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Ashlyn officially started CRAWLING on Tuesday. No more of the "army man, slide around her belly" to get to where she wants to go. She was up on her hands and knees. And how funny that the same night she started doing that, she also started "cruising" around by holding onto furniture and walking. So technically, I guess that is 2 milestones in one day! She also loves to give us "kisses". Big wet ones all over our faces...seriously may be the sweetest thing ever.
We are off to Tennessee for my 10 year high school reunion this weekend. I guess I should start feeling old now, but I have been too busy to think about it. Honestly, I think I am subconsciously repressing the realization that I have now officially been out of high school for 10 YEARS! It will probably be lots of fun. And kind of weird too, don't you think?
Friday, July 30, 2010
And she's off!
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Thursday, July 22, 2010
9 months old!
Ash turned 9 months old on Monday. She weighed 18 lbs at her doctors appt. Still not eating any food...but we are now trying 3 times a day. I have virtually given up on baby food. We give her whatever fruits and veggies we have at the house and let her "feed" herself. She usually puts a couple of pieces in her mouth, and then proceeds to spit them back out. Honestly, it is kind of frustrating. But then I wonder how in the world I can be frustrated when I look at this sweet face. Her likes right now: clapping her hands, waving "bye-bye", books, bubbles, baths, and of course, her bottles. I mean, how else could she pack on 18 lbs? Favorite toys - hands down - my cell phone and the computer cords under my desk. Because they are the most fun and colorful things that she has to play with.
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Wednesday, July 21, 2010
"bubble" bath
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Sunday, July 18, 2010
Aunt Julia & Uncle Gene!
We had a great weekend in Atlanta with my sister and brother in law. Ashlyn loved spending time with her aunt and uncle. We spent some time in the pool, went out to eat, and then went to a Braves game!
We gave Ashlyn a bite of a strawberry cupcake at the restaurant (ok, I know she is not quite old enough for cupcakes yet but we had to try...) AND look at her face! She hated it! hahaha!
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Sunday, July 11, 2010
The past few days...
Ashlyn has been busy the past few days! She has been in Tennessee with my parents since Thursday and came back home early this morning. Our house seems so quiet when she is not here. Her two top teeth are really coming in! And she also started waving this weekend! My mom and dad LOVED that they got to see her really wave "bye-bye" for the first time. I have loved watching that chubby little hand wave to us all day today!
We spent a couple hours on the lake this afternoon with Christopher's parents. She loves riding on the boat!
We spent a couple hours on the lake this afternoon with Christopher's parents. She loves riding on the boat!
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Monday, July 5, 2010
4th of July Beach Weekend!
Ashlyn's first 4th of July! We spent a great weekend at Christopher's family's beach house. I learned early on in our relationship that when the Newman family goes to the beach, they really go to the beach. And stay ALL day. Ashlyn was such a trooper. She spent about 8-9 hours on the beach each day we were there! She is definitely a Newman beach loving girl!
Getting ready for her pre-nap walk with dad!
Here is her own little baby tent where she slept during the day.
Getting ready for her pre-nap walk with dad!
Here is her own little baby tent where she slept during the day.
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Thursday, July 1, 2010
Fabric Lined Bookshelves
I must make a confession. I am in love with brown. I am always drawn to it. Almost every piece of furniture I have ever purchased is brown. I love the richness and warmth...yet sometimes I feel like it is consuming me because it is EVERYWHERE in my house. For this latest venture, we decided to paint our bookshelves white...more specifically, "Antique White" by Glidden. I almost had a panic attack thinking that they would not match the rest of the house. Really. I had to tell myself to get over it.
Here is the before. No surprise that I had 4 dark brown pieces of furniture on the back wall around the archway (ok, you can only see 3 here but you get the idea). The wall of brown.
Outline for our new and improved bookshelves.
Found this super cute fabric to use as the background.
After a debate on how to actually secure the fabric, we decided to use the ever faithful staple gun. We just stapled the fabric on to the back frame of the shelves.
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NBC's Up All Night Gets a Major Makeover
NBC's Up All Night is getting a full-on makeover this spring, when the NBC sitcom will transition from its current single-camera format to a multi-camera, live audience formula.
The series will continue airing through mid-December, after which it will go on hiatus until April or May 2013. Season 2 is slated to be 16 episodes long: We'll get 11 before the break and five more when it returns.
"This was an idea we and [executive producer] Lorne [Michaels] came to in order to infuse the show with more energy," NBC entertainment chairman Bob Greenblatt said in a statement (via TV Guide). "We know what the multi-camera audience does for the live episodes of 30 Rock, plus after seeing both Maya [Rudolph] and Christina [Applegate] do SNL within the past few months, we knew we had the kind of performers — Will Arnett included — who love the reaction from a live audience."
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Fenerbahçe have completed the transfer of Atletico Madrid midfielder Emre Belözoğlu for a fee of €350,000.
The Istanbul club issued a statement on their official website, Fenerbahçe.org.tr confirming the move.
"Emre Belözoğlu has agreed a 2.5 year deal which will see him return back to his home."
Emre will earn €1.2 million for the remainder of the season in addition to a match-bonus of €20,000 per-game.
The Turkish international midfielder will make €2 million in 2013-14 and the same amount in 2014-15, Emre will also receive a €20,000 match-bonus for every game played at the club.
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Rubble, rubble, toil and trouble: the building of Rubble-House
Rubble, rubble, toil and trouble: the building of Rubble-House
Marietta, Ga. (Oct. 7, 2011) – The SPSU community has monitored with great interest the progress made in the construction and testing of a joint endeavor with the humanitarian relief organization Conscience International known as the Rubble-House Research Project.
Conscience International has spent the past year building new homes from the rubble created by the January 2010 earthquake that left so many Haitians homeless. SPSU is helping the organization by gathering scientific data to support the belief that, not only are these houses easy and inexpensive to build, they also hold up better than traditional concrete block homes in disasters such as earthquakes. This is the first time hard data has been collected on the sturdiness of these structures, but Conscience International has already built more than 30 of them in Haiti and has plans to build many more.
Beginning in late August, SPSU faculty members and students helped Conscience International build a house out of broken chunks of concrete – one of the few resources in abundant supply in Haiti since the quake flattened so many structures – using only hand tools on the green between the J Building and Howell Hall. The Rubble-House website contains updates and additional photos. A web cam was set up on the roof of the J Building to allow anyone interested to monitor a live shot of the work, which also attracted many bystanders.
Having completed much of the construction of a rough dwelling by mid-September, the team began performing a series of static load tests on the walls on Sept. 19 to measure their ability to withstand pressure of varying degrees. They also hit freestanding demo walls with a battering ram, and noted a vast difference between the damage it caused to a traditional concrete wall and a wall made of rubble. Whereas the ram destroyed the concrete-block wall in short order, the rubble wall showed only localized surface damage after extensive battering.
Final, destructive testing took place on Fri., Oct. 7. Next, Dr. Fatih Oncul in the School of Architecture, Civil Engineering Technology and Construction Management, and Dr. Wasim Barham and Dr. Metin Oguzmert of the Division of Engineering will use the data collected in the tests to build mathematical models showing how the structure responded to external forces. They will also subject a small section of the wall to a shaker table test in the near future.
The campus community is not alone in its interest in the Rubble-House project. Members of the news media have filed a number of stories on the progress being made, including the Marietta Daily Journal and WSB-TV. To view these reports, please visit:
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Kent Conrad sent tremors through North Dakota's political landscape when he announced on Jan. 18, 2011, he would not seek a fifth term in the U.S. Senate. The decision was an aftershock to the political earthquake delivered a year earlier, on Jan. 5, 2010, when Sen. Byron Dorgan, a fellow Democrat, announced he would retire from politics. Continue Reading


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Congress just passed the Senate's health care bill 219 to 212.
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Pass the syrup, please: 40 years of pancakesJuly 1, 2014
Dr. Rod Bisbee dropped by The Sheridan Press one day last week, pancake breakfast tickets handy, and we bought ours. The Sheridan Kiwanis Club Pancake Breakfast, which Dr. Bisbee and Charles Simon started 40 years ago, is a community staple in "rodeo week" with more than 2,100 served annually in downtown Sheridan. Dr. Bisbee says Read More
Tourist and runner salutes race, cityJune 27, 2014
Part of the current issue of The Log, the official publication of the Sheridan County Historical Society and Museum, is a nifty story about its new director, John Woodward. We met in early May as he was getting his feet wet at "our" museum, a good one. He's here in Sheridan via a small museum Read More
Celebrate sausage Friday at Legerski'sJune 26, 2014
From the This-Sounds-Like-An-Ad, file….. Tomorrow, Jimmy Legerski celebrates almost a year in business with a Customer Appreciation Open House at Legerski Sausage Co. It's certainly a home-grown, family-owned, Sheridan-driven small business with a growing fan base amidst its award-winning food. He'll have free sausage sliders beginning at 3 p.m. There will be prize giveaways, discounts Read More
'Horseman' features; Hoffman celebrationJune 25, 2014
Next month, the life and times of Bruce Hoffman will be celebrated at Sheridan College. Most know coach Hoffman served 35 years as the Generals basketball coach and then another 15 years as an SC trustee. His commitment to the college and to the Sheridan community is extraordinary. Hoffman's 651 wins remain in the top Read More
SC success shared; Little League at 75June 24, 2014
A "thank you" note is always appreciated. This one via Debi Isakson, the coordinator of the Sheridan College Foundation and community engagement, and Steve Smiley, the SC athletic director. Last month, SC held their annual fundraiser golf tournament at the Powder Horn — the fourth year for the tournament — and it was a huge Read More
'Latte' honors via StarbucksJune 20, 2014
Starbucks announced this week the company will pick up the tab for online degree programs for its baristas and staff. Said one wiseacre pundit: "When they graduate with honors, they'll be recognized as "Summa Cum Latte." •••••• We're putting the final touches on the 2014 Sheridan WYO Rodeo magazine. It's part of the Press' Destination Read More
Relay for Life Friday at KendrickJune 19, 2014
All that purple around town. It's all very meaningful — the love and respect for those who have had cancers, have survived them and those who have not. It's also about their caregivers. Cancer is never a "me" business — there's always a team involved, often just one. Most often, a spouse. It's the Relay Read More
Maine, Red Sox: People talk 'funny'June 17, 2014
Sometimes, you just can't beat being a tourist. Susan, Ryann and I have recently returned from a trip to Great Diamond Island, Maine, and a side trip to Boston, firsts on both accounts. Older brother Paul, a CPA and tax law expert/consultant, and his lovely spouse, Linda, have a home on the island, accessible by Read More
Historic tours, 'Artscapes' featuresJune 4, 2014
If you're interested in local history, there's an opportunity this weekend for tours of historic buildings The Alliance for Historic Wyoming will partner with the Ucross Foundation and will give visitors a chance to tour historic buildings in rural Sheridan and Johnson counties Saturday, June 7. It begins at 10 a.m. and lasts until 3 Read More
Bohl, Cowboy Joe golf comes to PHJune 3, 2014
The kickoff isn't until Aug. 30, yet the vibe at the annual Cowboy Joe Club Golf Series tournament Saturday was optimistic. (Read: we've got a winner of a football coach.) New Wyoming head football coach Craig Bohl made an effort to meet and greet each golfer who had signed up to play at The Powder Read More
Piney Creek tour; 'Longmire' anewMay 30, 2014
Come Saturday, June 7, The Alliance for Historic Wyoming, in partnership with the Ucross Foundation, will host a workshop and tour of the historic buildings beginning at 10 a.m. Interested people should meet at the Big Red Barn in Ucross. The "Unbarred" tour of the area will be a self-guided driving and walking tour running Read More
Restoration event for Kearney HallMay 28, 2014
Courtney Caplan stopped by Tuesday. She's got a "soft spot" for lonely, old buildings and wants to restore Kearney Hall. A fund-raising event has been scheduled for Saturday, June 7, which includes an auction beginning at 10 a.m. Kearney Hall opened in the 1950s and served as a place to vote, to square dance, a Read More
A-Rod summers, sausage tastingMay 27, 2014
Somehow, there's a sense that major league baseball doesn't miss Alex Rodriquez. A summer without A-Rod is like a summer without gnats. •••••• Must say, the Notebook's been to a few "wine tastings" over the years. A first, last Thursday: a sausage tasting. This from Jimmy Legerski and Legerski Sausage Co. of Sheridan. Read More
Box will be parade marshalMay 23, 2014
Wyoming author C.J. Box will be the grand marshal for this year's Sheridan-Wyo-Rodeo Parade. Longtime rodeo board member and County Commissioner Tom Ringley said so Wednesday during Gov. Matt Mead's citywide tour. Ringley writes a fortnightly column for the Press on local history and events. Box is a best-selling author whose 15 books routinely top Read More
Mead stresses education, energyMay 22, 2014
Wyoming's 32nd governor, Matt Mead, was in Sheridan Wednesday, outlining his re-election campaign, celebrating education at Sheridan College, cheering art at The Brinton Museum and found time to stop by Kraft's Jewelry as they celebrated their 50th anniversary in business. (Wonder if bought something for First Lady Carol Mead, who was also in Sheridan at Read More
Gov. Mead, First Lady visitMay 21, 2014
Welcome to Sheridan, Gov. Matt Mead and Wyoming First Lady Carol Mead. •••••• It's a busy day for our governor: a press conference at City Hall with Mayor Dave Kinskey, a luncheon meeting at Sheridan College; Ms. Mead will host a reading at Fulmer Public Library and come evening, Gov. Mead kicks off Read More
No bad weather, 144 play for SCMay 20, 2014
Congrats! Sheridan College's Steve Smiley and his hard-working crew hosted a first-rate fundraiser golf tournament Friday at The Powder Horn. Plenty of blue-and-gold Generals swag on a nice spring afternoon. It was hugely successful: some 144 golfers (or, people who had golf clubs) teed it up to raise money for SC athletics. Last year, only Read More
Bighorn Design celebrates a milestoneMay 16, 2014
Twenty years on Main Street! That's a milestone for any small business. On May 18, 1994, Joan & Steve Jacobson opened Bighorn Design at 225 Main, some 300 square feet of retail space, selling mostly T-shirts. One Main Street merchant greeted them on the first day: "You won't last five years." Well, here they are, Read More
Hospital rankings; new Wayne bookMay 14, 2014
I see by the paper…… Both Sheridan hospitals made the top 10 Wyoming hospitals list of the Wyoming Business Report recently. The Sheridan VA was ranked second (205 beds) to the Cheyenne Regional Medical Center (206). "Our" VA was founded in 1921 and in 2013, had 1,268 in-patient admissions and 128,213 outpatient visits, according to Read More
Caps and gowns, soccer, SA messageMay 13, 2014
A busy weekend fersure, hereabouts: • Sheridan College conferred 466 degrees and certificates Saturday afternoon at the Bruce Hoffman Golden Dome. The commencement was packed with family members, students and friends of SC. • At the same time, the 10th annual Snickers Big Horn Soccer Cup was going on, attracting youth soccer teams from all Read More
Destination Sheridan available SaturdayMay 8, 2014
Coming Saturday. The spring edition of Destination Sheridan magazine arrives. It's 116 pages of area lifestyle stories, local history and tourism information, Sheridan-area marketing and a restaurant guide. It'll be inserted into Saturday's editions and available at more than 100 local locations. Good stuff, this. And, it's free. •••••• Last week, I asked Read More
Celebrate humanity: talk to a nurseMay 7, 2014
Since this is National Nurses Week, here's a column I've published before with a couple of tweaks here and there. Frankly, I like writing about nurses. (Our daughter-in-law is a fourth generation RN.) • In November 1969, I was en route back home to Marshall, Texas, having "phoned in" the basketball game I was covering Read More
Samaritan Awards; Kraft's at 50May 6, 2014
Come Saturday, eight members of our community will be honored with Good Samaritan Awards. The recognition banquet will be at the Holiday Inn Conference Center, beginning at 5 p.m. The keynote speaker is Irene De Anda, the executive director of The Salvation Army's Red Shield Youth and Community Center in downtown Los Angeles. Sponsors for Read More
Chaps Equine 'Derby' SaturdayMay 2, 2014
One of the best groups around, CHAPS Equine Therapy, is having their big fundraiser Saturday — Day at the Derby. It's in the loft at Warehouse 201, in Historic Downtown Sheridan. The fun begins at 3 p.m. and the public's invited to come by, enjoy the buffet, the prize giveaways, the auctions, and test one's Read More
Project Graduation, new Warnke dioramaMay 1, 2014
May? Already? •••••• Project Graduation 2014 is underway for Sheridan High School grads, according to some news from Pam Harper. A "good thing," quoting Martha Stewart, no matter the school or community. In Sheridan, it's now in its 19th year. (Graduation is May 25 and the social is from 9 p.m. to 3 a.m. Read More


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You'll know once you find the right birthday gift for her, because you'll be as excited to gift it as she is to get it.
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Myia Passiello "Timeless" Earrings
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Remember Polaroids? She does, and she cherishes those instant memories. This year, get her off Instagram (and maybe even her phone if you're lucky) and focused on you with an INSTAX Mini 8 camera. This instant camera is the modern-day version of the Polaroid camera she loved as a kid.
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Second Creek Greenway History
Knoxville Iron Works was co-founded by the Richards brothers on property located along Second Creek, adjacent to where the L&N Railroad Station would eventually be built. The entire area was later incorporated into the site for the 1982 World's Fair. The only original remaining Iron Works building is "The Foundry," known during the World's Fair as the Strohaus.
The French Broad River (flowing from Asheville, North Carolina) joins the Holston River (flowing from Kingsport) to form the Tennessee River in the southeast part of the city. Knoxville is centered on a hilly area along the north bank of the river between its First Creek and Second Creek tributaries. This area now comprises Downtown Knoxville.
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Will Repealing the Repeal of DADT Be Debated in Congress on Thursday?
By Tom Carpenter
The ink was barely dry on the bill to repeal the "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" (DADT) law, when the opponents of repeal, led by newly elected Representative and Marine Corps veteran Duncan Hunter (R-CA) (son of the antigay former congressmember with the same name) introduced legislation to reverse this victory for American values. While The DADT Repeal Act of 2010 (Repeal Act), is far from perfect, at some undetermined time in the future, it will allow all patriots to serve our country without regard to their sexual orientation.
As many LGBT activists, Pentagon professionals and service members work diligently towards completing all the requirements for certification and implementation of the repeal legislation, the repeal of the repeal looked like a wild card played to the far right wing of the Republican base. After all, the Senate would never pass such legislation.
But perhaps the hearings – including a hearing before the House Armed Services Committee (HASC) on Thursday – should be taken more seriously.
In the wake of the "shellacking" the Democrats took in the midterm elections, the Republicans now control the House of Representatives as well as the HASC. The impact of the Tea Party members of the Republican base is being felt strongly as the threat of government shut down is real and eminent. This is a game of chicken to see who will blink first in the budget fight. While the Republicans argue they are merely following the mandate of the Tea Party and their fiscally conservative base to reduce sending, it is clear that this is only partially true. Just look at what issues the House has taken up since it was sworn in on January 5, 2011. It is not jobs, jobs, jobs nor is it " the economy, stupid". As they attack family planning, the arts, education and health care, it is clear they want to reverse the progress made by the Democrats in the last Congress. Not least of which is the repeal of DADT.
The first hearing, appropriately held by the HASC Subcommittee on Personnel on April Fools Day, is instructive of what is likely ahead on Thursday when the whole HASC meets to consider the progress of the certification process required by the Repeal Act.
UPDATE: Both Wonkroom at ThinkProgress and MetroWeekly have stories about the testimony before Congress Thursday, reporting that the service chiefs basically said there have been no problems implementing the DADT repeal.
Let's put this into context.
The Repeal Act was passed in one of the greatest "Hail Mary" passes in legislative history. The Republican minority in the Senate, opposing repeal, twice filibustered the National Defense Authorization Act of 2010, solely because it contained a provision to repeal DADT. Even after an appeal from the Secretary of Defense and the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff asking Congress to pass this "must pass" piece of legislation, the opponents of repeal were willing to deny funding to our men and women in uniform who are engaged in two major conflicts. This should have been a strong signal of the depth of their animosity towards LGB Americans.
Still determined to do the right thing, a team made up of former Rep. Patrick Murphy (D-PA), Rep. Steny Hoyer (D-MD), Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), Sen. Carl Levin (D-MI), Sen. Joe Lieberman (D-CN) and Sen. Harry Reid (D-NV), crafted a plan to get past the successful blocking by the Senate Republicans – a stand-alone bill. The House strategy was particularly brilliant in flanking HASC, probably the most conservative committee in the 211th Congress, led by the Blue Dog Democrat and recently defeated former Rep. Ike Skelton (D-MO). Speaker Pelosi allowed the stand-alone Repeal Act to be voted on by the House, without going through the HASC. The Republicans and their Blue Dog Democratic fellow travelers were caught off guard and were probably none to happy.
Fast-forward three months.
The HASC's Personnel Subcommittee Chair is none other than Joe "You Lie!" Wilson, Republican from South Carolina. He and
his fellow Republicans gave us a clear signal of their two major concerns: the all-time red herring of "showers" and the alleged loss of "religious liberty" by fundamentalist chaplains.
The depth of ignorance of the impact of the DADT law on service members, demonstrated by of some of these Freshmen Republicans -supported by the Tea Party – was appalling. In the following exchange between one of the two Pentagon witnesses, Vice Admiral Robert Gortney, and Rep. Austin Scott (R-GA) you can see that Scott thought that most DADT discharges were a result of conduct, not status:
Then there was Rep. Vicky Hartzler (R-MO) who asked why the military didn't allow men and women to shower together, saying that those in favor of repeal were using a double standard and not being consistent because they were not in favor of allowing this to happen:
The entire hearing was an insult to our men and women in uniform, as well as the military and civilian leadership of the Department of Defense.
Outserve, an organization of almost 3000 active duty members agrees. Jonathan Hopkins, a former Army Captain, combat veteran and spokesperson for Outserve said,
"This hearing illustrated military leadership implementing a repeal plan they thoroughly researched, created and support. It is clearly working. In contrast, some House members seem to be informed only by stereotypes, leaving an impression that does them no favors. Supported by a tiny minority of Americans, they want to halt smooth implementation, and create division within the military where unity is essential."
Then there's Servicemembers Legal Defense Nework's take on the hearing:
"Today's hearing represents a shameless and transparent attempt by a few repeal opponents to delay, defund, and derail the timely certification and full repeal of the discriminatory 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' law.
"Mr. Wilson knows better. There was nothing undemocratic about last year's vote to repeal 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell.' The measure passed both houses of Congress on a strong bi-partisan vote."
Servicemembers United saw progress:
"Despite the transparent intentions behind the scheduling of today's oversight hearing on the progress toward 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' repeal, the hearing went very well and revealed smooth sailing for ongoing training and certification preparation. Under Secretary Stanley and Vice Admiral Gortney thoroughly answered all questions regarding the progress of repeal training, and opponents of repeal noticeably struggled to try to get in digs about this inevitable change in policy. Overall, the Department of Defense continues to do an admirable job in deliberately moving forward toward certification and finality on this issue."
The next hearing, before the entire HASC, is Thursday, April 7, at 1:00pm EDT/10:00am Pacific. The witnesses will be the service chiefs or their designees, including General Peter W. Chiarelli, Vice Chief of Staff, U.S. Army; Admiral Gary Roughead, Chief of Naval Operations, U.S. Navy; General James F. Amos, USMC Commandant, U.S. Marine Corps; and General Norton A. Schwartz, USAF Chief of Staff, U.S. Air Force.
What to expect? Buck McKeon (R-CA), the new Chairman of the HASC, has made it clear he was against repeal in the first instance and will closely monitor the certification process. He will be joined by the vocal opponents from the Personnel Subcommittee we heard from on April Fools Day. Joe Wilson has gone even farther by saying he wants to repeal the Repeal Act. The author of the bill to do that, Rep. Duncan Hunter (R-CA) will likely be in an attack mode.
We will hear more about the showers, the chaplains, retention of those who object to open and honest service, recognition of same sex marriages and questions related to benefits and pay to name a few. The opponents to the Repeal Act will want to do all they can to reverse the progress that has been made thus far or derail the entire certification and implementation process.
Stand by for incoming. Let's hope our allies are prepared for this firefight.
Tom Carpenter, an openly gay and married former Marine Captain, is the co-chair of The Forum on the Military Chaplaincy.


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In 1918, back in the Arctic, Amundsen set out to negotiate the Northeast Passage in the Maud. After two winters he arrived at Nome, the first after N. A. E. Nordenskjöld to sail along the whole northern coast of Europe and Asia. Amundsen then turned to air exploration. He and Lincoln Ellsworth in 1925 failed to complete a flight across the North Pole, but the next year in the dirigible Norge, built and piloted by Umberto Nobile, they succeeded in flying over the pole and the hitherto unexplored regions of the Arctic Ocean N of Alaska. A bitter controversy followed with Nobile as to the credit for the success. Yet in 1928, when Nobile crashed in the Italia, Amundsen set out on a rescue attempt that cost him his life. Although credit for the first flight over the North Pole has long been given to Richard Byrd, notes from Byrd's diary suggest that he may not actually have reached the pole, in which case Amundsen and Nobile would hold that distinction. The story of the ventures with Ellsworth, written by the two of them, appear in Our Polar Flight (1925) and The First Crossing of the Polar Sea (1927).
See the autobiographical My Life as an Explorer (tr. 1927).
Roald Engelbregt Gravning Amundsen (July 16, 1872 – c. June 18, 1928) was a Norwegian explorer of polar regions. He led the first Antarctic expedition to reach the South Pole between 1910 and 1912. He was also the first person to reach both the North and South Poles. He is known as the first to traverse the Northwest Passage. He disappeared in June 1928 while taking part in a rescue mission. With Douglas Mawson, Robert Falcon Scott, and Ernest Shackleton, Amundsen was a key expedition leader during the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration.
During this time Amundsen learned from the local Netsilik people about Arctic survival skills that would later prove useful. For example, he learned to use sled dogs and to wear animal skins en lieu of heavy, woolen parkas. After a third winter trapped in the ice, Amundsen was able to navigate a passage into the Beaufort Sea after which he cleared into the Bering Strait, thus having successfully navigated the Northwest Passage. Continuing to the south of Victoria Island, the ship cleared the Canadian Arctic Archipelago on August 17 1905, but had to stop for the winter before going on to Nome on the Alaska Territory's Pacific coast. Five hundred miles (800 km) away, Eagle City, Alaska, had a telegraph station; Amundsen travelled there (and back) overland to wire a success message (collect) on December 5, 1905. Nome was reached in 1906. Due to water as shallow as , a larger ship could never have used the route.
It was at this time that Amundsen received news that Norway had formally become independent of Sweden and had a new king. Amundsen sent the new King Haakon VII news that it "was a great achievement for Norway." He hoped to do more he said and signed it "Your loyal subject, Roald Amundsen."
After crossing the Northwest Passage , Amundsen made plans to go to the North Pole and explore the North Polar Basin. Amundsen had difficulty raising funds for the departure and upon hearing in 1909 that first Frederick Cook and then Robert Peary claimed the Pole, he decided to reroute to Antarctica. However, he did not make these plans known and misled both Scott and the Norwegians. Using the ship Fram ("Forward"), earlier used by Fridtjof Nansen, he left Norway for the south, leaving Oslo on June 3, 1910. At sea, Amundsen alerted his men that they would be heading to Antarctica in addition to sending a telegram to Scott notifying him simply: "BEG TO INFORM YOU FRAM PROCEEDING ANTARCTIC--AMUNDSEN." The expedition arrived at the eastern edge of Ross Ice Shelf at a large inlet called the Bay of Whales on January 14 1911 where Amundsen located his base camp and named it Framheim. Further, Amundsen eschewed the heavy wool clothing worn on earlier Antarctic attempts in favour of Eskimo-style skins.
Using skis and dog sleds for transportation Amundsen and his men created supply depots at 80°, 81° and 82° South, along a line directly south to the Pole. Amundsen also planned to kill some of his dogs on the way and use them as a source for fresh meat. After a premature attempt to set out on 8 September, 1911 the Pole team consisting of Olav Bjaaland, Helmer Hanssen, Sverre Hassel, Oscar Wisting and Amundsen himself departed on 19 October, 1911. They took four sledges and 52 dogs. Using a route along the previously unknown Axel Heiberg Glacier they arrived at the edge of the Polar Plateau on November 21 after a four-day climb. On 14 December 1911, the team of five, with 16 dogs, arrived at the Pole (90°00'S). They arrived 35 days before Scott's group. Amundsen named their South Pole camp Polheim, "Home on the Pole". Amundsen renamed the Antarctic Plateau as King Haakon VII's Plateau. They left a small tent and letter stating their accomplishment, in case they did not return safely to Framheim. The team returned to Framheim on January 25, 1912 with 11 dogs. Amundsen's success was publicly announced on 7 March, 1912, when he arrived at Hobart, Australia.
Amundsen's expedition benefited from careful preparation, good equipment, appropriate clothing, a simple primary task (Amundsen did no surveying on his route south and is known to have taken only two photographs), an understanding of dogs and their handling, and the effective use of skis. In contrast to the misfortunes of Scott's team, the Amundsen's trek proved rather smooth and uneventful.
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In 1918 Amundsen began an expedition with a new ship Maud, which was to last until 1925. Maud sailed West to East through the Northeast Passage, now called the Northern Route (1918-1920). Amundsen planned to freeze the Maud into the polar ice cap and drift towards the North Pole (as Nansen had done with the Fram), but in this he was not successful. However, the scientific results of the expedition, mainly the work of Harald Sverdrup, were of considerable value. Many of these carefully-collected scientific data had been lost during the ill-fated journey of Peter Tessem and Paul Knutsen, two crew members sent on a mission by Amundsen, but they were later retrieved by Russian scientist Nikolay Urvantsev as they lay abandoned on the Kara Sea shores.
In 1925, accompanied by Lincoln Ellsworth, pilot Hjalmar Riiser-Larsen, and three other team members, Amundsen took two aircraft, the N-24 and N-25 to 87° 44' north. It was the northernmost latitude reached by plane up to that time. The planes landed a few miles apart without radio contact, yet the crews managed to reunite. One of the aircraft, the N-24 was damaged. Amundsen and his crew worked for over three weeks to clean up an airstrip to take off from ice. They shoveled 600 tons of ice while consuming only one pound (400 g) of daily food rations. In the end, six crew members were packed into the N-25. In a remarkable feat, Riiser-Larsen took off, and they barely became airborne over the cracking ice. They returned triumphant when everyone thought they had been lost forever.
In 1926, Amundsen, Ellsworth, Riiser-Larsen, Oscar Wisting, and the Italian aeronautical engineer Umberto Nobile made the first crossing of the Arctic in the airship Norge designed by Nobile. They left Spitsbergen on 11 May 1926, and they landed in Alaska two days later. The three previous claims to have arrived at the North Pole – by Frederick Cook in 1908; Robert Peary in 1909; and Richard E. Byrd in 1926 (just a few days before the Norge) – are all disputed, as being either of dubious accuracy or outright fraud. Some of those disputing these earlier claims therefore consider the crew of the Norge to be the first verified explorers to have reached the North Pole. If the Norge expedition was actually the first to the North Pole, Amundsen and Oscar Wisting would therefore be the first persons to attain each geographical pole, by ground or by air, as the case may be.
Amundsen disappeared on June 18, 1928 while flying on a rescue mission with Norwegian pilot Leif Dietrichson, French pilot Rene Guilbaud, and three more Frenchmen, looking for missing members of Nobile's crew, whose new airship the Italia had crashed while returning from the North Pole. Afterwards, a pontoon from the French Latham 47 flying-boat he was in, improvised into a life raft, was found near the Tromsø coast. It is believed that the plane crashed in fog in the Barents Sea, and that Amundsen was killed in the crash, or died shortly afterwards. His body was never found. The search for Amundsen was called off in September by the Norwegian Government. In 2003 it was suggested that the plane went down northwest of Bear Island (Norway).
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Badal Sarcar And A Few Words on Theatre Outside Proscenium
Feb 24, 2013 (Calcutta Tube): Badal Sarcar appeared in the proscenium with his famous 'Ebong Indrajit' written in 1963. Now a days in many places inside our country and even in abroad Badal Sarcar`s 'Pagla Ghora' and 'Sararatri' are being staged in proscenium now and again. Recently Pagla Ghora directed by Amal Palekar has been staged in United States itself. To start with I cannot refrain myself from uttering some pungent words. Number one- Badal Sarcar may leave proscenium but it`s not expected from him to launch a crusade against the same. At the same time we in no way can support those irresponsible uttering against Badal Sarcar and his Third Theatre. In art and culture narrow minded illiberality cannot be welcomed. Mainly Utpal Dutta was the pioneer against Badal Sarcar and Third theatre. Badal Sarcar was not a man to keep himself mum. He rebuffed ruthlessly.
'Theatre is also an art form. It`s not true that lots of finance is needed in theatre. For packaging and masking one needs money , but not for theatre itself. People are needed in theatre, people as audience and people as actor. There is no dearth of audience. Where there are people there are audience. They would not have come and purchase tickets, theatre itself will go to them. Once this is understood, theatre will come out of bondage and then only the process of unmasking will take its start. ….. Theatre to them is commodity. To market this commodity one needs glittering colored package. Dress- light- sound –everywhere there are shining packet to mesmerize audience. … Theatre is not conglomeration of colored bubbles of fantasy, on the contrary theatre is stark reality of naked life.'
Sambhu Mitra directed two of Badal Sarcar`s plays in proscenium. They were 'Baki Itihas` and 'Pagla Ghora'. I have not seen the former, but I have watched Pagla Ghora several times. Besides Bahurupi production, I have watched that of Proscenium Art Centre in Hindi directed by Shiukumar JhunJhunwala where in the solitary female role Anubha Fatepuria was simply marvelous. This role was played by ShaNoli Mitra in Bahurupi production. She too was exceptional. Once in the National Theatre Festival of Nandikar we have the opportunity to watch that of Aniket in Marathi directed by Amal Palekar. Badal Sarcar was present in the auditorium during that performance, though he was then no more with the proscenium and has taken side permanently to third theatre. Even I have the opportunity to be in the portico of Loreto House to watch and listen the vocal performance of Pagla Ghora by Badal Sarcar and his fellow members of Shatabdi. And that was the last public performance of Badal Sarcar so far as I know. But Pagla Ghora directed by Shambhu Mitra is simply unthinkable and in no way comparable to any Pagla Ghora of any kind. In Bahurupi after 'Raja Oedipus' of Sophocles and 'Raja` of Rabindranath, Shambhu Mitra directed only four plays- Badal Sarcar`s 'Baki Itihas' (1967) & Pagla Ghora (1971), Nitin Sen`s 'Barbar BaNshi' (1969) and Bijoy Tendulkar`s 'Chop Adalat Colchchhe'(1971). Among the Bahurupi productions directed by Shambhu Mitra 'Pagla Ghaora` is at the top scoring with 122 shows which was higher than 'Raja Oedipus' (104 shows) and that of 'Raktakarabi' (62 shows).
Now let us take over to Badal Sarcar`s Third Theatre. Badal Sarcar on 23rd November 1981 wrote to internationally accepted theatre personality Richard Schechner about his journey through Third Theatre.
'Calcutta, July 6, 1979. An old building in the congested College Square area occupied by the Theosophical Society of India for more than ninety years. The lecture hall on the second story, 58 feet long and 24 feet wide, with its old dusty cupboards full of books on Theosophy and faded oil paintings of potentates of Theosophy—given to Satabdi on hire every Friday after much persuasion. First performance of Basi Khabar. Culmination of a year long process. The first experience of Satabdi of creating a play collectively. Year long but what is a year? None of the Satabdi members are paid anything. They work in banks, schools, offices, factories; they assemble in evenings exhausted by loveless work and sardine packed public transport; they have to disperse early for long journeys, many by scandalously irregulars suburban trains. On Sundays we can work for five hours, provided we are not invited to perform somewhere a village, a "bustee" (slum), a suburban town, a college lawn, an office canteen. Shows on Friday evenings; Thursday evenings spent on the rehearsal of the play to be performed the next day.
How much time can we get for working on a new project? Eight hours in a week is an optimistic average. Still, a year means that we all grow with the play for one full year, and the play gets into our bloodstream. One year back. July, 1978. First performance of Gondi—an adaptation I made of The Caucasian Chalk Circle. We felt good. We enjoyed preparing it—only fifteen performers taking care of forty roles; hut, stream, door, trees, bridge made of human bodies. We all felt that the play is Indian and contemporary and can be understood equally by the educated of the city and the illiterate of the village, and our later experience proved this belief to be correct.
It was the third year of our regular weekly performances at the Theosophical Society hall. Before that we have had two years of such weekly shows in another room (1972-1974), and a spell of nearly two years of only open air shows. Performances in public parks were stopped by the police during the "Emergency" (1975) and our search for an indoor space ultimately brought us to this hall in early 1976. Admission was free; a donation of one Rupee (eleven cents, a cup of coffee in a shabby cafe costs more in Calcutta) was expected and was willingly paid by most, but that was not the condition for entrance. Leaflets containing the program for the next five or six Fridays were distributed to the spectators, otherwise we depended entirely on word of mouth publicity. (I am using the past tense because we now perform in another hall the system has remained the same.) The relation between acting and sitting areas varied according to the demand of the play. For Gondi we could provide about 125 seats, all seats were booked much in advance, and we felt good. That was the beginning of the year long process of creating Basi Khabar.'
I have seen 'Gandi` by 'Shatabdi', the Third Theatre Group in two venues- one in Theosophical Society Hall, College Square and other at Sindhri Hall, Lindsay Street. Though most of the then players are no more with Shatabdi –the group founded by Badal Sarcar himself, but there are still some who are within this protracted struggle and has dedicated themselves for Third Theatre Movement. At that time watching Gandi, having 40 characters enacted by only 15, was an enormous experience.
Specially during those days Brecht`s Caucasian Chalk Circle was adopted and directed by RudraPrasad Sengupta, produced by Nandikar as 'Kharir Gandi', where Swatilekha made her debut in the lead role. At the same time Subrata Nandi another theatre personality of those days, adopted the same and directed as 'Khari Matir Gandi' under the banner of Theatre Front. Under these circumstances Gandi was a different type of challenge. But with 'only fifteen performers taking care of forty roles; hut, stream, door, trees, bridge made of human bodies' Badal Sarcar`s Gandi was superb and the best among the three then productions of Calcutta. This paved the Golden Gateway of Third Theatre movement proposed by Badal Sarcar.
But never ever the track of this movement was smooth. Since it is anti establishment in nature, and since proscenium is by and large an establishment and since Third Theatre basically speaks for the oppressed and raises voice against power, so it is prone to be the many fold target of the establishment and the ruler as well. These are all theoretical problems. But it has to face two major practical problems as well. Number one is the space problem. At the moment
Kolkata has very little space for this alternative theatre. The open space inside Rabindra Sadan campus and that in front of Academy Of Fine Arts are fixed for this alternative theatre on Saturdays only and at Natya Academy there is Tripti Mitra Sabha Ghar for this purpose. These three places are abided by certain indispensible Government rules and regulations. At Ripon Street there is Proscenium Art Centre where there is a big room for the alternative theatre and at Padatik they have a build well for Third Theatre or Alternative theatre as you call it. And direct followers of Badal Sarcar are doing very recently at Niranjan Sadan Jadavpur. But once upon a time there were good numbers of spaces in Kolkata. But still like past ('For Gondi we could provide about 125 seats, all seats were booked much in advance') direct followers of Badal Sarcar are making their house full of audience till date.
In this context another important feature is to be mentioned where the directors perform in both the spaces – proscenium and outside proscenium as well. There are also certain productions which are played in both the places. In Sarala Memotial Hall adjacent to Gokhel Memorial College, where the film clubs used to arrange their projections, and in the open space inside the auditorium Total Theatre once did their marvelous 'Byas` written by Shajada Firdaus and directed by Shantanu Banerjee. Here I have seen Bibhash Chakraborty to direct Shakespeare`s As You Like It in an intimate form. Suman Mukherjee did his outstanding 'Kangal Malshat' (Tritio Sutra) written by Nabarun Bhattachariya at Padatik build well in an intimate form and at Academy Of Fine Arts proscenium as well. The same experiment was done by his father Arun Mukherjee with his 'Manush Kingba Kolbalish'(Chetana) at Tripti Mitra Sabhaghar in an intimate form and at Academy Of Fine Arts proscenium. The Unity Malancha of Halishahar did their Hanua Ka Beta in open air and at the same time in proscenium both directed by Debashish Sarcar. Belghoria ETHIC under the leadership of Debashish Sengupta once had confined it in intimate form, but now they feel comfortable in proscenium. In Kolkata there are good numbers of groups who strictly perform intimate theatre and never run for proscenium. Bhibhaban is such a group who has ventured several spaces in Kolkata. Once I have watched their performances in a room of YMCA at Vivekananda Road. Later they did it at Proscenium Art Centre at Ripon Street and now they are performing at Tripti Mitra Sabhaghar. Another strictly non proscenium performer is Anarjya who used to perform at portico of Taltala High School and now at Tripti Mitra. But Shatabdi, Pathasena and Ayna who are direct followers of Badal Sarcar never ever done their performances in an air conditioned space like Tripti Mitra Sabhaghar or Padatik build well. Ayna once performed at air conditioned Proscenium Art Centre. Once there were very active non- proscenium groups who used to perform earlier. But for various reasons the days of third theatre or intimate theatre or open air theatre are not going well now.
To conclude we will deal with a theoretical aspect and a practical aspect as well. For proscenium there in Kolkata we have 15 auditoriums altogether of which some belong to private ownership and excepting one all are air conditioned. But for theatres outside proscenium there are very few little rooms left out. If we try to brand Kolkata as the cultural capital of West Bengal, then this small arrangement for other theatres makes this nomenclature derogative. In United States, as we all know, there is Broadway, Off Broadway and Off Off Broadway. Moreover very recently in the Lincoln Complex a very good space has been allotted for alternative theatres. The third theatre workers do not desire so much. But it is the responsibility of the authority to arrange some respectable space for these theatre workers.
The theoretical aspect demands unity between the proscenium and the alternative theatre workers. Nowadays it appears that as per production cost is concerned sky has become the limit for proscenium productions. The expenditure for the same for Raja Lear was one million rupees. Cost per show is not less than sixty thousand rupees. This huge expenditure reminds us of Badal Sarcar- Theatre to them is commodity. To market this commodity one needs glittering colored package. Dress- light- sound –everywhere there are shining packets to mesmerize audience. This huge magnitude of production cost does in no way keep pace with the statistics stating that, 77% of our population is in a way to afford rupees 20 or less per day for their livelihood. To keep pace with this situation we have only one way to combat. The theatre lovers who really love theatre and at the same time love poor people of our country and strongly believe that their theatre should be seen by the people of India by and large, then they will have to unite together whether they are with proscenium or outside. And with this thought process we conclude by quoting Badal Sarcar once again.
"This process, of course, can become widespread only when the socio economic movement for the emancipation of the working class has also spread widely. When that happens, the third theatre (in the context I have used) will no longer have a separate function, but will merge with a transformed first theatre."
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Shakespeare in Contemporary Calcutta Theatre
Feb 5, 2013 (Calcutta Tube): In Calcutta Theatre there had a time when Utpal Dutta and Shakespeare were synonyms. In 1953 Little Theatre Group started their journey with Shakespeare staging selected portions from Merchant Of Venice. That was the beginning. This journey concluded in 1975 with Macbeth under the banner of PLT. In between Utpal Dutta directed Julius Ceaser (1956), selected parts of Twelfth Night (1956), Othello (1958), Mid Summer Night`s Dream as Chaitali Rater Swapna (1964) etc. Utpal all together directed seven Shakespearean dramas, but he never tried Hamlet.
Calcutta in the recent past (2010) has experienced Mid Summer Night`s Dream's Bengali version "Dream Dream" (adopted by Partho Chatterjee and directed by Debesh Chatterjee under the banner of "Sansriti") and little before that we watched Chhattisgadi version of the same of Shakespeare, directed by Habib Tanbir and produced by Naya Theatre in pure folk form.
But the same translation of Mid Summer Night`s Dream done by Utpal Dutta, when taken up by a young woman director Abanti Chakraborty under the banner of Anya Theatre in Dec 2012, the production simply startled the Kolkata audience. I had the opportunity to watch in my early days the LTG production by Utpal Dutta almost more than 40 years ago which is little difficult to remember on my part. But I clearly can compare Chaitali Rater Swapna produced by the then Govt. Of West Bengal in the nineties and directed by Utpal Dutta himself, with that produced by Anya Theatre and directed by Abanti the great. I can thus emphatically conclude, Abanti`s "Midsummer…" is far more enchanting, smart, thought provoking, contemporary, and fantastically tuned than that of Utpal Dutta himself. We are ought to hats off for Arna Mukherjee (Pac), Nandini Bhowmik (Hippolita), Nibedita Mukherjee (Taitania), Turna Das (Helena), Susmita Hati (Harnia), Kamal Chatterjee (Bottom), Chandan Sen (Peter Queens) and other actors, Soumik-Piyali for unique stage craft, Dipak Mukherji for light, Arna Mukherjee and Abanti Chakraborty for music and last but not the least Abanti Chakraborty, the Director. We must congratulate Anya Theatre the producer, who offered an young director to work with MidSummer Night`s Dream. The two other earlier productions we were talking about, Dream Dream is a product of confused thought process and that of Habib Tanbir has nothing to do with Shakespeare. By and large Habib`s one was a marvelous folk production.
Based on the translation of Shakti Biswas, Anya Theatre has very recently produced William Shakespeare`s Hamlet. In this context we may place the note of Bibhash Chakraborty, the Director of the play . '…. Once I had started work on my friend Ali Jaker`s play Darpan, inspired by Hamlet. It was subsequently dropped. Sometimes later I was drawn towards Bangladeshi poet Samsur Rahaman`s translation of Hamlet. After editing and rewriting a portion of it I read out the text to my Anya Theatre`s friends. They liked it, but that too was abandoned. After a lapse of about five years I started toying the idea of producing Hamlet again. But at that time Samsur Rahaman`s translation was nowhere to be found. So I started working on a translation of Shakti Biswas, an ex-PLT friend. Just before completion of the play script Samsur Rahaman`s translation resurfaced. But by that time the poet has left us, and my other script was almost complete. Even at that stage the poet`s inputs were incorporated in the final text. …… Hamlet has remained a great contemporary play through the ages. Yet a few questions stormed my brain during the entire process of the creative exercise. Why Hamlet now? Is any interpretation or viewpoint expected? Does Shakespeare use his stories only as vehicle to communicate his keen observations and deep feelings about life and human beings at all levels? The language is also very important factor, and more so, when it is translated into another language. Should there be a distinct style of acting and speech? For me honest effort is the thing. `
As we all know the ending in Shakespeare`s Hamlet where Hamlet himself arranging the hanging of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern foiling the conspiracy hatched by Claudius to kill Hamlet. Ophelia, distraught over her father's death and Hamlet's behavior, drowns herself. Her brother, Laertes falls next. The lethal poison in the sword of Laertes kills himself. Before he dies, Laertes tells Hamlet that because Hamlet has already been cut with the same sword, he too will shortly die. And finally Hamlet kills Claudius. But in Anya Theatre`s play as soon as the arranged fencing starts, there happens enormous firing all around and eventually after the hustle and bustle are over Laertes, Claudius, Gertrude and Hamlet are found dead. This improvisation is a round up. Anya Theatre`s play starts with a prologue narrating a contemporary event of fake encounter where four persons were killed in a Park Street pub. Among them one was a friend of the pub owner. Before dying in the pub he asked his friend to tell this story of unjust killing to "the yet unknowing world". Surprisingly in the original play, before dying, Hamlet makes the same request to his bosom friend Horatio. This prologue is rounded up in the 'epilogue` where the auditorium is startled with the sound of rampant firing. And it`s a brilliant coincidence that the off voice of the person killed in the Park Street pub is the same voice of the actor who played the role of Hamlet in Anya Theatre`s production. Thus we found an interpretation which we may like or may not.
In recent times Calcutta Theatre experienced Hamlet from Bibhash Chakraborty (Anya Theatre) and Raja Lear (King Lear translated) from Suman Mukherjee (Minarva Natya Charcha Kendra). These two productions thread bear excavate tragic power crisis inside monarchy where at the end, we watch monarchial corpses in a row. It is a life time achievement on the part of a spectator to experience Soumitra Chatterjee as Raja (King) Lear. After legendary Soumitra, we ought to mention the name of an young talent Ankita Majhi as Cordelia. Other names to be mentioned are Biswanath Chakraborty as Gloster, Bimal Chakraborty as Kent and Anirban Mukherji as Edmund. Stage craft of both Hamlet and Raja Lear are in a word outstanding. But to talk about Raja Lear it is unique in Calcutta Theatre so far. We have earlier witnessed two-tier stage, but in Raja Lear it is not only multi-tier, but even the fly parch has been brilliantly used which we have never ever witnessed in Calcutta. Moreover this utilization can only be made possible in Minarva Theatre only and in no other auditorium in Calcutta.
But this crisis and conflict within monarchy is much more exposed by Shakespeare in his Julius Caesar and in his shortest play Macbeth. So far the brightest Macbeth in Calcutta theatre has been produced by Utpal Dutta. In my early days and in my middle age too I have had the opportunity to watch Utpal Dutta as Macbeth and Shova Sen as Lady Macbeth. I have also watched Shekhar Chatterjee as Macduff in LTG`s Macbeth at old Minarva Theatre. Anyway by gone is by gone.
The contemporaries are 'Caesar` produced by Natya Anan, directed by Chandan Sen and Macbeth produced by Swapnosandhani, directed by Koushik Sen. This Caesar is star studded. Famous actor Sabyasachi Chakraborty has played the role of Caesar himself, Shantilal Mukherjee played as Mark Antony, Sagnik as Brutus, Bindia Ghosh as Julia, Miska Halim as Calphurnia and Soma Naha as Portia. Joy Sen has made the lights, Debojyoti Mishra scored the music and Madan-Tinku made the stage. Translation and direction is by Chandan Sen, who played a small role too. The first show of Chandan Sen`s Caesar took place on 21st May, 2012 and incidentally or eventually Mamata Banerjee took her oath as Chief Minister of West Bengal in 20th May 2011. It might be a mere coincidence or might be out of specific deliberation. Since Caesar and Macbeth are the fascist protagonist drawn by Shakespeare and since Macbeth too was also first staged by Kaushik Sen on 29th May 2012, the point of organized deliberation can in no way be ruled out. During CPIM`s rule of 34 years at least 34 mass killings occurred and as per statistics 55 thousand people has been killed during this period starting from Marichjhapi to Nandigram. At that moment, neither groups along with their leaders Chandan or Kaushik could manage time to launch either Caesar or Macbeth, but now when during the one year rule of Mamata there is no mass killing no such autocracy, Chandan and Kaushik even distorting the original Shakespeare came up to serve CPIM in a very nasty way. Otherwise this can be explained taking help of the crisis created by their male domination chauvinism. Thus there are attempts to mar Shakespeare in the contemporary Calcutta Theatre with Caesar and Macbeth. But that is not all about Macbeth experienced in Kolkata. In a festival organized by Shohan we had the opportunity to watch Ek Tukro Macbeth (A small spell of Macbeth) produced by Krishnanagar Theaas. In this play the inner conflict of Macbeth has been dealt with very nicely. So it is Macbeth versus Macbeth. The roles enacted by the director Suman Goswami and Rajib Dutta the discourse of which is memorable.
On the other hand Prachya production Romi And Juli adopted brilliantly from Romeo And Juliet and intermingling smartly and intellectually the contemporary Calcutta is enriched with an outstanding directorial work of Biplab Banerjee. The reader may please have a look on what Biplab says about their play.
'It is love and only love that transcends and rises above venomous hatred and jealousy. But love does not always win. Romeo and Juliet lie dead; a death of innocence and passion. The richness of eternal truth in the plays of Shakespeare transcends centuries and touches our heart in present times. In our own way we are inspired and energized to create a new text. Let us imagine that William Shakespeare's immortal text Romeo and Juliet is being taught at a premier educational institution in the city. The lesson is being imparted by two professors. Love blossoms between them. Traditional rigid and puritanical Brahmin blood courses through the veins of the woman. Her lover belongs to a schedule caste and that makes her fear his love. And in the class that they teach belong Romi and Juli. They live near each other but like the enmity that was present between the Montagues and the Capulets in the original play, the families of Romi and Juli are engaged in a longstanding feud. Unreal and real merge while the play is being taught in class. Romi and Romeo become one, Juli becomes Juliet. Friar Lawrence is the local marriage registrar. We travel in and out of the play, Romi and Juli's story takes a different turn but retains the structure and essence of the Bard himself. Death inevitably immortalizes romance. The two professors choose to end their lives rather than accept the fact that being together is not an option for them. But as usual, time does not stand still. And the language of life starts speaking from among the debris of dead bodies. They live and act out the death scenes to prove that love is the answer to hatred. Romi O Juli is a testament of our present times which follows the original text and its journey. At the same time our voices reverberate along with the original play and creates an unique experience.'
In this production Ranadip Basu, the grandson of Soumitra Chatterjee nicely played the role of Romi and that too of Juli played by Shnaoli Mukherjee. The stage craft done by Partho Mazumder, light design by Dipak Mukherjee, other crafts by Hiran Mitra and the outstanding music by Dishari Chakraborty.
Though not produced by Calcutta groups, two more Shakespeare dramas we had the privilege to watch at Kolkata in Nandikar`s 29th National Theatre Festival. Of the two, Romeo Juliet and Seven Clowns was a fantastic production made by CEVA Drama Rep. Co. Chandigarh, directed by a young lady Sukhmoni Kohll.
'Romeo Juliet and Seven Clowns'- devised in a workshop – is an attempt to go beyond the traditional idea of the clown (the white painted face and red nose that make people laugh) and to introduce the idea of the clown as an essential part of our human soul, the soul which is 'ready for anything'. Clowning is not only being funny, the clown`s red nose, the smallest mask in the world, is the mask that unmasks. Clowning is like being in love. A clown like a lover requires acceptance so that it can become vulnerable and attempt the impossible. And that is what Romeo and Juliet did culturally; they connect to the clown as they connect to the Sufi tradition. The play 'Romeo Juliet And Seven Clowns' hopes to remind the audiences of the clown that is within each of us, waiting to put on its small red nose.
And in the same arena we had the opportunity to watch the Bengali version (made by Rubayet Ahmed) of The Tempest produced by Dhaka Theatre, Bangladesh and directed by Nasiruddin Yusuf.
King Alonso and King Fardinand`s ship is wrecked. Watching the shipwreck from a nearby island Prospero reveals to his daughter Miranda that he has caused the storm and that he was once the King, but was usurped by his brother Antonio who is also in board. With the help of his spirit Ariel and his own magic powers Prospero brings the men to safety. Fardinand and Miranda fall in love and get married, ensuring that the royal line is returned to the family of the rightful King. Prospero`s slave Caliban joins with the ship`s jester and butler to overthrow Prospero`s island rule. His plot is intercepted by Prospero`s spirits but at the end he is given the freedom he has sought. Alonso and Antonio are made to realize their wrongs and finally forgiven by Prospero.
But this story has been told by Dhaka Theatre in a very clumsy way. This reminds us of Ramaprasad Banik`s marvelous directorial work on The Tempest in the early nineties under the banner of Theatre Passion. The Tempest of Ramaprasad was far better than that of Nasiruddin.
We are on the verge of conclusion. And it will be concluded with an unthinkable production of Nandikar- 'Hridmajhare' adopted from Shakespeare`s As You Like It. As You Like It was once intimately produced by Anya Theatre and was Directed by Bibhash Chakraborty at Sarala Memorial Hall auditorium (not in the proscenium). Inspired by As You Like It Kanchan Amin wrote "Hridmajhare`. And eventually the play was group-directed by Supriya Chakraborty, Kamal Chatterjee and Sohini Sengupta.
Having deprived Virendra Mohan of their paternal fortunes, the scheming younger brother, Girindra Mohan turns him out of their house. Virendra Mohan seeks shelter in the forest. The trees, the river, the birds and animals become his kith and kin. Virendra Mohan`s only daughter Hritusha (Bindia Ghosh) grows up in her uncle`s house in extreme negligence and falls in love with Anindya (Anirban Ghosh), son of her father's friend. Girindra Mohan turns Hritusha out of his house and Anindya`s elder brother (Anirban Raychowdhury) conspires to murder him. Hritusha along with Simanti (Ipsita Debnath), her very dear cousin – turns up in the same forest where Hritusha`s father had found shelter several years ago. Anindya, too, hounded by his elder brother had fled to the same forest. Then follow a series of misunderstandings.
It is about the heartlessness of urban life pitted against the generosity of nature. Jealousies of human nature, its malice and treachery are pitted against love, enchantment, tenderness and compassion.
I know not how to praise the combination of Bindia Ghosh and Anirban Ghosh for their superb acting. The combination of Ipsita and another Anirban is excellent. Another combination comprised with Kamal Chatterjee and Tanima Biswas is also very much entertaining. Shyamal Chakraborty is another actor who played a very sensitive character so nicely. Another talent found in this play is music-director cum the main singer of rare quality Shubhadip Guha. We have to mention startling design of the stage craft done by Bikash Biswas. And last but not the least the directors of the play – Supriya-Kamal-Sohini`s unique combination.
To conclude I would have been very happy if I could have placed Hridmajhare and Chaitali Rater Swapno as the best contemporary Kolkata`s Shakespeare productions. But the question of grammatical paradigm refrains me to do so. But I`m sure that team Chaitali Rater Swapno, team Hridmajhare and team Romi and Juli have a long way to go and has their own worlds to conquer.
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Paul "never" saw Jackson after that, but he did stay in touch with the Prince of Brunei. "He invited me out to his younger brother's sweet 16 birthday...I brought a couple of buddies," he remembered. "He said, 'You've got to stay at the palace.'" Paul and his pals agreed to spend one night at the prince's pad.
"He insisted that I slept in his bed. I didn't sleep in the bed with him! It is a giant throne. All of his friends slept on little pads all around the bed. And he insisted on watching Whatever It Takes, this movie that I did that he loved me in," he said. "It was so weird. It was all so bizarre. But I love him to death."
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