Aunt Ruth's Toffee: Vicki Gans is delivering orders for Christmas candies today.
The Parish Council meets in Father's office during social hour.
Royal Hours at 9:00 a.m.
Vesperal Liturgy follows around 10:00 a.m.
Orthros (Matins) of Christmas at 9:00 p.m.
Nativity Liturgy follows around 10:00 p.m.
Break the Fast light pitch-in meal follows the Divine Liturgy.
Prayer List: Vivian Orfanos; Danica D'Onofrio; Kh. Loretta Wilson; Chad & Connie; Beth; Jeffry Ellis; Vicki; Lillian Miller; Dee; Julie; Roger; Stephanie; Virginia McCallister; Abducted Bishops Met. Paul and Mar Gregorios; Dolly Seek; Marilyn; Eric; Marna; Cheryl; Lori; Pam; Debbie; Natasha; Ioana; Geni Gritton; Michael & Shelley: Leanne; Jill Patterson; Gabriel; Mary; Alex; Doug; Janet; Kelly; Pete; Phillip; Patricia; Matushka Raisa; John C; Marty; John; Charles; Fr. John Koen; Archpriests Alexander and Roman; Eileen; Mary; Marvin, Alice; Katie; Bob R; Deborah; Ruth; Steve; Kevin; Romaine; Steven; Mary; Derek, Claire & Micah; Tim; Preston; Sharon; Sherri; Dianna; Victor; Aaron; Brent; Christy; Jennifer; Brigid.


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Making a Memorable Reunion
Mary and Connie find their husbands in an early reunion photo
Did your family, like ours, have a reunion this summer? It's not too soon to begin planning your next one—no matter when you want to schedule it.
About sixteen years ago, when my dad and his youngest sister Mary were the only siblings still alive out of the original seven, we began a tradition of getting together every other August. Our reunions not only allow family members of all ages to connect with each other in a deeper way, but we also feel more connected to previous generations.
Here are some of the fun ideas we've used to help draw us closer. Feel free to adapt them for your next family get-together.
~Genealogy Chart
Cousin Jackie's an expert genealogist who has unearthed fascinating stories about the family. She contributed a beautiful genealogy chart (above) showing ancestors from Thomas and Ethel Rawlins, the parents of the seven siblings mentioned above, all the way back to the 1700s. The chart is featured at every reunion.
~Family Trees
Some of us see each other only at reunions. We use Sister Patty's family "Tree" to help us place people in the proper families and learn their names. Photos of Thomas and Ethel are at the base of the tree. Twigs on separate branches for each of their seven children feature pictures of the siblings' children's and grandchildren.
~Reunion Albums
Cousin Bill, a photographer, made a 2-by-3-foot blow-up of a photo from the first Rawlins reunion. All the cousins, in their sixties and seventies now, were crowded together on the grass in a laughing group. Today's children like to pick out their grandparents in the black-and-white photo.
(All three of the above ideas can be seen in the above photo.)
Today everyone has a digital camera, so we take lots of pictures. We keep an album chronicling each reunion. It's fun to leaf through the pages, watching the changes as the children grow up and revisiting memories of loved ones no longer with us.
~T-shirts
At one reunion, someone brought several plain t-shirts and some fine-point permanent markers. We signed our names on each shirt, as decorative or simple as we wished. Later, names were drawn to choose the shirts' lucky recipients. Another time, everyone wore matching t-shirts screen printed with "Rawlins Reunion" across a silhouette of a tree.
~Video recordings
Video recordings of previous reunions are fun to watch and become increasingly precious as the years pass. One of the most enjoyable featured Aunt Mary, one of the seven siblings, sharing memories of her North Dakota childhood and the early years of the family in Washington.
Everyone, young to old, has fun at the Rawlins Reunion
~Games
Different volunteers at each reunion supervise games for kids and grownups. Home-grown fun is best…like this wrap-the-mummy contest, using toilet paper and cooperative volunteers like Delaney.
~Picture Match
This year we had a contest to see who could match the most graduation photos with the present-day versions of the same people. Most kids were able to pick out their own parents and grandparents, and everyone had fun seeing how we've changed.
Listening to William's story
~Tell Me a Story
When our great-great-great grandfather Thomas Main Redfield, a blacksmith, was alive, he wrote long poems telling stories of his family and his travels. William Shaw, his many-times-removed great grandson, turned one of those poems about two children being rescued from a runaway horse and carriage into a dramatic reading. His sister Clarissa Austin expanded another family story about Grandmother Ethel and a prairie fire into a narrative that had us all wondering what would happen next.
~Interviews
Young family members were given a list of questions to use in interviewing older members. Then each interviewer introduced his or her partner and shared the fun and surprising facts they'd uncovered.
~Timelines
Eugene and Vicki look over the timeline
In a timeline game, Cousin Vickie handed out strips of paper: yellow for Grandfather Thomas's side of the family, green for Grandmother Ethel's, and blue for their descendants. Names and dates were printed on each strip. All those with a strip of paper gathered at the front where we could all see them, and at a signal, they hurried to arrange themselves by color and date. Then each person put his or her family member(s) in the proper place on a vertical timeline. By this time names were becoming familiar and the timeline helped us see the continuity of the generations.
~Sing-Alongs
Everyone knows "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star"
We brought one of our most enjoyable family reunions to a close with an old-fashioned sing-along. We'd planned to use old-time favorites such as "Bicycle Built for Two" and "Cruisin' Down the River on a Sunday Afternoon. We found that not even the oldsters knew all the words, so next time we'll make song booklets so everybody can join in. Meanwhile, we improvised with a mixture of children's tunes and campfire songs.
Author joanrawlinshusbyPosted on September 23, 2011 September 20, 2017 Categories family, family histories, family reunions, ideas for reunions, reunions1 Comment on Making a Memorable Reunion
James Mason Rawlings: Loyalist or Traitor?
(This is Part 3 of a 3-part story. For the rest of the story, read the blogposts for Aug. 28 and 30.)
With the discovery of their plot against the Revolution's local leaders, the conspirators, including James Rawlings, fled. He must have kept in contact with his family, because about a month later a man named Abram Jones heard that "a certain James Rawlings was one of the heads amongst the Tories and that he was expected to pass by the settlement of Mattamuskeet, or to call there about the next day."
Lake Mattamuskeet is in Hyde County, on the coast of North Carolina. At that time, it was open to the sea, although now it is a self-contained lake. Jones kept watch for Rawlings. When he spied a small sail off in the sound, he took four men with him and set off after the boat. He found Rawlings and his family in the boat, heading out to sea where they hoped to meet up with an English vessel. One of the children, George, was only three or four years of age. Jones captured Rawlings and carried him before a magistrate, who took the deposition quoted earlier.
In a follow-up letter from James Rawlings to the "Worshipful Justices of New Bern," he gave more details about his co-conspirator Lewellen's schemes. He also said, "Knowing the great influence Capt. Lewelling has over that neighborhood (I) have great reason to fear he will make attempts to invalidate my testimony." Rawlings stated that he'd refused to kill anyone and "that I, being a poor man, have reason to fear his (Lewelling's) power and influence over others to my hurt, as all the friends or power I have is to declare the Truth and Humbly Crave pardon for having had any hand in said plot or Scheme, testifying whatever shall come to my Memory I will make known about the matter."
Evidently he had reason to fear Lewelling's influence. He was jailed…for a while. The next mention of him is a wanted notice from Craven County, North Carolina. It appeared October 24, 1777, in the Virginia Gazette, an early newspaper in Colonial Virginia, along with wanted notices for two other men.
The notice reads as follows:
James Mason Rawlings for high treason, he is a noted villain, and one of the principals in the late conspiracy against the state, has lived for 2 years past in Martin County, and is a very famous in the art of Legerdemaen, about 40 years of age, of a very black complexion and had a cut on one of his cheeks, given under seal 9 Sep. 1777.
A reward of ten pounds was offered for Rawlings, 5 pounds for each of the other two.
The notice indicates that James Rawlings had escaped his confinement and that he was considered important enough to appear in a Virginia newspaper. At the time of the notice James had lived in Martin County for about two years, 1776 and 1777. He had a dark complexion and a scar (or maybe a wound?) on one of his cheeks. The word legerdemain means sleight-of-hand trickery of any sort. This implies that he was very clever and hard to catch.
Rawlins descendants learning about their history, August 2011
One researcher discovered that between September 11, 1777 and November, 1777, Rawlings had signed up to sail from New Bern with Captain William Pile but did not report. Pile testified on November 22 that a Colonel White from Georgia had promised Rawlings a better situation and the last Pile had heard, Rawlings was "on the way to South Carolina in the company of Colonel White's wagons."
Whatever happened, James Mason Rawlings dropped from sight. One branch of family tradition holds that he was recaptured and executed. Other family members believed he escaped to England, where he lived out his life.
After James Mason Rawlings disappeared, Priscilla and their children remained on the North Carolina frontier. His brothers and his own family dropped the "g" from Rawlings, perhaps to avoid being associated with his disgrace. In 1782, Priscilla Rawlins and her daughter Nancy are shown on the membership role for Sandy Run Baptist Church in Rutherford County, North Carolina.
Records of the early Mormon Church show that their grandson James, an early Mormon convert, had a baptism-for-the-dead ceremony done for James Mason and Priscilla. Since this James was aware that his grandfather was dead, he must have had some knowledge of his death and therefore, the tradition of James Mason Rawlings deserting his family and never being heard from again doesn't seem to ring true.
The family must have loved and had fond memories of their grandfather, since many of his descendants carried his name. One of his children, Charles, became our direct ancestor. His descendants followed the frontier westward, preaching, farming, blacksmithing, teaching, and helping to build America.
More about some of them later!
Author joanrawlinshusbyPosted on September 9, 2011 September 20, 2017 Categories American Revolution, early American history, James Mason Rawlings, Loyalists, Mattamuskeet, North Carolina history, patriots, treasonLeave a comment on James Mason Rawlings: Loyalist or Traitor?

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MechWarrior 4: Black Knight è un videogioco pubblicato da Microsoft il 30 novembre del 2001. Si tratta della prima espansione di MechWarrior 4: Vengeance, entrambi simulazioni di pilotaggio di mech (con visuale in prima o in terza persona), ricavati dal gioco da tavolo BattleTech, dell'editore FASA.

Trama

Premessa
All'alba del XXII secolo, l'uomo acquisisce la possibilità di viaggiare celermente fra stella e stella. Viene così avviata l'esplorazione prima, e la colonizzazione in seguito, della Via Lattea. Inner Sphere, Periphery e Deep Periphery, sono le denominazioni di altrettante regioni siderali colonizzate. La Inner Sphere, la regione più popolosa, che abbraccia la Terra con un raggio di 450-550 anni luce, è suddivisa in cinque vastissime "nazioni interstellari", (il Commonwealth Lirico, i Soli Confederati, la Lega Draconis, la Confederazione di Capella e la Lega dei Mondi Liberi), dominate da altrettante dinastie di Grandi Casate nobiliari, in lotta fra di loro (la rapida espansione umana ha avuto, come conseguenza indiretta, la disgregazione del potere centrale della Terra e l'innesco di notevoli tensioni sociali, alimentate dalla corsa per l'accaparramento delle nuove risorse).

Contesto storico

La Lega Stellare
Dopo secoli di guerre fra le colonie, la Lega Stellare, un'alleanza interplanetaria (costituita nel 2571), fra la Terra e le Grandi Casate nobiliari, fece cessare ogni ostilità, proiettando la razza umana in un corso bicentenario di pace, cooperazione e progresso.

La Lega Stellare, in seguito ad una drammatica guerra civile, fu sciolta nel 2781.

Le Guerre di Successione
Il caos seguì la caduta della Lega Stellare: i governanti delle cinque Grandi Casate nobiliari, provocarono quattro guerre interstellari lunghe due secoli e mezzo, tentando ognuno di rifondare la Lega ed ottenerne il controllo, ma facendo scivolare la civiltà in una fase di pesante involuzione. Al tempo della fine della terza delle Guerre di Successione, l'umanità aveva perso quasi tutto il progresso tecnologico conseguito al tempo della Lega Stellare e i cosiddetti Stati Successori lottavano in un'interminabile serie di scaramucce, in cui nessuno dei contendenti riusciva a prevalere sull'altro.

Nel 3020, l'Arconte Katrina Steiner, leader del Commonwealth Lirico inviò una proposta di pace alle altre casate nobiliari. Solo il Principe Hanse Davion, guida dei Soli Confederati, accettò la proposta. Otto anni dopo (anche se in modo non ufficiale) venne stipulata un'alleanza che sancì l'unione dei due regni. L'aggregazione di questi stati, prese il nome di Commonwealth Federativo.

Guerra Civile del Commonwealth Federativo
Nel 3060, l'Arconte Katherine Morgan Steiner-Davion (guida della neo Alleanza Lirica, già Commonwealth Lirico) approfittò dell'assenza del fratello Victor (l'allora Principe-Arconte del Commonwealth Federativo, nonché Principe dei Soli Confederati), al fine d'usurpare il trono del Commonwealth Federativo.
Nel 3062 ebbe inizio la Guerra Civile del Commonwealth Federativo.

Contesto attuale
Kentares IV, uno dei numerosi mondi della Inner Sphere, è in stato in agitazione politica da quando il nobile Ian Dresari ha preso legittimo possesso del trono ducale, dopo il successo della campagna di liberazione dalle forze di occupazione Steiner.
Infatti, in seguito ad una massiccia campagna di disinformazione operata con estrema perizia dalla Casata degli Steiner, ampi disordini sono scoppiati. Costoro, si sono subdolamente mossi per far apparire il giovane duca come il responsabile della distruzione delle città del pianeta e dell'uccisione di numerosi civili innocenti.
Come risultato, parte della popolazione di Kentares IV si è ribellata contro il loro duca, accusandolo di tirannia.

Dopo anni di fedele servizio come uno dei comandanti dei Soli Confederati, Eric McClair si è trovato di fronte al tribunale militare della Casata Davion, in seguito ad una disputa con un ufficiale superiore: egli ha disobbedito all'ordine diretto di ritirarsi, scegliendo di avanzare dietro le linee nemiche per salvare la vita ad un pilota colpito (poi deceduto per le ferite riportate), commettendo in questo modo, una grave violazione della catena di comando.
McClair è prosciolto dalle accuse di insubordinazione, ma viene comunque colpito da provvedimento di congedo.
Caduto in disgrazia e senza occupazione, si rivolge alla Black Knight Legion del colonnello Michael Lawhorn. La Legione non è altro che una compagnia di MechWarrior mercenari (che pilotano BattleMech, ovvero mastodontici robot da guerra), con una spiccata reputazione per la ricerca spietata del profitto.

Onorando un contratto ottenuto dalla Legione, McClair riporta subito un successo contro le scorrerie di un gruppo di pirati verso le spedizioni di minerali della Corvatti Corporation (una società interplanetaria), su di un planetoide, avamposto minerario in proprietà agli Steiner.
In seguito alla vittoria, la Legione viene contattata da un ufficiale di collegamento Steiner, il maggiore Clarissa Dupree, il quale offre al colonnello Lawhorn (per conto di Katherine Steiner-Davion) un contratto per la riconquista di Kentares IV. Lawhorn accetta l'incarico.

Intanto McClair sale rapidamente i ranghi della Legione, diventando comandante in seconda del colonnello Lawhorn, nonché suo confidente.

Attraversando zone desertiche, montuose, urbane e vulcaniche di Kentares IV, McClair e la Legione sono testimoni della guerra civile in atto. Essi riportano, al fianco della milizia Steiner, una sequela di successi sulle forze fedeli al duca Dresari (McClair uccide il MechWarrior Casey Nolan, commilitone di Ian sin dai tempi della Resistenza contro gli Steiner e i loro sostenitori).
Con un voltafaccia, Dupree ordina alla milizia Steiner di annientare la Black Knight Legion. Il colonnello Lawhorn ed il suo ufficiale tattico vengono uccisi. Dupree accusa il duca Dresari per il tradimento, sostenendo che questi si sia accordato con gli Steiner per disperazione, nel tentativo di fermare la Legione. Il comando della compagnia mercenaria viene preso da McClair, il quale giura vendetta per l'assassinio di Lawhorn (egli adotta il nome di battaglia del colonnello, "Black Knight").

L'odio di McClair si manifesta dapprima sul duca Dresari. Fronteggia Ian e i suoi luogotenenti, Jules Gonzalez e Jen McQuarrie, abbattendo i loro mech e proclamando la morte del nobile. Per McClair, ora è giunto il momento di rivalersi sul maggiore Dupree per il suo tradimento. Dopo averlo rintracciato sul pianeta Voltrat III, procede ad annientare il battaglione di stanza su quel mondo. Ma Dupree attira in un'imboscata i gregari di McClair, quindi affronta in modo diretto, il loro nuovo comandante. Sconfitto, il maggiore tenta di fuggire a bordo di una capsula di salvataggio, con destinazione una Nave da Sbarco Steiner in orbita, attorno al pianeta. Il colonnello McClair, uccide Dupree distruggendo la sua capsula, quindi, reclama Voltrat III come proprietà della Legione (allo scopo di farne la base per le proprie future operazioni).

Modalità di gioco

Campaign
La campagna singleplayer consta di oltre 20 missioni. Con il progredire del gioco, più BattleMech (suddivisi in quattro categorie: leggeri, medi, pesanti e d'assalto), armi e protezioni attive, vengono messe a disposizione del giocatore. Nelle sessioni che precedono le operazioni, è possibile sostituire il mech da pilotare, gli armamenti, tipologia di armatura, i sistemi difensivi elettronici e la mimetizzazione con cui equipaggiarlo (tutte queste opzioni sono disponibili anche per i BattleMech dei gregari che accompagnano il giocatore in battaglia).

Prima di quasi ogni missione, è possibile accedere al mercato clandestino "Black Market", concludendo transazioni per l'acquisto e la vendita di mech, telai ed armi trafugati dai campi di battaglia (tutto ciò in aperta violazione delle norme restrittive in vigore negli "Stati Successori", le grandi nazioni interstellari che formano la Inner Sphere).

Instant Action
In "Instant Action", sono disponibili le seguenti modalità singleplayer:

 Mission Play. Questa modalità permette di rigiocare a missioni della Campagna, scegliendo fra ambientazioni diurne o notturne e facendosi accompagnare da un massimo di tre gregari.
 Training. È la modalità propedeutica alla Campagna.
 Wave. Modalità che consente di battagliare contro ondate cicliche di nemici (fino ad un massimo di quattro per incursione). Qui, è possibile impostare preventivamente livello di difficoltà, ora del giorno, scenario, numero di vite e di assalti da rintuzzare.
 Master Trials. Qui, tutti i parametri della missione vengono generati casualmente dal gioco.

Multiplayer
Il gioco presenta cinque modalità multiplayer:

 Absolute Attrition. A squadre o individuale, in questa modalità di combattimento, il punteggio viene assegnato sulla base di una combinazione fra danni inflitti e quelli subiti, prendendo in considerazione anche il tonnellaggio dei mech e il cosiddetto "fuoco amico". In generale, maggiore è il tonnellaggio del mech colpito, più elevato sarà il punteggio attribuito.
 Mech Strongholds. Solo a squadre, qui è necessario annientare il nemico e distruggerne il quartier generale. Alla formazione del punteggio contribuisce anche il numero di mech abbattuti dal giocatore e dalla propria squadra.
 Siege Assault. Solo a squadre, il meccanismo del punteggio è basato sulla difesa a tempo (e sulla demolizione) delle rispettive postazioni di comando. I punti vengono attribuiti considerando anche l'abbattimento di nemici o la perdita di mech alleati.
 Goliaths. Solo a squadre, in questa particolare modalità multiplayer, un manipolo di BattleMech d'assalto si difende dall'attacco di un numero elevato di mech leggeri e medi. Il punteggio varia in base agli abbattimenti e ai danni subiti. L'incidenza del punteggio assegnato varia anche in correlazione al tonnellaggio del mech sconfitto.
 Clan versus Inner Sphere. Due squadre (una della Inner Sphere e l'altra rappresentante i Clan) si affrontano. A ciascuna è concesso d'impiegare unicamente gli armamenti della propria "tradizione militare". Come in Absolute Attrition, il punteggio viene attribuito in base ad un rapporto fra danni e tonnellaggio del mech. Il fuoco amico causa la revoca di punti.

Fazioni
Tabelle riassuntive delle fazioni che si contendono lo spazio della Inner Sphere in MechWarrior 4: Black Knight:

BattleMech
Cinque nuovi modelli di BattleMech sono stati aggiunti in MechWarrior 4: Black Knight:

Armamenti
Le categorie di armi impiegabili in MechWarrior 4: Black Knight vengono rese più efficaci da una varietà di congegni complementari elettronici di monitoraggio e puntamento. Va considerato altresì, che tutte le classi indicate, liberano quantità di calore deleterio per il regolare funzionamento del mech; oltrepassata una certa soglia di sicurezza, si innesca infatti, l'auto-spegnimento temporaneo del BattleMech (disattivazione che si rende necessaria per scongiurare l'esplosione del reattore a fusione che lo muove):

Note

Voci correlate

 BattleTech
 MechWarrior
 BattleTech: Ubawareta Seihai
 MechWarrior (videogioco 1993)
 BattleTech: A Game of Armored Combat
 BattleTech: Gray Death Legion
 MechWarrior 3050
 BattleTech 3050
 MechWarrior 2: 31st Century Combat
 MechWarrior 2: Ghost Bear's Legacy
 NetMech

 MechWarrior 2: Mercenaries
 MechWarrior 3
 MechWarrior 3: Pirate's Moon
 MechWarrior 4: Vengeance
 MechWarrior 4: Inner Sphere Mech Pak
 MechWarrior 4: Clan Mech Pak
 MechWarrior 4: Mercenaries
 MechWarrior: Tactical Command
 MechWarrior Online
 MechWarrior Tactics
 MechWarrior 5: Mercenaries
 MechWarrior (serie)

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Moms and kids take a look at some of the items for sale during the recent church Bazaar in Whitlash. This was the 74th year for the event. Proceeds from the annual dinner and auction help support the Whitlash Presbyterian Church. The Bazaar was started in 1945 when a group of young adults in the church began fundraising to build the present church building. The church was dedicated in 1951.
Columnist's note: In the past three weeks two community gatherings were held at Liberty Hall in Whitlash. The Hall is a 103-year old community meeting place, the first building completed when more than a century ago the old town site was abandoned and moved to the current location. The hall was built before a permanent church building, though a congregation was already functioning. Early settlers recognized the need for community-wide gatherings and built a suitable place for them to happen.
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2 women kidnapped from Statesville church
CSI | January 1, 2010
STATESVILLE, N.C. — Authorities in Iredell County are searching for a man who kidnapped two women from a church in Statesville and then drove around town, using their ATM cards to withdraw money.
Statesville police say when the man walked into Broad Street United Methodist it was obvious that he wasn't coming to offer praise. He wore a ski mask and a hoodie.
"I guess I was dumbfounded that it happened," said Rev. Donald Shuman, the senior pastor.
The receptionist and the business manager had a gun stuck in their faces and the suspect demanded money. Said Shuman, "I've been in the ministry for 38 years and it's the first time this kind of thing has happened."
There was no money in the church safe, so the gunman grabbed both women and kidnapped them using a car belonging to one of the victims. Police say one woman was put in the trunk, the other in the passenger seat.
He then drove them along West Broad Street to a couple of ATMs belonging to Bank of America and BB&T. The BB&T is where police were able to get a security camera photo.
Statesville Police Chief Tom Anderson is hoping for the public's help. "If anybody saw a car similar to the victim's where a subject is wearing a ski mask that could help us."
The women were smart, they kept their cool and did exactly as they were told, but they also begged the gunman to let them out and he did along the 1300 block of Buffalo Shoals Road. They flagged down the first car they saw.
Said Shuman, "They are pretty shook up, but the one thing we are eternally grateful for is they are both safe."
Police say the gunmen tried to burn the car to destroy evidence, but an officer found it and put out the fire. Investigators are confident they will be able to find some evidence and find their robber.
"Well he is very intelligent. He is keeping his ski mask on. He is limiting conversation with the victim. He was also wearing gloves. We had cases in the past where trace evidence has been detected where most people wouldn't think it would be found. We're going to keep looking until we find something," said Anderson.
One of the victims is in her 70s, the other in her 40s. Shuman says it will be some time before they feel whole, but he knows it could have been much worse.
"God be the glory for that. It just could have turned out differently. Thank goodness they are safe."
Anyone with information should call Statesville police at 704-878-3406.
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Ula Stöckl
Filmemacherin · Professorin
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Stories Of The Dumpster Kid
Content | Dumpster Kid Menu | About the Film | Press
Germany 1969-1971
B/W + Color
Buch und Regie
und Edgar Reitz
Jobst Neuschäffer, Kenan Ormanlar, Guido Reitz, Jessy von Sternberg
Ekkehart Kühn
Edgar Reitz Filmproduktion
Das Kübelkind
Kristine Deloup
Kreditfachmann
Bruno Bendel (25)
Alf Brustellin (24)
ein guter Mensch
(21, 11)
Ilse Brustellin (11)
Schwiegervater
Hans Heinrich Brustellin (11)
Graf Rochefort
Hans Heinrich Brustellin (8, 24)
Antje Ellermann (2)
Frau Dr. Wohlfahrt
Heideweg Fankhänel
(2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 12, 25)
der junge Mönch
Peter Finkenstaedt (8)
Lord Winter
Jacques Freers (8)
Schaubuden-
besitzerin
Josette Genet-Bollinger (12)
Vater vom Kübelkind
Albert Guilhamot
(10, 11, 12)
M. de Treville
Albert Guilhamot (24)
Schaubudenbesitzer
Karl Hauer (12, 25)
Königin/Wirtin
Erika Heffner
(9, 24, 16)
Hurenmörder
Werner Herzog (17)
Peter Hohberger (11)
diverse Pfarrer
Alexander Kaempfe (6, 13, 24)
Alexander Kaempfe
Musketier Aramis
Ekkehart Kühn (24)
Polizist
Kaufhausdiebin
Maxi Mainka (15)
Musketier Athos
Rainer Ostendorf (24)
Kübelkinds Pflegebruder
Reiner Prier (16)
Hans Sukopp (14)
besonders nette Eltern
Hannelore Ulfers (16)
Heike Ulfers (16)
Großkämmerer
b. König
Wolfgang von Ungern-Sternberg (24)
(In Klammern die Nummern der Geschichten)
Festival Participation
1. Internationales Forum des Jungen Films, Berlin 1971
31. Edinburgh International Film Festival 1977
Retrospektive im Arsenal, Berlin 1977 und 1996
Werkschau im Arsenal, Berlin 1995
The Dumpster Kid is an artistic creation: in every story society forces her to learn something. But she, fully grown from the moment of her birth, unquestionably learns more than is called for. This extra knowledge, which is not wanted by society, regularly brings her into danger. Dumpster Kid dies in each story, and across each genre. Her stories are set in a whole range of different time periods. What is a Dumpster Kid?
Dumpster Kid grows up in a rubbish bin. Right from the outset she wears red tights, red shoes and a red dress covered in little flowers. The actress who plays the Dumpster Kid, Kristine Deloup, wears these clothes along with a black Chinese pageboy wig in every story. This means that Dumpster Kid is recognizable straight away: no matter what she does, she will never be like the rest of us. At the beginning it looks like Dumpster Kid is quite happy in the rubbish container. She knows nothing else. Then someone comes up to her and tells her that that is not the way it should be. Everyone should have a mother and father, a warm bed in a bright bedroom, and be surrounded by love.
This is all new to Dumpster Kid, and out of good will she agrees to leave her rubbish container. Everything wasn't perfect in the rubbish container, and we should not leave her in there. But the alternative, unfortunately, is to have to deal with the rest of the world, and that is too complicated for Dumpster Kid. Suddenly she has to stop acting according to her wishes. She has to go through all the processes of learning and growing up. The result is that she kills, hurts and steals, is then killed herself, only to return in the next story to claim vengeance.
Dumpster Kid Menu
1) Old Men
If Dumpster Kid wants to, she can make men end up standing there in their underwear.
2) Dumpster Kid's childhood
You should definitely see these stories! An afterbirth sets herself up on her own...but then welfare comes along.
3) The syndrome of the rubbish tip
Something about the ability of our society to understand everything, forgive everything and pay for everything.
4) Cleanliness is a house's decoration
Dumpster Kid in the shower, in the rain and under the eaves.
5) Cats have fleas
Dumpster Kid pretends to sleep, because she would like to find out what might happen. But her stepmother interferes.
6) Dumpster Kid becomes sleek and round
A spiritual man, who knows what is good for one, attempts to raise Dumpster Kid
7) A little bit of happiness
Dumpster Kid fools around with the fruits of the field
8) Dumpster Kid gets to know a lord and is hanged
Revenge is particularly sweet
9) Dumpster Kid tells a queen a fairy tale
A story to listen to and watch
10) Dumpster Kid learns a dubious game
Dumpster Kid learns first hand what a pleasurable difference there is between stroking and hitting
11) Dumpster Kid learns how to say no
Dumpster Kid is getting married, but at the crucial moment she suddenly gets nervous. All hell breaks loose.
12) A marmot learns how to dance
Dumpster Kid is supposed to learn what to do at the country fair. She sings songs, swears at people and generally goes crazy.
13) All power to the vampire
It is hard to believe how many vampires there might be. Dumpster Kid calls them all up for a major demonstration.
14) Freedom through Al Capone
Dumpster Kid is constantly talking about revolution, but Al Capone, the pig, is talking about something quite different.
15) A department store thief
After a nice browse round the shops, Dumpster Kid ends up sitting on the lap of the shop assistant and goes along with it a little bit.
16) Particularly nice parents
Dumpster Kid has to learn that sexual intercourse can also be quite nasty, when it takes place in the toilet.
17) You can't take it with you
Dumpster Kid goes on the game and is murdered.
18) To the audience: Please bring your stories and moneymaking tips to the cash desk
19) The witches must burn
Is Dumpster Kid destined to end up a failure? Will she be saved from above?
21) Dumpster Kid likes having good people
over for a nosh-up
The way to a person's heart is through his stomach. But sometimes you ruin him that way.
22) Dumpster Kid drowns Dumpster Kids
There is lovely music to this one, and it is all very poetic 23) To the audience: Please inquire about stories and moneymaking tips at the box-office.
24) Dumpster Kid rides for the king
The biggest film of all time. Intrigue, old walls, squeaking floors, the queen sleeps with the wrong man, Dumpster Kid marries d'Artagnan and rides off on a white horse, more intrigue and this time Dumpster Kid plays along. By the end of it everything is deemed to be her fault.
25) The bank account in the woods
Dumpster Kid believes in our system of credit. She therefore has to jump out of the fourth floor of a house and sing a sad song.
26) to 64) Please leave your stories and money-making tips at the box-office.
A lot of cinema against cinema
by Peter W. Jansen
Ula Stöckl (Neun Leben hat die Katze) and Edgar Reitz (Mahlzeiten, Cardillac) are at the moment working on a film, which will radically shake up the traditional idea of cinema. Stories of the Dumpster Kid is around 10 hours in length all in all, but can be watched in small segments at the will of the viewer. This is possible because the Dumpster Kid is a sort of cinematic anthology, made up of different independent episodes or stories; but it is also a cinematic anthology in the traditional sense: each chapter imitates or satirizes individual film genres. It all started with a swear word. In her first film in 1968 Ula Stöckl worked with the French actress Kristine Deloup.
She played Ann (a Frenchwoman), which wasn't a role in the traditional sense, but rather a cinematic figure in the form of the actress: the actress was simply the author of what she portrayed. Ula Stöckl tells how Kristine was at the time obsessed with strange-sounding and foreign words, and one day stumbled across the Austrian swear word Dumpster Kid. They took the word literally and played with it, and in this way, according to Ula Stöckl, they came up with the idea and script for the film.
"The story started," says Edgar Reitz, "by taking some sort of social worker with a highly symbolic name. We decided on Doctor Welfare. One day she is cleaning her office, takes the rubbish out, and when she opens the lid of the rubbish container she discovers a child. She says: "You can't stay in there!" Ula Stöckl adds, "I can't take responsibility, if you are sitting in there." So, the child is pulled out of the container. The Dumpster Kid is an "amoral, or rather polymorphic, infantile, monstrous person" (Reitz) and is played by the adult Kristine Deloup.
She has no past, no history, no character, is "completely stylized" as a symbolic figure. The Dumpster Kid doesn't fit into any society. The Dumpster Kid does her best, but the result is always a deformation of her nature. Her attempts always result in the wrong behavior or the wrong attitudes. That's the way it goes in the bourgeois drama, the gangster film, the historical epic, the vampire movie, the science-fiction film, western or musical.
The Dumpster Kid is tortured, always gets up on her feet again in the next episode, and always represents resistance, the antithesis to each particular society, in each particular genre. And this because she is too human, and too much of child. In the parts of the film which are already finished or at least half-finished (for example the musical or the erotic episode in the bourgeois household or Dumpster Kid as a witch) it is clear, and may well become even clearer in the episodes which are set in different film-genres, that these genres are at heart nothing more than a rigid obedience to certain patterns of behavior.
Just as Dumpster Kid flies in the face of convention, so do the filmmakers go against the mores of the film-industry, both in style of genre and production technique. The production of Dumpster Kid moves forward in fits and starts, when the film-makers and their team, in-between other projects, projects which in turn help finance the making of the film. Reitz: "Dumpster Kid can only be used sensibly if, for example, its actual performance leads in turn to a new way of working.
We believe that we might be able to reach the point where the audience itself is able to decide with us on how the piece should be performed." Whether this actually transpires is impossible to predict. But it can't really be that far off the mark: any flawed result would still be a learning experience for Stöckl and Reitz. It is no longer important for them to make a film, which gets top marks on a purely aesthetic level. Because they are both also "Dumpster Kids", to whom Doctor Welfare also once said that they were no longer allowed to live in the rubbish container, as it would have been irresponsible, and not right.
Stöckl and Reitz want it to be possible to live in a reformed society without the influence of reforming welfare. And, irrespective of the result, that is a very important step.
Frankfurter Rundschau, 25.04.1970
02: This is no film for a quiet day off. The film industry's self-regulating body (the FSK) only agreed to release a 96 minute version film on the proviso that it would have a rating for over 18 year olds and undergo half a dozen edits. "The story of the Dumpster Kid, an outsider of society," according to the reasoning for the decision "is confusing and defective for young people. The film is full of unsavory turns of phrase. The disparagement, in the form of parody, of religious values is highly detrimental to young people. In addition the portrayal of sexuality appears in a form, which must confuse and disgust young people. (For example when the Dumpster Kid masturbates in the barley field.)
As well as this, the scenes in which the Dumpster Kid is throttled and hanged, as well as the drowning of other Dumpster Kids, are done in such a way as to damage the development of young people. Therefore the working committee denies the granting of a certificate of viewing for under 18s. Result: 18 year olds and older only admitted pending edits." After detailed information regarding the disgusting words and pictures to be cut, the FSK comes to the pious decision that Ula Stöckl and Edgar Reitz's new film, even after having been edited and placed under a ban for young people, should not be "shown on holy days."
Tagesanzeiger Zürich, 23.10.70
01: Reitz and Stöckl have not, as one might have presumed, made underground films here. Their stories are technically flawless, entertaining, at least in most of the cases, and are based on well-known genres, which they mercilessly parody: from the musketeers and the thriller, to the "heimat film" and the rubbishy old movie-flick...the newspaper "Filmkritik" was quite right in its observation "if you would like to understand the prejudices which make up the general moral mood, which fill the cinemas with porno trash, then you should see The Stories of the Dumpster Kid. For that, and other reasons".
Süddeutsche Zeitung, 06.07.1971
02: The love of cinema is evident in this film, a paradox when you think that this movie isn't even allowed to be shown in most cinemas.
Wilhelm Roth, Recklinghauesener Zeitung, 08.07.1971
03: This is a new and relaxed form of didactic film, which has a bit of fun by criticising society. We'll hear and see a lot from this Dumpster Kid.
Christoph Müller, Tauber Zeitung, 03.07.1971
04: The "Stories of the Dumpster Kid" are more than anything else short films for simple and enjoyable cinema. (...) These didactic films show that a new path of commitment and enlightenment is possible, all the while providing pleasant entertainment.
Karin Rau, dpa, Mannheimer Morgen, 08.07.1971
05: This series of 23 short films (64 are planned altogether) are among the most important and best films, which German cinema over the last few years has produced.
Ekkehard Pluta, Film International, Berlin 01.07.1971
06: "The stories of Dumpster Kid" by Ula Stöckl and Edgar Reitz is simple cinema, with the emphasis on enjoyment.
Christa Maerker
07: A cheeky exercise in loosening up contemporary cinema, both for the filmmaker and the audience.
U.S. in Nachtdepesche/ Telegraf, 30.06.1971
08: A film so full of sensitive intelligence and ingenious notions, so imaginatively didactic and yet so playful, that it completely bowls you over.
M. Delling, Deutsches Allgemeines Sonntagsblatt, Hamburg, 07.1971
09: "The Dumpster Kid" is like an extremely clever comic, critical pop-art, not stuck-up, but refreshingly direct.
Reiner Hartmann, Kölner Stadtanzeiger, 03.07.1971
10: Ula Stöckl and Edgar Reitz's film stops 23 times and yet keeps going: there is a finish but no end. Cinema, which is not compressed into the one-and-a-half hour format, and is thereby freed from the usual dramatic theory of how cinema should be. And yet, cinema it remains.
Klaus Eder, Deutsche Zeitung, 03.07.1971
Why Dumpster Kid?
A statement by
Ula Stöckl and Edgar Reitz
Because in 1969 we had no desire to make another 90 minute film which would get no distribution.
Because we came up with too many stories for a normal film.
Because whilst shooting we didn't want to restrict ourselves to films of 2 minutes or 20 minutes. Therefore we made the films between 2 and 20 minutes long.
Because when you stop thinking about German distribution companies, the world becomes beautiful once again.
Because we like true stories, as well as untrue ones.
Because Dumpster Kid is allowed to die at the end of one story without have to be dead for the next one.
Because we like playing with costumes. But we like playing without them too.
Because we wanted to film a story about being brought up.
Because we wanted to see all our friends in good roles.
Because we were so angry.
Because Dumpster Kid likes fucking.
Because we think it is crap that she has to apologize for that, and we think the FSK is a pile of crap too.
Because one day the tapes will be made, and we wanted to know whether that will ever happen with the distributor.
Because we got money from the federal ministry and under no circumstances did we want to give it back.
Because we are all Dumpster Kids
And last but not least, we opened a movie in a pub in Munich and Dumpster Kid is shown there every day apart from Monday, entry costs 3,50 DM, and Dumpster Kids are on the menu.
The Movies:
The Wild Stage
Turn Of The Heart
The Old Song
Don't Talk About Fate
Is Nobody Listening?
Equal Opportunity In Principle
Jakob's Pigeons
The Heiresses
Sleep Of Reason
A Woman With Responsibility
Erika's Passions
Popp and Mingel
A Very Perfect Couple
Rabbit And Porcupine
The Little Lion And The Big Ones
Brainworks
Sunday Painting
The Golden Thing
The Cat Has Nine Lives
Do You Have A Degree?
Saturday At 5 P.M.