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Those of us that are growing vegetables can have our share of problems. Blossom End Rot, lack of pollination, pincher-bugs, tomato hornworms and rats are some of the most complained about problems of vegetable growing in our Claycord home gardens. Some of these problems have simple remedies, while others have more of a cross your fingers approach. What works for you, may not work for me, what worked last year, may not work this year. Gardening is sometimes easy and sometimes a mystery.
Blossom End Rot is a dark, circular shape section rot found at the end of a squash, or on the bottom of a tomato. Blossom End Rot has two argued causes; some say it is a calcium deficiency, and other say its is caused by uneven watering. Once an individual vegetable shows signs of Blossom End Rot that particular piece is done. You should remove the infected vegetable before you waste your plant energy trying to ripen it.
If you see signs of Blossom End Rot, mix ½ teaspoon of Epson salt with water and thoroughly water into the soil surrounding the plant. A large size tomato plant may need an entire gallon of Epson salt infused water. You should repeat this process again seven days after.
Prevention of Blossom End Rot is encouraged. Applications of Agricultural Lime should be applied to soil in the earliest days of spring, well before planting. Carefully follow package directions for proper application. Those who home compost should incorporate egg shells in their mix. This way they'll have a nice bank of calcium in their composted material to be used when prepping the beds for vegetable installation. Also, some vegetable fertilizers have trace amounts of calcium in their formulas. Look for these types of fertilizers to use during the growing season.
Uneven watering is just that. It is inconsistent. It may mean that you may water daily, then miss a few days, stressing the plant. Perhaps when you water, you aren't applying enough, leaving your plants in a perpetual state of stress, never allowing them to fully hydrate. When a plant is stressed it is more likely to acquire problems of fungus and pest. Keep in mind tomatoes, and squash like deep watering once to twice a week.
Lack of pollination is problem that has no reflection of the color of our thumb. It means that a plant isn't showing male and female flowers at the precise time that a pollinizer (bee) is present. When the magic between flowers doesn't happen, vegetable yields won't happen. Years ago, at a Clayton Valley Garden Club meeting, one of the night's speakers told the group to encourage male and female blossoms you should crush some of the squashes foliage with your hands and leave the damaged leaf on the plant. This kind of aggravation may initiate the plant to produce male and female flowers. Telling which flower is which is simple. In the early morning, look in the center of a blossom. It is easy to tell. If you spot both a male and female flower one morning, take pollinating into your own hands and brush pollen from the male flower into the center of the female flower.
Pincher bugs have been chewing their way through the gardens of Claycord this growing season. It must be their year. Rolling up and taping tubes of newspaper can be effective. Lay to tube in the garden at night, and the Pincher bugs will crawl in to the tube in the morning. Simply throw the tube in to recycling in the morning. If that method isn't working for you, application of Sevin can be sprayed or spread depending on the form it is purchased in. If you want to use an organic product, use Spinosad, which is found as a spray, or a dust. Whichever product you use, please follow package directions.
Tomato hornworms are a problem that can come and go. Some years you have them and others you don't. Two products to spray on your plants are B.T. or Spinosad. They are both proven to eliminate tomato hornworms. If spraying isn't your thing, go hunting at night. Rumor has it that you can spot tomato hornworms on your plants if you shine a black light on them in the dark. They say the hornworms will glow. Let me know if that works.
Rats are a dirty secret of the vegetable gardening community. Rats have a taste for only the ripest fruit or vegetables in the garden. They would rather partially eat their chosen piece while it hangs on the plant and then move on to another fresh piece. Traps and netting the plants seem to work the best. Please do not use any poisons.
Now it's your turn. How do you care for your vegetable garden problems. What remedies would you like to share?
Happy Gardening.
Nicole Hackett is the Garden Girl at R&M Pool, Patio and Gardens, located at 6780 Marsh Creek Road in Clayton, 925-672-0207.
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A Super Sequel.Four years after New York stunned previously undefeated New England in the Arizona desert, the Patriots and Giants are going at it again at the Super Bowl this time in Indianapolis.
Brady and Belichick. Eli and Coughlin. Both teams rolling through the playoffs.
Yep, here we go again.
New England, which lost to New York 24-20 in early November, opens as a 3-point favorite for the Feb. 5 game. The Patriots have won 10 straight, with their last loss being to you guessed it the Giants.
"We know they're a great team," Giants quarterback Eli Manning said. "We played them already this year. They've been playing great football recently. Celebrate tonight, have fun, then start getting prepared and go to Indy and play our best football."
It's familiar territory for Tom Brady and the Patriots (15-3), who are playing in the Super Bowl for the fifth time in 11 years.
"Being in this situation is a great moment," Patriots nose tackle Vince Wilfork said. "You have to cherish this moment."
It's the Patriots' first appearance since Manning and the Giants (12-7) upset New England's pursuit of perfection in 2008. Back then, New England was a 12-point favorite, but New York's defense battered Brady, and Manning connected with Plaxico Burress on a late touchdown to win the Giants' third Super Bowl.
That TD came, of course, a few moments after one of the biggest plays in playoff history: Manning escaped the grasp of a few Patriots defenders and found David Tyree, who put New York in scoring position by pinning the football against his helmet for a jaw-dropping catch.
New England hopes to avoid that sort of drama this time around. Unless it goes in the Patriots' favor, as it did in the AFC title game.
Brady was unusually subpar in the Patriots' 23-20 victory over Baltimore, throwing for 239 yards with two interceptions and, for the first time in 36 games, no TD passes. But he got some help from the Patriots' much-maligned defense, which made some crucial stops down the stretch.
A few mistakes by the Ravens helped greatly, too, as Billy Cundiff shanked a 32-yard field goal attempt with 11 seconds left a few minutes after Lee Evans had a potential winning touchdown catch ripped out of his hands in the end zone.
New England last won the Super Bowl in 2005, a long drought after the Patriots took home Lombardi trophies three times in four years. There are only a handful of players left from that team, with guys like Corey Dillon, Tedy Bruschi and Rodney Harrison replaced by young up-and-comers such as Rob Gronkowski, Aaron Hernandez and Jerod Mayo.
The constants, though, are Brady and Bill Belichick. And that's been a winning combination for New England.
Belichick did perhaps his finest coaching job, piecing together a defense that ranked second-to-last in the league during the regular season. That led to plenty of shootouts, and Brady was more than up to the task, throwing for a career-high 5,235 yards while tossing 39 touchdown passes.
"They're an amazing team," Patriots owner Robert Kraft said. "They're a great brotherhood; they're a family."
The Giants appeared on the verge of collapsing with Tom Coughlin's job status in jeopardy just a month ago, when they fell to 7-7 with an embarrassing loss to the Washington Redskins on Dec. 19.
"We've been here before," linebacker Mathias Kiwanuka said at the time, "and we'll get back."
Boy, was he right.
The Giants were facing elimination the following week in a game against the rival Jets and Rex Ryan, who boldly declared that his group was king of New York. Well, Coughlin's crew silenced Ryan with a 29-14 victory. The Giants followed that with a 31-14 win over Dallas in the regular-season finale to clinch the NFC East and get to the playoffs for the first time since 2008.
New York dominated Atlanta at home in the opening round. Then came another stunner: a 37-20 victory at Green Bay knocking out the defending Super Bowl champions.
Manning extended the best season of his career with one more solid performance. Specials teams proved the difference in overtime, as Jacquian Williams forced a fumble on a punt return and Lawrence Tynes kicked the Giants past the San Francisco 49ers 20-17 for the NFC title.
"Hats off to Eli, offense, defense," Tynes said. "Great win."
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In its final regular season A-Sun dual match, the FGCU women's tennis team (10-7, 4-4 A-Sun) fell to in-state foe Stetson at the Mandy Stoll Tennis Center on Saturday afternoon.
"We really lacked mental toughness today," said head coach Jennifer Gabou. "Hopefully they will learn from this match as we look forward to Bethune-Cookman and our first round conference tournament opponent."
Even with a 8-5 victory from Johanna Sterkel and Bettina Botha in the No. 2 doubles spot, FGCU was unable to secure the doubles point and went into singles play trailing 1-0.
The Eagles were solid against the Hatters in the No. 4 and No. 6 spots but were unable to win the rest of the singles matches. Botha won her singles match at the No. 6 position in straight sets by a score of 7-5, 6-2 and Elizabeth Means won 6-2, 7-5 at the fourth singles spot to collect the second dual match point of the day for the Eagles.
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After trading goals to start the game, VMI took their only lead with less than a minute left in the first period, on a Will Collier goal. The Knights, however, countered right before time expired when Cameron Adams (Glengowrie, South Australia) rushed the cage and tossed in the equalizer with 19 seconds left in the period.
In the second term, Bellarmine appeared to be in control, scoring four quick goals, including two by sophomore Adam Gardner (Toronto, Ont.). But VMI took advantage of two costly penalties on Bellarmine late in the half, scoring three goals, two of them on man-up opportunities, to go into the break down just 6-5.
Garret Kikot (Toronto, Ont.) opened the scoring in the third, depositing an Adams pass at 12:05, then Gardner took advantage of a slashing penalty on VMI�s Tony Cavalero to score a man-up goal with just under 10 minutes remaining in the third. The Keydets fought back again, scoring three of the game�s next four goals, including a goal kicked in the net by David Trimble, to pull within 9-8 at the end of the third period.
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Mar 26, 2007, Vol. 12, No. 27 • By ABBY WISSE SCHACHTER
A Match Made in Heaven
Why did Israeli-American journalist Zev Chafets write a book about Jews and evangelicals? Two words: Alan Dershowitz. The Harvard law professor has spent the better part of the last three years crusading for the need to support Israel. He's given lectures and interviews, written books and opinion pieces on the strategic and moral importance of standing with Israel. Now, Dershowitz has a new book coming out titled Blasphemy: How the Religious Right is Hijacking the Declaration of Independence. Rather than advocating once again for the Jewish state, he's chosen a seemingly unrelated topic: Attacking evangelicals and their supposed efforts to "Christianize America."
Except, as Chafets points out in his study of relations between Jewish Zionists and Christian Zionists, Dershowitz's new book is very related. Indeed, Dershowitz perfectly represents the dilemma that Chafets is trying to unlock: Why Jews can't seem to tolerate, let alone embrace, the fastest-growing Christian movement in America, a movement that views support for Israel as central to its mission.
Chafets is not a great polemicist; he's a terrific journalist. He's at his best when he's telling human stories, giving readers a real sense of people and places. He spent years in Israel, working as head of the government press office, writing books and helping to found The Jerusalem Report. In Israel, he was a moderate Liberal, supporting the idea of land for peace with the Palestinians while remaining ever mindful of Israel's security needs. When he moved back to the United States, Chafets discovered that, especially after 9/11, he was out of sync with the mainstream of American Jewry. He voted for George W. Bush, agrees with the aims of the war on terror, and got curious about the vocal and passionate Christian voices he heard speaking out in support of Israel.
Just how out of sync was he? One Jewish guest at a birthday party told Chafets that "A Jew who voted for Bush is a Jew for Jesus." A Match Made in Heaven is his effort to get to know Christian Zionists, understand why they are so supportive of Israel, and educate American Jews that they should reconsider their negative attitude. "Evangelical Christians," Chafets writes, "are, in an unprecedented way, extending a hand of friendship and wartime alliance to Jews; and the ancient tribal instinct to slap that hand away is a dangerous one."
The part of the book devoted to "discovering" evangelicals is more light-hearted. Here is Chafets with Jerry Falwell at Liberty University; join Chafets touring Israel with a colorful cast of evangelical pilgrims; watch as Chafets handily rebuffs the conversion efforts of a Baptist church secretary on the phone from Pontiac, Michigan. He writes about evangelicals with genuine interest and curiosity, but also skepticism. He is forever asking his interviewees whether they think he's going to hell or whether they want to convert him. One subject finally turns the tables, demanding of Chafets--and Jews generally--"why not judge us by our fruits?" It's a legitimate question that gets a halfhearted response.
When Chafets shifts his attention to Jews, he gets more serious and drops the skepticism. Chafets meets with Yechiel Eckstein, the Orthodox rabbi turned televangelist, who is raising millions from Zionist Christians to help Israel. But he spends more time describing Jews who are openly fighting Zionist Christians. Abe Foxman of the Anti-Defamation League, for example, has been campaigning against what he describes as the Religious Right's efforts to "Christianize America." But as Chafets discovers, religion or religious coercion aren't really the problem: Politics is the problem. Most Jews aren't really worried about proselytizing evangelicals, or even Christian Zionists' belief in Armageddon. What Jews hate are Republicans and the conservative agenda, even if that agenda is much more pro-Israel.
Chafets has a conversation with Shira Dicker. She's a public relations consultant, a mainstream liberal Jew, and very pro-Israel. Chafets even met her while she was doing PR for Yechiel Eckstein's annual evangelical-Israel lovefest. When he interviewed Dicker after the conference, she admitted she couldn't abide evangelicals. Dicker was angry that a prayer had been said, even though it was delivered by a Jew.
"I wasn't comfortable," she told him. "I've come to see that their leaders are corrupt, horrible people. People in cahoots with Bush. If we cede power to right-wing Christians, we'll be marginalized. We'll have a Christian America. To me it's a moral issue."


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Factory Outlets are stores where manufacturers occasionally offer items at a discount in order to sell off remaining inventory from the previous season. Not everything is on sale, although you can usually find some deals. Most of the outlet stores are clustered in large outdoor shopping centers, but many are too far from Los Angeles to be reached via public transportation.
Citadel Outlets - An open-air mall that contains scores of factory outlet stores where you can find many of your favorite name brands at up to 70% off retail prices. From clothing and accessories to house wares and gift items, you'll discover everything you're looking for, including a food court and places to eat. Citadel Outlets is the only true factory outlet center within Los Angeles city limits. It is located near the I-5 freeway at Atlantic Blvd, about a 10-minute drive south of downtown Los Angeles.
Nordstrom Rack - Nordstrom department store has an outlet called Nordstrom Rack, where you can find some pretty good deals on name-brand clothes, shoes and accessories. You might be pleasantly surprised to find nice discounts on Lucky Brand, Coach, Ugg, Burberry, Juicy Couture and more. There are four locations within the Los Angeles area, all of which are accessible by public transportation:
The Beverly Connection - although it is not a retail outlet center this outdoor mall contains many of the stores that are well known for bargains on clothing - Marshalls, Nordstrom Rack, Old Navy and Ross Dress for Less. If you need to stock up on every day goods like toothpaste, the Beverly Connection has a Target department store. Located across the street from the Beverly Center Shopping Mall.
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Outlets at Orange - (formerly known as The Block at Orange) - home to more than 120 retail outlet stores including Saks Fifth Avenue OFF 5TH, Last Call by Neiman Marcus, Nordstrom Rack, Banana Republic Factory Store, Tommy Hilfiger Company Store, and more. Located near Disneyland. [approximately 40 minutes east of Los Angeles].
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Lake Elsinore Outlets - Only around 60 stores, but if you're looking for clothes outlets then this is a place to look. There are limited food facilities. It takes 1.5 to 3 hours to drive from downtown LA to this outlet on Interstate 15 (driving time depends on traffic conditions, which can be severe at times).
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Stroll along the country's longest Mon wooden bridge in Sangkhlaburi, Kanchanaburi province.
To come and witness this with your very eyes is worth more than a thousand words. It is the longest wooden bridge built at Sangkhlaburi district for the purpose of public use as a route to come into contact between the two communities of Thais and Mons. The dazzling Sangkhlaburi wooden bridge, also known as Uttamanusorn Bridge, is a symbol of the district. Everyday there are a massive crowd of tourists come here to walk across the river Songaria and overlooks a scenic landscape of Sangkhlaburi.
Sangkhlaburi wooden bridge can be considered as the route of an international friendship between Thais and Mons because it links together Sangkhlaburi district to the Mon community on the other side of the bank. Therefore, it was given the name Saphan Mon. In the past, this bridge was built under the commission of highly sacred Luang Phor Uttama of Wang Wiwekaram temple, whom Thai, Mon and Karen people share a great respect in. It is said that some of huge logs used in the construction of the bridge were actually withered trees under the Khao Laem reservoir.
Nowadays, the 900-meter long bridge is for public transportation to make merit at Wang Wiwekaram temple where Luang Phor Uttama had resided when he was still alive. In addition, a considerable number of tourists can cross over to the other side to visit the Mon community as well.


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Nicole Westbrook is the latest Internet star hoping to forge a career out of her 15 minutes of online fame. Much like Rebecca Black before her, Nicole too wants to be a singer and, luckily for her, there are many willing to have her on their show.
Access Hollywood is one of these media outlets, having invited the aspiring star on, to talk about her newfound fame and even to perform live the (unintentionally hilarious) track that got her the exposure in the first place.
Her mentor Patrice Wilson, who also launched Rebecca Black, was on the show as well, making a cameo in the song for backing vocals and his own verse.
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YIELD: Serves 12
IngredientsFor ham
- 1 16- to 19-pound smoked fully cooked bone-in ham
- 36 (about) whole cloves
- 1 cup orange marmalade
- 1/4 cup Dijon mustard
- 2 tablespoons plus 1 1/2 cups water
- 2 cups water
- 4 orange-spice herb tea bags or black tea bags
- 2 cups canned low-salt chicken broth
- 1 cup orange juice
- 3 tablespoons orange marmalade
- 1 tablespoon Dijon mustard
- 1 tablespoon cornstarch dissolved in 1 tablespoon water
Make ham:
Position rack in center of oven and preheat to 325°F. Trim any rind and excess fat from upper side of ham, leaving 1/4-inch-thick layer of fat. Using long sharp knife, score fat in 1-inch-wide diamond pattern. Insert 1 clove into center of each scored diamond. Place ham in heavy large roasting pan. Bake until thermometer inserted into center of ham registers 120°F., about 3 hours 45 minutes.
Melt 1 cup marmalade in heavy small saucepan over medium heat. Whisk in 1/4 cup mustard and 2 tablespoons water. Boil until mixture thickens enough to coat spoon without dripping, about 6 minutes. Set mixture aside. Transfer ham to cutting board. Increase oven temperature to 425°F. Place same roasting pan atop burner set on medium heat. Whisk remaining 1 1/2 cups water into pan, scraping up browned bits from bottom. Transfer pan juices to 4-cup glass measuring cup. Freeze pan juices 15 minutes. Spoon fat off top of pan juices. Reserve pan juices.
Line same pan with foil. Return ham to pan. Generously spoon marmalade mixture over ham. Bake ham until glaze is set and begins to caramelize, about 20 minutes. Let ham stand 30 minutes.
Meanwhile, prepare sauce:
Bring 2 cups water to boil in heavy medium saucepan. Add tea bags. Remove from heat; cover and let steep 10 minutes. Discard tea bags. Add 2 cups chicken broth, 1 cup orange juice and 3 tablespoons orange marmalade to tea. Boil mixture until reduced to 3 cups, about 12 minutes. Whisk in 1 tablespoon Dijon mustard and reserved pan juices. Return to boil. Whisk in cornstarch mixture. Boil until sauce thickens slightly, about 4 minutes. Season sauce to taste with pepper. Carve ham and serve with sauce and Pineapple-Mint Relish.
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Nutritional Info
- Calories1,475
- Carbohydrates113 g (38%)
- Fat61 g (94%)
- Protein127 g (254%)
- Saturated Fat21 g (103%)
- Sodium7,797 mg (325%)
- Polyunsaturated Fat7 g
- Fiber43 g (172%)
- Monounsaturated Fat29 g
- Cholesterol377 mg (126%)


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The Believers: A Novelby Zoe Heller
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When radical New York lawyer Joel Litvinoff is felled by a stroke, his wife, Audrey, uncovers a secret that forces her to reexamine everything she thought she knew about their forty-year marriage. Joel's children will soon have to come to terms with this discovery themselves, but for the meantime, they are struggling with their own dilemmas and doubts.
Rosa, a disillusioned revolutionary, has found herself drawn into the world of Orthodox Judaism and is now being pressed to make a commitment to that religion. Karla, a devoted social worker hoping to adopt a child with her husband, is falling in love with the owner of a newspaper stand outside her office. Neer-do-well Lenny is living at home, approaching another relapse into heroin addiction.
In the course of battling their own demons — and one another — the Litvinoff clan is called upon to examine long-held articles of faith that have formed the basis of their lives together and their identities as individuals. In the end, all the family members will have to answer their own questions and decide what — if anything — they still believe in.
Hailed by the Sunday Times (London) as "one of the outstanding novels of the year," The Believers explores big ideas with a light touch, delivering a tragic, comic family story as unsparing as it is filled with compassion.
"Heller (What Was She Thinking?; Notes on a Scandal) puts to pointed use her acute observations of human nature in her third novel, a satire of 1960s idealism soured in the early 21st century. Audrey and Joel Litvinoff have attempted to pass on to their children their lefty passions — despite Audrey's decidedly bourgeois attitude and attorney Joel's self-satisfied heroism, including the defense of a suspected terrorist in 2002 New York City. When Joel has a stroke and falls into a coma, Audrey grows increasingly nasty as his secrets surface. The children, meanwhile, wander off on their own adventures: Rosa's inherited principles are beleaguered by the unpleasant realities of her work with troubled adolescents; Karla, her self-image crushed by Audrey, has settled into an uncomfortable marriage and the accompanying pressure to have children; and adopted Lenny, the best metaphor for the family's troubles, dawdles along as a drug addict and master manipulator. Though some may be initially put off by the characters' coldness — the Litvinoffs are a severely screwed-up crew — readers with a certain mindset will have a blast watching things get worse." Publishers Weekly (Starred Review) (Copyright Reed Business Information, Inc.)
With her arcing wit and searing characters, Zoe Heller is quickly becoming one of the sharpest novelists in America. And we only have her on long-term loan from England. (Born in London, she now lives in New York and writes for the London Daily Telegraph.) Her previous novel, "What Was She Thinking?: Notes on a Scandal," was shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 2003 and sits comfortably next to the... Washington Post Book Review (read the entire Washington Post review) best books about sinister high-school teachers. (Why, by the way, is the shelf of those books so alarmingly long?) Now Heller turns from sexual intrigue to a more dangerous subject: religion. God knows, it's long been safe to write literary fiction about faith as long as someone's losing it. But, lo and behold, embedded in the middle of this astute family comedy is the story of a young woman going through the humiliating process of losing her atheism. In fact, all the memorable women in "The Believers" must suffer the revelation that what they thought they knew is dead wrong. Don't grow too attached to the dashing lawyer introduced in the preface. A high-profile liberal lion, Joel Litvinoff suffers a massive stroke in the first chapter while defending an al-Qaeda terrorist and spends the rest of the novel lying in a hospital bed. Jesse Jackson, Judy Collins and other celebrities drop by with well wishes, but what interests Heller — and us — is the family members left spinning around Joel's unconscious body, struggling to make their way in the world without him. Chief among these characters is Audrey, his devoted wife of 40 years, a strident supporter of left-wing causes and a hilariously abrasive woman. She prides herself on her "audacious honesty, her willingness to express what everyone else was thinking," Heller writes, though "it was not the truth of her observations that made people laugh, but their unfairness, their surreal cruelty." Indeed, if you need to like the characters to enjoy a novel, skip right on to something more heartwarming because Heller is the master of unpleasant people. It's a testament to her respect for the full spectrum of human nature that her fiercely drawn characters endure satiric exposure that would burn weaker ones to a crisp. Audrey rages on throughout "The Believers," attacking the hospital staff, bullying her grown children and treating her close friends with condescension or derision. Only the sudden appearance of Joel's most recent mistress — an annoyingly calm, New Agey black woman — manages to rattle her ferocious confidence. "How had she ended up like this," Audrey wonders in one of the novel's most poignant moments, "imprisoned in the role of harridan?" Woven through this story are two largely separate stories involving Audrey's adult daughters. Poor Karla is the opposite of her mother: a lumpy, gentle woman with a crippled self-image, a desperate desire to please, a reflexive impulse to apologize. Heller describes her marriage to a pompous union organizer with cringe-inducing precision, particularly "their terse bedroom encounters," which may be the most dispiriting sex scenes ever written. One night Karla catches a glimpse of her husband's expression in bed: "equal parts repulsion and resignation — a sort of stoic anguish, like a child squaring up to the task of eating his spinach." The only pleasure in her obedient life is her affair with a quirky Egyptian who runs a convenience shop at the hospital. It's the sort of life-giving act of adultery you can't help cheering on, but is Karla willing to give up everything and imagine herself happy? The real heart of the novel belongs to Audrey's younger daughter, Rosa, a lonely, sharp-tongued woman casting about desperately for something to believe in, something to replace the comforting self-righteousness of her family's revolutionary zeal. Disillusioned by socialism after four years in Cuba, Rosa shocks her parents when she announces that she's begun attending an Orthodox synagogue. It's an affront to secular Jews who have long prided themselves on their complete freedom from "the idiocy of faith." (Her father always sent back friends' bar mitzvah invitations with the words "There is no God" scrawled across them.) Her mother claims she's just playing "Queen of the Matzoh" to get attention, but Rosa's attraction to Judaism is fraught with doubts and objections — intellectual, political and aesthetic — articulated in Heller's snortingly funny put-downs. Even while studying with an Orthodox rabbi, Rosa is embarrassed to be "consorting in broad daylight with such ostentatiously Jewish Jews." She thinks the synagogue is decorated with "the dowdy, third-rate quality of dentist art." The women at the mikvah seem guided by "schoolgirlish masochism, some hysterical need for rules and restrictions." Rosa thinks that "the idea of an educated, metropolitan woman voluntarily casting off every vestige of modernity in order to make herself over as a medieval ghetto-dweller was unconscionable." Nonetheless, while she listens to the austere melody of the congregation, "a thought came to her," Heller writes, "as clearly as if it had been spoken in her ear. You are connected to this. This song is your song." Afterward, Rosa rationally analyzes away her response — "a momentary and regrettable submission to kitsch" — but she's drawn back and "filled with a mysterious, euphoric sense of belonging." Try as she might to resist it — and she tries very hard — "something had happened to her, something she could not ignore or deny." All of these moments, even the most painful ones, constantly vibrate with Heller's wit, her steely attention to our delicate egos and desperate longings. Somewhere between the novels of Allegra Goodman and Claire Messud, "The Believers" charts out a terrain all its own. If you haven't read Heller yet, prepare to be converted. Ron Charles is a senior editor of The Washington Post Book World. He can be reached at charlesr(at)washpost.com. Reviewed by Ron Charles, Washington Post Book World (Copyright 2006 Washington Post Book World Service/Washington Post Writers Group)
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"Heller creates characters who are defiantly unlovable. Throughout, the novel has a refreshing dryness, a tart economy with words that suits its subjects." Seattle Times
"Heller writes with insight and honesty about the pain involved in testing one's beliefs and the possibility of growth in the process." Library Journal
"[C]aptures those frozen-in-time moments that create a family, for better or for worse." Booklist
The highly anticipated new novel from the author of the acclaimed What Was She Thinking? is a rich, comic chronicle of one family's struggles with the consolations of faith and the trials of doubt.
"[Zoe Heller] is an extraordinarily entertaining writer, and this novel showcases her copious gifts, including a scathing, Waugh-like wit."—New York Times
Best-selling author Zoe Heller has followed up the critical and commercial success of What Was She Thinking? Notes on a Scandal with another tour-de-force on the meaning of faith, belief, and trust: The Believers. Tragic and comic, witty and intense, The Believers is the story of a dysfunctional family forced by tragedy to confront their own personal demons. In the vein of Claire Messud and Zadie Smith, Zoe Heller has written that rare novel that tackles the big ideas without sacrificing page-turning readability.
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Last week (or maybe it was the week before) i was in Hamburg for the Reeperbahm festival. As soon as the symposium i participated to ended, i walked to the other end of the city to see the Santiago Sierra show. Only that i went to Deichtorhallen -one of my favourite centers for contemporary art and photography- to discover that Sierra was actually in another exhibition space a few metro stops away and that i had to book in advance to see the show. Well, i was Deichtorhallen, they have a nice bar, an über friendly staff (i should add that i found everyone i spoke to in Hamburg to be extraordinarily helpful and welcoming) and a photography show. I love a good photo show. And so i stayed.
VisualLeader 2013, The Best of Magazines And Internet displays the works of the nominees and winners of last year's LeadAwards, Germany's most prestigious print and online media award. Photo reports, fashion shoots, advertisement, blogs, etc. The lot! That made for a great afternoon so without further ado and in no particular order...
Photos taken by Benny Lam for the Hong Kong-based social welfare group Society for Community Organization highlight the housing crisis in one of Asia's richest cities. The apartments photographed are just four feet by seven feet. According to the South China Morning Post, an estimated 280,000 families are currently living in those shoebox apartments, which are essentially regular-sized (for Hong Kong) flats that have been divided into usually four smaller units (source).
Paolo Pellegrin photographed life in the U.S. prison camp in Guantanamo. Together with journalist Tim Golden, he traveled to the place that Obama promised to abolish. Yet, terror suspects are still being held without charge in the military detention camp. Pellegrin's photos were submitted to the scrutiny (or rather censorship) of the military press office. He had to delete approximately a third of his photos.
One year after the tsunami, Hans-Christian Schink spent several weeks traveling through the Tohoku region in northeastern Japan.
Life's a Blast is a series of photos that Linda Forsell took in Israel and Palestine from 2008 to 2010.
A print ad campaign for The Standard hotel featuring an image from Erwin Wurm's series of Instructions on How to Be Politically Incorrect.
Everyone's favourite: 'salarymen' who fell asleep in the gutter in their suit and polished shoes.
I got a surprising (to me at least) request from the guard while i was taking photos in the gallery. He told me that i would have to either stop taking pictures or go back to the ticket office and buy a 'photo license' that cost 2 euros. That was new to me. No more laughable excuse, just "go and get the right to take photos."
VisualLeader 2013, The Best of Magazines And Internet runs until 13 October at Deichtorhallen The House of Photography in Hamburg. Deichtorhallen has a photo set on flickr.
I haven't seen that many exciting exhibitions in London over the past few weeks. I was however, bowled over by the photos of Philip-Lorca diCorcia at the David Zwirner Gallery. The East of Eden series brings side by side biblical references and the American dream gone sour. East of Eden is named after John Steinbeck's 1952 novel, contains direct references to the book of Genesis and is inspired by the collapse of the economy as well as the political climate of the United States towards the end of the Bush era.
"It was really about the loss of innocence I think the whole world went through when the financial crisis started," diCorcia explains. "The financial crisis was the beginning of an economic crisis that led to a political crisis. It took two administrations to learn that the war on Iraq was based on a lie, that Saddam Hussein didn't work together with Al-Qaida, and that Afghanistan was an impossible country to transform. Now we have natural disasters that we never could have imagined before. And then there are all those people with no homes. I did feel some compulsion to respond. I never respond directly. But I had a distinct motivation for the conceptualization of the imagery."
The only photo in the gallery that is not likely to throw you into a melancholy state is the one with the two placid white dogs watching porn in a Hamptons home. They were actually looking at much tamer images. 'I rarely manipulate photographs after they are taken,' said diCorcia, 'but in this case the dogs were watching Bambi. I put in the porn later.'
The lady in Iolanda is the artist's mother-in-law. She is either staring at her own reflection or looking at the sky outside, waiting for the tornado forecast on tv.
The tempting Serpent from the Garden of Eden is symbolized by the stripper gliding up and down a pole.
Everything has a meaning and purpose in diCorcia's photos. One man is wearing a red jumper, the other a blue one, while a pregnant woman looks at them from the door. Cain and Abel are locked in reluctant embrace before one kills the other. They also represent U.S. politics and more precisely the Democrat/Republican relationship.
East of Eden is at David Zwirner in London until 16 November 2013.
UPDATE: David Zwirner will host a talk by Martin Barnes, Senior Curator of Photographs at the V&A, about the artist's work, 19 October 2013, 11 AM, RSVP to +44 (0)203 538 3165.
Last Launch. Discovery, Endeavour, Atlantis, by photographer Dan Winters.
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Publisher University of Texas Press writes: Americans have been driven to explore beyond the horizon ever since the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth Rock. In the twentieth century, that drive took us to the moon and inspired dreams of setting foot on other planets and voyaging among the stars. The vehicle we built to launch those far journeys was the space shuttle--Columbia, Challenger, Discovery, Atlantis, and Endeavour. This fleet of reusable spacecraft was designed to be our taxi to earth orbit, where we would board spaceships heading for strange new worlds. While the shuttle program never accomplished that goal, its 135 missions sent more than 350 people on a courageous journey into the unknown.
Last Launch is a stunning photographic tribute to America's space shuttle program. Dan Winters was one of only a handful of photographers to whom NASA gave close-range access to photograph the last launches of Discovery, Atlantis, and Endeavour. Positioning automatically controlled cameras at strategic points around the launch pad--some as close as seven hundred feet--he recorded images of take-offs that capture the incredible power and transcendent beauty of the blast that sends the shuttle hurtling into space. Winters also takes us on a visual tour of the shuttle as a marvel of technology--from the crew spaces with their complex instrumentation, to the massive engines that propelled the shuttle, to the enormous vehicle assembly building where the shuttles were prepared for flight.
Dan Winters has a passion that's completely alien to me: he is fascinated by the NASA space program. U.S. space exploration never made me dream nor even bat an eyelid. Yet, when i read a 3 line-long review of his book in a free men's magazine in London, i knew i needed to get a review copy. Because i might not be into astronauts and giant leaps for mankind but photography is something i respond to. And Last Launch is all about that: jaw dropping images of engineering marvels and explosive lift off. Even the black and sepia archive photos (not by Winters) that illustrate the introduction texts are magnificent.
Speaking of introduction! The photo book starts with a series of essays. One by the photographer who tells of a long love for space adventures that started as a kid watching the Apollo 11 launch broacast live on the family's new tv set on July 16, 1969. The second essay was written by Al Reinert, director and producer of For All Mankind, a 1989 Award-winning documentary about NASA's Apollo program. The film maker charts the successful and unsuccessful episodes that make the history of the transport system that propels Earth-bound humans into low orbit. Some of the anecdotes he shares are dramatic, others are slightly laughable such as the Coke-Pepsi taste test that took place on board of the Challenger in 1985 to determine which beverage taste more like itself in zero gravity. Coke won, Reinert explains, because they manufactured a zero-gravity soda can. Pepsi didn't bother.
A third text is the rather short and moving account by former astronaut Mark Kelly of the few moments before the take off of STS-134 (one of the very last missions of NASA's Space Shuttle program) on May 16, 2011.
A final text at the back of the book brings an answer to the question i've been asking myself while flipping through the pages. How does he make it? How can he get so close to the spectacular liftoffs?
Dan Winters was one of only a handful of photographers to whom NASA gave close-range access to photograph the last launches of Discovery, Atlantis, and Endeavour. "Close-range" shouldn't be taken too literally though. When they launch, space shuttles are surrounded by an evacuation zone that stretched up to three miles (almost 5 km) in all directions.
The cameras had to be remotely activated. The day before lift-off, Winters places them, up to 9 at a time, around the launchpad, the closest located 700 feet (213 m) from the shuttle itself. Winters calculates the type of photo to shoot according to shuttle's path, he sets the frame, checks the focus point, attaches to the cameras custom-made electronic triggers that are sensitive to sound and fire at five frames per second in response to the rockets igniting. He also has to use sandbags to minimize camera shake, and cover the equipment with plastic to protect it from the rain.
If there's one person who might finally get me interested in the NASA adventures, it's Dan Winters. Pity the Space Shuttle was retired from service two years ago.
More photos on Dan WInters' website, at My Modern Met and Time.
If you're as horrified as i have been by the endless queues to see the David Bowie exhibition at the Victoria and Albert museum, maybe you could walk by and try the ticket-free and crowd-free Making It Up: Photographic Fictions.
V&A has selected from its vast archives some 30 images that denies the assumption that photography captures 'the truth'. Since the early days of its history indeed, the medium has also been used to stimulate viewer's imagination or simply to deceive.
The exhibition is small but dense with narratives that entertain, betray, trouble or convey extra layers of information. Some of the stratagems used in these images are subtle, others are downright theatrical.
Roger Fenton's Valley of the Shadow of Death photos are, i've been told, extremely famous. I must admit that i had never read about them before. Fenton was commissioned to document the Crimean War in 1855. Because of the limitations of photographic techniques of the time, because of the danger of entering the battlefield with a cumbersome photo equipment, but also because of the government's wish to present the war in a light that would not upset the public, Fenton couldn't represent the conflict directly.
Valley of the Shadow of Death is a striking example of how Fenton communicated the aftermath of a battle. The photo doesn't show corpses nor wounded soldiers but cannonballs strewn over a road near Sevastopol.
It was later discovered that Fenton had taken another photograph of this scene, with only rocks laying on the road this time. Historians speculate that Fenton probably staged the scene, moving cannonballs from the ditch onto the road in order to create an image dramatic enough to evoke human casualties on the battlefield.
Terry Towery (born 1963) aka Timothy Eugene O'Tower (1829-1905) claims to have 'discovered' this photo by his descendant Timothy Eugene O'Tower, a 19th century photographer. The photo immediately recalls Roger Fenton's. O'Tower is in fact a figment of Towery's imagination and his photos show table-top constructions masquerading as landscapes.
Jan Wenzel's compositions are made entirely inside a photobooth. He used to work in a booth located in the Census Office of Leipzig until, in 1998, he found an old Fotofix booth, repaired it and installed it in his studio. For each of his tableaux, he would set up the scene inside the photo booth and rearrange each frame at 28-second intervals.
The photos above are not the ones exhibited at the V&A but they are close enough to give you an idea of his work.
Nothing in Oliver Boberg's images is what it seems. He selects a location, takes a snap of it then goes back to his studio where he builds a model of the place, carefully lights it and then photographs the scene from predetermined vantage points.
He calls the result "generic modernism". His 'locations' are banal and familiar urban scenes, yet they are alien, stripped of any human or non human life. A reality so controlled and constructed, it becomes almost abstract.
Bridget Smith´s image depict sets purposely built for an activity that the photographer does not represent as such. The bathroom above (the work in the V&A exhibition was a locker room but i couldn't find any photo of it online) is an empty stage set used in the porn industry. The photo is part of the series "Glamour Studios" which catalogues architectures of desire.
Gregory Crewdson works on a Hollywood movie scale with actors and a large crew but it is only after an elaborate process of digital editing that an effect of "hyper-visuality" arises in both the details and the ensemble of these Amercan suburb scenes. More than film stills, Crewdson's images are 'frozen moments', they allude to mysterious, disturbing events usually taking place at twilight. The puzzling scenes leave viewers wondering what has just taken place or what is going to happen.
Duane Michals uses sequences of photos to suggest a narrative. In this sequence, two men pass in an alleyway without incident, but the encounter seems loaded with significance.
Lady Hawarden used her two eldest daughters as models who play out courtship scenes, dressed in 18th-century costume.
Robert Thomson Crawshay was the owner of an ironworks and an amateur photographer. The sitter is not a fishwife but his own daughter whom he photographed in various guises.
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Making It Up: Photographic Fictions is at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, until March 16th 2014.
Related story: Manipulating Reality - How Images Redefine the World.
The Hayward Gallery in London has recently opened a fairly eccentric exhibition filled with the works of outlandish inventors, maverick engineers, self-taught architects, and other people whose imagination won't stop at the laws of physics nor at the rules set by society.
Contributors to the exhibition explore fictional identities and design imaginary cities; they build healing machines and record the unseen energy flows of our bodies. They speculate on mysteries of time and space; create devices for time travel and communication with other dimensions; and fashion new letter forms designed to liberate the alphabet from the strictures of Western civilization.
The Alternative Guide to the Universe is never dull nor predictable. And it is as much about artworks, models and speculation as it is about the stories and personalities of the individuals behind them..
Take Jean Perdrizet for example. He was a civil engineer who lost his job because of mental health troubles. Around 1955 he became an "inventor", stretching the limits of physics, drawing and prototyping machines to communicate with ghosts or aliens. He also invented a language, the "sidereal esperanto" that enabled all humans to understand each other but also to communication with extra-terrestrials. His machines are lost, only the intricate drawing, plans and mathematical formulas remain.
Lee Godie is the one who fascinated me the most. Godie was living on the streets of Chicago in the late 1960s. She called herself a French Impressionist and was selling her drawings and paintings on the steps of the Art Institute. So far, so almost normal. What makes Godie a star of the Hayward show are the theatrical self-portraits she was taking inside a photo-booth at the bus station. She'd bring along accessories, bits of fabric and other props to build different personae. She would then add bright colour to her lips or paint her eye brows in a Scouse fashion. Godie was thus doing theatrical self-portraits long before Cindy Sherman did. And long before celebs started invading twitter with 'selfies.'
The romantic in me is charmed by a self-taught photographer who sees his wife as his muse and takes thousands of photos of her dressed as a pin-up, wearing little more than cascades of pearls or donning christmas tree decorations on her head. Preferably against a rococo backdrop. From the early 1940s to the mid-1950s, Eugene Von Bruenchenhein documented the Marie's beauty but even when she is naked, the portraits have more tenderness than kinkiness.
Bodys Isek Kingelez uses cardboard, candy wrappers and other materials found in the streets of Kinshasa to make what he calls Extrêmes maquettes (Extreme Models) of extravagant buildings and utopian cities. They look neither purely African, nor European, even when they bear the name of a European city. I wouldn't say that they are futuristic either. In truth, these buildings can't be assigned to any architectural movement. They are in a league of their own.
Richard Greaves sculpts houses as much as he builds them. Like many of the artists in the exhibition, Greaves is self-taught. He never learnt to be an architect. Yet, his constructions successfully defy the laws of gravity. The cabins and shelters he erects in the middle of the forest in Canada are made from abandoned barns which he takes apart and rebuilds at his whim.
Rammellzee's graffiti and art work are based on his theory of Gothic Futurism. He imagined a world in which letters of the alphabet would arm and liberate themselves from the slavery and corruption of language. Made from found objects and customised skateboards, his Letter Racers are flying armoured vehicles poised for linguistic and galactic warfare. His style is stunning. Why had i never heard of him before?
I guess everybody knows about Wu Yulu's amazing, rural robots. Using rubbish that he finds near his farm, Wu Yulu creates robots that do the cleaning, wash dishes, light cigarettes, or take him to market. The Hayward is showing the small robot that climbs a wall and a child robot that chases people (as Ralph Rugoff, Director of the Gallery and Curator of the show, pertinently noted, it's not a coincidence if a man from the country of the one child policy decided to build himself a little boy.)
I'm going to stop here because unfinished, unpolished, unpublished posts are piling up and i need to move on but in an ideal life, i'll find the time to write about Karl Hans Janke, the man who discovered the 'radiation-free German Atom'; Philip Blackmarr and his theory of "quantum geometry"; or Emery Blagdon who built a 'Healing Machine' from wire, copper, aluminium foil, Christmas tree lights, ribbons, beads, leaves, butterfly wings, magnets and 'earth elements'. I cannot vouch for the scientific soundness of their theories but i'm glad an art gallery has given them a chance to expose them to the public.
If you can't make it to London, i guess that the next best thing is to get your hands on the catalogue The Alternative Guide to the Universe: Mavericks, Outsiders, Visionaries. It's on amazon .co.uk and .com.
Alternative Guide to the Universe is at the Hayward Gallery in London until 26 August 2013.
A few weeks ago i was in Liverpool for the opening of Turning FACT Inside Out, an exhibition that celebrates the 10 years of existence of the UK's favourite media arts centre (I will get back with a report later this week.)
My well documented love for Liverpool has been growing since i discovered the Open Eye Gallery last year. The independent not-for-profit photo space is now showing the sensational Charles Fréger, The Wild and the Wise. The exhibition opened in collaboration with LOOK13, Liverpool International Photography Festival and as befits the theme of the festival this year (WHO DO YOU THINK YOU ARE?), the gallery has selected the work of an artist concerned with both individual and collective identity.
One of Fréger's series documents some of the pagan rites that still celebrate the cyclical patterns of nature and life in general in Europe.
I could go on and on with those images. They might be less fancifully attired, but the Namibian Hereros, dressed in a vernacular version of colonial uniforms, impressed me just as much as the European revelers of all things folk and pagan.
I smiled at the Wilder Mann and at the Hereros series but i was moved by the portraits of rikishi ('sumo wrestlers' in Japanese) as children and adults.
Charles Fréger, The Wild and the Wise is at Open Eye Gallery in Liverpool until 26 August 2013.
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NEWPORT ŌĆō North Country Hospital (NCH) is in the midst of dealing with operating issues involving employee safety in the laundry area. Hospital personnel have been working diligently to address the violations raised by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA).
NEWPORT CITY - The Irockets swim team is resilient, to say the least, with iron-willed swimmers overcoming obstacles to participate in the sport they love. In 2005 the now defunct recreational facility known as IROC opened, featuring a field house and swimming pool. The pool was sized to allow for competitive swim meets, which inspired Dr. Peter Stuart and other swim enthusiasts to start a team to introduce the sport to area youth. The sport grew in popularity such that by the time IROC closed in the spring of 2013 there were 34 kids who were part of the Irockets team.
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This past fall, Atos became the owner of a bullet and stab protective vest thanks to Claire Beaulieu, owner of ClaireŌĆÖs Home Comfort Cleaning.
Beaulieu paid $950 for the vest after reading about them in the newspaper.
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The Christmas spirit was alive and well in Newport Saturday as the Newport Parks and Recreation, along with other partners, presented the Santa Festival. Activities included the Santa Run, a parade, and activities for all ages throughout the day. In the photo, Dozens of Santas make their way up Main Street. Please see The Newport Daily Express Monday for more photos. (Photo by Christopher Roy)
NEWPORT CITY ŌĆō ItŌĆÖs Christmas time. In the tradition of giving, over the weekend dozens of area residents placed wreathes - close to 1,400 in all - on the graves of veterans buried in local cemeteries.
Robert Gosselin, owner of Spates the Florist and Garden Center, organized the annual Veterans Memorial Wreath Campaign, now in its fifth year.
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BARTON - The Public Service Board held a public hearing at the Barton Memorial Building Thursday evening (December 5) to provide an opportunity for the board to hear comments about the petition by Barton Solar LLC for a certificate of public good for a proposed solar farm. Hearing Officer Andrew Flagg emphasized the comments should raise issues and perspectives the board can use to make a decision. The comments do not become part of any formal evidence in the case; however they will help to guide the board in arriving at a decision.
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SEATTLE -- Seattle police are looking for a thief they've dubbed the "world's worst person" for stealing a wheelchair belonging to a 4-year-old girl.
The mother called officers Saturday morning after noting that someone had stolen her daughter's wheelchair from outside their home in the 1700 block of 13th Ave. S.
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CHICAGO - Looking to help grow the game of soccer, 13 DePaul men's soccer players along with coach Craig Blazer and assistant coach Anthony Szymel served as volunteer coaches at the Second Annual Work To Play Cup 2014 event coordinated by Urban Initiatives.
Kevin Beyer, Jake Douglas, Art Garza, Jalen Harvey, Brian Hindle, Philip Huang, Quentin Low, Anthony Hunter, Macklin Robinson, Simon Megally, Danny Michallik, Eric Rodriguez and Koray Yesilli were among the 96 volunteer coaches that directed teams from 29 elementary schools in the Chicago Public Schools sysytem on the last day in May.
The Work To Play Cup took place from 9 a.m.-2 p.m. at the Midway Plaisance in the Hyde Park neighborhood, and the men's soccer program has been involved with this event since its inception.
"The campus of the University of Chicago was a terrific setting for this event, and Urban Initiatives has done a tremendous job over the years," Blazer said. "It's a great forum for our players to train and teach young, underprivileged children from the city how to play soccer, the value of teamwork and to provide them with inspiration and belief.
"I know our guys enjoyed this community-service endeavor and the chance to help the kids in the Urban Initiatives program. Our players really learned some things about themselves and understood what a great opportunity they have being a student-athlete at DePaul in one of the best cities in the world and playing in the BIG EAST Conference."
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The BIO SUITES HOTEL complex is located in a quiet, restricted-traffic area in the heart of the historic town of Rethymno, Crete, just 100 meters from the hotel's private sandy beach, 10-15 minutes' walk from the picturesque Old City.
The Bio Suites Hotel offers family suites accommodating up to six people in spacious "Superior" and luxurious "Junior" Suites. All rooms are fully furnished with kitchen and all amenities necessary for a comfortable stay.
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