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They Called Her Mrs. Nobody
She visited nearly 100 countries in her lifetime while living a modest life on the North Shore. She helped raise and then give away almost $1 million. But it was one donation she made to build a tiny school in Central America that sent her great-granddaughter on a quest to learn her story and see if the good that she did endures to this day.
As the sunlight crawls up Guatemalas Santa Maria volcano, children walk toward the small concrete school. Young girls dressed in hand-woven huipils and cortes and young boys wearing sweat shirts from places like Acadia, Maine, walk double time beside mothers clothed in the elaborate colors native to their Mayan village. They travel a long dirt road cratered by mudslides from 2005s Hurricane Stan. They walk past the cornfields and cabbage rows, where they will work after lunch. They walk in cool mountain air amid snack wrappers, stray dogs, and plank-and-concrete-block homes with rusting metal roofs. By 8 a.m., more than a thousand children will file into the schoolyard, past a small white marble plaque containing the name of a woman from Newbury, Massachusetts, who ventured to this village 40 years ago. My great-grandmother.
I had long been curious about her travels. As a child, I could not get my arms around the large woman I knew only as Grammie Morse, and we rarely visited her because she was rarely at home. Instead, I would get a card from some faraway place, or a small doll would make its way to me, its skin color, clothes, and face very different from my own.
Even Grammies own three sons couldnt keep track of her. I dont know all of the places that she went, her youngest son, Don Morse, told me when I set out on my journey to trace one of her adventures. All I knew was when she was here, she was here. And if not, she was gone.
I was 13 in 1987, the year Grammie Morse died. A decade later, the scattered details of her travels landed in a heap of cardboard boxes in my home office after my great-uncle Bob cleaned out his attic. For 10 years, I circled that stack. Id pick through the files at random and wonder what would compel a woman in her 60s to leave the small-town life of a bankers wife for the unknown hazards of traveling to Third World countries. She first traversed the globe solo in 1959 at 54 years of age and by her own account visited 85 countries in the next 18 years. I read letters postmarked from Jerusalem, Greece, India, the Philippines, Haiti, Senegal, and Iran. Thousands of slides contained images of these countries and more Lesotho, Nepal, Surinam, the Canary Islands, and even the Malian city of Tombouctou. She appeared atop a camel in front of Egyptian pyramids, surrounded by children in Hong Kong, in a canoe in Liberia, riding a mule in Colombia, and standing by a plaque in front of a school in Guatemala.
Born the daughter of a suffragist in Malden and raised in Salem, Mabelle Louise had always loved to travel. When she was 3, she toddled off alone one afternoon through the neighborhood. In 1935, at age 30, she and four other women (and her 16-year-old brother, hired as their driver) took a cross-country road trip in a 1928 Buick. She repeated this trip in 1949 with two teenaged sons. By then, she and her husband, Charles Morse, had moved to Newbury so that he could work at Newburyport Bank. She joined the mothers club at the Greater Newburyport YWCA, where she became a volunteer and later sat on the board of directors. She spent countless hours attending fund-raisers and hosting social events. Later, when she traveled abroad, shed stay at YWCA residences because she knew that was where shed get to know the local women.
Louise (she dropped the Mabelle after marrying and became Louise Herrick Morse) worked as a bookkeeper for a Salem hardware store and was active in the Massachusetts Federation of Womens Clubs. In the mid-1950s, whenever a groups planned guest speaker backed out, she would step in, talking about raising three children and about her road trip to California. With her Katharine Hepburn twang and self-deprecating, Erma Bombeck-like humor, she kept her audiences roaring. But her family grew tired of serving as the source of others amusement and begged her to find something else to talk about.
It was during a Sunday morning church service that Louise first learned about the Cooperative for American Remittance to Europe (now the Cooperative for Assistance and Relief Everywhere). It was started in 1945 to offer relief to soldiers in the form of boxes filled with food and other provisions CARE packages and by the 1950s had expanded to feed the hungry in emerging nations. The minister that morning challenged his congregation to take part in this person-to-person effort to help others help themselves; each CARE package cost $10 and went directly to a recipient in need.
When Louise returned home from church, she got a phone call from the friend of a friend, telling her the speaker for her womans club meeting the next day had canceled. She asked if Louise could fill in, adding, Of course well pay you.
Now I know women well enough to know that she had no intention of paying me, Louise once wrote. Im sure that friend of hers who was a friend of mine had said, Call her up shes not so hot, but shes free. So when I said Id be interested in the pay part, she was some surprised. I said I had just heard a sermon, which had fired me with enthusiasm to do something for CARE, and if her organization would make a contribution to CARE, I would be delighted to present a fun program for them, and she said she was sure they would be glad to do that.
So began, in 1958, Louises Fun for Food program. By January 1959, shed given 20 talks, and CAREs Boston office began receiving checks from people who noted, Mrs. Morse spoke here. Louise thought the speeches would make a good retirement hobby.
This is my go-down stretch in life and Ive decided that a roller-coaster exit is for me, she wrote. Thirty years of kids, cooking, committees and such either settles one down into a has-been sort of person or you kick over the traces and start off on another tangent. . . . I decided my hobby must be a specially created one . . . [that] had to merit the effort involved. I didnt want it to be something the next generation would sell to a junk collector a week after I had departed from familiar haunts.
And so, at dozens of club meetings, she told her stories most often the one she called California Trip. But by the spring of 1959, Louise found she had nothing more to say.
That tale, she wrote, with a few others for variation, recited over and over, began to pale, and the satisfaction of food packages for CARE in return for such nonsense seemed to begin to be an effort; and then I decided that the well had gone dry, and until I had a new experience, something really worth talking about, Id just end my programs right there.
The day she reached this conclusion, a friend, Ada Perry, was visiting , and the phone rang yet again. Louise told the caller that she would not be able to oblige her request to speak and hung up.
It seems a pity you cant take that engagement, Perry said. What kind of experience would you need?
I dont know, Louise said. Id need to go somewhere exotic, like around the world or something.
A few days later, a letter arrived from Perry and her husband. The childless couple told Louise theyd intended to leave her something after theyd died, but they recognized that now would be a better time to put the money to good use. They challenged her to go around the world and, upon her return, raise $500 for CARE. And so, in 1959, Louise went around the world in 80 days and returned to learn that her volunteer secretary had booked 100 engagements throughout New England. Within a few months, Louise had raised $2,000 for CARE.
She would charge $20 for her talk to fund her next trip, $20 for a direct donation to CARE, and 10 cents per mile to cover travel expenses, for a total of a little more than $40 per lecture. One trip inspired the next, with Louise visiting ever-more-remote places to gather her stories. By 1964, she had visited 40 countries and had used her new lecture series, Mrs. Nobody Goes Somewhere, to raise $20,000 for CARE.
She had delivered her talks to more than 700 audiences, showing slides and reporting heart-rending accounts of disturbing scenes she had witnessed at the CARE projects she visited starving babies in Niger, a leper colony in India, earthquake survivors in Iran. Sometimes shed put on a native costume, such as a then-exotic Indian sari, or show items shed brought home from abroad, including a tear-catcher from Jerusalem and a Pygmy grass skirt from Africa.
Some of the groups she spoke to would take up a collection and offer an additional donation, but for the most part, she raised donations $20 at a time for almost 20 years. Early on, CARE designated a special account, the Louise H. Morse Fund, and allowed her to decide which CARE projects would get the money from it. By the time CARE gave her a volunteer award in 1977, the organization estimated she had inspired $1 million in donations.
Dick Calandrella, then the assistant New England director of CARE, said that at one time, the group put pledge envelopes in residents utility bills, and that it would always get a spike in donations from towns across New England whenever Louise spoke. She had a personality that could win over anybody, he said, and she knew the impact she had on her audience.
Almost every time she gave a lecture, she would put in a few slides upside down, and she would make some self-deprecating joke and get a big laugh, Marion Blum told me when I reached her at her home in Maryland. Her husband, Leon, had been the director of CAREs Boston office, and Marion and Lee would sometimes attend Louises talks. That was her way of warming up the audience. . . . She wanted them to know she was a real person like them. She knew how to hold the audience in the palm of her hands.
When Louise walked along the road in Llano del Pinal in February of 1966, she knew it would cost $2,000 then about the same as a years tuition at Harvard to build a school there. She had $1,656.71 in her account, but her spring lecture schedule would make up the difference. She had also inspired the Newburyport High School class of 1967 to partner in funding the schools construction. She would put up the money; once the class had raised $1,000, it would reimburse her fund, and both she and the class would be credited with the donation. Susan Little, owner of the Newburyport bookstore Jabberwocky, was vice president of the class of 1967. Her grandmother was friends with Louise, and helping to build a school seemed to her like a great service project.
I talked everybody into it, and it didnt feel as though it was a lot of money to raise, she said. We donated the money because it seemed the right thing to do we didnt need fancy flowers at our prom tables. And I really felt that way. We dont need this money, and it can really do a lot of good somewhere else. Though the purpose of Louises visit to Llano del Pinal in 1966 was to find a site for the school, this was news to the villagers. In the company of CARE field staff, Louise introduced herself as a tourist and did not hide her amazement at the towering volcanoes, the lush greenery, and the fresh air. She joined women doing their wash at the village fountain; they laughed when Louise tried to carry a pot on her head. She put on a native blouse and had her picture taken. She hugged the children who came up to her. She stopped by the existing school, a two-room building made of rocks and wood, and found teenager Julia America de Lopez teaching 16 students who shared six blue wooden desks beneath a leaking roof. Louise told Julia that she might be able to do something about the situation and asked whom she needed to talk to. Julia told her to go see the mayor, a man named Felix Coyoy.
When Louise met the mayor, she told him she might have money to help the community build a school, but that she understood the village didnt have any spare land. As they walked, they came to an open field near a church, and Louise asked, Could you build the school here?
Yes! This will be the land, Coyoy answered, not knowing whether he could get the land from its owner.
He did not want to miss this opportunity. Coyoy grew up the son of a cattle breeder, and instead of attending school as a child, he had worked 12-hour days and had not learned to read or write.
Well, youre in charge, Louise told him. I want you to get the field, and when you do, you let me know.
After two days of negotiations, the landowner agreed to sell for about $140. Twenty people worked every day for three months to build the six-room concrete school, which was dedicated on June 12, 1966. Louise did not return to join the thousand or so people who attended the ceremony. She spent the day at her cottage on Bakers Island near Salem and planned that week to deliver the last two lectures of her spring series.
Last February almost 40 years to the day since Louise had visited Llano del Pinal I decided to find out if the school was still there. In Louises files, I found news clippings, black-and-white photos of the dedication ceremony, and letters from CARE staff and the schools six teachers. I knew the only way to understand what inspired her travels would be to retrace her steps, alone. I considered searching for the two schools shed funded in Colombia, but they are located in an unstable part of the country. Though Guatemala endured more than 30 years of a devastating civil war, it has stabilized within the past decade. But there were obstacles. I was a novice international traveler who didnt speak Spanish, not to mention the mother of two preschoolers, contemplating running off alone to a Third World country in search of a remote villages elementary school. In April 2006, I began sending e-mails to anyone and everyone in Guatemala who might be able to help.
Gen Takahashi, director the Guate Spanish Language School, replied. He had not heard of the village school, but he was intrigued by my quest. As April edged toward June, he made inquiries, but nothing he discovered indicated the school still existed. CARE staff in Guatemala searched, too, but by June, no one had found it. Finally, I decided I could wait no longer and would find out for myself. One week before my planned departure in July, on an evening when I was thinking of aborting the whole trip as just too crazy and expensive, an e-mail arrived from Takahashi. He had found the school. Three days later, I heard from CARE, which had also found the school and had even arranged for my visit to the village.
So, as scheduled, I made my way,accompanied by two CARE workers, down the long straight road that leads to Llano del Pinal, located in the western highlands of Guatemala. We pulled our vehicle over by a pink church and walked throuh a green metal door to the schools courtyard. There, kids watched a basketball game while leaning against a wall near the small plaque bearing my great-grandmothers name. Girls in skirts and dress shoes chased basketballs, and boys scattered in clusters to kick more balls around. In that instant, I shared my great-grandmothers fascination with the people and the place that surrounded me, and I could not argue with her long-ago desire to do her part to help the children of this village. Kids gathered around to see their images captured on my digital camera. They shouted, Photo! Photo! and then posed with wide grins. Mine matched theirs.
Not only was the school still there, it was thriving. Today, 1,163 children attend. When it opened in 1966, just 60 kids were enrolled, but now there are almost that many in each classroom, including the 23 classrooms that have since been added on.
In the afternoon, we visited Julia America de Lopez the once-young and now-retired schoolteacher at her home in Quetzaltenango. She told me about the day Louise came to the village and how she didnt believe this American lady would follow through on her promise to build a new school. She expressed gratitude for the school that had employed her and served thousands of kids over the years. She said she was living proof that Louise kept her promise to the village and to the people who gave her donations.
There was a lull in our conversation, and I followed Julias contemplative gaze to the wooden ceiling as filtered sunlight bathed the room.
Your great-grandmother is with God now, she said, and she is very happy that you are here to see what she has done.
Kate Yeomans is a writer in Newbury. E-mail her at email@example.com.


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What does the Buddha say about vegetarianism? The first part of the answer is that you need to know where to look (in the texts) for the answer, and, just as important, you need to be keenly aware of the excuses and misdirections that will distract you from what the texts say (and what they don't say). The second part of the answer won't be found in this article: anyone can work with the raw materials themselves and, in writing this blog, I am refusing the role of the guru (i.e., I'm not offering any easy answers, just answers).
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'"He does have that. There's bite to his game," General Manager Darcy Regier said in First Niagara Center after announcing Girgensons had signed a three-year entry-level contract. "He's direct between points A and B and he does it forcefully and I think that's an important ingredient to have in the organization and an important addition for us."'
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I am writing because I am trying to figure out what's going on with my son. He is 9 years old and is taking 375 mg of Keppra XR per day for left temporal lobe epilepsy with complex partial seizures. He has been on Keppra for close to 5 months and we've been noticing emotional, mood and behaviour changes that fluctuate so much throughout the day. He's previously taken carbamazepine and lamictal. He was never an emotional or a child who had "bad" behaviours before his diagnosis. He was always pretty laid back and easy going but recently (in the last few weeks), he goes from being withdrawn and needing his space, to really hyper and picking on his little brother and sister (which he never did before), to crying about things that don't make sense, to being easily irritated. He seems to have a lack of interest in most things (including Disneyland!) and his anxiety is at an all time high. He becomes obsessive about things like snakes and tornadoes and will refuse to go outside in the unlikely event he will come across a snake (has never happened) or if the weather changes, he's constantly checking the skies for any sign of a tornado (again, never happened) - and these are only a few. Sorry if this seems really choppy, just trying to fit as much as I can in. I'm not really sure if it's his epilepsy, a medication side effect or if I'm just reading too much into it and he's just developing into a "pre teen". I hate talking to his doctors because we've seen 4 throughout our journey and none of them have a clear idea of what is going on with him and all have different and very drastic opinions of what is going on with him and they all make me feel like I'm over reacting although I feel like I know my children the best - ecspecially when it comes to behaviour and moods. Do any of you have any insight? Any help would be greatly appreciated!


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The CMA/ASCAP Awards for Adventurous Programming recognize ensembles and presenters for outstanding and innovative approaches to the programming of contemporary classical, jazz, and world chamber music.
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'I think Jason Pominville is a very hard working, well liked player. I think he very much leads by example, but is he holding his teammates accountable? We aren't behind closed doors so we don't know, but they play like they don't. The captain has told me more than once he doesn't think the in your face type of leadership works. He believes in many from the core group having an equal voice. Once again, there's nothing wrong with that if voices are being heard. Mike Grier made sure that players in that room held each other accountable. Remember two years ago when Ruff said more than once that he didn't even go into the room. He wanted the players to figure it out. Is this group left to figure things out?'
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The Washington Nationals today re-assigned left-handed pitcher Fernando Abad and catcher Carlos Maldonado to minor league camp. Nationals Executive Vice President of Baseball Operations and General Manager Mike Rizzo made the announcement.
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It's a week before the Super Bowl and a month before NASCAR even starts, and you know what millions of people are talking about?
In case you're not up on the latest celebrity gossip, that's Ricky Stenhouse Jr. and Danica Patrick. And if you're not up on it, what's wrong with you?
I know, you'd probably rather focus on the new Gen-6 cars and whether decreasing the grille opening from 50 square inches to 40.25 square inches will cause more overheating.
You think getting worked up over RickDan is a silly diversion.
You are right, and you are wrong.
It doesn't matter how big your grille openings are if nobody's watching. A lot more people are watching NASCAR simply to watch Danica. Her love life is rocket fuel for a story that was starting to sputter a bit.
It's the first time in major American sports that two competitors have had a romantic relationship. The Elias Sports and Dating Bureau didn't confirm that, but it's never happened in the NFL, NBA or Major League Baseball. At least not publicly.
This romantic development is not only unique, it's Danica.
The story has been a hot Internet trender, though not quite as popular as the latest on Tiger Woods. Not how he's doing at Torrey Pines, but what he might be doing with Olympic skier Lindsey Vonn.
The only thing that sells better than celebrity gossip is celebrity couple gossip. Tom Cruise marketed movies around his relationships.
When he played hotshot Cole Trickle in Days of Thunder, Nicole Kidman was his 22-year-old neurosurgeon. Penelope Cruz came and went with "Vanilla Sky." I can't recall a Katie Holmes movie, but she did co-star in the celebrity soap opera known as TomKat.
You know a couple has arrived when it acquires one name. I don't know if RickDan will make Brangelina territory, but the timing is so good you wonder if it's all a creation of NASCAR's public relations department.
Stenhouse is young and handsome and starting his first year in Sprint Cup. Patrick reportedly has looks that marketers crave. She's also coming off a rough season, with one top-20 Sprint Cup finish in 2012.
Even the Weekly World News was getting a little tired of her Daytona crashes. The gossip mill needed another angle. With her divorce pending, Patrick delivered one Thursday.
"I have a boyfriend," she told The Associated Press. "His name is Richard."
We don't think she meant Petty.
"I think I am just finally excited to tell someone about this," she said.
It seems genuine enough. Besides, if NASCAR marketing was really orchestrating this, Danica would have announced she's dating Dale Earnhardt Jr. That would have blown Tiger and Lindsey off the slopes.
But you can't force love, and Danica has been making goo-goo eyes at Ricky for a while. (Pardon the use of first names, but that's proper style in the celeb world). They were coy about their relationship despite it being the hot rumor this week during the NASCAR Media Tour.
"It was out of respect to NASCAR," Danica said, "to all the manufacturers, the new cars, the teams, the sponsors, just to allow the news of the day to be about racing."
That's a nice sentiment, but the new Gen-6 car simply can't compete with our timeless fascination with celebrity couples. The upcoming season now has a storyline with Hollywood potential.
Danica drives for Stewart-Haas Racing while Ricky is replacing Matt Kenseth on the Roush Fenway team. Will the rivals team up or trade paint? How will it affect things back in the motorhome?
What if a Cole Trickle runs Danica into the wall? Will Ricky be her knight in heavily decaled armor?
Hardcore racing fans will roll their eyes. All they care about is racing, and whether Danica will ever actually win.
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OceansTrivia brain teasers have some element of trivia in them, but they are not just pure trivia questions.
Tinman recently won a contest to be on a hit trivia show, called "Trivillions", where the object of the game is to answer as many trivia questions as you can, and the more you answer, the more money you get.
Tinman was psyched. He went to the store to buy a book on scarce facts. He found only two books. One was made in 2006 and the other was made in 1998. Since the old one was cheaper he went with that book.
He aced every question. The final question was, "How many oceans are there?" Easy one, he thought. When he gave his answer, "Four oceans", he got the question wrong! Why would he have not gotten the question wrong if he went with a current trivia book?
AnswerBecause in 2000, another ocean was added around Antarctica, called the Southern Ocean. In 1998 there were only four oceans: the Arctic, Pacific, Atlantic, and Indian.
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Buckwheat wrote:Is the translation "composure" misleading in any way?
Buckwheat wrote:Thanks for that list of synonyms, Kim. It's very useful.
In my mind, composure can not be faked. If somebody is faking composure, they don't make that 4th quarter comeback. Even if you can fake the superficial signs of composure, you will still make blunders and slips that betray your real sense of unease and discomfort. Serenity and tranquility, in my mind, seem dependent on feeling good, which upekkha is supposed to be strong even when feeling pain/suffering. Is this just me? Sometimes I have funny ideas of what words mean, so I'm just trying to get a feel on the consensus. I am not a linguist in English, let alone Pali. However, I'm trying to dig into these things a little bit so that I can communicate dhamma better, especially to common people that aren't particularly interested in Buddhist study. Pardon me if I am asking silly questions.
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rachmiel wrote:Apologies for getting a bit analytical. I'm trying to avoid doing something that feels like vivid awareness, but is not. To do this, I need to know if I'm on the right track.
Let's say there are two main types of awareness: awareness of objects (physical and mental) and pure awareness (no objects).
Awareness of objects can be very obvious: I see a tree, name it (tree/maple), and think about that time as a kid when I climbed a maple tree and found a bird nest in it. Or it can be subtler: I see a tree, name it (tree), but I don't go beyond that in interpretation/storytelling. Or it can be even subtler: I see colors and shapes, but don't name them.
Pure awareness is awareness with no objects, no subject/object division. One simply IS awareness.
My question: Which of these types of awareness is vivid awareness? Specifically, is it the subtlest form of awareness of objects, in which one perceives sensations without naming them? Or is it pure awareness, in which there are no objects, just awareness itself?
First of all, an awareness without object is a fiction, it is only a theory, a false concept of self. When there is no duality of subject and object it means that one does not reify a self and a thing, and by grasping on one there is always the other, that's why Buddhism is not a monism nor a dualism. The emptiness of self and appearances means that there is no clinging to an inherently existing essence. But, it doesn't negate any ordinary phenomenon, the six faculties work perfectly well, but one knows and sees that all are dependently arisen and without substance. That's why in Dzogchen you don't create any special state, don't make any effort in achieving something, but simply let things come and go without attaching to them any importance. You are aware of everything but don't get stuck by anything. So, if you are wondering about what pure awareness, vivid awareness or anything like that is, just see how the thought appears, stays and goes, but don't try to hold on to it, solve it, respond to it or remove it. Also, look at the preliminaries given by Gangshar on how to analyse appearances, since that can help you clarify some difficult points.


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Dear Members,
I would like to thank Bhikkhu Gavesako for giving me : http://www.blisteredfeet-blissfulmind.net/ ....... love it!!
But after I finished reading the story of Bhikkhu Sucitto...then I lost the link..when I clicked it again...nothing on??
After reading "Pioneer of Tudong" by Bhikkhu Sucitto in Britain..kind of Tudong, British monk style...I like it pretty much. Then I remember a story of a Thai forest monk who loved to do meditation and he could sit and meditate for a long time without any movement that won respect from all monks at the temple.
One night while he was meditating, he saw the moon coming down from the sky and floated in front of him. He was so happy to see beautiful moon so close, he was reaching out his hands to touch the moon but it was floating away slowly. He stood up and followed the moon out of his kuti(bangalow)..still reaching out trying to catch the moon.
Then he felt someone touching his shoulder asking if he was sleepwalking?? That was when he realized that his vision was playing with his mind.
Almost every monk in that temple came to listen to his "MOON VISION" story.
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Details: Two shows nightly Dec. 28-31; Yoshi's San Francisco; 1330 Fillmore St.; $25-$30 on Dec. 28-30, $50-$100 on Dec. 31; 415-655-5600, www.yoshis.com.
Orquesta La Moderna Tradición: Berkeley's La Peña Cultural Center hosts one of the most family-friendly New Year's celebrations around, especially if you cotton to old-school Cuban dance music. Orquesta La Moderna Tradición is the only ensemble on the West Coast dedicated to the graceful 19th-century style danzon. Performing standards of the genre and original compositions, Orquesta is also versed in an array of traditional and modern Cuban styles, including son and songo, cha-cha-cha and timba.
Details: 9:30 p.m. Dec. 31; 3105 Shattuck Ave., Berkeley; $26-$30; 510-849-2560, www.lapena.org.
John Nemeth: The blue-eyed Bay Area soul singer John Nemeth recently released two CDs, "Blues Live" and "Soul Live," albums that leave no doubt why he's one of blues scene's brightest new stars. A confident and hardworking entertainer who writes most of his own music, he possesses a highly expressive voice, whether he's crooning sweetly or getting gruff and low down. The Grand Dell Saloon also offers the best New Year's amenity, providing free limo service home for locals within a five mile radius after midnight.
Details: 7 p.m. Dec. 31; Grand Dell Saloon, 1040 Dell Ave., Campbell; $55; 408-378-3970, www.thegranddell.com.
Balkan Bash: Ashkenaz's Balkan New Year's blowouts are a beloved annual tradition, but this edition is tinged with a little sadness. After 12 years as a leading force on the California Balkan music scene, the great Gypsy-style ensemble Brass Menazeri soon will disband because reed expert Peter Jaques, the ensemble's director, founder, and principal composer/arranger, is moving to Greece on a Fulbright grant. A triple bill, the program also features the long-running band Edessa, which is powered by Bulgarian-born Roma percussionist Rumen "Sali" Shopov, and the True Life Trio, a fantastic new band featuring former Kitka vocalists Leslie Bonnett, Juliana Graffagna and Briget Boyle (who also sings with Brass Menazeri).
Details: 8 p.m. Dec. 31; 1317 San Pablo Ave., Berkeley; $25, 510-525-5054, www.ashkenaz.com.
Sammy Varela: Veteran South Bay blues guitarist Sammy Varela has never quite received the notoriety he deserves, but he's a potent player who knows that the best of the blues unfurls with all due deliberation. Often heard backing irrepressible vocalists such as Sista Monica and Kaye Bohler, he has plenty to say as a frontman, laying down stinging single-note lines as eloquent as just about any singer's.
Details: 9 p.m. Dec. 31; JJ's Blues, 3439 Stevens Creek Blvd., San Jose; $20; 408-243-6441, www.jjsblues.net.
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Dear Members,
I love this cute Jataka very much. This happy Sunday is so right for me to introduce this beautiful story to you all.
Addicted to love: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XcATvu5f9vE
The Temptation of Isisanga
[Translated from the Pali by Dr.C.B.Varma, D Litt]
Once upon a time there lived a young man in an erudite family. He was well-versed in various arts and crafts. Yet, he did not lead a life of a house-holder as he preferred to become an ascetic. So, he built a hermitage on the bank of the river Ganga in the Himalaya and lived there.
One day, a doe drank water in the place where the ascetic had just taken bath. The water there was mingled with the ascetic's semen. So, no sooner than she drank the water she conceived the ascetic's baby. The ascetic soon noticed the changes taking place in the doe's body, and knew what had happened to her. So, he took care of her. In course of time, the doe delivered a male baby, who was called Isisanga.
The sage brought him up with fatherly affection and when the boy was young enough to learn he taught him spiritual practices, too. The boy was very receptive. Soon he proved his excellence in meditation and other spiritual pursuits.
Realising his abilities and potentialities the sage cautioned him by saying,
"In this Himalayan region the women are as fair as flowers
But they may be devastating if you fall in their powers. "
After imparting these instructions the ascetic died.
By and by, Isisanga became an ardent ascetic and perfected the most arduous penance and virtuousity, which shook the Sakka's abode. Shaken and frightened by the practices of the young lad, Sakka sent the most gorgeous and voluptuous heavenly nymph to the young ascetic to entice him. Her name was Alambusa. Though a subject of the heavenly king, she pleaded exemption from carrying out such an order as she considered it to be a heinous act. Yet, insisted by her lord, she descended the earth with all her beauty and exuberance to charm and seduce Isisanga. She made a sudden appearance before him when he was walking to the river to have his holy bath. Dazzled at such a heavenly beauty and allured by her elegance he forgot everything but to remember to sing every word of praise for her voluptuous looks right from her hair to her feet. Knowing that she was just about to succeed in her mission, she did not waste a single moment and invited him to follow her by her amorous glance. She then entered his cottage. The young ascetic, unmindful of all his vows, tailed her inside and plunged into her embrace.
When the ascetic could arouse from her embrace, three years had elapsed; and all his spiritual achievements had vanished. Thus, realising his irreparable losses he started wailing. The kind nymph then revealed her mission with an apology and shared his mourning. The ascetic wore no malice against her and pardoned her.
After the conclusion of her mission, she boarded the golden chariot and flew back to her heavenly abode. When congratulated and commended by Sakka for having accomplished her task so meticulously, she was not pleased to the surprise of the lord of the devas. Further, when Sakka offered her to ask for any boon she said,
"O Lord of Heaven! If thou desire any boon to bestow
Then never ask me to make any saint violate his vow."
Note: The old ascetic is identified with the Bodhisatta.
See Alambusa Jataka Pali No. 523.
Love Buddha's dhamma,


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January 27, 2013
More mild weather is expected today in Greeley with temperatures soaring into the upper 50s.
Although a storm has been bringing snow to the mountains, little moisture will affect Weld County with this round. We'll see intervals of clouds and sun and an occasional breeze today.
Monday will be mild again, in the low 50s, but colder air will surge in during the afternoon and evening with a cold front. This system will offer a 30 percent chance for some rain or snow to the plains, which could impact roads on Monday evening and Tuesday morning. What's more certain is the predicted drop in temperatures behind the front; highs will fall to the 30s on Tuesday, with lows in the teens.


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Rockies can't keep Tigers off the board in Detroit
Colorado pitchers, starting with Matzek, allow a run in every inning
DETROIT -- Aided by a gusting wind, Miguel Cabrera hit a Coors Field home run Saturday night -- at Comerica Park.
His third-inning, 445-foot blast to center field off Rockies starter Tyler Matzek put the Tigers ahead for good in an 11-5 win. Detroit will go for the sweep of Colorado on Sunday.
The Tigers took the lead in the first inning, after Matzek allowed back-to-back hits to start his outing.
Matzek made his first start since July 26 after filling in with two-thirds of an inning out of the bullpen in the Rockies' 16-inning game against the Cubs on Tuesday. He allowed at least one run in each inning in which he appeared, exiting without retiring a batter in the fifth. Detroit managed to push across at least a run in all eight innings in which it came to the plate -- the first time since 2006 that a team scored in every inning.
It was by far the worst outing of the rookie's career. Matzek gave up eight runs on 10 hits in four-plus innings. He fell to 2-6, and his ERA shot up nearly a full run, to 5.31.
"He had a tough one tonight," Rockies manager Walt Weiss said of Matzek. "Tough lineup to get through, but the balls that got hit hard were elevated out over the plate. That's typically the case when guys are barreling up the ball."
Matzek's location was off all night, and he allowed the leadoff man to reach in four of the five innings he appeared in.
"That's never good," Matzek said of the traffic on the bases early in innings. "You want to get the leadoff guy out. When you get him out, it becomes a lot easier. They swung the bats well tonight."
Facing likely the best lineup he's seen in his Major League career to date, Matzek was clearly out of his element. Mistakes that he might have gotten away with against lesser teams were smoked. And the onslaught didn't cease once Matzek left the game.
Meanwhile, Tigers starter Rick Porcello missed bats all night, striking out 10 over eight innings.
"He had real good command," Weiss said. "He pitches to the edges of the plate. That's why he's having a good year."
After the second inning, in which he allowed two runs, Porcello went through the Rockies order with remarkable ease. He allowed just three hits from that point on.
"He had some really good movement," said Charlie Blackmon. "All of his pitches were at the bottom of the zone. He was able to mix his pitches pretty well."
In the second, Drew Stubbs doubled home Justin Morneau and later scored on a groundout, giving the Rockies a 2-1 lead. Stubbs had two extra-base hits on the night, trying to spark an offense that was in desperate need of them.
Stubbs, part of a crowded outfield, has taken advantage of the opportunities Weiss has given him.
"He's done a great job with that playing time," Weiss said.
In the third, with a storm narrowly missing the ballpark, the winds picked up and Cabrera delivered a massive home run. Matzek left a hanging changeup over the middle of the plate.
Before Saturday's game, Weiss talked about Matzek's poise, and he'll need it to bounce back from such a rough performance.
"That's always a challenge, especially for a young pitcher when you get kicked around a little bit like everyone does in this league," Weiss said. "You've got to bounce back. I think he'll be all right."
Detroit played add on following Cabrera's monstrous blast. Three straight base hits in the fourth inning pushed the Tigers' lead to three.
An inning later, Ian Kinsler reached on a single and advanced to third on a throwing error by Matzek, and the frame spiraled out of control from there. Cabrera was intentionally walked, but Victor Martinez put the game well out of reach with a three-run shot to left on a fastball on the inner third of the plate. He was the last batter Matzek faced.
J.D. Martinez also homered off reliever Rex Brothers in the seventh.
Colorado scored three runs on the Detroit bullpen in the ninth but still came up well short. The Rockies have now lost 17 of their last 19 road games.
Matt Slovin is an associate reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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Keyshawn Johnson, once one of the NFL's premier wide receivers, has moved on with a flourish to his next life as a broadcaster and businessman.
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"My car, my cell phone—that's my office," he says, shifting lanes with the panache that marked his moves on the football field in college and the National Football League. He pauses to ponder and says, "Really, do you need an office—or do you just need storage?"
He's on his way to the Panera Bread franchise that his holding company, First Picks Management, runs in Thousand Oaks. There, Johnson, the CEO, will have a few words with Glenn Mah, the chief operating officer of the company, which owns franchise rights to Panera for California's Central Coast from Westlake Village to San Luis Obispo (First Pick has three stores open, with another nine in development). "I'm more the finance guy and the real estate guy," Johnson says. "[Mah does] the day-to-day operations."
Johnson will then take a spin by the 15,000-square-foot house he's building in a gated community in Calabasas (home to comedian D. L. Hughley and Los Angeles Dodgers center fielder Andruw Jones, among others) to check on construction progress. Afterward he'll head home, a condo where Beverly Hills meets Westwood that he shares with two dogs (a Vizsla named Charlotte and a Shih Tzu named Gizmo) and his two kids, Maia, 12, and Keyshawn, 9, who spend every other weekend with him and live with his ex-wife.
As he drives, texts and talks, the Cayenne whizzes by a glass-skinned office building hunkered into the hillside somewhere near Calabasas. "Now that's a building I'd like to buy," Johnson, 36, says, craning his neck to get a look. "What I want is a cute little eight-story building that we can manage and take care of and have our offices there."
He catches a seam in traffic and gets loose in the open field—a solid half mile of a freeway lane with no cars in front of him. When his passenger observes that Johnson drives the same way he ran with the football, Johnson grins and says, "Fast?"
Well, yes—but also with an aggressive finesse that reflects the confidence that Johnson brings to every endeavor in his life. Whether it's football, broadcasting or business, Johnson makes no room for even the thought of failure. That was true when he played wide receiver for the University of Southern California—and when the New York Jets made him the NFL's No. 1 draft pick in 1996. It's also true as he glides through the transition to his post-NFL career, after retiring before the start of the 2007 NFL season.
"If someone had said to me, 'Hey, we want you to run up and down a football field for 11 years and get hit upside the head a few times—but then you'll have all this when you're 35,' I wouldn't have thought twice about it," Johnson says. "For me, football was a great jump start to catapult me into another arena of life."
"Keyshawn always had a vision of what was next," says John Robinson, who coached Johnson at USC, when the Trojans won the Cotton Bowl and the Rose Bowl. "He's always two or three years ahead in his mind. He's probably got the next 10 years mapped out."
Adds Jerome Stanley, his longtime agent, "It was always in his mind to have a big post-athletic career."
The switch to civilian from professional athlete often forces a rough adjustment on the player who is unprepared for the change. "How you transition out is as important as when you do it," Stanley says. "He made the right decision." "I don't think too many people have a fairy-tale ending to their careers," says Dallas Cowboys quarterback Brad Johnson, Keyshawn Johnson's teammate on the Super Bowl XXXVII champion Tampa Bay Buccaneers. "It ends abruptly for almost everybody."
For Keyshawn Johnson, however, it was a no-brainer: "By the time we won the Super Bowl, I had accomplished everything I wanted to," he says, mentioning being named All-Pro and winning MVP awards for the Cotton Bowl, Rose Bowl and Pro Bowl. "I was tired of playing. I didn't have anything else to prove to anyone. I left when I wanted to."
Signed to a six-year, $15 million deal when he turned pro, he's been buying and selling real estate almost since he got out of college ("My first piece of real estate? My mom's house," he says). His company, First Picks Management, is part of an expanding universe of holdings, from real estate to a new entertainment production company (1925 Pro-ductions) he's starting with former teammate Brian Kelly.
And that's not to mention the most visible part of his post-NFL résumé: a coveted spot as NFL analyst on ESPN's "Sunday NFL Countdown" and "Monday Night Count-down." After a single season on the shows, he's a hit.
It's not as if success on TV was a given. Sure, Johnson has a reputation for being outspoken and possesses a smile bright enough to solve a small energy crisis. But the sidelines are littered with former players who crashed and burned trying to make the leap from playing the game to commenting upon it. "A lot of people have tried it who know the game—and then aren't able to do it," says Tom Jackson, one of Johnson's on-air colleagues at ESPN and himself an NFL veteran. "Joe Montana got on TV and it was a train wreck. There's no doubt Joe knows the game, but he couldn't express the information for an audience. But Keyshawn is a natural."
Johnson's on-air persona—a blend of brains, brashness, candor and just plain likability—masks a work ethic that has guided him most of his life. Self-discipline helped him focus on pulling himself out of a cycle of poverty and crime that eventually swallowed up many of the people he grew up with in South Central L.A.
Early on, he drifted outside the law to get money to support his mother and himself, who were homeless for periods when Johnson was a pre-teen. In his 1997 book, Just Give Me the Damn Ball!, he talks about being involved in a variety of youthful criminal activities for which he was never caught. But his run-ins with the law (mostly for ticket scalping and charges of selling stolen tickets) led to brief teenage stints in juvenile detention.
Incarceration shook him up and straightened him out. He finished high school, then redeemed his poor grades with a two-year junior-college stint before turning himself into a star at USC, where he had worked as a ballboy as a kid. Later, as an NFL pro, he would go on to found Key's Kids, a charity that worked with inner-city youth.
"I have a very high regard for him because he beat all the odds," says Bill Parcells, who coached Johnson with the Jets and Dallas Cowboys. "He has a lot to show for his career. People who know him see a whole different side than the early public perception of him."
Chosen as the first draft pick by the hapless Jets in 1996, Johnson went from a Rose Bowl championship team to a 1-15 rookie pro season. Frustrated, he chronicled the sorry season in Just Give Me the Damn Ball!—after which the media pounced, dubbing him Me-shawn for airing his candid opinions of the Jets' players and coaching staff.
But when Parcells took over as Jets head coach in 1997, Johnson found exactly what he was looking for: "I didn't need anything from a coach except a winning attitude and he gave it," Johnson says of Parcells, who was 29-19 during his three years with the Jets.
They seem like an odd couple: the publicly prickly Parcells and the free-spirited Johnson. But Johnson says, "Coach Parcells gets along with guys who can play football. And I'm a guy who took care of business for every coach I ever had. He was the authority figure and I listened."
Parcells, now executive vice president of football operations for the Miami Dolphins, says, "Keyshawn was willing to do all the jobs a lot of receivers are not willing to do. He'd block anybody you asked him to, including guys who were a lot bigger than he was. He always brought a good attitude—and he was a great ball-snatcher."
Even before he decided to retire, Johnson was a bright blip on ESPN's radar. ESPN asked him to be a commentator during its coverage of the 2007 NFL draft, only the second active player to garner an invitation. Not long afterward, Johnson announced his retirement from the NFL to join ESPN.
"His work ethic was great—he bowled us over," says Seth Markman, senior coordinating producer for ESPN's NFL shows. "He was willing to talk honestly about the issues and give opinions of controversies that were swirling around. Without having any TV experience, he looked like a natural. So when he expressed an interest in hanging them up, we saw his future with us."
During the 2007—08 NFL season, his first on ESPN, Johnson hit his stride early on, adopting a schedule that provides time to do the research he needs to have his facts straight by airtime.
But making it look easy has its drawbacks: "People think I just get on TV and talk, but that's not the case—it's a real job," Johnson says. "I start getting ready for the upcoming weekend in the middle of the week. I watch game films, but I don't study them. I can look at a guy and tell if he can play, because I played the game."
"What we're all looking for is the honesty that focuses on what the facts are," Tom Jackson says. "It's rare that someone is able to be himself. He's got the whole package."
Steve Tisch, chairman and executive vice president of the New York Giants, who has known Johnson for a number of years, says, "As a broadcaster, Keyshawn is charismatic, intelligent, articulate. He's got that star quality—the smile, the eyes, the brightness. The camera loves him."
Still, there were adjustments: "In the beginning, I had the director and producer in my earpiece, because they weren't expecting me to know what to do," Johnson says. "Once they learned that I had to be me, they let me run with the ball. Everyone wants to direct or produce you, but if they let your natural talent take over, you look good."
Johnson proved adept at shooting from the lip in ways that entertained viewers and occasionally rankled the players he critiqued. The moment that seemed to define him came during an interview with showboating Cincinnati Bengals wide receiver Chad Johnson, in which he tried to school the player in the right and wrong way to celebrate a touchdown.
That interview—still available on YouTube—crackles with tension and friction, with Keyshawn coolly piercing Chad's calm veneer.
"I try to tell the truth and keep it as clear as possible," Keyshawn says. "Some people believe there's a code, that if you played the game, you're not supposed to say those things. But I can't say a guy is doing great if he's really struggling. I'd look like a damn fool."
"That Chad Johnson interview was one of the best things I ever saw," Tom Jackson says. "That opened a lot of people's eyes."
Adds Markman, "I'd take one of those every week. He's not afraid to ask the tough questions. And he's just a rookie at this."
Johnson wants to do more interviews for ESPN. And if any of the scandals of the off-season come up during the 2008 NFL, Johnson has opinions at the ready. The controversy about the New England Patriots stealing signals by videotaping opponents' practices? A molehill, says Johnson, who played for Patriots coach Bill Belichick when both were with the Jets: "It's been blown out of proportion by the media. The game hasn't changed in 10 years, but the media has. Those morons—they're fucking wackos. And now I'm part of it."
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Lakers win a close one.
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Lakers win a close one.
No way the Pistons sweep the Lakers in LA.
Pistons. Just because I hate the Lakers.
Later...I'm going to watch "Last Comic Standing."
I was pleasantly surprised to see Detroit manhandle the Lakers in game one. I think it showed a lot of people that the West isn't really that much better then the East, but then maybe I am getting a head of myself. Detroit just played a really good game this series could easily do a 180 but LA is very vulnerable against good defensive teams...ie Spurs. What I might note here is that even being down 2-0, L.A. still came back and won 4 strait....SCARY.
my guess Lakers 82, Detroit 77


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Yost enjoying new rotation of his pitchers
Royals manager adjusting relief strategy with starting staff's success
KANSAS CITY -- Who says an old manager can't be taught new tricks?
Ned Yost's new starting rotation is teaching him something almost every day. In the Royals' first 22 games, his starters have gone six or more innings 17 times. In eight of those games, the pitcher has logged at least seven innings, and four times he's gone at least eight innings.
That translates to a lot of no action on the bullpen mound, something that was rare in recent seasons.
"It's a whole new learning process for me," Yost said. "Last year, you get past the fifth and you start looking at matchups [opposition batters against your relief pitchers]. Now with these guys, you let 'em go. You don't worry about matchups unless they're just getting absolutely hammered or until the 90- or 100-pitch mark."
On Saturday night, Yost was fully prepared to send Ervin Santana out for the eighth inning with a 2-0 lead over the Indians -- until the Royals spent so much time getting a third run in their half of the seventh.
"Last year, we probably wouldn't have let our pitcher go out with 97 pitches," Yost said. "Santana was going back out easy. You've got to let those guys do their job. They're good. You want to make sure that you maximize their effectiveness on a given night."
But after an inning in which the Indians made four pitching changes and a lot of pitches were thrown, Yost changed his mind. The inning took so long that Santana went into the cages behind the dugout to throw in an attempt to stay loose. Then, a couple more batters came up and Yost decided to bring in Kelvin Herrera for the eighth.
But Yost is enjoying his new approach with his durable starters. This was his thinking on Santana after six innings of Saturday night's 3-2 win:
"In the seventh, I'm sending him out and he's not coming out of that game unless he gives up the lead," Yost said. "I mean, he's throwing good, his pitch count was really good and I wasn't going to go get him.
"In the eighth, it's a different story. I'm not going to put him in a position to lose the game in the eighth inning. I was going to let him go out but, if two guys got on, I was going to bring in Herrera."
Dick Kaegel is a reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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This week saw the release of the new Waldorf Blofeld keyboard synthesizer. I was thinking about posting the info here but since all the other music tech blogs have it up I thought why bother. I do like that it has sample playback and a nice German white/steel design but something in my mind whispered "booooring!". I know the synth is well capable in the hands of a good songwriter but I want something in my studio that's a bit more unique.
This morning I did my usual coffee and troll through the mighty Matrixsynth blog and saw the photo above. The Kawai K1M is a 16 voice digital sound module from 1988. I pretty much like any record released that year so this thing has to sound good. Of course this is completly subjective but I bet if you made a song using only K1M sounds it would very interesting.
I have a Yamaha TX81Z hooked up in my studio and even though I have several FM soft synths when I use the real thing people pick out the sounds it made and ask about them. So even if you have the software Wavestation or FM8 you will get a different color by recording something like the K1M into your DAW.
There is always a risk when buying used gear but if it works out you'll never have to pay for a software update. The best thing? It's got a $75 USD Buy it Now price! Check out the auction: click here
Check out some user reviews of the K1M at Harmony-Central: click here
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THE man wanted in connection with the murder of Bridlington hotel landlady Bei Carter is still missing.
Police urgently want to find 53 year old John Heald, and now believe he has returned to his home in South Yorkshire.
Forty-nine year old Bei Carter, landlady of the Morayland Hotel, was found dead at the hotel on Marshall Avenue late on Saturday night, prompting a man hunt for Heald.
Police think Heald has left Humberside and initially thought he could be in Scarborough, but now believe he has gone back to South Yorkshire.
There have been reported sightings of Heald in Rotherham and Mexborough, and police have revealed he is wanted for a serious offence in Sheffield as well as Ms Carter's murder.
Detective Superintendent Mathew Hutchinson, leading the search for the wanted man for Humberside Police, said:
"It is absolutely imperative that anyone who has seen this man or has any information about his whereabouts calls the police now and tells us what they know.
"To anyone who might be helping Heald evade the police, I would say; consider your actions, this is a very dangerous man, he needs arresting before he can harm anybody else.
"I believe Heald poses a threat to the general public and therefore people should not approach him. If they do see him they should ring 999 immediately."
Humberside Police were called shortly before midnight on Friday to the guest house on Marshall Avenue in Bridlington.
Police and an ambulance went to the scene and found Ms Carter, who was confirmed dead.
Detectives quickly identified John Heald as having been at the premises and now want to trace him. They are urging Heald, or anyone who knows his whereabouts to contact Humberside Police immediately on 01377 208989.
Detective Chief Inspector Matt Baldwin, added:
"John Heald has managed to evade the police so far but we are closing in on him and will not relent until we have found him.
"I believe he is a very dangerous individual and it is an absolute priority to track him down.
"It may also be that Mr Heald is sleeping rough and so once again I would ask for the public to remain vigilant and anyone who thinks they see him should not approach him but contact the police straight away."


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The Los Angeles City Council is mulling an extra half-cent sales tax, which could appear on the ballot next March. "At the appropriate time, I believe my request to you will be that we move forward with one tax, and that will be the sales tax," Council President Herb Wesson told a council meeting. Mr. Wesson is pushing the tax hike, expected to bring in an additional $220 million a year.
Tax increases are all too often proposed as a quick fix to problems that require sweeping structural reforms. Even L.A. City Administrative Officer Miguel Santana said that great progress has been made to cut costs without adding an additional tax burden – strides that include rolling back pensions for new city civilian workers and cutting about 5,000 jobs. That progress, rather than justifying giving the city more revenue, more appropriately argues the need for more reforms.
Californians already will be paying higher sales tax as a result of Proposition 30, approved Tuesday. The prospective sale-tax hike in March would hit Angelenos, especially the poor and middle class, with one of the highest sales tax rates in the nation, 9.50 percent.
Prop. 30 will raise the sales tax in Orange County to 8 percent.
L.A., in general, and small business, in particular, have seen its share of suffering from the recession and weak recovery. To add an additional tax burden could have a cascading effect. We wonder if higher taxes would also depress consumer activity and sales, thus further compounding the city's revenue woes and weakening economic activity.
Some backers of the tax hike will likely argue that it is necessary for public safety. Mr. Santana has already suggested that "[w]ithout a new revenue source, it is impossible to maintain public safety in both police and fire at the same levels that we have today." That's not a revenue problem, though; it is a spending problem. Stanford University has estimated Los Angeles' unfunded pension liability as high as $27 billion.
Angelenos should demand structural reforms before offering up more tax revenue. The Council should look closely at the hard costs of compensating city workers – including police and fire – as well as retirement benefits. Former Los Angeles Mayor Richard Riordan is so concerned with city pension costs that he is promoting a pension-reform ballot measure as early as next year.
It's worth noting that some council members are wary of further tax increases but seem to be outnumbered on the council. One dissenter, Councilman Mitch Englander, argued the higher sales tax will harm small businesses and drive buyers of expensive items, like cars, to other cities. He also said the Council should first look for other spending cuts.
Such cuts, along with structural reforms in city budgeting practices, should be implemented before consumers in Los Angeles are asked to sacrifice even more.


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The Tony-winning story of how Frankie Valli and The Four Seasons became international pop superstars.
While in San Francisco for the world premiere of Legally Blonde on February 6, we extended our theater-going holiday to check out the cast of the first national tour of Jersey Boys. And we're so glad we did! A totally talented and charming troupe, it came as no surprise then to hear they've been selling out the 1,600-seat Curran Theater and had just received another extension (through the end of March) before heading off to L.A and Chicago. Along with filming a special backstage video tour—hosted by former Bat Boy bad boy Deven May (who plays Jersey Boys bad boy Tommy DeVito) —for your pleasure, we also took some backstage snapshots. Enjoy!


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FROM small beginnings 50 years ago, Winchcombe School has gone from strength to strength.
In 1960, the Education Committee spent two years building the new school to replace the old buildings on Back Lane.
Since it was officially opened in July 19, 1963, by Major Birchall, generations of children have passed through its doors as well as it nearly doubling in size and converting into an academy in June last year.
Pupils and staff have been celebrating the milestone all year with a series of events including a summer ball, a quiz about the school over the past five decades and is ending with a 50th Anniversary Variety Show tomorrow.
John Rand, the school's first ever headmaster, returned to the school this summer for the review of the year, which current headteacher Neil Hall said was an eye-opener.
"We were delighted he was able to come back and hand out the prizes 50 years down the line," he said.
"He talked us through the massive changes in the school from his day. Pupils were provided with their PE kit and it was handed back in after the lesson and it was laundered for them. It was given back to them next lesson."
The school has seen a lot of development over the years including a £1.2 million new performing arts block and all-weather pitch which was opened last April and a new eightclassroom English block which was built a decade ago.
Mr Hall, who first joined the school himself in September 1984 as a PE and Geography teacher, said despite seeing a lot of changes during his time, the school's ethos had never changed.
"The numbers were much lower," he said.
"There were 300 students when I first started and now we are up to almost 500.
"I think it's always been a school that prides itself on the personal touch. You can see it when you walk through the door. It's always been a family-orientated school.
"Pupils I taught years ago are now teaching their sons and daughters. It's nice to have that continuity.
We're looking forward to the next 50 years."


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Nice no nonsense back street garage. Said half an hour to fix and half an hour it took. As I got good vibes I also decided to change a couple of tyres while I was there. The whole job was done in an hour. You can pay a main dealer for the comfy seats and nice lighting or if you just want a job done then M60 is 5 Star. Will definitely use again. Thanks Zak
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Whilst the service was done promptly, they did not stanp my service book and they didnt complete a further peice of work requested (and was more than willing to pay for). Not received a single call back since ..although have left 3 or 4 messages. Really dissapointed as initial work was good, just terrible after service care.
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Say the nickname "The Man of a Thousand Songs" in Newfoundland and Labrador, and you'll need to go no further before it's clear who you're talking about.
Later this month a plethora of local musicians will gather in St. John's for a star-studded concert to support Ron Hynes, hoping he'll one day also earn the nickname "The Man of a Hundred Years."
Alan Doyle, Amelia Curran, The Once, Tim Baker of Hey Rosetta! Duane Andrews, The Dardanelles and more — all local musicians with ties to Hynes — are preparing to encourage him as he wages his toughest fight to date with "The Night of a Thousand Songs: The Stars Come Out for Ron," to be held at the Delta Hotel in St. John's Sept. 30.
Hynes is receiving aggressive chemo and radiation treatment for throat cancer, diagnosed last month.
Hynes has a singing/songwriting career that spans more than three decades. He's a founding member of the Wonderful Grand Band, has composed theme songs and scores for projects such as CBC-TV's "Hatching, Matching and Dispatching" and the Mary Walsh film, "Young Triffie's Been Made Away With," and has earned multiple MusicNL and East Coast Music Awards as well as a Genie Award.
He's also a past Juno, Canadian Country Music Award and Canadian Folk Music Award nominee.
Hynes has released eight records, and is perhaps best known for tunes like "Sonny's Dream" — which has become a folk music classic, and has been covered by artists around the globe — "Atlantic Blue," written about the Ocean Ranger Disaster, and "The St. John's Waltz."
"The Man of a Thousand Songs," a feature documentary by William D. MacGillivray, debuted at the Toronto International Film Festival in 2010. In it, Hynes speaks candidly about his life, his talent and his battles with drugs.
"I shared a stage with Ron in 1973," said Glen Tilley, "The Night of a Thousand Songs" organizer. "I was in a band, and we used to do a show from the Bella Vista on Saturday nights on CJON. This promoter who was working with Ron in support of his first album wanted to bring this folk act on, and the guy was going to play acoustic guitar, of all things, and sing. You're 18 or 19 and you're just a kid playing in a rock band and you think you're cool with a radio show, and here was Ron Hynes. It was a humbling night."
Through his work as a producer for CBC, Tilley has developed a longstanding relationship with Hynes over the years. The news of Hynes' diagnosis hit him hard, he said.
"God, it was devastating. It makes you realize how you should be thankful for every day you're on the face of this Earth and healthy."
Recruiting talent for the concert — from which all proceeds will go to Hynes to help him through his illness — was an unsurprisingly easy task for Tilley. All he had to do was send a few emails, and the volunteers starting coming on board, whether it was the venue or the audio equipment or the musicians.
In fact, Tilley's challenge now is to cut down the list to a manageable show, he said.
"I think it's an opportunity for (the artists) to display their professional and personal love for a man who was a trailblazer in the Newfoundland and Labrador music industry," he explained.
The show will be presented almost in two acts: the first half with more of an acoustic concert-type feel, while the second half will feature Hynes' own band — Paul Kinsman, Paul (Boomer) Stamp and Paul Turner, with special guests including Cory Tetford, Chris LeDrew, Sandy Morris, Glenn Simmons, Liz Solo, Colleen Power and Larry Foley — moving the event from an intimate beginning to a more energetic finale.
Performers including Doyle, Curran, Baker, The Once, the Duane Andrews Quartet, Atlantic String Quartet, The Dardanelles and Hynes' nephew, writer/performer Joel Thomas Hynes, will do a mix of their own music and Hynes' songs.
Kinsman, a keyboard player, has been recording and performing with Hynes since 1994. His participation in the event is a labour of love, he explained.
"When his buddies and musical colleagues heard of his diagnosis, we realized it would be a long time before he would be up to working again, and in the music industry, if you don't play, you don't eat," he explained. "We want to ease the financial stresses of paying for food and heat and medicine and help give him the chance to get well.
"When we started talking to artists about the show, we let everyone know they could perform whatever they wanted, but it quickly became clear that everyone wanted to do a Ron song. Every musician I know has at least a couple in their repertoire. His songs are a common denominator among us all; they're just as meaningful and satisfying to perform as they are to listen to. In a way, we're going to use his own songs to help with his healing and recovery."
Baker said in an emailed statement he gave Tilley a "fervent, immediate yes" when asked to take part in the show.
"The only trouble was then trying to select which of his many songs to cover — like panning for gold in a river of diamonds," he wrote. "The night can only be wonderful."
For many of the musicians, they'll be honouring not only a songwriting peer, but a teacher and mentor.
"Lots of people inspired me to play music, but Ron Hynes made me want to write my own songs," said Doyle. "Like so many of us who owe Ron a debt of gratitude, I am delighted to get a chance to help him out."
"The Night of a Thousand Songs" is one of a number of benefit concerts for Hynes in the coming weeks.
Tonight, Southern Shore locals will perform Hynes' music at "An Evening of Ron Hynes' Songs" at the Southern Shore Folk Arts Building, beginning at 8 p.m.
"The Power of Song: Rallying for Ron," a fundraiser at the Dalhousie Arts Centre in Halifax, will happen Wednesday, with Cathy Jones, Bruce Guthro, Charlie A'Court, Lennie Gallant and others.
At Toronto's Hugh's Room, a benefit concert for Hynes will take place Oct. 13, featuring Seamus O'Regan, Kim Stockwood, Mary Walsh, Terry Kelly, Barry Canning, Michael Ondaajte and more.
Tickets for "The Night of a Thousand Songs" are $30 and are available at the Delta Hotel in St. John's, or online at www.holyhearttheatre.com
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Don't miss out on a lower price on this hotel
Get an overview of this hotelLuxury hotel with spa in center of Jerusalem
Popular property highlights
Emek HaMatsleva-Rehavia Park: 1.5 km (1 mi.)
This Condé Nast award-winning luxury hotel is is 1.5 km (1 mi.) from the Emek HaMatsleva-Rehavia Park. St. Andrew's Church is 3 km (2 mi.) away.
Outdoor pool and spa
The Inbal Hotel features a seasonal outdoor pool and a children's pool. A spa pampers guests with massages.
City views, LCD TVs
Air-conditioned Hotel Inbal guestrooms offer Old or New City views, providing LCD TVs and complimentary Wi-Fi access. Guests enjoy refrigerators, minibars, and complimentary bottled water.Information missing or incorrect? Tell us!Opens in a new window
Renovations & Closures
- Front desk
- Lobby
- Swimming pool
- Swimming pool
Hotel Amenities
Hotel Amenities
At Inbal Hotel, Sofia Restaurant serves Italian cuisine for lunch and dinner. Carmel Restaurant offers traditional Shabbat meals. Breakfast buffet (surcharge) is also available.
This luxury hotel features a seasonal outdoor pool with a bar, a children's pool, and a sauna, as well as a fitness facility, a shopping arcade, and a synagogue. A spa pampers guests with beauty services and massages, including couples treatment rooms. The hotel includes a 24-hour business center, business services, and banquet space. Guests enjoy cell phone rentals and wireless Internet access in public areas (complimentary).
Same-day laundry and dry cleaning services are available on weekdays (surcharge). Multilingual staff can provide concierge services, currency exchange, and tour assistance. The hotel offers complimentary onsite parking (limited availability), an airport shuttle (surcharge), and a supervised childcare/activities (surcharge).
- Sauna
- 24-hour front desk
- Health club
- Supervised childcare/activities (surcharge)
- Coffee shop or café
- Airport transportation (surcharge)
- Conference space
- Total number of rooms - 283
- Porter/bellhop
- Hair salon
- Number of floors - 9
- Restaurant
- Breakfast available (surcharge)
- Dry cleaning/laundry service
- Elevator/lift
- Gift shops or newsstand
- Indoor pool
- Laundry facilities
- Turkish bath/Hammam
- Rooftop terrace
- Luggage storage
- ATM/banking
- Spa treatment room(s)
- Multilingual staff
- Poolside bar
- Free self parking
- Shopping on site
- Smoke-free property
- Children's pool
- Outdoor pool
- Bar/lounge
- Wedding services
- Concierge services
- Full-service spa
- Parking (limited spaces)
- Tours/ticket assistance
- Free WiFi
- Number of meeting rooms - 11
- Year Built 1982
- 24-hour business center
- Spa services on site
- Swim-up bar
Family Friendly Amenities
- Family Hotel
- Outdoor pool
- Indoor pool
- Children's pool
- Free Wi-Fi
- Soundproofed rooms
- Laundry facilities
- In-room childcare (surcharge)
- Refrigerator
- Cribs/infant beds (complimentary)
Available in all rooms: Free WiFi
Available in some public areas: Free WiFi
Free self parking, Parking (limited spaces)
Room Amenities
- Free newspaper
- Hair dryer
- Air conditioning
- Blackout drapes/curtains
- Phone
- Refrigerator
- Free bottled water
- Daily housekeeping
- Turndown service
- Private bathroom
- Bathrobes
- Free toiletries
- Shower/tub combination
- In-room childcare (surcharge)
- Desk
- Satellite TV service
- Iron/ironing board (on request)
- In-room safe
- Minibar
- Coffee/tea maker
- Room service
- Soundproofed rooms
- In-room climate control (air conditioning)
- In-room massage available
- Free cribs/infant beds
- Rollaway/extra beds (surcharge)
- Free WiFi
Where to Eat
Sofia Restaurant - Italian gourmet cuisine served for lunch and dinner.
Sofia Café - Light snacks, sandwiches, and salads, as well as coffee and cake, served throughout the day. Lobby or courtyard seating.
Carmel Restaurant - Serves traditional Shabbat meals.
Splash Pool Bar - Offers grilled meats, salads, sandwiches, and drinks during summer months.
In-room dining - Available 24 hours a day.
Nearby Things to Do
This Jerusalem hotel features a seasonal outdoor pool, a children's pool, and a sauna, as well as a fitness facility with cardio machines and free weights. The hotel includes a shopping arcade.
The recreational activities listed below are available either on-site or nearby; fees may apply.
- Fitness classes on site
Spa Services
Jerusalem Spa pampers guests with massages, facials, and aromatherapy treatments. Guests enjoy beauty services and a hair salon.
- Sauna in spa
- Massages
- Couples treatment rooms
- Aromatherapy treatments
- Body treatments
- Facial treatments
If you have requests for specific accessibility needs, please note them at check-out when you book your room.
- In-room accessibility
Hotel Policies
Special check-in instructions:
Check-out time is 11 AM
Payment types
Children and extra beds
- Children are welcome.
- Rollaway/extra beds are available.
- Free cribs (infant beds)!
- Pets not allowed
You need to know
Extra-person charges may apply and vary depending on property policy.
- All citizens of Israel will be charged the national value-added tax
Optional extras
- An early check-in fee will be charged
- Late check-in fee (amount varies)
- Rollaway beds are available for an additional fee
Hotel Name
- Hotel Inbal
- Inbal
- Inbal Hotel
- Inbal Hotel Jerusalem
- Inbal Jerusalem
- Jerusalem Hotel Inbal
- Jerusalem Inbal Hotel
Awards & Affiliations
- Inbal Hotel is listed in the 2012 Condé Nast Traveler Gold List of the world's best places to stay.