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Trail of Secretsby Eileen Goudge
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A psychologist, haunted by the kidnapping of her baby daughter 23 years ago, decides to try adoption. Her missing daughter, now grown up and pregnant, hears of a woman desperate for a child. Thus Eileen Goudge sets the stage for a story rich with drama and delicious family secrets. Online promo. HC: Viking.
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It's 1972 when Ellie, a good girl from the Midwest whose parents kicked her out when she got pregnant (it was her "first time"), returns to the Manhattan apartment where her hooker sister Nadine has been baby-sitting Ellie's infant daughter Bethanne. But to Ellie's horror, while she's been working the late shift selling movie tickets, Nadine's been beaten to a pulp by her pimp, whoworse yetmade off with Betanne (telling Nadine, who later dies of a drug overdose, that blue-eyed babies are hot on the black market). Waspy Kate Suttonwife of the also blue-blooded Will, co- owner of an antiques store, and someone who's been craving motherhood for yearsis so elated when her husband's attorney suddenly "locates" an adoptable baby that she forces herself to ignore the revealing photos and news bulletins about Bethanne's kidnapping. As it happens, the child grows up as Skyler Sutton, a lovely, smart, gifted equestrienne who's been told by the Suttons since the age of six that she was abandoned by her "real" mother. Meanwhile, Ellie's never forgotten Bethanne, of course, but she's managed to put herself through night- and then graduate school, become a psychologist, and marry Paul Nightingale, a neonatologist who has trouble dealing with Ellie's desperate, always doomed attempts to become a mother again. When the 23-year-old Skyler/Bethanne meets Tony Salvatore, a friend of Ellie's and a mounted policeman from the wrong side of the tracks (but with a heart of gold), all hell breaks loose: Secrets leak, wounds reopen, another baby is bornand Goudge plays fix-it with her customary zeal, providing far-fetched but satisfying conclusions.
A relatively guilt-free, toothsome treat: Goudge doesn't aim too high, but then again, unlike overshooters, she hits her mark.
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Trail of Secrets
By Eileen Goudge
OPEN ROAD INTEGRATED MEDIACopyright © 1996 Eileen Goudge
All rights reserved.
Northfield, Connecticut, 1980
There were times when she could forget. Moments. Hours. Sometimes a whole day would go by and Kate would realize as she was brushing her teeth or easing into bed that it had not once entered her mind—the terrible secret that was as deeply lodged in her as the steel pins in her shattered left femur; a secret accompanied by a shame that, like the pain in her leg and hip, ebbed and flowed in darkness.
Today was one of those days.
Standing at the Stony Creek Farm schooling ring fence, watching eight-year-old Skyler, astride her bay pony, sail over a course of cross-rails and oxers and vertical jumps, Kate Sutton felt not only proud, but, well ... blessed.
My daughter, she thought. Mine.
She remembered Skyler at age two, first time in the saddle, her tiny feet barely reaching the stirrups at their highest notch. From that day on, she couldn't be pried off. As if all along—Who could doubt it? Just look at her!—Skyler had been destined for this. To be her child, and grow up at Orchard Hill, with its century-old stone stable, its acres of green to be galloped across and its boxwood hedges to jump.
And what luck that Stony Creek—one of the finest riding schools in the country—was situated only a few miles from their place, at the north end of the meadow where Willoughby Road forked off toward the village. With Skyler practically living here every summer, and on weekends the rest of the year, Duncan MacKinney had become almost a second father to Skyler—as he had to Kate growing up. Though you'd never know it to hear him barking orders at her now.
"Release! Shoulders back! You're hanging on his bloody neck!"
The former Olympic gold medalist, tall, whippet-lean, with a mane of graying red hair crowning a frame grown more imperial with each passing decade, stood straight as a flagpole in the center of the ring.
Skyler, her small face grim with concentration, shifted sideways a bit and shortened her left rein, cutting Cricket in a diagonal across the ring. At fourteen-two hands, the spirited pony would have been a handful for someone twice Skyler's size—aggressively forward, and forever trying to ride off the bit. Skyler, though, had him perfectly in hand. She sat erect, her narrow back slightly arched as she guided the pony with hand and leg movements so subtle they would have gone unnoticed by an eye less practiced than Kate's.
The picture Skyler made in her boots and breeches, with her hair tucked up under her helmet, brought a smile of recognition. At home, among her collection of faded ribbons and trophies, Kate had photos of herself on her first pony, looking very much as Skyler did now—long-legged and slim as a crop, head high, with her gaze set on some distant horizon as if anticipating that something wonderful would be waiting for her when she got there.
These days, whenever she looked in the mirror, instead of peering anxiously at tiny wrinkles and gray hairs the way another thirty-six-year-old woman might, what Kate saw was the unremarkable brown of her hair, while her daughter's was the pale gold of a Grimm's fairytale child, and her own gray-green eyes in a John Singer Sargent face that bore no resemblance to Skyler's.
I thought I knew what lay ahead, but I didn't have a clue ...
"He was half a stride short on that last jump." Skyler's clear, piping voice punctuated the August heat that had settled over the ring like an upended bowl. "It felt like he was rushing it."
"Try it again. Bring him around at a working trot," ordered Duncan with a maestrolike swoop of his long arm, stirring the dust that hung in the air, as still as the shade of the beech tree under which Kate stood. "Easy does it. Nice and collected. You're hanging on the bit—loosen up."
"I'm taking that one." Skyler pointed toward an ascending oxer at the far end of the ring—three horizontal poles at ascending heights spaced no more than six inches apart.
Kate, with a sharp intake of breath, judged the highest of the oxer's three poles to be between four and five feet.
"Over my dead body." Duncan's face, long like the rest of him and weathered the color of an old girth strap, was ruddy with outrage.
"I can do it." There was nothing defiant in the way Skyler stood up to him. She was stating it simply as a matter of fact. "I've jumped every other one. It's not that much higher than the triple bar."
"When I say you're ready is when you'll be jumping anything higher than my kneecap," he thundered.
Skyler laughed, sending a shiver up Kate's spine. Kate knew that laugh—not insolent, as Skyler's teachers at school insisted. It was just Skyler's way, when brought short by some well-meaning but clearly misguided adult, of showing that she knew better.
But too often there was a gap between what Skyler believed she could handle and what she actually could. An image flashed through Kate's mind: Skyler darting across the avenue in midtown Manhattan during rush hour to rescue an injured pigeon. Six years old, dodging cars and taxis, ignoring her mother's screams as Kate dashed after her.
Now it was Duncan whose shouts Skyler was ignoring as she brought Cricket around in a direct line with the jump. Head up, measuring the pony's stride, giving him the correct signals—she was so damn good, it didn't seem fair to hold her back. Even as Kate's own cry of "Don't!" fought its way free of her throat, she was aware of a familiar tingle spreading through her, a ghost of the adrenaline rush she used to get when approaching a jump.
But along with the remembered thrill, the old terror shot a cold bolt through her chest. She gripped the fence so tightly that she could feel its rough edges driving tiny splinters into her palm.
Kate sucked in a deep breath of air seasoned with the smell of manure and tanbark. Four and a half feet, she told herself. At last month's Pony Club rally, in the under-twelve jumper class, Skyler had taken a vertical almost that high. And she not only just made it over, but added a red ribbon to the blue she'd won in the point-to-point.
Kate nevertheless found her eye straying to the cane propped against the fence post where she stood. Made of plain mahogany, it was sturdy and unpretentious. It didn't draw attention to her physical limitations; it merely served as a reminder of the crippling accident that had resulted, through a bizarre flip-flop of fate, in their adopting Skyler. A kind of talisman.
But no talisman was going to protect her now, she thought, watching in helpless, terrified awe as her daughter urged her pony in to the oxer. Kate, her heart in her throat, watched Skyler lean forward slightly, one hand grabbing a handful of mane, the other forming a bridge with the reins across the pony's crest. Her heels were down, and her little acorn of a bottom rose just enough for a child's fist to have comfortably fit between the saddle and the leather seat of her breeches.
But the damn pony wasn't focusing. With the jump half a stride off, he picked up with a sudden burst of speed ... rushing it ... then braking inches from the first rail and cutting sharply to the left.
In horror, Kate watched her eight-year-old cannon from the saddle, and fly headfirst into the wing stand with a sickening crack.
For a long, dreadful moment, Skyler didn't move. Then, in a quick movement that was more a spasm, she rolled into a sitting position. Her helmet was off, Kate saw. Its chin strap must have popped with the force of the impact.
Kate's paralyzed heart squeezed out a beat. "Don't move!" she yelled.
But Skyler was already on her feet, tottering unsteadily. She took two steps before collapsing, her slender form folding downward with a weird grace, like a dress slipping off its hanger.
Kate fumbled with the latch and was through the gate. Ignoring the pain that sluiced through her left leg like kerosene, she ran ... faster than she would have believed possible, her shadow lurching out over the tanbark. Faster even than Duncan, whom she could see out of the corner of her eye loping in her direction.
By the time she reached the small figure lying unconscious near the center of the ring, Kate's leg and hip were on fire. It would have been agony just to lower herself into a chair, but without a moment's hesitation she was on her hands and knees.
Skyler, sprawled on her back, looked queerly flattened somehow ... and so pale, her mouth an ashy thumbprint in a face the color of bleached bones. An angry red knot the size of a crab apple was forming just below her hairline. Kate, too stricken even to cry out, rocked back on her heels, a hand flying to her chest.
Please ... O dear God let her be all right ... please ...
She was only peripherally aware of Duncan dropping down beside her as she stroked Skyler's hair where it had come loose from its ponytail. She smoothed back wisps as fine as goose down from Skyler's temples. "Sky. Listen to me, baby. You're going to be okay. Do you hear me? You're going to be just fine."
She fixed her gaze on her daughter's still face, willing Skyler's mouth to twitch in the smile that always gave away her game of pretending to be asleep.
"Let me have a look."
At Duncan's clipped command, Kate shifted her gaze to the gaunt form hunkered alongside her. She watched as he expertly ran his hand down the limp arm angling from the sleeve of Skyler's blue-and-yellow Stony Creek Farm T-shirt. His silver-blue eyes, in the creased leather of his face, were bright and hard as buckles.
"Nothing broken." His gravelly voice with its Highlands cadence revealed not even a hint of the panic he surely must be feeling.
In the same way she'd often seen him run his hand down a horse's leg, feeling for a swollen knee or fetlock, or a hot hoof that might lead to lameness, Duncan applied feather-light touches to Skyler's rib cage and legs. Kate, calmed by the gentle motion of the trainer's knotted brown hand, felt her heartbeat slow a bit.
"She'll be fine. She will." Kate heard in her own voice a desperate need to convince herself.
But there were no assurances to be had, and she knew it.
Kate instead found herself anchored by Duncan's steady gaze. "She's a hardheaded one," he said with gruff gentleness. "Like her mother. She'll come out of it all right."
It was that promise Kate clung to as the ambulance shrieked down Hickory Lane under the drowsy shade of spreading oaks, past Constable landscapes of horses and cows grazing in sunlit fields.
God, don't take her from me, she prayed even while cursing the winding road, unpaved in spots, preserved in all its rustic charm by her grandfather and Will's when they'd built their adjoining estates.
Staring down at her daughter's pale, still form strapped to the gurney, it all came rushing back—eight years ago, the morning Kate had innocently dropped by the Stop & Shop for a quart of milk ... and had walked away with a lifetime's supply of heartache. On her way out of the store, glancing at the newspapers stacked below the bulletin board, a frightening headline had caught her eye: PLEASE DON'T HURT MY BABY!
Furtively scanning the story about a distraught young mother whose baby girl had been kidnapped the week before, Kate had grown so dizzy that one of the checkers, Louise Myers, had insisted on escorting her to the employees' lounge. But even sitting down, with a wad of paper towels soaked in cold water pressed to her forehead, Kate had felt her head spin as she refused to accept what her heart knew: the baby girl she and Will had taken home with them just days ago—the blond, blue-eyed angel they'd fallen instantly, passionately in love with—didn't belong to them after all. Their lawyer claimed she'd been found abandoned in a Lower East Side tenement with no birth certificate, no papers of any kind, to identify her; but in truth she was the child of a woman who very much wanted her back.
A closer look at the grainy photo of mother and child that accompanied the article had only confirmed Kate's suspicion.
Oh, how easily deceived she and Will had been! Too dazed by their good fortune to look any further than the sweet-faced infant swaddled in a pink blanket. More questions might have led to answers they didn't want to hear. And, anyway, why should they have doubted their lawyer? Grady Singleton wasn't some sleazy Hell's Kitchen practitioner; he had offices on Wall Street and had come highly recommended by Kate's father. And the document he'd showed them seemed legitimate—an order signed by a judge.
Instead, gazing rapturously at the pink bundle in her arms, Kate had told herself, She was meant for us all along. Four years before, when she'd fallen from her horse going over a vertical at the Hampton Classic, she'd done more than smash her leg. She'd lost the baby she was carrying as well. After the surgery, when she'd been told she would never have another child, Kate had fallen into a depression so deep that whole days would go by when she couldn't get out of bed. Back then, she would not have believed she could ever feel this blessed.
They named her Skyler, after Kate's grandmother, Lucinda Skyler Dawson.
A sharp swerve drove Kate's shoulder into the side of the ambulance with a painful thump. She sat up straight and looked out the window. They'd passed through the village with its quaint Victorian-style shops and eateries, and were fast approaching the south side of town, where the parklike grounds of Northfield Community Hospital loomed like an oasis.
At the red-curbed emergency entrance, the ambulance lurched to a halt. Then hands, so many hands, stirring the air around her, adjusting straps, lowering the collapsible stretcher, lifting, pushing. Hands under Kate's elbow, steadying her, as Skyler's motionless form was whisked down a fluorescent-lit corridor.
Watching her daughter disappear from view, Kate stopped short as abruptly as a bird smacking into a windowpane.
Leaning heavily on her cane to blunt the spur of pain that had settled into her hip, she had to force herself to move, slogging her way through what felt like knee-deep ditch water as she made her way past the half-dozen or so patients clustered near the admitting desk. Behind the counter, a heavyset woman in a light-blue smock coat was helping an elderly man with a form that seemed to be taking him forever to fill out. Kate felt like screaming.
Mercifully, she was spared from doing so by the appearance of a second clerk, a curly- haired young woman with a chipped front tooth. As soon as Kate uttered her last name, nodding wearily in response to raised eyebrows, and saying yes, that Sutton, she was briskly escorted down the hall. When she was younger, it had bothered Kate a great deal, the obsequiousness of the villagers. But she was used to it by now, and at this moment profoundly grateful to Will's great-grandfather, Leland Sutton, for having bequeathed to the township, along with an endowment of three hundred million, the land on which Northfield Community Hospital had been built.
But no amount of family influence could protect Kate against the panic that mounted with each labored step as she neared the waiting area outside Radiology. Limping past cozy groupings of sofas and chairs, she lowered herself onto the molded plastic seat of a pay phone as if it were a lifeboat.
Will. She had to reach Will somehow.
Kate struggled to remember the complicated codes for England before giving up and dialing the operator, to whom she recited the number for the London office of Sutton, Jamesway & Falk.
No answer. When she remembered the five-hour time difference, she called the Savoy, but Will wasn't at his hotel either. Hanging up, Kate wanted to put her head down and cry.
If only someone would tell her what was happening. It was bad, she knew. But just how bad?
Fear surged in on a riptide. I'm being punished. I kept quiet even after I knew she'd been stolen. Now she's being taken away from me.
Kate had no idea how long she sat there in her tanbark-flecked khaki trousers and red- and-white checked shirt, hands knuckled over the curved handle of her cane. It could have been minutes or hours. When the sandy-haired doctor in the white lab coat appeared before her, she blinked in surprise, as if she'd been caught napping.
Excerpted from Trail of Secrets by Eileen Goudge. Copyright © 1996 Eileen Goudge. Excerpted by permission of OPEN ROAD INTEGRATED MEDIA.
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Meet the Author
Eileen Goudge is the author of several New York Times bestsellers, including Trail of Secrets, Thorns of Truth, One Last Dance, and The Second Silence, available from Brilliance Audio. Several of her novels were book club main selections. She lives in Manhattan with her husband, radio journalist Sandy Kenyon.
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I liked the suspense of the book, and the Ellie and Tony characters were goodhearted and kind & you felt for them. However, I really didn't care that much for the Sutton family. Kate's actions in the hospital at the beginning of the book were cold. Yes, I understood that she really wanted a child, but the fact that she KNEW the truth about Skyler and didn't reveal it was really selfish. Also, I thought that Skyler was a bit of a selfish spoiled brat also, attempting to keep Tony out of her decision about THEIR child. Also, it was unclear to me WHY Skyler even NEEDED to choose adoption, seeing as how she came from a wealthy family. ??? However, I would recommend the book to readers that like suspense and big, juicy secrets.
The story was a beautiful plot full of love and devotion to hide deep secrets. The plot brought together many peoples lives hidden by shocking secrets. Discovery and finally knowing dreams do come true brings the story to a final climax. God's "miracle" shows how obstacles can be challenged but come to a final good conclusion. Three women are linked together as life thrusts upon them hurt, betrayal, and finally love. A true romantic and touching tale. Each woman shows great compassion and is truly loved by three men. Sexual, showing great passion between these three women and the men who have won their hearts. It was a timeless romantic plot and loved reading it to the end. Couldn't put the book down until I had to close my eyes and go to sleep. The book was immediately picked up the next day to continue on with the story to see how it ends. Cherry Blossom


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Very nice! Who did your gunsmithing?
well waited 6 months to get my pre ban 74 and here she is all dress up in polish wood and russian plastic mag.......
Very nice! Who did your gunsmithing?
Looks great!
I am really beginning to like the Krinkov flash hider.
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Very cool. He is one of the bestestOriginally Posted by nomad9
On the Krink comp I did not knew that it worked on 16" barrels but beleive it or not the climb has completely been eliminated as it is there is very little recoil on the 5.45 Cal.......... but I am a beleiver now... it actually worked I had 100 rnds and absolutely no muzzle climb ...
This is my rifle, there are many like it, but this one is mine
I've never shot one with that FH on it but I was around a 7.62 SBR Krink with one on it and the "blast" was tremendous. It also was "deafeningly" loud.
But it looks great. What made you go with the Polish wood over the black plastic?
On krinks that is the most talked about problem as this tube is just a Flash Hider isf any one can make a compensator for krinks that wil be a gold mine!!!! so far the noise on this 74 is probably less then a M4 with a 14.5" as I shot side by side with my friend he had a M16A1 in M4 Config but he showed more signature and report we here shooting around 18:45 hrs ....definately a big difference........on the wood I just like the retro look I have a set of russian plum grip and handguards as you see in the picture....
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Well no AK project is complete with one of these........for people that do not like the Noise...
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who makes the wooden pistol grip.
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We'll get to all that in a post a bit later Monday morning, but those teams rhyme with Bicago, Letroit and Vinnesota. First, however, let's catch up on a few items of weekend news.
The big story coming out of this weekend's Fan Fest in Green Bay was that the Packers don't plan to retire Brett Favre's No. 4 jersey this season for reasons that team president/CEO Mark Murphy articulated here. But the most interesting note that jumped out to me was new veteran Aaron Kampman's decision to decline interview requests about his move from defensive end to linebacker.
As Jason Wilde of the Wisconsin State Journal notes, Kampman is one of the Packers' most media-friendly players. He is a not a rock-the-boat character by any means. But he understands the media game and has always been willing to answer any question while simultaneously avoiding any inflammatory comments.
All of which makes you wonder why Kampman has shut down the interview circuit this offseason and whether it relates to his mid-career position switch -- one that on paper, at least, figures to be a challenge. Defensive coordinator Dom Capers said over the weekend that Kampman had some understandable concerns about the move, but by all accounts the plan to use him at linebacker is moving forward.
Kampman will no doubt bear down and do what's asked of him. But does he think it's a good idea? That's for another time -- and question.
Continuing around the NFC North on a busier-than-expected weekend:
Free-agent offensive lineman John St. Clair plans to visit Cleveland on Monday, according to Brad Biggs of the Chicago Sun-Times. That move means St. Clair isn't likely to be at the Bears' mandatory minicamp, which begins Tuesday. Chicago is trying to re-sign him to play right tackle and have offered a three-year, $4.5 million contract, according to Biggs.
Bears linebacker Nick Roach will sign his exclusive rights contract tender on Monday, Biggs reports. The formality allows Roach to participate in minicamp.
David Haugh of the Chicago Tribune has more questions than answers on the eve of Bears minicamp. Noting the possibility that only one defensive starter will change from last season, Haugh writes: "This is the most secure mediocre defense in the league."
Nicholas J. Cotsonika of the Detroit Free Press thinks the Lions have filled enough holes in free agency that they can enter the draft without being forced to address a particular need.
New Minnesota cornerback Karl Paymah upon signing with the Vikings: "I got the talent, but not the guidance. They got a legendary staff." Sean Jensen of the St. Paul Pioneer Press reports.


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Michele Bachmann's Challenger Only Wanted to Run Against Michele Bachmann
"Mission accomplished."
Amateur politician Jim Graves, the founder of a hotel chain, nearly beat Minnesota congresswoman Michele Bachmann in last year's election because she is crazy. He vowed to try again in 2014, but then Bachmann said she will not run again, so neither will Graves because he is not crazy. "Basically, after all that's gone on, and with Michele Bachmann now stepping down, I've been talking to my friends and family and frankly, the feeling is, 'Mission Accomplished," the Democrat told MinnPost today. "She wasn't representing the people of the 6th District appropriately, and now she won't be representing them. There's no way anyone could run and win who would be worse than Michele Bachmann. So we accomplished that task." Sure, okay!
Graves lost the House seat to Bachmann by just 1.2 percentage points in a district that Mitt Romney won with 56 percent of the vote, or his best in the state. In other words, against a qualified and sane Republican, he has no chance: "Charlie Cook, who analyzes every congressional district based on multiple factors, rates the district 'R +10,' which means a generic Republican should start out with roughly a 10-percentage-point lead over a generic Democrat. That makes the 6th the most Republican-leaning district in Minnesota."
Graves said "his plan is to give no interviews for a month so the spotlight can shift to others who want to enter the race from which he is withdrawing." Is that a Bachmann un-retiring we smell? Maybe if she decides to run again, Graves will, too, and they can keep playing chicken until Election Day.


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Ella Fitzgerald developed a love for music and singing while she was a young girl growing up in New York. She and her mother Tempie used to dance around their apartment while Ella's younger sister Frances repeatedly put the needle back to the beginning of the record so that they could dance and sing the day away. They had such a grand time that they forgot all about the washing and the ironing. The book Skit Skat Raggedy Cat Ella Fitzgerald by Roxanne Orgill and illustrated by Sean Qualls introduces us to the young Ella. At thirteen, Ella and her friend Charlie were singing and dancing on Morgan Street outside the apartment building. It was 1930 in Yonkers New York and people did not have much money. But some folks were able to spare some change for Ella and Charlie. They occasionally had a nickel or two tossed at them.
Charlie and Ella put their nickels together and they were able to take the Number 1 trolley to the end of the line. From there they climbed aboard the subway train to 125th Street. They were in Harlem. Ella watched the dancers at the Savoy Ballroom on Lenox Avenue. When Ella and Charlie danced outside the theatre, people tossed them their loose change. They were making more money than the shoeshine boys. Ella knew that she was going to be famous and she told everyone so.
Media ownership in the 21st century is a trickier concept than ever before. In light of the growing percentage of our books, music, movies, and software that is purely digital, that is to say, downloaded directly from the Internet, how is ownership defined? When music came on CDs and other physical formats, it was pretty easy to say, "This is my CD. I bought it. I do with it as I please." Of course, the recording industry would disagree, to the extent that while you might have purchased the medium, you only licensed the media. Now that the medium is largely ephemeral, so too is ownership. Add onto that digital rights management (DRM) that locks down and controls what you do with your "licensed" goods and ownership becomes a ghost of its former self. But do we really care?
Come join the England Run Branch for the monthly film series Classics in the Afternoon that celebrates the great pictures from the Golden Age of Hollywood!
On Thursday, May 12th at 2pm come see the Singin' Swingin' Glorious Feelin' Technicolor Musical about the difficulty of transitioning away from the silent screen and onto the silver screen, Singin' in the Rain (1952) starring Gene Kelly, Donald O'Conner, and Debbie Reynolds.
"We have no dinosaur, it says on a hand-lettered sign outside a farm that puts on rattlesnake rodeos."
--Werner Herzog
To find pleasure in Conquest of the Useless, you must have at least a passing familiarity with the filmmaker Werner Herzog. Herzog has been writing and directing films for five decades, but only a few of his movies have broken into the American mainstream. The most well known here are the documentary Grizzly Man and the Vietnam War film Rescue Dawn (starring Christian Bale).
Each of Herzog's works oozes with a mood of effortless intensity, as if he has summoned the stress and obsessions of humanity like moths to a flame. Whether it's Timothy Treadwell (Grizzly Man's protagonist, who lived with and was inevitably eaten by bears) or Nosferatu (from Herzog's 1979 remake), the director is singular in his subjects' driven focus on their goals and desire, no matter how self-destructive they may be.
The Stafford Chapter of the Friends of the Library will host a plant sale on Saturday, May 14, 9-Noon, at the England Run Branch. 10" hanging baskets of plants will be delivered direct from the grower - ferns are $14 and an assortment of annuals are $13 each. Friends will be on hand to offer assistance in choosing a plant for your deck or porch, whether it's a shade, partial shade, or sunny spot. The sale will be held rain or shine!
If there was one thing that people across the country could agree on right now, it would be the ridiculously high cost of today's college education. Most parents assume that student loans are a fact of life, and most students assume that student loan debt is a necessary and even positive thing. If you want to get a good job, it's commonly thought that going to a good college (chosen in part by U.S. News and World Report rankings) and getting a good name on your diploma simply costs money and there's nothing you can do about it.
This interview airs beginning May 11.
The England Run Branch, the eighth and newest branch of the Central Rappahannock Regional Library is located in Stafford County. It is a state-of-the-art facility with features that attract and encourage library use and make the library system readily available to a highly populated area. Debby Klein meets with Branch Manager Nancy Buck for a close look at the facility on CRRL Presents, a Central Rappahannock Regional Library production.
Come join the Rappahannock Film Club and the Central Rappahannock Regional Library for Il Postino at the Headquarters Library on Tuesday, May 10th at 7:00pm.
Lennie, a 17-year-old bookworm and band geek, has always walked, safe and happy, in the shadow of her dynamic older sister, Bailey. But when Bailey dies suddenly, Lennie is left to cope with life in this intense debut novel The Sky is Everywhere, by Jandy Nelson.


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U.S. Defends Its Human-Rights Record Before UN Council
The U.S. defended its human-rights record at home and abroad, saying the Obama administration has shown its commitment to closing the Guantanamo Bay detention center and ending discrimination, though more work must be done.
"We acknowledge imperfection," Michael Posner, assistant secretary for democracy, human rights and labor, told the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva today. "We debate it. We welcome and encourage the involvement of our civil society. Though we are proud of our achievements, we are not satisfied with the status quo."
Posner made the remarks at the start of a three-hour public debate on the U.S.'s human-rights record, the first time the government has subjected itself to the Human Rights Council's scrutiny. The Bush administration spurned the 47-member council because of the participation of what it deemed oppressive governments and the group's constant criticism of Israel.
Countries from Iran, Russia, Ecuador, China and Egypt pressed the U.S. to close the Guantanamo Bay prison, as Obama promised when he was elected, and to ratify international human-rights conventions. State Department legal adviser Harold Koh said the U.S. is working hard to close the facility and noted that through "diligent efforts," the number of detainees has dropped to 174 from 242 when Obama took office.
'Intensive Efforts'
"President Obama has clearly and unequivocally ordered and remains committed to the closure of Guantanamo as a facility," Koh said. "He cannot close Guantanamo alone. That also involves our allies, the courts and our Congress. Our intensive efforts to close Guantanamo go on every day."
Posner said the U.S. is "strongly committed" to adopting certain treaties aimed at fighting discrimination though, unlike other countries, it ensures domestic compliance before seeking ratification. A further constraint is the need for two-thirds of the Senate to back ratification, he said.
The U.S. is "committed to complying with the Constitution and all applicable domestic and international law, and to the idea that there are no 'law-free zones,'" Posner said.
Ambassadors from Nicaragua, Venezuela and Bolivia accused the U.S. of not cracking down on torture, with Cuba's Rodolfo Reyes Rodriguez saying the Obama administration had failed to "halt war crimes and the killing of civilians." Koh dismissed their claims, saying: "Let there be no doubt. The U.S. does not torture and it will not torture."
Death Penalty
Today's review comes just two weeks after WikiLeaks.org published 400,000 classified U.S. military documents on the Iraq war, renewing concern about allegations of torture and abuse stretching back to the Bush administration.
Delegates from most European Union nations, as well as Australia and Turkey, pressed the U.S. to impose a moratorium on executions and abolish the death penalty. The Swiss and Belgian ambassadors were among those who called for the U.S. to scrap life sentences without the possibility of parole for criminals who were minors when they committed a homicide.
Hillel Neuer, executive director of UN Watch, a Geneva-based non-governmental monitoring group, said non-democracies were allowed to "hijack the session for political propaganda and to drum up anti-American sentiment worldwide" by "stacking" the speakers list with "rogue regimes and other vehement critics."
The roughly 30-strong U.S. delegation included senior officials from 11 departments and agencies and advisers from civil society groups, said Assistant Secretary of State Esther Brimmer, who is also the American ambassador to the UN council.
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UN Watch said it discovered that Cuba had circulated an advance sign-up sheet so critics of Washington would dominate the three hours reserved for country statements on the U.S. record. While U.S. allies challenged the list last week, the UN allowed it to apply, the organization said.
Germany's ambassador took a swipe at those countries saying he hoped they'll show the same commitment when it comes to ensuring human rights in their own countries as they did today in criticizing the U.S.


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Drop 10 in 10: Week #7 Heart Health
Written by Your 5News Team
Last updated on October 29, 2013 @ 7:34PM
Created on October 29, 2013 @ 6:49PM
We're over half way for all of you out there trying to lose ten pounds in ten weeks. Each week we've been telling you why this program is so good for your health. Tuesday, the topic is how losing weight can help your heart health and reduce the risk factors for heart disease.
That's not all, by losing weight you lower your blood sugar, blood pressure, and you just all around feel better. When you lower your blood pressure you also bring down your risk of getting a heart attack. Another major part is lowering your bad cholesterol while raising your good cholesterol. When you lose ten pounds you reduce that bad cholesterol by ten percent.
So how do we keep shedding the pounds to keep our heart healthy? The answer is exercising for at least thirty minutes 6 days a week, eating in moderation, and trying to eliminate that extra grease. When you go out to a restaurant don't be afraid to make requests on how to make your meal or to take some home!
5 News talked to a specialist and she said how important your heart truly is.
"We can't function without keeping our heart pumping. So, keeping our heart healthy is extremely important for how we function. If people have a strong heart muscle they are able to function in the way they want to," said Cheryl Farley, Registered Nurse for Cardiac and Pulmonary Rehab at UHC.
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I am in at $8.35 a share and it continues to decline. Is it time to get out? I have the dividends reinvesting, but it's like 6 months of dividends are lost now.
The whole market is down. It will not rebound until the mess in Greece is fixed. It feels like a repeat of 2008. I went into hibernation back then until the market came back. It's a little too late to bail at this point IMO. You never know when it will reverse direction. At least you're getting a nice div.


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By George Cummins, Outdoors columnist
Summer is in full swing, and it never ceases to amaze me how fast time flies by. The days are about as long as they could be, and every corner of nature is teeming with life. This is about the time of the year that serious whitetail hunters get antsy. They start doing all that they can to tip the odds in their favor for a successful deer season.
The Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources will host a celebration in honor of National Hunting and Fishing Day according to a news release. The festivities will take place at the Salato Wildlife Education Center in Frankfort on Saturday, Aug. 6. Activities and demonstrations will run from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Admission is free during the event, according to the release.
By Lee McClellan
Ky. Dept. of Fish & Wildlife Resources
An old saying among bass anglers declares they would rather catch one bass on a top-water lure than 10 on anything else.
The shake-inducing strike of a huge black bass savaging a top-water lure at dawn is as addictive as free donuts in the break room at work. Once bitten by the top-water bug, it becomes part of your fishing arsenal for life.
The Anderson County 9- and 10-year-old All-Stars open play in the Little League state tournament Saturday in Richmond.
The tournament will be held at Lake Reba Complex. Anderson plays Glasgow Saturday at 2:30 p.m., then returns to play Owensboro Southern Sunday at noon.
The Anderson County High School softball program will be hosting the Lady Bearcat softball camp Aug. 8-10 at the high school field. The camp will be held from 6-8 p.m. each night and is open to players in the sixth grade and below. The cost for the camp is $35 per camper.
For more information, contact Lady Bearcat coach Brent Aldridge at 502-320-6543.
The inaugural Eric Chrisman Memorial 5K Walk/Run will be held on Saturday, Sept. 10 according to a news release.
The run, which will begin at 5:30 p.m., will benefit the Eric Chrisman Scholarship Fund and the Kentucky State Police Trooper Island.
The Chrisman Scholarship Fund benefits students attending the Christian Academy of Lawrenceburg. Chrisman, who had graduated from Christian Academy, was killed in an auto accident while responding to a call in Livingston County in June 2015.
Men's Sunday school
class meets
Sand Spring Baptist Church hosts a Men's Bible study class at 10 a.m. Sunday mornings in the church library.
Steve Vogelsberg will lead the group.
The church is located at 1616 Harrodsburg Road, Lawrenceburg.
Patriot Quartet
Homecoming concert
planned for July 15
Sand Spring Baptist Church will host a gospel concert at 7 p.m. July 15.
The Patriot Quartet will perform.
From staff reports
Kidz Mania! is the theme of Alton Baptist Church's vacation Bible school which is planned for July 18 through July 22 from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m.
Ned and his wife Joan, the creators of Kidz Mania! are professional illusionists, jugglers and family/kids evangelists based out of Louisville.
They have performed for Ringling Brother's/Barnum and Bailey Circus, Disneyland, Disney World, cruise ships and other notable places. They have also been featured performers with Kid's Gig, a part of the Billy Graham Crusade.
A new church, Faith Bible Baptist Church, has opened in Lawrenceburg.
Located at 209 East Woodford St. behind Scott Brown Karate School, the church is an independent and fundamental group that uses the King James Bible.
Congregants practice a traditional style of worship and "aim to evangelize the gospel to the unchurched, strengthen and help the dissatisfied members of the community that are not going to church," according to Pastor Nathan Mowery.
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Conair Conair Ceramic Brush
8 reviews
62% would repurchase
Package Quality: 4.5
Price: $$$
Package Quality: 4.5
Price: $$$
on 12/24/2012 11:59:00 AM
Age: 25-29
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Hair: Brunette, Straight, Fine
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I don't know why everyone loves this brush. It made my hair all staticy, tangled, dry, and frizzy. My main complaint is it is too big to handle with the hair dryler, it's like 4 1/2 in. I know I have the older style so maybe it improved a lot, but I donated mine cuz I never use it.
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Hair: Brown, Wavy, Fine
Eyes: Blue
I thought this brush was doing a good job until I bought the Marilyn Glamour brush. It turns out the round Conair brush I was using to blow dry my hair straight was doing only a mediocre job. The ceramic core does cut down on drying time, but this brush did not give me the perfectly straight, perfectly polished results that the Marilyn does. Furthermore, the Marilyn is easier to pull through my hair and doesn't cause as much breakage.
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on 6/15/2010 10:10:00 AM
Age: 44-55
Skin: Combination, Other, Not Sure
Hair: Blond, Other, Other
Eyes: Green
I love this, I was looking for a brush that would help straighten my curley hair so I didn't have to use my flat iron as much.
This does the trick, it comes in different size barrels, and flat and paddle styles.
It smooths my hair and is gentle.
Price is great.
I'm buying another one of these to keep in the car.
on 1/21/2006 1:34:00 PM
Age: 19-24
Skin: Acne-prone, Fair-Medium, Warm
Hair: Brown, Straight, Medium
Eyes: Brown
I love everything about this brush except the fact that it snags my hair so easily because there is a gap between the brush part and the handle. Owwww! It hurts like heck and damages my hair. It was designed poorly unfortunately.
**UPDATE** I aleviated the problem by taping around the part that was snagging my hair and voila, it works perfectly now.
on 11/24/2005 7:44:00 AM
Age: 36-43
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Hair: Brunette, Straight, Medium
Eyes: Hazel
Who knew??!! Its all in the BRUSH! This brush gives me the "blow out" look that I could only get from my hairdresser. I have very long, straight, color treated hair. This brush is EXCELLENT for smoothing and making hair look 100% shiny! I have been trying all kinds of products, conditioners, everything - this is all I needed! I have the large round brush, but I will purchase the regular flat brush soon....a MUST HAVE!
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Hair: Brunette, Other, Other
Eyes: Hazel
I have to start by saying that I didn't really believe a brush could make all the difference. I have to say I am a believer now. This brush was amazing!!!! I love how it feels when you brush your hair. The bristles are just the right length to give an invigorating scalp massage. I find I brush my hair at random times of the day b/c it feels so good. I also love how the brush glides through with ease and really makes your hair smooth and silky. It's a ceramic ring (or square in the case of my paddle brush) that really makes the difference. It works to reduce static and frizz and it's a godsend when combined with a blow dryer. The heat combined with the ceramic brush helps to really straighten and smooth hair. It's got an ergonomical handle which makes it easy to hold and a smooth polished deep cherry wood finish that just looks lovely. It may be slightly heavier than say a regular wooden brush but I'd say it's fairly lightweight given the ring of ceramic. I found this brush at Target for $7.99 which isn't bad at all considering the quality and performance you get. I LUV this brush !!!
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Good overall brush. Snags sometimes and sometimes adds static, but pretty great.
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This is the best hairbrush i ever used!! It heats up with my hairdryer and smooths or curls my hair...no frizzies!! I looove this!
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The Dothan Police Department is seeking the help of our local community in locating a man wanted for felony theft. Investigators say a recent investigation uncovered a number of electronic items stolen from Wal-Mart (4310 Montgomery Highway).
The items were seized as evidence and the investigation continued until police were able to identify the suspect, Collin Bennett.
Collin Bennett, black male, 19 years of age, of Midland City, Alabama is WANTED for Second Degree Theft.
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Victor Sloan: Northern Ireland One is published by Café Royal Books
Victor Sloan: Northern Ireland One is the first of a series of three books to be published during this year by Café Royal Books, Southport, England.
It features photographs taken in Craigavon, Lurgan and Portadown (County Armagh), and Dungannon (County Tyrone), during the 70s and 80s.
Café Royal Books produce publications predominantly documenting social, historical and architectural change.
Their publications are held in public collections, museums and galleries including the Museum of Modern Art, New York; Tate, Britain and Victoria and Albert Museum, London.
Publisher Craig Atkinson said emphasis "is given to work that encourages new ways of thinking about existing material or language which demonstrates the importance of using, documenting, collecting and observing a particular process or thing."
Café Royal Books has published the work of many renowned documentary photographers including Daniel Meadows, Martin Parr, Arthur Tress and Homer Sykes
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Released: Jul 01st, 2001
Running Time: 97
Director: Tom Stone
Companies: Silverstone Entertainment, Odyssey
Distribution Companies: Odyssey Group Video
Cast: Kid Jamaica, Claudia (I), Lee Stone, Richard (I), Lexington Steele, Ariel (I), Misty (II), Billy Glide, Sky (I), Sandy (IV) (Hungarian), Danielle (I), Melina (I), Ashley (I)
Critical Rating: AAA 1/2
Genre: Gonzo
A good complement to the PickUp Lines and Peeping Tom series, as most of the footage is taken from those shoots.
For those souls who lose sleep over wondering what it's like to sit on a real sex set, just like this reviewer used to, Odyssey Group Video has your demographic covered. With a vegetable platter, ranch dressing (think - catering) and this video, you too could live out the dream of being an AVN editor.
Though there is sex, the constants of jizz biz, like, for example, directors discussing sex positions with talent, and photographers shooting stills - lots and lots of stills - are well represented here.
Hardcore horndogs will dig the Lee Stone/Sky/Billy Glide threeway, where Sky hams it up, both with her sense of humor and succulent sexual performance with the woodsmen. But the sight of Sandy and Ashley fucking with a fake phallus, then cumming with a false orgasm might be too much information for some.
While a good choice for those who like to look at the nuts and bolts, those who feel the magic is gone once they know how Doritos are made might want to skip straight to the sex.


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Suicide Prevention and Awareness
Heroin Addiction and Support
InjectHope.com is a resource created by the Hamilton County Heroin Coalition. The site serves as a resource for finding rehabilitation facilities, shelters, and recovery housing for those in need of treatment. Click here to view a list of treatment centers in the Greater Cincinnati area.
NKY Hates Heroin's mission is to provide support and aid to those affected by addiction and their families. Partnering with our communities through awareness, resources and education for prevention. This resource guide is an extremely useful booklet to help those facing addition and their love ones with a tremendous amount of resources for support. For a copy of this booklet please click here.
Help for Mothers Struggling with Addiction
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Released: May 01st, 1996
Running Time: 78
Director: F J Lincoln
Company: Vivid Entertainment Group
Cast: Nici Sterling, Asia Carrera, Laura Palmer, Mark Davis, Rebecca Lord, Tom Byron, Jon Dough, Dyanna Lauren, Chaz Chase, Nikole Lace, Teri Weigel
Critical Rating: AAA
Genre: All-Sex
Teri Weigel plays herself in this video, which is good because one gets the feeling that the former Playboy model loves to fuck. Maybe it's the moaning. Or, as she notes, "It'd be fun to hang out in L.A., doin' some fucking and sucking." Yes, indeed.
Asia Carrera adds a little submission to the plot, as she takes orders like a good soldier while fucking Jon Dough. Tom Byron's bang of three beauties, particularly Nici Sterling, is another stand-out moment. Stockable.


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From the outside, it looks like something from a fairy tale, and inside it doesn't disappoint either. This hotel is just charming, no other way to describe it. Checking in is a breeze, so easy in fact I can't remember doing anything. The staff are ultra friendly and helpful, and they had told us we could arrive early and get booked in at noon as we wanted to get changed for a wedding. On arrival, seeing how much we were impressed with the decor, they said if you see an open door, just go on in in and look around, which we did the rooms are just stunning (see our and their websites photos). The room was large and well appointed, with a clawfoot tub in the main area and a nice bathroom with walk-in-shower. The bed was one of the most comfortable I have slept in. The breakfast was very good as well, not a lot of choice, but very good. Oh, yes, I almost forgot, there is a free afternoon tea as well. Highly recommended, we hope to stay there again soon.
Upon our arrival we were greeted and invited into the house and given a short tour. Our room, The Hideaway, was wonderful. The absolute best bed/mattress Ever ! Nice home cooked breakfast too.
Fantastic mansion and lovely staff highly recommend staying in this lovely inn.
My daughter and I stayed here for r & r. We couldn't have made a better choice. The surrounding town is as charming and beautiful as the Mansion.
I grew up in Ferndale, this was the second time we stayed at Victorian Inn and once again it was awesome. The Breakfast is the BEST made to order. I would totally recommend the Victorian Inn to any one who is headed to Ferndale for the Humboldt County Fair, special event or just a vacation location.
I had always dreamed of staying in The Gingerbread Mansion Inn, My dream came true on June 27! We stayed in the Lilac Room, a Beautifully decorated, Light and Purple room. The Bed was so comfortable, the Clawfoot Tub, soothing, the Stained glass window above the Tub, softly lit from the sunset, was gorgeous! The Food was so excellent, served with such a gentle smile, every moment in the Gingerbread Mansion Inn was Glorious, Thank you so much!
My friend and I took our annual vacation to the redwoods (breathtaking). We decided to stay in Ferndale and found the Victorian Inn very easily on a website which makes reservations. The reviews were excellant so we decided to stay there. Well, the reviews don't even begin to give an accurate description. Our stay was perfect, made all the more better by the staff and Inn. The room was beautiful and comfortable and the facilities wonderful. Our trip couldn't have been better!
The Redwood Suites are very nice and the dining Victoria Inn was outstanding in terms of food and decor
Have stayed before and this continued to impress.
We had a wonderful stay. Quite, lovely setting, great town.
Worth every cent of the cost! We truly enjoyed every minute of our stay, and poking our heads into the rooms that were not occupied at the time to check out which room we would like to return to next time.
We decided to spend our 5-night vacation in one place and chose the Victorian Inn in Ferndale from a selection of potential accommodations. We are glad we did. The experience was exceptionally good. The architecture and quality of the building and its guest rooms are remarkable. It was a treat to stay in a hotel that was built with such fine craftsmanship. The personalized service we received from the inn's staff and owner was no less impressive. We felt welcomed as family. It was nice stay in such fine and historic accommodations and be treated with individualized attention and care. I give the Victorian Inn in Ferndale "Two thumbs up!"
Best place ever!
Great Victorian hotel in this quiet cool looking town. Very helpful and friendly staff. Rooms are just like walking into a dream. Decor is just phenomenal. Very pleasant temperatures, gorgeous views, and just a perfect place to get away from city noise.
My 2 sisters and I had a mid-week getaway and had a wonderful experience. We stayed in the Viola McBride room. The beds were comfortable, the room beautiful. Food in the VI restaurant was delicious. Everyone was very helpful and cordial. If you enjoy having a Victorian experience, this is the place!
Everything about our stay in Ferndale was wonderful. The Redwood Suites are quaint and clean and very clean! You can walk into town that is filled with great shopping and food (breakfast every morning at the Victorian Inn is included and is incredible and be sure to get the pizza at Ferndale Pizza). The bed is super comfortable and the room is very quiet...what more can I say!!!
We recently stayed in their Jessica's Haven room for a night on a roadtrip from Seattle to SF. We had a late start the check-in date and a long hike; which delayed our check-in until late at night after dinner time. The hotel staff and Lowell were very accommodating given the fact that we were arriving after their front desk had closed. They left signs and instructions that were very easy to follow so we could get to our room with no problem around 10pm. The room was clean, fresh, quaint, and cozy; with a gas fireplace which was a welcome sight after a chilly and tiring day hike. Given that it's an old Victorian building, the ample amount of daylight in the room and bathroom was surprising and nice in the morning to start the day (blackout blinds present for those who are light averse in the morning). Breakfast was taken in the restaurant downstairs, a full service breakfast menu with all of the fixings. Overall: great service, great room, great hot breakfast.
Ferndale and the Victorian Inn in particular deserve your visit. Very friendly and well maintained historic building.
The entire experience at Gingerbread Mansion was magical. It was like stepping back in time but with all the modern conveniences! We were greeted on arrival and given a tour of the common areas and our rooms. The room was beautifully decorated and spotless. Handmade chocolate hearts on our bedside table were there to greet us. Fresh home baked cookies and fruit were in the parlor. Breakfast was served at the time we chose, a delicious croissant sandwich with ham and eggs, fruits, juice and an assortment of pastries. The grounds were well kept and the gardens were a treasure. We would absolutely enjoy a return to Frendale and the Gingerbread Mansion.
We recently had a great 2 night stay here. The Inn is in a wonderfully restored building, in a great location in town. The room was spacious, well appointed and maintained. The restaurant was very good. We had a delicious dinner the first night, followed by 2 great breakfasts. The staff was very friendly and attentive at all times. Zachary at the front desk was always ready with a smile. Will definitely stay here again.
We only stayed one night and wished we could have stayed longer! Vicky made us feel right at home on our arrival and showed us around the mansion. The beds were comfy in the Hideaway room and Kelsey fixed us a fabulous breakfast in the morning! Be sure to check out the gardens out back, they are absolutely beautiful!
I went here on a mini honeymoon with my husband and had such a wonderful time. Ferndale itself is a very nice town and the Victorian Inn was so well managed and just an overall pleasant experience. The breakfast was amazing and they had a really cool common room where you could go and get tea, coffee, and hot chocolate whenever you wanted. If you love staying in beautiful, Victorian places with great service, this is the place for you!
Easy and friendly check in even though we arrived fairly late. The room was as cute as could be and full of everything we needed. Plus the shower and provided soaps were fantastic. Breakfast was delicious and filling. It wasn't the best food I've ever had but it was pretty great.
My family and I found the Gingerbread mansion in a pamphlet, I was so excited to visit this place from the first time I saw the advertisement. Saying that my expectations were set very high. There was no disappointment, this place is amazing. The staff were all amazing and the food was delicious. The rooms were clean and very roomy. Our 10 year old daughter loved the place. The afternoon snacks were great and much needed after walking around their small town. The town is amazing, the churches and the cemetery are truly a site to see. Our family had the best time here and will be back. Thank you for such a great experience.
My husband and I needed to unwind so we decided to drive up from the Bay Area and check out Ferndale. I saw the reviews for the Gingerbread Mansion on trip advisor so I booked it for 2 nights. We stayed in the Veneto room. It was perfect for us. It had lots of light and was plenty big. The bed was comfy and the temperature was perfect. The breakfast which Eugenia prepared every morning was absolutely delicious!
This is a beautiful place with quaint, cozy rooms. The bar is a sight to behold and the food in "IV" restaurant is excellent with a great wine list of local wines. Stay the and take a big deep breath.
We had a very lovely stay at the Victorian Inn. It was our first time in this lovely little town of Ferndale and can't wait to visit again and stay at the VI. Thank you for the experience.
This inn is a beautiful landmark! We stayed for only one night on our way to Trinidad. We drfinitely wish we had more time to enjoy the property, but we will be back.
I wanted to rate this visit Outstanding but the survey would not allow it. My husband and I loved our stay at the Gingerbread house - the staff, the accommodations and the atmosphere! We already know which room we want to stay in next time!
The room was small, but quaint. Decorated lovely. Shower was nice. TV a little small, but sufficient. The breakfast was a bonus, and terrific. The owner of the facility came over to our table to carry on a nice conversation, very friendly. The food, both dinner and breakfast was excellent , and the service was great.


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All Rise...
Judge Daryl Loomis has been banished more times than he can count.
The Charge
Only marry for true love.
Opening Statement
Kenji Mizoguchi (Sansho the Bailiff) had been directing great films for three decades in Japan before ever getting much international recognition. Then, a few years before the end of his life, he exploded onto the world scene when he started making period dramas, telling stories based on Japanese history and literary classics. The first of these movies and Mizoguchi's personal favorite in his catalog was The Life of Oharu, presented here in high definition as the 664th entry in the Criterion Collection.
Facts of the Case
Oharu (Kinuyo Tanaka, Ugetsu) is a young noblewoman with a bright future when she decides to defy societal norms and fall in love with somebody below her station. Katsunosuke (Toshiro Mifune, Yojimbo) is just a lowly pageboy, and though Oharu doesn't care about that, the court really does. They execute Katsunosuke and banish Oharu's family to a life of poverty. So begins the slow degradation of a woman, from nobility to common prostitute.
The Evidence
The Life of Oharu begins at the end of this sad tale, with Oharu as an older woman on the street, whose age keeps her from making enough money to survive. Her fellow streetwalkers, while warming themselves around a fire, ask her how she came to be in her position, and the extended flashback begins. By the time we get back to where we started, we've seen her as an imperial consort, courtesan, shop owner's wife, nun, and finally the aged prostitute we see before us.
It's a cruel story, but not simply because Mizoguchi, who adapted the screenplay from a 1696 novel by Saikaku Ihara, wanted to have Oharu treated badly. Instead, it's more of a comment of the lack of power women have over their own lives in Japan. It falls right in line with much of the director's work, which often told stories about the plight of women in a feudal society. That doesn't make The Life of Oharu any easier to watch, but it does give the story moral heft that keep it from feeling outwardly mean.
It is, though, a story of constant disappointment and increasing sadness. As Oharu goes through her life, any time there's a glimmer of hope that her life might get better, everything comes crashing down around her. It's amazing that the character doesn't go insane with it all, but she manages to stand up and get on with her life every time. Tanaka's performance through it is fantastic, constantly composed and suitably vulnerable. In her early 40s at the time its release, she plays the character from a young girl to her mid-50s, all of it believable and interesting. Mifune's role is small, taking up just the first 25 minutes of the film, but because the character is so instrumental in everything that subsequently happens to Oharu, it is the most memorable one in the film aside from Tanaka's.
Mizoguchi's direction is fantastic as usual, mannered and slow, but still dynamic and interesting. He puts together a beautiful image, with a distinctive but understated style. The film's episodic nature lends itself to a fast-moving story, but this kind of storytelling sometimes leads to a plot whose episodes are of varying quality. Not so here; The Life of Oharu not only moves well, but is totally consistent and interesting the whole way through. In a career of great movies, this one is one of his very best and, cruel though it may be, is well worth watching both for the finely tuned skills of the people involved, but also for its chilling commentary on the world in which he lived.
Criterion's Blu-ray of The Life of Oharu is predictably excellent. The 1.37:1/1080p image isn't perfect, but it's much better that it has ever looked. Clarity and contrast are fantastic, with significant detail throughout the frame and deep black levels. There is a little flicker at times and a couple of segments have some noticeable white lines on the left side of the frame. It's not the fault of the transfer itself; that's nearly perfect. It's almost certainly damage to the original elements that could not be corrected. The sound is also very good, though the mono mix isn't the most dynamic in the world. It's clean and, though, and strong in both dialog and music without any background noise to speak of.
Extras on the disc are strong, as well. It starts with an audio commentary by film scholar Dudley Andrew that is good for how long it lasts. Strangely, it only stretches through the opening segment and, while what he says is quite interesting, it ceases after that and reverts to the original audio. The supplements continue with a 2009 film called The Travels of Kinuyo Tanaka, which runs 30 minutes and, through archival footage and commentary, details the goodwill tour the actress took across the US in 1949. Andrew returns with an audio essay on the director's life and career and the customary essay booklet closes out the package.
Closing Statement
Criterion delivers another great disc, showing a world classic film in its best possible light. The Life of Oharu is a must see for people interested at all in Japanese cinema and history. A beautiful but cruel film that is brilliantly performed and gorgeously shot, this disc is highly recommended.
The Verdict
Case dismissed.
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The first month at Ashraf, he said, wasn't so bad. Then came the indoctrination in the reception department and the weird self-criticism sessions. He quickly realized there would be no wives, no pay, no communication with his parents, no friendships, no freedom. The place was a nightmare, and he wanted out. But there was no leaving. When he refused to pledge the oath to struggle forever, he was subjected to relentless psychological pressure. One night, he couldn't take it anymore. He swallowed 80 diazepam pills. His friend, he said, slit his wrists. The friend died, but to Mohammad's chagrin, he woke up in a solitary room. After days of intense prodding to embrace the Mujahedeen way, he finally relented to the oath. He trundled along numbly until the Americans invaded Iraq, when he and another friend managed to slip out into the desert. They were helped out by Arabs, and then turned themselves over to the Kurds, hoping for mercy. Mohammad fell ill, and the next thing he knew he was in prison. ''The Mujahedeen has a good appearance to the outside world, but anyone who has lived among them knows how rotten and dirty they are,'' he said.
Another Iranian whom I met at the Kurdish prison told me that he had been a zealous Mujahedeen supporter for years in Iran, and when he finally made it to the Iraqi camps, he was horrified to discover that his dream was a totalitarian mini-state.
Before I left Camp Ashraf, Massoud Farschi, one of the Mujahedeen spokesmen who was educated in the United States, told me that he thought the Mujahedeen was in the best position it had ever been in. ''We've said all along that the real threat in the world is fundamentalism, and now the world has finally seen that.'' The Mujahedeen, he said, is the barrier to that fundamentalism. Nevertheless, two days later, in early May, Gen. Ray Odierno of the Fourth Infantry Division was dispatched to the camp to negotiate the Mujahedeen's surrender. American tanks were posted outside Ashraf's gates, and two B-52's were circling the skies above. After a day of discussion, the Mujahedeen commanders reached a capitulation agreement in which they would consolidate their weapons and personnel into two separate camps. Lt. Col. John Miller, also with the Fourth, attended a ceremony in which the men and women bid farewell to their tanks. ''We saw folks kissing their vehicles, hugging them,'' he said. One 50-year-old man broke down in front of them, wailing. The women, he said, were much more controlled. Not so the women in Europe, who until recently were crying on the streets for the release of their beloved Maryam. They got their wish; a court ordered her released on bail. As for Massoud Rajavi, he has not uttered a peep. In fact, he seems to have disappeared. Some Iraqis claim to have seen him a few days before Baghdad fell boarding a helicopter south of the capital.
After the negotiations with the Mujahedeen, it was reported that Odierno said he thought that the group's commitment to democracy in Iran meant its status as a terrorist organization should be reviewed. There are also Senate staff members, Pentagon officials and even some people in the State Department who have said that if all the Mujahedeen is doing is fighting the ''evil regime'' in Iran, it quite likely that it will be removed from the State Department's terrorist list. ''There is a move afoot among Pentagon hard-liners,'' one administration official said, ''to use them as an opposition in the future.'' Recently Brownback submitted an Iran Democracy Act modeled on the Iraqi Liberation Act, which would set aside $50 million to help opposition groups overthrow the regime. The Mujahedeen, their U.S. supporters say, has provided the United States with key intelligence on Iran's nuclear program. One Congressional staff member working close to the issue said that there was a national security directive circulating ''that includes a proposal for limited surgical strikes against the Iranian regime's nuclear facilities. We would be remiss if we did not use the Mujahedeen to identify exactly what the Iranians have and in the longer term, to facilitate regime change.''
Meanwhile, inside Iran, the street protesters risking their lives and disappearing inside the regime's prisons consider the Mujahedeen a plague -- as toxic, if not more so, than the ruling clerics. After all, the Rajavis sold out their fellow Iranians to Saddam Hussein, trading intelligence about their home country for a place to house their Marxist-Islamist Rajavi sect. While Mujahedeen press releases were pouring out last month, taking undue credit for the nightly demonstrations, many antigovernment Iranians were rejoicing over the arrest of Maryam Rajavi and wondering where Massoud was hiding and why he, too, hadn't been apprehended. This past winter in Iran, when such a popular outburst among students and others was still just a dream, if you mentioned the Mujahedeen, those who knew and remembered the group laughed at the notion of it spearheading a democracy movement. Instead, they said, the Rajavis, given the chance, would have been the Pol Pot of Iran. The Pentagon has seen the fatal flaw of hitching itself to volatile groups like the Islamists who fought the Soviets in Afghanistan and, more recently, the Iraqi exile groups who had no popular base at home. It seems dangerously myopic that the U.S. is even considering resurrecting the Rajavis and their army of Stepford wives.
Photos: Members of the tank corps on the ready at Camp Ashraf, the Mujahedeen's main base, located 65 miles north of Baghdad. (Lynsey Addario); Mujahedeen soldiers undergoing training at Camp Ashraf. (Lyndsay Addario/Corbis Saba, for The New York Times); Portraits of Maryam and Massoud Rajavi flank a young supporter. (Henrik Montgomery/Agence France Presse)


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