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"There is no other no other culture on earth that worships a woman as a goddess. And has gone to lengths, to make her happy, satisfy her with whatever means a man could imagine. Honouring her, doing little things, like this fair to keep her happy, may be to create another excuse to celebrate, however irrational it may be. Because you see, someone told me on this journey, that if in a family, a woman is happy everything will be favourable. Our goddess needs to happy, at any cost possible"
GADHIMAI FAIR : A Journey through the culture of Nepal
A sparrow woke us up. After travelling for three days overland, from Delhi to Kathmandu; changing buses including sharing a seat for seven hours with a goat. Through the night, travelling in a time travel bus I was transported from a civil society to a town living thirty years back. A town darkened by the moonless night, wearing a layer of fog only dissected by the headlight of a second world war Mercedes truck. Few 8-seater carriers waiting for more people to arrive. In that cold morning the only noise that travelled was their engines running. All were quiet. No body talked. It was freezing, also people were half asleep under their blankets. Few looking straight into nothingness, like tamed intoxicated spirits. My journey to Kalliya had started. I will be walking between villages for next eleven days awaiting for a civilisation celebrating madness.
Even before the fair would commence, many countries asked the Nepal government to stop the killings. India banned animals coming from its country crossing over to Nepal- a big move as the majority of people coming to the fair come from Bihar, India. Under severe international pressure It was an inherent feeling all along this journey that something is ought to happen and killings will not take place this time.
I took my voice recorder, batteries, camera and got ready for another long day.
It has already been five days since I am here but never was the road this crowded as it is today. Something became of this left alone town overnight. It has swelled. Various horns crying, motorbikes running amok; cars, jeeps have transformed into taxis and buses without a roof or headlights, engines that are repaired to last another 14 days to make some money out of transporting crores of people about to arrive. Everything moving or still is filled with people so many all along the road going to the festival. Trucks, tractors, buses filled like overloaded moving houses with black either colorful heads. People spitting like leaking taps. Cycles, bikes, bull-carts manoeuvring thousands of people carrying water buffaloes, sheep, goats, pigs, pigeons, ducks, hens on their backs or in front. Some have tied them upside down on their cycles, few women were seen hiding them under shawls, varied smells every ten steps. I was awed. An army of fast and slow moving men, women, children and various animals walking along the river going towards the fair. Many have travelled on foot all night, somehow carrying their offerings hideously in trucks and tractors through the villages that can't be guarded.
It had rained two days ago. The monsoon river had accumulated a lot of mud along its banks. A cow that must be grazing on the sides slipped half down into the mud. Died struggling to come out of it. Feces all over proved her heart-rending struggle. The crows have eaten her eyes already.
Yesterday, I had taken time from mahant, the head priest of the temple board of directors. It is said that almost three centuries ago his great great and a few greats ago grandfather had a dream, which lead to unearthing of the goddess and since, this festival came into being. After an hour of conversation what he had to say on a probable ban that is doing the talks on the killings is summed up as this:
It's a ritual, a tradition that our religion has given. And our religion is faith. We don't follow no man or a book. We follow our ancestors, our civilisation is based upon beliefs that have come into being not yesterday but since thousands of years before any other commandment was available to follow. So many have gotten their wishes come true, Can't anybody see? Administration fears revolt of the lacs of people who individually want to sacrifice their animal. All of them wished half a decade may be 10 or 20 years ago and now when they got what they wished for, they have come here to pay respects to the mother. They have all the right. Have we asked them to come? No. Did we ask them to start this? No. Who can dare stop them? Nobody would like to take the wrath of Gadhimai.
A newly made bamboo bridge has come up overnight on the river. Two days ago I had crossed it with my shoes in hand. The bridge is four feet above a slow moving narrow stream of water. A teenage girl closes her eyes in fear of falling, as she was crossing over. She clinches on to her brothers arm as her other hand carries a baby goat that has started crying out in pain. Young men of the local village are charging rupees 10/- to let people cross the bridge. Built on a river having ankle deep water that only fills in the monsoons. Majority of people choose to cross the stream through bridge paying for it, few walking through the stream with bigger animals. They will make at least twenty thousand rupees per day for next two weeks. Though they let me go for free through the bridge. A women eating at the roadside asks me for money to get her daughter married off.
After more than four miscarriages and two girls later, five years ago Sunita came here and asked for a boy. Her wish was granted. Her son who is two and half years old now has come along with her He is trying to find a place to piss in an open field quiet near to where I sat. On asking about her whereabouts she started crying. In between she said, I am coming from Darbhanga. It was very hard to cross the border as the army on the border was stopping anyone who is carrying goats. I had to hide my six-month-old bahadur under layers of shawls. He is named Lal bahadur by my husband; I had to carry him all night in my lap so that nobody catches. She had stopped in the field to let lal bahadur eat some grass probably for the last time before his registration gets done for the sacrifice. I further asked her what would she do after Lal bahadur's sacrifice. I will take the meat back home as Prasad, family will eat it together.
Enormous crowd, all in all villages have come together to pay their respects from different parts of Nepal and India. Placing themselves in open fields spread. They are cooking, sleeping, eating, playing cards under trees, smoking weed, drinking, gambling behind bushes, inside their cars, or on tractors, under or over buses and trucks. This particular village is donating 250 male water buffaloes to give to the Gadhimai trust, as they said, just for the occasion.
It is said that animals can smell their death coming.
Looking into the eyes of the cattle being tied and pulled, one can see their unhappiness amidst the murmur and laughs of the people for whom this festival has come after five years. Forgetting their poverty, all have brought their moving homes to a halt, to enjoy this fair of a picnic. People are enjoying and dancing. Families are rejoicing their wait for a coming feast of the blood and flesh, of the ones they are feeding as of now. They have decorated and named their animals with a red cloth for their final journey.
It is a time for the local rural economy to blare.
Whomsoever can make up a stall- small, big, giving anything from peanuts to scorpion oil, masks of demons, gods and ghosts are selling. In plenty are the common commodities like bindis, sandals, plastic wares, kitchenware, ironware, and clothes.
Many restaurants were seen cooking eyes of a fish separately, meat of birds like duck and geese is in demand, their legs separately, Goat balls, fried sheep intestines to even centipedes. Rows of shops and shops are everywhere. Little cloth structures, as high as man. Inside, sitting wide-eyed in small town curiosity. White, yellow teeth in dark mouths.
They trust Gadhimai just like birds fly, like fish swim. Everybody seems to be enjoying and making money out of his or her presence. It has gotten hot. I walked ahead. There was a big mountain that organizers have built out of cardboard and wood. There were stairs to climb, 20 feet from where you can directly see Shiva- the god of death as they claim. A man on a mike laughed after every sentence as the girl beside him in a small skimpy clothes acted like she is getting horny with each laugh coming and going; meanwhile they coaxed people to go inside to experience god. The shop next to the Magic Mountain had a loud speaker with almost the similar frequency of sound, both of them mixing; yet you can hear any of them if you concentrated hard. The second sound asked people to pay respects to a five-legged two-mouthed cow. You had to touch her and wish for something while paying your respects in cash, if your wish comes from the heart, she would give milk. That attracted a lot of people. They charged twenty rupees each.
Outside saints of saints surrounded the temple. No families were allowed in their premises. On my walk to and fro i saw a yogi wearing god hanuman robe throughout dau for 14 hours standing on one leg for three continuous days. On the fourth evening i went to look for him at the same place. He was resting lying sideways with his eyes closed, right hand resting on his sides enjoying his weed. We paid him respects and asked him about his whereabouts. It takes me three hours to dress up my god Hanuman. He spoke less and smiled more, In the fading light, in between those noisy silences I felt mesmerised looking at him. I realized that he is starting to look like his deity. Lines have started to appear on him making him look like a monkey man, god Hanuman.
And surrounding him were millions of voices speaking over each other, hundreds of loud speakers in every direction. Going about in many innumerable murmurs, thousands of hands going up to the temple bells, no room was left for the pigeons to sit on the two layered temple roof now. I had not seen such faith, such unbinding unity flocking together in respect to the goddess. Last three days have seen 25 million people turning up for this event, every family carrying some life according to their wallet for the sacrifice.
"A family of 10 people was crying foul, yelling out in togetherness. We have made a grave mistake by voting Modi to power. All of us have come to our mother and how can we come empty handed, mother looks at us as if she is hungry and what good are her sons if they cannot provide what she needs. Modi has banned animals coming from India they said. Till a week ago we could get a buffalo for 1000/- but after the ban it is costing us 15 times more. How will our son survive if they don't let the sacrifice happen? You will see he will pay for this soon. Gadhimai is powerful. She lives on blood. Security forces took our Khasi, our pada, and left us, they should have even taken us in. We are not dead, we are still living and that is our problem. They stopped us at the border. We should get back our animals. You should tell it to the government. We have walked 300-400 kilometers for days carrying our animals with us, hiding them in our bags. If we do not get our animals back we will never vote Modi again. He cannot be this cruel to the poor people of his country. He should have never stopped this. I had been coming to this festival for last 30 years and nobody ever stopped us. I don't know what new happened this time. If they want to stop, why not stop Muslims from killing so many goats, they even don't pray before killing, we are only giving it to our mother, why this discrimination."
What do they wish mainly? I asked one of the members from the administration looking after the Gadhimai trust. They, I think 99 percent of the people wish for a child, a boy. Ma fulfills their wishes and then they come here with an offering. As the tradition goes, people promise to pay respects to the mother after their wish gets fulfilled. Just for a boy? I asked. Yes. What if it's a girl? Well, then they wont come. They will probably come to wish again. They don't sacrifice anything if a girl happens to the family.
Meanwhile, few people little ahead of me were talking among themselves. It has gone up to 20,000 rupees for a buffalo, impossible for a poor man to buy them. On the border CCTV cameras have been put up- I don't know how can they do that, its not a lane you are talking about, how can they keep a tab on each person carrying any animal to Nepal? Nothing of this sort ever happened like before. Even media wala have come this time. Before I never saw anybody with camera. Where were they before? Everybody has taken birth in last 10 years. Kahan se ho bhai ? Dilli se. Aaur channel? Koi channel nai hai. Kitna milta hai? I walked off. Later that evening somebody told me that few people even tried to behead a few water buffalos on the border, as they couldn't cross it with the animals they had bought there. But vigilance was tight and they were told to cut a small part of the ear of their animal and let the animal go.
With every human I meet, a new story surfaces and makes me even more helpless. Over twenty thousand buffalo's heads will be all over the ground within the walls starting early morning tomorrow. With the thoughts alike I entered a teashop looking for a chair. I sat in front of two people who were talking among selves in Bhojpuri. Something I could understand from their conversation as I shouted for a tea to the far corner, it went like this; Last time when the fair happened a few people threw teargases in the field, I did not see it myself but my brother saw it. They rescued 250-300 buffalos from being killed like chickens. I can never forget the way my brother was telling me. You should have seen his expressions. My brother even saw snakes that were thrown by the saperas from the village nearby. They all were Muslims and because they couldn't get meat last time they were all angry and that is why they did that. Though those snakes could not bite but it scared the hell out of animals. They both laughed for ten seconds and the same person resumed; I think snakes felt happy about the action; they must have come out in the open after years. Even this time no body will get to eat anything unless they cut it themselves. Every thing is supposed to go to China and Korea. The tender has already been passed, don't you know? Nothing is going to get wasted this time. I sipped my tea. People were brave then. It never used to happen in a confined place, the holy sacrifice always happened in an open area, a large field. Anybody could see it. There was no secret. The other one said something for the first time. It will bring bad omen to everyone. Gadhimai will be very upset. They went quiet for some seconds grasping and nodding to each other's view. I had finished my tea and was ferrying my hand onto my beard. I left soon afterwards.
Lights at night make things appear half hidden. Temple will not sleep tonight. There is no moon to look up to. It's a dark night. People haven't closed their shops but have closed their eyes. Sleeping weakly in their roadside made up cloth shops. I have never seen so many people running hand in hand towards a temple for twelve hours in a row. Not even an inch of space is left for another person to stand anywhere in the compound. A human river; a faith flowing incessantly, bowing, touching the walls, temple bells, throwing coconuts at the idol because nobody has time to break it on the floor, many of which have hit the four priests on chests or on the cricket helmets they have worn to save their heads, they have tied layers of clothes and hockey pads on their knees and legs with the holy red thread kalava.
Many are carrying pigeons in a bid to free them as soon as they will see their idol but even before that happens, many doves got crushed under lacs of feet. And whichever pigeon was freed, its wings were clipped. It could only fly till temple roof where sat a man who put them again into a plastic bag to sell them again. On their way out people touched the temple wall, railing, or any corner that has become a must, like the last touch of a lover but more intense than physical. I saw many people crying as they came in front of Gadhimai. Amongst all this pushing, calling, wrestling, women take off their bindis or some color off their forehead to put on the walls. Twelve feet high white wall has turned half red on the way down in last 6 hours.
Outside there were a few activists who were openly defying this sacrificial process. A young man has come from Kathmandu all alone with two banners to condemn the killings alone. But both his banners got stolen. A women activist from Kathmandu came here to peacefully protest against the killings. She lit 1000 wick lights and prayed for the well being and change of heart of the officials. She seemed little afraid and in a hurry to get back to her car when I tried to speak with her. "I had just spoken from the lost and found mike telling each and every person not to kill innocent animals in the name of religion. No goddess asks to kill anyone. People can offer many other things than an animal. We need people from all walks of life to condemn this. These people are making a business out of it. It all can be done without a bloodshed. Every animal counts. Its sad to learn that animals don't matter in my country. Children learn from seeing. What would they be learning from this mass sacrifice? It just becomes a routine for them. What i did today, speaking out loud in the mike when all the business-men money is at stake. I am sure I would have felt very guilty all my life had i not done what I did today. But I need to run now. They are looking for me and anything can happen. I don't want to create any bad experience for anyone."
As she walked away I asked her if her act would change anything ? "It is important what is happening this time regardless the killings stop or not because you see at least for the first time ever it has been put into the ears of all the people who create this and all those who come. It's buzzing and I see people are afraid, at least some are. Not that rich people who have come with bands and donating buffaloes in numbers care. It doesn't matter to them but these voices were never there. There was no media and no body was hearing us. It's just the first step towards a change. They know now that some day killings might well be stopped. If not now, but surely in the coming time. And that is important." Have you been able to change anyone? I asked. She smiled, my parents, the family in which I am married to, they have not send any animal. The king of Nepal for the first time in the history has not send any animal. So Yes I think it's a start, I think I have made a difference. She sat in her car, asked me my whereabouts, gave me her number and left.
Its midnight and water buffaloes are still arriving. Last registered count came down to 22000 buffaloes. Its double the amount from five years ago and still 90% of the buffaloes have come from India; even after the ban.
No buffalo went inside through that gate by their own will. It's in their eyes that they know their fate. Some even arrived with trumpets and drums as they forcibly pull them to get through to the gates, after the registration. Many buffaloes lost their strength, consciousness upon arriving. Falling on the ground flat, probably rebelling in their own way just before entering the big made up slaughterhouse. Yet all got pushed, somehow or the other, even if it meant to carry them on bamboo sticks by at least four people just like they carry a human after death.
It is going to happen in few hours from now, the news came. I kept searching for those 18 men who will be heading the killings. They will be paid 5000/- rupees each to slaughter all day tomorrow.
After looking for long I found the only one who seemed interested to talk. He seemed composed to me, just like a grown boy but in third year of college. I was hoping to find some expression, something different on his and the faces now standing behind him. Probably Drunken Cruel faces I imagined. Or a kind of an attitude that might make me feel they are the bad guys, ones whom I can hate. But there was nothing. I was disappointed. He stated a few things that went like this; we are not allowed to kill more than 15 buffaloes at one go because it is said that after we behead that many we slowly start losing ourselves. The clarity between the happening and hallucination becomes thin. Kali starts entering our body with each head cut, the blood starts heating up inside and then the difference between a man, animal doesn't matter. If we don't stop we might start killing whomsoever comes our way, even our friends. I have license, my guru has given it to me. Gadhimai gave it to him. She is great and mighty. I am ready. Even though this is my first time but I am not afraid. I will kill the kids. My guru has told me that she is hungry for 5 years now. With folded hands and a smile on his face he asked me if he could go to eat something.
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Earlier that evening I went to see the people who had lost their families, children, loved ones in this massive turn out of a crowd at Lost and Found tent behind the Hanuman temple. Thousands of people standing in the pavilion crying out loud to get the only mike rotating to get a chance to call their lost loved ones. As I walked in front, to everyone, my voice recorder seemed to be the mike to speak into. Few even started calling out names without asking, and how can I not feel sad when I know it's going nowhere, nobody can listen to them, and no body will come. How much I even tried telling them that this is not a mike, but I imagine they had to let those voices out somehow Mothers, elderly women anxiously looking, walking from one corner to other, waiting for their turn to come, to given a chance to call into the mike. It was heartbreaking.
I spoke to the Lost and Found Director of Gadhimai trust. "Around 11000 people have been found till now. It's the biggest fair; around 30 million people have come. There are a few ngo's that are working and helping us on lost and found cases. Individually many people have come to help to volunteer with us. It's very hard to contain women and children. They shout, scream, and cry. It's almost impossible to find if an elderly women or a child is lost. They don't know the language and most children cannot express what they want to say or where have they come from. But we are trying our best, We are helped by FM Radio Nepal and Bihar. The people who are waiting and the ones who hope to be picked, come here. We give them tea, biscuits and water."
It was late in the night and I was very tired. Sacrifice will be going to start in few hours. I found a place to rest for a while at a corner of a big tent filled with hundreds of sleeping bodies. It was freezing, just that seeing so many people sleeping together made it bearable. On the cold earth dry grass was put, I tried to sleep like many. It might have also looked like a mortuary. Yet some were playing cards and shouting out loud between moments as one wins a hand of money. New men kept coming finding their own sleeping spaces to get into the already packed lanes of sleeping men. These men were not the people who have wished for a boy or have come to sacrifice. They were people who have come from the local slaughterhouses. They have already booked how many tonnes of meat they will take after the killings. As the meat is considered sacred, it is sold at the highest prices in the market. They were all resting, drinking and few gambling. Bhojpuri album songs are blowing in their full volume. I imagine of the buffaloes inside that stadium as I lie. It's their last night on earth. How they must be feeling at this time, in dark with an ever-growing frequency of a million voices coming in layers from outside, looking at each other and just waiting for the known.
I woke up within an hour. It was still dark. I walked out of the tent towards where thousands of people were standing; surrounding the Banyan tree, waiting impatiently, trying to get some sense as they look at the ongoing rituals from far. Me and a few other fellows from the media are allowed inside. All the killers who will be beheading sat on one side facing the tree. They all carried their weapons covered in cloth, some without it. All had put the tallest red dots on their foreheads starting from between the brows; many a times chanting the goddesses name and showing the weapon to the sky symbolising a show of strength. Every chant made the crowd boil and they repeated it with lacs of empty hands going up in the dark sky slowly turning blue.
In sometime every person will follow the head priest to the temple, the priest will carry deity being prayed under the tree right now, towards the temple where they will place the deity again on its shrine, digging a hole with the back of the trishul. They will put three eggs, murmur mantras fastly. Outside, the crowd is slowly feeling the nerves, it is growing impatient, and they are chanting and trying to break into the main premises of the temple pushing personals of security forces just to have a view of the newly placed goddess. Inside, over the eggs the trishul gets placed, main priest lets his hand free in the air and with the last scream of the goddesses' name. The killings become official. I, priest along with few other people and security personnel's run to take refuge behind the wall. Crowd starts running like individual mad bulls to have a look. The deity is placed for next five years till it will be repeated again.
On the other side far from the temple under the big tree, a buffalo, a pig, a sheep, a goat, two pigeons and a hen wait, soon they will be offered to the deity as the first blood as soon as the news of the killings will reach to the officials. Everyone seemed to be on the verge of breaking out. Crows were already up, excited in their cawing just like everybody else. They have started to take place anywhere they could, having the best view. It's strange, nobody told them. They felt it, smelt it days ago. Strangely the pig is decided to be the first one slaughtered, the moment head priest pressed its mouth, and the air got filled with the first screeching voice leaving a void in my stomach, that helpless pang, Just then, I decided to walk back home.
But now to walk forward or backward wouldn't change anything. The sight everywhere was alike. On every turn I saw someone cutting some animal, I saw intestines sprayed out on sheets, ground, chests wide open, heads with open mouths and different colored eyes put up like a tennis balls. In no time no space was left where blood was not spilled. It was a one-sided massacre.
Coming close to the river, I saw the bridge was broken from between. Yet more people were walking over it now without an inch of space between them. No body crossed it barefoot through the river anymore and nobody was there to ask for money. Red of the blood now floats above the water of the river. Innumerable various animals were being culled in one line at the banks of the river. It was like a grand film set. Each animal was trying to run just before it is caught and made to stand a certain way for the blade to go past his neck. One man went with full force on the neck of a buffalo, somehow animal moved a little and the weapon half cut open his back, buffalo started screaming, fell down in pain, running where he lied, legs towards sky but he couldn't move an inch. The man went again for the neck; his blow seemed vulnerable this time, under-confident and still could not cut through the neck. It made the man reckless. Stoned, his children were watching. In rage or shame the man went wild, on his knees he went to halal the remaining part of its neck, bystanders came and told him not to do so as its not permissible in Hinduism. He, then stood took another aim and gave blows to the neck so many that the last few blows made pieces of flesh fly towards where my camera was hanging. His daughter's hand on her mouth, she started walking crossing the river. She fell unconsciously after sometime.
It's been four and half hours that I am manoeuvring my way back home. Millions of people are still coming and going. There was no place to walk apart from being one in the crowd. More than Bodies one had to look for the land to put your feet. It's been 6 hours since the killings started. It will still go on for another 6 hours. I distracted myself by speaking into my voice recorder. God knows how many more will be killed. Headless bodies or just the heads hanging on shoulders taken away towards homes. It's a feast. All seem partying like a big happy family. All are carrying weapons as if they were born with it having a third arm. Going home was never this dreadful. Walking and forced to watch each and every thing happening around you.
When It got too much for me to see and smell the blood i took a detour away from the main lane along the fields to watch over, and I found a baby buffalo sitting alone, left all by himself, saved from being one along with many, living, breathing, looking at the masses going by.
The last image of the fair before batteries, heart and my power to see and resist went out. This image came out to be my personal saviour as i saw life. Though people had cut his ear so as if anyone else wants to take him to sacrifice, they see the cut and leave him be as goddess doesn't approve a body thats not complete.
He was in pain, irritated and didn't allow me to come near him. I let him be. And slowly walked away, away from the crowd.
The Journey back home
Later while crossing the border on the other side, hundreds of animals were seen strolling, bearing a cut or two.
This sketch came about on the very long bus rides that commenced after entering back to the Indian side in Raxaul from the Nepali Bihar Birganj to Sugauli. A 10 hour lazy train from sugauli to gorakhpur at night. Some parts in a bus from Gorakhpur to Faizabad, from there to Kesarbagh in Lucknow and further 16 hour bus ride to Delhi where shukla jee, the driver and himself the conductor, made sure that all the passengers eat the best samosa with kacche aam ki chutney, Kachaori poori Sabzi, chai, Petha, oranges on various stops, though he didn't care much where we eat our food. On a Sunday he recited Hanuman Katha and Chalisa twenty times half an hour long- less in afternoon most in the night so as no body sleeps and if they do Ram and Hanuman should always be around them.
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Marissa Skudlarek, on politics, history, and Angels In America.
One way you can tell a play is great is by how frequently other things remind you of it. And over the past year, I've been reminded of Tony Kushner's Angels in America numerous times. When the Supreme Court ruled that gay marriage is legal across the land, I thought of Prior Walter's affirmation in the last scene of Angels: "The world only spins forward. We will be citizens. The time has come." More recently, when I read that Roy Cohn was one of Donald Trump's political mentors, I knew just why that's so scary: Cohn was an unrepentant McCarthyite, a power-hungry liar, and, in Angels, one of the great stage villains of modern times. And last Friday, when Hillary Clinton made her gaffe about how the Reagans had "started a national conversation on AIDS," I thought of Angels' depiction of AIDS in the '80s, and how this play has educated me about an era that I am too young to remember.
This year also marks the silver anniversary of Angels: the world premiere of Millennium Approaches and the first public staged reading of Perestroika took place at San Francisco's own Eureka Theater in May 1991. So how has the play aged, and what it's like to perform it in our current political climate? As it happens, Town Hall Theatre in Lafayette is just finishing up an ambitious production of Angels – they produced Millennium Approaches around this time last year, then brought the whole cast back for Perestroika this year. My friend Alan Coyne is playing Joe Pitt in that production, and he, two of his castmates, and director Joel Roster agreed to talk with me by email. They all provided incredibly beautiful and thoughtful responses that I almost feel sad to have had to edit for length – which just goes to testify to the complexity and enduring power of Kushner's play.
Marissa: What's it like performing this big, complicated, American play during a contentious election year? Have the past year's events shaped the way that you approach Perestroika?
Kerri Shawn (Hannah Pitt): The past year's events have deepened this experience for me and everything about this journey has become even more meaningful and important. I do not usually talk about my political views openly. I listen a lot and pay attention to everything but I do not get into heated discussions or debates about the news. However, I have loved being with this particular group of artists during this time. We have had some wonderful discussions in the dressing room about all of the political issues the play brings up. I have also felt the audience's reaction to our production has deepened because of current events, especially everything going on with the election.
Alan Coyne (Joe Pitt): The lead-up to the same-sex marriage ruling was a huge part of our lives during Millennium Approaches. I think we were pretty confident it was about to happen, so it made Prior's assertions of his rights and the general theme of progress seem all the more prophetic. But of course, we still weren't quite there, and there was some anxiety that it might not get through. Millennium Approaches demonstrates with painful clarity what happens when you deny same-sex couples their human rights: Louis' secretive behavior with Prior at his grandmother's funeral; the lack of official sanction for their relationship; Joe and Harper's terribly damaging relationship, in part due to marriage between a man and a woman being the only available option. So it felt like we were fighting, in a small way, on the right side in that struggle.
Joel Roster (director): The music that permeates our soundtrack for both parts of Angels is from the late 1960s–a contentious, blood-sweat-and-tears time in our nation's history, smack dab in the heart of civil rights and war. The reason for this (as opposed to using music from the 1980s) is that history does repeat itself for those who fail to acknowledge or learn from it. When a prominent Presidential candidate is fanning racial hatred and prejudice, there's never been a more important time to learn from our own history. I wouldn't say that today's events have shaped our approach to the piece, but we'd be foolish not to acknowledge the startling similarities.
Alan: With Perestroika, Donald Trump has come up a lot in our dressing-room conversations. I first found out his ties to Roy Cohn right before we started rehearsal for Perestroika, from the epic Funny Or Die version of Art of the Deal, starring Johnny Depp. I highly recommend everyone watch it, because it is (horrifyingly) one of the few accurate and detailed accounts of Trump's rise to power. We've made a point of bringing up Trump's relationship to Cohn at every talkback, because once you know about it, it is terrifyingly obvious.
LaMont Ridgell (Belize): Our marvelous dramaturge Meg Honey helped us put the show and our characters in perspective by revealing to us what was actually happening during the time of the play, politically and historically. I believe the current election proceedings, make the play even more relevant — most, if not all of the themes are still true today. I was very disappointed in Hillary's comments regarding Nancy Reagan – and while she apologized twice, she said very little about the Reagans and their indirect and sometimes direct responsibility for so many men and women dying of AIDS. They simply did nothing.
Alan: There was definitely a different energy on the night after Hillary Clinton's comments at Nancy Reagan's funeral, more anger in our performance. Perhaps it made us feel that what we were doing was more important, that people were starting to forget what it was like in the '80s, the silence that cost so many people their lives.
Marissa: Has the audience reaction been different this year, compared to last year?
LaMont: This year's audience has been with us for the long haul, so after the time they invested in getting to know the characters and their stories, they get a huge payoff with Part 2. And the stories are very real… not wrapped up neatly with a nice, shiny bow. Also, in Part 2, you're witness to more characters. Belize and Hannah aren't as prominent in Part 1, but in Part 2, their characters are fleshed out more.
Joel: There's a lot more laughter. Kushner stated that he framed Millennium Approaches as a tragedy and Perestroika more as a comedy. For a play where AIDS is such a prominent focus, only one character dies: the villain of the piece. I always think of it as one play, as does the cast, but the reaction has mostly been "I liked this even more than Part One." Part One is mostly tragic exposition and set-up for the explosion that is Part Two, and I think that Part Two is far more hopeful; perhaps that's why it's been received even better than Part One has been. Millennium Approaches was the best-reviewed play in Town Hall's history, but that was shattered this year by the overwhelming critical response to Perestroika.
Alan: I think we've had bigger crowds this year. This could be due to a number of factors; it seemed like a couple of people who came to Millennium Approaches last year didn't know what to expect (I think they thought it was a nice play about angels like It's a Wonderful Life, which Jerry Motta & I were in at Town Hall the previous December). Also, the first part gets done a lot more often (though that's not doing the play justice at all!), so perhaps folks have come to see Perestroika because they haven't had a chance to see it before. Millennium Approaches won a few Shellie Awards, including Best Production, so that could have had an effect. And perhaps the same-sex marriage ruling made more straight people realize that "gay theater" is actually the same thing as, you know, theater.
Kerri: So many audience members came last year and are now returning. Often they tell us that they enjoyed Perestroika in a deeper way and that they've loved seeing how the story resolves. Many companies only do Millennium but is clear after this experience that the two need to be done together. Both parts are brilliantly written! It is a very powerful story – and it still needs to be told!
Marissa: Are there any lines in the play that particularly stick out for you as having relevance to our current historical moment?
Alan: Everything Roy Cohn says sounds like Donald Trump, only smarter. His racist provocations, his absurd boastful posturing, his dismissal of "losers," his gloating at being the "dragon sitting atop the golden horde." In Perestroika he says "Half the time I just make it up, and it still turns out to be true" and "You feel bad that you beat somebody…everybody could use a good beating." So it's no surprise that Cohn was Trump's mentor; the big surprise is that Kushner literally forgives Cohn. Of course, it's easier to forgive the dead. But the best lines are the universal ones, because ultimately, Angels in America is a universal story. People frequently write it off as a "play about AIDS," which is rather like calling Hamlet a "play about 12th-century Danish politics." It's hugely important that the '80s AIDS crisis is the setting, but this play is about so much more: love, loss, abandonment, hope, theology, progress, forgiveness… you know, Life. At the end of the play, when Prior addresses the audience — "You are fabulous creatures, each and every one. And I bless you: More Life" — it hits. Every single time. But you have to live through it all for the magic to work.
Joel: In Prior's final monologue, he also says "We will not die secret deaths anymore. We will be citizens. The time has come. The world only spins forward." That sticks with me a lot, as does Belize's diatribe about the state of America: "I hate America, Louis. I hate this country. It's just big ideas, and stories, and people dying and people like you. The white cracker who wrote the national anthem knew what he was doing. He set the word 'free' to a note so high nobody can reach it. That was deliberate. Nothing sounds less like freedom to me." The fact that in Part One Louis says that "Justice is God" and then we learn in Part Two that God has abandoned us, abandoned heaven and the angels… it says a great deal about where we are in America.
LaMont: Prior's closing monologue and my (Belize's) "I hate America" monologue, definitely. When I'm asking Louis to bless Roy: "It's not easy… it doesn't count if it's easy. It's the hardest thing. Forgiveness." And my line regarding the angel's visit: "That's malevolent. Some of us didn't exactly CHOOSE to migrate! You know what I'm sayin'?" Overall, it's been kinda weird playing Belize because I've been him. More times than not feeling "trapped in a world of white people!" — so to speak.
Kerri: Prior's speeches in both the Angels Council scene and at Bethesda will stay with me long after the play closes. In the council scene he says: "But still, bless me anyway. I want more life. I can't help myself. I do… We live past hope. If I can find hope anywhere, that's it, that's the best I can do. It's so much not enough, so inadequate but… Bless me anyway. I want more life." I have been acting for over 40 years and have had the privilege of working on the stories of many great playwrights including O'Neill, Williams, Miller, and Shakespeare. This is my first experience with Tony Kushner and I will forever be grateful for this profound experience of being a part of both Millennium and Perestroika. I am a better person for having worked on this project with this group of wonderfully talented artists. I feel so fortunate for the whole of it!
Marissa: This question is specifically for Alan: I know you were born in Ireland and came to this country with your family as a child, and now, you're playing what seems to be the most stereotypically "All-American" character in a great American play. Do you have any thoughts about what it's like to act in a quintessentially American play while being an immigrant to this country? Or is being an immigrant the most quintessentially American experience of all — and am I coming off as some kind of awful nativist Trump supporter for even asking you this question?
Alan: Well, as I mentioned, this is not so much an American play as a universal one. It begins with an immigrant, the rabbi Isidor Chemelwitz, saying "You do not live in America… no such place exists." Migration is a significant theme throughout the work; Joe says "I migrated across the breadth of the continent of North America, I ran all this way to get away." And in Millennium Approaches, I got to play an ancestor of Prior's from Yorkshire, which is where my father was born, and therefore a dialect I am very comfortable with (more so than Irish, actually). So my immigrant status has been an asset, if anything.
Joe may seem "all-American," but as a Utah Mormon who has become a lawyer in New York City, he is an alien, an outsider. Roy points it out in their very first scene in Millennium; Louis repeatedly remarks on how strange it is; Prior and Belize gawp at him like he's an exotic animal. More than that, as a gay Mormon, he's a secret alien; in Millennium Approaches, he confesses to Roy, "I never stood out, on the outside, but inside, it was hard for me. To pass." Similarly, my immigrant status is only visible because I insist on it. After living here for nearly 30 years, I don't have an accent. And because I'm white, Americans only know I'm foreign because I keep telling them so. Unlike Joe, I don't need to hide it; it's infinitely easier to be Irish in the Bay Area today than it is to be a gay Mormon in the '80s. But perhaps my secret struggle is confronting how American I have actually become.
Marissa: I hope you're still Irish enough that I can wish you a Happy St. Patrick's Day today! Thank you so much, Alan, Joel, Kerri and LaMont for sharing your thoughts about the "great work" of performing Angels. Break legs this weekend!
The TBA-recommended production of Angels in America: Perestroika is in its final week of performances at Town Hall Theatre in Lafayette. Visit http://www.townhalltheatre.com/main-stage-performances/angels-in-america-perestroika for more information.


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SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Tessera Technologies, Inc. (NAS: TSRA) (the "Company") will announce its second quarter ended June 30, 2013, earnings results before the market opens Wednesday, July 31, 2013. The Company will host an earnings conference call at 5:00 A.M. Pacific (8:00 A.M. Eastern).
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I really didn't know what to expect when I started watching this movie. What I wasn't expecting was the formulaic Korean drama. What do I mean by that? Simple.
A Korean drama is one in which a couple in love usually has one of the lovers die in a horrendously heart wrenching way. This leaves the other lover alone to mourn and deal with all their feelings. This is a sci-fi film about cyborgs, androids, and
humans and a plot to bring down the futuristic city from within. I had no idea the Koreans could incorporate such a soap opera-y plot into such a steampunk film. Good on 'em for that one.
So "R" (Yoo Ji-tae) is a policeman in a futuristic society in which people can't tell humans apart from androids and cyborgs. There's a distinct difference though. Androids were never human; cyborgs have been outfitted with a cybernetic chip that controls and
helps them function. R is one of those rogue cops who never follows the rules and does his own kickass thing. After botching up a destruction mission at a local processing plant, R must reconcile with the consequences.
R has fallen in love with a table dancing cyborg. Ria (Seo Lin) has but a few days left to live, and this film follows R's decisions into how to save her from decimation. He finds salvation in an orphaned prostitute named Cyon (Lee Jae-eun), and finds that her existence is also in the interest of the androids attempting to use human DNA for some nefarious purpose. With the strange Cypher (Jeong Doo-hong) on the loose, R and the police force must find their own means to an end.
The look and feel of the film is very 1980's Bladerunner feel. Yoo Ji-tae functions as a suave and gritty Harrison Ford,
patrolling the streets for his own personal gain. There's not much to speak of with character development on the side of the androids or cyborgs, but the presence of these untraceable electronic beings is a frightening concept. They can knock a man's leg clean off with one punch for God sakes! Never thought I'd see that kind of special effect in my life.
The guns are clunky, the special effects and digital graphics are dated (even for 2003), but I liked the storyline all the same. It was more of an artsy film than anything else, and it was all about the feels. The emotional range required for understanding this movie from start to finish is not for the weak willed. It has undertones of dystopian elements, and questions just exactly what it means to be human. The ending is long and tragic, and is obviously created to pull at the heartstrings of those who watch it. It got me there towards the end, and I'd love to know what other people thought of it who saw it. Good or not? Let me know!
I've always liked Yoo Ji-tae (I hope I'm not spelling that incorrectly…) since I saw him in Oldboy, and I find his acting
style to be brutal at the same time that he is a fragile human being, just like the rest of us. This pretty boy can pack a punch with his acting, and I'd advise watching out. He just might lay you out on your back.
There's no true way to describe what/how to take anything away from this movie. It's one of those seeing and believing situations where you just have to watch it and attempt to understand what the movie is throwing at you. I'm not entirely sure what I was shown in this movie and if I even got it. So just check it out for yourself, especially if you're always ready for a melodramatic cry. It's a good one for that. 7.2 out of 10.


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Baseball Toaster was unplugged on February 4, 2009.
By Chris DeRosa
A Goodbye in Eight Games
23 May: Sea 2 @ NY 13
I've only made it to a handful of games in recent years, so with this season being the last chance, I bought a seven-game package and distributed one of each pair of tickets to my family as Christmas presents. My dad and I got a good one to start it off. Andy Pettitte finished off hitters more efficiently than he usually does, and Matsui and Giambi had big games at the plate. Our seats were half-way up in right field, which afforded us a view of the new building. There is some comfort in the fact that it is literally across the street. When you go to new place, you're still making the familiar trip.
The most memorable game that I saw with my dad when it was just the two of us was Old Timers' Day, 1978. This game was a famous one in Yankee political history; they announced Billy Martin would return as manager—bizarrely, a year and a half later—and he got a deafening sustained ovation. We had an old used car at the time, and, getting onto the expressway on the way home, the engine burst into flames and we had to abandon it. There was a group of kids who saw it happen and broke into "Burn, baby, burn—disco inferno!"
19 June: SD 1 @ NY 2
A sunny Thursday afternoon game with my brother Ben, who is a Red Sox fan. As an exercise in nostalgic reverie, having the San Diego Padres as the visiting team is a bit jarring. Do the Tigers or Indians play ever here anymore? The Yankees announce the opposing lineup to the "Imperial March" from Star Wars, which by logic, should obviously be our theme, if you want to embrace the Evil Empire conceit. "It's because they have no sense of humor about themselves," says Ben.
Joba Chamberlain started for the Yanks and held San Diego's minor league lineup in check, striking out nine. In the second, he loaded the bases with no outs, but then he unclogged the inning with a strikeout, a tag out at home from a ball that squirted away from the catcher, and another strikeout. Chamberlain came out for the sixth, struck out the first two guys, and then must have reached 100 pitches, and Girardi took him out. "Why don't you just put him in a bubble?" said Ben.
30 June: Tex 2 @ NY 1
My friend Kevin, who is not a big fan, called me and told me he thought he'd better see Yankee Stadium before they tore it down. I went off the plan and splurged for tickets in Box 628, over third base in the upper deck, because I wanted to show him the sort of seats that will not exist in the new place. He was surprised to learn that Yankee Stadium is freshly painted, made of concrete, and only mildly pungent. He was under the impression that he was going to see some venerable old ballpark with rickety wooden planks and peeling paint.
5 July: Bos 1 @ NY 2
The stakes were higher for Ben and me, with his team in town. The game featured seven hit batsmen, with Manny getting hit three times, but somehow there were no fights and nobody got tossed. Rivera had a 2-0 lead going into the ninth. Drew opened with a single. Rivera hit Manny on an 0-2 pitch, then Lowell drilled a single so score Drew. Then Mo hit a leaping Youkilis in the foot, bases loaded! By now, I was a nervous wreck and in full screamer mode. I didn't feel I had a choice, with all the Sox fans there so psyched up at the prospect of beating Mo. Up to that point, I was taking a detached view of the whole scene in deference to Ben. After all, this was a Christmas present. But in my universe, there are three kinds of games: wins, losses, and Rivera losses, and I can only take the first two.
The two greatest games I ever attended were arguably also the two greatest games of Mariano Rivera's career. In Game 2 of the ALDS in 1995 I saw him blow away the Mariners for three innings in the 15-inning affair ultimately resolved by Jim Leyritz's homer. The other one was his epic nine-out stint in Game 7 of the 2003 ALCS. The two games form a kind of alpha and omega of the Yankees' late dynasty. 1995: there's nothing to lose except this dubious "wild card" playoff slot, and the skinny kid on the mound is just a delightful surprise. Eight years later: there's everything to lose. When Posada's flare fell in, it was a double jolt of ecstasy: first, simply that he wasn't out, and then, with the two shining "5"s on the scoreboard and Pedro trudging off that mound, that it really was tied. Mariano holding that team in check until Aaron Boone got around to winning the game was the best performance I ever witnessed.
Meanwhile in 2008, as quickly as he had unraveled, Mariano rematerialized. He struck out Crisp on a check swing, popped up Varitek, and struck out Lugo on another check swing. Whew.
30 July: Bal 3 @ NY 13
On the way to the game, my seven-year-old daughter Vivian, let me tell her the blow-by-blow history of the New York Yankees. I only got as far as 1947. As a kid, I loved getting the souvenirs that had something to do with the team history. Old Timers' Day programs were the best; or yearbooks with historical sections. One of the thrills in coming to the Stadium, as a boy, was the prospect of acquiring some kind of off-beat memorabilia. In those days, the offerings on River Ave. were less homogenized. I remember a guy selling old baseball cards right outside the entrance to the bleachers, where only an official team stand is now allowed. This is long before all this stuff was just a few clicks away. Vivian was only looking to acquire some cotton candy, and her biggest concern was to see at least one home run. She got three, as the Yankees just laid into Baltimore pitching. Bobby Abreu poled two of them, plus a double, and Alex Rodriguez hit a rocket that left the yard in a flash. We met family friends in the upper deck and went home with them to soak in their pool. A great day all around.
27 August: Bos 11 @ NY 3
I went to the middle game with my brother Jon. It seemed like a sedate crowd on the train up. It was a weekday, and we were 6.5 behind in the wild card race, so there wasn't as much tension as usual—just a bunch of Harvard kids debating if the current Red Sox squad features nine future Hall of Famers or ten. Once we were in there, though, we were sitting in front of a beefy guy and his slightly less beefy dad. They were completely hammered an hour before the first pitch. The guy steps on my shoulder as he gets out of his seat, and later, when his dad goes to get a beer, the son throws garbage at him over our heads from the vantage point of our seats above the tunnel. In the fifth inning, he goes to get a couple of beers of his own, and when he comes back, the aisle is crammed and he gets impatient to get back to his seats, so he starts piloting the swaying beers over our row, violating my airspace. "No, no," I say, as they're teetering over my head, but sure enough, they slosh on my pants.
"That was lame," I tell him.
"What?? My f--king pants fell down!"
"Well, don't spill beer on me!"
"It was an accident! Dude, my f--king pants fell down!"
I look down, and sure enough, his pants are around his ankles and he's standing there in his underwear. "Wow, you know, OK, I didn't realize your pants had fallen down. Don't worry about it."
"Oh," he said sarcastically, "you're good?"
"Yeah, I'm good, you're good, forget it."
"Yeah, my f--king pants fell down. It's called 'common courtesy.' Practice it!"
A few at bats later, Beef Boy leaned forward out of his seat and collapsed right on Jon. If the railing hadn't been there, he'd have knocked us flying down the aisle. After we got him shoved back in his seat, I decided to reopen the matter of common courtesy. "How about, 'sorry'?"
"Uh, heh heh, now we're even."
Jon: "You need to go home. You're so drunk, you're going to hurt somebody or hurt yourself."
"It was an accident! I got pushed from behind!"
Jon, indicated the petite woman seated in the row behind them. "She pushed you?"
That temporarily stymied him, but after we sat down again, he started calling us "faggots" and remained belligerent for a while before losing interest. I was totally tensed up for an inning, thinking at first he wanted to fight, and then that he might intentionally vomit on us.
The scene took me by surprise, like when some sort of stupidity you thought you left behind in middle school suddenly leaps out at you senior year of high school. I haven't had that kind of encounter at Yankee Stadium in a long time, but stuff like that happened more often than not in the 1980s, when the crowds were still thick but there wasn't as much alcohol policing.
12 September (rained out)
My mom and I went to see the Rays on the 12th, but we got rained out. It actually afforded us a nice chance to walk around the park without the pressure of getting back to the game. We ended up sitting in the uppermost row at the top of the upper deck behind the plate, where we sat in the original stadium at my first-ever game, sometime in the early 70s. I remember the seat backs and looking down at the field, but there no image from my memory of the original stadium in broad view. There's a picture of it in Yankee Stadium: the Official Retrospective by Al Santasiere and Mark Vancil (Pocket, 2008). At fifty bucks, I can't recommend a book about Yankee Stadium that has so much space devoted to players, popes, and boxers rather than to the stadium itself. (There are sidebars that tell you what Dan Quayle and George Bush think of the place, so I guess that's what makes it official.) However, if you see it in a bookstore, open up to page 187, where you will see a rare color photo of the original stadium from behind the plate. The year is 1973 and it is a June game against the Tigers.
If you are like me, then black-and-white photos tend to put you in a black and white world, rather than making you fill in the color. As such, it is sometimes hard to visualize what it was like at Yankee Stadium before the renovation. If you were there in the glory years, the iconic frieze was greening copper, not white. The grandstand's pillars and seats were aquamarine-ish green, not blue. The outfield fence was black.
You can see that stadium in color photos, paintings, and old World Series films, but it is hard to spot the one shown in the 1973 picture. In 1967, they painted the seats blue and the frieze white, approximating the modern color scheme, but in the original building. It is a striking hybrid of the classic grandstand and the familiar colors, and gives you a real jolt. I think I like the look of the 1967-1973 stadium better than any other incarnation.
Well, that park is long gone anyway. What I'm going to miss about Yankee Stadium physically is hard to capture in interior photos. Obviously, on an emotional level, I'm going to miss the continuity from a treasured past, and I'm not talking about Ruth, DiMaggio, and Mantle. I value that legacy greatly, but I mean Reggie Jackson, Rickey Henderson, and Bernie Williams.
Physically, I'm going to miss the graceful curvature of the grandstand. To me, it conjures two long, slender fingers cupping a ballfield. You can see it plainly in exterior photos, but it is harder to capture in interior shots: the way the grandstand hugs the foul lines, then tapers to a point far behind the plate, bringing the upper deck in close over the diamond… there's no unobstructed grandstand like it in the major leagues. The New Yankee Stadium looks like an ever-widening bowl with an excessive dead zone above the game.
What we are losing is made clear by New Yankee Stadium page on the New Yankee Stadium page from the Ballpark Tour site. Scroll down to the "Profile Comparison" diagram. Look at how the lower deck is tucked about 20 rows under the upper one. You never hear about how special that is, because most of the ballpark mavens could never get past complaining about the 1970s remodeling. But the remodeled Yankee Stadium still had an upper deck over the lower decks—now they just build the upper decks behind the lower decks. In the new one, the lower deck juts out like a cash register drawer that just popped open. People keep raving about the "façade" going back on the grandstand. To me, that's meager compensation for being pushed away from the field.
13 September: TB 5 @ NY 6 (make-up game)
Jon and I went to the rescheduled game the next evening (after a daytime 7-1 loss). We watched the whole game from perfect seats in the upper deck boxes behind the plate—good weather, good company—and the Yanks played a nice game, chipping away at the Rays to overcome Ben Zobrist's 4th inning grand slam. If my August 27th experience put me in mind of the 1980s, the make-up game, with the place about half-full of subdued fans, had the feel of a early '90s game. There were a couple of years there where you could stretch out a bit. They'd be playing Steely Dan on the PA, and some guy coming off shoulder surgery would three-hit the Yankees.
18 September: Chicago 2 @ New York 9
After Brett Gardner lets his bat go flying into the stands for the third time in the two games we've seen him play, my brother Jon says, "You know how a pitching coach comes out when you're not pitching well? They should have that for Gardner. The hitting coach should be able to visit the plate and give him some tips." Bobby Abreu had the hitting duties covered, though, delivering his second multi-homer game of my eight-game farewell tour. A few innings in, we joined my friends Murray and Mike in their section and saw out the last game together. The last thing we saw in Yankee Stadium was big rookie Humberto Sanchez, wearing number 77, throw a scoreless inning in relief.
I'm sorry to see it go, but it was a satisfying last communion. If they weren't tearing it down, it probably would have taken me about four years to get to eight games. Things get away from you.
Chris DeRosa is a historian who lives in Oakhurst NJ.
and thanks for all the tickets - i'll never think of this season as a disappointment since we had so much fun going to so many games.
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The chain on Thursday cut its annual profit and revenue outlook for the year after reporting second-quarter results that missed Wall Street estimates. The company's stock fell nearly 3 percent on the news.
Wal-Mart's sober assessment adds to worries about consumer spending that arose when Macy's Inc. lowered its profit expectations for the year after reporting disappointing results on Thursday and Kohl's Corp. did the same on the following day even after posting solid results.
But Wal-Mart's results are even more troubling because it is considered an economic bellwether, with the company accounting for nearly 10 percent of nonautomotive retail spending in the U.S. Wal-Mart's latest performance appears to show that many people continue to struggle in the U.S. and abroad.
In the U.S., while jobs are easier to get and the housing market is gaining momentum, these improvements have not been enough to get Americans to spend. On top of that, Wal-Mart said Americans continue to struggle with a 2 percentage-point increase in the Social Security payroll tax since Jan. 1.
During a call with the media, Wal-Mart Chief Financial Officer Charles Holley said the top three concerns among its customers are jobs, food costs and gas and energy prices.
"The retail environment remains challenging in the U.S. and our international markets, as customers are cautious in their spending," Holley said in a statement, noting a "reluctance" among customers to spend on things items like flat-screen TVs.
The Bentonville, Ark.-based retailer said second-quarter net income rose 1.3 percent to $4.07 billion, or $1.24 per share, for the three months ended July 31. That compares with $4.02 billion, or $1.18 per share, a year earlier.
Excluding a one-time charge for a certain non-income tax matter, earnings per share would have been $1.25. That matches Wall Street's estimates.
Net sales rose 2.4 percent to $116.2 billion. That figure excludes membership fees from its Sam's Club division. The number came below estimates of $118.09 billion in net sales, according to FactSet research firm.
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At Wal-Mart's U.S. stores, clothing did well as the discounter has refocused its offering on basics like socks and no-frills jeans that its shoppers need. During a call with reporters, Holley said it was too early to discuss how the back-to-school business is faring. But he said he's encouraged by early sales of children's clothes.
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Made some twice baked tatoes, bella mushrooms and leeks.
I smoked at a temperature of 250 using hickory.
The veggies took about 35 minutes, long enough for me to feed the pigs and chickens and gather eggs. :)
I love my little side table, it's really handy!
Suppper....I couldn't eat it all, but everything sure tasted good. :)


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A few years ago I worked on a design project that was built around a technology called T-Ink. Basically the way it worked was, you printed a circuit board onto a paper surface, the circuit board was connected to low power lights and speakers. When you touched parts of the printed design you completed the circuit and things would light up and make noise. The project never went anywhere do to costs and other hurdles, but it is nice to see that similar technologies not only still exist but they have improved upon them.
Fulton Innovation has developed a system using induction power to create a series of cereal boxes for General Mills that light up in stages to create an eye-catching effect on store shelves. The technology is called eCoupled, and this application is only a demo at this time, but I guarantee you this is going to be rolling out over the next year to store shelves near you.
While I am more of a fan of creating more green packaging, something recyclable, I can see this having a massive impact on the package design industry, or the stationary/greeting card industry. It opens the doors to a number of new, low-cost applications that extend the base products visual appeal.