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Was he a paranoid schizophrenic? A psychopath? Did he have a brain tumor? What could have turned a college student into a killing machine? In the nearly two weeks since the horrible Monday morning when 23-year-old Cho Seung-Hui unleashed a hail of bullets on students and faculty at Virginia Tech, mental health professionals have weighed in on what may have driven Cho's rampage.
Forensic psychiatrist Michael Lerner was among the first to do so, writing on abcnews.com on Thursday, April 19, that Cho likely suffered from paranoid schizophrenia. "Paranoia," he wrote, "is the most important element to understand in the possible motives of mass shootings."
Local mental health expert Dewey Cornell agrees with Lerner's assessment that paranoid schizophrenia could have been at the root of Cho's violence. "It certainly sounds like he's seriously mentally ill," says Cornell, a psychologist and expert in school violence at UVA's Curry School of Education. "A lot of his statements reflect symptoms that are familiar to folks who work with severely mentally ill individuals."
Such symptoms, Cornell says, include grandiosity, narcissism, and nihilistic (death focused) delusions, "that the world is full of sin and they have some kind of mission."
While Cho had never committed violence before his shooting spree, his behavior had worried his teachers and classmates for several years. His writing, which has been reprinted on several sites including thesmokinggun.com, also contains graphic violence. In one play, titled Richard McBeef, Cho, an English major, wrote about a 13-year-old boy who accuses his stepfather of killing his father and being a pedophile, and who eventually provokes the stepfather into killing him.
One of Cho's professors, poet Nikki Giovanni, had removed him from one of her classes and asked a colleague to tutor him privately because his writing and behavior were so disturbing that only seven of 70 students were coming to class.
"When I heard the suspect was an Asian student, I knew it was him," she said in a taped interview from Bradley University, posted on CBSnews.com.
Giovanni, who reported Cho to the police to no avail, grew emotional during the interview.
"I taught that boy," she said. "I thought he was evil."
She wasn't the only one to see warning signs. In 2005, two female students lodged complaints against Cho, who they said was making unwanted contact through email and phone calls. Neither woman pressed charges, according to reports, but after another acquaintance suggested he might be suicidal, Cho was committed to a psychiatric hospital. He was released within days with orders to undergo outpatient treatment. It's not clear whether he ever sought or received that treatment.
Cornell says that despite Cho's hideous crime, he believes professors, psychologists, and the psychiatric hospital where Cho was briefly held did the only thing they could do at the time. "You can't hold him for years," he says. "Legally, you can't hold someone against their will unless there's clear and convincing evidence that they're an imminent danger to themselves or others."
That more than a year passed between Cho's release from the hospital and his shooting spree is proof "they were correct in releasing Cho," he says. Cornell points out that colleges deal with depressed, angry students "all the time." But, he adds, "Most people who are suicidal don't become homicidal. Most quiet withdrawn roommates don't turn out to be homicidal maniacs."
UVA forensic psychiatrist Bruce Cohen says Cho's extreme ideas could be consistent with schizophrenia, but "Not all extreme ideas are delusional."
Cornell says he's troubled by the release of Cho's audio/video manifesto, in which he rages against "hedonists" and "charlatans," and claims they have victimized him. "You had a hundred billion chances and ways to have avoided today," Cho says in one video, "but you decided to spill my blood. You forced me into a corner and gave me only one option. The decision was yours. Now you have blood on your hands that will never wash off."
The Virginia Tech slaughter resembles the 1999 Columbine High School shooting, and in fact, Cho references the Columbine killers, calling them martyrs.
Cornell says violent acts like these can inspire copycats. "The two Columbine boys have been so popularlized that they've become attractive figres for a wide range of people," he says. "Alienated, disaffected youth who might identify from a distance are also attractive to a smaller number of severely mentally ill individuals who incorporate them into their delusional thinking."
But despite the similarity in their crimes, Cornell says Cho differs from Klebold and Harris. "They were depressed, and one may have been more psychopathic," says Cornell, "but they didn't have the severe mental disorder."
While paranoid schizophrenia can be accompanied by hallucinations– such as hearing voices– and extremely disordered thoughts, some individuals have only delusional thoughts. Cho was able to methodically plan for several months and then carry out his murderous fantasy, but that doesn't mean he wasn't ill.
"I've seen severely disturbed people carry out very elaborate plans," says Cornell. "It can occur."
Despite the suspicion of schizophrenia, both Cornell and Cohen say a definitive diagnosis for Cho may never be possible. While research has suggested there may be some differences in the brain structures of those with schizophrenia, there are no universal markers, and it is impossible to determine mental illness from an autopsy.
A diagnosis of schizophrenia generally relies heavily on a patient's own report of "his subjective mental experiences," impossible in this case since Cho is dead.
Whatever was wrong with Cho, Cornell cautions anyone trying to make sense of his manifesto.
"People will look into things he said," Dewey explains. "Was he impoverished, did people abuse him?" Cho's videotaped and written claims of being victimized "may be a product of delusional thinking," Cornell adds. "We should resist the temptation to try to make sense of something that's fundamentally irrational."
Experts says Virginia Tech shooter Seung-Hui Cho may have suffered from paranoid schizophrenia.
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This guy CHO was a piece of evil crap that deserved to die. It sucks how people want to "figure out" what made him go bad. He was born bad or raised bad it does not matter. He was bad and I hope he is burning in hell right now for being so selfish. If he were a real man he would have gone out in the woods and swallowed a bullet alone.
Stop posting his picture.. you just encourage
other losers to try and get famous at other peoples expense.
He didn't have a killers instinct. Killers like the challenge. pussies like to massacre. I'll bet he spent his childhood smashing frogs with rocks.
Cho should become the slang word for somone who is too big of a pussie to face the real world.
as in " He got fired from his job so he stays home and blames the world like a little Cho"
That's a very mature response, Ben. Good idea. Let's use a common Asian name as an insult because it happened to be this guy's name.
Megan, it seems to me that Ben was saying Cho should be used as an insult because he killed many innocent people like a gutless coward; NOT because Cho is an Asian name. I suspect Ben would have said Dugan should be used as an insult if the killer's last name happened to be Dugan.
I hope that someday mass murderers will be buried in an unmarked grave with their name never revealed in the press. These killers plan on a perverse kind of immortality and we need to stop giving it to them.
Blah, I'm aware of why he thinks we should begin calling people "Cho" as an insult, and I'm suggesting that it's still offensive to other people named Cho who had nothing to do with him. I wouldn't want my family name to become a popular insult, would you? And I'm also suggesting that we stop spending so much time hating him, because that's not going to bring back anyone, and instead focus on helping the families of the victims and seeing what, if anything, can prevent a tragedy like this from happening in the future.
Well said Megan. Obviously some people did not understand your subtle remark. We can only move on by seeking knowledge. Nothing is gained by blaming a raging river for overflowing it's banks.
Megan, stop acting like a CHO!
HaHaHa! I crack myself up sometimes!
Hey Megan, stop hating him? WTF? I bet if any of the 32 people was a direct family member of yours, you would never stop hating him.
Megan, you are taking your political correctness to an extreme level. What is that comment about "we can only move on by seeking knowledge." Knowledge about what? Knowledge about why Cho killed? Is that information going to bring anybody back from the dead? Is it going to help the families stop grieving any sooner? Tell that to the families. I'm sure the response would be something similare to "Knowing why Cho killed a member of my family does not help me get over my grief any sooner." The movement for everything to be PC has overflown its riverbanks.
Gail, I would like to see a form of "shunning" take hold in response to cases like this--like what they do in Amish communities to punish wrong-doers. No one acknowledges the person's existence--don't look at, talk to, interact with the person at all. No references to the person, no attention at all. There should be much more shame and exclusion attached to these people. Right now, we do the exact opposite--we heap attention and reward upon these people. Anyone observing the whole phenomenon can draw the conclusion that the way to get rewarded with attention is to do something like this.
I was furious with the news coverage that all universally opened with a version of the sentence "in the worst massacre ever on U.S. soil, ..."--I mean, way to up the ante for the next guy! Can't we refer to it as the most shameful or the most disgusting act ever? at least attach some modifiers to it that no one finds attractive.
I don't think that trying to understand why Cho did what he did is PC--unless trying to understand how it is that cancer kills people is also just a bunch of PC. It's about trying to advance the bodies of knowledge (psych, bio, neurochem, sociology, all of it) that might help us identify future mass killers. You can't address problem that you don't even understand.
From what I've been reading, many members of the immediate VT community (i.e., students there right now) have been working on forgiveness already--putting up a memorial stone for Cho on the drill field, leaving flowers and notes for him, etc. I'm sure there will be ultra-right-wing condemnations of these acts of forgiveness as just more wimpy PC liberal passivity (a la Neal Boortz), but I think it's pretty amazing and admirable to find room in your heart to pity someone like Cho, and to forgive him. If you've ever had occasion to forgive someone who has harmed you--really, really forgive that person, from your heart--then you know it's an amazing, transformative experience. I hope some of these kids are feeling that.
Sidonie. You stereotype conservatives. Do you really think that there are no conservative christians who have truly forgave somebody? Do you think only the liberal left can really forgive somebody. That seems to be the undertone of your message. If you think that, then I forgive you, but I'll pray you'll change.
forgave = forgiven in above message.
Actually, Steve, the family of one of the victims, Reema Samaha, has already stated that they have forgiven the killer. Of course people are justified in being angry and feeling hate. But slamming Cho and his family on message boards - really, what does that do? Does that help the families move on with their lives? Does it help us to prevent future shootings? Sidonie said it best above, so I'm not going to repeat her words. And I don't agree with the actions of the person who put down the memorial stone for Cho on the Drillfield with those of the victims, I don't think it belongs there. But at the same time, carrying around hatred for him is not going to help us move on from this tragedy and prevent others.
Sidonie might stereotype conservatives, but on other boards I've heard people refer to the girl who put down the stone for Cho as a bleeding heart liberal who should be expelled, killed, etc. If some conservatives think forgiveness is such a horrible "liberal" trait, then it stands to reason that these same conservatives value anger and hatred.
I forgive you to Megan. I will also pray you will include people with differnt values (i.e. conservative) in the group of people you are willing to love and forgive.
Don't feel guilty Megan, I am so used to most liberals preaching forgiveness and then acting in hate against anybody with a different perspective.
Sorry for the post filled with grammer errors and typos above. I hope you will forgive me.
This is a really good article.
Ben: People want to understand what drove him to it SO THEY CAN STOP THIS SORT OF JUNK from happening ever again. Labelling someone or something evil doesn't help stop this from happening again.
Most school shooters have a large amount of paranoia in their belief system. Research into treating paranoia would really help - what if there could be a drug to treat paranoia? Well, hat's just hypothetical.
Society needs to actually take some sort of *action* to provide medical care for those with mental illness, the same as is provided for peple who have things wrong with parts of their body that don't involve the brain.
I know it's horrid what has happened but this will keep happening till these people are found before they commmit and are gotten treatment before they can perpetrate a crime based on their delusions. The person needs forced treatment and to keep taking their meds even after they get back to normal.
We need to find them and get them the medical and social help they need to stay sane.
SPECT and MEG brain scans can help spot people with potential violent problems. Yearly medical checkups need to include have these things in children and adolescents and anyone with prolonged aberrant and disturbing behvaiour would go a long way to stopping this stuff and save lives.
So we could catch them before they go off the rails and save lives of people who would otherwise become their victims.
Sidonie: If Cho did have paranoid schizophrenia, or schizoaffect disorder shunning and social isolation would only make his symptoms worse.
What he needed was forced treatment but the law right now has swung to being too liberal about people with active episodes of psychosis. How can you have free will when you are psychotic and believe all manner of lunacies?
Medically you can't be episodic with a psychotic mental illness and really have free will, because your Will is influenced by your beliefs and if you r beliefs are completely whacked out you're willing to act on these you will do soemthing whacky.
But to the law, you somehow still have free will.
I don't think so! The law can try and ignore medical and psychological research but they are crazy to do so when it could help reduce their case load!
Usually people with schizophrenia are harmless but paranoid schiz and schizoaffect are another enchilada entirely. They are more prone to violence. Schizophrenia is a treatable mental illness but it isn't EASY to treat. Some people don't respond to the drugs and many psychotropics used to treat mental disorders have horrible side effects like giving you diabetes.
One of the hallmarks of schizophreia and schizoaffect disorder is that the person has NO CLUE THEY ARE ILL. they think it's everyone else who's sick and they are fine.
What use is free will if a person thinks others are in control of their behaviour? What use is shunning in these cases when social isolation makes the symptoms (and behaviour) worse?
We can't keep slamming mental illness in a "lets not talk about it" closet and expect it to go away. Being horrified at it and going all slackjawed won't help either.
Most mentally ill people are more of a danger to themselves but a handful are like Cho or Kimveer Gil (who was psychotically depressed before committing the killings at Montreal's Dawson College last fall).
I'm praying the deaths at Dawson and Virginia Tech and Columbine etc. will not be in vain and mental health checkups and treatment (once a month injections of some anti-psychotics are showing some promise) and social supports for those with 'broken brains' will become the norm.
But the systems for mental health in Canada and the US are being cutback. So why is anyone surprised when there is an increase in these crimes id medical help is being flummoxed by governmental cutbacks and legal impediments to treatment during delusional episodes?
"let's not talk about it"
In every school shooting since Kip Kinkle in America, the killer was either hopped up on or withdrawing from SSRI. Let's not talk about that either.
I've read lots of books and got straight A's in my college courses, and got a magic degree in psychiatry. I believe this degree and my connection to it give me special powers. These special powers enable me to determine who is and who has a "broken brain". You don't possess the special powers that I possess because you don't possess the magic degree, so don't challenge my authority.
Expert. I have read more books and have more degrees than you. Na na na na naaaa. You shall now listen to me and agree! Ha ha ha ha ha ha. I will rule the world by forcing psychological exams of the populace and incarcerating those that do not please me.
Well, I have degrees too, and my powers of manipulation and conformity have given me a position higher in the government beaurocracy, so I will be the decider of whose brain is broken. I will decide who gets a gun, and who doesn't. And I feel certain you are both showing signs of univerabnorevertism, which you must buy my book to understand. Cho on that!
In other words, he's evil.


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Despite Popularity, Mysteries Of E-Cigarettes Persist
And to talk further about the potential health risks of e-cigarettes, I'm joined by the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Dr. Tom Frieden. Dr. Frieden, welcome to the program.
DR. TOM FRIEDEN: Great to be here.
BLOCK: Apart from nicotine, which we know is highly addictive, what components of e-cigarettes are you most concerned about?
FRIEDEN: One of the things we're concerned about is that we don't know what's in them. With no standards and no regulations, there's not one kind of e-cigarette, there's literally hundreds. So one of the things that FDA regulation - when finalized - would do would be to require product disclosure. But the nicotine is concerning enough because it is so addictive and because so many of our children are now experimenting with e-cigarettes.
BLOCK: Do you think that in the public eye the fact that they haven't been regulated means that people think these have to be safe? The FDA hasn't done anything about them.
I know there are an enormous number of misconceptions about e-cigarettes. For example, smokers routinely say, well, I - if I want to quit, maybe I should get an e-cigarette rather than saying I'm going to go get an FDA-approved medicine that will double or triple my likelihood of quitting. So there are certainly many misconceptions around e-cigarettes.
Well, let me ask you about that because there are people - there's a school of thought that says there could be a real health benefit to e-cigarettes if they help people quit smoking conventional-burn cigarettes. Have you seen any persuasive evidence that they actually do help people quit?
FRIEDEN: I certainly see the theory that they could be helpful and I've heard some anecdotes about individuals who say they have helped them quit. But much more importantly is the actuality that right now we're getting millions of kids experimenting with or using regularly e-cigarettes. We're getting smokers who are perhaps using them not to quit but to keep smoking regular cigarettes. We're seeing large numbers of ex-smokers going back to nicotine products for the first time in years using e-cigarettes. We're seeing the re-glamorization of smoking as an act. And we're also seeing potential exposure of nonsmokers, including pregnant women, to the nicotine in e-cigarette products. So I see theoretical potential benefits but definite harms occurring.
BLOCK: Has there been enough research, do you think?
FRIEDEN: I think there's just a lot we don't know and need to know about e-cigarettes. You know, when it comes to tobacco products, we really have to assume they're dangerous until they're proven safe, rather than the other way around.
BLOCK: A lot of the e-cigarettes have flavors - cotton candy, gummy bear, tutti-frutti - flavors that seem to be clearly aimed at kids. And the proposed FDA rules don't address that. How much of a concern is that for you?
FRIEDEN: I think it's shameful behavior by the e-cigarette companies, as is sale over the Internet, as is marketing that appeals to children, as are free samples. These are behaviors that we saw in the tobacco industry in the '50s, and really the e-cigarette industry has been taking pages from that playbook because they've been outside of the regulatory framework until now. This is a first step to try to bring them within that regulatory framework and that's important.
BLOCK: You say it's shameful. But as I mentioned, the new FDA proposed rules wouldn't touch anything about those flavors, at least not now.
FRIEDEN: One of the challenges that the FDA has is the balance between stringent regulation and regulation that will stand up to a court challenge. And, already, the e-cigarette industry has won one court case against the FDA on regulation. Already, the tobacco industry has prevailed in the latest decision on graphic pack warnings. So it is a real balancing act between how effective regulation can be and how sustainable it will be in court.
BLOCK: Dr. Frieden, I do wonder this. I mean, e-cigarettes have been around for maybe five years or so. It's already almost a $2 billion a year industry. And some of the FDA proposals are going to take years to go into effect, if they go into effect. Why has it taken regulators so long to catch up?
FRIEDEN: It's an important step forward to help reverse the epidemic of disease and death caused by tobacco, in particular, to protect our kids from tobacco addiction. But regulations take time and they're not going to immediately prevent tobacco companies from peddling their products to kids. I think all of us wish that regulation could be quicker but we also recognize that there's a balance between quick and stringent regulation on the one hand and regulation that's going to stand up in court on the other.
BLOCK: Dr. Frieden, thanks very much for talking with us.
FRIEDEN: Thank you very much.
BLOCK: That's Dr. Tom Frieden. He directs the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta.
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Ken Reason's 1962 Chrysler Newport
The Lettering On The Rear Window Kinda Says It All, With Its Claim That She's "Nautical, But Nice"
It happened quite by accident; Ken Reason was driving his 51 Plymouth through an intersection when someone blew the red and creamed his cruiser. Luckily, the other driver was insured, and Ken, insurance check in hand, paid a visit to the Long Beach High Performance Swap Meet to perhaps find a suitable body to help repair his totaled 51.
With not a 51 in sight, Ken was stopped cold by a beauteous 62 Chrysler sitting on a trailer. The car was in pristine condition, had low mileage, ran like a clock, and was priced right. He made a quick deal and that afternoon, Ken welcomed the Newport to its new home. Kens club buddies in the Sultans Car Club of Long Beach, had christened his Plymouth Mayflower because of the sailing ship logo that Plymouth employed at the time. When that ship sunk and Ken surfaced with the huge Chrysler, the boys immediately dubbed it Queen Mary.
The name stuck, and the fact that Ken lives in a suburb of Long Beachhome of the real Queen Marymade it seem apropos. Ken spent four years getting the old girl shipshape and now that shes done, he spends more time going to shows and generally cruising than he does sleeping. Hes not afraid to travel beyond a three-hour tour, either. Last summer, Ken cruised to a four-day car show in Oregon from his Southern California harbor with several of the other Sultans. They made a two-week roadtrip out of it, and the Chrysler got them there and back with no trouble. The lettering on the rear window kinda says it all, with its claim that shes Nautical, but nice.


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October 24, 2008
Grundfos' new Water Utility Plant in Suzhou, China, planned to produce their first sewage pump in October 2008.
Totally in accordance with this plan, the first pump assembled in the new factory passed all relevant tests and was ready to be shipped to the Chinese authorities for final qualification on 20 October.
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The plant has also received the first order from GSH: 5 pumps to a new Waste Water Treatment Plant in the Anhui province in East China. The Water Utility Plant could not have wished for a better start.


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Shakespeare's "Taming of the Shrew" at SUNY Canton, April 1Tuesday, March 23rd, 2010
SUNY Canton Director of Residence Life Courtney B. Bish is making a special guest appearance in an upcoming Shakespearean comedic play.
Curtain time for the New England Shakespeare Festival's presentation of "Taming of the Shrew," and Bish's debut, will be at 7:30 p.m. on Thursday, April 1, in the Richard W. Miller Campus Center's Kingston Theater.
"Taming of the Shrew" is a love story crafted in a comedy. The young and demure Bianca can marry any man she wants, but not until her elder sister Kate has found a husband. Unfortunately for Bianca, Kate is so obnoxious that no man wants anything to do with her. Kate's generous dowry tempts the blustering suitor Petruchio, who is certain he can "tame" the wild Kate. Sparks fly as marriage and mayhem take center stage in the classic play.
"From what I've seen of this production company, they tend to make everything really fun and approachable," Bish explains. "It's very much Shakespeare for everyone, rather than just targeting an elite audience."
New England Shakespeare, a touring company based in Deerfield, N.H., is dedicated to telling Shakespeare's stories by staging his plays in the original Elizabethan style. "Taming of the Shrew" features a cast of veteran Shakespeare performers. The production is directed by Demitra Papadinis, New England Shakespeare's founder and Artistic Director.
"What I enjoy most about this show is that it's just good fun," Papadinis said. "It's easy to get hung up on the Chauvinism, but I think the story is not only extremely funny but also very touching. We're excited to stage 'Shrew' as what it is: a light-hearted comedy about two people setting aside their differences and coming together."
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39 comments:
What a fun exhibit! The vivid art and topography are truly mesmerizing.ReplyDelete
much love.
I love your typography! This looks so cool! xReplyDelete
totally want to check this place out on sunday, looks like a lot of funReplyDelete
Bow Dream Nation xx
Aah this looks like such a fab exhibit, reminds me of a street art one i went to recently.ReplyDelete
I love the alphabet graphics, and whoever wrote 'I drew this' was a genius :P x
Wow, this looks like so much fun, would love to visit this! xxReplyDelete
- AnonymousFriday, March 25, 2011 8:58:00 pm
Amazing work, love seeing posts like this.ReplyDelete
Katie. x
looks like such a great exhibition!ReplyDelete
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- AnonymousFriday, March 25, 2011 9:11:00 pm
Looks like a great exhibition!ReplyDelete
Wow, this looks so good!ReplyDelete
I went to this today.. it's so good!ReplyDelete
i have a weird fascination for typography! it looked so good :) xxReplyDelete
Wow, I love things like this! That was the perfect place for you :DReplyDelete
These are great photos, such a wonderful exhibition! xxReplyDelete
awesome work ! i love the second and third picture, so creative and very inspirational !ReplyDelete
defs gonna check this out! looks so coolReplyDelete
Your blog has made me want to do typography! I love it!ReplyDelete
that looks like a ton of fun! :)ReplyDelete
- AnonymousSaturday, March 26, 2011 2:37:00 am
That's so cool! xReplyDelete
wow thats AMAZING !ReplyDelete
i love the creativity and boom of ideas that come with ,
also the photography is more than just enjoyable .
great work !
I'd definetely visit if I were in England :)
Wow this looks like such a great exhibition. I love the typography! I'm a bit in love with typography after just finishing a project on it at college. Never realised how fun it was!ReplyDelete
I went to last years one and it inspired me so much! Gutted I couldn't go this year :(ReplyDelete
Oh wow, I love all of this! Everything looks so amazing.ReplyDelete
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That looks amazing!ReplyDelete
OMG my fiance went to this with his mate but I coudldnt go, he's a graphic desinger and said it was amazing! officially even more jealous xx :o)ReplyDelete
Some of this stuff is just so COOL for want of a better word! Love the letters second photo down. Works of art!xReplyDelete
this looks amazing, i love stuff like this. Im the must uncreative person ever so im always just amazed by other peoples workReplyDelete
that look so fun! i love all the vivid colours!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousSunday, March 27, 2011 1:19:00 pm
That looks so fun!ReplyDelete
I'm a big fan of typography!
wow lily that looks so great! i absolutely love all those things. but today i have to get to bed early so i am so so so much hoping you're going to post your sunday portrait soon ;) well otherwise i'll have something to read tmrw night.ReplyDelete
Looks like a lot of fun :)ReplyDelete
It looks so cool and like such fun!!ReplyDelete
stunning work as always lilly!ReplyDelete
Looks like an awesome convention, so inspiring!
I really like your blog, greetings from ArgentinaReplyDelete
love a good design exhibition. This makes me miss design!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousMonday, March 28, 2011 9:23:00 pm
Lovely picures, + it is totally the kind of design I love :) xReplyDelete
i really like this.ReplyDelete
the design is amazing, and the font is my favorite!
really cute!
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I was just getting to really like Los Alamos. I'd met the town intellectuals and had two or three dinner dates a week and a lunch date every day if I could tear myself away from my beloved Macintosh Common Lisp. Weekends with Susie and Stephen in Santa Fe, with its string of Friday night art gallery openings and super deluxe art market kept me sane. However, it was getting cold in my tent and I decided that LANL was a better place to finish a computer science PhD thesis than to start one. I started driving back towards MIT.
New Mexico beckoned me back even as I drove out into Colorado. A cloudless sky overhead and the surreal autumn light made Taos and the beautiful valley of Arroyo Honda shimmer. I finally understood why the place attracted so many painters. New Mexicans describe their state as "Land of Enchantment" or "Land of the Flea and Home of the Plague" depending upon mood, but I'd concluded for sure that this was the land of the cracked windshield. I couldn't believe that I'd survived both the Alaska Highway and a summer in New Mexico with my windshield intact.
Fifteen miles short of the Colorado border, on a smooth highway with no evidence pebbles, a pickup truck coming the other way kicked up something that put a dime-sized crack right in front of my eyes.
It was 8pm and almost pitch dark when I got to the campground at Great
Sand Dune National Monument. A ranger narrated a half hour slide show
on Colorado wildflowers, all of which were long dead, for a
miscellaneous collection of Swiss-Germans and Coloradans. Her
presentation was devoid of the usual National Park Service New Age
philosophy except at the end: "next time you look at a wildflower,
feel the wonder." Wind and cold was about to penetrate my Gore-Tex
Thinsulate parka so I was happy to pitch my tent and get into the
sleeping bag. The wind was so strong, though, that it would blow part
of the tent in on my head every now and then. Ear plugs were
essential to keep the howling wind noise out.
Saturday, September 24, 1994
I managed to push myself out of bed at 6:45 by reminding myself that I hadn't come all the way here to miss the shadows on the sand dunes. The scenery was perfect. A field of Colorado fall color, mostly yellow and maroon, backed by a 700 foot high sand dune over which towered the sharp peaks of the Sangre de Cristos. I hiked out onto the dunes for a bunch of footprint-free shadow-filled shots but felt no desire to climb all the way to the top through the viscous sand.
Air conditioning, telephones, satellite TV, and Internet have ameliorated some of the hardships of life in the real West, but breakfast at the Oasis cafe just outside the park taught me that it is still a different world. My waitress had been a passenger in a car when a rock came through the windshield going 110 mph.
"We're still looking for the truck that kicked up the rock," her father noted. "She might have been killed if she hadn't had her head turned sideways."
As it was, she still had some nasty scars and hadn't been able to start at Arizona State University as planned.
"You can be decapitated by a Kleenex box in the back seat if you stop short," noted the waitress's young grandmother. We appeared skeptical. "It's true. If you're going 60 mph, a Kleenex box can take you head right off."
"If I had to choose between a rock and a Kleenex box, I'd take the Kleenex," I offered.
"Me too," said the waitress.
I drove through open range in a flat valley north towards US 285, a scenic route that follows the spine of the Rockies for a thousand miles or so. I stopped to check out an alligator and fish farm before pressing on to Salida. Like every Western town, there is the inevitable strip of WalMart, fast foods, and supermarket, but Salida has a vital brick downtown as well. I learned that the town was home to one of America's nicest mountain bike rides, the Monarch Crest. You take a shuttle bus up to 11,000' for $10, then climb just 1000' more along the Continental Divide, then ride mostly downhill for the rest of the 35 mile trip. That's my kind of biking and it broke my heart not to be able to stay another day in town and do it.
I ate lunch at the First Street Cafe with Norm, a 5th-generation German-American who grew up in New Jersey but joined the 10th Mountain Division and trained at Fort Hale, north of Leadville, Colorado.
"It was all volunteer and great skiing, but camping in minus 40 degree weather wasn't much fun."
They fought the Germans in the mountains of Italy, 990 of the 15,000 men falling to enemy artillery.
"I was on a ship near the Azores en route to retraining for the invasion of Japan when we got news about the Hiroshima bomb. I didn't believe it. There was a guy who'd been a DJ before the war who put together a daily news show for men on the ship from what he got over the ship's radio. He was a renowned prankster and none of us who knew him believed the atomic bomb story. When we found out it was true, we were walking on air for days."
Not everyone in Salida is so thrilled with the work of Los Alamos, however. A downtown storefront is the studio and home of the artist/agitator Dr. Doom. He campaigns against Republicans, nuclear arms, and a litany of other right-wing ills by driving around the West in placard-covered vehicles and dumping drums labeled "nuclear waste" on roadsides. The election of Bill Clinton has taken a lot of the wind out of his sails even if nothing substantive has been accomplished on any liberal front.
After a shower and dip in the Salida hot springs, I spun up through yellow Aspens, green pines, horse pastures, and bald high passes to the southern entrance of Rocky Mountain National Park.
Sunday, September 25, 1994
The Shadowcliff youth hostel takes the "hostile" out of hostel with a glorious view over Shadow Mountain Lake to at least five mountain ranges. I spent the day hunting great photographs of Aspens, waterfalls, and the Rockies, but somehow never hit my photographic stride, perhaps partly due to spirit-lifting but photographically boring cloudless blue skies.
Towards the top of the park road, which goes up to 12,183', making it the "highest continuous paved road in the US," I began to feel short of breath and get a copper/salt taste in my mouth. A ranger at the 11,750' visitors' center said the metallic taste was a common symptom of altitude, which reassured me. Two Malamutes looked perfectly at home at altitude and their owners turned out to be good souls from Hewlett-Packard's Greeley scanner division. Two guys came over to join the fun and when they heard us talking about exchanging JPEGs of the dogs over Internet asked for the Travels with Samantha URL because they were students at the Air Force Academy.
Driving in gathering darkness through narrow valleys, I knew that I was really out of the park when I passed a Vishay sales office. Hewlett-Packard is taking over Colorado and their Loveland division apparently buys the fancy Vishay resistors. It was a very lonely and trying trip on US 34 for an hour before I reached I-76, which punches diagonially northeast from Denver into Nebraska. I collapsed at 11:30 in an interstate-side motel in Julesberg, Colorado, two miles short of the border.
Monday, September 26, 1994
Crossing into Nebraska was thrilling out of all proportion to the flat brown landscape. This was my first new state of the trip and 48th in my life. Iowa and South Dakota were the only states I'd not visited. Writing something interesting about Nebraska is a challenge. Doing it when you cross the state on I-80 in ten hours is impossible. An average farm started with a fine white farm house in the middle of an acre of green lawn surrounded by square miles of corn. Iowa is supposedly the state with the highest percentage of millionaires, but Nebraska can't be far behind as I didn't notice too many people among whom this agricultural wealth would have to be divided.
The state capitol in Lincoln is a fine Art Deco monument with a 14-story tower from the top of which Emil, a WalMart stock clerk, proudly showed me the attractions available to the city's 200,000 residents. Emil was excited to be working in this Walmart which was three times larger than the one he'd left in western Nebraska. The governor and local press were coming to see their store's latest innovation: whenever a mother lost a child in the store, an announcement would come over the PA system that would cause every employee to stop work and search for the kid. It sounded sensible, but then I thought "this is Nebraska, what's going to happen to the kid anyway?"
After dinner in the quaint yuppie Old Market section of Omaha, a vast metropolis of 300,000 an hour east of Lincoln, I debated sticking around town so that I could stalk pictures for Heather has Two Mommies in the renowned Omaha Zoo. Responsibility prevailed and I charged across the Missouri River for a dark ride through suddenly hilly Iowa. After the open spaces of New Mexico, dodging the heavy semi traffic of I-80 at night made me pretty nervous, plus my headlights seemed to be aimed too high and were irritating other drivers. It was midnight when I checked into a Days Inn just west of Iowa City. The desk clerk was a smoking kid from University of Iowa who was taking a "using Internet" course. He was getting college credit for reading Travels with Samantha on the Web! "Should I lock the car?" I asked, "I've got a lot of cameras in it."
"This is Iowa. People don't steal things."
Tuesday, September 27
I crossed the Mississippi into Illinois in the "Quad Cities" area, where chiropractic was invented and is still headquartered. The art of highway maintenance that is so carefully practiced in Iowa and Nebraska seems to have fallen into disrepute in Illinois. As the moonscape of I-80 pounded my bones, I recalled an engineer from Caterpillar who described his summer working for the Illinois Department of Transportation.
"They worshipped the twin gods of Waste and Incompetence."
Anxious to get to the Art Institute before closing time, I passed up the Ronald Reagan Birthplace, 32 miles off the interstate. I needn't have hurried. Tuesday is not only "free day" (though the others are "pay what you can" like the Metropolitan) but "open until 8" day. I wore out my feet and learned that the museum has a lot of good pictures but no Vermeers.
Despite my September interlude in Boston, I was overwhelmed by the big city feel of Chicago after a summer in New Mexico. The scale of the buildings, lakeshore park, lake, and traffic awed me. Every face looked as if it betrayed an interesting story. It was overstimulating, but not quite as nerve-wracking as navigating rush hour Chicago traffic moving bumper to bumper at 65 mph in a minivan with no rear visibility due to overpacking.
The mills of Gary, Indiana ringing the lakeshore just southeast of Chicago looked truly Satanic. I wanted to stop for a picture but couldn't figure out how so I pressed two hundred miles northeast on I-94 into Ann Arbor, Michigan. For the first hour of my trip, I was educated by Studs Terkel interviewing Roger G. Kennedy, the director of the National Parks Service, and author of Hidden Cities, the Discovery and Loss of Ancient North American Civilization. My American history textbooks implied that, although the Aztecs and Incas may have had impressive cultures, that the North American Indians had never been more than nomads thinking about their next deer supper. The truth is apparently that the Ohio river valley in the fourth century A.D. was dotted with cities containing impressive earthworks and hundreds of thousands of people. This was well-known to George Washington and his contemporaries who evinced a genuine scientific interest in these cities if not a respect for the descendants of the city builders. When white Americans were engaged in a systematic program of displacing the Indians, they didn't want to think of them as having been capable of advanced civilization and hence the knowledge was lost to laymen if not to historians. [Jeff and Lori assured me later that if I watched public TV instead of the Simpsons, I'd have learned about this long ago; Anne Marie assured me that if I grew up near some of the big sites, such as Cahokia, Illinois, just across the river from St. Louis, I'd also have known.]
Wednesday, September 28 (my 31st birthday)
Phil Donahue flung cheap shots at famous defense lawyers on the motel breakfast room TV while I munched donuts. Neither Donahue nor his audience approached the wit of one lawyer: "What's the difference between a spermatozoa and a lawyer? The spermatozoa has a 1 in 6 million chance of becoming a human being."
University of Michigan has some nice Gothic architecture in addition to the usual state university Bauhaus horrors. I sat for a moment in the supremely comfortable and soul-inspiring student union reading the daily paper. One photo that caught my MIT-trained eye was of the school's new Star Trek club; it was of four attractive women.
After my year of litigation with Ford Motor Company, the city they'd built in Dearborn drew me like a magnet. I skipped Henry Ford's 52-room limestone mansion and the various corporate campuses because I wanted to concentrate on the Henry Ford Museum and Greenfield Village, whose charms allegedly couldn't be fully explored in less than two days.
Henry Ford, who fought a libel suit over whether he said "History is bunk," built a 12-acre replica of Philadelphia's Independence Hall to house his treasured documents of American invention. The museum opened in 1929 and resembles an airplane hanger inside.
Don't look for Smithsonian-style explanations of technology; the museum's credo is "We gots the stuff and here it is." Edison's last breath is in a test tube next to Abe Lincoln's death chair, not far from the death car of John F. Kennedy, not far from an old McDonald's sign, across the corridor from a silver collection, adjacent to a bunch of vacuum cleaners, which are a stone's throw from a bunch of old wooden farm machinery. Old people say that this is how the Smithsonian was when everything was housed in the "castle" on the mall and that it was better then. For them the Henry Ford Museum represents the last authentic museum experience available in America.
Irene, a museum staffer, two retired ladies from Oklahoma, and I paused for a conversation. Surrounded as we were by the greatest American inventions of the past century, we naturally discussed.... O.J. Simpson.
"Do you think he's guilty?" Irene asked.
"I've been living in a tent all summer with no TV. I'm not educated enough to say," I responded.
The two Oklahoma ladies remarked that it was amazing how many people thought that he wasn't guilty or that, if he was, he shouldn't go to jail. They'd never met any of these people, but they'd heard reports that they existed.
Irene nodded her head but I decided to stir up the pot with a slightly stretched argument from David Hume.
"Why do you think that everyone shares the belief that justice is good? For example, if we had a society of superabundance, property-based laws and courts would serve no purpose. Would there be any point in prosecuting someone for stealing your car when you could just as easily walk down to the corner and get another one for free?"
My listeners looked slightly puzzled but I pressed on.
"What if we had a society with resources so limited that you couldn't get enough to feed your family no matter how hard you worked unless you stole. People in that society wouldn't think property laws and courts were useful either. It is only in a middle-class society where folks believe that reasonably hard work will yield a reasonable standard of living that justice is considered good. If the TV networks find a black guy in the ghetto who believes, whether or not it is true, that there is no honest way for him to get ahead in this world, there is no reason to suppose that he'd buy into our middle-class concept of justice. Admittedly O.J.'s crime was a crime of passion, not of property, but once you get the ideas that courts and laws aren't serving your community, you probably don't think they are useful for anything."
Greenfield Village is a 120-acre confection of Americana, albeit an extremely inventive and litigious Americana. Henry Ford liked certain buildings all around the country, especially the homes of inventors and self-made men of industry. He wasn't content to take snapshots; he physically dragged the buildings here. Thomas Edison's complete Menlo Park laboratory is here. The chemical-stained bleary-eyed workers are gone, but old women relate with pride how he got 1093 patents.
"If any of the workers got sick, Edison would mix up a cocktail of chemicals at that bench over there and make them well. They were all working so hard that they couldn't afford to have anyone sick, you see."
Edison was Ford's hero, you see, and the whole place was dedicated to Edison in person when it opened in 1929 (Edison was 82 at the time). The Wright Brothers weren't far behind and get two spots: one for the bike shop/workshop and one for their home. Ford was no racist and Booker T. Washington's house is here to prove it. Nor did his reputation for Jew-hatred seem warranted standing in front of Mrs. D. Cohen's perfectly preserved millinery shop.
A whimsical mood prevails in Greenfield Village. A lovely Stephen Foster memorial fronts the circular pond with working steamboat. Model T Fords cruise the streets, a steam train circles the complex, and children ride a wooden carousel. Nothing American would be complete without various ripped-off parts of Europe, of course, and Henry Ford wasn't content to replicate a la Busch Gardens. Parts of the Cotswolds and Switzerland were excised and rest here.
Although the $20 combined ticket price isn't very different from Disneyland's, the corporate stage management and heavy-handed spin control is absent. The bookshop contains a full selection of biographies of Ford and none of them gloss over Ford's worldwide publication of anti-Jewish propaganda from 1921 through 1927, when he retracted his views, and continuing much later in Germany and many other foreign countries. The continued popularity and availability of Ford's work in the 1930's in Germany, Ford's acceptance in 1938 of Germany's highest honor from Adolph Hitler, and Ford's refusal to reaffirm his 1927 retraction clouded his reputation further. However, at the end of the war, Ford began to see and state that he'd been mistaken about the International Jew and noted that he should figure out how Hitler and Germany had managed to cause so much trouble. Ford only had two more years to live so it languished on his "to do" list.
I didn't feel inclined to judge Ford harshly. On the witness stand in the "history is bunk" trial, he proved embarrassingly ignorant of history. He seems to have been nice to all the Jews he knew personally and appears to have refused to finance Hitler despite rumors to the contrary. It is a tragedy of capitalism that the ill-informed opinions of the rich assume titantic and profound proportions in the public mind. We automatically assume that poor people must be stupid--otherwise why wouldn't we just give them money instead of social workers, Medicaid, food stamps, etc.--and that rich people must have done something wonderfully innovative and clever to get that way.
As the museum closed at 5 pm, I headed through Detroit's mellow rush hour towards Canada. A gas station attendant warned me to "watch out for those Canadian drivers." I took his advice seriously, reasoning that anyone who chose to live in the traditional Murder Capital of the US was probably not easily alarmed.
My first stop in Canada was the sister city of Windsor, Ontario, where I photographed the Detroit skyline from the riverfront and chatted with Leonard, who was fishing, and Candis, his 8th-grader friend. The metric system doesn't seem to be taking root in Ontario because Candis said she was more comfortable thinking in pounds than kilograms.
Lower Ontario seems like a flatter version of Iowa: cornfields and smooth highway. Without federal subsidies, however, the farmhouses were functional rather than palatial and never surrounded by huge expanses of lawn. Every acre was put to some use and millionaires appeared to be thin on the ground.
Stoked with Poulet McCroquettes from McDonald's, I made it all the way to Niagara Falls by 11 pm. I remembered being awed by the Falls when I was 10 on the Great Family Trip to Upstate New York (complete with sister screaming in the back seat). I had never seen anything on that scale before. After traveling in the West, Alaska, and New Zealand, however, the Falls don't seem unbelievable outsized anymore even if the sheer amount of water staggers the New Mexican mind.
They'd turned off the lights on the Falls at 11 pm so I shuddered in the darkness at the lip of the more graceful Canadian Horseshoe Falls before returning to the solid neon of the tourist streets. The Canadian side is famously less tacky than the American side, so seeing wax museums every few meters, a Ripley's Believe it or Not museum, a Guinness Book of World Records museum, every kind of carnival game and booth, I shuddered to think what the American side would be like.
Tivoli Miniature World was my favorite tourist attraction in Niagara Falls. Where else can you get the Taj Mahal, Arc de Triomphe, and Eiffel Tower all in one picture with the 600'-high Skylon Tower in the background. Models of medieval cities and cathedrals are exquisitely detailed and precise. I even saw Mt. Rushmore, which I'd scratched with regret from my touring program despite the fact that it would have made a perfect 50 states.
Determined to make the Falls look as small as Tivoli Miniature World, I hopped into one of Niagara Helicopters's Bell Jet Rangers for a bird's eye view of the city, gorge, power project, and Falls. This was living.
I drove back into the US and straight along the shore of Lake Ontario past tidy corn, apple, pear, and berry farms. It was painful to go through Rochester without stopping at any of the Eastman-funded monuments to photography, but I was anxious to get to Oswego, a couple of hours east.
Oswego, New York is a dream town for any public relations person looking for a challenge. The town contains three nuclear power plants and a concentration camp for Jews.
Friday, September 30, 1994
Fort Ontario's earthen walls sit on high ground above the mouth of the Oswego River and Lake Ontario. It is a New York State Historic Site that is being restored to its 1868 appearance. I barged in on Patrick Wilder and Richard Lacrosse, Jr., the two on-site historians, and asked about the fort's World War II history.
"We can tell you about that," Patrick said, "but the fort's most interesting history was during the Revolutionary War and the War of 1812. Fort Ontario was the embarkation point for the world's first boat people. Did you ever wonder where the English speakers of Canada came from? `British North America', as it was then called, was just French settlers and Indians until the Revolutionary War. During the war, loyalists from all over the 13 colonies came to Fort Ontario, which was held by the British, and embarked across the Lake to British North America.
Fort Ontario isn't too far from the Proclamation Line, which was one of the causes of both the Revolutionary War and the War of 1812. The British gave the Indians jurisdiction to the west of the line and the white settlers jurisdiction to the east. A fellow like George Washington who'd already claimed 500,000 acres in Ohio couldn't be expected to be very happy with this arrangement. People forget that there were revolts not just in the 13 colonies but in the Caribbean as well and that the goals of the Revolutionary War included establishing a country that was much larger, including Canada, Bermuda, and the Bahamas. The settlement of 1783 that ended the war was brokered by the French.
They told the Americans that the most they could hope to get was the 13 colonies and that promising to honor the Proclamation Line and compensate the loyalists for their homes wasn't so bad, that they could possibly gain some of the other goals in the future. So the Americans signed.
Between the Revolutionary War and the War of 1812, the population of the U.S. went from three million to over seven million. That wasn't from immigration and it was mostly in the northeast. What happened is that men in the northeast had four or five wives and twenty children. They'd go through wives the way you'd go through oxen. When one got worn out and died in childbirth, they'd get another. The oldest son would get the farm and the rest of the kids would move out to the Ohio river valley and clear some of the forest the Indians were intent on preserving. When the Indians would kill one of these guys, his relatives back in Massachusetts would complain to their Congressmen and they would pressure the president to send in troops. This caused the Indians and the British to complain that the US wasn't honoring the 1783 agreement or the 1796 agreement, which finally ended British control of forts such as Fort Ontario. In return, the Americans reiterated their promise to honor the Proclamation Line, which they didn't, and compensate the loyalists, which they didn't.
Meanwhile, the British were at war with Napoleon. When the Royal Navy needed a merchant vessel, they'd grab one from the English merchant marine and pay the owner a fixed sum. The owners didn't like that so they would reflag their vessels in the US and claim that the ship could no longer be appropriated because it was American. And what do you think would happen if a Royal Navy ship pulled into a port next to an American merchant ship? The sailors on the British ship were poorly paid, poorly fed, got shot at, and often received the cat o' nine tails. They'd see the well-fed, well-paid, happy American sailors on the neighboring ship. There would be a couple of splashes in the middle of the night and the American ship would have a couple of new crewmembers.
The British didn't like to see their merchant fleet or their navy shrink so they took to stopping ships on the high seas and looking around to see if the men or ship had previously been British. If so, they'd seize the ship and the men and sometimes even hang a few navy deserters. One time, they even boarded an American warship and took off a few deserters and when word got to the newspapers, Americans everywhere were humiliated and outraged.
The war started, though, when the French encouraged the Americans to take Canada and renounce their agreement regarding the Proclamation Line. The US expected it to be easy because they figured the French up there would welcome liberation from English rule.
Well, we lost. It was our first Vietnam.
The French in British North America didn't want to be part of the U.S. The British let them keep their law, elect their local politicians, and practice Catholicism. Many of the New England states had established Protestant churches at the time."
"Oh yes," I recalled, "I think Massachusetts had a state church until 1820."
"That's right, plus they ran into 10,000 British troops. You won't read about the attempt to take Canada in history books, though, because we lost those battles. One of the nice things about not being occupied after a defeat is that you get to write your own history of the war.... Of course, the Germans and Japanese were occupied and they've been doing it anyway... Well, if you look at an American history textbook, what you'll mostly read about is a naval battle in New Orleans. It was irrelevant to the main currents of the war and we mostly won because of luck and the fortunes of war, but we won so you get two pages on it. Nobody mentions that none of the war's objectives were achieved and that we actually lost some territory.
Anyway, these are the kind of stories that the loyalists who fled to Canada have been passing down through the generations up there and you don't have to push a conversation very far over there before you dig up a different look at the American Revolution."
Most of what I'd thought about the fort's role in World War II turned out to be wrong as well. A little background may be helpful first.
Although numerous European governments on both sides of the conflict appealed to the U.S. to shelter some Jews from the Holocaust, FDR was adamant about not letting a single Jew become an American citizen throughout the war and he was also adamantly opposed to temporarily sheltering any refugees. However, by 1944 pressure from countries such as England had become so intense that FDR felt he had to make at least a token gesture. Consequently, it was decided to accept one boatload of refugees.
I'd thought that these 982 people, most of them Jews, were saved from the Holocaust. However, I learned from Patrick that they'd already escaped the death camps and were residing in liberated Italy. Thus, the U.S. was really doing the Italians a favor by taking 982 mouths to feed off their hands.
Roosevelt wanted to make sure that these folks never became permanent U.S. residents and imprisoned them in Fort Ontario behind barbed wire. I thought that he'd succeeded and that they were eventually deported. However, I learned that the imprisonment wasn't comprehensive during the war, for school-age children were let out during the day to attend Oswego Public Schools, and I also learned that FDR's plan was thwarted.
Congress was also opposed to letting the refugees stay, but Harry Truman felt sorry for them. In 1946, when Congress was in recess, Truman unilaterallly ordered all 982 across the border into Canada for a day and then readmitted to the U.S. by special presidential order; 899 ultimately settled permanently in the U.S. and 50 or 60 returned recently for the 50th anniversary of the Fort Ontario camp.
Several excellent books have been written on the subject: Haven: The Unkown Story of 1000 WWII Refugees by Dr. Ruth Gruber, the former liaison between the refugees and the government, Token Refuge, by Sharon Lowenstein, and Don't Fence Me In, by Joseph Smart, the former commander of the camp.
I walked around the fort with my camera, but was disappointed to find that none of the buildings from the refugee camp remain. They were torn down by the city and state after the federal government turned the land over to them in 1946. The fort itself is being restored to its 1868 appearance and the whole park is going to concentrate on this particularly uneventful period of the fort's history. Exhibits and information that don't relate to this period will be torn down.
Today's museum has a very informative well-designed artistically-presented series of exhibits on the fort's history from 1726 through WWII. All the exhibits are professional with a unified graphic design, except for the one wall given over to the refugee camp days. This looks like an afterthought and basically consists of a bunch of photographs tacked to the wall.
One of the saddest wall hangings is an engraving showing the town of Oswego in 1852. It looks beautiful and bustling with tall ships at every dock and graceful buildings at the mouth of the Oswego River. Today, there are ugly docks and oil storage tanks where the tall ships once berthed.
Before leaving town, I headed out to the nuclear electricity plant complex. The first two reactors are cooled with lake water and look like generic factories. The third and last was built with a characteristic cooling tower because people were concerned about heat build-up in the bay.
A nice Energy Center explains the wonders of the reactors, how safe nuclear energy is, and how one eighth of New York State's power is generated here. Three Mile Island isn't mentioned in the exhibits.
I left Oswego at 3 pm and threaded my way around the east shore of
Lake Ontario and then east into the Adirondacks to Saranac Lake. The
Adirondacks that you can see from the road have a much more settled
look than the White Mountains. There are large areas of
near-wilderness, but one has to get far off the main roads to see
them. Still the foliage was marvelous.
Saturday, October 1
Driving back to Boston through the Adirondacks and southern Vermont in foliage season may not be heaven, but as a homecoming technique it sure beats driving up the Jersey Turnpike in the rain after having all of one's posessions stolen in Filthadelphia (see Travels with Samantha, Chapter XVII).
Foliage Pictures
The Adirondacks began to grow on me on Route 73 southeast of Lake Placid. This was the highest and wildest part of the part so far, under a blue sky with wispy clouds. At Ft. Ticonderoga, I took a ferry across Lake Champlain then continued on 73 to 100, the spine of the Green Mountains. After photographing Moss Glen Falls and Texas Falls, I stopped for an excellent lunch at the Rochester Cafe in Rochester. Despite some very interesting conversations with Vermonters who'd given up the city because they didn't like the pace and the imposed value system in which things not done to earn a buck are considered a waste, I regretted stopping. My leisurely lunch caused me to arrive in Quechee 15 minutes after the last launch of the day in the Quechee Balloon Festival, which I had completely forgotten about.
I wish I could say that something really interesting happened in the last moments of the trip but I-89 and I-93 down to Boston in the dark are not the places for epiphanies.
The End.


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"We watched him leave with a duffel bag," Emanuelson said. "Him and his girlfriend ... walked right through there, through the next complex and left."
Officials said the incident may have resulted from an argument Friday at the same place, but the incident was not reported to deputies.
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a page from 'Youngblood #9'Rob Liefeld has 5 simple words for anyone with a strong reaction to the images of a under-siege, gun-toting, John McClane-like President of the United States in the upcoming issue of his signature Image Comics series Youngblood…
"It's just a comic book," says the creator.
The comic book he refers to is June's Youngblood #9 [click on the link for a preview], part 1 of a two-issue "First Strike" story arc that sees the White House under attack, with Barack Obama alone and on-the-run after his Secret Service detail is killed in rather graphic violent fashion [see right].
President Obama, who has also appeared in cameos in Marvel's Amazing Spider-Man and Image's Savage Dragon to tremendous sales response, made his first cameo appearance in Youngblood #8, hand-picking the new line-up for the government-sponsored superhero team. But this is the first time the new Chief Executive will be woven so prominently into the fabric of an extended storyline, as well as perform provocative actions like picking up a gun to defend himself.
"The White House is under attack, the President's life is in danger, he does what is necessary to survive after his Secret Service agents are killed," explained Liefeld. "He does not engage in a shoot out, he runs for cover after knocking over the clock as cover. But for the record he never fires the gun."
Liefeld also promises no other members of Obama's family appears in the storyline … well, except for new Presidential dog Bo.
a page from 'Youngblood #9'The often-controversial writer and artist says he's not expecting a strong reaction from the public to the imagery as the storyline has been promoted for months. Nor has he given a great deal of thought to using a real-life figure so conspicuously in a work of fiction, reporting that he himself has been depicted in and fact murdered (killed in his home and dumped in his own pool) in the pages of an unauthorized comic book, Kill Image.
"I imagine it's hard to put the toothpaste back in the tube," says Liefeld. "Look, Obama is more popular than Spider Man, Batman, and Wolverine combined. I have a government-directed super-team, he's the President of the United States. This makes sense. Is this the first time a sitting President appeared in danger in a comic book? I'm not certain, but I can't believe we're treading in uncharted waters.
"But if Secret Service comes to my door, I'll let you know."
Asked how he'd react in President Obama's shoes, if a member of his media staff showed him this issue someday?
"It's a comic book," Liefeld reiterates. "I'd react as if it's a comic book."


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The Qur'ān is Holy. It consists of the Inviolable Words of Allāh. It is for all times and all peoples. The Prophet (s) whose title is "The Messenger of God," was inspired and divinely guided in every word and every action. Allāh said in the Holy Qur'ān:
وَالنَّجْمِ إِذَا هَوَى مَا ضَلَّ صَاحِبُكُمْ وَمَا غَوَى وَمَا يَنطِقُ عَنِ الْهَوَى إِنْ هُوَ إِلا وَحْيٌ يُوحَى
(I swear) by the star when it sets, your companion is neither astray nor is deceived; Nor does he say (aught) of (his own) desire. It is naught but revelation that is revealed (to him). (al-Najm 53:1-4)
Allāh swears by the setting star that His Prophet (s) does not stray in the least from what Allāh commands him. Nor does the Prophet speak from his own whims or desires, whether good or bad. Every utterance, every movement, every breath of the Prophet was, in fact, revelation from Allāh and consequently of utmost value in the quest to understand and follow the Qur'ān and the religion of Islam.
حدثنا سعيد بن عفير حدثنا الليث حدثني عقيل عن ابن شهاب أخبرني سعيد بن المسيب أن أبا هريرة قال سمعت رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم يقول بعثت بجوامع الكلم…
The Prophet (s) said, "I was sent with the pithiest expressions with the vastest meanings…"1
Examining the hadiths of the Prophet (s) today, many of these vast meanings are now being grasped by both Muslims and non-Muslims.
Asakir recorded from Muhammad bin Abd-Rahman al-Zahari that he said to the Prophet of Allah (s):
يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ لقَدْ طُفْتُ في الْعَرَبِ وَسَمِعْتُ فُصَحَاءَهُمْ فَمَا سَمِعْتُ أَفْصَحَ مِنْكَ فَمَنْ أَدَّبَكَ؟ قَالَ: أَدَّبَنِي رَبِّي، وَنَشَأتُ في بَنِي سَعْدٍ" انتهى.
"O Messenger of Allah, I have roamed many of Arab and I have heard the most eloquent among them. But I have not heard someone as more eloquent than you. Who was the one who taught you?" He said, "My Lord has taught me and I was raised among the Bani S'ad."
When asked about the Prophet's (s) character, (his wife and leading jurisconsult of the time), `A'isha (r) said, "His (s) character was the Qur'ān."2
The hadiths demonstrate how to implement the principles set out in the Qur'ān, from the most rudimentary acts of worship to the most sublime. For example, Allāh commands multiple times in the Qur'ān:
وَأَقِيمُواْ الصَّلاَةَ وَآتُواْ الزَّكَاة
Establish prayers (salat) and pay the poor-due (zakat).
(2:43, 2:83, 2:110, 4:77, 24:56, 73:20)
The Prophet (s) said:
Verily this Qur'ān is difficult and felt as a burden to anyone that hates it, but it is made easy to anyone that follows it. Verily my sayings are difficult and felt as a burden to anyone that hates them, but they are made easy to anyone that follows them. Whoever hears my saying and preserves it, putting it into practice, shall come forth together with the Qur'ān on the Day of Resurrection. Whoever dismisses my sayings dismisses the Qur'ān, and whoever dismisses the Qur'ān has lost this world and the next.3
The Prophet (s) said:
I have left among you two matters by holding fast to which, you shall never be misguided: Allah's Book and the Sunnah of His Prophet."4
Another version adds:
And these two shall never part ways until they show up at the Pond."5
Zayd ibn Arqam narrated:
The Prophet (s) stood among us at a brook named Khumm between Mecca and Madina [three miles from al-Juhfa]. He praised Allah — Almighty and Exalted — and glorified Him then said: 'To proceed: O people! Truly I am now only waiting for a messenger [of death] sent by my Lord so that I may respond. Therefore I am leaving among you the two weighty matters: Allah's Book – in it is the guidance and the light, therefore hold fast to Allah's Book, and conform to it!' – and he encouraged people to do so, and urged them. Then he said: 'And the people of my House. I remind you of Allah — Almighty and Exalted — concerning the people of my House! I remind you of Allah — Almighty and Exalted — concerning the people of my House (ahl bayti)! I remind you of Allah — Almighty and Exalted — concerning the people of my House!'"6
Lexically, the term `itra was defined as "A man's relatives such as his children, grandchildren, and paternal cousins"7 while in the context of the present hadiths it was explained to mean "Those of the Prophet's Family who follow his Religion and cling to his commands."8 What emerges from these meanings together with the two wordings of the hadith "I have left among you two matters" is firm evidence that there is an inseparable connection, until the Last Day, between the Qur'an, the Sunnah, and the Family of the Prophet.
Thus we find that in the station of self-sacrifice, was the Prophet's son-in-law to be, and future father of his grandchildren, Sayyidinā 'Alī. For during the migration from Makkah, when the unbelievers were conspiring to kill the Prophet (s) , Sayyidinā
Alī took the Prophet's place in his bed. Sayyidinā `Alī willingly accepted to lie down in the Prophet's place—expecting to be killed by the ferocious Quraysh. This spirit of sacrifice was expressed repeatedly by the Family of the Prophet (s) throughout the life of the nation (Ummah), up to the present day; for their love of the Prophet (s) they bore unfathomable burdens by means of which the Community was relieved, protected and preserved.
And Allāh said in regard to the family of the Prophet (s) :
قُل لا أَسْأَلُكُمْ عَلَيْهِ أَجْراً إِلا الْمَوَدَّةَ فِي الْقُرْبَى
Say: I do not ask of you any reward for it but love for my near relatives;
(ash-Shūrā 42:23)
The light of the Prophet (s) is the source of the light of all believers, for while all things were created from his light, the believers were created in a special way. Al-Qurtubī relates in Jam' li-ahkām al-qur'ān from Anas who said that the Prophet said:
Allāh created me from light and He created Abū Bakr from my light, and He created `Umar and `A'isha from the light of Abū Bakr, and He created the male believers of my community from the light of 'Umar and He created the female believers of my community from the light of `A'isha, Whoever does not love me or love Abū Bakr, `Umar and `A'isha has no light.
This hadith explains the tremendous love the Prophet (s) bore towards Abū Bakr as-Siddīq (r), who was his sole companion when he migrated from Makkah to Madīnah and who was his companion in the cave, for which Allāh revealed:
إِلاَّ تَنصُرُوهُ فَقَدْ نَصَرَهُ اللّهُ إِذْ أَخْرَجَهُ الَّذِينَ كَفَرُواْ ثَانِيَ اثْنَيْنِ إِذْ هُمَا فِي الْغَارِ إِذْ يَقُولُ لِصَاحِبِهِ لاَ تَحْزَنْ إِنَّ اللّهَ مَعَنَا
If ye help not (your leader), (it is no matter): for Allah did indeed help him, when the Unbelievers drove him out: he had no more than one companion; they two were in the cave, and he said to his companion, "Have no fear, for Allah is with us." (at-Tawbah 9:40)
This magnificent reality applies to those who have no blood relation with the Prophet (s) but indicates how close the believers are to him by virtue of their love for him. Through these hadith, the Prophet (s) demonstrated his love for those with whom he had no blood connection, but whom he loved for their link to him through spirituality, their piety and their sincerity towards God.
In the following ahadith, the reader will find examples from the countless priceless sayings of the Messenger of our Lord, Sayyidina Muhammad (s). Take example from these magnificent utterances, for each has a value which cannot be measured, in this life or the next.
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by Pete Mazzaccaro
When Brendan Ryan bought C.E. Hopkin Co. Roofing on Bethlehem Pike in Chestnut Hill, he knew he was buying a historic business, but he didn't realize he was getting a museum as well.
The business has been at 107 Bethlehem Pike for nearly 125 years. In that time, the office has accumulated century-old items, including a 100-year-old cast-iron safe and several vintage metal cutting and bending machines that appear to date to the Industrial Revolution. And they still work.
"What attracted me to this business, seriously, is the history of the company," said Ryan in his freshly painted office. After he had decided to buy the business, he was advised to dissolve the company name and start fresh. He couldn't do it.
"It was sad to think of a business with this history going out of business," Ryan said. "I couldn't let it die – it just wouldn't be right."
Ryan, 37, has owned a painting business, Ryan Painting LLC, in the Chestnut Hill area for nine years. He learned that C.E. Hopkins was for sale from a client and went in to take a look. It didn't take long before he was hooked on the idea.
"There's work to do, but it will be an easy transition," Ryan said.
In addition to the business name and title, Ryan has kept former owner Ted Rittenhouse's four-man crew, including Mark Hopkins (no relation to the business' founder) and Len Wood, who have 25 and 21 years of roofing experience respectively.
When he was interviewed, it was only Ryan's third week as owner, and Verizon was on the way to get the building some high-speed broadband. The company never used a computer. Rittenhouse's hand-written ledger books were neatly stacked in a cabinet.
Ryan and his wife, Vanessa, who will work at the office as its business manager and receptionist, are busy modernizing the company's bookkeeping and profile. A website is being designed. The books are being converted to Quickbooks.
"Ted never kept emails or even phone numbers," Ryan said. "It was amazing. A customer would call and he'd show up. He knew where everyone lived."
Ryan said he hopes he can build on Rittenhouse's relationships. During more than 30 years of owning the company, Rittenhouse had built up a sizable and loyal customer base.
Ryan said he would offer everything: from roof repairs to whole roof replacements. He'll do anything, too, from asphalt shingles to wood shakes to slate.
Ryan, who lives in the Northeast with his wife and two kids, said the last part is moving to the neighborhood to be closer to the business.
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