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Monday Night Concert Series
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'Quality of Life' Health Seminars
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Summer Jazz Festival
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Press Room / In the News
Sunday, January 19 at 2 p.m.
Academy for Seniors: Mythology Class
The Oak Park Arms' Academy for Seniors features a course on Mythology. Lecture facilitators will share thoughts, experience, and insights on Mythology every other Sunday at 2 p.m.
Thursday, January 16 at noon
Tap Dance Workshop
The Oak Park Arms hosts a monthly tap dance workshop taught by Roberta Kulik. She will teach basic tap moves that can be done either sitting or standing. Tap shoes are not required.
Tuesday, January 14 at 2 p.m.
Reader's Theatre Ensemble
The Oak Park Arms Reader's Theatre Ensemble meets and performs at 2 p.m. every Tuesday afternoon in the Ballroom at the Oak Park Arms. Join us
Monday, January 6 at 7 p.m.
Jazz with Eric Schneider and Jeremy Kahn
The Monday Night Concert series, dedicated to presenting small jazz ensembles to Oak Park, continues with Eric Schneider and Jeremy Kahn.
Monday, December 9 at 7 p.m.
Jerome Kern tribute with Spider Saloff and Jeremy Kahn
The Monday Night Concert Series features critically acclaimed singer Spider Saloff and pianist Jeremy Kahn with a tribute to Jerome Kern.
Monday, November 18 at 7 p.m.
Jazz with Petra van Nuis and Andy Brown
Husband and wife duo Petra van Nuis and Andy Brown will perform at the Oak Park Arms. van Nuis is a Chicago-based jazz vocalist who has been described as having "…a light, gorgeous, and fairly delicate voice, a gift for melody and plenty of rhythmic confidence."
Saturday, Oct. 19 at 2 p.m.
Harvest Ballroom Dance with the Freenotes Big Band
The Oak Park Arms hosts a special "Harvest Ballroom Dance" and Open House, with the Freenotes Big Band. The Freenotes is an 18-piece orchestra that plays music from 1940s through the 1960s.
Monday, October 7 at 7 p.m.
Guitarist Mark Dvorak: A Pete Seeger Tribute
Guitarist and musician Mark Dvorak performs a special concert titled, "A Pete Seeger Tribute"
Monday, September 23 at 7 p.m.
Monday Night Concert: Songs about YOU, Part 2 with Kahn & Kohut
The Monday Night Concert Series presents a free concert titled "Songs about YOU, Part 2" performed by pianist Jeremy Kahn and bassist Larry Kohut.
Sunday, September 8 at 2 p.m.
Art Exhibition: Front Steps and Stor(i)es by Kathy Hirsh
A wine and cheese reception will take place to celebrate the opening of an exhibit titled "Front Steps and Stor(i)es" by artist Kathy Hirsh. Join us.
Monday, Aug. 12 at 7 p.m.
Monday Night Concert Series: Jeremy Kahn
The Monday Nigh Concert Series features Jeremy Kahn. The evening promises sublime arrangements of jazz standards.
Friday, June 14 at 6 p.m.
Seniors' Senior Prom – A Starry Night
Senior Citizens will be dancing the night away at the Seniors' Senior Prom titled "A Starry Night". Join us for live music by the Freenotes Big Band.
Saturday, May 4 at 10:30 a.m.
The Upside of Downsizing
Roz Byrne will present a seminar on ways seniors can make moving easier and less stressful.
Sunday, Feb. 17 at 2 p.m.
Radio Show: Great Moments in American History
Those Thrilling Days of Yesteryear Old Time Radio Recreations Troop presents "Great Moments in American History"
Saturday, Feb. 9 at 2 p.m.
Valentine's Ballroom Dance
The 18-piece Big Band, Freenotes, will lead the Valentine's Ballroom Dance. The community is invited to dance the afternoon away.
Monday, Jan. 21 at 7 p.m.
A Musical Tribute for Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day
The Monday Night Concert at the Oak Park Arms features "A Musical Tribute to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr." by by pianist, Jeremy Kahn & saxophonist, Eric Schneider
Sunday, Dec. 30 at 2 p.m.
Radio Show: A Jack Benny Favorite
Those Thrilling Days of Yesteryear Old Time Radio Recreations Troop presents "Plastic Tips - Metal Tips," one of Jack Benny's best-loved shows
Tuesday, Dec. 11 at 10:30 a.m.
Here's to Your Health: Nutrition for Seniors
Changes occur with every passing birthday. But how does nutrition change over a lifetime? Learn about nutrition for seniors in this health seminar.
Monday, Dec. 10 at 7 p.m.
Jazz with Spider Saloff
Nationally acclaimed vocalist Spider Saloff and pianist Jeremy Kahn present a collection of songs about love.
Tuesday, Oct. 9 at 10:30 a.m.
Breast cancer is the second leading cause of cancer-related deaths for American women. A representative from Interim Healthcare will present a seminar titled "Breast Cancer Awareness"
Monday, Sept. 24 at 7 p.m.
Jazz Vocalist Libby York
The Monday Night Concert Series features jazz vocalist Libby York with Russ Philips on trombone and Jeremy Kahn on piano.
Friday, Sept 21 at 11:30 a.m.
Ribbon Cutting Celebration for Four Decades of Service to Seniors
The Oak Park Arms' conversion from a hotel to a retirement community took place 40 years ago. A ribbon cutting and celebration for four decades of service to seniors will take place.
Tuesday, Sept. 11 at 10:30 a.m.
Here's to Your Health: Pneumonia & Flu
A representative from Interim HealthCare will discuss pneumonia and flu symptoms and treatments in this free seminar.
Friday, July 27 at 6 p.m.
Music Club presents 'Spinning the Oldies'
The Oak Park Arms Music Club presents "Spinning the Oldies" with Dan Kane
'Opera at the Arms' presents Richard Strauss' 'Salome'
Dan Kane will introduce "Salome" by Richard Strauss and lead discussion as part of "Opera at the Arms".
Tuesday, July 10 at 10:30 a.m.
Fall Prevention Seminar for Seniors
For seniors, falling rarely just happens but rather results from multiple causes that occur over time. A seminar on fall prevention will be presented to the public and residents
Monday, June 25 at 7 p.m.
Jazz with Andy Brown & Jeremy Kahn
Guitarist Andy Brown and pianist Jeremy Kahn will perform an evening of duets.
Seniors' Senior Prom – A Night to Remember: A Black and White Ball
Seniors will be dancing the night away at the 39th annual Seniors' Senior Prom titled "A Night to Remember: A Black and White Ball"
Monday, May 7 at 7 p.m.
Jazz Vocalist Paul Marinaro
Chicago-based jazz vocalist Paul Marinaro, dubbed as having "one of the most beautiful vocal instruments in the business today," will perform for our jazz series.
Monday, March 26 at 7 p.m.
Jazz Vocalist Dee Alexander
The Monday Night Concert Series features jazz singer Dee Alexander with Jeremy Kahn on Piano.
Irish Duo Switchback
The Monday Night Concert Series features The Irish duo Switchback. Join us for American Roots music blended with Celtic soul.
Sunday, March 4 at 2 p.m.
Radio Show: Jack Benny vs. Quiz Kids
Those Thrilling Days of Yesteryear Old Time Radio Recreations Troop presents "Jack Benny vs. The Quiz Kids"
The Life of a Beekeeper
Harry Patterson, member of the Cook-DuPage Beekeepers Association, will present, "The Life of a Beekeeper".
Jeremy Kahn Trio
Sublime arrangements of jazz standards and great American Song Book selections will be played by the Jeremy Kahn Trio.
Friday, January 26 at 6 p.m.
Music Club presents 'New Beginnings'
Music Club called, "Spinning the Oldies," will enjoy a program titled, "New Beginnings"
Wednesday, Jan. 17 at 2 p.m.
Garden Therapy
Participants will create floral arrangements with seasonal flowers and greens. These bouquets can be kept and taken home.
Saturday Jan. 7 at 2 p.m.
Radio Show: Women and Comedy
Those Thrilling Days of Yesteryear Old Time Radio Recreations Troop presents "Women and Comedy" at the Oak Park Arms
Oak Park Photo Club Holiday Show and Print Sale
Members of the Oak Park Photo Club will display their work in the Narrow Gallery and have pieces available for purchase.
Sunday, Nov. 12, at 2 p.m.
Radio Show: Lady Detectives, Gumshoes in High Heels
Old Time Radio Show Performance features "Lady Detectives: Gumshoes in High Heels"
Sunday, Oct. 29 at 2 p.m.
Art Exhibition: 'Dogs, Dogs, Dogs' by Roberta Raymond
A wine and cheese reception will take place to celebrate the opening of a new art installation titled, "Dogs, Dogs, Dogs," a collection of monoprints by Roberta Raymond
SlingBlade Rockin' Blues
The SlingBlade Rockin' Blues Band will get things rockin' at the Oak Park Arms
Radio Reenactment: Dark and Swarmy Night
Those Thrilling Days of Yesteryear Old Time Radio Recreations Troop presents "It was a Dark and Swarmy Night"
Trace Your Roots – Genealogy Workshop
Oak Park resident Daniel J. Kane is hosting a genealogy workshop titled "Trace Your Roots" at the Oak Park Arms retirement community.
Steven Hashimoto Trio
The Monday Night Concert Series features the Steven Hashimoto Trio. Hashimoto, an Oak Park resident, has been an integral part of the Chicago music scene since 1976
Sunday, Sept. 17 at 2p.m.
Radio Reenactment: Keystone Kops
Those Thrilling Days of Yesteryear Old Time Radio Recreations Troop presents " Klassic Komedians Kollide with Kops and Kriminals: Keystone Kops"
Sunday, July 30 at 2 p.m.
Art Opening: Howard McClain
A wine and cheese reception will take place to celebrate the opening of a new art installation titled, "Howard McClain: Retrospective"
Saturday, July 22 at 2 p.m.
Author William Farina
Local award-winning author William Farina will discuss his book, "The German Cabaret Legacy in American Popular Music."
Sunday, June 25 at 2 p.m.
Radio Reenactment: To Bully, With Love!
Those Thrilling Days of Yesteryear Old Time Radio Recreations Troop will present a show about bullies in old time radio. The audience will enjoy "Duffy's Tavern: Spike McGurk, the Bully" which originally aired in 1949 and "Blue Memorandum" which originally aired in 1947.
Seniors' Senior Prom – Fiesta!
It's Senior Prom time, not only for high schools but at the Oak Park Arms Retirement community. Seniors will be dancing the night away at the 39th annual Seniors' Senior Prom titled "Fiesta"
Tuesday, June 13 at 10:30 a.m.
Here's to Your Health: Cataract and Glaucoma
A representative from Interim Healthcare will present a program - "Cataracts and Glaucoma"
May 18 – 25
Celebrating Seniors Week
The residents and staff at the Oak Park Arms are excited to participate in this year's "Celebrating Seniors Week" He have several events planned and all are invited.
Monday, April 24 at 7 p.m.
Jazz Vocalist Jeannie Lambert
Throughout her career, Lambert performed at all of Chicago's hottest jazz spots such as The Playboy Club, Andy's Jazz Club, The Green Mill, Green Dolphin Street, Pops for Champagne, Lush Life, Philander's and Katerina's.
Sunday, April 23 at 2 p.m.
Radio Reenactment: Mission to Mars
Those Thrilling Days of Yesteryear Old Time Radio Recreations Troop presents "Mission to Mars". A huge focus of old time radio was space exploration, visiting other planets, systems and species and even being invaded by extraterrestrial beings.
Tuesday, March 14 at 10:30 a.m.
Wellness Lecture Series: Digestive Diseases
Digestive diseases are disorders of the digestive tract which is sometimes called the gastrointestinal (GI) tract. A representative from Interim Healthcare will provide a details about digestive diseases
Sunday, February 19 at 2 p.m.
Radio Reenactment: YEEEAASSSS?
Those Thrilling Days of Yesteryear Old Time Radio Recreations Troop presents "YEEEAASSSS?" an old time radio show featuring Jack Benny and the Magnificent Montague
Wednesday, Feb. 14 at 10:30 a.m.
Here's to Your Health: Heart Health
February is Heart Awareness Month and everyone is invited to an informational seminar on ways to maintain heart health.
Saturday, Feb. 11 at noon
Valentine's Day Ballroom Dance
The 18-piece Big Band, Freenotes, will lead the Valentine's Day Ballroom Dance. The community is invited to dance the afternoon away.
Monday, August 20 at 7 p.m.
Jazz Vocalist Petra van Nuis
The Monday Night Concert Series features vocalist Petra van Nuis and pianist Dennis Luxion in an evening of jazz tunes.
Tuesday, January 10 at 10:30 a.m.
Healthy Weight Seminar
Many people set resolutions to "lose weight," but not to reach a "healthy weight," and there is a big difference. A professional from Interim Healthcare will present a talk on "Healthy Weight"
Sunday, January 8 at 2 p.m.
Radio Reenactment: A Slight Case of Murder
Those Thrilling Days of Yesteryear Old Time Radio Recreations Troop presents "A Slight Case of Murder," featuring funny tough guys from old time radio.
Shimon Marcucci's East and West Creative Soul
The Monday Night Concert at the Oak Park Arms features an evening of Shimon Marcucci's East and West Creative Soul
Sunday, Nov. 11 at 1 p.m.
Veterans Day Musical Tribute
Roger Kotecki presents a Veterans Day musical tribute titled, "Songs of World War I".
Winter Wonderland Variety Show
Several performances will blend into a colorful holiday celebration followed by a reception.
Monday, Dec. 5 at 7 p.m.
Andy Brown and the Horn Players
Andy Brown and the Horn Players will perform jazz classics, tunes from the great American Songbook and holiday favorites.
Tuesday, Dec. 3 at 4:30 p.m.
Noteworthy Show Choir Sings Holiday Favorites
Noteworthy, The Oak Park Arms Park River Forest High School show choir, will present show tunes and holiday favorites.
Radio Reenactment: Be Thankful
Radio Recreations Troop presents three radio shows in a program titled "Be Thankful". A reception with coffee and cookies follows the performance
Tuesday, Nov. 8 at 10:30 a.m.
Here's to Your Health: Diabetes
According to a study from researchers at the University of Chicago, if the current trend continues, the number of diabetes cases will nearly double in the next 25 years.
Monday, Nov. 7 at 7 p.m.
Rick Shandling's Jazz Coalition
Oak Park Arms Monday Night concert series continues with a performance featuring Rick Shandling's Jazz Coalition.
Sunday, Oct. 9 at 2 p.m.
Radio Reenactment: In Old Chicago
Those Thrilling Days of Yesteryear Old Time Radio Recreations Troop presents "In Old Chicago"
Monday Jazz Series: Bong Peñera
The Monday Night Summer Concert Series continues with pianist Bong Penera in "September Samba"
Monday Night Concert: Howard McClain
Oak Park Arms resident Howard McClain has more than 70 years of musical experience and will perform with Jeremy Kahn, Eric Schneider, and Desi Vasquez.
Eric Schneider Trio
The Summer Jazz Festival continues with the Eric Schneider Trio.
Sunday, August 21 at 2 p.m.
Radio Reenactment: Fairy Tales with a Twist
Those Thrilling Days of Yesteryear Old Time Radio Recreations Troop presents "Fairy Tales with a Twist"
Radio Reenactment: Dick Tracy in B Flat
Those Thrilling Days of Yesteryear Old Time Radio Recreations Troop presents Command Performance: "Dick Tracy in B Flat"
Seniors' Senior Prom – Pau Hana Luau
It's Senior Prom time, not only for high schools but at the Oak Park Arms Retirement community. The 38th annual Seniors' Senior Prom titled, "Pau Hana Luau," will be a Hawaiian themed party featuring a live orchestra and Hawaiian dancers.
Monday Night Concert: Ray Coyle
The Monday night concert series continues with Ray Coyle, vibraphonist and composer who performs and teaches in the Chicago area.
Tuesday, April 12 at 10:30 a.m.
Here's to Your Health: Managing Medications
Is it a given that the older a person is, the more medications he or she takes? Not necessarily. A representative from Interim Healthcare will present a program - "Managing Medications".
Radio Reenactment: Don't Answer the Phone
Those Thrilling Days of Yesteryear Old Time Radio Recreations Troop presents "Don't Answer the Phone" Two radio shows will be performed: "Four Hours to Kill," presented in 1949 by the Phillip Morris Playhouse. The second show is "Sorry, Wrong Number," presented in 1943 by Suspense.
Poetry Open Mic Night
Author and poet Charles Rossiter will host an Open Mic Night. Readers are encouraged to bring selections of original works and/or works by other poets.
Jazz Vibes with Guitarist Rob Curtis
The Monday Night Concert at the Oak Park Arms features an evening of jazz standards by guitarist Rob Curtis.
Tuesday, March 8 at 10:30 a.m.
Here's to Your Health: Digestive Diseases
A representative from Interim Healthcare will discuss digestive Diseases and treatment options.
Monday, March 7 at 7 p.m.
Monday Night Concert: Larry Kohut
The Monday Night Concert features Larry Kohut, one of Chicago's most active and diverse bassists.
Art Exhibition: Three Sea Tales by Bobbie Raymond
A wine and cheese reception will take place for the opening of a new art installation by author and artist Bobbie Raymond
Radio Reenactment: Dignity, Always Dignity
Those Thrilling Days of Yesteryear Old Time Radio Recreations Troop presents "Dignity, Always Dignity" Those Thrilling Days of Yesteryear features actors and voice over artists who share a common interest - performing old time radio programs for the community.
Thursday, Jan. 14 at 11 a.m.
Samba Dance Workshop
Samba is a Brazilian musical genre and dance style originating in Brazil with its roots in Africa via the West African slave trade and African religious traditions.
Monday Night Concert: Fleurs de Chanson
The Monday Night Concert Series continues with The Fleurs de Chanson Recorder Trio
Thursday, Dec. 10 at 7 p.m.
Music Club: The Holiday Season's Lesser Known Favorites
The Oak Park Arms Music Club called, "Spinning the Oldies," will enjoy a program titled, "The Holiday Season's Lesser Known Favorites"
Masters of the Italian Baroque
The Monday Night Concert Series presents, "Masters of the Italian Baroque," which features Shimon Marcucci playing soprano saxophone and Bob Schiff on piano.
Masquerade Ball Open House
The Oak Park Arms retirement community will be transformed into one of the grand old Chicago ballrooms of the '30s and '40s when it hosts a Masquerade Ball and Open House, with the Freenotes Big Band
Monday, Oct. 26 at 7 p.m.
Author Charles Rossiter will host an Open Mic Night at the Oak Park Arms. Readers are encouraged to bring selections of original works and/or works by other poets.
Reader's Theatre: Spoon River
The Oak Park Arms Reader's Theatre Ensemble (ARTE) presents readings from "Spoon River Anthology"
Thursday, Oct. 8 at 11 a.m.
Halloween Boo Dance Workshop
Tap shoes are welcome but certainly not required for this free and open to the public tap dance class.
Sunday, September 27 at 2 p.m.
Art Exhibition: 'Zig, Fong and Des Water Show'
Zygmunt Sokolnicki, Nancy Fong and Desi Vasquez present water-themed paintings in watercolor, oil and acrylic paint.
Radio Reenactment: Play Ball!
The September program features old time radio stories featuring the legends of America's favorite pastime. Included is an episode of "The Babe Ruth Story" and a dramatization of the classic poem, "Casey at the Bat"
Summer Jazz Series: Jeannie Lambert Trio
The Monday Night Summer Jazz Series continues with the Jeannie Lambert Trio
Thursday, Aug. 13 at 11 a.m.
Country & Western Dance Workshop
Roberta Kulik will teach a free Country & Western dance workshop for dancers of all levels.
Monday, July 13 at 7 p.m.
Monday Night Summer Jazz Series: Rob Curtis
The Monday Night Summer Jazz Series continues with guitarist Rob Curtis. The concert is an evening of jazz standards and Latin American jazz selections played by Curtis.
Friday, July 10 at 4:30 p.m.
Kane Film Festival features 'Patton'
"Patton" is a 1970 American epic biographical war film about U.S. General George S. Patton during World War II. It stars George C. Scott and Karl Malden.
Monday, June 29, at 7 p.m.
Monday Night Concert Series: Senior Variety Show
The Monday Night Concert Series features a "Senior Variety Show" with the Oak Park Arms Chorus and various solos
Saturday, June 20 at 2 p.m.
Local Author Roberta L. Raymond Presents Lecture about 'Three Sea Tales'
Roberta L. Raymond will lecture about her most recent book, "Three Sea Tales." The book is for children of all ages.
Friday, June 12 at 6:30 p.m.
Seniors' Senior Prom – A Garden Party
A different group of seniors will be dancing the night away at the 36th annual Seniors' Senior Prom titled, "A Garden Party"
Maypole Dance Workshop
Maypole dancing is a form of folk dance from Germany, England, and Sweden. Roberta Kulik will teach a Maypole dance workshop.
Sunday, May 3 at 2 p.m.
Art Exhibition: 'Over Fifty: The Portrait Series' by Robert M. Proce
A wine and cheese reception will take place for the opening of a new art installation, "Over Fifty: The Portrait Series," by Robert M. Proce.
Radio Reenactment: Who's Wearing the Pants?
Those Thrilling Days of Yesteryear Old Time Radio Recreations Troop presents "Who's Wearing the Pants?" Included are episodes of "Gunsmoke" and "Fibber McGee."
Thursday, April 9 at 11 a.m.
Disco Dance Workshop
Popular in the 1970's, discotheque dancing music contained elements of funk, soul and pop. Roberta Kulik will teach Disco in this month's dance workshop.
Monday, April 6 at 7 p.m.
Monday Night Concert Series: French Twist
Singer Petra van Nuis and accordionist Don Stille will perform a French themed program titled, "French Twist"
Thursday, March 19 at 11 a.m.
Paso Doble Dance Workshop
Based on Flamenco dancing, the Paso Doble, or Pasodoble, is a lively dance modeled after the drama of the Spanish bullfight.
Sunday, March 15 at 2 p.m.
Radio Reenactment: Trading Places
Those Thrilling Days of Yesteryear Old Time Radio Recreations Troop presents "Trading Places with Jack Benny and Fred Allen"
Art Opening: Frank Schaben
A wine and cheese reception will take place for the opening of a new art installation, "Like it or Not," by abstract expressionist painter and Oak Park Arms resident, Frank Schaben.
Thursday, Feb. 12 at 11 a.m.
Tango Dance Workshop
Roberta Kulik will teach user friendly choreography for the tango, a sensual ballroom dance that is vibrant and playful between two people.
Sunday, Jan. 25 at 2 p.m.
Radio Reenactment: The Great Radio Detectives
Those Thrilling Days of Yesteryear Old Time Radio Recreations Troop presents "The Great Radio Detectives: Hard and Soft Boiled"
Wednesday, Jan. 21, at 3:30 p.m.
Relief of Diabetic Foot Pain Seminar
Dr. Mary M. DiSomma will provide information on foot pain due to diabetes at a informative workshop.
Tuesday, Jan. 6 at 2:15 p.m.
Join the Reader's Theatre Ensemble
The Oak Park Arms Reader's Theatre Ensemble (ARTE) invites new people to an open rehearsal
Radio Reenactment: A Christmas Show
Those Thrilling Days of Yesteryear, an all volunteer radio reenactment group, will present a performance titled, Life with Luigi and The Great Gildersleeve
Monday Night Jazz: Jim Callen Plays 'Beatle Jazz'
Monday Night Jazz features Jim Callen and selections from his recently released CD titled, "Beatle Jazz,"
Sunday, Dec. 7 at 2 p.m.
OPRF Alumni Chorus Holiday Concert
The Oak Park River Forest Alumni Chorus will perform a holiday concert.
Tuesday, Dec. 2 at 1 p.m.
Discover the Mills Investment Club
For more than 30 years the Mills Investment Club has been teaching people how to make the best investment choices in a fun way.
Thursday, Nov. 20 at 3:30 p.m.
Holiday Card Workshop
Ada Willer leads this workshop where participants can create personalized, unique holiday cards for Thanksgiving.
Tuesday, Nov. 11 at 11 a.m.
Scoville Park Veterans Day Commemoration Moves Location to Oak Park Arms
Originally located at Scoville Park, the Veterans Day commemoration has been moved to the Oak Park Arms. All veterans, their families and village residents are invited to attend the free commemoration.
Monday, Nov. 10 at 7 p.m.
Monday Night Jazz: Ryan and Madsen Duo
The Monday Night Concert Series features the Ryan and Madsen Duo. Pianist Jim Ryan and singer/guitarist Mark Madsen will present the best in jazz.
Sunday, Nov. 9 at 1 p.m.
Reader's Theatre Presents the Works of Carl Sandburg
The Arms Reader's Theatre Ensemble presents readings from the works of Carl Sandburg. Much of Carl Sandburg's poetry is about Chicago.
Art Opening: Zig Sokolnicki
A wine and cheese reception will take place for the opening of a new art installation, "Zig Sokolnicki: A Retrospective," in the Narrow Gallery.
Saturday, Nov. 8 at 1 p.m.
Musical Celebration of Peace
The Children's Chorus of the Oliver Wendell Homes School and the Oak Park Arms Senior Chorus will partner in a musical celebration of peace.
Monday Night Concert: Schiff & Bisenius
Pianist Bobby Schiff and violinist Daniela Bisenius play impeccable classical, jazz and folk music.
Friday, Oct. 10 at 4:30 p.m.
Polish Film Festival: The Pianist
The Polish Film Festival continues with a historical drama based on an autobiographical memoir.
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New Vehicle Fuel Economy Falls to 25 MPG
The average fuel economy of new vehicles sold in the U.S. in December fell to 25 mpg — down 0.2 mpg from a revised November value, according to Brandon Schoettle and Michael Sivak, researchers from the University of Michigan's Transportation Research Institute (UMTRI).
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Increased production and sales of pickup trucks and SUVs is lowering the average fuel economy for new vehicles, which fell 0.2 mpg to 25.1 mpg in June, according to the University of Michigan's Transportation Research Institute (UMTRI).
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The average fuel economy of new vehicles sold in April reached 25.3 mpg, which was a 0.1 mpg increase from March, according to the University of Michigan's Transportation Research Institute.
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The average fuel economy rating of new vehicles sold in March reached 25.2 mpg, which was a 0.1 mpg increase from February, according to the University of Michigan's Transportation Research Institute (UMTRI).
Americans Worry About Vehicle Hacking
A University of Michigan survey finds that more than three-quarters of people are at least slightly concerned about autonomous vehicle hacking that could threaten safety.
New-Vehicle Fuel Economy Falls in December
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The average fuel economy for new vehicles sold in April was 25.2 mpg — down 0.1 mpg from the value for March, according to the University of Michigan's Transportation Research Institute (UMTRI).
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Borsonella merriami is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Borsoniidae.

Description
(Original description) The small, fusiform shell is rather thin. The apex is blunt. The seven whorls are somewhat angular, with about fourteen slightly oblique, prominent, rather sharp transverse ridges. These ridges are most prominent on the angle of the whorl, and become obsolete near the anterior margin and at about one-third width of the whorl from the posterior margin. A narrow sutural band occupies the upper one third of the whorl. Incremental lines are visible. The suture is deeply impressed and distinct. The body whorl is somewhat ventricose and narrowed anteriorly, with transverse ribs sometimes obsolete. The aperture is broadly elliptical, narrowed anteriorly to a prominent sinus. The posterior sinus is small, near the suture. The thin outer lip is arcuate. The columella is smooth.

Dimensions: Length. 14.2 mm.; width: 5.2 mm.; body whorl 7.6 mm.; aperture, including siphonal canal, 6 mm.; siphonal canal 1.5 mm.

Distribution
This fossil species is rare in Pliocene and lower San Pedro series of Deadman Island. The specimen figured is the type, which is from the lower San Pedro series at Deadman Island (California).

References

 Tucker, J.K. 2004 Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Zootaxa 682:1–1295.
 McLean J.H. (1996). The Prosobranchia. In: Taxonomic Atlas of the Benthic Fauna of the Santa Maria Basin and Western Santa Barbara Channel. The Mollusca Part 2 – The Gastropoda. Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History. volume 9: 1–160

merriami
Gastropods described in 1903

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"Could be. Might be worth a call." Kim never looked up from the paper she was reading on the couch. The remainder of the Sunday paper was strewn on the apartment's floor. Except for the classifieds, which Jenny scanned at the kitchen table.
The two college seniors were intent on getting to Tempe the first week in January to see the college football championship game. Like most college seniors, they were basically broke.
Jenny was the first to bring up the possibility of "alternative economics", as they ended up calling it. They were low on funds, but had a wealth of other assets. Jenny, for instance, had breasts the best plastic surgeon in the country couldn't reproduce. Kim had the blonde hair and ass that had given professors erections for four years. Both resembled the perfect young girls that did makeup ads.
They decided one night—after finishing off a six-pack—to use whatever means they could to procure the tickets. As Kim had put it, 'You can't fuck five hundred dollars.' It was funny at the time, after six beers.
"Remember. Either one of us has the right to call it off when we get there and the guy's a loser," Kim said from behind the comics.
"I know. I know. You act like I don't have a moral bone in my body."
Kim lowered the paper and stared at her roommate.
Jenny glared back. "Oh, go to hell."
She stood and stretched her arms above her head. The t-shirt she wore rode up her hips, exposing the skimpy black panties underneath.
"I'm taking a shower, then I'll call him," Jenny said.
"Fine." Kim was lost in a travel ad.
Less than an hour later, arrangements had been made for the girls to stop by the ticket seller's house. He had sounded young enough to Jenny, but time would tell. Preparation was the key now.
The plan was simple: Visit the seller, convince the seller sex with them was better than cold cash, take the tickets and run. Plan B was visit the seller, find the seller totally unacceptable, offer an outrageously low dollar figure and get kicked out. No need to make things complicated.
Each girl had her own idea of what would lead to a successful Plan A. Jenny chose the tight, V-neck sweater and schoolgirl's skirt routine. It worked at all the bars, didn't it? Kim, on the other hand, opted for a shirt with far too many buttons opened and painted on jeans. It just happened that both of them were washing every bra they owned.
"You are SUCH a slut," Kim told Jenny as she stood in front of the mirror.
"Why, thank you. And don't YOU look fuckable." Jenny ran her fingers through her long, brown hair, throwing it back in a wind-blown effect. "Tempe, Arizona damn well better be worth the effort."
"If we get there, will you ever be out from under some kid you just met?" Kim asked sarcastically.
"Ah, c'mon, Kim. You know I like it on top, too."
Kim gave her a disgusted smirk as they walked out the door.
The house was not far from campus, in an old but upscale renovated section of town. They parked on the narrow street and walked up stone steps to a beautifully finished wood door with stained glass insets.
"Jesus," Jenny said in a whisper. "This guy's already got money. We might be in luck."
The doorbell was answered by a tall man in his early thirties. His light brown hair had blonde streaks and his eyes shined when seeing the girls.
"Hi. We called about the tickets?" Jenny said politely.
"Sure. Come on in," the man said. He introduced himself as Tony and shook hands with each girl.
As agreed upon the night before, the girls looked at each other just inside the door and gave quick, indiscernible nods of preliminary approval. They would proceed with Plan A.
They progressed down the hallway and into a spacious, wood accented living room. Seated on the couch was a striking woman of about 28 or 29. Reddish brown hair fell to her shoulders, where it curled around her neck. Sleek legs were crossed under a tight skirt, while intriguing eyes rose to meet the two girls.
"This is my wife Cathy. Cathy, this is Jenny and ankara duşta veren escortlar Kim," Tony said graciously. The women nodded at each other, exchanged "hellos" and smiled.
"Have a seat girls," Tony said, joining his wife on the couch.
Jenny and Kim found chairs opposite the couch. Both were eyeing the massive book cases along the wall, which were filled with leather bound, hauntingly beautiful books. A stone fireplace took up another wall.
"So, you want to go to the Fiesta Bowl," Tony said with a grin.
"That's right," Jenny said quickly. "We're really looking forward to the trip."
Tony looked straight at her. "I suppose you know these tickets are fairly hard to find."
Kim felt a strange awareness of Cathy staring at her. Their eyes met once, then darted to other people in the room.
"Oh, sure. We're willing to pay a reasonable price," Jenny replied.
"Reasonable. That's the issue." Tony said it so succinctly that both Jenny and Kim gazed at him intently.
There was an eerie silence. Jenny nervously re-crossed her legs and played with the necklace that fell to the cleavage between her breasts.
"What are you asking?" Kim finally said.
"That game will be a unique experience for you. I want you to have that opportunity," Tony said. He paused, alternating glances at Jenny and Kim. "Cathy and I want a unique experience in return."
The realization that their own plan was being thrown on the table before them struck the girls simultaneously. Their hearts raced. Jenny wanted a drink…desperately. Kim's skin crawled.
"What would that be?" Kim asked innocently.
Tony took Cathy's hand and clutched it. "We would like to watch you two lovely girls make love."
The words reverberated through each girl's mind. They replayed it silently as if to catch a hidden meaning. Jenny's mouth opened, but no sound came out.
This was Plan C.
Jenny and Kim were dorm roommates their Freshman year. They got along exceedingly well and stayed in touch through their Sophomore year. By the time they were Juniors, they both wanted to live off campus. Kim made the offer to Jenny and they moved into their current apartment.
The girls dated guys irregularly, despite the fact either one could have any guy any time. They actually went more places together than with dates or other friends. Yet, neither one had ever had a single thought of turning it into a sexual relationship.
They thought alike. They liked the same foods. They enjoyed the same movies and music. They never slept together.
Now, their plan to seduce a guy into giving them tickets was being twisted and used against them.
"You what?" Kim said, jolting Jenny back into reality.
"How badly do you want these tickets?" asked Tony.
"Uh, well, we want them," Jenny stammered.
"We'd love to give them to you. For the right price."
For the first time since the offer was made, Jenny and Kim looked at each other. Just as quickly, their eyes darted back to the couple on the couch. Neither was ready to even consider what the other was thinking.
"We offer you the entire house. Pick a room. The bath has a Jacuzzi. The shower? You decide where you'd be comfortable," Tony explained.
"Oh, one other thing. Cathy, get the box, ok?" Tony said to Cathy.
Cathy rose off the couch and walked to a table in the corner of the room. She returned with a box about the size of a shoebox. Leaning over a coffee table in front of the couch, she poured out the contents.
A half dozen dildos of various shapes and sizes rolled onto the table.
"We have aids if you need them." Tony smiled at the two girls.
The girls were looking wide-eyed at the tools. Silver, gold, red. Metal and plastic. Smooth and ridged.
"Would you like us to leave you alone to discuss it?" Cathy asked the girls.
For her part, Jenny had already made up her mind. She had never lusted after her beautiful blonde roommate, but the sight of Kim's perfect ass sticking out from underneath her t-shirt in the mornings often caught her eye. She could do this.
Kim wasn't sure. In fact, it wasn't so much that she didn't want to make love to Jenny, but the idea of someone ankara fetiş yapan escortlar watching. Once again, the girls looked at each other. Two years of cohabitation allowed them to read each other fairly well. Neither reflected that "no way" look the other expected.
"Well, uh, I don't think that will be necessary. Will it, Kim?" Jenny said.
"No. I mean, I might…," Kim's voice trailed off. "Can we see the tickets?"
Jenny was ecstatic over the quick-thinking girl's request. One, she'd never thought of actually seeing if the guy had tickets. And, two, maybe Kim was going to say yes. The longer they sat there, the more she was getting to like the idea.
Tony methodically pulled two tickets from his back pocket and laid them on the table. Nothing was said.
The girls looked at the tickets as if they were bars of solid gold.
"What do you think, Kim?"
Kim looked at Jenny. "It's whatever you say."
Jenny shot her a look that could kill. Then, without a word, stood and removed her shoes. She stood motionless watching Kim.
Kim's first reaction was becoming aware of a wetness between her legs. Without standing, she pulled off her shoes.
Jenny followed by lifting her sweater over her head. Even before the garment hit the floor, Tony was staring in earnest at her faultless breasts. Firm, full, tanned and tempting. If the little skirt she wore made her look like a schoolgirl before, her naked breasts reminded everyone in the room this was a woman.
Kim stood. She reached for the uppermost button not already opened on her shirt.
"Wait." Tony's voice rang through the room. "Let Jenny do that."
Realization was now setting in for both girls that something dramatic, something frightening was really about to happen. They were on a roller coaster heading down the first hill and there was no stopping it.
Jenny stepped towards Kim, who now had her arms hanging at her side. Kim couldn't look Jenny in the eyes. She was gazing, instead, on the breasts she had seen before, but not under these circumstances.
Jenny put her fingers on the top button and undid it. Then another. Kim's breasts—not as big as Jenny's but certainly not small—came into view. Two more buttons and Jenny was at the top of her roommate's jeans. She yanked the shirt out of the tight pants and undid the last two buttons.
The shirt hung open alluringly. For a moment, Jenny did not move. Then she lifted the shirt off Kim's shoulders and lowered it down her arms.
The two girls stood facing each other, their naked breasts just inches from each other. A blush came over Kim's face and she looked at the floor, then at the couple on the couch.
Tony simply nodded.
Jenny had never looked away from Kim. Desire was building up in her. At this point, the tickets were nearly secondary. A fire was igniting inside her, which she could not explain nor extinguish.
She reached for the snap on Kim's jeans. The sound echoed around the room as the flaps of the jeans opened and the zipper slid down. It took a significant pull for Jenny to get the taut jeans over Kim's hips and ass. Kim held her panties in place as the jeans made their way down her legs.
Unnoticed by the girls, Tony and Cathy began to undress.
Jenny pulled one pant leg, then the other, until they were clear of Kim's feet. She flung the jeans aside and stood once more. She ran her hands up the outside of Kim's legs. A shiver like none other Kim had ever felt raced through her ultra sensitive body.
Without prompting, Kim found the zipper on Jenny's skirt and slid it down. Only a slight nudge was needed for the little skirt to fall to the floor. Jenny stepped out of it and kicked it aside.
The couple on the couch were both pulling off jeans. The girls finally noticed what was happening, but paid little attention.
Jenny was the first to reach out. Grasping Kim's panties by the waistband, she removed them gracefully but with purpose. Kim returned the favor while the wetness grew in both girls' pussies.
Tony and Cathy remained in their underwear. A noticeable bulge under Tony's boxers gave away his interest in the proceedings before him. Still, no one spoke. The couple were engrossed in ankara iranlı escort the beauty and perfection of the young women's bodies. Jenny, with her ideal breasts. Kim, with her little waist and supreme, round ass.
Jenny's eyes fell on the table with the dildos. She moved to it, picked up a thick, silver metal instrument and turned towards Kim.
"Why don't you sit down," Jenny said quietly. Her eyes could not hide the lust growing inside her. Moisture from her palm transferred to the dildo.
Kim stepped back to her chair and sat, looking at her roommate. Kim placed her hands on the arms of the chair and ever so slightly parted her legs. Jenny approached her and knelt. Placing her free hand on one of Kim's knees, she gently pushed it aside.
Kim's legs spread wider. Jenny edged closer.
Tony and Cathy watched from behind Jenny. The girl's ass pointed directly at them as she rested on her knees between Kim's legs. Tony reached inside his boxers and pulled out his erection. With long strokes, he managed to add to the cocks length and width. Cathy silently played with her clit inside her panties.
Jenny placed the dildo on the outer fringe of Kim's pussy. Kim jerked at the touch. She closed her eyes as Jenny circled her pussy with the dildo. Eventually, the toy found its way to Kim's clit.
The initial sensation sent shivers through Kim's body. The hard, smooth, cool metal glided back and forth across the engorged skin. Jenny rotated the toy in her hand so it attacked the clit from several angles.
Wetness built inside Kim's cunt. The urge to cum was overwhelming. She was embarrassed, aroused, sensitive to every feeling…about to scream. The dildo was at the entrance to her cunt. Jenny eased it in with gentleness only a lover would know.
Two inches. Then four. Five. Kim gasped, clutching the arms of the chair with her fingernails.
The dildo slid in and out. Slowly. Agonizingly slow. Kim wanted to grab it and fuck herself.
"Oh, God. Jenny…," she cried softly.
Jenny increased the pace. She moved the toy up and down inside the cunt, hitting all sides of the wet flesh. Kim arched her back, lifting her ass off the chair.
Just as Jenny moved the dildo back to Kim's clit, she felt a presence behind her. Tony was kneeling, his cock pointing to the ceiling. It was hard and red. He took it in his hand and placed it between the cheeks of Jenny's ass. The cock slid up and down, the underside inside her crack.
Jenny was once again playing the dildo over Kim's clit. Then the cock was being placed at the entrance to her cunt. She spread her legs. The cock drove into her in one quick, dramatic plunge. "Ahh, fuck," Jenny screamed. "Oh, God. Yes."
The cock was thrusting into her with unexpected speed and power. She had never felt so filled, so stimulated.
She frantically slid the dildo over Kim's clit until the girl in the chair could not hold back any longer.
She was going to cum and she was going to scream. Both were inevitable. Both were necessary.
Kim's body shook as the first orgasm exploded inside her. She did, in fact, let out a loud, excruciating moan of satisfaction. Wave after wave of orgasm flowed through her stomach to her cunt. She begged Jenny, breathlessly, to insert the dildo again. When Jenny complied, Kim threw her hips off the chair and onto the toy.
Now the toy and Tony's cock were in rhythm. But unlike the toy, Tony was capable of cumming. And he did. Massively.
With grunts heard throughout the room, he rammed his hard cock into Jenny repeatedly. He grasped her by the hips and held her in place, pulling her backwards as drove forward. Multiple shots of warm cum poured into Jenny's cunt from behind.
It only took another few seconds for Jenny to become the third person to cum. She held Kim by the waist as she came. She screamed as Tony reached around her and pinched a nipple. Then the other. He rolled it in his hand and she came again.
Unnoticed in the mayhem surrounding the chair was Cathy's own self-induced orgasm. Her hand worked methodically on her clit and inside her cunt until she, too, was spent.
Tony laid his cock on top of Jenny's ass and worked the last of the cum out with his hand. It flowed onto Jenny's back in a small trickle.
Kim lay exhausted in the chair, Jenny's head in her lap.
Tony rose to his feet.
"I believe that's the best offer we've had so far. The tickets are yours," he said with a grin.
Kim looked up at him.
"Can't we convince you some more?"


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Minor League Update: Five Prospects Who Struggled In the 2011 Caribbean Winter Leagues
Jason Martinez
Aside from a fairly uneventful game between the Dominican Winter League and Venezuelan Winter League All-Stars, it was another slow night with only two games in Puerto Rico. So let's stick with yesterday's topic — struggling prospects of the Caribbean Winter Leagues — and take a look at five prospects who were terrible last winter, but eased concerns — if there were any at all — by putting up much better numbers during the 2012 regular season.
Anthony Gose, OF, Toronto Blue Jays (Venezuela): 10-for-55, 3B, 6 BB, 11 K, 2 SB. A 2nd Round draft pick by the Phillies in 2008, Gose had hit a total of six homers in 245 minor league games when he was traded in July 2010. During his first full season with the Blue Jays, he homered 16 times in 137 games for Double-A New Hampshire while also showing off the plus-speed (70 SB) he had always been known for. The 154 strikeouts was a major concern, however, and a signal that he could be exposed as he moved up the ladder. As it turns out, the crafty veteran pitchers in the Venezuela were able to take advantage of the holes in his swing and hold him to a .492 OPS over 18 games last offseason. He rebounded with a solid performance in Triple-A (.785 OPS, 34 SB in 102 games), however, earning him his first big league call-up in 2012. And while he wasn't quite ready (.622 OPS in 56 games), the 22 year-old's Venezuelan Winter League struggles are far behind him.
Billy Hamilton, SS/CF, Cincinnati Reds (Puerto Rico): 7-for-36, 5 BB, 10 K, 6 SB. It only seems like Hamilton just arrived on the prospect radar during his magical, record-setting 2012 season. But the switch-hitting shortstop had crept up to the #3 spot in the Reds' Future Shock rankings before the 2011 season and then went on to post a .700 OPS and steal 103 bases for Lo-A Dayton. A rough offseason stint in Puerto Rico didn't slow him down, fortunately, because he continued to dazzle with his speed and on-base ability during the 2012 regular season. Now, baseball fans can't get enough of Hamilton. His arrival in the majors is highly anticipated. Unfortunately, we'll likely have to wait until 2014 before the 22 year-old, now a center fielder, is the regular leadoff man in Cincinnati.
Rymer Liriano, OF, San Diego Padres (Domincan Republic): 4-for-26, 2B, 4 BB, 11 K. In the case of Liriano, a notorious slow starter once moved to a new league/level, he probably just didn't have enough time to get adjusted last winter. The 21 year-old went on to post a .767 OPS between Hi-A and Double-A in the 2012 regular season, far from spectacular numbers, but scouts are always impressed by the tools and the potential. Those tools were very much on display in the Arizona Fall League (.882 OPS, 6 SB in 22 games), when he finally was at his best from the get-go. Instead of going home for the winter, he joined Licey of the DWL a few weeks ago and went 1-for-14 in five games. Anyone else get the feeling that this slow start business is going to be a trend throughout his career?
Eddie Rosario, 2B/OF, Minnesota Twins (Puerto Rico): 9-for-42, 2B, 3B, 5 BB, 4 K. As good as Rosario has been this year, it's hard to believe he wasn't very good in Puerto Rico last offseason. The left-handed hitter, who has bounced between second base and the outfield as the Twins try to find the right fit for him defensively, followed up his poor Puerto Rico Baseball League performance in 2011 with an .835 OPS in 95 games for Lo-A Beloit during the 2012 regular season. He's also tearing the cover off the ball in Puerto Rico this time around. The 21 year-old is third in the league with an .898 OPS in 17 games and recently had a stretch where he had 14 hits in seven games.
Jonathan Villar, SS, Houston Astros (Dominican Republic): 4-for-36, 5 BB, 15 K, 5 SB. After a pretty good Double-A season in 2011, it wouldn't have been a surprise to see the switch-hitting shortstop make the move to Triple-A in 2012. Whether his awful Dominican Winter League performance had anything to do with it is uncertain, but Villar went back to Double-A to continue honing his impressive skills. He had a very similar season to his first with Double-A Corpus Christi, posting a .732 OPS with 11 homers and 39 stolen bases. It's unlikely that three times will be the charm for Villar in Double-A. In 2013, he'll be just 21 years old at the start of his first Triple-A season.
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The Imp of the Perverse: Summation
Published 12:00 am Wednesday, April 11, 2001
The heritage of the Confederacy (and its battle banner) is not so pristine as so many would like to imagine today. Whatever else the flag represented 140 years ago, it also represented white supremacy. Whatever else it may mean to its 21st century champions, its racist pedigree is historical fact. But no matter how soiled by inconvenient historical reality, I'm sure some will nevertheless assert that it is still &uot;our&uot; heritage. And, &uot;our heritage, right or wrong,&uot; right? But who would this &uot;our&uot; represent? Why the majority, of course.
The majority today, and the majority in 1861. Well, I would bet, admittedly without proof, that a majority of contemporary Mississippians (white as well as non-white) cannot in any way document a family connection to a soldier of, or even a supporter of the Confederacy, whether using genealogical records or even the myth-history of family lore. But even more to the point of &uot;whose heritage,&uot; I can state categorically that the majority of Mississippians in the years 1861-1865 DID NOT support secession, or the Confederacy. Not even tepidly.
Because, you see, the state's majority at the time of the Civil War were black slaves. Over 55 percent to be precise (William Scarborough, &uot;Heartland of the Cotton Kingdom,&uot; in History of Mississippi, pp. 326-27 — Scarborough is a professor at USM). And, remembering the words of the Mississippi Secession Convention of 1861, and of the Confederate Constitution, and of Confederate Vice President Stephens, and the editor of the Mississippi Baptist, I think it is beyond obvious now that these oppressed men, women and children — I'll say again, the MAJORITY of Mississippians at the time of the Civil War — would feel no great pride in the &uot;heritage&uot; of the battle banner now enthroned in the upper left hand quadrant of the Mississippi state flag, the one (whether we like it or not) figuratively inscribed &uot;Superiority and Supremacy of the White Race.&uot;
It seems though, that for many, to acknowledge any of the shortcomings of the South and the Confederacy is to consign our ancestors to the pits of hell. But, whatever sins can be laid at their doorsteps, we also have to acknowledge that Southerners had not invented evil, and they had not invented slavery — though it was in modern times, in the Western Hemisphere that a system based on people of one race exclusively enslaving people of another race originated, and it was in the US that the racism growing from such a system took on its most virulent form. Nevertheless, slavery in its various forms is older than civilization, and has been found in most, if not all, regions of the world, and still exists in parts of that world today.
The ancestors of the African-Americans enslaved in the US in 1860 had probably been sold into that bondage by their fellow Africans. Confederates were not the first, or the last, to fight in favor of the institution. And, as we've seen, those who fought against it in the US often did so for less than exemplary motives.
Life is funny sometimes. Good men can do wrong, do so in fact quite commonly, and still be essentially good. Intelligent men can be in error, again, all too frequently so, and yet still be intelligent. And if the road to hell is paved with good intentions, then I'll insist that the road to heaven can be paved with bad intentions. Good can grow from less than pure motives.
This does of course make for a complex moral amalgam of cause and effect, a world that doesn't easily divide into &uot;good guys&uot; who always do good, and &uot;bad guys&uot; who sprinkle a heaping helping of wickedness on their corn flakes every morning — as in the juvenile world of professional wrestling, that merely sweatier version of &uot;God's country&uot; versus &uot;the evil empire.&uot;
For all of its profound moral import, I think it's clear that the Civil War was not a dispute reducible to one between &uot;Yankee Saints and Southern Sinners,&uot; to borrow Bertram Wyatt-Brown's intentionally ironic phrase. Would that the world were so simple. In fact, the demise of slavery in the US was hastened by the actions of northern racists. At the same time, in the South, otherwise good and moral men, courageous men, defended it and its horror. Yes, life is funny sometimes, outright absurd about as often. In the words of the immortal philosopher, &uot;time flies like an arrow, but fruit flies like a banana.&uot; Assuredly so, Groucho, assuredly so.
Also, consistent with this inconsistency, without question there were some who fought for the Confederacy, and so, for slavery and white supremacy, who cared very little about white supremacy and slavery. Whatever the large themes of the war might have been, the masses of individual men who fought in the Civil War did so for a myriad of reasons, many purely personal, only some ideological. Many a boy enlisted simply &uot;cause everybody else did,&uot; or maybe just to impress pretty Becky Sue from up the road apiece.
Trite motivation, yes, but neither noble nor evil. Many fought for the Confederacy simply to repel an invasion of their turf by outsiders — an elemental territoriality in other words, no more, no less. Some southerners opposed the secession touted by their leaders, but nevertheless found themselves in combat with Yankees, doing so finally out of sense of loyalty to family and community rather than any commitment to &uot;the cause.&uot; Nothing more complex than tribalism. It can legitimately be said that many a southern man fought, in other words, for his homestead, and for its soil, for his wife and children.
Noble sentiments, no doubt. Those men are to be remembered for their bravery and sacrifice. Rather than the Confederacy as a political entity, it is these individual soldiers who are honored by the statues in courthouse squares across the South. This is as it should be.
Because of men such as these, and despite my disdain for the Confederate cause, southern boy that I am, I get a lump in my throat and a bit teary eyed when I hear &uot;Dixie&uot; played just so. My brain tells me otherwise, but in my gut I find myself wanting to shoot that bluebelly John Wayne whenever &uot;The Horsesoldiers&uot; plays on TV. Anytime I have visited the old siege lines at Vicksburg, I've gone instinctively to the Confederate trenches, rather then those of &uot;those people&uot; (as Robert E. Lee called his Federal foes).
Somehow, that's where I feel I &uot;belong.&uot; However, I have to grant that in any war the &uot;small&uot; heartfelt sentiments of such communal belonging can sometimes find itself in service to less noble, &uot;grand&uot; goals. Be sure of this, though, no one reading this column loves or respects the South and its heritage more than I do. But I love its WHOLE heritage, not only a misguided four year span almost a century and a half ago. I love the South, warts and all, which is to say I love the real South, the one that isn't perfect, the one that isn't a hallucination. The true test of love is to see the object of your affection without illusion, without fantasy, virtues and flaws in full view, and THEN to say &uot;love.&uot; To view our Confederate ancestors within that context is to treat them like the mortal men that they were. THAT, to my mind, is the ultimate complement. What more does anyone, any generation, have a right to ask? If our ancestors were men of integrity (flawed though it may have been), that is what they would want of us — not worship.
The adoration of a mythic South of blameless cavaliers fighting for heaven-sent ideals is one based on an illusion. It is no more to be lauded than is a mawkish weep over a matinee idol's image on a movie screen. We do the real, flesh-and-blood men of the Confederacy (or our Founding Fathers for that matter) no honor when we mythologize them or their cause. Elevating them to the status of demigods is, in fact, to belittle them, to turn them into cartoons of themselves. To do so is in effect to put them on the ethical &uot;dole,&uot; above the fray of the real world where truth and error rise and fall and amalgamate freely.
Having had to concede their failure on the field of battle, we have required that they be immune to moral failure, a debilitating fate. It has been said that if individual achievement is to mean anything, then the right to fail must be the necessary adjunct of the right to succeed. But even more truly, if men are to be free to choose, then the right to be wrong is the necessary adjunct of the right to be right. For the integrity of their memories, we must let the men in gray be just that, men, morally imperfect men, rather than angels.
Let them be right when right they were. But let them be wrong as well. If our ancestors had virtues, then those virtues were born from and developed against the backdrop of their richly imperfect human natures. The perfect man is not admirable, because, by definition, he is a only a fiction, and judging from the complexity of the characters of &uot;great&uot; novels, a bad fiction at that. True heroes are not heroic because they are flawless, but because of what they achieved in spite of their flaws. To refuse to see their flaws is to deny the greatness of their achievement. I don't mean to imply that all our Confederate ancestors were great men. They weren't. The vast majority were like the vast majority in every age, which is to say they were eminently ordinary, with the ordinary virtues and vices of their time.
While we don't owe our ancestors worship, and while fully cognizant of their imperfections, we still owe them respect. When I was growing up, I was taught to respect my elders, and to do so by listening to them when they spoke to me. Our elders, our Civil War era ancestors, have spoken to us. They have stated why they seceded, formed the Confederacy, and fought that war.
Heeding their words, &uot;we know with some precision&uot; that they did so primarily to defend their system of racial enslavement, a cause that they sincerely, if wrongly, believed was righteous. In light of their plain spoken honesty about their motive, &uot;it would be perverse [for us] to cast doubt on so acceptable a proposition.&uot; It was only many years after the war, even decades, that a concerted campaign began to expunge the real cause from the record of &uot;the Lost Cause&uot; (Foster, Ghosts of the Confederacy, pp. 57, 118). If we respect our wartime elders, though, we'll listen to them. We don't have to agree with them, but we do owe them that consideration. And, being so limited and imperfect ourselves, we owe it to ourselves to try to learn from their errors.
Our ancestors, most of them every bit as ordinary as you and I, were on the whole good men and women. Based on the moral instruction of their youths, they saw the world clearly in terms of right and wrong, and strove, mostly, to cleave to the right. But on the issue of race and slavery, their otherwise clear vision was blinkered, and had been blinkered by that very same instruction of their youths. The moral blindness that resulted had horrific consequences — for the four million they enslaved, for the additional half million they discriminated against, in fact, for all southern (and American) society, then and now.
I fully well realize that there could be close emotional ties, even affection and friendship, between some masters and some slaves. But we are talking here of the great majority of slaves, who quite simply did not harbor such feelings. After all, the American system of slavery was based on a racist denial of the basic humanity of their race. This denial enabled the otherwise &uot;good&uot; men of the South to see Africans as little more than &uot;plundering&uot; beasts or livestock at times, as beloved &uot;pets&uot; at others, or, at best, as precocious children still in need of &uot;paternal&uot; care and guidance, but almost never to see them as equals. The deep-seated assumptions as to the innate inferiority of blacks, and the superiority of whites, thus gave moral cover for everything from the small daily insults to the great iniquities of slavery.
However, some say that those alleged iniquities are greatly exaggerated. Maybe, as I've been informed countless times in casual conversation, &uot;slavery wasn't all that bad.&uot; Space doesn't allow me to answer such ignorant drivel adequately (&uot;ignorance&uot; from &uot;ignore,&uot; i.e., a lack of knowledge due to willful neglect, not stupidity), but I will mention this: slavery destroyed families. Not to be overly dramatic, but yes, in the &uot;chattel&uot; form of slavery that prevailed in the US, children really could be torn from their mothers' arms, husbands really could be sold away from their wives. It didn't happen to all families.
It didn't happen to most. But, based on the best evidence available from a variety of counties across the South (including records from Adams County and Concordia Parish), it happened to about one in three (two in five here in Adams), more than common enough to leave the rest with &uot;a haunting fear,&uot; and the kind of fear most of us can't fathom. (John W. Blassingame, The Slave Community: Plantation Life in the Antebellum South, Oxford, 1972, pp. 89-92). Other investigators might quibble over the exact percentages, but the essential truth stands unchallenged. American chattel slavery ripped a substantial number of slave unions apart. Nightmarish moonlight. Toxic magnolias.
This too, though, is the &uot;heritage&uot; and &uot;history&uot; enshrined in the upper left of our current state flag. By all means, let's keep the banner of a system that defended such a system as &uot;our&uot; face to the world. If this seems appropriate, maybe we really should add a tableau of yellow fever victims in the lower right hand corner for some more &uot;historic&uot; balance after all. Now, those of you who say, &uot;slavery wasn't all that bad,&uot; go and explain this to your spouse, your child, your parent while looking them in the eye. In a state in which there is much self-righteous crowing about &uot;traditional family values,&uot; for us to enshrine such &uot;heritage&uot; on our flag is rank hypocrisy, for which we should be ashamed. But to run such hypocrisy up our flagpoles and to feel no shame, would be the greatest shame of all.
We have heard many laments over the Ku Klux Klan's &uot;ignoble&uot; usurpation of that &uot;noble&uot; Confederate battle banner. Clearly someone is missing the point. Because on this one point, in the full light of scholarly consensus, the &uot;yahoos&uot; in the Klan have gotten it right. The Confederacy was a society that chose to define itself in various ways, but most crucially in terms of race. For the avowedly racist Klan to adopt Confederate symbols as its own requires no misrepresentation. Likewise, for people to see racism in Mississippi's current flag, there is no need to distort. Surely there are those who are fond of the &uot;rebelized&uot; banner who sincerely see none of this in its fabric, instead brandishing it as an emblem of other purposes.
Whatever the outcome on April 17th, it will be their individual right to continue to wear it, wave it, use it as the centerpiece for the Confederate Pageant, or blow their nose on it, as they see fit. I, for one, would defend anyone's right to do any and all of the above. But the question before us in this referendum has nothing to do with rights, with private actions. We will not be deciding anything about how individuals or Garden Clubs can or should express their heritage, but how we as a public community want to express the same.
Out of the vast expanse of our history and culture, what do we as Mississippians choose to best represent &uot;us&uot; to the world, to be our one most visible symbol, our state flag? Is the battle banner of a minority from only a four year span of our diverse, centuries-long history to be our singular communal icon? Is that bit of &uot;heritage,&uot; to the exclusion of all other aspects of our heritage, the best way we can imagine to represent the totality of &uot;what we are,&uot; the best of &uot;us?&uot; Only if our imaginations remain obstinately blinkered and hard of hearing. I say bluntly that the Confederacy did not even represent the best of my ancestors who fought in its defense, much less the best of us today.
There is a story by Edgar Allan Poe which seems relevant here. In &uot;The Imp of the Perverse,&uot; Poe described a troublesome aspect of the human psyche — &uot;a radical, primitive impulse,a paradoxical something, which we may call perverseness.&uot; He noted that, not always, but all too often, &uot;through its promptings we act, for the reason that we should not. In theory, no reason can be more unreasonable; but, in fact, there is none more strong. With certain minds, under certain conditions, it becomes absolutely irresistible. I am not more certain that I breathe, than that the assurance of the wrong or error of any action is often the one unconquerable force which impels us, and alone impels us to its prosecution.&uot;
Poe was a southerner by birth, and an observant one. If I didn't know better, I'd think he was a Mississippian, and one observing our current debate. We could and should know better, but on the role of race and slavery in causing the Civil War, &uot;certain minds under certain conditions&uot; have remained obstinately and proudly &uot;perverse&uot; now for a hundred years and more. And, given the opinions of both the pro and anti flag factions, it appears we will muddle on into the 21st century still dismissing fact as myth, enthroning error as our beau ideal, delighting in our contrariness, mulishly tilling the humus of pure cussedness that runs so wide and deep through our collective memory.
Then again, maybe not. Maybe we're so perversely contrary that we'll prove the pollsters wrong this time. Maybe we've grown. We'll see.
Change the damn flag. But change it not out of guilt. Not just to &uot;give in to the blacks.&uot; Not just to avoid controversy and boycotts. Not to be politically correct. Not so we can recruit more corporations. We should change the flag so that we can show the maturity to let go of our adolescent fantasies, so to be &uot;historically correct.&uot; So that, for the first time in a long time, we can &uot;see&uot; and &uot;hear&uot; and be at peace with the entirety of our past. Rather than, as now, bewitched and benumbed by a pickled fairy tale.
James Wiggins is a history instructor at Copiah-Lincoln Community College in Natchez.
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Under unusually hot Summer conditions, the annual Inter-Area Masters Challenge took place yesterday at Solihull. This six cornered match is always hotly contested in a friendly and enjoyable atmosphere and last year was a very close contest. The match ended with Midland Masters AC coming out on top with an overall total of 433points, with Eastern Veterans AC second with 390.5 points and Southern Counties Veterans AC third with 344 points.
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Four excellent images of MMAC competitors made by Jeremy Hemming appear below. Our thanks to Jeremy.
Other new runners.Christine taylor.Rich Taylor.Brian darby.
A big well done to you all who competed on sunday a big thanks to the winners and the double winners and thanks to new comers lisa palmer.mel garland.louis satterthwaite.Glen lock.Paula richardson.Phil clayton.Andy Priest.The picture of W35 isnt karen brooks 1500m, its paula richardson.
Paul, Apologies to Karen & Paula. The caption has now been corrected.
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When state government moved into the new capitol building in 1912, members of the Legislature threatened to sell the Old State House. To forestall such efforts, Secretary of State Earl Hodges, a supporter of preservation, gave space in the building to the University of Arkansas Medical Department.
Many of the medical school's activities were ill-suited to such a historic site. Sheep pens erected behind the building for anthrax testing proved highly aromatic and unpopular with other tenants. The Humane Society, which also had its headquarters at the Old State House, particularly objected to the keeping of dogs for medical research. This practice stopped, however, when a Pulaski County Deputy Sheriff discovered one of his bloodhounds in the pens.
The often-rowdy medical students were also a cause for concern. School tradition required students who made egregious errors to publicly confess in the form of graffiti. These mea culpas soon covered the walls of the building.
The aspect of the school deemed most distasteful by the other inhabitants of the Old State House was unquestionably the dissection lab, which housed the human cadavers. The pickling vat in the basement was particularly repugnant, and it was not uncommon for club ladies, who were attending meetings at night, to encounter carts laden with human remnants en route to the incinerator on the third floor balcony.
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Q: Just upgraded to Windows 10 and Eclipse mars no more starts I just upgraded to windows 10 and eclipse mars no more starts.
However my older eclipse v3.7.0 works all fine.
I followed the answers under this link:
Just installed Windows 10 and Eclipse no more starts
However it seems that I might have messed up something else too. Maybe deleted some files or dirs I am not able to figure out.
When I start eclipse I get this stack trace:
    java.lang.RuntimeException: Error initializing storage.
        at org.eclipse.osgi.internal.framework.EquinoxContainer.<init>(EquinoxContainer.java:77)
        at org.eclipse.osgi.launch.Equinox.<init>(Equinox.java:31)
        at org.eclipse.core.runtime.adaptor.EclipseStarter.startup(EclipseStarter.java:295)
        at org.eclipse.core.runtime.adaptor.EclipseStarter.run(EclipseStarter.java:231)
        at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
        at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)
        at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)
        at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Unknown Source)
        at org.eclipse.equinox.launcher.Main.invokeFramework(Main.java:669)
        at org.eclipse.equinox.launcher.Main.basicRun(Main.java:608)
        at org.eclipse.equinox.launcher.Main.run(Main.java:1515)
Caused by: java.io.EOFException
        at java.io.DataInputStream.readInt(Unknown Source)
        at org.eclipse.osgi.container.ModuleDatabase$Persistence.readWire(ModuleDatabase.java:1168)
        at org.eclipse.osgi.container.ModuleDatabase$Persistence.load(ModuleDatabase.java:1028)
        at org.eclipse.osgi.container.ModuleDatabase.load(ModuleDatabase.java:879)
        at org.eclipse.osgi.storage.Storage.<init>(Storage.java:146)
        at org.eclipse.osgi.storage.Storage.createStorage(Storage.java:86)
        at org.eclipse.osgi.internal.framework.EquinoxContainer.<init>(EquinoxContainer.java:75)
        ... 10 more

Please let me know what might be going wrong.
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Can't blame a gal for trying. Argentina's President Cristina Kirchner tried to get creative by asking investors holding defaulted bonds to swap them for new debt -- but it's not going to work. The country had been forced to default on those bonds because it refuses to pay the hedge funds holding out for full payment on bonds it defaulted on in 2001. "I want to be very clear, this proposal is a violation of the current orders of this court... it is illegal and the court directs that it cannot be carried out," the judge said. The judge then said Argentina is acting like a man who shows up to buy a $100,000 house with only $80,000 in hand, but insists that "$80,000 is a lot of money and my family is ready to move in".
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Thank you for your response. Let me clarify. At least for now, I am NOT looking for information is ARISS contacts, but rather with how educators have used ARISSat-1 in the classroom. That said I would be be glad to here from or about teachers and principals who got behind the ARRISSat-1 project.
Specifically I would like to hear and see how schools may have listened to the voice telemetry or captured the BPSK -1000 telemetry or or the CW telemetry and how they may have fit a lesson around it. Also would be any classes who may have even ventured to make a transponder contact.
I judge ARRISSat-1 and educational and OSCAR satellites could be better utilized in the classroom, even if they are only beacon sats. ARRIS contacts grab a lot of attention but with a couple hundred thousand schools in the country, their odds of ever making an ARISS contact is very slim. Yet, there are a lot of opportunities with the number of satellites that are active now and will be in the future to use them as a means to motivate and interest students in science, ham radio and AMSAT. I suggest that we as AMSAT should be leaders in establishing curriculum plans that might include our hobby.
I am not alone here. Expect to hear more about this initiative in the coming weeks. Expect to see the AMSAT-EDU bb-list become active soon, as well, to become a forum for this discussion. So, Clint and all, point us toward those phenomenal educators and administrators, share with us your experiences. We don't need to recreate the wheel we just need to keep it rolling..
What do you need? Classroom lessons abound for all aspects of amateur radio as it applies to the satellites - from elementary school to college classrooms.
Be a little more specific with what you need - and I can either assist you, or point you towards excellent resources.


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Q: flot displaying correct date figures on xaxis using time I have 13 weeks of data which i want to display as bar graph. I want the dates to start from Monday each week. I have managed to get 13 weeks to display on xaxis and 13 bar lines to display. I cannot get the dates to start from Mondays and line up with the bar line.

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var options = {"legend":{"position":"ne","noColumns":6},"yaxis":{"min":0},"xaxis":{"mode":"time","timeformat":"%d %b","tickSize":[7,"day"],"min":1446163200000,"max":1454284800000},"grid":{"clickable":true,"hoverable":true},"series":{"stack":true,"bars":{"show":true,"barWidth":181440000.00000003}}};

$.plot($('#CAGraph'), datasets, options);

$("#CAGraph").bind("plothover",function(event, pos, item) {
  if (item) {
   // console.log(event);
   // console.log(pos);
   //console.log(item);
   var epoch = new Date(item.datapoint[0]);
   var percent = item.datapoint[1] - item.datapoint[2];
   $("#tooltip").html(
     moment(epoch).format("DD MMM") + " - "
       + item.series.label + " " + (percent)
       + "
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    top : item.pageY - 25,
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My min and max calulcations for xaxis
min : (new Date(moment().subtract(14,'week').day(0).subtract(2,"day").subtract(6,"hour").format('YYYY/MM/DD')).getTime()),
        max : (new Date(moment().subtract(1,'week').startOf('isoweek').format('YYYY/MM/DD')).getTime())

A: When the automatic tick generator from Flot does not what you want, you can always manually define the ticks (here by getting them from the data):
var ticks = [];
for (var i = 0; i < datasets[0].data.length; i++) {
  ticks.push(datasets[0].data[i][0]);
}

After also specifiying align: 'center' for the bars the bars and x axis ticks are now aligned.
PS: Your data has 14 data points, not 13. I also adjusted the max value for the x axis so the last bar is visible.

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    "1": 0
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    "1": 0
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  "label": "Investigate Report Problem",
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