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Attention "Anyone But Obama" (ABO) FReepers! If you go to the thread at the link you will will see that JimRob has "declared a truce" and hundreds of ABO FReepers are now vigorously defending their belief, which I share, that the ineligible Marxist Manchurian MUST BE DEFEATED to preserve the Republic...without fear of "the ZOT"! Please consider a DONATION not just to fund renewal of expression and amplification of your ABO views, but let's over-achieve this FReepathon to get JR his new equipment!
IMO, Free Republic and FReepers could be vital in swing states in rallying just enough conservatives to tip the election and prevent our troops from having to salute for even one day longer than necessary an ineligible Marxist committed to destroying the USA !
Unless the MA courts had ruled in its favor, it would not have been instituted.
It is their responsibility.
Here's my list of politicians whose afterlife is going to look like a Slayer video:
Barack HUSSEIN Obama
Bawney Fwank
Al Franken
Barbara Boxer
Schmuckie Schumer
Olympia Snowejob
Susan Vodka Collins
Little Dick Durbin
Nazi Pelosi
Bill Caligula
Hitlery Caligula
Diane Frankenfeinstein
Jew hater Ron Paul
Ayatollah Carter
Keith Ellison
Jim Webb
Dennis Kucinich
Bernie Sanders
I could go on, but my hands have started to hurt.
A vote for Romney is meaningless!
If choice "A" is a crap sandwich, and choice "B" is a crap sandwich, opting for either one of them is the definition of meaningless, unless you enjoy crap sandwiches.
looks like the start of a good and decent list of evil people.
Yep, Secret Agent Man, I know that my belief in reincarnation is not biblical, which is one of the reason that I do not claim to be a Christian.
Then I get people telling me oh you believe in Jesus Christ, but you're not a Christian, you can't just use our Lord as you see fit and things of this nature.
But yes, I do absolutely believe in Jesus Christ, I cannot actually say that I am a Christian, rather I am just a simple man trying to do his best to understand that which is beyond my ability to understand.
Some things have happened in my life to open my eyes to certain things. When I was younger, I was an atheist. I am not an atheist any longer, and I will never be again. I am a lot of things, but dishonest is not one of them, and in that regard I must state that I know Jesus Christs exists.
What began to form my belief in reincarnation is that I began to see old souls and young souls. I am a young soul, but I don't believe that this is my first time around, but I do believe I have a very long way to go. I have met people who know so much more than me, who have learned so much more than me. I do my best to learn from them, but yet I still screw up big time some times, really stupid mistakes, yet other times I get it just right to the point that it makes me think I may genuinely have some insight on some things.
It just seems to me that there is so, so much to learn and life can be so short, some times so short such as in the case of my step neice Anna, a beautiful little girl who died of brain cancer when she was four years old. I ask myself what did her soul learn in those 4 short years? What did our souls learn form her in those four short years? Will her soul have another chance? It is my belief that she will.
And listen I am really, really heartened by what you have stated regarding the souls of animals. One of the things I have learned here is that they do have souls, just as people do. And I have to confess that sometimes I envy their souls because of their innocence. Sometimes when I look at man, I just shake my head in shame :(
Secret Agent Man and muawiyah, I really appreciate both your responses, thank you both kindly.
May God bless you, FRiend, and thank you. I'll always love Israel and the Jewish people.
It seems to me that liberalism is a sickness that infects and crowds out all other factors...religion, culture, everything else. Liberals choose their leftwing-ism over everything else.
Jews werent mentioned until the other poster tried to link my post about Mormonism to Jews, somehow. I imagine its some kind of gotcha question, as he sees it, but whatever.
Not intolerance, it is speaking the truth. I have never said Mormons cannot practice their faith, but I have just as much right to speak out against their religion as they have to practice it.
Freedom of religion does not mean a religion can go unchallenged, nor should it, since that would stifle freedom of speech.
So, again, links to posts please where I have been bigoted (in your words). I'll wait...
Not agreeing with someone else's faith is not hatred.
Saying truce but the insults have continued.
I guess you don't know the definition of what a bigot is.Thats a shame, most 5th graders could answer that question.
The way to stop insults is to stop insulting. A soft word turneth away wrath.
Nope, it was passed in 1981, forcing the state to use its matching funds in Medicare to cover abortions, as the Hyde amendment forbade using Fed funds.
When was the last time there was a good Presidential candidate for GOP? Probably Reagan's second term, in his first one he certainly didn't have much conservative support.
Yet conservatives keep doing the same thing and expecting a different result.
No, because we are at war with "the religion of peace" whether anyone wants to admit it or not.
Mormons are not at present engaged in a global terrorist plot to destroy Europe and the United States.
Meanwhile back in the real world there is some evidence that Barack Obama is or was at one point a Muslim.
So among the two people who can win that's your choice, Mormon or possible secret Muslim.
This is not a difficult choice.
"So you admit youre voting for obama."
Hey you guys said that if we didn't vote for Romney we were voting for Obama. Well, you caught me in the act of not voting for Romney... the election is a half a year away and I am presently in the act of drinking coffee, watching the rain come down, and making fun of a ding a ling on my cell phone. In your wrinkled grey cerebral pea, I am definitely voting for Obama! LOL
And now... I'm putting International Delight almond joy flavored coffee creamer into my coffee... incontrovertible proof that I am a DU plant. ;^)
Blue shorts! I'm wearing blue shorts, just like blue states! I must be Obama's cousin, suffering from amnesia!
I remember Kenya! I remember my mud hut! I remember my favorite food is fried grasshoppers! You've cured me! You are my hero for ever! Thank you!
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Any idea how many FReepers there are?
The way he should have dealt with that mistake was simple ~ Use it against them.
Sure, we don't do dungeons anymore but the Court works in government owned buildings that get heating from the Executive. No reason they need heat.
Then there's parking. They don't need to park. Their predecessors didn't park cars back in the 18th century when the constitution was written, so why should they. The Executive could have taken the parking and leased it out to street vendors or something.
But, whether or not dungeons are in fashion these days, I think people who demand Executive supremacy should get their faces rubbed in it almost immediately. They are like puppies peeing on the couch!
Ideally, no.
But Harry Potter doesn't work here any more and everyone's magic wands are discharged.
So what would you suggest? Sit in the corner and cry?
I am really tired of hearing the hatred spewed concerning other beliefs if different than some of these bigots.
You mean like the bigots that inform people that the republican presidential candidate sees the white house as a stepping stone to godhood?
Yep, that's the bigots. The ones who are so ignorant they don't even capitalize words like "Republican" and "White House"
I'm a reasonable person. I voted for Bush 1 even though I knew he wasn't the most conservative person out there, Same goes for Bush 2, Dole, and McCain.
I don't demand perfection.
However, there comes a time when a candidate is beyond the pale.
IMO, Romney is well beyond the pale.
You and Mitt Romney are advocating for a judicial oligarchy, a dictatorship of men in black robes.
Our Constitution however guarantees to each of the States a republican form of government.
You should read the document some time, and so should the likely "Republican" nominee.
Many on this site adamantly opposing and refusing to vote for Romney are clearly under the grip of ODS - OBAMA DERANGEMENT SYNDROME, the need to shout: "I AM A PURE CONSERVATIVE. HEAR ME ROAR!!"
These folks are enjoying their outrage so much they've become blinded to common sense and refuse to accept:
A. that this is a pluralistic society set up to tolerate and protect all religions.
B. that voting for President is not the same as selecting a pastor for your church.
C. that the President's power to impose a minority religious view on the entire nation is less than zero
D. that staying home and not voting for the GOP Prez candidate is akin to biting off your nose to spite your face
E. that Sarah Palin will eventually support Romney because she's a smart, smart, smart politician unaffected by ODS
"Dude or dudete, not sure, over the years we have tangled many times, your intolerence of the mormon religion is well known accross FR, there is no need to post any specific post, you are as guilty as Huey Long in New Orleans!"
In other words, you're as full of sheeyit as a Superdome mens' room after Katrina.
Don't worry about what anyone who lives on Osage Street in Orange, TX thinks eastforker. That's ignorant, Red Neck territory.
Damn, Humble. I don't understand why the obvious is so elusive to so many people. No, we can't just sit in a corner and cry about our plight. And no, the right answer isn't to succumb to the inevitable.
The right answer is to do whatever the hell we can to RESIST. Every red blooded patriot needs to sit down and figure out what that means to them personally, and then DO it.
I said earlier that the ballot box is FUBAR, and the soap box is completely ineffective against the ruling class Commies. Some are thinking that there's only one box left to open, but that's the box of last resort, and none of us wants to go there.
What to do?
I suggest that there's still one box remaining, and that's the tool box. Open it up, and you'll find lots of ways to RESIST the encroaching tyranny - including civil disobedience. That's only one tool in the box, but all of them are effective means to force the government class to bend to our will. We just need to use our imaginations on how to use those tools that work.
Yes, conservatives keep voting for Rinos (with held noses or otherwise) and somehow convince themselves that this will stop the leftward drift of this country.
I like your thinking!
I just don't think it would fly.
I raise cain about the courts when they make stupid rulings, but I expect the Executive (state or fed) to obey them.
If the USSC strikes down Obamacare, I damn well expect him to obey the ruling. Bush didn't like the ruling on military tribunals, but he worked with the Congress to get something acceptable to the court...it took 6 years.
The MA legislature had the opportunity to prevent gay marriage, but as I understand it, the libs that opposed civil unions and the conservative that opposed any compromise on gay unions blocked any chance at compromise.
I wouldn't live in MA for any amount of money. That's why I never liked Romney, anyone that would want to be governor of that messed up state was too liberal for me.
Unfortunately, its him or Obama.
Noob, go lay down, you ain't runnin $hit!!
Conservatives only pay attention at election time. Its largely too late at that point.
The time to pay attention was 4 years ago or even 8 years ago. Get people into the GOP to effect change in the process of selecting candidates.
Isn't that the problem at the moment?
I know that the Republicans rejected Bush's nomination of Harriet Myers to the bench, but that was like hitting the lotto, in my opinion. A Republican dominated Congress standing up to a wayward Republican president is as rare as hen's teeth.
No worry, this ain't ny first rodeo, been down this road before.
You are but one more example of whats wrong with FR.
Narcissistic Mormon Progressive Statist Socialist or Narcissistic Secret Muslim Progressive Statist Socialist?
I'm voting for the Humble Christian Conservative.
Also, cats are the only pure meat-eaters, I believe.
Oh, I know the definition, apparently you don't, since you are being a bigot towards me. :)
Again, I am waiting for proof. Put up or shut up.
No, we're not. The founding fathers are the ones that set up this deal. I'm pretty sure thats where the Judicial branch originated.
That's why its so important that Obama gets the boot. He's the one that would love to have judges interpret constitutions however they feel at the time.
At least with Romney, conservatives will have some influence on his picks.
Well, dang. I always thought conservatives respected so called red-necks; after all, they're just country men who do manual work, often outside. What do you find contemptible about red-necks, Homer?
Romney is, of course, a very competitive guy and having been groomed for this for years is going to do whatever it takes not to go down in flames as a failed president. His first term will be all about the economy and if making alliances with the strongest blocs in Congress is what it takes, we only need to make sure that the keepers of the flame are principled Conservative hands.
From your homepage.
I will continue to proclaim the TRUE gospel of Christ against counterfeit gospels with my very last breath.
That sir, in itself means you are a bigot towards any religion that does not conform to your point of view.
Live it, learn what the word bigot means.
What's your opinion of the ones too dumb to know you don't capitalize redneck?
Thats ignorant, Red Neck territory."
You are in desperate need of a bowel movement.
No, they didn't set up "a deal" where executives get to ignore our constitutions just because some judge violated his own oath.
The Constitution requires every officer of government, at every level, to swear to support it.
Every elected official has a sacred duty to God and his fellow countrymen to do exactly that, even if every other officer of government is in breach of their own oaths.
Same thing is true in every State.
The idea that you're going to have some influence over judicial supremacist Romney once he has his hands on power doesn't pass the laugh test.
I am really tired of hearing the hatred spewed concerning other beliefs if different than some of these bigots.
"You mean like the bigots that inform people that the republican presidential candidate sees the white house as a step
to godhood?"
"Yep, thats the bigots. The ones who are so ignorant they dont even capitalize words like Republican and White House
Well I do declare. Of all the republicans in name only, you must be their brain trust.
You're supporting a candidate who is in favor of abortion, gay rights, gun control, and government run health care... but what peeves you off is the lack of punctuation in America.
Oh yeah...you must be the Rino Einstein...E=Mc2
E= Everything but a vote for
M=Mitt Romney makes you
c2=(c x c)=Crazy and full of CaCa?
This is fun :)
Oh wow you must be one of them there sofistekated folk up thereun from de far north with one of dem fancy edumacations and all...
I am humbled, it bes a privledge to done be here on FR with ya...
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Berkeleyan wrote:My favorite soundracks for now are from the movies:
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Berkeleyan wrote:I haven't seen this one - I'll keep that in mind next time I walk into a video/DVD store....Wait, isn't it with Sean Penn and Susan Sarandon ?
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Golden Gate Baptist Theological Seminary Confers Degrees at Winter Commencement Ceremony
Fifty-nine students received degrees Friday evening, December 11, at Golden Gate Baptist Theological Seminary's 2009 winter commencement ceremony, held at First Baptist Church of San Francisco. Students came from the Seminary's five campuses, as well as from several of its regional Contextualized Leadership Development centers.
The graduates represented 16 states and 10 countries, and received diplomas, masters and doctorates of ministry. In all, 8 types of degrees were earned among the graduates: Diploma in Christian Ministries-CLD, Diploma in Theology-CLD, Diploma in
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The Seminary's highest student award, the William O. Crews Presidential Leadership Award, was given to Seth David Postell, a Doctor of Philosophy graduate from the Northern
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Two graduating students shared the story of their journeys towards earning their degrees. Seth Postell returned to the podium, and Emile Masabarakiza, who received a Master of Divinity degree with a concentration in Biblical Studies, described how God sustained him through his seminary studies.
Through its 63 Contextualized Leadership Development (CLD) centers across the country, operated in partnership with local churches, associations and state conventions, the
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In his commencement address, President Iorg told the graduates that God likes variety in life and in leaders. "Our Seminary shapes leaders, but Golden Gate leaders are not one-size-fits-all. I challenge you to emulate the models of different aspects of leadership portrayed in the Bible." He urged the seminarians to be innovative, to share the Gospel in ways that have never been done before, or ways followers have never seen before. He encouraged them to be builders, "to build your ministry over time," Iorg said. "It takes time to understand people, and building a ministry requires systems and organization."
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ST. PETER – Funeral services for Esther Sampson, 90, of Franklin, formerly of St. Peter, will be 11 a.m. Friday, Feb. 8, 2013, at St. Peter Funeral Home, Klein Chapel, in St. Peter. Burial will be 3 p.m. Friday in Union State Line Cemetery, rural Jackson, Minn.
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Esther Bertha Carrison was born March 14, 1922, in Estherville, Iowa to Percy and Theo (Grinde) Carrison. On Sept. 20, 1937, she was united in marriage to Marion Sampson. They lived several places in Minnesota and owned motels in both Dassel and Willmar. She was also a member of the Waverly Lutheran Church in rural Trimont. Esther enjoyed quilting, baking, making clothes, collecting salt and pepper shakers, and taking care of others.
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Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and officials from the State Department and other U.S. government agencies are attending meetings at the 67th meeting of United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) in New York from September 23 to October 1, 2012. Through a series of "Inside the State Department" videos, senior officials are providing perspectives on the events of the week.
On Friday, September 28, while in New York, Secretary Clinton hosted a G8 Deauville Partnership with Arab Countries in Transition Foreign Ministers Meeting and the Ad Hoc Friends of the Syrian People Ministerial. In the video above, Assistant Secretary of State for International Organization Affairs Esther Brimmer, State Department Director of Policy Planning Jake Sullivan, and State Department Spokesperson for the Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs Aaron Snipe discuss their work at UNGA.
Follow the State Department on Storify for more highlights from U.S. engagement at UNGA. A full list of Secretary Clinton's meetings can be found on the Department of State's public schedule. Please continue to follow our coverage of UN events via @StateDept and @USUN on Twitter as well as on state.gov and the USUN website.
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There was an article in today's New York Times called "Private Security Hovers as Issue After Benghazi". The article references the problems that have arisen from the use of private contractors like Blackwater in the Middle East. As the Chair of the Sierra Club Land Use Committee in San Diego in 2008, we successfully fought a Blackwater attempt to build a quasi-military base in the San Diego backcountry. Blackwater has taken out permits in the counties surrounding San Diego as well, including Riverside and Imperial Valley, confirming an understanding presented by author Jeremy Scahill that President Bush started building the infrastructure needed to invade his own country.
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Almodóvar, Pedro
Pedro Almodóvar 1949(?)–
Spanish filmmaker.
The following entry provides an overview of Almodóvar's career through 1995.
Pedro Almodóvar's work flourished in the post-Franco culture of Spain in the late 1970s and 1980s. His films celebrate the era of individuality and acceptance that infused the Spanish cultural arts after the end of Franco's repressive totalitarian regime. In addition, Almodóvar's work is understood by some critics as a revision of the history of Spain under Franco. The characters in Almodóvars films, commonly homosexuals, transsexuals, or bisexuals, are not relegated to the subculture. Instead, Almodóvar uses these characters to represent the postmodern revolt against the repressive boundaries of Spain's history. Almodóvar's work has garnered him a reputation as an international auteur.
Biographical Information
Almodóvar was born in 1949 (some sources say 1951) in a small village, Calzada de Calatrava, and spent most of his youth attending parochial schools. Almodóvar always felt out of place in the small town and at the age of seventeen he moved to Madrid. He worked for the next ten years as a typist for the telephone company. During this time he also acted with an independent theater troupe, sang in a rock band, wrote articles and X-rated comics for an avant-garde newspaper, and composed the memoirs of the fictitious pornography queen, Pati Difusa. Almodóvar never attended film school, but by the mid-1970s he was shooting experimental 8- and 16-millimeter shorts. He completed his first full-length feature, Pepi, Lucy, Bom y otros chicas del montón (Pepi, Lucy, Bom and a Whole Lot of Other Girls, 1980) for only thirty thousand dollars. Two years later he followed with Laberinto de passiónes (Labyrinth of Passion, 1982) which attained cult status in Spain. Almodóvar's fourth feature, ¿Qué he hecho yo para merecer ésto? (What Have I Done to Deserve This?, 1984) brought him popularity in the United States. His reputation has grown steadily throughout his career in both Spain and internationally. His films are played at film festivals throughout the world and have won several international awards.
Major Works
Almodóvar's films primarily focus on the lives and feelings of women. They are usually told from the woman's perspective, but include a host of well-developed ensemble characters. His cinematic world is filled with intense imagery and outrageous situations that are made to seem ordinary. His films embrace life and individual freedom, and his main theme is the celebration, exploration, and sometimes frustration of human desires. What Have I Done to Deserve This? focuses on life in the housing projects of Madrid. The film's protagonist is Gloria, an overworked mother who takes amphetamines to help her face her responsibilities as a housewife and her job as a cleaning woman. Her family includes her taxi driver husband who neglects her, two sons—one a drug dealer, the other a homosexual—and a mother-in-law who longs to return to her village. Gloria is frustrated and unsatisfied in her life and takes action to change her circumstances by bludgeoning her husband with a ham bone and selling her youngest son to a homosexual dentist. Matador (1986) is a study in psychosexual brutality which follows the story of an ex-matador and a lady lawyer who can only experience sexual fulfillment in conjunction with killing. Mujeres al borde de un ataque de nervios (Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, 1988) is about overcoming machismo. Pepa is a Spanish television and radio actress who attempts to contact her ex-lover Ivan to tell him she is pregnant. Ivan is a cad who uses women and abandons them, but Pepa sees reconciliation, murder, or suicide as her only options. She attempts to win him back, but in the final confrontation Pepa decides to give up on Ivan and become a single mother. Kika (1993) tells the story of an independent heroine who is raped and then further abused by the broadcast of her victimization on television.
Critical Reception
Reviewers often point out the autobiographical nature of Almodóvar's films, including his focus on sexuality, family relationships, and life in Madrid versus life in a small town. Critics discuss Almodóvar's complicated relationship with Francoism. Marvin D'Lugo asserts, "While Almodóvar has long insisted that his cinema is without any connection to Franco and Francoism, textual evidence suggests the contrary. An essential axis of meaning in much of his filmic work lies precisely in the ways the ideas and icons of Francoist cinema—those related to religion, the family, and sexual repression—are set up as foils to stimulate the audience to embrace a new post-Francoist cultural aesthetic." Other reviewers assert that in his attempt to ignore Francoist Spain, Almodóvar turned to Hollywood melodrama for a reference point in his films. Kathleen M. Vernon states, "American film has provided him with a vehicle for articulating his distance from the themes and style of a recent Spanish film tradition obsessed with the country's tragic past." Critics assert that Almodóvar pays homage to the Hollywood melodramas of the 1930s and 40s both through his use of clips from several films and his use of melodramatic techniques. Critics also discuss Almodóvar's unconventional use of humor in his films, comparing his work to such directors as John Waters, Russ Meyer, and Luis Buñuel. Some reviewers are disturbed by the erotic themes and images in Almodóvar's films, but many critics look beyond the sensational aspects of the director's work. Peter Evans says, "Almodóvar's devotion to scandal and outrage never detracts from a serious project to explore the after-effects of repression through the combined strategies of pop and high art."
∗Principal Works
†Pepi, Lucy, Bom y otros chicas del montón [Pepi, Lucy, Bom and a Whole Lot of Other Girls] (screenplay) 1980
‡Laberinto de pasión [Labyrinth of Passion] (screenplay) 1982
∗∗Entre tinieblas [Dark Habits] (screenplay) 1983
††¿Qué he hecho yo para merecer ésto? [What Have I Done to Deserve This?] (screenplay) 1984
Matador (screenplay) 1986
La ley del deseo [The Law of Desire] (screenplay) 1986
Mujeres al borde de un ataque de nervios [Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown] (screenplay) 1988
Atame! [Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down!] (screenplay) 1990
Tacones lejanos [High Heels] (screenplay) 1991
Kika (screenplay) (1993)
Almodóvar on Almodóvar (nonfiction) 1995
La flor de mi secreto [The Flower of My Secret] (screenplay) (1995)
Carne tremula [Live Flesh; based on the novel by Ruth Rendell] (screenplay) 1997
∗Almodóvar directed all the films listed here.
†The English translation of this title varies. It is also referred to as Pepi, Lucy, Bom and Other Girls on the Heap, Pepi, Lucy, Bom and Other Ordinary Girls, Pepi, Lucy, Bom and Other Girls Like That, and Pepi, Lucy, Bom and Other Girls All Like Mom.
‡This film is also known as Laberinto de pasiones [Labyrinth of Passions].
∗∗This film is sometimes referred to as Sisters of Darkness.
††Punctuation of this title varies.
Pedro Almodóvar with Marsha Kinder (interview date Fall 1987)
SOURCE: "Pleasure and the New Spanish Mentality: A Conversation with Pedro Almodóvar," in Film Quarterly, Vol. XLI, No. 1, Fall, 1987, pp. 33-44.
[In the following interview, which was conducted on May 25, 1987, Almodóvar discusses his approach to filmmaking, the major themes of his films, and the place of his work in the context of Spanish film.]
Following the enthusiastic critical reception of Pedro Almodóvar's La Ley del Deseo (The Law of Desire) at this year's Berlin Film Festival, Spain's oldest and largest-circulation film journal, Fotogramas & Video, ran an editorial saying:
The recent Berlin Festival has...
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Jeanne Silverthorne (essay date March 1990)
SOURCE: "Onwards and Sideways: The Films of Pedro Almodóvar," in Artforum, Vol. XXVIII, No. 7, March, 1990, pp. 146-50.
[In the following excerpt, Silverthorne states that, "Almodóvar's world is a soup of tenses. His films simultaneously lock us in the past; celebrate our having come through, and wait for us to be born."]
… Almodóvar is very conscious of his cultural surround: a new Spain, only recently released from fascism. He has observed in interviews that the generations now taking over in the country are "unrelated" to earlier ones; however, although he is clearly presenting his vision of a polymorphously perverse post-Franco generation, it is not exactly...
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Marvin D'Lugo (essay date 1991)
SOURCE: "Almodóvar's City of Desire," in Quarterly Review of Film and Literature, Vol. 13, No. 4, 1991, pp. 47-65.
[In the following essay, D'Lugo discusses the image of Madrid and Spain's past and present in Almodóvar's films.]
History and Desire
Madrid has figured prominently in Pedro Almodóvar's cinema, gradually coming into focus as the implicit protagonist of nearly every work. In these films, the city is regularly imaged as a cultural force, producing forms of expression and action that challenge traditional values by tearing down and rebuilding the moral institutions of Spanish life: the family, the Church, and the law....
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Kathleen M. Vernon (essay date Spring 1993)
SOURCE: "Melodrama Against Itself: Pedro Almodóvar's What Have I Done to Deserve This?" in Film Quarterly, Vol. 46, No. 3, Spring, 1993, pp. 28-40.
[In the following essay, Vernon analyzes the influence of American film melodrama on Almodóvar's work.]
Central to what might be called the purposeful eclecticism of Pedro Almodóvar's cinematic universe is the model of American film melodrama, a source which the Spanish director has appropriated to notably effective and often unexpected ends. Indeed, the presence of American film culture is palpable throughout his work, from the photographs of Ava Gardner and Elizabeth Taylor among the "greatest sinners of the...
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Peter Evans (essay date July 1993)
SOURCE: "Almodóvar's Matador: Genre, Subjectivity and Desire," in Bulletin of Hispanic Studies, Vol. LXX, No. 3, July, 1993, pp. 325-35.
[In the following essay, Evans analyzes how Almodóvar reworks the genre of the Hollywood melodrama and explores the issues of identity and desire in post-Franco Spain in Matador.]
1 Introduction: The Lawless Breed
Souvent, nous parlons du monde, de l'humanité, comme s'il avait quelque unité: en fait, l'humanité compose des mondes, voisins selon l'apparence mais en vérité étrangers l'un á l'autre … Le plus frappant est qu'en chacun des mondes auxquels je fais...
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Paul Julian Smith (essay date January 1994)
SOURCE: "Future Chic," in Sight and Sound, Vol. 4, No. 1, January, 1994, pp. 6-10.
[In the following essay, Smith argues that although Kika is "Gloriously shot, beautifully dressed and skillfully acted," the film "is poorly plotted and characterized, its rogues' gallery of grotesques provoking little of the audience identification that Almodóvar was clearly hoping for."]
It promises to be a cold winter in Madrid. As the long hang-over from the Olympic annus mirabilis of 1992 drags on, Spain is facing up to record unemployment, continuing political scandal, and mounting concern over the intrusions of the newly deregulated media. In a mirror image of the...
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Florence Redding Jessup (essay date 1994)
SOURCE: "Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown: Sexism or Emancipation from Machismo?" in Look Who's Laughing: Gender and Comedy, edited by Gail Finney, Gordon and Breach, 1994, pp. 299-314.
[In the following essay, Redding Jessup asserts that "If the ending convincingly sums up Pedro Almodóvar's gender messages in this film, Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown is a story about emancipation from machismo."]
Introduction: May We Laugh?
Is Pedro Almodóvar's Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown a sexist comedy about hysterical women or a story of liberation from machismo? Should our nerves jangle with...
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Brad Epps (essay date 1995)
SOURCE: "Figuring Hysteria: Disorder and Desire in Three Films of Pedro Almodóvar," in Post-Franco, Postmodern: The Films of Pedro Almodóvar, edited by Kathleen M. Vernon and Barbara Morris, Greenwood Press, 1995, pp. 99-124.
[In the following essay, Epps discusses the use of hysteria in Almodóvar's Labyrinth of Passions, What Have I Done to Deserve This? and Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown.]
There is something at once mad and methodical about Pedro Almodóvar's films. Frenetic, effervescent, wild, and rapturous, they are also willful, deliberate, and self-conscious. They focus on dispersion, center on marginality, and concentrate on excess. They...
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Pedro Almodóvar with Paul Julian Smith (interview date February 1996)
SOURCE: "Almodóvar and the Tin Can," in Sight and Sound, Vol. 6, No. 2, February, 1996, pp. 24-7.
[In the following interview, Almodóvar discusses his latest film The Flower of My Secret, his cinematic process, and Spanish politics.]
[Smith:] You've told the Spanish press that The Flower of My Secret is your most La Manchan and most traditional film. But it strikes me that, with its references to NATO and Bosnia, to the newspaper El País and to Prime Minister Felipe González, this is your most European and most contemporary film.
[Almodóvar:] When I say the film's La Manchan I mean it's my most realistic film yet. Of...
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Further Reading
Cardullo, Bert. "Lovers and Other Strangers." The Hudson Review XLIII, No. 4 (Winter 1991): 645-46.
Asserts that Almodóvar's Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down! is "as facile and tedious as his other films to reach these shores."
Dyson, Jonathan. "Hypocrite Lecteur." The Times Literary Supplement, No. 4764 (22 July 1994): 18.
Complains that "despite several stunning set-pieces such as the rape, the basics of plot and characterization [of Kika] simply don't gel: storylines go unresolved or are unconvincingly resolved, longueurs abound."...
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U.S. Women Open Pan Am Games with Win
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (Oct. 15, 2011) – The U.S. Women's National Volleyball Team out-blocked Puerto Rico 16-3 as it won its opening match 25-17, 25-18, 25-14 on Saturday at the Pan American Games in Guadalajara, Mexico.
The U.S. Women (1-0) will continue pool play on Sunday against Peru.
The United States took advantage of 23 Puerto Rican errors in the victory while committing only eight. Outside hitter Angie Forsett (Lake Worth, Fla.) led all scorers with 12 points on eight kills and four blocks. Lauren Gibbemeyer (St. Paul, Minn.) led all blockers with six and added four attacks for a total of 10 points.
"This is so big," Forsett said. "We have a lot of young players, so to get this first win under our belts feels good."
"I think today, our blocking defense worked well for us," U.S. Head Coach Andy Banachowski said. "But I have been very pleased with the progress of our back line, too."
Puerto Rico out-hit the U.S. Women 38-35. The United States finished with two aces while Puerto Rico had none. Aurea Cruz led Puerto Rico with 11 points on 11 kills.
Among other U.S. scorers, outside hitter Cynthia Barboza (Long Beach, Calif.) finished with 11 points on nine kills and two blocks.
"There are more rookies (in this Pan American Games) than in the past," said Barboza, the U.S. team captain. "We have a good group and a really strong zone. Everything has been great."
Opposite Cassidy Lichtman (Poway, Calif.) finished with six points on five attacks and one ace. Middle blocker Jessica Jones (Naperville, Ill.) totaled six points, including an ace.
Setter Carli Lloyd (Bonsall, Calif.) finished with five points and was credited with 19 assists.
Libero Tamari Miyashiro (Kaneohe, Hawaii) led both teams in digs with nine and also had 10 excellent receptions. Forsett had nine excellent receptions.
Banachowski started Forsett and Barboza at outside hitter, Gibbemeyer and Jones at middle blocker, Lichtman at opposite, Lloyd at setter and Tamari Miyashiro (Kaneohe, Hawaii) is the designated setter.
Kayla Banwarth (Dubuque, Iowa) and Regan Hood (Carrollton, Texas) played as substitutes.
The U.S. Women took a 2-0 lead in the first set and led 8-4 at the first technical timeout (TTO). With the U.S. leading 10-6, Puerto Rico scored twice to pull within two. Barboza came back with a kill that sparked a 7-0 run behind the serving of Lloyd, who had an ace in the run. Forsett also scored on two attacks and a block and Gibbemery added a block and kill. Puerto finally ended the run with two straight kills, but never threatened again.
Puerto Rico took an 8-4 lead at the first TTO of the second set but Lloyd came back with two straight kills to pull the U.S. to within two. The U.S. finally tied the score at 13-13. With the score tied 15-15, Gibbemeyer gave the U.S. its first two-point lead with an attack and block. The U.S. scored four more straight points, including a kill and block by Forsett, to lead 21-15 and went on to win the set.
The U.S. Women took a 4-1 lead in the third set and led 8-4 at the first TTO. Lloyd and Forsett scored after the break to put the U.S. ahead 10-4 the team increased its lead to nine at the second TTO at 16-7. Puerto Rico scored on a U.S. serving error before the U.S. Women gained three more straight points on a block from Gibbemeyer followed by two Puerto Rico errors. Leading 19-8, the U.S. took the set easily.
U.S. Women's National Team Roster for Pan American Games
# - Name (Position, Ht, Hometown, College)
2 – Kayla Banwarth (Libero, 5-10, Dubuque, Iowa, Nebraska)
3 – Keao Burdine (OH, 6-1, Pico Rivera, Calif., Southern California)
4 – Angie Forsett (OH, 5-8, Lake Worth, Fla., California-Berkeley)
6 – Tamari Miyashiro (L, 5-7, Kaneohe, Hawaii, Washington)
8 - Cynthia Barboza (OH, 6-0, Long Beach, Calif., Stanford)
10 – Lauren Gibbemeyer (MB, 6-2, St. Paul, Minn., Minnesota)
11 – Regan Hood (OPP, 6-2, Carrollton, Texas, LSU)
12 – Alix Klineman (OH, 6-4, Manhattan Beach, Calif., Stanford)
13 – Cassidy Lichtman (OPP, 6-1, Poway, Calif., Stanford)
14 – Carli Lloyd (S, 5-11, Bonsall, Calif., California-Berkeley)
15 – Courtney Thompson (S, 5-8, Kent, Wash., Washington)
19 – Jessica Jones (MB, Naperville, Ill., Minnesota)
Head Coach: Andy Banachowski
Assistant Coach: Mike Hebert
Assistant Coach: Jay Hosack
Technical Coordinator: Jenni Hirneisen
Team Leader: Ken Sullivan
Pan American Games
Guadalajara, Mexico
Pool A
Oct. 15: Cuba vs. Canada, 3 p.m.
Oct. 15: Brazil vs. Dominican Republic, 8 p.m.
Oct. 16: Cuba vs. Dominican Republic, 3 p.m.
Oct. 16: Brazil vs. Canada, 8 p.m.
Oct. 17: Dominican Republic vs. Canada, 2 p.m.
Oct. 17: Brazil vs. Cuba, 5 p.m.
Pool B
Oct. 15: USA def. Puerto Rico, 25-17, 25-18, 25-14
Oct. 15: Mexico vs. Peru, 6 p.m.
Oct. 16: USA vs. Peru, 1 p.m.
Oct. 16: Puerto Rico vs. Mexico, 6 p.m.
Oct. 17: Peru vs. Puerto Rico, noon
Oct. 17: USA vs. Mexico, 7 p.m.
Quarterfinals (Times subject to change)
Oct. 18: 2A vs. 3B, 6 p.m. (Match 13)
Oct. 18: 2B vs. 3A, 8 p.m. (Match 14)
Classification 5-8 (Times subject to change)
Oct. 19: 4A vs. Loser Match 13 or Match 14, 1 p.m. (Match 15)
Oct. 19: 4B vs. Loser Match 13 or Match 14, 6 p.m. (Match 17)
Semifinals (Times subject to change)
Oct. 19: 1B vs. Winner Match 13 or Match 14, 3 p.m. (Match 16)
Oct. 19: 1A vs. Winner Match 13 or Match 14, 8 p.m. (Match 18)
Classification 7-8
Oct. 20: Loser Match 15 vs. Loser Match 17, 1 p.m.
Classification 5-6
Oct. 20: Winner Match 15 vs. Winner Match 17, 3 p.m.
Bronze-Medal Match
Oct. 20: Loser Match 16 vs. Loser Match 18, 6 p.m.
Gold-Medal Match
Oct. 20: Winner Match 16 vs. Winner Match 18, 8 p.m.


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Welsh Names and Surnames
Written by and ©1979-2000 to J. B. Davies, Cardiff. All international rights reserved.
Published here with permission of the author and Glamorgan Family History Society.
It is well known that the 20th century Welsh have inherited a very restricted range of surnames.
The choice is predominantly between Jones, Davies, Evans, Williams, and Thomas, not one of
which is a Welsh name.
Almost certainly, the most significant factor in determining the final outcome was the persistent
survival, in Wales, of the system of naming. This traditional method, common to most pastoral
peoples, involved identifying a man by his father's Christian name and sometimes by his
grandfather's, too. It was the practice of all the Celtic nations in Britain: the Welsh, the Scots, and
the Irish. If a man's name was Cawrdaf, and he decided to call his son Dogfael, the young man
would be known as Dogfael son of Cawrdaf. His son, in turn, might be Carwed son of Dogfael son
of Cawrdaf.
The Welsh word for son is mab or map, depending on whether it precedes a vowel or a
consonant. The Irish and Scottish word is mac. The small difference illustrates one of the main
distinctions between the two surviving branches of the Celtic Language: 'q' Celtic and 'p' Celtic.
Gaelic, i.e. Irish, Scottish and Manx are 'q' Celtic languages; hence Maq = Mac. Welsh, Cornish,
and Breton are Brythonic, or 'p' Celtic languages, hence Map = Mab.
Welsh usage, the 'm' in map was dropped, leaving the truncated ap, which gives us the style
Carwed ap Dogfael ap Cawrdaf. The ap has survived as initial 'p' or 'b' in a number of modern
Welsh surnames. For instance, Bevan comes from ap Evan, meaning mab Evan, or "son of Evan."
Similarly, Bowen comes from ab Owen; Price from ap Rhys; Powell from ap Hywel; Prichard from
ap Richard; Prothero from ap Rhydderch; Prosser from ap Rhossr; Proger from ap Roger; Pugh
from ap Hugh; Parry from ap Harry; Penry from ap Henry; and Probert from ap Robert, etc. These
are the Welsh equivalent of the Scottish and Irish Mac- names. A number of instances of the ap
form will be found in use in Wales today, but these are all modern revivals.
What particularly distinguished the Welsh situation was the gradual process of adopting
surnames beginning in the 15th Century, but not effectively finished until the later 18th Century. This
protracted changeover, with a majority of the changes taking place during the 17th and 18th
Centuries, more than anything else determined the limited range and linguistic poverty of modern
Welsh surnames.
Had surnames been universally adopted in Wales during the 10th-14th Centuries, which is when
they were largely taken up in England, there is no doubt that the sources, as for English surnames,
would have been fourfold: (a) father's given name; (b) personal nickname [often arising from a
distinguishing physical feature]; (c) trade or occupation; or (d) place of origin [or residence]. The
result would have been as rich a variety of surnames as is available to the English and common
among them might have been names based on the personal names in use in 10th-14th Century
Wales, but now quite obsolete: Aeddan, Aelhaearn, Arthfael, Bledrus, Breichiol, Brachwel, Cadfael,
Cadwallon, Cadwgan, Caradog, Cynddylan, Ffernfael, Gwaethfoed, Gwynllyw, Llywarch, Meirchion,
Mynwyedig, Peibio, Rhirid, Rhun, Tallwch, Yneigr, etc.
But it was not so. A very few of the most ambitious Welsh families adopted surnames in the 15th
century, perhaps not more than a dozen or so. Examples from Southern Wales are Morgan of
Tredegar and Mathew of Llandaff with the great Herbert kindred following suit a generation or so
later. In these cases, "father's name" was adopted though the practice was certainly not unanimous
within the kindreds and later branches were often prone to revert to the Welsh forms. In the case of
the Herberts, the senior branches of the family chose not to adopt a surname early on with the result
that they eventually became Jones, not Herbert. On the other hand, one branch in the 15th Century
became known by their place of origin as Raglan.
In northern Wales, there was a greater apparent tendency to adopt place names, as Mostyn,
Pennant and Nanney, while, in mid-Wales and border regions, nicknames were in several cases
adopted in this early period. Llwyd, meaning "grey," became Lloyd; Fychan, meaning "small" (or
younger") became Vaughan.
This small selection of names: Morgan, Mathew, Herbert, Mostyn, Pennant, Nanney, Lloyd and
Vaughan, all of which were in one instance or another adopted as surnames during the 15th and
early 16th Centuries, are very different in character from the selection of 10th-14th Century personal
names listed above. Three of them are personal names; three are place names; and, two are
nicknames. This is probably not very different from the ratio of such classes of names that would
have been adopted in England at the same period -- but none is an occupational name. That is
surely because to adopt a surname in 15th Century Wales required such wealth, power, ambition,
and degree of anglicization that, by definition, the aspirant could not have been a smith, carpenter,
or ploughman.
But, of the personal names, only one is Welsh: Morgan. Matthew, the Apostle's name, was
universal throughout Europe, and Herbert was probably due to some English or Flemish influence.
The Norman invasion in the 11th Century opened Wales up to wider continental influences during
the following centuries and consequent changes in fashion had a marked effect on the choice of
personal names. The archaic ones were not quite discarded, but the following selection from a list
of persons born between 1350 and 1415 indicates some of the foreign intrusions:
Dafydd Fychan ap Dafydd (Dafydd = David and was very common at this period)
Gruffudd ap Ieuan (Ieuan=John)
Gwilym ap Thomas Hen (Gwilym=William)
Jenkin Llwyd (Jenkin=a diminutive of John)
Matthew ap Gruffudd Gethin
Meurig ap Thomas ap Hywel (Meurig=Maurice)
One of the most important factors at work here was the Church influence. Insistence upon the
use of Saints' names at baptism had spread widely; the universal European names of Matthew,
John, and Thomas (a Becket, not the Doubter, gave rise to the latter's popularity). Strangely, the
many 5th-6th Century Welsh Saints Illtyd, Cadog, Teilo, Tyfodwg, Tathan, Dyfrig, Ellteyrn, Beune,
Garmon, and others, have rarely given rise to a surname, although many of them appear to have
been in use as Christian names in later medieval times. In some localities, Illtyd and Cadog were in
use as late as the 18th Century. The one great exception to this, of course, is the Patron Saint, 6th
Century St. David. From the very frequent use of Dafydd, we have derived Davies, one of our
commonest and most evenly distributed surnames.
However, it was no more than a minority who adopted surnames during the 15th Century, and not
until the end of the 16th Century had the great majority of the more substantial gentry done so. By
that time, the common European Christian names -- John, Thomas, William, etc. -- had gained the
overwhelming ascendancy; and, while a fair mixture of Howells, Morgans, Llewellyns, Lloyds and
Vaughans remained, the predominant pattern was one of Williams, Thomas, Jones, Evans and
Again, because it was still only the gentry who were adopting surnames at this period, there were
few if any trade and occupation names creeping into use. The older and more 'barbarous' names
had, understandably, simply gone out of fashion. Few children were baptized Gwalchmai or
Gwaethfoed in the 16th Century. But, there was a short list of indigenous Welsh personal names,
which had and have persisted in common use, usually, perhaps, because they were the names of
greater or more recent Welsh kings, but also, no doubt, because they are shorter and more
euphonious then most of those that fell out of fashion. These are Llywelyn, Rhys, Hywel, Morgan,
and Gruffudd. To these can be added less-common survivals, such as Meredith, Gedrych, Gronow
(from Goronwy), and Cadwallader. In one locality, due to the popularity of a local 13th Century hero,
Cadwgan hog y fywall ("Cadwgan wield thy battle axe"), his name continued in use as a Christian
name among his descendants to be adopted eventually as a surname by some individuals.
Interestingly, it remains in use in the district to this day as a Christian name.
By the end of the 17th century, most of the minor gentry and yeomanry had adopted surnames,
but it was mid-18th Century, or even later in more-Welsh areas, before a majority of lesser yeomen
and tenant farmers had conformed. It was in this later period that the majority of the population
made the change, and, whether it was due to fashion, bureaucratic expectation, or the precept of
the gentry I cannot say; but, the almost-invariable rule by this time seems to have been to adopt the
patronymic. The result was once more no trade or occupation names, no further place names, and
very little extention in the variety of Christian names chosen.
There were some new ones. If early adoption had favoured Welsh surnames and 15th-17th
Century adoption favoured universal European names, 18th-19th Century adoption gave rise to the
entry of many Biblical names. The Methodist religious renewal of the 18th Century resulted in many
children's being given old testament names like Abraham, Moses, Samuel, Daniel, etc., which
subsequently became surnames in many cases. Many lesser Biblical names, such as Salathiel,
became rarer surnames, too; one parish in the early 19th Century can boast of a Mishak, a
Shadrach, and an Abednego.
So far, I have emphasized the time span over which the change took place. But, place had its
effect as well as time. Thus, towns and districts adjacent to England took to surnames earlier and
more permanently than did rural and inland districts. There was also the irony that Welsh names
often stood a better chance of surviving as English surnames (in mutilated form) than as Welsh.
This was because a man who stayed at home in Wales in the 15th Century was most unlikely to
adopt a surname. But, if he migrated to England, he was certain to do so. This has given rise to a
number of Welsh names that have been modified into English surnames: Caradog became
Craddock; Einion became Onions; ab Einion became Bunyan; Guto (a diminutive of Gruffuth)
became Gittins; Coch (red) became Gough; and Ddu (black) became Dee.
Most of the borrowed names, which have found their way into the Welsh surname stock, are in
English forms. The reason for this is quite simple. Although, until 70 years ago or so, Wales was
predominantly Welsh-speaking, all official records, until very much more recently than that had, by
law, to be kept in English. Thus, whatever spoken forms may have been in use, it was only English
forms of the names that became registered. But, there are exceptions. William was taken into
Welsh from the Latin form as Gwilym and, in some cases, Gwilliam has resulted. Some Norman
names were adopted in Welsh forms. Rhossr for Roger has resulted in the surnames Rosser and
Prosser (ap Rhossr), as well as Rogers and Prager. Maurice became Meurig in Welsh, so that we
now have Meyrick and Merrick, as well as Morris. A Welsh merchant in Bristol, Richard ap Meurig,
who appears in the Customs roll as "ap Meryke," was supposed to have been the heaviest investor
in John Cabot's expedition to America in 1498. It is, therefore, very probable that America had its
name from the Bristolian version of this man's name: Richard Ameryk. [But, Amerigo Vespucci of
Italy published one of the first maps of the New World and was, thus, thought by many to be its
discoverer-Ed. (1979 journal)]
But, of all the European male names, John is the most common. Welsh, like Latin had no 'J,' so
John came to us originally in the form of Ieuan, which became one of our most common surnames,
Evans. To this, we have added ab Evan to become Bevan. In its later English form, John has
become one of the commonest of all British surnames, Jones. Also in Wales, we have a
considerable number of people who use the English form, "John," without mutilation as a surname.
And, as if this were not enough, the early English or Flemish diminutive for John, Jankin, gained
much popularity in 15th Century Wales alongside Ieuan, with the result that Jenkins now (1979) runs
to six pages in the South East Wales telephone directory.
None of this holds any comfort for the genealogical searcher in Wales. Seekers after the
more-common surnames are doomed to failure unless they have a great deal more information than
"William Thomas from Wales." And, even with their quarry traced and identified in the 19th Century,
sooner or later the parish register entry will appear, which says "Evan son of William Thomas
baptized," and no more. If it is late in the 18th Century, he is likely to be Evan Thomas; if it is early in
the century and in a fairly Welsh area, he is probably Evan William. If it is a town or other Anglicized
area, he might be Evan Thomas as early as the 17th Century, or, indeed, very much earlier than that.
Towns were English plantations, mainly, and had surnames from their foundation dates -- but were
prone from the 16th Century onwards to be infiltrated by Welshmen who may not always have
adopted town ways at once. Added to this uncertainty is the depressing probability that he is
probably far from being the sole possessor of his name in the parish, whichever it may be.
Once the comforting signpost of a surname is left behind, there is very little hope of making
further progress except in the case of a relatively wealthy family, who may have left written records of
their affairs -- wills, at the very least, are needed. The sort of family, that is, who would have adopted
a surname and is, in fact, on the point of doing so. Thus, it is often possible to go back a further
generation before the surnames. But, to make substantial further progress will be impossible
unless, at the same time, a secure connection can be made with one of the many medieval Welsh
pedigrees, which have been brought down to the 16th-18th Centuries.
To offer guidance on this difficult phase, it is necessary to emphasize that the actual process of
changeover when it does take place was not the simple once-for-all act, which what I have said so
far may imply. I have constantly referred to surnames' being adopted, but, on reflection, I rather
doubt if that is an apt description of what happened. Looking in detail at the mechanics of the
process, it may be better to think in terms of a surname's becoming fixed.
There may have been cases where a surname was adopted as a clear-cut act following a
rational decision, but, more often, it seems rather to have been the balance of social, cultural, and
economic forces eventually tipping in that direction.
When a great family acquired a surname, humbler relations were quick to take the name up and
wear it as a badge to proclaim their kinship with persons of influence. But, they might do so in a
spirit of compromise. The more conservative stay-at-home branches of the Mathew family of
Llandaff style themselves throughout the 15th and early 16th Centuries as "William ap Robert
Mathew" and "Robert ap William Mathew," etc., using the surname almost in parentheses and
obviously seeing it as a kindred badge rather than a name. And, where such branches rose in
affluence and status, so the surname became more securely fixed. But, where they sank, they would
quickly cease to use it at all and disappear from sight in the anonymity of patronymic naming.
In the 17th and 18th Centuries, the critical social and cultural pressures were moving far down the
social scale, and the bulk of the population was drifting into the surname condition. Such people
had no great kin already bearing a surname ready for adoption, and we have very many examples
of the confused and apparently haphazard way in which the change took place in these
Again, I dare not attempt to offer rules of guidance, but it is important for searchers to appreciate
the irregularity during the two or more generations over which the change took place. Also, I won't
attempt an explanation, which would only serve to make matters sound more complicated than they
are. But, the table set out below, which is not a real pedigree but a combination of several
well-attested cases, attempts to illustrate the range of irregularity likely to be met within the 17th and
18th Centuries.
Eustance ap Evan
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Rees Eustance (the ap dropped, but understood)
Richard ap Eustance
Morgan Rees
Eustance ap Richard
Rees Eustance
Joseph Morgan
David Rees
Llywelyn ap Eustance
Child surname
Child surname Rees
Child surname Llywelyn
There is little recent published work on the subject of Welsh surnames [this has changed since
1979], and most of what there is lies hidden away in Transactions of the Cymmrodorion Society or
the Bulletin of the Board of Celtic Studies. It is to be hoped that some professional is working away
somewhere on an up-to-date definitive treatise. I believe that someone is doing this [see, i.e., John
and Sheila Rowlands, Surnames of Wales.] Meanwhile, the foregoing notes are the observations of
a practising local historian who has dabbled in the difficult waters of Welsh genealogy. They are
offered on that limited basis in the hope that they will be helpful to new discoverers of their Welsh
ancestry, and in the hope that they will be superseded as quickly as they deserve.
Reprinted from the South Wales Family History Society Journal (Spring, 1979) III:1. SWFHS is
now Glamorgan Family History Society.
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The ins and outs of change of shift handoffs between nurses: a communication challenge
- 1MIT, Sloan School of Management, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
- 2Industrial and Labor Relations School, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, USA
- 3Patient Care Services, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
- Correspondence to Professor John S Carroll, MIT, Sloan School of Management, 100 Main St, E62-318, Cambridge 02142, MA, USA; jcarroll{at}mit.edu
Contributors JSC participated in the conception and design of the study, the analysis and interpretation of the data, and the writing, revising and approving of the article. MW participated in the conception and design of the study, the analysis and interpretation of the data, and the revising and approving of the article. TMG participated in the conception and design of the study, the interpretation of the data, and the revising and approving of the article.
- Accepted 13 January 2012
- Published Online First 10 February 2012
Background Communication breakdowns have been identified as a source of problems in complex work settings such as hospital-based healthcare.
Methods The authors conducted a multi-method study of change of shift handoffs between nurses, including interviews, survey, audio taping and direct observation of handoffs, posthandoff questionnaires, and archival coding of clinical records.
Results The authors found considerable variability across units, nurses and, surprisingly, roles. Incoming and outgoing nurses had different expectations for a good handoff: incoming nurses wanted a conversation with questions and eye contact, whereas outgoing nurses wanted to tell their story without interruptions. More experienced nurses abbreviated their reports when incoming nurses knew the patient, but the incoming nurses responded with a large number of questions, creating a contest for control. Nurses' ratings did not correspond to expert ratings of information adequacy, suggesting that nurses consider other functions of handoffs beyond information processing, such as social interaction and learning.
Discussion These results suggest that variability across roles as information provider versus receiver and experience level (as well as across individual and organisational contexts) are reasons why improvement efforts directed at standardising and improving handoffs have been challenging in nursing and in other healthcare professions as well.
- Safety culture
- decision making
- transitions in care
- patient safety
- significant event analysis
- critical incident review
Funding The work was supported by a seed grant for exploratory research from CRICO/RMF (part of Partners hospitals), but they had no role in the design and conduct of the studies.
Competing interests None.
Ethics approval Ethics approval was approved by Massachusetts General Hospital
Provenance and peer review Not commissioned; externally peer reviewed.
Data sharing statement There are some additional data from the preobservation questionnaire that is intended to be in another paper, so it is not available at present. The only other data available from this paper are either highly redundant or not very useful. Contact John S Carroll for any requests.


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It's the first day of school in Joplin, Missouri, which was devastated by a killer tornado in May. Despite the destruction — six schools destroyed, three badly damaged — the district is ready, reports the Tulsa World.
The high school is a heap of rubble: Freshmen and sophomore will have classes at a middle school, while juniors and seniors go to Shopko, an empty department store that got a $5.5 million makeover in 12 weeks.
Donors have helped teachers replaced lost school supplies.


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Ron Guth: The 1855-O Half Dime is easily the rarest date and mintmark combination of the With Arrows type. It is the only date with a mintage below one million coins. In Mint State, this date is quite scarce and commands a strong premium in grades above MS63. 1855-O Half Dimes in MS66 and better are extremely rare.
This date comes surprisingly well struck, though it is often weak in the denticles. Nonetheless, the strike quality of this date is much better than the other With Arrows Half Dimes from New Orleans and is almost on par with those from the Philadelphia mint.
Goldbergs 9/2005:1610 - Eugene H. Gardner Collection - Heritage 6/2014:30200, $25,850


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If you're absolutely honest with yourself, you have to admit to those times—those frequent times—when you feel like your desire to do great things for God and your actual ability to do anything for Him are light years apart. We've all been there. In fact, most of us live there.
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