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Fitch notes that specially serviced loans increased 48% during 1Q '09, and 5 times as high as the end of 2007.
Heavy defaults this month are likely to make a lot of headlines.
Standard & Poor's Ratings Services said the delinquency rate on U.S. commercial mortgage-backed securities, or CMBS, surged 28% just in March as the figure quickly approaches the peak following the last recession.
Commercial delinquencies, which long lagged the problems in the residential market, have been spiking since mid-2008 as the recession deepened, vacancies increased and new owners have been unable to refinance mortgages.
The rate climbed to 1.85% from 1.57% in February, putting the figure near the December 2003 peak of 1.96%. All property types, except health care, saw higher delinquency rates and delinquent amounts.
The office sector's delinquencies rate surged 48% just last month, while the amount of retail loans behind - $3.46 billion - overtook multifamily ones as the biggest source of delinquencies. A total of 98 retail loans became delinquent in March, with some related out-of-business chains like Circuit City and Linens 'n Things.
S&P said it continued to downgrade CMBS last month, cutting 130 ratings, while upgrading two. During the first quarter, 96% of 402 ratings actions were downgrades.
the delinquencies are either up 18% or 28% - which one?
Delinquencies are not approaching the peak of the last recession. The 2001 recession had relatively low delinquencies (half today's levels), and the early 1990s had much higher delinquencies than 1.87%.
Oh. She thinks there was a recession in 2003.
There were over 1500 CMBS rating actions in the first quarter.
Dillard's wanted to break it's lease that expires in 2017 because Highland Mall (JPMCC 2002-CIB4) is supposedly mismanaged and is now a ghost town, so they sue in court. Mind you the Dillard lease appears to have been renegotiated in 2007.
The mall is having issues: The 3Q 2008 numbers were 1.38x NCF DSCR and 81% occupancy down from prior year occupancies of 94+%, and significantly lower than the rest of the MSA. They lost JC Penney and apparently there is dark space (no relation) in that section of the mall. And there is a huge ongoing local dispute because the mall shut down early one day following a predominantly african-american track event - the NAACP has given speeches, names like Jim Crow were plastered on billboards, and a boycott has been sounded by african american and hispanic populations (this mall is in Texas) - so it has issues.
Now their legal fees and judgments are likely to exceed any lease expense they could have had.
Still not sure how this will play out. Eight more malls added today.
Sounds like Simon might be preparing to turn in the keys on Palm Beach Mall. This is the 3rd largest loan, 5.8%, in JPMCC 2003-PM1A.
The property performance declined drastically last year (Madoff?) to just 0.63x DSCR for YE 2008 from 2007 DSCR of 1.32x. Simon has been covering the shortfall out of pocket, but apparently stopped doing so, according to Kris Hudson at the WSJ (sorry no link, but pasted below).
No special servicer notes were readily available. You'll recall that Eastland Mall (formerly Glimcher's) went through a similar process, but it dragged out for years and the saga continues today.
Even the biggest landlords face losing properties to foreclosure in this recession. Take mall owner Simon Property Group Inc., which is poised to forfeit the 42-year-old Palm Beach Mall after the servicer on the mall's $51 million securitized mortgage initiated foreclosure proceedings last week.
Simon inherited the mall in West Palm Beach, Fla., when it bought two rival mall owners in 1996 and 1998. Even then, Palm Beach Mall was losing out to newer, ritzier malls in neighboring cities. Simon renovated it this decade, but it continued to decline and now is mostly empty. An effort to lure home-goods retailer Ikea was scuttled by the recession.
In recent years, all of the cash flow generated by Palm Beach Mall went to paying the interest on its mortgage. But it fell short in the past year, and Simon opted against chipping in extra money to cover the difference in March and this month.
Efforts to renegotiate the loan failed, according to a person familiar with the talks. A representative of the mortgage's servicer, Orix Capital Markets LLC, declined to comment, as did a Simon representative.
Solana was featured in the WSJ today regarding it's request for debt relief, which we commented on in early March, here.
Nothing much new. Noted that Travelocity did not renew it's 145k sq ft lease (they have a total of 540k sq ft), and that revenue was down 60% at the Marriott. Maguire is the guarantor, the person not the company, and has defended the request as just standard paper pushing - it is not standard when you call up the special servicer (unless you work at a distressed debt fund).
I really don't like Travelocity - you can't open your travel plans in different windows/tabs - it will just crash. They went to some effort to make it work in a non-userfriendly way, as evidenced by American Express travel, which uses Travelocity's framework for their website but just brands it as AmEx Travel. The American Express website doesn't have all the non-user-friendly bits. So, my point is that I'm negative on Solana.
The property is encumbered with a senior mortgage and mezzanine debt held by Otera (a unit of Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec). So the term "auction" is used lightly - much like John Hancock tower earlier this month, there was likely one bidder and a distressed/non-market price, essentially held just to transfer control to the appropriate party. On the other hand, REFI implied nearly two months ago, that Otera had hired Eastdil to market the property for sale, so it's not 100% clear.
They've since had to layoff over 100 employees, defaulted on multiple loans, and been hauled in to court losing numerous assets in the fray.
They also owned a boat named the 63' yacht, RegenSea, which brings back memories of another CRE investor who defaulted on a slew of loans - Hurley Booth (Jr.), who owned a 41' footer down in Tallahassee named the ContingenSea. What cute boat names.
Hurley Booth missed some of the limelight when he defaulted on virtually all of his loans at once, because this all happened in late 2007 and early 2008 - right when the news was focused on MBS Companies (Michael B Smuck). Hurley owned a number of student housing complexes around Tallahassee and they are mostly REO now, although Midland has been a little slow to make that move on the loans it controls - not sure why. The loans were spread across three deals: FUNBC 2001-C4, JPMCC 2005-C13, and JPMCC 2006-C14. The Booth website has the tagline, "Building a Legacy" - surely they could've come up with something less ironic by now.
The fact that there were appraisal reductions related to the Promenade Shops at Dos Lagos and the Westin Portfolio (in both JPMCC 2007-C1 and 2008-C2), which were so widely reported in November they helped move the market to historical wides, was no surprise. However, the ASER calculation was off by a $100,000 on the Promenade Shops loan - a mistake that you really don't expect to see. It is a rather simple calculation.
Keeping in mind the '08 deal in particular was a small deal dominated by several large weak loans, the interest shortfall reached high into the capital stack effecting as high up as the A-rated (orig. rating) F class (higher if they stick to the incorrect calculation - there has not been a comment on the error yet...). This is significant - the subordination rate on this class is over 9% (3x historical losses) and it's already being hit with shortfalls. Again, it was a weak deal, a small deal, and a chunky deal, but a significant event nonetheless.
The whole story is worth putting up the picture of the man, J.P. Morgan, with a knife in his hand ready to cut out the entrails of the poor originator who made these pathetic loans in the first place.
During the first quarter, the Company completed $48.4 million in aggregate of dispositions at an average cap rate of 7.4%. Subsequent to quarter end an additional asset closed for $15 million.
The Company currently has assets in its operating portfolio that are under contract for sale for an aggregate sales price of approximately $32 million, as well as approximately $72 million that are currently under non-binding letters of intent scheduled for completion in 2009, subject to certain conditions. Additionally, the Company has $300 million of properties already in the market with brokers and anticipates taking an additional $290 million to market within the next month.
Johnny Hendrix, Executive Vice President and Asset Management said, "We are making good headway in our desire to achieve our full year dispositions goal, however, we provide no assurance that we will be successful in closing these transactions."
CMBS Loans Harder To Negotiate Because More Parties Involved?
I repeatedly hear how CMBS loans are more problematic because there are so many parties involved in each loan. It came up again this week with the GGP bankruptcy.
Let's be crystal clear here. You default on a loan, you have 1 party to deal with, and it is the Special Servicer. That is their precise job, and they get paid 100 bps for doing it. You do not deal with the master servicer, bond holders, originator, trustee, or anyone else.
The Special has some pretty defined steps they may take in order to resolve the loan. They can foreclose on it, put in place new management, and eventually sell the property and apply any recoveries to the Trust (after taking out for any expenses involved). Alternatively, they can extend the loan term, generally for 1 year at a time, and rarely more than 2 years. Without any data to back it up, but with reasonable insight, these two options account for the overwhelming majority of workouts on defaulted loans.
It is not supposed to be easy to violate a contract you signed on a mortgage document - so, you don't get to complain about it too much.
Obviously there have been some news this week, and I've been unfocused on the markets with little time to comment or share thoughts.
GGP filing is the big one, despite the fact that it has been widely anticipated for quite some time and is still trading above it's lows set pre-bankruptcy. It was a little surprising to see a fair amount of the bankruptcy remote SPEs that own the malls run by GGP included in the bankruptcy filing, but I think some folks' conclusions are a little too early and may prove to be wrong. At the end of the day, even though it is a bunch of malls, their CMBS is low-levered and has great cash flow.
That being noted, I spent a fair amount of time while traveling this week reading other blogs while squinting at a PDA and waiting on some form of transit. I'm a strong supporter of many well written blogs, and generally believe they provide a better source of information than the legacy news organizations. You cannot even compare the innacurate and insufficient 'news' from sources such as Johnathan Weil's columns in Bloomberg to a well-argued and fact-supported blog entry from the likes of Zero Hedge or Calculated Risk. Even some linkfest format blogs are well thought-out, and can be useful. However, occasionally you catch the blogs that you really like stepping outside the bounds of their knowledge and jumping on the journalistic hysteria bandwagon, and it's just ashame (sorry no links, but the initials are ZH and CR).
But I digress, some other stuff happened this week too. Vacancies increased, Beige Book was released and was negative, The Donald saying things like you'd have to be dumb not to be buying CRE (I actually saw this during the 5 minutes I was in front of a TV), and DDR put up a portfolio of 52 shopping centers up for sale.
Law firm Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP on Monday sent a letter to General Growth and one of its outside law firms explaining that it represents holders of 25% of the company's $395 million in bonds due last March 16 that weren't paid, according to people familiar with the matter. Bondholders must collectively represent at least 25% of a given bond issue to compel a trustee to act on their behalf.
The GGP situation continues to be interesting. The malls are cashflowing and low-leveraged for the most part, while the company is highly levered and is swamped with maturities that it can't refi because there is no market to refi into. I continue to believe that there are recent investors (maybe Ackman) who have bought the longer-dated corporate debt for pennies, only to force a bankruptcy where they are likely to get paid back near par.
This is last week's news, but GGP had another loan pass its maturity date - $165 mm Jordan Creek. 3Q 2008 NCF DSCR - 1.72x, 95% occupancy.
S&P placed over 100 CMBS AAAs including 20% super seniors, AJs, and IOs on Rating Watch Negative this morning.
Again, this is not unexpected and is in fact an extremely delayed reaction on their part. The 20% super seniors (these are prior to the 30% super dupers - I hate that word) are a bit of a surprise, but not really. I expect this will reign in some of the tightening temporarily, but look for spreads to continue their momentum tighter until some truly bad news regarding CRE starts rolling in.
These little tidbits about 15% price declines, John Hancock, and 1.8% delinquency rates aren't really *bad enough* to drive prices lower than the already distressed prices in the market. Frankly, PPIP et. al. are not good enough to whip prices higher at a faster pace either.
S&P Prepping For Wave of Downgrades - Surf's Up!
NEW YORK, April 6 (Reuters) - Standard & Poor's on Monday said it will make negative pronouncements on U.S. commercial mortgage-backed securities on a "large scale" in coming days after a review of the securities.
The most-recently issued CMBS are "highly susceptible" to downgrades, including top-rated "AAA" issues, after the review that accounted for eroding real estate markets, lack of financing for the assets, and the economic recession.
Macerich - Refied two mortgages, extended two. Shops at North Bridge received a $205 mm 7-year, 7.5% coupon mortgage from insurance money; it refies a $205 mm pari passu loan with a 4.67% coupon in LBUBS 2004-C6 and MSC 2004-IQ8, but the new DSCR is still roughly 1.89x using 3Q 08 annualized net cash flow numbers. On a separate unamed property, they closed a $115 million bank loan with a 2-year term floater at L+350 bps with a 5.25% floor.
Macerich also extend the $54 mm Inland Center in San Bernadino (LBUBS 2004-C2) loan all the way out to 2/2011 with a 50 bp coupon step-up every 6 months. BOMLW points out that this destroys the A2 holder who would have been paid down substantially had the loan paid off as scheduled. Again, the other extended loan remains unamed but received a 2-year extension as well.
The mention the two Simon malls in LBCMT 1999-C1 that we discussed yesterday.
Brandywine closed a $90 mm mortgage on a Philly office building taking out a soon to be maturing loan of $69mm. No further details.
Liberty also reported 6 separate loans funded by life insurance for a total of $317 mm. Half floaters and half fixed, with an all-in coupon of 7.1%.
JER delisted due to CMBS.
UK distressed debt funds lining up.
Stocks are up on no real news, and spreads are down on the same.
Office Vacancies are up 70 bps to 15.2% according to the REIS' data.
It's going to get much worse than that. I expect it to exceed 20% by year-end.
Don't read the WSJ article about this, btw, LingLing muddles fact and fiction. The headline is accurate though, and their graph is very nice (see right).
The two large Simon sponsored loans in this deal matured in the first quarter of this year, and apparently refied without any problems. Both loans were purportedly done through insurance company money, allowed Simon to take out new 10-year loans with interest rates just 70-75 bps higher than the old loans. Further, the loans were originated in 1999, so they had 10-years of embedded appreciation, so Simon was able to take out significant equity on the two loans.
Both of the prior loans were amortizing, so Simon took out a signficant $53.1 mm in cash out of the deal. This is realy what I expect to see in the coming "wave of maturities" - the exception being the 5-year loans starting in earnest in late 2010 and 2011 that seem problematic to me.
I was absolutely floored by the activity generated by the mark-to-market changes today, so I went back and re-read the proposals. I'm not getting it - there really isn't any significant change in the proposals. Really, there isn't.
Now someone will come back and say that everyone else is saying that it's going to allow the evil banks to mark their positions to some fantasy level - but, they already are. You can't mark these things up any higher than 100%!
This ultimately changes nothing. The relatively insignificant changes it makes to where you can bucket your loss is just another thing you need to analyze (discount) before you invest in the company in question.
John Hancock Tower has received ample coverage elsewhere, but it deserves a little clarification. At the risk of sounding like an optimist (please don't accuse me of that), it really doesn't imply much at all for commercial real estate in general.
Some believe it implies severe price corrections are coming for CMBS, but it doesn't really tell that story. The sole bidder had been buying up the mezz position for months - not only did they have a higher basis, but who would bid against them? They obviously are going to protect their position, so no serious bidder is going to compete, thus guaranteeing a low price.
Others point to it and say it proves CMBS are a good investment because the senior mortgage isn't close to taking a hit on this one. That is not fair either. The average LTV is just below 70% in CMBS, significantly higher than the 50 handle LTV on this loan. Further, LTV has historically been somewhat correlated to credit (lower credit requires a lower LTV by the underwriter), but that wasn't the case in recent years where lower credits could come into CMBS and receive high senior LTVs (some of the lowest LTVs went to high credit institutional investors).


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EE: Today is May 24, 1999. I believe we're moving on. I’m in Richmond, Virginia, today, at the home of Constance "Connie" Phillips. Ms. Phillips, thank you so much for having us here today. This is an interview for the Women Veterans Historical Project of the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.
I’ve got about thirty note cards here. The first question I ask folks—I try not to trip them up right at the beginning—where were you born and where did you grow up?
CP: St. Paul, Minnesota, I was born. I grew up in Concord, North Carolina.
EE: How did you get from St. Paul to Concord?
CP: Well, my father and mother moved, and they came to Salisbury, North Carolina. My father was engaged in a little enterprise with his brother, a slipper factory which went kaput. So then we moved to Concord, at which point he started a new business which went kaput.
EE: What years was this, the twenties?
CP: Well, jeez, I was born in ’24, so we’re talking late twenties.
EE: Before the Crash [of 1929].
CP: Yes, yes, that’s right.
in Boston at the Boston Homeopathic Hospital. Her friend moved to St. Paul and asked her to come out and work with her in the operating room.
EE: Wonderful. So your mom was a native of Massachusetts?
CP: No, she was a Canadian-born and grew up in Keene, New Hampshire.
EE: I guess in those days folks finished high school and then went for a couple years’ nurse’s training in a hospital.
CP: She was not allowed to go to nurse's training because she was under twenty-one. Her parents would not sign for her, because women did not do that kind of thing in that era. So she taught school one year, which she hated. After that, she was old enough and so she hauled herself off and went to nurse's training, which was remarkable for that era.
EE: You told me here before our interview started that your mom was actually in the First World War.
CP: She was in World War Number One, and she was at Fort Meade, Maryland, ready to go overseas, and she had a ruptured appendix, which almost killed her. Her unit went on off to wherever they went, France, wherever it was, I don’t even know that.
EE: This was what, ’17?
EE: And so she was in Minnesota, then joined the service?
CP: No, no, she joined the service before she went to Minnesota, somehow or other. I don’t know.
EE: But after her stay at Boston Homeopathic.
CP: Yes, that’s where she trained, and then she probably went into service then. I don’t know that. But then later in her early thirties is when she went to St. Paul and met my father. They were both in their thirties. This was a late marriage for that era. They were both never been married before, quite mature people.
CP: I have one sister who is twenty months younger. I saw her two weeks ago in Hillsborough, North Carolina.
EE: Wonderful. What’s her name?
EE: And your mom and your dad. Your mom, I think you told me, she later became a [U.S.] Public Health [Service] nurse?
CP: She moved to Concord. We lived in one room. This was my father, my mother, and two children, and it was tight. She got mighty sick of living in the house with her mother-in-law, so she said, “Well, what can I do?” So she goes and finds herself a job. And she decides that she and the children are moving, so she rented a house. And she said to my father, "The children and I are moving. We hope you will go with us," and he did. [Laughter] And of course, two weeks later it was his idea, you know.
CP: The way things go. But anyway, we rented two houses and then bought a farm outside of Concord which had been in my father’s family and sold to somebody else. But this farm was in our family for two hundred years.
EE: So there is way back a North Carolina connection.
EE: So y'all were in Concord then, I guess, before the Depression hit.
CP: The Depression did not really affect us. We were either living in my grandparents’ house or—and at that point my father was working for my grandfather at Cline and Moose Grocery Store in Concord. We never were hungry, we never saw people that were hungry. We moved to the country. We had a fantastic farm, forty-three acres. My daddy, who had a "nervous breakdown," later died of a brain tumor. Who knows? Anyway, he went to farming at age forty-five. He was very experimental. We had a quarter acre of asparagus. We had raspberries, both red and black. We had peaches of many varieties, including Georgia Bells, which do not ship. [Laughter] So anyway, we had a great childhood on the farm. I loved it. My sister hated it because she was a people person. Me, I was happy to eat peaches and read books.
CP: We went to town high school. We lived in the county, went to high school in town, and graduated from Concord High School.
EE: And you said you had about a hundred in your graduating class in ’42?
EE: If you were eating fruit and reading books on the farm, you must have liked school.
CP: Yes, I liked parts of it.
EE: What did you like about it?
CP: I was in love with my geometry teacher. I took art and band at the end of my junior year. I didn’t know what I wanted to do. It seemed silly to go ahead and graduate, so I thought, well, let me take a year off and do this. So I took art and band two years each and fell in love with art. Not drawing, not painting, but all the crafts. I got very interested in it and did my undergraduate stuff at Woman’s College [WC] in pottery, which was my love—metalwork, weaving, you know, the crafts.
EE: Was Seagrove a popular place then?
CP: I’ll tell you what was there then that my family had a connection with—Jugtown Pottery. And I have Jugtown Pottery. That is old Jugtown.
EE: Was it the Owens family that started that?
CP: He was the potter. No, the Busbees started it. And I have in my lockbox a letter from Mrs. Busbee. I wrote her, asking her about art. I had to interview somebody in college. And she wrote me at length what she thought about art, and it's sitting in my lockbox.
EE: Wow. I know Chapel Hill published a coffee table book not too long ago about the pottery.
CP: They were fine people, and they were good friends of my folks.
CP: Yes, I was on a bus coming back from Woman’s College on the weekend. Wasn’t that in December?
CP: I was coming back on a bus having gone—what year was that?
CP: All right. I must have been up there to visit somebody to see if I liked it, to see if I wanted to go there. I remember hearing about it in connection with that bus trip. Of course, the bus from Greensboro to Concord, I think it was seventy-three miles, as I remember, it took a fair while to stop in all those little towns.
CP: Yes. And everybody stopped.
EE: Do you remember any conversation about the war, the start of the war that you heard?
CP: I am probably the least politically oriented person you will ever run into. It’s just not on my page.
EE: Didn’t faze you. When did you graduate from high school, ’42?
EE: What did you do after you graduated from high school? Did you go right to WC?
CP: I chose that because of the art department, because they had a crackerjack art department there.
EE: Did you already know the name of somebody, the professors before you got there?
CP: It was really Ocracoke. And I loved every minute of it. What was great about it was we ate when we were hungry, we slept when we were tired. The mail boat came in roughly at four o’clock. That was the only thing that came to that island. Of course, we all went down to get our mail. So that was the only time frame we had.
EE: Did they have the Coast Guard station out there then?
CP: Yes, they had a Coast Guard station.
EE: I went to Ocracoke many summers in my youth.
CP: Oh, Ocracoke is a great place. Our jumping-off point on the mainland for the mail boat, I think, was Atlantic, and it took all day on this mail boat to get from Atlantic to get to Ocracoke.
EE: Was there anybody in Portsmouth then?
CP: I don’t remember Portsmouth at all.
EE: So when you got to WC, do you remember what dorm you were in?
EE: Did you come with roommates from back home or you just come on your own?
CP: I came with my sister’s best friend, Ann Llewellen. Then I had, each following year, different roommates. Ann left to get married.
EE: Did she marry a Spencer, by any chance?
CP: No, but her middle name was Spencer, Ann Spencer Llewellen.
EE: She didn’t have anything to do with Goodie's later on, did she?
CP: Got me. I have lost complete track of most everybody down there. See, I’ve been up here fifty years, you know.
EE: There’s a woman in my church back home who is Ann Llewellen Spencer. I just was wondering if that was any relation.
EE: You told me, before we started the interview, that you started your college career and then you interrupted it.
CP: And that’s how I got in the army.
EE: That was Christmas of ’44?
CP: Probably. Got me, man. I was not particularly patriotic, but I was mad because they had screwed me up. And they did that a lot. You know, they still do it.
CP: And they let you go so far before they tell.
EE: Before they tell you.
CP: And there I was, and I was really trying to get through. Not for any patriot—see, I’m not politically oriented, you know.
EE: But you were twenty, so did your mom give you any grief?
CP: No, no. No, no. They gave me ultimate freedom. Can you imagine letting a sixteen-year-old go alone for a month to Ocracoke Island? I mean, that’s pretty trusting. Of course, I didn’t get into any trouble.
EE: But you also were an independent type from the beginning out there on the farm, it sounded like.
CP: Well, we were raised—there was no distinction made between male and female. Women were allowed to do most everything, you know. My father may not have agreed with it, but my mother was all for it.
CP: Our art teacher, and I kept in touch with his daughter, Ann somebody or other, long gone. I don’t remember his name.
EE: Did you say Ivy?
CP: But, anyway, I was extremely impressed by all the teachers. I could not draw and I could not paint, but I had a fine time. And I loved the classes.
EE: Great. Dean [Harriet] Elliott, I guess, had gone on and left?
CP: She was the dean of women, I think, at that point.
EE: I can’t remember when she left to go to Washington to work in the Roosevelt administration.
CP: I have no memory of that at all. I’m apolitical.
EE: Did you have any fun social-wise? What was the social life like?
CP: Social life was rather sparse at Woman’s College because that was the war era. I was never particularly afraid of men, never paid much attention to them, really, but I remember walking out of the dorm one time and all I had seen for weeks was women, and some serviceman said hello to me. Well, it was so startling to hear a male voice that I panicked and ran back to the dorm. You know, I was just so surprised.
EE: This was somebody from the ORD [Overseas Replacement Depot]?
CP: I had no idea. Somebody walking around campus. You know, there were a lot of young men who, because it was a women’s college, would come over there and roam around.
CP: That’s right. Film was film. So that’s how I ended up being an army X-ray technician, much to my amazement.
EE: So did they talk about that option with you then before you joined?
CP: Oh, I’m sure so. I think I designated that.
EE: Did you say you signed up at a recruiter there in Concord or in Greensboro?
CP: I think I went to Charlotte. I wouldn’t be surprised.
EE: Is that where you reported back?
CP: Des Moines, Iowa. In February. And you talk about cold.
EE: This was February ’45.
CP: It was cold. February the 8th. It was cold out there, and they made us march outside. They made us do our exercises, and I used to run in place with my eyes shut, and they didn’t think much of that. At five o’clock in the morning, I wasn’t interested in seeing a bunch of people running in place.
CP: Oh, we were issued clothing. Oh, yes. And I used to always lose gloves. We were issued two pairs of gloves. I promptly lost one pair and had to buy the replacement, and that was the last pair of gloves I lost. We were issued nylons, too. Nylons in that era were pretty big stuff, and they wore like iron. They turned green after a while, but they didn’t get runs in them. The dye came out of them, but they lasted well. They also issued us cotton stockings.
EE: Those are the kind I’ve seen pictures of women, and they say, “Don’t look at my ankles,” because they’d always bunch up there.
CP: Little ruffles down there, yes.
EE: How long was basic [training] for you?
CP: Six weeks, as I remember. I remember having KP [kitchen patrol] fourteen times. Now, KP was not a punishment; it was a roster duty, a rotating duty. And I did not care for KP. I did not like big things of potatoes to peel, you know. I could do that on the farm. I had peeled a fair amount of stuff.
EE: What was a typical day like for you in basic?
CP: Well, they got you up early. They made you do whatever you were going to do that day. You did a fair amount of marching. Of course, it was cold. It was Des Moines, Iowa. It’s cold out there, the wind blows.
EE: Were most of your instructors men or women?
CP: Women. In fact, I had no male instructors.
EE: You weren’t going with anybody you know, were you, from WC?
CP: No. I just went.
EE: Brave new world, just went, right in the middle of the year, said, "I’m going."
CP: Right on the train. It took two days to get from Concord or Charlotte to Des Moines, and you were riding any which way you could.
CP: No berths. I remember sleeping on some duffel bags between cars. There was a little spot back there.
EE: I don’t know how it is, but most women I’ve talked with about basic, there’s only two Southerners in the whole basic group. Everybody gets picked on with your accent.
CP: I do not remember anybody in basic. I just know that I didn’t care for the whole thing. I did clean a grease trap. I do not know that you will talk to too many women who have cleaned a grease trap. They make you do it at five o’clock in the morning before you have your KP duty, because when you upchuck, you don’t have much in your tummy to upchuck with. It was not fun.
EE: No, doesn’t sound like it.
EE: So are you thinking now, "This is why Dad wanted me to do all this""
CP: No, no, I just did it. I don’t question motivation, I just go do what I do and I do it.
EE: Where did you go from Fort Des Moines?
CP: From Des Moines I went to Atterbury in Indianapolis. Camp Atterbury, I believe that was, in Indianapolis. That’s where X-ray school was. That was a four-month stint.
EE: You came out of basic. What rank were you?
EE: Private. And after X-ray school, are you still a private or are you a specialist?
CP: Probably. I don’t know when I got to be a corporal, but somewhere in there I became a corporal. Probably after I left X-ray school. I don’t know that. I do know that I became a sergeant in Louisville, only by default, only because everybody else was leaving and they needed for their TO a sergeant. So all of a sudden this kid who was barely out of X-ray school is a sergeant, which was nice pay-wise. And it never happened in the army. You know, I just fluked into it.
CP: I just fluked into it. All my life I’ve won by default.
EE: Atterbury, Indiana, was that near Indianapolis?
CP: Yes, right outside of Indianapolis.
EE: Was this is the farthest you’ve ever been away from home?
CP: Yes. Well, Des Moines was farther than Atterbury. It was pretty far.
EE: For your first big train trip—or how did you get down to Ocracoke? Did you drive?
CP: I think I probably rode with my art teacher to school. See, my folks were really quite cosmopolitan, you know, and we had a stream of people, due to my mother’s Public Health job, coming into our home. I was good friends with a Filipino doctor, you know, all sorts of people. So we were not typical.
CP: I didn’t pay much attention to it. I just didn’t like being waked up in the middle of the night, and told them so. That got me in hot water.
EE: You weren’t the social butterfly.
CP: Oh, no, I didn’t pay any attention to a bunch of this stuff.
EE: I know some folks, especially WACs [Woman's Auxiliary Corps—Army ], I know I think in ’42 when they first started the WACs, which was WAAC, they later found out it was the army itself that kind of started the smear campaign against the WACs.
CP: There was much smearing. I have had young men walk up to me—this happened at Atterbury, I think—walk up to me and ask me to spend the weekend with them. And my rejoinder was, “No, I’m not really interested. But I’m looking for somebody to play tennis with. You want to play some tennis?” So we ended up becoming friends. You know, innocence is a great protection.
EE: Sure. That was a good campaign.
EE: But this kind of rumor and innuendo didn’t bother your folks back home?
EE: Your mom was in Public Health, she can put up with about anything.
CP: Listen, I grew up playing with the cards of the people that had VD [venereal diseases] in Concord, North Carolina. You’ve had a similar background.
CP: I didn’t hear that one, because they didn’t have it in that era, but I would have, you know. And I knew about homosexuality because one of the neighbors came and talked to my mother at home on the front porch. We’re in the living room, you know. See, our experience in our childhood was so wide-ranged.
EE: You weren’t cloistered intellectually, in that sense.
CP: No. And I tell you the truth, I didn’t pay any attention to it. And there was a lot of garbage going on around me that I just didn’t get into, wasn't awed by it or disturbed by it, you know.
EE: Well, those were the two big smears, was either the wantonness or the lesbian charge, I guess.
CP: Yes, I had a girl come sit in my lap one day, and the rest of the girls in the dorm decoyed her off. You know, barracks, not dorm.
EE: You were at Atterbury for four months.
CP: Right. Then I went back to Des Moines in summer for staging. And that was hot.
EE: At Atterbury, textbooks and then you were working in a hospital there or something, is that how you did it?
CP: We X-rayed each other. They did not tell us till after.
EE: So you glow in the dark.
dental X-rays. I’ve restricted chest X-rays. Very few people get the privilege of seeing X-rays on me. I did have bone density recently because I’m of the age.
EE: But that does have a lifetime cumulative effect on you, doesn’t it, that radiation?
CP: Well, so far as I know, and I will be seventy-five in August, I seem not to have had any particular result from it. Who knows? But we did, we used each other as patients.
EE: Were most of these women of your age, early twenties?
CP: I think there probably were some older, but most of us were quite young. And I remember very few of those people from that era.
EE: You worked this X-ray position. I know that some of the recruiting stuff for getting women into the services talked about freeing a man to fight. Was this the kind of position that you were replacing a man in army hospitals, or was this something a woman had been doing before?
CP: I really don’t know enough to know. My bet was that they were freeing up men to go overseas, and they were going to use us in the States, probably. That was my bet, but I don’t know that. In Louisville there were some civilian technicians.
EE: That’s what I was going to ask you. After Atterbury, were you working with both men and women in your regular job?
CP: There was one male civilian technician. No, there were two male civilian technicians. There was one army male technician. I think there were two of us women, young women technicians. There was a girl, Phyllis, who came out of New York. I think she was in Louisville. I was good friends with a lab tech there. She was my best buddy, and she and I both went on to White Sulfur [Springs] at the same time.
EE: We talked a little bit before this interview started, so I sort of know about the places you were. Why don’t we run through for the tape the hospitals that you were stationed at through the end of your service, and then I want to go back and ask you about the kind of work you did in each of those places.
EE: You were at Nichols in Louisville through April of ’46?
CP: August 24th, I have here as a date, of ’45 through March of ’46.
EE: And then you went to White Sulfur Springs for April and May of ’46?
CP: Right, April and May of ’46.
EE: Ashford General, where is that?
CP: Ashford was the army’s name for the Greenbriar at White Sulfur at that time. And then that hospital closed and I went to Valley Forge, and that was from June until August of ’46.
EE: Is that when you got your discharge from Valley Forge?
CP: Got it from Fort Bragg, August 22, 1946, and, boy, was I happy. Whee! What happened, there were several of us who had not finished college. They didn’t need the personnel and they gave a couple of us the option to get out with eighteen months’ service, which was not what was permitted at that point. But because we were juniors and seniors, you know, they said, “Would you like to go back to school?” And of course I said yes. So it worked out beautifully, got out in August, went back to school in September.
EE: Yes, I think you had to serve—I don’t know what the minimum was, but I know basically for every month in you got a certain—it added up that way.
CP: Yes. And then, of course, we got the G.I. Bill and that was a great deal. I bought a bunch of art books and had myself a ball, and it didn’t cost my parents. The Woman’s College, the year I went there as a freshman, I think, was six hundred dollars. I don’t know what it went up to in ’46 and ’47.
EE: That was for room and board and everything?
CP: Oh, yes, that was it.
EE: The kinds of patients at these different hospitals, Nichols General— was that all just whatever?
CP: Nichols General was a nerve center. They had paraplegics there and probably some quadriplegics. I don’t remember any of those. And they also had a lot of extremity nerve injuries.
CP: No, no, no. Man. Miss a whole part of a person. And they were trying to rejoin the nerves and they used tantalum wire, is something I remember X-raying to see how close something was getting to something to rejoining. But I think that was where some of the first paraplegics were kept alive. I don’t believe they understood the technology to be able to do that. So that was very interesting. And, of course, most of our patients were male. Very few females. Which, of course, at twenty I thought was cool.
CP: That was big brass. I X-rayed four generals in one morning, and you don’t see that many generals very often. They also had the room that they showed up where Ike [Dwight D. Eisenhower] had slept. And our X-ray department, as I remember, was up on the fourth floor. It was a very interesting hospital. We liberated a number of steaks, because they were trying to get rid of their food. And these were large—what is the finest cut you can get?
CP: Yes. And they were delicious. We had them a couple times a weeks. Probably coated our arteries good.
EE: Your cholesterol went way up, but you said it was a good steak.
CP: Oh, I tell you it was a fine maneuver. And I did buy some jewelry from their PX. I bought a bracelet and some earrings that had moonstones in them because they were on sale.
EE: I imagine their PX [post exchange] had a little better merchandise than others.
CP: Oh, I’m sure it did very nicely.
EE: You were there just for a couple months and then you went to Valley Forge.
CP: Sam Snead played an exhibition the day I had a wisdom tooth taken out. It took them four hours. They took it out in pieces, because my teeth are fragile and they break. And I got up from the dentist chair and I said, “Well, I think I’m going out and see Sam Snead.” And the dentist said, “Honey, you go home and go to bed.” Well, I could have seen Sam, and I was mad that I had not gone. But it was very much of a luxury place. It was very rundown because it had not been maintained. It was pretty shabby at that point, but quite interesting.
EE: You mentioned that Valley Forge was a burn center.
EE: I can’t imagine an X-ray technician having as much to do there.
CP: We were still pretty busy.
EE: What was a typical day on the job like for you? Did y'all work seven-day shifts, or how was it?
CP: We pulled emergency. I remember more of that in Louisville because I was there longer. I can remember we were pretty short staffed there toward the end. So I remember pulling duty at night with emergencies and then working a full day the next day. We had a roster and it rotated, and the two civilians that were there kind of filled in.
EE: So some weeks you were first shift, second shift? Did you rotate on shifts, or did you pretty much stay per shift?
CP: No, we worked a full daytime and then this night stuff was extra. But the interesting thing in Louisville, we had two German POWs [prisoners of war] that worked our darkroom for us, and one of them was young and very open. The other was in his probably thirties, which looked old at that point, but he was a confirmed Nazi. But they were good. Boy, they ran a good darkroom. And we got together at Christmas. Our captain, who became the head of the X-ray department at the University of Penn later on, Richard Chamberlain, Captain Chamberlain, was away at Christmas. It was my first Christmas away from home, and of course it was pretty sad. So we got together and we sang into his dictating setup Christmas carols, they in German and we in English, which was fun.
CP: I was in college at Woman’s College, so I did hear a little of that.
EE: We talked a little bit about how there was occasionally the troublesome GI, but on the job since you worked with men, were you treated professionally?
CP: Oh, yes. Oh, yes. And I tell you, I have always not been bothered by people, you know. They don’t usually tangle with me, and they didn’t even then. I had a few, like the gentleman that out of the blue that asked me to spend the weekend with him, but, you know, that didn’t bother me a bit. I wanted somebody to play tennis with. He was a pretty good tennis player.
EE: When you were in Louisville, did they have a nurses' dormitory that y'all stayed in or where did you stay?
CP: We had a WACs barracks, and the nurses were in another segregated area.
CP: Well, see, we were peons and segregated.
EE: Did you get access to a service club?
CP: Yes, but, see, I didn’t do that kind of thing. I didn’t pay much attention to it.
EE: What was your after-hours like? Did you go see movies?
CP: I used to read books, watch movies. I’ll tell you, I remember at Ashford knitting a great deal. I remember in the barracks I was knitting one day, and this little mouse came over looking for crumbs. So I reached over and scratched him with my knitting needle. [Laughter] So we made friends. But if you’ve grown up on a farm, you know, you don’t think anything about it. There’s a little mouse, you know.
EE: You did tell me that at some point you must have stopped knitting and met a fellow.
CP: I met my husband in Louisville. He was in a unit as a truck driver that was sent back from Germany. They didn’t know what to do with all these people at the end of the war, because they were overstaffed, so they put him on as a ward boy. Well, my husband ended up being a professional football player, among other things. He played one year for the Baltimore Colts. So here came this great big fellow, moving a patient on a stretcher very gingerly. It didn’t bounce him off the walls.
EE: I'd better back up. So you saw your husband-to-be wheeling around folks in the ward for you, you thought, "My goodness, what a pussycat. This guy is big and yet tender at the same time."
CP: It was an illusion. [Laughter] It was an illusion, like many things are.
EE: So you started dated there at Louisville?
CP: Very, very, very briefly. But the reason I chose West Virginia in preference to California, which I was given a chance at, was that it was closer to Philadelphia, and Mike was in Philadelphia.
CP: No, he got out of the service in Louisville and went back to Philadelphia, and then had jaundice and was in the naval hospital in Philadelphia. So by the time I got back to Valley Forge, I would go from Valley Forge to see him down at the naval hospital.
EE: How long was he in there for jaundice?
CP: A long time. He damn near died. He had the highest—I think it was called an icterus index, I don’t even know the test, but anyway, it was the highest one. They’d never seen anything quite like it, but he survived.
EE: You say his folks were from Philadelphia?
EE: You left from Louisville, worked with the same kind of work at The Greenbriar just with better clientele. And at The Greenbriar did y'all have fancier headquarters because you were staying on the grounds?
CP: No, we were over in barracks and when we were back there last fall, I looked for those old barracks, but they had been leveled and a parking lot put there.
CP: These were temporary brown barracks. I was so hoping to see them to get oriented, and of course they weren’t there. But they were brown.
CP: No, they were wooden barracks. This little book, you may want to read before you leave here and see if it would be of value, because it tells about the barracks and other things. I think it might be of real interest to you.
EE: Then you went back to Valley Forge and had this similar kind of schedule of work for the day.
EE: Did you ever think about making the military a career?
CP: He had as much trouble with me and I did with him. We were totally different in our backgrounds, totally different in our interests. He was so sports oriented that there was very little else in the world. Beautiful athlete, fine athlete, good golfer, good—you know, you name it, he could do it.
EE: What was the hardest thing that you had to do while in the military, either physically or emotionally?
CP: Probably physically, one of the fourteen KP days, probably, because it started very early and went very long, involved lots of potatoes and a few grease traps.
But emotionally, there was a boy—who later died in the hospital in Louisville—from Concord and he had a cancer of some sort, a blood cancer of some sort. I saw him get more ill and finally he wasn’t there any longer. So I think that was probably one of the hardest things. And we dealt with some very bad injuries.
And probably emotionally Valley Forge. I had this one man that had had a bad injury, brain injury. He said, “You know, I'm a college graduate, and I can neither read nor write.” So that was, you know, pretty rough. And some awful disfiguring things with skin grafts. I mean, a column of flesh going from somebody’s chest up to somewhere on their face to remake something. Grotesque stuff. That was tough.
EE: You said that you don’t get steeled for that kind of stuff.
CP: I don’t think anybody could. I thought I was pretty tough, and, you know, I could do ordinary stuff, but not that one. I don’t know that anybody can do that when people’s faces are involved. You know, you can do something to a limb or a belly or something like that, but their faces are very personal.
EE: When you're losing a limb, it’s traumatic and yet it doesn’t affect the personality like something happens to the face.
CP: But to me, something happening to somebody’s brain is the ultimate. You know, the rest of it you can handle. You can lose an eye, you can lose a nose.
EE: You seem the kind of person who might remember a story like this. Do you have an embarrassing moment that sticks out in your mind?
CP: That wasn’t embarrassing; that was painful. [Laughter] I mean, they had me pegged. No, no, I don’t remember anything particularly embarrassing.
EE: In the kind of work you were doing, it doesn’t sound like you were ever in physical danger. Were you ever afraid going to all these new places?
CP: I was afraid after I found out what we’d been exposed to in X-ray school. Now, that was fearsome.
EE: It’s a good little drive from West Virginia to Philadelphia.
CP: No. You didn’t. Nobody had cars, you remember?
EE: So there was rationing and everything else?
CP: You rode a train, that’s how you got there.
EE: He was in the hospital this whole time.
CP: We wrote letters. And only when I got to Valley Forge did I probably see him. He certainly did not come out there to see me. He was home and not sick for a while before this thing hit.
EE: Had you kept up? You talked about being upset to miss Christmas for the first time, in ’45, I guess it was. Did you keep up with the home folks and let them know this romance was burning?
CP: I have a box of letters sitting over there that I never even read that my mother kept, and they sit in the box on the floor, but I’m too busy.
EE: But you did keep them posted on what was going on?
CP: Oh, of course, of course. We were a very close family.
EE: Do you have, when you think about that time, any favorite songs or movies that when you see or hear you think of it?
EE: The kind of job that you had, do you think you contributed to the war effort?
CP: I would not have thought of it in those terms at all. I was not a particularly patriotic person. My motivation was not always pure. I did what I was supposed to do and didn’t worry about it.
EE: It was the job of the moment for you as much as anything else?
CP: It was very exciting and I loved X-ray, and I was a pretty good technician.
CP: I went in right when it’s over.
EE: —right after it’s over.
EE: So most of the time you’re moving, they’re decommissioning folks.
CP: That’s right. And what we were getting were people that had been wounded, many of them quite a long time before, that there was like rehab stuff, you know.
EE: Did that give you any kind of opinion about war?
CP: I never thought much about war. I tell you, I have written—I am aggravated at what we are doing now. We have no business in Kosovo. I was married for forty-five years to a Ukrainian. Their thought processes and ours—one of the ladies in here is quite an activist, and she told me to write to my congressman. I never done anything like that in my life. I said, you know, "You folks don’t realize that we don’t even understand these people’s thought processes." What the hell are we doing over there? So I think this kind of war is very stupid and very unwise. And I said in that letter, I said, we are dealing with people who don’t think the same, and we are in a situation where we have no business.
EE: Well, you know, we got into World War II because somebody came and attacked us.
CP: Well, I think there are justified wars, you know. And if you're defending your territory. I think Vietnam was the first real disastrous thing I can remember so far as war went. And since then, I don’t know we've fought any wars where we had any business.
CP: See, World War II was the last war where there was true patriotism across the board in this country, so far as I know.
EE: Korea—I was watching this special they had on [Douglas] MacArthur the other night and was reminded, between MacArthur and [Harry S.] Truman, how divisive that made our strategy in Korea. What were we there for?
CP: See, all this is past my page. I don’t really understand it, I know I don’t. And I’ve never been really interested in it, and I never really paid that much attention to it.
EE: Well, that’s encouraging to hear, because in every generation there’s a whole range of people who do all sorts of things for all different reasons. Many times I hear about the World War II generation, and usually from people who have never been there, that everybody was patriotic, that everybody wanted to do it.
CP: Well, most people, I think, truly were. Now, I didn’t suffer hardship from World War II. My mother had a rationing ticket because she was a Public Health nurse, so we had gasoline. Not that we used it foolishly, but we had it.
EE: Did your folks fly the little flag in the window with the star on it?
CP: Out on the Irish Potato Road in Cabarrus County, who would have seen it? No, they did not. You know, it just wasn’t that big a deal to them.
EE: Good enough, good enough. That’s what I want to hear.
EE: Didn’t know if it was the farmer’s daughter trying to marry him.
CP: So we get them home and my mother realizes what we’ve gotten into, she says, “Now I just want y'all to know I have counted my silver.” [Laughter] But we met some lovely young men and thoroughly enjoyed them, and they kept up with my folks years later.
EE: I’ve heard from many folks that just wearing a uniform would get you dinners, seats on a train or in a bus, movie passes.
EE: Do you have any memories about where you were or what you did on either VE [Victory in Europe] Day or VJ [Victory in Japan] Day?
EE: You left the service in ’46. When did you get married?
CP: September the 6th, 1948.
EE: In the meantime, did you got back to Cabarrus County, or what in the world did you do with yourself?
CP: Well, I worked one summer on a State of North Carolina mobile X-ray unit. I finished school. I taught school in Wilmington, Delaware, one year, and my husband was playing ball in Baltimore, which was very convenient, I thought.
EE: So he played professional ball. You told me he went to Western Maryland after getting out of the hospital.
CP: He graduated from Western Maryland. He got out of the hospital in time to go back to school, and he was a senior, as was I. We went back and forth some that year. But we each dated other people.
EE: You dated afterwards. So y'all really were testing the waters to see if this was going to last.
CP: I was leery, because I knew that this was a real stretch. And it was.
EE: So you picked a location conveniently far enough away from both families where you could do your own thing.
CP: And I went to some of the games in Baltimore and enjoyed that, until I saw my husband get creamed one day. He broke some ribs, broke his cheekbone, just a few little things, you know.
EE: It’s nerve-wracking being the spouse of professional athlete, I would imagine.
CP: Well, it wasn’t much fun. Well, I wasn’t a spouse at that time, but I did think I had a vested interest.
CP: Yes. November the 11th. "Mickey." Constance Michelle.
EE: Right. Then you had another daughter.
CP: In ’51, Nancy. And then a son in ’53, Barry.
EE: Where were y'all living at this time?
CP: When Mickey was born, we were in an apartment out west in Richmond. Then my husband, to supplement his ball-playing, worked a couple of different jobs. One was as a materials checker for a big construction thing.
Then a fluke again. He was playing ball with a kid that had been a coach at Midlothian High School. As he’s getting ready to leave, he says, “Mike, want to try coaching?” Mike says, “I always thought I’d like that.” So we moved to Midlothian and lived over a grocery store with cockroaches and mice for four years.
EE: You weren’t as friendly to those mice, I don’t think, were you?
CP: Well, I caught a few. One night we were sitting in the living room, I caught four. Doing right good that night.
EE: My wife and I, our first apartment was in Philadelphia, and we didn’t understand what urban life was like until you live in big apartment building and you don’t know what your neighbors have left out in the kitchen and whatever. Oh, we had lots of guests that year.
CP: They come up the pipes.
EE: They do. In fact, we had a brand-new kitchen installed and they came up through the burners on the gas stove.
CP: We had them in the motors in electric clocks, in our refrigerator motor, and would spray and chase them downstairs. They'd stay a week or so and come back up.
EE: So your husband came back to coach at Midlothian.
CP: And he was also playing professional football.
EE: Down here at Richmond?
CP: Yes, with the old Richmond Rebels.
CP: You know, you don’t play so many more years.
EE: Did you come back and raise the kids?
EE: Took care of the babies.
EE: Well, I’m one of three, so I know you had plenty to do.
EE: Do you think your time in the military made you more of an independent person than you would have been otherwise?
EE: Has your life been different because of that military experience? You got a husband out of it.
CP: Meeting my husband, I think probably that was the greatest thing that made a difference in my life.
EE: You were likely not going to meet a Ukrainian in Cabarrus County.
CP: Might have. Possibly through my mother’s job, because that job led us to very interesting people.
CP: See, that was no big news in our family because of my mother.
CP: I’ll tell you, I think that what’s happened since then started then, certainly, but I think women have in the process lost a lot of power as human beings. Because I see these young women going to work, having small children at home, when I really think those children are missing a lot of boats, and I really think that that’s exactly in some measure what’s wrong with our current setup.
See, my daughter had two children, they are the only grandchildren we had from my eldest daughter, and she was willing in this day and age to make a sacrifice of material possessions—and her husband was in agreement, in order that she be able to know what was going on at home. So she worked as a cleaning woman for some years. She has a degree in Phys Ed, but she’s too old now to do that. You know, she’s not coaching anymore at fifty, almost. So she’s a teacher’s aide now in an elementary school, having a good time.
EE: It’s a great age. It’s fun being a dad when your kids are that age. Did your daughters ever have any interest in the military?
EE: Would you have ever encouraged them? Did you encourage them to try the military?
CP: No way. I wouldn’t encourage anybody to do anything. I say let them figure it out and do it.
CP: No, I’ll tell you. My son was threatened by the draft. I went to the dentist and the only thing I could figure out that was wrong with him was his bottom teeth were pretty crooked. And I talked to the dentist, who was a dear friend, and he said, no, that was not sufficient. So I said, "Oh, hell," because I really didn’t want him to go in.
EE: This would have been during Vietnam?
CP: Yes. I did not want that. And fortunately, it disappeared right in front of him. He had a low number. I don’t remember what it was, eleven or thirteen or something like that. I mean, they were breathing on him. But it went away, thank heaven.
EE: As a country, we’ve sent our first female combat pilot into action just this last December.
CP: I don’t like women on boats. Nature is a powerful force. You cannot take people and put them in close quarters without having some results, I don’t think.
EE: Human history doesn’t show that to be the case, does it?
sure what Hillary [Clinton] is going to do right now, but neither does Hillary, I don’t think. I heard some commentator the other night saying that they thought perhaps she might be spiting her husband a bit. And I giggled to myself. Who knows. But anyway. And Mrs. [Elizabeth] Dole, all the Viagra controversy. This gets to be funny after a while.
But anyway, I like to see women have the opportunity, but I do not think it is a smart move to put them on a boat with a bunch of men.
EE: What do you think about the time that you were in the service and you saw those folks? Do you have any heroes from that time period, folks that you admired?
CP: I think her name was Colonel [Oveta Culp] Hobby. She was in the WACs. And I think if there were a WAC heroine that she—I never had any contact with her, I just knew her by name and her status, you know. But I think if there were a WAC heroine in that era, she would probably have been it, because to be a colonel for a woman at that point was pretty big stuff. Later on, I’m sure they had generals and what have you, but right then that was about as high as you went. Oveta Culp Hobby, that’s the name. I never saw her.
EE: The woman I am going to interview the day after tomorrow was Brigadier General Mildred Bailey, who was the next to the last head of the WACs before they were fully integrated into the army in the mid-seventies. She’s a WC grad.
CP: Well, I’ll be darned.
EE: But you’re right, there are very few line officers ever from the WACs.
CP: Oh, yes. And people, when they hear that I was a sergeant, they think I drilled people. Well, with my little pitiful voice, there ain’t no way I could have drilled anybody. I could barely make it in a classroom, you know.
EE: That was just a fluke. I’m not sure if we had that on tape how you got to be a sergeant.
CP: It was by default, because what was happening is everybody was being sent home. They were trying to get rid of personnel. They had a plethora of people. They didn’t need them all, so they were discharging people right and left. Well, all the TO was gone. I was the only one left there. I didn’t have enough time to get out. So they couldn’t get me out, so they made me a sergeant. And that was within about a year, which is very unusual in that era. And it was not my charm or my wisdom or my what have you; it was just they needed to fill that spot.
EE: What did you think of the Roosevelts? Did you have any memories of those folks?
CP: See again, if you’re not that politically oriented, you know. Now [Bill] Clinton has kind of got me stirred up. I’ve got to admit that.
EE: Everybody, I think, has an opinion on Mr. Clinton.
CP: Well, I hear he’s a great charmer. But when he went to Washington, I said, "Son of a gun, the carpetbaggers are back." I have not changed my opinion from the very first time I saw him.
Truman I remember as being decent, probably an honorable man. Mrs. Roosevelt I remember as being a far-thinking woman, way before her time, probably. Mr. Roosevelt and politics—you know, just not there. Just never have been there. It doesn’t interest me in the least, but I do think we need a new pPresident. And I don’t mind being on tape for that one.
CP: Well, I’d have been very interested in some of the elderly folks around here, because I learned long ago, you don’t deal with religion and you don’t with politics, you just go right on your merry way. But we have some ardent Democrats that are senior citizens around here. This man can do no wrong; he is blameless. All these people have been persecuting this dear little sweet fellow.
EE: That’s the way his mama taught him to say, so.
CP: Well, I’ll say what.
EE: Well, I’ve run through my gamut of questions.
CP: Well, I really am not help to you, because I was not a serious member of the armed forces. I happened to be there.
EE: Well, you know, I’m not so sure. I think you're an honest reporter of how you felt at that time. I think a lot of people in their imprimatur of history would like to have seen a lot more serious than what they were. But they were only nineteen, twenty, twenty-two or three years old.
—lost track of it. What were we saying?
CP: I always said that I would not deify my husband if he were to predecease me. I have heard women who had an interesting, challenging marriage, and their husbands became saints when they died. I have not felt the need to do that.
EE: It’s interesting to see what my sister, the one who’s a year younger than me, does with hers. She’s had an interesting marriage.
CP: Well, I’ve had a challenging one.
EE: Did you go back to the work force after your kids grew up, or what did you end up doing?
CP: When my husband started selling insurance for Nationwide Insurance and he had his office in our bedroom and he used to type at night, I tried to type for him. He’d looked at this form which I had typed laboriously with many numbers. It was a fire policy. He looks at it and he says, “You know, I gave you the wrong rate.” Rip. Well, that was the end of my career working for him.
I said, “I have a degree in art. I have taught elementary art. I don’t know a damn thing about the third grade."
I’d been selling World Book on the side because I needed money, you know. We were not flush, as you are not when you are struggling. I had given my husband an ultimatum. He was teaching school and selling insurance, and these were eighteen-hour days. I figured he was going to die pretty shortly from that. So I said, “One or the other, I don’t care which one it is, but just pick one and do it.” So he figured he could make more money selling insurance than he could teaching school, so he chose that, and I think wisely. But we had a hiatus in there.
EE: Should we take it off?
EE: Well, madam transcriber, thank you so much—or mister transcriber. I don’t know if you are a madam or a mister, but thank you for putting up with our conversation today. We’ve had a good time.
CP: I think that would be very interesting.
Item description Interview discusses Constance Phillips's early life; education at the Woman's College of the University of North Carolina; work as an X-ray technician in the Women's Army Corps (WAC) during World War II; and her life after her military service .
Phillips describes her childhood and family, including her mother's career as a nurse in World War I and with U.S. Public Health Service; being unaffected by the Depression; and developing an interest in crafts such as weaving and pottery .
" Topics related to Phillip's education include choosing the Woman's College because of the art program; taking summer courses at Appalachian State Teachers College; and being informed that she had been taking too many art classes, spurring her to join the army .
" Phillips recalls her basic training at Fort Des Moines, Iowa, including the cold weather, uniforms, cramped train rides, open dorms, and female instructors. She mentions the students at X-ray school using each other as patients without realizing the danger of radiation exposure. She remembers the WAC scandal, fending off men's advances, and becoming a sergeant by default. Phillips also discusses each of the hospitals she was stationed at. She recalls meeting her husband at Nichols General Hospital, a nerve center, and working with two German prisoners of war. She describes treating army brass at Ashford General Hospital and the Valley Forge General Hospital, which operated as a burn unit and plastic surgery center .
" Postwar topics include Phillips's courtship and marriage with her husband and his professional football carrer; finishing her schooling; and working briefly as a teacher .

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text: Yoko has always been a disobedient young lady, and when her mother left town for a few days, she instructed me to make sure she behaved herself. Yoko knew the rues, but she went ahead and broke them anyway, so now she’s got to be punished! Stripped to her bra and a very skimpy thong, the Asian beauty is tightly bound and bent over an old chest as she awaits her correction! When I enter with a riding crop, she moans in fear. She’s NEVER been spanked before under ANY circumstances, but she’s going to get plenty of it today! As she is struck again and again for failure to do her chores, violating her curfew, dressing inappropriately and skipping her homework, her bottom takes on a nice red tone as she promises to behave herself. Finally, I’m finished with the mewling girl, but unfortunately for her, her boyfriend is on the way over, and once he sees her like this, he just may decide she needs a few strokes as well!!

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Free parking is available behind the building at the corner of Travis and Rosedale.
The entrance is located right off the main parking lot behind the building.
Lawndale is located within the Houston Museum District and the Midtown Cultural Arts and Entertainment District at the corner of Main and Rosedale streets, just north of The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.
Admission is free for all exhibitions and public programs.
The METRORail Wheeler Station is approximately 3 blocks from Lawndale.
Bike racks and a BCycle bike sharing station are located next to Lawndale’s building off of Travis and Main streets, respectively.
Lawndale’s galleries may be accessed from the main, handicap accessible entrance located off of the parking lot directly behind the building.
Please note that the entrance off of Main Street is closed until further notice.
Free, convenient parking is available in Lawndale’s parking lot, located directly behind the building at the corner of Travis and Rosedale.
Bring your group to Lawndale! Guided and self-guided tours are available for groups and schools during gallery hours and by special appointment. For inquiries or to book a tour please contact efens@lawndaleartcenter.org or call 713.528.5858.


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A young man was barred from leaving the Gaza strip for chemotherapy in Israel and Nael al-Kurdi died as a result.
The signs were great for Mr al-Kurdi with the tumour shrinking by half. In June this year mr al-Kurdi’s luck changed. Hamas took control of Gaza, Israel tightened its blockade and the crossing into Egypt was closed.
Mr al-Kurdi only had one alternative, and that was to seek medical treatment in Israel, only to find he was blocked from entering Israel for treatment on security grounds.
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There are very few movies that I can remember the exact moment I watched them for the first time, or exactly how I felt when I watched it for the first time. One of the very few, if not the most engrained in my memory, is Monty Python and the Holy Grail. I don’t remember how old I was exactly, somewhere south of 11, I think, and I was at my dad’s house and he specifically wanted to show me his favorite movie. I settled in to watch it, and while I’m sure my 11-year-old brain did not really comprehend the jokes (I’m not even sure if my 25-year-old brain can catch them all to this day), I remember laughing the hardest I have probably ever laughed before. The next few months of my life were spent re-watching and over-quoting “It’s just a flesh wound.” Its thick, heavy-handed absurdity was really the first of its kind that I had seen.
Absurdist comedy, while rooted in the same reality as dark comedy, has no qualms in abandoning that same reality after only briefly establishing it. Absurdist comedy takes casual situations and then relies on zero logic, which is what makes it so fun to watch. It’s not bound to one specific style, and as seen in The Holy Grail, can switch between subtitled footnotes, a typical medieval comedy, and then a cartoon. Because of the frequent stylistic choices and changes, the general plot line throughout these comedies tends to remain simple. Essentially, The Holy Grail is just the story of King Arthur and his knights in search for the Holy Grail.
The Holy Grail was certainly an original for its time, but going back to the silent era, you can see its influences from films such as The Marx Brothers' Duck Soup. The Holy Grail also had a lot of contemporaries around its time, in the midst of what seemed like the golden age of absurdist comedy. Five years after The Holy Grail, Airplane! came around and brought the same level of absurdity, as well as an alarming amount of jokes packed into one movie. While re-watching Airplane!, that’s always what stands out to me the most, the sheer amount of jokes per minute that are packed in. Side note: there was even a study conducted by a movie subscription service back in 2012 that found that Airplane! had the most laughs per minute of the top 10 comedies they selected, clocking in at 3 lpm (laughs per minute). The fast-paced jokes in Airplane! make it endlessly re-watchable, because there’s always a new joke to unpack or something you may have missed.
While there have been some notable, modern absurdist comedy films in recent years, the style has really found its home right now on TV. Maybe it’s harder to apply the absurdist formula to longer forms of entertainment successfully, but when applying it in 30-minute increments, it may be more accessible and easier to sustain over a longer period of time. The rapid-fire style of Airplane! has lent itself to similar modern mainstream TV comedies such as Arrested Development and 30 Rock. While less mainstream and accessible, the TV show version of Comedy Bang! Bang! also successfully blurs the realism line with its post-modern/absurd talk show format.

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This spectacular mid-canopy walkway provides a living link between the Entrance, Coffee Shop area and the Canopy Tower. The Aerial Walkway allows unprecedented access to the mid-level rainforest and offers stunning views over McLean’s Creek. Constructed with visitor safety and comfort in mind, the walkway enables wheelchair access to both the Interpretive Display Centre and the base of the Tower.
At an impressive 11m High, This Daintree Rainforest Skywalk is rated as one of the Top Ten Skywalks in the Country By Australian Geographic!

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DUE TO UNFORTUNATE ISSUES, THIS EVENT WILL NOT TAKE PLACE. PLEASE ACCEPT OUR APOLOGIES. THE EVENT WILL BE RE-PLANNED VERY SOON. IF YOU WISH TO KNOW WHEN THE EVENT WILL TAKE PLACE, LET US KNOW BY EMAILING US!
In the framework of the Cycle “Sharing Knowledge on Cultural Management” a new session will take place next 24 November from 15h to 16h30 London time.
Special speakers will join us in Dialogue Cafe of Cidade de Praia (Instituto Pedro Pires para a Liderança), Rio de Janeiro (Cândido Mendes University), and Lisbon (Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation) will be joining this global conversation.
Kátia de Marco, Coordinator of the Dialogue Café Rio de Janeiro. Founder & President of the Brazilian Association of Cultural Management; Academic Coordinator of the Graduate Program in Cultural & Social Studies, Cultural Management MBI at Cândido Mendes University. And Antonio Parreiras Museum Director, in Niterói.
• Lucimara Letelier, Assistant Director of Arts of the British Council, Founder of Artefoco Cultural Management.
With the participation of Dialogue Café Lisboa.
For further information download the provisional programme!
In the framework of the cycle Global Exchange of Crafts Makers, a fourth global conversation on “The challenges of business development and internationalisation: makers share their testimonials” will take place next 27 October 2016 from 15h to 17h00 (London time) between Dialogue Café Évora, Dialogue Cafe Novi Pazar, Dialogue Café Lisbon and Dialogue Cafe Rio de Janeiro.
During this session, makers will discuss about the challenges of developing their business and strengthening their presence in the local and international market.
Are makers and artisans using online platforms to sell their products?If yes, which are the best ones and why? And what about the local market, which are the best platforms for selling their products? In terms of business development, which are the major limitations makers face daily? Makers will also discuss about the real cost of crafts.
Download the concept note or contact us for further information.
In the framework of the cycle Global Exchange of Craft Makers, a first session on “Are crafts a promising creative sector for development? Sharing thoughts and experiences” will be organised next 24 May from 17h to 18h30 connecting cities of Évora, Lisbon, and Rio de Janeiro.
During this session, special speakers and participants will analyse the opportunities and challenges this sector presents in each of the participating countries for the development of their societies. Different development dimensions, cultural, education, economic and social, will be addressed during the session, which will serve as introductory session for the whole cycle.
For more information, kindly contact Dialogue Cafe Association.
World Heritage and Culture of Peace represent universal values on which UNESCO has a special focus.
Importance of the preservation of common heritage of human kind is expressed in armed conflicts and in areas threatened by extremists. For more information on world heritage in danger visit the link.
Spreading the Culture of Peace is an important factor in preservation of cultural sites which are a symbol of the identity of one nation and also a part of the common heritage of whole human kind. Special area of activity of UNESCO’s Culture of Peace programme is Heritage and contemporary creativity as tools for building peace through dialogue.
Importance of learning about World Heritage Sites for better understanding and affirmation of different aspects of peace is outlined in a chapter of the manual World Heritage in Young Hands.
Conversation on this topic is a good opportunity for exchange of experiences of the countries from which we have participants in the Dialogue Café network. You can see UNESCO World Heritage List in Portugal, Serbia, and Brazil.
In this framework a Global Conversation will be organised by Dialogue Café Novi Pazar on Tuesday 24 November from 14h00 to 15h30 (London time).
Luís Raposo, Archaeologist, Head of the National Museum of Archaeology Research Sector (1996 – 2012), Vice-President of the Portuguese Association of Archaeologists, Vice-President of ICOM Europe and President of ICOM Portugal (2008 – 2013).
With the participation of and Dialogue Cafe Rio de Janeiro (UCAM University).


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This nectie spycam is able to record 720 x 480 video in AVI format.
It has 8GB internal memory,which is able to Records up to 4 hours per recharge.
Users can use the bundled remote control to turn the camera on and off.
Usage: switch the master switch inside the tie to "ON", then press remote button once to start recording (LED turns green).
Press and hold the remote button for 3 seconds to stop recording and save video file.

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The SureCall TriFlex2Go-A mobile signal booster kit features a powerful 50 dB tri-band amplifier that will boost the Voice and 3G networks from all carriers and the 4G LTE networks from AT&T & US Cellular. The TriFlex2Go will improve call clarity, reduce dropped calls, and improve data speeds for multiple phones simultaneously.
The SureCall TriFlex2Go-A for Voice, 3G and AT&T & US Cellular 4G LTE is a professional grade cell phone signal booster that features that fastest 4G LTE data rates and a 3 year manufacturer's warranty, the longest in the industry. The TriFlex2Go is designed for Cars, Trucks, RVs, Boats, and other vehicles and features Automatic Gain Control (AGC), which allows the amplifier to continue boosting even while the outside signal strength is constantly changing. In addition to AGC, the TriFlex2Go also features manual gain control knobs allowing you to fine-tune the output power of the amplifier to work best in your vehicle. The rugged metal amplifier casing helps to dissipate heat while protecting the amplifier from bumps in the road and other objects in the vehicle.


text: Fortman Cline offers post-transaction advisory services, including assisting clients with negotiations of key contracts, consulting on post-acquisition business turnaround strategies and general assistance with implementing and improving finance and corporate governance functions in acquired firms. In 2013, the firm successfully assisted National Grid Corporation in structuring and negotiating various Ancillary Service Contracts worth US$300 million with power generators and obtaining the necessary government regulatory approvals. The firm is also currently assisting San Miguel Corp. in implementing various business turnaround initiatives in recently acquired subsidiary Philippine Airlines.

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What’s With All The Dead Horses in Movies This Spring?
The article below spoils a bunch of movies. We aren’t going to tell you which movies, because that in and of itself would be a spoiler.
Thoroughbreds — which centers on the murderously intimate relationship between two teenage girls, one of whom commits the violent act — isn’t the only film out this spring that should come with a trigger warning for horse lovers. Andrew Haigh’s Lean on Pete follows Charley (Charlie Plummer), who absconds with the eponymous racehorse. The boy — destitute and essentially orphaned — can’t lead poor Pete to a happier fate than the one he would have suffered if he had stayed on the Portland track. Then there’s The Rider, Chloe Zhao’s docudrama featuring real-life trainer and rodeo star Brady Jandreau as a lightly fictionalized version of himself, Brady Blackburn. Brady is recovering from a head injury that should curtail his riding career, but, as much as he tries, he can’t stay away from horses. For a large portion of the film, he works to tame a bay named Apollo; when Apollo gets his leg caught in a barbed wire fence and must be put down, Brady feels a shiver of recognition.
Thoroughbreds is a snappy piece of noir set amid Connecticut’s opulent mansions, where horses are wealth signifiers; the other films document worlds where horses are meal tickets for people on the fringes of society. Lean on Pete takes the shape of a dusty bildungsroman about a young man grasping for a sense of home. The Rider unfolds as a vérité portrait of a man trying to imagine what his life could look like without the one thing that defined him. But in all three, horses — and their pain — are crucial to understanding their hero’s journey.
So why all the dead horses? Perhaps it’s because they’re full of contradictions, perfect for poetically illustrating the human fallibility of their masters. (They also, occasionally, make for excellent jokes.) Horses are simultaneously status symbols, utilitarian objects, and pets. They’re romanticized in the popular imagination, but also reflect harsh realities. As Zhao puts it, a horse is a “dangerous, wild, 1,200-pound animal,” but also remarkably fragile. A maimed leg, like the one Apollo suffers, is a death sentence — and a signal to Brady of his own limitations.
“[Horses] are this weird mix of freedom — you imagine these horses rampaging across the plains — but also they’re contained in their worlds of horse racing,” says Haigh of why his story centers on a horse. “People have them in stables, and they’re keeping their freedom contained.” In adapting Willy Vlautin’s novel, Haigh was careful not to anthropomorphize Pete, but he did see the parallels between the creature and Charley. The comparison even factored into the casting. “I wanted a horse that felt to me like it was Charley,” he says. “We saw three horses, but he was the the one that was hovering back in the corner. He seemed to be the shy horse. He just wasn’t confident like the other ones.” Charley is a “skittish” creature, constantly suspicious of strangers no matter how well intentioned they are.
There’s only one unspoken solution when Pete can’t win at the racetrack any longer, and a euphemistic “trip to Mexico” is exactly how Charley views the legal and foster system that awaits him after his father dies. So instead, he steals the horse and heads out on the run in an attempt to find the aunt with whom his father cut off contact. Alone in the desert, Pete becomes his only source of solace, and the normally reserved kid pours his heart out. But that’s all cut brutally short when Pete, spooked, runs in front of a car. Suddenly, Charley is truly alone. Pete wasn’t protecting Charley by any means, but he provided the teen a tether to a world he knew, one from which he was moving increasingly far away.
Thoroughbreds opens with Olivia Cooke’s Amanda gazing into the eyes of her steed in close-up, before she reaches for a knife. The camera cuts away before we actually see what she does, but we hear about it later: It’s gruesome, but telling. Even though Amanda declares that she is completely devoid of emotion, her act was a mercy killing gone horribly wrong. The horse, however dead, is a glimpse into the humanity she otherwise seemed to be lacking.
According to Finley, the use of a horse perfectly captured the haunting nature of his story. “They’ve got a really creepy look to them. There’s something a little bit monstrous about the horse and something very very beautiful too and very noble,” Finley says. “But they’re pretty huge and they have these long dramatic, sort of mask-like faces and there’s a real eeriness to them too so they’re a fun messy symbol to play with.” Monstrous, beautiful, and eerie: all words that could be used to describe Amanda, who wears tears and smiles like a mask when she truly doesn’t feel anything.
The sensitive and intuitive cowboy aesthetic at the center of The Rider had been mined before in the not-so-naturalistic Robert Redford adaptation of the novel The Horse Whisperer. The melodrama finds a teenager, Grace, and her horse both searching for healing after a horrific accident that a friend and her mount did not survive. Both girl and horse are physically injured, but their mental hurdles seem even more insurmountable. Grace’s mom, Annie, takes them to a rancher with a gift that just might be able to solve their problems.
The heartstrings-tugging Horse Whisperer leans into the softer side of the horse movie canon, with its largely happy ending that sees both horse and girl sharing a restored faith in one another and in life itself. In general, the genre’s reputation is one of uplift rather than sorrow: Racing movies ranging from Seabiscuit to National Velvet find scrappy teams leading underappreciated horses to victory. The Black Stallion riffs on the tale of Alexander the Great and Bucephalus, centering on a shipwrecked boy taming the wild Arabian that helped him survive. In Steven Spielberg’s War Horse, a bay called Joey endures the hells of WWI — including an incident in which he is trapped in barbed wire in no man’s land — all leading him back to the young man who was his first companion. At least Spielberg didn’t have Joey narrate, as he does in the original children’s book. The same cannot be said of 1994’s Black Beauty, which, true to Anna Sewell’s novel, includes voice-over from the titular animal, who tells the story of his own life. Though by no means bad (or entirely cheery) films, these lean into the sentimental side of horses, playing on sometimes precious associations we have of the beasts as loyal friend and companion to man.


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Have you ever had a dream that comes true? It has happened to me many times but lately I’ve had two experiences with dreams that I’ve never had before, like finding out that details revealed in my dreams are in fact; true.
The first one was a dream that I had probably like a month ago or so. I don’t remember well the details. I just remember seeing in my dream my daughter’s best friend and her mother. Anna and I were supposedly going with them to the state of Tennessee. (They own a house in Florida, not Tennessee).
(One of the reasons that this is strange is because the only places I knew about Tennessee were Nashville and Franklin. Besides that, I didn’t know any other places from that state.) Well, in my dream we were going to a place called Portland. In my dream I clearly saw the map of the state and on the Northeast of Nashville I saw where it was located. When I woke up from the dream, I was curious about the info that I had just received and when I searched on my cell phone if there was a place called Portland, Tennessee: I got goosebumps when I found it and almost exactly located where I saw it on the map of my dreams. I can assure you that I have never heard in my life about this place before.
Well, last night I went through a very similar experience. I dreamed that I was talking to a man. In our conversation, which I can’t remember the details but I can remember telling him that I would probably get him something for his birthday which was going to be on Saturday, August 6. In my dream I clearly saw the calendar and August 6 was on a Saturday. (I never know which day of the week is gonna be a certain day of the month unless I look for it. I haven’t been looking at the August calendar lately if ever at all. I have no reason why.) When I woke up from the dream, I didn’t remember immediately the calendar detail, but when I did; I got curious. I looked upon my cell phone’s calendar and there it was: just as I saw in my dream….August 6 will fall on a Saturday. That was so weird.
Will I ever visit Portland, Tennessee? I don’t know. What’s gonna happen on Saturday August 6? Let’s just wait and see. But these kind of experiences sometimes keep me wondering. Have you ever gone through that experience? Did anything happen? Well, enjoy the rest of your weekend and hopefully there will be more mysteries to unfold.
Hmm, I have never had dreams like that. That’s cool though you did. I can barely remember any of dreams and the ones I do are rather pedestrian. I did have a crazy dream a few weeks ago that I was gonna blog about, maybe I still will, it was funny.


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60 Wipes in this container!
Based on the EPA toxicity categorization of antimicrobial products that ranges from Category I (high toxicity) down to Category IV, OPTIM 33TB has the lowest toxicity category assigned of which precautionary warning label is not required.
This compares with Category II / III warning / caution statements for most leading brands of antimicrobial products.


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Its not hard to guess what the child will be doing on the device – an almost 100% guarantee that they will be on the Internet checking out their social media profiles, watching videos and playing games. This is ideal for hackers because there is a good chance that ultimately the child will end up clicking on something that will cause a virus or malware to be installed on the device.
Lets face it – as a business owner its hard to get your staff to be 100% on the job right now. The last week before Christmas is a time to relax and look forward to the long break.
One thing I have noticed when talking to businesses about IT security around this time is the mention of staff having to baby sit their children at work.
This can be due to the other parent already travelling to the Christmas destination or as a special treat for the child hang out with the mother/father at work for a few hours.
In order to entertain the child for those few hours we often see the use of iPads. mobile phones and other personal devices used – often plugged into the business network for Internet access or if no personal device is handy a spare office computer is located.
Its not hard to guess what the child will be doing on the device – an almost 100% guarantee that they will be on the Internet checking out their social media profiles, watching videos and playing games.
This is ideal for hackers because there is a good chance that ultimately the child will end up clicking on something that will cause a virus or malware to be installed on the device. Now as a hacker this is great because all the network perimeter protection such as firewalls and intrusion section systems are bypassed making it that more easier to get into the network.
The child becomes the unwitting helper not knowing about the businesses IT security policies nor caring.
Because there are thousands of malware and virus variations created every day anti-virus software vendors cannot keep up with creating the signatures needed to detect the new threats that is why IT security policies need to cover not only network and software protection mechanisms but educating staff so they are part of the protection realm.
So lets play it safe and if children are in the office do not give them access to the Internet using your businesses devices and network.


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Obituary – Mugler, Maxine (Woodruff) « Perry High School Alumni Association, Inc.
Basket Ball ’22, Glee Club ’21, Peroma ’23, Tennis ’20, ’21, F.F.F.
Maxine Woodruff Mugler, 94, passed away Sunday, October 24, 1999 at her home in Perry.
Graveside services will be held at 11 a.m. Wednesday, October 27, 1999 at Grace Hill Cemetery under the direction of Brown-Sisson Funeral Home in Perry. Rev. Ginny Hathaway will officiate.
Mugler was born July 12, 1905 to Bradford Joseph and Effa Lee (Carlock) Woodruff in Perry. She married John Henry Mugler on December 22, 1929 in Perry.
She was a graduate of Perry High School and the University of Oklahoma where she majored in history. She graduated from O.U. with a bachelor of arts degree in 1927, with a minor in sociology.
Mugler taught history at the elementary school level. She was a member of the First United Methodist Church, where she taught Sunday School for 13 years and wrote a column for the church newsletter.
While in college she was a member of Delta Delta Delta sorority; twice elected Queen of the May Festival and featured in the New York Times for that honor and as one of the first women to wear her hair in the newly fashionable straight bob.
She was elected member at large and served as chairman of the Publications Board of the Oklahoma Daily. She was a long-time member and past president of the Ladies Tuesday Afternoon Club.
Mugler was preceded in death by her parents; two brothers, Marsh and Raymond Woodruff; and her husband, John, who died December 18,1976.
She is survived by two daughters and sons-in-law, Sally and Peyton Carnes, Wichita Falls, TX and Hayden and Chesley Wood, Austin, TX; a sister, Dorothy Ebersole, Perry; six grandchildren and their spouses, Lynn and Russ Pitts, Charlotte, NC, Leigh and Jim Bradburn, Wichita Falls, TX, Shannon and Greg Hagood and Millay Wood, Atlanta, GA, Matt and Teresa Carnes, Grapevine, TX and Drew and Teri Carnes, Bakersfield, CA; seven great-grandchildren, Jennifer Maneely, Ian and Kyle Bradburn, Matt and Will Hagood, Luke and Zachary Carnes; three nieces, Marsha and husband, John Dunn, Woodward, Lois Severe, Perry and Jenny Clark, North Carolina; a nephew, Sam Ebersole and wife Jeannie, Perry; and a good friend Doris Rodolph, Odessa, TX, formerly of Perry.


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Climb to the first bolt of Moses Had a Stick Clip (a stick clip might be wise), and then climb on the right side of the arete through three more bolts. Getting through the second and third bolts is thin, then it's pockets to the top.
On the face to the right of an arete about 50 left of where the trail meets the sunny-side wall. There is a bolted route (Moses Had A Stick Clip) up the left side of the arete and another bolted route up the middle of the face left of the arete: Galactic Cannibalism.

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