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The Watering Hole: Easy Joe's, 2359 10th Ave. E., CAPITOL HILL
Be sure to ask Nancy about "Pajama Jeans."
The Atmosphere: Easy Joe's opened in early November as a '70s-style neighborhood diner serving Capitol Hill's quieter end. Children of the '70s will appreciate the decor--retro colors and fixtures embellished with school pictures of the owners and a giant wall-mounted swordfish. Or maybe it's a marlin. Or a sailfish? Anyway, you know, those fish people used to hang on their walls a lot in the '70s. There's a great story behind how it came to be where it is, so be sure to ask.
Easy Joe's is fancier than your average diner, with plenty of space and seating for families, as well as a comfortable bar area. Wall mounted TVs ensure a view of the current sports action, and an impressive menu boasts creative takes on comfy favorites for all. Favorites include the sloppy joe, dungeness-crab hush puppies, and pretty much everything on the 9 a.m.-2 p.m. weekend brunch menu.The Barkeep: Nancy has worked with restaurateur Derek Gaston Schaubroeck, one of the owners, for over 10 years, including stints at the former Easy Joe's in North Bend and Nicolino in Issaquah. Asked what she loves most about working at Easy Joe's, Nancy quickly answers "the food." She points out that a lot of TLC goes into it--from homemade soups, breads, buns, and pickles to hand-ground meats--and she eats at Easy Joe's every day that she's working.
The Drink: Easy Joe's has a full bar, and its '70s theme pulls strongly through the menu of specialty drinks, which includes classics like the Sloe Gin Fizz, Tom Collins, Singapore Sling, and Harvey Wallbanger. Since the oft-repeated story of my conception involves a dark and stormy ]70s night, the back seat of a VW bug, and a thermos of Harvey Wallbangers, I was relieved when Nancy suggested a drink that did not bring up dreaded visions of my parents getting it on--the Singapore Sling ($8).
The Verdict: Take this with a grain of salt, because I am not particularly sweet on sugary drinks or gin, but a Singapore Sling tasted like a maraschino cherry marinated to a pucker in gin, then injected with a few packs of Splenda. This writer's experience with sweet drinks goes as far as a Shirley Temple, and basically this was an alcoholic one, including gin, sloe gin, cherry brandy, sour mix, and soda. Thanks to Nancy's skills and hospitality, we were able to stay for more than one drink and enjoy some other tasty options, as well as great company, in a space with a vibe perfectly suited for this child born of the 70s (and Harvey Wallbangers).


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The last time a black politician told white Washingtonians to "get over it," he at least had the benefit of knowing he had won the election. At an April 1 candidate forum at Eastern Senior High School, the Rev. George Augustus Stallings Jr. tells audience members who have a problem with his candidacy to "get over it"almost a full month before the April 29 special election for the Ward 6 D.C. Council seat.
What may seem like rhetorical recklessness is part of the planStallings knows exactly what he is doing. As a black man who took on the Roman Catholic Church in 1989 over its racial dynamics and claims to have won, the 49-year-old Anacostia cleric is happy to become a lightning rod on race. Stallings spends most of his time at the Ward 6 forum talking about blacks, whites, and the color of politics in Washingtondoing his damnedest to make it the loudest issue in the campaign.
"There is a great racial divide in Washington, D.C.," Stallings proclaims, draped in a purple Nehru suit with a kente stripe, his voice drumming along in an intense preacher's cadence. "We need to learn how to live together as brothers and sisters, or perish together as fools. We have to level the playing field. That's the only way we can achieve this. We cannot have this disparity in Ward 6. We need to come together to talk about race."
For most of the night, his message falls flat. The forum's poor setup is partly to blame: The crowd scattered around the large school auditorium can barely see the candidates, who are literally in the dark at a table in front of the stage. The awkward eye-level arrangement requires the 11 candidates to stand so that the crowd can see who is responding to the canned questions.
The dim setting should especially frustrate Stallings. As archbishop and preacher extraordinaire for his lively Capitol Hill congregation, Imani Temple, Stallings is used to hearing roars of "Amen!" and "Yes, Lord!" punctuating his every well-chosen word. The lack of reaction by the Eastern High crowd, however, doesn't deter Stallings. Instead, he pours on the gas and the volume, and drops the pitch for harmony. He really gets things going in his closing statement, with a charge that other candidates want to derail his campaign because he is black.
"Exactly four weeks from tonight, this election will have been over for 55 minutes, and I will be happy to announce that I will be your next councilmember," he crows. "Now there has been this 'Stop Stallings' movement that has been going with candidates here. You know it and I know it. That's why we have to deal with the race issue. A lot of you are not going to vote for me not because you disagree with my politics but because you disagree with my race."
Stallings' tirade suddenly ignites an audience that had been lulled by the other candidates'
predictable closing remarks. Stallings hears the hisses and boosand sees they are coming from white members of the audience. The dialogue has been joined.
"Let's be honest about it," he hollers, gesturing militantly as the heckling grows louder, his face bursting with passion. "You don't know me, but you have preconceived notions about who I am and what I stand for....I hope you can get over it when I'm your councilmember so that we can work together to make this a better ward. If you want the racial divide to continue, let it continue. I'm going to be your ward councilmember whether you like it or notget used to it. I'm telling you that beforehand."
The hall still simmers even after the forum ends. Stallings is unapologetic as one audience member confronts him with the accusation that he was race-baiting. Stallings fires back that it is he who is being baited.
Either way, Stallings knows how to mix it up. Each step he has taken in the last 25 years has had its own dimension of controversy. And every time he reaches a goal, he remains restless, stoked by a deep-seated impatience for the next one. For now, he is intent on representing Ward 6, a stitching of mostly white middle-class enclaves on Capitol Hill, mostly black hardscrabble neighborhoods in Anacostia, and integrated, semigentrified pockets in Northeast Washington. The schizophrenic ward serves as the city's laboratory for race and class friction and never more so than during the current scramble to replace Councilmember Harold Brazil, who won an at-large council seat last November.
Stallingsa first-timer among political prosconfronts big odds, but that's his natural state. He has won a seemingly impossible battle to establish his African-American Catholic Congregation (AACC)the result of his high-profile split with Romeas a viable religious faction. In doing so, he overcame pedophilia charges involving former altar boys that were leveled against him in a series of Washington Post articles in 1989 and 1990. The incredibly damning allegations could have demolished his name and his fledgling movement, but Stallings refused at the time to respond. History has proved that being on the wrong end of Post coverage is not necessarily fatal to black politicians in the District, and after neither the daily paper nor local prosecutors followed up, Stallings emerged with a firm grasp on his church and his future. Given his appetite for territory and challenges, the Ward 6 race could be the start of a lot of things.
Stallings says his Umoja party candidacy to finish Brazil's unexpired Ward 6 term will establish a new political bloc in the city built on the interests of the have-little and have-not black residents of Washington. His attempt to organize the disenfranchised may not be so far-fetchedImani Temple is a testament to his ability to mine the concerns of black Washington. But while he will tell you that he's all about racial healing, he can't help knowing that his rhetoric threatens to further polarize a ward that is already in separate camps.
For a novice, Stallings seems mighty comfortable in the role of candidate. Being a tireless campaigner doesn't hurt, though even in noncampaign mode he appears overly wound up. In a seemingly calm moment at the back-room desk in his H Street NE campaign office, he manages to overwhelm his AACC deputy, the Rev. August Griffin, with a to-do list that grows by the minute.
"And why don't you call about the liberation vestments," Stallings says in a tone drenched in concentration. "I don't think we have any yet for Bishop Rowe."
Stallings practically interrupts himself while he talks as Griffin tries to keep up with the oh-and-one-last-thing delivery. Stallings finally concludes his business with Griffin and returns to his candidacy before the reporter realizes the interview is under way.
"There is no [more] effective campaigner in the city of Washington than George Stallings because my whole life has been geared toward interacting and interfacing with people," he says. His third-person assessment has meritStallings is likable, listenable, and funny. He's a human bustle in any setting, but especially grabbing one-on-one: He'll clamp you by the shoulder, stomp his feet in laughter, jump, trot, shuffleand eventually finish his sentence.
"I can make anyone feel at home," he says, "whether it's the poorest of the poor or the richest of the rich, whether it be one with an education or no education, whether it's someone who is black or white...straight or gay, bisexual or transgender."
While his slogan"One Ward, One People, One Choice"posits that he is the only candidate who can bridge the perspectives of the ward's diverse mix of residents, his strategy clearly focuses on energizing the black voters from the poorer neighborhoods of the ward. Stallings proudly announces at candidate forums that his house, which he has dubbed "Augustus Manor," is in Anacostia, where he is banking on winning the majority of votes.
His spacious, three-floor Victorian is not exactly typical for the neighborhoodnor is his special decorative taste, which mixes antiques and colonial furniture with African artbut his claims to represent the views of his neighbors seem to have traction. People whom Stallings approaches at bus stops in the less affluent areas of the ward not only recognize him with little trouble, they even pretend to be enthusiastic about his campaign.
Even when he is not around, he gets the bus-stop vote. Waiting to catch a bus into town this past Monday on Good Hope Road SE, several Anacostia residents say they will happily vote for Stallings, including Janice Mason.
"Jobs," Mason says, enumerating her pet issues. "Better conditions and fixing up Anacostia and giving the people here more voice. That's why I would vote for him."
Pundits question whether that base will really give it up for Stallings the way it did for Marion Barry in 1994, in part because of Stallings' political affiliation with the nationalist-oriented Umoja Party. Though it has fielded candidates for several council races, Umoja's stated mission of empowering black Washingtonians and promoting Afrocentric cultural values has failed to translate into any electoral victories in the party's three-year history.
But even doubters say the special circumstances of a special election help Stallings' chances. "The only chance he ever has of winning something...is in a special election where the votes [among Democratic candidates] are split," says Phil Pannell, a longtime Anacostia political activist. "In a regular election, if we go through a primary and there's a Democratic candidate, he gets wiped out."
Stallings speaks confidently about weaning black Washingtonians off their Democratic habit and onto Umoja, of which he is a founding member. He also scolds white voters who aren't turned on by Afrocentric politics, saying they "shouldn't have any more problem with me being an Umoja Party candidate...than they have any problem buying Diana Ross or Michael Jackson CDs. Don't let the color get in the way of appreciating the music. Don't let my party get in the way of me serving you."
Whether Umoja marginalizes him or not, his competitors treat Stallings as the real deal, with many political operatives claiming that the Ward 6 race is between their candidate and Stallings. John Capozzi, a hardy perennial with lots of experience in handicapping campaigns, has gone so far as to publish two polls showing the crowded 12-candidate race to be a dogfight between him and Stallings.
Stallings has kept pace in the fund-raising game as well, joining Democrats Capozzi, Howard Croft, and Rob Robinson in a clique that had raised more than $15,000 by March 10. Far ahead in the money grab is another Democrat, Sharon Ambrose, who has raised more than $28,000.
Ambrose, a longtime top staffer for former councilmembers John Ray and Betty Ann Kane, is widely considered the front-runner. Joining her are Capozzi, who ran unsuccessfully for last year's at-large council seat, Robinson, who is trying to build on his connections as a former staffer for Brazil and Barry, and Croft, a former University of the District of Columbia (UDC) professor hoping to cash in on his work on labor issues and ward politics. Other candidates jockeying for position include former school board member Bernard Gray, tough-on-crime crusader Henry "Sandy" McCall, focus-on-kids champion Tom Hamilton, and the "all these other guys are liars" candidate, Charles Day.
The campaign features five black and seven white contenders, with Croft and Stallings viewed as the black candidates with the most support. But Stallings is the only candidate who emphasizes his race during the forums. Even as he tries to smooth the racial edges of his candidacy in the close confines of an interview, his responses etch them more sharply.
"White folks have to stop being so sensitive to any challenge that is presented to them by a strong, black, male figure," he says matter-of-factly. "When I got up there and stated that some of you will not vote for me because it's an issue of race, obviously I could not have been talking about it just being a black issue, because there are other black candidates [in the campaign]who are going to get white votes....What I did not say that I should have said instead of saying 'race,' is, 'You have difficulty with me as a strong, black, intelligent, self-possessed, and powerful black man.' That's what I should have said."
The nub, he says, is that whites fear an empowered black underclass in Washingtonan inflammatory notion in a majority-black, minority-white city.
"There will be a sizable number of people who won't vote for me just because of who I am, because I remind them of their worst nightmare," Stallings says with conviction. "This whole idea that a black man is going to liberate black people and tell them that they need to take ownership and control over their own destiny. That's what they're afraid of."
It's an edgy, take-it-or-leave-it posture that could easily backfire. But Stallings has gotten where he is today precisely because he pushes buttons, which in turn opens doors.
Stallings' sense of himself took hold when he was quite small. Growing up as the eldest of six siblings in segregated New Bern, N.C., Stallings knew he was going to be somebody besides one of the guys on the corner.
"I wanted to be a priest when I was living in poverty, when I was living in the projects," he says, recalling how he was impressed with priests working in his community. "I thought this way when I was a kid. I said I want to use my life to help people."
His clericaland now, politicaldevelopment started with a jump when he was attending Baptist services with his grandparents as a 3-year-old and hearing a preacher who cut through all the trappings and got to his listeners.
"I was so mesmerized by how this preacher, with such power and conviction, could proclaim the Word in such a way that people would be moved almost to ecstasy," says Stallings, who remembers the man's voice but not his name. The child was hooked, and by the time Stallings was 16 he was already in the seminary.
He ascended the ecclesiastical ladder quickly, becoming only the third black student to matriculate at the North American College in Rome, earning two graduate degrees in theological studies and being assigned to Our Lady Queen of Peace parish in D.C. even before his July 1974 ordination as a priesta rare occurrence. Even rarer was the September 1976 announcement by Archbishop William W. Baum that Stallings would be the new pastor of St. Teresa of Avila in Anacostia, bucking a tradition that priests serve at least a dozen years as assistants before they got their own flocks.
Stallings says the assignment was no accident. In the spring of 1976, still green but with gumption, he had made an uninvited pitch to Baum in his office, telling the elder cleric, "If we're serious about black people, and we want to get them into this Roman Catholic Church, we're going to have to appoint a black priest as pastor." In July, Baum elevated another black priest (who became the first black pastor of a church in the Washington archdiocese in many years), following up two months later with Stallings' appointment.
Stallings was not content with his new home and immediately began redecorating it in ways to make it more amenable to the black flock he was trying to reach. The changes he made in the Anacostia church's liturgy and look stirred interest in black Catholics but discomfort in the archdiocese. He installed a crucifix with a black Christ, a baptismal font, and a gospel choir, and added Afrocentric touches to what became a three-hour mass, according to Aurelia Corbett King, who began attending St. Teresa's in 1980 even though she lived across town.
"I loved it when I went to his church," says King, who later joined the choir and became parish secretary, watching the congregation grow from a few dozen families into the hundreds. "It got so that it was always crowdedstanding-room only."
Stallings' reputation swelled along with his flock. He became a popular guest speaker at black Catholic churches nationwide thanks to his fiery style and the revolutionary changes he was making. He was also recognized within the churcheven getting a personal audience in 1985 with Pope John Paul II, who invited the St. Teresa's choir to sing in the Sistine Chapel.
Nevertheless, Stallings began to outgrow his own creation, and it became evident that the Catholic church would have trouble containing his ambition and ego.
"I guess he had gone about as high as he could go," says King, who followed Stallings to Imani Temple but has since left that church as well. "In order to be a bishop you have to be submissive. But he was kind of a free spirittoo independent....I think they didn't think they could control him."
In 1985, Stallings flouted the authority of then-Archbishop James A. Hickey, who has since been made a cardinal, by secretly buying a private home in Anacostia in violation of an archdiocese rule requiring priests to live in the rectory. Stallings also clashed openly with the archdiocese over funding for renovations he said were needed at St. Teresa's. Even as the strains increased, Stallings agreed to leave St. Teresa's for a position in the archdiocese office in 1988. But he soon concluded that his only choice was to break from the churcha decision he says was torturous for him because his relationship with Hickey stretched back to when Stallings was a student in Rome and Hickey was the college rector.
"This man was like a father figure to me," says Stallings. "So you can see why it was so difficult for me in the spring of 1989 to approach him the way I did, to say to him, ultimately, I was going to leave the Roman Catholic Church....I didn't think that the [church] could respond to the profound spiritual and, now, cultural needs of blacks....I could no longer give myself to a church that was not willing to give us access, inclusion, and ownership of our own destiny."
After months of wrangling and negotiating, Hickey's attempts to get Stallings to reconsider failed. Stallings announced his break in June 1989, and on July 2 convened what would become the African-American Catholic Congregation for a service at Howard University Law School attended by thousands of followers.
Few places in Washington rock the way Imani Temple does. It's even hopping during the recent Saturday-morning service in which Stallings anoints a prominent black Roman Catholic clergyman, Cyprian Lamar Rowe, the newest bishop of AACC. The service features African dancers, rousing spirituals, and many other elements of Imani's Afrocentric cultural niche.
But the foot-stomping, hand-clapping figure at the center of the occasion isn't Rowe. Holding forth at the microphone of AACC's cathedral, Stallings sings, praises, dances, and preaches. He tells the congregation that Rowe has "come home" because God was calling, much as God called him to form the AACC eight years earlier.
"I wish he'd a-chosen somebody else instead of disturbing my life!" Stallings howls comically. "But God had to use somebody."
His faithful respond lustily, which isn't unusual. When he's on, Stallings could start a conga line at a funeral. But the celebration not only recognizes the arrival of a new bishop, it marks a significant defection from the Roman Catholic Church. The AACC movement now has 7,200 members nationwide in 11 congregations, which include churches in Philadelphia, Louisiana, and Los Angeles, and Stallings says the only thing preventing it from growing faster is the need for more priests. He has several now in the four-year process leading to ordination, an incoming class that includes womenonly one of several areas where AACC diverges from Catholic principle. Others include permitting contraception, welcoming gays and lesbians without denouncing their sex lives, and not requiring celibacy for
the clergy.
At one point during the service for Rowe, Stallings reminds his followers of the core reason they parted ways with Romethe need to break with a "white, male, racist, sexist, and hierarchical institution."
The "racist" tag has long upset many white Catholics and reportedly infuriated Hickey and other church leaders. But Stallings makes no bones about itthere are hard feelings. The break from the Roman Catholic Church got nasty, in his view, with a September 1989 Post article that he contends was published to rip his then-young church from its moorings. Citing the unnamed victim, the Post wrote that Stallings had been involved in a sexual affair with a former altar boy during the late 1970s. Church officials say it was their demand that he seek counselingat a time when Stallings sought a new assignment as pastorthat created the final rift in June 1989. Stallings confirms that the counseling demand convinced him to leave, but says his superiors did not confront him with the pedophilia charges.
"They really thought [Imani Temple] was going to die out in the summer," Stallings says, shifting between whispers and shouts to detail the alleged plot to sink AACC by the Washington archdiocese and the Post. "What they ultimately realized was that this thing was not dyingit's growing....They had to come up with some charge to try to ruin it! They just couldn't accuse me of being sexually involved with anybody. They had to find a boy; they had to make it a pedophilia charge so that I could be grouped with all those other Roman Catholic priests who not only were accused, but charged, found guilty, and sent to prison."
His tone is righteous, laden with an anger that's rare even in his hottest sermons.
"They felt they had to make the story so destructive and cruel and horrid that folks would stop following me and it would crush the movement," he says. "It wasn't true then and it's not true now. If it were true, why didn't the persons go along and file charges so it could go to court and I'd be in jail like the rest of the priests?"
At the time, Stallings refused to speak with the Post, which didn't deter the daily from publishing a major 1990 series that profiled the former priest in a decidedly negative light. The pedophilia charges were expanded to include a second former altar boy who anonymously claimed to have had a relationship with Stallings, along with long discussions about Stallings being gay, an on-the-record account from a man who said he had had a sexual relationship with Stallings while he was a priest, and a charge that Stallings had misused parish funds to renovate his Anacostia abodefueled by a $4,478 check from the St. Teresa account that the Post said had paid for a fence around the house.
The accusations, recalls King, made some Imani Temple congregants uncomfortable enough to leave the new church, but she and many others doubted the published accounts and stuck by their spiritual leader.
"I think people in the black community are astute and wise enough to know what was behind those stories," says Stallings. "That this was an attempt to smear the name and reputation of a man who had stood up to a white institution and then basically said to Hickey, 'Eat crow.'" He denies both pedophilia charges and challenges the accusations that he misspent funds, saying, "Show me the check." The Washington archdiocese reportedly investigated the allegations, but it has never taken action against Stallings, making clear that his excommunication in 1990 was ecclesiastical in naturefor having renounced the authority of the Pope during a Phil Donahue taping.
Far from burying Stallings, the controversy seems to have stoked the hype around him. And Stallings never backed up, igniting new controversies as old ones died. He created a minifuror among white Christians with a 1993 rally on Good Friday where he burned images of a white Jesus Christ. He proclaimed that the demonstration at Freedom Plaza was the start of his campaign to get black churches to adopt images of a black Jesus. Stallings contended then as now that the historical Christ was an "Afro-Asiatic" black man, and that centuries of European domination of Christianity have altered the color of the man Christians consider their savior.
And just in case that didn't get things rolling, Stallings hip-checked convention again by teaming up with Louis Farrakhan and his ultranationalist Nation of Islam.
Pannell says that in spite of the inherent conflicts between Christian and Muslim faiths, the linkage was a natural one.
"Stallings very clearly is one of the major Afrocentrists in this country," says Pannell, who considers himself a student of the discipline as well. "You cannot deny that. He has the following. He has the intellectual basis. He has all the trappings."
"Liberals have a real problem with him because of his associations with black nationalists who are clearly [extremist] in terms of their stances," Pannell adds. "You cannot run with the foxes and hunt with the hounds."
Stallings dismisses the criticism, saying the things he and Farrakhan have in common are much more important than what separates them.
"The bottom line is that I am always going to be associated or affiliated with anyone who speaks a message of empowerment for black people and who are seeking to improve the quality and equality of life for them," Stallings says. "Let's be for real: Who in life do we agree with on everything?"
Pannell says Stallings' ideological flexibility is where the trouble starts. Pannell had become an active member of Imani Temple when he decided Stallings allowed too many incongruent messages to come from the pulpitincluding one speaker who denounced gays, which Pannell, who is gay, saw as the final straw.
"That's when I left," says Pannell. "Because he had no control over his pulpit."
King also left the church, saying she developed stark differences with Stallings over certain church teachings last year, though she would not elaborate on which ones. While she remains friendly with him, she notes that Stallings rebuked her in 1995 for having publicly criticized his failure to apologize for a comment at an organizing rally for the Million Man March in Washington. Stallings had been quoted at the rally questioning whether black men would rather be led by Farrakhan or by "some milquetoast sissy faggot."
Even when Stallings isn't looking to kick up dust, sometimes trouble finds him. In August 1996, D.C. police arrested his informally adopted son, Josea McDaniel, who the Post said was collared in Stallings' home on charges of possessing crack cocaine and two 9mm handguns.
"They watched him bring it into the houseit wasn't that he was using the house to sell stuff out of it," Stallings says, noting that he wasn't in the house at the time, before adding that the incident did not surprise him. "I took on the role as father because he was a troubled youth....This was a boy who had been in juvenile detention homes all of his adolescence." McDaniel later pleaded guilty to the charge.
A few weeks after McDaniel's arrest, a prematurely born infant received a full-immersion baptism at Imani Temple and immediately developed severe complications. The infant died 11 days later, and media attention began to focus on the baptism itself.
"The family well knows what the condition of that child was," says Stallings. "And they know that we were not ultimately responsible for that situation." The U.S. Attorney's office reports that it found no basis to file criminal charges against the minister who performed the immersion. Stallings says immersion baptisms are still part of the spiritual menu at his church.
In a room full of hams, Stallings is the 800-pound heavyweight. He doesn't always dress the same for the candidate forumssometimes wearing his Nehru outfits, other times the traditional priest's collar and black suit, others a campaign T-shirt and jeansbut he always brings the pomp and circumstance. When he speaks, he manages to outprofile and outdecibel all the other candidates combined, raising the roof with even just a yes or no response.
"I'd like to respond to that! I'd like to respond to that! I'd like to respond to that!" Stallings hollers, leaping to his feet at the April 2 forum at St. Peter's Catholic Church when he hears a question on which he wants first dibs.
At a forum at Capitol Hill's Christ Church several weeks earlier, Stallings barely contains himselflaughing heartily, clapping loudly for other candidates, dishing audible commentary, and basically pushing the stodgy limits of forum decorum. When Hamilton, a candidate who gets his share of laughs, says that he wants to fully fund UDC so that Croft can return to his old job as professor, Stallings reacts with an effusive "Oooooh, ouch! Wow! Huh!"a peanut gallery in candidate form.
Stallings' mien also suggests that the vows he took to become a priest didn't include one for modesty; in recent forums he has challenged Capozzi to a footrace to prove who is more energetic, Croft to measure whose home is closer to the Anacostia River, and McCall to compare who has a smaller bank account.
When not filling notebooks for reporters hungry for color in an otherwise drab race, Stallings responds to the occasional forum question. He's not all that impressive on direct responsethe exuberant delivery doesn't always leave a clear message once he quits talking. His grasp of city issues comes across as generic, and suggests that his political experience doesn't extend far past his Umoja ties.
Stallings' campaign literature hardly bolsters his case. While he takes a few stands, such as opposing federalization of the police, his proposals serve up mostly general solutions for the obvious shortcomings of D.C. government. It's the messenger, not so much the message, who inspires. Stallings says his status as a builder of an 11-church network leaves him exceedingly qualified for the council's monstrous responsibility of oversight of poorly run city agenciesand the nitty-gritty of budgeting and legislating. He doesn't distinguish between his position as the mostly unchecked CEO of a religious organization and the bruising task of overhauling a broken municipal infrastructure.
The two main gimmicks of his candidacythat he will donate his entire $80,000 salary from the part-time council position to ward nonprofit groups, and that he will open a "one-stop shop" constituency officeget a regular workout every time he is near the stump. His stock response to broader community problems is that the answer lies within.
"Why can't we as a ward create our own recycling program?" asks Stallings, offering his solution to the city's suspension of recycling services. "Why can we not meet with contractors?"
It's standard economic development through empowerment, but none of the other candidates is offering better ideas to shore up the embattled ward. Unfortunately for Stallings, the kind of empowerment most of the people in the ward are talking about is the kind that allows you to leave your house after dark. Thanks to McCall, who made a "zero tolerance" crime-squashing plan his campaign mantra, Stallings and the others in the running have had to come up with something to say about curbing crime. The issue percolates most on Capitol Hill, where street crime and break-ins have the entrenched middle class in a frenzy.
When asked about stopping crime at a March 27 forum in North Lincoln Park, Stallings kitchen-sinks his response.
"Crime results when people are unemployed," he responds. "Crime results when we do not properly train people. Crime results when we would rather stockpile them in jail and spend more money for them in jail than we would to give them a college education. The time has come for us to face up to the reality that we have to put more police on the streetsthey cannot be seated behind desks. They have to be on foot patrols, on bicycles, on motorcycles, in their squad cars, and we've got to ensure that we as a people start policing our own community and not just leaving [it to the] police department."
He is ambitious enough to pander a bitalthough not very crediblyto middle-class fears about crime, and he's not opposed to other efforts to better position his candidacy. He uses a shorter version of his name"George Stallings Jr."to make the letters appear larger on the ballot, and his campaign literature avoids mentioning the Umoja Party so that Democrats won't ignore him out of plain party loyalty.
Stallings has shown enough savvy and momentum to become a target. Opponents have wondered aloud whether an archbishop of AACC has time to adequately serve both his congregation and his constituents.
"Preaching and politics don't mix," Capozzi said at a recent forum, in a rap he has fused into his opening statement. "It's clear that we need someone who's going to be a full-time person and someone who's going to stand up for us and fill our potholes and have time for that, not to lead a big nationwide church."
Capozzi doesn't mention that all councilmembers are allowed to have other employment, but Stallings is stung by the charge enough to say he has staffincluding the recently installed Rowewho are responsible for the day-to-day affairs of his growing church. On the other hand, he says, it's culturally irrelevant.
"The Eurocentric mind says, 'George Stallings, you have to either be the archbishop and founder of an independent and autonomous Catholic church that is a viable alternative to Roman Catholicism, or you have to give that up in order to be a politician,'" Stallings says. "The Afrocentric worldview says, 'George Stallings, you can be both the head of a church...and you can be a politician because one feeds the other.'" It's a flexible theology, which he uses to maximum effect.
And Stallings says that his work behind the altar doesn't preclude his getting down to horse-trading if that's what the situation requires. "I know the art of smoke-filled backroom negotiations," he says. "A lot of what I will negotiate will be done behind closed doors."
Like most politicians, he likes to both have and eat his cake. He can go on a tirade about the control-board putsch of District public schools, but mention that he's happy to work with the board in the next breath.
"I want to meet this control board...and simply say to them, 'We have to work together,'" says Stallings. "It's like a bad marriage. We're going to stay together. I'm not going to get in there and try to upset the apple cart."
The Pope has his Popemobile, but Stallings has a mighty fine metallic blue Lincoln Continental for his chauffeur to constantly shuttle him around inone of the perks of being archbishop. As the car rolls toward campaign headquarters, Stallings jokes at one point about the "big campaign sign" the car passes on Maryland Avenue NEthe colorful marker for Imani Temple.
As the big blue vehicle approaches a stop sign on H Street NE, Stallings interrupts his own response to a question to horse around with some kids he knows who are crossing the street.
"Blow your horn," he tells the chauffeur. "They didn't hear you. Don't you know how to get people to respond, Danny? You gotta hit it on. There you go." As the honking resumes, Stallings jokingly yells, "Get outta the street!"
Minutes later, Stallings says jumping on the horn is part of what his candidacy about.
"Surely it was not my intention to draw up hisses and boos," he says. "What candidate wants to be hissed at and booed at? But there is something about George Stallings that gets to the core, to the belly of that place where people harbor their deepest resentments and prejudices. I know how to get to that. I know how to touch that nerve. I know how to get a response."
His says his ability to raise the temperature makes him the "bad" black candidate in the raceespecially compared to perceived contender Croft.
"For a lot of white folks, Howard Croft is not intimidating because he's the so-called 'safe' candidate, who doesn't rock the boat, who has not done anything nearly as radical as I have doneto walk away from an institution and then create your own and say that yours is just as good as theirs if not better," says Stallings. "As a result of that, some white folks would be more comfortable with a Howard Croft-type of a person, who does not remind them of their responsibilities to the least of the brothers and sisters."
Croft says Stallings is stuck in caricature as the black nationalist candidate.
"I think that there is a lot of truth to that, in that George is seen as the in-your-face candidate," says Croft, who claims Stallings has not been visible enough on Ward 6 community issues to shake that image. "They know George by his reputation. George has been painted as a black nationalist...in the media."
Croft says that he, meanwhile, has been unfairly tagged as the "Barry" candidate in the race because the mayor appointed him to several city commissions. Barry himself has kept mum on his favorite in Ward 6, saying he has too many old ties to too many candidatesincluding Croft, Robinson, and Stallings. But Hizzoner thinks enough of the archbishop to pay him a visit at the H Street headquarters one recent afternoon.
The 20-minute unannounced visit was a courtesy call, Barry tells me after I happen upon the mayor and Stallings exiting the campaign office. But after shuffling the mayor into a nearby restaurant to grab a bite, Stallings finds a potential Ward 6 voter at the counterand leaves Barry to fend for himself to order a plate of curry goat.
Stallings' blacker-than-thou elbow at Croft may be run-of-the-mill posturing, but his suggestion that the Ambrose campaign has a problem with his race has found traction among other candidates. AIDS Cure Party candidate Steve Michael helped fire up the issue at the St. Peter's forum with his contention that the Ambrose campaign has repeatedly asked him to leave the race so that the "anti-Stallings" vote can unite. But while Michael makes clear his disgust with any Stop Stallings effortwhich Ambrose's campaign denies waginghe also says Stallings is riding the issue for all it's worth.
"George Stallings is playing the race card," says Michael, "but Sharon Ambrose dealt that card."
Ambrose, meanwhile, says Stallings is exaggerating racial divisions in the ward, which she says can be healed with neighborhood-level coalition building.
"George is the one who has brought race up himself on a number of occasions," says Ambrose, who says Michael's charges have further jacked up the issue. "There is a really tense feeling building up, and that's why."
Stallings knows that black residents consider race an issue worthy of noise in the campaign.
"There's a lot of things swept under the carpet that's not said because people don't like itbecause people don't like the truth," says Anacostia resident Mason, agreeing with Stallings' contention that racial problems must be out in the open in the campaign. "Speak out. We've come a long ways, but we've got a ways to go."
But John Hilsman, a North Lincoln Park resident who has attended several forums but remains undecided on who will get his vote, believes that Stallings' approach to racial issues is unproductive.
"He's been a rebelI respect that," says Hilsman, who is white. "He broke from the church and started something new, something culturally significant. I think that's greatcharting new ground. But I don't think he's charting new ground in politics. I think he's trying to drum up an emotional reaction."
Capitol Hill resident Jeanne Harrison, also white and undecided, remains open to Stallings' candidacy because he promises to bring racial unity to the ward. She says she is committed to staying in D.C. and seeing her neighborhood's condition improve. But she found Stallings' performance at Eastern High disturbingespecially his quoting Barry's "get over it" advice, intentionally or not.
"That's what really bothers mefor someone who's saying we need to talk about race in a positive manner," says Harrison. "I think he can anger a lot of people. He's maybe kind of overbearing."
For all his racial framing of the campaign, Stallings still gets touchy when people question his willingness to represent everybody in the ward. He repeatedly invokes what he says are genuine friendships that he has formed with Michael and McCall, both white candidates whose views don't always mirror his.
"I want to make it very clear that as the councilmember for Ward 6 I am going to represent all of the people of Ward 6black, white, or polka-dot for that matter," he says. "I am not going to allow race to distinguish my service to this ward. What I am going to do is be a voice for the voiceless, hope for the hopeless, and help for the helpless."
Perhaps unsurprisingly, Stallings says that as a candidate, he wants an act of faith.
"People are going to vote for me because they know I will not sell them down the river," he says in a dramatic whisper. "And that's why a man of God has established himself with credentials that clearly indicate that he doesn't back down on his positions."CP
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Trip from Tallin, Estonia to Prague and Krakow
My friend and I, two women from the USA, will be traveling this summer to Tallinn, Estonia, then on to Krakow and Prague. What side trips from Tallinn have you found enjoyable?
Which city should we visit first, Krakow or Prague before heading home ? What is the better option- fly or take the train to that city?
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AUGUSTA, Ga. (WRDW) -- An Augusta man has been featured in the Forbes "30 Under 30" list for 2014.
Jamail Larkins, Founder of Ascension Air Management, graduated from Evans High School. The magazine said Larkins sold thousands of dollars of equipment while also performing stunts in air shows in high school.
"[Larkins'] Ascension Air now sees $8 million in annual revenue and is a leading regional distributor for Cirrus Aircraft, the top manufacturer of piston-driven planes," according to Forbes.
Larkins' feature can be seen under the Energy & Industry section of the Forbes list.
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Big-time boxing is once again coming to Augusta thanks to native son, Rayonta Whitfield. The fighter's camp announcing tonight that the NABO flyweight champion will once again be fighting on ESPN in Augusta on August 1st.
Whitfield, who defeated Everisto Primero last April at the Jjames Brown Arena, will now face Colombian flyweight Jair Jimenez on ESPN's Wednesday night fights live from the Bell Auditorium. Whifield's record now stands at 17-0 with 8 knockouts.
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The Community Minority Business Advancement (CMBA) program at The
University of Texas at Austin McCombs School of Business is like
the shortest line at the Department of Motor Vehicles. Everything
about it seems too good to be true.
For $250, small business owners in San Antonio, Dallas, Houston
and Austin can take a seven-week, 45-hour, evening course that covers
everything from business planning and financial management to marketing
strategy and accounting. The classes are taught by the same award-winning
faculty at the McCombs School who teach MBA students and are made
possible by the funding of corporations such as HEB, Southwest Airlines,
Guaranty Bank and Bank of America.
Testimonials from former CMBA students such as businesswoman Pat
Flanary vividly illustrate the potential of the CMBA program to
change students' lives.
Flanary refers to herself as a "slow learner," and
the irony of that self-description is not lost on anyone who knows
her. Six years ago, Flanary became CEO of Advantage Mortgage, a
modest business that was operating in the red at the time and had
seven employees. She did not have a business degree and had never
taken a business course before.
When Flanary took the reins, Advantage Mortgage had been in existence
for about 10 years and had experienced varying levels of profitability,
but, according to Flanary, it had never done really well. At the
end of Flanary's first year on board she had turned the company
around, and it was showing a profit, but she had much bigger hopes
and dreams. Flanary realized that she could use some formal training
in order to make those dreams come true.
"I came to Advantage Mortgage from a very large corporation,
and in a large company you have an insurance department and a marketing
department and an accounting department," says Flanary. "I
was coming to a little business that had a bookkeeper who doubled
as receptionist. So much about it was different. I've taken
the CMBA course not once but twice, and I'm thinking about
taking it a third time. What I've learned in those classes
has allowed me to move from one phase to another with my business."
Last year Flanary's company had revenues of $4.6 million,
and her staff has expanded to 51. From 1998-2002, the company's
volume grew from $59 million to as much as $183 million, its revenues
increasing more than 500 percent in five years, and it now has four
offices in Texas.
"One thing that the CMBA teachers emphasize over and over
is to always have the end in sight and plan, plan, plan for the
future," says Flanary. "And, of course, to think big."
To show her appreciation to Dr. Ernest Walker, director of the
McCombs School's Center for Small and Middle-Sized Enterprises,
and the CMBA program, Flanary has donated money to the program and
sponsored several small businesspersons, allowing them to take the
course and enjoy an opportunity that proved invaluable to her.
"It's a way to give back to Jim [Nolen] and Ernie [Walker]
for all of the consulting, advice and time they've given to
me," says Flanary. "If I have a business-related question,
even now, I call Ernie Walker and he meets me for breakfast and
we talk out my problem. They've helped me immensely, and every
time I have a chance I tell others about the CMBA program –
it's just that good."
Like Flanary, most students come to the CMBA classes with a high
degree of motivation and a burning desire to take their businesses
to the next phase. Many simply lack formal training.
"Most all small business owners are fairly good at operations
and marketing," says Jim Nolen, senior lecturer in the Department
of Finance and associate director of both the Center for Small and
Middle-Sized Businesses and the CMBA program. "But they're
lacking financial decision-making knowledge. The CMBA classes get
them well-rounded in all areas. What they learn here forces them
to ask the tough questions to their accountants, for example. Or
to see how deadly that fast growth can be for a small business."
Linda Golden, Jim Nolen, David Shepherd and Ernest Walker, the
instructors for the CMBA classes, each teach different modules that
are devoted to particular business principles, such as marketing,
finance and management. Even though many of the students come to
the course with business acumen in one area, most have knowledge
deficiencies that may be holding them back and keeping them from
growing, or saving, their businesses.
"In some areas of the class, I found that I knew more than
I had thought I would," says Leslie Hill, an Austin attorney
and CMBA student. "But not when it came to the financial stuff
– I needed a great deal of help in that realm. I've
just gone into private practice, and the CMBA classes are showing
me where to go in the future if I need to draw up a new business
plan and what sort of marketing strategy might work best for me.
In this economy, small business owners need the kind of edge that
these classes give you."
To say that the CMBA program's goal is to help small and
middle-sized businesses overcome significant obstacles in today's
challenging marketplace is an accurate description of its mission.
But the statement fails to reflect the extent to which the program
is a labor of love for the faculty members, staff and partners who
"I agreed to be the director for this program back in 1993
when it started because I strongly felt that we had a responsibility
to help small businesses, particularly those owned by minorities,"
says Walker, Gale Chair Professor Emeritus and a faculty member
at The University of Texas since 1954. "We had done great
work with executive development for large companies, and I wanted
something like that for the smaller ones. Small business owners
can't pick up and travel to Austin for training or pay a big
fee for a course, so we take the classes to them, and we only charge
them $250 for a batch of classes that would normally run around
$4,000. The faculty members who teach these classes also make less
than those who teach executive education classes."
Sensitive to the pride that business owners have in their enterprises,
no matter how small or unprofitable, Walker decided not to approach
specific small business owners in the participating cities. The
CMBA program, instead, relies on recruiting partners to promote
the course. Recruiters are typically local organizations, such as
chambers of commerce, that have a close relationship with community
businesses and the opportunity to spread the word about the CMBA
program's benefits.
Qualified candidates for the course are owners or managers of small
or middle-sized businesses who have been in business for at least
one year. Although the program accepts any businessperson who meets
the requirements, CMBA was initially formed to assist community
minority groups such as Hispanics, African Americans, Asian Americans
and women.
"Hispanic small business owners are the fastest-growing group
of small business owners in the nation," says Eliza May, president
of the Greater Hispanic Chamber of Commerce in Austin and a student
in the Austin CMBA course this spring. "And Hispanic women
make up most of that group. In the CMBA course I'm taking
right now, I'm seeing that our class is a microcosm of the
national statistics. The majority of the Hispanics in the class
are women."
In the 10 years since the program was born, about 1,700 students
have graduated from it. And every student represents a success story,
a testimonial to the importance of educational opportunities for
"Before I started the course I was worried about the time
commitment and that the professors might be difficult to understand,"
says Juan Meza, owner of the Juan in a Million restaurant and a
student in the Austin CMBA course. "As it turns out, every
single thing about the course is geared directly to the small business
owner, and the classes are so clearly valuable that you actually
look forward to going each Monday and Wednesday evening. The professors
give real world examples that make me understand how the business
principles apply to me and my own business."
True to Dr. Walker's philosophy that the success of the students
in the CMBA program is as important for their families as it is
for their businesses, the graduation ceremony at the end of each
CMBA course includes not only the graduates but also their families.
In addition to presenting diplomas to the graduates, Walker also
gives children of the graduates a certificate naming them "Honorary
"We give the children a certificate that states that in order
to accept the honor they have to study hard and stay off drugs and,
when they get old enough, go to UT," says Walker. "One
little girl was smiling ear-to-ear when she took her certificate
and yelled, 'Hook 'em Horns—I'm going to
UT!' We've had several of the graduates' children
enroll at UT. I like to think that they remember how UT helped their
Kay Randall
Photos courtesy Kay Randall
and McCombs School of Business


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Red Bull Has Inserted a Full-Length Magazine Into Today's New York Times
But why?
Like most good ideas, "The idea for the The Red Bulletin was conceived at 2:30 in the morning in a mountain hut in the Austrian Alps near Salzburg," writes Dietrich Mateschitz, the CEO of Red Bull, in a letter to the reader on the fifth page of The Red Bulletin. The Bulletin is apparently a magazine by Red Bull, the energy drink, distributed in this week's Sunday Times, and likely again in another Times next month. (Previous issues have been distributed in The Independent.) It features mostly cliff divers, cyclists, and other dare-devils you probably haven't heard of, as well as, apropos of nothing, a fawning biography on Michael Bloomberg. ("Surprisingly, Bloomberg didn't spend the years after his Wall Street windfall sipping cocktails on a yacht.")
The magazine's editorial mission, outside of advertising Red Bull, is sort of unclear: "To feature stories about this world and its inhabitants," writes Mateschitz. But more unclear is its relationship to the Times: A large banner on the cover of the magazine reads, "Distributed in the US in the The New York Times," but in finer print, "This Magazine did not involve the staff of the New York Times." According to the Bulletin's website, "630,000 copies of the magazine will be inserted into the New York Times on June 13."
Throughout the publication — which is actually about double the length of the Times Magazine next to it — an icon reads "Experience Print 2.0," referring to the Bulletin's interactive online edition. (The whole thing can be read in a PDF, too.) But when an ad from the Abu Dhabi Tourism Authority is the first page of a magazine that's already an advertisement for an energy drink itself, all inserted into a newspaper, this seems more like Advertising 2.0.


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Packers LB Clay Matthews could return in Week 10 vs. Eagles
The Packers won't have offensive leader Aaron Rodgers on Sunday, but they could get back one of their defensive leaders. Linebacker Clay Matthews, who hasn't played since breaking his thumb against the Lions in Week 5, wants to play against the Eagles.
"Obviously it's going to be coach's decision, but you know, I'd like to be out there. As to what extent, I don't know," Matthews said on Thursday, via ESPNWisconsin.com. "I've just got to get used to playing a little more with one hand and obviously being comfortable with throwing it in there. I'm taking baby steps in coming back to practice [on Wednesday] and today, trying to get a few more reps, and become more comfortable throwing it in there when it's live action."
If Matthews is going to play on Sunday, he'll have to do it with a club on his hand to protect his injured thumb. "I've been in a cast before for games but not a club, so we'll see come Sunday," Matthews said.
Playing linebacker in the NFL with only one healthy hand isn't easy, according to Matthews. "I feel like in my position, obviously, you need to have great hands, and when you take one away, it definitely hinders your game a little bit," he said. "You just try to use it as much as you can [as] a normal hand, sticking it in there and being comfortable with it. I'm more comfortable than I was [Wednesday] but I need to continue to be able to stick it in there a little bit more."
The Packers still have one more practice on Friday, which gives Matthews another day to get used to his clubbed hand, "Hopefully by the time Sunday rolls around it will be as if playing with two hands, just one is clubbed up," Matthews said.
Green Bay could also have linebacker Nick Perry back on Sunday too. Perry broke his foot in Week 6 against the Ravens and finally returned to practice this week. "I'm hoping Nick can go this week," coach Mike McCarthy said.
The Packers will need all the defense they have on Sunday against Philadelphia. The Eagles will be bringing the NFL's fourth-ranked offense to Lambeau Field.


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I just wanted to get the MB's opinion of City and Colour and Dallas Green as a musician. I'm a big fan and I just don't think that musicians with the talent like Dallas Green get the recognition they deserve in this day and time. For those that might not have heard of City and Colour, it is the ...
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@echelon11 ive had some problems with my iphone thoughone of the sensors have been triggered in the sim bit.. could i say i have a dead pixel in my phone screen for a free replacement even if i cant see one? also does anyone know what to say to get a replacement without them looking at the sensors to see if theyve been triggered
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Hi Guys, similar to @EvilEmpire, I'm getting that overlap issue in Chrome 23.0.1271.95 on Windows 8.
Me too.
Same issue, same browser and OS. Last night refreshing didn't help but after I bounced around a few pages it seemed to fix itself. This morning nothing seems to be fixing it.
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Hi Guys, similar to @EvilEmpire, I'm getting that overlap issue in Chrome 23.0.1271.95 on Windows 8.
My page looks just like @echelon11
Running Win7 x64 with Chrome 24.0.1312.35 beta-m. I've done a few Shift+F5's and it hasn't fixed. For what it's worth, page looks great in IE9. :)
EDIT: Wait, what? It just fixed itself after I changed the header to blockheads. I'm confused.
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Try either Pastebot: http://tapbots.com/software/pastebot/
What I really want is an app that lets me quickly and easily pass data from my clipboard to any other device's clipboard. A Paste From... option, or similar.


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- By Christopher Campbell
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As far as I can tell, regular folk don't care for movies about movies or films about filmmaking. They used to, back when Hollywood was a more glamourous and idolized place for Americans. Classics like Sunset Boulevard, Singin' in the Rain, The Bad and the Beautiful and the 1954 version of A...
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If Jesus or Tupac ever finally return like we've all been saying they will, they should probably do it in a Judd Apatow film or something like that. We love cameos, don't we? It's especially delightful when it's extremely unexpected, and of course extra points if they are playing themselves...
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I don't know if it's true or not. I did IVF and I'm having a boy. I have a friend who had a girl through IVF.
Jenn -->^Jackson^(1-4-12)@19 weeks, Sarah 4/23/13
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i thought they let u choose with IVF? they asked my friend what she wanted when she had her IVF and they just chose the boy sperm instead of a girl sperm to inject into the egg....
Jen & D
Jamie Natalia born at 29 weeks 2lbs 3oz 14in. We are so happy she's home
2 losses, James at 19 weeks 8/20/2009, 1st trimester loss 2/10/11
My friend did IVF and had twins- one boy, one girl.
married to DH (2005)~ DD1 (2009)~DD2 (2012)~DD3 (2014)
...the universe is unfolding as it should.
With IVF there is still a 50/50 chance of having a boy or girl. It's IUI that and TIC that carry a higher risk of having a boy. That is what my pamplet from the fertility office said. However, I still think there is a 50/50 chance no matter what. But, that is just my non professional opinion.
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QOP dominating invoker, with invoker being his typical arrogant self
Ivoker owns QoP in lane haha
Why the my favourite should be done like this..
Here I thought his name was Garrel, which was later changed into Carl?
His name is Carl Carl, the Invoker: Master of the Arcane!
His name is Kael.
Throughout the aeons I have been known by many names…but his true name of power…is Carl.
Scream bloody' Murder
invoker can kill 3 QOF without even changing his skills
Quickly Carl! Use eewrwwwrqwerqqqrwwer!
good stuff but QOP doesnt dominate invoker :/ atleast not mine ^^
*sputters for a few seconds*
"...or, in short, Carl!"
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Watch This: Watchmen Deleted Scene Shows Hollis Mason's Death
- By Neil Miller
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A new deleted scene from the director's cut of Watchmen reveals how Hollis Mason meets his end....
SXSW: Two Sexy New Clips from 'Women in Trouble'
- By FSR Staff
- @rejectnation
- March 18, 2009
One of our favorite films from this year's South by Southwest (SXSW) Film Festival was undoubtedly Sebastian Gutierrez's Women in Trouble. Therefore we've scored two clips from two of our favorite scenes and we'd like to share them with you....
SXSW Video Interview: The Sexy, Talented 'Women in Trouble'
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- @scottmbeggs
- March 17, 2009
Carla Gugino. Connie Britton. Marley Shelton. Cameron Richardson. Emmanuelle Chriqui. Rya Kihlstedt. And Sebastian Gutierrez, the pied-piper who got them all to strip down to their underwear. They all sit down with Cole Abaius to discuss the brilliance of their latest film. ...
SXSW Review: Women in Trouble
- By Neil Miller
- @rejects
- March 16, 2009
What does it take to make a good, honest comedy driven by a cast completely comprised by women? For one, it needs to take its female characters seriously. Take for example, Sebastian Gutierrez's new film Women in Trouble....
FSR's Weekly Report Card for 03.13.09
- By Kevin Carr
- @kevincarr
- March 13, 2009
Kevin Carr reviews this week's new movies: Race to Witch Mountain, Last House on the Left and Miss March....
One Gigantic Watchmen Photo Gallery to Rule Them All
- By Neil Miller
- @rejects
- February 13, 2009
Warner Bros. has released their final round of photos for the upcoming costumed hero flick Watchmen, and instead of just picking out the 30 or so new images from the bunch we've decided to just give you everything -- all 58 officially released photos in glorious high resolution....
Look! Brand New 'Watchmen' Photos! And One's Hilarious!
- By Rob Hunter
- @FakeRobHunter
- January 31, 2009
You'll probably want to get used to posts like this from now until March 6th when Watchmen hits theaters. The Warner Bros. marketing machine is working overtime to ensure that Zack Snyder's love letter to fanboys will also appeal to guys that have girlfriends....
Watch: The Rock, Stormtroopers, Disney's 'Witch Mountain' Superbowl Spot
- By Neil Miller
- @rejects
- January 30, 2009
For some reason, this year's Superbowl commercials -- at least the movie related variety -- all seem to be showing up on the web prior to Sunday's big game. If you ask me, it just doesn't seem right. Either way, this new Race to Witch Mountain clip isn't half bad......
Carla Gugino's Turn to Porn Gives New Meaning to Body of Work
- By Adam Sweeney
- December 16, 2008
She's been turning heads for years, now Carla Gugino is ready to give everyone whiplash as she tackles the role of a porn star in Elektra Luxx....
Sexy Time: Carla Gugino is a Porn Star 'In Trouble'
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- @rejects
- December 3, 2008
Of all the things we love, Carla Gugino is definitely near the top. So to hear that Gugino's next role might be as a smokin' hot porn star makes us, well, happy....
Trailer Watch: The Rock in 'Race to Witch Mountain'
- By Neil Miller
- @rejects
- November 17, 2008
Didn't The Rock learn anything from Vin Diesel's foray into the world of family action comedies -- I think we all remember how The Pacifier worked out, and Race to Witch Mountain has all the potential workings of a similar fate....
Watchmen Video Journal: Girls Kick Ass
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It is the 6th of the month and Watchmen fans know what that means -- time for another behind the scenes video journal....
Carla Gugino Spices up 'Every Day'
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- October 13, 2008
It doesn't take detailed instructions to understand why we've got the hots for Carla Gugino -- in fact, we only really need the opportunity to post a few images......
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- September 29, 2008
Ari finally shows interest in Eric's screenwriters and their script, but it may be too late. The writing duo see this additional interest and decide that they should be making more money. Drama has come to terms with his recent break-up and is preparing to make an appearance on The...
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The gang starts to face the reality of their financial situation after a meeting with their accountant. In an effort to avoid declaring bankruptcy, Vince accepts $200k for an appearance at a Sweet Sixteen party....
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- September 12, 2008
Die-hard Pacino and De Niro fans will enjoy seeing their favorite actors on the screen, but my suggestion for this movie is to go in with as low of expectations as you can....
If you head out to the theaters this weekend to see Robert DeNiro and Al Pacino share the screen in Righteous Kill, be sure to toast this team-up of legendary crime film stars....
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I have a feeling that between now and March 6, 2009, the day Zack Snyder's Watchmen hits theaters, I will run out of puns related to the word watch. ...
Comic-Con Report: The Watchmen Get Deep Into Character
- By Scott Beggs
- @scottmbeggs
- July 25, 2008
After seeing the extended footage earlier, and hearing the way these actors approached this film - like a passion project that happened to be backed by millions of dollars -Cole Abaius is even more sold on how fantastic Watchmen is going to be....
Sally Jupiter: Watchmen's Smokin' Hot Pinup
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Princeton Rep Co. has returned to Pettoranello Gardens for an al fresco production of Shakespeare's "King Lear." A natural woodland asset was the cicadas, chirping throughout the performance. The roar added an atmospheric ambiance to the tragedy, but this "Lear" lacks weight and wonder, and the poetic peaks are severely harnessed.
Princeton Rep Co. has returned to Pettoranello Gardens for an al fresco production of Shakespeare's "King Lear." A natural woodland asset was the cicadas, desperate for rain, chirping throughout the performance. The roar added an atmospheric outdoor ambiance to the epic tragedy, but this "Lear" lacks weight and wonder, and the poetic peaks are severely harnessed.The Lear of Richard Bourg is earnest but none too interesting. His monarch is little more than a vain, doddering old man, lacking in thunder. He is more an ill-tempered, foolish and testy curmudgeon, short of ferocity. Bourg shouts and grumbles to express emotion, with little variety in his delivery, and one fears his voice will give out before show's end. He's most effective in his late reconciliation with estranged daughter Cordelia, his searing howl of grief after her death appropriately numbing. Alicia Goranson, best know as precocious teen daughter Becky on TV's "Roseanne," doubles as Cordelia and the Fool. She fares better as the loyal but misunderstood Cordelia. Her Fool, unfortunately, is crudely misconceived. Goranson never gets under the surface of the character, missing the pain and whimsy, the wit and compassion. An oddly uncomfortable image found her hopping about like Laughton's Quasimodo. In more fanciful moments, she plucks a mandolin and sings her own songs in a futile attempt to avert Lear's progressive signs of madness. Other perfs run from confident and assured to indifferent and amateur. As Goneril, Faye Ann Lee is rather mechanical, falling short of the necessary chill. Nell Gwynn's stately Regan is most effective. She's icy, ruthless and maliciously focused. Gwynn also has a knowing command of the language. Tom Biglin as Edgar, Gloucester's worthy son, is quite good, and his swordplay (staged by Jason Weiss) with the treacherous Edmund (Eric Alperin) has a breathtaking edge. The most telling performance is given by Burt Edwards as the Earl of Gloucester. He is every bit a figure of noble suffering, particularly in one of the Bard's most chilling scenes, the blinding of Gloucester. Edwards' turns it into a pitiable episode. "Modern dress" shouldn't mean visually dull, but the costume design by Frank Chavez did precious little to enhance the action and the mood. The physical production is sparse, with little scenery and fewer props, though the amphitheater makes an atmospheric and practical stage. The play was economically staged by the company's artistic director, Victoria Liberatori, who kept the action fluid and well-paced. Liberatori also is credited with the pointed lighting design, which sharpened as the sun set. Only the storm scene fell short of fury and strength.
King Lear
Princeton Rep Co.; Pettoranello Gardens Amphitheater, Princeton, N.J.; 300 seats; $10 donation
A Princeton Rep Co. presentation of the play by William Shakespeare, in two acts. Directed by Victoria Liberatori.
Set, David Esler; costumes, Frank Chavez; lighting, Liberatori; sound, Fitz Patton; stage manager, James W. Carringer. Artistic director, Liberatori. Opened Aug. 8, 2002. Reviewed Aug. 17. Running time: 3 HOURS.
King Lear - Richard Bourg Cordelia/Fool - Alicia Goranson Goneril - Fay Ann Lee Regan - Nell Gwynn Earl of Gloucester - Burt Edwards Edmund - Eric Alperin Edgar - Tom Biglin Kent - George Tynan Crowley Duke of Albany - Erik Sherr Duke of Cornwall - Michael Warner King of France/Oswald - Jason Weiss Duke of Burgundy - Ryan Quinn


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From Bay Street to Ottawa and back again.
That's been the career path for David Wolf, who was just named Fidelity Investments Canada's newest portfolio manager.
Mr. Wolf used to work on Bay Street, at both RBC Dominion Securities and Merrill Lynch Canada, but he left for Ottawa in 2009, where he served as adviser to former Bank of Canada governor Mark Carney.


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both the European Medicines Agency (EMA) and the US Food and Drug
Administration (FDA) by the end of this year.
The extension study enrolled patients from two pivotal phase III trials, which were completed in 2011. In the first study, CARE-MS I, Lemtrada met the first primary endpoint. Results showed that treatment with two annual cycles of Lemtrada resulted in a 55% reduction in the relapse rate compared to Pfizer / Merck KGaA 's ( PFE / MKGAF ) Rebif over the two-year span of the study. However, Lemtrada failed to achieve statistical significance for the second primary endpoint. Results showed that 8% of patients treated with Lemtrada had a sustained increase in their Expanded Disability Status Scale (EDSS) score (or worsening) compared to 11% of patients on Rebif.
In the second study, CARE-MS II, Lemtrada met both the primary endpoints. Results showed that treatment with Lemtrada resulted in a 49% reduction in the relapse rate compared to Rebif, over a two-year period. Additionally, Lemtrada showed a 42% reduction in the risk of sustained accumulation (worsening) of disability
The extension study enrolled more than 90% of the MS patients who received Lemtrada in the phase III pivotal studies. The interim results from the first year of the extension study demonstrated that 67% of the patients from CARE-MS I study and 55% patients from CARE-MS II study were relapse-free in the first year.
We are pleased with Sanofi's efforts to develop its pipeline, which should fetch significant revenue contributions upon approval. We believe that the pipeline at Sanofi must deliver, since many of its drugs are facing generic competition.
Sanofi carries a Zacks Rank #3 (Hold) in the short run. However, other large cap pharma stocks such as Novo Nordisk ( NVO ) currently look more attractive with a Zacks Rank #2 (Buy).
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