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Hector Camacho pursued wild life with reckless abandon
- Hector "Macho" Camacho pursued decadence with reckless fury
- Camacho was shot in the face in Puerto Rico Tuesday night
- His last fight was in 2010, only 10 days before his 48th birthday
During his fistic prime, the only thing faster than Hector Camacho's hands — or his mouth— was his lifestyle. They were all a blur.
We don't know what is more astounding: That Camacho — declared brain-dead Thursday and clinging to life in a Puerto Rican hospital — made it to 50 years old . . . or that the former teenage car thief raised on the streets of Spanish Harlem fought professionally for 30 years, earning millions while pursuing decadence with reckless fury.
Camacho drove through life without a speedometer. And if anyone needed a governor on a high-revving engine, it was the mischievous "Macho Man'' — a 5-foot-6 born-to-be-wild whippet of sass.
Last year, Camacho was shot in Puerto Rico as he drove away from what he said were carjackers. On Tuesday, the former three-time world champion was shot in the face as he sat in the passenger's seat of a vehicle; the driver instantly was killed. Police said they retrieved 10 bags of cocaine from the vehicle, nine in the driver's possession.
Back in the early '80s, Camacho's then-estranged manager, Billy Giles, told USA TODAY that his fighter was "drowning in drugs,'' that he "never will make it back.''
Indeed Camacho never seemed to leave. He fought for another quarter of a century. His last fight was in 2010, only 10 days before his 48th birthday.
Dripping in gold, and sporting a devilish curl of black hair on his forehead, Camacho was a cartoon character come to life — amusing, flamboyant, irreverent. He admired Bruce Lee, compared himself to Elvis. But make no mistake: Hector Camacho also was highly accomplished in matters of hand-to-hand combat.
From 130 to 135 pounds, the clever southpaw possessed blinding-fast hand speed and footwork to match, the latter of which he came to rely on after his confrontation with hard-hitting lightweight challenger Edwin Rosario at Madison Square Garden in 1986.
That night ultimately stifled Camacho's true potential. Only 24, he was rocked like never before. Badly sliced over his left eye, legs wobbly, Camacho summoned his pride and courage, and he (barely) prevailed.
Camacho, a sharp but soft puncher, would spend much of the rest of his career in safety-first survival mode. Many Puerto Ricans, losing respect, never let him forget it.
An ultra-sensitive sort, Camacho once told me: "When you get picked on all the time, you have a tendency to get insecure.''
He would later fight several boxing luminaries: Julio Cesar Chavez, Ray Mancini, Oscar De La Hoya, Roberto Duran, among others. But Camacho long ago had lost interest in his demanding craft, carelessly squandering a shot at true greatness.After a narrow victory against Greg Haugen in 1991, he told me: "I can't abuse my body (anymore), living the nightlife as I do. It's going to kill me down the road.''
Few, if any, were as talented or adept at self-promotion, hence his longevity. Who could forget the Macho Man's outlandish, often skimpy, ring attire? Our personal favorite: the Roman soldier get-up he donned to fight Sugar Ray Leonard in 1997. We can only imagine how Camacho's knack for showmanship and controversy would've blown up in today's social media-saturated environment.
Mostly, Camacho's bizarre life continued to veer out of control.
During one of the few instances when he managed to ease off life's accelerator, Camacho still got sideways. In 1988, a Florida trooper pulled over the fighter's new black Ferrari because Camacho was doing only 35 mph on I-75.
Well, Camacho was doing a little bit more than that.
The officer later was quoted as saying he pulled over Camacho because "he was doing the wild thing'' with a woman on his lap.
Booze, drugs, women, frequent arrests — Camacho tore down the party lane of life like no other athlete, not even a hard-driving Mike Tyson.
John Russell, who began training Camacho in the mid-'90s, fondly remembered him Thursday, including the time the fighter crouched on the roof of his home to hide from police as they fruitlessly looked for Camacho following a disturbance.
"He never gave me any problems,'' Russell told USA TODAY Sports. "He was just full of life and a great guy to be around. Of course, he did have a bad habit of knocking at my hotel room door at 3 a.m.''
Russell said that Camacho loved to drive "super-fast,'' and had a terrifying habit of passing cars on the right — on the berm.
"He always patted me on the leg and would say, 'Relax, relax,' then would fly around someone on the right,'' he said. "They would be freaking out.''
Camacho once bragged about wrecking a Lotus, a Ferrari, a Lamborghini and a Corvette during his lifetime — also a regular old Jeep, but who cares when you're destroying exotics? In pure Macho Man logic he said, "As long as I have a license, I'll keep crashing cars. That's how you become a great driver.''
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"We need to encourage people, not discourage them, from pursuing studies and careers in the sciences," says Sue Rosser, dean of the Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts at Georgia Tech and co-author of "More Women in Science." "The issue is not the innate ability of men versus women, but the social climate factors which over time have been shown to turn away women and other under-represented groups."
The paper pulls together a large body of evidence of barriers throughout the faculty pipeline process and provides specific strategies to address these problems. In some disciplines, such as computer science and engineering, the low number of women faculty is partly attributable to the low number of women trained in those fields. However, for many fields, such as biology, the balance of men and women faculty is quite uneven despite the fact that women make up almost half of their graduating Ph.D.s (see table). This disparity indicates that strong women scientists may not pursue academic careers due to lack of encouragement, lack of confidence, or lack of female role models. To counter this problem, women Ph.D.s need to be explicitly encouraged to enter academia and programs such as professional societies, which provide role models and inspire self-confidence.
Further along the pipeline, evidence shows that women faculty members are more often asked to provide campus service on committees and as student advisers, not necessarily the best activity to win tenure approval in Research I institutions. To assist junior faculty in managing their pre-tenure activities, Georgia Tech ADVANCE Professor Jane Ammons in the College of Engineering developed a "speed mentoring" workshop in which junior faculty consult with four to five tenured case reviewers who examine their curriculum vitae and offer suggestions on how to strengthen their tenure case. Speed mentoring has been used on a campus-wide basis at Georgia Tech as well.
Unconscious bias is another barrier to increasing female faculty numbers. To address this often rather subtle factor, Georgia Tech developed a Web-based tool kit called Awareness of Decisions in Evaluating Promotion and Tenure (ADEPT) as part of a National Science Foundation (NSF) ADVANCE Institutional Transformation Program grant. ADEPT is designed to help promotion and tenure committee members, chairs and deans to better understand biases related to gender, race and disability. ADEPT includes a variety of downloadable applications that include case studies, scholarly research, an interactive game and other materials to provoke discussion.
The paper also outlines concerns regarding campus climate and the issues of balancing family and work with specific examples of problems and specific strategies used at various institutions to overcome them.
Several of the authors, including Rosser, are recipients of the prestigious National Science Foundation ADVANCE Institutional Transformation Program grants. The other authors include lead author Jo Handelsman of the University of Wisconsin-Madison; Nancy Cantor, chancellor and president of Syracuse University; Molly Carnes of the University of Wisconsin-Madison; Denice Denton, chancellor of the University of California, Santa Cruz; Eve Fine of the University of Wisconsin-Madison; Barbara Grosz of Harvard University; Virginia Hinshaw of the University of California, Davis; Cora Marrett of the University of Wisconsin System; Donna Shalala, president of the University of Miami; and Jennifer Sheridan of the University System of Wisconsin-Madison.

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Telluride Film Festival's heady line-up
Friday, the 39th Telluride Film Festival gets underway.
Notoriously cagey about the program, the fest doesn't make its lineup public until noon the day before the Labor Day affair kicks off (Aug. 31). So festival-goers get to be overwhelmed and thrilled simultaneously by the challenge of honing the 40 programs — including tributes — plus panels, Q&As and other gatherings, into a manageable, personal film festival of their own.
This year's tribute honorees, Marion Cottilard, Mads Mikkelsen and Roger Corman, are an eclectic trio: a French actress whose face beckons with the luminous beauty of a silent movie star, a Danish actor capable of menace and anguish, a celebrated B-movie director who mentored some of our finest A-list filmmakers.
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The agency said the off-ramp in Broomfield will be fully operational by 5 a.m. Friday. Signage will be in place to alert motorists of the closure.
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Rays Harvesting a Great Bumper Corp of Backstops
Five years ago it seems like it was the sore spot of the Tampa Bay Rays farm system. For some reason catching did not seem to be the Rays thing. After Toby Hall, the Rays did not seem to have a viable prospect in their system who might make it to the Major League level.
Sure the Rays had farm system catchers who could hit, play some solid defense, and even throw on a frozen line to second base to get the speediest of base runners. But the obvious problem was there was no one with even two of those traits in the system.
But just like everything else within the Rays system since 2007, Rays VP of Baseball Operation Andrew Friedman and his Scouting crew quickly honed, molded and transformed some of the Rays farm system borderline catching prospects into bona fide Major League Baseball caliber backstops.
Suddenly the Rays seem to have a bumper crops of backstops all emerging at the same time with only a limited amount of space at Triple-A and possibly no room at the MLB level. So let's take a look at the few of the names on everyone's lips in the catching corps of the Rays this Spring:
Most people considered John Jaso a great offensive weapon, but his catching fundamentals and procedures had a lot to be desired. But after the Rays committed to working with Jaso before, during and after Spring Training in 2010, the young catcher responded with a stellar game behind the plate.
Suddenly Jaso was stopping the pitches in the dirt that used to get by him and pushed base runners into scoring position. Jaso began to gain confidence and began to rocket the ball to second base having one of his best seasons of his professional baseball career. Most people forget Jaso started out at Triple-A with the Durham Bulls before the Rays recalled Jaso after Kelly Shoppach went down with his first injury on April 13,2010.
Jaso seized the opportunity and became only the 14th rookie catcher all time to serve as the primary catcher for a Rays team that made the playoffs for the second time in three seasons. With help from Rays Bullpen Coach bobby Ramos, who also used to serve as the Rays catching instructor, Jaso worked long and hard to separate himself from the rest of the Rays catching corp.
Jaso also took the lead-off spot in the Rays line-up 45 times in 2010 becoming the first Rays catcher to earn that spot, plus posting more time at the lead-off spot than any other rookie catcher in MLB history. Jaso had 59 walks leading all AL rookies and combined with his 39 total strikeouts, Jaso posted the best BB to K ration of anyone with over 400 plate appearances.
Coming into 2011, Jaso has renewed the focus to improving on his 18 percent rate in throwing out base runners by working extensively before Spring camp in finding a more reliable and quicker release point, plus working on his leg core in the weight room to bring stability and agility to his throwing motion. In essence, Jaso is trying to take his game to the next level and become an all-around catcher.
Some considered Nevin Ashley, the Rays heir apparent to the Rays second catching spot once Kelly Shoppach's 2011 contract is off the books. Ashley has been considered the Rays farm system's best defensive catcher the last two seasons, and seemed to have stepped up their game during the 2010 MLB Spring camp and during the Grapefruit League season.
Rays Manager Joe Maddon, a former catcher himself liked what he saw from Ashley during the Spring, and Nevin took that new confidence displayed by the Rays and put it into his game during his rapid climb through the Rays minor league system. Ashley even got a chance to provide some important insurance for the Rays during the American League Divisional Series as a non-rostered third catcher after former Rays catcher Dioner Navarro had a mental meltdown and took his equipment and went home in October 2010.
Ashley caught 41 percent of his base runners while with the Montgomery Biscuits early in 2010, and sported an impressive .992 Fielding Percentage. By comparison, the MLB average in 2010 was only 23.1 percent. How impressive was Ashley in the Spring of 2010, he only hit .474 (9-for-19) during only
9 Spring games,and got his first HR off Red Sox hurler Josh Beckett.
The Rays had such high hopes for Ashley in 2011 that they invited him to their Rays Winter Development Program held less than two months ago in Tropicana Field that helped highlight the attributes of the some of the Rays most promising prospects. High praise for a backstop who caught Washington Nationals top prospect Stephen Strausburg's professional debut in the 2009 Arizona Fall League.
A third name has quickly risen on the lips and scouting reports for the Rays. A former infielder who only took over catching chores three seasons ago in the Chicago Cubs farm system, Robinson Chirinos is making such an impressive display this Spring that some whispers within the system think he might leapfrog Ashley as the heir apparent to a Rays back-up catching slot.
Spring is still young, and Chirino's offensive display including a 2-run rocket shot Home Run today to help defeat the Boston Red Sox is only hgelping to build on "El Chef's" cult status for 2011. In the same way so many within the Rays faithful fell in love with Jaso's hustle and confidence in 2010, Chirino's is quickly turning into the best piece of the return for sending Rays starter Matt Garza to the Cubs this Winter.
How can you argue with a appearing in double digit games (10) this Spring for the Rays sporting a .289 Batting Average with 5 extra base hits, 8 RBI and stellar .944 Slugging Percentage. And this is not a fluke either. Chirinos posted a .999 OPS, which ranked 8th among all minor leaguers in 2010, and topped every catcher in the entire minor leagues.
And just like Ashley, Chirinos was considered by "Baseball America" to be the best defensive catcher for the second season in a row in the Cubs system. Chrinos also threw out 31.8 percent of his base runners at Double-A and Triple-A in 2010. Hit .438 versus left-handed pitching and .271 versus right-handers in his two minor league stops in 2010. Was placed on the Cub's 40-man roster on October 29, 2010.
Suddenly the once barren wasteland that was the Rays catching corps is bearing fruit close to the Major League level. All three of these catchers have limited MLB, or no MLB experience, but this bodes well for the future of Rays catching for a long time. There are other Rays catchers in the Rays minor league system currently paying their dues and making noise themselves.
But the noise and banter about these three potentially lethal Rays backstops will help cool the Rays scouting department's yearning for the next great Rays catcher. Jaso could possibly lead-off 120 times in 2011 breaking the single season record set by Jason Kendall in 2004 while with the Pirates.
Ashley could make it difficult for the Rays to keep him at Triple-A with a solid start, or an injury at the MLB level. And then there is the Wild Card, Chirinos, who could prove to be the best of the rest and make Shoppach expendable before the end of the month. Rays catching has come a long way since the yearly rental of guys like Josh Paul Charlie Johnson or even recent retiree Gregg Zaun. Finally maybe the Rays backstop will get some respect. If one of the Rays starters can break that 20-game win plateau, you can bet he will celebrate with the guy behind the plate first….and that is the way it should be.


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Here are a few questions I've received recently from people like you, and my answers. I have edited and restated the questions a bit, for readability.
I have Firefox on my home laptop, but Internet Explorer on my office laptop. Can I transfer my Firefox bookmarks on my home computer to IE on my office computer using the Foxmarks bookmark-synchronization service you recommended? And how would I go about doing it?
Yes. You start by uploading your bookmarks from Firefox at home to your Foxmarks Web account, using the Firefox version of Foxmarks. That will establish the bookmark collection on the Web site as identical to your Firefox collection. Then, you install the IE version of Foxmarks on your office computer, and, when it prompts you to sync, you can either merge the Web-based bookmarks you previously uploaded from Firefox with the ones already on IE, or choose the option to overwrite the IE bookmarks entirely with the ones online.
Does the Foxmarks service work with AOL's browser bookmarks?
AOL's browser is not supported. Neither are some other browsers, such as Opera or Google's Chrome. Foxmarks currently comes in versions only for Internet Explorer, Firefox and Safari (Mac version only). The Firefox version also works with Flock, which is a browser heavily based on Firefox.
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In the past, Microsoft's minimum requirements have tended to understate what's needed to run Windows well, even when doing typical tasks. It's too early to say if this will be true of Windows 7. But I can say that, in my testing so far, the beta of Windows 7 runs much more quickly and smoothly than Vista on the same hardware.
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asus78 necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 101 diseños de 36 diseñadores freelance.
InkSpired (different style possible)
We have Facebook's largest Tattoo Pages with over 2 million fans. We have been working on a FB Tattoo design app and our community decided to name it "inkspired".
***The best 3 entries will get a backlink worth $500 = 1.5 million ad impressions for your link***
You can read more info about the FB app here:
We would like to run the contest for 2 weeks and show our 2 million fans the best designs of the week with a final voting at the end.
Besides the $150 prize money we offer the final 3 designers to place a backlink of their company website on our Fan Page.
You can follow the comp here:
About me:
I have been working on this project for over 2 years without requesting any money. I just did it because it was fun communicating with all these people. I built the app so that we can solve 2 problems: How can deigners/artists make a name of themselves and how can Tattoo fans find their best design. I really hope it will help many people eventually. I wish i could offer a higher prize money, but since i am doing this by myself with a little help from some friends i am a little broke lol
I hope the high exposure and the backlink can compensate that a little.
If we are satisfied with you we might need your talent in the future:)
Designers & Tattoo Fans --The app will be a great platform for designers to show their skills of tattoo designing and for fans who can browse, collect & buy tattoo flash made by fellow fb users.
My Tattoo Fans love stars, skulls, butterflies, flowers etc.
Try something with that. You will have a much better chance to win!
I added a few images for inspiration.
Many talented designers, 17-55 years old target audience,people that love individual design.
Our company logo will appear in the Fan Page (please make sure it fits with FB Fan Page Specifications for Profile pictures and it should somehow fit the thumbnail specs as well), in Web Sites and hopefully soon on Techcrunch and Mashable. It will of course appear within the FB app.
We havent decided about a slogan yet. There are 2 that are ok, but if you can come up with something else feel free to surprise us. It would be great if you upload a logo w/ & w/o a slogan so we can get a feel for it.
We have brainstormed with our community about slogans. Here is the link:
SLOGAN (see above):
DESIGN. TH!NK. INK (1st choice) or different writing style
Pick it. Ink it. Flaunt it. (2nd choice)
We are open minded about the colours, max. 3 colours (cmyk colors)
Look and feel:
My fans love: stars, skulls, butterflies, flowers or a combination of skulls with butterflies & flowers.
Please look at our collection of tattoo designs for inspiration:
Eye Catching
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We will need a favicon (16x16px) - Either the logo or if too complex a nice simple design extra would be great -- not mandatory but would be appreciated if you could help us with that.
What we get:
the full copyrights
logo psd or vector file (cmyk colors)
favicon (not mandatory)
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So... I had a horribly crappy morning dealing with unemployment and their terrible, awful, un-funny joke of an online training program. So, after wasting gas, 40 minutes (one way) driving, and three hours there, I was on my way home and drove past a small farm with cows and horses.
I decided that I wanted to stop and take pictures, because I like taking pictures and I hate everything else so far today. So I went up to the door, knocked, introduced myself and asked if I could take pictures of their animals.
I'm pretty sure they thought I was a lunatic, but they just said not to touch the fence because it's electric and it's on, and don't go in the pastures... so off I went. I was kinda bummed that I couldn't go in the pasture, because in the middle of the field were two rams beating the heck out of each other for the full 20 minutes or so I was at the second field, I know it would have made for some great shots!
All taken over/through electric fences with the 105. It was about 40 degrees and windy, so I didn't stay all that long.
These were the not-friendly horses in the the first field, I liked the blue eyes on some of them, but the bird ox in their mains and tails was awful!
In the other field this horse and his friend would not leave me alone. He wouldn't back up far enough to get a good picture of him, but wouldn't get close enough to not have the fence in the way, but followed me like a shadow...
I loved the eye lashes on this heifer
A big black cow helping to frame my shot
another heifer with lashes to die for
My helpful horse returns
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The 2007 class of inductees was to be announced at an event Thursday on Capitol Hill. The honorees are joining luminaries such as Thomas Edison, Velcro inventor George de Mestral and Charles Goodyear, developer of vulcanized rubber.
"Some of these inventors ... have literally changed the way we live our lives," said Rini Paiva, spokeswoman for the National Inventors Hall of Fame Foundation. But, she added, "they are not household names."
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The Akron, Ohio-based hall was founded by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and the National Council of Intellectual Property Law Associations. It has inducted members since 1973 and will have honored 331 inventors with the new class.
Metcalfe recalls the early days of working on the Ethernet project at Xerox Corp.'s research center in Palo Alto, Calif. "We had no idea in 1973 that it would get that big," he said. "We were just computer guys building our own tools."
Paul Baran was selected this year for developing a decentralized way of networking digital communication, called digital packet switching.
"I think that we give a lot of attention to music and football, why not those who come up with ideas that we use in a different way," said Baran, whose research was conducted while at Rand Corp.
The new inductees include seven living and 11 deceased inventors. The induction ceremony will take place in May in Akron.
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Monday, 16 January 2017
More Marrakesh: New Year, 1967.
You wait 50 years for a photo of John's sojourn in Marrakesh and then 2 turn up at once... so here's the second.
On a theme of new year, a belated happy one to all readahs.
Less happily, ye will no doubt have heard that Allan Williams and Alexis Mardas have both recently gone to, respectively, that great night club and that great electronics lab in the sky. One can't help but feel that Mr Mardas has been treated somewhat unfairly by "history".
As for Mr Williams, perhaps the first stop should be his book, one of very few Beatles-related tomes to receive a personal endorsement from 'imself... and another posthumous one is in from Mr Lewisohn who has penned a pithy appreciation of the contribution made. It can be read HERE.
Posted by solzhi at 19:24 17 comments
Labels: 1967, marrakesh, new year 1967
Tuesday, 20 December 2016
Kenwood: garden, ca. March/April 1967.
Wot a splendid pic. Just yer average psychedelic family, friend unt felines out for a stroll on a spring afternoon. I'd guess this was taken around the time of the Pepper photo shoot (30th March, 1967), judging by the trousers. (We all know it was the trousers.)
The usual season's gratings to readahs, and, in this instance, a special grating to Mr R.
Posted by solzhi at 11:04 12 comments
Labels: 1967, cats, garden, john and julian, Kenwood
Friday, 9 December 2016
Kenwood: December, 1968.
Posted by solzhi at 10:54 1 comments
Labels: 1968, john and yoko, Kenwood, master bedroom
Saturday, 3 December 2016
Marrakesh: New Year 1967.
John Hopkins (that's John Hopkins the American writer and friend to the Beats, not to be confused with John Hopkins the British counter-cultural figure and friend to the etc.), who attended the end of year party at the Palace in '67, described it thusly in his Tangier Diaries: "Last night Paul and Talitha Getty threw a New Year's Eve party at their palace in the Medina. Paul McCartney and John Lennon were there, flat on their backs. They couldn't get off the floor let alone talk. I've never seen so many people out of control."
Now, Macca certainly wasn't there; he was flat on his back in another location. But to someone who wasn't really paying attention (fill in your own reasons), I suppose from a distance Victor Spinetti might have been mistaken for Paul (and indeed, in this instance, probably was). If you examine the picture above, that's almost certainly Victor to Cynthia's right.
Incidentally, a quick search on-line reveals a few interior images taken in le Palais, which is full of similar alcoves:
Thanks to Lizzie Bravo for forwarding the pic.
Also, further apologies for the lack of activity round these parts. Can't be helped at the moment, but there will be occasional posts as and when...
Posted by solzhi at 15:07 3 comments
Labels: 1967, Cynthia Lennon, John Lennon, marrakesh, new year 1967, sidies, victor spinetti
Thursday, 14 July 2016
V&A: Psychedelic Eye On Display.
The Victoria & Albert Museum in London has a major new exhibition in the works: "You Say You Want a Revolution? Records and Rebels 1966-70" runs from 10 September-26 February 2017 and will, as one might expect, feature the Fabs; both John and George's Sgt Pepper outfits will be on display, amongst other things.
Now, excitingly for those with an interest in Kenwood, I have it on good authority that one of those other things will be John's Eye mosaic from the pool, which was recently rediscovered, returned to its rightful owners, and restored to former glory.
Apparently the thing measures about 5 feet by 15 feet, consists of around 14,000 tiles, and is quite impressive in the flesh. Lovely stuff, and more details to follow, apparently...
Thanks to Bernie Cochrane.
Posted by solzhi at 09:48 12 comments
Labels: Kenwood, psychedelic eye, V&A
Monday, 16 May 2016
Listen To This Balloon: 19th December, 1974.
I am back up in the auld ancestral home at the moment, struttin' aboot in mi tither, etc.. Occasional downtime vis-a-vis the aforementioned "struttin'" allows one the opportunity to peruse the ridiculous amount o' Beatles related shite that one has allowed to congeal over the long, long, long years. (What is, by the way, the correct collective noun for a massive quantity o' shite? How about a "boris"? A boris o' shite has a pleasing ring to it. But I digress.) (At some point I intend to sell the aforementioned boris ... not yet though.) (But I digress.)
Occasionally I come across a "piece" that I had forgotten I had, unt here is a good example. Readahs will no doubt be overly familiar with the good auld "Listen To This Balloon" anecdote. But have ye ever actually seen such a balloon? Well, above, there is one. Now, I have no idea whether this is the type of balloon actually employed by John to irritate his fellow former Fabs. It appears to be a promo device for the UK release of Happy Etc. (War is Etc.):
As usual, I have no idea. All I can tell you is that I got it from a source in the US, and that it in reality it looks (not to mention smells) ... vintage. Lovely stuff.
Posted by solzhi at 18:10 4 comments
Labels: balloon, listen to this balloon
Friday, 22 April 2016
Kenwood: On film, June 1968.
Some of this is on the blog already - but the real find comes around half-way through: the kitchen at Kenwood, on film! Yoko prepares something macrobiotic whilst John hugs a feline. For the first time it's possible to see how the kitchen and the sunroom join up. Please, for the love of God, try to contain yourselves.
This comes courtesy of Revolver TV over on YouTube, who have been gradually doling out interesting, unseen bits and pieces for a while now, and one wonders if the long rumoured Kenwood home movies are going to appear soon. In the meantime, this is pretty, pretty good.
EDIT: There used to be a YouTube video above. Clearly, it has now been taken down. I managed to MP4 it, though, so good for me!
Posted by solzhi at 10:28 1 comments
Labels: 1968, Kenwood, kenwood film, kitchen
Thursday, 31 March 2016
Kinfauns: 1969.
Sara over at MTBFR has posted this great pic of George in 1969, and asks which house it is. It's the living room at Kinfauns:
George is picking up a cutout of Sri Mahavatar Babaji...:
...the very one used on you know wot:
Sri Mahavatar Babaji is featured in one of George's favourite books, Yogananda's Autobiography of a Yogi (and was also the name of one of John's cats, trivia fans). Google away for further info, if ye will. There's also an intriguing glimpse of George's record collection to the right, but the resolution isn't quite good enough to identify much of it. I think I spot Electronic Sound, though. Anyone able to identify anything else?
Posted by solzhi at 10:55 10 comments
Labels: babaji, george's record collection, kinfauns
Thursday, 24 March 2016
120a Allerton Road, Woolton: Dairy Cottage.
Regular readahs will know of my fondness for Pete Shotton's tome "In My Life", and so I am always interested to track down a locale featured therein; in this case the corner cupboard in the living room of the (Dairy) Cottage. John lived here (in the cottage, not the cupboard - that would have been ridiculous) for a short period as a very small boy with his parents, and when the place was later occupied by his aunt Harrie he became a frequent visitor, such that a cupboard was designated "his", containing whatever possessions, drawings and writing he'd accumulated during his time there.
Pete recalls going round to the Cottage in December 1963 to find John emptying the aforementioned, and filling "a large canvas bag with books and papers", including "a stack of paintings, most of which dated back to a period when he was loath to paint anything but horses."
The Cottage is currently up for sale, full, according to the estate agent, of "original features", and so I reckon that modest cupboard visible in the living room is the very one that used to be John's, and thus was once filled with stuff that, were it all to come up for auction now, would probably be worth more than the house itself:
Funny, really.
Posted by kenwoodlennon at 12:47 2 comments
Labels: cupboard, the Dairy Cottage, Woolton
John & Mimi: June, 1964.
A small bit of John and a slightly bigger bit of Mimi, on the plane to Oz, June 1964.
Posted by kenwoodlennon at 00:14 1 comments
Monday, 14 March 2016
5 Somers Crescent, London W2: George Martin.
Here it was, at 5 Somers Crescent, that George Martin lived for around 20 years, from 1966 on. According to the Beatles' London, "it's likely that all the Beatles came here and certain that Paul did on many occasions."
George, naturally, had a piano installed, possibly in this very room, upon which arrangements for strings etc. would be composed. By "this very room", I mean the living room above, obviously, and not the kitchen, below, although who knows?
There are balconies on either side of the aforementioned living room:
Actually, this place reminds me a bit of Whaddon House, where Brian and George and Ringo all lived for a time. Both Whaddon House and Somers Crescent would have represented the height of modernity in the early 1960s.
Posted by solzhi at 08:31 0 comments
Labels: 5 Somers Crescent, George Martin
Saturday, 12 March 2016
Kenwood: June, 1967.
Yet more out-takes from the 29th of June 1967 session at Kenwood, and these two will be up for grabs at the Tracks auction in April. Nice!
In other news, I note that the page hit count round these parts is now over a million. I do nothing to publicise things, update randomly and infrequently, and am not the most technologically savvy person in the world, so it's quite possible that anyone with, say, a new Twitter account can expect a million hits by lunchtime on the first day, but still, a million hits! For this nonsense! It blows my tiny brains out of my nose.
So, may I just proffer a thank you to everyone who has contributed in whatever way, and to you readahs in general? And now be about yer business:
Posted by solzhi at 10:05 1 comments
Labels: june 29 1967, Kenwood
Wednesday, 9 March 2016
George Martin.
Were ye to offer a wager that in, say, 1000 years time, the world will not have been burned to a crisp by religious fanatics/asteroids/"Brexiteers"/ etc., I wouldn't take it. Spread betting may be all well and good, but I am no fool.
However, were ye to further offer a bet on the likelihood of two words still being in the dictionary in 1000 years time, in the charred remnants of the world (and it is at this point that the logic of my argument falls to pieces, and not for the first time)... errr...
Anyway, the basic point is that in 1000 years time, Jah willing, people will still be using the words "Beatle" and "flange".
And as long as civilisation staggers onwards, a doff o' the cap is in order to George Martin.
That is all.
Posted by kenwoodlennon at 21:39 2 comments
Labels: George Martin
Friday, 15 January 2016
Dorinish: Dot Jarlett archive.
From the pages of the Irish Independent, dated (errr... I'll get back to you on that one), found amongst Dot Jarlett's clippings archive (presumably that's her writing next to the headline), here is the original skinny on John's purchase of Dorinish in 1967. As ye will know, of all of them, John was keenest on a rural idyll for the Fabs, whom he envisaged living together in a communal arrangement somewhere isolated; hence Dorinish, Greek islands, even Tittenhurst, apparently.
Anyway, Alistair Taylor bought it on John's behalf (and that is actually bought it - he was the legal owner and eventually had to write to John in order to remind him that the title needed to be transferred), and John duly transported the Kenwood caravan over as a first step, before visiting on a couple of occasions... though of course the plan came to naught in the end.
Hats off to Alistair for some impressive bullshitting here, nevertheless:
Posted by solzhi at 20:16 5 comments
Labels: 1967, alistair taylor, dorinish, dot jarlett archive
Sunday, 10 January 2016
Walls & Bridges etc.: Bob Mercer interview.
I've read it through once but remain engrossed in Lennonology, not least because it is full of little leads to follow. Here, for example, is an interview John did in L.A. in September 1974, conducted by the then managing director of E.M.I., Bob Mercer, which was designed to prod the sales team in Blighty into action re. Whatever Gets You Through The Night as a single and Walls & Bridges as an album.
Though pressed as a demo 45 which was never commercially available (copies can be had on eBay occasionally for arse-clenching sums), the recording is now free to all thanks to Mr LostWeekend on the YouTube.
(My favourite bit is when John, pointedly, prefers "Britain" to "England", nomenclature-wise.)
Posted by kenwoodlennon at 23:23 1 comments
Friday, 8 January 2016
April 4th 1974: 434 East 52nd Street - UFO quickie.
On the above date, in the apartment recently vacated by John and May, French journo Jean-Francois Vallee interviewed 'imself. I've got most of it on various dodgy DVDs, but hadn't seen this bit before: John recounting his UFO sighting on the very spot where it happened, in delightful hi-res.
Posted by solzhi at 15:54 1 comments
Labels: east 52nd street, new york, UFO
Monday, 4 January 2016
Kenwood: November 26th, 1968.
Interesting this. The book was first published in 1966, and tells the story of a Japanese POW camp interpreter who helps the prisoners out of a sense of shared humanity. In 1960s Britain, there remained a lot of throwback WW2 anti-Japanese prejudice, and Small Man of Nanataki was, apparently, an attempt to counteract this. Can't "imagine" (oh fer Jah's sake stop it) what it would have been doing at Kenwood.
To see all the pics, go HERE.
(I can't remember where I got the oven pic - if you took it please get in touch for a credit.)
Posted by kenwoodlennon at 21:05 2 comments
Friday, 25 December 2015
Shaftsbury Avenue: ...If Ye Want It.
A seasonal quickie... unt why not?
Then unt now. Funnily enough, what now abuts the "War Is Over" wall is The Japan Centre.
Posted by kenwoodlennon at 10:07 0 comments
Labels: Japan Centre, Shaftsbury Avenue, War Is Over poster
Thursday, 24 December 2015
Lennonology: Book of the Year.
Friends, we are living through a golden age of Beatles research. Mr Lewisohn's magisterial All These Years is at the top of the heap, but there's going to have to be some room made up there because there's a new big dawgie in town: woofwoofwoofawoooooooocoughcoughsplutter ahem etc.
To be serious though for a second, Chip Madinger and Scott Raile's Lennonology Volume 1: Strange Days Indeed is a truly remarkable work. John and Yoko's lives from 1968 to 1980 are chronicled and contextualized in astonishing detail, and reading the book is such an immersive experience that it's with a kind of shock that one arrives at the section for 1980 and realizes what's coming.
Upon finishing SDI I'd learned a lot, and better understood what I thought I knew. Can't really ask for much more from a book than that.
To this end, I'm happy to take a cue from Sara over at MTBFR and name Lennonology: Strange Days Indeed the inaugural Kenwood Book of the Year.
That being so, I lobbed a few questions at Chip Madinger, and he was kind enough to respond, as follows:
KL: How did you put Strange Days Indeed together?
CM: When Eight Arms To Hold You was published in October 2000, I promptly started collating material for an update. I went through the Lennon section and made a list of people that I'd like to interview, topics that needed more research, etc... and I never got past John! I created a timeline to use as a framework, and as more information was discovered it began to take on its current form. I began to interview people, who would introduce me to others, and the project began to snowball.
About five years into the project Scott Raile came on board, and it was when we started to look at Yoko's work and John's contributions that we realized that there was an untold story there. From a research perspective, the project was started from scratch and only contemporary accounts that could be verified or were documented made it into the timeline—this was not a cut and paste affair. Rather than count on an individual's memory of forty-plus-year-old events, the interviews were then used to add color and detail to the framework.
However, there was one problem—there was too much information to include and had it been incorporated the result would have been very inconsistent. It was at that point that the whole LENNONOLOGY concept began to take shape, with the the timeline serving as Volume One and subsequent books detailing the creative process and the realization, production and promotion of John and Yoko's artistic output.
KL: Were there any stories that had to be left out for any reason (eg unverifiable source material) that you wish you'd been able to include, and is there anything that you've discovered since the book went to the printers that you'd like to have included?
CM: As a term of their employment, members of the Lennons' staff were required to sign a letter of non-disclosure. But Strange Days Indeed is a reference book, not a biography, so I'm not sure how much "verifiable" data would have been offered by the individuals who declined the opportunity to speak about their time with the Lennons.
I would have like to have provided more information about the years with Sean, but that was clearly a private time for John and Yoko. There are countless stories about this time period, but since they could only be verified by one of the individuals present, we elected to leave this type of information for the biographies and the "kiss and tells." Perhaps some day Yoko will publish John's diaries which would clearly offer much more about this time frame than we could have hoped to discover.
That's not to say that SDI doesn't have anything to offer about this period. Through the documents we reviewed and the people we spoke with, there is a wealth of new information about 1975-1980 than the handful of frequently recycled press clippings. One exciting document we were able to review was John's passport, which permitted us to definitively document his movements during this time frame.
As for any newly discovered material, something always seems to be turning up - doesn't it? Be it a new photograph, a document or a piece of tape or film. However, I'm not terribly worried about that as I'm sure that there will be some way to weave any new data into one of the future volumes.
KL: There are so many intriguing details in the book, but to take one at random - I had no idea that plans for John's follow-up to Walls & Bridges/ Rock 'N' Roll had got as far in 1975 as booking a studio to begin sessions. Of course, due to Yoko's pregnancy, it didn't happen, but what do you think would have been on that album if sessions had proceeded as originally planned?
CM: In the mid-70s John was smitten with disco music, and his plan was to go into the studio with an eye towards producing an album of that nature. He intended to use a fresh group of musicians with Billy Preston being the exception, as John liked to see "a familiar face." As will become evident in future volumes of LENNONOLOGY, John would tend to procrastinate when it came to writing, preferring to have the studio booked—a commitment as it were—before wrapping up the songwriting process. So I don't think he had a full batch of songs in order at the time, and one could only speculate which of his own compositions might have been included. John did remark that he might record some of the songs he had given away as of late—presumably, songs such as 'Incantation', 'Mucho Mungo' and 'Goodnight Vienna'.
KL: John's last few years have sometimes been portrayed in a negative light. One of the great things about your book is that it really drives home what a legal and personal shit-storm John and Yoko had been through in the early-mid 1970's. In this light, the late 70's appear (largely) a period of calm. How would you characterize John & Yoko's relationship/ mind-set during this time?
CM: There were still a number of legal issues that were ongoing during this period: John's immigration, his battle with Morris Levy over the Rock 'N' Roll LP, the surfeit of lawsuits surrounding their business relationship with Allan Klein... I don't think that it was until this legal wrangling had been settled that the Lennons were able to truly relax and be as normal a family as their fame would permit. They were able to exist as artists without the demands of a contract or formal outlet—something I think that John had an easier time with than Yoko, who was able to channel her energies into their investments.
John mentioned on a number of occasions how liberated he felt as a result of being able to move about in public without being recognized or harassed.
KL: This is part 1 of, I believe, 3. What format will future volumes take?
CM: This is something that is still being worked out—to be honest, I'm currently enjoying the absence of the pressures present during the past fifteen years! However, I have given it a lot of thought, and the goal of the future volumes will be to provide the detail that wasn't included in SDI. The day-by-day would have been very unbalanced if in the midst of 1971 there was a thirty page chunk about the filming of Imagine, or a take-by-take analysis of John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band. The future volumes will provide an outlet for that kind of information.
Many readers may find the forthcoming books to be of greater interest than SDI, but I feel that it was critical to first provide the framework, so that the artistic process could be viewed in context. There is a lot to look forward to!
Thanks to Chip for his responses. Go HERE for more information and to order a copy.
On a personal note, I'd like to wish the usual Garry Chrimble to all readahs, with some Happy New Etc. to boot.
Sporadic blog updates will continue into 2016, as, I trust, will we all.
Posted by solzhi at 14:51 3 comments
Saturday, 31 October 2015
Sunny Heights: demolition.
Sad news to report. Elmbridge Council, in their infinite wisdom, have waived through planning permission to demolish Sunny Heights. A Russian oligarch is about to flatten it in order to build the structure on the right. A contact on St George's Hill informs me that the house is still standing (it's an artist's impression above, not an actual photo), but is abandoned, awaiting destruction.
It should be stated that the new owner hasn't done anything wrong here, but at the same time, to take Russia as an example, it would be unthinkable there that someone could buy up, say, Tolstoy's house in order to destroy it.
Now, you may think that comparing Ringo to Tolstoy is ridiculous, and you'd be right - but I'd argue that it's in no way ridiculous to compare the Beatles as cultural giants in their sphere with any of the great Russian authors in theirs. The difference is that in Russia (as in many other countries) they tend to revere their culture, and want to protect places associated with the great figures of the past. Which, as in this case, is not always true here.
So that's Kinfauns and Sunny Heights gone. A shame.
Posted by kenwoodlennon at 17:19 6 comments
Labels: Sunny Heights, Sunny Heights demolition
Tuesday, 27 October 2015
Kenwood: summer, 1967.
These have been on here before, in sub-standard quality. Here they are again, much bigger unt better...
Thanks to Joe Baiardi.
Posted by kenwoodlennon at 18:57 2 comments
Labels: 1967, Kenwood, sunroom exterior
Sunday, 25 October 2015
Kenwood, Kinfauns & Sunny Heights: summer, 1967.
Way back in the summer o' '67, had you made your way to St George's Hill and utilised the naughty knocker at Kenwood, this might have been what shambled forth as a result - a fabulously dishevelled John, resplendent in dressing gown, talisman and norralot else.
A colour shot of the caravan from around the same time:
George outside Kinfauns, engaged in 'graphs:
Mr Starkey at the front door of dear old Sunny Heights, likewise:
I've stitched the following further Sunny ones together (each is a composite of 2 separate photos, fact fans) to provide a wider perspective. The upper floor here was home to the Den, where the Fabs did frequently hang:
No idea who took the black and white ones, but should you ever happen to read this then please do get in touch for a credit - I'd like to hear the story behind them. Thanks also to Joe Baiardi for passing on the colour caravan shot.
Posted by kenwoodlennon at 16:10 1 comments
Labels: 1967, Kenwood, kinfauns, summer o' lovin', Sunny Heights
Monday, 21 September 2015
This is great. John in the Dakota, ca. autumn/winter 1975, sharing his thoughts about NYC for local radio station WNEW. The programme this was intended for never made it to air, but, in the way of these things, the tape has now surfaced. And here 'tis.
Thanks to Lizzie Bravo for the link.
Thanks to Lizzie Bravo for the link.
Posted by solzhi at 08:38 5 comments
Sunday, 20 September 2015
Lennonology: Volume 1.
What you may not know is that the entire first three chapters are now up on the Lennonology site, and freely available to preview; '66 and '67 are fairly short (given that the focus is on John and Yoko together), but '68 is a huge and hugely informative piece of research (some of the fruit of 15 years' worth) in which, regardless of how much you know, you'll learn something new with every few entries, and also come away with a much clearer understanding of what happened when, where and why.
To take one example: the date and chronology of the Two Virgins night has never been satisfactorily explained. Previous attempts haven't made much sense even on their own terms, but the new order of events given by Madinger and Raile does (though we'll have to wait for the publication of the notes to see how they arrived at this conclusion).
The book is being privately published by them, in a strictly limited edition, so it's not cheap, but if you can afford it (or can manage to lay off the beer for a while to save for it) then it's clearly going to be a major contribution to all this (whatever this is) and one for the ages. Go HERE for the previewed chapters, and HERE for the Lennonology home page, where clicking through will take you to the order form.
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Friday, 4 September 2015
Pepper: dolls.
Apologies for the lack of activity round these parts of late; it's surprisingly time consuming to get even a scrap of this rubbish together, and free time is in short supply these days. Anyway, there's no shortage of stuff to post, as and when, so... gerronwithit.
I hadn't seen these pics before. I'm sure no red arrows are needed to recognise the basket's contents, but nevertheless:
There are also another couple of dolls (or toys) in there:
Various photos showing the construction of the Pepper sleeve reveal lots of other stuff that didn't make the final cut, and there are a few such things evident in this splendid pic o' Mal:
Ye can waste yer own time identifying them, but here's one for starters - a small collection of figures:
And whither the doll? As is often the case... I dunno. PS Note luggage tag (haha)(it couldn't be, could it?).
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Monday, 22 June 2015
Apple: Inside Crazy World Thereof.
In June 1969, august organ the TV Times (of all things) published a 3-part eye witness snapshot of goings on inside 3 Savile Row. Much of interest, and so, without the usual level of ado, here 'tis:
As ever, click and zoom to read. Huge thanks to Andy Neill for PDF and pint.
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Rally possum? Critter sparks A's in 10th
Norris turns away Balfour; Oakland stays out front in race
OAKLAND -- Derek Norris thought it was a large rat. So did manager Bob Melvin. Turns out it was a possum -- a rally possum.
The creature lurked near the left-field warning track at the Coliseum late Monday night as the A's staged a 10th-inning rally against the Rays, capped by Norris' game-winning RBI single that sealed a 3-2 victory, their eighth walk-off win of the season.
"He's been out here before when we're warming up," said starter Jeff Samardzija. "We're going to have to give him a name or a jersey.
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Monday's win afforded the A's another day as baseball's best team, as they held a one-game lead in the American League West over the Angels, who won at Dodger Stadium.
Sam Fuld got things going in the 10th with a one-out base hit, leading to back-to-back walks to John Jaso and Josh Donaldson, whose near-check swing on what would've been a third strike got Rays manager Joe Maddon ejected. Brandon Moss struck out for the second out, and Norris went down, 0-2, in the count, before poking one into left field for the game-winning hit.
"Sometimes [former A's closer Grant Balfour] falls into patterns, but tonight he was mixing really well," said Norris. "Once he gets runners in scoring position, he turns on another switch. I saw it time in and time out here. So I was just looking for something out over the plate. I thought anything back up the middle didn't have to be too hard to get through, and fortunately it got enough to get through."
"Just got beat tonight by a good team," said Balfour, who spent the previous three seasons in Oakland. "That was it, plain and simple."
The A's left the bases loaded in each of the first two innings vs. Alex Cobb before capitalizing on another opportunity in the third, with the streaking Josh Reddick boarding on a base hit and coming around to score on a double from Jed Lowrie, who enjoyed a three-hit night.
Donaldson's RBI single in the sixth tied the game, and the A's would go on to strand the bases loaded again in the seventh. By the time they got to the fateful 10th, they had left 15 on base.
Samardzija kept his club in the game with a seven-inning, two-run outing. He gave up a solo homer to Evan Longoria to lead off the second and kept the Rays off the board again until the fifth. It was at the end of the sixth when he tallied his 100th pitch of the night, and Melvin stuck him back on the mound for the seventh, which the righty handled with ease.
Samardzija induced 13 ground-ball outs on the night, walking just one and fanning three in the no-decision.
"Seems to be my M.O. since I've been here," he said. "Go out and throw some innings and then watch these guys put on a show at the end of the game. I love this team, man. I love how they play, they don't quit. Every at-bat means the world to each guy, and you see that in their emotions, how they react to each at-bat.
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Ryan Cook pitched the 10th unscathed. That's when the possum came out for a peek.
"Never know what you're going to see here," said Melvin, smiling.


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Gotta wait till I get home to register. For some reason my phone hates the registration pages on the DD website.
Oh, look....another tourney on the same courses that always get used....blah
Scott, thanks for continuing to provide fun, competitive tournaments in the area. They're always a blast and judging by attendance, many others feel the same way.Kudos to you and DD for making these happen.
Same day has nothing to do with it jack...very poor argument.When is the last time PC, Lakeside or Wyco was used in a tourney? MarchWhen is the next time those will be used? Sept....?How many times will WW, Rosey and Swope be used in that gap? Too ManyI guess if those courses had more tourneys though then I would be playing on a dirt field instead of nice grass. So I guess you can keep your same old crap.Feel free to throw in Blue Springs and Lee Summit as well do you don't try to use the KS bias card.
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Dining: Eat, Memory
Sometimes the newer the restaurants are, the more familiar they seem.
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I set out this month to catch up with newly opened restaurants. I often do, I feel it's my duty.
Restaurants are, perhaps unfortunately, a fashion business. People are constantly asking me, Any new restaurants out there? As if the old ones no longer produced anything worth eating, and something new needed to open up, soon, before they starved.
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The Ranch House
499 Kapahulu Ave. // Hee Hing Plaza // 737-4461 // Dinner nightly 5 to 9 p.m. // Major credit cards // ranchhousehawaii.com
Someone finally did a retro restaurant right.
With the advent of Hawaii Regional Cuisine came a trend toward bustling display kitchens. Still, there's always been a cadre of diners who insisted they wanted the old restaurants back, you know, the kind of restaurant where the menu was covered in leather and the kitchen stayed quietly behind closed doors.
There've been a number of attempts to recreate those old-school, high-end restaurants in Honolulu, without a great deal of success. The legendary Bistro on Kapiolani was dazzlingly and expensively reborn in Century Center, and didn't take hold.
The original Sergio's had cozy, little, over-decorated dining rooms on a Waikiki side street, all watched over by the overdressed propriétaire. Sergio himself is long gone. Sergio's the restaurant has been reborn—as a far more tasteful, serious, high-end eatery in the Hilton shops, but with hardly the same spirit.
It turns out that the retro restaurant Honolulu was hungry for was a Spencecliff. Starting in 1941, Spence and Cliff Weaver grew their chain to 28 restaurants on Oahu, prospering when people in Honolulu weren't as fussy about food as they are now.
In the 1980s, as tastes changed and options multiplied, Spencecliff found itself in financial trouble. The chain was sold to a Japanese investor, who left his 24-year-old son in charge of the company.
Total disaster. Nowhere was that disaster more obvious than at one of the chain's best loved restaurants, the Ranch House in Aina Haina.
In 1986, under the new ownership, the Ranch House was renovated. What started as a $1 million project turned into $3 million worth of imported European tiles, Italian marble, chrome and neon. When it was done, the Ranch House had been transformed into two theoretically trendy restaurants, Metro and Rockchild's. People hated both. They closed in 1988.
Twenty-two years later, with the blessing of Chantal Weaver, Spence Weaver's daughter, the Ranch House is back. Think of it as Ranch House 2.0.
We had to go. I used to eat at Ranch House 1.0 all the time with my wife—she wasn't even my wife then, just my 20-something, hot new girlfriend. We could (barely) afford it, and, besides, there were hardly any other restaurants in East Honolulu. We ate prime rib and, if I remember correctly, caroused with carafes of pink wine.
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The pastor of Drew Peterson wife Stacy testifies that Peterson coached her to lie about his whereabouts on the night of ex-wife Kathleen Savio's death. WMAQ's Kim Vatis reports.
Updated at 8:12 p.m. ET: Prosecutors on Tuesday asked the jury in the first-degree murder trial against Drew Peterson to focus on the witnesses who said the former police officers threatened his third wife -- and was therefore capable of killing her. Defense attorneys, meanwhile, stressed the lack of evidence.
Prosecutor Chris Koch several times implored jurors to use their everyday experiences and keep their common sense in mind.
"It is clear that this man murdered Kathleen Savio," Koch told the jurors before reminding them of significant points they've heard throughout the last five weeks of testimony.
Peterson, a former Bolingbrook police sergeant, is charged in the 2004 drowning death of his third wife, Kathleen Savio. Prosecutors allege Peterson killed his wife and staged it to look like an accident.
The judge released the jurors Tuesday afternoon, the Chicago Tribune reported, saying he hadn't expected arguments to last so long. Deliberations will begin Wednesday morning.
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Koch told jurors that Peterson had the intent and motive to kill Savio.
"You are not going to make it to the divorce settlement. You're not going to get the pensions, you're not going to get the kids," he told jurors of a statement Peterson allegedly made.
Pathology experts, Koch said, showed that the injuries Savio sustained -- 14 separate wounds -- could not have happened in a single fall in a bathtub that measures just 40 inches from the back to the drain.
"It's not possible," he said.
Jurors were reminded that Savio told several people that she feared her husband would kill her, and they were reminded of testimony from a police officer who said Peterson tried to hire him to find a hit man.
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"Taking all of that information together and drawing reasonable inferences from them ... we have proved to you" that Peterson killed Savio. "We are asking you to find him guilty."
Attorney Joe Lopez, speaking on behalf of the defense, appealed to jurors patriotism.
"You don't have to like Mr. Peterson. But you have to like that flag. You have to like America," he said, pounding the podium.
He attacked assertions that the initial investigation into Savio's was botched and pointed out that no one asked Peterson if he killed his wife because everyone could see it was an accident.
"Look at the gash in the back of her head. It's as big as the Grand Canyon. You could stick your fist in there," he said, drawing gasps from those gathered in an overflow courtroom.
Jurors were expected to receive the case Tuesday afternoon. Members of the public, an official said, began showing up outside the courthouse at about 1 p.m. CT Monday in hopes of getting one of the few available spectator seats.
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Prosecutors have no physical evidence tying Peterson to the death and have waged a case based on hearsay testimony and circumstantial evidence. Peterson's attorneys say there's no proof Savio's death was a homicide, let alone that Peterson had anything to do with it.
"It's like the game of Clue, where they say, 'Colonel Mustard did it with the candlestick in the dining room.' Have you heard that? No," defense attorney Steve Greenberg said last week.
Prosecutors entered the courthouse Tuesday morning without addressing the media.
Each team has been given one hour and 45 minutes to state their case before the seven-man, five-woman jury that has already sat through five weeks of testimony.
Reuters contributed to this report.
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