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Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-1896) published more than 30 books, but it was her best-selling anti-slavery novel Uncle Tom's Cabin which catapulted her to international celebrity and secured her place in history.
But Uncle Tom's Cabin was not Stowe's only work. Her broad range of interests resulted in such varied publications as children's text books, advice books on homemaking and childrearing, biographies and religious studies. The informal, conversational style of her many novels permitted her to reach audiences that more scholarly or argumentative works would not, and encouraged everyday people to address such controversial topics as slavery, religious reform, and gender roles.
Harriet Beecher Stowe believed her actions could make a positive difference. Her words changed the world.
Harriet Elisabeth Beecher was born June 14, 1811 in Litchfield, CT to the Rev. Lyman Beecher (1775-1863) and Roxanna Foote Beecher (1775- 1816); the sixth of 11 children.
The Beechers expected their children to shape their world:
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Roxanna Beecher died when Stowe was only five years old. Her later pursuit of painting and drawing honored her mother's talents in those areas. Oldest sister Catharine became an important maternal influence. Stowe wrote at an early age: at seven, she won a school essay contest earning praise from her father.
Lyman's second wife, Harriet Porter Beecher (1800-1835), was a beautiful woman slightly overwhelmed by the 8 boisterous children she inherited. Her own children, Isabella, Thomas and James, added to the noisy household.
In Litchfield and on frequent visits to her grandmother in Guilford, CT, Stowe and her sisters and brothers played, read, hiked, and joined their father in games and exercises. Many of these childhood events were incorporated into Pogunuc People, (1878) Stowe's last novel.
Stowe learned to make a persuasive argument at the family table. The Beechers took in boarders from Tapping Reeve's law school. Lyman Beecher taught religion at Sarah Pierce's Litchfield Female Academy and honed the debating talents of both his students and his children.
Stowe began her formal education at Sarah Pierce's academy, one of the earliest to encourage girls to study academic subjects and not simply ornamental arts.
In 1824, Stowe became first a student and then a teacher at Hartford Female Seminary, founded by sister Catharine. There, Stowe furthered her writing talents, spending many hours composing essays.
For more information on the Beecher family, see the Beecher section of this site and visit the Newman Baruch library at CUNY.
Stowe's passion for writing allowed her to
Stowe's publishing career began before her marriage, with:
Later works include:
In 1851, The National Era's publisher Gamaliel Bailey contracted with Stowe for a story that would "paint a word picture of slavery" and that would run in installments. Stowe expected Uncle Tom's Cabin or Life Among the Lowly to be three or four installments. She wrote more than 40.
Uncle Tom's Cabin, brought not only financial security, it enabled Stowe to write full time. She began publishing multiple works per year including the Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin, which documented the case histories on which she had based her novel, and Dred: A Tale from the Swamp, another and more forceful anti-slavery novel.
Other notable works include The Minister's Wooing, which helped American Protestants move towards a more forgiving form of Christianity while simultaneously helping Stowe resolve the death of her oldest son, Henry Ellis Stowe; The American Woman's Home, a practical guide to homemaking, co-authored with sister Catharine Beecher; and Lady Byron Vindicated, which strove to defend Stowe's friend Lady Byron and immersed Stowe herself in scandal.
In all, Harriet Beecher Stowe's writing career spanned 51 years, during which time she published 30 books and countless short stories, poems, articles, and hymns.
A comprehensive bibliography for Harriet Beecher Stowe can be found at the University of Pennsylvania web site.
In 1832, 21 year old Harriet Beecher moved with her family to Cincinnati, OH, where her father Lyman became President of Lane Theological Seminary. There she met and married Calvin Stowe, a theology professor she described as "rich in Greek & Hebrew, Latin & Arabic, & alas! rich in nothing else..."
Six of Stowe's seven children were born in Cincinnati, and in the summer of 1849, Stowe experienced for the first time the sorrow many 19th-century parents knew when her 18-month old son, Samuel Charles Stowe, died of cholera. Stowe later credited that crushing pain as one of the inspirations for Uncle Tom's Cabin because it helped her understand the pain enslaved mothers felt when their children were taken from them to be sold.
In 1850 Professor Stowe joined the faculty of his alma mater, Bowdoin College in Brunswick, ME. The Stowe family moved to Maine and lived in Brunswick until 1853.
The first installment of Uncle Tom's Cabin appeared on June 5, 1851 in the anti-slavery newspaper, The National Era. Stowe enlisted friends and family to send her information and she scoured freedom narratives and anti-slavery newspapers for first hand accounts as she composed her story. In 1852 the serial was published as a two volume book. Uncle Tom's Cabin was a best seller in the United States, Britian, Europe, Asia, and translated into over 60 languages...
Stowe was less than half way through her life when she published Uncle Tom's Cabin, and she continued to write and work to improve society for most of her days. From Brunswick, the Stowes moved to Andover, MA, where Calvin was a professor of theology at Andover Theological Seminary from 1853 to 1864.
After his retirement, the family relocated to Hartford, CT. There Harriet Beecher Stowe built her dream house, Oakholm, in Nook Farm, a neighborhood full of friends and relatives. The high maintenance cost and the encroachment of factories caused her to sell her mansion in 1870. In 1873, she settled into a brick Victorian Gothic cottage-style house on Forest Street. She remained there for 23 years.
While residing in Hartford, Stowe undertook two speaking tours, one along the east coast, the second taking her to the western states. Promoting progressive ideals, she helped reinvigorate the art museum at the Wadsworth Atheneum and helped establish the Hartford Art School, which eventually became part of the University of Hartford. Stowe wrote some of her best known works, after Uncle Tom's Cabin, while living in Hartford: The American Woman's Home (1869), Lady Byron Vindicated (1871) and Pogunuc People (1878)
After the Civil War, the Stowes purchased a house and property in Mandarin, FL, on the St. John's River, and began to travel south each winter.
There were multiple reasons for their decision. The Beechers and the Stowes knew that racial equality required more than legislation; it also required education. Stowe's brother Charles Beecher (1815-1900) opened a Florida school to teach emancipated people, and he urged Calvin and Harriet Stowe to join him.
Newly expanded railroads also made shipping citrus fruits north a potentially lucrative business, and Stowe purchased an orange grove which she hoped her son Frederick would manage. The relatively mild winters of northern Florida were a welcome respite from Hartford winters and the high costs of winter fuel.
Harriet Beecher Stowe loved Florida, comparing its soft climate to Italy, and she published Palmetto Leaves, describing the beauties and advantages of the state.
Stowe and her family wintered in Mandarin for over 15 years before Calvin's health prohibited long travel.
Harriet Beecher Stowe resource list.


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Maya's Ark
This week I began coachings for the world premiere of my 10-minute opera, Maya's Ark, which Ardea Arts is presenting to the kids at Children's Village on March 5th (and then in a Salon in their Soho studio on the 6th), featuring Michael Lofton and Guadalupe Peraza and directed by Grethe Holby.
Maya's Ark was inspired by the story of Kea Tawana, who built an ark with salvaged materials in the parking lot of a church in downtown Newark in the mind 1980s; it was hailed as a major and inspirational piece of folk art, but she was eventually forced to tear it down because of zoning regulations. I've been wanting to write a musical about this for years—tried twice, only to run aground on the fact that the villain of the piece is the (yawn) zoning board—but, when I was looking for a subject for a ten-minute opera, one scene of the story jumped up waving its little hand and saying, "Me, me!" It's the (totally imagined) moment when the pastor of the church asks Kea, "What's all that scrap lumber doing in the parking lot?" If you'd like to know more about either the actual story of Kea's ark, or about Maya's Ark, please check out the impressive page that the Ardea Arts staff has put together about the piece (scroll down until you see the link for Maya's Ark on the lower right, I can't link directly to that page.
Why would anyone write a 10-minute opera? How could such a thing be performed? There's a company that presents an evening of 10-minute operas every year, which I will not name here for reasons which will become clear shortly. I am friendly with the directors of the company, and they had told me that if I wrote a piece for them, they would include it—they couldn't promise what year, but they'd do it eventually. So last spring I wrote Maya's Ark and sent it off to them. They didn't respond, but hey, they're busy people.
Meanwhile, Grethe Holby, to whom I'd shown the libretto, offered to do an informal reading at the Ardea Arts space in Soho in July. We did that—sung by Lars Woodul and Judith Skinner—and it was most encouraging. Grethe got the idea that it might be something we could market and license to churches, and then handed me the most thorough, detailed and dead-on critique I've ever had of something I've written. (Truly: the marked-up score, with its annotations in different-colored pencils was a thing of beauty in its own right.) It took me several months to get the time to rework it, but finally that was done (it's this version which we're doing in March) and I also sent the revised score off to the UnNamed 10-Minute Opera Company.
A few days later, I got an email saying that they didn't think the piece was appropriate for their audience. That rocked me back on my heels: the story takes place in a church; there's no sex, violence, profanity or partisan politics; as the Ardea Arts website puts it, it's "an investigation into the nature of faith with something to say to almost any audience." The plot involves the rekindling of the pastor's faith inspired by Maya's quixotic ark-building project. I asked what on earth they could possibly be talking about. The reply to that was, "Maybe it's just us—we don't get it. And if you'd like to talk to us about it, we can talk—in April."
Oooookay. Now I guess I know what it feels like to be a misunderstood artist. I'm still mystified as to what could possibly be troubling them about this, but it doesn't matter now—I have three performances of the piece coming up, and a company that's going to try to get more.
Is there a moral to this story? Maybe not yet. While I'm waiting for the punch line, though, I'm writing another 10-minute opera on a faith-related subject: the Rapture. Last April, when dozens of people were striding through New York City street fairs carrying signs informing us that the Rapture was coming at 6 pm on May 21st (and the world would end five months later), I thought, "Oh, to be a fly on the wall when six o'clock comes and goes." That's the inspiration for this new piece, which I'm calling (surprise) Rapture.
I'd been thinking it could be a sister piece to Maya's Ark, maybe something else that could be marketed to churches. But Grethe's response after reading this libretto was that it was not at all suitable—whereas Maya's Ark is uplifting and inspirational, Rapture is, well, a bit of a downer, and shows faith in a bad light. (The Rapture never actually happens, you see.) So perhaps the moral of the story is a post-modern one: that one never knows how one's creations will be viewed. I suppose they're a bit like children in that regard…

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Art and Sole is goin' down at 9PM tomorrow night (Oct 3rd) here in Vancouver, at El Kartel. A ton of amazing artists re-worked PF Flyers shoes and El Kartel is gonna host a silent auction! I have a shoe in the show and will be hangin' around so please come say hello!
El Kartel is also releasing a book documenting the work! Have a peek!


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DANNY Webber hopes he and fellow striker Kayode Odejayi can help to guide a young Accrington Stanley team away from relegation trouble – as he passes on the tips he once learned from Manchester United's Fab Four.
Webber came through the youth system at Manchester United, where he had four of the world's best strikers to look up to, and now wants to lead by example in the Stanley dressing room along with Odejayi and the club's other senior pros.
A Reds side with a number of young players sit level on points with the League Two drop zone.
"I remember being their age and you look to people who have played 10 or 15 years in the game and know how to see games out and you draw upon their experience," said the 32-year-old.
"You just had to look at Andy Cole, Dwight Yorke, Teddy Sheringham, Ole Gunnar Solskjaer. You only had to sit and watch them in training, and we went to every game and watched how they react to adversity if you go 1-0 down.
"How many times did United win games late on, and know how to see games out as well?
"Sometimes the example you set may not be an obvious example. It's an example of maybe closing a ball down where you could leave it, but you going could spark off what everybody else does.
"It's important for us to be good with our education, helping the young boys, making sure we're doing the right things as well and making sure we're not taking things for granted."
Target man Odejayi returned to Stanley for a second loan spell at the start of the month and partnered Webber up front for only the second time in Saturday's draw with Newport.
"I get the way Kay plays, I enjoy playing with him," Webber said.
"When you get game time with intelligent players you can only go strength to strength, so hopefully I can get some more game time with him.
"Between the two of us you've got every facet to break people down.
"I can go in behind, I can come short, Kay can do the same but he also has that physical presence that I don't possess."


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Proposed Pattern for Deploying EC2 instances with Secure Credentials
After struggling with this problem in my mind for a while, I finally had the opportunity to experiment with Cloud Init and come up with a working solution for securely (I think) deploying code and credentials to a stock Ubuntu Instance on EC2.
My primary goals are:
- Must use an stock AMI with no customization
- Human readable user-data that contains appName, environment, and role.
- user-data must be easily modified by a developer for their own app or environment
(No forcing them to base64 encode, gzip, or use special tools)
- Must be portable between providers.
The example works with EC2, but initial 'include' file can be customized for each provider or OS.
The diagram below shows how this is to be accomplished
The key to making this work is posting the user-data to a configuration server that can validate that the Instance ID belongs to us, hasn't already attempted to be configured, and was started in the past couple minutes.
I've successfully deployed several instances using this method and it seems to work well. Getting the cloud init include file, and the script


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When President Obama visits Alaska at the end of August, climate change will be a key focus of his trip. The Wilderness Society developed the following memo to provide a brief primer on key Alaska public lands where the effects of climate change can already be seen.
The U.S. Fish & Wildlife today finalized the revised management plan issued in January for the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.
The National Wilderness Preservation System (NWPS), established by the Wilderness Act in 1964, is the world's largest and best-protected conservation system. But it falls short in its protection of the full range of 553 ecosystem types found on national public lands in the lower 48 s
The bill, jointly introduced by Rep. Simpson and Senator Jim Risch (R), eliminates important wild areas that have been recommended for wilderness protection by the U.S.
Today, several measures aimed to roll back protections on our nation's public lands were defeated in the Senate as part of the Keystone XL Pipeline bill.
In honor of the Wilderness Act, signed into law by President Johnson 50 years ago on September 3rd, a new publication from The Wilderness Society celebrates the role of wilderness in shaping national character, highlights the significance of wilderness to today's diverse America and calls
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As the Sleeping Bear Dunes Wilderness is officially dedicated today, The Wilderness Society praised Michigan Representative Dan Benishek and Senator Carl Levin for championing the bipartisan legislation that now protects this incredible place – the first wilderness area to be approved by C


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While I love the iPad, I still do not fully consider it to be under the PC category. It's still limited to what an actual laptop/desktop can do. No flash (although flash is dying and HTML5 is taking over), no USB ports, no sd card reader, no physical keyboard (unless bought separately). But unless people Re thinking of the basics such as email and web browsing and YouTube, then l guess it could almost be considered a pc...ish..
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15% are apples that means there is still 85% PCs so why is this good news?Still shows you that PCs and Windows/Linux rules.
Personally iPads can't and shouldn't be counted as a "PC" since there's nothing you can't really do with it compared to a pc. Although windows tablets can be counted in windows behalf since no change from a normal pc. If counted then iPods should be counted as well because an iPad is basically a bigger iPod.
Oh I like this guys articles they are the only fair ones I have seen all this time. This guy is more in the middle
Sorry, but PHONES and TABLETS are NOT Personal Computers.They are app-players. They are largely Read-Only devices with some minor editing tools.PC's allow you to WORK on them. To create things that you can freely move around and manipulate. Documents, spreadsheets, productions, web design, program coding, etc...The term "PC" should be limited to Desktop Computers and Laptops - devices you can actually BUILD with.
I agree in not counting iPads and such in the "computer" category, though iOS is coming close to 100% functionality to a home computer. Id say 70-80% of the things I do daily on my computer I now just do on my phone. Also, just took the opportunity to troll because this is the internet and thats what youre supposed to do.
I have no idea what sexy parrot is but I took it as a head bopping finger snapping angry black woman.
noone likes the Gators.
It irritates me when the Apple fanboys claim that the company they love is so great and use that to support their claims without fully understanding the implications behind it. Apple is a company that has very low costs (due to low-cost manufacturing (read: child labour) as well as reusing parts from their old devices in every new iteration of their products), yet they do not pass these savings on to their consumers. It astounds me that people are willing to pay an incredibly large sum of money simply because the company they love convinces them it's better, but I guess that's all marketing. Apple products aren't really as special or as amazing as their consumers claim they are. It's only because of Apple's brilliant marketing and product differentiation that their products are selling so well right now. Like I said before, while this may be a great thing from a business perspective, it sure as hell isn't one from a consumer perspective. That, as well as many other things, such as Apple's Big Brother attitude toward their consumers (It's my device. I paid good money for it. I should be able to do whatever I want with it.), is why I, as a consumer, don't like them, but also why I, as a business student, admire them.
Are you trying to tell me Dell and HP dont use child labor at all for their parts? Are you for real? At least Apples customer support is still in California and not India like most companies now. Also, when my wifes HP laptop had a motherboard issue under warranty I sent it off and didnt see it for a few months. WOW, that would be a HUGE problem if that was our only computer. My friends android phone broke and he had to wait a couple weeks before seeing his replacement come in. Whenever I have had an issue with an Apple product, such as my iPhone it was replaced on the spot and they even offered to transfer everything to my new one. Im not one that usually cares about customer service because I typically rarely use it but from my little sample study here Id say there is absolutely a value of that. How much money would I of lost if I was without my laptop for a few months. I can guarantee you it would make the entire price of a Macbook Pro close to negligible.
And as for Apple offering nothing but marketing on their products think about resale. If you go drop $700 on a Dell craptop its going to be worth maybe $200 in a year. A Macbook Pro in that same time will maybe fall in price a couple hundred. Where is the bad investment? 30% return vs 80% return.
No OS in my opinion is an enjoyable to use, especially on a laptop as lion. The full screen apps and all the other little gestures, tweeks, and features make it fantastic for me to use for both work and hobby. I will happily pay and continue to pay the premium for that, it is well worth the extra few hundred bucks for that and to also not have my laptop built in some garbage plastic case, whos cutting cost corners again?
I can also assure you that the cost to build a Macbook Pro well trumps the price to build a Dell Latitude. Youre a business student higher risk and cost should equal more profit, why not? Who took a significant gamble on a product like the iPad to be first to market? Obviously if the iPad bombed that would of been quite a blow financially.


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HOUSTON - One in 500 young people has an undetected genetic heart condition that is the leading cause of sudden death. What's worse, there are rarely any outward signs or symptoms. But this weekend, families can get their teen athletes screened for free.
About 20 minutes -- that's all the time it takes to screen someone for a potentially deadly heart problem.
Dr. Silvana Lawrence, medical director of Texas Children's Community Cardiology program said, "Many times this condition maybe completely silent until the first presentation is collapse, typically when performing sports activities."
TCH has teamed up with the Championship Hearts Foundation to offer free heart screenings for teen athletes, searching for abnormalities.
Lawrence said, "This is only a screening event, so we will not be clearing kids for sports participation. This is really trying to pinpoint if there is a specific abnormality that we might be able to help identify in the absence of symptoms. We truly believe that this is something that can save lives."
Patient Carlos David, 15, said, "On Sept. 25 of this year, I got diagnosed with (hypertrophic) cardiomyopathy (HCM) which is my left ventricle, my heart's not squeezing like it's supposed to. So whenever I do physical activities, I get tired real fast."
At first, Carlos' Mom Eda wrote off this fatigue.
She explained, "I thought he was just a typical lazy teenager."
But, she sent the 15-year-old to be screened and sure enough, doctors spotted an abnormality in his heart.
Carlos said, "When the doctor first told me, I was crying. I was shocked like, 'Why did have to happen to me?'"
Eda added, "At first, I thought his life was over. He was upset and I was upset, but they explained to us that what he has is just a condition and he could live a normal life."
Fortunately, it can be managed with medication, but sports are out of the question.
Carlos said, "I can't play any sports any more. If I wanted to after high school, I can't join the Army. But, it's changed my life for the better because it brought me closer to my family and I don't take things for granted anymore."
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The Putnam County Cancer Assistance Program (CAP) is celebrating their 10th anniversary in 2014.
The Cancer Assistance program was started in 2004 to help Putnam County residents that are dealing with the financial burdens of battling cancer. The program started out helping cancer patients with mileage to and from treatments and doctor's appointments. It has now evolved to the point where they are able to help patients with prescriptions, medical supplies and supplements, wigs and copays that are not covered by insurance.
In 2013 CAP helped 80 people battling cancer in Putnam County and paid out over $96,000.
"It is because of the generous and caring businesses and individuals in our communities, and the many CAP volunteers that we are able to keep this program going," said Lori Schroeder., CAP Event coordinator, "The Annual Auction & Dance Benefit is our single largest fundraiser for the program and we are asking once again that everyone come out and support this great program we have in our county. We need everyone's help to see that this program perpetuates into the future."
You can also visit their website at www.pccap.org for more program information or to make a donation to CAP.
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GARY THORNTON reckons Luke Stenchion's enthusiasm and attitude will make him a hit with the York City Knights faithful in 2013.
The 26-year-old has penned a one-year deal at Huntington Stadium ahead of tonight's annual season launch in Bar 13 at the ground, where he and the rest of Thornton's new-look squad will be introduced to the supporters.
The signing comes at a good time for York, with doubts over fellow front-rower Clark Thompson's immediate future, and Thornton – who coached Stenchion at Batley Bulldogs and likens him to reigning The Press and Players' Player of the Year Jack Aldous – believes the player is coming to York "for the right reasons".
He said: "He's not the biggest prop but he's an honest player, a fantastic trainer and with a great attitude towards the game. He's similar to Aldous. He works really hard and is a good defender, and he has an offload and a decent passing game.
"He will add some strength for us up front. He never shirks work and will do the hard yards."
Dewsbury-based Stenchion began his professional career in Leeds Rhinos' academy – earning England Academy honours, and being part of the touring team that inflicted a first-ever home defeat on the feted Australian Schoolboys side in 2004 – before Thornton took him to Batley upon his release by the Super League club.
He had four seasons at Mount Pleasant, playing 84 times for the Bulldogs and scoring seven tries, before switching to arch-rivals Dewsbury, for whom he made 21 appearances, with five tries, in 2010.
He joined Oldham two years ago, and although injuries restricted his appearances to only four in 2012, to add to his 16 in 2011, the Roughyeds were keen to keep him for a third season as they seek promotion from Championship One. However, the player was eager to return to the higher tier with immediate effect, to which end he has agreed a pay-as-you-play deal with the Knights.
Thornton said: "He signed for me at Batley in late 2005 after leaving Leeds' academy and he was with me for a few seasons. I know him well. He wants to get back into the Championship – and I think he's a Championship player not a Championship One player.
"He's looking for an opportunity and will earn himself a contract, and that's pretty admirable. It shows he's coming for the right reasons. He's an intelligent kid, too, and I'm pleased he'll get an opportunity here."Thornton added that he would have wanted to recruit Stenchion regardless of Thompson's situation, which had left the club with only six props in full training, one of whom, Tim Stubbs, is only 17. A seventh, former Wakefield youngster Jake Joynt, is on trial.
The 21-year-old Thompson – of whom Thornton had predicted a big future at York – joined the Knights in October after being released by Castleford, but he has been strugging to attend training due to new work commitments, a predicament Thornton hopes will be rectified after Christmas.
Said the coach: "Clark has been struggling to get to sessions because of shift work. We're hoping that will change and he's got a home programme (of training). We're not closing the door.
"I would have signed Luke regardless – and he's on match terms anyway."
Meanwhile, teenage half-back Ollie Olds, who had a brief dual-registration stint at the Knights last season, has signed for Championship One club South Wales Scorpions after being released by Leeds. Olds hails from south Wales.
Lionel Hurst, the man behind the old York International 9s rugby league festival, which helped to boost the sport in the Minster city following the demise of York Wasps a decade ago, has been named the Citizen and Gloucestershire Echo Diamond Jubilee Sports Awards Administrator of the Year.
Hurst, from Cheltenham, is now on the board of the Gloucestershire All Golds, one of the new teams coming into Championship One next year.
• Leeds Rhinos are to rename Monday, December 3 as 'Sir Kevin Sinfield Day' in honour of their captain, who will celebrate a decade as skipper on Monday.
Sinfield, who is called 'Sir Kevin' by Rhinos fans, became the youngster-ever captain in the club's history tenyears ago.
Since then, the Oldham-born international has led his side to 17 major finals, winning nine, including a record six Grand Finals, along with two League Leaders Shields.


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Signs of Strength
K.I.M (Keep it Moving)
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Signs of Strength
(Coffee table book benefiting the Cancer Society)
"Get up...Do Something"...This book SOS is the first in the series for various charities.
It was inspired by Mom and Dad's illnesses in addition to friends and other immediate and extended family affected by a host of illnesses. As well, cancer, heart disease, diabetes, stroke, children illnesses, sickle cell, asthma, leukemia, kidney failure, and hiv all have touched us either directly or indirectly. All profit from the sale of each book over and above the cost to print in the series is being donated to one charity per year starting with the Cancer Society. A different charity will be selected each year. Life is not about waiting for someone to do something but doing what you can while you can with time, talent and finances to K.I.M. (Keep It Moving) toward advancing research and cures.
Each day is a blessing...
Live. Be Grateful...
Make a Difference in your life and someone else's life.
We all sit on the shoulders of someone before us.
Our true purpose in life is to Learn, to Teach and to Love.
Much love...
Darrell Cavenaugh Walker
Cavenaugh Photography (email@example.com)
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- Categoría Fotografía artística
Vertical estándar, 20×25 cm
20 Páginas
- Fecha de publicación ago. 28, 2011
- Etiquetas locations, photography, charity, scenery
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With over 20 years experience in photography, Cavenaugh Photography is a northern CA based photographer focusing on landscape, people using natural lighting, no photo enhancements. Realism and reality are the focus by bringing to life special moments in time and space.
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nate01 Great cause, inspiring words and excellent shots!! I guess it is K.I.M


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AAbstract reflective distortion of lilies shot in 2004. Each image has a reversed companion for the benefit of those who would like to mix and match to decorate with prints in pairs like bookends. (For purists, the original orientation has a file name ending in "L".) No Photoshop tricks used, other than for the reversal of paired images.
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SAINT LEO, Fla. – The Saint Leo men's basketball team's upset bid to hand third-ranked Florida Southern its first loss of the season came up seven points short as the Lions fell to the Mocs 92-86 at a sold out Marion Bowman Activities Center on Wednesday night.
It was a game where the Lions (13-4, 2-3 SSC) jumped out to a 14 point lead early on, catching the visiting Mocs on their heels. The Lions held off the nation's third ranked team for the entire first half, holding the lead from wire-to-wire, but Florida Southern regrouped out of the gates in the second half and was able to draw even with Saint Leo.
The Moccasins (16-0, 4-0 SSC) took the lead for good with 10:40 left in the game, but Saint Leo kept things interesting as the Lions never allowed the visitor's advantage to grow by more than seven points. As time wound down the Lions pushed for one more rally, dropping the FSC advantage down to just a single possession, but the Moccasins used long, time-consuming possessions and high-percentage shots to keep Saint Leo from pulling off the upset.
Jerrel Harris buoyed his Conference Player of the Week honor with a game-high 25 point effort while Chim Kadima came off the bench to score 18 in the loss. Devin Crisosto added 14 points on a 4-of-6 effort.
Kevin Capers scored 23 points in piloting the conference-leading Mocs to the hard-fought road victory. He was one of five Moccasins that reached double-figures on the evening with Dominic Lane adding 17 in the victory.
The Lions will look to regroup when they welcome Palm Beach Atlantic into the Bowman Center on Saturday afternoon. Saint Leo and the Sailfish will tip-off at 4 p.m.
For the latest news, updates, and information on the Saint Leo men's basketball team, be sure to visit SaintLeoLions.com. Fans can also stay up-to-date on the latest Lions news by following Saint Leo Athletics on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Youtube.


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2 Friends Charged In Death Of Missing Buena Vista Missing Man
Two friends have been charged with the death of a missing Buena Vista man whose body was discovered in a gravel pit on Saturday by his family.
Police have charged 26-year-old Randy McDowell and 21-year-old Kyle Kinsey with desecration of human remains and obstruction of justice in the death of 23-year-old Andrew Taylor, who is also known as Abdul Raheem. The Atlantic County Prosecutor's Office over the weekend confirmed it was Taylor's body that was found in a gravel pit off Pancoast Mill Road in Buena Vista by family members who had organized a search on Saturday.
A cause of death and motive was not identified by the Prosecutor's Office pending autopsy results. However, WMGM TV reports the three may have been doing drugs which led to a fatal medical episode.
Taylor had been missing since last weekend. He was found "Face down..in a muddy puddle of water, blood everywhere. Blood was everywhere," the victim's aunt, Deanna Mobley, told WCAU TV.
Taylor was last seen a week ago leaving home with two friends. He was reported missing when he did not show up for his job at Kirkland's Home Furnishings in Mays Landing on Wednesday according to WCAU TV.


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The Value of Good Coaching
Most of our writers didn't enter the world sporting an @baseballprospectus.com address; with a few exceptions, they started out somewhere else. In an effort to up your reading pleasure while tipping our caps to some of the most illuminating work being done elsewhere on the internet, we'll be yielding the stage once a week to the best and brightest baseball writers, researchers and thinkers from outside of the BP umbrella. If you'd like to nominate a guest contributor (including yourself), please drop us a line.
C.J. Nitkowski has played baseball professionally for 19 years. A former no. 1 (ninth overall) draft pick out of St. John's University (NY) in 1994, he spent parts of 10 seasons in the major leagues with eight different clubs. In 2012 he played in the New York Mets' minor-league system, where he was attempting to make a comeback as a left-handed sidearm pitcher. C.J. has also played in Japan and South Korea. He has been running his own website, CJBaseball.com, since 1997, and you can follow him on Twitter @CJNitkowski. Recently he played the role of Dutch Leonard in the movie 42, a major motion picture starring Harrison Ford and depicting Jackie Robinson's rookie season. The film is set to be released April 13th, 2013.
I have read more times than I care to recount how little impact a manager can have on wins and losses, but that's another topic for another day. What really befuddles me, though, is when a sabermetric scribe plays down the value coaches can have at the big-league level, with doubt about their usefulness dripping from every sarcastic word.
What I find most puzzling is that not only is it not true, but it comes from a source that could never understand what makes a good coach in professional baseball without guessing. Those opinions on MLB coaches are about as valid as mine on ballet instructors.
Like most players, I was slow to come around to advanced statistics. I remember getting emails from seamheads 10-12 years ago, during my career, discussing the importance of things like on-base percentage over batting average. I was bored by the discussion and quickly dismissed what I viewed as radical, illogical thinking. These fans would get very frustrated with me when I discounted their analysis. I remember one guy in particular who would ask me questions and my opinions on things around the league and then snap back at me because my answers didn't line up with his sabermetrics-based philosophies. It got a little too intense for my taste, and I eventually stopped reading his emails.
Over time I began to listen, paid closer attention, and came around on some sabermetric thinking. I'm not all in, but I see the value in a lot of it. And as recent history has shown us, there is absolutely a place for stat nerds in baseball, a complementary piece in this great game of ours.
Now before you get all up in arms about me dropping the nerd bomb on you, know that I have been viewed as a nerd myself (although if there were a nerd ranking system, I'm sure I would fall somewhere near the bottom). I was discussing with a former teammate of mine who now scouts in the AL the direction in which baseball is going with scouting, advanced statistics, and player analysis. At one point he remarked, "Scouting is something you should consider—the job has gone in a nerdy direction, and you would be a good fit for it." He asked me not to be offended by the statement, and I wasn't, but I think you get the point.
So just as players would be wise to stop, listen, and learn a little about advanced statistical analysis before dismissing it so ignorantly, so would sabermetricians be wise to take the time to understand the value of good coaches in MLB.
Why do some prominent sabermetricians in the media dismiss the value of MLB coaching? My best guess has always been that it's because you can't really quantify what a coach or manager does for a team. And since you can't quantify that impact, the thinking goes, it must be minimal or non-existent.
There could be other reasons. It could be because the person had an awful Little League or high school coach experience along the way. I do some amateur coaching now, and those guys certainly exist. Or maybe they had an encounter with a professional coach that didn't go very well. I'm not sure what the reason is, but there has to be something driving these poorly thought out ideals.
This column not meant to be an "I played and you didn't" snide remark, but I just don't think it is possible to really relate to the value of good coaching unless you've played this game, especially in the professional ranks.
In the minor leagues you play 144 games plus spring training, maybe playoffs, and possibly instructional league. In the major leagues it is 162 games plus spring and, if you're lucky, playoffs. The seasons are a grind, both mentally and physically.
By my count, I have played for 39 different managers in four countries over a pro career that started in 1994. I've seen many different types of managers and many different types of coaches. There have been great ones and terrible ones, but most of them fall somewhere in the upper-middle section of the spectrum. Major- and minor-league baseball players are fortunate enough to be around some really good coaches.
Coaches and managers take on different roles depending on the level of competition. In the minor leagues, especially at the lower levels, coaching is about instruction. At Triple-A, instruction is still important, but most of the players have been around, and coaching becomes more about tweaking. The real focus is on prepping for the big leagues and trying to put each of your players in line for a promotion should a need arise with the parent club.
Major-league coaches, though, have a somewhat different task compared to their minor-league counterparts. Their jobs are important and have great value to players.
Personality, while an added benefit, is not always necessary. Certainly you would prefer to have a coach you get along with and who's a good guy, but it is not essential. I have worked with coaches who don't have the greatest personalities but do know their baseball. In these situations you take them for what they're worth and make the best of it. You can't let your season or your career get off track because you don't like your pitching or hitting coach.
For me, there are three key components to a good coach: knowledge, commitment, and an ability to communicate and relate. Notice that I did not say big-league playing experience or success. Experience is another added benefit, and most major-league coaches have it to varying degrees. However, success in the game does not always translate into an ability to be a good coach.
You have probably heard it said that the greatest players don't always make the greatest coaches. That is true in many cases. Some players who have reached the pinnacle of the game don't always know how to teach it, and they struggle to relate to players who are not as good as they were. They get easily frustrated by those players' failures and inability to adjust as easily as they did. Most of the best coaches were middle-of-the-road players who had to study, grind, and work hard to stay in the game. Some great players have become good coaches, but I believe they are the exception as opposed to the norm.
Knowledge is Key
Most major-league pitchers and hitters know their mechanics inside and out and can quickly adjust on their own when something isn't right. That is part of what makes them major leaguers. There are times, though, when they don't. It is then that the coach plays a vital role. If you can't adjust quickly enough, or your coach can't help you adjust quickly enough, your performance begins to suffer. You hit a slump and might find yourself demoted to the bench, the bullpen, or even worse, the minor leagues.
A coach has to have extensive knowledge of hitting and pitching mechanic, and almost all of them do. They must know keys points in each player's swing and delivery and stay focused on those throughout the season to help players avoid prolonged struggles.
Commitment to Your Job and Your Players
I recently heard Eric Chavez being interviewed on MLB Network Radio and talking about Yankees hitting coach Kevin Long. He talked about out how Long was always available to the Yankee hitters. In the cage, the video room, or on the field for early batting practice, he was always around if guys ever needed him. Chavez said this because it was something that stuck out to him. He has played in the big leagues for 15 seasons, and his comments tell me he has had hitting coaches that didn't always do it this way. I was with KLong in Triple-A Columbus in 2004, and it doesn't surprise me that he is so well respected and appreciated by his players.
Preparing your players for opponents is another large part of the commitment of a coach. Learning opposing pitchers' and hitters' tendencies can greatly improve a player's chances of success. It is part of the coach's job to teach those tendencies, and some put more effort into it than others. Providing your players with scouting reports and video of opponents takes time and can be tedious. Not all players utilize this information, but it is necessary to make it available.
I think it's worth noting the recent trend of teams adding a second hitting coach. The job of hitting coach, when done well, requires a major commitment. Hiring an extra set of eyes and hands to assist the main hitting coach is a smart move that ensures that players always have access to someone for extra work whenever they need it. If major-league hitting coaches didn't have much value, teams wouldn't be adding a second one.
Communication and an Ability to Relate
You can watch your players or study them on video all day long, but if you can't communicate what you see, then your eyes and experiences become useless. A coach has to speak the language of his players and understand what makes sense to them and what doesn't. Too often after players have become coaches or broadcasters they forget how hard it was to actually play this game.
Good coaches don't forget, and they keep that in mind while trying to help their players with mechanical flaws or game plan struggles. This is where having a coach who has been there as a player or has been coaching a long time really helps. He's either fixed those flaws in himself or has coached other players who have done it. Sharing those experiences with your players helps accelerate their development, allowing them to build a knowledge database of sorts and moving them more quickly through rough patches.
Each coach has his own unique way of teaching and communicating, and not every way works for every player. Knowing your guys inside and out takes time but in the long run benefits all involved. Some players need little talking to and prefer communication to be infrequent, short, and to the point. Other guys are more analytical, take time processing information, and like to talk through it with a coach. A good coach can adjust to either approach.
Pitchers especially can fall into these categories. Some starters prefer to be left alone on game day with little or no talking before and during a start. Others like to keep it loose, conversing before and during the game to stay relaxed and focused. Coaches need to know who is who and how to handle each player, giving him the best possible chance to succeed.
One hurdle a coach must get through is recognizing that every player will not like him and that he will not like every player. It can't be taken personally, and it cannot get in the way of doing your job, for both parties involved.
I had a coach in Triple-A tell me one time that he gives his older players one chance. If he makes a suggestion for improvement and they're not interested in it, then he is done with them for the year. I thought that was a terrible philosophy. Your players won't agree with everything you say and might not take to all of your suggestions. You can't take it personally. Your job is the same throughout the season for every player, and personal issues cannot get in the way. You have to be the same coach to the guy who takes your advice the least as you are to the guy who is your best student.
Turnover in the coaching field seems to be higher than ever. When a team fails, there is a tendency to have someone taking the fall, whether they deserve it or not. We never know all of what is going on behind the scenes, but more often than not, the blame should fall on the players. If a team doesn't have good players, the losses can't be pinned on a coach. If a coach knows the game and can meet all the criteria I mentioned above, a lousy-win-loss record cannot be his fault.
A great coach does not take a career .220 hitter and turn him into a batting champion in a season. It's the little things that matter, the small adjustments he helps with throughout the season that keep major leaguers on track. It is the commitment to being there for his players every day and the conversations that keep those players mentally strong. The coach's impact may seem small, but his value is not.
The name of this game is consistency. Once you get to the big leagues, the bulk of your game—your talent and your abilities—are already in place. From there, success is a matter of staying consistent and making adjustments. Good coaches help with that, doing their best to keep a player's lows from being too low and lasting for too long. The good ones do everything they can to play their part in helping players bring their best to the field every game.
Knowledge combined with an attitude of service and an ability to relate to players defines a great coach. Players have their favorites and credit them with the some of the successes they have had in their careers. What coaches do cannot be quantified, which makes it very difficult for some to comprehend and appreciate their contributions, but the importance of a good coaching staff cannot be overstated.
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Eddie Bajek
I think I was one of said emailers, haha.
Nov 20, 2012 04:32 AM
Thanks for the perspective CJ.
Nov 20, 2012 04:46 AM
I've been reading sites like BP for 10 years, and I'm honestly not sure I've ever seen a "sabermetric scribe" downplaying the value of big-league coaches.
Nov 20, 2012 05:58 AM
I certainly have, and it didn't sit well with me. I think CJ pretty well nailed this one; thanks for writing it, big guy.
Nov 20, 2012 06:22 AM
Ric Size
Absolutely, Bill Johnson. Over & over on BP I see articles and reader's comments that characterize a coach's or manager's contribution as neglligible. Baseball is played by humans, and they are fallible. Therefore players need mentors just like the rest of us, and fans will have to live with the reality that this impact can't be fully measured with stats. We don't have to quantify everything to enjoy it.
Nov 20, 2012 07:08 AM
We've all certainly seen writings that point to incorrect strategy or tactics. But I've seen overwhelming writings here (and elsewhere) that support the notion that coaches can actually teach players how to play better. If I'm reading this piece correctly, it's the latter that the author is trying to support. No argument here.
Nov 20, 2012 07:28 AM
I agree with CJ's point that the historical problem is that coaching has been difficult to quantify, and therefore people chose to focus on the problems they can analyze. That said, some people mistake "The effect is unknown." for "The effect is negligible."
Nov 20, 2012 07:38 AM
PS: One outcome would be figuring out if coaches are paid fairly. If Davey Lopes creates +2 wins worth of baserunning, he should be being paid like a +2 win player, or else another team (Hi, Pittsburgh!) should make him that offer.
Nov 20, 2012 07:42 AM
I didn't realize that this thinking among "the scribes" was an uncommon as I believed it to be. Neyer said the same thing to me. I have seen it enough in articles that I jumped to the conclusion that it was a widely accepted theory. In that sense I made a mistake. Some definitely have said it, just maybe not as much as I perceived.
Nov 21, 2012 06:06 AM
I really appreciate this piece. However, I was hoping for actual examples of how CJ's performance at the major league level either rose or fell because of a specific coach.
Nov 20, 2012 06:38 AM
I understand and agree. I forget the thirst that people have for true one on one accounts in this game (the reason I started cjbaseball.com to begin with). As I wrote this I was thinking of many good and bad examples over the years. I am hanging on by a thread and still trying to continue my career so I wouldn't want to throw any coach specifically under the bus but I could have cited some good examples along the way. Valid point.
Nov 21, 2012 06:09 AM
Reading the 'Sixth Tool' article a week or so ago made me think of coaching... I'm sure that ability to absorb instruction from [good] coaches is a major element of what we refer to as Make-Up. Actually having good coaches is probably another element of what we refer to as Make-Up, despite the fact that it's not actually a characteristic of the prospect, but the prospect's circumstances.
Nov 20, 2012 06:48 AM
Good stuff. Some players are terrible or uninterested in taking advice from coaches. They fizzle out unless they are so talented that they can get to the big leagues on talent alone. Then there are terrible teammates. Bad coaching professionally exists but unlikely enough to stall or ruin a good player's career.
Nov 21, 2012 06:11 AM
Russell A. Carleton
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This is officially required reading for anyone who considers her/himself to be a Sabermetrician.
Nov 20, 2012 06:55 AM
Nick J
It would be interesting for CJ to do a follow-up piece on the different coaching tactics he's experienced in the 4 countries he's played in. We often hear how training techniques differ in Japan, Korea, Dominican Republic, etc. Hearing from professionals that actually trained under those differing techniques would be really interesting.
Nov 20, 2012 12:17 PM
Coaching at all levels seems to me to be one of the game's inefficiencies. Or maybe unknowns. I have often wondered about how good coaches are at the lower levels, and how that could be measured. Do you base it on how many lower draft picks develop into major league potentials? Or on how quickly the top draft picks move through the system? Problem is, that also reflects on the team's talent evaluators (and how do you measure that?).
Nov 20, 2012 07:56 AM
I'm glad C.J. took some time to write since I've bee a distant fan of him for awhile.
Nov 20, 2012 09:43 AM
Catchers can be pitching coaches, they work with pitchers their entire careers. GMs can hire a coach because they have worked in the game on the pro side for a significant time where they have been able to see first hand what works and what doesn't in coaching.
Nov 21, 2012 06:19 AM
Thanks for replying C.J.
Nov 21, 2012 07:19 AM
I'm reminded of how Curt Schilling was initially reluctant to OK a trade to the Red Sox because he felt his pitching style wouldn't be effective in Fenway Park. Schilling, you will recall, considered himself pretty savvy when it came to understanding the data. Theo Epstein and other Red Sox management showed him why he was wrong, and obviously they knew best.
Nov 21, 2012 07:51 AM
I agree they can have an opinion. I just don't think it is very plausible for them to form an opinion on whether coaching has value or how valuable it is. It is a relational thing where you can't measure results.If you're not there you can't really opine about it. I can't tell you if the San Diego Padres have a good pitching coach, I've never played for Darren Balsley. If I did I'm qualified to comment. I can however speak to what makes a good coach and what doesn't and I can attest that they are needed in the game and make a difference. That is based solely on my experiences. I'm not qualified to have an opinion on coaches outside of the level I have participated. I don't know what makes a good tennis or golf coach. I could watch those sports all day long and study, but not participating in them at the highest levels disqualifies me from having a valid opinion on professional coaching.
Nov 21, 2012 07:57 AM
I can agree with the idea that at this time, it isn't very plausible for sabremetricians to form an opinion on whether coaching has value since right now, it's hard to measure what that value is.
Nov 21, 2012 11:07 AM
Nils J
Coaching could be like fielding in the late 90's. It's not possible to quantify and therefore dismissed by many 'stat guys'. And like fielding, we should explore and try to learn about it before we dismiss it.
Nov 20, 2012 14:25 PM
CJ, you seem to be saying that one way to measure the effectiveness of a coach would be to measure the consistency of the players he's responsible for working with. Is this a fair read?
Nov 20, 2012 14:32 PM
Mostly yes. Don't ruin a good player. Helping avoid a sophomore slump might also be a good way although at the end of the day, it's about the player's ability. A coach can only do so much. The players you have to work with, both their talent and personality, will dictate a coach's perceived success.
Nov 21, 2012 06:24 AM
Questions that occur: how large is the spread of talent between the best coaches in the big leagues and the worst? One of the takeaways I got from this piece is that without good coaches player performance would suffer, but if most big league coaches fall into a narrow competent-plus range, most players gain the same level of benefit, neutralizing the value of one coach versus another. Thus, while coaches are important, since everyone has one, they aren't significant when trying to explain why one team wins more games than another. But if some coaches are Johnny Bench and others are Rick Stelmaszek, then it's worth a closer look.
Nov 20, 2012 22:13 PM
The spread is not that big. Sometimes you'll run across a coach that really sticks out, in either a good or bad way, but the bulk are similar.
Nov 21, 2012 06:26 AM
If you think the bulk of coaches are similar, might that be suggestive of the challenges that sabremetricians have in evaluating the effect of coaching?
Nov 21, 2012 07:39 AM
Yes, that is part of why I believe you cannot effectively evaluate coaching with any stats.
Nov 21, 2012 08:03 AM
Ric Size
When C.J. Nitkowski writes, "I am hanging on by a thread and still trying to continue my career so I wouldn't want to throw any coach specifically under the bus...", I ask myself, "How many people are this honest about who they are?"
Nov 21, 2012 14:11 PM
CJ, I loved your article. I hope good coaching is not like pornography - you can't describeit, but you recognize it when you see it. I am not a stats freak, but I spent many a day in my youth with APBA and Strat-o-Matic baseball cards, recreating whole baseball seasons with my equally obsessed friends. My teams consistently finished in the top of the leagues. Was this due to random chance or my recognition of patterns that led to greater success? I am not sure, but I think that you can look at baseball coaches as we look at mentors in any field. Most people will benefit from a mentor that 1. understands their needs, whether it be physical, psychological or mechanical and 2. communicates in a consistent manner that allows the player to improve. My thought is that great coaching probably comes from multiple coaches, each adding a necessary component, but in a consistent manner. Perhaps that is why the "Oriole Way" and the Dodger systems were so successful.
Nov 26, 2012 17:37 PM
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If you asked me to name the single biggest challenge I have faced so far in my burgeoning career as an opera star, I'd have to say it was the pantyhose.
This unnerving encounter occurred Wednesday night as I struggled into my costume for the first dress rehearsal of Manitoba Opera's production of Verdi's Rigoletto, which opens Saturday night at the Centennial Concert Hall.
It was the dramatic moment wherein I am transformed from a middle-aged newspaper columnist into a middle-aged newspaper columnist in black velvet garments with a great deal of fancy gold embroidery.
I assumed, being 56 years old and possessing several university degrees, I would be fully capable of dressing myself, but it turns out I was a fool.
I would still be naked as I write these words were it not for the heroics of dresser Noel de Leon, whose job includes helping the army of "supernumeraries" — the operatic word for extras — get decked out in their fussy 16th-century outfits.
With Noel's guidance, I squeezed into opera breeches and suspenders, pouffy opera shirt, brocaded opera jacket and cape and spiffy opera hat, but then a wardrobe emergency erupted — I did not have long opera socks to cover my hairy, pasty-white legs.
Noel disappeared, then returned moments later with, as you have already deduced, an extra-large pair of black pantyhose, which I tried valiantly to stuff my overstuffed body into. As beads of sweat dripped from my forehead, the guys in the chorus offered helpful tips, such as: "You should put your feet into them first." Or: "Try scrunching them up and hopping around a bit."
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At the last second, Noel tracked down some extremely stretchy black operatic leggings, so I was saved and it was time to march down the hall in my black-velvet getup to have a professional makeup artist "put my face on."
You'll be surprised to hear this, but I have never had anyone put my face on before. When I plopped in a chair in front of a mirror surrounded by blinding lights, famed theatrical makeup artist Alice Wiebe began frowning at me.
For you non-opera stars, this is not a good sign. It became clear my regular face was not going to cut the operatic mustard. So Alice went to work, dabbing me with brushes and sponges and issuing a rapid-fire stream of directions I found hard to follow.
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The hardest part came when Alice realized that, in opera terms, I have no neck. "Don't worry," she declared, "I'll give you a wonderful neck." And she did. Finally, she made me close my eyes and stagger down the hall while she stood in front and sprayed me with a magical mist to prevent my makeup from melting onstage.
Speaking of which, my brief appearance in rehearsal went smoothly, other than the fact it is difficult to fling a beautiful woman — as portrayed by fellow opera rookie Bonita Reimer — over your shoulders when you are both sweating like Butterball turkeys under hundreds of pounds of makeup and costumes.
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The best thing about the opera, William told me, is that no matter how small your role, you get treated like a star with a sweet costume and awesome makeup.
But you can check that out for yourselves. I think you'll be blown away by my operatic debut, because, thanks to Alice, my neck looks totally amazing.


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