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Villa Vera is Boring and needs an update
Villa Vera seemed to be a very nice place back in the day when famous people suppossedly stayed there. The good things first, The staff was very helpful and friendly. The rooms and resort was very cleaned and there was maid service daily. The bad, the 1 restuarant and 1 bar closed a 6:00 pm during the week so there was absolutely nothing to do there at night. As many people mention, the resort is on a hill which seemed to be no big deal to me but it was a long haul to the resort from the main road which was about a 10-15 minute walk. The walk to the main road was fine during the day light but you needed to take a cab home at night because the side streets up to the resort seemed pretty scarey. Overall, If you want a very quiet and set back place, it was nice but it would of been better is there was something opened at night, for just hanging out at the resort.
Slow service and no beach
WE just stayed longenough torealize there was no beach. the pool wawsgorgeous and the restaurant and its views were nice, but if you are going to go to mexico you will want a beach. Service was slow and the drinks were weak.
Quiet resort looking over city
We had a good stay here but I'm not sure it offers many advantages over the hotels on the beach unless you use your RCI points to go there.
Villa Vera is about 5 blocks off of the beach. We walked it but it is a steep hill. We went to VV through RCI and the RCI rooms are at the top of the hill and a little smaller than the rest of the hotel rooms. The bellboy will drive you up the hill for a tip. There are several pools with the biggest one reserved for adults only. It also has a swimup bar. The restaurant is nice but closes at 6 p.m. We were usually the only ones in the pools and had lots of privacy.
Beach towels can be borrowed from the hotel to go down to the ocean. Taxis are everywhere so you can ride if you aren't able or interested in walking.
Hotel also has a full-service spa and small convenience store. The reception and concierge staff both spoke decent English.
This hotel has a lot of historical significance as a place where many of the rich and famous used to stay in Acapulco. There are signs around the resort with the stories of the celebrities who visited. Julio Iglesias' house in Acapulco adjoins the resort grounds.
If you want to have a romantic dinner with a breathtaking view of Acapulco Bay, go to the restaurant at the Las Brisas resort. It is expensive but really an experience in elegance and atmosphere (photo included).
Fine time in Aca
Stayed at the Villa Vera, May 14-21. From the start, we were treated wonderfully. The ladies in the front office were cordial and very helpful. We asked countless questions about the city, restuarants, tours, etc. and I can't say enough about the way that we were treated. In fact, the entire staff of the resort was great.
There are about sixty something units on the hillside and while we couldn't afford the larger villas (named after the movie stars) our room (one of about fifteen in a building near the top of the hill, reserved for honey-mooners) was squeaky clean and everything worked perfectly. The water would scald you in three seconds. (I love hot water:) The air conditioner was just noisey enough and when it was on high, you could "hang meat" in there. There were about eight pillows of various sizes on the bed and for the record: "That mattress was excellant." Wish I had one as good in my own bedroom.
We had several meals (breakfast and dinner) in the resort restaurant and loved it. The food was excellant, the service was great and the view of Acapulco was nice. I'm sure it was even better "back in the day" (before the beachside high-rises obstructed it, some) but hey..That's progress, I guess???
The spa was well equipped (though a little crowded in A.M's) My associate had a couple of full body massages and she raved about them. Clay tennis courts and some other form of racquet sport looked nice. (we don't play).
There was a vehicle to motor us up the hill, with our bags at check-in and check-out and the guard at the gate said that our taxi cab could drive in and deposit us at out building, but we always walked. The grounds were really nice and well kept. We're flat-landers so the hillside was a bit of a novelty for us.
Basically, our time spent there was perfect. Hey, it happens...:)
Truly relax at the Villa Vera
I have been going to Acapulco for 11yrs and we usually stay on the beach..Last year we decided to try the villa vera, liked it so much that we went back this year. It's about a 5-10 minute walk of the main avenue up the hills a bit and is nice and private. This hotel is not your typical high rise..it's a series of private villas and small buildings with rooms all having their own balcony and some having their own pool. The rooms are sort of modest, but very clean and modernized..Ours had a Baday(sp) and the hottest most powerful shower I've ever experienced.
This hotel used to be the get away for Sinatra, Zsa Zsa, Stallone and many more. There is a private villa up above that is also available through the hotel..this is where Nixon had his honeymoon. Hanging out at the main pool area is where it's at..there's no screaming kids and it's a large pool with a spectacular view of the Acapulco Bay. It's hard to put into words how relaxing this place is. I get bored very easily with everything, but I found myself lounging around and hanging in the pool for up to 8hrs..the days went fast.
The service around the pool area is top notch..The staff will do everything they can to make your stay great. By the end of the week they are your friends. The hotel has decent food poolside and there's a nice restaurant for lunch and breakfast with another awesome view. We had breakfast there twice and it was excellent..Huge variety to choose from and gourmet omlets including shrimp omletts with all kinds of Mexican flavors.
I will attach a few pics of the pool, restaurant and our made bed that was made everyday with fresh flower pedals in the shape of a smiley face, fish, bird, etc.
Great Hotel, Great Staff, Great !
MY wife and I went here for our honeymoon and we were blown away with the views of the ocean and the service of the staff. We had a suite up in the hills and it felt like we had our own private villa. It does a great job in blending old world and new world.
The only negative is the distance from the beach. You can walk but it'll take you about 15 to 20 min and you have to walk up some narrow roads.
Other than that our stay at the VV was great and I would recomend it.
Perfect place for your wedding
If privacy and a great view of Acapulco bay during sunset is what you want for your wedding, then the Villa Vera is the place for you.
A Wonderful Villa Nestled in the Hills
My wife and I took our honeymoon here. It was a bit off the main drag but I had a wonderful view of Acapulco. The facilities were wonderfully kept and clean. It was a bit of a hike to get to our room but once we got to our room it was very well kept. Clean and bright. The cleaning staff and the rest of the staff we wonderful. My wife and I would be sitting poolside and once we thought we wanted a Pina' Coloada one would miraculously appear. The food was clean and well prepared. The athletic facilities we modern and well kept. Over all very nice and helpful staff and a very nice decor.
What a wonderful hotel!!!!!
For our honeymoon we stayed at the Villa Vera and I'm so happy that we did. The room we stayed in was awesome. The employees and service there was great. It was like a hideaway, but in the middle of everything. If you are going to Acapulco you must stay at the Villa Vera!
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Villa Vera is an amazing combination of the old and new in Acalpuco. However, pricing may vary drastically when booking through the company, Small Chic Hotels. Their website appears normal, but be informed - pricing is much higher that booking directly with the hotel. Also, note that when I visited their offices in Houston, this business is located in the lower floor of a small duplex house!! Suspicion began during a telephone call to them - they told me I should stay at a different hotel! After faxing the hotel, I received a much lower price and upon arrival, a free upgrade in room category.
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Acapulco and the corruption
... are trying to implement metro buses and have used one lane (there's only 2 to begin with) as a bus lane which has created chaos, confusion and congestion beyond belief; it was like whacky races dodging taxis and motorcycles! Finally we see the main avenue that runs along the beach front, by this time I was tired and ready for an ice cold beer. I crossed the traffic lights and continued forwards to be surprised (or rather not) surprised that I could see blue and ...
Acapulco, Mexico
... s. Elvis made a song (and a movie) about it, John and Jackie Kennedy honeymooned here and celebs like Frank Sinatra and Elizabeth Taylor were regulars. But then the city fell on hard times with crime and drug wars bringing horrible violence to the streets and tourism came to a halt. That, coupled with the Yucatan cities of Cancun and Playa del Carmen developing into the party towns they now are, Acapulco has ...
Acapulco. Once one of the world's most famous and popular resort destinations, the pretty coastal city is now mainly only visited by vacationing Mexican families (and, apparently, us). Acapulco has seen its share of gruesome gang violence in recent years, and as with many other places in the country, there are regular government protests happening in the streets. It is also still picking up the pieces ...
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With Semana Santa finished I figured the driving would be smooth from here on out. Funny thing...it turns out most Mexicans get the entire week off following the holy week. Great, looks like another week of crowded destinations. At least the drive to Acapulco was smooth, wide and vacant of traffic....until I was within 30 miles. Flat, wide open, mostly barren terrain with a mountainous horizon suddenly burst into a thriving city-scape, which went up ...
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Today we spent the day sailing down the coast of Mexico. From our map, we are off the coast of Acapulco. No port stops today as we are heading to Guatamala, which takes two nights and two days sailing to arrive. The waters are very calm and the sailing very smooth. We are both very relaxed and Johnny is enjoying the variety of foods on board.


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Colonial Downs: Virginia Derby, Colonial Turf Cup get purse cuts
The two biggest races of the summer at Colonial Downs will take substantial purse cuts as part of the 2013 stakes schedule announced earlier this week.
The Colonial Turf Cup, restored to Grade 2 status for this season, has taken a $200,000 hit and will now be worth $300,000. The Grade 2 Virginia Derby will now offer a purse of $500,000, a reduction of $100,000.
According to a press release, the purse cuts were necessary to "help boost the level for overnight races."
Overall, Colonial will present 15 stakes worth a collective $1.7 million. A year ago, the Virginia track presented 17 stakes worth $2 million. The totals do not include the $30,000 Old Nelson, a starter handicap that Colonial lists as part of its stakes undercard on Colonial Turf Cup Day, June 22.
A pair of stakes for Virginia-breds, the Chesapeake and the Daniel Van Clief, will not be run this summer. Four stakes for open company, including three on the card supporting the Virginia Derby on July 13, received a purse boost of $25,000 apiece to $75,000.
One of those races, the Kitten's Joy for 3-year-olds and up, will increase in distance from 1 1/16 miles to 1 1/2 miles. The Brookmeade for Virginia-bred fillies and mares will lengthen from a mile to 1 1/16 miles.
In addition to the Colonial Turf Cup and Virginia Derby, the graded stakes offered are the Grade 3 Edward Evans All Along on June 22, the Grade 3 Virginia Oaks on July 13, and the Grade 3 Zeke Ferguson Memorial, a $50,000 steeplechase on opening day, June 8.
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Sure, you could hire a team of sled dogs and travel 2,500 miles to the Canadian Klondike for a taste of the gold rush. Climb mountains, set up camp, and pan for nuggets in an icy river. Or, you could drive your toasty-warm car across the Lewiston-Queenston Bridge and fill your glass with "liquid gold" in Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario, a little over two hours away.
January's Niagara-on-the-Lake Icewine Festival is a monthlong celebration of the golden nectar that comes from freezing grapes while they're still on the vine, and then squeezing every last drop into tall, slender bottles after fermentation.
The best part is the tasting, when 30 wineries pour samples paired with finger foods while you listen to cool Canadian jazz.
Better bundle up. Many activities are held outside at Niagara-on-the-Lake's Icewine Village on Queen Street over two weekends: Jan. 19-20, and Jan. 26-27.
My husband, Rich, and I had the best time two years ago, wandering from tent to tent as the snow crunched under our feet and cross-country skiers whizzed by. Icewines were surprisingly diverse, from the golds of Vidal, riesling and Gew�rztraminer to the rosy reds of Cabernet Franc and Pinot Noir.
We stepped inside cozy storefronts to warm our hands and visited one of our favorite bookstores, the Old Niagara Bookshop on King Street. When we emerged with our packages, we could barely see the horse-drawn carriages across the street. A few fluffy flakes had turned into a blizzard, and it was time to head home. When the Niagara Parkway became impassable, we continued our adventure at the Doubletree Fallsview Resort and Spa in Niagara Falls.
This year we'll plan our overnight getaway in advance.
At the top of our must-do list is the Icewine Cocktail Competition on Jan. 19 from 9 to 11 p.m. in downtown Niagara-on-the-Lake. The region's most celebrated mixologists will incorporate ice wine into one-of-a-kind cocktails.
"Get Schooled in Cool -- Tasting Seminars with Canada's Icewine Insiders," planned for Jan. 13, 19, 20, 26 and 27 at various wineries, appeals to the foodie in me, but I'm not sure I will be able convince Rich unless there's a barbecue involved.
No doubt you will find us roasting icewine marshmallows over a roaring bonfire, one of the many fun events hosted by Niagara-on-the-Lake wineries.
Want to experience ice wine without venturing across the border? Leave your passport behind and come to the Eskimo Kisses Escapades festival, on Saturday, Jan. 26, at Presque Isle Wine Cellars in North East. Doug Moorhead will serve dessert wines along with a light-fare menu from the Isle House. Or, drop by Johnson Estate Winery in Westfield, N.Y., for a taste of their newest release -- Sparkling Ros� Ice Wine. Though not part of their ice wine tasting flight -- which features Vidal and Chambourcin ice wines paired with hazelnuts glazed in chocolate and confectioners sugar -- you can pay a little extra and include the Sparkling Ros�. I'm told it's is the first and only sparkling ice wine in America made using the French m�thode champenoise, meaning secondary fermentation occurs in the bottle, not in the tank, for more complex flavor.
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Looks fab
we stayed at the Hotel Friedberger Warte for 6 nights and as we booked it via the internet we were a bit worried, but we were very very pleasently surprised , it was lovely , the room was very clean, modern, room service came every day and left it spotless, the breakfast was excellent, great choice, the hotel is about 10 minutes outside of the city , but a bus stop is just across the road and the bus takes you straight to a main underground/train station which connects to lots of places including the airport,
I would recommend this hotel to anyone .
be careful of booking a cheaper hotel in the city as some are in the red light district and there were people outside the hotels who were obviously under the influence of drugs and women were plying their trade!! outside some of the hotels which we nearly booked on the intenet.
Great value and service
stayed here for 3 nights in a double room with my wife, excellent price on easyhotels.com - staff friendly and helpful, upgraded to a bigger room for 10 euro per night,payable at reception - enjoyed the walk into frankfurt which took about 30 mins - used the bus also which was very convenient - the breakfast was super the hotel was spotless and had a nice modern feel - the restaurant was a good standard, would come back anytime
Wow great hotel!
my husband and I stayed at the Friedberger Warte in October of this year. It was a great hotel. Exceptionally clean and very modern. The staff at the desk was very helpful. We ate at the hotel in "Alexander" and the food was terrific, and the staff in the restaurant were great. The hotel is a bit out of the centre, but the bus takes you there in about 15 minutes, and the bus stop is literally across the street. We really enjoyed this hotel and the staff, who were all so personable. I would definitely stay here again.
Very nice hotel
we'vw stayed for 7 nights to this hotel and it was a pleasent stay. we were a bit concerned that it will be too far from centre but it wasn't. the bus 30 it stops just across the hotel and from there in 5min you are at the stop Zeil [the shopping area]. the stuff was nice, towells changed daily, breakfast very good, in the night was very quiet even that the hotel was almost full.
Great Hotel just outside Ziel shopping area
We stayed for two nights at the Friedberger Warte Hotel in Frankfurt lat May 2006 and were extremely happy. Very clean, pleasant decor - quite location a short bus ride from the main shopping area of Ziel. Price through Hotelclub was great. Would stay here again.
Nice Hotel
I thought this hotel was great. We were worried about the location but it was perfect - only a 15 min. bus ride into the center of town. The hotel was really nice and modern. The service was great.
Great little hotel!
We stayed at this hotel for one night after flying to Frankfurt. The rooms were clean, bright, fresh, and comfortable. The hotel looks like it is pretty new. They had free parking in the back of the hotel, but only had a limited number of spaces. Our room was a good size, and had central air conditioning. The windows also opened. The bathroom was clean and spacious. There was a full sized bathtub, and the walls were covered in floor to ceiling white tile, which made the bathroom look really modern. The hotel is located near a north of the city center. We walked down to the Main River and city center, but I think it was about 2-3 miles, one direction. We enjoyed the breakfast buffet. There was plenty to choose from. I really liked this hotel, and feel like we got a good deal for the price.
Magic hotel
As a travel agent I have stayed in many hotels, but this one is by far the best in terms of service that my family and I have had the pleasure of staying in. Upon arrival, we were greated by 5 staff who were falling over each other trying to help, and this was the tone of the stay - nothing was too much trouble for the staff.
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Well, $3.20's been breached...once again...
Interesting how BTO outplunges all other miners. What make IT such a target of shorting?
Also interesting how gold breaks out of its wedge to the downside at precisely the moment the currency wars are going mainstream, after the German gold has been found to be evaporated, the Yen is going to be printed into oblivion, etc. It's always the same story. The more bullish the case for gold gets, the lower it goes.
I used to think that this could not be sustained indefinitely...but maybe it is. How long have we been hearing stories about record purchases of physical? Yesterday, another report of record buying by central banks for 2012. Yet, gold keeps on going down or trade sideways at best
Because all of this is so counterintuitive, it is very difficult to trade this market. PM stocks are often moving in the opposite direction that they should. In any case, this is certainly true for BTO. Who on earth would have thought that the consummation of the merger coupled with news or record production and earnings would call for a 22% plunge in price over just a few short weeks to levels where share price was when the company was only a fraction of what it is now and is going to be? With hindsight it could be said that when all the good news is finally out, prices often go down based on the rationale "how are they going to top all of this"? So was this simply a buy the rumor sell the news story? I didn't expect this because despite all the good news that were in the pipline share price never did very much. It certainly never got anywhere near it's old highs, when gold was much lower and the company smaller.
This is one of the reasons many mom and pop investors have fled the markets. Fundamentals don't matter much anymore. Most trading is done by the parasitic financial institutions - algorithms at that! Their preferred way of making money is shorting. The simple reason is that shorting is more effective at moving prices than going long. When you short you also don't have to put up your own cash, while at the same time, if you are THEM and big enough, you move the price in the direction that will profit you most. The perversity is that it is possible to make a lot more money by driving prices DOWN. Since this is so, why bother driving prices up, which would require you to commit your own capital?
Logically, it would have made sense to go long BTO. Instead they short it, because that is how the easy money is made through manipulative and counterintuitive trading.
It is often said that shorting is a perfectly valid way of trading, because it provides liquidity and because any price drops caused by shorting are reversed when the shorts cover. In a system that works and which hasn't been co-opted, this might be true. As it is, our system is very much co-opted and operated for the benefit of THEM. We are the sheep and the muppets.
How many people have puked up their shares at a loss because they got panicked? Who is going to be the great beneficiary from this?
Back to shorting: Consistent and counterintuitive shorting has a negative impact on market psychology. We have seen this with Research in Motion. When you drive the price down long enough and hard enough, market sentiment turns so negative that even in the presence of positive news and short-covering, the share prices will never return to where they were. Simply put, the shorting, as it's practiced by THEM, has an entropic and corrosive effect on prices and confidence.
When they have driven out real investors they will have to start preying on each other! To some extent this is already happening. The system is broken and THEY are killing their host. This is why things don't trade based on fundamentals anymore.
There is my rant for the day. Hope this didn't depress you too much.
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An Iced Cappuccino from Tim Horton's.
Im going to get an Ice Cap.
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The last time I sat down with Bakersfield alt-rock quintet Choirs, you could feel the anxiety in the room, and with good reason.
Not only were band members about to pack their instruments and head to San Diego to begin a weekend studio recording session lock-out, but they were sans their lead vocalist, who opted to stay home. Trusting their instincts on this most unconventional plan, they bade farewell to Bako.
And then here we were again, five months later, seated inside the Padre's Farmacy Cafe. The mood was calmer as they opened up about the big party to celebrate the arrival of their new CD, "We All Need Closure," happening at Riley's Backstage on Saturday.
"We've had so much support going into this," said Choirs drummer Cass Faulkenberry. "None of this would be possible without the scene behind us."
Formed a year ago, Choirs also features Tyler Slayton, guitar; Dax Dominguez, guitar; vocalist Joel Brewer; and bassist Michael Aguilar.
"He's become Mr. Business," said Faulkenberry of Aguilar, who was absent the day of the interview due to his day job. "That guy has been solid ever since he joined the band."
As can be said of the rest of the members, who, after their debut, became an instant underground draw. Choirs' mix is dynamically inventive, combining as it does elements from each of they guys' former bands -- Gramercy Riff, La Vie en Rose, Vanity Avenue, The Order of File & Claw, and Il Sogno.
"We've always wanted to give our music a cinematic scope," said Dominguez.
Choirs are a live band. Having seen them on numerous occasions, I can say it's obvious this is a group that feeds off audience energy. That was the case during last month's "Giving Tree Battle of the Bands" at The Nile. They didn't win the competition -- that prize went to The Architecture -- but judging by the size and reaction of the crowd during their rapturous performance, Choirs' reward is mostly spiritual.
"This is the first time I've got to sit down with some really explicit concepts and develop them," Brewer said. "This is an exploration of light and dark melodies. No typical A-B-A-B rock structuring."
Pre-production consisted of mostly extended weekly rehearsals until there was little left to polish, as the band hoped to recapture the overall feel of their live performance in the studio.
"I was making sure everything was as tight as possible and that the essence of the band would be present at all times," Slayton said.
After the guys researched a series of possible studio options, Capricorn Studios in San Diego made the final cut.
"I can remember the last two weeks before we headed over being the most stressful. We wanted the producer to be ambiguous and not be intent on taking us a particular direction," said Faulkenberry. "They took the time to get to know us first."
Capricorn's list of artists is no joke, with previous clients including rap music heavyweight Rick Ross, electro artists Brazilian Girls, and R&B diva Toni Braxton to name a few. In-house producer Josh Mallit engineered and produced the record, which came together after a rocky start. But thanks to Mallit, tensions eased over time.
"We built up this anticipation to experiment and see what we were capable of doing," said Dominguez. "The studio couldn't have been better to work in."
Back home, Brewer was kept in the loop as the sessions progressed.
"It was exciting to get updates," he said. "Heading in, I knew this was going to be a big crap shoot, but I also felt good about not going with them."
Once the band returned, Brewer proceeded to absorb all eight tracks of rough mixes with his own wine-induced lockdowns, before he and Faulkenberry made the trek back to record his vocals.
"I'm not the sappy type with candles around me. I wanted the relationships to be correct between songs. I did rewrites and changed some lyrics completely," he said. "I never ask them to write around me and have the lyrics influence the song."
"We All Need Closure" spends no time with introductions. Opening with "The Cravers," Brewer sings with abandon. The follow-up track, "Closing Remarks," takes an impressive melodic turn mid-song that shows off Brewer's ability to follow along without heading into predictable territory. "Kid's" eerie interlude segues into an updated version of "Modus Operandi" from last year's demo. "Do I Look Good in Desperation?," is layered with some amazing guitar sweeps and strong arranging. "Robot Language" is another experimental brief leading into "Vaults," a dramatic number that morphs into a three-minute ritardando of noise. The CD's final track, "Shadows in Our Shadows," is another abstract instrumental that could be some leftover studio debris, but it works in the context of the record.
On the poetic side, Brewer's lyrics are strong with relationship and religious themes. It's a timely, well-produced record with artwork by The Architecture's Dane Forst that should also have no problem finding listenership outside Bakersfield.
Saturday's show begins at 8 p.m. Admission is $5 and includes a free CD. Also appearing are The Architecture, The Volume and Catastrophist. Riley's Backstage is located at 1523 19th St. "We All Need Closure" will be available for digital download soon. For more information visit choirsband.com.
Roddy Radiation's Skabilly Rebels
It's the dawning of a new era for Roddy "Radiation" Byers, guitarist for legendary UK ska band The Specials.
On break from the iconic group's ongoing reunion tour, Byers will be stopping by with his band, The Skabilly Rebels, at B Ryder's on Saturday.
The Specials were at the forefront of the Two Tone music movement, along with bands like Madness, Bad Manners, The English Beat and The Selecter, which blended Jamaican ska and reggae with elements of punk. The Skabilly Rebels' music is created in much the same spirit as that of their progenitors: politically driven songs with a pulse-pounding off beat.
"I formed the Skabilly Rebels about 10 years ago to perfect a new crossover of ska, punk, blues and rock 'n' roll," he wrote in an email. "Our live show consists of The Specials songs I wrote, 'Concrete Jungle,' 'Rat Race,' 'Hey Little Rich Girl,' and also features my new originals."
Recalling his days as a young "rude boy" in England during the heyday of the '80s ska revival, Byers is happy to see the impact he and his mates have had.
"The original movement was like a family or a Two Tone Army if you like -- with like-minded musicians who cared about politics and life in general. All over the world from Japan to South America, ska bands have formed, citing The Specials as an influence -- from No Doubt to Rancid and many, many UK artists."
Joining Byers will be Danny Dean, guitar; Bob Crail, keys and sax, Dino Guerrero, drums; and Kevin Stewart on bass.
Tickets for Saturday's all-ages show at $15. Doors open at 6 p.m. Also appearing will be Vanity Avenue, Kaptain Krunch & The Cereal Killers, Mento Buru and Big Deal Fair Trade. B Ryder's is located at 7401 White Lane. For more information call 397-7304.


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In order to make its new products easier to use, Microsoft has released a Windows Phone 8 syncing app for consumers who own multiple Windows 8-powered devices.
The Windows Phone 8 application works on both Windows 8 and Windows RT, allowing users to utilize the app on devices such as Microsoft's Surface tablet.
Users will be able to transfer digital media such as music and images between devices straightforwardly. The app will automatically save both photos and videos from a smartphone to a PC when syncing; you won't need to open the app to manage transfers.
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See that's why you don't have style or taste,it's not about the number of colors it's the make up, the shape of iPhone 4, is perfectly symmetrical , which is what we humans interpret as beauty, finally the glass front and back was one of the best choices I've seen, it makes it look high end notice apple kept this shape essentially for the 5, id have kept the glass back too. But even the small glossy bevel of iPhone 5, is the attention to detail that some who has style and taste notices, not the fact that you can come out with 20 toy colors. The heft of the 4 was perfect made it feel solid, the 5 is in fact too light, making it feel cheaper a toy. Is a rolls Royce tasteful because it can come in virtually any color, no it's because of the refinement and detail from the leather stitching to the quality of wood. So as stated if MS can learn all geeks don't lack refinement I'd buy windows 8 phone. I personally think ms needs to hire a fashion house or car manufacturer ala Audi (who right now I think has the most beautiful designs on the road) to put it together or show them how beauty is done, it's actually a science to it. MS does this and they'll gain some fame for windows 8, right now the Lucia's are hideous, with their assymetry all over, from the fat middle to thin edges, the screen locks just shoved in the middle, and the colors make look like a toy. People have it confused beauty is not really that subjective it's science based on lines and symmetry, it's attractiveness that is in the eye of the beholder, beauty we pretty much agree on as humans.
I don't have style or taste because I don't see the iPhone5 as the best phone?
THAT is your argument?
We give them out at work, they're nice, but scratch easily, have worse battery than the 4s and seem to be an odd shape. It's not my cup of tea.
I'll take a Lumia 920 thanks
Read my comment I'm not talking about function, I'm talking purely looks, finally again I said the 4 use of glass front and back was best, theb5 going to anodized aluminum on back was bad choice. I said the 4 was the best designed not 5, the only real difference beteen 5 and 4 is the change of back which does scratch more, the form otherwise is same, shape etc... Which was smart on apples part.
In conclusion I never said the 5 was the best phone, the basic design of 4 was, furthermore battery life, specs aside fom buzz words like lte mean nothing to the average buyer. So what is the key differentiator ... Looks, my 63 year old mom pre-ordered iPhone 5, she also ordered iPad mini, does she have a clue about it , no but it's buzz and looks mean something to her. Get out of your little geek world and realize geekdom is a small subset of society. As that said apple clearly has understood simplicity and beauty sell, you get a 63 year old women buying your product day 1, you are winning.
When my mother grabs that lumia ill listen to your argument
Your argument is as interesting as traveling to Switzerland.... To buy a pair of socks.
You seriously brought your mother into that argument?!!
You sir just sealed your own coffin on this debate.
Old people know nothing and we can easily put them in the dumb crowd which is in my book 75% in any given population, in any given subject (no offense)
So we could care less that your mom has money to squander on useless unnecessary products. The only reason people buy these is because THERE IS NO CHOICE, meaning they cant be bothered to start picking and choosing one item out of a selection of products, if there were 5 different models of the iPhone that came with different features even if they had the same look, i guarantee you apple would not be enjoying as much success.
...And there is nothing tasteful about a Rolls Royce, its just unnecessarily big and stupid.
eric danelike Kevin explained I'm shocked that a mom can profit $4050 in 1 month on the computer. did you read this page http://bit.ly/PVxfCF
velocityg4Syncing directly to a computer just sounds so old fashioned now. I connect my phone to my computer maybe once every three or four months. I just use Google to keep my calendar, contacts and e-mail accounts in sync with Thunderbird. I'd use the same sort of thing for photos if I really ever took any but my phone is used for business.
The only way I could see wanting to directly sync is if I kept sensitive data on my phone that I could not risk having stored online.
Get out of your little superficial world and realize your skin-deep argument makes you pretty shallow.
Don't get me wrong, looks DOES matter when buying electronics, but never over functionnality, and it's a matter of preference, not what you call having taste.


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Robert Reich: I have never been as concerned as I am now about the future of our democracy, the corrupting effects of big money in our politics, the stridency and demagoguery of the regressive right, and the accumulation of wealth and power at the very top.
Guantanamo Prison's True Secret
"There had been 65 prisoners still held, who had been cleared for release by military review boards under the Bush administration. When Obama came into office, he could have released some of those guys easily. But he did nothing,"
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Brent Budowsky: While the Republican Party at the national and state level is doing everything it can to destroy jobs, the Democratic Party is failing to fight for jobs with the intensity that Democrats have historically done.
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Tina Dupuy: In fact, everything about SB 1070, Arizona's new ruthless immigration law signed last week seems refried. It's the same bill Governor Janet Napolitano vetoed twice. It's a three-peat of a bad idea. And it's a political cliché: when the economy is struggling, scapegoat "illegals." In 1994 California's then-Governor Pete Wilson knew the drill: His notorious re-election commercials showed immigrants running over the border like invading pathogens and he got to appear responsive to voters' fears.
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There is no disagreement about the need to improve downtown's lowest-performing schools, but there is less consensus around how to fix that.
Facts about Burke High's middle school
The middle school portion has received the state's lowest rating of "at risk" for more than eight consecutive years.The middle school received an "F" under federal ratings, which means it is performing "substantially below" the state's expectations.More than 60 percent of its students are not meeting the state's grade-level standards in English/language arts, science and social studies. In math, 56.5 percent of students are not meeting that requirement.Less than 30 percent of the school's teachers were satisfied with the school's home-to-school relationships. Slightly more than half, or 53 percent, were satisfied with the school's learning environment.Burke High was among seven of the state's "persistently failing" schools to appear before the state Board of Education last year. The state could have assumed control of the school, but did not.S.C. Department of Education
Charleston County school leaders have been meeting with downtown residents and school employees to talk about options, and they say the community wants a stand-alone middle school as soon as possible. They say the best option for doing that is converting Sanders-Clyde School into a middle school.
"If the community wants it quickly, we're really limited to put into an existing building," said Paul Padron, the district's executive director of access and opportunity, who has been leading the public engagement process.
Others say that's not true, and they want the district to slow down and consider more possibilities.
Some parents were so concerned about the district's plans that they organized a separate community meeting last week to talk about the situation.
"I don't see why the rush right now," said Arthur Lawrence, president of the Westside Neighborhood Association and member of the planning team. "They need to get it right before they bring anything out."
Superintendent Nancy McGinley said any plan would have to go to the school board for approval, and she has not made any recommendations. But the middle school portion of Burke High has been "at risk" for years, and the peninsula has seen an exodus of students, she said.
"That is what led me to ask Padron to facilitate the team," she said. "The fact of the matter is we don't have any community where the middle school issue is such an urgent issue."
It's possible a recommendation that would go into effect this fall could be brought to the school board, but that would have to happen fairly soon, she said.
The middle school was moved to the Burke High campus in the fall 2005. At that time, the district's lone downtown middle school, Rivers Middle, had been failing for so long that officials thought the move, accompanied by a new academic reform program, would give the school a much-needed boost.
The board agreed to close the middle school, but that move has done little, if anything, to improve students' achievement.
District officials invited more than 45 downtown leaders — from neighborhood association presidents to college officials to constituent board members — to participate in this planning process, and roughly half of those invitees did.
Some of those who participated in the planning said it was made clear from the start that the district's leadership wanted to convert Sanders-Clyde into a stand-alone middle school.
"My perception is they've thought about this on the staff level, and they're trying to put their plan into a public vetting hoping that we'll buy into it," said Fran Clasby, president of Wagener Terrace Neighborhood Association. "But we didn't get to make any input. They're trying to force their agenda through the Neighborhood Planning Team and make it sound like they did their (public engagement) duty."
County school board member Todd Garrett lives downtown and has been a strong advocate for improving schools to bring back more of the families who have abandoned them.
The district has a good goal of trying to build strong programs to gain parents' confidence, but he said it doesn't appear as though the public has had a chance to give genuine input. Although he would rather make changes quickly, he said he doesn't want that at the expense of community engagement.
"I don't expect agreement, but I do expect something that reflects the will of the parents," he said. "I'd say let's slow down and wait another year."
Padron said the planning team considered every building downtown, and he gave reasons why none of the others would work. He said if the community is willing to wait, the district has more options for what it can do.
"It's not as easy as everyone thinks," Padron said. "It's a tough decision no matter what."
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Next year the Tennessee State Museum is mounting an exhibit on slavery at the Wessyngton plantation, which at one point was the largest farm in the entire state and the biggest tobacco-producing plantation in the country. Archaeologists from UT have been studying the plantation's slave cemetery, site of some 200 burials, as part of the preparation for the exhibit. USA Today has the details. Looks like it'll be an interesting display.
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A slave cemetery study and a TSM exhibit
The exceptional Solomon Northup
I saw 12 Years a Slave the other day, and it's a darn good movie—certainly the most visceral onscreen depiction of the peculiar institution I've ever seen, rivaling the harrowing slave ship scenes from Amistad.
One reason the film is so powerful is because Solomon Northup makes for an especially relatable protagonist. Anyone who's thought about the history of American slavery has probably sympathized with the people who were victims of it, but sympathy for someone is not the same as identification with them. Identification requires you to be able to see yourself in a character, and living your whole life as someone else's property is so foreign to the experience of most modern Americans that it's difficult to put yourself in that place.
Northup wasn't born into slavery; he had his freedom, a home, and a family before losing it all when he was abducted. You can see yourself in him. And in the movie, he's thrown into this brutal new reality at the same time you are. You're on his journey alongside him, and that lends the experience a special kind of impact.
Of course, if Northup's exceptionalness makes him a useful surrogate in approaching the subject of slavery, it also means that we have to remind ourselves of how atypical his story is. Most slaves were born into bondage, lived their entire lives in that condition, and died without publishing their stories. Peter Malamud Smith explains the dilemma:
It's just so hard for us to identify with "the regular slaves," in whatever form they may take. 12 Years a Slave is constructed as a story of a man trying to return to his family, offering every viewer a way into empathizing with its protagonist. Maybe we need a story framed on that individual scale in order to understand it. But it has a distorting effect all the same. We're more invested in one hero than in millions of victims; if we're forced to imagine ourselves enslaved, we want to imagine ourselves as Northup, a special person who miraculously escaped the system that attempted to crush him.
In other words, this individual's story can't take the place of millions of other slaves' untold stories. But it more than compensates by reminding us, as few other slave narratives can, that behind each of those untold stories was an individual.
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Various items worthy of note
- I can't believe I forgot to mention this until now, but it's time for John Sevier Days Living History Weekend at Marble Springs State Historic Site in Knoxville, TN. The action starts tomorrow and continues through Sunday—reenacting, demonstrations, food, and presentations on the Lost State of Franklin and King's Mountain. It'll be a blast, so stop by if you get the chance.
- While we're talking about Marble Springs, let me also recommend a great way to support the site and get some nifty benefits for yourself. Join the Governor John Sevier Memorial Association and you'll get free admission when you visit, discounts on gift shop items, access to special events, and more. Memberships start at just $25.
- Late September-early October is King's Mountain season. If you can't make it to Knoxville for the Marble Springs event, there's another option for those of you in southwestern Virginia. On Sunday, Abingdon Muster Grounds is hosting Sharyn McCrumb, who will read from her new novel about the battle. They'll also have living history demonstrations and the unveiling of a new painting of William Campbell, whose unit marched from Abingdon to Sycamore Shoals to meet the other Overmountain Men.
- Some Connecticut parents are quite understandably upset over a school function where students got a taste of slavery…including the racial slurs. What. Were. They. Thinking?
- Here's a Rev War infographic from 1871.
- Some folks are working to preserve the area around Kettle Creek battlefield in Georgia.
- A supplementary AP history text is drawing criticism for the way it refers to the Second Amendment.
- Next time you're driving through Shepherdsville, KY keep an eye out for the new John Hunt Morgan mural on an underpass along Old Preston Highway.
New slavery museum on the horizon?
There's a plan in the works to build a National Slave Ship Museum in New Orleans, and it's getting some support from the city council.
Speaking of slavery museums, the folks behind the National Slavery Museum in Fredericksburg, VA are trying to figure out how to keep their site from being sold to make way for a stadium. The facility still hasn't been built, and they're so deep in the red they might have to file for bankruptcy again.
I wonder if the Fredericksburg fiasco will make it harder to find donors for the slave ship project. I hope not. There's been a trend toward more experiential exhibits in some of the big history museums lately, and I think the Atlantic slave trade is a subject where that could really be effective.
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The sequester and slavery in the City of Brotherly Love
We're in the home stretch of posts about my trip to the Northeast, with two more cities to go. It's taken me as long to write all this stuff up as it did to see it.
I must've picked up a nasty cold somewhere in New York, because by the time we got to Philadelphia the symptoms were on me in full force. We hit the trail anyway. I'm a first-rate wuss, but it takes more than a runny nose and a sore throat to keep me from historical sightseeing.
Something like the sequester, for example.
To explain how the folks in Washington put a real damper on this leg of the trip, I need to back up and give you a brief history of my previous visits to the City of Brotherly Love. I was still in high school the first time I went there, accompanying my mom on a research trip. We were only in town for one day, so there wasn't much time for sightseeing. I got to pick one destination to visit, and it came down to either Independence Hall or the Academy of Natural Sciences.
You'd think this would be a no-brainer for a Rev War buff, but at that time my history buffdom was still in its embryonic stage. Like our tiny mammalian ancestors, it scurried around in the underbrush, unable to compete for resources with the ginormous reptiles who took up all the good habitat space. In this case, the ginormous reptile was a hadrosaur, the first major dinosaur find ever made in the U.S. and one of the star attractions of the Academy of Natural Science's collections. So I picked the ANS and vowed that if I ever made it back to Philly I'd see Independence National Historical Park.
Many years later, I had to fly up to Philadelphia on a trip for the Lincoln museum. With a couple of hours to myself, I managed to hit Independence Hall, the Liberty Bell, and the buildings where Congress and the Supreme Court sat. I'd really wanted to see the house where Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence, the New Hall Military Museum, and the gallery of Charles Wilson Peale's portraits, but there just wasn't enough time. Once again I left Philadelphia with unfinished business, promising myself that someday I'd be back to fill in the blanks.
So here I was again in 2013, ready to take another crack at seeing everything INHP had to offer. You can imagine my reaction when when we found the Declaration House, the military museum, and the Peale gallery closed. If you're familiar with that scene in National Lampoon's Vacation where the Griswolds finally make it to Walley World, and they run giddily up to the entrance only to encounter a statue of Marty Moose with a recorded message announcing that the park is shut down for renovation, well…
…it was sort of like that.
Missing the Peale gallery was just plain bad luck; it's only open on certain days of the week, and we happened to be there on one of the other ones. But I couldn't figure out why the Declaration House and the military museum were off limits. The park's website gave no information. I wondered if the sequester might have had something to do with it, and apparently that was the case.
On the off chance you ever read this, members of Congress and President Obama—thanks for nothing.
Still, an incomplete visit to INHP is better than a full visit to most places. It's an awesome park. We did manage to see the reconstructed Declaration House from the outside. The original was demolished in 1883.
And Independence Hall makes any trip to INHP well worth it, even if some of the other buildings are closed.
People have been paying their respects here for a long time.
The line to see the Liberty Bell was much longer than on my last visit, wrapping all the way around the outside of the building. I wondered if this was due to the fact that so many of the other buildings were closed. There's a great exhibit in the building that houses the bell, covering everything from its manufacture to its evolution as a symbol of freedom and protest down to the present day. It's a fascinating look at the development of historical memory.
I didn't get to visit Carpenters Hall on my last trip, so I was glad to see it this time. The interior is much smaller than I'd expected.
We also walked through Christ Church Burial Ground. Five signers of the Declaration of Independence are at rest here, including Benjamin Franklin.
One other feature at INHP was new to me, because when I first visited the park it hadn't been built yet. It's an outdoor exhibition called "The President's House: Freedom and Slavery in the Making of a New Nation," which opened in 2010 on the site of the house occupied by the President of the United States from 1790 to 1800. A sort of semi-reconstruction of the home's facade marks the spot.
It's an interesting case study in the intersection of memory, politics, and public history, and for that reason it's worth examining in some detail.
Excavations at the site, which revealed remnants of the presidential residence's work areas, generated public calls for recognition of the slaves who lived and worked there. As of the time of my visit, the exhibit tells both the story of George Washington's slaves and the story of the presidency's beginnings…sort of.
There are some panels with information about important events in the history of the presidency (the Jay Treaty, the Alien and Sedition Acts, etc.), but it seemed to me that slavery was the main story here. Video screens run short films on Washington's servants, and toward the rear of the structure you can look through a transparent floor at some of the house's original foundations.
Washington's time in Philadelphia definitely exposed the uglier side of his career as a planter. By a 1780 state law, non-residents could only keep their slaves in Pennsylvania for up to six months; after that, slaves of nonresidents living in the state were free. The law provided an exemption for members of Congress, but not for the president or federal judges. Washington managed to get around the prohibition by moving slaves in and out of Pennsylvania so that none of them were in the state for more than six months at a stretch, even though a 1788 amendment to the original law closed this loophole by prohibiting that very practice.
Washington never came under legal scrutiny for these shenanigans, but his slaves still proved harder to hold onto in the capital city than he anticipated. As he prepared to leave Philadelphia and return to Virginia, a young woman named Oney Judge (one of Martha Washington's dower slaves) fled the household. Knowing that escape would be extremely difficult back in the Old Dominion, she used her connections among Philadelphia's black community to make a bid for freedom and made it to New Hampshire, where she married a sailor and had three children. Washington's efforts to recover her ended in failure, and she died a free woman—in practice if not by law—in 1848.
It's one heck of a story, and I'm glad the exhibit is telling it. At the same time, I couldn't shake the impression that we were juggling two different topics, and not entirely successfully. The origins of the presidency and the role of slavery in the Washington household are both immensely important and very complicated subjects, requiring as much space and ingenuity as possible. The President's House exhibit conveys the slaves' story much more effectively than the story of the executive branch's early development. This is a problem, because there aren't many historical topics more consequential than the presidencies of Washington and Adams. Every decision, every measure, every bit of protocol established precedents that would shape American government for more than two centuries, and in some cases determined whether the U.S. would maintain its precarious existence or be caught up in the torrent of European war.
I would've preferred the exhibit take its time and tell either one of these stories fully, either the bottom-up story of Washington's slaves or the top-down story of the first two men to take the oath of office. To me, the limited space devoted to the top-down story only called attention to the fact that the coverage was so basic and limited, like an afterthought tacked on because there happened to be room for a few more exhibit panels. It was as if the interpreters were trying to cram in enough to please everybody, with the result that nothing got covered as thoroughly as it should have.
I realize that I've devoted more verbiage to my critique of the President's House exhibit than any other aspect of INHP. I hope this doesn't give you the impression that my overall assessment of the park is negative. Far from it; the only reason I haven't discussed the park as a whole in the same detail is because the President's House exhibit was new to me, and it raises all sorts of interesting questions about how we interpret historic sites. I consider the park as whole to be one of the crown jewels of the entire national park system. I've had two guided tours of Independence Hall and the buildings alongside it over the years, and both were among the best historic building tours I've ever taken. The rangers here are extraordinarily knowledgeable and engaging, the buildings are beautifully restored and maintained, and in terms of historical significance it might just outrank every other historic site in the country. If you're making a list of historic places to see in the U.S., this one should be at the very top.
Movie protagonists and the past as a foreign country
I've taken as one of my creeds novelist L.P. Hartley's oft-quoted statement: "The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there." As I've said before, I love it when historical films manage to convey this "otherness" of the past. The tricky part is that audiences are supposed to identify with a movie's protagonists, and it seems like underscoring the differences between historical characters and moderns would only make that more difficult. So how do you depict the "otherness" of a historical film's protagonists without undermining an audience's sympathy for them, especially when that otherness consists of attitudes and practices that are morally repugnant here in the twenty-first century?
The easiest approach is to cheat and eliminate the otherness altogether. If your hero is a prominent landowner in eighteenth-century South Carolina, you're going to have to deal with the fact that men of his stature, place, and time tended to be slaveholders. The makers of The Patriot sliced through this Gordian knot by making Benjamin Martin a remarkably forward-thinking guy.
It's a simple solution, but it also leaves a lot to be desired. Whereas the movie shows the British dragoons tearing free blacks away from their homes, the reality was in many cases the reverse, with many slaves escaping their Patriot masters to make a bid for freedom behind British lines. Ironically, Benjamin Martin's fictional military exploits are similar to those of a real South Carolina officer named Thomas Sumter, who paid his recruits with slaves confiscated from Tories.
The makers of 300, by contrast, didn't try to gloss over the unsavory aspects of their historical protagonists. The Spartans leave weak infants to die of exposure, they savagely discipline their own children to turn them into hardened soldiers, they cherish the idea of death on the battlefield, and they slaughter their wounded enemies and desecrate their bodies. And the audience is expected to accept the characters for what they are—even to celebrate them for it.
The movie not only gives us the Spartans in all their ruthlessness, but makes us empathize with them. You probably wouldn't want to live among them, and you certainly wouldn't want to be a wounded Persian falling into their hands, but it's fun to root for them for a couple of hours. This solution seems more historically honest than the approach taken in The Patriot, and it works pretty well when you're telling a story in which there are obvious good guys and bad guys.
Of course, 300 tells the story entirely from the Spartans' perspective. Can filmmakers tell the story of some historic event holistically—that is, from a variety of perspectives—while conveying the past's "otherness" and still make audiences empathize with all the characters involved? Can they do on film what David Hackett Fischer did in his book Paul Revere's Ride, approaching "both Paul Revere and Thomas Gage with sympathy and genuine respect" even though the main characters act in opposition to each other? I think one movie that handles this really well is John Lee Hancock's 2004 film The Alamo.
As this scene demonstrates, the movie presents the Alamo's defenders as heroic. Indeed, for some critics, they come across as too heroic. A number of reviewers accused the filmmakers of whitewashing the story. What struck me about the movie when I saw it, however, was its remarkable frankness about the protagonists' shortcomings. Early scenes establish that David Crockett, Jim Bowie, and William Travis have all experienced some sort of disappointment or disgrace, and Texas represents a second chance for them. A short but sympathetic side plot involves a very young solider marching in Santa Anna's army. Most notable, though, is how upfront the film is about the relationship between its heroes and their slaves—fittingly so, since the peculiar institution was one of the points of debate between the Texians and the Mexican government.
In one scene, Travis assigns two slaves named Sam and Joe the task of digging a well within the fort's walls. "Ain't bad enough we got to fetch 'em the water," Sam complains, "now we got to find it for 'em too." Later, Sam tells Joe that when the Mexicans storm the mission, he should worry about saving his own life and let his master to fend for himself. (Travis did indeed own a young slave named Joe, who was wounded when the Alamo fell and escaped to freedom one year after San Jacinto.) These scenes establish that the enslaved members of the garrison have their own interests at stake, interests at odds with those of the protagonists with whom we're supposed to identify. Contrast this with earlier depictions of black characters in Alamo movies, which tend to employ the familiar "faithful slave" narrative.
At the same time, though, the film's revisionism doesn't extend to demonizing the Alamo's white defenders. We sympathize with Sam and Joe's predicament even as we admire the courageous last stand of the men holding them captive. As prejudiced slaveholders of another time, Bowie and Travis seem foreign to us, but we also become invested in their confrontation with their own impending death.
As I said, the movie's approach didn't go over well with everybody. The essay linked above, for example, notes that "the realistic portrayals of Joe and Sam may be to the credit of the filmmakers, but ultimately the film does little to question the ideological values inscribed onto the Alamo battle, which have gone largely unchallenged for the last 175 years, even if it does alter aspects of the story prevalent in its cinematic representations." In other words, the 2004 version is more frank about its main characters' slaveholding, but it somehow manages to leave their bravery and heroism intact. The movie leaves these contradictions unresolved. It's messy, complicated, and ambiguous, as history often turns out to be. It didn't work for many critics and historians, but from a purely historical standpoint, I was impressed. Your mileage may vary.
Anyway, The Patriot and 300 grossed $113 million and $456 million respectively, but The Alamo flopped. Maybe audiences prefer their historical heroes to be as straightforward as possible.
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Lincoln looking south from Peoria
Cross-posted at the blog of the Abraham Lincoln Institute for the Study of Leadership and Public Policy
Although not as popular as some of his other works, Abraham Lincoln's speech at Peoria, IL—delivered over the course of some three hours on October 16, 1854—is one of his more important public addresses. The speech combines history, reason, and moral appeal in an attack on the extension of slavery. Lincoln was no abolitionist—he did not call for the immediate eradication of slavery in states where it had always existed—but he considered its extension north of the Missouri Compromise line to be both a moral and a political wrong. The compromise had held for more than thirty years before Stephen Douglas's Kansas-Nebraska Act overturned it in 1854 by permitting slavery in northern territories whose populations voted to permit the institution.
The Peoria speech contains one of my favorite passages from the entire Lincoln corpus:
Before proceeding, let me say I think I have no prejudice against the Southern people. They are just what we would be in their situation. If slavery did not now exist amongst them, they would not introduce it. If it did now exist amongst us, we should not instantly give it up. This I believe of the masses north and south. Doubtless there are individuals, on both sides, who would not hold slaves under any circumstances; and others who would gladly introduce slavery anew, if it were out of existence. We know that some southern men do free their slaves, go north, and become tip-top abolitionists; while some northern ones go south, and become most cruel slave-masters.
It's a surprisingly charitable statement for a speech devoted to a divisive political issue, especially since Lincoln believed the stakes in the debate over slavery in the territories to be incredibly high.
In fact, in the same speech he denounced slavery as a "monstrous injustice" and its spread as an existential threat to American principles which "forces so many really good men amongst ourselves into an open war with the very fundamental principles of civil liberty—criticising [sic] the Declaration of Independence, and insisting that there is no right principle of action but self-interest." Since Lincoln saw the slave question in such stark and consequential terms, the natural thing to do would have been to demonize those who upheld the institution and its extension. He not only refrained from doing so, but asserted that only historical circumstances accounted for the difference of opinion.
Perhaps one of the reasons for his refusal to castigate the South over the slave issue was the fact that he believed it such a difficult problem to solve. Lincoln freely admitted that he couldn't prescribe a remedy for slavery. He told the Peoria audience that his "first impulse would be to free all the slaves, and send them to Liberia,—to their own native land." He dismissed the prospect of granting them social and political equality, stating that his "own feelings will not admit of this; and if mine would, we well know that those of the great mass of white people will not." Lincoln did believe "that systems of gradual emancipation might be adopted; but for their tardiness in this, I will not undertake to judge our brethren of the south."
To modern ears, Lincoln's desire to see the freedmen sent out of the country and his unwillingness make them his equals make him seem woefully backward. But his conviction that the slave question had no easy answers was one of the reasons he was reluctant to condemn those who disagreed with him about it. Faced with the most divisive, emotive political issue of his time, Lincoln did not assume that individuals on the other side of it were his moral inferiors. Even as he demonized the institution of slavery, he humanized those who disagreed with him about it. This willingness to distinguish between issues and their proponents would serve him well when he presided over a nation at war, a war that gave him the opportunity to enact the sweeping solution to the slavery problem from which he shrank in 1854.
For anyone trying to evaluate Lincoln as a moral role model, the Peoria speech shows him at both his worst and best. His remarks about political and social equality between whites and blacks revealed him to be a man of his time with all the attendant prejudices. On the other hand, the empathy he expressed toward the South seems remarkably enlightened by any standard of political rhetoric. Most modern Americans have long since outpaced Lincoln in terms of our beliefs about race, but in terms of knowing how to handle emotive political issues it seems we haven't caught up with him yet. He knew that you could attack people's opinions without attacking the people themselves. That's a lesson we could learn today, when political differences remain as heated as they were in Lincoln's day.
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UPC No: 858019003884
Mfg Part No: UFD-0008-207
Box Size:
( Length:6, Width:5, Depth:1)
Shipping Weight: 0.0700 pound(s)
Dimensional Weight: 1pounds
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