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A steady rain beats down at Sixth and Lehigh in North Philadelphia. Sitting inside a doughnut shop on the corner, Nashanta Robinson and Marcus Presley peer out the window at the dreary scene. "Might be hard to find people today," Presley says. But they head out anyway, on a mission to educate and mobilize a neighborhood so blighted it's frequently referred to as the Badlands.
As predicted, pedestrian traffic is sparse, but a few loiterers are out here and there. Robinson, 30 years old with newly dreaded hair protected under a red umbrella, flashes a glowing smile as she introduces herself to an old man leaning against a church. "We're from the campaign to take back vacant land," she says, passing him a flier explaining the group's plan to pressure City Council candidates on land issues. The old man, ignoring the soaking rain, nods and signs a postcard pledging to vote on May 17.
The Campaign to Take Back Vacant Land is a coalition of local activist groups with a common goal of tackling Philadelphia's immense property problem; a recent study found about 40,000 vacant lots in the city, the existence of which has lowered total property values by a cumulative $3.6 billion. Many of the parcels are owned by the city, but the process for acquiring them is complicated, to say the least. While City Hall is working to address the issue, the advocacy group is trying to help from a grass-roots level. "So many people are talking about vacant land," says Presley, who at 28 rocks what one onlooker calls a '70s look, big fro and beard. "We want to make sure communities have some control, too. We really want to give a voice to people who are concerned."
To that end, Vacant Land wants to create a land bank—a quasi-public entity to hold and manage vacant land. Land banks are often compared to washing machines because they can clean and clear up debts and legal paperwork hanging over a deed so the community can get to work cleaning and clearing the physical property. Legislation to allow cities to create land banks is currently being considered at the state level, and the advocacy group is hoping it passes soon so Philly can get to work on one of its own. Conditions of the measure would be to reserve space for uses like parks and affordable housing, and give neighborhoods a voice in who gets the land and how it is developed.
Robinson lives nearby in affordable housing herself, so to her, improving the neighborhood is personal. "This is where my children live now," she says. "There's not a lot of safe places for them to play." When her kids (3, 5 and 8) want to go outside, she drives them across town to the Smith Memorial Playground in Fairmount Park instead of letting them loose in the glass- and rubble-filled streets of Fairhill. Both she and Presley have experienced the ultimate in filthy indignity—a soiled mattress or two dumped in an empty lot on their respective blocks. "I wore two pairs of gloves pulling it out," Presley says.
Continuing down Lehigh, the pair crosses Seventh Street. "Look at this building right here," Presley says, pointing at the dark, looming mass of the abandoned Julia de Burgos school, missing windows and marred by graffiti. "People live around here and have to deal with the crime and the trash. I've heard stories about that place I can't even repeat," he says.
Farther up the street, a man in a gray hoodie standing under a gas station shelter says he already knows how to deal with unused lots. "Put some fence up, gate it up, take care of the land," he says. "Put some day-care stuff in there, that's a wrap!"
Presley cautions him, "I know people who have tended the lots in the same way you're talking about, and the city comes in and snatches it out from under you."
The man shrugs it off. "The city ain't gonna get to it till we dead anyway," he says. But he agrees to sign a pledge card.
"People definitely know what the problem is," Robinson says. "They're not so sure about what can be a solution."
Among the diverse coalition comprising the Campaign To Take Back Vacant Land are the ActionAIDS group, the Women's Community Revitalization Project, three different disabled-rights groups, the Human Rights Campaign and a janitors union. "Activist groups don't have to worry about relationships with elected officials so they can be really pushy," says Nora Lichtash, executive director of WCRP and an organizer for Vacant Land. Coalition members have been showing up to Council debate forums and meeting with candidates individually to spread their message. In a wide-open Council race, the activists have leverage to sway votes, so the candidates listen. "You push from the outside because you have the opportunity to get people to do what you want," Lichtash says.
Several of those running for office have already signed on. "A land bank is the next logical step," says First District Council candidate Jeff Hornstein, who pledged support to the cause. "I think it's critically important in a city where we have 40,000 vacant lots."
Hornstein says he recognizes the potential of the proposal. "You agree that [the land] be put in trust forever, held in a nonprofit to be used for community purposes, like a park, community garden, a playground, whatever," he says. "It's a tool used in many other places. This is not just pie in the sky stuff." He entertains visions of using the land bank to create a green industrial park with windmills producing clean electricity on 250 acres of decaying Port Richmond land, at the site of a trashed and deserted old railroad bed.
Philadelphia, meanwhile, is still trying to figure out how best to unload its 12,000 or so unused publicly owned properties. City Hall is attempting to drain the bureaucratic swamp that prevents people from acquiring the land, but even a more streamlined sales process, if and when it should occur, is not enough, says Lichtash. "It's not just about getting publicly held land out, but equitable development. And fairness," she says. "The vision of fairness is not being discussed."
The Nutter administration says a land bank is part of the conversation. "Everybody on the city's side has agreed that long term, the land bank is ideal," says Brian Abernathy, chief of staff to Managing Director Rich Negrin. "I think it will take a lot of work to get there but I think everybody recognizes that as the goal." Abernathy says more details about the city's plan to dispense land will be unveiled in upcoming weeks.
Back on the streets of North Philly, Robinson and Presley reach Broad Street as the rain picks up. They take shelter under the overhang of the subway stop and snatch passers-by to sign the cards.
One man expresses frustration at ongoing development further south, closer to Temple and the profitable opportunities for student housing its proximity allows. "Down at Norris and Berks? They buying up that land," the man says. "We can't get it."
"That's one reason we want to make sure the community has more control," Robinson tells him gently.
After over an hour on the streets, the two activists have acquired eight cards signed by residents in support of their mission. Not the number they hoped for, but they aren't discouraged. "Sometimes it's easier going door to door, when you have a captive audience," says Presley. "Still, not bad for a rainy day."
"great article. Land banks / Land trusts would open up so many possibilities for neighbors and community group to do something with all this vacant land that is mostly mired in red tape. Lets get it back to fruitful use!"
"I love these people! They're a force with a cause. About time someone stood up to the city with a real sense of concern for us the people. We have to make our leaders accountable for the solutions. If we all cared just a little bit I think we can make a difference. Come on you elected officials, stop talking the talk and let us all walk the walk together we can."
"I am so so proud of you. First tv and now the newspaper. Always a community serive. I again am so proud to know you."
"This is a great idea. Contact Mr. Tyree Johnson of the Westside weekly for more exposure. Great job Nashanta!"
"I'm a proud member of the KENZO PRIDE page on Facebook that was created and is ran by Richie Antipuna. I'm wondering where the article you recently wrote about him and Kenzo movement is? Richie is making a difference in so many peoples lives and WE THE PEOPLE OF KENZO PRIDE would really like to read this article. Thank you."
"Very nice article Marcus! I'm very proud of all the work you do to improve our environment and peoples lives. Your the Best!!! Love, Mom"
"After many years of working on the Vacant land and adandonment issues,
I would ask ,who would be able to withdraw from the "landbank?"
Quite a bit of the Vacant Parcels are located in low income African American
communities . After being REDLINED by financing sources for ,years, having L&I placed violations ,then NTI ($380 Million Demolition program)
the parcels - blight to the Community. I would be concerned that racism, gentrification ,and other issues would result in an unequal disposition of this land.
There is no Property Disposition that is fair in this town !!
With all due respect to the "organizer," Who is paying them ? I have never
met any of these folks at City Council hearing on these issues. Do they own any property in Philadelphia. Are they on the board of any of the CDC's who have them out on the street in the rain ? The CDC's entities are mostly non people of color,with no African American leadership.There needs to be some frank conversation !!"
The 40,000 abandoned properties, on which the city spends $20 million a year maintaining, results in a 6.5 to 20 percent resale value drop for homes on the same block. It's an environmental, economical, domestic nightmare.
The RDA has moved 322 parcels since January 2009, but fighting between the agency and City Council has stalled progress.
More than 12,000 of Philly's vacant lots are publicly owned and controlled by various agencies. With parcels as thin as 15 feet wide, buying sufficient square footage for development from multiple city agencies is a near impossible challenge for which the city has yet to find a comprehensive solution.
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I sit on the roof in my pyjamas, Scooby Doo boxers and an oversized Mario shirt. The coarse shingles dig into my thighs. It's cold and I didn't think to bring a sweater.
I hold a box of matches in one hand, an image of a bird printed on the front and the words 'Red Bird' written just above it. I don't know why he gave it to me; it's given me nothing but trouble. And yet I take a match out of the container and strike it on the red lining the box. The flame ignites.
Orange and red reach up to the night sky. The flame wants to touch the stars. It wants to fly away from earth and become one itself. It doesn't want to spend its short life on a stick waiting to burn away or be wiped out by a strong wind or determined breath.
And I understand.
Our fates are determined by our superiors. We don't have as much choice as they lead us to believe. For once I am more powerful than something. The fate of this flame depends on my actions.
I throw it off the roof.
It lands in a pile of dry leaves and soon the flame becomes a raging fire. I watch as the flames lick at the trees in the garden. They travel higher and further and faster. Soon my house is at its mercy. The fire curls around its wooden frame, embracing it in a deadly warm hug. Sparks fly and land far away setting light to the grass and the fence.
I listen to the wood cracking under the heat of red. I listen to the popping of the fire as it jumps up, giddy and excited.
Soon the fire is upon me. The house sinks and parts of it crumble away completely. There's a loud crash as to my left a section of the building tumbles to the ground and is immediately swallowed up by the anticipating flames.
Maybe it's not a star but it's now something larger than I'll ever be.
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Obama Seeks Massive Increase in Nuke Spending
Claims Billions in Funds for New Facilities Part of 'Disarmament Strategy'
In a move he insists is somehow consistent with his call for disarmament, President Obama is seeking more than $5 billion in increased funding for America's nuclear weapons program, aimed chiefly at modernization and building new facilities.
Vice President Joe Biden detailed what he thought was the case for the investment, perplexingly arguing simultaneously for a world without nuclear weapons and for America to make "long overdue" investments in strengthening its own nuclear stockpile.
Though this funding will not actually be used to produce additional nuclear weapons, opponents caution that it will give the administration, and future administrations, the capacity to greatly increase the number of warheads in America's arsenal, at a time when the administration claims to be trying to complete comprehensive warhead reduction agreements.
Though Vice President Biden portrayed the investment as crucial for creating a "safe, secure and effective" collection of weapons capable of murder on an unprecedented scale, he also pointed to Iran's illusory nuclear weapons program as one reason for America to shore up its own, already enormous arsenal.
The move is likely a political one, coming just weeks after Sen. Joe Lieberman (I – CT) penned a letter demanding the massive increase as a condition for Senate support for the new START treaty with Russia. Still, it will likely do serious harm to the Obama Administration's credibility when it urges other nations to pare down their arsenals.
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Another betrayal and sellout to the war machine… that those who voted for him find abhorrent..!! WTF..!!
Obama is every bit as much a war criminal as Bush. He has continued the illegal and immoral war against the people of Iraq, and he has escalated the war in Afghanistan in support of the assorted war criminals, crooks, and drug pushers in Kabul. He thinks the president, on his own authority, has the power to detain someone for life without a trial and with no evidence of wrongdoing on the part of the individual. He is willing to go to the mat to help those who tortured and committed other outrages against decency and civilized conduct to avoid criminal prosecution.
Now he wants to update and modernize an already massive US government arsenal of nuclear weapons whose only purpose is to kill millions and millions of people. I hate Obama and I hope he burns in hell along with his fellow war criminal Bush.
Funny though how its "wrong" for North Korea or Iran to have nuclear weapons, but "right" for America to have gazillions of them.
That's the most basic example of "American Exceptionalism" possible.
A government of the people for the people . The presidency and the senate is where the people have the least controle . The powers that be display their power to thwart the desires of the people most arrogantly in these two branches . We have a government that we dont controle , It is a evil beast that controles us . Two examplies are healthcare reform , and military spending . The vast majority of the american people are for serrious directional changes . But we cant make it happend
According to former Trident missile engineer Bob Aldridge-http://www.plrc.org-the Pentagon aims to achieve a disarming and unanswerable first-strike capability. Minuteman-3 and Trident-2 D5 linked to GPS obtain a CEP (Circular Error Probability – – the radius centered on the target in which half the warheads are expected to hit) of 30 meters or less, enough to destroy any hard target. And according to Bob Aldridge the US Navy can track and destroy all enemy submarines simultaneously. Please see Robert C. Aldridge: Nuclear Empire, ch. 9. Even if the Pentagon´s First-Strike Capability is only for blackmail, the Russians may have no choice but implementing Launch On Warning. Bob Aldridge resigned because a disarming and unanswerable first-strike capability is suicidal.__I hope you agree that the Pentagon´s First-Strike Capability is the most urgent problem because it inevitably leads to Launch On Warning.__Obama did ONE good thing, he cancelled the missiles/radars in Poland and the Czech Republic BUT only to put them at sea and in the Balkans.
>>Though Vice President Biden portrayed the investment as crucial
That's not an "investment", that's a "splurge"
>> weapons capable of murder on an unprecedented scale
That's a "suicide"
>>after Sen. Joe Lieberman (I – CT)
That's "Israel"
According to Uni of Colorado 100 warheads Hiroshima-size are enough for Nuclear Winter. And when will the missiles/radars be deployed at sea and in the Balkans. And why ? To defend Europe (and the USA) from Iran ? In the Pentagon they seem to forget that the Russians are not bloody fools like themselves. After Napoleon and Hitler they won´t die alone. The logical answer to a disarming and unanswerable first-strike capability is Launch On Warning. The wise missile engineer Bob Aldridge resigned because it´s suicidal, wrote 3 books and some 900 pages on http://www.plrc.org about US First-Strike Capability. And this "civilization" could have grown about 4 billion years more, if it were not for the bloody fools in the Pentagon´s Office For First-Strike Plans. Learn from Bob Aldridge: RESIGN !!!
And the arrogant fools in the US Congress and Senate don´t seem to realize that a blockade of Iran is an act of war and the logical answer is the closure of the Strait of Hormuz. And we´ll be back in 1932, more or less. Can United Bluff afford going to war with Iran. Bloody fools, what happens when the West looses 40 % of its oil supply ?
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Now it has become as clear as it can ever be that electing a president with a mandate from the people means absolutely nothing. Not for the people, Democrats or Republicans. It is our Senate that is in peril, and is blocking anything that they do not want. And they want only more war and war spending.
And who is Joe Lieberman? He surely does not act like another Senator. He acts like Chancellor Palpatine, getting himself to be indispensible and dictating terms on everything — from health care to atomic weapons. He may be raising some clone army of his own, who knows. And the fools in Senate are willing to turn the power over to him. Palpatine said: "It is with great reluctance that I have agreed to this calling. I love democracy. I love the Republic. The powers you give me I will lay down when this crisis has be abated! My first act, with this new authority, is to create a Grand Army of the Republic, to counter the increasing threat of the Separatists."
Yes, the power will be given back —- suuuure, our new Darth In-Sedious.
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The basic choice a society makes has long been viewed as one between "guns and butter" or as
Vilfredo Pareto, the Italian economist born in 1848 put it:
"The efforts of men are utilized in two different ways: they are directed to the production or transformation of economic goods, or else to the appropriation of goods produced by others"
Folks should know that Obama made this Faustian bargain when he asked Bob Gates to continue as Sect. of DOD. In a speech at the Carnegie Foundation on October 28, 2009 Gates made it clear that:
"To be blunt, there is absolutely no way we can maintain a credible deterrent and reduce the number of weapons in our stockpile without either resorting to testing our stockpile or pursuing a modernization program. '
Translating the doublespeak, we will not have less unless we can make up for the loss elsewhere.
We WILL remain the dominant military power, spending whatever we have, until it has to be pried out of our cold, dead hands.
http://bit.ly/dBYDjv and http://www.zmag.org/zmag/viewArticlePrint/23269
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Obama , the Hypocrite. give back the Nobel Peace Price you War Mongerer. is that the Message of Hope you are sending? is that why the People cant have an affordable health care plan ?
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IPRETTY MUCH disagree with almost all of Christine Flowers' beliefs. That said, I found her July 1 column disheartening, not because of the ideas she expressed but because of the emails she says she regularly gets from readers calling her, in her words, a "rhymes-with-witch," "rhymes-with-punt" or "rhymes-with-trucker. " I've had numerous email exchanges with Ms. Flowers. She has always been polite in responding. In one of our first, she thanked me for expressing my views without resorting to name-calling.
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THERE'S ABSOLUTELY no way op-ed columnist Christine Flowers can be an intelligent, independent feminist and be antichoice. I have just one question for her: Are you against abortion? Don't have one! Just leave everyone else alone. It's a personal choice between a woman, her family and her medical professional. Please get out of other people's bedrooms. I have a 24-year-old daughter, and if she had an unwanted pregnancy, I'm not sure how I would feel about it. But the LAST thing I would want is for some nameless, faceless bureaucrat making that decision for her. Dennis M. O'Neill, Garnet Valley, Pa. Editor's note: Christine Flowers says she isn't a feminist.
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CHRISTINE Flowers (op-ed, Oct. 5) is entitled to her view of the Anita Hill/Clarence Thomas case. It's my judgment that Sen. Arlen Specter unfairly badgered Hill over four days of testimony about several small but extremely provocative conversations, and that Specter's prosecutorial zeal would have been curtailed in any reasonable courtroom. Flowers has mischaracterized Hill's astonishment at Thomas' continuing anger as a matter only of "memory. " But the astonishment is one that relates Thomas' lack of maturity, to forgive the trespasses of others in his later years, for injuries which occurred so far in the past.
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CORRECTIONS * A story in Tuesday's Daily News about a lawsuit settlement by the University of Pennsylvania and a fraternity with the family of a student who died in a fall in 2011 contained incorrect information. Suds Beer Store of Trevose, Bucks County, agreed to pay $375,000 to the family. * A blog post by Christine Flowers that was reprinted in Tuesday's Daily News misstated information about Kasandra Perkins, who was killed in a murder-suicide by Kansas City Chiefs player Javon Belcher.
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October 28, 2015
WHAT IS A UNION supposed to do for its active paying members? I'm trying to figure this one out. A few Philly cops tested positive for drugs and the only comment from Fraternal Order of Police president John McNesby was, "We [the union] don't represent officers who do that stuff. " People turn to drugs for a number of reasons; it could be from a bout of depression from losing a loved one, financial problems, a previous injury that now led to an addiction, etc., but instead of rooting out the problem of the drug use and getting you help, your union who has accepted and deposited your dues for however long you've been a cop decided to turn its back on you . . . wow . Don't a lot of companies offer programs to their workers who have such problems - they will get you treatment, offer you a sponsor, etc.?
Letters: Her papal decor stolen
September 29, 2015
WITH GREAT faith, hope and love in my heart, I decorated the front of my house in South Philly to honor and welcome our Holy Father Pope Francis during his visit to Philadelphia. Unfortunately, a sinner robbed my decorations not once but twice! I want to thank you for trying to test my faith, trying to make me angry, trying to make me feed into your evilness! I enjoy being tested! You could rob all the material things I own but you and no one else will ever take my faith away from me!
Letters: Gallery less open to handicapped
December 16, 2014
I MOVED TO Center City in 1988. I lived four blocks south of the Gallery. It was very convenient living so close to a major mall. The Gallery was not a great mall, but it had three anchor stores (Strawbridge and Clothier, Sterns, and J.C. Penney) that made it a decent place to shop. Unfortunately, all three are gone. In November 1988 I had a fall and became a quadriplegic. At that time the Gallery was very accessible because each of the anchor stores had elevators that went to every level.
Letters: 'Hands up' is a ridiculous farce
December 4, 2014
WHEN the grand jury did not indict Officer Darren Wilson, two key elements were established as fact: The grand jury showed that a crime was not committed by the officer, and it also showed that the root cause of the rioting was based on the recollections of people who were shown to be not telling the truth. When I see pictures in the Daily News and cartoons of people with hands raised, I wonder if the creator of the cartoon (Signe) or the protester actually read the grand-jury report that showed that no credible witness claimed Michael Brown's hands were raised when he was shot.
Letters: Temple makes this mom happy
August 6, 2014
KUDOS to Temple University for its commitment to access and diversity and its bold and courageous move to make the SAT or ACT an option and not a requirement for admission to the university beginning fall 2015. Temple becomes the first national public research university in the Northeast to make standardized test scores optional. In looking at the whole picture and a student's entire high-school body of work - GPA, class rank, rigorous subject choices, overall achievement - and recognizing that there do exist intelligent and outstanding students who may not standardized-test well, Temple is helping to ensure that many more deserving students with the potential to make an impact on the university and on the world do not fall through the cracks and are now given the opportunity to attend Temple.
Letters: SMH on critic's Facebook rant
July 10, 2014
THE HEARTBREAKING and alarming news that one in five high school students is involved with either DHS or the juvenile justice system should be a wake-up call for systemic change. Even though we should never abandon these students or give up hope, the intervention that has the best chance of saving them must happen as early as possible. Blaming their dysfunctional homes as an excuse not to fund early intervention programs only exacerbates the problem. Meanwhile, many teachers apply for positions in urban schools at all levels for the purpose of making a difference.
Christine Flowers: Court got the Hobby Lobby decision right
July 2, 2014
THAT "THUD" you just heard was the sound of progressives, secularists and freebie-seekers thumping their foreheads in anguish. Or perhaps it was the rumble as millions of religious folk fell to their knees in gratitude that the Supreme Court had, for once in a blue moon, gotten the free-exercise clause of the First Amendment right. Or it possibly could have been the clamor of bricks from that imaginary Wall Between Church and State, crumbling to the ground in a felicitous heap.
Letters: What straight planet you from?
May 23, 2014
ONCE MORE, Christine Flowers has deigned to bless us earthlings with her biased opinions. Sine we live on different planets it will probably take a few days for this message to get to her. I would like to know what laws are not based on emotion, i.e., this is good, this is bad? Just because you don't like it doesn't mean any law is being violated. If you disapprove of gay marriage that's OK, but don't pretend it's illegal or unwarranted. Too many people disagree with you, although that's never stopped you in the past.
Letters: Clearing the air on ACA & abortion
May 15, 2014
IN HER opinion piece on Emily Letts' video, Christine Flowers conflates a number of issues to which Planned Parenthood Pennsylvania PAC would like to respond. While Planned Parenthood had nothing at all to do with the abortion video, the point is that abortion is a deeply personal, often complex decision for a woman to make. Ultimately, decisions about whether to choose adoption, end a pregnancy or raise a child must be left to a woman, her family and her faith, with the counsel of her doctor or health-care provider.
Letters: 2 from Texas on Flowers & Arizona
March 11, 2014
TO CHRISTINE Flowers: I think you are right. I am totally against sodomy in all of its forms and had to place myself in the shoes of those in Arizona who can't conscientiously serve homosexuals. If I had a service of some kind in the state, I couldn't do anything that would encourage or express any approval of this form of sexual perversion. (I would say the same about fornication, adultery and pedophilia.) I suppose that I could be sued and put out of business. And this is probably true in many or most other states.
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CAMILLA -- Anthony Bruce Varnum, 51, of Leary, died Wednesday, November 16, 2011 at Willson Hospice House in Albany.
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Luker, besides being a stalwart member of the unofficial PS Classics rep company — our review of her delightful Kern album "I Got Love" is linked here — was a superb Clara in the 2002 production at the Kennedy Center Sondheim Celebration. Our favorite Clara thus far, in fact, for reasons which can be heard — instantly, in the first number — on the new recording. Yes, Luker is eleven years older than she was in 2002, and has taken to playing "mother" roles nowadays. She made her Broadway debut in 1988 as a replacement Christine in The Phantom of the Opera, which is to say that she must, logically, be somewhere on the far side of 39. Luker nevertheless makes the perfect Clara, calendar be damned.
Judy Kuhn's Fosca, too, is a holdover from the Kennedy Center production. Kuhn was very good in 2002, but she seemed even better at CSC. Fosca has always been an odd bird, if you will; the actress playing the role is typically obscured to seem drab, ugly and sickly. Kuhn, at the CSC, added to this an "edge" which I don't recall from 2002. There is a harshness which suggests that Fosca's ill fortune was caused not only by her looks but to some extent by her personality. Donna Murphy gave an unforgettable performance in the original production, and Maria Friedman on the London cast album sounds like she must have been just as good. But Kuhn adds a new validity to the picture.
As for the male lead, Mr. Silverman, who was slated to play Maxim de Winter in the Rebecca that wasn't, was a revelation. Finally, someone made sense of the role, making Giorgio an equal to the two women tugging at his proverbial epaulets. (A few thousand New Yorkers had the privilege, two weekends ago, of hearing Silverman as the scenery-chewing Kodaly in the full-orchestra concert of She Loves Me at the Caramoor Festival. It turns out the man is funny, too!)
The recording has another hidden asset in Stephen Bogardus, as Colonel Ricci. I have always found Sondheim's stunning "Flashback" sequence to be the fulcrum of the score, radiating themes (and musical themes) in both directions. I can't say whether Bogardus — a fine singing actor — enhances it, or whether prior Ricci's simply haven't been allowed to stand out. When Bogardus gets hold of Sondheim's tortured waltz and starts singing that "the enemy was love," we get additional passion from Passion.
Okay, there is one musical moment that fails to replicate what they have in the full version: The climactic orchestral swell at the end of the "No One Has Ever Loved Me" scene. It's hard to do that with no harp and only one trumpet, I'm afraid. But that is a small, 15-second lapse, more than made up for by the passionate glories of this new recording of Sondheim's Passion.
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While awaiting the delayed Passion recording session, Judy Kuhn went into the studio to record an album of her own. "All This Happiness" is the title tune, paying homage to Passion. (The song is here merged with "In Buddy's Eyes," from Follies, which makes an interesting pairing.) Otherwise, the CD is low on show tunes. Rather, Kuhn gives us a collection that hits on pop, jazz, cabaret, blues and more, with arrangements by Dan Lipton leading a three-man band.
Highlights for me, besides the Passion song: "I Love the Way You're Breaking My Heart," an old-time song by Louis Alter and Milton Drake; "Something Cool," a very good café ballad by Billy Barnes that I don't recall having heard before; Cy Coleman & Carolyn Leigh's "The Best Is Yet to Come" and Randy Newman's "Losing You."
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- ELUNA 2008 - Studying SFX Logs to Better Understand User Behavior
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- Internet Librarian 2007 - Website Redesign: User Testing and Web 2.0
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- SCVUGM 2007 - Crunching Numbers (updated)
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Iowa sophomore quarterback Jake Rudock has done a good job this season of calling audibles at the line of scrimmage. Offensive coordinator Greg Davis gives him the freedom to do that.
"The biggest thing he always says is we're the guys playing," Rudock said. "He's up in the booth, as he says, drinking a Diet Coke. We're the ones that see things on the field. So we're free to make checks. It's just trying to get the offense in the best play possible."
Often, the best-laid plans go up in smoke when a defense lines up a certain way. Or Rudock may see something that looks better according to that alignment. ...


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A felony charge of battery on a police officer has been dropped against the man accused of ramming a patrol car.
Tuesday morning Magistrate Judge Steven A. Thompsen dropped the charge after a motion by the prosecution. Deputy Prosecutor Zachary Parris cited jurisdictional questions as his reason for the motion. Because the incident happened on the Fort Hall Indian Reservation it falls under federal jurisdiction and it is currently being investigated by the FBI. The agency still has the option to file charges.
While in court, a bond amount was also set for $20,000 for the charge of felony eluding an officer. Bond was originally set at $50,000 for the count of battery on an officer but that bond was exonerated once the charge was dropped.
Toane and his attorney Mark Echohawk agreed to continue the preliminary hearing in this case until January 14th of next year. It is anticipated at that point Toane will face additional charges stemming from the original report of a hit and run which happened within Bannock County's jurisdiction. Toane has been charged with a misdemeanor count of leaving the scene of an accident but Parris says prosecutors plan to file more charges within the next several days.
Parris says it is his hope to hold the preliminary hearing for the current and new charges at the same time.
Toane was taken into custody earlier this month after being released from the hospital. He was shot by officers after they say he attempted to ram a patrol car with his vehicle. The officer involved has been placed on leave while the FBI conducts its investigation.
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Saturday, September 25, 2010
In other news, the vice president of Venezuela and a VTV "journalist" harass a Globovision journalist
1) Vice presidents are appointed by Chavez, not elected. It is just a prime minister of sorts to the imperial presidency. Still, if Chavez croaks at night, whomever is sitting at the vice president becomes president until elections are held.
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