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J-Day Thursday
A jury might be seated by the end of the day, so it's decision time:
It's the most crucial strategic decision so far for Jason Van Dyke's defense team — and his lawyers could be forced to make it as early as Thursday.
Should they put the fate of the indicted Chicago police officer in the hands of the jurors they've spent two days questioning? Or should they ask Cook County Judge Vincent Gaughan to decide whether Van Dyke murdered Laquan McDonald?
That decision looms because 10 of the 12 jurors who would hear the case have now been chosen. Five were picked Wednesday — a black woman, who is the first African-American on the jury, a white man, a white woman and two Latina women, one of who is applying to be a Chicago police office and wanted to be a cop since she was 12.
On Wednesday, when Dan Herbert pressed the judge about their deadline to make a decision, the judge told him, "when we get to 11, you'd better make a decision." The judge soon relented, and said he'd give the defense team a night to think about it.
They fell one short of 11 jurors Wednesday, but one more pick could put Van Dyke's lawyers on the spot — especially if it comes early Thursday.
The Department is also finally making some decisions. An order came out that from 24 September onward, all elective time off must be approved, not by a Deputy Chief as has been past practice, but by an actual Bureau Chief. This is on top of the manpower counts that every District and Unit had to submit this past week for the remainder of September and all of October.
Definitely an interesting jury being seated so far though.
And one of the jurors picked is related to the judge. What are the chances?
This whole incident stinks.
This wasn't the first PCP incident.
This jury is a joke!!!
Bench trial all the way. APPEAL APPEAL APPEAL. This judge will own his decision. Guilty, rioting and looting. Not guilty rioting and looting.
VanDyke gets a lot more than 16m. And he pays his taxes. He had a job, a career, a family.
I'd love to see tiny dancer, Jmac, and kidney bean in front of the jury. Pffffft.
APPEAL.
Bench trial. Not a Cop.
Not one of these orginezers knew this man. The system failed him, his parents failed him. He was an out of control drug addict. He made bad decisions that ended his life. Sorry, not sorry.
This is to all the Great men and women of the Chicago Police Department, No matter your opinion, please hold judgment until ALL of the evidence comes out.
Officers just remember #1 thing, Innocent until proven guilty.
There are always three sides to a story. For the last four years its been much of news paper reports and the media news outlets, side. Which is very little information that the media spins, causing more questions then answers and creates conspiracy theories.
As every Officer knows, there's always more then what the media is welling or able to publish and present. Thus, wait for the evidential facts in court. Officers' think about your own families, children,parents other loved ones. The impact of your career. What you have chosen, that being possibly giving up your own life during a tour of duty. And never returning home, rather allowing a total stranger to in fact make a safe return home. That's the thin blue line. Sacrificing your life for that of another.
Its not a job its a calling. Without consciously thinking about it you run into burning building and toward gun fire.
Just ask the Gold Star Family Members, about their lost loved one. There are 582 on the wall. Not included are also Officers that died while in the military.
So this calling works in mysterious ways, you just never ever truly know ! But judgment should never be past until all is known.
To: Jason and Tiffany YOU are Loved !!!!!! your children and extended family are thought of by many people. Van Dyke family you are loved. Also a great amount of thoughts go out too Jason's dad, who has been by his son's side everyday at court since the indictment.
No doubt about it the McDonald family is suffering as well,in this very difficult time prayers and thoughts of comfort for them.
Finally Fuck You Rahm !
The department (again) further strains exhausted and mentally drained officers who now cannot decompress from working this job with a day off......for the length of the JVD trial. Soon, they'll be cancelling RDOs
It's all bullshit when they talk of being concerned with our mental wellbeing. .
Defense attorneys soon hit back with their own complaint after prosecutors used a peremptory strike to cut a white man who said he's close friends with many police officers and has seen dashcam video of Van Dyke fatally shooting McDonald ("Everybody has").
Rueckert noted that four of the state's five strikes have been for white men.
"How can you be more honest than this person was?" Rueckert asked. "He said he talked to police officers, but not about this case. I don't know how you can ask for a more honest juror. He's being challenged only because he's a white male."
There goes your chance for a mistrial. Take the bench trial and appeal.
Rumors swirling that 12-hour days and cancelled RDO's are coming, possibly as early as next week.
It's at a point where it's gettting embarrassing. Promotions for all 4 ranks at one time. I hate to tell a person to ever turn down the raise, and all you deserve in your hard work. It just appears you really are just being used! Especially Det and FTO, , your seniority doesn't change if you defer
all you need is one not guilty for a stalemate
Bench trail bet on it !
It's not the jury, it's the video tape that's going to hang him.
They have already found him guilty. The masses have demanded their pound of flesh
The judge was previously arrested by CPD. Why on earth would they even consider picking him for a bench trial. It will be a jury trial and I believe that the city will go up for grabs following the verdict, however it goes.
He is one of the few judges there that would not be afraid to make a decision based on the law, not what is politically correct.
Can't believe the trial isn't going to be moved away from chicago area.
I would punt and go for the bench trial. The shooting video has been played ad nauseam just like the bartender beat down and there's too many haters out there.
How would this even work? Those hours were designed for afternoon personnel to be downtown for NATO and Wrigley Field. Where exactly are those thousands of officers going to be detailed!?
What's worrisome is the prosecution is going to bring in other cops who were there and who investigated this incident. Some forcibly retired due to this incident. Their statements can put them in serious jeopardy of being charged with a crime, too, unless deals have been made for immunity.
People will lie to get on a jury to fuck someone. JVD doesnt have a chance with the media railroad jobs put out.
Another Rumor I heard in the elevator at 35th street, is the Department will have us on 24 hour shifts like CFD. The city has secured a large quantity of Bunk beds from R J Vanecko bedding supply company. The department will erect large tents purchased from Daley and sons outdoor tents. These tents will be put up in the station lots and officers will be on 24 hour shifts, sleep for 12 and back on for 24.
Van Dykes lawyer already lost one jury trial for a Chicago Cop. There is a reason that 98% of cops charged with a crime take a bench trial and its because the judge has to follow the law. The US supreme court has already ruled on a case where an officer shot a woman with a knife and killed her. The court ruled the cop was justified and that cop had less of a reason to shoot her than Van Dyke had.
It's Illinois. it's Chicago. JVD isn't going to get a fair trial. Your Midwestern values are subverted.
Try him with a jury in Wyoming or Texas and give him a fair chance.
Video most of us have only seen the same video.
keep in mind that there is over 30 different video of the same incident.
Swinging a knife around
tape of female officer screaming into radio because they wanted somebody to save them from tire stabs.
infamous burger king video
and plenty of officers falling back and retreating
Herbert needs to get the point across to the jury (or judge) that lethal force was legally justified. Less than lethal force is never an option when an offender is armed. Yes, LM was armed. It can't be determined whether it was the first, or the 16th shot that ended his life. If the first shot was legally justified, there is no case. If there is a bench trial a directed verdict of not guilty would be appropriate after the state presents their evidence.
If we follow the rules and law you will have a jury of your "peers" so that would be police officers and other first responders, those are the peers and also people that believe in and respect "law and order" which are rare to find in this criminally infested democratic "we hate the police" most corrupt city-state-county in the entire country!
Best case move it far away from here, second trial by judge every last juror is tainted by the "tape" and dishonest,bastardizing news media here! God bless you Jason, Herbert and your families!
Hoping and praying for acquittal, and that every last boss that quickly retired after the political winds blew in and they all changed their stories from "good shoot" to "questionable bad shoot!" what changed their minds? was it some cash maybe collusion from rahm and the democratic chorus? Like Eddie says "I have more questions than I have answers!"
This is going to be Ferguson on steroids, get your affairs in order for next few months.
From what I've gathered the judge can't stand Herbert and rarely misses the opportunity to admonish him publically, hopefully Dan will be able to seat jurors from the planet of Zog...
Why didn't the defense legal team work to change the venue out of Chicago where the accused police officer can not get a fair trial?
"It's not the jury, it's the video tape that's going to hang him."
You need to look at the vid really closely. You'll notice that LM's path crosses at an angle to the right over the centerline as he passes JVD. But then for whatever reason he wobbles back across the centerline towards JVD at which point he opens fire.
In my experience, most people are morons.
If the lawyers can weed out the idiots, he might stand a chance of a fair trial.
But....the pressure to convict will be overwhelming.
was there ever a decision on change of venue? that seems like a no-brainer
Yep. hard to get past that. No other evidence really matters.
As a P.O. who never had to fire my weapon in the line of duty, I consider myself fortunate. JVD, if you are reading this, just know my thoughts and prayers are with you and your family. Since i do not trust the court system here, I also pray that judge Gaughan presides in a fair an unbiased manner.
does anyone Know the correct answer to this Question?
Can JVD be found guilty of a charge lesser than Murder like manslaughter or involuntary manslaughter. or does it have to be Murder or nothing? I know they added 16 counts off Agg Batt but that seems ridiculous. Anyone know?
Trust a jury...in Cook County of Prickwrinkle?
Way too many ordinary people have a political agenda they follow openly or hidden.
The entire incident is a political circus to showcase a mediocre courtroom savvy from KimmFxxxUp.
I'd lean towards a bench trial.
The judge is smarter than the lead ASA and KFxxUp and will recognize the biased trick bag tactics she will try to introduce.
She has no case, confused jury is her best hope.
It's not likely at all that DrRevSpecial Ed PhD gets called to the stand for the either side, as he will throw everyone and anyone under the bus.
He may even fall out and have some medical relapse sometime soon.
As for the violence prone feral packs, just another reason to wreak havoc.
Saturation locked up a 70 year old women for driving suspended the other night in 015. It was her first arrest. Keep telling everyone you're super cool elite unit in the hood. Fuckin' ridiculous. How are you not embarrassed bringing in that nonsense. Losers. Hope you let the lady keep her car. Sorry I normally dont post but damn!
It's all about how it's presented! What most people have been lead to believe, whiteman, shoots blackman! All the other people around there were afraid to get out of their cars or they just had their heads up their asses. The Officer reacted as he was trained. The deceased, unknown at the time, was on PCP, and had a knife, which he did use to cause damage, and was a threat. Someone called 911 because they thought that the offender was a threat. In training, you are taught that you deal with the threat until you are sure that there is no longer a threat. You see through a camera but you don't see through the Officers eyes. If you can make that judgement, than your a better man than me. I thank God that I wasn't put into that situation! Now he finds out who his REAL friends are....
Can some one shed light on the chances of JVD getting his freedom? A logical person please, not a jag
If the city burns down it's on Rahm, the media, and Obummer. I really hope it happens, maybe it will be the event that will be a real eye opener for a lot of ppl
i retired and can only say a prayer for you guys and gals on the job. Be safe as the city will probably go up for grabs.
Coincidence? The Rodney King case and its riotous aftermath was on cable last week. Also, the aftermath in dealing with the Baltimore uprising is also fresh in people's minds. No matter how you spin it, there is no way 16 shots will be justified. Coppers, McDonald is gone and you have to move on. If you want to stay on the job and survive in the present environment, keep your head in the game and decide if every move you make "is worth it".
100% not true. You're an idiot.
Paul Huebl Crimefile News said...
https://youtu.be/NdmD_AJ9upA
I heard forced comp time and 6 hour days for the trial. They want everyone to be able to watch it at home.
So the plan is...there is no plan. About 2 days into the rioting and burning morons Johnson and his posse after telling the rioters ,"Hey Ya'all Amemeber Me I Marched Wit Ya'all" will ask Georgas what to do. That is THE plan. Our city could burn for months and the buffoons that marched with the highest ranking member of the CPD will be the ones rioting. I don't think our bicycles and horses are going to stop burning and shooting. NATO was a Mormon Wedding compared to what we're going to see.
Lionel Hutz said...
It doesn't matter. Judge or jury...this is Cook County. Van Dyke will be found guilty in this corrupt socialist cesspool. I was at a political fund raiser last night for McCarthy and you should hear the disgusting comments coming from some judges and attorneys that were there. You want a sample? Look at the comments section of YouTube or Huff Post where they show the dashcam footage. Read the comments responding to Mrs. Van Dyke's interview on Chicago's Morning show. A GoFundMe for his wife and kids should be set up at this point so they can change their last name and be taken care of (before even more public opinion turns against them).
This weak incompetent democratic controlled judge who takes his orders from the democratic committeeman that had him appointed will never defy the power he is beholden to! This trial minimum move it 6 hours downstate to a small law abiding town in order for a jury of peers, not the morons who have hate in their hearts,or a bench trial where the judge (not this judge) a judge from a law and order respected county not from this anti-police morally bankrupt corruption filled county! Think national magazines the liberal media call this the most corrupt city county in the entire USA, for once they are correct!
Justice for Jason Godbless him and coppers everywhere!
Now would be a good time to be on furlough.
--- I've said it before and I'll keep saying it; This third world rotten department does not give 2 shits about you or your family, unless you're the connected few. Believe me when I say that they would rather see you shoot yourself than shoot someone else, even when justified. Every rule, general order, and policy written down is to the benefit of the department and created for the sole purpose of reducing their liability from you and your actions. When an officer is killed whether it be by a criminal or his own hand, it is all nothing but useful fodder for the politicians and officials to get some great PR coverage on the news. They use every single one of these events as an opportunity to grandstand and display all manners of feigned sorrow, support and homage for another fallen hero. It is interesting how quickly these same public figures would distance themselves from these same heroes, denouncing their actions and promising swift and severe repercussions if the situation were turned around and the officer used lethal force to save himself or someone else, all in the name of "justice". As someone pointed out before, it is crystal clear how much a police officer's life is worth compared to that of a criminal. The families of police officers do not get million dollar settlements from the city they get killed in the line of duty, but the city has payed millions to criminals and their families.
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I don't get the change of venue after a jury is picked. Take a Cook County jury to Peorea or some other location and you still have jurors who have been saturated with Chicago media coverage. Move the trial to Peoria with a Peoria jury, and give him a fair chance.
The media is complicit in not presenting both sides - though there are 3.
Finally, the F.O.P. President speaks, and only 1 station - WGN carries it anywhere.
F-U Media A$$-HO$ (abc, cbs, nbc, fox -but "weezie gots the cosignz degree")
Everyone deserves a FAIR SHAKE!
https://wgntv.com/2018/09/13/fop-president-speaks-out-in-support-of-jason-van-dyke/
We know that there will be a 'HAPPY'Riot, or an "UNHAPPY Riot.
Either way there will be a riot for sure.
The jurors have to know than after the verdict is announced the media will obtain their names and addresses.
You know that intimidation fact alone will influence their decision.
Get a bench trial !!!!!
Has to be in the Billions it can not happen but it did only in Cook County!
Three alternates were selected Thursday afternoon. Among them was a woman in her 50s who works for Cook County Clerk David Orr. She said police officers have difficult jobs and that she was intimidated by protesters outside: "You don't know what to expect. You don't know what they're gonna do."
I thought the judge said he would rule on change of venue DURING jury selection......if there is no change of venue, and Officer VanDyke is found guilty of anything, there HAS to be an automatic appeal......there is NO city WORSE than Chicago where the police department has been painted by the Mayor, the MSM, and the "community" as evil, racist and a genocidal gang of thugs......evidence and statistics be damned....
Even my old fat ass can run across 21 feet in a second or two with a knife in my hand and kill or maim someone......the future brain surgeon was high on PCP, had already committed numerous forcible felonies, and was a threat to anyone nearby, be they citizen or cop.....his own mother refused to raise him......
The only portion of video shown over and over ad nauseum does look awful to an uneducated observer......but this trial is not the slam dunk the MSM believes it is.......but I don't know if ANY juror has the courage to vote not guilty in this city.......and for sure, no bench trial.....after his rulings in this case, I believe that would be a grave error on the defense part.....
The city has contracted with Pistolo Pete's to provide box lunches for officers on stand-by.
Didn't see this in the news and wouldn't that disqualify the juror?
I'd take my chances with the bench trial.
Hit the medical or FMLA
This weak incompetent democratic controlled judge...
You sound just like the other side when they scream ALL Cops are no good.
I know more about the Judge than you,take it to the bank. If they go for a bench trial they will get the proper verdict with the evidence presented.
Judge Gaughan is a Vietnam Combat Vet. ( Volunteered for the first Special Forces group authorized by Kennedy),grew up a tough Irish Catholic kid in what is now the DePaul area of the city.He is far from a Police hater. He Can be your best friend or worst enemy depending on your Knowledge and competency.The defense atty needs to learn that the Judge does not suffer fools on either side. He will take the evidence presented,add in the law and make the correct decision,he is beholden to no one and doesn't give a rats ass what anyone "thinks " he should do.
Anyone who has been in front of Gaughan will tell you he is an arrogant crabby SOB to everybody but no one will accuse him of being corrupt or incompetent.
PO V. biggest problem in Gaughans court room during a bench trial would be the Attys he hired,They don't appear capable of putting forth the proper defense.The defense Attys. need to bring their A game and so does the other side,Gaughan will take no shit from either side.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/laquanmcdonald/ct-van-dyke-trial-inside-the-courtroom-2018-htmlstory.html
Meet the Jury why did the judge not put a gag order?
https://www.dailyherald.com/news/20180913/lauzen-again-demands-accounting-for-costs-of-prosecuting-van-dyke
Any guess on how long the trial will last?
If there is a riot, I hope that they destroy all the Nike stores.
While I'm a nobody, I think he should go bench trial. If the jury is truly going to be impartial and there is an actual chance he will win, he should still do a bench trial. It's unfortunate but those 12 people's lives are ruined if they come back with any verdict besides guilty of first degree murder. I know its his life hanging in the balance but if it were me, I'd wouldn't want to burden the jurors with the hell they'd face just for doing what's right.
Both of the 2nd watch Lieutenants in 007 hit the medical for NATO. Both have since been promoted. One is a DC (NS) and the other is a grossly overweight Capt.
https://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/Allentown-Police-Officer-Loses-Job-After-Charges-in-Shooting-Death-Dorney-Park-492808141.html
This Officer was charged with only voluntary manslaughter Van Dyke was way over charged not guilty if they convict he will win on appeal.
When are people going to realize that Fox and the Cook County States Attorneys have nothing at all to do with this case. McMahon is a Special Prosecutor. This case was taken out of the hands of the Cook County States Attorney when Alvarez was still in office.
Plea bargain, take 2 years of home confinement. Your life will be back to normal.
Rumor has it the 1st marine div will be storming oak street beach while the 82nd airborne will jump into grant park. Cpd gets westside and southside hoods.
Well-said. Every FTO should emphasize this to new recruits.
"The judge is smarter than the lead ASA and KFxxUp and will recognize the biased trick bag tactics she will try to introduce."
How do you not know by now that Foxx's office has nothing to do with this prosecution? VD was charged by Alvarez and is being prosecuted by special counsel - not CCSAO ASAs.
As for the change of venue, VD's lawyers fought tooth & nail to change the venue; they even brought in an expert to testify that it would be incredibly difficult to seat a fair jury in this current climate. Gaughan held off on his ruling until Herbert made a decision re: bench or jury. I don't think VD/Herbert HAS TO make a decision up until the 12th juror is seated, which likely will be today (Friday). At that point, the judge said he'd rule on the change of venue motion if VD chooses a jury.
You think the judge will do "whats right" or whats right for him?
The ironic thing about this debacle is that Mac Donald's drug addict mom, the one who failed to care her own son and let the state agencies take over his care (you, me and other taxpayers) walks away with million$.
Wouldn't worry about burdening the jury. They chose to be on the jury for whatever reason. Anyone who didn't want to be on that jury had 100 ways to be excluded. If you put on the questionnaire you thought he was guilty or thought he was innocent you were excluded. If you made it to the questioning part the judge asked if you could be impartial and not let you feelings enter into your decision, all you had to do was say you couldn't and you were excused.
That's the way the CPD operates. If you are heavy, pardon the pun you can do as you please if you aren't and try to get into a unit or merit they will say you have been on the medical twice in 10 years and eliminate you. Nothing new here
A year, a week 2 months. How would anyone on the blog know?
Why? A waste of time. Didn't he order all concerned not to talk about the trial and Van Dyke gave an interview. In this day and age there is no way to stop the leaks
Not sure where you attended law school, but being overcharged is not a basis for appeal. Plus Herbert can request a lesser charge as an option. Either the prosecutor or the defense attorney can ask for lesser and included offense be included
And they probably let a few fools go with no drivers license go because they didn't want to process them before they made this arrest
Article in Trib today said a judge can find the defendant guilty of lesser charges
Also states. Jurors can do that only if either the defense or prosecution request it as an option
Interesting article, read it , it goes into more detail. Ended with. If you want to walk out of the building with a 00% not guilty, go with a jury
Hey 8:41, are you Linda Flores? You must be his girlfriend because this judge is completely out of his mind, yes he is a veteran and all that good stuff but he's as mentally stable as anyone of those prisoners in Cook County Jail.
About 15 minutes is all it would take to play the video to the jury. I think the SA would be wise not to drag out a simple case with irrefutable evidence.
If not just shuffle them into a Starbucks.
And they probably let a few fools go with no drivers license go because they didn't want to process them before they made this arrest.
I had a case years ago where an elderly couple were driving in the wrong direction and got into an accident, and I talked to the desk Sgt who suggested I just drive them home. Their car was totaled, it was a very old car, but they were ok. I don't know would if sgts nowadays would let you do that, but they should.
Can some one shed light on the chances of JVD getting his freedom? A logical person please, not a jag.
Anything is possible, but I do not see him getting his job back, and even if he did, how would he work the street? I don't know ow what he will do after this trial, but I am sure this is a financial hardship. And for the record, I wonder if, as an earlier poster said, this kid was failed by his family and the system.
He can work the street in any northside district especially in 16, you know, where they respect the police. He did nothing wrong, the media is making him out to be a monster showing the typical 10 second video clip just like with LAPD and that shitbag Rodney King.
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Out and About: Creative Construction – Charlevoix's Mushroom Houses
WRITER | LISA BECKER CAMPBELL
PHOTO | CHARLEVOIX HISTORICAL SOCIETY
"The only thing wrong with architecture is architects" is a pronouncement made by none other than Frank Lloyd Wright. Earl Young – renowned for building the spectacular "Mushroom Houses" of Charlevoix – may have shared that sentiment.
Young was never a trained architect. He abandoned his attempt to study architecture at the University of Michigan after one year because the "rigid" department focused on Victorian style, which he despised.
An insurance and real estate agent by trade, Young was essentially a self-taught builder who created 30 unique structures of stone over a span of 50 years. Described as incredible works of architecture, art, and science, most of the Mushroom Houses are still standing today and have become beloved treasures.
The homes are largely constructed of indigenous materials such as limestone, fieldstone, and boulders that Young found along the shores of Lake Michigan or hand-selected from local farmers' fields. An avid nature lover, he enjoyed strolling the beaches of Charlevoix, discovering each stone, then incorporating it into one of the dwellings, which were designed to resemble and enhance their natural surroundings. He endeavored to prove that a small stone house could be as impressive as a castle.
His techniques included keeping treasured rocks buried or immersed in Lake Michigan until he had the perfect application for each one. He had some experience as a stone mason's apprentice, and his stonemasonry skills paired with his love of nature give the properties their beauty and signature style.
Design elements include a horizontal emphasis, with wavy eaves, exposed rafter tails, and cedar-shake roofs. Door, window, roof, and fireplace treatments are unusually curvy. Many of the homes have discreetly hidden front doors, a technique inspired by Wright.
"These houses are truly fascinating and absolute gems in our community," according to Edith Pair of Tour Michigan, Inc., which has been providing tours for over ten years and whose knowledgeable guides have an unbridled passion for each home.
"The houses can be described with a folksy, whimsical, or a fairytale feel. They are also referred to as Hobbit Houses or Gnome Homes, which makes them especially pleasing!" according to Pair.
They are beloved for many reasons. One factor is that while Earl Young was born in Mancelona, he was loyal to the city of Charlevoix, building solely in Northern Michigan. He arrived in Charlevoix at age 11 and began crafting his first home, his personal residence, in 1919. He died in 1975, at 86, as a local legend.
The Charlevoix Historical Society also provides sightseeing of what it calls "Charlevoix's most famous attraction," according to David Miles, co-curator.
Bus tours are provided by the Historical Society's "Step-on Guides," who provide narration aboard buses that come into town from across the country. Some groups may only have time for the Mushroom Houses; others include sightseeing, shopping, dining, and more.
The Historical Society's walking tours are guided strolls lasting about 90 minutes and affording views of the Earl Young houses within the city limits, plus the Pine River and a few other sights. The houses are private residences; tours do not include the interiors. Roughly half of all of Young's properties are in the Park Avenue section, and they are historically preserved.
The remaining Earl Young houses are located in Boulder Park, just outside the city limits. The Historical Society is currently advocating for the protection of these properties as well, to keep them as historically correct as possible.
Remodeling the interiors may be necessary to correct structural damage, for example, and is desirable because the homes routinely have small kitchens and baths – another characteristic Earl Young shared with Frank Lloyd Wright.
The excursions provided by Tour Michigan cover both the Bolder Park and Park Avenue regions via electric trams called GEM cars.
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James Kosur is the former Editor-In-Chief and co-founder of Hill…
New Poll Indicates That Trump Will Likely Be Impeached Within Months
Donald Trump is mad at Attorney General Jeff Sessions and he's attacking the lawmaker for the illegal activities of other officials who work for the Republican Party.
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Trump on Sunday mounted a massive attack against Sessions, blaming him for allowing charges to be brought against two GOP congressman.
Trump believes the charges could jeopardize Republican chances in the upcoming November mid-term elections.
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"….The Democrats, none of whom voted for Jeff Sessions, must love him now," Trump continued.
Trump's second tweet is a lie. Democratic Senator Joe Manchin of West Virginia voted for Sessions when he was confirmed as attorney general by a 52-47 vote in February 2017.
WATCH: Indicted Subpoena-Dodging Steve Bannon Promises, "We're Not Going To Stop"
The President's tweets about various indictments brought against California Rep. Duncan Hunter who misused more than $250,000 in campaign funds and then threw his wife under the bus, and Chris Collins of New York who was indicted on insider trading and wire fraud.
Jeff Sessions was an earlier supporter of Donald Trump which likely earned him the Attorney General role. However, Trump has been at odds with Sessions after the lawmaker recused himself from the Russia investigation after it was revealed that he did not disclose to Senators that he held meetings with a Russian ambassador during Trump's election campaign.
Most political models are predicting that the Democrats will take back the House in November, a move that will allow them to begin impeachment proceedings against President Trump.
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Obamacare Hits Record High Enrollment After Biden Tweaks Trump's Changes
Watch: Donald Trump Is Really Unhappy With Mitch McConnell Over January 6th Blame
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How to remove the video in the contact?
Sometimes there are situations, when it is necessary to remove from the network some videos. Let it is not of a compromising nature and does not expose the actions of famous people, but even private photography newborn baptism can get an unhealthy public interest.
How to remove the video in the contact, that it can not go out to see strangers? let's get a look, what can be done.
Go to the menu "My videos" and orientirueshsya, according to the wishes. If you want to delete the video, not only from his page, but also to stop its spread in social networks, you should perform several steps.
select video, you wish to remove. A file is a list of users, Use your video.
Delete the list and click in the window video file click "Delete". Now the video has been removed not only from your page, but also from the pages users subscribe to it.
Remove video from your page without the subscribers also do not make much effort to. In the file window, in the upper right corner of the displayed menu of allowed operations on files. Click on the "Delete"button. There is a button "Restore record". Prior to the release of the contacts, you can still return the video to your page. After it will be harder to do.
In the case of large video popularity, or its distribution among users not only social network, or if you are not laid out video, will have to be creative in removing embarrassing files.
The first thing you can write a letter to the user, posted a video on the general review, asking him to remove. If the user goes to meet you and will remove videos from your page, you can stop worrying.
If you put the video did not go to the contact, rude and mocks your requests, press the button "Report video", which is located in the upper right corner of any media file.
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Carrying out these simple tips, you will be able to deal with the, how to remove a video from the contact and the future, be more attentive to the material, which is located on the network.


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Terra natura y Aquanatura
Terra Natura is a new-generation wildlife park where you can discover the Zooimmersion experience a new concept in habitat design which will enable you to come into contact with the animals as if there were no barriers between you at least, no visible ones! The 320,000 square metres of the Benidorm park are divided into four themed areas: Pangea, the entrance to the park, America and Asia .
Link: Terra natura y Aquanatura
Mundomar is a marine animal park located in Benidorm, in Costa Blanca, Spain. It is twinned with the water park Aqualandia, which is directly adjacent to it, and shares the same car park. There is a viewing area at the top of Mundomar next to the Dolphinarium, which gives a view of the majority of Aqualandia.
Many different species can be viewed at Mundomar, including Dolphins, Sea Lions, Penguins, Meerkats and many more marine and land animals.
There are Dolphin, Sea Lion, and Parrot displays several times a day at the park, where visitors can watch trained handlers interacting with the animals, and putting on spectacular shows.
Mundomar is usually open from February to December.
Link: Mundomar
Aqualandia
Aqualandia is a water park located in Benidorm, Alicante
It has an area of ??200 000 square meters, of which 50 000 in parking spaces, making it one of the largest water parks in Spain. In the year 2010 there were numerous events due to the 25th anniversary of the park.
Aqualandia has more than 20 attractions aimed at everyone, spread over an area of ??150,000 square meters. It also has 50,000 square meters of parking shared with Mundomar
The water attractions are obtained directly from the sea, and is then treated to remove some salt and add chlorine.
Link: Aqualandia


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Wipro Partners with Camunda to provide Workflow Automation Platform
Wipro announced a collaboration with the Camunda to provide more efficient workflow automation solutions. Wipro will join Camunda Partner Program.
Camunda is an open-source platform for workflow and decision automation. There are many organizations such as the AT&T, Zalando, 24-Hour Fitness and Lufthansa Technik, automate their core business processes to the highest possible extent. The workflow automation of these processes allows these businesses to scale and grow revenue without increasing operational costs.
Wipro will use Camunda's enterprise-grade workflow automation platform to provide the solution to clients who do not have the IT resources to build the protocols of automation, the announcement says.
Camunda's stack includes a toolkit for executing and modeling business processes. It has a powerful, beautiful interface for the troubleshooting and monitoring active processes and analyzing large volumes of process data, said the announcement.
CEO and Co-founder, Camunda, Jakob Freund, said "As digital transformation initiatives increasingly pick up speed, we're finding more and more IT services firms need partners who can fully enable their clients' digital transformation projects," We are thrilled to work with Wipro, whose market leadership position will provide more businesses access to our workflow automation solutions."
Head of Enterprise Operations Transformation, Wipro Limited, Somit Kapoor, said, "We are excited to partner with Camunda to offer customers a lightweight, highly flexible, open-source platform for their workflow automation needs," "Offering Camunda as part of our stack will benefit our customers who are looking for a solution that offers greater flexibility and customization than alternative heavyweight platforms."
Automation Workflow Capabilities and Other Partnerships
Workflow automation market projected at $17 billion by the end of the year 2023. up from the current $4.7 billion in the year 2017, according to the report of Market Research Nest, referred in the announcement.
In June 2019 this year, Mphasis has collaborated with the Camunda to provide workflow and decision-making abilities.
Wipro has been expanding its partnerships and facilities in the last couple of months. In July, the company has started with a new compliance and testing lab in Hyderabad.
In June 2019, Wipro announced their partnership with Moogsoft to deliver next-generation AIOps, artificial intelligence for IT operations. The partnership with Moogsoft paves the way for Wipro to deliver cutting edge artificial intelligence for IT operations (AIOps) solutions for its customers
In March 2019, Wipro also launched it's Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) solutions, Wipro HOLMES, targetted towards governing critical supply chain processes.
Recently, ADM Aéroports de Montréal, which operates YUL Montreal-Trudeau International Airport, the third-largest airport in Canada, and YMX International Aérocity of Mirabel, has awarded a five-year strategic IT and business transformation contract to Wipro.
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Fender Champion 100 Guitar Combo Amp Black
Packaging Details: Hardshell Case of Fender Champion 100 Guitar Combo Amp Black
Simple to use and versatile enough for any style of guitar playing, there's a Champion amp that's right for you whether you're looking for your first practice amp or affordable stage gear. The 100W, dual-channel Champion 100 features two 12" Special Design speakers, with great amp voices and effects that make it easy to dial up just the right sound - from jazz to country, blues to metal and more.
It features two footswitchable independent channels: channel one delivers classic Fender clean tone based on amps like the Twin Reverb, and channel two has selectable amp voicing, including Blackface, British, Metal, Jazz and Tweed, for a wide array of tonal variety. Each channel offers selectable FX, including delay, chorus, reverb and more.
Power: 100W solid state Two channels " Blackface clean and selectable amp voice Speakers: two 12" Fender Special Design 1/8" aux. input 1/8" headphone output FX loop Built-in FX: Reverb, Delay/Echo, Chorus, Tremolo, Vibratone and more -- Delay time and Tremolo speed can easily be set with the Tap button Front panel: Black angled Grill cover: Black "Bronco" vinyl covering with silver grille cloth Dimensions: 10.25" x 26" x 19" Weight: 40 lbs. Two-button footswitch included
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I bought this to replace my frontman 212R and Mustang IV. I like the simplicity of the frontman and it had a good clean tone to work with, however this champion 100
is LEAPS AND BOUNDS BETTER. They actually put in an audio taper pot and replaced the linear pot that would jump from 1 to about 5 in volume. The champion has great volume control. I also have the mustang IV 2x12 combo and I think the Champion 100 sounds better. how you ask? simple. THEIR IS NO MORE DIGITAL HISS IN THE AMP MODELING. I loved the bassman model in the mustang, but could never get passed to trailing off digital hiss. what ever Fender did, they fixed it here. Ive had trouble finding the EXACT amp models for this amp online, so I will post them here. they are Tweed Bassman, Tweed Deluxe (clean), Tweed Deluxe (dirty), Tweed Champ, 65 Twin, 65 Deluxe, 65 Princeton (clean), 65 Princeton (dirty), 60's British Clean, 60's British Dirty, 70's British, 80's British, Fender Super-Sonic, 90's Metal, 2000 Metal, and "jazzmaster" (Roland JC120). It has a whole lot of effects and a GOOD SPRING REVERB WITH THAT FAMILIAR "PLUNK" SOUND. The amp also responds well to rolling off the volume. I took a chance with this amp and it payed of great. Im very happy with it, as I hardly ever feel compelled to write reviews. A WORD OF ADVICE! THE SPEAKERS NEED TO BE BROKEN IN! Put a HEAVY blanket over this thing and crank it for a bit. It sounded a bit "cold" until the speakers were broken in, but after that, WHOA. If it were lost or stolen I would grab another in a heart beat. This amp is going to go up in price when it catches on. Do some research on its channel and FX switching. Very useful and handy. For being a solid state amp, it catches the Fender tone GREAT. Easy 9.5 out of 10 in my book. Ive recorded with it as well with GREAT results. I run the PRE OUT to my computer and use Kemper IR's with it. I know people wont believe me, but it sounds as god as my AXEFX standard in the fender realm. Dont beileve me? give it a try and prove me wrong! Conclusion, one happy camper here.
.Here's the follow up and, I'm very impressed! When I started playing over 40 yrs. ago and, Fender was what everybody was using and, we played them hard. At that time everything was tube powered no solid state amps had entered the market yet. Sure they sounded Great but, the tubes could be a pain, especially when 1 or more of them would give you problems. At that time you could buy tubes everywhere even at the grocery store and, tube testers were everywhere but, those days are gone and, the price of tubes has gone through the roof. Traveling with a tube amp is not a good deal for a giging musician SS amps are much more dependable in this dept. Studio work and, maybe tubes would be OK.
I love the Black Face Look of this amp, the sound is excellent, typical of what I expected from a Fender amp and, the effects sound Great! I also really enjoy the channel switching and, being able to turn the effects on or off with the footswitch.
I play in a Classic Rock/Country band so I load the first channel clean with a little reverb delay and, the second channel with crunch and effects also. It's a perfect setup, easy to use and setup is a no brainer. I recieved this amp on a Thursday and did a gig Friday with very little tweaking. As a working musician I apprecaite this simplicity because I have always felt that my time should be devoted to my performance and, not fiddling with knobs or settings.
This is a Great amp for a very reasonable price tag with the performance and, features that a novice or a professional musician would appreciate.
.Okay, let me start off by saying that I was extremely amazed with amp; from coming from a little Fender Mustang 1 (20W)for 2 years this was an insane upgrade and wouldn't trade this amp for the world.
The two channel system was new to me but one of the best things I have seen come from an amp because not only did Fender focus just as much on the distorted channel but they master the art of the clean sound and you really really can tell with this amp. I have heard people say that the clean sound is so good that you can play a acoustic through it and I am almost sure that's complete fact because when you hear it you'll know.
The amount of things that you can do with this amp is immeasurable, absolutely incredible. From the gain to the mids to the bass and trebble. The amount of control you have over your tone is massive. This is probably the best investment I have made into my guitar besides my guitar itself. If you like playing with spectacular tone get this amp, you won't be disappointed.
.First let me say I'm no expert on amps. But I did do my research like most people do on the internet and this amp came out on top for the money. When I was a kid, I played in bands. I put the guitar down, got married, raised kids and here I am 40 years later. At 57-years old I decided to get back into playing. For now I'm just jamming with classic rock songs I grew up with. Every now and then I play with some friends… no gig playing (yet).
I'm using this amp with a Fender American Special HSS Strat I bought new last year. At that time I also got the Fender Mustang I to practice with. Originally I just wanted some sound. It worked fine but now I wanted to take it to the next level since I realized I loved playing again.
Needless to say, this amp fits the bill perfectly. It's great to feel the compression from the 2 12-inch speakers again. With my 12-string acoustic sitting on a stand about 15 feet from the amp, I can easily get some strings to vibrate and play and that's with the volume about 2/3rds. I also knocked down a picture frame on a wall and set off some motion sensitive Christmas decorations… it cracks me up. I'm very pleased with the power, tone and the various effects.
It really seems to make my pickup switch on the guitar more sensitive (front to back pickups) as well as the volume and tone controls on the guitar.
Having the foot switch is real handy as I switch back and forth all the time from the clean channel to the distortion in middle of songs and also to the various effects.
Very happy with the purchase as you really can't go wrong with Fender amps and even more happy with size of the amp... I'm to old to lug huge amps around.
.I'm the owner of a Deluxe Reverb Reissue, which I really like - great sweet tube tone. However, it would get muddy on me when cranking it up, and breaks up pretty early. I was looking for something with more headroom and wouldn't break the bank. Something that would cut through the mix of a full band but not break up real early.
I liked this amp from the start - very light weight for a 2x12, and sounded pretty good by itself. First time with the full band and very pleased - plenty of headroom and sits in the mix really well. With a keyboard, drums, bass, another guitar, etc. - I really can't tell the tone difference at all between this and the DRRI. Sure - if you're playing alone or recording then the DRRI is certainly a step better in tone. But this is probably the closest you'll get to a Twin for a fraction of the price and weight!
.I purchased this amp to take to open mics and jam sessions where thief, beer spills and cigarette burns are not just probable, they're likely. I've owned a couple of solid state amps, but my passion is Fender tube power. I've got a few of the "holy grail" Fenders like a blackface Super and silverface Deluxe plus a few tweed clones (Cox Amps…RIP Brian Cox)…but, I don't dare take them out to play.
This amp will never replace my valve amps, but WOW this is great amp. It's a convergence of technology and cost effective production that is almost too good to be true. How could a solid state amp get such good reviews? It preforms like an amp many times its cost. But, it's not great because it's cheap…that's just the icing. This thing sounds great. I love the punchy clean tones of the Twin Reverb channel and even more the thick blackface tones on tap from the second channel. I could care less about the British tones, but here if you need them. The gain control sweeps from clean to super crunch without ear splitting volume, but that's on tap too. This amp doesn't push as much air as a real Twin, but it's pretty darn close.
The effects and effect combinations are well conceived and realistic and the included foot switch makes the cannel and effect switching easy and useful. The cosmetics are great and the weight is only 40 lbs.! If you own only one amp for practice, recording, and gigging this is it. The combination of portability, versatility and affordability, is unmatched in the market today.
.you will love this thing
.Excellent amp. I'm not a big tube guy anymore, and I really like what Fender has been doing with it's solid state stuff. Like the Mustang III I used to have, this one has several amp models and effects, but the Champion sounds a bit more analog. Of course, I'll never use all these features, but they're nice to have. The amp does have a couple of sweet spots.....The tone controls aren't like what I'm used to. Small adjustments to the treble, mid, and bass controls can affect each other, as well as the overall tone of the guitar, but the different amp models seem to make up for this, and I'm having no trouble getting great sounds. Also, I'm able to squeeze some fine guitar tones out of the metal amp settings by lowering the gain, which has been a problem with past SS Fenders......I never would've thought stock Fender speakers would sound so great, but these chalky-sounding speakers balance out the sterile SS feel of the amp tone, making it sound more tube-like, and I'm impressed.....The only drawback I see is that there's no external speaker jack in the back. I sometimes like to stack my combos on a 4x12 cab, and I can jury rig this amp, but I'd rather not have to. Also, it does tend to amplify electrical signals from other sources (noisy drills from the neighbor next door, or neon lights, for example), so you might consider a power conditioner for those unfamiliar bar gigs...Overall, I am extremely pleased with my purchase, and I recommend this amp to anyone--
.I was looking for a powerful clean (Fender type) sound and the occasional dirty for leads on certain songs. This amp has it. If I need a delay, then I use my delay pedal, not this amp's delay. The effects this amp offers may be desired by some but not me. I needed a strong powerful clean sound without having to spend a lot of money and this amp has it. My drummer told me that he felt like I punched him in the jaw with this kind of power. This amp is just what I needed and for a great price. Thanks again MF.
.This unit replaced the Fender Frontman 212 which was 199.00 just last year and now discontinued.
Adding effects and a useless 1/8" jacks is not grounds for a 33% increase in price..
Aside from the spring reverb nobody buys this amp for the effects..
Not a dignified move by Fender Executives


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This is our own story. It is about the devastating effect that a prescription drug had on my husband and ultimately our entire life. It is a very commonly prescribed medication and from the stories I found online, it sounds like we are not alone. It really bothers me to think about how many lives have been torn apart due to uninformed doctors and trusting patients who are unaware of the magnitude of it's mind altering and physical side effects.
In fall of 2009 we tragically lost my mother-in-law. My husband, Shawn, struggled with physical anxiety due to losing her. He made many trips to the doctor fearing there was something terribly wrong with him. He was experiencing symptoms of heart attacks and near fainting spells. In early 2010 his family practice Doctor treated him for his anxiety by putting him on Citalopram also known as Celexa. This is an SSRI antidepressant. Shawn was not suffering from depression but his doctor explained to him that this medicine would help him deal with his anxiety and he even said, "it will not be life changing". That statement could not have been more wrong.
After the first year on his Citalopram, Shawn was very impressed with its ability to calm his anxiety. He was also finally able to believe, since a mental drug made him feel better that he was dealing with a mental issue and not actually a life threatening physical problem. This encouraged him to decide he wanted to get off of his medicine. Shawn just wanted to try to control his anxiety without it. There was also something about it he just didn't like and he never wanted to be dependent on a drug. However, his doctor informed him the withdrawal symptoms would be awful and he told Shawn he didn't see any need to stop taking something that was working. I was very disappointed in his doctor's advice but I had no idea just how much we would both one day wish we had asked for a second opinion.
That year things began to get very bad. I had noticed Shawn was restless, he began picking up more hobbies, spending a lot more money and just focusing on finding fun things to do. I had noticed some of this the previous year as well but I still assumed he was going through this phase because he was struggling with losing his mom and trying to distract himself. However, things were progressively getting worse. He stopped paying bills on time. He didn't seem to want to ever be home with the kids and me. He stopped caring about my opinion on anything and basically didn't seem to care at all about anything of importance anymore. He was also destroying our financial future, buying cars, kayaks, dogs and anything he thought sounded fun.
Then he completely shocked me in fall of 2012 when he confessed to me he was thinking about leaving me. We had been married for 14 yrs at that time and we had never threatened divorce, we had never even called each other a bad name. In fact, We did not have any marital problems, until he began acting foolish enough to have a real impact on us that past year. We had two little girls, 9 and 7 years old, who were just as shocked as I was that their daddy wanted to move out. His feelings made absolutely no sense to me. He did not have any real reasons to leave me either, he just kept repeating that I had done nothing wrong, "we just don't have passion, desire or romance anymore". He also said, "I feel like our marriage is stuck in a rut and my life is stuck in a rut". At this point I began to finally question his medicine. I asked him to please talk to his doctor again because I at least knew that lack of desire was a potential side effect. I went with him to his appointment and explained to the doctor the things my husband had been saying to me and told him how shocked I was about Shawn's feelings. I asked the doctor if he felt his Citalopram could be causing any of this. His doctor then flat out replied, "no". He didn't believe Shawn's 10 mg dose was strong enough to have this sort of impact. He proceeded to give us some lame marriage advice that did not even apply then asked Shawn about his anxiety and how he felt on his medicine.
He was simply relying on his own feelings but unfortunately we did not realize at the time that his feelings were being manipulated by a drug. After all, why would someone not trust their own feelings?
Citalopram, as well as other SSRIs are known for "numbing" people. It has been reported that those on this drug can have trouble experiencing any type of emotion, good or bad. They can even feel like they have fallen out of love and experience sexual side effects with loss of desire. It can cause people to just not care about anything. They begin to feel like something is wrong in their life and they make changes searching for the joy and excitement they feel they have lost.
Shawn did not realize it, but he was taking the fun things in his life to an extreme just to attempt to feel anything. Then something came along that was extreme enough to make him "feel" again. This was when he felt he needed to make a major change in his life and leave me. About 3 weeks after he initially informed me he was thinking of leaving he then dropped another bomb and confessed he had been seeing another woman for the past two months.
My world turned upside down. I never would have imagined that this could happen to us. I had so much trust and respect for my husband and this was so completely out of his character. Just shocking and devastating. He immediately moved out so he could be with her. She was a stranger he met at a bowling ally who was barely out of college and we were married, best friends nearing forty with a family. To me all of this seemed absolutely insane. I was positive something was wrong with him yet he was convinced I must be the reason he was so unhappy since this young girl made him feel so alive.
I can't even describe the torture it was to have my husband, who I loved so deeply, simply trade me in for something new and exciting. He did not even seem to notice or care about what he was putting me through. In fact he seemed confused when I expressed my anger and heartbreak, he actually said to me, "but don't you want me to be happy?" He was shattering my heart, tearing our family apart and destroying our lives yet he still thought my concern should be about his happiness. All I could think was he has completely lost his mind. This cruel man was not my husband. Something was definitely wrong.
After the shock began to wear off I dedicated every free moment to researching all I could in order to figure out what happened to him. I discovered many of the side effects and the stories of others who lost their spouses to this drug. I read about affairs and their chemical effect in the body. I found the new experience and forbidden excitement of an affair causes a surge of dopamine, which is responsible for the pleasure center of the brain. In fact the pleasure effects of dopamine during an affair are said to be so strong that it can feel just as addicting as cocaine. This is what makes the need for the secret lover so intense.
I'm sure his drug intensified these feelings because the increase of serotonin an SSRI causes actually reduces the dopamine levels, it's like a teeter totter effect. I can only imagine how easy it was for my husband to be fooled by these feelings that were caused by this imbalance. It obviously made more sense to him to blame me for his lack of feelings than to blame his medicine. Before "she" came along he was feeling numb, loss of desire and joy. He just felt stuck in his dull life all because of this drug. Then the flirtation from a young girl and the excitement of an affair was enough to make him feel alive again. She was making him feel great about himself while I was beginning to look at him with disappointment and confusion due to the selfish and destructive ways he had started acting. Looking back now, I can understand why he initially felt everything was better around her.
He moved out to begin his new found happy life with her. At first he seemed extremely happy and positive about his choice then over the following four months he went through such drastic highs and lows. He had panic attacks and severe enough bouts of depression that he actually thought about committing suicide. I kept trying to talk to him about his medicine but at this point he convinced himself that if he felt this bad while on an antidepressant he couldn't imagine how bad it would be if he were off this drug. He never even considered his medicine was causing all of this. There was nothing I could do but wait, pray and hold onto hope that he would come to his senses. At about the four month mark I had begun to give up, I didn't think I could handle the torture of him being with someone else much longer. Then thankfully he began to question his decision, it seemed the new excitement had worn off and he realized the girl was not the answer.
I invited him to return home since he was willing to look into getting off his medication. When he first returned he was trying to point out flaws to fix me and our "failing marriage" because he could not allow himself to believed he would have done this without a reason. His inability to understand something was wrong within himself made his return a horrible experience. Weaning from his medicine was also very difficult and painful for him to get through. However, it did get better. It took a couple months to slowly wean from it then after about 6 months from his return he began to see everything so differently. He couldn't believe he did the things he had done or said the things he had said. He was so confused as to how he could even feel the way he did. He was so full of remorse, regret and anger. He finally believed we never originally had a problem in our marriage and understood that the problem really was within himself. He researched the effects of Citalopram with me and the more we learned and talked about it, the more we could both understand how this happened. Even with this information, getting over the affair and repairing our marriage was heart wrenchingly difficult. We both struggled with forgiveness, he even seemed to have more trouble forgiving himself than I did. Eventually his sincerity and willingness to help me through every bad moment paid off. It has been about three years since he returned home and we are finally feeling like we are in a very good place with one another. Things will never be the same and we will always have this dark chapter as part of our story, but we have overcome this together. We are also still digging our way out of debt and I have some struggles with insecurities but everything is so much better.
I feel very driven to get this message heard. I really do not want this to keep happening to others, it is just senseless destruction of lives. I doubt this drug will just disappear, even though I wish it never existed, so I at least want all doctors who are able to prescribe an SSRI antidepressants to be aware of these destructive side effects and have an overall better understanding of these drugs. Every patient should know exactly what signs to look for and they should have a loved one who is also aware of the dangerous side effects. The patient should be told to trust their loved ones when they see changes in them. They should also be made aware of the lasting physical side effects, long after getting off the medication. There are many reports of sexual side effects that do not seem to go away. Shawn still has a lot of gastrointestinal issues and for the first couple years he experienced consistent heart palpitations that are finally decreasing in frequency now. He has even experienced memory loss issues, not to mention the lasting effects this medication has had on our marriage and our life.
I do not even like to refer to this drug as a medication. I feel what my husband went through is every bit as bad as someone who gets addicted to a recreational drug, damages their body, destroys their life and the lives of the ones they love. The only difference is that he had a written prescription from a doctor and trusted that he was doing a good thing to better his life. It's scary that these drugs are being prescribed so often for so many different reasons and that an uninformed doctor can potentially impact a person's life in such a devastating way.
I am convinced these drugs do more harm than good but unfortunately those who are taking them might not even realize how their medicine is adversely impacting them. I worry that they end up on more medications to handle the symptoms that were actually just side effects to begin with. This seems like a very unhealthy and dangerous practice that has become the norm. Something needs to change.


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How and Why Did Women in SNCC (the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee) Author a Pathbreaking Feminist Manifesto, 1964-1965?
Document 101: Casey Hayden and Mary King, "A Kind of Memo," 18 November 1965, Box 25, folder, "A kind of memo" from Casey Hayden, Mary King, 1965," Judy Richardson Papers, David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Duke University, Durham, N.C. 4 pp.
Documents selected and interpreted by Kathryn Kish Sklar and Elaine DeLott Baker. Headnotes to documents written by Elaine DeLott Baker
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Document 101: Casey Hayden and Mary King, "A Kind of Memo," 18 November 1965, Box 25, folder, "A kind of memo" from Casey Hayden, Mary King, 1965," Judy Richardson Papers, David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Duke University, Durham, N.C. 4 pp. Included in How and Why Did Women in SNCC (the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee) Author a Pathbreaking Feminist Manifesto, 1964-1965?, Documents selected and interpreted by Kathryn Kish Sklar and Elaine DeLott Baker. Headnotes to documents written by Elaine DeLott Baker. (Alexandria, VA: Alexander Street Press, 2015).
Jump to Abstract Introduction Document List Document 1A: Dollie B. Gordon to Elayne DeLott, 20 September 1954 Document 1B: Photographs of Elayne Delott, 1952-1971. Document 2: Elayne DeLott to Benjamin and Rosa DeLott, Kibbutz Bet HaEmek, Israel, 2 January 1961 Document 3: Elayne DeLott to Benjamin DeLott, Kibbutz Bet HaEmek, Israel, March 1961 Document 4: "Harvard or Radcliffe College Tutorial Report and Syllabus," Cambridge, Massachusetts, 22 May 1963 Document 5: "Statement, Radcliffe College," Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1963 Document 6: RGA Rules Committee Recommendations, [1963] Document 7: Philosophy 190, Final Examination, 17 January 1964 Document 8: Mary I. Bunting to Elayne DeLott, Office of the President, Radcliffe College, Cambridge, Massachus... Document 9: Social Relations 152, Syllabus and Final Examination, Harvard University Department of Social Rela... Document 10: Survey schedule, "Urban Housing Study Survey," Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts, Janua... Document 11A: "Experiment in Education--Tougaloo College, Preliminary Evaluation," September 1964 Document 11B: Photo, Jesse Morris and John Mudd, [Tougaloo College, Jackson, Mississippi, June 1964] Document 12: SNCC Constitution, 1962 Document 13A: "Mississippi Summer Project, Re: Administrative Structure for Jackson Office," Jackson, Mississi... Document 13B: The Freedom Fighter, December 1963 Document 14: Elayne DeLott to Benjamin DeLott, "i really was kind of apprehensive," Tougaloo College, Jackson,... Document 15: Elayne DeLott to Benjamin DeLott, "i wouldn't want you to think," Tougaloo College, Jackson, Miss... Document 16: Elayne DeLott to Renee DeLott, Oxford, Ohio, [June 1964] Document 17: Elayne DeLott to Benjamin and Rosa Delott, Oxford, Ohio, 24 June 1964 Document 18A: "Prospectus for a Summer Freedom School Program," December 1963 Document 18B: "Some Notes on Education," n.d. Document 18C: "Some things to talk about in freedom schools," [Jackson, Mississippi, Spring 1964] Document 19A: Negroes in American History: A Freedom Primer, 1965 Document 19B: Cartoons, "Bench Warrant," Holly Springs, Mississippi, 21 August 1964 and "Lady Justice," August... Document 20: "The Poor in America: Questions for Discussion in Freedom Schools," [1964] Document 21: Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) paystub, February-March 1965 Document 22: Speech, Mount Zion Church, Madison County, Mississippi, 7 October 1964 Document 23: "Weekly Report," Jackson, Mississippi, 11-18 October 1964 Document 24: Elayne DeLott to Renee DeLott, "this is obviously not a recording," Canton, Mississippi, [early O... Document 25: Elayne DeLott to Renee DeLott, "i am sending the first letter," Canton, Mississippi, [early Octob... Document 26: Elayne DeLott to Benjamin and Rosa DeLott, "i'm safely packed away," Canton, Mississippi, [early ... Document 27A: Elayne DeLott to Gail and Robert Melson, Jackson, Mississippi, [early October 1964] Document 27B: Betty Garman Robinson, photographer, Literacy House, Tougaloo, Mississippi, June 2014 Document 28: Elayne DeLott to Benjamin and Rosa DeLott, "things are going really well," Washington D.C., [mid-... Document 29: Elayne DeLott to Benjamin and Rosa DeLott, "i am still fine," Canton, Mississippi, [mid-October 1... Document 30: Journal, "you should be here now," Jackson/Tougaloo, Mississippi, [mid-October 1964] Document 31: Journal, "the horrible part about being aware," Jackson/Tougaloo, Mississippi, [late October 1964... Document 32: Journal, "i thought i had understood it," Jackson/Tougaloo, Mississippi, [late October 1964] Document 33: "Farmers," [Flyer], [October-November 1964] Document 34: "Sample of Official Ballot," Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service Community Commit... Document 35: "SNCC Retreat," Waveland, Mississippi, [6-12 November 1964] Document 36A: "Memorandum on the Structure of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee," November 1964 Document 36B: Position Paper #7, "The New Building," Waveland, Mississippi, [6-12 November 1964] Document 37A: Position Paper #33, "we are on a boat. . .," Waveland, Mississippi, [6-12 November 1964] Document 37B: Photo, Bob Moses, Summer 1964 Document 38: "SNCC: The Question of Values," Waveland, Mississippi, [6-12 November 1964] Document 39: Position Paper #3, "What is the Importance of Racial Considerations Among the Staff," Waveland, M... Document 40: Position Paper #13, "From Sherrod," Waveland, Mississippi, [6-12 November 1964] Document 41: Position Paper #11, "Some Suggestions in Answer to Questions Raised by the 'Memo'," Waveland, Mis... Document 42: Position Paper #4, "SNCC's Goals and Bourgeoise [sic] Sentimentality," Waveland, Mississippi, [6-... Document 43: Position Paper #24, (women in the movement), Waveland, Mississippi, [6-12 November 1964] Document 44: Position Paper #27, "Introduction: Semi-Introspective," Waveland, Mississippi, [6-12 November 196... Document 45: "Memorandum on Structure," Waveland, Mississippi, [6-12 November 1964] Document 46: "Working Paper: Poor Whites and the Movement," Waveland, Mississippi, [6-12 November 1964] Document 47: Position Paper #28, "Communications Section," Waveland, Mississippi, [6-12 November 1964] Document 48: Position Paper #12, "Re: Organization of Friends of SNCC in Bay Area," Waveland, Mississippi, [6-... Document 49A: "The steering committee has combined the questions," Waveland, Mississippi, [6-12 November 1964] Document 49B: "SNCC Structure," Waveland Mississippi, [6-12 November 1964] Document 50: Summary of Staff Retreat Minutes, Waveland, Mississippi, 6-8 November 1964 Document 51: "A Comment on the Institute," Waveland, Mississippi, [6-12 November 1964] Document 52: "Problems facing COFO," [November 1964] Document 53A: "Holly Springs project--Letters from Cleveland Sellers," [November 1964] Document 53B: Tamaio Wakayama, photographer, Cleveland Sellers, Holly Springs Project Director, 1964 or 1965 Document 54: Phyllis Cunningham, Report from Hattiesburg, [November 1964] Document 55: "Third District Report," [Jackson, Vicksburg and Natchez], [November 1964] Document 56: "Amite County," [November 1964] Document 57: Report from Sunflower County, "Complaints about the Jackson Office," [November 1964] Document 58: "to: Everybody interested in or working in the community center program," [November 1964] Document 59: "Fourth Attempt," [November 1964] Document 60: [Jesse Morris] to Jackson SNCC Staff, Jackson, Mississippi, [23 November 1964] Document 61: Bill Spring to Elayne DeLott, 6 November 1964 Document 62: Elayne DeLott to Benjamin and Rosa DeLott, "the work is getting pretty busy," [late November 1964... Document 63: "Freedom Primer No. 3: The Right to Vote and the Congressional Challenge," [Nov.-Dec. 1964] Document 64: "Incident Summary," Jackson, Mississippi, 28 November-3 December 1964 Document 65: Minutes of Canton Valley-View Staff Meeting, Canton, Mississippi, 4 December 1964 Document 66: Journal, "the jail," Jackson, Mississippi, 4 December 1964 Document 67: Elayne DeLott to Benjamin and Rosa Delott, "i just spoke to you," Jackson, Mississippi, [December... Document 68: "Affadavit," Hinds County, Mississippi, 15 December 1964 Document 69: Journal, "i almost got hung up," [Jackson, Mississippi, December 1964] Document 70: Minutes of Staff Meeting in Hattiesburg, Hattiesburg, Mississippi, 22 December 1964 Document 71: Elayne DeLott to Ted Bayne, "for the first time," Jackson, Mississippi, [December 1964] Document 72: Elayne DeLott to Ted Bayne, "i can't really talk too much," Jackson, Mississippi, [December 1964] Document 73: Journal, "on community centers–a local hangout," Jackson, Mississippi, [December 1964] Document 74: Journal, "i don't think i really explained," Batesville, Mississippi, [January 1965] Document 75: Elayne DeLott to Renee DeLott, "the first thing i must tell you," Jackson, Mississippi, 27 Decemb... Document 76: "Trip to Washington," Washington D.C., 3 January 1965 Document 77: Elayne DeLott to Benjamin and Rosa DeLott, "a note-I'm fine-," Batesville, Mississippi, [February... Document 78: Journal, "i'm in batesville now-," Batesville, Mississippi, 16 March 1965 Document 79: Elayne DeLott to Ted Bayne, Batesville, Mississippi, 17 March 1965 Document 80: Elayne DeLott to Benjamin and Rosa DeLott, Batesville, Mississippi, 2 April 1965 Document 81A: Photo by Elayne DeLott, Mr. Miles' Pig, Batesville, Mississippi, [March 1965] Document 81B: Photo by Elayne DeLott, Panola County Co-op Meeting with Mr. Miles Speaking, Batesville, Mississ... Document 81C: Photo by Elayne DeLott, Mr. Miles' Neighbors in Batesville, Batesville, Mississippi, [March 1965... Document 81D: Photo by Elayne DeLott, Penny Patch canvassing in Batesville, Panola County, Mississippi, [March... Document 81E: Photo by Elayne DeLott, Civil Rights Worker Chris Williams, Batesville, Mississippi, [March 1965... Document 81F: Photo by Elayne DeLott, Sharecropper Home, Hayes Plantation, Panola County, Mississippi, [March ... Document 81G: Photo by Elayne DeLott, Mrs. Nelson Inside Plantation Home, Hayes Plantation, Panola County, [Ma... Document 81H: Photo by Elayne DeLott, Nelson Children, Hayes Plantation, Panola County, [March 1965] Document 81I: Photo by Elayne DeLott, Plantation Shed, Hayes Plantation, Panola County, Mississippi, [March 19... Document 81J: Photo by Elayne DeLott, Front Porch, Hayes Plantation, Panola County, Mississippi, [March 1965] Document 81K: Photo by Elayne DeLott, Sharecropper Family, Hayes Plantation, Panola County, Mississippi, [Marc... Document 81L: Photo by Elayne DeLott, Sharecropper in His Garden, Hayes Plantation, Panola County, Mississippi... Document 81M: Photo by Elayne DeLott, Sharecropper Planting with Mules, Hayes Plantation, Panola County, Missi... Document 81N: Photo by Elayne DeLott, Gas Station, Panola County, Mississippi, [March 1965] Document 81O: Photo by Elayne DeLott, Mississippi River, Panola County, Mississippi, [March 1965] Document 81P: Francis Hamlin Mitchell, Photo, SNCC planning meeting prior to the March from Selma to Montgomer... Document 82: "Panola County Okra Co-op," Vicksburg Citizen's Appeal, [Fall 1965] Document 83: "Application for Registration to Vote," Panola County, Mississippi, 1965 Document 84: "Citizens of Panola County, You Can Register," Batesville, Mississippi, [August 1965] Document 85A: untitled poem, May 1965 Document 85B: Poem, "Barbara Brandt said," May 1965 Document 85C: Poem, "Spirit and Will," May 1965 Document 86A: "Sex and Caste," 18 November 1965 Document 86B: Photo, Casey Hayden (aka Sandra Cason), [1965] Document 87A: Sara Evans to Casey Cason (aka Casey Hayden aka Sandra Cason), 14 June 1978 Document 87B: Casey Hayden (aka Sandra Cason) to Mary King, Maria Varella, Penny Patch, Elayne DeLott Baker, E... Document 87C: Casey Cason (aka Casey Hayden aka Sandra Cason) to Sara Evans, 21 June 1978 Document 87D: Casey Hayden (aka Sandra Cason) to Elaine DeLott Baker, 24 April 2014 Document 87E: Photo, Elayne DeLott and Casey Hayden (aka Sandra Cason), Boulder, Colorado, 1978 Document 88A: "The women's memo at Waveland," Denver, Colorado, [1995] Document 88B: "Contextualizing the Waveland Memo," [1995] Document 89: "Feminists and Women," 12th Annual Fannie Lou Hamer Symposium Lecture Series, Jackson State Unive... Document 90: Excerpt from "Women, SNCC and Stokely: An Email Dialog, 2013-2014," 30 January-6 February 2014 Document 91A: "I Remember Martin," Martin Luther King Day 1986 Document 91B: Dawn Bell, photographer, Francis Hamlin Mitchell, Jelapa, Mexico, ca. 1978 Document 92: Chip Baker, Video, 30th Reunion of Freedom Summer, Jackson, Mississippi, June 1994 Document 93: "The 'Freedom High' and 'Hardliner' Factions of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SN... Document 94: "A Note to Readers," 20 July 1997 Document 95: Video, Elaine DeLott Baker, interview at Hunting Island, Beaufort, S.C., Spring 1995 Document 96: "They Sent Us This White Girl," 2000 Document 97: Staughton Lynd to Penny Patch, 15 July 2001 Document 98: excerpts from Francesca Polletta and Elaine DeLott Baker, "The 1964 Waveland Memo and the Rise of... Document 99: "The Freedom Struggle Was the Flame," 2010 Document 100: Email, Jane Adams to Elaine DeLott Baker, 5 October 2014 Revisiting "A Kind of Memo" from Casey Hayden and Mary King (1965) Document 101: "A Kind of Memo," 18 November 1965 Endnotes Bibliography Project Credits Related Links Previous Next
A Kind of Memo, 18 November 1965
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A KindOf Memo
From: Casey Hayden and Mary King
To: Jeannie Breaker, Alma Bosley, Connie Brown, Margaret Burnham, Theresa del Pozzo, Elaine de Lott, Doris Derby, Roberta Galler, Betty Garman, Prathia Hall. Ruth Howard, Janet Jamot, Sharon Jeffrey, Jeanette King, Dorie Ladner, Margaret Lloren, Carol McEldowney, Kay Moller, Gwen Gillon, Penny Patch, Karen Pate, Dona Richards, Judy Richardson, Ruby Doris Smith Robinson, Emmie Schrader, Liz Shirah, Harriet Stulman, Muriel Tillinghast, Mary Varela, Judy Walborn, Joyce Ware, Cynthia Washington
We've talked a lot, to each other and to some of you, about our own and other women's problems in trying to live in our personal lives and in our work as independent and creative people. In these conversations we've found what seem to be recurrent ideas or themes. Maybe we can look at these things many of us seem to perceive, often as a result of ways we've learned to see form the movement:
----Sex and caste: There seem to be many parallels that can be drawn between treatment of Negroes and treatment of women. Women we've talked with often find themselves within a kind of common-law caste system that operates, sometimes subtly, placing them in a position of inequality to men in work and personal situations. This is complicated by several facts, among them: 1) The caste system is not institutionalized by law (women have the right to vote, to sue for divorce, etc.); 2) women can't withdraw from the situation (a la nationalism) or overthrow it; 3) there are biological differences (even though most biology is written without taking present and future technology into account so we probably can't be sure what these differences mean). Many people who are very hip to the implications of the racial caste system, even people in the movement, don't seem to see the sexual caste system, and if it's raised they respond with: "That's the way it's supposed to be. There are biological difference." Or with other statements that sound like a white segregationist confronted with integration.
----Women and problems of work: The caste system perspective dictates the roles assigned to women in the movement, and certainly even more to women outside the movement. Within the movement, questions arise in situations ranging from relationships of women organizers to men in the community, to who cleans the freedom house, to who holds leadership positions and acts as spokesman for groups.
Other problems arise between women with varying degrees of awareness of themselves as lower caste or who see themselves as needing less control of their work than other women, and there are problems with relationships between white women and black women.
----Women and personal relationships with men: Having learned from the movement to think radically about the personal worth and abilities of people whose roles in society had gone unchallenged before, a lot of women in the movement have begun trying to apply those lessons to their own relations with men. Each of us probably has her own story of the various results, and of the internal struggle occasioned by trying to break out of very deeply learned fears, needs, and self-perceptions, and of what happens when we try to replace them with concepts of people and freedom learned from the movement and organizing.
----Institutions: Nearly everyone has real questions about those institutions which shape perspectives on men and women: marriage, child rearing patterns, women's (and men's) magazines, etc. People are beginning to think about and even to experiment with new forms in these areas.
----Men's reactions to the questions raised here: Some men seem to feel, when they hear conversations involving these problems, that they have a right to be present and participate in them, since they are so deeply involved. At the same time, very few men can respond non-defensively, since the whole idea is either beyond their comprehension or threatens and exposes them, The usual response is laughter. That inability to see the whole question as serious and as sociologically explainable often shapes our own response so that we learn to think in their terms about ourselves and to feel silly rather than trust our inner feelings. The problems we're listing here, and what others have said about them, are therefore largely drawn from conversations among women only, and that difficulty in establishing dialog with men is a recurring theme among people we've talked to.
----Lack of community for discussion: Nobody is writing, or organizing or talking
publicly about women, in any way that reflects the problems that various women in the movement come across and which we've tried to list above. Consider this quote from an article in the centennial issue of The Nation:
woman; from girlhood on she should recognize that, if she is also going to be a wife and mother, whe will not be able to give as much to her work as she would if single. That is, she should not feel that she cannot aspire to directing the laboratory simply because she is a woman, but rather because she is also a wife and mother; as such, her work as lab technician (or the equivalent in another field) should bring both satisfaction and the knowledge that, through it, she is fulling an additional role, making an additional contribution.
And that's about as deep as the analysis goes publicly, which is not nearly so deep as we've heard some of you go in chance conversation.
The reason we want to try to open up dialog on all this is mostly subjective. Working in the movement often intensifies personal problems, especially if we start trying to apply things we're learning there to our personal lives. Perhaps we can start to talk with each other more openly than in the past and create a community of support for each other so we can deal with ourselves with integrity and can therefore keep working.
Objectively, the chances seem slim that we could start a movement based on anything as distant to general American thought as a sex-caste system. Therefore, most of us will probably want to work full time on problems such as war, poverty, race. but it seems to us that the very fact that the country can't face, much less deal with, the questions we're raising justifies real efforts at dialog within the movement and with whatever liberal groups, community women, or students might listen. That is, all the problems surrounding people's sexual identities and all the problems between men and women and all the problems of women functioning in society as equal human beings are among the most basic that people face. We've talked in the movement about trying to build a society which would see basic human problems, (which are now seen as private troubles), as public problems and would try to shape institutions to meet human needs rather than
shaping people to meet the needs of those with power. To raise questions like those above illustrates very directly that society can't deal with real human problems and opens discussion of why that is so. (In one sense, it is a radicalizing question that can take people beyond the legalistic solutions into areas of personal and institutional change.)
The second kind of objective reason we'd like to see discussion begin is that we've learned a great deal in the movement and perhaps this is one area where a determined attempt to apply ideas we've learned can produce some new alternatives.
The reason we're writing you is that we've either talked to you about this and know you're interested or we know you in other ways and respect you and what to know what you think. We thought that if enough people responded we might end up with something publishable, either as a pamphlet or an article for a magazine. Or if you think you've got enough thoughts about anything to make an article, we'd try to help you get it published separately. We believe there are several publications open to the kind of discussion we might make. Another possibility is a newsletter. But mainly, we'd just like you to correspond some with us; we can worry later about whether you'd feel like any of what you say is something you'd want made public in any way. So write a letter and tell us whether you think anything about any of the points people have been raising or what you think about all of them or if you think we're just crazy.
The final idea we had was that it might be possible to get Mademoiselle or one of those career-college women-y magazines to pay for a group of us to get together and discuss women and women in the movement. It could be taped, edited, and printed for a big circulation audience. Even if that fell through maybe we could plan to get together and talk at some meeting in the spring where many of us would be anyway or we could just plan to meet on our own if enough people thought it would be worthwhile. What do you think?
If you know anyone else who'd be interested in all this, please pass this thing along and let us know who else we should know about. And if you have any further ideas for raising the question, let us know.
Mary will be going to California with Dennis, who's going to be in Stanford, and Casey doesn't know where she'll be, but you can write us both at Casey's home address: 1303 E. Virginia, Victoria, Texas, and it will be forwarded.
FREEDOM,
Casey and Mary


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Don't ever write for TV. Please.


Arsenal are ready to pounce for on-loan Lyon midfielder Tanguy Ndombele by making a £14m bid this summer, according to The Sun.
The 21-year-old has caught the attention during his impressive season with Les Gones, where the youngster is on loan from Ligue 1 rivals Amiens.
The Frenchman has scored once in 39 appearances for Lyon in Ligue 1 and the Europa League, which is enough to earn links with a move to the north London outfit.
The report suggests that the Gunners, who have already done business with the Ligue 1 outfit this season to secure the services of Alexandre Lacazette in a £52m deal, are now considering to return for Ndombele after scouting him up closely earlier this month.
Lyon paid Amiens £2m to borrow Ndombele for a year with an option to sign the midfielder permanently for £7.2m plus add-ons during the summer.


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Fugitive Pieces: Laying the Ground Work
A warning to those given to feelings of depression. The slow, bleak, heart rending journey of Fugitive Pieces to its uplifting finish may not seem worth the effort at times. Jakob Beer (Robby Kay), a seven year old Polish Jew, loses his family at the hands of Nazi troops. He is spirited away by a Greek archaeologist Athos Roussos (Rade Šerbedžija), first to Greece where he is house-bound hiding from the Germans and then to post war Canada. The adult Jakob (Stephen Dillane) continues to be haunted by this experience, with nightmares filled by memories of his sister Bella (Nina Dobrev).
He combats the dark side by writing. The path takes him from private journal to successful author of his autobiographical Ground Work. Jakob's Toronto Jewish neighbours mirror his struggle with the legacy of the holocaust, in particular their son Ben (Ed Stoppard).
Jeremy Podeswa was both screenwriter and director. The script is based on Canadian poet Anne Michaels' novel of the same name. His use of flashbacks is well controlled, as Jakob relives the war years and different periods of his later life in Canada and Greece.
This is another multi-lingual film. English is the main language but Polish, Yiddish and Greek are used extensively with sub-titles. The sombre music by Nikos Kypourgos underlines the gloomy tones of Fugitive Pieces.
Stephen Dillane, known for his roles in Welcome to Sarajevo and The Hours, gives a very severe performance. Rosamund Pike as Alex and Ayelet Zurer as Michaela are the two serious attempts by Jakob to sustain a stable relationship. Their bright portrayals help to moderate this severity.
Fugitive Pieces is worth the effort but go prepared for an intense exploration of the depths of human experience.
Labels: cinema, Film Reviews
Hunger: For a cause
Steve McQueen's film, Hunger, is a very powerful but draining telling of a sad moment in an even sadder history of Northern Ireland. Our initiation to the conflict starts with prison guard Raymond Lohan (Stuart Graham) checking his battered knuckles and his car for an IRA bomb. We are quickly introduced to the pattern of passive resistance and systemic violence when novice inmate, newly convicted paramilitary Davey Gillen (Brian Milligan), joins Gerry (Liam McMahon) in a cell totally decorated with faeces.
We see the personal horror of both captive and gaoler in their eyes. This historical drama is a story told visually with little dialogue used to further the tension.
The exception is a remarkable 22-minute exchange between protagonist IRA prisoner Bobby Sands (Michael Fassbender) and Catholic priest Fr Dominic Moran (Liam Cunningham). For most of the scene the camera does not move, as Bobby defends his decision to organise a hunger strike to the death.
Some understanding of the historical context certainly helps but it is strong enough to reach out to an audience without that background. The time: 1981. The place: Maze prison, outside Belfast. The action: the protest against wearing prison uniforms as part of the Provisional IRA's campaign to achieve political status for its incarcerated members. The theme: violence against and by the State; political terror and the ugly responses to it.
This is not a pretty picture. Blood, excrement and urine flow freely. Violence and murder are presented graphically and unsentimentally. There are no good guys. This is not In the Name of the Father. There are no innocents. There is no redemption. This is the dark side writ large. Hate seems to be the main driving force for both sides.
It is easy to react to this film in terms of modern politics. The Independent's film review saw it in these terms:
This enthralling account of Sands' 66 days on hunger strike to try to get better conditions for IRA prisoners, seems especially pertinent at a time when the atrocities of Abu Ghraib remain vivid.
However, if you're looking for a partisan political message this is the wrong place.
It would also be easy to blame religion, history, or politicians for all the inhumanity of the "troubles". This film tries to tell what happened without judgment. Yet it leaves the film goer feeling as battered as the inmates after running the gauntlet.
Hunger is not a particularly sympathetic portrayal of Bobby Sands or his cause. The exception comes in the flashbacks as he waits to die. We meet Bobby as a boy, the young cross-country runner who stands up for what he thinks is right. It is the single-mindedness of a martyr but Hunger is not really about heroism and martyrdom. They are all victims.
McQueen, who is also co-writer, told Timeout:
'I'm not concerned with balance,' he says. 'I don't think people are bad in general, but circumstances make them do what they have to.'
Director interview: Steve McQueen
The opening credits reverberate as metal rubbish bin lids are hammered onto the road. This was a signal used in Belfast communities to warn locals that British military or police were prowling republican areas. Later, riot squad police echo this siren when they beat batons onto shields in unison, before using them on the prisoners. A younger member of their cohort hides during the slaughter, a solitary objector to the madness all around.
Hunger is a brutal experience. Do not go expecting some triumph of the human spirit. In this case the clichés mostly belong to the reviews.
Labels: cinema, civil liberties, Film Reviews