text: I did PRK on 1998. I didnt use glasses for a few years. at 2006, I started to get eyepain. I used glasses again for astigmatim. It helped but I still had pain. I realised that I had abarasions caused by the surgury, which reduced me sight, and caused eye strain. I am sure the clinic where I did the operation knew about it, but didnt tell me.After a year of debating I thought about doing another surgury.I felt ashamed about it, and didnt tell anybody besides my wife. She said I shouldnt do it. The pain was very disturbing. I have made an appointment in the first place I went to. I didnt check anyother place, because I thought if it meant to succeed it will and if not not. Also it is located in a respecatable hospital and I trusted them.I went to the clinic. I felt very bad about it, and wanted to cancel. The manager called me for "advicing". He said there is no risk in this operation.I was under the pressure of the pain, and decided to do it.I did the operation.My eyes became very dry after the operation, and it was very painfull. I went for a checkup after a week. The doctor said I should not use more then six lubricant drops a day, and gave me refresh tears with preservatives.Iwas terribly suffering. I called the clinic a few times, but they talled me in the phone there is no nead to come.I went after a month. I saw very bad in the right eye. The doctor said I will see very sharply, more then the average in the end. She still didnt treat my dry eyes.After 3 months I went again. My sight didnt improve. The doctor said I should come again after 3 months to see if I should do another operation. Again nothing about dry eye. From reading later I realised the ignoring the dry eye made it permanent, and also damaged my sight, disturbing the eyes from healing..The pain was unbearable and I went again for another doctor in the clinic. He said I should use lubricants every hour. again lubricants with preservatives, although it is not recommended for severe dry eye to use preservatives. He said dry eye should go after half a year, and my sight will be perfect.After half a year he said dry eye should go after a year, and a year after, he said it should disapear in a year and a few months. My sight did become better. But the pain was intolerable. I started to use glasses again for astigmatism and it helped the pain. They were around the same perscription I had before surgury.(1 and 0.5)When I talked to the manager he made it as a success.After two years it was still horrible. Inbtollerable debilitating constant eye pain. I would wake up every hour or two with pain in the eyes. I could hardly work. couldnt bear wind of airconditioning. I was ashamed to tell anybody about my condition.I would hide when I put my lubricants.I would cry in the nights, and told my wife I want to die, and wanted to suicide.


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Northwest NEWS
pril 23, 2001
Guest opinion
by Rick Harris
There are, quite literally, prisons, business parks, communities smaller and, of course, larger, than ours with safer, drier, more structurally sound buildings and, in some cases, auditoriums and athletic fields that would be considered improvements to our facilities.
These are the facts.
€ Due to the expiration of current bonds it is estimated that this bond will cost me approximately $21.50 per $100,000 of my assessed property value per year. Since all current active bonds are expected to be retired by 2006, this bond should only increase my current property taxes by approximately $1 per every $100,000 of my assessed property value for the year 2002. After 2002 my costs for this bond should decline even more.
€ For less than the cost of a double cheeseburger, a tall non-fat latte or two gallons of gasoline per year, I can support my community by providing SAFE schools with new roofs and repairs, the completion of our Performing Arts Center and an adequate athletic field complex for school physical education classes, football, track/field, soccer and a variety of community programs such as little league baseball, softball and soccer.
€ Our school roofs are leaking, in constant states of costly repair and posing potential hazards to the safety, health and learning environment of our students and children.
€ If I am a senior or disabled citizen and my annual income is $30,000 or less, I can submit a property tax exemption form, which would allow me to vote YES for local levies and bonds without paying any additional taxes. The forms and information are available at the SnoValley Senior Center, King County libraries and at the schools.
€ Our athletes must PAY and travel to other fields just to practice. Our aspiring actors, dancers and performers do not have a complete, quality facility in which to develop their skills and let their talents shine.
What will this $5.75 million bond provide for and what are the associated costs?
€ Overbuild and re-roof the A, E and G buildings of Tolt Middle School in Carnation- $582,000
€ Cosmetic, structural and seismic upgrades to buildings E and G at Tolt Middle School- $665,200
€ Re-roof and perform structural repairs and upgrades to building L at Tolt Middle School - $130,000
€ Re-roof Cedarcrest High School - $310,000
€ Re-roof Stillwater Elementary School - $530,600
€ Build an all season, multi-purpose P.E. and athletic field on-site at Cedarcrest High School - $3,294,500
€ Finalize the completion of the Riverview Performing Arts Center at Cedarcrest High School-$225,500
€ A contingency amount for miscellaneous work- $12,200
Didn't we win a lawsuit over the CHS roof?
€ The litigation over the CHS roof is not completed. A partial settlement amount has been received but the majority of the litigation monies are still under appeal. Although there is confidence a fair settlement will be reached, there is no way of telling when, or how much of, those monies will be collected. We know this; we do not have money to make the repairs and improvements that are crucial right now. We also know that, due to the foresight and planning of our Riverview School Board, at least the first $750,000 of any monies received from the litigation will immediately go towards the retirement of this bond.
What will be included at the PE/Athletic Fields?
€ The fields have been scaled down substantially and to the bare minimums. The bond would provide a multi-purpose, all season field for soccer, football and track and field. The field would utilize all-season turf, which reduces maintenance expense and is safer than other materials.
It would provide for an expansion of the storm water systems, sewer systems and electrical systems. It would provide only modest bleachers (750 seats), restrooms, press box and concessions booth.
€ The completion of the Performing Arts Center will provide an adequate venue for our talented students to develop their skills and share their work with the community through recitals and live performances of music, theatre and dance. It would provide for necessary drapery, lighting tracks and lighting instruments.
Please join me in supporting our kids, our community and our future by VOTING YES for Riverview School District Proposition 1 on May 15, 2001. Each and every vote is crucial, please don't make the mistake of thinking your vote won't count. It will count, probably now more than ever before.

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Endress Hauser is leading supplier of products, solutions and services for industrial process measurement and automation. We offer comprehensive process solutions for flow, level, pressure, analysis, temperature, recording and digital communications across a wide range of industries, optimizing processes with regards to economic efficiency, safety and environmental ...
Clean Fuel LLC
based in Ulaanbaatar, MONGOLIA
Clean Fuel LLC is a small biodiesel producer (1000t/y) in Mongolia. We have had an inventory of crude glycerine and do not know how to purify and process. Actually, we need `know how` and cooperation with interested part if possible. for recovering glycerin from biodiesel production together. Is there any crude glycerine purifying and recovering equipment or consultancy ...
based in Ulaanbaatar, MONGOLIA
Name is our company`s State Specialized inspection Agency what works globally. The Central Laboratory is of that producing and analyzing chemicals & drugs, controlling them. The central laboratory has several laboratories:heavy metal`s;food additives`s;water and food products`s;and cosmetic`s analyzing.
People Centered Conservation in Mongolia
based in Ulaanbaatar, MONGOLIA
People Centered Conservation -PCC was established as a non-profit, non-governmental organization in September 28, 2006 in Mongolia. Our Mission is Improve civil society participation through supporting community led approach to conservation and sustainable management of natural resource. Our main services: • To conduct the research and studies on socio-economic, ...
GIS Mongolia Co Ltd
based in MONGOLIA
Mongolia based GIS Mongolia Co. Ltd Company was established in 2000 with 100% of Russian investment funds.Our field of activity - geological consulting, geological exploration of owned licensed areas, boreholes drilling for different purpose (exploration core and non-core drilling, hydrogeological, water supply, engineering) on whole territory of Mongolia for gold, ...
Renergon International AG
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Renergon Internationals core competence is design, engineering, construction and operation of biogas plants by means of anaerobic solid-state digestion and waste management & energy concepts. Anaerobic digestion (AD) from Renergon opens a lot of waste to energy solutions for all kinds of organic waste fractions like municipality waste, industrial waste, agricultural ...
EcoWater Groundwater consulting in Mongolia
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Established in Ulaanbaatar, MONGOLIA in 2005 , Ecowater is one of the leading companies in Mongolia providing groundwater full service for all businesses. Hydrogeological exploration, research and drilling services is done by our qualified professionals.In its activities, Ecowater complies with international and national standards and legislation. HSE and Quality policy ...
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Mongolian road association is professional public organization. Profie: Safety interest for workers of road sector in Mongolia.We have been presented about desertification disaster faced in Mongolia, findings and recommendation of that and impact from earthen tracks, one of the factors creating desertification. Combat with desertification takes place worldwide. A huge ...
Fontus Asia LLC
based in Ulaanbaatar, MONGOLIA
Fontus are a 100% Mongolian owned, independent international consultancy providing industry leading skills in hydrogeology, hydrology, groundwater and surface water modelling, water resources engineering, aquatic-ecology and wetland management. We provide specialist services covering all aspects of water resources investigation, development and management across many ...
RPS Group Plc
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RPS is an international consultancy providing advice upon: The exploration and production of oil and gas and other natural resources; the development and management of the built and natural environment and the development of infrastructure to ensure the supply of energy, water and other natural resources to market. We provide a wide range of services for our clients and ...


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ROSARIO MONTANEZ rode his first races in the hills above his native San Diego and across the border in Tijuana. He was 11.
A decade later, he is the leading apprentice jockey in America, the favorite for the Eclipse Award, making a run at Kendrick Carmouche for leading rider at Parx Racing.
The first time he went to an actual race track, it was Del Mar, the beautiful track on the Pacific Ocean just north of San Diego. He was 9.
"After seeing match races and coming into a real race track, organized and everything, it was a lot different," Montanez said. "Then, you see the women standing in front of the jock's room. Now, we're talking."


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The long, winding and certainly underwhelming career of former New York Jets linebacker Aaron Maybin took a turn northward on Monday when he signed to the practice roster of the Toronto Argonauts.
That's right – the man once called "Mayhem" by Jets head coach Rex Ryan is now on the practice roster of a Canadian Football League team.
Maybin, who was taken by the Buffalo Bills with the No. 11 pick in the 2009 NFL Draft, only lasted two disappointing years in upstate New York before he was released. The Jets then picked him up as a free agent early in the 2011 season to be their "designated pass rusher."
He seemed to thrive in the very limited role, coming off the edge for six sacks.
But Maybin wouldn't enjoy the same success again and despite his high work rate and likability, was cut by the Jets eight games into the 2012 season. He spent this past preseason in Cincinnati with the Bengals but was released prior to the start of the season.
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Maui's Tevita Finau signs free agent deal with Arizona
April 30, 2012 - Robert Collias
Well-traveled Mauian Tevita Finau signed a free agent contract with Arizona on Sunday after finishing strong at the University of Utah.
Finau was not a starter until the final four games of his career — he played in all 13 games as a senior — but he had 10 tackles and one for a loss in Utah's Sun Bowl win over Georgia Tech.
A Google search does not turn up any news for Baldwin graduate and UCLA center Kai Maiava, while former Lunas Kaniela Tuipulotu and Andrew Faaumu were not among the Hawaii players to get NFL calls.
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HOMETOWN: Echuca, Australia
LATEST GIG: The WB's Tarzan
•Why you know him: The former Calvin Klein underwear model now wears pants—though he still goes bare-chested at times—as the wild boy lost in the concrete jungle of Manhattan.
•In the beginning: The youngest of three sons of Chris, a dairy and beef farmer, and his wife, Jennie, a recreation officer for the disabled, Fimmel grew up milking cows. "I'm from such a little place, most people live and work there their whole lives," he says.
•Big break: Dropping out of architecture school to travel, Fimmel ended up in L.A. in 2001. He quickly landed modeling work—with a little help from Photoshop. "My friends took pictures of me, slapped them on top of magazine articles and then made them look like tear sheets on the computer," he confesses. Tarzan executive producer Laura Ziskin spotted his Calvin Klein ad in a magazine and invited him to audition. "In typical Travis style he came in bare feet. Could he act? I didn't know. But something twigged in me," says Ziskin. Jokes costar Mitch Pileggi (X-Files): "I'm sick of how cute he is. I put up with this for nine years with David Duchovny, and now I got a Travis Fimmel."
•Perks of fame: "I'm not into 'things,' " says the single Fimmel, who lives in modest rentals, sends some of his Tarzan earnings to his family and only recently upgraded to a new truck. "If I went on vacation, I'd rather go camping than stay in some four-star hotel.... My friends treat me the same at home. They just want to sit down with you and have a beer."
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TFS History
by Francis Edward Abernethy--Portions were taken from the Preface in T for Texas: A State Full of Folklore (PTFS 44-1982)
The Texas Folklore Society has been preserving and presenting folklore in Texas for eighty-eight years. In its time the Society has published fifty-five annual hardback volumes, eleven special supplementary volumes, numerous monographs and newsletters, and has promoted the publication of sixteen more books on folklore. It has brought to Texas and sent out from Texas the finest scholars and lecturers in the field of folklore. It has sponsored programs displaying folk arts from Texas and the world. And it has had eighty-one annual meetings, most of them alone but some in concert with the Texas State Historical Society, the Texas Academy of Science, folklore societies from other states, and with the American Folklore Society.
Most Society regulars would not blink an eye if they were told that the Society was conceived of the Holy Spirit and born of the Virgin Mary. However, as a philosophical deist I see these matters figuratively rather than literally. On the other hand, the Society's conception was the result of a seed planted by that Holy Spirit of Harvard, George Lyman Kittredge - and I am not trying to make an analogy in which John Lomax becomes the Virgin Mary. Lomax took with him to Harvard, in 1906, the cowboy songs that he had been learning and collecting since his boyhood days in Bosque County. Kittredge and others were delighted with them and sent him home to Texas with the great commission to establish a branch of the American Folklore Society for the further collecting of Texas folklore.
Lomax returned to Texas and began teaching at Texas A&M and began an association with another folklorist, the linguist Leonidas Warren Payne of The University of Texas. In 1909, Kittredge's suggestion became an accomplishment. Lomax and Payne met after the Thanksgiving Texas-A&M football game and resolved to found the Texas Folklore Society as a branch of the American Folklore Society. The Society was officially chartered at the Texas State Teachers Association meeting in Dallas on December 29, 1909. Charter Membership closed with ninety-two members, the initiation fee was fifty cents, and the annual dues were a dollar.
The founders were very significant because of the differences that existed between the personalities of the men and between their attitudes about the collection and presentation of Texas folklore, and because of the fact that they remained the closest of friends in spite of these differences. Payne was an academician, a linguist, and a comparative folklorist with an eye to the international. In his first 1910 circular to the members, Payne presented a philosophy and wrote a list of suggestions to workers that would satisfy the most scientific of modern folklorists.
Lomax was the other side of the coin. He loved the romance of the cowboy and the old west. And he loved the sound of the songs the cowboy sang. His collecting was invaluable. His promotion of the Texas western image and the circulation of the songs in Cowboy Songs and Other Frontier Ballads spread one brand of Texas folklore throughout the world. His work was popular. He meant it to be, and when a song needed alteration for art's sake, he borrowed lines from variants and straightened it out.
Payne and Lomax worked together, and the tolerant and liberal philosophy established by the founders of the Society made it a comfortable bed ground for all kinds and colors of Texas folklorists.
The activities of the Texas Folklore Society were pretty well established during its first decade, when members began their annual meetings where they read papers and discussed a wide variety of folklore and brought in national and international folklorists as guest lecturers. Texas folklorists who were to lay the philosophical groundwork as the officers and leaders were Walter Prescott Webb, Stith Thompson, Dorothy Scarborough, Herbert Bolton, Lomax, and Payne. And in 1916 the Society issued its first major publication, now called Round the Levee, which was edited by Stith Thompson.
The first phase of the Texas Folklore Society ended with the San Marcos meeting in 1917 and the problems of World War I and its aftermath.
The next chapter in the preservation and presentation of folklore in Texas began with J. Frank Dobie. After his discharge from the army Dobie returned to The University in 1919 as an English instructor. He lasted one year before he became disillusioned with the teaching profession. He resigned in 1920 and took a job managing his uncle Jim Dobie's ranch. If there is one point that can be counted as the exciting force in Dobie's life as the director of the Society and the state's leading folklorist, it is a night he sat around the campfire and listened to a vaquero tell tales of buried treasure in the Brasada. He later said of that time: "During the year I spent on Los Olmos Ranch while Santos talked, while Uncle Jim Dobie and other cowmen talked or stayed silent, while the coyotes sang their songs, and the sandhill cranes honked their lonely music, I seemed to be seeing a great painting of something I'd known all of my life. I seemed to be listening to a great epic of something that had been commonplace in my youth but now took on new meanings." Dobie discovered the depth of his roots through his discovery of Texas folklore.
Dobie returned to The University in 1921 and with Leonidas Payne awoke the Society from its four years sleep. He was elected the Secretary-Treasurer and took upon himself the duties of editor of the second PTFS, which came out in 1923. Except for two years during World War II the Society has met annually and has not missed a year without at least one publication. either of its own editing or by sponsorship.
Dobie was inspired by Lomax's work and Lomax's approach to his subject, and his aim, like Lomax's, was to get the general public involved in folklore. Dobie didn't begin as a popularizer. His first instructions to collectors of folklore, published in Coffee in the Gourd in 1923, were in line with Payne: " . . . no legend should be adorned, 'doctored,' or changed from its usual form. It should be written as it is usually told." He had earlier sent out under his own name Payne's 1910 Pamphlet with its solidly academic instructions to collectors.
Dobie soon shed the academic approach and renounced utterly the Society's connection with the American Folklore Society. By 1930 he and the Texas Folklore Society had achieved statewide attention, and in Man, Bird and Beast the Society's publication of that year, Dobie presented his philosophy of folklore as a balance to one of the articles written by Leonidas Payne Payne, still the scholar, had written an article on research in folk music, and his central question and it was a very responsible and logical question was what to do with all the folklore the Society had collected. Dobie replied, "He seems to be saying that the collections should lead to monographic disquisitions on the historical and ethnographic evolution of each particular song with particular attention to its borrowing from other songs." After further attack on the academic methods, Dobie continued with his own criteria which he was to adhere to throughout his career; "I look for two things in folklore . . . flavor and vitality . . . and a revelation of the folk who nourished the lore. . . . Folklore that is interesting whether it be accompanied by footnotes or not is good to print and preserve."
There was plenty of room for academically oriented folklorists during Dobie's twenty-year tenure, and the Society and the state went through phases that included interests in Indians, archaeology, history, and natural science. The Society was affiliated for a while with the Texas Academy of Science. It led the successful fight to preserve the Texas Longhorn. And it flung itself wholeheartedly into the chauvinism of the Texas Centennial years. The Society's emphasis throughout Dobie's editorship remained on field collecting and popular presentation, and he recruited many collectors, especially among Mexicans and Blacks, who didn't even know what folklore was until he told them. Books, magazines, and newspapers throughout the United States carried his folklore articles. Dobie defined folklore for a lot of us, and his influence is still a strong force inside the Texas folklore scene.
Forty years of the Society's life was under the guidance of two men, Frank Dobie from 1923 to 1943 and Mody C. Boatright from 1943 to 1963. There was no immediate change when Mody officially took over, but the center of Texas folklore soon became an institution rather than an individual. It was to become the Texas Folklore Society at The University of Texas, and those of us who came into the Society during the Boatright and later the Wilson Hudson years were to view the association as immutable.
Under Mody's leadership the Society became more academically centered than it had been, and he re-established its association with the American Folklore Society. The national society since then has met twice on the University campus and once in conjunction with the TFS annual meeting. Under Mody the papers read at meetings and published in annuals remained about the same in content, probably with a movement toward more analytical papers. Like Dobie, Mody kept no hard and fast boundaries and definitions of folklore. He was a social historian and his own studies of the cowboy, the oil fields, and the American frontier were soundly grounded in an understanding of society and history. The leadership he gave to the studies of folklore in the English department was the beginning of the strong folklore center which is now a permanent part of the University. Mody promoted the collection and study of oral history and of folklore in a modern industrial society. One of his main contributions to the study of folklore in Texas was through the Society's annual student paper contests, which involved students from colleges and universities throughout the state in preserving and presenting folklore. Mody's time as Secretary-Editor was also coincident with the increase of a national academic interest in folklore and the institution of folklore courses throughout the state. Because most of the state's teachers of folklore were trained as English teachers, much of their guidance and inspiration came from the Society and the folklorists at The University of Texas.
Mody was a beautiful, gentle, and wise man. His leadership was not as flamboyant as Dobie's, but in some ways it was more productive. His encouragement of the academic investigation of collected folklore and his own social analyses of folklore were conclusive steps in the study of field materials, necessary for a full understanding of the subject. His encouragement of scholars and scholarship spread his and the Society's work far beyond his own time.
Wilson Hudson, the Society's editor from 1963 to 1971, became associated with the Society when he began teaching at The University of Texas in 1946. His continuing and growing interest in work in folklore soon made him an integral part of the Society, and when Mody left the campus for a year in 1950 Wilson was put in charge of the next Society publication, which was to be The Healer of Los Olmos (PTFS XXIV, 1951). In The Healer Wilson made a significant addition. For the first time, tale-types and motif numbers were included, a practice which Wilson was to continue after 1951, during his time as Associate Editor and after 1963 as Editor. Wilson's finest contribution to the Society and to folklore generally was his inspiration and direction of James Bratcher's Analytical Index to Publications of The Texas Folklore Society, which the Society brought out in 1973. Mr. Bratcher indexed thirty-six volumes of the Society's publications according to tale type, motif number, ballad number, tale synopsis, and finally alphabetically. In balance to his academic bent, Wilson published five books of popular field folklore in his Paisano Series of the Society's supplementary books.
Folklore as a popular phenomenon was on the rise in Texas during the 'sixties. This was the time of the beginning of a lot of area and ethnic folk festivals, of such restoration projects as those at Winedale and Nacogdoches, and later at Lubbock, of Stan Alexander's folk music club at North Texas State University which spawned such moderns as Steve Fromholz and Michael Murphy, of John Lomax, Jr. and Mack McCormack's Houston Folk Music Club, and to move up into another league, of the Institute of Texan Cultures. One of the most popular and enduring of the folk studies associations was the annual Folklore Symposium founded by Jim Byrd of the English Department of East Texas State University in 1962 and still going strong.
I became the Secretary-Editor of the Society in 1971, and the Headquarters were moved to Stephen F. Austin State University. It was a sad day in August when we loaded all those Austin years into a station wagon and rolled them 250 miles east. But even though a geographical tradition was broken, the business and the purpose were to remain the same. If I have made any identifiable differences in the Society it has probably been because of my interest in East Texas folklore, in ethnic studies, and in editing the Society's annuals around one theme.
Which brings me to conclusions reached after viewing seventy two years of Texas folkloring as a Texan, a folklorist, and a Society member.
The major work of preserving and presenting folklore in Texas has from its beginning centered in the Texas Folklore Society. The development of departments, divisions, and centers in universities has not significantly changed this because the academic approach, even though it has preserved, has not been successful in its presenting.
I conclude with an examination, or more accurately, a statement of the Texas Folklore Society's direction as I see it.
I believe that the Society's main purpose is to search for ways to preserve folklore without embalming it and to present a fairly well-educated public with the treasures of their culture's folk life. I do not believe that our purpose is to proliferate esoterica and pedantry among a small, specially educated clique. I further believe that the Texas Folklore Society's purpose is to preserve and present the Folklore of Texas. This does not mean that our purpose is to be chauvinistic or provincial, both of which are brought about by states of mind rather than geographical locations. It means, as Kittredge said so many years ago, that Texas really is the folklorist's happy hunting ground, that we have all the fields we can ever plow, and that the work and the room to work is as wide as its borders and as inexhaustible as the winds that blow across the Staked Plains. And this work should be done by those who know the land and love it and understand it. And finally, I believe that the purpose of the Texas Folklore Society is not to hide the light of the lore under a bushel of academic guidelines and definitions and scholarly verbiage but to let that light so shine among men that all the world but, Lord, most especially Texans may see the richness of the land and its people and its history and its continuity. In this land and its people and its history Texans must realize the place of their belonging, a mother land to moisten with their sweat, and finally to nourish with their bones.
By Francis Edward Abernethy, taken from the Preface in T for Texas: A State Full of Folklore (PTFS 44-1982)
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Winery Website: www.noveltyhillwines.com
For the past few years now, lots of washingtonians have been super excited about what's been going on at Woodinville-based Novelty Hill Winery – it's winemaker, Mike Januik is one of the state's superstars and rightly so. His wines have a stellar track-record of kicking ass and taking names – he is held in high regard by both industry professionals and by the many fans of his work.
It was for good reason that the family-owned Novelty Hill Winery hired this guy to make its wine – and they've provided him a world-class vineyard in Eastern Washington called Stillwater Creek.
2006 Chardonnay – Stillwater Creek:
Technical Data:
- Case Production: 1,375
- Alcohol: 13.5%
- pH: 3.35
- Total Acidity: 0.50 grams/100 ml
- Barrel fermented in new and one-year-old French oak
- Malolactic fermentation
- Sur lie aging for nine months
- Price: $22
Nose: Creamy pineapple chunks covered in vanilla – a touch of honeysuckle, minerality, and toastiness.
Taste: Toasted marshmallows with hints of kiwi, pineapple, green apple peel and vanilla bean. Extremely luscious mouth-feel in a wine that does a great job of balancing the fruit and acidity. The finish lasts for days on end – easily one of the better-structured chardonnay's I've had in a long time.
W.E.P. Rating: 110%
2006 Viognier – Stillwater Creek:
Technical Data:
- Barrel fermented in 100% French oak
- Sur lie aged for nine months
- Blend: 100% Viognier
- Case Production 192 cases
- Alcohol 13.5%
- pH 3.51
- Total acidity 0.59 grams/100 ml
- Price: $22
Nose: Here we go – the nose on this wine is serious business – we're talking HUGE amounts of pineapple, granny-smith apples, fresh carnations, a hint of flintiness and sour patch candy.
Taste: Take a fresh pineapple, top it with some kiwi, pear peel, some watermelon rine and shove it into your mouth – the explosive fruit of this wine cannot be underscored well enough in text. I get some hints of petrol, sandstone as well.
One of the best balances of fruit to acidity I've had in a white wine this side of Europe. I would hit this wine like the fist of an angry god – bring it on. For all you red wine snobs out there, you NEED to try this wine – this is the quintessential gateway white. This viognier is perhaps the best I've had at anytime, from any producer anywhere. It's so well balanced that I'm a bit verklempt.
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- Blend: 98% Syrah and 2% Cabernet Sauvignon
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- pH: 3.72
- Total acidity: 0.53 g/100 ml
- Price: $22
Nose: Gooseberries mixed with wild, freshly-cut game – some white and black pepper corns mixed with a nice blueberry jam and pie crust overtone round things out.
Taste: Bring on the stinky-socks covered in venison and peppercorns – then shove some fresh blueberries in your mouth and that's what you have going on in this wine. Subtle hints of cocoa round out this quality syrah.
It has an insane amount of fruit that leaps onto your palate but it's kept in check with a good sense of toasted leather notes. Excellent balance of fruit, oak and alcohol – this is a complete no-brainer wine for the money and one I'd highly recommend.


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Monday's episode of "Dancing with the Stars" marked the semifinals and American Icons night.
Each of the five remaining couples performed two routines. Only four would make it to next week's two-part season finale.
The guest judge for the evening was Kenny Ortega, who, in addition to working on "Dirty Dancing" and "High School Musical," has also choreographed for late music legend Michael Jackson and Madonna.
"I'm looking for you guys to take me to a place I've never been," Ortega told the couples at the show's opening.
Rather than kick off the show informing the couples of their status in the competition, the program went straight to the performances.
Mark Ballas and Candace Cameron Bure were the first to perform.
Candace Cameron Bure and Mark Ballas
Coming off her highest score, Bure danced a Viennese waltz with Ballas.
"She works hard, she's funny, she's sweet," Ballas said of Bure. He said it's his chemistry with the former "Full House" star that has helped them make it this far in the competition.
Bure chose Angela Thomas, a bible teacher and author, as her icon. Thomas visited Bure during rehearsals to offer some words of encouragement.
"I should always remember, no matter how many people I'm performing for, I'm really performing for an audience of one, and that's God," Bure said in the pre-recorded footage.
Tonight, nerves got the best of Bure as they have in the past. She lost timing at different points in the routine.
"A little bit of the pressure got to you because there were one or two mistakes," Len Goodman said. "But I understand that." He told Bure she did well overall.
"You've been blowing me away week after week with Mark," Ortega said. "He's a masterful teacher. You got a little lost but I credit you." He said Bure surrendered to the dance.
Bruno Tonioli told Bure to cover her mistakes. "It always goes wrong for any of us at any time," Tonioli said. "Cover it up."
"Kenny was right, you trusted Mark, you surrendered to the dance," Carrie Ann Inaba said.
"Hopefully, I'll just bounce back with the second routine," Bure told Erin Andrews before receiving the judges' scores.
Total Score: 8, 9, 9, 8 = 34
UPDATE: After her underwhelming performance, Bure learned she was safe from elimination. She'll be competing next week for the coveted mirror ball trophy.
UPDATE: Amy Purdy and Derek Hough and Charlie White and Sharna Burgess are both in danger of being eliminated.
Charlie White and Sharna Burgess
White earned a perfect score last week.
The Olympic ice dancer said it was a great way to gain momentum heading into the semifinals.
"My icon is undoubtedly Scott Hamilton," White said. "The great thing about Scott is he always has the best advice."
Hamilton visited White during practice this week and told him to make the judges laugh.
White's first dance was the foxtrot to "New York New York" by Frank Sinatra.
It's hard not to fall for White's charm. No matter the music or choreography, he always seems committed to the routine and to the character it requires. Tonight was no exception. White seemed to execute the steps of their foxtrot perfectly.
"I'm so glad I get to go first," Ortega said. "Bring out the champagne. Wow, indescribably delightful."
"Brilliant, brilliant, brilliant," Inaba said.
Total Score: 10, 10, 10, 10 = 40
Burgess and White said it felt "amazing" to get another perfect score.
Amy Purdy and Derek Hough
This week, Purdy and Hough have the quickstep and jazz.
Hough said the quickstep presented a new challenge in that it required movement across space. Purdy, a paralympic snowboarder, wore a special pair of feet to help.
During rehearsals, Purdy got a call from her icon, Oprah Winfrey.
Winfrey phoned in to one of Purdy and Hough's practices.
"I don't even know how you're doing what you're doing," Winfrey said.
"I really look up to her because she's overcome so many obstacles in her life," Purdy said of Winfrey in the pre-recorded footage. "And she's given back."
"I just wanted to say, congratulations," the talk show legend said. "And when you win, I'll take you out to dinner."
Purdy and Hough danced the quickstep to Diana Ross' "You Can't Hurry Love."
Purdy's new legs helped her keep the timing of the routine and to deliver all the kicks and tricks that came with it.
"My jaw was dropping on the desk," Tonioli said. "If I wasn't watching this live, I would think you were wearing wires."
"You're an athlete and most of the dances have been kind of static," Inaba said. But this one was different, Inaba told Purdy. "It was just gorgeous. It took my breath away."
"It was light, it was bubbly," Goodman said.
"America, do Oprah and myself a favor and please bring this team back next week," Ortega said.
Total Score: 10, 9, 10, 10 = 39
Goodman was booed by the crowd for giving the pair a 9.
UPDATE: Meryl Davis and Maksim Chmerkovskiy are in jeopardy. James Maslow and Peta Murgatroyd are safe.
James Maslow and Peta Murgatroyd
Maslow said his all-time favorite icon was Michael Jackson.
Music producer L.A. Reid paid the boy band member a visit during rehearsals to share some memories about the music legend.
"I think Michael wanted to be the best, it was never casual to him," Reid said.
Maslow said he would give tonight's performance his best, just as Jackson did in each performance.
He joined Murgatroyd in a cha cha to Jackson's newly released single "Xscape."
The song seemed a poor choice for the cha cha, to but Murgatroyd made a conscious effort to incorporate signature "Michael" moves into the routine, including the most famous — the moonwalk.
"I'm surprised you went this route because it's hard to pull off Michael Jackson," Inaba said. "It was so good."
"It was a fantastic blend," Goodman said. "It was a terrific number."
"It was obvious that you put your heart and soul in that," Ortega said. "It was electrifying."
Tonioli credited the pair for keeping tradition while incorporating some of Jackson's moves.
"I knew he had the talent to be here," Murgatroyd said of her partner before they received their scores.
Total Score: 10, 10, 10, 10 = 40
Meryl Davis and Maksim Chmerkovskiy
"My icon is Kristi Yamaguchi," Davis said. "Whether it's been on the ice or otherwise, she's always been encouraging to me."
"I'm just so proud of you," Yamaguchi told Davis.
"I'm afraid I might let her down every day," Chmerkovskiy said of his partner in rehearsals. "I do have the best dancer on the show, that's what makes it difficult."
In rehearsals, Davis told Chmerkovskiy he was making her "very nervous."
"Sometimes, when Maks is nervous about choreography, I think it's helpful to rely on the friendship we've built over the last few weeks," Davis said in the pre-recorded footage.
Their first dance of the evening was the jive to "Hound Dog" by Elvis Presley.
In typical fashion, Davis didn't miss a step. She glided across the dance floor. Her kicks were clean and in sync. Chmerkovskiy choreographed a lively routine that highlighted Davis' athleticism.
"No peril, Meryl," Goodman said. "That was fantastic."
"Your kicks were sending sparks all over the floor," Ortega said. He complimented Chmerkovskiy on his choreography.
"Stylistically, it was impeccable," Tonioli said.
"First of all, Maks, did you just kiss me?" Inaba said. (Everyone on the judges' table then got a kiss from Chmerkovskiy).
"Your movements were flawless and perfect," Inaba also said.
Total Score: 10, 10, 10, 10 = 40
UPDATE: All three of the Olympians are in jeopardy.
Candace Cameron Bure and Mark Ballas
Bure and Ballas danced jazz to "Nasty" by Janet Jackson.
This is the most relaxed we've seen Bure. She even got a little nasty (just a little) and wore a black bodysuit for their routine.
Ballas, borrowing a tactic from Hough, choreographed chairs into their performance, which allowed him to showcase the pair's technical skills, including some snazzy legwork.
"There was nothing nasty about that," Goodman said. "It was crisp, it was clean and it was unexpected."
"That reminded me of the great ladies of Broadway," Ortega said.
"Mark and Candace, you rehearsed the heck out of that routine," Inaba said. "I would have liked to see a hair more attitude." Her last remark drew boos from the crowd.
Total Score: 9, 10, 10, 9 = 38
Charlie White and Sharna Burgess
White and Burgess danced the samba to "Mo Money Mo Problems" by The Notorious B.I.G.
I was a little concerned when it was revealed during their early video package that this was the song they would be dancing to, but White handled it perfectly. It started out modern, but quickly moved to a strong samba routine. White looked a little stiff at times, but he didn't make any noticeable missteps.
"I thought it was committed. I thought it was precise," Ortega said. "But it was lacking a little funk, Charlie."
Tonioli agreed, but complimented the Olympian for his overall performance.
"I'm a little sad that you're in jeopardy, but I want to live in Charlie's world," Inaba said. She also told White he was a little flat-footed when he came out.
"Charlie, you deserve to be in the final," Goodman said.
Total Score: 9, 9, 9, 9 = 36
Amy Purdy and Derek Hough
For the second week in a row, Hough choreographed a prop into his routine with Purdy.
Last week, it was a bar stool. This week, it was a table.
Most of their jazz routine was performed on the table. It was sexy and sensuous — and the judges loved it.
"That was another classic moment on 'Dancing with the Stars,' " Tonioli said. "This was classic jazz at its best."
"Girl, you were working it," Inaba told Purdy. But Inaba noted one misstep when the pair danced side-by-side, in what should have been a synchronized performance, Inaba said.
"Derek, I salute you," Goodman said.
Praise for the five-time mirror ball trophy winner continued.
"Derek, you redefine choreography for this generation," Ortega added.
Total Score: 9, 10, 10, 10 = 39
James Maslow and Peta Murgatroyd
Maslow and Murgatroyd danced a slow-moving rumba to "Islands in the Stream" by Kenny Rogers and Dolly Parton.
"You did not disappoint," Inaba said. "Your dancing was totally on par." She said Maslow had great hip action and was the smartest of the competitors because he listens closely to the judges critiques.
"You lost connection between your arms and your hands," Goodman said. "But your legs were a lot straighter. There was good hip action."
"It was stylish, it was sexy," Ortega said. "Just work on the hands."
"Your determination is amazing," Tonioli told Maslow.
Total Score: 9, 9, 9, 9 = 36
Meryl Davis and Maksim Chmerkovskiy
Davis joined Chmerkovskiy for a romantic Viennese waltz.
Chmerkovskiy returned to his emotional choreography from last week, which won praise from the judges. The pair delivered another strong and theatrical performance.
"What I loved was that you took that right on the edge," Goodman said. "There was no playing safe. You went for it."
"You blew me away last week and tonight you did it again," Ortega said. "Power, grace, synchronization. You left nothing on the floor but a little bit of sweat."
"Your role playing is out of this world and your dancing is fantastic," Tonioli added.
"I was watching the room watch you," Inaba told Davis. "You are fantastic and you better not go home."
Total Score: 10, 10, 10, 10 = 40
UPDATE: Another perfect score for Davis and Chmerkovskiy. They are the only couple to earn a perfect score for both routines.
"This felt like it should be the finals," Tom Bergeron said before announcing the next couple that was safe.
UPDATE:Purdy and Hough are safe. This meant the Olympic ice dancing partners in the competition would be separated.
It came down to Davis and Chmerkovskiy and White and Burgess. Not surprisingly, the weaker of the two was eliminated from the competition: White and Burgess. They definitely weren't the weakest of the remaining couples. That title undoubtedly went to Bure and Ballas, who have been bottom-dwellers for much of the season.
"I think all of these people are so deserving," White said of the remaining competitors after being eliminated. "Now, I can 100 percent be team Meryl."


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It is a testament to the omni-directional influence of Barack Obama that a coloring book about African history would close with a quote from the President and a picture of him and the rest of the First Family. This makes one automatically wonder whether black Americans still need to look to distant ancestors from another continent for heroes, if the leader of the country is already one of their own.
That disclaimer out of the way, Nubiah is, nonetheless, a nice little introduction for primary school children to such African royalty as Queen Asantewa of Ghana, King Hannibal of Carthage, Queen Makeda of Ethiopia, King Shaka of South Africa, and Queen Nefertiti of Egypt. Each chapter combines a black and white illustration ripe for coloring with historical background information and a narrative designed to be read to a child as he or she is falling asleep.
Though only 44 pages in length, the book is just brimming with a variety of content, and also includes drawings of elephants, cheetahs, zebras, giraffes and other indigenous animals to fill in, as well as the lyrics to the Negro National Anthem, a list of black inventors, quotes of luminaries like Maya Angelou, Whoopi Goldberg, Jesse Owens, Alvin Ailey and Marian Anderson, and even The Lord's and other prayers.
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Out promoting the remake of Death at a Funeral, star Chris Rock has revealed that he will write an adaptation of Akira Kurosawa's High and Low for director Mike Nichols.
Black Voices reports that Rock is replacing David Mamet on the rewrite. Mamet's screenplay was first commissioned by executive producer Martin Scorsese back in 1999.
The original is a 1963 detective thriller that follows an executive who learns that his son has been kidnapped. Ready to pay the ransom until he discovers that the kidnappers mistakenly abducted the child of his chauffeur, the executive must decide between keeping the money he has saved up for a critical corporate buyout or using it to save his driver's son.
Rock has been involved with remakes before. Along with Death at a Funeral, his 2007 film I Think I Love My Wife was a remake of Eric Rohmer's L'Amour L'Apres-Midi.
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Counterpoint Ministries Executive Director has been living and ministering tin Coquimbo Chile for the last 4 years. Our work is expanding because of the devastating earthquake of February 27, 2010. The Ministry is involved in a number of projects to assist the victims in a number of different areas. The most important now is the establishment of a Free to the Public Medical Clinic in Coronel (across the river from Concepcion). The project is being overseen and developed by the Joint Association of the neighborhood Juntas. A Junta is the neighborhood organization for each subdivision in the City. Space has been donated by the city and they are now looking for funding for equipment and supplies. I can think of no finer project for this small city right now.
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BRILLIANT - A bald eagle's nest above state Route 7 may complicate the Ohio Department of Transportation's plan to cut back the hillside north of Brilliant to prevent rocks from falling onto the highway.
James White Construction Co. of Weirton is nearing completion of a $2 million stone-filled wall that will protect drivers while the project is designed and environmental reviews are conducted.
James Graham, ODOT District 11 construction area engineer, said it could be two to three years before the project is advertised for bids and another year after that for construction to proceed.
The road will remain one lane in each direction until the work is completed.
The 3,800-foot-long wall is 12 feet high and 10 feet thick. Graham said it is filled with sandstone that is removed from the hillside and crushed. Slag also is being added. Metal bands placed at regular intervals tie the sides of the wall together.
"This is the ultimate in rock-fall protection," Graham said.
Workers noticed an eagle's nest at the top of the hill in a large tree. Three eagles, including two mature birds with white heads and tail feathers, have been seen soaring over the area. One of the eagles isn't mature and has brown feathers. The plumage of the eagle changes to the recognizable white head and white tail feathers around age 5.
Graham said the eagles have become "co-workers," checking out the worksite for anything new. He said workers put a U.S. flag on a piece of equipment for the Fourth of July and the eagles were seen inspecting the flag.
"They are almost like family to us," Graham said.
Eagles are found near large bodies of water and generally eat fish.
Graham said the eagles are routinely seen flying back from the Ohio River with a fish in their talons. There were two eaglets in the nest throughout the early summer. Workers have found catfish bones along the two ledges that have been cut into the hillside.
Graham said he believes the eagles stole the nest from a hawk.
How the nest will affect the construction project hasn't been determined.
"Never in the history of the Ohio Department of Transportation have we taken down an eagle's nest,"? Graham said.
He said the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service isn't sure how the matter will be handled.
ODOT had to obtain a disturbance permit from the fish and wildlife service to get within 660 feet of the eagle's nest. Workers weren't allowed into that zone until the permit was issued, Graham said.
Graham said the matter will be resolved once the project gets to the environmental review stage.
Graham said the project will be designed next year. ODOT did core samples on the hillside, drilling down 300 feet to determine the rock composition. The environmental review process could take another year. Graham said rights of way and property purchase could take another year. ODOT will then sell the project and construction will begin. Removing the hillside could take another year after that. Graham said ODOT will then have to wait for warmer weather to pave the highway before all four lanes are reopened for traffic.
Graham said there have been problems for years with rocks falling off the hillside along state Route 7 north of Brilliant.
"Then something happened with the age of the hillside and it started pitching rocks all the time," he said.
The bald eagle was officially removed from the federal government's list of endangered species in July 1995 by the Fish and Wildlife Service, when it was reclassified from endangered to threatened. The bald eagle was removed from the list of threatened wildlife in 2007, and assigned a risk level of least concern.
Based on the most recent population figures, the Fish and Wildlife Service estimates that there are at least 9,789 nesting pairs of bald eagles in the contiguous United States.
Although the bald eagle has been removed from the list of threatened and endangered species under the Endangered Species Act, the bird is still protected by the Migratory Bird Treaty Act and the Bald and Golden Eagle Protection Act, according to the Fish and Wildlife Service. Both laws prohibit killing, selling or otherwise harming eagles, their nests or eggs, the agency reported.
Another raptor has called the Brilliant area home for years. There has been an osprey nest at the Cardinal Plant. The osprey also hunts for fish from the Ohio River.
Another ODOT hillside project 5 miles south of Brilliant along state Route 7 will see a similar wall constructed.
The Rush Run project was recently sold by ODOT at a cost of $21.9 million. Beaver Excavating of Canton was awarded the project.
Graham said the wall at the Rush Run site will be 2,800 feet long. About 2 million cubic yards of dirt and rocks will be removed. A preconstruction meeting will be held in a couple weeks to determine a start date. Work is expected to be mostly completed in the fall of 2013.
The size of the Rush Run project is twice as big as the recently completed Wellsville hillside job,
As part of the project, 46 million gallons of water, or the amount of water contained in 70 Olympic-size swimming pools, will be drained from an underground mine. ODOT will use a bed of limestone to treat the water before it is drained into the river.


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The most glamorous, high-profile event in Monaco since the 1956 wedding of Albert's late parents, Prince Rainier and Grace Kelly, kicks off Thursday night with a major concert by the Eagles free for all residents of the tiny principality.
Albert, 53, and his 33-year-old bride-to-be, a former Olympic swimmer from South Africa, will wed in a small civil ceremony inside the palace Friday and in a larger religious ceremony in the palace courtyard Saturday.
Wedding Dress a SecretWith more than 150,000 guests and well-wishers are expected to mob the postage-stamp-size principality, Wittstock's dress, custom-made by her longtime friend Giorgio Armani, is being kept secret until the day of the ceremony.
Celebrated chef Alain Ducasse is making dinner for 500 guests. Electropop icon Jean Michel Jarre is overseeing a light and music spectacular at the harbor. Also planned: an elaborate fireworks display topped off by the lighting of 1,001 roses in the night sky over the Mediterranean.
Gerard Butler, Demi Moore, Ashton Kutcher, Naomi Campbell, fashion designer Karl Lagerfeld and Desmond Tutu are along the celebrities expected to attend the wedding, along with heads of state like president Nicolas Sarkozy of France and King Gustaf of Sweden.
Shooting Down RumorsEarlier this week, palace officials and Albert's lawyer angrily denounced claims by France's well-respected L'Express magazine that inferred Wittstock wanted to stop the wedding and return to South Africa after learning about Albert's allegedly less than "exemplary" behavior.
Albert's longtime friend Stéphane Bern, France's best-known commentator on the royals, said the rumors were scurrilous but also told Le Parisien in a strangely worded statement that it would be very easy for a woman "to pretend she is pregnant by the Prince. We can't carry out a DNA test to check this out just three days before the marriage."
Perhaps to quell the rumors, Albert and Wittstock toured various wedding event venues in Monaco on Wednesday, dressed casually and holding hands.
Dated Since 2005Prince Albert, who has ruled Monaco since 2005, first met Wittstock at a 2000 swim event in Monaco, but they did not start dating seriously until 2005. She moved to an apartment at the palace four years ago.
Wittstock hinted at how challenging it was to wait for the prince to propose (he finally did last summer) in the new issue of Vogue, saying she had to endure loneliness and jealousy.
"It was sometimes overwhelming," she said. "I was trying too hard to please too many people and at times was at risk of losing my sense of myself."


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A Great Leap Forward
New York City officials and a community activist work together—and separately—to improve a park beloved by immigrants.
By Linda McIntyre
Every day in New York City's Chinatown, starting at about
seven o'clock in the morning, people start to trickle out of their small
tenement apartments into Columbus Park. These first hardy souls gather for tai
chi or other exercise. A bit later, clusters of retired men—the park is known
to some in the community as "Old Man Park"—wander over to the game tables for a
few rounds of mah-jongg or Chinese chess, and mothers bring their toddlers to
play on the jungle gyms. At lunchtime, staff from nearby courts stroll through
the park, and after school kids play basketball and soccer. In the afternoon
and evening, neighbors mingle and chat, sometimes bringing out birdcages to
give their pets some fresh air, sometimes cooking a snack over a small fire in
a coffee can.
People live in this park. It's Chinatown's collective front
While many Chinatowns in U.S. cities are essentially
business districts, New York's, the country's biggest, still has a large
residential population (estimates vary wildly, from 70,000 to 250,000 or more).
There are few other open spaces on the east side of Lower Manhattan, and the
next closest park, City Hall Park, has no sports or recreational facilities.
Columbus Park's popularity and its recent history say a lot about the way
immigrant populations use parks, the challenges of improving urban parks while
staying true to their constituencies, and the need for a persistent advocate to
articulate the community's needs.
The 2.76-acre park, which opened in the summer of 1897, has
had various names over time, including Mulberry Bend Park, Five Points Park,
and Paradise Park. Bordered by Baxter, Mulberry, Bayard, and Worth Streets, it
was designed by Calvert Vaux and built to serve the low-income residents of one
of Manhattan's oldest residential neighborhoods. It consists of a seating area
with a two-story open pavilion, benches, and planting beds; a sports field; an
east-to-west walkway with benches, plants, and a "comfort station" clad in
stone; a playground with colorful steel-tube climbing equipment and benches;
and basketball courts with bleachers.
From most vantage points, a visitor to Columbus Park sees a
teeming tableau of urban vitality, not a luxuriant green oasis. Recent
improvements have softened and greened up the main seating area adjacent to the
pavilion, and the pavilion itself is being renovated. But the strength of this
park, as well as the source of many of its challenges, is its large population
of regular users.
Reshaping an Outdoor Living Room
In 2001, the park, while still overflowing with visitors,
was in a forlorn state. Extensive veinlike cracks ran through the asphalt
surface of the seating areas and playing fields, and weeds grew through the
cracks. Without sufficient seating, many visitors were forced to sit on the
ground or the curbs of the surrounding streets, or to bring their own chairs.
Litter was strewn everywhere. Most prominent, the pavilion, fenced off for
about a decade and accessible only to the hundreds of pigeons nesting there,
was a crumbling eyesore.
Paul Gong, a computer consultant and community advocate who
began playing basketball in the park as a teenager, joined forces with Alan
Gerson, then a city council candidate, to form Friends of Columbus Park (FOCP)
in 2001 to increase awareness of the park's troubles and to position it to get
some help. Gerson, now the city's District 1 councilman and chairman of the
Lower Manhattan Redevelopment Committee, says that in New York, management of
parks is a political process. He and his colleagues are deeply involved in
advocacy on behalf of their constituents' parks.
The importance of groups such as FOCP in attracting
attention and resources to city parks cannot, Gerson says, be overstated. "We
New Yorkers are passionate about our parks," he says. "We care about them like
Americans in other places care about their front and backyards."
Gong, whose affable and low-key manner belies his tenacity,
still serves as president of FOCP. Like Betsy Barlow Rogers, Honorary ASLA,
with Central Park, or Tupper Thomas with Prospect Park, he is the public face
of the park's constituency. He set up a web site for FOCP, and he's at ease
with both the park users and the bureaucracy of New York's Parks Department.
Unlike Rogers and Thomas and the conservancies they started, though, Gong's
group, like most "friends of" organizations, has limited funding and political
clout. Further complicating his task, many of the people he represents don't
speak English, have little in the way of resources to contribute to the cause,
and are not engaged in city politics in a well-organized fashion.
Gerson, Gong, and some allied community activists held a
press conference announcing the group's formation on September 5, 2001. They
hoped to rebuild the pavilion and improve the park for residents and make it a
destination for the many tourists visiting lower Manhattan.
Six days later, when the World Trade Center towers were
attacked by terrorists, everything changed. With a sizable piece of lower
Manhattan damaged or destroyed, Columbus Park, only about half a mile from the
World Trade Center site, was an important meeting place, vigil site, and venue
for public announcements in the aftermath of the terrorist attack. The
Chinatown economy, however, reliant on more relaxed foot traffic and the
tourist trade, suffered tremendously when travel slowed after the attack.
But the tragedy focused attention and resources on the
downtown area, and Columbus Park was among the beneficiaries. In 2002, the
Lower Manhattan Development Corporation, created in the aftermath of the
attack, earmarked $400,000 for the park, and the National Park Service's Urban
Park and Recreation Recovery Program made a $1 million grant for the
refurbishment of the run-down open pavilion on the park's north side.
But even with this infusion of funding, the road to a better
Columbus Park was not without its bumps. Some measures, such as improving the
landscape of the north side of the park between the pavilion and the athletic
field, were successful and relatively straightforward. Resurfacing the athletic
field and renovating the pavilion, however, highlighted differences between the
Parks Department approach to managing parks—with community input, for the
benefit of the whole city—and the desires of a particular population that has
an unusual relationship with the park.
Community Versus Parks Department?
The main seating area on the north side of the park between
the pavilion and the athletic field, where many of the older Chinese neighbors
gather, had become bedraggled and worn by years of heavy use. In light of its
popularity, its stressed but existing planting beds, and its proximity to the
soon-to-be-refurbished pavilion, this area was targeted by the Parks Department
for improvement. "If we had had more money, we would have liked to have updated
the whole park," says Hui Mei Grove, who led the Parks Department's landscape
architecture team. Large shade trees and street trees around the perimeter of
this part of the park were intact and healthy, but Grove and her colleagues
improved circulation, redid the crumbling paving, and softened the landscape
with more shrubs and herbaceous plants.
The renovation was a bit of a balancing act for the Parks
Department. The landscape architects were hesitant to cater to a narrow
population with their design and risk implicitly excluding others. But the
agency's design process requires fairly extensive consultation with the
community, and FOCP was the biggest and most active group involved. Gong,
however, doesn't believe he and FOCP had a lot of influence. Despite the
community consultations, he says, the Parks Department operates pretty much
independently. "They don't always listen to the users and the community."
Grove herself, though of Asian descent—she was born in
Taiwan and raised in Japan—says that she does not have a strong background in
Asian landscape architecture. But she did try to reflect the character of the
neighborhood in her design. "We tried to give an Asian flavor to the plants,"
says Grove, who is now retired. "I worked with the curator of the Chinese
Scholars' Garden on Staten Island (see "Interpreting Tradition," Landscape Architecture, April 2000).
Unfortunately, we didn't have the same kind of budget." But they did use a lot
of Asian plant species such as katsura trees, stewartias, cherries, hostas,
hakone grass, and bamboo.
Throughout the design process the landscape architects tried
to be mindful of the park users' needs. They maximized space to accommodate the
crowds, says Grove, while adding plants to make the park a more pleasant place.
Stones were selected from a quarry in upstate New York to evoke a mountainous
Asian aesthetic and to provide extra seating, though Grove worries that some of
them might be too big. Parks landscape architect Chris Crowley, also inspired
by the Scholars' Garden, carefully placed the stones in attractive groups, and
when Landscape Architecture visited
the park on a sunny weekday afternoon in early September, many of them were
being used as seats.
Gong, however, says that some of the stones are "too jagged"
to sit on, and he speculates that the Parks Department spent a lot of money on
a feature that offers limited benefit to park users.
Grove was sensitive to the rhythms of the park users. For
example, men playing games near the pavilion smoke heavily, talk loudly, and
use a lot of profanity. To escape the annoyance of this, women usually sit in
different areas, often congregating near the park entrances. Before the
renovation they would sometimes bring their own chairs since the park lacked
sufficient seating. Grove sought to accommodate this in her design by providing
more seating, separate from the game tables. The landscape architects also
designed new lamps with a dragon-head design and hooks from which neighbors
could hang birdcages.
Gong is reasonably pleased with these improvements but
wishes he and other users had had more input. He would like to have had a "bird
garden," a large caged area for pet birds, built in this part of the park.
"That would have been a major attraction for visitors," he says. He also says
that some of the users complained that the design included some white flowers
because some Chinese consider white the color of death. Overall, though, he
says, "they did a pretty good job."
Turf Battle
Another effort to improve the park was more controversial.
Joe Temeczko, a retired handyman who had immigrated from Poland through Ellis
Island before moving to Minnesota, changed his will in 2001 after the terrorist
attacks, leaving his entire $1.4 million estate to New York City, to "honor
those who perished in the disaster." Temeczko died of a heart attack weeks
after changing his will. In February 2003, New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg
announced that most of Temeczko's bequest would be used in Columbus Park to
resurface the sports field between the pavilion and the comfort station with
artificial grass.
This approach was not unique to Columbus Park. The Parks
Department began replacing asphalt and grass playgrounds and playing fields
with synthetic turf in 1998, and the agency is the nation's largest municipal
buyer of the material. The trend accelerated after Bloomberg pledged during his
2001 campaign to redress the city's scarce athletic spaces by aggressively
replacing asphalt fields with synthetic turf, which is viewed as safe and low
This turf is a far cry from the hard-surface, short-pile
AstroTurf developed for sports fields in the 1960s. New varieties such as
FieldTurf and AstroPlay seek to more closely mimic the look and feel of real
grass, with longer blades woven on a porous backing. Tiny rubber pellets made of
recycled tires, and sometimes sand, are sprinkled liberally between the blades
to soften the surface for children and athletes. The turf requires less
maintenance than grass—debris and glass have to be removed, gum has to be
cleaned off with a solvent, and the turf needs occasional grooming with a
mechanical brush—compared to the rigors of keeping grass fields alive and
healthy in the face of summer heat and heavy use. But, according to a study
released earlier this year by the advocacy group New Yorkers for Parks, it's
more expensive to install, its functional life remains to be seen, and removal
and disposal costs can be high.
Gong, FOCP, and a group of park users organized as the
Columbus Park Exercise Group opposed the plan to replace the asphalt field in
Columbus Park with synthetic turf. They felt the surface was too unstable for
the exercisers, most of whom are elderly, and they worried about maintenance
over the long term. The coalition organized a petition drive that attracted
more than 300 signatories.
Gong hoped for what he describes as "a beautiful rubberized
asphalt surface" like the one at Seward Park on the Lower East Side, which he
believed would be sturdier and more functional for the park's regular users.
Gong and his allies also worried that a turf field could be heavily used by the
corporate softball leagues popular with lower Manhattan office workers,
depriving neighborhood users of much of the park's open space during peak hours
all summer long. After a protracted negotiation between Gong and FOCP on one
side, and the Parks Department and a much smaller neighborhood group led by
Chinatown resident and former businessman Paul Lee on the other, in early 2004
half the surface was repaved in asphalt and half was fitted with synthetic turf.
Gong felt the debate showed FOCP in an unflattering light,
as if the group was ungrateful for Temeczko's gift, which was not the case. "In
the end we had to take the compromise and move on," he says. But the turf still
rankles. It limits how the park can be used, he says. The volleyball tournament
that used to be held here has been moved to Seward Park because players were
afraid of slipping on the turf, and there's no longer enough space for the
tournament on the remaining asphalt.
He would have preferred that the money used to install the
turf had gone toward other park improvements, such as installing more bilingual
signs—few are in Chinese despite the fact that so many of the park's users
don't speak English—painting proper out-of-bounds lines on the basketball
courts, or better controlling the many rats that haunt the park at night. Gong
also worries that some rats will die and fester under the surface of the turf
and that maintenance could slip if another financial downturn hits the Parks
Gerson, who was involved in mediating the dispute, is more
upbeat. "The community had input," he says. "The solution was not imposed on
the community." The combination asphalt/turf surface, he says, accommodates a
variety of uses and is aesthetically and functionally pleasing. Grove notes
that the turf gives the park a greener look.
When Landscape
Architecture visited the park in early September, the turf was sparsely
populated, but it appeared well maintained. But when we followed up with Gong a
couple of weeks later, he said that the turf surface had started to sink in two
A People Pavilion
The run-down open pavilion on the north edge of the park is
the next front in FOCP's campaign on behalf of the park and the neighborhood.
"It was a pigeon pavilion when it should be a people pavilion," says Gerson.
During Landscape Architecture's
visit, the refurbishment of the pavilion was well under way. Netting will be
put in place to keep pigeons from roosting, the building will be more
accessible to people with disabilities, and the lower section, which had been
used as a Parks Department storage facility, has been cleaned out and
reconstructed so it can be used by park visitors. Gong tried to steer the Parks
Department toward adding some Asian-inspired flourishes, such as a sweeping
pagoda roofline, to the new design, but the agency wanted to highlight the
building's historical character—the pavilion is original to the park—rather
than its current use.
Gong, however, has a grander vision—he wants the pavilion
enclosed, with removable windows of Plexiglas or a similar material and a
heating and cooling system, so it can be used year-round as a community center,
with FOCP comanaging and programming the facility. "It's what this area really
needs for the kids and the seniors," he says. Constant use, says Gong, will
keep the building from falling into disrepair again. And Gong sees little use
in simply fixing up a building that will draw in few visitors during much of
the year. "It has to be used," he says. "Otherwise, it's just for show."
Gong is less concerned with the pavilion's history than its
future. He has informally run his proposal by Parks Department officials, who
were unenthusiastic. But Gong is undaunted. "It's a long-term project," he
says. "They're always resistant at first. We have to convince them it will
work. We have the same goal—to keep the park clean and well maintained."
With more than 1,700 parks in New York City, the Parks
Department can devote only so much attention to any one park. And the city and
its parks are full of immigrants from all over the world, so Columbus Park is,
in many respects, of a piece with the rest of the system.
As the park has been improved over the past few years,
nobody got everything they wanted—there is no bird garden or rubberized asphalt
field for FOCP, the athletic field is not carpeted in wall-to-wall easy-care
synthetic turf as desired by the Parks Department, and the park lacks a
coherence of design that the Parks Department landscape architects would like
to have pursued. But without each of these interests pushing for their vision
of a better park, the park would be worse off today.
Now Columbus Park is a safer, more attractive, and more
comfortable place for its Chinatown neighbors. It offers respite for workers
and tourists in search of a place to sit and take in the rollicking scene
around them, whether it's the media jostling for position outside the
courthouse or a Chinese parade, and to some extent it's a success story for the
Parks Department in a crowded, underserved neighborhood. The continuing story
of improving this park has been driven by a democratic process that seems
especially appropriate to a place beloved by recent immigrants.
PROJECT CREDITS Owner: New York
City Department of Parks & Recreation. Landscape architects:
Hui Mei Grove, Bill Gotthelf, George Bloomer, Chris Crowley, Allan
Scholl, Doug Nash, Dennis Flynn. Architect: New York City Historic
Preservation Department. Specifications: Susan Coker, Ruby Wei.
Consultant engineers: Dewberry & Goodkind, Inc. Environmental
engineer: Tohamy Bahr. Electrical engineer: Margary Aime. Structural
engineer: Reza Mashayehki. Surveyors: Sandy Wansley, Richard Barry,
Geoffrey Lawrence, Dominic Cusumano. Reviews: Vincent Macaluso.
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Short for 'obviously.'
"The band last night was friggin' tigs, obvs."
بواسطة Peabs أكتوبر/تشرين الأوّل 28, 2003
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abbr. obviously
You are obv going to give me a dollar.
بواسطة Cds نوفمبر/تشرين الثّاني 17, 2003
abb. for " Obviously. "
Guy: God DAMN Jessica Alba is fucking hot.
Guy2: obv.
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بواسطة Lopes~ يوليو/تمُّوز 30, 2006
Abbr. Obviously or obvious
You are a gay faggot. obv.
بواسطة Cds فبراير/شباط 18, 2003
shortened version of the word obviously for the lazy people who refuse to say the whole thing
"Hey are you going to the homecoming dance tomorrow?"
"Uhm. obvs!"
"Uhm. obvs!"
بواسطة lakjdslmncxipei أكتوبر/تشرين الأوّل 13, 2011
obvs is short for obviously. When people use a shortened version of a word they would write an s instead of y or ly.
Mum:Did you get the chips, Alex?
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Now a popular expression in the online poker world, "obv" (abbreviation from obviously) is often said after a losing hand; usually accompanied by a bad beat.
Nubly123: shows Qh Jd (a flush, Jack high)
Pokerpro233: shows Ac As (a pair, Aces)
Nubly123 collected 10140 from pot
Pokerpro233 said, "obv"
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Pokerpro233: shows Ac As (a pair, Aces)
Nubly123 collected 10140 from pot
Pokerpro233 said, "obv"
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COLUMBIANA - David Lee McQuistion Sr., 56 of Columbiana, died Wednesday in Salem.
He was born in Salem on June 19, 1956, the son of the late Louis and Vanda (Miller) McQuistion Sr.
He was a auto body repairman/mechanic since a small child and was a lifelong area resident.
He is survived by his children, Wendy Lee (Rolando) Chalco, David Lee McQuistion Jr., Joseph Lee McQuistion and Dillon; a brother, Louis McQuistion; and eight grandchildren.
There are no services of calling hours to be held. The family has asked that donations be made to the funeral home to cover the cost of his burial.
Arrangements by the Arbaugh-Pearce-Greenisen & Sons Funeral Home and Cremation Services of Salem.
The obituary maybe viewed, the guest book signed at