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HIGH SCHOOL BASKETBALL: Wall junior class lays foundation for team's success
Lady Hawks make run with just one senior
SAN ANGELO, Texas - Nearly every sports dynasty starts with a solid foundation.
Typically, the combination includes a tenured head coach and an upcoming crop of young, talented athletes, which are supplemented by experienced leaders.
Mix those attributes together, and the result is a winning tradition that continues for several years.
The Wall High School girls basketball is the perfect example.
The Hawks are led by head coach Tate Lombard, who has accumulated a record of 86-21 in his three seasons at Wall and has added onto years of previous success.
Before Lombard, Jeremy Williams and Jerry Chitsey roamed the sidelines establishing one of the most dominant programs in West Texas.
But the biggest factor to Wall's recent success, according to Lombard, has been the impact of his junior class.
"We had seven returners from last year's team, so, our entire team has a lot of experience coming back from a year ago," Lombard said. "They've all contributed in big ways over the last few years, which is nice because anyone of them can step up at anytime."
The Lady Hawks' junior class is comprised of six players — Kelsey Walling, Allie Dierschke, Shelby Roach, Sadie Brest, Bobbi Chitsey and Stella Doyle — a majority of whom have played together since elementary school under the tutelage of the legendary Jerry Chitsey.
"We started playing around the fifth grade, and that's when we started to get to know each other," said Wall junior post Bobbi Chitsey, who was an All-West Texas team selection last season. "It's really special because it was a dream of ours to get to this point since we were young."
Jerry Chitsey said his main goal was to instill the fundamentals of dribbling and shooting before the group advanced their skill sets.
"We owe him almost everything," Doyle said. "We really had a solid base of what it meant to be a good player. That really helped us."
Now, the former Lady Hawks coach is excited to sit in the stands and watch his former players take the court in the UIL Class 2A state semifinal in Austin.
"I wouldn't sell these girls short, for sure," Jerry Chitsey said. "They've played in a lot of big games and have proven they can win them this year."
The Lady Hawks (33-4 overall), who are two big games away from raising the school's first basketball state title, are slated to play Hallettsville (34-3) at 8:30 a.m. Friday at the Frank Erwin Center.
"We've always had this in mind, even as elementary students," Doyle said. "Wanting to be state athletes, and wanting to get to that level. It's really a dream come true for us."
The imaginary scenario turned into a reality, when the Lady Hawks beat District 6-2A rival Jim Ned 47-27 in the Region I-2A final Saturday in Midland.
Wall utilized its assortment of juniors — which included a 13-point, third-quarter effort from Bobbi Chitsey and solid perimeter defense from Brest, Dierschke, Roach and Walling — to send the Lady Indians packing home. Dierschke, an All-West Texas selection, mans the top of the Lady Hawks' zone defense.
"We were hanging our heads, a little bit, last year," said Walling, who recorded a steal against Jim Ned. "But we knew that we were going to get it back. We were way more experienced and knew we would pull out the win. ... We just know we're all skilled enough and experienced (enough) to go this far."
One area of the team doesn't follow the expected formula of a state bound squad — its senior class.
Wall features one senior — Alexus Garcia — and gets most of its production from its juniors.
Garcia was a productive asset last season, playing lock down defense at times and providing a needed scoring punch during offensive ruts.
The biggest contribution came against Bowie, when Garcia tallied 29 points, including five 3-pointers, to lead Wall to the regional tournament last year.
"It's a really weird situation, but I wouldn't trade it for the world," Garcia said. "I'm really proud of everyone because we've worked really hard to get to this point. My role isn't the same as last year. But I know I'm here to make my teammates work hard in practice and keep them motivated."
One of the team's weaknesses coming into the season was developing consistency on offense.
With the addition of sophomore Maddi Chitsey, the Lady Hawks have evolved into a consistent post-scoring squad.
Doyle has stepped into an offensive rebounding role by gaining most of her points through put backs, while Bobbi Chitsey roams the floor looking for open spots to take jump shots.
Throw in Walling and Brest, who spread the floor with their 3-point shooting, and the Lady Hawks have appeared to solve their stagnant offense problem.
"There's no jealousies, they all have the same goal to win the title," Lombard said. "They don't care who gets the credit, as long as the team succeeds. I want to say we've had about eight different people lead us in scoring this season.
"It's great because you know that different people can step in and help you at anytime. We've been very fortunate to have a deep junior class that has a lot of depth to it."
Doyle said the most rewarding part of the season has been spending it with people she has known most of her life.
"It's amazing to play a game you love with your best friends," Doyle said. "I feel it has really been a strong point for our success this season. As a team, we know we can accomplish this together."
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Last week the death penalty case of New Hampshire's cop killer, Michael Addison, was in the news.
Another reason some are expected to support the repeal comes from assurances the bill will not affect Addison's death sentence. As written it is not retroactive. However, as we have noted before we expect the removal of the death sentence from New Hampshire law will eventually negate Addison's death sentence.
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'Tolerance' and Religious Liberty
In modern discourse tolerance is never just tolerance.
Whereas Catholic social thought regarding economic theory and practice has evolved slowly, and, at times, only by fits and starts, it leapt forward dramatically in the area of religious liberty in the mid-twentieth century, though not without resistance. The very resistance, in fact, turned out to be part of its success. The vehement, sometimes acrimonious debates that accompanied the drafting of the Vatican II declaration on religious freedom, Dignitatis Humanae, yielded an exceptionally precise and carefully worded document. Noteworthy in the 5,700-word declaration is the absence of even a single reference to religious "tolerance" or "toleration."
The choice of religious "freedom" or "liberty" as the proper category for discussion and the exclusion of "tolerance" flies in the face of the societal trend to deal with Church-State issues in terms of religious tolerance. One notable example is the United Nations "Year for Tolerance" (1995). That year, Federico Mayor, director-general of UNESCO, made the following remarks in New York:
Fighting intolerance takes both state action and individual responsibility. Governments must adhere to the international standards for human rights, must ban and punish hate crimes and discrimination against all vulnerable groups, must ensure equal access to justice and equal opportunity for all. Individuals must become communities. We must get to know our neighbors and the cultures and the religions that surround us in order to achieve an appreciation for diversity. Education for tolerance is the best investment we can make in our own future security.
If the umbrella of tolerance necessarily covers hate crime legislation and "appreciation for diversity" with all that has come to signify, these remarks may well give pause. In modern discourse tolerance is never just tolerance, and even if it were, it would hardly present the best category for describing attitudes to religion. In the following paragraphs I will highlight five arguments that illuminate the inadequacy of the notion of tolerance to convey the attitude that states should adopt in their relationship with religion, and the wisdom of the Council Fathers in avoiding this problematic language.
1. Tolerence in Itself as an Inadequate, and Indeed Inappropriate, Category for Approaching Religion
Religion is a good to be embraced and defended, not an evil to be put up with. No one speaks of tolerating chocolate pudding or a spring walk in the park. By speaking of religious tolerance, we make religion an unfortunate fact to be borne with – like noisy neighbors and crowded buses – not a blessing to be celebrated.
Here it is instructive to recall that modern ideas of religious tolerance sprang from the European Enlightenment project. A central tenet of this project was the notion of progress, understood as the overcoming of the ignorance of superstition and religion to usher in the age of reason and science. In the words of Voltaire, "Philosophy, the sister of religion, has disarmed the hands that superstition had so long stained with blood; and the human mind, awakening from its intoxication, is amazed at the excesses into which fanaticism had led it."
Since religion was the primary cause of conflict and war, only through a lessening of people's passion for religion and commitment to specific doctrines could peace be achieved. As Voltaire wrote in his Treatise on Toleration, "The less we have of dogma, the less dispute; the less we have of dispute, the less misery." Toward this stated end many mechanisms were put into play, among them the selection of proper words to modify people's views toward religion.
The language of tolerance was first proposed to describe the attitude that confessional states, such as Anglican England and Catholic France, should adopt toward Christians of other persuasions. The assumption was that the state had recognized a certain confession as "true" and put up with other practices and beliefs as a concession to those in error. This led, however, to the employment of tolerance language toward religion as such. The Philosophes would downplay or even ridicule religion in the firm belief that it would soon disappear altogether. Thus, separation of Church and state becomes separation of public life and religious belief. Religion should be excluded from public conversation and relegated to the intimacy of home and chapel. Religious tolerance is a myth, but a myth imposed by an anti-religious intellectual elite.
This "tolerant" mentality is especially problematic when applied in non-confessional states, such as the United States, where an attitude of tolerance is not that of the state religion toward un-sanctioned creeds but of a non-confessional secular state toward religion itself. Language of religious toleration of Christianity in Saudi Arabia would be a marked improvement over present conditions and consistent with a confessional Muslim state's belief that Christianity is a false religion. In a non-confessional state, such language is more pernicious.
Dignitatis Humanae, on the contrary, taught that religion is a human good to be promoted, not an evil to be tolerated. While government should not presume to command religious acts, it should "take account of the religious life of the citizenry and show it favor." Religious practice forms part of the common good of society and should be encouraged rather than marginalized.
2. The Insurmountable Dichotomy between "Tolerance" and "Toleration"
Along with the conceptual error of tolerating the good of religion, the meaning of tolerance has evolved still further, and has now come to be taken as a virtue. The United Nations "Declaration of Principles on Tolerance" states outright that tolerance is a virtue and defines it as "respect, acceptance and appreciation of the rich diversity of our world's cultures, our forms of expression and ways of being human."
This definition mirrors that of the American Heritage College Dictionary, which states that tolerance is "(1) a fair and permissive attitude toward those whose race, religion, nationality, etc., differ from one's own; freedom from bigotry. A fair and permissive attitude toward opinions and practices that differ from one's own."
If tolerance is a virtue, it is a decidedly modern virtue. It appears in none of the classical treatments of the virtues: not in Plato, not in Seneca, not even in Aristotle's extensive list of the virtues of the good citizen in his Nichomachean Ethics. Indulgence of evil or error, in the absence of an overriding reason for doing so, has never been considered virtuous. Even today, indiscriminate tolerance would not be countenanced. A public official tolerant of child abuse or tax evasion would not be a virtuous official.
The closer one examines tolerance and strives to apply it across the board, the more its insufficiency as a principle to govern society becomes apparent. Even if it were possible to achieve total tolerance (which it is not), it would be exceedingly undesirable and counterproductive to do so.
Moreover, as a virtue, tolerance seems to have distanced itself so far from its etymological roots as to have become another word altogether. Thus the virtue of "tolerance" no longer implies the act of "toleration" but rather a general attitude of permissiveness and openness to diversity. Implicitly, this diversity is treated as something positive to be embraced rather than an evil to be suffered in regard for a greater good. Tolerance, therefore, now has two radically incompatible meanings that create space for serious misunderstandings and abuse, both deliberate and unintentional.
In isolation from an objective referent, tolerance and intolerance can and indeed must be applied arbitrarily. In point of fact, a tolerant person will not tolerate all things but only those things considered tolerable by the reigning cultural milieu. Thus the accusation of intolerance has become a weapon against those whose standards for tolerance differ from one's own, and our criteria for tolerance depend on our subjective convictions or prejudices. Voltaire was able to defend the actions of the Roman Empire in persecuting Christians and blamed the Christians themselves for their martyrdom because they failed to keep their religion to themselves. He avers that the Christians' death was a consequence of their own intolerance towards Rome and not the other way around. Such sophistry is part and parcel of many of today's debates on tolerance as well and flows from the ambivalence of the term.
The affair grows even muddier when the "acceptance of diversity," present in modern definitions of tolerance, is thrown into the mix. The UN Declaration of Principles on Tolerance incorporates a prior statement from the UN Declaration on Race and Racial Prejudice, which states: "All individuals and groups have the right to be different" (Article 1.2). Taken at face value, that is a ridiculous claim. Suicide bombing is different, as are genocide and sadomasochism. To say that one person has a right to be bad, simply because another happens to be good, is the ludicrous logic of diversity entitlement.
The sloppiness of these definitions is unworthy of the lawyers who drafted them and cannot but lead to the suspicion that such ambiguity is intentional. This vagueness allows tolerance to be applied selectively – to race, sexual orientation, or religious conviction – while other areas – such as smoking, recycling or animal experimentation – stand safely outside the purview of mandatory diversity.
This arbitrariness is not new. John Locke (1632-1704) himself, in the midst of his impassioned appeal for religious toleration, notes that of course toleration does not extend to Catholics, Muslims or atheists. "To worship one's God in a Catholic rite in a Protestant country," he writes, "amounts to constructive subversion."
In the end, the question for everyone necessarily becomes not "Shall I be tolerant or intolerant?" but rather "What shall I tolerate and what shall I not tolerate?"
3. The Relativistic Underpinnings in Modern Notions of Tolerance
St. Pius X wrote: "Catholic doctrine teaches us that charity's first duty is not in the tolerance of erroneous opinions, sincere as they may be, nor in a theoretical or practical indifference toward the error or vice into which our brothers or sisters have fallen, but in zeal for their intellectual and moral improvement, no less than in zeal for their material well-being." |
Voltaire, Locke, Gotthold Lessing, and other Enlightenment figures downplayed the importance of doctrinal belief in favor of morals. Unlike today, in eighteenth-century Europe a general agreement regarding fundamental moral principles could be counted on in contrast to the fierce debates surrounding questions of dogma. So moral orthodoxy was deemed necessary while doctrinally, a broad heterodoxy was countenanced. In doing so, Enlightenment thinkers couldn't avoid a creeping relativism and epistemological uncertainty regarding religious doctrine. Voltaire, for example, contends that in order for true tolerance to be established, theological controversy (which he describes as a "plague" and "epidemic illness") must disappear.
Locke, on the other hand, dismissively notes that "everyone is orthodox to himself." His own ecclesiology that lacked belief in the existence of any one true church led Locke to the conviction that all Christian churches (except the Catholic Church) should be tolerated. "Nor is there any difference," he confidently wrote, "between the national Church and other separated congregations."
Locke further appeals to the "Business of True Religion." A true Christian, Locke asserts, will dedicate himself principally to a life of virtue and piety, which are the chief concerns of religion. He relegates to a lower tier "outward pomp of worship, reformed discipline, orthodox faith." His own theological prejudices and political concerns led him to arbitrarily place morals above doctrine, since morals at the time garnered greater unanimity and generated fewer disputes. Their roles have been somewhat reversed today.
Locke's disdain for "orthodoxy" and Voltaire's diatribes against religious "fanaticism" find an echo in contemporary descriptions of tolerance. The UN Declaration on Principles of Tolerance states that tolerance "involves the rejection of dogmatism and absolutism." Popular wisdom holds that true tolerance entails not only respect for others, but the acknowledgement that we don't know for certain who is right. Such skepticism flows as a necessary consequence of "the rejection of dogmatism and absolutism."
In his 1995 encyclical Evangelium Vitae, Pope John Paul II wrote that some today "consider such relativism an essential condition of democracy, inasmuch as it alone is held to guarantee tolerance, mutual respect between people and acceptance of the decisions of the majority, whereas moral norms considered to be objective and binding are held to lead to authoritarianism and intolerance." Although the U.N. Declaration does not employ the language of "relativism," it is a necessary corollary to its assertions.
4. The Ambiguity Surrounding the Proper Object of Toleration
A fourth argument against the language of tolerance is the widespread confusion regarding the proper object of tolerance. These days, tolerance for persons, ideas and behavior are generally lumped together under the general heading of "tolerance," but they are hardly the same thing.
Much as tolerance fails as a category for dealing with good things, which are embraced rather than tolerated, so, too, tolerance is an inappropriate category in regard to persons. From a Christian perspective, all persons deserve unconditional respect and love for the simple fact that they are persons. We may tolerate their irritating behavior – such as knuckle-cracking or gum-snapping – but it is insulting to suggest that we tolerate the persons themselves.
Nor are ideas the proper object of toleration. Ideas come in all shapes and sizes: true and false, ridiculous and compelling, brilliant and commonplace, diabolical and divine. Each must be evaluated in relation to the truth and accepted or rejected accordingly. Those ideas that convince by the strength of their inner consistency are embraced; those found to be untenable are rejected.
If goods, persons, and ideas fail as the proper object of tolerance, the only possibility remaining is annoying human behavior, error or evil situations. Here, too, the criterion for discerning what is to be tolerated must be determined by the superior good that justifies it. In the case of Dignitatis Humanae, the Council Fathers avoid the claim that error has rights by appealing to the truth that people "cannot discharge these obligations [the pursuit of truth] in a manner in keeping with their own nature unless they enjoy immunity from external coercion as well as psychological freedom." Thus even when they fail to live up to their duty to seek the truth or fail in their attempts to discover it, the right to religious liberty persists.
Just as the term "tolerance" does not appear in Dignitatis Humanae, it is likewise absent in the Catechism of the Catholic Church. In fact, of the scant five times that the verb "tolerate" appears in the Catechism, two refer to the moral legitimacy of accepting foreseen but undesirable evil consequences of human actions, if the evil is not intended either as an end or a means. The other three concern the moral tolerableness of civil divorce in certain limited cases, and the intolerableness of trial marriages and a life of duplicity. The precision of this language provides a refreshing contrast to much of the vague tolerance language of our day.
5. Slouching Toward Indifference
Although tolerance doesn't necessarily entail indifference, modern formulations of tolerance as acceptance or celebration of diversity would seem to imply at least a placid resignation and sometimes even an enthusiastic celebration of religious diversity. This has led to theologies of pluralism incompatible with the divine mandate to "go out to the whole world and make disciples of all the nations" (Mt. 28:19-20), as well as Peter's declaration that "There is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved" (Acts 4:12).
Voltaire took Thomas Aquinas to task as being intolerant for having dared to say that he wished all the world were Christian. But for Thomas that was the same as saying he wished all men to be happy. Few would consider it intolerant to wish all people to be healthy or well educated (though this implies "intolerance" toward ignorance and illness), and for Thomas the Christian faith was a greater good than health and education.
Blessed Mother Teresa of Calcutta, who devoted her entire life to spreading the love of Christ, expressed her motivation with the utmost simplicity: "I want very much for people to come to know God, to love Him, to serve Him, for that is true happiness. And what I have I want everyone in the world to have. But it is their choice. If they have seen the light they can follow it. I cannot give them the light: I can only give them the means."
The fact of a plurality of religions doesn't imply the ideology of religious pluralism. Saint Paul undauntedly preached the Gospel of Jesus Christ to King Agrippa, who declared: ''A little more and you would make a Christian of me," to which Paul replied, "I wish that not only you, but all those that hear me might become as I am" (Acts 26:28-29). Though other religions may contain elements of truth, it is to be hoped that all come to the fullness of truth. As Cardinal Ratzinger wrote, the duty to evangelize stems from the Christian's conviction of the truth of Christianity, which is fundamentally different from other religions.
This respect for religious freedom stands head and shoulders above a supposed tolerance for religious belief, with the relativism, indifference and subtle disdain for religion it so often comprises. |
Voltaire, building on Locke's arguments, arrived at relativism's logical end: indifference. Live and let live. Not only should we tolerate others' behavior and beliefs, it is wrong to try to change them. In this regard St. Pius X wrote: "Catholic doctrine teaches us that charity's first duty is not in the tolerance of erroneous opinions, sincere as they may be, nor in a theoretical or practical indifference toward the error or vice into which our brothers or sisters have fallen, but in zeal for their intellectual and moral improvement, no less than in zeal for their material well-being."
This zeal, however, must express itself in ways consonant with the dignity of persons. In practice, this means absolute respect for the freedom and inviolability of conscience, especially in matters of religious belief. In his letter on the missions, Pope John Paul II penned these memorable words: "On her part the Church addresses people with full respect for their freedom. Her mission does not restrict freedom but rather promotes it. The Church proposes; she imposes nothing. She respects individuals and cultures, and she honors the sanctuary of conscience. To those who for various reasons oppose missionary activity, the Church repeats: Open the doors to Christ!" In other words, to be true to her mission the Church cannot refrain from proclaiming the truth of the gospel of Jesus Christ, and those who hear are free to embrace this truth or reject it.
Similarly, in his 1994 book Crossing the Threshold of Hope, the Pope wrote, "The new evangelization has nothing in common with what various publications have insinuated when speaking of restoration, or when advancing the accusation of proselytism, or when unilaterally or tendentiously calling for pluralism and tolerance... The mission of evangelization is an essential part of the Church."
Dignitatis Humanae re-emphasized perennial convictions of Christianity, including the obligation to seek the truth and to bear witness to the truth we have received. In doing so, however, it underscored the deep respect that must be borne in every instance for the dignity and freedom of the person. "Truth," we read, "is to be sought after in a manner proper to the dignity of the human person and his social nature. The inquiry is to be free, carried on with the aid of teaching or instruction, communication and dialogue, in the course of which men explain to one another the truth they have discovered, or think they have discovered, in order thus to assist one another in the quest for truth."
This respect for religious freedom stands head and shoulders above a supposed tolerance for religious belief, with the relativism, indifference and subtle disdain for religion it so often comprises. Yet despite its superiority as a category, religious freedom itself requires prudence and discernment in its application. Though it is indeed a fundamental human right, it is not a trump that can be played to justify any and all actions. Pope Benedict XVI has had the remarkable courage and insight to foresee the problems attending an incorrect reading of religious freedom, with its consequences for the world as it could be. His thoughts on this issue merit closer study.
Father Thomas D. Williams, LC. "'Tolerance' and Religious Liberty." chapter 9 from The World as It Could Be: Catholic Social Thought for a New Generation (North Haven, CT: The Crossroad Publishing Company, 2011): 129-138.
Reprinted with permission of Father Thomas D. Williams, LC.
The Author
Father Thomas D. Williams, LC, is dean of the theology school at the Regina Apostolorum Pontifical University in Rome. He has also worked extensively for Sky News in Britain covering church and ethical issues. For both NBC and Sky News, Father Williams has appeared as analyst on church affairs for CNN, CBS, ABC, and Fox News and now serves as consultant on Vatican affairs for NBC News and MSNBC. He is the author of The World as It Could Be: Catholic Social Thought for a New Generation, A Heart like His, Can God Be Trusted?: Finding Faith in Troubled Times, Knowing Right From Wrong: A Christian Guide to Conscience, Greater Than You Think: A Theologian Answers the Atheists About God as well as Spiritual Progress: Becoming the Christian You Want to Be and Who Is My Neighbor? Personalism and the Foundations of Human Rights. Father Williams is on the advisory board of the Catholic Education Resource Centre.
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Born | Scarborough, Ontario, Canada | August 27, 1964
Other names | Paul Jason Teale The Scarborough Rapist The Schoolgirl Killer |
Criminal penalty | Life imprisonment with a possibility of parole after 25 years, declared a dangerous offender in 1995 |
Spouse(s) | Karla Homolka (1991-1994) |
Conviction(s) | Murder Sexual assault |
Killings | |
Victims | 3+ |
Span of killings | December 24, 1990–April 19, 1992 |
Country | Canada |
Date apprehended | February 17, 1993 |
Imprisoned at | Kingston Penitentiary (until 2013) Millhaven Institution (2013-present) |
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Paul Bernardo | |
Born | Scarborough, Ontario, Canada | August 27, 1964
Other names | Paul Jason Teale The Scarborough Rapist The Schoolgirl Killer |
Criminal penalty | Life imprisonment with a possibility of parole after 25 years, declared a dangerous offender in 1995 |
Spouse(s) | Karla Homolka (1991-1994) |
Conviction(s) | Murder Sexual assault |
Killings | |
Victims | 3+ |
Span of killings | December 24, 1990–April 19, 1992 |
Country | Canada |
Date apprehended | February 17, 1993 |
Imprisoned at | Kingston Penitentiary (until 2013) Millhaven Institution (2013-present) |
Paul Kenneth Bernardo, also known as Paul Jason Teale[1] (born 27 August 1964), is a Canadian serial killer and rapist, known for the highly publicized sexual assaults and murders he committed with his wife Karla Homolka and the serial rapes he committed in the east-Metropolitan Toronto city of Scarborough.
In 1975, Bernardo's father Kenneth fondled a girl and was charged with child molestation; he also sexually abused his own daughter.[2] Bernardo's mother became depressed over her husband's abuse, withdrew from family life, and lived in the basement of their Scarborough home. Though the elder children felt the effects of the emotional and mental turmoil, young Paul appeared to be unscathed by it. In his book Lethal Marriage, Nick Pron describes the young Bernardo: "He was always happy. A young boy who smiled a lot. And he was so cute, with his dimpled good looks and sweet smile, that many of the mothers just wanted to pinch him on the cheek whenever they saw him. He was the perfect child they all wanted: polite, well mannered, doing well in school, so sweet in his Boy Scout uniform."[3]
Following an argument between his parents when Bernardo was 16, his mother told him that he was conceived illegitimately during an extra-marital affair with a former lover of hers.[4] Repulsed, he began to openly call his mother "slob" and "whore".[5]
Bernardo graduated from Sir Wilfrid Laurier Collegiate Institute, opting to work for Amway, whose sales culture had a deep effect on him. "He bought the books and tapes of famous motivational get-rich-and-famous experts."[6] Bernardo and his friends practiced their techniques on young women they met in bars, and were fairly successful.[5] By the time Bernardo attended University of Toronto Scarborough, he had developed dark sexual fantasies and enjoyed humiliating women in public and beating up the women he dated.[5]
In October 1987, he met Karla Homolka.[5] They became sexually interested in each other almost immediately. Unlike the other women he knew, she encouraged his sadistic sexual behaviour.
Bernardo was deeply interested in the 1991 novel American Psycho and had "read it as his 'bible'."[7]
Bernardo committed multiple sexual assaults, escalating in viciousness, in and around Scarborough, Ontario.[8] Most of the assaults were on young women whom he had stalked after they exited buses late in the evening.
Known incidents are:
In July 1990, two months after police received tips that Bernardo fit the Scarborough Rapist composite, he was interviewed by two police detectives.
Between May and September 1990, the police had submitted more than 130 suspects' samples for DNA testing when they received two reports that the person they were seeking was Paul Bernardo. The first, in June, had been called in by a bank employee. The second call was received from Tina Smirnis, the wife of one of the three Smirnis brothers who were among Bernardo's closest friends. Smirnis told the detectives that Bernardo "had been 'called in' on a previous rape investigation – once in December, 1987 – but he had never been interviewed."[9] He frequently talked about his sex life to Smirnis and liked anilingus, rough sex, and anal sex.[9]
Smirnis's phrasing was awkward and stilted and consequently left the detectives unsure of whether to take her seriously. But after cross-checking several files the detectives decided to interview Bernardo. The interview, on November 20, 1990, lasted 35 minutes, and Bernardo voluntarily gave samples for forensic testing. When the detectives asked Bernardo why he thought he was being investigated for the rapes, he admitted that he did resemble the composite. The detectives concluded that such a well-educated, well-adjusted, congenial young man could not be responsible for the vicious crimes; he "was far more credible than...Smirnis who, with her awkward, strange way of speaking, might just be trying to collect the reward." Bernardo was released the following day.[9]
By 1990, Bernardo was spending large amounts of time with the Homolka family, who liked him. He was engaged to the oldest daughter, Karla, and flirted constantly with the youngest daughter. He had not told them that he had lost his job as an accountant, and instead was smuggling cigarettes across the nearby Canada–United States border. He had become obsessed with Tammy Homolka, peeping into her window and entering her room to masturbate while she was sleeping. Karla Homolka helped him by breaking the blinds in her sisters' window to allow Bernardo access. In July, Bernardo took Tammy across the border to get beer for a party. While there, Bernardo later told his fiancee, "they got drunk and began making out".
According to Bernardo's testimony at his trial, on July 24, 1990, Karla Homolka laced spaghetti sauce with crushed Valium she had stolen from her employer at Martindale Animal Clinic. She served dinner to her sister, who soon lost consciousness. Bernardo began to rape Tammy while Karla watched.
Over the summer, he supplied Tammy and her friends with gifts, food, and soft drinks that had "a film and a few white flecks on the top".[9]
Six months before their 1991 wedding, Karla Homolka stole the anaesthetic agent Halothane from the clinic. On December 23, 1990, Homolka and Bernardo administered sleeping pills to the 15-year-old in a rum-and-eggnog cocktail. After Tammy was unconscious, Homolka and Bernardo undressed her and Karla applied a Halothane soaked cloth to her sister's nose and mouth.
Karla Homolka wanted to "give Tammy's virginity to Bernardo for Christmas" as, according to Homolka, Bernardo was disappointed not to have been Karla's first sex partner. With Tammy's parents sleeping upstairs, the pair videotaped themselves as they raped her in the basement. Tammy began to vomit. The pair tried to revive her, then called 911, but not before they hid evidence, dressed Tammy, and moved her into her basement bedroom. A few hours later Tammy Homolka was pronounced dead at St. Catharines General Hospital without having regained consciousness.
Despite the pair's behaviour – vacuuming and washing laundry in the middle of the night,[9] and despite the presence of a chemical burn on Tammy's face, Niagara Regional Coroner and the Homolka family accepted the pair's version of events.[9] The official cause of Tammy Homolka's death was accidental – choking on her vomit after consumption of alcohol. The pair subsequently videotaped themselves with Karla wearing Tammy's clothing and pretending to be her. They also moved out of the Homolka house to a rented Port Dalhousie bungalow, to let her parents cope with their grief.
In addition to the confirmed murders of Tammy Lyn Homolka, Leslie Erin Mahaffy, and Kristen Dawn French, suspicions remain about other possible victims or intended victims of Bernardo and/or Homolka.
Citing the need to protect Bernardo's right to a fair trial, a publication ban was imposed on Homolka's preliminary inquiry.[12]
The Crown had applied for the ban imposed on 5 July 1993, by Mr. Justice Francis Kovacs of the Ontario Court (General Division). Homolka, through her lawyers, supported the ban, whereas Bernardo's lawyers argued that he would be prejudiced by the ban since Homolka previously had been portrayed as his victim. Four media outlets and one author also opposed the application. Some lawyers argued that rumours could be doing more damage to the future trial process than the publication of the actual evidence.[13]
Public access to the Internet effectively nullified the court's order, however; as did proximity to the American border, since a publication ban by an Ontario Court cannot apply in New York, Michigan, or anywhere else outside of Ontario. American journalists cited the First Amendment in editorials and published details of Homolka's testimony, which were widely distributed by many "electronic ban-breakers", primarily on the alt.fan.karla-homolka[14] Usenet newsgroup.
Newspapers in Buffalo, Detroit, Washington, New York and even Britain, together with border radio and television stations, reported details gleaned from sources at Homolka's trial. The syndicated series A Current Affair aired two programs on the crimes. Canadians bootlegged copies of The Buffalo Evening News across the border, prompting orders to NRP to arrest all those with more than one copy at the border. Extra copies were confiscated. Copies of other newspapers, including The New York Times, were either turned back at the border or were not accepted by distributors in Ontario.[13] Gordon Domm, a retired police officer who defied the publication ban by distributing details from the foreign media, was charged and convicted on two counts of contempt of court.[15]
Bernardo's trial for the murders of French and Mahaffy took place in 1995, and included detailed testimony from Homolka and videotapes of the rapes. The trial was subject to a publication ban which applied to Canadian newspapers and media, and the venue was moved to Toronto from St. Catharines, where the murders occurred. However, the ban did not affect American newspapers and television stations from nearby Buffalo, New York from reporting trial proceedings, which were easily seen in Southern Ontario. During the trial, Bernardo claimed the deaths were accidental, and later claimed that his wife was the actual killer. On September 1, 1995, Bernardo was convicted of a number of offences, including the two first-degree murders and two aggravated sexual assaults, and sentenced to life in prison without parole for at least 25 years.[16] Bernardo was also declared a "Dangerous Offender", making it unlikely he will ever be released.[16]
In return for a plea bargain (12 years in prison for manslaughter), Homolka testified against Bernardo in his murder trial.[17] This plea bargain received much public criticism from Canadians as Bernardo's first defence lawyer Ken Murray had withheld for 17 months videotapes that Bernardo made. This was considered crucial evidence, and prosecutors said that they would have never agreed to the plea bargain if they had seen the tapes. Murray was later charged with obstruction of justice, of which he was acquitted, and he also faced a disciplinary hearing from the Law Society of Upper Canada.[18][19]
During her interrogation in 1993, Homolka told police Bernardo once bragged to her that he had raped as many as 30 women, twice the number of assaults police suspected he had committed. She described him as "the happy rapist".[20]
Bernardo has been kept in the segregation unit at the penitentiary for his own safety; nonetheless, he has been attacked and harassed. Once he was punched in the face by another inmate while returning from a shower in 1996. In June 1999, five convicts tried to storm the segregation range where Bernardo lived, and a riot squad had to use gas to disperse them.[21]
The Toronto Star reported on February 21, 2006, that Bernardo had admitted having sexually assaulted at least 10 other women in attacks not previously attributed to him. The majority of those assaults took place in 1986, a year before what police termed the reign of terror by the Scarborough Rapist. Authorities suspected Bernardo was the culprit in other crimes, such as a string of rapes in Amherst, N.Y., and the drowning death of Terri Anderson[citation needed] in St. Catharines. He has never acknowledged his involvement. It was reported that Bernardo's lawyer, Anthony G. Bryant, had forwarded this information to legal authorities the previous November.[22]
In 2006, Bernardo gave an interview in prison suggesting he had reformed and would make a good parole candidate.[23][24] He was not eligible for release in 2010 under the "faint hope" clause, since he was convicted of multiple murders. Bernardo is not eligible to apply for parole until July 2020. In September 2013, Bernardo was moved from Kingston Penitentiary, owing to its impending closure, to Millhaven Institution in Bath,[25] and is incarcerated in the segregation unit.
Homolka was released from prison on July 4, 2005. Several days before, Bernardo was interviewed by police and his lawyer, Tony Bryant. According to Bryant, Bernardo claimed that he had always intended to free the girls he and Homolka kidnapped. However, once Mahaffy's blindfold fell off, allowing Mahaffy to see Bernardo's face, Homolka was concerned that Mahaffy would identify Bernardo and subsequently report them to the police. Further, Bernardo claimed that Homolka planned to murder Mahaffy by injecting an air bubble into her bloodstream, eventually causing an embolism.[26]
In 1997, Lynn Crosbie, Canadian poet, novelist and cultural critic, published Paul's Case, termed a "theoretical fiction". After systematically analyzing the couple's crimes it provided an examination of the cultural effects of the shocking revelations and controversy surrounding their trial.[27]
Episodes of Law & Order ("Fools for Love", season 10),[28] Law & Order: Special Victims Unit ("Damaged", season 4) and Close to Home ("Truly, Madly, Deeply", season 2) were inspired by the case, as well as an episode of the Inspector Lynley Mysteries titled "Know Thine Enemy", aired in 2007. Under the Canadian publication ban on details of the crimes that was in force at the time, "Fools for Love" could not be shown on Canadian television when it aired on February 23, 2000. The second episode of the series The Mentalist featured a respectable but murderous husband and wife team.
Dark Heart, Iron Hand is a documentary broadcast by MSNBC and was rebroadcast as an episode of the series MSNBC Investigates retitled "To Love and To Kill" concerned the case.[29][30]
In 2004, producers from Quantum Entertainment, a Los Angeles-based production company, announced the release of the movie Karla (with the working title Deadly),[31] starring Laura Prepon as Homolka and Misha Collins as Bernardo. Since the announcement of the movie, Tim Danson – the lawyer for the families of French and Mahaffy – was given a private screening of the film, and following this, announced that the families had no objection to the film being released. Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty called for a boycott on the film. The film was released in Canada by Christal Films in the major markets of Calgary, Edmonton, Vancouver, Winnipeg, Ottawa, Toronto, Montreal, Quebec City and Halifax.
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Non-Match day Traffic (9th October – 19th October 2014)
The main entrance to the KC Stadium car park from the foot of the Anlaby Road flyover will be closed from Thursday 9h October until Sunday 19th October. Walton Street will be closed to vehicular traffic from 1800 on Wednesday 8th October and will re-open on Monday 20th October. All normal traffic for the KC Stadium and the Airco Arena will have to follow a specific circuit to enter the Stadium perimeter and South Stand car parks during these periods.
This route is as follows:-
Follow St. George's Road to the junction with Arthur Street (circa 100 metres north of the railway level crossing, St. George's Road Primary School is on the street corner). Turn into Arthur Street and follow its full length to the T-junction with Walliker Street. Turn left on to Walliker Street and then first right (before the traffic lights) into Carnegie Street then left on to the old Anlaby Road to enter the Stadium car parks from under the Anlaby Road flyover.
This route should be used in reverse to exit the Stadium car parks.
(It should still be possible to turn from Anlaby Road into Walliker Street at the traffic lights until – approximately 1600 hours each week day during the Fair, but thereafter motorists will have to use the above designated route to and from the Stadium).
Walton Street car park will remain closed throughout the period of the Fair including pull on, effectively from midnight on Thursday 2nd October to Monday 20th October 2014.
The Airco Arena Car Park will be closed during the period of Hull Fair.
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You will be asked to show your parking pass and directed to your allocated car parking area (colour coded). Please note there is a small map on the back of your pass to indicate the general parking layout.
Please park only in your allocated area, the colour of which is indicated on your ticket. IMPORTANT - leave your car park pass clearly visible in your windscreen.
Leaving the ground
You'll leave the ground by the same access gate turning left on to the Flyover. After which you'll proceed to the traffic lights just before the hospital. Then you can go straight on for the City centre or turn right towards the Clive Sullivan Way.
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Alternatively, you could use the Park & Ride facility on Priory Park near to Sainsbury's. This is sign posted from the A63 (Clive Sullivan Way) and is open on matchdays. This provides up to 650 parking spaces with a frequent bus service to the city centre dropping off and picking up spectators outside the stadium on Anlaby Road.
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The Walton Street fairground site provides 1100 spectator parking spaces.
A limited number of spaces are available on event days priced at £5. Parking for visitors, both in coaches and in cars, is also accommodated for on this site.
West Park will be closed to vehicles on matchdays, except to disabled park users and users of the sports arena and bowling green's.
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By Rail: Paragon Station is less than 1½ km away with well sign posted footpaths leading to the Stadium.
By Plane: Humberside Airport is 18 miles from Hull. For information call 01652 688456 or e-mail firstname.lastname@example.com.
By Coach/Bus: Hull's Bus/Coach Station is located next to Paragon Station, less than 1½ km from the Stadium. Frequent bus services run along Spring Bank and Anlaby Road.
For up to date information, please telephone Bus Call on Tel: 01482 222222
On Street Parking: Areas around the Stadium are resident-only zones. Cars parked illegally will be issued with parking tickets. Parking is not available at the Stadium.
Park and Ride: Visitors can use the Priory Park, Park and Ride, located off Priory Way which is sign posted from the A63 Clive Sullivan Way.
Park and Walk: Limited match/event day parking may be available on the Walton Street car park, available at a cost of £5. This is located next to the Stadium complex. Pryme Street Multi-Storey is a 10-15 minute walk from the Stadium with clear pedestrian signage. All other city centre car parks can be used.
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Well this looks like our final 53 before the beginning of the season. IMHO, Rashad Baker is just holding a spot for Rodney for 4 games. I also think Herron has Corey May's spot from last year, and if he plays good on ST I think we will see him stick for awhile. A quick look at the roster shows that probably the spot with the least depth is CB, we only got 4. Meriweather is the emergency 5th. Quarterback (3) Tom Brady Matt Cassel Matt Gutierrez Running back (3) Laurence Maroney Sammy Morris Kevin Faulk Fullback (1) Heath Evans Wide receiver (5) Randy Moss Donte' Stallworth Wes Welker Jabar Gaffney Kelley Washington Tight end (4) Benjamin Watson Kyle Brady David Thomas Marcellus Rivers Offensive line (9) Matt Light Logan Mankins Dan Koppen Stephen Neal Nick Kaczur Ryan O'Callaghan Wesley Britt Billy Yates Russ Hochstein Defensive line (6) Ty Warren Vince Wilfork Jarvis Green Mike Wright Le Kevin Smith Kareem Brown Inside linebacker (6) Adalius Thomas Tedy Bruschi Junior Seau Eric Alexander Larry Izzo David Herron Outside linebacker (3) Mike Vrabel Rosevelt Colvin Pierre Woods Cornerback (4) Asante Samuel Ellis Hobbs Randall Gay Tory James Safety (7) Eugene Wilson James Sanders Brandon Meriweather Willie Andrews Mel Mitchell Rashad Baker Rodney Harrison (4 game suspension) Specialists (3) Kicker -- Stephen Gostkowski Punter -- Chris Hanson Long snapper -- Lonie Paxton
Also I think CB is pretty deep with 2 quality starters, a solid backup and a washed up vet. DL looks very thin without Seymour and Mike Wright. This means Kareem Brown will be getting some snaps against the Jets. I could see them adding someone like Bobby Hamilton to the mix until Big Sey comes back. Just imagine - after game 4 we add Harrison, after game 6 we add Seymour and maybe Brown or Jackson. Defensive line (6) Ty Warren Vince Wilfork Jarvis Green Mike Wright Le Kevin Smith Kareem Brown
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I thought Rashad Baker got cut... I must have confused someone else with him. Anyway, I'd have to say the biggest suprises for me were: Cuts: Caldwell Rogers Wesley Those who made it: Herron Baker James Thomas (I didn't think he would get called up from PUP) I'm not shedding tears over losing Mills, but I am a bit upset about losing Rogers. Oh well. I am still keeping my fingers crossed on Elgin.
Anyone have some facts about Herron as a player? All I know is that it's projected that the Vikes had plans for him on their PS, but BB signed him. Are there any noteworthy TC news or reviews of this guy's play in the pre-season indicating that BB plucked a better player than those cut or placed on IR? Those would be Rogers (yes, I know he was considered an OLB) and Lua.
Obviously, Green and Sanders will be the starters until Sey and Harrison come back. Troy Brown should be back too, which will be good insurance policy if one of our WR goes down. Chad Brown is on the shadow roster. If have problems at OLB, expect Brown to be signed.
I'm surprised they let Mills go. Outside of that, everyone seemed to fall into place. Caldwell was my pick for surprise cut anyway.


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The automat is located in the souteast of Paris, the 12th arrondissement, near the large, beautiful Parc de Bercy, where you can find huge stretches of gardens and greenery – and yet another example of the contemporary and classic co-existing peacefully:
Back to the automat: It isn't the only one if its kind in Paris, a fact that its name gives away: "YatooPartoo" is a phonetic, informal or infantile pronunciation of the phrase "Il y a tout partout." – "There's everything everywhere." I think the idea of the phrase is, you can get a lot of products from the automat at any time of day or night –and in many different locations. According to my sources, there are more than a dozen in Paris, and some in other French cities and suburbs, too.
But they're still spread out enough to seem rare here – and those I've passed, knowingly and unknowingly, usually blend in so well with their surroundings that you'd have to really be looking to know they're there. For example, while doing research for this post, I found out there's apparently a YatooPartoo one street away from the building where I used to live, before moving in with the boyfriend. I was in that neighborhood for 3 years, and never did I notice the YatooPartoo automat.
Which is probably good, because I'm absolutely fascinated by them, and would have spent a lot of money there, just to see the robotic shelf fetch my soda or chicken sandwich or something.
By the time I came to live in New York, the age of the automat was long gone. According to research I did today, automats weren't completely mechanical, but involved a huge teams of cooks behind the scenes, who would slide fresh food into the compartments - no robots necessary. Unfortunately, the manpower required to keep the automat running proved too high a cost. This is one of the main reasons why the last New York automat closed in 1991. A new automat was opened in 2006, but closed three years later due to lack of interest. Too bad I wasn't living in the city at that time, because I might have been able to keep it in business!
The first Paris automat that I saw – and I should be careful and say that the YatooPartoo machines only have cold drinks and other grocery and toiletry products, and don't serve hot meals, AND truly are completely mechanical – was on the Boulevard Arago. I was walking with my friend N., when the illuminated shelves caught his eye. He was so excited about it. I myself remember feeling a little put off by the not-very-aesthetic or retro design – but I still appreciated N's enthusiasm, and realized more than ever that this guy was truly a kindred spirit. (I'm happy to say that years later we're still friends and that I'll be going to his wedding next month – automat appreciation is a tie that binds.)
Years later, a YatooPartoo automat would come into my life again.
My boyfriend and I met because we love to go to the movies. The UGC Ciné Cité Bercy, one of the biggest cineplexes in Paris, is located just off the Parc de Bercy – making it a perfect place for a weekend jaunt, with the pretty (though, for me, allergen-filled) walk through gardens, then the restored complex of centuries-old chais (stone buildings for making and storing wine) that lead to the movie theater.
While getting some information for this article today, I learned something very surprising - and reassuring: these automats don't date to the mid-20th century at all – they were created by an entrepreneur in the year 2000! YatooPartoo is a franchise, and apparently many of the locations, some of which hold up to 2500 products in no more than 25 square meters (269.10 sq feet) of space, do quite well.
- thanks for posting this. It brings back childhood memories for me.
I remember very well the Horn & Hardart automats in NYC and I even had the company as a client in the late '80s, but by then they were much more into other things like mail order catalogs and other types of restaurants. There had also been an automat in the East Village operated by another group, but when I went looking for it two years ago it had already closed.
Nicely descriptive piece. Reading it was almost as good as spending money there would have been.
designanator – How cool that you got to experience NYC's real Horn & Hardart automats! I am jealous!!! Do you have any pictures? According to my research, the one in the East Village that opened and quickly closed a few years ago was called "Bamn!" and was near St. Marks Place. I wish I could have gone to see it one of the times I was there visiting friends. I also wish someone would try again to re-open one.
Linda – Thanks – I'm glad you like the photos, and I know what you mean about the slowness. It started just as I posted this and then I had to go out so I imagine from what you wrote that it got pretty bad.
Sarah – How cool that you have a connection like that with the classic automats. I've read up on them and it's amazing how many people have stories and vivid memories of automats. I really wish they'd make a comeback.
Eva – As with designanator, I am jealous that you got to really experience a bona fide NYC automat!!!! And yes, we should definitely go to the Met – it's my favorite museum in the world, to boot! And maybe by the time I get back to NYC, someone will have tried (again) to open a modern-day automat, and we can do, like, a whole "Mixed-Up Files" theme day!
Laura – I'm so glad you liked this – I just wanted to share the joy that automat brings every time we have a chance to get a Cherry Coke from it. And to answer your very good question, the Coke is dropped into the bin and when you get it, it usually is pretty shaken up..which is why I let the boyfriend open it.
Linda – Tu es revenue! Merci, et felicitations à toi aussi !
Harry's – It would be amazing for us to hang out here. I can imagine you'd see so many things in ways I could never think of. And I think Walmart is already so awesome, if they added an automat, it would just explode.
dirndl – I am honored and flattered that I remind you of you. And I'm sorry about the NYC statement – what I meant is not that there aren't some old buildings and monuments left in New York, but that in general the city seems to yearn to build and rebuild, to stay modern and to erase any superfluous traces of the past. It's a part of the spirit and dynamism of the place. But I was afraid when I made that generalization that it might be seen as untrue – it's somewhere in the middle.
Matt – Merci, et merci!
Joan – I'm so glad you appreciate the automat.
Brassawe – I'm glad I was able to somewhat appease your urge to spend big money at the automat. My strategy is never to have too much cash on me when we go.
Fusun - That still sounds like a pretty cool machine! This one does sell burgers and things to reheat, but there are no microwaves nearby - you have to bring them home and heat them there.
Lots of photos, etc. in this post to check out, including the Bamn automat we were both talking about.
I am THAT damn parochially naive, a suburb boy,
been to the big city only under compulsion from odd fellow humans
who seem to enjoy Giganticism and anonymity and
intense insecurity and the feeling that i am about as
important as a piece of litter in the city dump.
I hate cities.
But: automats are way cool. Robots giving me
what i want. No human contact necessary. No being
charming to my waitress or waiter.
(they should outlaw waiters except for all-female
dining parties, by the way...)
My research indicates that suburbia with its fast food joints
killed the automat.
In the 1950's or so.
Now it is just a nostalgic idea,like the idea of a living loving
Or democracy.
Or safe sex. Or genius.
Thank heavens for the return of the Old.
"Everything old shall be new again", said the Bible.
Like minisirts, thank heavens. And
the kind of writing Mark Twain might have done
on an adventure abroad: yours.
I can only foresee great things for the automat
in the future, as robotics gets past the point of
bouncing along your dirty carpet
or fixing your diseased heart or intestines.
About time robots got humanized!
"Hi, my name is Melissa/and(or) Mark
and I will be your waitress/waiter today...."
they will purr. Holographic technology might
add a 3d dimension to the experience.
I know my own personal idea of the perfect food-server,
and maybe if i punch in a few parameters
i will get a sweet girl from Indiana or Ohio
working her way through a college of the arts
hoping to become an actress or director
of way-cool important documentaries
realistically informing me of the human condition,
of which i am woefully ignorant.
For my robot waitress.
I thought the I M Pei Pyramid is very cool,especially the chrome tube elevator design. I was amazed at how so many buildings with classic facades facing the street have completely modern design interiors and courtyards.
Someone youtubed the awesome elevator.
I think I mentioned in one of my posts about the wonderful coffee automats at a French truck stop - they offered every variety of coffee drink imaginable - lattes and cappuccinos, organic, ground the beans on the spot. And right across the aisle from the human-run coffee counter ... which is the one we went to. Tho I think I have a silly picture of My Travelling Companion posing with the auto-coffee thing.
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dirndl – So well-put. Exactly – I know so many New Yorkers wish older parts of their city would stay around. And certainly that they have a respect for history. I think of all cultures and people I am really a New Yorker at heart, and so I know that the desire to tear things down isn't inherent – it's all about money and power, as you say. It's been especially interesting as I researched automats and read some of the comments here, to see how even the automats are missed. I hope they'll come back to New York one day.
Larry – No thank you, sir. But if you have any chocolates, those I would be interested in!
500 words – I'm so glad you enjoyed this – and glad I could bring thoughts of that amazing book to you!
designantor – Yesss!!!! I am going to check that out as soon as I finish posting these replies!!!
James – City life definitely isn't for everyone. I feel like it's one of the great debates of modern life, since so many people seem to feel strongly about one side or another. I'm the opposite of you – though I can appreciate a more rural setting, and though I grew up in a then-small Georgia suburb near farms, I am just absolutely not mentally or even physically equipped to live anywhere but an urban setting. Okay, maybe on my own private yacht or a beachfront property –but the beach would have to be tied to somewhere with lots of things to do and an easy access to a major metropolis. Do you know the French medieval poet François Villon? He is known as one of the first modern-era poets to champion city life over country life. He also had quite a life. But then again, that's more to do with his criminal tendencies than his love of cities…..
Lezlie – Thanks. I just find myself continually delighted when we pass it. I love neat little elements of the everyday that recall a different life and time. I collect almanacs from the late 1800's and early 1900's for just that reason – there is so much in each one that's vanished today but you can find traces.
another steve s – How awesome that you got to eat an automat! Though most people seem to remember the food being really good! The pyramid is indeed cool, inside and out. I'm glad people have thought to film it. I wish more had filmed the old automats, though I am going to check out some youtube videos of them later on today.
Myriad – I remember you writing about those coffee machines – you were impressed. I didn't make the connection, but you're right, that could indeed qualify as another form of automat in the present-day. That makes me very happy.
Noirville – Interesting you brought that up. I think it's much more impressive and harmonious when you're there in front of it. The size and angle at which you're viewing it and the buildings around it are different, and the colors of the stone facades of the Louvre are more vivid, and ever-changing, with light and shadow. Picutres really don't do it justice. I realized that when I was trying to find an image to illustrate that part of the post.
Reborn? – Thank you so much. I like to share things I find interesting and I'm glad you thought this was worth your while. Automats of any kind rule!
Frank – Thanks! I hope you'll get here one day – and I hope you'll check out an automat if you have time during your visit!
87king – Love your description of your own automat experience, and I'm so jealous you got to experience one! While researching automats, I learned about the reason for their decline and it's so disheartening that using real, natural ingredients and actual chefs who have to prepare wholesome meals in a very manual way, is enough to make a place shut down. I like fast food as much as the next (though my system can't process McDonald's), but I so wish we could have a world where fast food and automat food could live together in harmony….
RP – Thanks! I don't think from what I've read and heard that the sandwiches at the automat were bad, but I know what you mean about those yucky vending machine sandwiches around today. I hope your niece has a wonderful visit and that if she can, she gets to check out an automat!
Of course the most intersting vending machine I saw in Paris was one that sold fresh shirts, complete with matching ties, in the Louvre Metro station.
Christine - Thanks so much! I just wanted to share my love of the automat! And it's been so fun reading everyone's automat stories here, too!
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A group of Ohio State University students traveled the pacific island battlefields of World War II with the veterans who fought there. As a part of the study abroad course through the Department of History, students were paired with a veteran to preserve memorials of the war in the Pacific Theatre.
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