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Annapurna wrote:I wonder how much of what we see in others is a projection of ourselves.
ronnewmexico wrote:To voice the inverse.
Quite often internet conversations become a addiction of sorts, and not necessarily a good sort. To whit I add the story of esanga.
The founder, Leo, posted on his site,,,,,if you still need to get your fix....he then provided another site through which one may converse. Inadvertant of course, but the equation was to a drug addict. And thinking about it, this is not completely wrong. I found this once on a political site, The most innane things were mentioned in political discussion. One member was quite agast to find out the owner would delete all threads over two months or so old. These gems of wisdom were being summarily deleted.
There is some value to internet as resource, what suffices as discussion is usually of the baser sort and engaged into as a addiction quite often. And not to mention the vast vast pool of misinformation out there presented, since as qualifier there is none.....as fact. And just wait until peoples with certain obsessive characteristics to their personality find your site....forget about it.
So personally I use intenet for certain purposes of discussion such as this. But such must be taken in the proper perspective and the attachment must be kept minimal. To do such I advocate no discussion useage for long periods of time. AS soon as a personality seems to remain consistant it is probably time to leave. And it becomes repetitive and boring.
So that's my two cents. A necessity for my pursuits of a monetary nature, a source of information, if you know where to look, but not without its pitfalls.
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I just came back from a weekend retreat and I thought of this forum a few times while I was there...
ball-of-string wrote:people who believe their practice is superior because of this or that empowerment or how many books they have read
Luke wrote:Of course other people might find beginners like myself to be totally boring and distasteful and might wish they could listen to an expert discuss all kinds of exotic trivia (rare sadhanas, rare termas, rare thangkas--rare anything, really). I am sorry: I am boring.
amber wrote:Hi Luke and ball-of-string,
Thanks for your thoughts - I made similar experiences. Just reading and not daring to write, because I was afraid, that I'm not exotic enough...
But on the other hand, a unique voice could be missing. So let's not get impressed too much by the "spiritual supermarket".
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SEATTLE If this saga was a soap opera, it could be dubbed As the Basketball Turns .
There were several developments Tuesday in the battle over the NBA franchise which has filed for relocation to Seattle.
The city s Downtown Design Review Board approved preliminary designs for the proposed $490 million dollar NBA/NHL Arena. Investor Chris Hansen s architects made the presentation on Tuesday night. The project now advances to a recommendation meeting within a couple of months which would be a key decision as to whether the city would approve a Master Use Permit.
Hansen s architects spoke more in depth about plans for a potential bike valet, and a fin wall , which would serve as an enclosure and electronic reader board for the proposed building. Representatives for Amtrak and the Mariners were testified that there had been good progress on the design, but still had questions about safe pedestrian access. The architects said the Northwest Corner of the building would be the main access point.
The local chapter of the ILWU said it will appeal a judge s ruling to throw out their lawsuit which alleged the city and county were violating environmental law. But it, and other arena opponents, are now questioning the economic review too.
The study is a sham, says former Seattle Council member, and current Mayoral candidate Peter Steinbrueck. It s being fast tracked and it doesn t comprehensively examine the economic costs. Steinbrueck says there are questions about the potential costs to trucking firms, and port related businesses.
The rents will skyrocket in that area because now we have entertainment and retail, says ILWU attorney Peter Goldman.
The city hired ProForma advisors of Los Angeles to do the economic analysis. Port workers questions the company s expertise because it s website lists extensive research on theme parks, gaming, and resorts, but not maritime and industrial business. Seattle Mayor Mike McGinn says he ll ask ProForma to broaden the study to expand the scope of the of the study.
NBA owners won t vote on the signed purchase agreement for the Kings until April. The franchise has already filed for relocation to Seattle. A well connected person suggested Tuesday the relocation fee could be at or near $75 million dollars. Clay Bennett paid $30 million to the NBA to move the Sonics to Oklahoma City in 2008. It s unclear if the relocation figure is a negotiating point, or why the figure would be higher.
In Sacramento, civic leaders spent the day trying to extol the virtues of the city as it compares to Seattle. Members of Think Big Sacramento presented numbers at a news conference, including years of sellout crowds, which it felt showed the strength of the market, as compared to Seattle.
Today's report provides further proof that, pound for pound, Sacramento is one of the strongest performing markets in the NBA, said Kunal Merchant, the task force's executive director, in a prepared statement, according to the Sacramento Bee.
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SEATTLE, Feb. 1, 2007 – What's for dinner that's healthy and delicious? Answer this question with a little help from the 2007 Swedish Heart Diet. This free booklet contains more than 40 heart-healthy recipes for breakfast, lunch, dinner, side dishes and desserts. The 2007 Swedish Heart Diet can be picked up at any QFC store in the Greater Seattle area.
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Same-sex marriage could be legal in California by the end of Friday.
Or the legal wrangling over Proposition 8 could continue for several more months — or even longer.
Either way, there's a sense on both sides of the issue that tomorrow will be a key date in the state's longstanding debate over gay marriage.
Behind closed doors Friday, the U.S. Supreme Court is expected to decide whether it will review a challenge to Prop. 8, the 2008 state ballot measure that established marriage as between a man and a woman and stripped gays and lesbians of the right to wed in California.
In February, the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals struck down the initiative. If the Supreme Court decides it doesn't want to review the case — such an announcement could come as early as Friday afternoon — the 9th Circuit's ruling will stand.
Officials in San Francisco are bracing for an onslaught of wedding requests, although there's some disagreement about whether a denial by the Supreme Court will immediately make same-sex marriage legal across the state, or whether further litigation will be required.
Then again, the court could decide that it wants to hear the case — and advocates on both sides of the issue believe it will. In that case, a decision won't be made until probably June.
There's also the possibility the court could put off making a decision. Then who knows when we'll have an answer.
"It's always a guess what the Supreme Court will do," says Erwin Chemerinsky, dean of the UC Irvine School of Law.
Speculation about the justices' decision went into overdrive this month after voters in Maine, Maryland and Washington approved ballot measures legalizing same-sex marriage and voters in Minnesota rejected a measure to ban it. Would the election results sway the justices? If so, how?
"In light of the four victories, they'll feel a lot of pressure from within to hold up the marriages," predicts Fred Karger of Laguna Beach, an openly gay Republican who worked as a senior aide on the presidential campaigns of Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush and Gerald Ford and who now runs Rights Equal Rights, an organization dedicated to exposing major donors who supported Prop. 8.
"A very exciting time," he said.
However, while Karger said he'd love for the Supreme Court to deny review of the Prop. 8 and let the 9th Circuit's ruling stand, he expects the justices will want to hear the case.
"It's just too big of a case," he said.
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Chelsea and Daniel Linnabary had often talked of opening their own tattoo shop.
But after only a month into his
When Chelsea Linnabary first received the news of her husband's death, she put down her tattoo machine for about a month and grieved.
"I stopped for a while when he died, but I picked the machine back up because I needed something to do," she said. "I needed to get my mind off his death. Tattooing was my coping mechanism."
Eventually, she said, she realized she couldn't live in the past and had to move forward. She did so by purchasing her own tattoo shop in
"I never would have had a reason to do this until he died," said Chelsea, who has been tattooing for roughly four and a half years. "This is my way of honoring him. The shop is in his memory."
The move is one her husband had always encouraged her to make.
"I just hope he is proud of me and the decisions I have made," she said.
She said the name wasn't one she picked just to draw in military clientele — there is meaning behind it.
"The Purple Heart means something to me because of my husband and his sacrifice," she said. "That's why I decided to name the shop that."
Chelsea Linnabary grew up around ink. Her dad was heavily tattooed, and she hung out at area shops growing up. Being a tattoo artist, she said, is something she was meant to do.
Especially when it comes to memorial tattoos
"The last time I talked to my husband before he died I was doing a memorial tattoo," she said. "Now that I know what it means to them, they mean that much more to me as an artist. Knowing I'm tattooing guys who are feeling the same loss gave me strength.
"I'm know I'm helping guys who've gone through the same thing."
With a grand opening scheduled for May 18, she said she is married to the shop now.
"This shop allows me to take all the negative energy I have because of his death and turn it into positive energy," she said. "You can't live in the past. I couldn't sit around and drink away my problems or be angry at the military. I didn't want my daughter to grow up with that same hate and sadness."
The grand opening's proceeds will benefit Evin Bodle, a Marine who was wounded on the day her husband was killed. Still at
"I feel like after everything happened, the military gave me everything I needed," she said. "I feel like the wounded get pushed to the side. His wife will be his caretaker and raise their two kids because he will never be able to work again. Any benefits they get from the military are never enough.
"That's why we are doing this — to do our part."
The benefit will feature live music, vendors, a car and bike show and tattoos. All proceeds will benefit the Bodle family. If you are interested in donating or for more information, contact
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Thread: SOTD: Sunday, January 20, 2013
For a lazy winter day around the house. It's going to be snowy and blustery today.
"You can ignore reality, but you can't ignore the consequences of ignoring reality." - Ayn Rand
"I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical...It is a medicine necessary for the sound health of government." - Thomas Jefferson
Rive Gauche pour Homme - YSL
ointments and perfume delight the heart....
Is the juice worth the squeeze?
.......,..Good morning!
Shanaan by Micallef
Good morning all !. SotD is Vol de Nuit.
Odori - Iris
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My SOTD is
L'Occitane Eau des Baux
Les Nombres d'Or Vanille by Mona di Orio
Current Top Favorites:
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2) Giorgio for Men vintage/V.I.P. for Men (Giorgio Beverly Hills)
3) Dia Man vintage edt (Amouage)
4) Anat Fritz Original Formula and Classical (Anat Fritz) - tie
4) Lalfeorosa (O'driù) - tie
6) Les Nombres d'Or Vetyver (Mona di Orio)
7) Captain vintage (Molyneux)
8) Tzora (Anat Fritz)
9) Javanese Patchouli (Zegna) - tie
9) Monsieur de Givenchy vintage (Givenchy) - tie
9) Coeur de Vetiver Sacré (L'Artisan) - tie
9) X for Men (Clive Christian) - tie
9) Patou pour Homme Privé (Jean Patou) - tie
9) Oud Shamash (The Different Company) - tie
Chanel Antaeus. For the 5-th day in row!
Wings for Men - Giorgio Beverly Hills
Have I told you about the scent of jasmine? Have I spoken about the smell of the sea? The earth is scented. And I perfume myself to enhance what I am. That's why I can not wear a perfume that bothers me. Perfuming is an instinctive wisdom. And like all art, it requires some knowledge of yourself..."
Clarice Lispector ( 1920-1977) - Perfumes da Terra / Earth Perfumes
Prada Amber PH
Annick Goutal Mandragore.
I don't know much about medicine, but I know what I like. -- S.J. Perelman
A low-key Sunday morning, starting off in Creed Royal Scottish Lavender.
A low-key Sunday morning, starting off in Creed Royal Scottish Lavender.
Pascal Morabito Nejma 6
Giorgio Beverly Hills - Giorgio for men
Went to Sunday mass wearing Gucci Pour Homme II by Gucci as my SotD (from a sample)
YSL Live Jazz
Invasion barbare from a sample at the moment
Is the juice worth the squeeze?
Seasonal favorites:
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2. Creed - Aventus
3. Tom Ford - Grey Vetiver
4. The Different Company - De Bachmakov
5. Dior - Homme Sport 2008
6. Montale - Aoud Legacy
7. Creed - Virgin Island Water
8. by Kilian - Straight to Heaven
9. Creed - Original Cologne
10. Clive Christian - 1872 for Men
Panama 1924 - Boellis
ointments and perfume delight the heart....
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"When you're all alone, when no one is watching, and there's no one around to impress, that is who you are" - Greg Laurie
Today is a sample of:
Very strange.
Capucci pour Homme
Sexy 9 by Trish McEvoy
I am not a musk person. In fact, as many of you know, I can't smell many musks (nothing!). But I do enjoy a good fruit note and this one doesn't disappoint. The blackberry is very tart, almost red-currant-esque. I wish I could smell the musk to see how it intermingles with the berry notes, but nonetheless the vanilla and tempered sweetness helps me visualize a bowl of berries, dusted with sugar and vanilla extract.
"All problems are illusions of the mind."
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These things cannot be long hidden: the Sun, the Moon, the Truth--Buddha
Mukhallat aj Najdi by Arabian Oud.
SotE - Jo Malone Pomegranate Noir.
PG Indochine
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2. A*Men Pure Malt
3. L'instant Extreme
4. Nasomatto Duro
5. CDG - Kyoto
From a sample:
Hermèssence Osmanthe Yunnan by Hermès
Thanks again, SaNielsen!
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Tann Rokka Aki
Hangover = Me not wearing any fragrances
Sample of Artisan Black by John Varvatos
From a decant:
Van Cleef & Arpels - Pour Homme
Maître Parfumeur et Gantier - Santal Noble
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Lorenzo Villoresi Acqua di Colonia
Agua Lavanda
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Envy for Men by Gucci (vintage) on left arm, Chergui by Serge Lutens on the other.
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There's more dirt under the fingernails of many Americans these days with more people rolling up their sleeves to tend home vegetable gardens.
The National Gardening Association found that home gardening has grown 28 percent over the last five years.
It's a trend that rings true locally, too.
"There absolutely is a huge resurgence in home gardening," said Gaston County Cooperative Extension specialist Julie Flowers.
Ranlo resident Danielle Biddy's venture into gardening started last year with herbs. Biddy worked as a nurse in heart failure unit at CaroMont Regional Medical Center. She and a doctor were seeing if using herbs like rosemary, basil and thyme could lower patients' blood pressure.
Biddy moved from herbs to vegetables this year. She has a raised garden bed about 6 feet wide and 10 feet long with tomatoes, cucumbers, zucchini and more.
Son Waylon, 2, likes to help his mother water the garden. He's old enough now that he can help and interested in watching the garden grow. Husband Jeremy said his great-grandfather used garden when he lived in their home, so the Biddy's garden plot brings back a family tradition.
"It's really not so much (work)," Biddy said "One big weekend of planting and getting everything together. It's how I relax on the weekends."
Biddy, 28, didn't grow up gardening, but she's pleased with her green thumb.
"That garden is my baby," Biddy said. "I've got my (nearly) 3-year-old, but that garden is my baby."
Keeping busy with gardening
Danny McBee, 65, never had a vegetable garden before this summer, though his mother and father raised a garden to feed their 10 children.
When he was getting ready to retire, his bosses at SAM's Club convinced him to take a nine-month personal leave from his job as an asset protection manager and come back at 66 instead.
"I'm a runner and planned on doing 13 half marathons. I knew that wasn't going to take up my time," McBee said. "I told my wife, Linda, 'I'm going to plant me a garden.' And she said, 'Well, you've never gardened before.' And I said, 'I know. It's going to be an adventure.'"
McBee turned to neighbor and veteran gardener Gordon Lemmons for advice. McBee and Lemmons picked out plants and Lemmons taught him how to plant and what to do to keep them growing strong.
"And I just got real enamored," McBee said. "I've gotten my garden in the lot next to me. I started feeding them Miracle Grow. And so, I would go check on them every day."
One day McBee found that something had trampled some of his tomato plants. He shared the bad news with his wife.
"I went home and told her, 'One of my babies is dead,'" McBee said.
She suggested tying up the tomato and it survived the attack.
Once the tomatoes are ready, the Hunter Huss graduate plans to have a tomato sandwich party for his reunion group.
"I can hardly wait," McBee said. "And next year, I'm planning on an even bigger garden."
Finding space
Chris Welborn's grandparents raised a garden when he was a child.
The Freightliner worker never had the chance to garden until now because he always lived in an apartment.
Now that the Hunter Huss High graduate lives in Charlotte, he's put down roots.
Welborn, 27, has 38 tomato plants, six pepper plants, six eggplants, two okra plants, two squash, two strawberry plants, one watermelon and 10 pumpkin plants.
He checks on the garden before heading to his second-shift job and when he comes back home.
"I'm surprised everything has actually done so well," Welborn said.
Top crops and preventing problems
Tomatoes are the top crop grown by Gaston County gardeners, Flowers said. After that, it's squash, cucumbers, peppers and sweet potatoes.
Many people are starting to grow year-round, adding to the South's already long gardening season. Cool season crops like lettuce, greens, collards, broccoli, cabbage and cauliflower are popular choices.
Just about anything can grow here if gardeners give the plant a little tender loving care, Flowers said. But she does caution people about planting citrus fruits because it gets too cold for them in the winter.
If you have your heart set on a lemon tree, Flowers said it's best to plant it in pot that can be brought in for the winter.
Flowers advises growers to do a soil test before adding anything to the ground. The free test involves taking samples in different parts of the garden and submitting that dirt in a provided cardboard box to Raleigh. Growers get back a report with an analysis that includes fertilizer and lime recommendations.
Newbie gardeners should learn as much as possible about the insects and diseases they might face before they put plants down.
"You can kind of prevent yourself on the front end from having a problem with them if you kind of know when they're going to occur and what causes things to happen," Flowers said.
One garden nemesis, the squash bug, can decimate plants. To prevent them from making a meal out of those growing plants, Flowers recommends planting them early.
"With squash bugs, you don't see as much of a problem until June," Flowers said. "It's best not to put in a late crop."
You can reach Amanda Memrick at 704-869-1839 or twitter.com/AmandaMemrick.
Gardening is growing
2007: 25 million people grew a home vegetable garden
2012: 32 million people grew a home vegetable garden
Why do people garden?
58 percent: To grow better tasting food
54 percent: To save money on food bills
51 percent: To grow better quality food
48 percent: To grow food I know is safe
40 percent: To feel more productive
Age of gardeners
18-34: 7 million gardeners
35-44: 5 million gardeners
45-54: 7 million gardeners
55 and older: 12 million gardeners
Source: National Gardening Association


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The Korean War: Personal Reflections
MONDAY, OCTOBER 23, 2000 12:15 p.m.
As a 29-year-old major in command of Weapons Company, 1st Battalion, 1st Marines, Edwin Howard Simmons landed at Inchon on 15 September 1950 during the Korean War. He took part in the epic Chosin (Chanjin) Reservoir campaign and other major offensives. He left Korea in late June 1951 after being lightly wounded. A veteran of three wars-World War II in the Pacific, Korea, and Vietnam-he likes to boast that he has commanded in combat, or been acting commander, of every size Marine unit from platoon to division. His 14 personal military decorations include the Distinguished Service Medal, the Silver Star, three Legions of Merit with Combat V, two Bronze Stars with Combat V, and a Purple Heart.
In 1972, upon retirement from active service, he returned to active duty to serve as the Director of Marine Corps History and Museums. He held this position for 24 years. General Simmons is a past president of the American Military Institute, the Council on America's Military Past, and the 1st Marine Division Association, and is a founder and past vice president of the Marine Corps Heritage (formerly "Historical") Foundation. His publications include award-winning Korean war novel, Dog Company Six (2000), The United States Marines: A History (1998), The Marines (1998), and a 68-page pamphlet history, Over the Sea Wall: U.S. Marines at Inchon (2000). At present he is writing a similar pamphlet history of the Chosin Reservoir campaign and a book-length history of the Marines in the First World War. General Simmons' luncheon speech is sponsored by the Keck Center for International and Strategic Studies. Lunch begins at 11:45 a.m. General Simmons will speak at 12:15 p.m.
The Racial Politics of Adoption
Named in 1994 as one of Time magazine's "50 American's under 40 destined to shape the future of the US," Randall Kennedy's career has led him from the legal profession to academia as an accomplished professor, journalist, editor, and author.
After graduating from Princeton University, where he won a Rhodes scholarship to Oxford University, Kennedy received his law degree from Yale Law School in 1982. He then clerked for Judge J. Skelly Wright and Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall. He is a member of the bar of the District of Columbia and the Supreme Court of the United States. Kennedy began teaching law at Harvard Law School in 1984, where he remains a Professor of Law specializing in contracts, the regulation of freedom of expression, and race relations law.
In 1990 Kennedy founded the magazine Reconstruction, a highly praised journal of African-American politics and culture. He has also written for The Harvard Law Review, Yale Law Review, The New York Times, Newsweek, The Washington Post and The New Republic. Kennedy is a contributing editor at IntellectualCapital.com and is on the editorial boards at The Nation, Dissent, and The American Prospect.
Kennedy's first book, Race, Crime and the Law (1997), was awarded the 1998 Robert F. Kennedy Book Award. In this book Kennedy addresses many of the issues surrounding the intersection of race relations and legal institutions-the subject of a lecture he presented at the Athenaeum in September 1997.
Kennedy's talk will draw from a nearly finished book, whose working title is Interracial Intimacies. He will describe and justify the federal Multi-Ethnic Placement Act that largely prohibits racial matching in adoption. Racial matching is the practice of preferring to place children of a given race with adults of the same race for purposes of adoption. Kennedy also criticizes the Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA), a federal statute that discourages the placement of Indian children with adults who are not Indian.
Year 2000: Global Issues
In 1979 Georgetown University Professor Jeane Kirkpatrick wrote a magazine article proposing changes in United States human rights policy. This article caught the attention of Governor of California Ronald Reagan, who was at the time considering a second bid for the Presidency. Two years later, Reagan was sworn in as President of the United States and appointed Kirkpatrick as the country's first female ambassador to the United Nations. President Reagan called her "a giant among the diplomats of the world."
Kirkpatrick has had a remarkable career outside of the United Nations. She is the author of four books: Good Intentions (1996), The Withering Away of the Totalitarian Estate . . . and Other Surprises (1991), The Reagan Phenomenon and Other Speeches in Foreign Policy (1983), and Legitimacy and Force: National and International Dimensions (1987). She is a regular contributor of op-ed articles in newspapers and journals including the Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, and The Washington Post. She has served as a member of both the Defense Policy Review Board and the President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board. She has received the Medal of Freedom, the highest civilian honor in the United States, as well as presidential medals from the Czech Republic and Hungary. She recently became the 50th recipient of the Friend of Zion Award from the Prime Minister of Israel.
Kirkpatrick is currently the Leavey Professor of Government at Georgetown University and testifies yearly before committees of the Senate and House of Representatives on national and international defense policies.
As a discerning scholar, political scientist, and advocate for America's foreign policy, Dr. Kirkpatrick is one of the modern era's experts on geopolitical issues. Her lecture at the Athenaeum is sponsored bv the Res Publica Society of CMC.
Human Agenda in Health Care
After the publication of Anna Quindlen's first novel, Object Lessons (1991), a review in The Washington Post noted, "Quindlen knows all the things we ever will be can be found in some forgotten fragment of family." In both her writing and her life, Quindlen dedicates herself to finding a more humane, ethical, and just way of living. She remains determined to balance motherhood and marriage with a career, not willing to sacrifice family for success.
Over the last 25 years, Anna Quindlen's work has appeared in some of America's most influential newspapers, many of its best- known magazines, and on both fiction and non-fiction lists. As a columnist at The New York Times from 1981 to 1994, Quindlen became only the third woman in the paper's history to write a regular column for its influential op-ed page when she began the nationally syndicated column "Public and Private." A collection of these columns was gathered in Thinking Out Loud (1993), which was on The New York Times Best Seller list for more than three months. In 1992 Quindlen won the coveted Pulitzer Prize for journalism.
Quindlen has written three bestselling novels: Object Lessons (1991), One True Thing (1994) and Black and Blue (1998). One True Thing was adapted into a Universal feature film starring Meryl Streep and Black and Blue was chosen for Oprah's Book Club. Quindlen is also the author of a collection of essays, Living Out Loud (1988), and two children's books, The Tree That Came to Stay (1992) and Happily Ever After (1997). She provided the text for the coffee table pictorials Naked Babies (1996) and Siblings (1998). In October 1999 Quindlen returned to life as a columnist writing the prestigious "Last Word" on the back page of Newsweek.
Anna Quindlen's visit to the Athenaeum is cosponsored by the Claremont Coalition on End of Life Issues, a grassroots community effort designed to raise awareness of the issues integral to the end of life. Dinner is for CMC persons only. The 6:45 p.m. talk is open to all.
The New Cosmology: Einstein's Biggest Blunder Undone
Gravitation has always been a question of, well . . . some gravity. Many great minds have mused over this seemingly simple force that causes all matter to attract more matter to it-from Copernicus to Galileo, from Brahe to Kepler, from Newton to Einstein. But lately there has been a problem with the commonly held theory of gravity that all observable objects-stars, planets, black holes, nebulae, etc.-account for only 5% of the theoretically necessary mass of the universe. The remaining and intangible 95% (referred to as dark matter) has eluded scientists for decades.
"We are really faced with two untenable possibilities," says Gregory Bothun, professor of physics at the University of Oregon. "Either we must believe in dark matter without really understanding anything about it, or we must believe that Newtonian gravity doesn't work the way we thought it did."
Bothun has made the exploration of this question his work. If he finds that there is, in fact, no evidence or need for the existence of dark matter, it would mean rewriting the theory of one of the most basic and observable forces of nature. Bothun began teaching at the University of Oregon in 1990, where he has also served as director of the university's Pine Mountain Observatory. As part of his work at the observatory, he supervises an educational outreach program to middle and high school aged students. Using the facilities at the observatory along with the Internet, he allows students to operate the telescopes at the observatory remotely. Because of these and other projects, he is considered a leader in integrating technology with teaching. Besides being the author of two textbooks, Modern Cosmological Observations and Problems (1998) and Cosmology: Mankind's Grand Investigation, Bothun is the scientific editor of The Astrophysical Journal. Professor Bothun also has extensive experience in operating space-based interments, including the Hubble Space Telescope.
Professor Gregory Bothun is Claremont McKenna College's 2000-2001 Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar
Putin's Challenge: Rebuilding the Russian State
A little more than a year ago, Russian President Boris Yeltsin appointed a lifelong KGB agent and former spy, Vladimir Putin, as his new Prime Minister. Putin's selection was deemed as the latest and perhaps most worrisome of the long list of Yeltsin appointees. Few guessed that Putin would be Yeltsin's last prime minister, and even fewer supposed that he would become Russia's second president in the first peaceful and democratic transfer of power in Russia's l000 year history. But Vladimir Putin remains an enigmatic figure. Is he liberal or authoritarian? What is to be learned from his handling of the tragedy aboard the Kursk? Will he work to foster freedom and civil liberty, or will he bring Russia back into its authoritarian winter? Putin has a clear agenda for rebuilding the Russian state in the context of a highly competitive global economy. But it is still very much an open question whether he will succeed in this task.
Peter Rutland is a fellow with the Caspian Studies Program at the Kennedy School of Government and also teaches full time at Wesleyan University. He has done fieldwork in Russia, Czechoslovakia, and Uzbekistan and recently interviewed President Putin.
Rutland completed his B.A. in politics and economics at Oxford and his Ph.D. in sociology at the University of York. He has written two books on Russian society, The Myth of the Plan (1984) and The Politics of Economic Stagnation in the Soviet Union: The Role of Local Political Organs in Economic Management (1993) and has edited the forthcoming Business and the State in Contemporary Russia (2000). Rutland has worked for both Radio Free Europe and the Radio Liberty Research Institute in Prague and has edited an annual survey of political events in the 27 former socialist countries for the East-West Institute.
Under the Lights: Selections of Poe
You've been to the Madrigal Feast. You've been to Lunar New Year. You know the hot-drink code backwards and forwards. You know which cheese goes best with which crackers, and how to separate the juice from the ice when you pour yourself a drink. You know that you have to show up at 3:42 p.m. if you want to get the last of the chocolate-covered strawberries from afternoon tea. You even know who Marian Miner Cook is. You think you know everything there is to know about the Athenaeum. But you don't.
On October 31st the Ath will host the First Annual Athenaeum Halloween Party. The evening will begin with a wild and scary dinner prepared by chefs David and Sid, and will be followed with a selection of poems by the great Edgar Allan Poe read by members of "Under the Lights," CMC's very own acting troupe. Finally, everyone will be dismissed from the Athenaeum around 7:15 p.m. to the Frazee Game Room, where three mystical psychics (sponsored by the director of student activities, Jim Nauls) will tell you the secrets of your future. Don't miss this exciting event . . . or else!
Costumes are optional.
What Does Green Mean? How the German Green Party Differs from the American
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 2000 12:15 p.m.
During the 1984 State Parliamentary election in Baden-Wuritemburg, a leading newspaper called Green Party candidate Rezo Schlauch "a stroke of luck." This judgment has been borne out by Schlauch's subsequent political successes, culminating in his 1998 election to the German Bundestag. In the current federal government headed by Gerhard Schroder, the Green Party is (along with the Social Democratic Party) part of the ruling coalition. Undeniably, Schlauch deserves some of the credit.
Rezzo Schlauch studied law at the Universities of Freiburg and Heidelburg, then practiced in Stuttgart before joining the Green Party in 1980. When serving in the State Parliament, he worked on ecological agriculture and the problems of rural regions. His special talent was for brokering compromise between radical environmentalists and conservative farming communities like the one in which he had grown up. As one journalist wrote, Schlauch combined "a broadly left-wing political consciousness with a strong attachment to his native soil and awareness of tradition." By 1995 Schlauch was a national figure. During the Bosnian war, the Green Party, which had long been committed to nonviolence, was divided over the question of whether Germany should join the NATO-led intervention. Green leader Joschka Fischer, now German Foreign Minister, took a pro-intervention stand, and the issue was decided when Schlauch agreed.
Today, after decades of grassroots activism and dissent, the Greens are on their way to becoming what Schlauch calls "a viable governing party." It has not been a smooth process, as he would be the first to attest. But it is a fascinating story, full of valuable lessons for anyone interested in the future of European politics. Rezzo Schlauch's Athenaeum talk is cosponsored by the European Union Center of California. Lunch will be served at 11:45 a.m. Mr. Schlauch will speak at 12:15 p.m.
The Truth Over Time: Looking Back on My Own Work
Amy Wilentz has devoted her distinguished career in journalism to discovering the truth in places fraught with restive political and social conditions and secretive or propaganda-mongering regimes. Best known for her coverage of Haiti, she authored The Rainy Season: Hati since Duvalier (1989), an account of the long-embattled country since the end of the dictatorship of Jean Claude ("Baby Doc") Duvalier; and translated and edited In the Parish of the Poor (1990), the letters of Haiti's first democratically elected leader, Jean-Bertrand Aristide.
In her talk, the third of five in the Gould Center's series, "Freedom, Power, and Persuasion: New Directions in Political Journalism in the 21st Century," Wilentz will discuss various options posed by a reporter's assignment: "distance and proximity, and which is preferable for knowing truth. . . . trusted sources (how do you judge whether your source is honest, and does it matter?); [and] chronology vs. causality. . . . Mostly I will focus on understanding personality. Was Aristide who I thought he was, or someone else entirely? How responsible was I in forming others' opinions of him? Was The Rainy Season a valuable document for those trying to understand Haiti, and should one continually revise, update and rethink one's work on a place, or is it better to 'move on'"?
A former staff-writer for Time magazine, Wilentz has contributed articles to the Los Angeles Times, Grand Street, The New Republic, The San Francisco Examiner, and The New York Times. Recently she served as Middle East correspondent for The New Yorker, and is currently a contributing editor at The Nation. Wilentz's close, insightful coverage and forceful writing have earned her the PEN Martha Albrand Non-Fiction Award and the Whiting Writers Award. She has also recently completed a soon-to-be-published novel about Jerusalem, Martyrs Crossing (2001).
Physician-Assisted Death: Progress or Peril?
Approximately two-thirds of all deaths in the United States involve a doctor's participation. These decisions, impact not only the patient, but also family, friends, and the physicians who are providing care. At the end of one's life, the choice may be to either continue aggressive medical therapy, which may not work and cause further pain, or to choose a hospice-oriented approach, which emphasizes quality over quantity of life.
Dr. Timothy Quill knows first hand the complex problems that many doctors are forced to face. In 1991 Quill put his career in danger when he wrote in The New England Journal of Medicine that he had assisted a terminally ill patient in suicide at her request, by subscribing pills and advising her on how to take a lethal dose. Moreover, he was the lead physician plaintiff in the New York State legal case challenging the law prohibiting physician-assisted death that was heard in 1997 by the U.S. Supreme Court (Quill v. Vacco). Although the Justices denied a sweeping right to assisted suicide, they left the door open for more modest claims.
Quill is a professor of Medicine and Psychiatry at the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, a primary care internist and the Associate Chief of Medicine at the Genesee Hospital in Rochester, New York. Dr. Quill is a Fellow of the American College of Physicians and a member of the Academy on Physician and Patient.
Quill has published and lectured widely about various aspects of the doctor-patient relationship with a special focus on end-of- life decision-making. He is the author of A Midwife Through the Dying Process: Stories of Healing and Hard Choices at the End of Life (1996)and Death and Dignity: Making Choices and Taking Charge (1993). He has served as a peer reviewer for The New England Journal of Medicine and published numerous journal articles.
Dr. Quill's appearance at the Athenaeum is cosponsored by the Claremont Coalition, a grassroots community effort designed to raise awareness of the issues integral to end of life.
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News Ice Blade's Takahashi to Launch Hito Hitori Futari Manga
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Tsutomu Takahashi draws story about girl from heavens along with Jiraishin diablo
This year's 48th issue of Shueisha's Weekly Young Jump magazine announced on Thursday that manga creator Tsutomu Takahashi will launch his Hito Hitori Futari series in the next issue on November 2. The story will center around a beautiful girl named Riyon who came from the heavens. The manga will begin with a 52-page chapter with the first page in color.
Tokyopop published Takahashi's Jiraishin manga, under the name Ice Blade, as one of the company's first titles in North America. Takahashi has been serializing a sequel called Jiraishin diablo since the inaugural issue of Kodansha's good! Afternoon magazine in 2008.
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Gallery: Mind-Blowing Building Built From Thousands of Books
Kren created "Scanner" specifically for MAMbo in collaboration with the Slovakian Centre for Information on Literature. The installation is the seminal event of a local children's book fair — some of us may have been raised to treat books like books and only books, but Kren manages to inspire literary reverence by using books as building materials. However intellectually metaphorical that may sound, it's a physical truth.
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[...] to build from. So far, they have looked into building homes from straw, fruit peel and even books. Now, a team at Rice University believes they can even make a building material from [...]
September 13, 2010 at 12:32 pm
[...] been arranged so that in some instances the spines of the books are turned out to reveal the title. Recycled books, journals and magazines were used to construct the desk, which was then topped with glass to [...]
August 17, 2010 at 1:01 am
[...] carpets that are integrated within the site and structure of the forest. In an amazing example of book architecture, the books are stacked like bricks, while open volumes form cushioned carpets on the forest floor. [...]
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I saw a very similar installation in prague last year, but on a smaller scale. Link http://www.flickr.com/photos/33774108@N03/4099248766/in/set-72157622794009490/
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We are devastated to report that a three-month-old Pit Bull puppy named Joey was thrown from a car in Brentwood, Long Island, on Saturday. A witness found the tiny 10-pound pup in a plastic bag near the Sagtikos State Parkway, covered in fleas and crying out for help. Joey suffered three broken vertebrae in his neck and is recovering at the Veterinary Medical Center of Long Island.
The ASPCA is offering a reward of $15,000 for information leading to an arrest and conviction in this case. This reward is in addition to a $5,000 reward offered by the Suffolk County SPCA. We are also providing a $10,000 grant to the Veterinary Medical Center to offset some of the costs of treating and caring for Joey.
"We were both outraged and saddened to hear about this disturbing case of violent abuse, and the callousness that was demonstrated by those responsible," says Matt Bershadker, Senior Vice President of the ASPCA's Anti-Cruelty Group. "While our ultimate hope is that these types of heinous acts never occur, this is a message that cruelty toward animals will not be tolerated. We are pleased to be in a position to help those who are helping Joey."
If you have information related to Joey's case, please contact the Suffolk County SPCA by calling (631) 382-7722.
Animal cruelty is a crime in every state—if you see something, call 911. Please join our battle against animal cruelty today!
Some people say animals are dumb and have no feelings. All you have to do is look into Joey's eyes or any animals eyes and see their emotions and feelings. How can anyone be so mean and cruel enough to hurt a defenseless animal is beyond me. Animals give you unconditional love. What more can you ask for? You won't find that kind of love with humans. God Bless You Joey. And may St. Francis watch over you always.
I am so sadden by this. It really broke my heart. Pitbulls are one of the most beautiful breeds, very loyal! The world has really fallen apart when people can take out their aggression out on a baby puppy. Well i hope baby joey is gonna be ok and will one day find a loving home that he has deserved since the moment he was born!
God bless you Joey. I hope you get to go to a great home.
Pelase keep us updated on the wellbeing of the puppy. Thank you for caring for him.
I'm truly saddened at the number of commenters making this about people from certain areas. Sadly, these sick, psychopathic people are throughout our entire nation. My heart breaks for all of the innocent animals who must endure cruelty at the hands of their owners; the very people these animals worship. I do not understand animal cruelty. I am truly grateful for people such as the kind person who rescued little Joey. Because of her, Joey will recover and he will find a happy home where he will be loved. He is one of the lucky ones. I am from Texas and I strongly believe in an eye-for-an-eye. I wonder if we would still have so many cases of murders, child abuse, and animal abuse if these people had done to them what they did to their victims? Makes you wonder.
People absolutely disgust me. I ache for Joey...no animal deserves that. People are so stupid and have no compassion for something that brings constant happiness. Thoughts and all my prayers for Joey. Thank you ASPCA for being there for help him.
Joey, you have so many praying for a full recovery and love you and want to adopt you. Hang in there buddy! To the ASPCA and VMCLI... you guys rock. THANK YOU!! and Joey Thanks you!!! You guys are incredible!!!!
God bless you little sweet Joey!!! This makes me absolutly sick to know that some lowlife douchbag of a being did this to a poor innocent baby!!! Don't worry Joey, the piece of crap that did this to you, will get the karma they deserve and I hope they rot on earth and in hell!!!
My love goes out to Joey and my sadness with the sick person who did the deed. I pray Joey finds a wonderful home.
I think more money/help needs to be poured into the shelters, etc. I once had someone tell me that they were just going to take their cat for a ride and let it go and when I told them to take it to the Humane Society, they said no, because they ask for money to surrender animals there. So I think that is a big issue for people is that they dont want to pay or have to answer any questions about dropping an animal off somewhere that could actually help the animal, so instead they just "dispose" of the animal any way they can. And unfortunately that is often to that animal's detriment. I understand that these places ned the money to operate, but I think if we could come up with other ways to bring that money in and offer people the chance to surrender animals there for free, it would save a lot more animals lives!


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Getting Started
- Get the latest java distribution from the http://java.sun.com website.
- Run the installer.
- Get a copy of the groovy distribution from the website, and copy it to some place on your hard drive.
- Unzip the groovy archive to some logical place on your harddrive, I have mine in C:\dev\groovy-1.0-jsr-03
- Get a copy of the jTDS database drivers from the http://jtds.sourceforge.net/ website, and extract it into a folder on your drive (mine is C:\dev\jtds-1.1). Note that for this archive you need to create the folder first, because the files in the archive are not nicely organized in a folder.
- Set the JAVA_HOME, GROOVY_HOME and CLASSPATH environment variables (on Windows, follow these steps)
- Open the System control panel
- Click the Advanced tab
- Click the Environment Variables button
- Add a new System variable with the name JAVA_HOME and the value of the directory java was installed in (mine is C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.5.0_04)
- Add a new System variable with the name GROOVY_HOME and the value of the directory groovy was installed in (mine is C:\dev\groovy-1.0-jsr-02)
- There should be a User variable with the name CLASSPATH, if there isn't create one and give it the value of the path to the jTDS jar file, (mine is C:\dev\jtds-1.1\jtds-1.1.jar)
- Start a command prompt, and type "set" and hit return to see that your environment variables were set correctly.
- Try opening groovyConsole.bat by double clicking on the icon in the bin directory of the Groovy distribution. If it doesn't work, open a command prompt, and change to the bin directory and run it from there to see what the error message is.
Hello, World
In the top part of the window of the groovyConsole, type the following
And then type <CTRL-R>.
Notice that the text gets printed out in the OS console window (the black one behind the groovyConsole window) and the bottom part of the groovyConsole says:
The line starting with "groovy>" is just the text of what the console processed. The "null" is what the expression "evaluated to". Turns out the expression to print out a message doesn't have any "value" so the groovyConsole printed "null".
Next try something with an actual value. Replace the text in the console with:
or your favorite arithmetic expression, and then type <CTRL-R> (I'm going to stop telling you to hit <CTRL-R>, I think you get the idea). Now the "value" printed at the bottom of the groovyConsole has more meaning.
You can assign values to variables for later use. Try the following:
Lists and Maps
The Groovy language has built-in support for two important data types, lists and maps (Lists can be operated as arrays in Java language). Lists are used to store ordered collections of data. For example an integer list of your favorite integers might look like this:
You can access a given item in the list with square bracket notation (indexes start at 0):
Should result in this output:
You can get the length of the list with the "size" method:
Should print out:
But generally you shouldn't need the length, because unlike Java, the preferred method to loop over all the elements in an list is to use the "each" method, which is described below in the "Code as Data" section.
Another native data structure is called a map. A map is used to store "associative arrays" or "dictionaries". That is unordered collections of heterogeneous, named data. For example, let's say we wanted to store names with IQ scores we might have:
Note that each of the values stored in the map is of a different type. Brett's is an integer, Pete's is a string, and Andrew's is a floating point number. We can access the values in a map in two main ways:
Should produce the output:
To add data to a map, the syntax is similar to adding values to an list. For example, if Pete re-took the IQ test and got a 3, we might:
Then later when we get the value back out, it will be 3.
should print out 3.
Also as an aside, you can create an empty map or an empty list with the following:
Conditional Execution
One of the most important features of any programming language is the ability to execute different code under different conditions. The simplest way to do this is to use the '''if''' construct. For example:
Don't worry too much about the first line, it's just some code to determine whether it is currently before noon or after. The rest of the code executes as follows: first it evaluates the expression in the parentheses, then depending on whether the result is '''true''' or '''false''' it executes the first or the second code block. See the section below on boolean expressions.
Note that the "else" block is not required, but the "then" block is:
Boolean Expressions
There is a special data type in most programming languages that is used to represent truth values, '''true''' and '''false'''. The simplest boolean expression are simply those words. Boolean values can be stored in variables, just like any other data type:
A more complex boolean expression uses one of the boolean operators:
Most of those are probably pretty intuitive. The equality operator is '''==''' to distinguish from the assignment operator '''='''. The opposite of equality is the '''!=''' operator, that is "not equal"
So some examples:
Boolean expressions are especially useful when used in conjunction with the '''if''' construct. For example:
An especially useful test is to test whether a variable or expression is null (has no value). For example let's say we want to see whether a given key is in a map:
Generally null is used to indicate the lack of a value in some location.
Debugging and Troubleshooting Tips
- Print out the class of a variable that you're interested in with myVar.getClass(). Then look up the documentation for that class.
- If you're having trouble with a complex expression, pare it down to a simpler expression and evaluate that. Then build up to your more complex expression.
- Try restarting the groovyConsole (this will clear out all the variables so you can start over.
- Look for the topic you're interested in in the http://groovy.codehaus.org/Language+Guide Groovy language guide
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Keegan Daniel is back to lead the Sharks against the Brumbies.
Daniel is one of three changes to the starting line-up that overcame the Kings in Port Elizabeth last weekend. With Jean Deysel's injury, Daniel's return couldn't have been better timed.
The other changes are in the backline where Charl McLeod starts ahead of Cobus Reinach while Odwa Ndungane is selected ahead of Lwazi Mvovo. These changes might be seen as rotation, but personally I think John Plumtree wants the most experienced side on the park against a tough Brumbies team.
The tinkering in the backline indicates a greater focus on the Brumbies' kicking game, with Odwa Ndungane notoriously better than Mvovo under the high ball, and with his stints at fullback, will be a second for Louis Ludik. McLeod's inclusion over Reinach could be purely on form after the youngster battled against the Kings, being substituted for the last quarter of the match, where McLeod showed some good form.
The bench sees the two dropped backline players take their spots, while Jacques Botes' cracked wrist must not be too serious as he takes his place as backup.
Sharks: 15 Louis Ludik, 14 JP Pietersen, 13 Paul Jordaan, 12 Francois Steyn, 11 Odwa Ndungane 10 Patrick Lambie, 9 Charl McLeod, 8 Ryan Kankowski, 7 Keegan Daniel (captain), 6 Marcell Coetzee, 5 Franco van der Merwe, 4 Anton Bresler, 3 Jannie du Plessis, 2 Craig Burden, 1 Tendai Mtawarira.Substitutes: 16 Kyle Cooper, 17 Wiehahn Herbst, 18 Pieter-Steph du Toit, 19 Jacques Botes, 20 Cobus Reinach, 21 Meyer Bosman, 22 Lwazi Mvovo.
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WASHINGTON — The 57th presidential inauguration may be an inside-the-beltway affair, but Georgia residents are crashing the party next week to put their Peach State stamp on festivities marking the final four years of the Barack Obama presidency.
Hundreds of thousands of Americans will pack the National Mall to watch the president take the ceremonial oath of office on the steps of the U.S. Capitol on Monday, Jan. 21, which is also the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. holiday.
But the Georgia party begins Sunday, January 20 when more than 1,000 people will attend the Georgia Inaugural Gala at the National Museum of Women in the Arts in downtown Washington. The black tie event, hosted by the Georgia State Society of Washington D.C., will feature a variety of Georgia-inspired southern food and drinks.
Expect an abundance of peach cobbler, pecan pie, apple crisps and red velvet cake.
Members of Georgias congressional delegation will also attend, including the honorary society chairman, Rep. David Scott, D-Smyrna, who said he was excited about the pre-party enthusiasm.
We expect a sold-out diverse and bipartisan crowd to celebrate the best of Georgia, Scott said.
Atlanta Braves baseball legend Hank Aaron will make a special appearance and legendary singer Gladys Knight, a native of Oglethorpe, Ga., will be on hand to sing as well.
I know that hearing Georgia on My Mind from Georgia native Gladys Knight will be one the highlights of the evening, Scott said.
Knight will face some competition from 18 members of the Georgia State University Marching Band, wholl also play Georgia on My Mind and Living in America, a song made famous by longtime Georgia resident, the late James Brown, the legendary Godfather of Soul.
They had reached out to us and we said we thought that would be a great idea to have a small representative contingent from the band come to the gala, said society board member and historian, Randy Nuckolls, a native of Dalton, Ga., and a partner at the Washington office of the Atlanta law firm, McKenna Long & Aldridge.
The following day on Jan. 21, the full 180-member Georgia State marching band and color guard will be the states sole representative in the Inaugural Parade through downtown. Its an honor considering the band first began performing less than three years ago.
To keep expectations down, marching band director Chester Phillips didnt even tell the members that they were among some 2,800 bands across the country vying for one of the coveted spots in the parade.
This was something we kept internal, he said. We felt like we had a good story and obviously a good product, so we hoped we would get selected. And we thought it would be more exciting to reveal to students if they didnt know about the application.
The band was selected after providing video footage and audio recordings of their performances. The Georgia congressional delegation provided letters of support, as did Gov. Nathan Deal and former United Nations Ambassador Andrew Young, who the Georgia State School of Policy Studies is named after.
Phillips said the bands initial shock upon learning that they would participate in the parade quickly gave way to cheers.
They certainly got excited about it, he said, but at first they were like what? They had to ask me to repeat it, like What did you say?
In Columbus, Ga., business partners Travis Chambers and Karl Douglass, who run a real estate sales and management company, will be making the trip with their wives. Business engagements didnt allow Chambers to attend Obamas 2009 inauguration and he still regrets it.
The first African American president? I really wanted to be there for that, said Chambers, who is black. I was able to watch it on television, but I heard you really had to be there to witness and appreciate the moment.
While his three sons, ages 10 to 20, won be making the trip, Chambers, 41, said they realize the historical significance of the event and the role model Obama is for black youth.
This is a good example that you can be anything you want to be if you just put your mind to it, Chambers said. Dont ever say what you cant be. A lot of African Americans have made great accomplishments throughout our history and this is just one big one that we can all celebrate.
Douglass, who was the Obama campaigns regional political director in 2008, is making his second inaugural trip.
It was history to elect the first African American president, he said. I think its equally important to say We did it on purpose. To have him re-elected confirms that people were comfortable with the decision they made the first time.
Douglass, 44, and Chambers will both attend the Georgia gala and the inauguration parade and ceremony. Douglass, who is also black, said hell also visit the National Archives Building to see the Emancipation Proclamation, which was signed by President Abraham Lincoln 150 years ago.
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