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Student Psychological Counseling Services
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Student Psychological Counseling Services (SPCS) provides psychotherapy to students at Chapman University and is staffed with licensed and professional psychologists, counselors and counselor interns. All full-time undergraduates pay a Health and Counseling Services fee each semester, which allows them to use the Health Services and the Student Psychological Counseling Services at no additional charge. Part-time students and all graduate students not required to pay the fee must be willing to pay the Health and Counseling fee if they wish to use these services after an initial intake session at SPCS.
NOTE: This fee is NOT the same as the Health Insurance, which is a separate requirement. Regardless of what insurance coverage you may have, you are still eligible for basic health services at the Health Center and for counseling services at the Student Psychological Counseling Services if you have paid the Health and Counseling Services fee.
- INDIVIDUAL COUNSELING: Offered to students who meet the criteria for short-term therapy, with an option to continue in group counseling. When longer-term therapy is indicated, or psychiatric consultation is needed, referrals are given for off campus resources.
- COUPLES & FAMILY COUNSELING: Offered to student couples who are both students at Chapman University. Family and other persons important to student client may be involved in counseling sessions on a limited basis with student permission. Decisions to involve others will be determined by student and student's counselor.
- GROUP COUNSELING & WORKSHOPS: Group counseling is offered at SPCS each Fall and Spring Semester upon enough interest to form a group. See Group Counseling section for more information about groups and how to sign up. Groups and workshops are available (based upon response of interest, creating a group) on various issues including stress, anxiety, self image/self esteem, social confidence, and relationships. If you would be interested in a group focusing on a different topic, please contact the counseling coordinator at (714) 997-6778.
SPCS is a department within the division of Student Affairs. Our services provide expertise, acceptance, and objective guidance in dealing with personal problems to help students function successfully in the academic environment. While we work with students who may be experiencing a crisis, our goal is to help students deal with their concerns before they develop into more serious problems.
Other Campus Services:
Disability Services
Jason McAlexander
Peer and Health Education
Dani Smith
(714) 744-7080
Student Health Services
Jacqueline Deats
Director of Student Health
(714) 997-6851
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Why Seek Counseling?
Students come to Student Psychological Counseling Services (SPCS) to seek help from a counselor for a variety of reasons. Students who seek counseling usually are experiencing discomfort or dissatisfaction in some aspect of their personal lives. Some common reasons are problems with friend, family, and or significant other relationships, concerns about personal adequacy, feeling overwhelmed, or feeling sad or anxious without knowing why. The following are some warning signs that may indicate the need for counseling assistance:
- Problems in academic performance
Dramatic drop in grades, incapacitating test anxiety, sporadic class attendance, excessive procrastination and poor academic performance, dissatisfaction or confusion about your major or your career plans.
- Difficult changes in personal relationships
Death of a family member or close friend; difficulties in marriage or intimate relationships; problems at home with family members; problems with roommates or friends.
- Feelings of sadness for no apparent reason
Prolonged feelings of despair and unhappiness, withdrawal, missing family, missing home, loneliness, lack of concentration, loss of interest in usual activities, eating changes, feelings of hopelessness and helplessness, sometimes wondering whether life is worth living.
- Excessive anxiety or fear
Unexplained nervousness, panic, inability to sleep, avoidance of certain activities or situations, profound shyness or constant worrying.
- Personality changes
Unexplained and sudden shifts in mood or behavior, being overly argumentative, angry or aggressive, excessive alcohol consumption, habitual use of legal or illegal drugs, or strong feelings of disconnectedness with one's self.
- Physical complaints when no medical reasons can be found
Frequent stomach aches, headaches, back or joint pain after a physical exam shows nothing.
- Desire to talk with a neutral person You need someone to listen to you and give you an objective point of view.
Students experiencing any one or combination of the above may benefit from counseling. No reason is too small to talk about at SPCS.
What Can I Expect from Counseling?
You can expect to find someone who is interested in listening to your concerns, helping you understand them better and guiding you to resolving them in a healthy manner. Your counselor will take you seriously, and be willing to discuss anything you wish to talk about. Counselors have no "magic wand" and cannot read your mind, and are not there to solve your problems for you. They are there to help you look at your concerns in a new way, and assist you in deciding how to change what you want to change.
Counselors differ in their approaches, but you will find that a positive relationship and partnership is essential in all counseling for it to be effective. As you develop trust in your counselor, you may be expected to participate in trying new ways of approaching your problems, and be willing to try thinking in new ways or experimenting with new behaviors.
Your responsibility in counseling includes a commitment to attending sessions regularly, talk as honestly as you can about what is bothering you, and be willing to look at your life in a different way. You are also responsible for letting your counselor know if something isn't working for you, or if you feel that you are not benefiting from your experience at SPCS.
Individuals over the age of 18 have a legal right to privacy. The fact that you are seeking counseling and all of your psychological records are kept strictly confidential. This means that what you discuss with your therapist is private information that cannot be revealed to anyone without your written authorization. This includes all information documents you fill out, any testing results, and basic information kept by our staff. Our records are separate from academic records and only you have access to them.
Exceptions to this rule are made in rare situations where a therapist feels you, or someone else is in danger. When this situation arises, the therapist will take the appropriate steps necessary to ensure your protection and physical well being.
+ - Making a First Appointment
In order to schedule an appointment with a counselor, you must:
1) Visit Student Psychological Counseling Services in person, located at 410 N. Glassell St. (house in-between Public Safety and Student Health services).
2) Fill out intake information provided. The process will take approximately 15 to 20 minutes to complete and is submitted to the counseling coordinator in the front office.
3) For non-emergencies, an appointment will be scheduled for you based on a match of availability between you and a counselor.
4) Emergencies will be triaged for assessment immediately or same day.
After the first session, you and your counselor will discuss your options and decide together what will be helpful for you, or you may be referred to another agency or practitioner in the area if it appears that this would be more helpful and/or appropriate. Students often find this process comforting despite their initial stress and anxiety, and leave feeling a sense of relief. .
If both you and your counselor decide continuing sessions at SPCS is appropriate, your responsibility in the counseling process includes a commitment to attending sessions regularly, to talk as honestly as you can about what is bothering you, and having a willingness to look at your life in a different way. You are also responsible for letting your counselor know if something isn't working for you, or if you feel that you are not benefiting from your experience at SPCS.
If you wish more information about the process before you come in, please call (714) 997-6778 and talk to our counseling coordinator.
+ - Important Scheduling Notice
SPCS experiences a high demand for services and we want to be able to assist all students requesting help.
We offer assessment and brief therapy and are available for emergency crisis situations during regular office hours. At times, there may be a wait for additional appointments for non-emergency situations. When there is a wait for additional appointments, students may wish to pursue other options in the community.
Our community resource list is given to every student who makes an appointment and is available to anyone upon request. Students are encouraged to check their insurance company's website. For students who have Chapman's health insurance, the website is www.UHCSR.COM.
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Celebrate Christmas 1940s style at the Royal Armouries in Leeds - Thursday, 9 December 2010
Times may be hard, but can you imagine celebrating Christmas on rations? Unwrap the gift of a Second World War Yuletide at the Royal Armouries' flagship museum at Clarence Dock, Leeds on December 11 and 12.
Join us for a weekend of simple, seasonal Forties pleasures – home-made presents, decorations, wartime stories and music. Christmas crackers include:
- Inner state – comedy duo. Themed walkabout characters with performances of traditional 1940s Christmas songs at 11.30am, 1pm, 2pm & 3.30pm.
- Make wartime Christmas gifts – learn about rationing, make-do and mend sessions from 11am – 4pm.
- Christmas stocking making demonstrations at 12noon, 1.30pm & 3pm.
- UK Home Front Society – Costumed hands-on history displays, 11am– 4pm.
- 1940s Hair and Makeup Workshops – 10.45am, 12.30pm, 2.15pm Cost £5 per person – spaces are limited.
- Learn steps from the 1940s dance The Stroll.
Regular museum events will also run as usual:
- Interpretations – Throughout the day from 10.15am. History in Action – 2.30pm (45 mins), * War Cinema, £3 adults, £2 concessions. Have a go sword – 3.15pm (45 mins), Dojo,
- Oriental Gallery, £5 per person, maximum of 12 people. Suitable for 8 years plus. Jester's yard – including arts and crafts, 11am – 4pm, 5th Floor, £2.50 per child, adults go free.
Further details of these and all our events can be found at:
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- Royal Armouries is the national museum of arms and armour and has sites in Leeds, HM Tower of London, Fort Nelson and Louisville, Kentucky. It is the first British national museum to open a permanent presence in another country
- Admission to the museum is free. However, there may be a small charge for some special events.
- Open all year daily, 10am-5pm. Closed 24-25 December
- Information Line: 0113 220 1999
- Website: www.royalarmouries.org
- The Royal Armouries Museum should not be confused with Royal Armouries International plc, the private sector corporate hospitality business.
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Tina Grewe is Pequot-Breezy Citizen of the Year
Three years ago Tina and Garry Grewe's lives changed drastically with a phone call from Lutheran Social Service, telling them their four-year wait to adopt a baby had come to an end.
In fact, the Grewes of Pequot Lakes had just two weeks to prepare for the arrival of not one baby, but twins — Teresa and Joshua.
More surprising, Tina didn't ease her community volunteering when her family size doubled.
For that reason, Tina is the 2012 Pequot Lakes-Breezy Point Citizen of the Year, sponsored annually by Echo Publishing.
Tina's volunteer commitments include:
• Chairing the Pine River-Backus Area Relay for Life. This year will be her 10th since reviving the event in the area. Before moving to Pequot Lakes, Tina was involved in a Relay for Life event in Park Rapids for 18 years.
"I had a high school classmate who died of cancer when we were sophomores," Tina said, noting that spurred her interest in the event.
The survivors are what keep her going with the annual relay.
• Being treasurer of the Pequot Lakes High School Grad Blast for graduating seniors, This will be her sixth year helping with that event.
The kids are the reason Tina volunteers for Grad Blast. Every group is so different, she said, noting she sees another side of students at Grad Blast she didn't know existed.
Plus, she realizes kids are influenced by adults other than their parents. Sometimes they'll share information with another trusted adult that they won't with their parents, or they'll listen to a coach or other adult, she said.
"You don't realize the impact you make," Tina said.
• Singing in the choirs at St. Christopher's and St. Alice Catholic churches in Nisswa and Pequot Lakes. Since becoming a mom Tina has cut back a little bit from singing at both churches, but she hopes one day to sing with her children.
• Serving on the Greater Lakes Area Performing Arts board for the past four years. She's secretary of that board and has acted in a couple of productions as well. Tina was involved in plays and musicals in high school and college.
• Being a Kinship Partner until her partner graduated. She hopes to have another Kinship Partner one day when her own children are older.
• Helping the Patriot Athletic Club, which operates concession stands at school events to provide funds for students in various activities.
• And, of course, attending Pequot Lakes High School boys' basketball games (husband Garry is head coach), providing treats for the players for their return trips home from away games and coordinating scrapbook binders for each senior player each year.
"Nothing, and I mean nothing, ever slows her down," said friend Brenda Greer, who has known Tina for the past 12 years and works closely with her on the Grad Blast committee.
"Three years ago, when they were blessed with the twins, Tina was still found attending all the basketball games and continued with her game day treats that were sent with the team on the away games so they would have a snack on the way home.
"Throughout the basketball season she would gather every newspaper article for the Patriot boys' basketball team and put all of them in a neatly organized binder and gave one to each senior on the team at the end of the season," Greer said.
"All three of my boys have one of these binders and will cherish and look back on them forever," she added.
Tina said there are a lot of great people who give of themselves in the area.
"There are so many good people in Pequot Lakes-Breezy Point who do a lot of volunteer work, which is why our communities are great to live in," she said.
Tina credits her parents for her desire to volunteer.
"They are the reason I am the way I am," she said. "I have five brothers and we are all the same way because we had great examples in our parents... They are great role models and we are just trying to keep up with them.
"It is all my parents' fault — I just like to volunteer!"
Tina also credits her husband, Garry, saying she wouldn't be able to do any volunteer work without his support.
"She truly is one of the most kind-hearted, loving and caring women I know, with a heart of gold that always puts others before herself," Greer said of Tina. "I feel blessed to know such an amazing woman."
Tina feels blessed, too. While she now works as a grants compliance manager for the Catholic Health Initiatives Foundation office in Park Rapids, she previously worked for Lands End Development in Crosslake.
The four partners there — Brian Engen, Matt Balmer, Jeff Balmer and Jon Fogarty — were supportive when Teresa and Joshua came home. Staff members at Pequot Lakes School where Garry teaches also were supportive.
"The community as a whole has been very supportive of us with the kids," Tina said. "We have certainly been blessed to live in a caring community."


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I use plastic drawer organizers and pencil holders. I always put things in the same place so when I need it I know just where to go. Works great for me.
Welcome to the Quilting Board!
I use plastic drawer organizers and pencil holders. I always put things in the same place so when I need it I know just where to go. Works great for me.
I am trying to go with the less is more and have two sets of pen, pencil ruler, scissors which I keep in two tins
I use drawers because of dust here and label front of drawers and cover with packing tape so it stays on and a look and I can tell what is in each drawer and tote.
I use 2 small flower pots. I've thought of also putting some coffee beans in the pots (hole in bottom plugged of course) but I have so much in them they seem to stand on their own.
Thanks, everyone for sharing. Guess I'll start by thinning out my selection, then try some of these ideas. I especially like the idea of something portable so I don't have pencils and markers strewn all over the sewing room. Connie
Please meet my avatar quilting buddy, Myrtle McQuilter
I have a couple pair of scissors and seam rippers and keep one of each at the sewing machine. Most of the other day to day things, I store in this tote that I got from Hobby Lobby with a 40% off coupon. I sew with some friends and take classes, and this has been the greatest thing. I don't have to think about what I need to take...it's all in my tote.
I have a couple of those plastic drawers on wheels then little plastic trays and baskets
Used an old coffee can and made a tool bucket. Has fabric cover with pockets on outside and scissors and larger items go inside. Works great for me. My thread is on a rack with dowels.
I use school pencil boxes. The blue one holds bobbins - the bobbins are in little containers that are labeled - sewing, quilting, bottom line, embroidery. The red one holds the USB sticks for embroidery and the dongle for the software. Another holds all the various marking pens and pencils. My embroidery thread is in OESD boxes. Sewing thread is on various thread holders that hang on the wall, sewing thread on one, quilting on another, specialty thread on another.
Almost all of my threads and bobbins are in tackle boxes. Safety pins and straight pins are in decorative tins with a magnet attached to them. Each sewing machine cabinet has its own scissors and rotary cutters and rippers in the top drawers. Pencils are in cigar boxes. I have 2 sets of plastic drawers on wheels with all the other doo-dads and what-nots. But with all the organization I still lose scissors and rotary's a hundred times per project. Been thinking about making a Velcro vest so I can attach things to myself. One for the sewing room and another for the kitchen. I seem to lose spoons and spatula's too.


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Deer management is just that and is done for different reasons in the UK.
For example, if the immediate habitat can not support the deer numbers, then a cull of hinds or does would be in order, if it were tree damage a cull of old stags or bucks and equally you might need to inject cash revenue in to the environment to improve areas for deer, if that is the case then trophy hunting pays the bills. Red deer rut around October month, open season starts in August month. The stalker was not breaking the law and to be honest I had sat in a High seat the previous season and watched that same stag strut up and down the field below. The stag was just going back, so if I were to put my hand on my heart I would have taken him as well but would have skipped all the publicity. For meat I prefer a hind or a doe, however Roe bucks taste fine, with Muntjac coming second place and reds third. I do not like the taste of Fallow at all, taste like ferrets rear ends smell in my opinion. I have some very fine fallow land, 20 mins up the road from me but don't tent to stalk there. Red stags lose condition and when spent (after the rut) the meat isn't so good.


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From our International Headquarters in Montreal to our office in Las Vegas and our shows around the globe, discover the places where we exhibit our passion, our creativity and our talent.
Our recruitment team is in charge of identifying the best candidates within the pools of talent. Candidates who apply in the pools are taking the first step towards developing an ongoing relationship with our recruitment team and being considered for job openings sometimes even before they are posted online. Learn about the various steps in our process.


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The bees in one of my mating nucs are removing drone brood that is still alive, and tossing it out the entrance. Why would they do this? Some of it looked like it was within a day of hatching.
The bees in one of my mating nucs are removing drone brood that is still alive, and tossing it out the entrance. Why would they do this? Some of it looked like it was within a day of hatching.
Maybe resource management? Are they short of food, space, nurse bees? Could also be response to a cold spell. I had a number of drones dumped from one of my hives last week as well.
I thought that was also a sign of hygienic behavior - did the drones appear to have anything wrong with them?
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mites ????
My uncle and I recently noticed something similar. We had a very warm late winter. Then we had an extended cold snap.
1. Hygienic bees will remove brood infected with mites
2. Drone brood is often on the outer edge of the brood nest and may get chilled in a cold snap if there are not enough bees to cover all of the brood, and they get tossed out.
Stop and smell the flowers, 50,000 ladies can't be wrong
I thought chilled brood too, but these drones were kicking and struggling to move. Most did not have wings developed yet, and whitish spots where they were still basically larva. Chilled brood is basically dead, these were not. This nuc of bees has a full division board feeder so food is no issue. They are, however, raising several virgin queens in their midst who are hatching out as I type this. My guess is a combination of hygienic behavior and making room for the new queen to lay.
this happened to me last weekened. i added a frame of emerging/capped brood with some capped drones on the end to a nuc about 2 weeks ago. They pulled all the drone brood out and dumped them in front of the hive. they were alive and within a few days of hatching
That's EXACTLY what I did!
I am seeing this behavior the last few days in a very strong hive. Anyone else? Can this occur with supercedure perhaps? Plenty of pollen coming in and overall foraging behavior. Not really seeing any drones fly out from this colony either. This hive has 3 mediums of surplus honey that i was hoping not to need to lift off to inspect until I extract before golden rod (few weeks)


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Hey 2 J's....I would not say so much the trigger is better just a little different. I think it is the trigger designed initially for the P-07 polymer CZ and allows a decocker to be added instead of a saftey. There are some other subtle differences too. i have been told the newly engineered Omega trigger mechanism improves trigger travel uses fewer parts so to enhance the service live of the weapon. However, the main advantage, like I said, is really easy interchange of decocking lever or manual safety.
I hope this helps. have a great week end bud. i will be going ice fishing.


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Girls That Hit It Out Of The Park
<p>With Opening Day just around the corner, Playboy.com looks back at some of the hottest fans in the game, the wives and girlfriends of ballplayers. </p>
There is something about millionaire athletes in peak physical condition that drives the girls wild. For reasons lost on us (totally unfit, unhealthy, mismanaging-the-little-money-we-have writers), they just seem to flock to them. It is, quite frankly, the stuff of fairy tales.
Baseball players, more than any other athletes, seem to have an overwhelming allure, especially, we've noticed, for Playmates. Of course, given the absolute beauty of the Bunnies, it could be the other way around…
A Long, Long Time Ago
{"pbembedwidget":"gallery","id":"4033","size":"large","alignment":"left"} Jessica Canseco (Jose Canseco)
The former wife of the most infamous cheater (and deranged Tweeter) in professional sports, Jessica Canseco published a memoir entitled Juicy the same year Jose released his reality-shattering memoir Juiced. Part of Juicy appeared in Playboy in September 2005; so did all of Jessica Canseco.
{"pbembedwidget":"gallery","id":"2708","size":"large","alignment":"left"} Marilyn Monroe (Joe DiMaggio)
Despite their marriage lasting only 274 days, Joe DiMaggio and Marilyn Monroe were perhaps the ultimate power couple of the 1950s. Between her sex symbol persona pervading the stuffy culture of the 1950s and DiMaggio breaking batting records left and right for the Yankees, no one really even came close.
Once Upon a Time
{"pbembedwidget":"gallery","id":"3875","size":"large","alignment":"left"} Brittany Binger (Grady Sizemore)
Make all the jokes you want about Grady Sizemore's ability to stay on the field; he made the greatest catch of all time with Brittany Binger (that joke could have used a little work). But seriously: up until this point we just assumed the outfielder had a glass jaw, but after seeing who he had waiting for him at home, we wouldn't have wanted to waste a lot of time at the ballpark either.
{"pbembedwidget":"gallery","id":"2583","size":"large","alignment":"left"} Karina Smirnoff (Brad Penny)
For being kind of a weird-looking dude (not to mention a largely subpar ball player), Brad Penny has dated an awful lot of really attractive women: Alyssa Milano, Eliza Dushku and of course Karina Smirnoff, who appeared in our pages in May 2011.
{"pbembedwidget":"gallery","id":"12768","size":"large","alignment":"left"} Shannon James (Hunter Pence)
Hunter Pence is another weird-looking dude who's made the rounds on the dating-ridiculously-good-looking-women circuit. Among them: Miss May 2007 Shannon James.
Happily Ever After
{"pbembedwidget":"gallery","id":"3252","size":"large","alignment":"left"} Jaime Edmondson (Evan Longoria)
If you look back through Miss Jaime Edmondson's Play-By-Playmate columns, you can find some interesting little bits about a certain Rays third baseman. As a for instance, she awarded the "Hot & Sexy Homer Award" to Evan Longoria back in 2011, stating: "I love it when [a] guy can step up to the plate, whether it's on the field or asking me out to dinner." Obviously.
{"pbembedwidget":"gallery","id":"9452","size":"large","alignment":"left"} Lisa Dergan (Scott Podsednik)
Once upon a time in Milwaukee, Scott Podsednik stole 70 bases in a single season. In fact, in a four-year span between 2003 and 2006, dude averaged 87 runs on a .277 BA and stole 53 bags a season. Then things sort of went sideways for a few years until he found Miss July, Lisa Dergan in 2008. Next season? Back to his old form: .304 with 75 runs and 30 steals. Just like that. It was an inspired season. We can see why.
{"pbembedwidget":"gallery","id":"1881","size":"large","alignment":"left"} Lauren Anderson (Reid Brignac)
The Rays are doing pretty well for themselves. Brignac's not a Ray anymore, but he was when he met Lauren Anderson…who just so happens to be friends with Jaime Edmondson! The two traveled to Belize in 2011 and, well, the results were what you might expect from two gorgeous Playmates spending time in a tropical climate. Check out the video and gallery here.


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Farm based community located smack dab between M-52 and M-57. Consisting of about 3,000 people and 20,000 cows and acres of corn. This town offers Showboat week, a week consisting of concerts, drunk people and a parade. The high school is home to 500 or so students and offers a great FFA. Don't be surprised if you see a tractor driving through town or a house being busted with weed.
I drove through Chesaning, accidentally blinked and missed everything.
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I like him.. just not at #19
i love em.. Hes a diffrence maker, and even in games the Bulldogs didn't do well defensivley, he made his presence felt, like yesterday, by forcing the big tunrover in the 3rd quarter, which very well could of been the play of the game.. He lead GA in Tackles, and missed 4games! Thats pretty impressive and gives u a idea of his motor and how often hes around the football.. THe giants need players like that, despretley...
They need players that impact the game by more then just ur basic stuff.. THey need diffrence makers, to go with run stuffers like Linval..
Chase Blackburn is terrible... I'd take this guy in a second, and i believe the bears will take em if we pass, as there future replacement for Brian Urlacher.. The bears know about converted safteys into LB's, and what LB's that make plays can do for a team...
I'd be estatic if we got Ogletree.. I also love Khaseeme Greene.. Those are the 2 i've raved about for sometime now... Both made prominent plays in there bowl games as well.. Greene was flat out brilliant..
Although I Want LBs bad, I don't think we go that route in the 1st.....
Anyone that pays close attention to prospects, what's the word on Gerald Hodges,Kevin Minter,Kasheem Greene,Sean porter $& Arthur brown? Do you see any of them as a good fit for us & where could be realistically get them?
I like him alot...In terms of MLB prospects Olgetree is probably the most athletic , best in pass coverage and best pass rusher coming out this season. The guys a tackling machine, he had more tackles then Teo while playing 4 less games!
Other observations are that he has a few stud d-linemen in front of him to eat up blockers. If this guy can't be his own impact player then I don't think he is a 1st round talent. On top of the fact that he doesn't possess rare (pierre-paul like) athleticism. No freakish plays.
Reminds me a lot of a smaller Akeem Ayers. Not spectacular in college.
I'd like to see Andrew Jackson from Western Kentucky in Blue.


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Multimedia Resources on Bioethics, Cloning, & Reproductive Technologies
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For an early and classic article on cloning by the co-author of "The
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toward the Clonal Man," Atlantic Monthly, May, 1971.
For information on the recent cloning of mice, see the following:
In October 1997 Nature and the British
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On Human Gene Therapy, see Mary Carrington Coutts, "Human
Gene Therapy," Scope Note 24. (Washington, D.C.: Georgetown
University, 1994); and Walters, LeRoy, and Kahn, Tamar Joy, eds., Bibliography
of Bioethics, Vols. 1-19 (Washington, D.C.: Kennedy Institute of Ethics,
Georgetown University).
On Surrogacy, see the extensive bibliography in Surrogate
Motherhood: Politics and Privacy, edited by Larry Gostin (Bloomington:
Indiana University Press, 1990), pp. 338-55.
In addition to the standard ethics journals, see the Hastings Center
Reports, BioEthics, Kennedy Institute of Ethics, Journal
of Medicine and Philosophy and Law, Medicine & Health Care.
Helen Bequaert Holmes, "Reproductive Technologies," Encyclopedia
of Ethics, edited by Lawrence C. Becker and Charlotte B. Becker (New York:
Garland Publishing, Inc., 1992), Vol. II, pp. 1083-1089
There have been a number of national commissions, both here and in
England, that have prepared reports and policy recommendations on these issues.
See, among others, The President's Commission for the Study of Ethical Problems
in Medicine and Biomedical and Behavior Research, Splicing Life: The Social
and Ethical Issues of Genetic Engineering with Human Beings (Washington,
DC: GPO, 1982); Mary Warnock, A Question of Life: The Warnock Report on
Human Fertilisation and Embryology (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1985); Jonathan
Glover et al., Fertility and the Family: The Glover Report on Reproductive
Technologies to the European Commission (London: Fourth Estate, 1989); American
Fertility Society, Ethics Committee, Ethical Considerations of the New Reproductive
Technologies, in Fertility and Sterility, Vol. 46, No. 3, supplment
1 (1986) and Fertility and Sterility, Vol. 53, No. 6, supplement 2 (1990)..
For a religious response to the Warnock report by the Regious Professor of Moral
and Pastoral Theory in the Univesity of Oxford, see Oliver O'Donovan, Begotten
or Made? (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1984). For a survey of results of such
reports, see LeRoy Walters, "Ethical Aspects of the New Reporductive Technologies,"
Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, No. 541 (1988). Pp. 646-664.
Most recently, see the Report of the National Bioethics Advisory Committee,
"Cloning Human Beings."
General Anthologies
There are a number of excellent anthologies available in this area.
Among the general anthologies on issues in bioethics, see the excellent Contemporary
Issues in Bioethics, edited by Tom L. Beauchamp and LeRoy Walters, Fourth
Edition (Belmont: Wadsworth, 1994); for an excellent selection of both philosophical
and non-philosophical authors, see Genetic Engineering: Opposing Viewpoints
(San Diego: Greenhaven Press, 1994) and Carol Levine, ed., Taking Sides:
Clashing View on Controversial Bioethical Issues (Guilford, CN: Dushkin,
Genetic Screening and Engineering
One of the principal areas of concern in regard to genetic screening
is sex selection. See Mary Anne Warren, Gendercide: The Implications
of Sex Selection (Totowa, NJ: Rowman and Allanheld, 1985); and her "IVF
and Women's Interests: An Analysis of Feminist Concerns," Bioethics
2, No. 1 (1988), pp. 37-57; for a review on recent feminist work in this and
related areas, see Anne Donchin, "The Growing Feminist Debate Over the
New Reproductive Technologies," Hypatia, Vol. 4, No. 3 (1989), pp.
136-149 (also see several other related articles in this volume); and Helen
Bequaert Holmes, "Sex Preselection: Eugenics for Everyone?" Biomedical
Ethics Reviews&endash 1985, edited by J. Humber and R. Almeders (Clifton,
NJ: Humana Press, 1985). Also see Michelle Stanworth, Reproductive Technologies:
Gender, Motherhood, and Medicine (Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota
Press, 1987).
Genetic Screening
On the more general issues of genetic screening, see the special
issue of The American Journal of Law & Medicine, Vol. 17, Nos. 1-2
(1991) entitled The Human Genome Initiative and the Impact of Genetic Testing
and Screening Technology. Also see the essays in Code of Codes: Scientific
and Social Issues in the Human Genome Project, edited by Daniel J. Kevles
and Leroy Hood (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1992).
Genetic Engineering
For some excellent resources in regard to questions of genetic engineering,
see Ethical Issues in the New Reproductive Technologies, edited by Richard
Hull (Belmont: Wadsworth, 1990); Kenneth D. Alpern, The Ethics of Reproductive
Technology (New York: Oxford University Press); Sherill Cohen and Nadine
Taub, eds., Reproductive Laws for the 1990s (Clifton, NJ: Humana Press,
1989); Ruth F. Chadwick, ed., Ethics, Reproduction, and Genetic Control
(London: Croom Helm, 1987); Elaine Baruch, et al., Test Tube Women: What
Future for Motherhood? (London: Pandora, 1984) contains essays mostly against
new reproductive technologies; Clifford Grobstein's From Chance to Purpose:
An appraisal of External Human Fertilization (Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley,
1981) and his later Science and the Unborn: Choosing Human Futures (New
York: Basic Books, 1988); Joseph Fletcher's The Ethics of Genetic Control:
Ending Reproductive Roulette (Buffalo, NY: Prometheus Books, 1988) strongly
presents the case in favor of genetic manipulation, while Gena Corea's The
Mother Machine: Reproductive Technologies from Artificial Insemination to Artificial
Wombs (New York: Harper and Row, 1985) gives a strong presentation of argruments
against such maniupation. For a well-argued and balanced approach to these issues,
see The
Perfect Baby: A Pragmatic Approach to Genetics, by Glenn
Also see the issue of The Hastings Center Report, Vol. 24, No.
2 ( March, 1994), with articles by Joseph Palca, "A Word to the Wise; on
the Approval of in vitro Fertilization Research;" John A. Robertson,
"The question of human cloning;" and Richard A. McCormick,
"Blastomere separation: some concerns; embryo splitting as a treatment
to in vitro fertilization." For a good collection of essays on the
status of the fetus, see Bioethics and the Fetus: Medical, Moral, and Legal
Issues, edited by James M. Humber (Clifton, NJ: Humana Press) and Peter
Singer et al., eds, Embryo Experimentation (New York: Cambridge University
Press). For a critique of the philosophical viability of the notion of the "pre-embryo,"
see A. A. Howsepian, "Who or What Are We?", Review of Metaphysics,
Vol. 45, No. 3, pp. 483-502, which replied to Richard McCormick's "Who
or What is the Preembryo?" in the Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal;
Alan Holland, "A Fortnight of My Life Is Missing: A Discussion of the Status
of the Human 'Pre-Embryo,'" Applied Philosophy, edited by Brenda
Almond and Donald Hill (London: Routledge, 1991), pp. 299-311.
There is a wealth of literature available on surrogacy. See, among
many others, On the Problem of Surrogate Parenthood: Analyzing the
Baby M Case, edited by Herbert Richardson (Lewiston, N.Y.: The Edwin Mellen
Press, 1987), a collection of ten essays from a variety of standpoints dealing
with the moral issues raised by surroacy in general and the Baby M case in particular;
New Approaches to Human Reproduction, edited by Linda M. Whiteford and
Marilyn L. Poland (Boulder: Westview Press, 1989); Ruth Macklin, Surrogates
and Other Mothers (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1994) covers a
range of issues about assisted reproduction, including surrogacy; also see her
earlier book, Moral Choices: Bioethics in Today's World (New York: Pantheon
Books, 1987). For a strong set of arguments against surrogacy, see Thomas A.
Shannon, Surrogate Motherhood: The Ethics of Using Human Beings (New
York: Crossroad, 1988). Also see Alexander Morgan Capron, "Grandma? No,
I'm the mother! postmenopausal women becoming pregnant with physician aid,"
The Hastings Center Report, Vol. 24 ; No. 2 (March, 1994), pp. 24 ff.
and B. D. Colen, "Whatever Happened to Baby Jane Doe? and Other Cases Involving
Reproductive Ethics," The Hastings Center Report, Vol. 24 ; No.
3 (May, 1994), pp. 2 f.
Bioethics and Religion
Among the works in this area, see John Mahoney's Bioethics and Belief
(Westminster, Maryland: Christian Classics, 1984), which explores the possibility
of a dialogue between Christianity and medicine in regard to IVF and other reproductive
issues; Theology and Bioethics. Exploring the Foundations and Frontier,
edited by Earl E. Shelp (Dordrecht: D. Reidel, 1985), which contains twenty
essays on (1) theology, science, and bioethics; (2) foundations and frontiers
in religious bioethics, and (3) religious reasoning about bioethics and medical
practice. For the Vatican's position on these issues, see the Congregation for
the Doctrine of the Faith, Instruction on Respect for Human Life in Its Origin
and on the Dignity of Procreation: Replies to Certain Questions of the Day
(Boston, MA: St. Paul Editions, 1987).
Summaries of Recent Literature on Reproductive Technologies


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WHEN the sun sets behind the long line of the Aqueduct of Marly, a profound peace falls upon one of the most beautiful home prospects in the world. An ancient village lying in a fold of the hills behind Mont Valerien sends up a faint smoke from its chimneys; the first spurs of the hills of Normandy can be seen, line beyond line, in the far distance, and the great flat plain through which the Seine winds and doubles is dotted with the lights of innumerable villages—the leafy suburbs lying between Paris and St. Germains. Paris itself is unseen, but a walk through the woods brings within range the electric gleam of the summit of the Eiffel Tower shining like a star. To a dweller in the village the exceeding antiquity of every association, covering full a thousand years, affects the imagination with a silent background of past generations. Yet page: 180 over this cluster of dwellings, this house, these steep green banks and groves of secular chestnuts, rolled the full tide of war five‐and‐twenty years ago.
Looking back to the early months of 1870, I can recall no portent, no slightest cloud upon the horizon. Invasion seemed as far from us in France as it seems from us in England now; and France was very prosperous. Commerce made no complaint; the corn and the wine and the oil of that land of many climates were poured forth into the markets as from an abundant cornucopia. Literature was still sending out fresh shoots, and Victor Hugo survived as a magnificent oak‐tree of the past. There were scarcely any beggars to be seen, and the innumerable works of charity were unvexed by opposition. Near our village the Empress had specially favoured the great convalescent hospital at Le Vesinet, and omnibuses rolled constantly to and fro between its gates and those of the Paris hospitals. So far as I could see the huge machines of the State worked smoothly: we had great doctors in the wards and great lawyers at the Bar. Not only was there an Imperial follow‐ page: 181 ing following of unquestioned zeal, but the Opposition numbered in its ranks men such as a Thiers and a Gambetta, and a great following of respectable and thoughtful men of the professional classes. Parties, however much opposed, were of a firm consistence, and political aspirations were reasonably expressed and definite in shape. The household whose experiences I am about to describe had then been settled in the village for forty years. They had bought houses and a little land, and children had grown to maturity and settled in life. The surviving elders, who had been very young under the First Empire, were not Imperialist, but were personally attached to the House of Orleans; and the men of the next succeeding generation had interests connected with the Second Empire, and one of them, who ten years later occupied a public office of eminence, was a consistent Republican of a moderate type. The growing lads had of course taken their baccalauréat at Paris Lycées, and one of them had just won the Premier Prix of the year 1867, and was therefore exempt from all military service. So that this family might fairly be considered to page: 182 be in touch with the varied elements of French life.
But there were two things which they did not know. They had no social link with the Tuilleries or Compiègne, and the low thunder of the democratic growl was unheard by one and all. Once, two years before the war, the English member of this family had dined in Paris at the house of an Inspector of Schools who had risen from the ranks, and at this table there arose a whisper of a likely rising among the workmen of Lyons, a whisper nervously hushed, and which was until later forgotten by the hearer. Who remembers the sheet lightning of the previous evening in the broad light of a stormy day?
In the spring of 1870 the sense of security was exceptionally strong, for the Emperor, vexed by parliamentary opposition, and aware of smouldering embers in the great towns of which the outer world knew nothing, called a Plébiscite in the month of May. The result was an overwhelming vote of confidence. We happened to be at La Rochelle on the day of the vote, and spent the evening at a villa on the shore belong‐ page: 183 ing belonging to the mayor of the town. One of the official tellers hurried out with the yet unpublished result. He whispered in the ear of our hostess the one word "Splendide!" in a tone of the deepest exultation. And from every quarter of France during that week came up similar returns from all the Mairies. I have never doubted the essential veracity of that popular vote, which counted by millions, and which no tampering could have caused to swerve in an appreciable degree.
It is not true that provincial France distrusted the Empire. Whatever may have been the state of feeling among the workmen of the great towns, no one who really knows the departments of that immense country can imagine that the great wine‐growers in the south, or the farmers of La Beauce, or the fishers of Brittany desired a change of government. France is so very much larger than England, and its farming peasants have so great a stake in the soil, that they form a huge, steady, horizontal mass of workers, up at four in the morning and in bed by nine in the evening, devoted to their children and to the accumulation of five‐franc pieces or coupons de page: 184 rente, which are four‐pound divisions of the National Debt, and constitute an immense savings bank, reposing on the stability of public institutions. These French millions have less to complain of than any other labouring millions in Europe, and in spite of difficulties in manufacturing centres, and in the Parliament sitting in Paris, it is difficult to believe that the shock would in our generation have come from within if it had not previously come from without. Never for twenty years did Napoleon the Third appear to sit more firmly on his throne than in May, 1870.
The month of June was very hot; the temperature of the north of France, unsoftened by the Gulf Stream, is more acute in heat and cold than that of our island. The shutters on the south side of the house were all closed, we literally barricaded out the sun, and sat in a small strip of garden to the north, the maids and the ladies sewing and reading in the profound stillness. The white fruit blossoms had fallen from the apple and pear trees, the Spanish chestnuts were filling out their crop, and nothing more wildly improbable could have been sug‐ page: 185 gested suggested than that the one or the other should be plucked and eaten by armed warriors of another nation, with spiked helmets and the accents of a tongue absolutely unknown to our people. Then came the Hohenzollern incident, which did not seem much to concern us; and then the half‐ironical quarrel of the ambassadors, which as told in the newspapers read like the dramatic insult:—
"I, sir?"
"Yes, you, sir!"
And then all in a moment the unlikely thing happened, and war was declared. But though the telegrams were read with eager interest, they did not seem to immediately concern the village. The coffee was roasted as usual out of doors, perfuming the air with an odour which is one of the most characteristic of rural France. French nursery rhymes were sung in the shrill accents of Tarbes, and the village crier delivered his usual warning about mad dogs. We knew that the French troops had shot across the frontier on their way to Berlin, and one of the newspapers published a map of the seat of war, which we pinned up, and on which the advance was daily marked in page: 186 blue paint. Then came anxious letters from London—"You do not know what is happening. Come back, come back, and bring your belongings." But it seemed useless to dislodge a very complicated household of old people and young children, and servants who were practically Basques; and so the days passed on, and July was out, and Saturday the 7th of August dawned upon us—the last peaceful day we were to know for many a month.
This Saturday evening stands out in my memory because of a visit from Paris. A very young man, not yet twenty‐one, the "Premier Prix," who, as I have said, was thereby exempt from conscription, came out to dinner; and an hour later the heavy shutters were unbarred, and the windows of the drawing‐room thrown open on the balcony. The fading sunset filled the room in the cool of the evening, and a little child lay asleep in a cot while the servants were dining. It was a time of special stillness; but that sun had set on the battle‐field of Wœrth, the first great defeat of the war. MacMahon was wounded, and the sons of many mothers lay dead before their time.page: 187
This news did not reach us till 8 o'clock the next morning, and then it came thirty miles across country viâ Versailles, although we were much nearer to Paris. It had been brought by the late train overnight to a still lonelier village near Mont l'hèry, by a wealthy gentleman connected with the Paris Bourse, and travelled in an omnibus starting at six o'clock in the morning from Mont l'hèry to our neighbourhood. I doubt if the dread reality appeared in the morning newspapers until twenty‐four hours later.
We knew, then, on the Sunday morning that the tide had turned, and that the Germans were chasing the French. Still, not a soul believed that they would get to Paris, or that the zone of country in which we lay could be in the smallest danger; and for three weeks we remained quietly, trusting absolutely to the great battle which was to be fought between Paris and the frontier. Meanwhile, the young child was baptized in the village church, and the youthful cousin and godfather came in the new uniform of a Garde Mobile. All the men under forty were being enrolled in some volunteer corps.
All through August the Germans seemed to page: 188 us to be not so much advancing as concentrating in huge masses between us and the frontier. They were still a hundred miles away, and I cannot now remember what gave the first bad alarm; but one day an order was given to make ready for the blowing up of all the bridges on the Seine outside Paris. This was afterwards said to have been absolutely useless. The Germans were coming from the east, the Seine running from Paris to the sea turns north and west, doubling like a riband, and is so comparatively narrow that it could oppose small hindrance to the passage of troops. But the order was given, and our old stone bridge at Bougival was to be prepared by excavating a huge hole in the central buttress and the filling of the same with powder. This sight for the first time struck terror into the country people; and as we went on the following day down the steep hill, a mile in length, between our house and the river, we found literally every woman in Bougival sitting on her doorstep crying, with her children round her—not only the poorer inhabitants, but the most respectable shop‐keepers and bourgeois were in the street, filled with a prevision of what page: 189 was really coming, for three weeks later every soul was turned out of house and home and Bougival evacuated in four hours. Meantime we watched the men working at the hole in the bridge, the first symbol of the coming ruin.
We now began to feel it unwise for a family containing very old and very young members to remain in an isolated house on the outskirts of a village absolutely without defence, and, strange to say, we made up our minds to move into Paris, and all our neighbours who had apartments in the city did the same; but this was not easily accomplished. Some fresh panic struck the general courage on the 27th of August, and on the 28th, St. Augustine's Day, and a Sunday, high mass was said as usual at ten o'clock, and in the afternoon everybody who could procure a vehicle got to the railway station of St. Cloud, a distance of five miles, at four o'clock. There the scene was most extraordinary. No luggage could be taken, and the terrified crowd was dressed with the usual precision of the French on Sunday. Nobody showed any panic in their outward attire. Streams of well‐dressed people came to the page: 190 station from all sides, the train was hopelessly late, the service disorganized with the strain. The tired children cried, and when at last the train came up, the people were packed in as best could be done, and we steamed away to Paris; our boxes with personal luggage were brought in next day. Everything else had to be left to its fate; that is to say, the house was put into complete order, securely barred and locked, and the keys deposited with the village schoolmaster. We were by this time aware that the dozen dwellings of the gentry would be occupied, if ever the German army approached Paris, but nobody knew anything about the customs of war, or had any notion of havoc being wrought by regular troops. It is amazing now to reflect upon that extreme ignorance. In any case, however, it would have been hopeless to attempt any sort of guard, for every valid man was enrolled in some corps, and the farmers and gardeners and tradespeople of the locality were all too fearful for their own property to pay any attention to ours.
So we went into Paris, to a small apartment near the Luxembourg, where, with a sigh of page: 191 relief, we felt ourselves perfectly safe! And an English lady, who was in very weak health, told me that she sat under the trees in the Luxembourg with a Tauchnitz volume of Miss Yonge's "Daisy Chain"; she felt it soothing to her nerves!
But this delusion did not last many days. A regiment of young mobiles who had been stationed somewhere in the Eastern Departments, were returned upon Paris. They marched through the streets looking thoroughly tired and depressed, and made more impression on their fellow‐citizens than a hundred telegrams from the seat of war. Urgent letters from England implored us to come over without delay, and the French newspapers told us of the victualling of Paris and the closing of the railways. As I look back on that five days, the last we were to see of Imperial Paris, I wish that we had taken one more glance at the Tuilleries—had walked once again round the Hotel de Ville! But every hour was taken up with inexorable family duties, and we had to get away by a line we had never travelled before; for the Northern Railway was no longer available. It was late on the Friday evening when our party of three elders and two page: 192 young children got off from the station of St. Lazare, and as we passed the line of the fortifications, bands of navvies were piling earth upon the road, leaving only the one line of rails on which our train rolled. Their bent heads in the fading sunset was the last we saw of Paris and its people for many a long month. We embarked at Havre for Southampton, and as we passed through a wicket, which must have been put up to check the stream of passengers passing on to the steamer, one of our party vexatiously gave in the dark a ten‐franc piece instead of half a franc to the toll‐man. By this time it was past midnight, and Saturday the 3rd of September. At Southampton we found the German vessels in the harbour dressed out with flags in honour of Sedan!
I will now return to the village and to the silent, dark house where we had left so many treasures. It may perhaps be said, with astonishment, why were they left there, since we had had so long a warning of the Prussian advance? It seems as if we might have filled up the Paris apartments with our household goods. Assuredly, if we had had any conception page: 193 of what war means, we should have done our utmost to get a van, and to place at least the pictures in safety. But while we did not dream of spoliations, and believed that the worst which could happen would be the billeting of German officers in the house, it would, unless we had taken the alarm in the very beginning of August, have been extremely difficult to get the larger pictures conveyed twelve miles into Paris. I was not the actual mistress of the house, and the real and most dear mistress was in acute anxiety for her grandsons, exposed to constant danger; and for the younger children, who might have been caught in some place where they would not be able to get proper food, and, above all, milk. So many children were thus sacrificed in the siege of Paris. Their number will never be known. But what might have been undoubtedly saved were the miniatures and bronzes; and in particular two of the former, which had been given over into my care. Their date was about 1750, and their subjects in full costume. I had pinned them by their faded loops of ribbon to the velvet border of a mirror in the drawing‐room on the day they came from page: 194 an old house in the provinces. It is a sore vexation to me to think that I packed up the silver spoons and forgot these treasured great‐great‐grandparents. Nay, still more astounding was it that during the week we spent in Paris, one of the servants (they were sisters, and extremely intelligent women from the south) went out to the village, walking for many miles; and after assuring herself that all was right and safe within the house, she filled a large clothes basket with our apples and pears, which it vexed her frugal soul (she was the cook) to leave wasting on the trees. She then cast about how to get them into Paris, and thought herself very fortunate to find a washerwoman with a cart. The two women hoisted up the basket, and then jogged back to Paris in a leisurely way!
Of the other houses in the village summary mention can be made. The Chateau, a noble old pile of Louis the 14th's date, was left with servants, and ultimately used to lodge an Etât Majeur. It was not ill‐treated. A large handsome villa on the summit of the hill was quite spoilt internally. A small house belonging to a relative was occupied, knocked about, but not page: 195 destroyed; but the house next to this, where I remember an old lady with a white cat and much handsome Indian china, was entirely gutted. From the floor of the salon, where the great tall Aladdin jars had proudly stood, the visitor looked up to the roof, with a view of the three fireplaces left in the wall one above the other.
I do not know by which route the Germans came into the village, whether by the lower road from Bougival, or by the upper road from Versailles; but the date was the 19th of September, when the gardens are in gorgeous array, and the woods are untouched. I only know that they must have fetched the keys of our house from the schoolmaster, and that they started with good intentions, for the commanding officer caused an inventory to be taken of everything in the house. Sixty soldiers were lodged in it, who must have indeed been in tight quarters. The officer settled into one of the two largest bedrooms; he had the drawing‐room curtains brought upstairs to drape his broad window; he also transferred the drawing‐room clock to his mantelshelf, and to this we owe its preservation. Even the large bell glass page: 196 which protected it was unbroken, when a smaller clock of white marble and ormolu was broken to pieces with a hammer, and the works taken away. To this unknown officer I feel that we owe gratitude for his good intentions, though he was in the sequel quite unable to carry them out, for it seems that the troops were constantly shifted.
When the German army had been in occupation on our hills for about a month, the sortie of the 13th of October took place. So far as we are able to understand what happened, the French poured out of Paris by way of Rueil and Mont Valerien, and met the Prussians somewhere near Bougival, from which all the inhabitants had been summarily sent away in the course of an afternoon. They were given four hours in which to pack and go. The French seem to have surged up through the steep little town, and to have fought desperately on the broad road below our house. The four nuns who keep our village school stuck gallantly to their dwelling, which they turned into a hospital. They were respectfully treated by the German soldiers, and the good women took in the wounded of both sides. Sœur Marie told me afterwards that fifteen legs page: 197 were amputated in one night. In our cemetery is a lonely grave, marked only with the initials and the regimental number of three German soldiers, and with the fatal date, the 13th of October. I believe this was the one occasion on which there was actual desperate fighting in our immediate neighbourhood, though bombs came flying over the village, and one shot by Mont Valerien whizzed over miles of tree‐tops and fell on a small room on the ground floor of the Chateau. The staff officer who sat writing at a bureau threw himself flat upon the floor, and while the window, the mantelshelf, and yards of the wall flew into splinters, he was unhurt.
Week after week went by, the scarlet geraniums died in the garden, the vine leaves became scanty on the wall, the frost of late autumn deepened in intensity, and the troops packed into our house began to suffer from cold. They cut away for firewood the upper part of an outside staircase which was sheltered under the deep eaves of a chalet standing on part of our ground; and then, when they wanted three little attic rooms under the roof, they set up a tree against the wall and climbed up like bears page: 198 at the Zoo. They wrenched an arm off several chairs, as handy to light up the fires, and they piled up such a quantity of wood in the fireplace of the drawing‐room that the parquet was literally charred in a great semicircle, and it was a miracle that on the day this happened the whole house was not burnt down. Another day they wrenched off a dressing‐room door, and a great piece of the wall came down with it. The village doctor, who remained through the whole time, told us afterwards that jorums of brandy were served out to the men in the worst of the weather. This filled his French medical mind with astonishment, and perhaps accounts for the strange things which occurred. For instance, they tore away one marble jamb of the dining‐room mantel, and with it they appeared to have pounded something on the tiled floor. They burnt the cupboard doors, and they carefully extracted every map of France wherever they found one, particularly from Murray's Handbook in which were several! But I think that the strangest record of their presence was the condition of a small chandelier brought from Vienna by my dear friend the author of "Gossip page: 199 of the Century." It was of Bohemian glass, a bowl with pendants, and very prettily coloured. Being of small size, it hung high on a hook in the centre of the ceiling. I found the pendants broken and the bowl intact! What sort of strange popgun had been employed by the idle troops, and what wonderful marksmen they must have been!
That our house was substantially preserved, was owing, I believe, to the presence of Dr. Russell, the correspondent of the Times at the headquarters at Versailles, to whom I wrote begging for his intercession. In spite of the strange ruin which fell upon our interior, not a single mirror was broken, nor were the pictures stolen with one exception. But a magnificent portrait en pied now in the French Gallery of the Louvre was stabbed five times on the black velvet robe, and another smaller portrait of a venerable ancestress was badly scratched by being wedged against a broken window to keep out the draught. Our fruit trees were not cut down, and a general intention had obtained of not gutting us for firewood! The mischief was of a smaller kind, and infinite in detail. For page: 200 instance, a polished bed of walnut wood was scarred with innumerable fine cuts, and on our return we wondered who had ornamented it, till we learned that the officers invariably lay down "booted and spurred." More intentional, on the part of some idle trooper, was the running of a sharp knife up the kind face of Mrs. Beecher Stowe, on an engraving given by herself. It took the exact middle of the nose in perfect accuracy. As to the books, they were torn in an extraordinary manner. A large volume of biographies of literary ladies of all countries, executed in America and sent over to France by enthusiastic friends, was torn, defaced, and here and there adorned with flourishing moustaches! A similar volume of American "Queens of Society," of which the frontispiece had been a beautiful engraving of Mrs. Martha Washington, was entirely despoiled. Presentation copies of works by Victor Hugo and Thiers, and a set of Byron given by Mr. Murray, were torn and injured. One precious object, a brown paper first edition of "Hernani," with Victor Hugo's autograph respects, did escape. It was found tossing in a cupboard in an attic, saved by its page: 201 shabby look and ancient date. But piles of autograph letters from nearly every writer of eminence in France, and from very many in England, carefully sorted, laid in a secretaire, and put aside by the mistress of the house for a literary grandson, were hopelessly sacrificed. They were found lying about in fragments in the garden, dirtied, torn, and charred. It was decided by those who first returned to the home that none of them could be picked up. They were shovelled aside and burnt.
Of the people who remained valiantly in the village a few strange and painful incidents may be recorded. I have already said that the nuns were well and respectfully treated. One of them having to go to Versailles for food and medicine, told me she had been carefully and politely driven over by a soldier. But when the beloved old curé was turned out of his presbytery and sent off to Versailles by night, some wretched wag tied two of his hens round the old man's neck! The village doctor remained in his solitary house, and two officers were billeted upon him.
The first of his military inmates cleared off all his cups and saucers, and he laid in a fresh stock; page: 202 two more officers succeeded, and they also packed up and went off with his crockery, which seemed to be an article in much request; the third time he received new inmates he said he had no money, and they had to buy their dishes. When we came back the following June we found that Dr. Lemaire, who had always been a particularly trim, clean‐shaven elderly gentleman, had grown a long white beard. We looked with wonder at this unprofessional adjunct, and he told us that "his officers" had a trick (which sounded like a queer joke) of insisting on his procuring legs of mutton, not only for their own consumption, but for other favoured friends. When he assured them that he could get neither sheep nor special joints, they frowned ferociously, and said, "Take him out and shoot him." Six times he was taken out, and respited! "After which," said he, "I grew my white beard, thinking that it might soften their hearts." Finally, when peace was made, the two last officers quartered upon him wished him good‐bye with effusion, hoped to see him if he ever travelled so far as Berlin, and solemnly presented their cards "for the ladies of the family" (who were safe at St. page: 203 Valery). The old doctor replied, wrathfully, "Oh! Ç'a non." Which said in a certain manner is very like an expletive!
During the later weeks of the siege a very malignant form of small‐pox became epidemic at St. Germains, three miles off. A village woman caught it, and the Prussians nailed her up in a cottage, and vowed instant vengeance on anybody who should dare to break in. Our good Sœur Marie crept out at night and got soup and medicine through the crevices. The patient recovered; and it is fair to say that the officers had probably a shrewd notion that the nuns would manage the matter somehow in spite of their prohibition. Not so fortunate was the village innkeeper, a man of substance, whose chief customers had been wealthy Parisians coming out to dine on Sundays under the spreading limes in a picturesque courtyard. This well‐known inn was called the Tourne‐Bride. On the first appearance of the Prussians, an officer requisitioned the whole of the cellar. The wine was worth 10,000 francs, £400 of English money. Its loss and the stoppage of the business meant ruin to the unfortunate man. He moved with page: 204 his good wife into a small tavern two miles away, but it broke his heart, and he died at the end of a year.
Endless were the stories told us by our humbler friends. One woman who took her daughters off to her own family in Normandy, buried all her linen, which she had no means of carrying away, in a great tub. Of course it was discovered and dug up, and the linen was nowhere on her return. But the worst trouble of all happened at Bougival when François Duberg was taken for cutting the telegraph wires, tried by a court‐martial at Beauregard (a Chateau once in royal occupation, and a nursery for the children of France), and shot on a field above our house. He was a gardener by trade, carried no arms, but said, "he would do it again." At the obelisk raised to his memory on the road, a discourse is every year pronounced in the early days of November. His wife, poor soul, went mad.
I have now set down after the lapse of five and twenty years the things which I saw and the things which were told me by my neighbours, and they are mostly such as do not pertain to page: 205 the great tragedies of war. Of these there were no lack, but I mostly heard of them by letter or read of them in print, and I have as yet strictly confined myself to my immediate oral knowledge. But one young friend of mine, a Breton of a noble family which sent five members to the field, contracted fever in the retreat from Orleans, and got back to his wife and to his old mother, just to die. He left two orphan children. Of our family, a cousin was dragged out dead from a heap at Sedan; both our own young mobiles suffered severely in health, and our "Premier Prix" felt the effect for years. Typhoid fever and lingering ill‐health are apt to strike lads suddenly deprived of proper food and exposed to days and nights of inclement weather. Another friend, a middle‐aged man, sent his young family away, but remained in Paris with an elder daughter who was dying of consumption and could not be moved. He nursed her to the end, and buried her, and sickened himself of small‐pox, of which he died. His wife and younger children at St. Valery knew nothing of what had happened for three weeks, and were in an agony of suspense, receiving no more balloon letters from Paris. At last a page: 206 cautious word reached them in a circuitous way from Belgium, and the wife nearly lost her reason. This unfortunate man was son‐in‐law to our excellent doctor, who, being himself outside Paris in our village, could only write to his daughter and his own old wife that he had "no news."
Finally, of the very worst side of war a much younger medical man who afterwards succeeded Dr. Lemaire spoke to me with shuddering horror. He had been employed in an ambulance corps on the frontier, and at forty was an ageing grey‐haired man. He published a volume of reminiscences which for ghastliness is unsurpassed, for he possessed literary talent, in addition to medical skill. He said to me, apropos of his book, "Of course I would go through it again if necessary; but I look back on those weeks not only with unimaginable horror, but with unutterable disgust."
And this I believe was the real impression left by the Franco‐German war. France certainly did not want it; and though Prince Bismark did want if, and planned how best to prick on an excitable people, it is impossible to page: 207 believe that the Germans wanted it. There were practically no wrongs to revenge; or whatever wrongs had formerly been done could be laid on the shoulders of that great Captain who cost us all so much blood and treasure that even the son of Queen Louise of Prussia was not justified in avenging them on peasants and shopkeepers sixty years after. War between two highly‐civilized nations is not only cruel, but profoundly shocking, and yet ever since the world's literature began, there has existed a conspiracy of silence in favour of recording only the heroic aspects of war; but the reports of the English newspaper correspondents and the publication of even one book such as Doctor Pierre Boyer's, have brought the truth nearer to the apprehension of general readers. A well‐dressed, intelligent woman whom I met in a railway carriage, and who seemed to be engaged in some successful commerce, said to me, with an expression of extreme disgust, apropos of the war, "Ce n'est plus dans nos mœurs"; and this feeling obtained far and wide. The French people did fight to the bitter end, and would do it again, but it would be with a reluctant anger difficult to describe. It would be unnatural page: 208 to expect that the Services, whose advancement and reputation depend on getting some one to fight with them, should share this feeling; but it is true of the vast masses of provincial French people, busy on their own concerns, prosperous in affairs, doting on their children, scrupulously particular in their dress, in their cooking, and in the conduct of all their ceremonies, marriages, baptisms, and funerals—people who are extremely civilized, from Boulogne in the north to Nice in the south, and who have no love either for the anarchist or the long‐haired Bohemian—these comfortable millions, though they will fight like lions when their blood is up, certainly feel that the bloodshed, the dirt and destruction, and the many abominable incidents of war ne sont plus dans leur mœurs.


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I want Payzer back I am absolutely okay with it !!!! But my question is why did Sophia Smith not accept Liam Payne in the First go why did he get denied 22 times the Question is that when Sophia wasnt greedy about fame or money she should have asked Liam to keep the Relationship a secret!!!! Compare the gifts and affection of Danielle with Sophia's Gifts and Affection!!! All I want Liam to do is use his wisdom to choose what's good and what's bad in his life that's it
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I love u liam and i do not think she is the right girl and u are to young to have a baby.I love u and i really want to see u and 1D u gus are so good and cool!!.I don't think sophia is the right girl!sorry liam?but u need to go your own way.but don't date her pls!!!!!!!!!!!and pls come to bali with one dirction!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! <3 <3 love u
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I'm a Directioner and ship all of their relationships even though I miss payzer. If Liam's happy witch he clearly is especially when he's with Sophia, and if he is happy I'm happy but sophiaare you crazy how can you reject liam so many times he's perfect sweet handsome his nickname is daddy direction he is wonderful in everyway what were you thinking????
At least you two are together niw
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Jade xo
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I'm not a huge fan of one direction, nor do I really like Liam Payne, but it's very obvious she's just using him, when she's never wanted him all their childhood and now that he's famous she is all about him, well I honestly do believe she's just In for the fame, they haven't been together a whole year it's ridiculous, Liam's only what 20?? He's very young to be having a baby.
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Liam is gorgeous and attractive although I adore him so much I think he's making the wrong decision Sophie is using him for fame and she just wants to get with him because he's cute and famous and she's cheated on him 2 times already and now she's pregnant I just hope Liam realises that she's using him for fame and so they can just be together I love u Liam I hope u soon realise what she's doing to u
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I been snooping and clearly she is using him, she wants the fame!! Like who couldn't get this .. Let me explain: when liam and Daniel was dating they dated for a very very long time, but now that he is dating this low down she has turned him down multiple times and the more famous he gets the more happier she is and wants him back.
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text: Just legendary. It's a shame these programs or performances won't be truly rewarded if he doesn't have the big jumps or land them consistently. His PCS should have seen 8s a long time ago and like Kozuka said, I am afraid it's only going to happen after / when he delivers at Worlds and wins a medal. I would love the singles results at Worlds to look like this: 1. Kozuka / Czisny 2. Abbott / Suzuki 3. Verner / Asada 4. Hanyu / Kostner 5. Chan / Wagner 6. Takahashi / Korpi 7. Fernandez / Biryukova 8. Dornbush / Murakami 9. Brezina / Elene G 10. Song / Phaneuf


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Panoramic View Flat with French balcony
Size45 m²
Floor No.
- Kitchen
- Air conditioning
- Washer/dryer
- Internet/WiFi
- Balcony/terrace
- Towels
- Baby cot
Accommodation summary
The Lisbon holiday apartment/corporate flat 'Sao Vicente I' is a duplex located in the upper part of Alfama and provide not only excellent views, but is in the perfect spot for exploring Lisbon by foot.
The address of the flat is Rua da Oliveirinha 14.
The flat is very close to some of the biggest tourist attractions in Lisbon; Tram 28, Alfama, Miradouro das Portas do sol, Feira da ladra (flea market), Sao Vicente monastery, the Lisbon cathedral, etc.
Breathtaking views of Alfama and old Lisbon (best view in all of Lisbon?!)
Panoramic window/terrace door (140x200 cm).
Free Wifi, cleaning, towels, linen, etc
Air Condition
HD-TV with both cable and satelite reception
Historic building completely refurbished
Design by award-winning architect Luis Pereira
'Eco-flat' with Flatscreen TV, LED illumination, , energy-efficient appliances, double-glazed windows and proper insulation.
Free local Lisbon guide booklet (which I'll send after booking is made)
No safety deposit
Late arrival possible (using access code which will be send beforehand)
Bathroom with portuguese azulejos (tiles) and wellness showerhead
Suitcase stand
Polstered leather headboard
Possibility of either one double bed (160x200cm) or two single beds
Iphone/Ipod docking station with speakers
Airport transfer can be arranged (for 20 you will be brought to door of flat (or picked up))
Tram 28
Feira da Ladra
Alfama neighbourhood
Miradouro Largo das Portas do Sol
Sao Vicente monastery
Lisbon cathedral
Fado Museum
Church of Santa Engrácia/National Pantheon (Panteao Nacional)
House rulesPlease treat the apartment as you would your own home.
Keep noise to a minimum.
Guests should lock the door before leaving the apartment.
Late check-in is possible.
Bed linen and towels are provided.
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the studio,nice and elegant,interior is in the heart of Alfama which is THE BEST part of it.also close to the tube.A friendly and good bakeshop near.Try the cakes!
Ulrik is quick to respond when problems arise.Unforunately he could not solve the problem with Wi Fi.
Negative there is a nasty odor(dampness?)which sprays and dry flowers do not resolve.No/hardly natural light
Super cozy place to stay in the middle of beautifull Mouraria!
* Nice location in the middle of the life of Alfama
Use the map provided by Ulrik to find the a little bit hidden place.
You'll have to walk ~5 min uphill with your suitcase - the price of living in the middle of Alfama ;-)
* Perfect organization, all important questions answered by Ulrik in confirmation mail plus plenty of bonus material on Lisbon
The apartment is exactly as the pictures show. It is certainly not large but fine for two people. There's good thinking about the layout and decor. Everything you need is available. I was there the last week of June and it is quite warm in the attic bedroom. The air conditioning works but makes too much noise to sleep. There is a fan that you can put at night. I only had contact by mail with Ulrik and he reacts quickly and correctly. The safety deposit box at the door with the keys in it works fine so you do not have to feel like burdens, like me, arriving late in the evening. I liked the location of the apartment is very nice. You're never far from the subway is around the corner and most sights are within walking distance. Really a nice starting point to discover Lisbon.
Het appartement is precies zoals de foto's laten zien. Het is zeker niet groot maar voor twee personen prima. Er is goed nagedacht over de indeling en de inrichting. Alles wat je nodig hebt is aanwezig. Ik was er de laatste week van juni en dan is het op de zolderslaapkamer behoorlijk warm. De airconditioning werkt wel maar maakt teveel lawaai om te kunnen slapen. Er is een ventilator die je 's nacht aan kunt zetten. Ik heb met Ulrik alleen via de mail contact gehad en hij reageert snel en correct. Het kluisje bij de deur met de sleutels erin werkt prima zodat je je niet bezwaart hoeft te voelen als je, zoals ik, laat in de avond aankomt. Ik vond de locatie van het appartement erg prettig. Je zit nergens ver vanaf, de metro is om de hoek en de meeste bezienswaardigheden zijn op loopafstand. Echt een fijn startpunt om Lissabon te ontdekken.
Highly recommended!
Muy recomendable!
Nice little apartment in the old town, as a penthouse but I would not call it. Well-suited to explore Lisbon. In Mouraria district is full of life - even at night - if you so rather more quiet like it rather unsuitable.
Nettes, kleines Apartment mitten in der Altstadt, als Penthaus würde ich es jedoch nicht bezeichnen. Gut geeignet um Lissabon zu erkunden. Im Stadtteil Mouraria pulsiert das Leben - auch nachts - wenn man es also eher etwas ruhiger mag, eher ungeeignet.
We enjoyed our stay in Lisbon very much. The apartment is great and its location in Alfama is perfect to stroll around and get to know all this nice little places, local restaurants and sights this historic area has to offer. The way the apartment was refurbished is awesome and just fits. As you can see from the pictures and the description the place is rather small. But given the fact that no one spends too much time in his apartment in a city like Lisbon we rather enjoyed the cozy atmosphere. It is bright, everything you need to prepare a simple meal is there, the shower works well ;) and by the way... you have a great and very helpful host.
We really enjoyed our stay at the small Apartment in Alfama. It was clean and bright, newly renovated and perfectly located if you`re staying for a city-trip. Even in September it can get quit hot in the Apartment - luckily we had two fans and an aircooler.
The only thing to criticize would be the difficulty we had to find the house in Alfama at the night we arrived. Even garbage collector working 50 metres next to the building didn't know where the tiny little street was located. All in all we spent a great time in Lissabon and we would book with Ulrik again.
Lovely and very well placed in the Mouraria, coming area that goes (literally and figuratively ;-))
I recommend.
Appartement agréable et très bien placé dans la Mouraria, quartier qui monte qui monte (sens propre et figuré ;-))
Je recommande.
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family crisis
Short Story by: scully23
Status: Finished
Genre: True Confessions
its not like it was even real love i mean seriously who just walks out on you after pretty much giving you life. wat ever i dont need you anymore, its not like you ever cared anyway.
im sick of missing you, of woundering when you will come back for me when you will actually take the time to even know i exist. i am sick to death of you acting like a complete cow. just another slut who goes and fucks every guys she can get her hands on. i hate her and i hate you. why cant you see what you have done to me.. what you have all done to me your a slut a hoar who doesnt even care about anyone but herself. i hate you soo much you wrecked my life yu ruineed me, and hate it i hate it i hate it i hate having to always go to bed everynight always wishin that you would change that you could be the mother i want but your not and you never will
i just want my mum back, i want to have a perfect family to be the happy little blonde girl that you could love, i want to be princess to be a royal pain in your ass, i want to ask for ponies, and do each other hair even though i suck at it. i want you to love me is that so hard to ask???? ometimes i feel like just runnig up to you and huggin you .......
but your not here and your not there your not anywhere i want you to be ... i hate everything about you but i hate the fact that i love you even though you fucked up my life.
and im scared that one day im going to find you and your going to hurt me even more now then before.
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Federal officials should appoint a "highly visible HIT Safety Czar" to help protect patients from adverse events caused by electronic health record (EHR) systems functioning improperly, TMA says in a letter to the director of the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology.
The czar would "oversee, coordinate, and market health IT patient safety across the multiple organizations, programs, developers, and end users," TMA wrote in comments on the U.S. Health and Human Services Department's HIT Patient Safety Action and Surveillance Plan. The plan is designed to prevent errors caused by EHRs.
TMA's letter, signed by Joseph Schneider, MD, head of the association's Health Information Technology Committee, says "significant patient safety risks exist now and new ones will emerge in the next one to two years as many EHR and other HIT vendors merge or go out of business. Therefore it is imperative to set mandatory deadlines and have a robust reporting and learning system in place now, not later. We are extremely concerned that the proposed plan lacks the specificity necessary for success."
It added that TMA also is "concerned that the document contains fundamental weaknesses that will cripple the effectiveness of the programs, such as reliance on voluntary reporting and funding."
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You get what you pay for. Handguns have a lot of recoil for electronics. EVERY time I see someone who thinks they are smarter than everyone else, and they buy a cheap laser - they discover that the thing either flies off the gun all the time and/or does not hold zero at all.
The Lasermax Unimax, or the even smaller version of that from Lasermax that just came out is probably the cheapest way to go, if ya don't want to pay for CTC grips or a laser guiderod. They are t just over $150.


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April 15, 1977
St. Louis, MO US
Arena (St. Louis)
The Song Remains The Same, (The Rover intro) Sick Again, Nobody's Fault But Mine, In My Time of Dying, Since I've Been Loving You, No Quarter, Ten Years Gone, Battle of Evermore, Going to California, Black Country Woman, Bron-Y-Aur Stomp, White Summer ~ Black Mountainside, Kashmir, (Out On the Tiles intro) Moby Dick, Jimmy Page solo, Achilles Last Stand, Stairway to Heaven. (no encore)
Click here to view the US '77 Tour Programme (flipbook)
Press Review: St Louis: "we aren't going to mess around – we're just going to play," a serious Robert Plant promised the capacity house who'd gathered in the 20,000 seat arena to witness the phoenix-like return of Led Zeppelin to the stage from what Plant euphemized as their "physical interlude" – the forced hiatus that resulted from the critical injuries he suffered in an auto accident during the summer of 1975.
It was obvious from his comment, made two songs into the programme, that Zeppelin weren't interested in tea and sympathy, but rather in defending their supergroup status which, as they well knew, was sorely in need of it in St Louis after their sorry past performances in this city.
Indeed, while they had been, as usual, nearly an hour late in starting, the openers, The Song Remains the Same and a tough, angry version of Sick Again, had offered considerable proof that they meant to keep their lead singer's word. And as if to further confirm it, there already a broken string hanging down from Jimmy Page's tortured double-neck.
But it was not until they were successfully done with the metallic blues of their next song, Nobody's Fault But Mine, that Plant himself (whose stint on harmonica had been Fault's special treat) seemed fully satisfied they would live up to his commitment.
"It looks like it's going to be a good one, he righty, if cautiously surmised, and they quickly moved ahead to In My Time of Dying – It's challenging breaks, and Page's bottleneck leads and Plant's woeful wails all most impressively executed. But should there happen to have been any yet-remaining doubts in anyone's mind as to Zeppelin's fitness, the soul wrenching dealt by Since I've Been Loving You could not help but have dispelled them completely.
Plant's purgative, bleeding cries – so reminiscent of Janis Joplin – and the taunting, almost brutal exchange between his voice and the instruments brought the concert to its first of several climaxes. That there had been a deep-down change in this group was now impossible not to recognize; one could only presume the vicarious effects of Plant's ordeal had served to turn Led Zeppelin inside out. More than making statements, their music was asking questions, to such an extent that most of the songs sounded as if they were ended on the interrogative (as opposed to carelessly open ended).
There was absolutely nothing to deny their purposefulness – no smugness, no sloppiness, and no more holding back. Just an apparent all-out effort on the part of each man to make Led Zeppelin the best and most significant rock band in the world. (MM/ P. Dewing | April 1977)
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I think I know why the did not do an encore.
Well, I remember a story my father told me about this show. I heard that they did not do Rock n' Roll or any other encores because........
Robert Plant was singing on stage, and someone threw a Jack Daniels bottle, and it hit him. Although that could have been a later show. I think it might have been this one. I also remember my dad saying that the person did that during the last song. (Witch was Stairway.)


text: Cindy + Floyd's simple June wedding is perfect with its' peacock theme. With amazing details everywhere, from Cindy's swirling bouquet to the matching floral arrangements made with magnolia leaves, peacock feathers and flowers, C+F's soiree is gorgeous, unique and yet still homey. I am especially in love with how they utilized Cindy's hometown with its' great historic backdrops to capture truly memorable wedding memories. Plus, Cindy has some of the most amazing wedding shoes I have ever seen! Enjoy and congratulations Cindy + Floyd!