facets of Western civilization as monogamy and Jesus Christ.
Tieng-Bin's ideas disrupt the compound, which is headed by him but is really run by the squabbling, jockeying wives, who barely mask their mutual contempt in sugar-coated jibes. Posturing is rampant in the house, and Mr. Hwang is adept at diagramming the hypocrisies, starting with Tieng-Bin's: his fondest wish is for a monogamous relationship with the Third Wife, Eling, the only one of his wives whom he selected out of love, and though he embraces Christianity, his theological fervor has more to do with a desire for a romantic union than a sanctified one.
The Eng household is an appropriate petri dish in which to grow the conflicts fomented by the introduction of European ideas; the characters represent a spectrum of reactions to new customs and philosophies. Ms. Chin's stubborn First Wife, refusing to accede to her husband's demands for change, destroys herself with opium, while Ms. Miyori's adaptive Second Wife, given a waffle iron by her husband as an insulting gift upon his return, swallows her pride and learns to make waffles.
But contrary to so many depictions of the encroachments of the West on Asia, ''Golden Child'' does not present Westernization as a moral contamination, a de-purification. Through characters like Tieng-Bin and Ahn, Mr. Hwang suggests that the exchange of ideas creates opportunities for personal growth, for new ways of thinking, and that such traditions as ancestor worship were hindrances, keeping people so anchored to the past that they were afraid to look ahead. The play's sole Caucasian character, the missionary Anthony Baines (John Horton), is the embodiment of Mr. Hwang's benign view of the outside world. He is not a boorish infidel, but a polite functionary whose halting Chinese and lack of success with converts attest to a well-meaning guilelessness.
Still, despite its intriguing discussion points, ''Golden Child'' rarely seems anything that would not be just as compelling in manuscript form. The playwright, unfortunately, has chosen a modern framework for his period drama, a clunky gimmick that is meant to make the play more accessible but instead blunts its impact: The Engs' story is related in the present by a now-deceased, elderly Ahn, who appears to her son, Andrew (Mr. Kim again), in a dream. It's an obvious and tired stage cliche that Mr. Hwang employs only half-heartedly. The latter-day scenes are so attenuated in the reworked production -- a more complicated version of the modern story has been excised -- that they seem vestigial, almost irrelevant.
The actors, under Mr. Lapine's competent direction, create a dignified ensemble. As the warring wives, Ms. Chin, Ms. Miyori and Ms. Wen never overplay their hands: silhouetted behind the sheer curtains of Tony Straiges's simple renderings of their individual pavilions, they flutter like caged birds. Mr. Kim is convincingly troubled as the head of a turbulent Chinese household in 1918, but less compelling as the present-day writer.
It is the seemingly ageless Ms. Soelistyo who provides the most enjoyment. She's a find in the double-duty role of young and old Ahn, a performer who can magically add and subtract years with the mere brandishing of a scarf.
The actress envelops herself in Ahn's indomitable life force, a spirit symbolically unleashed in the instant the golden child's feet are freed from those terrible bindings. For ''Golden Child'' itself, that moment of catharsis, unfortunately, does not come. The play never escapes its own, ultimately more constricting tether, to the page.
The burden of ancestry may be one of many provocative concerns in David Henry Hwang's "Golden Child," but such issues ultimately pale next to a more immediate obligation --- to be dramatic --- that the play just does not meet. An undoubtedly personal work, Hwang's first Broadway venture since the Tony-winning "M. Butterfly" a decade ago (an interim play, "Face Value," never got to opening night) bears all the hallmarks of a worthy effort that has yet to rise above its good intentions. While one applauds its producers' ambitions to widen the commercial theater's spectrum of plays, "Golden Child" looks an unlikely bet to be a Broadway favorite.
That's not for want of trying. Hwang's play has taken an unusual and tenacious path to Broadway, following up mixed reviews in its Off Broadway debut 17 months ago with major recasting and rewriting and a series of out-of-town tryouts that included a stint in Singapore. Though it would be nice to report that such perseverance now seems worth the trouble, truth to tell, it doesn't. At least as staged by James Lapine, the play is as staid as it is self-evidently sincere, and all its alternately jokey and melodramatic passages merely amplify Hwang's failure to bring some fascinating themes to urgent, needful life.
If anything, the first act, in particular, suggests a dramatist softening his approach, lest an audience be put off by what is, at heart, an Asian-American variant on the African-American debates that have long fueled the work of August Wilson --- a grappling with ancestral ghosts among them. Andrew Kwong (Randall Duk Kim), a middle-aged writer (and presumable Hwang surrogate), is in a flap about the pregnancy of his young wife Elizabeth (Ming-Na Wen) when he is visited one night by the feisty, if petite, apparition of his religious fundamentalist mother (Julyana Soelistyo), who has a story to tell.
That story, told in flashbacks that take place in the Fukien province of China in 1918-19, forms the bulk of the play, with the diminutive Soelistyo shedding her wizened shuffle to play herself as a 10-year-old child, Ahn, even as actor Kim doubles as his own grandfather, Eng Tieng-Bin. A man in sometimes ambivalent thrall to modernity, Tieng-Bin is a successful businessmen based in the Philippines who on the home front must juggle not only three wives but a society in sometimes painful transition from one system of values and beliefs to another.
The presence of three wives prompts speculation that the play might become the sort of sex farce that in England is a West End mainstay --- a "Run for Your Wife," Asian-style --- but Hwang's approach instead alights on what one might call sitcom-snappy. "M. Butterfly," too, had its jarring facetious interludes, mitigated in the earlier play's case by its sheer narrative pull and the go-for-broke directorial theatrics of the late John Dexter. But as the wives here sit around bitching --- "What are you, retarded?," asks first wife Siu-Yong (Tsai Chin), who gets a conversation-closer right out of "Saturday Night Live" --- one could just as well be watching an unexpected rewrite of "The Women," despite the unmistakable elan of Tony Straiges' pavilion-filled set (elegantly lit by David J. Lander) and Lapine's resourceful use of some of the Chinese theater techniques that fired up "M. Butterfly."
The most common object of her and second wife Luan's (Kim Miyori) derision? Third, and comeliest, wife Eling (played by Wen), to whom Tieng-Bin brings a scratchy copy of "La Traviata." (Wife No. 2, by contrast, has to settle for the shiny novelty of a waffle iron.)
As might be expected from the writer of "F.O.B.," Hwang has a lovely time contrasting differences in culture, gender, generation and religion, so it's doubly disappointing that the second act barely ups the stakes established in the first. The volume level rises, as various showdowns, addictions and even deaths take their toll, but so does one's sense that Hwang hasn't released the inherent drama in tensions that --- as Ang Lee's beautiful film "The Wedding Banquet" reminds us --- are ongoing today. It's typical of the dramatic shortfall that Ahn is announced over and over as a "golden child" --- among other things, she's the first female in her family to be freed the indignity of foot-binding --- without in any way asserting herself beyond the cutesy, giggly persona that Soelistyo offloads on the part.
That this actress has traveled with the play on its complicated journey indicates that broad brush strokes in her case are what both writer and director want: Somewhat surprisingly, the production has far more sentimental embellishments than Lapine's concurrent (and, for the most part, beautifully acted) Broadway outing, "The Diary of Anne Frank." With Wen a blank if beautiful presence in Martin Pakledinaz's costumes, it falls to the older actors to provide the missing gravitas. Chin has undeniable command of the stage (on this evidence, she'd be a first-rate Martha in "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?"), but her First Wife suffers most the contradictions of a script that can't decide whether she should be delivering zingers or suffering a la Mary Tyrone. The excellent Kim, a deep-voiced, authoritative Kralahome in Broadway's recent "King and I," makes a poignantly conflicted convert to Christianity. In the end, it's hardly his fault that a play intriguingly obsessed with ghosts sadly remains a shadow of what it might have been.


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