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November 21, 2006, (who knows what time it really was) Lufthansa Flight 850 to Frankfurt, Germany. Somewhere over the Atlantic. The bathrooms on the plane were down a staircase into the lower level of the plane. The baby-changing table is perfect for cutting lines, interestingly enough. So here we are. I have what looks like a half-gram of powdered heroin in my pocket and I do not want to take that thru an international airport. So my plan was to finish it all before we landed. Brilliant plan, in my mind anyway. Except I had been doing more and more for the entire eight-hour flight (let's be honest, I was high on the way to the airport), so by the time it was time to kill the rest, I was wasted. I wasn't gonna flush it though, that's silly. So I powered down about four or five three-inch lines of brown powder and took my seat. Well, for the next hour of the flight, and the entire flight to Amsterdam from Frankfurt, I looked like a white clammy ghost. I have never been airsick before, but I was holding onto that barf bag with a fucking purpose, man. Had to ride it out. Had to get to the biggest convergence of stoners, pot heads, Rastafarians, aging hippies, overweight couples from the Midwest on vacation with their other middle aged friends, So-Cal frat boys and backpacking British soccer hooligans. Had to get to the Cannabis Cup.
The first thing you'll want to know is if I met the King. Yeah, I met the self-proclaimed "King of Cannabis," Arjan Roskom, founder of the Green House Coffee Shops and Seed Company, and winner of 30 Cannabis Cup awards. Who didn't meet that jackass that week? I had never met a bona-fide weed politician before (actually that is not accurate, I did meet Tommy Chong circa 2003), and the word that kept repeating in my mind was "tool." Over and over. There were probably thousands of 19 year-old college kids that came to the Cup and handed over their 200 Euros (300$) for a High Times approved Cannabis Cup Judges Pass intending on smoking a bunch of Holland's finest free of charge. This is a myth. Sure, at the actual convention you can sample the wares of many seed banks and bong companies, usually with a scowl unless you intend to buy something. And you get a discount at most "participating" coffee shops (that's a weed café to the uninitiated), but really if you go to smoke for FREE, you will be disappointed.
I feel I should tell anyone who is considering going to this craziness what exactly they are going to get for their 200 Euros Judge's Pass. The answer is NOT MUCH. Of course you can't do it right without it, and what's the point of doing anything, much less the FUCKING CANNABIS CUP, unless you are going to do it right? Spare no expense. That's my advice. Or go with someone who can afford to spare no expense.
My partner and I went to Amsterdam with a box of 60 Swisher Sweet Perfecto Blunts. We came home with six of them. That means we smoked an average of nine blunts a day. Add to this about 10 joints of pure weed or weed with hash, bowls in the pipe we bought for the weed (to test taste) too numerous to count, bowls in the coffee shops' glassware and vaporizers, endless free bong hits and vaporizer bags at the actual convention center, of course the hash, and finally, the space cakes and brownies that were consumed. I found that by about 8 PM I was so high for so long by that point in the day that I was having to eat the weed in order to feel any more high. The best thing was coming back to the little hotel room we had right on the main drag of the Red Light District at the end of a long 15 hours of walking, museums and reefer. We'd just go through our combined 25 pockets and come up with all these little baggies of these different strains and hashes, basically all the little bowls that we had left at the bottom of the bags we'd purchased that day. And we'd just smoke what we had left in a blend, followed by watching something along the lines of Larry the Cable Guy: Health Inspector or How High. Bringing the portable dvd player that miraculously plugged into the tiny euro TV in our tenement room (Thank you Jesus) was probably the smartest thing we did. Euro MTV is good for about 30 minutes a day, then it starts to grate. And it's in Dutch.
I suppose I should mention the sex industry, since I was staying in the belly of the proverbial beast, The (Historical) Redlight District. What's awesome is that it is historical. It has been there as long as anything else has in that old ass city. There are all these beautiful old Dutch buildings, but it is still like taking a stroll through the Tenderloin or something. Walking along it is sometimes disconcerting when the ladies try to lure you in their doorways. Especially when you are super high. Watching the drunk Europeans trying to negotiate price with these ladies was amusing, however. They don't take shit from drunks, that's for sure. The whole thing is quite a rip off when you find out that prices start at 50 Euros (70 bucks) for a hand job! Or you could save your money and pay about 35 Euros for a sex show where you get to see people with expressionless faces fuck one another, or a girl pulling a long string of anal beads from her ass with only a black light to light the ultraviolet butt orbs. And you can see a Japanese tourist (they go to the Red Light District and sex shows as part of daily walking tours) get pulled up on stage and humiliated. And you can stay in the theater after all six shows have been featured and see them all again, if you so desire. I can almost bet you money that you won't want to stay for an encore. My guidebook did mention a certain "Negro quarter" of the District where unscrupulous African European prostitutes will cut you a "deal." I get the feeling a robbery might be part of the deal. Or VD.
Open, publicly legal prostitution was an eye opening experience for someone from the oppressive Deep South. Even more exciting for me was the publicly legal trade and consumption of weed. There are so many coffee shops in Amsterdam that you can drive yourself crazy trying to visit even half of them. Here's a damn list of the ones my partner and I frequented: The Dolphins, The Bushdoctor, Green House, Amnesia, Betty Boop, The Greenhouse Effect, The Bulldog, Stones Café, The Jolly Joker, The Bass-ment, Blue Bird, Coffeshop 36 and Central Coffee Shops. Our favorite by far was the Smoking Bull. They had the best selection, most knowledgeable wait staff and most laid back ambiance. And they had that Red Bull in a bottle.
Here's a list of a few memorable weeds we smoked: White Widow, Jack Herrer (Aeroflow), Stella Blue, NYC Diesel, Arjan's Ultra Haze, Caramello Hash, Zero-Zero Hash, Blueberry, Honey Bee, Shiva, White Dolphin, Amnesia Haze, Royal Bud, Super Skunk, Buddha Cheese, AK-47, Bubblegum, Super Kush, Desert Haze (bio) and White Russian.
I thought absinthe would have been a bigger thing there, since it's legal and all. I actually had to search a bit to find a bar with the real deal, and different kinds at that. I chose the strongest they had, and consumed two shots. I am pleased to report that there is definitely something else going on there besides the 80 PERCENT (that's 160 proof folks) alcohol. There is something comforting about the ritual of lighting the sugar cube on the absinthe spoon and stirring the green mixture as it turns white with the water, right before you taste what flaming licorice gasoline tastes like. I would have had more, but after the equivalent of four shots of booze in me and the equivalent of 24 bucks gone from my wallet, I went in search of more weed.
Magic Mushrooms. You can buy them legally. They are fresh and kept refrigerated. The coolest part is that you can purchase strains from all over the globe. Just don't dehydrate them, or they become illegal. Mushrooms, been there, done that. I was more interested in the ever-elusive peyote. I had read that not only are mushrooms legal but that mescaline-containing cacti like peyote and San Pedro cacti were available for purchase. There are "smart shops" all over Amsterdam.
You CAN buy a peyote cactus in Amsterdam. Of course it takes like five years or something for the thing to grow a button, which is the psychoactive part. The cactus is about 20 bucks and you take it home, and in three years you can trip on it. OK, cool, so it was looking like I wasn't going to take any peyote. Then we did find a shop with a peyote cactus "ready to ingest." The price for a mature cactus was more like 300 dollars. I also saw a few shops with San Pedro cactus ready to eat. A piece the size of a large gourd was 450 bucks, enough for three people to trip. The shopkeeper told us that you only eat the skin (I was wondering how you'd down that much cactus), that it makes one very sick and to be ready for a trip lasting at least 24 hours or so. So much for my intended psychedelic excursions. But if you really want to, you can trip on these things, or even search out a group that administers DMT grandfather Ayahuasca if you really set your mind (and pocketbook) to it.
In the area we stayed there were hoards of hard drug dealers (the guide pamphlet that was in our room called them "Johnny Boys") I didn't partake of any "illegal drugs" while in Amsterdam. A bunch of dudes from Africa stand around at every possible corner and offer you cocaine or ecstasy all day and night. The sex drugs, makes sense. There were some people selling smack, mostly in the early hours of the day. I could tell because they were the ones that looked a little bit harder at me. The guidebook I had also warned me that whatever I might pick up on the street was most likely anything but what they were selling it as. There were plenty of drunk Brits trying to score some tan colored rocks from a dirty palm. Who needs third-rate narcotics when you have first fucking rate hydroponic weed grown organically and with love in the most tolerant city in the world?
I went to the Cannabis Cup thinking I knew my weed. I was expecting to smoke some sativa and some indica. That is like old school, man. Now everything is a hybrid of other things, right? So there's all these strains (a lot of Hazes this year, to be sure) that are like 20 percent sativa and 80 percent indica. Or any other different combination of percentages you can think of. They still give an award to each, and it goes to whatever the strain has most of. One of the legendary Amsterdam growers goes by the name of Soma (I know, I know) and runs the Soma Seed Bank, which specializes in medicinal weed genetics. Meeting this dude was a trip in itself. It's like whatever came out of his mouth you knew you could trust was the highest authority on the "sacred plant." The dude has dreads down to his feet (I shit you not) and a beard that too, is a dread (about a foot long). And he had a gold tooth and gold chains on. And he said called everyone "man." And he had a brick of bubble hash that was the size of a baby's head. And he "loves Texas, man." I think we may have found the real king of cannabis.
Like anything run entirely by a bunch of stoners, who are in fact stoned the entire time the event is going on, the Cannabis Cup is a total train wreck most of the time. But I took the whole voting process seriously, despite being unsure of what exactly I would be voting on throughout the entire week. In the end, the ballot had me voting for best indica and sativa strain, but also for best overall strain, and each strain was "sponsored" by a specific smoke shop, which would end up winning best smoke shop just for having the winning strain. We also had to vote for favorite new product and favorite convention booth. Our favorite strain was the Stella Blue strain, which had a totally unique flavor unlike any weed I ever smoked. It clearly came from the genetics of Blue Berry, hence the name. It was super tight, compressed amber colored buds. Orange, really. Fruity. Delicious. Could taste it strongly even through the Swisher wrapper that my compadre required. I also liked the Honey Bee, which tasted quite a bit like honey and looked wet with trichromes. The bubble hashes were nice. I'm rambling. It's like you have to be stoned to write an article about the Cannabis Cup, right? Or is it that if you were high in class, and high when you did homework, and high when studying, then you have to get high before the test in order to do well, right? This is reminding me of a flashback that reminds me of a flashback of us watching How High for the third time that week.
Flashback to the Awards Ceremony. OK, we made it. Somehow we had missed the Kottonmouth Kings and the Opening Night ceremonies. We did see this dude with a giant glass bong hanging from his pierced lip eating handfuls of crickets. He had a purple and green mohawk and the kind of piercings that you can see how many pencils you can fit in those holes, you know like stuffing hotdogs in a warm juicy snatch. Or not. So there we were with all the other stoners of the world, unite! Somehow, through some fluke in the time space continuum, we managed to go to the CANNABIS CUP AWARDS CEREMONY WITH LESS THAN A JOINT'S WORTH OF WEED. Only someone so high out of their minds could forget to bring the weed to that kind of event. Actually we both just assumed that the other one had brought one of the 25 or so odd bags of weed laying all over our room after the week's festivities. So there we are. Looking at all the people with those foot long cones that hold somewhere in the neighborhood of two ounces of weed. And people are getting shitty drunk, and it is getting crowded and hot. AND WE HAVE NO FUCKING WEED LEFT.
The Awards Ceremony. Imagine a bunch of aging hippies giving awards to one another. They give out the counter culture award. The dudes that started Rainbow Gathering make it to the stage (finally) and start rambling. On and on for half an hour. That was just the first guy. Save the endangered buffalo of fucking Wyoming or some shit. They had to grab the microphone from his hands to get him to shut up. Oh right, before that they had to bless the actual Cups. They had some shaman or some shit wave an eagle's feather to the north, south, east and west. Then he beat on a drum. Chanted a bit. Everyone is high and talking to one another over this lame excuse for a ceremony. Nobody gives a flying fuck about any of this except for who won the Cannabis Cup. Well, we missed that part. We left about an hour and a half in and they hadn't even given away the sativa cup. We did manage to see the award for indica go to Big Buddha Cheese. Big Buddha is a real dude. The goofiest looking Chinaman with a British accent in all of Holland. I swear his eyes are crossed and he has some bucked teeth. Nice enough chap though. My partner bought some seeds from him, so we were allowed to try the Cheese with a nice vaporizer (the Vapzilla, which won the product vote). That stuff really did knock me on my ass after a long day of smoking.
Back to the awards. We had to leave. We had lost our buzz, and this thing was set to go all night. And in the end we already knew who had won. The same ass that always gets to ham it up at the ceremony, Arjan, The King of Cannabis.
Do you care about the state of the art weed products as much as I do? Why were there so many gravity bongs on display? Can't we just make a rule that these are a bad idea? Seriously. I tried the Vortex, self-contained gravity bong. You fill it and flip it and end up with a mouth full of bong water and ask. It was horrible. It won second place.
My favorite product was the clear rolling papers made by Aleda. They came in third, I believe.
The dreaded wrap-up. What to fucking write, right? Really, when it all comes down to it, all you have to do to win a Cannabis Cup is show up and smoke everyone out. That's what'll instantly make fans out of any stoner you meet. Imagine that. Giving away free weed can sway a bunch of pothead judges voting on the best strain. So there you have it. It's all a sham. There is no man behind the curtain, and if there is, it's the King Of Cannabis and he has 10 cases of unclaimed bobble heads of himself to get rid of.
Do I need to mention Euro Pop Techno Trash music? If you have to ask, then yes, I do. Really it was "Hips Don't Lie" by Shakira that kept killing my buzz everywhere we went. That was the real fucking challenge that week, finding the coffee shop that was playing something decent on the stereo. And then there was the fucking Bass Hunter. A fishing show? Not even close. Yes, the song ("Dota") IS about people playing an online video game with one another. But check the beat. And the vocoder. The song instantly increased my buzz every time I heard it.
They serve Red Bull in a bottle in Amsterdam. Fucking class if you ask me. Even the policewoman that confiscated my last space cake as I attempted to bring it into the terminal of an international airport was nothing but pure class. They laughed and ribbed me a bit, but it was all just such a pleasant experience. I would regale you with why I was convinced that taking a space cake into the terminal was a good idea, but really I'd just be ranting expletives against the idiot in the United Airways uniform that told me it was OK to take thru. Well, fuck it. That guy was a Grade-A fucking cunt. Maybe he was out to get me. Maybe I need to listen to more Bass Hunter.


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Cuomo campaign sells Mets World Series tickets -- for $5,500
ALBANY - Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo is selling World Series tickets for $5,500 apiece as part of a campaign fundraiser.
For your money, you get a ticket to either Game 3 of the series (Friday) or Game 4 (Saturday) and entry to a 90-minute reception at Citi Field with the governor before the first pitch.
"RSVP quickly as this event will sell out," reads the invitation sent by Cuomo 2018, the Democrat's campaign committee. The face value of World Series tickets reportedly starts at $125. A campaign spokesman said Cuomo 2018 bought a "limited number of tickets directly from the Mets" to offer at the fundraiser, but declined to say how many.
The series, pitting the New York Mets vs. the Kansas City Royals, gets underway Tuesday night in Missouri.
Games 3 and 4 won't be the only games the governor will attend -- he'll be in Kansas City for the opener. Accompanied by longtime aide Joe Percoco and communications director Melissa DeRosa, Cuomo will fly to the game with Mets owners Fred and Jeff Wilpon, according to spokesman Rich Azzopardi.
Cuomo's campaign committee is covering the costs. Cuomo is paying "face value" for the game ticket, Azzopardi said, although the amount wasn't specified. The governor also will reimburse the Wilpons for airfare at "fair market value," the spokesman said.

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Obama: Immigration debate will slip into the fall
By JULIE PACE
Associated Press
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama on Tuesday conceded that an immigration overhaul cannot be achieved by his August deadline. With House Republicans searching for a way forward on the issue, the president said he was hopeful a bill could be finalized this fall — though even that goal may be overly optimistic.
The president, in a series of interviews with Spanish language television stations, also reiterated his insistence that any legislation include a pathway to citizenship for the 11 million people in the U.S. illegally. Many House GOP lawmakers oppose the citizenship proposal, hardening the differences between the parties on the president's top second-term legislative priority.
"It does not make sense to me, if we're going to make this once-in-a-generation effort to finally fix this system, to leave the status of 11 million people or so unresolved," he said during an interview with Telemundo's Denver affiliate.
The White House sees the president's outreach to Hispanics as a way to keep up enthusiasm for the overhaul among core supporters even as the legislative prospects in Washington grow increasingly uncertain.
Some Republicans view support for immigration reform as central to the party's national viability given the growing political power of Hispanics. But many House GOP lawmakers representing conservative — and largely white — districts see little incentive to back legislation.
The president said the lack of consensus among House Republicans will stretch the immigration debate past August, his original deadline for a long-elusive overhaul of the nation's fractured laws.
"That was originally my hope and my goal," Obama said. "But the House Republicans I think still have to process this issue and discuss it further, and hopefully, I think, still hear from constituents, from businesses to labor, to evangelical Christians who all are supporting immigration reform."
Supporters are working on strategy to get the House to sign off on an overhaul. On Tuesday, most members of the so-called Gang of Eight — the bipartisan group of senators that authored the Senate immigration bill — met in the Capitol with a large group of advocates from business, religious, agriculture and other organizations to urge everyone to work together to move the issue through the House.
The senators distributed a list of 121 House Republicans seen as persuadable in favor of the bill and discussed honing a message for Congress' monthlong August recess, when House members will meet with constituents and potentially encounter opposition to immigration legislation.
"When we go into the August break we want to be sure everybody's working hard and trying to make our case," said Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., after the meeting.
The landmark bill passed by the Senate last month would tighten border security, expand the highly skilled worker program and set up new guest worker arrangements for lower-skilled workers and farm laborers. It would also provide a pathway to citizenship for many of the 11 million immigrations illegally in the U.S., one that includes paying fines, learning English and taking other steps.
During his interview with Univision's New York affiliate, Obama said the citizenship pathway "needs to be part of the bill."
House Republicans have balked at the Senate proposal, with GOP leaders saying they prefer instead to tackle the issue in smaller increments. Many GOP representatives also oppose the prospect of allowing people who came to the U.S. illegally to become citizens.
House Republicans are considering other options, including proposals to give priority for legalization to the so-called Dreamers — those who were brought the U.S. illegally as children. Allowing only those individuals to obtain citizenship could shield Republicans from attacks by conservatives that they're giving a free pass to those who voluntarily broke the law.
"I think that group of people — some call Dreamers — is a group that deserves perhaps the highest priority attention," Rep. Bob Goodlatte, who chairs the House Judiciary Committee, said at an immigration-related conference in California Monday. "They know no other country."
Goodlatte and House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, both Virginia Republicans, are working on a bill to address the status of those immigrants, although the timing is uncertain. And Goodlatte cautioned that any such measure should hinge on completion of enforcement measures to prevent parents from smuggling their children into the U.S. in the future.
The House is not expected to act on any legislation before the August recess, though the House Judiciary Committee could hold a hearing on the bill dealing with people brought to the U.S. when they were young.
Obama also spoke with the Telemundo station in Dallas and the Univision station in Los Angeles.
Associated Press writer Erica Werner contributed to this report.
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IN a candid interview, Melbourne Storm coach Craig Bellamy admits he still can't work out why his team fizzled out last year.
Nick Smart: Experienced players have labelled this pre-season the toughest in many years with a training camp that drove at least one player to almost quit. Your captain Cameron Smith has said you've gone a bit old school over the summer. Fair call?
Craig Bellamy: Well, he didn't go to the camp because of the World Cup but a lot did. That's the first time we've done that (training camp) in a while. It's been different, but I don't know about old school. I guess maybe in some of the mentalities on a couple of things. But we have new conditioning staff and new assistants, and they have all had some new ideas. I suppose when we get to the season we'll see if they worked or not.
NS: Speaking of your captain, there has been so much talk about his future. Will you keep him?
CB: I've got no comment to make on Cameron. At the end of the day I've said enough on it. We'll see what happens.
NS: Last season you made the top four but went out of the finals in straight sets. You claimed at the time the side lacked the "September buzz." What happened?
CB: I've thought a lot about it, but I'm not really sure if there was one real reason. There were probably a few little things that added up to a couple of big things that sapped our energy perhaps. But I can't put my finger on it 100 per cent, so basically we put it in the too hard basket. We're now concentrating on what we need to do this year.
NS: In the off-season you went to the US with (Storm football manager) Frank Ponissi where you visited a number of big clubs, including the Miami Heat. Was sitting down with NBA coaching great Pat Riley the highlight?
CB: It's always quite refreshing those trips and you come back with a couple of new ideas. There were a lot of good parts, but the Pat Riley experience was outstanding. He said a lot of interesting things, but his big philosophy was the conditioning of the players and how important that is. It was interesting to hear that and that's been our kind of mentality as well.
NS: Is this group still hungry for success? Have you felt it during the pre-season?
CB: You'd like to think so, but it is hard to tell until you start playing. You see a certain hunger at times at training, and other times you'd like to see them a bit hungrier. It comes down to every individual being the best player he can be and using that want and drive to do what the team needs them to do.
NS: For the first time in many years people are talking about other sides when they rate the top premiership contenders. Do you feel this year you are the hunters rather than the hunted?
CB: I don't think about it like that. I can't control what other clubs are doing and whether they are after us or we are after them. I know there are some people writing us off, so we'll see what happens.
NS: You have a strong core of players who have come emerged over recent season, such as Sisa Waqa, Will Chambers, Jesse Bromwich and Kevin Proctor. We all know about the "big three" but how much of your success this season will depend on this group going to another level?
CB: They are really important players for us this year. Those guys need to work really hard to get better. And the guys we also expect to play better are the guys who made their debuts last year. I know Tohu (Harris) is the only one who really played a full year , but guys like Kenny Bromwich and Jordan McLean played about 10 games between them. We expect improvement from all those blokes. If they can improve the whole team will as well.
NS: You've lost a lot of experience in the halves with the departure of Gareth Widdop and Brett Finch. You had a crack at luring James O'Connor from rugby union at the end of last year. Does that suggest you are still worried about the five-eighth position this year?
CB: I don't know if worried is the right word. We think Ben (Hampton) will do a good job, but he hasn't done that on a consistent basis yet. I suppose we are just anxious to see how he goes. I think it will be a bit easier for him when Cooper (Cronk) is back. At the moment and during the trials, a lot of the calls were left up to him. When Cooper is back there will be a different role for him to play. That will take a lot of pressure off him. He is a wonderfully talented kid with great pace and he's a tough kid as well.
NS: There has always been a question whether Billy Slater can move to five-eighth. Has that ship well and truly sailed?
CB: I think so. When it comes up people always point to Darren Lockyer who made that switch from fullback. But Locky was 26 or 27 at that stage. It would be hard to do now.
NS: Speaking of Billy, it's well documented he will have to manage his knee for the remainder of his knee. Does a time come when you think about asking him and your other big names to scale back their representative duties?
CB: No. At the end of the day that will be their decision. I'm certainly not going to put any pressure on Billy to do that, or any of our players. You're lucky to play Origin footy and to play for your country. When you retire you won't get the chance again, so that would be my way of thinking if I was Billy.
NS: Are you committed to the plan of 2016 being of your last year at the Storm helm?
CB: It's the plan in my head at the moment to do this year and then another two years. I might then do something part-time, although I'm not too quite sure what. But it's still three years away so it's a long way away.
NS: People like Phil Gould have said they would love you to see you have another crack at coaching New South Wales in Origin. Can you see it happening?
CB: I don't think so. Origin is a huge thing in our game and I know it sounds a silly thing but I enjoyed most of it when I was there. I worked with some great players and to coach at that level is big. I don't know what will be happening in three years, but right now I am concentrating on what I'm doing.
NS: Do you still enjoy coaching as much as you did when you started?
CB: With all due respect,I think coaching is like any other profession. I think we're very lucky to be involved in the job. You do work hard and make a lot of sacrifices with your family, but you get well rewarded for it as well. But I think it's like any other job – sometimes you really enjoy it and sometimes it doesn't go the way you want it to. Things like making uncomfortable decisions are not enjoyable, for example. We're also out there to get cut down. But I enjoy the coaching part of it.
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China Heavyweight Trailer (2012)
06 July 2012 Factual, Foreign 89 mins
In southwestern China, state athletic coaches scour the countryside to recruit poor, rural teenagers who demonstrate a natural ability to throw a good punch. Moved into boxing training centers, these boys and girls undergo a rigorous regimen that grooms them to be China's next Olympic heroes but also prepares them for life outside the ring. As these young boxers develop, the allure of turning professional for personal gain and glory competes with the main philosophy behind their training – to represent their country. Interconnected with their story is that of their charismatic coach, Qi Moxiang, who – now in his late thirties and determined to win back lost honor – trains for a significant fight.
Watch the official China Heavyweight 2012 trailer in HD below or find more China Heavyweight videos on Vidimovie.


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Some Grimes Marriages in Cov. Co., Al.
Can anyone update any of these Grimes lines??
Thank you for any help given
Subj:Covington County Grimes
Date:12/31/2000 8:14:31 PM Eastern Standard Time
From:email@example.com (phyllis maddox)
Hi Christine,
I have copied a few of the Grimes out of the marriage records in the court
house in Andaulisa .
1. Villa Carroll And Sam Grimes married Dec. 22, 1926Book I-W number 599 this is my grand parents.
2. Charles Grimes andRuth Worley Book I-W. number 250. This is Sam Grimes Brother.
3.W.O. Grimes andLaura Frigua book D. number 481.
4. Minnie Grimesand Lovonia Odom Book J-W number 199 this is Sam Grimes
Brother also.
5. Robert Grimesand Beckie Money Book D. number 358 this is Sam Grimes
Brother also.
6. Cenie Grimes and Charles Money Book D number 366 this is a sister of Sam
Grimes also .
7. Walter Lee Grimes and Grace Free Book I-W number 568.
8.J.C. Grimes and Bertie Hildreth Book F. number 293.
9. John J Grimes and Irene Thomas book i forgot to write the book and number.
10. Senwood Grimes and Maudie Adams book F. number 375.
11. W. G. Grimes and Berdie Jackson Book I- W number 171 this is Walter Grady
Grimes who is Sam Grimes brother.
12. J. A. Grimes and Lizzie Owens book H-W number. 221 this Jackson Albert
Grimes who is Sam Grimes brother.
13. Bethanie Grimes Female married J,C. Walker book H-W number 436 .
14. Jesse GrimesFemale and Hubert Hudson book H- W number 513 .
15. Annie Grimes and Rich Cook book H-C number 139
16. Annie Mae Grimes and Lee Thomas book H-C number 344.
17. Georgia Lee Grimes female and Walter Leslie book H-C 337.
18. Myrtle Grimes and Crawford C. Nelson. i forgot to write the book and
19. L.S. Grimes male and Ruthie Hickamond Book J W. number 289.
20. Howard Grimes and Lois Martin Book J-W number. 465.
I have more .
21. George Grimes and Annie Stephens Book E. 184.
22. Carl Grimes and Nancy Franklin Book E. 465.
23. R. L Grimes male and Osida Braswell Book K-W number 96.
24. Carzie Grimes Female and E.E. Riley Book I-W number 505 .
25. Arzene Grimes Female and Amos Hill Book J-C number 462.
26. Bonnie Grimes female and A. C, Cross Jr. Book I-W number 268.
27.Annie Lee Grimes and Alto V. Jones. I forgot to write the book and number.
28.Woodrow Grimes and Edna Sasser Book K-W number 272.
29.James D. Grimes and Alice B. Scheffer. Book K-W number 351.
30. Locious W Grimes and Redie Worley Book K-W. number 464 this is Robert F. Grimes Son brother to Sam Grimes.
31. Thelma Grimes male and Eunie Mae Smith Book L number 79.
32. Gladys Grimes and Woodrow Cooper Book M number 508.
33. Louise Grimes and Burdett Bozeman Book N number 330.
34.Alma Grimes and J,C. Odom Book W number 557. This is Robert Franklin Grimes Daughter.
35. Mary Ella Grimes and Anford H. Hixon Book O number 546.
36. Wm. Aubrety Grimes and Elizabeth?Book N number 175.
37. James O Grimes and Mytle Lewis Athens BookN number 296.
38. Madelyn Grimes and Ralph Powell Book D number 562.
39. Estelle Grimes and James O Mccall Book R. number 56.
49. Lilliam Grimes and Robert Haynes Book T number 4.
50. Judge Grimes and Emma Powell Book J-C number 424.
51. Dewey Grimes and Myrtte Best Book O number 395.
52. R.F, Grimes and Voncile Thomas Book O number 395? i think i wrote wrong number. not sure .
53. Grady Grimes and Gladys Worlery Book O number 430 . this is Walter Grady
Grimes second marriage. brother to Sam Grimes.
54. Pomer Grimes Female and Henry Lee Walters Book Q number 305.
55. Thomas A Grimes and Sarah Ivey Book R number 309.
56. J.C. Grimes and Sara Jackson Book S number 29.
57. J.D. Grimes and Mary Alma Spence Book S number 245.
58. Levoyde Grimes male and Maudine Helms. Book ??
59. Lehman Grimes and Mary Banfield Book T 210.
60. Lenwood Grimes and Tobie Lee Cheeser Book T 236.
61. Johnny E. Grimes and Lois Russell Book
63. Wlay B Grimes and Eula Mae Mitchell Book< number 237.
64. J. Charlie Grimesand Rebecca Lee HatawayBook
66. Elizabeth Grimes and Roy Walson Book < number 122.
67. Annie Ruth Grimes and James F. Meredith Book W. number 208. this is Jackson Albert Grimes Daughter.
68.Julia Onita Grimes and Benjamin C. Herrell Book W number 339.
69. RubyRae Grimes and Thomas O Howell Book K number 439.
70. Q P Grimes and Dorothy Lloyd. Book Y number 107.
71. Betty Sue Grimes and Douglas Waters Larwerence Book Y number 382.
72. Mary Ellen Grimes and DouglasTobbins Book Y number 588 this is Robert F. Grimes Daughter.
73. Betty Jean Grimes and Leon Jordand book Z number 77 . this is Minnie Grimes and Lovonia Odoms daughter.
74. Lois Jean Grimes and Donald R Griffin Book Z number 396.
75. Peggy Sue Grimes and Warren Dement Shirley Book A1 number 90.
76. Julia Mae Grimes and James Edmon Cox. Book A-1 number 518.
77. James G. Grimes and Eunice Smith Book D-1 240.
78. Talmadge Grimes and Jonnie Holley Book D-1 277. Tis is Walter Gardy Grimes And Bredie Jackson Son.
79. Clarence Joe Grimes and Zadie Knox Book D-1 592.
80. Billy Warren Grimes and Martha Jane Driver. Book E-1 number 26.This is the son of Robert F. Griimes.
81. Earnest F. Grimes and Earline WrightBook E-1 number 544.
82. Otway Grimesand Peggy Warren Book E-1 number 573. This is Robert F. Grimes Son Also,
83. James Charles Grimes Roseye Lawerence
Deloise (Lois ) Married Clerence ParrThis is Robert F. Grimesand Becky Ann Money Daughter.
Thank you Phyllis Maddox
Christine Grimes Thacker
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About six months ago I read a fascinating article in National Genealogical Society Quarterly called "Thinking Philosophically About Genealogy" by Stephen B Hatton. He writes:
Th[e] substance and properties view, held by philosophers from about the fourth century BC until the 1780s, tends to focus on how people think and know. This view sometimes reduces individual identity to a conceptual framework, including retention of past events in memory and contemplation within a rational scheme. The advantages of this view for genealogy are that it supports concepts of genealogical identity and different attributes of each personal substance. The disadvantages are challenges in specifying an identity and accounting for change. Philosophical and neurobiological reasons raise questions about identity after traumatic events. The substance view also ignores social objects (created by society), and it is weak in its accounting for events.The article goes on to discuss ontology and etymology, which have been subjects of an ongoing discussion I have been having with my husband for the past year about truth and how we can know it. It's a fascinating discussion, and I have discovered myself coming back to these thoughts over and over. This article was really fascinating to me, and you should read the whole thing. The TLDR conclusion:
Alternatively, humans can be viewed as passionate and emotional beings. Individuals can visualize their identities as life narratives involving an overarching rhythm acquired, expressed, lived, and told from their life experiences. Identity arises from encounters in living and in acting in unique impassioned relation to specific events, times, and places. Each individual is a unique blend of emotions and passions. (10)
Unlike practitioners of other disciplines, genealogists have not considered philosophy. For genealogists to acquire deeper insight into their most basic assumptions and concepts and deepen genealogy's theoretical foundation, that interaction should occur.
This ontological framework can serve as a foundation for understanding the discipline of genealogy. The framework's key elements are objects, relations, qualities, and events. It may shape future theoretical thought about genealogy. It lays the groundwork for considering the field's basic concepts, for example, genealogical identify. The framework also suggests how to approach genealogy epistemology, and it has implications for genealogical methodology. It prepares for grounding the Genealogical Proof Standard. (18)And so, I will take Hatton's challenge and attempt to write about my own personal Philosophy of Czech Family History Research.
I know for sure that part of "why" I research my Czech ancestors has to do with understanding myself better. This comic sums up my brain pretty well:
Of course, it's funny, but it is also somewhat true. Who in the heck am I and what am I doing here!? Okay, make the kids their school lunches. Do a load of laundry.
For me, the "existential dread" isn't usually about long term spiritual identity so much as thoughts about the continuous paradox that I live as a smart woman who chooses to stay home and perform the semi-brainless job of mothering small children. Semi-brainless, and yet some of the problems I face are literally unsolvable. Like, menu planning. I estimate that a good 1/3 of the documents in my google drive are attempts at streamlining this process. All of them spectacular failures. Spectacular, because if I am anything, it's tenaciously passionate (myopic?!) about my interests.
This paradox of being a homemaker is extremely, uber-sensitive. When I became a new stay-at-home-mom, I attempted to blog about it, and it turned out that my post(s) not only offended a lot of people within my family, but they also generated a lot of traffic from voyeuristic working mothers who I had never met and who decided absurdly to side with my view (that it's worth it to stay home, and that women should try to do so). I think I took that post down because dealing with it was a headache.
But I've thought about it for years and years. I almost feel boxed in to my original perception: that women who can should stay home with their young children.
What the heck does this have to do with Czech genealogy?
So. Freaking. Much.
When I study these women of the past, I see the pattern of parenthood played out over and over again. What kind of mothers were they, what did they think and feel about their role, how were they perceived by society, how did they perceive themselves, how did their relationship with their spouse affect their role as a parent, and especially, what do all of these things that happened 100, 200, 300+ years ago mean to me?
I have been working on a blog post for a few weeks for my personal genealogy research blog about, "Am I glad that my ancestors were polygamists?" This was initiated from a casual remark made by my friend as he analyzed the text of an Ellis Island entry form. This form specifically asked, "is this person an anarchist or polygamist?" He wrote something like, "Well, I for one, am glad to know that my ancestors were neither anarchists nor polygamists!"
Obviously, this caused me to ask myself, "Hey. Some of my ancestors were polygamists. How do I feel about that? What does that mean for me?"
This is not the time nor the place to broach that fascinating topic. Indeed, I will probably just end up writing a book about it instead of just one blog post, because it is way, way too complicated of a task. But the essence of that question is this: I decide who I am through the choices I make each day, but I have no control over what came before me. How does my past determine what I am today?
This is one big reason why I want to study my Czech ancestors. I want to understand how their choices affect my identity.
My other reasons, in no particular order, include:
I like feeling smart, and it takes a lot of brain power and effort to solve these puzzles. It works a part of my brain that I really enjoy using and expanding: languages.
I want to do temple ordinance work for my ancestors. My Czech ancestors are an obvious choice because literally nobody else in the world is working on preparing these lines for temple work.
Another reason has to do with the connections I make with real live people who are interested in the same thing, or who are part of my family.
I suppose on some level I'm a voyeur. Curiosity. Novelty. My patý cousin Roman said that life goes much faster when there are new things that happen each day. It's my answer to ridding my humdrum life of its humdrumity. Because literally, I feel like I would go insane if I lived my life like some of my peers: completely focused on the mundane tasks of motherhood. I. can. not. handle. that. Not only do I need an outlet for creativity, but I urgently need to learn new things, and genealogy is the perfect field for that. Czech genealogy even more so, because even though many of these topics have been studied, few of them have been studied in English. So it's a novel territory of fascinating research.
Here are some few examples of the kinds of questions that continue to flood my mind:
- How did my 18th century Czech grandmothers deal with their menstrual periods? Or did perpetual pregnancy make this a non-issue? (ha. ha. Very punny) What material(s) did they use to clean the blood? Did they, like my Mayflower American ancestors, ritually isolate themselves from men in a cave outside the community for several days, or is that a completely ridiculous thought considering that Czechs in the 18th century were far more technologically advanced than the puritans of 1620's Massachusetts?
- What did my Czech grandmothers think when they learned they were pregnant? Did the ridiculously high infant mortality rates cause them to worry about the pregnancy? Were they nervous that their child would die before baptism and thus be lost forever in purgatory (am I even understanding this doctrine correctly?)? When they found out they were pregnant, were they generally far enough into their pregnancy that it was out of the question to consider a medicinal (or mechanical!?) abortion? Or would that have even crossed the minds of the majority of these women?
- Thousands of questions about the sexuality of my ancestors: When, where, and how often did they have sex? How was it logistically possible for them to be intimate without privacy? What was their concept of privacy, anyway? How does it differ from my perception of it? When did they learn about their sexuality? I imagine it was not the Great Prudish Victorian Secret it has devolved into in American culture; the fact is that you can't live an agrarian lifestyle with animals and not know about the physical mechanics of sex.
- How were women perceived, valued, and treated in Czech culture? Does Czech sexism exist and if so, what does it look like? This is a question that deeply intrigues me. I am finally getting some answers through the painfully slow translation of some books on Czech historical demography and culture, and I intend on sharing what I learn on this blog so that you do not have to go through the same excruciating process. My observations of modern human interactions while in the Czech Republic, the way language was used in Czech documents, Czech art, music, clothing, and even architecture - all of these lead me to this hypothesis: the sexism of my world is not the same as the sexism in the Czech lands. The experience of being a Czech woman in the 19th century would have been extremely different from that of English or American women at the same time. Perhaps the oppressive struggle for solvency served to unite families instead of divide them into specific, dehumanizing gender roles. And obviously this is also a paradox for me, because I do believe in gender roles: I just don't think that they involve wearing corsets, submitting to the missionary-position sexual appetite of a man, or for my generation, "being pregnant and barefoot in the kitchen." I mean...!!!!!!!!!
This is why I study my Czech ancestors:
- To learn about who I am
- Because it brings me joy
- To perform temple work for them
- To connect with other people interested in the same thing
- To learn truth. Because truth is good.


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Introducing Apple I
The First «pre-Mac» Device Developed By The Apple Inc.
The Apple I computer was released by Steven Wozniak and Steve Jobs in April 1976. This first «pre-Mac» device developed by the Apple Inc. Founders was based on the MOStek 6502 chip, an 8-bit microprocessor that was designed by MOS Technology in 1975. At the moment, this chip was the least expensive full-featured microprocessor on the market.
At first, the Apple I, also known as the Apple I (or Apple-1) is a desktop computer. . The Apple I was Apple's first product, and to finance its creation, Jobs sold his only motorized means of transportation, a VW Microbus, for a few hundred dollars. At the same time Steven Wozniak sold his HP-65 calculator for $500. Later, Wozniak said that Steve Jobs planned to sell his bicycle if necessary.
The Apple I computer was presented to the public in July 1976 at the Homebrew Computer Club in Palo Alto, California.
The Apple I production was discontinued on September 30, 1977, due to the introduction, on June 10, 1977, of its successor, the Apple II computer, which Byte magazine referred to as part of the "1977 Trinity" of personal computing (along with the PET 2001 and the TRS-80).
Apple I
- Introduced : April 1976.
- Processor : CPU: MOS Technology 6502.
- CPU Speed: 1 MHz.
- Bus Speed: 1 MHz.
- Onboard RAM: 8 kB.
- Maximum RAM: 65 kB.
- Video : VRAM: 1 kB. Max Resolution: 60.05 Hz, 40 x 24 char.
- Power: 58 Watts.
- Discontinuation : March 1977.
- Launch price : US$ 666.66
- The Apple I was introduced at the Homebrew Computer Club in Palo Alto, California, as the result of research performed by Apple Computer.
- The Apple Computer I was designed and hand-built by Steve Wozniak. As to Wozniak's friend Steve Jobs, he had the idea of selling the computer as a brand under its now famous name. Jobs marketed the first device.
- The story begins on March 5, 1975, when Steve Wozniak attended the first meeting of the Homebrew Computer Club in Gordon French's garage. Mr. Wozniak was so inspired that he immediately set to work on his future first commercial computer. After Wozniak had built the Apple I and presented it at the Homebrew Computer Club, Wozniak and Jobs gave out technical signs (called schematics) for the computer to interested club members. The inventors even helped some of the members build and test out copies.
- It was Steve Jobs who suggested that they design and sell a single etched and silkscreened circuit board—just the bare board, no electronic parts—that people could use to build the computers.
- Steven Wozniak calculated that having the board design laid out would cost $1,000. Besides, manufacturing would cost another $20 per board. Wozniak hoped to recoup his costs if 50 people bought the boards for $40 each. To fund this small venture, Steve Jobs sold his van and Wozniak sold his HP-65 calculator.
- Steve Jobs arranged to sell "something like 100" built computers to the The Byte Shop, which was a computer store in Mountain View, California at $500 each. To fulfill the $50,000 order, the Apple founders obtained $20,000 in parts at thirty days net and delivered the finished product in ten days.
- The Apple I was sold through several small retailers, and included only the circuit board. A tape-interface was sold separately, but you had to build the case. The Apple I's initial cost was $666.66 click here to see a print add for the Apple I.
See also:
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Improving your running form can help you run faster, more efficiently and comfortably, and with less stress on your body and reduced injury risk. Follow these tips to work on perfecting your running form.

Your eyes should be focused on the ground about 10 to 20 feet ahead of you. Don't stare at your feet. Not only is this proper running form, but it's also a safer way to run because you can see what's coming and avoid falling.

Also see:  Tips for Running Safely

Don't be a toe runner or a heel-striker. If you land on your toes, your calves will get tight or fatigue quickly and you may develop shin pain. Landing on your heels means you have overstrided and you're braking, which wastes energy and may cause injury. Try to land on the middle of your foot, and then roll through to the front of your toes. If you don't already land midfoot, here are some ways you can practice that technique.

Make sure your toes are pointed in the direction you want to go. Running with your feet pointed in or out could lead to running injuries. If you don't naturally run that way, it may take practice to keep your feet pointed straight. Try doing it for short distances and then increase the time or distance that you run that way. Eventually, you'll start to get used to running with your feet pointed straight and it will feel more natural.

Try to keep your hands at waist level, right about where they might lightly brush your hip. Your arms should be at a 90 degree angle. Some beginners have a tendency to hold their hands way up by their chest, especially as they get tired. You may actually get even more tired by holding your arms that way and you'll start to feel tightness and tension in your shoulders and neck.

As you run, keep your arms and hands as relaxed as possible. You can gently cup your hands, as if you are holding an egg and you don't want to break it. Don't clench your fists because it can lead to tightness in your arms, shoulders, and neck.

More: How to Avoid Tension While Running

Keep your posture straight and erect. Your head should be up, your back straight, and shoulders level. Keep your shoulders under your ears and maintain a neutral pelvis. Make sure you're not leaning forward or back at your waist, which some runners do as they get fatigued. Check your posture once in a while. When you're tired at the end of your run, it's common to slump over a little, which can lead to neck, shoulder, and lower-back pain. When you feel yourself slouching, poke your chest out.

Your shoulders should be relaxed and square or facing forward, not hunched over. Rounding the shoulders too far forward tends to tighten the chest and restrict breathing. You'll breathe a lot easier if your shoulders are relaxed.

Your arms should swing back and forth from your shoulder joint, not your elbow joint. Think of your arm as a pendulum, swinging back and forth at your shoulder. Drive your elbow backwards and then let it swing back toward you. Your hand should be almost grazing your hip as your arm comes back in front of you.

Try to keep your stride low to the ground and focus on quick stride turnover. Too much up-and-down movement is wasted energy and can be hard on your lower body. Take short, light steps, as if you're stepping on hot coals. The higher you lift yourself off the ground, the greater the shock you have to absorb when landing and the faster your legs will fatigue.

More: How Do I Avoid Bouncing When I Run?

Avoid side-to-side arm swinging. If your arms cross over your chest, you're more likely to slouch, which means you're not breathing efficiently. Inefficient or shallow breathing can also lead to side stitches, or cramps in your abdominal area.

Imagine a vertical line splitting your body in half -- your hands should not cross it.

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Absolute Beginners' Guide to Running

14 Things Every New Runner Should Know

17 Commonly-Asked Questions About Learning to Run

4 Running Form Mistakes and How to Fix Them


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As you know, I've been inching closer towards Newt as the not-Romney. I don't believe being not-Romney is enough, and of all the remaining candidates, I believe that Newt has the ability to articulate a vision of this country which establishes him as the candidate to take on Barack Obama even if...
Chewing through the not-Romneys, leaving Newt
Newt staying above the fray
Romney and Perry are doing each other and themselves damage by going at it in the way they have been, which at times seems childish, petty and insincere, which has even such mainstream commentators as John Podhoretz (A Pack of Nonsense) and Scott Johnson (Send in the Clowns) begging them to get serious.
Newt gravitational pull
Frank Luntz did a focus group on Hannity last night regarding the Las Vegas debate. The group confirmed my view that Newt is rising.
I can't find a video of it, but NewsMax has a partial transcript. The group found that Newt won the debate hands down, and reacted very negatively...
Newt rising, Part 2
My assessment of the Vegas debate remains the same at the top of the ticket, Perry won by exceeding expectations. There were some negatives to his performance, such as the issue of Romney's lawn care company hiring illegals, which even if it was worth a mention hardly was the gotcha it...
Vegas Debate (Tweet of Night added)
Not going to "live blog" but will have some observations.
Perry the winner not because he was so much better than the others, but because he was so much better than he was previously. He may have revitalized his campaign tonight. Cain was damaged, but not fatally. Romney was okay, held...
Newt Gingrich thinks it is the late 90s
and I wish he was right.
The fledgling candidate announced in Iowa that he is going to propose a newer Contract with America:
It "will be 10 times deeper and more comprehensive than 1994," he told an audience of about 40 people Monday night in Council Bluffs. "Because the truth is, while we...
Newt rising?
Newt Gingrich has found his voice in the recent two debates. He has been the most forceful and articulate voice lancing Obama and everything Obama stands for.
Sure, Newt has the "baggage" but he is rising?
Don't Pile On Newt
Newt's campaign has its troubles.
But there's no reason to pile on Newt because of the Tiffany's credit line story. That's just how the media does it; what difference does it make how he spends his money as long as it's legal, nothing that touches on character, and he pays his bills?
Prying into...
This always happen. I'm away from the internet for most of the day — en route this time to my in-laws' 65th wedding anniversary weekend in Florida — and stuff happens.
Newt is on a cruise somewhere with the Mrs., and his staff resigns en masse. Via Politico:
Newt Gingrich's top staff quit en...
Voodoo Newtonomics
Yawn. Chuck "my flight attendant is a bitch and Scott Brown is an far-right teabagger" Schumer is threatening to use Newt's criticism of Paul Ryan in the 2012 election cycle.
That should make a big difference.
Just like this statement by a prominent Republican candidate ruined the careers and electoral prospects of...
Can Newt be next?
So Tell Me About Newt
(Originally posted on 5/12/11 but lost in the Big Blogger Blackout of 2011, brought back to life courtesy of the Restore Honor and Sanity (and missing Legal Insurrection posts) Project)(modified to remove video embeds).
The interview on Hannity last night almost has me believing.
Yes, I know, baggage. The name. But …. he...


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6). Extract From the
Old Sea Captain.......
"Well, Captain, you will tell us how to build a better
ship, will you?"
"Will I? Ay, that I will, my boys, from the keel to the
mast head. Don't be out of heart; you may be shipwrights yet in her majesty's
dockyard. When we think of the dangers of shipwreck, we ought to take care
that every vessel is sea-worthy. The best ship that was ever built would soon
go to pieces, if her stem was fast on a reef, and her stern battered by the
breakers against the rocks.
Only think of the
Neva, boys; she struck on a
reef, and soon after broke into four parts."
"Terrible! terrible! No wonder that you don't
like to see a ship badly built, Captain. But please to tell us about the
Neva. In what part of the world was she? and how came she to get upon the
"It was a sad affair, boys! Sudden death is terrible;
but when it comes upon those who have lived all their lives breaking the
commandments of God, and the laws of mankind, it must be more terrible still.
It ill becomes us to judge hardly of the guiltiest being that lives under the
skies; for we are all sinners, and all stand in need of God's mercy. Every
one of you, and the old sea Captain too, stands as much in need of a Saviour
as the most cruel pirate that was ever hung; but when we think, that the Neva
had on board so many who had been condemned to transportation, on account of
their crimes, we cannot help fearing, that many of them were hardened and
unrepentant offenders. Oh, boys! boys! have a care that you do not run
aground on the shoals of temptation; look to a heavenly Pilot; keep a sharp
look out from the mast head; beware of pirates; do not carry too much sail,
and too little ballast; never neglect to take soundings in unknown latitudes;
and mind that your ship's compass always points where it ought to do.
"Please now to tell us all about the Neva."
"It was on the 8th of January, 1835, that the Neva left
Cork, bound for Sydney. The old sea Captain was there with a cargo fifty
years ago; then it was only known as a place where convicts were sent. Every
body has heard of Botany Bay. But now the whole country is looking up, and it
is a thriving place. Well; the Neva had a hundred and fifty women on board,
all convicts, beside fifty-five children, and nine free emigrants. Emigrants,
you know, are those who leave their own country of their own accord for
"What a number of women to be transported! and all in
one ship, too! Who was the captain?"
"The Neva was commanded by Captain Peck; and twenty-six men formed the crew.
All went on well, and fair wind took them along without accident. On the 13th
of May, they were within about thirty leagues of King's Island, at the
entrance of Bass's Straits, and here they gave a sharp look out for land. It
was, I think, early on the following morning that they made land."
"What is making land, Captain?"
"When land, a long way off, is seen from a vessel
sailing towards it, it is said that the ship has made land. Making land is a
sea phrase for approaching land seen in the distance. You will remember new.
All at once, breakers were discovered right a-head, the ship was put about;
but for all that, she struck, unshipped her rudder, became unmanageable, and
then struck again on the larboard-bow. Putting a ship about, is to set the
sails, and move the rudder so as to bring the ship's head to the wind; and
unshipping a rudder, is having the helm broken from the ship, or rendered
"Thank you, Captain."
"It was time for the hands to be stirring, for the ship
swung broadside heavily on the reef, and bilged at once. To bilge, is to be
broken in. In vain the captain tried to keep up the courage of those around
him. A wild shriek of distress rose from the vessel; for the women were
horror-struck so soon as they knew their situation, and cried out to be set
at liberty. Think of a hundred and fifty poor guilty wretched beings, about
to be launched into an eternal world, without warning or preparation."
"Ay, they repented of their bad ways, then, no
doubt; but it was too late."
"We never know when it is too late, boys. The thief on
the cross was pardoned, when all would have thought it too late. The captain
got into the pinnace, with the surgeon, the superintendent, and two sailors;
but the striking of the ship on the reef had burst the prison-doors, and many
of the shrieking women leaped from the side of the vessel, and got into the
pinnace, or hung upon her in such numbers, that they swamped her. All in the
boat were lost, but the captain and the two sailors: these, with hard
struggling, got back to the ship."
"That captain had no business to run away from the poor
convicts, and leave them to be drowned."
"The long-boat then put off, but with no better success
than the pinnace, for the surf upset it. It was too rough for a boat to live
in. Again the captain escaped, for he was a good swimmer; but hardly had he
reached the ship before she went to pieces. Never was a more dreadful scene!
The vessel had broken up into four parts, and every one of them was crowded
with women, wringing their hands, screaming for help, and praying aloud."
"Poor creatures! what a dreadful situation to be placed
in. A ship, broken in four parts, could not long swim in the water."
"True, boys: for a time, the wretched creatures kept
shrieking for assistance, but the howling winds and roaring waves only seemed
to mock them in their distress. At last, the different parts of the wreck
went down, and almost all the women were whelmed in the -waters."
"They were not all drowned, then? How many escaped?"
"Twenty-two persons, by clinging to parts of the wreck,
and struggling hard for eight hours, got to King's Island; but seven of them
died soon after. Those who reached the land, happily picked up a slender
stock of provisions that floated ashore. After this, they were joined by the
crew of a small vessel, which happened to be wrecked on the same island; and
the whole party continued to keep themselves alive by fishing and hunting,
till a ship hove off the coast, and took them away."
"Why, what a many must have been drowned!"
"Before they quitted the island, they buried a
hundred fellow beings, who had perished in the deep, and whose bodies had
floated ashore."
(1). Belfast Newsletter 13th January 1835
The Launceston Advertiser 2 July 1835
Colonist 17 September 1835


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Trichotomy – Fact Finding Mission
Label: Naim
Format: Vinyl, CD, Download
Country: Australia
Release: 2012
Genre: Jazz
Before I begin I will lay my cards on the table and state that jazz in general is not my usual thing and certainly not the most popular genre on this forum. With the exception of a few Hiromi CDs and the odd Diana Krall album there is rather a large hole in my 'File under jazz' section. So in my continuing search for some new music I came across the Australian trio Trichotomy consisting of pianist Sean Foran, bassist Pat Marchisella and drummer John Parker.
Fact Finding Mission is I believe the bands third album and kicks off with a strong opener in the form of 'Strom'. Throughout its six minutes this track moves seamlessly from one groove to another never sitting in one mood long enough to become repetitive. In fact just when I felt things were getting a bit 'lounge' the track would morph into something else. Certainly a good sign in my book. Proceedings move on with 'Blank Canvas (Part 1)' featuring some excellent Metheny style guitar work from James Muller. With its fine balance of piano and guitar, neither attempting to dominate the other instead showing far more of a restrained collective approach. Cohesion is key here.
Along the way we are treated to the beautifully understated 'Lullaby' which is as calm and tranquil as its title would suggest. Guitarist James Muller reappears later on two further tracks, 'Civil Unrest' and a real grower in the form of 'Blank Canvas (Part 2)'. Things change quite dramatically with the opening of the title track 'Fact Finding Mission'. The listener is greeted with a heavily discordant piano riff and a mixture of spoken vocal samples some of which you may well recognise. Of all the tracks here this could be described as the odd one out yet it fails to sound totally out of place. There are more quality offerings in the form of 'Song for EV' and 'The Brook'. The album wraps up with its longest composition 'Brick by Brick'. At almost 9 minutes long this opens with an altogether darker more ambient feel before returning to more familiar ground.
This album rarely sounds like it is trying too hard. It's not bogged down in overly complex time signatures and lacks any hint of pretentiousness to my ears. It all sounds rather fluid with enough variety to keep the listener fully engaged. These guys really gel and the results are impressive. I shall certainly be exploring their back catalogue.
I will end by saying that the vinyl release of this album is exemplary which coming from the Naim label is only to be expected I suppose. It's a single 180g LP so no getting up to flip the disc every 12 minutes which is definitely welcomed and just to add some icing on the cake it also comes with a full hi-res download voucher. Digital fans can rest assured that those 24bit/48khz FLAC files sound simply superb. All this for a mere £12.99 delivered (as I write anyway). That's a great deal in my book.
So if you fancy dipping your toe onto the jazz pond then this (in my none too experienced view) is as good a place to start as any. This is a very accomplished and cool sounding album.
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