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Be like Che? Yes, some say. No way, others declare

Exactly 41 years after Che Guevara was killed in La Higuera, Bolivia, the Argentine inspires everything from admiration and respect to hostility and anger.

In Cuba, children are taught to "be like Che." And yesterday, on Oct. 8, more than 130,000 first-graders in Cuba received their blue scarves and were made members of the Pioneros organization, according to Juventud Rebelde.

But some say they don't understand why Che gets so much attention. When he was captured, Che "wasn't the figure of the heroic guerrilla," Gen. Gary Prado told the Associated Press in a 2007 interview.
The man that Gen. Gary Prado remembers - sad, sick, hungry, dressed in rags and alone in the jungle - simply dropped his gun and surrendered, saying, "Don't shoot. I'm Che."

Che "wasn't someone to inspire terror or anything, but simply to be pitied," Prado said.
The photographer who took the picture of Che that turned into the iconic image of Guevara as a revolutionary was a colorful figure named Alberto Korda. He once confessed that a major goal in life "was to meet women." And he told young photographers not to worry about fancy cameras - any $4 camera will do. While in Cuba, I never interviewed Korda, but I met him at a reception one evening. He was smiling, drink in hand, and was busy mingling with everyone there.

Fidel Castro's critics accuse Castro of abandoning Che in Bolivia, failing to support him there because he didn't want another strong leader figure around. Cuba's state-run Granma newspaper today quotes a Castro interview in which he calls Che "one of the most noble, exceptional and altruistic men I have ever known."

Paula Brooks said...

In many ways I think Che had his heart in the right place. He was a zealot and I think what drove him more then anything is he saw people suffering and wanted to change that.

However some of the tactics he used to do this were sometime pretty ruthless, which has long been a curse for many a zealot.

Tracey Eaton said...

Yeah, it's disturbing to read some of the accounts of executions that occurred right after the revolution in Cuba.
But there are always going to be people suffering somewhere. They're going to look for change and for hope, and a lot of people latch on to symbols. And that seems to be why Che is an enduring figure.
It's something how Che's image, that famous photo, can be found all over the world. I first saw it on a postcard when I was an exchange student in Antalya, Turkey, in 1976.

Paula Brooks said...

Wow Antalya huh?

I was on an excavation in Dogu Garajı in 2004

Tracey Eaton said...

It's a small world.
Antalya was a sleepy place when I was there. I see it has grown.

Manuel A.Tellechea said...

Yes, cavalier as it undoubtedly sounds, "there are always going to be people suffering somewhere." But very rarely are the homicidal psychopaths who inflict the suffering deified as humanitarians.

Mambi_Watch said...

Hmm. That last comment brings to mind Luis Posada Carriles, Eduardo Arocena...


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The state Department of Agriculture said on Monday the investigation into the Palm Beach Gardens-based G4S Secure Solutions revealed the name of a retired psychologist on the screening form used to secure access to firearms for the roughly 1,500 security guards employed by the company over the past 10 years.

The department’s documents show that Dr. Carol Nudelman was the psychologist identified on the forms who conducted the health screenings of potential employees, but as it turns out, it was Dr. Joanne Bauling who was conducting the health screenings. Nudelman had retired a few years before Mateen had his psych evaluation. Mateen worked at G4S Secure Solutions for roughly nine years.

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Craigslist 101: How We Sold Our House!

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Today I’m continuing my Craigslist 101 series to {hopefully} answer some of the many questions I get, asking how we sold our house on Craigslist.

Yup, that’s right — Dave and I sold our first house on Craigslist

by owner…

and got THREE offers…

in only THREE days!

And no, we did NOT know what we were doing and had no experience selling a house!

Oh, and did I mention that Michigan has been in the middle of a HUGE buyer’s market for well over a year?

How We Sold Our House on Craigslist:

Even though we had fixed up our cute little starter home {which was in a great location} I’m convinced that one of the main reasons our house sold so quickly was because of the time and effort I put in to properly advertising it on Craigslist….

#1. Before I posted our ad, I create a free WordPress.com website for our house.

I posted tons of {nicely edited} pictures with descriptions.

I clearly listed all the updates we had done and when we did them.

I listed every single new appliance, new light fixture, and new anything.

I highlighted the benefits of living in that house with that yard and that location.

I listed several local amenities {shopping, parks, restaurants, highway access, etc.}

I clearly stated our price and our contact information.

You can view the website I created here. {I did delete some of our personal information}

The whole website only took me about an hour, so I would definitely say it was worth my time investment!

#2. Then I drafted a Craigslist ad and inserted the link to our new website.

I followed my rules for Selling Successfully on Craigslist, but also clearly stated that any interested parties should click on the website link for lots more pictures and information.

And this might be obvious, but when you create your Craigslist ad, just make sure you choose “housing offered” as the type of post, and “real estate – by owner” for the category {as long as you are actually selling it by owner!}

Another cool thing about having a WordPress blog for our sale was that I could easily check my stats to see how many people visited our site via the Craigslist ad — we had a pretty good response.

#3. Then we waited with our phone and email available at all times!

I posted our ad on Friday evening {weekends are usually the most active selling times} and we got our first two calls within the hour! One family came to walk through our house Saturday morning, one came Saturday afternoon, and the third came Sunday afternoon.

ALL of them said that they were very impressed with the website and had never seen such a professional looking “for sale by owner” ad.  I actually received several emails from people who weren’t even interested in buying our house but thought the website was such a great idea 🙂

By Sunday night we had 3 offers and by Monday we had our good-faith deposit.

I have since helped 2 friends create websites to sell their homes and I’ve created a couple of website for my parents to sell/rent some of their rental properties.

No, I’m not a fantastic website creator, I’m certainly not a great photographer, and I know NOTHING about real estate, but I did do a great job of providing as much information possible — and making it really easy for anyone to get that information.

Obviously creating a website is not the only way to sell a house on Craigslist, but it worked for us, it worked for a few of my friends, and it worked for my parent’s rental properties… so it just might work for you too.

Plus, it’s free — so you really have nothing to lose {and we saved a bundle in Realtor fees!}

What is the biggest thing you ever sold on Craigslist?

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    […] times a year, but Andrea Dekker uses Craigslist like it’s her neighborhood store. She even sold her HOUSE on Craigslist! Here is her Craigslist 101 post and how she handles […]

  2. Katie

    Hi – What theme did you select for your wordpress account…..to get that layout? or was it custom?

    Andrea Reply:

    i honestly have no idea — I made that Craigslist ad over 5 years ago 🙂 I don’t even think I know how to log into that account anymore!

  3. Lisa

    Thx for the awesome post. Wish me luck! http://minneapolis.craigslist.org/ank/reo/5216046381.html

    Robin Reply:

    Awesome job! What theme did you use? btw, is there an email addy connected to this sale? As I could not find it.

    I am going to attempt to sale my home using your theme.

    Good luck with yours.

  4. Kim

    Loved the article. Created my website and all ready to post to craigs list howeve i cannot figure out how to post my link to the wordpress website. Tried copy and paste but that did not work. Can you help me with this? Thanks in advance

  5. Paul

    Never mind. I found it.

    callie Reply:

    Hi, I was wondering what the theme was you used.

  6. Paul

    The critical thing for me is the THEME you used for creating your website. Where did that come from?

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  8. joe

    Andrea, Great post! Thanks!

    A question about WordPress. Your sample ad had only 5 pictures, and they were the same on every page of your WordPress web site. Your article mentioned photos of every room. Is that possible on WordPress?

    again, thanks! You are doing people a great service!

  9. Bomi Roberson

    Hello Andrea,
    can i say, I LOVED LOVED LOVED this post and wish I had stumbled upon it a year ago. Our home has been on the market for 9 months with no concrete offer in spite of multiple showings. Nothing is wrong at all; not sure what is going on. I have decided to post it on craigslist and I am working on a free website per your post – Thank you!
    here are my questions, did you create a separate email address for the contact section on the website you used for your home? And did you provide your phone number? I am unsure about leaving my personal contact information especially if lots of people would be viewing the website. Furthermore, did you select for your website to be seen by search engines?
    I hope this makes sense. Again, THANK YOU! SO MUCH!

    Andrea Reply:

    Hey Bomi — good luck with the website and selling your house.
    I did use my personal email address (all my contact information is SO available on the web anyway that it really didn’t matter to me). I can’t remember if I included my phone number or not — but it can’t hurt.

    As for the search engines — I don’t think it matters either way. You can probably just select “NO’ to be seen by search engines. You won’t really get any traffic from Google or Yahoo anyway — it will all be coming from your Craigslist ad.

    Hope this helps!

  10. Sierra batten

    Hi Andrea,

    Please Help. My name is Sierra Batten and my parents have been trying to sell their home for two years. I am very interested in learning how to create a website. I opened up a WordPress account, but am so confused as what to do about customization, etc, etc. If you could send a link to some tutorials or have useful information is would be greatly appreciated.

  11. Kiescha

    Wow! That is awesome! The biggest thing that I’ve sold on CL was a washer and dryer. You have me beat! lol

  12. Jamie Mitchell

    I found this posting very inspiring so I created a website(using wix instead of WordPress) and followed by setting up a Craigslist account. Only problem I have now is it says attaching a URL to Craigslist posting is against the rules! How did you list yours? I made it clear that the site attached was for more detailed information. HELP PLEASE!

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  14. Jen

    I’m so thankful for following Andrea as well as this posting! After reading through the posts and comments, I’m going to attempt to do a FSBO. We moved to MA over a year ago and still have our house in IN. I’m sure it will be much easier to use a realtor; however, I’m not willing to take the commission hit, sell for below our mortgage balance and take the risk of our house sitting on the market. I just wish I had taken pictures before we left! I just asked a friend if she would be willing to go to the house and do it for me. Thankfully my cousin is a lawyer and sold her last house FSBO so I’m ok with that process. Didn’t know about the option of just paying a realtor to do the paperwork. I just don’t want the burden anymore of our house in IN and am itching to finally buy in MA now that we are settled.

  15. Andrea (a different one!)

    This was so encouraging! We are trying to do FSBO and I had also done EXACTLY what you suggested. I made a beautiful WordPress site and then I posted it to craigslist on a Friday. It is Saturday and we’ve had lots of calls, emails and 2 people have seen it already. Both of them are interested in seeing it again tomorrow! We don’t even have a sign in the yard yet.

    I had contacted a Realtor who told me houses in my price range aren’t selling, that we’d sell at a loss, and could count on it sitting on the market 120 days. I was so bummed, until my phone started ringing off the hook and I read your story!

    Andrea Reply:

    Yay — so exciting! I was a bit nervous to try selling by owner too, but the website really seemed to do the trick and was a major reason we had so much interest in our home.

    Good luck!!!

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  17. Jen

    Hi, Andrea! We’re thinking about trying to do this next year, and if you have time, I’d love to hear more about your actual selling process. For example, did you show the house yourselves or did you leave and have a friend show it for you? And once the offer was made, how did you handle all the paperwork and legal stuff w/o a realtor? Thanks!

    Andrea Reply:

    Jen, we had a crazy experience because we sold our house in less than 3 days and the sellers paid cash — so we really didn’t have much extra work to do with banks, etc. We did have a lawyer friend from church who “moderated” the process for us and made sure we were covered legally, etc.

    Dave and I showed the house ourselves {4 families in 3 days} We also did all the bartering, and accepted the final offer. This is the first time I sold a house and I’m pretty sure our experience was not normal… so unfortunately, I don’t have a ton of great tips to share!! Hope this helps a little thought 🙂

  18. Cari Platt

    I feel like this is a strange question….but when you sold your house online at Craigslist, how did you get Craigslist to go to the blog you created free? I mean if I was on Craigslist and looking for a house and saw your house listed does it have a link that takes me to the blog page you created at Word Press or is it just listed on Craigslist? I feel very computer illiterate asking this question. I just see so much potential to learning about Craigslist for specific things like you were talking about on your blog. We have sold two large items and it was great for us and the people were super nice . We have not bought anything on Craigslist but i am going to be on the look out for a couple of things in the near future. Thank you for all your tips.

    Andrea Reply:

    Yes… Not a dumb question! I just put a link to the website right in the Craigslist ad and said “click this link for lots more information and photos”

    Craigslist is definitely a great way to sell almost anything! Good luck!

  19. Teri Bennett

    I love this post and am currently trying to sell a house we inherited from my friend who passed away last year from a brain tumor. My husband and I are the guardians for her two minor children, age 11 and 8. The house was left to them and thankfully is paid off, so we have minor carrying costs. But now that a year has passed and still little traffic through traditional house selling routes, I was thinking about doing something similar to what you have done. I have found the theme (Vigilance- BTW for the PP) but need help setting it up.

    I would appreciate any tips or advice you could give to make it look as nice as yours.

    Thanks again for sharing all the details you have!! I LOVE your blog, read it everytime there is something new.

    Andrea Reply:

    Thanks Teri! My best advice would be simply add as much information and pictures as possible. Show every room {maybe even multiple pictures of every room} highlight every good feature, talk about every update, etc. etc.

    Also, since it’s been over a year, you might want to just look into getting a realtor to sell it for you. You’ll still get a good amount of the sale and won’t have any of the work!

    Good luck 🙂

  20. Vonda

    please let me know what “theme” you used for your website, I’ve been trying for hours to get a simple one like you had. Thanks so much!

    Teri Reply:

    It says it on the bottom of the page she created… It’s called Vigilance

  21. Brenda @ a farmgirl's dabbles

    Wow, Andrea! Great article and info! I’ve sold a couple houses on my own, but that was before Craigslist was big. It would be so much easier to do now, with everything digital. You always have so much good info – thanks!!

  22. Stacey

    Wow that is incredible! Thanks for this post, we have our house on the market currently and havent had much luck. we are considering taking it off in early fall and trying again in the early spring – by owner this time (at least for a little while). We will totally have to do the website!

    I think you need to do a “i just got an offer on my “for sale by owner” house. Now what?” post. I know at least one person who would be very interested in reading it;)

    R Reply:

    Agreed. The reason why most people don’t do for sale by owner type sales is because

    1. Contracts?? Who am I to write one?? Where would I even get one? Would the contract be good? Am I missing anything?
    2. Liability?? What are we on the hook for and off the hook for? Are there any more responsibilities post-sale that we could get in trouble for?
    3. Mortgage?? Does it limit the market to cash only buyers? How does one go about getting a mortgage for FSBO? Is the process the same? Is it different?

    Great article. Really enjoyed it and it gets me really excited.

    Andrea Reply:

    Well, like I mentioned in my article — we knew absolutely nothing about selling a house and were in a position where we really did not NEED to sell our house either, so we were pretty relaxed about the whole process.
    I am definitely not qualified to answer your questions — but my best advice would be to find a realtor you already know {they seem to be everywhere!} and ask that person how much they would charge to handle all the paperwork for you. Usually it’s less than $1000 and they will take care of all the legal stuff for you — WAY cheaper than paying them the full 7% of your sale!
    In our situation, the buyers were not working with a realtor either so we had no fees to pay — and they were willing to cover the cost of paying a realtor to do the paperwork…so it really worked out wonderfully for us!
    Good luck!


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This elevated display of the dead and their descent into the ground—that is, the cave—is not coincidental, nor is the timing of the event at sunset simply the fulfillment of the statute in Deut 21:22. Just as the kings’ corpses were suspended above the land, motionless on poles, so the sun and moon, divested of their sovereignty, stood suspended in the sky above the land. And, just as the kings were buried and their reigns in the land were ended, so also the sun (and moon?) set, descended into the earth, and its reign in the land was ended.—Poetic Astronomy in the Ancient Near East, page 296
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Jenny Jones, Green member of the Metropolitan Police Authority and Green mayoral candidate, said:

"At the 31st of March 2011 meeting of the Metropolitan Police Authority, I asked Tim Godwin, then, as now, the acting Commissioner, about footage of police officers telling people inside the store that they are free to go, then they all leave and they get arrested.

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I just thought it was a way of stopping the self-righteous middle classes 'occupying' shops in the high street. Imagine if they didn't and every ten pence group in Britain started 'occupying' places to make a point.

The authorities have done the right thing and let them all off - no point giving your future top-rate tax payers a criminal record now, is there?

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Some people have a difficult time accepting that there are inalienable human rights, and that as such, when Saddam was ordering the rape of Iraqi women, he could in no way be considered legitimate (if a dictator can ever be considered legitimate). Some will say that it's just nature, or culture that causes these things to happen, and we should just ignore it. After all, we couldn't directly hear the Iraqi women saying that they didn't want to be raped, and that this should not in any way be considered part of their culture.

If there was "cosmic justice" in the world, then what should happen is every few decades you should be required to exchange places with a random person in the world. The chances are good that you will end up in the 3rd world if this were to happen. As a hedge against that, you should be taking action now, to make sure that the 3rd world is not the horror it currently is. As I have said before, that involves things like recolonizing Africa.

But before we can even do things like that, we need to know what people around the world actually want. How can we have justice in the world when we don't even know whether Iraqi women like Saddam having total power over them or not? To that end, we need to be able to question the people around the world to find out what they want. And for that, they need to have an environment of freedom. So as a first step, we need to set up liberal democracies just so we can find out what people innately want. And when finding out what they want, they should have the full range of options to choose from. ie information should not be suppressed.

So the driver of cosmic justice is to me enough to both justify the Iraq war and provide urgency to it. And for other liberations. We need to hear people talking freely about what they want, so that we can then attempt to provide fair rules that will hopefully allow more people to get what they want. Unless you think a just world is not important, in which case my response is that you deserve to end up on the bottom rung when body swaps start happening (or reincarnation).

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When searching for extraterrestrial life, searchers need to ask themselves "what would an obvious frequency be?", ie what would the galactic "hailing frequency" be?

Throughout my life I have generally born in mind what the obvious thing a prophet would do is. I was disillusioned with Jesus's alleged philosophy of "turn the other cheek" which led to gross unchecked human rights abuses. A decent prophet would be preaching a different message - one that said that human rights needed to be defended.

Ideally the defense of human rights would be done by someone other than the victim. So e.g. the ideal response after 9/11 would have been for the rest of the world to say "America, sit tight - thanks for your help in past scrapes - we will take care of this problem for you - you don't need to exercise your right to self-defence". And then the neutral observer could have starting winding up the worldwide anti-Americanism that led to this attack. The world is obviously far from this ideal.

Anyway, when the Iraq war was on, there was a major change happening in the world, and there was a dispute as to whether that was right or wrong. 99.9% of the non-Iraqi world doesn't have access to Iraqis to ask for their opinion on whether it was right or wrong, and why. So if there was a prophet in the world, the most likely case was that he was in that 99.9% - outside the political/military/media circle, and would have been dependent on asking the Iraqi bloggers for their opinion. So there was an obvious "hailing frequency" - a place for prophets to congregate and exchange analysis. Also a place for hardcore atheists to go to prove that they were better than any damned prophet to have ever walked the face of the earth.

Another assumption - any prophet worth his salt would be doing his analysis according to scientific principles and would have accepted the data provided by the western governments - which are organizations in themselves, subject to leaks - and which come with vetting by the free media. ie accept a simple truth from those sources, rather than assuming that everything was a conspiracy and believing that Bush ordered 9/11 etc. Because the best data is required in order to come to the best conclusions. A human computer.

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It seems that many people believe the solution to the world's problems is endless amounts of money being transferred from someone to someone else. It's a dead-end equation. The money is not requested as a once-off payment to get people out of a hole so that they can make structural changes and possibly even repay the money (or transfer the favour onto someone else). And nor is there any analysis of the money already being paid to see if it is being squandered. Nor is root cause analysis done to find out if the problem is in fact people breeding out of control so that some sort of China-like "one child policy" can be implemented.

Speaking of China. As discussed, I wish for China or some other force to invade Australia as a once-off task to fix the political system in Australia where there is no real debate (such as the above) because the elites that control the media decide what the terms of the debate will be. I do NOT want sanctions on Australia. I want to be liberated - not punished for something that I have no ability to change. I note that China is building an aircraft carrier. That's fantastic news for those of us waiting for Liberation Day. And as I said - East Timor should be available as a launch pad. Just pay them off, China.

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Regarding the Iraq war, sometimes people say that the ends don't justify the means. As if the means (war) were something bad. But I choose war entirely because it's the most scientifically valid method of resolving that injustice against millions of Iraqis, not because I like war. Depending on the injustice - sometimes you call SWAT and other times you call the US military. When you are already using the most appropriate tool for the job, the means don't require justification. It is allowing an injustice (institutionalized rape, mutilation, subjugation) to continue indefinitely that requires justification - not the freeing of millions of Iraqis (or Libyans or Syrians as the case may be).

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Queen Creek officials say residents have wanted a movie theater for a long time, so Maya Cinemas’ recent announcement that it is in final negotiations with the town to build a 14-screen state-of-the art movie complex comes as good news.

The site for the proposed 170,000-square-foot movie theater and entertainment district would be on the southeastern corner of Ellsworth Loop and Rittenhouse Road, according to a press release issued by Jon Willis, broker for Willis Property Co. He is the exclusive representative of Maya Cinemas, a Los Angeles-based company that opened its first theater in 2005.

The 20-acre site would include a movie theater, restaurants, retail shops and a hotel.

Councilman Craig Barnes confirmed Monday that the town is in negotiations with Maya Cinemas but nothing has been signed yet. “We are getting the final paperwork” done.

“We have had a lot of requests from residents to bring a theater here,” Barnes said.

Mayor Gail Barney added, “Every time we talk to the community, the first thing they want to know is, are we getting a movie theater, and if so when and who?”

The town owns the 20-acre-site and would lease the property to Maya Cinemas, Barnes added. He said he does not know the amount of money under consideration for the lease.

Town spokeswoman Marnie Schubert said, “The town has not finalized any of the negotiation points, including lease rates, at this time.”

Barney said the council would like to see a lease-purchase agreement on the land.

“The town has been working very hard to bring entertainment anchors to the community and we are excited to be working with Maya Theaters on this project,” said Doreen Cott, town economic development director.

Construction of the movie theater, the project’s first phase, is scheduled to begin in July and the grand opening would be a year later.

“We have a few restaurants already lined up and they serve really good food,” Willis said, declining to disclose their names. “We are working to find a hotel.”

He said Maya Cinemas “did its due diligence” examining Queen Creek’s demographics. The chain chose Queen Creek as the site for its first theater in Arizona because it is one of the fastest growing towns in the country.

Queen Creek is projected to double its population in the next seven years and has 550 homes under construction, he noted.

“The only other theater (in the area) is at the San Tan Mall in Gilbert, so there definitely is a need for a movie theater in San Tan Valley and Queen Creek,” he added.

The company is building a 16-screen theater on the campus of California State University in Fresno. Maya Cinemas is looking for additional sites in the Valley and Arizona.

Phase 1, which will involve construction of the movie theater and the retail pads, is estimated to cost $20 million.

Willis said this new construction is part of the first wave of commercial building since the recession.

Maya Cinemas is one of the only theater chains that provide “wall-to-wall screens,” using the entire 75-foot-wide front wall as a screen, unlike conventional theaters, he said.

“(Maya Cinemas) 3-D movie showings offer some of the brightest displays by utilizing two projectors on the same screen,” he said in the release.

Maya’s owners are CEO Moctesuma Esparza, an Academy Award-nominated producer; Frank Haffar, Maya president and COO, who oversaw the building of the Edwards Theater chain; and Dennis Sivers, founder and chief executive of Sivers Development.

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Anyone driving in California for the past 10 days saw a startling price increase for gasoline, one that experts say is unlikely to affect Arizona.

Prices jumped 50 cents a gallon in most of the state in a week. The rate of increase slowed a bit this week.

People visiting San Diego over the weekend saw prices pass $4.70 a gallon, more than a dollar higher than Arizona prices.

Refinery disruptions and corrosion in an important pipeline were blamed for the California price spike, which came at a time when refineries were switching from summer to winter blends, leaving a smaller-than-normal supply of the summer gas available for sale.

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Arizona gets some of its fuel from the Gulf Coast for one thing, and gas taxes are much lower in the state.

Custom-gasoline blends used here also vary from those in place in California.

Rarely over the past 10 years has Arizona seen such a swing in prices, but it has happened.

In 2008, average prices between the first and second quarters rose 67 cents, from $2.97 a gallon to $3.64.

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She said Arizona reached its all-time high fuel price of $4.09 on July 3, 2008, and Phoenix hit its all-time high of $4.14 on June 20, 2008.

But prices dropped faster than they rose. Between the third and fourth quarters, the price dropped from $3.77 to $2.31.

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“Deal or No Deal’’ host Howie Mandel had them laughing at Friday’s gala for the National Braille Press. Called “Hands On! Books for Blind Children,’’ the event at the Renaissance Waterfront was co-chaired by InterContinental Real Estate’s Peter Palandjian and his wife, Minou, Greater Media’s Peter Smyth (above, with Mandel), Celts co-owner Steve Pagliuca, and ex-Sovereign CEO Joe Campanelli, and included a special award for Rocco Fiorentino, a 12-year-old New Jersey lad who helped convince the New Jersey Legislature to dedicate $1.2 million to Braille education. Afterward, the appreciative audience wanted to shake Mandel’s hand, but the swine flu-phobic funnyman politely declined.

JoJo has her mojo back
At last, it looks like JoJo will release a new CD. The Foxborough-raised pop singer, who’se been mostly mute since her second CD “The High Road’’ in 2006, confirmed via Twitter that she’s back. “The deal is done! Blackground/Interscope :) Longtime comin’,’’ wrote the 18-year-old singer, whose self-titled debut CD sold more than three million copies worldwide. JoJo, who was set to start at Northeastern in the fall, had earlier filed suit against Da Family Entertainment, demanding to be released from her contract and seeking $500,000 for being in limbo for so long. Word is she’s working with producer Toby Gad, who’s had hits with Beyonce, Fergie, and Natasha Bedingfield.

Justin staying in LA
Pay no attention to those reports that Justin Timberlake is due in Boston any day to begin shooting on “The Social Network.’’ He’s not coming. When cameras start rolling this week for the movie based on Ben Mezrich’s book about Facebook founders Mark Zuckerberg and Sean Parker, JT will be MIA. Timberlake, as we told you awhile ago, will shoot his scenes in LA instead. But there is some happy news for Mezrich - his wife, Tonya, is pregnant with their first child, a boy, we’re told.

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Former BU professor and “People’s History’’ author Howard Zinn chowed at Legal Sea Foods in Charles Square over the weekend, as did Qatar’s ambassador to the US Nasser Bin Hamad Al-Khalifa, who was in with his son. . . . Joan Rivers-impersonator Joe Posa dished with the diva after her sold-out show at the Wilbur over the weekend. Posa asked if he could borrow the comedienne’s Christian Dior black slacks, matching long-sleeve blouse, and red necklace when he plays the Palm Beach Princess Casino in November. “Anytime, honey,’’ replied Rivers.

Helping out
The Mandarin Oriental hotel played host to a slew of star chefs at Saturday’s Silk Road Gala benefiting the Asian Task Force Against Domestic Violence. Lydia Shire, Ming Tsai, Michael Schlow, Ting San, Ken Oringer, and Joanne Chang all prepped special provisions for the party. Guests included Hizzoner Tom Menino, his challenger Sam Yoon, City Councilor Mike Ross, do-gooder Don Rodman, the event organizers Marjorie Clapprood and Chris Spinazzola, Boston Harbor Association’s Vivien Lee, and flack Marlo Fogelman. . . . Stellar songwriters Bill Janovitz of Buffalo Tom and Kristin Hersh of Throwing Muses played a benefit Saturday afternoon at the Middle East for Amie Searles, wife of popular Boston music blogger Brad Searles. Amie has just been diagnosed with breast cancer.

A-list stunt double
Tom Cruise is doing some of his own stunts in “Knight & Day,’’ but the A-list action man was not on the hood of the car Saturday as it raced along Rutherford Avenue in Charlestown. The lookalike hanging on for dear life was Casey O’Neill (above), who has been Cruise’s stunt understudy on several of the A-list action man’s movies. O’Neill shows up in “Valkyrie,’’ “Mission: Impossible III,’’ “War of the Worlds,’’ “Collateral,’’ and “The Last Samurai.’’

Around town
Before her gig at the Wang, Aretha Franklin summoned two stylists from Patrice Vinci Salon on Newbury Street to her suite at the Four Seasons. Of course, Roberto Echevarria and Larry Hamilton treated the tresses of “the Queen of Soul’’ with much respect. Yesterday, Amanda Palmer was at the salon to get dolled up by stylist Desi for a guest appearance in “Sleep No More’’ at the ART. . . . Sox slugger David Ortiz stopped by Kings Dedham at Legacy Place over the weekend, bowling a few strings with his family while keeping an eye on the Yankees game. . . . Too bad about Wyc Grousbeck’s boat. The Celts CEO was having a great row in the Head of the Charles Regatta until his eight-person boat crashed at Weeks Bridge while passing another team. (The other boat was penalized.) Before the crash, Wyc’s Cambridge Boat Club crew was on pace to finish in the top 10, but placed 13th.

Encore, encore
Barbra Streisand’s significant other James Brolin was the emcee at Berklee College of Music’s annual Encore Gala, held Saturday night at the Park Plaza. In addition to Brolin, whose 21-year-old daughter Molly is a Berklee student, special guests included singer Lalah Hathaway - a Berklee grad - and drummer John Blackwell, who’s kept the beat for the likes Prince and Justin Timberlake.

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TIn this May 21, 2008 file photo, Donna Summer performs during the finale of "American Idol" at the Nokia Theatre in Los Angeles. Donna Summer's hit "I Feel Love" is joining The Grateful Dead's famous 1977 Barton Hall concert as sounds of cultural significance, among 25 additions that are being announced Wednesday, May 23, 2012 by the Library of Congress as part of its National Recording Registry.

"I Feel Love," one of the disco-era hits of the late Boston-bred diva Donna Summer, is one of 25 sounds saved by the Library of Congress. "Purple Rain" by Prince, "Green Onions" by Booker T and the M.G.'s, " and "A Charlie Brown Christmas" by the Vince Guaraldi Trio are also among the 2011 National Recording Registry inductees.

Paul McCartney's 'My Valentine': Natalie Portman signs, Johnny Depp strums

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Paul McCartney may have had a super A-list premiere (see video below) for his latest visual, "My Valentine," corralling stars like Gwen Stefani and Gwyneth Paltrow for a bash at his fashion designer daughter Stella's Hollywood outpost. However, the actual clip, which McCartney directed, is remarkably unfussy. Yes, there is star power courtesy of Natalie Portman and Johnny Depp, who sign the lyrics of the song in the black-and-white video, but there is little else, including no onscreen appearance by McCartney.

Newport Jazz Festival lineup announced

Posted by Steve Greenlee March 13, 2012 09:00 AM

04moran 01.jpgThe Newport Jazz Festival announced its lineup this morning, and it includes a robust mix of all-stars and up-and-comers, from major jazz names like guitarist Pat Metheny and drummer Jack DeJohnette to hot young acts such as trumpeter Ambrose Akinmusire.

The festival takes place Aug. 4 and 5 at Fort Adams State Park, from 11:30 a.m. to 7 p.m. each day.

Saturday's lineup features the Pat Metheny Unity Band; Dianne Reeves; Jack DeJohnette (leading two different bands); Bill Frisell playing John Lennon; the Joe Lovano & Dave Douglas Quintet; The Bad Plus with Bill Frisell; the James Carter Organ Trio; the Dafnis Prieto Sextet; 3 Clarinets featuring Ken Peplowski, Evan Christopher, and Anat Cohen; Christian McBride's Insight Straight, John Ellis & Double Wide; Darcy James Argue's Secret Society; and the Pedrito Martinez Group.

Sunday's lineup includes the Maria Schneider Orchestra, Jason Moran and Bandwagon, Kurt Elling; Miguel Zenon's Rayuela; Jenny Scheinman and Bill Frisell; the Ambrose Akinmusire Quintet; Rudresh Mahanthappa's Samdhi; Gretchen Parlato and Lionel Loueke with Becca Stevens; John Hollenbeck's Claudia Quintet + 1 featuring Theo Bleckmann; the 3 Cohens; Vince Giordano & the Nighthawks; the Lewis Nash Quintet; Ryan Truesdell's Gill Evans Centennial Project; and the Berklee Global Jazz Institute Septet. The biggest name on Sunday's bill is not a jazz ensemble but a blues group: The Tedeschi Trucks Band, the presumptive headliner, will no doubt close the festival Sunday evening.

Tickets are $74 in advance and $84 at the gate ($15 for children 3-15). A two-day pass is $135. Reserved seating is $90 per day, and premium seating tickets are $125 each. Tickets go on sale Thursday at 10 a.m. at

The lineup for the concert on Friday night, Aug. 3, at the International Hall of Fame at the Newport Casino will be announced later.

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CHIEF JUSTICE Margaret Marshall, who wrote the decision that made us confront the issue of marriage equality, stunned the state this week by saying she would hang up her robes in the fall. Her announcement was a poignant moment, for it comes because her husband, former New York Times columnist Anthony Lewis, is suffering from Parkinson’s disease.

Justice Robert Cordy, usually the very personification of equanimity, pronounced himself in a state of shock at the news. “Trying to assess how we will go on without her leadership . . . is really difficult for me to process right now,’’ he said immediately after her press conference. “She is an amazing jurist, she is an amazing leader.’’

Her intelligence was clear from the start. It won her a Supreme Judicial Court appointment from Bill Weld and elevation to chief justice from Paul Cellucci. “I remember when Bill Weld and I interviewed her to be an associate justice,’’ said Cellucci. “We were both blown away by her intellect and her life experience. It was an easy decision to put her on the bench and for me to nominate her to be the chief justice.’’

As chief justice, Marshall operated with real skill in the Brueghelian landscape of Massachusetts politics, where the Legislature has long thought the proper function of the state court system is to serve as a patronage colony.

One can’t, of course, assess Marshall’s legacy without contemplating the SJC’s landmark 2003 decision legalizing same-sex marriage. That decision, which Marshall engineered and authored, drew praise for its courage and commitment to equality. But it also brought harsh accusations that the chief justice and her allies were legislating from the bench. Meanwhile, one could certainly argue, as the dissenting justices did, that such a matter was better left to the Legislature.

And yet, Weld offers a cogent rejoinder to the assertion that Marshall pushed the court beyond its proper role. “Some on the right have attacked her for being a judicial activist,’’ he said. “To which my reply is that if you are applying the equal protection safeguards of the Massachusetts constitution, that is not judicial activism.’’

Here, the SJC decision resulted in an extended political struggle over proposed constitutional amendments to prohibit gay marriage. Although a majority of citizens initially opposed the SJC decision, the push to overturn it gradually lost steam. In June 2007, that effort effectively ended when an anti-gay-marriage amendment was defeated in the Legislature, in honorable accordance with the state constitution. Since then, state residents largely seem to have made their peace with same sex marriage.

But the results were different elsewhere. In reaction to the decision, numerous anti-gay-marriage constitutional amendments were passed in other states. Indeed, such a ballot question gave the GOP a tool to turn out conservative voters in closely contested Ohio in 2004; George W. Bush’s victory in that state ended John Kerry’s hopes of eking out an Electoral College victory.

Although lawmakers or courts in four other states and the District of Columbia have now established the right of gay marriage, when citizens have voted directly, they have rejected the idea.

And yet, a justice’s job is not to mull the possible political consequences of a decision, but rather to rule on the merits of the matter.

“The issue of gay marriage is one of the great moral and legal issues of our time,’’ notes Harvey Silverglate, the attorney and author. “There is very little doubt in my mind that the court was on the right side of history.’’

In my view, that’s right. Further, the public is gradually becoming more accepting of same sex marriage. Younger voters in particular are supportive. That’s why, in contrast to the mixed results we’ve seen since 2003, the next decade seems likely to be a time of steady progress toward marriage equality.

If so, that will be because Margaret Marshall and the court she led faced the issue fearlessly. And because, despite its initial doubts, this state came to share her sense of fairness.

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