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Hope senior Grant Neil has been recognized as one of the top men's soccer players in NCAA Division III.
The back from Holland (West Ottawa HS) has been selected a National Soccer Coaches Association of America (NSCAA)/Continental Tire NCAA Division III Second Team All-American for the 2013 season.
It is the 15th time a Hope player has been honored as an All-American.
Hope coach Steven Smith said he is proud to see Neil recognized nationally.
"This is a kid who came in as a freshman never dreaming of being an All-American," Smith said. "He did the work that it took to lead us to this point. In the process, he became a great soccer player and well recognized as that dangerous player on the field. He brought something special onto the field."
Added Hope assistant coach Lee Schopp, "What a great honor for Grant and for our team this season. Clearly, Grant has worked very hard each season to improve his ability on the field. He worked incredibly hard this summer on the technical part of his game, yet it was probably the growth in his leadership (both with coaches and his teammates that had the biggest impact on his success and the success of our team this season. Grant is certainly worthy of this type of recognition."
Neil was a key part of a Hope defense that yielded on average only one goal per game this season.
Neil also contributed offensively with a team-high 10 assists while chipping in two goals. Hope used Neil's throw-in ability to set up scoring chances.
"People will remember Grant for his long throw. That's opponents," Smith said. "We will remember him for his team leadership and team spirit. He sees this already as a team award, not as an individual award."
Neil helped the Flying Dutchmen match the school records for wins in a single season with a 17-5-2 mark. Hope reached the second round of the Division III Tournament and won the Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association (MIAA) Tournament.
Earlier, Neil was chosen a First Team All-Region Player by NSCAA/Continental Tire in the Central Region and a First Team All-MIAA Selection for the 2013 season. Neil was all-region, second-team defender in 2012 as well as a First Team All-MIAA performer.

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WESTMINSTER, Colo., 12 March 2011
The International Society for British Genealogy and Family History today announced its course lineup for this year's British Institute. This weeklong, intensive institute will be held from 8–12 October in Salt Lake City. This year's host hotel is the Radisson Downtown, located two blocks from the Family History Library. Registration is now open and class size is limited.
The Institute offers four tracks taught by expert genealogists:
- Records and Strategies for Beginning English Research
Judy Jones, AG, CG
Join us as we learn about the records and strategies needed to begin research in England. This class will begin by teaching a strategy for 19th and 20th century research, then study the three basic records needed to find families in that time period. From there it will expand to those records needed to find supporting information, including maps, gazetteers, probate, and reading handwriting.
- From Simple to Complex: Applying Genealogy's Standard of Proof to Your Work
Tom Jones, Ph.D., CG, CGL, FASG, FUGA, FNGS
Genealogical statements and conclusions achieve credibility when they meet standards for proof. Participants will learn how to use widely accepted standards to measure their genealogical work's accuracy and to assess the work of others.
- British Military, Its Regiments and Records
John Kitzmiller, II, FSG (England); FSA (Scot); AG, Heraldist – Heraldry Society of Canada (2nd level) & Heraldry Society of London (2nd level)
Why take this course? The answer is many of the population were involved in these entities throughout time. There is a high probability that somewhere you have a military-connected ancestor. The British military course will cover a wide variety of records that will assist you in tracing your military ancestors. We will discuss the records of military personnel for the outlined time period which are centered (or held) at the regimental level. This means that one must know the regiment (pre-1881) to be able to trace an ancestor. Post-1881 is a bit different, in that there can be indices available that cover the time period as well as civil records which are critical as an additional locator record. Websites containing military records will also be discussed.
- Advanced Methodology for Irish Research
David Rencher, AG, CG, FIGRS, FUGA
This course was first introduced in 2011 and will again focus on the methodologies needed for successful Irish research. New record sources and strategies will be introduced for 2012 with a review of best practices. Learn how to frame your tough Irish genealogical problems, develop a sound strategy and sharpen your analytical skills with these advanced methods. You'll also enjoy the richness of the Irish collection of the Family History Library and explore some of the lesser known records of this vast resource, a must stop before leaving for Ireland.
"The Institute is in its 12th year and, as always, we design the program with the goal of helping students overcome the challenge of researching their British Isles from a distance," said ISBGFH President Ann Wells. "We are excited to offer this panel of expert instructors and range of courses that would apply to beginner, intermediate, or advanced students."
Registration Information
More detailed information on the institute can be found at the ISBGFH's Web site http://www.isbgfh.org. You can register online, or print, fill out the application and mail to ISBGFH, PO Box 350459, Westminster, CO 80035-0459. If you have any questions, please e-mail firstname.lastname@example.com. When registering at the Radisson Downtown Salt Lake, ask for the British Institute conference rate.
About The International Society for British Genealogy and Family History
The International Society for British Genealogy and Family History has been around a long time–longer than it takes to say the full name. Many of us who have been involved for years talk about "ISB" not only for convenience, but because the nickname suggests what the organization is—small, practical and friendly.
ISB got started in 1979 due to the efforts of several people who saw the need for an organization that would help genealogists tracing the origins of their British Isle emigrant ancestors. Thus it is no surprise that the members of ISB live all over North America and overseas.
The Society continues to evolve but it retains its original purpose. ISB is here to help members overcome the challenges of researching British Isles roots from a distance. See http://www.isbgfh.org for more information.


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A couple of weeks ago I was roped into a twitter discussion about postdoc training, which seemed to rapidly develop into a stalemate between the parties: postdocs, who felt they weren't getting the support and training they wanted and needed, and PIs, who felt their often substantial efforts were being ignored. Many of the arguments sounded familiar: over the past two years I've been actively involved in our postdoc community, and have found that when it comes to postdocs, often every side feels misunderstood. This can lead to a real impasse for improvements, so in this blog post I've put together a couple of points summarizing problems and some efforts we've made to work around these to improve training and support.
First off, here some of the problems we encountered:
1. postdocs are a difficult group to cater for, because they are a very diverse group in almost every aspect:
- work/lab experience and goals: ranging from college-into-grad-school-straight-into-postdoc to people who have multi-year work experience outside academia to scientists who might be on their second or third postdoc. This diversity typically also translates into future ambitions: many wish to continue in academic research, but industry/teaching/consulting/science communication are also part of the repertoire.
- training: Some postdocs come from colleges and grad schools with ample opportunity for soft-skill training. Others might never have had a formal course in even such trivial things, like paper writing or how to give a talk.
- postdoc duration: there is a fair amount of variation in how long postdocs stay, depending on both personality and field of research. In our department postdocs, for example, postdoc positions vary widely, ranging from 1-2 years (eg computational sciences, chemistry) to 5-7 years (biomedical sciences).
- nationality: I don't know if postdocs are actually more internationally diverse than grad students, but the implications of that diversity are often greater. Some postdocs might be preparing for a career in the current country, others might want to return to their home country, which makes it difficult to offer them the same kind of support. Some postdocs may have stayed in the same country for a long time and know the funding system inside-out, others may have moved country repeatedly and have only a vague idea about grant opportunities.
- family status: when I was in grad school three people in my year (<5%) had kids. In our postdoc group that percentage is way higher (I don't have numbers, but would put it around 30-40%), and many more are in serious long-term relationships, some of which require long commutes (think two-body problem). Thus, organising postdoc events means dealing with people on very diverse schedules.
2. In addition postdocs are also often a smaller group than grad students. For example, at UPenn, we have as many postdocs in the School of Engineering as we have grad students in a single department of the school (Bioengineering). If fact, I have often heard disappointed faculty argue that postdocs "don't make use of available resources", because of low turnout at events. In my experience this is not the case: organising as a grad student and a postdoc I have found that turnout is typically around 30-40% - postdoc events simply seem less attended, because the base is so much smaller.
3. Finally, Postdocs frequently have lower visibility: whereas grad students are typically seen by many faculty during the recruitment process or during classes, it is not unusual for postdocs to encounter only their immediate working group. And unlike grad students, postdocs do not come in as part of a cohort, but at different times during the year, making it also difficult to plan things like orientation meetings, where postdocs are introduced to the department in a timely manner.
Seeing all of the above, it is a no-brainer why training postdocs can be difficult. On one hand problems are conceptual: Do you try to cater to everyone's needs or just the majority? Do you try to help the "weakest link" (the people with least prior training) or advance people who are already at the front of the field? On the other hand, there are also plenty of practical issues: Do you adjust events to the term calendar, even if postdocs arrive and leave at different times? Do you organise the same events annually or every couple of years? Is it OK to have evening/weekend events? But these are not unsolvable dilemmas. Based on our experiences during the past two years, here are some practical suggestions*:
- Pool resources/training opportunities with the grad school and/or other postdoc programmes close-by: for a single small postdoc program, it is impossible to cater to all needs. But more cross-talk between programs means more ground can be covered. Such cross-talk is most likely going to be a win-win situation, both because it bolsters participant numbers and because postdocs can contribute with their diverse experiences (eg in a "how to write a paper" seminar; even postdocs who want more formal training will have written at least one paper). Our postdoc programme certainly benefits from access to the events from UPenn's Biomedical Programme, as well as a growing collaboration with GABE, our department's graduate association.
- Have a well(!)-written, up-to-date wiki/resource page AND make sure you tell incoming postdocs about this. As a postdoc looking for information about pretty much anything (taxes, health insurance, funding opportunities) I often feel like Arthur in the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy:
Once you know where to look and what you're looking for, it can be easy to find, but occasionally I am completely blindsided by things I should have known. This can be especially problematic for foreign postdocs (I've written more about that here), and so telling postdocs ahead of time about resources can avoid a lot of frustration. A good time for this could be when the offer letter is sent or when postdocs deal with their initial admin. Our department still doesn't have a streamlined process for this, but I often get personal enquiries, and I typically refer postdocs to either the National Postdoc Association's Survival Guide for more general advice or the aforementioned Biomedical Postdoc Program for more UPenn-related information.
- Have an open dialogue with postdocs and listen to their needs: More often than not, I encounter PIs and admin who want to help postdocs. They provide training in areas they have identified as problematic, and given the diversity of the postdoc group most likely that training is genuinely needed by some. But often postdocs would like more: more diversity, other types of training or maybe they even completely different pressing issues. Yet, without open dialogue between departmental organisers and the postdoc community it's hard to find out about these needs and wishes. Frustratingly, one tactic I encounter frequently is departmental organisers justifying the continuation or repetition of an event based on it's success, without ever asking the people who did not attend, or wondering if a different event would be equally well received. To build a good postdoc program, universities and departments need to get better at gauging needs and interests, even if this might mean re-thinking some events, or how current events are integrated into a bigger framework.
This can be difficult. As a case in point, Arjun, my PI, likes to point out that, when asked, the vast majority of postdocs request training in how to get a faculty position. So departments organise events about getting faculty positions. In fact, I am swamped with opportunities to attend panel discussions on "How to get a job in academia": we have an annual one in our School, multiple other departments at the university host such discussions and it's a much-favored trainee event at conferences. But after seeing two or three such panels, there's little additional information to be gained. This does not mean that departments should do away with such panels, but coordinating with other departments (see point 1) or mixing it up with other events (eg by rotating events in two to three year cycles) would provide the opportunity to cater to the additional interests of postdocs.
Frequent topics I've heard postdocs ask for are management skills, teaching skills, grant writing and external feedback/mentoring by faculty. For us, successful new programs included participation in a Junior Investigators Symposium on campus, which included two most positively received sessions about writing K/R awards and a "speed mentoring" session, where faculty provided career feedback in a 10-minute, one-on-one setting. Similarly, postdocs at our school who are interested in teaching can partake in training opportunities by UPenn's Center for Teaching and Learning, and those interested in industry and the business side of science can make use of a paid internship program by Penn's Center for Innovation to learn about IP and commercialization. While only a small number of postdocs make use of these opportunities per year, the provide a very valuable complement to the programs offered by the school/department.
- Make a little bit of money go a long way: Many fledgling postdoc programs, such as ours, operate on a shoestring. Obviously, in an ideal world neither PIs nor administrative bodies should shy away from spending money on postdoc training - after all, postdocs are hired as trainees. But in reality it is often difficult to get substantial monetary support: individual PIs might not want to pay for events that are not of interest for their own postdocs (and not every event will cater for every postdoc) and admin may not see the return on investment for activities not directly related to research. However, you may have noticed that many of the above suggestions involved little or no additional financial resources: faculty are often more than willing to donate their time to postdoc events, postdocs themselves can contribute to resources such as wikis, and collaborations with other programs on campus can help cover smaller costs. In addition, individual postdocs may have grants or fellowships with money earmarked for training. Encouraging them to use those resources can be of great value, especially if they are willing to share some of the knowledge they gained. My EMBO postdoctoral fellowship paid for an amazing 3-day lab management course, and I am currently discussing with our graduate association to implement some of the training exercises that we were taught.
As my final point I'd like to say that I personally very rarely encounter faculty who consider postdocs cheap labor. If anything, most PIs I talk to have their postdocs best interest at heart. Similarly, postdocs are often more than willing to organize events and mediate the needs of their fellows. However, in the long run the efforts of individual PIs and postdocs cannot replace a well-organized institutional program, which I think likely will require taking on board some of my above suggestions and building them into a more systematic training program.
*The National Postdoc Association has a much more elaborate toolkit for setting up and maintaining a postdoc association and there's also a great article about initiating and maintaining a postdoc organisation by Bruckman and Sebestyen. However, not all postdoc groups have the manpower or momentum to directly dive into such an program, so the tips listed here are more to get postdocs involved initially and create that sense of community and momentum to build an association.


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The Houston Rockets acquired No. 5 pick Thomas Robinson and forwards Francisco Garcia and Tyler Honeycutt from Sacramento on Wednesday for forward Patrick Patterson, center Cole Aldrich and point guard Toney Douglas.
Also Wednesday, the Rockets reached an agreement to send forward Marcus Morris to Phoenix for a future second-round pick, according to a person with knowledge of the deal. The person spoke on condition of anonymity because that trade had not been announced, pending league approval.
Patterson, Aldrich and Douglas walked out of the Toyota Center just as Houston was starting its game against Oklahoma City, on the eve of the trading deadline. The Rockets came into the game holding the No. 8 spot in the Western Conference and the moves were unexpected.
The short-handed Rockets heard the news only 20 minutes before tipoff.
"It was definitely the weirdest game I've ever played in," said Houston forward Chandler Parsons. "It was hard to focus, it was hard to block (out) four friends leaving."
Houston rallied from 14 points down to beat the Thunder 122-119.
"A lot of distractions before the game," said James Harden, who scored a career-high 46 points. "I just rallied the guys together and told them to focus in on every play. It was going to be a tough game for us, but we had to really focus in on the small, detailed things. The guys did a phenomenal job."
The 6-foot-9 Patterson had started 38 games for Houston this season and was the Rockets' fourth-leading scorer, averaging 11.6 points. Douglas was acquired in the offseason in a trade with New York and he played in 49 games backing up Jeremy Lin. The 6-11 Aldrich, acquired in the James Harden trade with Oklahoma City just before the season, averaged 1.7 points in 30 games for Houston this season.
Sacramento had high hopes for the 6-10 Robinson, but he's disappointed so far, averaging only 4.8 points and 4.7 rebounds in 16 minutes per game. His most notable NBA moment might have come when he elbowed Detroit's Jonas Jerebko in the neck during a game in November. Robinson was ejected and suspended two games by the NBA.
Kings general manager Geoff Petrie had hinted that he'd only make minor moves before the trade deadline because of the pending purchase agreement that could move the franchise to Seattle next season.
Marcus Morris had played in all but one of Houston's games this season, making 17 starts. He was averaging 8.6 points and 4.1 rebounds per game. The Suns took Markieff with the 13th pick in 2011 draft and Marcus was right behind him again, going to Houston at No. 14.
Morris was beaming about the thought of joining his twin older brother, Markieff, on the Phoenix roster.
"If I was to be traded, that's where I would want to go," Marcus Morris said outside the Rockets' locker room. "I think Houston knew that. That's all I did was talk about my brother and how happy I was to play with him. I'm excited. That's all I can say."
The Suns entered their game against Golden State with the worst record in the West (18-36), but that didn't seem to matter to Morris.
"It's my first trade," Morris said. "All I kept hearing was, it's a business. It happens. I mean, it does happen. I'm excited to see where my career can go from here."
Suns coach Lindsey Hunter wouldn't talk about the deal specifically, but acknowledged that Phoenix is building for the future.
"We're trying to get better," he said. "We're trying to build a foundation of something that we hope will last."
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Portuguese leaders accept challenge to negotiate broad economic consensus to avoid 2nd bailout
LISBON, Portugal – Portugal's main political parties pledged Friday to try to negotiate a joint economic strategy that aims to spare the country a second international bailout.
But the obstacles to an agreement were clear during the annual State of the Nation debate in Parliament as parties traded accusations over who is to blame for the financial crisis and 10 straight quarters of economic contraction.
Portugal's president appealed to the parties Wednesday to find broad political consensus after a dispute over austerity measures tore the coalition government apart and raised questions about whether the country can abide by the terms of the 78 billion euros ($102 billion) rescue it received two years ago.
Portugal's difficulties over the past two weeks sent a chill through financial markets as investors feared that Europe's debt crisis could flare up again. In recent months, there had been signs that the 17 European Union countries that use the euro, including Portugal, had got over the worst of their three-year debt crisis.
The political upheaval in Lisbon has forced the postponement of the bailout lenders' latest assessment on the country, which was due to begin next week but is now due to take place at the end of August.
As in Greece, the debt inspectors have to assess whether Portugal is complying with the terms of the bailout agreement — in return for the loan, Portugal has to enact a long list of spending cuts and economic reforms. If it doesn't, the creditors can potentially stop disbursing the money due from the bailout fund.
Though Portugal has enough cash to see it through the end of this year, it has to issue bonds worth 14 billion euros and 15 billion euros in 2014 and 2015, respectively, to service maturing loans. The three major international ratings agencies still classify Portugal's credit worthiness at junk status.
The Lisbon stock exchange was 0.4 percent higher Friday morning at 5,442, after closing down 2 percent the previous day. The interest rate on Portugal's 10-year bonds, an indicator of how risky investors see the country, crept up to 6.9 percent from 6.79 percent Thursday. That is close to the 7 percent rate that is regarded as unaffordable and compelled Portugal to seek a financial lifeline from its euro partners and International Monetary Fund.
President Anibal Cavaco Silva, who has no executive powers but is tasked by the constitution with ensuring stable government, said the ruling coalition had lost its credibility after last week's resignations of the finance and foreign ministers in a spat over the scale of planned spending cuts.
Saying a snap election would make things worse, Cavaco Silva urged the three main parties to find common ground on financial policy which would last beyond the end of the bailout program in June 2014. That, he said, would restore the political stability financial markets want.
Prime Minister Pedro Passos Coelho told lawmakers during Friday's debate that parties must "put Portugal first" and thrash out a cross-party agreement.
"To reach a deal we just need to focus on the country's needs and the common interests of the Portuguese," he said.
Though conceding that it "won't be easy to get a credible and long-lasting agreement," he said a lot can be achieved "if we just compromise."
Antonio Jose Seguro, leader of the main opposition Socialist Party, agreed to take part in talks but was sharply critical of the government's record and repeated his view that the best solution would be immediate elections for a new government.
He said the government "is in a state of decomposition," telling the prime minister he should "apologize to the Portuguese for the failure of his policies."
The prime minister's Social Democratic Party, the senior partner in the coalition, and Portugal's bailout creditors say spending cuts must continue.
Other parties want a bigger emphasis on growth amid a 17.6 percent unemployment rate.


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Woody Allen: A Documentary
At over three hours Robert B. Weide's documentary (originally shown as part of PBS's American Masters series) is almost "everything you always wanted to know about Woody Allen - but were afraid to ask." As a rabid fan I still have some unanswered questions, but I couldn't ask for a more entertaining examination of the fascinating career of one of cinema's true masters. Though autobiographical snippets have appeared in most of Allen's films, he has remained massively private and almost mythically close-mouthed about his filmmaking (for instance never giving any DVD extras), though in recent years he has done more film promoting and made more public appearances (as have guys like Robert De Niro, as the economics of promoting films have gotten more intense and needy). In '97 Allen was the subject of a fun, lightweight documentary, Wild Man Blues, which was more about his clarinet playing career and his bizarre relationship to his one time step-daughter and now wife, Soon-Yi Previn. For fans that was the closest glimpse into the man (along with Eric Lax's 1991 book of conversations with Allen). But with Woody Allen: A Documentary, Weide (mostly known as a TV director with credits that include Curb Your Enthusiasm) has gotten the most in depth, on camera heart-to-heart with Allen. Filled with wall to wall clips, the film mercifully spends most its time on the rarer early career of Allen and less on the stink he has mostly been putting out for the last 20 years.
Woody's life growing up in Brooklyn is now the stuff of legend. As a teenager he started giving jokes to newspaper columnists, which led to some writing gigs that eventually put him in a room with future celebrated writers Neil Simon, Mel Brooks and Larry Gelbart writing for Sid Caesar. He would continue writing for comedians until hooking up with high-end managers Jack Rollins and Charles Joffe who talked him into hitting the stage and telling the jokes himself. A neurotic and shy young man, Allen never dreamed of being a performer and it often showed. It was a slow rise but eventually, as cerebral comics like Mort Sahl were coming into fashion, Allen found his voice and an eager audience in the groovy coffee house scene of New York's Greenwich Village at clubs like The Bitter End. Allen soon became a showbiz fixture on the TV comedy circuit; exposure was the goal and here Allen admits nothing was beneath him (the documentary even includes a bizarre clip of Allen boxing a kangaroo a show called Hippodrome).Continue Reading


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Tracy McGrady Plotting Baseball Career?
Source close to Tracy McGrady said McGrady, 34, is "thinking about" giving baseball - and pitching - a shot. Could know more in coming days.— Tim Brown (@TBrownYahoo) February 1, 2014
Could retired NBA star Tracy McGrady be thinking about trying professional baseball? This isn't the first time that question has been asked:
McGrady brought baseball into the mix for the Magic when he played for Orlando:
Could the 34-year-old seven-time NBA All-Star really make it in professional baseball, or is it just MJ all over again?


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To The River – Poetry Thursday
Post Series: Poetry Thursday
- 1.Poetry Thursday!
- 2.Poetry Thursday!
- 3.Poetry almost Thursday, Thanksgiving Edition
- 4.The first day of December, Poetry Thursday
- 5.Boy At the Window — Poetry Thursday
- 6.A Poem About Evolution — Poetry Thursday
- 7.Like Snow – Poetry Thursday
- 8.The Peace of Wild Things – Poetry Thursday
- 9.Rain – Poetry Thursday
- 10.The Real Work – Poetry Thursday
- 11.To The River – Poetry Thursday
- 12.A Beautiful Poem About Internal Darkness
- 13.Poetry Thursday – Genius
- 14.Poetry Thursday – Soon This Space Will Be Too Small
- 15.A Poem from Stephen Harrod Buhner
- 16.To Bless the Space Between Us – Poetry Thursday!
- 17.Poetry Thursday – A Quote from Antoine de Saint-Exupery
- 18.Poetry Thursday – Sarah Cleghorn
- 19.On a Tree Fallen Across the Road by Robert Frost
- 20.A Noiseless Patient Spider by Walt Whitman
- 21.My Will by Lorna Goodison
- 22.Going Away – A Poem from the Quechua
- 23.Blessing by John O'Donohue
- 24.The Trouble with Poetry by Billy Collins
- 25.Wild Geese by Wendell Berry
- 26.Silence of the Fall by Louisa Paulin
- 27.Poetry Thursday – Karl Ove Knausgaard
- 28.Snow Day by Billy Collins – Poetry Thursday
- 29.Winter Solstice by Jodi Aliesan – Poetry Thursday
- 30.A Brief For The Defense by Jack Gilbert
- 31.Lost by David Wagoner
- 32.Fiddling with the Idiot by Hafiz
- 33.The Sixth of January by David Budbill
- 34.Two Tramps in Mud Time by Robert Frost
- 35.What We Need is Here by Wendell Berry
- 36.Keep Moving Forward by Mitchell Greenwood
- 37.When I am Among the Trees by Mary Oliver
- 38.Praying by Mary Oliver
- 39.Thirst by Mary Oliver
- 40.Blueberries by Mary Oliver
- 41.The Sycamore by Wendell Berry
- 42.Jealous Hearing Someone Laugh by Hafiz
- 43.Advice to Myself by Louise Erdrich
- 44.Egg by C.G. Hanzlicek
- 45.The Broken Gourd by Wendell Berry
- 46.Another Spring by Kenneth Rexroth
- 47.Poetry Thursday – the Visionary Paintings of Paul Laffoley
- 48.Two Poems by Mary Oliver
- 49.What If? A poem by Ganga White
- 50.See No Evil by Billy Collins
- 51.We Who Prayed and Wept by Wendell Berry
- 52.Holy Thursday by William Blake
- 53.Woman by Nikki Giovanni
- 54.Choices by Nikki Giovanni
- 55.A Quote from Hafiz
- 56.The First by Wendell Berry
- 57.Excerpt for an Improvised Speech by Robert F. Kennedy
- 58.Riding Lesson by Henry Taylor
- 59.Messenger by Mary Oliver
- 60.In Rain by Wendell Berry
- 61.A Poetry Thursday with Rumi
- 62.Kindness by Naomi Shihab Nye
- 63.Sometimes by David Whyte
- 64.Having it Out with Melancholy by Jane Kenyon
- 65.After an Illness, Walking the Dog by Jane Kenyon
- 66.Admit Something by Hafiz
- 67.Turtle Mountain Reservation by Louise Erdrich
- 68.The Layers by Stanley Kunitz
- 69.Martian Rose by Stuart Atkinson
- 70.To The Unseeable Animal by Wendell Berry
To The River
by Edgar Allen Poe
(Published 1829)
Fair river! in thy bright, clear flow
Of crystal, wandering water,
Thou art an emblem of the glow
Of beauty — the unhidden heart —
The playful maziness of art
In old Alberto's daughter;
But when within thy wave she looks —
Which glistens then, and trembles —
Why, then, the prettiest of brooks
Her worshipper resembles;
For in my heart, as in thy stream,
Her image deeply lies —
The heart which trembles at the beam
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Colonel Pickering constantly schooled Eliza Doolittle in My Fair Lady with Frederick Loewe and Alan Jay Lerner's lyric, 'The rain in Spain stays mainly in the plain'.
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Pair convicted in Hamtramck shooting which preceded deadly kidnapping of women
Shooting at women preceded women's kidnapping, murder
DETROIT – Two men facing kidnapping and murder charges in Hamtramck were convicted Thursday of shooting at two women who were later killed.
Brian Lee and Brandon Cain were charged in a February incident in Hamtramck, where shots were fired at 18-year-old Abreeya Brown and her friend, 22-year-old Ashley Conaway.
On Thursday, Lee and Cain were both convicted of assault with intent to commit murder.
Three weeks after that shooting incident, Abreeya Brown and Ashley Conaway were abducted. Their bodies were found several weeks later in shallow graves in a park on Detroit's far west side.
Before they were murdered, the women sent text messages saying Cain was one of the people who kidnapped them.
Cain and Lee are facing kidnapping and murder charges in that case, along with Reginald Brown, Jeremy Brown and Miguel Rodriguerz.
Reginald Brown and Jeremy Brown are cousins. They are not related to victim Abreeya Brown.
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I don't think it's still there as it's under different ownership.
Btw, Dodi's fiancee was allegedly on a different yacht at the same time as Diana was visiting!
I don't think it's still there as it's under different ownership.
Btw, Dodi's fiancee was allegedly on a different yacht at the same time as Diana was visiting!
The whole article is much more interesting than the short paragraph at the end about Diana. Growing up, being evacuated, being blown up by the IRA & not only losing her father but one of her twin sons, too. Gandhi, India, inheriting a title in her own right, etc etc etc...
or maybe it's just interesting to me as a Brit?
Not many people remain who can tell stories like Lady Pamela Hicks and her big sister, Patricia, Countess Mountbatten of Burma. But, then, few people ever witnessed the history they did. The only children of Louis, Earl Mountbatten of Burma—and great-great-granddaughters of Queen Victoria—the sisters can recall going to tea with Queen Mary, having Mr. and Mrs. Simpson come to one of their parents' weekend house parties at Adsdean, the family's estate in Sussex, along with King Edward VIII, and being evacuated from London on the eve of the Blitz to New York, where they were billeted by Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt III at her colossal residence at 640 Fifth Avenue, a vestige of the Gilded Age.
Their third cousins Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret served as bridesmaids for Patricia, while Pamela was a member of Elizabeth's wedding party in 1947. Pamela had to rush back to England for the occasion from India, where her parents were Britain's last Viceroy and Vicereine, and where she herself would become fast chums with Gandhi and Nehru. In 1952, she set off as a lady-in-waiting on what was to be a six-month tour of the Commonwealth with Elizabeth and Philip, a first cousin. One week out, Pamela was one of the few people with the couple in Africa when word arrived that George VI had died and Elizabeth was now Queen. So while Pamela is 84 (and Patricia is 89), it's no wonder that her new memoir, Daughter of Empire: Life as a Mountbatten, stops at age 24. There was so much to get in.
Yet the ensuing decades continued to be eventful for both sisters. Pamela married celebrated interior designer David Hicks, and Patricia enjoyed a long and fascinating marriage to John Knatchbull, the seventh Baron Brabourne, a movie producer whose credits included A Passage to India and numerous Agatha Christie adaptations. In 1979, their world was upended when a bomb planted by the IRA on a fishing boat off Ireland killed their father, along with one of Patricia's seven children, her mother-in-law, and a local boy. Patricia and her husband were gravely wounded.
Patricia resides in a grand but cozy Queen Anne–period manor in Kent that is called Newhouse. "Because it was built around 1690, and replaced an older house that had stood here since about the 14th century," she explains.
Patricia, whom her sister describes as "the personification of the stiff upper lip," is regarded as one of the most formidable women in England. The Queen, who reportedly described her as "fierce" growing up, is said to call on her for advice, and even gets slightly flustered in her company. Patricia has possibly more titles and styles that any woman in England. And they've not been just been for show. She was Colonel-in-Chief of Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry for 33 years, until she retired, in 2004. "When I turned 80, I said, For goodness sake, I can't drive a tank any longer," she explains.
Most exceptionally, she succeeded to the Earldom that was created for her father in 1947—through a rare "Special Remainder" granted to military heroes without male heirs. Thus, she and Lord Brabourne were one of the very few married couples in England each of whom held a peerage in his or her own right. The couple's eldest son, Norton, 66, will inherit both of his parents' titles, since the Special Remainder allows the Earldom to pass to "heirs male of her body."
Despite Patricia's eminent position, however, it is apparent soon after meeting her over tea and a delicious vanilla cake in the kitchen that there is much warmth underneath the forbidding exterior. The cake was baked by "the daily," who arrived at Newhouse when she was 16. "She's 60 now," says Lady Brabourne, as she is generally called.
"Neither of us can cook!" says Lady Pamela, ensconced in a sitting room at the Grove, her splendid Georgian-style house in Oxfordshire. To illustrate her point, she tells the story of what happened the last time she attempted anything in the kitchen, several decades ago: "I was staying alone at an aunt's flat in London. She told me there was a can of spaghetti in the pantry.
"She said, 'All you have to do is put it in a saucepan of boiling water.' But what she didn't say is, you had to pierce the can. She said just plunk it in, so I plunked it in. About half an hour later, I heard a noise like an atom bomb."
Ah, that must be the spaghetti ready, she thought. "I went to the kitchen. It was festooned on the ceiling."
After a recent knee replacement, Lady Pamela was persuaded by her three children to give up, after 34 years, her "set" in the venerable but elevator-free Albany building in London and live here at the Grove full time.
"Would you like a whiskey?" Lady Pamela asks me as soon as I arrive at noon. Notwithstanding her major bouffant and regal bearing, Pammy is generally considered the "fun" one.
Their father was born in 1900 at Frogmore House at Windsor Castle; with Queen Victoria present, he was also christened there as Prince Louis of Battenberg (the family followed the example of the British royals during World War I and Anglicized his name, changing it to Mountbatten). His father, the son of a prince of Hesse, had married a granddaughter and namesake of Queen Victoria, Princess Victoria.
As the youngest of four children, Louis, who was known in the family as "Dickie," was not in line for a large inheritance, but in 1922, when he was a dashing young naval officer, he married one of the wealthiest and most beautiful heiresses of the day, Edwina Ashley (granddaughter of financier Sir Ernest Cassel). In 1939, after her father's death, the couple and their young daughters moved into Broadlands, a spectacular Palladian stately home, on 6,000 acres in Hampshire.
Imposing as this setting was, Louis and Edwina were anything but conventional. "My mother had endless boyfriends," Pamela explains during our chat. But she had one special lover who more or less moved in with the family, Lieutenant Colonel Harold "Bunny" Phillips, a "thrillingly handsome," 6'5" officer in the Coldstream Guards. Her father, meanwhile, enjoyed a decades-long relationship with Yola Letellier, a gamine Frenchwoman, upon whom Colette based her 1944 novella, Gigi.
"It was a very unconventional marriage, but brought about by love, really," says Pamela. "My father adored my mother and wanted her to be happy. So it was his idea to bring Bunny, whom we adored, into the family. And he had Yola. So it was an extended family intimacy, but it worked very well indeed."
The term "open marriage" was probably not used at the time, but Pamela has no problem with it. "As long as the marriage works for the people concerned, I don't see why it should be so disapproved of by those not in it." Her parents, she goes on, had "a tremendous partnership … but it wasn't a domestic lovey-dovey clinging-together relationship." It was all quite loose. The summer of 1935, for example, the girls said good-bye to their father at his naval base in Malta and traveled by a train with their nannies, while Edwina and Bunny hopped in a Hispano-Suiza. In August, when they reached a small hotel in the remote Hungarian mountains, children and guardians were deposited, while the lovers sped off to continue their holiday. Unfortunately, Edwina lost the sheet of paper upon which she had jotted the name and location of the hotel, and thus there was not a word from her until October. As snow was beginning to fall, the hotel was offering limited service, and Mussolini was preparing to invade Abyssinia, Edwina finally reappeared, with Yola, having retraced the route, much to the relief of the nannies.
Such family lore has long entertained—as well as astonished—the sisters' children. After reading Daughter of Empire, their incredulity only increased. Certainly, Inter-War Upper Class English child-rearing was different. "Our children said they were so shocked by our upbringing," Pamela says. "We said, 'What do you mean? We had a blissful childhood. We were loved by the nannies, whom we adored. You automatically love your mother, even if you don't see much of her. But she was so glamorous and exciting. And our father was fantastic. So what do you mean, we had a neglected childhood?' We got very cross with them for suggesting that."
(Pamela's daughter India, the model and entrepreneur who was a bridesmaid of Princess Diana, recalls once asking her mother if she needed therapy after being abandoned. The reply? "Oh darling, your generation is much too emotional and indulgent.")
From their infancies, Patricia and Pamela were accustomed to meeting the great and good. Queen Mary often came around, to visit her cousin Princess Victoria, the girls' grandmother. "Very frightening, Queen Mary!," Pamela says with a laugh. "Upright! No slouching for Queen Mary. You really had to mind your p's and q's when Queen Mary was around."
In the summer of 1936, a weekend house party included Wallis Simpson and her husband, along with King Edward VIII. Simpson presented her hostess with a cold chicken from Fortnum & Mason, which everyone thought odd. Mr. Simpson left after only one night, but the others remained, which prompted "a good deal of talking among the adults." That December, the King renounced his throne for "the woman I love," to the shock of seven-year-old Pammy. "I was surprised to learn my cousin Lilibet and her sister Margaret Rose would actually have to live in Buckingham Place…. This took some digesting," Pamela writes.
In later life, Pamela saw quite a bit of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor. "Whenever I was in Paris with my father he'd ring up the Duke: 'I've got Pammy with me,' he'd say. 'Would you like us to pop around?' The Duke would whisper, 'Oh Dickie, let me see…. Wallis is going to the hairdresser at 2:30. Come at 2:30.'
"The Duke wanted to reminisce about his old regiment, his English past, etc., and that stuff bored Wallis to death," Pamela explains.
"She was the most marvelous hostess," Pam admits of the Duchess. "Her houses were perfection. At giving parties and serving food, she was the best."
But did she have any warmth? "No. She was an American hostess," is her answer.
"She was hard-hearted," she continues. "I was shocked that she got this man to give up the throne of England, with the idea that she would devote her life to him. Instead of which, she had Jimmy Donahue [a rich American playboy and heir to the Woolworth fortune]. I remember the Duke being in tears with my father, saying, 'Wallis is with Jimmy.' He had no alternative [other] than her."
Another celebrated hostess the Mountbatten girls got to know was Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt III, when she ruled New York society. In June 1940, the girls (who are one-eighth Jewish, from their great-grandfather Cassel) were put on the SS Washington, the last passenger liner to cross the Atlantic carrying children, and deposited at chez Vanderbilt. Grace Vanderbilt, who was known as "the Kingfisher" for her relentless pursuit of European royalty, had previously attempted to make Louis Mountbatten a husband to her only daughter, Grace. In fact, it was on the Vanderbilt yacht, The North Star, that he met and fell in love with Edwina. "But she bore no grudges," Pamela writes of Grace.
"Considering that she really didn't like children, she was good with us," recalls Pamela, who along with her sister was enrolled in Miss Hewitt's Classes on East 79th Street. "But weeks would pass without us seeing her. We had the whole upstairs floor with our governesses. I'd been to palaces that were bigger than 640 Fifth, but you couldn't get grander. Everything was marble, gold, and crimson."
Following the end of the war, in October 1946, one of the first big events in English society was the wedding of Patricia to John Knatchbull, who had been her father's aide-de-camp in India. Descended from an old aristocratic Kent family, he was the 7th baron and 16th baronet Knatchbull, and would become a successful movie producer.
Under torrential rain, the royal family, led by the King and Queen, entered Romsey Abbey for the ceremony, along with the handsome young Prince Philip of Greece and Denmark—the son of Louis Mountbatten's sister Alice. When Philip casually took the coat of Princess Elizabeth as they arrived, the press assembled outside caught this first hint of a royal romance, and a media frenzy ensued.
Patricia and Pamela had long known about Elizabeth's crush on Philip. The future queen had "clocked him," as Pamela puts it, when she visited Dartmouth Naval College with her parents when she was 13 years old. "She never from that moment thought of anybody else. It was a real love match," says Pamela.
The Princess, however, had to bide her time until she reached a suitable age—and could convince her parents to agree to the marriage. "The King and Queen were appalled," Pamela recalls. "The thought that he might become a son-in-law was most unwelcome. Why wasn't she marrying some respectable English duke? Yes, he was a Prince of Greece and Denmark. But very suspect, Greece—they get rid of their royal families regularly. And he had no money."
Not making things any easier was Philip's well-known bluntness. "He's never been one to flatter. He was not the courtier they were used to," says Patricia.
But that, combined with his famously off-color sense of humor, is what both Mountbatten sisters find so endearing about him. "He's apt to say what he thinks," says Patricia. "But it's not with malice. He is a more sensitive person than most people imagine."
"It's gotten him in so much trouble in the past with the press, but it's only in the last several years that they have realized he is not a buffoon," says Pamela. "He is a very clever man who has made it possible for her to attain the success she has. He breaks that awful ice that forms invariably in every situation they come into. People always stiffen up when she comes into a room. So he makes a really bad joke and it breaks the ice."
As Patricia began her married life, Pamela, aged 17, embarked upon another long journey in March 1947, flying with her parents to India, where her father had been appointed to be Britain's last viceroy, with a mandate to oversee the British withdrawal. She was not brought along just for the ride. "I was thrown right in—told to make speeches, host events," she says. "That was their attitude to life. If you were part of the family, you were going to have a job. And it wasn't, 'now, darling, would you like to do this?'
"There wasn't time for introspection," she adds. "There was such a rush to get everything done, one didn't sit around thinking, Oh, we're making history. It was, have we got enough bandages for tomorrow?"
She came to know well the country's two great leaders, Mahatma Gandhi and Jawaharlal Nehru, about whom she writes:
You often hear about great men, but when you meet them, generally they fall off their pedestals pretty quickly. Not Gandhi and Nehru. From the first moment you met them, you knew they were the most extraordinary people you would meet. My father referred to Gandhi as his 'one-man army.' He said it would have taken a whole division of the British army to put down a riot the way he did walking into it alone. My father was not religious at all, but he genuinely looked on Gandhi as a saint. Of course, saints can be notoriously hard to live with—for normal people—and Gandhi was right up there at the top of that lot. On a day when it was vital to get him to do something, for example, it would be his weekly day of silence. Nothing could get him to speak. My father would be so exasperated.
The exalted man did have a "wicked" sense of humor, however. "He was a great tease," says Pamela. "When he did his great fast, he was nearing death and everyone was really frightened. My parents had been away, but the minute they got back they rushed to see him. 'So, it takes a fast unto death to get you to come see me again?' he said to them, with sparkle in his eye."
Edwina, meanwhile, fell in love with Nehru, and remained close to him until her death in 1960, at the age of 58. But Pamela maintains, contrary to what many people thought, that the relationship remained platonic. "It was not a sexual relationship, but every bit as deep," she says.
After the ceremony at Westminster Abbey, it was on to Buckingham Palace. "I suppose that was my first time on the balcony," she says. "We went there regularly later. But it's quite a sight the first time you see it—all the people like pinpoints, and the crowd surging to the gates of the palace."
In January 1952, Pamela departed with Elizabeth and Philip—who had honeymooned at Broadlands—on their tour of the Commonwealth. Elizabeth had asked Pamela to be one of her two ladies-in-waiting on the trip because "we could have a good giggle together."
But the laughter, like the trip, was cut short when King George VI died unexpectedly, at age 56, on February 6. Elizabeth was one of the last people in the world to know; her party had spent the night at Treetops, a tiny lodge built in the fork of a 300-year-old fig tree in a remote game reserve in Kenya. Since there were only four bedrooms, just Pamela, Philip's private secretary, Mike Parker, and a guide, spent the night with the royal couple, while the rest of the large entourage moved on to the next stop.
As Pamela recounts, after the King was found dead by his valet, his principal private secretary called London at 8:45 A.M. and used the code word "Hyde Park" to inform the prime minister and Queen Mary. Signals in cipher were then sent out to Kenya immediately—but no one in Government House, Nairobi, could decipher them because the governor had taken the codebook with him to Mombasa, where he was due to meet the royal party.
The news first reached Martin Charteris, the princess's private secretary, while he was waiting in a hotel lobby, and a local reporter who had just heard a Reuters newsflash approached him ashen-faced. Charteris was then able to reach Mike Parker on a phone at a fishing lodge where the royal party had moved after Treetops. After confirming the news, Parker told Philip.
"We had been up all night looking at wild animals," Pamela recalls. "It was so spectacular. The next day, she was in a sitting room writing a letter to her father describing it, saying, 'Oh Papa, you would love this.' Then Philip came into the room and said to her, 'Let's go for a walk outside.' Mike and I, of course, watched from the window. Sailors are used to walking the quarterdeck, backwards and forwards, with their hands tied behind them, which he did with her. Then, suddenly, everything stiffened up.
"I lost my head, of course, knowing that she adored her father and he worshipped her. I went and gave her a hug, like you would do for someone who'd just lost their father. Then, I thought, Oh, goodness, she's Queen. And I dropped a really deep curtsy."
In November 1953, Pamela accompanied the Queen and Prince Philip on the reconstituted tour of the Commonwealth, which lasted six months and took them to 13 countries. Early on, the young Queen was shy and prone to self-doubt. "Before she had to make an appearance, she'd say, 'If only mummy were doing this; she does it so well. I'm not spontaneous like mummy."
Needless to say, she quickly grew into her position—a key part of which was learning to control her emotions. Not surprisingly, Pamela has no patience for people who have criticized the monarch for not showing feelings: "She had to learn to control all her emotions. You don't cry in public, you can't show you are tired, you can't show you are bored. Your own emotions are entirely not to be considered. And you have to train yourself to smile yet again," she continues. Pamela saw first-hand how taxing this can be. "Sometimes we would be in motorcades for hours. It is just physically impossible to smile the whole time. Occasionally you have to relax your facial muscles. But whenever she did, since the car was going so slow and we could hear everything, we'd hear someone in the crowd say, 'Doesn't she look cross.'"
Daughter of Empire ends with an account of the spectacular naval procession that took the royal party back to London on the reconstituted Commonwealth tour in 1954. The following decades were eventful for both sisters. Their lives were shattered on August 27, 1979, when I.R.A. operatives detonated a bomb planted on their father's fishing boat, off the coast of Ireland. Pamela and her children had remained behind at the family's nearby holiday home, Classiebawn Castle, and were uninjured. The bomb killed Louis Mountbatten; Patricia's son Nicholas, 14; her mother-in-law, the Dowager Baroness Brabourne, 83; and a boat boy, Paul Maxwell, 15. Gravely injured were Nicholas's identical twin, Timothy, Patricia, and her husband (who died in 2005). Patricia's face alone required 120 stitches. With the passage of time, she has been able to wryly refer to it as "my I.R.A. facelift." But all along, she and her sister have showed extraordinary courage and grace as they dealt with the tragedy.
Through a rare "Special Remainder" sometimes granted to military heroes without male heirs, Patricia succeeded to her father's earldom; her eldest son, Norton, 66, will inherit the peerage, since the Special Remainder allows it to pass to "heirs male of her body." (The recent choice of Louis as one of Prince George's middle names confirms, according to royal watchers, that the Windsor family continues to highly esteem the late Earl Mountbatten.)
"My father and mother-in-law had had good long lives," says Patricia. "The overwhelming tragedy is the local boy and my son, who were just starting their lives. And it was a great worry that Timothy would suffer—he and Nicholas were soul mates. He did suffer greatly, but he overcame it. We were all able to cope thanks to enormous support from our family and friends, and we also had worldwide support from the public. We just went our way through it, the way we have to get on with life.
"We all very strongly believed that to be bitter would make everything so much worse. Being bitter gets you nowhere. It is corrosive and it consumes you." Last year, the Queen met with the former I.R.A. commander Martin McGuinness, who is now deputy first minister of Northern Ireland. It is believed by some that he authorized the 1979 bombing. (McGuinness has strongly denied any involvement.) Many in England were appalled that Her Majesty shook his hand, but not the Mountbatten family.
"She was absolutely right to do that," says Patricia. "I very much approve of anything that will bring about peace. The whole point is to work toward a peaceful solution." Pamela echoes those sentiments: "What is the point of bitterness? It achieves nothing. We just hope that people who used to live together in peace will be able to do so again." Not surprisingly, Hicks has already had entreaties from publishers asking her to write further volumes. During her 38-year marriage to celebrated interior designer David Hicks, who died at age 69 in 1998 and whose clients ranged from Helena Rubenstein to Prince Charles, the couple socialized with a mixture of royalty, café society, and entertainers that was truly dazzling.
When I float the name of the late Princess of Wales by Lady Pamela, she initially offers a couple of positive remarks, then lowers the boom: "She had enormous charisma, she was beautiful, she was very good at empathy with the general crowd … and she had no feeling at all for her husband or his family. Quite the reverse!
"She was really spiteful, really unkind to him—and, my God, he's a man who needs support and encouragement. [The marriage] absolutely destroyed him. He looked grey and ghost-like. Now of course he's blossomed again.
"She made everybody believe she'd been thrown to the wolves. Such nonsense! She was given the Queen's favorite lady-in-waiting, Sue Hussey, to help her, to teach her. But she didn't want to be told anything. 'That's boring, Sue,' she'd say. Instead, she wanted to listen to her music and go disco-ing or to some jive concert.
She didn't try. She had no need to try because she saw the people admired her, then they admired her more. She reckoned she was the star.
"But one memoir is enough!" says Lady Pamela, ending the interview and dashing any hopes of a sequel. Alas!
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That's a lot to read, how about summarizing it.
wow, i'm guessing a whole book would kick your ass
All of God's children are not beautiful. Most of God's children are, in fact, barely presentable.
If I wanted the government in my womb I'd fuck a Senator
^ I don't know if it is but Google will probably show the interview(s) the 'fiancee' gave.
Found this:
Dodi's Life in the Fast Lane | Vanity FairThe biggest splash came in mid-August when a sobbing 31-year-old model named Kelly Fisher sued Dodi after he jilted her to take up with Diana. Having suffered the demise of an engagement sealed with a sapphire-and-diamond ring, Fisher accused Dodi of failing to pay her $440,000 in "premarital support" which, she claimed, he had pledged in return for her giving up modeling. (Exhibit A: a check for $200,000 that he had written to her on a closed account.)
Fisher sold her story to Rupert Murdoch's News of the World and the Sun for an estimated $300,000 to $450,000. She claimed that while Diana was on one Fayed yacht she and Dodi were on another, making love. She said that Dodi kept an "astonishing array of weapons," and that he was "flabby and out of shape" and so germ-obsessed that he traveled with Handi-Wipes and oxygen tanks. (After Dodi's death, Fisher dropped her suit.)
And a more detailed article here:
http://www.vanityfair.com/society/fe...i-fayed-199712Diana returned to the Jonikal in August. The fact that she came back for a second visit so soon really shows her loneliness more than it does a passion for Dodi. Her two sons were at Balmoral, one of the Queen's castles, with their father, Prince Charles, and their grandparents the Queen and Prince Philip, as was their August habit. Diana wasn't being invited around to the great English estates for long weekends. She had become too famous. It was too difficult to have her stay. Strangers gathered at the gates to get a glimpse of her. Helicopters hovered. She really had no place to go. The Jonikal invitations were perfect. A splendid yacht. A helicopter. A private plane. Guards to keep the paparazzi at bay. She probably knew that she was being used by a social climber for his and his son's advancement in London society, but in high society it was a fair deal. Each benefited. However, I think it is safe to say that Diana didn't know that Kelly Fisher was on another family yacht, waiting for furtive visits from Dodi, with whom she had been in a relationship for nearly a year. Diana had already played that scene in her marriage to Prince Charles. The guards assigned to Dodi and Diana by Mohamed Al Fayed must have known about Kelly. Two different ladies on two different yachts were being romanced by the same billionaire's son. The shrine to the eternal love of Diana and Dodi, on view at Harrods, doesn't have quite the same impact once you hear about Kelly's role in the story. It's still tacky, but it's no longer touching. It's calculated. What Al Fayed has created is a shrine to himself: "Look at how I have suffered" is the message.
It's a pretty-well-known fact that Dodi's father ran Dodi's life. Kelly thought Dodi's demanding father was taking up his son's time. It amazes me how long it took her to catch on that her fiancé was having an affair. On August 10, 1997, the paparazzi snapshot that became known as "The Kiss" appeared in the Sunday Mirror. The picture left no doubt that Dodi and Diana were romantically involved. Kelly was toast. She must have known that she was no match for the Princess of Wales, and she hotfooted it back to Hollywood, where she immediately hired the well-known Los Angeles attorney Gloria Allred to file a breach-of-contract suit against Dodi. I called Gloria, whom I have known over the years through a multitude of cases. She described to me her press conference with Kelly to announce the lawsuit, which she called a tale of romance and betrayal. Gloria has written a soon-to-be-released book about her cases, entitled Fight Back and Win, which includes Kelly's lawsuit. As Allred writes, Kelly was standing there next to her, but she was too overcome with sadness and tears to speak: "Ms. Fisher is emotionally devastated and traumatized by Mr. Fayed's mistreatment of her. She is unable to speak to the press today because she breaks down in tears whenever she begins to relive what she has personally suffered." There's no question that they thought they had the case of the year, and that the sympathy and spotlight would shift to Kelly as the wronged woman. "We think the Princess should know what has happened with Ms. Fisher and how she and her family have suffered and are suffering."
Kelly even offered to meet with the Princess of Wales to tell her what Dodi was really like. The Princess did not reply to the invitation. And then, days later, the lovers were killed in the Alma tunnel. Kelly did the proper thing and withdrew her breach-of-contract lawsuit.
Reading this while keeping in mind the previous comments about what Diana should have expected, this stood out to me:
The term "open marriage" was probably not used at the time, but Pamela has no problem with it. "As long as the marriage works for the people concerned, I don't see why it should be so disapproved of by those not in it." Her parents, she goes on, had "a tremendous partnership … but it wasn't a domestic lovey-dovey clinging-together relationship." It was all quite loose.
Then this struck me as well:
Pamela's daughter India, the model and entrepreneur who was a bridesmaid of Princess Diana, recalls once asking her mother if she needed therapy after being abandoned. The reply? "Oh darling, your generation is much too emotional and indulgent."
I think it speaks volumes for both the class and the times the sisters were brought up.
Interesting comments and articles. Those old sisters are the first to throw anyone they don't like under the bus. The comments about an open marriage are code for their father was bisexual and into kinky sex with young dudes. Fun! The Wallis Simpson and Jimmy Donahue comment is interesting since Jimmy was rich rich rich and gay gay gay and supported the Windsors for about a decade. The cold chicken comment about Wallis is that she had made it a fashionable appetizer and that's why she brought the host one.
I suppose jive concerts is the upperclass way of saying black concerts. I thought Diana was super into Duran Duran and as funky as the Fab Five are, I don't think they are jive.
"The Signs & The Looks & The Pictures, They Give Your Game Away, Yeah"
neither was rick astley, another one of diana's favourites.
whatever, i still love these snobby old hags. they're way classier and more entertaining than pukey the histrionic attention-whore ever was.
I'm open to everything. When you start to criticise the times you live in, your time is over. - Karl Lagerfeld
Neither is Elton John.
The over-emotional histrionics is just embarassing, in a class that has historically balance duty & private self-indulgence.
since Louis was famously gay, I don't see the "big reveal"??? As the daughter says, it's what worked for them; he had done his "duty" by marrying & producing offspring at a time when homosexuality was outlawed. The couple didn't have to stay married since divorce was available to the upper classes, even more so after WWII.
Edward & Wallis were irresponsible at best and dangerous traitor who intentionally put allied lives at risk by divulging secret plans to the Germans. She had no idea how to relate to the people in the circles that she wished to be & entertain in. Yes, the upper classes are a closed shop but they would have accepted her if she hasn't attached herself to a morally corrupt, emotionally stunted, near idiot (with a tiny dick) who sabotaged his own "career". But let's face it, she did the royal family a massive favour as otherwise he would have been king longer & that would have been even more disastrous to the British & Commonwealth, ESP during WWII.
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But she was only a kid and led a sheltered and disturbed life.
IIRC she liked Supertramp too!
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Michael Natkin, author of Herbivoracious, is an outside of the box kind of thinker. And it's precisely that kind of thinking that gives his meatless creations so much style. Take this Peppery Absorption-Cooked Red-Wine Capellini for example—but first take everything you know about pasta-making and throw it out of the window.
Instead of your usual boil, stain, and sauce method, Natkin has created a method where the pasta is toasted, tossed with sautéed vegetables, and finished in a blend of water and red wine. Seasoned with smoked paprika, cayenne, rosemary, and oregano, this pasta is packed with loads of big flavors, fresh veggies, and the pasta itself is toasty and winey.
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- Yield:serves 4
- Active time: 30 minutes
- Total time:30 minutes
- 1 pound capellini
- 3 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil
- Half a large white onion, thinly sliced
- 6 garlic cloves, minced
- Kosher salt
- 1 1/2 pounds zucchini, diced
- 1 bunch asparagus, trimmed and cut into 1/2-inch lengths
- 1 1/2 cups halved cherry tomatoes
- 1 tablespoon smoked paprika
- 1 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
- 1/4 teaspoon cayenne pepper
- 2 tablespoons fresh oregano leaves
- 1 teaspoon minced fresh rosemary
- 1 1/4 cups red wine (I use an inexpensive Spanish Tempranillo), plus additional as needed
- 1 1/4 cups water, plus additional as needed
- Minced fresh flatleaf parsley leaves, for garnish
Preheat the oven to 375°F. Break the capellini into approximately 3-inch lengths. Spread the pasta on a baking sheet, slide it into the oven, and toast, tossing occasionally with tongs, until golden brown, about 12 minutes.
Meanwhile, heat the olive oil in a large pot (at least 5 1/2 quarts) with a lid over medium heat. Add the onion, garlic, and a pinch of salt and cook, allowing them only to soften and grow aromatic but not brown, about 5 minutes. Increase the heat to medium-high and add the zucchini and another pinch of salt. Sauté until the zucchini is well browned, about 5 more minutes.
Place the noodles on top of the zucchini mixture. Layer the asparagus and 1 cup of the cherry tomatoes on top of that and sprinkle in the smoked paprika, black pepper, cayenne pepper, oregano, and rosemary. Pour the red wine and water over the top. Toss as best you can with tongs; it will be hard at first because the noodles are stiff. Return the heat to medium and cover the pot.
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