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Vai Vai Samba Band
Demola Ojo
Carnival Calabar which is due in a few days (Thursday) will take on an international dimension with the reigning Sao Paulo Carnival champions, the Vai Vai Band, billed to take part. The Brazilian band, made up of 25 ladies is set to add more colour to the carnival with their eye-popping costumes.
Their performance would be one of the highlights of a festival already in full swing. Today, there will be a novelty football match and the Calabar Carnival Queen pageant. A carol night is set for tomorrow (Christmas Eve) while Christmas Day will see live bands performing at various venues in the city, including Tinapa, Marina resort and the Cultural Centre.
Christmas Day will also witness the first performance of the Vai Vai Band as they perform at the Carnival Kings and Queens competition. Boxing Day will be equally as exciting with a cultural carnival, the Children's Carnival and musical performances later in the evening by Tuface, MI and Ice Prince.
All these lead up to the Carnival proper on Thursday as the Vai Vai band comes back again for a special performance as the five carnival bands compete to emerge winner of the Carnival Calabar 2012.
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This in a theatre still clinging with the recent sorrows of David Lindsay-Abaire 's Rabbit Hole—the Biltmore is becoming Manhattan Mourning Club. No sooner had Tyne Daly and Cynthia Nixon finished grieving for their respective sons and moved on than in comes the fallout from another traffic fatality.
Oliver Platt stumbles numbly into the Dublin office of therapist Brian F. O'Byrne with a mother lode of guilt and grief for a wife he recently lost in a taxi wreck. The couple was ragingly estranged, and she has taken to haunting their home, freaking the widower out.
If you've seen McPherson's The Weir, where customers at a Dublin bar stand around and scare each other with tall tales from the crypt, you think you know where he's headed here—and you're wrong. Between the poltergeist set-up and pay-off, the author springs a human agenda on you, involving you in the lives of these two men who, in different ways, are lost and at a loss. The patient's recovery contrasts sharply with the unraveling of his therapist, an ex-priest who left the church for a woman and now is leaving her and their child because he made the mistake of thinking they would be the last stop for him.
"Another Irish play!" John Patrick Shanley said with a booming laugh as he entered the Biltmore, he being one of the chief contributors to the genre. But the crack referred as well to the recent rush of Irish authors on Broadway—the revival of Brian Friel's Faith Healer at the Booth and the transfer of Martin McDonagh's The Lieutenant of Inishmore to the Lyceum from Broadway's Atlantic Theatre.
Festivities began a good hour later than first-nighters are used to. Curtain rose at 8 PM, as it does most nights, but uncommonly late for an opening. For this, MTC's executive director Barry Grove had a perfectly bland, technical reason: "We had the subscriptions lined up and we were originally going to do this a week earlier. When we shifted the dates a week later to accommodate Rabbit Hole, we couldn't restructure our calendar from 8 PM to 6:45 PM."
There were some Irish repeaters on the premises. "Well, you see I'm Irish, I'm here, and all my friends have their plays on so I come along," explained writer-director Neil Jordan, who's in town making a movie with Jodie Foster for Warner Bros, but he declined to go into the plot. "I like surprises" [like, for handy example, "The Crying Game"], although he was surprised to learn that his title—"The Brave One"—had already been used in movies. Its claim to fame is that it won an Oscar for a man who never existed—Robert Rich, the nom de typewriter of a blacklisted Dalton Trumbo.
James Stephens bopped by from BAM where he's serving cucumber sandwiches and Wilde witticisms to Lynn Redgrave, Terence Rigby and Miriam Marolyes in the three-month tour of the Sir Peter Hall-directed The Importance of Being Earnest.
Marolyes will head up the reading of a new play by Tricia Walsh-Smith, called The Last Journey, at noon on May 12 at the Dorothy Strelsin Theatre. The last Walsh-Smith reading, for her play titled Addictions, benefited the Caron Treatment Centers and starred a shining light from Shining City, Martha Plimpton, who plays O'Byrne's unloved object.
"I think that most women are going to relate to my character," Plimpton contended. "I don't know a single woman who hasn't been sort of caught off-guard by a breakup—the idea of the expectations you have, planning for one thing and then getting hit with something else. That's kind of a universal theme, I think, for a lot of women. In a strange way, this play doesn't really end—and I know that's kind of an odd thing for somebody to say—it might make people go and say, 'Well, what's the point?' But that actually is the point—that Life keeps posing these questions, and how we answer those questions determines the quality of our lives. If we don't answer them, if we don't really look at ourselves, then there's always going to be something right behind us that will get us."
The actress' parents, both veterans of the original Hair, were there— Shelley Plimpton, who was the waif singing so plaintively about "Frank Mills" and the Waverly Theatre, and Keith Carradine—albeit, sitting at separate tables with different significant others. Their daughter wasn't going to have any of that and promptly stage-managed them to sit beside her at her table, maintaining "it's my opening night and I want you there." It was clear to the casual observer that the parents hadn't played any brittle Noel Coward lately. Strained was the name of the game.
Mom, in fact, hasn't played anything in a while—"I live in Seattle now and have a very civilized life. I'm away from all that."—but she couldn't hide her pride in her daughter's success in the family trade. "I'm extremely proud, always have been. I love her on stage."
Carradine exhibited the same feeling, nodding when told how his daughter connects with every word. "Yeah, she does that." An early calling? "Apparently from birth." He makes a special point to make her openings. "I missed the one for Sixteen Wounded because I was working, but I did come in later and see it, and I've been here for all the others."
Will he be coming back to theatre in New York anytime soon? "One never does know, does one?" His most recent stage success was on the West Coast, playing George W. Bush in David Hare's Stuff Happens. (The current production of it at The Public is directed by Dan Sullivan, the next ex of Shelley Plimpton.) "I had a really good time doing that play. It was not what you'd call 'a fun play.' It was demanding and exhausting, but ultimately satisfying as well. He's one of the great playwrights, I think, of our time."
There was even an Irish Rep table of sorts, with artistic director Charlotte Moore, her producing director Ciaran O'Reilly and their sometimes performer, author Frank McCourt. The latter was busily autographing five copies of his new book, "Teacher Man," which O'Byrne bought sans Irish discount. "And I'm his friend!" the actor bellowed in mock indignation.
In point of fact, says O'Byrne, "The first play I ever did was with Frank McCourt: Philadelphia, Here I Come! It started Off-Off Broadway and moved to Theatre Row Off-Broadway. That's how I got my Equity card. Frank played the teacher, and I played one of the kids. We sat downstairs while others were rehearsing, and we talked every night, things about his life. I said, 'Are you writing this down?' He said, 'Yeah, I am.' 'Angela's Ashes' was, of course, the result. 'Teacher Man' is his latest book. I got it for all my family. My brother's a teacher, my father's a teacher, my sister's a teacher."
O'Byrne pleads guilty to "black sheep." If so, he has made it pay for him. In his performances on Broadway, there's not one sexual corner of his life—he laughs and finishes the sentence—"that hasn't been on display." He was the country innocent smitten with a sinister spinster whom he dubs "the beauty queen of Leenane" in the McDonagh play by that name. He was Tony nominated for that Broadway debut, as he was last year as a priest suspected of child molestation in Shanley's Doubt. His Tony-winning performance was a chilling portrayal of a serial killer-kidnapper of young girls in Frozen. McPherson's play gives him some new troubled waters to thrash about in.
Kindness, which, from all accounts, is a given with O'Byrne, comes over nicely here in his comfortable role of the sympathetic-to-the-point-of-being-empathetic psychiatrist—the kind of therapist you never had—but he pooh-poohs that any heavy-lifting acting is going on. It's just a good fit. "Actorspeak," he calls it. "You just sit back and nod your head."
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Chapter 1
Alice stepped of the airplane steps into the fresh London air. The wind was blowing faintly in her face. Her breast length brown hair was gliding with the wind. She took a deep breath and sucked in the warm London air. She breathed out and smiled. She picked up her backpack and headed towards the Baggage Claim. She walked with iPod music in her ears, all by herself in a strange world. She was wearing normal girl teenage clothing: skinny jeans, loose top, and tennis shoes. Although, tennis shoes weren't the style, her aunt insisted she wear them on the plane.
She took out her phone from her back pocket and looked at the time.
9:56 A.M. She sighed. She put her phone in the back of the pocket and walked on an escalator.
"I think its lovely weather today," A man older than her in a British accent said to her. She took out her earplugs.
"Oh, indeed sir," She looked at him. He looked back and looked away.
"American tourists…" He mumbled under his breath and cursed something she couldn't figure out. She shrugged and put her earplugs back in. As she reached the end of the escalator she headed to Baggage Area 3. She turned left and saw a person holding a sign; a very handsome person. He had a buzz cut, and almost looked Hispanic, but had a hint of British. He was wearing a black leather jacket, a white tank, and pants. Any normal boy in Los Angeles might wear.
The sign said, "Gentarri."
"Oh, that's me." She said to herself. The young man saw her and smiled. She walked over towards him and saw he had her suitcase at hand. He folded the sign up and put it in his jeans. Jeans? I thought this was London? He cleared his throat and put his hand out.
"Welcome miss, I hope you enjoy your stay in London." He said, in a clear American accent.
"You're American?"
"Why yes. If you have a problem with that, I can get someone else to show you around."
"Wait, you're my tour guide?"
"You're too young."
"Just because I am sixteen like you are, I see no reason why I can't tour you around," He smiled a devilish, but charming smile. She smiled back.
"May I know your name sir?"
"Galen. Galen Sanchez."
"So you are Mexican."
"Only a little, my uncle is."
"Oh so your uncle is Lorry Sanchez. Ok."
"And you are Alice Gentarri."
"That's me."
"A pleasure."
"Now, my instructions are to get you to your hotel by twelve o'clock, so you can get your stuff unpacked, then we can get lunch and walk around. I think in order to do that, we must leave now."
"Sure. I see no reason," She reached for her bags. He grabbed her arm gently and moved her hand away. He then used his index finger and made a no-no sign. He then pulled out the roller for the suitcase and dragged it along. He walked towards the Airport Parking Lot, she followed to his right.
"You are a surprise to me," He said, looking forward.
"Me? Why?"
"I was just expecting a more… American teenager."
"Ah… you were expecting a total snob who cares only for herself."
"If that's what you want to call it."
"Well, I was taught that manners are the most important about a girl."
"Yes, and I can see you don't wear makeup. Why is that? I see girls ten years younger than you wear that."
"I don't know. It's a hassle, and I just think it's stupid," He smirked at the comment.
"Fascinating… Well, I think you'll enjoy London very much," He said as they entered the parking lot. He grabbed his keys and walked over to a motor scooter. He pulled her suitcase up and strapped it in.
"Why don't we call a carriage?" She said, not very pleasant at the idea of 'scootering'.
He laughed, "Have you never been here before? We have no carriages anymore. You'll be surprised how London will remind you of Los Angeles."
"How do you know so much about me?" She said slowly walking to the scooter.
"I got background info. I can't do much for the Scotland Yard if I don't know you."
"Yes, of course."
"You look awfully familiar. Do you have a sister? I might have met her."
"Um… no." She quietly said and grabbed one of the helmets on the seat. He grabbed the other and shrugged. He jumped on the scooter and waited for her. She took a deep breath and jumped on the scooter.
"Hold on tight, this road can get bumpy," He chuckled. She held onto his waist tightly, scared. He felt her tenseness and backed up slower than he normally would. Then he turned left and sped out the parking lot at 25 mph. It took about five minutes before they hit the main traffic of London: very busy, very crowded, and just slow. Alice looked at everything around her: the shops, people, animals; just the culture in general. Galen took a notice of this. After being stuck in traffic and they came to a complete stop he balanced himself.
"You seem to look a round a lot."
"Like I said, I've never been here before."
"Just saying… we'll be at your hotel in five."
"Sounds good," She smiled. Then traffic started moving and he made a right at an intersection. This was a smaller street, but had more of the old London culture. A lot of tall buildings, balconies that were so high they could see the whole city. She looked all the way up until her neck was hurting. Then they reached a little market on the left. She guessed these were for people who couldn't afford some food in grocery stores, or they are just more cultural. Men were selling bread, women were selling vegetables and fruits, while the children preformed for money. Galen stopped for a minute and looked where she was looking, then moved on slowly towards the end of the street.
"Look…" Galen tapped her shoulder and they stopped to look at something really spectacular.
"This, I think is the best of London," He smiled and they looked together. London Bridge was something truly spectacular, and of course looked much better than the pictures, and the Thames, still looking like muddy water (which it was) and the beautiful blue sky in the background. She could stare at it all day and never get used to it.
"Wow, I could never get used to this."
"… I'm used to it," He smiled.
"Well, of course you are, you see it everyday."
"Yes, well. You'll be able to see it from your hotel window. Which reminds me that your hotel is right over here," He gently pushed on the accelerator and they slowly moved across the street to a more archaic building. He put the scooter in park and got off. He took his helmet off and set it on the scooter. His hair was perfectly fine of course, and he put his hand out for Alice to get up (like any normal gentleman would do) and he pulled her up. She took her helmet off and her hair was a huge mess. It was all poofy in the front and it was just insane. She looked at Galen, he had a sincere face.
"Why aren't you laughing at me?"
"Am I supposed to? I thought it would be insulting."
"That's the point. You're supposed to laugh and make me mad."
He looked confused, "Is that what teens in America do these days? Make fun of another?"
"No, but it's funny. Here watch." She put the helmet back on and rubbed it then took it off, still no laughing. Then she did it again, and again, and again, until he finally laughed.
"See! It's funny!" She smiled.
"No, I'm laughing at how silly you look. And now, your hair is more of a mess." He smiled, and she playfully frowned. He grabbed her suitcase of the straps that held it against the scooter and pulled it off. He rolled it to the door and looked back at her.
"When we get to your room, you really must brush that hair. I mean, even if it is the style, your hair looked much better down." He grinned and rolled the suitcase in past the automatic doors. She walked in with him and stood next to him waiting for the clerk.
"Ah, your key Mr. Sanchez. I hope your American has a good stay." The English man wearing a dark suit said and tossed him the key. Then he sat back down and read his newspaper. Galen grabbed the key and put it in his pocket, then had his left hand on the roller for the suitcase, and his right hand gently pulling Alice's arm towards the elevator. He pushed the button and waited.
"I really must thank you for doing this." Alice stared at the elevator doors.
"It really is no problem. And I need to tell you something."
"Okay, go on."
"When I asked you earlier about if you had a twin or sister, I didn't mean to bring it up. I mean, you look like her a lot."
"Oh, yes. Her disappearance was a little shocking, and two years ago she looked a lot like me today. Today, we may not know what she looks like." She frowned.
"That is why, after about three days of showing you around. I want to help you as much as possible." He smiled faintly to cheer her up. She smiled a little.
"Thanks. I really do appreciate it." She squeezed his hand gently. The doors opened and they walked in. A man in red was standing by the buttons and his face looked completely bored.
"Which button?" He crossed his arms.
"Level Four please, sir." Alice said. The man grunted and pressed the button. It was awkward being in a "negative" room. Alice was one that had mixed moods, and usually it was by people around her. The doors opened after hearing the ding…ding…ding…dong! Galen stepped off first and then waited for his American to get off. Alice skipped down the halls, while Galen slowly walked smiling at her enthusiasm. She looked back at him and blushed from embarrassment.
"It's fun to do fun things here, because nobody knows you, and doesn't care who you are. I'm not a big fan of people of judge, but I don't mind embarrassing myself."
"Then why did you blush?" He smiled.
"Me? Blush? Never," She grinned as Galen threw her keys. Alice opened the door with room 412 numbers on it. She walked in and smiled. It was very nice, one small bed, a balcony with nice view, she gasped when she saw the white and gold trimmed bathroom. She ran in it and closed the door. Galen shrugged and set her suitcase on the bed. Galen heard a toilet flush and Alice came out of the bathroom with her hair in a bun.
"Why is your hair up?" Galen opened her suitcase.
"Because, I won't be able to brush my stupid, poofy hair until I use conditioner."
"Oh, ok. Now, if you want to go walk around, I know a nice chocolate shop, you might want a jacket; because it will get cold, and I want to take you out for dinner."
"Like a date?"
"Oh, ok. I've never been on a date before…" She frowned.
"You? You're like…"
"Yes well, I'm not one to date Los Angeles snobs."
"Oh that's right. Well… if you want it to be a date, I can say so, although my uncle may be upset."
"Thanks." She smiled. Galen reached inside her suitcase and grabbed a sweatshirt that said Notre Dame University.
"Notre Dame huh?"
"Yes, well…"
"My uncle went there."
"Oh, well I just like the college, I wish I could go."
"Get a scholarship."
"I would need straight A's."
"You do play soccer, and I must admit: You are very good at it."
"I'm not that good." She scoffed.
"Come, let's go." Galen grabbed her hand and they left the room.
They went to many shops after leaving the hotel in a hurry and smiling. Of course people on the street were looking at a couple of teenagers happily skipping down the street.
"Here, let's go here," Galen pulled her into a shop that smelled really good: chocolate.
"Oh my gosh. Chocolate," She smiled, and so did he. He pulled her over to the rack to see all the types of chocolate.
"My favorite is German Fudge," He said.
"May I get you kids anything?" A man with a strong English accent asked.
"Two German Fudge's please." Alice replied and smiled. The man shrugged and handed them the big squares of fudge on a plastic sheet. She took a big bite and smiled. He took a bite of his and grinned.
"Always the best," He smiled and sat in one of the booths and she next to him. He put his left arm around her shoulder and used his right hand to eat his fudge. They ate their fudge together silently when suddenly the door jingled when someone walked in. He was tall, his hair was brown and almost curly (Edward Cullen look-a-like), and his arms muscular. He was wearing a black hoodie and shorts. He turned and saw Alice, and winked, Alice scoffed, and Galen noticed. Galen stood up and "Edward" gave him a look.
"Um, do you guys know each other?" Alice stood up.
"This is Samuel. An annoying little English brat who thinks he can do whatever he wants."
"Oh, but I can do whatever I want," He put his hand against Alice's face; she knocked it down and slapped him in the face. The people in the shop went silent.
"You're a feisty one aren't ya… I think you need a lesson." He said rubbing his face and approaching Alice. Galen stepped in front.
"You touch her; you will have the wrath of the whole Scotland Yard after you." Galen held her hand.
"You lie. You just think you can protect your little sweetie…" At this a man walked in the room. Galen smiled.
"Good evening gentleman… I am Lorry Sanchez, I am here to meet Alice Gentarri." The Mexican, but yet English man in his fancy suit said.
"I am she," Alice raised her hand. Samuel took a step back and looked at the door.
"Is this man bothering you?"
"No, I was just leaving," Sam said and exited the shop and put his hood to cover his head.
"Weird. I swear I've seen him before…Anyways… I wanted to tell you to have a great evening, and welcome to London. We'll have a little meeting tomorrow at 8:00 in your hotel lobby. If you don't mind of course,"
"No, the pleasure is mine."
"She is a doll." He whispered into his nephew's ear. Galen smiled, and the man left the store.
"That ugly guy made my fudge fall of the table." Alice frowned.
"Here, let's go somewhere nice for dinner. What would you like, Italian? German? American? Or how bout rich English food?"
"No to American food… I love Italian food though," Alice replied.
"Perfect. I know the right place. You must love pizza; anyone who doesn't is sick-minded."
"I never said I didn't," She smiled and they left the store.
"Ah… I love the smell of bread." Galen said brining the bread basket to his nose.
"Please don't sneeze on them; I prefer to eat them with only spices on top." Alice said taking the basket away from him and broke half a piece off.
"Yes, well. We may never know if snot tastes good." They both laughed and Gale took the other half of her bread.
"So, what do you want to order?" She yawned.
"I think we should order a medium pepperoni pizza, because its quick and you are tired."
"I'm not tired."
"You realize it could be almost two in the morning your time."
"More than that," She put her hands to her face, and her elbow against the table.
"Do I bore you?"
"Oh, no. Not at all, I just don't want to fall asleep and have you carry me home. That would be an awful date."
"I wouldn't mind; but please don't do it on purpose." He grinned and she smiled.
"I won't."
"You know," He said waving over to the waiter and pointed at the pizza and said medium. He nodded and left, "You have very peculiar and almost beautiful eyes."
"Oh, thanks. I always thought a blue-grey eye was weird."
"No… it always reminds me… of the beach… when it's foggy… but in a good way you know." He grinned, and after that they talked, laughed, and even cried (hysterically) over what each other liked, disliked, and thought was funny. Eventually the pizza came and Alice didn't each much, only about a slice. Where Galen almost finished the whole pizza, which Alice didn't mind. After that, Galen paid the bill and they walked back to the hotel.
"I really appreciate this. It's really amazing to be here, and I couldn't imagine it any better." Alice said as she opened her door and turned around.
"It's nothing."
"Samuel, you know him. Does he bother you?"
"No, he's just a jerk."
"Oh, ok." She said and hugged him, his leather jacket against her sweatshirt.
"I'll see you at eight."
"Perfect." She said and shut the door.
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BARCLAYS faced costs of as much as £1.2 billion (R21.4bn) for its alleged rigging of currency markets, lying to clients about its US dark pool and mis-selling interest rate swaps, Sanford C Bernstein said.
The UK's second-largest lender may incur a £700m charge to settle a foreign exchange probe with regulators and a further £200m relating to a US investigation into its private trading venue, Chirantan Barua, an analyst at Bernstein in London, said in a note yesterday. The bank could reach settlements by the end of this year, he said.
Barclays is part of a group of banks in talks with the UK's Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) to reach a settlement in the currency-rigging probe, while fighting a US lawsuit accusing it of falsifying marketing materials to hide the presence of high-frequency traders in its dark pool.
The scandals are undermining chief executive Antony Jenkins' attempts to reform the culture of the bank after it was fined £290m in 2012 for rigging the London Interbank Offered Rate benchmark interest rate.
London-based Barclays may also set aside £300m in the second half to compensate customers improperly sold interest rate hedging products, Barua estimates. The bank did not make further provisions for redress in the first half.
Other British lenders are also struggling with rising provisions for misconduct. Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS), Britain's largest state-owned lender, may face as much as £1bn in charges to settle the allegations of currency market manipulation, Barua wrote in a separate report on Monday.
RBS said on July 25 that it had made additional provisions of £150m in the first half for improperly sold loan insurance and £100m for interest rate swaps. The government owns 80 percent of the Edinburgh-based bank.
Barclays took a £900m charge to cover the costs for improperly sold loan insurance compared with £1.35bn a year ago, it said on July 30. That brings total payment protection insurance provisions to £4.85bn.
Britain's FCA is preparing to reach a deal with a group of banks on currency rigging this year, according to people with knowledge of the situation. They said the regulator was in negotiations with banks including Barclays, Citigroup, JPMorgan Chase and UBS. RBS and HSBC might also be part of the group settlement.
Regulators and prosecutors are scrutinising allegations that dealers at the largest banks traded ahead of their clients and colluded to rig the WM/Reuters rate, a benchmark that pension funds and money managers use to determine what they pay for foreign currencies.
Adding to the bank's woes, Barclays dropped from second place behind Credit Suisse Group as the largest dark pool operator in the US to 13th after New York attorney-general Eric Schneiderman filed a complaint against the bank on June 25. Barclays has asked a judge to throw out the lawsuit, saying that it was based on "clear and substantial factual errors".
Barclays shares have dropped 19 percent this year, making them the worst performers among Britain's five largest banks.
Meanwhile, a Barclays trading team that is leaving this year to start a quantitative investment firm will take 60 bank employees with it, adding to Wall Street's migration to the hedge fund industry. – Bloomberg
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Seagate GoFlex Satellite drive reaches FCC
Seagate's plans for a rare truly cable-free hard drive were uncovered through an FCC filing this week. Its GoFlex Satellite would have not just 802.11n Wi-Fi to serve storage on the local network but would have its own battery to operate completely cable-free for hours. An iOS app, GoFlex Media, would let iPad, iPhone, and iPod owners stream music or videos directly from the drive, presumably as a way of giving access to a much larger media library while travelling.
The capacity and the battery life weren't uncovered in the documentation. When wired, though, it should be sufficiently low-powered to both power and transfer data over a USB 3.0 cable, much like a conventional portable hard drive. Whether or not that includes charging the battery isn't certain.
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A Midsummer Night's Dream
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by William Shakespeare
directed and adapted by David H. Bell
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Jets quarterback Brett Favre will be watched by millions of people today, including plenty in his hometown of Kiln, Miss. / Mike Roy/The Journal News
Everyone comes from somewhere, and Brett Favre comes from a place locals call "The Kill." A place where the heat in summer clings like wet bedsheets. A place where stumbling into an old biker joint means a free shot of moonshine at halftime.
It is Kiln, Miss., and about a month ago a crowd gathered at a bar called the Broke Spoke to watch Favre play in a preseason game. It did not matter that Favre was playing his first game for the Jets after 16 years with the Packers; they cheer for the man in Kiln, not the uniform. And truthfully, the uniform isn't even that different anyway.
"Let me tell you something: The outhouse here is painted Packers colors with a 'GB' painted on the door," says Steve Haas, owner of the Broke Spoke and a longtime family friend of Favre. "But it's pretty easy to paint green and gold to green and white, you know? Pretty darn easy."
It is. There has also been talk about painting over the mural of Favre in a Packers uniform that is on the wall outside a grocery store, and Haas pleasantly notes that he won't need to order any new "Broke Spoke" T-shirts because they were already green with white lettering.
"Just lucky, I guess," he says.
Then he adds earnestly that football is important in Kiln, which is why for the better part of the last two decades, Sundays meant coming together, eating some crawfish or some chili or some kind of boil, and watching the local boy throw the ball down the field. It was what people did. They loved the Packers and they loved Favre.
As the years went by, the connection between Green Bay and Kiln grew stronger, with tour groups coming from Wisconsin to the heart of the Deep South and groups of Mississippians heading to the land of the cheese; Haas was actually with friends on a Packers cruise (attended by players, former players and fans) this March, when word broke that Favre was retiring.
"We were sitting at (a bar named) Señor Frogs in Aruba when a lady came in and said, 'Did y'all hear the news? Brett Favre retired,' " Haas said. "We asked the guys at Señor Frogs to go look it up on the Internet. No one could believe it. But it was true."
There were immediate doubters in the group at Señor Frogs, including Packers receiver Greg Jennings, who caught Favre's record-breaking 421st touchdown pass in 2007. Jennings told Haas that night, "There's no way Brett is going to retire." Haas didn't feel as strongly, but always assumed that, "if Brett came back it was going to be with the Packers." So did everyone.
But then came the nasty and bitter and (seemingly) endless saga in which the Packers felt Favre was being unfair and Favre felt the Packers were being unreasonable. He wanted to come back and play, and they had already moved on.
"There are a lot of people down here who are pretty pissed at the Packers," Haas says.
So Favre went to the Jets, and suddenly people in Kiln were talking about maybe making a trip to New York for a game, talking about what the big city is like. It was different but it was also the same.
For years Haas used to call up the same bar in Green Bay at halftime of every Packers game so that his patrons and those at the bar in Wisconsin could do a shot together on the phone. In the middle of a phone call a few weeks ago he stops and says, "Do you know any bars up that way that might be interested in something like that?"
He gave no thought to discontinuing the tradition, just like there was no thought given to changing the rest of the Sunday routine. There will be free food served this afternoon at the Broke Spoke, same as there's always been when Favre is playing, and Haas will gather with 40 or 50 of his closest friends to watch the hometown kid on television.
"We haven't missed a Packers game in 17 years," Haas says, "but we'll be watching the Jets now. It's different, I guess, but shoot, the way he played (in preseason) - he didn't look no different, did he?"
A gunslinger is born
He didn't. Even at 39 years old and with more salt than pepper in his stubble, Favre still looks pretty much the same. Running and throwing and screaming and yelling. He is a star in the NFL, an icon. Has been for almost 20 years.
It wasn't always this way with Favre, though. As much as people in Kiln love their quarterback, there are no stories (at least no true ones) about how he threw a buttonhook with a baby rattle at age 2 and everyone knew he was going to be a legend. It wasn't that simple.
He was one of four kids (and three boys) who were famously competitive, and Favre's high school career was stunted; he didn't play football at all his sophomore year at Hancock North Central because he had an enlarged spleen following a bout with mono. His father, Irvin, who was also the head coach, argued all year with Favre's mother, Bonita, about whether Brett should be allowed to play but mother (and doctors) won out.
When he did play, Favre rarely passed. Big Irv, as he was known, ran a wishbone offense that utilized the team's steady stream of skilled running backs, and Favre typically threw less than five passes a game.
There were no long bombs. No back-foot heaves. No bullets into coverage. But even without the gunslinger mentality that would develop later, the foundation of Favre's grittiness was being formed.
"We played a game one time, I remember, we were at Pastor Shan (high school) and they didn't have dressing rooms," says Rocky Gaudin, an assistant coach under Big Irv. "So at halftime, you had to go back to your bus. Well, we were running the wishbone and we got down near the goal line just before the half and Irvin told Brett to flip it on the option. Instead, Brett dove it in himself and he just got in. I mean barely.
"Well, everyone is cheering, going crazy," Gaudin says. "And now it's halftime and we're walking back to the bus and Irvin is just chewing his ass up. And Brett was barking back at him and everyone is sort of watching as we walk. We're getting near the bus and Brett finally says, 'If you think you can do any better, you get in there, big boy!' and Irvin damn near went for his throat."
Gaudin laughs then. "Getting back on the crowded bus at that point for halftime didn't seem like a real good idea," he says. "But it was just because they were both so competitive."
It was typical Favre. Push. Excel. Win. Even then, Favre wanted all those things mostly because his dad did. "I think Brett got most of his personality from Irvin," Gaudin says, and Haas - who went to exactly one practice run by Big Irv before quitting ("too much running," he says) agrees. Favre competed with his brothers, who were also quarterbacks. He competed with buddies when they went hunting or fishing. He competed on the field, every day, whether in practice or during an indoor touch football game the team would play on Tuesdays in winter just to stay in shape.
"I played quarterback for one team during those games and he had the other," Gaudin says. "I think we damn near had a fight each week."
Miracle man emerges
Even at Southern Miss, the Favre star couldn't emerge right away. Since the Hancock offense didn't showcase his throwing ability, he wasn't recruited as a quarterback and only barely made it on the Southern Miss scholarship list as a defensive player. Mark McHale, the assistant coach who scouted Favre, sold Favre to the rest of the coaches as a "safety who plays like a linebacker," and even then he got the Golden Eagles' last scholarship in 1987 only after another high school linebacker turned them down at the last minute.
"He only caught everyone's eye as a quarterback during a summer scrimmage," McHale says. "He led the scrubs up and down the field against better players and by the end the defense was chanting, 'Elway, Elway.' "
He was seventh-string quarterback to start, mostly because the Golden Eagles were running an option offense and were trying out speedier players (including Michael Jackson, who would go on to be a successful NFL receiver). But at halftime of the third game of his freshman year, Favre came in and engineered a comeback win against Tulane, beginning his four-year run as the starting quarterback.
There were the miracles: An upset of No. 1 Florida State in September of his junior year in which he threw the winning touchdown pass with 23 seconds left, or a last-second heave from his own 21-yard line that clanked off one receiver's helmet and bounced to another, who then ran into the end zone for a game-winning touchdown to beat Louisville a month later.
But the arrival of the Favre, the Favre that would become a cult figure in the NFL, didn't happen until senior year. That was when Favre got blinded by the sun coming around a Bayou curve and wrapped his car around a tree. His brother, Scott, had to use a golf club to break the car window and get Favre out.
"This was in July," McHale says, "and I remember that he was treated and looked at and banged up pretty good, but still came to summer training camp a few weeks later. The only problem was that he couldn't keep his food down. I mean, nothing. He was puking everything up right at the training table, so we sent him to a different hospital in Tuscaloosa and they realized that the seat belt from the car had pinched his intestine shut. So they removed 30 inches of his intestine. Thirty inches."
McHale, who has written a book about Favre called "10 to 4," chuckled as he recalled the story. "He lost about 40 pounds during his recovery and no one knew how long he'd be out. About a month later, we played Delta State - tiny little Delta State - in our opener, and beat them 12-0. Just 12-0. Well, Brett came back for Week 2 and we upset Alabama with a comeback in the fourth quarter.
"It was amazing," McHale says. "Amazing."
A winner in every way
Favre left Southern Miss in 1991, drafted by the Atlanta Falcons with the 33rd pick. He threw four passes for them as a little-used reserve (zero completions, one interception returned for a touchdown) and was traded to Green Bay the following offseason.
Three games into his first year there, he replaced the injured starter, led a game-winning drive in the fourth quarter and began a 16-year run that would make him one of the most famous players in NFL history.
He would win a Super Bowl, win MVP awards and set records. He would battle his own demons (an addiction to painkillers in 1996) and beat them, too. He would produce a few more miracle games like the ones at Southern Miss, including an emotional and memorable four-touchdown performance the night after Big Irv died of a sudden heart attack. "I knew that my dad would have wanted me to play," Favre would say afterward. "… I know he was watching tonight."
There was his wife's successful fight with breast cancer. There was his brother-in-law's death in an all-terrain-vehicle accident. There was Hurricane Katrina wreaking havoc on his hometown and county and state.
"He's been through a lot," says Haas, the longtime friend and Broke Spoke owner. "And we've been through it all with him."
Last week, Hurricane Gustav blew through Kiln and, thankfully, did not do the damage everyone expected. There were some trees down and debris issues, and the power was out for a few days in some places, but it wasn't overwhelming. It wasn't enough to keep people from doing what they do.
Today that means football, and so today they will gather together for another NFL Sunday. They will eat. They will drink. And they will watch the hometown boy on television as the Moonshine burns in their stomachs.
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Miss Connecticut wins Miss USA contest in Vegas
Miss Connecticut, Erin Brady, de 26 años, ganó la competición de belleza Miss USA 2013 en Las Vegas, el domingo 16 de junio. En la foto, Brady durante su presentación en el concurso. (AP Foto/Jeff Bottari)
LAS VEGAS (AP) — A 25-year-old accountant from Connecticut with a secret glamorous side is the new Miss USA.
Erin Brady of South Glastonbury, Conn., won the beauty pageant Sunday night after strutting in a white sparkly gown and answering a question about the U.S. Supreme Court's decision upholding widespread DNA tests.
She beat out 51 other beauty queens every U.S. state and Washington D.C.at the Planet Hollywood casino on the Las Vegas Strip to take the title from outgoing champion Miss Maryland Nana Meriwether.
Asked if she agreed with the decision to swab the cheeks of arrestees, Brady said she did, since they had committed crimes after all.
As Brady was crowned, she could be seen mouthing "Oh my God, oh my God" with tears in her eyes.
As the stage emptied, the blonde woman spoke about her commitment to fighting drug and alcohol abuse, which have marked those close to her.
"I grew up in a family influenced by that and I think it's really important to help the children of families that are suffering from those problems," she told The Associated Press.
Miss Connecticut Erin Brady reacts after winning the Miss USA 2013 pageant, Sunday, June 16, 2013, in Las Vegas. (AP Photo/Jeff Bottari)
As Miss USA, Brady gets the crown and a New York apartment for one year. She is expected to spend her title reign on a nationwide speaking tour and raising breast and ovarian cancer awareness, the organization's official cause.
The Central Connecticut State University fiance major could not contain her excitement at the prospect of telling her bosses at Prudential Financial she wasn't coming in tomorrow. Or ever again.
Asked what she was looking forward to now that the competition is over, she described a routine that sounded not very different from her training regime: getting in her beauty sleep and hitting the gym.
Her father Francis said he always knew his math-oriented daughter was a glamour girl. She and her sisters used to strut around and pretend they were beauty queens.
"They would model around the pool," he said.
Her sister Audrey, 20, said with tears in her eyes that her grandmother would orchestrate the shows.
"She'd be like, 'prance around the pool like Miss America.'"
The family was taken by surprise when Brady announced that she would be entering the Miss Connecticut competition two years ago, but cheered her on.


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The helicopters disappeared on Sunday while en route to Somalia to bolster African Union (AU) forces fighting Islamist militia al-Shabaab.
Seven soldiers were rescued from the two helicopters that crash-landed due to bad weather in the jungles on the slopes of Mount Kenya, Uganda military spokesman Felix Kulayigye told dpa.
"There are 14 people still missing and a search is going on to locate where they are," Kulayigye said by telephone.
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Not many people can say they've performed in the presence of legendary American singers. But at only age 15, Nick Ziobro can say he's done just that.
The Manlius resident performed at a gala celebrating the induction of Barry Manilow into the Great American Songbook Hall of Fame Saturday, June 16, in Carmel, Ind. There he sang in front of celebrities such as Clay Aiken, Andrea McArdle and Manilow himself.
Ziobro, who will be a junior at Fayetteville-Manlius High School in the fall, was granted this opportunity upon winning a national singing competition, after being selected as one of 10 finalists to compete in Indiana on Friday, June 15.
Ziobro said performing at the gala was a true "out of body experience."
"I got a standing ovation, which was really, really awesome," he said.
Ziobro said he decided to enter the annual Great American Songbook Vocal Academy & Competition after learning about it through his piano teacher, Tom Reitano. Ziobro said it was Reitano who got him interested in this style of music, specifically the music of Michael Feinstein.
Ziobro said he was considering entering the competition last year, but it was put on hold due to construction to the building in which the event is held.
"We put it in the back of our minds and thought, 'Well this might be something nice to consider,'" Ziobro said. "We didn't really expect anything to come out of it."
But Ziobro and Reitano were in for a surprise.
The young singer placed first in the competition, and received $3,000 and an opportunity to perform with his idol, Michael Feinstein, around the country, including at his New York City nightclub.
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Toyota May Shift Some Japan Car Output to Thailand
Toyota Motor Corp., the world's biggest carmaker, may move production of some cars to Thailand, reducing its reliance on Japanese factories.
"We are starting consulting with Toyota Motor Japan, but things are not finalized yet," about moving some production to Thailand, Kyoichi Tanada, president of Toyota Motor Thailand Co., said in an interview in Bangkok. He declined to say which models are being considered and said a final decision may take as long as two years.
Automakers including Nissan Motor Co. and Ford Motor Co. are moving production to Thailand as manufacturing costs rise in other regions. Nissan plans to produce 90,000 March compact cars in the Southeast Asian nation this year, the company said yesterday. Ford, which has cut its U.S. workforce 47 percent since 2006, plans to make its Focus model at a new $450 million factory in Thailand by 2012.
Toyota, the largest automaker in Thailand, assembles its one-ton Hilux Vigo pickup truck and Fortuner sport-utility vehicle in the country for export. Lower costs and a strong supplier base are among Thailand's advantages, Tanada said.
The automaker, whose Vios is the best-selling car in the country, has raised its sales forecast for Thailand to 270,000 vehicles this year from an earlier estimate of 250,000, as the nation's economy recovers following the global recession, Tanada said.
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"Thailand is the success story of Southeast Asia," said Tim Armstrong, Paris-based managing director at consulting company IHS Global Insight. "They've got the right policies to attract carmakers."
Toyota fell 1.1 percent to 3,045 yen in Tokyo at 12:56 p.m. in Tokyo. The benchmark Nikkei 225 Stock Average dropped 2.1 percent.
A stronger Japanese currency makes exports from Japan less competitive. It also increases the attractiveness of other nations, such as Thailand, as production sites. The yen today advanced to 88.08, its highest since May 6. The currency rose to 107.32 per euro on June 29, the strongest since November 2001.
Auto output in Thailand doubled in the first five months of the year, and the Finance Ministry raised its 2010 economic growth forecast for the second time in three months yesterday as soaring exports offset the impact of recent political unrest.
Mazda Motor Corp. has not been able to produce vehicles quickly enough in Thailand to meet demand, Chief Executive Officer Takashi Yamanouchi said today.
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Toyota, which operates three assembly plants in the nation, has the capability to make up to 550,000 vehicles each year there, according to its website.
The carmaker, based in Toyota City, Japan, has no immediate plans to roll out a new car under the country's eco-car program. Under the scheme, which benefits Nissan's March, Thailand's government offers tax incentives for carmakers that produce small and fuel-efficient cars.
Toyota is taking a wait-and-see approach and won't take part in the program in the next three years, Tanada, 55, said.
The carmaker will increase its focus on selling hybrids in Thailand, Tanada said. Toyota, which offers a hybrid version of its Camry sedan in Thailand, plans to introduce a new gas-electric model soon, he said without elaborating.
Toyota aims to cut production capacity in Japan by about 20 percent within five years as it shifts output to other countries, particularly emerging markets, the company said on May 12.
The carmaker plans to reduce domestic capacity to about 3.2 million vehicles by 2015 from 3.9 million currently, company spokeswoman Ririko Takeuchi said.
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Factories in Japan will specialize in "new concept vehicles," cars with new technology and innovative low-cost production systems, Executive Vice President Atsushi Niimi said.
Nissan, Honda Motor Co. and Ford have also built plants in Thailand, Southeast Asia's second-biggest economy, as a global economic recovery boost exports and domestic demand grows in the nation of 67 million people. Automakers may produce a record 1.6 million vehicles in the country this year, 60 percent more than in 2009, according to Kasikorn Research.
"Everything the government has done to facilitate investments has done great results," Nissan's Chief Executive Officer Carlos Ghosn said yesterday. "Thailand is a big export country for all the car industry, and the cars exported from Thailand are extremely competitive in the world car market."


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Use an above-counter basin and a rustic-looking stone slab to transform a second-hand timber cabinet into a modern take on the traditional washstand. By choosing an above-counter basin, you can dispense with the traditional pedestal or bathroom vanity and mount your sink on a new or vintage cabinet or table. If you want to keep the original timber top, it will have to be waterproofed using a clear varnish or exterior paint. Alternatively, follow our lead and replace the existing top with a stone, resin or marble slab. We chose a hard-wearing stone benchtop with rustic charm. Like timber, stone needs to be treated with a sealer to protect it from stains and water damage – ask your supplier to do this for you or try a product such as Aqua Mix Sealer's Choice.
When selecting a base, look for a cabinet or table that's strong enough to support your benchtop and large enough to accommodate a basin. We chose an old gramophone cabinet that has the benefit of plenty of storage space for toiletries, but you could opt for a small kitchen table instead. The average above-counter basin is about 80cm high, so take this into consideration when buying your cabinet or table as anything too high or low will make it awkward to use the sink. Also think about the plumbing underneath the basin and, if choosing a table, make sure it has a deep frame around the top to hide any pipes.
We found this old gramophone cabinet at Claphams Funiture & Antiques in Sydney, but garage sales, charity stores and eBay are other good sources of second-hand furniture. It's also worth keeping an eye out on days when your local council collects household items.
Measure the top of the cabinet or table, then work out the size and thickness of your stone benchtop.
Choose an above-counter basin and taps before you buy the stone slab, as you will need to ask the supplier to customise the piece so that it can accommodate a drainage pipe for the sink and possibly plumbing for the taps. Take the specifications for the taps and basin with you when you go to choose your stone slab. Discuss your requirements with the supplier, who should then be able to suggest a suitable stone, thickness and colour.
Visit a hardware, second-hand store or ebay to buy replacement handles and a towel ring for your cabinet.
Prepare the cabinet by removing the timber top - you may be able to unscrew it, otherwise use a jemmy to prise it off, then pull out any protruding nails and remove the existing door handles. Using sugar soap, thoroughly clean the cabinet inside and out.
Sand the cabinet using 100-grit sandpaper, then wipe with a wet cloth to remove any dust. Using a paintbrush, apply a coat of wood primer to both the inside and outside of the cabinet. Allow to dry, then sand down all the surfaces with 180-grit sandpaper. Use a paintbrush to apply two coats of semi-gloss timber paint - to ensure the cabinet is waterproof, we used an outdoor product. Allow the paint to dry completely and lightly sand with 180-grit sandpaper between coats.
Position the stone slab and basin on top of the cabinet. Get a plumber to fit the drainage pipe for the sink waste and plumb in the taps for you.
Fit new towel ring and replacement handles to your cabinent. We chose a pewter towel ring from Mother of Pearl & Sons and Limoges grey-crackle porcelain drops by Brionne.
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Finished reading Ombria in Shadow by Patricia A. McKillip today. I love her stories and retellings. So fun to escape to.
Anyway, I liked Mag, who lives with a powerful sorceress and whose curiosity gets her into trouble from time to time.
Anyway I decided to depict a scene where she's in the palace (and definitely not supposed to be) and Domina Pearl (the villainous regent) is just down the hall flanked by 2 guards. They are badly drawn, but I didn't feel like detailing them. I think I'd like to try drawing Domina Pearl, though. I think she'd be fun.


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Ieper (Ypres) – Belgium
Nearby site: Essex Farm Cemetery, Boezinge – Lieutenant Colonel McCrae
'In Flanders Fields', Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae
There always seem to be poppies at Essex Farm and nowhere more so than around the grave of Private Valentine Joseph Strudwick of the Rifle Brigade (Plot I, Row U, Grave 8). In front of Strudwick's headstone there are usually dozens of British Legion wooden crosses and poppies for his is one of the most visited graves on the Western Front in this most visited of cemeteries. Strudwick's appeal lies in his age, just 15 when he died on 14 January 1916. Hundreds of British school parties on field trips studying the Western Front come to Strudwick's grave, the numbers evident from the way the grass here is nearly always worn down. But they come to Essex Farm in their thousands not for poor Joe Strudwick, however sad his fate, but because it was here that the legend of the poppy as the flower of remembrance began.
In April 1915, Major (as he was then) John McCrae, 1st Brigade, Canadian Field Artillery, was stationed at a medical dressing station hereabouts. The remains of a British dressing station, in a concrete bunker built into the land side of the canal bank, lies just across the pathway beside the cemetery. However, the dressing station had not been so concreted when McCrae worked here.
McCrae was what one might call a 'warrior medic' for not only was he one of the most highly respected Canadian physicians of his generation but he had also served with distinction in militia units and as an officer in the South African (Boer) War. A committed 'imperialist', McCrae had a firm belief in the importance of the British Empire and the need to defend it in arms if need be. When he was taken away from the artillery in June 1915 to set up No 3 Canadian General Hospital, according to a colleague, CLC Allinson:
… [he] most unmilitarily told me what he thought of being transferred to the medicals and being pulled away from his beloved guns. His last words to me were 'Allinson, all the goddam doctors in the world will not win this bloody war: what we need is more and more fighting men.
Allinson quoted in Wikipedia article on McCrae, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_McCrae
On 22 April 1915 the Allied forces defending the Salient beyond the Yser canal to the north–east encountered a new and horrifying weapon – chlorine gas. The Germans released the gas, being used for the first time on the Western Front, at French and Canadian forces but it particularly affected the French, many of whom were native troops from North Africa. Faced with this new weapon, against which there was then no defence, men broke and swarmed back towards the canal and Boezinge. Marie de Milleville, who lived in the village at the time as a young child, recalled:
… the little yard in front of our house was full of coloured soldiers lying on the ground or slumping against the wall. We could do nothing for them but give them water. We had two big metal jugs that held two or three litres apiece and for hours I went back and forwards to the kitchen filling them and filling them again, one after the other, while my mother stayed outside pouring it out for the soldiers to drink … I poured water for hours and hours … They could not tell us what happened, but we knew that it was something dreadful and that the Germans might come at any moment … All the time, although no shells were falling near us, we could hear the guns. They never stopped. I could never forget it.
de Milleville, quoted in Lyn MacDonald, 1915: The Death of Innocence, London, 1997, p.198
The gas turned grass yellow, shrivelled leaves, killed birds, hens, rats and farm animals. It can be imagined what it did to the lungs and soft tissue of the human throat. At Essex Farm McCrae watched the panicked withdrawal from the front line:
As we sat on the road we began to see French stragglers – men with arms, wounded men, teams, wagons, civilians, refugees – some by the roads, some across country, all talking, shouting – the very picture of debacle … The men [the Canadians serving with McCrae] were splendid; not a word, not a shake, and it was a terrific test … So the cold moonlight night wore on – no change save that the towers of Ypres showed up against the glare of the city burning; and the shells still sailed on.
McCrae, quoted by John Prescott in lecture to Guelph Historical Society, Guelph Historical Newsletter, November 2003, http://www.guelphhistoricalsociety.ca/
The German gas attack opened the Second Battle of Ypres which dragged on until 25 May 1915. Canadian and other Allied forces fought to prevent a German breakthrough to the town, with terrible losses – 59,000 British and 10,000 French troops. The result was that the British were forced to considerably pull back the perimeter of the Salient to within a kilometre or so of the town, the end of the left flank meeting the canal at Boezinge village about two kilometres north of Essex Farm.
For the Canadians of the 1st Canadian Division this battle – one of the worst actions they would ever have to fight in this war – was their baptism of fire on the Western Front. Of the more than 18,000 men in the division, 5,975 became casualties. Of these, 3,508 occurred on one day – April 24 1915 – when the infantry faced large–scale gas and conventional attacks. The line wobbled and fell back but the enemy did not break through.
Of the Canadian casualties more than 1,000 were killed or died of their wounds. The headstones with the earliest dates of death on them in Essex Farm are of men of the 1st Canadian Division: five infantrymen and one artilleryman who died between 23 April and 3 May 1915. In Plot 1, Row S, Grave 5, is Sergeant John Steel of the Canadian Infantry, Manitoba Regiment, a 27–year–old Scotsman, who died on 2 May 1915.
On that same day, 22–year–old Lieutenant Alexis Helmer, 2nd Battery, 1st Brigade Canadian Field Artillery, stepped from his dug–out and was killed instantly by the explosion of a German shell. What was left of Helmer was gathered into sandbags and buried that evening, possibly in Essex Farm although most accounts are not specific about Helmer's burial place.
John McCrae, who had been working ceaselessly at the Canadian brigade's dressing station since the start of the battle, read the burial service for Helmer. The young lieutenant had been a friend and ex–student of McCrae's and in memory of Helmer, McCrae now penned some of the best–known lines of poetry from the war:
In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row,
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.
We are the dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved and were loved, and now we lie,
In Flanders fields.
Take up our quarrel with the foe:
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with those who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields.
There are a number of conflicting accounts of the circumstances under which McCrae wrote the poem. One version has the Canadian doctor sitting on an ambulance step contemplating Helmer's newly dug grave and the local poppies blowing in the wind nearby. Another account talks of McCrea's grief which caused him to dash off the verses in twenty minutes in order to calm himself down. And McCrae apparently told his commanding officer, Lieutenant–Colonel Morrison, that he composed the piece to pass the time while awaiting the arrival of new batches of wounded at the dressing station.
However McCrae actually composed the poem, it was eventually published in the London Punch on 8 December 1915. From there its popularity quickly grew and the last verse in particular, with its rather more aggressive mood, was used in war fund campaigns, especially in the United States when that country entered the war in 1917. After the war the poppy was taken up as the flower of remembrance and used widely on commemorative occasions such as Armistice Day, now Remembrance Day, the anniversary of the end of the fighting on the Western Front on 11 November 1918.
Today, the paper poppies produced by the British Legion, and that organisation's equivalents in the countries of the old British Commonwealth, are everywhere in evidence on graves in war cemeteries. Visitors often have no known family connection to a World War I soldier, but poppies can be a powerful way for them to relate to the countless headstones and the stories of those who lie beneath them.
Sadly, few other cemeteries receive the number of visitors who come to Essex Farm in search of the man who wrote 'In Flanders Fields', and the distant headstones at the end of the cemetery receive nothing like the attention given to those within easy reach of the cemetery gate.


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ARS scientists teamed with Texas AgriLife Extension and Research Center to develop an approach for energy recovery from manure on feedlot surfaces. ARS scientists refined technologies for identifying zones on the feedlot surface with recoverable energy. Texas A&M developed processes that enable the effective combustion of beef manure as a fuel during coal-fired energy generation. This process not only recovers energy but improves the air quality of the combustion exhaust gases. The Office of Technology Commercialization at Texas A&M University has applied for a patent for this combined system.
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This is a series of six questions The York Dispatch asked the candidates for Pennsylvania House District 47 seats: incumbent Keith Gillespie (R) and Sarah Speed (D). Gillespie, 60, of Hellam Township, is seeking his sixth term. Speed, 29, is the state director of the Humane Society of the United States and is a licensed attorney. Below are their answers, which we asked them to limit to 200 words.
1. Several bills in the state Legislature propose methods of property tax reform, with some calling for a shift from property taxes to earned or personal income tax. Is property tax reform necessary given restrictions that have already capped tax increases from school districts? Which, if any, of the proposed bills do you support and why?
Gillespie: Though the enactment of caps has helped a little, until the out of balance and inequitable funding formula is rectified reform is absolutely necessary. I have co-sponsored and voted on several bills including HB 1776 to address this issue as well as preparing legislation of my own to eliminate homestead and farmstead property taxes that will be introduced soon. I believe that a shift to a blend of consumption and income tax are in many ways fairer then taxing one's shelter with the potential risk of losing that shelter from an inability to pay property taxes.
Speed: The present bills attempt to lower property taxes but all have fatal flaws. They do not address the root cause of high property taxes, which is spiraling costs - especially for school districts. Gov. Corbett has stated his fervent opposition to any legislation that will raise any taxes at any level, therefore proposals which seek to replace property taxes with an increase in statewide sales tax are mere political posturing. Creating a county option will place businesses, especially small businesses, at a disadvantage if they happen to be in a county that enacts a sales tax while neighboring counties do not. (I find it interesting that the same legislators who decry Pennsylvania as being uncompetitive because of tax rates higher than neighboring states would want to create the same issue for counties!) Shifting from property tax to wage and consumer tax bases creates an uncertain funding base for municipalities and school districts that will make it more difficult for them to access cash flow loans or favorable bond ratings during an economic downturn. We need to address cost containment, efficiency, and improved "circuit breakers" such as the property tax rebate program as the most meaningful way to hold down property taxes.
2. State budget cuts to education and social services have drawn the ire of school boards and county commissioners. Do you support cuts made as part of the 2012-13 budget? Why or why not? If there's an opportunity to restore some of that funding in the next budget, what should be the top priorities and why?
Gillespie: This past budget restored and allocated the most funding to basic education ever. The ending of the one time, two cycle Federal stimulus program to schools was just that - an ending - not a cut. Additionally, colleges were restored significantly from the first budget proposal.
Regarding social programs - initial projection was for a 20 percent reduction of which I did not support. Through a cooperative effort with my colleagues, we were successful in getting that restored by 50 percent. Not unlike the situation we face with our local school funding formula and getting our equitable share, the same disparity applies to some of the social services particularly mental health. Reductions in other parts of the Commonwealth do not have the same impact that they have locally due to the formula. Because of the stance we took we were able to get a great part of this restored plus the assurance from the administration that a consideration for a remedy would be part of next year's appropriations. I believe that the fix is in the funding formula and I will continue to fight vigorously for that and hold them to their promise of looking for a remedy.
Speed: One of the most important fundamental aspects of a sound economy is education. Cost containment is important, but arbitrary cuts to proven initiatives, like Accountability Block Grants and Pre-K Counts, which are targeted toward early childhood programs and full-day kindergarten, make no sense. It should be a priority to immerse children in learning as soon as possible and restoring full funding to early education is one of my priorities. Trimming redundant school administration and controlling health-care costs could create savings without affecting the success of future generations.
Likewise, much of our social service safety net is already very cost effective. Anyone who has any experience with our social services community would never conclude, as our governor and my opponent did, that this is a system that needs less money. The Aging Options program and the Human Services Development Fund were designed to keep vulnerable seniors out of nursing homes and mentally disabled adults out of prison by treating addiction and chronic homelessness before they create other costly social ills. It is the right thing to do and the most cost effective way of doing it.
3. What role should the state have in job creation? Do you support large tax breaks to draw companies to your district or the state? What other methods should the state use to improve its economic climate?
Speed: There is no body of evidence that providing large tax breaks to large corporations to attract them into any state results in long term economic stability. In fact, there is a growing body of evidence that the corporations that took advantage of the tax-free zones created by the legislature some years ago are beginning to move on, looking for the next big tax break, as the tax-free zone limits begin to expire. Long-term economic stability is the result of an educated workforce, a modern transportation infrastructure and targeted investment in new technology. All of these areas have suffered under the current administration and its singular focus on helping multi-national gas and oil companies make more profit. York County workers and businesses are seeing no boom from the tax giveaway to Shell, Range Resources and Chesapeake Energy; it's our water supply, however, that will see the result of the "streamlined" process of accountability and oversight.
4. Do you support the privatization of the state liquor stores? Why or why not? Are there other changes that should be made to liquor laws in Pennsylvania?
Speed: The Pennsylvania State Store system serves several key functions for the Commonwealth. Most importantly, during this difficult economic time it provides 5,000 family-sustaining jobs and nearly $500 million to the state general fund. The state store system collects and remits 100% of the taxes due to Pennsylvania. No private system can make that claim.
Secondly, the state store system provides selection and location that is unmatched in privatized systems. Because it is one system, the profitable urban stores can help to underwrite the cost of operating a smaller store in a more rural area and still maintain selection. A private system will cost thousands of jobs, add immeasurable costs in enforcement, and turn the retail liquor system into something similar to our bars and restaurants, where some neighborhoods enjoy the variety that comes with competition and others are forced to deal with increased crime, vandalism, and public nuisances.
5. Can you pinpoint a specific area, project or need - specific to your district - that you would like to address if you win the election in November?
Speed: As an emergency responder, I have witnessed the need to modernize and synchronize our fire, police, and other emergency responder communications system. Every failure in that system is not simply a waste of money and resources; it places life and property at risk. There is no more important issue for my district as well as all of York county and Pennsylvania than public safety. Emergency responders working at the site of the World Trade Center disaster on 9/11 were hampered by communications equipment that was not integrated. They pleaded through television for donations of compatible integrated equipment. Working with PEMA and other state resources to improve emergency responder communications for the many paid and volunteer responders in the 47th District and all of Pennsylvania will be a priority for me.
6. What issue - other than the ones addressed in previous questions - would you like to tackle if elected? What would you like to accomplish in regard to that issue and why do you consider it so important?
Speed: It's not a matter of what I would like to do. It's a matter of what must be done. The current General Assembly has avoided problems that have now emerged as crises.
We have more structurally deficient bridges and crumbling roads than any other state, Pennsylvania's bond rating has been downgraded because of our failure to address problems created when the legislature passed its own disastrous pension increase, and we have taken a dramatic drop in national ranking for job creation in the past two years.
During that time, the General Assembly has focused on interfering with women's health care, fixing voting problems that don't exist, and "streamlining" environmental enforcement so giant oil corporations find a friendly atmosphere. My and Pennsylvania's biggest challenge is to change the focus and fortitude of the General Assembly to force it to deal with real problems and real people.


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NANTUCKET — The Steamship Authority car ferry M/V Nantucket will be offline through at least Friday for emergency repairs after water was discovered in a bilge compartment near its bow Tuesday morning.
SSA general manager Wayne Lamson said the water was discovered in the "forepeak void" of the vessel, and appeared to be coming from "two worn spots on the bottom of the hull near the bow."
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Neighboring heating and cooling zones can also affect one another to create complex and unpredictable feedback loops, especially as the number of zones increases. United Technologies' J. Michael McQuade recalls what happened when his company designed what was supposed to be an intelligent heating, ventilation, and air-conditioning management system for a new building in Paris. The system was designed to coördinate 3,000 different zones. "When that building was first put together, it was a significant energy consumer, and it took a revamp of the integrated control systems to get it right," McQuade says.
If zero-emissions buildings are to be economical, Scofield says, the designs will have work from the start. "If you don't get it right," he says, pointing to the fiasco at Oberlin, "every correction you make is so much more costly than getting it right the first time."
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Masdar City will be raised on concrete stilts to make room for a personal rapid-transit (PRT) system that will replace buses and trains with smaller vehicles designed for four people. Masdar's planners expect the system to use less energy than conventional mass transit, and they say it will be more convenient, too.
In a PRT system, several small vehicles, often called pods, are kept waiting at each station. An individual or a small group boards one and selects a destination; the pod proceeds automatically to the destination without stopping. In a typical design, each vehicle resembles a battery-powered golf cart, only it's completely enclosed and somewhat bigger–and it lacks a steering wheel. The vehicle follows a track, which is connected to stations by on-ramps and off-ramps, and a computer controls how the pods enter and exit the stations: the ramps allow individual pods to make stops while others continue along the main track at top speeds. Simulations suggest that the systems could run with as little as half a second between vehicles.
But although PRTs look promising, they haven't caught on. That's in part because an early PRT-like system built in the 1970s in Morgantown, WV, gave the idea a bad name, says Jerry Schneider, an emeritus professor of urban planning and civil engineering at the University of Washington in Seattle and a longtime advocate of PRTs. "People would get on the vehicles and they wouldn't stop," Schneider says of the system, a transit line with automated cars for about 20 people. Technology has improved since then, he says, but there hasn't been a significant real-world demonstration of the updated systems.
Two demonstration programs are on the way. The first, which will transport passengers to a new terminal at Heathrow International Airport near London, will open later this year. Tests of that system are already under way. And the first stage of the system at Masdar City, to be built by the Dutch firm 2GetThere, is scheduled to be in place for the opening of the Masdar Institute this fall.
The Test Bed
Sameer Abu-Zaid isn't breaking a sweat. It's 39 °C with 74 percent humidity, but he says it's a nice day–much cooler than the summer in Abu Dhabi, when temperatures can reach 49 °C. Abu-Zaid, who's originally from Jordan and was most recently a manager at a semiconductor equipment manufacturer in Silicon Valley, will manage Masdar City's power and distribution infrastructure. "All of these modules have been tested at the factories," he says as he gives a tour of one of the first visible signs of the city, a test site where he's putting 41 arrays of solar panels from various manufacturers through their paces. "But they have been tested under standard test conditions: 1,000 watts per meter squared, 25 °C. Nice air-conditioned space. It is totally different here."
Dust from the desert quickly coats the panels, effectively dimming the light that reaches them. Abu-Zaid has learned that just four months of dust reduces the output of the solar arrays by more than 20 percent–information he'll use to decide how often to wash the panels, balancing power loss against water consumption.


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Hi Rhonda - yesterday I drifted a secret river with friends Rick Cummings and Matt Davis. There were lots of drift boats, but an ample supply of steelhead. We hooked four between us, and Rick caught and released this absolutely fresh, bright Chinook. By the way - thanks for the nice weather!!
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Gateway holds off Latrobe
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Gateway found itself in unfamiliar territory at halftime of Friday's night Quad East season opener at Latrobe.
The Gators were losing.
But Trib Total Media's second-ranked Gators (1-0, 1-0) took advantage of four second-half Latrobe turnovers and escaped with a 22-20 victory at Latrobe's Memorial Stadium.
Latrobe (0-1, 0-1) led 13-7 at halftime thanks to two Logan Carns touchdown runs (7 and 72) and three Gateway turnovers.
But the Wildcats saw their upset bid evaporate when Gateway forced two fumbles in the opening minutes of the second half.
Delvon Randall scored on a 5-yard run with 8 minutes, 57 seconds left in the third quarter to tie the score 13-13. Then on the ensuing kickoff, Montae Nicholson scooped up a fumble and rambled 16 yards for a score to make it 19-13 with 8:50 left.
"It was a little closer than we wanted," said new Gateway coach Donnie Militzer, who replaced Terry Smith. "Latrobe played well, and Carns was a handful, but we were undisciplined, and we have to clean things up in a hurry.
"We had a lot of the players cramp up, and it messed up some of our packages. In the second half, we ran the ball more to run clock, and the offensive line did a nice job."
Gateway was penalized 13 times for 112 yards and turned the ball over four times.
Kevin Fitchwell booted a 27-yard field goal to push the Gateway lead to 22-13 with 10:53 left, but Latrobe wouldn't go away. The Wildcats forced the Gateway punter to take a knee on the Gateway 7, and Carns capped the short drive with his third touchdown to make it 22-20 with 3:20 left.
"We made some mistakes, but that's part of learning how to win," Latrobe coach Ray Reitz said. "We outhit them, and we're a resilient bunch. We'll bounce back from this."
Gateway defensive back Devin Pinkett sealed the win with an interception with 43.4 seconds left at the Gateway 40.
Carns rushed for 136 yards and three touchdowns. He, Craig Stevens and Nicholas Halula intercepted passes.
Latrobe jumped out to a 7-0 lead in the opening quarter when Gateway quarterback Jimmy Moore was sacked and fumbled. It was recovered by Latrobe linebacker Dylan Kovatch at the Gateway 17. The Wildcats scored three plays later.
Gateway, which had two touchdown passes to Nicholson called back because of penalties, tied the score at 7-7 when Ricky Rogers caught a 49-yard touchdown pass from Moore. Moore finished 14 of 27 for 194 yards.
Late in the first half, Gateway was trying to force Latrobe to punt, but Carns spoiled that by racing 72 yards for a touchdown to give Latrobe a 13-7 lead at halftime.
In the second half, Gateway used running back Zaihe Regus at quarterback and started to use the ground game. Regus finished with 91 yards on 16 carries.
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