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Ear Mountain from the east with the approximate NE Shoulder approach marked.
Close view of upper route showing correct saddle to achieve
Ear Mountain is unique among the peaks of the Sawtooth Range of the Rocky Mountain Front for several reasons. Geographically, it sits well out to the east of the other peaks and geologically, it is not one of the elongate “reefs” with a steep eastern scarp face and relatively gentle western dip slope formed by the imbricate thrust faulting in the area. The rocks on Ear Mountain dip gently to the southeast. The peak is completely surrounded cliffs through which there is only one non-technical couloir, located on its west side. Kotynski reports one established technical route of one pitch on the southeast flank, but is not specific as to its location.
The difference in routes is the approach to this single couloir on the west side of the mountain.
The route described here is the shortest and probably easiest (?) open approach.
Distance to summit about 5 miles. Elevation gain about 3,580 feet.
Note that on some older maps a USFS trail is shown passing near the south end of the mountain. This is on private land and the current owners have rescinded any permission to cross it. The USFS dropped this trail from their inventory. We were told, “Don’t even ask.”
The NE Shoulder can also be reached from the BLM trail head to the north. This involves more cross country travel, but is preferred by some because the road to that trail head is paved.
The peak is located in the Ear Mountain Wildlife Management Area
which is closed from December 1 through May 15 each year. Adjoining this is the Ear Mountain Outstanding Natural Area
administered by the BLM. This area is closed from December 15 through July 15. These closure dates have bearing on which way you approach Ear Mountain. The closures are meant to protect bears and other wildlife during the main birthing and mating seasons.
East face cliffs
Start at the Montana State Ear Mountain Game Range trailhead. To get there, follow Bellview Road, which starts immediately south of Choteau off Highway 287. Follow this road for about 20 miles. Take the right fork (the sign points to the BLM Guard Station). Shortly after take the left hand fork (signed) and after that take another left fork. You will end at a large turnaround, complete with a modern outhouse, hitching posts, etc. It is possible to camp here, but there is NO WATER.
Take the trail/road (closed to vehicles) that follows a curving draw for about 1 mile. You will crest out over a ridge (note this for the return!) and drop slightly into the next drainage. Before crossing the creek, head cross country W-SW through open forest, aiming for the broad ridge crest that leads to Ear Mountain’s northeast shoulder. You can also keep heading south at the crest along a road (not shown on the map) until you are on the ridge and then turn due west. At about 7200 feet, the trees and juniper bushes end and you ascend the open slopes to the Northeast Shoulder.
View down approach
Ascend the obvious scree filled gully toward the upper slopes or for better footing, climb first solid rocks on the right, then cross over to the rib on the left and climb it (still class 2 with perhaps a bit of 3 depending on your preference). It is easy to see where others have crossed the gully. Above the gully, small ribs and outcrops can be used to avoid most of the scree.
You are aiming for the broad saddle above the cliffs on the north side of the mountain and to the right of the first pinnacle. Not the narrow notch between this pinnacle and the higher one above it. (see photo).
From the saddle, traverse on a series of ledges that wrap around the mountain’s north end. These ledges, while relatively wide, are exposed and appear to be a favorite hangout for Bighorn Sheep and Rocky Mountain goats. At their end is a short scree slope leading to the west side. Follow the game trail along the base of the cliffs southward to some pinnacles that stand alone below the cliffs. The trail goes behind one of them. (If you approached from the south, and you reach this pinnacle, you have gone too far). Just beyond this pinnacle a couloir leads through the cliffs.
The couloir is filled with some of loosest rock we have ever seen. Stay against either the right or left side of the couloir for the best footing. At the top, the couloir turns south and comes out on the summit plateau at the base of a large pinnacle. It is NOT the summit.
Walk north on the plateau – the true summit is marked by a cairn at the far north end
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|West Side part of the route. |
|Start of traverse to west side |
|On the more narrow ledges - traverse to west side.
|Traversing the west side. |
|In the couloir. |

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Gift from the '70s
Hard to believe that the music of the 1970s has not only survived, but is now treated with nostalgia and even reverence. The Anchorage Concert Chorus is having fun with the hit tunes from the decade in a program that features songs by the Beatles, James Taylor, the Jackson 5, Jim Croce, Barry Manilow and Chicago -- the band, not the town. Dig out the bell-bottoms and do the "Time Warp" again with the chorus and an orchestra for that full-stereo Wall-of-Sound effect. The performance is at 8 p.m. on Saturday in Atwood Concert Hall. Tickets are available at centertix.net.
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If you liked last month's concert by ukulele wizard Jake Shimabukuro, then you're probably ready for the mandolin magic of Avi Avital. The Israeli performer does much the same thing as the popular Hawaiian plunker -- except with twice as many strings on his little instrument. The concert will take place 7:30 p.m. on Saturday in the Discovery Theatre. Before then, you can explore your budding David Grisman technique with Avital at a free workshop at 10:30 a.m. on Saturday at Alaska Music and Sound -- aka The Horn Doctor. The workshop is open to mandolinists of all ability levels but class size is limited and, if you want to go, you need to register by Friday at anchorageconcerts.org or by calling 272-1471. Tickets for the evening show are available at centertix.net.
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In "Future Nostalgia," artist Cleo Pettitt juxtaposes real scenes around Anchorage with fanciful and anachronistic images of how they may be imagined in the future. The show, one of several at the International Gallery of Contemporary Art, 427 D St., will be on display through March. Pettitt, from Britain, is best known as a set designer, a job that's taken her from London to Los Angeles to Dubai. She got some of the material for this show while designing the sets for Anchorage Opera's 2012 production of "The Sound of Music." She'll be back next month with the set for the company's upcoming "Pirates of Penzance."
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Some have accused this film of being too soft on the Communist rÃ©gime. It does have some scenes of Communist military police suppressing a demonstration (though, looking at the scenes, they don't seem any more brutal or totalitarian than, say, the S11 demonstrations in 2000, or the US "Miami model"). In my opinion, these complaints are unfounded. The film does not paint the old East as a lost utopia; there are allusions throughout it of the totalitarian nature of the DDR. The reason it doesn't beat the viewer about the head with gulags and Stasi torture chambers is because it's not that kind of film.
All in all, I enjoyed it much more than Lost In Translation. The main difference is that the latter seemed to belong to the Andy-Warhol-filming-someone-sleeping-for-6-hours school of arthouse cinema, where films are deliberately tedious to give discerning audience members a chance to differentiate themselves from the excitement-hungry multiplex-going masses, whereas the makers of Goodbye Lenin! actually set out to be entertaining, and did so without dumbing it down for the broadest possible audience.

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Carne Group, the provider of governance solutions to the global fund management industry, has added Laren Gillespie to its Cayman Islands independent fund director’s team.
The firm has hired Gillespie due to its increasing demand for independent fund governance and oversight from fund managers and their legal advisers around the world.
Prior to joining Carne, Gillespie most recently worked at Intertrust Fund Services in the Cayman Islands, where he was responsible for offering independent fund directorship services to hedge funds, private equity funds and investment management structures.
Earlier to this, Gillespie has also worked in a private family office and an international financial services firm based in the Cayman Islands for implementing risk monitoring programmes.
Prior to this, he also worked for Ernst & Young in Edinburgh and for Arthur Andersen, specializing in international taxation.
Gillespie hire comes after the appointment of Scott Craven Jones to Carne’s US team as well as Vanessa Barrett to the Cayman Islands office.
Gillespie said: "This is based on a partnership approach between the fund’s board, the manager and investors which leads to the correct and best outcomes for both investors and managers. Their focused and low volume approach will allow me to devote the appropriate time and attention to the individual needs of my clients."
Carne currently has six independent fund directors in the Cayman Islands and 25 globally.

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BEMIDJI -- Hundreds of bicyclists could be seen on the trails and roads around Bemidji on Saturday during the first-ever Loop the Lake Festival.
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According to WHO, over 7 million people worldwide die prematurely due to air pollution. As the equipment to measure it is large and expensive, it poses a challenge for most of the countries to accurately monitor air pollution.
However, this is set to change as the Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden has developed an optical nano-sensor which can be attached on to an average streetlight. It can accurately measure the level of nitrous oxide and other irritants in the air.
The device has been put to use in western Sweden and researchers, alongside other interested parties, hope it can be put to use more broadly, and as such, a partnership with the University of Sheffield is underway.
Irem Tanyeli, one of the researchers at Chalmers University who worked work on the sensor says,
Air pollution is a global health problem. To be able to contribute to increased knowledge and a better environment feels great. With the help of these small, portable sensors, it can become both simpler and cheaper to measure dangerous emissions extremely accurately.
For the device to transition from the lab into the real world, Irem Tanyeli collaborated with the Gothenburg-based company Insplorion, co-established by Christoph Langhammer a Chalmers researcher in 2010.
He, along with aid from financier Mistra Innovation, helped accurately map air pollution –a monumental environmental challenge.
Professor at the Chalmers Department of Physics, Christoph Langhammer said,
This is a great example of how a university and a company can collaborate. Both parties contribute with their expertise to create a new product, contributing to a more sustainable society.
Nitrous Oxide and How The Sensor Detects it
A majority of the nitrogen dioxide pollution in the air comes from the gases produced by road traffic, which negatively impacts our respiratory systems and can lead to heart disease. Air pollution is the largest environmental health risk globally, according to WHO.
The nano-sensor can read low concentrations of nitrogen dioxide very accurately – down to the parts-per-billion level (ppb). An optical wonder called a plasmon is used to take the reading, it occurs when metal nanoparticles are lit and absorb light of a particular wavelength.
While the innovation is being shown to the world just now, it has been in the works for the past decade by Christoph Langhammer and his team.
Testing it Out
Iren Tanyeli, for the past few years, has worked on enhancing the sensor material and has carried out tests under various environmental conditions. The sensor had been attached to a streetlight in Gothenburg, as part of a partnership with Leading light, a lighting company, to read the amount of nitrogen dioxide in the urban environment.
Irem Tanyeli said,
In the future, we hope that the technology also can be integrated into other urban infrastructure, like traffic lights or speed cameras, or for measuring air quality indoors.
Multiple organizations are interested in the technology, including Urban Flows Observatory, an air quality center at the University of Sheffield. They will carry-out field experiments comparing the resultant data from multiple British reference stations.
Professor Martin Mayfield at Urban Flows Observatory, University of Sheffield said,
There is a lack of small functional nitrogen dioxide sensors on the market. We find this nanoplasmonic solution interesting and look forward to the test results.
The device can not only measure nitrogen dioxide but other gases too, showing potential for further development.
“Nitrogen dioxide is just one of the many substances which can be detected with the help of optical nanosensors. There are great opportunities for this type of technology,” says Christoph Langhammer.


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Controversy surrounds the Norwegian people’s response to the death of 76 of their own at the hands of homegrown terrorist Anders Behring Breivik. Many claim that Breivik’s terrible crimes far outweigh the country’s lenient penalties, and that Norway needs to reinstate the death penalty. I, however, see their response as a strong-willed resolve to maintain their unique culture.
Currently, Breivik faces a maximum 21-year sentence for the killings, with the possibility of a 30-year sentence if he’s charged with crimes against humanity – a sentence that could be increased after the 30 years if he’s deemed to still be a danger to society. Norway does not practice capital punishment, as the country discontinued its use for civilian crimes in 1902 and abolished it completely in 1988 (after briefly utilizing it to punish Nazi collaborators).
However, much of the negativity surrounding Breivik’s possible punishments – and their apparent lack of severity – seems to be coming from outside the country’s borders, largely through Facebook and comparisons to the American justice system. On the contrary, Norwegians are holding true to their culture and their beliefs.
The Aftenposten, a Norwegian daily newspaper, recently reported that 71,000 of one group’s 97,000 members voted against the reinstitution of capital punishment, according to USA Today. The Aftenposten political editor, Harald Stanghelle, helped contextualize the sentiment in stating that, “It’s important then to be aware that we are a just society. He [Breivik] wanted to crush that just society, while we others want to preserve it.” A similar sentiment was stated by Trond Bentestuen, a bank group vice president and former Norwegian army officer, when he said that, “The most important thing is to make sure this lunatic is not able to change our values and our society in a negative way.”
For now, it seems as if Breivik’s actions are accomplishing the opposite. According to one Los Angeles Times article, memberships among both liberal and conservative youth parties have surged since the attacks. Similarly, a New York Times article reported that 94 percent of respondents in a poll by the research firm InFact felt that Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg, of that AUF party whose youth camp was attacked on Utoya island, has handled things well in the aftermath of the violence.
So what does this mean for the Norwegian justice system and its policies? Are their punishments too lenient for such a terrible crime? Perhaps. Capital punishment does seem fair under these circumstances – he’s confessed and the evidence is stacked against him. But that’s beside the point. He’s not an American and our justice system doesn’t apply. Moreover, it’s useless to try to judge their country’s system according to ours.
What is important, however, is to recognize how their response is both difficult and brave. It’s easy to respond with anger and revenge; it’s easy to compromise your values, to want to kill him and be done with it. What’s not easy is to show restraint in such a time of pain; it’s not easy to respond with the sort of calculated sensibility and trust in their system that Norwegians have done. Their response, although much different than how Americans would respond, is one that I respect even though I may disagree with their decisions. It’s a response that the world could learn from, and that illustrates the many shades of gray.

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Parkland Teacher Allegedly Left Loaded Gun In Bathroom At Florida Beach
A homeless man found it and fired it at a wall, police said.
A Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School teacher who survived the mass shooting at the Parkland, Florida school left a loaded gun in a public bathroom at a popular beach, authorities said.
Science teacher Sean Simpson was arrested and charged with failing to safely store a firearm, a second-degree misdemeanor. He was released on $250 cash bond.
Simpson, 43, realized he'd left the gun at the Deerfield Beach Pier about five minutes after he left the bathroom there, the Sun Sentinel reported. A 69-year-old homeless man named Joseph Spataro found the gun and fired it at a wall as Simpson was walking back. Simpson then grabbed the gun from Spataro. Deputies arrived and found the gun and a magazine in Simpson's pocket, as well as a casing in the corner of the bathroom.
Simpson had a valid concealed weapons permit, the Sentinel reported.
The school says it will keep Simpson on the job for now and has no immediate actions planned.
"We wouldn’t take any action at the school until there’s a final disposition,” Broward County Public Schools Superintendent Robert Runcie told the Sun Sentinel. “Then we would decide if an investigation or discipline is warranted.”
Simpson has expressed support for arming teachers in Florida school, a controversial idea lawmakers proposed in the gun control debate set off by the Parkland shooting. In an interview with MSNBC News, Simpson said he supported a ban on semiautomatic weapons and bump stocks, but he was open to the idea of teachers packing in class.
"Some of us are willing to take training if it was offered to be another line of defense,” he said.
The Florida Legislature passed a bill that provides funding to train some school employees, such as librarians, Junior ROTC instructors and administrators, to be armed if the school district approves. Broward County, where Marjory Stoneman Douglas is located, voted on April 10 not to participate.
Lawmakers originally wanted to allow teachers and other employees that worked inside the classroom to participate, but the program was scaled back after objections from the school shooting survivors.
Seventeen people were killed in the Valentine's Day massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas, sparking a national movement led by students there to tighten gun regulations.
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IBF, WBO and WBA world heavyweight champion (over 90.7 kg) Oleksandr Usyk (20-0, 13 KOs), who, presumably, will fight next fight against WBC champion Tyson Fury (33-0-1, 23 KO) for the status of the most important in the division, slowly keeps himself in shape.
Today, a Ukrainian posted on Twitter a selfie frame in swimming trunks, signed it “The middleweight is here! Where are you, Puzo? — and tagged the Briton.
Tyson, we recall, constantly unfunnyly jokes about the dimensions of the Mustache – they say, some kind of dwarf, “middleweight”.
It is amazing that several hours have passed since this message, and Fury has not yet responded. And even mammon threateningly did not shake in stories. Disorder.
Their megafight will probably take place in March in the Middle East or in Britain. Yesterday, the IBF went “wow!” – and the mandatory challenger according to this version, Filip Hrgovic (15-0, 12 KOs), ceased to threaten the Usyk-Fury fight.
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AT&T Follows All Those Tax-Cut Bonuses With Thousands Of Tax-Cut Layoffs, Merry Goddamn Christmas
All those cookies and milk gotta end up somewhere...
Last Wednesday, right after the Republicans passed their Screw You, America, We Got Ours Tax Cut Act of 2017, you'll recall a number of great big corporations announced with great fanfare they'd be giving out big bonuses or raising wages, all thanks to the tax cuts, hooray.
We said it was bullshit then, and of course it was: By Friday, AT&T, which had proudly trumpeted the $1000 bonuses it was handing out to 200,000 employees, also let it be known -- far more quietly -- that thousands of workers were also going to get the axe. Six hundred workers in the Midwest got layoff notices because their jobs were in "landline and other legacy services" -- although AT&T at least said it would try to find them work in other parts of the company, maybe. Even before the tax bill, the conglomerate whacked some 700 DirecTV installers:
“Merry Christmas, here’s your pink slip,” [one laid-off] worker said. “It’s affecting all states from Florida to California.”
Other AT&T layoffs around the country included 215 technicians across the south and plans to get rid of 700 workers in Texas and Missouri come February. AT&T execs had also told the New York Times last year that "shrinking the [company's] workforce by 30 percent is not out of the question." But that was before the permanent GOP tax cuts for corporations, so maybe if you CLAP REAL LOUD and shout "I believe in Trickle-Down Fairies!" those cuts won't be necessary. It could happen!
When AT&T announced the bonuses, Donald Trump was super excited about the immediate effects of his brilliant policy victory:
This just came out. … AT&T plans to increase U.S. capital spending $1 billion and provide $1,000 special bonus to more than 200,000 U.S. employees, and that’s because of what we did [...] That’s pretty good. That’s pretty good.
Boy oh boy, we bet the news of the layoffs really made him mad, huh? By the time the news broke, he was already in Florida telling his Mar-a-Lago pals how much richer they'd just become. Still, we bet he'd have been really disappointed, if only there had been some way for him to have heard about the job cuts, you bet.
He'll be every bit as angry as he's been about Carrier laying off all those workers whose jobs didn't get "saved," at least. Believe me.


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As you age, there are suddenly moments where you think “oh no, I have become that old person.” Even as I type this post, I feel like the old guy yelling, “hey kids get off my lawn” or “turn that music down.” With that said, as you age, you begin to make observations about the generations that are in front of you and those that are coming behind you. I have been recently noticing some traits that seem to be missing in young people that seemed very common in the generations before me. I am pretty sure I am not wearing rose color glasses as I look back.
I invest in the next generation in many ways. I love and care deeply about so many in the generation to come. As I hang out with them and read what they write and hear there songs, I see some things that are concerning. I certainly do not want to pigeon hole an entire generation. I have run into young adults and students who have and live out the following values. But as I thought about it, I think the fact that these people and my experiences with them stand out is telling me something. Why should these behaviors be odd? The fact that they seem peculiar are an indication that these behaviors are getting more scarce.
- work ethic – it appears that the idea of selling out to a task is fading. I watch and hear many who just quit when things get hard. There is consistent complaining about practice, training and jobs.
- purity – it seems that the idea of waiting for marriage for sex is not only out dated, but it is considered foolish and some would press it to say that it is really even harmful. Test drive the car and check out sexual capability have become the mantras of today. Sex is considered casual and expected in the dating process. If you do not see it that way, you are not just weird, some would say you are wrong.
- modesty – the idea of keeping one’s body a mystery seems to be gone. Clothes get tighter and smaller. Pics on social media leave little or nothing to the imagination. Snap chat and sexting have completely broken down the wall of personal boundaries. To push back on what both boys and girls want and wear seems to be received as though you are an alien.
- honesty – it blows my mind how quickly people just lie. There seems to be no hesitation to make up facts, deny responsibility, pass the buck or spin the story. I have witnessed this happen to me and to others and it seems like many are actually not only comfortable with this, they have become masters at it.
- law-abiding – so what that it is against the law. I know the speed limit, the drinking age, the law on marijuana, downloading illegal music and movies, and so on, but if I am not going to get caught, who cares. The law is still the law.
I see my own struggle to maintain some of these in the generation I grew up in. It saddens me that these are fading or at least appear to be fading. I long for some young people to fight for these.
Not an “old man,” a man looking for integrity in those coming behind him. And finding it severely lacking. It’s telling for this “Me first” generation. Actually, it’s become, “Me first,last, and only. Only one for only one.. and that one is ME!”
Welcome to what every older generation and almost every parent has come to face as their children start interacting with their peers. We know that Christians will unfortunately not be the majority of the population. So it should not be a surprise to see worldly values pressuring our next generation. Prayer and giving them a sound morale ground to stand on, along with enough confidence to stand out rather than blend in and understanding boundaries may be there only defense. Just think of our fathers or grandfathers who had to deal with rock n roll, long hair, blue jeans, and free love/ drugs. I can’t wait for the Lords return. Just my two cents for what it’s worth.
Very well said Keith. It saddens me to see the path our young people are going down.
I find this lack of integrity irritating also, and I am not immune to immoral behavior either!!


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He was short, foul-mouthed, and so constitutionally pugnacious that he once thrashed a Southern train conductor who treated him rudely. He rose from the undistinguished rank of quartermaster to command the Union cavalry at the battles of Yellow Tavern (where he defeated his flamboyant rebel counterpart, J.E.B. Stuart) and Winchester. And when the Civil War was over, General Phil Sheridan continued to fight, whether that meant plunging into the bloody and byzantine politics of Reconstruction Louisiana or managing the inglorious war against the Plains Indians.
This outstanding biography restores Sheridan to his place in American military history; examines his relationships with contemporaries like Grant, Sherman, and his ill-fated subordinate George Armstrong Custer, and makes the momentous age he lived in come back to life.


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With well over half a century spent providing musical inspiration to students K-12 in and around Orange County, Chuck Wackerman needs no introduction to Los Al Unified district residents.
His legendary musical education has, by now, touched thousands of lives by instilling in them a love for and strong work ethic around playing music.
That said, little is known about the experiences that inspired and shaped this educational pillar of the community who is a skilled musician in his own right.
Though anybody who knows the Wackerman family knows several of the Wackerman men including Chuck are highly skilled drummers, few know that Chuck’s first instrument was the trumpet.
‘Mr. Wackerman’ as he is known still by his students, regardless of how old they get, was one of two sons born to a piano-playing mother and a non-musician but avid music fan father in Pittsburgh, PA in 1930.
At the age of nine, Chuck and family moved to Alhambra, CA and a year later, he began learning how to play trumpet.
By the time he was set to graduate from Alhambra High, the young Wackerman had had the privilege of taking private lessons from a cornetist who had played with the king of the marching band arrangement John Philip Sousa, recording artist Charles “Del” Staigers.
Chuck met Del Staigers toward the end of Staigers’ life, so their time together was brief, yet invaluable.
“In about six months [with Staigers] I learned much more than I did from the other [my first] teacher in three years,” Wackerman said.
He began teaching himself drums freshman year of high school but continued playing trumpet in concert band mostly, joining the marching band for one year during high school as well.
A standout horn player, one of his teachers suggested he try out for union membership, which Chuck did, successfully, at the age of eighteen.
After high school, he took courses at Pasadena City College and Westlake College and worked at the Fitzsimmons market where his father was a buyer/supplier, before anticipation of being drafted into the Korean War found him, on the suggestion of his future brother-in-law, Brooks Coleman, enlisting with the Air National Guard.
Ironically, before the war, Chuck’s high school trumpet teacher had offered to get him into an Air Force band, which he declined. After all, the Nat’l Guard required less of a time commitment, but he was destined to become a trumpeter in the Air Force’s 562nd Band when the Air National Guard base he was stationed at was called to service.
“As soon as I joined, they activated the whole base,” Chuck said.
He spent approximately seventeen months in the military, mostly serving at George Air Force Base in Victorville, CA, and after the Korean War picked up his education first back at Pasadena City, then joining a few wartime friends at U.C. Santa Barbara and finally ended up at USC where he earned his bachelor and master’s degrees in music and education.
After being discharged, he decided that, as the big band era was ending, he would find a more stable career path ahead as a music teacher than solely as a gigging jazz musician.
It was only after his time in the service that Mr. Wackerman started taking drum lessons.
He studied under bebop drummer Roy Hart, West Coast jazz drummer Charles Flores and Academy Award-winning sound effects artist and drum legend Murray Spivack.
About Spivack, Wackerman said, “he had everything analyzed: the angle of your stick, and the height of the stick, the weight of the stick; he had everything figured out scientifically. The whole basis of his teaching was relaxing, so if you tense up, you’re doing it wrong.”
Also, around this time, Wackerman joined a quartet (on drums) led by guitar great Vic Garcia and joined by Garcia’s wife on vocals and tambourine and Larry Smethers on bass.
They recorded one album together at a studio on Sunset Blvd. under the name Vic Garcia & Germaine called “Up Up & Then Some.”
Almost immediately after graduating from USC, in 1957 Chuck was hired at McGaugh Elementary and has remained a resident and music teacher in the district ever since.
Eventually, he taught at Oak and McAuliffe Middle students, then at Los Alamitos High, and the Orange County (High) School of the Arts, until around 2019-20 when instruction moved to an online format that Chuck found unworkable.
When asked when he officially retired though, he wryly said, “Oh, I never retired.”
For about five years early in his teaching career, Chuck was a gigging lounge musician until the grueling schedule and four hours of sleep a weeknight began to take their toll, at which point he stopped playing except for summertime stints including in Las Vegas.
He has fond memories of playing with his quartet at Reuben E. Lee restaurant in Newport and Tustin, CA and at several venues in Vegas including lounges at Caesar’s Palace and the now-closed Thunderbird Hotel, though he regrets never finding the time to catch Frank Sinatra, who had a residency at the time.
Still, the Wackermans have witnessed and participated in performances by a laundry list of legends.
For example, about watching Frank Zappa rehearse with one of Chuck’s sons, Chuck said, “it took me about two seconds to realize this guy’s a genius. He was rehearsing the band, singing all the parts, and stopping them every second. It was very intense rehearsal.”
As for Barbra Streisand, Wackerman recalled his son “Chad played with her … You know, I’ve often heard that she can be very difficult, and Chad said, he told her, ‘You know I never do this but,’ he said, ‘I have to tell you you’re unbelievable’ … and she said, ‘you are too.’ She was super nice, so you can’t go by what people say about people.”
When it comes to enjoying official performances, one musician that sticks out in Chuck’s memory is Maynard Ferguson.
“He was a showman, the audience would just go crazy, he was like a rockstar,” said Wackerman.
It is around the time that he stopped gigging during the school year, circa 1961-62, that he brought jazz to McGaugh Elementary.
By some accounts, this was the first elementary school jazz program in California.
The very first festival competition McGaugh entered at Orange Coast College had no division for elementary school students, so they were lumped in with the junior high bands and still managed to win first place.
Chuck’s skills as an educator eventually led to a victory for the Los Al Big Band and OCHSA’s Jazz Combo at the most prestigious Reno Jazz competition and an individual Most Outstanding Musician award for the band’s drummer, the youngest (Brooks) Wackerman, in 1993.
About their victory stadium performance in Reno, Chuck said it was, “probably the most exciting performance that I ever had.”
Not only did the homegrown talent of his sons (who Chuck personally taught starting them as early as five years old) help keep his bands in lock step to place in festival after festival, Mr. Wackerman also decided already by McGaugh’s second festival appearance to commission some original music.
The first was from John Prince, who composed a piece called “Big Bad Chad” named for one of Wackerman’s sons.
This gave a stellar band with an outstanding teacher an even bigger advantage at competitions.
“Nobody had the music,” Chuck says of those early days.
“I was the only one that had it. So many festivals we’d go to, and they were playing stock arrangements; you’d have five or six bands all playing the same music, so I didn’t want to do that. I wanted things that were more original.”
In 1971, Wackerman innovated again by kicking off the renowned Class Notes concert series, an annual fundraising event showcasing LAUSD’s jazz bands and featuring guest performers (playing with their own bands and with Chuck’s students) from the roster of pros, including Louis Belson, Bill Watrous and Tom Kubis, that Chuck had come to know, some through the musician’s union he joined as a high school senior.
Justin Padilla, current LAHS jazz program director, who has carried this tradition forward under the name Spotlight concert series said “Chuck had the experience of twenty teachers [combined] … and the heart of a saint. One of his superpowers was the ability to make a band of middle school musicians perform as clean as a professional band. With a master like that … there are only two things you can do; try to copy his approach and avoid attending the same festivals he took his band to,” he said
“He had the support of the community and the respect of the world,” said Padilla.
Chuck has won several awards and honors for his achievements in music education including from the Orange County Board of Education in 2012.
“I miss it … Interacting with the students and seeing kids improve and become really good musicians and … even one’s that don’t stick with it … they derive something out of it, enjoyment, and they learn to appreciate music better.”
Former student and professional musician K.J. Ticehurst remembers, “He was so passionate about the school jazz programs and it resonated in the way he conducted us. I was lucky enough to work with Mr. Wackerman throughout my middle and high school years.”
Wackerman’s legacy is alive and well, carried forward by all those he has taught and played music with and through his kids and grandkids.
His late wife, Barbara, was also a pillar of the community and according to Chuck supported him “in a million ways over the years.”
From his relationship with countless amazing musicians and motivating generations of students, to seeing a son open for rock legends Metallica, whose current bassist is a family friend, and a granddaughter make it to the finals on “American Idol” season eighteen, Chuck Wackerman’s place in music history and legacy of work in service of the arts and his community is undeniable.


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Buses may soon be on the road carrying passengers between Lacombe, Blackfalds and Red Deer.
The wheels are in motion to bring an estimated $1.05-million regional transit system that would connect the two municipalities and Red Deer.
The joint initiative between Lacombe and Blackfalds is hinging on obtaining two thirds of the funding from the Green Transit Incentives Program (GreenTrip), a provincial grant program that awards one-time capital funding to expand public transportation.
The grant would cover the capital costs including the purchase of two 39-seat buses ($900,000) and infrastructure ($150,000) such as bus stops and shelters.
The two municipalities would pay $175,000 each, the remaining capital cost. Once the buses are running, each municipally would be on the hook for a 50-50 cost share, estimated at $150,000 to $175,000 annually. The City of Red Deer Transit Department would hire the drivers, maintain and house the buses at an estimated $100 an hour.
Since three Greyhound bus routes in Central Alberta were chopped in October 2011, there has been no bus service to Lacombe, which is home to Canadian University College and Agriculture Financial Services Corporation (ASFC), the largest employer in Lacombe.
“Approximately 40 people that work there still live in Red Deer,” said Lacombe Mayor Steve Christie. “It’s a little bit of a green initiative if they could ride the bus.”
Seniors and those with special needs in the municipalities would also be able to take advantage of the public transportation.
Christie said with the three municipalities, AFSC and CCU on board with the project they should have a good shot of receiving the grant.
There would be eight stops in Lacombe, nine stops in Blackfalds and at Sorensen Station in Red Deer.
“It’s always been an important component of our social needs assessment,” said Corrine Newman, Blackfalds chief executive officer. “It’s important for seniors. It’s important for youth, for adults. It is seen to be a valuable service.”
A few years ago, Blackfalds attempted to create a regional transit system alone but decided to park the project because of the costs involved in providing quality service. Newman said the new service would take cars off the road and free up parking spaces in the three municipalities.
The second round of grant application deadline have not been announced yet but is expected in the next few days.
In the meantime, both municipalities are seeking public input on the project. An online survey is on the town and the city websites (www.blackfalds.com and www.lacombe.ca).


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Health authorities in Masaka District in central Uganda have listed 32 health workers and 20 other people who are said to have been in contact with a police officer who succumbed to COVID-19, for testing.
The other 20 people include friends, relatives, and attendants of a 56-year-old police officer who died of Covid-19 at Masaka regional referral hospital last week.
The Masaka regional Covid-19 treatment center in charge, Dr Mark Juko, said between Friday and Sunday when the police officer died, he had interacted with at least 32 health workers at the regional referral hospital who may be at risk of contracting the virus and spreading it to other people.
Dr Juko said in an interview that 32 health workers have been identified and samples taken.
He said that after testing the health workers, authorities will take samples from other people who interacted with the deceased.
“We have started with the health workers that interacted with the deceased during the time he spent at the suspect holding area while waiting for his results. After that, we will start taking samples from his workmates and relatives plus the attendants,” he said. Advertisement
Dr Juko said they may be forced to quarantine some health workers to avoid putting their workmates at the risk of contracting the virus that has already killed 58 Ugandans and infected more than 5,000, according to the Ministry of Health’s Tuesday report.
He said that all the 52 contacts are going to be subjected to Covid-19 test to be sure that they are not at a risk conducting the risk assessment.
On Monday, Masaka regional referral hospital reported its first death related to Covid-19 and since then, the health team at the treatment center has been trying to identify contacts of the deceased.
According to the hospital director, Dr Nathan Onyachi, the officer had been diabetic for over 10 years.
He was admitted to the Emergency unit on September 8, 2020 with difficulty in breathing but died on Friday before getting his Covid-19 test results.
The results were received on Sunday night and showed that he had the virus.
Meanwhile, Kyabagonya Police post in Lwengo District where the officer was attached has been temporarily closed as his colleagues undergo testing and disinfection of the police premises.
The southern regional police spokesperson, Muhamad Nsubuga has advised people to seek services from the neighbouring police stations, not Kyabagonya Police post, until further notice.

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CSU Pueblo football program ready for another run at an NCAA Division II national title
CSU Pueblo football program follows blueprint toward championship
In order to reach the pinnacle of NCAA Division II football, a plan must be in place.
That plan was erected and carried out by the Colorado State University Pueblo football program in 2014 on its way to a national title. It took only seven years for the program to rise from tumbleweeds to national prominence.
During a Zoom call on Wednesday, a convocation presentation called "Building a Championship Football Program," Pack head coach John Wristen unveiled his plan going forward in chasing another national title for the 2021 campaign.
The CSU Pueblo football team's push toward a national title began in 2007 when the program was resurrected after being dropped 24 years earlier in 1984.
Wristen was hired and began a love affair with the university, the community and his players and coaches.
Wristen explained what transpired during the early days of Pack football. His first office was on the sixth floor of the library in what was a janitor's closet.
"Building a championship program is one of the unique things that I've experienced," Wristen said. "It was understanding what matches are. The match with the university and their support was the first part.
"The other part was the community. The most impressive thing about the community is when you go to July 3 of 2007 and you have 13 months to put a program together, I think that's unbelievable. The community buying in and doing what was so unique.
"The third part, second to none, are the facilities. When you have a chance to have the setting of the Neta & Eddie DeRose ThunderBowl, it's special. Facilities are concrete. But I needed a staff to put this all together and was allowed to do that."
He began with a mission statement that holds true after 12 years: "To compete at the highest level both on and off the field. Embrace cultural diversity and learn from each other. Get a degree and give back to the community. Be humble and grateful in everything we do."
Wristen explained how he came up with that mission statement.
"Starting a football program, you didn't have a helmet, a ball, a tee, you didn't have coaches," he said. "I came up with a mission statement to show where we wanted to go."
Wristen added seven team goals that also remain unchanged:
- GPA 2.8 or better
- Control the state
- Beat Chadron
- W.T.L.G. (Win The Last Game).
Along with the goals came Pack Core Values: trust, faith, patience.
"The trust factor starts from Day 1 with recruiting on a conversation," Wristen said. "The only promise I ever make with recruits is this: I will give you my heart, I promise to treat you like my own son. I'm going to love you, I'm going to discipline you, I am going to cry with you and we're going to dance together.
"Then I tell our recruits, do you know how to spell fun at CSU Pueblo? WIN.
"Faith is belief without evidence. You have to put in both feet.
"The last part is the most difficult. It's the patient part. Our players police players. We have a player's culture here and it's been passed on since Day 1 since our guys bought in on our core values."
The program also has a character sign that defines the difference between performers and pretenders.
"We don't get finished products here, and my job is to make them finished projects," Wristen said. "It's not about the X's and O's, as long as we can develop their character and help them take themselves where they can't take themselves."
Using those mantras, the program began growing from the ground up. Success came quickly.
The team went 4-6 in that first year in 2008. It improved to 7-4 in the second year.
Then came a five-year run that led to a 57-6 record, culminating with the national title.
The Pack was 9-2 in 2010, 11-1 in 2011, 12-1 in 2012, 11-1 in 2013 and 14-1 in 2014.
CSU PUEBLO 2014 FOOTBALL SEASON RESULTS
CSU Pueblo 35, West Texas A&M 6
CSU Pueblo 47, Sam Houston State 21
CSU Pueblo 26, Western State 23
CSU Pueblo 45, Western New Mexico 7
CSU Pueblo 17, Adams State 7
Fort Lewis 23, CSU Pueblo 22
CSU Pueblo 44, Chadron State 13
CSU Pueblo 20, Colorado Mines 12
CSU Pueblo 49, Black Hills State 7
CSU Pueblo 52, Colorado Mesa 3
CSU Pueblo 44, New Mexico Highlands 21
CSU Pueblo 32, Angelo State 14 (2nd round)
CSU Pueblo 31, Ohio Dominican 28 (Quarterfinals)
CSU Pueblo 10, West Georgia 7 (Semifinals)
CSU Pueblo 13, Minnesota State Mankato 0 (Championship)
That 2014 year was tagged as "Unfinished Business" after the ThunderWolves were beaten in the second round of the 2013 playoffs by Grand Valley State.
While CSU Pueblo didn't run the table in 2014, its only loss to Fort Lewis (23-22 in Durango) provided the impetus for a nine-game winning streak that ended with a 13-0 win over Minnesota State Mankato in the title game in Kansas City.
While the 2020 season was lost to COVID-19 and the team has opted not to play this spring, the 2021 season begins on Feb. 1 with the first of 22 practices. The Pack will practice Tuesdays, Thursdays and Fridays because Wristen believes his players "deserve weekends to themselves."
More: NCAA Division II moves football season to spring
The spring season will end on April 16 with the annual Spring Game. The ThunderWolves won't play games.
Wristen talked about the team that returns, which includes nine starters on offense and five on defense. The Pack also has a new offensive coordinator (Daren Wilkinson, who was the OC on that 2014 team) and a new defensive coordinator (Miles Kochevar).
More: Miles Kochevar new defensive coordinator at CSU Pueblo
After reciting the 2021 schedule, Wristen provided a key word for 2021, "RISE."
He listed definitions of the word that pertain to the upcoming season: assuming an upright position, to move upward, to increase intensity and to exert oneself to meet a challenge.
"We're excited about 2021," Wristen said. "This '21 year is going to be special. The national championship game is in McKinney, Texas, on Dec. 19. Let's end the 2021 season in McKinney, Texas."
CSU FOOTBALL SCHEDULE 2021
DATE OPPONENT TIME
Sept. 2 Texas A&M Commerce 7 p.m.
Sept. 11 at Grand Valley State 5 p.m.
Sept. 18 Black Hill State 1 p.m.
Sept. 25 at South Dakota Mines 4 p.m.
Oct. 2 Colorado Mesa TBA
Oct. 9 at Chadron State 7 p.m.
Oct. 16 at N.M. Highlands 1 p.m.
Oct. 23 Adams State 2 p.m.
Oct. 30 at Fort Lewis TBA
Nov. 6 Colorado Mines 2 p.m.
Nov. 13 at Western Colorado TB
Chieftain interim sports editor Jeff Letofsky can be reached by email at email@example.com or on Twitter @jeffletofsky.


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I have a regular BPS and you don't have to put the shell in the magazine tube. You move the pump until the "fingers" are toward the top fo the receiver and then slip the shell in to the chamber.. Don't know if it is the same for the trap model. It is a little wierd at first, but quickly becomes second nature.
If I have it set on repeat you can do the same with the trap BPS I have, you just move the fore arm slightly and the fingers move to the top of the receiver so you can slide a shell in, In the single mode the fingers stay at the top of the receiver at all times.
The BPS is a lot of shotgun for the money -- in both the trap version or standard. The mag stop is nice but those who shoot the standard version in the clay sports quickly learn how to operate it efficiently and courteously. Pretty good all-around shotgun in my experience.


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Liquid CentreI have a couple new digital comics out! You can check those out, and a couple screen prints on my new online store: http://www.reyyy.com/storeLiquid Centre by reyyyyy
On the store:
- "AREM" - a metroid tribute comic! I had a lot of fun on this comic. my first all digital comic, available in all digital pdf format
- "Dream Skills" - a comic about girls who use swords to fend off the problems of the world
New projects coming up: "FREEZE" a breakdancing comic, and sequel to my kickball comic "PENG!"
And also: "Dream Skills Part 2"
So many fun comics! I've really enjoyed my transition to drawing digital. My flow is like 500% faster
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I am a Lifelong Artist and Gamer. I am currently a Self Employed Artist/Illustrator surviving within the 9th Circle of Hell known as Springfield, MA. I have been drawing for as long as I could hold a crayon and have been taking my work seriously since I was about 16.
I'm thankful that DA has been around to help keep me inspired when times are tough. I have been able to meet a world of talented people through this site and I look forward to meeting many more in the years to come.
Current Residence: Within my mind
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Favourite genre of music: Whatever makes me want to Create something
Favourite photographer: Katherine Arielle aka Thousand~words
Favourite style of art: The Kind from the Heart
Operating System: Coffee and Cigerettes...
MP3 player of choice: Psp
Shell of choice: hate seafood
Wallpaper of choice: i prefer posters
Skin of choice: My Womans
Favourite cartoon character: Huey Freeman, Venture Bros, Metalocalypse
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Professor Fellows presents a map of Ruskin's mind as it shifts from conditions of mastery to madness. In his study, he examines and transcribes the ways in which Ruskin observed his dislocation of imagination and shows how, in the very...
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Patek Philippe Complications 5326G-001 Textured Charcoal Grey Dial 41mm 18k White Gold Calfskin Leather Straps Men’s Watch
Executed in an all-new Patek Philippe Complications 5326G-001 41mm Calatrava case in white gold, guilloched with a hobnail pattern on the entire circumference of the case band, this is the 5326G-001 Annual Calendar Travel Time.
As this is the first time the maison has combined these two complications into a single watch, the movement therefore was freshly developed for the watch the self-winding 31-260 PS QA LU FUS 24H caliber.
The dial aesthetic on the timepiece is also quite an unexpected mix of vintage and contemporary from the likes of Patek Philippe: rendered in textured charcoal gray and black gradient rim with gold applied numerals that have beige luminescent coating. Hands are all syringe-shaped with beige luminescent coating on the local hour hand, while the home time hour hand is skeletonized.
Brand: Patek Philippe
Reference Number: 5326G-001
Case Material: 18 Karat White Gold
Case Diameter: 41 mm
Case Thickness: 11.07 MM
Case Shape: Round
Back Case: Transparent with Scratch Resistant Sapphire crystal
Back Case Material: 18 Karat White Gold
Bezel material: 18 Karat White Gold
Bezel Color: Silverish
Hour Markers: Arabic Numerals with gold applied numerals with Beige luminescent coating
Crystal: Scratch Resistant Sapphire crystal
Dial Color: Textured Charcoal Grey, Black Gradient Rim
Bracelet material: Calf Skin, Nubuck Finish, Hand stitched, embossed with fabric pattern
Bracelet color: Beige
Clasp: Fold Over Clasp
Clasp Material: 18 Karat White Gold
Water Reserve: 30 Meters
Power reserve: minimum 38 hours – maxamum3. 48 hours
Movement: Self-winding mechanical movement
Caliber: 31-260 PS QA FUS 24HWinding
Diameter: 33 mm
Height: 5.6 mm
Number of Parts: 409
Number of Jewels: 30
Winding Motor: 21 karat gold central rotor
Semi-oscillation/hour: 28 800 (4 Hz)
Balance Spring: Spiromax
Functions: Annual Calendar. Day, date and month in apertures. Two time zones: local and home time indication.
Local and home day/night indication in apertures. Small seconds. Moon phases.

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- 1 jar marshmallow cream
- 1 stick butter
- 1/4 cup shortening
- 1 cup powdered sugar
Combine all ingredients and beat until smooth and fluffy.
So the next time you serve a dessert that flops to friends or coworkers and you want to restore their faith in your cooking skills, redeem yourself with these babies.

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Definition: Person Other than Grunt
POG is a term, usually derogatory in nature, to describe a non-combative soldier in any of the military branches. A grunt, on the other hand, is a soldier in those combative positions such as infantrymen. These two groups are usually at odds.
Some service members say even soldiers with labor and technical jobs can be considered grunts even if they’re not necessarily on the front lines. Overall, the distinction seems to be that grunts do hard labor and POGs have desk jobs.
From a Grunt’s Point of View
It’s impossible to answer the question, “what is a POG?” without looking at a grunt’s perspective in order to shed light on why there’s such a disconnect between these two camps.
From just a brief synopsis, you might be able to understand how a grunt could feel a bit of resentment toward POGs. In a nutshell, grunts imagine them sitting in a cushy desk chair all day while they rough it in the mud, risking their lives – literally.
POGs don’t make it any easier on themselves. They’re known for being overweight, bringing fancy, rolling luggage instead of carrying a rucksack, and they’re said to have barely handled a gun apart from yearly servicing. In a culture of proud soldiers, these behaviors won’t harbor the most respect.
It’s true that most POG units require less personal training, have less risky jobs, and get promoted quicker than their grunt counterparts. But there is another way to look at it.
Can’t We All Just Get Along?
With the disparities in job duties, lifestyle choices, and classic teasing among recruits, there seems to be a lot of genuine tension between POGs and grunts. It’s easy for a grunt to feel jealous of or bitter toward a POG who seems to have no worries compared to the stress of life as a grunt. But let’s have a little reality check here.
Most POGs have a college degree and that’s no easy feat. Before a grunt admonishes a POG because he has a comfortable job doing easy-as-pie administrative work, it’s best to think about all the time and effort he or she put into getting an education. This gives them a leg to stand on for getting promoted quickly in some cases.
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Our perception of things can be so easily corrupted by emotions, doubt, miscommunication, wrong thinking, wrong theology, misunderstanding about God's character and who He is, upset by circumstances, thrown off in times of crisis.
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Philippians 4:7 And the peace of God, which surpasses every thought, will guard your hearts and minds in Christ Jesus.


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“The fourth battalion – they captured their own battlefield commander,” the unnamed Russian soldier reportedly told his wife in the telephone conversation.
“They forced him to stay, so he wouldn’t run away. That’s because they have a number of 300s wounded which is f***ing huge. And we also loaded and prepared our cars yesterday, for getting away from here. But we received an order to stay. Yesterday, more than 20 300s (more than 20 wounded soldiers) were driven away.”
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A Modern-Day Hamlet
for Young Adult &
New Adult Readers
3 Twisted Fairytale
Retellings for Young Adult Readers
Creepy the 8th Dwarf's
TaleSpins Story Told
as a Graphic Novel
A 4th Grader Becomes
an Intergalactic Hero
. . . By Accident!
. . . in which I try not to talk about myself too much. I'd rather discuss interesting stories I find along with what I'm reading and watching. Plus the occasional photo of my super cool dog. Oh, and cocktails. I'm into craft cocktails. Tips, recipes, photos. That alone is worth the ticket price. Which is zero of course. It's free.
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Science Fiction short story S.H.E. reaches Semi Finals in Screencraft Cinematic Short Story Contest
A Modern-Day Hamlet for Young Adult
& New Adult Readers
His father is dead.
His mother has remarried.
His uncle is . . . his new stepfather?
Nineteen-year-old film student old Simon
Elsinore must determine if the claim made by
his father's ghost is true. And if so, Simon
must exact the revenge his father demands!
“The key pieces of Shakespeare's play are all present . . . and those fascinated by the machinations of the original play will be intrigued to learn how Mullin manipulates the plot. His positioning of the play's tragic conclusion as a headline-grabbing mass murder should hook readers from the start.”
“The story accosts you from the outset and keeps you hooked throughout . . . Overall, in a way that a really powerful Hamlet play performance can, Simon spoke in an urgent and direct tone to me in perhaps a way that reading the play might lack. It acts as a bridge between performance and play text powerful in its own right as a YA book, and infused with even greater urgency as it opened my eyes to the magnitude of the human crisis of Hamlet.”
“Simon demonstrates the way in which the power of narrative and the power of Shakespearean drama can be harnessed and if, as Mullin manages, this power is captured, new angles and elements of the play and society may be brought to light. This is not simply an appropriation which takes storyline but one which replicates and reinvigorates characters, emotions, and circumstance, and presents them anew in comfortable suburbia where we’d least expect it.”
"I greatly enjoyed Simon by Michael Mullin. It lived up to the teaser from the back cover although I was surprised from the opening pages that the main character was dead from the beginning of our story. Mullin captivated me from the beginning with his modern retelling of Hamlet. He follows the classic story and I appreciate this. But there is enough of a modern flavor to hold the attention of YA readers today."
"Readers will find this story interesting. It moves along at a nice clip. It will appeal to readers of both sexes. I would certainly add It to my library and recommend it to my YA readers."
This Trilogy Includes These
3 Twisted Fairytale Retellings:
An 8th Dwarf?
Snow White did! In this previously untold story, readers meet Creepy, who is banished to the cottage basement for being different. From there he affects the fairytale we all thought we knew!
A teenage princess with an attitude hires the witch from The Frog Prince to get revenge on a Mean Girl who's picking on her at school. A troll she meets along the way thinks it’s a very bad idea.
An Overnight Odyssey
A wealthy man who lives high above ground crosses paths with a boy thief who has nothing to lose. A mystery graffitist and some magic beans complete the
dark and twisted retelling.
"The verse is crisp and easy to follow, and the stories all tend toward adding dark humor and modern sensibilities to the familiar material."
TaleSpins was twice selected as required summer reading for middle schoolers at the prestigious Chandler School in Pasadena CA.
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8: The Untold Story
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Rocketboy: The Return of Dr. Megaton
A Middle-Grade Sci-Fi Humor Adventure
Some heroes are born. Others are made . . . by MISTAKE!
Smarter than most kids twice his age, 4th grader Skyler Mahoney wasn't supposed to become a Rocketman Hero Defender of the galaxy.That job was meant for his big brother Dean, the star high school athlete. You see, the Federation of Intergalactic Good (F.I.G.) sends an alien girl named Hayley Comet and two robots, Snipe & Twidget, to give the mystical, empowering Melding Ring to Dean. But it lands on Skyler's finger instead! Thinking Skyler is WAY too young, the recruiters try to talk him into giving the Ring back. But when the little guy sees all the epic space stuff, he's ALL IN!
"What a fun and captivating novel! Michael MullIn and illustrator John Skewes sure know what boy readers, and girls too, like. This was like being part of a Saturday morning cartoon shows that I grew up with. It was fun, exciting, and funny! . . . The writing is spot on. The asides to the reader are hilarious. The story flows so easily and keeps the readers engaged. I think this novel is so much better than the Captain Underpants series and will certainly appeal to a wider audience. I cannot wait to add this to my elementary library. My students will be wanting more!"