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The father of an employee of Halliburton subsidiary KBR in Iraq is alleging that his son was gang-beaten by a group of fellow employees, known as the "Red Neck Mafia," at the Baghdad airport where he works as a security coordinator for KBR. We speak with Eli Chavez, the father of KBR employee Ronald Chavez. [includes rush transcript]
The father of an employee of Halliburton subsidiary Kellog, Brown and Root in Iraq is alleging that his son was gang-beaten by a group of fellow employees at the Baghdad airport where he works as a security coordinator for KBR. Yesterday, the father of Ron Chavez-who is from right here in Houston, Texas-sent a letter to the US Justice Department. It reads:
"My son Ronald Lee Chavez an employee of Halliburton in Iraq was severely beaten by peer Halliburton employees. These employees are known in Iraq as the Leesville, LA "Red Neck Mafia".
Ronald was med-evaced to Camp Anaconda where he is in a US Military Hospital and remains there. According to my daughter in law Patti, Ronald is to be transferred to a military hospital in Germany because of Atria Fibrillation to his heart due to the severe beating. What I understand, Halliburton has advised Patti, that Ronald needs a Passport to get medical treatment at a Military Hospital in Germany.
While Ronald was in Albuquerque on R & R, he advised me that his Boss did not like him because Ronald is Hispanic; and that the "Red Neck Mafia" ran the operation for Halliburton at Baghdad Airport. Ronald further advised me that he had reported by Memorandum to higher authority within the Halliburton Chain of Command the vulnerabilities at Baghdad Airport regarding to terrorist attacks. Ronald further stated that higher authority was upset at his recommendations.
According to Patti, Halliburton advised her that they had sent 3 of the "Redneck Mafia" members back to the USA; and that Halliburton was not going to file criminal charges against them. They further
It is unclear who gave the order to dispatch Ronald to the location and/or who called for medical assistance. According to Patti, Ronald is waiting for a military aircraft to transfer him to Germany for treatment. Ronald is presently in ICU in serious condition."
That is a letter written to the US Justice Department yesterday by Eli Chavez, the father of Ron Chavez. His father says he plans to file a criminal complaint against anyone involved in his son"s beating. Eli Chavez joins us here in our Texas studio.
- Eli Chavez, the father of Ron Chavez. He is also a decorated veteran of the Central Intelligence Agency for his work in Laos and the Philippines. He is also a former Drug Enforcement Agency Special Agent as well as a veteran of the 82nd Airborne Division. Last year, he ran for Congress in the state of New Mexico.
AMY GOODMAN: Eli Chavez joins us now here in our studio in Houston, Texas. We welcome you to Democracy Now!
ELI CHAVEZ: Thank you.
AMY GOODMAN: It's good to have you with us.
ELI CHAVEZ: Good to be here.
AMY GOODMAN: So give us the chronology of events.
ELI CHAVEZ: Well, I received a telephone call on the day after Easter, which would be Monday, I believe, and it was Patti on the line and she advised me that Ronnie had been beaten by fellow Americans, and I quickly disregarded the beating, but why from fellow Americans, and I became very angry at the time, and I decided that it's time to take the bull by the horn and be upfront with what is happening to my son. My son was beaten brutally, and it was unnecessary, by these thugs that beat him, and it's time for the United States government, and I have great faith in our judicial system, that it will do something about this. This has to be followed up by the Department of Justice, and I believe that they will do something about it. If not, we are in trouble in our country.
AMY GOODMAN: What is KBR saying to you right now?
ELI CHAVEZ: I haven't talked to KBR at all. It's all been through Patti. Patti had had communication with them at all times.
AMY GOODMAN: Well, we did call KBR and asked them for a response. We asked them to join us on the program. After all, we are here in Houston, Texas. They responded, and this is a letter from Jennifer Dillinger, and I have to say, although they made clear that we are talking to Kellogg, Brown and Root, the subsidiary of Halliburton, it was interesting that Jennifer Dillinger's email is from Jennifer Dillinger at Halliburton. But she responded, "As we previously stated, KBR is currently investigating the situation and cannot provide further details at this time."
ELI CHAVEZ: Well, apparently they are, because they did send three of those people back to the United States without any prosecution or any criminal complaints filed against them.
AMY GOODMAN: So explain who these people are. I mean, you've seen your son within the time he's been in Iraq, he's come back to…
ELI CHAVEZ: Yes, he is on R&R. And I'm from Albuquerque, not from Houston.
AMY GOODMAN: Right, but your son is here, living here. Can you talk about who this — what he calls the "Red Neck Mafia" — is?
ELI CHAVEZ: He explained to me at that time that his boss didn't seem to like Hispanics, or he did not like a memorandum that he had written about the vulnerabilities at the Iraqi Baghdad Airport, and all he wanted to do was protect Americans and protect the people there, and it seemed like it backfired on him, and he became isolated by — it was a political thing, what he described to me, that he became isolated by the other employees and his boss.
AMY GOODMAN: And this group of people that beat him, who are they?
ELI CHAVEZ: What I understand and what Patti advised me, that these people were from Leesville, Louisiana, and Halliburton recruits heavily in that area and these are the people that they employed and sent to Iraq.
AMY GOODMAN: And had he had dealings with them before?
ELI CHAVEZ: Not that I'm aware of, and I don't know if he had or not.
AMY GOODMAN: Was he afraid of them?
ELI CHAVEZ: Well, he didn't say anything about being afraid. Ronnie is, he's pretty much a person that's not afraid of anything.
AMY GOODMAN: I wanted to look at these two emails that your son Ron sent to you. The first, December 27, 2004, the second, January 11, 2005, just a few months ago. Actually, maybe you could read the email that Ron wrote to you in late December.
ELI CHAVEZ: "Waiting on a response from the company guy, it might take it to Basra, a lot better situation down there." He was trying to get transferred to southern Iraq, rather than being in Baghdad. "I have been working very hard to secure the airport, and it is a dangerous place. The company that runs the security is undermanned and when you have people in your perimeter, it's almost impossible to secure. Plus, all the attitudes and perceptions people seem to have, I feel it's not if a bomb will hit, but when. I am trying to persuade people, we need to move the operation to our own facility." And what he talked about then was he was making a recommendation to moving the Halliburton operation into the controlled area, controlled by the military. That would give them additional security. And they were meeting resistance at the time. "However, I am meeting political resistance. I just want to save lives (American lives)." And he put that in parenthesis. "Cost is a terrible weapon. I love you guys. Give everyone a kiss, Ronnie."
AMY GOODMAN: And that's the letter he wrote to you December 27, 2004. Just about two weeks later, January 11, he said, "I'm doing pretty good, I'm involved with this airport more than my job title would suggest. Yesterday, Globe Security threatened to walk off the job if they weren't paid by 3:00 p.m. They had not been paid in eight weeks. The army was not ready to take over their position, so they finally settled on a handshake deal. The Iraq government was taking the money from the U.S. and not giving it to Global. The money is probably in a Swiss account somewhere. These people are the most corrupt bunch I've ever seen. Everyone is on the take." This is your son Ron, writing to you January in 2005.
ELI CHAVEZ: That's correct.
AMY GOODMAN: Do you think these emails had anything to do with his getting beaten up later?
ELI CHAVEZ: I don't know any of the facts about whether he was beat up because of these emails, but I know that he was meeting a lot of resistance on the memorandum that he produced to Halliburton in regards to the security of the airport. He felt that the security of the airport was not secure. He felt that American lives were at stake and that he wanted to save those lives, and especially anybody that's in that airport, he wanted to make sure everything was fine.
AMY GOODMAN: I wanted to bring Pratap into this right now. Pratap Chatterjee, you've been to the airport. So you've got an area that is not secured by the military but where the workers, like Halliburton, like KBR workers work? Is this what Ron is referring to when he says that this area should also be — that he wanted to move the KBR operation to a military secured area?
PRATAP CHATTERJEE: Well, I'm not familiar with specifically where that particular group of people is. And you have to understand, there are anywhere between 24,000 and 40,000 employees of Halliburton in Iraq, and many of the locations are different. There is a company — another company that was employed and we talked about them actually about a month ago on Democracy Now! called Custer Battles that's been charged with security of the airport. And, you know, again, the moment you step outside that airport, that highway to Baghdad is extremely dangerous, so the situation differs based on specifically where you are and who you are. So, for example, we've gotten a lot of reports that some of the — especially, you know, the third country nationals, you know, people from India, the Philippines, et cetera, are placed right at the perimeter because their lives are more expendable, and so, you know, when mortars come in to camp and mortars do come in to both the airport as well as Camp Anaconda — incidentally, this is the same two locations that the truck drivers were driving from. They were driving from Camp Anaconda to the Baghdad International Airport, so there are certainly locations within each of these that are more vulnerable to attack, even if it's highly secured. I mean, where I stayed in Baghdad, we would see mortars land here 100 yards away. So unless they cover them with a glass dome, it's pretty much impossible — but what I would like to actually say is there's a pattern here of (a)Halliburton and other contractors not being in control of their employees. So who knows? Maybe the orders came on from above. I don't know that, but what we do know — and he has — Mr. Chavez has been beaten. I know of at least one Halliburton employee, one Custer Battles employee and one Dynecorp employee who had been threatened, that if they went to the press or blew the whistle, they would be beaten up or killed, and of course, they, in fact, three men have been killed after they've talked about — not working for Halliburton, working for a company called Ultra Service — have disappeared or been killed after they have tried to blow the whistle. So there's this climate of fear, and also the climate of managers doing whatever they want, and as I mentioned a little earlier in the show on this other story, we have managers sitting, Halliburton managers sitting in Kuwait taking million dollar bribes and, in fact, one was indicted in Georgia ten days ago for taking a million dollar bribe. This is a senior guy from Halliburton who was signing contracts for fuel supply to a base in Kuwait. And he's not the only one being investigated. There is — the senior managers on the take, at least some of them are. They're turning a blind eye to what's happening below. They have no control of either the fraud or the traps that are being lobbed at them probably from within, from other fellow Americans, as well as from the resistance in Iraq.
AMY GOODMAN: Pratap Chatterjee is joining us on the telephone from California. Eli Chavez is here with us. He lives in Albuquerque but has come to Houston where his son lives, though Ron Chavez was in Iraq until he was severely beaten on Easter. We're going to break and then come back to our discussion. What's happened with the men who were involved in the beating of Ron Chavez, and as we are broadcasting this, Ron's wife is awaiting a call from Ron Chavez. She is hoping that he is landing now in Germany. He was in intensive care in Iraq.
AMY GOODMAN: We are talking about a young man in Iraq working for Kellogg, Brown and Root, a subsidiary of Halliburton. On Easter Sunday, he was severely beaten by other Americans, people he called the "Red Neck Mafia," called to a site, not clear why, didn't go with anyone else, was severely beaten, was put in intensive care, and now we believe is being flown to Germany. We're talking with his father Eli Chavez, who has come here from Albuquerque to Houston to talk about his son's case. This is where Ron Chavez actually lives with his wife Patti. Patti is just outside our studio here waiting for a call from her husband Ron, hoping that he has landed in Germany. There are a number of questions about this case. Was the beating racially motivated? Did it have to do with a memo that he wrote to his higher-ups at Kellogg, Brown and Root/Halliburton, concerned about corruption, concerned about safety and security. Democracy Now! sent an email to Kellogg, Brown and Root/Halliburton, asking a series of questions. One, what is being done to the alleged perpetrators in the alleged beating of Mr. Chavez? Is a law enforcement agency involved? Is the U.S. military involved? Who is investigating this incident? Number two, have any of the alleged perpetrators left Iraq? If so, where did they go, why were they allowed to leave? Have any of them been disciplined in any way by the company? Is KBR or Halliburton aware of the existence of a "Red Neck Mafia" or a similar group at the Baghdad Airport or affiliated in any way with either company? The response, as we previously stated, KBR is currently investigating this situation and cannot provide further details at this time. Eli Chavez, you are Ron's father, deeply concerned about what is happening to him. You want him out of Iraq.
ELI CHAVEZ: I want him out of Iraq.
AMY GOODMAN: Why?
ELI CHAVEZ: I'm afraid that he'll end up either thrown out of the perimeter at the Baghdad Airport and the Iraqis capture him, or somebody might hurt him. As the gentleman on the phone said, there has been cases where people have been hurt afterwards, and I'm a former federal law enforcement officer. I was a D.E.A. special agent, and I resent any beating, and I'm — whatever it takes, I'm going to follow through with this.
AMY GOODMAN: You also worked for the C.I.A.?
ELI CHAVEZ: Yes, ma'am, I did.
AMY GOODMAN: When?
ELI CHAVEZ: Back during the Vietnam War. I had commanded guerrilla forces in Laos, a group of people, and I spent two years in combat there with them.
AMY GOODMAN: Were you afraid, Ron going to Iraq, starting to talk to you about the problems he saw there, that something could happen to him?
ELI CHAVEZ: Absolutely, I was. It seemed like it wasn't falling in place like a normal situation would in a combat area, and it seemed to me that he would be taking a lot of risks, but in war there's a lot of risks, and we have to acknowledge that. But we also have to acknowledge the fact that Americans have to support Americans there or else it's going to — there's going to be chaos. Well, I do not — I do not like what they did to my son, and I don't think anybody seeing what's going on in this camera right here today likes it either, and I call upon all Americans to get involved in this case and call your senators and tell them exactly what's going on, because it's time that we do something about what's going on, and I'm more concerned about my son, because my son was brutally beaten and by eight people, and there could have been more, and nobody broke it up. And that's what upsets me. I don't know who called for the medevac, and that was a very important thing, whoever did that saved my son's life. And I am happy about that.
AMY GOODMAN: Now, what has happened with some of these workers? They've been just sent away?
ELI CHAVEZ: What I understand, I haven't talked to anybody at Halliburton, and I understand that they sent three people away, but it seems to me like Halliburton should have been more responsible and filed a complaint, a criminal complaint against them, rather than just send them home. There's more to this than what I believe we all know here, and I think that the federal government should get involved so that does not happen again to another American or Iraqi or anybody. Beating is not right.
AMY GOODMAN: Who has jurisdiction?
ELI CHAVEZ: I believe the United States government has jurisdiction there, because Halliburton is under contract with the United States government, the Pentagon. And any time that you have a contract with the U.S. government, based on my experience, is that the U.S. government is responsible, and it goes all up to the top, and anybody — like in a vicarious liability case, everybody is named within responsibility, so somebody has to grab the bull by the horn, and it seems like — I hope they do soon.
AMY GOODMAN: Well, I want to thank you very much for joining us. We are certainly going to continue to cover this case. Again, we will let you know if by the end of this broadcast Ron does call his wife Patti who is right here outside of the range of the microphones, waiting for the call to let her know that he has arrived in Germany.
ELI CHAVEZ: Thank you, Amy.
AMY GOODMAN: Thank you very much, Eli Chavez, former federal employee, worked for the D.E.A., worked for the C.I.A., now his son having suffered this brutal beating in Iraq, an employee of K.B.R. beaten by he says other employees of K.B.R I want to also thank Pratap Chatterjee of Corpwatch.Org.


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One of the Mets' most interesting off-season decisions will be what to do with Pedro Feliciano. The departure of Hisanori Takahashi doesn't necessarily mean bringing back Feliciano is a formality.
Willie Randolph and Jerry Manuel wore down Feliciano, pushing the envelope with him against right-handed hitters over the past three years. Feliciano led the league in appearances for three straight seasons with 86, 88 and 92 in 2008, 2009 and last year, respectively.
"The Mets over used him because they didn't really have any other better options against right-handed hitters," one scout said. "There were signs he was wearing down. He'd be better off strictly against lefties."
He'll be 35 in 2011 and if he doesn't have more of a refined role, there are concerns he could wear down. In three more innings pitched last season than in 2009, Feliciano's ERA rose by a third of a run, and he gave up 15 more hits and 12 more walks.
Feliciano, as much as he wanted an expanded role, proved vulnerable against right-handed hitters with a .336 average against compared to .264 from the previous year.
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he expiration of nine davs god was pleased tn he.r and an swer mv prayer and sei my captive snol al lib erty and if | were now on board ihat fr^r.e i could point out the very plank on deck on which i knell down ; lor i shall r.tver forget i as tone as i i've startling facte repairing the nexi thing | did as rv on sirnioht lo the srog ob and said i slop my grog a long as i m aboard this ship v hat's ihat said ou st aies ; -., he oh man cr.z ? vve woold n have wondered al fan f wine a j,"e ".,.__. g'us bn.it n'i ibe like of bin tnst.p his zrog said o ihem shipmao s..t es.a aboard this ship loge.her long l see reatei won der than ibis ' well | wen un a d ai ihe . x p.raiu.n f nap year i was ma-ter i s,|i n h1,i n good sa-lors clothes a any nndv want and ia good biole and a hvmh bo.-k n.l i felt in mv heart ihat in trnih godliness uh cun.en.r_en i irrpat ga'n ch us ) the nex year i wis nude an officer in the slate service for drinkm cold m a er wi.hool arv rumor branny in ll ! cheers ) thai i flice in be sure was small as i don't donb s..me of mv shipmates hp.e know what '.* was to he rap lain of the forecastle in the brandswinefnoaie.f..r likely enough s>me ol lhe.n have been aito.rd a man of war bu i suppose il was ah..ut a fa voraftle an ■ffice as a sailor could e.peet lo bold on board a man of war and i lund that what ever liber.y i warned i could always have ; jr so i found there was great comfort aod happ ness in a eober life on board a ship cheers jvt.w i en old sometimes thai i am a urn coa i confees ihat in one sense i am a turn coa ; h.n in another sei.se i can prove ihat i am not in the first place i turned ffthe drunkard jacket and put on lhe temperance jirk-t and in the next place when i went on board i had neither coat nor jacket and could nt have sf.n a turn cat ii i had tried fat-era and laughter ) y.u will oh?»rve my cbris.ain inends thai when i staned on the siormv ocean i as bir a youth i wa the or-ly s..n of a widowed m..ih er — her only hope in her old age : but bef re | as 16 vear old i run away from my apjuen ijcesh.pand weni on board a man of njr and il ass a great number ol year before ever anv hi.dv laid eyes on me lhal ever knew a>.v h r»o ah"u anybody thai cared tor rr.c afore oav be ihere's some widowed mother here lo n._hi who h<s a nn on the ocean ; ard i ihnes one hough ia he hear above ano.her now t.'-i r:b u bim iha i awav let me say to such ihat her m.ns io.iv now il ihey will g l-:i boaid a temperance hip ind ri_r he pledge of total abstin«r>ce thi ihnagbl most be cheering lo such a mo her — bo in mv dav._ber i he_«n iu i-l h he reao as a common sailor no man was thought la e a sail»r till bo could _**•. drunk thi fi j hin_2 i bserver w s thai at ih>-old si!..rs u.,i ; trunk chewed lobar-co and v»ore con inaalli ; ind i houjh ih3t if i could m.a'l ihr i h-.ii'.l ie a sa.l'.r r.jh i-ff here oo*ee sh males w hat example is in s.icietv ; and i rej.iwe is one nl ihe managers it ibe sailors temp-ranee so i-iety ha to my know l».i_e ovei is.'wi eamer iow belong to that soniei and instead ot aine n lbe drunkard's s-r.o they ing the praises • g 1 in bis s.inr'ud.y tbia rejoices me — nd ( am lad o see lb seamen oming out and mi longer d;ic\:r in liqooi as the os drinks in | water but a m-.ch mine has ilrea«'y been rjccopiec i adriiii leli vou ail i woold i ke to si ***■me limes i am asked why wl:_t are sailora lo ri'e ? i'll led y..;i what they are lo you : they ■iring vm ibe products di everj coontrv the rich es oi every clime they brave r sea — they endure everv hardship f..r too and ihis ia sol i ; thev are the ones who defend vou nauon what would you do if it were noi for ihem tbey are the hoed oi tin ran h every pit of he world nor do thev atop here i he sad • . cirrie the gospel to every naiion un.'^i heaven pray h*n f->r the poor aiior i re ire iba i ee so many christian friends evuzant io rts coing the sailor rom he drnnkard*s ura**e an ihe drunkard's hell to u >• dronk ru is hor rid ; but to die a drunkard - l <-.. im.i be pres ence nf god and hear him v h ;■■*' v drnnkarda from me langcag woold f»il '■• e enhe he scene and 1 have yen tu fill up the ho rid pict ore for mvseif whatever t'me snd lalents i hare and whatever of life is vei lefl lo me shall be eheerfu'u devoted to ihe great and m^'hiy w.r for i know ih3i grea.er is he ih is f-ir us than all ihey th-*t are igoins u ; and wilh the rr marks i close load and repeated cheeis ) effect of per-everence : never despair the providence chronicle forniehes the following account of success from untiring | per-.ver-nce morality a-d iv nest labour | lo the fdli ofthe ye.t ls3t a young | m=tn j'isi oul of his time lnded at white ball n york lo seek employwcn aa » journeyman printer lis was cn.npirs lively poor and friendless and after three months spent seekme work was aboot read j i ." g,ye ep h hope of succe-s hut resolvii g ! mil to pcrseyere lie at length obtained eo • ! plovm^nt as a joorneyn.an at h_i « dollars j per week li the office ot th n * e an pe|.9i a we klf paper published nihatcin i he continued in thai ntueiion u the spoog of 1s32 when i procured a press and • j few iyoe on credit and opened a ver sou printing office to print cardi nd ccuurs ! he had no sooner * ommer.ced hosin^s in th.ssm-.il way for h.m-elf ihan tne ch-.le r thai awful scoor_e app-are.l m the cliv h'e was cotorewed with a heavy debt-lo f|i!se h,g office and go lo work as a )«« . nevma-i on the e*a..gek.t to procure mead for his little family after a few months | wl.en tbe rho.era had subsided nothing i dented bv so un prom tog a begwn.of ihw persevenog yo«n m*n reopened h.a ! little ffice aod ohuiued cc_68i jtmilj » job or two of work rf nnd reds of children and adults are ins year i ly wiih worms when some other cause has been i supposed io be the true one it is admitted by all doctors that scarce a man i woman or child exists t.ut what are sooner or later i.oubled wiih worms and in hundreds of i cases sad io reive a supposed levpr scarlatina ' eld or s"me other ailing carries off the flowers j nf be human family — while in troth ihey die of j worms and ihese could have been eradicated i in a day by he use of a bottle of kolmstock's vermifuge at the cost of a quarter ol a dollar ! j how sickening the hough that ihese things j should be — and who can ever forgive themselves or not trying ihis worm exterminator when j they know ihal even if ihe cis was out woitns j this remedy could not by any possibility do hurt — but always good as a purgative — let lhe di eage be hai ii may how imporianl then to use n and who will dare take ihe responsib li'y | in do without it let e»ery parent that is nut a bn.ir ask theinseiv s this ijiie_iiun io tru'.h and i.ber.ip mr j c r in gold had a child very sick for i r.rar two weeks and r.iiende'i by n physician ! w.i horn relief when k linstock vermifuge was given and next day more than forty worms weie parsed il.e child eeovtr-d rapidly a child of a widow woman living near tl.e l:»nha>tan water works had dwindled or a m r.ih ill near a skeleton wuh gieai dryness ol il.e rnouih . and itching of tbe nose a hu mane ladv who alled i*i provide for i he family sent immediately for kolmstock's vermifuge which brought way great qoantpies of worms for iwo or ibrep days and the child grew better ai once and regained us full strength io less ban a month several children in a highly respectable fam ily in broadway had worms to a irigh.ful extern an i wpre all cored rapidiy wiih this vermifuge in some of the best families in the neighbor hood of t john's ark it has been extensively used from the circumstance of having eradica ted a large quantity of worms afier all other remedies had failed which was very extensive ly known in ihat pari of thecjiy a family in new jersey saved several children hy he osp ol it one a gi.l of eight years ot age had beccme exceedingly emaciated before the vermifuge w as given the nexi day hrei large worms were dislodged and she leli off he v rrnifoge when she became again worse and had resort io h vermifuge m.ai fmallv rough a«ay an incredible quantity ot worms and th cure was complete and she gjined her heal i rapid \ physician ol standing had doctored a fa.r.i ly ol children some week w.ihoui being able it re».(,fe bu one on of he sever to health h had the liberality mi send tor koln.ei-ck's ve mifi.ge and cured he est with ii in les thai a j week niiireroiis cases of other complain were sop dosed i exist arid ihe persons ire3ied fo tever &<• , bnl finally a trial t ihis vermifuge di-cv ered ihe true eau«e of the sii-kmss bv nringii.-j away almo*i nn innomerabli quantity of worms large and small and the persons recovered will great despatch instances of this kind might he cited lo an immense exieoi bm n is u?el*-<s urn iriai or 25 cents will show anv oup wi h st n isboipni he cpriain effects of ihis verm i g caution — neve buy this artic c unless n hav dr kolmstoi-k's vermif ge handsomely en graved on tbe omside label and the lac sim.h o comsiock & co aaenls c b wheeler salishnry ; j & h l.iari gieeosbor ; d heatti hillsboro j p mahry lexing ; dr stub raleigh march 4 1sij iv32 extraordinary power of recognition in a tiger one ihy h week a si gut circ.imsr3iice nrcirred in vvrmiliwell r *• i m'li erie rnrrohnraiiv ol the r*-ieo«tv j 5 ernnry said to be pos-esse-l hy thi mosl j vicious nf ih fere st tribe the tigr-r a sal j i.ir who l-arl hpf n slro i g around lhe exi i h.'-.ii - , i una here t-nd there to admire rxi idenufv some of the nn'm-*is vtilh ihose : heha«*seenm lar di-tnnt cli*|.e was al fhcted iy the siring n«>ne made hy a tiger w seemed irritated beyond endoonce j k si-new hiii alarmed s'-ogbi the keeper j io i q ire the c-.usp oi s siiitt>lar a display | of fciling whirl he remarked became more in isl-roo ifie ne:.r r he app*o»rhed the anim-'l : h k art rej die that ifc lie v k f ih in r i'.-i-c i**d eithpi that h w3s v--tif i j -« •' • r "' y '* ' p '' '* the sailor r.g-m appro rh d lhe en and after o zing i ht hgei ut a u w • inuies during win the a.-im rl became l.inll , with seeming r*g l^nng his ta.i sgai.st j 1,i,s hi kiving olteraoci i he oin**l | fr,gh.f..l heih.w_«if d,*.*-o»*rioa h l ; ,,, e j.e s-il smiim-'l ; ' '• l ;: l»n nor'.erth eperij rat ••< ih »"•«' • beaten lar i ..< w bee«*_)e i s low *•■be delighted as it '■',<>-'• •>-' !"( i el i"'r ii recognizing his old friend feud m - km rer-raied applications lo be permit d to ellter the den for lb purpose as t-e said of shaking a h^1 «''•' the heaomfnl ani mal be was *• ff-reri solo do lhe r.-n door was op«*n*-a and in y m d j •■k io t.ie delight of himself and s-r.ped ir.end and to lhe siotiisho.ent f the hokers-on i he aff-rtion of the animal was now shown r rare*_ing and lirku g l»e pleased aatlor whom hes.em.d to welcome with tbe bear l.est satisfartion ; and when th nones lar left if ck-n lbe aogtiiah ol tbe animal ap peared almost n-o».pori«h!e dtvenport independent the albnny advertiser says a poor fel low raving on the subject of vullerism was i about ihe sueeis yesierdav ami has been placed in jail for saletv he is a stranger rom tenn s ivania t»o steamers recently arrived at s louis i one from cincinnati and the o'b«[rwd vius j hur having on board more than 800 passengers i an ih^ir was to iowa ff sailor speerh al the anniversary of lhe new york sen ' men's friend suciely a sailor named welsh ' made the following sppech says the new fork ' tribone with great fluency and strong irish brogue : ( " ladies and genilemen said he beho'd and ' look with wonder upon what you have before you ' — a ailor about io address yoo on the present occasion 1 am very happy to talk to so manv ' of my brother seamen here this evening ; and i [' say to all within the sound of my v dee that that saviour who onre walked upon the water ! ! and said to his fearful disciples ' it is i be not j , afraid ' loved ihe sailors and houghl ihem wor | i ll.r to preach his guipel ano if thai saviour does noi assist me in the few remarks 1 am a j ! boo i to make they will prove to yonr ear hut i i as sounding brass and tinkling cymbal yoo will readily perceive my christian friends thai : . ihe ohjeel of the few remarks i am aboot to make j ! cannot be to gain public honor nor he applause '< '. of man : but i trust io glorify my father who is in heaven it is fallen to mv lot to toil upon ; > the bosom of the treacherous ocean for iweniy seven vears of my life a few years ago i land ! ed open your shores here a poor drunken sailor ' wi.hou even a jacket the ship hich brought tne to y.nir couniry gave me eighteen dollars a rannih snd when i landed at salem in massa chusetts i had not enough left to pay the turn pike toll or buy a walking cane me and an other poor drunken sailor like myself traveled from salem i boston and went straight lo a rum shop boarding house in broad street , and there we staid eleven days and at ihe end of that lime 1 had 122 gla sea of grog chalked down to roe this brought me lo look about for a ship i ' cnu'd have got a place on anv ship thai i want ed but 1 found ihey would onlv give me one mutch's wages in advance and that was gl2 which would'ni pay my score of grog : eo i torn - ed about and shipped in the state s rvir-e with captain perry of the brooklyn navy yard — there were 78 sailors a brooklyn o fi out the 8 io and the'e^on board nl a untied states fri ga«e wi.h these wicked sailnrs i set out l**seek be kingdom nl h-aven i ne**r shall forg t tha ume a man uf god came aboard arid he firs ihing be saw me si ting upon ihe hreech of a ijnn making a stra>v hat on snniiay says i e lo me '* my go<>d fello1 can't o-j find r.o other time to work but on the abbv*h ?' * i's o me of vou business said i * we are g..n _ io have preaching said he ' well go am i preach iir all o me said i \ tve heen in church ci.je to day and that's enough for an sailor he ihen went and talked with the rest of the ailors and some cursed end s-.*.-re and ome auglied and s me went to the berth deck in hear the preacher the ih"u_hi struck me that i'd o i down and persecute the men on what ihey were saving so i went diwn ; and a man a i lout my sz look ur a h'rtle and selected a text and when h preached h's sermon if anv b.-..!v bad oeen in lhat h<.use who bid known rue from j a b.y and every ihu-g i had done and had come . up ur de.-k on purpose in tell ii he cooh'ni have ; • ne it mure completely iban he preacher did ! j i heering welt after ihe sermon was over ij | p to ihe man and savs i h»w conr.e y u to | ! prenrh that sem on ahrmi m ? y u don'i l;no i nuihing ahoui me no my man said he ' ' never krew any thing ah..ul vou — nor has anv ! body lold me any thing ' well ihen said i ! how come you t come op here and preach and tell my shipmates here who know nuthmg '■against me all abou me and » hai 1 hace dune i upon thai i looked up in his coui.lenance and 1 j saw a big tear roll down his cheek ; and ihathrg i teai broke ihe poor sailor's heart to pieces wh;it { shot and shells could no do fur years in waging i onlile a_air:sta!l na'icn cheers and applause 1 hat lea aused the poor sailor to surrender ! — nd why ? i asked myself can it be pos-ohle that ihis man comes on hoard the ship and sheds . le rs over a p»>r onworthy drunk n sailor he ke o'lr.e this was what oroke mt heart in pieces and savs he du ynu feci tiled oi liv ing in **'" a,d rebellion ?' i think 1 do sir j j sa:>j i ; and 1 told hno i had lived on the bosom of ihe sea or tweniy-five years ar.d shipped j mo he slate service for ihree years m.>re ; and j j h-.v i ha lived a'l ln mu ; and bow j:u!.k 1 en and unhappy i had deen : lor c ! 1 lell yoo s sh.pmat-s said he lurning to the ompany oi ; j sailors in the gallery of the sailors home j 1 there's no harvest in serving the devil and i ! he told me i must pr.j said i ' 1 never pray j j ed in my life unless it be ibe sailor's wick-d j j praye.s and ihem i can pray fast eri.t)gl said he v>u can prav the p.ayer of the pcblican said i and bat is l.at * g d have mercy on me a poor wicked sinner he gai ; *• and if vou pray wuh all your heart god ■will hear aod answer yoor prajer aod leach you how to pray i believed that in my beari ; and that ver . ,.,,...,. when 1 wa up in the cold chains wilh no j body to see me bul the stars and the moon and j j no noise around but ihe washing ol the a'er j i and the sound ef the wind in the n_g g f ihe \ wnen all bands were asleep below-then i shipmates aid he addressing the sailor i j | prved to god in the chains ihat he would have j mercy--ap<>o sailor and i .« now and j ' ihen inteirupied by ihe marine seotrj a be | ea"0wayashe9ungoui all's well when he i sttoek the bell but all was not weil with th r 8-1 he iibscriber rfspecilutly inform his old ; m friends and lhe public gent-rall , that he has jpened a shop in alisbnr in thn ahove bnsi ! ne.s.in a room directly opposite west's brick i biiildirta in the house of dr hums formerly owned by jno i shaver and just below j.&.vv murphy in addition lo the ahove iiip subscriber will | carry on ihe silver smith business in all the j varieties r-ornrnon in counlrv towns sn.-h a j m-iking spoons c and repairing silve , ware ! he r»pgs to assure ihe public thai il pnncloal j atlention lo business and skilllu work will en liile him to patronage and support be willroer it il aapton vvoolworth nov 13 — iflh j sir sherman's jketticfttett 2la?c^(_^s are the hest medicines in the world being the cheapest and most pleasani i'h mt-.licdl facolty warmly approve hem dr sherman is a skilful and experienced phy sician nnd a member of iho medical society o new voik sherman's cough l.osenges are the safest surest and most effectual remedy fur coughs colds consumption whooping cough asthma ti»tiiiiess ul ihe lungs or chest fyo shermans worm lczekges are lhe unlv infallible worm desirovin medi cine ever discovered they have been used in over i 400,000 cases and icver kr.o-n lo fail sherman's camphor lozenges jive immediate relief in nervous or sick head ache palpitation of ihe il^a.t lowness of spir its despondency fainting 0;n>ression or a sense of sinking o ihe chest diarrl.mi las situde or a sense oi fatigne sherman's fever caul ague lozenges are iht oosi eertaiu renji-.-iy'lor ihis disiressiog complaint everoff-r*d lo ihf rriencan public — in the immense number oi cases in whicji ihey have been used they have u.-vi r been known to fail sherman's restorative lozenges diarrhoea or looseness i he bf»w*-ls,s oni m..n and rounlesum durin ih«»siimmer months may now he entirely prevented bv a proper nse of ihe«e l-zenges thev are prepared express ly for thai purpose and can be reiied on wit perfect confidence persons subject to a deran ment of the bowels should npver be without ihem thev afford immediate relief from all the attend ani rip!n<js faintness depression sfc sherman's cathartic lozenges are as pleasant and easily taken as the common peppermints and are an active and effir-iem medicine thev cleanse ihe stomach and b"«els and are lhe best cathartic ever o-ed for b-lion persons where an live medicine is req.rred j thev are not only the best bul tin safest that can be administered sherman's strengthening plaster the best of all plaster lor rheumatism lum bago pain or weakness in the hack loins j s de or breasi the above medicine i for sale wholesale or retail ai the salisbury medical drug store by c b wheeler a_pm j salisbury n c j sepi 3 1342 lv6 8»r jtloitavs vegetable lift j * medicines pos^e^s q..aliii*s ol ihe mosl mild ar.d be j neficia nature they bieeomposed t ar j licleslhe mosl anii-puirescent ci*a.*bi*ied **.*'- i , ingredients known as lhe only rlain aritidots j fur fevers of every description when ihe«:!s , ease is produced either from cold obstruciion bad air swampy and damp situations or pot rut ! niasini whether malignant or epidemif or by oihe causes ihese medicines are ceriaii in ibm j operations or effects thev are posst-*-seri i pe j culiar qualities which not only expel all di*ea--e i h-it at ihe same lime restore and invigorate lhe system when first taken iou ihe stomach : ii ev trnmediatelv diffuse ihemselves like vapo ! ihroiioh every pore pn.-dacing effects a i ot-ri ! delightful saiuiary and permanent vn hen th j st.ri ,,| life h.gins it grow dim ti.r circulaiioi languid and the facoliies paralized these m*-di 1 cine are found in give a turn lo th nerv s . x ; h.leraie the animal spi'i's invigorate the body ; and re animate the whole man tbe life medicines have also been used wiih j the most happy success in cverv.us an d.s | pepiic diseases consnmpiion asthma live complaint rheumaiiam cluooii ami inflama . toryl d rcpsies stc grij^call ai cress & bog kit's agents salisbury oct _.. 1842 iyi3 zct a supply of the above invaluable vf djfcinesare o sale at james1 cto«s roads iredell county by a c mcintosh tgent david i pooi/j r brakes this me'bodol g_t-ilc _ * inlorroing his friends j^^a^&f ami he public that he is pf still carrying oo lbe watch v«a 3 i5z and clork in kin and ke ,: $§&*§& j*-.__?gi!3 pair business ai his old • c-__3i'-^g stand near the courthouse ! all work done y him will be warranted lor i twelve monihs h still keeps on hand - smal ! assorfm«*ni ol jewellery old cold and silver tako-i in exchange for i jeweller or wo k done salisbury march 12 18-12 — tf33 j s johnston attop.nky and cocn5-ki-lor at law salisbury n c salisbury jut 7 184b-u24 vv y tbrms , ii-^iuiits '■tn i v liereafier he had j : •■'' . * . ' ,.. ; ivance and two dollars and j 1 , pn(j nl the year ... received for a lesstime j n u lor in advance ; i bm al he option o j v . arrearages arc paid if lar.ktislng . for the first insertion and j . rl t-oi.tiniia.ice '- hiir.t-d 5 per ct hi_h les j p-r en will be made to -• - h v''ar • ■-' r_i<;pint-r.ts will be font.riued until ■r accordingly unless order i pher of iiroe jre-sed n.ilie editor must sure at ice i inn i " j hi sub sulf i ber u , chased thai well known and ', . ubhshed public house known '' r slaughter's tavern ) in the - .,,.- n c informs his friends j co-enerally that ihe same is now in of travellers & boarders abi_e nd bar will be supplied with . . i,,.-i and surroanding country af ; p-eioos and bountifully sup mi provender ol all kinds at fa ihful and aiteniive osilers odprsi-ned pledges himself that no ex irt shall be wauling to givegen . iclioa toall who niay favor him wiib james l cowan s hsbury sept • i 1840 if7 y\f will go btl.d i balm of columbia fo the hair i l\l to ms.-.'-k & co — its positive quali ' . .,," i t dlows : — 1st f'ur infants keep vi f'pe from scurf and causing a lux . nb of tr.ir — 2d for ladies after child coring ihe skin to its natural strength ps and prnventing the falling out of i for uny pprs.m recovering from lily ihe same effhcl is produced 4th i m infancy till a good growth is started preserved by attention to the latest pe ,.— il it frees the head from dand . * , i r iti lien the roots imparls health and rlotf to the circulation and prevents the hair jn changing color or getting gray — gi h it . hair io curl beautifully when dune up , ter r n \ lidiest.iilel should ever be made without it • - children who have bv any means con wi t.fiiini ii he head are immediately and . v coted of iliru ny iis use li 4s iotalli | had been hald abnnl five vears no more hair ip ol my hem han on the back uf nn j nv head cowered wiih a thick scurf his situation aboul the 10lh of august last i.q using the balm t colombia from com y t ii since which i have used two and e of he balm hich has full v re . red rav hair and freed mv head entirely from mv head is nuw covered with fine fl-w , i if hich * n v one may see by calling ti stamford connecticut 12 840 d sscofield i is are abroad look always for the i - • comsiih k & co por sale at lhe watchman offi e and by c a beler salisbury dr stith raleigh d ll.r-b-iro ; j ik r sloan greensboro ; j p tlaory le_*ngloo i i84s l-o ur jbrand*>th?s ifecetable universal tills t or sale al ihis office salisbury n.c oct 1842 tfl 4 look iit dr sherman's ad • in in ami if you wish rebel tor your ma rnuladies call and obtain a remtdy ut c.b wheki.er agent ry.dee 10 l{c*-0 to the afflicted tllc - has jusl received a large and fresh . il 1 moffiti's life medicine call i-c relief c b w heeler agent silisburv dec 10 h20 p&ises current at s sb01yj j utlc 3 cents t cents i i .'• i ,") ' i cotton y;irn 75 , ap 30 t do molasses j35 a 40 pi acli io i 55 ! nails g btiu.-r 10 -. i j i oats 15 a 20 bi sv x 20 v i 3 cotton clean ."*•'. g j u . ir br 0 a 10 coffee 8 * 111 in if 15a is corn 35 10 s ilt sack 2 75 3 i rs -:*•. 0 ; tallow 61 - - ' 5 ' tohacco 8 a ii il 50 ■■55 j tow-linen z a lt 3.4 wheat bush 75 lli "*'• oil pr i vvhiskey ■."" a 30 gal 90 1 wool clean 25 ■- i • -'• ■i i r ■; .-. 2s ! : i • : ' lasses 2 a 5 * a 40 ails . ui 55 a ii suoarhrown i.l a !<"' a il mp ' 14 10 ■if 15 a is li a 6 ' bull 50 a 60 | ion vara 14 a is sack 2 wn 45 . 50 j tohaci-oleal 2 3 24 candle k \? l.s i 1 t cotton bag _.» 80 i p0 bile rope sa 10 i ' 41 . vv wheat new 75 a 80 praihers 20 a 2j vvhiskey 20 1 '. *•*->! 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NEW YORK – April 9, 2013 – Based on the success of the limited series, Bravo Media rolls out a full season of "Fashion Queens" premiering Sunday, April 14 at 11:30pm ET/PT. Immediately following "Watch What Happens Live," this topical, fashion-based talk show will run for eight consecutive Sundays and features two of Atlanta's style elite, celebrity hairstylists Derek J and Miss Lawrence, and New York's fashion maven and media socialite Bevy Smith. The trendy opinionated trio will cover anything and everything related to the world of fashion, from haute couture to celebrity style to unusual outfits from around the globe, giving their unique perspective on the trends, hits and misses. For a sneak peek, go to http://www.bravotv.com/videos/the-gag-awards
While hilarious fashionanigans are sure to ensue during each thirty-minute episode, viewers can count on seeing the following segments:
The Week in Fashion: Major headlines from the week in fashion.
Reading Room: "Reading" someone means telling them like it is, or telling them off. Miss Lawrence, Derek J and Bevy go back and forth calling out celebrities' fashion missteps.
Giving Me Wife: When something looks fabulous, the hosts say it "gives us life." It is only fitting that when a Housewife looks fabulous, they point it out in a segment called "giving me wife."
Style GPS: The hosts look at some of the craziest fashion news from around the globe.
Ask a Queen: Fans submit their style questions via Twitter and Instagram, and who better to answer than our three queens?
Gag Award: The highest fashion recognition on the show, this award is given when something is so amazing it makes the hosts gag. Winners have included Nicki Minaj for her make-under and Nene for most improved Housewife style.
"Fashion Queens" is produced by Embassy Row with Michael Davies as Executive Producer and True Entertainment with Steven Weinstock, Glenda Hersh and Lauren Eskelin as Executive Producers.
Bravo is a program service of NBCUniversal Cable Entertainment, a division of NBCUniversal, one of the world's leading media and entertainment companies in the development, production, and marketing of entertainment, news, and information to a global audience. Bravo has been an NBCUniversal cable network since December 2002 and was the first television service dedicated to film and the performing arts when it launched in December 1980. For more information, visit www.BravoTV.com. Follow us on Twitter at https://twitter.com/BravoPR.


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Am I back? Not sure. I've been meaning to hop on here forever, but don't I always? Maybe I can work myself back up to semi-regular posting, little by little. Although I'm in the throes of tax season at work, and at home, kept so completely busy by an almost 8-month-old, which doesn't even make sense to me. Wasn't I just pregnant? How is she this old?
Anyway, everything seems to be a blur. Amazing, but a blur none the less. I'm trying to take as many pictures and videos as I can, because she's probably going to be in college before I realize it.
My first Clarion short story to be published (not the one I expected, either) appears in Innsmouth Free Press Issue 12! The issue can be purchased here, and will be out on the website in a few days. This story is, well, let's call it strongly PG-13 rated, so not one I'm likely to be talking about much on Facebook. I'm very glad it found a home, and a good one.
What else? It's sunny outside, this Valentine's Day, and I'd love more than anything to go for a run. Instead, I'll bill some tax returns! Whoo!


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During her first earnings call as CEO of Yahoo on Monday, Marissa Mayer said that she wants the company to focus on products that users will make a part of their daily habits.
Multiple sources tell us one of her biggest efforts toward this goal is something code-named "Project Homerun" - a redesigned Yahoo homepage.
This makes sense.
Other than the Facebook News Feed and the Google.com homepage, there is no more visited site on the entire Internet than the Yahoo.com homepage.
ComScore says 170 million people visit Yahoo sites every day, and a huge percentage of them are funneled to this page.
With Webmail, and therefore Yahoo Mail, on the decline thanks to smartphones and teens who prefer texting to email, the Yahoo homepage has become the company's most important product. Attracting people to it will also be a crucial step in Mayer's plans to restore Yahoo's search market share.
(We've already seen early versions of what this new home page will look like. Scroll down for a screen grab and a comparison with the current Yahoo homepage.)
Sources tell us that Yahoo will begin rolling out a version of the redesign to between one and two percent of its U.S. users starting November first.
Then it will go through at least another four weeks of testing and analysis. Finally, Yahoo plans to roll out the new home page to everyone in the U.S. "no sooner" than on December first, ramping availability from two percent to 100 percent in 10 days.
The mission of the redesign, according to leaked product launch plans is to "Create a habitual, personally relevant experience that puts our hundreds of millions of users in the driver's seat, all day, every day."
Yahoo's key metric for measuring the success or failure of Project Homerun will be "Homepage Sessions Per User Per Day" - which are sessions on Yahoo originating on the home page itself.
In October, a source sent us a screenshot of one version of the new home page.
Judging by the screenshot, the big changes to the page are:
- The search bar is now centered, and is part of a darker toolbar that is fixed to the top of the page as the user scrolls down.
- The Yahoo! logo is smaller, and no longer purple.
- The word "search" has been replaced with a magnifying glass icon.
- There are far fewer links to Yahoo Sites on the left side. Losers are: Dating, Flickr, Games, Jobs, Messenger, Music, My Yahoo!, and TV.
- Local weather has its own module.
- What's trending has been de-emphasized and moved to the left column.
- This is a now the second largest story tout below the top stories.
- Instead of just headlines, the news river has story summaries.
- Astrology has its own module.
Here is what Yahoo's home page looks like now. Below, what it will start to look like soon.
And here is what it looks like if you scroll down. Note the search bar comes with you…
Get the latest Yahoo stock price here.


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... began, like quite a few Saturdays lately, with my escorting Sarah Daisy, violin perilously perched at the back of her bike, northwards through suburban back streets to Miss Chandler's expansive residence in Belbroughton Road, arriving around 1040 for a 1030 lesson, as usual. Then I bicycled furiously up Banbury Road to do some frugal Saturday morning shopping: muesli, brown rice, brown bread, brown beans, caffeine-free tea, fresh fruit and a Sunday indulgence, fillet of lamb, extracted from the bone before me by a prodigiously fat butcher with a suspicious expression, as if he could smell a closet vegetarian polluting his premises.
... continued, with my re-escorting Sarah homewards (and the shopping too) by 1120. And then grabbing my gown, for the second time this year and my script, and heading off frantically for the Computing Service. And then bicycling furiously back again having forgotten my bike lock (a heavy duty number weighing rather more than the bike itself). And so to the Lecture Room, where assorted luminaries of the Computing Service, Libraries Board and the Bodleian itself are already fretting about where to put the wineglasses, turning on the equipment, testing the view from the back etc.
For today is the Day of the Visitation, when the Curators of Bodley's library exercise their annual right of inspection, ostensibly to count the books, in practise to listen to a Latin Oration and then Lunch well. Except that this year, as a consequence of, and in spite of, and leaving to one side, all manner of complicated university politics and campaigns and proposals and working parties and parties prises, they are also going to Visit us, in order to see my natty program search the pre-1920 catalogue (S to SHERIDAN) at one million characters a second.
At noon, the few real users of the computer still around are all told to leave, and the machine turned over to us. By now, we have been waiting for Them to arrive for so long, that we've relaxed to the point of seeing whether or not the wine really is cold enough. Consequently it is not until the first begowned dignatory enters that we think of checking that what was working perfectly well at 1145 is still working at 1215. Needless to say, it isn't. Ten minutes of undiluted hell then ensue, during which (a) approximately thirty elderly academics rubber neck their way into the room (b) the monitor on which I am to do the demonstration continues to say COMMENT- A SHORT DELAY WILL OCCUR (c) my Director makes desperate jokes about ICL scoring own goals (d) me and the solitary operator on duty, who's getting paid overtime for the privilege, try to decide what's needed to get the brute moving again. Eight minutes into this, with the notional egg starting to congeal on my face, and even as Bodley's Acting Librarian starts to make his Introductory Remarks, I notice the unnatural quiet in the machine room, and suggest that there really ought to be a printer going, and how about an output scheduler as well? Operator grunts, types some special operators gobbledegook, terminals spring to life, I sprint back to lecture room, elbow my way through assembled subfusc, phew, not a nanosecond too soon, we are go for demo.
As planned, I demonstrate that there are 4 titles in S-SHERIDAN which contain the word "Abysinnia", 5 containing words starting with "Abysinn..", 6 containing words starting "Abxsynn" (where x is a y or an i or even a q), and ever so many more when you search for variations such as Ethiopia, Aethiopica etc. all of which the wonderful CAFS machine duly does. This works a treat. The next one I get wrong, [q3 and q2 or q1 not being at all the same as q3 and (q2 or q1) which is what it says in the script]; fortunately, of the curators present, those who understand this error outnumber those who don't, so that the former derive great pleasure from explaining it to the latter, and a general feeling of bonhomie (spurred on by white wine) takes over from technophobia. The master of Balliol, a force to be reckoned with in this context as in many others, desires hands on access to the system, and starts hunting for entries about John Wycliffe (one was duly found, fortunately). I find the one entry in the catalogue for a book printed in the 17th, 18th, 19th and 20th centuries, as well as a breakdown by century. The Curators, not a body of men to stand and gawp, are by now in a highly satisfactory state of hubbub. The charabanc arrives to waft them away to Lunch at Wolfson, to which, somewhat to our surprise, both myself and my Bodleian conspirators are invited.
The world looks better through the inverted end of a sherry glass with the knowledge that there's a lot more of that sort of stuff to come, even better when you haven't got to do more than sound like a human being (as opposed to one of those computer people) while you get through said stuff. I am seated in a place reserved for the Senior Proctor (he couldn't make it, I assume) next to the Public Orator himself, who hasn't been to my Oration, just as I haven't been to his, which makes conversation a lot easier. Chablis succeeds sherry, claret succeeds chablis, to the accompaniment of an unpretentious lunch (one cannot trust the Wolfson chef not to experiment, I am told) of avocado salad, roast chicken, fresh potatoes and beans, orange syllabub. The head Curator makes a short speech; the Acting Librarian makes a longer one; I admire the view over the river.
The charabanc deposits me back at the computing service, somewhat dazed, where I regain my trusty bicycle, and speed home through the sunshine, realising as I approach that it is already close to teatime in the real Saturday world which has of course been ticking on all this time as a background activity. For example, Mr and Mrs Triggs are here to take away the spare bed (as arranged yesterday): Belinda fortunately is at hand to tell them to wait till Thursday (as re-arranged today). As consolation, I ply them (and myself) with duty-free Calvados and enjoy the sensation of being reunited with the rest of the massed Burnards, knowing that all things which should have been done, have been, and not by me. And that it would not be entirely inappropriate for me to go and lie down for a few hours. Which I duly do.
The dark falls on Southmoor Road. The smell of grilling sausages wafts slowly up the stairs, indicative of imminent supper for lodgers and left-behinds. Did you, dear reader, think I had forgotten the date? Of course not! Tomorrow is the tenth of November, as surely as today is the ninth, which can only mean that Belinda has to be taken out tonight and treated like the Real Woman she increasingly resembles. This year, it has been decided, she and four of her peers are to be treated to an Italian dinner out, rather than a disco. As far as I can tell, the trouble with discos is that Boys don't always come, even when you invite them. More fools them, I can only think, as hair is brushed and re-brushed and the genuine Fiorucci hairgrip fixed and refixed in place. The four chosen peers (whose names are Gilly, Izzy, Maggie and Claire) arrive, promptly at 6.15 for pre-dinner sparklers, which occur in the garden with much whooping, after, as is only proper, the giving of gifts. Downstairs, Tata Pam, Sarah Daisy, Elizabeth Rose and the only lodger in residence stoically munch their way through sausage risotto, while we wait for the first of two taxis to waft us all away to the far North, at least as far as the Pizzeria in South Parade.
We have been placed at a large round and a small square table, labelled RESERVED, near the door, so that, although we can't easily see the man in the kitchen bouncing the dough off the ceiling, we can see passers-by studying the menu and pull faces at them. Only Gilly and Belinda dare tackle a whole pizza each; Claire and Lilette have different flavours of spaghetti; Maggie and Izzy share what turns out to be a somewhat miserly portion of lasagne; I content myself with a plate of penne. Everyone drinks coke, naturally, except for the iredeemably adult who stick to the house rosso with acqua minerale. This Pizzeria serves decent and unobjectionable primi; where it excells is in the dolci department. Its banana splits have to be seen to be believed, while la coppa mamma mia (anglice, knickerbocker glory) is altogether out of the run of the mill. It is therefore not surprising that a paltry five girls account between them for five coppas, two cassatas and a banana split. Another good thing about this Pizzeria is that (being an Italian establishment, albeit in alien territory) it is noisy and cheerful and girls who stick paper umbrellas in their hair and go to the lavatory en masse do not have to suffer the icy stares they might encounter at other establishments. That's all there is to tell about this somewhat unusual Saturday really. All five girls, somewhat to my surprise, were delighted to be offered the chance of walking home (we can sing drunk songs, said Gilly, and later managed quite a few lines of "Tipperary", from who knows what atavistic sense of the appropriate) rather than waiting for a taxi again. The walk home was rowdy and rapid, if cold. Then a few card games until the appointed hour for Other Daddies to turn up and retrieve their offspring. (Izzie's was disgracefully late, and got ticked off by his daughter). Then Bed for some, a nightcap for others, and (unless memory deceives me) a lengthy dissertation on the clinical manipulation of people's emotions from Tata Pam, before I gave up trying to maintain the vertical, and went to bed myself.
An unusual sort of a Saturday; and therefore one I decided, as you see, to preserve on floppy disk. Doing so has occupied me for about an hour and a half this Sunday: I haven't written anything but Visit Reports and Manuals and User Guides for so long I've had a lot of trouble with the style. Can you tell, dear reader/user?


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easily findHello Friends! With the upcoming colder weather slowly creeping in it is bound to bring snow into southeast Pennsylvania sooner or later. I am planning on sooner which is why I needed to come up with an area for the kiddos and adults in this house to keep their outdoor cold weather items in reach. I don't about you but until I did the pictures
Small Guys Closet Makeover with Cutting Edge Stencils
So this is our Master closet. Yes you heard me correctly, I said master. What is so "master" about it, I have yet to find out. Nonetheless it is a master and it happens to be hubby's closet, I have my own closet that he built me, but this one came with the house in the master bedroom. First of all I can't believe I am showing


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When zombies on "The Walking Dead" get out of hand, Danai Gurira's Michonne and her Japanese katana sword usually make quick work of them.
The actress faces a much more complex problem in her new movie, "Mother of George." She plays Adenike Balogun, a newlywed Nigerian immigrant in Brooklyn's close-knit Yoruba community. Deeply in love with her equally loving husband Ayodele (Isaach De Bankolé), Adenike is increasingly troubled by their inability to conceive a child, something her mother-in-law and others pressure her to resolve with escalating intensity — and outrageous suggestions.
Directed by the Nigeria-born fashion photographer and music video maker Andrew Dosunmu from a script by Darci Picoult, "Mother of George" is Gurira's second film with Dosunmu, following his 2011 feature debut "Restless City." A noted playwright herself, Gurira, who was born in Iowa and grew up in her parents' homeland Zimbabwe, is delighted to work on African-themed projects whenever she can.
She also digs swinging that katana.
Q You and Dosunmu continue a pretty distinctive collaboration with "Mother of George."
A working with him, for me, was a lot about the idea of bringing an African story, albeit one on American soil, to the screen. That's very important to both of our aesthetics and desires as artists.
Q Speaking of aesthetics, the movie's framing and editing rhythms have looks all their own.
A I did know that we were filming something that was going to be rich in texture and the reality of the experiences of African people, and that his aesthetic was going to be very alive in a way that you rarely see. I knew that they weren't doing the coverage in a very traditional way, but for the most part, the intent was about getting the story out there.
Q Your costumes alone are a movie in themselves. So colorful, such vibrant designs; did you ever feel you might be competing with them for the camera's attention?
A I guess you're telling me I was! I enjoyed the clothes, I felt they worked. I loved them. They fit my body perfectly because they were made for me. And I loved that they were an expression of who she was. I never felt I was in competition with anything on the screen.
Q You must have had to learn a lot about Yoruba ways.
A There are very, very, very large differences between the Yoruba and the Shona, which is what I am. We don't speak the same language, we don't have the same traditions. So there were a lot of differences that I enjoyed embracing, because I love celebrating the variations of being African. So there was a lot of asking questions to Yoruba people here in New York, a lot of spending time with people from the Yoruba culture, like one lady who's a little older whose name is actually the same as my own. She's the one who did all the cooking for the film and I learned a lot from her.
The Shona have different expressions. We don't really have all of that color going on. Our weddings are nothing like the one in the movie. Our weddings are small, traditional ceremonies at a home and, then, a church wedding. Everything was very, very different from what I grew up around in Zimbabwe. But I don't think many people are aware of how different the cultures on the continent are, so it was great to celebrate that.
Q What about the emphasis on procreating?
A There are, of course, traditional pressures on a woman to produce a child in many African cultures. But that is true around the world in a lot of ways. Darci put this together largely because she's dealt with fertility issues, and she saw connections with women across so many cultural divides. And that was a very good connection for me. An American woman of Jewish descent, living in Brooklyn, who really connected to this idea of a woman who comes from a culture that does expect you to have children, but she's also from a culture in which she herself is expected to have children.
But, at the same time, there are very complicated nuances to the differences, culturally, that happen. For Adenike, a lot of the pressure came from herself. Her husband actually never said "You have to have a child or I'm going to …" It's always that question of what do you choose to listen to. And that's a personal choice.
Q Guess I'd better ask you something about Michonne before my readers kill me.
A She sprang from a very clear depiction in the comic book and we adapted her to the screen from that rich source material. There was a lot to play with, but it was a lot of work, in a great way. I constantly have to learn new skills to keep up with her, like learning how to work the katana. I love that stuff. I love action, so I love playing an action character who demands a great deal from me and makes me have to become agile every time I walk in her boots.
Q Anything you can tell us about what happens in the new "Walking Dead" season?
A Michonne's a loner, and she's become more and more connected to the group. She lost her best friend at the end of last season, but there's something that Andrea said, which was, 'You've found it.' So she knows that she's meant to be with these people, but connecting into a community is also an interesting challenge for her. I guess we'll have to see how she handles that, and how she handles her other issues.
Q Are you writing anything?
A I have two new plays in development. One of them deals with a Zimbabwean family in the United States, in the Midwest; it could not be more different than 'Mother of George!' The other one is part of the trilogy I've been writing about Zimbabwean cultural identity.
Q That first one you mentioned semi-autobiographical?
A I was raised in Zimbabwe from the age of 5. I have no recollection of Iowa whatsoever. Everyone loves to put 'Iowa' about me; I'm like, I don't even know where Iowa is on the map!
Q How did you get interested in acting?
A There was always something kind of theatrical about me. I would go outside and imitate people in soap operas in my backyard by myself. My parents were like, "We don't know what she's going to be, but we hope it's an actor. Otherwise she's crazy."
Q Is it possible to gauge how your background informs the work you're doing here?
A I'm not sure. I can't say how I come across due to that. All I can say is, when I face challenges or whatever, what pushes and makes me work harder is the fact that there are a lot of girls like me on the continent who may never see the opportunities I've seen, and I owe it to them to do my very best. It's not just about me; there are a lot of girls who would kill to be able to do what I'm allowed to do.


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Los Angeles-based Ed Ruscha is one of the most influential artists of the last forty years, known for his pioneering use of language and for imagery drawn from popular culture.Now, Gagosian Gallery on Madison avenue in New York presents an exhibition of Ed Ruscha's artist books together with books and works of art by more than 100 contemporary artists that respond directly and diversely to Ruscha's original project. Organized by Bob Monk, Ed Ruscha Books & Co. has been drawn from private collections, including Ruscha's own. Most of the books are installed so that viewers can interact with them and browse their pages.
Inspired by the unassuming books that he found on street stalls during a trip to Europe, in 1962 Ruscha published his first artist book, Twentysix Gasoline Stations under his own imprint, National Excelsior Press. A slim, cheaply produced volume, then priced at $3.50, Twentysix Gasoline Stations did exactly what its title suggests, reproducing twenty-six photographs of gasoline stations next to captions indicating their brand and location. All of the stations were on Route 66, the road mythologized by the eponymous TV series and in John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath. Ruscha's book traveled more or less west to east, from the first service station in Los Angeles, where he moved as a young man, back to Oklahoma City, where he grew up.
Initially, the book received a poor reception, rejected by the Library of Congress for its "unorthodox form and supposed lack of information." However, during the sixties it acquired cult status, and by the eighties it was hailed as one of the first truly modern artist's books. Ruscha followed up Twentysix Gasoline Stations (1962) with a succession of kindred publications, including Some Los Angeles Apartments (1965), Nine Swimming Pools and a Broken Glass (1968), and Real Estate Opportunities (1970), all of which combined the literalness of early California pop art with a deadpan photographic aesthetic informed by minimalist sequence and seriality.early and recent examples are a wealth of responses to Ruscha's ideas by artists from all over the world, gathered here in this celebratory exhibition:
ABC Artists' Books Cooperative, Noriko Ambe, Edgar Arceneaux, Eric Baskauskas, Luke Batten / Jonathan Sadler (New Catalogue), Erik Benjamins, Victoria Bianchetti, Doro Boehme, Jeff Brouws, Denise Scott Brown, Wendy Burton, Stephen Bush, Corinne Carlson, Dan Colen, Julie Cook, Jennifer Dalton, Bill Daniel, Claudia de la Torre, Joshua Deaner, Jen DeNike, Eric Doeringer, Stan Douglas, Harlan Erskine, Frank Eye, Kota Ezawa, Robbert Flick, Jan Freuchen, Jochen Friedrich, Thomas Galler, Anne-Valérie Gasc, Steve Giasson, Simon Goode, Oliver Griffin, Daniel S. Guy, Dejan Habicht, Marcella Hackbardt, Sebastian Hackenschmidt, Karen Henderson, Mishka Henner, Kai-Olaf Hesse, Taro Hirano, Marla Hlady, Dominik Hruza, Steven Izenour, Sveinn Fannar Jóhannsson, Taly and Russ Johnson, Charles Johnstone, Rinata Kajumova, Henning Kappenberg, Jean Keller, Shohachi Kimura, Julia Kjelgaard, Joachim Koester, Sowon Kwon, Tanja Lažetic, Gabriel Lester, Jonathan Lewis, Jochen Manz, Michael Maranda, Scott McCarney, Mark McEvoy, Jerry McMillan, Daniel Mellis, Martin Möll, Dan Monick, Jonathan Monk, Simon Morris, Audun Mortensen, Brian Murphy, Toby Mussman, Maurizio Nannucci, Bruce Nauman, John O'Brian, Stefan Oláh, Performance Re-Enactment Society, Michalis Pichler, Tadej Pogačar, Susan Porteous, James Prez, Clara Prioux, Robert Pufleb, Joseph Putrock, Jon Rafman, Achim Riechers, David John Russ, Mark Ruwedel, Tom Sachs, Joachim Schmid, Andreas Schmidt, Jean-Frédéric Schnyder, David Schoerner, Yann Sérandour, Travis Shaffer, Gordon Simpson, Paul Soulellis, Tom Sowden, Kim Stringfellow, Derek Stroup, Derek Sullivan, Yoshikazu Suzuki, Chris Svensson, Eric Tabuchi, Elisabeth Tonnard, John Tremblay, Marc Valesella, Wil Van Iersel, Louisa Van Leer, Robert Venturi, Reinhard Voigt, Alex Von Bergen, Emily Wasserman, John Waters, Henry Wessel, Keith Wilson, Charles Woodard, Theo Wujcik, Mark Wyse, Hermann Zschiegner
Ed Ruscha Books & Co. coincidex with the publication of MIT Press's Various Small Books: Referencing Small Books by Ed Ruscha (2013), which documents ninety-one of the books inspired by Ruscha's own, reproducing covers and sample layouts from each, along with a detailed description. Various Small Books… also includes selections from Ruscha's books and an appendix listing most of the known Ruscha book tributes.


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On my second start of the game all sound and music settings were at 1000% making some awful screeching noises until I turned it back to 50%.
I couldn't reproduce it, maybe it had something to do with it being the second start of the game (ie. on the first start it may have written back bad config values as defaults; I didn't open the options menu in the first game session; sounds were ok during first session though).


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LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Justin Bartha never set out to make a political statement when signing on to play a gay, expectant father on NBC's "The New Normal."
"It's interesting that television really has swayed the conversation," Bartha said of the same-sex marriage debate. "You're just trying to make entertainment."
The comedy from "Glee" creator Ryan Murphy centers on engaged couple Bryan (Andrew Rannells) and David (Bartha) who, with the help of a surrogate, are expecting their first child.
The series uses humor to tackle social issues like homophobia and racism. Last week's episode examined the Boy Scouts of America's ban on gay members.
According to Bartha, it's only fitting that Tuesday's one-hour season finale features "a nice, big gay wedding," as the Supreme Court considers two landmark cases on same-sex marriage.
"It's coming on the heels of a very important decision," he said in an interview Friday in Los Angeles. "It's not often as an actor you get to be involved with a project that seems to be on the right side of history."
Another happy surprise for the 34-year-old "Hangover" actor has been becoming a role model.
"The feedback that we've gotten from young people has been inspirational," Bartha said. "People really look up to these characters and they have taken them on as really positive role models, which is something that I never thought about when taking on the project. You just want to do a good job, but it's really been quite a rewarding byproduct."
Though NBC has not announced whether "The New Normal" will be picked up for a second season, Bartha remains hopeful for the show's return.
"We're just now finding our footing with what we want to say and how we want to say it, and I think if we get the chance we'll do it even better (next season)," he said.
NBC is a division of Comcast Corp.
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