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WeAreChange confronts Thomas Kean For The 3rd Time
Thomas Kean: "aftershocks" from planes caused collapse of WTC Building 7
On September 13th, 2011, Thomas Kean, Chair of the 9/11 Commission and Former Governor of N.J., gave a lecture for the The Drew Forum, a series of public lectures at Drew University located in Madison, New jersey. We Are Change was tipped off to the event by http://www.youtube.com/FreedumbFighter28 and attended. After the lecture, a question and answer session was opened up to the audience. When We Are Change asked Thomas Kean to address the collapse of WTC Building 7, which was not hit by a plane, and was not mentioned once in the 9/11 Commission Report, his answer was simply shocking.
Kean claims the Bureau of Standards Final Report on the collapse WTC Building 7 found that "aftershocks"
from the planes hitting the twin towers caused the foundation of Building 7 to weaken and collapse. First, it is important to note that the National Bureau of Standards changed its name back in 1988 to the National Institute of Standards and Technology, or NIST. Second, no where in NIST's Final Report does it say that aftershocks from the impact of the planes into the Twin Towers caused or even had a factor in the collapse of Building 7. In fact, NIST claims Building 7 was brought down by fire.
However, NIST's Final Report has come under harsh criticism from highly reputable sources. A recent documentary released by Architects and Engineers for 911 Truth, which you can watch for free right now (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lw-jzCfa4eQ), details meticulously the flaws and illogical conclusions brought forward by NIST.
How is it that the Chair of the most important criminal investigation of our lives doesn't even know the official government story behind the collapse of Building 7? Furthermore, why does he make up a theory that is more illogical and more preposterous than the official version released by NIST, essentially baking a layer cake of lies? I think it's time for a REAL 9/11 investigation.
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Jon Stewarts Executive Producer Arrested for Assaulting 911 Activist
Matt Meyer
We Are Change NY
October 28, 2010
It has been remarked that "all the world loves a clown". Thinking back to Stephen King's Pennywise or John Wayne Gacy's Pogo that might be debatable, but it is probably at least true that most people enjoy some form of well crafted humor or good satire. With that in mind many people may scratch their heads wondering why comedic talk show host Jon Stewart would be the recipient of serious questions regarding his stance on the events of September 11, 2001. Those same people may also scratch their heads wondering how, or even become angry at the suggestion that Jon Stewart's Daily Show is simply another layer of misinformation laid out by the corporatocracy to be mindlessly absorbed by the zombified "moderate liberal" segment of the well-trained population. The theses submitted for your approval here are that 1.) Jon Stewart is a well entrenched member of the establishment's mainstream media propaganda machine. 2.) The people putting on the "Rally to Restore Sanity" are the complete antithesis of what they claim to be – peaceful moderates who would rather talk things out and listen to the ideas of others. And, 3.) the Daily Show actually employs angry, sometimes violent, anti-American radicals and globalists who peddle the REAL conspiracy theories concerning U.S. domestic and foreign policy, geopolitics and science. Their conspiracy theories are then given a humorous spin and represented by funny pictures or captions on The Daily Show. These "funny" graphics are then placed next to Jon Stewart's face so he can proceed to mug, smirk and feign outrage, ultimately resulting in applause and laughter from his obedient audience. But in the end it's not real news, it's not fake news, it's propaganda peppered with jokes.
One month ago I was punched in the face by the executive producer of the Daily Show. I also had my camera damaged by another Daily Show writer, and had my shirt torn by Jon Stewart's security guard. Jon Stewart and the writers and staff of the Daily Show were appearing at a popular book store in Manhattan to present and sign copies of their new book of humorous pictures and captions. I was moved to peacefully confront Jon and ask him a few questions after watching his show a few nights earlier. On the September 16th installment of The Daily Show, before a gushing and edge-free interview with notorious criminal Bill Clinton, Jon announced his "Rally to Restore Sanity". He billed this as a rally for which people should "use indoor voices" and "take it down a notch for America". It was clear that this "Rally to Restore Sanity" was, in part, to be a mockery of the now co-opted and neo-conned Tea Party movement and its successful rallies featuring Glenn "the Judas Goat" Beck and the Palin the Pied Piper of soccer moms. It was also designed to poke fun at the more vocal elements of the anti-war movement. Essentially, the Daily Show had cooked up a rally for wishy-washy people who believed that other people were "insane" for being enraged by a corrupt and out-of-control government that increasingly ignores We the People, while bowing to Wall Street bankers, corporate interests and the military-industrial complex. Jon's rally was to be for those who think injustice, theft and mass murder should just be laughed off (and that sarcasm is what should pass for humor). Getting upset and then vocalizing it using the first amendment, apparently, were the actions of lunatics. Once again a mainstream media talking head was reminding us that the first amendment should really be used to express popular and benign ideas, not controversial ones. These stand-down orders disturbed me, especially in the wake of a watered-down liberty movement, but the "joke" that encouraged me to take action was Jon's mock protest sign suggesting that "9/11 was an OUTSIDE job". He was not, by the way, suggesting Israeli Mossad or British MI6 involvement. He was goofing on the many concerned, often credible individuals who reject the ridiculous and impossible "official story" of 9/11. Again, it was "insane" to question 9/11's official fable about cavemen with box cutters defeating a multibillion dollar defense, defying the laws of physics in the process. Yes, the hundreds of well-known military, intelligence service, and government officials, the engineers and architects, the pilots and professors, the members of media, artists and entertainers, the family members and survivors who rejected this nonsense – were all insane according to him. This was quite a dismissive and insulting statement by the diminutive comedian, but to his credit he did not launch into a clichéd "tin foil hat" reference. Still, I decided that I would question Jon when the opportunity came about.
The Incident
In the past I have peacefully confronted a number of well-known politicians and members of the mainstream media on both sides of the false left-right political spectrum about 9/11(Michael Moore, Sean Hannity, Nancy Pelosi, John McCain, Jimmy Carter, etc..). I've been shoved by cops and security, but never punched in the face before. On the evening of September 27th, 2010, I left work and headed alone to the Manhattan book store where Jon and the Daily Show writers were signing their new book. I happened to run into Luke Rudkowski and some other fellow members of We Are Change NYC in the bookstore, also hoping to question Jon. When I got the opportunity I asked Jon a polite, albeit unpopular question about his take on 9/11 truth. He and the crowd mocked me and I left, heading down the escalator and outside the store. Some We Are Change NYC acquaintances and I were outside the store, hoping to ask Jon Stewart a follow up question. Instead, The Daily Show staff and writers came out before Jon. The executive producer of the Daily Show, Rory Albanese, was belligerent and taunted us. He immediately used a common tactic of those who want to defeat the 9/11 truth argument without actually using facts – he used emotional appeal, telling us that we were disrespecting the victims' families. Like many who use this ad hominem approach he ignored the fact that 9/11 victims' families started the 9/11 truth movement. It is important to note that Albanese put his hands on me twice by this point, lightly shoving my body as well as my hand holding a camera. He stated that he would put his hands on me if he so chose. He was also looking to fight with others, and mentioned that he wanted to punch a We Are Change member's face because of his "knowledge". Soon after, another writer for the show, named J.R. Havlan, was engaged in a heated exchange with another We Are Change member, Matt Lepacek. I was videotaping with my handheld camera as Havlan suddenly reached past two people to grab it – and proceeded to press and twist the viewfinder. He succeeded in damaging the camera, so I repeatedly asked him why he did it and suggested that he might have to pay for the damaged property. He walked briskly away.
Believing that the camera was irreparably broken, I put it in my pocket. Luke and the others with cameras had not made their way down the block just yet. I was walking along with Havlan and a few other writers as we all made our way down the sidewalk. There was some general body bumping made towards me by some of the staff and writers, telling me to "just walk away" (although admittedly, they were not as physically imposing as the bad guys from The Road Warrior). Once again, the aforementioned Rory Albanese was before me, blocking my path as Havlan crossed the street. I did nudge him out of my personal space without much force, as I reached into my pocket to once again inspect my camera and see if I could use it. Without warning Albanese landed a right handed, closed fist to the side of my face, which I did not see coming. By all definitions it was a "sucker punch". I was stunned momentarily and when I came to, he had moved down the block, about twenty feet away. I did react defensively at first and did suggest that I was going to hit him back, but Jon Stewart's security guard "Brian" grabbed me in a bear hug from behind. I threw him off and he grabbed me again, ripping my shirt in the front. Two other men stood between me and Albanese telling me to "just walk away". At this point Luke arrived, helped calm me down and urged me to not hit Albanese, which I agreed to. (I was reminded of the arrest and false charges put on We Are Change's Gary Talis, who was eventually cleared of the charge of assaulting a woman in a wheel chair, as well as the false terrorist charges placed against We Are Change L.A.'s Bruno Bruhwiler.) As I saw Albanese making his way around the corner I told an acquaintance to call the cops to report the assault, which was done.
My face was bruised and cut and I had a scratch on my nose. Albanese, I was told, made his way to a local bar. A while later he returned, right before the cops arrived. We both approached the police – reporting different stories. His consisted of me pushing him with two hands for no reason, when the reality was that he had already put his hands on me, had been harassing me, was blocking my path so his fellow Daily Show writer could leave, invaded my personal space, and then sucker punched me before taking off. Albanese was put in handcuffs and brought to the 14th street precinct. I was brought separately, where I gave my statement and a photo of my wounds was taken. Although I was told I would hear from the D.A. I never did.
One month later my cuts and bruises have healed, and I have realized it would be fruitless and a waste of time and money to pursue the matter. The important fact was that this incident was documented, and the NYPD (whose general attitude toward We Are Change is completely different than it was five years ago) helped make that happen. This is about a much larger point. The people holding the "Rally to Restore Sanity" are not moderate, rational or sane. Allow me to present that case.
The Reality About the People Who Want to "Restore Sanity"
Since 1999, Political satirist Jon Stewart has hosted The Daily Show on Comedy Central, owned by Viacom – the fourth largest media conglomerate in the U.S. Jon has gained considerable attention and respect for his ability to "deliver truth through humor". Many articles have been written about how his Daily Show delivers and assesses the news more accurately than the networks and cable. In recent times Jon was credited by the Huffington Post, NPR and other left-leaning outlets for his "hard hitting" interview with Mad Money's Jim Cramer. Now to be sure, Cramer is a suspect individual who is alleged to have used his show to "pump and dump" stocks (not mentioned by Jon). However, while Stewart took on Cramer for putting entertainment before journalism, did we ever hear Jon mention the Chief Operating Officer of the NYSE who presided over the infamous "flash crash" of May, 2010 – who just happened to be his brother, Larry Leibowitz? (Jon changed his last name.) Certainly not. On the day of that "flash crash" Jon had some pretty good zingers about "fat fingers", but alas an opportunity for some real insight from a real insider – his brother – was passed over. Larry Leibowitz is a former international investment banker who has served on a number of market and industrial committees, and again – is the current COO of the NYSE.
It is openly admitted that chicken hawk neoconservatives like William Kristol love doing The Daily Show, where Stewart might make them mildly uncomfortable for a minute, before jumping past the really hard hitting questions and shaking their hands with a smile. In the spirit of his "moderate liberalism" he has given a pass on real issues and war crimes to the likes of Doug Feith, John Bolton and Condoleeza Rice among others. How could a "sane" person joke around with the architects of an illegal, unjustified war that has resulted in hundreds of thousands of innocent people being dead? If neocons love doing his show, one can only imagine how the eugenics loving globalists who pose as concerned liberals on his show feel about it (Clinton, Gates, Gore, etc.). For proof of a globalist connection to the Daily Show, one need go no further than one of the show's Emmy Award winning writers, Kevin Bleyer, who is a member of the globalist round table group known as the Council on Foreign Relations, whose stated mission can only be described as the erosion of U.S. sovereignty. His Wikipedia entry proudly boasted about his CFR membership until recently, but it can still be confirmed elsewhere, like on the CFR's own website and Bleyer's Facebook page in which two of his five "likes" are the CFR and Foreign Affairs, the CFR's publication. In addition, Bleyer (who was one of the writers present on the night I was assaulted) is a Truman National Security Fellow, an organization that "recruits, trains, and positions progressives across America to lead on national security". It appears that Bleyer is positioned nicely. One of the Truman National Security Project's objectives is Operation Free, a particular project that "organizes military veterans to speak out on issues of climate change and sustainable energy security". One can assume that Bleyer will not be writing any comedic exposes of "Climate Gate" anytime soon. He may, though, continue to write jokes for Barack Obama as he has done in the past – another instance that makes one consider possible conflicts of interest for The Daily Show and its true range of political satire.
Certainly, there is nothing wrong with the peaceful assembly of individuals to support any cause. However, as individuals it is important to closely inspect those who are "rallying the troops", whether it's Glenn Beck, Sarah Palin or even Jon Stewart. The establishment loves to make reference to Hitler and the Nazis, but it may be appropriate here to point out that the people standing and saluting at Nazi rallies actually adored Hitler – and by no means were they all evil people. They were just misled. I believe the people attending the "Rally to Restore Sanity" are being misled – once again. What is being advertised as a gathering of moderate and sensible people to laugh away the implosion of the Constitution and the dollar, has actually been designed to dull the senses so as to repress the most sane reactions to looking at the state of our Union, which should be anger, frustration and a steadfast resolve to fight.
In April of 2009 Jon Stewart was completely honest, before retreating back behind the flashing, pixilated curtain he helps hold in place. In an interview with CFR and Project for a New American Century member Clifford May, Jon rebutted the neocon's defense of George W. Bush by stating that Harry S Truman was in fact a war criminal for his part in the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Considering the thousands of innocent Japanese civilians who were vaporized or radiated to death, it is difficult for any "sane" person to argue that Truman was anything less than a mass murderer, let alone a war criminal. Yet only a couple of days later in a cringe-worthy display, Jon pathetically apologized for calling Harry a war criminal, explaining that it was a "dumb" and "stupid" thing to say. Even Robert McNamara admits that the only thing that saved Harry and his crew from not being labeled "war criminals" was that they won the war. Never the less, maybe Jon really had a change of heart, or maybe he didn't want to insult his writer Kevin Bleyer, the Truman National Security Fellow. I guess only an insane conspiracy theorist would ponder such things.
School district spied on students at home as they slept: lawsuit
Lawsuit: School administrator 'may be a voyeur' who spied on kids for personal gratification
A Philadelphia-area school district secretly took "thousands" of webcam photos of students in their homes and tracked their Web site visits and parts of online chats through spy software installed on the students' school-issued laptops, a Pennsylvania court heard yesterday.
In February, the family of Blake Robbins, a student at Harriton High School in Rosemont, sued the Lower Merion School District after the district admitted to them it had been spying on students via a remote-activated feature on the laptops it issued to all its 2,300 high school pupils.
In a motion filed in court on Thursday, Robbins' lawyers asserted that the school district had taken at least 400 snapshots of 15-year-old Robbins, including some of him sleeping. The motion also stated that "thousands of webcam pictures and screen shots have been taken of numerous other students in their homes," the Philadelphia Inquirer reports.
And in a strange twist to the story, the lawyers also suggested that Carol Cafiero, one of two school administrators with access to the spying technology, "may be a voyeur" who spied on students for her personal gratification, as some of the images taken by the laptops may have ended up on her personal computer.
The motion asks the judge to force Cafiero to turn over her home computer, which she has refused to do so far. Earlier this week, during a deposition, Cafiero pleaded the Fifth Amendment to all questions regarding her involvement in the alleged school spying.
Watching the students at home was like "a little [Lower Merion School District] soap opera," said a staffer in an email obtained by Robbins' lawyers.
"I know, I love it," Cafiero responded in a reply email, as quoted at the Inquirer.
If true, the allegations against Cafiero would realize privacy advocates' worst fears about the school district's monitoring of students at home: That the technology is all too open to abuse by those who would seek to exploit children.
So far, there have been no allegations that the cameras captured any images of nude students, which could fall within the definition of child pornography.
On Thursday, the judge presiding over the case in a federal courtroom in Philadelphia restricted access to the images to the lawyers involved in the case, reports KYW news radio. The school board says it will soon notify the parents of children whose pictures were taken by the spy software, and is working on a way to transfer the photos to the parents, the Inquirer reported Friday.
The latest claims made against the school district contradict what the district itself has said about the use of the cameras. In February, when news of the spy software broke, the school districtpublished a statement saying administrators had activated the monitoring system only 42 times, most of those in order to retrieve lost or stolen laptops.
But the allegations made Thursday suggest "there were 42 instances when they began intensive surveillance on the suspected stolen computers," reports tech blog Slashdot. "This consisted of (among other things) transmitting a picture from the laptop's webcam every 15 minutes. This may have gone on for weeks."
The school district announced in February it was shutting down the spy software, shortly after news of the spy software went public.
Robbins' family launched the lawsuit two months ago after Blake Robbins was called into a vice-principal's office and accused of taking drugs. As evidence, the vice-principal showed a photo of pills in Robbins' bedroom. The Robbins family said the pills were candy, and launched a class-action lawsuit alleging the school district violated Blake's right to privacy.
This week, Sen. Arlen Specter (D-PA), who held hearings into the Lower Merion School District's spying activities, introduced legislation limiting the use of surveillance software.
The proposed Surreptitious Video Surveillance Act of 2010 "would update the federal wiretapping statute to create serious criminal and civil penalties for secret, nonconsensual video surveillance inside any temporary or permanent residence, be it your house, your apartment, or your hotel room,"reports the Electronic Frontier Foundation.
Have a Nice World War, Folks
Here is news of the Third World War. The United States has invaded Africa. US troops have entered Somalia, extending their war front from Afghanistan and Pakistan to Yemen and, now, the Horn of Africa. In preparation for an attack on Iran, American missiles have been placed in four Persian Gulf states, and "bunker-buster" bombs are said to be arriving at the US base on the British island of Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean.
In Gaza, the sick and abandoned population, mostly children, is being entombed behind underground American-supplied walls in order to reinforce a criminal siege. In Latin America, the Obama administration has secured seven bases in Colombia, from which to wage a war of attrition against the popular democracies in Venezuela, Bolivia, Ecuador and Paraguay. Meanwhile, the Secretary of "Defense" Robert Gates complains that "the general [European] public and the political class" are so opposed to war they are an "impediment" to peace. Remember this is the month of the March hare.
According to an American general, the invasion and occupation of Afghanistan is not so much a real war as a "war of perception." Thus, the recent "liberation of the city of Marja" from the Taliban's "command and control structure" was pure Hollywood. Marja is not a city; there was no Taliban command and control. The heroic liberators killed the usual civilians, poorest of the poor. Otherwise, it was fake. A war of perception is meant to provide fake news for the folks back home, to make a failed colonial adventure seem worthwhile and patriotic, as if "The Hurt Locker" were real, and parades of flag-wrapped coffins through the Wiltshire town of Wooten Basset were not a cynical propaganda exercise.
"War is fun," the helmets in Vietnam used to say with bleakest irony, meaning that if a war is revealed as having no purpose other than to justify voracious power in the cause of lucrative fanaticisms, such as the weapons industry, the danger of truth beckons. This danger can be illustrated by the liberal perception of Tony Blair in 1997 as one "who wants to create a world [where] ideology has surrendered entirely to values" (Hugo Young, the Guardian) compared with today's public reckoning of a liar and war criminal.
Western war states such as the US and Britain are not threatened by the Taliban or any other introverted tribesmen in faraway places, but by the antiwar instincts of their own citizens. Consider the draconian sentences handed down in London to scores of young people who protested Israel's assault on Gaza in January last year. Following demonstrations in which paramilitary police "kettled" (corralled) thousands, first-offenders have received two and a half years in prison for minor offences that would not normally carry custodial sentences. On both sides of the Atlantic, serious dissent exposing illegal war has become a serious crime.
Silence in other high places allows this moral travesty. Across the arts, literature, journalism and the law, liberal elites, having hurried away from the debris of Blair and, now, Obama, continue to fudge their indifference to the barbarism and aims of Western state crimes by promoting retrospectively the evils of their convenient demons, like Saddam Hussein. With Harold Pinter gone, try compiling a list of famous writers, artists and advocates whose principles are not consumed by the "market" or neutered by their celebrity. Who among them have spoken out about the holocaust in Iraq during almost 20 years of lethal blockade and assault? And all of it has been deliberate. On January 22, 1991, the US defense Intelligence Agency predicted in impressive detail how a blockade would systematically destroy Iraq's clean water system and lead to "increased incidences, if not epidemics of disease." So, the US set about eliminating clean water for the Iraqi population: one of the causes, noted UNICEF, of the deaths of half a million Iraqi infants under the age of five. But this extremism apparently has no name.
Norman Mailer once said he believed the United States, in its endless pursuit of war and domination, had entered a "pre-fascist era." Mailer seemed tentative, as if trying to warn about something even he could not quite define. "Fascism" is not right, for it invokes lazy historical precedents, conjuring yet again the iconography of German and Italian repression. On the other hand, American authoritarianism, as the cultural critic Henry Giroux pointed out recently, is "more nuance, less theatrical, more cunning, less concerned with repressive modes of control than with manipulative modes of consent."
This is Americanism, the only predatory ideology to deny that it is an ideology. The rise of tentacular corporations that are dictatorships in their own right and of a military that is now a state with the state, set behind the façade of the best democracy 35,000 Washington lobbyists can buy, and a popular culture programmed to divert and stultify, is without precedent. More nuanced perhaps, but the results are both unambiguous and familiar. Denis Halliday and Hans von Sponeck, the senior United Nations officials in Iraq during the American and British-led blockade, are in no doubt they witnessed genocide. They saw no gas chambers. Insidious, undeclared, even presented wittily as enlightenment on the march, the Third World War and its genocide proceeded, human being by human being.
In the coming election campaign in Britain, the candidates will refer to this war only to laud "our boys." The candidates are almost identical political mummies shrouded in the Union Jack and the Stars and Stripes. As Blair demonstrated a bit too eagerly, the British elite love America because America allows it to barrack and bomb the natives and call itself a "partner." We should interrupt their fun.
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Pasadena City Councilman Chris Holden will host a District 3 summer block party Saturday, Aug. 7, from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Jackson Street between Los Robles and El Molino.
The festivities will include:
Holden hosts the block party annually in a relaxed setting to share information and offer direction on addressing neighborhood issues. All Pasadena residents are welcome to attend.
For more information call (626) 744-4738.

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Joseph's Restaurant
- Address:
Sheraton Greensboro Hotel
3121 High Point Road,
Greensboro, NC 27407Neighborhood:
- Cuisine:
AmericanPrice: $30 and under
Joseph's Restaurant
- Dining Style: Casual Elegant
- Website: http://sheratongreensboro.com/dining.html
- Phone: (336) 292-9161
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Breakfast: Daily: 6:00am - 11:00am; Lunch: Daily: 11:30am - 5:00pm; Dinner: Daily: 5:00pm - 12:00am
- Payment Options: AMEX,Carte Blanche,Diners Club,Discover,JCB,MasterCard,Visa
- Cuisine: American
- Executive Chef: Matt Culpepper
- Dress Code: Smart Casual
- Accepts Walk-Ins: Yes
- Additional Details: Banquet/Private Rooms, Bar Dining, Bar/Lounge, Beer, Full Bar, Non-Smoking Restaurant, Personal wines welcome (corkage fee applies), Private Room, Takeout, Wheelchair Access, Wine
A word from Joseph's Restaurant
Our classic American restaurant with a casual style is dedicated to impeccable freshness and finest quality - serving breakfast, lunch and dinner. Our items include bountiful salads, soups, sandwiches, and finely prepared entrees that compliment an extensive wine list for every taste. The look and feel of this restaurant is business casual.Continued
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Joseph's Restaurant reviews from OpenTable diners
2 reviews since August 1, 2014
- Food5Service5
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good for groups (2)fit for foodies (1)great for brunch (1)great for lunch (1)kid-friendly (1)late-night find (1)neighborhood gem (1)special occasion (1)Show More
- Great foodgoodfoodDined on 9/21/2014We, a group of 12, came together for an out of state meeting. We had great service and great food, very accommodating. The calamari was amazing!Special Features:
- The following 13 reviews are from the Joseph's Restaurant reviews archive.
- Convention Center SurpriseBillKVIPDined on 7/17/2014Joseph's Restaurant is in the Koury Convention Center which is almost always filled with people. But the restaurant is tucked around the corner in a very quiet spot making it an excellent venue for a business luncheon or dinner. We shared a Caesar Salad and we both chose the Filet of Flounder. It was outstanding. the Flounder was marinated in fresh lime and cilantro, seasoned with a lemon pepper blend and seared with extra virgin olive oil. Served over a smoked bacon and shrimp risotto, haricot verts and a Dijon hollandaise. The wine list has a nice variety; we chose the Trefethen Cab. Add to this the outstanding service from our server Kirby and we had a very enjoyable dinner meeting.Special Features:
- Good foodJennililyVIPDined on 4/8/2014Went two nights in a row, as it was in my hotel. The service was decent, but better the second night than the first. The food was excellent. I had the filet one night and a pasta dish the second. Both were delicious and reasonably priced.Special Features:
- NC EventSharkDined on 3/23/2014The service was excellent and everyone in my group enjoyed dinner. The food was very good and we felt special with all of the care and attention we received. Will visit again when I am in the area.Special Features:
- okaywillis27403Dined on 3/1/2014Service was good. A little lax at time. Food was okay. Very oily and not 100% like descripion on menu.Special Features:I would recommend this to a friend.
- reservation diningoneoftwelveDined on 9/28/2013table ready per reservations. excellent food nice dining atmosphere for our groupSpecial Features:I would recommend this to a friend.
- Strike 2MikeDined on 9/18/2013I took a group of 7 to Joseph's to dinner while attending a conference.The menu offered promise but didn't deliver. Although the restaurant wasn't busy the service was very slow. The calamari resembled cheerios and were only slightly larger, chewy and tasteless. The crabcakes were missing the crab and tasted similar to the polenta. My wife's pasta was overcooked and mushy. My friends salmon was dry and, following a common pattern, tasteless.
- Mother's DayMackreservationDined on 5/12/2013This was our 3rd year eating Mother's Day breakfast at Joseph's. My family drives in from Raleigh and my mom and dad drive in from Lexington. It's a great place to dine with a nice atmosphere, good food and service; with the convenience of being right off the highway. The best part of all, we practicaly have the entire restaurant to ourselves. Our food comes out quick, the wait staff is very attentive, etc. It's like I reserved the entire restaurant. We'll be back next yearSpecial Features:
- It took 40 minutes for a waitressOpenTable Diner Since 2008VIPDined on 4/30/2013It took 40 minutes for a waitress to take our drink order. They delay caused us to miss part of our conference. Unacceptable!
- Our wait staff was very attentive,VGN67Dined on 5/30/2012Our wait staff was very attentive, and we had a good meal. Very few patrons. Overall, guide enjoyable.Special Features:
- Maybe a second chance?OpenTable Diner Since 2012Dined on 2/11/2012Place was mostly empty on a Friday night, which seemed odd. Appetizer list was nothing special. Menu was sticky and had crumbs all over it. Waitress was polite, patient, cheery, and gave us great service. Salmon was good but not fantastic. Filet was cooked appropriately and tasted good.Special Features:
- Great in a pinch.. Would notOpenTable Diner Since 2009Dined on 12/25/2011Great in a pinch.. Would not go out of my way to get there. Nice tables and chairs but rest other than the entrance the rest of the restaurant was rather boring. The menu had something for everyone...Special Features:
- We had dinner with a groupdiningdocDined on 12/25/2011We had dinner with a group on Christmas night. The restaurant was quiet but the sevice was excellent. The menu was varied, althouth most of the dishes were fairly typical hotel restaraunt fare with no special features. Everything was well prepared and there was no problem getting special menu accomodations for a 6 year old. This restaurant sometimes has a holiday bufffet that is outstanding when it is available.Special Features:
- Worst yet.OpenTable Diner Since 2011Dined on 12/25/2011I found that their menu was not the best. Not much to choose from nor appealing. I was with a party of 6 and I did not order anything but a glass of water. It took them a long time to prepare and serve the food since we were the only people in the place. When I did decide to order I waited 30 minutes and never received the item. All I asked for was half a crab cake and nothing else. After waiting and never receiving it I just asked for the check. No explanation was given by the staff as to why it took so long. Prices were too high for what was offered.Special Features:


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Delivery companies like FedEx and UPS espouse the virtues of lithium ion batteries, but only when the packs are inside hybrid or electric vehicles. Delivering li-ion batteries is another story.
Li-ion batteries pose safety threats and additional challenges when the are being shipped because of their weight and potential flammability, Automotive News says, citing DHL head of automotive logistics Fathi Tlatli. The battery packs must be specially packed to ensure minimal temperature changes. Additionally, used battery packs must be shipped by ground, instead of air, because of their weight and safety threat.
The issue of li-ion safety has been an ongoing one, most recently popping up this spring when experts told the US National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) that electric-vehicle adoption has been slowed in part by questions about lithium-ion batteries. One expert testified that about 25 percent of a typical li-ion battery is flammable, while incidents involving Mitsubishi, Fisker and even Boeing have further raised concerns about the safety of vehicles that use such batteries. Deaths potentially connected to li-ion battery fires in cars remain low in number, but there has been some damage.


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Autopsy reveals previous beatings of 4-year-old boy
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London Fletcher served as a guest analyst on ESPN's NFL programming on Wednesday and said he will not rush into a decision as to whether he'd return to the Washington Redskins next season.
Fletcher, 37, would be entering his 16th year in the league and his seventh with the Redskins. He finished with 139 tackles, a career-high five interceptions, three sacks and a forced fumble.
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Most of the world's population growth in the foreseeable future will be in the urban centres of low- and middle-income nations. Success in reducing poverty, gender inequality and meeting other MDGs will depend on good urban policies and practices.
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A World Bank project aimed at improving living conditions for the urban poor in Ecuador focused attention on meeting future housing needs in five intermediate cities. All five are expected to double in population in the next 15-30 years and to triple or more than triple their urban areas. Surprisingly, most planners have not really considered the implications of projected population growth. To absorb the projected growth will require the official conversion of land on the periphery of cities from rural to urban use, then expanding the official limits of the urban area to accommodate the projected increase in the built-up area.
There is no shortage of affordable plots for the urban poor in these cities. Most residential plots are supplied by private landowners or developers who subdivide and sell minimally serviced land; others are occupied by land invasions. Preventing speculative price increases and ensuring that residential land remains affordable for the urban poor calls for a continuing supply of accessible urban land. To meet this challenge, municipalities must actively prepare for urban expansion by: (a) expanding their city limits; (b) planning for road grids in the areas of expansion; (c) locating the required 25- to 30-metre-wide right-of-way for the infrastructure grid on the ground; and (d) obtaining the land rights for the right-of-way by eminent domain, exchanging land among landowners where necessary and utilizing World Bank loans for land acquisition of road right-of-way (at the declared market value of their land for tax purposes) where required.
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It is better to keep your mouth shut and appear stupid than to open it and remove all doubt.
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Womens Pool League Play-offs Schedule
April 17, 2013
Start time: 7:30pm with minimum of 6 players. 8 players by 7:45pm. No add-ons after 8pm.
Today ... right now ... another beautiful day ... about 16 women began their day as home-makers, wives, girlfriends, employees, owners, Moms, friends ... and around 6:30pm they'll start taking on a different posture: (non lethal) gladiator-like ... at 7:30pm tonight the sound of balls snicking against one another ... cue up your mental music: Eye of the Tiger, Theme from JAWS, long drawn out drum roll ... this is it! Be at Hazel Manor tonight for the final showdown! Breaker's vs Hazel Manor ... all the teams in the league are great teams! But only two can end up here, on this night, and only one will get that last 8-ball ...
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As you know by now, the winners of the All Star Tournament were as follows:
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There were 103 entries this year for a begining total of $204.00.
The 50-50 proceeds taken in added another $156.00 to the pot for a grand total of $360.00! This was divided 50%, 30%, 20% and with that formula, the payout was $180.00 to 1st place, $108.00 to 2nd place, and $72.00 to 3rd place.
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Count the words in the above sentence. Now count the Fs in the above sentence. Add the number of words with the number of "Fs". What do you get?
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I know THE MODERATOR is ready for THIS info!!!! Here we go!! Ah, the BOLD PRINT!
Start date for the 2014-2015 WPL is October 7th! The start time is 7pm.
Your rosters, member names (legibly written, please), and dues of $10 each are due September 30th at the Hazel Manor between the hours of 7pm and 8pm. PLEASE be timely and prompt with your info and money that evening. You will receive your cue ball, receipt and rules at this time. ALSO!!! If you would like pool page updates sent to your email, please give an address.
We have several teams in need of players:
Double Dealin' 2: contact Susan at 412-908-1177
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The Paramount: contact DeeDee at 724-544-9153
The Moose: contact Patty at 724-758-3840
Our first half ends January 6, 2015 and our second half begins January 13, 2015
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Lori will figure out the divisions to be announced before the start of the new season and the first weeks schedule will be posted on here the week before our first matches.
Now the FINE PRINT ... aw heck, there IS no fine print!!
We will have a Thanksgiving break and a two week break for Christmas and New Years.
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The new teams are followed with *:
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What took us so long? Last year we discovered Lauren Michelle Hill at a swimsuit competition in St. Croix. But she's been in front of the camera her entire life. "Mom owned a modeling agency and used to take her girls to New York," she tells us. "As soon as school was over we'd go there for the summer. Mom would take all four of us -- I have two brothers and a sister -- to auditions. Every one of us has acted and modeled. Even our cat. He was in That Darn Cat. We got him from the set." Lauren modeled clothes for department store catalogs and posed for the art on Hasbro toy boxes (she's not telling which ones, but we're sure they'd make great collectibles). As a well-coiffed teenager she appeared in ads for hair care products and was spotted by film producers on location in the South. "In Heavyweights, the movie with Ben Stiller about kids at a weight-loss camp, I played the dream girl at a dance. They do a slow motion of me walking across the floor." Not one to let the job description "dream girl" remain just an entry on her résumé, she took a break from landlocked Columbia, South Carolina and tried her luck in Los Angeles. Within a week she'd landed on the Baywatch beach. "In one episode I played one of the boy-crazy junior lifeguards who are sent away for a weekend to learn about teamwork. A strong current sweeps two of the girls into a cave and another girl and I run back and bring everyone to rescue them." Lauren laughs. "Isn't that a great plot summary? I can't believe how that show keeps going on and on." During a stroll along the tree-shaded Horseshoe walk at the University of South Carolina, where Lauren's a journalism major and a cheerleader, this soft-spoken and ambitious (isn't that one paradigm of a Southern woman?) native talks about Southern writers, expectations of Southern women ("a lot of them are brought up learning how to raise a family, cook and sew") and her deep affection for sports. "I grew up watching sports all the time, and in college especially you're out there to win, giving your all for yourself and the team." Lauren makes sure that the South Carolina Gamecocks give it the old college try. Eighty thousand fans roar when she leads the cheers at football games. "There were 70 girls at tryouts. When I made the final cut, I called my mom and told her, 'You're not going to believe this, but I made the team!'" (We're not surprised.) What do cheerleaders do after class? They practice. Three hours is the norm. "And not just stunts," Lauren says, "but lots of conditioning, too -- laps and runs up and down the stadium steps." The squad is also deployed to boost the University's basketball and volleyball teams. Standing a few inches taller than her teammates (most cheerleaders are petite, because the men on the squad have to throw -- and catch -- them), Lauren caught the eye of a varsity basketball player. "He saw me working out in the weight room the first week of my freshman year. I saw him, too. It's that typical basketball-player-with-the-cheerleader thing," she deadpans. Their relationship has turned long distance since her seven-foot-tall drink of water signed on to play pro ball in Europe. Lauren also keeps her passport handy for the modeling assignments that take her to all the warm places -- most often around the Caribbean. But she notes that a swimsuit model's life isn't always a day at the beach. "You have to be in makeup around 5:30 a.m. so they can start shooting as soon as the sun comes up." How does a beautiful woman manage such a tough job? "You practice the steps and the stance," she says. "You have to make that suit look as good as possible while you're looking natural." We think Lauren looks spectacular when the swimsuit is optional. "I originally said no to Playboy," she says demurely. "I didn't think I could be a Playmate because I'm just kind of normal-looking." Naturally, we disagree, as did the many readers who wrote us after seeing the October issue, begging to see Lauren featured. Your wish is our command.
Miss February 2001
Lauren Michelle Hill
- Bust
- 34b
- Waist
- 21
- Hips
- 33
- Height
- 5' 6"
- Weight
- 100
- Hair Color
- brunette
- Birthday
- June 27, 1979
- Hometown
- Columbia, SC, USA
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Paris Fashion Week: Gareth Pugh A/W 2009-10 swaps the catwalk for video - Watch below!
This season, Gareth Pugh like so many other designers, opted against a runway show in favour of a video presentation. The only difference... he didn't tell anyone about it. So when editors and buyers showed up to his A/W 2009-10 show in Paris yesterday, they were surprised by an eight-minute film, starring his latest dramatic creations modelled by Natasa Vojnovic. Shot on Friday in London, the film was worked on day-and-night by cinematographer, Ruth Hogben. It was also screened live online via SHOWstudio.
For Fall '09, Pugh's strong triangular silhouette has been turned upside down. His same-same-but-different collection featured graphic designs adorned with spikes, nails and chains. Arguably, it is the most wearable collection I have seen of Pugh to date, with big black cloaks, over-the-knee shiny boots, and wide palazzo pants. To hear what he had to say about his latest collection, click on...
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April 22, 2010
Thursday marks the 40th anniversary of Earth Day.
The University of Virginia is making strides to go geren with sustainability outreach programs. On Thursday, the campus held a fair to showcase problems facing the environment and how students can make a difference.
The university's new sustainability outreach coordinator, Nina Morris, joins CBS19's Tiffani Sargent to discuss what's being accomplished at UVa.
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It's a strange coincidence that the Twin Cities were graced by performances from two of neo-soul's most embattled stars on the same Sunday evening, but it offers a great chance for comparison of their respective legacies and comeback-stories. While D'Angelo and recent co-conspirator Questlove reigne ... More >>
Sue McLean, an independent Twin Cities concert promoter, passed Friday afternoon after a battle with cancer. Any regular show-goer in the region has attended countless shows booked by McLean over the past four decades. McLean is responsible for booking the Basilica Block Party since it began in 1995 ... More >>
Stanley ClarkeMarch 15, 2011Dakota Jazz Club, MinneapolisLately the roads have been dangerous enough in the land of 10,000 potholes of Minneapolis. Then the Dakota had to go and invite two of the most thumping, out of hand bass players, Stanley Clarke and Victor Wooten to town to further rattle t ... More >>
So hush now, little babies
Octogenarian world-music legend is preparing for a night of improvisational music at the Walker—just don't call it jazz
Five new local CDs Range from Spaghetti Westerns to pot paeans
The tortured artist abuses his privilege in Sound Unseen's painful docs
A recently discovered concert recording finds Bird and Diz at their peaks
A mid-year roundup of 2005 jazz highlights
Doc-Maker Don McGlynn Draws the reclusive 'Spider' out of his web
Rejecting Bush Inc. and reclaiming American music, Carla Bley plays with the National Anthem
How three Midwestern boys reached jazz nirvana
Minnesota Dance looks east--and not to New York
Savoring the variably spicy JVC jazz festival
Getting More Bop for Your Buck with Parliament-Funkadelic and Charles McPherson Quartet at the JVC Jazz Fest
Uzbek beauties! Swedish peaceniks! Iranian mummies! A guide to the high-wire act otherwise known as the Minneapolis/St. Paul International Film Festival.
Longtime KFAI host and pioneering electronic musician Richard Paske finds a new key in solo jazz piano
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Chesterton Tribune
Guess gets 85 years in Luke Oil murder
Bruce Guess, one of the two Liberty Township men who pleaded guilty this
summer to the robbery-homicide of Luke Oil clerk Barbara Heckman in December
2008, has been sentenced to the maximum prison term possible.
On Monday Porter Superior Court Judge Roger Bradford sentenced Guess to 85
years, Deputy Prosecuting Attorney Matt Frost told the Chesterton Tribune
Guess, 19, formerly of 51 E. U.S. Highway 6, will be eligible for release
after serving half of his sentence: 42 years, six months.
In June Guess cold-pleaded to both charges filed against him: murder,
punishable by a term of 45 to 65 years; and armed robbery with injury, a
Class A felony punishable by a term of 20 to 50 years. He did so without
benefit of an agreement with the Prosecuting Attorney's Office, without
expectation of a dismissal or downgrading of either of the two charges, and
without expectation of a reduced sentence, the Prosecuting Attorney's Office
said at the time.
Bradford duly sentenced Guess on Monday to the maximum term possible on the
murder charge: 65 years. But he could sentence Guess to only 20 years on the
robbery charge, Frost said—the maximum term possible for a Class B felony
robbery—because the "with injury" component which upgraded the charge to a
Class A felony is also a component of the murder charge. "It would be like
double jeopardy" to have sentenced Guess to 50 years on the robbery charge,
Frost explained, because doing so would, in essence, punish him twice for
the same crime.
Guess told investigators after his arrest—just hours after the murder—that
he was the one who actually bludgeoned Heckman to death with a mini sledge
hammer. His co-defendant, Steven Jorden, 19, formerly of 1119 Winterpark
Drive, was sentenced to 57 years in prison last week for his role in the
crime. Jorden had pleaded guilty to felony murder, in a plead-and-argue
agreement under which he agreed to testify against Guess in exchange for the
dismissal of two other charges filed against him: Class A felony robbery;
and revocation of probation. Guess' guilty plea later in the summer obviated
the need for Jorden to testify against him at trial.
Bradford observed in sentencing that the Indiana Appellate Court has
indicated generally that a maximum sentence in a murder case requires the
"worst of the worst" test, Frost said. "And the judge couldn't say that this
wasn't one of the worst of the worst."
Guess' attorney, Peter Boyles, asked the judge to impose a total sentence of
65 years and argued that his client suffers from psychological problems,
Frost added. "But there was no evidence presented" of any such problems, he
Frost also noted that Guess has a "pretty extensive juvenile history" with
multiple delinquency felony charges.
In his plea in June Guess told the court that Jorden was the one who brought
the mini sledge hammer to the scene and it was Guess' role to distract
Heckman at the counter while Jorden struck her with the hammer. Jorden did
not do so, Guess told the court, Heckman was then lured to the men's room,
and there Guess himself struck her three times in the back of the head.
A fellow employee found Heckman dead around 11:20 p.m. on Friday, Dec. 19,
2008, lying face down in the men's restroom of the Luke Oil at 3 E. U.S. 6
in Liberty Township, with massive blunt force trauma to the head. The Porter
County Sheriff's Police cracked the case quickly, only 12 hours after the
murder, and Jorden and Guess were taken into custody on the morning of
Saturday, Dec. 20.
The Luke Oil, located at the northeast corner of the intersection of
Meridian Road and U.S. 6, is just across the street and kitty-corner from
the site of the old Luke Oil business, where on Aug. 10, 1999, Chesterton
High School graduate Kathryn Pokorny, 18, was shot and killed in the course
of a robbery while she was working alone, as Heckman had been working alone,
as duty clerk.
Reggion Deon Slater, 29 at the time, later pleaded guilty to murder,
criminal deviate conduct, and robbery in exchange for the state's
withdrawing its request for the death penalty and was sentenced to life in
prison without the possibility of parole. Several years later the business
was demolished and the site remains vacant.
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That was a killer set Eamon pulled off. I hear he sold out the door before 8 o'clock on a saturday night at the Dakota. Never heard of that before. I'd heard some of the early mixes of these songs before he brought them to the guys. just him playing guitar, drums, base and singing, but all the songs were slower, more like Pegasus. I guess that's what happens when he brings in the band. He rocks them up a notch, or two. Nice job Eamon, Peter, Danny and Clay


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The Age of Moore and Pluke
Rob Taylor reveals a fantastic memory of the days of 'Basher' Lewis and the production of Barbarina
Alistair Westbrook has more Barbarina Memories!
The Age of Moore and Pluke
Rob Taylor reveals a fantastic memory of the days of 'Basher' Lewis and the production of Barbarina
Alistair Westbrook has more Barbarina Memories!
The Seckford Theatre
Old Woodbridgians in Theatre and Television
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Jessica Oyelowo on the Front of the Radio Times
You will have to forgive the emphasis given to Drama in the magazines and website leading up to the opening of the Seckford Theatre in the Summer of 2006. The theatre is a magnificent state-of-the-art playhouse, certainly one of the best of its kind in Britain and a magnificent facility for any school to use and to enjoy. In our memories section you will find the experiences of Robin Taylor and the production of Barbarina, under the guidance of 'Basher' Lewis. 'The School Play' survived until the mid-1970s but times were changing; the school was changing - expanding rapidly and girls taken in. There was a greater emphasis on music and demands by pupils of all ages to show off their acting talents. Thus we entered The Age of Moore and Pluke.
Well, Mrs. Pauline Moore and Mrs. Kay Pluke to be precise. Mrs. Moore took up the baton after Tim Nightingale moved on and her first production was the mightily praised 'Midsummer Night's Dream'. 'The Winslow Boy' followed and 'Arms and the Man'. The fun of 'Alice in Pantoland' involved two-thirds of the school in a great Spring extravaganza. Co-operation with the Music Department saw a very lively 'Mikado' on the tiny school stage.
First Year plays were introduced - and they are still going! Also there were LAMDA Certificate classes as a Friday afternoon activity. PMM pays tribute to Vicky Jones and Mel Ringer from the world of Art and Technology for their invaluable contributions ..... and the catering staff from those days.
Asked to name some of the young actors she remembers she reels off a long list, aware that not every great name can been mentioned. Peter Prentice; Guy Campbell; Andrew Clarke; Jennifer Humphreys; Anne Clifford; Jessica Watson; Camilla Rutherford; Alistair Fisher; Louisa Tee; Niazi and Yazan Fetto; Robin Weaver; Amy Dutton; Oliver Bowles; John Edwards. Many of these are now in the professional theatre and others are in linked professions where performing skills play an invaluable part.
Do not forget also the role that PMM played in the first days of The Globe Theatre in London and such was the input of Woodbridge School that we were actually invited to the opening celebrations.
Kay Pluke had worked with PMM during these key years and she assumed responsibility for drama on the latter's retirement. With the decline of boarding, new difficulties appeared. Day pupils are not quite so readily available for rehearsals, especially on Sundays, when they live in Beccles or Bungay. 'It's always easier to pull from a pool of captive children,' comments Mrs. P.
Together with Mrs. Pat Morgan, Mrs. Pluke further developed work with junior pupils and Year 7 plays were particularly popular, 'Ernie's Incredible Illucinations' saw two successful productions. There were concerts and supper theatres with poetry readings, plays written by junior children, music and dance.
We are reminded of a whole series of excellent productions, including 'The Doctor and the Devils', and 'The Genesis Roadshow.' 'Animal Farm' was a dramatic and zoological triumph and A-Level and GCSE syllabus plays were also produced - 'Trifles' by Susan Glasspells, 'The American Dream', Edward Albee and Arthur Miller's 'The Crucible.'
Mrs. Pluke took us to Ghent for Drama Festivals and Belgian Schools were welcomed and performed here in Woodbridge too. A School from Zimbabwe also visited.
And then there were major shows at the refurbished 'Riverside Theatre'. 'My Fair Lady' and 'Guys and Dolls' stand out here. 'Grease' was another popular and praised extravaganza. A dramatic rendition relating to the Sutton Hoo story - 'Beowulf', written by Mark Mitchels with music by John Stafford was the first time the chapel lawn had been used as the venue for an open-air spectacular.
Kay Pluke adds Luke Roberts, Izzy Summers and Sam Hodges to the list of notable names, stressing again that so many talented performers could be individually named.
Do not let us forget the presence of Filomena Cristalino in the latter Pluke days; she gave us physical theatre and we all enjoyed 'The Rainbow Play', 'A Christmas Carol' and 'The Demon Headmaster'.
Meanwhile, back in the classroom Mrs. Pluke was a full-time teacher and magician of the LAMDA skills. Pupils of all ages obtained their certificates and qualifications, so valuable for self-confidence but also useful aids in the pursuit of college places and much more.
So, in short, and yes, this is in short - this is still not a definitive history of Woodbridge School drama in its later years - The Mrs Moore and Pluke laid massive foundations of interest and success in drama and if you want absolute proof, we have it. Now a Director of Drama serves on the staff with a growing department and a magnificent new theatre arises which will crown the work of those staff, from Dudley Symon onwards who did so much to foster enthusiasm in this vital art-form.
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Rob Taylor reveals a fantastic memory as he recalls the days of 'Basher' Lewis and the production of Barbarina
Basher on the Sports fields!!
It is difficult to believe that it is this many years since I entered the first form as a wide-eyed, enthusiastic 11-year old. At the time Woodbridge School was for boys only and, coming from a small sheltered C of E primary school where the Head and all the teachers were female, this was to me an austere new world of 'day-boys,' 'boarders' and masters who wore gowns and sat on a dais at the front of the class; where the virtues of good manners, self-discipline and application to one's work were quickly learnt, as were the perils of any failure to comply with the minimum implied standards.
I found great pleasure in the weekly music lessons directed by a young, talented and charismatic teacher called Derek Hyde. He would walk among the class as we sang, and invited those of us who weren't 'growlers' to join the school choir. Very soon he singled me out and asked if I would learn the soprano parts for two of the duets that would be in the school play for the Summer of 1959, an operetta entitled 'Barbarina' a delightful adaptation in English of Mozart's 'The Marriage of Figaro'.
My classmates were of the 'bulge' generation born immediately after the Second World War and to accommodate them Woodbridge School was expanding, with its first two-form entry, imaginatively called 1a and 1b. I was rather pleased to belong to 1b as the French master was the business-like but affable Tony Gooden, who taught with great thoroughness and clarity and gave us a sound foundation in French.
The less-fortunate - to my mind - pupils of 1a had a French teacher whose nickname struck fear into our young hearts - a fear only compounded by the sight of him stalking the corridors and the grounds of the school. Of middle age, his build could actually be described as 'beefy'. He invariably wore a powder blue double-breasted suit, which only just closed around the middle; the trousers were suspended on inefficient red braces, which allowed the turn-ups to fray under hush-puppied heels. He flourished a sturdy walking stick, which served to embellish his measured gait rather than to assist it since, for such a heavily-framed man he seemed incredibly light on his feet. His strong-featured ruddy face was topped with a mane of silver hair, parted in the middle. Consistently misplacing his horn-rimmed bifocals, his eyes would narrow into a terrifying squint as he attempted to focus on his surroundings. A large bow tie completed the awe-inspiring presence. The name of this teacher was Hugh Lewis and his terrible sobriquet was 'Basher'. It may be assumed that a great deal of effort was expended by many of the more timid pupils, including myself, in giving 'Basher' a wide berth.
One day I was walking along the corridor with my classmates at the end of a lesson, when I felt a sharp prod on the back of my calf. I turned round and, looking up, was transfixed to find Basher's eyes frowning down at me. 'Who-who-who are you?' he boomed, with his characteristic stutter. 'Taylor R B, sir,' I replied, helpfully distinguishing myself from another Taylor in my class with the initial 'I'. 'Can you act, Tay-Tay-Taylor R B?' demanded Basher. 'Yes, sir' I answered. 'Good. Come to the school hall after lunch for rehearsals.'
Basher soon unveiled a side of his nature that surely endeared him to all his colleagues and to succeeding generations of pupils he taught; an outrageous sense of humour that permeated his approach to life and to teaching, and which could reduce you to stitches in seconds. His dark eyebrows would rise a little, his eyelids grow rounder to reveal glistening brown eyes and laughter lines; his pugnacious lower lip would soften as it curled upward to reveal symmetrically missing upper molars, somehow emphasising the fun in the observations and witticisms that punctuated his every discourse.
An example was when he turned to the quiet and serious maths teacher, David Hull, who had been sent to 'mind' him and keep him calm before a dress rehearsal, dramatically to announce, powder puff in hand. 'Of course, I shall soon be giving up teaching, you know.' 'Really,' responded the innocent Mr. Hull, 'What will you do?' 'I'm thinking of going into the priesthood.' As with any gifted comedian, the surreal and graphic images he created had you eating out of his hand.
As music and drama rehearsals simultaneously progressed, the days of that first year at Woodbridge seemed to gather pace towards the climax of the summer production. Basher's ebullient approach to the coaching of drama was demonstrated more than once when he would bring an unsatisfactory performance to an abrupt halt by loudly crashing his stick on the seat of a chair. Performances quickly attained the required level.
There being no girls in the school at that time, all the female parts for the operetta were played by first- and second-formers. As 'Barbarina' was set in the 18th century, dozens of wigs and crinolines were hired for the occasion, and Basher ensured that, early on in the performance, all the participants circulated the stage so that bemused parents in the audience could admire their new 'daughters'.
In my role as Susanna, maid to Barbarina the countess, I had the honour of singing the amusing opening duet with my 'betrothed', Figaro, played by Peter Fish, tenor, lower sixth. The masterly characterisation has Figaro, anticipating his forthcoming nuptial pleasures, measuring the room for a new bed, while the vain Susanna looks in the mirror, as she adjusts her bonnet, to her mind a more pressing priority.
My most pleasurable and enduring memory, however, is of a more melodic, haunting duet sung later in the play with the countess Barbarina, ably played by Bill Winn, soprano, second form. It begins as Barbarina dictates a letter to her maid Susanna, who repeats each phrase until their two separate voices, fired by the emotions in the letter merge into an exquisitely harmonious finale such as only the genius of Mozart could create. The beautiful duet stunned the hardened prison inmates of the bleak but gripping film, 'The Shawshank Redemption,' some may remember.
Music of all types has the power to evoke memories good and bad. Whenever I hear this particular duet from 'the Marriage of Figaro', my mind travels back through the years and all of the above, and more besides, is vividly re-enacted. Thank you Derek Hyde; thank you, Basher; thank you, Woodbridge School - and thank you Mozart.
Here's the cast and the page from the Speech Day Programme 1959.
William Winn, John Dunnett, Robin Taylor and Peter Fish took the main roles and the villagers were: Timothy Craven; Anthony Hull; Christopher Miller; Christopher Thompson; Richard Vaughan Griffith; Nicholas Dawnay; Alistair Westbrook; Douglas Balch; Paul Woodcraft; William Bumstead; Michael Beal; James Taylor; Maurice Jones; James Stevens; George Barton; John Savage; Roderick Fell; Trevor Blackman; David Wells; Maurice Casey; Richard Frank; Brian Craig; Peter Letley; Christopher Nelson; Alan Westbury; John Helliwell; Robin Pooley; Alan Dann; Bernard Kendall; Brian Wesby; Paul Letzer; Stuart Morse; John Bridgland; Ian Taylor; Alexander Burgon.
The sets were erected by C.H.Jackman and T.M.Dix and D.W.Miller was on the curtain. Staff involvement backstage included the legendary figures, David Hull, Albert Holmes, E.G.Johnson, D.P-R and of course the aforementioned Derek Hyde and Hugh Lewis.
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Alistair Westbrook has more Barbarina Memories!
Alistair A Westbrook (1956-1963) also has a tale to tell.
I was one of the 'village girls' so it would be perhaps appropriate to write from a more downbeat perspective; however, halfway through the production I was recast by 'Basher' to become 'a village boy', a certain amount of sex reassignment but I feel that it was a good thing as I was about 5ft 10ins tall with size 10 feet!
My enduring memory of the production was the unstinting effort, enthusiasm and pursuit of perfection by everyone involved, from the stagehands, scenery painters, electricians et al, to the chorus and principal players.
There is little I can add to Rob Taylor's memories. I share his comments concerning Derek Hyde. I was the school choir as well as the chapel choir and thus had many dealings with him. He was a tall, elegant and extremely handsome man with a shock of long dark hair that regularly fell forwards over his face and he would flick his head back or run his fingers through it as he conducted us in choir practices. During my time at the school he married a stunning Tahitian lady, I believe to the envy of many of the boys.
I remember thinking that Rob (Susanna), looked absolutely gorgeous; he had fine planes to his face and suited the transformation perfectly. (Relax Rob; I won't be contacting you for a date!) I can just see DPR, his head inclined slightly and his brolly waving dangerously about, saying, 'Oh such a lovely boy.'
Returning to the production; we used Queen's House as the dressing room; there was no space in the School Hall and we were helped by Mrs. Hull, wife of the housemaster and by a Mrs. Jean Brown. The latter also visited the school to coach the fifth formers in ballroom dancing in preparation for the end of term dance. A sensuous lady usually attired in a silk sheath dress earnestly enjoining us to 'lead with the hips.' We had been ordered by 'Basher' to acquire various female attire from our parents in preparation for the production. Despite my mother having wishes I was a girl, she was somewhat surprised when I asked to borrow a skirt, bra and various other items of female apparel. Perhaps she thought she had overdone the wishing thing or that the rigours of Public School life had turned my head.
We had to keep our little pile of clothing on the chairs by our beds in the dormitory; I suppose it would have looked strange to have hung them on the hooks in our changing rooms.
For some reason the ladies Hull and Brown had singled me out for some mischief. I was dressed in preparation for a rehearsal when Ms. Brown decided that I required more fullness under my skirt and with no more ado hitched up the skirt and pulled on a slip underneath. Mrs. Hull arrived moments later and muttered something about 'too much fullness' and down came the slip again. This went on some ten to twenty times and I was rapidly becoming covered, or perhaps 'uncovered' in confusion. Not wishing to be indelicate the expressions concerning scorch-marks and yo-yo come to mind. I am not sure what had occasioned this nefarious activity and that they were none too careful in their handling of me. There was a similar disagreement concerning earrings and these were also clipped on and then removed with great regularity.
Eventually an agreement was reached and I was released from their clutches to proceed across the grass to the School Hall. I was reflecting that the white plimsolls detracted from the total effect when I became the recipient of catcalls and wolf whistles. Realising that this was probably the kind of behaviour that girls had to endure on a regular basis I turned to my admirers and pursed my carmine lips whilst probably adding some rejoinder that 'they should be so lucky.'
My moment of glory, however was short-lived and I became a 'boy' again. Somewhere in my archives, I still have the colour pictures taken of the production. I will go and seek them out .....
The Seckford Theatre, pictured above from just down the drive from School House, became operational during 2006 and was officially opened by Robert Hardy CBE on 9 February 2007. All Old Woodbridgians have given money to this project either individually and/or collectively through the £5,500 donated on your behalf by the OW Committee from reserves. This is a truly magnificent facility which is not only available to the pupils of today and the future, but is also available to the local community for dramatic and musical productions of every sort. You must see it if you haven't already!
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Jessica Oyelowo on the Front of the Radio Times
How wonderful to see one of our very own making front page news !!


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Show Start Time: 8:00PM
Gipsy Kings With Ole' Noys May 15
Show Start Time: 8:00PM
Doors Open Time: 7:00PM
Ticket Price: $61.50 / $71.50 / $81.50
Celebrate the 25th Anniversary of the Grammy Award winning Gipsy Kings when they play at Hard Rock Live on May 15th, 2014, featuring Nicolas Reyes and Tonino Baliardo. Opening the night, is Ole' Noys, the sons of the Gipsy Kings' Toninno Baliardo and Nicolas Reyes.
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