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Chasing Muse: Finding the "Wild, Silky Part of Ourselves"
February 9, 2015 at 3:38 pm · Filed under Authors, On Writing and tagged: books, Maine, Mary Oliver, Patricia Erikson, poetry, Saddleback Mountain, Sudden Fiction, writing
People pay good money to chairlift up a mountain in civilized fashion and then ski down for pleasure. I just paid to snowshoe straight up 2000 feet in single-digit temperatures to brave a gnarly descent. But, then, I'm not a mountaineer, I'm an island writer chasing a muse.
When I shuffled to the starting line of the Saddleback Mountain Challenge an hour earlier, racers appeared in a motley assemblage of equipment that reflected their strategy. Most wore Randonee skis adorned with "skins" that could be removed at the peak, allowing a rapid descent. A few people wore snowshoes with a snowboard strapped to their back; their descent would be swooping, graceful. One man wore two halves of a snowboard strapped to his feet, halves that would be reunited, presumably, once he achieved the peak. And then came the smartypants distance runner — one of two women in the pack and the only one outfitted with just snowshoes to wear, both up and down — that's me. Halfway up the mountain, I reconsider the wisdom of entering this challenge; wind-driven ice cements to my hair and face, and bounces off my fingers, bare and hot from exertion. What was I thinking?
Reaching the peak, I pass a number of racers who stop to switch their fancy gear to downhill mode. One-two-three of them. I wonder: do they admire my strategy of using the same gear for the entire race? Nah.
I yank on my coat and gloves, pull up my face guard, and lumber onto the mountain's shoulder. My left ear loses feeling to the flesh-freezing wind, no doubt casting me even more as the Bride of Yeti. Then I reach a point where the race route narrows to a two-foot wide shelf, little more than the ridge of a snowdrift. As if on cue, I stumble onto the precipice. A normal audience would gasp as my center of gravity plunges over and back from the edge, but the ski patrol sentry quips, "Nice catch." That's high praise up here.
Finally, I stand alone at the top of the designated downhill route, a narrow chute. It's name: Muleskinner. I try not to take the name literally or conjure images of how it might apply to me. But, if this route were a highway, the sign would flash orange neon letters "Go back, 50-60% grade."
Given the promised first-place prizes of season ski passes for the winning man and woman, the racers ahead of me are pushing hard; I just want to survive. Avoiding last place would be a bonus. Descent on snowshoes: my strategy faces a crisis. Facing this downhill reminds me of facing a blank page, or worse yet, a manuscript with extensive need of editing. I don't want to do it. What am I afraid of? Falling? Getting lost in a snowbank? Those rank as givens today. I decide I'm most afraid of not finishing. I abandon all pretense of sanity and step over the edge, on purpose this time.
To my shock, the deep, fresh powder has been scoured away by wind, leaving porcelain-smooth white ice disguised as snow. My snowshoes respond by rocketing downhill, spinning me sideways. There is nothing to grab, nothing to stop me. Channeling my five year-old self, I sit down hard and push my snowshoes out in front of me. With buttocks serving as my snow-tubing device, I shoot straight down Muleskinner, stopping in an explosion of deep powder. Able to stand again, I run downhill until hitting another porcelain plate of ice. Repeat the sit and slide until powder impact. Stand and run. Midway down Muleskinner, a couple of the guys that I had passed on the peak, pass me–one of them with graceful swooshes, the other guy resembling a human snowball.
Why am I doing this? It wasn't until after I crossed the finishing line (looking indeed like the Bride of Yeti), after I had driven back to Portland and reached home by ferry, that I read Mary Oliver. Only then did I find words for what I was doing on Saddleback Mountain–I was taking care of the "wild, silky part of ourselves without which no poem [and, I would add, no writing] can exist." Oliver describes this inner muse as a "mysterious, unmapped zone" that "comes before everything, even technique." She warns that "It can wait. It can stay silent a lifetime."
This is what I fear more than Muleskinner. That silence within.
In "Wild Geese" Oliver writes, "You do not have to walk on your knees, For a hundred miles through the desert, repenting…Whoever you are, no matter how lonely, the world offers itself to your imagination, calls to you like the wild geese, harsh and exciting–over and over announcing your place in the family of things." Seriously? Does this mean I didn't have to grind up and down that flesh-hungry mountain on snowshoes to find my "mysterious, unmapped zone"? Mary Oliver would probably say that I could discover beauty in the everyday world around me. But, no, on this day, I needed the mountain to shatter a deep silence, to shake the silence apart the way the wind knocks rime ice from evergreen needles and casts the shards into the howling spit of the storm.
Thank you to Eleanor Morse and my fellow writers in the Sudden Fiction group for sharing Mary Oliver with me at the moment I most needed it and to the staff of Saddleback Mountain for running a first-class ski area with the biggest heart I know.
Peaks Island Press offers behind-the-scenes glimpses of a vibrant, literary community perched on Peaks Island, two miles off the coast of the beautiful and award-winning city of Portland, Maine. If you haven't already, you may subscribe in the upper right corner athttp://www.peaksislandpress.com.
Secret Weapons Against Winter: Write or Plunge into the Sea?
January 27, 2015 at 12:20 pm · Filed under Authors, On Writing and tagged: books, Eleanor Morse, Maine, Nicole d'Entremont, Patricia Erikson, Stephen King
My willingness to jump into a 40 degree ocean does not prove me crazy. Yet, many shake their heads, say "better you than me," shudder, and turn away. Maybe I'd rather they didn't understand how alive I feel, walking across snow in sandals, peeling off layers on a breezy winter beach with my heart rate quickening at the thought of the icy sea needling my skin. Maybe if people knew that, afterward, the whole body flushes with warmth, bright light and giddy laughter then they would want to polar bear plunge, too. Then the wintry beach would be crowded with other island souls, desperate to unmuffle the months between winter solstice and the spring equinox. Nah, not happening. Many more islanders harbor a different secret weapon against the Maine winter: writing.
Thanks to the Sudden Fiction writing sessions of Eleanor Morse and Nicole d'Entremont, we huddle around the woodstove and beat back the winter darkness with our words. I love how Maine author extraordinaire Stephen King explains this type of literary defiance in his essay "On Impact." King wrote, "it's the work that bails me out. For me, there have been times when the act of writing has been an act of faith, a spit in the eye of despair. Writing is not life, but I think that sometimes it can be a way back to life." As the temperature plunges, the snow piles up against the window, and daylight resists the earth-tilting nudge to lengthen, we fight our way back to life by wielding our pen (and sometimes even by plunging into the sea).
Peaks Island Press offers behind-the-scenes glimpses of a vibrant, literary community perched on Peaks Island, two miles off the coast of the beautiful and award-winning city of Portland, Maine. If you haven't already, you may subscribe in the upper right corner athttp://www.peaksislandpress.com.
Writing on Basement Walls: What inscription will you leave in 2015?
December 31, 2014 at 12:55 pm · Filed under Authors, On Writing, Peaks Island Press and tagged: author, Maine, Patricia Erikson, Peaks Island, Voices of a Thousand People, writing
Imagine that you are descending stone stairs down to the basement in a 150-year-old high school to a room known as the Graffiti Room. Does this sound like a writing prompt or perhaps jacket copy for a mystery novel? Mention of this Graffiti Room popped up in my daughter's college application essay recently. In her words, "the floor, ceiling, and all four walls are covered with students' names and graduating years. Layers and layers of signatures blanket the historic walls…in a few months I will sign my name in this room, leave my mark on history, and become a part of the tradition." I realized that when my daughter inscribes her name on the wall, she will share space with her grandmother who would have written her name nearly seventy years earlier.
I don't generally advocate for writing on walls, furniture, trees or rock outcrops either, but, the layering-of-names tradition hit me. I have never been bitten by the "I was here" bug that would prompt me to write my name on a wall, but isn't striving to write similar? When writers write, aren't they grasping at truths, inscribing them, and leaving them behind like names scrawled on a wall? Think inscription, trace, epigraph, literary footprints.
I used to struggle with cynicism towards academic publishing; I still harbor frustration with the jargon-ridden, inaccessible nature of the genre. My prejudice shifted when, after delivering a presentation at a conference in Arizona, a few undergraduate and graduate students asked me to sign their copy of my book "Voices of a Thousand People." This wasn't a book tour, far from it. I don't think my presentation even mentioned the book, but, to my surprise, they eagerly shared their excitement to meet me and how much they loved "Voices."
Despite my reservations about academia, my work had spoken to these students, fired their imagination, and fueled their passion for learning. Even though writing often feels like a selfish endeavor — the journey toward flawless craft and research, the search for inspiration, and the quest for publication — it remains similar to writing on walls. Writing leaves a trace, a literary pathway for making and sharing insights with people the writer may never meet.
So if you're struggling with your writing (as I have been this past year), embrace the notion of writing on walls. Writing is not just a solitary endeavor. The act of writing reaches out and touches others, makes connections and shared meaning that we all crave. Keep writing. As you face 2015, ask yourself: what delightful discovery do you want to leave for others to discover in a basement room?
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Maine Snow Days
December 4, 2014 at 8:54 pm · Filed under Authors and tagged: Maine, Patricia Erikson, Peaks Island
Deliciously naughty. Forbidden. That's how it feels, burrowing under the covers after hearing the news – "it's a snow day!" Billowing snowflakes muffle the outside world, even the thudding of snowplow blades. Then freezing rain clatters against the windowpane and glams up every twig and bough in sight. And the day ahead yawns – empty – like a cave that's never been found. I concern myself with finding slippers, stoking the wood stove, boiling cups of tea, and considering whether the power will stay on – or not. Snow days. Those days – when the calendar stands still and the world transforms itself in white – bind my loyalty to life as a Northerner.
Collaborating with professional photographers: Alban Maino
August 24, 2014 at 6:47 pm · Filed under Authors, On Writing, Peaks Island Press and tagged: Alban Maino, Jr., Ken Burns, Maine, Patricia Erikson, Peaks Island, Portland Monthly Magazine, Seashore Trolley Museum, Theodore Roosevelt
Writers are not always the "lead partner" when they work with photographers, but if you are the point person for a project, you should ready yourself to collaborate successfully so that another joint project will follow.
Because the Summer Guide issue of Portland Monthly Magazine published my "A Streetcar Named Narcissus" — an article named after a vintage, interurban electric coach at the Seashore Trolley Museum in Kennebunkport, I'll use my collaboration with photographer and filmmaker Alban Maino as an example.
The Narcissus–once a high-speed engineering marvel–bears the distinction of having transported Theodore Roosevelt Jr. between Lewiston and Portland, Maine on August 18, 1914. Ken Burns' newest documentary series The Roosevelts: An Intimate History has turned the grand lady Narcissus into a bit of a celebrity, prompting me to ask my friend, Alban Maino of Dreamland Medias, to help me document her painstaking restoration. Here are some takeaway tips from that project.
Tip #1: Plan for the unique conditions of your site. I shouldn't say "this was an unusual shoot," because the fact is, every photo shoot is unique. For a writer to lead a successful collaboration, they need to learn as much as possible about the conditions under which the photographer must work and PLAN AHEAD. The idiosyncracies of the location might require particular accommodations of footwear, clothing, photo equipment, or even mental preparation. The more the photographer knows, the more prepared he or she can be.
Tip #2: Do not underestimate time. In order to photograph the Narcissus in natural light, I worked with Narcissus Project Manager Phil Morse to have the Narcissus untarped so that it was exposed to natural light. A team of volunteers labored for hours to uncover the vintage interurban vehicle; consequently, our photoshoot needed to coordinate precisely with the volunteers' efforts, as well as align with good weather.
Tip #3: Be a safety nut. The physical conditions of photographing the Narcissus were demanding physically and slowed the project down. In order to get the frames that he wanted, Alban scampered more than twenty feet up onto the salvage "trucks" or undercarriages of trolleys nearby. The dramatic photo of him above – dubbed "the crouching tiger" by Phil Morse – illustrates how conditions must be navigated carefully and safely. While the photographer is looking through his lens, you can help make sure that he doesn't step into harm's way.
Tip #4: Advocate for your partner. Photographers like to receive pay and credit just as much as you do. If a job pays only by the word or a flat fee and doesn't remunerate for the photos (which is annoying, at best), then share the fee fairly. Also, particularly in our digital age, photos are more easily published on the web without adequate credit or without any at all. This was a problem on this particular assignment. The photo credits on the printed version of the magazine were tiny and missing altogether from some of the content published online. Despite aggressive advocacy on my part, the outcome was disappointing and unacceptable to both of us. This is not necessarily unusual. Be prepared to voice strongly your concerns. In the meantime, enjoy some select photos of this project that Alban has posted in an online album at http://www.espritvoyageur.net/trolley/
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August 12, 2014 at 6:29 pm · Filed under Events and tagged: how to write a book, Maine, Peaks Island, Robert Greenfield, The Rolling Stones
If you're very lucky, perhaps you've seen The Rolling Stones in concert or, maybe you harbor some collectable vinyl albums. It's unlikely, however, that you've gone on tour with the Stones, spent dozens of hours interviewing members of the band, or even spent days living at Mick Jagger's villa. Award-winning author and summer Peaks Island resident Robert Greenfield has done those things; it's fair to say that our understanding of music in 20th century society is better for it.
In a quick telephone interview with me, Greenfield conceded that he has had some extraordinary opportunities to write about several "rather megahuman" individuals. Greenfield was referring to Grateful Dead lead guitarist Jerry Garcia, six-time Grammy Award winner Burt Bacharach, and Atlantic Records founder Ahmet Ertegun. That's the short list. Greenfield said, "Writing about extraordinary people you can learn something about life that is different than writing about people with quiet lives." In part, Greenfield attributes the success of his career — writing about icons of the music industry — to "feeling passionate about the work and remaining absolutely trustworthy in trying to capture the humanity of people who can really be very difficult."
When I asked Greenfield if he considered himself a journalist, a narrative non-fiction writer, or a classic rock documentarian, he said, "I'm a writer. I don't like to be categorized." Fair enough considering that he's also a novelist, screenwriter, and playwright who served as Associate Editor of the London bureau of Rolling Stone Magazine.
This Thursday evening, you'll have the opportunity to meet Greenfield and hear him read from his newly-published "Ain't It Time We Said Goodbye: The Rolling Stones on the Road to Exile (Da Capo Press/Perseus Books 2014), one of the twelve books that he has authored. The Peaks Island Branch of the Portland Public Library will host the event this Thursday, August 14th from 7-9:00 PM.
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Port City Poets on Peaks Island
July 28, 2014 at 8:48 pm · Filed under Events and tagged: authors, Maine, Peaks Island, poetry
Stone Boat Poetry presents PORT CITY POETS: Contemporary Poets Celebrate Portland, Maine on Thursday, August 7 at 7pm at 5th Maine Memorial Hall on Peaks Island.
Join us for an evening with not one, not two… twelve Portland area poets who will read original poems!
Featured: Linda Aldrich, Marcia F. Brown, Dennis Camire, Claire Hersom, Mihku Paul-Anderson, Jesse Mantsch, Pam Burr Smith, Bruce Spang, Martin Steingesser, Jim Glenn Thatcher, George VanDeventer, Anna Bat-Chai Wrobel.
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ONE of the pioneers of education for young women in middle America was a lady born in France in 1798 as Anne-Therese Guerin. She spent much of her life as a nun in Indiana, founding a religious order and setting up many schools. She became better known under her monastic name of Mother Theodore; by the time of her death in 1856, she was the leader of a flourishing community called the Sisters of Providence. A "cause" or procedure for proclaiming her a saint—a holy figure, living beyond the grave in a state close to God—was started in 1907. Things moved faster in the late 20th century. In October 1998, Pope John Paul II bestowed on her the intermediate title of "blessed"—after the church had satisfied itself that at least one miracle had occurred through her prayers in the after-life. Pope Benedict then made her a full saint after certifying that a second miracle had taken place; a grand canonisation ceremony took place in Rome in 2006.
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TRACE3, a leading regional IT Systems Integration firm that provides solutions for reducing IT infrastructure complexity, today announced that it is the recipient of F5's North American VAR Partner of the Year & ARX® Data Solutions VAR of the Year Awards.
On May 27th, F5 Networks, the global leader in Application Delivery Networking, announced its 2009 Channel Partners of the Year Awards for North America, including this recognition for TRACE3. The awards programs honor partners who best demonstrate the ability to increase sales through superior account management, provide helpful resources for customers and prospects, uncover new opportunities, and keep up to date on the latest technologies in the F5® solution portfolio. In selecting TRACE3, F5 examined the growth experienced during 2009, and TRACE3's pre- and post-sales, technical resources and engagement strategies were also considered. The awards will be formally presented at the 2010 F5 Americas Partner Summit this summer.
"TRACE3's success is centered on the experience of its Engineers and the relationships with our Partners. Our relationship with F5 is crucial in providing the solutions that allow our customers the savings and application delivery capabilities needed to increase productivity and stay competitive in today's market," Founder & CEO Hayes Drumwright.
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Wearable technology was dominant at this year's International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) , and MWC was no exception to this trend. New versions of favorites, such as the Samsung Gear (three new products were released: the Gear 2, the Gear 2 Neo and the Gear Fit), shared the limelight with new wearables like Pebble Time Steel (the new premium version of the company's previously released smartwatch) and the LG Watch Urbane. The most dramatic difference at MWC was an emphasis on presenting wearables as fashion accessories and moving away from the original clunky technology associated with t...
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Internet of Things (IoT) will be a hybrid ecosystem of diverse devices and sensors collaborating with operational and enterprise systems to create the next big application. In their session at @ThingsExpo, Bramh Gupta, founder and CEO of robomq.io, and Fred Yatzeck, principal architect leading product development at robomq.io, will discuss how choosing the right middleware and integration strategy from the get-go will enable IoT solution developers to adapt and grow with the industry, while at the same time reduce Time to Market (TTM) by using plug and play capabilities offered by a robust I...
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While not quite mainstream yet, WebRTC is starting to gain ground with Carriers, Enterprises and Independent Software Vendors (ISV's) alike. WebRTC makes it easy for developers to add audio and video communications into their applications by using Web browsers as their platform. But like any market, every customer engagement has unique requirements, as well as constraints. And of course, one size does not fit all. In her session at WebRTC Summit, Dr. Natasha Tamaskar, Vice President, Head of Cloud and Mobile Strategy at GENBAND, will explore what is needed to take a real time communications ...
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A new model suggests emperor penguin populations could decline by 19 percent by 2100.
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A new model suggests emperor penguin populations could decline by 19 percent by 2100.
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Mice infected with a malaria-causing parasite emit odors that are more attractive to malaria-transmitting mosquitoes than uninfected animals, a study shows.
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A once-retracted study about the health effects of GMO maize was not peer reviewed before it was republished, as its lead author claimed.
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A controversial study that found health problems in rats exposed to genetically engineered maize returns to the scientific literature.
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Starvation suspends cellular activity in C. elegans larvae and extends their lifespan.
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Study examines tissue-specific protein interactions linked to hereditary diseases.
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A new plan to protect the Great Lakes from the invasive species is set in motion.
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Independent analysis uncovers suspected mouse cell mix-up, while stimulus-triggered acquisition of pluripotency lead author Haruko Obokata agrees to retract the work in full.
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Drinking green tea appears to boost the activity of DNA repair enzymes.
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As rich sources of genetic diversity, the progenitors and kin of today's food crops hold great promise for improving production in agriculture's challenging future.


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December 23, 1977, legendary British singer-songwriter Cat Stevens
converted to Islam, abandoning his musical career and soon after
changing his name to Yusuf Islam. Born Steven Demetre Georgiou into a
Christian household with a Greek-Cypriot father and a Swedish mother,
the singer now shed his stage name, which he had adopted after a
girlfriend told him his eyes resembled those of a cat.A
near-death experience at the Californian coast of Malibu in 1976 was
the trigger to Steven's transition from a rock star life to a quiet and
pious existence. "Without warning a strong current carried me out to
sea," he told the Los Angeles Times
in 2000. "My whole life flashed in front of me, as they say, but I knew
someone was there and I said, 'Oh God, if you help me I'll work for
you.' Anyway, a wave came from behind me and gently pushed me towards
the shore and then I had all the energy I needed to get back."Thus
Stevens began his journey toward Islam, though he wasn't yet clear of
his path: "I'd made this commitment to work for God, but I didn't know
what to do about it. I didn't tell anyone what had happened. I was
embarrassed," he recalled.Stevens,
long disillusioned with Christianity, had explored Eastern mysticism,
astrology, Buddhism and several other practices but was yet to find his
religious calling. Then, his brother returned from a trip to a mosque in
Jerusalem and presented his brother with a gift which Islam later came
to describe as a miracle - a translation of the Koran. In this book,
Stevens discovered the "the purpose of life.""I felt that the only answer for me was the Koran, and God had sent it
to me," Islam explained on the "Islam Tomorrow" website. A year and a
half later, following his own trip to Jerusalem and deep study of the
Koran, Stevens converted.With
this move, Stevens disappeared from the public eye entirely; he stopped
making records, performing or giving interviews. Islam married, and
involved himself in charity work and humanitarian issues. After a long
silence, he gradually returned to music in the 1990s, with a new Islamic
his new Muslim life, however, Islam received a lot of bad press. In
1989 he found himself in the center of controversy when he was accused
of supporting the late Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini's call for author Salman Rushdie's execution for defaming the Prophet Muhammad in his book The Satanic Verses.
While speaking at Kingston University in London, a student asked Islam
his opinion of the fatwa. Islam responded, "The Koran makes it clear -
if someone defames the Prophet, he must die." The former singer was
immediately swept up in a media tempest, and the next day issued a
statement denying that he supported vigilantism and claiming that he had
simply repeated the Islamic legal view.However,
the issue resurfaced several months later when Islam appeared on the
BBC's "Hypotheticals" program. Again questioned on the issue, Islam
affirmed that he thought Rushdie should be killed and when asked if he
would attend a demonstration where an effigy of the author would be
burned he replied, "I would have hoped that it'd be the real thing." Islam
later clarified that those comments had been made in jest, "meant to
lighten the moment and raise a smile – as good ol' British sense of
humor occasionally is known to do unfortunately for me it didn't." He
regretfully acknowledged that his remarks had been "stupid and
offensive" but also stressed that the program was edited in way that
misrepresented the dialogue: "Hardly any laughs were left in and much
common sense was savagely cut out."Years later in a Rolling Stone
interview in 2000, Islam was rueful that he was still being questioned
on the matter, and portrayed himself as an innocent victim of a brutal
media industry. "I had nothing to do with the issue other than what the
media created. I was innocently drawn into the whole controversy… I was a
new Muslim. If you ask a Bible student to quote the legal punishment of
a person who commits blasphemy in the Bible, he would be dishonest if
he didn't mention Leviticus 24:16."The
Rushdie affair was not the last of Islam's battles. In July 1990, the
Interior Ministry refused Islam entry into Israel for "security
reasons." Sources said they believed the "security reasons" were that
Islam, who made extremist statements against Israel during a visit here
more than two years ago, was planning to meet with Palestinian leaders
during his scheduled five-day visit. Islam,
41, accompanied by his eight-year-old son, Mohammed, was told by
passport control that he was on a list of "undesirables" and could not
enter the country. Islam was "not surprised" by the news, which he took
very quietly, sources said. He and his son were taken to the departures
lounge, where they were treated "very politely," and boarded a British
Airways return flight to London.Israel
turned Islam away again in 2000, saying that he had made large
donations to Hamas in the past. He arrived on a Lufthansa flight from
Frankfurt, and was held for several hours before being sent back to
Germany, GPO director Moshe Fogel said."There
was a problem with allowing him into the country because he is a Hamas
supporter," Fogel said. "He didn't seem like he was coming here for a
summer holiday." Islam denied knowingly supporting Hamas or another
terror group.The
US – which had added Islam to a "watch list" - also denied the former
singer entry in 2004, citing "national security grounds." This provoked a
complaint by then-British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw. The US
Secretary of State Colin Powell replied that the watchlist was under
review, and two years later Islam traveled to the US without trouble.In
2009, he again drew Israeli criticism when he released a single "The
Day the World Gets Round" in aid of children in Gaza. Proceeds went to
charities and organizations including UNESCO, UNRWA and Save the
Children to aid children and families in the Strip following Operation
Cast Lead. Fox News quoted Israeli Consul David Saranga as saying, "It
is good Mr. Islam is interested in helping the children of Gaza," but
that "The children on the other side of the border should not be
forgotten, as well, and it would have been nice for their situation to
also be considered when Mr. Islam decided on the dedication of the
song." Islam
continues today to perform around the world, intertwining his
re-launched music career with peace and human rights activism, which
have garnered him numerous awards, both humanitarian and musical. The
voice of Cat Stevens lives on in both new albums and old, but the songs
of his second musical journey convey the morals and messages of Yusuf
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The operator, whom officials have not identified, was off duty for about 17 hours before starting work around 8 p.m. Sunday but had recently put in a lot of overtime, Amalgamated Transit Union Local 308 President Robert Kelly said Monday.
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^ Assassin kissing way to much Ass.
That's basically it, this game is like an F11 in the number of days town has, but only one person makes a decision so there hasn't been much discussion to really get a feel on anybody. Also, I suppose the Hero makes up for the lack of Cop/Doc, but that requires an assassin becoming King and then executing the Hero, it's tough. Who do you think is an assassin right now?
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