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In 1934, one of Europe's most popular musical acts, the Comedian Harmonists performed for 6,000 members of Hitler's two murder gangs, the SS and the SA. They greeted their audience with the Nazi salute.
Three of the group's members were Jewish. Within a few years, they were banned and forced into exile. Members of their families died in the Holocaust.
Their story is a riveting fable for the 20th century. The way "Band in Berlin" approaches that story is, alas, just a parable for today's Broadway. "Band in Berlin" is a good show. The singing by the five men who play the Comedian Harmonists is often scintillating.
The staging is deft. The cheery performances of songs like "Uncle Bumba from Columba Dances the Rhumba" and "Tea for Two" are set against projected images of German paintings, newsreels and photographs.
These images provide a chilling commentary on the group's rise and fall. Black and white film based on an interview with the group's last survivor, Roman Cycowski, fills in the details.
With all of this going on, the show is intriguing, entertaining and thought-provoking. But it should be so much more.
What it should be is a great musical. Thirty years ago, the combination of popular songs and political tragedy would have inspired a work of real ambition.
We know this because the same theme singing and dancing on the edge of the Nazi abyss did inspire a great musical, "Cabaret." To watch "Band in Berlin" with "Cabaret" in mind is to get a graphic lesson in the terrible lack of courage that besets Broadway now.
"Band in Berlin" is small and safe, not just artistically, but morally. The fanciest footwork on view is not in the choreography. It's the side-step away from the big questions that the story poses.
At one level, the tale of the Comedian Harmonists is a familiar story of Nazi cruelty. It's hardly news to anyone that Hitler was a monster.
The really fresh, powerful story is about something else: the way people colluded in their own destruction. The tragedy of the group was the delusion that, if they played along with the Nazis and avoided politics, they would be okay.
Writer and director Susan Feldman doesn't ignore this question. But she doesn't explore it either.
The essential problem is that the story is told entirely from the point of view of the survivor Cycowski, to whom the show is dedicated. Because he's the hero, we never get to grips with the story of a Jew singing sweet harmonies while Hitler is preparing the Final Solution.
And that, surely, is where the drama ought to lie. We want to know what these guys thought was going to happen. What did other Jews think of them singing for the SS? What makes all of us so blind to what is going on around us?
"Band in Berlin" cops out by giving us a straight, documentary account of what happened. It forgets that the point of theater is to ask why it happened. Because it doesn't try to find a meaning, the show avoids the issue almost as blindly as the Comedian Harmonists did.
"Band in Berlin," at the Helen Hayes, has a moving and engaging story to tell. The Comedian Harmonists were a cheerful quintet of singers, plus a pianist, who, from their formation in Berlin in 1927 until their breakup in 1935, enjoyed international success with a light, feel-good repertoire ranging from Cole Porter to Rossini. The rise of the Nazis brought trouble to the group. Three of its members were Jewish, and in 1935 the government demanded their exclusion from the quintet, which then split apart.
The Comedian Harmonists have not wanted for attention in recent times. In addition to a three-hour documentary made in the 1970s, there is a recent fiction film, "The Harmonists," and a Barry Manilow musical, "Harmony." The current telling of the story is written by Susan Feldman and staged and choreographed by Patricia Birch; both Birch and Feldman direct. It amounts to a 90-minute concert with didactic overlays and interjections. A real-life sestet (five singers and a pianist) called the Hudson Shad sing some 21 songs in the bouncy, often-comic style of what used to be called barbershop quartets. Led by tall, genial bass Wilbur Pauley in the role of Robert Biberti, the men sing in German, French and English. They begin with "Whispering" and follow up with the likes of "My Little Green Cactus" (with appropriately cute cacti) and "Stormy Weather" (with umbrellas and French lyrics). There's lots of "bong, bong, bong" on rising notes. They do Ellington's "Creole Love Call" while imitating trumpet noises with their hands; for "Happy Days Are Here Again" the group pretends to be on a picnic.
The six musicians - Pauley; Mark Bleeke; Timothy Leigh Evans; Hugo Munday; Peter Becker; Robert Wolinsky - catch the sounds and the moves of the 1930s quite nicely; they even seem to have the deeply lined faces of Middle Europe.
The Comedian Harmonists were overshadowed almost from the start by the Nazi menace. But this production chooses a very heavy-handed way to evoke the political context. There are constant rear-projections illustrating both Nazis and their victims; this material mingles both the actual (Hitler's speeches; modernist paintings) and the faux (a film of a country jaunt; collages that ape Grosz). The mixture is irritating and merely draws attention to itself. Then there is a faux-documentary film popping up at frequent intervals in which Herbert Rubens plays Roman Cycowski, the group's last surviving member, who died in Palm Springs last September at the age of 97. The "film," in which Rubens-Cycowski offers rueful reflections on the group's sad fate, is a clever stunt but it's too much.
The whole production is unwilling to let us apprehend the tragic ironies here for ourselves. A group consisting of singers of mixed religions was offering Germany a taste of utopia - of sweetness and humor and bubbly cooperation. They were incarnating a vision of harmony and charm that Germany violently rejected. We could have gotten this for ourselves without the bludgeoning overkill that is insisted on here. There's even a touch of smug ex-post-facto criticism in these texts as when Rubens says that Brecht and Heinrich Mann and Grosz were social critics while we were just "performers." Well, maybe you should have been social critics, is the hint. So too, when "Night and Day" is backgrounded by shots of Nazis and Nazi atrocities, the implication is, "how frivolous of Cole Porter and of the Comedian Harmonists to fiddle while Berlin burned."
The group's final concert in Germany was a cavorting, demeaning performance at an SS concert. The closing number abroad - "The Last Roundup" - finds the group in cowboy togs against a Western backdrop. By their own artistry these skilled musicians evoke all the heart-wrenching sadness - all the lost and trampled cheer and brotherhood - of the situation. Would that this bullying production had more often let the music speak for itself.
Think of ''Beatlemania'' as performed by six lesser Victor Borges, and you have some idea of the theatrical impact of ''Band in Berlin,'' the engagingly sung, dramatically inert new musical play that opened last night at the Helen Hayes Theater.
''Band in Berlin'' is not so much a play as a kind of docu-cabaret. Through slide projections, re-enactments of newsreel clips and the jukebox-style performances of a stream of Teutonic folk songs and American pop standards, the show recounts the rise and fall of the Comedian Harmonists, the renowned German singing group forced by the Nazis to disband because three of its members were Jewish.
The story of a troupe of entertainers caught in the path of the Nazi campaign of anti-Semitic propaganda and terror certainly has the makings of compelling theater. (The singer Barry Manilow has written his own musical, ''Harmony,'' based on the group's travails, and a new movie about it, ''The Harmonists,'' opens on Friday.) But as directed by Susan Feldman and Patricia Birch, ''Band in Berlin'' reduces the value of this material to the level of idle curiosity. And I do mean idle. Midway through a musically monotonous, 90-minute program, during which 22 numbers are performed in German and English by five singers and a pianist, you may begin to feel like a heavy-lidded motorist, struggling against the effects of highway hypnosis.
The show is, unintentionally, the lullaby of Broadway.
Ms. Feldman, artistic director of the St. Ann Center for Restoration and the Arts in Brooklyn Heights, has been quoted in interviews as expressing doubt as to whether ''Band in Berlin'' belongs on Broadway. Her skepticism is well founded. The production cries out for a more intimate environment. That's because the scope of the piece is so limited; it's rarely anything more than a skillful impressionists' act. Hopscotching from one precious number to the next -- the singers became famous for their meticulous harmonies, their uncanny ability to mimic musical instruments and their gentle clowning -- the show steadfastly refuses to engage some of the most fascinating issues it raises: Who exactly were these performers? How did they feel when the Nazis drove a wedge among them? And what impact did that have on their relationships and the rest of their lives?
Casting singers rather than actors probably precluded this type of exploration. To a large degree the show's creators rely on a seventh character, an older version of one of the Harmonists, played by Herbert Rubens, to supply emotional context. Portraying the group member Roman Cycowski, Mr. Rubens appears in a black-and-white mock documentary that is projected onto a screen at the back of the stage and relates in broad outline the group's history.
The attempt is to provide the story with a touchstone, but it has the opposite effect; the film makes the performers onstage seem duller and all the more remote. The narration rarely pierces the play's placid surface. (''It was wonderful fun, and we thought nothing could happen to us because we were famous'' is about as candid and probing as the commentary gets.) In some instances the phony documentary only succeeds in wasting time, as when it depicts the group members on tour, clutching suitcases and dashing this way and that.
At other times Mr. Rubens's disembodied voice is broadcast in the theater, and this, too, can be a clunky device. For example, as he describes each of the group members, a spotlight is trained on that vocalist, who is forced to stand there like a statue, smiling and nodding in strained silence. The performers fare no better in a scene that depicts an incident in Stuttgart, where a Nazi effort to shut the group down is thwarted by their devoted fans; it fails to impart any sense of the Harmonists' turmoil.
One of the points of ''Band in Berlin'' may be that the Comedian Harmonists were indeed at some remove from reality through much of the Nazi era, oblivious, like much of the German public that revered them, to the magnitude of the threat they faced. (It may also be intentional that it's almost impossible to remember which men onstage are supposed to be Jewish.) But turning them all into singing shadows is not a particularly effective way of unlocking an audience's empathy, except perhaps for those who have warm memories of the group or a special admiration for their style of singing.
On this last score, at least, the creators of ''Band in Berlin'' have done their homework. The five vocalists, played by Mark Bleeke, Timothy Leigh Evans, Hugo Munday, Peter Becker and Wilbur Pauley, and the pianist, Robert Wolinsky (all members of an actual musical group, Hudson Shad), are adroit with the Harmonists' material. In their top hats, tails and shimmering harmonies, they have no trouble convincing us they are the real thing.
The performers may not be given a chance to emote, but they are certainly unassailable as trombones and violins. In the evening's most pleasing number, the overture to ''The Barber of Seville'' is recreated entirely through impersonations of musical instruments.
Much of the remainder of the program puts you in mind of that alpine talent show in ''The Sound of Music'': the Comedian Harmonists might have been the group that went on just before the Trapp family. Their repertory ranges from covers of hits like Duke Ellington's ''It Don't Mean a Thing if It Ain't Got That Swing'' to saccharine renditions of novelty songs like ''Mein Kleine Gruner Kaktus'' (''My Little Green Cactus''), for which the singers slip on green oven mitts with little yellow protruding spines.
To appreciate the Comedian Harmonists' story, you have to feel something for their unique predicament, otherwise they're just Deutsche Beach Boys. Ms. Birch, the Broadway choreographer, and Ms. Feldman, who wrote the piece, provide the bass notes and the footnotes. But they never strike more resonant human chords.
Plenty of lovely music -- ineffably sweet and sad and evocative of a lost era -- runs through "Band in Berlin," an unlikely new entry on Broadway that mixes the pleasures of a novel cabaret act with the drearier stuff of a high-school history lecture, replete with slightly cheesy visual aids. Despite the handsome harmonizing by five supremely talented vocalists, "Band in Berlin" is not really a musical. Unfortunately, it's not really a play either, and the show is probably not distinguished enough as a unique theatrical experience to endear itself for long to demanding Broadway audiences.
The show is a tribute of sorts to the musical legacy of a German singing group called the Comedian Harmonists. The band, which rose to worldwide fame in the '20s before being forced to disband by the Nazis in 1934, is enjoying something of a vogue right now. "The Harmonists," a German movie tracing their rise and fall, will be released Friday, and Barry Manilow -- of all people, one feels impelled to add -- has already premiered his own more traditional musical-theater take on the troupe. His show, "Harmony," bowed to mixed reviews at the La Jolla Playhouse last year and is talked about for Broadway next season.
"Band in Berlin" stars the vocal group Hudson Shad, a sextet modeled on the Harmonists (five male vocalists and a pianist) that specializes in singing their distinctive repertoire. The lion's share of the show -- and all of its entertainment value -- derives from their note-perfect re-creations of the Comedian Harmonists' signature vocal arrangements. They sing everything from unknown novelty numbers, such as "Dearest Isabella From Castille" (with music by Harmonists pianist Erwin Bootz), to pop standards of the period, including a haunting "Night and Day" and a winsome, wordless take on Duke Ellington's "Creole Love Song." Perhaps most delightful of all is an a cappella vocal rendition of the overture from "The Barber of Seville," with the singers impersonating various instruments with uncanny verisimilitude and puckish delight.
Between the almost two dozen musical numbers, we are treated to a sketchy voiceover narrative describing the group's humble beginnings, meteoric rise to fame and eventual disbanding when Hitler's increasingly repressive cultural policies outlawed the group for their mixed racial makeup (half of the members were Jewish, by Hitler's definition).
But the manner in which this material is delivered is theatrically lifeless: a movie screen descends every few minutes, on which an actor playing the group's last living member recites the details to an unknown interviewer in a sort of fake home movie. (The text presumably comes from real interviews with Harmonist Roman Cycowski, who died in November.) The artificial nature of this documentary-style presentation robs it of even such interest as it might have had -- would millions have watched an actress playing Monica Lewinsky giggling away to Barbara Walters? But even if the film had featured the actual man, it's a cumbersome device on a stage.
Also displayed on the central screen and two side screens are film and slide shows that include montages depicting Hitler's rise and a visual history of art and artists banned by the Nazis. This history is well-trodden ground, of course, and isn't presented here in an aesthetically engaging manner. All too often it's like watching a PBS documentary with the wrong soundtrack.
Only occasionally do the visual elements and the vocalizing of the singers' combine in illuminating ways, most arrestingly when images depicting the spreading power of Hitler give chilling new meaning to the lyrics of "Night and Day": "Like the beat, beat, beat of a tom tom..."
And sometimes they combine in ways that leave us wondering what attitude we're supposed to take toward the Harmonists, who apparently kept pursuing their career and even singing for SS stormtroopers as Hitler's merciless policies were wreaking havoc on Germany's Jews. ("Hitler spoiled everything," gripes the narrator -- a rather startling understatement.)
The show's creators -- writer, co-director and conceiver Susan Feldman, co-director, co-conceiver and choreographer Patricia Birch and co-conceiver and music director Wilbur Pauley (got that straight?) -- make some strange judgment calls. It's in questionable taste to show disturbing films of Jews being assaulted and follow it minutes later with the performance of a cutesy cowboy tune called "The Last Roundup."
The singers of Hudson Shad are a marvelously talented bunch who perform with commanding style and wit, and the smooth, syncopated vocal arrangements of the Harmonists are pieces of music that indeed deserve to live on. But no amount of sweet singing can disguise the fact that "Band in Berlin" is a distinctly awkward stage vehicle.


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Take that, Kurt Cobain.
If his comments for this interview are any indication, vocalist/guitarist Paul Banks may have grown a bit too eager to rebut this allegation. Even though his interrogator (yours truly) never mentioned Joy Division by name, the twenty-something Banks rolled out a pro forma defense against the charge that 2002's Turn on the Bright Lights, a guilty pleasure of a debut album, is essentially a batch of JD impressions -- as if the argument had been first on the agenda.
"I don't give a fuck if people keep saying that forever, because I know they're wrong," he declared. "There was never any thought in that direction, and there are bands that I much prefer. Besides, I would never want to sound like a band I love, because those are exactly the bands you think you can't even approach."
The logic of this response is rather serpentine: If Banks wouldn't imitate a group he truly adores, but he isn't especially passionate about Joy Division, does that mean aping Curtis and company is okay? Still, the fact that Banks felt he had to answer a question that, in this case, wasn't even asked indicates how difficult it is for indie rockers on the fringes of the mainstream to navigate between various factions. Appealing to the masses without eliciting cries of "Sellout!" from fans who were there from the beginning is a balancing act; any misstep can lead to a long, nasty fall. Knowing that, Banks trod lightly around most topics, no matter how apparently innocuous -- like, for instance, what his father does for a living.
"I don't like talking about that stuff too much," Banks said. After a pause, during which he evidently considered how this dodge might look to readers, he noted, "I don't want to be cagey, either." After some minor coaxing, he finally divulged that his dad is in "the automobile industry," a description that could fit jobs ranging from cabdriver to CEO of General Motors. He wasn't quite as vague about his mother, but close: He said she does "an executive-assistant sort of thing."
In respect to Clacton-on-Sea, a village in the Essex section of England where he lived until he was three, Banks is relatively forthcoming. Yet he can't resist refining recollections of his last visit there, when he was in his late teens. "It's got a boardwalk and a pier and a busted-down amusement park, and it's literally right on the water," he said. "It's kind of got this strange fishing/beach-getaway vibe to it, but really an unimpressive one -- although I don't want to talk shit or anything." A hem, a haw, and then: "Maybe it's a little like Coney Island." With more emphasis: "Yeah, Coney Island."
The New York reference is appropriate, given that the Bankses (including Paul's older brother) moved to the metropolitan area in the 1980s. As he came of age, Paul developed an obsession with music, which he traces to his father's LPs. Their covers often impressed him as much, if not more, than the vinyl inside -- a telling admission, because the members of Interpol, with their fondness for spiffy suits and canny presentation, have a well-deserved reputation for mating the visual with the aural. It's no surprise that Banks loved the sleeve on Roxy Music's Country Life; after all, his father had the edition featuring two nearly nude women standing in front of a hedge, not the reissue only showing shrubbery. More unexpected is his warm regard for...
"Asia!" he said. "You ever seen that cover? With the serpents and shit? And he also had Toto, Yes -- he was a huge Steve Howe fan, even in his solo work -- the Cars, Santana. He's got two copies of every Santana record ever released. His mother gave him a set, but he'd already bought everything. And Dire Straits; there was a lot of Dire Straits going on at home." Perhaps realizing that this roster lacked a certain element of cool, Banks subsequently tacked Pink Floyd and Led Zeppelin onto the list.
Banks took music lessons early on, but the urge to master an instrument didn't really take until seventh grade, when he picked up a guitar. He was becoming adept at handling the ax when he experienced "a definite this-is-what-I-want-to-do-with-my-life moment." What happened? "Nirvana happened, basically," he said.
Take that, Ian Curtis.
A few years down the road, while participating in a foreign-study program that took him to France, Banks met Daniel Kessler, another singer/guitarist. The duo hooked up again in 1998 at New York University, where Banks was pursuing a double major in English lit and comparative lit; together they formed Interpol, along with a pair of fellow NYU students, bassist Carlos Dengler and drummer Greg Drudy (replaced in time by Sam Fogarino). During the extended period of woodshedding that followed, Banks supported himself with editorial-assistant assignments at magazines such as Interview, where he had regular phone contact with many of pop culture's shiniest luminaries.

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1 One day, as Yeshua was teaching the people at the Temple, making known the Good News, the head cohanim and the Torah-teachers, along with the elders, came up to him | 1 One day as he was teaching the people in the temple courts and preaching the gospel, the chief priests and the teachers of the law, together with the elders, came up to him. |
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Are the steps concrete? How are they flashed against the house wall? It looks like water intrusion from a poorly installed set of exterior steps. |
While the slab is over un-excavated space it appears that there is a sill plate on the wall in question and the water is most likely coming between it and the foundation wall. Can you post a picture of the exterior? Ian |
- Posted by Renovator8 (My Page) on Wed, Jul 6, 11 at 14:00
First, make sure your neighbor is not using your outdoor faucet to water his lawn. Then reduce the amount of water on the stair side of the wall by whatever means available. Be sure the domestic water service isn't nearby and leaking. Give your neighbor a water saving sprinkler with a timer. |
Nope, the neighbor is not using the outdoor faucet to water his lawn. You can see in the photo (below) where the gutters are and the downspout. The driveway slopes downwards so downspout water heads out to the street. The front porch steps are concrete. The (unseen in the photo) part of the house to the direct left of the front door has the same rock as the front "band of rocks" around the front of the house. The rocks are affixed all the way from top to bottom. I believe they have some kind of concrete along the bottom of the rocks/stop of the concrete steps. The other side of the wall o'rocks on the front porch is where the closet is. I guess we should seal the bottom of the wall o'rocks with a waterproof exterior sealer and see if that helps. If so, do you have any brand recommendation? What's the best way to repair the closet wall ? |
I would examine the top of the wall o' rocks. I would suspect there is no flashing/drip edge between the stucco and wall o' rocks. Hard to say from such a distant picture and the trash receptacles in front of the area in question. Ian |
Thanks, Ian. Here's another photo where you can see the wall o'rock by the front door better--the rock wall in front of the garage conversion looks almost exactly the same as the rock band in front of the windows in this photo. The room on the other side of the "window in the sunlight" has no issues with water at all. (The beautiful lawn is PhotoShopped) What would you recommending for a DIYer as far as flashing/drip edge? I know nothing except spackle, fix it all, and caulk!!! (lolam) |
- Posted by sierraeast (My Page) on Wed, Jul 6, 11 at 18:53
Im guessing Southern California here and a 1950's ranch. If so, you have the old traditional hard coat stucco and am willing to bet the stone was adhered over that, unless you had the old hardcoat removed and re-stucco'd/stoned, in which case improper flashing details at the joint where the stone meets the stucco is more than likely the culprit. You never want to rely on caulking unless you want to re-caulk annually. The correct way would be to break out the stucco above the stone up about a foot or so, re-flash it properly, and patch the stucco being careful not to disturb the lathing behind it, which is what keeps your wall cavity dry. The lathing could be the problem if it is deteriorated or torn/ripped behind the stucco / stone in that area. |
Judging from the pictures the lower part of the closet wall is possibly the side of the, what appears to be, cast in place concrete porch. I would suspect that you may have the same condition in other areas of the house to but aren't aware of them because they are only visible in the crawl space(?). It appears your stucco comes right down on top of the stone with no flashing. The only real DIY part of this project would be removing the sheetrock about a foot above the stone (on the back and right wall of CL) and letting water run down the face of the stucco wall to find out exactly where the water is coming in from. From the photos it appears that there indeed is no flashing/cap above the wall o' rocks, no seal under the sill and other possibilities are where the railing is secured to the home or even that it only gets in during torrential rains possibly as high as the soffit as that single 3" leader isn't adequate enough for that much gutter. Ian |
Good call on the house, sierra. Built in 1949 I believe and yes, in So Cal. Well, sierra and Ian, thanks for your input. I guess I'll be talking with hubby about this new thing on his honey-do list and we'll do what we can and then call in a pro. Thanks again everyone for your helpful input! Smiles, |
You probably should open up the closet wall and check for rot and mold also. The problem may have been there a long time and allowed damage to the framing. |
- Posted by sierraeast (My Page) on Thu, Jul 7, 11 at 10:33
"It appears your stucco comes right down on top of the stone with no flashing". I seriously doubt the stone is original to the house and more than likely was installed directly over the old hardcoat, in which case there would be no flashing or penetrative joint for water. If the hard coat was recoated with a new stucco top coat, then it would appear as if that was the original leading down to the stone. On a 50's house, I doubt they removed the original hard coat, just veneered the stone and possibly a new top coat over it. If it were removed and redone, then properly flashed joints where the stoone meets the stucco would apply. I would suspect faulty lathing in which case opening up the wall from the inside might give more clues. |
Yes but the walls in question are not original to the house either. As for the rest of the house the top of the stone is high than the sill so there is a high probability of a penetrative joint for water. Ian |
- Posted by sierraeast (My Page) on Thu, Jul 7, 11 at 16:29
Good point! The wall framing in the original garage door opening. The rest,(original), if the original weep screed at the sills were disturbed, then possible water intrusion issues, otherwise it should be intact. |
- Posted by barbcollins (My Page) on Thu, Jul 7, 11 at 18:48
Can I ask a stupid question? Is that a downspout next to the stairs adjacent to the wall? Are there any problems with that? |
Poster said they never have to water anything across that area- why? Sounds like neighbor is using huge amounts of water. We haven't had rain for months in most areas of So. Ca., Might have a casual discussion with neighbor about his water bill. A 120x55 lot is allowed 24 units of water for 2 months with rationing in effect in our area. If his bill for water alone is $200-300 he is using way too much unless he has 10 kids or 6 babies!! I have to water beside my garage every 3-4 days to keep my roses going in the narrow bed about a ft wide. It drys out fast & I will be mulching it soon. This sounds like water is sitting below the 1st few inches. take a shovel & dig down between plants & see if it is saturated before tearing up your house! Has he a hose running from his washing machine to his side yard, that is gray water which you can use but it can get too wet & soggy. So see if you can spot a hose laying in same spot pretty much in back yard or see it with water running out, if gray water it will have a dull slightly soapy look. Another thing might be worth going in under the crawl space & digging down a few places if it looks wet, & maybe you have a leaking pipe & don't know it. If your hearing is good you should be able to hear running water. if it isn't go check that every thing is closed as far as faucets go- so no water on & see if meter is still going around. If so you have a leak! If it is soaked only all along your side of house where neighbor lives & you don't have a leak then it's coming from his place. |
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The ATA created America's Road Team in 1986. It continues with the support of Volvo Trucks North America. The team represents the United States' 3.4 million professional drivers and is as an example of the professional dedication and teamwork needed to deliver the nation's freight safely and on time.
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[04.30.12] The National Shippers Strategic Transportation Council (NASSTRAC) presented its 2012 LTL Carrier of the Year to YRC Freight at its annual Logistics Conference & Expo.
The annual NASSTRAC awards program recognizes carriers that have demonstrated excellence and also helps shippers identify the "best of the best" in carrier performance and value.
Through an online survey, NASSTRAC members ranked carriers on a four-point scale in the following five key areas: (1) customer service; (2) operational excellence; (3) delivery flexibility, billing accuracy and claims resolution; (4) business relationship effectiveness; and (5) leadership in technology. This year, a record number of members participated in the survey.
In the national LTL category, YRC Freight replaced ABF Freight System, the winner in 2010 and 2011. Between 2003 and 2009, the top-ranked national carrier in the survey was Roadway.
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Rick Mathews, senior vice president of sales and marketing, customer service and customer support at YRC Freight, said the award reflects the efforts and professionalism of employees throughout the company and is evidence that YRC Freight's strategy is working.
"What's really significant is that we've received this recognition from an independent organization based on the opinions of our customers," Mathews said. "This is a very positive step in the right direction and shows our customers that we are deserving of their trust and business."
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Hi, have a quick question. Is there any way of getting rid of the suckers (happen every spring, throughout the summer!) around all three of my 'Candied Apple' crabapple trees? They help to pollinate my early 'Pristine' apple. I've tried everything but 'Round Up! |
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Please no rund up,..it'll will the tree. It's normal for suckers around the trunk, especially when young, keep cutting them off. |
Konrad, thanks! I would never spray Round Up on the suckers. The trees are ten years old! Mrs. G |
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Taking the three minutes I have right now to ask for advice. 99-year-young mom poked her shin by some means and left large blood-spots on synthetic carpet. I've kept the spots cold and wet before, during, after cold-water carpet-machine extraction. Didn't come all out. Tried a little Zout. Small improvement. Don't know what to do. Keeping all cold and wet while I try to figure something out. Hoping for sympathy, forgiveness and suggestions. Gotta go...sorry. |
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hydrogen peroxide is the recommended product for removing blood. You can buy it in any drug store. |
HP...got it....will report back......thanks. |
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I would use sodium percarbonate so HP might do the trick. Usually an enzyme type product will remove blood. Maybe you need to let the Zout sit a little longer. BacOut from BioKleen would do it I'm sure. |
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- Posted by livebetter (My Page) on Mon, Aug 29, 11 at 23:40
@asolo, be careful not to "bleach" the carpet with percarbonate or HP. I've done it before :) |
OK...a little breathing-time, at last. Thank you, graywings, for HP suggestion. I had some on-hand and let it sit on the spots for a minute or two before using machine again. Result VASTLY superior to anything tried before. Will have to wait until dry before final pronouncement but looking very good right now. Thank you for quick response, graywings. You've made a very troublesome evening quite a bit better. Thanks, too, livebetter, for follow-ups. Pretty nice of you. |
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9 So through Christ we will surely be saved from God's anger, because we have been made right with God by the blood of Christ's death. | 9 Since we have now been justified by his blood, how much more shall we be saved from God's wrath through him! |
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I understand that spraying a good compost tea on your lawn could help speed up thatch decomposition. First of all, has anyone tried this and does it work effectively? If so, how many treatments would I use? How quick should I expect to see results? Any other thoughts?
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its supposed to, theres an article, i'm sure someone will soon reference you to on organic lawn care. it says that organic lawns have little thatch. I, for one, can agree with this as i have little to no thatch. BUT, i'm sure that certain types of grass bring more thatch than a ky fescue lawn. |
- Posted by dchall_san_antonio 8 San Antonio (My Page) on Wed, Apr 21, 10 at 11:05
What kind of grass do you have? Where do you live? How often do you water and for how long? How high do you mow and how often? How often do you fertilize and with what? Go to the Organic Gardening forum and look in the FAQ. There is one near the bottom of the list called Organic Lawn Care. Or it is on many other lawn forums around the Internet. |
A good healthy turf needs about 1/2 inch of thatch, any more than that and it indicates your soil is not supporting a good Soil food Web which will digest excess thatch for you. Compost tea might help with thatch build up temporarily but the more permanent sollution for that is to work on the soil to get enough organic matter into the soil to support an active Soil Food Web. |
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A clear winner has been chosen from three designs in the "Welcome to Fresno" sign contest.
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Documentary about surfing legend Peter Drouyn's gender transformation into Westerly Windina.
Westerly is a feature length documentary film about surf icon Peter Drouyn and his controversial metamorphosis into Westerly Windina.
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biographical name (Concise Encyclopedia)(born July 20, 1304, Arezzo, Tuscanydied July 18/19, 1374, Arquà, near Padua, Carrara) Italian scholar, poet, and humanist. After 1326 he abandoned the study of law for his true interests, literature and the religious life. He took minor ecclesiastical orders and moved to Avignon, where in 1327 he first saw Laura, the idealized subject of his chaste love and of his celebrated Italian love lyrics; mainly sonnets and odes written over some 20 years, most were included in his Canzoniere or Rime (1360). The greatest scholar of his age, especially of Classical Latin, he traveled widely, visiting learned men, searching out manuscripts, and undertaking diplomatic missions. He strongly advocated the continuity between Classical culture and the Christian message; in combining the two ideals he is considered the founder and a great representative of humanism. His Latin works, reflecting his religious and philosophical interests, include On Illustrious Men (begun c. 1337), the epic poem Africa (begun c. 1338), the autobiographical treatise Petrarch's Secret (written 1342–58), De vita solitaria (1345–47; The Life of Solitude), and Epistolae metricae (begun c. 1345; Metrical Letters). After 1367 he lived in and near Padua. His influence on European literature was enormous and lasting, and his deep consciousness of the Classical past as a source of literary and philosophical meaning for the present was of great importance in paving the way for the Renaissance.
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A few weeks ago, Andrea of A Cat of Impossible Colour wrote about how she was signing up for NaNoWriMo. National Novel Writing Month sets anyone who signs up the challenge of producing 50,000 words of fiction in 1 month. The idea is not to revise or rework or critique but to just write, to put words on a page no matter what their quality.
And I thought to myself, I can do this.
The idea is not to revise or rework or critique but to just write, to put words on a page no matter what their quality.
I love to write. I want to be a writer. I originally started this blog so that I would write something every day so that I could practice writing. Every so often, I pull out a book I've been working on (since I was 14) or one I've started recently (six months ago) and start writing away productively for a few weeks.
But then, I feel the need to read over what I've written, and then I feel the need (the allure) to edit what I've written, and then the edits force me to re-write other parts, and suddenly I'm bogged down, and other things become more distracting (reading, the Internets, gaming, MissIcy, life in general) and things get abandoned.
This time I am allocating the month of November to writing my novel. I have the characters, I have a rough idea of what is happening, I even have a bit of it written already (cheating I know but there are no judges but me). I'm ready to go.
But in order to get to 50000 words, I'm going to have to produce 1666 words a day (give or take) and it's going to be hard, really hard. I'm going to have to use every nap MissIcy has, every train trip to and from the city, every lunchbreak while I'm at work, every night after MissIcy is in bed. Is this going to be enough time to produce 1666 words everyday? Who knows, but I'm certainly going to try.
But in order to get to 50000 words, I'm going to have to produce 1666 words a day.
Why am I telling you all this I hear you ask? Well for two reasons really.
The first is that maybe you have always dreamed of writing a novel too. Maybe you though, "I just don't have the time", or "I'll get to it one day". Well guess what, today is the day. You can go and sign up at the NaNoWriMo site right now, and you could be writing your very own novel come Sunday.
The other reason is I'm going to have to temporarily give up all of my other interests for the month of November. I'll be looking after MissIcy and writing in that order (MrIcy can take care of himself, he's a big boy ^_^), and that's it. I'm even going to the extent of turning off my access to the Internet for most of the time (as that is where my most insidious distractions come from). So, that means no reading other people's blogs, no commenting, not much Twittering, and very little blogging.
I'm going to have to temporarily give up all of my other interests for the month of November ... Your regularly scheduled service will resume in December.
Oh, there'll be some posts here, just not as many as normal, and mostly easy to write things like Vintage Icy and outfit posts. I will be reading comments and replying to them, just not straight away as I normally do, and I'm sure I'll be letting you know how my word count is going. Your regularly scheduled service will resume in December.
So, until then, I'm going to have to abandon you all to your own devices for a month or so. I'm sure you'll understand.
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Hello Everyone,
I need some help with the wiring on my existing clothes dryer receptacle. The receptacle is a three prong type with 6ga aluminum type SE cable feeding it. The receptacle is currently nailed directly to my poured concrete basement wall. I want to finish the laundry area with 2x4 studs and drywall and will need to remount the receptacle to the new wall. There is a bare copper wire that runs from the center post of the receptacle to one of the mounting nails that holds the receptacle to the cement wall. What is the purpose of the copper wire that is attached to the nail? Is this some type of grounding wire? Will I disrupt the ground path if I mount the receptacle to 2x4/drywall instead of directly to the concrete? Thanks! |
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- Posted by ronnatalie (My Page) on Thu, Jan 14, 10 at 7:07
I can't imagine *ANY* purpose to connecting a ground wire to a nail. If the box is metal, there should be a wire connecting to some fitting on the box (typically a SCREW used solely for that purpose tapped into the box, or other fitting). A nail would not suffice. You should be extremely wary of any copper-to-aluminum connections and whether the receptacle is approved for aluminum wiring. Is there a separate ground in the SE cable? Is that connected to the receptacle (i.e., is it four pins). Your local authority may consider this enough of a renovation to mandate bringing that up to code, if not. |
- Posted by remington351 (My Page) on Thu, Jan 14, 10 at 11:17
Thanks for the reply. I've tried to upload some pictures to show exactly what I'm talking about. Hopefully the links will work. |
Here is a link that might be useful: Receptacle photo
- Posted by remington351 (My Page) on Thu, Jan 14, 10 at 11:20
Pics are not very good quality. A copper wire running to a nail embedded in concrete is NOT a proper ground. Move the receptacle and ground it properly. |
- Posted by spencer_electrician (My Page) on Thu, Jan 14, 10 at 11:27
Looks like the nail was used as a grounding point for the receptacle box. The copper and aluminum together is a bad idea. A box is not allowed to be grounded through use of a nail either, has to be a threaded screw. Anyway there is no reason to leave this feed as it is if you are doing so much as putting Sheetrock up. You have to run new 10/3 with ground to your service panel, install a double gang nail on box to the stud for the wall. After sheet rock is up, install a 4 wire receptacle and change the cord on the dryer to a 4 wire cord/ plug. A lot of work but the only time to do it is now. Make sure the washer has a 20 amp dedicated circuit that is grounded as well since now is the time to bring up to code (required too). |
- Posted by remington351 (My Page) on Fri, Jan 15, 10 at 0:21
Thanks for the responses. I was hoping to postpone upgrading to the 4 prong, but you guys have convinced me it's prudent to take care of it now. Thanks again. |
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In my kitchen, there is a strip of black rubbery molding under the cabinet ledge between the cabinet and the floor (is that called the toe-kick? Sorry I don't know the terms!).
I need to get a new section of it, to replace where a dishwasher problem caused it to come off, and I can't figure out what it is called to shop for it. Here's a photo from before we bought the house where you can see it. Thanks! |
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I think what you're looking for is called "wall base." If you'll try a Google search, you'll come up with more than a few hits. |
Thank you! That did the trick perfectly, and I see where I can get it now. I appreciate it :) |
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Featured Blogs : JT KenneyCircuit Breaker is ready to roll
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Wow. Something is happening that I surely never thought would: Me writing. The great Beelzebub himself better get his forked tail down to the Walmart for a pair of snow boots because I feel a hard freeze coming on in Hades.
This should be an interesting exercise because the only thing I learned in English class was how to read hunting and fishing magazines and not get caught doing it. Then, when I did get caught, I learned how to talk my way out of it with my gift of gab. Speaking of my gift of gab, I think it was also in English class when I learned how to hit on the hot girls in class, but still keep the not-so-hot ones in the conversation. That way, if one of the hot ones didn't bite I still had something to fall back on Friday night. All life lessons learned; however, probably not the way the school system intended.
School. Just typing that word gives me the chills. I hated school. I know that hate is a strong word, so let me rephrase that. I really hated school. In my opinion it was a prison-type institution whose sole purpose was to keep me out of the woods and off the water. By my senior year, though, school wasn't very good at imprisoning me. And I did manage to graduate. I still get that sinking feeling when I see a school bus or someone calls me John instead of JT or Jake. Even Mr. Kenney freaks me out. Only cops with their ticket books out and teachers ever called me John and I'm not too hip on either.
Now that you know a little about my school career, let me tell you about something new that I'm pretty excited about. My buddy Chad Grigsby and I are doing a made-for-the-web reality series called Circuit Breaker. You might have seen it last year when rookie Casey Martin was featured. Rest assured this year will be quite different. As I'm writing this, Episode 1 hasn't been released yet. Let me tell you a little about what you will and will not see in the seven episodes this year. You will not see us at any zoos, museums or tours of the town. You will not hear sugar-coated explanations when one of us doesn't do well in a event like "I didn't have a very good tournament here, but I really like the lake and can't wait to come back." That's not Chad or I. It'll be more like "I want to pump out the camper in this damn lake, load up and roll coal outta this gar hole." I'm a competitor. Pure and simple. I'm not just out there fishing. I came to win. Nothing else will suffice. Do you think Tiger Woods is thinking nice stuff about a golf course that just whipped his butt? Negative. How 'bout when somebody runs into the back of Tony Stewart on the last lap at Daytona? Does Tony say "Well, I guess it was just his turn" or "He wanted that win more than me" Bull. They curse, spit, get mad, vow revenge and maybe even get into a little of grandpa's old cough medicine.
That's what you'll see on Circuit Breaker this year. Real life. Real emotion. Real thrills of victory and agonies of defeat. See the rock-and-roll pain train in high gear, then jump the tracks and slide head on into a bridge abutment. Want to really know what goes on when the cameras are turned off and the scales are shut down at a national fishing event? Here's your chance. This will be your show.
You want to know if we really are the big-time, super-type, pro bassin' hoggers that you think we are? Maybe just a bunch of transients chasing little green (and sometimes brown) fish all over the country. Make up your own mind. You're going to get to see everything. Everything from getting the truck stuck in someone's yard and tearing up their grass to what happened at... Well you'll just have to wait and see. You can look forward to Circuit Breaker being refreshing, maybe a little scary, but definitely entertaining. Hopefully you won't feel dumber for watching it, but I'm not guaranteeing anything except sarcasm and witty one-liners.
Well, there you have it, my first attempt at writing for a huge media mogul like FLW. Ernest Hemingway and Judy Bloom, eat your hearts out… Here comes JT.


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Sibbes – The Church's Visitation
March 13, 2012
Title: The Church's Visitation
Series: Reading Sibbes Aloud
Citation: Richard Sibbes, Collected Works. Volume 1.
Speaker: Mark Dever
Scripture: 1 Peter 4:17-19
Type: Sermon
Length: 51:34
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The Reading Sibbes Aloud Project provides a growing collection of sermons of the Puritan Richard Sibbes. The great value of Puritan writing continues to be its depth of scriptural insight and timeless application. Please join Mark Dever as he reads through the works of the "Prince of the Puritans" Richard Sibbes.


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HPV and cancer
Actor's candid talk sparks conversation on link
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For many years, smoking and drinking were considered the dominant risk factors for cancers of the throat. But this week, The Guardian, a British newspaper, reported that the actor Michael Douglas believed that his throat cancer was caused by an infection acquired during oral sex, highlighting a trend that has alarmed many scientists.
Douglas, 68, had previously speculated that years of smoking and drinking played a role in his disease, and his spokesman later said that although the actor had discussed oral sex's link to cancer, he did not say it was the cause of his own cancer. But The Guardian quoted Douglas as saying, "Without wanting to get too specific, this particular cancer is caused by HPV, which actually comes from cunnilingus."
The National Cancer Institute notes that virtually all cervical cancers are caused by HPV infections, with just two HPV types, 16 and 18, responsible for about 70 percent of all cases. HPV also causes anal cancer, with about 85 percent of all cases caused by HPV-16. HPV types 16 and 18 have also been found to cause close to half of vaginal, vulvar, and penile cancers.
Most recently, HPV infections have been found to cause cancer of the oropharynx, which is the middle part of the throat including the soft palate, the base of the tongue, and the tonsils. In the United States, more than half of the cancers diagnosed in the oropharynx are linked to HPV-16.
The incidence of HPV-associated oropharyngeal cancer has increased during the past 20 years, especially among men. It has been estimated that, by 2020, HPV will cause more oropharyngeal cancers than cervical cancers in the United States.
Other factors may increase the risk of developing cancer following a high-risk HPV infection. These other factors include the following:
- Smoking
- Having a weakened immune system
- Having many children (for increased risk of cervical cancer)
- Long-term oral contraceptive use (for increased risk of cervical cancer)
- Poor oral hygiene (for increased risk of oropharyngeal cancer)
- Chronic inflammation