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KDE Commit Digest for May 20, 2005
Following the move to Subversion, KDE CVS Digest, our weekly review of the code changes to KDE, was renamed to KDE Commit Digest; this week we also have a new domain at commit-digest.org. In this week's digest (all in one page): KNode rewrites article viewer, KViewShell adds basic printing support, Juk adds a cover manager and KDE4 porting continues apace.
Old Digest Layout
Is there any way to get to the old digest layout any more? I liked it more than the current one.
By mmebane at Sat, 2005/05/21 - 5:00am
Re: Old Digest Layout
By ac at Mon, 2005/05/23 - 5:00am
Re: Old Digest Layout
I liked the color scheme better, I liked not having a sidebar, but I _really_ liked the table cross-referencing app types with commit types. I could see at a glance, say, what KDE sections got optimizations, and jump straight to the given optimization section.
By mmebane at Mon, 2005/05/23 - 5:00am
Re: Old Digest Layout
I miss it too. Far easier to find the optimization sections, which I've always been most interested in.
By arcade at Tue, 2005/05/24 - 5:00am
An rss feed for commit-digest.org would be nice! ;)
Keep up the good work :D
Rafael Rodríguez
By Rafael Rodríguez at Sun, 2005/05/22 - 5:00am
Re: rss?
On my list of TODO's.
By Derek Kite at Sun, 2005/05/22 - 5:00am
Bug in the digest?
I refuse to believe that there was only a single commit for KOffice that was interesting enough to include during the whole week. There must be a bug somewhere.
By Inge Wallin at Sun, 2005/05/22 - 5:00am
Re: Bug in the digest?
Looks like the other commits are hiding at
(note the lower-case 'o' in Koffice)
By Jeffrey M. Smith at Sun, 2005/05/22 - 5:00am
Re: Bug in the digest?
But there is no way to get to that from the sidebar.
By Inge Wallin at Mon, 2005/05/23 - 5:00am
Re: Bug in the digest?
It should work now.
By Derek Kite at Mon, 2005/05/23 - 5:00am
Re: Bug in the digest?
Another little bug:
By Inge Wallin at Tue, 2005/05/24 - 5:00am
Who's Eric?
A lot of times when I see commits for kdom and ksvg they have something like "patch by eric" or "eric likes it better this way" etc. comments. Well, who's this mysterious Eric character who doesn't have a svn account? :)
Anyhow, Thanks Eric! (as well as all you other kdom programmers) :) Nice to see khtml2 work actually starting.
By Ac at Sun, 2005/05/22 - 5:00am
Re: Who's Eric?
Eric Seidel, employed by Apple on daytime, contributing to several projects: http://eseidel.com/hacking.html
By Anonymous at Sun, 2005/05/22 - 5:00am
Re: Who's Eric?
Yes, Eric helps us a lot with ksvg2. In fact
By Rob Buis at Sun, 2005/05/22 - 5:00am
Re: Who's Eric?
I have no idea what kdom/ksvg2/kcanvas is. If I Google for it I only see technical information. Could you please explain what a "ordinary user" can do with kdom/ksvg2/kcanvas? Thanks!
By LB at Sun, 2005/05/22 - 5:00am
Re: Who's Eric?
The reason why you only see technical info, is because they are all "lower level" (from a user perspective) components. This is my understanding of them, given what little I know.
* kdom handles the dom (document object model) which provides the internal (code) representation of web pages (if not other things as well), improvements to it will improve konq
* ksvg2 is for drawing SVG (scalable vector graphics) to the screen. SVGs are line art, infinite resolution images. This will be used by konq and other applications in the future.
* kcanvas is for drawing to the screen. Improvements to this will make things easier for developers to do pretty things, not to mention make them run faster.
By Jonathan Dietrich at Sun, 2005/05/22 - 5:00am
Re: Who's Eric?
* kcanvas is for drawing to the screen. Improvements to this will make things easier for developers to do pretty things, not to mention make them run faster.
Just to expand - ksvg2 will use kcanvas. Also any hypothetical mathml implimentation probably would too.
By JohnFlux at Mon, 2005/05/23 - 5:00am
Re: Who's Eric?
Hi John,
Actually I am not sure mathml and KCanvas would fit. I wouldn't
By Rob Buis at Tue, 2005/05/24 - 5:00am
Re: Who's Eric?
Trolltech provides a commercial widget for mathml 2.0
KFormula is capable to load and display mathml embedded into oasis documents, but I don't know how much of the specification is supported. With tex fonts it does look quite nice.
By Sven Langkamp at Tue, 2005/05/24 - 5:00am
This, of course, is the wrong place for this ..
... but I'll post it here anyways.
General "gripe/feature request/whatever" for KDE.
While the 'desktop environment' and 'kde experience' is getting better and better, there are a few areas where I really would like some optimization.
Konqueror and KHTML .. page rendering is often horribly slow compared to other browser. In addition, "all of kde" or at least the application I launched konq from seems to lag quite a lot when I've clicked a link. I'm on a pretty modern laptop with plenty of processing power - but this still annoys me. When it's finished the results are excellent, but the system is sluggish while it's working. I far prefer to just use firefox. (I use SuSE 9.3 and KDE 3.4)
KDE PIM is getting really nice, but is far too slow when switching between the various main tasks (email, addressbook, calendar, and so forth).
Some major optimizations in those two areas would _greatly_ benefit the usability of KDE. That, and the IMAP kioslave needs some more work. It's gotten far better than in 3.3, but still :-)
I really, really look forward to the day when I can switch over from firefox to konqueror and say 'konqueror is better'. I also really, really look forward to when I can use kmail and say 'kmail is better than mutt'.
'better' means faster, while doing the right thing.
When it comes to usenet, I look forward to the day knode is as fast as pan, while both is slower and more useless than slrn. pan is quite nice, but crashes too frequently (and ... it's a gnome app).
By arcade at Tue, 2005/05/24 - 5:00am
Just to add some comments.
Not that it's good to reply to oneself, but to highlight a graphical few apps that does the really deserves the name "killer app" :
- firefox. Fast, efficient, with the user-friendly plugins such as ad-block.
I'm not bashing KDE though. KDE has one of the best window managers I've ever used. kStars is one of the coolest programs I've seen in a long time. kOrganizer is getting Really Good (but needs optimizations and quite a few bugfixes). konqueror has lots upon lots upon lots of really cool stuff, but far too much of it feels 'raw' and not ready for production as you easily find bugs in it or its plugins.
Keep up the good work! But please, more killer apps! And! Fix the eyesores (Things that Is Really Cool, but are buggy if you play around with it for two minutes).
By arcade at Tue, 2005/05/24 - 5:00am
Re: Just to add some comments.
It's not KDE that is so slow, it's suse 9.3
KMPlayer is a kde frontend for mplayer.
By ac at Wed, 2005/05/25 - 5:00am
Re: Just to add some comments.
and if you want it faster than Kubuntu, try Slackware... ;-)
By Anonymous at Wed, 2005/05/25 - 5:00am
Re: Just to add some comments.
doesn't really make a difference, try it. kubuntu is almost as fast as you can get it (without starting to optimize yourself, like you can with gentoo).
and @ the first poster, I think you really should try kubuntu. at least for me firefox is way slower than konqueror...
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For composers, songwriters, and those who dabble in transcribing music for fun, digitized sheet music is often found left with their default fonts in tact. Music notation software such as Finale™ or Sibelius™ automatically loads music fonts on the user's computer upon install — Finale uses a music font labeled as "Maestro" by default while Sibelius typically uses "Opus Std" for music notation. On top of these music font settings, Times New Roman is usually paired with these music fonts by default, though in Sibelius the default font depends on what type of score or instruments you'll be writing music for.
The majority of digitized sheet music may look similar to the transcription above, but if you feel like stylizing your sheet music, it's quite easy to change font settings in Sibelius. With the addition of Urtext Music Fonts type foundry, we're happy to give composers and arrangers options to make music look better.
If you've already started composing or transcribing your song in Sibelius, you can edit your font selection and apply it to your existing notation.
Main Text Font — By changing this font, you'll change the text that shows the composer and part names (as in the music example above, where "Piano" and "Muzio Clementi" are noted). You can choose any (non-music) font you have installed on your computer.
Main Music Font — This selection will change all common music symbols, such as key and time signatures, notes (both noteheads and flags are affected), and rests.
Music Text Font — Any additional expressive or articulation markings will be affected by this font selection. This includes dynamic markings (such as the bold "pp"s for pianissimo and "ff"s for fortissimo) as well as fermatas and trill markings, which are briefly explained below.
Here are some examples of dynamics and technical markings in Urtext Music Fonts' Kapellmeister OT (in purple):
Once you've decided which font you'll use for text and which font(s) you'll use for the music notation, hit OK and watch your sheet music be transformed. In the example below, Plantin has been switched out for P22 Morris Golden and Opus Std has been switched out for Clementi OT, giving the excerpt from Muzio Clementi's Piano Sonatina a more appropriate feeling:
In a side-by-side comparison, the following excerpt starts with the default music font (Opus Std), and where noted by the asterisk, changes to Clementi OT:
Other major differences are usually noticed at the beginning of the music, with the key signature (in this piece, the sharp "♯" sign) and time signature (the "fraction" 2/4). You'll also see a difference of style in the way clefs (here, what precedes the "♯" sign) are drawn between music fonts:
To those unfamiliar with music notation, you can see also differences in the music fonts by comparing the design of the notes — the shape and weight of the notehead (the round part of the note) may differ as well as its flags (the part that waves itself off note stems on eighth notes, sixteenth notes, and any other note that has flags). This is better seen than explained; below is a comparison of eighth notes (again, in purple) in the Urtext Music Fonts available at FontShop:
You'll notice that some noteheads are more elliptical (like that of Brumaire) while others are more round. Also, some flags are straight and angular while others are curved. With tastes and styles in music so varied, why should sheet music all look the same?
While Urtext's range of music fonts address traditional styles, capturing the feeling of hand-engraved music from the Baroque and Classical periods, these music fonts are still fit to be used for any modern-day composer.

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FREDERICKSBURG, Va. -- A dog missing from northern Virginia for a decade may soon be reunited with his owner after showing up in Oklahoma.
Tristan Rohde, 8, her family found Brindle under a bush in their Lawton, Okla., neighborhood a couple of weeks ago -- more than 1,300 miles from where he disappeared. The Rohdes thought Brindle was dead, but when he lifted his head, Tristan decided to take him in.
"If I didn't, then he would just be sitting there right now with no family, no friends, no nothing," she said.
U.S. & World
The Rohdes took Brindle, who was near death, to a veterinarian who found a microchip with tracking information under Brindle's skin.
"I'm just so proud of my daughter being so caring like she is, taking in the dog that was probably knocking on heaven's door," said Tristan's father, Jon Rohde.
The family then used Facebook to track down Brindle's owner, Gary Rowley.
Brindle was a smart dog, Rowley said. He could open doors.
"He would hook his toenails into the side of the door and he opened it," Rowley said Wednesday.
On Super Bowl Sunday 1999, Brindle opened the door and never returned.
The circumstances surrounding Brindle's disappearance, past 10 years and incredible journey to Oklahoma are unknown.
"I'm not mad at the dog," Rowley joked. "All I want to ask him is, 'Why in the hell did you run off 10 years ago?'"
The reunion awaits Brindle's recuperation. He's not yet well enough to travel, but if the vet OKs him Friday, Brindle and Rowley could be together again next week.


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Getting trapped in an elevator can be fun if the marooned are in the company of stars from the show "Modern Family."
Julie Bowen, Eric Stonestreet and Jesse Tyler Ferguson were stuck in a Kansas City, Mo., hotel elevator on Friday for almost an hour when they took to social media with funny quips to communicate with the outside world. They even enlisted the help of other passengers to record a few videos on Twitter's mobile video app Vine.
"Finally made it out of the stuck elevator at the one hour mark," Ferguson wrote on Twitter. "At least the firemen in K.C. are cute."
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Stonestreet jumped in the fray with the elevator humor.
"I honestly handled being stuck in an elevator for 50 min better than I thought," he said on Twitter. "All Jesse Tyler did was pass wind."
The Kansas City Fire Department came to the rescue and worked their way down from the 40th floor to the third floor to free the trapped passengers.
The trio were on their way to a charity event for the Boys and Girls Club in the city, which is Stonestreet's hometown. The stars were slated to appear on stage at 9 p.m., but were delayed until 10 p.m when they were freed, according to the Kansas City Star.


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An Australian senator has returned from Malaysia saying he had been deported on the orders of the "highest levels" of Southeast Asian country's government for his support of democracy reformers ahead of elections due within months.
Nick Xenophon, an independent South Australia state senator, told reporters on arrival at Melbourne International Airport on Sunday that he had become the first Australian lawmaker ever to be deported from any country when he was turned away by on authorities on arrival at Kuala Lumpur on Saturday.
He blamed his support for the Malaysian democracy reform group Coalition for Clean and Fair Elections, known as Bersih, for the shock decision to turn him away
Malaysian police said Xenophon was taken into custody and denied entry "for security reasons."


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The Thunderhead is a two-door convertible in Grand Theft Auto 1. It can be found in Liberty City and Vice City. Despite what its name suggests, it is based on Chevrolet Corvette C1 as opposed to the first generation Ford Thunderbird.
See also
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Tagged: Ethan Martin
YouTube Video -Ethan Martin
I uploaded a video of Ethan Martin on YouTube. Check it out!
Bio of Martin (From Tony Jackson)
From reading those reports, it looks like the Dodgers are planning on having him as a Pitcher. It's weird because Bud Selig announced him as a 3rd Baseman. He played both positions but it looks like the Dodgers see him better as a Pitcher. Good luck Ethan!
Ethan Martin
When Bud Selig called his name, Ethan Martin was introduced as a 3rd Baseman. Most likely the Dodgers are planning on making Martin a full-time hitter. Imagine with Russell Martin a Martin & Martin combo ? Weird. Of course, we will see down the road. He is 17 years old so that will be in a couple of years. That's if he has a great Minor-League career. From John Manuel of Baseball America had this to say…
Just four high school players were among the first 14 selections, and at the halfway point of the first round, the Dodgers added to that with Ethan Martin. However, commissioner Selig announced Martin as a third baseman, not a righthander. The Dodgers have had success with such athletes, such as James McDonald (from outfield to pitcher) and Edwin Jackson (who DH'd early in his career before going just to the mound).
More updates later.
Draft update -Dodgers pick
The Dodgers owner Frank McCourt was in attendance and with their 15th pick, the Los Angeles Dodgers selected Ethan Martin. He is a High School Senior playing 3rd Base and Pitcher. This is the scouting report on him.
|Martin threw his fastball in the 91-96 mph range. He maintained the velocity, throwing 94 mph in the seventh inning.
|Fastball movement:
|He had hard, four-seamer life.
|He showed a consistently plus curve, a power breaking ball in the 79-82 mph range, that he used as a strikeout pitch to lefties and righties.
|He showed flashes of a plus split-fingered fastball, up to 84 mph, that worked as an out pitch as well.
|He was solid-average all night, at times above-average, filling up the strike zone with three pitches. He can throw his fastball for strikes to both sides of the plate.
|He is super competitive on the mound.
|Physical Description:
|He is big, strong, projectable — the prototypical power pitcher.
|Medical Update:
|He's a big, strong power pitcher with three above-average to plus offerings.
|New on the radar as a pitching prospect, there's no history to draw on. Scouts will need to see how he bounces back throughout the season to be convinced.
|He went from an interesting two-way player to an upper-echelon pitching prospect in one start. Showing three above-average pitches he can throw for strikes as well as the ability to maintain mid-90s velocity deep into a game, Martin was sure to be one of the most closely watched prep pitchers in the Draft class. He jumped on the screen with that one start; if he keeps it going, he'll move quickly up the charts.
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The Shout-Out Sunday web site for today, 04 May 2014 is:
The Schmooze: Bagel History (and so much more!)
And what a site this is! My friend, Sandy, found this the other day and sent it on to me, and I wasn't prepared for what a great inclusive site it really was! Go have a look if you, like me, are a bagel lover. (And don't overlook the links at the very bottom of this page for more info on this amazing little food.)
Here are a couple of other good bagel-related sites to go along with this theme:
Healthy Bagel Sandwiches Recipes
30 Toppings (for bagels) for Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner
I've always loved bagels but haven't actually bought them on a regular basis until recently. Paul found some at Market Basket recently, which are the store brand and are labeled "The Works" – wow, I love those! So I put them on the list the following week but he came back with something else completely, "thin" bagels that are cut into half the depth of a regular big chunky bagel. They are OK, but the only problem is that I have to make two of them to get my bagel fix!
I normally don't do fancy toppings, but I like the idea of them and have found these two sites above with some good suggestions. One I saw on TV the other day was to make a homemade burger or cheeseburger on a bagel which I hadn't thought of before; I don't know why. Bagels have less (? do they have ANY?) fat than regular rolls or buns, so all the better.
[click above for blog on "everything-bagel"]
I haven't quite gotten to the point of wanting to make my own yet, but maybe one day soon… we shall see.
Cheers for the bagel, so small yet so versatile!
Great Canadian Bagel Burger at Taste of Home w/recipe.
And last but not least, The Pioneer Woman's Veggie-Cheese Bagel recipe.
Later….. my breakfast:
one egg, cheddar cheese, crispy bacon, and Dijon mustard on a plain thin bagel… perfection.
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I have chickens
I am renting some chickens. They're out there right now, scratching in the grass outside my study window. You might not have known you can rent chickens—I didn't, until Jen came home one day with shining eyes and said, "Let's rent some chickens!" But you can. In fact, there is hot competition in the chicken rental industry, with BookAChook.com.au, RentAChook.com.au, and CityChicks.com.au competing in my local area alone.
I wasn't so sure about renting chickens, but Jen said, "If it doesn't work out, we'll just send them back." That was when I realized how ingenious the scheme is. You can't say no to rental chickens. It's a risk-free investment. And so one night a nice lady drove to our house with a chicken coop, a bag of feed, some hay, and Patsy and Flo.
We didn't name the chickens. They came with little cards with their names and pictures on them, like baseball stars. They're basically celebrity chickens, on tour. I could tell they were VICs because Deb, the BookAChook lady, didn't really want to hand them over. As she went through the list of rules (do not feed meat to chickens, do not feed eggs to chickens unless they have been well-disguised, on hot days chickens enjoy settling in with a chilled ice bottle), I could sense her judging me, evaluating whether I was chicken-worthy.
We've had them a few weeks now, and I have to say, I'm impressed. They are very low-maintenance: you let them out of their coop in the morning, you lock them up again when they wander back in at night, but except for chilling the odd ice bottle, that's pretty much all you have to do. They don't make much noise, although they have begun giving quiet, hopeful squawks every time I come out the door, just in case I have a plate of strawberries. That's quite nice, to arouse a hopeful feeling in another creature, even if it's just because of strawberries. I think it was definitely time I got a pet. And on current form, I can recommend you try the chicken.


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Poshmark: Buy & Sell Fashion 4+
Shop & make money from home
Poshmark, Inc.
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Poshmark is the leading marketplace to buy and sell fashion.
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JOANNAW38 for $15🤩
🌻USE CODE JOANNAW38 FOR $15🌻 This is a very amazing app to buy and resell clothing. There are brands ranging from brandy Melville, Louis Vuitton, to Nike, adidas, and etc. There are a wide variety of options and many of the clothes are just like brand new. This app is a great way to earn profit from items that are unwanted but can be great use to others! I LOVE THIS APP SO MUCH AND IT AIDS IN REUSING ITEMS🥰
It's ok
Although the format and ease of use is really appealing there are a few areas I don't like about using Poshmark. I don't agree with having to offer reduced shipping when making an offer to a customer. That should be my choice not Poshmarks. I am already paying enough of my money to Poshmark in other fees. I also don't agree with having to pay taxes on clothing that I have already paid taxes on when initially purchasing them from the store.
Great but could be better…
After its release in Canada, I quickly jumped on and added Poshmark to one of the many popular selling platforms (Instagram, Depop, Etsy, Craigslist, to name a few) I use regularly. However, the app could be better. While it is a breeze to post items for sale and shipping logistics are done on their end for you, the user interface and design can improve in quality, looks, and overall appeal.
Closets show only 2 vertical rows while scrolling through, which makes it absolutely inconvenient to scroll through a closet with plenty of items (despite having and using search filters). This is where Instagram and Depop excel with 3 rows, allowing for a better overall view of posts (besides using a computer to go onto the Poshmark website). Moreover, just scrolling through your own closet just to add an item to a Party, refresh/reshare, edit or delete is time consuming. There needs to be an easier way to do this like a selection phase of items prior to x action performance. While I understand some Users/Sellers have the pleasure of reselling as a full time job, for most, this is not the case, and time is of the essence.
Additionally, despite a younger 18-34 demographic presence, the design of this app seems to attract or target a more older demographic that does not always equate to a finer or trendier taste in fashion and style. Which is fine, there is something for everyone, and that is what Parties are for. However, there is no denying that Poshmark attracts a certain crowd and vibe, whether intentional or not. One can already tell with the amount of recent reviews here filled with self promo and app marketing in order to make some cash for shopping. Even Party Host Picks share bias as some host picks items do not tend to sell immediately or are of poor taste. These may be successful tactics, but it does not seem to help Users in the long run.
The high costs that are taken from sales to run this app/company, and the quite high shipping fee (yes, shipping is still a tad bit too high at 99 cents more because taxes are added in these sale transactions) leads a Seller to less of a gain (sometimes not even break even profit) unless selling items of greater resell value due to popularity and/or demand. So not all things can sell or be of actual profit. Even popular or in demand items can't sell if potential Buyers feel like the price is too steep when it is very much discounted from RRP already. This has lead to some Sellers deleting their closets and relying on other ways/platforms to sell their items.
Which leads me to Poshmark's overall in-your-face marketing. The seemingly often Closet Clear Outs look like a great way to make quick profit by Sellers having to drop prices equating to cheaper shipping for a few hours, but actually, it is a way to mainly benefit Poshmark by attracting more people to shop and make purchases. Sellers already drop their prices significantly just to make a sale.
Also, I hope there is a possibility that blocking a User leads to them not viewing your Closet as a few rare Sellers do copy words or edits almost verbatim of other veteran Sellers (who spend a lot of time and effort perfecting their marketing) without their knowledge or consent, which happened in my case. A block to not share, interact, etc is not really enough. It is a rarity, but there are Sellers out there who are desperate enough to not be original and can at times, be outright harassing.
I hope my review is taken into consideration. I look forward to a potential merge of Canadian and American markets for an increase in item variety and sales. As well, I hope Poshmark and their app developers make some changes and improvements besides adding new markets (like Home 👍🏼).
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Requires iOS 10.0 or later. Compatible with iPhone, iPad and iPod touch.
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- Free
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Up to six family members will be able to use this app with Family Sharing enabled.


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Genealogy researchers today are so blessed with a wealth of family data online that it is easy to forget the old-fashioned tool — queries published in genealogy magazines in print format. But I've just had evidence of the power of published queries.
As a member of the New England Historical Genealogical Society, I enjoy both the American Ancestors magazine and The Weekly Genealogist e-newsletter. I was fortunate recently to have a query published in American Ancestors, Volume 17, Number 3, Fall 2016, column titled Brick Walls, page 21.
It begins: "My persistent brick wall is my ancestor Permelia Church. Permelia married Benjamin F. Church, a carpenter, who came from Ulster County, New York, to Milwaukee, Wisconsin, in 1835." I've written about my search for the ancestry of Permelia, who, sources say was, born about 1815 in New Hampshire (1850 Census) and whose maiden name might have been Clemens (oldest daughter's death record).
Remarkably, a long-time genealogy researcher from Milwaukee read the query and decided to look in records he had from his own family searches. What what he found and sent me was a treasure, if not a brick-wall break through. He found Permelia was admitted on 11 Sep 1842 to St. Paul's Episcopal Church in Milwaukee (St. Paul's Episcopal Church records for communicants). The first Episcopal Church in Milwaukee, St. Paul's was founded May 23, 1838. The congregation met in judicial chambers until January 1845 when the first church was opened.
Even more precious, he sent the page with the dates of birth and shared date of baptism for Benjamin and Permelia's first two children:
> Hannah Maria Church born 21 September 1840 in Milwaukee
> Ann Augusta Church born 3 July1843 in Milwaukee
Sponsors for both girls were Royal P. Locke and Mary Jane Butler, likely the wife of T. D. Butler.
Hannah and Ann were baptized on 3 May 1846 in Trinity Chapel, an outreach from St. Paul's on the east side of the Milwaukee River to serve those on the west side. Officiating was the now famous Rt. Rev. Jackson Kemper, missionary bishop to the Northwest Territory. He became provisional bishop of the new Diocese of Wisconsin, then its diocesan bishop until 1870. For context, Wisconsin gained statehood in 1848.
The St. Paul records also show that Permelia Church – with many others – was removed on 7 Jan'y 1847 from St. Paul's and transferred to the new Trinity Church on the west side of the river. Trinity did not survive and by 1850 St. James Episcopal Church had been founded – also as an outreach of St. Paul's – to serve the west side.
So a next step in research is to see if Permelia was transferred to St. James Episcopal Church, if her other children were baptized there, and if there is a record of her funeral.And then there is the possibility that the baptismal sponsors might be researched for clues. The ability to take more steps is due to NEHGS publishing my quest and the kind genealogist sending me the St. Paul's records. To both I say thank you!
Please follow my genealogy postings on Twitter: http://twitter.com/BBPetura
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Thank you! And good researching!


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genesismarketing necesitaba un nuevo diseño de página web y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 81 diseños de 26 diseñadores freelance.
This contest targets improvement of the main landing page design of HubCast.com. After filling out and submitting a simple request for quote form a user is instantly offered pricing and multiple options. The current page is http://www.hubcast.com/PrintService…nting.aspx and we would like to dramatically improve the conversion off this page.
HubCastoffers an easy-to-use online print service where people can get immediatequotes, compare pricing and options, and then print their high end marketingmaterials and print projects anywhere in the world within 24 hours and in mostplaces same day with the highest quality possible printed on HP Indigo Printingpresses. We automatically route a print project to the print service providerin-market and closest to its shipping destination. Our advanced, patent-pendingcolor control process delivers a uniform, brand consistent service worldwide.Please check out the site and core value prop on hubcast.com.
This contesttargets improvement of the main landing page design. After filling out andsubmitting a simple request for quote form a user is instantly offered pricingand multiple options for purchasing print. The current page ishttp://www.hubcast.com/PrintServices/Digital-Printing.aspx and wewould like to dramatically improve the conversion off this page.
1.) Increaseconversion and get everyone to fill out the form. (Can be in stages over multiple pages)
2.) Buildtrust and credibility and look like an authority
Initialentries can be GIF, JPG, PNG, PDF - as long as they are hi-res enough to seeclearly. We'll need the winning design as a PSD HTML CODING IS NOT an obligation. Work is expected to bedelivered as PSD. But, there is a $200 bonus (total $1000) if the work isdelivered as transitional html template
Must include all elements of the current page:
- Thequestions
- A versionwith bottom of the page copy and a version without
- TheHubCast logo in the upper left
- Thecurrent H1 Text
- Theverisign and BBB logos
- We protectyour privacy link and or icon
-Mustinclude the 800 number highligthed on the page
- Must usecustomer logos (Google, Cisco, John Deere, Novartis, Thermo Fisher Scientific,Chase)
- Please usea one or a few bright colors orange/yellow.
- Must havean about us, help and your account link
- Must havethe following links at the bottom Terms & Conditions | Privacy Policy | Site Map
- Must usethe dark blue of the hubcast logo on the page somewhere.
- Would liketo see text and imagery that can be replaced for other versions of the pagehere are a few examples – http://www.hubcast.com/PrintService…nting.aspx
Pleasefollow our value prop our typical ad copy reads as follows:
FreePrinting Quotes
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PersonalService & Fast Turnaround
Use allquestions, and please don't reword the questions - you are allowed to changethe order though
Please usestock images
Please don'tstick to the current look and feel - changing (the position of) the pagemarketing copy (headline, taglines), changing the image.
Ok to putthe current questions on two pages and put the contact information collectionon the second page
Must be 18years or older
The odds ofwinning dependent upon the number of eligible entries received.
This contestruns till October 23rd 2008
Within 7days after the contest is closed we will inform the winner
Landing pages we admire:
Look and Feel Designs We Admire
PBwiki.com – very relevant
Competitors: 48hourprint.com, printrunner.com, mimeo.com
- web2.0 style
- fresh
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- The look and feel is pretty slick. Remember we need to use some flash colors wither a yellow or an orange.
a traditional / formal design.
copied sites - looking fororiginality.
Too many colors
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Franklin Avenue, skimming past the mouths of Hollywood's eastern canyons, at the disappearing far-north edge of city maps, forms a halfhearted high street for the apartment dwellers clustered on its banks. Public life happens in the Mayfair grocery store, and in a block-long stretch of sidewalk cafés and used-book stores. The apartment buildings are old, and in some cases beautiful, like the Villa Carlotta, a late-nineteen-twenties Mediterranean-style structure designed by Arthur Harvey, where the architect Wallace Neff lived for many years.
Across from the Villa Carlotta is the avenue's defining anomaly: a monumental turreted castle, also designed by Harvey, on a three-acre site, with formal gardens, a bubbling stream, a tennis court, and a pair of rubber trees that are more than a hundred years old. Seven stories tall, the castle is an overgrown folly the color of farm cream, with swaying long-necked palms that seem to graze its roofs. "You want to circle the block and look at it," Richardson Robertson III, a local architect, says. "It's unusual in the modern-box world we live in to see so many nooks and crannies and little windows and interesting roof lines." Built as the Château Élysée, a long-term residential hotel for movie stars, it is considered by preservationists to be one of the city's grandest Norman-revival buildings. (The Château Marmont is smaller and sits on considerably less land.) Since 1973, the Château Élysée has been owned by the Church of Scientology, which calls it Celebrity Centre.
Scientology, the religion that grew out of L. Ron Hubbard's popular self-help manual "Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health," incorporates aspects of Eastern philosophy, management theory, and science fiction-a genre in which Hubbard was prolific. The first Scientology church was established in downtown Los Angeles, in 1954. Although the Church's spiritual headquarters are in Clearwater, Florida, and it has facilities around the world, Scientology is most deeply associated with Los Angeles and its entertainment industry. The dozens of local buildings owned by the Church, many of them historically significant and now prominently marked with posters advertising "Dianetics" or with the eight-pointed cross that serves as one of Scientology's symbols, have entered the landscape of iconic L.A. architecture as a visually stimulating mash of old Hollywood and seventies-style art direction and signage. At Celebrity Centre, where a large yellow sign affixed to a south-facing roof overlooking the 101 Freeway announces the building and its owner, this juxtaposition is especially acute. Diane Kanner, an architectural historian who specializes in twentieth-century Los Angeles, calls the building Château Scientology.
From the outset, the conversion of celebrities was important to Scientology. An internal newsletter produced by the Hubbard Communications Office, probably in the mid-fifties, asserts, "There are many to whom America and the world listens. On the backs of these are carried most of the enthusiasms on which the society runs." It goes on, "It is obvious what would happen to America if we helped its leaders to help others. Project Celebrity is part of that program. It is obvious what would happen to Scientology if prime communicators benefitting from it would mention it now and then." The piece concludes with a list of the day's stars-Orson Welles, Howard Hughes, Walt Disney, and Greta Garbo among them-referring to them as "game" and "quarry" for Scientologists to "hunt." Though Scientology is not known to have had success with this early group, the movement now counts Tom Cruise, John Travolta, Kirstie Alley, and many other celebrities as members.
Celebrity Centre is used for Scientology courses and for "auditing," a mainstay of the religion, in which a person undergoes a guided talk-therapy session, usually while holding a device known as an E-Meter, which is supposed to measure one's spiritual state. The goal is to eliminate "mental image pictures" associated with traumatic events; when a person is "Clear"-freed of all such associations-he can advance to the mystical and esoteric levels of Scientology. The path to becoming an "Operating Thetan," or pure spiritual being ("thetan" being Hubbard's word for the soul), is laid out in a table called "The Bridge to Total Freedom: Scientology Classification Gradation and Awareness Chart of Levels and Certificates." Scientology is a technological religion and claims to have developed "exact, precise methods to increase man's spiritual awareness and capability." Completion of the Bridge takes years, and each stage requires a cash investment. An initial twelve-and-a-half-hour auditing session costs between six and seven hundred dollars, Greg LaClaire, a vice-president of Celebrity Centre, says. (Aspiring Scientologists can mitigate the expense by choosing to be audited by a fellow initiate rather than by a staff member.) In the Holiday 2007 Dianetics and Scientology catalogue, a deluxe Planetary Dissemination Edition E-Meter-billed as a "tool for Golden Age of Tech certainty," to assist in "faster progress up The Bridge"-was offered, in "Diamond Blue," for five thousand five hundred dollars.
On Celebrity Centre's upper floors, there are thirty-nine hotel rooms to accommodate visiting Scientologists. An undated leaflet advertising "a safe environment for Celebrities and Scientologists" contains a plug from Travolta: "Good rest, good food, good service but most of all I felt very safe in this space"; Celebrity, a magazine produced by Celebrity Centre, which features a Scientology celebrity on the cover of every issue, urges readers to stay at the hotel for five to six weeks "to complete your Basics books & lectures courses faster!" In the basement, there's a drug detox facility. The castle also fosters a feeling of community. "Hollywood's not a very easy industry to bust into," Hilary Royce, a former dancer who went to Sarah Lawrence and is now the director of community affairs for the Church of Scientology International, told me. "Any artist at Celebrity Centre would tell you it's a safe place to study scripts, to network. It's really a hub."
The promise of connectedness attracts many Hollywood hopefuls. Celebrity Centre offers a range of Success in the Industry Seminars-Breaking Into Commercials, How to Get Cast in the Pilot Season, Hollywood Acting Class-which it promotes with flyers posted at auditions around town. A former actor I spoke with told me that when he first got to Hollywood, a decade ago, he went to Celebrity Centre for what "seemed like a legitimate industry workshop," only to find that "it was more or less an opportunity for them to solicit people."
"I stood in the foyer and watched this massive indoctrination presentation, where Marissa Ribisi, Juliette Lewis, and a casting director came out talking about how great it is to be in Scientology," he said. "This celebrity panel was confirming that the people in the audience could in fact realize their dreams if they took courses and got 'Clear.' Then I was followed by auditors, who tried to get me to go into another room and get audited. It was a pervasive, invasive type of sales pitch. I started to get really pissed, and then they started to say that my stress was causing discomfort in my life."
"Those seminars are absolutely, utterly, entirely an introduction to Scientology," Greg LaClaire told me. "They are an introductory service of the Church." But he said that he found the actor's account otherwise suspect. "There's so much interest in Scientology. We really, really, really don't have any inclination or the time to talk to someone who's not interested."
A longside glowing testimonials from people-celebrities and not-who credit Scientology for personal transformation, there are stories of savings spent, lives derailed, critics harassed. Non-Scientologists tend to get a thrill from the aura of coercion and seduction-not to mention kitsch-that clings to the Church. To them, the castle is a particular object of fascination, a magnificent confection that must not be tasted. The offerings of its kitchen are another matter. Celebrity Centre's restaurant, the Renaissance, is open to anyone who cares to eat there. A Hollywood producer, who asked that I not use her name in case she ever needs to deal with John Travolta's agent, recalled a brunch at the Renaissance some years ago, attended by non-Scientologist movie executives, agents, directors, and actors. "Everyone was titillated," the producer said. "It was like going to the foreign land and seeing the exotic people." In this case, she said, that meant some peculiar waiters, who repeatedly photographed them, rather than any recognizable celebrity. After the brunch, the producer and her friends asked for a tour of the building, and were taken upstairs to a penthouse suite where, they were told, Ginger Rogers used to stay. "The room is totally tricked out," the producer said. "There were these two little old ladies, who were obviously Scientologists, oohing and ahing." As the tour moved on, the producer and her boyfriend dallied. "We actually considered getting on the bed and having sex. I so wish that we had done that. Imagine being frog-marched out of the Celebrity Centre for getting busted having sex in the Ginger Rogers suite!"
Two years ago, Julien Nitzberg, a writer and director, decided to have a fortieth-birthday dinner at the Renaissance. His friend John Dutton, an architect, said that he was delighted at the chance to see the inside of the building. "I had always wanted to go there out of architectural curiosity, but you hear stories about people who go in and don't come out," he said. "I wasn't about to knock on the front door." It was a cold, dark night in early December. "The Christmas lights were going up. It was like a theme park-well manicured and clean and very carefully arranged and designed," Dutton recounted dreamily. The Renaissance was nearly empty, the wine served warm. The waiters seemed like actors impersonating waiters. Dutton and his fiancée, not relishing being in the deserted building late at night, left right after dinner. Others in the group went for a tour, and at the end were taken into separate rooms and asked if they would like to sign up for an introductory course. Nitzberg recalled that one of the tour guides kept saying things like "Woooo, it's so spooky, we're Scientologists," and wiggling his fingers at them. Late that night, Nitzberg sent Dutton's fiancée an e-mail from home:
Subject: I just hacked this computer.
We are locked in the Centre and can't get out. Come back and save us immediately!!
When I went to Celebrity Centre in December, for "Christmas Stories," an annual variety show, which, like the Renaissance, is open to the public but attended mainly by Scientologists, I detected nothing more threatening than a familiar air of Hollywood clubbiness. The stage, in a large iron-and-glass orangery known as the Garden Pavilion, was dressed to resemble the set of a nineteen-thirties radio show, with an electric "On Air" sign, a wide-mouthed fireplace stacked with logs and laden with red poinsettias, and a giant Christmas tree decorated with red and gold ornaments. The audience, with the exception of a couple of heavily made-up women in slinky, discover-me! attire, looked like typical NPR-listening folks. An actor named Jim Meskimen played the jovial m.c., introducing four ample men in red cummerbunds and bow ties-"the Chairmen of the Chord"-who sang "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer." There were sketches about the writers' strike, and then Lynsey Bartilson and Patrick Renna spoofed Frosty the Snowman (Renna, as Frosty: "The last thing I remember, I was a glass of water at the Four Seasons in Pasadena!") with a cast of children drawn from Celebrity Centre's song-and-dance troupe, Kids on Stage for a Better World. Jenna Elfman came out dressed as an elf, in striped tights and a green hat, along with a pigtailed Kelly Preston, also in an elf costume; at the end of their skit, about being laid off by Santa, Ella Bleu Travolta (Preston's daughter, with John Travolta) appeared, a confident child with glossy dark hair in a red hoodie, to tell them they could have their jobs back. At intermission, cookies and hot cider were served.
The highlight of Act II was Kirstie Alley, in a formal green gown, making fat jokes while pretending to judge the Westminster Tree Show. (Her children, True and Lillie Parker, wore Christmas-tree costumes.) The evening was short on L.R.H., as Hubbard is affectionately known to his disciples; a Hubbard quote on the back of the program, where Tom Cruise and John Travolta were thanked as benefactors, was so unobjectionable as to be trite: "When children become unimportant to a society, that society has forfeited its future." Proceeds from the tickets (seventy-five dollars for a reserved seat) benefitted the Hollywood Police Activities League, and went toward holiday gifts for underprivileged children in the neighborhood.
A newspaper story from 1928 announcing the plans for the Château Élysée reported, "A grassed moat will surround the building. Drawbridge entrances will lead into its lobby and corridor and armorial subjects will illuminate the vaulted ceiling." There were also six-paned casement windows and gargoyles in the eaves. But the Gothic aura of the château, which cost just under a million dollars to construct, was always more than architectural.
The château was built by Eleanor Ince, on land she had owned with her husband, Thomas Ince, a silent-film pioneer who was known as the Father of the Western. In the teens, the Inces homesteaded on the property in a one-story ranch house decorated with Indian headdresses and Western gear. On Ince's forty-third birthday, in 1924, he was invited onto William Randolph Hearst's yacht, with Charlie Chaplin, Louella Parsons, Hearst, and Hearst's girlfriend, Marion Davies. While on board, Ince fell ill; he died at home a few days later.
Some time after Ince's death, rumors emerged that Hearst had murdered him upon discovering him with Davies. This sinister version of events, which includes the speculation that Eleanor built the Château Élysée with hush money from Hearst, was immortalized in Kenneth Anger's "Hollywood Babylon," and persists-promoted by noir tours of Hollywood-to the Ince family's dismay. "People said that Hearst gave Eleanor the money," Marc Wanamaker, a Hollywood historical consultant who has worked with the Inces, says. "No. She was vice-president of Ince Studios and a partner in the business. She sold the assets to friends and built the Château Élysée, where she lived in a big suite. She invited friends-retired silent actors and actresses-to live there, in a five-star apartment house."
Throughout the thirties and forties, the château was an industry hangout. Luminaries who stayed there include Errol Flynn, Carole Lombard, Katharine Hepburn, and Cary Grant, and the Church invokes its Hollywood lore proudly. In the reception area of the Renaissance hangs a framed menu from 1937 (creamed turnips, gooseberry cobbler, a filet-mignon dinner for a dollar-fifty), discovered in the attic by the building manager, Art Medeiros. "This was the dining room when Humphrey Bogart would've eaten here," Medeiros told me. "This was the primo place in town." It's as if Falun Gong bought the Algonquin and advertised the gin Martinis that Dorothy Parker used to drink, but the Church's emphasis on the entertainment industry has made the building's transition to its current use seem almost logical. Ken Bernstein, the head of the city's Office for Historic Resources, put it this way: "Celebrities equivalent to today's Scientology celebrities-people who had that level of glamour and prestige-were significantly associated with that building."
The Church of Scientology bought the Château Élysée for a million dollars from a group affiliated with the First Congregational Church of Los Angeles, which had been using it since the nineteen-fifties as a retirement home. The building was run-down, with rebar poking through its shell, and, as studios moved to the valley and stars moved to Bel Air and the beach, the neighborhood, too, was becoming increasingly desolate. The Church used volunteers and staff for the restoration. Stephen Kent, a sociologist at the University of Alberta who specializes in alternative religions and has interviewed many former Scientologists, told me that "much of the labor that renovated the Celebrity Centre was performed by people on the R.P.F., or Rehabilitation Project Force, who often worked dangerously long hours for almost no pay." (Bob Adams, a former N.F.L. tight end who is the vice-president of the Church of Scientology International, said that the R.P.F.-which is sometimes characterized by critics as a punishment for Church staff members who get out of line-is a volunteer program for self-improvement. "They get frequent breaks, eight hours of sleep, and three healthy meals," he said. "The principal part is auditing, but the physical activity is very extrovertive for the individual and is found to be very therapeutic in itself." Besides, he said, the R.P.F. furnished only a portion of the labor for Celebrity Centre and worked alongside professional contractors.) In the late eighties, the city designated the château a historic-cultural monument and effectively prevented the Church from gutting it. "I think somebody noticed that we were prettying it up, and that's when the historians got involved," Medeiros says.
The acquisition of the Château Élysée marked the beginning of a spending spree by the Church in Hollywood. In 1977, it bought the expansive Art-Deco Cedars of Lebanon Hospital, near Silver Lake, and painted it a chalky azure color. The complex, which comprises ten buildings on and around L. Ron Hubbard Way-including the American Saint Hill Organization, a Scientology college-is known to Church members as Pacific Area Command.
Hollywood Boulevard, too, is a major stronghold. In 1979, the Church bought the Christie Hotel, a 1923 Georgian-revival, and the adjacent lot, where the chic Club New Yorker, owned by the actor Jean Malin, used to be. In the mid-eighties, the Church bought a 1923 bank building near Grauman's Chinese, as an office for Author Services, a literary agency that manages the publication and translation of L. Ron Hubbard's work, and in 2000 it acquired the late-forties mission-style church next door. In 1988 came the Guaranty Bank, a twelve-story 1925 Italianate Beaux-Arts building where Hedda Hopper once had an office. Now it houses the L. Ron Hubbard Life Exhibition and the office of the Church's international management, as well as an office of its Religious Technology Center, which holds the trademarks for Dianetics and Scientology, and, according to Church literature, "was created to meet the need to ensure the standard application of the technology and to eliminate any possibility of Scientology falling into the wrong hands." R.T.C. is run by David Miscavige, the most powerful figure to emerge in the Church since Hubbard's death, in 1986.
Across the street is the former Regal Shoe store, a pinkish-beige nineteen-forties streamline-moderne structure, with papered-over and black-curtained windows, bought by the Church in 1996 and used by its in-house architecture-and-design team. Four years ago, the Church spent $4.6 million on the El Cadiz, a gracious 1937 Spanish-style garden-apartment complex just off the boulevard. Six months later, the city-perhaps concerned for the building's fate-designated it a historic-cultural monument. The boulevard is also marked by more covert references to the Church's reach. The marquee of the shuttered Vogue theatre reads, "NOW LORD XEMU," presumably a prankster's allusion to one of the more mysterious aspects of what is widely believed to be Scientology's cosmology. Shrouded in secrecy and said to be intended only for upper-level Operating Thetans, it involves a malevolent galactic warrior known as Xenu or Xemu. (When I asked Bob Adams about Xemu, he said, "A small fraction of our scriptures are confidential, and I don't want to allude to something confidential.")
In the seventies and eighties, the Church, despite its fortifying real-estate acquisitions, found itself besieged. Dissatisfied former members alleged financial and psychological abuse; some asked for their money back. Journalists wrote exposés. Lawsuits abounded. Fighting to regain the church's tax-free status (which was revoked in the late sixties and eventually reinstated), Scientologists infiltrated government offices, stole documents, and bugged an I.R.S. meeting. In the investigation, Celebrity Centre and the Cedars of Lebanon complex were searched by the F.B.I., and L. Ron Hubbard's wife was sentenced to four years in prison for her role in the conspiracy. But for the Church of Scientology, a new religion with limitless ambition and a sharp awareness of the importance of image, rehabilitating elegant old buildings serves both as a powerful means of repairing its reputation and as a tangible metaphor for that work. It has spent tens of millions of dollars on seismic upgrades and historic restoration of its Hollywood properties, and would have spent far more had it paid market rates. The exteriors of its buildings are spotless, and many of them are watched over by twenty-four-hour cameras and security guards. "They do it to enhance their visual status," Robert W. Nudelman, the director of preservation at Hollywood Heritage, told me.
By the time the Church began to buy on Hollywood Boulevard, most other investors had fled, and the street belonged to dealers, runaways, and bums. Tourists came on coaches, saw the Walk of Fame, and got straight back on the bus. The Church of Scientology was one of the few things going; often, in those days, theirs were the only lights on after dark. Meanwhile, the Church worked to identify itself with the dream-factory aspect of Hollywood, both through its celebrity adherents and by promoting L. Ron Hubbard's gig, in the late thirties, as a writer of pre-feature cliffhangers and serials. (At one point, Hubbard's followers tried to get a star for him on the Walk of Fame, in recognition of his work in the industry.) It made little difference to the Church that Hollywood the neighborhood no longer had much to do with the entertainment industry. "Hollywood's blessing and its curse is that it's always been at once a place and an ideal," Eric Garcetti, the city-council member who represents Hollywood, says. "The Church of Scientology has always made those two things synonymous in its work. They consciously draw on the glamour of old Hollywood. They want to appeal to the creative community-actors, writers-and mine the best of that Hollywood ethos."
Nowadays, the Scientologists are part of the local establishment. The Church has hosted Chamber of Commerce mixers in its buildings; it helps out with an annual police- and fire-department barbecue, has a representative on the board of the Hollywood Arts Council and another on the board of the local business-improvement district, and maintains a strong presence in the Hollywood Thanksgiving-weekend parade. During the Christmas season, the lot next to the Christie is fashioned into "Winter Wonderland," a display with a towering fir tree and a resident Santa Claus on a faux-snow-and-glitter-encrusted set. "The longer they're here, the more credibility they have and the more respect," Leron Gubler, who runs the Chamber of Commerce, says. Kip Rudd, a senior planner at a city-redevelopment agency which came into Hollywood in the eighties to spur investment, says, "The Scientologists were the jewels along the boulevard in terms of keeping it vital. They've taken a variety of nice old buildings and maintained and upgraded them." Last year, the Los Angeles Business Journal gave the Church an award for adaptive reuse.
Other developers, encouraged by friendly politicians and incentives, have followed the Church's lead. "There's no question that people saw the beauty of old Hollywood in the buildings that they own and maintain," Garcetti says. "They helped many of us picture what a fully restored neighborhood might look like." The Broadway Hollywood, on the eastern end of the boulevard, a luxury apartment building whose interiors were designed by Kelly Wearstler, recently opened in an old department store. (Charlize Theron has reportedly bought a place there.) Night clubs have moved into the old storefronts and are attracting movie stars again. A W hotel is under construction. Hilary Royce, Scientology's community liaison, says that other property owners on the boulevard have come to the Church for advice about how to renovate their buildings. "We were some of the first people restoring our buildings to their original grandeur," she told me. "We were the real pioneers, no question, and we're proud of it."
Crossing the threshold of Celebrity Centre, you step over a cracked coat of arms embedded in the uppermost stair and a rounded script that reads, "Château Élysée." The Renaissance is directly on the right, in a delicately proportioned main room with an enclosed terrace. One afternoon in December, after an extensive tour of Scientology properties, I went to the Renaissance for lunch with Royce, Adams, and Greg LaClaire, of Celebrity Centre.
It was past two, and the place was empty, except for Girard, a lugubrious French maître d', and a pale young woman pouring ice water. We sat on the terrace, in carved-wood chairs with upholstered backs and seats, reproductions of the reproduction Louis XIV furniture found in the Château Élysée. I ordered lobster salad, and watched a security guard on a bike turn circles near a babbling fountain on the winter-brown lawn. A radio played fuzzy Christmas music. The Scientologists set about explaining the special role of the artist in society, and how, by enhancing the lives of artists, the Church enhances culture as a whole. LaClaire, who grew up in the Church and has worked at Celebrity Centre since he was nineteen, said, "There are a thousand people a week doing services here, each of them an artist or someone in one of the artistic industries, and twenty to twenty-five of these people are well known." He went on, "A huge percentage of Scientologists who are well known weren't well known before Scientology."
Royce mentioned that Hubbard had written on this subject, and excused herself from the table. She returned a few minutes later with a dusty green book, "Organization Executive Course, Public Division, Volume 6," part of a series written by Hubbard that is used in the management and standardization of all areas of Church activity. Royce read aloud from it: "Celebrity Centres should work to rehabilitate old or faded artists." She looked momentarily flummoxed, and began flipping through the pages, perhaps searching for something more ennobling. After a few more attempts, she closed the cover and set it down beside me. I opened the book. The pages were copies of typed memos by Hubbard. From 1971, the Celebrity Centre motto: "Real celebrities deserve the best in staff and service and image"; from 1973, "The purpose of Celebrity Centre is: to forward the expansion and popularization of Scientology through the arts, while remaining solvent and using highest quality tech." After a few moments, Royce took the book away, saying that I could find more helpful information in the glossy Celebrity Centre brochure.
Outside, a woman in work pants and a beige shirt maneuvered a wheelbarrow over a little bridge leading toward the Garden Pavilion. Earlier, Royce had said that if a non-artist or non-celebrity wanted to pursue Scientology at Celebrity Centre, "they wouldn't be turned away, but we might recommend a different church." Now she elaborated. "Here's the big picture with Scientology and Dianetics," she said. "The religion is expanding and expanding and there's a particular public and that public has needs. Celebrities are just a special public. They are. There's a celebrity public and a doctor public and a dentist public and a plumber public." She rambled on a bit, before returning to her original point. "The celebrity is a special public," she said. "We've got to help them."
Art Medeiros, the building manager, met us in the dining room and showed me molding, hand-painted in pastel colors by Church members, which he said had been refashioned from fragments found at the site. Hand-painted images of theatre masks, music stands, and dancing slippers decorated the walls. "We restored this room to be like the palace in Versailles," he said. "We sent a couple of our designers to France and they went to châteaus and hotels. They found that things were very eclectic in Europe, so we re-created that here. The renovations in this room added a lot more details and colors and stuff-before, it was a lot plainer. This was the first room to be done, in '87. It was a prototype for the rest. The historians loved this room. As you can see, it's a bit rococo, but it wasn't overboard." The Scientologists improve upon the past in the spirit of Sir Arthur Evans reconstructing the Palace of Knossos-call in the carpenters, fresco the walls, and suddenly the old heap looks like something. Nudelman, from Hollywood Heritage, who visited the building when it reopened, told me, "Subtlety was never really something I noticed with their work."
We walked down the hall-triple-coated with pink, cream, and salmon paint, applied to the walls with sea sponge-to the former lobby, where Church artisans had painted the ceiling with a trompe-l'oeil landscape of ancient columns dripping with vines. The walls were hung with colorful posters and flat-screen televisions playing videos to illustrate the major principles of Scientology. In a corner, near a roaring fire, was an E-Meter.
I saw lots of people in their twenties and thirties, casually but deliberately dressed, streaming downstairs, like college students let out of class, or gathered at a small outdoor café, smoking. I recognized Patrick Renna-Frosty-but no one else. In front of the elevator, there was a long-haired kid in expensive skate-inspired clothes, talking on a cell phone. Maybe he will be famous someday.
We took the elevator to the fourth floor, where the walls were decorated with paintings made by Scientologists in the style of seventeenth-century portraits. Medeiros let us into No. 407, a suite with a large living room, a kitchen, and a bedroom up a flight of stairs. "Kirstie Alley designed this suite," he said. "This is the Chinois, Oriental look." Bronze-and-blue Chinese toile wallpaper ran through the living room and kitchen and covered the hood of the oven. A porcelain statuette of an Asian woman formed the base of a lamp with a square bell shade. The kitchen cabinets were original, and painted white. A small-tiled sink was new but probably historically accurate, except for the metallic color of some of the tiles. "She went for gold," Medeiros said. "She wanted a little flash."
Upstairs, in the bedroom, there were silver-gelatin prints of Gloria Swanson, Mary Pickford, Rudolph Valentino. The floors were bamboo, in keeping with the Asian theme. Tasselled floor-to-ceiling drapes in robin's-egg blue were drawn back to reveal a green landscape of treetops and fronds. The late-afternoon sun made the Villa Carlotta and its tile roof glow orange. The Hollywood sign was visible high up on the hill. I stood there and tried to fix it in my mind. It was likely the best view of it I'll ever get.


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Why Call Tyrone – Just Go See Him
There will be a Reading at Hue-Man Bookstore & Cafe, New York, NY Monday, October 30th @ 6:00 pm for Deconstructing Tyrone -- A New Look at Black Masculinity in the Hip-Hop Generation by Natalie Hopkinson & Natalie Y. Moore
Do you know Tyrone? That smooth-talking, irresistible fellow whose essence is full of swagger, rhythm, and flow? The militant revolutionary of the 1960s evolved into the pimp/thug of the hip-hop era? You know, the archetype converted into a hit single?
Tyrone is the Black man seen through the media lens, through stereotype, through the eyes of Black women. In Deconstructing Tyrone, journalists Natalie Hopkinson and Natalie Y. Moore examine Black masculinity from a variety of perspectives, looking not for consensus but for insight. With chapters on Detroit mayor Kwame Kilpatrick, on the complicated relationship between women and hip-hop, on babydaddies, on gay Black men on the so-called "down low," on strippers and their fathers, on Black men in the office, at school, and in jail, Deconstructing Tyrone presents a multifaceted picture of American Black men now.
Advance praise: "A deconstruction done in love… Breaks down the myths surrounding Black masculinity in a way that inspires hope and points the way toward change." — Gwendolyn D. Pough, author of Check It While I Wreck It: Black Womanhood, Hip-Hop Culture and the Public Sphere "With compassion, wit, and keen intelligence, the authors have touched upon our rarely spoken truths. Here is a vision of the complex, vibrant humanity living outside the bleak statistics and damning headlines." — William Jelani Cobb, author of To The Break of Dawn: A Freestyle on the Hip-Hop Aesthetic "Kudos to these two sisters for presenting us in a true light." — TomJoyner, Jr.
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NATALIE HOPKINSON is a staff writer at the Washington Post and a Scripps Howard doctoral fellow at the University of Maryland-College Park, where she is also a visiting professor of journalism. A graduate of Howard University, she lives in Washington, D.C., with her husband and two small children.
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PFW news on the Chargers, Eagles, Jets, Falcons and Cardinals.
The Way We Hear It
Before the Chargers make the all-important decision of what to do with RB LaDainian Tomlinson, they will first sort things out with QB Philip Rivers. We hear GM A.J. Smith's initial order of business this offseason will be working out a long-term deal with his QB, whose contract expires after the 2009 campaign. Given how valuable Rivers was to the Bolts this past season, leading the league's second-ranked scoring offense despite getting little support from the running game, he is likely to command a hefty sum of money. One of his QB counterparts from the 2004 draft — Pittsburgh's Ben Roethlisberger — signed a $102 million deal last year, and another one — the Giants' Eli Manning — is expected to soon do the same. Considering Rivers' '08 numbers — he passed for 4,009 yards and 34 TDs with a 105.5 rating — are better than any stats Roethlisberger or Manning have put up, it wouldn't be surprising to see the San Diego signalcaller join the $100 million QB club. At this point, he's the player the team can least afford to lose.
NFL Whispers
EAGLES: Chad Ocho Cinco to the Giants? Hang on a minute. Yes, rumors have floated that the Giants might be interested in adding a receiver, especially given Plaxico Burress' legal situation and the fact that Amani Toomer is a free agent and not likely to be back. But as much as GM Jerry Reese likes talent, we hear there might be some people in the organization who would oppose the move, given Ocho Cinco's histrionics and the potential clash it might cause with the businesslike atmosphere head coach Tom Coughlin has worked hard to establish. That said, the Giants would be buying low. Ocho Cinco is coming off his worst season since becoming a star, and the Bengals are said to be willing to move him at a friendly price.
JETS: Rex Ryan has made comparisons between a couple of his Jets defenders and those he coached in Baltimore. In different contexts, he's likened Kerry Rhodes to Ed Reed and Vernon Gholston to Terrell Suggs. It remains to be seen whether he'll look to deploy these players in similar capacities or whether he has similar expectations for them.
FALCONS: Although he recently turned 36 and was slowed by a knee injury late last season, word out of Atlanta is DT Grady Jackson could be back with the Falcons for another season. Jackson, who will be a free agent, has a history with head coach Mike Smith after jumping from the Smith-coached Jaguars defense in 2007 to the Falcons in '08. Sources say Atlanta's top offseason priorities appear to be at safety and linebacker, so keeping Jackson in place for another season at a relatively cheap cost may be an attractive option for the club.
CARDINALS: It turns out Cardinals TE Stephen Spach suffered both a torn ACL and a torn MCL and meniscus in his right knee in the playoff victory over the Panthers. Word is Spach, who had taken over the team's starting TE role before his injury, is looking at a six-month rehabilitation period, which would allow him to be ready for the start of training camp.
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WEDNESDAY, June 8, 2011 (HealthDay News) -- A drug maker has agreed to suspend the sale of its animal drug 3-Nitro from the market because it contains organic arsenic that can be transformed into inorganic arsenic, a known carcinogen, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) said Wednesday.
The drug, also known as Roxarsone, was approved by the FDA in 1944 and has been used in broiler chickens to control coccidiosis -- a disease that affects the intestinal tracts of animals -- and to speed weight gain, feed efficiency and improve color of the meat.
"The levels of inorganic arsenic found in chicken livers are very low and represent a very low health risk to people who eat chicken," Dr. Bernadette Dunham, director of FDA's Center for Veterinary Medicine, said during an afternoon press conference.
"Consumers can continue to eat chicken as 3-Nitro is suspended from the market," she said. "Furthermore, FDA does not believe there is a need to recall chicken already in commerce."
The Alpharma division of Pfizer Inc. voluntarily suspended 3-Nitro after testing of 100 chickens found higher levels of arsenic in chickens given 3-Nitro than in birds that did not receive the drug.
The FDA pointed out that organic arsenic occurs naturally in the environment and is commonly found in water, air, soil and food.
However, over the last eight years, studies have found that the less toxic form of arsenic -- organic arsenic, which is commonly found in 3-Nitro -- can become the more toxic inorganic arsenic, the FDA said. And it is this form of arsenic that researchers found in the livers of chickens treated with 3-Nitro.
Although 3-Nitro was approved in 1944, over the years there have been several other FDA reviews and approvals of the drug. The latest was in 2009, according to the agency.
At the time 3-Nitro was approved it was assumed that the organic arsenic in 3-Nitro would be excreted as organic arsenic, which is not known to cause cancer.
"Until recently, scientific evidence indicated that animals exposed to organic arsenic rapidly excrete the compound in its original form -- as organic arsenic. FDA approved the product at doses and withdrawal times that, based on this available information, allowed for the safe and effective use of the product when used according to the label directions," the agency said.
According to the FDA, Alpharma will continue selling 3-Nitro for the next month, which the company says will allow time for chicken farmers to find alternate ways of protecting their animals from coccidiosis.
With the suspension of 3-Nitro only one approved animal drug containing arsenic remains on the market, called Nitarsone, also made by Alpharma. This drug is also used in chickens and turkeys. The FDA has little information on this drug, but is now looking into it, Dr. Bill Flynn, deputy director for science policy at FDA's Center for Veterinary Medicine, said during the press conference.
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For more information on 3-Nitro, visit the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.


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A letter from Mike Huber, Director, Camp & Retreat Ministries:
As we continue the process of Strategic Planning, we find ourselves contemplating a significant number of meaningful questions. What is our mission? How do we achieve that mission? What makes us a unique ministry to the world? How do we connect with and augment the work of our local churches? How do we financially undergird the mission to remain viable and relevant for future generations? Our formal mission statement is being reviewed by the Strategic Planning Team, but I find it interesting to ponder what our visionary leaders from over 100 years ago thought when they started United Methodist Camp and Retreat Ministries.
In this conference, Findley Camp and Retreat Center is 78 years old this year! These leaders saw these facilities and the program opportunities as critically important to the life and vitality of their local churches and communities. If you went to Sunday school, you went to camp,; if you were in UMYF (United Methodist Youth Fellowship), you went on a retreat - you might attend a family retreat or camp; if you participated in UMW (United Methodist Women) or UMM (United Methodist Men), you went to a retreat; the leadership teams of the church met at the centers for strategic thinking and prayer apart from their local surroundings.
These locations of incredible natural beauty and serene space have been a part of generations of families' Christian education and spiritual formation. As the church has begun to shift and redefine itself through a number of challenges and in the midst of decline, these incredible resources also must redefine and adapt while also remaining a resource to local churches as they build disciples of Jesus Christ. These are exciting times with many opportunities to collaborate with churches and other organizations seeking to do good in the world. It is clear that we have much to do and much to learn as we listen for God's voice and watch for the places God is calling us to serve.
The Committee on Camp and Retreat Ministries, the Strategic Planning Team, and the year round staff team, are all committed to answering the challenges facing us now and preparing the way for the future God is calling us to. In Matthew 11:28 we are reminded that when we are heavy-laden and weary we are to come to Jesus and he will give us rest. Camp and Retreat Ministries is a renewal experience for the faithful, a birth-place for creativity and vision, a spark that gets the fire going, a crossroads on one's journey or a sanctuary for the weary. In all these cases, Jesus awaits to meet you where you are and walk with you. May you be open to what God has in store for you this day and the days gifted to you in the future - and please pray for the ministry of CRM.
Mike Huber
Director of Camp and Retreat Ministries
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