tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-84092860283081319362024-03-05T06:02:36.958-05:00MY LIFE IN WORDS , PICS, SONG LYRICS & VIDEOa pictorial journal of my life thru my eyesAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00763087360738002618noreply@blogger.comBlogger465125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8409286028308131936.post-727124658277374142013-01-01T13:00:00.000-05:002013-01-01T13:00:04.696-05:00HAPPY NEW YEAR 2013! <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">HAPPY NEW YEAR 2013!!!</span></span><br />
wow! we made it! right into a NEW YEAR!<br />
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i really kinda stopped posting blogs sometime last year, with being overrun by 20+ facebook pages i run, and nearly that number of blogs as well, and a life, and health, and a kid, and other responsibilities, blogging got put on the back burner...and thats sad, altho i do have most of the events of my life in pictorial and folder format, i dont have much to say about them, because i neglected to blog about them...i make a resolution to..ATTEMPT (bes ti can do is try, lol) to keep it up this year. NO PROMISES, because ill get tired at some point, and push it off, and neglect it, and then another one, and another, until im nearly where i stand now..lol<br />
but youll get what i can give, when i remember to give it.<br />
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and, i can TRY to post blog and have those moments that i havnt posted up, this year as well...youll just have to remember, if your starting here to go and review my life , that there may be blogs youll need to keep reminding yourself to go and read, id set up an RSS feed for yourself or sign up for email notification, and be notified when i DO post a new public post.<br />
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BLAH! what a gloomy day to do anything in...ugh. skys all gloomy grey, and theres NO sun..just what you can see in the sky as cloud cover, and its bitter cold! took forever to get any winter here in Oklahoma, but man, when it came and arrived, it decided to remind us, that the warmth we suffer might not be so bad, lol<br />
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ice crystals on the car...its just cold enough to form ice crystals! <br />
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so today both craig and myself got up to do the LAST day of dogg sitting for the JEnsen family who went out of town, Daniel was supposed to be doing this job for a fee of 25$ but, guess whos getting the money? I AM, cause i need a new screen for my used Iphone he got me (or gave to me, as hes upgraded his).<br />
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these dogs are..HUGE...im sure, with very little effort hey could completely knock me down, the size of the paws alone is massive, nearly the entire size of my fist balled up, they are nearly the size of a small pony!<br />
the black ones an adult, and the browner one is still a puppy! and he eats! MAN! DOES HE EAT! lol, he INHALES that bowl of food! lol<br />
from these images looks like hes lost some wieght, not a ton, but i think its because we didnt leave food out for him all the time, like we do our own dogs, and hes on a schedule, 9am..1 bowl...if he can get some from the other he would, lol, but theres no real ribs showing and no spine, so he seems to be doing ok. we did as we were instructed. 9am 2 scoops of food. and water.<br />
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after that, i took my husband out for breakfast...the kid (daniel) was still sleeping when we left, so..he missed out, oh well! lol<br />
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so, my plans for today (and every day henceforth, as long as i have the energy and time) is to make sure i keep an updated blog for almost all these blogs. some i wont need to, very little talk or activity happens on them to even post anything more than images if i have any...<br />
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but others i intend to actually discuss things...so..WELCOME TO THE NEW YEAR!!<br />
i have a PC room i need to organize, so i can be creative with my doll making. :)<br />
i may be back later to talk about that (on another blog).<br />
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MICHELLE</div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00763087360738002618noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8409286028308131936.post-27430729679518629622012-09-17T12:34:00.003-04:002012-09-17T12:35:48.444-04:00ORPHANED CHIMPANZEE FINDS HOME IN OKLAHOMA CITY ZOO<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Ruben's mother, Rukiya, died of a heart condition shortly after
Ruben's birth at the Lowry Park Zoo in Tampa, Fla. Attempts to integrate
Ruben into other troops failed before he was brought to Oklahoma City
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Ruben the chimpanzee's first months in this world have been anything but easy.<br />
His mother, Rukiya, died of a heart condition shortly after his birth
at the Lowry Park Zoo in Tampa, Fla. His biological father was deemed
too intense for him. And another female chimp at Busch Gardens in
Florida also was too much for the pint-size primate.<br />
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“Our two females liked him but none of them picked him up,
neither of them were that interested,” Lowry Park curator Lee Ann
Rottman said. “His father wanted to play all the time and Ruben just
wasn't ready for that.”<br />
Rottman said one of the saddest aspects of the early part of Ruben's
life was that his mother had already been a surrogate to another baby
chimp.<br />
“We had very high hopes for her as a mom,” Rottman said.<br />
But the now 8-month-old chimp looks to have found a home at the
Oklahoma City Zoo. Ruben arrived along with three handlers in July on a
private jet donated by a supporter of the Lowry Park Zoo.<br />
Ruben has found a surrogate mother in Kito, who has never had any
offspring of her own. Ruben was introduced to Kito and Zoe and the rest
of their troop after three days of monitoring by zoo staff.<br />
Kito was chosen for the role as surrogate mom because of her success
playing the role of surrogate to Siri, another chimpanzee at the zoo.
Siri was brought to the Oklahoma City Zoo after her mother's breast milk
was found to be nutritionally deficient and could not meet the growing
chimp's needs.<br />
“We chose Kito because she has the patience of a saint,” Oklahoma
City Zoo curator Laura Bottaro said. “We knew this from how she handled
Siri.”<br />
Kito and Ruben were a natural fit, Bottaro said. But Ruben had to be cared for around </span>the clock after his arrival. Baby chimps
need to be held at all times, Bottaro said. Staffers at the zoo wore
special shirts designed to mimic the hair of chimpanzees.<br />
“The transition from humans can be uncomfortable for the infant
because they're not sure they fit in,” Bottaro said. “Once they fit in,
they're in.”<br />
<strong class="subhead">No guarantee</strong><br />
Curator Robin Newby said the hierarchies of chimpanzee troops can be
complex. And even though Kito had been a successful surrogate before,
there was no guarantee it would work again.<br />
“It is very strict and complex,” Newby said. “They feel the need to
keep individuals in check at all times. There's a lot of demonstrations
either vocally or physically to accomplish that.”<br />
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<span class="entry-content">Kito showed off her experience rearing
infants almost immediately. When it was bedtime, her technique to keep
Ruben near her was the same she had used for Siri.
“Her strategy is to gather all of the nice bedding material each
night, things like hay and wood wool, which is shredded wood,” Bottaro
said. “She puts that stuff around her. She never forced him. She waited
for him to come to her. She was saying to him, ‘Unless you want to sleep
on a hard floor, you have to be in my vicinity.'”<br />
With the addition of Ruben, the zoo now has nine chimpanzees in two
troops. Ruben even bonded quickly with Mwami, the dominant male in his
troop. Mwami is protective of Ruben. They're not quite father and son,
but more like nephew and fun uncle. Mwami often pats Ruben's head and
incites him into play by doing a dance in front of him.<br />
“The one concern I had is this infant was a male and the other two
we've had to pair with surrogates were females,” Bottaro said.<br />
“Sometimes in the wild, if the dominant male is not the biological father, that can be a problem. But that didn't happen.”<br />
<strong class="subhead">A ‘true boy'</strong><br />
Even as Ruben clings to the security of adults, he does venture off
on his own. Rottman said at Lowry Park, Ruben was rambunctious and a
“true boy” who loved to eat.<br />
He has continued on that path in Oklahoma City.<br />
“For a youngster at his age he's very independent,” Newby said.
“He'll go back to his surrogate mom for a little check-in and then he's
off playing with the dominant male.”<br />
Ruben will remain out of public view until he is fully integrated
with all of the zoo's chimps. But that day is coming soon, Bottaro said.
And when it does it will be the final step in his journey that took him
from Florida to central Oklahoma. It also highlights the cooperation
between zoos. It was painful for Rottman to give up Ruben, but she knew
it was for the best.<br />
“The staff here truly loved him,” Rottman said. “But we knew this was
the right decision and we had so much faith in the staff at Oklahoma
City because they've done this before. It is a truly wonderful situation
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saddens Oklahoma City Zoo officials to announce the death of a Western
lowland gorilla on Monday, June 25. Bom Bom, a 36-year-old silverback
died after going into cardiac arrest. A necropsy, animal autopsy was
performed and results indicated heart disease as the official cause of
death. Diagnosed with heart disease in early 2010, Bom Bom had been on
heart medication since that time to alleviate the symptoms of the
disease.</div>
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Bom
Bom was the leader of one of the Zoo’s two troops of lowland gorillas
and a guest favorite at Great EscApe. Considered a very good troop
leader by his caregivers, Bom Bom’s family included females Kathy,
Emily, Kelele, Mikella, and Ndjole.</div>
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Bom
Bom arrived at the Oklahoma City Zoo in 2002 from the Audubon Zoo, New
Orleans, LA as part of a Species Survival Plan (SSP) breeding
recommendation through the Association of Zoos and Aquariums (AZA.) One
of this SSP's most important roles is to manage gorillas as a
population, to ensure that the population remains healthy,
genetically-diverse, and self-sustaining. Bom Bom sired two offspring
during his lifetime a female, Kitombe, born in 1986, who lives at the
Franklin Park Zoo and son George who was born in 2004 to mother Kathy
and currently resides at the Oklahoma City Zoo.</div>
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Cardiac
disease is a major cause of death for adult gorillas. In November 2006,
a workshop including physicians, veterinarians, pathologists, and
keepers was held to review what is known about gorilla cardiac health,
as well as to discuss how to address gorilla health issues. This
workshop marked the beginning of the Gorilla Health Project, an
initiative to improve our understanding of gorilla health and ways to
manage and prevent disease in this species. The meeting identified a
critical first step in understanding disease issues of gorillas in zoo
environments-- the formation of a comprehensive database incorporating
information from individual gorillas' medical, nutrition and husbandry
records. This database is essential for the identification of risk
factors associated with cardiac disease and other disease syndromes seen
in zoo populations. Oklahoma City Zoo participates in this study.</div>
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Native
to the lowland forests of central and western Africa, Western lowland
gorillas are critically endangered. Commercial hunting for meat, habitat
loss, and poaching are contributing factors to their status in the
wild.</div>
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“Bom
Bom was such a magnificent animal, his loss will be felt by our entire
Zoo family,” said Dwight Scott, Zoo Executive Director.</div>
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If you would like to share your memories and thoughts about Bom Bom, please go to the Zoo’s Facebook fan page at<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.facebook.com/okczoobg" style="color: #fe5e20;">http://www.facebook.com/okczoobg</a>. Photos of Bom Bom will be added to the Zoo’s website at okczoo.com and on the fan page. Your photos and memories are welcome.</div>
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To see a gallery of Bom Bom, please<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.okczoo.com/animals-plants/remembering-bom-bom/" style="color: #fe5e20;">click here.</a></div>
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AWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW:( how sad, i have a painting by him. my 1st primate image is by him. :(</div>
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<b><span style="color: navy; font-family: Arial; font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: navy; font-family: Arial; font-size: 24pt;">Oliver, famed
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<b><i><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">San
Antonio Express-News</span></span></i></b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"> <br />By Michelle
Casady</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Oliver, the chimpanzee who spent
much of his life as part of circus shows or in research labs, was found dead
Saturday in his bedroom at Primarily Primates, the sanctuary where he spent his
last 14 years.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">He
was at least 55 years old, while the average lifespan for a male chimp in
captivity is 35.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Oliver’s girlfriend, Raisin, was by
his side when caretakers found him, said Stephen Rene Tello, executive director
of the sanctuary.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">He
came to Primarily Primates from a research lab in Pennsylvania in 1998.
Tello said the lab didn’t perform any studies on him during his decade there
because the staff could tell he was special: “He was just on a different level;
he had very humanlike traits.”</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">For
one, Oliver walked upright almost all the time. His unique qualities drew
international attention, and he was dubbed the “Humanzee,” touted as a missing
link.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Oliver was the subject of a
Discovery Channel documentary in 2006, and the character Caesar in last year’s
“Rise of the Planet of the Apes” was said to be based on
him.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">“But for the last part of his life,
he got to live in a safe haven — a nonexploitive, noncommercialized world where
he was surrounded by people who love him and in companionship with others of his
kind,” Tello said.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Shelly Ladd, enrichment coordinator
at the sanctuary, said part of her job was to keep life interesting for the
aging chimp, who was mostly blind, had no teeth and suffered from
arthritis.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">“He
loved coconut sorbet — that got the biggest hoots and hollers,” she said. “But
if he didn’t like something, he’d hand the bowl back to you,” like the time he
tried sugar-free pistachio pudding.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Tello said a “dignified final
ceremony” has been planned. Oliver’s body will be cremated, and the ashes spread
over the sanctuary’s grounds. And Raisin will be reintroduced to some old
friends.</span></span><br />
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I accompanied my husband when he went to get a haircut. Reading a magazine, I
found a hairstyle I liked for myself, and I asked the receptionist if I could
take the magazine next door to make a copy of the photo.<br />
"Leave some ID, a driver's license or a credit card," she said.<br />
"But my husband is here getting a haircut," I explained.<br />
"Yes," she replied. "But I need something you'll come back for."</div>
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Poll Results: Rattle And Hum is U2 Fans' Favorite U2 Movie</h1>
<a href="http://www.atu2.com/" target="_blank">@U2</a>,
April 29, 2012<br />
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U2's first foray into movie-making remains the favorite of U2 fans,
according to a recent poll conducted here on @U2. In March, we asked
"Which of these is your favorite movie?" and gave fans four choices.
Among the more than 2,300 fans that voted, <em>Rattle And Hum</em> was picked by just under 40 percent. That was plenty of votes to beat out the second-place finisher, <em>U2 3D</em>. <em>From The Sky Down</em> and <em>It Might Get Loud</em> followed in third and fourth, respectively.<br />
Our current home page poll question asks fans which Bono character
from Zoo TV they prefer -- The Fly or MacPhisto. And, while we're on the
subject of voting, we're planning to begin releasing results from the
2012 U2 Fan Survey within the next week or so. That <a href="http://u2fans2012.questionpro.com/">survey remains open</a> until end-of-day on Monday, April 30th.<br />
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<i>maybe im a bit off with the rest of the U2 lovers, but i thought U23d was AMAZING! and thus, stands as MY personal favorite U2 movie, i havnt even seen, IT MIGHT GET LOUD, or FROM THE SKY DOWN ...yet. lol</i><br />
MICHELLE </div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00763087360738002618noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8409286028308131936.post-65450999963361778392012-04-21T14:46:00.000-04:002012-05-01T14:46:55.277-04:00NEWS - 2.9 MAGNITUDE EARTHQUAKE STRIKES NEAR HARRAH, OKLAHOMA<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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northeast of Oklahoma City, about 10 miles northeast of Harrah,
according to the U.S. Geological Survey. The quake hit about 7:45 a.m.,
the USGS said. </span></h2>
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<span style="font-size: small;">With a wealth of informative TV wildlife programming already in the marketplace, <a href="http://newsok.com/keysearch/?er=1&CANONICAL=Disneynature&CATEGORY=COMPANY" title="Disneynature">Disneynature</a>
faces a Darwinian dilemma. How can the studio's zoology unit create
films that will put paying audiences in theaters? In “Chimpanzee,” the
strategy is clear: Make dramas, not documentaries. With its emphasis on
entertainment rather than edification, the film occupies a
warm-and-fuzzy middle ground between “The Jungle Book” and <a href="http://newsok.com/keysearch/?er=1&CANONICAL=Animal+Planet&CATEGORY=COMPANY" title="Animal Planet">Animal Planet</a>.</span></h1>
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The new nature film follows a baby chimp
named Oscar and his clan, observing them as they forage, use tools, play
games, and care for one another. Just like humans, our primate
relatives grapple with issues of dominance, family organization,
reciprocation, competition and altruism. They even make war, fending off
a rival pack of chimps that wants their nut grove. We face most of the
same problems, and sometimes we come up with the same solutions.<br />
Filmmakers <a href="http://newsok.com/keysearch/?er=1&CANONICAL=Alastair+Fothergill&CATEGORY=PERSON" title="Alastair Fothergill">Alastair Fothergill</a> and <a href="http://newsok.com/keysearch/?er=1&CANONICAL=Mark+Linfield&CATEGORY=PERSON" title="Mark Linfield">Mark Linfield</a>
get intimately close to their subjects. In shots of chimps learning to
crack hard-shell nuts with rocks, you can almost feel the sting when
they whack a toe instead. When Oscar's life takes a sad turn midway
through the film, the story becomes a real-life “Bambi of the Apes.”<br />
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<a href="http://newsok.com/keysearch/?er=1&CANONICAL=Tim+Allen&CATEGORY=PERSON" title="Tim Allen">Tim Allen</a>'s folksy narration fulfills its mission, which is not to deliver <a href="http://newsok.com/keysearch/?er=1&CANONICAL=Jane+Goodall&CATEGORY=PERSON" title="Jane Goodall">Jane Goodall</a>-quality
anthropology but to show kids that wild animals are amazing. So are the
jungle plants. Some of this visually gorgeous film's most indelible
images show puffballs shooting out spores in slow motion, phosphorescent
fungi glowing at midnight, and delicate mushrooms growing in time-lapse
hyperspeed. The film is not designed to answer every question but to
inspire youthful curiosity.</span><br />
The youth-friendly plotline
involves Oscar's primal need to find his own place in the hierarchy,
while the group battles villainous antagonist Scar and his pack. Purists
may object to covering animal tales with cheesy sentimentality, but
there's nothing wrong with capturing your viewers' hearts en route to
their heads. <br />
At one touching turn, I heard a small voice in the row behind me stoutly declare, “I am not crying.” Job well done.<br />
<strong>— Colin Covert,</strong><strong> Star Tribune</strong> <strong>(Minneapolis)</strong><br />
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'American Bandstand' host Dick Clark has died</h1>
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<a href="http://newsok.com/keysearch/?er=1&CANONICAL=Los+Angeles&CATEGORY=CITY" title="Los Angeles">LOS ANGELES</a> (AP) — <a href="http://newsok.com/keysearch/?er=1&CANONICAL=Dick+Clark&CATEGORY=PERSON" title="Dick Clark">Dick Clark</a>, the ever-youthful television host and tireless entrepreneur who helped bring rock 'n' roll into the mainstream on "<a href="http://newsok.com/keysearch/?er=1&CANONICAL=American+Bandstand&CATEGORY=MISC" title="American Bandstand">American Bandstand</a>," and later produced and hosted a vast range of programming from game shows to the year-end countdown from <a href="http://newsok.com/keysearch/?er=1&CANONICAL=Times+Square&CATEGORY=ATTRACTION" title="Times Square">Times Square</a> on "New Year's Rockin' Eve," has died. He was 82.
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<a href="http://newsok.com/keysearch/?er=1&CANONICAL=Paul+Shefrin&CATEGORY=PERSON" title="Paul Shefrin">Spokesman Paul Shefrin</a> said Clark had a heart attack Wednesday morning at <a href="http://newsok.com/keysearch/?er=1&CANONICAL=Saint+John%27s&CATEGORY=CITY" title="Saint John's">Saint John's</a> hospital in <a href="http://newsok.com/keysearch/?er=1&CANONICAL=Santa+Monica&CATEGORY=CITY" title="Santa Monica">Santa Monica</a>, a day after he was admitted for an outpatient procedure.
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Clark had continued performing even after he suffered a stroke in 2004 that affected his ability to speak and walk.
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Long dubbed "the world's oldest teenager" because of his boyish
appearance, Clark bridged the rebellious new music scene and traditional
show business, and equally comfortable whether chatting about music
with <a href="http://newsok.com/keysearch/?er=1&CANONICAL=Sam+Cooke&CATEGORY=PERSON" title="Sam Cooke">Sam Cooke</a> or bantering with <a href="http://newsok.com/keysearch/?er=1&CANONICAL=Ed+McMahon&CATEGORY=PERSON" title="Ed McMahon">Ed McMahon</a> about TV bloopers. He thrived as the founder of <a href="http://newsok.com/keysearch/?er=1&CANONICAL=Dick+Clark+Productions+Inc.&CATEGORY=COMPANY" title="Dick Clark Productions Inc.">Dick Clark Productions</a>, supplying movies, game and music shows, beauty contests and more to TV. Among his credits: "The $25,000 Pyramid," ''<a href="http://newsok.com/keysearch/?er=1&CANONICAL=TV%27s+Bloopers+%26+Practical+Jokes&CATEGORY=MISC" title="TV's Bloopers & Practical Jokes">TV's Bloopers and Practical Jokes</a>" and the <a href="http://newsok.com/keysearch/?er=1&CANONICAL=American+Music+Awards&CATEGORY=MISC" title="American Music Awards">American Music Awards</a>.
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For a time in the 1980s, he had shows on all three networks and was listed among the <a href="http://newsok.com/keysearch/?er=1&CANONICAL=Forbes+Media+LLC&CATEGORY=COMPANY" title="Forbes Media LLC">Forbes</a> 400 of wealthiest Americans. Clark also was part of radio as partner in the <a href="http://newsok.com/keysearch/?er=1&CANONICAL=United+Stations+Radio+Networks+Inc.&CATEGORY=COMPANY" title="United Stations Radio Networks Inc.">United Stations Radio Network</a>, which provided programs — including Clark's — to thousands of stations.
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"There's hardly any segment of the population that doesn't see what I do," Clark told <a href="http://newsok.com/keysearch/?er=1&CANONICAL=The+Associated+Press&CATEGORY=COMPANY" title="The Associated Press">The Associated Press</a>
in a 1985 interview. "It can be embarrassing. People come up to me and
say, 'I love your show,' and I have no idea which one they're talking
about."
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The original "American Bandstand" was one of network TV's longest-running series as part of <a href="http://newsok.com/keysearch/?er=1&CANONICAL=ABC+Inc.&CATEGORY=COMPANY" title="ABC Inc.">ABC</a>'s daytime lineup from 1957 to 1987. It later aired for a year in syndication and briefly on the <a href="http://newsok.com/keysearch/?er=1&CANONICAL=USA+Network&CATEGORY=COMPANY" title="USA Network">USA Network</a>. Over the years, it introduced stars ranging from <a href="http://newsok.com/keysearch/?er=1&CANONICAL=Buddy+Holly&CATEGORY=PERSON" title="Buddy Holly">Buddy Holly</a>
to Madonna. The show's status as an American cultural institution was
solidified when Clark donated Bandstand's original podium and backdrop
to the <a href="http://newsok.com/keysearch/?er=1&CANONICAL=Smithsonian+Institution&CATEGORY=ORGANIZATION" title="Smithsonian Institution">Smithsonian Institution</a>.
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Clark joined "Bandstand" in 1956 after <a href="http://newsok.com/keysearch/?er=1&CANONICAL=Bob+Horn&CATEGORY=PERSON" title="Bob Horn">Bob Horn</a>, who'd been the host since its 1952 debut, was fired. Under Clark's guidance, it went from a local <a href="http://newsok.com/keysearch/?er=1&CANONICAL=Philadelphia&CATEGORY=CITY" title="Philadelphia">Philadelphia</a> show to a national phenomenon.
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"I played records, the kids danced, and <a href="http://newsok.com/keysearch/?er=1&CANONICAL=United+States&CATEGORY=COUNTRY" title="United States">America</a> watched," was how Clark once described the series' simplicity. In his 1958 hit "Sweet Little Sixteen," <a href="http://newsok.com/keysearch/?er=1&CANONICAL=Chuck+Berry&CATEGORY=PERSON" title="Chuck Berry">Chuck Berry</a> sang that "they'll be rocking on Bandstand, Philadelphia, P-A."
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As a host, he had the smooth delivery of a seasoned radio announcer. As a
producer, he had an ear for a hit record. He also knew how to make wary
adults welcome this odd new breed of music in their homes.
<br />
Clark endured accusations that he was in with the squares, with critic <a href="http://newsok.com/keysearch/?er=1&CANONICAL=Lester+Bangs&CATEGORY=PERSON" title="Lester Bangs">Lester Bangs</a>
defining Bandstand as "a leggily acceptable euphemism of the teenage
experience." In a 1985 interview, Clark acknowledged the complaints.
"But I knew at the time that if we didn't make the presentation to the
older generation palatable, it could kill it."
<br />
"So along with <a href="http://newsok.com/keysearch/?er=1&CANONICAL=Little+Richard&CATEGORY=PERSON" title="Little Richard">Little Richard</a>
and Chuck Berry and the Platters and the Crows and the Jayhawks ... the
boys wore coats and ties and the girls combed their hair and they all
looked like sweet little kids into a high school dance," he said.
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But Clark defended pop artists and artistic freedom, the <a href="http://newsok.com/keysearch/?er=1&CANONICAL=Rock+and+Roll+Hall+of+Fame+and+Museum&CATEGORY=ORGANIZATION" title="Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum">Rock and Roll Hall of Fame</a>
said in an online biography of the 1993 inductee. He helped give black
artists their due by playing original R&B recordings instead of
cover versions by white performers, and he condemned censorship.
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His stroke in December 2004 forced him to miss his annual appearance on
"Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve." He returned the following year
and, although his speech at times was difficult to understand, many
praised his bravery, including other stroke victims.
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Still speaking with difficulty, he continued taking part in his <a href="http://newsok.com/keysearch/?er=1&CANONICAL=New+Year%27s&CATEGORY=MISC" title="New Year's">New Year's</a> shows, though in a diminished role. <a href="http://newsok.com/keysearch/?er=1&CANONICAL=Ryan+Seacrest&CATEGORY=PERSON" title="Ryan Seacrest">Ryan Seacrest</a> became the main host.
<br />
"I'm just thankful I'm still able to enjoy this once-a-year treat," he
told The Associated Press by e-mail in December 2008 as another New
Year's Eve approached.
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He was honored at the <a href="http://newsok.com/keysearch/?er=1&CANONICAL=Emmy+Awards&CATEGORY=MISC" title="Emmy Awards">Emmy Awards</a>
in 2006, telling the crowd: "I have accomplished my childhood dream, to
be in show business. Everybody should be so lucky to have their dreams
come true. I've been truly blessed."
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He was born <a href="http://newsok.com/keysearch/?er=1&CANONICAL=Richard+Wagstaff+Clark&CATEGORY=PERSON" title="Richard Wagstaff Clark">Richard Wagstaff Clark</a> in <a href="http://newsok.com/keysearch/?er=1&CANONICAL=Mount+Vernon&CATEGORY=CITY" title="Mount Vernon">Mount Vernon</a>, N.Y., in 1929. His father, <a href="http://newsok.com/keysearch/?er=1&CANONICAL=Richard+Augustus+Clark&CATEGORY=PERSON" title="Richard Augustus Clark">Richard Augustus Clark</a>, was a sales manager who worked in radio.
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Clark idolized his athletic older brother, Bradley, who was killed in
World War II. In his 1976 autobiography, "Rock, Roll & Remember,"
Clark recalled how radio helped ease his loneliness and turned him into a
fan of <a href="http://newsok.com/keysearch/?er=1&CANONICAL=Steve+Allen&CATEGORY=PERSON" title="Steve Allen">Steve Allen</a>, <a href="http://newsok.com/keysearch/?er=1&CANONICAL=Arthur+Godfrey&CATEGORY=PERSON" title="Arthur Godfrey">Arthur Godfrey</a> and other popular hosts.
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From Godfrey, he said, he learned that "a radio announcer does not talk
to 'those of you out there in radio land'; a radio announcer talks to me
as an individual."
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Clark began his career in the mailroom of a <a href="http://newsok.com/keysearch/?er=1&CANONICAL=Utica&CATEGORY=CITY" title="Utica">Utica</a>,
N.Y., radio station in 1945. By age 26, he was a broadcasting veteran,
with nine years' experience on radio and TV stations in <a href="http://newsok.com/keysearch/?er=1&CANONICAL=Syracuse&CATEGORY=CITY" title="Syracuse">Syracuse</a> and Utica, N.Y., and Philadelphia. He held a bachelor's degree from <a href="http://newsok.com/keysearch/?er=1&CANONICAL=Syracuse+University&CATEGORY=ORGANIZATION" title="Syracuse University">Syracuse University</a>. While in Philadelphia, Clark befriended McMahon, who later credited Clark for introducing him to his future "<a href="http://newsok.com/keysearch/?er=1&CANONICAL=The+Tonight+Show&CATEGORY=MISC" title="The Tonight Show">Tonight Show</a>" boss, <a href="http://newsok.com/keysearch/?er=1&CANONICAL=Johnny+Carson&CATEGORY=PERSON" title="Johnny Carson">Johnny Carson</a>.
<br />
In the 1960s, "American Bandstand" moved from black-and-white to color,
from weekday broadcasts to once-a-week Saturday shows and from
Philadelphia to Los Angeles. Although its influence started to ebb, it
still featured some of the biggest stars of each decade, whether <a href="http://newsok.com/keysearch/?er=1&CANONICAL=Janis+Joplin&CATEGORY=PERSON" title="Janis Joplin">Janis Joplin</a>, <a href="http://newsok.com/keysearch/?er=1&CANONICAL=The+Jackson+5&CATEGORY=ORGANIZATION" title="The Jackson 5">the Jackson 5</a>, Talking Heads or <a href="http://newsok.com/keysearch/?er=1&CANONICAL=Prince+%28Musician%29&CATEGORY=PERSON" title="Prince (Musician)">Prince</a>. But Clark never did book two of rock's iconic groups, the <a href="http://newsok.com/keysearch/?er=1&CANONICAL=The+Beatles&CATEGORY=ORGANIZATION" title="The Beatles">Beatles</a> and the <a href="http://newsok.com/keysearch/?er=1&CANONICAL=The+Rolling+Stones&CATEGORY=ORGANIZATION" title="The Rolling Stones">Rolling Stones</a>. <a href="http://newsok.com/keysearch/?er=1&CANONICAL=Elvis+Presley&CATEGORY=PERSON" title="Elvis Presley">Elvis Presley</a> also never performed, although Clark managed an on-air telephone interview while Presley was in the Army.
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When <a href="http://newsok.com/keysearch/?er=1&CANONICAL=Michael+Jackson&CATEGORY=PERSON" title="Michael Jackson">Michael Jackson</a>
died in June 2009, Clark recalled working with him since he was a
child, adding, "of all the thousands of entertainers I have worked with,
Michael was THE most outstanding. Many have tried and will try to copy
him, but his talent will never be matched."
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Clark kept more than records spinning with his Dick Clark Productions. Its credits included the Academy of Country Music and <a href="http://newsok.com/keysearch/?er=1&CANONICAL=Golden+Globes&CATEGORY=MISC" title="Golden Globes">Golden Globe awards</a>;
TV movies including the Emmy-winning "The Woman Who Willed a Miracle"
(1984), the "$25,000 Pyramid" game show and the 1985 film "<a href="http://newsok.com/keysearch/?er=1&CANONICAL=Remo+Williams&CATEGORY=PERSON" title="Remo Williams">Remo Williams</a>: The Adventure Begins." Clark himself made a cameo on "<a href="http://newsok.com/keysearch/?er=1&CANONICAL=The+Fresh+Prince+of+Bel-Air&CATEGORY=MISC" title="The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air">The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air</a>" and a dramatic appearance as a witness on the original "<a href="http://newsok.com/keysearch/?er=1&CANONICAL=Perry+Mason&CATEGORY=PERSON" title="Perry Mason">Perry Mason</a>." He was an involuntary part of <a href="http://newsok.com/keysearch/?er=1&CANONICAL=Michael+Moore&CATEGORY=PERSON" title="Michael Moore">Michael Moore</a>'s <a href="http://newsok.com/keysearch/?er=1&CANONICAL=Academy+Awards&CATEGORY=MISC" title="Academy Awards">Academy Award</a>-winning "<a href="http://newsok.com/keysearch/?er=1&CANONICAL=Bowling+for+Columbine&CATEGORY=MISC" title="Bowling for Columbine">Bowling for Columbine</a>,"
in which Clark is seen brushing off Moore as the filmmaker confronts
him about working conditions at a restaurant owned by Clark.
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In 1974, at ABC's request, Clark created the American Music Awards after the network lost the broadcast rights to the <a href="http://newsok.com/keysearch/?er=1&CANONICAL=Grammy+Awards&CATEGORY=MISC" title="Grammy Awards">Grammy Awards</a>.
<br />
He was also an author, with "Dick Clark's American Bandstand" and such
self-help books as "Dick Clark's Program for Success in Your Business
and Personal Life" and "Looking Great, Staying Young." His unchanging
looks inspired a joke in "Peggy Sue Gets Married," the 1986 comedy
starring <a href="http://newsok.com/keysearch/?er=1&CANONICAL=Kathleen+Turner&CATEGORY=PERSON" title="Kathleen Turner">Kathleen Turner</a>
as an unhappy wife and mother transported back to 1960. Watching Clark
on a black and white TV set, she shakes her head in amazement, "Look at
that man, he never ages."
<br />
Clark's clean-cut image survived a music industry scandal. In 1960,
during a congressional investigation of "payola" or bribery in the
record and radio industry, Clark was called on to testify.
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He was cleared of any suspicions but was required by ABC to divest
himself of record-company interests to avoid any appearance of a
conflict of interest. The demand cost him $8 million, Clark once
estimated. His holdings included partial ownership of Swan Records,
which later released the first U.S. version of the Beatles' smash "She
Loves You."
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In 2004, Clark announced plans for a revamped version of "American Bandstand." The show, produced with "<a href="http://newsok.com/keysearch/?er=1&CANONICAL=American+Idol&CATEGORY=MISC" title="American Idol">American Idol</a>" creator <a href="http://newsok.com/keysearch/?er=1&CANONICAL=Simon+Fuller&CATEGORY=PERSON" title="Simon Fuller">Simon Fuller</a>, was to feature a host other than Clark.
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He was diagnosed with type 2 diabetes in 1994 and served as spokesman for the <a href="http://newsok.com/keysearch/?er=1&CANONICAL=American+Association+of+Diabetes+Educators&CATEGORY=ORGANIZATION" title="American Association of Diabetes Educators">American Association of Diabetes Educators</a>.
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Clark, twice divorced, had a son, Richard Augustus II, with first wife <a href="http://newsok.com/keysearch/?er=1&CANONICAL=Barbara+Mallery&CATEGORY=PERSON" title="Barbara Mallery">Barbara Mallery</a> and two children, Duane and Cindy, with second wife <a href="http://newsok.com/keysearch/?er=1&CANONICAL=Loretta+Martin&CATEGORY=PERSON" title="Loretta Martin">Loretta Martin</a>. He married <a href="http://newsok.com/keysearch/?er=1&CANONICAL=Kari+Wigton&CATEGORY=PERSON" title="Kari Wigton">Kari Wigton</a> in 1977.
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<b>At the end of his visit in the Holy Land… BONO leaves note in the GuestBoo of the King David Hotel in Jerusalem… ENJOY.</b><br />
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<i><span style="font-size: small;">“Hope is like a faithful dog, sometimes she runs ahead of me to
check the future, to sniff it out and then I call to her: Hope, Hope,
come here, and she comes to me. I pet her, she eats out of my hand and
sometimes she stays behind, near some other hope maybe to sniff out
whatever was. Then I call her my Despair. I call out to her. Here, my
little Despair, come here and she comes and snuggles up, and again I
call her Hope.</span></i></h2>
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<i><span style="font-size: small;">With great thanks for great room in great hotel in great city, Bono.”</span></i></h2>
</div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00763087360738002618noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8409286028308131936.post-27618439491662706812012-04-17T03:17:00.000-04:002012-04-19T03:17:22.524-04:00ARTICLE - U2 LISTS: TOP 5 ESSENTIAL U2 BOOKS<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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U2 Lists: Top 5 Essential U2 Books</h1>
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<a href="http://www.atu2.com/" target="_blank">@U2</a>,
April 17, 2012<br />
<span id="twitauthor"> <span id="twitauthor">By: Tassoula E. Kokkoris</span>
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<em>[Ed. note: This is the 37th in a "U2 Lists"</em><em> series, where @U2 staffers pick a topic and share their personal rankings on something U2-related.]</em><br />
It's a ritual for many people to want to read every book on the
subject of something they love. Sometimes folks dive into the literary
pool early on, as they're learning about their new passion; other times
they catch up years later to rekindle the feeling that made them fall
for the topic in the first place. Then of course, there are casual
readers who may only ever read one or two books on any given theme.<br /><br />Regardless
of the reasons for reading, most are faced with a variety of choices
about what to read, especially when investigating a subject as popular
as U2.<br /><br />I can safely say that I've ready every book printed in the
English language about this band. I'll spare you the titles of the ones
I felt like burning, and instead focus on what I believe are the best
five (including passages from each after my descriptions). <br /><br /><strong>5. <em>Bono in Conversation with Michka Assayas</em>, by Michka Assayas (2005)</strong><br /><br />This
may be the closest thing we'll ever get to a memoir from Bono. He
mentions in the foreword that he doesn't know why he agreed to the
interviews, but he's glad that he did, hinting that the process was
therapeutic. <a href="http://www.atu2.com/news/digging-deeper-u2-talks-with-michka-assayas.html">Assayas</a> asks all the right questions, which dig deeply into Bono's spiritual beliefs, his family life, and of course — U2.<br /><br /><em>U2
were never dumb in business. We just had a strong sense of survival in
us. We essentially became our own record company living in Dublin, not
in London or New York, or Los Angeles. We don't sit around wondering
about world peace all day long. We're not sitting around like a bunch of
hippies. We're from punk rock and we're on top of it. —Bono</em><br /><br /><br /><strong>4. <em>U2: A Diary</em>, by Matt McGee (2008)</strong><br /><br />Full disclosure: The <a href="http://www.atu2.com/news/stories-that-needed-to-be-told-an-interview-with-matt-mcgee.html">author of this book</a>
is the owner of this website. But I promise, the decision to include
this book was purely my own (and knowing Matt, I'm sure it bugs him that
I put it on the list). The fact is, it deserves its slot because it's
the most comprehensive record of the band's history in existence, and
it's frightfully accurate (trust me, I know — I was around in the days
when he was researching all of those details and facts). Put simply, if
you ever need to do "homework" on the band, there is no greater resource
than this book.<br /><br /><em>June 2, 1987</em><br /><em>During a restless
night of sleep in London, Bono listens repeatedly to Roy Orbison's "In
Dreams'". When he wakes up today, he decides to start writing a song for
Orbison called "She's a Mystery to Me." He sings bits of the unfinished
song to the band when they arrive at Wembley Arena for tonight's show.
After the gig, there's a knock on U2's dressing room door: Security
announces that Roy Orbison is here and would like to meet the band.
Everyone is understandably shocked by the strange twist of fate.</em><br /><br /><br /><strong>3. <em>Into the Heart</em>, by Niall Stokes (1997, 2001, 2005, 2009)</strong><br /><br />Using a combination of extensive research, and conversations with Bono and various U2 associates, the <em>Hot Press</em>
editor weaves a hazy, yet concentrated story about every song on each
U2 studio album. Related photos and quotes help guide the author's artsy
narrative through the genesis of U2's songwriting. Lyric nerds will
especially love this read.<br /><br /><em>The recording of </em>War <em>had
been exhilarating, tense and finally draining. There were times during
the course of their incarceration in Windmill when Steve Lillywhite had
had to push Bono to the limits, forcing him to sing until his throat
bled. Now, there they were, a track short and with their allotted studio
time almost up. The band had enjoyed themselves in the past improvising
B-sides and starting and finishing songs in an hour. The results were
usually throwaway, but what the hell? They wanted to get '40' done.
Steve Lillywhite said to go for it.</em><br /><br /><br /><strong>2.<em> U2 at the End of the World</em>, by Bill Flanagan (1995)</strong><br /><br />This
fly-on-the-wall account of the Zoo TV tour takes the cake for humor and
unexpected twists. In fact, it may be the absolute best account of a
rock band on the road in music history. <a href="http://www.atu2.com/news/the-u2-interview-bill-flanagan.html">Flanagan's</a>
unprecedented access to U2 on tour allowed him to witness not only how
they interact with fans, but also with their families and each other.
The way he paints each band member reflects how many still see them
today: Bono, the bleeding heart; The Edge, a lovable nerd; Adam, the
wild rebel; and Larry, the tough 'boss.' It's no wonder the band wasn't
in love with this candid snapshot of their behavior, but if it were any
other band, it could have been so much worse. And really, amidst the
chaos, Flanagan does a great job of emphasizing the friendship and love
among the Principle folks. <br /><br /><em>At 1 p.m. Larry strolls down the
corridor looking for breakfast, wearing just a white hotel bathrobe and
calling, "GOOD MORNING, VIETNAM!" He joins the four security men who are
drinking coffee and checking off last night's log-in sheet. Adam
returned to the hotel at 3 a.m., Edge at 5, Larry at 6, Bono at 10. The
Final Week Iron Man Nightlife Marathon is under way.</em><br />
<br /><strong>1.<em> U2 by U2 </em>by U2 and Neil McCormick (2006)</strong><br /><br />Acclaimed
music journalist (and childhood friend of U2) Neil McCormick sat with
the band for over 150 hours, interviewing them individually and together
about the story of their lives. What results is this definitive telling
of how U2 came to be and still exists today. Because all four band
members, and McCormick, are incredibly charismatic, nearly every page is
laced with charming anecdotes. It also serves to set the story straight
about many details of their milestones and personal lives. All
self-respecting U2 fans should have this book on their shelf.<br /><br /><em>It
was not a disagreeable head, in certain contexts it was quite handsome,
but from the age of five as a result of this unusual development, I
started to look unnervingly like the kid on the cover of </em>Mad<em>
magazine. Along with the head came the teeth, or specifically my two
front teeth. When they first appeared sprouting out of my gums, I knew
there was something up. Their size was obvious from the beginning, and
they grew in with a kind of terrible inevitability. —The Edge</em><br />
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<span class="dateline">LUTHER</span> — A small earthquake was recorded shortly before 10 p.m. Sunday in central <a href="http://newsok.com/keysearch/?er=1&CANONICAL=Oklahoma&CATEGORY=STATE" title="Oklahoma">Oklahoma</a>, the <a href="http://newsok.com/keysearch/?er=1&CANONICAL=U.S.+Geological+Survey&CATEGORY=ORGANIZATION" title="U.S. Geological Survey">U.S. Geological Survey</a> reported.<br />
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The 2.3 magnitude quake was centered about 3 miles northeast of Luther in <a href="http://newsok.com/keysearch/?er=1&CANONICAL=Oklahoma+County&CATEGORY=COUNTY" title="Oklahoma County">Oklahoma County</a>, and 6 miles west of Wellston in <a href="http://newsok.com/keysearch/?er=1&CANONICAL=Lincoln+County&CATEGORY=COUNTY" title="Lincoln County">Lincoln County</a>..<br />
It was about 2.5 miles below the surface, the survey reported.
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<em>I have run<br />
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I have crawled<br />
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I have scaled these city walls<br />
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These city walls<br />
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Only to be with you<br />
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But I still haven’t found what I’m looking for</em><br />
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Is the singer of these lyrics proclaiming his feelings toward a romantic or a spiritual relationship?<br />
Twelve years after the song’s release, in 1999, “I Still Haven’t Found
What I’m Looking For” was used in the opening scene of the Julia
Roberts’ movie “Runaway Bride” as she runs away, on horseback, from a
wedding.<br />
But for Mitch Jarvis, senior pastor at First United Methodist Church in Independence, the song’s spiritual connection is clear.<br />
“It’s a song about the brokenness that we feel together,” Jarvis says.
“We would say that there are a lot of people in the world today who are
looking and searching and trying with everything they have to fill a
void, but they still haven’t found what that something is.”<br />
The song, one in a string of hits by the Irish rock band U2, was
included in a combined Maundy Thursday service on the Square this week.<br />
Now in his early 40s, Jarvis first heard U2’s post-punk music while in
junior high school. He describes the band as “the Beatles of his
generation.”<br />
The Dublin-based rock group formed in 1976 when its four founding
members – all of whom are still part of U2 today – were just 15- and
16-year-old boys. As a teenager, Jarvis listened to the band during a
time when the band quietly released its albums “Boy” and “October.”<br />
Twenty-five years ago, though, U2 took off worldwide with the release
of “The Joshua Tree” – and that’s when Jarvis says his appreciation for
the group deepened, as well. He says he was drawn to the four members’
awareness of the world and their social consciousness toward issues like
poverty.<br />
With their close proximity on the Square, First United Methodist
Church, First Presbyterian Church and First Christian Church come
together to celebrate Maundy Thursday and Good Friday, among other holy
days throughout the year.<br />
And, with First United Methodist Church as the host for Maundy
Thursday, Jarvis wanted to try something new – but not completely unique
– with U2charist.<br />
In the summer of 2005, the Rev. Paige Blair, an Episcopal priest in
Maine, came up with the idea for U2charist and held the first service at
her church, according to a 2006 USA Today article. Following her
initial service, Blair consulted with several hundred churches in
multiple states and countries for similar U2charist services in their
congregations.<br />
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On the surface, many U2 lyrics may be interpreted as applying toward
love and relationships. Upon closer examination, the band’s lyrical
content includes social and political commentary, as well as spiritual
undertones.<br />
Like “I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For,” several U2 songs
were prominently displayed in ’90s movies and TV shows in scenes
involving romantic relationships. “With or Without You” was featured in
several episodes of the popular TV series “Friends” in the mid-1990s as
two of the main characters came to terms with their troubled
relationship.<br />
Incidentally, these two songs also were part of Thursday’s service,
their lyrics this time taking a more spiritual – but not explicitly
Christian – interpretation.<br />
But missing from the Maundy Thursday program were U2 songs with titles
that are clearly more spiritually based than others, including “Yahweh,”
“If God Will Send Us His Angels,” “Peace On Earth” and “In God’s
Country.”<br />
“I just didn’t think they would connect,” Jarvis says of why they
weren’t included. “I just thought the other songs were more accessible.”<br />
In Independence, the First UMC worship band performed two U2 songs
while the rest of the music came through recordings and videos. Despite
his strong admiration for U2, Thursday marked the first time that Jarvis
had experienced a U2charist service. First United Methodist Church
changed up the format a bit from the original, especially when Jarvis to
make it part of Maundy Thursday.<br />
A big part of Maundy Thursday, Jarvis says, is Jesus’ sense of
community with those around him and his example of service. In
conjunction with the music of U2, an awareness of poverty issues
worldwide and in Eastern Jackson County was raised, and the evening’s
offering went to Hillcrest Transitional Housing.<br />
And with his idea of incorporating popular rock music into a worship
service, Jarvis says he felt nervous and excited – for the same reasons –
about how parishioners and his fellow congregation members alike might
react.<br />
“I don’t know that anything quite like this has ever been tried in this
kind of setting,” Jarvis says, “so I’m nervous about that, but I’m also
excited about that because nothing like this has ever really been tried
here.”<br />
A U2 fan since the early 1990s, First Presbyterian Church Pastor Dave
Carlson, like Jarvis, never thought he’d attend a church service built
around the band’s music. Carlson said he wasn’t nervous before
Thursday’s service.<br />
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“I think it’ll speak for itself and touch people in a way that’s
meaningful to them,” Carlson says. “Whether it is everyone’s cup of tea
or not as far as how they prefer to worship, I still think they’ll get
something out of it.”<br />
Throughout history, different denominations of Christianity have
contemporized parts of their service. Jarvis cites 16th century
Archbishop Thomas Cranmer, who compiled the Book of Common Prayer in
English, not Latin, in order to make prayer more accessible.<br />
“We’re at such a time right now where the church has got to rethink our
expression of faith so that we’re more accessible to newer generations
of people,” Jarvis says. “This is an unapologetic attempt to do just
that...”<br />
Donna Rose-Heim, the transitional pastor at First Christian Church,
says seeing the Gospel speak in new ways is always a positive
experience. For those who weren’t as connected to the music, she says,
they still felt connected through more traditional elements of the
service, such as communion and the washing of the hands.<br />
“I always thought it was good that I saw a lot more younger people at
this event than I normally would,” Rose-Heim says. “The message of Jesus
has lasted more than 2,000 years because it’s speaking to whatever
generation we’re in. I’m really grateful to the people who came to
connect and to worship even though that music wasn’t necessarily their
thing because they knew the younger people needed to hear the Gospel. I
really appreciated that.”<br />
Jarvis wanted parishioners to experience surprise from the music, to
have it speak to them in ways they weren’t expecting. Following the
service, Jarvis says it went just as he had thought it would and was
pleased overall with the positive feedback he received.<br />
“I’m kind of a traditionalist when it comes to the Christian holidays,”
says Vicky Reuter, a First United Methodist Church member who also
sings in the worship band. “I was kind of wondering what U2 music had to
do with Maundy Thursday, but they tweaked the service enough to make it
fit into that, so I was pleasantly surprised.”<br />
Bill Czeschin, a member of First Christian Church who attended Thursday’s service with his wife, Mary, had a similar reaction.<br />
“I think something different is OK,” he says, “as long as you stick with the basics.”<br />
For Jarvis, the chance was one well worth taking.<br />
“It’s kind of risky,” he says, “but in a no-risk environment.”<br />
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CBS News legend Mike Wallace, the 60 Minutes' pit-bull reporter whose
probing, brazen style made his name synonymous with the tough interview
-- a style he practically invented for television more than half a
century ago -- died last night. He was 93 and passed peacefully
surrounded by family members at Waveny Care Center in New Canaan, Conn.,
where he spent the past few years. He also had a home in Manhattan. <br />
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"It
is with tremendous sadness that we mark the passing of Mike Wallace.
His extraordinary contribution as a broadcaster is immeasurable and he
has been a force within the television industry throughout its
existence. His loss will be felt by all of us at CBS," said Leslie
Moonves, president and CEO, CBS Corporation.<br />
"All of us
at CBS News and particularly at 60 Minutes owe so much to Mike. Without
him and his iconic style, there probably wouldn't be a 60 Minutes. There
simply hasn't been another broadcast journalist with that much talent.
It almost didn't matter what stories he was covering, you just wanted to
hear what he would ask next. Around CBS he was the same infectious,
funny and ferocious person as he was on TV. We loved him and we will
miss him very much," said Jeff Fager, chairman CBSNews and executive
producer of 60 Minutes.<br />
A special program dedicated to Wallace will be broadcast on 60 Minutes next Sunday, April 15.<br />
Wallace
was as famous as the leaders, newsmakers and celebrities who suffered
his blistering interrogations, winning awards and a reputation for
digging out the hidden truth on Sunday nights in front of an audience
that approached 40 million at broadcast television's peak.<br />
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Wallace played a huge role in 60 Minutes' rise to the top of the
ratings to become the number-one program of all time, with an
unprecedented 23 seasons on the Nielsen annual top 10 list -- five as
the number-one program. <br />
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He announced he would step down
to become a "correspondent emeritus" in the spring of 2006, but Wallace
continued to land big interviews for 60 Minutes. His last appearance on
television, on January 6, 2008, was a sit-down on 60 Minutes with <a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=3680216n&tag=mncol;lst;4">accused steroid user Roger Clemens </a>that
made front-page news. His August 2006 interview of Iranian President
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad won him his 21st Emmy at the age of 89. He was also
granted the first post-prison interview with assisted suicide
advocate-and <a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-504803_162-20068720-10391709.html?tag=contentMain;contentBody">convicted killer Dr. Jack Kevorkian</a>
for a June 2007 60 Minutes broadcast. After a successful triple bypass
operation in late January 2008, he retired from public life.<br />
<br />
Decades
before his 60 Minutes success, Wallace was already known to millions.
In the early days of broadcasting, with no line between news and
entertainment, Wallace did both in the 1940s and '50s. He appeared on a
variety of radio and television programs, first as narrator/announcer,
then as a reporter, actor and program host. On his first network
television news program, ABC's "The Mike Wallace Interview," he
perfected his interviewing style that he first tried on a local New York
television guest show called "Night Beat." Created with producer Ted
Yates, "Night Beat" became an instant hit that New Yorkers began
referring to as "brow beat." Wallace's relentless questioning of his
subjects proved to be a compelling alternative to the polite chit-chat
practiced by early television hosts. <br />
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Years later, CBS
News producer Don Hewitt remembered that hard-charging style when
creating his pioneering news magazine, 60 Minutes; he picked Wallace to
be a counterweight to the avuncular Harry Reasoner. On September 24,
1968, <a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-504803_162-20017558-10391709.html">Wallace and Reasoner introduced 60 Minutes</a>
to the 10:00 PM timeslot, where it ran every other Tuesday but failed
to draw large audiences. But critics praised it, awards followed, and
after seven years on various nights, 60 Minutes went to 7:00 PM Sunday
and began its rise. It made the top 20 in 1977 and the top 10 in 1978,
then became the number-one program in 1980 -- all with a tough-talking
Wallace center stage.<br />
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<br />
Each week, "60 Minutes" viewers could expect the master interviewer
to ask the questions they wanted answered by the world's leaders and
headliners. Wallace did not disappoint them, often revealing more than
the public ever hoped to see. He got the stoic <a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-504803_162-20029073-10391709.html">Ayatollah Khomeini to smile</a>
during the Iranian hostage crisis in 1979 when he asked him what he
thought about being called "a lunatic" by Egyptian President Anwar
Sadat. The Ayatollah answered by correctly predicting that Sadat would
be assassinated. <br />
The same year, Johnny Carson called Wallace "cruel" during an
interview after Wallace asked, "It takes one to know one?" when the
late-night star took pity on an alcoholic newsmaker. Her fans protested
when Wallace brought Barbra Streisand to the emotional edge in 1991 by
revealing that her own mother had told him that Barbara "was too busy to
get close to anyone." <br />
He never softened, even in his 80s. In a 2001 interview about his
Broadway mega hit "The Producers," Mel Brooks began an angry rant
against anti-Semitism prompted by Wallace's suggestion that his claims
of bias were exaggerated. In 2003, he wrung tears out of one of the most
feared defensive players in NFL history when he read lines to Lawrence
Taylor spoken by Taylor's son.<br />
Wallace was also known for pioneering the "ambush" interview,
presenting his unsuspecting interviewee with evidence of malfeasance -
often obtained by hidden camera - then capturing the stunned reaction.
Two of the more famous exposes in this genre that used hidden cameras
were investigations of a phony cancer clinic and a laboratory offering
Medicaid kickbacks to doctors. Presenting interviewees with their own
misdeeds became a "60 Minutes" staple, but the hidden camera and ambush
were later shunned as they were widely imitated, and even Wallace
admitted their use was to "create heat, rather than light." <br />
Sometimes the feisty reporter was the story, getting arrested in
Chicago in 1968 on the floor of the Democratic Convention, and making
headlines 36 years later, at the age of 86, when words with a New York
City Taxi and Limousine Commission officer resulted in an arrest for
disorderly conduct. <br />
Wallace drew attention also for taking on controversial subjects.
From legal prostitution at Las Vegas' Mustang Ranch, to child
pornography to gay police officers - a 1992 report that won him an Emmy -
no subject was taboo. <br />
No story generated more controversy than Wallace's 1998 interview
with euthanasia practitioner Dr. Jack Kevorkian. Wallace and "60
Minutes" took heat for broadcasting Kevorkian's own tape showing him
lethally injecting a man suffering from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
The death of Thomas Youk broadcast on "60 Minutes" made headlines and
the editorial pages, generating discussion about euthanasia for weeks.
The tape also served as evidence to convict Kevorkian of murder. <br />
In another controversy, Wallace's <a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-504803_162-20094836-10391709.html">1995 interview of Jeffrey Wigand</a>,
the highest-ranking tobacco executive to turn whistle-blower, was held
back for fear of a multi-billion dollar lawsuit that could have
bankrupted CBS. The interview, in which Wigand revealed tobacco
executives knew and covered up the fact that tobacco caused disease, was
eventually broadcast on "60 Minutes" in February 1996. The incident
became the subject of the film, "The Insider" (in which Wallace was
played by Christopher Plummer).<br />
Wallace was also at the center of one of the biggest libel suits
ever, threatening his journalistic integrity and ultimately plunging him
into a clinical depression. Gen. William Westmoreland, who commanded
the U.S. military in Vietnam, sued CBS and Wallace for a 1982 "CBS
Reports" documentary alleging the general had deceived the American
people by undercounting the enemy in Vietnam. The $120 million suit
against "The Uncounted Enemy: A Vietnam Deception," went to trial in
1984 and lasted months before Westmoreland withdrew it just before
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The grueling test became a defining moment in Wallace's life.
Medication and therapy helped him overcome his initial depression and a
later relapse, and he became a heroic example to fellow sufferers,
speaking publicly for the rest of his life to de-stigmatize the
disorder. He revealed years later to colleague Morley Safer in a "60
Minutes" special on his life that he had attempted suicide during the
lawsuit crisis.<br />
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In another celebrated case that took 12 years to play out, Wallace's
producer Barry Lando was sued for $44 million by Lt. Col. Anthony
Herbert. The libel suit against Wallace's 1973 60 Minutes report, "The
Selling of Colonel Herbert," caused a precedent-setting Supreme Court
ruling allowing lawyers to question the thoughts and opinions of
reporters. Initially, CBS lawyers argued successfully in a New York
federal appeals court that Lando could not be questioned that way as it
would infringe on the editorial process protected under the First
Amendment. But the Supreme Court in 1979 reversed it, ruling that
Herbert was entitled to know the producer's mindset, as it was crucial
to proving malice. Nevertheless, the report was accurate in its main
elements, and, in 1986, Herbert v. Lando was thrown out. <br />
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The
road to 60 Minutes began for Wallace when his son, Peter, died in a
hiking accident in Greece in 1962. Wallace's jobs in broadcasting then
included entertainment programs and commercials in addition to
reporting, but he decided then that he would devote his career to
journalism alone to honor Peter, a Yale student who aspired to a writing
career. Wallace's other son, Chris, became a journalist and is
currently host of "Fox News Sunday."<br />
<br />
Wallace went to
Vietnam, India and Africa to report for Westinghouse Radio's "Around the
World in 40 Days," but really wanted to be hired by CBS News, the
"mother church," as he often referred to it. He was turned down at
first, despite some remarkable documentary work, including a
breakthrough piece on black Muslims, "The Hate that Hate Produced." In
fact, CBS News wouldn't broadcast a documentary on nuclear proliferation
that he reported because he appeared in cigarette ads. Promising to
drop commercial work, he was made a correspondent at CBS News in 1963. <br />
Starting
first on "CBS Morning News With Mike Wallace," he went on to contribute
to most of the Network's other news programs, including the "CBS
Evening News With Walter Cronkite," reporting from Vietnam, Washington
and the campaign trail in 1968 with Richard Nixon - who offered Wallace
the White House press secretary job. He made news at the Democratic
National Convention in Chicago that year by getting ejected from the
proceedings for an altercation with police on the convention floor. <br />
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It
wasn't the first time Wallace had worked for CBS. He began at the
Network in 1951, when he and his wife, Buff Cobb, with whom he hosted
"The Chez Show" on local Chicago television, were invited to New York.
He did several CBS programs, two with Cobb: "Mike and Buff," an
afternoon talk show that was television's first color telecast, and an
on-location interview program called "All Around the Town." As was the
norm then, he also reported for the news division, covering political
conventions and other events. <br />
<br />
Leaving CBS in 1955, his
career through the early 1960s became a hodgepodge of appearances for
the tireless broadcaster, who was seen on all three networks and several
independent stations. He even starred briefly in a Broadway production
of "Reclining Figure" and played himself in Elia Kazan's celebrated film
about the media, "A Face in the Crowd." He did the TV quiz show "The
Big Surprise" and the radio show "Weekday," but he never lost sight of
his true calling. It was also during this time that he began "Night
Beat," anchored the original Peabody-Award winning series "Biography,"
anchored and reported several documentaries, including "The Race for
Space," and headed up the news department of local New York station
WNTA. Then on channel 13, WNTA was the first television station in the
U.S. to broadcast a half-hour news program; it was called "News Beat"
and Wallace anchored it. He also continued "The Mike Wallace Interview"
on WNTA in 1959, as the ABC Network, its previous home, dropped the
program because it became too controversial.<br />
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Myron Leon
Wallace was born in Brookline, Mass., on May 9, 1918. He attended
Brookline High School and was graduated from the University of Michigan
in 1939 with a B.A. degree in liberal arts. He became acquainted with
radio at the college station and, after graduation, a professor helped
him land his first job as an announcer and "rip-and-read" reporter for
WOOD-WASH, a Grand Rapids, Mich. radio station.<br />
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<br />
He made his network radio debut in 1940 at WXYZ in Detroit, where he
was the narrator for "The Green Hornet" and a "Cunningham News Ace,"
reading the news sponsored by the Cunningham Drug store chain. He soon
moved to Chicago and by 1941, Wallace was beginning to make a name for
himself as a news writer and broadcaster on "The Air Edition of the
Chicago Sun." He joined the U.S. Navy in 1943 and served aboard a
submarine tender in the Pacific as a communications officer. In 1946, he
returned to Chicago to resume his broadcasting career. There, on WMAQ
radio, he hosted his first interview program, "Famous Names," which led
to a raft of broadcasting appearances, including his first network
television appearance as the lead in a police drama, "Stand By For
Crime." The 1949 show was the first to be transmitted from Chicago to
the East Coast. Two years later, Wallace joined CBS in New York, where
he lived ever since.<br />
Wallace authored several books, including: "Mike Wallace Asks," a
compilation of interviews from "Night Beat" and "The Mike Wallace
Interview" published in 1958; his memoir, "Close Encounter," co-authored
with Gary Paul Gates, in 1984; and "Between You and Me," also with
Gates, in 2005.<br />
Part of his rich legacy includes the Knight-Wallace Fellowship and
Mike and Mary Wallace House at his alma mater, the University of
Michigan. Wallace's donations support this in-residence study program
begun in 1994 for professional journalists seeking to improve their
knowledge in a desired field or issue. <br />
Wallace is survived by his wife, the former Mary Yates; his son,
Chris; a stepdaughter, Pauline Dora; two stepsons, Eames and Angus
Yates; seven grandchildren; and four great-grandchildren. At the
family's request, donations can be made in Wallace's name to Waveny Care
Center, 3 Farm Rd., New Canaan, Conn.<br />
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The Art world lost an iconic Artist on Friday when Thomas
Kinkade passed away at the age of 54 in Los Gatos, CA of natural causes.<br />
Mr. Kinkade was one of the most widely collected and beloved Artists
of our day. His artwork can be found in an estimated 1 out of every 20
homes in America.<br />
Thomas Kinkade was born in 1958 and grew up in the foothills of the
Sierra Mountains in the small town of Placerville, California. From the
age of 4 years old his calling as an Artist was evident. A year later
at the age of 5 years old his parents divorced. In the early 1960s
single family homes were a rarity and carried a stigma. Mr. Kinkade
states “I recall it as being a time of embarrassment, shame and
poverty.” Kinkade turned to his art during this difficult time, saying
“Art gave me some dignity in the midst of my personal environment.” By
the tender age of 16 years old he had become an accomplished oil painter
and was under the apprenticeship of Artist Glen Wessels.<br />
Kinkade studied at the University of California at Berkeley and the
Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California. The summer after
graduating Kinkade, with a longtime friend and fellow Artist James
Gurney, traveled the rails in a boxcar from California to New York
sketching the beauty of the American landscape. These two Artists
filled with the inspiration of their journey and the boldness of youth
walked into Norman Rockwell’s publisher, Waton Guptil, and brashly
pitched their idea for a book on sketching for Artists. In 1982 “The
Artists Guide to Sketching” was published. The popularity of the book
led to employment with Ralph Bakshi Studios, creating background art for
the animated film Fire and Ice. This was the beginning of Kinkade’s
mastery of pictorial lighting effects.<br />
What often goes unnoticed in Kinkade’s paintings, except for the very
observant, is the Artist’s playful side. Kinkade slips in tiny details
here and there. In the piece entitled Homestead House the initials on
the tree stand for Rhett Butler and Scarlett O’Hara. In his Paris, City
of Lights, Kinkade is having a showing at the Louvre in Paris,
something that in reality had not happened, with a banner saying “Sold
Out”. In other work you will find Norman Rockwell, peeping out of the
windshield of a car, or hurrying up a walkway.<br />
Kinkade a Christian and dedicated family man showed his love for both
in his work. Some of his paintings are actually visual depictions of
Bible verses such as A Light in the Storm taken from John 8:12 “I am the
light of the world.” To pay tribute to his wife and daughters he would
hide their names or initials within his paintings. His Golden Gate
Bridge painting reportedly contains 156 Ns for his wife Nanette whom he
married in 1982 after being childhood sweethearts.<br />
Though Thomas Kinkade was one of the most well-known Artists of our
time he remained humble and generous, using his art to raise tens of
thousands of dollars for charitable causes. In 1990 he received the
Humanitarian of the Year Award.<br />
Thomas Kinkade provided us with warm nostalgia in a complex often
stressful world. He succeeded taking us back to the way things were, a
simpler time. Mr. Kinkade will be sorely missed in the Art World.</div>
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<span class="entry-content"> The 4.0 magnitude quake was reported at 1:33 a.m. Tuesday 2 miles southeast of Pittsburg located south of <a href="http://newsok.com/keysearch/?er=1&CANONICAL=McAlester&CATEGORY=CITY" title="McAlester">McAlester</a>.<br />
No injuries or damages were reported.<br />
The quake was felt as far away as the <a href="http://newsok.com/keysearch/?er=1&CANONICAL=Tulsa&CATEGORY=CITY" title="Tulsa">Tulsa</a> area.<br />
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<div class="picBox"> </div><div>Popular file sharing service, Dropbox, <a href="http://twitter.com/#%21/Dropbox/status/186858926325772288" target="_blank">announced via Twitter</a> today that The Edge and Bono are investors in the company. The accompanying photo shows half of U2 with members of the Dropbox team. <a href="http://techcrunch.com/2012/04/02/revealed-bono-and-edge-of-u2-are-dropbox-investors/" target="_blank">Techcrunch.com reports</a> that the investment occurred a year ago, and it might have had its roots going back to 2007. The article states:<br />
<div style="padding-left: 30px;">Back in 2007, entrepreneur brothers Ali and Hadi Partovi had just launched a fast-growing music app called iLike on Facebook. They had a new feature they wanted to launch, a way for artists to post videos to fans through the app, so they went through some mutual friends to reach out to U2. The result: a video interview with Bono and the band about a previously-unreleased track, Wave of Sorrow.</div><div style="padding-left: 30px;">The relationship has developed from there, it appears. The Partovis were early angel investors in Dropbox, and have maintained contact. Judging from the photo recently posted to Twitter, they introduced the band members to founders Drew Houston and Arash Ferdowsi.</div></div></div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00763087360738002618noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8409286028308131936.post-58154442321291551082012-03-16T00:21:00.001-05:002012-03-16T00:21:00.902-05:00QUOTE -TREAT EVERYONE<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">Treat Everyone<br />
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Treat everyone as if they have a wounded heart<br />
because they probably do.</div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00763087360738002618noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8409286028308131936.post-8403897558341388672012-03-16T00:16:00.002-05:002012-03-16T00:16:41.264-05:00HUMOR - MIND GAMES FOR YOUR DOG<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">*Mind Games for Dogs*<br />
1. After your humans give you a bath, DON'T LET THEM TOWEL DRY YOU!<br />
Instead, run to their bed, jump up and dry yourself off on the sheets. This is especially good if it's right before your human's bedtime.<br />
2. Act like a convicted criminal. When the humans come home, put your ears back, tail between your legs, chin down and act as if you have done something really bad. Then, watch as the humans frantically search the house for the damage they think you have caused. (Note: This only works when you have done absolutely nothing wrong.)<br />
3. Let the humans teach you a brand new trick. Learn it perfectly. Then the humans try to demonstrate it to someone else, stare blankly back at the humans. Pretend you have no idea what they're talking about.<br />
4. Draw attention to the human. When out for a walk always pick the busiest, most visible spot to go 'poo'. Take your time and make sure everyone watches. This works particularly well if your humans have forgotten to bring a plastic bag.<br />
5. When out for a walk, alternate between choking and coughing every time a strange human walks by.<br />
6. Make your own rules. Don't always bring back the stick when playing fetch with the humans. Make them go and chase it once in a while.<br />
7. Hide from your humans. When your humans come home, don't greet them at the door. Instead, hide from them, and make them think something terrible has happened to you. (Don't reappear until one of your humans is panic-stricken and close to tears).<br />
8. When your human calls you to come back in, always take your time. Walk as slowly as possible back to the door.</div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00763087360738002618noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8409286028308131936.post-10895030029295689852012-03-10T11:12:00.000-05:002012-03-10T11:12:06.160-05:00NEWS - END OF A K-MART, END OF AN ERA (Sad To See it go, i used to shop there)<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br />
<h1 class="entry-title" id="story_headline">End of a Kmart, end of an era</h1><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTky7LEnDIxbyRC5wgu4sPdPpbXs-tptFFyPNO-4VH-SxpH0sXRl0X-shBdwxQpLpy8t4YyeshoCQRsx521ftPanBCMsmFSwDQMmMVpjcBA34Xqei3x8lYwxAyb2RkEaBAZAzHXjeTVChk/s1600/1droDg.Em.74.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTky7LEnDIxbyRC5wgu4sPdPpbXs-tptFFyPNO-4VH-SxpH0sXRl0X-shBdwxQpLpy8t4YyeshoCQRsx521ftPanBCMsmFSwDQMmMVpjcBA34Xqei3x8lYwxAyb2RkEaBAZAzHXjeTVChk/s1600/1droDg.Em.74.jpg" /></a></div><h1 class="entry-title" id="story_headline"> </h1><div id="story_tools"> <span class="byline">By Kristy Eppley Rupon</span> - <span class="creditline"></span><div id="txtResizeTool"> <span class="txtResizeToolHeading"></span><a href="" id="txtResizePlus" title="Increase font size"><br />
</a> </div></div><div id="story_body"> <div class="entry-content" id="story_text_top"> When the Kmart at 4400 Fort Jackson Boulevard opened in 1963, it was one of a kind for Columbia: A large, one-stop-shopping discount store with a lunch counter.<br />
Shoppers could get a sandwich at the café and then head to the music section to pick up the new Beatles album or the toiletries aisle to get a new toothbrush. A “blue light special” might have them scurrying to an aisle to see the surprise discount under the flashing light.<br />
“Times were simpler then,” said John Baker, who owns the shopping center where the store has been for nearly its full 50-year lease. “It was the only store of its type around Columbia for a long time.” <br />
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When the store closes in June, it will mark the end of an era for those who have shopped there nearly their entire lives.<br />
“It’s a sad day in Columbia,” said Baker.<br />
Baker was 8 the day the store opened — long before the words “Attention Kmart shoppers” became a national catchphrase. His father signed the original lease with Kmart to open the store. It was only the second Kmart in South Carolina and, Baker thinks, the 43rd lease by the company, which opened in 1962.<br />
A spokeswoman for Kmart said its owner, Sears Holdings, has no historical records for its stores and could not confirm if it is one of the oldest Kmarts still operating in the country.<br />
Baker remembers donning hard hats with his twin brother, Frank, and walking through the construction project with their father as the store was being built. On opening day, a helicopter hovered overhead dropping ping-pong balls marked with special savings to the crowd; customers pressed their faces up against the windows to get a sneak peak inside the store before the doors opened.<br />
The Baker and Baker company went on to build 21 Kmart stores in four states over the next three decades, including most of the stores in South Carolina’s Midlands and Lowcountry. Red Hughes — father of Greenville developer Bob Hughes, who has plans to redevelop the former Mental Health property on Columbia’s Bull Street — had the unofficial franchise for the Upstate and built the state’s first Kmart there, Baker said.<br />
Kmart was more than just a business deal or shopping destination for Baker. He said he worked in the appliance section of the company’s still-open Dentsville store, learning business lessons that would prepare him to join the family company after college.<br />
One day, his department manager, Bill Vest — who “had a laugh you could hear across the store” — sent him to build a display of new coffee-making machines called Mr. Coffee. Each coffee maker cost Kmart $16.95, Baker said, but he was told to mark them for sale for $14 each.<br />
Something didn’t seem right to the young Baker until Vest explained the concept of a “loss leader,” merchandise a store marks down below cost to draw in customers who then, hopefully, will buy other full-cost items.<br />
It changed the way Baker looked at business.<br />
But things began changing in the late 1970s and early 1980s, when Walmart began introducing its massive discount stores to the nation.<br />
Kmart tried to diversify, Baker said: building smaller 35,000-square-foot stores; trying to take its concept to other products, such as bookstores; and creating the ill-fated American Fare to bring a grocery store under the same roof as Kmart.<br />
But, in the end, the company lost its focus and, perhaps, its enthusiasm, Baker said.<br />
Kmart filed for bankruptcy protection a decade ago and later merged with Sears. It closed a store that had been on Bush River Road for 35 years after its lease expired in 2009. At the end of last year, it announced more than 100 stores nationwide would close. An initial list did not include the Fort Jackson Boulevard store, but the company updated the list a couple of weeks ago to include it.<br />
“The downfall of Kmart started long before the bankruptcy a few years ago,” Baker said. “They ended up not focusing so much on the Kmart chain, and that’s when the Walmarts of the world started to develop.<br />
“It’s sad for the customer base as much as it is for me, the landlord.”<br />
Nonetheless, Baker said it is remarkable to have a store stay in one place for nearly half a century. “There are not too many developers I know who can stake (that) claim,” he said. “I’m eternally grateful to have had the opportunity to work with this tenant.”<br />
Rumors abound about which retailer might replace Kmart. A neighborhood Walmart or a Trader Joe’s grocery store? But Baker said he has not started recruiting new tenants. <br />
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<span class="article-timestamp"> <strong>PUBLISHED:</strong> 18:49 EST, 9 March 2012 </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">An elderly gorilla at a Pennsylvania zoo has a new companion: a bunny named Panda.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">The Erie Zoo's gorilla, Samantha, has been without a full-time friend since the death of Rudy, a male gorilla, in 2005.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">But officials say the 47-year-old western lowland gorilla is too old to be paired with another gorilla so they opted last month to introduce her to Panda, a Dutch rabbit, instead.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">There was one time the zoo's chief executive Scott Mitchell recalled to the paper, however, where all breath was held when Panda hopped over to Samantha's favorite stuffed toy gorilla named Baby.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">The park officials knew in advance, no one is to mess with Baby.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">With Panda moving toward the toy, to the relief of workers, Samantha instead pushed Baby away, moving the doll so Panda could get by.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Officials at the zoo say Samantha has always had a gentle personality and that if she was much younger, and they were not as familiar with her behavior, there could have possibly been more of a risk. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Instead Samantha was hand-raised and was more comfortable around humans even when Rudy was alive.</span><br />
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He also was part of the team with director <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1330899747_4">Ron Howard</span> which made "Cocoon," a 1985 production which won an Oscar for special effects.<br />
"Ralph was a very special person for many more reasons than his undeniable brilliance with a brush," said a statement posted on the website.<br />
"His influence on design will be felt forever. There's no doubt in our hearts that centuries from now amazing spaceships will soar, future cities will rise and someone, somewhere will say... 'that looks like something Ralph McQuarrie painted.'"</div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00763087360738002618noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8409286028308131936.post-88292763036341470842012-03-02T07:44:00.000-05:002012-03-02T07:44:49.264-05:00NEWS - BABY MONKEY DIES IN FALL AT ATLANTA ZOO<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><h1 class="articleHeadline">Baby monkey dies in fall at Zoo Atlanta</h1><h1 class="articleHeadline"> </h1><div class="byline"> By Associated Press <br />
</div><div class="organization"> For the AJC </div>A newborn golden lion tamarin at Atlanta's zoo has died.<br />
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Zoo Atlanta said the 4-day old monkey died Wednesday after an accidental fall. It was one of three infants born to 5-year-old Robin Saturday. Another infant died shortly after the birth.<br />
Infant mortality isn't uncommon for the small monkeys, which weigh only around 2 ounces at birth and grow to be about the size of a squirrel. Even short falls can be fatal for tiny newborns, zoo officials said.<br />
The zoo says the remaining infant appears to be doing well, officials said.<br />
Golden lion tamarins are native to Brazil's Atlantic coastal rainforests. The wild golden lion tamarin population stood at just 250 in the mid-1980s. It now numbers more than 1,600 after a network of zoos successfully reintroduced captive-born tamarins to the wild.</div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00763087360738002618noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8409286028308131936.post-61438279662706180022012-02-29T18:20:00.000-05:002012-02-29T18:20:20.841-05:00ARTICLE - RELIGION: AN EARLY GLIMPS AT U2s SOUL<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div id="story_headline"> <h1 class="article_headline">Religion: An early glimpse at U2's soul</h1><table><tbody>
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<li>First Posted: February 29, 2012 - 8:41 am<br />
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</tbody></table></div>One thing was clear, back in the winter of 1982. No one at the famous Record Service store near the University of Illinois campus could figure out the hot new Irish band that was about to hit town.<br />
The guy behind the front desk cranked up the group's new single so that everyone could ponder the lyrics.<br />
"I try to sing this song," sang the young entertainer called Bono Vox. "I, I try to stand up, but I can't find my feet. I, I try to speak up, but only in you I'm complete. Gloria, in te domine. Gloria, exultate."<br />
That was Latin, but what did it mean? A Newman Center priest told me that the first phrase, perhaps a Mass fragment or drawn from chant, meant, "Glory in you, Lord." The next meant, "Exalt him." Then again, it was hard to hear the second Latin phrase.<br />
The priest apologized and said he wasn't used to parsing rock lyrics.<br />
Yes, the band 30 years ago was U2, and its mysterious second album was called "October." Both were surrounded by clouds of rumors, which I explored in a News-Gazette column on Feb. 19, 1982. What I needed to do was meet the band before its Feb. 23 concert in Champaign-Urbana.<br />
Luckily, the 20-year-old Bono was willing to discuss "Gloria" and "October." Describing that interview, the reference book "U2: A Diary" notes: "Although the band have gone out of their way to avoid talking about their faith up to this point, they speak candidly now."<br />
That column ran on March 5 and it apparently was the first mainstream news piece in which Bono and company discussed their faith. I immediately pitched the story to Rolling Stone, where editors decided that U2 wasn't all that important or that it was bizarre for a guy like Bono to talk about God -- or both.<br />
<blockquote class="inline_quote"><span><strong>"Deep down, everyone is aware. You know, when somebody dies, when somebody in their family dies. ... Things that happen around us, they shock people into a realization of what is going down," he told me.</strong></span></blockquote>All of that changed -- quickly.<br />
Thirty years down the road, what is striking about that interview is the fact that the issues that drove Bono then still dominate his life today. For example, he stressed that U2 had no interest in being stereotyped as a "Christian band" or in allowing "Christian" to become a sad marketing term for its work.<br />
"The band is anxious not to be categorized," he said. "You know, if, for instance, people are talking about U2 in a spiritual sense ... that becomes a pigeonhole for people to put us in. That worries us.<br />
"Also, from the point of view of coming from where we come from, Ireland is a place that's been cut in two by religion. I have no real time for religion and, therefore, avoid those kinds of stereotypes. I would hate for people to think of me as religious, though I want people to realize that I am a Christian."<br />
Decades later, tensions remain between believers who work in the so-called "contemporary Christian music" and believers who work in the mainstream-music industry. The latter often cite U2's work as a prime example of how religious imagery and themes can be woven into successful popular music.<br />
The goal, Bono stressed, is to avoid making preachy music that settles for easy answers while hiding the struggles that real people experience in real life. When writing a song about sin, such as "I Fall Down," he stressed, "I always include myself in the 'we.' You know, 'we' have fallen. I include myself. ... I'm not telling everybody that I have the answers. I'm trying to get across the difficulty I have being what I am."<br />
At the same time, he expressed disappointment that so many people -- artists, in particular -- attempt to avoid the ultimate questions that haunt life. The doubts, fears, joys and grace of religious faith are a part of life that "we like to sweep under the carpet," he concluded.<br />
"Deep down, everyone is aware. You know, when somebody dies, when somebody in their family dies. ... Things that happen around us, they shock people into a realization of what is going down," he told me.<br />
"I mean, when you look at the starvation, when you think that a third of the population of this Earth is starving, is crying out in hunger, I don't think that you can sort of smile and say, 'Well, I know. We're the jolly human race, you know. We're all very nice, REALLY.' I mean, we're not, are we?"<br />
(Terry Mattingly directs the Washington Journalism Center at the Council for Christian Colleges and Universities.</div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00763087360738002618noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8409286028308131936.post-33743456367687455292012-02-29T18:18:00.000-05:002012-02-29T18:18:01.836-05:00NEWS - SMALL EARTHQUAKE NEAR WELLSTON IN CENTERAL OKLAHOMA<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><h1 class="entry-title"> Small earthquake near Wellston in central Oklahoma </h1><h2> </h2><div class="dottedbottom"> </div><div class="authorBlk"> <span> </span> <span></span> <div class="updated" title="2012-02-29T00:00:00z"> Published: February 29, 2012<br />
</div></div><div class="entry-content"> </div>WELLSTON (AP) — The <a href="http://newsok.com/keysearch/?er=1&CANONICAL=U.S.+Geological+Survey&CATEGORY=ORGANIZATION" title="U.S. Geological Survey">U.S. Geological Survey</a> has recorded a small earthquake near Wellston in central <a href="http://newsok.com/keysearch/?er=1&CANONICAL=Oklahoma&CATEGORY=STATE" title="Oklahoma">Oklahoma</a>. <br />
<span class="entry-content"> No injuries or damage are reported. <br />
The U.S.G.S. reports the magnitude 3.0 quake occurred about 4:20 p.m. Wednesday and was centered about three miles southwest of Wellston — near the Lincoln-<a href="http://newsok.com/keysearch/?er=1&CANONICAL=Oklahoma+County&CATEGORY=COUNTY" title="Oklahoma County">Oklahoma County</a> line. The area is about 30 miles northeast of <a href="http://newsok.com/keysearch/?er=1&CANONICAL=Oklahoma+City&CATEGORY=CITY" title="Oklahoma City">Oklahoma City</a>. <br />
A dispatcher with the <a href="http://newsok.com/keysearch/?er=1&CANONICAL=Lincoln+County+Sheriff%27s+Office&CATEGORY=ORGANIZATION" title="Lincoln County Sheriff's Office">Lincoln County Sheriff's Office</a> says the office received no calls from the public about the earthquake. <br />
Geologists say earthquakes of magnitude 2.5 to 3.0 are generally the smallest felt by humans. <br />
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