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Finally we come to the first improved team in the NL Central as I continue to preview the 2007 division. St. Louis (Part 1), Houston (Part 2) and Cincinnati (Part 3) failed to impress me--it seems as if an overachieving Pirates squad could hang with those teams. Milwaukee, however, is a different story.
Ned Yost's Brewers finished at 75-87 in 2006, 8.5 games back of the Cardinals. Between last July's trade deadline and a few key off-season moves, though, they've retooled their roster. Their Hot Stove transactions, according to ESPN:
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York, Dec. 18, 2008
– New York City Department of Small Business Services (SBS) Commissioner Robert
W. Walsh this week joined Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, Deputy Mayor Robert C.
Lieber, Department of Citywide Administrative Services Commissioner Martha K.
Hirst and others in congratulating the winners of this year's Hundred Year
Association Isaac Liberman Public Service Awards and E. Virgil Conway College
Scholar Awards held at One Police Plaza on Tuesday, December 16,
For the
seventh consecutive year, SBS is proud that one of its employees has been
recognized for exemplary devotion to public service. This year's recipient Narda Amarilla-Fernandez, a Senior
Budget Analyst at SBS, joins 18 City employees and 23 sons and daughters of City
employees, who received cash prizes and scholarships totaling nearly
$70,000. Narda received a $1,000
award sponsored by The Bank of New York
applaud Narda for her commitment to public service. During her 14 years with
SBS, she has always shown an unfailing willingness to take on new
responsibilities, tackle new challenges and perform them skillfully," said SBS
Commissioner Walsh. "She truly deserves this award for all her hard work and
contributions to this Agency and the City. The dedication demonstrated by
Narda and the previous award recipients have improved the way SBS serves New
SBS is
proud of a running track record of Isaac Liberman Public Service Award
Recipients for the past six years. The previous winners are Brenda Snider
(2007), Eddy Eng (2006), Haleena Nalevanko (2005), Charles Houston (2004), Lynn
Roberts (2003) and Bernadette Nation (2002). All the recipients are
currently employed at SBS.
Department of Small Business Services' (SBS) primary mission is to make it
easier for businesses in New York
City to form, do business, and grow by providing direct
assistance to business owners, fostering neighborhood development in commercial
districts, and linking employers to a skilled and qualified workforce. Many of
the services provided to businesses, neighborhood organizations, and jobseekers
are delivered through organizations that contract with SBS.
joining SBS in 1994 as an unpaid intern, Narda has continued to demonstrate
competence across multiple areas at SBS. She has continually exemplified what it
means to go the extra mile to get the job done.
In her
current position as the Senior Budget Analyst, Narda executes a variety of
functions critical to Agency operations.
On a daily basis, many of the transactions that occur at SBS are
successful because she has skillfully liaised with the Mayor's Office of
Management and Budget (OMB) and the Comptroller to agree to the funding or
registration of contracts. Her role
in this process is the critical element that allows SBS to move forward with the
registration of the contracts that support Agency programs. She is also tasked with tracking the
Agency's $48 million budget of federal Workforce Investment Act (WIA) grant
funding. She has a vast knowledge
of the various units she interacts with and often works across multiple units to
get the job done. Her ability to work across agency units helps SBS maximize the
use of funds to support our mission.
Amarilla-Fernandez is a resident of Woodside, Queens.
Hundred Year Association – founded in 1927 and composed of businesses,
professional, educational and charitable organizations that have been
in continuous operation in New York
over a century – has honored career civil service employees since 1958. In
addition, since 1971,the
Association has awarded college scholarships to the children of city employees
for outstandingacademic achievement and community
year, the Hundred Year Association reviews the achievements of City employees to
identify those who, through dedication beyond their job descriptions, have
provided outstanding service to the people of New York City. Winners are chosen by a
committee composed of representatives of the Association and Commissioners
Hirst, Commissioner Martha E. Stark and Sanitation Commissioner John J. Doherty
as representatives of the City. The Association also awards scholarships for the
children of career civil servants. Recipients of the awards receive between
$1,000 and $6,000.
Association's awards are augmented by member-sponsored awards funded by: The
Bank ofNew
York Mellon; Bowne & Co.;
Brooklyn Bar Association; Caleb Haley &
Company; The Chief-Civil
Service Leader; Consolidated Edison Company of New York, Inc.; Cushman &
Real Estate; Dancker, Sellew & Douglas; The Delta Kappa Epsilon Club of
New York;
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New York University; The Okin Family; Paul Hastings Janofsky & Walker; Ralph
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Local Briefs: MacArthur earns special invite
MacArthur picked for prestigious camp
Connor MacArthur, who will be a senior at Buena High in the fall, has been invited and will be competing at one of the nation's top prep football all-star camp, Football University's Top Gun, in Dublin, Ohio, on July 17 -July 19.
MacArthur was invited to Top Gun because of his outstanding performance as a wide receiver at the FBU Los Angeles camp. He will join more than 800 of the nation's other top athletes at their respective positions and will train with current and former NFL players and coaches.
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Loring wins two golds and a bronze
Ventura's Diane Loring, representing Ventura Tae Ryong, won two gold medals and a bronze medal at the 2014 USA Taekwondo National Championships in San Jose.
Loring, the Executive Director of Women Involved in Sports Evolution, won gold in the Black Belt Ultra Sparring division (50-99 years) and Board Breaking, (60-65 years). She won a bronze in the World Class 3rd Masters Black Belt division for Poomsae/Forms (60-65 years).
Boskovich wins state skeet title
Matthew Boskovich, who will be a senior at Oaks Christian School in the fall, won a state title at the California State Skeet Championship at Kern County Gun Club in Bakersfield last weekend.
Boskovich won the 12-gauge competition.
Billfish Tournament set for September
The 43nd annual Channel Islands Billfish Tournament will be held Sept. 13-17.
A kick-off cocktail and casual dinner party will take place at the Channel Islands Yacht Club on Sept. 12 at 6 p.m. The captains' meeting will be held before dinner and a raffle will take place after dinner with great fishing tackle, clothing and gift certificate prizes.
The Channel Islands Billfish Tournament is the oldest billfish tournament on the West Coast. The winners are awarded prizes and trophies for their efforts.
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Sheryl Sandberg, chief operating officer of Facebook, described how the Jewish youth movement BBYO helped to shape her.
Sandberg, also the author of the best-seller "Lean In" on empowering women in the workplace, spoke in a video message to the annual BBYO conference in Dallas over the weekend.
She said her experience in the organization helped her "stay close to the Jewish identity as a Jewish women that has really mattered to me."
Sandberg advised using the monthly "Lean In" empowerment circles she advocates in her book in a BBYO context.
Also delivering video messages to the conference, which drew 2,000 teen leaders from across the United States and other countries, were Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Natan Sharansky, the chairman of the Jewish Agency.
Sharansky spoke of the vital role Jewish youth movements played in sustaining his hopes when he was a prisoner of the Soviet gulag.
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At a glance
■ The 3-foot-long, 50-pound log is hidden somewhere in Steamboat Springs and marked "Yule Log" in red writing
■ Clues will lead readers on a virtual journey from the spot of last year's log at Dr. Rich Weiss Park.
■ Clues are listed in Happenings in the Steamboat Today each weekday morning for 10 days or until the log is found.
■ When the log is found, alert the Tread of Pioneers Museum immediately at 970-879-2214. The log must be presented in person to claim the prizes.
Steamboat Springs For the Petrillo family, a 20-year tradition will begin again at the crack of dawn Thursday.
Upon receiving that morning's Steamboat Today, Sue Petrillo will hold a family meeting to discuss the day's cryptic clue to finding the Steamboat Springs Yule Log, hidden somewhere in city limits by the Tread of Pioneers Museum's helper elves.
Then, it's time to hit the streets, parks and paths for any sign of the 3-foot-long pine log sought after by many families each December for more than 30 years.
"It's a lot of walking," Petrillo said. "We cover miles and miles and miles."
The clues, released on 10 successive weekdays in the Happenings section of the Steamboat Today and on the radio, will take readers on a virtual journey from last year's hiding spot at the picnic deck of Dr. Rich Weiss Park to the 2011 location.
If no one has found the log by the 10th clue, that final one should lead to its hiding spot Dec. 21.
But Petrillo and her family rely on a little extra holiday magic to find the log the way they have the past two years.
"We never seem to be able to figure that part of it out," Petrillo said about deciphering the clues to find the final hiding spot. "It's really a lot of luck and searching."
Candice Bannister, Tread of Pioneers Museum director, said the same 50-pound log has been in use for decades, decorated with the engraved names of past winners. The hunt dates back to at least 1978, when John Bowers used to write the clues in an attempt to stump the community. In 1997, Tread of Pioneers volunteers took over clue-writing duty.
This year, the grand prize is a $150 Steamboat Springs Chamber Resort Association gift certificate and an engraved plaque.
Bannister said there are several families who have found the log repeatedly throughout the years.
"We get so much feedback from community members who look forward to this every year, who follow it religiously and work with their families or work with kids," Bannister said.
Petrillo said she has been participating in the community-wide puzzle since her daughters, Angie and Jenny, were toddlers.
"It's a family affair for us, and my kids grew up in Steamboat, so we all know the trivia of the area, the history of Steamboat," Petrillo said. "You have to know the history to get some of the clues."
But it was a misinterpretation of a clue last year that led to her accidental discovery in Dr. Rich Weiss Park. The jury is still out on whether her golden retriever, Yukon, had anything to do with the find.
The Petrillos donated the $150 to community member Michele Dunklin, who was recovering from a car accident. Petrillo said there's so much more to the search than winning the prize money.
"It's the satisfaction of putting our name on it," she said.
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Happy Tuesday!
This weekend was one of those perfect summer weekends that I'll always look back on. There was a perfect mix of relaxation + fun. The bittersweet part is that this was Todd's only full weekend in Cleveland before his is gone again. He leaves on Friday and will be gone for 3 weeks (which includes my birthday!). It sucks, but it's the reality of his job so what are you gonna do? I'm just happy for the time I do get to spend with him.
On Friday, we went out to Hudson to spend quality time with my sister and her cute family. We went for a walk, ordered pizza, put the kids to bed, and stayed up chatting with just the four of us. It was so needed and Melanie is the best older sister ever – she keeps me grounded.
I still can't believe how old he is… I still remember when he was a wee little 2 year old. 4 is too old!
Violet was content in the red wagon.
Todd and I ended up staying over and woke up to a home cooked breakfast (Thanks Nate!). On Saturday, we went bike riding all afternoon. Ahhhh… so needed.
I really, really love Cleveland. I still pinch myself that I live so close to Lake Erie.
So, I need to discuss the Bachelorette (SPOILER ALERT).
What did everyone think of the ending? If you would have asked me at the beginning of the season if I thought Jef would win, I would have laughed in your face. His hair completely threw me off that he may be the one for Emily. But honestly, throughout the season, he began to really grow on me. Last night, I was hoping so badly that he would win because I felt he was the best fit for her, even with his fro'. During the proposal, I cried like a baby since I'm a nerd like that.
Reading into this a little more, it just goes to show ya that judging people by their outside appearances is not cool. I was wrong by judging him the way I did. He's a great guy and definitely a catch! I hope they continue to be happy.
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If you're trying to get in shape for your wedding, it's a good idea to enlist a buddy to get you off the couch (yes, we know Top Chef is on), and get moving! And who better to motivate you than your spouse to be? Instead of the standard dinner-and-a-movie, make your date nights more activity-focused and we promise, you'll reap the benefits. Here are some of our favorite ideas for creative (and romantic!) dates.
Take a Walk Make a stroll around your neighborhood a nightly ritual. Instead of lounging in front of the TV, take some time each evening to walk hand-in-hand and recount the day's events. It's a nice way to unwind and reconnect after a busy day. Motivate each other to walk as much as possible – whether it means forgoing the car for your morning commute or even taking hikes together on the weekends.
Get Cooking We know – your favorite Chinese place delivers in seven minutes or less. But the health benefits of preparing your own meals are innumerable. Spend some time each weekend planning out the week's menu and head to your local farmer's market to pick out the freshest produce (another romantic outing idea!).
Clean Up Doing housework together is a productive way to get moving. Spend some time each week cleaning your home from top to bottom, as well as handling any repairs. From sweeping the floors to changing lightbulbs, performing household tasks can get your heart pumping.
Wind Down If wedding planning plus the rest of your busy lives has the two of you majorly stressed, take some time to unwind together. We think yoga is a great option – focusing on your breath and working on your strength and stamina can take your mind off all the drama.
Go Dancing Prepare for your moment in the spotlight by taking dance lessons. Instead of standing and swaying side-to-side during your first dance, you'll develop some smooth moves that will absolutely wow your guests – and help you get toned in the process.
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Early-Morning Beauty
Short Story by: Josephine Ann
Status: Finished
Genre: Other
I want to write in a way that is warm. I want the feel of my comforter on a cool December morning to engulf you like it does me, and I want you to curl up like I do and feel caught up in it all. I want the way the light throws shadows on the wall in the early mornings to reach you, but there is nothing I could write or paint or sing that could make you live inside my skin.
I try anyway.
I lay in bed and I think about my life, right at this moment. It occurs to me that it is the deaths we make to ourselves that let us really live; it is the things we let go of that leave our hands free to recieve something else. My life is so crazywonderfulbeautiful even with all of the sadness it holds. I bury my face in the dark green pillowcase, pull the brown comforter up to my chin, and smile. My newly-short hair is curled up into crazy ringlets, sticking up and down and out, and I feel small and cute and young. More than anything, I am happy, because life is so beautiful I don't know how I couldn't be.
The vague scent of my perfume is on my pillow, mixed with my shampoo and lotion, and I imagine I probably smell like this all the time- this medly of texture and smell. I imagine I taste something like this, and I think about the man who can maybe tell me one day if that's true or not. The left side of the bed is empty, just the way it's been for every other morning, and I extend my leg back to feel the coolness of the untouched sheets. I let my mind wander to the future- to the things I want and the things I need, to the hopes and the fears- and I let myself go. I let myself dream, because at heart I'm only just a dreamer.
Andy McKee plays in the background. "Rylynn" starts, and I remember a boy who once told me that this song reminded me of him. I think about where he is and how he hurts and the ways we've grown apart, and I say a prayer because I know I can't do anything else. The red numbers on my clock progress as the light seeps in through my blinds, but I am warm and content in my small space of world. And I imagine I look happy and I imagine I am beautiful, and I imagine that my eyes are smiling and my lips are soft and I am comfortable inside my own skin. I am warm and inviting and content to be exactly who I am- and that is enough. I let the morning slip easily through my fingrs, and I am complete.
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By firing calcium isotopes into a plutonium target inside a particle accelerator, scientists at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have finally confirmed the Russian discovery of the superheavy element 114.
It wasn't easy. It took more than a week of running the experiment to generate a measly two atoms of the stuff, which they reported in Physical Review Letters last week. It's basic science at the outer limits of matter.
"We're learning the limits of nuclei," said Ken Gregorich, a nuclear physicist at LBL. "How many protons can you pack into a nucleus before it falls apart?"
Uranium, which has 92 protons in its nucleus, is the heaviest element found in substantial quantities in nature. The first man-made "transuranic" elements like plutonium were discovered and synthesized during the 1940s in the run-up to the creation of nuclear weapons. Since then, it's gotten harder and harder to produce new elements, but scientists have kept at it. One reason is they hypothesized that certain isotopes of very heavy particles might exist in an "island of stability" that would allow them to stick around longer than the fractions of a second most synthetic elements last.
So, it was with great excitement that scientists received the news in early 1999 that the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research in Dubna appeared to have discovered Element 114 — and it lasted for whole seconds.
"It's fantastically important work," Neil Rowley of the Institute for Subatomic Research in Strasbourg, France told New Scientist in 1999.
Glenn Seaborg, Nobel Prize winner, adviser to presidents, and a big advocate of the island theory of superheavy elements, was even delivered the news of the Russian discovery on his death bed by an old friend.
"The term 'magic' was continually used — Seaborg and others spoke of a magic ridge, a magic mountain and a magic island of elements," wrote Oliver Sachs of the search for the island. "This vision came to haunt the imagination of physicists the world over. Whether or not it was scientifically important, it became psychologically imperative to reach, or at least to sight, this magic territory."
After decades of swimming through particle accelerator data, the island had been reached. It was tremendously big news.
Or so they thought.
As the years went by, the Russian team published a series of papers about Element 114, but other teams couldn't confirm their initial discovery of the extraordinarily long-lived particle. There were two reasons for this. One, the experimental apparatus required to check the findings were only available in a small number of labs around the world. Two, it appears the Russians were wrong.
"I think back in '99 they were learning how to do this and I think they had a random correlation of unrelated events that appeared to be Element 114," Gregorich said.
It's not that they didn't eventually discover Element 114. They did. It's just that their first observation, the most exciting one, turned out to be incorrect. In four separate publications from 2000 to 2004, they came up with better data, and those are the observations that Gregorich said his lab has confirmed.
And the island of stability? It is actually there, Gregorich said, but its effects are less pronounced than (at least) Seaborg hoped. The particular combinations of protons and neutrons do yield longer lasting elements, just not … magic ones.
"Our results and the Dubna results show that there is some stability there," Gregorich said. "If we didn't have extra stability due to the shell effects, these things would decay faster than we could ever detect them with lifetimes on the order of 10-20 seconds rather than 10-1 seconds."
The search, though, for a more perfect superheavy element does go on.
"There are still predictions that if you could use more neutron-rich projectiles, if you could produce these elements but with more neutrons, some of them would be pretty long lived," he said.
Unfortunately, the particle accelerators in operation and currently planned won't reach the power necessary to get to create the theoretically most stable elements.
"The present and next generation of radioactive beam machines don't have high enough beam intensities," Gregorich said. "The technology doesn't exist today but it might in another 20 or 30 years."
Image: The Berkeley Gas-filled Separator, the detector used in the experiment, in situ.
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There are many people here that have no problems with their transmissions -or- did have problems and have had all of their issues resolved. We know that the transmission is capable of working well and we know that it can be fixed properly when it isn't.
If you are unable to get your car repaired properly, why would you want another Ford? That is absurd.
Cars break. Service is important.
Its the transmission not the entire car. Ford (sans transmission) has a great product, I love the look of my Focus, the MFT w/Nav and Sirius travel link, etc etc. I am not willing to give all that up, which is why I am staying with the Ford lineup.
As you stated there are many here with transmission issues, some have been fixed and with others it continues to be an issue... The fact that some can be successfully repaired while others are left with a malfunctioning unit is, as you so eloquently stated, absurd. If none of the Focus' were able to be fixed then I would say I have no case for a lemon law, however the fact that some have been fixed shows that the way my car drives is not "normal" this it is a lemon since I have had it to the dealership numerous times and it has not been repaired.
As for your statement "cars break, service is important" - no
sherlock.. However a new vehicle should not be in service as much as mine is. Its ridiculous and a huge inconvenience - I have had used cars with over 100K that never saw the inside of a repair shop unless I was doing preventative maintenance (i.e. oil change, etc). I expect better reliability from a new car.
I am willing to pursue legal action in regards to this, I just hope it doesn't come to that. I don't expect one letter to Ford to change anything, I merely sent it b/c legally I am required to send them in writing that this transmission issue has not been repaired. Now depending what they do upon receipt of the letter will determine my next course of action...
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South Island holidaymakers are being warned to keep a close watch on river and lake levels.
There are severe weather warnings in place for the Southern Alps and up to 400 millimetres of rain is expected.
This has prompted Environment Canterbury to warn people who may be holidaying near rivers and lakes to be wary that major alpine rivers in the region are expected quickly rise to dangerous levels.
People are being advised to stay well clear of the beds of these rivers until the weekend.


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Even though global surface temperature has been steadly increasing at a rate of ~0.2°C per decade in the past 30 years, high-resolution information on the spatial and temporal variability of this phenomenon over large geographical areas is almost absent.
A worldwide comparative assessment of the recent warming is urgently needed for coastal areas. These areas, although representing only a small fraction of the World's oceans, have a major role on global climate forcing, on geochemical cycles, marine ecology and biodiversity, fisheries and economics, to name just a few.
This project aims at quantifying and mapping changes in coastal sea surface temperature (SST) with unprecedented levels of spatial and temporal resolution, worldwide.
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I have held off putting up pics of where I live…. I am not very good at showing off myself or any of my bits….(I am usually on a beach in a kaftan) ….including the bit I live in .
I have always loved messing about with where I live…its a space filled with odds and sods….(no, not the kids) things I have found from the street, car boot sales, flea markets, things friends have made and from their shops. Its always changing and I thought I would grin and bare showing you….. at least how it looked on a tidy day a few months ago .


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The mother of a London sixth-form student who vanished after a gig nearly a month ago made a desperate plea for information today.
Conor O'Donoghue, 17, disappeared after visiting Camden with friends. He was last seen at about 5am on Sat 8 December on Kew Bridge near his home, after getting off a night bus.
The A-level student had left his home the previous evening after chatting with his father Tim about the new term at Tiffin School in Kingston.
He left with his sister and walked to the Tube, parting company with her as she went to her youth group. It was the last time a family member saw Conor.
Today his mother Brid told of the family's agony as they waited for news — and said his Christmas presents were lying at home unopened. Among them is a ticket for a Pogues concert at the O2 that his parents had bought for him.
She said: "We're devastated and worried, we just want to know he's well. If he could just get in touch and let us know he's okay.
"We want him to come home. He was due to go back to school and was enjoying classes and enjoying life." Conor travelled with three friends to see The JB Conspiracy at The Underworld in Camden.
The gig finished at about midnight and he took night buses back home, getting off the N9 at Kew Bridge station. The last CCTV images showed him at 4.45am, and the last witness saw him at 5am.
Conor is about 5ft 10in tall, with shoulder length brown hair. He was last seen wearing a red jacket, a grey hooded top, skinny black jeans and boots.
His family said the disappearance was out of character. Anyone with information about his whereabouts is asked to call the police on 101 or Missing People on 116000.Reuse content


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There's only one interesting thing about Paul Bettany's role in A Beautiful Mind, and he's not allowed to talk about it. "It's just impossible," says the 30-year-old English actor. "I really will be sued if I answer that question." He then does precisely that (but we won't print it here, Hollywood lawyers being what they are). Bettany has obviously still to acquire the rigid discipline Hollywood demands of its emerging starlets. Here's hoping he never does.
Far too charming to be wholly trustworthy, there's nevertheless a raffish, devil-may-care quality to this thrusting young boy from Harlesden, north London, that makes of him a more entertaining interviewee than many a doe-eyed Tinseltown wannabe. When historians questioned the authenticity of his 2001 movie A Knight's Tale, in which Bettany played Chaucer, the actor playfully challenged them to a fight. But he's no apologist for Hollywood. To Bettany, taking the blockbuster shilling is "sucking the devil's cock". It's a phrase that, in an hour's conversation, crops up frequently.
He certainly makes little secret of his ambivalent regard for Ron Howard's inevitably Oscar-tipped biopic of the troubled maths genius John Forbes Nash. He loathed the silly hairstyle he was forced to adopt for the film. "How many people," he wails, "have had that haircut in showbusiness? I can only bring to mind the guy who played Dano in Hawaii Five-0 and Leo Sayer."
He doesn't disagree with the suggestion that Gladiator star Crowe's fidgeting Nash is by-numbers, megastar-does-disabled grandstanding. "It wouldn't be for me," he purrs, "to comment". He questions Hollywood's ability to tell true stories faithfully ("there we were," he says of the shoot, "with an absurd amount of money, tinkering about with somebody's life") or to handle tough subjects like schizophrenia.
He's not alone in this. Several protest groups have challenged the film's sanitised representation of the Nobel prize-winning mathematician's life. The film depicts Nash combating schizophrenia with doggone American grit and the love of a good woman; critics have argued that drugs offer a more reliable cure. Gay rights campaigners in the US have protested that the film excludes any reference to Nash's bisexuality, far less his arrest for indecent exposure in a public toilet. In A Beautiful Mind, Nash imagines himself embroiled in a (conveniently action-packed) CIA scheme to stave off Russian attacks on the US. In real life, he fantasised communication with aliens and developed an obsession with the TV series Doctor Who.
"I don't know how much of the film bore any relation to the truth, to be honest," he shrugs. "John Nash came down to the set one day and I ran away, because I can't bear that kind of thing."
Bettany points out that actors have no control over the finished product. He cites the film adaptation of Martin Amis's Dead Babies, in which he starred. "I thought, well, somebody's actually attempting to do something meaningful. Then you see a rough cut and realise they've made a film about youth drug culture, which was a film you never intended to be in."
He also cites Paul McGuigan's Gangster No 1, in which Bettany first signalled his considerable screen presence in the role of the sleek, menacing anti-hero. "Whatever the result, we seriously attempted to look at why people live those violent, pornographic lives."
He's worried that the final cut made violence sexier than it should have done. "I'm middle class and I never thought of running around with a gun and fighting somebody. I got really sick of all those movies. Maybe Stephen Lawrence (the black teenager murdered in a racist attack in south London in 1993) got killed by a funny little Cockney - it's not really that amusing. But I've got to work," he says.
And there's no shortage of offers. Bettany appeared in last year's influential Variety magazine list of "Ten to Watch". His career trajectory suggests an actor being rigorously groomed for stardom.
Characteristically, he dissociates himself from the hype. "Two years ago, when I was filming Dead Babies, I got pissed with the woman who put my name forward for it. And that, I'm absolutely convinced, is why I'm in that Ten to Watch."
His curse, perhaps, is his classical background. He comes from a theatrical family. He attended the notoriously ascetic Drama Centre (nickname: the Trauma Centre) in north London, where contemporaries had him down as Most Likely To, albeit for his ambition as much as his talent. He had a distinguished, if fledgling, theatre career before film came a-wooing.
Perhaps it's because he has experienced high quality that he can't bring himself to embrace the alternative. "There has been, in my opinion, a massive trend in American movies to ask people questions then answer them all, the second after they've been asked. There's no ambiguity. Where are people making Five Easy Pieces and films like that nowadays? A lot of American movies are soporific: 'Shut up America, go to sleep, stop thinking, don't ask too many questions.' It's depressing, a lot of American cinema."
But it makes him money, so he intends to keep working in it. "I just received an enormous tax bill," he says by way of explanation, "that I can't possibly pay for." His current lofty standards aren't intended to last. "If we meet in 10 years I'd have far too much make-up on and be in my ranch in California."
Next up, though, is a project closer to home and heart, about which Bettany comments, "I'm shitting myself." He's off to Sweden to film the latest feature from Danish maverick Lars von Trier, titled Dogville. "When he made Dancer in the Dark," says Bettany, "all these American journalists went crazy at him, saying 'How dare you comment on American society when you've never been there?' So Lars went, 'It's a real shame that you didn't like the movie because it's the first of a trilogy about America'. Which it wasn't, but now he's said it, he's decided to do it."
Bettany will co-star with Nicole Kidman, Chloe Sevigny and Stellan Skarsgard in a Rocky Mountain-set story in which a fugitive gangster's moll seeks sanctuary in a remote mining community. "Lars von Trier is without doubt a very bright person, Stellan Skarsgard is a very bright person. To go and spend 13 hours a day, six days a week for two months with these people; to be challenged and made to think ... it's a lovely life."
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The Draft On Paris
For close upon a month Soames performed the duties imposed upon him in the household
of Henry Leroux. He was unable to discover, despite a careful course of inquiry from the
cook and the housemaid, that Mrs. Leroux frequently absented herself. But the servants
were newly engaged, for the flat in Palace Mansions had only recently been leased by the
Leroux. He gathered that they had formerly lived much abroad, and that their marriage
had taken place in Paris. Mrs. Leroux had been to visit a friend in the French capital once,
he understood, since the housemaid had been in her employ.
The mistress (said the housemaid) did not care twopence-ha'penny for her husband; she
had married him for his money, and for nothing else. She had had an earlier love
(declared the cook) and was pining away to a mere shadow because of her painful
memories. During the last six months (the period of the cook's service) Mrs. Leroux had
altered out of all recognition. The cook was of opinion that she drank secretly.
Of Mr. Leroux, Soames formed the poorest opinion. He counted him a spiritless being,
whose world was bounded by his book-shelves, and whose wife would be a fool if she
did not avail herself of the liberty which his neglect invited her to enjoy. Soames felt
himself, not a snake in the grass, but a benefactor--a friend in need--a champion come to
the defense of an unhappy and persecuted woman.
He wondered when an opportunity should arise which would enable him to commence
his chivalrous operations; almost daily he anticipated instructions to the effect that Mrs.
Leroux would be leaving for Paris immediately. But the days glided by and the weeks
glided by, without anything occurring to break the monotony of the Leroux household.
Mr. Soames sought an opportunity to express his respectful readiness to Mrs. Leroux; but
the lady was rarely visible outside her own apartments until late in the day, when she
would be engaged in preparing for the serious business of the evening: one night a dance,
another, a bridge-party; so it went. Mr. Leroux rarely joined her upon these festive
expeditions, but clung to his study like Diogenes to his tub.
Great was Mr. Soames' contempt; bitter were the reproaches of the cook; dark were the
predictions of the housemaid.
At last, however, Soames, feeling himself neglected, seized an opportunity which offered
to cement the secret bond (the TOO secret bond) existing between himself and the
mistress of the house.
Meeting her one afternoon in the lobby, which she was crossing on the way from her
bedroom to the drawing-room, he stood aside to let her pass, whispering:
"At your service, whenever you are ready, madam!"
It was a non-committal remark, which, if she chose to keep up the comedy, he could
explain away by claiming it to refer to the summoning of the car from the garage--for
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good for them....
good for them....
I have customers/friends in NYC who have bees on their roof tops, one is a regular here. Done responsibly it's much less hazardous than a large dog and provides a needed service to local community gardens and flowers.
It is the one cool experiance to stand on a NYC roof top, working a hive of bees and looking over Gotham City! My Seneca Granmother always told me "Just because you live in a square house doesn't mean you can't be a round person". Nature buffs and Farmers are everywhere!
wonder where the bees forage in a place like that...I guess there has to be something.
Tons of Linden and other trees, Parks everywhere, botanical gardens in every borough, empty lots, along both the East River and the Hudson River and intensive little back yard and roof top gardens everywhere.
got any pics of you roof top adventures?
Check out http://GothamCityBees.com where you will find a link to the petition you can sign in support of legalization.
Several years ago, I had a hive in midtown manhattan that had to be moved out to long island due to complaints from the block association. It was a shame to have to move the hive, but I got a husband in the bargain, not bad! He now has dozens of hives on rooftops, and is teaching 45 novices every Sunday.
I (heart) Honeybees
Hmmm....I think I know the person to whom your refer...
"I reject your reality, and substitute my own." Adam Savage
peg-jam writes:
Hmmm....I think I know the person to whom your refer
humm... is this who I think it is?
a young lady who married my nephew tells me the community garden they use on the southern end of manhatten has a couple of hives that are there for pollination purposes. evidently they have had them there for years.
It says that the target is NY City residents. I wouldn't think that the City Counsel would take much interest in outside signatures on the petition.
Am I wrong?
"Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts." Winston Churchill
I have a friend in NYC that has 3 hives on his balcony. He says that in the summer and fall his honey is special. Many balconeys near him have Mary Jane blooming so he has POT honey. Sorry there is no special effects from this honey!!!
Clinton Bemrose
just South of Lansing Michigan
Beekeeping since 1964
I was #632!
Wasn't that Jim Fischer interviewed in the news report? I expect he would be a formidable proponent for the city beeks.
My daughter is a freshman at Columbia and has expressed interest in starting a beekeeping club on a university rooftop - a few blocks from Morningside Park and Riverside Park - but only can do so if it is legalized. The recent American Bee Journal had an article on rooftop beekeeping - esp. nice were the hives on the roof at Fortnum & Mason in London, painted in their blue-green company color. I volunteered to help build Columbia hives and suggested they paint them the light blue school color with lion on the sides.
What the fine for this "illegal" activity? and who the heck enforces it?
Aye, it is who you think it is..
Jim's been busy....
"I reject your reality, and substitute my own." Adam Savage
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Hey Jim, congrats on the wedding, now it's time to get back & keep us up to date on the latest science.
I will second that. the best to ya' both.
Its all about the bengimins. why pay someone to enforce a stupid rule, when the activity is actively going on, when instead you can require people to get a special "permit" and generate lots more revenue.
In other words (if it wasnt a public safty issue) which would generate more revenue, writeing speeding tickets or selling speed-for-free passes.
or even better, sell permits, then double the fine for those that dont have permits and raise 3 times the revenue.
(this coming from the state that now wants to tax internet downloads)


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Re: If I Had a Son, He'd Look Like Chris Lane
It's becoming silly to argue at this point. You see what you want to see. Twist how you want to twist.
If the goal is equality and fairness, the issue should not be the "us vs. them" game that you seem to want to make it.
If you see a "them" and truly wish for a resolution, you must first empathize to understand their position and move from there.
That does not seem to interest you though. So I concede. You're "right" and there is no changing that.
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As for what I see, I see someone unable or unwilling to defend themselves.
As for what I am "twisting," I don't see anything. Certainly not anything you have pointed out.
My points speak for themselves, as does your inability to address them.
The goal is equality and fairness. The "us vs. them" is entirely propagated by the people I am calling out and you are defending (actively to some degree but more so by failing to call them out). These same people do NOT treat people equally in terms of their reactions, and THAT is not fair. That you, at this stage in the argument, do not even recognize this (the whole point of the argument) does not bode well for prospects of a meaningful discussion.
I don't want to make anything other than a situation where people do not distort the truth and lie about reality in order to stoke the otherwise-would-be-diminishing flames of racial conflict. Get that straight and stop insinuating otherwise without any evidence to the contrary.
And I understand their position perfectly well, but thanks. I understand their motives as well. I also understand that their position is indefensible and exacerbates the problem they pretend to want to solve (as I have explained). There is nothing to "empathize" with that would make falsely accusing people of racism where no racism exists a sensible response. Likewise, no amount of empathy justifies the desire to falsely imprison someone without due process just because of the color of their skin.
Either defend your points or stop posting. It looks like you are choosing the latter. Fair enough.
It has nothing to do with me at all. It has to do with the arguments being made. There certainly is no changing the "rightness" of any argument without remotely addressing it, that is for sure.
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If you've ever been to Disney World, you know that crowd levels can have a direct effect on your enjoyment of the parks. For some of us, picking the best days to go to the park is practically a sport. One way to do this is by finding a good crowd calender online, which predicts crowd levels based on past attendance and various other factors. A blog post from the people who put out everyone's favorite Disney guide, The Unofficial Guide, explains how they predict crowd levels. As you'll see, they have it down to a science. One interesting assertion that is proving true this month: That the economy hasn't made the crowd levels at Disney World decrease. In fact, Disney's Buy 4/Get 3 Free and other promotions have actually packed the parks.
If you go to this site, you can check out their crowd calender to see what their predictions are for the coming months. I've used it for the last few years and found it to be very accurate. Crowd levels are available for free 30 days in advance. To see estimates for the entire year, you can use your most current Unofficial Guide for admission or you can purchase a yearly pass (it's a few dollars).


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There are two types of electronica in the world: the kind that takes electronic instruments and makes an ethereal, human element out of such digital means, and the kind that gets sold to coffee customers while flying under the banner of "arty", when in fact they're just pop-songs wrapped up in enough reverb to drown in. Blue Stone falls in the latter category. Copping a feel from orchestral electronic masters E.S. Posthumus, the producers behind Blue Stone (Robert Smith and Bill Walters) manage to build mid-tempo dance beats and liquid piano notes around an anonymous array of feather-voiced vixens who deliver lyrics that typify the term "cliché". However, Blue Stone knows that sometimes atmosphere is all you need, and on Worlds Apart, they have it in spades. Sure, they might be eight years late in copping the beat from Madonna's "Frozen", but it still works majestically for the song "Tears" (and the man who produced said Madge song—William Orbit—holds a heavy presence over this entire project). Each song has its own unique characteristics, but Smith & Walters know little of restraint: the album's 16 tracks clock in at 74 minutes, and halfway through the beats and orchestral-ambitions blur together. The parts may be better than the whole, but when the group is constantly trying to outgrow itself, there just might be the day when Blue Stone moves out of the New Age section and into something much more lasting and significant.
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17th Annual Toward Harmony with Nature Conference
Wild Ones Fox Valley Area Chapter
Saturday, January 26, 2013 from 8:45 AM to 4:00 PM (CST)
Toward Harmony with Nature is an all-day conference on natural landscapes and native plants. It is of interest to gardeners, ecologists, wildlife enthusiasts, students and the general public-anyone who wants to learn more about landscaping and its effect on our natural environment. Even the smallest yard CAN make a difference -- learn how to increase biodiversity, heal your piece of the earth, improve the health of you and your family, and add to the quality of your life.
This year's conference is being held at the Oshkosh Convention Center, 2 North Main Street on Saturday, January 26, 2013.
Registration 8:00-8:45AM
• Keynote "Restoring Native Ecosystems" by Dr Curt Meine, Sr Fellow at Wisconsin's Aldo Leopold Foundation. Dr Meine is a distinguished conservation biologist, historian and author.
• Nine other speaker presentations on subjects related to natural landscaping
Session I:
Armund Bartz, District Ecologist, Wisconsin DNR, "Advanced Prairie Management: Beyond the Basics"
Corrine Daniels, Director of Applied Ecological Services Restoration Nurseries, "Native Plants for Wet Places"
Jim Reinartz, Director of the UW Field Station, "How Wisconsin Geology Influenced Our Plant Communities"
Session II:
Steven Banovetz, Field & Stream Restorations, "Prescribed Fire as a Vegetation Management Tool"
Dr. John Harrington, Chair, UW Landscape Architecture Department, "Knowing & Growing Woodland Species"
Mark Renz, "Invasive Plant Identification and Management"
Session III:
Randy Huffman, Wisconsin DNR, "Wisconsin's State Natural Areas"
Jim La Luzerne, Green Bay Wild Ones member, "Intelligent Tinkering – From Cornfield to Diverse Natural Habitat – A 36-Year Experiment"
Victoria Piaskowski, retired international coordinator, Birds Without Borders project, "If You Plant It Who Will Come? Bird Species That Will Use Your Native Plantings"
• Speaker List http://www.towardharmonywithnature.org/speakers.html
• Learn more about what's going on at the WILD Center
• Exhibitors and Vendors
• Silent Auction
• Conference website: http://www.towardharmonywithnature.org/index.html
Pre-registration ends at midnight, Wednesday, January 23, 2013.
On-Site Registration day of the event is available: $35 member, $40 non-member, $20 student
Wild Ones Fox Valley Area is a chapter of Wild Ones: Native Plants, Natural Landscapes -- a national not-for-profit environmental education organization. Wild Ones Fox Valley Area members learn about the benefits of using native plants in sustainable landscaping through speaker presentations, yard tours, seed exchanges, plant rescues, community projects and plant sales. Members reside within the many counties that surround Lake Winnebago in East Central Wisconsin. www.foxvalleyarea.wildones.org
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Chris Evans Wants a Thor 2′ Cameo; Anna Kendrick Cast in Captain America 2′?
When it comes to "Phase Two," lately the focus has been on Marvel Studios' forthcoming sequels Iron Man 3 and Thor: The Dark World but with Chris Evans out and about promoting The Iceman at the TIFF a few Captain America: The Winter Soldier details have also started to appear. At first, it was little hints here and there from Evans, namely a confirmation that the film begins shooting in March, but now comes some even juicier details.
Since Marvel has done a fantastic job of tying all of its characters together in films like The Avengers it stands to reason that from here on out feature cameos are a given. To that point, Evans reveals he would be interested in making an appearance in Thor: The Dark World.
Speaking with Collider, Evans says that he has discussed the possibility of a cameo in Thor's next adventure, but is unsure of how director Alan Taylor might pull it off. Current rumors surrounding Thor 2 suggest the film might be set in several of the comic book universe's nine realms, namely Muspelheim and Svartalfhiem, which leaves little room for Captain America to appear.
"[Chris] Hemsworth and I even talked about that. I would love to do a little thing in Thor 2. It is obviously going to be tricky trying to work out the plot, the reason why I am not there to help him, and why he is not there to help me. But the best thing about Marvel is that, like I said, the movies were so good and we had such a good time making them."
Other rumors hinted that Earth might come into play in some respect – in order to accommodate the return of Natalie Portman's character Jane Foster – but we're still waiting on confirmation. It's been assumed for some time that Jane Foster would be kidnapped from Earth, potentially by Malekith the Accursed, calling Thor back into action. Having Captain America appear in some capacity, however, is another issue entirely.
In addition to a Thor 2 cameo, Evans talked a little bit about where Captain America: The Winter Soldier's story might be headed, namely in its exploration of Steve Rogers as a fish out of water. There were touches of that storyline featured in The Avengers, but most of those moments ended up as deleted scenes on the Blu-ray and DVD.
Evans reveals that the main reason those scenes of Rogers (coping with being frozen for several decades) were cut from Avengers was to allow for the story arc to be explored Captain America 2. Furthermore, he provides additional credence to directors Joe and Anthony Russo's talk of exploring Steve Rogers' WWII exploits through flashbacks.
"A lot of that stuff [that was cut] is for Captain America 2. That is his story. It is him trying to on a personal level adjust to the fact that everyone he knows is gone and the whole Peggy Carter of it all. There are a lot of things that he kind of has to come to terms with. So I don't know. I am excited to kind of see flashes of the first Captain, if you know what I mean, and to see his memory of what we now know as an audience of who he was."
Hayley Atwell (who played Peggy Carter in the first Captain America) has already teased that she might return for Winter Soldier, and this quote from Evans all but confirms it. Maybe this will be our chance to see the Peggy Carter reunion director Joss Whedon wanted to include in The Avengers.
Speaking of the Carter family tree we also have a rumor from Ain't It Cool News that may confirm Anna Kendrick (Pitch Perfect) has been cast as Sharon Carter – or at least is in talks. Kendrick was included among the short list of actresses Marvel was looking to cast as a female lead (presumably Sharon Carter), and now she's playing coy about the rumors.
"All I know is that I can't really say anything. Sorry, man."
While Kendrick couldn't officially confirm whether or not she's playing Sharon Carter, her response does suggest she has a role to play in The Winter Soldier. The actress has been featured in several indie and lower budget films as of late, but has yet to headline a major action blockbuster (she's enjoyed smaller roles in the Twilight films as well as Scott Pilgrim), making her a perfect fit for Captain America: The Winter Soldier. Even more than that she bares a striking resemblance to the character of Sharon Carter.
In the comics Sharon is Peggy Carter's niece (retconned from her daughter), who becomes an agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. operating under the alias Agent 13. More importantly, though, Sharon Carter is a key love interest for Captain America, a plot point we anticipate to be picked up in Winter Soldier – especially if Atwell's Peggy Carter has a role to play in the sequel.
And, if Kendrick was interested, this could open her up to the possibility of appearing in other Marvel properties. Since the inception of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, the studio has been smart about signing their actors on for multiple projects, meaning that Kendrick's Sharon Carter could be a major player not only in The Winter Soldier and its sequels, but The Avengers 2 as well.
As we said, Captain America: The Winter Soldier doesn't begin filming until spring of next year — after Iron Man 3, Thor 2, and possibly Ant-Man — providing plenty of time for the ink to dry on Kendrick's contract with Marvel. In the meantime, however, we hope to see the actress officially confirmed for a role – hopefully as Sharon Carter.
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Real Madrid coach Jose Mourinho has been banned for one European match by UEFA after he conspired to get two of his own players sent off in their recent Champions League clash against Ajax.
• Valdano unhappy with charges
• UEFA charges Mourinho and co
• Mourinho plays dumb over cards
Mourinho had an additional one-match ban suspended for three years - effectively imposing a probation period on the Portuguese - and was also fined €40,000 after being found guilty of improper conduct.
Xabi Alonso and Sergio Ramos, who purposefully picked up a second yellow card for time wasting in order to go into the knockout phase of the Champions League with a clean disciplinary slate, have both been fined €20,000.
Mourinho will consequently only miss Real's dead rubber against Group G rivals Auxerre, providing he does not breach UEFA rules within "a probationary period of three years''.
Goalkeeper Iker Casillas, who allowed Alonso and Ramos to take the delayed goalkicks for which they picked up a second booking, was fined €10,000 and back-up 'keeper Jerzy Dudek, who relayed Mourinho's instructions to the players, was fined €5,000.
The one-match bans automatically handed to Alonso and Ramos for their dismissals will stand. The duo will miss the final Champions League group game against Auxerre and will go into the next stage of the competition caution free, as Mourinho intended.
UEFA also fined Real Madrid €120,000. The club, players and coach have three days to appeal the decision.
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Pierre Seel (16 August 1923 in Haguenau, Bas-Rhin – 25 November 2005 in Toulouse, Haute-Garonne) was a gay Holocaust survivor and the only French person to have testified openly about his experience of deportation during World War II due to his homosexuality.
Pierre was the fifth and last son of an affluent Catholic Alsatian family, and he was born at the family castle of Fillate in Haguenau. At the age of eleven, he discovered that his younger sister, Josephine (Fifine to him), was in fact his cousin, adopted by his father when her mother died. His father ran a successful patisserie-confiserie shop on Mulhouse's main street (at 46 rue du Sauvage). His mother, Emma Jeanne, once director of a department store, joined the family business when she married. By his late teens, Pierre Seel was part of the Mulhouse (Alsace) gay and Zazou subcultures. He suspected that his homosexuality was due to the repressive Catholic morals of his family which forbade him to show interest in girls his age during his early teens. He found it difficult to come to terms with and accept his homosexuality, and described himself as short tempered.
In 1939, he was in a public garden (le Square Steinbach) notorious as a "cruising" ground for men. While he was there, his watch was stolen, a gift that his godmother had given to him at his recent communion. Reporting the theft to the police meant that, unknown to him, his name was added to a list of homosexuals held by the police (homosexuality had not been illegal in France since 1792; the Vichy Regime did not, contrary to legend, recriminalize homosexuality, but in August 1942 it did outlaw sexual relations between an adult and a minor under twenty-one). The German invasion curtailed Seel's hopes of studying textiles in Lille. He completed vocational training in accounting, decoration and sales and found a sales assistant job at a neighbouring shop.
In Schirmeck-Vorbrück[edit]
On 3 May 1941, Seel was arrested. He was tortured and forcibly sodomized with a piece of wood.[1] He was then sent to the city jail before being transferred on 13 May 1941 to the Schirmeck-Vorbrück camp, about 30 km west of Strasbourg. His prison uniform was marked with a blue bar (marking Catholic and "a-social" prisoners) rather than the infamous pink triangle which was not in use at Schirmeck. He later noted: "There was no solidarity for the homosexual prisoners; they belonged to the lowest caste. Other prisoners, even when between themselves, used to target them." During his stay in the camp he also witnessed the execution of his eighteen-year-old lover, Jo, by means of assault from a pack of dogs.[2]
On 6 November 1941, after months of starvation, ill treatment and forced labour, Seel was set free with no explanation and made a German citizen. He was sworn to secrecy about his experience by Karl Buck, the commander of the camp. He was made to report daily to the Gestapo offices.
The rest of the war[edit]
Between 21 March and 26 September 1942, Seel was forced to join the RAD (Reichsarbeitsdienst) to receive some military training. First, he was sent to Vienna as an aide-de-camp to a German officer. Then, it was a military airport in Gütersloh near the Dutch-German border.
On 15 October 1942, he was incorporated to the Wehrmacht and become one of the "malgré-nous" (despite ourselves), young men born in Alsace or Lorraine enrolled against their will into the German army who had to fight with their enemies against the people they supported. During the next three years, he criss-crossed Europe without much recollections of events, places and dates. This time he was sent to Yugoslavia. While fighting the local resistance, he and his fellow soldiers burned isolated villages inhabited by women and children only. One day he found himself in front of a partisan who broke Seel's jaw, as a result of which he soon lost all his teeth. The man did not recover from the ensuing fight. Wounded, Seel was sent to Berlin in an administrative position.
In spring 1943, to his bemusement, Seel was sent to Pomerania to a Lebensborn, one of a dozen places in the Reich dreamed up by Heinrich Himmler and dedicated to breeding a new race according to the Nazis' standards of Aryan "purity". Young, healthy couples were encouraged to procreate and give their children to the Reich. He only stayed there a few days.
In summer 1943, he volunteered to join the Reichsbank and became a teller on trains for soldiers on leave between Belgrade and Salonica. This ended with the attempt on Hitler's life on 20 July 1944, which demanded a strengthening of authority. Seel found himself helping the civilian population in the Berlin underground during a 40 days and nights attack by the Allies.
While things started to unravel for the Reich, Seel was sent to Smolensk on the Russian front. After having allowed the horse of the officer he was serving to run away, Seel was sent to a dangerous and exposed position alone with another Alsatian. The enemy kept on firing at them and soon Seel's companion was killed. He spent three days there, close to madness, believing himself forgotten.
As the German debacle was becoming imminent, his commanding officer invited him to desert with him. Soon after, the officer was killed and Seel found himself alone and decided to surrender to the Soviet troops and started to follow them west. Somewhere in Poland, however, he found himself arrested and threatened to be shot as a part of a reprisal execution after the murder of an officer. He saved his life by stepping forward in front of the firing squad and starting to sing the Internationale.
In Poland, Seel parted ways with the Russian army and joined a group of concentration camp survivors soon to be brought back to France. The Red Cross soon took over and organised a train convoy. This however did not go west but south, through Odessa and the Black Sea, in terrible sanitary conditions. Seel was still in Poland on 8 May 1945 when the Armistice was declared. In Odessa, as he was put in charge of order in the refugee camp he was in, he contracted malaria. At this time he was also advised to change his name to Celle and hide the fact that he was Alsatian by saying he was from Belfort.
After a long wait in Odessa for a boat to take him back to France, "Pierre Celle" finally arrived in Paris on 7 August 1945 after a train journey through Europe, via Romania, Germany, the Netherlands and Belgium. Again, Seel found himself requisitioned for an administrative task, in this case, the ticking of the long lists of other refugees being sent home.
On reaching Mulhouse, Seel realized that he would have to lie about his true story and, like all the others, lie about the reasons for his deportation. "I was already starting to censor my memories, and I became aware that, in spite of my expectations, in spite of all I had imagined, of the long-awaited joy of returning, the true Liberation, was for other people."[3]
After the war[edit]
After the end of the war, the Charles de Gaulle government cleaned up the French Penal Code, principally getting rid of the anti-Semitic laws. The article against homosexual relations between adults and minors, however, remained in force until 1982. The homophobic atmosphere of the 1940s-1960s meant that for the returning victims, the possibility of telling their story was thwarted by the fear of further stigmatisation. In his book, Seel also notes an increase of homophobic attacks in Mulhouse, after the war. In his family itself, Seel found a negative reaction to his homosexuality. His closest relatives decided to avoid broaching the subject while other members of the extended family made humiliating jokes. His godfather disinherited him.
After starting to work as a stock manager at a fabric warehouse, Seel set up an association to help the local destitute families by giving out food and clothes. He also cared for his ageing and ailing mother, with whom he grew close and the only person to whom he related his experience for over thirty years. For four years, the beginning of what he called the years of shame, Seel led a life of "painful sadness", during which he slowly came to decide that he must renounce his homosexuality. Following in his parents' footsteps, he contacted a dating agency and on 21 August 1950, he civilly married the daughter of a Spanish dissident (the religious marriage took place on 30 September 1950 in the Notre-Dame-du-Rosaire church of Saint-Ouen). He decided not to tell his wife about his homosexuality.
Their first child was still-born, but they eventually had two sons (1952 and 1954) and a daughter (1957). In 1952, for the birth of their second child, they moved near Paris, in the Vallée de Chevreuse, where Seel opened a fabric store which was not successful. He soon had to find work in a larger Parisian textile company. The family got involved with the local Catholic community. Seel found it difficult to relate to his children; he felt remote from his last born, while he did not know how to express his love for his two boys without it being misinterpreted.
The 1960s offered little stability to the family with moves to Blois, Orléans, Compiègne, Rouen and back to Compiègne, following Seel's career. This instability put further strains on his marriage. In 1968, Seel found himself trapped for four days in the besieged Sorbonne when he was sent as observer by his local Parents Association. He then went down to Toulouse where he was to check the family's new flat attached to his wife's new job in the administration. There, he was arrested under suspicion of stirring the young demonstrators. The family finally settled in Toulouse.
During the next ten years, Seel grew further from his wife, tormented by feelings of inadequacy, shame, and confusion about his sexuality. By the time he and his wife separated in 1978, he was already under tranquilizers. He started to drink and considered becoming homeless, even sleeping rough three times to test himself. After one of his sons threatened to never see him again if he did not stop drinking, he joined a counselling group. In 1979, as he was working for an insurance company, still trying for reconciliation with his estranged wife, he attended a debate in a local bookshop for the launch of the French edition of Heinz Heger's testimony (The Men with the Pink Triangle, which inspired Martin Sherman to write the play Bent). After the event, Seel met with the speakers and a meeting was organised for the next day.
He joined his local branch of David et Jonathan, a gay and lesbian Christian association. On 9 April 1989, he returned to the sites of the Schirmeck and Struthof camps for the first time. He spent the last 12 years or so with his long-term partner, Eric Féliu, with whom he bred dogs in Toulouse, which helped him to overcome the fear of dogs he had developed after Jo's death. Seel died of cancer in Toulouse in November 2005. He is buried in Bram, in the Aude département.
Speaking out[edit]
In 1981, the testimony collected by Jean-Pierre Joecker (director and founder of the gay magazine Masques) was published anonymously in a special edition of the French translation of the play Bent by Martin Sherman. In April 1982, in response to anti-gay declarations and actions by Léon Elchinger, the Bishop of Strasbourg, Seel spoke publicly and wrote an open letter to the Bishop on 18 November. He simultaneously circulated the text to his family. The letter was published in Gai Pied Hebdo No 47 on 11 December. At the same time, he started the official process of getting compensation from the state.
From the time he came forward publicly until the end of his life, Seel was active as an advocate for the recognition of homosexual victims of the Nazis—and notably of the forgotten homosexual victims from the French territories of Alsace and Moselle, which had been annexed by Nazi Germany.[4] Seel came to be known as the most outspoken activist among the men who had survived internment as homosexuals during the Third Reich.[4] He was an active supporter of the Mémorial de la Déportation Homosexuelle, a French national association founded in 1989 to honor the memory of homosexuals persecuted by the Nazi regime and to advocate formal recognition of these victims in the ceremonies held annually to commemorate citizens and residents of France deported to the concentration camps.[4]
In 1994, Seel published the book Moi, Pierre Seel, déporté homosexuel (I, Pierre Seel, Deported Homosexual), written with the assistance of journalist and activist Jean Le Bitoux, founder of the long-running French gay periodical Gai Pied; the book subsequently appeared in translation in English, German and Spanish. Seel appeared on national television and in the national press in France. His story also was featured in a 2000 documentary film on the Nazi persecution of homosexuals, Paragraph 175, directed by San Francisco filmmakers Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman. Returning to Germany for the first time since the war, Seel received a five-minute standing ovation at the documentary's premiere at the Berlin film festival.
Seel also found himself under attack in the 1980s and 1990s, even receiving death threats. After he appeared on French television, he was attacked and beaten by young men shouting homophobic epithets. Catherine Trautmann, then the Mayor of Strasbourg and later a Socialist Party culture minister, once refused to shake his hand during a commemorative ceremony.
In 2003, Seel received official recognition as a victim of the Holocaust by the International Organization for Migration's program for aiding Nazi victims. In April 2005, President Jacques Chirac, during the "Journée nationale du souvenir des victimes et des héros de la déportation" (the French equivalent to the Holocaust Memorial Day), said: "In Germany, but also on French territory, men and women whose personal lives were set aside, I am thinking of homosexuals, were hunted, arrested and deported." On 23 February 2008, the municipality of Toulouse renamed a street in the city in honour of Seel. The name plaque reads "Rue Pierre Seel - Déporté français pour homosexualité - 1923-2005".[5][6]
See also[edit]
- Gad Beck
- Albrecht Becker
- Rudolf Brazda
- Heinz Dörmer
- Karl Gorath
- Friedrich-Paul von Groszheim
- Wilhelm Heckmann
- Karl Lange (Nazi persecutee)
- Kurt von Ruffin
- LGBT rights in France
- Persecution of homosexuals in Nazi Germany and the Holocaust
- Il Rosa Nudo, a film by Giovanni Coda based on Pierre Seel's autobiography.
- ^ Pierre Seel (2000). Paragraph 175 (Documentary). Event occurs at 63 min.
The Nazis stuck 25 centimeters of wood up my ass (translation from the subtitles)
- ^ I, Pierre Seel, Deported Homosexual, Basic Books, 1995, p. 42-44
- ^ Moi, Pierre Seel, déporté homosexuel, Calmann Levy, 1994, p 110. translated by wikieditor.
- ^ a b c Gerard Koskovich, "Gay Concentration Camp Survivor Pierre Seel Dies,'" Bay Area Reporter (Dec. 15, 2005).
- ^ "inauguration de la Rue Pierre Seel le 23 fvrier - Toulouse". E-llico : toute l'actu LGBT francophone.
- ^ "Attribution d'une rue toulousaine Pierre-SEEL - Les "Oubli(e)s" de la Mmoire".
- Moi, Pierre Seel, déporté homosexuel, Éditions Calmann-Lévy (1994), ISBN 2-7021-2277-9
- I, Pierre Seel, Deported Homosexual, Basic Books (August 1, 1995), ISBN 0-465-04500-6, 208 pp
- Liberation Was for Others: Memoirs of a Gay Survivor of the Nazi Holocaust, Vol. 2, Joachim Neugroschel (Translator), Da Capo Press (April 1997), ISBN 0-306-80756-4, 576pp
- Les oubliés de la mémoire, Jean Le Bitoux, Hachette Littératures (24 avril 2002), ISBN 2-01-235625-7, 291pp
- De Pierre et de Seel, Pierre Seel and Hervé Joseph Lebrun, Create Space (2005), ISBN 1-4348-3696-7
External links[edit]
|Wikimedia Commons has media related to Pierre Seel.
- Pierre Seel: The Death of His Lover selection of extracts from the autobiography
- Washington Post obituary - 2 December 2005
- The Independent obituary - 9 December 2005
- Bay Area Reporter obituary - 15 December 2005
- NPR, All Things Considered - Filmmaker Rob Epstein remembers Pierre Seel - 2 December 2005 (audio file)
- Pierre Seel, Interview (French)
- Extracts from the book (French)
- Triangles roses (French)
- Mémorial de la Déportation Homosexuelle (French)
- 1923 births
- 2005 deaths
- People from Haguenau
- LGBT Christians
- French memoirists
- Gay writers
- LGBT rights activists from France
- LGBT writers from France
- People prosecuted under anti-homosexuality laws
- Nazi concentration camp survivors
- 20th-century French writers
- French prisoners and detainees
- Deaths from cancer in France
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Effect of macrozoobenthos on two-dimensional small-scale heterogeneity of pore water phosphorus concentrations in lake sediments: A laboratory study
Limnol. Oceanogr., 50(4), 2005, 1106-1118 | DOI: 10.4319/lo.2005.50.4.1106
ABSTRACT: We used mesocosms equipped with two-dimensional (2D) pore water samplers (24 rows X 24 columns, 9-mm spatial resolution) to resolve and quantify some of the complex spatial patterns in diagenetic reactions produced by irrigated biogenic structures. The mesocosms were filled with an organic-, iron-, and phosphorus-rich sediment, and chironomids and oligochaetes were added in high densities to three of six mesocosms; the other three mesocosms served as controls. In the mesocosms without macrozoobenthos, a classic redox zonation developed. In the mesocosms with macrozoobenthos, profiles of redox-sensitive dissolved species were less steep in the vicinity of the sediment-water interface, and more irregular throughout the sediment, than in the mesocosms without macrozoobenthos. Furthermore, pore water P concentrations were decreased overall and showed much more small-scale 2D heterogeneity in the mesocosms with macrozoobenthos than in the controls. A comparison of the calculated heterogeneity indices of pore water P concentrations (the ratio of horizontal to vertical flux components) of this laboratory study with in situ-determined indices of previous studies indicates that the presence of macrozoobenthos is the major factor causing heterogeneity. A conceptual model of the effects of macrozoobenthos on biogeochemistry along with pore water and sediment analysis showed a close coupling of P cycling with iron and sulfur cycling. This led to the conclusion that pore water P concentrations and heterogeneity were mainly redox-controlled by association of P with iron oxyhydroxides precipitating along oxidized burrow walls, and not a consequence of mineralization processes occurring in organic-rich hot spots of increased P turnover. Decreased P release rates accompanied addition of macrozoobenthos and indicated that redox control of P release by iron oxyhydroxide precipitation and dissolution was of major importance.


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