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The Charleston Symphony Orchestra knows a thing or two about encore performances, and so does the Charleston Symphony Orchestra League's Designer Showhouse.
Contributing designers
The designers who contributed to the 2014 CSOL Designer Showhouse are:
Cici Moss (Cici Moss Interiors); Lance Griffith, Megan Sandefur, Michelle Still and Hannah Mayo (CHD Interiors); Marilyn Mauriello (Marilyn Mauriello Interior Design); Teri M. Bergin (Bergin Design Group); Audrey Wood (Creekside Interiors); Jeff McKinney and Randy Grussing (Circe and Architectural Antiques & Design);
Wiggie Bitter and Cathy Paterson (Catherine Brown Paterson Design); Cathy Swider (Cose Belle Interior Design Services); Diana Grabowski (NEWCHAPTERinteriors);
Laurie Cooper and Elizabeth Newman (Charleston Revisions/Elizabeth Newman Interior Design); and Elisa Constanzer (ElisaChristine).
Not only is the Rutledge Avenue home itself giving a repeat performance - it served as the designer showhouse once before, in 1995 - the encores go even further. Many of the rooms illustrate how to give a new moment in the spotlight to older pieces of furniture, and an older home, by combining the best of the past with fresh inspiration from the present.
If you go
What: Charleston Symphony Orchestra League's 37th annual Designer Showhouse
Where: 67 Rutledge Ave., Charleston
When: Daily through April 19. Hours are 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Monday-Saturday and 1-4 p.m. Sunday. Lunch is offered in the garden 11:30 a.m.-2 p.m. Monday-Saturday. There also is a boutique, and some artwork and items from designers' rooms can be purchased.
Cost: $20 at the door.
More info: 723-0020 or www.csolinc.org.
The showhouse, at 67 Rutledge Ave. near Colonial Lake, dates to 1852. Col. James H. Taylor built it in the style of a Persian villa, unusual for a home in antebellum Charleston but all the rage at the time in Taylor's native New England.
"It makes sense that the man who built this house was from Rhode Island, because the Gothic style was the height of fashion up there," says Randy Grussing of Architectural Antiques & Design, one of 11 interior designers who donated their time and talents to the event, a major annual fundraiser for the CSO.
A fundamental element of the Gothic style of architecture is the pointed arch, which is thought to have been borrowed from Islamic architecture. In the showhouse, the Persian-villa sensibilities are apparent from the first glance. They come through in the front arches, the frets, the turret over the cistern and the architectural details in some of the doors, Grussing says.
Inside, the house features heart pine floors, etched glass windows, 10 fireplaces, the original copper bathtub and some of the city's first indoor plumbing.
Carol Lou Yaeger, a showhouse co-chairperson and designer liaison, says that in the home's 162-year history, only three families have owned it. The original owners kept the house in the family for 115 years, she says, and it's seen many generations grow up. A couple with two young children bought the house recently, so the family-home tradition will continue.
"It's a grand house, with these 12-foot ceilings, but I think it feels very comfortable," says showhouse co-chairperson Marilyn Mauriello, an interior designer who created a music room on the first floor. Part of what makes the house comfortable and gives it personality is the blend of old with new, which leaves visitors with the feeling that the home has been lived in and well loved. "It's just a happy home," Mauriello says.
The master bedroom, designed by Grussing and Jeff McKinney, proprietors of Circe and Architectural Antiques & Design, epitomizes the idea of giving favorite family pieces and collections an encore performance alongside more contemporary touches. For example, the elegant bed (an 1830s estate find) and vintage Chinese porcelain look totally at home with the vivid abstract artwork over the fireplace.
"Everything looks like it was just gathered together with some things the family might have picked up on their travels and others they might have already had in the family," Mauriello says. That gathered-together feeling is typical of many Lowcountry homes, where older pieces that have been handed down through several generations find new life and purpose when paired with newer finds - perhaps an abstract painting or a chair with minimal modern lines.
She and Grussing agree that if you combine diverse elements you love in a way that you love, then the combination works.
Yaeger says that in addition to the 11 interior designers, a small army of local contractors, shop owners, artists, rug merchants, lighting dealers, electricians and many others devoted their personal time and resources to the project. Each room offers inspiration on how old and new, vintage and modern, can complement each other without clashing. Visitors to the house will get a booklet full of resource information and specifics on each room. Here are a few highlights:
The knockout in the kitchen is the original brick fireplace, located on a brick wall that divides the space into basically a work area and an eating area. Designer Audrey Wood of Creekside Interiors used vintage rustic pieces and incorporated natural tones of gray, blue, beige and ivory to soften the brick, exposed beams, original heart pine floors and some built-in wood cabinets believed to date to the 1880s.
Across from the fireplace, Wood added a comfy banquette that beckons guests for coffee and the newspaper in the morning or a glass of wine at night.
Birder's Study
Designer Teri M. Bergin of the Bergin Design Group drew on her own interest in birding for this comfortable, eclectic room that seems to bring the outdoors in. The glazed woodwork, etched windows and earthy palette give a lightness to the traditionally heavier, more masculine concept of a study. Bergin used artwork collected during her own birding travels to bring the theme together in an inviting fashion.
Lady's Study
The lady of the house gets her own sitting room featuring hand-painted wallpaper, whose subtle colors and textures inspired designers Wiggie Bitters and Cathy Paterson of Catherine Brown Paterson Design. Bitters says the exterior architecture of the home sparked their imaginations as well, particularly with the Moorish echoes in the cornice treatments.
Mary Poppins Nursery
This charming space features white lace curtains borrowed from the dining room.
Designer Cathy Swider of Cose Belle Interior Design says, "It was the perfect room for a nursery, with its quaint size and cozy fireplace, terrific lighting coming into the room and the two steps down from a main room of the house" (the Lady's Study).
The lavender walls, distressed white wrought-iron crib, Mary Poppins bed linens, hand-painted valances, and artist Stephanie Poe's silhouette of Mary Poppins on the wall bring the popular story and movie to life.
Historic Bathroom
Designer Elisa Constanzer of ElisaChristine faced a special challenge in her room: working with the large copper bathtub that was original to the house.
The tub is built into a wood surround and retains the original plumbing, which includes a Gothic arch detail. When Constanzer first saw the room, fuchsia, green and yellow were the color palette. Constanzer used shades of gray, a classic hue now experiencing a design revival, and added warm and cool accent tones, as well as accessories that nod to the sand and shells of local beaches.
The master bedroom of the Charleston Symphony Designer Showhouse receives the morning sun through its windows.×
The fireplace in the kitchen of the Symphony Designer Showhouse dates back to 1852 and is original to the house.×
The front of the 2014 Charleston Symphony Designer Showhouse at 67 Rutledge Ave.×
The designer in the kitchen has taken the space across from the fireplace and made it into a nice sittng area to have your coffee or wine. (Brad Nettles/Staff) 3/18/14×
A copper bathtub is original to the 1852 house.×


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We would like to get a pull up bar to use at home, does anyone have any thoughts regarding brands or type (freestanding versus doorway, I guess).
Any input would be greatly appreciated. Thanx.:o
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We would like to get a pull up bar to use at home, does anyone have any thoughts regarding brands or type (freestanding versus doorway, I guess).
Any input would be greatly appreciated. Thanx.:o
i like the door-frame pull up bars because they are unobtrusive, portable, and double as push up bars if you want. but, what you get depends on your goals. do you want to be able to rock the muscle up? you'll need to get something tall and free standing. if you want something outside, a power tower works pretty well.
bargain-wise, the door frame pull up bars are the best. i think iron gym makes one that usually runs $20-30.
Before you buy one, try to handle it in the store and make sure it accommodates your grip. I learned this the hard way - we got a heavy duty one that attaches to the ceiling, and we had to punch through and bolt it to the attic beams and everything. After this elaborate installation, i go to use it only to find that the vertical supports are exactly where my hands go. So now i have to grip either between the supports or outside them, which messes me up. I ended up hanging a set of rings from it, and i use them for my pullups instead now. Also, the knurl on the bar really tears up my hands.
So yeah, try before you buy.
The ones that are portable are better. the one that screws into your doorway using an internal screw mechanism will spread the door frame over time when you crank down on it. I have one of those in my garage doorway and I keep it just barely tight and use the mounting cups to hold it in place so I don't risk cracking the plaster above the header. Every time I walk through the door during my day I stop and do one more pull up than the last time I went through it. On a busy saturday full of yard work or house projects, I end up doing about 200 pul ups in one day.
If you decide you want a door mount one, I've got one you can have if you wanna pay shipping for it. We upgraded to a power tower and the thing's collecting dust. It's [URL="http://www.amazon.com/Heavy-Duty-Doorway-Chin-up-Pull-up/dp/B0055PFE2Y/ref=sr_1_3?s=sporting-goods&ie=UTF8&qid=1347568987&sr=1-3&keywords=pull+up+bar+doorway"]this [/URL]one, but from Perfect Pull Up, I think. I can try and find the brand if it really matters.
I got the Iron Gym pull-up bar from Amazon. It definitely works well for me.
Another Iron Gym recommendation - for the price its awesome. It hangs somewhat low so I have to pull my legs up towards my chest so I don't hit the ground, but then that probably helps build my abs.

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Ten new homes could be built on a greenfield site near Berwick Travelodge after plans were lodged by the town's freemen trustees.
The application, which includes plans for three affordable homes, is to develop a parcel of land to the west of Meadow Grange.
The reserved matters application is phase one of what could become a much bigger scheme on fields between Morrisons and The Grange.
However, the indicative drawings for three-bedroom homes have met with objections from potential neighbours on Douglas Close.
Gilbert and Patricia Ronald said: "This first stage of the proposed development will be two to three times denser than the existing properties and the houses being built from the Castle Terrace end of the field. I feel this is not in keeping with this area."
They also expressed concerns that trees protecting their home from the noise and lights associated with McDonalds and the Travelodge would be cut down to make way for the new homes. "These trees were part of the original planning agreement with the Freemen before Safeway etc was built," they said.
"We now suffer from the loss of tree protection as a result of Morrisons' expansion and would not like to see this compounded by further felling."
Another resident added: "This land is immediately behind our houses in Douglas Place and looking at the type of houses that are planning to built they would be nothing but an eyesore.
"Douglas Place is a very quiet and respectable cul-de-sac comprising 12 detached properties with lovely gardens and trees. The proposed lay-out and types of houses to be built are not in keeping with this area.
"If this land has to be sacrificed for building houses then better and more desirable ones would be more in keeping with this area."
The highways department has also raised concerns that the layout does not take into account a requirement to provide a local distributor road and bus service link between Castle Terrace and Countess of Buchan Way.
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dConstruct 2012: A quick review
This was my second year attending the dConstruct conference in Brighton, and I must say I thoroughly enjoyed it. The main theme was discovering the future by looking at the past. But later at the after party, while discussing what we'd seen and where we would go from here (I mean technology wise, not where the after after party was being held!) another theme emerged that ran through most of the talks.


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We were encouraged to see that Neighbor Island airports will be part of the Transportation Security Administration's "PreCheck" program that will allow frequent fliers to get through security more quickly.
Sen. Brian Schatz announced Wednesday that his request to allow airports at Kahului, Kona and Lihue into the program has been approved by the TSA. People in the frequent-flier programs of participating airlines are eligible for the special treatment. Hawaiian Airlines is a participating airline.
"As an island state, Hawaii has unique travel needs," Schatz said. "By making it easier for the 16,000 to 18,000 passengers who travel daily between the four major islands to commute, we are allowing room for economic growth and expansion."
According to the story in The Maui News, participants in the program don't have to take off their shoes or outwear, and don't have to remove their laptops from their bags.
We were surprised to learn that Honolulu has the program in place. As a frequent visitor to Oahu, we were unaware that the program even existed.
As we have stated here before, we are very impressed with the TSA officials at OGG. With another recent medical issue that required "male assists" to get through screenings, we were impressed again with the professionalism and kindness we encountered with every TSA employee.
The "PreCheck" program is just another example of the TSA making the essential duty of protecting the flying public as comfortable as possible. We commend them, and Schatz, for extending "PreCheck" to our airport.
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This is an invitation for a third panelist for a panel proposal for the 21st Annual South Asia Conference at the University of California, Berkeley, titled "The Genre in Perspective." In this panel we set out to explore the notion of the genre and its utility in thinking about various aspects of knowledge-production in South Asia. Rather than approach the notion as a fixed form, we observe the genre as both the creation and the continuing existence of diverse expectations in literary, social, and historical contexts. The genre functions as the sometimes necessary and oftentimes imaginary resolution to specific socio-historical problems. Our aim in this panel is to draw upon the genre as a set of conventions employed to give shape to responses to emerging social contingencies, in order to explore aspects of various cultural processes and products--from colonial urban architecture to the colonial glossary, to name a few --and consequently to demonstrate the value of this notion by thinking about the social in its terms. We invite papers at the broadest level from within the humanities and the social sciences that explore this idea.
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Overeem War Wagon!!!!
Cheers and beers to all! Come hop on the Overeem War Wagon and bask in the glory that is the next UFC HW champion.
I still think Overeem will beat JDS if they clash, and I am very confident he will be knocking Bigfoot out. Cain on the other hand is going to be a huge test. I say this because I think the weakest part of his game is his cardio, especially compared to the beast cardio we have seen Cain display. Overeem could easily drop Cain with just one well landed strike, and his tdd is very good.
Either way I can't way to see Overeem back! War!
Only because he's my FLL pick. Really, I hate the guy :D
Overeem is a huge threat no doubt, but JDS and Cain share the measuring stick right now and should both be favorite over him.
I dont know how you can remain such a huge fan after your favorite fighter gets exposed for roiding. I understand you like him and all.. Hell, i still like reem, but i for sure lost alot of respect for him
I like how that highlight had zero quality MMA fighters in it. The only note worthy part of it was his KO over Hari.
Overeem is going to get destroyed.
Reem was/is nothing without the juice. Disgrace to the sport.
That balloon got popped quickly..
I'm on the wagon until after the Bigfoot fight, then he's similar to a rump steak or a rack of lamb for the Mexican Lion that is Cain "El Toro" Velasquez.
should be called roid wagon :thumb02:
Overeem will be lucky if he can move with the speed of a tortoise in his next fight. There's little chance he'd defeat JDS 'easily'.
I don't think people grasp the consequences of his not being able to juice. His speed will be non-existent. Luckily for him, Bigfoot works at a snail's pace at the best of times.
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Leila Hyams
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|Leila Hyams
Hyams as seen in Photoplay (1930)
May 1, 1905
New York City, New York, U.S.
|December 4, 1977
(aged 72)
Bel Air, Los Angeles, U.S.
|Years active
|1924 – 1936
|Phil Berg (1927–1977)
Leila Hyams (May 1, 1905, New York City, New York – December 4, 1977, Bel Air, California) was an American model, vaudeville and film actress. Her relatively short film career began in the 20's silent films, and ended in 1936 and although only lasted around 10 years, she appeared in more than 50 film roles.
Early life[edit]
Born in New York City to vaudeville comedy performers John Hyams, (1869-1940) and Leila (née McIntyre) Hyams (1882-1953). Both parents appeared in films and mother Leila Senior was also a noted stage performer, her parents can later be seen together in several Hollywood films such as in 1939's The Housekeeper's Daughter. Hyams appeared on-stage with her parents while still a child. As a teenager she worked as a model and became well known across the United States after appearing in a successful series of newspaper advertisements. This success led her to Hollywood.
She made her first film in 1924, and with her blonde hair, green eyes, delicate features, and good natured demeanour, was cast in a string of supporting roles, where she was required to do very little but smile and look pretty. She proved herself capable of handling the small roles she was assigned, and over a period of time she came to be taken seriously as an actress. By 1928 she was playing starring roles, achieving success in MGM's first talkie release, Alias Jimmy Valentine (1928) opposite William Haines, Lionel Barrymore and Karl Dane. The following year she appeared in the popular murder mystery The Thirteenth Chair, a role that offered her the chance to display her dramatic abilities as a murder suspect. At Fox that same year she appeared in director Allan Dwan's now lost romantic adventure The Far Call opposite Charles Morton. The quality of her parts continued to improve as the decade turned, including a role as Robert Montgomery's sister in the prison drama The Big House (1930) with Chester Morris and Wallace Beery, for which Hyams once again received positive reviews. She then appeared in Surrender (1931).[1]
Although she succeeded in films that required her to play pretty ingenues, and developed into a capable dramatic actress in 1930s crime melodramas, she is perhaps best remembered for two early 1930s horror movies, as the wise-cracking but kind-hearted circus performer in Freaks (1932), and as the heroine in the Bela Lugosi film Island of Lost Souls (1932). Hyams was the original choice to play Jane in Tarzan the Ape Man (1932), but turned it down. The role was ultimately played by Maureen O'Sullivan.[1] She also appeared in the once controversial Jean Harlow film Red-Headed Woman (1932), the musical comedy The Big Broadcast (1932) with Bing Crosby, George Burns and Gracie Allen, and was praised for her comedic performance in Ruggles of Red Gap (1935), opposite Charlie Ruggles.[1]
Personal life[edit]
After ten years and fifty films, Hyams retired from acting in 1936, but remained part of the Hollywood community for the rest of her life. She was married to agent Phil Berg from 1927 until her death in the Bel-Air neighborhood of Los Angeles, California in 1977, aged 72.
- ^ a b c Leila Hyams at the Internet Movie Database
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BYRON TOWNSHIP – Kent County Sheriff's police responded to a call from 42 Herbert St. SW at 5:00 p.m. Sunday. The caller reported an armed, suicidal man walking around the neighborhood threatening to kill himself.
About a half-dozen police cars were on scene. Police closed both Rawlings St. SW and Herbert St. SW to the intersection of S. Division Ave. for the duration of the standoff.
When police arrived on the scene, the 50 year-old unidentified man was behind a neighbor's house. The man indicated he wanted the police to shoot him. Kent County Sheriff's police called in a negotiator to talk to the man, who was said to be experiencing "significant personal issues", according to Lt. Jeff McAray.
Casey Irwin, a 22-year-old neighbor who was home at the time of the incident, described the family as "quiet" and "minding their own business." The incident surprised Irwin, who said "all of the sudden, there's cops running through my back yard with riot shields."
The subject never threatened harm to anyone but himself, pointing his loaded semi-automatic hand gun at his head throughout the 25-minute-long ordeal. Responding officers were able to negotiate with the man and take him into custody without harm before the negotiator arrived on scene.
The subject's house was evacuated. His wife, 22-year-old son, and daughter in her early 20's, who made the initial call to police, were unharmed according to Lt. Jeff McAray. McAray was not sure at this time if any crime was committed.


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And so the dream story continues. After yet another thumping and emphatic victory, Chelsea have now smashed in 20 goals in their last 3 Premier League games.
It is always worth pointing out that these have all come against Wigan and West Brom, but at the end of the day their is no need to dress down what has been an impressive masterclass in attacking football.
As with the first game of the season it was a slow first half, with Wigan even on top for periods, yet it cannot help but be impressive when Chelsea maul teams in as unflinching a manner as was evident on Saturday evening.
More impressive still is the ability for everybody to play their roles so superbly. For those with good memories, this was something I pointed out was key to our successful campaign last season.
Drogba failed to wear his goal scoring boots, but still managed to assist half of the goals against our northern opponents.
Rebel du jour Anelka opened his account and ended the day with a double.
Kalou and Benayoun came off the bench to knock in a combined 3 goals.
And Florent Malouda continued his impeccable form and notching himself a goal adding to his opening day brace.
Malouda's opener showed exactly why Chelsea, when on form, have plenty to frighten opponents. The sheer volume of players in an around Wigan's box was frightening.
With Drogba and Anelka loitering, accompanied by Malouda and Lampard in advanced positions. Surely a front line even the tightest of defences would struggle to contain.
It was a blue wave which showed little sign of receding even up until the 90th minute - after which two of our goals were scored.
Another frightener for opponents is that last season the success was without Essien. With him in the starting XI it is as if Chelsea have their engine back. He simply doesn't put a foot wrong, unless sometimes it is accidentally half way up an opposing player's leg (sorry Didi Hamaan!).
Credit due to Jon Obi Mikel too when he also got in on the act.
As readers may well be aware I am one of his critics, but I was a surprised as a celebrating John Terry (who grabbed JMO and pointed him out to the bench) when Mikel's superb switched pass to Anelka allowed the Frenchman to strike the ball past a stationary Kirkland - the second England international to concede 6 against us in two weeks.
I paid special care to Mikel's game this weekend, with an open mind, just in case my opinion was blinkered. And even though he didn't play a bad game there were still worrying parts of his play that are a cause for concern.
His urgency is virtually non existent, I beg of anyone who is upset by my criticism of him to compare what happens when he gets the ball and what happens when Essien gets it.
Essien is a much quicker thinker, his awareness of his surroundings is perfect, whereas Mikel needs a touch and breathing time before the next pass comes.
I still think he is worthy backup but think that Ancelotti may well be, and in my mind correctly, planning to move Essien into that more defensive role once Ramires is fit enough to occupy the central midfield position.
It is also worth remembering the input of the defence. It was incredible to see Alex make two exceptional blocks in the box when we were comfortably winning 3-0.
It is refreshing to know that the players you loyally support give so much to the cause too.
Alex,for me, is the sole reason why we don't need to replace Carvalho. I think he was always destined to make that position his own, and was surprised to see him excluded from the Brazil selecao in the summer.
Unfortunately with the great start to the season comes the devastating news that Chelsea youngster Sam Hutchinson has had to retire from the game at 21. Just on the brink of possibly making a career at the club, or even just finding his way in football, his career has been cruelly cut short. It's a terrible shame, but it has been great to see the club's response in making sure his future will still be in football.
Keep The Blue Flag Flying High!
tis really beautiful seeing Chelsea on top of their game. My prayer is that they crown it all with European Champions League Glory.......
Comparing mikel and essien's style of play is like comparing drogba and anelkas which is very different and cannot b the same neva.worthy backup meaning benching mikel,pushing essien to defending role while ramires attacks will surely backfire because essien loves to attack and when he does our defenders are exposed.well you are entitled to your own opinion.blues reign.
im still very cautious as chelsea can become quite unpredictable. a great start yes, but we need to keep up the tempo. i was a bit concerned by the performance of ivanovic as he made a couple of silly decisions and put us in danger but we had the quality to clear up. i fully agree with the criticisms of JMO as i too think he can be a bit of a liability. i honestly think we should have sold him off but lets see what he can do this season. I'm very much looking forward to the 3 man midfield of lampard, ramires and essien. i also think benayoun will prove to be a valuable player to us. he reminds me of gudjohnson, a player imo we should not have got rid of. but yea, should be a good season ahead of us! CFC4life!
@ CHukz, i think its very valid comparing their styles of play because they are both employed in the same role, and there is little denying that Essien is better at it. Once he moves back he will leave his attacking game behind and leave that to Ramires presumably.
I dont think Ancelotti has bought Ramires to warm the bench, and somehow doubt Essien will be dropped over JMO.
@ blueASH. I think you've made brilliant points, Ivanovic is still a little unfit so we can blame that, as for Benayoun he does look like a useful signing!
I don't agree with your assessment of the Essien / Mikel situation at all. Relegating Essien to a purely defensive role surely neuters one of the most potent exponents of midfield dynamism in the game.
It seems much more likely that Ramires is pushing for Mikel's defensive berth, as his record at Benfica should tell you.
Alot of Chelsea fans complain that Ancelotti does not use his youth talent.
But when our less experienced players like Mikel (23)and kalou (25) play, they are criticized, even if they score or provide an assist.
So if fans want to see promising youngsters like Kakuta play, they've got to learn to be less harsh on developing players.
Its obvious that they do not have the same experience as the senior players (Drogba, anelka) so they will make some mistakes.
If we keep criticizing them instead of encouraging them, they will feel demoralized and their performance will drop.
Players like Mikel and Kalou are still developing, and one day they might be the next Essien or Anelka.
Give them your support!
David Kyle,
Good coaches always try to get a stabilising influence on their midfield. Someone who can hold the ball, not panic, remain disciplined and look for the pass as early as possible, get the tackle when necesary etc. It's usually a thankless job, appreciated only by the discerning football mind. Some call these midfielders 'the watercarriers for the team' That is what Mikel provides for Chelsea. This is why EVERY coach that has come to Chelsea has used him despite his young age. They will continue play him. You can check the statistics online if you can be bothered to overcome your stereotype.
Ancelotti was once asked which Chelsea midfield he sees himself in.( Ancelotti was a defensive midfileder for AC milan and Italy if your understanding of football goes beyond Abramovich's purchase of chelsea). Guess which Chelsea midfielder Carlo called?
Anyway I guess you know more than Ancelotti and all the other previous chelsea managers.
Thanks for your comments, I agree with the point that you have made regarding Mikel being picked by previous managers - however it is worth pointing out that the consistent injuries to Essien have played a major part in his role in the team.
Surely Ancelotti wouldn't have spent all that money on Ramires if he wasn't going to play him. Who will he replace in the team, sense says that it will be neither Lampard, Malouda or Essien in midfield. Then who does that leave?
I can assure you that my Chelsea knowledge is much wider than Abramovich era, in fact September marks my 18th anniversary of going to Chelsea (not bad for a 26 year old who has also been a season ticket holder for 13 years - so half of my life). Whilst you are free to comment, questioning my knowledge because of me questioning Mikel's contribution seems particularly strange - I shouldn't really have to justify it either. However now you can rest assured I am more than a glory hunter! Thanks!
I couldn't agree with you more David Kyle. I am certainly not as seasoned a Chelsea fan as you, but ever since I started watching them I have begged to know what reason Mikel was on the field for. And its not just that he doesnt focus on attack like albert implied above. It's that the job he is tasked with, being a ballstopper in front of the back line, is the one he fails at the most. No one expects or even wants him in on Chelsea offensive acts, but I can't count how many times he's been turned around by a quicker attacker and then simply stood on their foot to stop their progress. The most telling moment of Mikel, for me, was last season when he set up Tevez's goal by trying to head the ball back to JT & Co. only to give it to the other teams attack. Urgency is a great way to put it, he just doesnt seem like he cares enough. Mikel is the type of player you normally say you hate if he's against you but love him if he's on your team, wen actually no, everyone hates him. c'mon Ramires!
Not too sure why you guys are questioning how Ramires is going to fit into the Chelsea starting 11. Have most of you forgot that there are potentially 55+ games to be played throughout the season. Chelsea will be fighting for 4 trophies throughout and the midfield players will not always be the same every game. We've lost the likes of Deco, Ballack, J. Cole, Belletti, we've brought in Ramires and Benayoun while working in a few youngsters.
Personally cannot wait to see Ramires make his debut. From watching several Brazil and Benfica games in which he's featured, although he shows some similarites to Essien; he is much different player who senses danger defensively and will be more so in competition with Mikel. Should be interesting.
I wonder who and who constitute the everybody you claim hates Mikel. I can assure you that Chelsea fans who understand football appreciate what he brings to the team. You 'haters' seem to assume that Ramires was brought in to replace Mikel. You are in for a surprise. What are you going to do when you start seeing both Mikel and Ramires playing consistently? Call for Ancelotti's head? Electric chair for the chelsea technical crew?
kindly tell me which Chelsea player doesn't make a mistake. How many matches did we loose last season because of John Terry, for example? Mikel has played over a hundred matches for Chelsea but the 1 or 2 matches he made a mistake is 'the most telling moment' for you?
I hate it when people talk against Mikel like most of you are doing now,how many of you guys know Mikel too well,i mean from the time he was in Lyn Oslo,was he a defensive midfielder?. He wasn't,it was Jose who converted him to this very role,Mikel was bought as an attacking midfielder,how many of you watched him during Netherlands 2005?.We need to stop talking badly about him,the people that kept talking about Ramires price,how much was Mikel bought? 16 million pounds then,so i hate it when people talk about ramires and his price,somebody pointed out the mistake he made last season against man city,how many of you are talking about the ones that JT did?.We are yet to win champions league is becuase of JT,how many of you have forgotten what JT did against everton last season,allowing Saha to score 2 goals,all becuase of his mistakes,each and every one of them makes mistakes,even Essien,so let's leave Mikel alone
we start great season and we are doing good job and carlo ancheloti doing good job as well but there is long way to go if we can do the same thing we did last time and I hope chelsea can win again the title because they are great players and great team and they are the most fear team in this world ..
it is good to be back again with the winning spree we have the best attacking forward in the premiership and hopefully we will win the league
Can we talk about the general team performance, without picking on individual flaws, which we all know every player do make mistake(s). Chelsea has kicked off the season on a flying note. But with the job midfielders are doing, I guess we'll see a lot of rotation in the starting line up. Continous play of any player will likely tell on his performance on pitch. Most of the works are shouldered by the Midfielders, so playig them consecutively will affect their performance.
I know Mikel is a promising player, he's doing better this early season. He's a valuable player, seems to be more defensive than Essien who on other hand is more offensive. You can play back the recent Community Shield against Man U, sincerely I spontaneously voiced "We are vulnerable now", when Mikel was subtituted. We could see it when Man U worked passed Essien and Young Bruma for the third goal.
The bond in the team is stronger, and understanding has deepened in the squad.
Go Chelsea! Go UCL, EPL, FA, Charity
we should please try to value and appreciate what we have in your hand but when we lost it that when we will know the important and it values so,let accomodate them all(the mistake of selling out aryen rubben out will come to pass if we the fans are not careful with our criticisim or undervaluating our promising players)so we should think deep and fast one too in the encouraging path toward the success of our team at all levels (UP THE BLUES)
Im going to have to agree with David Kyle's points on the midfield. I dont doubt Mikels talent, but david is correct when he stated that Mikels time on the field was largely due to Essien being injured for 3/4 of the season. Mikel is a great developing youth, But Chelsea has a lot to lose, which is why we try not to rely on Youth so much in our matches. Any position on the starting XI for CFC is an enormous role to fill. We always compete for the title every season and mistakes are more likely to be made by youth. The best place for youth development IMO are the Carling, FA Cup and English Cup matches. I would rather play youth in those matches than again UTD, ARS, LIV and City. You have to learn to walk before you run. I feel that a lot of youth get thrown into games where they get dominated by stronger/smarter players and its a shot to their confidence.
The castigation of Mikel makes me remember a quote once attributed to Bernand Shaw. " Mens good deeds are written on on water; while my bad deeds are written on brass. When i am right nobody remembers; but when i am wrong nobody forgets.(end of quote) All those times that mikel had played well kept the back four safe and largely filled in for essien during his season long injury i guess does not count. But one question remains unanswered. If he is this bad why does every coach play him??????. if any of you Mikel doubters know the answer to this question you would be in carlo's seat.
Well,for me i have all your contribution but let's stop this criticism on our players because it demolarise them.no one is above mistake,beside Ancelloti is doing a great job likewise the player.mikel,essien and Jt all have made mistakes that cost the team so much.jt deprived us champions league glory,essien also against barcelona in the semi 2008/2009.failing to clear the ball from our half afterwords barcelona scored a late equalizer to seal a place in roma.but we have to focus on the futûre for now.chelsea4lif
The good thing about football is the different opinions fans have, but then I am disappointed when we talk like kids. Comparing two Talented players and criticizing one is crazy. Without Mikel, Essien cannot join the attack. Essien plays better when Mikel plays behind him which is obvious. Secondly they bring so much to the team when they play side by side. plus the fact that they are both different. Mikel played a major part in our double last season and also every season he has played for us, he should be congratulated not crucified, Ramires is a good buy but I don't see him (Ramires) keeping Mikel permanently on the bench, nobody can. Somebody said we should have sold him (Mikel) that is the worst thing I have heard from a Chelsea fan if truly he is one.
Say what you like but mark my words "Mikel will play more games this season than he has ever played". And to all you haters continue. Mikel will flourish and there is nothing anybody can do. Enjoy the season peeps. CFC for Life.
In this excellent victory over Wigan, there are a lot of positives to be seen, but we must also look on the other side too. Against better opponents like Manchester United and manchester city, we woill be defeated easily. We are not dominating the first half, and this is concerning me greatly. Yes I know we scored 5 goals in the second half, but we only scored 1 i nthe first. We were domintaed by Wigan for long periods, and we were very slow to start.
every player should play his own game if not, he'll perform badly, its left for the couch to blend different styles of play into a unit. mikel is not an english man and will never be, neither is he essien. his nigerian style is relaxed so is anelka's. they are perfect the way they play
chelsea sur[prises me sometimes. i dont know how they managed to stirke al those goals in games that they strugle to assert their domanance.
wigan was good and always proved it by pressing the blues right on the wall.
but they swallowed six!!!!!!!!!!!unbeleivable ,.
fred daka kamwada , kampala, uganda
We should concentrate more on the positive sides of things & not the other way round. I've always seen Mikel as a great player with abundant talents. He was an attacking midfielder before JM converted him. His first start for CFC against Lefski sophia in 2006, he played in an attacking right wing position & almost got on d score sheet.has anyone ever thought of the over-shadowing effect the other players have on him?. Mikel will even get better either playing for CFC or any other club.have u all forgoten how Didier started at SW6. Pls.....give d guy a break.we are human & always bound to make mistakes.i can say to Kyle that there are a million and one things u've done that u're not proud of.hope u don't come crying someday that Ramires should be off loaded. Shevy was expensive but he spent major part of his time sitting on the bench at d bridge. UP MIKEL!
Every team goes through ups and downs,their job is like any other,although the salary may be quite different,you have bad days at work,they have bad days at work.What you all should remember though, is that they work damn hard for you guys,seven days a week not just a saturday,but they are a 'TEAM',and they live by the sword,and die by the sword 'TOGETHER'.So give the boys a break, and enjoy the good times while we have them,and give them 'ALL' your full support.C'mon you Blues
Being a cfc fan frm way down here on the islands of Seyhelles its been 15 years now since im GLUED to my telly to watch boring boring chelski.it is bad enough criticising your very own player but let's get it right JMO will NEVA be michael essien let alone makelele.the latter was the best defensive midfielder cfc have ever signed and JMO should have been his understudy.the boy is still young but matured enough to cope with the demands of PL football but he surely have failed to live up to expectations, he made me swear at him a few times with his uncharacteristic errors.he is good at keeping the ball but he seems to wait for ages always before releasing a pass and thus makes a fail pass. i can't wait to see the introduction of ramires alongside michael and frankie. so unfortunate for JMO but wait till those 3 start playing alongside each oda, just sit and learn my boy, cause if you don't make the grade you'd be downgraded. Blueboy4life!
Wen u bcom chelseas manager,u can efect ur changes.am sure jose,fergie and arsene wil die to hav a player like mikel.so u hv ur opinion but it doesn't count so much.we lost at home against barca wit esiens careles pass,so keep pointin out erors,mikel is still a strange player dat mixes well wit any team.I lov him so much.
Love my club too much.
The most telling moment of Mikel, for me, was last season when he set up Tevez's goal by trying to head the ball back to JT & Co. only to give it to the other teams attack. Urgency is a great way to put it, he just doesnt seem like he cares enough. Mikel is the type of player you normally say you hate if he's against you but love him if he's on your team, wen actually no, everyone hates him. c'mon Ramires!
Ancelotti was once asked which Chelsea midfield he sees himself in.( Ancelotti was a defensive midfileder for AC milan and Italy if your understanding of football goes beyond Abramovich's purchase of chelsea). Guess which Chelsea midfielder Carlo called?
know Mikel is a promising player, he's doing better this early season. He's a valuable player, seems to be more defensive than Essien who on other hand is more offensive. You can play back the recent Community Shield against Man U, sincerely I spontaneously voiced "We are vulnerable now", when Mikel was subtituted. We could see it when Man U worked passed Essien and Young Bruma for the third goal.
The bond in the team is stronger, and understanding has deepened in the squad.
i honestly think we should have sold him off but lets see what he can do this season. I'm very much looking forward to the 3 man midfield of lampard, ramires and essien. i also think benayoun will prove to be a valuable player to us. he reminds me of gudjohnson, a player imo we should not have got rid of. but yea, should be a good season ahead of us! CFC4life!
Mikel is a great player now, he will getting better and better in future. Essien, Mikel and Ramires is the future chelsea mid trio. Ramires is bought to replace Lampard in 3-5 years time. Carlo said that he is young and the future. Arjen Robben is a great player. He is the best winger we ever had. I still feel the pain of letting him go. Please don't over criticize any of our promising great future player.
The squad is too light IMO. No goalkeeping cover worth talking about. Bos (injured), Zhirkov (injured?) and Paulo (past it?) represent our experienced cover at the back. Obi, Yosi and Kakuta are for the m/f and Kalou and Sturridge up front. One could throw Bruma and Patrick Van into the mix (both young defenders) but it still seems horribly light. I am thinking letting Ballack go was a mistake. I would 100% be buying a decent goalkeeper before the end of the transfer window if it were me. What is the point with all these youngsters out on loan? Have any made the first team yet?
Go Chelsea!! Go Essien!!! Go Ramires!!!
CFC for life
It is unfortunate that you all CFC fans start discussing the demerits about our players. At whatever level a player is, there are mistakes which will be committed. What we have to put in mind is that with more of these games to the young players, is when they start to develop into mature talents. If we prohibit the young lads from playing in the senior team then what is the Academy for anyway. The Manager put said he wants to use more of these young players so we should be just supportive to the young lads whoever is given a chance to future in the Senior Team Without using the young players, we shall sieze to have the chelsea FC faithfull players, the likes of JT, we need more of them from the Academy. Please give constructive ideas to the players and the Manager. Thanks
Hi up there,
I'm a staunch Chelsea fan knwon in my community and my work place.
A credit to Management, the Players, all stakeholders and the fans at large.
Keep the winning spirit moving. until we see the entire globe in blue. As JM said lets stay 'Ture Blue' forever.
More comments after Stocke City. I predict 4-0 in favour of the Blues.
Keep me posted on the lates news.
People's evaluation if Mikel's play is disappointing. It isnt truely a lack of urgency, part of his role with the ball is to hold it and allow the attacking players to move into attacking positions. This is what he has been directed to do by Ancelotti. If he werent doing the job he wouldve been sold. This is similar to Real Madrid's valuation of Claude Makelele, and look at how their results changed with his departure. Mikel is only a Role player and he plays his role well. Essien is the best player in the team, and is playing in his best fit position. Why would one change that? Just believe in Carlo's decisions and do not create doubt just for arguement. Look at Joe Cole, look at last January's transfer window, and you'll see Carlo knows what he is doing. WE have the strongest first 11, the most depth, and the best chemistry. We will finish with with around 95 points this season, and 100+ goals!
Hey peeps like d elders wud say a word is enough 4 d wise -wt out d eyes d face is incomplete n wt out d neck d head is worthless.we al make mistakes so instead of cutting heads let al stand by our plays n our team.Blues forever.
albert, you don't need to get mad, we both want the same thing: Chelsea wins. We just may disagree on the best way to achieve them. I just feel Essien plays Mikel's role better than Mikel and some.
and yes I realize JT is culpable for many goals and losses, I have been worried about his diminishing skills for a while, he however remains our best CB and overall leader, he is irreplaceable in Chelsea terms. In Essien, I feel we have Mikel's superior in hand. and yes I realize he was originally an attacking midfielder, Nigeria wants to play him there still. and yes I realize manager after manager has played him. He is not useless, I just find his play more frustrating than others I guess. but alas, I suppose I am biased. As always, go Chelsea.
we have to keep scoring !!
i have only one question to ask all those who are mikel haters-- can you name any manager who has benched mikel in his team?
there is a raw talent in that young boy that all managers sees. if anyone sees differently he should stop posting and making unnessasary comment, then forward his Cv to Abramovich and call for the coaches resnigation. makalele wasnt appreciated until he was sold by real madrid. we shouldnt make that mistake in mikel. all his team mate seems to love him a lot because of what he brings to the team.
Mikel is a very good player and thats why most Chelsea coaches play him in most of their games.For those who like rush football instead of skillful thinking game where you have to hold the ball before passing and having premediated passing,then Mikel isn't their type of player.Please stop the English mentally of speed,strength and power without brain.Remember England Vs Germany in S.africa.
If I am not wrong, Mikel has played all the PL matches this season and has played for 90mins throughout the games. And when Carlo wants 2 substitute, he substitutes Franky and Essien. Are you surprised? All you Mikel Haters get ready to watch him in all the matches we will play this season! UP CHELSEA!!
The supporters pointing out obi's failings should re-watch the first 3 games again. He has been outstanding, as have the rest of the team. Why can't people just enjoy the great start to the season and leave the Chelsea bashing to the bloody media ?
With the amount of games to be played this season ALL the midfielders will get plenty of games.
i am little upset about the 3 games but i am sure chelsea not gone be stoped and will win the league go chelsea go!!!!!
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Four-year-old Audrey Arnold can't wait for the Central Methodist University women's basketball season to get over.
Some fan she is.
Daddy's girl just wants James back is what it is, to be able to cuddle with the man who is the Central Methodist coach.
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Paw Paw native James Arnold, center, instructs his Central Methodist women's basketball team during a game this season. The Eagles are headed to next week's NAIA-Division I?tournament.
"She said, 'Daddy, I'm ready for the season to be over,'" James Arnold said. "I told the team about that; they laughed."
The Eagles and their Paw Paw native coach are laughing all the way into next week's 32-team NAIA-Division I national tournament, starting Wednesday in Frankfort, Ky., for just the first time in school history as member of the division.
The Eagles (25-7) earned an at-large bid after finishing as the runner-up in the Heart of America Athletic Conference tournament and will play defending national champion Oklahoma City in the opening round. Central Methodist received one of the No. 8 seeds in the four-pod setup.
"There's an interesting thing in that kind of seeding situation," Arnold said. "We're just about being led off to slaughter on paper."
It's Oklahoma City's 16th straight bid to the tournament, while the Eagles are just beginning to experience success at their current level. Central Methodist, located in Fayette, Mo., went to the tournament last as a Division II member back as the millennium was just striking 2000.
"If we make shots , we can beat anybody in the bracket," Arnold said. "They're really long and gifted athletes, and it'll be a challenge to get shots off. If we can get to halftime and be within screaming distance, we've got a shot."
Really, Arnold knows anything is possible. He wasted no time in turning Central Methodist into a major player on the NAIA women's basketball scene.
He left behind a sizzling program at Highland Community College, one that won 29 games and rose to No. 2 in the land a year ago, to take over a struggling squad at Central Methodist.
He orchestrated the second-greatest turnaround in NAIA history during his first season as the coach of the Eagles in 2011-12, elevating a team that went 5-25 a season before he was hired into a 17-13 unit. It began the season 1-7.
His current team defeated three nationally ranked teams, including Benedictine in the HAAC tournament, and also nipped NCAA-Division I Chicago State.
"It was really tough for the kids and staff," the 34-year-old Arnold said. "We were asking kids to do things that had never been done before and commit to things they'd never committed to. They bought in."
It took a little bit for things to take hold, however. Arnold resisted thinking about how well Highland was doing without him and how Central Methodist was falling short in the early going of his tenure.
Something, though, clicked for his team.
"It was a combination of a lot of things," Arnold said. "I was surprised the talent level was as high as it was. It was a commitment off the court. The work in the weight room was struggling. There was not a lot of postseason and preseason work being put in. ... When we jumped to Division I, we hadn't made the commitment. A lot of those kids didn't know they had it in them, believe they could compete at this level.
"Once you start winning, you start believing. Last year, we had an exhibition game against Illinois-Chicago, and it was pretty close. They had to be saying, 'Who is this crazy guy?' They started believing."
And the Eagles started winning.
In the eyes of Arnold, who graduated from Glenville State, there was no reason to think he couldn't succeed, because he had done so during coaching stints at two junior colleges in the Midwest.
"We had a thing last night and someone mentioned about two years ago and how we didn't even qualify for the conference tournament," Arnold said. "He we are in the NAIA tournament, and it's a lot of the same kids. We brought in some Jucos, but it's a lot of the same kids. You got to give them credit for buying in."
Arnold had an idea, though, that the time for his squad might be right.
He took them on a three-games-in-five-days trip to Pittsburgh with the idea that it could be preparation for the NAIA event, which runs for seven days. It was a nice opportunity for family and friends to come visit him, as well.
Family will be on hand in Frankfort, which is not all that distant from Paw Paw in comparison to his location in Missouri.
"It'll be a nice treat to see some familiar faces and have family there," Arnold said.
Better still, though, is the treat of making it this far.
He realizes that a lack of name recognition among the selection committee probably doomed his squad to its seeding, but he understands.
"It's like anything," Arnold said. "When you're new to the scene, you'll have to prove yourself. If you're the new kid on the block, you'll have to prove yourself."
Arnold's team is ready to prove to the NAIA establishment that it belongs.
Now all that is left is to prove to Audrey that the season must go on for at least a week longer.


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Royal Homecoming
Fifty-Five Years Later, Princess Elizabeth of Yugoslavia Comes to the Aid of War Victims in the Country That Banished Her Father
Downstairs, 370 men, women and children (Serbs, mostly, and some Croats and Muslims) are learning to live with their mangled bodies. Until last December, humanitarian aid was hampered by the war, and the hospital improvised with clumsy prosthetic parts in stock for years. But rapacious border officials and economic chaos still prevail; importing supplies is only slightly less challenging than it once was. "There are no words to say, 'Thank you,' " the perspiring Vranic tells Elizabeth, a glamorous figure in horn-rims and a sleek Carolina Herrera suit. "Every tiny hand will help."
Although this $25,000 shipment represents a year's work for the Princess Elizabeth of Yugoslavia Foundation, Elizabeth looks grave rather than jubilant. She has been on more than a dozen missions like this one, and has learned, she says, that "you can't get caught up in the emotion because otherwise you're no good."
When she descends to the wards, however, it is difficult to remain detached. Dim hallways that reek of stale sweat and Turkish tobacco are lined with people slumped in wheelchairs or leaning on crutches. Uncomfortable in the sort of public role other royals might relish, Elizabeth speaks to the patients in a low voice, shaking hands with those whose arms are still intact. Petar Dragas, a burly Serb in nylon jogging pants, tells her that he is a medical technician who lost his legs to "a Muslim grenade." He is frank about his anger. "I was from Sarajevo," says Dragas, 28. "Now I don't know where I'm from. My family is there, but they will leave—nobody can give us security if the Muslims run the government." Later, Elizabeth will admit the visit was a strain. "It's worse when you see the pain close up," she says. "You can give people prosthetics, but you can't repair their lives."
At 60, Her Royal Highness Jelisaveta Karadjordjevic has seen her share of drama. Mother of actress Catherine Oxenberg and second cousin to Prince Charles, she became an expatriate at the age of 4, when her family was exiled after a coup d'état. Raised in Kenya (where she learned Swahili and "ate mangos in the bathtub"), the thrice-wed princess has been a socialite in London and the wife of a politician in Peru. By turns reserved and "totally zany," as Oxenberg puts it, Elizabeth reinvented herself in a world where royals are a glamorous anachronism. "It's been a constant identity search," she says.
Ironically, the princess has found her place among the people whom she might have served had her father never been deposed. Working from her compact penthouse in Manhattan, she channels her energy into the charity that she founded in 1990. With an assistant, she has staged five benefits, including last year's performance of the hit musical Bring In 'da Noise that raised $50,000. Added to funds from donors such as actor Karl Malden, the proceeds have been used over the years to provide supplies for hospitals, refugee camps and orphanages throughout the former Yugoslavia. And though she is contemptuous of red tape and "stupid bureaucrats who won't let you help," Elizabeth insists upon delivering the goods herself. "Otherwise," she says, "everything disappears into the black market."
Title or no, she feels a strong connection to those who have been uprooted by war. "I know what it's like to feel out of place," she says. And while from a distance she may look to be a dilettante, close friends see her as a woman with a calling. "She's never after personal glory," says Delia Roche Kelly, owner of an avant-garde Manhattan supper club. "She's a genuinely concerned person, but in a low-key, unfussy way."
"She's utterly fearless," adds son Nicholas Balfour, 25, who is a currency broker in London. "She doesn't seem brave when you meet her, but there isn't anybody she won't take on."
At Doctor Olga Dedijer, the Belgrade hospital where the Princess has stopped on Jan. 13 to visit a ward that quarters refugee children with their mothers, the only sign of holiday cheer is in a common room where a bristly evergreen has been hung with shards of tinsel. In many cases widowed and wounded by the war, the women sleep with their injured children in rooms festooned with damp laundry, lank balloons and pages torn from sports magazines.
The princess has brought chocolates and cosmetics—a small gesture but one that (in a facility where 50 women share one bathroom) she hopes will be therapeutic. "They are very proud," she says. "They're embarrassed to be seen this way."
In the chilly medical library, where several mothers sip coffee and inspect the toothpaste and hand cream she has brought, the talk becomes personal: "Can we ask, are you married?" says Radina Kosjerina, 34. "I was, but my husband died three years ago," Elizabeth replies. The group nods. "You are the Princess Karadjordjevic!" says a woman who has just arrived. "You are connected with Catherine Oxenberg? We know her from Dynasty."
"Do you have other children?" someone asks. Told that Elizabeth has three, the women murmur: "We wish they are all healthy and alive."
As the princess prepares to leave, the photographer in her party offers to snap each of the mothers at her side. Giggling, they straighten their backs and smile awkwardly as they face the Polaroid. Afterward they retreat into the hall and stare at the prints. "We have no memories here," explains Seka Jankovic, a lawyer from Sarajevo. "Everything we had was left behind."
Elizabeth was 50 before she began to reclaim bits of her own past. Born in Belgrade's White Palace, which her father had designed, she was the youngest child of Princess Olga of Greece and the Oxford-educated Prince Paul. In 1941, Adolf Hitler demanded that her father (who had been regent for seven years) sign a non-aggression pact. After pleading in vain for military support from the British, Paul complied with the Füthrer. He was branded a traitor by Britain, which had told him to hold off the Nazis with his own meager forces. On March 27, 1941, the prince was unseated by a military coup, and the family was given four hours to leave Belgrade.
Supervised by the British—who had arranged for Paul to be kept under house arrest—the Karadjordjevics were packed off to Nairobi, where they arrived with two maids, a nanny and their Scottish terrier. For two years—first in the tumbledown estate where White Mischief would be filmed in 1987, and later in a simple house nearby—they lived as political prisoners. By the time Elizabeth, her parents, and brothers Princes Alexander (who now lives in Paris) and Nicholas (who died in a 1954 car accident) joined relatives in Greece, Prince Paul "was a broken man," the princess says.
For her part, Elizabeth "spent her life running away from the fanfare that came from [being royal]," her son Nicholas says. Educated at boarding schools where "people expected me to be a snob," she says, she called herself Elizabeth George; at 23, she eloped with Howard Oxenberg, 40, a New York City businessman she had met on the slopes in Austria. (Their five-year marriage produced Catherine, 34, and Christina, 33, a writer.) In 1969, Elizabeth wed British politician Neil Balfour, but the marriage had faltered by 1974. That same year, her old friend Richard Burton was reeling from the failure of his first marriage to Elizabeth Taylor. In London he rediscovered the princess; for six weeks the two were betrothed. Elizabeth walked out, however, when she discovered that even she couldn't save him from the bottle.
Romantic disappointments aside, Elizabeth never lost her spirit. Catherine remembers their London household—where pizza was once served to the Queen Mum during a blackout—as "exuberantly idiosyncratic." Says Oxenberg: "We'd go on mad adventures. Once we were flying to Iran, and the plane stopped in Athens. My mother said, 'Let's just get off.' We stayed for weeks, having a great time."
While her peripatetic life taught her to be "totally adaptable," Elizabeth felt spiritually adrift until 1987. That October, with new husband Manuel Ulloa (the late prime minister of Peru), she attended a conference in Budapest. There, Ulloa impulsively cornered a Yugoslavian minister and announced, "I want to take my wife to Belgrade." Three days later they boarded a train, and Elizabeth became the first Karadjordjevic to set foot in the country for nearly half a century. "I cried for 24 hours," she says. "I felt like a ghost."
Still, the one-day visit left Elizabeth with "a sense of my duty as a princess." The government opposition that she had expected never materialized, and she went back the following year; in 1989 she returned for several months. Over time, she taught herself Serbian (which her family had abandoned) and began looking for ways to help. "It was odd," she says. "My parents passed on the idea of service, but until then I'd had no one to serve."
On a frigid morning in Belgrade, a crimson carpet has been laid on the steps of the White Palace, now a reception hall for the president of the federal republic. The director attempts a gallant bow. "Welcome," he says to Elizabeth, who's made this pilgrimage several times. "This is your home."
The princess strolls toward the vast salon, inspecting the paintings chosen by Prince Paul—a Rembrandt, a Canaletto, a Poussin. Her family's property was confiscated in 1946, when the monarchy was abolished; and though much was sold, the library is still lined with Paul's leather-bound volumes.
"He was a scholar, my dad—not a soldier," says Elizabeth, caressing a book embossed in gold. "I detest injustice because of him." In 1980 she supplied research for a biography of Paul published in Britain and, later, in Yugoslavia. Its premise: that England not only had turned its back on Paul (who died in 1976) but had supported the coup against him. "Even though history is basically gossip," she says, "it's better to know the truth."
In the family quarters, Elizabeth walks through her mother's brocaded boudoir—the room where she was born. Now in a Paris nursing home, Princess Olga, 93, is befogged by age and Alzheimer's. "She's astonished that I came back here," Elizabeth confides. "She always says, 'Where have you been lately? How extraordinary!' "
And what would her father think if he knew that Elizabeth was ministering to other refugees? "He would be totally amazed and rather impressed," she says. "And he'd probably think I was quite mad."
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Clare Burke's life took a devastating turn when she defended her sister, Anne, from an abusive husband and ended up serving prison time for assault. Nearly twenty years later—long estranged from her sister—Clare is living a quiet life in Manhattan as an urban birder and nature blogger, when Anne's daughter, Grit, shows up on her doorstep. When it appears that Anne has followed Grit, each woman wonders what their long-awaited reunion will bring. Little Night is a riveting story about women and the primal, tangled family ties that bind them together.


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This is a discussion on Re: [fw-wiz] Firewalls that generate new packets.. - Firewalls ; Hi Kelly, Lets say I am kind of disappointed. I figured that your question kick off a "proxy" versus "everything else" type "discussion". It didn't . Ah the 90s.... good times good times... What I believe you are referring too ...
Hi Kelly,
Lets say I am kind of disappointed. I figured that your question kick
off a "proxy" versus "everything else" type "discussion". It didn't .
Ah the 90s.... good times good times...
What I believe you are referring too when you talk about "generate a
new packet ... " is a proxy firewall. This is a piece of code that
will take the original packet, suck out the contents, (the content may
be inspected at this point but rarely happens), build a new packet,
blow the content back into the new packet, and send it along its way
(assuming it meets other criteria such as being allowed, valid, etc).
Commercial examples of this type of firewall are Sidewinder or
Symantec Enterprise Firewall (formally known as Raptor). The other
type of firewall (and market leader) would be "stateful". Examples of
this would be Checkpoint, Pix (ASA), and pretty much every kitchen
appliance these days.
What would be the advantage of this approach? Well - the primary
advantage would be that there is no "direct" path to the service that
you need to talk to. This is helpful especially in the days where IP
stacks were poorly written and attacks against them were more
realistic. If you use an application specific proxy (http, smtp, etc)
then you have an improved level of packet validation. This could be
helpful to protect against potential unknown attacks against
applications. There are a few more but I don't think they are that
What would be a disadvantage? Some say performance. I never bought
that argument. Its a sizing issue. The firewalls I've dealt with
that handled the highest amount of packets were proxies. Other say
price. This is a true argument - commercial proxy firewalls were
traditionally a higher pricepoint than their stateful counterparts.
I've done a lot of firewall conversions in the last few years. The
primary reason organizations cited as a reason to move away from proxy
firewalls was management. If you have to manage more than, say, one
firewall - the management interfaces of the two market leaders in the
proxy space have always fallen down (read: royally sucks). Checkpoint
has always done a better job at this. And organizations like the
familiarity of the Pix (ASA) because everything else they have are
Cisco devices. Whether its a better option in "securing" whatever you
are trying to "secure" rarely enters the discussion.
In the end, stateful and proxy firewalls will both do the job that we
ask firewalls to do and are only one component of an overall security
cue "discussion"
On Nov 13, 2007, at 9:58 PM, Kelly Robinson wrote:
> Some firewalls, after receiving a packet, generate a new packet and
> populate it with data from the original, rather than forwarding the
> same packet that was received. What are the advantages and
> disadvantages of this approach? And does anyone have any examples of
> any firewalls that do this on the market?
> Thanks
> - k
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Neal Wade will leave his job as head of the Alabama Development Office and return to head up economic development for St. Joe Co. in northwest Florida.
Wade began informing colleagues Monday that he has decided to take the position he held for three years before Gov. Bob Riley persuaded him to leave the real-estate developer and head Alabama's industrial recruitment efforts. He has been the ADO's executive director for seven years.
"I think very highly of St. Joe's management and I think very highly of their opportunities to compete in economic development," Wade said in an interview Monday. "It's an opportunity to go back to something I know and working somewhere I am familiar."
Wade was considered by many as a primary candidate to be the next chief executive of the Birmingham Business Alliance, the city's main business group. But a BBA search committee has hired a national search firm with no definite timetable for finding a successor for Dalton Smith, who resigned in July.
Under Wade, the ADO has helped Alabama land many large industrial prizes, including the $4 billion-plus ThyssenKrupp steel plant near Mobile.
"Under Neal's leadership, ADO has been more successful than ever before and our entire state has benefited from his work," Riley said in a statement to The Birmingham News. "Alabama has seen record numbers of announced new jobs, record amounts of investment in our economy, and a more positive image of Alabama presented to the world. Neal is simply the best."
Wade said St. Joe offered him his old job unexpectedly, and he had to take a sure thing rather than gamble on the BBA post.
"Sometimes the timing is such that you have to make a decision on what is before you," Wade said. "I don't think you can base a decision on what might happen. There was no indication that I would ultimately be a serious candidate for that job."
Wade said he is excited about returning to St. Joe, the largest private landowner in Florida with half a million acres, to help entice new development.
"I'm excited about having the chance to return and work for St. Joe," he said. "There are all sorts of new opportunities in northwest Florida and I am eager to help them take advantage of them all."
Wade said his work at ADO building alliances between neighboring states, including the Aerospace Alliance that has Alabama, Florida, Mississippi and Louisiana marketing the region to a single industry, will allow him to continue working with Alabama when he returns to Florida.
"I love what I'm doing here," he said. "Unfortunately, it did not appear to be a job I was going to be able to keep after January."
Both gubernatorial candidates have indicated they will make changes in appointed positions, including the head of ADO.
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In May, Lyle Wallace told police that he had seen his ex-girlfriend leaving a gap in the wall of 1808 E. Fayette St. with stolen copper pipe.
Police investigated but found the girlfriend's "large girth" made it impossible to believe she had fit through the space, according to a police report.
They then tied Wallace to a report of stolen cable television. When confronted, Wallace "readily admitted" that he routinely stole the cable TV for residents of 2119 E. Fayette St., according to a police report.
Wallace told police he would "jump splice" the cable TV by attaching cable wires from the basement's converter box to the residents' apartments. He did so from March to May, according to the police report.
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It's a homely church. Granite exterior, ground level to pitched roof two stories above street-level, a chilly rosette over the entranceway, tasteful stained glass representations of gospel narratives. Inside, the Stations of the Cross are tucked into squat glass tents. The stonework looks medieval, the terrazzo floors bright and unspoiled.
Only the women among the parishioners seem fit to do any actual work. They enter in heavy plaid zipper jackets, ballooning sweaters with banded sleeves. The older women are wrapped in heavy wool scarves. They stand or kneel only if they can, and most can't. Flesh is piled on their limbs like slush. They waddle, limp, pivot, slouch, and collapse into pews that moan when they meet the wood. They wear sweats, rarely dresses. Some come in muumuus. Those not overweight or morbidly obese wear flannel shirts pulled over the waistbands of loose-fitting jeans.
The women possess a fearsome underclass chic. They not only worked for the clothes they wear but some of them ran the production line in the factory that shut down and moved overseas and disrupted a transition that saw one female generation follow the other like the seasons into the mill. The big sewing machines, the black looms, the long pressing tables, the clean hot smell of steamed cloth. Sweat and steam. They dressed a generation of prom kings and queens, altar boys and communicants (and even a few bar mitzvah boys) in cheap clothing that never wore out. Their kids and grandchildren wore their uniforms to Vietnam and Grenada and got married in their tuxes.
Their fingers hang like chewed bamboo over the pews. They have less trouble kneeling because they are simply tougher than the men. While their sons and husbands were working out over a beef-with-double-provolone at Nick's or selling swag out of trunks, they were raising kids, running looms, hanging clothes, taking rectal temperatures, cooking, screaming at each other on the front steps, sometimes battling with their fists. They mostly don't read—cataracts, illiteracy, undiagnosed dyslexia, attention spans exhausted from lifetimes of doing five things at once. Their mates fear them more than anything.
Some in their seventies look a decade younger than the male children hanging at their sides. Sight of them turns the heart in opposed directions. The women seem to have nosed something repulsive here. When they scan the crowd they skip the males, their eyes dulled by old constellations. They are disappointed in the way maleness has left the males. They want something new: the old, the really old, dignified oldness.
The men are dressed as if their mothers were still laying out their clothes. Thin and tubercular or alcoholic, pasty and paunched, guts over unbelted trousers (and an occasional monk's rope). Pants shiny in the seat from long hours on their own stoops arguing trades and firing butts at strays. Polo shirts open at the throat. Strange lines in the crotch. Occasional gold—fake—pendants, uniformly cruciform, which clip the pews when they rise or sit. Work shirts under nylon jackets with fake down stuffing. They kneel on artificial knees.
They look sick and out of season, as though undergoing bad pregnancies
They shuffle in like little boys with bald spots, bad hearing, dentures, colostomy bags, gum disease, heart disease, circulatory disease. Some mope in the narthex between the holy water fonts and the poor box and religious literature tables trying to look their ages. They can't, they're too depressed. They were educated to see the world as lively but fallen and overseen, the metaphysical equivalent of the security state. Their self-consciousness was perfected through decades of erased expressions and Latin masses.
In the standard blue-collar neighborhood's model of church art, the artist represents tradesmen to tradesmen. Everything is subtly working class. The apostles in the low (concrete) reliefs making up the Stations of the Cross look like gym rats after workouts, punchy, out of breath. There are too many grief-destroyed women averting their eyes—these Grays Ferry women look everything in the eye, and look it down until it's dead or it confesses—and other than a couple of beefy Romans with pecs modeled on the artist's favorite film actor or on local gangsters, little is memorable. Stripped and transfixed on the cross, girlish and disturbing, Jesus has strong features but for his mouth, which is F. Scott Fitzgerald's. ("Worrisome," Hemingway called it.) The Virgin looks like the Blue Fairy in Pinocchio. Martha's bustline is impressive. The Roman soldier wielding the flagellum is Tony, who owns the corner candy store. Magdalene, stylishly hooded and svelte in a pink shawl, is a ringer for Melanie Griffith. All three women shade lowered eyes, touch pale unlined throats, and look off. They seem to be sharing a secret or about to giggle.
In mid-mass at the point where the sermon is delivered, the young priest walks to the lectern and reads announcements. He reads them badly. His voice is high and blunted by feedback. He syllabicates the names of the recently deceased and sounds like speech recognition software. In him the congregates see either the future of religion or a confirmation of the wisdom of clerical celibacy. Imagine, they think, if he had children. Picture the IQs.
On Monday the girls and boys will go back to school, the women back to their jobs, the men back to their stoops and firing cigarettes at strays. Many worked for one of the industries that existed when America's neighborhood economy was still industrial and still made and exported things. There was the clothing factory that closed and relocated to a city in the southwest before it was again closed and relocated to Singapore or some other geographically desolate locale. There was the ice cream plant that closed a long time ago and didn't even relocate, just closed. There were other regional factories—locomotive boiler factories, jet engine plants—where some (too broke for cars let alone car insurance) bussed each morning, places where many worked as security guards, maintenance men, sweepers. All back in the day. The men like to say they're retired because it sounds better than unemployed, laid off, furloughed, riffed, living off an insurance scam, on disability, or fired.
They attend closely to Vatican successions. They're relieved when a cardinal named Joseph Ratzinger is elected Pope since it's about time they gave a German the job. Best run country in the world. What we need now is a little colonel to fix things. If this new guy had grown up in the neighborhood, he would have been plain old Joey Rats.
They hate politicians and love politics. Their parents were registered Democrats, so they registered as Democrats, but after the sixties and the race riots, their parents went Republican, and so did they. They condemn politicians who disagree with the church on abortion though half of their kids either had abortions or paid for one. Politics is what's in their freezer, whose kid got killed, who's got a job, who lost a house, how all the bankers ought to be hanged. They talk politics on the church steps, on the sidewalk, on their porches and stoops, on the bocce court at the playground, against the fenders of limos lined up for rides to Holy Cross, against railings, in taprooms where you best believe nobody is enforcing this "no smoking" crap, at the corner body shop under the 25th Street Bridge, in booths at the Melrose (open 24 hours), or in line at the unemployment office where one guy turns to the one behind him (the women still have jobs) and asks Where'd you go to high school? because college was regular Army or, if you were cool, Marines. They grew up corner rats listening to the old guys at the pizza shop, which survived until a mob hit (they hit the wrong pizza shop) closed it. They ran prescriptions for the old Jew druggist until he moved to Florida, the drug store now owned by immigrants with pharmacology degrees and English so bad don't even dream of doing the prescription over the phone, you'll end up with poison. On the bakery steps two generations learned pinochle and some version of patriotism until it shut, after going from bakery to boutique to flower shop to hardware to video store, but its steps are intact. (Somebody on the block's grandfather poured the steps.) Afghanistan, Iraq, 9/11, and Grenada fade into outtakes from 'Nam, Korea, the South Pacific, the Bulge. They gather there—they still call it the bakery steps, right across from church—and talk war and do lines of dialogue from Goodfellas, The Godfather, The Wire. But deep dialogue, whole pages, How about them Japs bombing Pearl Harbor on Pop's Birthday? or Middle of a drought and the water commissioner drowns! It's how they spend their time. My parents used to sleep on their steps, they say. The Depression years, when air-conditioning was like sci-fi. My grandmom scrubbed steps. Poor don't mean filthy. Their despair is profound. It is a kind of wisdom.
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World Junior Softball Championship: Decks cleared for Abijith's trip
By Express News Service - THIRUVANANTHAPURAM
Published: 05th October 2012 11:48 AM
Last Updated: 05th October 2012 11:48 AM
Abijith, hailing from Mavelikara, will soon be wearing the Indian jersey in Argentina, the land of football icon Diego Maradona.
For Abijith, who got selected to the World Junior Softball Championship, the Argentina trip was hanging in balance as he was facing a severe financial crunch.
The State Government, with the interference of Finance Minister K M Mani, decided to give away Rs 50,000 for his trip.
Abijith, who is a first year B Com student of Bishop Moore College, belongs to a BPL family and his father died three years ago. His mother is the sole breadwinner of the family.
As the news started spreading about Abijith getting selected to the World Junior Softball Championship in his hometown in Manacaud, Mavelikara, students, teachers and local people from the region collected Rs 50,000 for the trip.
Mani, who recently visited his hometown to attend a function, came to know about Abijith's talent and directed to sanction the amount required for Abijith to realise his dream trip to Argentina.
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