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I haven't added any journal prompts in such a long time (hangs head guiltily). However, Thomas and Jasia put their heads together and came up with an Advent Calendar of Christmas Memories for other genealogy bloggers that is just perfect for journaling your own Christmas memories. I invite you to click on either link above (it's the same list) to read the list of 24 blogging prompts which can be used for your journal. There's one for each day from December 1st through the 24th. It's not too late to start; I haven't blogged anything so far, but will jump in as time allows.
If you'd like to read others' memories, click here to see Thomas' introduction to each day's theme with links to bloggers' posts. I've noticed that by reading these posts, I've been reminded in more detail of some of my own Christmas memories.
P.S. If you don't celebrate Christmas, you can alter these prompts to reflect your own religion's winter holiday memories.
Monday, December 3, 2007
Advent Calendar of Christmas Memories
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adrianus wrote:Salve Scribo,
As Lawrence of Arabia says in Lean's film: "Certainly it hurts...The trick, William Potter, is not minding it hurts."
Ut dixit Laurentius Arabiae in pelliculâ Davidis Lean: "Certè dolet...Ars, Guillielme Figule, est quod dolet negligendi."
adrianus wrote:Good, and you? Thanks, Scribo. Keep going.
Benè et tu? Gratias tibi, Scribo. Pertende.
Scribo wrote:There are times when the frustration takes over, crushes, and replaces that love.
I'm using Wheelock's mainly, my plan of study is this: Read chapter
Comprehend chapter
Practice using the vocabulary
Do the tests
vastor wrote:I considered studying lingua latina when I first began, but while that approach would allow for a rudimentary sense of the meaning of simple sentences, complex ideas would be hard to analyse in any great detail without a grounding in the fundamentals of the grammar.
Lucus Eques wrote:I'd say your problem lies in that your curriculum revolves around Wheelock. You should change that at once.
spiphany wrote:Lucus Eques wrote:I'd say your problem lies in that your curriculum revolves around Wheelock. You should change that at once.
With all due respect, Lucus, I'm getting a bit tired of this. Wheelock may have its faults, but it would not have stayed around as long as has if instructors hadn't found it effective for teaching Latin. We all know your opinions, but there is no single "right" way to learn a language. Half the process is figuring out a system that works for you.
Scribo wrote:However, as I said, the reading itself is slow (is this natural at first?) and vocab retention is precarious at best.
Amadeus wrote:Salve, Scribo:
The order of those verbs is the following: present tense (1st person), perfect tense (1st person), infinitive and participle.
Good luck!
P.S.: By the way, are you sure it's "amavivi" and not "amavi"?
MarcusE wrote:There have been more than a few brilliant latin scholars who learned the language inside out but never really acquired it. That is, they never learned to read it fluently from left to right without mental translation - the way we all read English. It forever remained a puzzle to be decoded and translated sentence by sentence- a puzzle they could decode quickly perhaps - but that is not what language acquisition is. I love the fact that I can read Spanish the way I read English where the meaning simply pops off the page with no translating or mental rearrangement of the words needed and I hope to be able to read latin that way as well some day.

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Scientists in Britain want to begin testing a new IVF technique that would combine the genetic material from three people to create a child, according the The Daily Mail. The technique could help to prevent devastating genetic diseases like muscular dystrophy from being passed down, but current laws would need to change to allow for the testing. The government is expected to vote on it later this year.
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The process involves taking healthy DNA from a mother's egg (leaving mutations behind), and transferring it to a donor egg with the nuclear DNA removed. The fertilized egg would then be implanted into the mother's uterus. Although technically the embryo would carry genetic material from three people, it would not inherit the donor's characteristics. Researchers estimate the procedure could be used starting in two to three years.
Many are up in the arms over the idea of "hybrid" children, and think the idea of genetic engineering is a slippery slope. But for carriers of genetic diseases, the research gives new hope that they might be able to have biological children without fear of passing on gene mutations. About 1 in 5,000 children are affected by muscular dystrophy and other genetic diseases this technology could help eradicate. These serious diseases cause serious medical problems; many sufferers do not survive to adulthood.
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EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. — The San Francisco 49ers are everything Rex Ryan wishes his New York Jets were.
San Francisco used a solid running game, a smothering defense, a little bit of the wildcat-style offense and even blocked a punt to cruise to a 34-0 victory Sunday.
That's exactly the type of team the Jets coach was hoping to build. Instead, Ryan had to watch it from the other sideline as the 49ers ran for more than 200 yards and Carlos Rogers returned a fumble 51 yards for a touchdown.
Frank Gore, Kendall Hunter and backup quarterback Colin Kaepernick — on a wildcat-style option — all ran for scores as the 49ers (3-1) bounced back from a disappointing loss last week at Minnesota. Rather than head back to the West Coast after that defeat, coach Jim Harbaugh chose to have his team stay in eastern Ohio and practice at Youngstown State all week.
It apparently helped, just as it did last season when the 49ers did the same thing.
San Francisco won in Cincinnati last year, stayed on the road and then rallied from a 20-0 deficit to stun the Eagles 24-23 in Philadelphia. The 49ers wound up going to the NFC championship that season, and if they play anything like they did against the Jets, they could very well find themselves advancing deep into the postseason again.
It was San Francisco's first shutout since beating the St. Louis Rams 26-0 last December.
Meanwhile, the Jets (2-2) couldn't get anything going on offense and lost top wide receiver Santonio Holmes to what appeared to be a serious foot injury. It was the first time New York was shut out since losing 9-0 to Green Bay on Oct. 31, 2010, and the Jets' biggest shutout home loss since falling 37-0 to Buffalo in 1989.
If Holmes misses significant time, the Jets would be without their two biggest playmakers after All-Pro cornerback Darrelle Revis was likely lost for the season with a torn ligament in his left knee last week at Miami.
On the first play of the fourth quarter, Holmes caught a pass from Mark Sanchez for 4 yards, but his left leg appeared to go out on him. The ball flew out of his hands, and Rogers picked it up and returned it for a score.
A replay review confirmed that Holmes had fumbled. Trainers helped him off, and he was not putting any weight on the leg. Holmes was then was carted to the locker room.
Ryan said Friday that the Jets would wait to put Revis on injured reserve until he has surgery in a few weeks, keeping him available in case New York goes to the Super Bowl.
If the Jets play like this the rest of the way, getting to the playoffs will be a tall task.
Alex Smith was efficient, going 12 of 21 for 143 yards and no touchdowns, but more importantly, no interceptions. The 49ers rolled up 245 yards on the ground.
"I've never given up that many yards in my life," an angry Ryan said after the game.
Sanchez had another poor game for the Jets, going 13 of 29 for 103 yards and an interception. New York also finished with just 45 yards rushing.
The wildcat-style offense worked early — but for the 49ers and not Tim Tebow and the Jets.
Kaepernick put the 49ers up 7-0 early in the second quarter, taking a direct snap and running untouched off left end for a 7-yard touchdown. Kaepernick also had a 17-yard run earlier in the game.
On the Jets' next possession, Tebow threw his first pass with New York, a short throw over the middle to tight end Dedrick Epps, who was upended immediately by Dashon Goldson as the ball came loose. Rogers recovered it, and the fumble call was upheld by video review. Epps injured his right knee on the play.
With just over a minute left in the first half, the 49ers were aggressive despite starting the drive at their 26. A 23-yard catch by Vernon Davis on first down got things rolling, and San Francisco ended the half on David Akers' 36-yard field goal.
Boos and some chants of "Tee-boww! Tee-boww!" rang out as the Jets went three-and-out for the second straight possession in the second half.


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Guest post by Julie Kibler | @juliekibler
If the word Faith is in the title, you can figure there's going to be some discussion of it in the story.
Faith Bass Darling's Last Garage Sale, Lynda Rutledge's debut novel from Amy Einhorn Books (May 2012), doesn't tiptoe around the issue. Nor does it stomp. Here's a little bit about the book from the publisher:
"On the last day of the millennium, sassy Faith Bass Darling decides to have a garage sale. Why is the richest lady in Bass, Texas, a recluse for twenty years, suddenly selling off her worldly possessions? As the townspeople grab up the heirlooms, and the antiques reveal their own secret stories, a cast of characters appears to witness the sale or try to stop it. Before the day is over, they'll all examine their roles in the Bass family saga, as well as some of life's most imponderable questions: Do our possessions possess us? What are we without our memories? Is there life after death or second chances here on earth? And is Faith really selling that Tiffany lamp for $1?"
I've had the privilege of meeting Rutledge a few times in person at book events, and when I told her I was considering a blog post about the faith aspect of her novel, she grinned. She said she'd be interested to hear what I thought. Her reaction indicated she fully believes readers will make their own interpretations, and they might be completely different from anything she thought or intended as she wrote the book. This is just the kind of book I love to dig into. Serve me literature that makes me think, please.
From page one of Faith Bass Darling's Last Garage Sale to its very last sentence, the subject of faith is clearly pivotal. Take a small town in Texas, where, as in many Texas small towns, the Baptists and the Methodists run pretty much everything, whether directly or indirectly—even the banks. Throw in a slowly dying Episcopal parish and a priest who isn't sure about anything anymore. Add a heaping cup of tragedy and a character named Faith, and you're going to have to deal with the topic.
Faith Bass Darling has been diagnosed with Alzheimer's, and time has evolved into a new continuum. One minute she's in the present; the next, she's in the past. And she's surrounded by all the worldly goods her family—the family who basically ran the town and the bank for years (along with the Baptists and Methodists)—collected. These possessions, some with incalculable monetary value, have become more than their physical properties. They have defined each family member and are the impetuses that changed the course of their collective lives.
Faith has clung to these things too long. She believes she hears the voice of God—a voice, in fact, that she hasn't heard in more than 20 years for reasons not quite clear to herself or the reader at first—telling her she will soon die, and she must rid herself of the things that have held her hostage in her huge, lonely mansion. She drags them out to her yard, one by one, and practically gives them away, much to the delight of Bass, Texas's curious population—except for a few characters with more vested interests, whether legal or emotional, who try to convince her otherwise.
Strains of familiar passages of the Bible tickled the back of my mind as I read this novel—both the first time, all the way through, and again after I turned the last page and went back to re-read the first few. While searching for the phrases that floated in my memory, I found Matthew 19:21 (from The Message, which is a paraphrase of the original Greek and Hebrew scriptures rather than a word-for-word translation):
"If you want to give it all you've got," Jesus replied, "go sell your possessions; give everything to the poor. All your wealth will then be in heaven. Then come follow me."
It could have been that one. But maybe it was these:
Then Jesus went to work on his disciples. "Anyone who intends to come with me has to let me lead. You're not in the driver's seat; I am. Don't run from suffering; embrace it. Follow me and I'll show you how. Self-help is no help at all. Self-sacrifice is the way, my way, to finding yourself, your true self. What kind of deal is it to get everything you want but lose yourself? What could you ever trade your soul for? (Matthew 16:24-26, also from The Message)
Yes, it might have been those. Especially as I consider the rest of the story, where Faith Bass Darling—not to mention those around her—wrestles with the events that led to her being alone and lonely, surrounded only by her beautiful possessions instead of by the husband who died under mysterious circumstances, or the son who died under tragic ones, or the daughter who disappeared when it all became a little too much to deal with.
At various points, Faith turns to the Episcopal priest when she feels betrayed by her own understanding of faith, thinking he might have better answers. But the priest himself is in the midst of his own faith crisis, and their interchanges serve only to bring each of their questions into starker relief.
The reader could bring countless interpretations to what the author intended for this story to "say, " about faith, about forgiveness, about the afterlife. I drew my own conclusions about what Faith felt she had to do to make her peace by the time the new millennium appeared. You might draw your own conclusions, too. What do you think Rutledge might have been thinking about faith as she wrote Faith's story?
I do know this to be true: one friend who read the book said, "Lynda Rutledge has written one of the most tender, holy end-of-life scenes I've ever read. "
FAITH BASS DARLING'S LAST GARAGE SALE is our May book club selection. There are still two days to enter this month's giveaway–a Texas themed gift basket. Click here for details.
Julie Kibler's debut novel, Calling Me Home, will be published by St. Martin's Press in February 2013. She lives in Texas and is currently writing her next novel. She likes books, movies, and music that make her think about the hard questions. You may find her online at her website, on her group blog, What Women Write, and on Facebook.


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After more than two years spent renovating property in the Ocala National Forest, the Peace River Refuge & Ranch wildlife sanctuary is just months away from moving its base of operations here from Hardee County.
After spending more than two years renovating property in the Ocala National Forest, the Peace River Refuge & Ranch wildlife sanctuary is just months away from moving its base of operations here from Hardee County.
The sanctuary provides lifetime care for nearly 200 abandoned and confiscated animals, with species ranging from deer, skunks and tortoises to big cats, bears and monkeys.
"These animals are all from situations of abuse and neglect," said Lisa Stoner, the nonprofit organization's vice president. "Zoos don't want them, and they're not releasable into the wild."
Lisa and her husband, Kurt, founded the rescue operation 14 years ago and are aided by two full-time and two dozen part-time volunteers, some from as far away as Sweden, Germany and the United Kingdom. For the last two years, the group has been preparing 80 acres of local land for their eventual move, prompted by a large housing development project that was approved near their Zolfo Springs site.
The new property east of Ocala is bounded on three sides by national forest and incorporates a significant amount of wetland, which will provide natural firebreaks, making it ideally suited for their needs. Eric Eagle met the Stoners shortly after they began the initial site work and has been providing assistance as a volunteer.
"I worked at Advance Auto Parts right down the road and Kurt was always coming in for parts," he said. Eagle offered to help the Stoners maintain the charity's equipment and, "ever since then, when I get the free time, I'll come over and do whatever I can for them."
During his time as a volunteer, Eagle has noticed that many people who hear of the organization mistakenly believe the animals will be roaming free across the property.
Having spent much of his time setting fence posts, despite some grueling difficulties, he can reassure everyone that the sanctuary is going to have, "more fences than Fort Knox."
"By the time we're finished, there are going to be three layers of fencing between the property line and the animals," Lisa Stoner said.
Plans originally called for three to five years of work, at a cost of $1.5 million, before the charity would move their operations to Marion County. Time consuming commutes between the locations, stagnant donations from a weak economy and the high cost of maintaining two properties prompted the Stoners to revise and accelerate their timetable. Now, midway through the project, they have finished identifying property lines and clearing space for infrastructure and are in the process of erecting the habitats, fences and support buildings. Much of the material is being special ordered from Sparr Building Supply to ensure it meets their exact requirements.
Primary construction is expected to be complete early next year, at which point the animals will be moved from Hardee County to secure "storm lockout" habitats at the local site. That will allow the Zolfo Springs enclosures to be disassembled and the materials recycled for habitat expansions, which will provide the animals a greater degree of comfort while saving money.
"The deed to our property down there changes hands on March 1, so we're under the gun to get the construction finished," Stoner said.
She said they plan to move the animals over the course of a weekend, using connections developed as a member of five different disaster response teams to handle the task as if it were a training exercise. She estimates the move can be accomplished in two trips.
The timing of the move is fortuitous since some of the animals will have to be tranquilized for transport and doing so during the cool winter months lessens the potential health risks.
Other preparations involve contacting local grocery stores in search of food donations, as the animals consume more than 450 pounds of meat, produce, special order foods and dietary supplements every day.
Jaye Perrett, co-founder of the Endangered Animal Rescue Sanctuary (EARS) in Citra, said feeding exotic animals is perhaps the largest single expense for an animal sanctuary.
"A full grown adult tiger can eat anywhere from 20 to 25 pounds of fresh meat every day," Perrett said.
In order to slash the enormous cost of feeding the big cats at EARS, Perrett founded a cooperative with other sanctuaries across the southeast, allowing them to cut meat prices in half by buying in bulk.
"If I could deal in 200,000 pounds of meat at a time," Perrett said, "I could cut down the costs to the sanctuaries."
Stoner also is working to raise funds through sponsorships and naming opportunities, such as on habitats or at the entrance of the sanctuary, but the sanctuary will not function as a pay-to-view destination.
"We still have a good portion of that money to raise before we finish construction," Stone said, noting that the sale of their original property won't generate any funds since property values are currently so low.
"Once we're established and we've got the construction finished, we'll do guided tours a couple of times a month so we can continue our educational program, but we're not trying to be an attraction," she said.


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Students and staff in Brunswick County said farewell on Friday, June 8, marking the beginning of summer vacation.
Throughout the system, schools celebrated the end of the year with special traditions, including promotion ceremonies for those moving to middle and high schools.
Jessie Mae Monroe Elementary celebrated the successes of fifth-grade students in front of a packed house of friends and family. The promotion celebration was sponsored by the school's PTA.
Beginning June 18, all Brunswick County children younger than 18 years old can receive a free breakfast and lunch five days a week for eight weeks.
Jessica Swencki, Brunswick County Schools spokeswoman, said the program is a collaboration between the school system and Brunswick Family Assistance (BFA), which will sponsor the summer food service program.
There are no income eligibility requirements to receive the meals—it is open to all children in the county, Swencki said.
Communities in Schools (CIS) has awarded 23 $1,000 scholarships to Brunswick County students this year, and five are the first in their family to attend college. This brings the total amount of scholarships awarded by CIS to more than $100,000.
Early College High School graduate Shanice Newkirk received a $1,000 scholarship donated by Dinah Gore.
Cedar Grove names Bulldogs of Month
Cedar Grove Middle School has named its Bulldogs of the Month for April, May and June.
Eighth grade
Gavin Reed, Brittani Wilson, Garrett Hansen, Matthew Grissett, Emillio Bonifacio, Savannah Prevost, Dalton Reagan, Michael Nelson, Danielle Duncan, Brook Benton, Olivia Pittman, Nahisha Garcia, Darcy Evans, David Venegas, Caleb Renfrow, Dakota Hewett and Maria Isabel Santamaria.
Seventh grade
A few members of the Cedar Grove Middle School Junior National Honor Society decided to have a book drive to help out The Brunswick County Literacy Council. The society requires all members perform eight hours of community service each semester.
The book drive lasted the entire month of May and the deadline was May 30. A grand total of 1,338 books were collected. Sixth-grade students donated 293 books, seventh-grade students donated 713 books and eighth-grade students donated 332 books.
Students from South Brunswick High School are the local winners in the annual Young American Creative Patriotic Art Competition sponsored by the Ladies Auxiliary to the Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 7288 in Calabash, Post 8866 in Holden Beach and Post 10400 in Boiling Spring Lakes.
During an award ceremony at the school on May 7, the ladies auxiliaries presented certificates and checks to the following students:
Post 7288: Myles Williams, first place; Emily Coring, second place; and Sarah Hennessey, third place.
Karen Ogden's K-1 students were issued a challenge to collect their weight in food. The Tip the Scales for Food challenge was launched in late March. Each child was weighed and the collective total of their weight was 384 pounds. They immediately issued a plea to the other students and teachers in the school for help in collecting at least 384 pounds of food for the local food pantry.
Graduating seniors are gearing up to don their caps and gowns, preparing to walk across the stage to receive their diplomas.
This year, for those who can't get to Odell Williamson Auditorium on graduation day, family members and loved ones will have several opportunities to watch their favorite senior walk across the stage.
Graduation commencement ceremonies for all three Brunswick County traditional public high schools are scheduled for Saturday, June 9.
Rose earns business degree
Ocean Isle Beach native James Rose has earned a B.S. degree in business administration/accounting from Limestone College during spring 2012 commencement exercises in the college's Fullerton Auditorium May 10-12. Graduates represented Limestone's traditional day student program, extended campus classroom and Internet offerings.
The 41st annual Odell and Virginia Williamson Oratory Scholarship Competition took place at Brunswick Community College on Thursday, May 3. Eight seniors representing North Brunswick, South Brunswick, West Brunswick and Early College High School competed for top honors.
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Pair rob grocery store in northern Vermont
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Pair rob grocery store in northern Vermont
One suspect brandished a knife
ST. ALBANS, Vt. —
Police in northern Vermont are investigating an armed robbery at grocery store on Sunday night.
St. Albans Police said two suspects – a man and a woman – walked into South Main Grocery shortly before 9 p.m., brandished a knife and demanded money through a note. The pair made off with an undisclosed amount of cash.
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CAIRO (AP) — A brutal crackdown on Islamists after a military coup that ousted Egypt's first democratically elected president is posing a dilemma for the country's intellectual elite, which championed greater freedoms during a popular revolt two years ago but now seems largely acquiescent in the wave of arrests and raids targeting the Muslim Brotherhood.
The reason: a widespread bitterness over Islamist leader Mohammed Morsi's year in power, further stoked now by a media campaign depicting the clampdown as a fight against terrorism.
The human rights community itself has been split after security forces raided pro-Morsi sit-in camps in Cairo, with many supporting the action despite brutal tactics and the deaths of hundreds of protesters.
Groups criticizing what they call the excessive use of violence against the Brotherhood face smear campaigns in the media and are accused of jeopardizing state security, often by the same pro-democracy activists who acknowledged that Islamists must be included in the political system after the 2011 revolution that toppled autocrat Hosni Mubarak.
The dilemma is part of a broader debate about Egypt's stuttering march toward democracy after the popularly supported coup, which redefined alliances forged during the revolution and its aftermath and left many in the international community feeling conflicted about whom to support. Concern about the July 3 toppling of Morsi, his largely incommunicado detention since, and mass arrests of Brotherhood members has threatened U.S.-Egyptian ties, with the Obama administration considering the suspension of millions of dollars in military and economic assistance to Egypt's new rulers.
Rights advocates warn the fears of violence and general weariness after more than two years of turmoil and economic woes could pave the way for the restoration of a Mubarak-style police state. Already, the military-backed interim administration has reinstated a state of emergency law that grants authorities sweeping powers to make arrests and silence critics — along with a curfew in much of the country.
But the majority of Egyptians — including activists who led the protests in 2011, then against the post-Mubarak military rulers in 2012 and finally against Morsi this summer — are giving the army and its chosen government significant leeway, seeing them as the lesser of two evils.
"I'm still against a military regime, but we need the power of the army to save us from the Muslim Brotherhood," said Mohamed Abla, an award-winning artist whose fourth-floor downtown studio in Cairo served as a rest stop for protesters occupying nearby Tahrir Square in 2011. "It's political."
Abla, 60, dismisses complaints that Islamists' rights are being violated, saying he didn't initially oppose the pro-Morsi sit-ins but supported the military crackdown after hearing reports the camps were being armed.
"It is an exceptional time. We really are facing terrorists," he said in his studio, sitting under a painting of a patchwork Cairo high-rise meant to depict the crumbling state of the country under Mubarak. "I hope they don't stop asking for human rights, but they have to be realistic ... The country is facing a big danger."
Sympathy is low for the Islamists among many who accuse them of trying to monopolize power under Morsi. While in office, Morsi pushed police to crack down on protesters, praising security forces after they killed dozens.
But the anti-Islamist fervor has been fanned hotter by a stream of newspaper headlines and TV talk shows that warn of a terrorist threat, pointing to a growing insurgency in the Sinai Peninsula and a post-coup wave of attacks on government buildings and churches by Morsi supporters.
The state-run Al-Ahram newspaper warned this week that foreign funds are flowing to international organizations to promote "external agendas." Private citizens also have filed legal suits against activists, accusing them of serving foreign agendas or espionage.
And at least 40 local and international journalists have been detained by Egyptian security forces since Morsi's ouster, generally on accusations linked to articles seen as sympathetic to the Islamists or critical of the military-backed administration, according to the New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists.
Prominent Egyptian-American human rights activist Saad Eddin Ibrahim, 75, likens it to the "fear of Islam and the Islamists" in the United States after the 9/11 attacks.
"That kind of mass hostility is very much alive at present in Egypt," he said.
Rights advocates were suppressed under Mubarak's nearly three decades in power, and they emerged as heroes after the 18-day uprising that forced him out of power.
But the honeymoon period was short-lived as the military rulers who then took the helm began a campaign against foreign-funded nongovernmental organizations, prompting several to shutter operations as staffers were charged with crimes.
One of the defendants, Nancy Okail, Freedom House's Egypt director, said Egyptians have been forced to choose between "the authoritarianism of the military or religious authoritarianism."
"All the people who would refuse both would fall in the middle and would be attacked," she said in a telephone interview from Washington, where she now works. "It's the everlasting battle between your freedom and your security."
Hafez Abu Saeda, president of the Egyptian Organization for Human Rights who was detained four times during Mubarak's rule, said he was torn about using force to clear the post-coup protest camps of Morsi supporters, until he came to believe the sites were housing weapons and being used to torture kidnapped security forces.
"It is not clear that this was excessive force," he said of the crackdown that cleared the sites on Aug. 14 and left more than 600 people dead.
Heba Morayef of Human Rights Watch pointed out that her group and others spent a year criticizing Morsi's government for abuses, and she acknowledged the Islamist camps were disruptive and provided forums for abuse and hate speech against Christians as well as the military.
"But that doesn't justify the killing hundreds of people," she said. "It is a challenge from a human rights perspective because the detainees have rights, residents have rights, you don't have unlimited right to stage a major sit-in and block off streets long term and so it wasn't an easy issue."
Anger over international expressions of concern about rights violations contributed to rising anti-American sentiment in Egypt, a longtime U.S. ally. President Barack Obama said American assistance could not remain unchanged "when civilians are being killed in the streets" — though he has not yet decided how much of the $1.5 billion in aid, most to Egypt's military, might be suspended.
While Egyptian authorities have depicted the crackdown as a "fight against terror," the detentions of labor lawyer Haitham Mohammadain and journalist Ahmed Abu-Draa this month raised alarm it could be expanded to silence other critics.
Abla, who now sits on a committee drafting a constitution to replace the Islamist-backed charter rushed through under Morsi, said he's not worried because the people are poised to take power back.
"We want to get our revolution back from the Muslim Brothers, from the fanatics and also from the army," he said. "Now we have experience in making revolutions, and we can do another."


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Hedge funds increased bullish commodity positions for the fourth straight week and became the most bullish on copper since December on signs of faster growth in the U.S. and China.
Speculators boosted net-long positions across 18 U.S. futures and options in the week ended Feb. 5 by 11% to 885,655 contracts, marking the longest stretch of gains in more than six months, U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission data show. Traders lifted bullish wagers on everything from copper to platinum, corn and soybeans.
A gauge of prices for 18 commodities most tied to economic growth, including burlap and steel, reached the highest since September 2011 at the end of January as global manufacturing gained. In China, the world's top consumer of cotton, copper and pork, trade grew more than analysts forecast, the government said Feb. 8. Service industries in the U.S., the biggest user of crude oil and corn, expanded more than analysts predicted in January, a private survey showed Feb. 5.
"With China and the U.S. registering growth, the economically sensitive commodities will do well," said Michael Strauss, who helps oversee about $26 billion as chief investment strategist at Commonfund in Wilton, Connecticut. "The global environment is favorable for commodities."
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The Standard & Poor's GSCI gaugeof 24 raw materials traded within 0.1% of a four-month high on Feb. 8, before ending the week little changed. The commodity gauge is up 4.4% in 2013. The MSCI All-Country World Index of equities climbed 4.6%, while the dollar rose 0.6% against a basket of six trading partners. Treasuries fell 0.8%, a Bank of America Corp. index shows. The GSCI was little changed today.
Exports from China advanced 25% in January from a year earlier and imports rose 29%, according to government data. Passenger-vehicle sales surged 49% to a monthly record, a state-backed group said Feb. 7. The average automobile contains about 50 pounds of copper and 4 grams (0.13 troy ounce) of palladium, platinum or rhodium, according to the International Copper Study Group and Johnson Matthey Plc.
The U.S. non-manufacturing index for January was at 55.2, compared with analyst estimates for a reading of 55, the Institute for Supply Management said. Readings above 50 signal expansion. The group's employment gauge was the strongest in seven years.
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Goddammit. Football season hasn't even started yet, and the '72 Dolphins have already found a way to weasel their way into the news cycle. The NFL's most insufferable group of old dudes will be visiting the White House next Tuesday so that their undefeated season can be honored.


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Could This be a Panic/Anxiety Attack?
I`m not really sure if this is the proper site or not, but I`ll ask just in case. Last week from Thursday until Sunday, I guess I would have to compare it to the feeling you get when being suddenly very scared, and all the air being squeezed out of your chest. This bothered me all weekend and seemed to occur every few minutes. Since last weekend, the symptoms have never gone away, I would still get the feeling of all the oxygen being squeezed out of me, only I would experience this maybe 15-20 times a day with the exception of last night, it occured what seemed like every few minutes and my breathing became very fast. I don`t smoke, haven`t been injured, haven`t been stressed out or anything you would ask someone that might be having an anxiety attack. I`ve made an apointment to see my family physician next Wednesday. What do you think the problem is or could be? Thanks in advance.
It sounds as though you were experiencing a "good old fashioned" panic (or "anxiety") attack. Which is certainly a frightening, exhausting experience when it lasts for only a few moments, let alone several days. Panic attacks are fairly common--some studies suggest that as many as 40% of individuals will experience one in their lifetime. They are characterized by feeling short of breath, having sweaty palms, feeling dizzy, tightness in the throat or chest, feeling shaky, hot (or hot/cold flashes), some individuals experience weakness, and most feel that they are losing control, having a heart attack or going crazy. For some people the world can begin to seem unreal. These symptoms typically start off, then reach a peak, then subside. Often they can do this repeatedly (as in your case), though more typically they start off, reach a peak in approximately 10 minutes, and then go away slowly. Even though people who are having a panic attack often feel like they are dying, other people looking at them may have no idea how terrified the person feels. Unfortunately, panic attacks are not always brought on by stress. Although most people experience first episodes during times when they may have greater stress or more negative life events, these attacks can occur spontaneously, without any known trigger. Typically we focus on the way that we interpret these symptoms--how frightening they are to us--as cues to why these attacks are occurring. Interestingly, most often when people experience panic attacks, they believe they are having medical problems (heart attacks), and are told about panic only when extensive medical tests prove negative. We encourage you to keep your appointment with your doctor, particularly if you have any history of heart disease (in yourself or your family), to rule out this possibility. If this was, indeed, a panic attack, your doctor should be able to provide information about panic, or feel free to visit our website for more information and information about treatment options available to cope with these attacks.
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UPDATED: Former CMU guard Trey Zeigler charged with DUI, suspended by Pittsburgh
Former Central Michigan basketball guard Trey Zeigler has been charged with driving under the influence and suspended by Pittsburgh head coach Jamie Dixon, according to a report from the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.
Court records indicate Zeigler, 21, will be charged by Pittsburgh police with two misdemeanor counts of driving under the influence following an incident Sunday in which a cab driver found him passed out in his car at the intersection of Boulevard of the Allies and Craft Avenue in Pittsburgh. His blood-alcohol content level was measured at .129, more than the 0.08 legal limit.
Dixon said he has been "suspended until further notice."
"The incident involving Trey Zeigler is not only surprising but incredibly disappointing," Dixon said in a statement. "Trey has expressed his deep regret to me and understands and respects the importance of accountability for one's actions."
Zeigler, a standout player at Mount Pleasant High School and 2010 runner-up for Michigan's Mr. Basketball award, committed to play for his father, Ernie Zeigler, in the spring of 2009.
Zeigler finished runner-up in Mid-American Conference Freshman of the Year voting in the 2010-11 season, his first in a Chippewas uniform, averaging 16.3 points and 5.4 rebounds per game, despite the team's 10-21 overall record. He posted similar numbers in 2011-12, averaging 15.8 points and 6.7 rebounds per game, while CMU posted a bleak 11-21 record. Ernie Zeigler was fired following the season's end, and Trey Zeigler was one of several players to leave the program.
Recruited by several high-profile programs, Zeigler committed to Pittsburgh last spring. Dixon served as an assistant coach with Ernie Zeigler from 2001 to 2003 at Pittsburgh.
Trey Zeigler has averaged 6.2 points and 1.2 rebounds in six games off the bench for the Panthers.


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So those are my suggestions for encouraging less frequent nursing aka, starting the weaning process. Since you are still ok with nursing some of the time, there is no need to stand ALL day. You sit when you wish to nurse. I am suggesting this because not assuming the nursing position is a well known and effective weaning technique passed down for many generations- as are the other ideas above and in the articles and books suggested. These are just suggestions. They may not work in all situations or every time. There is no magic bullet. Encouraging weaning takes effort with some kids.
Is the frequency new, or has baby always nursed this often? Because you could also try to rule out factors such as teething, illness, or maybe some particular disruption, a new schedule, new living situation, anything new or different that my be causing some insecurity?
Is your child becoming for adventurous, learning new skills? Sometimes certain developmental changes lead to more nursing.


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LeBron James did not pick up his player option with the Cavaliers, setting up a summer sweepstakes for the unrestricted free agent.
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Riverside County animal control said in a statement Tuesday that Banjo, a 10-month-old poodle-terrier mix, is fine and up for adoption.
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Pina untied Banjo and detained the man, who said his family didn't want the dog and didn't know what to do.
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ROCHESTER - Firefighters handed over the case of a suspicious fire that caused the evacuation of the community center Monday to police, according to Fire Marshal Dominick Bellio.
"The fire was a set fire," Bellio said. He said someone set fire to a wall-mounted soap dispenser in a second-floor bathroom, causing alarms to sound around 11:30 a.m.
The former high school, located at 150 Wakefield St. on Route 125, houses the city's recreation department and economic development personnel as well as the school superintendent's office, a local food pantry, a driving school and other agencies.
Bellio said he's been unable to determine whether the soap was alcohol-based, which could contribute to the fire.
The wall was concrete block, and Bellio said the dispenser burned and melted on the floor.
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"The higher requirement for bank subsidiaries does have significance for the shareholders of their parent companies," said Frederick Cannon, director of research at Keefe, Bruyette & Woods Inc. The units would have to retain earnings at least temporarily to comply, which would prevent holding companies from distributing dividends as most profit comes from those units, he said.
Joint Proposal
Morgan Stanley and Bank of New York Mellon Corp. currently have the lowest ratio of equity to assets of the eight banks, according to estimates from analysts including Cannon and Autonomous Research LLP's Guy Moszkowski. It may take Morgan Stanley and BNY Mellon about three years through retained earnings to meet their $14 billion and $6 billion shortfalls respectively, Goldman Sachs Group Inc. estimated in a report.
September data from the largest banks show their holding companies fell short of the new leverage requirement by $63 billion, according to the joint proposal by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp., Federal Reserve and Office of the Comptroller of the Currency. Insured lending units would need $89 billion more capital. The firms can fill the gaps by retaining profits and without selling more stock, the regulators said.
The changes would affect U.S. companies with assets exceeding $700 billion or those with custody of more than $10 trillion of customer assets. Besides JPMorgan, Morgan Stanley and BNY Mellon, the affected lenders include Citigroup Inc., Wells Fargo & Co., Goldman Sachs, Bank of America Corp. and Boston-based State Street Corp.
BlackRock's Stake
BlackRock Inc. Chief Executive Officer Laurence D. Fink said the new leverage rules were needed to prevent banks from borrowing too much because the standard capital rules didn't restrict the amount of assets seen as free of risk.
"Basel capital rules did half of the protection that regulators and society were looking for," Fink told Erik Schatzker and Sara Eisen in an interview on Bloomberg Television. "If you really want to tackle too-big-to-fail, you really have to do it through leverage ratios."
BlackRock is the biggest shareholder in JPMorgan, Bank of America and Citigroup and among the top stakeholders in the other five institutions.
Forcing Divestments
"They have plenty of time to comply, and they have steady earnings they can hold onto," said Mayra Rodriguez Valladares, managing principal at New York-based MRV Associates, which trains bank examiners and finance executives. "They can also divest more from hedge funds, commodities and other prop-trading bets, which is what the regulators are hoping will happen."
Bank shares fell in New York trading today, with the 24- company KBW Bank Index dropping 1 percent, trailing the broader S&P 500 Index, which was little changed.
"All of these banks are easily going to get there by 2018, the question then is what will the market demand?" said Gerard Cassidy, an analyst at RBC Capital Markets. "That's going to be a determinant. My suspicion is that everyone will be over the 5 percent hurdle by the end of 2014."
Citigroup and Charlotte, North Carolina-based Bank of America both pay token quarterly dividends of 1 cent a share while Morgan Stanley's is 5 cents. Citigroup's payout was $5.40 a share before the crisis. The banks had to sell new shares to bolster capital at the height of the meltdown, while cutting dividends and buybacks.
Bankers Dissent
Bankers have resisted the stricter capital standards, saying that lending might be curtailed and that the remedies adopted after the financial crisis, such as the 2010 Dodd-Frank Act, should be given time to work.
"The Federal Reserve's stress tests clearly demonstrated that our nation's banks are strong enough to withstand even the most challenging economic circumstances," Frank Keating, chief executive officer of the American Bankers Association, said in a statement. "Doubling the capital requirements adds little protection, and may adversely affect the level and cost of credit that's so vital to continued economic expansion."
The new Basel leverage ratio expands what are counted as assets, intensifying the demand for capital. It includes more of thederivatives contracts that are kept off of banks' balance sheets under accounting rules and recognizes unused credit lines granted to companies and consumers.
The Independent Community Bankers of America, which represents smaller lenders, voiced support for that approach because it targets "risky financial instruments" hidden away.
'Common Sense'
"This will offer a clean, common-sense way to help offset the true level of risk that these megabanks pose to themselves, to consumers, and to our financial system and economy," the Washington-based trade group said in a statement.
The dual ratios in the U.S. plan may help more lenders comply. If both ratios were set at 6 percent, only Wells Fargo would meet that threshold. With the holding company requirement set at 5 percent, most of the biggest banks would come closer, according to KBW estimates. KBW didn't say how the firms would fare under a separate ratio for the banking units.
JPMorgan Chase NA, the insured depositary arm of New York- based JPMorgan, held $70 trillion of the lender's total $71 trillion notional value derivatives contracts at the end of March, according to OCC data. Citibank NA held all $58 trillion of Citigroup contracts. Bank of America's lending unit held $45 trillion of the firm's $61 trillion.
Morgan Stanley
Morgan Stanley Bank NA had just $3 trillion of the firm's $47 trillion total. Holding the bulk at the parent, with its lower capital requirement, might help New York-based Morgan Stanley as it has the lowest Basel leverage ratio among the largest U.S. banks, according to six analyst estimates compiled by Bloomberg. Those range from 3.6 percent to 4.6 percent.
"A cap on leverage is in my view a good thing in the banking industry," Royal Bank of Canada CEO Gordon Nixon, 56, said yesterday in a telephone interview. "It would have been far more effective in 2008 than higher capital levels."
Karen Shaw Petrou, managing partner of Washington-based Federal Financial Analytics, said the banks would struggle to raise the necessary capital simply by retaining earnings. Banks may have to discontinue some products, pushing "a lot of complex business into the shadows," she said, referring to less regulated institutions such as hedge funds.
The leverage ratio measures capital as a flat percentage of assets, eschewing formulas that let banks hold less capital for assets deemed less risky.
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May 1977 Box (Digital)
Digital Download
What's Inside:
• Five Complete Shows
• 5/11/77 St. Paul Civic Center Arena, St. Paul, MN
• 5/12/77 Auditorium Theatre, Chicago, IL
• 5/13/77 Auditorium Theatre, Chicago, IL
• 5/15/77 St. Louis Arena, St. Louis MO
• 5/17/77 University Of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL
•14 Discs, 111 tracks
•Mastered in HDCD by Jeffrey Norman, Plangent Processes playback system for maximum sonic accuracy
•Artwork by Grammy Award-winning graphic artist Masaki Koike
•Period Photos by James R Anderson
•Historical Essay by Steve Silberman
•Individual show liner notes
If you're a Dead Head, chances are you've spent many an hour expounding upon the distinction of May 8, 1977, Cornell University, Barton Hall. Well, at the risk of preaching to the choir, we'd like to reintroduce you to a series of shows that matches said greatness from that same gloriously fertile season. While Barton Hall is well known, the astounding tour that surrounded it has occasionally flown under the radar due to the uneven quality of tapes in circulation. May 1977 is set to change all of that with a boxed set that zeroes in on this high-water mark in the Grateful Dead's long strange trip.
For a band resurrecting itself after a 20-month hiatus, there was a great frenzy of expectancy that surrounded the Spring of 1977. We anticipate a grand reoccurrence of this fervor with the release of May 1977, a 14-disc boxed set featuring five complete shows from consecutive stops on that magical tour. Mastered in HDCD by Jeffrey Norman at Mockingbird Mastering, the "psychoacoustic phenomena" as Jerry once put it, of St. Paul Civic Center Arena, St. Paul, MN (5/11) Auditorium Theatre, Chicago, IL (5/12, 5/13), St. Louis Arena, St. Louis MO (5/15) and Coliseum at the University Of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL (5/17) can now finally be appreciated. Each of these shows finds the Dead delivering punchier, more focused sets, tightening up the framework; each night turning out first-ever renditions ("Passenger,""Iko Iko,""Jack-A-Roe"), unloading potent new pairings ("Scarlet Begonias">"Fire On The Mountain", "Estimated Prophet">"Eyes Of The World"), classic covers ("Dancing In The Street") and soon-to-be staples ("Estimated Prophet," "Samson and Delilah"), and ultimately rising up to paradise.
And now for the nitty-gritty...
Due June 11, May 1977 is limited to 15,000 individually numbered copies. Presented in a psychedelic box that boasts an intricate die-cut design created by Grammy®-winning graphic artist Masaki Koike, the set also includes a book filled with stories about each show, as well as an in-depth essay by Dead historian Steve Silberman, who delves deep into the history behind the tour and the band's return from its extended hiatus.
Once these 15,000 boxes are gone, May 1977 and its shows will never be available again on CD. However, the 111 tracks will be made available on release date as FLAC and Apple lossless full-set-only downloads for $99.98.
Like its predecessors Europe '72: The Complete Recordings and Spring 1990, we expect May 1977 to sell out. Your best bet is to pre-order it now, then sit back, relax, and enjoy all the exclusive content we'll be rolling out over the next few weeks right here and on Facebook.com/GratefulDead and Youtube.com/gratefuldead.
May 1977 Show By Show
Take a closer look inside of our numbered, limited-edition boxed set May 1977 with listening parties, videos, artwork and more from each featured show.
5/11/77 St. Paul Civic Center Arena, St. Paul, MN
5/12/77 Auditorium Theatre, Chicago, IL
5/13/77 Auditorium Theatre, Chicago, IL
5/15/77 St. Louis Arena, St. Louis MO
5/17/77 University Of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL
Listening Party
"Wharf Rat" 5/11/77
"Mississippi Half-Step" 5/12/77
"Jack-A-Roe" 5/13/77
"Dancing In The Street" 5/15/77
"Terrapin Station" 5/17/77
David Lemieux on What's Inside May 1977
Show #1
Show #4
Someone in the UK got theirs this morning by post without extra charges (reported on Eurotraders)
Thanks cosmicbadger... I will stop checking the DHL site now and sit back and wait for Royal Mail to leave a card to collect.
The last entry on the DHL Tracking record is the arrival of my package at the DHL Global Mail Facility in Des Plaines IL on 8 June. It arrived here in France yesterday by mail posted from Germany on 17 June.
The last entry on the DHL Tracking record is the arrival of my package at the DHL Global Mail Facility in Des Plaines IL on 8 June. It arrived here in France yesterday by mail posted from Germany on 17 June.
There is even a note on the packaging somewhere acknowledging the distortion on 5/12
I am not usually one to complain, BUT my discs came scratched out of the package and now 2 discs so far are defective. This seems to happen more when discs are packaged with rough paper sleeves or cardboard....luckily I trust dead.net to make this right. And the sound and performances on these discs are outta sight!
the vocals are muffled on one song, but the problem is quickly fixed. i don't think its a manufacturing issue. the sound guy probably just fell asleep on the job.
so well said; its almost as if you worked for the company.
Is it me or does the first set of 5/12/77 Chicago suffer from some serious tape saturation and resulting distortion? I find it particularly noticeable on the vocals and heard it with ear buds, over ear headphones and on my full system, which includes an HDCD cd player. Things get better by set 2, but the Bertha, TLEO, 1/2 Step and Dancing all seem to max out in places, and it gets a little painful to listen to. The rest of these shows sound great. Overall, this is one of the best box sets released to date.
Yes how I do enjoy this '77 Box.
I've listened to all the 5 show 2X each except 05-15, this one's got me.
It hasn't left my CD player. Oh yeah !
Anyone that doesn't own, Road Trips Vol. 1 No. 2 should head over to
And grab-it while there's stock in the store, this too is top notch 77 Dead !
- Two full CD's, lovingly compiled and painstakingly mastered (in HDCD) by Jeffrey Norman
- A 16-page booklet boasting scads of great photos and a very cool historical essay by erudite scribe Steve Silberman
1. Let It Grow (10:17)
2. Sugaree (17:41)
3. The Music Never Stopped (8:59)
4. Mississippi Half-Step Uptown Toodleoo (11:53)
5. El Paso (4:52)
6. Help On the Way (5:48)
7. Slipknot! (4:02)
8. Franklin's Tower (14:59)
1. Playing In the Band (17:12)
2. Drums (3:09)
3. The Other One (8:24)
4. Good Lovin' (5:53)
5. Terrapin Station (11;29)
6. Black Peter (13:17)
7. Around and Around (9:08)
8. Brokedown Palace (5:51)
9. Playing In the Band reprise (5:23)
Listened to the Alabama show today. Very impressed by the quality of the recording. I'm amazed how the material from 77 still sounds so fresh after playing that year to high heaven. I can't wait to get into the rest of the set. Please keep these box sets coming.
The packaging of the box is fantastic. It's beautiful and functional. Definitely your best, and it should be a model for subsequent issues. I may be in the minority here, but the large boxes (Spring 1990 and Europe 1972) while attractive, are not nearly as functional. And oh yeah -- the music is great too!!!!
Outpost - you can track the package here (http://webtrack.dhlglobalmail.com) using the shipping reference in your email. The first result will likely be another package that was delivered a few months back, but there will be a list on the page and your box set will be in that list.
I am not sure if it ever updates after it is set to leave the States though. I think it will depend on whether or not the packages are passed on the Royal Mail or delivered by DHL. I have been able to track items straight through to delivery in the past though.
Maybe someone else in Europe that had their package delivered might give it a shot and let us all know if the tracking says their box set was delivered.
Hi Rattydog .... how are you tracking your package ?
I've been unable to get info, and when I emailed Dead.net they said I was unable to track, so I'm jus t waiting until something turns up. It seems a shame they haven;t sussed out a way to send a package from the USA to the UK, without all the hassle we get.
3 shows in, and this is how i rank them:
best - chicago 5/13
2nd best - st. paul 5/11
3rd best - chicago 5/12
Lucky you. UK customs are now charging me even for single Dave's Picks, and UPS are then charging me for delivering them. Over £40 ($60) for a Dave's Picks, so I can't afford to buy these releases any more. Why the **** dead.net have to use UPS in the UK, they are renowned for ramping up charges whenever possible.
Lucky you. UK customs are now charging me even for single Dave's Picks, and UPS are then charging me for delivering them. Over £40 ($60) for a Dave's Picks, so I can't afford to buy these releases any more. Why the **** dead.net have to use UPS in the UK, they are renowned for ramping up charges whenever possible.
Opened mine on Father's Day and have been listening to about a show a day. Just now popped in Tuscaloosa to find that even "New Minglewood" can sound fresh and energized sometimes! I've been thrilled with this release, from the box and other art to the liner notes and the music itself. I have all of the May '77 releases and, while I've always found the tour consistently good,it has never grabbed me like late '69, fall '73, or even Spring '90. This box might just be changing that.
For those wishing for better archival Allman Bros, the 40th anniversary reissue of Brothers and Sisters releases next week with 2 and 4-CD deluxe versions. The 4-CD set includes the album, a disc of outtakes, and 2 discs worth of live material. Worth picking up, methinks.
If people are really so concerned about getting a low number and a good number, do what I do:
For the Europe Box, wait until dead.net posts, "Under 2,000 sets left!" Then wait until you think about 28 have been sold, and order. You will get set # 1972 if you do it right!
Similar strategy for this box. Wait, wait, wait, wait.....NOW!
I don't see how this could fail. You will not only get a lowish number, but more than likely you will end up with lucky "1977." ;-)
Stand by in Europe, they are here. No charges or taxes for me. Sent by post from Germany to where I imagine it was shipped in bulk from the States. It is a beautiful thing...now let's find out what it sounds like.
I was only able to get through 5/11 set 1 last night (family etc), and I do agree on the sound being out of this world good. I'm sure the Plangentification and Normanization help - they did a fantastic job. But there is also just something about these early to mid-May tapes - they sound like nothing else - not even tapes from late May. I have the 5/12 bonus disc, which I assume did not get Plangentified, and it too has that same lovely sound...
Anyway, only one set down and I can tell these releases truly are going to cause me to reevaluate this run of shows.
I was on the fence about this release for a few days, even had some premature "buyer's remorse" over the last few weeks as I contemplated the possibly redundancy of this in my collection. Well, it EXCEEDS my expectations. If you are reading this and still trying to decide, oh God DO IT. Just eat beans and rice for a few weeks or whatever...
Well, I knew the double post daemon would get me one of these days...
I agree that these are the best sounding of the May 1977 releases other than "To Terrapin" the Hartford show. Better sound than the DaP #1 and the DiP #29 in my opinion. Why? I don't know unless the Plangent process has something to do with it. Any one know why the big difference?
Still being patient hoping my arrival will be soon. It'll be here soon...
Hey deadmike, Tracking shows my package arrived at the DHL facility in the US on the 8th and that processing was complete on the 10th. There has been no update since then. Hoping it updates in the next couple of days to be through customs or out for delivery because my anticipation levels are going through the roof reading some of these reviews!!
Has not made its way to Wales as yet but I note that Spin CDs already have their copies.
I finally got to plug in 5/11/77 (St. Paul) tonight, and oh, my. It is wet and luscious. After only 2 songs, I declare it blows Dave's Vol. 1 out of the water. Why is that? Does Betty's reverb make that much of a difference? Maybe. She certainly dialed in the excitement knob in any case. Or maybe the performance is that much better. Discussion?
and waiting...and waiting. Sorry GD, but sending these via UPS, and requiring a signature, essentially rules out those of us who have jobs and don't have a spouse at home. It''s too bad but unless a USPS option becomes available I cannot get these. I am not a trust funder sitting at home all day.
Vguy72 I would say the best sleeve cover is St. Louis Arena, St. Louis MO (5/15/77). Awesome visuals in that cover and a nice band shot inside (Missing Keith unfortunately). A Phishhead might mistake Bobby as Trey on this cover. Wild. :) :) :)
Wow! The set arrived yesterday (finally! :) )--what a beautiful work of art--the box, the photos, the graphics, the liner articles, oh--and the music! Really a great treat. Thank you for a real good time!
Anyone in Europe got their set yet?
I always get a bit anxious when ordering more expensive sets. Luckily the 77 set isn't the one box set I'm most worried about now. I have purchased a box set of Fillmore West the complete recordings through eBay and paid 500 dollars for it. A lot of money even in Sweden ... ;-)
Well, so far nothing have ever been actually been lost along the way, not for good anyway. Hope it will be the same way with my '77 box set as well as the other more expensive one.
And no, I'm one of the unlucky "few" who never ordered the Fillmore West set in 2005. I had other bills to care about back then. This has haunted me since then. Hopefullythis or next week I will feel kind of more whole again. ;-)
/Micke Östlund,
Växjö, Sweden
I believe Simonrob might be right. I bought this the minute it went on sale and received a number in the 13 thousands. Although it only really matters in my ego, I would love it if I knew where I was in line more or less. Either way, I am 3 shows into the listening process, and my mind is blown. The boys are smokin......and Norman was perfect.
I believe Simonrob might be right. I bought this the minute it went on sale and received a number in the 13 thousands. Although it only really matters in my ego, I would love it if I new where I was in line more or less. Either way, I am 3 shows into the listening process, and my mind is blown. The boys are smokin......and Norman was perfect.
Good - but not a patch on April and May 1972. IMHO, natch...
Hi all----did anyone notice a few dropouts on 5/11/77 disc 1's Ramble On Rose? It lasted for approx 10 seconds. I am assuming it is anomaly on the master tape but was wondering if anyone else picked up on it......
following up on my last post, this packaging gets better and better. You can rotate several different displays through the die cut so it never gets old. Brilliant!!!
and this home will be filled with the stunning evocations from this wonderful release for the next couple of weeks, easy. The packaging is beautiful. No scratches, no un-glued corners. Pretty much perfect. Discs slide in and out flawlessly (are you hearing me Road Trips!). Only heard St. Paul so far, but that show alone is going to be repeated in my player before Chicago. I'm gonna savor these discs. Now, how about a vote for best disc sleeve cover? My vote is the second Chicago gig...anyone else?
Wow I love the art work and packaging. Already lost track of what end is up on slip case. Are you sure M.C.Escher did not have anything to do with it. Kudos, most beautiful boxset yet. What's up is down, what's down is up. "Upside out, Inside down..."
Wow, I love the art work and slip case. Already lost track of which way is up. What's up is down, what's down is up. "Upside out, inside down". Boyee don't stop now.
Can't wait to listen. The packaging is stunning! Just got it today.
Many Thanks, I love it.
I had this same issue that someone else posted with a case not being glued properly and a disc not being secure with the 5/13 Chicago show case. I sent an email to see if a replacement case was an option, but I haven't received a response back.
The box showed up at my door a couple of days later, and on my birthday to boot. The delivery guy managed to get through a very scary storm to drop this on my front porch. Thank you delivery guy! Thank you Grateful Dead!
When reading the theories regarding Box Set Numbers #1 -#15,000 I am reminded of the last scene in Raiders of the Lost Ark when a lone man pushes a crate through an incomprehensibly large warehouse filled with look alike crates.
Is that what the Good Ole' GD Vault looks like? Can anyone find the Radio City Hall and Warfield Anniversary shows in there and make box sets for us?
Did evil Nazi Bastards steal the Barton Hall 77 Show?
As the sets roll off the line, someone stacks them on a pallet. He begins with #1 which he places in the first layer (naturally), at the back left-hand side. Eventually #15000 arrives and he stacks that on the top layer, front, right-hand side. The pallet is then sent to the Dead's corporate world headquarters where someone unloads them and packs them up ready for despatch. He starts with the top layer at the front (high numbers) and works his way down. According to this theory, the last person to successfully order a set will be the lucky recipient of set #1 - or more likely set #2 as someone pinched set #1 to use in the picture at the top of this very page. So now you know!
I inquired about this, and to make a long story short, by the time the box sets have made their way through the various points on the distribution chain, the numbers are well and truly shuffled, multiple times.
My set just arrived (11267/15000) and I am loading it into iTunes. The sound is impeccable!
My question.......are the box numbers determined randomly or is there some rhyme or reason as to how the numbers are determined. The reason I ask is b/c I ordered on May 14th and there were well over 5000 left. Just curious why my box number doesn't reflect it. It's no big deal at all but I was just curious how the numbers are determined........thank you Dead.net and Rhino for an amazing release!
The set is excellent. Sound is superior. One small complaint. Why is the crowd noise so low? It almost sounds like they are playing in a studio. It's always nice to hear the reaction of the crowd after a song. Like I said, small complaint.
box received on fri and 5 shows filled the weekend perfectly, i think the sound is incredible, i too noticed a little surprising (for a soundboard) ambient hall reverb sound on the vox during some short passages including the first song from the st paul show but all instruments are extremely well balanced as expected from a BB
im not familiar with the extended dr beachwood comments that were apparently edited but i did miss some of the pre song noodling prior to both estimated and ship of fools that i am used to from the st louis show, im not complaing, 5/15/77 was a fairly early entry to my tape collection during a year i lived in st louis (83/84), its inclusion in the set was tipping point for this pre-hiatus fan to take this 77 plunge, and glad i did, even with the heavy repetition of a few tunes i found each show unique and fairly inspriational
while the physical product was designed with a few impracticalities built in (size, tracklists buried etc)... i have to say it is a beautiful work of art and i'll figure out where/how to keep it, because of the fact that its appearance can change depending on which shows are visible through the window it reminds me a bit of led zep III and in the through the out door packages
i was just surprised BJ's notes refered to bob's bertha china cat lick as somewhat subtle as if he wasn't sure everyone would agree it was there
finally... the newspaper clippings and reviews were priceless, a wide range of views of the GD's quality were presented, not just extreme love or hate but lukewarm acceptance of their music was also expressed seemingly disproving jerry's licorice comment, even the one that pretty much tore them a new one begrudgingly admitted that there were some worthwhile moments
I was away for a week and was very happy to find this package at home yesterday. I haven't had the chance to delve into the music yet, but I have to say the packaging is top-notch. I can't think of a more beautiful box set. There are no repro memorabilia items, thankfully. I love the book -- sublime cosmic context by Steve Silberman really makes it classy. Of course, Blair Jackson adds his fine dissection of each show, and points the way to some highlights. Is the packaging worth the extra 40 bucks compared to the download? Probably not. Still, it is awfully nice, even if it won't fit on my CD shelf.