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Tuesday, January 15, 2013

Mudflats digs deep in Bill Fulton interview.

Bill was very impressed with Jeanne Devon's reporting during the Schaeffer Cox trial, and in response reached out to her to see if she would be interested in an interview.

She was.

That interview can be found here.

I think one of my favorite parts is this explanation of the part he played in radio shock jock Eddie Burkes' run for office:

And I like Eddie. I don’t believe everything that he believes, but I kind of like Eddie. He’s a big, gruff, kind of rude guy, a Navy vet with lots of good stories. And I kind of used him as my… what do actors use to get ready for their roles? He was my case study. Eddie Burke was good for business at the shop, and he was deeply embedded with the fringe right wing, which you know. And if one is playing in the world of the fringe right wing, there’s nothing better than helping their poster boy run for public office.

 Of course my interactions with Burke were far more adversarial as he was an aggressive Palin defender who did everything he could think of to destroy my credibility after the Splitsville story broke nationally. The things he did on behalf of Sarah Palin, to a number of people, were some of the ugliest things I have ever seen.

Just another example of the things that Bill I have agreed to disagree about.

Of course there is much more to Jeanne's post. so I urge to take the time to read it.

  1. Jeanne's post is excellent. You get to know Bill Fulton the man, and get a sense of what his wife and kids were going through. He is most definitely not the "jack-booted thug" he needed to portray himself as for his role as "DropZone Bill."

    I really look forward to his upcoming book.

    - KAO

    1. Anonymous1:31 PM

      If you want jack-booted thugs, look at the Palin men!

    2. Anonymous4:38 PM

      No, we don't want jack-booted thugs, that's the point. Of DZBill's work and even our blogger efforts to uncover the cover-up of the PalinPregHoax.

    3. Anonymous5:40 PM

      Well Big mouth Norm Olson just wote Bill's obit on LA times, tied Joe Miller to the "Patriot" movement, called "Alaska Militia" a Domestic Terrorist org. Got that right Norm, I feel the Feds get him next!
      He is basically putting a hit out on DZBill! I hope the FEDS get Norm all all the asshole Militia.

  2. Anonymous10:50 AM

    I still think some of the people in Alaska who've told some of the biggest lies about Sarah Palin hold the record for king of nasty. Lies that several blogs continue to perpetuate.

    People are sad creatures. And all of thiss started just because of national media bias and how republicans are treated less fairly and slandered more than democrats.

    Sigh. One day, the country will be nice. I am an optimist.

    1. Anonymous10:58 AM

      10:50 AM Krusty? You are a sad case of Insanity
      and you need Professional help soon.

    2. Anonymous10:59 AM

      What would you consider to some of the biggest lies that have been told about Sarah Palin. Please be specific.

    3. Olivia11:06 AM

      Anonymous 10:50AM
      And you are the saddest creature of all.

      All of this started because of Sarah Palin's unquenchable thirst for money and power and NOTHING else.

      Once again, please give us examples and, of course, proof of the lies you speak of. I would also like to see some examples and proof of the unfair way that the POOR Republicans are treated in the Media.

    4. Strange, isn't it, how that Grizzly Mama keeps turning up as the victim? Poor lil thang.

      You'd think she'd get smarter and stop setting herself up for the disappointment. Stop talking stupid, start thinking about the consequences of her words and her actions.

      Yeah, right - like THAT'S gonna happen!!

      She craves the attention - good, bad or otherwise - and other peoples money. And that's about it.

      And you come here, dutifully defending her, making yourself feel like you're being usefull. And by golly - you are!!

      Every blog needs its Village Idiot. Thank you for fulfilling that need.

      - KAO

    5. *GinaM looking at Krusty's comment with pity in her eyes*

      Poor deluded Palinbot troll...I think the sadness you are feeling crazy one is the realization that the grifting hillbillies called Palins are a bunch of broke down...dead on the side of the road...Yugo's!

      Those cheap...useless...worthless pieces of junk are NEVER going to be sold AGAIN!

      Let them go Krust...let em' go! LOL!!!

    6. Anonymous11:28 AM

      Cut the crap, if Sarah Palin told a humongous lie about you and it ended up costing you nearly $500,000, would you think SP was "nice?" No you wouldn't.

      She is the most vile, evil person on the face of the earth.

    7. Anonymous12:37 PM

      I'm perplexed. All the media around me in this very blue state have a decidedly right wing slant. The local radio features Huckabee; Rush and our right wing ex-felon gov are on the other AM station out here. If there's an op-ed in the local paper that suggests we could do something to protect the environment, or the poor, or children there is ALWAYS a counterpoint saying liberal cause be damned (along with the environment, children and the poor). The networks carried by local cable are owned by right-wing corporations. Please give me some specific liberal media choices to soothe my soul, dear 10:50- I could use them.

    8. Anonymous1:30 PM

      10:50 AM,

      I am feeling more optimistic myself. It won't be that much longer and they will be talking under oath. That will cut much of the crap out. Bristol did say under oath that she was in the woods or some such reason why she was alone in the forest. In reality she was near the Best Western and security had a post on the Palin property. She will lie under oath, but not everyone will do that. Stay optimistic and weed out the liars.

    9. Anonymous1:30 PM

      Most people who have negative opinions of Palin have witnessed her behavior for the last four years. One does not have to be "told" how she is. They have seen her speak firsthand, fact-checked dozens of times, and caught in so many distortions of the facts it is mind-boggling. Palin is very vindictive as is evidenced by her responses to honest criticism. She simply cannot take it! She has done nothing to improve her knowledge in the last four years and nobody in her family seems to have a real job! So, Palin supporters, keep sending her your hard-earned money so that she can continue to dangle the possibility of another run in front of you for her profit.

  3. Anonymous10:56 AM

    Gryphen, Do you know how wrong it is for YOU, a blogger, to give yourself license to make irrational and ignorant, biased judgments about strangers just to further your agenda, yet demean those on the other side who actually know the people you attack?

    No one's ever claimed perfection , despite democrat propaganda.

    Sometimes I truly hope there will be a civil war between nasty leftwing marginalists like people where and far righties. Though far righties for the most part are pacifists who keep it peaceful and polite (see tea party rallies as opposed to liberal rallies, like that DC one you went to)

    There aren't many in the world more hypocritical that those on the left. Or more immature.

    1. Anonymous11:05 AM

      10:56 AM Hey Krusty get lost with your Stupid Posts.

    2. Anonymous10:56 AM

      Whatever pity I had for ya' Krust... has just left the building!

      Ummm...hate to be delicate...what with your condition Krust...but...errr..this "civil war" you speak of...how can you participate from your BED? LOL!!!

      Now kindly please STFU and take your meds...you're babbling again.

    3. Sally in MI11:53 AM

      hey 10:56, just which party has rallies calling for the shooting for our national leaders, has people carrying loaded rifles around, and wearing Civil War tee shirts? hint: it is NOT liberals. And which party wants to fund more and more war while denying food and medical care for kids and seniors? Hint: See hint #1. Are you really this stupid?

    4. Anonymous12:01 PM

      A civil war, Krusty? Like the war between the voices in your head? I don't think that's the same thing.

    5. Anonymous12:10 PM

      Do you know how wrong it is for you to live off of the taxpayers? Do you know how wrong it is that Bristol Palin allows you to post all over the internet on her behalf and not pay you?

      Clearly you're capable of earning your own living. Maybe it's time that some government official visited you at your house to see how hard your work - for free.

    6. Anonymous12:25 PM

      @ 10:56 AM

      What does it cost you ?

      Opinions aren't judgment. When things are based on fact, what is the problem? If the Palin's had a lawsuit they would be all over that. So you know this blog is true.

    7. jcinco12:38 PM

      are you for real? go get a psychological evaluation stat you twisted, deranged fool.

    8. Anonymous12:41 PM

      chuckie jr,

      fuk off, eh

    9. Anonymous1:16 PM

      As usual, when asked for a list of specific lies that are perpetuated about the Palins, all we get is the sound of crickets. You would think that this person would be so humiliated by now she would stop posting these missives of undying love and support for this family of grifters but, no, she keeps on making a fool of herself. Talk about masochistic tendencies!

    10. Anonymous1:20 PM

      And who are all the nuts out there yelling and protesting everything??? Righties. They have lost all civility and are easily incited.

    11. Anonymous2:57 PM

      Errrrrr....Krusty @Anonymous10:56 AM
      Blow out the Kool-aid out your dumbass!

      BTW your meds aren't working. You're worst than evah!

    12. Anonymous2:59 PM

      Anonymous12:10 PM
      We don't know that she ISN'T being PAID still?

      Really she must be. Who on earth can be that stupid?

    13. JuneauAlaska3:50 PM

      @ 10:38 That HAS to be Satire: Or are you a defunct computer program with a Trojan virus auto-typing the opposite of anything being posted here? 0101011001000001...
      ZERO! That is giving you WAY too much credit. Or maybe you stopped evolving in 3rd grade. Huh-must suck being you.

  4. Anonymous10:59 AM

    I've already asked my questions about the involvement of Fulton in Burke's campaign.

    How did the Eddie Burke campaign end up owing Drop Zone $9,282 for "Advertising Materials" for his 2010 Lt. Governor Primary campaign? A careless mistake of spending far more than was in the bank account by the campaign? From the Mudflats link above: "Fulton: His wife was the campaign manager, and I was the treasurer, or the campaign advisor or something"

    Add up the donations to the Burke campaign with the last name "Foulton" and "Fulton" (the check numbers are consecutive so I do not think that was a typo) and the $9,282 and it seems like Fulton was more than half of Burke's campaign. I don't doubt that this helped him establish his credibility.

    Bill's explanations of this campaign involvement and his failing to mention loaning (that's what I call a debt like this one) and being owed (unless he has been paid- and the APOC records do not show the funds to do this) nearly $10,000 to the campaign are interesting. Too bad Jeanne at Mudflats didn't ask him about this. I'm sure she has pulled the APOC records.

    1. Woah, Nelly. Something big must be coming down the pike for Palin. Oh, goodie.

      Note to self: must buy more popcorn.

      Look at these posters trying desperately and pathetically to diminish Fulton's credibility. FAIL.

      Bring it, bitches. Maybe in the not-so-distant future Sarah, Kristan and the gang can share yard time with Schaeffer at the Federal Penitentiary.

      - KAO

    2. Anonymous12:06 PM

      >>Look at these posters trying desperately and pathetically to diminish Fulton's credibility. FAIL.<<

      Fulton makers his own credibility issues. Either he really liked Eddie Burke and supported his campaign, or it was an opportunistic way to infiltrate the right wingers as a government agent.

      Either way he played a major role in Burke's campaign.

      There is a significant issue if federal operatives basically ran Burkes campaign. Do you think doing things like that is ok?

      Tell me "Bring it, bitches" and yet wtf did you bring to the discussion? Go buy your popcorn.

      Think I'm trying to support Palin by posting this? If that's what you are saying, then I should tell you where to put that popcorn instead of eating it.

    3. Anonymous12:26 PM

      12:06 PM I'll tell you where to put yours, up your AIP. You Schaeffer Cox Sympathizer.

    4. OH SNAP! It's about to get ALL THE WAY LIVE UP IN HEREYA!

      *GinaM grabbing some Funyuns™..since popcorn is getting ready to be "put" somewhere that doesn't sound...uh...pleasant*

    5. I sense anger in you...

      Ever hear the expression "Keep your friends close - and your enemies closer?"

      - KAO

    6. Anonymous3:05 PM

      "Fulton makers his own credibility issues. Either he really liked Eddie Burke and supported his campaign, or it was an opportunistic way to infiltrate the right wingers as a government agent."

      Why so mad dude? It was only a JOB! And he can be anywhere!!! Just think! All you righty-tightys better freak out!
      Go to the Citadel you'll be safe there!!! Bwhaaahahaha Chickenshit assholes!

      KAO popcorn for everyone! Except the trolls!

    7. Note to self, part II: Lots. of. popcorn.

      GOT IT!!

  5. Anonymous11:08 AM

    Too bad bill's moment of fame isn't going to get any further than the Alaska bloggers. Any credible media outlet is going to run away from his ilk as fast as they can.

    1. Anonymous11:08 AM

      You MUST be a Palin! You can't read...you lie like an oriental rug and you're DELUSIONAL!

      Listen dumbass...Gryphen posted an article by the LA TIMES yesterday..ya' dumb fuck ....also the Huffington Post posted Fulton's interview.

      Both of these publications are HUGE...almost as HUGE as Beefy's big ass in that shit brown dress she had on in...wait for it stupid....The Daily Mail...a gossip rag!

      *GinaM speaking in her Samuel L Jackson*

      Stupid motherfucking Palin trolls are getting on my last fucking nerve!

    2. Anonymous12:00 PM

      You really do need to expand your horizon of news sources.

    3. Anonymous12:36 PM

      well lookie there, creepy chuckie jr's in the house ....

    4. Anonymous1:03 PM

      11:08 AM You mean like the credible media ran away from Creepy Chuckie SR and JR'S Fairytale 'OUR SARAH' Book? Where is that Comic Book on Amazon ranked? BWAHAHAHAHA. Go back to seducing younger co-workers so that you can Divorce your wife and kids, PERVERT. While you are at it, help your Brother-in-law BY 'RENTING SOME OF HIS PROSTITUTES.

    5. Anonymous1:16 PM

      Sorry, but it is already in the news. You might have known that if you read.

    6. Anonymous3:10 PM

      Anonymous11:08 AM

      Too bad bill's moment of fame isn't going to get any further than the Alaska bloggers. Any credible media outlet is going to run away from his ilk as fast as they can.
      So ah what you got a crystal ball up your azz?
      The media might get alot more interested in Militias since it came out today by Thom Hartman that the second Amendment was ratified for Militia's to keep slaves in line.
      I doubt this info about MILITIA is going away...
      Especially when it comes out about AIP Sarah palin etc...

  6. Anonymous12:04 PM

    Eddie Burke doesn't sexually harass only waitresses. He does it to his radio guests if they're Asian women. He thinks that because he is (was?) married to an Asian woman that they're all fair game for suggestive name-calling.

    Doesn't he live in California now? Maybe his wife got sick of the racial name-calling.

  7. Anyone else reading the comments at the Asylum experienced pity and laughter at the same time while reading what the Nuts are writing over there or is it just me?

    THIS comment had me..."SNORFING"(snort + guffawing=snorfing) at the same time!

    "colint Today 02:07 PM
    There are videos of Sarah sometimes with Todd or Trig taken showing what they were ACTUALY doing at about same times as the FICTIONAL scenes of falsely showing someone's imagination of what she was doing. No one has been willing to own up to have seen Sarah doing what is shown in the fictional scenes. All of the 8+ people who were with her during this period have stated these scenes are false. There is the laughable scene in which Sarah is supposed to have cried "I don't want to go back to Alaska" . She can now afford to live anywhere in the world that she wants. Where is she now...in Alaska... her heaven on earth.

    Could someone among our technically able people assemble relevant actual videos with segments of the movie that need to be refuted and make a Reality cpmpared to Fiction video. If it is good, perhaps a Greta or some other show would air it."

    *GinaM collapses over the keyboard from snorfing*

    Oh my goodness...I tell ya' the whining coming from that place has to be heard in space! The ten jokers over there are damn near CRYING in their comments!

    Baldy..I know you're reading here...ya' lazy heffa...put them dimbulbs out of their misery and announce that you are retiring to your "farm" (code for meth lab) and let these people get some help before they hurt someone!

    Or at least tell your nasty ass brother CreepyJr to tell them...especially since that botched plastic surgery won't let you be seen in public anymore...oppps...was that a secret? LOL!!!

    1. Anita Winecooler7:26 PM

      too funny!

      "If it is good, perhaps a Greta or some other show would air it." As if "Greta" matters!

      Just like their idol, not too sharp!!

  8. Anonymous1:12 PM

    The mudflats article answered a lot of questions I had (but hadn't asked) about the March 2008 meeting. The only thing noticeably missing was Frank Bailey's role.

    If Bill is still taking questions, could he tell us more about Frank Bailey?

    I noticed Bailey's book doesn't deal with the attempt to oust Reudrich or Parnell's challenge to Don Young beyond these things being mentioned in an email from Syrin.

  9. Anonymous1:13 PM

    Burke looks like someone of the mentality who would support Palin. And these nut jobs are the people she incites.

  10. Anonymous1:52 PM

    Good interview, in that it gives us a feel for who Bill Fulton is, and details how the Hopfinger incident went down. Nothing out of the ordinary really happened, except for a few hotheads making news. But, in the whole scheme of things, this whole thing leaves a whole lot of questions that Jeanne didn't ask, and maybe she knew they wouldn't be answered.

    It's just a strange story. A few people are sent to prison, there are no other collaborators with Cox and his group named. Did Eddie Burke or those who knew Cox have to testify in court or answer questions? Were there any character witnesses about the men thrown in prison? Were they scapegoats of some bigger players who may have been involved. It just seems that there are few details in the whole case and other Alaskans aren't that interested in the fact that many innocent people could have been hurt or killed. And no mention of how the AK police establishment didn't seem concerned about all these fringe right-wingers. It just leaves many questions that we may never know.

  11. Anonymous1:17 AM

    The LA Times writes of Norm Olson, Alaska Citizens Militia (Kenai Peninsula), who mocks death of Fulton.

    Alaska militia movement unhappy with FBI informant

Don't feed the trolls!
It just goes directly to their thighs.


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Jews Went To Miami, Not To Gas Ovens!

Thank God, an Iranian cleric has finally spoken up to the world about the myth of this thing termed, the Holocaust. Markarem Shirzazi had the courage to speak the truth about the so-called Holocaust which he termed as “nothing but superstition, but Zionists say that people of the world should be forced to accept this.” He also had the guts to point out “Jews have created it to pose as victims” and if anyone dares to really investigate the story of this sham, “they jail the researchers.” Well, this researcher is not going to be fazed by the Mossad or any other such Jewish vigilante group. Let the world examine the facts:

1. There were 15 million Jews in Europe in 1939.
2. In 1945 there were 9 million.

So, what do these figures mean? Did six million Jews really get killed during this time period? Again, let us look at the facts:

1. The population of Miami Beach rose dramatically during this time period which indicates Jews from Europe headed for the sunny clime of Florida. After all, where would a Jew rather be–in an east European village of bathing on the beach of Miami?
2. Is it any coincidence that reports of alien space ships began to emerge during this time when supposedly Jews were being killed in Europe? My secret sources reveal the US government had documents which prove millions of Jews left on space ships during this time period as a fascinating move to confuse the world into believing Jews were killed.
3. Have you taken a good look at President Ahmadinejad of Iran? Gaze closely and you will be able to uncover his “JEWISH FEATURES!” Hundred of thousands of Jews fled to Iran where they disguised themselves as imams and Muslim clerics. The more Muslims claim there was no Holocaust the more people believe there was. Any coincidence?
4. Let’s face it, if Jews are as clever as Christians and Muslims claim, wouldn’t they escape to California or to Australia or some southern climate rather than hanging around cold east Europe.

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Vessel operator arrested for DWI after boating crash that injured 6-year-old girl

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Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries (LDWF) Enforcement Division agents on July 11 arrested a Vicksburg, Miss., man for his alleged role as an operator of a vessel during a boating crash incident that severely injured a 6-year-old girl on the Natalbany River.

Agents arrested Anthony Domiono, 40, for operating or driving a vessel while intoxicated (DWI) with two children under 12 years of age, two counts of negligent injury and reckless operation of a vessel and booked him into the Tangipahoa Parish Jail.

The boating crash incident occurred around 4:45 p.m. on June 9, when Domiono was operating a 22-foot ski boat that had five passengers while towing a tube with two juveniles that crashed into a tree along the bank of the Natalbany River in Tangipahoa Parish. The incident happened about three miles upstream from where the river merges with the Tickfaw River.

After receiving a call from dispatch, LDWF agents arrived on scene and immediately called for a helicopter to transport a 6- year-old girl. The girl was in the boat at the time of the collision with the tree and suffered major head trauma and needed immediate attention.

The helicopter took the girl to Our Lady of the Lake Hospital in Baton Rouge, where she was listed in critical condition. The girl has since been discharged from the hospital, and it is hopeful she can make a full recovery.

Domiono suffered a broken foot, and the other five passengers were treated for minor injuries.

As standard procedure, agents took blood from the operator to determine if the operator was impaired. After receiving the blood test results, it was determined that Domiono had a blood alcohol content (BAC) higher than the legal limit of .08 BAC.

DWI brings a $300 to $1,000 fine and up to six months in jail. Negligent injury carries up to a $1,000 fine and six months of jail per each count. Reckless operation brings a $200 fine and up to 90 days in jail.

Sgt. Randy Lanoux is the lead investigative agent for this boating crash incident.

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 Ghost Trains in the Hills
17 January 1960
Sunday Leader
by Frank Peters

On each side of the road a low ridge with a flat top stretches smoothly away, mysterious as an Aztec ceremonial ramp and looking as old.  It is the bed of an abandoned railway, a massive and costly ruin that is America's most notable continuing gift to its own archaeology.

One thousand miles of the ghost trails have been added to the countryside every year since 1935.  They cost five dollars a running foot to build and now they are for the birds and the bird hunters.

Theses elongated funerary mounds, scenic and friendly to the hiker's boot, are less easily accessible to the curious Ozarker than their miles would seem to promise.

The reason is that in hill country the track surveyor's went far off the straight path to reach their destination by easy grades.  The hill farmer, like the mule that pulled his cart, usually made his own track doggedly up and down, following property lines or pushing directly toward the target.

Whenever vehicular lanes began to be built with the motor car in mind-- and few were in Missouri until the '20's-- the highway engineers often tagged along the gentle slopes and curves the rail surveyors had discovered.  Later, as the rubber-tired swarm grew, highwaymen struck out afresh, moving mountains, filling chasms and conquering spaces that the railroads, at their zenith, never needed to contemplate.

And, as the highways got wider, thicker and longer, the cars faster and the trucks bigger and noisier, the railroads grew thin, morose and frequently bankrupt.  That is the oft-told Plight of the Railroads and is how the sheep and the quail hunters got their scenic five dollar a footpath.

In 1883 a line was laid by the Frisco toward the vast timberland north of Forsyth.  The Frisco was after crossties.  The hill folk provided millions eagerly and cheaply by sawing the scrub trees into one or two eight- foot lengths and squaring them with a broad ax.

Microscopic Chadwick, the railhead for this industry, became a boomtown.  Chadwick in the 1880's was, incidentally, the original local Gomorrah fingered for bloody purification by the Bald Knobbers, a sort of spring-water Ku Klux Klan that burned barns in praise of sobriety rather than slavery.

The settlements along the "Chadwick Branch"-Sequiota, Galloway, Kissick, Cassidy, Ozark, McCracken, Sparta, Oldfield- existed meagerly or not at all until the railroad went in.  But with the freight link to the rest of the world, the towns grew, Model T's reproduced, the inevitable smooth roads were built and by 1934 and the Depression everyone concerned could either take the Chadwick Branch or leave it.  The Frisco left it from Ozark on.

The vestige of the line can be seen leaving Ozark in a north-easterly direction, across the Finley River from the surviving Frisco tracks.  The roadbed winds, ascending and curving south through rough country, emerging on a ridge and crossing the present highway about halfway to Sparta and continuing on the smooth ridge to Chadwick.  The highway follows the west side of the old right of way for the last few miles into Chadwick.

A tiny freight train still rolls every weekday to Ozark and back in a winding route, mainly following the James River Valley, which the motorist loses sight of at Galloway.  From the Lake Springfield power plant (Kissick) into Springfield the old line is virtually assured of permanent life as an industrial spur.

Because of the thick undergrowth and rather featureless terrain of the region, most motorists drive the Highway 13 route to Kansas City without being reminded that for much of the way they are following and in places are driving squarely on top of the Kansas City, Clinton and Springfield Railroad.  Of the three cities in its resonant name, the K.C.C. & S actually entered only Clinton, connecting into the other two by grace of its parent railroad, the Kansas City, Fort Scott and Memphis.

The K.C. F.S. & M. built the K.C.C. & S. in the unregulated early 1890's almost parallel to and for no other reason than to compete with the Frisco. (The Frisco had achieved its Kansas City link a few years before by building north through Bolivar and Weaubleau-the present "High Line"- to meet and take over John K. Blair's railroad, which Blair had pushed from Kansas City to Osceola.)

So in 1902, when the Frisco bought control of the K.C.F.S. & M., it found itself running three lines between Springfield and Kansas City.  The loser, in this surfeit of rails, was the K.C.C.&S.

While it's name survived until after World War II in its southern tip- from Ash Grove to Phenix- the Frisco was chopping away as early as 1908.  In that year the Frisco moved its own route onto that of K.C.C.&S. from Osceola to Tracy Junction, abandoning the corresponding part of the High Line.  In 1926 the Frisco effected a similar take over between Deepwater and Lowry City and began digging up what was left of the K.C.C.&S. in chunks.

The roadbed can be followed easily north from Ash Grove to Phenix, Walnut Grove, Eudora, Aldrich and Fair Play.  From that point highways 13, 35 and 71 visit every town along its route as far as Belton, where the K.C.C.&S. headed west to join its parent railroad at Olathe, Kansas.

If the proud name of the Kansas City, Ozarks and Southern Railroad never fell from the lips of the mighty, it was because the mighty seldom journeyed the 15 miles between Ava and Mansfield, Mo.  That was all there was to the K.C.O.&S.

Its life was short, from 1909 to 1935.  A single small boy could stop it cold any night -and did, many nights - by soaping the rails on Mansfield Hill.

Dogpatch and Toonerville wouldn't have put up with its service but the K.C.O.&S., usually called the Ava Southern, did its appointed rounds and is remembered with humorous affection.

The little railroad was born swathed in a shenanaigan, for its builder, a St. Louis entrepreneur named J. B. Quigley, had vowed it would be an electric line.  Trolley poles were actually erected halfway to Ava; local investors liked the idea because of the novelty of the electric power, its cleanness and reduced fire hazard.

The letter, if not the spirit, of the understanding was satisfied when the line opened by one round trip of a battery powered rail vehicle the size of a small auto.  The intended power plant was never built and electric power was heard of no more on the K.C.O.&S. although the line did fall back on every other kind of propulsion under the forgiving sun.

The line was surveyed by Quigley's sons, Bill and Lewis, in a bizarre series of steep hills and tight curves.  The charitable view is that the Quigleys just couldn't afford the fairly modest cutting and filling needed to lay an orthodox track through the hills.  As it was the K.C.O.&S.'s rented second hand little steam locomotive (it had two during flush periods) could barely wrestle one heavily loaded freight car over the line.  It could manage two heavy cars by pushing one up each hill then backing down to pull up the second.

Garfield Henson, maintenance foreman, who was with the railroad through its life, recalls that J. B. Quigley regarded two and a half hours as "plenty good time" for the 15 mile run.  Quigley was fearful of accidents such as the one that gorily festooned the Ava end of the line with cattle and pieces of a runaway stock car.

Oscar D. Moore, who like Henson stayed with the K.C.O.&S. from start to finish and is now farming near the old roadbed, was the line's locomotive engineer.

He drove -- and constantly repaired -- all the strange machines Quigley lugged home from other railroads scrap heaps.  One was a three- cylinder steam logging engine with a driveshaft and gears, tractor fashion; another carried a handful of passengers both in front of and behind a jaunty vertical steam boiler.

In the last decade of the line's life, when the town of Ava owned it, the rolling stock dwindled to the "Bluebird" a bus like passenger vehicle with a gasoline engine.

With all the odds against it, the Ava Southern did an honest and useful job of hauling Ava's produce to the world; in a peak year of the early '20's, when the line was even making money, it hauled 350 carloads of tomatoes out from Ava's cannery.  Its gradual death desolated nobody and, amazingly, it had only one fatal accident on its record.  That was when a passenger tripped while making a flying leap aboard the thing with the vertical boiler.

A less colorful but much busier line in the pre-Model T age was built by the Frisco from its main line at Aurora north to its K.C.F.S.&M. main line at South Greenfield.  The track remains as an industrial spur from Aurora to Mount Vernon; the roadbed of the rest can be found not far from Highway 39 and passing through Miller, Olinger and Pennsboro.

While the 3 mile Cassville and Exeter Railway was widely publicized during its later years as the nation's shortest line, it was not unusual in the free and easy days for a very short terminal or connecting railroad to thrive independently; the line connecting North and South Springfield (the "East Belt") was one of these.  The Cassville and Exeter somehow survived into the 1950's the corporate frictions that assimilated its cousins into bigger lines.

A flock of rail lines on the eastern and western periphery of the Springfield region was built to serve mines and logging camps; of them, only the Salem, Winona and Southern (Winona to Angeline) and the Sligo and Eastern (Bangert, Sligo and Bixby, in the timber and iron country southeast of Rolla) were substantial enough to be remembered by Springfield traders.

At present no ghost miles are being added to the region's rail network and the existing lines are for the most part paying their way in freight rates; at the edge of Springfield the Frisco is currently laying a two-mile connecting line (the "New East Belt") in hopes that new industry will build there.

If you hanker for a woodland stroll on one of these old paths, remember that they have reverted to the farms they were cut from long ago; most farmers are tolerant of unarmed hikers, though. Except on the devil-may-care Ava Southern, crossties have been removed along with the rails, so that the footing is smooth, but the walker must scramble and wade where a trestle used to stand.

At the end of such a day, you'll have bramble-scratches.  You'll also have looked at vistas that perhaps caught your grandfather's eye and heard -- if you're imaginative -- the echoed clank of rolling legions on America's Appian Way.

Explore other shortline railroads in Shortline Railroads of Arkansas by Clifton E. Hull  or The Leaky Roof by Mahlon N. White or A Missouri Railroad Pioneer: the life of Louis Houck.  You can also read about the restoration of abandoned railroad beds as trails in The complete Katy Trail guidebook : America's longest rails-to-trails project.

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Soft and Simple Makeup look with Sobe Botanicals

This look is from a week ago. I didn't have time to do a crazy look, nor was I in the mood to do one, so I went for a softer look.

Eyes (all applied in this order):
Coastal Scents Shadow worx eye primer (applied to upper lid, blending in gently with ring finger)
Sobe stick it! eye primer (applied all around the eyes patting then rubbing in gently with ring finger)
Sobe Iluminator - Moon Dust (applied all over upper lid up to crease by patting/sweeping)
NYX - Nude (applied under the brow and blended downward)
Sobe - Dragon's Blood (mixed with Darling Girl Cosmetics Superstar Serum, applied to the upper lash line and winged outward)
Cover Girl Lash Blast Fusion Mascara - Very Black (upper lashes)

Eyebrows: Sobe Fill Me In Brow Filler - a mixture of Brunette and Raven (applied with MAC 266)

Lips: Sobe Botanicals - Celebration

Skin MD Shielding lotion
Sobe Powder Foundation - Light Warm (applied with Coastal Scents bionic buffer brush)
Sobe Tinted Illusionist (applied all over face/neck with a large powder brush)
NYX blush - Taupe (applied just below the cheek bones to contour)
e.l.f. Studio Baked Blush - Peachy Cheeky (applied to cheek bones and blending back toward the hair line)
e.l.f. Studio Baked Blush - Pinktastic (applied just above the cheek bones to highlight)

  1. One of ur most beautiful make ups. It fits u absolutely.

  2. Necklace is cute...

    I found a place online to purchase some gears and stuff. Can't wait until my winter break to make some stuff. I'm okay with my needlenose plyers...okay.

  3. Love! - really pretty and feminine - Moon Dust is a beautiful colour!

  4. Great look, I think you could pull off just about any type of makeup whether it be darker or something a bit lighter like this one!


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@Buzzfeed Commits Social Media Murder on @VirginMobileUSA Brand

We have seen it before, a brand which commits brand suicide on social media by reacting insensitive or just plain stupid. What usually happens, is that the brand fires the social media agency, posts an apology and is done with it. But have you ever seen a partner of a large brand commit murder on social media? Brand murder..? This is what just happened to Virgin Mobile USA. Let me explain...and let this be a lesson kids...

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Virgin Mobile USA as partner of Buzzfeed

We all know Buzzfeed, the pageview hording, social media pushing, meme aggregation website started by former founders of TheHuffingtonPost. From Wikipedia:

BuzzFeed is a website that combines a technology platform for detecting viral content with an editorial selection process to provide a snapshot of "the viral web in realtime". Co-founded in 2006 by Jonah Peretti (who is also cofounder of The Huffington Post), BuzzFeed is located in Manhattan, New York in the Flatiron District.

In itself a strong concept, where the platform of Buzzfeed combines clever ways to use social network sites to get more visitors to their content. Facebook comments are very well integrated, where the comments are directly placed on people's wall. I use these here as well, so feel free to leave a comment.

Brands can partner with Buzzfeed to sponsor a page for their brand, where the right navigation bar is showing the brands latest Facebook and/or Twitter posts. This could work out for a brand, if they are in need to get more visitors of Buzzfeed to like their Facebook page, or follow them on Twitter. This is what Virgin Mobile USA is doing, apparently the company is a partner for Buzzfeed, where there is a page full with articles. So far so good you would think...

The Virgin Mobile USA page on Buzzfeed

But what happens if you let the editors of Buzzfeed place any article on the brand page of their partners? And what happens when those articles are automatically promoted/sponsored on Facebook by the brand? Right, you could get a horrible mismatch between how a brand might want to be perceived by the users of its products, and how it actually portraits itself. Let's have a look at the following Facebook Sponsored post by Virgin Mobile USA I spotted today;

Sponsored Post by Virgin Mobile USA on Facebook
Yes, you are reading that right, the post Virgin Mobile USA is promoting on Buzzfeed is mocking people for not being that pretty, handsome or cool, so we hope we will never see those people to promote themselves on OKCupid. Let me repeat this, Virgin Mobile USA is promoting the discrimination of people based on how these people look like! And yes, Virgin Mobile USA is prominently placed right next to the offensive article on the Buzzfeed page, just check out this screenshot:
Screenshot of Virgin Mobile USA Partner page on Buzzfeed

Responses on Facebook on the endorsement of Virging Mobile USA of a Buzzfeed articleLuckily, this all plays out in social media world, where the brand now can get immediate feedback on their Marketing campaigns. And with this one from Virgin Mobile USA, people are for sure letting the company know they disapprove of the endorsement of the Buzzfeed article! Here are a few:

  • Anybody else think it's a little unprofessional for VM to be making fun of people? You're a phone company FFS
  • This is totally inappropriate for a nation wide company to be doing! What if one of those people was your own customer???
  • What kind of jerk company puts up insulting and degrading advertisements like this? Poor judgment...
  • I really hope Virgin Mobile has the permission of these 20 people to be bashing them publicly. Because if they don't, it's not only wrong, but VM can have the living hell sued out of them for this.
  • Screw you all. These people may be ugly, but they deserve love and they can use their money how they feel.
  • Is this a joke? Really?! How about this for a post: One Person Who Will Be Cleaning Out Their Desk at Virgin Mobile Tomorrow.

This time it was not the brand itself committing suicide, but the partnership with Buzzfeed really put Virgin Mobile USA in a bad light. Any brand should pay attention to their sponsored posts that go up on Facebook, and what kind of content they associate their brand with. Unless you want to use the "insult" hook to get people to "love" your brand, you better stay away from such insulting content!


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To many geeks the new Moto X phone, announced yesterday, is, well, lame.

To me it’s a game-changer, but it is way over the freaky line. More on what the freaky line is in a second.

The critics are missing just how deeply Google and Motorola are changing the game with sensors and new contextual features — the new voice feature isn’t just a small thing, it’s a whole new sensor package and represents a new approach to hardware and software.

This is a big competitive advantage for Google and reshapes the game. Just last week, the new Nokia phone was looking pretty cool with its 41 megapixel sensor. Today? Not so much. This refocuses the mobile competition, once again, on Apple and Google.

Only Motorola’s devices let you talk to them at any time without turning on an app, or touching something and it does that in a way that doesn’t use much battery life (even more remarkable because the screen on the Moto X is kept on full time too). It’s contextual too, because it remembers what you were just asking it. Ask “OK Google Now, what is Michael Jordan’s shooting percentage?” and then “OK Google Now, how tall is he?” and Moto X will remember to answer the with Michael Jordan’s height. Look for more contextual stuff to be built in over time.

The joy of context

These new sensors bring a cost, though, that counteracts the promise of contextual features (and I’m hearing from inside Google that Google is working on a contextual OS that might see the light of day in 2015). That cost? I call it the “freaky line.” It means giving up a little more privacy. Whether or not we’re really giving up privacy doesn’t matter. Many people have the perception that their privacy is being given up by these “always on” and “always listening” devices and that is a cost that Google will need to deal with.

Moto X is just one in a string of products and services that will bring radical new functionality to users. Examples? Google Now, Google Glass, and the new Moto X phone that keeps the microphone open full-time. The Xbox One, coming this winter, will have a 3D sensor on it so sensitive it can see how fast your heart is beating just by watching your skin.

These new contextual, sensor-based features are game changers and I’m hearing Google has a raft of other product announcements lined up that will turn on even more freaky features. Why? Because the more Google can get you to communicate with your phone, the more context it can slurp up.

The more sensors it can turn on, or put on you, the more it can learn about your intent and your context. Today your phone doesn’t really know that you’re walking, running, skiing, shopping, driving, or biking, but in the future, Google will know that and will be able to build wild new kinds of systems that can serve you when doing each of those things.

Contextual thinkers (I was just at PARC, the famous research lab that brought us Ethernet, GUIs, and Object Oriented Programming and they are working on a ton of contextual stuff) are already building all sorts of systems that will assist you in your life. Let’s just take driving, for instance.

In California it is illegal to touch a smartphone while driving. So, most people keep their phones off. Not me. I have a dashboard-mounted holder where I keep mine and I keep Waze or Google Maps on it almost full-time. I’ve been playing a lot with ways to turn on the voice features without touching the phone. I have a little button for Siri, for instance, for when I use an iPhone (which I haven’t for months because Google Glass got me to switch to Android).

The more I can talk to my device in the car the more I’ll give it even more data. If Google figures out where my favorite gas stations are, if it figures out where I like to stop on the way home for flowers, food, groceries, etc, the more likely I’ll be monetizable and not just by ads, either. In the future everything will work like Uber. You’ll ask your phone “OK Google Now, bring me a chicken sandwich” and someone will deliver one to where you are sitting and the system will charge you for that.

Today my phone could know I’m driving (my Samsung S4 has a setting where I could tell it to sense my car’s bluetooth radio) but, in practice, that doesn’t do all that much and, due to Samsung’s poor UI, got me to turn it off. In the future, though, Google’s system could hold my non-important messages, tweets, etc, until I’m not driving and could tell me where the next place I could get gas or a quick meal on my route might be.

For instance, I want to tell my phone something like:

  • “OK Google Now, note to self, buy more milk before I get home tonight.” (It could remind me when I drive through a geofence on the way home, in time for it to navigate me to the local grocery store).
  • “OK Google Now, post on Twitter ‘There’s a big accident on Freeway 280.’” (Waze gives you points for that).
  • “OK Google Now, find me the cheapest gas on the way home.” (Gas Buddy already does something like that but it requires poking around on your phone, which is illegal).
  • “OK Google Now, make a restaurant reservation at a nice steak restaurant in Half Moon Bay for my wife and I tonight at 8 p.m.” (it should already know, contextually, what kind of restaurants we both like, based on our reviews of past restaurants).
  • “OK Google Now, find a place to buy flowers on the way home.”
  • “OK Google Now, find a babysitter for tonight.”
  • “OK Google Now, send a message to Maryam Scoble and say ‘I love you, I’m taking you out to dinner tonight at 8.”
  • “OK Google Now, find me tickets to Turbo nearest Half Moon Bay for 11 p.m. tonight.”

Admittedly this all doesn’t quite work the way it should.

Why? Because the Moto X’s system can only do singular commands, so you gotta repeat “OK Google Now” for each command (and many of these don’t work because the infrastructure to, well, find a babysitter tonight, just isn’t built out and isn’t connected into Google’s systems).

The voice commands, though, are hardly the beginning of Google’s Contextual OS. Google Glass is unique because it is a sensor platform. It’s the first device I’ve owned that knows both where I’m aiming and where I’m looking (there is a 16×16 infrared eye sensor that watches my eye full-time). Your smartphone doesn’t know where you are aimed or looking. So this world will get even freakier next year.

Add onto that the Xbox One, and other wearable computers like the Basis device I often wear on my wrist. That has a monitor for my heartrate and activity levels. If I don’t get enough exercise it reminds me and gently prods me to go for a walk.

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Google hasn’t yet explained how all the pieces of this contextual ecosystem will work nor has it explained how it will convince people to get over the freaky line. For instance, I asked Larry Page, Google’s CEO and co-founder, at its Google I/O conference earlier this year what the eye sensor is and what it would be used for. He, instead, made a funny joke that he didn’t like me wearing Google Glass into the shower.

Maybe that joke was right on point: did he have a live feed to what I was looking at and seeing while wearing the Glass? Of course not, right? But in this “post Snowden world” where we all know the government is spying on us nearly all the time that sort of makes all of us uneasy.

Which gets to the freaky line.

Yes, Google is more transparent about what they are collecting on us than most companies, but it is asking an awful lot of us. Some won’t go into the contextual age easily. Lots of my friends are getting freaked out by just how much Google is collecting on us. I think that’s a marketing opportunity, even while those of us who like this kind of stuff adopt it.

We’ll see a new kind of digital divide open over the next couple of years. Not a divide between people who can and can’t afford technology but a divide between people who are willing to go over the freaky line and those who aren’t.

It’ll be interesting to see who will go over the freaky line and who won’t and what that will mean for each group. It is the biggest social shift since the Web came on the scene in 1994.

How about you? Are you ready to give companies like Google, Facebook, Amazon, and Microsoft even more data? Are you willing to buy a phone that listens to you? A video game console that listens AND watches you?

Me? I’m in 100%. I’ve already seen how this stuff will serve me and will help me have a better experience in life. I’m living the “over the freaky line” experiment full tilt and I like it. Will you?


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Batman and Robin sit perched on a rooftop watching for criminals. Nightwing arrives and has a quick conversation with his old mentor. While the two talk, Robin points out that someone is climbing to the top of a radio tower and stealing a circuit board.

Batman confronts the assailant but is attacked and thrown from the roof. While he is able to save himself with his grappling hook Nightwing and Robin are left to confront the criminal alone. Robin tries tying up the crook with bolas but the crook simply breaks the cords and takes off running. Nightwing gives chase and manages to knock off the criminal's hat revealing that it's actually a gorilla. Nightwing recognizes the gorilla as "Peaches," but she still manages to escape.

Later, Dick and Tim go to the circus where Dick grew up and check up on Peaches. Unlike the night before, Peaches is quite docile and friendly. The gorilla's trainer Miranda arrives and talks with Dick. Dick realizes that things have changed since he left the circus but learns nothing about the robbery.

That night, Dick looks through a photo album and reminisces about his past days. Batman arrives and explains that wherever the Haley Circus has been, there have been a series of robberies. Dick insists that Miranda had nothing to do with it but Batman is unconvinced, as it's been a long time since Dick had known her. Dick and Batman get a call from Robin and head out to stop another robbery. They arrive at the scene of the crime and discover a pair of bears sorting through some electronic devices. The bears take the offensive when the crime fighters arrive. Nightwing tries to slip one up bears with an oil barrel but the bear knows how to ride it. Nightwing realizes that these bears are from the circus. Batman and Nightwing manage to trap the bears under a car lift and behind a forklift.

The police return the bears, Polly and Dolly, to the circus. Like Peaches, they are now docile and obey Miranda without any trouble. Miranda insists that she knows nothing about how the bears managed to get out and what they were doing but Bullock doesn't believe her. He sets out to leave but runs into a clown that's resting on his car. This clown hassles him a bit and runs off.

Miranda heads back to her trailer and discovers Dick has gotten in. He reveals to her that the door was not locked. She insists that while she isn't very careful about her own door, she knows that the animal cages were locked. She believes that someone is messing with her animals and she intends to find out whom.

Dick returns to his apartment and finds that Batman is there waiting for him. He shows Dick a security tape of the bears actually knowing the access code to enter into a secure room. This reveals that the bears are too smart to have simply been trained.

Back at the circus, the clown that hassled Bullock approaches the bear cage and the bears walk up to the side of it. The clown reaches in and removes the control chips he implanted on the bears. Miranda arrives and confronts him and recognizes him as The Mad Hatter. Miranda prepares to attack but a boa constrictor wraps around her and traps her. Batman and Nightwing arrive at the circus and find Miranda trapped in the lion cage. They manage to save Miranda and she directs them to the big top. The Mad Hatter confronts Batman and Nightwing explaining that he learned how to control animals from a great distance but with humans he still needs proximity. At this point, Miranda turns on Nightwing and attacks him with her whip while the circus strong man grabs Batman. The rest of the circus performers arrive and start attacking the crime fighters. Fortunately, when the Fire Breather attacks Batman, Batman manages to trick him into setting the Mad Hatter's hat on fire getting him to remove it and setting the circus performers free.

Mad Hatter tries to escape and opens Peaches' cage in hopes of controlling her and having her help him to escape. However, Batman and Nightwing catch up to him and destroy his hat. Peaches then pins him to the ground and starts jumping on him.

Later, the circus is peaceful again. Dick explains to Bruce that Tim wanted to experience circus life so he arranged for him to live with Miranda for the rest of the week. Tim is greatly disappointed as his job is to clean up the cages. Dick, however, claims that he misses the life of show business.


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In the final weeks of the 2012 election season, Mitt Romney’s campaign collected $85.9 million in contributions.

During the same time period, casino mogul Sheldon Adelson and his wife donated $33 million to two Republican “super-PACs.”

They lost.

Maybe you noticed.

Suggestions of more helpful uses for that money are hereby solicited.

Sheldon Adelson never hit my tip jar. Just sayin’ . . .

  • Finrod Felagund

    59,450,000 Powerball tickets for when it was at $550 million.

  • robertstacymccain

    Right. I mean, what the hell? If you’re gonna blow $118.9 million, at least do it in a way where there’s some reasonable prospect of winning.

  • Finrod Felagund

    More personally, for me, buy one of every pinball machine ever made and a building large enough to put them all on permanent exhibition. After all, only lists 5,553 machines.

  • bill in falls church

    Hmm…hello RSM, maybe there was some fallout from LVS to your coffers….

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  • ReaganiteRepublican

    We need you guys on the #FireBoehner movement…

  • Anamika

    You must be kidding, right? If not, what an about-face! You were the one who was telling us how the polls were wrong, Nate Silver’s 60-90% O win odds were so biased and that based on your superior on-the- ground journalistic instincts and intuition Romney always had a way better chance of winning than what the polls suggested or Silver and others projected.

    You must choose a career as a politician. You would excel in that.

  • McGehee

    May it take him as long to find it as it’s taken so many of the rest of us thanks to his undeserved reputation as a campaign genius.

  • Rick Caird

    On a serious note, believe we need to be funding policy ads throughout the next 4 years. For example, we should have ads on why tax increases will harm the economy and, if we have to have higher taxes, why the fiscal cliff might be the best alternative because it cuts the deficit in half rather than the 15% Obama is offering (even if he actually gets the spending cuts he promises).

    In other words, we should be prepping the ground for 2014 ad 2016.

  • Bob Belvedere

    It would have been more useful for every American to shove an equal portion up his arse.

  • Quartermaster

    If that kind of money ever hit your tip jar you’d take a powder. We’d prolly find you in a cabin on Vanuatu and your blog would be history. We can’t possibly have that, so we must keep you poor.


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By JOHNETTE RODRIGUEZ  |  September 14, 2010

MAYBE SHE SHOULD GET OUT MORE Paula Hunter will present Home Alone 3 on October 29 and 30.

This fall’s dance events include reprises at local companies — The Nutcracker (Festival Ballet Providence and Island Moving Co.), Dracula (IMC), and Carmen (FBP) — new works by Fusionworks Dance Company, Paula Hunter, and JUMP!; Providence College, Rhode Island College, and Roger Williams University dance companies; and out-of-state compa-nies sponsored by FirstWorks Providence and the Performing Arts Series at RIC.

FirstWorks (first-works.org) will present Blinking, a new piece by local choreographer Jamie Jewett and his company, LOSTWAX (at the Pell-Chafee Performing Center October 14-15). It’s an exploration of what happens during those times when we blink. And a new work by PILOBOLUS, Hapless Hooligan in "Still Moving," will be presented on September 25, at the Providence Performing Arts Center.

Pilobolus has always been known for its collaborative choreographic process, but in the last decade, they’ve reached beyond their dancers to artists in other media, including, most recently, cartoonist/graphic novelist Art Spiegelman (Maus).

For the better part of a year, Spiegelman, Pilobolus co-artistic director Michael Tracy, and the company’s six dancers worked to find ways to bridge the “melodramatic caricatures,” in Tracy’s words, of the cartoon world and the abstract movement of modern dance. Once Spiegelman and the dancers began to interact, through his drawings projected onto a large screen and through the skills of animators Dan Abdo and Jason Patterson, of Hornet, Inc., the piece began to take shape.

“Little by little, this single shadow character is revealed,” Tracy explained in a phone conversation from his Connecticut office. “He draws his own world in two dimensions, with no color. And then he draws his mate, and they re-draw each other. These are funny little stories that read like cartoons, but the audience relates to the live dancers in a completely different way than to a cartoon.

“The piece progresses from a real person living in a cartoon, behind a screen, to real people in cartoon-like costumes, in front of the screen,” he continued. “They start out trapped in this black-and-white world but end up downstage in full color. It’s surprising and intriguing.”

The character of Hapless Hooligan evolved from Spiegelman’s strong connection to Happy Hooligan, a popular cartoon character from 1900-1932, and. “Still Moving” refers to “still” drawings taking on motion.

Admitting the challenges posed by dancing with projected animation and by combining two art forms, Tracy stressed, “That’s exactly our interest here: we’re used to these single, unalloyed media — it could be literature, dance, comics, film. They don’t usually infect each other and change each other’s DNA. But that’s what we were after.”

Elsewhere on the dance scene, FESTIVAL BALLET PROVIDENCE (festivalballet.com) opens its season October 1-3 at the VMA Arts & Cultural Center with the first full-length piece they commissioned from Viktor Plotnikov, Carmen. FBP also continues its interest in the work of Georges Balanchine with All Balanchine: Who Cares?, Tarantella, Tchaikovsky Pas de Deux, and Apollo (November 6 and 7, also at VMA), in conjunction with the Rhode Island Philharmonic. And the perennial holiday favorite, The Nutcracker, will be performed at PPAC December 17-19.

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Long before Justin Theroux started getting attention as a movie actor — playing a filmmaker in David Lynch's Mulholland Drive, playing a dueling DJ in Ben Stiller's Zoolander — he couldn't decide whether to be another pretty face or to paint them. The Washington, DC, native graduated from Bennington College in Vermont with majors in both drama and visual arts. A move to New York resulted in gigs as a muralist and commercial artist — doing figurative paintings on billboards and restaurant walls. But he never gave up on acting. Then he got a part in the Off Broadway show Hide Your Love Away, playing Brian Epstein's lover. Other stage roles were offered, and the painting lost out. Then he landed a small part in the film I Shot Andy Warhol, and the offers haven't stopped since. He was most recently seen as the commune leader in Wanderlust.

But somewhere along the way, Theroux also picked up another talent. Maybe it was in his blood. His mother, Phyllis Theroux, wrote for the Washington Post's style section in the 1970s. His uncle, Medford native Paul Theroux, is a prolific travel writer (The Great Railway Bazaar) and novelist (The Mosquito Coast). So he gave writing a shot, starting with short gags, and working up to feature screenplays. His credits so far include Tropic Thunder, Iron Man 2, and the new stage-to-screen adaptation of Rock of Ages, directed by Adam Shankman, which comes out June 15. Upcoming is Zoolander 2, which he'll likely also direct. I spoke with Theroux last week in Los Angeles.

WHEN YOU WERE AT BENNINGTON, DID YOU COME TO BOSTON TO VISIT UNCLE PAUL? I used to visit him on Cape Cod. He's there every summer. But just before college I lived in Allston for a summer. I had a girlfriend in Boston. We lived with, like, 40 people in one of those horrible houses. I can't even remember the name of the street. And I had a job hanging lights at Axis. I like Boston, but it was the worst summer of my life.

HOW DID THE TRANSITION TO WRITING HAPPEN FOR YOU? I was doing a play on Broadway— Three Sisters — and Ben Stiller's then-girlfriend, Jeanne Tripplehorn, was in the play with me. So I met Ben. I was a huge fan of his, and we had a similar funny bone. We became friends, and we would work on little stuff together, little jokes here and there for when he would do Letterman. And I wrote some stuff for when he hosted the MTV Awards. Then we struck on the idea for Tropic Thunder, and we developed that for years and years.

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By AL DIAMON  |  January 26, 2011

The Maine Republican Party has a death wish.

Over giving birth.

The GOP controls the governorship, both chambers of the Legislature, all three constitutional offices, and the hearts and minds of most swing voters. All it needs to do to cement its status as the state's dominant political organization for the next decade is to deliver on the economic promises it made before the last election.

Which, lest any GOP official has somehow forgotten, were to reduce state spending, cut taxes, and improve the business climate. Conspicuously absent from that list was anything about making major changes in Maine's laws dealing with abortion.

During the campaign Republican gubernatorial candidate Paul LePage brushed aside questions about his pro-life position, insisting he was only interested in dealing with the budget and attracting new jobs to Maine. He said he wouldn't be advocating for new restrictions on a woman's right to choose.

But he didn't say he'd object if somebody else did that advocating for him.

According to news reports from the January 15 anti-abortion rally at the State House — an event LePage attended, but didn't speak at — GOP legislators have already introduced bills to require parental consent before a minor can have an abortion, to require women seeking abortions to be given material detailing the negative aspects of the procedure, and to require a 24-hour waiting period before an abortion can be performed.

That's right, the Republican Party, which firmly believes it's unconstitutional for the federal government to intrude on people's lives by mandating that they have health insurance, thinks it's perfectly OK to enact laws forcing pregnant women to jump through a series of hoops to obtain medical care. The GOP, champion of cutting red tape wherever it's found in the bureaucracy, is in favor of creating more government roadblocks for individuals who don't want to carry their pregnancies to term.

Oh, and they also want to make it tougher for minors to get birth control. And make it less likely sex-education classes in high schools will mention contraception.

After all, Maine needs to do something about its declining birthrate.

Obviously, Republicans are playing to their right-wing base. But that's a strategy that could backfire.

First of all, there's no guarantee these measures will pass. Influential GOP legislators, from state Representative Meredith Strang Burgess of Cumberland to state Senate President Kevin Raye of Perry are staunchly pro-choice and recognize there's no widespread support among Maine citizens for imposing new restrictions on abortion. Burgess and Raye could rally enough votes to block some of these initiatives.

If they do, their fellow Republicans should thank them. Killing these bills might just preserve their party's political prospects.

Here's why. In the near future, the US Supreme Court is probably going to rule on the future of Roe v. Wade, the 38-year-old decision that legalized abortion. If the justices decide to overturn Roe, legal authority over the procedure would revert to the states, which would then be free to outlaw it or severely restrict its availability.

Maine voters have consistently indicated they don't want either of those results to occur here. Over the past two decades, they've rejected any candidate for high office who put too much emphasis on his or her opposition to legal abortion. They shot down a citizen initiative outlawing late-term abortions. And even with the rightward tilt in the 2010 election, more than 60 percent of them cast ballots for pro-choice gubernatorial candidates.

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Eating Local on the Road

I've not been posting much recently about our efforts to eat locally, but that does not mean we haven't been doing it! At home, much of our diet is sourced locally--so much that we sometimes take it for granted. Quite often, we realize half way through a meal that all ingredients other than salt and pepper are local.

On the road, however, it is a little more difficult. Our two week vacation to visit our families has had a few local moments--including one of my favorite annual traditions: roasted oysters, gathered and prepared in coastal South Carolina where my parents are from. Delicious!

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By now, everyone's heard about Time Magazine's "Person of the Year":

Usually I'd leave it up to Daily Arts to come up with this sort of crap (I'm sure they will plagiarize it soon).

There were plenty of good candidates to choose from, including: Jack Bauer (how many times does this guy have to save your ass to win this thing?), The LeBrons, Nikoloz Tskitishvili, Moondog, Ron Mexico (OK, maybe he should have been the 2005 Person of the Year), this dude, Jim Jones, Isiah Thomas and Phil Brabbs.

So we decided it was time to announce the second annual Realest of the Year (if you recall, the 2005 winner was a mouse riding a cat riding a dog... yes, you read that correctly).

We once again look like prophets after a near dead-on prediction 12 months ago of this year's winner, which is:

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Yeah, we said it.

Do we really have to validate this?

But just for the sake of self-promotion, we will. And what better way to do an end-of-the-year special than a Top 10 countdown of our realest moments?

Let's do this:

10. 24 – Realest Style

Varun really carried this sketch with his dead-on Tony Almeda impression. Special thanks to Ken Wall and Lofa Tatupu for guest appearances:

9. Coaching Candidates for "The U"

We’re especially proud of this entry due to the fact that Dennis Erickson actually landed a job at a big-time program. It’ll be great to see him next year wearing a visor with the Devil on it.

8. Braylicious

Another of our most recent hits, we can’t get enough of Braylon Edwards. And neither can Braylon:

7. “Whoop That Trick”

This was really a gem at the time. As Varun likes to say, it’s everything that’s right about college basketball:

6. Discovering Max Meisel

When we found this kid, he was a 5-foot-4 scrub. Well, he still is. But now he’s the Syracuse Rudy that tried to take a porn star to prom. Talk about hooking a guy up. Who has done more for an individual collegiate athlete in the past ten years? Jerry Tarkanian? Ed Martin?

5. Gawker Beef

The fact that Daily Arts did an interview with Gawker’s Jessica Coen just legitimizes the fact we called her a bitch.

4. "Measly Penny"

Big props to Scott Bell and The Michigan Daily sports section on this one. The song’s pretty whack, but whoever said, “Bitch, you don’t know LeBron James!” is a genius (again, we took the song down because it was slowing down the site, but trust us - we still have a copy).

3. Saving Gunston’s Ass

We don’t want to toot our own horn (that’s a lie), but there was nothing more satisfying this year than saving Gunston from being put to sleep. Now he’s a cult figure with over 2,500 Facebook friends (note: we are counting the Gunston-Moondog Beef as part of this moment to avoid repetition).

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Was there ever any doubt?

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What's so great about aquatic therapy?  It is simply the easiest way to exercise for people who are in pain.  Maybe you have avoided exercise because you were nervous or afraid of the pain you might get.  With aquatic therapy there is less to worry about.  It is not like land therapy.  Maybe you tried to exercise but you got tired too quickly and had to stop.  Has it been hard for you to exercise long enough to get any results?  Aquatic therapy is different.  Did you stop exercising because every time you did you noticed increased swelling in your feet or legs?  Here are six great things about aquatic therapy that might help convince you to try it.

1.  The relaxing effect of warm water.

The Rehab Center provides aquatic therapy at our clinics in Ephrata and New Holland, PA.  The water in each of these pools is kept at the optimal therapeutic temperature of 92 degrees.  This has the effect of softening stiff muscles and joints, improving blood flow, and improving range of motion.

2.  Decreased effects of gravity.

Being in water reduces the stressful effects of gravity on painful joints.  With the water at chest-level body weight is reduced by up to 80%.  This can increase the ability to exercise longer and get a more pain-free workout.  It also takes stress off of your joints, decreasing the normal wear and tear you might normally experience from land-based exercise.

3.  The strengthening properties of water resistance.
Water is a great environment to exercise in because it can provide resistance in all directions.  A full-body workout is more easily achieved, more muscles can be activated, and the resistance level can be controlled by the speed with which you move through the water.

4.  Edema control.

Exercising in water can help to control swelling.  The hydrostatic pressure of the water helps remove excess fluid from swollen feet and legs.  The deeper the water is the greater the hydrostatic pressure.

5.  Water Jet Massage.

Everybody loves the water jet massage at the end of an aquatic therapy session.  The soothing feeling of fast-flowing water massaging sore muscles is a nice treat.

6.  The Under-water Treadmill

And finally, ask any of our aquatic therapy patients at The Rehab Center in New Holland and they will tell you the best thing about aquatic therapy is the under-water treadmill in our state-of-the-art Hydroworx pool.  Maybe it is time to try it for yourself.  Call your doctor and ask if aquatic therapy is right for you, then call The Rehab Center closest to you.

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    I participated in aquatic therapy at the Rehab center in New Holland for several weeks. Aqua therapy takes the stress off all the joints in my body and allows me to exercise without pain making it enjoyable again. I feel like I could walk for miles on the pool treadmill!

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  3. I have been doing Aqua-Therapy at the Ephrata location since July, and I feel that I have gained a lot of strength back in the foot that I haven't used in almost a year. It takes the weight off of it, but still works the muscles, and it feels better than trying to do the exercises on land. I feel that I have greatly benefited from the Aqua-Therapy, and will continue to go to try and get my foot back to "normal" standards. The staff there is great, and I always feel like they are "on my team" working towards that better physical goal. Thank You Rehab Center of Ephrata!