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VANCOUVER -- This is a story about a daredevil. A world champion, Olympic-calibre daredevil.
And, truthfully, it's a difficult tale to know where to begin.
We could start by explaining that the highest point of the Severn Bridge, just north of Barrie, Ont., stretches about 80 feet into the sky.
And Russell's Jon Montgomery -- Canada's Olympic men's skeleton medal hope -- jumped off said bridge and into the river below a few years back.
Just for the hell of it.
"I had never been so high looking down on something in my life," Montgomery explained. "There was a boat going underneath and they're yelling 'Jump!' and I yell back, 'Are you sure it's safe?' And a guy yells, 'My buddies dive off there. It's no big deal.' I thought, 'Well, your buddies are nuts' but I just said, 'Here I go!' and I went feet first.
"I remember the next day how sore my knee joints were from the impact. I guess when you land at 80 feet going Mach 10... I hit the water so hard it blew the sandals right off my feet."
We could also start this story of a daredevil by ticking off the stunts Jon Montgomery has already done in his lifetime -- skydiving: check; bungee jumping: check. And what might be atop his bucket list after the Olympics?
"I've always said I want to BASE jump off Angel Falls in Venezuela (the world's highest waterfall)," Montgomery said. "I like to do things that are dangerous but controlled. That's why I think jumping off Angel Falls would be good... It's something I wouldn't perish from."
Mind you, to truly understand Montgomery, to truly get what's rattling around inside that head of his and what drives the thrill-seeker in him, you have to go back to the beginning.
Back to his days in Russell.
"His mother would probably say he was difficult to raise because he was so active, that he was a bit stubborn and very tenacious in whatever he was doing," explained Eldon Montgomery, the patriarch of the house.
"He's not really afraid of anything. We have this picture of him when he was one or two years old jumping into a pool with his diapers on, with one of his sisters looking on in horror. He couldn't swim... but the picture shows him in mid-air diving into the pool.
"You know how he learned to ride a bike? His sisters and a bunch of neighbourhood girls took him to the top of a hill and just pushed him down. You tend to learn quickly that way.
"You know," Eldon continued, "he's always liked doing things that bordered on dangerous."
Like leaping off a bridge, parachuting out of a plane, bungee jumping?
"We didn't find out about a lot of these things until after the fact," said Eldon with a chuckle. "That's Jon."
They call it Tower Hill in Russell and it was almost smack-dab right out the Montgomerys' back door. It's here, on the slope at the base of the town's water tower, where Jon Montgomery first took a shine to sliding.
Of course, he didn't just hunker down on the toboggan and hold on. Not surprisingly, he stood on the thing and tried to surf down the hill.
And then came that fateful day in Calgary a few years later when his thrill for sliding turned to an obsession with the skeleton.
Montgomery, working then as an auto auctioneer -- he has a double degree in automotive marketing and international management -- had moved into Calgary's Tuscany neighbourhood and he could see Canada Olympic Park in the distance.
"I could always see the lights lit up at nighttime and this long, lonely, lighted snake of a track worming its way down the side of the mountain and thought, 'That looks kinda cool over there.'
"My parents were visiting, and so we took a tour of COP. We were walking around the track and the first athlete I saw was going down headfirst on his stomach and I thought it was a horrible luge accident.
"I went inside the ice house and said, 'What the hell are these guys doing out there? Is this a sport or are these guys just maniacs?' They told me it was a sport called 'skeleton' and that it had just been added to the Olympic Games. I thought, 'It's on like Donkey Kong.'
"I tell you," Montgomery added, "once I got on the sled and crossed the finish line for the very first time, I was grinning from ear to ear. I could have lost a limb on the way down and not felt the pain because I was so excited."
That rookie run was in 2002, some eight years ago now. And while his fascination for the sport knew no boundaries, Montgomery's aptitude for it did.
"The first two years were really tough. I had my ass handed to me on a regular basis," he said. "I was probably the worst of the newbies at the time."
But in his third year, Montgomery said something just clicked. He made it to the podium for the first time and in 2008 won his first World Cup race. Just over a year ago, he won the very first World Cup race at the new run in Whistler.
An omen? Montgomery's not saying, but...
"It's taken eight years," he said. "It's been a slow and steady progression. But, for whatever reason, that third season was a breakout when something clicked.
"And now I'm in it to win it."
This is the story of a daredevil. A world champion, Olympic-calibre daredevil. And the next chapter will be full speed ahead. Jon Montgomery wouldn't have it any other way.
Skeleton primer
First raced at the 1928 Winter Olympics and again in 1948, both in St. Moritz. Didn't appear again as a sport until 2002 at the Salt Lake City Games.
The name "skeleton" originally came from the metal sled, which resembled a human skeleton. The sleds are now primarily fibreglass.
A skeleton slider usually runs for about the first 30 metres, then dives on the sled for the rest of the 1,500 metres or so, often reaching speeds of 140 km/h. "It's perceived risk," Montgomery said. "The track is designed to keep you in. They've got bumpers on the roof, so that if you mess up so bad that natural gravity wants to eject you from the track, they have boards there to knock you back down. You can get punished, but very rarely do you sustain massive injuries."
Each skeleton event consists of four heats over two days. Montgomery's first two heats go at 8:30 p.m. and 10 p.m. CT on Thursday, Feb. 18, with the final two heats scheduled for 8:20 p.m. and 9:50 p.m. on Friday, Feb. 19.

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May 11, 2012 (JUBA) – South Sudan on Friday called on the international community to exert pressure on the government of neighbouring Sudan to immediately withdraw its troops from the contested border region of Abyei.
On Thursday 10 May Juba announced that it had completely withdrawn its police forces out of the contested area, as stipulated by a 2 May resolution of the UN Security Council, which called on both countries to move their forces out of the region.
South Sudan has announced that it is willing to comply with all aspects of resolution 2046, which calls on both sides to resume negotiations on post-partition issues and signed deal with three months.
The UNSC resolution endorsed the proposals of the African Union Peace and Security Council (AUPSC), which also called on the Khartoum government and rebels in South Kordofan and Blue Nile to negotiate and end to their conflict, based on the agreement Sudan's president Omar Hassan al-Bashir discarded last year.
Bashir has expressed unwillingness to comply fully with the demands of the UN and AU. "We only do the things we want to do. And no security council or the whole world for the matter can force us to act otherwise," Bashir said Thursday.
Since Abyei was captured by the Sudan Armed Forces in May 2011, the UNSC has repeatedly called for both nations to withdraw from the dispute region, the status of which was due to have been decided in a referendum in January 2011. The vote did not go ahead due to disagreement over who could take part. Read more…


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WHEN Stewart Mills described how he was feeling yesterday, having scored a try in an NRL debut that Phil Gould called one of the best he had seen, it needed to be considered in the context of how he had felt previously.
After suffering serious injuries to both knees, an ankle and the jaw in the past three years, Mills estimated he had played the equivalent of one full season over that time - at the most.
To have simply played in his first NRL game would have been great, but to play this well felt strange. ''It's good to come back, finally,'' Mills said. ''I feel unreal. It's a surreal feeling. I'm finally here.''
Truly here, too. Mills, 19, scored a try, made a 70-metre bust, and ran 197 metres in total as the Sharks held out the Roosters. It's clear this wouldn't be Mills's last NRL game of the season - dare we say, injury-permitting.
''I just want to try and stick to what I can do best, and do whatever I can do for the boys,'' he said.
Mills, a local junior from Yarrawarrah, made a wonderful start, making his long bust with his first touch of the ball, after five minutes, before he was brought down by Roosters five-eighth Todd Carney. His try came early in the first half, when he leapt for halfback Scott Porter's bomb.
''I just saw the ball go up and jumped,'' he said. ''I knew I'd put it down … I'm a local boy, playing for Cronulla, it's just a dream come true.''
Coach Shane Flanagan, who hopes to re-sign Mills to a longer-term deal soon, said he expected a few more players of his ilk to join Mills in first grade, suggesting the future of the club was in good hands.
''First touch of the ball, he ran 80 metres,'' Flanagan said. ''We've got some good kids coming through there. I've just got to make sure I use them at the right time. I don't want to throw young kids in and put too much pressure on them to get us out of the trouble that the senior players have got us into. It's a bit of a balancing act, but there's a few more to come in the year.''


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Vatican City — Beware of the devil, who wants a jealous, power-hungry and divided church, Pope Francis said.
Be open to the Holy Spirit, who brings unity and harmony, and who pushes people to focus fully on Christ, the pope said Tuesday during his homily at Mass in the Domus Sanctae Marthae, where he lives.
The pope's morning homily reflected on the day's reading from the Acts of the Apostles (4:32-37), which describes the early Christian community as being made up of believers who were "of one heart and mind," who "bore witness to the resurrection of the Lord Jesus," and who distributed their assets "to each according to need."
Pope Francis said the passage describes what every Christian community -- including parishes and dioceses -- should model and aspire to: "peace, witness, poverty and taking care of the poor."
A community of peace, forgiveness and harmony means "there's no place for gossip, jealousy, back-stabbing and slander," he said, according to a report by Vatican Radio.
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To see how a community measures up to what Christ wants, look at what its members behave, he said. "Are they meek, humble? Are there battles among them over power? Jealous arguments? Is there gossip? They are not on the road of Jesus Christ," he said.
A peaceful, harmonious community is "very, very important," he said, "because the devil is always trying to divide us. He is the father of division."
The second important characteristic of a Christian community is its dedication to giving witness to the risen Christ, he said.
"Does this parish, this community, this diocese really believe that Jesus Christ is risen?" or do people only believe it with their head and not their heart? he asked. "To give witness that Jesus is living, he is among us -- this is the way you can verify how a community is doing."
The third aspect of a Christian community is its members' "poverty of spirit" -- that they put their trust in God and not riches and power, he said.
This is what Jesus meant when he told Nicodemus that "you must be born from above" and born of the Holy Spirit, the pope said.
When it comes to peace, witness and a concern for the poor, "the only one who can do this is the Spirit. This is the work of the Spirit," he said.
The Holy Spirit creates unity, "the Spirit pushes us to give witness," the pope said. "The Spirit makes you poor because he is the richness and he makes it so you care for the poor."
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Authorities are calling for more horses to be vaccinated against the deadly Hendra virus, with the first dog in NSW to be infected put down.
The incident follows the Hendra death of a horse from the same property on the mid-north coast near Macksville on July 4.
NSW Chief Veterinary Officer Ian Roth said there have never been other species aside from humans and horses that had been affected by Hendra in the state.
''It's the first dog in NSW,'' Dr Roth said.
''We believe it got Hendra from direct contact with the infected horse on that property.''
The first dog to be put down after catching Hendra was in Queensland last year.
Dr Roth said that theoretically cats and ferrets can also catch the virus, although there have never been any cases.
But a new vaccine, which has been available for six months, will protect horses from the virus, he said.
''We encourage people to preventative measure,'' Dr Roth said.
''You'll not only be protecting your horse, you'll protect yourself, your family and your companion animals.''
The latest deaths come after another horse from Kempsey and two from Macksville died after contracting Hendra, all within the last six weeks.
There have also been several cases of Hendra in Queensland in the last 12 months.
Horses can contract the virus by eating feed or drinking water contaminated with body fluids and excretions from flying foxes infected with the virus.
Dr Roth said flying foxes had the biggest population in the mid-north coast and cases there were often numerous.
In 2011, there was a spike in the number of cases in Queensland and NSW with 18 outbreaks and 24 reported cases, according to the CSIRO.
Since 1994, four people have been killed by Hendra, all of them in Queensland.


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The board examinations aren't be a walk in the park for anyone on ABC's "Grey's Anatomy."
During last week's hour, Cristina (Sandra Oh) finally told Meredith (Ellen Pompeo) about Owen's (Kevin McKidd) betrayal, while on the other side of the door her best friend battled the stomach flu. Meanwhile, a stressed out April (Sarah Drew) dealt with the pressure in a new way, losing her virginity to her BFF, Jackson (Jesse Williams).
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So how did Seattle Grace's best and brightest fare on the big exam? Not very well in a clip from Thursday's episode, titled "Let the Bad Times Roll," exclusive to The Hollywood Reporter.
A confident Cristina finds herself being challenged by her proctor, played by "St. Elsewhere's" William Daniels, while Meredith's stomach continues to rumble -- much to her examiner's chagrin.
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April 1, 2008
Russian Orthodoxy Goes Global
By Andrei Zolotov Jr. Russia Profile
The Church is a Key Institution Preserving Russian Identity Around the Globe
Every Sunday morning, several dozen people, most of them Russians, drive from Johannesburg to Pretoria and from Pretoria to Johannesburg. They meet half way in Midrand, where several years ago the five-domed Russian Orthodox Church of St. Sergius was built amid the well-off South African suburbia. On big holidays the crowd grows to several hundred people, some of whom fly in from Cape Town, Durban and neighboring African countries.
According to Father Ioann Lapidus, the rector of St. Sergius, about 60 percent of his parishioners are people who had not been religious until they left the former Soviet Union, mostly in the 1980s and 1990s. �Now the nostalgia for the Motherland has brought them to church,� Lapidus said in a telephone interview. �The Russian Orthodox Church of St. Sergius is not only a place where they can pray in their native language, but also a center of gravitation for the entire Russian diaspora in South Africa, where people can talk in Russian and touch base with their roots.� Hence the parish activities, including a Sunday school with a Russian class and a club for young mothers.
Services at St. Sergius are partly held in English but mainly in Church Slavonic, and Lapidus stressed that they are open to anybody��blacks or whites, Boers or Afrikaners.� There is a group of Boers who converted to Orthodoxy.
Yet the church complex is meant predominantly as a spiritual home for the broader Russian community in South Africa, which Lapidus estimates to number about 6000 people. Some 20 mostly elderly people belong to the post-revolutionary and World War II waves of Russian emigration. The majority, however, left the Soviet Union after perestroika, and although small compared to Europe or the United States, the community constitutes the biggest Russian diaspora in sub-Saharan Africa at present. There are Russian doctors, physicists, professors, businessmen in trade, transportation, tourism and other fields. In 1998 they organized a parish, bought a land plot in Midrand, and with generous help from the Stroytransgaz pipeline construction giant and support from the Russian Foreign Ministry, built the most impressive new Moscow Patriarchate church outside the former Soviet Union.
Russian Orthodoxy abroad
Russia�s willingness to invest in a church and community center for its former countrymen thousands of miles away illustrates the post-Soviet reality both in Russian state-church relations and in the country�s attitude toward its diaspora. For most of the 20th century, Russia destroyed churches at home and sold them abroad. It persecuted or neglected its �migr�s. Yet, in line with the more classic diasporas like Jews, Armenians or Greeks, Russian Orthodox Church communities around the world served as the focal points of �migr� community life, and the only enduring institution capable of preserving the Russian identity in foreign environments. Some were in communion with the Moscow Patriarchate and others were bitterly opposed to it; some used magnificent churches built in European capitals and resorts by pre-revolutionary Russian royalty and aristocracy, while others cobbled new ones out of garages and residential buildings, rarely raising enough
private funds to build a proper church.
While the Communist regime carried out the policy of eliminating and subjugating the Church, the �migr� community, for whom the catastrophe of 1917 and the ensuing exile was a profound conversion experience, saw its mission in preserving and developing the great theological and cultural tradition of Russian Orthodoxy, not just to one day �return� it to Russia, but also to bring it to the far flung corners of the world.
For one part of this community, mainly represented by the conservative and monarchist Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia (ROCOR) which broke away from Moscow ecclesiastical authorities following their declaration of loyalty to the Soviet regime in 1927, it meant temporary self-isolation. Over generations, while integrating into the Western lifestyle, its adherents preserved a very traditionalist and characteristically Russian church life.
Another, more liberal part, found inspiration in the so-called �Paris school� of Russian theology, which formed among �migr� church intellectuals in Paris in the 1920s and 1930s. It sought development of Orthodox Christian theology either in a return to the Church Fathers or in a broad adaptation of contemporary Western Christian and secular scholarship. In the decades when hopes for the Soviet regime collapse were dimmed, this tradition also implied a localization of their Orthodoxy, including the translation of the liturgy into English, French and other languages, a shift to the Western calendar, and other synthesis of an Eastern Orthodox tradition with a Western identity. Today, followers of this tradition are mainly found in the Paris-based Exarchate of Parishes of Russian Tradition in Western Europe, under the Ecumenical Patriarchate, and in the Orthodox Church in America (OCA).
With the arrival of a vast number of Russian �displaced persons� in the course of World War II, the �migr� churches were reinvigorated. Some pastors and parishes turned out to be successful missionaries, and supplemented their Russian communities with local converts. The predominantly Jewish Soviet emigration of the 1970s and 1980s formed a largely separate community, often at odds with the old-timers. Yet there are groups of Russian Jews who converted to Orthodox Christianity both in the United States and in Israel.
Restoring lost unity
After 1988, the church life in Russia was liberalized, paving way to the revival of church life. Both of the major �migr� schools of church thought gained influence in Russia and were accepted, in various degrees, by respectively traditionalist and modernist groups. In terms of organizing parish life with a need to preserve Russian Orthodox identity and bringing up children amidst increasingly diverse secular and consumerist societies, foreign experience with summer camps, charities, conferences and other non-liturgical activities has been in high demand in Russia across the ideological spectrum.
�In our foreign conditions the Church has always been the axis around which our life was built,� Metropolitan Laurus, the First Hierarch of the ROCOR, said in his address to the Moscow Patriarchate-sponsored World Council of the Russian People in late February. During the 10 day Moscow visit, he was awarded the �Compatriot of the Year� award by Moscow Mayor Yury Luzhkov and the St. Andrew Prize by the influential St. Andrew Foundation, led by one of President Vladimir Putin�s close associates, Russian railways head Vladimir Yakunin. The visit was meant to underscore the newly found unity of the two parts of the Russian Church. �The Church supported Russian charities, cultural, youth, sports and other organizations, created a network of Sunday schools and involved children in an active participation in church life as sacristans, readers and singers. The results of this work are obvious�the youth, which is close to the Church already in the
fourth generation, have preserved their faith, their Russianness and their language,� said Metropolitan Laurus.
�The church has always put forward spiritual tasks of guiding people, helping them save their souls, but there is always�as a free supplement�the cultural aspect,� said Archpriest Peter Holodny, the treasurer of the ROCOR and a third-generation Russian raised abroad. �People who preserved their Russianness in the West are just the people who were part of the Church. People who were not part of the Church assimilated very quickly.�
Holodny�s grandfather, Protopresbyter Alexander Kiselev, born in Russia but raised in independent Estonia, was a pastor to the anti-Soviet, Nazi-affiliated army of Gen. Andrei Vlasov. He founded the �Merciful Samaritan� house in post-World War II Munich�a combination of a church, school, clinic and dormitory, where first-wave Russian �migr�s were helping desperate Russian DPs. When he moved to New York in the 1950s, Kiselev created the St. Seraphim Foundation, with a church and concert hall becoming a religious and cultural center for many Russian American intellectuals. A champion of unity between ROCOR and the Moscow Patriarchate, he died in Moscow in 2001, when his dream (fulfilled six years later) appeared unreal and his own family was divided along the lines of cooperation or continued opposition to the Moscow Patriarchate. Holodny�s father-in-law, Archpriest George Larin, runs one of the largest foreign Russian parishes and community
centers in Nyack, NY. It is at his parish that one of the first conferences bringing together Moscow Patriarchate and ROCOR priests took place in 2004, following President Vladimir Putin�s meeting with ROCOR bishops in Nov. 2003 and the beginning of the rapprochement.
The fate of families like this illustrates the scope of the drama which came to a highly symbolic resolution on June 17th 2007, when Patriarch Alexy II and Metropolitan Laurus signed the Act of Canonical Unity and celebrated together their first Eucharist�the ultimate manifestation of unity in faith for Orthodox Christians. The ceremony, broadcast live on Russian national television, was presented as a symbolic end of the Civil War and a spiritual precondition for the unity of the Russian people at home and abroad, following the cataclysms of the 20th century. Holodny was unable to hold back his tears, watching members of the once bitterly opposed churches taking communion from one chalice.
�The division inside the church emerged as a result of the deepest political schism of Russian society itself,� President Vladimir Putin said at the June ceremony. �Today, after decades of alienation, we can say that there were no winners in the church-political conflict. But everybody lost: both the Church and the believers, who had to live in an atmosphere of mutual distrust. Russian society at large lost. The revival of church unity is the main precondition for restoring the lost unity of the entire Russian realm, one of whose main spiritual foundations has always been the Orthodox faith.�
At a more practical level, the canonical unity has resulted in a closer cooperation between Russian Orthodox parishes and dioceses abroad, as in the case of Germany, where profuse recent immigration from Russia has filled the churches of both the Moscow Patriarchate and ROCOR. The dioceses instituted a series of meetings to coordinate their pastoral work.
Ensuing tensions over Russian identity
Despite the significance of this act, it did not abolish all divisions in the Orthodox Churches of Russian tradition around the world, typical of Russian �migr�s who have always been notorious for their infightings. A relatively large part of the ROCOR split from the Church over its unity with Moscow, saying that by signing the act, ROCOR lost is purity, having aligned itself with the Moscow Patriarchate which remains subservient to the state and maintains ecumenical relations with non-Orthodox Christians. The exact size of these groups is hard to establish. While the opponents of unity with Moscow cite the number of as much as 100 parishes, just under one third of all ROCOR parishes prior to June 2007, Holodny estimated the number as under 10 percent. The website of the largest split-away group, Provisional Supreme Church Authority of the Russian Orthodox Church Abroad, lists about 50 clergy and parishes mainly located in the former Soviet Union where
groups had joined ROCOR over the last 20 years primarily out of their opposition to the official church. Holodny also said that some of those who split away are beginning to rethink their position, but refused to elaborate on whether anyone had actually returned.
Ironically enough, the Paris-based Exarchate of Parishes of Russian Tradition, having been closer to the Moscow Patriarchate in the recent decades than ROCOR and remaining in communion with Moscow through the Patriarch of Constantinople, is currently locked in a bitter dispute with the Moscow Patriarchate over what it sees as Moscow�s expansionist policies, including the ongoing legal battle over a landmark Russian church in Nice. Moscow claims that the church should be returned to the Russian state after the 99 year long lease.
In Britain, the split pitted a small community of old �migr� Russians and converted Brits against a large number of newly arrived Russians, who have boosted the UK�s Russian community to hundreds of thousands. In 2003, after the death of the much revered pastor, thinker and missionary Metropolitan Anthony (Bloom), his successor, Bishop Basil (Osborne), left the Moscow Patriarchate and joined, with much of his flock, the Paris-based Exarchate under the Patriarchate of Constantinople. Metropolitan Anthony had built his diocese in Britain as a highly autonomous part of the Moscow Patriarchate, which many saw as a prototype of a united Western European Orthodoxy trespassing ethnical boundaries. His personal charisma managed to unite the culturally diverse groups. The new bishop sent from Moscow reformed the remaining, now predominantly �new Russian� church, along the standard lines of a contemporary Russian Church.
Apart from the rivalry between the numerically largest Patriarchate of Moscow and the historically preeminent Patriarchate of Constantinople, both of whom claim jurisdiction over Russian diaspora, the conflict in Britain underscores the Moscow Patriarchate policy of stressing the Russian cultural identity over local integration in its dealings with the emigrants. It also explains why unity with the largely isolationist ROCOR was achieved, while relations with the largely integrationist Paris-based church worsened.
�We are striving for the Russian diaspora to maintain their spirituality and their identity,� said Bishop Mark (Golovkov) of Yegorievsk, Deputy Head of the Moscow Patriarchate�s Department of External Church Relations, who oversees parishes abroad. �That is our main task. The very logic of our moves is to integrate the Russian realm independent of the jurisdictional boundaries.�
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About three years back I did a post about vellum covers, here...http://originalcomicartlocator.blogspot.com/2013/02/whats-issue-with-vellum-anyway.html
At the time I was wondering whether or not vellum covers still had the negative stigma for purchase they had in years past. Historically collectors had to be cautious when considering acquiring a vellum cover at a premium price...even if it was a highly desirable cover. A majority of the collecting community would not purchase art if it was on vellum and this was clearly reflected in the resale purchase price.
Recently, however, some high profile vellum covers have come to market and seem to defy the collectible rule to stay away at inflated prices. I wonder why this is. Has vellum found respect with the collecting base? Or has new blood entered the market that doesn't worry about this old rule?
In November, 2014, Heritage Auctions sold this Wilson/Romita AVENGERS 118 cover, below, for $65,725--certainly a record for a vellum cover--most figured it being the best cover from the coveted Avengers/Defenders War storyline was the reason it overcame the vellum handicap.
But I'm not so sure--just nine months later, the AVENGERS 123 cover, below, also on vellum by Romita came to market at Heritage and sold for $35,850. This cover does not have the same pedigree as the 118 cover in terms of importance--yet I would argue that it way over performed it's expected market price at this time last year. It seems that the vellum did not stop this cover from reaching a premium price.
The question is about to be tested again--in the next couple of weeks, two prominent vellum covers are coming to market, one at Heritage Auctions, DEFENDERS 10, and the other at Comiclink, CAPTAIN AMERICA 171. The Defenders cover is already at 38k with ten days left before the auction. I think it's safe to say that vellum will not be a factor on this cover which is the considered by some to be a key bronze cover.
Here is the Defenders 10 cover, in the May Heritage auction, before and after restoration:
Here is the Cap 171, in the May Comiclink Auction, before and after:
I'd love to hear some feedback from the collecting OA community--is vellum now a non-issue? Would it stop you from chasing down a cover you had to have? I'd like to hear from the old-timers and the new guys. I suspect that the newer collectors are less adverse to collecting vellum.
A number of vellum covers were assembled from pieces of vellum that were in the hands of different collectors. In some cases if the complete cover pieces could not be found, partial stats were made to go with the vellum pieces in order to give the look of a complete cover. Here are a few examples that I know about:
ASM 135 - In this case the original art pieces to Tarantula and Spider-Man were missing. The original art pieces that exist here were all drawn on a separate sheet of vellum that was split up and placed on with art board with the missing stats to give the appearance of a complete cover.
ASM 136 - This is an interesting one. This cover was drawn on two separate original pieces of vellum. The Spidey fighting Goblin image was much bigger than a standard cover and would not fit on a regular size board--an oversize board was created with Parker and Harry statted at the bottom, the first cover below.
Additionally the second piece of vellum, the original image of Parker and Harry, which was the right size for a standard board was placed with a stat of Spidey fighting Goblin--the second cover below.
ASM 136 exists on two separate covers--each with a part of the original.
ASM 138 - This is the most successful of the three covers as all the original pieces of the cover were reunited on a single art board and can be consider a complete original cover. The head of the Mindworm was on a separate piece of vellum from the main image of Spider-Man being attacked originally.
After work is completed on vellum covers they often are sold in the marketplace. As they change hands from one collector to another the history of what was done becomes lost. When buying a cover like this it's important to ask questions in order to figure out if you are getting a cover that has been assembled long after publication to make a larger profit in the collectibles market. In other words, let the buyer beware.
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Price list for Portacio recreations and commissions!
This is hard to read and I can't resize so I'll summarize from top to bottom:
RECREATIONS, 11x17, either direct or in his updated style are $3500-4000
COMMISSIONS 11x17, one figure $1500, two figures $2000 - add $300 for a more detailed background
COMMISSIONS 11x17, greytone/ink/copic markers, half figure $1800, full figure $2000
Monday, December 2, 2013
WHILCE PORTACIO is doing a limited number of commissions right now!
Whilce Portacio has opened himself up for a limited number of commissions due to a pressing family crisis. He is willing to take on your original idea or recreate any of your past favorite Portacio covers. This is an opportunity for a limited time. Once he has met his goal, he will have to close the list down. Below are a few of his more famous X-Men covers. But again, he is open to work on any title or character of your choosing.
If you would like to find out more or schedule a commission, please contact Jo at email@example.com for details.
They also have a number of published pages available, including his most recent work on his creator-owned NON-HUMANS mini series. DON'T MISS OUT on this exciting opportunity!
Wednesday, August 28, 2013
Tuesday, June 11, 2013
It now resides in the collection of MIKE "ROMITAMAN" BURKEY. It's a lovely thing! Worthy of a post all by itself. The reported price tag? Slightly over 500K.
ASM 50 COVER by John Romita Sr. The historic and iconic twice up cover that was the basis for the plot of the Spider-Man 2 movie.
ASM 50 COVER by John Romita Sr. The historic and iconic twice up cover that was the basis for the plot of the Spider-Man 2 movie.
Thursday, June 6, 2013
Is STEVE DITKO drawing NEW stories of DR. STRANGE and SPIDER-MAN?
I saw this post on the Brian Bendis tumbler page. Bendis talks about a story told to him some time ago by former Marvel editor Ralph Macchio who went to visit Steve Ditko at his studio. Ralph apparently saw a pile of Dr. Strange art by Ditko that had never been published by Marvel. Ditko told Ralph that the pages were for a brand new Dr. Strange graphic novel--never intended to be published--just drawn for Ditko's own pleasure. I found this to be astounding. Here is the post borrowed from the Bendis page:
Have you ever talked to Ditko? Any second hand stories even?
I had an amazingly similar experience to the one Jonathan Ross had.
when I was doing my series of creator interviews for Wizard magazine I reached out to him. I knew full well that he didn't do interviews anymore but I thought MAYBE if it was a creator creator interview there might be a slim chance he would be up for it.
I got his number from our mutual friend and editor Ralph macchio. I called him up and explained myself and who I was and what I wanted to do.
he said he appreciated that but he didn't do interviews.
I said I completely understand but, off the record, I was curious to what happened that made him not want to do interviews anymore.
he said that's an excellent question but it's an interview question and I DON'T DO INTERVIEWS ANYMORE!!!
before he hung up I was able to thank him profusely for creating Spiderman and all that that has given me in my life. I do know that on some level he heard me so I feel really good about that.
Ralph told me that he went to his house yeares ago and saw a big pile of Dr. strange original art and he asked what it was for. Steve said that it is a brand-new Dr. strange graphic novel. Ralph asked when he could read it and he said: no, that that's not for you it's just for me.
you have to admire the purity
It made me wonder, what if Steve Ditko is actual at home continuing to draw his own Amazing Spider-Man stories to this day? What if there are a run of stories in his studio that continue the Spider-Man saga they way Ditko would have wanted the book to go? It boggles the mind to think about their existence. I hope we find out one day that this is true and actually get to see those pages. THAT would be something! I can dream, can't I?
Tuesday, April 23, 2013
PART 2 - The X-MEN 1 original art by JACK KIRBY is sold!
Continuing my conversation with comic art dealer/collector, Bechara Maalouf, on how he acquired the X-Men 1 story.
A huge heartfelt thanks to Bechara for agreeing to this interview. Again he can be reached at http://www.nostalgicinvestments.com or email: firstname.lastname@example.com
GLEN: How were you able to finally convince Brad to sell?
BECHARA: Brad and I stayed in touch from mid 80's on. I would generally buy things from him on a periodic basis.
GLEN: What kind of stuff did you pick up from him?
BECHARA: Silver-age Marvel, some hero and some pre-hero stuff. I made him really good offers. I would tend to pay twice what Brad perceived the current market value to be. This way he always thought of me when he was ready to sell something.
But I'm not crazy, I would focus on pieces that I felt had upside for the future. In those days you couldn't lose, anything of quality felt undervalued. Some of the things I bought, among many other things, were great Kirby original pages from X-Men 5 including the splash, the complete X-Men 9 story that featured the first cross-over battle of the Avengers vs. X-Men, and a nice X-men 2 page.
GLEN: So he eventually contacted you when it was time to sell because of your track record of purchases?
BECHARA: Not exactly, we played a cat and mouse game over two decades. What I mean is Brad was always a lot higher than what I was willing to pay for the book. In 1990, if the book was worth 20k--Brad wanted 50k. By the time the book was worth 50k, Brad wanted 100k. Years later when it was valued at 100k, Brad wanted 200k--this continued on for quite a while.
GLEN: When did the value of the book catch up enough for you to finally pull the trigger?
BECHARA: It didn't exactly happen like that. In 2001, I was in the middle of completing a deal for the Tony Christopher collection. Tony was famous for having the BEST Kirby collection-- over a thousand Kirby pages--quite a few of them coming directly from Jack Kirby himself after his artwork was returned from Marvel.
With access to so much prime Kirby material, I realized I finally had the kind of trade that would entice Brad to part with the X-Men 1 story at a price I could tolerate. I knew his number one love was Kirby Fantastic Four art. It took a number of key Kirby FF pieces to do the trick. The components of the deal were:
The complete story to Fantastic Four 3 - missing one page, the complete back up story to FF 11, and a good amount of cash.
Given that the FF 3 is the earliest known Fantastic Four story in the market--the issue has a recap of their origin and is the very first time we see the FF in costume--Brad was much more willing to be negotiable. I drove to his house to do the deal in person. I was nervous because Brad was very hard to get a hold of. Many times I had driven to his house just hoping that he would be there. Happily the FF 3 was enough of an inducement for him to keep our appointment. We made the exchange and I finally had the X-Men 1 story in my possession.
BRAD SAVAGE - Holding the FF 3 splash at a recent comic art con
BECHARA: Unfortunately, I had a partner in Greg Manning Auctions when I made the Tony Christopher deal which meant we were also partners on the ownership of the X-Men 1 book too--we had used the FF 3 in trade--part of the TC collection. This also meant that the X-Men 1 book wasn't mine to keep. Greg Manning Auctions and I agreed to move the X-Men 1 story to Kirk Hammett--an avid collector and the legendary lead guitarist for the band Metallica.
BECHARA: Years later, Bill Wheatly, an outside hobby collector saw an opportunity there and was able to purchase the story from Kirk--he broke the book apart, sold the splash, and the majority of the other X-Men 1 pages went to auction at Heritage where they have sold over the past years. It's sad that the book had to be split up--I would have wanted to find a buyer for the X-Men 1 who would have at least kept the pages together.
A huge heartfelt thanks to Bechara for agreeing to this interview. Again he can be reached at http://www.nostalgicinvestments.com or email: email@example.com
Friday, April 19, 2013
PART 1 - THE REAL STORY - How the original art to X-MEN 1 by JACK KIRBY was found!
I've known Bechara Maalouf for as long as I've been an original art collector. He's been a high end dealer in OA and comics for over twenty-five years. Back in 1994 he sold me my first two John Romita Spider-man pages from ASM 116 for $400 and $600--the more expensive page had Gwen Stacy on it. We've done hundreds of deals since then. I can honestly say that some of the best pieces in my collection came through him. Prominent collectors like Hari Naidu and even dealers like Will Gabri El began dabbling in OA with Bechara's help. He is someone you must absolutely know in the hobby. If you are looking for a particular piece he knows not only where the bodies are buried…but how deep.
For years Bechara has promised to share the details with me of how the complete X-Men 1 story came out into the marketplace, and how he had a hand in it. We finally had that discussion the other day:
GLEN: How did you first hear about the existence of Jack Kirby's X-Men 1 original art pages?
BECHARA: Through Brad Savage--he has been a collector of comics and original art for a generation or two. I met Brad in the 80's and at that time he revealed to me that he had the complete original art to X-Men 1 by Jack Kirby, as well as other stuff.
GLEN: As you got to know him better he finally agreed to show them to you?
BECHARA: He invited me to his house--a collectibles emporium if there ever was one--the place looked like a serial killer had put his mind to collecting comics and related items instead of bodies. He showed me the complete book to X-Men 1 and I was astounded. My first question was how did you get this? It turns out the original pages had turned up at a downtown comic shop in Manhattan around 28th street.
GLEN: Wait a minute, the historic pages to X-Men 1 were available for sale at a comic shop?
BECHARA: One day in the mid 80's, Brad was in the local comic shop he frequented when two young men entered the store with a bundle of comic art to sell the owner. Brad was stunned as the art turned out to be originals by Steve Ditko. The actual original Marvel art pages from complete stories to Amazing Spider-Man unfolded before his eyes--ASM issue 4 with Sandman, the third issue with the first appearance of Doc Ock, issue 2 featuring the Vulture and finally the complete original art to the historic Amazing Spider-Man number 1.
BECHARA: The two men offered the whole lot, four issues of originals, to the shop keeper for $2000. Brad couldn't believe it--the shop keeper either couldn't afford it or didn't want to buy the art but Brad absolutely did. Between what he had in his pocket and a loan from the shop keeper he was able to scrape together $700. Brad offered to give the men the $700 as a down payment but they wouldn't take it. They needed the full $2000. Brad desperately tried to buy just one of the stories, the ASM 1, for the $700 but they wouldn't take that either. However, they were willing to meet Brad back at the comic shop the next day and do the deal if Brad had all the money. Brad figured he would never see the men again.
The next day Brad was surprised to find the men back at the shop just as they had agreed. Brad was ready with the cash. Unfortunately, the men explained that they had found a guy to give them $2000 for the ASM 1 story alone, and they sold the book and the other Spidey stories to that same guy as well.
BECHARA: However, they did have some good news for Brad. They had with them additional art that included the complete stories to X-Men 5, 2 and the complete art boards to the first appearance of the X-Men--issue 1--all by Jack Kirby. Brad asked them how they were able to get all this art. The young men explained that it all was very legit. They promised the books weren't stolen--they just couldn't talk about it.
Brad wasn't about to argue--he was able to buy the complete X-men 1 story for $400, and the other original X-books as well for the paltry sum of $200 a piece.
Brad wasn't about to argue--he was able to buy the complete X-men 1 story for $400, and the other original X-books as well for the paltry sum of $200 a piece.
In part 2 of this story, that I promise to post next week, Bechara and I will talk about how he was able to fiinally convince Brad after 20 years of pursuit to actually part with his X-Men 1 story.
Bechara Maalouf can be found at Nostalgic Investments for one of the very best selections of original art on the web at: http://www.nostalgicinvestments.com or email: email@example.com
Wednesday, February 27, 2013
John Romita Sr did not concern himself with using art materials that would best display his art for the collector aftermarket of today. Instead his concern was how slick the ink would look on the published Marvel comics finished product. To that end a lot of his originals were drawn on vellum instead of board. Vellum is a transparent paper that allowed him to see over his pencils as he was drawing and gave his inks a polish that they lacked on regular board. My understanding is that the regular board absorbs the ink to a greater extent. The lighter transparent vellum allows the ink to roll better on the paper which gave Romita more control. The vellum piece, once drawn, was then glued down to a cover board which over the years in many cases has caused the cover to yellow or brown in tint. The upside is Romita created some absolute classics with this technique. The downside is many of his great covers are not on board--the preferred collector medium.
A good restorer, in some cases, can bring a vellum board to look almost as good as a work on regular board. But for the most part, collectors tend to view the vellum pieces as less valuable then their board counterparts. In the past I've managed to get some very nice vellum Romita covers at far less than they would have cost on board. But when it came time to sell them they always seemed to move for less and slower than similar board covers. In addition to the way the cover looks, some collectors feel that the lack of pencils underneath the vellum also brings the price down. Generally speaking the vellum acts as tracing paper and the pencils are left behind on a separate paper after the ink is put down on the vellum. Board covers tend to have the pencil underneath the ink on the same piece of paper--you're getting both the artist's pencils and inks.
With the recent rise in prices I wonder if this type of prejudice will continue or if vellum covers will come to be more accepted by the collecting community in future. Here are a number of vellum covers that I owned, or considered owning, at one time or another:
This cover, Conan 30, is one of the few vellum examples I've owned not by Romita. The bat was drawn on vellum by Ernie Chan to create a visual effect on the published cover. While this is not truly a vellum cover as the rest is drawn on board, the darker discoloration of the bat made it less desirable.
Here you can see the cover after restoration lightened up the bat to make it better fit with the overall color of the cover.
The Avengers 119 cover was a favorite of mine. It was very brown when I had it restored. I kept it for a number of years and made a slight profit when I sold it. Had it been on board I could have sold it for much more as comparable board covers had doubled in price during my tenure of ownership. This can be the opportunity cost of owning a vellum cover if not purchased at a discount price.
On the other hand the ASM 145 cover was fairly inexpensive and I was able to trade it for quite a bit more. It cleaned up very nice after restoration. You can barely tell that it's a vellum cover. In this case the image was so dynamic that I think it trumped the vellum and allowed for me to make a really strong trade.
The Sub-Mariner 69 cover was purchased a couple years back. It was inexpensive due to the title and brown coloration of the vellum.
After restoration it looks quite nice. I haven't tested it's price on the market as I've decided to keep this beauty in my collection. The disco Sub-Mariner outfit designed by Romita is a personal favorite.
A stunning Romita Luke Cage cover I had restored. It took me a while to move even after this fine job of restoration.
The Invaders 1 cover is a personal favorite that I would have loved to own. But I felt it was too expensive at the time it was auctioned off. The vellum kept me from stepping up on a price that I felt was too high. I thought I would never get out of it if I ever needed to.
A classic Romita Vellum cover. Never owned, just admired.
The Spec Spidey 1 special edition cover--another vellum cover that looked great after restoration. Still it took me quite a while to sell and at a price that wasn't very different then what I paid for the cover initially. The vellum, I feel, hurt it's resale chances for me.
I'm wondering if vellum is still the turn off it once was...or if today's collector sees it as an opportunity to get a really cool cover at perhaps more of a bargain price. Or does vellum not matter to you at all as long as you get the image that you desire? I think vellum is still a factor the collector HAS to consider when paying top dollar for a piece. After all, you don't want to get stuck with an expensive piece you can't move do you?
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Price rejects rumours of discontentSam Hall
Published: June 28 2012 - 3:00AM
ST GEORGE ILLAWARRA coach Steve Price has rubbished suggestions his job is under threat, dismissing rumours of a crisis meeting with club chief executive Peter Doust.
The first-year coach also addressed speculation that senior players would be shown the door unless their form improved.
Price said he and Illawarra veterans Ben Hornby and Matt Cooper would see out their contracts, which expire at the end of next season.
''You have to chuckle with the media every now and then - it's far from the truth,'' the coach said of persistent speculation that heads could roll at season's end.
''You can also stipulate that Ben Hornby and Matty Cooper are contracted to 2013 and that they've been great for us. There's never been doubt about any of that whatsoever, not from our behalf anyway. It's all been social media.''
Pressed on whether there was ever a meeting between Price and Doust, prompted by the side's mid-season form slide, the coach said, ''No, never happened.''
St George Illawarra were flying as high as fourth on the NRL ladder before their season started to unravel in round nine with five losses from seven games. Price was adamant the streak had finally come to a head following the side's dour 8-6 win against the Gold Coast Titans last week.
The Dragons travel to Canberra on Monday to meet the Raiders, a team they haven't beaten in the nation's capital for 12 years. ''It's a load of crap,'' Price said of the hoodoo. ''I couldn't care less about it. All we control is playing Dragons footy, and we're really confident that we can do that.''
Price could also benefit from the fallout of Ricky Stuart's Origin selection impasse, after suggestions either Trent Merrin, Ben Creagh or Beau Scott will be offloaded to the Dragons in time for Monday's clash. The handover is likely if Glenn Stewart is ruled out of Origin III and Scott resumes his place, leaving either Creagh or Merrin to join Tony Williams on the bench.
But a NSW Origin spokesman couldn't confirm yesterday whether Stuart would have made a final decision on the make-up of his side by Monday and that, even if he had, whether he would release a player back to club football.
''That's not my domain at the moment, we'll worry about it when we cross that,'' Price said. ''Their main focus at the moment is State of Origin. I don't want to jump too far ahead, we'll have to wait and see.''
Price said the Dragons' attack was still developing, even though there were only nine games left before the finals start. St George Illawarra are in 10th on the ladder, but could be back in the top bracket should they win against Canberra as that game is followed by a bye.
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Given that it's around 300 years old, the cherry secretary is in fine shape. It's a beauty, a Bavarian baroque creation of wood marquetry and inlaid silver with a fold-down writing surface and dozens of drawers, many cleverly concealed. The three brass keys and locks are works of art; each one unique, each still working perfectly.
The secretary does have its flaws. There at the bottom, the finish is marred from a steam-heat problem in a Pittsburgh apartment years ago.
More noticeable is an odd gash running through the ornate silver crest, a wound inflicted during a horrific night of violence in Nazi Germany. It was repaired by experts in Chicago more than a half-century ago, but now it is slowly reopening. The secretary's owner, who uses and admires the piece every day, has thought about having it fixed. But she is ambivalent.
When it comes to the most cherished possessions, memory and history outweigh cosmetic perfection.
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Most of the recent documentary The Rape of Europa looks at the Nazi theft of great art treasures. One segment is devoted to humbler objects, the furniture stripped from Jewish homes as their owners were sent to their deaths in the camps.
"The looting was like nothing anyone had seen, because it was total and because it took both valuable items and worthless ones,'' Annette Wieviorka, a leading French historian of the Holocaust, says in the film.
"So the goal was material, but it was also intended to help erase a people and their memory.''
Powerful words to describe household furnishings. But they capture well the saga of that grand cherry secretary, a family heirloom that survived the Nazis and came down to my friend and stepmother, Hannah Green Sutton. Hannah told me the full story when I visited her and my father in North Carolina recently and gave me her English translation of the meticulous diary her mother kept of the pogrom and its aftermath, including the journey of that secretary.
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On Nov. 9-10, 1938, in cities and towns all over Germany, 91 Jews were murdered and more than 25,000 were arrested and sent to concentration camps during the pogrom that came to be known as Kristallnacht, or the Night of Broken Glass.
At 74 Parkstrasse in Dusseldorf, the elegant townhome of Walter and Luise Oppenheimer and their 3-year-old daughter, Hannah, more than a dozen brown-shirted thugs with axes, hatchets and iron bars laid waste.
"All kaput,'' Hannah whimpered over and over, her mother later wrote, physically unharmed but terrified. Luise, blood streaming from the crack on the head she suffered from one storm trooper, cradled her daughter. "Be calm, your Mama is with you and nothing will happen to you,'' she kept telling Hannah as her own blood soaked the girl's pajamas. A badly beaten Walter crawled into the nursery on his hands and knees.
Downstairs, a storm trooper sank his hatchet blade into a grand old cherry secretary, so loved by the Oppenheimer family they called it Das Museum Stueck. Museum piece indeed; made in Bavaria between 1700 and 1750, it was fine enough for most any decorative arts collection.
There was no time to mourn it, or any of the smashed glass, china and other items piled so high it was impossible to get into the kitchen. Walter, a chemist, was arrested and sent to Dachau. Luise spent weeks in a hospital, shielded by nuns who refused Nazi orders to expel Jewish patients. Friends cared for Hannah and took her to see her mother for the permitted half-hour visits.
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Luise hired a lawyer, working frantically to get Walter out of Dachau. He did get out on Dec. 2, half-starved, his head shaved. The couple set to work on getting out of Germany. "They bought new everything, because you could take things out of Germany if you were a Jew then, but you couldn't take out money,'' Hannah explained. Everything they could salvage from the ruined house, including the splintered Stueck, was packed up and shipped out of the country.
After weeks of negotiating the Nazi bureaucracy and paying exorbitant emigration taxes targeted at Jews, the family had the documents they needed to flee to Holland on Feb. 19, 1939. From there, they sailed to England. Luise recounted in her journal that "miraculously, in spite of the war, our lift van arrived from Rotterdam, Holland, where it had been sent from Hamburg. We just looked at our earthly possessions (having left Germany with 10 marks each in our pockets, about $2.50) and repacked them, since it was too expensive to send them to America at the time.''
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By 1940, the family was in Chicago, where Walter had found work.
To their amazement, they learned midway through the war that their goods had survived the Blitz and could be shipped to America. Luise wrote that she sold most of their things in order to pay the shipping for the most precious items, including the Stueck.
It arrived in 1943. Luise paid professional restorers at the Art Institute of Chicago to repair the damage to the Stueck, which traveled with the family when they moved to Pittsburgh, where Luise taught German at the University of Pittsburgh and Walter resumed his career as a chemist at the U.S. Bureau of Mines.
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The Stueck came down to Hannah, by then a biochemist in Durham, N.C., after her mother died in 1978. Hannah tends it lovingly, carefully polishing its many surfaces. My dad installed UV-filtering film in the windows to protect the Stueck from the bright sunlight of the North Carolina mountains.
It's a cherished, respected item, and the niches at its top display treasures such as the brass menorah presented to Hannah's father by Dusseldorf's Jewish community when the family fled.
The Stueck is in daily use. Hannah's three grandchildren, who are allowed to open the secretary under close supervision, love to hide little surprises in the drawers for her; we found a pretty postcard from their recent visit when we poked through the drawers together.
Hannah is a great reader and spends hours with her books in the sitting room. She glances up at the Stueck, and thinks of so many things.
"It's a symbol of my family history, which as I get older is more and more interesting to me,'' said Hannah, who is tracing her family's history using family documents that stretch back seven generations, about to the time the Stueck was made.
But as the Holocaust historian remarked in The Rape of Europa, household items like the Stueck have a special role in preserving family history.
"It was something my family always enjoyed having because it was beautiful. I look at it a lot,'' Hannah said. "I appreciate it.''
Charlotte Sutton can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com or (727) 893-8425.


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The Massachusetts Bar Association has partnered with the
American Bar Association's Young Lawyers Division and the Federal
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assistance hotline and online request form for victims of severe
storms and flooding in Massachusetts.
"The Massachusetts Bar Association is proud to partner with the
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Massachusetts residents facing legal issues due to flooding can
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Assistance will be offered based on the legal question, and
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When the president declares a major disaster, FEMA, in
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For me, this was the device that could have been a great contender to the T2. While I liked a lot about it, the web browser was such a let down that I ended up returning it.
With a better and fast browser, cookie support and a cursor, it would have been a great reader for direct access to library books.
I added this comment to the site as well. I wish they had addressed this (the quality of the browser) and the inconvenient way to even turn on the light in their review.
Your comment about how to turn on the light is answered on that site but I will repeat it here in case anyone else are wondering.
You do not have to enter any menus to turn on the light, just hold the home button for a couple of seconds and it will turn on automatically. It will also display the menu so that you can adjust the intensity without having to trouble yourself with entering the menu manually. Touch X to close - good to go.
For me, personally, the web browser is a non-issue. I have never had any reason to even open it. My phone performs alot better in that area.
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Trying to decide on a new shotgun for home defense
Mossberg maverick 88 12 gauge pump or the Remington 870. It is a home defense gun , can anyone give any reviews or insight on what to buy or not to buy it would be much appreciated
If i had a nickle for every thread like this i would have, well, like 10 nickles, still new here, hehe
But seriously i have had an 870 for years, i will keep my 870 for years until i pass it off. Try to find an older one, the new ones have been unfortunately lacking in quality and fortitude.
Buy a used one from the 80's or early 90's and it will live longer than you will.
Look at the H&R Pardner, it is a clone of the 870.:)
For me personally, as my avatar might suggest, I would go with the maverick out of those two.
Check out a Judge. Much handier around the house. No bumping into things and knocking them over with that long barrel which does you no good at 10'. Just a legal sawed off shotgun. If you must have that long barrel, go with the Mossberg.
Thank y'all for the insight , I think I'm going to choose the maverick.
If you can swing it I would get the 8 shot maverick. If you use three 2 3/4" shells you can get 9 in it. Nine shots of pure hell is plenty to defend your castle.
Maverick will do just fine, pics when you get it!
I have had both. I have an 870 now, but my Maverick was my go to gun for the entire 18 years that I had it. I passed it on to a friend who's son is using it now. I'm pretty sure that it will still be getting used long after I am gone.
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