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Monsters from the Id
BY Paul Corupe
Photography Courtesy of the Film Reference Library Division of the Toronto International Film Festival Group
More than 30 years before Jim Carrey donned a mythical mask to unleash the green-skinned party animal within, a similarly titled Canadian film provided its own twisted take on this idea, with far more eerie—and eye-popping—results. Both the 1994 hit The Mask and the recent Carrey-less sequel, Son of the Mask, owe their pedigree to the 1961 3-D spook show The Mask, not only Canada's first foray into horror moviemaking, but a film that made history when it became the first homegrown feature to be distributed by a major US studio.
Shot in Kleinberg, Ontario, by former National Film Board journeyman Julian Roffman, The Mask promised audiences "a never-before-dreamed world of delicious terrors!" In the film, psychiatrist Dr. Barnes (Paul Stevens) comes to possess an ancient Aztec ritual mask that transports the wearer to a surreal dreamscape—equal parts Freudian nightmare and carnival sideshow hokum. As Barnes' obsession with the ancient artifact grows, the primal lust and violence lurking in his subconscious begins to bubble to the surface of his real life.
Roffman distinguished his film from the pack with a unique, interactive gimmick. On entering theatres, patrons were given their own "Magic Mystic Mask," a cardboard visor with built-in 3-D glasses. The ominous phrase, "Put the mask on now!" was the audience's cue to don their own masks and join Barnes in the 3-D dream sequences, where they were bombarded with lunging snakes, hurtling fireballs and other phantasmagoric imagery from the doctor's psyche.
The Mask opened to positive reviews from hometown supporters and reportedly took in more than US$1 million in Warner Brothers' subsequent American release—although little of the proceeds trickled back across the border. Thanks to countless revivals and an ongoing interest in 3-D films, however, what Roffman's The Mask lost in profit, it has made up for in cult-film status. The Mask continues to hold an esteemed place in the history of Canadian film, ensuring that fans will still turn to this timeless chiller long after Carrey's manic gesticulations are forgotten.


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This special is awesome. Anyone else watching on EPSN?
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It's actually very good. It took me forever to figure out why 2 live crew was on it though. lol
I don't get EPSN.
has been pretty impressive. The 30 for 30 series is something ESPN should do more of. It'd be great to see one relating to Michigan.
Was an amazing movie. I hate that trade to this day. Gretzky going to LA was the worst trade in the history of sports. He would of won one more had he of stayed in Edmonton. But I agree I am enjoying this U movie. My dad remember's when Miami had the dream team back in the day.
The most interesting moment in King's Ransom was when Gretz revealed that he had been making his offseason home in LA for two years before the trade. I've always disliked his public image... I never bought for a second that he was this helpless son of Edmonton who was content to spend the rest of his life in northern Alberta. We'll never know the 100% behind the scenes true story, but I suspect Gretzky was a lot more vocal than anyone ever implies
The most interesting moment in Kings Ransom was when Gretz revealed that he had been making his offseason home in LA for two years before the trade. I've always disliked his public image... I never bought for a second that he was this helpless son of Edmonton who was content to spend the rest of his life in northern Alberta. We'll never know the 100% behind the scenes true story, but I suspect Gretzky was a lot more vocal than anyone ever implies
I watched the special last night and I couldn't help but think about the 30 for 30 special on the "Fab Five". That would be awesome, a two hour special might be hard though.
Talk about the Fab Five.
mgovideo I plead.
Great stuff.
Great movie, but honestly Miami was a bunch of thugs and showboats despite their claims.
Funny, many people thought/think the same about a certain group of players who played basketball for Michigan...
Ben Cronin is definitely NOT a thug.
Maybe they could be right.
or at least partially right.
If you need something last minute for that hoops fan on your list, here's just the thing.
actaully had to make new rules in response to the outrageous unsportsmanlike conduct of the "U". It would be impossible to argue that they weren't good at football, but they also were an embarassment to civility.
you want a team of a bunch of thugs, but damn watching this makes me wish we had a couple guys on D who have similar mentalities of just wanting to punish the opposing team. Seems like it's been ages since anyone has feared coming to play Michigan in the Big House.
I have a feeling ray vinopal (chip on his shoulder), carvin johnson (chip on his shoulder), marvin robinson (straight beast), cullen christian (straight talent) will be early contributers because of their mentality. Complacency made us soft. We need take all this disrespect and throw it back in everyones faces.
the series has been amazing...
Without Bias was one of the best things I have ever watched on t.v.
I remember wanting to watch that but can't remember what it was about. A little help?
Not a Miami fan, obviously, but I love college football and this is a well directed, in-depth look into one of the most dominate teams of the 80s. Definitely one of the better 30 for 30 features.
I feel the exact same way. Fascinating. I'm looking forward to the fall of the U.
I actually think it sucks when Miami is bad. I always considered Miami to be like the Darth Vader of college football. College football needs a really good badguy. When they lose it's great but it's almost better to watch them win because they are such a great villain.
I guess there was never the idea to protect the ball from someone behind you.
On a side note, I was in Miami the night of this game. If you remember, Michigan beat Washington in the Rose Bowl that day (all hail Tyrone Wheatley). The next day I showed up at a business meeting where a complete stranger (and fan of the "U") proceeded to talk trash to me for being a Michigan fan. Fucking Moron.
Their fans can be the biggest p***ks. We had the same alumni bar as some of their fans, the day of the App. State game. As we were leaving, they were all getting in our faces, laughing, instigating.... Completely unprovoked.
... And no way those buffoons actually went to that rich kid school.
I vaguely remember all the crap they pulled and the ridiculous showboating they did.
But I have never forgotten how much I detest that program. When tuoos beat them for the MNC was the only time in my 45 years on this earth I have ever rooted for the buckeyes. That proved to me that I hate Miami more than any program.
When you think about it 58 straight home victories IS an incredible record. It's one that probably will never be broken with the parity in college football.
isn't Boise St very close? I may be completely wrong, so correct me if so
They lost to Boston College in their 2005 Bowl Game, which was played at their stadium. Only counting regular season games, I believe it is at 56.
I DVR'ed it but ended up watching it while it was recording. Definitely one of the better documentaries I've seen in awhile.
I actually read a book on Miami's ascension to the top dating back from the late 70's when Lou Saban was the coach all the way through the 2002 season. This was a good refresher and well laid out.
Miami was one hell of a team back then, Soo many good players there. The fact that they had that impact on college football and had that us-against-the-world mentality just sticks out to me. Granted they did have a lot of off- and on-the-field "problems", I still have a lot of respect for them and seeing where they came from and making something out of themselves, for better or for worse, is a good thing.
Does anyone know where I can watch these 30 for 30 episodes/short films online? I've exhausted all the usual sources to no avial.
I cannot check since I'm at work but have you tried surfthechannel.com?
I really enjoyed this 30 for 30, but I am glad I didn't grow up in Miami rooting for them. Thank God for Glenn "Bo" Schembechler.
those miami teams were really incredible. i'm just glad the U was there, i'd hate to see what a lot of those guys would've been doing if not for football
A lot of them ended up doing the same shit they would have if not for Miami. The film glossed over the rapists, the rampant cocaine use and pretty much everything else that was going on at the time other than vague mentions of "criminal backgrounds" that were then dismissed because THEY WERE A TOOL OF THE WHITE MEDIA WHO WERE AFRAID OF THE BLACK MAN BECOMING TOO GOOD.
And then when they graduated, if there was no NFL career in the offing, their degrees were rendered virtually worthless because they were all enrolled in meaningless programs and never went to class anyway. They couldn't even skate on reputation because everyone in the world assumed that 1) Miami players were all thugs and 2) that Miami was a shitastic school that only existed to field a college football team. A great many former Canes ended up back on the streets.
Do you honestly think Michael Irvin would have made it if there hadn't been an NFL pot of gold at the end of his rainbow? Ray Lewis seem like a well adjusted person? Did you see how coked out Bernie Kosar looked?
that's the ENTIRE point of the movie. to show "The U" in a positive light and how they dominated college football from '84-'92. if you wanted to make a film about all of the negative stuff you could do that too.
and if you don't think race played a role in the white media hating the canes of that era, idk what to tell you.
That's fantastic, but it's not reality. The U did nothing to help those kids, aside from putting them on a football field. Off the field (and on it), they were allowed to do whatever the fuck they wanted. Ignoring all the negatives does not mean they didn't exist.
And did race make Miami players buy and sell coke? Did it make them rape people? Did it make them own guns? Did it make them do ridiculous things like dress up in fatigues and compare themselves to soldiers? Did it make them call their team a "gang"? They had the reputation they had because they earned it. The race card is total bullshit in this instance, unless you want me to believe that the white conspiracy concocted all of these things because they cared so much about Notre Dame winning a few more games.
Sorry, dude, but if you honestly think Miami was this haven where innocent street urchins where transformed into men of integrity and that the white media turned them into villains because they felt threatened... well, sorry bro. Must suck to be insane.
I think the truth lies somewhere between your point and MGoObes's.
Real sensitive. Asshole.
I'm not allowed to get into a frank discussion of racial issues with an African American poster? If I offended Obes or anyone else, I'm sorry. I certainly didn't see my comments as being racist, and on second thought I'm sure there was some racial slanting in the coverage at the time. But that doesn't make it right and all I wanted to see was someone besides Michael Irvin take some responsibility for what they did.
The part that I took issue with was the "the race card is total bullshit" comment. Sport in this country was not ready for a powerful team of mostly blacks, even in the 1980s and early 1990s. There were still a lot of biases at the time, and frankly, whites were still the dominant force in sports as entertainment. There were good black players before then, obviously, but those Miami teams were in your face more so than probably any other team. They were cocky, they knew it, and they didn't care.
So while they were a good football team, I definitely think there was a certain amount of "These guys are black AND THEY'RE SCARY WHAT ARE WE GONNA DO EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!" Mainstream America did not accept the dynasty of Miami as much as it accepted the teams of, say, Notre Dame or Nebraska.
So the race card isn't bullshit. It's relevant to the story.
Kosar could barely speak. I kept waiting to hear,"It puts the lotion in the basket." Dude looked rough.
Stop the hate man. If you grew up in that neighborhood you would be doing the same shit. So get of your high horse and show some heart. Its people like you that think you are so much better for living a privileged upbringing. Just get over yourself.
"Stop the hate man. If you grew up in that neighborhood you would be doing the same shit."
a) You don't know that.
b) That doesn't excuse bad behavior.
I hate this argument that YOU WOULD DO IT, TOO, IF YOU WERE IN THAT SITUATION because that implies that people can't and won't overcome bad situations, which simply isn't true.
I'm not even sure how to respond... I'm not looking down on anyone. I just find it hypocritical to say "MIAMI SAVED THESE KIDS FROM THE LIVES OF CRIME THEY WERE BOUND TO FALL IN TO" when these kids were buying and selling drugs, illegally owning handguns, stealing car stereos, breaking tons of NCAA regulations, beating the shit out of people, a few were even rapists. The point of my argument is that they weren't helped, they were allowed to stay in the same culture of destruction that they were supposed to be escaping. And that is primarily Jimmy Johnson's fault.
You'll notice I threw Kosar in there. He's certainly not a disadvantaged inner city kid. Everyone was doing shit on those teams. It's sad.
Created by an alum of the U
They managed to gloss over the worst of the Miami's players actions, attribute any criticism of the program to WHITE RACISTS, painted the totally innocent university president as a racist because he wanted some institutional control, contradicted themselves on the money issue ("I need $200 for diapers" was followed up by a player talking about his teammates stealing stereos) and unintentionally painted Jimmy Johnson as a sociopath who would do anything to win.
The film was trying to show the other side of the Miami program, but in the end it made the school and it's image 100000 times more detestable.

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You are probably thinking there is an epidemic of "over at the knee" threads, and you are probably right, but I am wondering if that is what my guy has too.
For a while I was thinking he was calf-kneed, which I understand is not very desirable. But then I was looking at all the over at the knee pictures, and am wondering if that is what my guy has as well?
He is a coming 3 yr old. His knees are a little bumpy looking, which I am hoping is because the growth plates are not closed yet and not because he has bumpy looking knees. (He is sound and just starting his riding career). But even if the spaces fill in.......it still seems like his cannon bones are not in perfect alignment with his knees. What do you guys think?
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A Jazzy Tribute to Dad, With the Accent on Swing
The Boston Globe
The `Risky Business' babysitter is all grown up as a jazz singer
By Richard Knight Jr
For Sarah Partridge…the road to a jazz singing career started in movies and took a detour during a karaoke night.
It began in the summer of 1982, when Partridge…spent two weeks as a fantasy babysitter–filming a role for the Tom Cruise movie "Risky Business."
It didn't seem like a career track that would find her moving from movie sets to the band stage–until she ended up in a karaoke bar with some friends in 1991 and took a dare to get up.
"I said, `I don't do this, I don't sing these pop songs,'" Partridge recalls. But she found a version of "Summertime" to sing–and a booking agent happened to be in the audience and signed her up. Partridge established a second career as a jazz singer.
Partridge gradually left acting behind and concentrated on music. She married a television producer and has released two CDs, 1998's "I'll Be Easy to Find" (USA Music Group) and 2003's "Blame It on My Youth" (Nagel-Heyer).
But Partridge hasn't forgotten about "Risky Business."
She's tickled her scene's memorable line, "Joel, get off the babysitter" still resonates with fans, and that Cruise remembers their time together.
Partridge ran into him occasionally while living in Los Angeles and they would chat. Last summer, her husband Gary Stein, who works for "Good Morning America," had Cruise on the show and gave him a copy of Partridge's latest CD. Cruise sent Partridge a note of congratulations a week later offering compliments on the CD.
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Barbetta, 54, and Mattiske, 49, were chosen by the public out of four finalists in an Albany Times Union online poll that received more than 12,000 votes to celebrate their wedding day at the Spa.
"We've been together nine years, and have been engaged for four of those, so we always joke that we're professionally engaged," said Mattiske. "We knew we were going to spend the rest of our lives together, but we weren't heading toward the altar any time soon. But when this came up, it's like we went from being professionally engaged to, 'Oh my gosh—we're getting married in eight weeks!' "
The contest was launched in May as five female exercise riders on horseback wearing bridal gowns emerged from the starting gate at the Spa.
The scene appeared in a local television ad to promote the contest, as well as in a video on the newspaper's Web site. Dozens of couples submitted applications, with four finalists chosen by a panel of judges.
"We've been involved with NYRA for 31 years, doing promotions and public relations, so we've always tried to find new and different things," said Ed Lewi, president of Ed Lewi Associates, who noted the exercise riders had to break from the gate several times before getting the perfect take. "We had to back the horses in, because they're ponies, and with the veils and stuff like that flying, we didn't want anything to get caught," he said of the photo and video shoot. "The ladies were very competitive—they all wanted to win, and all I wanted was for them to come out of the gate nice and easy."
The public has now been helping to plan Barbetta and Mattiske's ceremony and reception by voting on various wedding amenities provided by Capital Region bridal professionals. Already chosen are the honeymoon destination, bridal gown, and reception location.
Because of its cost effectiveness in garnering donated services and its ability to create excitement for fans throughout the season, Lewi said the Race to the Altar may become an annual event at Saratoga.
"The vendors have been wonderful," said Mattiske. They're so very generous, and it's been kind of fun, but also stressful just like anyone else planning their wedding."
Even though Barbetta and Mattiske have both been married twice before, they are convinced the third time around will be a charm.
The couple met in 1999 when Barbetta mistakenly called Mattiske's office. Conversation between the two continued for several weeks before they finally met in person.
It was fitting that one of their first dates was at Saratoga. Mattiske, a newcomer to the horse racing world, suggested visiting the track on a Tuesday afternoon, which Barbetta had to politely explain was a "dark day."
Barbetta's love of racing began with trips to Saratoga with his grandfather and has continued with perfecting his handicapping skills over the years. He now enjoys basking in the storied Spa atmosphere alongside Mattiske, who is still learning the ropes of the industry.
"I really wasn't into racing at all until I met him, and now I love it," said Mattiske, who said she often bets horses based on their names.
"I just bet Forever Together the other day because of our upcoming wedding," said Mattiske, referring to winner of the July 26 Diana Stakes (gr. IT) at Saratoga.
Barbetta, a more serious handicapper, said he has considered entering into horse ownership in the future. "I'd love to do it," he said. "There are so many syndicates out there and different things, and I also have a couple friends who own horses.
"Without a doubt, (attending races at Saratoga) is my passion and my love, and next to Michelle, it's the thing I love the most," he said. "I love being there, and I just love the place, and I always have."
Said Mattiske: "Even though I've been married twice, I never had a wedding…so I am getting the fairy tale wedding—I've got the gown, the prince, I've got everything. For me, it really is a dream come true."
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ENGL 1001: Introduction to Literature
ENGL 2031: Technical and Science Writing
ENGL 2051: Introduction to Professional Writing
ENGL 2071: Topics in Fiction: Literature and Sports
ENGL 2071: Topics in Fiction: Growing Pains
ENGL 2081: Topics in Drama: The Twisted Mother
ENGL 2101: Proseminar: English Studies
ENGL 2151: Literature and the Environment
ENGL 2251: Children's and Young Adult Literature
ENGL 2511: Magazine Publishing Practicum
ENGL 2531: Web Publishing Practicum
ENGL 2541: Screenwriting Workshop
ENGL 2551: Creative Writing Workshop
ENGL 2601: Introduction to Shakespeare
ENGL 3351: American Literature post-1865
ENGL 3811: Modernist and Contemporary Poetry
ENGL 1001:Introduction to Literature—Dr. Moore
MWF 10:00-10:50pm Dukes 152
MWF 1:00-1:50pm Dukes 152
This course is designed to introduce students to the elements of fiction, poetry, and drama through reading, writing, and discussion of texts. As a survey of literature from the mid-19th century to the present day, we will come to understand the forms, contents and contexts of such literature, asking questions concerning genre (What makes a poem different from a short story or a play?), technique (What choices has an author made and why?), and history (How does an author's situation inform the text that author produces?). Students will develop a vocabulary with which to discuss texts, develop critical analysis skills, and construct arguments. We will look at the work of poets including Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, Langston Hughes, and Sylvia Plath; fiction from Margaret Atwood, Flannery O'Connor, Tim O'Brien and others, and Tennessee Williams' play A Streetcar Named Desire. Requirements include but are not limited to two short papers, a midterm and a final exam.
Course Tags: #1 Effective Communication—Writing; #7 Aesthetics in Art and Nature
ENGL 2001: Grammar in Context—Dr. Robeson
MWF 2:00-2:50p Dukes 153
Day/Time TBD Dukes 151
ENGL 2031: Technical and Science Writing—Dr. Pitts
MWF 9:00-9:50am Dukes 151
The goals and strategies of writing in technical contexts. We will adopt a rhetorical approach to technical communication focused on evaluating audience, purpose, and genre. Students in this course can expect to gain practical experience in the individual and collaborative drafting, revising, and presentation of a range of technical documentation and projects in multimedia forms, including user testing, technology white papers, online software help, feasibility studies, and product specifications. There will be individual and team assessments.
Prerequisite: English 1221
General Education Tags: #1 Effective Communication--Writing
ENGL 2051: Introduction to Professional Writing—Dr. Bauer
MWF 1:00-1:50pm Dukes 151
What does it mean to be a "professional writer"? What will I actually be doing if a get a job in this field? Where ARE the jobs in this field? How do I get started?
It all begins with English 2051: Introduction to Professional Writing, where you will learn about the profession, explore new technologies in communication, new trends in business, develop persuasive communication techniques to meet the needs of a specific audience, collaborate with other students on writing projects, and hone your writing skills.
The course will begin with an introduction to the field of professional writing. We will also cover grammar, ethics, and various forms of work communication. There will be four projects completed during the semester—one of these will be a group project. Three grammar quizzes will round out the grading component.
This course fulfills the following ONU General Learning Outcome: #1--Effective communication—writing; #5—Integration of Disciplines
Prerequisites: Writing Seminar
ENGL 2071: Topics in Fiction—TBD
MWF 11:00-11:50am Dukes 153
Exploration of thematic and stylistic elements in fiction from a variety of cultures and periods.
ENGL 2071: Topics in Fiction—Literature and Sports—Dr. Pitts
MWF 10:00-10:50am Dukes 130
MWF 2:00-2:50am Dukes 152
ENGL 2071: Topics in Fiction—Growing Pains—Dr. Scott
MWF 1-1:50pm Dukes 112
This course, "Growing Pains," will examine the ways in which the coming of age process is depicted in nine American novels. In particular, we will look closely at the tensions inherent in this literary genre, namely between youth and experience, self and society, and innocence and awareness. In addition, we will also consider the following questions: How do the coming of age experiences of male protagonists differ from those of female protagonists? How do such factors as race and class affect the maturation process? Why is mental instability a frequent component in these novels?
Written work will include two critical essays. In addition to these essays, you will also take a midterm and final examination.
This course fulfills the following ONU General Education Learning Outcomes: Effective communication-Writing; Informed responses to aesthetics in art and nature
ENGL 2081: Topics in Drama—The Twisted Mother—Dr. Bauer
TR 1:30-2:45pm Dukes 112
ENGL 2101: Proseminar: English Studies—Dr. Dowland
MWF 10:00-10:50am Dukes 150
The goal of English Studies is to create the awareness that we read—from words on the page to the world around us—with methods that invest our reading with meaning. To encourage this awareness, we will survey the various schools of literary theory to get a sense of what those schools find to be important ways of reading, why they do so, and perhaps most important, the presumptions and methods they use to create their distinct ways of reading.
The course benefits students as an introductory survey of theory, but also as an introductory overview of the English department, its distinct culture, and your role as students within it. We will periodically reflect on the nuts-and-bolts processes of the English major: in particular, how theory appears in the assignments you may be asked to write. We will focus on how theory works for you, in terms of articulating a personal theoretical identity with practical and professional merits.
Required Text
Robert Dale Parker, How to Interpret Literature, Second Edition.
A selection of poems and short stories will be available through the course Moodle page.
50% = Five Brief Essays
20% = Two Drills
20% = Participation
10% = Preparation
ENGL 2111: Americal Literature I—Dr. Cullen
TR 8:00-9:15am Dukes
Many of us who are Americans may assume that we know what America is and what Americans are. However, as we explore the roots of American culture before 1870 through its literature, we often find ourselves in an unfamiliar world. In this world, social disruption and cultural uncertainty are as common as the proverbial apple pie. Physical boundaries of the emerging nation were fluid for an extended period of time. Individual and shared identities of Americans were equally changeable.
In American Literature I we will discover or rediscover a written heritage of many American voices: young, old, rich, poor, well educated, poorly educated, man, woman, Native American, European, African, mixed, born here, born elsewhere. These diverse people wrote diaries, journals, letters, autobiographies, biographies, political discourse, social commentary, poetry and fiction that still merit attention. In our reading of these textual voices we will discover much about American cultural history—and about ourselves as well.
The Norton Anthology of American Literature, eighth edition, volumes A and B
Volume A ISBN: 978039393476 Volume B 978039393477
Course Activities
This course includes a great deal of discussion of our shared reading and a variety of writing experiences, from informal reflective notes to a longer researched essay. We will also have a midterm and final exam.
Course Tags
This course is tagged for #1 Effective Written Communication and #2 Critical and Creative Thinking.
ENGL 2151: Literature and the Environment—Dr. Dowland
MWF 1:00-1:50pm Dukes 153
MWF 2:00-2:50pm Dukes 152
In this course, we will study classic and contemporary literature about the natural world. We will examine literature as an exploration of the cultural construction of the environment: how literature works to distinguish man from animal; civilization from nature; city from country; the pristine from the polluted. Further, we will also examine how literature calls such distinctions into question: doing so encourages us to think more critically about the natural world and our precarious place in it. Finally, we will examine how literature functions as a response to contemporary environmental issues.
Required Texts
Suzanne Antonetta, Body Toxic: An Environmental Memoir
Sarah Orne Jewett, The Country of the Pointed Firs
John Krakauer, Into the Wild
Annie Proulx, Brokeback Mountain
Luis Sepulveda, The Old Man Who Read Love Stories
H.G. Wells, The Island of Doctor Moreau
A selection of poems, short stories and excerpted nonfiction texts will be available through the course Moodle page.
General Education Outcomes: #1 Effective Communication Writing; #7 Informed Responses to Aesthetics
ENGL 2251: Children's and Young Adult Literature
MWF 1:00-1:50pm Dukes 150
ENGL 2511: Magazine Publishing Practicum, Polaris—Dr. Moore
T 4:30-5:45pm Dukes 151
This course is for students who are interested in engaging in publication activities for ONU's student-run literary journal, Polaris. Weekly meetings will involve reading and reviewing submissions of fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction, and art, planning for upcoming events (our annual Scary Rapid Fire Reading and the Winter Wheat Festival), and attending to the duties of maintaining and promoting Polaris through various media and social outlets. Students will work collaboratively to solicit creative work, develop promotional materials, and learn how to design and maintain a production schedule, all with an eye toward publication in the Spring semester.
ENGL 2531: Web Publishing Practicum
Day/Time TBD Dukes 151
ENGL 2541: Screenwriting Workshop—Dr. Cullen
R 12:00-1:15pm Heterick Library
Every week ONU students gather in Heterick Library to enjoy a stimulating group experience, exploring both the art and skill of creating screenplays of various kinds. As part of our exploration, we examine the intersections of this art with other genres of writing such as stage plays, fiction, poetry, and nonfiction. We also collaborate with the actors of the university's theater department who do periodic readings of our scripts. In addition we make connections between screenplays/film/video and other artistic forms such as music and visual arts. Some members of the workshop collaborate in creating short videos of the workshop material. Complementing these creative activities, we also examine some of the business aspects of the craft, such as marketing, copyright protection of scripts, and effective networking.
ENGL 2551: Creative Writing Workshop—Dr. Moore
R 3:00-4:15pm Dukes 150
This workshop is primarily intended to give creative writers of all genres and levels a space in which to actively experiment with different forms and ideas through various writing prompts, to engage with one another in a workshop atmosphere, and to produce a handful of pieces as a result of these activities. Requirements include but are not limited to participation in weekly writing activities, thoughtful commentary on peers' work, and the composition and revision of a few pieces over the course of the semester.
ENGL 2601: Introduction to Shakespeare—Dr. McManus
MWF 11:00-11:50am Dukes 152
English 2601 Introduction to Shakespeare will focus on Shakespeare's drama, covering plays from each of the genres—tragedy, comedy, history, and romances. We will look closely at performance qualities of these works as well as character development, plot and imagery related to themes, and internal stage directions. To understand Shakespeare's poetics and the importance of language we will do close readings and watch films of some plays; groups will perform staged readings of scenes. This will be an on-your-feet Shakespeare class.
Course tags:
#5: Integration of concepts across disciplines, percentage of course: 20%
#7: Informed responses to aesthetics in art or nature, percentage of course: 20%
ENGL 3351: American Literature post-1865—Dr. Scott
MWF 8:00-8:50am Dukes 112
This course, "On the Road to the Cuckoo's Nest," will examine the recurrent themes of flight and madness in nine postwar American novels. We will begin by exploring the prevalence of the journey motif, in both the physical and non-physical sense, as well as the ultimate ramifications of these journeys. We will then turn our attention to the pervasive theme of mental instability, focusing on the sense of alienation felt by many of the protagonists in these works. Throughout the course, our emphasis will be on the various ways in which characters struggle with roles assigned to them by society.
You will write two critical essays and take a final examination. In addition to the essays and exam, you will also be responsible for an oral presentation.
This course fulfills the following ONU General Education Learning Outcomes: Informed responses to aesthetics in art and nature; An understanding of diverse cultures and their effects on human interaction.
ENGL 3511: English Language—Dr. Walter
MWF 1:00-1:50pm Dukes 254
ENGL 3811: Modernist and Contemporary Poetry—Dr. Moore
MWF 11:00-11:50am Dukes 150
In this course we will explore how the lyric poem has evolved throughout the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, examining collections that engage with, revise, or extend the parameters of the lyric genre itself. Looking at both critical and creative work of American poets, we'll consider how collections of poetry function as such, as well as the relationship between a poet's critical stance and creative output. That is, we will read and write about poems by examining them through the lens of each author's own (and in some cases, other writers') critical perspective, considering how each informs, or speaks to, the other.
In addition to exploring the interconnectedness of form, content, context, authorship, and audience, we will explore the lyric as it fits into current understandings of what literature is and does, who gets to decide and why, and what all of these concerns might have to do with contemporary students of literature. Course texts include but are not limited to T.S. Eliot's Prufrock and Other Observations, Carl Sandburg's Chicago Poems, Gwendolyn Brooks' A Street in Bronzeville, Sylvia Plath's Ariel, Allen Ginsberg's Howl and Other Poems, John Berryman's 77 Dream Songs, as well as collections from Mina Loy, Louise Glück, Tao Lin, and Kevin Young. Course requirements include but are not limited to a class presentation, an analysis paper, and a research project.
Course Tags: #1 Effective Communication—Oral; #7 Aesthetics in Art and Nature


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Michael O'Leary, the CEO of Ryanair, the World's most hated airline, has today been branded as "pathetic" by a High Court Judge after being caught out lying in a letter to Ireland's transport Minister.
This is the same O'Leary who insinuated that Easyjet's Stelios Haji-Ioannou was a liar in an advert campaign that portrayed him as Pinocchio. Stelios will of course see O'Leary in court over that one!
Mr Justice Peter Kelly said Mr O'Leary was lucky not to be found in contempt of court for what he described as 'a serious state of affairs'.
The judge made his comments in an interim ruling in an ongoing case by Ryanair against the Commission for Aviation Regulation over airport charges.
The judge said he became aware last Wednesday that a letter had been written by Mr O'Leary to Mr Dempsey which misquoted him as being critical of the Minister delay in establishing an appeal panel.
Mr Justice Kelly said he found it quite extraordinary that Mr O'Leary misrepresented him in a letter to a Minister while writing it with the benefit of a transcript of earlier proceedings.
He said Mr O'Leary's attempt to justify this in the witness box was 'pathetic'.
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He also said that Mr O Leary had agreed, only when prompted by the court, to write to the Minister clarifying the situation.
However Mr Justice Kelly said having seen the way in which Ryanair conducted its correspondence in this case, he would have to insist that they saw the letter before it was sent.
In the witness box today Michael O Leary apologised for the letter.
Speaking to reporters after the hearing, Mr O'Leary said he would take a lot more care to make sure the letters he drafts in the future to the Minister and the Commissioner for Aviation Regulation are 'factually accurate in every respect'.
When asked if he was chastened by the experience, he said he always learns something when he visits the Four Courts, in terms of drafting his letters and the conduct of our legal action with the Commission for Aviation Regulation.
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The Christmas Bureau, which served the community for decades, ended last year with the job of providing food for the needy at Christmas-time being turned over to two entities this year: Whitley County Salvation Army and Eagle Quest Church.
The two groups are now working diligently to gather donations for food for those families in need.
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Working through Angel Food Ministries, Pat Mossburg of the Salvation Army says a $31 donation will feed a family of four for a week, or this year, two families.
"We need funds as quickly as possible to meet this need," Mossburg said. "We know this community wants to help out."
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Anyone wanting to donate should make checks payable to Angel Food Ministries, memo: "Christmas Food." They can be mailed to Eagle Quest Church at 1120 N. St. Rd. 109, Columbia City, IN 46725; or donations may be dropped off at the Salvation Army in the church from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. through Wednesday and again on Monday.
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With songs like "Mandy" and "Can't Smile Without You" to his credit, Manilow has released more than 40 albums and has a Grammy, two Emmys, a Tony Award and an Oscar nomination to his credit.
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Cajun music bears the marks of diaspora and exile, immigrant joys and ancient despair. Its home is the farmlands, plains and marshes of Louisiana, of course, but as far as it has wandered -- every night, there's at least one band in some bar in some city with accordions and fiddles that spin out the tunes -- genuine Cajun music has preserved a lilt of loss within the furious rhythms. When the Acadians, who refused to pledge allegiance to the British king and refused to be dominated by the French, were expelled from the eastern province of Canada in 1755, they brought the old songs and rhythms with them. They tried to settle all along the New England seaboard, as well as throughout the South and on Caribbean islands, until finally taking root in southwest Louisiana, already a melting pot for Spanish, French, African and Anglo cultures. Over time, they gave a new identity to the bayou and changed the course of American popular music for good.
Tribute albums come and go like so many souvenirs of fad and fashion, and separating the banal from the brilliant is a full-time job. When a genuinely original and exciting homage comes along, it's likely to slip through the cracks of a popular culture surfeited on remakes. Evangeline Made is a modest and memorable tribute, a refreshing introduction to the songs and styles of Acadian culture and one of the best albums so far this year. Ann Savoy -- a principal member of the Magnolia Sisters and the Savoy Doucet Cajun Band, as well as a historian and advocate for Cajun music and culture -- produced the album, which will be released in early March. Savoy was born in St. Louis, grew up in Virginia and now makes her home, along with husband and accordion-maker Marc Savoy, eight miles outside Eunice, La.
"Most people have this fantasy of the bayou with alligators," Savoy says, "but where we live is all huge, flat, grassy fields, with oaks covered in moss. I've lived here 26 years. I met Marc at the Wolf Trap folk festival in Washington, D.C. I was really into French at the time. I was a French major, and ever since I moved down here I've been documenting the music and culture in photographs, books and recordings. My earliest exposure was while I was still in Richmond, Va., when a friend of mine had given me a 45 of Clifton Chenier and I couldn't believe how a piano accordion could rock out, and that wild French he was singing, that mixture of Creole and French. When you live in France and hear the music the French play, it's very civilized. When I heard this wild French stuff, it blew me away."
The wild heart of Cajun music beats in counterpoint to the often sprawling narratives of French drinking songs and folk ballads. In "Ma Mule," sung on the album by David Johansen, the Acadian landscape and language dovetails with a primal blues archetype -- the mule tale -- and concludes, as so many Cajun songs do, with a melancholy image of home: "I took two gulps and three large drinks/I'm going to my house, full of sorrow."
"There's still drifting around here the old ballads that came from France," Savoy says, "that came to this area through Canada. You'll be so shocked hearing traditional French groups doing songs that have the same words as the old Cajun ballads here. The people who live here, out in the middle of nowhere in a field in a little shack, they have no idea of their roots. They can't speak English, they can't read or write, and they're singing these songs from France in the 17th century, all the words from these long ballads. It's totally an oral tradition. None of the music is written down. They learn the songs by ear and learn their instruments by fiddling around."
Except for an early attempt to notate the music in 1934, Savoy was one of the first to transcribe the music, collect the songs and trace the history. "Some of the other roots of the music are the old-time fiddle tunes that drifted in before radio, brought in by travelers from other areas. There's Irish, a little bit of German polka, which is where the diatonic accordion came from. Then as soon as radios came into the area, people started translating Jimmie Rodgers and Carter Family songs into French. I think 'Blues de Bosco', which Rodney Crowell sings on the tribute, is a Jimmie Rodgers song. Nick Lowe does 'Don't Stop the Music,' which was a George Jones song. The Cajuns love George Jones!
"Some people, when they hear Cajun music, say it sounds like country music," she continues. "I've never thought of it as country. Cajun music has this wild, haunting thing about it. It may have some roots in country music, but it doesn't sound country anymore."
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openSuSE 10.3 on x86_64 Intel Core2Duo CPU, ASUS P5K motherboard and GeForce8500GT video card. The only video output now occurs *after* Linux has booted up and is ready for user logon. No video is present during the POST. This happened after updating the nVidia driver to version 100.14.19 for x86_64 Prior to that I got video output during POST as well.
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Installation of openSuSE went fine with no error messages. Updates also fine. Because this is going to be a scientific (medical imaging) workstation I needed to enable 3D and Xgl and compiz. Referred to the openSuSE wisdom at
which recommends a "one click" installation followed by several steps to enable Xgl, etc.
The "one click" method went to completion without error messages. I then used the three invocations of nvidia-xconfig with suggested parameters to permit Xgl operation. No errors during this time although at one point a "black screen and evident lack of synch" occured. The xorg.conf file was (as expected) overwritten each time these commands were issued.
Instructions then said to log off, restart X (ctrl-alt-bspace) and I got a blank screen with no video output from the card (monitor light orange instead of green). SSH'ed into the machine and restored xorg.conf from a backup copy. Then restart X and I am able to log on.
Tried sax2 to set up the nVidia card but again got a black screen (no video) when logging off, on again. SSH once again helped to fix it. But still no 3D and still no Xgl. In fact glxinfo reports display 0.0 non existent and glxgears of course does not run.
Cold boot. Surprisingly (and disturbingly) there is no video during the POST. Only video I get is after Linux and X have taken control of the card. It is as though the motherboard BIOS does not recognise the video card. And because I can see no video during POST I have no way to get at the BIOS settings to see if they have changed, or even to try any other settings!
The card can connect to the monitor (an IBM P275 aka 6632 21-inch monster) with VGA and digital. There is no video output on eiither connector during POST now. Previously I was only able to get output on the VGA connector, being unaware of how to activate the digital.
Is there perhaps a low-level utility that allows the nVidia chipset / bios to be examined and if necessary, reverted from the changes that nvidia-xconfig seems to have wrought?
And is there a way to swap between ananlogue and digital outputs? I would like to use the digital for better display results if possible. Another low-level utility perhaps?
In the meantime I can substitute another nVidia card (a 7800GT) to prove whether the card's "personality" has undergone a change.
Thank you in advance for your patience and advice,
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go to bios. check that your 'first' or 'primary' graphics adapter is set to 'pcie' or 'agp' or whatever you use. if you can't go to bios because everything is black, try to get a pci-card somewhere and plug it in. a lot of computer users have one laying around somewhere ...
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Thanks "energyman76b"
Will give that a try with a 7800 card tomorrow.
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On stage at the Annenberg Center's Zellerbach Theater in Philadelphia, Jon Kabat-Zinn was playing to a rapturous sellout crowd. They were there to absorb, even be transformed by, his prescription of hope for a troubled world, and Kabat-Zinn, with his craggy, handsome face, high cheekbones and graying hair, had them mesmerized.
He recited poetry by Emily Dickinson, quoted from Henry David Thoreau and injected some humorous shtick: "Do you know what I'm talking about? Or "Anyone here have that experience?" The audience members laughed, grew silent or nodded their heads in unison.
Kabat-Zinn, 64, is the country's meditator-in-chief, the molecular biologist who introduced mindful meditation to traditional medicine back in 1979 and who, through the next three decades, ushered it into the medical mainstream. His five books, including Wherever You Go, There You Are, have been printed in 30 languages, and have sold nearly 1.5 million copies in the United States.
The people in this audience, though, were academic types—teachers, principals and administrators, all attendees at a February weekend conference on mindfulness in education organized by the University of Pennsylvania's Program for Stress Management. Education is only one of myriad disciplines to which Kabat-Zinn has begun to stretch his teachings. In a world that he says is spinning out of control, he considers meditation training essential for anyone seeking clarity and compassion in their lives and relationships.
Mindful meditation, simply, is attending to the present moment. Its practice, rooted in Buddhism, was meant to relieve suffering and cultivate compassion and it is compatible, proponents say, with any or no religion. It begins with the willingness to set aside a half hour or so a day to practice formal meditation—sitting, standing or walking—at first just focusing on your breath. When thoughts of the past or the future intrude, as they inevitably will, subjects are told to return to their breath.
"The present moment, the only moment we have to feel or to think, is a hidden dimension for most of us," said Kabat-Zinn. "We are so absorbed with planning for the future or blaming people for what is over and done with that we lose the lives we are living. We die a thousand deaths wasting our energy on what was or what will be."
The key, he said, is that people who meditate handle emotions differently. They are not so judgmental and they learn how to let go of the past, to put aside how "somebody did them in. Stress comes from the way people react to things, and if you're not cultivating mindfulness, you're cultivating reactivity."
The real meditation practice is in how we live our lives, Kabat-Zinn said. "It isn't sitting in a lotus position and pretending you're a statue in the British Museum. There are a thousand doors to mindfulness. You can cook mindfully, dance mindfully, walk on the beach mindfully, make love mindfully. It's all about being fully present in what you are doing. Formal meditation practice is merely the launching platform."
Kabat-Zinn's interest in meditation may have been hatched during his undergraduate years at Haverford, where he lived in French House opposite the duck pond and majored in chemistry while pursuing as a "sort-of-second major" his interest in German and French literature and Italian opera. His class of '64 was the last to participate in compulsory Fifth Day Meeting and that is where he learned the power of silence. Also influential was philosophy professor Douglas Steere. "[His] legacy was a kind of ethics and ethos that had to do with truthfulness and authenticity," said Kabat-Zinn.
When Kabat-Zinn founded his clinic at the University of Massachusetts Medical School 30 years ago, his goal was to catch people falling between the cracks in the health system. After all, he reasoned, heart disease, diabetes, cancer and other chronic illnesses are often caused or exacerbated by lifestyle factors that can be altered. He believed he knew how to make that happen.
His first group included those with stress-related chronic illnesses whose doctors had exhausted their bags of tricks. He knew if he could restore their well-being, he'd be onto something big.
The results were extraordinary. People with headaches didn't have them anymore. Those with backaches learned to work around their pain. Those with high blood pressure saw the numbers drop. Mindfulness, which swings the body into balance, had led to symptom relief. "Patients told me I had done more for them in eight weeks than their doctors had in eight years," said Kabat-Zinn.
Kabat-Zinn had been meditating ever since he was a student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1965. He remembers seeing a sign inviting students to a talk by Roshi Philip Kapleau, author of The Three Pillars of Zen. He knew nothing about Zen and was one of only four students who showed up. But he said, "it took the top off my head. It filled a niche in my assessment of what was missing in our culture, an authentic experience of being rather than doing. I realized you could learn how to be in a relationship with your thoughts and emotions. It satisfied something deep in me and I've been in love with it ever since."
Marrying medicine and meditation (despite their shared etymological origin in the Latin word mederi, which means "to heal") was not easy. Kabat-Zinn encountered what he calls "medical politics," yet experienced no insurmountable roadblocks. His molecular biology doctorate from MIT helped. "People figured that with that kind of pedigree, I must know something," he conjectured.
In today's world, where multitasking is a must, where technology, with its tantalizing smorgasbord of instant messaging, insistent e-mails, and vibrating cell phones, intrudes into each moment, Kabat-Zinn is not sure how people survive without something to ground them. Without meditation, he said, he couldn't have gotten through eight years of watching his father, a brilliant biomedical scientist, lose his mind to Alzheimer's disease or tend to his mother, an accomplished artist, who had a stroke from the stress. "There is not a single aspect of my life where I'm not calling on meditation to keep me balanced," he said.
More than 18,000 patients have participated in stress reduction programs at his medical clinic, often with startling, clinically proven results.
Two studies of patients with psoriasis, a painful skin condition, revealed that those getting audiotaped meditation instructions while receiving ultraviolet treatments saw their skin clear up four times as fast as those who did not participate. In another study, in which influenza vaccine was given to volunteers, those who meditated had more antibodies than those in the control group.
But the focus of the two-day conference in Philadelphia, where Kabat-Zinn was the keynote speaker and also led a day-long meditation session for several hundred educators, was applying meditation to learning. Kabat-Zinn believes that there are dimensions of our being that schools ignore. We are taught analysis, but we are never schooled in awareness. Learning, after all, has to do with perception, those eureka moments that can ignite passion.
If mindfulness were more a part of education, more young people would benefit, Kabat-Zinn believes. Parents are the first and most powerful teachers. They can be mindful by nurturing their children and themselves, by seeing things, as the young do, as if for the first time.
A good teacher will take mindfulness to class. "Imagine the potential for teaching young children if they can inhabit the 'being' part of their lives, ask deep questions and maybe love learning," Kabat-Zinn said. "That's how kids become emotionally intelligent. They learn that life is the curriculum."
More than 200 medical centers in the world, 100 in this country, have integrated mindfulness in their curriculums. School districts from Oakland, Calif., to New York City's Harlem are inviting it into the classroom.
"We need to wake up a little more and liberate ourselves from our self-destructive habits—greed, hatred, racism and selfishness—what the Buddhists call ignorance, ignoring what is fundamental," Kabat-Zinn mused. "If we learn that when we are young, it can enhance joy and relationships throughout life. There is no reason to starve for well-being."
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Republicans are putting immense pressure on Missouri Senate nominee Todd Akin to drop out of the race amid the furor over this comments on rape. One of the most tangible sources of pressure is pulling money out of the state, giving the appearance that they won't help Akin if he remains in the race. But Republicans have yet to cancel their big fall ad reservations in Missouri, according to a Democratic source tracking ad buys.
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The 22-6 St. John's Christian Academy Cavaliers were well represented on the SCISA All Region III team as voted on by the region's seven coaches during the first round of the state tournament last weekend.
Mike Lewis garnered boy's Player of the Year honors while Jenna O'Dell, who recently scored her 1,000th career point, was named the girl's Player of the Year.
Lewis was one of four Cavaliers named to the All-Region team. Greg Gamble, Damian Hurta, and Bobby Winters also earned the honor.
"We are very proud," said St. John's Coach Bob Winters. "It reflects on the respect they have for the basketball program and tradition that is being built at SJCA."
Winters was also named SCISA Region III Coach of the Year. The coach felt honored to be selected by his region peers.
"I am indebted to my team helping me earn this award," he said. "In 1985, my last year at Berkeley, I was chosen for a similar award and had the privilege to coach a bunch of good players on that team also.
"I have always believed that good players make you a good coach. This time around it may have been a combination of having good players and the other coaches feeling sorry for a crippled old man."
The Cavaliers advanced to the SCISA Class A Elite Eight with a 63-61 win over Covenant Christian and were set to face Newberry in the quarterfinals on Tuesday at Orangeburg Prep.
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Arthur James Caley or Routh Goshen (May 5, 1837 – February 12, 1889) was most commonly known as Colonel Routh Goshen, but this was a stage name that was created by Phineas Taylor Barnum. He was billed as the tallest man in the world at 7 ft, 11 inches (2.41 m) and 620 pounds (280 kg) but was most likely no more than 7 ft, 5 inches (2.26 m) and 400 pounds (180 kg). While his birth name and date of birth were kept a secret, a letter that surfaced indicated that his birth name was Arthur James Caley and he was born on the Isle of Man in 1827. Other sources said he was born in Jerusalem on May 5, 1837. His true origins are still obscured by the many apocryphal biographies that were created to publicize him.
- Arthur James Caley[1]
- Colonel Routh Goshen[2]
- Colonel Routh Goshon[3]
- Colonel Ruth Goshon[4]
- Colonel Ruth Goshen[5]
- The Middlebush Giant[3]
- The Arabian Giant[5]
- The Palestine Giant
- The Sulby Giant[5]
- The Manx Giant
- Arthur Crowley[6]
Jerusalem, Palestine[edit]
The Brooklyn Eagle writes on January 8, 1879:
Melancholy. The Matrimonial experiences of Colonel Ruth Goshen. The Turkish giant robbed of his wife, his educated goat, his money and his horse and carriage - the perfidy of a man whom he befriended - a very high life elopement which excites the show people - moving for a divorce. That matrimonial misery may afflict the highest as well as the lowest was never better illustrated than in the affliction which has overtaken Colonel Ruth Goshen. ... This worthy descendant of the Brohdignagian race first saw the light of day forty three years ago in the city of Jerusalem, Palestine. He is of Hebrew and Turkish descent. At present he stands seven feet eleven inches in his stocking feet, weighs 635 pounds, measures ninety one inches around the chest and ninety five inches round the waist. His arms are the thickness of saplings and his fist possesses the ponderosity of the hammer of Thor. The Colonel served in several eventful campaigns. He was in the Turkish army at Jerusalem, and fought through the Crimean war, the war of Italian independence and the campaign of Maximillian in Mexico. ...[7][8]
Sulby, Isle of Man[edit]
In 1980, a letter was sent to the Middlebush Reformed Church stating that his real name was "Arthur James Caley", and claiming he was born in the village of Sulby on the Isle of Man in 1827. This would have him 62 years old when he died.[9]
He was married three times and divorced twice at the time of his death. He married a woman that he met while traveling for his show, and she claimed to be a widow. She later ran off with another man, and his goat, and horse, in January 1879. Routh also had an adopted daughter: Frances Sylvester (?-1949). She may have traveled with him in Europe and she was said to have danced for Queen Victoria.[6]
Death and burial[edit]
He died at his home on Amwell Road in Middlebush, New Jersey. He had been living in Franklin Township for about 15 years, since 1884. He was originally buried without a tombstone for fear his body would be dug up and put on display. The cemetery is the Cedar Grove Cemetery in Middlebush, New Jersey. His tombstone reads "Col. Routh Goshen, Middlebush Giant, 1837-1889".[10]
Death and funeral of giant Goshen. Colonel Routh Goshen, the giant, who used to be one of the attractions of Barnum's show, died at his farm at Clyde, New Jersey, February 12th. He was, it is said, a mulatto born in this country, though he passed in the show bills for being Belgian. He was about 70 years old and was seven feet, two inches in height, two feet, six inches (152 mm) across the shoulders, 28 inches through the chest, and his weight was 630 pounds. He was thrifty and accumulated quite a little property. The farm house of the dead giant was thronged with villagers long before the hour fixed for the funeral. The remains had been placed in a coffin eight feet long and three feet wide. It was covered with cloth and had been specially made for the deceased. After the funeral services were over the coffin was borne on the shoulder of eight sturdy farmers to a wagon which was standing in the road about 100 yards (91 m) from the house. Undertaker Van Duyn said he could not find a hearse large enough to hold the giant's coffin. The pall bearers had a hard struggle in carrying the remains down the incline leading from the house to the road and when they deposited the coffin in the wagon, beads of perspiration stood out on their foreheads. A large crowd followed the remains to the Middlebush cemetery, where the interment took place. Colonel Goshen left an estate valued at about $10,000. He was married three times and divorced twice. He left his property to his married daughter, with whom he resided. One of his wives, who resided in Elgin, Illinois, will, it is said, contest the giant's will.[11]
- ^ "The Mystery of Arthur Caley, the Manx Giant, Still Continues". Isle of Man. Retrieved 2008-07-23.
- ^ William B. Brahms, Franklin Township, Somerset County, NJ: A History, FTPL; ISBN 0-9668586-0-3 p. 557.
- ^ a b William B. Brahms, Franklin Township, Somerset County, NJ: A History, FTPL; ISBN 0-9668586-0-3 p. 524.
- ^ William B. Brahms, Franklin Township, Somerset County, NJ: A History, FTPL; ISBN 0-9668586-0-3 p. 525.
- ^ a b c William B. Brahms, Franklin Township, Somerset County, NJ: A History, FTPL; ISBN 0-9668586-0-3 p. 527.
- ^ a b "Contesting Colonel Goshen's will" (PDF). New York Times. March 11, 1889. Retrieved 2007-02-18.
It is reported that before his death Col. Routh Goshon, the biggest giant Barnum ever exhibited, made a statement, giving his true name and the place of his birth. He said that his name was Arthur Crowley and that he was born in the Isle of Man about 70 years ago.
- ^ "Melancholy.". Brooklyn Eagle. January 8, 1879.
- ^ "Ruth Goshen". Brooklyn Eagle. January 9, 1879.
- ^ William B. Brahms, Franklin Township, Somerset County, NJ: A History, FTPL; ISBN 0-9668586-0-3. p.541 Brahms reprints part of the letter from Mrs. V. E. Teare of Sulby Village dated May 16, 1980. The original letter and a response letter from historian Elsie B. Stryker are in the collection of the Franklin Township Public Library
- ^ William B. Brahms, Franklin Township, Somerset County, NJ: A History, FTPL; ISBN 0-9668586-0-3
- ^ "Death and funeral of giant Goshen". Fort Covington Sun. March 7, 1889.
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- Fort Covington Sun
- Circus History: Routh Goshen
- Franklin Township Public Library Photo Archive for Middlebush Giant
- Manx National Heritage - Sulby Giant
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I once read an article that advised homeowners to invest in designer shoes. When they sold their home, the argument went, they'd recoup the investment as buyers drooled over the closet of Louboutins and upped their offers accordingly. I thought it was a silly idea — who buys a house based on a closet of someone else's shoes? — until I saw this D.C. townhouse and wanted to buy not only the house, but the lifestyle I imagine goes with it.
In my fantasy, I'd return from my high-powered-but-meaningful political job and enjoy a pre-dinner glass of wine on that pink pouf in the living room while listening to tasteful classical or jazz. (Never mind that I usually can't stand jazz or politics.) Paired with blush walls, the dusty rose upholstery on the dining room chairs is feminine but not too girly — just like my fantasy personal fashion concept.
Next, I'd call on the double ovens to simultaneously handle dinner and dessert, perhaps while dishing out hors d'oeuvres and bons mots to a few friends over the island.
Or we could have cocktails in this sitting room that opens to the back of the house. I'd have coffee at that corner table every morning, of course, and congratulate myself on having been bold enough to go for an orange colour scheme. (Though credit is certainly due instead to designer Barry Dixon, who undertook an extensive renovation of the house in 2009.)
I'd select some light bedtime reading from my collection of obscure novelists' first editions before drifting off in the glamorous-yet-restful bedroom. If I couldn't fall asleep in this one, there's always the other five bedrooms (including the one in the fully equipped apartment over the garage).
The enclosed terrace at the back of the house would be the perfect place to ride out D.C.'s swampy summers. I guess they're an unavoidable part of the city, even in my dreams.
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Jack Johnson ~ The News
A billion people died on the news tonight
But not so many cried at the terrible sight
Well mama said
It's just make believe
You can't believe everything you see
So baby close your eyes to the lullabies
On the news tonight
Who's the one to decide that it would be alright
To put the music behind the news tonight
Well mama said
You can't believe everything you hear
The diagetic world is so unclear
So baby close your ears
On the news tonight
On the news tonight
The unobtrusive tones on the news tonight
And mama said
Why don't the newscasters cry when they read about people who die?
At least they could be decent enough to put just a tear in their eyes
Mama said
It's just make believe
You cant believe everything you see
So baby close your eyes to the lullabies
On the news tonight
Jack Johnson ~ Cookie Jar
I would turn on the TV but it's so embarrassing
To see all the other people I don't know what they mean
And it was magic at first when they spoke without sound
But now this world is gonna hurt you better turn that thing down
Turn it around
"It wasn't me", says the boy with the gun
"Sure I pulled the trigger but it needed to be done
Cause life's been killing me ever since it begun
You cant blame me cause I'm too young"
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Well "I wasn't the one who came up with the plan
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Man it's a two way mirror and you cant blame me"
"You can't blame me", says the singer of the song
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The smoke machines and makeup and you cant fool me"
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Chandler schools are seeing more kindergartners enter the district than high school students graduate. The district expects more than 39,500 students next school year, which begins July 23 because it runs on a modified year-round schedule.
Student growth will translate into more money for the district. Each student is worth about $6,000 in funding from the state.
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What fine symbolism -- and irony -- we had there.
Just 20 months ago, Ashcroft whipped Bush by a 32-15 percent margin in South Carolina's straw poll for president, setting himself momentarily apart from others on the Religious Right wing of the Republican Party. Bush, then widely suspected of the crime of political moderation, had stayed safely away from the state and an overcrowded field of candidates.
Now Ashcroft -- who's laboring tirelessly to appear kinder, gentler and less extremist back home in Missouri -- is flown in to bear witness to Bush's moralistic bonafides so that Bush may in turn appear less kind and gentle (and thus in possession of larger cojones than his father) to South Carolina's legendarily conservative Republicans.
The endorsement wasn't what you'd call big on specifics.
"I look forward to working in the United States Senate with a president not just with the legal capacity to govern but with the moral character to lead," Ashcroft said. "(Bush) will make a great president because he won't just govern America, he will lead America."
Bush responded in similar detail.
"For those of you who follow American politics, you know of the strength and character of John Ashcroft," Bush said. "He's not only a man of high principle and high character, he's a person who can get things done."
There was a reason for all these glowing generalities, and it wasn't just that politicians of all stripes write their position papers with crayons these days. In this case, had things gotten substantive, the endorser might have found it a tad difficult to explain his infatuation with the endorsee.
Ashcroft built his South Carolinian reputation as a Religious Right true believer, but in backing Bush he effectively unendorsed Gary Bauer, Alan Keyes, Steve Forbes and Orrin Hatch, all of whom are unmistakably closer to Ashcroft on the social issues he presumably holds dear. It's a good thing South Carolina Republicans aren't what one would call policy wonks.
For example, on abortion -- Ashcroft's longtime signature issue -- Bush has clung to the traditional stance of being "pro-life" except in cases of rape, incest or danger to the life of the mother. Ashcroft, like the other "social" conservatives, has backed the American Life League approach, which is to say no abortions, not anytime, not anywhere, not for any reason.
How important has the issue been to Ashcroft? He is one of only a handful of senators to give public backing to the American Life League, and the group honored him for that last year. Back in 1998, when he was a presidential hopeful, Ashcroft was asked on CNN whether, given only one choice, he would cut taxes or end abortion.
"End abortion," he answered without hesitation.
Well, if we take Ashcroft's absolutist words absolutely, the fellow he just endorsed in South Carolina believes in murdering the unborn if a woman has been raped or has become pregnant incestuously. I don't believe that, but Ashcroft presumably does, and so do some of the candidates he passed over for Bush.
Ah, maybe it would be better to talk taxes.
Then again, two of the linchpins of Ashcroft's economic plan -- proudly touted today on his senatorial Web site -- are slashing the national debt on a firm schedule and unflaggingly protecting Social Security from being raided.
Had the senator stuck around to talk details -- and had the media been inclined to ask -- it might have been interesting to see how those top priorities square with Bush's "fiscally irresponsible" plan (his Republican opponents' words) to cut taxes by $483 billion in year one and $1.14 trillion overall. Bush's critics claim the plan would mean higher deficits and more Social Security raids.
Ashcroft undoubtedly could rationalize that Bush's fervor for tax-cutting is all that matters and that, as Bush promises, the trickle-down phenomenon (a belief in which his father once termed "voodoo economics") would result in a lower national debt and everyone living happily ever after. But I don't think he'd like to lay their two "economic plans" side by side.
On the other hand, Ashcroft and Bush were able to have a unified response to the issue du jour in South Carolina: whether to continue to fly the Confederate flag above the statehouse. Apparently neither man felt compelled to exert the "moral leadership" even to question the legitimacy of officially revering a symbol that stood for, among other things, the buying and selling of human beings like cattle.
"It is a local issue," was all the leadership Bush could muster on this one. He also didn't find it his place to criticize South Carolina state Sen. Arthur Ravenel for referring to the NAACP as the "National Association for the Advancement of Retarded People."
Should Ravenel, a former congressman and a $25 donor to Bush, be expected to apologize?
"It'd be up to the senator to do that," Bush, the moral leader, said.
Ashcroft took a similar dive on the Confederate-flag issue -- saying he wouldn't have chosen to fly one in Missouri but that he wouldn't meddle in South Carolina's business -- but in his case, that was major progress on the racial front.
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Given the fierce nature of competition for top law school graduates, firms are already taking their rankings into account in making workplace policies said Michelle Landis Dauber, a professor at Stanford Law School and adviser to Building a Better Legal Profession. As students begin to make these rankings an important fact in deciding where to apply and what offers of employment to accept, firms will be forced to respond with efforts to bolster their grades, she said.
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