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Księstwo Mazowieckie
Top: Banner of Masovia (Masovian Piasts), later part of the duchy with residence in Płock (Duchy of Płock)
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Coat of arms of Masovia (Masovian Piasts), later the Duchy of Płock
of the Duchy of Warsaw (Janusz I)
Masovian lands (ziemie)
Province of Poland
Fiefdom of the Polish Crown (from 1351)
Czersk (from 1262)
Warsaw (from 1413)
• 1138–1173
Bolesław the Curly
Konrad I
Siemowit I
Janusz III (last)
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• Second partition
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The Duchy of Masovia (Polish: Księstwo Mazowieckie) was a medieval duchy formed when the Polish Kingdom of the Piasts fragmented in 1138. It was located in the historic Masovian region of northeastern Kingdom of Poland. The duchy was re-incorporated into the Jagiellonian Kingdom of Poland by 1526.
1 Partitions of Masovia
Partitions of Masovia[edit]
The Duchy went through various border changes in the coming years, sometimes losing and sometimes gaining territory.
1138–1275 Duchy of Masovia
1275–1294 Duchy of Czersk Duchy of Płock
1310–1313 Duchy of Czersk Duchy of Masovia
1313–1345 Duchy of Warsaw Duchy of Rawa Duchy of Płock
1345–1349 Duchy of Warsaw-Rawa
1349–1351 Duchy of Warsaw Duchy of Rawa
1351–1355 Annexed to Poland
1381–1434 Duchy of Warsaw Duchy of Płock-Rawa
1434–1442/59 Duchy of Rawa Duchy of Płock Duchy of Bełz
1442/59–1462 Duchy of Płock-Rawa
1471–1488 Duchy of Czersk Duchy of Warsaw Duchy of Płock
1488–1495 Duchy of Czersk-Warsaw
The lands of the Masovians east of the Vistula river had been conquered by the Piast duke Mieszko I of Poland (960–992) and formed a constituent part of his Civitas Schinesghe. The Masovian Diocese of Płock was established in 1075.
Fragmentation of Poland in 1138:
Duchy of Masovia of Bolesław IV
Following the death of Duke Bolesław III Wrymouth in 1138, as specified by his testament, the Masovian province was governed by his second son Bolesław IV the Curly, who, after he had expelled his elder half-brother Władysław II, in 1146 became Grand Prince (High Duke) of Poland. His Masovian realm also comprised the adjacent lands of Kujawy (Kuyavia) on the west bank of the Vistula.
Among the Piast Dukes of Masovia, Bolesław's IV nephew Konrad I was Polish high duke from 1229 to 1232 and again from 1241 to 1243; he was the ruler who in 1226 called the Teutonic Order for help against the pagan Old Prussians threatening the northern borders of his territory. In turn he ceded the Prussian Chełmno Land (Kulmerland) to the knights in 1230; according to the Golden Bull of Rimini (dated 1226), issued by the Hohenstaufen emperor Frederick II, these lands became the nucleus of the Order State. In 1233 Konrad gave Kujawy to his second son Casimir I, while Masovia passed to the first-born Bolesław I upon his death in 1247, succeeded by the youngest brother Siemowit I the next year.
While Siemowit's son Duke Konrad II (1264–1294) moved his residence to Czersk he and his brother Bolesław II entered into a long-term conflict over the Polish seniorate with their Kujawy relatives and the Silesian Piasts, which estranged them from the Piast monarchy. When the kingdom was finally restored in 1295 by the coronation of Duke Przemysł II of Greater Poland, the Duchy of Masovia remained independent.
1313 partition:
Duchy of Płock under Wenceslaus
Duchy of Rawa under Siemowit II
Duchy of Czersk under Trojden I
Upon the death of Duke Boleslaus II in 1313, Masovia was divided among his sons:
Siemowit II became Duke at Rawa (until 1345)
Trojden I became Duke at Czersk (until 1341)
Wenceslaus became Duke at Płock (until 1336), followed by his son Bolesław III (until 1351)
As neither Siemowit II nor Bolesław III of Płock left any heirs, Trojden's son Duke Siemowit III (1341–1381) was able to re-unite most of the Masovian lands under his rule; in 1351 he and his brother Casimir became vassals of the Polish kings, while the Bishopric of Płock had always been part of the Polish Archdiocese of Gniezno. Upon Siemowit's III death in 1381 however, Masovia was again partitioned between his sons:
Janusz I, ruled as duke at Czersk until 1413, when he moved his residence to Warsaw, followed by his grandson Duke Boleslaus IV (1429–1454)
Siemowit IV, Duke at Rawa and Płock (until 1426), also Duke of Belz from 1388
Since the Polish-Lithuanian Union of 1385, Masovia was localized between the joined Jagiellonian states. The Dukes of Masovia also ruled the Duchy of Belz until 1462.
After the establishment of the Rawa and Płock Voivodeships, in 1495 the last surviving son of Boleslaus IV, Duke Konrad III Rudy, once again united the remaining Masovian lands under his rule. However, the male line of the Masovian Piasts became extinct upon the death of his son Duke Janusz III in 1526, whereafter the duchy as a reverted fief became the Masovian Voivodeship of the Polish Crown.
Parts of the southern region of neighboring East Prussia received settlers and Protestant religious refugees who became known as the Mazurs. By the 18th century the portion of East Prussia in which they settled was sometimes referred to as Masuria (Masuren), and inhabited by a Protestant population of Germans and Poles.
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The Holy Ground of Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
June 24, 2018 Posted in Film 11 comments
"I saw people throwing pies in each others' faces, and I thought: 'This could be a wonderful tool. Why is it being used this way?'" So says a lanky, exceedingly soft-spoken Presbyterian minister with the classic middle America name of Fred Rogers, a man who turned children's television in the latter part of the 20th century into a kind of ode to basic human decency rather than the casually cruel and empty-headed drivel it often was and still too often remains.
By the end of his 31-year tenure ministering to children's souls via a daily half-hour public television show, Rogers had earned such a revered place in American culture that a documentary about his life's work, entitled, "Won't You Be My Neighbor?" is currently packing theaters around the country with adults who, if the viewing I took in yesterday and again this morning is any indication, mostly sob their way through the film's 94 minutes.
And by the way, that "Fred" in front of his last name? Just a birth certificate thing. His actual name was "Mister."
So: what is it we're all crying about?
At least a hundred answers to that question, I think. One of them, as many commentators have pointed out, has to do with the timely contrast of Mister Rogers' quiet-but-relentless exhortations to be kind and to appeal to the best in people and ourselves with the current political climate, about which no more need be said lest I lapse into a decidedly un-Mister Rogers-like rant.
When we do quell the tumult in quiet moments of repose with an infant, or nature, or a person like Mister Rogers, it is as if we have touched the very face of God and been affirmed in all that is right and true and welcoming of our place in the world.
But our tears are about a whole lot else, too, and most of them boil down to something along these lines, it seems to me: We know, deep in our bones, goodness and a pure heart when we see them. We do so because we recognize the parts of those that live in ourselves, beneath all the jadedness, hurt and fear that work so hard to shove other emotions out of the way in the rough-and-tumble of adult life.
And at bottom, we long to express and live in those best parts whenever we can. So when someone like Fred Rogers or the Dalai Lama or Pope Francis gives us permission to go there by the very nature of their being-in-the-world, we cannot help but be happy-sad—happy for the moments we inhabit that place and the further possibilities it exposes to us, sad for the knowledge that we so often fall short.
But guess what?
The last person in the world who would ever wag a finger at us for that shortcoming is Mister Rogers. That's because, "You are a very special person. There is only one like you in the whole world. And people can like you exactly as you are."
It is almost impossible to underestimate the quiet ferocity with which Mister Rogers held and propagated that view of human beings, and of what we need to do to cultivate the best in them. In one of countless deeply affecting scenes in this film, Rogers speaks into the microphone at a packed Senate hearing in 1969, trying to save public television from the budget axe of the Nixon administration, which wanted to divert the money to the Vietnam War.
He is addressing Senator John Pastore, the gruff, suffer-no-fools chairman of the Senate Subcommittee on Communications, who had never seen "Mister Rogers' Neighborhood" and was growing visibly impatient with all the stirring testimonials for why PBS should be saved.
Picking up on these cues, Rogers tells Pastore he will forsake his prepared address, and asks the senator's permission to instead recite the lyrics to "What Do You Do with the Mad That You Feel?" The song is a plaintive acknowledgement that children can be angry, which, along with its implied permission for them to feel what they feel, also offers guidance on how to manage it.
Pastore, poker-faced, assents, and this is what he hears from undoubtedly the most earnest witness ever to grace a Senate hearing room:
What do you do with the mad that you feel
When you feel so mad you could bite?
When the whole wide world seems oh, so wrong…
And nothing you do seems very right?
What do you do? Do you punch a bag?
Do you pound some clay or some dough?
Do you round up friends for a game of tag?
Or see how fast you go?
It's great to be able to stop
When you've planned a thing that's wrong,
And be able to do something else instead
And think this song:
I can stop when I want to
Can stop when I wish.
I can stop, stop, stop any time.
And what a good feeling to feel like this
And know that the feeling is really mine.
Know that there's something deep inside
That helps us become what we can.
For a girl can be someday a woman
And a boy can be someday a man.
As Rogers finishes, the audience in the Senate hearing room (and the movie theater) seems to holds its collective breath. Pastore finally responds, "I think it's wonderful. I think it's wonderful. Looks like you just earned the $20 million."
Even more radical in its barely-under-the-radar way was Rogers' battle against racism, something he never addressed directly but put right out there by several wickedly prudent casting decisions. Against the backdrop of the inner city violence and fear engulfing the nation during the show's 1968 debut, Mister Rogers hosted Mrs. Saunders, an African-American teacher paying him a visit with her racially mixed class.
Here we are and here we can be, visiting and enjoying each other as neighbors. No big deal, is it?
Oh, yes it was.
A bigger deal still was the creation of Officer Francois Clemmons, an African-American policeman pressed into service on decency and tolerance's behalf just four months after Martin Luther King's assassination. In a scene reaching right back into the host's ministerial training and deeply held Christianity, Mister Rogers, his bare feet dangling in a kid's wading pool, invites Officer Clemmons to take a load off by joining him.
So there they are, two white feet and two black, sharing the water, now consecrated by a deeply symbolic, biblical act of charity, humility and welcome, complete with Rogers helping to towel off Clemmons' feet. (The scene in the movie finishes with a quiet reproof as news footage shows a white motel manager in Florida furiously dumping muriatic acid in a swimming pool in order to drive out a racially mixed group that was protesting the facility's segregationist policy.)
Years later, the footbath scene is repeated, with Rogers even more assiduous about leaning over to help dry Clemmons' feet after they are done. Rogers could not have been more pointedly—though gently—inviting his fellow Christians around the country who still harbored racial prejudice in their hearts to emulate their all-loving, all-humbling, all-forgiving savior, at long last. (See it in the Vimeo clip here, with Clemmons showing his operatic chops on a classic Neighborhood song.)
Clemmons also happened to be gay in real life, a fact never raised in the series but which became an issue after he'd decided to go to a gay nightclub in town and word got back to Rogers about it. As Clemmons tells it in the movie, Rogers says to him, "Oh no, you can't be doing that anymore."
A few critics have taken Rogers to task for this stance, which strikes me as short-sighted. Regardless of anyone's convictions, the world, or at least American television audiences and PBS underwriters, was not ready for a gay police officer 50 years ago, and the show surely would have sunk under the ensuing controversy. So one must ask, as surely Rogers himself did: Would the cause of justice and acceptance have been advanced if he had taken a stand on this issue at that time and his show was canceled, all the ensuing 30 years of goodness, tolerance and love it projected unrealized?
Sometimes, though certainly not always, the most prudent and progressive thing to do is to bide one's time, until the time is most, or at least a little more, right.
And for the record, Clemmons was among multiple spokespeople in the film weeping at the memories evoked by interviewers about Rogers, declaring the unconditional love he felt from the older man to be the most impactful experience of his life.
The only time Rogers flashes any anger in this film is when he bewails much of mainstream media's craven race to the bottom with its cartoon violence, cynicism and vulgarity. One does not have to be a stuffed shirt or withdrawn Mennonite to quickly tire of the dizzying, aggressive pace and tone of much television programming, with its explicit violence, clueless adults, smart-aleck kids and deafening laugh tracks.
Rogers looks directly into the camera in his later days, sets his jaw uncharacteristically and intones, "I would hope that anyone who sets out to produce mass programming for children would have the same respect for them that I do."
Having taped his final season's Neighborhood segments in December 2000, the shows began airing in August, 2001. Weeks later came 9-11, very possibly the starkest ever challenge to all that Rogers held dear about humanity and his assurances to the young that they will always be not only loved, but protected by the adults in their lives.
Clearly troubled, Rogers taped a series of public service announcements aimed at parents on how to talk to kids about horrific events.
After all, he'd had plentiful practice through the tempests of the '60s and beyond, including a tenderly drawn scene in which the puppet character Daniel Striped Tiger, acknowledged to be Rogers' alterego, asks the lovely and compassionate Lady Aberlin two days after Bobby Kennedy was killed in 1968, "What does 'assassination' mean?"
Rogers never shirked such issues, believing with all his heart and might that children could and should be talked to about them, their questions and worries addressed in loving tones of compassion for the fallen and support for the survivors.
"When I was a boy and I would see scary things in the news, my mother would say to me, 'Look for the helpers. You will always find people who are helping,'" he famously said, reaffirming a faith in humanity's essential goodness that can easily escape us in these fractured times.
He elicited that goodness at every opportunity by looking directly into the camera and imagining he was talking to one person, heart to heart, in the most personal terms he could muster. Never far from his mind was his deep conviction that "The space between the television set and the viewer is holy ground. A lot happens—a lot happens—there."
Indeed it does, or at least "can," when the camera is in the right person's hands, guided by some ethos beyond commerce and its lowest common denominators.
In Misters Rogers' hands, and in his heart, what happens revolves mostly from and around love, the be-all and end-all, the cause and effect, the mover and the moved, of all creation.
"The only thing that changes the world is when someone gets the idea that love can abound, and that it can be shared," he says, just before this movie ends and not long before his own life is taken from him with stomach cancer at age 74.
Imagine that: a world where love abounds, is never subject to drought, nor to fear that begets greedy accumulation. Where tears of joy flow along a generous river in which we can cool our feet on a hot day and ask our fellow humans within earshot, "Won't you join me? Won't you be my neighbor?"
Edited version of this is in the movie (with a bonus surprise in the credits as well…)
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11 comments to The Holy Ground of Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
In Quaker theology the overarching principle is that there is "that of God in every person" and it is each human's mission to both seek and respond to that, in ourselves and in others. Fred Rogers (no matter his denomination) clearly understood this and was faithful to that mission each and every day of his life.
I think we cry in the presence of this for several reasons: because it is a profound relief to know there actually is, however hidden at times, such goodness and bravery and devotion in this world, that it really exists and it is there FOR us…and also that we too can also BE that good and that brave as well.
There is a quote that seems fitting here:
A man never stands so tall as when he bends to help a child.
Fred Rogers obviously stood very tall, with the courage and compassion of his convictions: a gentle giant.
We can all be such giants.
Kevin Feldman says:
Love it – thanks Andrew for such a delightful post and Mary for your inspiring reply… reminds me of the Dali Lama's reply when asked about his religion -"My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness."
Clearly Fred Rogers is a Presbyterian Bodhisattva!! Rings so true after traveling the Coast of Maine the past week and just meeting random people at the b n b, bike shop, restaurants, in lines, – and marveling at how easy it is to connect when one gets out of me and into "we"… kindness is a form of magic… cuts right through the class/race/age/etc superficialities that often prevent connection… Mr. Rogers was a pro at connecting… Can't wait to bath myself in his good vibes…
So many great memories watching this show growing up. Every show was a wonderful teaching tool set to some really nice music. I will always hold Mr. Rogers in high regards. Thanks for this post!
Thanks for that Andrew. Good to reflect on all the complex emotions that come with tears. One of my musical heroes Loudon Wainwright was in Montgomery, Alabama the day Fred Rogers died and wrote the following song. It makes me grateful for all of those who express so beautifully what it means to be human. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Rc_WuJ0iJe4
Andrew Hidas says:
Mary, I saw this film with a fellow UU and we both made involuntary noises when one of the interviewees used a phrase along the lines of Mister Rogers believing in every person's "inherent dignity" or some such. If the Presbyterians didn't have a claim on his lifelong fidelity, we would surely have claimed him as a UU, though we would have been glad to split him with our brethren the Quakers as well. :-)
And Kevin, he absolutely works as an Eastern Hindu or Buddhist, too. I don't know whether he & the Dalai Lama ever crossed paths (what a fine guest slot that would have been for the latter!), but I am certain they would have "recognized" each other in the deepest sense.
Lisa, so many things stick out in this film, but his interactions with the kids—and the looks on their faces when he engaged them—are something I will never forget. That pixie dust surely landed on his television audience, too, to hear an awful lot of people tell it. Glad you were one of them.
Al, oh geez, Loudon is one of my musical heroes and once again, you have sent a song my way I had no idea about. I love this, in all its lamentation. Loudon truly is "a very special person. There is only one like him in the whole world."
Thank you for this Andrew. Mr. Rogers has been an inspiration to me. As a latch-key key of the 70's he was instrumental in my upbringing… how lucky am I!! I have been trying to make time to go see this movie and after reading this, I will try harder.
Andrew, I do admire your wise restraint in not letting the contrast between the choices made by Fred Rogers and those choices being made by our administration take away from the beauty of the film and its overall message. The life of Fred Rogers deserves this tribute in its own right.
However, having worked in the field of health and early childhood education for many years, I feel I must make a comment here about the atrocities currently being visited upon the most vulnerable individuals in our country: children. There is of course the outrageous decisions to separate asylum seeking families that have resulted in nothing less than trauma for so many children, their families and indeed to all of us who live in the United States and are witness to these events. There is also the steady dismantling of programs that serve children and families at the national, state and local level, funding cuts that have eliminated assistance that help children grow to be well-educated, healthy and productive citizens. The shortsightedness of these actions on an economic and political level is ridiculous; the betrayal of human dignity and worth is appalling. It has been said that a society can be judged by how it treats its children. How are we stacking up?
Fred Rogers clearly believed in the imminent worth of every child and made that belief manifest in his ordinary encounters and his overall career. It seems that for us to follow his example we must not only bring it into our daily interactions but also take it with us into the voting booth.
Tamara, it strikes me that "He was instrumental in my upbringing" is a helluva thing to be able to say about a TV character. It vindicates everything Mister Rogers said about the power of the medium to mold minds and lives, and doubles down on the tragedy and lost opportunity of the rot that infests so much modern television and other media. Thank you very much for sharing your experience.
Mary, oh, oh, yes. Dismal is as dismal does, to VERY loosely paraphrase another media figure of recent times who will actually be playing Mister Rogers in the upcoming biopic. And predictably enough, PBS is yet again on the chopping block in Washington, where it lands every time a certain political party comes into power there. (I am being circumspect again, in deference to the always well-mannered hero of this post…)
Truly, however, none of the early childhood and youth program budget cuts that are currently among the many rages roiling our nation's capital should escape this baseline question, the answer to which I think we can discern quite well in advance:
What would Mister Rogers do?
Robert Spencer says:
Thanks for the review. Claire and I are going to see the film tomorrow. Hopefully, your glowing report will be ours as well. One side note. I was born in a small town in Southern Illinois about halfway between Springfield and St. Louis. I was baptized Catholic, but by the time I reached 1st grade my mother had became dissatisfied with the Vatican and its rigid doctrine. She turned to Unitarianism. She felt its emphasis on the "oneness of God," its multiculturalism, and its "Won't You Be My Neighbor?" attitude made it a perfect fit for the family. Unfortunately, the nearest UU church was in St. Louis about 60 miles away. So, every Sunday, rain or shine, we packed into our blue Ford station wagon and made our Sunday trek through cornfields and other small towns until we finally hit Alton's bridge which spanned the Mississippi and led us into the big city of Stan Musial, Ken Boyer, Bob Pettit, and John David Crow (no Gateway Arch back then). When we moved to Eagle Rock in 1963, we continued to attend a Unitarian church, only minutes away on California St. in Pasadena. Although I must confess I was more interested in the donuts and OJ after the service than the Sunday school book, "Jesus, the Carpenter's Son," the church's emphasis on kindness and acceptance of all persons has remained with me to this very day. Incidentally, it called itself the Neighborhood Unitarian Universalist Church.
In my estimation, sixty miles is a long way to go for anything besides a great woman, Robert, so I feel for ya with that trek your family took—your mom must've been quite smitten with UUism! I had no idea about this (religious) part of your history, so it comes as a revelation. And quite coincidentally, we held my brother's memorial service nearly eight years ago now at that very Neighborhood UU church you attended. He wasn't a UU, but if he had been forced to claim a religion after the very lapsed Catholicism of our youth, he would most certainly have been a UU.
I am also very happy to have Bob Pettit mentioned for surely the first time in this blog's five-and-a-half year history, so thank you for that, too. :-)
Cindi Donald says:
I wish our administrator at "the home" was more like Mr. Rogers. Group senior living is by far the most challenging life situation I've faced thus far. More time for your blogs, though!
Love, Cindi
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Morris Stewart's transcribed interview of Les Freiberger's account of Martin Piniak. This account says that there is a hermit living under a bridge in East Chicago, Indiana, and her lives there becasue his wife died.
Unidentified flying objects; Supernatural;
This is Lee Stewart's typewritten account of a UFO story he knows. A flying ball of fire followed a teenager from shoals home. When he and his father went to look for it, not a trace was to be found.
Martin Sheets, phone in mausoleum
Telephones; Tombs & sepulchral monuments; Fear; Buried Alive; Reincarnation; Highland Lawn Cemetery;
Morris Stewart's transcribed interview of Linda Lanz about Martin Sheets. Sheets was said to have a fear of being buried alive, so there was a phone placed inside his mausoleum in case he woke up.
Vermillion County maps
Maps; Rivers; Cities & towns; Indians of North America; Blockhouses; Cemeteries; Villages;
One hand drawn page; map of Vermillion County, Indiana. Includes cities and towns, Indian mounds, Indian cemetery, Indian village, blockhouse, Roy Stewart's Indian Artifacts, and rivers.


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A collection of personal essays and musings on life, politics, baseball, and religion, and an occasional short story.
Young Child with Dreams: The Enduring Power of Music
Young child with dreams
Dream every dream on your own.
When children play
Seems like you end up alone.
("Shilo" by Neil Diamond)
When I was a teenager growing up in suburban New Jersey, I often stayed up late on weekend nights, lying on our living room couch with a set of headphones, listening to my favorite music. I did not exactly share the musical tastes of my peers, many of whom strayed towards the sounds of heavy metal and whatever British invasion was then taking place on the shores of the Atlantic. I leaned instead to a more soulful, lyric-based, acoustic guitar, harmony-filled music. From Joni Mitchell and Carole King, to James Taylor and John Denver, my tastes were more gentle and emotional. Only my closest friends knew what I listened to on a regular basis. In the tentative and fragile life of a teenager, especially one concerned about his image, I was very careful to whom I disclosed my musical preferences, lest the other "cool" kids get wind of my secret life.
When during my senior year, my basketball team learned that I was to miss a practice during the first week of the season because I had tickets to see John Denver at the Spectrum in Philadelphia, it took the remainder of the season to live it down. Every time I entered the team bus following an away game, some wise-ass started singing "Thank God I'm a Country Boy" or "Sunshine on My Shoulders." I really should have been more careful.
But my most secret and greatest musical passion in those days, what I completely related to, sang along with, imitated when I was alone in my house, was the music of Neil Diamond. I first discovered Diamond when I received a copy of Hot August Night, a double album that recorded his live performance at the Greek Theatre in Los Angeles in 1972, shortly before he took a 3 ½ year sabbatical from touring. A Jewish kid from Brooklyn who was a pre-med major at NYU before dropping out of college to pursue a songwriting career in Tin Pan Alley in the early 1960's, by 1972 Diamond had become a world-renowned singer-songwriter and a uniquely talented concert entertainer, who performed with a sophisticated and rich musical backdrop of strings and drums, guitars and vocals, and who combined his performances with a mixture of jazzy, sequined-laced outfits and masculine charisma. He was a long-haired hippy on the cover of Hot August Night, but his performance on that album was soulful, emotional, and touching, and I was hooked. From Cherry Cherry and Solitary Man, to Soolaimon and Holly Holy, his music entered my soul and spoke to me in a way that no other artist before or since ever could.
Of course, I listened to all sorts of music back then, and still do. I love the music of Bob Dylan (everything he wrote in the sixties, plus Blood on the Tracks and Desire in the mid-1970's); Bruce Springsteen became a favorite of mine in college, along with Steely Dan and Van Morrison; and for the past quarter century, I have grown to love traditional Irish music, Cajun music, some genres of Jazz, and string and flute-based compositions of Bach, Vivaldi, and the great European composers. But it was Neil Diamond more than anyone that played an instrumental part of my young life. His music spoke to me.
Until now, however, I have been careful not to reveal this fact to too many people. But this is a flaw in my character, not in Diamond's music. He recently turned 70 and, while he remains a good performer, his voice is long past its prime and he has not produced an album to rival his early work in over 30 years. But the music of my youth, the sounds he created in the 1960's and 1970's, have remained with me like a true friend, someone you can turn to in times of need.
As explained by music critic David Wild of Rolling Stone magazine, Diamond's songs portray "a deep sense of isolation and an equal desire for connection. A yearning for home – and at the same time, the allure of greater freedom." Some of my favorite Diamond songs are his lesser known works, ones that speak to a deeper, almost spiritual place. In Captain Sunshine, which he would later sing in memory of his long-time friend and percussionist, Vince Charles, who died several years ago, Diamond sings of a man who "don't take much, [who] don't make much, but ah, to be such a man as he, and walk so pure between the earth and the sea." In Lady Magdalene, another lesser known work, but among my all-time favorites, Diamond performs a soulful, eight-minute piano and violin ballad, in which he longs for "peaceful days before my youth has gone."
Diamond's music is, in many ways, unique and not easy to categorize; this is part of its appeal to me. To rock-and-rollers, Diamond is an outcast, yet his music is very much in the rock tradition. Anyone who has seen him in concert knows he rocks. And yet, only very recently did the Rock-and-Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland, Ohio, finally admit Diamond, one of the most successful and prolific songwriters and concert performers in music history, into its membership. Diamond has acknowledged that he doesn't really fit in, another reason I like him so much. He's not rock; he's not country; he's not Sinatra. As he told David Wild in He Is . . I Say (Da Capo Press, 2008), "I just do not fit in. . . . But I never tried to fit in, because that meant conforming what I could write or what I could do to a certain set of rules. . . . So I suppose you could say that I've always gone my own way."
Diamond's music is at times spiritual and emotional, contemplative and uplifting. Although Jewish by birth, Diamond is more spiritual than religious. He often references God in his songs in the context of universal love and acceptance. In The Good Lord Loves You, he sings of redemption and forgiveness "for the men in our prisons and jails; the junkies and juicers, and every good man who fails. For every outlaw whose got no place left to go, the good lord loves you." In the more recent Man of God, Diamond sings, "I'm a man of God, though I never learned to pray; walked the pathways of the heart, found him there along the way." There is an autobiographical bent to his music, which makes one feel as if, by listening to his songs, you have learned something about the man, that he really is "a frog who dreamed of being a king, and then became one."
I learned a long time ago that there are two kinds of people on this earth: those who like Neil Diamond and those who don't. As for the latter, I concur with David Wild: "While casting no aspersions whatsoever about their moral character, they are probably either utterly pretentious poseurs or totally vicious bastards." But if asked on judgment day, I doubt there are many who will confess to really, truly, despising his music. It may not be one's cup of tea, but hate it? Impossible.
As a teenage boy at Hightstown High School in the mid-1970's who tried to be "Joe Cool" in so many ways, I failed miserably, as my long sideburns, unkempt hair, and John Travolta-like leisure suits now attest. And let's face it, you simply could not be "hip" and be an admitted Diamond fan. To be hip, one needed to embrace the Grateful Dead, Jethro Tull, Led Zeppelin, Boston, or any number of more hard core rock bands. And yet, part of what I love about Neil Diamond is that he has always recognized that he is not perceived as the "hip" one, even though in reality, he was the coolest dude around. About his own fans, he has said admiringly, "They're people who follow their own guts." I simply did not care what other people listened to. While I was open to and appreciated different types and genres of music, I knew what moved me, what helped me to get through difficult times and enjoy the good times.
While everyone else boasted of their affections for the latest musical trends, that which was "in," I stubbornly remained loyal to Neil Diamond and my other favorite singer-songwriters. To his many followers, there has always been something special, something deep and soulful and true in our connection to him, which comes forth in concert. When I first saw Diamond perform at the Spectrum in 1976, I was mesmerized. His concerts are like religious revivals; his performances are theatrical. In a sold out arena – and his concerts are almost always sold out – it is very common to see 20,000 people standing in unison, swaying and singing and clapping to Diamond's every move.
Diamond's songs embrace grand themes of transformation and escape, the search for meaning and for love. A Thoreau-like quality of solitude and quest for understanding have haunted and graced his work from the very beginning. And yet, when he sings about loneliness and isolation, he does so in a manner that inevitably and magically brings people together.
He is, at heart, a songwriter and a musician. When his musical peers emphasized harder, more electric sounds, Diamond added orchestral arrangements to his music. In Tap Root Manuscript in 1972, Diamond introduced African sounds and instruments to a mainstream audience. Featuring his "African Trilogy" and the rhythmic sounds of Soolaimon, his music embraced Third World soul long before Paul Simon and Graceland. There really is no other artist who sounds like Diamond or who writes like him. While his lyrics are not as clever and poetry-laced as that of Bob Dylan, and while he does not tell stories with the richness of a Bruce Springsteen or Harry Chapin, Diamond nevertheless writes and performs songs that emotionally and profoundly encompass the joys, sorrows, and rhythm of life.
He is, in concert, not merely a charismatic performer, but a true showman, the ultimate professional. While he has often been mocked for his sequin-laced and beaded shirts, it is something his fans have always appreciated. I once saw James Taylor in concert at Harvard Stadium in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Although I love Taylor's music and voice, he appeared in a white tee-shirt (it was actually an undershirt) and faded blue jeans. I mean, I was dressed better than he was! It left the impression that he was not really interested in putting on a show, in providing his fans with their money's worth. It was a nice concert, and I am glad I was there, but in hindsight, I could just as easily have listened to him on the radio. A Diamond concert, on the other hand, is an experience, as rich and theatrical as a Broadway show, with Diamond at the center, surrounded by brilliant musicians, strings, percussionists and conga players, pianos and organs. You get your money's worth at a Diamond concert.
I have never met Neil Diamond, and I probably never will. But I am not alone among his fans in feeling like I know the man. I am reasonably confident that, if I ever did meet him, I would like him. I cannot say the same for Bob Dylan or Joni Mitchell, whose music I adore and fully acknowledge is, in many ways, deeper and more intellectual than that of Diamond. But while I admire their music, I cannot relate to them as human beings. With Diamond, however, one senses that, if you know his music, you know the man. Diamond's music reaches my inner soul and extends to my youthful aspirations and dreams. And I like that Diamond has had the same band members for more than thirty years. "In a business with precious little loyalty," writes David Wild, "Diamond has been fiercely dedicated to his band, and they to him." His music "represents the very best and most solid kind of common ground."
I believe that music has the power to heal and transform our lives, to change our moods, to comfort us when we are down and to uplift our spirits. Music can help us to know that we are not alone, that whatever we are feeling, there are others who understand, who feel and experience the same things we are feeling and experiencing. Neil Diamond, more than any other artist, helped me to maneuver and get through those difficult, awkward teen years. And, though I resort to him less nowadays, I know that his music will forever be a rock upon which I can turn, a place to soothe my soul and heal my spirit. And at 52, I can finally admit that in public.
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Book Announcement: "Eat Bananas and Follow Your Heart" by Mark J. Ehlers
From his inspirational and thought-provoking blog "Ehlers on Everything" comes a collection of interesting and touching essays on life, politics, baseball and religion by Mark J. Ehlers. Eat Bananas and Follow Your Heart: Essays on Life, Politics, Baseball and Religion is a book for anyone who believes that life is too short to remain uninvolved, time too precious to cease learning, thinking, caring, and laughing. -- Back Cover
I am not generally much of a self-promoter, but I am happy to announce that my book, Eat Bananas and Follow Your Heart (Bookstand Publishing, 2011), has just been published and is available at the following sites:
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The book is a collection of many of the essays that I first posted on this blog from August 1, 2009, through December 31, 2010. My daughter, Jennifer, designed the book cover. She also took many of the photographs that are placed throughout the book. I hope that you will consider obtaining a copy and, more importantly, sharing my passion for the diversity of life and for the need to ponder and ask questions. For only if we allow ourselves to grow and to learn, to love and to laugh, can we truly say in the end, "We have lived."
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Mark J. Ehlers
This is a journal of sorts, a place where I reflect on life, pose observations, ask questions, raise issues, and write about the things that matter to me, from politics and society, to baseball and matters of faith. I am glad that you have taken the time to visit this site, and I hope you will return often. I want to hear from you, so please comment on my writing whenever the mood strikes.
MARK J. EHLERS is a father, lawyer, student of life, baseball fanatic, part-time political philosopher, social critic, and seeker of knowledge, spiritual nourishment, and an occasional laugh. He is the author of three books: Eat Bananas and Follow Your Heart: Essays on Life, Politics, Baseball and Religion (Bookstand Publishing 2011), Life Goes On: More Essays on Life, Baseball, and Things that Matter (Bookstand Publishing 2013), and The Journey Continues: Collected Essays on Life, Baseball, People, and Ideas 2014-2016 (Bookstand Publishing, 2017). His short story, "The Boy and the Rabbi," is published in Short Story America Anthology: Volume I (2011).
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Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee
On Being with Krista Tippett (NPR)
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The Forward
Books I am Presently Reading
The Club: Johnson, Boswell, and the Friends Who Shaped an Age (Leo Damrosch)
A Bright Shining Lie (Neil Sheehan)
A Concise History of the Arabs (John McHugo)
A Good Life (Ben Bradlee)
A Prayer for Owen Meany (John Irving)
A Prayer for the City (Buzz Bissinger)
A River Runs Through It (Norman Maclean)
A Rumor of War (Philip Caputo)
A Thousand Days (Arthur Schlesinger)
A Vast Conspiracy (Jeffrey Toobin)
Abe Fortas: A Biography (Laura Kalman)
Abraham Joshua Heschel: The Call of Transcendence (Shai Held)
After Cloven Tongues of Fire: Protestant Liberalism in Modern American History (David Hollinger)
An Orphan in History (Paul Cowan)
Bobby Kennedy: The Making of a Liberal Icon (Larry Tye)
Breaks of the Game (David Halbertsam)
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West (Dee Brown)
Common Ground: A Turbulent Decade in the Lives of Three American Families (J. Anthony Lukas)
Conning Harvard (Julie Zauzmer)
Counselor: A Life at the Edge of History (Ted Sorenson)
Davita's Harp (Chaim Potok)
Deadline: A Memoir (James Reston)
Death of American Virtue: Clinton vs. Starr (Kenneth Gormley)
Deborah, Golda, and Me: Being Female and Jewish in America (Letty Cottin Pogrebin)
Economics and the Public Purpose (John Kenneth Galbraith)
Energy Future: Report of the Energy Project at Harvard Business School (ed: Robert Stobaugh and Daniel Yergin)
FDR and the Jews (Richard Breitman and Allan Lichtman)
First in His Class: A Biography of Bill Clinton (David Maraniss)
Franklin Roosevelt and the New Deal (William Leuchtenburg)
From Beirut to Jerusalem (Thomas Friedman)
From Ghetto to Glory (Bob Gibson)
God Save Texas (Lawrence Wright)
Heritage: Civilization and the Jews (Abba Eban)
Holy Days: The World of a Hasidic Family (Lis Harris)
In the Beauty of the Lilies (John Updike)
Jewish Literacy: The Most Important Things to Know About the Jewish Religion, Its People, and Its History (Joseph Telushkin)
Justice Lewis F. Powell, Jr.: A Biography (John Jeffries Jr.)
Killing a King: The Assassination of Yitzhak Rabin and the Remaking of Israel (Dan Ephron)
Lest Innocent Blood be Shed: The story of the village of Le Chambon and how goodness happened there (Philip Hallie)
Lost Prophet: The Life and Times of Bayard Rustin (John D'Emilio)
Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream (Doris Kearns Goodwin)
Mary McGrory: The First Queen of Journalism (John Norris)
Meeting Jesus Again for the First Time: The Historical Jesus and the Heart of Contemporary Faith (Marcus Borg)
Moneyball (Michael Lewis)
My Losing Season (Pat Conroy)
My Name is Asher Lev (Chaim Potok)
Night (Elie Weisel)
No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II (Doris Kearns Goodwin)
October 1964 (David Halberstam)
On Writing (Stephen King)
On Writing Well (William Zinsser)
Our Man: Richard Holbrooke and the End of the American Century (George Packer)
President Carter: The White House Years (Stuart Eizenstat)
Presumed Innocent (Scott Turow)
Relentless Pursuit (Kevin Flynn)
Remembering America (Richard Goodwin)
Robert Kennedy and His Times (Arthur Schlesinger)
Robert Kennedy: A Memoir (Jack Newfield)
Schlesinger: The Imperial Historian (Richard Aldous)
Seabiscuit (Laura Hillenbrand)
Season Ticket (Roger Angell)
Stranger to the Game (Bob Gibson)
Summer of '98: When Homers Flew, Records Fell, and Baseball Reclaimed America (Mike Lupica)
Ted and the Kennedy Legend (Max Lerner)
The Age of Reform (Richard Hofstadter)
The Art of Fielding (Chad Harbach)
The Bridge: The Life and Rise of Barack Obama (David Remnick)
The Chosen (Chaim Potok)
The Christians (Bamber Gascoigne)
The Education of an Idealist (Samantha Power)
The Facts (Philip Roth)
The Fifties (David Halberstam)
The Front Runner (Matt Bai)
The Gnostic Gospels (Elaine Pagels)
The Great Gatsby (F. Scott Fitzgerald)
The Hawk and the Dove: Paul Nitze, George Kennan, and the History of the Cold War (Nicholas Thompson)
The Heart of Christianity: Rediscovering a Life of Faith (Marcus Borg)
The Insecurity of Freedom (Abraham Joshua Heschel)
The Jewish American Paradox (Robert Mnookin)
The Last Campaign: Robert F. Kennedy and 82 Days That Inspired America (Thurston Clarke)
The Man to See (Evan Thomas)
The Mayor of Castro Street: The Life and Times of Harvey Milk (Randy Shilts)
The Plot Against America (Philip Roth)
The Powers That Be (David Halberstam)
The Romance of American Communism (Vivian Gornick)
The Search for God at Harvard (Ari Goldman)
The Secretary: A Journey with Hillary Clinton from Beirut to the Heart of American Power (Kim Ghattas)
The Siege: The Saga of Israel and Zionism (Conor Cruise O'Brien)
The Summer Game (Roger Angell)
The Survivor: Bill Clinton in the White House (John F. Harris)
The Unlikely Disciple: A Sinner's Semester at America's Holiest University (Kevin Roose)
Thirteen Days in September: The Dramatic Story of the Struggle for Peace (Lawrence Wright)
This Is Next Year: A story of baseball past as seen through the eyes of one Brooklyn family (Philip Goldberg)
Three Nights in August: Strategy, Heartbreak, and Joy Inside the Mind of a Manager (Buzz Bissinger)
Three Strides Before the Wire: The Dark and Beautiful World of Horse Racing (Elizabeth Mitchell)
Trinity (Leon Uris)
Trouble in the Tribe: The American Jewish Conflict Over Israel (Dov Waxman)
Truman (David McCullough)
Unsafe at Any Speed (Ralph Nader)
Walking with the Wind: A Memoir of the Movement (John Lewis)
Where Nobody Knows His Name: Life in the Minor Leagues of Baseball (John Feinstein)
Why Time Begins on Opening Day (Thomas Boswell)
Why Write? Collected Non-Fiction 1960-2013 (Philip Roth)
Yitzhak Rabin: Soldier, Leader, Statesman (Itamar Rabinovich)
Favorite Movies
American President
Dead Poet's Society
Everybody's All American
Fly Away Home
Kissing Jessica Stein
Mona Lisa Smile
Presumed Innocent
Seabiscuit
Stealing Home
The Brothers McMullen
The Great Debaters
The Rewrite
Thirteen Days
Favorite Documentaries
American Experience (The Presidents Series)
An Unreasonable Man
Baseball (Ken Burns)
Brother Outsider: The Life of Bayard Rustin
Hubert H. Humphrey: The Art of the Possible
No Direction Home
The Civil War (Ken Burns)
The Vietnam War (Ken Burns)


It comes as no surprise that people are willing to invest a good amount of money if it means that their hair is treated right. After all, a clean and healthy scalp with blooming hair is a precious commodity, and negligence can lead to awful hair conditions. It is why quality and affordable services such as those offered by Hairdressers Birmingham see plenty of business day in and day out.
However, some people do not have the luxury to pay for hair treatment. There are often many more urgent priorities that overall hair and scalp health get swept under the rug, but fortunately it is possible to care for your hair without breaking the bank. Here are some ways to effectively treat hair using what is found in your fridge.
It might seem strange to use beer as a hair treatment tool, but you would be surprised just how much it can help! The first thing is to ensure that the beer is flat. Pour the contents into a pitcher or another container and leave it out for three or four hours. Afterwards, add about a teaspoon of canola or sunflower oil and top it off with a raw egg. You can then use this mixture by massaging it onto your hair, making sure to leave it for twenty or so minutes before finally rinsing with water and shampooing.
As a bonus, you can even pour flat beer into a spray bottle so that every time you feel as though your hair could use a little more volume, gently spray a small amount onto your hair.
If you have a case of the frizz and are having trouble dealing with it, you will find that the avocado is your best friend. Mash up about half of an avocado and use that mixture on your hair, giving it the same treatment as beer by leaving it on for fifteen to twenty minutes before rinsing. It is an easy strategy that works wonders!
It is well known just how much baking soda can help remove the build-up of residue, as well as excess oil. All you need to do is mix about a tablespoon of baking soda into enough water that it forms a kind of paste. Afterwards, massage it into your scalp and leave it there for around fifteen minutes. Once you have rinsed and shampooed, you will have restored your hair's healthy sheen for minimal cost while barely leaving the house!
As an honourable mention, there is a lot you will be able to accomplish with the egg when it comes to hair treatment. Utilising yolk for dry hair, whites for oily hair and both for normal hair can go a long way to restoring vigour to your personal style, so to conclude while it might be worth it to go to a hairdresser, do not give up if you cannot afford them! Try a few of the natural hair remedies we have given above.


Lately, a lot of online talk about the Ebola virus has included some interesting chatter about blood types -- particularly those with Rh-negative blood.
It seems that whenever there's an outbreak of a virus or disease, there's also an outbreak of conspiracy theories, false cures and, occasionally, dangerous information. A lot of online talk about the Ebola virus — particularly around the 2014 outbreak — has included some interesting chatter about blood types — and particularly those with Rh-negative blood. The story is that people with the Rh-negative blood type have a natural immunity to viruses, including Ebola. We've delved into this theory to separate fact from fiction and find out how it evolved.
First, let's talk facts, starting with a refresher course on blood types. Everyone has different "markers" in their red blood cells (also called antigens). They identify our blood cells to our own body and help our body recognize an invader. Humans can have one of four main blood groups, and each type has its own marker: A, B, AB and O.
On top of these four blood types, some people have an extra marker, called the "Rh factor." Rh is an abbreviation for "rhesus." If you have the Rh marker, you are Rh-positive. Rh-positive blood is much more common than Rh-negative blood. Around 85 percent of Caucasians are Rh-positive, with those of African descent, Asians and Native Americans having an even higher percentage [source: Penn State Hershey]. If you don't have the marker, you are "Rh-negative." This percentage of people is much lower.
However, having any sort of genetic marker in your blood doesn't really make much of a difference, health-wise. The only time the Rh factor really comes into play is during a woman's pregnancy. If you're Rh-positive and the father is Rh-negative, there's no cause for concern. If both you and the father are Rh-negative, there's no reason to worry either.
However, if you're Rh-negative and the father is Rh-positive, you and your fetus can experience blood incompatibility [source: Penn State Hershey]. If Rh-positive blood (the fetal blood) gets into your system, your blood can start producing antibodies that could attack the baby's red blood cells, causing anything from anemia to more serious complications. In the past, this used to be a dangerous risk, but now the mother can take a vaccine to prevent blood cells from attacking the fetus.
We don't really know why people have this extra antigen any more than we know why some people have Type A blood and some people have Type B blood. Geneticist Khameeka Kitt explains that most differences are simply caused by run-of-the-mill DNA mutations occurring over the course of evolution. She mentions a theory, though, that Rh-negative individuals appear to be more resistant to the Toxoplasma parasite. However, it's just a theory for now.
The bottom line is that we have a lot more to learn and understand about the Rh factor, and the words "more resistant" do not mean "immune." However, a handful of people think they have the answer about the Rh factor, and that answer is, well, really "out there."


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Welcome to the website of author Roy Widing. Roy lives in Oregon's Willamette Valley and writes both non-fiction and fiction. Below is information on his books.
'Sluggy:' Bogie's Other Baby
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For seven years, Mayo Methot was married to stage and screen actor Humphrey Bogart during the peak of his career. Considered by some as Hollywood's greatest leading man, a bookshelf of biographies prove his lasting 'star power.' Less recognized is Mayo Methot's own stardom on both the Broadway stage and in film. Along with her colorful, high-profile behavior and marriage to one of Hollywood's biggest performers, Mayo Methot's life is replete with talent, drama, celebrity, high stakes and controversy—all ingredients for a fascinating book.
'Sluggy' intersects with interesting and conflicted celebrities during a special time known as Hollywood's 'Golden Age.' Anyone curious about their seven year roller-coaster Hollywood marriage will find 'Sluggy' a revealing view into the mercurial relationship that even movie 'tough guy' Humphrey Bogart couldn't control. Humphrey Bogart's fourth wife was sometimes called 'Bogie's Baby.' Yet years before Bacall was Bogie's other baby, Mayo Methot.
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'Whispers From The Tomb'
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Roy Widing's non-fiction book 'Whispers From The Tomb' begins with the accidental discovery of a magnificent tomb unlocked for the public only once a year. Inside are two enormous marble sarcophagi standing side-by-side for more than half a century.
This launches a quest to know more. Who are these people and why was this lavish structure built? We learn the deceased man is a wealthy businessman who immigrates to the United States in his youth. But little is known about the mysterious woman next to him. Digging back in time yields tantalizing clues.
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Almost worthy of a spy novel, we learn the man's body is exhumed from his initial burial plot and spirited to his final resting place inside the opulent tomb. Whispers From The Tomb next uncovers multiple headline-making courtroom dramas. Each involves the deceased wealthy man, his massive estate, those expecting to gain from it and the mysterious woman resting beside him. Read 'Whispers From The Tomb.' It's history, mystery, romance…and all true!
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11-22-1963: New Evidence
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November 22, 1963 is a day that forever changed the course of history. Adults of the time remember where they were and what they were doing when President John F. Kennedy was assassinated. Nearly half a century later, most Americans continue to believe there was a conspiracy to kill President Kennedy and doubt suspected assassin Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone. The United States House Select Subcommittee on Assassinations also came to the conclusion that President Kennedy was '…probably assassinated as a result of a conspiracy.'
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In his novel 11-22-1963: New Evidence, author Roy Widing shows how the mysterious murder of a president may still be solved using yet-unexamined evidence. Buy the Kindle e-book edition of 11-22-1963: New Evidence here. Click the Amazon logo below to order the print edition of 11-22-1963: New Evidence.
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"THE PERSONAL HISTORY OF DAVID COPPERFIELD"
(2020) (Dev Patel, Tilda Swinton) (PG)
Drama: A boy grows up into a young man while facing various trials and tribulations in 19th century England.
It's the 1800s and David Copperfield (JAIRAJ VARSANI) is a boy growing up in Suffolk, England with his widowed mother, Clara (MORFYDD CLARK), and their housekeeper, Peggotty (DAISY MAY COOPER). As Clara begins to see businessman Edward Murdstone (DARREN BOYD), David is sent off to the coast to live with the housekeeper's brother, Daniel (PAUL WHITEHOUSE), and the kids he's adopted, Ham (ANTHONY WELSH) and Emily (AIMEE KELLY), and has a grand time there.
When David returns home, he learns that his mother has married Murdstone whose equally cold sister, Jane (GWENDOLINE CHRISTIE), has moved in and taken over with him. When his new father-in-law believes the boy to be insolent, he sends him off to a sweatshop bottling factory where David otherwise lives with Wilkins Micawber (PETER CAPALDI) -- a charismatic fellow who owes a lot of different people money -- and his family, and grows up into a young man (DEV PATEL) there.
When Edward and Jane coldly inform David that his mother has died and the funeral has already occurred, the boy runs off for Dover to find his only living relative, the eccentric Betsey Trotwood (TILDA SWINTON) who lives with her even more eccentric cousin, Mr. Dick (HUGH LAURIE), who takes a platonic liking to David. With Mr. Wickfield (BENEDICT WONG) handling Betsey's finances, David ends up meeting his daughter, Agnes (ROSALIND ELEAZAR), who takes an instant liking to David even if he only views her as akin to a sister.
Soon, David is sent off to school where he meets head classmate James Steerforth (ANEURIN BARNARD), and the two quickly bond, including in making fun of young worker Uriah Heep (BEN WHISHAW) who nonetheless tries to make friends with David.
Once out in the real world, David lands a job as a proctor and ends up falling for his boss' daughter, Dora Spenlow (MORFYDD CLARK), much to the chagrin of Agnes. As David enjoys finally having made it in a tough world, many of the various characters from his past end up returning and ultimately shape his future.
OUR TAKE: 5.5 out of 10
I haven't the faintest idea what literary work holds the record for the longest title, but I'd guess that "The Personal History, Adventures, Experience and Observation of David Copperfield the Younger of Blunderstone Rookery (Which He Never Meant to Publish on Any Account)" has to be high up on the list.
The eighth novel by esteemed author Charles Dickens, it's best known by only part of that title, "David Copperfield" and was first published as a two-year serial beginning in 1849 and then a full-fledged book in 1850. It's considered by many as Dickens' masterpiece, a part autobiographical work noted by the author as being a complicated weaving of truth and invention, and has been adapted to both TV and film a number of times.
The latest arrives in the form of "The Personal History of David Copperfield," a film that was high on my list of must-sees due to the cast -- including the likes of Dev Patel, Hugh Laurie, Tilda Swinton, and others -- the way the trailer played out, and remembering enjoying reading the work long, long ago in high school.
Granted, my life back in those days was very Beaver Cleaverish and thus quite removed from what Dickens presented for his titular protagonist, all of which made it all the more interesting and engaging to me back then. That said, and with the passage of many intervening decades and lost memory cells, I couldn't say I remembered more than scant details, characters, or even the tone (straight-up drama, satire, black comedy, etc.) of the work.
Accordingly, as I sat down to watch the offering I pretty much went in with a blankish slate, not sure what I'd recall but greatly hoping I'd be as entertained by this latest iteration as I was by the original.
Directed by Armando Iannucci from a screenplay adaptation he co-wrote with Simon Blackwell, the film has its winning moments and delightfully daffy work from some of the performers, along with some creative directorial touches. Overall, though, it feels rushed, occasionally seems a touch artificial in terms of tone and at times comes off as a bit disjointed, perhaps signally that it too should have been spread out over a miniseries like some of its predecessors and thus allowing its various parts to have a bit more breathing room.
Using the unnecessary framing device of our adult protagonist (Patel) reading his semi-autobiography to an assembled audience, the film then rewinds back to his birth where -- in one of several meta moments -- that very man is there to witness his own arrival into the world.
Patel then disappears for a while and we follow the younger version of the protagonist (played by Jairaj Varsani) who has an otherwise happy childhood -- including a visit to an upside-down boat home on the coast where he meets orphaned kids Ham (Anthony Welsh) and Emily (Aimee Kelly). But all of that is upended by the arrival of a mean stepfather (Darren Boyd) and his equally cold sister (Gwendoline Christie) who domineer young David's mother (Morfydd Clark).
Labeled an insolent troublemaker, he's then shipped off to live with a charismatic grifter (a fun Peter Capaldi) -- although perhaps he's just bad with money and thus has debt collectors always after him and his possessions -- while working at a bottling factory where the child sweatshop working conditions are less than ideal.
He (back in Patel form) eventually goes to live with his eccentric aunt (Swinton) and her even more wackadoodle cousin (Laurie) who believes a long-dead and beheaded former monarch's words keep flowing into his head. That leads to an introduction to her financial man (Benedict Wong) and his adult daughter (Rosalind Eleazar) and then a trip to a boarding school where he makes friends with another classmate (Aneurin Barnard) and tries to avoid the somewhat creepy but otherwise friendly school servant (Ben Whishaw) and namesake for a future English rock band. And that eventually leads to meeting Dora (also Morfydd Clark), his new boss' young adult daughter with whom he's instantly smitten.
That's a lot of characters and subplots and I felt they simply overwhelmed the film's not-long-enough running time of around 120 minutes. Again, there are delights to be had at various points. I just wish they and the overall offering were given more time to operate. As it stands, "The Personal History of David Copperfield" rates as a 5.5 out of 10.
Reviewed August 24, 2020 / Posted August 28, 2020


April 17, 1999 was the 107th day of the year 1999 in the Gregorian calendar. There were 258 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week was Saturday.
A person born on this day will be 20 years old today. If that same person saved a dollar every day starting at age 5, then by now that person has accumulated $5,481.00 today.


At a Casino Royale theme party, the chips are never down!
Whether you prefer a lucky spin at the Money Wheel, a thrilling go-round at the Roulette table, or a Blackjack double-down, you and your guests will lose yourselves in an evening of excitement.
You can host the ultimate games night by inviting your friends and co-workers to a lavish Casino Royale casino night, ripped from the playbook of James Bond himself.
With opulent chandeliers, an old-fashioned oak bar for refreshments, and an array of classy gaming tables, you will feel like you've just walked into a glamorous casino in an old Bond movie.
One of the best things about staging a fun and exciting Casino Royale party is the attire.
Your guests will try to outdo each other with stylish outfits and handsome suits. Most people have special clothes in the back of their closets that they're saving for the right formal occasion, and your James Bond-style casino night is just the ticket.
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Forget about being dressed to the nines: your guests will be dressed to the tens, jacks, queens and kings!
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If you live or work in the Atlanta area and need to plan your next Christmas party or event, Funtastic Events has everything you need to host a fun and memorable party for your guests.
Whether it's a small party or a huge event, we can work with you to provide Atlanta Christmas entertainment perfect for your special occasion.
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Madison's music scene has, for a long time, been seen as a stepping stone to the spotlight.
With its proximity to Chicago and the University of Wisconsin's ability to bring in listeners from all over the country, Madison has been a prime spot for emerging musicians to develop and foster the growth of a core fanbase.
For Gloss Coats' Hernán Diaz, however, this simply is not good enough. After bringing his project The Dagger Complex from his native Santiago, Chile to Madison along with Michaela Boman, changing its name and linking up with new bandmates, Gloss Coats have become one of the 608's most polished groups. They have won multiple opening slots from groups like Jimmy Eat World and The Staves.
He believes if the local music scene, from talent to management to production, were to truly link up, Madison could quickly become a part of the national music conversation.
For this week's Conversation Starter, The Badger Herald talked to Diaz about his musical origins, Gloss Coats' direction and his aspirations for Madison's music scene in general.
The Badger Herald: You just opened up for The Staves by their selection. How are you all feeling a few days removed?
Hernán Diaz: Pretty great. It feels like this is us stepping into the direction that we would like to be going, but not just in Wisconsin, and then hopefully not just in the United States — if you know what I mean?
BH: Yeah definitely. Was it pretty simple how it all went down? Did you just send them a recording, they liked you and that was it?
HD: Yes, kind of like that. We sent an email. I just looked at it and [I thought] this is something that I should be doing. This is also not the first time that we've had something like this happen to us. It's actually happened quite a few times now.
BH: In terms of an artist selecting you?
HD: We've played shows of that same nature, where the artists themselves get to choose the other supporting artists. It's happened to us with the band Warpaint [back in Santiago], who we really, really like. It's happened to us with Jimmy Eat World at the Barrymore Theater here in Madison.
BH: What led you to move to Madison in the first place?
HD: Mainly because one of us got a job here and we also, we were looking to move to not a gigantic city. We wanted to make it comfortable. We wanted to make it more organic and Madison was one of the choices.
Although I, of course, I'm a city guy. I come from Santiago, it's five point something million people. I really, really love Chicago. I've been there quite a few times and have friends from there, and being here, playing music and going to shows I've made friends that are actually touring the world and that are in bands from Chicago and stuff like that.
In the end, we chose Madison because we thought it was a balance of music scene and there was room for us to be doing things. Yeah, so far it's been great and we love it here. I'm happy that we can now call this place our home.
BH: I imagine this led to changing up the band's lineup?
HD: That's right. As far as musicians go, as far as the lineup of the live band goes, yes. [The] difference between [the former] lineup and now is just people play differently and they express and translate the music differently. But originally this is my project and Michaela [Boman's] as well. She has to do more-so in the lyrics with her songs. Then the rest is just the music that I make the most and that was the same case with the other band back in my country.
BH: Let's get into the music itself. What struck me the most about your music is that you mix different styles, mainly psych pop and alt rock, really well. How do you account for the diversity of your sound?
HD: To tell you the truth it's just that we go through phases and the world is going so fast when it comes to music. Everybody's releasing records like it was nothing almost.
The people digest those records like a pill and you swallowed it in that bit. Super fast. It's out there, you know about it really fast.
Somehow that filters through the music that we make. I understand that there is a lot of styles and each song is almost like a trip of, traveling through different places. I think it's mostly because we are always listening to different kinds of music and we have our ears very open. We're just like sponges, you know?
BH: What was the creative process like for your LP Vibrant, which you released over the summer?
HD: When it comes to writing for Vibrant, it was mostly me. I started recording with my acoustic guitar on Garage Band and then everything developed from that. From not knowing what was going to happen, one thing led to another, I started adding more things and I brought more people to see how it sounds live. It worked out.
As of now, we have a different writing process. I'm letting the band become what I always wanted it to be. I would have hated for the project to be a solo thing. I'm a believer of bands. Two heads think better than one, and three better than two, and so on and so forth.
BH: What are your goals for the upcoming months?
HD: I would say that I would love for people to be more involved when it comes to [the music scene]. Even more so than they are already now.
If we all come together for it, as listeners, as supporters, as musicians, as producers, as promoters, as venue owners, as everything, if we come together more and try to do something as a collective.
It's a new project of mine that I'm trying do, and I'll be working side-by-side with other people that have been in bands from here in town as well, where we make a bigger voice for all of those bands here in Madison.
Even if you're not part of the band or part of the show team, even if your friends of some of us or you go and listen to the songs and you go to the shows, you are still part of this scene and this collective of great artists around town and in Wisconsin.
If we came together, we would have a bigger chance to get a lot more hype or a lot more noise out there for them to be able to do what they want to do. It's more-so for the city itself to do more things that local bands and bands from outside of the state are involved in.


What do you do when you are at the end of your mom rope? This is week five or six of survival mode. Nauseousness is becoming my new normal. Reuben has not been sleeping well. Right now we are both sick; Daddy has been working 11 hour days and I just realized yesterday that I need help.
I need help but I don't know where to find it. All my friends are also exhausted overworked moms. My sister just had a baby and I can't even take care of myself right now, much less help her. My mom has chronic lyme and is also in need of help I can't give. Everyone needs help! We all need help but I'm still slowly drowning over here.
I'm so behind on everything. I feel like I will never be caught up. Every day I get through the day and my toddler is fed and usually I am fed and that is it. I feel like I am intellectually and emotionally starving. I have not been able to work on my book, knit, crochet or make a video. I miss those parts of myself because they were cathartic.
Everything feels insurmountable. Dishes? I get ill looking at them. It takes all day to have the energy to do them sometimes. I am so tired all of the time. I don't function well on little sleep. I have not had alone time with my husband in weeks, since Reuben is refusing to go to bed until we do. I don't have the energy to fight him every night, when my "morning sickness" is the worst and I'm exhausted physically and emotionally.
I feel like my life is on replay. I watch Reuben and try to connect with him and try to nap when he naps and watch way to much TV and get annoyed with him because he has to touch everything all the time and specifically he has to be touching me and nothing makes my anxiety skyrocket then sticky toddler fingers in my hair. The poor dude is sick too, and thus wanting to nurse extra.
I love nursing. Well, I loved nursing when I wasn't pregnant. Now it is kind of like a slow torture. I don't even know if I am making any milk to help him!
Well, then daddy gets home and we both collapse on the couch and eat whatever I made or usually what he brought for dinner and I cry inwardly from exhaustion while he changes Reuben's diaper and we watch more TV because we can't function.
I love being a mom. I love Reuben, I love that we are being blessed with a new baby. But I am so mentally and physically tired. I don't know how to pull myself out of this hole. I am trying to fall on my face before God but I am even too tired to do that most days! It does not help that I am bad at accepting help from others. I feel like I bother them, like I'm some giant inconvenience. The further I get behind the more guilt I feel. We've been missing church and small group--connections as an extrovert that I really need not to miss! Last week our washing machine AND our mower broke. Our budget is shot. Everything feels out of control.
Lately I've just felt...that I can't do this anymore. That something has to change. But I don't know what, where, or when or how. I feel like I'm failing as a wife, a friend, a mother, and as a creative person.
Reuben also turned two yesterday and I was too sick to take him anywhere to celebrate. I still have his cake to make him, he's excited to make it with me. He doesn't know he's two. When I ask him how old he is, he says "two in July" because that is what I have told him for the last six months when anyone asks. I always said "he turns two in July". It is so cute. He really makes me happy. If only he wasn't so high maintenance sometimes! I have no idea how he is going to cope with sharing mommy and daddy with a new tiny human. My gut tells me it is going to be a huge adjustment for him, just like I am sure it will be for me.


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Some different prints of the all-time classic. 1. Raw untouched video master - how the film has been seen on late night TV and PD video's and DVDs for years. 2. A remastered version of the film presented in HD. 3. Rare international widescreen theatrical release print presented 16:9 enhanced. Copyright Status: PUBLIC DOMAIN Published without a valid Copyright Notice. Type of Work: Cancelled Registration Cancelled Registration Number: PA0000046101 PA reg. cancelled. Published pre '78 without copyright notice. Title: Night of the living dead / an Image Ten production ; produced by Russell W.
This is the full 1080p Blu-Ray rip (m2ts) of "Night of the Living Dead" (IMDB) as well as other versions derived from it. The mkv's each have the DTS and AC3 soundtracks with the chapters info included. Please enjoy and let me know if there are problems with any of the files.
In this classic yet still creepy horror film, strangers hold up in a rural Pennsylvania farmhouse and battle constant attacks from dead locals who have been brought back to life by mysterious radiation. Note: This item contains a user-contributed srt subtitle file. To use this file you must download an srt compatible player and point it at the correct video and srt files (google for srt subtitles).
The dead come back to life and terrorize a group of people trapped inside a rural Pennsylvania farmhouse. "It has been established that persons who have recently died have been returning to life and committing acts of murder. A wide investigation of reports from funeral homes, morgues and hospitals has concluded that the unburied dead are coming back to life and seeking human victims..."
In this classic yet still creepy horror film, strangers hold up in a rural Pennsylvania farmhouse and battle constant attacks from dead locals who have been brought back to life by mysterious radiation.
WARNING - This is a graphic horror film with some gory special effects.


The eighth book in the Cooper Kids Adventure Series, this thrilling adventure in the sky will keep eyes glued to it's exciting conclusion.
Mayday at Two Thousand Five Hundred by Frank E Peretti was published by Thomas Nelson in June 2005 and is our 11752nd best seller. The ISBN for Mayday at Two Thousand Five Hundred is 9781400305773.
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any more guesses? I have to wait 3 mins cause it's a digital one!
thats poo! I thought it was precise - how dumb am i!
OOOhh I've missed something, didn't know you were even pregnant again - congratulations!
I might have the wrong person here (sorry if I have) but weren't you the lady who had pcos? Just asking cos I suffered with it before conceived my lo (after a long wait) so good to know you can conceive quickly again! Although my hormones seem back to normal since having lo a year ago so fingers crossed!
oooh, how exciting! DO you have the scan booked or are you waiting for them to give you a date for it? You'll have to let us know as soon as you know anything more!


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Meet the bakers making their big Bake Off debut tonight
29/08/2017, 1:36 am Updated: 30/08/2017, 12:02 am
The Great British Bake Off will welcome a batch of 12 fresh faces to the competition tent this week, putting their artistic and engineering – as well as their baking – skills to the ultimate TV test.
With hours to go before the show makes its Channel 4 debut, here are the dozen hopefuls who will rise to the challenge for cake week.
1. Liam, 19, from North London
Meet drama student, Liam (Mark Bourdillon/Channel 4/PA)
Known among his friends as the Cake Boy, Liam discovered his passion for baking four years ago and is already working on how to turn it into a career combined with his drama degree.
2. Stacey, 42, from Hertfordshire
Stacey loves to bake for her three boys (Mark Bourdillon/Channel 4/PA)
The former school teacher was first inspired in the kitchen by her grandmother and likes to express her Jewish heritage through her cooking, serving up a traditional Challah every Friday.
3. Tom, 29, from Edinburgh
Tom's speciality: shortbread (Mark Bourdillon/Channel 4/PA)
All of architect Tom's siblings were taught to bake by their mother and his speciality is still the fresh shortbread he makes for partner David and their friends and family.
4. Sophie, 33, from Surrey
Multi-talented Sophie (Mark Bourdillon/Channel 4/PA)
A psychology graduate, trainee stuntwoman and former Royal Artillery officer, it was only when she volunteered to make a friend's birthday cake that Sophie discovered she also had talent in the kitchen.
5. James, 46, from Essex
Vegetable-grower James (Mark Bourdillon/Channel 4/PA)
The family man and banker was taught to bake as a child by his father, and the pair now grow their own fruit and vegetables to use in their recipes.
6. Yan, 46, from North London
Yan keeping her cool (Mark Bourdillon/Channel 4/PA)
Yan turned her attention to baking to fill time between working 24-hour shifts for the NHS as a molecular biologist, an intensive job that helped her deal with the pressure in the Bake Off tent.
7. Steven, 34, from Hertfordshire
Steven is dreaming of a future in baking (Mark Bourdillon/Channel 4/PA)
Steven learnt his kitchen craft from mum Judi – starting with a lemon drizzle cake at the age of nine – and is now considering trading in his career in marketing for a future in baking.
8. Flo, 71, from Merseyside
Flo made it to the tent after a nidge from her kids (Mark Bourdillon/Channel 4/PA)
The eldest Bake Off contestant to date, Flo began baking as a way to help her cope with the death of her husband and thanks her children for persuading her to apply for the show.
9. Chris, 50, from Bristol
The new Heston Blumenthal: Chris (Mark Bourdillon/Channel 4/PA)
A cancer survivor and campaigner, Chris got into the show while recovering in hospital and is now known as "Heston Blumenthal" by his mates for his quirky flavour combinations.
10. Julia, 21, from West Sussex
Devoted baker Julia (Mark Bourdillon/Channel 4/PA)
GBBO inspired Julia to hone her baking skills almost as soon as she moved to the UK from her native Serbia three years ago. As soon as she won a place in the tent she quit her job to commit full-time.
11. Peter, 52, from Essex
Bread expert Peter (Mark Bourdillon/Channel 4/PA)
The IT programme manager and family man first fell in love with making his own healthy bread and now prides himself on whipping up the perfect macaron.
12. Kate, 29, from Merseyside
Baking is just one of Kate's many skills (Mark Bourdillon/Channel 4/PA)
A health and safety inspector, blacksmith, furniture restorer and yoga enthusiast, the self-taught baker described being inside the GBBO tent as the real life-changing experience.
The Great British Bake Off airs on Channel 4 at 8pm on Tuesday.
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