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Counsel to the President, by Clark Clifford
Power Broker
Counsel to the President: A Memoir.
by Clark Clifford with Richard Holbrooke.
Random House. 709 pp. $25.00.
The cover of this handsome volume is graced by a somewhat flattering oil painting of the author, and the title is highlighted by a row of five-pointed stars apparently purloined from the Presidential Seal. The message is clear: this is a valediction, intended to climax and celebrate fifty years in the epicenter of power and policy. Yet such are the anomalies of fate (and of publishing) that by the time Counsel to the President appeared in the stores, Clark Clifford, now 84, found himself facing possible indictment for his alleged role in the largest banking scandal in history. Newsweek's often vicious "Conventional Wisdom Watch" (August 6) put it this way: "Old CW: Eminent statesman. New CW: Craven influence peddler."
It is regrettable that Clifford's problems (the political equivalent of a multiple-vehicle accident) came to light at the same time as his book, because many potential readers may be thus inclined to pass it by, when in fact it is one of the more interesting memoirs to emerge from Washington in some time. This is mostly due to the fact that its author, after all, is not precisely a nobody. He has been a key figure since the end of World. War II; he was present at dozens of major historic events—from Winston Churchill's "Iron Curtain" speech in Fulton, Missouri in 1946 to the reversal of U.S. policy in Vietnam in 1968; and at times he played a crucial role in shaping the outcomes of those events. And the book is of considerable interest in yet another way: the pages are crowded with original material (notes, quotations from cabinet meetings, and so forth) which afford a fascinating sense of texture and much new insight. Most of the time, too, it is a downright good read—a credit to the literary skills of Clifford, or his co-author Richard Holbrooke, or some talented ghost-writer, or possibly all three.
Inevitably, this is also a partisan book—fiercely so, in fact. Democrats are responsible for all the good things that have happened in this country over the past fifty years, Republicans for most or all of our misfortunes, past and present. (Some of Clifford's considerable argumentative skills as a lawyer are revealed in the chapter where he manages to transfer a good part of the blame for the Vietnam war onto President Eisenhower.) Quite often Clifford's version of the past reminds me of the portraits painted by a certain Argentine society artist of the 1920's. As a nephew explained it to me some decades later, the artist had been trained in Germany to get the eyes just right. "The rest of the face—well, that," the nephew added, "they taught him to arrange." Much the same seems to be the case here: there is a crucial kernel of truth, but how much the rest of it is to be believed varies with one's own direct knowledge of the subjects treated.
There is also a slight but irritating "presentism" which periodically shapes (or rather, misshapes) the narrative, so that values current in Democratic circles today are read back into the past to give the protagonist a more "progressive" image in retrospect. Interestingly, however, Clifford is not a bit convincing in this guise: he still reveals himself to be the archetypal representative of "the old politics" of the pre-1968 Democratic party. This book, indeed, reminds us what a fine thing that was.
Clark Clifford was born in St. Louis shortly after the turn of the century into a reasonably cultured middle-class family which seems to have experienced downward mobility. He was a talented provincial; after passing through local schools, he was admitted to the bar and married a hometown girl. Entering the practice of law in the late 20's, he managed to prosper even during the Depression. He says now that he never expected to leave St. Louis or the life he led there; but then the war came. Clifford entered the Navy as a commissioned officer, and thanks to some Missouri connections, found himself stationed in Washington. In 1945 his fellow Missourian, Harry Truman, quite unexpectedly succeeded Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Clifford, who had barely been to sea, was suddenly appointed one of the new President's naval aides. Leaving the service after the war, he stayed on at the White House as a speechwriter and staffer.
During the Truman administration Clifford seems to have been everywhere: involved in labor showdowns with John L. Lewis, head of the United Mine Workers, and in political confrontations with Vice-President Henry Wallace (who resigned to challenge Truman from the Left in the 1948 elections). He played a key role in the reorganization of the military services and what became the Defense Department after the war. He was actively involved in the formulation of the Truman Doctrine and the Marshall Plan, and in the creation of the CIA, the National Security Council, and the FBI's loyalty program. He was hip-deep in the drafting of Truman's Fair Deal; Point Four; racial desegregation of the armed forces; and the 1948 presidential campaign.
After Truman's reelection, Clifford remained on the White House staff for only one more year, resigning to go into private practice. Today, when government officials seem to pass through the revolving door with no more than decent speed, this hardly seems odd. But it was audacious at the time. Clifford was no less ambitious than those of his colleagues who chose to remain on the "inside," but his was a more dispassionate form of ambition—colder, more calculating, more intelligent. He grasped that you could actually count for more on the outside, as long as you could get your telephone calls returned. He became the first of the great modern Washington power brokers.
This meant he was often called in to put out fires, or to smooth out differences between vain and petulant rivals within the same party, or even (in one hilarious anecdote) to attract guests to a "cocktail" party hosted by a tee-totaling Senator. He flourished even in the 1952-1960 period of Republican ascendancy. But he really came into his own during the Kennedy administration, which he helped to assemble. To the Kennedy family in particular he was an indispensable retainer, helping to produce a plausible denial to the persistent rumor that John F. Kennedy had not actually written his Pulitzer-prize-winning book, Profiles in Courage, or to smooth over the revelation that Teddy had been expelled from Harvard for hiring someone else to take his Spanish exam.
Inevitably, Vietnam occupies a very large space in this book—in fact, about a third of the total—in a richly filigreed account to which it is difficult to do justice in a review. Here Holbrooke, who played a large role in Southeast Asian policy in both the Johnson and Carter administrations, seems to have gotten deeply involved in the writing, largely to settle scores with his many enemies and critics. Broadly speaking, we have here the story of how Clifford moved away from his own "hawkish" position to a point where, as Lyndon Johnson's Secretary of Defense, he succeeded in convincing the President that there was no point in continuing to wage the war on the terms which he, Johnson, had chosen, but rather that we should seek a negotiated solution.
The particular crunch-point was the Tet offensive, which, though commonly conceded today to have been a military victory for the U.S., turned into a political disaster at home—and not only because the story was misreported by the American media (although it was). Rather, the top brass of the Army itself altered Clifford's perception of the battlefield situation by almost immediately demanding an additional 205,000 American soldiers. When Clifford asked for assurances that this would be the last installment, General Earle G. Wheeler, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, could offer none, nor—apparently—provide even an estimate of just how many more he might subsequently need. The last straw was Wheeler's assuring a group of senior presidential advisers that the purpose of the American forces in Vietnam was not to defeat the enemy but merely to prevent a Communist victory. "Then what in the name of God are five hundred thousand men out there doing—chasing girls?," Dean Acheson roared back.
There is much human drama in these pages, particularly in connection with Lyndon Johnson himself, who was skillfully maneuvered by Clifford, Acheson, Paul Warnke, and other trusted advisers into a position which ran against his deepest convictions, his pride, and his concern for his place in history. Though Johnson announced his intention not to seek reelection in a televised address on March 30, 1968, he periodically contemplated reversing himself once again. When Vice-President Hubert Humphrey, almost pathologically needful of the presidency but equally terrified of his boss, finally broke with Johnson by promising to halt the bombing as an "acceptable risk for peace," he drove the President to near-distraction. (If Clifford is right, on alternate days Johnson's preferred candidate in 1968 was Richard Nixon and not his own Vice President.)
Meanwhile, Clifford tells us, Nixon was covertly assuring the South Vietnamese government that they need not be particularly pliable or cooperative with the Johnson administration since they would get a better deal from its Republican successor. This made organizing the first Paris peace talks an excruciatingly difficult task, and bequeathed to the Nixon administration a dilemma largely of its own making. For—Clifford holds—instead of grasping the vast political space carved out for him, Nixon chose to resume the fruitless quest for a military victory until, some 30,000 more dead American servicemen later, he finally realized there was no choice but to return to where things stood on his Inauguration Day—that is, to cut a deal with Hanoi.
Some of this information has long been in the public domain, but at times Clifford's account, far from adding to our knowledge, almost deliberately puts it out of focus. Specifically, he makes it sound as if the choices before the United States in 1968 were simple ones—continue fighting the war by giving General Wheeler unlimited men and material, or go to Paris to work out an acceptable solution with the enemy. He is right to claim that he brought Johnson to the point of refusing the first option (though he was helped in this by Richard Russell, then chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, who told the White House that another 205,000 troops could not be "sold" to the Congress). But Clifford fails to appreciate why Johnson was so reluctant to embrace the second.
The harsh fact is that in 1968 the only thing to negotiate in Paris was an American abandonment of the Republic of Vietnam. Johnson instinctively understood this, which is why he kept trying to backpedal even after his March 30 speech. But the temporary compromise—stop the bombing, go to Paris, but keep up the American military presence in Vietnam—could not be sustained indefinitely. Some tough decisions had to be made. Johnson and Humphrey were lucky enough to leave office in January 1969, so that Nixon could be subsequently blamed for his failure to defy the law of gravity. Of course, to say this is in no way to excuse Nixon for his own maladroit management of the problem—including his failure to level with the American public, or even to force the Congress to share some of the responsibility for policy. Nor does it do justice to the problem which faced Johnson, Nixon, and surely would have faced Humphrey as well: how to disengage while maintaining a modicum of American credibility in the world.
Clifford says that Humphrey, if elected, had every intention of naming him Secretary of State. Instead, a new eight-year period of Republican ascendancy returned him to private life. Although briefly pressed back into government service as a presidential adviser and special envoy during the Carter administration, he was forced by deteriorating health to restrict and eventually curtail such activities. His comments on the Carter administration are not, in the event, very informative, not so much because his own role was limited as because of his inability to appreciate why the administration was such a failure. More seriously still, this book reflects not a particle of awareness of the drastic changes which have occurred in American political culture or within the Democratic party since 1968.
Clifford has no use for Ronald Reagan or his administration, to which he ascribes all of our current ills, real and imagined. But—very much to his credit—he deeply regrets the wide currency given to the term "amiable dunce," which he himself used to describe the President on what he had been assured was a completely off-the-record occasion. To the final page he remains blind to the fact that much of what happened in the Reagan administration, particularly the end of the cold war, represents the final success of policies in whose early design he played a vital role.


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Like she was running down Hollywood Boulevard, Crystal Serydynski flew through the field until she sat behind leader Paul Lallier as the laps shortened up to a handfull. Angling down the backstretch she pushed the nose under the leader, ran hard and had earned enough space below the leader to hold her spot into turn three. Out of turn four and down the frontstretch they battled but Crystal emerged fully into the lead going into turn one. It was a tightly laced shoe with Lallier loath to have his position back and hungry Gerard Berthelette looking to snatch away a win for himself. But try as he might, Lallier was unable to get back to the front and, with tenacious Gerard Berthelette on his bumper, had to grudgingly watch Crystal flash under the checkers with her second victory of the season. Scott Bruneau and Ray Lovelace competed the top five.
Lallier started inside the third row and Crystal the outside of the fourth as chris DeMoura and Ray Negley led off. One lap down, Juhn Hanafin spun to the infield and Charles Beal was assessed with the assist. On the restart, the front four pairs were wheel-to-wheel into lap two until AJ Solomon looped going into turn two and another restart followed.
DeMoura and Negley were off again, but Negley was loos out of turn four allowing DeMoura to get the lead. Scott Serydynski followed. But Joe Melberg went dead in turn two.
Beal stopped to confer with officials at the pit entrance,then drove to the pit exit, dropped his window net and stopped for a period before he departed to the pits.
The lap three restart had DeMoura and Negley door to door again. As they dueled into lap five, Bob Bettencourt spun in turn two. Jimmy Belmont had nowhere to go and piled in, nose-to-nose. Both cars were retired for the night, but both drivers were uninjured. In the meantime, leader DeMoura, swerved off the backstretch, taking a roller coaster ride across the infield. He also departed for the pits.
On the restart, Lallier jumped under Negley and went through to the lead as the lap completed. He had room to settle in coming out of turn two. Negley and Scott battled over second, and Scott was into the infield on lap nine. Negley earned the back for the assist.
Lallier took pole for the restart. Berthelette and Crystal, who had worked their way through the field brilliantly sat second and third.
Berthelette and Lallier battled for the lead with Crystal locked in and she gained second as Berthelette fell back with Scott Bruneau holding fourth. He was trailed by Lovelace, Austin Blais and Hanavin dueling with Vincent Pangelinan.
Lallier, Crystal and Berthelette were on rails as they went bumper-to-bumper in a mad duel. Crystal nosed under Lallier on lap thirteen and they went side-by-side, trading paint into lap 14. Crystal pulled ahead on the backstretch and into lap fifteen she led Lallier, Berthelett and Bruneau.
The pack wound through the next ten laps in dispute but not changing positions. Ed Gannon worked his way around Pangelinan and then Blais for seventh as the laps unwound.
A desperate trio of Lallier, Berthelette and Bruneau could only chase Serydynski under the checkers as the thunderstorms which had been flashing throughout the feature shortened the victory celebrations at the stripe and ended the evening in mid-interview.
Sixth through tenth went to: Gannon, Blais, Hanafin,Craig Pianka and Scott Serydynski.

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Pompey boss Michael Appleton was forced to field nine teenagers in his starting line-up and they held their hosts until Johnny Gorman, Paris Cowan-Hall and Nick Chadwick fired Fletcher's side into the second round.
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Devil On A Blue Bike, As Cameron Beaubier Wins Saturday Daytona SportBike Race At New Jersey Motorsports Park
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Millville, NJ (September 8, 2012) – The American Red Cross Devil's Showdown saw a devil on a blue bike blitz the field in AMA Pro Go Pro Daytona SportBike, as Yamaha Extended Service/Graves/Yamaha phenom Cameron Beaubier worked himself to the front, and then into the lead, on the final lap, winning DSB Race One at New Jersey Motorsports Park.
The victory was the fifth out of the past six races for Cameron, who has been on the podium in 10 out of the 12 races he's started this season.
After his victory, Cameron said, "After the restart, I got shuffled back a little bit, but I just kept working and got myself back up in the front group where I could try to get to the front. I usually like to make my move sooner than the last lap, but these guys race hard, and I had to wait till the end. It all worked out, and I couldn't be happier."
Cameron's teammate and rider of the #22 Y.E.S./Graves/Yamaha YZF-R6, Tommy Hayden, finished fifth in today's DSB Race One, with Race Two set to go green on Sunday at 2:15 PM EST.
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I just don't get it. Connor is the MESSIEST eater I have ever encountered. My two year old god daughter is neater than him. A spaghetti dinner requires at least three napkins… YET, feed him sloppy joes, and he doesn't drop a single crumb. How is this possible? [Read More]
Orthodontics- Take 2
The kids all had cleanings the other day. I am happy to report their were NO CAVITIES, which kind of shocks me because although they brush twice a day, they really don't brush well. It's a constant battle. You'd think they'd learn from me. I have tons of cavities (damn you Pepsi, it's my vice!) […] [Read More]
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Ben: I wish it was the olden days, when candy was cheap. Jeff: But there was no Wii or anything back then. Ben: That's ok Jeff: But there were only like two tv channels. Ben: Oh, never mind then ********************************************************** Connor: Daddy, did they have socks when you were a kid Jeff: {{speechless}} Me: {{laughing […] [Read More]
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The USDA unveiled new guidelines today for school lunches. More fruits and veggies, better portion control, whole grains and low/no fat milk. All wonderful advances. I applaud them. HOWEVER, I don't think it will change anything in our house. I would love to let my kids buy every day, it would be one less chore in […] [Read More]
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The big day finally arrived! Sure there were glitches and snags along the way (DON'T get a mani/pedi at Ambiance in Latham), but the end result was a beautiful bride and groom joining together in Holy Matrimony. Congrats to my brother in law and new sister in law- Eric & Kelli. A wedding caricature done at […] [Read More]
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Photoshop CS4 for Photographers is an essential course for any digital photographer who wants to master the software's vast array of image enhancement techniques. Professional photographer and instructor Chris Orwig uses his own compelling images to demonstrate how the power of Photoshop can make photographers more passionate about their work. He covers many aspects of the application, such as working with RAW images, using curves and levels, making images snap, and enhancing bland photographs by converting them to black and white. Exercise files accompany this course.
In this movie we will be working on the file jenny_kim. This photograph comes to us by a way of one of my friends Jenny Kim. She is a great photographer. Let's go ahead and open this one up by double-clicking it in the Bridge and then press F to go to Full Screen View mode and then press the Spacebar to reposition the image. Now if you have the Eyedropper tool selected, one of the things that you will notice is that I have sampled three different points in this image. We are going to go ahead and remove those samples, but I want to include those with these files, so you can see where I'm going to sample and then I want to talk about it now so that we can do this from Scratch. I also want to point out that I have included a Reference folder. This folder includes the Curves Adjustment that we will make in this movie and I want to include those, so again you just have a reference so you look at, hey, how do Chris actually do that? All right, well, here's what we are going to do. We are going ahead and sample on the forehead here, on the chin and then I want to sample back in here the Shadow because I know that Shadow should be black. So, for the Shadows I'm going to go ahead and nudge those in just a little bit. I'm going to leave those in the RGB values. From my point number 1 that goes to CMYK, point number 2 that goes to CMYK, as well.
All right, so I have the two points on the skin in CMYK. Let's take a look at our numbers. Cyan's low, Magenta wow! Really high, yellow really low again. We have seen this before, right? We have problem here. We have a color shift. We need to correct that and that's what we are going to do. We will click in that Background Layer and then click on the icon to open up the Curves Adjustment panel. Now let's jump right to the Blue- Yellow Channel. Let's do that by a way of shortcut, on the Mac its Option+5, on the PC that's Alt+5. Grab the Target Adjustment tool, hover over one of those points and what we need to do here is, we need to change our percentages, so that we can increase the overall amount of Yellow and I'm looking to get that number just above the Magenta number. So in both cases, now it's just above that. Now how about my Cyan? Well, 3x2 is 6, 5x2 is 10. Well, I'm close to just a little low. Let's go to that channel. It's Option+3 on the Mac/Alt+3 on the PC and then hover over that point, where we are going to look to do, is just to increase the amount of Cyan, just a little bit there. Well, now 3x3 is 9, 3x5 is 15 so between 9 and 15 well, yeah, that looks pretty good.
Well, now, let's look at our RGB values, interesting. Those are almost completely equal. If those three numbers are equal its' telling me that, that Black or that Shadow back there, is neutral and that's great, that's telling me I don't have a color cast in that shadow, well, perfect. Another thing that I'm noticing is that, these values are really low, although I have this light medium tone skin, it's actually quite fair, so again I have a pretty low percentage point my numbers. Now, let's take a look at our over all Before and After, here's Before, okay, well, that doesn't look too good. Here's after. Gosh, that looks so much better. It looks some much more humid, it looks so much more natural and that's what we are going for here. We are learning all of this technical stuff in order to come up with more compelling results. All right, well let's take a look at couple more examples; we will do that in the next few movies.
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As the spring baby boom kicks off in earnest, the shelter is matching up lactating "momma cats" with litters of abandoned kittens.
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AUBURN, Mass. – What does 2013 have in store for the town? The following are some of the topics that will come up in Auburn this year:
New Middle School on West Street: In November, the Board of Selectmen sent the middle school project to the voters. Selectmen approved the new school on West Street to be funded by debt exclusion. The 4-1 vote from the selectmen means that a majority of residents would have to approve funding the project on a ballot question in the spring, and it would also require a two-thirds approval of Town Meeting members in the spring.
Football Goes For 6th Straight Super Bowl: Can the Auburn Rockets win another Super Bowl in 2013? By crushing Tantasqua High School 33-7 on Dec. 1, the Rockets tied the longest Super Bowl streak in Central Massachusetts history with St. Peter-Marian High School. Auburn will try to stand alone with six straight titles this year, but it will be a tough task with 27 seniors leaving.
Playground at Pappas Recreation Complex: The Friends of Pappas Recreation Complex are trying to raise $180,000 to put a state-of-the-art, handicap-accessible playground at the park. The location of the playground will be in the center of the park, behind the performance pavilion. Preliminary plans include a poured rubber foundation, music-making stations, slides and obstacle courses.
Maj. David Brodeur Memorial at High School: The School Committee voted in August to dedicate part of the high school's property as a Brodeur square and monument. Members of the Major David Brodeur Memorial Foundation hope to combine 2013's road race with the unveiling of the Brodeur memorial at the high school.
Ice Skating Rink at Pakachaog Village: Will an outdoor ice skating rink go up at Pakachoag Village? In December, town officials sought approval to construct an ice skating rink at Pakachoag Village next to the Senior Center, but the Auburn Housing Authority would not support the skating rink on its land. Town Manager Julie Jacobson said, "We hope to still collaborate next year with the Housing Authority, and, hopefully, Pakachoag Village will work out."
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I'm not one of those people with a decade's worth of Sundance experiences to my name (this is year number three for me), but I have been to the festival enough times to know that I love the hell out of it. Simultaneously quaint and chaotic, Sundance engenders a kind of giddy thrill — at least among those willing to make the trip. No matter the state of independent film community, this annual review of countless distinct cinematic accomplishments demonstrates that there enough smart and talented people to keep the momentum going.
There have already been several sales and the opening night film has yet to unspool. Last year, everyone spoke of a buyer freeze, but during this economically troubling time, a number of high quality Sundance movies are already poised to live on after the conclusion of the festival. I'm not sure why struggling journalists and filmmakers prefer to bemoan Sundance's negative qualities when the program holds so much promise (Slamdance has a few good ones, too). It's easy to look at the festival from afar and scoff at it, but once you're on the ground, the ubiquitous good vibes are palpable (unless, that is, you're a baseless complainer).
The state of the media right now has put a lot of smart people out of work. As a freelancer, I can't exactly say that I feel their pain, because they now occupy the same space as I do. (Cozy on up, folks, there's plenty of room down here in the barracks!) I'm very happy to be covering the festival this year for indieWIRE, and guarantee my coverage will advocate quality cinema, note a few disconcerting flaws and emphasize some general trends of modern independent filmmaking based on the immediate information at my disposal. Does that mean my opinion matters than any others? Of course not, but at least it's out there. I know I'm part of the younger class of film critics ostensibly poised to inhabit a vaguely defined and possibly somewhat oversaturated film culture, but I often feel like Old Man River — just rolling along, with nothing to do but keep on rolling. The public increasingly consumes cinema in bite-sized pieces — a phenomenon that I playfully refer to as "screen rush" — and it's our job to digest its evolving tastes while simultaneously pushing them further. On that front, the work never ends.


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From the Magazine: Prof. Jennifer Perry Explores Offshore Treasures in the Channel Islands
Associate Professor of Anthropology Jennifer Perry on Santa Cruz Island / Photo by Steve Osman, Pro Photography Network
Jennifer Perry leads the way up a winding path from the ocean's edge to a bluff high enough to reveal the currents in the sparkling-blue Santa Barbara Channel. It's distracting for a newcomer, the brown Santa Monica Mountains looming across the water to the east, Ventura perched on the shore further up the coast, and a scattering of freighters and small boats moving slowly in between, their wakes leaving long "v"s in the water.
Perry, who has spent more time than she can tally on Santa Cruz Island, barely stops to absorb the view. Something else has caught her attention—a new and unsanctioned hiking trail along the bluff's edge. "This isn't supposed to be here," Perry says as she hurries along the illicit path, which takes her where she feared it might--directly past the cliff-top remains of an ancient native Chumash settlement and midden, a site Perry thought was known only to herself and a few other anthropologists.
Such is the risk of opening the past to the present.
Perry, associate professor and chair of Pomona College's Anthropology Department, has devoted more than a decade to finding and exploring ancient settlements on the Channel Islands, the string of eight mostly uninhabited pearls off the California coast. Five of those pearls form the Channel Islands National Park, established in 1981 after decades of efforts by preservationists and naturalists to spare Santa Cruz and her sister islands from developers keen to build vacationers' subdivisions, condos and golf courses. Since then, the national park has expanded--the eastern end of Santa Cruz was finally acquired in 1996--and that island has become the most-visited of the five in the park, a function primarily of accessibility. In 2009, Santa Cruz had 91,000 visitors, more than traveled the other four islands combined.
Perry, who studies a time thousands of years ago when the islands were home to a complex civilization of hunter-gatherers, today works in an atmosphere in which the islands are flourishing in a new way, valued for the absence of the crowded civilization on the mainland. The creation and expansion of the national park have opened the way to a new wave of preservation and restoration efforts--and made it easier for researchers such as Perry to explore ancient sites on the islands. But the changes also bring the inevitable struggle to restore the islands while also making them accessible to the public.
The influx of visitors has led to "impacts," Perry says, such as well-meaning explorers carrying relics from their finding spot to the ranger station, which destroys archeologists' ability to process the relics properly. But concerns over looting, she says, have actually decreased. When the land was privately owned, there were no safeguards in place.
"At least now we can argue that there's some kind of management policy, and that there's a way to enforce it," Perry says. "Now if somebody were to loot, they'd be subject to federal laws relating to archeological resources, and be prosecuted."
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- Read "Island Lives" and "It Happened at Pomona," two other articles from the Spring 2010 issue of Pomona College Magazine.
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PERRY MOVES ALONG the bluff-top, with the sure-footedness of someone who knows the terrain intimately. She follows the illicit path to within a few feet of the midden, and to see whether the site has been looted she leans precariously over the cliff edge, hundreds of feet above crashing waves. It is not a task for those prone to vertigo. Perry is pleased to find the site intact, and unmolested, and makes a mental note to let the park archaeologish know so the path could be sealed off.
She moves on to another bluff overlooking a small secondary island, where cormorants and other sea birds sunned themselves. Then she cuts inland, talking all the time about the nature of the Chumash lives here on Santa Cruz, and about the efforts to restore the island to native species, both plants and animals.
Working on the eastern end of Santa Cruz Island, Perry has been exploring "how the terrestrial resources of the island were being used and more generally why people were living at interior sites," says Michael Glassow, professor emeritus from UC Santa Barbara. Perry discovered archeological sites dating back 8,000 years—far earlier than others had anticipated, and her work is helping to change the way archeologists view how the Chumash lived. More than simple seafarers, they formed a complex society that became, in effect, the hub of a pre- Columbian regional economy.
"She is the first one to clearly recognize this temporal pattern, and I'm beginning to see the same pattern where I work in the western sector of the island," says Glassow, who himself is an expert on island cultures and served as Perry's dissertation advisor.
In the process, Perry, 36, has added to contemporary understanding of the role the Chumash played as pre-Columbian merchants, using the chert—a flintlike substance—on Santa Cruz to make tools used to carve currency from Olivella shells gathered from a beach on the far side of the island. In a sense, she says, the Chumash turned Santa Cruz into a mint.
Perry believes the Chumash evolved into a complex society of hunter-gatherers who also traded with other tribes. Over time they used their access to chert to develop primitive micro drills, and then used the drills to mark olivella shells as the basis of a primitive monetary system that, among other things, allowed the most powerful of the Chumash to amass wealth.
It was Glassow who steered Perry, then a student at UC Santa Barbara, to the Chumash and their past on the northern Channel Islands. But it was her own upbringing in a small desert town that propelled her, improbably, to the sea.
Perry grew up in Borrego Springs, a small northern San Diego County town surrounded by the Anza-Borrego Desert State Park, which she likens to Santa Cruz Island.
"You can have these land-locked islands, and I grew up essentially on an island in the middle of the state park," Perry says. "Really it's all part of the same thing to me because they're both islands. I feel similarly about them. … In both cases there's just a tremendous amount of endemic species and endangered or threatened species, and you can learn a lot about these really interesting and dynamic ecosystems that characterize Southern California."
As an undergraduate at the University of San Diego in 1992 she took an archeological field class on San Clemente Island, which is controlled by the U.S. Navy and has scant visitors.
"I was hooked," she says. "This resonates with me so much, as far as the landscape being remote, the ability to really know that landscape and know its resources and just really feeling like I fit in."
AFTER A PACKED LUNCH in a stand of pines, Perry walks to a series of mounds of loose rocks, packed so thick that grass has trouble taking root. These are ancient mine tailings, she says, history hidden in plain view. She picks up pieces of chert, the remnants, she believes, of the ancient tool making—the bit of rock chipped away to make sharp edge and sharp points on knives, arrowheads and other objects ancient artisans carried off with them. And round, fist-sized stones with scars are makeshift hammers from thousands of years ago.
Every item, it seems, has a story behind it. "If you look on this edge," she says, turning a mottled-gray stone over in her hand, "you'll see it's battered and then this right here is a piece of this rock flaked off. So this is a little hammer stone." She talks about the process of chipping chert, a skill she learned herself from craftsmen to better understand the flakes she finds in the quarries. She picks up slivers of stone. "They probably were going after maybe a bigger flake to make a small point out of," Perry says.
But it's the hammer stones she finds most intriguing. "You find them in every single one of these mine pits," she says. "You know it happened right here. That's one of the most beautiful moments of archeology, when you pick up something and you know you're the next person to pick it up" after the original artisan.
Yet the growing accessibility of the islands creates more opportunities to disrupt those millennium-crossing moments between archeologist and artisan. The first year Santa Cruz was open to visitors, Perry says, there would only be two or three people using the main campground on a Saturday night. "If you come out today anytime between Memorial Day and Labor Day on a Saturday night, the campground is going to be full with over 200 people, and there will probably be an additional 200 people exploring," Perry says. "So that's a dramatic increase."
Perry acknowledges the island "could be loved to death," citing the overcrowding at popular national parks on the mainland. But more visitors could, counter-intuitively as it may seem, lead to greater protections.
"The more people who are aware of it, and appreciate the islands, the greater concern there is for the natural environment," Perry says. "It's something tangible to them…. It's worth taking that risk to communicate to people the importance of these kinds of endeavors."
And, truth to be told, Santa Cruz will never be Yosemite. The National Park Service limits the number of visitors on the islands, which are accessible only by boat, another limiting factor. The trip from Ventura takes about an hour, and blustery days can make for a rough passage. Unlike Catalina, the most populated and best known of the Channel Islands, there are limited services on Santa Cruz--outhouses and campsites are about it. It's not as remote as the Sierra back country, but with a couple of dozen miles of water separating visitors from the mainland, it might as well be.
"The size of the island makes it easy to escape even a busy weekend crowd by hiking into the back country, and the lack of amenities and the need for a boat trip will always limit the visitors to those who are serious about the outdoors," says Peter Warden, a British-born computer programmer now living in Los Angeles, who has camped on Santa Cruz. "Having said that, I was camping overnight a few years ago when the rangers had to confiscate a video karaoke system and generator from some fellow campers."
Rangers try to mitigate the effects of visitors on the park, beginning with a mandatory briefing on park policies as visitors alight from the boat, says Yvonne Menard, spokesperson for Channel Islands National Park. Among the no-nos: Removing items from the island, and leaving trash behind. Bulletin boards and information displays on the island reinforce the message.
But it's not as though the islands are pristine paradises. Humans have lived here, and used the islands, for thousands of years. In recent decades, Santa Cruz was over-run by wild pigs and sheep (former farm animals), which caused deep damage to archeological sites and native species. Meanwhile, golden eagles moved into the islands after DDT eradicated the bald eagles. It was the difference between life and death for the native island fox species. Golden eagles eat the isolated relatives of the mainland gray foxes; bald eagles did not.
In the 1980s and 1990s, those invasive animals were systematically removed--some of the wild pigs by professional riflemen firing from helicopters-- and the island has been recovering at a much faster pace than experts anticipated, Perry says. Bald eagles have been re-established, too, and they have pushed out many of the golden eagles, helping the island foxes recover.
Despite the relative fragility of the recovery, Perry, for one, is encouraged, and thinks the right balance has been struck among restoration, preservation and public access. She compares Santa Cruz and the other islands with park sites on the mainland—and thinks the islands win.
"These islands are far more protected and I think the greater the awareness is of the islands being here, the greater concern there is for ongoing protection," Perry says.
THE DAY'S END HELPS make her point about the island's relative protection.
After tromping around the northeast corner of the island for four hours--the basic range for day-trippers--Perry has to leave the chert quarry to begin making her way to the boat landing for the trip back to the mainland. You can't wander too deeply into the island for fear of missing the return boat--and there is no late boat. If you're not on the afternoon departure, you're suddenly camping overnight, without food or gear.
On the way back, Perry detours to a spot where she led an archeological dig a few years ago. At first she can't find the site, which is as it should be. The idea is to explore and learn about the past with minimal disruption.
As she walks, Perry talks more about the history of the islands, about Santa Cruz specifically, about the lifestyles of the Chumash. She stops suddenly as a small furry head pops up from the grassland about 50 feet ahead. It's an island fox, and it eyes her warily for a few seconds before moving on, gliding through the grass then disappearing over a small ridge, safe in its moment.
And that, too, is at it should be.
The Channel Islands
For modern Californians, the Channel Islands can be the stuff of daydreams, a chance to get away from the choking sprawl of Southern California and touch the past. From the mainland, the islands seem to float on the horizon, brown ridges obscuring the vastness of the Pacific Ocean beyond.
The Channel Islands National Park covers all or portions of Santa Barbara Island, the smallest at one square mile; Santa Rosa; San Miguel; Anacapa and Santa Cruz, the largest of the islands at 98 square miles. It also has the highest point in the islands, Devils Peak, at 2,450 feet. But only a quarter of the island lies in the park; the rest is controlled by the Nature Conservancy.
Three of the Channel Islands are not part of the national park. San Clemente, the southernmost off San Diego, and San Nicholas, the most remote, are controlled by the U.S. Navy. Catalina is the best known, with its party village of Avalon, though nearly all of the rest of the island is controlled by the Catalina Island Conservancy.
Making Currency
Some 1,000 years ago, the Channel Islands were an important center for making the shell-bead currency used in much of Southern California at the time. From the storeroom in Pomona's Hahn Building, Anthropology Professor Jennifer Perry shows the evidence of the different stages the Chumash Indians used to make olivella shell beads on Santa Cruz Island. The top row in the photo at right shows the shells before work begins. Then the Chumash used stone tools to break the shells into more workable fragments, as seen in the second row from the top. Next they drilled and abraded the shells until the exterior was perfect, as seen in the bead at the bottom.


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THE internal investigation being carried out by Galway University Hospital into the death of Savita Halappanavar has been stepped up a gear with staff at the hospital being interviewed.
It is understood one of the areas the Risk Review Group will be examining is the experience of the consultant who dealt with the case.
Local speculation that Taoiseach Enda Kenny made direct contact with the hospital's CEO Bill Maher was categorically denied.
Staffing at the Galway hospital maternity unit during Mrs Halappanavar's stay, including the Bank Holiday weekend, were normal, according to a hospital spokesman. There were consultant obstetricians both working on site and on call, he added.
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Hey greg. Great work with the forerunner book. It explains loads of things and I think it has hints for Halo 4 ;) The question that I want to ask. When is the second book coming out roughly. Thanks. Michael
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Thanks, Michael! Looks like January is our due date.
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Lustig said: "I'd fit in at a club like Celtic.
"I have not had any contact with them personally but my agent has.
"Celtic is pretty much the same as Rosenborg when it comes to how they play.
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Mike Story #3: The Dallas Affair
Did you ever have a "family episode" that was so monumentally embarrassing, you can hardly bear to remember it?
Okay, how 'bout this one:
My oldest brother WDS got married right out of college to a sweet girl from Phoenix, Arizona named Heidi. Right after they became engaged, both families flew to Dallas, Texas (WDS and his fiancee were still attending S.M.U.) so that we could all meet one another, have dinner, and plan the next several months of festivities together. Heidi's mother had arranged a formal celebratory dinner at The Mansion at Turtle Creek, a posh Dallas hotel. My grandmother came along for the occasion.
We all met in the lobby of the hotel, exchanged pleasantries, and took our seats at the beautifully decorated dinner table, courtesy of Heidi's mother. I'll never forget the centerpiece; it was a stunning, artistic arrangement of orchids, gardenias, and roses that looked more like a sculpture than a vase of flowers. Both families comprised a pretty large group of people—eight on Heidi's side and seven on ours—and from the beginning, it looked like the dinner would be a fun one. Champagne started pouring, stories about the engaged lovebirds started flowing, and then the food arrived: filet of beef, roasted asparagus, some divine potato dish I can't even describe in earthly terms, and some equally delectable squash puree. We were all in the presence of greatness.
Unfortunately, in all the nervous fun that generally accompanies the first time you meet the family of your brother's fiancee, none of us took any notice of the speed with which my brother Mike was sucking down champagne. And what we all know now, but regrettably didn't know then or we would have been vigilant about controlling the amount of champagne he ingested, is that Mike my Brother…can't drink champagne.
Just about the time we all picked up our dinner forks to dig into our wonderfully-planned, elegant, and beautiful dinner, Mike, with absolutely no prior indication or warning, projectile-vomited from one end of the dinner table down to the other. Vomit flew, with the velocity of a flaming horse running into a barn. It was absolutely everywhere—on the bread basket, the water glasses, the dessert forks, and the floral arrangement. Vomit splattered dinner plates, dresses, and slacks. The sculptural, heavenly floral arrangement? It was now merely a vessel for Mike's vomit. The once-white orchids, gardenias and roses were now stained an unfortunate stomach acid pink…and Mike's vomit dripped tragically from their petals. It was a dreadful, heart-wrenching sight.
We all sat there in stunned silence for a moment before my quietly mortified surgeon father quickly began cleaning up the massacre and doing whatever he could do to whisk away the carnage. What happened over the following 15-20 minutes is all still a blur—I honestly believe I've blocked it out to avoid the pain—but I do remember what Mike said when he finally emerged from the bathroom with my father after getting cleaned up.
"Boy, am I hungry!"
It would be a long time before any of us could eat squash puree again.
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Amy On Friday, March 12 at 9:42 am
Okay, so now I'm projectile LAUGHING… oh, the horror! Bad in any scenario, but at an engagement dinner, that takes the cake.
"Man, I am hungry." That kills me!
cath c On Friday, March 12 at 9:44 am
oh boy.
debbie On Friday, March 12 at 9:44 am
Your dad sounds like a saint…from the other story too. Bless you all , and esp. Mike!
Yaya Cheryl On Friday, March 12 at 9:44 am
Oh Ree, just keep on giving me belly laughs..forget the naysayers…just glad I didn't have a mini-marshmallow in my mouth when I got near the end of the post…
Michel in Phoenix On Friday, March 12 at 9:45 am
Oh, boy! Now that's a STORY! And I can't wait to see Heidi today and find out what happened next. They are such a sweet family that I'm sure it's only still horrifying to you. Mike, Mike, Mike…
Homestead Kristi of WI On Friday, March 12 at 9:45 am
sarajo On Friday, March 12 at 9:46 am
Wow….you know, that sort of explains why big brother went to such extreme measures when you all met Betsy's guy. You really can't blame him for sitting on Mike now, can you?
Gini On Friday, March 12 at 9:47 am
Tricia On Friday, March 12 at 9:48 am
MORE! Please post more funny Mike stories! Your embarrassing stories bring so much laughter to the rest of us.
Nancy On Friday, March 12 at 9:50 am
I am dying to know how the future in-laws reacted. I assume the dinner came to an abrupt halt and was rescheduled? And I am still laughing about #32's comment GREAT Mike stories!!! He's a prize!
ladyloo On Friday, March 12 at 10:02 am
Oh. My. God. That was hilarious! I'm still laughing. With you! I'm laughing with you!
Indy Shutterbugg On Friday, March 12 at 10:03 am
ROFLMBO!!!!!!!!!!!! OMG, that was tooo funny! TOO FUNNY!
Hope On Friday, March 12 at 10:04 am
I love all of the Mike stories!
pattycake On Friday, March 12 at 10:06 am
That is the best story. Ever. Thanks for the Friday chuckle.
Sibyl On Friday, March 12 at 10:09 am
Oh dear! Beats my 15-years-old, having dinner with a friend's family (including the 19 year old brother on whom I had a huge crush), laughing at a joke and snorting milk out of my nose across the entire meal story. Oh dear.
Trish On Friday, March 12 at 10:09 am
I am sure your other brother was mortified! I guess it didn't scare off the bride…so all is well. Check me out at
Donna in VA On Friday, March 12 at 10:11 am
It feels so wrong to laugh so uncontrollably at what was such a tramatizing event for your family, but I can't help myself. It must be the storyteller.
Mamma M On Friday, March 12 at 10:14 am
lol he was just trying to calm his nerves and create an ice breaker. oh man I would have been soooo mad all that food got ruined. You kinda made me hungry too.
Sues2u2 On Friday, March 12 at 10:18 am
I truly love the stories about your family & Mike in particular. You've taken situations that anyone could have & turned them into laughter & shared memories. Thank you!!!
Valerie On Friday, March 12 at 10:19 am
What a great laugh to start my day! Would love to hear WDS and Heidi's version sometime….
Kim Fahrni On Friday, March 12 at 10:22 am
Thank you soooo much for sharing your family stories. Though you state the chaos, you can feel the love involved as well. But It is nice to know that there are other families out there that are as dysfunctional as my own. :0)
Yaya Cheryl On Friday, March 12 at 10:23 am
Just found a cartoon I clipped to sent to my daughter (who has 2 little people at her house). Hostess at restaurant asking couple with a baby: "Projectile vomiting or non-projectile vomiting?"
Bobbi On Friday, March 12 at 10:28 am
Oh, just OH.
Ernestine On Friday, March 12 at 10:29 am
I can't imagine. I just can't.
Connie Williams On Friday, March 12 at 10:30 am
What a great sport that MIke is. Gotta love the guy….
Heather On Friday, March 12 at 10:32 am
I just laughed so loud I almost woke my baby up!! Hilarious!!
Shelley On Friday, March 12 at 10:33 am
That could be a movie scene.
Sharon On Friday, March 12 at 10:34 am
I like to have my breakfeast all ready so I can eat it while I enjoy digging into PW each morningi. I love all the Mike stories you've been telling because it's real family stories, not the ones you get with Christmas letters.. I have to say I had to put down my fried egg sandwhich on a whole grain english muffin for a while after reading this story.
Tammy S. On Friday, March 12 at 10:35 am
I used to live/teach in Highland Park, and have been to The Mansion! That story will be with me forever!
angelareneebaker On Friday, March 12 at 10:41 am
Oh my gosh I laughed so stinking hard at this story. This is one of those times that I would say that you can pick your nose… but you can't pick your family.
Angela in Alabama
Julie C. On Friday, March 12 at 10:42 am
I just love Mike!
Ro On Friday, March 12 at 10:46 am
Oh My Gosh I Am Stunned!!!!
Amy M. On Friday, March 12 at 10:47 am
THAT is the FUNNIEST thing I've heard in a loooong time! I have tears running down my face and my gut hurts! What was the protocol for the situation? Did you leave? Order more food? I'm still laughing.
Melinda On Friday, March 12 at 10:50 am
Nothing breaks the ice on a formal dinner like projectile vomit. It either sealed the marriage-to-be or not.
Good Mike story.He really touches my heart.
Cheryl O'Pry On Friday, March 12 at 10:50 am
THAT is priceless but I'm so glad it happend to you and not me!
kelly On Friday, March 12 at 10:52 am
good lord, i haven't laughed so hard so early in the morning in a long long time!!
NanaK On Friday, March 12 at 11:10 am
I gasped in horror at the projectile part…oh my!
Liz On Friday, March 12 at 11:19 am
I can't see through my tears to read anymore. You're killin' me.
SignGuySteve On Friday, March 12 at 11:20 am
I guess it's a good thing for us you weren't into photography yet…the mental picture is vivid enough!!!
Love the Mike stories. What am I saying, I love all your stories!! Keep'em comin'!!
Kaye On Friday, March 12 at 11:20 am
Great stories about Mike! I've been laughing so hard, I've got tears rolling down my face! Thanks for sharing!
Connie On Friday, March 12 at 11:21 am
Oh.my.gosh! Ah, the real reason WDS still gets upset enough with his brother to sit on him! Hilariously painful story. Glad I wasn't eating tho
andi On Friday, March 12 at 11:24 am
oh your poor brother! i bet he was ready to quit your hell-damn-turkey-butt family that day…does he see the humor now or is it still too fresh?
mary On Friday, March 12 at 11:33 am
that is SO terrible….after yesterday's story, it's hard to believe your brother and Heidi actually tied the knot! on the positive side, these experiences are all what make PW so wonderfully accepting and non-judgemental!
Texas PQ On Friday, March 12 at 11:34 am
"Boy, am I hungry" I'm rolling on the floor. Love that Mike!
Barkleys On Friday, March 12 at 11:50 am
Niels On Friday, March 12 at 11:53 am
Oh Dear Ree!!!! That is mortifying! I love that Mike is so non-chalant!
When you look at your life, the greatest happinesses are family happinesses. ~Joyce Brothers
Minnesota Girl On Friday, March 12 at 11:53 am
This is my all time favorite story that you have ever told. I remember the first time you wrote about it, I laughed so hard, I wet my pants and my entire household was wondering what was going on. I laughed even harder as I tried to share the story…several times…in several different venues. It's a classic for certain!
Kelly S. On Friday, March 12 at 11:54 am
That story is so real and so fabulous- thank you for the laugh today! Life is so wild.
Kate On Friday, March 12 at 11:55 am
Mike's stories are always amusing and sometimes downright gut-wrenching funny. This one is funny and yet, a little stomach nauseating at the same time. Your family sure knows how to go on when things go awry. I really don't think I would be eating for a few days after that. In fact, I would have probably joined in with Mike and made matters even worse!
CarlyT On Friday, March 12 at 11:55 am
Oh dear…talk about being the "victim of poor timing"…
Jane On Friday, March 12 at 12:07 pm
Thanks for the funny. Sitting at my desk cubeland, trying to keep the laughter to myself. I love Mike stories, he is fabulous!
Nina C On Friday, March 12 at 12:07 pm
wow. that is an awesome story!
Corndog On Friday, March 12 at 12:17 pm
I AM CRYING !!! Thank you for that story. I will laugh every time I think of it.
Alex Taylor On Friday, March 12 at 12:22 pm
Oh My!! My face turned red for you on that one! Yikes!
cloygirl On Friday, March 12 at 12:23 pm
Wow, you must have tremendous patience, Ree. I have an older sister who is mentally disabled and know how heartwrenchingly embarrassing that can be.
Jelena On Friday, March 12 at 12:25 pm
LOL, i was actually eating while reading this. and now i don't feel good but still funny story, although it wasn't funny at the moment. or it was?!
Summer On Friday, March 12 at 12:41 pm
that's awesome. best Mike story yet!
Marcia Renert On Friday, March 12 at 12:50 pm
Well you know how those family meetings can be awkward….this is what is known as an ICE BREAKER!
Amy Smith On Friday, March 12 at 12:57 pm
I needed to read that today! Yesterday, my 5 yr old son projectile vomited ALL over our mini-van! It took hours to get clean. While I normally laugh at most things, today, I am stuck in bed trying really hard not to get sick myself (and failing!!). This Mike-vomit story has made me laugh so hard and I really appreciate you for sharing it-and the timing is absolutely perfect!
Just a small side note-I made your roast last night and my son was SO very mad at me for not allowing him to have any.
christy On Friday, March 12 at 1:13 pm
Ree…I just want to give you a hug…..a long ((hug)) and say "bless yer heart" about 15 times….
Becky O. On Friday, March 12 at 1:15 pm
Ok, I was seriously expecting that story to end with this century's version of the Barf-O-Rama. How in the world did the rest of you all keep from throwing up? I guess it was sort of good that you had already eaten(?) Keep the stories coming!
Melissa R On Friday, March 12 at 1:15 pm
Oh Ree.
Robin On Friday, March 12 at 1:28 pm
Ree I have loved reading this last couple of stories on Mike. Being the mother of a son with down syndrome I can relate totally to the stories, the projectile, the butt head, the smoking (all though he isn't allowed to smoke, but he has his mind set on the only reason for gas stations is so you can smoke). And after spending the last week in the hospital with him (bacterial pneumonia) I really needed a smile and a laugh.
Thanks for being real and letting us enjoy your stories and your family!!
Marla K On Friday, March 12 at 1:32 pm
Tragic and quite hilarious at the same time. However at the moment I agree I would totally blackout from being mortified.
Thanks for the wonderful adages of Mike and what it is to have such a great family full of characters. Family no matter how crazy, insane, disfunctional is a gift that helps us become the people we are!
Momo On Friday, March 12 at 1:38 pm
LOL <—-wiping tears from my eyes!! THAT was a priceless family story! Bet your brother and sister-in-law never forgot their engagement dinner!
tina On Friday, March 12 at 1:46 pm
OH MY!! That is the funniest think I've heard in a long long time. Mike truly is a blessing! How fun!
Lynda On Friday, March 12 at 1:47 pm
Oh. My. I am SO not good with vomit stories! I managed to make it through, though. I can't believe the number of…interesting stories you have. You crack me up. Just like another friend of mine!
Vonda Murdock On Friday, March 12 at 1:52 pm
I am so glad there are no pictures!
JulieOinMichigan On Friday, March 12 at 1:56 pm
thanks, 397, someone finally agreed! I thought the same back at post 382
Tiara On Friday, March 12 at 2:21 pm
You do know some of us read your site on our LUNCH breaks right? I WAS trying to enjoy a sourdough chili bowl but the chili is now looking very sickly…. lol. I will never turn down food though! Thanks for the laugh!
tricia M. On Friday, March 12 at 2:35 pm
OMG! Chai Tea just came out my nose as I laughed out loud!
Jean On Friday, March 12 at 2:41 pm
This story is so awful, it HAS to be true – how could you make something like this up?! What a way to meet the in-laws…
Susan On Friday, March 12 at 2:41 pm
OH MY… I did not see that coming, I though you were going to say he passed out. I almost hurled myself, with your description, next time warn me please…. LOL
Glad everyone ende up being ok, mentaly scarred, but ok-ish
Emily On Friday, March 12 at 3:35 pm
The next time I feel embarrassed or humiliated, I'll remind myself that I didn't do THAT. Thanks, Ree (and Mike).
sharon On Friday, March 12 at 3:59 pm
I thought I could top any story w/ my family, but truly I cannot even try. Mike your the greatest!!!
Patti On Friday, March 12 at 4:57 pm
God Bless You, Ree! love your stories.
NormaB On Friday, March 12 at 5:49 pm
This is both hillarious and mortifying… Mike is so blesed to have your family, and you are all so blessed to have him!
nichole On Friday, March 12 at 6:19 pm
wow! were there any good stories of when marlboro man met mike? it seems like your other siblings had some embarrassing stories to go along with the initial family meetings.
Rebecca Lauren Jones On Friday, March 12 at 6:44 pm
I have laughed outloud after reading this! Thanks- I needed it!
Valerie in MI On Friday, March 12 at 7:09 pm
Gawd I love your stories. I fricken laugh so hard, I can barely read!! That was great!
barb On Friday, March 12 at 7:52 pm
I don't know whether to laugh or cry, okay, I'm laughing!
Kathryn On Friday, March 12 at 8:27 pm
Oh how I needed a Mike fix tonight! Loved them all!!! XO
Pam On Friday, March 12 at 8:39 pm
The storys about Mike are my favorite….we are friends
with a "Mike"……ours is Chris and he is 30 years old
he has autism….he can spell almost anything…..he remembers everyones name AND birthday….he loves to
eat …..he is afraid of most dogs but loves horses…..
His no means NO !!! He spends his afternoons in
my husbands office……he continues to amaze us…..but we are the ones who have grown since meeting him.
Robin On Friday, March 12 at 10:07 pm
This is the second time I've read this story and I still crack up in that guilty way you do when looking back on something that in person is so awful. Especially when it happened where it happened. We ate there before my Senior Prom and felt like frauds when someone in our party dropped a dinner knife.
Faith Self On Friday, March 12 at 10:12 pm
I taught kids with special needs for several years, and I said it then – and I'll keep saying it – I learned more from them than they EVER learned from me. Sometimes life just happens…
I want Mike's autograph.
pati mk On Friday, March 12 at 10:38 pm
How did I miss this yesterday? What a story to tell your kids. Wow!!!
Sibyl On Friday, March 12 at 10:42 pm
And you know what? Normal? There's no such thing; there's just life.
Hope On Friday, March 12 at 11:31 pm
I loved your stories of your brother. I too have a brother, that is "different". He is schizophrenic, and if he's on his medication, he is great! If he isn't and has ingested alcohol. Watch out!! Thankfully the later hasn't happened for years because he's beginning to understand that it "messes with him."
They definitely add to the family and I couldn't think what life would be without him :0) Does Mike have a medical definition of his condition? I don't know if you've ever said it, or maybe you choose to not use the "label"?
ellen schinderman On Saturday, March 13 at 2:01 am
that is painfully, laugh out loud funny. ah. thank you.
emily On Saturday, March 13 at 3:51 am
Oh wow! I loved all the Mike Stories! tooooo funny …. thanks again for sharing : ) hehe
callimakesdo On Saturday, March 13 at 10:14 am
That tops our family's barfarama story by virtue of the elegance of the occasion. But it such a good story I have to share it. Coincidentally ours also involved the introduction of a new in-law to be. We were having a BBQ… and every one kept feeding scraps of meat to our 1 year old puppy- golden retriever (they never know when to say when). Then right in the middle of the feast, Simon (the dog) threw up. Now a dog throw up isn't that bad, but apparently it is… because my 7 year old niece threw up upon watching it. Then her mother…. and so on. I think 5 people threw up all in. A total barfarama. Amazingly our new brother-in-law-to-be still married my husband's sister. And we've laughed many a time at his inauspicious introduction to the family.
One thing you know for sure, your Iife will never be dull with Mike around. And that's a wonderful thing.
Megan On Saturday, March 13 at 1:53 pm
How did y'all hold it in yourselves?
I am certain that I would have lost it!
SJM On Saturday, March 13 at 2:29 pm
I would LOVE to hear some Ree stories told by Mike. I'm sure he would have some wonderful ones on you. I would be humiliated if someone was telling some of my most embarrassing stories on the internet…Love reading Mike stories, hate reading embarrassing Mike stories. Hate reading embarrassing anybody stories told by any second party quite honestly…
Corie Himstedt On Saturday, March 13 at 3:00 pm
Ha ha ha ha ha ha!!!
Stella On Saturday, March 13 at 3:21 pm
READ IMMEDIATELY…………………..Your biological clock is ticking away. My cut off age for a baby was 42-43 with amniocentesis to check on the viability of the baby. It is important to think of two babies as they will have someone near in age to grow up with. Sooooooooooo go for it. You have all the resources and you both are doing a great job with your children now. I'M FOR IT. Love.
Mel O On Saturday, March 13 at 4:23 pm
I just laughed for 5 straight minutes! Thanks, I needed it!
June On Saturday, March 13 at 7:44 pm
As I was reading and laughing I felt it was inappropriate as I pictured the scene…YUCK!…then totally cracked up at the end. I see others thought it equally as funny. Every family needs a "Mike" to keep us grounded…and smiling!
Linda from Oakville On Saturday, March 13 at 7:46 pm
Nothing like vomit to shake up a dinner party!!!
Donna S. On Saturday, March 13 at 9:07 pm
Oh Ree….that one got me….thanks for the minute details!!!!!!1
Emily Baer On Sunday, March 14 at 12:15 am
Ha, while reading this story I was eating butternut squash, hmmm…..


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TOPSHAM — Town Manager Cornell Knight has been named manager of the year by his peers.
The Linc Stackpole Manager of the Year award of the Maine Town, City and County Manager's Association was announced Aug. 22 at the Sunday River Jordan Grant Resort Hotel in Newry.
"It was quite an honor," Knight said Monday. "I never thought I'd receive it, and it was nice to be recognized by my peers, and nice that my family could attend, and my parents were there, and most of the department heads from Topsham, and a couple of selectmen ... . It was very nice."
The award is named for Lincoln Stackpole, who was town manager in Machias from 1970 until his death in 1977. It recognizes professionalism, integrity, leadership, and the confidence and respect of the recipient's peers.
Recipients also must demonstrate a socially responsible approach towards their community; concern for the well-being, support and growth of their municipal colleagues, and contribution and service beyond their community of service through organizations at regional, state and national levels.
Knight was nominated two managers – Bill Bridgeo of Augusta and Michael Starn of Hallowell, according to a town press release.
Knight grew up in Cape Elizabeth and started running towns right after college, beginning in Baileyville, then Hallowell in the 1980s, followed by seven years in Jay and 12 in Winthrop prior to becoming Topsham's manager in February 2011.


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Posted by Mary Allen on 01/04/2012
Maybe this place has changed but we found it a great place for lunch in the midst of our touring NYC. We had a yummy, attractive turkey blt sandwich with fries. Price was $7. Outstanding value for the area where things are pretty expensive. Service was attentive and friendly. They did not even mind that we shared the sandwich....(we were really just looking for a place to chill while waiting for our hotel room to be ready. ). Will return!
Posted by ginacali2 on 08/27/2010
I wonder if BB King knows just how soul-less and flavorless the food is at his restaurant in his namesake club. I thought I'd take my niece there for a special, overdue birthday celebration. What a mistake (well, she picked it!). Firstly, can they not keep up with customer demand for items on the menu? My niece wanted to try the fried chicken. They didn't have it. We both wanted to try the collard greens. They didn't have it. I wanted the stone crab claws. They just "served their last order to someone else." My goodness, it was only 7:00 pm! We both then settled on the rock shrimp appetizer. On top of it not being anything special, we were made to wait 40 minutes for it! The excuse as stated by our server was that "all the orders are now starting to come in and that's why it's taking so long." ? What was she talking about? There were only 3 other tables with diners. Did she mean that we had to wait on the people who were attending the club section to order too? In any event, the appetizers showed up just as I had made up my mind to walk out. My niece ordered the roasted chicken and in addition to its dryness, it was not seasoned at all. I ordered a small filet mignon and it too was not seasoned at all. The barbeque or steak sauce that accompanied it was some of the blandest sauce I've ever tasted. My neice asked for sauce to "liven" up her chicken and something equally flavorless and watery was brought out. What a total disappointment and it "only" cost me $122.00. Never again!
Posted by Elaine D on 03/19/2010
First trip to NYC, decided to give this place a go on an evening out. Restaurant was very cold, we repeatedly asked fro the air con to be turned down. Food was only ok and very overpriced for what we got. Drinks are overpriced as well. Service on the night wasn't great. We asked the waitress for salt and pepper, by the time she remembered we were almost finished, food ad gone too cold to finish anyway. I'd call it, just another tourist trap.
Posted by NYC Blues on 11/30/2009
While the prices can be a bit intimidating it's nothing unseen in the Time Square Area, plus you get good (and FREE) blues music. Also when we went the portions were huge, we were able to make the leftovers from the mac and cheese and the shrimp and pasta dishes we ordered into lunch the next day. Not an everyday spot, but makes for a nice evening out in the area.
Posted by James on 08/04/2008
Some friends and I went to see a show at BB Kings and got some drinks beforehand at Lucille's inside the club. It was a little packed but it was fun, we started talking to some cute girls at our table and we all wound up going to the show together. The drinks were really good too, most places skim on drinks around Times Square but these were strong. After the show we were starving so we went back to Lucille's to eat and have a few more drinks. The food was actually really good stuff. One of my friends couldn't stop talking about the ribs, I got the pulled pork and spicy wings, which were intense. It was nice too that there was free live music at Lucille's. Overall I definitely recommend this spot, great food, great vibe, great music, great drinks.
Posted by bluesman6 on 07/14/2008
I've always enjoyed the music at Lucille's - let's face it, it's hard to beat free music in Times Sq., and on top of that it's always great. Years ago I ate the food and was slightly disappointed by the menu and quality, so I stopped eating there. However, last time we went we were informed that the club made some changes to the menu, so my buddies and I decided to try the food and we were surprised by improvement in taste and quality. My wife and I plan to go next week with with a group of friends, and though we know the music will be excellent as always, this time we're going for the food.
Posted by Traci on 05/12/2008
Wow....subpar food, poor service and lousy seating. And to top it off it is ridiculously expensive. I ordered fried chicken which came out as unrecognizable pieces coated in what seemed to be a Shake n' Bake rip off. Absolutely no flavor and poorly cooked. The waiter was void of personality, or skill. and kept forgetting to bring water, clear dishes or even check back to see if we needed anything else. Aside from being crammed shoulder to shoulder with our table mates, our chairs were placed half way on the carpet and the floor, which made for a slanted and uncomfortable evening. I would tell anyone thinking about seeing a show here to find another venue.


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Back for a new season January 14th at 9/8c. Based on the British series of the same name and premise (but since season 2 has gone its own way.) Starring Sam Witwer as Aidan Waite, a 250~ vampire, Sam Huntington as Josh Levison, a werewolf who hates his curse, Meaghan Rath as Sally Malik, a young woman who was murdered by her fiance and is now a ghost and Kristen Hager as Nora Sergeant, Josh's girlfriend who he injured at the end of the first season turning her into a werewolf as well.
At the end of Season 2 things were not going well for the roommates. Aidan lead a failed coup against Mother, the vampire queen and has been "put to ground" aka buried alive. Nora discovered how to cure lycanthropy, which was to kill the person who turned you, while they are still human. After finding out that Ray (the werewolf who almost killed him) had pulled his life back together Josh decided he just couldn't do it. Unfortunately he only decided this after attacking Ray, leading to a stand off where someone was shot. Things aren't going any better for Sally since she didn't go through her door at the end of the first season. After going completely possession crazy (and then regular crazy) Sally learned that when a ghost is shredded they end up trapped in Limbo. Feeling guilty for shredding so many ghosts Sally shreds herself in a bid to try and save them.
New episode: "Its a Shame About Ray"
In the third season opener, Aidan resurfaces to find the vampire community has changed a great deal. Meanwhile Sally struggles to free herself from limbo. Josh and Nora stand up to Ray and at the same time a new threat comes looking for them in Boston.
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Looking forward to season 3, remember though that this is something that Nora was told. Not "fact" as of yet to get wolf boy Josh and then probably Nora? back to a "normal human being".
I'm curious to see if Ray will come out of this alive as the Pistol went off first, with Nora shooting Ray, maybe, then Ray's silver wolf killing shotgun as the end of season 2 faded to black.....
Can't wait to see the Purebred's father come onboard for the season to!!
Poor Sally to, in Limbo trying to "save" those she shredded......
Aiden, not sure what we will get from him and the new? blood sucking gang though, should be good though!!
Thanks for starting the thread!!
Any thoughts on Lost Girl or the "new show" Continuum, Defiance looks good for April to perhaps!!
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Wii U Digital Launch Line-Up Revealed
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Nintendo of Europe has confirmed the Wii U's digital launch line-up.
After downloading a hefty day one system update that activates the console's online functionality, Wii U owners will be able to purchase a number of games from the eShop.
As well as select downloadable versions of packaged software such as New Super Mario Bros. U, Nintendo Land, ZombiU and FIFA 13, the eShop will launch with a FIFA 13 demo and the following digital offerings:
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- Puddle (Neko Entertainment), special launch offer until December 14: €7.99/£7.19, then: €9.99/£8.99
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Pharmacist Sentenced to Jail
PORTLAND, Maine (AP) – A former Maine pharmacist has been sentenced after pleading guilty to stealing prescription drugs. Attorney General Janet Mills says 60-year-old John Underwood of Bath pleaded guilty and was sentenced to 14 days in jail in Cumberland County Superior Court this month to two counts of stealing drugs in connection with a series of thefts of the opiate painkiller Oxycodone and sleep aid Ambien from Mid Coast Hospital in Brunswick. Mills says Underwood was the pharmacy manager for 32 years and was stealing the drugs for personal use. The Maine Board of Pharmacy revoked Underwood's license last year. According to his consent decree with the board, he stole a number of different drugs and ingested some of them while working.
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