Although I am a well-known person and have made my career as a professional athlete, I have been dismayed to realize the full extent of what tabloid scrutiny really means. For the last week, my family and I have been hounded to expose intimate details of our personal lives. The stories in particular that physical violence played any role in the car accident were utterly false and malicious. Elin has always done more to support our family and shown more grace than anyone could possibly expect. ... Whatever regrets I have about letting my family down have been shared with and felt by us alone. I have given this a lot of reflection and thought and I believe that there is a point at which I must stick to that principle even though it's difficult. I will strive to be a better person and the husband and father that my family deserves. For all of those who have supported me over the years, I offer my profound apology.
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Whatever regrets I have about letting my family down have been shared with and felt by us alone. I have given this a lot of reflection and thought and I believe that there is a point at which I must stick to that principle even though it's difficult.
I will strive to be a better person and the husband and father that my family deserves. For all of those who have supported me over the years, I offer my profound apology.
The wrong maps and a faulty propeller landed five British sailors in the middle of an international incident when they strayed into Iranian waters, it has emerged. As the yachtsmen celebrated their freedom in Dubai, having been released by their Iranian captors, they admitted the water border with Iran "wasn't marked on the charts that we had". The five were freed on Wednesday morning by Iran's Revolutionary Guard, who concluded the sailors' incursion into waters near the island of Sirri 60 miles off Dubai in the Gulf had been "a mistake".
As the yachtsmen celebrated their freedom in Dubai, having been released by their Iranian captors, they admitted the water border with Iran "wasn't marked on the charts that we had".
The five were freed on Wednesday morning by Iran's Revolutionary Guard, who concluded the sailors' incursion into waters near the island of Sirri 60 miles off Dubai in the Gulf had been "a mistake".
a musical salute to some friends, and a spirit which needs a bit rebornin'.
amurkan music, the best of end of empire. how strange the lyrics remain so appropriate, perhaps powerful, today. Danke Scorsese for doing such a good job.
Als Geburtstag Geschenk, please play this loud. "Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage." - Anaïs Nin
Rick, for visiting me in my tipi in the earliest hippy days, and trading Hank Williams songs around the fire. Garth, for believing in Hiawatha, and rockin the keys. Levon, because, well, because i remember how much fun the kids had playing under your cymbals during a particularly wild show. And because you are my hero, singing again after they almost took out your throat.
And Robbie, thank you for waking up to your heritage, Mohawk, and all the friends you put on the album.
Enough maudlin, back to the end of empire. (Don't forget, this was Dylan's electric band which changed everything around '65). Now look, tuxes and all. I'm guilty too.)
"Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage." - Anaïs Nin
this was Dylan's electric band which changed everything around '65
Right.
Happy Birthday, CH.
I don't mind choppin' wood, An I don't care if the money's no good, Take what you need and you leave the rest, But they should never have taken the very best!
This evokes the frontier subsistence ethic that informed the lives of generations of my ancestors. Try telling Wall Street "Take what you need and you leave the rest"! They throw everything into the wood chipper of the market economy. On this I stand with my ancestors--Scots-Irish, English, Dutch, Chreokee, who knows what else. As the Dutch said while fighting the Spanish: "It is not necessary to have hope in order to persevere."
And while Levon remained true to his Arkie roots (there's great video of the band in mamma's kitchen), he's lived in Woodstock almost nonstop since the late sixties. Part of his beautiful barn has always been his recording studio, where the monthly MIDNIGHT RAMBLE takes place. Imagine being in the audience of just 2 hundred or so while the greats of amurkan music join him live. "Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage." - Anaïs Nin
The Tuscarora were allowed to join after being booted from their homeland, thus the Six Nations
That was the story as I knew it. The Tuscarora were a way south in what was in the process of becoming North Carolina (early eighteenth century). When they'd had enough of playing nice with settlers who stole their children and "squatted" their land, and they came off worse in fighting (glorified by the name of the Tuscarora War), they migrated north, invited by the Five Nations as their brothers of the Sixth. Events that took place between about 1710 and 1720.
George Washington was quite happy to negotiate a treaty with the Cherokee to secure his flank and he honored the treaty through his administration, as best he could. That perhaps gave them a false impression of what dealing with the United States would be like. As the Dutch said while fighting the Spanish: "It is not necessary to have hope in order to persevere."
Try telling Wall Street "Take what you need and you leave the rest"! They throw everything into the wood chipper of the market economy. On this I stand with my ancestors--Scots-Irish, English, Dutch, Chreokee, who knows what else.
you can't top that advice. perhaps we should coordinate thousands of speakers in southern manhattan for a bit of re-education of the banking class. "Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage." - Anaïs Nin
Thinking of it, I must be a EUlipian... "Ce qui vient au monde pour ne rien troubler ne mérite ni égards ni patience." René Char
A TV-fueled sensation, Boyle's collection of pop standards, "I Dreamed a Dream," sold 701,000 copies last week, according to Nielsen SoundScan. Her orchestral-pop covers hit a holiday season sweet spot, with Boyle topping Eminem's "Relapse" to score the best debut week of 2009. The rapper's return arrived with sales of 608,000 earlier this year. Adam Lambert, the week's other TV-driven media craze, fared well, if not exactly landing with a blockbuster debut. His "For Your Entertainment" sold 198,000 copies in the days after his American Music Awards scandal.
Well how to do that, when you are being brought up in the Oberstadt (well Frohnhof actually (-: )
Herzlichen Glueckwunsch Franz Josef...
(Just to clarify - FJ Degenhard and I share a birth town and the line from his most famous song refers to it.)
so sprach die Mutter, sprach der Vater, lehrte der Pastor. Er schlich aber immer wieder durch das Gartentor und in die Kaninchenställe, wo sie sechsundsechzig spielten um Tabak und Rattenfälle, Mädchen unter Röcke schielten, wo auf alten Bretterkisten Katzen in der Sonne dösten, wo man, wenn der Regen rauschte, Engelbert, dem Blöden lauschte, der auf einem Haarkamm biß, Rattenfängerlieder blies. Abends, am Familientisch, nach dem Gebet zum Mahl, hieß es dann: Du riechst schon wieder nach Kaninchenstall. Spiel nicht mit den Schmuddelkindern, sing nicht ihre Lieder. Geh doch in die Oberstadt, mach´s wie deine Brüder! so said the mother, the father said, taught the pastor. He crept through the gate but again and again and the rabbit hutches, where she played sixty-six to tobacco and rat cases Girls under skirts covet where on the old wooden crates Cats dozing in the sun, where, when the rain poured, Engelbert, the idiot listened bit of a hair comb, Pied songs blew. In the evening, at the family table, after the prayer for the meal, it was then said: You again smell like rabbit hutch. Do not play with the grubby children, do not sing their songs. Just go to the Upper Town, do it like your brothers!
so said the mother, the father said, taught the pastor. He crept through the gate but again and again and the rabbit hutches, where she played sixty-six to tobacco and rat cases Girls under skirts covet where on the old wooden crates Cats dozing in the sun, where, when the rain poured, Engelbert, the idiot listened bit of a hair comb, Pied songs blew. In the evening, at the family table, after the prayer for the meal, it was then said: You again smell like rabbit hutch. Do not play with the grubby children, do not sing their songs. Just go to the Upper Town, do it like your brothers!
Does Rattenfänger mean rat-catcher?
Great song!
To be fair, i've also had trouble with my rocket launcher team under the influence. Still, such debilitations pale beside the advantage of seeing two thousand years of military history parade before your eyes while seeking out the enemy's strategy. "Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage." - Anaïs Nin
if only today i could share the true beauty. "Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage." - Anaïs Nin
