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Evelyn M. Colvin
Evelyn M. Meldon Colvin, age 84, of Erie, PA, and Naples, FL, died Tuesday, April 23, 2013 in Naples.
She was born in Erie on October 11, 1928, a daughter of the late James L. and Evelyn Meldon.
She was a graduate of St. Peter's Cathedral School, Villa Maria High School and attended Mercyhurst College and St. Mary's College in Columbus, Ohio. She was a member of St. Peter's Cathedral.
A devoted wife and mother, Evelyn enjoyed spending time with family and friends, playing bridge, reading and gardening. She also excelled at successfully completing challenging crossword puzzles. Following her husband's retirement in 1990, the Colvins relocated to Naples, FL, while still enjoying their summers in their beloved hometown of Erie, where they were both born and raised.
Her warm smile will be missed by all.
She was preceded in death by a daughter, Ann E. Colvin Chidsey; her devoted sister, Sr. Mary Margaret, SSJ, who passed away in January 2013; sister, Mary Longaker and brothers, Thomas and James Meldon.
She is survived by her husband, Charles Colvin, Ed.D, who taught at Gannon College before serving as Chairman of the Department of Education SUNY Fredonia, and whom she married in 1951; two sons, Christopher Colvin, a retired U.S. Coast Guard Admiral and his wife, Kristin of Colorado Springs, CO; Daniel Colvin, PGA, head golf professional and Director of Golf at Fisher's Island Club, and his wife, Aimee of Old Lyme, CT; daughter, Mary K. Colvin, Ph.D, RN, an Assistant Professor of Nursing at Barry University, Miami, FL; six grandchildren, Meagan, Mark, Grayson, Daisy, Danielle and Cassandra. A brother, Eugene Meldon of Grand Junction, CO, as well as several nieces and nephews also survive.
Friends may call at the Burton Funeral Home & Crematory, Inc., 602 West 10th Street, Friday from 2-4 p.m. and 7-9 p.m. and are invited to attend a Mass of Christian Burial Saturday at St. Peter's Cathedral at 10:30 a.m.
Burial will follow at Calvary Cemetery.
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By: Steve Larsen, Director of the Center for Consumer Information and Insurance Oversight.
One of the most important responsibilities that we at HHS have is listening to you—the American people. That's why we are announcing today that we will extend the comment period for the July 15, 2011 proposed rules on the Affordable Insurance Exchanges. Thisaligns the comment period with another set of Exchange-related proposed rules that were issued on August 17, 2011. Now, instead of some being due on September 28, 2011, all comments on the Exchange-related proposals are due on October 31, 2011.
Affordable Insurance Exchanges are State-based marketplaces designed to make buying private health coverage easier and more affordable and give you the same kinds of choices as Members of Congress. Starting in 2014, Exchanges will allow you to compare qualified health plans, get answers to questions, and enroll in a qualified health plan that best fits the needs of you and your family. It will be a one-stop-shop for all of your health insurance needs. And that's why we want to make sure that we give you the opportunity to consider all of the regulations together when you tell us what you think about them.
This extension of the official comment period follows a robust outreach campaign to receive your comments on these rules. We talked to many different types of stakeholders about the proposed rules, including State officials, consumer advocates and health plans who have been attending our regional listening sessions to tell us what they think. But we need to hear from you officially—so please submit your thoughts and ideas via Regulations.gov. We look forward to hearing from you.


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A Mullah is teaching Quran to the boy - Lack of school in Afghanistan make afghans to send their children to the mosque.
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kato (11630) 2013-06-13 7:35
Hi Mustafa,
You're capturing well this daily life by a good composition and excellent tone/clarity, so it's interesting and impressive to see the spectacle that a Mullah is teaching Quran to the boy in a room with beautiful carpet has been laid and lamp. It's interesting in big textbook teachers and students are to hand, too. The light is managed well, and color is harmonized by beautiful combination.
Kind regards,
williewhistler (16412) 2013-06-13 14:02
Hello Mustafa,a lovely portrait of the scholar and his teacher,the light is perfectly positioned to show texture and nature of the surroundings perfectly.
A terrific photograph with much interest and a great deal of charm.Thank you.
Best wishes Les.
meyerd (1626) 2013-06-24 10:22
Hi Mustafa,
incredible, this picture, a masterpiece ! Thanks for sharing with us this special moment.
Best regards Dietrich
Jao (2) 2013-07-24 3:44
very nice picture, so expressive with a touch of tenderness.
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Happy birthday, Dexter QueenPosted Friday, July 29, 2011, at 5:02 PM
Monday, August 1, 2011 is the birthday of one of Dexter's famous icons.
I remember the first time I was there. I was barely sixteen and one of my very good friend's parents owned it. That was back in the days when we cruised between the west end of town and "Studs" which was south of Dexter on Highway 25.
If my memory serves me right, which there is a good chance it won't, but Frankie and Linda Bowman opened their little drive in so we young people could dance. There was no dancing allowed in the city limits. Is that still true? I don't know. Anyway, thanks, Frankie and Linda for providing lots of fun for lots of young people.
My friend, Delores, took me to her parents' place of business one night, and ever since that night, I have been a "pig" for a "lotta pig basket. Extra hot please!"
So now you know of whom I am speaking. That's right. Leon's Dexter Queen. It wasn't always called by that name.
Leon and Gwen purchased a little cafe called "The Wagon Wheel" from Leon's uncle who was originally from Mississippi. Leon's uncle had purchased The Wagon Wheel from an American Indian, who is actually the originator of this most delicious sauce. The uncle gave Leon and Gwen the recipe and the rest is history.
Leon and Gwen changed the name to "Leon's Daisy Queen". They had to differentiate the name from Dairy Queen. By the way, does anyone remember the wagon Wheel? I bet Audry Fralick will. In later years, it became Leon's Dexter Queen.
Leon and Gwen worked in their business for 32 years before selling and retiring. I asked Gwen if Delores ever helped in the restaurant and Gwen, after a little laughter, said yes. I told her I didn't remember her working much because we were too busy cruising the strip.
Since Leon and Gwen retired, there have been other owners down through the years. Butch Beard was the first to own it after Leon and Gwen. Then my high school friend, Jim Bland, and the present owner, Lori Fortner Hawkins.
Each owner has put their special touches to the restaurant , but the sauce still tastes the same to me as it did that night in 1962.
The latest addition is the mural that Lori recently had painted in honor of Leon and Gwen. All I have to do is look from the street, and it takes me back to those years when I was young.
The painter, Bobby Whitehead, captured the likeness of Leon so that it is uncanny.
I recently had a serious case of nostalgia and pulled on the parking lot and just sat looking at it and reminiscing. There is just something to be said about "the old days when I was young".
I want to commend Lori for bestowing such an honor on Leon and Gwen. We just don't do enough of that sort of thing.
In a time when businesses come and go, I am so thankful that we still have this business located in the same location for all these years - 62 in fact. Lori, I hope when I am old and feeble, which when you think about it, isn't that far off, I can still come to Leon's and say, "lotta pig basket, extra hot please." And, if my memory is slow, I will just automatically know how to get there for I have been going there for so many years.
You, of course, know by now that my hero and heroine for this column are Leon and Gwen McGarrity.
Thanks for all the wonderful work and memories you have handed down to so many. I also want to include their daughter, Delores, my very good friend from fifth grade way into our adulthood, for introducing me to her wonderful parents and teaching me how to order, "extra hot please."
This great adventure began for Leon and Gwen August 1, 1949. Happy birthday to one of my favorite places. Leon's Daisy Queen.
Thanks to all my readers far and wide, all over the United States and now several other countries.
I am so thankful for you.
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Great article, Kathleen!! My favorite memories was enjoying Pigs in a Basket with Daddy! I live in Idaho now and those are still fantastic and dear memories of Daddy asking me to meet him down there for lunch. I also had friends that worked there when we were in High School and it was always a hang out when Butch owned it!!! So glad the recipe is the same and to see Lori honoring Leon and Gwen. I hear from friends the place looks fantastic! I can still taste those fantastic BBQ sandwiches!
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-- Posted by beamgang on Sat, Jul 30, 2011, at 12:59 AM
I remember those "good ole days"--not where you were but at another little town in Texas--Big Springs. We also did that cruising bit. Flirting with all the girls..."Good ole days".
-- Posted by ron shortes on Wed, Aug 3, 2011, at 8:45 AM
I recall Dexter Drive-in from Gray Ridge High School days...best barbecue sandwich...recall circling and circling on and off Highway 60 West part of Dexter...looking at pretty girls...a hero was one of the Ridge farm boys, when unable to borrow his dad's truck, no problem...he came and met his gal at Dexter on the family's Super M Farmall, complete with four-row cultivator. They married shortly-thereafter.
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Actually - the crumb should have scored 1 point - but I was generous as that's basically my fault for not fixing the fermentation issue.
Who is responsible for the dough? Formula, mixing, fermentation protocol, etc.
I am responsible for directing everything - but they carry out the execution.I'm English... what does rooked mean?
Does anybody disagree with the criteria?
Unless the person making the pie is also responsible for making the dough from start to finish and for the fire, I'm not sure it's fair to evaluate them on LEOPARDING, RISE, EXTERIOR, and CRUMB.
TIP SAG? not too much tip sag? Isn't this Neapolitan pizza? Unless you fold the slice, the tip and much of the pie should pretty much hang straight down.
Looking at other restaurants on the radar - I think Bianco's is a good example of what we would like to achieve
To be honest, I'm not totally clear on how to separate the 2 styles.On a good day - we can get leoparding / and a bit of a crunch. Though it is not easy to get the balance right.I feel closer to Neapolitan for the following reasons (some of which are probably not relevant):- the dough is only flour, water, yeast, salt (ok, a little sugar - I'm still not sure if we should be doing that) You won't find sugar in many NP doughs, but I wouldn't blacklist you for it- we ferment our dough for 50 hours could be either style- we unpack the dough balls by hand - instead of rolling pin nor should you - ever! - for NY or NP anyway- the oven floor is 370 c / 698 f somewhere in the grey area between the two styles but closer to NP than NY- the pizza cooks in 85 to 115 seconds 90 or less is solidly in the NP range. >120 starts to get hard to consider NP. I'd say 150 is about the max for NP- we use fresh bufalo mozzarella could be either style but not all that common on NY - my preference for NP but not NY- we use the cheese sparingly could be either style- it is never allowed to dry out probably more associated with NP- generally we use very few ingredients could be either style- we place the basil pre-bake probably more closely associated with NP
That's a slower, lower temp bake with no leoparding to speak of. Closer to NY than NP.


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Said, Edward W.
Edward W. Said 1935–2003
The following entry presents an overview of Said's career through 1996.
Palestinian-born American critic and essayist.
A Palestinian refugee in his youth and a respected though controversial professor of English and comparative literature at Columbia University, Said (pronounced sah-EED) is an influential and often polemical cultural critic. Said is a public intellectual who frequently writes about the Arab-Israeli conflict in the Middle East and actively supports the cause for Palestinian national rights. His most celebrated and contentious work, Orientalism (1978), which examines Western representations of Middle Eastern societies and cultures, established his reputation for innovative and provocative explorations of the interrelationships between texts—literary and otherwise—and the political, economic, and social contexts from which they emerged. In his writings Said adopts a Continental, interdisciplinary approach to literary criticism and uses the principles of phenomenology, existentialism, and French structuralism to make connections between literature and politics. Although his theories and methods have exerted a profound influence on the American academy, especially on literary theory and cultural studies, Said often is the target of phone threats and hate letters, principally for his unwavering advocacy of Palestinian political and cultural rights in the Middle East. "Said occupies a unique place in contemporary literary criticism," wrote John Kucich. "He is a much-needed link among humanistic values and traditions, theories of textuality, and cultural politics. His work is … a careful integration from these various positions and an original prescription for the renovation of literary and cultural study."
Biographical Information
Said was born November 1, 1935, in Jerusalem in what was then Palestine. The only son of Wadie and Hilda Musa Said, prominent members of the Christian Palestinian community, he was baptized as an Anglican and attended St. George's, his father's alma mater. In December, 1947, his family fled to Cairo, Egypt, to avoid the turmoil surrounding the establishment of Israel as a nation. In Cairo, Said studied at the American School and Victoria College, the so-called "Eton of the Middle East," before he completed his secondary education at a preparatory school in Massa-chusetts. Said became a naturalized citizen of the United States in 1953. After graduating from Princeton University in 1957, he undertook graduate studies in comparative literature at Harvard University, where he earned his M.A. in 1960 and his Ph.D. in 1964. His dissertation on the psychological relationship between Joseph Conrad's short fiction and his correspondence became his first published book, Joseph Conrad and the Fiction of Autobiography (1966). Hired as an instructor in English at Columbia University in 1963, Said became a full professor by 1970; his distinguished teaching career at Columbia included two endowed chairmanships in the 1980s and 1990s. Said enhanced his growing reputation for literary scholarship with Beginnings (1975), which won Columbia's Lionel Trilling Award in 1976. During the 1970s Said actively involved himself in the Palestinian cause by writing numerous essays for scholarly journals and independent publications. From 1977 to 1991 he belonged to the Palestinian National Council, the Palestinians' parliament in exile, meeting Yasir Arafat many times and helping to draft the Palestinian declaration of statehood in 1988. Said pursued his work following the groundbreaking Orientalism, which was nominated for a National Book Critics Circle Award, with the publication of two "sequels," The Question of Palestine (1979) and Covering Islam (1981); the essay collection, The World, the Text, and the Critic (1983); and a meditative essay on Palestinian identity featuring the photographs of Jean Mohr, After the Last Sky (1986). During the 1980s and 1990s, Said was named to several visiting professorships and lectured extensively on both literary and political themes. In 1991 he published Musical Elaborations, a volume of original music criticism that grew out his lifelong fondness for playing the piano. Said was diagnosed with leukemia in 1993. His subsequent works—Culture and Imperialism (1993), The Politics of Disspossession (1994), Representations of the Intellectual (1994), and Peace and Its Discontents (1995)—continue to provoke controversy.
Major Works
Said's writings cover diverse topics, but at their center lies a concern for the multiple relationships between the act of writing and cultural politics, language and power. Beginnings theorizes about the reasons several writers begin their works the way they do, demonstrating that prevailing cultural ideas of the beginning act change and limit a writer's choice to begin. Orientalism reveals how Western journalists, fiction writers, and scholars helped to create a prevalent and hostile image of Eastern cultures as inferior, stagnant, and degenerate, showing the extent to which these representations permeate Western culture and have been exploited to justify imperialist policies in the Middle East. Orientalism provides much of the theoretical and thematic groundwork for many of Said's subsequent works, and it contains the dictum of orientalism: "They cannot represent themselves; they must be represented." The Question of Palestine outlines the history of the Palestinians and the Arab-Israeli conflict, describing the opposition between an Israeli world informed by Western ideas and the "oriental" realities of a Palestinian culture. Covering Islam, elucidating the themes of Said's previous books in more practical terms, investigates the influence of orientalist discourse on the Western media's representation of Islamic culture. Written between 1968 and 1983 on wide-ranging literary and political topics, the twelve essays comprising The World, the Text, and the Critic offer an assessment of contemporary criticism and scholarship in the humanities, highlighting Said's notions of "antithetical knowledge" and the synthesis of literary and political writing. Culture and Imperialism examines how imperialism, the "culture of resistance," and postcolonialism helped to shape the French and English novel, exemplified by close, provocative readings of Conrad, Rudyard Kipling, Albert Camus, W. B. Yeats, and Jane Austen. The essays in The Politics of Dispossession critique the Islamic revival, Arab culture, Palestinian nationalism, and American policy in the Middle East, revealing a moderating stance toward Israel and a distancing from the Palestinian Liberation Organization (P.L.O.). Representations of the Intellectual is a case study of the intellectual persona.
Critical Reception
Owing partly to the nature of his thought and partly to his allegiance to the Palestinian cause, Said has generated controversy upon publication of nearly every book. Despite his persistent denials, he has been questioned about terrorism throughout the course of his career. Robert Hughes has reported that "none of Said's political foes have been able to cite a single utterance by him that could be construed as anti-Semitic or as condoning either tyranny or terrorism." Most scholars, however, have recognized the extent to which his oppositional criticism has influenced debate beyond literary issues and cultural politics, especially Orientalism, which has been cited as often as criticized by literary theorists, historians, anthropologists, and political scientists—the book even has spawned a new subdiscipline, the cultural study of colonialism. "The Orient was a product of the imagination," opined Albert Hourani of that book, "and Mr. Said's delicate and subtle methods of analysis are good tools for laying bare the structure of the literary imagination." Dinitia Smith remarked that Orientalism "has changed the face of scholarship on the Arab world and the Third World in general." Although many critics have praised the study, some have focused on imperfections in the argument of Orientalism, accusing Said of perpetuating the same Eastern stereotypes for which he had faulted the Western imperialist. Some critics have noted that although many of Said's writings have been translated into many different languages, his books on Palestinian affairs had not been published in Arabic by 1994. Robert Hughes has described Said as "a scholar and humanist,… the controversial voice of Palestine in America and an eloquent mediator between the Middle East and the West."
Principal Works
Joseph Conrad and the Fiction of Autobiography (criticism) 1966
Beginnings: Intention and Method (criticism) 1975
Orientalism (criticism) 1978
The Question of Palestine (criticism) 1979
Covering Islam: How the Media and the Experts Determine How We See the Rest of the World (criticism) 1981
The World, the Text, and the Critic (criticism) 1983
After the Last Sky: Palestinian Lives (essay) 1986
Blaming the Victims (criticism) 1988
Musical Elaborations (criticism) 1991
Culture and Imperialism (criticism) 1993
The Politics of Dispossession: The Struggle for Palestinian Self-Determination, 1989–1994 (criticism) 1994
Representations of the Intellectual: The 1993 Reith Lectures (criticism) 1994
Peace and Its Discontents: Essays on Palestine in the Middle East Peace Process (criticism) 1995
Albert Hourani (review date 8 March 1979)
SOURCE: "The Road to Morocco," in The New York Review of Books, Vol. 26, March 8, 1979, pp. 27-30.
[In the following review, Hourani details the principal arguments of Orientalism, discussing their strengths and weaknesses.]
The theme of this powerful and disturbing book [Orientalism] is the way in which intellectual traditions are created and transmitted. They do not simply arise, Edward Said argues, in the solitude of a thinker's or a scholar's mind. The scholar may "attempt to reach a level of relative freedom from … brute, everyday reality," but he can never quite escape or ignore his "involvement as a human subject in his own circumstances."...
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Leon Wieseltier (review date 7 April 1979)
SOURCE: A review of Orientalism, in The New Republic, Vol. 180, No. 14, April 7, 1979, pp. 27-33.
[In the harsh review below, Wieseltier demonstrates how politics inform many of Said's arguments in Orientalism, suggesting that "the methodological gadgetry and 'iconoclastic' analysis of his book issue in little more than the abject canards of Arab propaganda."]
Edward Said's angry book [Orientalism] is about a collusion of knowledge with power. The knowledge is Orientalism and the power is imperialism. Said contends that images of the Orient in the West's traditions of learning and literature are of a piece with the institutions of conquest and...
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Edward Said with Salman Rushdie (interview date 1986)
SOURCE: "On Palestinian Identity: A Conversation with Edward Said," in Imaginary Homelands: Essays and Criticism 1981–1991, Granta Books, 1991, pp. 166-84.
[In the following interview which took place at the PEN Congress in New York in 1986, Said discusses the identity of the Palestinian conscious based on historical and literary themes in his writings.]
For those of us who see the struggle between Eastern and Western descriptions of the world as both an internal and an external struggle, Edward Said has for many years been an especially important voice. Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia and author of literary criticism on, among others,...
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Dinitia Smith (essay date 23 January 1989)
SOURCE: "Arafat's Man in New York," in New York, Vol. 22, No. 4, January 23, 1989, pp. 40-6.
[In the essay below, Smith provides an overview of Said's life and career.]
On the afternoon of December 14, a Columbia University professor returning home from London, where he'd delivered a lecture on Yeats, pushed open the door of his Morningside Heights apartment and found his wife and two children gathered around the television set. History was being made.
It was history that Edward Said, a Palestinian-born professor of English and comparative literature, had helped create. Said joined his family around the TV and listened as Secretary of State George P....
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Edward Said with Bonnie Marranca, Marc Robinson, and Una Chaudhuri (interview date March 1989)
SOURCE: "Criticism, Culture, and Performance," in Performing Arts Journal, Vol. 1, No. 37, January, 1991, pp. 21-42.
[In the following interview, which originally took place in March, 1989, Said speaks out about his music criticism, the role of the public intellectual, the significance of performance of drama and music, and the influence of "interculturalism" on the construction of artistic canons.]
[Bonnie Marranca:] Since you write on music performance, tell us how you feel about this activity in your life, and how it is perceived by others in the literary world.
[Edward Said:] I think the isolation of...
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Frank Kermode (review date 7 November 1991)
SOURCE: "Off the Edge," in London Review of Books, Vol. 13, No. 21, November 7, 1991, pp. 3-4.
[In the following review, Kermode discusses the musical and political themes of Musical Elaborations.]
The Wellek Library Lectures at the University of California, Irvine, are meant to be about Critical Theory, and up to now they have, for good or ill, been faithful (in their fashion) to that intention: but it was an enlivening idea to ask Edward Said to talk about music as well, or instead. Said is a good enough pianist to understand what the professionals are up to. He knows a great deal more about music than most amateurs, and argues persuasively that it should not be left...
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Malcolm Bowie (review date 29 November 1991)
SOURCE: "A Whole New Approach," in Times Literary Supplement, November 29, 1991, p. 8.
[In the review below, Bowie praises Said's diverse insights and ideas about music in Musical Elaborations, concluding that the book enriches yet further problematizes music criticism.]
Let it not be said that writers on music cannot write, for some of them certainly can. Here is Gerald Abraham, for example, discussing Chopin as melodist in A Hundred Years of Music:
He had an instinct amounting to genius for inventing melodies that would be actually ineffective if sung or played on an instrument capable of sustaining tone but which,...
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J. B. Kelly (review date 26 April 1993)
SOURCE: "Imperial Masquerade," in National Review, Vol. XLV, No. 8, April 26, 1993, pp. 48-50.
[In the review below, Kelly blasts Said's representations of the British empire in Culture and Imperialism.]
In the beginning was the word. Impérialisme was coined 150 years ago, during the period of the July Monarchy in France, as a label for the attempts being made within the country to reclaim Napoleonic ideas and to reimpose the former imperial system. Passing into English as "imperialism," it was employed by British political writers in the 1850s and 1860s to describe the principles, imperial rather than republican, upon which Louis Napoléon sought to organize...
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Robert Hughes (essay date 21 June 1993)
SOURCE: "Envoy to Two Cultures," in Time, Vol. 141, No. 25, June 21, 1993, pp. 60-2.
[In the following essay, Hughes summarizes the controversies and achievements of Said's life.]
Huge as American academe is, it has few public intellectuals—men or women whose views carry weight with general readers off-campus. Near the top of any list of such people is a tall, elegantly tailored, 57-year-old American of Palestinian descent who for the past 30 years has taught English and comparative literature at Columbia University in New York City: Edward Said.
Said (pronounced Sigh-eed) owes his fame partly to his cultural criticism, notably his 1978 book...
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Michael Wood (review date 3 March 1994)
SOURCE: "Lost Paradises," in New York Review of Books, Vol. 41, March 3, 1994, pp. 44-7.
[In the following review, Wood appraises the strengths and weaknesses of Culture and Imperialism, linking its ideas to Said's earlier writings.]
What redeems certain empires, or perhaps only the British, according to Conrad's Marlow, what saves them from mere rapacity, from being "just robbery with violence, aggravated murder on a great scale," is "the idea only. An idea at the back of it; not a sentimental pretence but an idea; and an unselfish belief in the idea—something you can set up, and bow down before, and offer a sacrifice to." At this point in Heart of...
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David K. Shipler (review date 26 June 1994)
SOURCE: "From a Wellspring of Bitterness," in The New York Times Book Review, Vol. 99, June 26, 1994, pp. 9-10.
[In the following review, Shipler expresses mixed emotions for the themes of The Politics of Dispossession.]
Quite some time ago, in what I believe was my only encounter with Edward W. Said, we compared notes on where we lived in Jerusalem—he as a Palestinian boy until 1947, I as a correspondent for The New York Times more than 30 years later. It turned out that both our homes were in the lovely, quiet neighborhood of Talbiya, an elegant quarter where well-to-do Arab families earlier in this century built houses with thick stone walls, now covered...
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Ian Gilmour (review date 10 July 1994)
SOURCE: "The Broken Promised Land," in The Observer, No. 10578, July 10, 1994, p. 16.
[Below, Gilmour sympathizes with Said's attitude about the Palestinian issues discussed in The Politics of Dispossession.]
The most remarkable feature of the Arab-Israeli conflict has been not the great military and political success of the state of Israel or the hardship and misery imposed on the Palestinian people, but the West's heaping of praise and reward on the oppressors, and blame and penalty on the victims—a stark contrast to South Africa. Europe has for some time been more even-handed; not so the United States.
The struggle for Palestine is often thought...
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Tom Narin (review date 8 September 1994)
SOURCE: "What Nations Are for," in London Review of Books, Vol. 16, No. 17, September 8, 1994, pp. 7-8.
[In the following review, Narin relates the dual themes of dispossession and nationalism of The Politics of Dispossession and Representations of the Intellectual to Said's politics and personal philosophy.]
The politics of dispossession is nationalism—an overgeneralisation which at once calls for precise qualification. It is quite true that not all nationalists are dispossessed: possessors have their own (often strident) variations on the theme. It is also true that nationality politics did not originate among the crushed and uprooted: indeed its...
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George M. Wilson (review date October 1994)
SOURCE: "Edward Said on Contrapuntal Reading," in Philosophy and Literature, Vol. 18, No. 2, October, 1994, pp. 265-73.
[In the following review, Wilson examines Said's notion of "contrapuntal reading" exemplified by Said's close reading of Jane Austen's novel Mansfield Park in Culture and Imperialism.]
Edward Said's rich and powerful new book, Culture and Imperialism, offers, as one strand of its multifaceted discussion, methodological reflections on the reading and interpretation of works of narrative fiction. More specifically, Said delineates and defends what he calls a "contrapuntal" reading (or analysis) of the texts in question. I am sympathetic to...
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Fawzia Afzal-Khan (review date Winter 1994)
SOURCE: A review of Culture and Imperialism, in World Literature Today, Vol. 68, No. 1, Winter, 1994, pp. 229-30.
[Below, Afzal-Khan favorably reviews Culture and Imperialism, noting the lucidity of Said's prose style.]
Edward Said's latest book, Culture and Imperialism, is, as the title more or less announces, a study of the ways in which the culture of imperialism preceded and undergirded the colonial enterprises of the big European powers of yesteryear, England and France, and, in today's world, how the same process continues with America playing the role of imperial giant. In many ways, the book is a continuation of the kind of "worldly"...
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Barbara Smith (review date 28 January 1996)
SOURCE: "After Oslo," in The New York Times Book Review, Vol. 101, January 28, 1996, p. 19.
[In the review below, Smith generally praises the themes and tone of Peace and Its Discontents but notes that "the articles are dated."]
An intellectual, says Edward W. Said, a professor of English and comparative literature at Columbia University, must be a rebel against prevailing ideas. In Peace and Its Discontents he follows his own precept well: few can match the pungency with which he challenges conventional wisdom on the Middle East peace process—the belief that it is an ineluctably good thing, threatened by self-evidently bad extremists.
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Further Reading
Alexander, Edward. "Professor of Terror." Commentary 88, No. 2 (August 1989): 49-50.
Alleges Said's role in PLO activities, vilifying Said as "a literary scholar and ideologue of terrorism."
Bové, Paul. "Mendacious Innocents, or, The Modern Genealogist as Conscientious Intellectual: Nietzsche, Foucault, Said." In Why Nietzsche Now?, edited by Daniel O'Hara, pp. 359-88. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1985.
Discusses the function of the intellectual figure in Nietzche's Genealogy of Morals, Foucault's Discipline and Punish, and Said's...
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Susie Rosso Wolf, 57, is the picture of good health. She exercises daily, eats a balanced diet and maintains a healthy weight. But for years, Wolf was morbidly obese, smoked a pack of cigarettes a day, and struggled with chronic respiratory problems. �I was literally killing myself,� says Wolf, of Three Forks, Mont. (pop. 1,869). In 2007, while working in her garden, Wolf suddenly couldn�t breathe. �I held onto a tree, thinking I wouldn�t be able to make it back into the house. I almost had to crawl through the back door,� she recalls. The frightening episode convinced her to quit smoking once and for all. �I didn�t think I would live through the night. I told myself that if I lived, I would never touch a cigarette again,� says Wolf, a former bartender who had smoked for 25 years. Wolf kept her promise but noticed that her symptoms�chronic shortness of breath and repeated bouts of pneumonia and bronchitis�weren�t dissipating. If anything, they were getting worse. �I could barely walk from one room to the next without becoming breathless,� she says. She suspected that something else was wrong, but multiple doctors blamed only her weight�more than 340 pounds. Having trouble motivating yourself to lose weight? Click here. Finally, in 2008, a pulmonologist listened carefully to her concerns, ran a few tests, and diagnosed Wolf with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, or COPD, a lung disease that blocks airflow and causes breathing-related problems. Wolf soon began using supplemental oxygen every day, and doctors told her she would be on an oxygen tank for the rest of her life. �It was the most devastating day of my life. That was the day I lost my freedom. I lost my independence,� she says. �When you can�t breathe, you are scared to death. There is no other feeling like it.� Wolf knew that to live longer, she must overhaul her eating habits and get in shape. She made a personal commitment to lose weight. Wolf completely eschewed processed foods and carbohydrates in favor of fruits, vegetables and proteins. �I stripped my diet down to the basics,� she says. �I eat as if I were a pioneer woman living in the 1800s, with no access to modern processed foods.� Within two months of changing her diet, Wolf lost 40 pounds and decided to introduce exercise into her lifestyle. �In the beginning, it was not easy,� she says. �At first, I couldn�t even walk to the mailbox without becoming breathless.� She started by walking the length of her driveway and gradually increased the distance. Eventually, she was walking five miles a day while carrying her oxygen tank in her backpack. After years of living a sedentary lifestyle, Wolf now understands the connection between exercise and managing COPD. �Every time you exercise, you are oxygenating your body, driving oxygen to your heart and lungs,� says Wolf. In 19 months, Wolf reached her goal weight of 128 pounds�214 pounds less than she weighed in 2007�and has maintained her weight ever since. And her COPD symptoms have improved. Last July, she was able to discard her oxygen tank after tests revealed that her oxygen saturation levels had returned to normal. �My doctor is amazed by my progress,� Wolf says. �I was told I would never be taken off oxygen, but I proved them wrong.� A strong advocate for better communication between obese patients and physicians, Wolf says many physicians misdiagnose obese patients by failing to see past their weight. �So many doctors told me, �You could breathe better if you weren�t fat.� I want that to stop,� she says. �Underneath the layers of fat is a patient who may or may not have lung disease.� Brought to you by: American Profile - Inspirational Stories & American History


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MARQUETTE – Marquette's Downtown Development Authority is looking to craft a new long-term parking and traffic management plan for the city that could result in increased on-street spaces and a higher percentage of paid parking.
The DDA recently commissioned a downtown parking study by New York- based firm Nelson/Nygaard Parking Consultants and representatives were present Friday morning to present the study results to a joint work session of the DDA and the Marquette City Commission.
Nelson/Nygaard parking analyst Tom Brown told told the group that the first thing he looks at when he begins a review for a city is whether the local parking system is profitable.
"Right now, you pretty consistently have a subsidized parking system," Brown said. "I've seen places more heavily subsidized, but (Marquette's) is running at a loss."
DDA Executive Director Mona Lang has said in the past that the DDA's parking fund has run a deficit – ranging anywhere from $12,000 to $102,000 – for as long as she can recall.
Between the fiscal years of 2008 and 2011, the DDA parking system has operated at an average deficit of $49,072.67, according to the Nelson/Nygaard study. Over that time, users in the system have paid an average of 69 cents for each dollar it takes to maintain the system.
During two visits to Marquette, Brown's team studied parking and traffic in the city and concluded that the supply of parking spaces in the downtown district – which includes Washington Street from Lakeshore Boulevard to Seventh Street, Third Street from Baraga Avenue to Fair Avenue and Front Street from Baraga to Ridge – was sufficient.
Brown said some benefit could be gained by increasing convenience for users. Many public parking spaces near Washington Street are free, but have two-hour limits imposed. Brown, who did in-person surveys and also used a web-based survey, said many visitors to the downtown would likely be willing to pay for the ability to park for longer than two hours.
Parking prices could vary in different sections of downtown to reflect demand, he said.
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Going public about flying private
Years ago, I flew my small airplane to visit my sister. She was shooting photos at a three-day equestrian event at a friend's private horse farm. When it came time for me to leave, she asked the host's son if he could drive me back to the airport. When he said, "What time's your flight?" I paused, smiled and replied, "Whenever I get there, I guess."
Never mind that the car he drove cost five times what I paid for my secondhand sportplane. He was impressed. And why should I say anything to burst his bubble? What he didn't know wasn't hurting him a bit.
There may be some social circles where it's presumed that you travel on your own airplane, either up front or in the back. But most people assume that "I flew in this morning" means you took off your shoes, wasted an hour at a departure gate and then squeezed into a widebody with a few hundred strangers.
Here are three ways to spill the beans to your friends and colleagues that you don't have to worry about being bumped from flights and your travel agendas aren't tied to e-tickets:
1. Brag like hell. False modesty is as phony as false pride, right? So, bring your dog to the meeting and be sure to mention how well he "heels" when you're walking across the tarmac. Chat about the crew and refer to their families by their first names (even if you have to make them up). Wear your windbreaker with the jet manufacturer's logo. Make sure everyone knows that you'll be arriving home that evening in time for an event that they can't possibly attend–and tell them you'll pass along their best wishes to everyone else there. You know–rub it in a little. (P.S. Please don't be this guy.)
2. Be humble. When conversation turns to airline delays, canceled flights and missed meetings, simply say that the time saved by avoiding airlines makes flying privately a bargain. For you, it's not about the glamour of private jets at all; it's about the simple logic of maximizing your time and space. Explain that you're "buying" extra ticks on the clock, the one commodity you're guaranteed to run out of one day.
3. Be subtle (sort of). Let everyone assume you flew on the airlines. They might be puzzled when you idly mention at lunch that you had breakfast at home–which they know is 1,200 miles away and a 90-minute drive to the nearest big airport. They might wonder why, when the agenda gets extended, you're the only one not scrambling to rebook your return flight. But then, when someone offers to share a cab to the airport, you'll have to admit that you'll be skipping the excitement of the security check and departing from the general aviation terminal or from a totally different (much closer) airport. Your "secret" will be out.
These are only three examples. We all have our individual perspectives on how to project our personal image. Traveling by business jet makes a statement. It's up to you to decide on the language–and volume–you want that statement to assume.
The fact is that private flying does not save time without extracting a huge financial cost. I was an airline captain for years. Small single-engines through light twins and small corporate aviation. The car wins.
Actually, there is a window of distance in which the personal aircraft is a time winner. Somewhere in the 300-1000 mile range (depending on the aircraft), it is easy to schedule the total of (drive to the local airport, preflight and fly, land, and go to Aunt Millie's house) with far less time than (drive to airline airport, go thru check-in, go thru security, wait for the flight, fly, get out of the airport with luggage, and get to Aunt Millie's). And certainly, for anything over 100 miles, I can fly faster than drive.
Then there is the matter of bringing along the dog, or the target rifle, or a large potted plant for a house gift. Not on any airline I know of.
The financial difference need not be huge, and I may find it worth a few dozen dollars to have more time with the family.
Dear learman: I could not possibly disagree with you more. My wife and I fly to our getaway home almost every weekend. In a car it is a 2.5 - 3.0 hour drive. In our Diamond Star DA-40 XLS it is a 37 minute flight (using 8 gallons of fuel). We would rarely visit our getaway home if not for the plane because it's just not worth driving 6 hours for one weekend.
Our Diamond has retained its value well over the years, its insurance is less than our home's electric bills and the annual maintenance is about the same.
If not for our Diamond, we would be like most of our neighbors at our lakefront getaway - their homes sit vacant almost every weekend. That is the real waste - to own a nice vacation home but not use it because you dread the 6 hours in a car just to spend two days on the lake.
Seriously, the car wins? You're kidding right? Just because you flew at 400+kts in your jet doesn't mean our lowly singles don't save time at 175kts. My multiple 1 & 2 hour flights per week beg to differ. There is no possible way I would be at our remote office by 8:00 a.m. and home at night to tuck in our kids without the use of my SR22.
I know for a fact that the company I fly for would spend at least a week if not two using the airlines to do what they do in two days. Most of the places they need to go are far from any airport served by an airline. The bottom line for them is their time is worth way more than the cost differential of their jet vs airline and drive.
Sorry to disagree with a fellow old retired airline airline captain, but the time and exasperation saved is substantial and cannot be measured in dollars. As to cost, two or more aboard usually offsets ticket prices with money left over for a rental car at the other end. How much do you value flexibility? How about safety? I'd rather trust ATC than some of the drivers out on the highway.
There's a lot to be said for exercising our option of flying -
1 - because we can (not so in a lot of countries) - even with the enormous overhead involved here in the US.
2 - it's our choice, our skill set, our challenge - and we're still able to exercise them all.
3 - it's just cooler than h@ll to make a statement -- even if I only fly a lowly single engine Comanche... I still love it!
Practicality be d@mned - drag my rocket out of the hanger and someone call the fuel truck?
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Atlanta, GA
Depends what your time is worth and if the distance is worth it. I'm flying myself to NJ from NC tomorrow in a small single. 9 hr drive, 3 hr flight. Round trip difference is 12 hours. That's 12 more hours I can rest, be productive, or just spend time with the family I hardly see. Well worth a few hundred more bucks. And who honestly enjoys paying all those northeast tolls?
Dear Learman,
While I am sure you are speaking from your experience, I respectfully disagree. Last week I flew 5 project managers from Wisconsin to 3 different job sites in Indiana and Ohio for 3 separate customers and were back by 1615. We flew a 6-place Piper Saratoga. Total cost for airplane = $1200
Impossible to accomplish what we did in one day with the airlines, period. Driving would have meant all five people out of the office for at least 2 days each along with meals, hotels, gas etc. That's 10 person days lost.
The customer service we provided could mean the difference between getting the next job or not.
Please think about the whole picture and not just fuel, insurance and pilot costs....let's help GA survive. Our company depends upon it.
Thank you,
David Cook, AMEL, IFR, Comm
who wants to drive? been doing that for 30+ years. when given the option; I'd fly. It's more fun.
let's play would you rather...
would you rather drive from Oakland to Sacramento (1.5hrs if traffic typical)to pick-up friend and then drive down to Fresno (3 hours) to visit other friends you haven't seen in 10 years. then reverse the next day?
or would you rather fly Oakland to Sacramento (30 mins) and fly down to Fresno (a little over an hour)?
the extra price in fuel is well worth the time spent not in the car
I work for an aircraft OEM based on a small GA airport. Due to unforeseen circumstances we needed a part the next day. The part was at our supplier based at a regional airport 250 nm away. They could not ship the part. It would take 13 hours to drive the round trip and cost about $250 @ $.50/mile. Commercial airline flight would take 9 hours to drive to nearby int'l airport, get TSA'd, fly to int'l airport near supplier, drive to supplier to pick up the part, drive back to int'l airport fly to origin int'l, drive back to our facility. Airfare, rental car (at destination), gas totaling just under $600.
Or, I could (and did) walk across our ramp, rent the trusty 172, do the whole round trip in 6 hours for $540. If you throw in $20 per hour for my time add $260 to the car ride, $180 to the airline ride, and $120 to the 172 ride. So:
Car: 13 hours, $510
Airline: 9 hours, $780
172: 6 hours (headwind), $660 and home for supper.
Made sense to me.
Flying doesn't save time? Is that the only reason we fly? Is there anything sexier (wives excluded!) than climbing into the left seat, listening to the engine come alive, doing your runup, and then hearing the tower clear you for takeoff? You push the throttle forward, pull back gently on the yoke and, lo and behold, you're airborne and heading for your destination. Sorry folks, but it just doesn't get much better than that!
My wife had to be at her mother's place near Greenwood, Delaware ASAP. This is before we had Southwest Airlines flying in to GSP. Before that it was a four hour drive to Atlanta and waiting on a flight out, or a three hour drive to Charolotte, same procedure. We rented a Bonanza 36 and flew from Greenville Downtown (GMU) to Georgetown, Delaware in 2.5 hours. No security checks, no lay overs, and we borrowed a car for the quick trip to her mother's place. MY flight instructor and I returned the airplane to GMU. Days later after the funeral we shared expenses on a Cherokee Arrow for the return flight and I stayed behind to pick up my wife when they came back that same afternoon. Downside; it was expensive, but worth it to be hassle free and we enjoyed the view at the lower altitudes.
Sleep in on a Saturday, get to Martha's Vineyard in 1 hour, have breakfast, spend the day at South Beach, back home for dinner (1 hour flight). Fuel:$100,beach parking for the day $20 Try that in a car!
I regularly fly between Florida and NJ. Driving = 18 to 20 hours. Scrap that idea. Commercial 1 1/2 hr drive to Orlando, arrive at least 1 hr early....parking time...1/2 hr...terminal to terminal 3 hrs...baggage claim 1/2 hr....drive from Newark to destination...1 hr. Total time commercial usually 7 1/2 to 8 hrs.....did it plenty of times. Cessna 210....5 minutes to local airport....preflight, flight with one fuel stop, and arrive at local airport, tie down 5 hrs. 5 minutes to destination in loaner car. Total time 5hrs 10 minutes to 5 1/2 hrs.
It makes sense to compare the time and cost of flying vs driving, or flying GA vs commercial, if you are a passenger in the plane. If, though, you are the pilot, then the joy of piloting is its own reward. I think many GA pilots fly for the purpose of flying. The destination is incidental. If the destination has its own purpose involving family, friends or business, that's a very nice bonus. But it is a bonus. Piloting the plane is the main event.
My parents live in Michigan, my wifes in Wisconsin and we live in MN.
Aircraft is a C182 which uses unleaded mogas. Here are the comps (all are round trip):
2.5 hour drive to MSP; $50 parking
DL MSP-GRR x 4 tickets (family): $925 + luggage fees, porter tips, etc.
Enroute: 2 hrs +/-
1 hr prior arrival for TSA fol-de-rol
1 hr GRR to parents house
Same for reverse.
Total transit times: 15 hours
Total costs: ~$1,000
Driving: 28 hours
Chicago Tolls: expensive
Fuel costs: $175
Meals: $80
Costs around $270
(note IRS mileage rate is around $.50/mile = $1100)
Flying the C182:
10 minutes to airport
10 minutes pre-flight/filing etc.
Enroute time: 3:35 min.
10 minutes to parents house.
Aircraft uses standard unleaded alcohol free fuel @ $4/gal.
Trip time: 8:00 hours
Trip fuel costs: $345. (fuel and oil only)
(note IRS mileage rate $1.25/mile=$1030)
So, according to the IRS it is cheaper to fly my Cessna than to take the car or the airlines.
It saves time, and money, especially when more than one person is traveling. And I don't have to pay for the Tri-State Tollway parking arena.
Generally for trips of less than 800 nm (about 1 tank of fuel), it is more economical and usually more flexible to take the family bugsmasher than to drive or deal with the airlines, airline fees for baggage in the hold, baggage on board, and amenities. If I want a soda, I can bring them with me for a quarter a can instead of coughing up $2-3 for certain airlines. Come to think of it, the only thing missing in my GA experience is there is no toilet on board. Rarely I have been delayed by adverse weather, but generally not by very much. That can and does happen with the airlines, too.
5 hrs. from Fresno to Redlands driving. 2 hrs in my 172. No freeways and 6 hrs. more time with my family-(6 grandchildren, need I say more.) Plus, I'm not tired when I arrive. This is a no brainer.
Just got in to Miami via Cessna Stationaire
Scenic flight at 8k'
4-4.5 hrs total drive/fly/cab to South Beach
Commercial would have been a 05:30 departure and 09:30 arrival with no hotel room ready. Not to mention headache of TSA, checked bags hassle.
Private allowed breakfast at Hominy Grill http://hominygrill.com/
10:30a departure and arrived at check-in time and able to sign in for conference registration with time to relax before first gathering.
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Driving..gas, tolls, one night in motel, meals = $460.00
Commercial flight.....airport parking, gas in car driving to Orlando, airline ticket, one hour cab ride = $486.00
Cessna......fuel, lunch = $450.00
As both an airline pilot and owner of a Seneca II, I can only say, "if you've got the money to spare go by private air." For me, a 200 nautical mile trip seems to be a cross over point for time savings. To be cost effective, that same trip must be flown with four people. Due to general aviation costs, most of these trips have become a great hobby adventure that is fueled by my passion for flying. It also serves as a great emergency backup for the commute to work. If you're supper wealthy, God bless you and have at it, but try to keep in mind that for most of the general aviation enthusiasts at those general aviation airports across the country, the passion and fun of flying is quickly getting out of financial reach and becoming only a dream, passion and memory of the past.
As both an airline pilot and owner of a Seneca II, I can only say, "if you've got the money to spare go by private air." For me, a 200 nautical mile trip seems to be a cross over point for time savings. To be cost effective, that same trip must be flown with four people. Due to general aviation costs, most of these trips have become a great hobby adventure that is fueled by my passion for flying. It also serves as a great emergency backup for the commute to work. If you're supper wealthy, God bless you and have at it, but try to keep in mind that for most of the general aviation enthusiasts at those general aviation airports across the country, the passion and fun of flying is quickly getting out of financial reach and becoming only a dream, passion and memory of the past.
In fairness, there are times when airlines are better, and times when GA is better. Many factors impact the decision.
Airlines are better when: A) you're going to a major hub city from a major hub city, and the fares are competitive, and the flights are plentiful, B) you're flying more than 600-1,000 miles and your option is a fixed-gear single or a fast twin, or C) in the wintertime, when Old Man Icing comes to visit. Even with boots and hot props, you know you don't want to be there and you'd prefer to let the professionals handle him with bleed air.
General Aviation is better when: A) you're going somewhere other than the areas served by the 65 hub airports in the U.S., which is one heck of a lot of places, B) you're going on vacation to the Bahamas, Martha's Vineyard, or Santa Catalina Island, and you can't get there any other way conveniently, or C) you're going somewhere that you can reach in 4-6 hours with your plane, because you know you'll spend more time than that on ANY commercial flight (counting security, parking, and baggage), or D) as a previous poster mentioned, you're taking your kid to college and she needs her bike, TV, clothes for an entire semester, two computers, a monitor, etc, etc, etc....(hey, the back seats come out on my Comanche, OK?)
Driving is better when: NEVER, in my book !
I have a chart in my office showing ranges - I figure that if I'm traveling on business ANYWHERE on the East Coast (from my base near D.C.) or out to the Mississippi, I'll consider GA first. If I'm going beyond Boston or Daytona on the coast, farther west than St. Louis, going anywhere near a big field with good airline schedules, or traveling in bad weather, I'll get on Priceline and get a good fare.
As both an airline pilot and owner of a Seneca II, I can only say, "if you've got the money to spare go by private air." For me, a 200 nautical mile trip seems to be a cross over point for time savings. To be cost effective, that same trip must be flown with four people. Due to general aviation costs, most of these trips have become a great hobby adventure that is fueled by my passion for flying. It also serves as a great emergency backup for the commute to work. If you're supper wealthy, God bless you and have at it, but try to keep in mind that for most of the general aviation enthusiasts at those general aviation airports across the country, the passion and fun of flying is quickly getting out of financial reach and becoming only a dream, passion and memory of the past.
As you get older, you apprecitate the value of time.
You don't have to travel 300 miles to experience the value of GA versus car, especially if you're in a congested corridor like the Washington I-95 corridor.
Not only does GA save you time, it gives you flexibility.
I regularly travel to DC for meeting from the Tidewater area. At best a 3 hour drive with no traffice and fudging on the speed. If your meeting ends after 2 PM, forget leaving DC until traffic dies down (around) 7:30 PM. Your 3+ hour drive just became a 5 - 6 hour drive, with you sitting on I-95 with 50,000 of your new closest friends. Oh and did I mention the most likely delay at the Hampton Roads Bridge Tunnel?
Instead, I hope on the metro, go to College Park (KCGS), and in less than 2 hours are door to door, hanging out at home.
Hmmm, flexibility and saving time?
Cost? Flying = 20 gallons round trip @ $5.50/gallon ($55) versus Driving = 14.5 gallons @ $3.70/gallon ($53.65).
OK, I do have to pay metro fee, but no parking fee...
Call me crazy, but flying can be more "affordable."
I agree with the majority of observations, especially for last minute flights under 1000NM. I had a weird reaction when I was pitching these benefits to a couple of co-workers. Their reaction was (irrational?) that rather than see the benefit, they became confrontational and started to use the rhetoric demonstrated by the "occupy movement". I surely hope others do not encounter this 'pull people down to the lowest common denominator' attitude.
All this time saved presumes that you can even fly! Unfortunately, WEATHER often has different plans for you! I love to fly as much as the next guy, and when the weather is good, it can be a delightful experience. However, I have no interest in occupying a smoking hole, or landing my plane in pieces, directly down. I've had my share of scares with lines of thunderstorms, or icing. (Did you know that a Cessna 172 can almost carry 1" of ice? But your cruise speed is 120, and your stall speed is 119.8.) The occasional long delays sitting in some dull, boring pilot's lounge while waiting for that line of tornado-filled clouds to go away, or that 200 mile thick line of snow and blizzards can more than cancel out the time you have saved during the actual trip. So, I am a realist. SOMETIMES my plane works for me, but there are other times when my car works much better!
I have been flying private pilot since 1969 and over 5,000 hours. I would guess in all those years, maybe 25 times I got weathered in or couldn't get through a line of thunderstorms. So if you are a VFR pilot flying a C150 Cessna on a 500 plus trip, during the summer, in the southeast, you may have a greater chance of being weathered in. BUT.....I always say....."I would rather be down here wishing I was up there, than being up there wishing I was down here" Fly safely. That aluminum spam can doesn't make a very good coffin.
My experience over 12 years was as a Manufacuring Manager with a responsibility for 5 manfacturing Plants.
It started when I became a Private Pilot,purchased a Cesssa 172 Skyhawk and travelled from Ohio to Arkansas and back to OHIO. As the company grew my trips changed which required faster aircraft with long range tanks. I moved up to a Cessna 182, then a 210 then a used twin engine Cessna 310 and finally to a new Cessna 310.
The monthly trips were Ohio - Georgia - Arkansas - Texas - Colorado - and back to Ohio. We left Ohio after lunch and returned back in OH on Fiday evening
My staff was home with their families and our policy of one to one, face to face with the operating personnel at each plant provided higher quality and improved productivity.
Upper Management appreciated the results.I flew approximitly 9,000 hrs in 12 years with a company that was profitable with sales growing from one million (Year 1)in sales to 20 million.
Do What you Love to do. The net result is is pleasure in your job and longevity in your Life. I am now 84 and still Flying.
Great suggestions! I would like to include some safety tips. Complete a mock test flight to ensure that you are ready. Browse through the PTS and get maximum details. Have a reliable source to get consistent weather updates. Happy flying!
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How about we teach our girls not to try and project what we're feeling, onto other people, and to stop slut shaming. First and foremost, however someone chooses to decorate their body is their own business, and a lace leotard (with slip fabrics) and two pairs of tights, is in no way trashy. She is a performer, she is made up, and she looks fabulous. Being a mother and wife, does not make you not a person. It doesn't mean you have to sacrifice yourself, if anything she's doing a great job of showing her daughter how to move through the world, confidently and as dressed up or down, femininely (in all variations of it) or androgynously as she feels. Beyonce is many things, and trashy ain't one of them.
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Beyonce need to put some lady like clothes on as a mother and a wife she should not look so slutty. It is time to cover up, that is not sexy any more showing the world all you have been blessed with, this is not having confidence. this shows underneathe all the singing and dancing there's a little girl in there that is lonely and insecure. And as fans this is what we want to teach our girls growing up that being slutty is sexy; although sex sells and this is what is going on with Beyonce if she didn't show her glory she would not be this popular. SEX SELLS. that's not sexy that is trashy!
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Pork Sandwiches with White Barbecue Sauce
- Bread:
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- Four 4-inch squares plain focaccia bread, halved horizontally
- White Barbeque Sauce:
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- 2 tablespoons fresh lemon juice (1/2 a large lemon)
- 2 tablespoons apple cider vinegar
- 1/2 teaspoon kosher salt
- 1/4 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
- Seasoning Mix:
- 2 teaspoons chili powder
- 2 teaspoons dried oregano
- 1 teaspoon celery seed
- 1 teaspoon paprika
- 1 teaspoon dried ground thyme
- Pork Chops:
- Four 5- to 6-ounce 3/4-inch-thick boneless pork chops
- Olive oil, for drizzling
- 1/2 teaspoon kosher salt
- 1/2 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
- Sandwiches:
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- 2 tomatoes, sliced
- 8 dill pickle slices
DirectionsWatch how to make this recipe.
For the bread: Place a grill pan over medium-high heat or preheat a gas or charcoal grill. Spray the grill with vegetable oil cooking spray.
Grill the bread for about 1 minute on each side until lightly toasted. Set aside.
For the barbeque sauce: In a small bowl, combine the mayonnaise, lemon juice, apple cider vinegar, salt and pepper. Set aside.
For the seasoning mix: In a small bowl, mix together the chili powder, oregano, celery seed, paprika and thyme.
For the pork chops: Drizzle the pork chops on both sides with olive oil and sprinkle with the salt and pepper. Rub the seasoning mix all over.
Grill for 4 minutes. Turn the pork chops over and brush the top of each chop with 1 tablespoon of the barbecue sauce. Cook for another 3 to 4 minutes until cooked through and a meat thermometer inserted into the thickest part of the chops registers 150 degrees F. Slice the pork chops into 1/4-inch-thick slices.
To assemble the sandwiches: Spread one side of each slice of bread with some barbeque sauce. Place the lettuce leaves, tomato slices and pickles on 4 slices of bread. Top with the sliced pork. Add the remaining bread slices on top and serve.
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In Memory of John Hughes 1950-2009Posted Sunday, August 9, 2009, at 12:55 AM
John Hughes (l.) directs Matthew Broderick in the 1986 comedy "Ferris Beuller's Day Off". (photo courtesy of Paramount Pictures)
On Thursday, August 6, 2009, filmmaker John Hughes died from a heart attack suffered on his morning walk in Manhattan. He was 59. Hughes had been a staple of the Cineplex during the eighties and early nineties. He started out as a writer for National Lampoon magazine. The movies that sprung from the comedy publication gave Hughes his first screenplay success. While his debut screenplay for "Class Reunion" (1982) didn't enjoy the success of the earlier National Lampoon film "Animal House" (1978), it got Hughes on his way toward building a reputation as one of Hollywood's premiere comedy screenplay writers.
Hughes' first big success came with the screenplay for the Michael Keaton vehicle "Mr. Mom" (1983). Once his third screenplay was filmed, Hughes shot into the stratosphere of '80s comedy. "National Lampoon's Vacation"(1983) became a national phenomenon, coming at the beginning of both the public acceptance of paid cable channels and the birth of the home video market. Within a few years of its release the family vacation comedy became loved by audiences of all ages despite its 'R' rating.
Hughes made his directorial debut in 1984 with "Sixteen Candles", another family-oriented movie that pushed the bounds of good taste while perfectly capturing the alienation of adolescence. Stamped with an inexplicable 'PG' rating, which allowed the profane humor to reach a larger audience, "Sixteen Candles" kicked off a quick succession of high school-based movies that would help to define a generation and usher in a whole new era of filmmaking. Hughes followed up with a teen comedy or drama in quick succession including, "The Breakfast Club"(1985), "Weird Science"(1985), "Pretty In Pink"(screenplay only 1986), "Ferris Beuller's Day Off"(1986), and "Some Kind of Wonderful"(screenplay only 1987), often utilizing the stars of "Candles", Molly Ringwald and Anthony Michael Hall, and always depicting awkward teenagers flying in the face of authority and defying the class-oriented structures of their environments.
In 1987 Hughes directed his first grown up-themed movie "Planes, Trains & Automobiles". Centered on a family holiday--Thanksgiving--the movie followed a man's (Steve Martin) failing attempts to get home to his family during the busy travel holiday. He continued in the adult vein for his next project "She's Having a Baby"(1988), about the loss of identity a man (Kevin Bacon) feels as he attempts to start his own family. He returned to family-based movies with his next two directorial efforts "Uncle Buck"(1989) and "Curly Sue"(1991), which focus on the unanticipated relationships adults can share with children.
"Curly Sue" would be Hughes' final trip to the director's chair, but he continued to pen a number of family films, including National Lampoon's "European Vacation"(1985) and "Christmas Vacation"(1989), "The Great Outdoors"(1988), "Home Alone"(1990) and two sequels, "Dutch"(1991), "Career Opportunities"(1991), "Beethoven"(1992), "Dennis the Menace"(1993), the remake of "Miracle on 34th Street"(1994), "Baby's Day Out"(1994), "101 Dalmatians"(1996), "Flubber"(1997), "Reach the Rock"(1998), and "Just Visiting"(2001).
Hughes was not a flashy director, but his writing skills helped him get into the mindset of the American high school teenager in a way that no other writer-director ever had before. Aside from a few contributions by a handful of other directors, Hughes essentially created the high school genre, one that to this day produces a new picture every couple of months. For the first time, Hughes ushered audiences inside the psyche of high school aged kids, and he took them seriously. Even in his most raucous comedies, his teenagers were intellectual and striving beyond the positions that had been predetermined for them.
He always had a great depth to his cast of characters. They were kids that really existed in American high schools. For the first time teenagers recognized themselves represented in film. As Hughes matured as a filmmaker, so did his characters. What were at first essentially plots constructed to provide shocking laughs provided by the imagination of his teens, eventually evolved into studies in how adults tried without success to control these kids as cattle, and then into examinations of the class systems that formed in high school society. His direction got more inventive as he moved into his adult fare, but he seemed most at home with his teenage characters.
Hughes also introduced the world to a new generation of actors. They became known as the Brat Pack; although, I imagine this categorization must have frustrated Hughes. He was trying to tell adults that these kids weren't brats, but intelligent thinking people just trying to survive a period in their lives that most adults had lost touch with. Many of his stars never survived this inaccurate label. Molly Ringwald, Alley Sheedy, Anthony Michael Hall, Andrew McCarthy, Judd Nelson, Lea Thompson, Eric Stoltz and others shared well over fifteen minutes of fame, but never seemed to outlive their '80s personas. Others, like John Cusack, Matthew Broderick, Emilio Estevez, Charlie Sheen, Joan Cusack, and Bill Paxton became major stars. Hughes also showed a knack for creating the perfect vehicles for well-established performers such as, Steve Martin, Chevy Chase, John Candy, Walter Mathau, Glenn Close, Catherine O'Hara, Dan Aykroyd, Paul Dooley, and Charles Grodin.
A contribution that Hughes had a hand in was the development of the soundtrack album as a moneymaking enterprise of its own. While George Lucas and Martin Scosese blazed the trail of incorporating pop songs into the structure of a film, Hughes is in a small part responsible for making the soundtrack album more marketable. Although the studio executives probably would have driven the market on their own anyway, Hughes touched the ever-important teen market with his ability to include underground bands on his soundtrack that spoke to the counter culture leanings of teens. Hughes introduced audiences to the likes of The Smiths, Orchestral Maneuvers in the Dark, The Psychedelic Furs, Simple Minds, Everything But the Girl, Kate Bush, The Jesus and Mary Chain, Stevie Ray Vaughn, Suzanne Vega, Echo & the Bunnymen, New Order, and INXS. Suddenly teens were exploring music beyond the American Top 40 charts. Soon bands would be making more money by contributing tracks to a film soundtrack album than they might from their own album sales.
Following the announcement of Hughes' death, my home page on Facebook was aflutter with quotes from his movies. High school friends and college friends all had their favorite quotations. Quoting "The Breakfast Club", one friend in particular noted that nobody had ever summed up his high school experience better, "You see us as you want to see us - in the simplest terms, in the most convenient definitions. You see us as a brain, an athlete, a basket case, a princess and a criminal. Correct? That's the way we saw each other at 7:00 this morning. We were brainwashed." Thank you for opening our eyes. R.I.P. John Hughes.
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"Sixteen Candles"
Opening scene:
Mom: "Jenny, Sarah, Mike, everybody up."
Mike: "I think I have a fever"
Girl: "You don't have a fever" (he hits her)
"Dad, Mike hit me"
Dad: "Mike, don't hit your sister"
Mike: Dad, I didnt hit her, I probably will in the future but you know my method, I don't hit her when you're just down the hall"
Bathroom door slams shut
Dad: "hey let me in there"
Mike: "she has her period, make for an interesting honeymoon huh?"
Dad "Where do you learn this stuff"
Mike: "School"
Dad: "Good, glad I'm getting my money's worth"
Yes, I know everyword.
RIP Mr. Hughes.
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Baby boy is here - still stuck on names!
We've always taken a little extra time after the birth of our kids to make sure the names chosen were really and truly the right ones, but for some reason this one has been extra challenging - maybe because we incorrectly thought he was a girl and had that name buttoned down. Oops! (Delighted to have a boy, though.)
Last/surname is Allen and siblings are Joshua Michael and Abigail Ann (both middle names are family names)
Here are some possibilities:
Philip Raleigh (again, Raleigh is a family name)
Caleb Briggs (same with Briggs - my dad went by this, though it was his MN, as he was a Jr.)
Aaron Briggs, Aaron Woodrow
Ian Briggs (husband especially likes, but is Ian Allen too much like "Ethan Allen?")
Also open to other possibilities and combinations. Thank you, Berries!
July 27th, 2013 08:49 PM #3
Congrats on your little boy! You have some awesome name choices. I really love Philip Raleigh I think it's classic but quirky and just a very solid nice name. I also adore Ian Briggs and I know meeting an Ian Allen would not make me think of Ethan Allen but if that is your go to association it may really come to bother you. I think Philip Raleigh Allen is a great name but Raleigh does blend in a bit with Allen so the flow of Ian Briggs Allen may be better overall. Good luck!name lover with a passion for art history and mythology married for going on five years to my much better half
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Philip Raleigh- I think this is a great name. Philip Allen sounds great. I would prefer Philip Briggs Allen, only because each name in your current combo has 2 syllables... it doesn't flow so well. I love that Philip is traditional and well known, but rarely used in this generation. Raleigh is a nice, modern mn to compliment it. This is my #1.
Caleb Briggs- I do like the idea of using a family name for your son, although Caleb is quite common. It just depends whether or not that bothers you. This is my #2.
Aaron Briggs, Aaron Woodrow- Aaron Allen is too much A-n, A-n. Plus, Aaron and Abigail is too much.
Ian Briggs- Again, don't like Ian Allen... too much -n -nEmiliana Pari 郑煜曈 '14
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