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PARTHERICH, Edward (c.1630-1705), of Littleport, Cambs.
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b. c.1630, 1st s. of Sir Edward Partherich of Bridge, Kent by 1st w. Catherine, da. and coh. of Sir Arthur Throckmorton† of Paulerspury, Northants. educ. M. Temple 1648. m. bef. 13 June 1650, Elizabeth (d. 31 Aug. 1703), da. of Robert Draper of Remenham, Berks., at least 1s. suc. fa. 1662.1
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Commr. for assessment, Ely 1657, Aug. 1660-1, Cambs. 1663-9, Ely and Worcs. 1673-4, Worcs. 1677-8, Cambs., Ely and Worcs. 1679-80, Worcs. 1689; j.p. Ely July 1660-80, Cambs. to 1680; commr. for sewers, Bedford level 1662-3, valuations 1667-8; dep. lt. Cambs. to ?1681.2
Partherich came from a family of minor Kentish gentry who had been associated with religious radicalism since the reign of Henry VIII. His great-grandfather sat in two Elizabethan Parliaments, and his father, an ardent Puritan, represented Sandwich in the Long Parliament until Pride's Purge. The Kentish estates had been sold in 1638, and the Partheriches settled in the Isle of Ely, where they took an active technical interest in land reclamation. With the Worcestershire land that came from Partherich's mother, the family's income was estimated at £1,300 p.a. Sir Edward Partherich, who had become one of the strongest Royalists among the secluded Members, contested Sandwich successfully in 1660. Partherich inherited 500 acres in the Bedford level, but, perhaps out of mortification at the rejection by the Adventurers of his father's drainage scheme in favour of Vermuyden's, took no part in the corporation. He was lord of the manor of Littleport in 1675, when his rights to deodands, felons' goods and treasure trove were successfully challenged by the bishop of Ely, with Danby's support. Lady Harley's correspondent describes him and his son as 'much commended', which probably means that they were both Presbyterians, though Partherich himself must have conformed. One or other of them is likely to be the 'Mr Petchrich' of the Green Ribbon Club.3
Partherich was returned for the county to the first Exclusion Parliament. A moderately active Member, he was appointed to twelve committees, of which the most important were to take the disbandment accounts and to consider the Lords' amendments to the habeas corpus bill. He was listed by Shaftesbury as 'honest', spoke in favour of calling out one-third of the militia, and voted for exclusion; but he was not otherwise associated with the more controversial issues in 1679. He was defeated in August (on a false return, as he claimed, but his petition was unreported), and again in 1681. He came forward once more, this time as a court candidate, in 1688: 'the dissenters and many others are entirely satisfied that he is right'. He stood the poll for the fourth time in 1689, but, according to Roger Morrice, 'was injuriously overborne, and lost it'. These successive electoral reverses must have been expensive. He was pricked as sheriff of Worcestershire in 1693, but did not serve. His later years were spent at Cheshunt, a notable centre of religious dissent, where he was buried on 26 Apr. 1705. He died intestate, and no later member of the family entered Parliament.4


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Re: Simplify with If and UnitStep
In a message dated 2001/10/26 6:40:51 AM, gg at hugo.doemaarwat.nl writes:
>I finally understand how I can create a 'piecewise' function with
>mathematica with UnitStep, but somewhere further in my calculations it
>doesn't Simplify it at all.
>This is what I've got as a result now (I removed the ugly pieces
>If[ 1/(32*t^0.3) > 1 && t^(-0.3) > 32,
> 62000*UnitStep[-0.1 + 32]*UnitStep[-0.1 + 1/t^0.3],
> Integrate[M^2.55*UnitStep[M - 0.1, -M + 32],
> {M, 0.1, 1/t^0.3}]]
>There are a couple of annoying things here that I can't solve...
>1) On the first line there are 2 conditions which are exactly the same
>only the 32 is on the other site of the >, how can I turn this into
>just 1 condition? (preferable the latter)
>2) On the second line there is a UnitStep[-0.1+32] which is certainly
>1. The second UnitStep is also 1 because the last part there is always
>larger then 32, that's what the If statement implies. How can I get
>these UnitStep's to be 1?
>3) On the 3th and 4th line it Integrate's over M in between 0.1 and a
>number lower then 32 (as the If statement implies), so the last
>UnitStep should also be 1.
>So what I want to see is actualy
>If[t^(-0.3) > 32, 62000, -0.00007939 + 0.281/t^1.065]
>Which looks way nicer then the upper statement, but essentially the
>same. (I rounded the numbers somewhat, but you get the idea.)
>If anyone can give me a hint about what I should do I will be very
>gratefull :-)
expr = If[1/(32*t^0.3)>1&&t^(-0.3)>32,
The conditions do not simplify because the two conditions are not "exactly"
the same.
To make them the same, use exact (rational) values.
expr = Simplify[Rationalize[expr]]
If[1/t^(3/10) > 32,
62000*UnitStep[-(1/10) + 32]*
UnitStep[1/t^(3/10) - 1/10],
Integrate[M^(51/20)*UnitStep[M - 1/10,
32 - M], {M, 1/10, 1/t^(3/10)}]]
The arguments to the If are not simplified because If has attribute HoldRest.
{HoldRest, Protected}
expr = Module[{d},
expr /. If[a_, b_, c_] :> (If[a, d, c] /.
d -> FullSimplify[b, a])]
If[1/t^(3/10) > 32, 62000,
Integrate[M^(51/20)*UnitStep[M - 1/10,
32 - M], {M, 1/10, 1/t^(3/10)}]]
The easiest way to deal with the integral is just to remove the UnitStep
expr = expr /. UnitStep[x__] -> 1
If[1/t^(3/10) > 32, 62000,
Integrate[M^(51/20)*1, {M, 1/10,
expr = Release /@ expr
If[1/t^(3/10) > 32, 62000,
20/(71*t^(213/200)) -
Bob Hanlon
Chantilly, VA USA

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Taking Malcolm's place is his and his brother Angus's nephew, Stevie Young. Johnson adds, "Malcolm's nephew was magnificent, but when you're recording with this thing hanging over you and your workmate isn't well, it's difficult... He's such a strong man. He's a small guy, but he's very strong. He's proud and he's very private, so we can't say too much. But fingers crossed, he'll be back."
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If we asked all the scientists in the world about the most important good in their activity, no doubt most of them would indicate scientific freedom on top of the list.
Scientific freedom is the quintessence of scientific activity, in the same way as water is the most important element for fishes. It is also a "corollary" of science itself, because no new scientific discovery can be made, without the possibility to freely study and investigate (freedom of thought) and then discuss, compare, disclose and publish scientific results (freedom of the press). In 1958 the Hungarian (then naturalized British and member of the Royal Society) scientist Michael Polanyi, became famous with his book: "Personal Knowledge", in which he refuted the common view that scientific method is something "objective" and "neutral", on the contrary he pointed out that scientists are normally following personal passions before deciding which problems and scientific facts deserve to be investigated.
Therefore – Polanyi argued – just a liberal system which can guarantee total freedom "to pursue science for its own sake" (as opposed to a conception in which science should be instrumental to pursue "social needs", i.e. contaminated by political evaluations) can be suggested as a way to allow total and real scientific freedom.
However, scientific freedom today, in a world dominated by powerful government, business, media and lobby groups, is far from having been reached.
Although today it is not so common as in the past that a scientist is subject to physical violence (as Ignac Semmelweis was in XIX century), there are many ways by which today the scientific establishment can silence and marginalize inconvenient scientists.
One of the commonest ways – as we shall see – is the method of labeling (see here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labeling_theory ) as derived by the sociological theories of Becker, Lemert, Mead, Goffman, etc., i.e. put a negative label, as a sort of "stigma" of deviance on some groups or categories by dominant groups, so that to prevent other persons from following them, or marginalize
Whereas in the past 100 years typical and common negative labels in social life were: "adultery", "Jew", "criminal", "homosexual", "mental ill", "negro", etc., now in the scientific establishment two negative labels seem to dominate:
1. "Conspiracists"
( a negative label meaning that someone or some groups are "foolishly" believing that 2 or more persons are behind some resounding facts such as murders, great events of history, or similar)
2." Deniers "
(another negative and offensive label meaning that some scientific groups would "deny" an alleged "evident" scientific opinion, in the same way as filo-nazi historians denied the historical truth of the holocaust).
What follows is a short analysis of some of the most famous persecutions and/or falsifications against the scientific freedom in the last 200 years.
1. Ignaz Semmelweis
Ignaz Semmelweis (1818 – 1865) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ignaz_Semmelweis is considered the father and founder of the modern asepsy , i.e. all the technics for cleaning and disinfection in surgery, and medical procedures, and he is also gratefully remembered all over the world as the "savior of mothers".
He discovered that the high incidence of puerperal fevers in obstetrical departments of hospitals was linked to the bad habit of many doctors to visit poor mothers after childbirths, after performing dissections of corpses in the morgue, without cleaning their hands and thereby transmitting infections.
Semmelweis suggested some very simple procedures of hand cleaning with solutions of chlorinate, to kill bacteria, and his suggestions and publications led to a drastic drop of mortality in obstetrical departments.
However some idiotic (although "important") members of the scientific community in Wien resented and felt "offended" by Semmelweis' suggestions, and started to boycott him. Then Semmelweis was fired and started to suffer various nervous diseases, after such a bad treatment. At the end he was hospitalized in an asylum, and died just 14 days after commitment, when he was just 47 year old, after having been violently beaten by the guards.
20 years later the great Louis Pasteur defended and gave full scientific support to the Semmelweis theory of asepsy, unfortunately Semmelweis could not get any reward for his discovery.
Semmelweis' case is probably considered the most shameful and blatant example of scientific persecution by the stupidity and arrogance of the scientific establishment, in the last 2 centuries.
And now we will examine more modern cases, in which the scientific establishment tried/is trying to put hindrances to the scientific freedom, through the constant use of labels such as "deniers", or "conspiracists"
2. CO2, GHE, and CFC (clorofluorocarbons)
As we all know, "deniers" is the commonest negative label which is being used against us, by the upholders of scientific "consensus" in climate science. Deniers simply means – in their distorted vision of science – that in climate science everything is "settled" (a term coined by Nicholas Stern in his report of 2006), and no further discussion should be admitted other than global temperatures are rising, and that should occur just for CO2 human emissions. And that's the reason why important scientific magazines such as "Nature", and "Science" in the last years simply refuse to publish articles not complying with the "pseudoscience" of global warming, as the Nobel prize-winner Ivar Giaever (who resigned from the American Physical Society for this reason) named it.
However, it would be too long to discuss here why GW is a pseudoscience, Readers can find dozen articles here at Principia Scientific International (PSI).
What it is interesting to notice, is that PSI has several times made a clear distinction between some unscientific and untenable positions of IPCC, such as those regarding GW, and other correct and scientifically serious statements, as those regarding the danger of CFC (chlorofluorocarbons) for our atmosphere and environment.
In other words: IPCC and GW supporters are wrong when trying to persuade people that CO2 can heat the atmosphere, and Greenhouse Effect Theory is correct, because both theories have no serious scientific ground, but they are correct in denouncing the danger for the atmosphere and our Ozone layer in stratosphere, by the use of CFC, because CFC really destroy the Ozone layer (filtering UV radiations) causing a bigger heating.
Our Readers can find several articles here in PSI showing the danger of CFC for our Ozone layer (last article: "Geoengineering is destroying the Ozone layer, by Dane Wigington, August 2, 2013).
Thus, it is blatantly false the accusation of scientific "denialism" toward us, as we have no problem in recognizing IPCC's correctness where a phenomenon is scientifically proved.
CFC's danger for Ozone layer is proved, CO2 and GHE "warmism" have no scientific basis, and we cannot but clearly say it.
3. JFK Assassination
The murder of President Kennedy is another example of scientific misuse of the label "conspiracists".
In recent years those who believe that Kennedy was killed by an organized plot (nearly 80% of Americans) are constantly named "conspiracists", meaning that the only correct historical and scientific reconstruction of JFK murder should be that of the Warren Commission, namely that of the "lonely gunman" (i.e. Lee H. Oswald).
Yet, this approach is false and misleading, and omits to consider that:
a) Official reports of the Government (such as the "House Select Committee on Assassination" in 1978-1979) have already been released saying that "President John F. Kennedy was probably assassinated as a result of a conspiracy", thus it is totally wrong, both historically and scientifically, to go on repeating that those who don't believe the Warren Commission's conclusions of 1964 (clearly influenced by the political worries of that time to avoid international frictions with the Soviet Union, or finding involvements in the murder of other powerful organizations: mafia, CIA, oilmen, etc.) now became "conspiracists".
b) Those who support the old, official conclusions of the Warren Commission about the "lonely gunman", tried many times to arrange ballistic and "scientific" reconstructions to uphold those conclusions, but are always unable to explain some plain FACTS, such as:
1) At least 40 persons saw puff of smoke, or heard shots coming from the stockade fence of the grassy knoll
2) The version of Governor John Connally, who always said that he turned back and saw Kennedy keeping his hands on his throat, BEFORE another shot hit him on his chest rib. Connally repeated this version many times, and he never changed it.
This is clearly a total debunk of the "magic bullet" theory, purporting that the same bullet could hit both Kennedy and Connally.
Thus, at least 4 shots were surely fired in just 5.6" and even the Warren Commission admitted that no more than 3 shots could have been fired by that Mannlicher-Carcano in a so short span of time.
However, the main point is that a total freedom of scientific and historical research should be allowed for this crucial historical event, and negative labels such as "conspiracists" should be banned once forever.
4. Moon landings
The word "conspiracists" is often being used also to describe the ultra-skeptical "theory", maybe fostered by fantasy movies like "Capricorn One" (1978), or by the fact that after 1972 no new human landing on the Moon was performed, according to which the 6 Apollo missions that brought man on the Moon were a colossal "hoax", and Moon landings were just an accurately organized staged fake, with the help – some argued – of famous film directors as Stanley Kubrick, and it seems (from several polls), that a percentage between 6-20% of Americans is skeptical regarding the actual landing of mankind on the Moon.
It is important to analyze this misuse of the word "conspiracists" in this situation, because this is a clear example of how unreliable and generalized is the use of the same word, to describe totally different situations.
It is clear that Moon landings were true, historical and scientific facts, and better than "conspiracists", it would be necessary to use the word "ignorants", to name those who believe that Moon landings never happened.
There are at least 4 compelling reasons, providing full evidence that Moon landings really happened: age of samples of Moon rocks, laser retroreflectors, non-Nasa observers of lunar missions (USSR, Australia, Spain) recent photographs (2012) of lunar Apollo artifacts, including shadows of FLAGS planted by Apollo's astronauts.
But the most evident proof of the human landings on the Moon is provided by simple common good sense reasoning: it would have been humanely impossible to organize such a huge "hoax", persuading many different astronauts, hundreds technicians, etc., both to organize and to keep the secret for decades on such a foolish hoax.
This is another clear example of the ideological misuse of the word "conspiracists".
5. September 11, 2001
And finally, it seems necessary to analyze another incorrect and ideological misuse of the word "conspiracists", with reference to those who are unsatisfied about the official version by the government of the 9/11 terrorist attacks to the Twin Towers, Pentagon, and by another flight that crashed in Pennsylvania, and are therefore requesting more investigations, to find the truth.
First of all, it makes no sense to name "conspiracists" those who are asking for more investigations, because the 9/11 attacks were by definition a conspiracy, in which many hijackers acted simultaneously, and they were supported by terrorist groups such as al-Qaeda.
Moreover, it is not true that the refusal to consider "satisfying" the official version of 9/11 terrorist attacks, would necessarily mean to agree with some radicals theories such as those from Michael Moore (in the movie: "Fahreneith 9/11) , hinting close relationships of the US past governments, Bush family and Bin Laden family, and even suggesting therefore an indirect/direct involvement of government agencies/members in the 9/11 attacks.
Probably the most persuading appeal to go on with scientific investigations on 9/11 Twin Towers collapse (especially) was the one coming from 2,000 American Architects and Engineers (http://www.ae911truth.org/) who deeply and technically analyzed the Twin Towers collapse, and suspected a "controlled demolition", i.e. the use of thermite explosive in key points of steel structures, as the crashes of the hijacked airplanes, and the subsequent fires on top of the buildings were not sufficient to produce a total and quick (when it took place) collapse of the Twin Towers.
The only comment can be: let scientific investigations freely go on here too, with no fear to discover new things, and without labels and censorships that could make hindrance to the scientific truth and freedom.
Alberto Miatello
March 19, 2014
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Paul Clark
[quote name="AJ Virgo"].[/quote]Then why was there no pile driver (top few floors) left at the end? Why was it all pulverised, with no piece bigger than a hand? Why did the pile driver fall through the path of greatest resistance and not merely fall off the edge?
Why did people emerge with their skin stripped from their body describing explosions? Why were there many explosions in the basement minutes before each of the two buildings collapsed — the same way? Why was there a pyroclastic flow indicating extreme heat? What about building 7? Why did the BBC report building 7's collapse minutes before it happened — how could they know? Why was there never such an office fire-driven collapse before or after 9/11?
Why was there exploded and unexploded thermite in the dust? Why were there once-molten micro spheres of iron — office fires can't melt iron? Why were there rivers of molten metal for weeks after? Why did the authorities ship off all the debris and destroy it and wait a year before finally, reluctantly making a bogus investigation, that still hasn't explained building 7?
Why were pieces projected half a mile away, lodging in other buildings? Why didn't they stop building buildings like this given how fragile they apparently are? Why did the firefighters say it popped out "floor by floor" as though it was a controlled demolition? Why were the central columns left standing for several seconds after the floors and outside were stripped violently from it, not bringing these columns down initially?
Why? Because Popular Mechanics said it meant nothing, that's why!
AJ Virgo
The Twin Towers were made from hardened steel beams around the outside and as the buildings collapsed onto the ground those beams were forced outward from the base undercutting the nearby buildings causing them to collapse.
AJ Virgo
Most of us believe in the theory of evolution and no science was protected by the establishment more and still is today however, it is commonly believed that there are warehouses of fossil proof just sitting around but nothing could be further from the truth. Instructive to note that the latest thing in paleontology is "spontaneous evolution" because it would explain why not one single fossil ever found shows the theory to be correct!
Paul Clark
The term "conspiracy theorist" is a lazy label applied to anyone who disagrees either with the labeller or the mainstream. It's good to question the points raised.
1. Never heard of him
2. CFCs causing ozone hole is a hoax. First big global one that worked — paved the way for the AGW hoax.
Greenhouse effect is a total hoax that defies both laws of thermodynamics. 1st law says that you can't get energy for free, GHE says you can. 2nd law says heat can't flow from cooler atmosphere to ground, GHE says you can.
Anthony Watts too stupid to realise this, even as he mocks PSI for such.
3. Kennedy was shot from front:
4. Here's where your post gets confusing and falls apart for me. The moon landing is obviously fake.
Points offered in favour are the usual paltry ones. You seem to offer the usual appeal to popularity as proof of the legitimacy of the moon landings e.g. moon rocks which came from Von Braun's expedition to Antarctica shortly before they occurred. You make a call to "scientific and technical facts" as though that phrase adds legitimacy to your claims that these landings were real; spare me.
Retroreflectors prove nothing, they were bouncing stuff off the moon long before these tiny inconsequential reflectors were allegedly placed.
As for the tracking of something by the Russians: what does that prove, they didn't even have triangulation at that point?
Apollo 17 takes off; obviously model on a string:
Another model, supposed to be 2 tonne space craft:
I cringe with embarrassment on behalf of Anthony Watts every time he makes a post affirming the legitimacy of these obvious moon landing hoaxes.
5. Dead obvious that 3 buildings came down via controlled demolition on Sep 11: buildings 1, 2 & 7; + stand-down of US military.
How did another patsy: Osama bin Laden arrange that? He did not claim responsibility and said there was a govt within a govt who did it. Then we have the bogus look-alike videos afterwards made for stupid people to believe he was responsible.
Maybe that's what you're getting at in a round about sort of way?
Bottom line is this: all of life is a test of perception of reality. Most "can't handle the truth", or are too stupid to realise the truth, so they prefer to shirk it.
[quote name="Greg House"][quote]Written by Alberto Miatello: However, it would be too long to discuss here why GW is a pseudoscience, Readers can find dozen articles here at Principia Scientific International (PSI).[/quote]
I can not recall a single PSI article where the alleged GW (global warming) or the "global temperature" thing in general are questioned.[/quote]
Do you consider GW (global warming) to be established or, to use your word, just "alleged?" Is it necessary (or even possible) to question something that is only alleged?
Greg House
[quote]Written by Alberto Miatello: However, it would be too long to discuss here why GW is a pseudoscience, Readers can find dozen articles here at Principia Scientific International (PSI).[/quote]
I can not recall a single PSI article where the alleged GW (global warming) or the "global temperature" thing in general are questioned.
If you ask a Meteorologist what is the cause of storms they will tell you storms are caused by convection of "lighter" moist air through "heavier" dry air. If you ask them for the empirical support for this assertion they will make a statement insinuating, falsely, that there are hundreds of years of empirical evidence that substantiates this notion. When you point out that this "evidence" is not, in fact, empirical but anecdotal they will do their best to pretend (exactly like global warming whackos) they didn't hear the question. If you press on they become increasingly belligerent. All in all, the more you attempt to explicate the severe lack of scientific support for their notion that storms are the result convection the more desperately political they become.
When it comes to evading scientific discussion/debate and side-stepping empiricism, Climatology is just following in the well worn footsteps of Meteorology.
As I wrote in a comment in Jo Nova's article "APS reconsiders its position on climate — Scientific storm on the way?"…
"The only statement the new committee should put out is:
"The APS is a scientific organisation, dedicated to the advancement of scientific knowledge. As such, the Society makes no statement of or judgement on social, economic and political policy, but will only encourage the exploration and examination of the physical world around us. No question is unacceptable and no vote determines fact. Only the scientific method and the data openly reported and tested from repeated experimentation and observation will demonstrate what is true and what is not.""


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Dana Lambert departed
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Dana Lambert:
Well when Denise got over to camp, I was already sick, but she kept asking me questions and had been like, "I've been really wanting to talk to you," and she's asking about my tattoos and stuff -- just getting to know me or whatever. And I could already kind of see that look in her eyes, where I felt like, "Yeah, we have Denise. We have her."
And how awesome is it to get "Momma Guns" on your side. She's one badass competitor, and I was pretty thrilled with the fact that I had another tough woman to compete with me. That would have totally balanced out the physical side, I feel like. So, yeah, I felt like the girls -- I know Dawson and Katie. I know that they were in my alliance.
I know, because after [Jeff Kent] talked to them to try to use me as a decoy, they came straight to me and told me about it. So I knew that they were going to be in my alliance, and I was feeling pretty comfortable with having Denise too as a fourth. It just didn't play out right.
Reality TV World: Out of the three men, who was your alliance hoping to vote off first, and why? Was it still
Jonathan Penner
at that point?
Dana Lambert:
No, I was never going to go for Dawson [sic], We were going to go for [Carter Williams]. Well, I told the girls that we were going to go for Carter because I didn't want their body language to give it away to the guys before we made it to Tribal -- if we would've went to Tribal. So then I was going to try to change it immediately to Penner or Kent -- just someone who was not expecting to get the vote, so it couldn't have been switched over.
And still, who knows. It's a numbers game and it was three and three. So maybe I could've gotten one of the guys to vote a different way, I don't know.
Reality TV World: Jonathan was shown telling
Jeff Probst
at Tribal Council that he was certain your tribe would have won that Immunity Challenge if you had still been in the game. What was your reaction to hearing that, and do you agree with him?
Dana Lambert:
I mean, I don't know. It's hard to predict the future. I don't know if I would've or not, but you know, Kalabaw was -- we were kind of badass out there. We worked well together. Penner was really good at choosing who would do what, and I think that that's the biggest part of
, was picking the right person to do the right job.
And he was really good at that, and we all worked well together as a team. We worked well together off-camera, on-camera. Our tribe, we were pretty functional. We were a pretty functional tribe. I liked them. And of course there's shadiness going on behind people's backs. It's a game.
But for the most part, I felt like we all worked well together. And bringing someone else new into the mix, which was Denise, she killed it still at the challenge. But you know, Katie and Dawson weren't quite as competitive or physical, I think, as I was. And I think it maybe messed the dynamic up a little bit.
Reality TV World: Obviously Dawson voted for Denise at Tribal last night. So she really seemed to be blindsided at the idea that Denise had managed to work her way into your tribe so well, and it really seemed to be coming down to her or Katie. Did that surprise you personally or had you kind of expected that Denise wasn't likely to be the first one voted off after she joined your tribe?
Dana Lambert:
I wasn't surprised because definitely for Carter, Jeff and Penner -- and I understood -- it's all about "physical." It's all about how well you perform in the challenges. "Social," that will come later. The social side of the game will come later. So, I wasn't really surprised.
I mean, Denise has proven herself challenge after challenge what kind of fighter and competitor she is. And so I wasn't really surprised that they ended up keeping Denise. They needed another strong [tribemate]. I left and they needed another strong female person to compete, and I wasn't surprised at all that they decided to keep Denise.
Reality TV World: I know you were out of the game by then, but last night's episode seemed to show
Jeff Probst
repeating that your tribe was in trouble because Katie had struggled in the beginning of the Immunity Challenge a bunch of times. What are your general thoughts on those types of play-by-play comments. Do you think they are legitimate or do you feel it's kind of an unfair attempt to influence the game? Also, how frustrating are they to hear while the challenge is going on?
Dana Lambert:
I mean, Katie did do her best, and she's a hard worker around camp. She's a good girl and it is unfair. But if you're picking your lineup for a team, you pick the best competitor. You pick the one that fights the hardest to win, and it wasn't completely unfair. It wasn't completely unjust. If I would've been there, I would've done everything in my power to keep Katie and Dawson.
I would've. Because not just for the female alliance, but in the end, as individuals for the Individual [Immunity] Challenges. I would've, of course, have rathered compete against them than Penner or Kent or Carter. So, I understood both sides of where they were coming from on that.
Reality TV World: Was Dawson really the only person, as far as you know, that recognized who Jeff Kent was? When did you finally personally find out who he was? Was that something Dawson had told you guys once both of you got off the show and what was your reaction?
Dana Lambert:
Yeah, I had no clue! (Laughs) I honestly had no clue that Kent was an MVP professional baseball player. I had no clue that he was against pretty much everything that I stand for. I had no clue about those things, and Dawson should've come to me -- as I was in her alliance -- and told us about that, because I would've handled that situation very differently.
I wouldn't have went to Kent personally. At that point, I knew he was trying to hide it and I would've busted him out right there in front of everyone. Like, "So, I hear you're a millionaire baseball player -- a pretty successful one.
Hmm, I guess you don't need the million as bad as some of us need that million." And I think that that would've helped us in our favor. I wish that she would've not just went to him, but went to us, so that we could've figured out a different plan of action than what happened. But it's her choice.
Reality TV World: Do you think Jeff's former profession would've been enough to turn Jonathan or Carter against him? Do you think it really would've affected the dynamics of your tribe or would people have just brushed it off as insignificant?
Dana Lambert:
Honestly, Carter was pretty much Jeff's shadow and he probably would've slobbered all over himself. It would've only influenced him more. But Penner on the other hand, I think that that maybe would have changed his mind. I think it would've changed his mind if he knew that.
Reality TV World: How were you cast on
: Philippines
? How did you end up on the show?
Dana Lambert:
I went to the CBS website and I tried once before but I missed the deadline. I got the deadline, sent a video in and did a bio and they called me back! I went to L.A., did my interviews and then they invited me on the show. So, I've always been a huge fan and have daydreamed about this for years.
I'm glad I did it when I was older and not when I was younger. I do have to say that I wouldn't have been the same if I was younger, and I do think that I'm the age that I am now when I did it. But yeah.
Reality TV World: Could you elaborate on that a little more? What do you think the advantages are now to being a bit older when playing the game rather than younger?
Dana Lambert:
Just socially and being more confident with who I am and to really be able to tell a true story of my past and be okay with that. Before, there's no way that I would've came out. Today, "Hey everybody, I'm a lesbian! And, by the way, I used to be a drug addict."
There's no way that I could've done that when I was younger. There's no way that I could've had that confidence in myself to put all of my dirty laundry out there for everyone. So, I'm glad that I'm at the age that I am now that I have dealt with all those things, and I'm fine with it.
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I hope that your family is sitting down this holiday season at some point to a warm meal, with a roof over your heads, clothes on your backs, this year's finals DVDs on your 5.1 Surround Sound system . . . you know, the really important things in life. Take a moment to be thankful for these gifts when there are so many with so little. It has occurred to me that we have much to be thankful for in our own drum corps community, though by the amount of whining we all do, you'd never know it. So I would like to take a moment to share some of the things I am thankful for involving drum corps.
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…Drum Corps International. Despite the evil pedestal we love to put them on, this organization has succeeded in perpetuating the activity despite incredible odds. For all of you who say that drum corps is dying, it would have been dead years ago if not for the good people and corps that make up this organization. Some people you will never meet bust their backsides every day doing things that are rarely ever seen or will ever receive credit for.
…Drum Corps Associates. Ditto for these guys. They work equally hard in keeping the activity available as a life-long experience while paying homage to its past, present and future.
…Dan Acheson. His leadership has taken DCI from the verge of collapse to a viable and effective organization that succeeds greatly in promoting the activity it serves. The only thing he hasn't succeeded in is in pleasing everybody. Who has?
…Carolina Crown; the corps that "took me in." I can never give enough thanks for all of my fellow corps members of 1993, all of the staff and volunteers that made that summer so memorable for me. You guys were simply awesome then and still are today.
…Bill Cook and Jim Mason. Remember these guys? We do not hear much from them anymore "around here" but they have done more to further the marching arts activity than many others combined. I am not talking about money. I am talking about vision: Star of Indiana, Brass Theater, Blast, Cyberjam . . . the list may go on. It was also Bill Cook who brought a drum corps show to my hometown of Winston-Salem through his subsidiary, Wilson-Cook Medical, which first introduced me to drum corps.
…Scott Stewart. Gone from the activity but not forgotten for the impact he left on so many lives of those connected with the Madison Scout organization.
…B-flat horns. I know, I know, this probably made some of your least thankful lists, but corps now have a choice at least and a direct connection with the vital world of (ahem) band. I've said it before: we all use the same kids.
…Goober Grape. Enough said.
…Tom Blair. His creative use of DVD technology has given the die-hard fans many choices of how to watch a show and the new fans a way to understand the activity through the excellent documentaries now shown on the broadcast every year. I would bet that Blair is the reason that most of us found out about drum corps in the first place.
…All drum corps volunteers. You all are absolute heroes and saints rolled into one. You make it all work and it is really you that gives this experience to the kids involved. You remind all of us of what can be accomplished through loyalty and hard work. Bless you, bless you, bless you and thank you, thank you, thank you!
…Steve Vickers and Drum Corps World. No, I am not sucking up. If he were paying me, that would be sucking up! Steve has worked very hard for a very long time to be the number one journalistic source for the activity and has maintained the quality of this newspaper through a lot of ups and downs. He deserves our continued support, so get all your corps friends who think they can get all their news from the rumor-ridden Internet to buy a subscription!
There are many more things to be thankful for and many I have left out that I am sure many of you are thankful for, but Steve would need to sell more advertising for the number of pages I would need.
In the midst of all of the struggles associated with drum corps, let us not forget where we have been, those we have lost along the way, and those that represent our future. This is still, by far, the world's greatest youth activity. No matter how it changes or what challenges we face or how we disagree on how it all should be done, the bottom line is this: we change lives. Thank you, Amen and pass the turkey.


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This was written and recorded in 1955 as "Feuding Banjos" by the Country star Arthur "Guitar Boogie" Smith. A group called The Dillards popularized the song in the mid '60s on the folk circuit, and it was their version that the author James Dickey heard and thought would fit nicely in the film version of his novel
. The song became famous when it was used in the 1973 movie in a scene where a city guy from Atlanta trades licks with a young simpleton in the backwoods. The film version was performed by Eric Weissberg on 5-string banjo and Steve Mandell on acoustic guitar. Weissberg and Mandell were folk musicians from New York City, but their musical inspiration was the Bluegrass sound of Appalachia. Weissberg had been playing in folk bands since the '50s, and was a popular studio musician who played on Judy Collins' albums. Mandell had been with the Phoenix Singers and was also an in-demand session pro. When the song became a hit, Arthur Smith had to file a lawsuit to get credit for writing it.
By the '70s, folk music was more of a niche genre; gone were the days when The Kingston Trio or Peter, Paul and Mary could reach the top of the charts with a true folk song. This song had tremendous nostalgic appeal to listeners who fondly remembered those days, and to younger listeners, it was a quirky and fun new sound. Weissberg and Mandell seized the moment and formed a band that they called Deliverance. They played state fairs, colleges and other assorted venues, and made several TV appearances, playing "Dueling Banjos" until the novelty wore off.
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Largely as a result of its use in the movie, this in often associated with country bumpkins. The first few notes are often used in movies and TV shows to imply a hillbilly mentality.
The Dillards version of this song that gained popularity in the '60s was titled "Duelin' Banjo," which makes more sense, as there's only one banjo in the song. The Weissberg/Mandell version used in the movie was retitled "Dueling Banjos."
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On April 29th 1973, "Dueling Tubas" by Martin Mull and Orchestra entered Billboard's Hot Top 100 chart at position #99; it only stayed on the chart for three weeks, peaking at #92.
Barry - Sauquoit, Ny
On January 7th 1973, "Dueling Banjos" by Eric Weissberg & Steve Mandell entered Billboard's Hot Top 100 chart; and on February 18th it peaked at #2 (for 4 weeks) and spent 14 weeks on the Top 100...
And on February 11th it reached #1 (for 2 weeks) on Billboard's Adult Contemporary Tracks chart...
The four weeks it was at #2 on the Top 100; the #1 record was "Killing Me Softly With His Song" by Roberta Flack...
Mr. Weissberg celebrated it 74th birthday five months ago on August 16th and I've scrounged the internet and can't find any info on Mr. Mandell's age.
Barry - Sauquoit, Ny
I've often wondered why it's kept top secret where 2 famous scenes were filmed - dueling banjos and the rape scene. I'm familiar with the 10 miles stretch of river and have visited there even meeting and eating with Billy Redden. However I see people ask where dueling banjoes was filmed - and the only response they get is in 100 mile area - not the actual location. The film was shot in sequence so I assume the rape scene was likely half way down the 10 mile trip. The rape scene was very historic - but I guess because of the nature of the scene nobody is allowed to ask where it was filmed except "it was filmed somewhere along a huge stretch of river." Thanks.
Jeff - For Lauderdale, Fl
Good song. Trey, it was also filmed in South Carolina.
Hank - Jane, Mo
For the definitive & vastly superior version with exceptionally talented musicians, listen to the original "Fueding Banjo's" by Arthur 'Guitar Boogie' Smith & the great Bluegrass picker Don Reno.
Jerry - Holden, Ma
Interesting Hanks was in Happy days, with Ron Howard. I just heard the Dillards (The Darlings)do this insrumental in an episode of Andy Griffith. One of the early '60's B&W's where Mr. Darling declares for Aunt B. I had thought it original music to "Deliverance". Learn somethin' new everyday! Li'l Ronnie sang a version of "Ole' Dan Tucker" with Andy in the same episode.
David - Durham, Nc
Billy Redden ,the kid supposedly playing the banjo was on the Blue Collar 'comedy' show with Foxyworthy and those guys one time.This is a great instrumental maybe only second to "Foggy Mountain Breakdown" in greatness.
Mark - Byrdstown, Tn
I've never heard of anyone commenting on this but for what its worth, in the soundtrack of Dueling Banjos used for Delivernce, Weissberg is using the classic Scruggs 3-finger banjo picking style, however, if you look at the kid's hands, he's trying to play the banjo clawhammer style. Given the rural setting, and perhaps the somewhat out of the mainstream location, my guess is that if that was real, it would been played the older more traditional clawhammer banjo style. Anyway, that was a movie blooper that escaped the director's notice. And believe me the two styles sound quite different.
Zenfit - Somerset, Nj
The film, Deliverance, was filmed in the north Georgia mountains on the Chatooga river. The are would be north-east of Clayton, GA.
Rick - Atlanta, Ga
Actually I was wondering if anyone knows excately where Dueling Banjos was filmed, State, county road name? Any help is welcome, thanks!!
William - Chicago, Il
Drum Corps The Madison Scouts played this in their 1975 championship show.
Brandon - Morristown, Tn
Martin Mull did a version of this called "Dueling Tubas".
Dave - Scottsdale, Az
All I did was google 'dueling banjos' and I got hit after hit from the dueling banjos scene from 'Deliverance." There seems to be a conflation of the composition with the scene. I was certain that there was a composition before there was a film, confirmed by this site. The search was prompted by my husband who, when he said he was from the sticks, a man hummed the first few bars. We're new arrivals from Louisiana to Boston. So, yes the hillbilly association seems universal. In fact, I hummed it and asked if it was the one as soon as he told me. I immediately knew. Considering the content of the film, it hardly evokes simple 'hill-billy-ism" to me. It evokes the dangers we may be prey to whenever we're in a strange place, and we rely on our sophisticated city-folk ways. So, the tune has become synonymous with the dangers that city people face, especially when we underestimate the intelligence/cunning of a person with southern or 'country' accents and ways, and equate them with stupidity. Actually, it has been my experience that the assumption that I am stupid can work to my benefit. It's not the snake in the tree at eye level that is the most dangerous; it's the one in the grass at our feet.
Virginia - Lafayette, La
Billy Redden, also showed up in a cameo role in Tim Burton's "Big Fish", playing what else... the banjo.
Lobstarock - Boston, Ma
Ronnie Cox, who mimed the Guitar (and feigned a double-jointed death in the river) in DELIVERANCE is now playing the character of the recurring slimy villain Senator Kinsey on TV series STARGATE SG-1.
Leah - Brooklyn, Ny
Although it's called "Dueling Banjos" it's a duet between a banjo and a guitar. It's really top and I regret I don't hear it very often on the radio. You can call it an everlasting song.
Teresa - Mechelen, Belgium
According to IMDb (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0068473/), the boy was actually Billy Redden, who could not pick a banjo. His hand movements were portrayed by "another youngster". Tom Hanks does not appear in the full credits. Hanks' movie career started in 1980, 8 years after Deliverance. In fact, his first TV appearance was Happy Days in 1974.
Karen - Dallas, Tx
the actual kid playing the banjo was a young Tom Hanks
Pete - Nowra, Australia
The characters in the movie that mimed it were Ronny Cox (Drew Ballanger)- Guitar and Billy Redden (Lonny)- Banjo... This info has come to me from my father who knows Billy and met Burt during production of the movie. I live in northeast GA where it was filmed....
Trey - Dillard, Ga
In the actual movie, the kid didn't actually play the banjo. It was played by someone else using a hand through his shirt.
Craig Macdonald - Blair, Scotland
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The Walther P99C AS came in Wednesday around 3 pm and the pawn shop called me right when I got off the phone about my cdnn order with the FN5.7 and Taraus 17 HMR with 12 inch barrel. I now know what it's like being a deer caught in headlight. I headed to pick up the Walther (I'll talk about each new gun under their topics) which is 30 mins in the other direction from the pawn shop so I called my son to find out again when they closed and he told him 5 sharp and I thought they said 5:30 sharp. Long story short, we got up early and picked the other two up around 9:30 and drove over five hours to buy the 5.7X28 ammo. I talked to a person who sell's only to Police type agentces and retire officers. He is saving me a case which he will sell me for 20 a box of 50. 1.75 cheaper than the one's I bought today. By the time we hit the ranger we were to tired so we just tested them and plan on being st the range all day Friday.
Found the perfect way to make your gun money hidden from the wife. Every time I make a purchase I ask fo up to 80 dollars cash back. I have the green stuff well hidden so there is no way she can find them on my credit cards or checking account. All she can do is get upset about the high price out there. Dang I should write a book "1001 way to grow your gun collect with her finding out.


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Dave Grohl Reflects On Nirvana And Kurt Cobain's Last Days
"You can describe it as a remarkable achievement...You can also remember it as a really f**ked-up time."
Dave Grohl is describing Nirvana's final year. The band started recording In Utero in February of 1993. The album released in September of 1993. Kurt Cobain died in April of 1994.
Nirvana is re-releasing their last studio album and Grohl, the band's drummer, reflected on In Utero and Nirvana's last days with Rolling Stone.
Grohl says, "The album should be listened to as it was the day it came out. That's my problem with the record. I used to like to listen to it. And I don't anymore, because of that. To me, if you listen to it without thinking of Kurt dying, you might get the original intention of the record. Like my kids. They know I was in Nirvana. They know Kurt was killed. I haven't told them that he killed himself. They're four and seven years old. So when they listen to In Utero, they'll have that fresh perspective – the original intention of the album, as a first-time listener.
"Someday they will learn what happened. And it'll change that. It did for me."


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hi, I would suggest you get the nokia n95, it is something great. it can be great slave to linux.
Hi...I'm ready to start messing around with bluetooth. I'm in need of a new cellphone since my last one broke. Which phone would be best to purchase so I can practice playing around with Bluetooth in BT. Thanks.
hi, I would suggest you get the nokia n95, it is something great. it can be great slave to linux.
Thanks Guys! Any others to look into? I'm headed to T-Mobile today to pick up a phone. Not really sure which brands they carry. The more to choose from ...the better.
hey , i've been wondering about the bluetooth possibilities with BT2 myself for a while but haven't had time to play with things like that until now because of final exams in school etc..
what can i do with my nokia n73 for instance ?
So I ended up with a Nokia 6133. Hey it's all I could afford at the time being....lol. Anyhow, after looking at the video hosted at Irongeek. I tried to match the phone in the video as much as possible. I notice the phones you guys mentioned above is using the Symbian OS ...googled it and saw that Nokia phones use it a lot. The phone in the Irongeek video is listed as having the "Nokia OS" googled that too. The Nokia 6133 I have runs Nokia OS...I guess that is not an official product , just proprietary software made by Nokia. So I figure It's a close match for the phone in the video. However I have no luck. I get the rfcomm error everyone else seems to get. Only thing that really stands out is that he's using Auditor in the video and most likely an earlier version of Bluesnarfer. I have to digg out my Auditor disc and give it a shot. Now I've looked all over the "internets" and everyone seems to be getting the same rfcomm error. I've tried the usual remedy for the error...no luck. If ANYONE has this working please help a brotha out or point me into the right direction. Then again...the phone may not be vulnerable. Thanks and sorry for the long post...I'm bored.
Oh yeah...does it necessarily have to be that Linksys dongle? I used the built in bluetooth on the lappy.


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Wow. It's been a while. And I swear, I keep trying to get back into this whole blogging thing, but I keep writing these gargantuan posts about HUGE ideas, that surprisingly, go nowhere. I'll keep them in the works, but man, it's been getting a little heavy up in here.
So I thought, maybe it's time for a little mindless fun.
Here, in our neck of the woods, winter is going down with a fight. Don't get me wrong, I love winter. I really do. But come mid-March, the idea of trading in snowsuits for sunscreen actually makes me salivate. Picture yourself. You're on your knees, stuffed into the small space by your door leading outside. The gateway between the infernal stuffiness of the indoors, and a massive, unconfined space. You have three excited, small children falling all over each other with one goal in mind: Doorsmosis. One is holding your hair for support. The other opens the door and lets the indoor cat, out. Another has just decided this would be a great time to pee. An unidentified foot is asking you to put it's appropriate outdoor covering on it, while a snotty hand mistakes your face for a great resting spot. Now, in that state, what looks more appealing to you, in terms of preparation to vacate the premises?
And to think I once complained about how annoying it is to apply sunscreen.
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Using a Bluetooth-enabled smartphone, an electronic gearbox and a few sensors, engineers have built a bike that shifts gears itself without the need for a flywheel.
The setup, designed by Cambridge Consultants, places sensors on the main crank and wheel to send both pedaling speed and road speed to a smartphone app. The app calculates the appropriate gear, and sends it via Bluetooth to a Shimano electric shifter, such as the Di2.
Should a rider wish to select his or her own gears, shifter buttons on the handlebars will still communicate with the electronic gearbox, also using Bluetooth. Because the entire connection is wireless, there are no cables or flywheels to wear out or add weight to a bike.
"We've cut the cables between the switches and the gears and replaced them with a smart, low energy version of Bluetooth designed for very long battery life," Cambridge Consultants' Tim Fowler told New Scientist. The system can run for about a year on a single watch battery.
The prototype has been tested on a simulated "rolling road" with few complaints from riders, who can customize the shift points depending on what's most comfortable. Already, engineers are working to improve the setup, with plans in the works to use the accelerometer in a smartphone to change gears in the event of emergency braking. A similar system could also prevent locking up the front wheel.
Eventually, engineers hope to integrate GPS and topographical data to alert the gearbox about upcoming hills, so that the shifter can prepare for gear changes. In manual mode, cyclists will be able to collect and analyze data from trial runs to improve their performance.
Even in a packed peloton, the program's creators say that security shouldn't be a problem. "The frequency hopping mechanism of the Bluetooth radio also ensures that many hundreds of cyclists could operate within a very small space without interference compromising the gear," said Debbie Mayhew of Cambridge Consultants.
Likely, the cost of the wireless, automatic setup will be prohibitive for all but the most competitive cyclists. Though Cambridge Consultants haven't released any pricing, a Shimano Di2 alone sells for north of $3,000. If such a system becomes commonplace in professional cycling, expect a cottage industry of app developers to spring up, catering specifically to the cycling community.Go Back to Top. Skip To: Start of Article.


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SOURCES: Seven PPIC Statewide Surveys from September 2015 to July 2016, including 11,935 adults and 7,306 likely voters. California Secretary of State, Report of Registration, October 2012 and May 2016. US Census, 201014 American Community Survey.
NOTE: "Likely voters are registered voters meeting criteria on interest in politics, attention to issues, voting behavior, and intention to vote. For full description of this criteria and regional definitions, visit www.ppic.org/content/other/SurveyMethodology.pdf. For race and ethnicity, results are presented for non-Hispanic whites, non-Hispanic Asian Americans, non-Hispanic African Americans, and for non-Hispanic other race and multiracial adults.


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WARREN — Senate President Pro Tempore Joe Scarnati (R-Jefferson) responded today to misinformation being disseminated by various special interest groups, most of them from outside the 25th Senatorial District.
"It disturbs me to no end when groups use misleading, inaccurate, and insulting information in a smear campaign against me," Scarnati stated. "I have stated time and time again, many of these groups from outside of our area do not want a Senate leader from rural Pennsylvania."
Scarnati mentioned one particular ad that would lead you to believe he supports giving tax dollars to the much maligned group, ACORN, which is obviously INACCURATE. It goes on to speak about how he supported a budget that increased spending and increased taxes on working families, which is obviously INACCURATE.
"It is outrageous the lengths that these groups will go to highlight their agenda, whatever that may be," Scarnati added. "In fact, this budget does not have a personal income tax increase, does not have a sales tax increase, and it spends less than last year's budget (something that has not been done in recent history).
"I am in disbelief, but I am confident that the citizens of the 25th Senatorial District will not buy into the misinformation of outside special interest groups," Scarnati concluded. "Furthermore, I would expect many of the taxpayers to express to these various entities their outrage over being misled."
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Obama's Vineyard Vacation Rental Is Investor's Estate
President Barack Obama and his family fly this weekend to Martha's Vineyard for a vacation at a rented multimillion-dollar modernist home owned by Chicago investment banker and Democratic Party donor David Schulte.
The 5,000-square-foot, four-bedroom house sits on nine-and a-half acres in Chilmark, Massachusetts, and includes an infinity pool, a half basketball court, gym, and tennis court, according to a person familiar with the arrangements, who asked for anonymity because the trip details haven't been made public.
Located on the island's south shore, a preferred destination for presidential retreats for security reasons, the property features floor-to-ceiling windows and overlooks the Atlantic Ocean. There's also a two-bedroom guest house and, near the front entrance, a huge boulder dropped by an ancient retreating glacier, according to the website of architect Rick Sundberg, the lead designer for a 2006 renovation.
Schulte declined to comment. He bought the house in July 2000 for $3 million, according to public records. Current estimates put the property value at about $7.6 million.
Schulte is a managing general partner at the corporate finance firm Chilmark Partners. In 1990, he teamed up with billionaire Sam Zell to form the $1 billion Zell-Chilmark Fund to buy control of financially distressed companies.
Chilmark's investments included mattress maker Sealy Corp., Carter Hawley Hale Stores, Schwinn Bicycle Co., and radio station operator Jacor Communications Inc. When Clear Channel Communications Inc. bought Jacor in 1999 for about $4.4 billion in stock and assumed debt, the fund earned a profit of more than $1 billion.
Obama Donor
Schulte has given $90,350 to Democratic candidates and party committees since 1989, according to the Center for Responsive Politics, a Washington-based research group. He contributed to Obama's 2008 and 2012 presidential campaigns as well as his earlier Senate run, and gave the maximum $28,500 to the Democratic National Committee in 2008.
Obama's visit, from Aug. 10-18, will be his fourth family vacation on Martha's Vineyard as president. He skipped going there last year during his re-election campaign. As in the past, the president is renting his vacation home. The costs typically are shared by the Obamas and taxpayers, and the rental selection is handled by a local broker, according to a White House aide who asked for anonymity because the details haven't been made public.
White House press secretary Jay Carney declined to discuss the vacation's cost. It would be apportioned according to "longstanding" procedures of past administrations, he said yesterday during a press briefing in Washington.
President's Baggage
"When you are president of the United States you carry a little baggage when you travel and that's true whether it's a summit, international trip or on vacation," Carney said.
Blue Heron Farm, the estate that the Obamas rented during their past three visits to the island, sold in 2011 to British architect Norman Foster for $22.4 million. That property included a tennis court, basketball court, par-three golf course, swimming pool, and equestrian facilities.
Preparations have been made on the Island for Obama's visit. Additional mobile phone towers have been installed around the property and in Chilmark, according to a report by the Vineyard Gazette newspaper. Residents and vacationers are girding for major traffic delays. Unlike during his other visits, a main artery, South Road, is scheduled to be blocked off for the duration of his stay.
"We've had the president come to our town three times and it's been very cordial and there's been very little disruption and we love to have him," Selectman Warren Doty told the Vineyard Gazette. This year's visit will "be very disruptive."
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Aïcha Kaddour is a graduate student from the University of Paris. She is a comparative literature major who is interested in pursuing studies in 19-century English and French language novelists. She is also conducting research on dance as a motif within 19th-century literature.
What made you apply to the Smith AMS program?
I wanted to come and study abroad in the United States, and my French masters adviser recommended that I take a look at Smith and its AMS program. He told me that Smith is a very well-known university, and that it has a lot of resources that would be available for me to use in furthering my masters education.
What courses are you taking and what is your favorite course?
I am taking a course about Shakespeare, one about Jane Austen, a tango class, and our AMS required class. My favorite class is the tango class. Though I cannot really compare it to the other classes since it is not really academic, it's a lot of fun. Plus there is no reading for this class!
What do you like about Smith? What do you dislike about Smith?
First of all I love the fact that you live with a lot of girls and you are able to build a community. They are all very helpful, and are always more than happy to help you. I also like the relationship that you can have with the teachers' here— you can speak with them quite freely and they are always available for you. There is nothing that I dislike about Smith, but it is definitely hard to find some guys here. I mean when you get here first it is like "I am an independent woman, and I don't need a man, " but now I feel "it would be nice to meet some guys sometimes."
What was the most difficult part of your transition?
I am still not totally comfortable with my English. The thing is that sometimes I feel as if I am not the same person when I am speaking French as when I am speaking English. I am shyer when I speak in English than when I speak in French. I never realized how language shapes your personality before I came here. Sometimes I get confused between the languages and use English and French in the same sentence.
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I miss my room and feeling comfortable in my own bed. I also miss Paris and seeing my friends.
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XYLOPHONE (Reason Factory Soundbank / NN19 Sampler Patches / Mallet and Ethnic)
While I don't use this patch all the time it sure came in handy on one tour. While filming a live DVD with Siouxsie Sioux she decided that she wanted to play her song "Hong Kong Garden" as an encore. We had never rehearsed the song and the main hook sound was a xylophone line. Without ever hearing this patch I quickly pulled up the sound on stage and played the line to the best of my memory. The patch sounded amazing and the line was simple enough that I remembered it.
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This is the synth lead patch I used for the song "Wonderful Life" by Gwen Stefani for the Sweet Escape tour. This is a good example of what I normally have to do to recreate a sound for a tour that was created for the album using synths run through plug-ins. Most of the patches were tweaked a little and I also added some DDL-1 delay and RV7000 reverb to make it exactly like the album sound.
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This is a great recreation of the classic Melotron Strings sound. This sound is used all over the newest Morrissey album Years Of Refusal. I use it live on the songs "Black Cloud" and "I'm Ok By Myself" because it cuts through everything in a live mix and sounds amazing. On some of the songs I also double it with the MELCHOIR.smp patch to give it more weight. It's a big, huge melotron sound.
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We were with a buddy recently, walking around Highland Park Village doing some window-shopping, when we realized we weren't looking at the windows. We were staring at the people who were window-shopping. Not to put too fine a point on this, but the Highland Park women who spend their days working out at Larry North Total Fitness, eating Paciugo and shopping for designer apparel need to check themselves before they wreck themselves. How can one concentrate on, say, not falling down when rich women walk by wearing 3-inch pumps and 23 inches of fine fabric? Highland Park Village was declared a National Historical Monument in 2000, and now we think we know why: because the talent there is indeed historic.
Everything about La Duni is magnificent, from the tasteful décor to the incredible pork-loin-filled "slow-roasted lomo." But the attributes of La Duni are made more apparent after you've had several of their signature drinks, especially our fave, the margarinha. It's a combination margarita-mojito, made with Sauza Silver tequila, hand-crushed limes, sugar, Cointreau and crushed ice. And, yes, it's as refreshing as it sounds. Is your mouth feeling dry yet? Is it? Seriously, is it?
Sound like a dorkfest? Fine, then call us dorks. Pete's is a surprisingly rollicking time: Four top-notch key-strokers attack two baby grands, taking requests and playing favorite tunes by request. Sure, it ain't the Cliburns, but it's a good time and something unique to do on a Friday night in Dallas. Nothing wrong with that.
With more than 60 acres of incredibly landscaped park to choose from, the Dallas Arboretum can provide a great backdrop to a portrait for anything. The Arboretum has fountains and sculptures, and something is always blooming, so you can wander around until you find a good spot. Even in the heat of the summer, the Arboretum seems like a cool and calming place. Maybe they're growing poppies.
Sidle up to the bar and order a Lone Star longneck. Then another. Then one for the pretty young thing next to you. Then a round for the people you just met. Fall off your barstool on your way to the restroom. Get lost coming back. Stand in front of the band while it rides herd over a sweet set of C&W, the kind your daddy told you about. Grab another longneck, which is sweating a little bit less than you are at this point. Ask that pretty young thing to dance. Fall down again and come up laughing. Keep doing this until you're out of money and out the door. Come back and do it again next week. That's what Adair's is like. And thank the Lord.
In most large cities, the downtown area is a grid of one-way streets. Easy to understand, easy to negotiate. In Dallas, while the streets curve more than their counterparts on the East Coast, the same concept holds true. So why is it that in cities like New York and Boston you almost never see someone going the wrong way on a one-way street but here in Big D it happens almost daily? Good question, though we have no answer. We offer only proof. If you work downtown, we suggest spending your lunch hour camped out on any corner with a one-way street. Wait there for a while. It won't be long before you see some confused, oblivious driver pointing his or her Honda Civic the wrong way. Then you can watch, amused, as other motorists honk and point in vain while the fool in the Honda looks wildly for street signs but continues to drive the wrong way anyway. Ugh. In New York, they don't ticket you for those types of stupid indiscretions; they beat you and leave you for dead.