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Skip to comments.To Newt Gingrich haters (vanity)
Posted on 04/14/2012 4:35:57 PM PDT by CutePuppy
He was rubbing it in everybody's face that an old coot like him could get somebody like her. No matter how God awful she looked.
This doesn't make any sense. If Callista really looked "God awful," how would it be that "he was rubbing it in everybody's face"? And do you suggest he should not have appeared with his wife at the political events but rather should have left her behind? And for which particular reason - being "God awful" or being "too young and too beautiful"?
I think your statement is, at the very least, subjective, projective, unworthy and, by accounts of most people who know and have met Callista, simply untrue and offensive.
Newt would bring the ever Lurking Calista with him and she was the cause of divorce # 2.
Are you really so blinded by hate that you have no compunctions about repeating and even magnifying the thoroughly disproved, debunked, refuted old lies sprung by the vile liberal media and propagated by the sclerotic GOP establishment?
If you really want to educate yourself on the facts, let's separate them from hateful fiction.
First, Callista is no more "Lurking" near her husband at the events than any other candidate's wife, be it Ann Romney or Karen Santorum.
Second, Newt met Callista for the first time and started dating her in 1993, 6 years after he was legally separated in 1987 from his estranged runaway wife #2, Marianne Ginther Gingrich (who chose to keep that name after the divorce) so Callista could not possibly have been the reason or cause for their separation and eventual divorce. Gingrich has been with Callista for more than 18 years, and happily married to her since 1999, after he resigned from Congress and finalized the bitter drawn-out divorce from Marianne, which she wouldn't grant him in 1994 when he was busy executing the Second Republican Revolution / Gingrich Revolution working to take over the Congress and pushing through the Congress and the vetoes the Contract With America. Callista, not Marianne, was with him through the trials and tribulations of that exciting and turbulent time, and 18 years together with her (more than 12 years in marriage) is much longer and happier than so many marriages are today. For the sake of the family Newt later converted to life-long faith of Callista, Catholicism.
Details / Refs:
Gingrich: If it comes to a shutdown, the GOP should stick to its principles - FR post #104, 2012 February 12
Gingrich admits ABC claim was false - FR post #32 / WSJ, No-Fault Newt, by James Taranto, 2012 January 20
The Inner Quest of Newt Gingrich (1995: Marianne Promised To "Undermine Everything" For Newt) - FR post #143, 2012 January 18 / PBS/VF, by Gail Sheehy, 1995 September
Romney Must Get Personal Over Bain Capital Attacks - FR, posts #21, #36, #42, #3, 2012 January 12
Gingrich, he said, came back to Georgia to find his home emptied out. Browning said the pair maintained separate residences for six years ..... < snip >
Gingrich, he said, came back to Georgia to find his home emptied out. Browning said the pair maintained separate residences for six years ..... < snip >
Things happen in marriage, it doesn't always work out between two people, no matter how wonderful or horrible they might otherwise be. Rush Limbaugh is on his fourth marriage, to a much younger woman from a prominent Democratic family, he has no children, yet how many would question his conservative credentials, including being pro-life, pro-family and pro-marriage? Reagan was divorced and remarried when he became President, yet he's been one of the best pro-life and pro-family Presidents.
Newt has good relationship with his first wife Jackie (who wasn't dying from cancer and wasn't served divorce papers when she was in the hospital - another debunked liberal lie, picked up by Newt's detractors) and he and Callista have great relationship with his daughters and grandchildren. Instead of being bitter about this, we should be happy for them, just like we are for Karen Santorum who made her share of mistakes in her youth, but found a good path and good marriage.
Also notice that some of the most ardent supporters of Newt on FR are women. So much for the "gender gap" that many so-called "conservatives" keep warning us about Newt becoming a nominee... How is this "gender gap" working out for Mitt Romney so far in national polling? Never overestimate the "well-meaning warnings" as usually they are just a case of "reverse psychology" in action.
He was delusional to think he could get the evangelicals with that approach.
Also completely inaccurate.
In reality, the evangelical "leaders" have been very split about Newt and Rick, and then, as usual, chose poorly, in favor of "wear it on the sleeve" but poorly prepared, underfunded and unorganized candidate who had no chance to win but possibly get just enough support to either get "promoted" himself to VP slot or (if he becomes unviable as campaign unfolds) to push Romney to choose an evangelical "family values" candidate, à la Bush-Quayle ticket. Grassroots evangelical support can sometimes provide the margin of victory (slim, near miss Electoral College victories by George W. Bush in 2000 and 2004) but, in itself, is not enough to win national elections or elect a candidate that does not meet "GOPe Seal of Approval."
Bob Vander Plaats of Iowa, just like he did with Huckabee in 2008, endorsed Santorum, who was then polling at 2%, despite Newt providing Plaats' organization with $150K that were crucial to the successful ousting of three pro-gay-marriage Iowa Justices. And while Tony Perkins, Gary Bauer and James Dobson also endorsed Santorum, it took three rounds of voting to decide the "official endorsement" between Newt and Rick, with many other evangelical leaders either absent or openly individually endorsing Newt after this "consensus vote" at the Pressler Ranch near Houston, just before SC primary. Tim and Beverly LaHaye (Chair of Concerned Women of America), Jim Garlow, Don Wildmon and others also endorsed Newt, although they didn't actively campaign for him the way Dobson, Plaats, Perkins and Bauer did for Santorum.
From Gingrich: Christian Conservatives on My Side - RC, by Janie Lorber, 2012 January 17
"We think it's unfortunate that, for whatever reason, that it got labeled an endorsement," former Rep. J.C. Watts (Okla.) said. "Those who went in supporting Newt Gingrich came out supporting him more strongly." One Gingrich supporter at the meeting called the process a "hatchet job," and several attendees described scathing personal attacks, including references to the bad optics of a potential first lady Callista Gingrich who had once been the ex-Speaker's mistress. Others said several Gingrich supporters mistakenly left before the final round of voting. ..... < snip >
< snip > ..... When presented with a choice between two candidates in the final round of voting, 85 of the participants voted for Santorum and 29 voted for Gingrich, a victory that Tony Perkins, head of the conservative Family Research Council, initially described as a "strong consensus." He walked back that characterization after a group of Gingrich supporters went public with concerns that it was not a consensus at all.
"We think it's unfortunate that, for whatever reason, that it got labeled an endorsement," former Rep. J.C. Watts (Okla.) said. "Those who went in supporting Newt Gingrich came out supporting him more strongly."
One Gingrich supporter at the meeting called the process a "hatchet job," and several attendees described scathing personal attacks, including references to the bad optics of a potential first lady Callista Gingrich who had once been the ex-Speaker's mistress. Others said several Gingrich supporters mistakenly left before the final round of voting. ..... < snip >
Look where Dobson, Perkins, Plaats and Bauer are now - they are reduced to going hat in hand to Romney camp / GOPe who will most likely treat them like Clinton did Sister Souldja.
The unprecedented amount of money and extraordinary lies and ruined "conservative" reputations, that it took to assault Gingrich in Florida, by entire GOPe, when they / Romney were on the verge of losing to the only representative Tea Party conservative remaining there showed that GOPe wants Tea Party to occupy the same place within the GOP structure that the social / "family values" conservatives do now - a reliable vote by a "minority" that "has nowhere else to go" - basically the same exact role that the blacks, Jews, GLBT, "women" and other "minorities" represent for the establishment of the Democrat party. It was a fight for survival for GOPe, against a small(er) government, Reagan conservatives Tea Party movement.
If we don't unite behind Newt, the Tea Party will be just like evangelicals - a few minority "local" groups that are only paid a lip service by GOPe on the national level. That may be just fine with some evangelical "leaders" - just like the blacks got the "first black President" Bill Clinton and now the first African-American (literally, Kenyan-American) President, the evangelicals might get another "compassionate conservative" like Bush-43. Where does it leave the country and the rest of us?
Evangelicals have simply been used by the GOPe to split the Tea Party vote, by providing them a "true conservative" alternative in the form of Santorum. For instance, there was never an attempt to intimidate or negotiate a cut off of Foster Friess' SuperPAC funds that provided just enough of a lifeline for Santorum's campaign, unlike pulling all stops to get Sheldon Adelson stop donations to SuperPAC for Gingrich, or planting various false stories about the funds cut just before the states' primaries (thus diverting votes of supposedly "strategic" voters from Gingrich to Romney or Santorum).
(BTW, as an aside, the reason for Adelson not favoring Rick has nothing to do with his religious or social views - Vegas is a union town, casinos and restaurants there have had problems with several unions for decades, so the record of historically cozy relations of Santorum with unions is anathema to Vegas businessmen. There are large patches of prime real estate off the Strip in Vegas that have been for sale for a long time that nobody wants to buy and develop, but Adelson's Las Vegas Sands and Sands Cotai Central is opening another $5B casino in Macau, and plans to spend $35B over 9 years to build casinos and resorts in Spain, Macau and elsewhere in Asia - sales and profits are substantially higher per square foot overseas than in the unionized and overregulated U.S. / Vegas casinos).
Unfortunately, the entire Santorum's / evangelicals campaign plan was based entirely on trying to get Newt's votes and Newt out of the race, even though everybody understood that he would be crushed by Romney immediately after, one on one, even as Gingrich kept nearly publicly saying (to no avail for mathematically challenged) that he sees this as a fight to deny Romney most delegates rather than just "winning" the states while ceding delegates to Romney because Santorum didn't even have the required delegates in several states:
From Santorum, Paul look past Nevada caucuses - WPVI-TV, 2012 February 04
..... Santorum's strategy has been to bloody Gingrich, outlast his one-time ally and then emerge as the eventual alternative to front-runner Romney. He also looked to have a strong showing Tuesday in Missouri, which is having a non-binding primary that lacks Gingrich's name on the ballot. Santorum said he hoped the head-to-head matchup with Romney would change the narrative of his sagging fortunes. ..... < snip >
MONTROSE, Colo. (AP) - February 4, 2012 (WPVI) -- Rick Santorum said Saturday he wants to "endanger" rival Newt Gingrich while presidential rival Ron Paul claimed to have "reason to be optimistic" heading into Tuesday's contests as both Republican hopefuls peered ahead past the Nevada caucuses that handed both defeat. ..... < snip >
..... Santorum's strategy has been to bloody Gingrich, outlast his one-time ally and then emerge as the eventual alternative to front-runner Romney. He also looked to have a strong showing Tuesday in Missouri, which is having a non-binding primary that lacks Gingrich's name on the ballot. Santorum said he hoped the head-to-head matchup with Romney would change the narrative of his sagging fortunes. ..... < snip >
From Santorum refuses to bow despite another loss - WPVI-TV, 2012 February 05
He no longer has a national campaign headquarters; technically, he calls a post office box in Pennsylvania his base camp. His inner circle is seldom in the same location. His campaign manager is a New Hampshire consultant. His deputy campaign manager is Iowa-based and was only recently named to that role in an official capacity. His senior political adviser runs a firm in South Carolina and calls it home. ..... < snip > Santorum is banking on Gingrich collapsing under Romney's withering criticism, leaving Santorum in the coveted and fluid role of the leading conservative alternative to Romney. ..... < snip >
< snip > ..... Santorum has little money and virtually no momentum. He's trailing badly in national polls. He's had trouble getting on ballots in Virginia and Indiana. And he has essentially no staff in upcoming states - much less anything resembling the national operations his rivals are running.
He no longer has a national campaign headquarters; technically, he calls a post office box in Pennsylvania his base camp. His inner circle is seldom in the same location. His campaign manager is a New Hampshire consultant. His deputy campaign manager is Iowa-based and was only recently named to that role in an official capacity. His senior political adviser runs a firm in South Carolina and calls it home. ..... < snip >
Santorum is banking on Gingrich collapsing under Romney's withering criticism, leaving Santorum in the coveted and fluid role of the leading conservative alternative to Romney. ..... < snip >
Whoever thought that this may be a winning strategy against GOPe was nuts and had not learned the lessons of Huckabee 2008 run, when there wasn't even a fraction of money and the entire GOPe machine deployed against him like there was against Gingrich this year. Evangelicals played right into Romney / GOPe hands by insisting on "endorsing" and actively working for the "more perfect" single issue conservative as opposed to the supposedly "flawed" conservative.
To the delight of GOPe, it finally gave them an alternative to Newt - the race has turned from Anybody-But-Romney into Anybody-But-Gingrich. (Alinsky's rule #12 - "The price of a successful attack is a constructive alternative.")
"The best weapon against an enemy is another enemy" - Friedrich Nietzsche
All they had to do now was keep Santorum's campaign on "life support" and ignore Gingrich as if he didn't exist in the race, except for ratcheting up the pressure on Adelson to cut off the funds to SPAC and keeping to mock Gingrich within the media and only repeatedly asking him when he is going to drop out (Alinsky's Rule #13 - "Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it.") to shut down his message and antagonize the voters against him within the party, similar to what they've done to Newt ever since he became the Speaker and to Palin since she became a VP candidate.
Newt has always been pro-life, unlike Mitt Romney who has been [s]electively pro-choice or pro-life when it suited him politically, or even Rick Santorum who has been pro-choice earlier in his life, before he married and ran for Congress (apparently, some early mistakes in life but not the life circumstances of the others could be forgiven by some evangelical leaders).
Newt was also an adopted child, an Army brat, having to move from place to place often, not experiencing or knowing much about love in his youth, and marrying very young and having two children in his 19 years long first marriage, yet at that time he also accomplished getting Master and PhD degrees in history and becoming a college professor. Yet he never plays up his humble and difficult upbringing. In contrast, Rick Santorum's stump speech starts with his grandfather in the "Pennsylvania mining town" while he conveniently avoids mentioning that he was basically a child of relative privilege (his father was a chief of psychology department, mother a chief of nurses in the local Butler, PA, VA hospital) so getting him a good education (MBA and JD) was not such a burden for his family.
I am not trying to dump on Rick, who is a good family man, and whose family has seen their share of tragedy and disappointments. But many of the people who were voting for Santorum or Romney somehow allowed themselves to be taken in by lies about Newt and not question them, progressing to hating Newt with a passion. I am just trying to show that if, in their minds, Rick and his family are deserving of Christian or human forgiveness for their transgressions, then certainly, by all means, so does Newt and his family.
Nobody gave Newt anything in life, he had to work very hard for everything he achieved in life, and despite all the hardship, he has a record of conservative accomplishments that very few people can boast or even dream about, both in public life and post-public entrepreneurial life. That's why he is hated, envied and, just like Ronald Reagan, reviled by the lunatic left and the comfortable establishment right.
"If you have no enemies, you are not important enough to have made any" - Alexandre Dumas
"It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit" - Ronald Reagan
Hume is just another excuse for Newt in a long line of excuse's.
As far as the old and tired meme of "excuses" and "whining" by Gingrich goes, if you ask for and are given an explanation of certain facts, you can always label anything you don't like an "excuse" or "whine" to ignore and avoid dealing with the substance of an explanation. That, in itself, is a poor, childish excuse for attempting to "win" the argument the substance of which you are unable to refute but unwilling to accept.
You are more evil
If I were evil, we would get along - we'd have the same spirit. And WE DON'T. You have the same spirit as mitt and obama - the LYING spirit. Lying to deceive and deception is the only weapon satan has. Those who use it belongs to him.
I'll never stop talking about the evilness of Mitt.
EVIL is attracted to EVIL. You can't shake it off - you already attached yourself to it. That's why you are SO NASTY, VILE, and HATEFUL towards NEWT!! The same as Mitt is - the same spirit. That LYING SPIRIT you attached yourself to is going to bring you down, down, down. It doesn't end well. EVERYONE knows satan is the master of lies. His minions go where he is going.
Mitt will be the one who gives barry his re election and America is done. They have the same spirit. And all those accountable will be judged for their part and supporting a baby killing candidate never ends well. That blood doesn't wash off. Who's the KOOK now? I have kept my hands clean.
You will be getting what you don't want - Barry. The taint of supporting 'the one who ushers him to finish what he started - destroy America' remains on you. You don't want to hear it and satan doesn't want me to say it, neither does Mitt. All the same spirit.
Look it nutcase. You are the evil person. You flit around all over the place lobbing nasty posts to anybody who doesn't agree with you.
I think you are insane and I pity you.
Now go play in the traffic.
You are more evil
If I were evil, we would get along - we would see eye to eye - because we'd have the same spirit. And WE DON'T. You have the same spirit as mitt and obama - the LYING spirit. Lying to deceive and deception is the only weapon satan has. Those who 'use it' belongs to him.
EVIL is attracted to EVIL. You can't shake it off - you already attached yourself to it. That's why you are SO NASTY, VILE, and HATEFUL towards NEWT!! The same as Mitt does. That LYING SPIRIT you attached yourself to is going to bring you down, down, down. EVERYONE knows satan is the master of lies. His minions go where their master is going.
You will be getting what you don't want - Barry. The taint of supporting 'the one who ushers him to finish what he started - destroy America' remains on you. You don't want to hear it and satan doesn't want me to say it, neither does Mitt. All the same spirit. And, me of a different spirit - says it!
Do you know that he is using his daughters? NO - so STOP with the lies on something you know NOTHING about. Did you ever stop to think his daughters know the truth and they are speaking on their own because they don't like the lies against their father. That thought would never enter the mind of one hell bent on trashing him.
I could never in a million years keep my kids from speaking out if anyone lied about me. That does NOT mean that I'm not accountable for my life!
Stop with the buck doesn't stop here. You either don't have children or just too damn clueless or can't resist trashing Newt.
permanently sidetracked him for much of America. It shows in the polls and in the voting results.
BS. It's the LIES that mitt spent millions upon millions to spread about Newt. That LYING POS MITT. Satan is the master of lies. Mitt is satan's minion! If you think Mitt won't s*^ew you, you are blinded just the way he wants you.
Where is Mitt's accountability - in the mess he left MA and his tripling of their taxes. HE DENIES IT! Where is his accountability for ALL HIS LIES. All of a sudden accountability doesn't matter? Post about him - he's the one who will usher in Obama. If you think Missy is giving up her lifestyle for a POS candidate like Mitt, you again are blinded. Mitt is he weakest of the weakest - it won't take much for Barry to bring him down. And remember YOU helped it all come about when Barry gets re elected. YOU doing the same dirty work that Mitt has done - LIES and trashing NEWT. The only one able to defeat Barry.
God sees all and knows all. And Newt will be rewarded in God's own way for staying in despite all the darts aimed at him and fighting for one nation under God and in honor of all those who gave their life for America, the protector of God's beloved Israel. Those who trashed and lied about him - like the PRO HOMO and baby killing candidate has - will receive wrath.
I wouldn't say "choice," but I'll vote for Newt. Romney is dead last on my list.
Your spirit cannot handle truth and resists it. It gets restless hearing about it and all it's possibilities and what if. The unteachable never learn until 'the obvious' happens and then it is too late to do anything about it.
You had enough warnings - now you can never say you didn't know. It's all written down to be presented to you when the time comes.
Very true. I made similar points on this silly thread.
deforest was being ganged up on and accused of destroying the country (by nominating Romney) so I thought it be entertaining to join in the fun, just like the good old days. And it was.
I agree. And I wonder about yours, in both cases. Newt has never spoken negatively about his ex-wifes, and neither have his children, and....
oh, forget it... someone who can make the false lying statement from their holier-than-thou judgmental perch like you have is NOT WORTH MY TIME.
So you speak for God now? ROTFLMAO!
Climb down off your mountain.
Your spirit is the most twisted and warped I have ever had the misfortune to see.
You are a monumental embarrassment to the conservative cause.
You are a laughingstock.
Laugh all you want now while you can because I will have the last laugh. That's a given. You keep quivering in your boots. And hug your pro homo candidate a little harder.
They aren't worth time. LIARS, boasters, lovers of themselves will be taken care of accordingly.
The Undefeated turned up on one of my cable movie stations (free naturally) so I DVRed it.
If you ever see it you will immediately think of these nutbags's comments who were trying to push it here last year.
Ton's of biblical references making her out to be a modern day David or Moses who was 'the one' to be elected; created their vision of her slaying the Romney's and the Obama's and leading the 'conservatives' out of darkness, just as they used to post over and over she would.
Man were they taken. And now again. A sucker is born every minute.
I was supporting Santorum, fool.
And whoever you would vote for would compel to to do the opposite.
You should be considered for a straightjacket.
I was supporting Santorum, fool.
And whoever you would vote for would compel to to do the opposite.
You should be considered for a straightjacket.
A year ago if you suggested that Newt would be the standard bearer for Conservatism I would have laughed in your face - he isn't Reagan - but he is no less Conservative than Rick. Plus he's a fighter, not a quitter.
Mitt doesn't have enough delegates. Newt's still fighting. Mittens will not win the general election - he just wont. There's no compelling case he can make to distinguish himself against his darker skinned twin.
Newt will mop the floor with Bammy. One debate between Gingrich and the Telepromptertard and he'll eviscerate, not just the muslim pretender, but liberalism at large.
If Newt's willing to fight on, how can we do any less?
Newt will mop the floor with Bammy. One debate between Gingrich and the Telepromptertard and he'll eviscerate, not just the muslim pretender, but liberalism at large.
If Newt's willing to fight on, how can we do any less?
You nailed it. Thank you for succinctly stating exactly where we are on April 16, 2012.
Freepers are cnservatives and we can make a difference. Go Newt!
I don't like Newt. I do not think Newt is a stable person. He lacks wisdom and control. He could be a disaster.
I find it bizarre that while Santorum was doing so well, Newt supporters on this site treated him awfully and insulted Santorum voters 24/7. They refused to vote for Santorum in the primaries where he could have beaten Romney, but instead kept up the call for him to drop out. Now, they want what they refused to do since Super Tuesday. And they want it for a lost cause at this point.
Some around here don't want to vote for the nominee. That is their right and it is my right to vote for who I want to vote for in the primary. Newt cannot win the nod outright. He could only try at a brokered convention.
If he is the nominee, I will vote for whoever the nominee is, but I will not be very cheerful about it.
I have said that for months now.
Keep the insults coming, it's a sign the truth still hurts.
You're the fool for supporting him! He says mitt is a conservative and tried the 'force trick' onto conservatives - in his 'doing it for the team' routine.
Watch your vote he will be given to mitt shortly. He'll be turning over his wins to his master when he asks for them.
Are you sure you aren't Margaret White, Carrie's Mom?
I'm not quivering in my boots. In fact, I am thinking I might just flash my ole "dirty pillows" right at ya.
They've moved their adoration temporarily to Gingrich because of a desperate urge to cast someone as David against Goliath. They find the theme of Conservatives against evil of Biblical proportions entertaining. They'll drop it only when they realize that their heros like Palin and Gingrich are losing in these Old Testament match-ups. Once they catch on to that irony one can hope that they will switch to a different theme that isn't an embarrassment to the Old Testament.
Politicians and diapers must be changed often, and for the same reason. ― Mark Twain
Last week I saw a few posts saying that Palin rented an office near the R convention in FLA. Man they got spun up again over that. Remember how that house in AZ was proof she was running? A sucker is born every minute. Some cant learn,
Those Palinistas who claimed she was running for 2+ years and now are repeating the same silly arguments for Newt have no self dignity.
This is the guy that supposedly has God under his belt for the nomination.
Now I know this is Politico, but really. And I am supposed to be a bad guy? LOL
And they would have repeated it about Santorum if she had promoted him in the primaries instead. Remember when he begged her publicly for an endorsement? Talk about loss of dignity.
Newt was carried by one or two millionaires donations, Apparently the tough talking Newt-istas here were unwilling to sell their homes or 401Ks to keep Newt funded.
Remember that Sarah-PAC fundraising letter last fall when the Undefeated was released, just before she broke that bad news? Some folks will never learn.
They'll won't blame him for doing this. They'll even defend the stuffed animal that follows his wife around.
I was never really bullish on any of the nominees. But then, I don't see politicians worth an emotional involvement.
In the end, I had to give old Rick at least some credit for being able to put a stop on Romney sailing to victory. He also showed he had the wherewithall to end it before he dug a financial hole so deep only to lose in the end.
Maybe the Newtster could raise a bit of cash by releasing that Climate Change book he put on hold. Or maybe he could go to more zoos and get bitten by more penguins so he could sue the zoo.
Best yet, cut Callista off the charge cards and rent a motorbike with a sidecar. LOL
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peeker643 wrote:jta1975 wrote:peeker643 wrote:What was the 411 on Colin Kaepernick at the combine? Did he have his pro day yet?
No his pro day is 3-27.
He got praise for his rocket arm. Very raw coming from a spread option offense. Footwork is not good coming from under center. He is a project mechanics wise but most feel he will be fine(footwork wise) with time because he is an elite athlete. That was the buzz.
Any round projections being discussed? This QB intrigues me.
I think last night you saw the reason so many of us liked this kid when he was coming out.
And he was taken by a great org with great support in place and has been developed the right way.
But Jeez, what a freaking athlete and what a freaking arm. And last night he looked like a born passer and a guy far more interested in throwing than running.
That was freaking impressive.

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- 1Department of Rheumatology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
- 2Department of Rheumatology, Johns Hopkins, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
- 3Janssen Research & Development, LLC, Spring House, Pennsylvania, USA
- 4Department of Musculoskeletal Sciences, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
- Correspondence to Dr Michael E Weinblatt, Department of Rheumatology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, 75 Francis St, Boston, Massachusetts MA 02115, USA; mweinblatt{at}partners.org
Contributors All authors were involved in the study design, trial conduct and/or data analysis and interpretation for the GO-FURTHER trial. All authors contributed to the development of this manuscript and approved the final version for submission.
- Accepted 9 April 2012
- Published Online First 1 June 2012
Objectives Evaluate the efficacy of intravenous golimumab 2 mg/kg+methotrexate (MTX) in patients with active rheumatoid arthritis (RA) receiving MTX.
Methods Patients (n=592) with active disease (≥6/66 swollen, ≥6/68 tender joints, C-reactive protein ≥1.0 mg/dl, rheumatoid factor positive and/or anticyclic citrullinated protein antibody positive at screening) despite MTX (15–25 mg/week) participated in this double-blind, placebo-controlled, phase 3 study. Patients were randomised (2:1) to receive intravenous golimumab 2 mg/kg, or placebo infusions at weeks 0 and 4 and every (q) 8 weeks; patients continued MTX. Placebo patients with <10% improvement in combined swollen/tender joint counts at week 16 could early escape to intravenous golimumab 2 mg/kg. The primary endpoint was week 14 American College of Rheumatology 20% (ACR20) response. Analyses employed non-responder imputation and last-observation-carried-forward.
Results At week 14, significantly (p<0.001) larger proportions of golimumab+MTX than placebo+MTX patients achieved ACR20 response (59% vs 25%, respectively), a disease activity score of good/moderate (EULAR) response (81% vs 40%), and greater median improvement in health assessment questionnaire scores (0.500 vs 0.125). Improvements versus placebo+MTX were observed by week 2. Similar proportions of patients receiving golimumab+MTX and placebo+MTX, respectively, reported adverse events through week 16 (47% and 44%) and week 24 (53% and 49%). Serious adverse events were reported by more golimumab+MTX (4.1%) than placebo+MTX (2%) patients at week 24.
Conclusion The addition of intravenous golimumab rapidly and significantly improved signs and symptoms in patients with active RA despite ongoing MTX, in some patients by week 2.
Funding Janssen Research & Development LLC, and Merck/Schering-Plough provided support for this study.
Competing interests None.
Provenance and peer review Not commissioned; externally peer reviewed.
This paper is freely available online under the BMJ Journals unlocked scheme, see http://ard.bmj.com/info/unlocked.dtl


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Summer in Palm Beach County is not the hottest season for the arts, at least not metaphorically. Seasonal residents travel north to avoid skyrocketing thermostats and humidity as thick as soup, leading to a sharp drop in both the county's population and cultural endeavors. This summer, however, arts-deprived full-time residents have much to anticipate. Here are our top summer picks for art openings, theater, dance and everything in between.
|I Want My Life Back, Geoff Hamel, colored pencil on paper; Best in Show in the "62nd All Florida Juried Competition and Exhibition."
On May 8, the Boca Museum of Art welcomed the "62nd All Florida Juried Competition and Exhibition." This year's selection was juried by Mark Scala, the chief curator of the Frist Center for the Visual Arts in Nashville, and includes 149 works by 122 Florida artists. The works range from paintings to computer-generated images, drawings to photographs, and will be on display through July 14.
Sylvia, the innovative dramedy about a man and his dog, opens on May 17 and runs through June 2 at the Delray Beach Playhouse. Set in Manhattan in the 1990s, the play explores the relationship between middle-aged couple Greg and Kate and their dog, Sylvia. Played by a person, the character of Sylvia is more akin to a human than a dog, interacting with her owners and lending advice and criticism as the play progresses.
|Julie Rowe and Margery Lowe in Dancing at Lughnasa. Photo by Alicia Donelan.
On May 24, Palm Beach Dramaworks closes its 2012-2013 season with Dancing at Lughnasa. This Tony Award-winning play by Brian Friel follows five sisters who live in a cottage in rural Ireland. Framed as a memory play, Lughnasa is told from the perspective of Michael Evans, the son of the youngest sister. You can catch Dancing at Lughnasa through June 16.
In June, the Morikami Museum and Japanese Gardens, under the leadership of a new curator, will open two exhibitions. "Wood Be Kindred Spirits: The Kokeshi Dolls of Bob Brokop" displays one of the largest collections of kokeshi (Japanese dolls handmade from wood with delicately painted faces) in the United States. "Tanabata: Japan's Star Festival - Views of Tanabata in Sao Paulo Brazil by Jade Matarazzo" features a selection of images from the Tanabata Festival in Sao Paulo, which is home to a large and affluent Japanese community. Both exhibitions are on display from June 4 through September 15.
The Vero Beach Museum of Art also has two new exhibitions opening in June. "Visual Systems: The Quilter's Eye," explores the history of quilt art in America, from traditional quilts made to adorn beds to quilts composed as art; the exhibition runs from June 8 through September 8. Opening on June 29 is "Along the Road: Paintings of the Highwaymen." This body of work–produced by young, self-taught, African-American artists in the 1950s, 60s and 70s–features lively seascapes, landscapes and still-lives, and will be on display to September 28.
|A dancer in Arabian Nights. Photo by Kenneth Grzymala, KRG Photography.
If you're in the mood for some ballet, attend the Susan Lyle Studios' production of Arabian Nights, a dance interpretation of the story of Aladdin, at the Palm Beach State College Eissey Campus Theatre in Palm Beach Gardens on June 15 and 16. For more information on Susan Lyle Studios, pick up a copy of our June issue.
Two additional juried exhibitions open in Palm Beach County in June. The Cultural Council of Palm Beach County hosts "County Contemporary: All Media Juried Show" from June 14 to September 7. This showcase will include a range of media from artists working throughout the county and will be juried by Mark Richard Leach, the executive director of the Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Five days later, the Palm Beach Photographic Centre opens a juried exhibition for its INFOCUS members. This exhibition runs from June 19 through August 17, but you can get a sneak peek of the selected works right now.
County residents have the opportunity to catch a milestone in modern musical comedies when Entr'acte Theatrix presents Monty Python's Spamalot at the Delray Beach Center for the Arts at Old School Square June 20 through 30. This Tony Award-winning best musical written by Eric Idle is "lovingly ripped off" from the classic comedy Monty Python and the Holy Grail, so expect countless historical inaccuracies, dry British humor and coconut sound effects.
An innovative art exhibition perfect for budding artists and architects alike rounds out the arts in June. The Norton Museum of Art hosts "Block by Block: Inventing Amazing Architecture," an exhibition of landmark structures made from Legos, June 20 through October 13. View some of the world's grandest skyscrapers, including the Seattle Space Needle and Taipei 101 in Taiwan, constructed out of building blocks. Just remember to keep your hands to yourself.
|Dan Parker, a certified Lego professional, puts the finishing touches on the Seattle Space needle.
If you're craving musicals, then you'll be counting down the days till July. To begin, the Lake Worth Playhouse mounts In The Heights from July 11 to 28. This Pulitzer Prize- and Tony Award-nominated musical takes place over three days in the Washington Heights neighborhood of New York City. The Dominican-American population of this area influences the Latin-infused music, making it the perfect musical transplant for South Florida.
In July and August, Palm Beach Dramaworks presents two concert interpretations of classic musicals as part of its Musical Theatre Masters Series. First up, from July 10-21, is Man of La Mancha, the Tony Award-winning musical based on Cervantes' literary masterpiece Don Quixote. Company, the landmark Stephen Sondheim musical that's been a Broadway standard since 1970, will follow, running from August 7 to 18.
Finally, don't forget to check in with Delray Beach's Arts Garage this summer. From July 19 through August 11, it hosts "Beyond the Rainbow: Garland at Carnegie Hall." This dramatized musical portrait of the famed starlet will include some of Garland's biggest hits, such as "Get Happy" and "Over the Rainbow." Don't make "Beyond the Rainbow" your only visit to Arts Garage. From May through August, it mounts two musical series, Jazz Project and Garage Blues, featuring local and national musicians, including the South Florida Jazz Orchestra (June 15), the Cook Trio (July 13) and 21 Blue (August 17).


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On Chile's coat of arms, opposite a regal condor, is a crowned animal with a coffee-colored coat and coal-black hooves. This creature, known as a huemul, is a type of South Andean deer that, unfortunately, due to poaching, logging and food scarcity, is at risk for going extinct.
As the huemul population decreases, another species is on the rise worldwide—trail runners. An organization called the Nomadas International Group South America (NIGSA) believes that our burgeoning group of two-legged animals should do something for these four-legged friends and help conserve the habitat they, and we, depend upon.
Three years ago, NIGSA founded the Patagonian International Marathon (PIM), a footrace held on the unpaved roads of the stunning Torres del Paine National Park. The idea behind the race is that trail runners are land lovers—and the more we connect with and love that land, the more likely we are to protect it and, in turn, the other animals who dwell there.
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Union College has announced David Johns, Ph.D., as the institution's new vice president for academic affairs.
Johns comes to Union from Earlham School of Religion in Richmond, Ind., where he served as associate professor of theology.
Union College's commitment to ensuring the success of first-generation college students is what initially attracted him to the school. "That's my story, too," said Johns, who was the first in his family to pursue a college degree. "I know firsthand how a life can be changed by a community that cares and inspires. What is taking place at Union is more than learning; it is education. It is transformation."
Prior to his position at Earlham School of Religion, he worked at Wilmington College as assistant professor of religion and philosophy and campus chaplain, and at Malone College as adjunct professor of religious studies and a reference librarian. He said that these experiences have helped prepare him for his new job at Union.
"I've served in a number of capacities in colleges: from making pizzas and handing out pool cues as a student, to being a reference librarian, a campus pastor and a professor. Over the years I've taken on more responsibility and have become more involved in visioning and leadership," Johns said. "So when I read that Union wanted a vice president who would be a visible presence on campus, interacting with students as well as faculty and other administrators, I thought: 'that's who I am; that's where I want to be!'"
Andelys Wood, Ph.D., interim vice president for academic affairs, said that the appointment of Johns to this position is an exciting one that she can easily support.
"At the end of an exhausting academic year, I'm excited that David Johns is bringing new energy to the Academic Affairs office, and I look forward to working with him," Wood said.
Marcia Hawkins, Ph.D., president of Union College, said that Johns will be an asset to the college because of his academic credentials and faith-based leadership style.
"Dr. Johns embraces Union College's values and understands the importance of providing an education interwoven with spirituality," Hawkins said. "He is fully committed to helping our students understand the importance of become lifelong learners. I, along with other members of the search committee, am confident that Dr. Johns is a perfect fit for Union College."
Johns is scheduled to begin his duties on July 1. He said once he arrives on campus, he plans to take time to meet everyone, and get a feel for Union before making any big moves.
"My short-term goal is to learn as much as I can—and as fast as I can—about Union and to meet as many people as possible," he said. "I have a lot of listening to do and a lot of stories to hear. One of the ways I think about the work I'll do at Union is through the four words: place, programs, policies and most important, people."


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Fall 2001
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Poet and Pastor in Rural Kansas
by Kent Annan
Whenever George Pasley, Class of 1997, returns to Princeton
he takes time to help wash dishes in the cafeteria. He washes the
dishes because he enjoys it and because he has three years of good memories among the suds as a student. This is not the practice of most PTS alums.
Neither is working as a shepherd nor earning a B.S. in agriculture, which were both along Pasley's path to becoming pastor of two congregations in rural Kansas.
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by Kent Annan
Andrew Scrimgeour, PTS alum and library director at Drew University, sometimes goes to the library at odd
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I can not understand why the snow removal from the highway in Iron County is so less effective then in Florence County, Wis., and Dickinson County.
I drive to work from Crystal Falls to Iron Mountain. On Friday at 11 a.m. the highway was horrible in Iron County.
The snow fall had pretty much stopped Thursday around 7 p.m. You would assume that would give plenty of time for safe passable roads before morning.
That was not the case. But when you finally make it to the top of the hill overlooking Bev's Supper Club, you can see a light at the end of the tunnel, 100 percent clear, only water on the roads of Florence County and it continued like that all the way to Iron Mountain.
Do the citizens of Iron County not deserve safe roads to travel on?
I can not understand what the problem is. This happens every time it snows. The people deserve an answer.
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Crystal Falls


text: Diwakar Kinra, DDS, MS received his dental degree from the University of Michigan, School of Dentistry, in 1999. At that time he proceeded into private practice for the next 3 years. In 2002, he returned to obtain his masters degree in endodontics at the University of Detroit-Mercy, School of Dentistry. In 2004, after the completion of his postgraduate degree, he immediately began his solo private practice limited to endodontics in Flint, Michigan.Dr. Kinra is an Adjunct Professor of Graduate Endodontics and Graduate Periodontics at the University of Detroit-Mercy, School of Dentistry. He is a member of the AAE, MAE, ADA, MDA and GDDS dental societies. He also serves as the committee chair for the ADA: Committee on the New Dentist.Dr. Kinra has spoken on clinical endodontics and practice management since 2005. He has spoken at over 20 universities domestically and internationally. His clinical lectures focus on Cleaning, Shaping and Packing of the root canal system.


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As one of the fastest growing forms of renewable energy, wind turbines are sprouting up all over the country. On a recent airline flight across the country, I was blown away to see areas in northern Texas with rows of wind-turbines that went on for miles—some of which included well over of a hundred turbines. Now I know why they call them wind farms! This technology is increasingly popular in rural Alaska, where the cost of fuel to generate electricity is through the roof expensive. As with all good things, they come with potential impacts. As pilots, wind turbines provide several challenges: initially as obstructions we have to avoid during flight. If located too close to airports, they interfere with instrument approaches resulting in higher minimums and reduced access. Finally, when the wind blows they represent a source of turbulence, which we still have much to learn about (more on that later).
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Recently the US Geological Survey has given us a new tool to locate wind turbines, on a nation-wide basis. A new interactive mapping application, provides access to a database that not only shows us where wind turbines are found, but records their height, blade length, and other information on a tower-by-tower basis. Prior to this, while some states captured the locations of individual wind turbines, there was no uniform database that provided this information across the country. Starting with the FAA's Digital Obstruction File (through July 22, 2013), a USGS team led by Dr. Jay Diffendorfer located over 47,000 turbine sites, verifying individual tower locations with high-resolution satellite imagery. This data base gives us a much better way to find individual tower locations, with a location accuracy estimated to be within 10 meters.
Understanding impacts
This database is designed to support research into environmental effects on both critters that fly, and wildlife habitat. But these data may also be useful in the future to project the impact of down-wind effects on general aviation airports, which is still an evolving research topic. A recent study at the University of Kansas has shown that the turbulence from a wind turbine extends further as wind speed increases, up to 3 miles in some cases. This and the potential increase in cross winds could be a significant impact for small aircraft at GA airports. Hopefully, more work will be done to quantify these conditions, leading to improvements in the FAA's obstruction review process, which today only takes into account the height of an obstruction above ground when air space reviews are conducted.
Provide feedback
All maps are only as current as the date used to make them. This data set incorporated information from FAA's obstruction file as of last July. And if you come across wind turbines that aren't in the database, please capture what information you can and send an email with the location to [email protected].
Thanks to this effort, we have a better way to learn where wind turbines are located in the areas where we fly!


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Despite having a fundamental objection to putting ham and pineapple on pizza, it does look really good.Craig
I used a frozen small preferment Lehmann dough ball this morning to make this Panini Grill pizza.The ham, peppers and pineapples were grilled on my regular BBQ grill. The tomatoes and peppers were picked from my garden. This pie was also dressed with Sweet Baby Rays Barbecue Sauce and shredded cheddar cheese. I poured some of the pineapple juice over the ham while it was on the grill.In my opinion this was a great mid-morning breakfast. This pizza baked good when grilled on the Panini grill. The bottom was nice and crunchy and the inside of the rim stayed moist.Pictures belowNorma
How did you get the top to cook, did you hold the top grate ovet the pizza?
Norma,Love the innovation. Good for you. Now those are some ingredients!We're having another Tampa pizza fest this coming Saturday. You're invited.Dave


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Saw the repeat at midnight. To say I'm impressed is an understatement. I am in love with Heather Mills. Not in a romantic way, (although she IS hot!), but I am just so taken with what a wonderful, STRONG, courageous, intelligent, lovely woman she is. That was, by far, one of the best interviews I have ever seen in my life. Anybody who bashes Heather Mills, obviously didn't see that interview. I am so happy for Paul. May God continue to bless Paul and Heather. Awesome.
What a lovely post, Ram.
Yes, I love her too. She is so impressive. I really like to just listen to her talk as well. She has such a lovely voice, it's like buttercream. It's also a nice feeling to support her charity, knowing that you are helping. Granted, I'm only one person doing a little bit, but the little bits add up.


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In 1758, young George Washington decided to seek a seat in the Virginia House of Burgesses. He had been stymied in an earlier bid, he believed, by one crucial error: he had not "treated" the voters properly—which is to say, he had not provided them with sufficient alcoholic refreshment. This time, determined to correct his ways, he purchased some 144 gallons of wine, rum, hard cider, punch and beer for distribution to supporters. At more than two votes per gallon, Washington's effort proved successful, launching a rather distinguished career in American politics.
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More than a century and a half later, after the American temperance movement had finally won its fight to prohibit alcohol, a considerable percentage of the nation's populace remained staunchly faithful to the founders' tradition, using their ingenuity to acquire any and all available alcohol. They drank hair tonic, flavoring extracts and patent medicine. They patronized speak-easies and bootleggers, helping to boost a nationwide industry of organized crime. They stole liquor from government warehouses. They posed as priests and rabbis to acquire sacramental wine.
And in the early months of 1921, a dedicated group of brewers, physicians and imbibers attempted to convince the U.S. Congress that beer was nothing less than vital medicine. Whatever craven thirsts might have inspired its advocates, the right of physicians to prescribe "medical beer" was the subject of intense national debate, drawing the attention of officials at the highest levels of government and provoking arguments within the American Medical Association and other professional groups.
The arguments had less to do with the number of likely prescriptions (nobody thought beer would replace castor oil) than with the long-term implications of legalizing the consumption of beer. It was what politicians today call a wedge issue: unimportant, even ridiculous, in itself, but with potentially vast legal and cultural consequences. (The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to take up the far more medically significant question of medical marijuana by June of this year.)
As with all wedge issues, technical details masked a host of larger and more far-reaching concerns. Both supporters and detractors understood the so-called "beer emergency" as a referendum on Prohibition itself, a test of the federal government's right to regulate vice and dictate professional standards.
Prohibition, which became the law of the land in January 1920, was the product of enormous middle-class energy dedicated to eliminating sin—gambling, drinking, anarchy, sloth—through legislation. Within this crusade, beer was hardly a neutral substance. As the favored drink of the German and Irish working class, it was shorthand in temperance circles for disorderly taverns, abandoned wives, laziness, unemployment—even, during World War I, anti-Americanism. According to temperance advocates, Prohibition's destruction of the saloon marked nothing less than a triumph of order over disorder, self-control over dissipation.
Yet the 18th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution did not amount to a complete "prohibition" on all forms of alcohol. It banned only the manufacture, sale or transportation of alcohol "for beverage purposes"—in other words, for the pleasure and delight of socializing and inebriation. This directive covered a substantial proportion of the nation's imbibers, to be sure, but it also left open certain loopholes for the framers of the Volstead Act, the federal law that finally put the amendment into effect. It excluded all alcohol—mainly sacramental wines—consumed for religious purposes. Hair tonics, perfumes, toilet waters and other cosmetic products were similarly exempt. Not least, it excluded alcohol prescribed by physicians as a treatment for any number of acute and chronic ills. It was in the context of this last exemption that the fight over "medical beer" unfolded.
Temperance advocates denounced the "medical beer" campaign as an attempt to play fast and loose with the law—an effort, they said, that could lead only to "chaos" and "Bolshevism." Prohibition's opponents, by contrast, urged the measure as nothing less than a matter of life and death. "Since Prohibition went into effect I have been approached by a number of physicians who appealed to me for beer on the ground that it was absolutely necessary for the welfare of their patients," brewer Col. Jacob Ruppert, who owned the Yankees from 1915 until his death in 1939, told a New York Times reporter. "I was not in a position to help them."
The idea of alcohol as medicine was not new. As historian W. J. Rorabaugh wrote, Americans in the early 18th century classified whiskey, rum and other liquors as "medications that could cure colds, fevers, snakebites, frosted toes, and broken legs, and as relaxants that would relieve depression, reduce tension, and enable hardworking laborers to enjoy a moment of happy, frivolous camaraderie." Even the dour Puritan minister Cotton Mather, fearful enough of sin and subversion to help purge Salem of witches, believed that alcohol, used in moderation, could be "a Creature of God."
Once Prohibition took effect, many doctors championed alcohol as medicine. "I have always maintained that every family ought to have an alcoholic stimulant in the house all the time," one physician told the New York Times. "There is nothing more valuable in emergency." The doctor himself always took a drink at the end of the day—"It braces me up," he explained—and often prescribed it for patients stricken with "nerves." For pneumonia, he recommended a shot or two of whiskey.


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Aquamarine and Indigo Discussion Guide
- Grades: 6–8
About this book
About this book
The following discussion guide is a class comparison of the two books Aquamarine and Indigo by Alice Hoffman.
Alice Hoffman has written more than a dozen best-selling novels for adults. She has called her work "emotional fiction" and others often refer to her books as "magical realism," stories that lead the reader from everyday happenings to the inner reality of feelings, hopes and dreams through mysterious elements in the plot. These two short novels, Aquamarine and Indigo, deal especially with issues of childhood and adolescence. Hoffman has said that in children's books realism and magic go hand in hand and she believes that writing in the tradition of the fairy tale frees a writer to see all the possibilities and to reach for deeper truths.
Hailey and Claire are best friends and next-door neighbors. Throughout a long hot summer they spend their days at the Capri Beach Club, dreading the end of the season when Claire will move with her grandparents to Florida. The two girls are often the only ones using the Beach Club, which is in disrepair and will close at the end of the summer. After a violent storm that whips waves from the beach into the pool, they discover a mysterious presence at the bottom of the pool - a mermaid who has become separated from her kin and is in search of love on land. As they work together to help the mermaid survive and find her heart's desire, Hailey and Claire learn to accept their pending separation and appreciate the magic of each moment they spend together with Aquamarine.
Discussion Points
- Are Hailey and Claire such good friends simply because they live next door to each other? What experiences have they shared that contribute to their friendship being as strong as it is? In what ways are they different?
- What makes the girls feel that Claire's grandfather can be trusted with their secret? How do they know he will believe their story and agree to help? Why can they not share their secret with other adults in the story?
- Claire has always been the one to make the plans in the past, but suddenly Hailey is the one who is coming up with ideas that will help Aquamarine. What gives Hailey this new confidence in her own ideas?
- Claire is fearful of the water at the beginning of the book, yet by the end of the story she has learned to swim. What events lead to this change? Where does she find the courage to overcome her fears?
- What kind of person is Raymond? Did you expect him to agree to have dinner with Aquamarine? Do you think he actually found her again in Florida?
- Discuss Aquamarine's personality. Compare her to mermaids in traditional folklore. Is she what you would expect a mermaid to be? Why does she act the way she does? What influences have shaped her actions and words? Why do the girls want to help her?
Setting and Theme
- What images does the author use to create the setting for her readers? Discuss the atmosphere of the Beach Club, the intense heat of the summer, and how these play a part in the story.
- Why is the Beach Club described as being so run-down?
- Hailey's mom gives Claire's family a basket when they leave with a photograph of "the house that was left behind." The author calls it one of the "necessities for anyone who leaves home." Yet Hailey decides not to take a photograph for Claire of the Beach Club being demolished, and Claire decides not to take a photograph for Hailey of Aquamarine swimming in Florida. Why are these photographs not "necessities"?
- "Time has a habit of moving too fast," says the author on the evening that Raymond has dinner with Aquamarine. What are some of the ways the author uses time in this story? How does the passage of time affect each of the characters? How does it affect places in the story? What part does it play in the plot?
- Alice Hoffman's novels for adults have often been described as grown-up fairy tales. In what ways does Aquamarine remind you of a traditional fairy tale? In what ways is it different?
The people of Oak Grove fear water because their town once endured a terrible flood, so they do everything to keep water out of the town. Martha Glimmer and her friends, Trevor and Eli McGill, feel different from others in the town. Martha's sadness is largely due to her mother's recent death. Her father has withdrawn into his own sorrow and allowed a neighbor, Hildy Swoon, to provide meals and tend their house, but Martha resents her presence bitterly. Trevor and Eli, nicknamed Trout and Eel by those who make fun of the webbing between their fingers, have had odd habits ever since they were brought to town by their adoptive parents. The boys like to add salt to their drinking water, prefer fish to any other food, and free the frogs from the science lab at school. Martha, Trout and Eel decide to leave home to find what each most desires, but their running is cut short by a storm that brings all characters in the story face to face with their own true nature.
Discussion Points
- Why do you think Martha becomes good friends with Trevor and Eli? What do they have in common? What are their differences?
- Why does Martha's father allow Hildy Swoon to take over their house and to throw out his wife's clothes? What causes the change in his personality at the end of the book?
- Charley and Kate McGill are wonderful parents, yet they keep Trevor and Eli away from the sea where they found them. Why do they fear the water so much? What do they fear if their sons see the ocean again?
- What is the importance of Richard Grady? How does his character evolve through the story? What causes the change in him?
- What is the importance of Jeannette Morton, a character we only meet at the end of the story? What does she represent to Martha and to Martha's father?
- Martha's mother dies before the story begins, but we know more about her than some of the other characters. Why is Martha's mother such a strong force in the story? How does the author acquaint the reader with her personality? Do we know her only through Martha?
Setting and Theme
- The residents of the town of Oak Grove are afraid of water. How many images can you find in the description of the town that makes this clear? How have the people conspired to keep their town dry? Can anyone ever truly control the destiny of the place where they live?
- Interior settings are also important in this story. Why do the McGills paint over the boys' room after Trevor and Eli paint it blue? Why does Hildy try to destroy the shawl that means so much to Martha?
- Martha, Trout and Eel say that they are not "runaways," they are "run-tos." (p. 34) What do they mean? Does this make a difference in how they feel about their journey? Would it make a difference to their parents?
- After the flood, Martha notices that Oak Grove looks different, "as if the floodwaters had washed everything clean." What does the flood represent for Martha? What does it represent for the town, for Martha's father, for the McGills, for Hildy Swoon?
5. Alice Hoffman has said, " . . . the truest journey is always the one made within the reaches of the human heart." How does she demonstrate this belief in the story? What is the true journey for Martha? for Martha's father? for Trout and Eel? for Kate and Charlie McGill?
6. Past, present and future are all important in this story, as they are in each of our lives. How does the past affect Martha, Trout and Eel? How do their actions in the story affect the future? Discuss events in your own past that have affected you deeply, and ways you can create your future by the actions you take now.
Comparing the Novels
Discussion Points
- Both of these stories are full of water imagery. What does this represent to you? Compare the relationship of each of the characters to water and how that relationship affects their actions.
- Discuss the format of the books. Each is short enough to read at one sitting - how does that affect your experience of the story? Alice Hoffman has said that length is immaterial to the strength of a story, that sometimes the shorter a story is, the more powerful it is. Do you feel that this is true?
- What is the significance of the titles of these books? What do the colors of the title represent to you?
- Compare the settings of the two books - how does the setting of each affect the way the story unfolds?
- Both stories have a strong theme of the importance of friendship. What other themes are meaningful to you that the books have in common?
A Conversation with Alice Hoffman
You have been known as an adult author for many years. What made you want to write for a younger audience?
When I received gift books as a child, I often felt the writer was "talking down" to me. But I loved to read fairy tales because the tone of the stories treated me with respect - as if I knew something, as if I could make the leap to understanding what they were about. I wanted to create that tone in my own stories for young readers.
What other elements of the fairy tales were meaningful for you?
I especially loved the Grimm's fairy tales about characters who traveled through dark woods or over deep waters to reach their heart's desire. These journeys are not only of geography, but also of the soul. They point out how great our need is to find out who we are at our deepest core, especially after great loss. We can never run away from ourselves or our past, these stories tell us, for the truest journey is always the one made within the reaches of the human heart.
What other books did you enjoy reading when you were young?
I was a big fan of Edward Eager's books. I thought of them as "suburban magic." The stories always started in the everyday world, but anything might happen. It was a very empowering feeling, to know that deep magic could exist and affect our own world. I loved Ray Bradbury's fantasy books for the same reason. I read to escape, to feel less alone. I always felt the characters in the books would understand my feelings, while the real world could be painful and confusing.
Do you find it a different process to write for children than for adults?
I don't think there is any difference. I love the fact that in children's books you find magic and realism naturally blending together. And I don't think of children's books as being just for children. My grandmother used to say that she was always surprised to look in a mirror and see that she wasn't sixteen anymore. No matter how old we are, we carry with us the people we have been at different ages. I think it's important for children to understand that - and for adults to appreciate it.
Many of your books - for children and for adults - take place in or near water. The imagery of water is very powerful in your writing.
Water, for me, is a metaphor for the subconscious, for diving into the deepest part of yourself. It can be frightening as it can be liberating. I feel a strong emotional connection to water and the colors of water. Aquamarine is my birthstone and I was born under a water sign, so water imagery has always been important to me.
Related Reading
Andersen, Hans Christian. The Little Mermaid: the original story, illus. by Charles Santore. Random House, 1997 ISBN: 0-679-88757-1
Andersen's own story is very different from the popular Disney movie adaptation and makes an interesting comparison to Aquamarine.
Coville, Bruce. Half-Human. Scholastic, 2001. ISBN: 0-590-95944-1 A collection of stories about such creatures as mermaids and centaurs, which are part-human and part-animal or part-plant, and their struggles to understand their true identity.
Grimm, Wilhelm and Jacob. Grimms' Fairy Tales. Illus. by Fritz Kredel. Grosset & Dunlap, 1995. ISBN: 0-448-40941-0
These well-known stories first appeared in print in the early nineteenth century, but have been told in oral tradition for hundreds of years.
Hughes, Ted. The Mermaid's Purse. Knopf, 1999. ISBN: 0-375-80569-9
Poems of the sea and its creatures by the late poet laureate of Britain.
Hunter, Mollie. A Stranger Came Ashore: A Story of Suspense. HarperTrophy, 1994. ISBN: 0-064-40082-4
Young Robbie tries to protect his sister from a mysterious stranger in this atmospheric tale set in the Shetland Islands off the coast of Scotland.
King-Smith, Dick. The Merman. Crown, 1999. ISBN: 0-517-80030-6
Zeta, a lonely girl whose whole family is afraid of the water, finds her life changed by a chance encounter with a merman while on vacation in Scotland.
Osborne, Mary Pope. Mermaid Tales from Around the World. Scholastic, 1999. ISBN: 0-439-04781-1
Twelve tales of mermaids from many cultural traditions show them to be generally strong-willed and fiercely independent creatures.
Rylant, Cynthia The Islander. DK Publishing, 1998. ISBN: 0-789-42490-8
Sent to live on an island with his grandfather after the tragic death of his parents, Daniel is aware of magical happenings after finding a mermaid's comb on the beach.
Author's website: www.alicehoffman.com
Dive and Discover: Expeditions to the Sea Floor - Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute: www.divediscover.whoi.edu/
Public Broadcasting System - Secrets of the Ocean Realm: http://www.pbs.org/oceanrealm/index-episode1.html
National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration Photo Library: www.photolib.noaa.gov/
Discussion guide written by Connie Rockman, children's literature consultant and adjunct professor of literature for children and young adults at the University of Bridgeport, Sacred Heart University and Manhattanville College, and editor of The Eighth Book of Junior Authors and Illustrators (H. W. Wilson, 2000).
- Subjects:Reading, Adolescent Issues, Language Arts, Science, Changes and New Experiences, Death, Grief, Loss, Family Life, Ghosts, Monsters, Vampires, Witches, Literature, Reading Comprehension, Literature Appreciation, Earth Science, Natural Disasters, Feelings and Emotions, Life Experiences, Popular Culture, Adoption and Foster Care, Magic and Supernatural, Seasons and Weather, Weather, Adoption, Friends and Friendship, Running Away, Understanding Self and Others
- Skills:Reading, Reading Comprehension, Language Arts


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Korvi Rakshand is a smart, educated, and devoted young man who decided to put aside pressure to take over the family business in order to give life to his idea of a free-of-charge English-language school to educate Dhaka's poorest children. In 2007, his vision took the form of a carpet, a black board, a box of chalk, and a handful of students from a local slum. Today, JAAGO is a well-known youth-based organization with over 300 students, two branches, and thousands of volunteers. Korvi is devoted to the underprivileged population in his home country of Bangladesh, but like many NGOs he struggles to get recognition and funding to continue his work.
Stories like Korvi's are why the U.S. Mission in Bangladesh partnered with Jolkona to build a website that would connect potential donors to organizations that, like JAAGO, are truly making a difference in Bangladesh. With the launch of www.LiftBangla.org, we have created a place for people to support innovative projects in Bangladesh. In return, the organizations have committed to providing donors regular feedback, so they can know how their donations are being used to build a stronger Bangladesh.
It is our hope that as a community we can support these organizations and their leaders and continue to provide new opportunities for you to support social innovation in Bangladesh.
We need more Korvi's in the world. Please take a moment to visit www.liftbangla.org to learn how you can support Bangladesh, and the organizations there who are striving to make the world a better place.
About the Author: Dan Mozena serves as U.S. Ambassador to Bangladesh.


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A little noticed fact today was the irony of David Cameron pleading to HMV in Brussels for the return of powers – and doing so the day after a report was published calling for yet another power, namely press regulation, to be handed to Brussels. Our good Lord does indeed have a sense of humour!
Mary Ellen Synon has a short article in the Speccie, one headed "The EU renegotiation pantomime" (most apt) from which:
"I asked Pia if she could describe for me any existing mechanism under present treaties by which Britain could claw back powers which have already been surrendered to the EU. She gave only a brief reference to treaty change, then refused to take a follow-up question. Yet giving a follow-up is the usual procedure.
I wasn't surprised. What the Commission won't come out and say – because it would hand another weapon to eurosceptics – is that it is legally impossible for any EU institution or EU member states to hand back powers to Britain, even if they want to."
One can usually rely on our Mary Ellen to ask awkward questions. Far be it for me to dirgress and ask why Nigel Farage is not shouting this fact from the rooftops……
Rumour has it that Cameron, to reassure Brussels that contrary to what they may hear he is still deeply in love with them, is to issue a remake of this Harry Nilsson song, from the refrain of which: "I can't live, if living is without EU………."
Update: just noticed this superb line in Chapman & Co (Daily Mail). Discussing various Tory MP's reactions to Camerons speech:
"Andrea Leadsom, leaderene of the loyalist Fresh Start group – the 'Gis a job, Dave' tendency – says it was 'very good'."


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I know what I'm making is more like a NY style than neapolitan but I'm trying to get as close to Neapolitan as possible with what I have.
I've tried using bread flour before and it always came out more dense than I wanted. Of course I was always using oil in the dough at the time so maybe that had something to do with it. I guess il just have to mess around with it a bit more. I have one more dough ball with this formula so I think I'll preheat the stone on the floor like before then move it to the broiler but turn a large baking sheet over and put the stone on it to try to get it closer to the broiler. I've gotten close to 2 minute bakes before the top was charred but the bottom was undercooked. If this method fails I suppose I'll just resign myself to making NY style pizzas when I want a thinner crust.


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I think I needed to stretch more the Dough, and maybe less cheese.
Recipe I used3 1/2 cups of flour1 tbsp Salt mixed in the flour, so you don't kill the yeast1tbsp Dried Yeast.9 ounces of warm water1 Pinch of Sugar to activate the yeast1tsp Olive Oil
That's a boatload of yeast, too. How did the dough react over the course of your 5-day cold ferment?
That's a ton of salt. Did it taste like a ton of salt?


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I've written before about the fact that I am a warm weather guy—my wife and I very nearly moved our family to the Virgin Islands several years ago—but I prefer to deal with many of the inconveniences of winter flying versus one minute of dealing with a thunderstorm.
That conviction was reinforced in spades in July, when I was scheduled to fly a CVG-GSO turn. This happened during the stretch of 90- to 100-degree days when a front decided to assume a stationary stance along the I-70 corridor.
Our normal route of flight on this city pair takes about 50 to 55 minutes, and essentially is a direct line from Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International to Piedmont/Triad International Airport in Greensboro, N.C. I've done it enough times that I could do it with my eyes closed.
On this day, however, little was going right. We were running late because the airplane was late getting to us for our first leg in DTW. We had some passenger connection issues as well as some other run-of-the-mill airline stuff go wrong that put us about 15 minutes behind all day. Had we been on time, we just might have made it out of the CVG area in time to punch the line and fly the normal route to GSO.
Instead, we were forced to take a journeyman's route, flying from CVG due east until we were past Pittsburgh, and then finding a spot to turn south and race the weather. I held off on the controller's request to start south until we were well clear of the eastern band of weather that was on our route, and as a result, we got a nice smooth ride into GSO.
The return flight, however, was not going to be any easier. Our dispatcher loaded us down with a truckload of extra Jet A and wished us luck. He confirmed to me on the phone that the weather would not be a factor in CVG, though the forecast would require an alternate. In reality, the worst of it was west and south of the field. The radar on my phone seemed to confirm that.
Getting home required almost a reversal of our route down, but with one major constraint: We were filed for FL300, but we could not get past FL220 because of traffic saturation. We could see it on our TCAS, and when we checked in with Washington Center, we could hear it on the radio. More than once, the congestion was so bad that our initial transmission was a press of the Ident button on the transponder—we simply could not get a word in edgewise.
We, along with (it seemed) every airplane on the East Coast, were stuck in a "Valley of Blue." The sky above us was clear, and it wasn't too bad going north either. East didn't look great, but even if it had, it didn't do us any good, and we could not find a clear hole to the west—not one that both of us could agree to try. When I liked one, the first officer didn't, and vice versa. We kept going onward, again sneaking in the Pennsylvania area. The controller occasionally would ask us when we planned to turn. We never had a good answer. We tried to get a higher altitude, because in several places, it looked as though even a few thousand feet would get us over the weather. No dice. It was one of the few times that I heard a controller announce, "[a]ll aircraft cleared to deviate as necessary."
Finally, when I began to think that we might need to announce to the RCMP that we were coming to Canada, eh, we found a hole to our left and floored it. Three or four minutes later, we were firmly established on a heading that again paralleled the weather, going west. We had to argue with several more controllers as we worked around a sizeable cell, and we had to contact the dispatcher about the 8,000-foot difference in our altitude and the effect on our fuel burn, but the farther west we went, the better the ride got. A normal flight of an hour took 90 minutes. Two hours later, we were on the ground in Baltimore for the overnight.
I hate thunderstorms…but I so want to move to a tropical island and fly VFR for the rest of my days.—Chip Wright
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