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The United Futbol Academy (UFA) was established in 2010, out of the need to promote the game of soccer and to provide a new soccer experience for the community. UFA initially was a merger between Atlanta Soccer Academy and Forsyth Fusion Soccer Club in 2010. Since then, Norcross Soccer Academy in 2014 and South Georgia United in 2015 have joined UFA to establish a larger presence. Since its establishment, UFA has also expanded into the areas of Dawson (2011), Lumpkin (2013), Lilburn (2014), Milton (2015) Lawrenceville (2016) and Fannin and Pickens (2017).
UFA competes against other clubs within the state through Georgia Soccer, abiding by guidelines set forth by this organization. In addition to this competition, many of our travelling teams successfully participate in regional leagues and tournaments including the U.S. Development Academy, South Atlantic Premier League, Southeastern Club Champions League, and the U.S. Youth Soccer National League.
UFA is devoted to providing a developmental structure along with quality instruction for children ages 3-18. In order to experience the game of soccer at every level, we offer various programs within the club: recreational, academy, select and TOPSoccer; which encompass each child’s soccer potential. We also offer an adult league for people over the age of 18.
UFA functions under the belief that the true value of success in soccer lies through the overall development of the individual player’s soccer skills (technical, tactical, physical and psychological) as opposed to the result of each game. To allow each player to develop at his or her own pace, we operate under the club system utilized around the world in which every player in each age group has the opportunity to reach their full potential.
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Alex, Anna, Mally and Glenn (the band)
Photography by Roger Deckker who has taken some great shots of Anna for this One Breath era
Best pics yet them ones. I really like the band one. Gonna get my eldest to blow that pic up and put in on my tbh childish poster wall.
Promise this will be the last Anna picture for a while!!
Post millions. It is a Anna thread after all. Edit- I see you will not be on here for a bit. That explains it. Hope all is well.
Post edited by cw37frapp at 2014-02-26 04:21:54
I'm halfway through my European tour, and so far it has been quite something..
It was wonderful to come back to the Trianon, for two nights this time, it's such a beautiful place to play.. I remember quickly learning Lady Grinning Soul back stage, and going out into the foyer and performing it as part of my solo show.. Then jumping into a cab to the Carmen and doing another solo show.. I loved the intimacy of the Carmen, and of being so close to the audience.. I played a cover of Satisfied Mind, which was a song that I always wished I could sing, before I was a singer..
When I was in Paris I was also fortunate enough to meet and write a song with Marianne Faithfull, which was such an honour.. I arrived at her apartment, and I was immediately struck by how beautiful she is. We sat in her living room, which was full of fresh flowers, and I played guitar as we sang together. She's so charming and talented, and has so many interesting stories to tell.. I'm very proud of the song we wrote.
In Italy I recognised some faces in the crowd- the audiences were very passionate..and the Teatro Grande in Brescia was the most beautiful venue I've ever seen..
And tonight I met many lovely Slovenian people, this show in Ljubljana was really something..
I hope to see you somewhere on the road,
Vote Up0Vote Down wild_corgi March 2014
Aww .. that's so sweet.
The Carmen show she talks about is now up here on youtube -
- and the George Tavern solo show can be found here
No sign of the foyer show yet but maybe give it time.
Vote Up0Vote Down Hells_Bells March 2014
Back to fave female number two after a brief dalliance with Ms Goldfrapp
More from Anna's Tumblr page
http://annacalvi.tumblr.com/post/78968427449/q-and-a
It's wierd how some artists really take to Twitter, like Alison, and others don't, like Anna. Tumblr Q and A are far less frequent (boo! hiss!) than Tweets, but I do like how thoughtful they can be.
I can think of a question to ask David Bowie, though: Tin Machine? Were you having a bleeding laugh??!?
Surely somebody should have asked her about her meeting with Marianne Faithful in Paris?? If they have written a song together as Anna suggested in a Facebook message during this recent tour, will we get to hear it as b-side or whatever?
:-??
Your question, Hells, why not ask her yourself for the next round?
I'd love to hear the song but would have preferred to be a fly on the wall for the writing / meet-up.
I'd prefer Anna hurried up and wrote No 3 - oh wait, she's still touring.
Note to myself. Be careful what you wish for ... Anna has announced she's releasing some new material soon, recorded with friends in New York.
On the one hand I'm all yay happy dance and on the other I'm oh shit David Byrne/Sean Lennon/St Vincent ...
Vote Up0Vote Down cw37frapp April 2014
New material. Good one.
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Galectin-9
Revision as of 18:53, 6 April 2010 by Heather Buschman (Talk | contribs)
Galectin-9 is the best-studied of the tandem-repeat galectins and the crystal structure of the N-terminal carbohydrate recognition domain (CRD) is known. In addition, galectin-9...
uniquely binds poly-N-acetyllactosamine sequences by recognizing internal N-acetyllactosamine repeats[1]
binds distinct ligands from galectin-1[2]
has three well-characterized linker domains between the CRDs, generated by alternative splicing, that regulate cellular localization and function of the protein
is the only tandem-repeat galectin that has been administered in animal models of disease to assess therapeutic potential[3][4][5]
null mice have increased susceptibility to autoimmune disease
binds to a unique glycoprotein ligand Tim-3 expressed in Th1 and Th17 cells[4][6][7][8]
1 CFG Participating Investigators contributing to the understanding of this paradigm
2 Progress toward understanding this GBP paradigm
2.1 Carbohydrate ligands
2.2 Cellular expression
2.3 Structure
2.4 Biological roles of GBP-ligand interaction
3 CFG resources used in investigations
3.1 Glycan profiling
3.2 Glycogene microarray
3.3 Knockout mouse lines
3.4 Glycan array
4 Related GBPs
6 Acknowledgements
CFG Participating Investigators contributing to the understanding of this paradigm
CFG Participating Investigators (PIs) contributing to the understanding of galectin-9 include: Linda Baum, Richard Cummings, Gabriel Rabinovich, Sachiko Sato
Progress toward understanding this GBP paradigm
Carbohydrate ligands
Cellular expression
Biological roles of GBP-ligand interaction
CFG resources used in investigations
The best examples of CFG contributions to this paradigm are described below, with links to specific data sets. For a complete list of CFG data and resources relating to this paradigm, see the CFG database search results for galectin-9.
Glycan profiling
Glycogene microarray
Knockout mouse lines
Glycan array
Investigators have used CFG carbohydrate compounds and glycan array to study ligand binding specificity of galectin-9.
Related GBPs
Galectins-4, -6, -8, and -12
↑ Nagae, M. et al. Structural analysis of the recognition mechanism of poly-N-acetyllactosamine by the human galectin-9 N-terminal carbohydrate recognition domain. Glycobiology 19, 112-117 (2009).
↑ Bi, S., Earl, L.A., Jacobs, L. & Baum, L.G. Structural features of galectin-9 and galectin-1 that determine distinct T cell death pathways. J Biol Chem 283, 12248-12258 (2008).
↑ Baba, M. et al. Galectin-9 inhibits glomerular hypertrophy in db/db diabetic mice via cell-cycle-dependent mechanisms. J Am Soc Nephrol 16, 3222-3234 (2005).
↑ 4.0 4.1 Seki, M. et al. Galectin-9 suppresses the generation of Th17, promotes the induction of regulatory T cells, and regulates experimental autoimmune arthritis. Clin Immunol 127, 78-88 (2008).
↑ Tsuchiyama, Y. et al. Efficacy of galectins in the amelioration of nephrotoxic serum nephritis in Wistar Kyoto rats. Kidney Int 58, 1941-1952 (2000).
↑ Naka, E.L., Ponciano, V.C., Cenedeze, M.A., Pacheco-Silva, A. & Camara, N.O. Detection of the Tim-3 ligand, galectin-9, inside the allograft during a rejection episode. Int Immunopharmacol 9, 658-662 (2009).
↑ Niwa, H. et al. Stable form of galectin-9, a Tim-3 ligand, inhibits contact hypersensitivity and psoriatic reactions: a potent therapeutic tool for Th1- and/or Th17-mediated skin inflammation. Clin Immunol 132, 184-194 (2009).
↑ Anderson, D.E. TIM-3 as a therapeutic target in human inflammatory diseases. Expert Opin Ther Targets 11, 1005-1009 (2007).
The CFG is grateful to the following PIs for their contributions to this wiki page: Linda Baum, Richard Cummings
Retrieved from "http://functionalglycomics.org/CFGparadigms/index.php/Galectin-9"
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Feb 19th, 2013, 05:18 PM #421
Location: the great state of TX
Yeah we were talking about that aliens game over at psxe last week lotta peeps decided against it. Im close to being done with dead space 3 and will resume with darksiders 2 soon after. Gonna probably be checking out crysis 3 also very soon. Although I havent co-op 'd yet on the ps3 my initial observations are the 360 is more user friendly on that end. As time and opportunity permits a deeper determination will be made.
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Its been a long time since i was into fighting games, although at one time i really enjoyed them sf2 in particular and i liked tekken quite a bit. With co-op and online play options so much more available, though, i expect a revisit may well be in order. Being a gamefly member i may indeed check out a fighting game again. And from what ive heard of that particular personna game its quite good. I myself dont have a vita, but know many who do... im enjoying Dead Space 3 atm!!!
Persona Golden Abyss is for the vita. That's that remake. Persona Arena is on the ps3 and xbox 360.
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SSF4: AE2012 - Ken, Ryu, Evil Ryu
SF3rd Strike - Yang, Ken, Ryu
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Ah amazingly ive never played a personna game amidst the myriad rpg's ive encountered.
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Ah I see. I have Persona 3 & 4, but I've yet to play them.
Don't be mistaken, though. Persona 4 Arena is a fighting game done by the same folks that did Guilty Gear. Persona 4 Golden (Golden Abyss...? I think Uncharted was in my head) is the remake of Persona 4 on the vita. Sorry for the mix-up.
Feb 25th, 2013, 03:33 AM #425
Beretta55
Reached for the sky
Location: The road less traveled
Persona 4 is really, really good. It has to be the last great hurrah game the PS2 got. Games like that reminded me why I played so many JRPG's last console generation.
I did everything I needed to do in Aliens so I'm trading that in as soon as possible, such an awful game. At the moment I'm going through both Sniper Elite V2 and Fist of The North Star: Ken's Rage.
Sniper Elite is a lot of fun and is a definite play, more so if you do enjoy sniping in other shooters. It has realistic bullet drop and wind is a factor on the higher difficulties, it's not just aim at head at any distance and get a shot like standard shooters. An X-Ray cam (that is really, really gruesome at times depending on where you hit a guy) adds flair to the game and tons of "Oh man!" moments to the game. Shooting a guy and having the bullet travel through his chest, only to exit out his back while severing the spine never stops being the gruesome sight it is.
Ken's Rage is made by Koei, so it's pretty much Dynasty Warriors in terms of how it plays. I've always had a soft spot for the Warriors games, despite how repetitive and little they change. Games like this are good to play for a few mindless hours or to play concurrent with other games. I also do enjoy the Fist of The North Star series so it is pretty fun to roll through town making dudes explode while Kenshiro spouts the deadly serious dialogue that he always does.
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Cool I think i own personna 3 although its never been played. Personna golden is getting positive vibes over at psxe. Finished dead space 3 recently and have crysis 3 for either xbox or ps3 up in my queue next for rent have heard its good. Bioshock infinite in 4 weeks! Be there!
Mar 1st, 2013, 07:57 PM #427
I finally managed to pull myself away from Street Fighter X Tekken for a little bit to enjoy Mass Effect 1. I've played and beaten ME1 at least 3 times now. As much as a technical hiccup it is I still enjoy the game even though ME2 is clearly better. I just got Liara in the crew. Playing as female Shepard, and she's a soldier.
That said, I am back to playing SFxT though. Practicing some Jin combos.
Mar 11th, 2013, 01:49 PM #428
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Mass Effect is something I've been meaning to finish, but I've been "playing" the first one off/on for the last three years...:p
I'll always pick the sequels when they get cheap (got ME2 for $10 and ME3 for $15) but man, it seems so daunting to try and go back to it. I'd start over, but I think I'm too far into ME1 to even consider that.
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Mar 12th, 2013, 03:28 AM #429
Good to see you around, Dragon!!!! We have actually taken on the image of a semi-active forum again so be sure and re-visit soon! As for me, ive been absolutely loving Darksiders 2!!! Highly recommended, its one of my favs of this generation and the single player experience. Im highly anticipating the release of Bioshock Infinite and i started a thread over at Psxextreme to get the hype going!!! I had been renting mostly but am buying this game i dont plan on stopping playing it anytime soon!!! Hang out and lets keep this ball rolling!!!
I haven't gotten deep into the game yet, and I'm still getting used to the controls, but I'm enjoying this game. The better I get at this game the more hooked I become because the combat just feel so good. If there's a story I don't know about it because I haven't been paying attention to it. A lot of games these days are lacking in the fun department, and lacking the replay value that I look for. I feel MGR:R brought me out of my funk simply because of how fun and satisfying it is. I'm hearing it's a short game, but that gives me even more fuel to replay the game on a higher difficulty, especially since you actually unlock meaningful stuff for beating the game on higher difficulties (I'd much rather unlock costumes than pay for them)
I also took someone's advice and ordered DmC: Devil May Cry. I'm expecting it to arrive between today and tomorrow. I don't expect to have his reactions and claim it's the best in the series, but I do expect to have fun and feel satisfied. The combat looks like it'll have that satisfying feel to it, especially after a long day at work. I also hear that this game is fairly short, but again, that's giving me a reason to replay the game.
I'm also trading in a buttload of games (pretty much doing an overhaul in a way). I'm keeping the Metal Gears, Uncharteds, Mass Effects, Halos, Devil May Crys, Ninja Gaidens, and my fighters, but everything else is gone. Not exactly sure what I'll be getting in return.
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Picked up Infamous 2. So far she seems like as solid title.
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Mar 23rd, 2013, 05:34 AM #432
Finally made it through darksiders 2! Wow what a big game its not the short borderline rental games we see so much of nowadays. Very fun though and never lacking for challenge! Im going to download the soundtrack today its very good. Getting ready for bioshock infinite this tuesday gonna check out uncharted 3 for a few days in the interim.
Uncharted 3 is a blast and I will get back around to it after bioshock infinite!
Mar 31st, 2013, 03:16 AM #434
I really need to start playing the Uncharted series, or at least Uncharted 2 and 3, but I can never get in the mood to actually play them.
In any case, I've started up DmC: Devil May Cry recently and it's not nearly as bad as fans make it out to be, but it's not as great as some review sites make it out to be either. To be honest, as big a DMC fan I am, my initial reaction when the game was first shown was definitely more on the negative side because of the look. The head guy at NT made Dante resemble himself, and that was a turnoff, but I got over that fairly quick when they changed him up. Anyway, the combat is nice, but they kinda dropped the ball without having a lock-on, and then to top it off you're forced to fight the enemies with a specific type of weapon, and while that's not a deal breaker for me, it does take away the freedom for playing the way you want. With that being said, though, it's still a good game.
With that being said I did put it aside to play Ultimate Marvel vs Capcom 3. Having a bit of a team crisis at the moment, but I am understanding the game a bit more. Originally I thought the game was super fast, but in the end you really have to take your time. And then the game is just pure fun. Some of the characters I've been dabbling with are Dante (he's just pure fun and my favorite character in the game), Wolverine, Vergil (did I mention how big a fan I am of DMC, but he is on the boring side though), Hawkeye, Spencer, Nova, Taskmaster, and Magneto. I'm also considering Strider as well.
Oh yeah, I also beat Metal Gear Rising: Revegeance as well. It's a good game with tons of replay value, but there are some things that could've been left out. Stealth in this game is just in the way. They have moments in the game where they tell you stealth is the best approach, but the game itself just encourages you to throw stealth out the window and go nuts. I don't recall you being graded on stealth either. It felt horribly tacked on. Speaking of tacked on, the sub weapons. I found no reason to use them what-so-friggin-ever. They really could've been used to include more blades to upgrade or something. But overall, it's a good game.
Some quick pickups.
Infamous 1 & 2
I'm also thinking about picking up the Bioshock series.
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The many faces of the Swiss postbus
Written by Vitali Vitaliev
Published in Mountains
For many remote parts of the Swiss Alpine region, the yellow postbuses are the only connection to the wider transport network Christine Bohling
For the Swiss, the iconic yellow postbuses are much more than just a means of public transportation. Vitali Vitaliev hops on board for a journey of discovery
The legibility of my scribbles has always left much to be desired. From primary school, my handwriting could best be described with a Russian idiom kak kuristsa lapoi – literally, ‘he writes like a hen with her paw (sic)’. More often than not, I have little problem deciphering my own notes. This time, however, the scrawls in my notebooks were particularly bouncy and uneven, reflecting the curves and gradients of the steep and winding Swiss mountain roads on which they were written. They resembled an ECG of a person on the brink of a heart attack.
My aim was to criss-cross a chunk of Switzerland, using nothing but the yellow postbuses – or ‘post autos’ – the country’s iconic public transport vehicles. While in Switzerland, so attached did I become to those agile and ubiquitous vehicles that I started personalising them in the same way travellers personalise countries and cities. It was hard not to, for the postbuses’ role in the life of Swiss towns and villages has always been much more significant than merely being a reliable means of taking citizens from one place to another.
On the steepest bus route in Europe (Image: Christine Bohling)
The Swiss PostBus Limited is the largest of the country’s 78 coach companies. Administered by the Motor Services Department of the Post Office, it carries over 120 million passengers each year and is carefully integrated with other public transport services: trains, boats and mountain cableways. According to Fritz Jenni, a former operations manager for the Postbuses, the Swiss transportation system resembles a tree, with the larger branches representing federal and private railways, smaller branches being the coaches, and the twigs being the urban transit operators running trams, city buses, boats, chairlifts and so on. But the trunk that holds the tree together is the vast post auto network which also operates in Liechtenstein and the South of France.
There isn’t an inhabited place in Switzerland that cannot be reached by some sort of public transport. The federal law and the Swiss Constitution stipulate that every village with a population greater than 40 is entitled to regular bus services. The frequency of these services is in direct proportion to the population density. Timetables are put together four years in advance. They tend to be rather conservative and seldom change. If a new route is to be introduced, the population of the area affected is invited to have a referendum.
At times, postbuses are the main – sometimes the only – links between settlements. Bright yellow coaches, often with a small mail van in tow (for post autos still carry post), are a common sight in high-altitude regions and their signature sound – the first movement of Rossini’s William Tell Overture, played by the drivers on three-tone post horns with electrical compressors at every road turn, is perhaps one of most familiar Swiss ‘voices’ – melodious, if somewhat ear-grating.
A little-known – and fairly ‘human’ – fact of the three-note horns is that they can still be used to ‘talk’ to post offices (and each other) from a distance. By altering the combination of the tones, a driver can announce ‘departure of post’, ‘arrival of post’, ‘arrival of special post’, ‘bus swerving out’ and so on – so much more romantic and often more reliable than radio or mobile phones. This musical ‘language’ started in the mid-19th century, when the coach drivers could also blow their horns a certain number of times on approaching the station to indicate the quantity of horses needing to be fed, giving the station master time to prepare the fodder.
The postbus history goes back to 1849 when the Swiss postal service was made a monopoly of the young Confederation. The role of today’s modern yellow buses was, back then, played by horse-drawn carriages (or in winter by sleighs), also coloured yellow. By the First World War, well after the first motor coaches were introduced on the 11-mile stretch between Bern and Detlingen in 1906 (a line still in operation today), there were 2,500 horses, 2,231 coaches (or carriages) and 1,059 sleighs in service.
After the war, Swiss Post bought a fleet of decommissioned military trucks which were converted into postbuses, but it was not until 1961 that the last horse-drawn coach was replaced with a motorised version on the high-altitude route from Cresta to Juf.
Today, the Swiss Post Office boasts one of the world’s most advanced coach fleets, including fuel-cell models and the world’s first driverless bus, launched in 2015 in the town of Sion, the capital of the canton of Valais.
Postbuses are given priority when traveling downhill (Image: Christine Bohling)
Mountain tourism in Switzerland began in the early 19th century, when the first British mountaineers climbed two main peaks of the Bernese Alps: Jungfrau in 1811 and Finsteraarhorn in 1812. It was not long before the horse-drawn postal coaches started climbing the mountains too, yet it took motorised buses to conquer some truly serious heights.
Having stocked up on altitude sickness pills, I travelled up the steepest bus route in Europe (average gradient 28 per cent) – from Reichenbach to Pochtenalp, at 3,660m above sea level, along the Kiental-Griesalp line. The pills remained unused, for despite countless sharp turns, with a nearly uninterrupted post horn symphony played by Manfred Mettier, the driver of our compact Mercedes-Benz postbus, the journey was surprisingly smooth. At times, the bus would come to a sharp halt to give way to a descending lorry (descending traffic gets priority in the Alps). The driver would change gears, and the passengers would gasp involuntarily as the vehicle slipped back several inches. Our bus had a mail trailer in tow and, looking back, I could often see it folding into a particularly sharp turn of the narrow road, like a dagger in a sheath, and getting almost parallel to the bus itself.
This climb to Griesalp was first completed in 1860 by British mountaineer and historian Leslie Stephen (1832–1904), father of Virginia Woolf , who branded the Swiss Alps ‘the playground of Europe’. Twelve years later, the first postal diligences (the name given in French to a solidly-built coach with four or more horses) were introduced to parts of the route.
Driver Adolf von Bergen on a lunch break in the Italian-speaking Swiss canton of Ticino (Image: Christine Bohling)
Postbuses often go to places that other means of transport cannot reach. Most of the drivers therefore see themselves as educators and tour guides. Although it’s not their direct duty, they never miss a chance to point out the sights – waterfalls, gorges, peculiar bridges – and are always ready to pull over for a photo opportunity (such ‘unofficial’ scenic stops are tentatively included on the timetables). ‘Without them [post autos], the Alps would have remained an unknown land to thousands of travellers,’ John Withers, President of the English Alpine Club, wrote to the Swiss Postmaster General in 1932.
I realised the validity of these words while on Switzerland’s longest (and one of the highest) postbus journeys: across four Central Alpine mountain passes on the Grimsel-Nufenen-Gotthard-Susten Pass route – an eight-hour trip undertaken by a single Setra 415H postbus. The journey took me through several cantons; two languages (German and Italian); all four seasons – from burning sunshine to showers and heavy snowfalls; and countless ‘places of interest’.
Ostap Bender, the protagonist of The Twelve Chairs, a satirical novel by Soviet writers Ilf and Petrov, dismissed mountains as ‘useless thing[s]… too much luxury… idiot’s imagination...’ I was ready to agree with him after the first several hours of the journey, when the mountain views behind the windows of our postbus became overwhelming and somewhat oppressive, with swollen rivers and mountain streams in the gorges resembling muscled sinewy torsos of giant bodybuilders.
At 2,120m, altitude sickness kicked in making my head feel heavy and alien. It was then that Adolf von Bergen, our driver, announced a scenic stop. As the passengers were admiring the views, he told the story of the Gotthard Pass, often described as ‘the People’s Road’, probably because it connected the German-speaking canton of Uri with Italian-speaking Ticino. In June 2016, the Gotthard Base Tunnel, the world’s deepest and longest, at a length of over 57km, was completed under the pass. The tunnel opened on 11 December 2016 slashing by a good hour the journey time between Zurich and Milan.
One word in the driver’s monologue was particularly familiar. ‘Suvorov,’ he kept repeating, pointing at a distant mountain peak. I recalled my Soviet school history manual which featured the painting by Surikov, a late-19th-century Russian artist, Suvorov Crossing the Alps. It was a scene from Russia’s successful military campaign to expel the French from Italy (Russia was then part of the anti-French coalition) led by a renowned military commander, Count Alexander Vassilyevich Suvorov, in 1799. Upon reaching central Switzerland, Suvorov’s army was all but surrounded by the French. After ferocious fighting across ‘St Gotthard Pass’, Suvorov managed to escape the entrapment by leading his army of 18,000 exhausted and hungry soldiers over three Alpine passes in just ten days. The painting showed Suvorov’s troops sliding down a snow-covered mountain on their bottoms, laughing. Looking at the peak, semi-hidden under a fluffy fur hat of clouds, I could almost discern the spectres of bearded Russian soldiers, their long Cossack-style tunics being used as sledges to whoosh themselves down the mountain. There were neither trains nor postbuses to catch here in 1799.
Suvorov Crossing the Alps by 19th century Russian artist Surikov
TONGUE TWISTING
Shortly after a 2,150m altitude marker had flashed past, we crossed into the canton of Ticino – and the automated intercom announcements, all in German only minutes ago, switched over to Italian. Like Switzerland itself, postbuses ‘speak’ all four state languages: German, French, Italian and Romansh (in the canton of Grisons) – and, by law, each bus starts ‘speaking’ the language of whichever canton it is currently passing through.
Ticino is like a different country within Switzerland. Its Alpine areas were much less densely populated than those of the German-speaking canton of Uri. The driver announced (in Italian) that the villages we had driven past had only 75 residents across all three of them.
We had an hour-long lunch stop in the village of Airolo where I sat next to our driver. Adolf is 61 and has worked as a driver for 41 years without a single accident. Prior to being hired by PostBus, he was in the army driving heavy lorries. ‘Being a postbus driver is like belonging to the elite,’ he said and explained that, irrespective of his vast previous experience, he had to undergo lots of training. During the first year, he was not allowed to drive post autos on his own, only under supervision of a more experienced driver. It was only after two years of safe driving in the valleys that he was pronounced ‘ready’ for a mountain bus.
The training of postbus drivers includes psychology and communication skills. ‘A city bus driver can stay inside his cabin, but a postbus driver has to be among the passengers,’ smiled Adolf, dipping his fork deep into a hillock of spaghetti strings.
Erika Seemater in the village of Saxeten, with driver Carolyn Lansdell looking on (Image: Christine Bohling)
VALLEY LIFE
The village of Saxeten in the canton of Bern has a population of 96, and its only connection to the world is a Mercedes ‘mini’ postbus, which shuttles between the village and the town of Wilderswil six times a day.
Apart from being the scene of the Saxetenbach Gorge flooding disaster, in which 21 people, mostly tourists from Australia, New Zealand, England, South Africa and Switzerland, perished in July 1999, the village is unremarkable. It lies at the entrance to the nearby mountain valleys that containing the Lütschine river. The route is not at all busy, with the bus often carrying just two or three passengers at a time. But for people of Saxeten, still living off cattle-breeding and farming, it is of the utmost importance.
The small postbus not only carries the villagers to town and back, it takes village kids to and from school, delivers mail, transports milk from the village farm down to the valley, collects rubbish from the village taking it down for recycling (Swiss laws do not allow dumping anywhere in the mountains), and brings building materials to households. It takes elderly villagers to Wilderswil shops and helps them ‘carry’ the shopping up the hill to their homes. More a friend than just a means of transportation, for the dwellers of Saxeten the postbus epitomises their constitutional right to freedom of movement.
It was on the morning postbus service that I met Erika Seemater on her fortnightly trip to bring food to her 92-year-old father Gotlib, who lives in the village on his own. Saxeten-born Erika, who had herself moved to the valley a while ago, told me how her life in the village had been inseparable from postbuses, which used to take her to shops, hairdressers and cooking classes in the valley. Gotlib was waiting on the porch of his large wooden chalet as the bus drove up. He looked much younger than his age, as many highlanders do.
I had a couple of hours to spare before the return trip – ample time to talk to Carolyn Lansdell, the driver of the Saxeten service, over a cup of coffee in the village restaurant. Married to an Englishman, Carolyn has been a postbus driver for just a couple of years. She was also a well-known paraglider pilot, a member of the Swiss national paragliding team, and only drives the Saxeten bus when there is ‘not a lot of flying or snow-boarding on offer’. Carolyn lives in the valley, and drives her own car to Saxeten every morning to rejoin the postbus, which she leaves in the village overnight.
‘I know all the villagers by name, and most of them are heavily dependent on my postbus,’ she said ‘One couple in their eighties sometimes ask me to pick them up from their house, and I do, although the rules do not allow it. My bosses know and do not mind.’ Always being on time is not obligatory here, for there is just the one bus line and no train connections to make.
‘There are mostly older folks left in the village – and at times I feel more like a community liaison officer than a bus driver,’ she confessed. ‘Once I was asked to bring up the tiles to repair the roof of an old couple’s house. There is a 90-year-old lady suffering from dementia who always tells the same story while on the bus, and I always pretend I hear it for the first time.’
Eventually it was time to head back down to the valley. Apart from me, there were no passengers waiting at the village bus stop. Carolyn sat behind the wheel and started the engine. Before driving off, she backed down, attached a neat rubbish container left behind the shelter to the back of her vehicle, and all three of us – Carolyn, myself and the postbus – began our slow descent to Wilderswil.
CO-ORDINATES: SWISS ALPS
Hotels, restaurants and shops are open all year round including bank holidays (except supermarkets). Some mountain excursions operate in the summer only or close for maintenance in November. Others are open 12 months a year, so check before you go.
SwissAir, Skywork, British Airways and Easy Jet all offer flights to Switzerland. There are hourly rail connections from all Swiss airports, plus direct rail connections from Paris. Transport links can be found on the Swiss Railway website: www.sbb.ch or on he Postbus site: www.postbus.ch.
Switzerland Travel Centre: www.stc.co.uk
Hotels: Interlaken: www.golf-landhotel.ch; Spiez: www.eden-spiez.ch; Kiental: www.nostalgiehotel.ch; Meiringen: www.victoria-meiringen.ch
Guests staying in the Interlaken Holiday region receive a guest card with lots of discounts: www.interlaken.ch/guestcard
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Job Growth From Paper Shuffling, Garbage Collection
This morning the Bureau of Labor Statistics announced its November result of number fudging by "Net Birth/Death Model", aka "The Employment Situation in November 2009".
Net job loss for November was a surprising 11,000. So where did the gains happen?
Private Sector = - 18,000
Natural Resources & Mining = - 1,000
Construction = - 27,000
Manufacturing = - 41,000
Services = + 58,000
Government = + 7,000
So it is Services and Government. What's in the Services?
Wholesale Trade = - 11,700
Retail Trade = - 14,500
Transportation & Warehousing = - 5,300
Utilities = - 2,400
Information & Media = - 17,000
Financial Svcs & Real Estate = - 10,000
Professional & Business Svcs = + 86,000
Education = + 11,100
Health Svcs = + 28,100
Leisure = - 11,000
What's in the "Professional Svcs & Business Svcs"? BLS says:
Legal Services: NAICS 5411
Accounting, Tax Preparation, Bookkeeping, and Payroll Services: NAICS 5412
Architectural, Engineering, and Related Services: NAICS 5413
Specialized Design Services: NAICS 5414
Computer Systems Design and Related Services: NAICS 5415
Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services: NAICS 5416
Scientific Research and Development Services: NAICS 5417
Advertising and Related Services: NAICS 5418
Other Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services: NAICS 5419
Management of Companies and Enterprises: NAICS 55
Office Administrative Services: NAICS 5611
Facilities Support Services: NAICS 5612
Employment Services: NAICS 5613
Business Support Services: NAICS 5614
Travel Arrangement and Reservation Services: NAICS 5615
Investigation and Security Services: NAICS 5616
Services to Buildings and Dwellings: NAICS 5617
Other Support Services: NAICS 5619
Waste Collection: NAICS 5621
Waste Treatment and Disposal: NAICS 5622
Remediation and Other Waste Management Services: NAICS 5629
I can't imagine the number of lawyers, accountants, management consultants suddenly jumped in November. My wild guess is that the employment increase was in the last two categories - paper shuffling and garbage collection. Hardly the engines for robust growth.
After the initial pop, the market cratered after 11:30 AM EST. Dow is currently down 24 points at 10,342. Earlier, it was at 10,516, up nearly 150 points, highest for the year. Profit taking and locking in the year's gain is the explanation offered by MarketWatch.
Labels: BLS, unemployment
Senator Bunning to Bernanke: You Are A Moral Hazard
Jim Bunning, Republican Senator from Kentucky and the only one who voted no on the 1st confirmation 4 years ago, had some harsh words to Ben Bernanke in today's confirmation hearing.
Mish Shedlock has a partial transcript on his blogsite. Among other things, Senator Bunning said to the Fed chairman:
"Chairman Greenspan sold the Fed's independence to Wall Street on the so called "Greenspan PUT". Whenever Wall Street needed a boost, Alan was there. But you went even farther than that when you bowed to the political pressure of the Bush and Obama Administrations, and turned the Fed into an arm of the Treasury.
"Under your watch the "Bernanke PUT" became a bailout for all large financial institutions, including many foreign banks.
"And you put the printing presses into overdrive to fund the government's spending and hand out cheap money to your masters on Wall Street.
"In short, you are the definition of a moral hazard.
"You are repeating the same mistakes as Japan in the 1990's on a much larger scale while sowing the seeds for the next bubble.The AIG bailout alone is reason enough to send you back to Princeton.
"I will do everything I can to stop your nomination and drag out this process as long as I can. We must put an end to your and the Fed's failure and there is no better time than now.
"Your Fed has become the creature from Jekyll Island."
Labels: Ben Bernanke, confirmation hearing, Federal reserve
Big Ben Bernanke's Senate confirmation hearing has started.
I am not too thrilled to have him around any longer, or for that matter to have the Federal Reserve.
This is the person who proclaimed there was no housing bubble. Bernanke insisted that the subprime mortgage problem was contained and there would be no spill-over into other mortgage types. Into a broader economy? Of course not, are you kidding? He insisted that banks had a credit/liquidity problems and nothing more, while all along it was a solvency problem. He told the Congressional leaders that unless they gave him and buddy Paulson $700 billion the world would collapse and cease to exist, and then yanked the liquidity from the struggling financial market which facilitated the fantastic tanking of global stock markets and then economies, as some speculated.
After the crash of the stock market and credit market, he proceeded to double the balance sheet of the Federal Reserve supposedly to help the economy recover. The economy at large has done no such thing, decidedly not because of the money thrown by the Fed. Bulk of Bernanke's money went to the nation's biggest commercial banks (including hastily converted banks like Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley, and a host of insurance companies and credit card companies), who simply parked the money at the Fed as "excess reserves".
By the Fed's own admission, that excess reserves were not meant to be loaned out from the beginning when the Fed started buying up assets other than Treasury bills/notes/bonds last fall. The Fed immediately started paying interest on the excess reserves so that the banks would keep the money at the Fed. It has been the Fed's policy that the excess reserves be kept at the Fed. New York Fed has even produced a research paper discussing why banks are holding so many excess reserves. The Fed needed the money there on the Fed balance sheet so that they could justify the ballooning asset portfolio of agency bonds (that no one else wants) and agency MBS (that no one else wants), commercial papers, corporate bonds, whatever else they took in as collateral, even a shopping mall and a hotel chain.
He claims it is important for the Fed to be "independent" from meddling politicians but if you look at his institution's balance sheet it is full of fiscal policy items to expressly assist the government: monetization of the government debts through open market operations; buyer of last resort for agency bonds and MBS in order to lower the mortgage rates; various lending programs to help financial firms. Definition of "financial" seems pretty broad, as John Deere, a tractor company, issued bonds with FDIC debt guarantee program, which is supervised by the Federal Reserve.
In this administration, just like the previous one, incompetency is to be rewarded. So I have no doubt that he will be confirmed for his second term. Never mind that only 21% of likely voters support his confirmation, according to Rasmussen. But when have the general public counted for anything to the politicians, other than to collect taxes from?
(Zero Hedge's poll is even worse. Only 11% think he should be reappointed.)
I am still wondering why Bernanke wanted the second term so badly. I guess it's the face issue. His predecessor, Alan Greenspan, had the job for 19 years. Paul Volcker had 8 years. A one-term Fed chairman who presided over the worst stock market and economic collapse since the Great Depression doesn't look too good on his resume.
(I would much like to see him as the last chairman of the Fed.)
Labels: Ben Bernanke, confirmation hearing, Fed, Federal reserve
Foreign Policy Magazine's Top 100 Global Thinkers in 2009
(Hahahahahahahahahahahaha)
1. Ben Bernanke
2. Barack Obama
4. Nouriel Roubini
5. Rajendra Pachauri (climate change propagandist)
6. Bill Clinton & Hillary Clinton
7. Cass Sunstein and Richard Thaler (Sunstein is Obama's Regulatory Czar who favors "senior death discount".)
8. David Petraeus
21. Thomas Friedman
The whole list is here, for your entertainment.
Labels: Foreign Policy, Top Global Thinkers
that pose a risk to the economy.
The House Financial Services Committee (chair: Barney Frank) has approved the legislation, by 31-27, that would give the government the power to dismantle financial firms that it thinks pose a risk to the economy, even if they are healthy. It will also force big financial firms to pay the fees upfront for dismantling.
The question here is: WHO IS TO DECIDE, AND HOW? HOW IS 'RISK' DEFINED? BY WHOM?
By Timmy Geithner and Ben Bernanke, who didn't see anything bad coming their way? Or Barney Frank who insisted Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac were sound businesses? Or Chris Dodd who was a "friend of Angelo"? Or another Presidential Task Force headed by an ex-banker supported by ex-campaign staff?
As this is part of so-called financial overhaul attempt by the government, it also contains the audit of the Federal Reserve.
Panel OKs key regulatory measure; House vote next
(12/2/09 AP via Yahoo Finance) [emphasis is mine]
"WASHINGTON (AP) -- A key House panel voted Wednesday to slap new restraints on big Wall Street institutions and to demand greater openness from the nation's central bank, clearing a significant hurdle in the drive for a sweeping financial regulations overhaul.
"Motivated by the crisis that caused a near collapse in financial markets, the House Financial Services Committee approved legislation 31-27 that would give the government the right to dismantle financial firms that pose a risk to the economy, even if they are healthy.
"The legislation also would require a detailed congressional audit of the privacy-shrouded Federal Reserve and would assess fees up front on large financial institutions to pay for the failure of their competitors.
"The action sets the stage for a full House vote next week on comprehensive regulatory changes meant as a response to the financial sector's meltdown more than a year ago. That package, set to go to the House floor on Wednesday, would include the creation of a new consumer finance protection agency, restrictions on complex financial instruments blamed for feeding last year's panic and restrictions on Wall Street compensation."
Why don't we, citizens, have the right to dismantle institutions that pose a risk to the economy? The first on my list would be the Federal Reserve, IRS next, and then dismantle the entire federal government, as the biggest risk to the economy and liberty and welfare of the citizens.
Read the post on 30-day makeover of the U.S. by Lew Rockwell.
Labels: audit the Fed, Barney Frank, financial reform, House Financial Committee
Michael Moore is dead-set against Afghanistan surge.
Labels: Af-Pak war, Afghanistan, Michael Moore, Obama policy
through and through Keynesian
(and the very definition of a fool as someone who keeps repeating the same thing over and over even if it doesn't produce the result he wants).
Bank of Japan held an emergency meeting on December 1 afternoon (their time) and decided to embark on the second round of quantitative easing. The first one was from 2001 to 2006, with dubious results (more later in the post). Just like the first one, BOJ wants to induce further decline of longer-term interest rates to stimulate borrowing and spending. This time, there is an added purpose of stabilizing Japanese yen (i.e. reversing the recent rapid rise of yen). Here's the BOJ statement in English.
BOJ intends to roughly double the size of "current deposits" at BOJ (Japanese equivalent of "excess reserve") by introducing a new 10 trillion yen (US$115 billion) lending program in which financial institutions can get a 3-month loan at 0.1% fixed rate (overnight call rate). Eligible collateral includes Japanese government bonds, corporate bonds, commercial papers, and loans on deeds.
Looking at BOJ's latest balance sheet, they have about 40 trillion yen (US$460 billion) of various lending programs. Unlike the U.S. Federal Reserve, its balance sheet size has remained steady at about 110-115 trillion yen (US$1.26 - 1.32 trillion) since 2007.
Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco has a paper on the last quantitative easing by Bank of Japan. Their conclusion was that it did lower the longer rate somewhat, but it was hard to tell whether it was the direct result of quantitative easing or the future expectation. They also said that Japan's quantitative easing probably had an unintended consequence of helping weaker banks stay afloat and encouraging further risk-taking, thus delaying the real structural reform.
From the Japanese consumers' perspective, price deflation has been the only good thing that has happened since their real estate bubble burst in 1989-90. But Keynesians in the government and at Bank of Japan would have none of that. Price must increase.
(John Maynard Keynes, who didn't even have a degree in economics...)
It's safe to assume they know nothing about Austrian economics.
Labels: Bank of Japan, quantitative easing
100 to 1. Citizens panick.
The news is from Japan's Yomiuri Shinbun.
North Korea carries out currency redenomination, citizens in panic (12/1/09 Yomiuri Shinbun, original in Japanese)
"(Seoul - Masahiko Takekoshi) South Korea's Yonhap News Agency reported that North Korea redenominated their currency (North Korean won) on November 20, citing several North Korean trade representatives in China.
"100 units of old North Korean won are to be exchanged for 1 unit of the new currency. It is the first new currency issue in North Korea since 1992.
"According to experts in Korea, North Korea's partial market reform that started in 2002 has resulted in the price of rice rising 50-fold, and the price of daily goods rising 20 to 30-fold, as the value of the currency plunged.
"In addition to supressing inflation, the redenomination is aimed at crack down on the private assets in the black market. According to Yonhap News, the currency exchange started on November 30 at 2:00 PM. Citizens, fearful that the government would find out about their hidden assets, flooded the black market in a panic to exchange into Chinese yuan and U.S. dollars.
"Korea's Daily NK, Internet newspaper specializing in North Korea says the exchange covers both paper currency and coins, and the exchange has started at North Korean central bank and its branches. Korea's Ministry of Unification says it cannot confirm the redenomination at this time."
Labels: currency redenomination, North Korea
call it "Beijing Put"...
Chinese are counting on the Dubai crisis to linger for a while so that they can buy gold cheaper. Will they get their wish?
Dubai crisis gives China chance to buy oil, gold: report (11/30/09 Reuters via Washington Post)
"BEIJING (Reuters) - Dubai's debt crisis could be China's opportunity to snap up gold and oil assets, a senior Chinese official said in remarks published on Monday.
"No Chinese banks have yet reported exposure to debt from Dubai World, a flagship firm that last week said it was seeking to delay debt payments by six months. Some Chinese real estate and construction firms have limited exposure to projects in the emirate, state television reported this weekend.
"China's $2.27 trillion in foreign exchange reserves are mostly parked in U.S. treasuries, despite calls from some in China to invest the reserves in oil and other natural resources that the fast-growing Chinese economy will need in future.
"While the impact of the Dubai crisis on the global economy and on China was not known yet, it would last a while at the very least, Ji Xiaonan, who chairs the supervisory board for big state-owned companies under the State Council's state assets commission, told the Economic Information Daily.
""That could give China a buying opportunity to put some forex reserves into gold or oil reserves," Ji was quoted as saying by the paper, which is widely read by Chinese officials.
"Another paper, the China Youth Daily, quoted Ji as saying that a team of experts from Beijing and Shanghai had set up a task force last year to look at the issue of gold reserves.
""We suggested that China's gold reserves should reach 6,000 tons in the next 3-5 years and perhaps 10,000 tons in 8-10 years," the paper quoted him as saying."
Currently, China's gold reserve is 1,054 tons, making it the 6th largest gold reserve holder in the world just above Switzerland. The U.S. gold reserve, in comparison, is 8,133 tons, the world largest. The second largest gold reserve holder is Germany, with 3,408 tons.
"Beijing put" is indeed on gold price.
Labels: Beijing put, china, Dubai crisis, gold, gold reserve
after Obama announcement on Tuesday
I wonder what will happen to that brilliant idea of taxing all Americans to support the Afghan war. I also wonder (in shudder) what will happen in Pakistan. (Read this Seymour Hersh article on Pakistan and her nukes and American role in destabilizing Pakistan.)
9,000 Marines Heading to Afghanistan Immediately After Obama Announcement (11/29/09 Antiwar.com)
"The United States is wasting no time in throwing more troops at the war in Afghanistan. Officials say as soon as President Obama makes his Tuesday announcement of the escalation of the war, 9,000 additional Marines will depart for Afghanistan.
"The 9,000 Marines will head to the Helmand Province, roughly doubling the number of marines on the ground in the tense province. It will also be a significant portion of the estimated 34,000 additional troops President Obama will commit to the war.
"Defense Secretary Robert Gates had said the escalation would come quickly, despite caution that it was complicated to add so many troops to a war in a landlocked, virtually infrastructure free country on the other side of the globe. Still, most assumed it would be at least January when the troops started arriving.
"That the troops are all heading to Helmand will no doubt be troubling news to Pakistan, as Prime Minister Gilani cautioned only two days ago that he was worried a US escalation in Helmand could destabilize the nation’s Balochistan Province."
"Might makes right, until they see the light..."
Labels: Af-Pak war, Afghanistan, Obama policy, U.S. Marines
in a very ineffectual op-ed piece.
Big Ben (Bernanke), aka the chairman of the besieged Federal Reserve, wrote an op-ed piece that appeared today in Washington Post. The arguments that he gives in support for his institution are the same old, tired ones he's already given elsewhere already. I'm wondering why he has bothered to write them up as an op-ed.
The danger that I see is this: He sounds rather anxious to keep his job and keep his institution intact, and he may intentionally let the next market crash happen sooner than later so that the Fed retains its credibility. ("See what happens when you try to mess with the Fed?") You can read it for yourself, by clicking on the link below:
The right reform for the Fed (Ben Bernanke, 11/29/09 Washington Post)
Ben wants to design a system of financial oversight that will embody the lessons of the past two years. Past two years? Only two years, during which you insisted that there was no big problem in just about everything - from subprime to soundness of nation's banks to commercial real estate.
He believe the legislative proposals circulating in Congress are "out of step with the global consensus". What global consensus? Of the like-minded central banks and B.I.S., bank of central banks which is totally unaccountable to anyone?
He also believe that the Fed played a major role in arresting the crisis last year and that now it's time to preserve the Fed's ability. He just wants to keep all the goodies (policy tools) that he grabbed last year with the help of Hank Paulson, then Treasury Secretary. Kevin Warsh of the Fed board already said as much.
Whenever I hear that argument that the total meltdown was averted thanks to the Fed, it reminds me of some rogue firefighters setting fire intentionally so that they can "fight" it. The Federal Reserve withdrew liquidity from the market just when such liquidity was needed in September last year. (See this post by Karl Denninger of the Market Ticker from last year.) It was after the Lehman Brothers bankruptcy and huge withdrawal from money market funds, and after Ben and Hank went to Congressional leaders to demand $700 billion. It was right before the market started a spectacular crash. Yes, the Fed the hero.
Curiously, he seems to think the Fed's expertise conferred "stress tests" done in spring this year a great deal of credibility and clarity. I guess he didn't watch Saturday Night Live.
He makes statements without citing actual examples that justify such statements. He says that "Many studies have shown that countries whose central banks make monetary policy independently of such political influence have better economic performance, including lower inflation and interest rates." Ok, where? Can anyone name one country?
A central bank was born in Great Britain in 1694, so that the British government would have endless supply of money (Britain was near-broke from the Nine Years' War) as the central bank monetized the sovereign debt. Flush with newly minted money, Great Britain went on to fight the War of Spanish Succession. Not the paragon of independence to me. The Federal Reserve was modeled after the Bank of England.
Also, this particular statement in the article, that "[the Fed's] supervision is also informed by the grass-roots perspective derived from the Fed's unique regional structure and our experience in supervising community banks", is highly dubious and misleading. Majority of the U.S. banks ARE NOT the Federal Reserve member banks. (See the chart on this wiki page.)
Again, why did he write a lame article like that? Why now?
Ben Bernanke seems to lack the tact and finesse of the bankers before the Glass-Owen act (that became the Federal Reserve Act) was enacted. Big bankers, who wanted the Federal Reserve, publicly spoke vehemently against the Glass-Owens act. The public perception was that if the greedy bankers opposed, it was because they would be hurt by it, so let's pass it. Total opposite was true, and we are where we are today, with the U.S. dollar's purchasing power having plummeted by more than 95%. If Bernanke wants to be the top dog in the new monstrous financial regulation organ, he should oppose it.
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Homer: The Small-Town Baseball Odyssey
The Small-Town Baseball Odyssey
Josh Collmenter
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Karzen covers his bases in ‘Homer’
By Scott DeCamp
A native of suburban Chicago, Jeff Karzen never got much of a chance to witness small-town living, but he has long been intrigued by it.
“For some reason, the small-town thing has always been appealing to me,” said Karzen, a 28-year-old from Evanston, Ill., who is a sportswriter for the Battle Creek Enquirer.
“Maybe it’s because I’m from a place that’s not like that at all. There’s something romantic about the small-town team … the underdog that does well.”
Karzen captures that feeling in his recently released book, “Homer: The Small-Town Baseball Odyssey.”
Veteran Detroit Free Press prep sports guru Mick McCabe wrote the foreward for the book, which chronicles the Homer High School baseball team’s wild success of this decade, including the Trojans’ national record-setting 75-game winning streak.
Naturally, Karzen’s first-ever literary production focuses on baseball.
But it also details how the entire Homer community – located about 35 miles southeast of Battle Creek – offered overwhelming support for its hometown heroes and the battle Scott Salow endured over keeping his head coaching job and school administration position at the same time.
“The story is kind of like ‘Hoosiers,’” Karzen said. “I think a lot of people can relate to playing sports, a lot of people can relate to being from a smaller town. Everyone can relate to a great sports story, no matter where it’s from.
This team from the middle of nowhere could be from anywhere, but it happened right here in Michigan.”
During Homer’s heyday, the Trojans were featured on ESPN SportsCenter’s “50 States in 50 Days” and in USA Today.
Homer’s baseball talent far exceeded that of the typical Division 3 or 4 team.
In fact, three Trojans from that era played Division I college ball. Two of them, catcher Dale Cornstubble and pitcher/first baseman Dan Holcomb, shared Michigan’s Mr. Baseball honors in 2006.
Homer, which survived several close calls during its winning streak, won two state titles and finished runner-up in the 2005 Division 3 state finals, when its victory string was snapped in a 7-6 loss to Saginaw Nouvel.
When it came to community support, Homer had that, too.
It was not out of the ordinary to see the town of 1,800 bring that and more to the Trojans’ big tournament games. In 2004, MHSAA communications director John Johnson estimated that a record 3,000 fans attended Homer’s state championship game against Shepherd, “a simple conclusion because the entire grandstand (at Battle Creek’s C.O. Brown Stadium) was filled with orange.”
“This could’ve been in 1955 or something with the way the town rallied around them,” Karzen said. “Kids don’t play pickup baseball anymore. We don’t live in a world anymore where everyone eats dinner at 6 pm with their family. Getting to know the kids, they were genuinely nice, good kids. They really were down-to-earth, polite kids, even despite some of the insane attention they received.”
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Walter W. Cruttenden, Joseph Selbie | Ancient Cycles, August 16, 2011
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DCIT vs. M. Kalyan Chakravarthy (ITAT Hyderabad)
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COURT: ITAT Hyderabad
CORAM: B. Ramakotiah (AM), Saktijit Dey (JM)
SECTION(S): 2(1A), 45, 48
CATCH WORDS: agricultural land, capital gains
COUNSEL: A. V. Raghuram
DATE: October 24, 2014 (Date of pronouncement)
DATE: October 26, 2014 (Date of publication)
AY: 2008-09
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S. 2(1A): Gains from sale of agricultural land is exempt even though purchaser intends to use the land for commercial purposes
The only reason the A.O. treated the land as non-agricultural land was that ‘agreement of sale’ read with ‘Irrevocable GPA’ does not indicate that land retained the character of agriculture at the time of transfer. This was also the ground raised by Revenue in the appeal that M/s. Ramky Estates and Farms P. Ltd., may put the property to commercial use, therefore, the land was meant for commercial exploitation and did not have the character of agricultural land at the time of his transfer. There is no dispute that assessee has purchased agricultural land and put to agricultural use as such earlier. The facts indicate that assessee has sold only agricultural land which was also used and put to agricultural use earlier and the purpose for which the purchaser utilized the land cannot be considered as an evidence of change of nature of land as was considered by Assessing Officer. In the case of M.S. Srinivasa Naicker and others vs. ITO (supra), the Hon’ble Madras High Court held that a perusal of s. 45 shows that the requirement as on the date of sale of transfer is that the asset must be capital asset, considering the description under the Act. The chargeability to tax under s. 45 arises only if on the date of sale, the land in question retained its character as a capital asset, which means, an asset, which does not answer the definition of a capital asset and which is an agricultural land would automatically be outside the scope of s. 45. It is no doubt true that the purpose for which the purchaser had purchased was totally different from what the transferor had intended to use the land in question but with the admitted finding that the lands in question were under agricultural operation on the date of sale for the purpose of considering the meaning of capital assets, it matters very little how the subsequent purchaser intended the land in question to be put to use. The Hon’ble Delhi High Court in the case of Hindustan Industrial Resources Ltd., vs. ACIT has taken a similar view. The CIT(A) in his order has followed the decision of Hon’ble Bombay High Court in the case of CIT vs. Debbi Almao and Joaqyam Almao reported in 339 ITR 59 (Bom.) (HC) which also considered similar facts and accepted the contention that no capital gains arises on the sale of agricultural land even though purchaser purchased the property with an intention of selling it for non-agricultural purposes.
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The Building...
Welcome back! The story so far…
A decision to build an equipment storage shed at our woodland site in Wiltshire very quickly morphed into a quest to build a long term shelter using minimal tools (mainly what we might carry as part of our standard kit) and maximum knowledge of the building resources growing naturally in the woods. A proper hinged, plank door, a la quaint hobbit cottage became the first construction challenge but proved to be a superb exercise in what can be achieved with only natural materials and a fair slice of ‘know how’.
Shelter building, be it small survival bivouac or palatial log cabin, always requires a sound plan before the work starts and that’s exactly where we were at on a chilly, wintery morning among the bare, hazel coppice and towering, skeletal oak trees. Resisting the urge to be too ambitious by embarking on a full Celtic roundhouse or Anglo Saxon long house we settled on a small, rectangular floor plan with the doorway at one end, just big enough for one hypothetical person to live in comfortably through the winter months. This would mean allowing enough room to fit a raised bed, make a fire place and still have enough room inside to work, cook and store kit in bad weather. The roof would be a simple double pitched affair continuing around the back of the house in an arc at roughly the same pitch (around 50 degrees). The initial planning brain storm also bought to light several problems that typically reduce the effectiveness and life expectancy of survival shelters. We were determined to provide our own answers to these problems but ultimately, only time will tell if our efforts have worked.
Firstly, we wanted the house to be able to ‘breathe’. Our plan was to make a fully enclosed shelter that would be capable of keeping out the worst weather but in doing so, we were all too aware that such an enclosed design could also keep moisture in, especially as the house wouldn’t really be inhabited and therefore wouldn’t have a constant heat source chugging away. With a cold, damp atmosphere inside, our shelter structure would rot and collapse very quickly. Even with our hypothetical inhabitant keeping the home fires burning day and night creating a dry atmosphere in side, the point where the thatched roof met the ground would always be damp and if the strength and integrity of our structure depended entirely on the rafters (as many survival shelters do) then it stood to reason that it’s life span could only ever last as long as it takes a constantly sopping hazel rafter, half buried in earth and leaves to rot through. Probably not very long!
The shelter footprint - level ground with building materials on hand, no dangerous trees overhead but some natural shelter from the surrounding hazel coppice
The solution came in several parts. We would first build a strong, internal low wall of hazel rods woven around several oak posts on which many of the rafters would rest (therefore, never being in contact with the damp ground). This woven, rectangular frame would provide a sturdy base to start building from, but it would have to be pretty solid! The secret to the wall’s strength lay in a handful of quartered ‘bone oak’ posts, split from a large log using a small axe and the maul and hazel wedges made on site. Bone oak, having gone through a chemical change as it seasons, is absolutely rock hard and virtually rot proof when compared to the other timber in our woods. These long posts would be carved to a point and hammered several feet into the earth to form the corner posts and a couple of intermediate posts to weave between. This seemed like a fantastic idea but by the end of a very long day of splitting, hammering, shouting and swearing, we wished we hadn’t thought of it. After the bone oak splitting saga we decided that any other posts needing to be sunk into the ground, should be made from readily available and easily workable hazel. The below ground parts would be charred in the fire first to help preserve them.
Splitting bony oak to make the main posts
Cutting simple joints for the wall plate
Charring the ends of any hazel posts due to be driven into the ground
An almost endless amount of flexible hazel rods were then cut and woven in and out of the upright posts to make a surprisingly strong hurdle wall starting on one side of the door frame and eventually coming all the way round to meet the opposing door post. None of these hazel rods were split, instead kept in the round for speed and ease. A strong, upright ‘king post’ held up the main, central ridge pole towards the back of the shelter wall, reinforced by two further posts sloping away and through the woven, wattle walls. At the front of our house, two strong posts formed a backwards sloping ‘A’ frame, interlocking securely around the ridge pole where they met at the top.
Weaving walls from hazel rods
The main rafters in place, bound with hazel witheys
The door frame is fitted to the structure and birch plank door is hung and swinging
A ‘wall plate’ (wooden platform on which the roof rafters sit) was fitted to the top of our woven walls by way of some simple but nifty joints to minimize any movement and wherever two timbers lay against or crossed over one another, they were lashed securely in place with hazel withies. Our rafters were selected so as to have a ‘Y’ fork that, when turned upside down could hook over the wall plate and hold the rafter in position. For added stability, every few feet a rafter extended down and into the ground (charred first of course). Where the rafters crossed over the ridge pole at the apex, a twin band of flexible hazel rods wove in and out between them to hold them securely in position. The little woodland house was beginning to take shape!
Rafters fitted, held in place with their own natural 'birds mouth' forked ends and a twin band of hazel along the ridge
Hazel wattle continues up and over the door frame, tying everything in nice and tight
Our building plan had highlighted the need for the shelter to be kept fairly small and therefore easy to heat with a small open fire inside. Previous research had shown that similar ancient dwellings were often built without chimneys, instead allowing the central fire to form a ‘smoke ceiling’ above head height which would slowly permeate through the roof thatch. This helped preserve the roof timbers and kill off any resident bugs overhead. However, these structures were built to house an entire family and therefore, much larger with higher roofs. Our humble woodland bedsit would be more like a lung bursting smokehouse if we followed the same principle so we came up with the idea of a ‘dormer window’ style opening near the top of the roof on the opposing side to the prevailing wind. With our shelter design being so completely enclosed, this opening would also let in some light. The combined window and chimney idea became affectionately known as the ‘wimney’.
The wimney frame work woven and bound in place
Wimney opening with thatch border and roof nearly ready for thatch
Now, the super observant readers amongst you will notice a slight continuity error with the seasonal backgrounds to the following accompanying images. As with most exciting projects, life and work seemed to get in the way and it wasn’t until the summer that we were able to finish the next part of the build. The increasingly warm weather could have created a false sense of security but looking further ahead to winter we decided to address our predicted damp problem by ensuring the roof thatch stopped short of the ground leaving a gap for ventilation under the eaves. In theory, this should allow the whole building to breathe and dry out once the rain stopped. When we initially hatched our building plans we all imagined a beautifully thatched roof straight off the pages of an Asterix the Gaul cartoon however, very quickly we realised that total coverage of our roof would require an awful lot of prime quality thatching materials to achieve the quaint cottage look. Bracken is plentiful in our woods and the long stems looked like they might provide a good alternative to thatching reed but for such a shallow roof pitch we would need a thatch depth of at least a foot, possibly more. Using only bracken stems that would be a mammoth task. Laziness and guilt (where would all the ticks live if we cleared the woods completely of bracken…probably on me) kicked in and we concluded that the only realistic thatching option would be to scoop up every leaf, twig, clump of moss and slab of bark in the near vicinity and dump it on the roof.
Brash wood matrix applied ready for the thatch and giant thatch retaining sausage fixed in position
Back view of the shelter with thatch retainer shown leaving a suitable gap under the eaves
Usually, when using forest floor debris to thatch a shelter the huge volume of materials is gradually piled against the shelter from ground level upwards. In order to achieve our ventilation gap between roof and ground we would need to prevent the leaf mulch and jumbled medley of materials from just slipping right off the ends of the rafters and so the ‘giant thatch retaining sausage’ was born. A big, long bundle of twiggy brash wood, lashed to the end of each rafter about a foot up from the ground, forming a continuous buffer line running around the lowest point of the shelter roof and sweeping up and over the porch (yes, we built a porch too!). The thatching materials would sit against this buffer creating the desired depth of a foot but still leaving our all-important ventilation gap. Where required, horizontal hazel poles lay against the rafters to provide a sound base, followed by a good layer of spiky brash wood to close up any gaps and give a good ‘sticky’ surface (excuse the pun, but it is rather good…) for the leaf mulch layer to adhere to.
Leaf thatch being applied
Wimney opening still visible in the thick layer of thatch
Shelter roof with a good covering of leaf thatch for the summer
The giant thatch retaining sausage (GTRS for short) did a great job of keeping the first insulating layer of leaves exactly where we wanted them and before long our little hut in the woods began to blend in beautifully with it’s surroundings. Just down the track we were fortunate to have a huge swathe of tall, mature bracken. We made the most of this seasonal resource by taking just enough to give a good coverage to our roof, leaving the rest for the ticks. When harvesting bracken it’s important to cut the stems rather than pull at them. For starters, the roots aren’t usually that deep and if the plant is removed roots and all, there’ll be no bracken for the following year. Also, the stems have a sharp ridge that will give you the mother of all paper cuts as you tug them up. Instead, gather together a good bunch and using a long bladed knife, carefully slice through the stems with a sloping angle at ground level. The resulting long, pointed stems we found to be ideal for poking through the leaf mulch and the brash wood thatch layers before folding the bushier fronds over to lay against the roof. By starting at the bottom of the roof and working upwards towards the ridge, each course of fronds overlaid the previous for maximum rain shedding, with the added bonus of ‘pinning’ the mulch and brash layers together like a thatching spar.
Late summer and the bracken layer is added increasing the volume of the roof thatch
A small fire is lit inside to dry the shelter out and drive away any insects (and to get the kettle on...obviously)
I always judge the strength of a shelter by whether it’ll take the weight of a fully grown man standing on the roof. To position the top few courses of bracken thatch this is exactly what it had to support and I’m very relieved to say that despite me owning shares in both Ginster’s and Cadbury’s, the roof survived intact. As summer gave way to autumn a familiar resource became available once again. A top layer of newly fallen leaves was added to the now wilting bracken fronds giving the shelter more weather protection and also some seasonal camouflage. In preparation for winter I decided to add some ‘daub’ to the woven hazel walls, something I had seen demonstrated before in re-constructed Anglo Saxon villages. Firstly, I turned over a patch of earth outside the shelter, then added water and old bracken stems to bind the mix. One ingredient was missing but without a horse and no other method of producing dung (not one I fancied using anyway) mud and bracken would have to do. Having mixed a fair few buckets of lime mortar and plaster while renovating my old cottage, I knew consistency would be all important if the earthy sludge was to stick to the wall. Using the bushcrafters most important tool (my hands) I squelched and smoothed the daub between the hazel wattle until the whole façade was covered and any gaps were filled. Despite being a pretty messy job I found this to be possibly the most gratifying part of the whole build, similar in some ways to applying and then buffing a final coat of wax polish on an item of hand built furniture. The concept of taking such a readily available resource and using it so effectively to weatherproof a shelter wall really appeals to me and I’m sure it won’t be the last time I experiment with it as a building material.
Applying a caulk of mud and bracken stems to the hazel wattle walls
Finished front wall and the shelter really begins to look like a weatherproof dwelling
Inside view, looking out. The hinging post and socket can be clearly seen as well as the benefit of having a good porch!
As mentioned earlier in the article, only time will tell whether our efforts have created a weatherproof and long lasting shelter. Throughout the build and especially now it’s finished, I’m drawn back to the woodland house whenever I pass by to see how it’s holding up. During it's first winter the house had to endure high winds and a long period of wet weather followed by heavy snow. I expected to have to carry out some hasty repairs but amazingly every part remained intact and secure. The multi layered thatch performed admirably at keeping out the heavy rain and inside was still dry and cosy. Not bad for an un-inhabited hut made of sticks!
After three winters without being lived in, just the same as pretty much any un-inhabited house it needs repairs. The central ridge bent and eventually broke under the load of thatch and snow. If the house had had permanent residents this problem would've been identified early and rectified. The mud daub cracked as it dried (which is apparently expected and perfectly normal) but weirdly I relished the opportunity to mix up another muddy concoction and get to work plastering over the cracks. Of course, the door is still going strong...
Wooden door latch in action. A buckskin loop is pulled from the inside to lift the latch clear of the retaining hook
So..what would I have done differently with hindsight? For starters I would have beefed up those supports. Although the house was only small, a damp, thatched roof plus snow weighs a hell of a lot - even more than me! I may have looked at different roofing materials. Sheets of birch bark covered with turfs might have done the job or with the tools we had, enough time and patience we could have covered the whole thing in split, wood shingle tiles. I would have experimented with digging down a couple of feet to give more head room without such a large structure above ground. Our soil drains extremely well as we're up on a high wooded ridge on flint and chalk so with a good overhanging roof, guttering trenches and a fire inside I don't think damp would've been an issue. With the small size of the structure we could only ever have a small fire for heating for fear of setting the roof alight. After coming up with the 'wimney' design I have since discovered that old thatched dwellings also allowed the smoke to permeate through the thatching (rather than leave a smoke hole chimney) because it created a 'damping' effect - a smoke ceiling above head height which smothered any lively sparks heading up towards the dry, wood tar covered thatch. A smoke hole actually encourages better draw and carries those cheerful bright sparks right on up to the tinder dry thatch. Possibly not the best idea after all! My next attempt might involve the building of a stone and clay fire place and chimney stack...
A home in the woods. Perhaps a glimpse into our past?
Good work! I love to see experimental archaeology at work. Which is really what this is, even if you weren't trying to reproduce a specific dwelling.
Thanks Nedra!
gershon lev 3 November 2013 at 06:13
this is some really cool stuff, i was wondering if you could make a few videos of it too?
Unfortunately it's not looking that good anymore gershon lev! As mentioned at the end of the article, the ridge pole bent and broke so some major repair work now needed. It lasted for three years uninhabited though so not bad..
The Outdoor Traditionalist 5 November 2013 at 04:32
Good to read that two parter again Joe. I was wondering what constitutes 'bony oak', is it the cut or size or something like that?
Strange - I did reply to you Austin but it's vanished! Bony oak or stag oak is just a term given to naturally seasoned oak still in the round - dropped branches and such. Bony because it's so damn hard and stag because the crooked shapes of the rotting limb look like a stag's antlers.
Curious to know your build time. Start to "finish" (they're never really done) how long would you say it took?
Hi Chris, very difficult to say as we did bits and bobs when we could - sometimes just me, sometimes with some help so almost impossible to put a time frame on it. If I did it again I'd probably allow a week including the door but that would be hard graft on your own
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iris 5 February 2018 at 08:09
The weaving and interwinding was used by early pioneers building permanent log houses. The log house would be built but the inside walls that divided the rooms had branches interwinding. The studs were thicker comparable to a 2 x 4 or 2 x 2, 3 x 3...but all the same and these studs went down into the ground. I am not sure how far down they went. It was possibly fir because they did NOT rot and the log cabin was well over 400 years old. It was burnt down by would be owners that wanted First Nations off an old reserve privately owned. I know...huh? I couldn't see a chimney...but, in wigwams or teepees, there was a hole in the roof. The hole was controlled by long poles to act like a damper. Hides were attached to these poles to guide the smoke upward. You could also try building the same type by searching for sets of 2 trees that match another set of 2 trees that have a space of 3 - 4 inches (but whatever) and fill in the 2 sets of four trees with branches of various sizes until you have reached 4 - 8 feet. Then, you have a solid wall. If one is lucky, you can find several sets and make a four wall square with a door. Then, build your lean to or hut inside these walls or attach a partial roof or full roof. The cracks can be filled in with a mixture of mud and leaves, moss or whatever. Thanks for sharing.
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The Violence Must Be Punished
The recent violence by Nimba County youth against Arcelor Mittal was a reprehensible act that deserves the condemnation of not the President and the Nimba Legislative Caucus, but all Liberians.The whole matter should be thoroughly investigated, and the perpetrators brought to justice. The government has to set an example this time and make it unmistakably clear that violence in the settlement of disagreements will not be tolerated and will be punished.Surely, not only Nimba youth, but all Nimbaians and most Liberians, are not happy with Arcelor Mittal’s handling of its concession agreement.The company has been accused of not faithfully executing the full agreement. Several months ago when Nimba youth occupied the railway in Nimba, preventing the shipment of ore, this newspaper, the Daily Observer, called the attention of the nation to what aroused the youth’s anger. We mentioned the accusation that not much is happening at the center of Arcelor’s operations, Yekepa, where there is hardly any evidence of development taking place there, but only the rush to get the iron ore out. Even the first-class hospital which LAMCO operated is still in disrepair, several years after Arcelor took over the operations. There were also complaints of joblessness, even though we acknowledge that many of the youth lack the technical skills the company requires. There is also the issue of the Ganta-Yekepa road that the company agreed to pave. But several Dry Seasons have passed and we see no action there.So there is a lot to complain about against Arcelor Mittal. In our editorial, we warned the company, as we have done with most concessionaires, including China Union in Bong Mines and Golden Veroleum in Sinoe County, that it is one thing to sign a concession agreement with government, and another to WORK WITH THE PEOPLE ON THE GROUND. These LOCAL PEOPLE, not the bureaucrats in Monrovia who signed the agreement, are the first to feel the impact of the agreement. The company must, therefore, work with the local people for the sake of peace and progress. One concessionaire which has finally learned this critical lesson is Golden Veroleum. In the beginning and for some time, there were constant and intense quarrels between the company and the Sinoe people. But the company finally came to realize that in any work environment, peaceful coexistence is crucial, otherwise the work will be impeded. Today Golden Veroleum and Sinonians people are working harmoniously together and things are smoothly progressing on the oil palm plantation.China Union, too, seems to have learned this lesson. They have considerably eased the tension between themselves and the local people in the Fauma Chiefdom by making serious progress on the Kakata-Bong Mine-Haindii highway, and despite other remaining issues, the people are reasonably pleased. We cannot, unfortunately, say the same thing about Arcelor Mittal. Is it Indian stubbornness, mean-spiritedness, or what? Why is this company so impervious to people’s legitimate complaints? Why can‘t this multibillion-dollar enterprise take care of the minimal concerns of the people whose resources they have come here to exploit. Did this company really do no research to find the truth of what happened in Yekepa in the 1960s through the 1980s—how the Nimba and the Liberian people got very little out of LAMCO, which departed with billions of dollars from our iron ore, leaving Nimbaians— Liberians—impoverished?Surely, the public saw Arcelor Mittal’s impressive and colorful spread in yesterday’s newspaper; but nothing of the Ganta-Yekepa road, nor did the photo of the hospital repair tell much.Yet the Liberian government is especially good and kind to Arcelor Mittal. Recently the government, in return for US$75 millilon, gave it mining rights also to Mount Tokadi in Nimba.Arcelor Mittal must, therefore, understand that the Liberian government is serious about doing business with her. By the same token, the company must realize that it HAS TO WORK WITH THE LOCAL PEOPLE, and engender peaceful coexistence in their area of operations—and with all Liberians.Let us be unmistakably clear, however, that as much as we criticize the Indians in Yekepa, we also unreservedly and emphatically condemn the violence perpetrated by the Nimba youth and urge the Liberian government to set an example this time.Share this:Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) read more
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Miner freed after agreeing to compensate boss for stolen jewellery
A miner was on Monday slapped with a break and enter and simple larceny charge when he appeared at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Courts.Videsh Hansraj appeared before Chief Magistrate Ann McLennan and admitted that on September 6, 2018, while he was employed as a manual worker he broke and entered the dwelling house of Omesh Budhram and stole a quantity of gold jewellery worth $260,000.According to the facts presented to the court, the victim secured his home and went out. Upon his return at about 15:00h, the accused told him he was not feeling well and left.The victim upon inspecting the house found that his jewellery box was not in the same place he left it. Upon a closer inspection, he found that his jewellery was missing and the matter was immediately reported to the Police.The unrepresented man told the court that he was willing to reimburse his employer. However, Magistrate McLennan reprimanded and discharged the matter against the miner and placed him on a bond to keep the peace for 12 months.The matter was prosecuted by Sergeant Jillian Simmons. read more
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Antoine Cordet’s Eerie, Mixed-Media Portraits
by Andy SmithPosted on February 26, 2018
French artist Antoine Cordet’s ghostly acrylic and oil paintings appear as portraits that have been tampered with, whether out of disdain or abstractions arising from memory. Despite the seemingly despondent expressions of its subjects, the paintings are given an unexpected energy from these touches. Adding to the mystique is the attire of the youth in the images, which ranges from contemporary to vague costumes. The artist was last featured on HiFructose.com here.
“Working primarily with acrylics on canvas, his style is a synthesis of realism and abstraction and with a highly accomplishment in aesthetic,” a statement says. “His portraits feature subjects coloured with mute tones of blacks, whites, and greys, that are then injected with dashes of electric blues, greens, and reds. He also applies thin layers of semi-transparent white pigment across his subjects’ faces, rendering them devoid of emotion.”
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Active audiences and reflexivity: how film audiences form in northern English regions
Corbett, Steve and Wessels, Bridgette (2017) Active audiences and reflexivity: how film audiences form in northern English regions. Participations: Journal of Audience and Reception Studies, 14 (2). ISSN 1749-8716 (Accepted for Publication)
Active audiences and reflexivity Corbett and WesselsFINAL.docx - Accepted Version
Official URL: http://www.participations.org/index.htm
While there are a plethora of approaches to studying the audience, including reception studies, historical studies, behavioural approaches and cultural studies, this article focuses on the way in which people seek to join venue-based audiences for diverse film. In doing so, we argue that people engage reflexively with film and film venues in forming audiences. This includes a sensibility towards audiencehood that reflects the venues, film programmes, and experiences of being part of an audience. This article draws on the How Audiences Form (HAF) project, which looked at engagement with independent and specialised film in three northern English regions. The paper examines the selection of film based on particular interests using established independent venues and the variety of audience experience using film clubs. In the context of uneven regional provision and unequal access to diverse film, we argue that out of this emerges a 'reflexive audience', in which people reflect on the difficulties of accessing film culture and begin to create their own audience experiences. This goes beyond the relationship between audiences and film/text and situates audiences within their social geographies and what matters to them in terms of film experiences.
active audiences, film policy, reflexivity, regional film, social practice
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Faculty of Arts & Humanities > Social Work, Care and Justice (up to 31st December 2017)
Steven Corbett
http://hira.hope.ac.uk/id/eprint/2109
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Surveillance of Ixodes ricinus ticks (Acari: Ixodidae) in Iceland
Title Surveillance of Ixodes ricinus ticks (Acari: Ixodidae) in Iceland
Authors Alfredsson, M, Olafsson, E, Eydal, M, Unnsteinsdottir, ERut, Hansford, K, Wint, W, Alexander, N, Medlock, JM
Journal Parasites & Vectors
Background: Ixodes ricinus is a three-host tick, a principal vector of Borrelia burgdorferi (s.l.) and one of the main vectors of tick-borne encephalitis (TBE) virus. Iceland is located in the North Atlantic Ocean with subpolar oceanic climate. During the past 3–4 decades, average temperature has increased, supporting more favourable conditions for ticks. Reports of I. ricinus have increased in recent years. If these ticks were able to establish in a changing climate, Iceland may face new threats posed by tick-borne diseases.
Methods: Active field surveillance by tick flagging was conducted at 111 sites around Iceland from August 2015 to September 2016. Longworth mammal traps were used to trap Apodemus sylvaticus in southwestern and southern Iceland. Surveillance on tick importation by migratory birds was conducted in southeastern Iceland, using bird nets and a Heligoland trap. Vulpes lagopus carcasses from all regions of the country were inspected for ticks. In addition, existing and new passive surveillance data from two institutes have been merged and are presented. Continental probability of presence models were produced. Boosted Regression Trees spatial modelling methods and its predictions were assessed against reported presence.
Results: By field sampling 26 questing I. ricinus ticks (7 males, 3 females and 16 nymphs) were collected from vegetation from three locations in southern and southeastern Iceland. Four ticks were found on migratory birds at their arrival in May 2016. A total of 52 A. sylvaticus were live-trapped but no ticks were found nor on 315 V. lagopus carcasses. Passive surveillance data collected since 1976, reports further 214 I. ricinus ticks from 202 records, with an increase of submissions in recent years. The continental probability of presence model correctly predicts approximately 75% of the recorded presences, but fails to predict a fairly specific category of recorded presence in areas where the records are probably opportunistic and not likely to lead to establishment.
Conclusions: To the best of our knowledge, this study represents the first finding of questing I. ricinus ticks in Iceland. The species could possibly be established locally in Iceland in low abundance, although no questing larvae have yet been detected to confirm established populations. Submitted tick records have increased recently, which may reflect an increase in exposure, or in interest in ticks. Furthermore, the amount of records on dogs, cats and humans indicate that ticks were acquired locally, presenting a local biting risk. Tick findings on migratory birds highlight a possible route of importation. Obtaining questing larvae is now a priority to confirm that I. ricinus populations are established in Iceland. Further surveys on wild mammals (e.g. Rangifer tarandus), livestock and migratory birds are recommended to better understand their role as potential hosts for I. ricinus.
Keywords: Surveillance, Tick, Ixodes ricinus, Iceland * Correspondence: matti@ni.is 1 The Icelandic Institute of Natural History, Urridaholtsstraeti 6–8, 212 Gardabaer, Iceland Full list of author information is available at the end of the article © The Author(s). 2017 Open Access This article is distributed under the term
DOI 10.1186/s13071-017-2375-2
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With the nationalisation of the waterways, which included the Lee and the Stort, in 1948, engineering became a centralised part of management with fewer decisions being taken locally but engineers are still vital to the efficiency of the organisation and the Lee has not been neglected. Industrially, the valley has changed since 1948, and though there is considerable activity transport is now almost entirely by road - there is rarely any freight movement by rail or by water. There are no longer any operational watermills on the Lea or any of its tributaries; the powder mills, later the Explosive Research Establishment, has closed down as also has the Royal Small Arms Factory at Enfield Lock; even the power stations at Hackney, Brimsdown, and Rye House have been demolished, as well as the various gas works; the various timber importers no longer use the navigation; and the last major user of water transport, the Enfield Rolling Mills at Brimsdown closed in the early 1980s.
The River is still a considerable source of water for London via the reservoirs but the New River is no longer regarded by Thames Water Authority as an essential feeder for their resources and there is controversy over its future.
From the nineteenth century onwards there has been continued extraction of the gravel resources in the valley and though the earlier sites were abandoned after being worked out without any consideration for future use, present day practice has tended to landscape sites no longer required and to create nature reserves. In some cases, such as Hardmead, this has been extremely successful.
On the other hand there is a growing use of the river for leisure purposes such as angling and pleasure boating. A large part of the valley has been designated as the Lee Valley Regional Park and emphasis is directed to attracting visitors to the valley for footpath walking, bird watching and other aspects of natural history, and the creation of sports facilities. Riparian owners and developers have also recognised the environmental advantages of housing development on the banks of the river (shades of lake dwellings of over two thousand years ago) particularly since the recurrence of flooding has been virtually eliminated. Sites which were maltings at Ware and industrial premises at Sheering are now desirable blocks of houses and flats.
There have been many changes over the past thousand years both in the appearance of the valley and in the approaches that have been made towards its utilisation, and undoubtedly engineers have been instrumental in creating benefits from these changes. But the words which appeared on the Latton lockhouse on the Stort Navigation at Harlow are still, and will continue to be, relevant:
“Man may come and man may go but the river goes on for ever.”
Except as stated below all sources of information are from the Minute Books of the Lee Trustees and the Lee Conservancy Board held in the Public Record Office, Kew, under reference Rail 845. The assistance of Thames Water Authority in relation to New River material and drawings of the New Gauge is gratefully acknowledged.
1 Baker, C A and Jones, D K C: "Glaciation of the London Basin and its influence on the drainage pattern. A review and appraisal" in The Shaping of Southern England edited by Jones, D K C, Institute of British Geographers, Special Publication No 11, 1980.
2 Anglo-Saxon Chronicle.
3 Waulud's Bank. Victoria County History, Bedfordshire. Vol I p 268.
4 For a general history of the rivers Lee and Stort see Boyes, J H and Russell, R The Canals of Eastern England, Chap 2, David and Charles, Newton Abbot, 1977.
5 Holmes, T V FGS'. "Geological Notes on the New Reservoir in the valley of the Lea, near Walthamstow, Essex", in The Essex Naturalist, Vol XII, 1901.
6 The Times, 1 August 1989: tree-ring dating of a Saxon oak canoe.
7 British Library. Harleian MSS 391f103.
8 British Library. Harleian MSS 391f4.
9 Calendar of Inquisitions Miscellaneous, 1348-1377. p 70 et seq No 189.
10 Calendar of Patent Rolls, Richard 11 1377-1381.
11 3 Henry VI c5.
12 Hills, Richard L.: Papermaking in Britain 1488-1988, Athlone Press, 1988.
13 Crocker, G (ed): Gunpowder Mills Gazetteer; Wind and Watermill Section, SPAB, 1988.
14 Needham, Joseph: Science and Civilisation in China, Vol IV 3, Cambridge 1971, p 353.
15 13 Eliz I c18.
16 For full description see Fairclough K "The Waltham Pound Lock", in History of Technology, Vol 4 1979, pp 31-44.
17 Rudden, Barnard: The New River: A Legal History, Oxford 1985; and Essex-Lopresti, Michael: Exploring the New River, KAF Brewin Books, Studley, Warwicks, 1986.
18 Rudden op cit p 32.
20 12 Geo II c32 and Lincolns Inn Library, Petitions MD102 f174.
21 The Minute Books of the Lee Trustees commence in 1739.
22 7Geo III c51.
23 Duckett, Sir George: Ducketiana, 1869 (British Library).
24 Library of the Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE): Reports of John
Rennie, Vol 3 114 and 115.
25 There are memoranda and correspondence regarding this scheme in PRO WO 30/56.
26 Minutes of Proceedings, ICE, 13, (1853-1854) Beardmore, Nathaniel: "Description of the Navigation and Drainage Works recently executed on the Tidal portion of the River Lee". 7 February 1854.
27 Minutes of Proceedings, ICE 17 (1857-1858) Despart, Richard C: "Description of the Improvements on the Second Division of the River Lee Navigation; with remarks on the position of Canals generally in reference to the development of their resources".
28 Smith, Denis: "The Humphrey Pump and its Inventor", Transactions of the Newcomen Society, Vol 43, pp 67-92. (1970-1971)
29 Comprehensive documentation of the Stratford Back River Improvements is held in the Newham Central Reference Library.
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2008 CPT Coding Update
by Therese M. Jorwic, MPH, RHIA, CCS, CCS-P
The new CPT codes took effect January 1, 2008. Changes include 244 additions, 314 revisions, and 50 deletions. A comprehensive list of changes can be found in appendix B of the CPT book. Highlights of the changes by section are outlined here.
Evaluation and Management
A revised subsection title and three new codes are available for medical team conferences. These codes require a minimum of three qualified healthcare professionals from different specialties, all who provide direct care to the patient. Codes 99366, 99367, and 99368 are distinguished by whether a conference is face-to-face contact and physician or nonphysician participation.
In the preventive medicine services subsection, the revised subheading “Counseling Risk Factor Reduction and Behavior Change Intervention” has been expanded to include four new codes, 99406–99409. The new codes cover smoking and alcohol or substance abuse counseling and intervention.
An additional subsection and two subheadings were added for non–face-to-face physician services, telephone services, and online evaluation. Codes 99441–99443 are time-based codes for telephone services that are initiated by an established patient and delivered more than seven days from the last E/M service. If the telephone service results in a decision to see the patient within 24 hours, the code is not reported.
Similar guidelines are found for the online medical evaluation code 99444. This physician service involves use of the Internet and must be provided within more than seven days of the last E/M service. Included are all of the communications for the online patient encounter: related telephone calls, laboratory orders, and other services.
Code 99477 was added for initial hospital care of the neonate who requires intensive intervention but is not critically ill.
New codes 01935 and 01936 were added in the anesthesia section. These codes are used for anesthesia services of percutaneous image-guided procedures on the spine and spinal cord for either diagnostic or therapeutic procedures.
Seventy-three codes were added to the surgery section, 22 codes were deleted, and 127 revised. One reason for the large number of revisions is change in the criteria for multiple procedures modifier 51. Codes that no longer meet these criteria had the X symbol removed and the X symbol inserted, indicating a revised code.
In the musculoskeletal subsection, 68 codes were revised to clarify that external fixation should be reported separately. Code 20555 was added for the placement of needles or catheters into the muscle and/or soft tissue for subsequent interstitial radioelement application.
Three category III codes were replaced with add-on codes 20985, 20986, and 20987 for computer-assisted surgical navigation.
Code 21073 was added for manipulation of the temporomandibular joint requiring anesthesia. Codes 22206–22208 were added for three-column spinal osteotomy procedures for reporting the removal of the vertebral segment as part of a correction of a complex deformity.
Other miscellaneous changes include addition of codes for:
Tenotomy of the elbow, 24357–24359
Treatment of proximal end femoral fractures, 27267–27269
Provision of osteochondral autograft of the knee, 27416, and talus, 28446
Repair of malunion/nonunion of fibula, 27726
Treatment of posterior malleolus fracture, 27767–27769
Treatment for arthroscopic surgical biceps tenodesis, 29828
Four codes were added for arthroscopic procedures of the subtalar joint. Codes 29904–29907 were assigned for removal of loose body, synovectomy, debridement, or arthrodesis of this joint.
Only minor changes were made to the respiratory system codes. Codes 32421–32422 were added for thoracentesis, with codes 32550 and 32551 for introduction procedures of the lung and 32560 for chemical pleurodesis.
Three new add-on codes are available for maze procedures, 33257–33259. Code 33864 was added for root reconstruction of the ascending aorta valve. In this new technique, the ascending aorta is remodeled while preserving the native aortic valve.
Other miscellaneous additions include add-on code 34806 for the implantation of a wireless physiologic sensor during endovascular aneurysm repair and code 35523 for brachial-ulnar or brachial-radial vein bypass graft. Three new codes are available under the relocated subheading “Other Central Venous Access Procedures.” Codes 36591 and 36592 are for collection of blood specimens, and code 36593 is for declotting of a vascular access device using a thrombolytic agent.
In the digestive system, code 41019 was added for placement of needles or catheters into the head or neck region for subsequent interstitial radioelement application. Three new codes, 49203–49205, were also added for open excision or destruction of peritoneal tumors. These codes will allow for the reporting of malignancies such as ovarian carcinoma when the primary organs have been removed in earlier surgeries.
New subheadings were also added in this section. Under initial placement, insertion codes 49440–49442 were added. Code 49446 was added for gastrostomy tube conversion, and codes 49450–49452 were added for tube replacement. Code 49460 was added for mechanical removal of obstructive material, and code 49465 is for contrast injections for radiological evaluation of these tubes.
Urinary System and Male Genital System
In the urinary system, two codes were added for transurethral removal or replacement of an internally dwelling ureteral stent. Code 50385 includes removal and replacement, while 50386 only includes the removal.
Code 50593 was added for percutaneous cryotherapy to ablate renal tumors. Note that this is unilateral, and modifier 50 should be used for bilateral procedures. Three relocated codes for aspiration of bladder, 51100–51102, are found under the new removal subheading.
Code 52649 was added for laser enucleation of the prostate. Code 55920 was added for placement of needles or catheters into pelvic organs other than the prostate for subsequent interstitial radioelement application.
Code 57285 was added for a vaginal approach to a repair of a paravaginal defect; 57423 was added for the laparoscopic approach.
Codes 58570–58573 were added for laparoscopic total hysterectomy. These codes are distinguished by the weight of the uterus and whether there was a removal of the tubes and ovaries.
The only new code in this subsection is 60300, which is actually a renumbered code for aspiration of a thyroid cyst.
Eye and Ocular Adnexa
Three new mechanical vitrectomy codes were added to replace 67038, which was deleted. These codes are 67041–67043. Code 67113 was added for repair of a complex retinal detachment, and 67229 was added for treatment of extensive retinopathy on a preterm infant. Code 68816 was added for probing of the nasolacrimal duct with transluminal balloon catheter dilation.
Radiology Section
There are eight new codes in the radiology section, all in the area of cardiac magnetic imaging. New guidelines are available for the use of these codes, and the previous codes have been deleted.
The first four codes, 75557–75560, are for services without contrast material. The last four codes, 75561–75564, are for services without contrast material followed by contrast materials and further studies.
Pathology and Laboratory Section
There are 11 new codes in this section, with one deletion and 11 revisions. The changes include new codes for basic metabolic panel with ionized calcium and new codes in the chemistry, immunology, microbiology, surgical pathology, and reproductive medicine subsections.
Medicine Section
In the medicine section several codes in the immunization subsections are revised due to the change in the 51 modifier criteria.
New and revised codes and guidelines are found for infusion services. This includes the addition of codes 90769–90771 for subcutaneous infusion and pump set-up services. Add-on code 90776 is new for infusion of the same substance for facility reporting.
Code 93982 was added for monitoring of patients with an implantable wireless pressure sensor. The initial placement of the device is coded as 34806. These codes are not used together, as the initial monitoring is included in the implantation code.
Three new codes, 95980–95982, are available for electronic analysis and programming services for gastric neurostimulator devices.
Code 96125 was added for standardized cognitive performance testing. This testing might be performed on a patient who has suffered a brain injury to determine any compromised functioning.
Codes 98966–98969 were added for telephone and online medical evaluations provided by nonphysician providers. These codes mirror the additions in the E/M section for physician services.
New code 99174 is a converted category III code for ocular photoscreening. Three new codes, 99605–99607, and a subsection were added for medication therapy management services provided by a pharmacist.
Category II Codes
The 2008 edition includes more than 100 new performance measure codes, with 14 new categories. Appendix H cross-references the measure associated with each code.
Category III Codes
Several of these temporary codes have been converted to category I codes and deleted. Eleven codes have been revised and 13 added. These include codes for computer-aided detection, monitoring of intraocular pressure, and 64-lead EKGs.
American Medical Association. CPT 2008 Changes: An Insider’s View. Chicago, IL: AMA, 2007.
American Medical Association. Current Procedural Terminology (CPT) 2008. Chicago, IL: AMA, 2007.
Therese M. Jorwic (jorwic@aol.com) is an assistant professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago and a consultant for MC Strategies in Atlanta.
Jorwic, Therese M. "2008 CPT Coding Update" Journal of AHIMA 79, no.2 (February 2008): 76-78.
Coding Complex Bariatric Surgery
New Procedures for Joint Resurfacing of the Knee
Keeping up to Date: 2005 CPT Surgery Changes
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The Wonderful World of Throwing
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Could anyone blame Sandra Perkovic for being distracted or just plain tired? Traveling all over the world doling out ass-beatings for years on end has got to take something out of you.
And I’m not being facetious.
I interviewed Valerie Adams a few years ago when she was near the end of a fifty-meet undefeated streak, and though clearly determined to maintain her domination, she also seemed worn down by the effort it took to stay on top for that long.
Same for Robert Harting when I spoke with him in the summer of 2014, while everything was still going his way. He was three-time World Champion. Defending Olympic Champion. The next day, at the New York stop on the Diamond League circuit, he smashed a 68-meter throw on a humid morning with the smell of garbage in the air. (Apparently, Icahn Stadium was built over a landfill.)
Robert was at the height of his uber mensch phase, capable of willing the disc 68 meters whenever he wanted, and yet…talking to him you could tell that like Val, he was weary of the grind and looking ahead to retirement.
So when I started seeing photos like this…
…posted by Sandra on Instagram early this year, I began to wonder if maybe she was a little bored with the incessant training and travel, with maintaining the laser focus necessary to win two Olympic and one World Championships gold.
She had always been in great shape, but in the pictures she posted this summer she seemed to be noticeably thinner than in the past.
Could it be that looking glamorous had become more important to her than winning medals?
Uh….no.
Two weeks ago, she hammered a PR of 71.41m, thus serving notice on any knuckleheads out there who might have doubted her that they were mistaken.
Yes, Sandra, that sound you hear is me munching on crow.
A quick digression. I fear that my remarks on Sandra may come across as sexist. What, can’t a woman look good in an evening gown and still throw 70 meters?
But another fine thrower, the American shot putter Jordan Clarke…
…also had me wondering this winter when he frequently posted images of himself powering through high volume, cardiac-heavy workouts–not the kind of training one would indulge in if one’s main goal in life was to make a sixteen-pound ball go far.
The slimmer Clarke became from those workouts, the more I wondered about his intentions for the upcoming season. And, as it turns out, he did retire from the sport.
Anyway, I just want everyone to know that I’m an equal opportunity doubter.
And Jordan, I know that it has always been your dream to appear in an article about female discus throwers. so…you’re welcome.
That said, if Sandra Perkovic is indeed in top form, does anyone have a chance of beating her in London?
How about Cuba’s Jaime Perez?
Built like a long jumper, she is an ardent practitioner of the “haul ass and knock the crap out of it” approach to discus throwing. And she has had a sensational year, hitting a PR of 69.19m and beating Sandra head-to-head on more than one occasion.
How about Australia’s Dani Stevens (formerly Dani Samuels)?
After winning the 2009 Worlds in Berlin as a nine-year-old (that’s what it seemed like, anyway) her best finish in an Olympics or Worlds since is fourth in Rio.
But she threw 66.78m as recently as March, and she has tons of big meet experience.
How about Melina Robert-Michon of France?
Her tenth-place finish at the Beijing Worlds in 2015 prompted me to leave her out of my Olympic preview last year. She responded to that slight by belting a PR 66.73m in Rio to nab silver.
Her best throw so far this year is 63.63m, good for 14th on the world list. At the age of 38, she might be over the hill but she also might be lying low in an effort to make me look ridiculous again.
How about Gia Lewis-Smallwood of the United States?
She is the same age as Melina, but a very nasty back issue prevented her from even competing in Rio. It is something of a miracle that she is once again in fighting trim and currently ranked fourth in the world with a toss of 65.81m.
A throw like that wouldn’t win in London, but would likely get her on the podium.
The best of the German women this year is the veteran Nadine Muller.
A two-time World Championships medalist, her season best of 65.76m has her tied for fifth on the world list. As far as I can tell, she did not compete at the German championships this month, which made me wonder if she was injured, but she is on the team for London, and if healthy surely a threat to medal.
The best of the Chinese is Xinyue Su, currently ranked eleventh in the world with a season’s best of 64.08m.
She finished fifth in Rio.
Time for predictions.
Trofimuk
Gold: Perkovic
Reason: I quote: “She is the best there ever was and ever will be.”
Silver: Perez.
Bronze: Stevens.
Gold: Perkovic.
Reason: When Cuba’s Denia Caballero defeated Sandra in Beijing, she did so by dropping a 69-meter hammer on her in round one. At the time, Sandra was dinged up and 69 meters was beyond her range, so the competition was essentially over after one round. Perez would like nothing better than to follow her teammate’s example and kill one early, but Perk’s recent 71.41m suggests that she’s got the stuff to match anything Jaime can muster.
And, if it comes down to a battle of will, nothing against Perez, but…good luck.
Last year in Rio, Sandra showed her mettle when she walked into the ring for her third throw during the rain-soaked prelims sitting on two fouls. She threw 64.81m to advance.
The next morning, she opened the finals with…two fouls. A lesser person might have pooped the pants at such a moment. Sandra coolly drilled a 69.21m bullet that snagged her the gold.
A few years ago, I had the privilege of watching Sandra compete up close and personal at the New York Diamond League meeting. For some reason, the TV people wanted the discus out of the way before the rest of the meet started, so I want to say warm-ups began at 9:30am. Something like that. And it was fah-reeeezing out! Forty degrees with rain and a nasty wind. In late May. I like to have died.
Anyway, due to the early start and the conditions, I think Sandra’s coach Edis Elkasevic, my friend Peter Trofimuk (brother of Pat who helps me with these predictions) and I were about the only spectators in the stadium when the discus started, We stood where we could get the best view of the discus cage, and between every warm-up and competition throw Sandra came over to confer with Edis. I couldn’t understand what they were saying because they were not speaking English, but I could tell that in spite of the conditions, Sandra was jacked about competing that day.
She struggled on her first two or three attempts, and after one of them an official tried to block her from crossing the track to check in with Edis. Mind you, this was a couple of hours before the running events began, and the track was deserted, so I’m not sure what this guy was thinking, but no matter. Sandra strode right past him, and when he protested she turned and said “You shut up, you!”
He did shut up, and a couple of throws later, Sandra got into that slick ring with a cold mist blowing sideways and knocked out a 68-meter throw to take over the world lead.
I wish I could say that the crowd roared in appreciation, but Edis, Peter, and I were too frozen to move our mouths.
Anyway, you get the idea.
Whatever happens in London, whatever Jaime or Mother Nature throw at her, Sandra will respond.
Reason: She’s got more pop than anyone in the field aside from Perkovic. That will be enough to keep her ahead of a tightly packed group in which less than two meters separates those ranked numbers five thru thirteen in the world.
Bronze: Gia.
Reason: Oh, why the hell not? If millions of Game of Thrones fans can convince themselves that there were dragons and people with perfect teeth running around during medieval times, why can’t I believe that a thirty-eight-year-old recovering from a serious back injury can conjure up the performance of her life to win her first World Championship medal? I have one thing to say to those who doubt her. “You shut up, you!”
London Predictions: Men’s Discus
As with the men’s shot put, the men’s discus competition in London will feature a giant dude who has spent the summer dropping bombs.
That would be the big Swede, Daniel Stahl, who has four competitions over 68 meters this season including a 71.29m blast on June 29th at the Folksam Grand Prix meeting.
In London, Stahl will seek to exorcise memories of an awful performance in Rio where a best effort of 62.26m did not get him to the final (this, after finishing fifth at the 2015 Worlds in Beijing with a toss of 64.26m).
Oddly, Stahl’s main competition in London will come from three other athletes whose experiences in Rio were also at least semi-disastrous.
Frederick Dacres produced a groan-inducing best of 50.69m in Rio, but has looked fast, powerful, and confident on the Diamond League circuit this summer, hitting 68.36m in Stockholm, 67.10m in Oslo, and 66.66m in London. Also, like Stahl, he performed well at the 2015 Worlds, finishing 7th with a toss of 64.22m and thus proving that he has the ability to make the final at a big meet in a big stadium.
Philip Milanov staked his claim as next great thrower on the horizon by taking silver at Beijing in 2015, then bit the weenie in Rio where he finished ninth. He has looked sharp this season with his best effort of 67.05m coming in Stockholm.
Robert Harting, arguably the best big meet thrower since Al Oerter, looked ready to pull off a major comeback in Rio after blowing out his knee in the fall of 2014 and missing the entire 2015 campaign. He won the German championships in 2016 with a 68-meter effort, but suffered a back spasm the night before the Rio prelims while bending over to turn out a light. His best mark this year is 66.30m, but if the young bucks tighten up a bit and those Rio memories start to nag, can he be counted out?
Three of the top four finishers in Rio will not be competing in London. Neither gold medalist Chris Harting, who suffered an early spring back injury that threw him completely out of kilter, nor bronze medalist Daniel Jasinski made the German squad. Fourth place finisher Martin Kupper managed a season’s best of 62.86m.
Last year’s silver medalist, however, will compete and in spite of a lackluster 2017 campaign must be considered a threat to make the podium.
That would be Beijing champion and perennial victim of various Hartings, Piotr Malachowski. His best of 65.90m puts him tenth on this season’s performance list, and for the first time in about a hundred years he did not win the Polish championships, but his experience and toughness make him a contender.
Speaking of contenders, there are twenty-two throwers who have gone beyond 65 meters this year, among them Gerd Kanter (65.87m) who even Malachowski probably refers to as “Gramps,” Robert Urbanek (66.73m) who defeated Malachowski at the Polish nationals, and the Lithuanian Andrius Gudzius (68.61m).
That said, let’s make some picks.
Gold: Milanov
Reason: As Trofimuk humbly puts it, “He is the only sensible pick. His performance at Beijing gives him the edge over the guys throwing the best this season.”
Silver: Malachowski
Reason: “He always performs well at the World Championships.”
Bronze: Stahl
Reason: “He’s having a great year. He’s young and hungry for a medal at a major championship. Plus, he’s bigger than a refrigerator.”
Gold: Harting
Reason: When the young bucks Milanov, Stahl, and Dacres start warming up in London, everything had better go right for them or Rio-inspired self questioning might be tough to suppress. Those guys are only human, right? Harting might be too, but he’s that odd, Michael Jordan kind of human who performs best in situations where others would be mired in doubt. In 2009, Malachowski throws a national record 69.15m in round five at the Berlin World Championships putting Harting in the position of having to conjure up a PR in round six. We all remember how that turned out. At the London Olympics, he felt like crap. At the Moscow Worlds, he had a back injury. He still found a way to win. If nerves or what have you keep the best throwers in the 67-meter range next week, he’s my pick to squeeze out a winner.
Silver: Stahl
Reason: Like Trofimuk, I respect a man who could punch out a dinosaur. Even if he has a kind-of-crappy day, he’s going 66 meters.
Bronze: Malachowski
Reason: Sentiment. Watch this ESPN vid and tell me you won’t be rooting for him:
http://www.espn.com/videohub/video/clip?id=19906682&categoryid=null
London Predictions: Men’s Shot
It is time for my former thrower, Pat Trofimuk, and I to make our annual Big Meet predictions. I’m a bit worried that this will be Trofimuk’s last time helping me as he is but a few days from getting married and I know from experience that what a fiance puts up with a wife may not. If the little woman makes him choose between spending time keeping track of throws stats and spending time watching professional wrestling…. I’ll need a new partner.
That said, here we go.
Men’s Shot
When I played little league baseball, there were always one or two kids in the league who were legitimately eleven years old but through some quirk of nature looked to be in their mid-20’s.
I exaggerate, but you know what I mean. There were always a couple of guys who were way more physically mature than all the other kids, and when they pitched against your team you knew you had no shot.
And I don’t mean you had no chance of winning the game. You had no shot at making contact with the ball.
You’d slouch your way to the batter’s box knowing you were about to strike out and just hoping that you could get through it without taking a fastball to the head.
Three or four pitches later you’d be on your way to the safety of the dugout, glad to have survived.
Competing against Ryan Crouser must be kind of like that right now.
In a world filled with outstanding shot putters (14 have gone over 70 feet this year) he appears to be unbeatable.
Twenty-two meters in an Olympics or World Championships is a great performance. Throw that in London, and you’ll for sure be in the hunt…for second place.
Consider Joe Kovacs.
The 2015 World Champion, Joe is a super explosive, technically excellent putter. Just entering his prime, he can already make a case as being one of the best of all time.
Accordingly, he came up huge this past June at the USATF Championships with a sixth round bomb of 22.35m (73’4″for you provincial types).
That’s a monster put, and because of it, Joe only lost by a foot when Crouser responded with 22.65m.
Former indoor World Champion Ryan Whiting, another all-time great, also showed up big in Sacramento. After enduring a couple of sub par years due to injuries, his 21.54m demonstrated that he is once again ready to fight for a spot on the podium at big meets. It also left him nearly four feet behind Crouser.
How about New Zealander Tom Walsh, the Rio bronze-medalist who nailed a 22.04m toss just the other day at the MF Athletics Shot Put Invitational? (By the way, how in the heck does a guy from New Zealand, where the season begins in January, still make great throws seven months later? Tom, you need to give a seminar on that some time soon. Until then, we will all start eating vegemite.)
But again, even if Tom goes twenty-two meters in London (and he may well do that) he’s not walking away with the gold.
How about my guy David Storl? I love the glide technique, and this two-time World Champ may be the best glider ever. Like Whiting, he has been limited by injuries the past couple of years, but his recent 21.87m put suggests that he’s in great shape.
If he matches that distance in London, he’ll have an outside shot…at a bronze medal.
So, without further ado, here are our predictions.
Trofimuk:
Gold: Crouser
Reason: Duh!
Silver: Walsh
Reason: To quote Trofimuk, “He has been tearing it up on the Diamond League. At his last Diamond League meeting, his worst throw was 21.46m. Plus, he’s no wussy. Plus, I love New Zealand.”
Bronze: Kovacs
Reason: Trofimuk says that three spinners will medal, (is it just me, or does that sound a tad biased?) and that Joe is the only contestant aside from Walsh and Crouser who can throw 22.00m.
McQ:
Reason: At the 2013 NCAA Championships in Eugene, a young, skinny Crouser was sitting on two fouls as he entered the ring for his third throw. According to Dan Block, probably the greatest thrower in Illinois prep history who was competing for Wisconsin at that time, Crouser took a slow motion safety throw. The result? Twenty meters thirty-one for the win. Crouser beating a stacked NCAA field, which included two-time defending champ Jordan Clarke, with a half-speed throw suggested the possibility of future dominance. Now, four years and forty pounds later, the future has arrived.
Silver: Kovacs
Reason: Joe is the only putter in the field aside from Crouser who can go 22.20m on a “good” rather than “insanely great” day. Insanely great performances are rare at the World Championships.
Bronze: Storl
Reason: At the risk of sounding like that friend who just can’t accept when a relationship is over…”If only she’d give me another chance!”…”Dude, she’s been married for five years”…”I know, but if only she’d give me another chance!”…I am not ready to give up on my favorite glider. Have I told you about the time I sneaked into a press conference for the German team at the 2014 European Championships to ask Storl why he had switched to throwing non-reverse? Some might call that stalking. I prefer “loyalty.”
Jeff Rebholz rotational shot webinar August 3rd
A few years ago, I had a quick, tough, undersized (5’9″, 160 lbs) thrower named Branden Miller. I was very proud of Branden when he threw 47′ with the 12 lb shot and 157′ with the 1.6k discus his senior year of high school. After all, he was undersized.
He then moved on to Carthage College and in four years of throwing for Jeff Rebholz he reached 54’7″ with the 16 lb shot, 163′ with the 2k disc, 189′ with the hammer, and 168′ with the javelin. Apparently Jeff did not notice that Branden was too small to throw those distances.
Jeff moved on to Towson University last fall, and he is currently working on converting one of his glide shot putters to the rotational style.
On August 3rd, at 6:00pm central time, he will share his strategy for helping that athlete develop solid rotational technique.
This webinar is free. Jeff will field questions throughout.
I invite you to set aside the time to attend. Jeff is a great young coach, and anyone who trains rotational putters at any level will benefit from interacting with him.
Please register here:
https://zoom.us/webinar/register/6ae3a0a8a377754ec5b9141539e44ee6
Interviews, Rotational Shot
Dani Bunch spins her way to relevance
July 2, 2017 Daniel McQuaid Leave a comment
If you were surprised to see Dani Bunch dueling Raven Saunders and Michelle Carter for the national title and world lead last weekend in Sacramento, you were not alone.
I crossed paths with Dani twice over the last five years, and neither time did I walk away thinking “Holy cow, she might be national champion some day.”
The first instance came during the 2012 NCAA Outdoor Championships in Des Moines, back in the days when world class track meets were occasionally held in the Midwest.
Dani, a sophomore at Purdue, threw 16.21m and finished ninth in her flight. At that time, Tia Brooks, a junior at Oklahoma who won in Des Moines with a toss of 18.44m, and Michelle Carter, who a year later would break the American record with a throw of 20.24m and then break it again with a gold-medal winning put of 20.63m in Rio, seemed to be the ascendant putters among American women.
The next time I ran across Dani was at the Chicagoland Throws Series in 2015. She was in her first season as a professional and had, just three months prior, switched from the glide to the rotational shot technique.
She threw 17.28m that day, more than a meter under her glide PR. The fact that she was able to function at all as a rotational putter so quickly after making the change was impressive, as was her determination to continue in the sport when she appeared to be a long way from cracking the upper echelon of throwers. But, if you watch this video, you’ll see that she had a lot of work to do if she hoped to develop a level of comfort with the spin technique similar to the other elite putters in the competition, Brittany Smith, Becky O’Brien, and Tori Bliss.
Here is an interview I did with Dani at the Chicagoland meet. Please ignore my stupidity in occasionally using the words “glide” and “glider” when referring to the rotational technique.
After the Chicagoland meet, Dani went back to Lafayette, Indiana, and hunkered down with her college coach Keith McBride to pursue her dream of becoming a world class putter.
For the rest of 2015 and all of 2016, she toiled in relative anonymity.
Last year, at the Olympic Trials, she thew 17.37m in the prelims then fouled all three throws in the finals.
As noted above, Michelle Carter grabbed gold in Rio with a sensational sixth-round effort. Also in Rio, Raven Saunders established herself as the thrower of the future by hitting a PR of 19.35m to finish fifth.
With the spotlight on those two ladies, Dani began the 2017 campaign no longer in “relative” anonymity. She had achieved a state of “complete” anonymity.
But, according to Coach McBride, he and Dani could tell long before the start of this season that she had the capability to become a nineteen or even twenty-meter putter.
The key was having the courage, patience, and possibly misplaced confidence to commit to the rotational technique.
McBride had actually broached the possibility of converting to the spin a couple of times during Dani’s career at Purdue.
“She had kind of a rotational finish anyway,” he told me in a recent conversation. “She was kind of up and turning all the time. She was that weird glider who would throw out of bounds to the left because she turned so far through it.”
This video provides a clear illustration of Dani’s glide finish:
“So, I brought it up with her once or twice in college, but she wasn’t mentally ready for it. Her argument was, ‘I can’t throw the discus, so how can I spin in the shot?’ If the athlete isn’t ready for it, you can’t shove it down their throat.”
Finally, in February of her first year out of college, Dani competed in a meet at Purdue. Still a glider, she threw well under eighteen meters.
Throwers from Southern Illinois University also competed in that meet, and their coach at the time, John Smith (now at Ole Miss) advised McBride and Dani to make the switch to the rotational style.
Smith remembers that moment well, and described it to me in a recent conversation.
“When Raven was a freshman, we went to a meet at Purdue. It was Dani’s first year out of college, and Keith told me that he was thinking about switching Dani to the spin. I asked him how far does she throw from a stand? He told me fifty-two feet. I said if she wants to compete at the world level as a glider, she’s going to have to have a fifty-seven foot stand throw like Michelle or Tia Brooks. If you don’t think you can do that, then she needs to spin.”
With the US Indoor Championships looming, McBride and Dani decided to postpone the decision. After finishing seventh with a toss of 17.11m at that meet, Dani came home ready to make the switch.
I asked McBride if it was hard on Dani to accept throwing shorter distances while she adapted to the rotational style, but as he remembers it, “She threw far right away. Her first meet with the spin, a little meet somewhere in Illinois, she threw 18.50m. Then she went to Tuscon Elite and threw 18.89m.”
As he anticipated, Dani’s rotational-style finish in her glide lent itself to the full out rotational technique.
“She had been a rotational finisher from day one, and knowing how to strike in that position helped. Out of the back we were just trying to hit that power position she had been using in the glide. We kind of melded the spin and glide.”
The most challenging part of the conversion turned out to be getting Dani to the point where her technique could hold up under the pressure of big meets.
Her tribulations at the 2016 Trials typified her struggles. “The issue,” according to McBride, “from the very first was not “Can we throw far?’ but ‘Can we stay in the ring?’ She was tattooing stuff right from the start.”
The 2017 season began in promising fashion as Dani hit 19.12m at a meet in Lafayette, which gave her the world lead at the time. That throw enabled Dani’s agent to finagle an invitation to the Diamond League meeting in Shanghai.
She finished second there with a toss of 18.98m.
That result earned Dani an invitation to a meet in Brazil.
She won that competition with a 19.55m bomb, and as a result was invited to the Diamond League meeting in Rome where she finished second with a put of 18.95m.
McBride considers the Rome meeting to have been a pivotal moment in Dani’s development. “In the fifth round, Michelle Carter passed her up, and Dani was like ‘I’m not losing to her’ and she came back and beat her in the sixth round. That showed us that she finally had the confidence she needed to make big throws in pressure situations.”
Dani proved that definitively with an epic performance at the US Nationals. She opened at 18.92m and followed that with a solid 19.18m that seemed likely to net her a spot in the top three. Not willing to take any chances against a dangerous field, Dani cranked up the intensity and after two fouls killed one in the fifth round. Her 19.64m put her into first, and after Raven blasted out a PR of her own (19.76m), Dani showed that the 19.64m was no fluke by powering her final attempt out to 19.57m.
She is now ranked second in the world with two competitions (the Portland and New York stops on the Tracktown Series tour) remaining before Worlds.
And what might the future bring, now that Dani is fully confident with the rotational style?
“As big as that throw in Sacramento was,” says McBride, “she can go farther. She definitely has twenty-meter power, and if we keep progressing she will be challenging the USA record some day.”
From eighteen-meter glider to twenty-meter spinner in two years time? It sounds crazy, but combine Dani’s determination, her great working relationship with Coach McBride, her innate feel for the rotational style, and the intense rivalry brewing between her, Raven, and Michelle, and you just can’t put it past her.
Interviews, Meets
John Smith on Raven’s bomb at USA’s
Holy crap, there is some great shot putting going on in this country right now, and if you signed up for the NBC Gold package you got to see a good chunk of an epic women’s shot competition at the USATF National Championships last week.
When the Sacramento dust cleared, the United States had the two leading women’s putters in the world, and the defending Olympic champion was, surprisingly, not one of them.
Unfortunately, NBC Gold coverage of the final three rounds was spotty, and throws fans were left to piece together the action as best they could by checking the live results page.
Luckily, John Smith, coach of newly minted US champion Raven Saunders, agreed to provide not only his perspective on a truly amazing competition, but also to share some insights into the training that has made Raven the thrower to beat at the Worlds in London this August.
Here’s the way things played out on a sweltering afternoon in Sacramento:
Dani Bunch got the party started with throws of 18.92m and 19.18m in rounds one and two. The latter toss seemed likely to have secured her a ticket to Worlds.
Michelle Carter,the aforementioned Olympic champ, got rolling in round three with a 19.34m toss, which appeared likely to guarantee her a trip to London.
Raven, meanwhile, struggled to find a groove. After an immensely disappointing fourth place finish at the NCAA meet two weeks earlier, it would have been good for her and Coach Smith’s state of mental health if she had killed one early, but it was not to be.
Her opener was an easy 18.30m safety throw, good enough to buy five more tosses and to briefly quiet her version of the little voice we all have in our heads that says things like, “You blew it at the NCAA’s so for sure you’ll blow it here!” but unlikely to clinch a spot in the top three.
A round two 17.75m gave any lingering doubts a bit more credibility, and after a foul in round three, the little voice in her head rose to a bellow.
Actually, it was Coach Smith’s voice this time.
According to Smith, “the foul was sixty-three and a half feet. That throw would have put her on the team! She nailed it. She watched it. She stepped out. So she got her rear end chewed for that.”
Meanwhile, Felisha Johnson bumped Raven to fourth place with a third round toss of 18.64m.
Maddeningly, NBC Gold went offline for a few minutes as the the top eight were re-ordered for the final three rounds.
At that point the top three were Carter (19.25m), Bunch (19.18m), and Johnson (18.64m).
I recall Charles Barkley once making fun of fans who listened to NBA games on the radio. Imagine what he’d think of us throws geeks reduced to staring at the live results page on the NCAA site in order to keep up with what was happening in the shot while NBC Gold went to break and, upon returning to the air, took us on a guided tour of downtown Sacramento. Loved that vid of the steamboat, though!
In round four, Raven hit 18.58m, which did not move her up in the standings.
Carter went 19.28m, but the top three remained unchanged.
All those marks were well within Raven’s reach if she could just find her rhythm.
According to Smith, she was in shape to launch a big one.
“Two days before the competition, she threw sixty-five feet with an eight-pound shot, full reverse staying in the ring, so I knew she was ready. In a meet Raven can always match or throw a foot farther than what she does in practice with the eight.”
So, he was confident as Raven stepped in for a fifth throw that she was perfectly capable of moving into the top three.
Instead, she fouled again.
As a throws coach, I often imagine being in a similar situation and saying just the right thing to my athlete who then heads back into the ring and blasts out the throw of his life. Usually, it’s something along the lines of “You got this! Keep your chest up going to the middle and you’ll be fine!”
John Smith, however, operates in the real world where emotions run hot especially during a long afternoon in the searing California sun with a spot on the national team in the balance.
So what did he say to Raven after her fifth round foul?
“You’d better get your ass moving, because they’re writing your obituary right now!”
Moments later, Dani Bunch dropped a fifth-round 19.64m, for a new PR and the lead.
Moments after that, Monique Riddick stepped in and killed her final throw of the day. It measured 18.89m and knocked Raven down to fifth.
Now, I’m no fan of zombie movies, but my friends who are tell me that it is possible for someone to look really dead but still not be dead.
That turned out to be the case here, and Coach Smith used an analogy from another movie genre to describe the moment:
“After Riddick hit that throw, Raven spit on the ground like Clint Eastwood would do in the movies before he got ready to kill someone. Connie {Price Smith, former Olympian and current head coach at Ole’ Miss} said that when she saw Raven spit on the ground, she knew Raven was going to hit that last throw.”
Hit it she did.
According to Coach Smith, “It wasn’t a pretty throw, but it was evil. It was an evil throw. It had no height on it, and she was a little bit over-rotated. But it was nasty.”
Nineteen meters and seventy-six centimeters worth of nasty, to be exact.
A PR.
A national title.
A world lead.
A redemption from the embarrassment of the NCAA meet.
And, definitive proof that at the international level the glide shot technique is dead?
Certainly, Michelle Carter might quibble with that suggestion, but in Smith’s view, “On the women’s side, we are the best shot putting nation in the world because we made the leap to the spin.”
He argues that in order to be a world class glider, an athlete must have a huge stand throw. A glider striving to throw twenty meters would have to stand mid-eighteen meters to have a chance.
Smith believes that the rotational technique makes it possible for a less powerful but more athletic thrower to reach world class distances.
Watching the progress of Jill Camarena-Williams (the now-retired bronze medalist at the 2011 Worlds) convinced him of this.
“Jill was a fifty-nine-foot glider, then she became a sixty-six-foot spinner and I always felt like Connie was a better athlete than Jill. I always wanted Connie to spin when she was throwing, but she never wanted to do it. Back then, [the 1980’s-1990’s] you only did the spin because you couldn’t glide.”
As he became more and more devoted to the rotational method, Smith developed a practice progression for refining his throwers’ technique.
“The drill work is non-reverse stands, non-reverse half turns, then something called non-reverse ‘giant steps,’ where you start in the back, step to the center, pause, then do a half turn and throw non- reverse. Then we do ‘walking fulls,’ where you turn, step, turn and throw kind of in slow motion. From there we do non-reverse fulls and then reverse fulls.”
“With Raven, practice is a non-reverse full into a net followed by a non-reverse throw into the field. [Note: Coach Smith has a net set up at the outdoor throwing facility at Ole Miss] She starts with a sixteen-pound shot, then moves to a twelve, then an eight, and finally a three-kilogram. Then we start over with the sixteen.”
“Some days, Raven might take seventy to eighty throws. We keep going until the numbers die off so much that practice is over. She might repeat that progression three or four times and she might start out with ten to fifteen throws into the net (stands, half tuns, giant steps) before she even does fulls.”
She will continue with some variation of that system for the next six weeks then travel to London where she and Dani Bunch will try to prove to the world that the glide is dead, with Michelle Carter along to make the counter argument.
And, while there are many amazing tourist attractions in that city that are suitable to dress up a broadcast, please NBC Gold, this time stay with the women’s shot from start to finish! Based on what happened in Sacramento, it will be worth it.
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Ewen, Tausaga take divergent paths to doha
Tricia Von Bank on A Final Look Back At The 2019 season: Kara Winger Finds Her Chill
Illinois Throws Association on A Look Back At Doha, Part 3: Joe’s Odyssey
Illinois Throws Association on Experience Not Required…But It Sure Helps. Part 2 of our Look Back at Doha
Nydia Pascocello on Is the Oregon monopoly on the NCAA meet good for track fans?
Daniel McQuaid on The 2019 Toyota USATF Championships begin: A report on the Men’s Discus and women’s Javelin
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Re Llewelyn [2012] MHLO 61 (LPA)
The donor appointed attorneys including her husband to act jointly in some matters and jointly and severally in other matters. She stated that decisions were to be made jointly and severally apart from a list of specified decisions which were to be made jointly, but added a proviso to the effect that, provided her husband was able to act as one of her attorneys, all decisions could be made jointly and severally. On the application of the Public Guardian the proviso was severed as being incompatible with an appointment to act jointly in some matters and jointly and severally in others. [OPG summary - LPA case.]
Summary from OPG section of Justice website.
Case title: Re Llewelyn (an order of the Senior Judge made on 2 May 2012)
Listed under heading: Severance of restrictions incompatible with an appointment to act jointly in some matters and jointly and severally in others
Not on Bailii - no transcript
Summary on OPG section of Justice website†. This is a link to an archived version of the web page (archived on 6/10/14).
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For The Fallen Dreams - Back Burner (Rise Records)
Melodic hardcore from Michigan isn't full of surprises, but does it really need to be?
I'm not entirely sure what the distinction is between melodic hardcore and metalcore. Listening to Back Burner, the third studio release from For The Fallen Dreams, bands such as Atreyu, Parkway Drive and A Day To Remember all immediately spring to mind (although this may be down to the fact that former ADTR guitarist Tom Denney mixed the album). There's also a hint of As I Lay Dying during some of the heavier numbers, particularly My Anthem-Like Symphony.
Opening with the incredibely Killswitch Engage-esque Say What You Will, it's easy to make a snap judgement on Back Burner and assume you are going to be listening to 12 songs of "been there, done it" metal. And to be fair, you'd be absolutely spot on. Back Burner is a relatively generic album. There's a consistent mix of chugging breakdowns, harsh verse-clean chorus arrangements and the archetypal crowd singalong insertions. This is an album that has been written for metallers between the ages of 15-25 who are more than happy to fund Bring Me The Horizon's front man Oli Sykes' clothing line Drop Dead. The male fans will be more than happy to straighten their hair and wear jeans tighter than their actual skin. The girl fans will all have a copy of the Twilight Saga in their Tim Burton-influenced backpacks, and the two will sit in a park drinking cheap cider whilst listening to Back Burner on a pair of cheap speakers. But that's absolutely okay with me.
All too often bands take it upon themselves to change the world of music as we know it by creating increasingly oblique sub-sub-sub-genres in which to place themselves. With Back Burner, For The Fallen Dreams are simply playing metal that appeals to the masses in the 21st century. Dylan Richter and Jim Hocking's joint vocal approach is predictable but thoroughly enjoyable, and Hocking's guitar work, supported by rhythm man Kalan Blehm and bassist Jordan McPherson, is neither groundbreaking nor disappointing. Arvin Sarathy does a solid job behind the drums and all in all, the chaps put together a solid musical performance.
If your most recent purchases are the latest Vomitory, Hate Eternal and Wormrot albums I cannot stress how much you should avoid Back Burner. But if you aren't afraid to admit that every now and again, it's okay to throw on a pair of purple-chequered Vans and have a bit of an angsty singalong, this is a well worthy purchase.
Back Buner is out now on Rise Records
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Friday open thread: 11/30/18
by Matt Netter • November 30, 2018 • 16 Comments
With a new GM and a flurry of trade and free agent rumors, it appears that the roster of Mets players that arrive in Port St. Lucie late winter will be a lot different than the group that arrived last year. As Jerry Seinfeld once said, we root for the laundry. That said, there are some players I hope to never see in a Mets uniform. Chief among them is Bryce Harper. I know he’s got talent but I just have a nagging feeling that he’s the reason the talented Nationals team never advanced past the division series. He strikes me as one of those 24+1 players that hurts clubhouse morale and gets coaches fired. Am I alone in this thinking?
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Aging Bull
I’ve been reading some posts on Mariner sites to see what their local take is. The general consensus seems to be “too good to be true.” The are salivating over Kelenic. They seem also to believe that Dunn and McNeil are also part of the deal. There’s a bit of “why would the Mets do this deal?” as well.
I don’t follow this author, so I don’t know his biases or if he’s credible, but I like his take on this trade.
https://sports.yahoo.com/mets-proposed-trade-cano-diaz-makes-sense-doesnt-deserve-scorn-075442872.html
What I do like is that BVW is willing to make some moves.
I agree with you Matt. Harper and Machado are 2 players that are 24 Plus one players. Too much money to spend for that type of player and their attitude.
In regard to that open thread, today the Mets have to decide on the fate of Travis and Flores. I think they should non-tender both. Travis because his injury and salary. Flores because of his salary and he no longer has a position with the emergence of Alonzo and McNeil. They can use the 8.5 million toward a free agent.
Aside from Harper’s personality, I would have concerns about his swing, which could be categorized as violent. It’s like he’s trying to hit a tape-measure shot almost every time, and I would think that swing might translate to a shorter career.
Machado is a Great Fit Here…a very long term Skill Set and a RH Infield Bat.
I’d like them to sign him for 4 years/35-40 per. …maybe a 5th year option.
This lets both the player and the team focus on a winnable time envelope…an overpay in that envelope works, in my mind. It also preserves the forward ability of Machado to remarket himself when he’s 30,,,and to choose a spot to play and compete for championships
David Klein
Giving up two top 100 prospects for a guy that pitches 65 innings per year is insanity.
Totally disagree with Matt on Harper and when you sound like Steve Phillips that a bad thing.
I do not want Harper in a Met uniform. I do not think he helps us and ties up to many dollars. I like the thought of Diaz in NY but we don’t have a lot of talent in the minors and to trade McNeil, Kelenic and Dunn for a 36 year old 2b just doesn’t sit right with me. We still haven’t solved the 3b, catcher issue.
Eric Bloom
McNeil will be the 3b now.
Andy Martino – “Roughly $60 mil headed Mets way in current incarnation of deal. Players, again, are Cano/Diaz for Bruce, Bautista, Swarzak, Dunn. Kelenic.”
https://twitter.com/martinonyc
Im ok with spending chips if there is a plan that rings of “all in”. Maybe we are there, or at least have the ship pointing into the right direction.
My concern is this: Kelenic has a lot of potential value, and could be used for a much more utilitarian player. The Mets have a number of holes to fill – on MLB radio an indifferent industry type said 5 positions, which I think is close, and instead of addressing such a need, we see spending a real chip for the most mercurial of all players: a closer which may play in 60 innings out of 1500 for a season. Not sure I get that, and doubly so with Cano. They better be getting Seattle to eat more than 1/2 of the money *and* all of Bruce and Swarzak.
Unless this is a trade and release situation like the Braves did with A-Gon last year, i hate it because of Cano. And if it is, then of course it’s not worth it. I hope other fans are not willing to forgive and accept him.
Pete from NJ
I would be happy with the trade if there was less Seattle money involved so that Kelenic stays in the organization.
Maybe I’m brainwashed hearing over and over again how the Met’s minor league system is weak and here we go sending prospects for value and a salary/position dump(Bruce).
I would love to be at the table during these negotiations. Makes me want to go to a car dealer and buy a Ford F150.
Mike Walczak
With all of this talk about trading Syndergaard, Van Wagenen has to have inside information that he doesnt like. As his former agent, he has more knowledge about the player than anybody. Maybe it is that Syndergaard stated that there was no way that he was going to sign an extension and wanted to hit the open market after the 20 season.
We all think it is crazy to trade Syndergaard, but maybe Van Wagenen with his intimate knowledge is right.
fascinating list of non-tenders…a number that have been talked about here as potential trade targets: Boxberger, Billy Hamilton, Chris Owings…and Flores.
Here’s a thought: in 1999 and 2002, Randy Johnson
1. Pitched a total of 531.2 innings (led NL both years),
2. Struck 698 batters total (led NL both years),
3. Won a pair of NL Cy Young awards.
In his career, Craig Kimbrel has pitched a total of 532.2 innings, and struck out…
868 batters!!!!
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Michael Maranda
Catalogue essay
“Michael Maranda’s Ascesis of the Object.”
YYZ newspaper, date 2003
Tim Lilburn
The piece — two harpsichords surrounded by emptiness — is called “Decoy.” It looks like the love of reason; here is the eighteenth century, here rational inquiry’s liberation from the suffocation of authority and subjectivity. Our credulity rushes forward: we’ve had this particular overcoming on our minds for 250 years; it’s a kind of home. Once we are three feet from the work, we see the instruments are unplayable dummies; the music (the Goldberg Variations), appearing suddenly, is mangled.
Here is an imitation of the triumph of reason that doesn’t work very hard to hide the fact that it’s a fake.
Time was when Reason seemed a winged thing. It recently had wed a stunningly fecund science — the microscope, the telescope, heliocentrism, the circulation of blood, moons of Jupiter: together they would lift all from the fusty oppressions of religion and capricious rule. The energy flowed into this dream: euphoria.
The side-curves of Maranda’s harpsichords, precise, sensuous, are a memory of reason’s apotheosis. Human, artifactual, they are nevertheless wing-like, breathlessly transcendent — and sexual: thinking’s auto-eroticism.
The Critique of Pure Reason, Preface to the Second Edition: the inconclusive, the raw, the fragmentary, the equivocal, the stammering in thinking, Kant insists, should make all of us nervous; these are signs that what is going on--under the name metaphysics, of soulcraft — is not, in fact, thinking at all, but affect; wankery camouflaging itself as foundational probing. Here cognition has missed “the secure path of science” and infantilely remained subjectivity. It should be abandoned as a serious undertaking; unhappily, though, it must be admitted that the impulse urging this particular subjectivity will remain, the source of the natural tragedy of the mind.
Reason is concerned properly with the discovery of the necessary law; it must not allow itself to be kept “in nature’s leading strings,” but “must constrain nature to give answer to questions of reason’s own determining.” By such interrogation, “the study of nature has entered on the secure path of science, after having for so many centuries been nothing but a process of merely random groping.” Metaphysics is quintessentially random groping: no unanimity appears, but a wilderness of contesting views. Here the mind (oh, why?) is deceitful; it lures us on, roils us forward with terrible exigence, then betrays us.
Antithetical to the true labour of reason on the secure path of science are the musings of visionary charlatans (Schwärmerei), whose father is Plato, mystical, poetic.
The thin legs of Maranda’s harpsichords give a hint of weightlessness to the body of the instruments — they are feathery, fine, yet not Romantic because precise, geometric; this is the intelligence that was to lead us from beneath superstition’s evil weight, what the humanistic nobility of democracy would look like as furniture; the legs, the instruments, nod toward flight, but — behold, amazingly — are not aloft. Here is the form — the decoy — of transcendence — it manfully (heroically, altruistically) refuses transcendence.
The water-like shapes of the harpsichord, the sides that swoop like thinking: the way the two “instruments” are assembled seems elegant, inevitable, like successful systematic argument. The strings are as ordered as the wires of a telephone grid — clean, utopian: the human overcoming of things.
One is impressed by the workmanship in Maranda’s harpsichords, the intricacy of this work, but the machines clearly won’t do what they seem to be made to do. What’s on display is driven labour detached from intention. The unconnectedness of craftsmanship and intentionality is dizzying. The objects appear lonely for their use. They also seem to lose a portion of their beauty in this deprival.
Why such harsh fakery, a humiliation of things? Sheer them of their utility and they look awkward, rebuked. What’s the point of all this labour, the two finely-constructed harpsichords, the wronghandedly played Bach, a labour that carefully refuses teh achievement of purpose? This is a chartening of the object, a striking off of the encrustations of utility and beauty. This ascesis of objects, purging them of meaning, significance, allows some distance to return to them, a touch of unlikeliness, ferality; autonomy seeps into the things through the gaps in Maranda’s achievement.
But to imagine he rescues the pure object by thus operation is to lapse into yet another Romanticism (is there no end to them?) — a Heideggerian Kantianism, this time. Maranda simply subjects things to an ascetical reduction: who knows what will result? But what was before — object as beautiful, object as useful — was just a shunning of thing-hood, a clouding over of specificity with human wanting. The objects emerge from the prison of this domination shaky, pale, undetermined — possibly irrevocably broken in spirit. But there they stand, shorn, weak, and no longer ours.
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Indeterminate Claims: New Challenges To Self-Determination Doctrine In Yugoslavia, Timothy W. Waters Jan 2000
Indeterminate Claims: New Challenges To Self-Determination Doctrine In Yugoslavia, Timothy W. Waters
Articles by Maurer Faculty
Serbia has two autonomous provinces, with nearly identical constitutional and political claims: heavily Albanian Kosovo and ethnically diverse but Serb-majority Vojvodina. One is headed towards some form of internationally recognized independence; the other almost certainly is not, even though calls for its autonomy have been mounting. What makes the difference?
This article examines what the reasons for these different outcomes show about the changing content of self-determination in an environment of persistent ethnic claims. The defining characteristic of self-determination today is its indeterminacy, which allows policymakers to pursue a broader range of policies than was possible in the era of ...
Rethinking International Insolvency: The Neglected Role Of Choice-Of-Law Rules And Theory, Hannah L. Buxbaum Jan 2000
Rethinking International Insolvency: The Neglected Role Of Choice-Of-Law Rules And Theory, Hannah L. Buxbaum
Solutions to the problem of international bankruptcy are generally framed as either universalist (arguing that international bankruptcies should be administered in a single forum) or territorialist (arguing in favor of multiple local bankruptcies). This article seeks to expand this debate by using traditional conflicts theory to examine the problem of cross-border bankruptcy. It analyzes the current regime under which cross-border bankruptcies are administered in U.S. courts, concluding that this regime operates as a multilateralist (jurisdiction-selecting) regime. Concluding that multilateralism is an appropriate method for resolving choice-of-law issues in international insolvency, the article analyzes some possible refinements to the current ...
A Kinder, Gentler System Or Capitulations? International Law, Structural Adjustment Policies, And The Standard Of Liberal, Globalized Civilization, David P. Fidler Jan 2000
A Kinder, Gentler System Or Capitulations? International Law, Structural Adjustment Policies, And The Standard Of Liberal, Globalized Civilization, David P. Fidler
Book Review. The Death Penalty: Abolition In Europe, Ralph F. Gaebler Jan 2000
Book Review. The Death Penalty: Abolition In Europe, Ralph F. Gaebler
From International Treaties To Internet Norms: The Evolution Of International Trademark Disputes In The Internet Age, Ajay K. Mehrotra, Marcelo Halpern Jan 2000
From International Treaties To Internet Norms: The Evolution Of International Trademark Disputes In The Internet Age, Ajay K. Mehrotra, Marcelo Halpern
In today's dynamic, digital economy, there is a global clash between geographically bounded intellectual property rights and the limitless reach of the Internet. Traditionally, discrepancies in international intellectual property rights, such as trademark disputes, have been resolved through time-consuming, multilateral state-to-state treaty negotiations that have global harmonization as the primary goal.
With the explosion of e-commerce and the birth of a New Economy, however, such a traditional process is no longer economically viable. Instead, a new approach towards international intellectual property is fast emerging - one that rests not on treaties between multiple states, but on the private contracting of ...
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10 TV Shows You’ll Want to Watch This Fall and Winter
Dozens of new programs will premiere this fall and winter, but only a handful stand out.
Several shows are almost guaranteed to be successful–the Walking Dead “spinoff” will bring over many of the viewers from the original series. DC’s Legends of Tomorrow will entice people who enjoyed The Flash and Arrow. Bastard Executioner will benefit from a few key similarities to Sons of Anarchy.
And a few shows boast recognizable stars–Jennifer Lopez and Wesley Snipes among them–to at least get a fighting chance at survival.
Check out the 10 top shows to look forward to below.
Bastard Executioner (FX)
Kurt Sutter returns to FX with an all-new show, rather than basking in the success of Sons.
Fans will be pleased to see several familiar faces among the actors, including Sutter himself and his wife Katey Sagal.
“The Bastard Executioner is a blood-soaked, medieval epic that tells the story of Wilkin Brattle, a 14th century warrior, whose life is forever changed when a divine messenger beseeches him to lay down his sword and lead the life of another man: a journeyman executioner. Set in northern Wales during a time rife with rebellion and political upheaval, Wilkin must walk a tight rope between protecting his true identity while also serving a mysterious destiny,” according to FX.
Premieres this fall (specific date not yet announced).
Containment (CW)
The CW continues its slow build-up with a promising show about a viral outbreak in Atlanta from Julie Plec (Vampire Diaries, The Tomorrow People).
The show is based on the Belgian TV series Cordon, which also ran in the United Kingdom. The trailer looks pretty good, but it definitely remains to be seen how strong the series will turn out.
“Neighbours in a block wake one morning to find they have been sealed inside their apartments. Can they work together to find out why? Or will they destroy each other in their fight to escape?” according to the show’s description on IMDB.
Premieres in January or February (specific date not yet announced).
DC’s Legends of Tomorrow (CW)
Fans of the DC universe should welcome another installment, which will feature a slew of familiar faces as well as some newcomers.
Prison Break alums and Flash villains Dominic Purcell and Wentworth Miller (Heat Wave and Captain Cold) will be part of the force, along with Caity Lotz (Sara Lance), Brandon Routh (The Atom), and Victor Garber (Firestorm) from the universe. Newcomers announced so far are Arthur Darvill as Rip Hunter, Ciara Renee as Hawkgirl, and Franz Drameh as Jay Jackson.
Few specific details have been announced, seen by the lack of an official website or even a description on IMDB.
Dr. Ken (ABC)
Ken Jeong gets the starring role here as a frustrated doctor juggling his career, marriage, and family.
While that seems to indicate a lot of drama, it will be a comedy and looks to be one of the stronger ones on the upcoming TV slate based on Jeong’s previous work. At the very least, fans of his should tune in to see if they like the show.
“Doctor turned actor/comedian Ken Jeong plays Dr. Ken, a brilliant physician with no bedside manner. He is always trying to be a good doctor, as well as a good husband and dad to his two kids. Luckily, his therapist wife Allison is just the right partner to keep things sane,” according to ABC.
Premieres Friday, Oct. 2 at 8:30 p.m.
Fear the Walking Dead (AMC)
The new Walking Dead series is not a companion series or a prequel or a spinoff, primarily because it will feature no characters from the original series and also be set in Los Angeles instead of Georgia and the East Coast.
Fear has been getting good early reviews and has a strong look in the trailers, although it’s safe to say the comparison to the original will be hard to shake. Kim Dickens, Cliff Curtis, and Frank Dillane are among the stars. A second season has already been confirmed.
There’s no official description on the website, but the basic premise has the show set in the same “Dead” world, but further back in the timeline than when Rick wakes up in Georgia. The main characters’ families struggle to deal with the zombie outbreak and impending collapse of civilization, with hard choices having to be made.
Premieres on Sunday, August 23 at 9 p.m. ET.
Little Big Shots (NBC)
(Jason Kempin/Getty Images)
Two of the top daytime TV hosts, Ellen DeGeneres and Steve Harvey, team up for this new series starring children.
The pair are both executive producers but Harvey will be the host for the show, which will feature “the world’s most talented and extraordinary kids,” according to the network.
“In ‘Little Big Shots,’ Harvey will showcase young musicians, singers, dancers and every form of wunderkind in the country, and go toe to toe with them in conversations and interviews, with hilarious results,” NBC added.
Premieres midseason (specific date not yet announced).
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Negative ads suggest close race in Minnesota's 6th District
Mark Kennedy is running an ad that points out which groups have thrown their support behind her and questions how that will impact her decisions if she's elected to Congress. (Image from Kennedy TV ad)
Republican Mark Kennedy and the National Republican Congressional Committee are stepping up their criticism of DFLer Patty Wetterling. Both Kennedy and the NRCC are running television advertisements questioning Wetterling's credibility as a candidate and the special interest groups that support her. Wetterling says the ads are unfair and has countered with an ad of her own questioning the Republican tactics.
St. Paul, Minn. — Congressman Mark Kennedy says Patty Wetterling should be judged by the company she keeps. Kennedy is running an ad that points out which groups have thrown their support behind her and questions how that will impact her decisions if she's elected to Congress. The ad refers to the group MoveOn.org, among others.
"Patty Wetterling took $80,000 from a group that opposed fighting terrorists after 9/11. She took 50,000 from trial attorneys who are driving doctors who are driving doctors out of business," the ad says.
Kennedy says he's running the ad because he wants to know where Wetterling stands on what he considers the two most important issues of the campaign: the war on terrorism and the economy. The two are running in Minnesota's 6th District, which consists of St. Cloud, the northern Twin Cities suburbs and some eastern suburbs.
Kennedy believes the war in Iraq and aggressive action overseas will prevent additional terrorism in the U.S. He says low taxes will prompt businesses to hire more workers. He says Wetterling is running an issue-free campaign.
"We don't believe we should have an issue-free campaign. Issues are important. The most important issues that voters are telling me and others how do we keep are country safe, win this war on terrorism and how do we grow jobs and grow the economy? Unfortunatel, we haven't heard ... anything from the other side as to how they would do that," according to Kennedy.
While Kennedy is trying to point out that Wetterling is soft on some issues, the National Republican Congressional Committee is questioning Wetterling's credibility altogether.
It's very risky for Mark Kennedy to take on Patty Wetterling frontally here unless he's behind.
- St. John's political science professor Robert Weber
"Patty Wetterling wants to go to Congress, but is she ready? Six months ago, she said 'I have no platform.' Three months ago, she said she has no position on the Bush tax cuts. Two months ago, Wetterling finally just said she has a lot to learn,'" the ad says.
Wetterling is known statewide through her child advocacy work. Her son, Jacob, was abducted in 1989 and hasn't been found.
Wetterling began the campaign with some gaps in her political agenda. When she first announced her run in April, Wetterling said she has a lot to learn during campaign stops. She has also said she's taking the prudent approach by listening to all sides before making a decision on an issue. In response to Kennedy's ads linking her to the positions of MoveOn.org and trial lawyers, Wetterling says candidates that take money from groups don't always support every policy position.
"I worked with law enforcement and have been very good at hard on crime and I would have that same fierceness when it came to terrorists. So I guess here's what I'm asking is that you've known me for 15 years. You've known Mark Kennedy for four. Don't let him define me," she said.
Wetterling says the best way to fight the war on terror is to increase local fire and police protection. In terms of taxes, Wetterling favors rolling back the tax cuts for the wealthiest two percent of Americans.
Wetterling has responded to the Kennedy ads with spots of her own. In an ad released this week, Wetterling uses John Walsh from the TV show, "America's Most Wanted" to speak on her behalf.
"I'm a Republican and I'm outraged at the false attacks on my friend Patty Wetterling. I never met anyone more qualified or better prepared to sever in Congress. Patty Wetterling's integrity and commitment are truly inspiring. Her opponent and his allies are desperate to defeat her in anyway they can," Walsh says in the ad.
Kennedy maintains that his ads are true and that Wetterling has been critical of him as well. It's expected that the flurry of ad activity will increase throughout election day. The National Journal reports that the Democratic National Congressional Committee will spend $500,000 on behalf of Wetterling.
St. John's political science professor Robert Weber says he believes internal polling must show a close race if Kennedy and his party are running ads criticizing Wetterling at this point in the campaign.
"I would guess it's very close based on the strategy itself. It's very risky for Mark Kennedy to take on Patty Wetterling frontally here unless he's behind," according to Weber.
Voters will have the chance to see how the two candidates fare in a live head to head debate on KSTP-TV on Sunday night.
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Northwest, mechanics to resume contract talks
by Jeff Horwich, Minnesota Public Radio
Northwest Airlines, which has been operating without its striking mechanics union for nearly three weeks, says contract talks with the union will resume Thursday. (MPR Photo/Mark Zdechlik)
Northwest Airlines and its mechanics union will resume contract talks Thursday, for the first time since the union walked out almost three weeks ago. Northwest is warning, though, that a tougher financial situation means its negotiating position will be even more harsh than when talks broke off last month. The union says it will fight to save as many jobs as possible, and will not sell out some of its most vulnerable members.
St. Paul, Minn. — Talks resume Thursday at noon in Minneapolis, on the 20th day of the strike by the Aircraft Mechanics Fraternal Association. The National Mediation Board urged both sides to return to the table, and a federal mediator will oversee the negotiations.
More than 4,400 active union employees, along with hundreds who were technically on furlough at Northwest, have taken up pickets rather than accept a contract proposed by the airline.
Talks broke down over Northwest's plan to eliminate the jobs of about half the union members. The airline said deep cuts were needed to save $176 million a year and help stave off bankruptcy.
Northwest confirmed the talks but declined further comment. The union's national contract coordinator, Jeff Mathews, says resuming negotiations is in the best interest of the public and his members.
"Right now we're out on strike and our members are not receiving a paycheck. And it's absolutely worth it to go sit down at the table and see what they have to say and what they want to talk about now," says Mathews. "Our job is still to protect as many jobs as possible, and the pension, to protect that."
Northwest has drawn a strong line on jobs. In a letter to the union this week, vice president of labor relations Julie Hagen Showers says the company now needs even deeper cost savings from the union.
"Our last best offer which was presented to you on August 18 was based on economic circumstances that no longer exist today," said the letter. "While the company was prepared to stand behind that offer in order to obtain a consensual agreement, unfortunately we are no longer able to do so."
In the letter, Showers blames a financial situation made worse by rising fuel prices.
She also suggests Northwest's ability to fly through the strike puts the company in a stronger bargaining position.
Showers goes on to essentially say two major categories of union jobs are gone forever. One is the aircraft cleaners, 800 of whom were on the job when the strike hit.
The other group includes all Northwest mechanics stationed at U.S. airports other than the Northwest hubs of Detroit, Memphis and the Twin Cities. In both cases, Showers writes the jobs have gone to "more efficient third party vendors."
If the company thought they had the complete upper hand in this, and this is going according to plan, why even bother talking to the mechanics?
- U of M professor John Remington
Union negotiator Jeff Mathews says while the union has no official response to the letter, this situation is not acceptable.
"That's exactly what I'm talking about -- we're not interested in lock-stock-and-barrel getting rid of any one group or classification of employees. They're our members and it's our job to protect them to the best of our ability," says Mathews.
Minnesota's top economic official is glad to see talks resume. Matt Kramer, commissioner of Employment and Economic Development, says while the economic impact of the strike on the state has been small, Northwest needs to get permanent cuts to set itself on a path to recovery.
"The company has been clear that their financial picture has deteriorated since the day the strike began. Because of that, there's going to have to be more give-and-take on what it means to continue to be a viable airline," says Kramer.
In her letter to the union, Northwest's vice president Julie Showers says the airline could start hiring permanent replacement workers as soon at next week.
John Remington, an industrial relations professor at the University of Minnesota, says this is meant to step up pressure on the union to get back to the table. But he says it's also a signal the airline itself may be feeling pressure to get the mechanics back on the job.
"If the company thought they had the complete upper hand in this, and this is going according to plan, why even bother talking to the mechanics?" Remington asks.
Remington says while Northwest has kept flying, the airline has good reason to put the strike behind it.
"You don't want to be constantly in the position of denying accusations that service is substandard or that there are safety or mechanical problems," says Remington. "They're still in a market where poeple don't cross picket lines, and it's had to have had some impact on business. And while it may not be significant or more than anticipated, it's still reality."
As the company heads back to the table, there are new signs of the mounting financial pressure on Northwest to get a concessions deal, not just with mechanics but with its other three unions as well.
The airline cancelled a non-stop route from New York to Tokyo, citing rising fuel costs. And the Twin Cities airport says an expansion plan meant to accommodate growth at Northwest may be put off for at least a year.
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Ethics Shmethics and the Charter School Biz
Over at reformy Chalkbeat, it's all Moskowitz, all the time. So when Moskowitz Academy leaders claim they aren't accountable for the offensive comments of their funders, you find out about it right away. Charters love to refer to themselves as "public charter schools" even though they aren't subject to, you know, public accountability or rules or laws. When Eva faced an agreement to license pre-K, rather than sign it, she fought it until she didn't have to follow it.
Actually, the only time charters are public is when it comes time to pay for them. If you or I were to test-prep kids until they peed their pants, we'd likely be subject to chancellor's regulations over corporal punishment. If it were your kid or mine, maybe we'd be at the school complaining. The teacher who let it happen at a public school would face a letter to file or 3020a. Over at Eva's place, maybe the teacher would get a promotion and the kid would make the "got to go" list.
Hey, if Moskowitz Academies want people who make offensive racial statements to run the company, that's their prerogative. The mayor can complain all he wants, but they're answerable to no one. Racism? Give me a break. We're a private company and we do any goshdarn thing we please.
Over in Massachusetts there's even more fun brewing. Ever wonder where so-called Families for Excellent Schools gets all that money to pay people to trash us in the media? It's a mystery, right? Well, the Boston Globe has a little piece of the story:
When Paul Sagan, chairman of the state Board of Elementary and Secondary Education, faced calls for his resignation last September after it was revealed that he had donated $100,000 to a ballot campaign pushing the expansion of charter schools, Governor Charlie Baker leapt to his defense, calling it a “nothing burger.”
But at the time, Sagan was keeping a secret from the public: A month earlier he had donated nearly $500,000 to the nonprofit Families for Excellent Schools — Advocacy, which was quietly soliciting donations and then funneling them to the ballot campaign.
You see how that works? You're ostensibly a public servant, but since you're also a gazillionaire, you back privatizing public schools. After all, where's the profit in public schools? Can you open up a public school and pay the likes of Eva Moskowitz a half million a year? Can Betsy DeVos and her BFFs make money off of public schools? Nah.
So what if Sagan hid a half a million bucks. It was for charter schools, and rules don't apply to charter schools. Rules are for public schools. Except, of course, when it comes to rules about taking money. Then, charter schools are public schools with their hand out. Also, when they're criticized for anything whatsoever, they're public schools. You see how that works?
Wonder what's gonna happen to Sagan. I expect what will happen is less than what would happen to you or me if we took a $25 gift from one of our students.
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When failure is not an option, what could possibly go wrong?
Join us for a catapultastic evening of clowning, contraptions, comedy and courage, as one man’s belief in the near impossible is put to the test. Part non-verbal circus performance, part behind the scenes ‘making of’, Long Shot will have you on the edge of your seat. Or hiding behind it. Either way, it’s going to be a blast.
Long Shot is a one man show about juggling, inventions, and the risk of failure. The performer uses handmade remote controlled contraptions to literally give control of the performance over to the audience. The show is designed for unusual/small performance spaces. We like playing to audiences who aren’t necessarily regular arts attenders.
The first half of the show is a performance. The second half is part performance, part demonstration, allowing the audience to see behind the scenes and into the head of the inventor – a little like when a magician reveals his tricks, but with circus and contraptions. You book the first half as a standalone performance (50-60mins), or both halves for a full evening of entertainment (1hr 45mins).
For Theatres and Venues equipped for taking shows you can download the show Tech Spec here.
For Rural Touring and non conventional Theatre spaces we can be technically self-contained. If your venue doesn’t have lights or sound equipment – no problem! We can tour with our own lights and sound system that are operated onstage by the performer.
Long Shot is designed to be extremely flexible in its staging to cope with different sized venues and sight lines. We like to perform in unusual spaces and configurations!
No wings required
Minimum performance space required: 5m width, 5m depth, 3.5m height.
The performance space must be on the same level as the audience. Unfortunately Long Shot is not suitable for raised stages.
In 2015 we received support and seed funding from Bristol Circus City, and previewed a 20 minute version of Long Shot as part of Currency Festival at The Place, an annual festival of experimental European work that blurs the borders between dance, performance art and contemporary circus.
Having received further funding from Arts Council England we fully developed Long Shot as a full length show designed for small scale and rural touring. It has a flexible format, and is suitable for a variety of spaces.
Target audience: Families and adults of any age.
Capacity per performance: 50-300, depending on size of performance area and overall capacity of venue – please contact us if you’d like to talk discuss this in relation to your venue. We will happily perform this show for smaller audiences.
Performances per day: 1, if a get in is required on the same day. If our set and tech equipment is already in-situ we can perform 2 shows a day.
Wraparound activity: We are happy to offer workshops in juggling and contraption building for an additional fee. Please contact us to discuss your ideas.
This show is a continually touring show and is available year-round and at short(ish) notice subject to availability.
For show costs any other information please contact us.
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Early CMS enrollment numbers leaves questions unanswered
Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools released an early count this past week of how many students are enrolled in the district, and it seems to have raised more questions than it answers.
The district reported that it had 145,112 enrolled on its 20th day, which was last Monday. That's an unofficial figure until the state Department of Public Instruction compiles numbers from every North Carolina county and publishes them all. Generally, that's sometime in October.
CMS declined to give me a demographic breakdown of the student body. The N.C. charter school office said it couldn't provide any early enrollment numbers. That leaves a few key questions open for the next month.
1) Did charter school enrollment really come in below expectations? That certainly was the implication from CMS officials at the school board meeting Tuesday. Anecdotally, we've found that several of the 11 Charlotte-area did in fact come in below their projections.
This will mark the second year that a significant number of new charters have opened up after the state legislature lifted the long-standing cap. The 20th day figures there will show whether they're catching on or struggling.
2) Will CMS grab a larger share of the county's students? Hand in hand with that, the official numbers will help show what the new charter schools will do to the CMS "market share." That refers to the percentage of students in the county attend the public school system as opposed to private schools or charters.
As of last year, CMS lagged behind several other major urban districts in North Carolina, according to figures published by Wake County business group Wake Education Partnership this past week.
About 79.1 percent of students in Mecklenburg County attended CMS, compared with 10.8 percent in private schools, 6 percent in charters and 4.1 percent home schools.
CMS had a smaller market share than the public school systems in Wake, Forsyth and Guilford counties, but exceeded that of Durham County.
That's below the goal the district set out for itself. Last year, CMS projected it would hold an 81 percent market share through 2021. That was a key provision of their capital need projections.
On the flip side, CMS has more students this year than those projections called for the district to have. They were counting on 144,209 in that plan.
3) Where are the new students? I'm also after a school-by-school enrollment breakdown that will show us where in the county the biggest jumps occurred. A number of readers have also asked me whether an influx of immigrants from Mexico and Central America is a part of the unexpectedly high enrollment numbers this year. Yes, Charlotte has hundreds of children coming to the city from those areas.
CMS does not verify the immigration status of children looking to enroll. Some groups will use the number of English as a Second Language students as a rough approximation of immigration. CMS would not provide a number of ESL students this year, deferring to the official report.
Posted by Anonymous at 9:46 PM
Labels: CMS, Durham County Schools, enrollment, Guilford County Schools, Wake County Public Schools, Winston Salem-Forsyth
All those "ILLEAGAL" students pay nothing into the school system.It will equal overcrowded classrooms with less teachers because of the lack of funding.It will mean that more breakfast is eaten without being paid for.It will lead to the lack of school nurses being over burdened and the possiblily of outbreaks of viruses because of the lack of shots and such. Then they go to the emergency room where by law they will be treated which will equal my insurance premium and hospital costs going up because SOMEBODY eventually has to pay for all of this. There is never ever any free lunch in this world. The bill has to be eventually be paid.Guess which hard working leagal American the bill falls on ?
The bigger question is do you actually believe the CMS baked number? It seems every year in a effort to increase the budget numbers CMS throws out a high number on enrollment. That number will change to the lower side in the future. Your new at this so just a history lesson for you. How hard would it actually be for CMS to do a count of enrolled students? If they were half organized about 3-4 hours so minimal effort to get a true accounting. KW HURLEY
Are you kidding? Try to get an actual butts in the chairs count on the first day? That would be like herding cats. Better idea-just wait until the 20th day and the number that comes out of the computer.
Well 10:48, it won't fall on those living in red states, as those are the people that suck up the most government assistance.
Oh wait, that's probably not what you were trying to prove was it? It's always a shame when facts get in the way, isn't it?
didn't it take CMS almost a year to put together the enrollment numbers per school last year. I would be very concerned about a school system that can't accurately record basic information by the 20th day of school.
8:19 the republican legislature eliminated the adm count of which you speak. Funding is no longer based on a formula that takes into account growth.
That provision was snuck in at the 11th hour. Just wait until next budget season when the republicans blow their own horns from the highest hills to show how THEY increased education spending even though they didn't have to. (Because they screwed kids this year, that is)
Same BS as the so-called best ever raise given to NC teachers.
I think obi wan kenobi was thinking of our legislature when he said "you will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy."
10:47 Maybe Obi wan Kenobi was thinking more ISIS, than the state legislature. Let's keep it real.
CMS =
Damn Lies
Of course they didn't give you any demographic data.
That will most likely come sometime in May of 2015.
Another year of CMS deflection and coverup, yet voters still blindly vote to waste more tax dollars on CMS year after year.
my question is about charter schools. Why can't the charter office provide the enrollment numbers for charter schools. After all, it is not like they have hundreds of schools and are teaching over a 150K students. Could it be because they choose not to make their enrollment figures public?
Since our BOE has become mute over the last few years, perhaps they can open their mouths and tell us when they plan to sue the Federal Government for the funds to educate the hundreds of ILLEGALS they are sending to our schools without our consent or ability to pay for them...
Ther residents of certain zip codes are the ones that should be filing a lawsuit. How can you justify spending 3X as much per pupil as other zip codes.
Private 55 million diverted to the Westside is one thing,but the other is CRIMINAL.
What steals more money out of the pockets of the citizens in Charlotte?
Churches such as Elevation or the CMS "ITS FOR THE CHILDREN" Board of Education
What about the 2 suburban schools in Denver,CO that have been shut down because of a teacher "sick out"? Something many of the teachers in CMS should consider and if they had the guts would activate.
thus is the reason for white flight from CMS schools, the focus on redistribution of wealth.
Wiley, it will never happen. The BOE is a bunch of drones and they only act in unison now. I can't imagine any one of them having such an original thought. They defer decisions to the opinion of the board member who "represents" that district and vote accordingly to show how well they play together. It's ridiculous.
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Posted on August 27, 2014 April 2, 2018
A Nine Year-Old With an Uzi?
On the news that a nine year-old girl accidentally killed a shooting instructor with an Uzi submachine gun, I could only sit back in slack-jawed wonder and shake my head in literal disbelief. Seriously, who in the hell even considered that this would be a good idea? The range owner? The parents? The dead instructor? Certainly, common sense died well before the child took the weapon and it’s with that that the questions now arise once again about gun control. But even before you get to the philosophical questions about the right to bear arms in America, what are some of the common sense questions that a parent should ask before allowing their child to handle a firearm, if at all?
As a full disclosure, I am a gun owner and have had each of my three children undergo basic pistol training with a trained instructor.
Re-setting the Home Page
As schools across the country struggle with budget issues, the majority are looking squarely at one line item for control – paper. So information is now being made available via other means and it’s probably in your best interest to reset the browser’s home page to the school district website. Kids still come home from school on the first day with a backpack full of paperwork and parents are used to sitting down and culling through the chaff to get to those single pieces of wheat which really do concern them, but it’s afterwards that the paper usage is being truly controlled to save money. The upshot is that if you expect to see the information in the kids’ backpacks, then you’re liable to miss something important.
It was at a different event the other evening that someone shared a statistic that her spouse had picked up at a local school district staff meeting: if the district could cut it’s paper cost by 10%, the savings would be sufficient to fund the salaries and benefits of two additional teachers. So the hunt for eliminating paper usage continues in an era of budgetary constraints and it’s showing up here – or not, actually – in the household. School calendars sent to each household with a full complement of activities and events? Gone. Paper reminders from advisers? Gone. School planners for each student? Actually not, since the much-smaller and less costly planner was a train-wreck for kids who don’t have the capacity to write in very small print; this led to the re-introduction of the older and larger planners. If the schools are going to stress planning skills, then they have to at least give them something with which to work and the less-costly alternative was simply not functional.
The godsend however, is that the information is now being made available online and readily available, provided that the parents are willing to keep up with it. Site tabs lead to school lunch menus and athletic calendars, directories and a full gamut of district policies. Student and district achievements are touted routinely. But the real value of putting the district site on the browser homepage is in those announcements that make you appreciate the heads up, such as the announcement that Youngest’s school would be the site for after-school SWAT team training. Had I not seen the article yesterday morning, I would have been mightily surprised when one of Youngest’s friends told me last night that the SWAT team was there during his after-school football practice, a tragic training necessity given the times in which we live.
So for the next number of years, the browser’s home page will be set to the school district’s site and the only question will be with what is it replaced when we’ve finally got the kids through the educational pipeline. And for Middle, who might read this: whatever it is, it won’t be AARP.
Exposing the Kids to Reality
It was the other day that Youngest, now with a PS3, asked for permission to buy the Call-of-Duty: Black Ops game and my response was a firm no. I understand that he’s played the game elsewhere, will certainly play it again at some friend’s house and that’s alright. But I’ve made it clear that I won’t be purchasing such a game because I want him to understand that there’s a grim reality behind the virtual sterility of the two-dimensional game, a world of pain and loss that only the combat-initiated can truly understand. It’s a function of my own father, who returned home from the first year of the Korean War a changed man who sold his hunting rifles and swore to neither fire a weapon nor sleep outside again. It was this desire to teach the reality that led to a Swedish father’s trek with his two sons when they asked for a Call-of-Duty game.
This father took his two sons on a journey to the Middle East in early 2014 to show them the reality of warfare. Much of the game – like other first-person shooter games – takes place in an urban wasteland of ruins and debris. But it’s one thing to move among the virtual debris and fully another to see the rubble around you and recognize that it doesn’t go away as it does when the television is turned off; let alone the notion that the people there have to live among it with the knowledge that to them, that brick pile might at one time have been called home. It’s an admittedly over-the-top exercise, an expensive lesson that does however, prove his commitment to his personal beliefs. In the course of the two week excursion, they visited a refugee camp and had the figurative impact of young people paralyzed by taking rubber bullets to the spine with the commentary that these youngsters, their own age, would never again be able to engage in any of their favorite sports and activities.
This father does understand that he and his wife are not the only adults having a conversation with their sons. The reality is that the kids – all of them – are having an ongoing conversation with the media/entertainment complex and honestly, it’s occurring more readily with many than with the parents. The great majority of fathers in today’s world spend less than a half hour each day in any meaningful interaction with the kids while the kids themselves are having a good six hours daily in some interaction with the media/entertainment complex. That complex can be seductive and fun, requiring nothing of the kids apart from their brand loyalty and ongoing viewership. The complex has no other role in raising the child and demands nothing, holds none accountable for grades or chores and will never, ever have to clean up the pieces when the child or teen does something that goes spectacularly, explosively wrong. The only surefire option to competing with the complex is to go full-tilt Amish and for the great majority, that’s neither a valid choice nor even an option; what is required at the minimum is the understanding that the other conversations exist and more importantly, the ongoing effort to continually engage the kids whenever and wherever the opportunity arises.
We’ve had similar opportunities for mind-expansion in this household, although not to the extent of Mr. Helgegren. The first was the decision to let Youngest watch Saving Private Ryan as a third grader. I knew from conversations that he was playing Black Ops at friends’ houses, yet wanted him to have a sense of the reality of war and the Spielberg film was the closest that I could conceivably get short of taking the kids to an actual war zone. The effect was what I hoped as he was clearly moved at the grinding violence of the film’s opening invasion sequence and it served as the departure point for further, later conversations. The other major occurrence was the decision – only a few weeks after viewing the film – to take the kids to Athens’ Syntagma Square during the much awaited – and saved for – trip to Europe. The demonstrations that year took off on the first leg of our trip to Rome and I made repeated visits on the hotel computer to the US State Department website to determine whether there had been a travel advisory issued for Athens. Between that and touching base with the tour company’s guides in Athens, we decided to go ahead with that leg of the trip and while it was safe, it was eye-opening for the kids to see militarized riot police and to do so a full three years before the rest of America saw them in Ferguson, Missouri.
And that’s the point of exposing the kids to the reality. It’s important that we as parents act in what has become an almost counter-cultural fashion because the culture now promotes behaviors and norms that are crass at best and detrimental at worst to the well-being of our kids. There is liable to be blowback to our efforts at conversation and you might even wish to book tickets for a flight to Syria, one-way in the worst moments. But understand that if you keep chipping away at it, keep making an effort, keep finding ways to expose the kids to reality, then there’s a decent chance that they’re going to actually listen and adjust accordingly. Letting the kids’ reality be shaped by the media/entertainment complex is setting them up for future heartache, unprepared for what they actually see when the blinders come off and they have to live in the real world.
Posted on August 5, 2014 April 2, 2018
PracticalDad Price Index, August 2014: Food Inflation Picking Up Again
The pricing was done for the August 2014 PracticalDad Price Index and a review shows that while the cost of the 47 item grocery marketbasket declined slightly, from July’s 110.20 to August’s 110.14 (November 2010 = 100), the Food-Only Sub-index of 37 foodstuff items rose by almost a full half point, from July’s 113.22 to August’s 113.71 (November 2010 = 100). The upshot is that, when you consider the 37 foodstuff items alone, the cost of these has risen 13.71% since November 2010 and a full half percentage point in the course of a single month.
The foodstuffs (for a full listing of the PracticalDad Price Index marketbasket, see here) did not occur across the board however. Produce and Dairy items decreased very slightly, but the rise was driven by a 2.6% increase in the price of meat – ground beef, hot dogs, eggs, tuna, cooked deli ham, chicken and fish sticks – from the previous month. This is simply showing the retail effects of the supply issues in the economy as the national beef herds have decreased in size to levels not seen in 60 years and pork herds have been hit by PED, which has led to culling to control the disease.
One final comment on the results. Over a year ago, I began to follow what I refer to as the spread and it’s this which is the final column in the chart. The idea behind the spread is to simply note the differential between the rise in food prices versus the non-food prices within the basket. What is notable about this is that the food prices have again been increasing and the spread between the Full Index and the Food-Only Index is rising, showing how food costs are now outpacing and driving the basket.
The results for August and the previous three months follow.
PracticalDad Price Index – August 2014
Month Total Index Food-Only Index Spread
5/14 109.85 111.54 1.69
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Author, Comedian, & Public Speaker Jessica Holmes to host A Woman’s Legacy Event on Nov. 21
Jessica Holmes joins former Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard, famed Canadian songstress Jann Arden, and best-selling author of Introverts Susan Cain in the incredible line up of inspirational women visiting Toronto to speak at A Woman’s Legacy Event on November 21, 2013.
This annual event draws an audience of motivated women including successful businesswomen, entrepreneurs and the who’s who in the city to learn first hand from internationally renowned women. Bridging a cross section of industries to come together and be empowered. A Woman’s Legacy brings together experts who speak about their personal stories and their secrets to success in areas that cover communication strategies, motivation, smart investing, innovation, stress management and more.
Tickets are available from $189 and can be purchased on line at legacymastery.com
Jessica Holmes – Author, Comedian, & Public Speaker
Jessica Holmes starred on Royal Canadian Air Farce and The Holmes Show, and is the author of I Love Your Laugh: Finding the Light in my Screwball Life. Also a Life Coach, she tours Canada with her quirky combination of humour & inspiration.
Holmes has opened for comedians like Jerry Seinfeld, Leslie Nielsen, and Ellen DeGeneres, as well as hosted events for such visionaries as Deepak Chopra, Tony Robbins, and Oprah Winfrey! Although a comedian at heart, having performed with the Second City and Just for Laughs, Holmes has recently delved into writing: penning the book I Love Your Laugh: Finding the Light in My Screwball Life. Jessica majored in writing at Ryerson’s Radio & Television Arts BFA program, and again ended up spending her free time involved in comedy: acting in and then directing the annual sketch comedy show, titled RIOT. There, a few of the performers dared each other to try stand up. Four of them, Jessica included, performed at amateur night at The Laugh Resort. Jessica was hooked on the terrifying adrenaline ride that is stand up comedy, and decided to try it on as a career. During her years on Air Farce, Jessica had two children, Alexa and Jordan, with her actor husband Scott. Holmes wrote her first book, I Love Your Laugh: Finding the Light in my Screwball Life, in 2010. Having fallen in love with public speaking, Holmes decided to deepen the scope of her material by becoming a Life & Career Coach through San Diego’s Life Purpose Institute. She now enjoys a mix of comedy & motivational speaking.
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Twitter: @happyfeetholmes, @JuliaGillard, @jannarden, @susancain
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Canadian funny woman Jessica Holmes to deliver Keynote Finale at WIBN Conference & Urban Retreat in Vancouver on October 6th & 7th, 2013
Jessica has successfully transitioned from an in-demand comedian, to a sought-after comedic motivational speaker and author
Royal Canadian Air Farce & The Holmes Show’s Jessica Holmes, a comedian and motivational speaker, will be bringing her mix of characters, comedy, and inspirational tips to Vancouver this October. Jessica will be delivering a keynote address at the Women in Biz Network conference to uplift and motivate entrepreneurs and business women in Western Canada. As a mom, successful speaker, author, and Life Coach, Holmes has received hundreds of standing ovations in the two years since she transformed her comedy routine into a self-help/humour hybrid. One of the most requested speakers in Canada, Holmes gives an inspiring and engaging appearance. Jessica shares tips on success, re-branding, and motivation, and shares how laughter now defines her life since recovering from post-partum depression. Her talk, called the 60 Minute Perspective Makeover, is detailed below.
The 60 Minute Perspective Makeover
The secrets of success are the same no matter what business you’re in; and success begins with getting motivated. Inspiration and comedy unite in this 60-minute transformation from “I shoulda…” to “I will!” Energizing and funny, this call to action combines Jessica’s humor and savvy to deliver motivational insights into:
• Finding greater meaning in your work
• Using positive psychology to be happier day to day
• Setting and reaching your goals
• Learning to laugh at life’s shortcomings
Jessica gives quick, achievable how-tos about these topics and more, in a laugh-out-loud hour of fun. The audience receives great takeaways & follow-up resources to guarantee that Jessica’s presentation makes a meaningful impact. See more at: http://goforitevent.com/jessicaholmes/#sthash.doXX9FAz.dpuf
Before her transition to a successful speaker, Jessica was a well-established comedian and performer. She has opened for the likes of Oprah Winfrey, Leslie Nielsen and Ellen DeGeneres throughout her career.
Jessica is best known for her seven-year stint on the award winning CBC series “Royal Canadian Air Farce”. In 2002, Holmes landed her own sketch comedy show appropriately titled, “The Holmes Show”. The show featured dead-on personifications of Celine Dion, Liza Minnelli and Geri Halliwell. That same year, her musical comedy special “Holmes Alone” won the Platinum Award at WorldFest.
In recent years, Holmes has shifted her comedy from the stage to the print world as a comedy author. Her book titled, “I Love Your Laugh: Finding the Light in My Screwball Life”, offers readers her witty observations on everything from her hilarious take on parenthood, her eclectic upbringing by a Mormon father and feminist mother, and her experiences as a missionary in Venezuela.
It’s hard to imagine that this funny woman didn’t always see the laughter in things. Holmes suffered from a near crippling depression that threatened her every day life and career. Once recovered, she made the decision to dedicate her life to discovering what creates lasting balance and fulfillment.
Holmes is shooting the new web series That’s My JD, developing a comedic reality series with Pivotal Media and a tween musical series with Marblemedia, appearing as a frequent guest on shows like “Entertainment Tonight Canada” and “George Stroumboulopoulos Tonight”, and is set to release her second comedy book due out in 2014.
Twitter: @happyfeetholmes
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Canadian funny woman Jessica Holmes celebrates her milestone birthday in Toronto with a fundraising comedy event at Hugh’s Room on August 25th, 2013
Jessica currently tours the country with her unique brand of humour—appearing as a guest speaker at a variety of events
Ottawa native Jessica Holmes continues to delight and amuse national and international audiences with her popular comedy routines and celebrity impersonations. Holmes has opened for the likes of Oprah Winfrey, Leslie Nielsen and Ellen DeGeneres throughout her career. Jessica is a sought-after keynote speaker at high profile events across the country. Most recently, she appeared at the Women in Glaucoma Conference last month in Vancouver, and will be at The Women In Biz Network Go For It conference (designed to give women entrepreneurs the support and skills to enhance business performance) in October.
Between raising her family and her busy professional schedule, Jessica has also been gearing up to celebrate a milestone birthday. At the end of this month, Jessica will turn the big 4-0 and felt it was an important birthday to celebrate, while also giving back. “For a woman in my industry, aging can be considered a bad thing. So I wanted to turn that on its head and make my 40th birthday something I’m proud of, something I would shout from the mountaintops! And I found that opportunity: I’m celebrating my 15 year career, my friends in the industry, and my involvement in philanthropy in an intimate fund-raiser at Hugh’s Room,” says Jessica. “I’m happy, healthy, and submerged in community, friendship, and a career I love. Turning 40 is awesome!” The fundraising event, which offers a night chock-full of entertainment, supports Yellow Brick Road House—a shelter for abused women and children. More details on Jessica’s event at Hugh’s Room is available HERE.
Holmes has become on of the most sought-after speakers in Canadian business by creating a motivational comedy performance about positive psychology called “The 60 Minute Perspective Makeover”. She tours the country offering audiences her own tips and perspective on how to lead a more fulfilling and happy life through setting personal goals.
She originally majored in writing at Ryerson University’s Radio and Television arts program when a classmate dared her to try standup. The Second City, Just For Laughs festival and TV shows like “Little Big Kid” and “The Itch”, got her noticed by television casting agents.
Press: huffingtonpost.ca
This entry was posted in Jessica Holmes and tagged Biz Network, British Columbia, Canada, comedy, conference, Ellen DeGeneres, Entertainment Tonight Canada, festival, George Stroumboulopoulos, Just For Laughs, Lesley Diana, Leslie Nielsen, North America, Oprah Winfrey, Ottawa, PR firm, press, radio, reality, Ryerson University, standup, television, The Promotion People, The Second City, Vancouver, Women in Glaucoma on August 16, 2013 by press.
Comedian and Popular TV Star Jessica Holmes Brings Her Unique Brand of Comedy to Vancouver This Summer and Fall
Ottawa native Jessica Holmes continues to delight and amuse national and international audiences with her popular comedy routines and celebrity impersonations. Holmes has opened for the likes of Oprah Winfrey, Leslie Nielsen and Ellen DeGeneres throughout her career. Jessica is a sought-after keynote speaker at high profile events across the country. Her next appearances are at the Women in Glaucoma Conference on July 16th in Vancouver, and The Women In Biz Network Go For It conference (designed to give women entrepreneurs the support and skills to enhance business performance) in October.
She is best known for her seven-year stint on the award winning CBC series “Royal Canadian Air Farce”. In 2002, Holmes landed her own sketch comedy show appropriately titled, “The Holmes Show”. The show featured dead-on personifications of Celine Dion, Liza Minnelli and Geri Halliwell. That same year, her musical comedy special “Holmes Alone” won the Platinum Award at WorldFest.
Holmes has become on of the most sought after speakers in Canadian business by creating a motivational comedy performance about positive psychology called “The 60 Minute Perspective Makeover”. She tours the country offering audiences her own tips and perspective on how to lead a more fulfilling and happy life through setting personal goals.
Holmes will be speaking in Vancouver in July for the Women in Glaucoma Conference on July 16th, as well as this October as part of The Women In Biz Network Go For It conference which is designed to give women entrepreneurs the support and skills to enhance business performance and workplace productivity.
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jasmyn@thepromotionpeople.ca
Instagram: @promotion.people
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Airbnb to ban party houses in wake of Halloween shooting in California
November 4, 2019 November 4, 2019 NewsEditor Airbnb, California, San Francisco, US crime, US news
Airbnbs CEO said the company must do better after five people were killed at a party in San Francisco
Airbnbs chief executive has said the company will ban party houses following a deadly shooting at a Halloween party held at an Airbnb rental home in California.
In a series of tweets, Brian Chesky said on Saturday that the San Francisco-based company would expand manual screening of high risk reservations and remove guests who fail to comply with policies banning parties at Airbnb rental homes.
He also said the company is forming a rapid response team when complaints of unauthorised parties come in.
We must do better, and we will. This is unacceptable, he tweeted.
Five people died after a Thursday-night shooting that sent some 100 terrified partygoers running for their lives in the San Francisco suburb of Orinda.
Brian Chesky (@bchesky)
Starting today, we are banning party houses and we are redoubling our efforts to combat unauthorized parties and get rid of abusive host and guest conduct, including conduct that leads to the terrible events we saw in Orinda. Here is what we are doing:
The four-bedroom home had been rented on Airbnb by a woman who told the owner her dozen family members had asthma and needed to escape smoke from a wildfire, a person with knowledge of the transaction told the Associated Press. A fire burning in Sonoma County about 97km (60 miles) north of Orinda earlier in the week fouled the air over a wide area.
The owner was suspicious of a one-night rental on Halloween and before agreeing reminded the renter that no parties were allowed, said the person with knowledge of the transaction, who was not authorised to publicly disclose the information and spoke on condition of anonymity.
The owner, Michael Wang, said his wife contacted the renter on Thursday night after neighbours alerted them to the party. The renter said there were only a dozen people at the home but Wang said he could see more people on video from his doorbell camera.
We called the police. They were on the way to go there to stop them, but before we got there the neighbour already sent us a message saying there was a shooting, he told the Chronicle.
No arrests have been made and there was no immediate word on a motive for the attack. Two guns were found at the property, authorities said.
Three people, all from the Bay area, died at the scene and a fourth died in hospital, authorities initially said. The Contra Costa County sheriffs office identified them Friday evening as Tiyon Farley, 22, of Antioch; Omar Taylor, 24, of Pittsburg; Ramon Hill Jr, 23; and Javin County, 29. The sheriffs office identified a fifth victim, 19-year-old Oshiana Tompkins of Vallejo and Hercules, late Friday night, saying she died in hospital.
Taylors father, Omar Taylor Sr, said his son was hired to play music at the party.
Wrong place, wrong time, he told the East Bay Times.
Other people were wounded by gunshots or injured in the panic that followed, authorities said.
The party at the four-bedroom house apparently was advertised on social media as an Airbnb mansion party.
Orinda, with a population of about 20,000, requires short-term rental hosts to register with the city annually and pay an occupancy tax. The maximum occupancy is 13 people.
Orinda city documents show officials issued violations in March for exceeding the homes maximum occupancy and illegal parking. City manager Steve Salomon said the homeowner had resolved previous complaints lodged in February over occupancy and noise and in July over overflowing trash.
Airbnb is urgently investigating what happened, spokesman Ben Breit said in an email.
Airbnb has banned the renter from its platform and the home has been removed as a listing, he said.
One attendee said he was enjoying the music and watching people dance when he heard shots and people started running.
The screaming seemed to last forever, said Devan, who asked that his last name not be used because he feared for his safety.
Everybody started running, scrambling, he said. People were just collapsing and friends were helping friends. It was a scary situation and then as everyone is panicking and stuff, there were more shots.
Devan shot a video posted to Instagram that showed a wounded man on the ground and a police officer standing over him and a woman saying she needs to go to the hospital because my hands been blown off.
On Friday, police tape surrounded the block as people came to collect their cars and other belongings. One woman in tears told reporters the father of her child had been killed. She left before giving her name.
Romond Reynolds picked up the car of his son, 24-year-old Armani Reynolds, who he said was left comatose by the shooting.
All I know is that hes a victim and was at the wrong place at the wrong time, Reynolds said.
Neighbour Shahram Saki, 61, said in a phone interview that some fleeing partygoers hid in the bushes in his front yard and others begged to be let into his home.
They were screaming for help. I told them, You gotta get out of here, Saki said. I was scared to death, anything could have happened.
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/nov/03/airbnb-to-ban-party-houses-in-wake-of-halloween-shooting-in-california
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Get ready for the return of Neopets! Nostalgic virtual pet game will be released as an app this summer following launch of puzzle spin-off. com server located in Redmond, United States. Meuka slithers out of your Neopets nose and challenges you to a battle in the BATTLEDOME!!!!! Catch the Neoflu or Sneezles, then go HERE. The Aisha Vending machine is waiting for you to tinker and tonker with its buttons and mechanisms. Neopets Moneytree - Donate your Neopoints and Items. At this year's event, we had Perry, Herdy, and Ummy on the ground to give you a recap of the After Party. 214K likes. Neopets friendships still thrive 20 years later. Restricted Neopets. Welcome to the OFFICIAL Facebook page for Neopets. If you're having problems with ALL sites, then go find the uninstaller program on this site under support, shut down everything (browser, IM, etc) possible, run the uninstaller, reboot, get back to this site, re-install Flash, and you should be dandy. Neopets friendships still thrive 20 years later. (Which wasn't even a thing when I joined) so the website still thinks I'm under 13-- I won't be able to send Neomail or anything, so if my DP does get found, message me on Reddit!. y2k cute neopets neotag faellie scenecore webcore neopets merch neo merch neopets tag kidcore We're Goin Down Fall Out Boy relateable neopets meme in 2019. There are lots of games you can play to get Neopoints. 3 is average. 25 Ratings are based on a 1 to 5 scale. Force a full refresh of your browser page by clicking Ctrl + F5 at the same time. com app is in development with a tentative launch date of summer 2019. New Features Visit this page for the latest updates on everything new that we add to the site - games, items, contests, and loads of other stuff. Neopets fans would've loved that, but we wanted a standalone mobile game, since we're pivoting into 2019. Games so horrible, so scary that we had to remove them from the site, but now, thanks to this page, they live on! These games that have been taken down from Neopets for various reasons, and now they are available for you to play. The online world of adorable creatures for you to take care of and decorate is almost legal enough to drink. The official Twitter account of http://t. Difficulty: We think this dare is easy. While no one has claimed that any aspects of Scientology exist on the Neopets Web site itself, there are unsubstantiated rumors that employees are encouraged to convert to Scientology. The Korbat is one of the "prehistoric" Neopets dating from before official records of Neopian events were kept. A new comic with the chrarctures from my childhood serioussly though i love neopets down in my heart but the state of it now is pretty bad anyhow hope ou enjoy if you got any suggustions tell me in the comcs. By feeding off the motivation of other creators and creating a tangible schedule, this is to break down the barriers we may otherwise face in progressing our stories. Neopets IS NOT a dating agency for you OR your pet! This means you cannot ask for dates, neo-marriages, dating/mating websites, dating guilds or dating role play. If you have any suggestions plzzz comment down. During this period, our moderation team was not able to access and. This update lengthened the. Virtual pet community Neopets is a popular place for children to first learn about browser-based Internet games. I HATE YOU!!!!!OH, WELL NEXT TIME DON'T STEAL MY MONOPOLY!!!Arianna, give James your $200. It had millions of members - kids and adults alike clambering for the latest pets, playing the flash games, and learning the entire world of Neopets. TDN is defined as The Daily Neopets (gaming website) frequently. Players of all ages registered for accounts, adopted their virtual pets, and entered the world of Neopia. Neopets: Legends & Letters' first mistake is ignoring the uninitiated. The general idea of NaNo is that within the 30 days of November, authors are challenged to write an entire novel, or more specifically 50,000 words. When it’s coming down, the wings need to be flapping, because it levels out it’s trajectory, and causes it to go farther in the air… Everyone knows this part, though. In 2014, Neopets was acquired by the educational franchise JumpStart. Hipster Trash on Neopets. Neopets - The Soup Kitchen You can get a free meal for your Neopets if you have under 3000 Neopoints. If you're having problems with ALL sites, then go find the uninstaller program on this site under support, shut down everything (browser, IM, etc) possible, run the uninstaller, reboot, get back to this site, re-install Flash, and you should be dandy. The once-mighty virtual pets game could finally collapse next year. It is distinguished from other Neopets by the crest on its head, which falls down its neck almost like a furry pet's mane, and its jagged mouth. People who weren't playing Neopets back in the day don't know the characters, their world, or their backstory, and the app doesn't do much to bring them up to speed. All content on this website, including dictionary, thesaurus, literature, geography, and other reference data is for informational purposes only. The Neopets Team used to take volunteer moderators from their users to monitor NeoChat, but this idea was later phased out when the Neoboards appeared, and payed moderators were hired instead. Users can own virtual pets ("Neopets"), and buy virtual items for them using one of two virtual currencies. When I joined Neopets 8 years ago I thought it would be only for a couple of years I have seen an increase in members and also heaps of new itema and things to do. “The Neopets Team introduced a lot of things to help either lower [inflation] or make things easier for people to achieve,” a longtime Neopets user who preferred to be anonymous told me. Neopets: Legends & Letters' first mistake is ignoring the uninitiated. The site was launched on 15th November 1999. It's outdated and since most people are ditching Flash for HTML5, Neopets' flash-based games will be a thing of the past. Cheatbook is the resource for the latest Cheats, tips, cheat codes, unlockables, hints and secrets to get the edge to win. Do not discuss how sexy you think you are or someone else is. Neopets Cheats, Neopets Help, Neopets Guides and Neopets Freebies! About. Images © 2000–2019 Neopets, Inc. " Unfortunately, Legends and Letters is just a little bit too much like its. Twenty years on, Neopets will soon be available as a mobile puzzle game – reminding many millennials of their awkward adolescence Published: 21 Jan 2019 Published: 21 Jan 2019. This Week in Gaming: South Korea looks to crack down on boosting, Neopets ban Voyboy & CS:GO's newest meme by Sean Tepper Jun 18 2017 Thumbnail image courtesy of Riot Games / LoL esports Flickr. Force a full refresh of your browser page by clicking Ctrl + F5 at the same time. A few thousand persevere today, in what has become a virtual ghost town. Thank you for your contributions!. — Neopets (@Neopets) July 21, 2019 If you're somehow out of the Flash loop, here's a quick catchup: Adobe Flash will be completely removed from web browsers by 2020. If you have any suggestions plzzz comment down. Get ready for the return of Neopets! Nostalgic virtual pet game will be released as an app this summer following launch of puzzle spin-off. Neopets is basically a metagame disguised as a pet simulation. Making Money On Neopets 0 0 00 0 00 0 00 0 0 00 Description. com and Neopets-related shenanigans! Check back often to find new content and. UN: diggadug Art Blog: KSART I'm just a lil neopetter in the big world of neopets. Players of all ages registered for accounts, adopted their virtual pets, and entered the world of Neopia. Yes, you can have a Neopets account for free. As a sporting event, eighteen teams (as of 2012) from the lands of Neopia gather in Altador to compete in the sport of Yooyuball for the Altador Cup trophy. Tauruses are also reliable, just like this good ol’ Neopet. I've heard of people actually going to these sites and buying the points, but they get scammed- the sellers get your real money, but don't give you the neopoints. After A Terrible 2019, Blizzard Is Going All-In At BlizzCon My account was locked down like The Neopets Team knew how embarrassing my old profile was and wanted to spare me the shame. The Neopets Team used to take volunteer moderators from their users to monitor NeoChat, but this idea was later phased out when the Neoboards appeared, and payed moderators were hired instead. Difficulty: We think this dare is easy. Neopets recent changes are currently giving our customisation department some issues. Neopets - Free Jelly! Get your free piece of jelly daily. Neopets: Legends & Letters' first mistake is ignoring the uninitiated. The site grew and like many ongoing franchises do, managed to. Visitor information for archaeology and history sites and museums in Brittany, France, from the spectacular megalithic sites at Carnac to Medieval castles. Viacom will not trickle down a request like this. On this page you will be able to find daily puzzle answers for the most popular app trivia games. For one think, I don't get how ANYONE can guess those MP things. Our site is updated every single day with the major game app puzzle solutions. Twenty years on, Neopets will soon be available as a mobile puzzle game – reminding many millennials of their awkward adolescence Published: 21 Jan 2019 Published: 21 Jan 2019. Click on the arrow pointing right, which is next to the "www. Parents want their children to be well rounded, but the problem that every parent faces is that 7 year olds would rather watch any video on YouTube than learn how to play the violin. Restricted Neopets are slightly different from limited edition Neopets; you cannot get them on a special day, so you need to find out the secret way to create that particular Neopet. It had millions of members - kids and adults alike clambering for the latest pets, playing the flash games, and learning the entire world of Neopets. For one think, I don't get how ANYONE can guess those MP things. its 2019 and i still play neopets｜ issa guide👀 - Duration: 19:36. If you get in down there in under 60 seconds you get to keep. It was launched in 1999 and bought out by Viacom in 2005. Neopets is an aberration in JumpStart's catalogue. Neopets Moneytree - Donate your Neopoints and Items. Tauruses are also reliable, just like this good ol’ Neopet. Neopets -- don't even act like your inner child doesn't joyously jump up and down at the mere mention of the name -- is back with their first-ever mobile game, an app that will make your commute. UN: diggadug Art Blog: KSART I'm just a lil neopetter in the big world of neopets. Removing your account is easy, although the link isn't easily found. — Neopets (@Neopets) July 21, 2019 If you're somehow out of the Flash loop, here's a quick catchup: Adobe Flash will be completely removed from web browsers by 2020. There are those who speak ill of the Snobby, but we do not heed their words, for Snobby has granted the folk. 5 is great. A press release from JumpStart released over the holiday week teased a new future for the online pet simulator, one that "replaces. We can't imagine this getting the same love as Pokemon Go, but we always love a trip down memory lane with games from our childhood. Yes, you can have a Neopets account for free. The Krawk is a scaly Neopet that stands on two large, flat feet. A Neopets-based puzzle game, Legends and Letters, will. When I joined Neopets 8 years ago I thought it would be only for a couple of years I have seen an increase in members and also heaps of new itema and things to do. Summary: In Neopets: The Darkest Faerie, players enter the land of Neopia for the first time in 3D and journey with Neopian characters on an adventure to rid the world from the evil Darkest Faerie. It then returned on May 24, 2019, with new accessories. The site was launched on 15th November 1999. According to an email recently sent out by Neopets, nearly 100,000 accounts were made vulnerable after a recent website hack. If neopets. With the introduction of the NC Mall and merchandise being made available in some countries it makes me think it will be around for many years to come. Neopets is making a return this fall, and the nostalgia is real. Neopets fans would've loved that, but we wanted a standalone mobile game, since we're pivoting into 2019. But I like it because if you score AT LEAST 532 you will get 1000 nps. My roommate and I are both having problems loading games or pages in general. The website allowed for layers of play -- not only. does anybody know where there are sites similar to neopets? I kinda like the whole pet thing, i used to have those little toys where you took care of your pet and cleaned his poo and cried when he ran awaybut neopets is just so gay, childish, stupid, you get the idea, well?. I just see a blob, even when I copy the pic to Paint and put it down to scale. com Just a little blog for specific neopets fun. If you have any of these items, we would love to get their png (static) previews. The forums were shut down completely and restarted the next day, but it signaled the end of an era for Neopets. Safari: Last year, Apple's Safari started blocking Flash from. It had millions of members - kids and adults alike clambering for the latest pets, playing the flash games, and learning the entire world of Neopets. now the first time i got on it worked perfectly and now it just doesnt work is neopets down right now for changes or somthing please help thanks i return the favor. (Which wasn't even a thing when I joined) so the website still thinks I'm under 13-- I won't be able to send Neomail or anything, so if my DP does get found, message me on Reddit!. , games within games). In 2008, the Neopian Times, the in-game newspaper of virtual pet site Neopets, but Ifueko says she doesn't want her early work taken down. com app is in development with a tentative launch date of summer 2019. But I like it because if you score AT LEAST 532 you will get 1000 nps. The first-ever design for this pet gave it much bigger teeth and a fluffy head, and despite positioning the Korbat upside-down, there was no sign of the tail at all-perhaps the poor Korbat had to hold itself in place with its toes?. GEMINI: Hissi. This update lengthened the. I HATE YOU!!!!!OH, WELL NEXT TIME DON'T STEAL MY MONOPOLY!!!Arianna, give James your $200. If Neopets is the only site that you can't use, that's because they're screwed up a lot lately. You've clicked on a link that will take you outside of Neopets. com friends invite you to their weddings. From countless wars in Meridell to recurring theft in the Lost Desert, Neopia has had its fair share of happenings. Neopets has made no effort to develop a mobile version of its game (so far). The Neopets Team used to take volunteer moderators from their users to monitor NeoChat, but this idea was later phased out when the Neoboards appeared, and payed moderators were hired instead. A better joke would have been to write a novel here for a reply, but who has the energy not me no sir. For your immediate notice, www. We are working on getting the game back up as soon as possible. Is the Neopets site down? I have been trying to log on to Neopets for over 3 days now. Included in this sale: All Darigan, Mutant, Halloween UC Neopets. Yes, you can have a Neopets account for free. A virtual pet website, similar to Neopets, where you can have 12 pets, and the pets can /actually/ die. " Unfortunately, Legends and Letters is just a little bit too much like its. President Trump warned Friday that the partial government shutdown could go on for months or even years, delivering no real breakthrough with congressional leaders. Warner Bros. A Neopets-based puzzle game, Legends and Letters, will. The Neopian Times Writers' Forum is a Certified Neopets Fan Site. com, once a beloved community, is on its last legs as Adobe prepares to shut down its Flash service. Fredrik Knudsen 754,044 views. You won't be able to send score however, and there are no high score tables. This one is a match three game which goal is to clear ghouls and to archive the amount of points required per level by using all or less of the moves you are assigned in each one. Neopets -- don't even act like your inner child doesn't joyously jump up and down at the mere mention of the name -- is back with their first-ever mobile game, an app that will make your commute. Neopets is 20 years old this year. Does contain a lot of flawed content. r/neopets: r/neopets is the place to be without fear or scorn by TNT! Press J to jump to the feed. You should play it as much as you can, although I do admit it is pretty time consuming. View Profile: mobhayes - clraik - Free Neopets cheats. com and Neopets-related shenanigans! Check back often to find new content and. We are working on getting the game back up as soon as possible. Let us never forget the gem which has gifted many a strange item. A few thousand persevere today, in what has become a virtual ghost town. I miss it, but the site isn't safe and now that China bought it. Neopets is turning 20 years old this November, but we’re starting the celebration early! Make sure you keep up with all our social media pages because we’ve got a lot of exciting things planned! # NeopetsTurns20. If this is your first visit, be sure to check out the FAQ by clicking the link above. com is taking too long to respond. WB taps NeoPets pic scribe – Variety. One currency, called Neopoints, can be earned within the site, and the other, Neocash, can either be purchased with real-world money, or won by chance. Related: The 10 Best Fan-Favorite Neopets, Ranked There are apps and games now and you can pay real money to increase your Neocash and get special items. Free Neopets cheats, trading and more! We have the best main shop autobuyers, score senders, and autoplayers for everyone. Difficulty: We think this dare is easy. Force a full refresh of your browser page by clicking Ctrl + F5 at the same time. Neopets has been available in many languages since 2004 -- including Spanish, French, Portuguese, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, German and Dutch. 226 sec which is good. Images © 2000–2019 Neopets, Inc. It provides no incentive to even go back to the web-based game. Digging into the wealth of data available here at The Daily Neopets Item Database? Great! That's what we're here for. )Quick tips:. For what it's worth, Neopets *is* owned by Viacom but it is actually a subset of Nickelodeon. Unlike its fellow rare pet the Draik, it possesses no wings. Help him guide his parachute safely through the tunnels to his destination. This update lengthened the. Neopets -- don't even act like your inner child doesn't joyously jump up and down at the mere mention of the name -- is back with their first-ever mobile game, an app that will make your commute. I like Roothless and I'm too old to be doing any of this but that's ok! Sometimes I take sprite requests and am. Condition is Brand New. Neopets fans would've loved that, but we wanted a standalone mobile game, since we're pivoting into 2019. If neopets. (plus idk what the email is/ dont have access to it anymore) i even made a list writing down every attempt i used and still couldnt do it ive sent request tickets and emailed staff and still nothing (i know they rarely answer either of those anyways) im so determined to get into it!!! i even remade it with the same neopets and username. Press question mark to learn the rest of the keyboard shortcuts. During this period, our moderation team was not able to access and. Neopets: Petpet Adventures defies any expectations for a franchise title and manages to create an action-RPG that largely holds its own. However, it’s just been revealed that Neopets is going to be going fully mobile, meaning you can finally feed your dying Neopets on the go. Press question mark to learn the rest of the keyboard shortcuts. In that, Marapets is SO not like them. Make your way to the virtual planet of Neopia and take charge of little pets that you can groom and look after. Our site is updated every single day with the major game app puzzle solutions. When I joined Neopets 8 years ago I thought it would be only for a couple of years I have seen an increase in members and also heaps of new itema and things to do. This update lengthened the. At Bank of Neopia, we know how hard it can be to come by the unconverted pet of your dreams. I found a emulator-exclusive glitch in Neopets: The Darkest Faerie. If you give the correct answer to the trivia question, you will receive neopoints and/or items. Snobby wishes only for equality and justice. It's completely possible to beat AAA's score on normal mode, so don't feel like you have to play on hard!. co/n6dmyfDg90. I don't know where this argument is coming from, but multiple players across multiple games are saying things with similar language so it's getting to be kind of a meme and I really think it's bad play that we should clamp down on. Can't remember much about it other than that, but I do know there was one planet that was all themed around spooky stuff and a haunted house, and it had a minigame where one player chased down others as a werewolf. And I don't understand why there is no site that posts the answers since you can find cheats, hints and answers to everything else Neopets! So now, I'm starting this thread. Neopets - Free Jelly! Get your free piece of jelly daily. What’s not to love about pets! Explore the exciting virtual world of Neopets and play pet games that will keep you coming back for more. I HATE YOU!!!!! OH, WELL NEXT TIME DON'T STEAL MY MONOPOLY!!! Arianna, give James your $200. GEMINI: Hissi. Neopets is basically a metagame disguised as a pet simulation. You landed on his property. The Korbat is one of the "prehistoric" Neopets dating from before official records of Neopian events were kept. The once-mighty virtual pets game could finally collapse next year. Neopets Legends and Letters and. (plus idk what the email is/ dont have access to it anymore) i even made a list writing down every attempt i used and still couldnt do it ive sent request tickets and emailed staff and still nothing (i know they rarely answer either of those anyways) im so determined to get into it!!! i even remade it with the same neopets and username. Neopets is trending and it is hitting my right in the nostalgia feels. Keep an eye out for obstacles and enemies that could get tangled in Roxton's parachute, and remember to keep him clear of the tunnel walls. com? Check the status here!. net's Neopets Wardrobe allows you to try on Neopets clothing without owning the items, so you can try before you buy!. In 2008, the Neopian Times, the in-game newspaper of virtual pet site Neopets, but Ifueko says she doesn't want her early work taken down. Neopets has made no effort to develop a mobile version of its game (so far). Currently, most web browsers ask your permission each time before running Flash-based content, although these settings can be toggled on a per-website basis. Neopets is basically a metagame disguised as a pet simulation. September 27th, 2019 | Hey everybody! We ran into a brief issue where some of you purchased Neopets Neocash card codes and the codes were said to be inactive. You can find out hidden secrets in Neopets!) Neocodex contests (win prizes just for being an advanced member). Each year, as winter draws to a close, the Festival of Neggs turns everyone's attention toward this most magnificent and versatile of all Neopian foods. When it’s going up, it goes higher with the wings IN… IE, holding down the left mouse button. When I joined Neopets 8 years ago I thought it would be only for a couple of years I have seen an increase in members and also heaps of new itema and things to do. Neopets friendships still thrive 20 years later. If neopets. now the first time i got on it worked perfectly and now it just doesnt work is neopets down right now for changes or somthing please help thanks i return the favor. During this period, our moderation team was not able to access and. Neopets, a virtual pets website popular in the early aughts, employed business practices connected to the Church of Scientology, according to a recent report. Feeding a Quiggle this item will make it sick with Neezles. We do not control your destination's website, so its rules, regulations, and Meepit defense systems will be. It's completely possible to beat AAA's score on normal mode, so don't feel like you have to play on hard!. How is Lost Desert Scratchcard (Neopets) abbreviated? LDSC stands for Lost Desert Scratchcard (Neopets). You've clicked on a link that will take you outside of Neopets. 2019's top ancient ruins in South America include Santuario Historico de Machu Picchu, an ancient fortified complex constructed of huge, megalithic stones. As a sporting event, eighteen teams (as of 2012) from the lands of Neopia gather in Altador to compete in the sport of Yooyuball for the Altador Cup trophy. Fangrrls is about kicking down doors, breaking boundaries and celebrating female fans with fun, witty and entertaining content. The show was loose and a lot of fun with Luke. Get ready for the return of Neopets! Nostalgic virtual pet game will be released as an app this summer following launch of puzzle spin-off. The average response time is 0. Neopets (ft. (Read our full guide. Once there, click on the circle with the "i" in the center, located directly to the left of the Neopets website in the address bar. Tap your arrow keys to make sure you don't tip the boat too far. Taurus is a bull, and Kau is kind of the warped Neopets version of a bull – otherwise known as a cow. With the introduction of the NC Mall and merchandise being made available in some countries it makes me think it will be around for many years to come. Neopia's history is filled with numerous storylines that have captured the attention of Neopians across the planet. Click on the arrow pointing right, which is next to the "www. We are working on getting the game back up as soon as possible. This Week in Gaming: South Korea looks to crack down on boosting, Neopets ban Voyboy & CS:GO's newest meme by Sean Tepper Jun 18 2017 Thumbnail image courtesy of Riot Games / LoL esports Flickr. At 100cm, it is larger than the majority of Neopets. " Unfortunately, Legends and Letters is just a little bit too much like its. A Miami Alum Won Miss Ohio 2019 — And That's Not The Pageant You. neopets (Apparently there is a thing called Super Wizard that is worth every invested penny. Relive each of the major events in Neopia's history by reading through an account of each story. Once there, click on the circle with the "i" in the center, located directly to the left of the Neopets website in the address bar. 60: Avatar Mission 4: Tekkitu the Witch Doctor: This is one techo you may not want to take your pet to when it is sick!!! Be very afraid of this powerful Mystery Island Witch Doctor!. The latest Tweets from Neopets (@Neopets). Make your way to the virtual planet of Neopia and take charge of little pets that you can groom and look after. 1 is horrible. I definitely want to carry that into this year. Help him guide his parachute safely through the tunnels to his destination. The forums were shut down completely and restarted the next day, but it signaled the end of an era for Neopets. This one is a match three game which goal is to clear ghouls and to archive the amount of points required per level by using all or less of the moves you are assigned in each one. It provides no incentive to even go back to the web-based game. As for Neopets Legends & Letters, it’ll be available to download and play from January 17, 2019, courtesy of JumpStart Games. The official Twitter account of http://t. Neopets Cheats, Neopets Help, Neopets Guides and Neopets Freebies! About. Best of Gamescom 2019 - Dishonored: Death of the Outsider - Brazilian Gameplay Trailer - Developer Arkane Studios - Director Harvey Smith - Designer Dinga Bakaba - Programmer Hugue Tardif - Composer Daniel Licht - Publisher Bethesda Softworks. Summary: In Neopets: The Darkest Faerie, players enter the land of Neopia for the first time in 3D and journey with Neopian characters on an adventure to rid the world from the evil Darkest Faerie. Ghoul Catchers is a Neopets App game released in early 2015 that allows you to win Neopoints and rewards by playing it. It’s all based on aerodynamics. Im celebration of Aisha Day the Alien Aishas want you to come down and visit the Aisha Vending Machine. It had millions of members - kids and adults alike clambering for the latest pets, playing the flash games, and learning the entire world of Neopets. Neopets Legends and Letters and. Food - This is the official type for this item on Neopets. PetSimmerJulie) | Down the Rabbit Hole - Duration: 19:27. View Profile: mobhayes - clraik - Free Neopets cheats. Internet Queen! Chrissy Teigen was taken aback when a report linked Neopets, the virtual pets website, to Scientology — but that didn't stop her from rejoining the online community. This Week in Gaming: South Korea looks to crack down on boosting, Neopets ban Voyboy & CS:GO's newest meme by Sean Tepper Jun 18 2017 Thumbnail image courtesy of Riot Games / LoL esports Flickr. one time when i was 10-years-old my childhood best friends and i ran what was effectively a very popular neopets cult and we destroyed the website every chance we got for the duration of middle school. Neopets® began way back in 1997 in a dingy little computer room. After he sold Neopets to Viacom in 2005, he founded Age of Learning, Inc. 1025 1 / 2 / 2019 — 8:00am #art i’m just missing the telescopes, the pinpush mirror doll, and the silver clock from last year (just missing the tricky telescope now!) at this point so if you’d be down to trade lmk??? i have extra violins among other ones lmao. If you get in down there in under 60 seconds you get to keep. Is it just set up on a rotating basis, to. Together they will travel through new lands, meet strange inhabitants and discover a mystery unseen. Neopets is trending and it is hitting my right in the nostalgia feels. Okay, this time our discussion of TBP tracks is truly ending as we cover the three Black Parade B-sides. This puzzle was started on April 26th, 2007. Condition is Brand New. With over 800 pages of quality content, you can't go wrong with Jellyneo!. Then put down those numbers in order straight down the left side of the floor plan and. No creating an account and playing on neopets for the most part is free of charge. Many things would be moved to a different place, but Petpet Park was not included in this group of things included in the move, as stated in a news post by Neopets on September 9th, 2014. Neopets CEO, David Lord, explained that the game will be a mix of: "Neopets lore, a puzzle game mechanic, and battles," and of course, some Scrabble-like word games. Neopets® began way back in 1997 in a dingy little computer room. It’s all based on aerodynamics. Stream Don't Forget to Feed Your Neopets (meme song) by srtizc from desktop or your mobile device 2019-10-22T14:15:22Z @matthew-buckley-206122581 homie its a. Difficulty: We think this dare is easy. The story is simple,but nice,And the two protagonists Roberta a blue Acara,and Tormund, a yellow Lupe are (more). So anyway, I’m standing in the bathroom and thinking about how instead of writing a blog I should dye my hair, because I’ve had the dye for almost 3 weeks now and its all about timing, yanno, cause, the second I have hands free when hubs is here its bed time and I can’t very well lay down to nurse a child to sleep if I have dye in mah hairs. At some point over the weekend, as a result of a facility move, the Neopets moderation and filter system went off line. Neopets is 20 years old this year. If you have any suggestions plzzz comment down. (Read our full guide. After A Terrible 2019, Blizzard Is Going All-In At BlizzCon My account was locked down like The Neopets Team knew how embarrassing my old profile was and wanted to spare me the shame. Faerie Cloud Racers is a hard game if you don't have a lot of hand-eye coordination. 226 sec which is good. Way back in 1999, a site called Neopets was born and it was an absolute sensation. 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127 structures 757 species 15 interactions 22406 sequences 2853 architectures
Family: LRR_1 (PF00560)
Summary: Leucine Rich Repeat
Wikipedia: Leucine-rich repeat
Wikipedia: Ribonuclease inhibitor
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An example of a leucine-rich repeat protein, a porcine ribonuclease inhibitor
LRR_1
2bnh / SUPFAM
Membranome
Available protein structures:
structures / ECOD
RCSB PDB; PDBe; PDBj
Leucine rich repeat variant
a leucine-rich repeat variant with a novel repetitive protein structural motif
1lrv / SUPFAM
LRR adjacent
internalin h: crystal structure of fused n-terminal domains.
LRR_adjacent
Leucine rich repeat N-terminal domain
dimeric bovine tissue-extracted decorin, crystal form 2
LRRNT
1m10 / SUPFAM
the crystal structure of pgip (polygalacturonase inhibiting protein), a leucine rich repeat protein involved in plant defense
LRRNT_2
Leucine rich repeat C-terminal domain
third lrr domain of drosophila slit
LRRCT
LRV protein FeS4 cluster
LRV_FeS
A leucine-rich repeat (LRR) is a protein structural motif that forms an α/β horseshoe fold.[1][2] It is composed of repeating 20–30 amino acid stretches that are unusually rich in the hydrophobic amino acid leucine. These tandem repeats commonly fold together to form a solenoid protein domain, termed leucine-rich repeat domain. Typically, each repeat unit has beta strand-turn-alpha helix structure, and the assembled domain, composed of many such repeats, has a horseshoe shape with an interior parallel beta sheet and an exterior array of helices. One face of the beta sheet and one side of the helix array are exposed to solvent and are therefore dominated by hydrophilic residues. The region between the helices and sheets is the protein's hydrophobic core and is tightly sterically packed with leucine residues.
Leucine-rich repeats are frequently involved in the formation of protein–protein interactions.[3][4]
2 Associated domains
Leucine-rich repeat motifs have been identified in a large number of functionally unrelated proteins.[5] The best-known example is the ribonuclease inhibitor, but other proteins such as the tropomyosin regulator tropomodulin and the toll-like receptor also share the motif. In fact, the toll-like receptor possesses 10 successive LRR motifs which serve to bind pathogen- and danger-associated molecular patterns.
Although the canonical LRR protein contains approximately one helix for every beta strand, variants that form beta-alpha superhelix folds sometimes have long loops rather than helices linking successive beta strands.
One leucine-rich repeat variant domain (LRV) has a novel repetitive structural motif consisting of alternating alpha- and 310-helices arranged in a right-handed superhelix, with the absence of the beta-sheets present in other leucine-rich repeats.[6]
Associated domains
Leucine-rich repeats are often flanked by N-terminal and C-terminal cysteine-rich domains, but not always as is the case with C5orf36
They also co-occur with LRR adjacent domains. These are small, all beta strand domains, which have been structurally described for the protein Internalin (InlA) and related proteins InlB, InlE, InlH from the pathogenic bacterium Listeria monocytogenes. Their function appears to be mainly structural: They are fused to the C-terminal end of leucine-rich repeats, significantly stabilising the LRR, and forming a common rigid entity with the LRR. They are themselves not involved in protein-protein-interactions but help to present the adjacent LRR-domain for this purpose. These domains belong to the family of Ig-like domains in that they consist of two sandwiched beta sheets that follow the classical connectivity of Ig-domains. The beta strands in one of the sheets is, however, much smaller than in most standard Ig-like domains, making it somewhat of an outlier.[7][8][9]
An iron sulphur cluster is found at the N-terminus of some proteins containing the leucine-rich repeat variant domain (LRV). These proteins have a two-domain structure, composed of a small N-terminal domain containing a cluster of four Cysteine residues that houses the 4Fe:4S cluster, and a larger C-terminal domain containing the LRV repeats.[6] Biochemical studies revealed that the 4Fe:4S cluster is sensitive to oxygen, but does not appear to have reversible redox activity.
Leucine zipper
^ Kobe B, Deisenhofer J (October 1994). "The leucine-rich repeat: a versatile binding motif". Trends Biochem. Sci. 19 (10): 415–21. doi:10.1016/0968-0004(94)90090-6. PMID 7817399.
^ Enkhbayar P, Kamiya M, Osaki M, Matsumoto T, Matsushima N (February 2004). "Structural principles of leucine-rich repeat (LRR) proteins". Proteins. 54 (3): 394–403. doi:10.1002/prot.10605. PMID 14747988.
^ Kobe B, Kajava AV (December 2001). "The leucine-rich repeat as a protein recognition motif". Curr. Opin. Struct. Biol. 11 (6): 725–32. doi:10.1016/S0959-440X(01)00266-4. PMID 11751054.
^ Gay NJ, Packman LC, Weldon MA, Barna JC (October 1991). "A leucine-rich repeat peptide derived from the Drosophila Toll receptor forms extended filaments with a beta-sheet structure". FEBS Lett. 291 (1): 87–91. doi:10.1016/0014-5793(91)81110-T. PMID 1657640.
^ Rothberg JM, Jacobs JR, Goodman CS, Artavanis-Tsakonas S (December 1990). "slit: an extracellular protein necessary for development of midline glia and commissural axon pathways contains both EGF and LRR domains". Genes Dev. 4 (12A): 2169–87. doi:10.1101/gad.4.12a.2169. PMID 2176636.
^ a b Peters JW, Stowell MH, Rees DC (December 1996). "A leucine-rich repeat variant with a novel repetitive protein structural motif". Nat. Struct. Biol. 3 (12): 991–4. doi:10.1038/nsb1296-991. PMID 8946850.
^ Schubert WD, Gobel G, Diepholz M, Darji A, Kloer D, Hain T, Chakraborty T, Wehland J, Domann E, Heinz DW (September 2001). "Internalins from the human pathogen Listeria monocytogenes combine three distinct folds into a contiguous internalin domain". J. Mol. Biol. 312 (4): 783–94. doi:10.1006/jmbi.2001.4989. PMID 11575932.
^ Schubert WD, Urbanke C, Ziehm T, Beier V, Machner MP, Domann E, Wehland J, Chakraborty T, Heinz DW (December 2002). "Structure of internalin, a major invasion protein of Listeria monocytogenes, in complex with its human receptor E-cadherin". Cell. 111 (6): 825–36. doi:10.1016/S0092-8674(02)01136-4. PMID 12526809.
^ Freiberg A, Machner MP, Pfeil W, Schubert WD, Heinz DW, Seckler R (March 2004). "Folding and stability of the leucine-rich repeat domain of internalin B from Listeri monocytogenes". J. Mol. Biol. 337 (2): 453–61. doi:10.1016/j.jmb.2004.01.044. PMID 15003459.
Tooze, John; Brändén, Carl-Ivar (1999). Introduction to Protein Structure (2nd ed.). New York: Garland Publishing. ISBN 0-8153-2305-0.
Wei T, Gong J, Jamitzky F, Heckl WM, Stark RW, Roessle SC (November 2008). "LRRML: a conformational database and an XML description of leucine-rich repeats (LRRs)". BMC Struct. Biol. 8 (1): 47. doi:10.1186/1472-6807-8-47. PMC 2645405. PMID 18986514.
Eukaryotic Linear Motif resource motif class LIG_SCF_Skp2-Cks1_1
SCOP LRR fold
CATH Alpha-beta horseshoe architecture
LRRML: a conformational database of leucine-rich repeats
Protein tandem repeats
Fibrous:
Collagen helix
Elongated:
Alpha solenoid
Ankyrin repeat
Armadillo repeat
Beta helix
HEAT repeat
Leucine-rich repeat
Pentapeptide repeat
Tetratricopeptide repeat
Beta barrel
Beta-propeller
Kelch motif
TIM barrel
Trefoil knot fold
WD40 repeat
BZIP
ENTH
LRR
PDZ
Pyrin
Protein tertiary structure
Structural domain
Structure determination methods
All-α folds:
Helix bundle
Globin fold
Homeodomain fold
All-β folds:
Immunoglobulin domain
α/β folds:
Flavodoxin fold
Rossmann fold
Thioredoxin fold
α+β folds:
DNA clamp
Ferredoxin fold
Ribonuclease A
SH2-like fold
Irregular folds:
Conotoxin
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Leucine Rich Repeat
Top view of porcine ribonuclease inhibitor, showing its horseshoe shape.[1] The outer layer is composed of α-helices and the inner layer of parallel β-strands. The inner and outer diameters are roughly 2.1 nm and 6.7 nm, respectively.
1a4y, 1dfj, 1z7x, 2bex, 2bnh, 2q4g
Ribonuclease inhibitor (RI) is a large (~450 residues, ~49 kDa), acidic (pI ~4.7), leucine-rich repeat protein that forms extremely tight complexes with certain ribonucleases. It is a major cellular protein, comprising ~0.1% of all cellular protein by weight, and appears to play an important role in regulating the lifetime of RNA.[2]
RI has a surprisingly high cysteine content (~6.5%, cf. 1.7% in typical proteins) and is sensitive to oxidation. RI is also rich in leucine (21.5%, compared to 9% in typical proteins) and commensurately lower in other hydrophobic residues, esp. valine, isoleucine, methionine, tyrosine, and phenylalanine.
2 Binding to ribonucleases
Side view of porcine ribonuclease inhibitor;[1] ribbon is colored from blue (N-terminus) to red (C-terminus).
RI is the classic leucine-rich repeat protein, consisting of alternating α-helices and β-strands along its backbone. These secondary structure elements wrap around in a curved, right-handed solenoid that resembles a horseshoe. The parallel β-strands and α-helices form the inner and outer wall of the horseshoe, respectively. The structure appears to be stabilized by buried asparagines at the base of each turn, as it passes from α-helix to β-strand. The αβ repeats alternate between 28 and 29 residues in length, effectively forming a 57-residue unit that corresponds to its genetic structure (each exon codes for a 57-residue unit).
Binding to ribonucleases
Ribonuclease I (yellow) and inhibitor (pink helixes) complex heterotetramer, Human.
The affinity of RI for ribonucleases is among the highest for any protein-protein interaction; the dissociation constant of the RI-RNase A complex is in the femtomolar (fM) range under physiological conditions while that for the RI-angiogenin complex is less than 1 fM. Despite this high affinity, RI is able to bind a wide variety of RNases A despite their relatively low sequence identity. Both biochemical studies and crystallographic structures of RI-RNase A complexes suggest that the interaction is governed largely by electrostatic interactions, but also involves substantial buried surface area.[3][4] RI's affinity for ribonucleases is important, since many ribonucleases have cytotoxic and cytostatic effects that correlate well with ability to bind RI.[5]
Mammalian RIs are unable to bind certain pancreatic ribonuclease family members from other species. In particular, amphibian RNases, such ranpirnase and amphinase from the Northern leopard frog, escape mammalian RI and have been noted to have differential cytotoxicity against cancer cells.[6]
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Guanidinium thiocyanate - a chemical RNase inhibitor.
^ a b PDB: 2BNH; Kobe B, Deisenhofer J (1993). "Crystal structure of porcine ribonuclease inhibitor, a protein with leucine-rich repeats". Nature. 366 (6457): 751–6. doi:10.1038/366751a0. PMID 8264799.
^ Shapiro R (2001). "Cytoplasmic ribonuclease inhibitor". Methods in Enzymology. 341: 611–28. doi:10.1016/S0076-6879(01)41180-3. PMID 11582809.
^ Lee FS, Shapiro R, Vallee BL (Jan 1989). "Tight-binding inhibition of angiogenin and ribonuclease A by placental ribonuclease inhibitor". Biochemistry. 28 (1): 225–30. doi:10.1021/bi00427a031. PMID 2706246.
^ Papageorgiou AC, Shapiro R, Acharya KR (Sep 1997). "Molecular recognition of human angiogenin by placental ribonuclease inhibitor--an X-ray crystallographic study at 2.0 A resolution". The EMBO Journal. 16 (17): 5162–77. doi:10.1093/emboj/16.17.5162. PMC 1170149. PMID 9311977.
^ Makarov AA, Ilinskaya ON (April 2003). "Cytotoxic ribonucleases: molecular weapons and their targets". FEBS Letters. 540 (1–3): 15–20. doi:10.1016/s0014-5793(03)00225-4. PMID 12681476.
^ Ardelt W, Shogen K, Darzynkiewicz Z (Jun 2008). "Onconase and amphinase, the antitumor ribonucleases from Rana pipiens oocytes". Current Pharmaceutical Biotechnology. 9 (3): 215–25. doi:10.2174/138920108784567245. PMC 2586917. PMID 18673287.
Kobe B, Deisenhofer J (Mar 1995). "A structural basis of the interactions between leucine-rich repeats and protein ligands". Nature. 374 (6518): 183–6. doi:10.1038/374183a0. PMID 7877692.
Kobe B, Deisenhofer J (Dec 1996). "Mechanism of ribonuclease inhibition by ribonuclease inhibitor protein based on the crystal structure of its complex with ribonuclease A". Journal of Molecular Biology. 264 (5): 1028–43. doi:10.1006/jmbi.1996.0694. PMID 9000628.
Papageorgiou AC, Shapiro R, Acharya KR (Sep 1997). "Molecular recognition of human angiogenin by placental ribonuclease inhibitor--an X-ray crystallographic study at 2.0 A resolution". The EMBO Journal. 16 (17): 5162–77. doi:10.1093/emboj/16.17.5162. PMC 1170149. PMID 9311977.
Suzuki M, Saxena SK, Boix E, Prill RJ, Vasandani VM, Ladner JE, Sung C, Youle RJ (Mar 1999). "Engineering receptor-mediated cytotoxicity into human ribonucleases by steric blockade of inhibitor interaction". Nature Biotechnology. 17 (3): 265–70. doi:10.1038/7010. PMID 10096294.
Shapiro R, Ruiz-Gutierrez M, Chen CZ (Sep 2000). "Analysis of the interactions of human ribonuclease inhibitor with angiogenin and ribonuclease A by mutagenesis: importance of inhibitor residues inside versus outside the C-terminal "hot spot"". Journal of Molecular Biology. 302 (2): 497–519. doi:10.1006/jmbi.2000.4075. PMID 10970748.
Bretscher LE, Abel RL, Raines RT (Apr 2000). "A ribonuclease A variant with low catalytic activity but high cytotoxicity". The Journal of Biological Chemistry. 275 (14): 9893–6. doi:10.1074/jbc.275.14.9893. PMID 10744660.
Yakovlev GI, Mitkevich VA, Makarov AA (2006). "Ribonuclease inhibitors". Molecular Biology. 40 (6): 867–874. doi:10.1134/S0026893306060045.
Pharmacology: enzyme inhibition
Competitive inhibition
Uncompetitive inhibition
Non-competitive inhibition
Suicide inhibition
Mixed inhibition
Oxidoreductase (EC 1)
1.1 Aldose reductase
1.3 5α-Reductase
1.4 Monoamine oxidase
1.5 Dihydrofolate reductase
1.13 Lipoxygenase
1.14 Aromatase
COX-2
1.17 Xanthine oxidase
Transferase (EC 2)
2.1 COMT
2.4 PARP
2.5 Dihydropteroate synthetase
Farnesyltransferase
2.6 GABA transaminase
2.7 Nucleotidyltransferase
Janus kinase
Hydrolase (EC 3)
3.1 Phosphodiesterase
Ribonuclease
3.2 Polygalacturonase
Neuraminidase
Alpha-glucosidase
3.4 Protease: Exopeptidase
Endopeptidase
Enkephalinase
Matrix metalloproteinase
Oxytocinase
3.5 Histone deacetylase
Beta-lactamase
Lyase (EC 4)
4.1 Dopa decarboxylase
4.2 Carbonic anhydrase
Steroidogenesis inhibitor
Leucine Rich Repeat Provide feedback
CAUTION: This Pfam may not find all Leucine Rich Repeats in a protein. Leucine Rich Repeats are short sequence motifs present in a number of proteins with diverse functions and cellular locations. These repeats are usually involved in protein-protein interactions. Each Leucine Rich Repeat is composed of a beta-alpha unit. These units form elongated non-globular structures. Leucine Rich Repeats are often flanked by cysteine rich domains.
Kobe B, Deisenhofer J; , Trends Biochem Sci 1994;19:415-421.: The leucine-rich repeat: a versatile binding motif. PUBMED:7817399 EPMC:7817399
Kobe B, Deisenhofer J; , Nature 1993;366:751-756.: Crystal structure of porcine ribonuclease inhibitor, a protein with leucine-rich repeats. PUBMED:8264799 EPMC:8264799
Similarity to PfamA using HHSearch: LRR_4 LRR_6 LRR_8
HOMSTRAD: LRR internalin
SCOP: 1bnh
Leucine-rich repeats (LRR) consist of 2-45 motifs of 20-30 amino acids in length that generally folds into an arc or horseshoe shape [PUBMED:14747988]. LRRs occur in proteins ranging from viruses to eukaryotes, and appear to provide a structural framework for the formation of protein-protein interactions [PUBMED:11751054, PUBMED:1657640].Proteins containing LRRs include tyrosine kinase receptors, cell-adhesion molecules, virulence factors, and extracellular matrix-binding glycoproteins, and are involved in a variety of biological processes, including signal transduction, cell adhesion, DNA repair, recombination, transcription, RNA processing, disease resistance, apoptosis, and the immune response [PUBMED:2176636].
Sequence analyses of LRR proteins suggested the existence of several different subfamilies of LRRs. The significance of this classification is that repeats from different subfamilies never occur simultaneously and have most probably evolved independently. It is, however, now clear that all major classes of LRR have curved horseshoe structures with a parallel beta sheet on the concave side and mostly helical elements on the convex side. At least six families of LRR proteins, characterised by different lengths and consensus sequences of the repeats, have been identified. Eleven-residue segments of the LRRs (LxxLxLxxN/CxL), corresponding to the beta-strand and adjacent loop regions, are conserved in LRR proteins, whereas the remaining parts of the repeats (herein termed variable) may be very different. Despite the differences, each of the variable parts contains two half-turns at both ends and a "linear" segment (as the chain follows a linear path overall), usually formed by a helix, in the middle. The concave face and the adjacent loops are the most common protein interaction surfaces on LRR proteins. 3D structure of some LRR proteins-ligand complexes show that the concave surface of LRR domain is ideal for interaction with alpha-helix, thus supporting earlier conclusions that the elongated and curved LRR structure provides an outstanding framework for achieving diverse protein-protein interactions [PUBMED:11751054]. Molecular modeling suggests that the conserved pattern LxxLxL, which is shorter than the previously proposed LxxLxLxxN/CxL is sufficient to impart the characteristic horseshoe curvature to proteins with 20- to 30-residue repeats [PUBMED:11967365].
Molecular function protein binding (GO:0005515)
This family is a member of clan LRR (CL0022), which has the following description:
Each Leucine Rich Repeat is composed of a beta-alpha unit. These units form elongated non-globular structures. Leucine Rich Repeats are often flanked by cysteine rich domains. This Pfam entry contains Leucine Rich Repeats not recognised by the Pfam:PF00560 model.
The clan contains the following 12 members:
DUF285 FNIP LRR_1 LRR_2 LRR_3 LRR_4 LRR_5 LRR_6 LRR_8 LRR_9 Recep_L_domain TTSSLRR
Seed source: Reference 1
Previous IDs: LRR;
Type: Repeat
Author: Bateman A
Number in seed: 2407
Number in full: 22406
Average length of the domain: 23.90 aa
Gathering cut-off 20.6 9.3
Trusted cut-off 20.6 9.6
Noise cut-off 20.5 -1000000.0
Model length: 23
There are 15 interactions for this family. More...
LRR_1 LRR_6 LRRNT Tap-RNA_bind E1_DerP2_DerF2 LRR_6 LRR_8 LRR_4 LRRNT Tap-RNA_bind I-set LRR_5 Laminin_N RabGGT_insert LRR_8
For those sequences which have a structure in the Protein DataBank, we use the mapping between UniProt, PDB and Pfam coordinate systems from the PDBe group, to allow us to map Pfam domains onto UniProt sequences and three-dimensional protein structures. The table below shows the structures on which the LRR_1 domain has been found. There are 127 instances of this domain found in the PDB. Note that there may be multiple copies of the domain in a single PDB structure, since many structures contain multiple copies of the same protein sequence.
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Author’s note: I attended two different “versions” of Taylor Mac’s A 24-Decade History of Popular Music at The Curran on Sunday September 24 and at Stanford’s Bing Concert Hall on Wednesday September 27. This review compares the two audience experiences of “Chapter IV” and “Abridged Version” respectively.
What makes a piece of theatre a phenomenon? What turns it from instance to event? Driven by conscious and subconscious hope that their art goes the analog equivalent of viral, artists create art everyday from fine to pop, traditional to technological. Artistic organizations do this, as do artist teams. Most of it never becomes an event. Theatre that does may do so incidentally, and in cases like the Broadway productions of ANGELS IN AMERICA, RENT and HAMILTON, deliberately. Continue reading “Rhapsody in Blue Eyeliner: Taylor Mac’s ‘A 24-Decade History of Popular Music’”
‘Thomas and Sally’ at Marin Theatre Company Questions Victims and Consent
Thomas and Sally at Marin Theatre Company opened October 3rd, preceded by a lot of controversy, and dredged up painful conversations about consent, slavery, and falsified history. The risqué marketing art (pictured above), was the initial catalyst for this conversation, with many noting Sally depicted with a wry smile in seemingly full makeup in contrast with Jefferson’s sober historical portrait. That, coupled with the controversial subject matter and playwright Thomas Bradshaw at the helm, caught the public’s eye. Continue reading “‘Thomas and Sally’ at Marin Theatre Company Questions Victims and Consent”
Posted on August 19, 2017 November 4, 2017
Song of I, Song of Us: Marcus Gardley’s black odyssey at California Shakespeare Theater
By Jerome Joseph Gentes
In my blood Lakota Sioux culture, we call chants of praise honor songs. This is an honor song for Marcus Gardley, and the CalShakes production of his new play black odyssey that opened last night. I want to state right out that I’m writing this on Sunday, August 13, the day after the murders and radical domestic terrorism in Charlottesville. I’m writing this under the cloud of the last few years of racial violence. I’m writing this under the shadow that the current Executive Branch of the Federal Government is casting over the land. I don’t want to pretend otherwise.
A soldier’s homecoming after war is never a simple story, never simply going from point A to B. Any traveler under any circumstance who gets lost and veers off course does not unravel a simple story. Combining those two tropes, and stirring in hefty doses of subplot by way of interference from gods, human nature, and nature itself, Homer (like others) added to a small but vital shelf of epic narratives for all times and all peoples. Small wonder that The Odyssey has inspired novels like James Joyce’s Ulysses and plays like Father Comes Home from the Wars (Parts 1, 2 & 3) by Suzan-Lori Parks. It has also inspired Oakland’s Marcus Gardley, and with black odyssey he has achieved something extraordinary: a personal and public take on Homer’s poem that not only stands alongside the original–it reflects and expands the epic and the other great works it has inspired.
Directed by Artistic Director Eric Ting, the exceptional cast of nine includes J. Alphonse Nicholson as the hero, Ulysses Lincoln, Omozé Idehenre as his faith-tested wife, Nella Jerome Pell, and Michael Curry as grown Malachai, the son born during his absence. I’m naming these characters and actors first because Gardley, Ting, and company have foregrounded the human story of a husband who has wed a woman, but hasn’t had the chance to perform his husbandly role and responsibilities. A man who has fathered a child but hasn’t had a chance to occupy and perform the role of parent. Likewise, Nella is Ulysses’s wife, but has had to live–and love–for 16 years without him, while Malachai has grown up like too many boys do–mothered, but unfathered. Gardley’s script plumbs the breadths and depths of this broken dynamic in ways that make it fresh and vital, and Ting wisely puts all three actors front and center. Nicholson actually spends much of his time at the very edge of the stage, making music on upturned five-gallon buckets as point and counterpoint to the action. Gardley preserves the Homeric framing device of deities at play with mortal lives in a chess match with dire consequences for humanity between Great Grand Daddy Deus, played by the orotund Lamont Thompson and Great Grand Paw Sidin, the oracular Aldo Billingslea.
The rage and grief and despair that play out for Nella and Malachai alone are the height of drama. Fortunately for them, the play, and for the audience, the Athena character, Tina, who Gardley makes a distant great aunt, moves in to help Nella raise Malachai. As played by the wonderful Margo Hall, Tina transitions from Olympian divinity in her gorgeous Ashanti gown to house-bound helper in caftan and leopard leggings and back again.
Continue reading “Song of I, Song of Us: Marcus Gardley’s black odyssey at California Shakespeare Theater”
Posted on July 19, 2017 October 6, 2017
Remembering Romance Under The Setting Sun in ‘The Glass Menagerie’
The premise of the well-known American drama The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams centers around single mother Amanda Wingfield, her oldest son Tom, and his little sister Laura who have found themselves in a financial squeeze since only Tom is able to work. Out of desperation, Amanda decides to try and set Laura up with a “gentleman caller,” a man from Tom’s work named Jim. What differs in this production is the centering of people of color and women in the casting of the play, a point of artistic pride for director Lisa Portes. Amanda and Laura’s predicament doesn’t come across as the result of a debutante who doesn’t believe women should toil, but rather a societal limitation imposed by the times (the play is set in St. Louis in 1937). This increased my empathy for these characters ten-fold. Continue reading “Remembering Romance Under The Setting Sun in ‘The Glass Menagerie’”
Posted on June 19, 2017 October 6, 2017
Gil Scott-Heron’s “Grandeur” is Eclipsed by Addiction
Grandeur, a play by Han Ong produced by Magic Theatre in San Francisco, is an intimate play about a larger than life performer, Gil Scott-Heron. A black writer, poet, performer and political activist, Scott- Heron is famous for being the “Godfather of Rap”. His words and his songs have been sampled over and over, by Salt-N-Pepa, Kanye, Common, Kendrick Lamar, Drake, Rihanna and that’s only the tip of the iceberg. His influence on rap and hip hop as as artforms and as tools of political expression cannot be overstated. This play takes place in a single afternoon after his final album release I’m New Here, 40 years after his heyday, and many years into a crippling crack addiction. Grandeur is playwright Han Ong’s return to the stage after a sixteen-year absence. One of youngest recipients of the MacArthur Genius Grant,his talent shines through in this nimble and absorbing play. It’s a tour de force for Carl Lumbly who plays Gil Scott-Heron with a sharpness and a humor that stings and entertains. And yet, fourteen months ago when I was a member of the Magic Theatre Literary committee, I read the play and had strong reservations. Continue reading “Gil Scott-Heron’s “Grandeur” is Eclipsed by Addiction”
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good friend. "homey." originated from the movie Ace Ventura: Pet Detective.
What's up, mandinga?
See more words with the same meaning: friend, friends.
Last edited on May 16 2011. Submitted by Rock L. from Artesia, CA, USA on Feb 17 2003.
m and m
a masochist who is hard macho on the outside and soft on the inside.
"he is another m and m."
"i have an m and m on my hands."
"is he an m and m?"
Last edited on Jan 26 2012. Submitted by Anonymous on Jan 26 2012.
ma net
a derogatory name for a woman in an occupation suited for use with a hairnet. Examples include a bus driver or twa worker, etc.
Hey, ma net, hurry it up!
Last edited on Dec 06 2015. Submitted by Anonymous on Nov 16 2014.
maneuver
verb - intransitive
To fart, stink, or let a very rank burp. Origin: from Manuer.
What a nasty maneuver!
Last edited on Sep 06 2010. Submitted by Risa M. from Green Bay, WI, USA on Aug 05 1998.
noun - uncountable
colloquial pronunciation of "man".
'Sup, mang?
See more words with the same meaning: alternative spellings or pronunciations (list of).
See more words with the same meaning: dude, person of unspecified gender.
Last edited on Mar 31 2013. Submitted by Anonymous from TX, USA on Apr 03 1999.
mangina
male genitals tucked behind the legs in an attempt to mimic the appearance of a vagina.
Check out my mangina!
Last edited on May 04 2013. Submitted by Andrew H. from Boulder, CO, USA on Apr 19 2002.
A professional term man-whores use to describe their "he-pussy." (From Deuce Bigalow Male Gigalo.)
Deucy, you have a way of satisfying a woman that would sicken a normal man. You must have a magical 'Man-Gina'.
Last edited on Jan 01 2003. Submitted by Kellie L. from West Chester, OH, USA on Jan 01 2003.
to tuck one's genitalia between his legs and stand up displaying nothing but hair.
See more words with the same meaning: vulva ('vagina'), female genitalia.
Last edited on Aug 01 2005. Submitted by Nicholas L. on Aug 01 2005.
A male feminist, or a male supporter of feminists
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Last edited on May 04 2013. Submitted by Anonymous on Jul 06 2012.
A derisive term for a man with a pronounced feminine side, or a weak masculine side
Last edited on Feb 24 2012. Submitted by Anonymous on Feb 24 2012.
mangled
very much under the influence of club drugs such as E, K, G, crystal meth. Used in the NYC club scene.
Holy shit I was mangled at Factory last night.
See more words with the same meaning: under the influence of drugs.
Last edited on Apr 25 2013. Submitted by richie m from New York, NY, USA on Jun 30 2002.
really intoxicated
Shana and Janae were mangled when I seen them last night at the party.
See more words with the same meaning: under the influence of alcohol, drunk.
Last edited on Apr 25 2013. Submitted by Anonymous on Oct 14 2003.
ugly, gross.
That girl is so mangy no one will go out with her.
See more words with the same meaning: unattractive, ugly.
Last edited on Jan 31 2003. Submitted by Joshua S. from Newport, KY 41071, USA on Jan 31 2003.
a penis.
My husband hurt his manhood trying to do some home repairs.
See more words with the same meaning: penis.
Last edited on Jan 24 2012. Submitted by Walter Rader (Editor) from Sacramento, CA, USA on Dec 02 2010.
"manicure".
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Category Archives: Vocational Service
Each year, mentors from Orange Plaza Rotary and El Modena alumni share career advice with returning seniors in the CTP Mentor Meals program. Beginning the program as juniors, students learn about topics such as goal setting, soft skills, and networking during monthly meal events.
In their senior year, the students reunite with their mentors to review their future plans and connect with adults to assist them with their CTP senior project.
To learn more about this signature project of the Rotary Club of Orange Plaza, just click here!
This entry was posted in Vocational Service, Youth Service on January 17, 2018 by Rae.
The Womens Club of Orange was formed in 1915 and by 1922 a lot was purchased for a clubhouse. The building was completed in 1924 and today the clubhouse and gardens retain the charm and character of the early 20th-century era.
The clubhouse quickly became the center of the Orange community with dances, theater, opera, and fashion shows appearing on its small stage. But over the years, the weight and frequency of these events took their toll. Orange Plaza Rotary member Mary Noguera (also a member of the Womens Club) brought the issue to the attention of other Rotarians.
Building and repairing is kind of our thing, so we dispatched a crew to repair and shore up the stage. Working together in close quarters under the footboards, members Joe Colombo, Jason Curtis and John Bouyer, along with volunteer Clint Breads, replaced supporting beams and other damaged wood.
The stage is now ready for many more presentations over the next 95 years!
This entry was posted in Community Service, Vocational Service on December 12, 2017 by Rae.
Supporting Our Public Servants
Our city has a secret. Hiding behind the small town appeal is the fact that Orange is the second largest city in the county! WIth a diverse population and city boundaries that include homeless camps along the Santa Ana River and vast wilderness areas, law enforcement and fire personnel are challenged to provide top-notch services every day.
We are so fortunate to have professional, dedicated fire and police departments in our city. To recognize that Orange Plaza Rotary was pleased to join, once again, with the Rotary Clubs of Orange and Orange North to present the 43rd Annual Police and Fire Awards on April 13th. We are so proud of our “papa club”, Orange, for establishing and maintaining this tradition!
In addition to honoring the uniformed professionals, the annual awards recognize non-uniformed staff and civilian volunteers. But what is truly close to our heart here at Orange Plaza Rotary is the investment in our youth–Orange Police Explorer Post 266 and Orange Fire Explorer Post 547. These programs, co-sponsored by the Boy Scouts of America, provide real-world experience and training to high school youth interest in a life of service.
With the leadership of Orange Plaza Rotarian Teri Snyder, the 3 Rotary Clubs of Orange have expanded the scholarship programs and increased amounts granted to Explorers to continue their public service studies. Orange Plaza Rotary is especially grateful to Post 266 for their hard work every year at the Orange Plaza Car Show. Our donation of $500 is earmarked to offset the expenses of students who might not otherwise be able to afford to participate in the program. We presented this check on July 12th, after a special presentation by two members of Post 266.
For more information about the terrific Explorer programs in Orange, visit the City of Orange website and Police Explorer Post 266.
This entry was posted in Community Service, Vocational Service on July 12, 2017 by Rae.
Expanding Literacy – One Book at a Time
Orange Plaza Rotary purchased 854 Scholastic books to donate to preschool children enrolled in the Orange Children and Parents Together (OCPT) program at the Handy Child Development Center. OCPT is a local nonprofit focused on early childhood education. OCPT strives to prepare the most vulnerable children in the community for success when they start school. Orange Plaza Rotary members attended the preschool’s Reach Out and Read graduation and helped distribute the books to 448 children. Each child also received a backpack from the Orange Assistance League.
This entry was posted in Vocational Service, Youth Service on June 13, 2017 by Rae.
Mentoring Scholars
As our Mentor Meals program at El Modena High School concludes year 4, we are so proud of the students we have met along the way. This year, we expanded the program to include small scholarships to two graduating seniors in the program.
Maria Paez Lopez plans to attend Santiago Canyon College before transferring to a four-year university to complete a nursing degree. While at El Modena, Maria served as President of “Pay It Forward”, a club performing random acts of kindness, volunteered at her church and interned at McPherson CARES, mentoring younger students. Maria also used her science skills to assist in a STEM class at Esplanade Elementary.
Maria credits the Collaborative Technology Program and Mentor Meals with developing her self confidence and building leadership skills. We know Maria will achieve her goals!
Bryam Fabela plans to attend Santa Ana College in the fall with the goal of pursuing a career in dentistry. Bryam says:
I have always believed that a smile means a lot because for me it is a sign of gratitude and happiness.
His volunteer activities include working in the El Modena booth at the Orange International Street Fair, assisting with the Spring and Fall Festivals at Prospect Elementary, reading to children in the YMCA after school program.school program and maintaining the on-campus Nature Center. Bryam also participated in the annual food packaging event hosted by Orange Plaza Rotary.
Byram’s time in the program inspired his love for community service. He plans to become a dentist as a career so that he may also volunteer and donate his services in missions to help people in developing countries. Go Byram!
Matt Barba’s Best Week Ever
Matt Barba’s boss calls him “Mr. Fixit”. If it’s broken, he will fix it. So it was no surprise to his co-workers that Matt spent a lot of his free time over the last 19 years carefully restoring a 1960 Chevrolet Hardtop.
Although he spent years locating the right vintage parts, Matt added enough personal touches that, when it came time to enter his first car show, he decided to enter the Chevy in the “Best Modified ’58 – 66″ class. There’s tough competition in that class at the Orange Plaza Car Show, and Matt faced competition from 22 other terrific autos at the April 9th event.
Matt’s two-decade effort paid off, as he beat out everyone to capture Best of Show! His boss was proud, his co-workers were proud and everyone gave him a big hand when they gathered again the following Thursday. But this time, the boss was talking up his other achievements. You see, Matt’s co-workers voted him “Orange Firefighter of the Year”, an honor he collected at the 43rd Annual Police and Fire Awards co-sponsored by the three Rotary Clubs of Orange. Seems that Matt might not have had a lot of free time to build that car, in between going to school and working as a paramedic, a fire/arson investigator, and as advisor to the Fire Explorer post.
Congrats Matt, on your best week ever!
This entry was posted in Just for Fun!, Vocational Service on April 15, 2017 by Rae.
Rotary Repair Day
Orange Plaza Rotary has a history of seeking out senior or physically disabled citizens and then doing a little fixin’ around the house. We have built custom wheelchair ramps, cleared brush and revitalized landscape, repaired floors and plumbing, and even gave one home an entire spring cleaning.
Our October 1st project at Park Royale combined all of our talents and interests. For this senior resident, we tore down and repaired the rickety stairs, adding fresh indoor/outdoor carpeting to the treads. The team also cleaned up all areas around the mobile home, trimming palm trees and pulling weeds. The project was spearheaded by Community Service Chair Jason Curtis and we were joined by Past District Governor Kevin Padilla and his wife Lorraine, who is a member of the Rotary eClub of the West.
A rewarding project!
This entry was posted in Community Service, Vocational Service on October 1, 2016 by Rae.
Back to Broadway for Elwyn California!
The ladies of Orange Plaza Rotary filled one of 18 sold out tables at the 3rd Annual Fall Fling, benefiting the work programs of Elwyn California. Elwyn provides vocational training and job placement for persons with disabilities.
The Rotary Club of Orange Plaza has been a longtime supporter of Elwyn, participating annually the Elwyn Bowl-a-Thon fundraiser. That event is now retired, but the “Fall Fling” is a rapidly growing and hilarious event that will add fun and funds to Elwyn’s programs.
In addition to sponsoring a table at the event, Orange Plaza Rotarians provided two gift baskets for sale in the silent auction. And our resident theatrical ham, PDG Rae, served as one of the “models” in the “Backstage to Broadway” event, strutting around the room to the Chicago tune, “All That Jazz”.
Save the date for next year’s event (September 23, 2017) when Elwyn’s cast will be Rockin’ the 50s!
This entry was posted in Community Service, Just for Fun!, Vocational Service on September 26, 2016 by Rae.
New Literacy Projects in the Works
Orange Plaza Rotary recently approved a full slate of service projects for the 2016-2017 Rotary year, including two projects aimed at improving basic literacy in our community. “Read to Me” is a returning project proposed by member Teri Snyder. Club members and volunteers will assemble packages with new books, literacy resources and a “Read to Me” onesie for distribution to families of babies born in our local hospitals.
Plans are also underway to establish a “Little Free Library” program in Orange. At the suggestion of Immediate Past President Tracey Curtis, the club will build and distribute small birdhouse-like libraries to volunteer stewards in our neighborhoods. We are excited to add this new project!
We are also looking forward to joining students in our Mentor Meals Program for another morning of volunteering at ThinkTogether, cleaning donated, gently used books for distribution to local schoolchildren.
We love doing good. Do you? Join us!
“Basic Education and Literacy” is one of the six “Areas of Focus” of The Rotary Foundation, which celebrates its centennial year in 2016. Learn more at Rotary.org.
This entry was posted in Community Service, The Rotary Foundation, Vocational Service on September 1, 2016 by Rae.
John Boyd Award Caps Banner Year
Orange Plaza Rotary received numerous honors for its work during the 2015-2016 Rotary year. The club was recognized for its activity in all areas of Rotary service, including its international service project partnering with the nonprofit organization “Stop Hunger Now”. For its efforts in organizing a food packaging event that sent more than 40,000 meal servings to Vietnam and the Philippines, Orange Plaza Rotary was honored with the “John Boyd International Service Award” presented by fellow Rotarians of the Rotary Club of Brea on July 11th.
The Rotary Club of Orange Plaza Rotary was recently named “Best Small Club” among the 45 Rotary clubs in District 5320, which includes all of Orange County and parts of southern Los Angeles county. The “Best Club” banner was awarded at the May 2016 District Conference in Newport Beach by then-Governor Kevin Padilla of Placentia.
On behalf of Rotary International President Ravi Ravindran, Governor Padilla also presented the prestigious “Presidential Citation” to Orange Plaza for the Rotary year ending on June 30th. In making the award, Rotary International noted the participation of more than 75% of Orange Plaza members in “hands-on” projects in the community, praised the group’s sponsorship of a student service organization (El Modena High School Interact) and thanked the club for its financial support of The Rotary Foundation, the charitable arm of Rotary International.
Orange Plaza Rotary (widely known as the organizers of the Annual Orange Plaza Car Show) also received the “Quality of Life” Award from the Orange Chamber of Commerce on June 16th. The award, shared with two other Rotary clubs in the city, recognized the club for outstanding service by a nonprofit organization. OPR’s local service projects include quarterly food drives for homeless veterans, design and installation of custom wheelchair ramps for the disabled, and guiding high school students through the signature project, “Mentor Meals”.
The Rotary Club of Orange Plaza plans another busy year of service in the next twelve months, expanding successful programs and adding new community-based projects in the City of Orange.
This entry was posted in Club Service, Community Service, International Service, Service Activities, The Rotary Foundation, Vocational Service, Youth Service on July 11, 2016 by Rae.
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Katsumoto is the real thing.
Katsumoto teamed up with Magnum on Magnum P.I. Season 1 Episode 18 to deliver one of the best and emotional episodes of the season so far.
Not only did we get to see a vulnerable Katsumoto open up to Magnum (that ending!), but we also got a treat when the OG T.C., Roger E. Mosley, made an appearance as Booky, the Barber!
Magnum P.I. made a great choice not having Mosley help the guys on a case because that would have just been weird and out of place.
Making him a barber worked quite well, and him trimming the new T.C's beard was kind of wonky cool.
Mosely didn't have a big role, but what he did do was offer Rick and T.C. a reprieve from the emotional case they were working which involved reuniting a mom with her daughter.
It's understandable that Kelsey was angry with her mom for leaving her so long ago, but Kelsey had no idea about the circumstances that led to her mom's leaving.
T.C. was able to connect with Kelsey and things turned around for the mother and daughter.
But it was still emotionally draining mostly because it brought up some painful memories for T.C. regarding his own mother.
But Booky fixed all that. He was right when he put on some funk music and started dancing in the shop.
There is no better way of getting yourself out of a funk than playing some music: funk, punk, or whatever your heart desires and dancing like a mad person!
It's just too bad that Katsumoto wasn't there breaking out his own moves, but he was busy doing something even better.
It was ironic that Zeus and Apollo were the ones who opened up the door for Katsumoto and Magnum to work together when the dogs found a human bone and dropped it at Magnum and Higgins' feet.
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In a way, the very dogs that hate Magnum with a passion gave Magnum a way to make a deep connection with a human who we thought might have hated Magnum as much as they do.
It's funny how things work sometimes.
After Magnum found the complete skeleton, he wasn't about to let the case go.
It wouldn't have mattered whose bones they were, but the fact that they belonged to Katsumoto's former partner made the case even more compelling for Magnum.
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Magnum was surprised to see how outwardly emotional Katsumoto got after figuring out the bones were Stanley's.
Heck, I was surprised he got so emotional right at the scene in front of everyone.
But this case was personal for Katsumoto and while he tried to play the rule-following cop after he got pulled from the case, he wasn't about to step away.
He wanted to bring justice to his partner, and he wanted to be the one to do it.
He didn't need a push from Magnum, and that was the best part.
If Katsumoto would have had to rely on Magnum convincing him to investigate on the sly, it would have diminished Katsumoto's character and the whole ending of the hour.
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Katsumoto has shown in the past that he doesn't always follow the rules considering he more often than not looks the other way when Magnum gets involved in HDPD cases.
We now know why.
Magnum reminded him of Stanley who was also a maverick and had a tendency to not follow the rules.
It took a lot for Katsumoto to admit that and it was annoying that Magnum made the connection between him and Stanley.
I would have smacked him in the head for being so cocky, but I bet that was one of Stanley's endearing traits as well which is why Katsumoto tolerated it.
What was even more moving was Katsumoto giving Magnum Stanley's badges as a thank you for helping him solve the murder.
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It wouldn't have happened without Magnum's help, but giving him the badges was a gesture that went beyond this particular case.
It was meant to show Magnum how much he appreciated him and his help on every level and maybe even for keeping Stanley's memory alive in his mind even if Magnum had no idea Stanley even existed before then.
Katsumoto and Magnum now have an unbreakable bond. The unfortunate thing is that Magnum knows this and is going to exploit it every chance he gets because that's the way Magnum operates.
Sometimes you have to take the good with the bad.
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Besides the emotional ending, one of the best parts of the hour was Katsumoto asking Magnum to put the Ferrari to the test when they went after the kid. I would have loved to have seen them flying down the highway.
It would have been an epic moment!
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At the 2009 MTV Video Music Awards, Beyonce’s “Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It)” won Video of the Year while Taylor Swift won Best Female Video with “You Belong With Me.” Who’s video is really better? We know what Kanye thinks, but who’s vidcap is better? You be the judge. Click the pics to see a large sized version.
4 comments to Vidcap Showdown: Beyonce vs Taylor Swift
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which of these would you ratter have on your ringtone.either pick 3 or 4.better rihanna “hard”,beyonce “video phone”,lady gaga “bad romance”,shakira “she wolf”,britney spears “3”,ciara “work”,mariah carey “obessed”,janet jackson “doesn’t really matter”,solange “t.o.m.y”,or miley cyrus “party in the usa”.for me i would pick 4 & they are.. obsessed,hard,bad romance & 3.
“single ladies” is the best.i like “you belong with me” but it’s not a better song then “single ladies”.& taylor deserved what happen to her at the vma video music award.i hate beyonce too.i just like single ladies. and it wasn’t made to be her song.it’s made to be rihanna’s or ciara’s or shakira’s or mariah carey’s.because she ain’t no single ladies she’s married to the wrong guy.jay-z doesn’t belong with beyonce.he belong with rihanna.everything that beyonce have always belong to rihanna or solange.
maya .y.
i felt really bad for what happen to taylor swift at the vma video music award.if i were there i wouldda kick beyonce big,dirty ass.kanye west is the one i really wanna deal for bringing taylor down like that.no one brings taylor down.beyonce doesn’t deserved the award taylor do.what beyonce deserved is to go to hell with kanye west & forever there until the world is ova.my heart right now is not happen with beyonce & kanye west.it’s like a angry heart.
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After Hitler: The Last Ten Days of World War II in Europe by Michael Jones
By Michael Jones
From the acclaimed writer of The King's mom and Bosworth 1485—a interesting examine ten days that modified the process history…With the area at warfare, ten days can consider like a lifetime.…
On April 30, 1945, Adolf Hitler devoted suicide in a bunker in Berlin. yet victory over the Nazi regime used to be no longer celebrated in western Europe till may well eight, and in Russia an afternoon later, at the 9th. Why did a peace contract take rather a lot time? How did this brutal, protracted clash coalesce into its not going endgame?
After Hitler shines a mild on ten attention-grabbing days after that notorious suicide that modified the process the 20 th century. Combining exhaustive study with masterfully paced storytelling, Michael Jones recounts the Führer’s frantic final stand; the devious maneuverings of his handpicked successor, Karl Dönitz; the grudging recognize Joseph Stalin had for Churchill and FDR, in addition to his mistrust of Harry Truman; the daring negotiating by means of common Dwight D. Eisenhower that hastened Germany’s give up yet drew the ire of the Kremlin; the journalist who nearly scuttled the cease-fire; and the hundreds of thousands of standard British, American, and Russian infantrymen stuck within the swells of historical past, from the purple Army’s march on Berlin to the liberation of the Nazis’ ultimate focus camps. via all of it, Jones strains the transferring loyalties among East and West that sowed the seeds of the chilly struggle and approximately unraveled the Grand Alliance.
during this gripping, eloquent, and even-handed narrative, the spring of 1945 comes alive—a interesting time whilst not anything was once yes, and each moment mattered.…
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During heavy air fighting over Tunisia, the 52nd FG lost six Spitfires to fighters or flak. Returning to 6 April, early that day 11 aircraft from the 307th escorted A-20s sent to bomb La Fouconnerie, and en route to the target they were attacked by a dozen Bf 109Gs shortly after 0730 hrs. Lt Virgil Fields fired off all his ammunition at one of the fighters, and had the satisfaction of seeing part of the port wing of his victim fall off. He was duly credited with the first ofhis six victories upon returning to base, his victim believed to have been Ltn Klaas.
On 20 May Peck was awarded a DFC, having made 15 claims since arriving in Malta - 3 1/2 destroyed, three probables and no less than eight T 44 Pit Off Donald McLeod of No 126 Sqn arrived in Malta on 21 March 1942 and shot down two Bf 109s on the 24th and 25th of the month. However, he was himself shot down in flames on 2 April and baled out, injured. McLeod later transferred to the USAAF, and scored two more victories with the 83rd FS (via Brian Cull) damaged. He survived more than forty combats over Malta, and later spoke to American reporters of his experiences; 'I never even got a scratch or so much as a bullet through my aeroplane.
I fired at one Ju 87 and saw strikes on the wings and pieces flying off. The Stuka went into a steep downward spiral, finally getting out of control at 800 ft and going straight on in. ' It was not all sun in the desert, as evidenced by Spitfire VC VF-E of the 5th FS following a flash flood at La Sebala caused by a period of torrential rain during the spring of 1943 (No 165 Sqn Records via P H T Green collection) Capt Arnold Vinson of the 2nd FS made his first claims on 2 December 1942, when he damaged a Bf 109 and then shot down an Fw 190 west of Bizerte.
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13 Guilty of Mercenary Charge
After hours of deliberations, the jury of Criminal Court ‘D’ on Tuesday, June 10, handed down a unanimous guilty verdict against 13 men charged with Mercenarism.In their unanimous guilty verdict, the jurors established that prosecution’s evidence was overwhelming to pronounce a guilty verdict against the defendants.They are expected to be sentenced to prison on June 17 by Judge Emery Paye of Criminal Court ‘D.’Minutes after the verdict was handed down, the grounds of the Temple of Justice turned into scene of mourning. People believed to be family members and sympathizers of the defendants bitterly crying.A woman believed to be a family member of one of the guilty party suddenly fainted and fell, claiming the attention of other relatives who quickly moved in with cold water to pour on her.Some of them were heard saying, “There is no justice in this country. We are going to use every available means for our people to gain their freedom.”The angry crowd almost physically attacked the jurors outside the court.The group tried to block the entrance of the courtroom; but their plan did not materialize owing to the intervention of officers of the Police Support Unit (PSU) of the Liberia National Police (LNP) and their UNMIL counterparts. The heavily armed officers quickly barricaded the entire perimeter of the Temple of Justice. The officers deployed at the Court made every effort to prevent people from entering the courtroom. That situation almost resulted into chaos but was quickly brought under control through the intervention of some lawyers and court staffers.Case Summary The men were tried under Liberia’s 1976 law against “mercenarism,” which carries a maximum penalty of life in prison.They are expected to be sentenced to prison on June 17 by Judge Emery Paye of Criminal Court ‘D.’Share this:Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) The defendants were indicted in 2011 for allegedly carrying out cross border raid in neighboring Côte d’Ivoire where several people, including seven United Nations peacekeepers, were killed.In the indictment, government alleged that the defendants were trained in the Thai Forest in Grand Gedeh County, where they launched a crossed border attack into Côte d’Ivoire.Defendants denied the allegation, thereby shifting the burden of proof on the prosecution. The trial began in earnest on Tuesday, March 11, 2014, with eighteen Liberians accused of taking part in a cross-border raid in neighboring Côte d’Ivoire appearing briefly under tight security in Criminal Court ‘D’.At that hearing, the handcuffed men in the docket pleaded not guilty for the second time to the charge when it was read to them in open court by the clerk of court. The men had first appeared in February, but the case was postponed for one month after they stormed the courtroom, destroying property and behaving violently to express their dissatisfaction over the slow pace of the case.Shortly after the case was first heard, it was suspended by Judge Yussif Kaba on claims of juror bribery. The trial was then postponed to Thursday, March 13, by Judge Emery Paye.During the four-month trial, prosecution produced 11 witnesses with seven rebuttal witnesses, while the defense team paraded 13 witnesses with 3 rebuttal witnesses.On Friday, May 9, Criminal Court “D” at the Temple of Justice released five of the 18, having established the fact that of government’s 11 witnesses who had testified throughout the proceedings, none mentioned their names or linked any of them to the crime.In that ruling, Judge Emery Paye praised the prosecution team for showing “a mark of professionalism,” after lawyers for the State admitted failure to establish the connection of the five to the commission of the crime of mercenarism in that neighboring republic.Delivering the Court’s decision on the plea, Judge Emery Paye declared that “defendants Timothy Barlee, Fred Chelly, Christopher Larkpeh, Junior Gelor and Emmanuel Pewee’s, plea is hereby granted.” Two other defendants’, whose names had also not been mentioned by witnesses, were submitted for release by the defense; but Judge Paye denied their request since they had already voluntarily confessed to the crime.BackgroundIt is alleged that the men joined Ivorian fighters, who attacked villages in Côte d’Ivoire, killing civilians, destroying homes and displacing thousands between 2010 and 2011.They were also accused of being responsible for the deaths of seven Nigerian United Nations peacekeepers in the Southeastern part of that country. State prosecutors said evidence in their possession included arms and ammunition along with audio and video footage of meetings attended by the accused.The crisis in Côte d’Ivoire erupted after the former President, Laurent Gbagbo, refused to leave office after losing the 2010 presidential and general elections to current leader Alassane Ouattara.Tens-of-thousands Ivorian refugees fled into Liberia, as did an unknown number of combatants. The Liberian authorities have described the accused as “the lowest of human characteristics in volunteering to kill, destroy and commit criminal acts in exchange for adequate payment”. read more
UK Ahmadiyya Muslim Association Donates 10,000 British Pounds to Fight Ebola in Liberia
The Ahmadiyya Muslim Association in the United Kingdom has donated two checks totaling ten thousand British Pounds (£10,000.00) to assist the Liberian Government in its fight against the spread of the deadly EBOLA virus in Liberia.The money is intended to purchase essential medical supplies and protective gears for medical practitioners who have dedicated their time and efforts in the fight against the Ebola virus.Making the presentation at a special ceremony in London over the weekend, the national president of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Association in the United Kingdom, Rafiq Hayat noted that the health situation in Liberia is of grave concern to his association, especially at a time when the country is undertaking a massive rebuilding process.According to a dispatch from Minister Counselor Anthony K. Selmah of the Liberian Embassy’s Public Affairs section in London, Mr, Hayat said the amount is his association’s initial contribution and efforts being made to galvanize more support from other Ahmadiyya communities.The checks were presented to Ambassador Rudolf von Ballmoos, who subsequently turned them over to a representative of the Liberia Medical and Dental Association in the United Kingdom, Dr. Kokulo Waiwaiku, and the president of the Union of Liberian Organizations in the United Kingdom, Prince Taylor.The associations have already commenced the purchase of intended medical supplies which will soon be airlifted to Liberia.The Ahmadiyya Muslim Community currently operates an 11-bedroom health center in Tubmanburg, Bomi County, which was constructed in 2007 at the cost of $US70, 000.00 to buttress government’s health care delivery system. The clinic was dedicated by Vice President Joseph N. Boakai.Share this:Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) read more
Chief Justice Lewis One of Liberia’s Greatest Minds of the Century
Associate Justice Philip A.Z. Banks of the Supreme Court, delivering the eulogy on behalf of the Liberian Judiciary at the funeral service yesterday of former Chief Justice Johnnie N. Lewis, described him as “ one of the land’s greatest minds of the century.” The funeral service held at the Centennial Memorial Pavilion in Monrovia was attended by an array of dignitaries and people of all walks of life led by President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf.Associate Justice Banks in his tribute described Chief Justice Lewis as a man who had great passion and love for the law and wanted everybody to be accorded due process and justice.“He was a brilliant man who loved the law,” said Justice Banks. The virtues that mattered most to the Supreme Court were his knowledge of the law, his commitment to the law and his achievement of justice.“We heard of his achievements and the brilliant work we know that he did. That was because of his love for the law,” Justice Banks emphasized.“When he criticized the manner in which people were practicing the law that was because of his love for it.”“It is because of the love he had for the law that made him as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court to challenge the manner in which the former Speaker of the House of Representatives and electoral District# 6 of Montserrado County, Rep. Edwin Snowe, was removed from that position by his colleagues in the 52nd National Legislature.”“It was also based on his love of the law that the Supreme Court decided to invalidate the report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC),” adding “It was not because there was no substantive merit in it, but it lacked the core elements of the fundamentals of the law, which provide that a person should be presumed innocent unless they have gone through the due process of law and they should not be condemned.” “It was his love of the law that caused him to ensure that the judiciary worked independently of the other two branches of government,” Associate Justice Banks declared.“It was because of his love for the law that made him to walk from his fourth floor office at the Temple of Justice to courtrooms to make sure that cases were heard and justice was carried out.” Justice Banks said he was honored to eulogize Chief Justice Lewis as Cllr. Johnnie Lewis, professor, judge and chief justice. “He was my friend, a longtime mentor, and a mentor and friend to many of you.”Reflecting on his long and close association with the deceased, Justice Banks recalled that they were students at the Louis Arthur Grimes Law School, at the University of Liberia. They also held a partnership, the Banks and Lewis Law Firm.“We both worked during the interim government of Dr. Amos C. Sawyer, where he served as legal advisor and I was then Minister of Justice and Attorney General.”“We attended the same law school, the Yale University in the United States of America,” said Justice Banks. “I realized in this great brain of his was a love for the law.”Share this:Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) read more
LAC Defenders Win July 26th Friendly
The 2-1 loss of Terminators FC of APM Terminals last Sunday against LAC Defenders FC in Grand Bassa County in a friendly soccer match revealed one thing to the visitors: the ability to play as a team.This was more so after LAC Defenders’ inside right Saygon John pushed his men forward with repeated harassment in the visitors’ defensive zone that caused goalkeeper Lawrence Washington more troubles as his right back Magako Kumeh and left back Benedict Teah struggled to find their rhythm.Though coach Joseph Sion, known during his playing days as Kofi Bruce, had plotted a strategy to bring the visitors down, which eventually came through Saygon John in the 25th minute when goalie Washington failed to grab his shot the first time, enabling the striker hit the back of the net with the goalie completely stranded, it was apparent that some level of fatigue had worked against Terminators FC.“We rode from Monrovia direct to LAC about 4 hours,” said an official of Terminators FC, “and we went right on the pitch to honor the match.” It was initially seen when hard-running striker Nicholas Sieh fumbled on his first ball, coupled with a rough pitch that made his ball control difficult. The initial exchanges did not give any problems to the home team in this half, as they hunted for goals that kept goalkeeper Washington busy.With 1-0 lead, the home team did not look back and pressed on their attacks. In their drive, left winger Lucretius Victor, inside left Saygon John, center forward Tengbeh Tambah and right winger Christer Bestman were having a field day.With their teeming fans cheering them in this half, they probed for goals that the visitors struggled to deny them. There were few flashes of seriousness from the visitors but they had to wait in the second half to draw the crowd on their side. The home team led the first half 1-0.Back from recess, LAC Defenders kept on the pressure and in the 48th minute, Terminator FC’s goalkeeper Washington could not decide whether to rush on a ball or not, allowing LAC Defender’s left winger Lucretius Victor an easy job when he lobbed the ball over his head to increase the tally to 2-0.The visitors began a new pattern of play, following the replacement of goalie Washington with ‘Chinese Goalie’ Jonathan Dambo. Initial strikes from the home team found a wall in Dambo and his performance gave his team-mate some confidence.Striker Nicholas Sieh played a supportive role, covering up when it was necessary on several fronts with assistance from inside left John Mayson, center forward Jumah Kollie and diminutive player Dakina Pederson. With their opponents resorting to man to man passes that delighted the crowd, LAC Defenders had to work overtime to prevent any damage as they were very often caught off guard but it was the visitors’ John Mason who scored the consolation goal in the 67th minute. It became apparent that the team had been rejuvenated, as the home crowd cheered every move the visitors made.But it was the home team, despite the difficulty to reorganize their attacks that got a goal that was cancelled because it was scored from an offside position as the game wore on. And from here it was the visitors that dictated the pace of the game when it was too late as the game was brought to the end by the central referee in a match that was played in celebration of July 26.APM Terminals (The Terminators FC): L. Washington (J. Dambo), Makago Kumeh, Benedict Teah, Sarr Bonner, Jeremiah Cole, Roland Coleman, Nicholas Sieh, John Mayson, Jumah Kollie, Oliver Kun, Dakina Pederson, Pepsi Carter, Jacob Dorbor, Rufus Doe.LAC Defenders: Cartlon Gray, Francis Kollie, Terrence Mulbah, Fayiah Saah, Emmanuel Gleh, Joeboy Halloway, Christer Bestman, Emmanuel Thomas, Tengbeh Tamba, Luc Victor, Saygon John.Share this:Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) read more
The mortal remains of the late Ma Nyamah Martha Bwayou Lake was on Saturday May 23, laid to rest in her native village of Duata, a stone throw from her uncle’s village, Blameyea in Jorquelleh Administrative District #2 in Bong County.Ma Nyamah Martha Bwayou Lake was the niece to long serving Paramount Chief of Jorquelleh Chiefdom and former Representative of Bong County Barsee Kpangbai.She was born unto the union of Mr. Barkollie Bwayou and Ni Tonwon Bwayou on July 27, 1925, in a little farming community of Duata situated north of Gbarnga.How did she meet Rev. J. David Lake Sr?The Rev. J. David Lake, a classroom teacher, was teaching at the Muhlenberg Lutheran Mission in Millsburg, Monsterrado County and in the 1930s he was transferred to the Lutheran Mission in Zorzor, Lofa County.Rev. Lake later moved to Gbarnga, Bong County central Liberia and because of his fluent English, coupled with his clear writing skills, he became clerk to the influential Paramount Chief, the late Barsee Kpangbai, uncle of the late Ma Nyamah Bwayou Lake.Ma Nyamah Bwayou, from a subsistence farming family of Duata, was joined in holy matrimony to Rev. David Lake in 1941, which the union was blessed with nine children. The couple later moved to Suakoko town in Suakoko District and settled there permanently. There was no reason provided for their migration, but it is believed that it was because the town was the central location on the main Monrovia—Gbarnga highway.It was also learned that Pastor Lake provided a home and education for his wife since indeed she could not read and write.Pastor Lake was born on Water Street in the settlement of Harrisburg, Monsterrado County on June 30, 1909 unto the union of Mr. and Mrs. Alice Lake. His grandparents were Charlie and Georgiana Hayes of Harrisburg who migrated to Liberia from the United States.Rev. Lake served in capacities such as County Surveyor for Bong, worked with the Government Farm now the Central Agricultural Research Institute (CARI) as an entomologist. Ma Nyamah Bwayou Lake was a devout Christian and helped to educate several children whose parents were not financially able to send their children to school.Her children include Joan Allegra Lake Nathan, Rose-Marie Lake Cummings, Dr. Sodey C. Lake assigned at the Jackson F. Doe Memorial Hospital in Tappita, Nimba County, Dee-Zoe Lake, National Social Security and Welfare Corporation, Dardhe M. Lake, Julie S. Lake, Korto G. Lake, and J. David Lake Jr., with 25 grandchildren and 18 great grandchildren.The funeral service was attended by former Deputy Minister for Operations at the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Ranney B. Jackson, and Bong County Superintendent, Selena Polson Mappy, among others.The funeral service was held at the St Mark’s Lutheran Church in Gbarnga, Bong County.Meanwhile, the Pastor in his funeral discourse admonished the surviving Lake family members to stick together, adding that in union strong, success is sure.Share this:Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) read more
Thanksgiving Day Preachers Emphasize Forgiveness and Gratitude
Two Liberian clergymen have emphasized forgiveness and gratitude as virtues that Christians need to adapt to in their daily living.Rev. Dr. George W. Zorbah and Rt. Rev. John Kunkun in their separate statements on this year’s Thanksgiving Day in Monrovia, said for God’s intervention to come to Liberia, Liberians must learn to live by these virtues because God instructed His followers to show gratitude and forgiveness.Rev/Dr. Zorbah, who serves as president of the National Grass Root Pastors Association, spoke first and stressed that many Liberians, though claiming to be Christians, find it difficult to forgive their compatriots.Liberia’s unforgiving culture, he said, is leading some to call for the establishment of a war crime court in the country, which would only target certain people, leaving out many more.According to him, the Liberia war was fought by all Liberians, directly or indirectly, stressing that those who did not take up arms to fight supported fighters to kill other Liberians.Biblically backing his statement, Rev. Zorbah said Jesus Christ, to whom Christians pray, urged his followers to forgive 70 times seven times, which according to him, makes forgiveness to be infinite.Regarding “justice,” he said the Christian bible stresses it to be acceptable to God. He said justice is also forgiveness because if one does wrong and seeks pardon from the victim, the victim needs to demonstrate forgiveness as Jesus prayed, “… forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us.”He said many Liberians were glad to see former Liberian President Charles Taylor incarcerated in the United Kingdom following his trial in The Hague, yet, they have made no changes in their own lives since Taylor was incarcerated.He said the unforgiving spirit in Liberia is a curse that could serve as a driving force to the prevalence of catastrophe diseases including Ebola, noting, “Liberians claim to be Christians, but they are so wicked and envious. This is what sparks up God’s anger to punish people with plagues.”For Rt. Rev. Kunkun of the City of Light Church of God, the need to show gratitude to people when they do good cannot be over emphasized.Citing an encounter Jesus had with the ten lepers, Rev. Kunkun said that among them only one person returned to thank Jesus.Comparing it with the attitudes of Liberians, he said they are good at complaining and seeking favor, but when favor is shown them, they quickly forget those who have met their needs.“Liberians are good at seeking God’s intervention in times of crisis, but when the crisis is over, they draw far away from God and engage in things that will please their bodies. During the Ebola crisis, they were much close to God and promised to always serve Him, but as Ebola is gone now, churches are no longer packed as they used to be,” he said.He said showing gratitude brings “wholeness,” adding that for wholeness to come “upon Liberia,” citizens must learn to appreciate what God has done for them before asking for future needs.He also called on Liberians to show gratitude to people who show them favor, stressing that it serves as encouragement for them that are fond of well-doing.Meanwhile, the National Thanksgiving service held at the Centennial Memorial Pavilion in Monrovia yesterday was specially organized to memorialize Ebola victims.Clergymen and members of their congregations used this year’s Thanksgiving Day to express gratitude to God and pray for the government, neighboring countries and Ebola survivors.Yesterday’s ceremony attracted government officials, among them Vice President and Mrs. Joseph N. Boakai, Senators Jewel Howard Taylor and Prince Johnson, Acting Foreign Minister Elias Shinoyin, a representative of the Muslim community and Christians from various denominations. Share this:Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) read more
SKD Community Tackles Drainage
Thirty two chiefs – at least two from each Liberia’s 16 ethnic groups – in the Samuel K. Doe Community and its environs have collaborated with the youths to embark on a week-long clean-up campaign of drainages in five slum communities around District # 14, Montserrado County.The communities have been suffering from foul smell of revolting drains owing to the lack of financial and logistical supports, community leaders said.The Council of Tribal Chiefs in the SKD Community initiated the long overdue project with support from the Kerkula Momomuka Kamara Foundation, a humanitarian organization, which provides relief to poor communities in Montserrado County District # 14. The theme of the gutter cleaning project was “Operation Clean the Doe Community.”Youth President Pedro R. Vaye named the affected drainage areas as “around the Kpelle Mansion, Bassa Town, the football field and Freeport areas as well as thick bushes along the road in Central SKD Community.The fetid muddy drains are breeding sites for flies, mosquitoes and other disease carrying insects and a source of irritation and embarrassment, residents told the Daily Observer.Dozens of wheelbarrows, rakes, shovels and rain boots as well as face-masks and gloves; including five 25Kg bags of rice were turned over to the leadership of the Council of Traditional Chiefs for the cleanup project.The drains also absorbed feces and garbage of all sorts from the community all year round, residents said.The chairman of the Council of Tribal Chiefs, Elder Abubakar Turay, said about 30 youthsare expected to participate in cleaning of the drains and called on other residents to emulate Mr. Kamara, affectionately called Momomuka or Muka to clean the community.“We are glad that Muka is helping us to clean the drains which pose a serious health hazard to the communities,” Elder Turay said.The project, he said, is the first of its kind since the outbreak of the Ebola virus. He expressed the hope that Muka would make the project inclusive with the cleaning-up on a regular basis on food-for-work.Prince Toe, a staff of the Kerkula Momomuka Kamara Foundation, said the clean-up of the drains is one of several projects, pointing out the construction of a youth center, identifying with the disabled and the Muslim Community during Ramadan.In an interview with Mr. Kamara, who was not at the turning over ceremony of tools and food, he challenged the youths from the communities to keep the gutters clean at all times.”He admonished residents to stop dumping garbage into the gutters and to ensure that the drains are clean to support good health in the community.“Your efforts will demonstrate how much our community means to us,” he said and encouraged the workers to carry out the clean-up campaign and keep their environment clean.Share this:Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) read more
Man, 22, Found Dead in Bassa Town
Archie Howard, 22, of LPRC-Chicken Soup Factory Bassa Town Community near Monrovia was found dead yesterday morning outside the neighborhood, family sources said.There were no physical marks on his body, the family said, but explained that Howard was involved in a fistfight with a man identified only as Joe.“Howard arrived home to meet confusion between two neighbors and he said he would have stabbed someone if he were involved in the conflict,” a female eyewitness said.She said neighbors complained about his remark since he was not part of whatever was going on.When the man identified as Joe heard what Howard had said, he got angry and turned his anger on Howard, insulting him.“It was then that Howard pulled out a knife that he had on him, and during a scuffle, stabbed Joe,” an eyewitness said.She said Joe fell to the ground shouting that he had been stabbed, and Howard took off, fleeing the area. Neighbors took Joe to a nearby clinic where he was treated.But around 1a.m., someone raised an alarm that a body had been found near the community.“When people went to find out, they were shocked to find Archie Howard’s body, foaming at the mouth,” the eyewitness said. “Many people claimed that he had been electrocuted, but others denied it.”Nearby police officers were alerted and they visited the scene and started their investigations.Archie Howard, according to his grandmother, Margaret Cooper, lived nearby and rode a motorbike for a living. Share this:Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) read more
Criminal Court Frustrates FIBank Lawyers
Arguments pushed by lawyers representing First International Bank (FIB) to have ten former employees now facing US$4m theft charges to remain in prison until they were ready to try them were yesterday ignored by Criminal Court C.The lawyers were lobbying with Judge Peter Gbeneweleh to agree to have the defendants remain behind bars for fear that the defendants who had earlier jumped bail could leave the country if they were not detained.Judge Gbeneweleh, after listening to their arguments yesterday declared, “We are not interested just to detain people because of bond, we are here to prosecute people to know whether or not they committed the crimes of which they are accused.”Judge Gbeneweleh warned the defense team, “I will not approve of any more bonds, and if you were to take me to the Supreme Court, I would tell them that I am tired of approving bond for defendants who on bail refuse to reappear for their trial,”At yesterday’s hearing only four of the ten defendants were present in the courtroom while the six others, who were not in court, were represented by their legal team.It was not clear why the six defendants did not appear in court yesterday to commence with the case. Judge Gbeneweleh warned all counsels and parties that were present “to ensure the appearance of their respective clients on Wednesday, September 2, at 9:00 am. The failure of any defendant whose counsels are present and they are not in court, would leave the court with no alternative but to arrest and detain the said defendants until the case is completely resolved.”Gbeneweleh’s decision followed the defense team whose clients were not present in court and as a result postponed the case for an additional day at which time they would have appeared in court.Share this:Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) read more
Huge ‘Counterfeit Drugs’ Seized at Ganta Border
The Liberia Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) in collaboration with other security agencies at the Ganta border in Nimba County on Friday, August 28, seized a huge consignment of medicines from a truck belonging to a Guinean identified as Suah Bility.The consignment was immediately turned over to the Liberia Medical and Dentist Council (LMDC), who has sole responsibility to scrutinize any medical-related supplies to determine whether the items are counterfeits or not.At the turning over, the Regional Director of the LMDC, Joseph Coleman, described all of the drugs as “counterfeits.”The ‘counterfeit drugs’, Director Coleman said, lacked many things, including trademarks, manufacture dates, and expiration dates, etc.“Besides the Roberts International Airport and Freeport of Monrovia, drugs entering through any other port of entry will be checked or validated,” he said.Mr. Coleman said before any drug enters the country, the importer has to present a document that will give the name of the pharmaceutical company that manufactured them, whether the company is accredited by legitimate government or authority to manufacture such items or whether such medicial items are also accredited by the World Health Organization (WHO).He continued, “If it is done, sample of the drugs will be sent to the Liberia Medical Board for testing before the decision to allow or not to allow such product is taken by Ministry of Health.”He said it is only at the two locations (RIA/Freeport) that the necessary equipment to test drugs, but said drugs entering outside of these two facilities are considered counterfeits or contrabands.“Liberia has equipment that can check all medical drugs entering the country and these equipment will establish the quality, the country in which the drugs were produced, and the trade marks as well as the pharmaceutical company that produced the drugs,” he added.“If we find out that the drugs are not valuable for human comsuption or has any side effect on patients, we will be able to trace the manufacturer, but in the case of these drugs, we do not have documentation to trace if they cause any harm,” he explained.The drugs seized included, tablets of various kinds, eye drops, suspensions of all kinds, cough candies, etc.The owners of the drugs were not present during the press conference.However, the consignment was turned over to Mr. Coleman, who later loaded them onboard a Health Ministry pickup for delivery in Monrovia.Some residents meanwhile expressed reservations as to why the seized drugs should leave Nimba County for Monrovia under the guise of investigation when the alleged crime was committed in the county.In reaction, Mr. Coleman said to charge those allegedly connected to the importation of the drugs is the responsibility of the security, not the MOH.Share this:Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) read more
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You Could Own Your Very Own Pair of Janelle Monáe's "PYNK" Vagina Pants
Janelle Monáe stunned us aurally with the Grimes-featuring single "PYNK" off her latest LP Dirty Computer, but it was the accompanying music video that really grabbed our attention. More specifically, it was the clip's vagina-inspired pants — and now the masses may have a shot at owning a pair.
When asked if the pants would be made available for purchase, Monáe told People, "We may be working on that."
She continued, "I'm so tickled and honoured that people are talking about the 'PYNK' pants. I think that it's so cool to have discussions around women's issues and women's bodies, I think it's amazing."
Delving deeper into the meaning of the song and the symbolism of the pants, Monáe added that the pants only represent "some parts of some women."
"There are some women in the video that do not have on the pants, because I don't believe that all women need to possess a vagina to be a woman," she said. "I wanted 'PYNK' to be a celebration of women who are unique, distinct, different, may be different from one another but when they come together they create something magical and special."
The pants were specially designed for the video by Duran Lantink. As of yet, there's no official word on an exact date they'll be made commercially available to the public.
Revisit the so-called "vagina pants" in all their colourful glory by watching the "PYNK" video below.
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A review of tonight's "Lost" - with special guest commentary from Ken Tremendous - coming up just as soon as I say the magic word...
"Who's Sawyer?" -Miles
I've been spending a lot of space these last few weeks trying to develop a working theory about what the flash-sideways mean, and I'm going to do that again here in a bit. But the thing is, when an episode is as entertaining in both realities as "Recon" was - and, really, as "Lost" has been for the last several weeks - my urge to question, analyze and theorize takes a decided backseat to my desire to relax and enjoy.
It's helped that we're on a streak of three episodes showcasing characters and actors I like, and those of you who haven't wanted to see Jack paralyzed by a spider bite and buried alive since at least season three tell me that "Lighthouse" wasn't as bad as I insisted it was at the time. But leaving that episode and my allegedly irrational hatred of Jack aside, this recent batch, and "The Substitute," and "LA X" have all managed to give us interesting alternate glimpses of the characters we know, while at the same time slowly but surely moving the island saga along.
We can debate whether or not the flash-sideways scenes matter, in that we're spending an awful lot of time on versions of the characters that, so far, have no obvious connection to the ones we've been invested in for the last 5+ years. And certainly I've felt a little frustrated at times. But I have to admit that there are moments - and there were a lot of them in "Recon" - where those scenes are just so much fun that I can wait a little longer for an explanation about the deeper meaning of it all.
There was some joking on Twitter after the episode aired that the flash-sideways are threatening to turn the show into "The Simpsons Spin-Off Showcase." The difference being, I would actually watch a Ben Linus version of "Yo, Teach!" And I would absolutely watch a buddy cop show about Miles Straume and James Ford(*).
(*) Has enough time passed that the "Cop and a Half" title could be recycled? "Wunza straight arrow! And wunza former con man trying to stay on the straight and narrow! They are... Cop and a Half!"
The opening scene in the flash sideways turned the comparable moment from season one's "Confidence Man" neatly on its head, and the idea of Sawyer as a cop, in a universe where Jacob apparently didn't influence him, isn't that far-fetched. (Miles is actually more of a stretch, though if we're sticking with my epilogue-in-advance theory - and I'm not sure that I am, as we'll get to shortly - it works, in that he and Sawyer had plenty of experience maintaining law and order in the Dharma Initiative, and seemed to enjoy doing it.)
Seeing alt-James Ford try to use his powers of charm and persuasion for good instead of evil (and what is an undercover cop, after all, if not a confidence man?) was a nice spin on the character, and worked nicely in parallel to the island story. On the mainland, Sawyer's gone from the dark to the light side. On the island, he's given up trying to figure out which side is which, and is content to simply play the two sides in front of him against each other, while he helps the only side he really cares about (his friends) get off the island with him. We had all assumed (or hoped) that Sawyer was running a con on Smokey when they hooked up in "The Substitute," and it was nice to be proven right. I just hope his powers of persuasion - as Smokey puts it, "You're the best liar I've ever met" - are strong enough to fake out both a vengeful billionaire and an immortal, shape-shifting, telekinetic smoke monster. Because if not... he's gonna have some 'splaining to do.
Now, as to the theorizing: part of the epilogue-in-advance theory came from the notion that characters' fates in the other timeline seem to be more or less happy depending on whether they sided with Jacob (more) or Smokey (less). But Locke's doesn't really fit that, since he never got the chance to decide at all, what with being dead. And while the James Ford we see tonight seems mostly healthier than the one we know (he has an obsession, but he also has a job he likes, a partner who has his back, and it doesn't appear that he killed Frank Duckett in Australia), the Sawyer on the island is still functioning as an independent operator, not interested in any faction of the war that's building. Maybe at a later date he'll throw in with Jacob, but right now he's just a fly in the ointment.
So then I started to think on an e-mail exchange I had last week with Mike Schur, co-creator of NBC's "Parks and Recreation" (currently the best sitcom on TV, and one you better be watching if you aren't already, and not just because of this mustache), and also well known on the interwebs as Ken Tremendous from the seminal sports blog Fire Joe Morgan. Mike found my epilogue theory intriguing, but rather than ask to subscribe to my newsletter, he offered his own alternative. Here, reprinted with his permission, are a couple of excerpts summing up the idea:
I think the alt-present scenes are an attempt to show what each character's true nature is, absent any situation where the island draws them more towards either Smokey or Jacob. This didn't occur to me until last night, but it felt like they were saying: Ben is an intellectual guy, searching for meaning in his life, frustrated by powerlessness, and thus capable of Machiavellian manipulations. But inherently, when push comes to shove, he is decent. Which is why in the island-reality he chose, at that crucial moment, to steer away from Smokey and back to Jacob. Sayid, on the other hand, has something inherently violent and evil in him, which is why in the alt-present he killed those guys, and on the island gave himself over to Smokey. Jack is deeply conflicted about his father and has it in him to be angry and conflicted, but in the alt-present he is inherently interested in being a good father himself and breaking the cycle of emotional abuse, so in the island-reality he's on Team Jacob, and so forth.
I think they are "influencing" what is happening on the island only inasmuch as they show us what these people truly are, in the truest existential sense -- their actual natures are at play in the alt-futures, and those "teetering-between-good-and-evil" natures, I guess you could say, are what Jacob "saw," somehow, and they are what led him to determine that they are "candidates." That moment where Smokey picked up the white rock off the scale and tossed it out the door is more fuel for this theory -- they pick people who are perfectly balanced between "bad" and "good" and bring them to the island as a sort of laboratory to determine which of those forces wins out in the end. So the events that are occurring in the island-present -- the Lost version of "The Stand," where sides are being drawn -- are the "result" (though not really, obviously, in the causal sense) of the alt-futures, wherein we are seeing that left to their own devices, each of these people tilts slightly to one side of the good/evil equation.
Now, that very much seems to fit with what we've seen in past flash-sideways like Sayid's, and like the one from tonight. If Jacob doesn't come to see young James at the funeral, maybe the kid doesn't teeter over the precipice and become a full-on bad guy, and maybe it turns out that his true nature - as we saw in his LaFleur period, and at other points on and off the island - is as someone who'd like to be a hero in better circumstances.
The big hole in Mike's theory, from where I sit, is that he doesn't provide a reason for why this other reality exists. Lindelof and Cuse have said the flash-sideways aren't just an excuse for a What-If? style of storytelling, nor should they be at this late date. We're in the final season, and if something has no real bearing on the story we've been watching for seasons one through five, then it has no business being on the screen. And I think the producers are smart enough to know that, even as I continue to think they made a mistake in trying to maintain an air of mystery around what these stories mean.
But when the sideways stories are grounded by actors like Michael Emerson last week, or Josh Holloway this week, and told with the kind of pathos and humor and, yes, confidence that "Lost" achieves at its best, then my patience lasts a little longer.
Some other thoughts on "Recon":
• This is now the second flash-sideways to climax with the episode's central character having a surprising run-in with another character who hasn't shown up in this timeline for a few weeks. I don't know if there's going to be enough time to double back to showing how either Jin wound up in Keamy's freezer or what Kate's running from, but her appearance did remind me that in "LA X," Sawyer saw her handcuffs (and, therefore, knew she was a fugitive on the loose) and didn't try to stop her. So maybe this Ford's not quite the good guy I'd like him to be.
• Speaking of Kate, while I complain about Evangeline Lilly a lot, I thought she was very good in her island scenes in this one. Kate only came back to this stupid island for the sake of her son, and the hope of reuniting Aaron with his biological mommy. And since she gave her boy away and got on the Ajira flight, she's had to travel through time, get shot at by the Dharma Initiative, nearly die in whatever happened when Jughead went off, discover that Sawyer has fallen deeply in love with Juliet (and is now too consumed with grief to really be into the whole Freckles phenomenon), been taken captive by The Others again, menaced by the Smoke Monster, fallen into the company of a man she believes to be dead... and for what? To find out that Claire has completely lost her mind, and wants to kill Kate for doing the right thing by Aaron for the past three years? I know that would mess me up, and Lilly very neatly captured Kate's pain and frustration (and maternal guilt) at realizing just how badly she miscalculated the whole trip.
• I In the whole "who's the good guy?" debate, this episode went out of its way to show Smokey telling the truth at every turn. Of course, he doesn't always tell the whole truth - as when he responds to Cindy's question about the other Temple people by saying, "The black smoke killed them" - but if he's omitting things, none of what he actually says contradicts things we know to be true about the island.
• And Smokey's apparent honesty, in turn, makes me wonder about the story he told Kate about his crazy mother. Aside from being pleasantly surprised to meet a "Lost" character with mommy issues rather than daddy issues, I'm wondering exactly who this mother could be. Given all the time travel issues floating around the show, is there a chance his crazy mom might actually be Claire - that the Man in Black is somehow Aaron unstuck in time, immortal, and made of black smoke? I would hope not - after people began wondering if Desmond and Penny's son Charlie might somehow grow up to be Charlie Pace, I began wincing at the amount of liberties that time travel gives to rampant speculation - but I have to admit the thought did cross my mind.
• Speaking of Charlie, his brother Liam turns up at the precinct to try to bail him out after the drug mess in "LA X," and Liam's not the only familiar face from seasons past to cameo in sideways world. Of course Miles would be friends with Charlotte in either reality, particularly since we know from "Dr. Linus" that the island did exist in the '70s, and that therefore Miles' and Charlotte's mothers might know each other in this timeline, too. Charlotte and Sawyer weren't incredibly close in the real timeline, but she was part of his small time-traveling band in the first half of last season, and like many a woman on the show (or in the audience), she couldn't resist the charms of James Ford with his shirt off.
• Couple of familiar faces from TV, but new to the show, in Sheila Kelley (from "LA Law," and also from her marriage to Richard Schiff) as Zoe, and Fred Koehler (from "Kate & Allie" as a kid, and many things as a grown-up) as one of Widmore's soldiers.
• Widmore's dismissive "How little you actually know" comment to Sawyer about the origin of the freighter makes me question a lot of his previous protestations of goodness. We know he sent the damn freighter, so unless Keamy and company were somehow working under some secret higher authority, most of season four's bloodshed is Widmore's fault. And if he's building a barrier to repel Smokey, does that add more fuel to the Smoke-as-good-guy fire?
• Lots of little Sawyer easter eggs in the LA X scenes. Ford's code word is LaFleur, he has a copy of "Watership Down" on his dresser (though the book was originall Boone's in the real timeline, Sawyer stole it) and still watches "Little House on the Prairie." (And the scene they chose, of Charles Ingalls reassuring Laura about death, and saying you hold memories of your lost loved ones until you see them again, has me wondering if it's going to foreshadow some kind of Sawyer sacrifice so he can get back with Juliet.)
• Alt-James has a list, just like Jacob.
• At this point, they're just taunting me with outrigger scenes, aren't they? Though at the rate characters will have to go back and forth to Alcatraz to keep the Widmore story going, maybe we will get closure on the shootout, after all.
• Other than the need for padlocks (to keep people out? or to keep the contents in?), do we really have any clues as to who or what is behind the special door on the sub?
he "AR" Isn't just what would have happened had they not been to the Island. It's what would have happened had Jacob not touched each one of them.
As Jacob touched them their life went astray. Jacob touching them was a turning point. In the AR their lives are the same up to the point where they meet Jacob. This is why Locke is still in a wheel chair but his life is better after the accident. This is why Sawyer became a cop as a mode of revenge rather than becoming a con man(Jacob touched him and gave him the pen to finish his letter, had Jacob not interfered the letter would not have been finished). Sayid was intervened at the street which is when his girl got ran over by the bus. By Jacob not interfering she is still alive but Sayid was already a killer at that point. The "AR" she is still alive but with Sayid's brother.
... I'm convinced that in the AR Sawyer never wrote that letter to his fathers killer.
incogneetus69 said...
Im really losing what everyones motivation is in any given time. Can Widmore kill Locke, why does he want to? How is he not a bad guy since he had so many innocent people killed?
MPH said...
I thought this was the weakest episode of the season. Nothing at all was explained, except for us learning that Smokey has mommy issues. 8 episodes left and we are still getting filler. Sigh. I honestly started laughing at the supposedly dramatic closing line, "We ain't takin' the plane....we're takin' the SUBMARINE!' Oooohhhh!
Alan, I'm surprised that you didn't mention the pile of recently dead people on Hydra Island. Sawyer said they were Aijira 316 survivors, but in previous episodes it didn't look like there were close to that many people on the plane, and he wouldn't know that. Until this episode, we were given no indication that there was on the flight other than the Oceanic 5/6ths, Ben, Jacob's bodyguards (including Ilana and Bram), the flight attendants (who we haven't seen since the flight), Caesar, and a lot less extras than there were people in the pile. So who are the dead people?
Oh, and not counting the unnamed bodyguards, Lostpedia counts 8 Aijira survivors not accounted for. It looked like there were a lot more in the pile. Anyone have a screenshot?
But John Locke would have been dead if not for Jacob's touch, and he certainly wasn't pushed out the window by Anthony Cooper in the AR (he was set to invite him to his wedding).
Nor would Jack suddenly gain a 15-year-old son if Jacob didn't give him an Apollo bar at the hospital.
And Hurley already believed he was "cursed" when Jacob touched him in the back of the cab (that sounds sleazier than it was).
So I'm not sure how the AR could be the result of Jacob not touching them.
I promise I'll stop being a killjoy after this post. I don't like where this season is going. I was not a fan of this episode, and I've been against the alt-timelines from nearly the get go. I hope that they pay off, but I don't think they will in any way that will make me look back and say it was all worth it. I mean it could, but it doesn't look promising. It feels like a bunch of wasted time. We have like 8 episodes left and we're going to go through nearly everyone's alt-timeline. Maybe the writers had a certain plan for the island material, and it wasn't enough for 16 or however many episodes, so they made up some other story line to pass the time while they stretched out the story.
Oh, and I'd be stunned if Desmond wasn't locked in the room.
D. Bones said...
In a show piled high with absurdity, the thing about this episode that bothered me most was that the LAPD is apparently OK with an officer sleeping with a suspect while under surveilance. Um...really?
Purely speculation, but maybe James didn't try and stop Kate because doing so would have meant he would have had to admit he went to Australia and not Santa Barbara.
How is Sawyer running a con on Smokey? Hasn't he been completely honest with him?
When Smokey said his mother was crazy, I immediately wondered if he was Grendel and she was the mother from Beowulf. I don't think they would do this on the show, but I thought it was interesting that was where my mind went to.
Four things stood out to me.
1. I'm sick of Kate running from the police yet again. Enough already.
2. Charlotte seemed out of place.
3. Quit adding more characters. War and Peace didn't have this many characters. The series is almost over!! Just go with who you have at this point!!
4. Was Sawyer wearing a wig? His hair was awful.
All in all, it was a good episode because it had Sawyer and Locke, and it didn't have Jack. But there seems no sense of urgency. Like every other episode this season it didn't seem like an episode in a final season of a highly mythological series. Every episode should be like a finale at this point. There's no breathless expectation.
Katie Fiorino said...
Smokey had a crazy mother. Locke's mother was a diagnosed schizophrenic, making her technically "crazy". I don't know if that means anything, but its interesting to me.
that theory seems to work, HOWEVER, how would Hurley's life be any different if your theory was right? Hurley was touched by Jacob AFTER he escaped the island, AFTER he was the unluckiest man alive. It doesn't make sense.
I'm buying some shares of your "epilogue in advance" stock, with an extra caveat thrown in. From a closure and storytelling standpoint, the epilogue in advance will be a surprise for most viewers (at least those not reading your blog), so it will work great as a final episode reveal. "What happened after? We already know!"
That said, I still think the alt-timeline is going to have a direct impact on the overall story. There's going to be some sort of coming together of both realities at a crucial point in the story. You know there's going to be some sort of ultimate alt-timeline gathering of all the people that have been on the show. There have been enough hints of a deja-vu type of fuzzy memories that at some point, the floodgates are going to open up for everyone. (and maybe Desmond is the key, as Jack's the one who is mostly getting hints of his other life, and he was the only one to have a close encounter with Desmond that we know of).
I still have a theory that all of these alt-Losties are the they of "They're coming!" I think they'll come back on a boat or something, drawn there like Devil's Tower from Close Encounters, and there will be some sort of choice everyone has to make. Those touched by Jacob versus those not touched by Jacob to see what these people would ultimately choose. Sort of a nature vs nurture standoff. And all of it orchestrated by Jacob.
But as you said, I'm enjoying the ride more than deeply analyzing each episode. Like, I know there's a connection between Widmore and Jacob&Smokey, but I don't exactly remember and not sure I have the energy to look it up. They'll tell me what I need to know when they address it. But if it was Jacob that led the Others and Jacob who allowed Ben to take over leadership, then what beef does Widmore have with Smokey?
And finally, I think we now know what Lindelof and Cuse were talking about when they said that ABC might very well want to continue the stories of these characters. "Lost High" would have been fun, as would the new "Hawaii Five-O" starring Sawyer and Miles. Oh well...
One thought on the side-verse: We know from last week that Dharma happened there, and that Ben Linus and his father were at one point on the island. Now we know that Pierre Chang is alive in the side-verse, working with Charlotte, and is directly or indirectly trying to get Sawyer and Charlotte together (and one imagines that the field work Charlotte refers to could easily involve the bones and collars of Dharma polar bears and the like). That, and the run-ins that began last week and continued this week, suggest to me that maybe we're going to see whether or not these people (the whole cast, not just Sawyer and Charlotte and Miles) can get away from each other or if they're "meant" to get together by some force or for some reason.
"It feels like a bunch of wasted time. We have like 8 episodes left and we're going to go through nearly everyone's alt-timeline. Maybe the writers had a certain plan for the island material, and it wasn't enough for 16 or however many episodes, so they made up some other story line to pass the time while they stretched out the story."
This seems the be the main complaint about this season and I think that Alan's right in that providing the reason up front for the flash sideways scenes probably would have alleviated a lot of these issues.
But considering they got an extra hour added to the finale I doubt Cuse and Lindelof are vamping. Outside of the headlong sprint that the second half of season 5 turned into, this is what the show has always been. There's a lot of grading on a curve because this is the final season but if we were getting answers at half this pace early in season 3 for example I don't think that season would have gotten nearly the bad rap that it did. Maybe I'm wrong to feel this way but I have to think that the reveal behind the flash sideways will be worth the wait.
On the other hand, couldn't agree more with the last statement:
"Oh, and I'd be stunned if Desmond wasn't locked in the room."
Brendan McCarthy said...
See, I immediately thought (and by immediately, I mean went to wikipedia to brush up on the subject first) that she might be Rebecca, Jacob and Esau's mother, who was a little nutso.
posted this in another forum but posting here as well as I enjoy Lost theories
Bomb was set off in 1977... Kate was born in 74 thus the Island destroyed prior to Jacob visiting Kate(she was older than 3 when Jacob visited). The timelines work out too well. Jacob prevented the store owner from calling her mom and told her not to steal anymore before touching her. Perhaps the store owner calling Kates mom would have been the difference in how her life turned out some way?
Next we know that Jacob visited Sawyer during his parents funeral while he was writing a letter to Sawyer. Jacob is the one who gave him the pen to write the letter! In the AR Jacob never showed... Sawyer never wrote that letter. Jacob is the reason why Sawyers life was different in the AR.
Next is Sayid. Sayid was crossing the street with his woman. Jacob calls to him and his woman gets ran over by a bus while Sayid is distracted. Had Jacob not showed Sayid would have likely saved her life. Jacob interferes, Sayids woman dies and Sayids life takes a turn for the worse. In the AR she doesn't die.. but somehow ends up with his brother.
When Jacob visits Illana He is wearing gloves and purposely doesn't touch her!
Jacob visits Locke and touches him after the fall. This is why in the AR Locke is still in a wheel chair. Jacob didn't interfere until after his accident so his life would be the same. I can't figure out how Jacob simply telling Locke "everything will be ok" would actually make a difference in how things play out
We don't know the AR story of Sun/Jin yet
Jacob visits Jack and touches him when he hands him the candy bar. We know this was during his residency so it was early enough that the time difference makes sense in regards to the one known difference we have seen in Jacks life... his son. They purposly didn't show who Jacks babies mama was but it definitely wasn't Sarah as his son is too old. It is likely that Jacobs interference made it so that Jack didn't meet the mother of his existing son and later met Sarah (in 2001). Another prediction: Jacks babies mama will be revealed as Gabrielle ... Regardless Jack met his babies mama sometime in the early 90's given Davids age. So the plane not crashing again wouldn't have affected Jacks life in this way as the key difference is several years prior to the plane crashing.
We don't see a pre-flight visit to Hurley from Jacob... we only see a visit after they originally left the Island where Jacob tells him he needs to go back to the Island. The only key clue here is Jacobs emphasis on "I'm definitely NOT dead"..
When MIB/LOCKE is in the cave with Jacob and Ben asks if they have met before Locke says "In a matter of speaking" ... I'm wondering if Jacob didn't originally interfere in his(MIB) life off the Island at some point and that's what he is referring to?? That statement "in a matter of speaking" is a definite clue.
The plane not crashing wasn't early enough in their lives to make such a difference... Sawyer didn't become a cop after the plane trip/non crash. Jack had a son well before the plane trip. I'm telling you... the AR is how there lives would be without the interference of Jacob, NOT because the plane didn't crash!
I'm guessing that whatever was locked away in the sub was a person, and my money's on Desmond. I have no idea why that would happen, I just can't figure out what else would be locked up. Unless it's some sort of Smokey killing device..
My spidey sense says Desmond is behind the locked door in the sub.
The list of potentially important people who aren't already on the island somewhere just isn't a very long one. Desmond and Walt are pretty much the only ones I could think of. Or Faraday's mom, maybe, but even she doesn't seem interesting enough for them to leave bread crumbs about what's behind the locked door while they build up to that reveal.
Good episode. I like that MIB-Locke's mother was crazy and thus we see that reflection in mothers on the island. Not really sure why but it's there.
I also enjoyed Kate until the end of the episode where it felt like they just threw her character back into man-triangle situation.
My take on the alt-scenes is nothing, just enjoy them or don't.
Just a thought but does the alt-storyline also provide the producers with an opportunity to develop a Lost-spinoff?
WM said...
more than anything, this episode made me realize how much I am going to miss watching Josh Holloway on my TV next season.
My theory on the flashsideways is that they're not what would have happened had Jughead gone off; they're what would have happened if the gang had never gone back in time in the first place. The Island sank not because of Jughead, but because of The Incident. The point of divergence couldn't have been the bomb, because Roger, Ben, and Pierre Chang were all on the island when it went off, and would have been killed.
Also, I noticed a continuity error, I think. Kate wouldn't have left her dress in the polar bear cage. She wore it off Hydra Island and back to camp IIRC.
boa said...
This episode was fine until Sheila Kelley/Zoe showed up. Then my head pretty much exploded. Enough, already, Lost. We can barely keep track of what's going on with the already sprawling cast. Adding more characters now infuriated me.
But I did like seeing more of Holloway, especially as he's regained some of his original swagger. The way he delivered "take me to your leader" was classic Sawyer.
FilmFan said...
Another familiar TV face: Jodi Lyn O'Keefe (Gretchen from Prison Break) as Sawyer's lady friend in the opening scene.
Ken Tremendous strikes again. I had a hard time with the alt-time lines for a while, but I'm buying Schur's explanation... it makes sense to me.
So the "LA X" time line may as well be the LA X-istential time line. It's about their true natures independent of Jacob's force, and I think we will see these true natures come out fully in the characters' island time line by the end of the series.
In a way, it's not a "what if?" Rather, it serves the same function as the flashback device used in the first half of the series. It gives meaning/motivation/context to the characters. As such, maybe it exists in a parallel universe, or maybe it doesn't exist at all. But that's okay, because I don't think it's meant to be an epilogue in advance.
As soon as I saw the first scene with Miles, I instantly thought that they should make a buddy cop movie. It would be fantastic.
Terry O'Quinn was fantastic this episode. I was never a fan of Locke as I thought he was too self-important and as such, I never gave O'Quinn his do. But this season has been his masterpiece. He plays MIB perfectly.
And Holloway has done a tremendous job with Sawyer as well. Sawyer was always the shrewdest 815'er and he would probably make for a solid Wyatt Earp-styled lawman.
Oh, and my first thought about Locke's mother was that maybe she was Taweret... but again, I have always been fascinated with the mythology.
Wasn't Sawyer younger when his parents died in the plane-crash timestream? If so, that would be another difference for him in the alternate one, though I'm not sure what if anything that means.
Michaelangelo: smart idea!
I am having a hard time thinking of Smokey as good. His conversation with Kate seemed like another con; win Kate over to his side by the suggestion that she should be the one to protect Aaron (not crazy mommy Claire). Perhaps Smokey does have a crazy mommy, but I think he told Kate about her less from a good place and more from a manipulative one.
While I do not have a solid explanation for the AR, I do not think it relates to "what happens in the absence of Jacob's touch". I keep thinking back to Jacob's conversations with the Man In Black. Jacob says, "It only ends once. Anything that happens before that is just progress." I am not sure what the AR is, but I do not think that people are better off because Jacob never touched them.
I look forward to next week's episode. Though I enjoyed tonight's episode and love Sawyer, I still felt a little let down.
Milaxx said...
@Bix, There weren't any other people on the plane because Hugo bought all the other seats because he knew what was going to happen. So other than a few airline staff there shouldn't have been bodies. So:
1)Did the bomb change that.
2)If not, where did those bodies come from?
noelfiser said...
Frankly, my least favorite episode of the season. I like Sawyer but this felt to cliche and predictable. Unlike last week where I really wasn't sure what Ben would in either timeline until he did it, Sawyer was an open book.
I feel an affinity to your epilogue idea, as I've been thinking along similar lines for some time now. What if the sideways timeline is either (A) the world that was offered to Smocke's Losties (e.g., Sayid gets to see Nadia again, as promised, but it turns out it's not the "best 9 months of my life" he had with her in the real timeline; or (B) it's (as I think you're aiming at) what happened with Jacob out of the picture. But it's not how it might've been; it's how it ends when the experiment is over and Jacob removes his "touch" from their lives and they get to live them free from that external influence.
Unfortunately, I find neither scenario very compelling as a series finale denouement. But I'm sure the writers will suprise me. :)
MyFawny:
That was my point. It's either a weird continuity error or a hint of a new plot development, like your suggestion that the bomb somehow changed this timeline.
Like Sawyer and Juliet, I never foresaw a James-Charolette coupling. In both cases, I wouldn’t picture either romances being believable if I didn’t see it for myself. It appears that Josh Holloway can create instant chemistry with whoever is paired up with. This must be why Kate is usually only tolerable when she’s with Sawyer.
Speaking of great Sawyer pairings, I was delighted to see him and Miles partnering up for some more security-related detail in this episode. One of the things that was touched upon, but not thoroughly developed in season five, was the friendship that emerged between these two guys over their three years together in Dharmaville. You’d think that Jin, given the same period of time with the Dharmaville sheriff, would be referring to him as James—not Sawyer—at the beginning of the episode. Even Locke and Kate called him James throughout the series run, so I don’t think it would be weird for another character to do so either.
If anyone is interested, you can find more of my thoughts about this episode on my blog where I go into detail about the probable point in time in which James Ford chose cop over criminal and whether this means Sawyer can ever find peace within himself. Click my username for the link.
Another weird thing I noticed: the Smoke Monster was apparently imitating Locke the whole three years he was alone with Claire on the island. But if that's the case, why did he need Locke's body to be brought back to the Island? Or why not kill and impersonate him a lot sooner?
xyz said...
What's with all the heavily implied Kate-Claire homo-eroticism? They did the same in 'What Kate Does' and are doing it again in this episode. Are the writers trying to tell us something or is this something that's not intended and is just showing up as a result of how the actors are playing the part?
Okay, now it's a tossup between last week and this week as my favorite episodes. Man, I do want to see Sawyer and Miles as cops, even more than Lost High. Love the alternate career choice, even if I'm also thinking, "Uh, cops can boink suspects? And where'd that code word come from? That ain't random."
Sawyer/Charlotte had a surprising lot of chemistry for about five minutes. Go figure. Also go figure: James Ford needs to be set up on dates by Miles? Alt universe, inDEED.
I kept rooting for Detective Ford to finally fess up to Miles about his binder, and he did, so yay there.
Back on actual island plot, this reminded me of Burn Notice. I love how flat out honest Sawyer was with EVERYONE. Heh. "Let them fight it out, I'm stealing the sub and we're getting outta here." If we go with Alan's theme, Sawyer's life isn't suck because he's not truly Team Smokey.
Oh Kate, Oh Claire. Oh, I kept wondering if Claire had a knife on her in the last scene.
Smokey sure can seem surprisingly honest and reasonable. Go figure. And yeah, whose crazy mom again? And will we find out ever?
Lester-
Where'd you get that idea? Claire knows he's not Locke and seems to know he's the monster.
Addendum: Maybe it's just me, but when Sawyer *assumed* that Widmore was out to kill Smokey, it rang a little hollow to me. It seemed that both Widmore and Smocke's reactions were a bit hesitant and puzzled. Maybe that should be chalked up to Sawyer's great conning abilities, but it seemed to me at the time that neither baddie really thinks that Widmore is here to kill Smocke. Just a hunch...
"But there seems no sense of urgency. Like every other episode this season it didn't seem like an episode in a final season of a highly mythological series. Every episode should be like a finale at this point. There's no breathless expectation."
Yellowdog, well said.
I fall into the camp thinking that this was arguably the worst episode so far this year. Doesn't mean there weren't some highlights to it. Josh Holloway does anguished soul fairly well by now, in whatever timeline. I also enjoyed that it wasn't just Widmore coming alone. That said, I understand the frustration with new cast. They already don't do justice enough for certain core members, like Jack.
That said ... what did this episode do? It was a setup episode, through and through, but it was a predictable episode that didn't advance anything. Certainly, they are allowed those during the course of a season, and in saying I didn't like the episode, it didn't mean I didn't enjoy the hour.
It certainly, though, didn't provide us with, say, the relationship building in Lighthouse, the revelations in Lighthouse, the sheer ... for lack of a better word, fun, of Dr. Linus. It did turn Sawyer's alt-reality character around, which was an interesting twist.
While I don't believe in the epilogue theory, I actually think the epilogue theory might hold for this more than one would think. It might suggest that Sawyer, who certainly showed disgust in seeing the dead bodies on Hydra Island, eventually joins the forces of good and helps our hero Jack out.
Btw, with so much focus on deciding who is on what side, I want to suggest that
a) The idea of Smokey being good is almost unlikely. He might not be bad, but too much has been set up in this season alone to suggest that he is good.
b) That Widmore might not be on Team Smokey or Team Jacob. He might simply be his own man, who was banished off the island (likely by Ben), and wanting power in his own right.
I have to say, an episode without Jack, Ilana and the good guys sort of makes the show ... stall a bit. The one interesting thing today, from a story perspective, was Jin showing that he isn't with Team Smokey. I wonder if Jin ends up being the protected Kwon.
One thing that hasn't been covered that bugged the sh*t out of me is Kate not asking Sayid why he just sat there while Claire tried to cut her throat.
D.Bones: In a show piled high with absurdity, the thing about this episode that bothered me most was that the LAPD is apparently OK with an officer sleeping with a suspect while under surveilance. Um...really?
While I enjoyed the episode, this is the biggest issue I had with it. It rang incredibly false. I get that it was supposed to echo both "Confidence Man" and "The Long Con" but it lost that sense once it was revealed that Sawyer was a cop. I couldn't help but think about the episode of The Wire where McNulty is in the same situation and catches all kinds of grief for it, even three seasons later.
Some posters are expressing frustration that there does not seem to be enough forward momentum as we head toward the finale. I get that and can understand it but I wonder (hopefully this is not considered a spoiler) if things might move into high gear once we get Richard Alpert's back story. That is the one variable that we have left and I can see it shifting the focus of the remaining island story.
Just a joke but I think the purpose of the flash sideways is ABC showing the viewing audience little "pilot" for each of their ideas for a Lost spin off. For one "pilot" you have Teachers with Locke and Ben and the other you have a cop drama with Sawyer and Miles. Maybe we can have one with Sayid, like a Burn Notice for torturers.
pws said...
@Bix and MyFawny --
I'd rewatch the episodes that take place on the plane from last season again. There's a whole group of other people on the plane that are sitting in the 2nd section and are shown at the airport terminal waiting for their flight. Hurley also refers to when he's visibly upset there are other people on the flight since he attempted to buy up the plane's tickets. Since the Losties, Cesar and Ilana were in the first section (and since the focus is mostly on them) I can see why it'd be easy to forget there were other folks on the plane. But there aren't any continuity issues that I can see :).
Fan of lost podcasts said...
McNulty caught flak for, um, finishing. Then again it was on a prostitution ring which is not the same thing. Lost is not The Wire.
On the issue of believability, I'm going to put words in Carmon's mouth and say that there's a smoke monster that manifests as a guy who died and was paralyzed but then started walking again. A freaking smoke monster! Makes me forget the police protocol problems.
can't even begin to articulate my thoughts right now... still busy cleaning up the puddles of drool
Do NOT talk of next week's previews!!!
And tonight, while watching LAPD (Lost Alumni Police Department), I was struck by the thought that maybe this is a dig at everyone who complains about Lost's sci-fi leanings. "You morons only want to watch cop shows, or medical dramas, or school dramas? Well here you go."
Anybody think there was any significance to Smokey wanting to extend his hand to Kate when he wanted to take her to see Hydra Island?
Does Smokey have a "touch" just like Jacob does? Didn't he have to offer a hand to Sawyer a few episodes ago when the ladder broke on the way to the cave?
Whoever/whatever Widmore has behind that door must be the Smoke Monster's kryptonite. Why else would he feel like showing up to the island with a few lightly armed followers and a sonic fence was enough to beat Smokey?
Is Sawyer really that different in the parallel universe? He's a cop but he still wants to kill Cooper...he doesn't want to bring him to justice in any other way.
Fan of Lost podcasts: On the issue of believability, I'm going to put words in Carmon's mouth and say that there's a smoke monster that manifests as a guy who died and was paralyzed but then started walking again. A freaking smoke monster! Makes me forget the police protocol problems.
Heh. Touche. Very good point.
cingers said...
Smokey's plan to get Ben to kill Jacob included fooling Ben into thinking he was Locke resurrected.
I loved it. Maybe they didn't answer much, but we hadn't seen Sawyer for three whole episodes, and that's about four too many for me.
So Sawyer/James Ford has now had sex with characters played by Evangeline Lilly, Michelle Rodriguez, Elizabeth Mitchell, Kim Dickens, Rebecca Mader and Jodi Lynn O'Keefe. The producers must really like him.
For everyone thinking it's Desmond in the locked room (and you just know Alan's gonna call that episode review "It's Billy Pilgrim in a box!"), don't forget that the last time we saw Desmond interact with Widmore, Widmore was adamant that Desmond take Penny back to wherever they'd been hiding, and he referenced some long-brewing conflict that had nothing to do with him. I know Widmore's not to be trusted, but he seemed pretty sincere. Of course, maybe things changed once Ben failed to kill Penny and ended up back on the island.
But assuming my doubts are correct, why couldn't it be Walt? When Locke was attempting to get the band back together, Walt seemed to be on the list Widmore gave him, but after visiting him Locke decided the kid had been through enough. Maybe Widmore knows why Walt is special and thinks he can use that to defeat Smokey.
Man, I'm gonnna miss all this conjecture in 9 weeks...
Rabble Rouser said...
"To find out that Claire has completely lost her mind, and wants to kill Kate for doing the right thing by Aaron for the past three years?"
Umm, I don't call that doing the right thing by Aaron for 3 years. I call that baby snatching and delusional thoughts. If Kate wanted to do the "right thing" by Aaron she would have taken him STRAIGHT to Claire's family the day she got back. I am currently re-watching Season 4 and I am reminded of how utterly creepy Kate is around Aaron and claiming him as "MY SON!" The only reason Kate is back on the island is because of her own guilt and the fact that she is a perpetual runner and needed a new adventure, being a mom is borrrriiinngg, right Kate?
I wish Claire would have just put her money where her mouth was ended Kate.
Rich Cain said...
I don't think Smokey and Jacob are equals; one good one evil; because if that were so, wouldn't Smokey be able to leave and return to the island as he pleased?
Maybe Smokey is some kind of prisoner and Jacob is/was the guard. But that indicate which is good or evil.
Is it possible that Widmore is some sort of master of the island and Jacob, by manipulating the people on the island, was able to somehow hide the island from Widmore? Jacob at one time answered to Widmore but at some point went rogue.
Once a con man, always a con man. In alt-world Sawyer is a cop but he is not a cop because he wants to protect and serve. He wants the resources at a cop's disposal so he can search for the real Sawyer. Something tells me he is playing a long con, a very long con, on the LAPD.
If the flash-sidways are supposed to conjoin with the current time island stories and somehow reveal the moral center of our characters, then I believe that we are being shown that James/Sawyer is only looking out for himself. As much as we love him and as much as we find him interesting, he really is the most nihilistic person here. In the end, he'll be forced to make another choice and he will undoubtedly disappoint Kate and the audience by choosing what's most expedient for himself.
As for the other people, I don't know.....
I don't quite get the "Cop And A Half" reference. Are you inferring Miles is like a child or somehow half a man? Why?
BTW - Best ep of the season so far. Lots of fun, but still no answers. The flash sideways are enjoyable but still hard to care about. Also seeing Miles and Sawyer as popo is a bit heartbreaking.
Rabble Rouser - How would Kate have taken Aaron to Claire's family? As far as Claire knew, the last time she saw her mother, the woman was in a coma that nobody expected her to recover from.
I found this episode thoroughly entertaining. Loved the partnership between James and Miles. Also love the fact that Sawyer had to choose to put aside the Cooper baggage in both realities before he could move on.
Also loved him getting advice from Pa Ingalls on Little House - one of many little shout-outs to past seasons. Like Pa said, we have memories of those who died, but life is for loving and laughing. Time to leave Juliet behind and get on with life again, James.
Enjoyed all the bits we saw of other characters. Unstable and dangerous Claire; passive and creepy Sayid; and deceptively sympathetic Smocke. And now Widmore is in the mix. Eek!
So glad that Sawyer is trying to play both ends against the middle and I'm keeping my fingers crossed that his plan works. Loved the shout-out to Sawyer and Kate in the cages... they went through so much together. I'm glad he's teamed up with Kate again because that girl seemed so lost and alone there with all the crazies. And what fun that they met up in the Alt! It was also a relief to get a break from Jack... bonus!
Dezdemona
This was the first time in years that Kate has actually effected me, and Lilly is a huge reason why. Her watching Locke abuse Claire and her shakenness for the entire episode after was the first time Kate's background as the daughter of an abused woman really struck me. It also really convinced me that Smokey doesn't know much about the backgrounds of those following him, because he might've predicted, or at least understood, her reaction to his treatment of Claire. Because he didn't, he at first spent a lot of time apologising for Claire, and only late in the episode did he even see what had actually effected her. Lilly did a fantastic job showing the rush of fear and hatred she felt every time after that she interacted with Locke, and her inability to trust him.
Can an actor, six seasons into a show, finally show some chops? Perhaps once their character develops a little depth.
You have a newsletter? What about a rock that keeps tigers away?
Alan talks about James maybe sacrificing himself at the end to get Juliette back. What if he does -- like by agreeing to the reset of reality that we're seeing (the epilogue maybe) but unfortunately for him in that reality while Juliette i alive, she's not with James.
Instead in the alt. reality, Juliette is... the mother of Jack's baby!
They could have met in med school after all.
Just my guess.
Am I seeing stuff, or was that Vern Schillingers son among the Widmore crew?
Oh, and man does Charlotte clean up nice!
Smokey's Mom = Cleopatra? It'd explain the Egyptian motif.
Also, why was Vic Mackey in the sub?
I don't quite get the "Cop And A Half" reference. Are you inferring Miles is like a child or somehow half a man?
No, I mean that Miles is a real policeman through and through ("Cop"), and Sawyer is always teetering on the edge of going bad ("Half").
If Smokey just wants to leave the island, and Widmore wants to control it, why should they be at odds?
I liked the episode, but a lot of it felt like over the top fan service. The "without Jacob's influence everything is COMPLETELY DIFFERENT" trope is starting to feel hackneyed.
Lizbeth said...
"Miles & LeFleur" -- finally a procedural drama I'd actually watch!
Can't say I was happy to see Charlotte back...she was my least favorite Lost character ever. I actually cheered when she died.
BTW: I thought I read somewhere that Terry O'Quinn was pitching a TV show for him and Emerson to star in...maybe Emerson was just joking about that...but I think it would be awesome.
Also, did anyone else think that Sawyer was going to get assigned a new partner -- Anna Lucia??
Palo Koziol said...
No one seems to touch on the theory that the island is a Prison, that Smokey is the Prisoner, and that Jacob is his Guardian. The candidates are candidates for the job of Guardian; Widmore is a disciple of the Guardians, and after learning Smokey could escape constructed means to keep him imprisoned on the island.
Just think the harm that Smokey could cause on the mainland. Something out of a post-apocalyptic movie (a city of dead killed by smokey on a year long rampage) an uncontrollable rage for a hunger not being fed.
In the original timeline, Sawyer's parents died when he was 8 years old, in 1976. He was born 1968.
In the alttimeline, they died when he was 9 years old.
Jacob touched Sawyer in 1976, in the funeral .He was the only one touched bedore 1977.
To think about....
Sorry, i mean before 1977.
jamfan said...
Last week, there was some fan theorizing that Locke in the alt-verse -- substitute-teaching, wheelchair-bound, Helen-marrying Locke -- actually IS some form of Smokey, using his manipulation of Dr. Linus into trying to take over the principal job as evidence of that theory. Well, along those lines, I thought it was interesting to learn that in alt-verse, Anthony Cooper is still a very bad guy, the con man who ruined James's parents -- and we know that alt-verse Locke has a very good relationship with his father.
I agree with Alan in that I thought this was a very entertaining episode, one of the best this season. I still don’t fully understand the usual complaints that the plot doesn’t advance/questions don’t get answered/this is a filler or set-up episode. I suppose they could just have an episode featuring a roundtable discussion between the Losties, Flocke, Ben, Richard and Widmore, and they could just come right out and answer all of the questions, but where’s the fun in that? I’m sure at this point, if D&C give us too many answers it would make some if not all of the remaining episodes irrelevant.
Having said that, I did find it frustrating that yet again one of the Losties makes a big show of demanding answers, but doesn’t follow through. Sawyer asks for an explanation as to why they have to camp out for a couple days – Flocke says lets discuss this in private – then they discuss something completely different. It’s fine with me that D&C can’t answer all of the questions. And it’s fine that Flocke wanted to send Sawyer to Hydra Island for some “recon”. But why did the set-up for that scene have to be Sawyer supposedly demanding answers one minute and not caring about the answers the next? This is similar to the Jack-Richard scene last week, and the Jack-Dogen scenes earlier this year, and countless Locke-Ben scenes in seasons 3, 4, and 5. I’m a little tired of these fake-outs.
Sawyer used '' La Fleur'' as the code word...does it indicates he's been on the island in the alttimeline??
Smizzle said...
I feel very differently about the alt-scenes. I get seriously frustrated every time they cut away and flash sideways. When Sawyer climbed down into the sub and then they side-flashed, I gave a "Come On!".
Alt-scenes are just a distraction from the meat of the show. I understand they will have some bigger meaning that may add a layer of depth to the meat we enjoy, but they present a serious problem - I don't enjoy the viewing experience when they give me 10 minute increments of the show I want to watch, interspersed with 10 minute increments of a show I've never seen (that happens to have little callouts to the show I like).
In the past, Lost has confused me, thrilled me, frustrated me, scared me, angered me, uplifted me, and saddened me. But all of feelings were accompanied with the joy of just watching this show. This method of storytelling is tipping that balance in the wrong direction.
It makes it much worse that they follow each episode with a "There's only 8 episodes left until the finale!" Then get rid of the freaking Sawyer-Charlotte date night! I didn't need to see that!
It's like they're writing alt-scenes for the actors to let them show off some off-island acting chops, in order to help them get work once this is over.
Tell me the truth folks.... Isn't it getting to the point that it won't matter what the significance of the alt-scenes are? I can't think of a reveal that would make this worth it. We have a million things we want to know and (even if we don't need answers) we have an on-island plot that's exceptionally compelling to us devotees with characters we know like they're our best friends. But they're giving us a total of 20min of the show we love each week. It's getting to the point where I almost feel stupid for getting soooo excited each week for just 20 minutes of what I'm excited for.
Valid?
What bothered me the most about this episode was the poorly done airplane prop, something that has bothered me since episode 316 in season 5. For example when Sawyer was standing next to the jet engine, it should've been huge, large enough for him to stand inside with room to spare.
The Ajira flight was from LA to Guam at a distance of over 6000 miles. The jet that Sawyer was walking around was 737 sized. Wikipedia says it was a 737-300 which has a max range of 2,400 miles.
While in the pilot episode they used a L1011 widebody as a prop to simulate a modern 777, an aircraft actually capable of making it from Sydney to LAX. It just seems like they are getting lazy.
dickey simpkins said...
It was a fun episode, but things aren't going well when the 1 minute trailer for Treme held my attention more than Lost's final season.
Les Savy Ferd said...
very weak episode IMO. I dunno, last week when Jack proved that those touched by jacob were seemingly invincible, it took a lot of the steam out of things. I never really felt James was in any kind of danger since he's a candidate.
I didn't find Sawyer's off island adventures very interesting, unlike just about everyone else (Sayid, Ben and yes, even Jack's was more intriguing).
Worst episode since this season's Kate debacle. On the heels of a Ben episode that was underachieving as well. Get on with it already.
those touched by jacob were seemingly invincible
Not Original Recipe Locke!
Why would Widmore and the Locke-ness Monster be at odds?
It's Jacob and Ben Linus vs Locke-ness and Widmore, isn't it?
How would Kate have taken Aaron to Claire's family? As far as Claire knew, the last time she saw her mother, the woman was in a coma that nobody expected her to recover from.
No, Kate knew since Christian Shepard's funeral that Claire's mother was alive and well and that Claire was Jack's sister.
I don't know why you are still debating whether Smokey is a good guy, Alan. He lied to Claire for 3 years about her baby which contributed, if not caused, her insanity. Having her focus on the Other's not only gave her a "purpose" as Smokey said, but made her a murderer. That is not the actions of a good guy. I'm not saying that Jacob is necessarily good, but I don't know how you can come up with any other conclusion than Smokey is a liar and not a good guy. Just because Smokey tells people he tells only the truth doesn't mean he does, obviously.
Does anyone here read "Chew"? (http://chewcomic.blogspot.com/)
I would pay big money to see Holloway and Leung as the cop buddies in a TV or movie version of that comic book.
Shaun32 said...
One thing about the end bugged me..
So Sawyer can't pilot a plane, fair enough, but when did he learn to pilot a submarine???
A moment:
Smokey says, "I know you have lots and lots of questions, and I'm going to make myself available to answer every single one of them.."
And my boys and I went, "Yaayyy!"
Then he said, "But first...."
And we all groaned. Same as always.
Consensus from our house in rural Maine: one of the best episodes of the season-- satisfying, funny--all the pieces in play now, and lotsa Josh Holloway showing his chops. And dimples. Loved the flybys of Charlotte and Liam.
WHERE'S WALLACE???
I swear i'll watch my words after this posting up.
So, lost's lasts episodes have showed us a bunch of new realities of our already met's characters.
The only thing I can't agree with Allan and JL (the first poster) is that the AR ain't about been not touched by Jacob, and its easy ti be found once you look at Jack's History..
He's had his appendice taken in the island as he was touched by jacob, but in the AR it was taken off as he were in the school around 7 or 8 years old.
I presume I ain't losing it, but it doesnt make anysense.
If it was for real, they would get their lives back from the moment they were touched or about that time.
But everyone's life have been changed for a very long time.
For example, Hurley, he was touched by jacob only after been jailed, so how the fuck he was any luckier than he used to be?
Another thoughts of Epilogue-in-advance:
- I still havent find out who is that blood-handed boy who walks through the jungle saying: watch the rules!
- I think the AR is really an epilogue-in-advance, being what would might have been after their choices. (Smokey or Jacob sides, and I still havent found which side is the good one).
- Why wouldn't kate has any meaning as she got back to the island? I think the producers are just a bit smarter not to make such a mistake.
- Is there any meaning about not to telling us upfront that there were some another guys at ajira air plane? why wouldnt they hide such a thing?
- Who are those dead guys?
- Is there anything else to be told about the guy whos locked on the under-door at the sub? Of course it's DESMOND.!
if you guys just get any answer, just tell me:
www.twitter.com/rodolphocuenca
Where Desmond at, String?
Joseph Thomson said...
One thing that seems to be confusing people all about the internet is that this week's episode is the half way point of the season. It's not. This season has 18 episodes over 16 broadcasts. The first and last episodes are doubles, so episode 9 is the midway point. So we're still not quite over the hump yet. :)
'What bothered me the most about this episode was the poorly done airplane prop'.. etc.
If that's really the worst thing that's bothering you, this must be shaping up to be a pretty good season for you, eh? =P
Interesting to read though!
No way that Ajira plane is getting back off the ground. A couple of dozen people might be able to turn it around if it was sitting on a tarmac, but sitting in sand? No way.
"Go look for a t-shirt in the drawer where I keep my most precious secret in the world. ...and no t-shirts."
Loren said...
JL,
Except Jacob intervened in Sayid's life in 2005, AFTER he'd returned from the Island. She was still alive in 2004, and not married to Sayid's brother.
In other words, AR-Sayid's life is drastically different well before Jacob touched him.
"Addendum: Maybe it's just me, but when Sawyer *assumed* that Widmore was out to kill Smokey, it rang a little hollow to me. It seemed that both Widmore and Smocke's reactions were a bit hesitant and puzzled. Maybe that should be chalked up to Sawyer's great conning abilities, but it seemed to me at the time that neither baddie really thinks that Widmore is here to kill Smocke. Just a hunch..."
I agree. I could have sworn I saw something flicker in Widmore's eyes as Sawyer laid out his plan. I can't tell which side Widmore is on. But he clearly knows more than Sawyer about what's going on.
Also, Charlotte & Sawyer gettin' busy made me want to vomit! She is one of my least favorite characters ever. And certainly not Josh Holloway worthy! Eww. So glad he blew it with her. I still think he'll cross paths with Juliet at some point and go for that cup of coffee...
Speaking of Juliet.. I also think that she is Jack's baby momma. She's gotta be!
I just new Claire was going to try to stab Kate when she was hugging her at the end..
P.S. Love the comment about Sawyer's t-shirt drawer with no t-shirts. ;) hehe
I never totally liked her character in her original incarnation, but man, did Charlotte look SMOKING in this episode.
Also, Ford's other woman last night, Jodi Lynn O'Keefe, played Nash Bridges's daughter for Cuse and Lindelof back in the day, no? So... when does Don Johnson show up? Cheech has already been on Lost, so its only a matter of time, right?
Sandman said...
So does anyone else think Locke was setting Ben up to get captured by Widmore's people when he said last week, "Come to the Hydra Station. That's where we'll be." ?? It's clear Locke's flock isn't leaving the main island for a while.
If so, lucky for Ben that Ilana let him stick around.
Dan Jameson said...
Wait, Claire did try to stab Kate when they hugged? Did I black out and miss that? I thought the scene cut when they were still hugging???
When the folks at Annheuser Busch greenlight a Bud Light commercial that goofs your show it should be a wake up call that its beginning to collapse under it's own weight. And your hatred of Jack is not irrational. Just expand your circle of hatred to include a few others and you'll be in the zone.
And Smokey's apparent honesty, in turn, makes me wonder about the story he told Kate about his crazy mother. Aside from being pleasantly surprised to meet a "Lost" character with mommy issues rather than daddy issues, I'm wondering exactly who this mother could be.
Doesn't Occam's Razor suggest Fake Locke is simply referring to Real Locke's mother, played by Swoosie Kurtz in "Deus Ex Machina"? We've seen before there is some interplay between the Smoke Monster and Locke's real memories?
Unless Jacob touched people prior to the touches we have been shown, they alt-world isn't just what things would have been like sans Jacob's creepy touching fetish. It's what the world would have been like if 815 never crashed, because that eliminates the castaways going back in time and doing all sorts of stuff to alter the timeline from at least 1954 onward. I do believe that Jacob's touch may have influenced Sawyer to finish the letter, which then may be the totem he needed to fuel the rage that turned him into a criminal, but there are numerous other life changes that are happening independently of Jacob's fingering people, such as Jack's child, Hurley being the luckiest man on earth, John surviving whatever accident crippled him, etc.
So, it's the lack of time traveling that has had the biggest impact on the alt-world. Why and how the island sunk, I have no idea, but that it did sink meant that 815 never crashed, thus no one ever went back in time, thus we get an alt-world that is dramatically different going waaaaay back before Jacob started practicing finger painting on people.
I also do not buy that Sayid is ultimately evil at heart. Yes, he tortured, but that alone, as we have seen with Ben, does not make him evil at heart. And other than his Republican Guard background, Sayid has spent the entire series as one of the most decent men on Craphole Island. He didn't go evil until dying and becoming "infected," whatever the hell that means.
I still think there is a lot we are all missing. Maybe in the end, we will find out that we already had enough to put it all together, but I'm betting not. Because no theory I've heard so far--including my own--can account for anything close to everything, and they all having gaping holes that can be used to pull them apart like so much taffy.
I do, however, love that the show is starting to really wink at the fact that it is a show, a la The Dark Tower. Saywer's "It's about time," line before the bump was as much a nod to the audience's desire to find out where the hell he has been the past three-four episodes as it was a line relating to anything happening in that scene. Ditto for all the books that keep popping up every episode now, which I think are as much meant to comment on Lost being a story being told by someone in our world, just like all those books in The Dark Tower were meant to imply that everyone's life in one world is just a tale being spun by someone in another world.
I'll be interested to see if they will push that conceit as far as Stephen King did in the Dark Tower, which is still more of an influence on this show than all the other literary references they have made put together.
No, she didn't try to stab her, I just thought she would!
Joe -- my thoughts exactly. and then he was SHOCKED that she found the secret. lazy writing. I don't hate the flash-sideways and I guess I believe they serve a purpose, but they do seem full of lazy writing, shortcuts, and excuses to set up fun alt-pairings of characters we miss seeing together (miles & sawyer from dharma time, ben & alex, etc) or that we hadn't thought about (ben & artz, sawyer & charlotte).
I noticed that they reminded us how much of conning involves telling the truth and not lying in sawyer's conversations w/ widmore and smokey-lock. I think this relates to the overall story in that smokey-locke really does seem to tell a version of the truth at all times (maybe he has to? there are a lot of rules and loopholes surrounding him), but that doesn't mean he has good intentions. honesty doesn't always equal good. and I think after watching him kill half the people in the temple I definitely agree that while jacob may not be good, smokey is definitely not good.
For those who say that an episode is a filler, or doesn't advance the story...how do you know? It is the creative team/show runners' story to tell. We can't possibly know what does or doesn't matter. At this stage, I have to believe that everything matters, in some way large or small, and I am willing to let the team tell the story that is theirs to tell...and just go along for the ride :-)
I'm finding two running things about this season very frustrating:
1. That we don't know what the stakes are in the alternate timeline. I find the explanation that this is what would happen if not for the influence of Jacob and the Island, per Ken Tremendous and JL. I still suspect that the Island characters and the alternate reality characters are going to end up at similar places, even if they get there in different ways, because that's who the characters fundamentally are. At this point, if the AR stories play out to be the epilogue-in-advance, wouldn't they effectively erase the events of the entire series? If so, why not just say, "it was all Walt's dream?"
More than anything, not knowing what the stakes are in this alternate timeline (whereas it was clear why we were seeing flashbacks or forwards), ultimately hurts the storytelling. Instead of being able to enjoy these stories for what they are, we're spending a lot of time trying to figure out what they are and if they ultimately mean anything.
2. Half of the main cast disappears for episodes at a time. We haven't had much time with Sawyer since "The Substitute," and this episode doesn't involve Ben at all. This has been a feature of Lost's storytelling since at least Season 3, when we spent too many episodes with Jack, Kate, Sawyer, Juliet and Ben on Hydra island and very little time with Hurley, Sayid, Charlie, Desmond, et al back on Craphole Island proper. And it's a result of the fundamental narrative characteristic of the show: Lost has always, with a few exceptions, focused on a single character each week. The time that other shows would spend on B-plots is used to serve the flash stories. Because we don't yet quite know what the stakes are in the alternate universe, this might be hurting the show's momentum from week to week. Aside from the obvious reality that it would be woefully inefficient to assemble half the cast and send the crew to a different location for a couple of minutes of a C-story, it might be nice to not completely ignore the pieces of the game that are out of view.
We know he sent the damn freighter, so unless Keamy and company were somehow working under some secret higher authority, most of season four's bloodshed is Widmore's fault.
I have to say, the relationship between Widmore and Keamy and co. never made a lot of sense to me (and even less so after the Widmore-related revelations of Season 5). Why would Widmore authorize them to "torch the Island"? I was willing to go with it at the time partially because Season 4 was strike-shortened, but if it turns out that all was not as it seemed, I will be happily surprised.
I still can't believe Tina Fey was on the island, and that she was a badass working for Widmore.
What was LIZ LEMON doing on that island?
Was waiting for her to spot the big island and say "Oh, nerds! I want to go to there!"
Dave B said...
Ha ha ha! I caught the Tina Fey resemblance, too.
Loved this episode. The reveal of Sawyer as cop had me in hysterics. It was nice to see Charlotte again.
Oh and also.. Remember when Sawyer surprised Juliet with a sunflower in Dharma-ville? That seems to be his thing. I'll take one! ;)
Someone mentioned that Smokey was trying to send Ben right to Widmore, which is interesting, but at the time he did that Widmore had yet to arrive. Perhaps Smokey knew he would be there, but perhaps not.
JTM said...
Jennifer Finney Boylan: I hear you. I feel your pain. I just threw my hands up in the air when yet again they give us the "here's the answer key... but first, let's take a meandering walk through the jungle for 8 more episodes."
Shawn32: I thought the exact same thing. Like, wow, a plane sure is hard to fly, so let's take a submarine. Did I miss the flashback when Sawyer went to submarine school?
This show is like an abusive relationship - they just keep torturing me and I just keep taking it. The only reason I'm hanging in there is because there are only 8 eps left, at which point I will dump and forget this show like a bad boyfriend.
Jennifer, your poor boys. Flocke didn't fool me. I immediately finished his sentence, "but now is not the time."
I love Lost but am getting a little tired of the "big tease." I don't even care about the answers anymore. Give me enough Miles and LeFleur (preferably shirtless) and I'm completely satisfied.
Oh, and a little more Ben and some Desmond sightings wouldn't hurt either.
Ransom said...
I think Schmoker is on to something. If Flight 815 never crashed, then everything that happened in the previous five seasons never happened, including the time travel. Thus, no one alerted Richard in the 1950s that Locke was the chosen one (and thus, Richard never visited Young Locke). Further, Eloise Hawking never received Daniel Farraday's notebook, meaning that Eloise and Widmore did not have access to a series of future events in order to act accordingly. That means that Eloise is unaware of Desmond and his importance to the timeline. Remember when Eloise remarked that for the first time, in a long time, she didn't know what was going to happen next? In the alt-timeline, she never knows what is going to happen next. So, the ripple effect goes well before 1977, the setting off of Jughead and the first time that Jacob touches a purported candidate. BUT HOW ABOUT THIS: (If they never went back in time, then Farraday never instructed them how to properly dispose of Jughead, meaning that it might have been set off well before 1977, which would explain the sinking of the island even before 1977).
Penny's Boat said...
Are we done with biblical theories? Surprised no one has mentioned this exchange?
Zoe Lemon: Thank God.
Sawyer: Trust me. God's got nothing to do with it.
@Ransom: If Jughead goes off before 1977 (in a no-time-traveling 815ers timeline), it would have to do so late enough for Ben and his dad to have moved there, spent some time there, and then left.
Desmond is behind that locked door. Widmore knows that Desmond is special and he is using him for his own gain.
I still think that Sawyer and Juliet will meet in the sideways flashes and hookup, hence he last words about getting coffee. she knew it worked because at that moment, she was aware she was alive in both timelines.
Smizzle - very valid. I made this complaint on another board I read, regarding the exact same moment (Sawyer on the sub).
The alt-universe is starting to bug me like the flashbacks were towards the end of S2 and into S3. Yes, yes, I'm sure they have a point, but geesh, I want to see what's happening on the island more than I want to see Sawyer on a date.
He said it was a long time ago, before he looked like he does now.
I do wonder what other parallels there are between Real Locke and Smokey, though. Locke had to get Sawyer to kill his dad for him. Similar to Smokey using Ben to kill Jacob. Maybe Jacob was Smokey's dad?
There are many men that like seeing Josh Holloway with his shirt off. Just thought I'd let you know there are gay men that read you as well.
I'm enjoying this season and the flash-sideways; like Alan, I have had to learn (as far back as season 3) to just enjoy watching the actors/characters because if I start to think about what everything means, if it is consistent with what has happened before, etc I am afraid I will either lose my mind, throw something at my TV, and/or stop watching.
I like Mike's theories, but don't know that they hold up. First of all, Ben has been at the "when push comes to shove" point several times and has chosen murder every time prior to this most recent one (his father, the rest of Dharma, Locke, Jacob) so I don't know that you could say he (at least the "island he") is inherently decent or good.
Also I think Sawyer didn't arrest Kate because then he would have had to explain why he was at LAX when he was supposed to be in Palm Springs.
After so many bad TV portrayals of the LAPD, I thought it was really swell to get to see their gentler side: 1. Sawyer letting a shackled, cuffed Kate happily flee from federal agents at LAX. 2. The entire force allowing Sawyer to have sex with the suspect before completing the bust. 3. Allowing Sawyer to use the LAPD desk phone to call every person in the continental US named Anthony Cooper. (Seems like the prudent thing to do if looking to commit murder in your spare time.)
I also LOVED the huge GOTCHA at the end. "We're not taking the plane, Freckles. We're taking the submarine!"
You know, because planes have so much tricky gadgetry, and require a whole lot of training to be able to operate. Not like bikes, mopeds, or nuclear subs. LeFleur!!!!!!!!!
Ok, Lepidoptera, not that your bitterness about the show doesn't lead to very entertaining comments, but if you get so upset at it, why are you still watching? Is it because after putting this much time in you feel you have to ride it out (kinda like a bad 24 season)?
hilker said...
And other than his Republican Guard background, Sayid has spent the entire series as one of the most decent men on Craphole Island.
Was that before or after he tortured Sawyer over a misplaced asthma inhaler and remorselessly assassinated dozens of people on Ben's orders?
It's plausible in the 3 years he was in the Dharma Iniative and came to be the head of security, it's certainly plausible that LaFleur had to learn how to operate the DI's submarine. And since Widmore amazingly* has the exact same model of sub, why wouldn't Sawyer be able to transfer some basic submariner training to be able to get away on Widmore's sub?
*not so amazing, given that Lost still has a TV-sized budget.
Just to throw my findings onto the ever-growing pile of possibly meaningless Lost literary references:
The copy of Watership Down on James Ford's nightstand was stacked on top of a copy of A Wrinkle in Time and a book called Lancelot by Walker Percy. I think Wrinkle in Time has some fairly obvious connections with the types of themes and stories Lost has been working with, but also might have some correlation with the free will vs. predestination theories about the show.
I've never heard of Lancelot, but wikipedia helpfully outlines the plot, which is about a lawyer who murders his wife after discovering he's not the father of one of their children. James Ford must really like reading books that eerily echo his life story.
I agree with @liz and @noelfisher: Widmore is not there to kill Smokey. That idea was planted in our heads purposefully via the conversations, but the actors' eyes intentionally give the secret away for those who are paying careful attention. That was just too quick of an assumption on Sawyer's part, and the fact that neither Smokey or Widmore debated it tells me we're being thrown off track.
An anon poster above said: "Why would Widmore and the Locke-ness Monster be at odds? It's Jacob and Ben Linus vs Locke-ness and Widmore, isn't it?" That's my thinking, too. We know from previous seasons that Ben and Widmore are on opposing sides. Ben is, and has always been, on the side of Jacob (unless someone can counter that?).
So therefore Widmore is either on Smokey's side, or on the island to accomplish a purpose that is independent of Smokey. Since I think Jacob and Smokey are the big players and everyone has to be on one side or another (at least for now, as some Losties--especially Sawyer--may choose to reject both), then Widmore and Smokey aren't out to destroy one another. I think it's more likely that they're co-conspirators, or willing to use one another to accomplish their own purposes.
BTW, Alan, I don't think I've commented here before (although I may have in a previous season). Just want to say thanks for your recaps. They're always the first thing I read after watching Lost.
i really thought this was 1 of the worst episodes in Lost history, i like Josh Holloway and Sawyer 1-4, but the last season and a half hes been a terrible character. predictable island scenes, rehashed "Confidence Man" scenes=mess and poorly executed episode
No talking about the content of upcoming episodes, guys.
When Charlotte was "looking for a tee shirt" it looked to me like she was searching with real purpose so I thought at the time that she was looking for something specific (maybe something Miles had told her to look for. But they didn't address it so i guess I was wrong. Did anyone else think it looked suspicious the way she was tearing through the drawer?
Hatfield, yes your 24 analogy is spot-on. I still maintain that the first 3 seasons of Jack Bauer were great TV, but I have moved on. I also loved the first season of Lost, and from the get-go, the creators had the moxie to tease us that this is a master plan behind all of this craziness. So, I have hung on. Past seasons have made me (like Claire) intermittently crazy. But this season is, in my humble opinion, a train wreck, and the sideways timeline, has been a terrible contrast to the great early story-telling of the show. I call this the Mad Lib timeline, because I think one writer at a time was given 5 Mad Lib categories:
1. A Lost Character
2. A Profession
3. A Taboo Sexual Situation
4. A Random Thing To Do
5. A Criminal Act
6. Another Lost Character
1. SAYID (character) is now a CONTRACTOR (profession) who dangerously COVETS HIS BROTHER'S WIFE (sexual taboo). After a series of things related to this, he EATS EGGS (random thing to do) before he COMMITS MURDER (criminal act) and then in a crazy twist, he finds JIN (other character.)
2. BEN LINUS (character) is now a HIGH SCHOOL TEACHER (profession) who learns about COED VOYEURISM (sexual taboo). After a series of things related to this, he MAKES A TV DINNER (random thing to do) before he THREATENS BLACKMAIL (criminal act), and then in a crazy twist, he saves ALEX (other character).
3. SAWYER (character) is now a COP (profession) who HAS SEX WITH A MARRIED WOMAN/CRIMINAL, and UNPROTECTED SEX WITH AN ARCHAELOGIST (twofer on the sex acts). After a series of things relating to this, he WATCHES HIGHWAY TO HEAVEN and BUYS A SIX PACK OF MICKEYS (twofer on random things) before he PLOTS MURDER (criminal act), and then is sideswiped by KATE (other character).
If you've lost your way, color by numbers, I guess.
I'm not sure what to think of Charlotte going through the drawer since they seemed to go out of their way to show that she hadn't found a T-shirt yet. Her reaction to the picture of the Ford family looked more like "Aww, James was an adorable little boy" than anything.
Dennis, I sense a deletion in your future.
Lepidoptera, HAHA. I am almost the opposite of you as far as satisfaction with the show goes, but that was great. Thanks for realizing I was just curious.
Since you asked, Dennis, previews are a no-no: see the commenting rules.
Kenrick said...
i have nothing to add... other than... mmm... cake http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hILqMGb2u2w
Very well-done, Lepidoptera. The archaeologist line still has me laughing. One correction, though: you mixed up your Michael Landon shows. It was Little House on the Prairie, not Highway to Heaven.
Personally I think the alternate reality is going to tie in more significantly than just a game of 'spot the difference'/'what if?'. Juliet told Sawyer, (via Miles), that "it worked", in 'LA X', possibly suggesting she has somehow reconnected/converged with her alt-timeline self. Also the producers have previously suggested that approximately a third of the way through the season everything will converge onto one timeline and be straight story-telling from then onwards.
P.S. Anyone else getting annoyed at the lack of a name for flocke/smocke/smokey/the locke-ness monster/un-locke? I'm guessing this is significant, possibly he's a character we're actually already semi-familiar with.... maybe Aaron? Or Walt? Or maybe he's the captain of the black rock, hence "it's good to see you out of those chains richard"...?
I figured the reason Sawyer would suggest the sub as opposed to the Plane is due to the fact that the sub has a captain while Lapidus is nowhere to be found. Although, I'm not really sure why they felt the need to add the exageratted music.
Alternate theory on the sub lock up, it's not Desmond it's Aaron. Aaron is still a special character to the island. Having an armed guard outside the door squashes the theory a little bit though.
Is it wrong to secretly hope that the final episode of Lost mirrors every season finale of Survivor with the "trail of remembrance"?
I totally see Jack/Kate/Sawyer walk along the beach into the jungle stopping in memory of their forgotten friends at familiar places, with Sawyer saying the obligatory quip, Jack trying to say something meaningful and Kaye saying something completely useless.
Maybe the guard is so no one goes in, not because they're worried someone will escape.
One quibble with the mad libs: almost no one has protected sex on TV--it's just not cool.
Has America ever met a brunette with glasses (in the past 3-5 years) whom it didn't immediately compare to Tina Fey?
Miss Constance said...
First, thank you for the recap, Alan. If I may call you that.
Everyone has written some great insights here, especially Schmocker and Ransom.
Here are some of my questions and hypothetical answers regarding this episode:
Are Widmore and Smockey on the same side? All eyes point to yes, but why is he building the sonar fence?
Is Claire really repentant for trying to kill Kate and just confused? Or is it part of her and Smockey's larger end game? And if she is just confused, does that mean she's different from Sayid? Did she not die in the house explosion, like I and others have surmised? Or is she different because she took the vaccinations when she was pregnant with Aaron?
And most importantly, who is Miles' girlfriend? Someone we know, like Libby? Ana Lucia? Naomi? Any other Lostie? Can he still communicate with the dead? Wouldn't his last name be Chang in the sideflash?
Does Smokey have a "touch" thing happening too? He hasn't touched Kate yet (in the crying scene, she refused to take his hand in assistance to get up) I think he touched both Sayid and Claire (maybe others too, I'll have to watch again.) No one has brought this up, so I just thought I'd chime in since I thought they made a point about Kate not accepting Locke's hand.
Mick,
I was wondering the same thing. I believe he did extend a hand to Sawyer when the ladder broke on their way to the cave and I believe Sawyer took it. I was thinking he probably didn't need to touch Sayid and Claire since they were infected/claimed already.
"One quibble with the mad libs: almost no one has protected sex on TV--it's just not cool."
That's because when they try to it turns out their best friend has stolen the condom.
Don't know why folks are concerned about Sawyer piloting the sub (although that'd be another great spinoff - Captain James Ford in Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea!).
Sawyer would obviously just hold the real captain at gunpoint, as he's done before.
I would think either Sawyer got some sub training during his Dharma Haze Days, or he is planning on taking the sub captain hostage. Either way, I'll just wait until they cross that bridge before I worry about burning it.
I, too, wondered about how repentant Claire actually was. It was the strangest thing in the episode. If she's "infected," whatever the hell that means, then is it really that easy to begin to come out of it? Or did Smocke lay a beat down on her, either physical or metaphysical? Or is it all part of Smocke's plan to lure in Kate?
I did notice that as Smocke was comforting the two children, Claire took Kate's hand. At first blush it appeared a childlike reflex on Claire's part. But her eyes stayed dead the whole time, and then she released Kate's hand and walked away like zombie when Smocke was done. Seemed like she was mirroring Smocke there, trying to offer some false comfort and kindness to Kate while Smocke was doing the same to the two kids---only Claire isn't as smooth or polished as Smocke, so it ultimately rang false to me, and I think to Kate, too.
So, was the hug out in the woods simply more of that same game? Because it just seems weird to me that Claire could reach that point that quickly after three years under Smockey's control, when clearly Sayid is batshite crazy after just a day and night of dealing with "infection." He never moved a muscle or batted an eyelid when Claire went for Kate with the knife, and THAT is not Sayid, my friends. Call him a heart of darkness all you want, but that ain't Sayid. That is Zombie Sayid, and something has been done to him, taken from him, whatever, but to look at him since he rose from the dead as being the same guy we have watched all these years would be a mistake.
I also thought Sawyer jumped too quickly to Widmore killing Smocke. Seemed a bit weak, but there were those sonic fences they were erecting, so there was definitely good reason to think that. I was, however, a little ticked at the writers (which I rarely ever get) for writing that scene in such a way that the most skeptical character on the show never even tried to get any answers out of Widmore. That is what Sawyer does best--listen to people and gauge their truthfulness--so it seems very unlikely he would have just started squawking without hearing Widmore out first.
Can't be too upset, though, because the occasional lapse aside, the show has been fan-frakking-tastic for six straight years. About the best show of any kind I've ever watched. I have nothing about which to complain, and they could make the whole thing a dream in Tommy Westphal's head at this point if they want to. They paid off my loyalty years ago, moving me to laughter and tears more times than I can possibly remember, so they can do whatever the hell they please now.
So what is the current thinking?
Smokey can or cannot cross the water?
Smocke can or cannot cross the water and then turn into Smokey?
Is the New Otherton-type Hydra Sonic Barriers to keep out Ol' Smoke or to trap him?
Trivial, but Los Angeles's airport is simply known as LAX, not LA-space-X.
"Trivial, but Los Angeles's airport is simply known as LAX, not LA-space-X."
"LA X" is referring to the title of the season premiere, not the airport.
I was thinking... the immediate aftermath of the Incident's Jughead explosion (beginning of season 6) are way too similar to the immediate aftermath of the Swan implosion (beginning of season 3) . Both are cases where human beings were exposed to massive amounts of electromagnetism. Particularly in regards to Juliet and Desmond, who were at ground zero to something that should not have been survivable. Others in nearby proximity - Locke & Eko in the Hatch, and Jack, Kate, et al in the Incident - miraculously awoke in the jungle finding themselves temporarily mute or deaf.
Desmond at ground zero in the Hatch implosion awoke in the past when he was painting his flat with Penny Widmore. His consciousness became unanchored in time as he consciously relived his past with deja vu cases (seeing Charlie or heard "815" or saw that soccer match, etc). He began to remember events that had not happened yet (Locke's speech, Charlie's many deaths, etc.) until his mind deteriorated in The Constant until he was able to anchor his thoughts on a constant across his life - Penny. Hence Faraday's proclamation that Desmond is "special" and "the rules don't apply to him." And by rules, my guess is he meant the 1 way directional understanding of time that the rest of us humans have.
Juliet however had suffered mortal wounds in her fall prior to the Jughead detonation. Post Jughead explosion we saw her consciousness apparently drift nonsensically, and Miles' post mortem reading of her thoughts revealed her last thoughts to be her telling Sawyer that Faraday/Jack's Jughead plan worked.
I don't think these flash sideways are an epilogue in advance. If you think of us humans as radios tuned permanently to a specific frequency aka here in the present, Desmond is special in that he can (involuntarily) change his frequency to have a past tense sense of the future or a present tense sense of the past. Maybe he can even glimpse parallel realities such as where Charlie dies by an arrow in one, by drowning in another, by lightning in another, etc. The flash sideways is one such alternate reality. And I'd bet Desmond and Juliet are the keys to understanding it.
Random thoughts lying in bed last night:
In the flash sideways story, Jack and Locke meet. What if Jack ends up repairing Locke's back in this AR. Will this help answer, perhaps, in some way how the Island gave back Locke's legs?
Am I wrong to assume that Smokey can only take the form of someone who died off island (and maybe only a person who's corpse was returned to the Island). Besides Locke and probably Christian Shepherd, has Smokey appeared as anyone else?
Desmond on flight 815 in the AR and probably locked away on the sub. Is Desmond the big wild card to everything?
Why is my gut and not my head telling me that Jack and Sawyer are going to end up being the new Jacob and MIB. Crappy ending, but I can see Sawyer looking for a loophole to kill Jack 200 years from now.
kishkeking:
The monster also appeared as Eko's brother whose body was brought to the island in the heroin plane crash, so that fits in with your theory
And Yemmi, Mr. Eko's brother too! (refering to Smokey taking a form)
Chijip,
You beat me to the punch as I was uploading that :)
And Alex!!!
Scratch Alex. She died on the island.
kevin J said...
Widmor has to be evil – he brought mercenaries to kill everyone on the island, last season during the flashes a young Widmor and his Latin speaking buddies captured Juliet and Sawyer and he was about to cut off her arm with a machete right as the island flashed. He wanted Alex killed and he was also a total b*stard to Desmond which just isn't nice.
The sideways flashes almost seem like a type of karmic alt timeline for the Losties. That being said, even though Sayid has chosen MIB's side, since he has a sideways life with Nadia in it and he's not a professional assassin it makes me think that in the end he sides with Jacob.
I'm not sure what the writers were going for but I couldn't imagine Ford and Miles as street-tough city cops, they seemed more like cops from the 80's, sort of like Simon & Simon or Magnum.
My guess is that Sawyer gets killed off in dramatic fashion - providing his character a worthy ending.
I see Sawyer, the character, as almost a blatant ripoff of Han Solo - both wise cracking loners who claim to owe allegiance to no one. There is an interview with Harrison Ford in which he discuss Han Solo and how he lobbied George Lucas to kill of Han Solo during the making of Star Wars. His argument was that Han Solo deserved to go out in a blaze of glory and that he should get the opportunity to make a great sacrifice for his friends.
I see Sawyer going out the same way - one last chance to be finally be the hero and save his friends.
While I like the alt-universe-as-character's-essential-nature theory thematically, I don't think it quite makes sense. These people are clearly still under the influence of something. Dogen and Alex living in L.A., Arzt, Locke and Ben all working at the same school, James Ford's code word being "LaFleur" - this isn't just regular life. I guess I'm in the minority in that I actually enjoy most of the sideways stories and don't find them to be a drag on the show (what problems I do have with this season are almost exclusively to do with on-island pacing).
I want to vote for Libby as the mother of Jack's child. She was also in med school (and, unlike Juliet, she's actually from the Los Angeles area). She's also the right age to have a son David's age - Juliet may be as well - her age is a bit of a mystery to me, particularly considering that weird flashback to her as a child in a completely modern house wearing clothes I think I saw on sale last summer at the Gap.
Also, Libby's husband in the regular universe was named David. I'm not claiming any direct connection between that and Jack's son's name, but it's the kind of coincidence Lost likes.
Lepidoptera - These AR segments would only look random or pointless if you don't remember past episodes.
3)Sawyer watching Little House on the Prairie (not Highway to Heaven)wasn't random. Sawyer once told Kate he watched Little House when he was absent from school for two months and the family's TV only got one channel. Although he'd never admit it, Sawyer was drawn to the show because it represented the kind of happy, stable family life he never had. His whole life in the AR revolved around the trauma caused by the way his family lived and died.
What's taboo about two single adults having concensual sex, and how can you tell they had "unprotected" sex?
2) Ben serving dinner to his father (and changing his oxygen tank) was not random. It showed the care and concern he had for his father, in sharp contrast to the Ben who hated his father enough to kill him (with a tank of gas) in another life.
How was Alex involved with "coed vouyerism"? She accidentally discovered the principal having sex - I don't think she hung around to watch. The whole point of that was to give Ben something to use for blackmail purposes.
1) Sayid didn't eat the eggs, Keamy did. This showed that AR Keamy was still a total psychopath, the kind who could offer to cook eggs for you one minute and kill you the next.
Sayid's scenes with Nadia in the AR are about more than his sexual longing for her. These scenes show that Sayid will always be thwarted in his attemps to be with her, just as he seems to be condemned to a life of violence. It appears there are no happy endings for Sayid.
I know your comments were meant to be funny, but it's not fair to confuse shallow interpretation by the viewer with shallow writing.
@most recent Anonymous: Oh, you're no fun anymore!
What's this about Widmore chopping off Juliet's arm? I don't remember that. I do remember Sawyer and Juliet capturing teenage/early 20s Widmore in 1954, but there was no threatened arm-chopping that was cut off (heh) by a flash. Did he threaten to do it before Locke showed up?
kishkeking,
I think the deal is that Smokey can show up as anyone who has a corpse on the island and hasn't been buried. I don't know how other visions, Hurley's friend Dave, Kate's horse, figure into it. Are they Smokey also? The other observation is that Christian and Walt both appeared to people on the island. The show recently went out of it's way again to explain that Christian's body has never been recovered. It's simply gone...both in this world and the parallel one. Then there is Walt who has shown up to several people and who never died at all. I suspect they may not be Smokey.
As Hatfield recently pointed out to me Jack put white shoes on Christian's body in Sydney. He put a black pair of Christian's shoes on Locke before the second crash. I can't wait til they explain what Christian's all about.
The other thing is that with the appearance of that boy a few episodes ago we know that someone/something else can cause apparitions to appear to Smokey.
I think Drifter's got the right idea about what happened to Juliet. I don't think the bomb went off. I think the Incident just ran its course making Juliet like Desmond.
To Hatfield, re: Widmore chopping off Juliet’s arm….
The young Widmore actually threatened to chop off both of her hands. He said something about the first one not being negotiable, and threatened to chop off the second one if they (Sawyer & Juliet) didn’t tell him what he wanted to know. Then Locke showed up to save the day.
Instead of being able to enjoy these stories for what they are, we're spending a lot of time trying to figure out what they are and if they ultimately mean anything.
Only if "we" are so inclined. Some of "us" are just enjoying the ride.
By the way: Isn't there a theory floating around about the significance of the names Charlotte Lewis and Charles Widmore?
I'll be suprised if the whole Walt storyline and the different early sightings of him will ever be explained. I was under the impression that they had to write him off because the actor was growing just too fast to be explained in the short lost timeline.
And Kate's horse!
Which reminds me, other than the Outrigger shootout, nothing remains more unexplored than the talking eagle from the Season 2 finale.
BF:
I forgot all about the talking eagle. Refresh me. Did everyone hear it talk, or was it only Hurley who heard it call his name?
As far as the black horse....I'd like to have an explanation but with only half a season left, I'll be shocked if they explain that one. Although never seen, if the Dharma once had polar bears (I guess the bears swam over from hydra island) I guess they could have had black horses around although how they swam the two miles is still a mystery.
I'll reconcile the horse, regardless that it seemed broken in, as just another wild animal like chickens and rabbits we've seen.
Alan, I think the time has come for you to start a new thread where everyone can write what we'd like to see answered. There were so many fun irreconcilable events throughout the run I think it will help refresh everyone.
Guys, once again: NO TALKING ABOUT THE CONTENT OF UPCOMING EPISODES in any way, shape or form. Period.
Alan, I think the time has come for you to start a new thread where everyone can write what we'd like to see answered.
I did that back in January.
Alan, You talked about who should have been cast in the "Rockford" remake on the Podcast and I think you missed the obvious choice. Josh Holloway. He would make a great wisecracking PI.
Not a bad episode with a lot of fun little things (like Liam showing up) and a nice set up for the inevitabel clash. Just some thoughts on it:
* I just wonder why Widmore, a billionaire with a sub (a lot of people in Lost seem to have one!), can only get such a meagre bunch of mercenaries? This new lot looks like a bunch of office drones who're off to a paintball match. Can't he afford any real killers like Keamy anymore?
* The pile of bodies seemed to correspond with the number of Ajira survivors, but I thought that Flocke's flock was much bigger when they left the temple. In this episode it seems like it's just the candidates + Claire, Cindy, the kids and some pensioners.
* Is Sawyer planning on taking the whole sub crew hostage? Don't really see how else he'll be able to pilot it.
* And he's a real romantic too: who needs roses and choclates if you can get a sunflower and a six-pack of beers? ;)
DJ Doena said...
has anyone considered the idea that this might be very well a "Babylon 5"-ish setup where in the end both superior beings are neither truly good nor truly evil but instead simply superior annoyances?
After going back to Alan's January post and reading the questions people wanted answers to, it's pretty amazing how much has already been answered and how many new questions there are.
DJ Doena: Yes, people have been mentioning Babylon 5 (and the Shadows and Vorlons) in regards to Jacob/"Locke" for weeks now, almost every episode review in the past 2 months has at least one comment mentioning that.
Alan: No theories here about Jin being in the freezer beyond what others have said after Sayid's episode, but I'd assume Kate was simply trying to evade police, since a police cruiser with its lights and sirens on was chasing her when she slammed into the undercover car with Miles and James in it.
Also, re: James helping Kate out back in the airport earlier in the season, he helped her not because he's bad or good, but because he tends to think with his penis.
Say what you want about Jack, but he tends to consult his brain first and foremost (heart and penis be damned), which is more than can be said for Sawyer.
Regarding Smokey and Whitmore being on the same side, there are two problems with that theory: Why the anti-Smokey fence, and why did Smokey attack Whitmore's men from the ship after they killed Alex?
Personally, the scene I'm most interested in seeing is when Claire and Jack finally see each other again.
One further observation on rewatching:
A) Sawyer sees Jin in the tent, says "I'm with Locke" (because he can get them off the island).
B) Kate asks Sawyer straight up (5 minutes later), "So you're with Locke now?" Answer: "I ain't with anybody, Kate."
C) Final scene of show, Sawyer tells *Kate* his "real" plan, to double-cross Smokey and Widmore. That is, he is in fact consistent with B.
So my question really is: does he feel the need to "play" Jin by keeping his real intentions close to the vest (particularly while among the Smokies), and he can only trust Kate because he knows she can see through his cons most of the time? Or is he playing Kate? I know the latter isn't as likely, given his one-time feelings for her, but it's interesting to note.
Or it could just be writing to reiterate the important character trait, i.e. the con--one that most of us know but any latecomers might not? As well as maybe being expositive writing, reestablishing Sawyer in Locke's camp through direct dialogue...
Could just be that Sawyer thinks Kate can lie convincingly and Jin can't.
Now, for all of you griping about Sawyer planning to take the sub albeit not knowing how to operate one: Hasn't it occured to you he might not be planning to operate it himself?
After all, it wouldn't be the first sub to be hijacked in Lost now, would it? And while Sawyer probably doesn't know the Ajira flight's pilot is still alive he can safely assume that some core crew will remain on the sub during the final battle, because as many here have pointed out: it's a submarine, a super-complicated system; not everybody on it will be gun-toting mercenaries, there needs to be someone who can operate it. Geez.
But I'll give you this: The 737 made me yell at my TV, too
Mayn Man said...
Alan, about Sawyer letting Kate go in LAX and not arresting her, I think the reason why he didn't arrest her was because he wasn't supposed to be there. HE travelled to Australia under the pretense that he was going somehwere else.
Two things that occurred to me while watching the episode again:
1. Well, this was more of a thought: Did Jacob touch Claire at any time? Maybe he was channeling himself through Richard Malkin and the psychic reading that was done in "Raised By Another."
2. Anyone else notice that Miles described Charlotte as "working with (his) dad at the museum"? Did everyone associated with the Dharma Initiative just move to LA? What's Horace doing? Or Radzinsky?
I'd love to see a Hurley episode at this point. How'd he get so successful in the Sideways world?
Smizzle said: "I don't enjoy the viewing experience when they give me 10 minute increments of the show I want to watch, interspersed with 10 minute increments of a show I've never seen (that happens to have little callouts to the show I like)" Quoted for the truth.
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Title: "Addiction"
Part 1 in a 3 part series.
Author: Shawn
Summary: Coping with the sometimes unfair struggles life throws at you through addictions is not a way to solve ones problems, and in effect, will only prolong ones despair.
Rated: NC-17
Category: Erotica/Angst
Characters: Buffy, Xander, Faith, and Willow.
Ship: B/X
Timeline/Spoilers: Everything is cannon through the end of both series, Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel: The Series. The only difference is anything said about the Buffy characters whereabouts and activities in the last season of Angel are completely ignored here. After "Chosen" and "Not Fade Away" it's my universe all the way.
Disclaimer: Joss owns it all. I just let them out to play once in a while.
Email: DayShawn1974@hotmail.com
Authors Notes: The need to write something erotic and angsty came over me all of a sudden, and this was the result. You'll find this world of the Scoobies a bit darker, character wise, then you're probably used to in my work. Not darker in the sense of deeds, but of how they see their lives and the lives of those around them. The Scooby Gang are older, battle weary, and none of them are living lives that fulfill them. Unfortunately, there are times in life one builds a crutch to lean on, no matter what that crutch is, just to cope with the day to day struggle of living. That's what I hope to explore here. This is the beginning of a series.
Dedicated to: Brooke, who I know is still wanted me to write "Shhhh," but this came out first. Loves ya bunches:)
"Gasping"
gasping, clutching, writhing
twisting, jerking, bucking
with exploding senses
I am you
you are me
intertwined, mixed-up, conjoined
forever in this moment
available to fall into it
passionate, intrinsic, animalistic
returning to connectedness
with my body
proof of exertion
yet relieved of tension
flows like the tide
upon my psyche
- Symone Gray
The apartment of Buffy Summers
Monday, October 5, 2005 11:45 PM
Restless...
Without within, on yet another night that's left his soul weary, Xander sought the last bastion of peace he knew existed in the world. Through a maelstrom of somber emotion, he sought the light amidst death. Life, thy name is Buffy. And so when he is inside her, he is alive.
Able to breathe again after one of the longest nights in recent memory.
Ever thankful for the deep plush carpet on her living room floor, Buffy rolled her hips over his lap, squeezing around him as she rode slow and sensual, easing her way down from the heights of a quivering climax moments ago. Her hands braced on his muscled chest, nails digging into his sweat dampened skin as she impaled herself on his long shaft, riding him as the simmering heat of their bodies slicked her every descent.
When he arrived at her doorstep twenty minutes ago, soaking wet from yet another of London's rain storm, his eyes briefly conveyed the lost being of an older man. A crushed sprit requiring sustenance, and since he came to her, needed her, the responsibility became her very own.
Of course she could never turn him away, freely giving what she has taken whenever she needed it over the past several months when their world turned that much darker. When the days grew short and the night grew colder, with no end in sight. She expected his arrival as soon as Giles had called and filled her in on what had happened. The storm and the darkness would lead him here. Of that she had no doubt. Tonight, Xander needed her. Needed pleasure. Softness. Comfort. Affection. Companionship. Passion, and that quiet understanding of one who knew his life, could relate to it, and the all to human desire to feel alive. She was there, once, and is again in a different sort of way. So they share their depression, unhappiness, and regret with their merging flesh. Share it through the most hungry kisses, the most elicit encounters, and the unbelievably desperate passion between them, given life out of nowhere.
From the very moment Buffy opened the door and looked into his troubled brown eyes, Xander kissed her questions away. The wet fabric of his jacket soaked into the soft white cotton of her bath robe. He needed, and so she gave freely, secretly pleased that he would seek no other. That no one else would do. Having just taken a long candlelit bath, the Slayer found herself lifted off her bare feet and carried five strides from her front door to the living room. He gently laid her down on the plush Navaho brown carpet, directly in front of the fireplace. So great was his need to be one with her that the bed was simply to far away. Xander towered over her, his snarling breath bathing her belly in trembling waves of heat, his needy eyes ravenous for her as he shed his jacket and shirt, then the rest of his clothing. Not once did he tear his gaze from her, his cock rigid thick with blood, aching before her.
Panting in the wake of his undeniable craving, Buffy felt helpless and wet instantly, the sheer recklessness wafting off of him as if smoke pillowing in the air. Her toes curled as his hunger made her feel small and feminine. She didn't move a muscle when he yanked open the sash on her bath robe. His cock throbbed before her very eyes as he appraised her beautiful body, bared before him by firelight. Her fingernails dug into the soft carpet, grabbing handfuls when he slowly pushed her knees apart. As his head lowered between her thighs and the warmth of his breath brushed her clit the second before his tongue did, she knew he wouldn't stop until he was sated and she was claimed fully as his own.
With a roaring fire nearby and a thunderstorm serenading them outside, Xander ate Buffy to a screaming orgasm that left her crying out on her side, shaking uncontrollably, with his head clutched between her thighs as her hips arched, pumping toward his hungry mouth. Upon recovering, only penetration would do, and he wanted her on top just so he could watch her move.
Mercy, how he loves the way she moves.
As if her glorious body were attuned to some sweet music only he could hear, Xander reveled in the rhythm of Buffy's sirens song. The lusciously soft skin of her exposed neck called out to him every time she threw her gorgeous blonde hair back. Her knees braced on the floor for maximum penetration as her womanhood tightened and released him. Only her low moaning accompanied the crackling logs of the nearby fire. As hot as the flames were, they couldn't begin to compare to the furnace within her, wrapped so tight around him as she rose and fell, time and time again, before descending to him as if a angel falling to Earth, soul-kissing him deeply. His arms trapped her petite frame, his hips now arching higher, lifting her small body with hard up thrusts that literally bounced her on his cock.
"Slower," she requested to calm his lust, and he humbly complied. Using the flat of her moist tongue, lapping his lips in slow licks, Buffy methodically lifted off his glistening hardness. She followed his intensely focused gaze between her legs at the point they are joined, then slammed back down hard, tearing from his throat the most delicious groan. She did it again, her hands gripping his shoulders. "You like that?"
As if she didn't know, the devilishly evil minx. "You know I do."
"Is it hot enough for you?" She shot her hand behind her and clutched his balls, squeezing them, pulling them.
One long probing kiss answered for him, capturing her lips, inhaling the very breath from her lungs. "... so tight," whimpered as the liquid sounds of their mating echoed around them.
In the dead of night. enjoying the darkness of her living room, on the floor they held hands, their fingers
entwined. Buffy's riding with voracious vigor as Xander held on for dear life. Both were on that quivery crest of orgasm, the husky tenors of their voices lifting above them. Minutes blended, one into the other as the flames grew with intensity, seemingly burning out of control the second they climaxed together, their bodies hitching and shuddering. Xander sat up, holding her so close as they rocked and came... they came so hard together in each others arms.
It's always this way. This passionate when the ills of a cruel world began closing in, crushing the air around
them. There were so few things in the world they had any real power over, could change, or effect for
the better. But they did have this. And it more often than not helped them sleep through the night.
Two and a half years post-Sunnydale, and it turns out the Slaying is even darker than before. Relocating to England brought with it excitement, anticipation, and the belief that this was the right thing to do and the right way to do it. But as time passed, with more Slayers came greater threats. With the rebirth of a Watchers Council far more powerful than the one before it, came the return of age old enemies. Angry, brutal, and with a grudge to wage war, they intensified their activities in England, going against the common wisdom that more Slayers would make the Big Bads run.
On the contrary. It made them fight harder.
Months grew into two and a half years before anyone knew it. Slaying that was once literally a walk in the park with friends now became a sweep of the city and surrounding countryside, broken up into sectors. Each team traveling in a heavily armored Hummer, seeking out demons, vampires, and all other beings of hell that dared rear it's ugly head.
The cruelties grew in number. The attacks came far more vicious. The bad guys didn't seem to care about winning or losing so much as killing as many innocent people as they could. The good guys could win the fight, but were steadily losing the war within themselves to truly believe they were making a difference.
The Scooby Gang didn't attend college. None of them went back. None of them had time too. They never got around to taking that month long vacation together they all joked about since 2003. There was only the rebuilding of the Watchers Council, the recruiting of men and women believed to be the kind that could do the work necessary, and their own personal involvement, now deeper than ever before. No, they never found their lives outside of Slaying. Not one of them. As time past they only dug themselves deeper in the grave of this miserable lifestyle.
Dark, angry, hate-filled nights became the norm, with none of them seemingly able to break away, whether they wanted to or not.
Perhaps that's one of the reasons Buffy's sexual appetites sometimes boarded on the rougher side. Ever the primal creature, there are moments she enjoyed affectionate loving pleasure, but craved an angrier form more times than not. Even now, after a brief rest period, Xander's holding her wrists back as he slammed into her from behind on the couch, lunging deeper inside her with every hard invasion. Never the shy type, she's giving as good as she's getting, vigorously humping back at his every thrust, so into it trickles of their combined juices dripped trails of wetness down her inner thighs.
The sinfully intoxicating sensation of his hard flesh spreading her open made his blood boil beneath his skin. A fine sheen of sweat shimmered his body against the backlight of the fireplace. Every time he collided with her ass, the heightened smacks of their flesh slapping together caused him grow that much thicker inside her. Made him take her that much harder, yanking her slim frame back into his savage assault. His jaws muscles tensed, eyes shut to the droplets of sweat sliding down her arched back, cascading off her supple round ass. Her head rested on the head rest, jerking with his every thrust. The erotic purring noises she made encouraged him, burying every inch of his cock deep inside her weeping slit. He could feel her sucking around him, caressing him from within, as if her body willed him to stay inside her, never to leave.
"... harder."
Hunched over her back, he whispered in a ragged breath, "That's what you always say."
"That's how I like it." Fuck, she's filled to exquisite fullness, her body flushed a shade of scarlet as he dominated her just the way she wanted him too. Her eyes closed, her pussy gripping his cock like a hot, slippery vice. He's seized her tonight, ravishing her thoroughly as they fucked.
"You're such a bad girl."
"'Your' bad girl," she chanted over her shoulder, smirking so sexy, then fell forward when he released her wrists. His large warm hands spanned her hips, holding her steady as he pounded into her from behind, taking her so deep, thick and hot, filling her to a fullness that left her sensitive clit swollen. God, he felt big inside her, and had the kind of staying power that made her whimper his name, "... Xander."
Having a lover who knew you so well was a godsend, especially when his hand slipped between her legs, his fingers massaging her clit just the way she needed, weakening her knees as her body convulsed in time with his stroking. Time stood still, save for the harsh grunting over her shoulder as he fucked her faster, grinding against her backside, rubbing her clit back and forth until her legs gave out, she crouched over almost in the fetal position, gripping him in rhythmic rippling waves. "Ahhhhh....ohgod...uhhnnn." Her fists grabbed the couch pillows, eyes squeezed shut, teeth grating, her body liquefying... coming all over his now constantly throbbing shaft. Her heart pounded the beat of a tribal drum. She felt weightless when he pulled out of her, laid her down, covered her again, and pushed inside to the hilt, buried to the end of time.
"Need you, Buffy... only you... need you so bad... always need you," he declared with wet kisses along her neck. The incomprehensible rasping noises she made left him no choice but to tame her. Nothing, nowhere, and at no time ever compared to the writhing woman beneath him. Her kiss swollen lips pursed, desire laden eyes stared at up him. His hips began a savage surging, crushing her into the couch, his lips devouring hers as he relentlessly fucked her until that familiar tension coiled like a snake ready to strike.
Her hands played over the tense muscles of his shoulders, slowly down his back as the solid weight of him held her down. Having gotten off three times already, Buffy wanted this to be so good for him. She slipped her arms around his neck, her legs around his waist, her ankles locked over his lower back, trapping him in her full embrace. She leaned close to his ear, then bit it, whispering, "Cum inside me, Xander. I want to feel you coming inside me. Please."
All hope, sense, and thought fled him as he acted on instinct alone. His cock leapt from her vocal command, the sound of her name escaping his lips in time with every deep thrust, his length pulsing heated satisfying bursts within her, sated at long last, draining himself dry in her.
Loving the way he sobbed her name against her shoulder, Buffy felt his sweet release... felt every thick pulse of his shaft as she claimed him as dearly as he claimed her. An orgasm to it's most pleasurable completion. Drenched in their sweat and combined fluids, they could not move or think, simply allowing the warmth of the fireplace to soothe them down from on high. As always following one of their heated encounters, a long hot shower was needed.
"Who are you?"
Alone, his hands braced on a small porcelain sink. Xander stared at himself in the bathroom mirror, wondering when the slightly dark circles began to form around his eyes. Sighing, his hand traced over a small one inch scar
along his chin, slightly hidden by stubble. Further evidence of living his life on the edge of sanity and death.
Whereas most guys would have such a injury from a shaving mishap or something trivial, his came in the form of a violent knife attack by a 'blood whore'. London's newest entry into underground world came with a memory of Riley once upon a time. The 'blood whores' sought vampires and allowed them to feed for money, for a time each night, and would rest and be available every other day. In their sickened minds they were doing the world a service. Simultaneously saving lives while curbing the growth of the vampire population.
Often times 'blood whores' were common drug addicts. Prone to violence, without a care for anyone or anything in the world. They needed their fix as much as those they bled for. Some vampires, as time past, wanted to keep a lower profile, and so 'blood brothels' were formed. Less dead bodies and missing persons drew attention away from them, keeping the Slayers at bay.
As he stood before the mirror, reminiscing about the cold blade that marked his face, the scar didn't answer the question he asked himself any more than apparently he could. He's tired... Doesn't smile as much as he used to. Just doesn't want to. The constant raining grated on his nerves every bit as much as the awful English television shows. He can't keep track of the Lakers unless it's online. And after the awful night he's lived through yet again, he'd love nothing more than to walk right out of Buffy's apartment and drive to Heathrow Airport. Then he'd purchase a one-way ticket to anywhere other than here, and just start all over. Somewhere he wouldn't look so old.
At the ripe age of twenty-four, he felt double that. In his eyes he was beginning to look it to. His hair's a little bit longer, though not that much, but enough for Dawn to tease him about his 'Anakin Skywalker Episode 3' hairdo. A few more scars adorn his arms, ribs and back. Badges of honor, some would say, for a man fighting the good fight. And truth be told, he knows it is the good fight. But it's also the fight that's wearing down his sprit by the hour, effectively suffocating him under it's immense weight. This is the life that's stolen Willow's charismatic joy, Faith's wild spirit, Dawn's innocence, Giles best years, and Buffy's ability to believe there is anything beyond this.
This is the life he was always told he wasn't good at. The living breathing liability of the Scooby Gang, an old hurtful voice whispered from the past. Oh, how he wished he'd listened and maybe chosen another path. Now regaled as one of the Watchers Councils top five agents, with security clearance for everything, his presence is both needed and sought after.
He's now indispensable. He soaked up everything the new trainers taught him since the day he landed in London, and sought even more knowledge than that on his own time. No longer comfortable with simply being capable. he put his full focus on being damn good. Mediocre no longer applied. Placing the necessary discipline on himself, it took two and a half years, but he's currently in the absolute best shape of his life, has amazing accuracy with the guns he uses, and is quick thinking and clever enough to command twenty five men and women, broken up into three teams.
At long last, he has his respect.
Still, he's not happy. Not pleased, inspired, or thriving. Sure, he's eradicated doubts within himself, and of those around him, but so what. Anyone could with time, dedication and a belief in ones self. None of those things made you happy at the end of the day. None gave you the peace of mind and a good nights sleep. Not one of them. But he does aid in keeping people alive and safe. He's good at it. Better than most, and still getting better.
Dressed in a gray t-shirt and black sweat pants, ten minutes ago when Buffy asked him through the door what he wanted to wear, he realized that he's spent so many nights in her apartment that he has enough clothes here for her to ask that. They've shared months of something so good in the midst of everything so bad. When he thinks of Buffy and how she makes him feel, the world around him seems to come out from behind the dark clouds. When one is lonely, the other is there... When one needs to rant and rave about an unfair world, the other provides a patient ear... When death surrounds them and only pleasure can give life, their bodies are freely offered, with no expectations any further than that. Theirs is a reckless, passionate friendship-based affair. One he never dreamed he'd share with her, and now can't seem to live without. It's the same for her, spoken from her own lips, and for better or worse, this gets them through.
She's where he is, and so he is not alone, and neither is she.
Buffy exited their steamy shower together twenty minutes before he did, not saying a word, offering him his space and silence. He's ever grateful and appreciative of her in every way. Says it so that she knows it's the truth. She's his safe haven away from a cruel world, and he is hers. Even when Angel relocated to London minus his curse, and Spike disappeared into the night.
Hmmm, still no answer to his question. Staring at yourself in the mirror for longer than ten seconds could be a sign of bad mental health, he smiled to himself, and in that brief moment of curled lips and levity, he saw Xander Harris looking back at him. He's still in there... somewhere. That's enough for now.
Wiggling his toes on the soft carpet outside the bathroom, Xander yawned on the way to Buffy's bedroom. Upon entering he found the powder blue pajama clad Slayer sitting up, reading a book in her lap. No doubt one of her latest Dennis Lehane crime novels. Those beautiful hazel eyes of hers lifted when she noticed him, and he gave a half-hearted wave as a hello.
Having waited patiently for his arrival ever since she left him in the shower, the sight of him now standing at the foot of her bed caused her to imagine if this is what he looked like as a child after a bad dream, seeking his parents for comfort and a sense of safety. What was denied him then would not be here, where she could extend what he has always offered freely to her. She's moving before she even realized it, gathering him in her arms. He fell into her warm embrace, burying his face in the softness of her hair. Slipping his arms around her as she did the same. This quiet moment between friends lingered. There's no passion here, save the passion of giving what the other needed. Companionship and affection. Understanding after the rain. A reason to rise for the new day.
Somehow, some way through the dark convolutions of the night, before Giles even called her, Buffy had known he wanted her. Sensed that he needed her with him at that moment. He's deathly silent as she tenderly stroked his back and waited for him. Sighing, he shifted in her arms, so she released, though not far away. Enjoying the full focus of his attention on her, Buffy lifted her hand to his face, caressing his cheek with her fingers, hoping for a smile... even a little one.
Enraptured by her generous affection, Xander's hand rose, holding hers to his face, as if to explain through his touch that she's vital to him. Then, as if a question sparked within his eyes, he gently turned her wrist toward his face, inhaling the scent of her skin.
"It's new," Buffy answered his unspoken query. "Some Channel sample that came in my newest issue of Cosmo."
Gazing down at her with a softer expression than he came to her apartment with, his careful, tender appraisal of her wrist continued. He pressed his lips there, kissing her pulse three times in slow succession, the hint of a smile on his lips.
Despite her grown woman status, Buffy blushed... "I wore it for you."
His arms gathered her again, flush to his broad chest as he captured her sensuous lips in a long loving kiss. She reveled in the strength of his arms, and the sheer need he felt for her. It's a joy she can't explain because it's not on the beaten path. Perhaps it's as simple as knowing that someone else in this cold, cold world needed you, and that you make them happy, if only for a little while.
"Thank you," Xander offered at last, and for so much more than what happened between them earlier. Her slow accepting nod led him to kissing her once more, then settling back, lying down with his head at the foot of the bed.
"You're welcome." Buffy settled back herself, sitting up against the head board. Her right leg laid alongside his, touching unconsciously as they often did. "Giles called me a hour before you arrived."
No surprises there. Xander thought so. It's common knowledge how much time he and Buffy spend together these days. It's common gossip what they do with that time. Nonetheless, Council business was the Slayers as well. "You could have just told me to go home."
"I'd never push you away when you needed me."
"How did you know I didn't just need the sex?" he challenged more than asked, watching her closely.
"Because you could get sex anywhere, same as me. You didn't come here for that. I don't go to you for that. It might be the cherry on top," she grinned his way, her legs crossed, "But it's not everything. We're bonded, somehow. I don't know, it's..."
Silence. Words couldn't begin to describe the things they've seen, fought, lived through, watched die, and were expected to brush off their shoulders like so much lent only to rise the next day and do it all over again. "We're just close like that."
Simple and to the point. Buffy nodded, having no clearer way to express what they share. "So, you wanna to talk?"
There's a reason she didn't go back to reading her book. She knew him that well. "Is that the truth?"
"No," he shrugged on his back, yawning again. She has him pegged forwards, backwards, and sideways. Having sated his need to feel alive... to hold her close and know someone was there for him... to experience something soft, feminine, and warm to the touch. Nothing like the darkness he faced earlier in the evening. "We were ambushed," he explained in a even tone of voice, noting Buffy's attention. "It happened in Berkshire. Me, Johnny, Shug, Salene, Cameron, and Timothy were searching a home out in the country. Reports had come in over the police wire about screams heard from the home. We'd already heard of vampires being in the area. We had killed six of them only two nights ago. It was all a set-up, Buff."
So she heard. "What happened next?"
Xander frowned as the images played like a movie in his mind. "We arrived at the home, found no lights on and no one came to the front door. Then we went around back to the barn, and all hell just broke loose. No less than twenty vampires came rushing from the house carrying pitch forks, bats, and swords, while ten more ran from the barn. There were screaming at us, 'Death to the Council.' One of them yelled they knew we were patrolling in the area and they wanted to make a statement. They chose that home for no reason at all and slaughtered a family of five," his voice trembled at the end, searching in vain for his professionalism. "We were heavily armed and efficient, but no matter what you have as far as weapons, thirty versus six is still a disadvantage when they are all rushing you at the same time. During the fighting Selene and Timothy were killed. We destroyed every last vampire, but lost two of our own."
Selene had the prettiest blue eyes and a wonderful singing voice. The nineteen year old blonde who dreamed of exciting missions all over the world. She was trained by Buffy herself. One of the best young Slayers to graduate from her class. Buffy felt her loss as deep as any she's faced in recent years. And though she didn't know the Council agents assigned to Xander's team all that well, she remembers him talking about his friend and the wonderful way he told stories about his past. Timothy was older than both her and Xander. At age 41, the former policeman who just happened upon a underworld case and from that day forth wanted in on that world. A dedicated family man as well. No wonder this hit Xander so hard. Suddenly, Buffy's eyes darted toward
him. "Please don't tell me you..."
"I called his wife and told her myself," he finished for her, knowing how vehemently she disagreed with any of them handling what the Watchers Council had professionals on staff to do. In her eyes they had enough to deal with without dealing with that too. Xander, however, did not agree. "He wasn't just a man on my team, Buffy. He was my friend. He made me his sons Godfather. And now he's... he's..." Fighting off the onset of tears, his hands covered his eyes, wincing painfully as the sounds of Lauren's hysterical sobbing throbbed in his head. "His son's only five months old."
Though she didn't agree with what he did, she sympathized and understood because of the kind of man
he is. "I'm sorry."
"So am I." The bed dipped as she moved across it, coming up on his side, lying her head on his shoulder. She's there for him. Sincerely there for him, and that's everything and more. "It's not like I haven't lost teammates or friends before. Lord knows we did long before we crossed the ocean. And it's not the first time I've seen dead children, as ugly as that sounds. It's just that I'm tired of seeing it. I'm sick of it. I can't seem to get it out of my head when I go home at night. I can't brush it off as duty and life being unfair the way that I used to."
Her hand rested over his heart, the steady drumming a constant reminder to her that he is alive, for her sake as well. She's listening to him express his deepest feelings and frustration. "It's funny how often we didn't think about certain things back in Sunnydale the way we do now. Death was a way of life, but not an everyday way of life. Not a twenty-four a day, seven days a week job that we can't leave behind and just go to the Bronze to relax."
Xander added wistfully, "So many things have changed."
"Time just keeps on passing us by." Buffy fell into her own inner thoughts, wishing away the world she knew for the kinder, gentler one in her dreams.
"Lauren begged me to lie to her and take it all back. She begged and pleaded."
"I can't imagine she's going through. It would be like if someone told me you were dead." Knowing she's revealed a bit to much with that truthful statement, she didn't take it back, wondering where it might lead them.
"If something happened to you..." Xander could not bring himself to finish. "I feel like I'm just spinning my wheels these days."
"Why don't you leave the Watchers Council then?"
"Because my greatest successes in life have come from working for the Council. In a way I feel like if I left I'd go back to being plain old loser Xander, as dumb as that sounds."
"You were never a loser."
"To a lot of people, I was. But the worst part was that for the longest time, I was to myself. That's what's changed over the years. That's one big reason why I haven't left the Council."
"What are your other reasons?"
"What would I ever do without you?" he cheesed her way, hiding behind a smiling face. She's quiet all of a sudden, her fingers tracing over his chest, eyes shut against his shoulder. They're more than just best friends and both know it. Accept it even on some level. The problem is they both know how utterly disappointed, uninspired, and unhappy they are with their lives, and how they've gravitated through depression and passion to one another rather than simply dating. Just how much of this is real, or simply being addicted to the other person to cope with the viciousness of their lives? "Can I ask you something and not offend you?"
Buffy playfully poked him in the side. "I won't know if it's offensive until you ask."
"What's the difference between what you and I are doing these days compared to what you had with Spike in the past?"
His question reached something deep inside her. Something she needed to share with him, and get out in
the open. Buffy turned on her side. "The differences are night and day, Xander," she told him while he stroked her arm, as if assured her answer would not displease him. "I felt that when I died, I was in what I thought... what I believe was heaven. Then I was taken from that peaceful place and brought back here, where I didn't want to be. The life I returned to had no meaning or road map. I was lost. Not only was I still grieving the death of my mother, but still trying to piece together my own feelings, raise Dawn, pay all those bills, keep my house clean, find a job, Slay, and keep up a brave front for all of you that I was alright. When I was with Spike, I didn't have to give a damn about any of that. I could act like that side of my life didn't exist. It wasn't just the dangerous sex, it was that I didn't have to care about him. I could hit him, wail all my anger and depression on him, then take pleasure and for a few hours, forget. So that's what I did until I was so ashamed of myself and my actions that I didn't even recognize myself anymore. I hated who I became and couldn't stop myself. I had no discipline or self-control. Sometimes Spike and I would fight and then have sex. Sometimes we would just fight. He was a punching bag for my failures and insecurities as an adult, and I used him and threw him away when I was done. I paid for it big time, not only with my self respect, but with all of my friends, and later on my own safety," she referred to the attempted rape. "Being with Spike was all about me not wanting to grow up and accept the responsibilities of a adult. I turned into a woman I did not like or respect. I took the easy way out, and I regret it."
"I'm not sure if I've ever heard you explain your relationship with Spike in such detail before."
"I was pretty sure if I did projectile vomiting would be your response."
"Once upon a time, maybe. But years pass and everyone has regrets. I know I do. You live and you learn. And hopefully eat some good food along the way."
Just a sliver of the old Xander... "I was never in love with Spike."
"I never thought you were."
"And now with you..."
"Do tell."
"We're complicated, Xander." Explaining out loud what she hasn't quite figured out in her own head wouldn't be easy. They share their time, bodies, trust, and caring in a way she's never shared with anyone else before. And if this were a different time in her life, or if she were living a different one, then maybe she'd take a look inside that Pandora's Box in her heart. "I trust you more than I have ever trusted anyone. Not only with my body, but my inner most personal thoughts. With my fears and my regrets. I never want to hurt you, or for you to hurt me. I would never take my frustrations out on you. I know that you always have my best interests at heart. I desire you passionately, in a way I never expected I could desire another man. When we're together... however we're together, we share a bond based on our strong friendship and our mutual understanding of the other persons crazy hectic life."
"Sometimes," he paused, stroking his hand up and down her thigh in a soothing manner, "I can't get enough of you."
His admission would join her confession. "I'm right there with you It's like every time we're together..."
"Yeah..." Desperate, reckless, exciting, unpredictable, thoroughly satisfying, and often, best represented their affair so far. Earlier tonight, even though he needed her so badly, she took great pleasure from him. Her body's still humming from what he did to her. "Anyway, when we're together, I never regret it. I never feel ashamed of myself or dirty or like we have to hide our... whatever we are." They enjoyed a laugh together. "If someone came to my apartment tonight and asked where you were I'd say you were asleep in my bed. No hesitation. No awkward feelings or trying to hide it. What we do is personal and intimate between us, and no ones else’s business."
"But we do drown our sorrows in each other."
"We also share our smiles. We make each other laugh. And we talk. We really, truly talk in a way I've never experienced before. I'm so open to you."
"We use sex as a crutch."
"As crutches go, it's a pretty good one if you're both single, healthy, safe, and it's not destroying the person you are inside."
"We never discuss love."
"I never felt we needed to. Do you?"
"No, not really," he replied, a knowing expression written all over his face. A calming truth he didn't need spoken just yet. "I feel... lost."
"You're not alone."
"Do you want more than this?"
"Do you mean my life, or us?"
"Either."
"Yeah... in a way," she replied cryptically enough, enjoying the mystery he could not figure out within
her eyes. Their friendship wasn't cotton candy and sweet walks in the park. Their lives wouldn't allow conventional romance. Their jobs killed anything normal, so other routes were undertaken in secret, enjoyed behind closed doors, and not thought over to deeply because at the end of the day, being together in whatever way best gave them peace and comfort, mattered most.
"I think we take good care of each other, Buffy."
"I do too. I also hope you try your best not to blame yourself for what happened tonight."
"I'm not sure a leader can ever do that, but I am for the most part crushed over Timothy's wife and son. It's not that Timothy himself, or Selene for that matter don't matter. It's just that Selene didn't have any family outside of her friends. Lauren and her little boy will be without Tim for the rest of their lives. And that poor innocent family... Buffy, the bodies were..." He shook his head, unable to continue. "Torn asunder is the word I'd use."
Comfort didn't include all the right words because some situations had none that were of any use. Instead of talking, Buffy nestled into his side, draping her arm over him chest, her head resting on his shoulder. Xander held her preciously, relieved to find a moments rest at long last. Nothing she could say or do would make anything right tonight. But her presence in his life would bring him some form of clarity, some small amount of peace, and affection from a loved one.
Buffy gave Xander everything he needed with her silence alone, simply by being with him.
"Withdrawal" is the second part of this three part series. Coming soon.
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The Xiaomi Mi 9 Pro arrives with 5G, 12 GB of RAM and all the power
Features of Xiaomi Mi 9 Pro 5G
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Nous recommandons: What's your opinion about the new iPhone 11 and iPhone 11 PRO?
Camera trio
Like the Mi 9, this new model includes a trio of 48, 16 and 12 megapixel cameras supported by artificial intelligence and a laser sensor for focusing. The first one is a main sensor based on the Sony IMX586, with 48 megapixels of resolution and an aperture of f / 1.75 that will allow you to get light in complicated situations. The second is a 16-megapixel Sony IMX481 sensor that will offer a 117-degree wide-angle lens, also capable of taking macro photos with a minimum focusing distance of 4 centimeters. Finally, the 12 megapixel zoom lens will handle portrait mode with its 2x zoom (51mm focal length) and an f / 2.2 aperture.
Prices of the Mi 9 Pro 5G
The official prices for china of this Mi 9 Pro 5G are the following:
Mi 9 Pro 8GB / 128GB 3,699 Chinese yuan (about 475 euros)
Mi 9 Pro 12GB / 256GB 4,099 Chinese yuan (about 525 euros)
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First POST: Listicalization
BY Micah L. Sifry | Wednesday, December 10 2014
Listicalization
President Obama wrote a line of code at a Code.org event at the White House, and Zachary Seward covers the news for Quartz.
With word circulating of police eavesdropping on civil rights protesters, the FCC has issued a warning reminding state and local government law enforcement agencies that jamming or interfering with cellular communications is illegal. "Although today's smartphones may enable persons to engage in communications that are bothersome to others, this does not provide the right for persons, or even for state or local agencies—including state and local law enforcement—to operate jammers. In fact, use of signal jammers by state or local authorities is generally prohibited," the FCC says.
Emily Bell, the director of Columbia University's Tow Center, can't resist noting the "irony of the New Republic's retreating elite posting their displeasure on Facebook." And Chris Hughes tells her "“It is frustrating to me personally that there was a perception we would listicalize the place. If that was my intention, I would have done it long ago."
Guy Vidra, TNR's controversial CEO, says in an open letter to the magazine's readers that his vision for its future maintains a commitment to in-depth story-telling, but with innovative formats that will be more immersive and engaging.
All the material from last October's Data & Civil Rights invitation-only conference is now posted here. Event organizers danah boyd, Seeta Pena Gangadharan and Corrine Yu write in an executive summary that the "discussions laid bare a critical need for more concrete information about the positive and negative outcomes of using 'big data' technologies in civil rights contexts."
Mike Isaac of the New York Times looks at how Uber is fighting against state laws requiring its drivers to undergo the same level of background checks as regular taxi services.
Related: The San Francisco and Los Angeles district attorneys are suing Uber for making false or misleading statements, including about the background checks it performs on drivers, reports Jeremy Owens for SiliconValley.com.
What do Microsoft's Bill Gates, Yahoo's Jerry Yang, Twitter's Evan Williams, eBay founder Pierre Omidyar, LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman and Virgin Airways founder Richard Branson all have in common? They're all investing in Change.org, helping pour $25 million into the company to "expand the company’s engineering team, invest in mobile development and expand a tool that allows the businesses and politicians who are the targets of petitions to engage with users," reports David Gelles for The New York Times.
Lawrence Lessig's MayDay PAC has released a detailed report analyzing its (limited) impact on the 2014 cycle. More intriguing, Lessig says the group is now "spec-ing out a platform" to involve its members in helping "recruit voters in targeted districts" to press their Member of Congress to support fundamental campaign finance reform. IMHO, MayDay ought to be enabling its members to connect locally by congressional district, regardless of whether they help with targeting or not.
It's "not the arrival of digital nirvana," but the Times' editorial board still thinks the new LinkNYC Wi-Fi hot-spot program is a good thing.
Meet Hive, an open-source framework that enables anyone to build their own crowdsourcing project, courtesy of the New York Times R&D Lab.
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danah boyd
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Toby Blackwell, B.U.P.E.
Busiest Unemployed Person Ever
The Foolishness Files
40 Lessons @ 40
The Finals of the SMULE Disney competition tasked us with writing a Disney Parody. I previously placed third in a parody writing competition, so this was in my wheelhouse. When I came upon the topic of everything Disney owns, the perfect song came to me. With an extra week for this assignment, I had research and rhyming to do and came up with this…
AND I WON!
Coming off a string of well-received performances in the SMULE Disney Competition, maybe a stumble was inevitable. It came in Week 6, which had a Duets theme. I recorded while travelling, and my partner and I didn’t do anything spectacular with our song. But my contribution was enough to get me to the semifinals, and I knew I had to do something really good. The Final 10 were each given a decade from which to pick a song from a Disney movie. I got the 1980s. If you know Disney history, the 80s were not cute in terms of movies and the music in them, until THE LITTLE MERMAID in 1989. But I discovered the pop music stylings of OLIVER AND COMPANY, and a song sung by Ruth Pointer from the Pointer Sisters, a group I loved. I added an original rap during the bridge, earning 2nd place and a trip to the Final Round. I love how some of it synced with the movie in the video I made…
I made the Judges’ Favorites list of the SMULE Disney competition each of the first 4 weeks. Week 5 was the last week the list would be announced, and I wanted to make it again. The theme was music from Disney’s Live Action or Hybrid movies. Once I found this awesome arrangement of “Zip A Dee Doo Dah,” I got to have so much fun recording this song, which I also made a video for…
Week 4 of this SMULE Disney competition was “Villains” week. Although I have sung “Be Prepared” from THE LION KING hundreds of times, I had my sights set on another villain of that era of Disney movies. I was able to locate a backing track of Gov. Ratcliffe’s song from POCAHONTAS, and I uploaded it, knowing that nobody else would do it. I received another perfect score, and I was really proud of this song. I tried to match the lip synch to clips from the movie, just for fun…
In Week 3 of the SMULE online Disney karaoke competition, we were tasked to do pop versions of Disney movie songs. I knew I wanted to sing “That’s How You Know” during this competition, and fortunately found a backing track of a Demi Lovato version. Here is the video I made to go with my entry, which received another perfect score, although I didn’t really finish it to my satisfaction…
Who Am I?….Learn About It !
Actor. Comedian. Vocalist. I Currently hold the title Busiest Unemployed Person Ever (B.U.P.E.), which I won because I made it up myself. [More...]
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1Winter\'s on the Wing (from THE SECRET GARDEN)
2No One Is Alone (a cappella)
3Make Them Hear You (from RAGTIME, Springer Opera House)
4\'Facts of Life\' Theme Song (a cappella)
5Liar (lyrics by Toby Blackwell)
6Be Prepared (from The Lion King)
7Megamix (from FESTIVAL OF THE LION KING)
GRANDMA TURNS 100
SMULE Disney Competition Week 8 – The Finals
SMULE Disney Competition Week 7 – Semi-Finals
SMULE Disney Competition Week 5
ONE MOMENT, PLEASE
I saw this show a few weeks back, and hope you get a chance to see it. Lean, tall and handsome, Mr. Blackwell presents a show that will have you begging for more. You will love him!”
– Stu Hamstra, Cabaret Hotline Online
Blackwell is as funny as he is sexy. If he didn’t have such a spectacular voice–which is easily as beautiful as Brian Stokes Mitchell’s or Norm Lewis’–he could have a career as a stand-up comic…He’s a one-man variety show waiting to happen.”
– David Hurst, Show Business Weekly
“Coalhouse Walker and Sarah are the most sympathetic characters in this piece, and you can’t help but fall in love with both of these individuals as performed by the remarkably terrific Toby Blackwell and Carly Hughes. Both Blackwell and Hughes have huge vocal talent, and they use these voices to enhance their already wonderful acting.”
– Matthew MacDermid, Talkin’ Broadway
“The show is heavily dependent on the acting and vocalization of the actor portraying Coalhouse; in this production, Toby Blackwell shines. His deep, rich voice is stirring, while he gives Coalhouse an understated, self-confident charm…”
– Mark S.P. Turvin, Arizona Regional Theatre Critic
“Blackwell is the show’s soul, as his character fights for what’s right, although with questionable tactics. Blackwell also offers the evening’s most stirring solo, ”Make Them Hear You,” as well as the most memorable duet, ”Wheels of a Dream"
– Max McQueen, Get Out AZ
RENT: THE BROADWAY MUSICAL
“Understudy Toby Blackwell…did a fine job with the role.”
– Carrie T. Gruman-Trinkner, Green Bay Press Gazette
”Mr. Blackwell’s comments…are pithy and fun, and the parody songs are truly inventive and cleverly funny. By the way, this lad’s lush, colorful vocals are amazing – some day he simply must do a serious cabaret show! I’ll be first in line for a reservation.”
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Get my books at:
Alma Chronicles
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Contact Toby:
toby at tobyheathcotte dot com
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Toby Fesler Heathcotte, Author
Plays and Screenplays
HEROES IN BRONZE
by Brock Heathcotte
&Toby Heathcotte
TV Series based on
ancient Greek myths
Series Logline:
In the struggle for leadership of ancient Greece, lust, madness, and war bring down the tyrants of Thebes. From the brutality, mortal heroes forge a new civilization.
Theme: Tyranny is the enemy of justice. The weak can overcome the powerful only by cooperation and resolve. Justice requires us to rise and fight against tyranny.
Pilot Logline: Heir Apparent: To preserve his family's status and the honor of Thebes, Creon, an idealistic Sparti prince, must protect the authority of sadistic King Laius and his neurotic heir.
DREAMS OF DIANA
or LOS SUENOS DE DIANA
by Toby Fesler Heathcotte
A one-act play
In this myth of modern life, a gifted young woman confronts conflicting forces in her mind, ancient goddesses of need, love, and power, to choose a life path.
Shortly before high school graduation, Diana receives a scholarship to pursue her goal of becoming a veterinarian. With her boyfriend’s military unit ordered to the war zone, Ray wants her to marry right away. A battle rages within Diana. To make her decision, she consults the mythical figures in her mind— the dark witch La Llorona, the adventurous emerald woman Chalchiucihuatl, and La Curandera, the virgin healer.
by Toby Heathcotte
& Brock Heathcotte
Historical screenplay
based on the In-Prison Journal
of Bobby Tuzon
Logline: A distressed inmate, trying to do “good time,” foils the escape of the sociopathic Gary Tison, only to find prison officials as corrupt as the prisoners.
Synopsis: In 1978, BOBBY TUZON, 34, faces seventeen more years in the Arizona State Prison for killing his brother-in-law in self-defense. He becomes the cellmate of the notorious GARY TISON, 50, a lifer for killing a prison guard in an attempted escape. Tison masterminds a new breakout plot and threatens the lives of Bobby’s wife and four children to get Bobby to pilot the getaway plane. Once free, Tison intends to kill fifty prominent people on his “hit list,” including Governor Bruce Babbitt. On the day of the planned escape, Bobby cuts a hole through the prison fence and dashes outside, tripping the alarms and thwarting Tison. As a reward the prison officials send a naked Bobby to “the hole.” Then, Tison escapes! Promising release, the warden seeks Bobby’s help, which Bobby gladly gives but not soon enough. Tison and his gang kill a family of four, including a twenty-month-old baby. Through Bobby’s guesswork, police set up roadblocks and chase the gang down, killing one and incarcerating three. Tison dies of thirst in the unforgiving desert. Does Bobby get his release? No. The system, as tainted as its charges, prevails.
Treatment for a TV Series, family saga, paranormal historical, based on published novels by Toby Fesler Heathcotte
Souls, bound together in a circle of love, passion, betrayal, and murder, reincarnate lifetime after lifetime from the ancient Celtic world through twenty-first century America.
Humans reincarnate to solve problems their current lifetime presents. If they don't learn from their mistakes they come back to try again. They strive to become advanced souls who can respond with intelligent and loving perspective despite what life brings them. An angelic guide from the afterlife appears both as a human and as a point of light. He mentors the incarnating souls between lifetimes and in dreams. Still they retain choice in this New Age take on the tension between fate and free will.
Themes: Soul advancement happens whether the person believes in the Goddess, Jesus, Mohammed, Jehovah, ancestral spirits, or has no faith at all. Karma works and love is eternal. The barrier between the living and the dead can be breached through astral travel, clairvoyance, and past life recall. Human life is beautiful and valuable. No soul ever dies.
Incarnations of the Souls - the same actors play the parts in different centuries except perhaps for the one who switches sexes
England, 50 BCE
Alma, a Celtic druidess presides over the marriage of her son, Lugh, and proclaims him warrior king. When her banished lover, Taliesin, returns to reclaim her, a new lover, Morfran, murders Taliesin. Alma kills the new lover in revenge. The people doubt her ability to speak for the Goddess. King Lugh sends her into seclusion where she dies. Kegan challenges the king's. Lugh severs Kegan’s hand and banishes him. Kegan calls down the curse of the Goddess on them all. Their crimes echo down the centuries.
Alison's Legacy
A Scottish immigrant in eighteenth-century England, Alison struggles for acceptance as an independent innkeeper. Such scandalous behavior for a lone and pregnant woman could result in exile to the streets of London. The Jacobite Rebellion brings an English lieutenant to the inn door, and Alison falls in love. A diviner reveals that he is no other than the Celtic lover to whom Alison owes a centuries-old karmic debt.
Lainn’s Destiny
In search of his life’s path, Lainn, the boy, yearns to end slavery in the American colonies. During his youth he battles English tyranny by sword and pen. As a man, Lainn finds his future united with the spirit of rebellion swirling through his adopted homeland. He must find a way to preserve it. Two women haunt his soul—one beloved, the other a sworn enemy.
Angie’s Promise
In a vision, Angie sees her fiancé’s plane crash in 1987 in the American Southwest. She begs him not to leave, but he ignores her warnings, takes off in the plane, and dies before her eyes. Angie refuses to accept a future without her loved one. When lucid dreaming fails to keep his spirit near, Angie searches for a chink in the barrier of death. And she finds one.
Luke’s Covenant
Willing to sacrifice his life on Nine Eleven, Luke instead finds himself required to live. He must protect himself and his family from an ancient vendetta at the hands of a man compelled to murder them all. Although failing before, Kegan has been reborn with paranormal skills that give him the advantage this time. He’ll finally get the revenge he deserves.
The Comet’s Return
In 2061 Arizona, Angela dreams of people she should recognize and events she should remember. With her career and her sanity in jeopardy, she goes to the trunk opening for Halley’s Comet and finds her love from their previous incarnation. Connecting with her previous lifetime opens Angela to the great knowledge. Kegan yet walks the world, intent on ending the blood feud from Celtic times.
All the books in the Alma Chronicles series are available in print and in various eBook formats
More about the books HERE
PROMISE TO RETURN
A Timely New Play for Arizona Audiences
This two-act play explores the influence a past life can have on prejudice.
A young man who remembers dying in the Vietnam War reincarnates compelled to find his previous family and fulfill the destiny denied him by death. His current family feels abandoned. Diego risks exposing his illegal status as a Mexican migrant and drives to Phoenix in 2014. He recognizes his home and some people but fails to convince them. An ally, Brianna, and other students accompany him to a protest for DACA "dreamers." The authorities deport Diego. He faces a dangerous return to Phoenix and the prejudice of family members who reject him and put his life in jeopardy. He must prove his identity and fulfill promises to both families.
BIRTH OF THE DISPATCH
& Betty Hammer Joy
Historical screenplay based on the Memoirs of Angela Hutchison Hammer
Logline: A divorced newspaperwoman defies tradition to support her three sons but flees intimidation. When she meets a handsome state senator, they fight powerful banking and pumping enemies to bring irrigation to the Arizona desert of 1912. She comes to cherish the clout of her newspaper’s voice.
DRAMA TRAUMA
by Toby Heathcotte,
Ann Madison,
A play in two acts
Accustomed to a genteel teaching environment at the performing arts academy, RACHEL finds herself exiled to a disintegrating inner city school. A culture of violence permeates Washington High with its armed students, bomb threats, and stabbings. Adrift and searching, Rachel becomes romantically involved with her former boss, SAM, a one-book wonder in the literary world. She struggles to produce The Crucible, a nearly impossible feat because of apathetic students, little funding, and constant hounding by the passive aggressive vice principal. The cast members’ lives demand intervention. They seek a way to belong whether overwhelmed with family responsibilities, craving attention, depressed, self-medicating, or suicidal. One student accuses Rachel of sexual misconduct, drawing the ire of an unsympathetic administration. Suspended just before the performance, thanks to Sam’s betrayal, Rachel must choose between fighting for her job and taking a prestigious directing position out of state. The students rally and mount the play themselves. At first a seeming enemy, ADAM, the basketball coach, becomes Rachel’s friend and ally when she defies her suspension. The show, a minor triumph, instills pride and self worth in the students and validates Rachel as a teacher.
Treatment for a TV Series, family saga inspired by historical events, based on genealogical research and an unpublished manuscript by Toby Fesler Heathcotte
A family treks across generations and continents in search of land and liberty from sixteenth-century Europe through present-day America. Historical events and circumstances cause people to want to move, but family members create barriers and inner conflicts.
In this German-American "Roots" story, the Feslers emigrate from Geneva, Switzerland, but their saga mirrors the experiences of millions of Americans, no matter their heritage or land of origin.
The Feslers, peasant farmers, long for a life where they have freedom to own their own land. They want an autonomous life without interference by government or church so they can live in peace. They are buffeted, battered, and pummeled by religious wars, crop failures, forced military indentures, crippling taxes, and dishonest merchants. All are desperate for religious freedom, financial security, and the right to be regarded with dignity and equality before the law.
A motif of cherry trees runs through the episodes as a symbol of continuity, laying down roots metaphorically to hold onto the past in the new place. From the seeds of their Swiss trees, the women plant again in each location. After twenty years the trees mature along with the next generation of Feslers. Women tend the new growth and make preserves and pies. The children play beneath the trees. From the trunks the men carve, whittle, saw, and hammer the cradles, coffins, trunks, and rockers needed to sustain their lives.
Sample episodes:
1692 - The army of Catholic Louis the Fourteenth attacks villages in the German section of Switzerland with orders to kill all Huguenots, those who practice the Reformed Faith. Albrecht Fesler flees with his wife and children. They survive the dangerous journey through the mountains and occupy an abandoned farm in Baden, Germany. They can work the land but it belongs to the baron to whom they must pay heavy taxes. Despite the difficulty of daily life, Albrecht swears never to run in shame again.
1710 - During the winter a great freeze kills animals and crops in the fields. The Fesler family takes refuge with other villagers in the baron's castle. When a woman gives birth in this desperate place, Helen Fesler, a midwife, assists in the birth. The infant dies, and the bereft father calls Helen out as a witch. She and her husband flee to Rotterdam, but other family members refuse to leave out of allegiance to the land and never learn her fate.
1750 - While working in a field one day in Baden, John Fesler and his brother are abducted by soldiers of Ferdinand the Great and forced to serve in the army. They learn the General's ambitions are limitless and their indenture lifelong. When the Feslers are furloughed to return home to plant their fields, they decide to desert and go to America. Their sister argues against the move out of fear of the unknown, but the brothers prevail. On the three month voyage across the Atlantic under terrible conditions, the sister dies, but John arrives in Pennsylvania Colony and takes an oath of loyalty to the English King. He is an American Colonist.
1776 - John Albrecht Fesler, named for his ancestor, promises himself he will fulfill the destiny of his family and own land, which he can lawfully will to his family. He must work off an indenture to an English road builder in Pennsylvania Colony. He struggles to keep his family solvent financially then agitates for the Revolution against the English King. When the rebels succeed and he is free to own land, John Albrecht buys a farm in Berks County after Pennsylvania becomes a state. The dream is fulfilled.
1823 - Margaret Culp has grown up listening to men while they talk politics and agitate for the freedom of slaves. She believes she should have the right to vote and make her own decisions. When her father arranges her marriage to a prosperous young merchant in Berks County, she defies him, declares her love for Jacob Fesler, and refuses to be denied. She wins Jacob and elopes to marry the man of her choice even though she still can't vote. She intends to work on that next.
1842 - George Fesler, a stone mason in Berks County, persuades many of his children and grandchildren to buy tracts of cheap land in the new State of Indiana. His second wife argues for staying safe while he is bent on the adventure of taking a chance. He divorces her because she refuses to go with him. Despite the argument and bad feelings, he leads a train of Conestoga wagons across Pennsylvania, Ohio, and into frontier Indiana. One of his sons dies on the way. The families brave the harsh tasks of protecting themselves from Indians to build a community with a school, a church, and a graveyard where George is the first to be buried.
1919 - The public debate over women's right to vote provokes outrage at James Monroe Fesler's kitchen table in Ovid, Indiana. A patriotic man named for a president, he argues for propriety and observing the American way. Just because women can vote doesn't mean they should indulge in such unladylike behavior. His wife agrees with him, but his daughters ignore his protests and scour the newspaper for candidates to vote for in the next election. They declare they'll run for office themselves. He fears the end of family as an institution because women will no longer cook or clean or do their wifely duties. The younger generation of women feel powerful and ambitious.
1941 - Howard Fesler's parents die. He anticipates mourning and taking comfort in his young family, but World War II explodes on everyone. All the men must sign up for the draft. His brothers, cousins, and brothers-in-law are drafted or enlist. Hardly a man is left at home except Howard who is 4-F. He works for General Motors building airplanes and spends his time making sure the women and children left by the other soldiers are cared for. Women pitch in and work alongside him at home and in the factory. He struggles with the inner conflict of not feeling like a man, and some people look down on him.
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Endless Boogie - Full House Head (2010)
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1. Empty Eye 9:38
2. Tarmac City 4:55 play
3. Slow Creep 10:49
4. Mighty Fine Pie 6:28
5. Top Dollar Speaks His Mind 8:30
6. Pack Your Bags 8:36
7. New Pair Of Shoes 4:47 play
8. A Life Worth Leaving 22:36
Paul Major (vocals, guitar);
Jesper Eklow (guitar);
Harry Druzd (drums).
Over the course of the last decade, Brooklyn quartet Endless Boogie have seemed about as interested in changing course as they have in associating with their peers. While very much a rock and roll band, theirs is a very singular sound, centred around the well-worn art of the electric boogaloo and pretty much ignoring anything that has happened in the musical world since at least 1975. This is music for grinding hips and shuffling shoes. Think Canned Heat, think the Groundhogs; hear Paul Major's gruff bark for the first time and try to stop yourself thinking Beefheart. These are jams, deep and long, that stew and boil and bubble and go on forever; occasionally they'll sneak in a brief rocker, but most often they lock into a groove and keep it going for eight, ten, twenty minutes. If the band are feeling generous they'll throw in an extra chord, or even bump it up to three or four (I think I even recall a key change on 'Full House Head'!), but they seem at their most comfortable tripping out on a single repeated bass riff.
Any differences between this album and its predecessor, 2008's Focus Level, are almost imperceptible; if anything the playing is slightly more streamlined, the drumming leaner, the guitars cleaner. There is less fuzz in the rhythm department, and Major's lead parts are sharper; on the opening 'Empty Eye', his wiry duel with a guesting Matt Sweeney bears a fleeting resemblance to the Lloyd/Verlaine partnership on Television's Marquee Moon. Elsewhere, 'Slow Creep' does what it says on the label, exploring a gentler, bluesier side to the band than they've shown previously, while more up-tempo numbers like 'Tarmac City' and 'Mighty Fine Pie' sound like T-Rex rubbing themselves raw against Exile On Main Street. It's still heavily psychedelic fare, but only on the twenty minute plus closer 'A Life Worth Leaving' do they really touch on the more obvious, blown-out stoner rock tendencies often exhibited in the past.
If these guys share common ground with any of their contemporaries, it would be Wooden Shjips, fellow men of a certain age paying reverent respect to the zone-out masters of a past generation, seemingly unconcerned with updating the blueprint for their own. And like that band, Major and company present a “six versus two threes” conundrum: yes, we've heard it all before, but is that a bad thing when done so well? If you were being critical, you could argue that the Endless Boogie sound is formulaic; that their unwillingness to experiment is lazy. But here is a band that seems so hermetically sealed in its own little bubble it's easy to believe that this is genuinely all they know. Of course that can't be true, especially given Major's reputation as a rare record collector of legendary standing, but as long as they're happy to keep on endlessly cranking it out, I'm happy to keep moving to the boogie. ---Michael Dix, thequietus.com
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CMP 3PAR Regionals Kick Off in Ohio While Remaining Set to Fire at Alabama and Utah
By Ashley Brugnone, CMP Writer CAMP PERRY, OH – The Civilian Marksmanship Program (CMP) took another step toward the 2015 CMP 3PAR National Championship with the North Regional Championship, held in the world-class Gary Anderson CMP Competition Center at Camp Perry, March 26-28. The event was the first of three Regional Championships to be held across...
CMP to Begin 2015 Regional Air Rifle Championships at Famed Camp Perry Air Range
CAMP PERRY, Ohio – The Civilian Marksmanship Program (CMP) will kick off the next phase of the 2015 CMP 3PAR Competition with the Regional Championship, held in the world-class Gary Anderson CMP Competition Center at Camp Perry, March 26-28. Top junior marksmen involved in 4-H, Scouts, American Legion, club or JROTC air rifle programs will...
Marine Corps Teams Draw Wins at the 2015 JROTC National Championship, Hampton and Enger Earn Individual Champion Honors
By Ashley Brugnone, CMP Writer CAMP PERRY, OH – The Civilian Marksmanship Program (CMP) was proud to play host to a group of 213 junior marksmen in Army, Navy, Air Force and Marine Corps JROTC Programs during the 2015 JROTC National Championship – held at the Gary Anderson CMP Competition Center at Camp Perry, OH,...
CMP to Host JROTC National Championship at Camp Perry
By Ashley Brugnone, CMP Writer CAMP PERRY, OH – The Civilian Marksmanship Program (CMP) proudly invites the top junior shooters from around the country to Port Clinton to compete for the gold at the 2015 JROTC Three-Position National Championships, held March 19-21 at the Gary Anderson CMP Competition Center. High school cadets from Army, Navy, Marine...
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Flying Lotus Flamagra
By Daryl Keating
Having floated through myriad styles over the years, while simultaneously bending them to his own sonic will, it's hard to predict what a new Flying Lotus record is going to sound like. For his sixth studio album, Flamagra, he's got his fingers in pies that span the breadth of time and space.
Supporters of earlier work, like Los Angeles, will be pleased right from the outset. Openers "Heroes" and "Post Requisite" harken back to those formative beat days, where instrumental hip-hop was given a thorough rinsing. Yet, admirers of FlyLo's more recent jazz explorations will soon be sated too, as tracks like "Takashi" and "Pilgrim Side Eye" ramble wildly with a funky swagger.
In fact, it might just be easier to say that fans of music will like this — 8-bit chase-scene melodies precede hazy psychedelic interludes before spilling into gentle piano tunes. Across 27 songs — many of them lasting between a minute and two — Flamagra plays like a staggered daydream, where you occasionally return to consciousness, only to slip back into slumber soon after.
This whole ethereal structure is propped up by a star-studded cast too. George Clinton, David Lynch, Solange, Shabazz Palaces and Toro y Moi all make an appearance, and with great success. They are overshadowed, however, by contributions from Anderson .Paak on the soulful "More" and Denzel Curry, who adds his seamless flow to "Black Balloons Reprise."
Everything about this record begs repeating, but this is only solidified by what FlyLo told us in a recent interview. According to him, the last track, "Hot Oct,." bleeds back into the beginning of the album, creating a perfect circle. This is truly built to loop. (Warp)
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The Joker and the Thief
By Slade Ham
In 2005 I got a phone call to come to Shreveport and kill a dragon.Dragon slaying is a metaphor I adopted long ago – the origins of which are probably best saved for another story.Still, this was a mission.My friend Rachel ran the comedy club there at the time and thought I should come in for a particular weekend to “help her solve a problem”.She had called me more than a few times about it, actually, but that was all the information she would give me.
“So, can you do that week?” she asked me.
It didn’t make sense for her to be so determined about a specific date.I was already scheduled to be there in a few months as it was. “Why are you so insistent about this?” I asked.
She paused.“I need you to feature for Dustin Diamond,” she finally said.
Dustin is best known as the child actor that played Screech on Saved by the Bell, and by best known, I mean only known.“He’s going to be here that week and he’s horrible.I need him to sell the tickets and then I need you to make the people not sorry that they bought them.”It was sort of flattering I suppose.“He’s going to suck, and maybe if you’re funny in front of him people won’t feel so ripped off.”
Before this begins to look like I am blowing my own little air horn as a comedian, you need to understand this:Screech is the worst comedian you’ve ever seen.Ever.Take bad comedy, cube it, and then double that.The Holocaust was funnier.What compounded the problem was that, aside from being a brutally bad performer, Dustin was also known for being a notorious joke thief.In the world of stand up, originality is everything.It’s the sacred code.Take nothing, from anyone.Our jokes are our children. That little fact automatically made him my enemy.
Still, Shreveport was my backyard.Screech may be a headache to deal with, I told myself, but my shows will be good.“I guess I’ll see you in two weeks then,” I told Rachel.
I arrived at the club for the first show of the week to find Dustin secluded in a corner.I walked over to say hello while he proceeded to ignore me and play with his cell phone.“Look, bro,” he said dismissively. “I’m not your friend, I’m not going to be your friend.Sorry.My wife Jennifer handles everything.Go talk to her.”
“What do you mean, talk to your wife?I didn’t even want to talk to you.I was trying to be polite,” I said, and then walked off.We were working Wednesday through Sunday, so I had five days worth of this to look forward to.Apparently though, I was going to get to talk to his wife whether I wanted to or not.
For anyone that recalls Dustin’s character from the early 90’s, anyone that remembers seeing the nerdy little kid with the hiked up pants and the goofy grin, anyone that ever thought to themselves, “That poor boy will never grow up and marry a hot chick” – you were all correct.
Her name was Jennifer. I feel a bit bad passing judgment, but she was hideous.She was built like the bottom half of an hour glass and her face was all mashed up, like she did a 100 yard dash in a gym that wasn’t quite 100 yards long.And her personality made her even uglier.
She wasted no time in explaining to me exactly how things were going to be, and she spoke every word with the saliva-filled lisp of a cartoon elephant.
“So what kind of material do you do?” she spit.
“Umm, I tell jokes.”I wasn’t sure what she was getting at.
“What kind of jokes?”
“The kind that make people laugh.”
“Like what?” she pressed.
“Like, I start with a set up, and then once I’ve put that out there, I generally toss in a punch line of some sort,” I said.“I have no idea what you’re asking me.”
“Well, here’s the thing,” she explained with the most elitist smirk a human being could possibly ever wear on their face.“Other comics have a tendency to watch Dustin’s act on the first night and then go up and do his jokes in front of him the rest of the week, and I hate to have those people fired.”
Guinness shot out of my nose. Did she just – ?No.There’s no way.“Wait a second,” I said.“Are you… insinuating that I might steal one of HIS jokes?”
“It happens,” she hissed.
The hypocrisy was almost obtrusive.Her calling me joke thief on Screech’s behalf was somewhat akin to Richard Simmons calling someone a cocksucker.It was a black fly in your chardonnay or some other Alanis Morissette lyric.It was the pot and the kettle and the dish and the spoon all packaged into one nice neat little fruit rollup of irony, and it kind of pissed me off.Technically it wasn’t an accusation yet as nothing had really happened, but it was a great indicator that a storm was probably on the horizon.
The first show went as expected.I did a half-hour in front of him, and then about a third of the way through his set, people started walking out.“You are so much funnier than him!” they would say as they filed past me.
In all honesty, I hardly knew anything about comedy five years ago.I was okay, but nothing more.I wasn’t that good; he was just that bad.To put it in perspective, if you went to a nice restaurant and they brought you a ham sandwich out as an appetizer, you might not be too impressed.But, if they brought out your entrée and it was a big Bucket of Shit, then you would probably check to see if they could bring you another one of those suddenly delicious sandwiches.That’s what happened with us.
When I walked off stage the second night, Rachel met me in the Green Room.“You’re not going to believe this,” she said.She gave me a look that indicated that she knew I might overreact to whatever she was about to tell me. “Are you ready?” she asked, and then took a deep breath.
“What was wrong with that?” I asked.“I did okay, right?”
“Jennifer said you did one of Screech’s jokes and they want me to fire you.”
I laughed at what had to be a joke. “Shut up.”
“I’m serious,” she replied.“Don’t worry, you’re finishing the week obviously.I just wanted you to know.”People continued to leave in droves as we talked.
On Friday night we were scheduled for two performances.Jennifer lumbered toward me before the first show with a hateful look on her face.“So you’re still here?” she asked.I just smiled.“That’s okay.You won’t be by the end of the night,” she said, and waddled off.
For the third time that week, I finished my set and hung out in the lobby for the inevitable exodus of audience members.The people fled the disaster, this time going so far as to try to warn the crowd waiting for the second show as they left.Dustin stormed to the back room after his failed set.
I could hear the conversation growing heated in the office as the staff began seating the second crowd.I walked in intending to watch from the perimeter, and instead found myself at the center of the argument.“Fire him or we’re leaving,” Jennifer slurred as she pointed at me.She sounded like she had a wet dishtowel in her mouth.
“He hasn’t done anything wrong,” Rachel said, defending me.
“He’s doing Dustin’s jokes,” Jennifer fired back.
“Dustin’s not even doing Dustin’s jokes!” I interjected.I couldn’t keep quiet anymore. “He’s doing Keith Alberstadt and Kinison and… do you want me to keep going?”
“Look,” Rachel said.“Nobody is getting fired.He’s not stealing any jokes, believe me.We’ll just have to work this out some other way.”
“Then we’re done here,” Jennifer said.“C’mon Dustin.”And with that, Screech stood up and followed her out the door like a puppy.She literally took his balls and went home.He left 250 fans of his sitting in the showroom ten minutes before show time, people who had chosen to spend both their night and their money to see him perform.It was a horrible thing to do, especially considering that there were no other comedians in Shreveport to cover his time.
“Oh my God,” Rachel said, stunned.“They really left.What are we going to do?”
“Start the show I guess?I’ll do as much time as I can. Don’t worry.It’ll be fine,” I said as reassuringly as I could.“And hey.Thanks for sticking up for me.”
We started the show on time.The only other act on the bill was the Master of Ceremonies, a hip-hop radio DJ named Flow, with long dreadlocks and no jokes.If it was my job to provide the comedy, it was his task to prepare the audience for the absence of their celebrity headliner.He failed miserably.
“Yo yo yo, check it out,” he said quickly from the stage.“Screech got sick as hell and had to go home, but you’re gonna love this next guy.Give it up for Slade Ham.”That was my entire intro.
The room became a roaring waterfall of conversation, everyone suddenly wondering what was going to happen.“Did we hear that right?Screech isn’t here? Wait, what?”It was incessant, even as I walked to the stage.
You learn early as a comedian that you have to capture the audience instantly.As I grabbed the microphone, my only thought was to get my first joke out immediately.Win them over quickly, no matter what.My words, however, were lost in the cacophony, just another inaudible buzz in a room full of confused voices.I desperately needed to change tactics.
I flagged down a waitress and ordered a round – a beer and a shot of James – and then I sat down on the barstool on stage and gazed out at the chaos.My drinks arrived and still I sat there, unmoving.Eventually the spectators grew curious, ending their conversations and slowly staring back at me.At least they’re paying attention now, I thought to myself.I shot my whiskey and stood up.
“So, you’re probably wondering what’s going on,” I told them.“I’m guessing you’ve figured out that Screech isn’t going to make it tonight.I’m sorry.That’s the bad news.The good news is that you’re much better off without him.You would only have been disappointed.
“I know Flow told you he got sick but that’s not entirely true, and I think you guys deserve the truth.He walked out on you.He knew you were here and he chose to run off.He’s a dick.”
“Why’d he leave?” a voice yelled out of the darkness.
“Honestly?He was doing that badly.He got embarrassed and he quit,” I replied.
A different voice arose from the back.“You’re lying!”
“Um, no.I’m not.He really did get embarrassed and that’s why he left.”
“You’re making that up!” the man repeated.
“Why would you say that?That’s exactly what happened,” I said back, and the response that came back was one of the funniest things I’d ever heard in my life.
“Because if ten years on Saved by the Bell didn’t embarrass that motherfucker, I doubt Shreveport could do it!”
It was met with uproarious laughter.“Fuck Screech!” he said. “Tell us some jokes, Funny Man!”
And on that note, the crowd and I bonded.I made it through the show unscathed, and no one left upset.It was a far longer show than I was capable of at the time, but we got through it.I haven’t crossed paths with Screech again since then, but I have occasionally run into a comic who has.“God, he’s such an asshole,” they’ll say.“Have you ever worked with him?”
“Let me tell you a story,” I always reply, “about this one time in Shreveport.”
TAGS: Dustin Diamond, Saved by the Bell, Screech, Shreveport, slade ham, stand up comedy
SLADE HAM is a stand up comedian. He has performed in 52 countries on six continents, a journey that can be followed in his book, Until All the Dragons Are Dead. One day he hopes to host a travel show and continue to trick the world into paying him to do the things he loves to do. Slade is also an Editor for The Nervous Breakdown's Arts and Culture section. He keeps a very expensive storage unit in Houston, TX.
242 responses to “The Joker and the Thief”
The first thing I think of when I think of Dustin Diamond is the film Made. “Did you just let SCREECH in the fucking club?”
Now, when I think of Dustin Diamond I’ll think of a joke-stealing quitter. That’s a great story, dude. Fucking Shreveport. Hahahahaha.
I’ve never actually seen “Made”. Hmmm. That’s a great line.
I seem to leave Shreveport with a story every single time. What is it about this little four state area that seems to produce so many unusual stories for me. TX, LA, AR, and OK…
Oh, dude. You have to see it. Vince Vaughn is genius in that. And when you’re done, watch the outtakes. “What sort of pattern do you see? The per diem. The per diem. No one gets their hands on that but me.” Hahaha. It doesn’t make sense now, but it will.
It must be tough to be on the road so much. What do you do in the different places you stay? How often do you go back to Houston?
I’m on it. I need a new movie anyway.
The road would be a much harder thing to handle if I worked more often. As it is, I’m only out maybe two weeks a month, and even then it’s for five days at the most. I get to spend most of my time here in Houston.
As for what I do, I’m a total adventurer. I would go crazy staying in the same city forever. As is, I feel like I’ve tricked people into paying me to go exploring. And in the places where there’s nothing exciting to do, I seek out the little mom and pop restaurants that have wi-fi and kill a day that way.
While I’d much rather be rock climbing, worst case, I can write anywhere.
Tawni says:
I’ve got to recommend Made with Richard. It’s one of my favorite movies. The outtakes are hilarious.
It’s something of a spiritual sequel to Swingers – maybe an older cousin? And it’s fucking brilliant.
Damn. I am convinced. I may go find it tonight, since I have no plans to leave the house. That may be exactly what i need.
Did you rent it yet??
No, I haven’t. I leave for a five day trip on Sunday though, and I am determined to watch it before then. I want to discuss it before this post fades into oblivion.
Good Lord, this rocked! I had forgotten about Screech until seeing him on Celebrity Fit Club, where he used his super-douche powers to annoy even the most grizzled and despairing of D-listers.
Big ups to you for your recovery technique. If someone tried to pull something like that on me, I don’t know if I would have the restraint that you showed. Well done.
Oh, and the Richard Simmons metaphor is pure genius!
Didn’t he quit Celebrity Fit Club too? I saw that episode. What a douche.
I never watched it. Couldn’t do it. Made me have flashbacks, hahaha. He probably did walk out though. It’s his M.O.
It took everything I had not to punch him. This was all pre-Celebrity Fit Club etc… before he tried to sell T-shirts to save his house and before his sex tape…
I didn’t know anything about him except that he was doing my friends’ jokes. If I’d known just how awful of a person he really was, I really might have hit him. It ended better than it could have.
There’s a sex tape? Ewwwwwww. Who would want to see that? He must be like one of the tone deaf people that try out for American Idol. God, some people are idiots!
He leaked the tape himself, for publicity. I would feel bad for how far he’s fallen if he didn’t absolutely deserve it.
Okay, TMI! Stop feeding me useless information that I never need to use. My brain can’t handle this.
Oh, and I have Redemption on my iPod. I love the Screech story and the Women are Wild Animals, and etc., etc…… One of these days maybe I’ll get to see you live with new jokes.
If all goes as planned, the new CD will be recorded this weekend. Should be an hour of stuff you haven’t heard. Redemption seems so old now.
Jason Black says:
Hey dont you have to be some body before you can say you have fallen?
Im just sayen. . .
I forgot about his sex tape “scandal.” Sounds about as sexy as a hidden camera tape of Kathy Griffin balancing her checkbook.
I wonder if his wife is still handling his affairs. Speaking for myself, if I were forced to sell t-shirts of myself and leak a sex tape, just to make the mortgage, I would take a long, hard look at the person handling my business dealings.
I can’t say it’s impossible to find the best line in that piece but damned if I can pull a Sophie’s Choice here. I laughed my ass off throughout. Well done, sir.
I’m glad there were a few laughs in there. To be fair though, I’ve told this story more than once, just never in print really, outside of a blurb somewhere years ago.
It is little risk to my anonymity to confess that I have never met nor heard you so it was news to me. Damned funny news. If he ever runs up to my car in an effort to wash my windshield for a buck (I’m assuming that’s his next professional stop), I’ll punch him in the face on your behalf.
You shouldn’t have heard of me. The story is only infamous in comic circles, and unless you heard it on XM (which no one has) you couldn’t know, hahaha.
Amongst comics though, it’s different. I’ve had it retold to me in a green room actually, sans my names of course. It was one of those, “I heard some guy made him quit in some city” blah blah blah, complete with details that both did and didn’t happen. Good stuff.
Anon – Here is the stand up version. http://popup.lala.com/popup/2810527694037731961
Thanks, Lorna (though I think I’ll wait until I get home to play it :D).
Wow. I don’t ever listen to myself, so that was weird to hear. That was literally recorded two weeks after it happened. I’ve grown up a bit in the last five years, most notably in the area of humility, hahaha.
What’s weird is having comedy mixed in with my music on my ipod. Honestly, I sometimes skip it and go on the next song. But what’s funny is that your AA bit always seems to follow songs about whiskey….. like Whiskey River. 🙂
um your bit about your DUI. whatever. 🙁
Ya know… here’s what’s funny about who I was then vs who I am now, on stage anyway. Back then, I happily told jokes that weren’t always true. That DWI story was based on a friend of mine, and we sort of wrote it together. I despise telling any stories that aren’t true now though. not for years…
Let the record show that I have never had a drunk driving arrest 🙂
Sometimes I just need to keep my mouth closed. ;x
I made myself a new lightsaber….. only the gravatar cuts it off so it can fit my big head.
I have heard it more then once but its funny every time. Thank god for ipods though so I dont have to try and tell it.
Yeah Slade I have spread the funny that is you in over 9 states at about 300′ and your a hit hey its the least I can do. Plus laughter makes the work go down. To hell with Poppins and her teeth rotting suger and who really wants to whistle while they work!
James D. Irwin says:
Fantastic story man.
I love quality heckles.
In my incredibly brief stand up ‘career’ I was heckled mercilessly the second time. Just my brother, shouting ‘you suck’ over and over.
To be fair I did. It was the day after I got back from Amsterdam. In the afternoon before we left my friend and I decided to try marijuana for the first time. Our plane was delayed and I got back at 4am and woke up at 7 to do the slot at lunch time. Tired and unrehearsed. It was hardly comedy gold to begin with.
I was only doing it to pad out the line up too. A favour for a friend.
Screech sounds like Bania from Seinfeld, but worse.
I thought I remembered reading somewhere on here that you did comedy. You don’t anymore? I’ve been entertaining doing a piece on hecklers and crowd interaction, from the performers stand point. It’s 3/4 written actually, but I haven’t been able to talk myself into finishing it.
Going on stage tired and fuzzy-headed is hard. I hardly even let myself drink anymore before a show. Sometimes it’s you versus them, and you need every tool in the bag to be sharp and ready. Amsterdam has killed quite a few brain cells for me as well though. You’re forgiven, only because you can hardly come back from that glorious city well rested and focused with a clear conscience.
Have you seen the Jamie Kennedy documentary about Hecklers? Absolutely brilliant…
Yes. Absolutely. Joe Rogan and Bobby Slayton are two of the best, and they’re featured in it. The crowning moment is when Kenny Moore crack that guy with his guitar. Hahahahaha. That’s a great film. Probably the only thing Jamie Kennedy has done that I’ve ever liked actually…
I wrote at least one post on it.
The thing is after weeks of writing and practicing the first time I got on stage I knew it wasn’t for me. I didn’t do all that badly first time funnily enough. All my jokes got at least a slight laugh.
I wasn’t going to do it again, but two of my friends had organized this show that a load of people had dropped out of…
There’s a good heckler on Patton Oswalt’s Werewolves and Lollipops… or at least a good reaction to a heckler…
I won a lollipop tonight, but then I also had to pay £2.80 for a Jameson.
You know, I really think you do know the first time. For me, it was instantly addictive. I have seen some that walked off saying, “Well, I tried it. Never again.”
The first time is always better than the second time. You can rarely recreate that first set. It’s even harder when your friends stop showing up to support you and then it’s you talking to strangers.
Oswalt makes me laugh. He does really well in TX. He recorded that CD in Austin if I’m not mistaken
I read from many sources as I was preparing for my first show that you tend to know as soon as you get on stage. There are, apparently, a ton of comedians who bombed first time but knew it was what they wanted to do and kept going back…
It did surprise me though that I didn’t have the confidence/personality for it. I have occasionally been tempted to give it another crack just to see how I feel about it…
I thought it was Athens, Georgia? I know it’s somewhere south. I might be thinking of Brian Posehn’s album…
That’s the problem with the stage, once you’ve been up, it will keep calling you. It’s a tempting little siren song. If you do go back up, let me know.
And it appears we were both right. The bonus DVD was shot in Athens:
According to Wikipedia
ah, that’s right… I haven’t listened to it or watched the dvd for a while. I watched the dvd just before I went to Savannah…
I’ve been toying recently with ideas for comic stage shows… less straight up stand up and something more like a one man show…
Actually, my first stand up attempt was at a school talent show. I found the jokes the other day and they weren’t too bad for a 13 year old…
Megan DiLullo says:
People are freaks, man. Good save. Good stuff.
Think of it as growth spurt.
It actually was really formative. I gt to stretch my legs waaay past my comfort zone. I don’t think I’ve ever been that “not ready” for a show. I still wanna fuck Screech up though, haha. He is such a fucking douche.
Oh, this is brilliant. Great work, Slade.
I read a review recently of Diamond’s new tell-all Saved by the Bell autobiography. According to the reviewer, it’s basically just a categorical list of who was fucking who backstage, as well as anecdote after anecdote about how he’s used his fleeting fame as Screech to get laid. And apparently appears to have been typed out by a chimpanzee. A half-blind chimpanzee, at that.
I still find it odd that he’s the brother Beastie Boy Mike D(iamond). How did one end up so cool, and the other an utter douche?
I didn’t know about the joke thievery, though. Is he as bad (and as blatant) about it as Carlos Mendoza?
Whoa. Wait. What?
Mike D?
Shut up. Hang on, lemme process this… I’ll be back to respond to the rest in a second. How the hell did I miss that?
Wait, wait, I think I’m wrong on that. I just checked. Can’t find any corroborating evidence.
Okay. I can breathe again. Hahaha, you scared me.
As for Carlos Mencia, he is a special kind of thief. I applaud Joe Rogan for every single time he ripped into Carlos. Screech takes from lesser known acts. Mencia stole from Cosby. Fucking COSBY. From the Himself special. The greatest recorded hour of stand up ever. He took from THAT.
Aside from the flagrant thievery though, at least Carlos is a nice guy.
Thanks, Slade!
I really needed a good funny story right about now!
You’re always welcome, Irene. And, as always, thanks for reading.
Riley Fox says:
I love that story. “…like she did a 100 yard dash in a gym that wasn’t quite 100 yards long,” is one of my all-time favorite similes.
I once had a Dick Cheney joke that involved comparing him to Punxsutawney Phil, the official Groundhog Day groundhog, in that while he was in office, he appeared in the public eye so infrequently that the media started treating his appearances like the groundhog on Groundhog Day. (“Vice President Cheney stepped outside and saw his shadow, which means it will be another six weeks…”) I give you that painfully long and unfunny description of the bit because one night I did that joke, and a woman in the front row said, quite emphatically, “You’re wrong about Dick Cheney.”
I knew Tennessee was a traditionally red state, but I cautiously asked, “What was wrong with that comparison?”
Then she smiled and said, “Dick Cheney doesn’t HAVE a shadow.”
Oh, and kudos on the Keith Alberstadt mention. He’s one of the OGs of Nashville comedy. 🙂
Bahahahahahahahaha. Isn’t it great in the rare instances that the shot from the crowd is an asset? I’ve had a few moments where I’ve literally had to stop the show and catch my breath. It’s such a beautiful thing when it happens. Rare, but beautiful.
As for Keith, though he and I have never met I do know the joke in question, and Keith is a funny, funny guy.
Ha. I was just about to send you a link to this…
Quenby Moone says:
Was that before or after the unfortunate Screech/porn incident? Jesus, that guy could make anyone screech in frustration. And Macbeth’s wife; is there ever a place where she doesn’t make life just a tiny bit brighter?
I love this story–because it’s great, but also because it’s fabulous to see schmucks hoisted on their own petard. It’s a rare sort of victory.
It really did feel good, especially at the time when I was still pretty much a rookie. And yes, this predated the porn release. I haven’t seen it, though I’ve heard that there are two girls in it with him. I cannot imagine the psychological trauma that comes from being thrown out to the world as the girl from the Screech Porn.
*shivers*
Seriously. That should be considered crimes against humanity for so many reasons.
It actually violates the Geneva Convention.
Screech makes Bob Saget tolerable. That’s his function in the the world maybe.
No! Saget is hilarious. Filthy, filthy, hilarious. Did you see his part on The Aristocrats?
I love The Aristocrats! Doug Stanhope killed it!
I hated The Aristocrats, but I think that may be because I’ve never tried to be funny onstage.
Well. I mean, there was one time, with Mo Collins, in North Hollywood, but I was only joining Mo. Who is way hot.
Are you saying he’s done something better than “America’s Funniest Videos?”
Yes. Yes, I am. That’s what’s always killed me about AFV and Full House… you could not have picked a more opposite personality to play those roles. If you haven’t seen his part in that movie, you have to. It’s the dirtiest thing you’ve ever heard.
Half-Baked. In which he makes better use of his few seconds of screen time than Dame Judi Dench managed in Shakespeare in Love (for which she won an Oscar).
“I used to suck dick for coke.”
“I seen him!”
That was probably the first time the public saw him be himself.
Precisely, man.
He had a page-long profile in, like, Esquire or GQ or some shit, and it was the raunchiest, most hysterical page I’ve ever read.
I’ll have to check it out. I used to watch AFV with the sound turned down because I hated his quips that much. He probably didn’t write them. Or he was pandering to his audience. It was awful.
Yeah, that’s the result of family friendly writers. He just cashed the checks. The upside is that you don;t need volume to laugh at a guy getting kicked in the balls.
Yeah I saw him on The Aristocrats but he doesn’t make me laugh. Got dragged to one of his stand-up shows years ago and it sucked salty balls. I did love him on Huff though.
That’s disappointing to hear. I think a lot of stuff is funny that isn’t though, so maybe this is the trade off.
Dougie is such a beast. I actually got to see it with Penn and Provenza on the big screen at Just For Laughs in Montreal when it debuted. Seeing it in a room full of comedians, including Doug, was fucking sick. It probably made it way funnier than it was.
I had a short film in the festival that year that was coincidentally edited by the same guy that edited The Aristocrats. Watching that movie though made me want to hang up my hat when it came to film. It was so brilliantly done, and so full of amazing talent. It deserved way more attention than it got.
I’m secretly in love with Doug Stanhope. I inactively stalk him. I’m convinced he is my soul mate.
Seeing the Aristocrats in that setting would be brilliant. Now, I’m not-so-secretly lightsaber green with envy.
They should make lightsabers out of the same stuff as mood rings.
I have mixed emotions on Doug as a comic. As person. he’s an absolute drunken sweetheart. As a comedian, he is either tyhe greatest thing that has ever picked up a microphone, or the absolute most embarrassing. It depends on which one shows up for the night.
He came in for me for a weekend when I owned my comedy club. Out of four shows he took two standing ovations and walked two complete crowds. Everything he’s ever recorded is fucking genius though.
Yeah. It can be pretty hit or miss with him. Though he does know that.
Now onto the lightsaber mood rings… Jedi marketing for the next generation. Maybe even Scientologists, lord know, they got the dough.
He’s fully aware. That’s what makes me mad. okay, enough Doug, hahaha.
Aren’t Scientologists and Jedi incredibly similar? The whole midichlorian count, etc? If I could find a way to dupe Scientology into giving me a truckload of money… maybe balance would be restored. They’ve certainly taken enough from people.
We have our first Jedi Mission!
Did someone mention scamming money…?
Between Pussy Stardust practice and our new Mood-Detecting-Lightsaber-Business/Way-to Screw-Over-Scientologists, how are we ever going to get it all done.
Now I want to sell Blacklight Sabers. So it looks really cool when you kill things that are white or neon.
Slade – are you joining Pussy Stardust too?
I don’t know about that Blacklightsabre thing. You’d better lay in a pretty hefty supply of Dagobachips with all the stoner Jedis you’ll attract. “These are not the munchies you’re looking for.”
The Blacklightsaber is a cool idea. We can moonlight as Crime Scene Investigating Jedis. Ya know, until the Scientology thing takes off.
You haven’t heard, Z? Megan invited me. I’m your new drummer.
And Anon, I’m counting on the stoner market. Plus, potheads are way easier to Jedi mind trick.
@ Megs – Can you imagine bringing one of those into a hotel room? Yecch. I’ll wait for the Scientologists.
“I find your lack of weed… disturbing….” – Darth Vader, Lord of the Spleef.
Ya know, Slade. Every time I walk in a hotel room I HAVE to say in a totally obnoxious voice “OH MY GOD! There’s semen EVERYWHERE!”
It’s almost to the point of compulsion. The bell hops at The Four Seasons in Vegas HATE me. I like watching them squirm.
I don’t know… the stoner market is composed of a paranoid bunch. I hope your plan isn’t too R2see-through.
Hahahahahahaha. That’s fucking awesome. Hahahaha.
Guinness shot out of your nose?? That’s never been in this story before! That’s criminal. 🙂
Screech was just here playing the comedy club at the beach. He was crazy rude to the staff and completely drunk. I didn’t witness it myself but heard a lot about it from a bartender who works there.
I am yet to hear one story that paints him in a good light. I feel bad for the club staff. They always get the brunt end of celebrity ego. It’s unfair.
Yeah, he tried to get one of the waitresses fired. I think this was following an unsuccessful attempt to grope her. ::gag::
You need to change your status to hiding again, ninja. 🙂
The United States Post Office is going to love me. I just wish I could be there to see your face…you’re going to need A LOT of AAA batteries.
Your Gravatar may be the first time that dress and a matching lightsaber have ever been photographed together.
Alice in Alderaan.
..what can I say? I like matching accessories. ::sly smile::
@Slade- Nice!!! I don’t think anyone else realizes that it’s an Alice costume. It’s too bad it crops so much. The whole effect is lost!! I may have to go change my FB pic.
Maggie Bridges says:
I miss you Slade Ham!!! Very funny stuff btw… I am going to try to come to your show Friday….hopefully! I wish comedy, tx was still here in town so I could come see you anytime….I guess I should’ve taken advantage of it when I had the chance. I miss ya ol’ neighbor and I am so proud of your success.
Heya stranger. Thanks for finding me here. Please come out Friday. Email me and I’ll put you on the guest list. I have another piece I plan on posting in the next week or two that deals with the old apartment complex. The entire tree house saga, specifically. You’ll enjoy it.
It’s really good to hear from you 🙂
Dude. I want to shake your hand and buy you a shot of Johnnie Black. Fuck, dude.
Well done. On the post and the evening. Fuckin’-A.
Oh, also? Fuck Screech.
Haha, many thanks Will. One day, I’m gonna square up on all my drinks. I’m gonna be very, very drunk, but around some very, very cool people.
Phat B says:
Oh. My. God. Dustin Diamond used to open the Improv in Brea when I was working nextdoor. His entire shtick was that his dad stole all his money, then his dad came up on stage and said “yeah I stole all his money.” Hilarity. Turns out we had the same drug dealer, and Screech wasn’t even the funniest guy in a circle full of stoned college kids. I don’t think the Improv even paid him to MC, he was just hoping to get discovered again.
I have such an issue with former TV celebs trying break into stand up. They do sell tickets, but they have no idea what they’re doing. It’s hard to get up there for an hour and do well. Michael Richards was another example of the crash and burn that happens when they try to cross over.
It’s much easier to go from stand up to TV than the other way around.
It’s sad when you can’t do well in Brea. I love that club.
“Turns out we had the same drug dealer, and Screech wasn’t even the funniest guy in a circle full of stoned college kids.” hahaha!
In Dustin’s defense, it was his high priced Hollywood lawyer who would later get that dealer off on a technicality.
That is the first positive thing I have ever read about him, even if it was his lawyers doing.
This story was so funny that I ran and got my husband from another room so he could read it too. Thanks for sharing the funny, Slade.
Fuck Screech. His grody sex tape is playing on a continuous loop in hell. Starship’s We Built This City is the background music. I’m sure of it.
Aw, thanks Tawni.
Starship, or Susan Vega’s Tom’s Diner. That has to be the stickiest song ever. It gets in your head and won’t ever leave. Both would be on Hell, The Soundtrack. I can probably think of a few others.
HA. Hell, The Soundtrack is a genius idea, Slade. Somebody needs to organize that. It would sell based on funny factor alone. The “so bad it circles back around to good” quality.
apparently ‘Tom’s Diner’ is about the same diner used in the exterior shots in Seinfeld…
one of the waiter’s there looks just like the soup nazi…
Really? i didn’t know that. All I do know is that it gets lodged in your head in the most uncomfortable way.
Do do do do , do do do do, do do do do do do do do
@ Tawni – God, there are so many. You can put Elvis’s Blue Christmas on that list as far as I’m concerned. Ugh.
I’ve never heard the song. I don’t intend to change this fact.
You’ve NEVER heard? Tom’s Diner? You must fix that:
Click It, James. You Know You Want To…
That was awful.
I had apple pie in that diner. It was pretty good.
This song just ruined that memory.
Welcome to my hell…
Knee deep in the hoopla? Sinking in your fight? No?
Come on, Tawni. That’s rock-n-roll gold.
I have lyrical rage issues, Richard. The words “knee deep in the hoopla” make me want to punch Bernie Taupin square in the shitty song-writing mug.
I just listened to some Bernie Taupin lyrics…
I think I’m going to kill myself…
“Knee deep in the hoopla” is the worst line in rock history. And didn’t they even name the album after that line? Terrible.
But come on, what about this verse? Bernie has his genius moments, right?
If someone else is suffering enough to write it down
When every single word makes sense
Then it’s easier to have those songs around
The kick inside is in the line that finally gets to you
And it feels so good to hurt so bad
And suffer just enough to sing the blues
Is that even English?
He’s responsible for Levon, too, I believe, which Brad covered recently. He’s a bad, bad man. I like all the melodies, I just hate his lyrics.
Oh no. I hope someone saved Irwin’s life tonight… Sugar Bear.
As I listened to my mom’s Elton John albums as a kid, I remember wondering, Why is he singing about the cartoon bear from the cereal commercials? And who told him Sugar Bear rhymes with “didn’t you, dear?”
The fact that his vocal melody lines are so hooky makes it even worse. As Brad mentioned in the recent post about Levon, you find yourself compelled to sing the catchy song, even though the lyrics make no sense.
Grrrrrrr. I’m gonna git you, Bernie Taupin. *shakes fist*
Gloria Harrison says:
And now I have to go home, or I would ramble on about how very much I love this whole post.
The title is effin’ genius. And now I will be singing Dylan in my head for the rest of the night.
I think Screech and Andy Dick should do a reality show together. There is one trainwreck I would actually watch.
I keep forgetting to mention how cool I think the title is.
As much as I love Dylan I always associate the song with Hendrix…
I, too, think of Jimi. Even though Dylan wrote it, it will always be a Hendrix song to me.
The second Dylan version is pretty awesome (the original is awful though. Generally I like Dylan’s voice, but on that song… not a good fit…)
It’s pretty rare to see a song much more associated with a cover version…
The only other example I can think of is I Love Rock and Roll, because Joan Jett’s version is much better known than The Arrows original.
Of course that in turn was hi-jacked by Britney Spears…
I had it stuck in my head the other day (the Jett version) and I was singing it to myself.
A girl overheard me. ”I didn’t know you like Britney Spears” she said…
Quiet Riot’s cover of Slade’s Cum On Feel the Noize is another one, and Manfred Mann’s Blinded By the Light… which was, believe it or not, a Springsteen song.
Being British the Slade version is still the better known over here… Don Powell, the drummer, used to visit my mum’s hardware store quite often…
I’ve never heard the Springsteen version… just giving it a go…
think I might prefer it…
is it wrong to like Springsteen?
I hate Born in the USA though.
No, Manfred Mann’s is better… the chorus is more epic… but I do like the original…
It’s two totally different songs. I love the Springsteen version, personally. Nobody seems to know that it was his song though. He did 10,000 Maniac’s Because the Night, too I think. I know he wrote it, but I don’t remember if there was a recorded version or not.
I’m always quite proud of the fact that I know it was originally a Springsteen song… I’m sure there’s another pretty famous song that he wrote for someone else (but never recorded himself…)
There’s another song which his manager insisted he record himself too… I can’t remember which one though… it’s 2.30am and I’ve been drinking guinness and jameson all night at prices I can’t really afford to pay…
Funny, I’m sitting at home in an attempt to not do the very same thing you’re doing, with the exact same two vices. I have one Guinness in the fridge right now, and I’m fight the urge…
I’m blanking on the songs, too.
Before tonight I hadn’t had a class of Jameson Irish Whiskey since I finished my bottle over Xmas… which really is far too long…
I’m looking forward to St. Patricks Day… An entire day where my two favourite alcoholic beverages are on special offer… one bar is doing pints of Guinness for £2 and measure of Jameson at £1.50…
I had an illegal pint in Ireland a few years ago. In England there is a law where a 16 year old can have a drink with a meal. I was on holiday with my family and at this restaurant we asked if the same law applied.
”That’s a good question. I don’t know. Probably…” was our answer.
They happily gave me a Guinness.
A bar here in Houston does $2 James on Mondays. I wonder sometimes if they know…
Normally St. Patty’s Day is a big one for me. This year though, I’ll be out in the middle of nowhere. It falls smack in the middle of a week long canyon canoe trip I have planned through Big Bend.
I’m bringing a bottle with me though. Out of respect.
this year is my first chance to do it properly…
I was all set last year, but I dropped out of university on March 6th and found myself back at gome on the 17th having a quiet night in with a solitary can of Guinness and miles from all of my friends…
It falls on a pretty good day for me. The 17th and 18th are my two days off during the week…
Eh, it’s best celebrated away from the masses. It always seems like amateur night for the drinkers. I love watching rookies order Guinness and then regret it. Glad ya get to enjoy this one.
I am a bit worried about that… luckily it falls on a wednesday, so most of the students in this town will be at the club night the union puts on on wednesdays. (Our student bar is awful. the only bar i’ve ever been to that doesn’t have Guinness on tap…)
haha, watching people try Guinness for the first time is always a sight. I’ve converted a few people to it, but most of the time people pull this face like someone just smeared shit on their face or something…
I did the same thing the first time I tried it. I was doing one of those Around the Wor4ld Tours at some restaurant in my hometown. Bennigans I think? Anyway, the goal is to drink one of every one of the 100 beers they served. Over the course of a few months, I did.
I remember choking down the first half of the Guinness, and by the end of it, I was in love. The second one was delicious.
I haaaaaaaaaaaaaate Andy Dick. If you could get them both in one place, I would throw the hand grenade. And thanks to you and James for digging the title. It was originally Not Quite Saved by the Bell, and then that popped into my head.
Joker and the Thief is also a Wolfmother song that I really liked when I first got their album. My friend Dave lives in Australia and got me into them before their album came out over here. In fact I bought an import copy months and months before it was released.
Then it was used in The Hangover/countless other films and trailers and now it’s fucking everywhere….
It is actually. I saw them before they broke out several years back, and then kind of quit listening once they went mainstream. Their most recent record hasn’t gotten nearly as much attention though. It’s a really good listen if you haven’t checked it out yet.
I heard one song on the radio a few weeks ago. I liked it. It’s almost an entirely different band, because the frontman kicked the other two out and replaced them.
Thing is I hate to download and new albums cost between £10-16.
The same thing happened with Jet. They weren’t a great band, but they produced some pretty decent 70s style rock. Then one of their songs got used in an advert and suddenly that was everywhere.
Have you heard of Airbourne? Total AC/DC rip off, but a pretty high quality one.
They are a different band now, for sure. I thought they put on a hell of a live show when I saw them, especially as a three piece. The new record is good though.
Jet was fun. Get Free was the break out song. 2002-03 or so? I remember it because I used to play it at the end of shows at my old comedy club.
And I have Airborne’s Runnin’ Wild album. AC/DC knock off or not, they’re fucking fun.
I remember the album was Get Born (taken from Subtaranean Homesick Blues). That came out in 2003 (bought it while I was doing work experience). And I know US and UK releases tend to differ track wise.
For some reason I have a Clash album that has the US track listing and not the UK release (this does mean though that I have White Man (in Hammersmith Palais)).
Anyway. Jet’s big song in the UK was ‘Are You Going to Be My Girl.’ My personal favourite was ‘Cold Hard Bitch.’
Airbourne were streaming their new album on their website earlier in the week… it’s pretty much more of the same… but hell, it worked for AC/DC… They are fucking brilliant. I heard the album around the same time AC/DC brought out Black Ice. Airbourne sounded more like AC/DC than AC/DC…
That was the Jet single. I was thinking of The Vines. I have no idea why I thought that was Jet.
Airbourne sounded more like AC/DC than AC/DC
Hahaha, that is so very true. The new A/DC is not as good as Airborne, that’s for sure.
I think The Vines came to prominence at the same sort of time. I think they’re also Australian too…
Yep. Vines are Australian. As are Jet, Airbourne, and Wolfmother. We were all very proud of ourselves.
According to fairly solid urban legend, the guitar player from Jet stopped carrying cash as soon as they hit the big time. Leading to the Melbourne music press to dub him ‘Captain Economy’.
Since we’re giving credit where it’s due… Australia is also responsible for Powderfinger, who I happen to LOVE LOVE LOVE.
And of course Silverchair. You guys sure import some talent, Simon.
Jesus, an American who has heard of Powderfinger? Madre de Dos!
It’s true. It’s not so much a case of importing talent as much as that as soon as an Australian sees the opportunity to hit the States, their immediate reaction is ‘Pfffft. Fuck this place. Have you seen the goddamn spiders here?’
Powderfinger and Silverchair were on the mix tape my aussie friend sent me, along with Wolfmother…
I don’t carry cash any more, although mostly because I haven’t got any.
Then again, I’m yet to hit the big time…
Funny, I’m trying to get TO Australia…
Not only do I know of Powderfinger, I am borderline obsessed. I have literally everything they’ve ever done, live tracks and B-sides included.
A friend of mine went to Australia somewhere around ’94. He brought back little souvenirs for all his friends. I got some kangaroo jerkey, a CD from Spiderbait, and Powderfinger’s Double Allergic. Now I’m strung out on Golden Rule
Slade: Melbourne International Comedy Festival.
Yep. I’ve been talking about submitting for next year. I’ve missed the boat on 2010. It happen in a week or two, no?
If we’re talking about Australian acts we can’t leave out The Dirty Three. “Indian Love Song” is one of my favorite post rock songs ever.
See Simon, we have another recruit for our U.S.-Australian exchange program. Have many U.S.-bound friends do you have?
Slade: sure does. And it’s a lot of fun. Australian audiences aren’t as vitriolic as UK audiences, but we do expect to be entertained for our money.
RC: I can think of five people at the drop of a hat who would cross their own mother to get to the States.
I, of course, would cross my own mother fastest.
Yeah… I’m going to have to make that happen. And there should be an exchange program. The grass is always greener on the other side of the Pacific.
There really should be. We’re so much smarter than our respective governments.
Be careful, though. We’ve pretty much adopted Arj Barker. The same thing could happen to YOU.
Arj is a huge stoner. You sure he didn’t just get lost over there? I’ll put myself up for adoption. Let’s see what happens when I get there.
It’s entirely possible. Seriously, we love Arj Barker. He appears on TV shows as a guest just about every time he’s over here. Forget Seinfeld, Hicks, Cross, Cook, Cable Guy (I wish I could forget the Cable Guy) – Barker is the favourite US comedian over here.
I am so intrigued by the concept of doing comedy not in America. I do it a lot, but I remain curios as to why certain comics really hit it overseas. Arj is one. My friend Tom Rhodes is another. He’s HUGE everywhere else. I’m a bit envious…
English comics traditionally tend to do well over here. There’s a very big difference (as well as some points of similarity) between the two, I don’t know, schools? of humour (as well as the spelling).
It’s changing – slowly – but a lot of the entrenched culture in Australia is pretty English, still. Ross Noble does well here (he’d do well anywhere, I guess), as does Eddie Izzard, Daniel Kitson, Dylan Moran.
I think we tend to respond a bit more to the kind of humour that’s based on a negative outlook of the world and self as opposed to a somewhat more positive one, which can be typical of American humour. A lot of the American approach seems to be ‘This is bullshit, it shouldn’t be, let’s comment on the difference’, whereas the UK version seems to be ‘This is bullshit, but we kind of figured it would be, let’s all be unsurprised by that.’
I don’t know. I’m spitballing here, and it’s been a while since I’ve had coffee. This is all very a priori and theoretical, and hugely general and opinionated.
There’s a huge difference, and you kind of nailed it. Eddie Izzard is genius, here or in England. American comics though tend to bring a lot of ego and attitude with them when they go elsewhere. It doesn’t always translate. It comes across as arrogance I think. I can’t say I haven’t been guilty of it.
The entire comedy discussion is sooo subjective, but one I enjoy very much. Dylan Moran I don’t know, btw. Gonna go look him up.
The translation barrier between cultures is something that fascinates me. Zara and I have had a lot of conversations about this; there are some very distinct differences between where we come from in terms of outlook and where Americans come from – and yep, absolutely, depending on how you interpret that, there can be trouble and judgment involved.
Man, I hear you on both the subjectivity and the enjoyment of the discussion. One of eye-opening experiences was hearing David Cross for the first time. I couldn’t stop laughing.
Moran’s great. He’s Irish, dour, and spits venom in every direction. In a lovable kind of way.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IoLIU2NI66w
The first time I ever saw David Cross it was like: Wow, someone out there actually gets it!
One of my biggest fears is I would meet David Cross and he wouldn’t find me cool. I think I would kill myself. His Shut You Fucking Baby has to be one of the best comedy albums ever.
“If Gabriel wants to rollerblade, Gabriel rollerblades. So fuck you, Mr. Osama bin Jerkhead or whatever your name is.”
Shut up, even.
Oh my God! Oh my God! I feel exactly the same way. I heard Shut You Fucking Baby (heh) and it all just fucking clicked.
And yes! I’ve been terrified that David Cross would meet me and I’d somehow fuck it up and he’d tear me a new one.
Ohhh… I really like this guy.
@ Richard – I didn’t like David originally. I gave him another shot though after Arrested Development, and now I totally agree with you. I read his book over the course of several airport layovers and really have grown to dig his sense of humor.
Glad to be of service, Slade.
this is awesome and, as always, totally hilarious. i remember him being such an asshole on celebrity fit club.
once i was heckled by a fellow audience member when i left a show early. it was gay/lesbian night, and i left right after my friend went, and someone yelled after me, “gee, are the jokes making you uncomfortable!” or something like that, and i was like, but i’m the fag hag! I’M THE FAG HAG! it was quite upsetting.
I forget sometimes just how uncomfortable it is to be in a crowd like that. I find it amusing sometimes that certain people will sit quietly through my show and then take a shot at another audience member. I normally jump to the victim’s defense. It’s one of those “pick on someone your own size” things.
I would have had your back, that’s all I’m saying 🙂
Should’ve shouted back, “No – horny!” Who’s gonna heckle wanting to get laid?
slade, aw thanks! the emcee did defend me, though she was so batty, she didn’t really know who the audience member was heckling.
anon, that’s so funny because i was indeed leaving for a booty call! 😀
Hahaha. Excellent!
Christine W. says:
I can’t stand that disgusting freak of a human being. I saw little bits of him on reality tv…what a douche. I knew this was going to be good as soon as I saw his name. Just thinking about him and his little weeble wife makes me kinda nauseated.
I’m happy I didn’t disappoint. He’s just not a good person.
Brilliant story. I never really watched Saved by the Bell, but I remember Screech. Who could forget a face like that. I couldn’t have told you his real name, though…
That’s what’s the worst about it. There probably aren’t too many people that DON’T know who he is. Well, Screech anyway. And instead of doing anything positive, he’s done this. It’s such a waste.
Whoa Whoa Whoa!
Slade Ham on fire
This was hot.
This guy right here’s
teaching TNB how it’s done.
Well done, sir.
If only, J.M.
That’s incredibly flattering. I am glad it was an entertaining read though. I’ve really been wanting to do this story justice for a while.
AXS says:
I know he was a cunt. Is it wrong the whole thing still makes me feel kinda sad though? Seems hard not to feel that way.
It makes me a bit sad too, but then I remember that he has a choice. Had he been a decent guy I would have happily helped him with his material. Whatever the cause, he continues to be a dick by choice… and I can’t always feel sympathy for that.
It kind of makes me sad, too. He must be such a miserable human being. What makes someone that way? The emasculating shrew of a wife probably didn’t help, but it sounds like he’s capable of these horrors when she’s nowhere near. He’s a sad, troubled man. And an asshole.
I’m sure a lot of it stems from being a child star and all the attention that comes with it. Not having a normal childhood, etc. Still, those things aren’t excuses. I’m also a lot more forgiving when I don’t have to deal a person’s asshole tendencies face to face.
Know what else makes me sad, Slade? That everyone else appears to have fucking lightsaber Gravatars but me. Yeah, that makes me good and sad…and mad.
Ummm… we can fix that, ya know? Rich and I own a lightsaber shop.
Which Rich? Ferguson? If so, then you and his Bond Girl butt need to get on this and hook a girl up. I live in a really fucking tough neighborhood.
No, Cox. But… I can fix ya up.
Hokey religions and ancient weapons are no match for a good blaster by your side…
Good one and W I C K E D B U R N.
“…and she spoke every word with the saliva-filled lisp of a cartoon elephant.”
I had a vivid image of her doing this. So amusingly articulate, my hat goes off to you, Sir!
Well done on upstaging Dustin the Douche! Bravo! Bravo!
Thanks, Simone. I’m not even sure that I can think of a lisping cartoon elephant, but it certainly did seem to say what I was trying to.
Was this before or after his ill-fated run in the boxing ring? Because he could have gotten all Axl Rose on you and demanded you get in the ring, you know?
Great story, and well told. The title is perfect.
There is at least one “comic” worse than Diamond, though…although he’s not a professional. But that’s a story for another day, and best told in person. I wish you were there to witness it, though. I’ve never seen someone bomb like that. We were expecting him to be awful, but he took it to a whole new level. Pin-drop silence.
Was this possibly at a TNBLE event, Greg?
Regarding this post, Slade, I feel like a guy who’s been seeing long lines outside a theater for a few weeks, and for some reason I haven’t been able to get inside the theater to see why there are such long lines, and now I have and I totally get it. It’s my favorite thing you’ve yet posted. I’m jealous. I hate you. And now I’m going to waddle off — “waddled off” being the bit that most made me laugh. There are two overweight characters in my novel who do quite a bit of waddling, though I’m not sure that I used that word. Do you see what I’m doing? I’m trying to make this all about me because I’m jealous and I hate you. Which is really a huge compliment, in case you didn’t already catch that, as I’m sure you did. And now I really am going to waddle the fuck off.
To be fair, most of the attention this post has received is all centered around lightsabers and Australian music, hardly something I can take credit for. I happily embrace your “hate” by the way. That’s probably the biggest compliment you could pay me – one I understand based on how many times I’ve read your writing with that exact same emotion.
There’s love in our hate 🙂
I think the way fat people move is almost art. It’s poetic. It deserves the right word. There is so much effort in what they do that it seems disrespectful to simply call it walking. I haven’t yet read Banned, though I’ve sworn to myself that I will. As soon as the next payment arrives in my PayPal account from wherever payments arrive from, I intend to snag it.
So I can hate you back again.
And if you didn’t already catch it, I am always thrilled when I see your name attached to a notification in my Inbox. Thanks, Duke.
The thrill is returned, I promise, especially when you say that you aim to read my book. And now that you do, I wonder, with a feeling of guilt, if I was unconsciously hinting in that direction, though, I can’t help but want to add, I think you’ll definitely find something of interest in it, since:
* It’s about music, and I’ve recently learned that you have 25,000 songs in your iPod (or is that “on” your iPod?), and you fancy yourself a master of rock & roll trivia, as do I, except that I’m not a master of classic-rock trivia, and there are holes in my mastery even in my area of expertise.
* It’s about a twisted love affair in which no one is stabbed, though it’s earnestly suggested to the narrator at one point that he should “get a gun and shoot that lying bitch.”
* The narrator pays the bills by screenwriting, and if you haven’t already completed a screenplay, I know you intend to complete one, and undoubtedly will.
* The narrator drinks Jameson.
As for the discussion about lightsabers and Australian music, well, it’s those digressions that rack up the comment count, as I know only too well. As if that were the point! But it is an agreeable dividend. Also, I learned that through the commentary here that Richard Cox is aware of the Dirty Three, as I should’ve guessed, since I could tell from a list of his favorite music on my self-interview board that the Dirty Three is in his line, but I stupidly included a Dirty Three song on the CD mix I mailed to Tulsa yesterday. Ah, well. Now let’s see if his saber-lit vision detects this comment, and I’ll retreat to my pathetic corner where I’m soberly holding forth on the very unentertaining subject of Faulkner.
You are free to feel guilty about it if you’d like, but I intended to pick it up long before this dialogue. You had me with the Jameson, though I really have been waiting on CD Baby to send me a payment so I can have some online play money.
I did finish a first draft of a screenplay, though it is the product of two drunken comic minds, and hardly the kind of thing that will ever leave my hard drive. Good practice though, since I’d never written one before. I had to teach myself Final Draft somehow though.
As for trivia, you would take me to school in certain genres. I know more about music I hate than I care to. It’s weird actually.
Richard may or may not catch this conversation. I would, but that’s because privately my ego is attuned to anything mentioning me, especially in the sidebar. I’m a bit ashamed to admit that, but there it is.
I’m attempting to catch up on everyone else’s posts today. I feel quite behind. Yours I am saving, mainly because it has plenty of attention at the moment, but also because I have not read a lot of Faulkner (embarrassingly) and am hesitant to add to what is most certainly a well educated conversation.
I did catch this conversation, and I’m happy to say your trade for the CD is on its way as well. Sorry for the delay, Mr. Haney, but you will soon be the proud owner of one (1) copy of an earnest-but-flawed first novel.
And I wouldn’t call it “stupidly included a Dirty Three track” but rather an accurate guess based on my stated musical preferences. Well played, sir. And thank you.
Slade: Final Draft is completely unnecessary, but Final Draft has managed to brainwash the world into thinking otherwise. I hate those fuckers. I want to fight them with nunchuks. And I’m sure we all look for mention of ourselves in the sidebar, which wasn’t necessary at 2.0, since we could view all comments in their entirety on the dashboard. There are still a number of kinks to be worked out at 3.0, and I hope they’re worked out sooner than later.
RC: I will indeed by a proud owner of one (1) copy of a novel by RC, and after seeing this comment from you yesterday, I went back and listened to my RC playlist, trying to guess at your reaction to it. But I should shut up, since this is making me sound like I’m sitting on the edge of my seat or something. So shut up I will.
I can see where your animosity toward Final Draft comes from. It took a lot of the “work” out of it for me, considering I literally had zero idea about how to write a screenplay. I researched as much as I could, and then let the program limp me through. It was definitely the easy route, though I have a much firmer grasp of things than I did 92 pages ago.
But… I still don’t know what I’m doing.
I am sincerely thinking of trying to reinvent myself as a screenwriting coach. Maybe, if you think you need help, I can use you as a guinea pig at some point. I have to figure out how to convert what I know instinctively into a method of some kind that can be applied by others.
Oh, I’m certain I need help. I have to wrestle down one of these stray ideas though and commit to writing it.
The first one was ridiculously fun to do, but not something that was written with any intention of ever being made or sold. There’s a reason no one other than myself and another few comedians have seen it, hahaha. If it ever made it off my hard drive, I’m afraid I’d never be taken seriously as a writer again.
A glass of James one day, and I’ll tell you about it. There’s a bit of a common thread that I was unaware of until recently.
Get in the ring motherfucker, and I’ll kick your bitchy little ass…
I love that song. This was after that. For a while after that week, I vowed to get famous for no other reason than to be able to fight him on Celebrity Death Match. I mean, he beat up Horshack. I like my chances.
And you have piqued my curiosity for sure re: the comic. In person it shall be though. Nother reason to find my way north…
He did kick Horshack’s ass. Must have been the pent-up anger.
I’m not trying to be coy about the “comic.” This took place at the Funniest Man on Campus contest at Georgetown my sophomore year, so it wasn’t the big time — although we had some people who went pro. And I have to do the impression for the story to be funny. If that makes sense. It’s the Worst Stand-up Joke Ever. But anything to hasten your trek East.
Are you jealous cuz your dad’s getting more pussy than you? Fuck you. Suck my fucking dick.
No, no. Save the story for a face to face meeting. I look very forward to it. Death on stage is about all I laugh at anymore, hahaha.
You wanna antagonize me? Antagonize me motherfucker!
Tweet says:
this reminds me of my favorite kate nash song 🙂
Which one? Unless I missed the obvious, in which case feel free to point out my obliviousness this morning.
you failed the mind reading portion of the exam 🙂 its ‘dickhead’
Of course. n my defense, I only have Made of Bricks. I scrolled through the track listing, but alas…
track four of that very album. a jedi really should work on his mind reading and defense tactics
Wow. Double fault. I even looked again after you posted the title just to make sure I hadn’t overlooked it.
It’s there though. In all it’s glory. Mocking my lack of observation.
Slade’s been using Jedi mind tricks on himself again.
I’m the only one they seem to work on actually…
Ha! you’re a great salesman. i don’t need a light saber 🙂
I have never heard anything positive about Dustin Diamond. In my life. Everything I’ve seen from him in his adult years seems to indicate that he is the worst type of jaded, spoiled, inappropriately boastful and big-headed pseudo-celebrities there is. He was on some reality show–I can’t remember which–and I wanted to reach through the TV and kick him in the balls.
I mean, he gives me serious, “I’ve never met you, but I’m absolutely sure I fucking hate you” feelings.
I hate Dustin Diamond like some people hate Glenn Beck.
I’m not even kidding. I look at him, and I see evil. On every front. I can’t describe it. Everything he does is perfectly wretched.
Now I am upset. Thanks alot, Slade.
You’re upset… try spending three days with him. He’s as horrible as you think he is.
In Glenn Beck’s defense, for however much people hate him, he is wildly entertaining to me. I don’t give anything he says merit but I can hardly take my eyes off his show. It’s like watching a car crash. He’s so melodramatic…
As for all this negativity that I’ve handed you on a Wednesday morning, I can only apologize. I hope whoever ends up on the brunt end of it deserves it though, hahaha.
Sorry 🙂
I hate Glenn Beck so much because of the sort of willful damage he inflicts upon society in the name of profit. I don’t think he really believes all that shit he says. He was on KZFM in Corpus back in the day, and this bozo doesn’t care about us or politics as much as he cares about himself. He’s a monkey. A windup doll.
But I understand why you like to watch him. I used to read Stephanie Farris’ blog on MySpace for no reason except it annoyed me so much. Reading her inane bullshit was scab picking of the highest order. But at least Stephanie’s reach was limited. Beck has convinced half the nation he’s serious.
And don’t get me started on Nancy Grace.
Goddamit, I should never have mentioned Glenn Beck. Yes, yes, yes, everyone hates Glenn Beck. Evil, crazy, mouth diarrhea, etc. etc. blah blah and so on.
This is not about you and your crazy commie politics Richard Cox.
This is about ME. Can’t you see I’m hurting right now? Can’t you see how upset I am, sitting here, thinking about the existence of Dustin Diamond?!?!?!
Dustin DIAMOND, RICHARD!!!!
*throw plate*
Corey Haim is dead, Becky. Think about that for a minute.
There can be only one Corey!!!!1
That was creepy. I posted MY Corey Haim comment below at the same time you posted yours.
It is tragic. It makes me feel bad. I was rootin’ for him.
Nancy FUCKING Grace. I want to fight her with nunchuks. She makes my skin literally crawl off my body. I despise people that exploit tragedy for money, and she is their Queen.
Wow, Becky, that is creepy. I guess the other Corey is watching over us somewhere now.
I hate Glenn Beck because people keep him famous by carrying on about him. He’s like a child with behavioral problems. I should have never said a goddamn thing.
Next person to say Glenn Beck gets the gravy boat.
Sorry. I think I’m just a little emotional over this Corey Haim thing.
Corey Haim is dead and we still have Dustin Diamond and Glenn Beck. Something’s wrong.
I said Glenn Beck again.
My buddy and I have a two-man golf league (we didn’t update the site in a while, but still). You can at least see we picked the correct Corey.
C.S. Feldman Cup
Damn. You almost had to redo the website. You almost picked the wrong Lost Boy.
Yeah, but if you had picked the other one, it could have been the C.I. Haim Memorial Cup, which is way more important sounding.
Good point, Becky.
Wow, I’ve scrolled quickly through the 2XX comment list (sorry, no time to read those ATM) to get to the posting form, and it seems to me that TNB has been taken over by terrestrial Jedi. What can I say but “excellent”, and I hope you all claim the Sith set, like you’re supposed to.
I don’t thunk I’ve ever watched Saved by the Bell (probably one of those Uche-in-Nigeria cultural lacunae), but I got the gist of this one guy’s character from your piece, and man, I guess the scars worked him over good. I’m surprised reputation doesn’t seem to spread quickly among stand-up comedy audiences (as opposed to the comedians, considering you knew his rep). Kinda scary that someone so awful would still be a successful headliner.
I’m honored to have gotten even Uche’s attention 🙂 We have gone Jedi it would seem.
Saved by the Bell is the epitome of 90’s American culture. I count you among the lucky ones that weren’t subjected to it.
Stand up audiences are, for the most part, very uninformed. Everyone has their favorites of course, but they know very little outside of what Comedy Central or HBO feeds them. In most clubs people just show up to see whoever happens to be there. They would never do that with a musical group, yet they somehow tend to put all comics in one big group.
Club owners only care that you sell tickets. They will happily apologize, after they have your money. It’s unfortunate.
Thanks for stopping by, Uche.
Good Lord! I seem to have somehow gained the reputation of Lewis Carroll’s Snark right here on TNB. Actually I seem to have gained the reputation of a Boojum.
No fair, I call! No fair! I love the gang of misfit superheroes we’ve assembled here, and I only wish I had more time to spend hanging out. I usually sneak in an hour here and there when I absolutely need a break from all-consuming work, and so I read what I can, but I’m aware that the action moves so quickly here that I miss a lot of great stuff. But it’s certainly not for lack of interest. And I really am ashamed that I haven’t written a proper entry in so long.
Now that I’m set up for TNB NYC, and we have TNB Denver set up, I’m looking forward to meeting more of you guys.
Aw-shucks-ly,
Then I shall charm you with smiles and soap.
I am unfortunately as guilty as you of not staying caught up. I’m glad this post caught your eye as it passed though. I look forward to your next one soon.
I also look forward to eventually making a TNB live event.
Yvonne de la Vega says:
I was ready to hate you. Vengeance through smart literature, I’ve done it before, sometimes you gotta because it’s the only medicine. Well, whether that was it or not, you’re a funny dude. Screech – all the way to the bank I guess. You, I’d follow. Thanks.
I’m glad you decided not to hate me. Thanks for the compliment, Yvonne. I’ll try to remain entertaining. I like the title of Funny Dude.
Ducky Wilson says:
What a putz. I hope I run into him one day just so I can torture him about the show I “attended” in Shreveport. I’ll totally talk you up.
What I would give to have that happen… He would be less than thrilled. Sorry for the late reply btw. Just getting back to the real world.
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things occult etc. Let that go. — About "chelas" — it is a more serious question. They are no fools either of them. They feel, if they do not know yet, that the abyss between them and Masters is being made wider daily. They feel they are on the wrong left side, and feeling that, they will turn towards that, to which all such "failures" turn. If Masters ordered them to go back to India I do not think they would now under Bowajee's inspiration. Mohini is ruined by him, there's — no mistake about it. And Miss A. is going to pots in their company. You have to act independently of them; not to break visibly, but to do your own work as though they did not exist. Look here, I want you to write to Arthur Gebhard a serious letter and tell him all you know about Bowajee. He is in full correspondence with the Americans,
things occult etc. Let that go. — About "chelas" — it is a more serious question. They are no fools either of them. They feel, if they do not know yet, that the abyss between them and Masters is being made wider daily. They feel they are on the wrong left side, and feeling that, they will turn towards that, to which all such "failures" turn. If Masters ordered them to go back to India I do not think they would now under [[Babaji|Bowajee's]] inspiration. Mohini is ruined by him, there's — no mistake about it. And [[Francesca Arundale|Miss A.]] is going to pots in their company. You have to act independently of them; not to break visibly, but to do your own work as though they did not exist. Look here, I want you to write to [[Arthur Gebhard]] a serious letter and tell him all you know about Bowajee. He is in full correspondence with the Americans,
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Received by:
A. P. Sinnett
Sent via:
Received on:
after March 17, 1886 – see below
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This is Letter No. 139 in Barker numbering. See below for Context and background.
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My dear Mr. Sinnett,
I asked you (I myself) in my letter to you "Do, please do TRY and have intuition." You have succeeded but only for one portion. You felt that a page, or so, of it had been dictated to me, and that it was by no sham K.H. But you have failed again to feel in what an unalloyed spirit of kindness sympathy for and appreciation of yourself He dictated those few sentences. You mistook it for criticism. Now, hear me. Except a vague recollection that I have been writing under His dictation, I could not, of course, remember one line of it correctly, though I have read it carefully before I closed the letter. But what I can swear to is that there was not a shadow of criticism against yourself personally meant or in the Mahatma's thought when passing this to me. I was writing my letter to you and had written about three or four pages when the Countess came in and read to me out of your letter those desponding lines in which you said that you are inclined to suspect that the "Higher Powers" do not wish the Society to live any longer and that
it is useless for you to try or something of that. I had not had time to open my mouth for an answer and protest when I saw His reflection over the writing desk and heard the words "Now write, pray." I did not listen to the words dictated except in a mechanical sort of way, but I know with what attention and intense interest I watched the "thought and feeling-lights" and aura, if you understand my meaning. The Mahatma wanted me to, I suppose; otherwise His thoughts and inner working would have remained impenetrable. And I say, that never, since you know Him, never was there so much kindness, genuine feeling for you, and an utter absence of "criticism" or reproach directed to yourself as this time. Don't be ungrateful; don't misunderstand. Open your inner heart and feeling entirely and do not judge through your world and cold reason spectacles. Ask the Countess to whom the letter was read and to whom I told what I say to you now, and to hear which she was so glad for you, for she does sympathise with you and your position and appreciates as
much as I do, all you have done. All you say is perfectly true, and just what I thought I had discerned in the Mahatma's aura. The yellow-grayish streaks were directed all to Olcott, (London period, not now), Mohini, Finch (more reddish); and to others I will not name. Your full size portrait, or scin-laeca, received a whole torrent of blue, clear silvery light — the Prince's Hall, Kingsford incident, and even Holloway were all far, far away from you in a mist — hence a proof undeniable that you were implicated in it by no fault of yours personally, but drawn into it irresistibly by the general Karma. Where is then the "criticism" or reproach? No man living can do more in this world than is in him. You could not avoid — Prince's Hall meeting, for the Society had chosen a path, in which it had to come. But all of you, you the first, had you prepared for it as it ought to have been done long before would have saved the situation by each of you delivering — even reading it would have been better — a speech that would have gone home to the public instead of what it has done. Your speech was the only one against which nothing could
scin-laeca means shining body.
be urged — but, on account of your ill-will, you having been dragged into it — so cold, so devoid of enthusiasm or even earnestness that it became like a key-note to the others. Olcott's was a regular Yankee flapdoodle one of the worst. The "Angel-Mohini's was a remarkably stupid one, Babu-like flowers of rhetoric etc. But that's things of the past. Of course it was a failure; but it might have been a success notwithstanding everything adverse, had it been prepared beforehand. The public reception was on the path chosen and had to take place, for it would have been worse still had it not come off. Holloway was sent, and was in the programme of trials and destruction. She has done you ten times more harm than to the Society but this is your fault entirely and now she is dancing the war-dance around Olcott, who is as fast friends with her and more than you were. It is a weekly correspondence incessant and endearing, charming to behold she is his dear agent in Brooklyn, for
Yankee refers to Olcott as a New Yorker.
flapdoodle is a colloquialism that H. P. Blavatsky used to mean nonsense.
and getting round them as he got round the Gebhards. I wrote to him and the Countess did. But he will not believe us unless corroborated by you. He was surely told by this time that the Countess is entirely under my psychology. Franz is certain of it, poor man. Unless you warn him the two, or one of "chelas" are sure to go to America. If you could bring the Leonard to clamour for his departure to India, as a settlement then he would have no excuse to stop. But how to do it! If I could only see, approach the hussy I would be ready to sacrifice myself. — Anything to weed the Society from all this poisonous vegetation. But you can work independently of all [of] them — that's sure.
Before the 15th of April, we
will be near you, across the stream. The Countess comes with me and takes her chances until about the middle of May. I have to be near you in case something should happen, for save herself, I do not think I have a friend real friend in this wide world besides yourself and Mrs. Sinnett. The "semblance" the theosophical Mr. Hyde (Dr. Jekyll) has done his best. I could stop it in one hour if I could only pounce on them unexpectedly. This I swear. But how to do it. If I could only arrive and stop in London for two days unknown it would be done. I would go to them at 8 in the morning. But I must see you and think over it first. If I had health only — which I have not. The "two years life and no more" of the London doctor brought by Mr. Gebhard and of my doctor
at Adyar — are drawing near the end. Unless Master interferes once more — Good-bye.
You have said nothing of Gladstone's little tricks. Don't you believe in it? Funny. I am told you received a letter upon that subject so far back as during the Ilbert Bill row. Well I can tell you nice things about the Jesuits and their doings. But of course its no good. Yet indeed, indeed it is serious.
Well, good-bye, do write.
Yours ever faithfully,
H.P.B.
Love to Mrs. Sinnett.
Physical description of letter
The original is in the British Library, Folio 3. George Linton and Virginia Hanson described the letter in this way:
In HPB's handwriting on both sides of two sheets of letter paper.[1]
Commentary about this letter
↑ George E. Linton and Virginia Hanson, eds., Readers Guide to The Mahatma Letters to A. P. Sinnett (Adyar, Chennai, India: Theosophical Publishing House, 1972), 213.
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The sensory detection of water borne vibrational stimuli and their motor effects in the Norway lobster, Nephrops norvegicus (L.)
Goodall, Christine Alexandra (1988) The sensory detection of water borne vibrational stimuli and their motor effects in the Norway lobster, Nephrops norvegicus (L.). PhD thesis, University of Glasgow.
The morphology and distribution of cuticular setae on the uropods and walking legs of the Norway lobster Nephrops norvegicus (L.) has been studied using both light microscopy and Scanning Electron Microscopy. Three types of setae are present on the uropods, plumose setae, simple setae and guard hairs. Hair peg and hair fan organs were also seen.The propodus and dactyl of the 2nd and 3rd legs of Nephrops are similar in both their structure and in the form and distribution of their cuticular setae. Three main areas of setal distribution are found: squamous setae are distributed 1) in bunches on the flat surfaces of the propodus and dactyl and 2) along the lateral edges of the propodus and dactyl and 3) hedgehog hairs line the inner edges of the propodus and dactyl.Most of the setae on the 4th and 5th legs are found around the propodus-dactyl (P-D) joint. Three rows of simple setae are found on the dactyl, and both serrate setae with simple scales and squamous setae are found overlapping the P-D joint. Also found near the joint are CAP organs and hedgehog hairs.All of the setae on the uropods show responses to tactile and vibratory stimulation as do the hedgehog hairs, the serrate setae, the simple setae and the squamous setae on the legs.The responses of afferents from the uropods and walking legs and of the abdominal interneurones have been tested in response to water borne vibrations of different frequences produced both as surface waves and in an acoustic tube. The uropod afferents show range fractionation and have therefore been divided into three nested categories based on the upper limit of their frequency response. Low frequency units respond from 2-20Hz, intermediate units from 2-50Hz and high frequency units from 2-100Hz. The leg afferents also show range fractionation and have also been divided into three nested categories: low frequency units respond from 20-60Hz, intermediate units from 20-200Hz and high frequency units from 20-450Hz. Preliminary studies have indicated that the leg afferents show directional sensitivity. The abdominal interneurones have been categorised as either intermediate or high frequency; intermediate interneurones respond from 2-100Hz and high frequency interneurones from 2-200Hz. The receptive fields of mechanosensory interneurones have also been determined.The postural responses of Nephrops to water borne vibrations have been studied using video analysis. An abdominal extension response is reliably elicited which varies with the frequency of stimulation in a distinct way. From 20-80Hz the animals respond immediately, and abdominal extension is accompanied by rapid leg movements, swimmeret beating and very occasionally tail flipping. From 100-180Hz the response occurs with a delay, the duration of which seems unrelated to frequency within this range. No responses were seen above 180Hz.The nervous control of the abdominal extension response has been studied by recording from abdominal motor roots (superficial root three and root two) which supply the two muscles involved (the superficial flexor and extensordmuscles). It has been shown that abdominal extension is produced by both central and peripheral inhibition of flexor muscle activity in combination with excitation of the extensor muscle. The neuronal basis of the delay seen in the behavioural experiments has been investigated, and a number different patterns of nervous activity have been found which might produce this delay.Behavioural studies have been conducted in the field to investigate the responses of freely moving animals to sound in their natural environment. Investigations have been conducted of changes in the emergence rhythm and changes in the transient behaviour of the animals. Tests to investigate changes in the burrow emergence rhythm with the underwater loudspeakers at 10m from the animal failed to produce any response. However small changes occur in the transient behaviour of Nephrops when they are very close to the loundspeaker even though the sound pressure levels are similar to those used at 10m. These tests have been repeated in laboratory tanks where clear locomotory responses, predominantly backwards walking, are seen in response to stimuli from 20-80Hz in both blind and sighted animals.Tests have been conducted in a free acoustic field to determine the behavioural response threshold of Nephrops to sound using the postural response as a monitor. The animals showed no responses with the loudspeaker at 1m but showed clear responses with the speaker at 0.09m even when the sound pressure levels were similar, yielding a threshold in terms of particle displacement of the water of 0.874m which is independent of frequency. This indicates that the Nephrops is sensitive to the particle motion component of sound rather than the pressure component.
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Protect Our Youth Services! Protest March: You Cut, We Bleed! 28/01/17
The Verse’s Chanelle Manton joined hundreds of people, young and old, to protest austerity cuts to youth services, in a march around Brighton on the 28th January 2017.
On the 28th January 2017, three-hundred people of all ages marched from the Old Steine to Brighton Train Station, placards and banners held with pride, in an attempt to prevent the proposed £1.35 million worth of cuts to vital, preventative youth services in Brighton and Hove. As part of the wider £51 million due to be slashed from the council budget, such decreases in funding will affect both open-access and equalities youth work, such as LGBT and those with disabilities, as well as youth substance abuse and sexual health services available in the city.
Hundreds marched North Street to congregate at the Clock Tower for words of encouragement in the face of the cuts
Numerous groups were present to show their support, including Sussex Defend the NHS, Brighton and Hove’s Green Party, and Brighton’s Expression Session Chalktivist Divison, who decorated the pavement with messages of inspiration.
Messages were written by the public on the pavement
Pre-Qual, a youth-led pro-equality movement in Brighton, were also present at the march and have attended council meetings regularly to present questions to the local council, regarding the motivation behind such budget reductions. On their blog, the group outline the situation comprehensibly and claim:
‘these cuts will endanger the most vulnerable people in our society, from teenagers and young adults trying to avoid the seductions of gangs and drugs, to disabled children and adults, those living in council maintained buildings, and those 1,800 children in our community who live in temporary accommodation without a home to call their own. Brighton and Hove can’t take these cuts, and we shouldn’t have to.’
‘A great turn-out’: Pre-Qual members gathered at the end of the march with their placards
Boudicca Pepper, Pre-Qual member, united the crowd with her spoken-word rap
“The march allowed young people to express their thoughts and feelings about the proposed cuts to their services in a way that is meaningful to them. It gave them a voice that they deserve.”
Kate Barker, who works with young people at Impact Initiatives, passionately headed the event, reflecting on the success of the day.
Kate Barker was instrumental in the success of the day
The march drew to a close with some excellent young performers, including rappers, guitar-players and singers. Although a wet and windy day, the spirit and passion of those marching was not dampened and the resolve of the community brought hope and optimism to an uncertain future for Brighton’s youth services.
Young performers, all of whom use services due to be effected by the cuts, demonstrated great talent and passion
To find out more information on these initiatives and the council budget check out these links:
Pre-Qual: https://prequalukblog.wordpress.com/
Brighton Expression Sessions: https://www.facebook.com/expressionsessionsBTON/?fref=ts
Protect Our Youth Services! Petition: https://www.change.org/p/youth-workers-don-t-cut-the-youth-services-funding
Information on the council budget: http://www.brighton-hove.gov.uk/content/council-and-democracy/council-finance/setting-council-budget-201718
Posted in All, Brighton, Student Voice, WellbeingTagged #austerity #Brighton #budget cuts #mental health #NHS #Politics #sussex council #youth services
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REVIEW: Mexrrissey @ Brighton Dome, 26/01/2017
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The Verse’s Nanette Hewitt reviews Latino fury band Mezrissey and acoustic support act Sam Walker, the calm before the fiesta at Brighton Dome on the 26th January. My first ever time attending a concert at the Brighton Dome and it did not disappoint. We arrived just before the support act Sam Walker was due to […]
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Tioman Island has been a holiday island for many years, is very popular with locals, Singaporeans and international tourists. It is the largest island on the East Coast of the Malay Peninsula and has a variety of resorts, hotels, beaches and parks. Like other islands along the East Coast of Malaysia, Pulau Tioman is protected Continue reading
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Mersing Jetty – Gateway to Tioman Island in Malaysia
March 12, 2016 November 4, 2017 admin
Small fishing village, Mersing is a stopover for those traveling to the islands of Tioman, Rawa or Besar and for those wishing to explore the national park Endau Rompin. Being the main gateway to the Tioman Island, most of the travelers prefer taking the ferry from the Mersing to Pulau Tioman. Read on to know Continue reading
Mersing Hotels – Best Hotels in Mersing for Affordable Stay
Mersing is a beautiful town that leads to even startling beauty of Tioman Island. People arrive at Mersing for a day or two as they have to go on with their journey to the other Islands nearby. For their stay over, tourists look for cozy and affordable Mersing hotels. Finding out a desired hotel to Continue reading
Visit the Best Bars & Cafes in Tioman Island
June 7, 2016 March 18, 2018 admin
Tioman Island is known for not only its exciting activities, attractions and serene beauty, but it has also has so much more to offer its local visitors and tourists. People at large, from all over the world, come here to spend their vacations and return to their home with pleasing memories. Therefore, you shall find Continue reading
5 Best Diving Courses in Tioman for Scuba Diving Lovers
Tioman Island has been a holiday island for many years. It is very popular with locals, Singaporeans and international tourists. It is the largest island on the east coast of the Malay Peninsula and has a variety of resorts, hotels, beaches and parks. Like other islands along the east coast of Malaysia, Tioman is protected Continue reading
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Stay in Sri Paya Tioman Chalet for Maximum Comfort
Tioman Island is a famous island in Malaysia with jungle and mountains in the center and beaches on the west side of the island (to a waterfall in southern Tioman). Here is where most hotels and bungalows, built above the beaches. Famous to Malaysian tourists and people of Singapore, clear waters of Tioman Island and Continue reading
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Bamboo Hill Chalets Tioman for a Perfect Holiday Stay
Pulau Tioman is unarguably the most captivating and serene island that lies near the East Coast of Malaysia. A trip to the Island can be more exciting and comfy if you book accommodation in the peaceful Tioman beach chalets. These chalets offer a great sea view with the tranquil scenery beyond that. You may find Continue reading
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GoPro Scuba Diving Video Shot in Tioman Island
March 10, 2016 April 1, 2018 admin
This scuba diving video in Tioman Island was shot by GoPro camera. Tioman is an ideal destination for scuba diving in Malaysia as the island features many sites and options for scuba diving lovers. Learn more about scuba diving in Tioman Island. Video credit: Amin Nassir
Japamala Resort Tioman – An Ultimate Vacation Destination
February 12, 2016 March 18, 2018 admin
Japamala Resort Tioman has its name derived from the beads used for prayers in mantra meditation, which is a symbol of peace and serenity. It is situated on the Southern Coast of Tioman Island. Covering a total area of 11 acres, this lush wilderness with its breathtaking private beach, evokes a sense of being cut Continue reading
Spend a Fun Day on Juara Beach Tioman Island
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Tioman Island is one of the main tourist destinations in Malaysia as it features sandy beaches, clear blue water ideal for snorkeling & diving, resorts & getting close to the nature. The Island is easily accessible from Singapore or Kuala Lumpur. There are many beaches in Tioman Island that attracts tourists to experience fun water Continue reading
Bus Ticket to Mersing
Mersing is a gateway to Tioman Island as you can catch a ferry to Tioman from Mersing. Book a bus ticket to Mersing from Kuala Lumpur or Singapore online & get 10% discount on your online booking. Click below to proceed:
About Tioman Island
Tioman Island Malaysia is the largest of the 64 volcanic islands in Malaysia and situated in the east coast of Malaysia. The island was selected as one of the beautiful islands in the world by Time Magazine in 1970’s.
Tioman Island Malaysia is best known for being a best diving destination in Malaysia. Other then diving there are plenty of activities a tourist can do on the Island.
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The Story of Our V.P. Name
Since the Dutch pronunciation of Van Petten sounds more like "Van Patten"
(in English), it is understandable that there is confusion in the use of the name.
Most, if not all families used the Van Petten spelling prior to the Revolutionary
War. The Van Patten spelling of our name after the American Revolution of
1776 came about because of a possible clerical error. Our patriotic fore-fathers
were granted Land Bounty Rights (*free land) for their part in fighting the
British, but a Quartermaster or the Company Scribe misspelled the name as
Van "Patten", due to the way it was pronounced with the still heavy Dutch
accent. To receive the land grants and benefits due them after serving with the
Army of the newly formed United States, they had to adopt the spelling as it
was written in the official company records. Further confusion arose after
1800 due, in all probability, to the similarity of the handwritten letters "r" and
"n", thus we now have the Van Patter families of Ontario, Canada and Iowa,
U.S.A. (written by Frances I. (Van Patter) Hindmarsh).
Recently, a new branch of the Van Patten family of Schenectady, NY has been
located in the Spartanburg and Greenville counties of South Carolina due to the
migration of Nicholas Viele Van Patten (1803-1889) who went south from
Schenectady, NY to make his fortune in the milling industry. Through this
patriarch comes a whole new family line; the Van Patton family that records
still to this day intermingle with the Van Patten name of official records and
we are awaiting family updates to clearify the proper spelling of their family
and YES, it is Van Patton in SC.
The Dutch were much slower than the English in adopting surnames as we
know them. Patronymics ended theoretically under English rule in 1687 with
the advent of surnames. (the Engish needed last names for TAXation reasons)
Patronymics is the naming of children after the father's first name (because
they had no last name).
The most common Dutch naming custom was that of patronymics, or
identification of an individual based on the father's name. For example, Claas
Frederickse (1641-1728) is named after his father Frederick Albertse
(abt.1610), who is named after his father Albert Albertse (abt.1580), who is
named after his father Albert (abt.1565). The patronymic was formed by
adding -se, -sen, or -szen for a male.
An individual could also be known by his place of origin. For example, Claas
Frederickse is now known as "Van Petten", meaning 'from Petten' (Petten).
Petten was a small fishing village on the north coast of Holland, the
Netherlands at the time of Claas' birth). Now you have Claas Frederickse Van
Petten and you now know by his name that Claas is the son of Frederick and
that he came from Petten. The place-origin name could be a nationality, as in
the case of Albert Andriessen from Norway, originator of the Bradt and
Vanderzee families - he is entered in many records as Albert Andriessen de
Noorman, meaning 'the Norseman'. Albert's sons and daughters took the
surname Bradt except for his son Storm, born on the Atlantic Ocean during the
families sailing to the New World. Storm adopted the surname Van Der Zee
(from the sea) and this is the name his decendants carry.
An individual might be known by a personal characteristic, for example,
Vrooman means a pious or wise man and De Witt means the white one.
Schermerhorn (pronounced Scare-mer-horn) is Dutch for a point of land at a
clear lake and was/is also a commercial town of note in Holland.
(The basis of this was written by Lorine McGinnis Schulze)
Want to get in touch with me?
Any comments or corrections?
E-Mail me! Astrodog58@aol.com
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Tule River Indian Tribe of California
The key natural resources within the Tule River Indian Reservation are vegetation, water, air, soil, wildlife, fisheries and cultural/archeological. The water resources include both surface and underground sources while vegetation resources include forests, riparian woodlands, oak woodlands, wetlands, and grasslands. Generally, forests are in the mountain areas at altitudes above 5000 feet. Woodlands and grassland cover the foothills at altitudes of between 2500 and 5000 feet. The riparian woodlands are mainly along the South Fork of the Tule River and its tributaries.
Mission Statement of the Department of Natural Resources
To utilize, promote, and conserve agricultural and natural resources, of Tule River Indian Reservation, while providing employment, revenue, and recreation for the Tribe.
Goals for the Department
The Tribe, through prudent management of its natural resources, aspires to contribute to the environmental, social and economic wellbeing of the reservation and its people, and to meet not only the needs of the current generation but also to ensure that adequate resources are available for future generations. To guide this process, the Tribe has defined four broad objectives:
• To seek opportunities for the reservation’s natural resources to contribute to the Tribal economy;
• Conserve the reservation’s biological diversity;
• Develop the necessary capability to manage the natural resources on the reservation efficiently and effectively;
• Provide sustained yields of agricultural and natural resources.
Vision for the Department:
The vision to achieve these goals is divided into three parts:
Vision for the Grassland/Chaparral/Woodland Resources
The vision for grassland, chaparral and woodland resources on the reservation is to have:
• A sustainable fuel wood management program;
• Well managed woodlands;
• Grasslands dominated by annual/perennial native grass species;
• A sustainable livestock grazing system;
• Abundant recreational and educational opportunities/facilities (camping, hiking, field trips, fishing, cultural and traditional gatherings) enabling families and youth to reconnect with their natural resources and environment.
Vision for the Forest Resources
The vision for forest resources on the reservation is to have:
• A healthy and vigorously growing forest that is accessible to the Tribal community;
• A forest capable of resisting internal and external threats;
• A forest containing multiple sizes of native trees, plentiful with giant sequoia wherever suited;
• A forest that provides clean water, diverse wildlife habitat, cultural and recreational opportunities, and a sustainable supply of forest products.
Vision for the Wildlife and Fisheries Resources
The vision for wildlife and fisheries resources on the reservation is to have:
• An established Tribal wildlife management program in place;
• Well managed wildlife resulting from the integration of cultural knowledge of wildlife with wildlife biology;
• A wide range of well conserved wildlife habitats and biodiversity;
• Well managed and protected wildlife and fish populations that support subsistence and recreational hunting and fishing;
• Proper management measures in place to protect threatened and endangered species and species of special interest to the tribe.
Vegetation on the Reservation
Due primarily to the 6,700-feet elevational difference between the lowland areas and mountain tops, Tule River Indian Reservation supports a diversity of vegetation types common to the west slopes of the Sierra Nevada Mountains.
Grasslands and oak woodlands-savannah characterize foothill areas below 3,000 feet. Blue (Douglas) oak and interior live oak are the primary overstory trees. California buckeye is found throughout this zone. A narrow belt of gray pine is found along the South Fork of the Tule River between 2,000-3,000 feet. At the middle elevations, between 3,000 and 4,500 feet, chaparral, scrub woodlands, and mixed oak woodlands appear. Blue oak and live oak again are common overstory components. Black oak woodland begins near 4,000 feet along selected drainages and north exposures. Common chaparral and scrub woodland species include mountain mahogany, California laurel, western redbud, and manzanita.
Conifer forest begins at approximately 5,000 feet elevation and extends to the upper reaches at 7,600 feet. Ponderosa pine forest typically occupies the lower portions of the conifer zone. Mixed conifer forest is the dominant type above 5,500 feet. Typical species include ponderosa pine, sugar pine, white fir and incense cedar. Jeffrey pine is a lesser component. Giant sequoia is a prominent overstory species over portions of the reservation’s mixed conifer forest. Black oak grows throughout the mixed conifer zone, usually as an understory but occasionally as an overstory species. True fir forest, comprised of red and white fir, is found generally above 7,000 feet on north to northeast aspects. Jeffrey pine and sugar pine will occasionally intermix in the true fir type. Riparian woodlands extend through the foothill and middle elevations. California sycamore, black cottonwood, white alder, and several species of willow are typical riparian hardwoods.
MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE NATURAL RESOURCES DEPARTMENT
Please contact.
Charles A. Lwenya, PhD,
Natural Resources Director
Tule River Tribe
Telephone No. 559 791 2126
Fax No. 559 791 2128
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ADVERTISING-BASED PRICING MODEL look up translate image
A pricing model whereby services are offered to customers at low or no cost, with the service provider being compensated by advertisers whose ads are delivered to the consumer along with the service.
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Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud Web service, which provides resizable computing capacity in the cloud so developers can enjoy great scalability for building applications.
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Amazon Simple Storage Services � Amazon's cloud storage service.
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Applications that share a common structure or implement similar functionality are often referred to as belonging to the same "application domain."
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You can be billed for resources as you use them. This pay-as-you-go model means usage is metered and you pay only for what you consume.
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You'll need this to access the cloud in the first place. As cloud applications get more complex, broadband quality will need to be increased.
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A system consisting of multiple computers that contain copies of data, which are located in different places on the network so clients can access the copy closest to them.
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A metaphor for a global network, first used in reference to the telephone network and now commonly used to represent the Internet. A metaphor for a global network, first used in reference to the telephone network and now commonly used to represent the internet.
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A software application that sits on the internet, not on a local PC. Short for cloud application, cloud app is the phrase used to describe a software application that is never installed on a local computer. Instead, it is accessed via the Internet.
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a software application that is never installed on a local machine � it's always accessed over the Internet. The "top" layer of the Cloud Pyramid where "applications" are run and interacted with via a web-browser. Cloud Applications are tightly controlled, leaving little room for modification. Examples include: Gmail or SalesForce.com. The "top" layer of the Cloud Pyramid where "applications" are run and interacted with via a web-browser. Cloud Applications are tightly controlled, leaving little room for modification. Examples include: Gmail or SalesForce.com.
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short for cloud architectures. Designs for software applications that can be accessed and used over the Internet. (Cloud-chitecture is just too hard to pronounce.)
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a cloud computing service that has been opened up into a platform that others can build upon.
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running an application in such a way that its components are integrated within multiple cloud environments (which could be any combination of internal/private and external/public clouds).
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An entity that creates and maintains relationships with multiple cloud service providers. It acts as a liaison between cloud services customers and cloud service providers, selecting the best provider for each customer and monitoring the services.
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A datacenter in the "cloud" utilizing standards-based virtualized components as a datacenter-like infrastructure
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A large internet company, such as Amazon.com or Google, that provides firms with infrastructure via the web.
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computing device for cloud computing. Updated version of thin client.
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A computing capability that provides an abstraction between the computing resource and its underlying technical architecture (e.g., servers, storage, networks), enabling convenient, on-demand network access to a shared pool of configurable computing resources that can be rapidly provisioned and released with minimal management effort or service provider interaction." This definition states that clouds have five essential characteristics: on-demand self-service, broad network access, resource pooling,...(more)
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A company that purchases hosting services from a cloud server hosting or cloud computing provider and then re-sells them to its own customers.
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The process of making available one or more of the following services and infrastructures to create a public cloud computing environment: cloud provider, client and application.
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A general term that refers to organizations (typically vendors) who are not cloud providers per se, but make available technology, such as cloudware, that enables cloud computing. Vendor that provides technology or service that enables a client or other vendor to take advantage of cloud computing.
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used to describe a vendor who jumps on the cloud computing bandwagon by rebranding existing services.
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Governance defines who's responsible for what and the policies and procedures that your people or groups need to follow. Cloud governance requires governing your own infrastructure as well as infrastructure that you don't totally control. Cloud governance has two key components: understanding compliance and risk and business performance goals.
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A type of internet hosting where the client leases virtualized, dynamically scalable infrastructure on an as-needed basis. Users frequently have the choice of operating system and other infrastructure components. Typically cloud hosting is self-service, billed hourly or monthly, and controlled via a web interface or API.
A type of internet hosting where the client leases virtualized, dynamically scalable infrastructure on an as-needed basis. Users frequently have the choice of operating system...(more)
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The "bottom" layer�or foundation�of the Cloud Pyramid is the delivery of computer infrastructure through paravirtualization. This includes servers, networks and other hardware appliances delivered as either Infrastructure Web Services or "cloudcenters". Full control of the infrastructure is provided at this level. Examples include GoGrid or Amazon Web Services.
The "bottom" layer--or foundation--of the Cloud Pyramid is the delivery of computer infrastructure through paravirtualization. This...(more)
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You need a consistent view across both on-premises and cloud-based environments. This includes managing the assets provisioning as well as the quality of service (QOS) you're receiving from your service provider.
CLOUD MANAGEMENT look up translate image
Software and technologies designed for operating and monitoring the applications, data and services residing in the cloud. Cloud management tools help ensure a company's cloud computing-based resources are working optimally and properly interacting with users and other services.
CLOUD MIGRATION look up translate image
The process of transitioning all or part of a company's data, applications and services from on-site premises behind the firewall to the cloud, where the information can be provided over the Internet on an on-demand basis.
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A computer operating system that is specially designed to run in a provider's datacenter and be delivered to the user over the Internet or another network. Windows Azure is an example of a cloud operating system or "cloud layer" that runs on Windows Server 2008. The term is also sometimes used to refer to cloud-based client operating systems such as Google's Chrome OS.
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also known as platform-as-a-service (PaaS). Think Google Chrome. A phrase frequently used in place of Platform as a Service (PaaS) to denote an association to cloud computing.
CLOUD PLATFORM look up translate image
The "middle" layer of the Cloud Pyramid which provides a computing platform or framework (e.g., .NET, Ruby on Rails, or Python) as a service or stack. Control is limited to that of the platform or framework, but not at a lower level (server infrastructure). Examples include: Google AppEngine or Microsoft Azure.
The "middle" layer of the Cloud Pyramid which provides a computing platform or framework (e.g., .NET, Ruby on Rails, or Python) as a service or stack. Control is limited to that of the...(more)
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The ability to move applications (and often their associated data) across cloud computing environments from different cloud providers, as well as across private or internal cloud and public or external clouds.
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A company that provides cloud-based platform, infrastructure, application, or storage services to other organizations and/or individuals, usually for a fee. A service provider who offers customers storage or software solutions available via a public network, usually the Internet.
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Computing service providers whose product/platform is based on virtualization of computing resources and a utiliy-based payment model. Computing service providers whose product/platform is based on virtualization of computing resources and a utiliy-based payment model.
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The deployment of a company�s cloud computing strategy, which typically first involves selecting which applications and services will reside in the public cloud and which will remain on site behind the firewall or in the private cloud. Cloud provisioning also entails developing the processes for interfacing with the cloud�s applications and services as well as auditing and monitoring who accesses and utilizes the resources.
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A visual representation of Cloud Computing layers where differing segments are broken out by functionality. Simplified version includes: Infrastructure, Platform and Application layers. A visual representation of Cloud Computing layers where differing segments are broken out by functionality. Simplified version includes: Infrastructure, Platform and Application layers.
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The same security principles that apply to on-site computing apply to cloud computing security.
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Cloud server hosting is a type of hosting in which hosting services are made available to customers on demand via the Internet. Rather than being provided by a single server or virtual server, cloud server hosting services are provided by multiple connected servers that comprise a cloud.
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Virtualized servers running Windows or Linux operating systems that are instantiated via a web interface or API. Cloud Servers behave in the same manner as physical ones and can be controlled at an administrator or root level, depending on the server type and Cloud Hosting provider. Virtualized servers running Windows or Linux operating systems that are instantiated via a web interface or API. Cloud Servers behave in the same manner as physical ones and can be controlled at an administrator or root level, depending on the server type and Cloud Hosting provider.
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The delivery of software, infrastructure, or storage that has been packaged so it can be automated and delivered to customers in a consistent and repeatable manner. The delivery of software, infrastructure or storage that has been packaged, automated and delivered online.
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A term coined by Jeff Barr, chief evangelist at Amazon Web Services. The term describes an architecture in which applications and application components act as services on the cloud, which serve other applications within the same cloud environment.
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outsourcing storage or taking advantage of some other type of cloud service. Replacing traditional IT services with cloud services.
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A standard is an agreed-upon approach for doing something. Cloud standards ensure interoperability, so you can take tools, applications, virtual images, and more, and use them in another cloud environment without having to do any rework. Portability lets you take one application or instance running on one vendor's implementation and deploy it on another vendor's implementation.
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A service that allows customers to save data by transferring it over the Internet or another network to an offsite storage system maintained by a third party. Cloud storage means "the storage of data online in the cloud," wherein a company's data is stored in and accessible from multiple distributed and connected resources that comprise a cloud.
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connecting multiple cloud computing environments. Also called cloud network.
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A term coined by Jeff Barr at Amazon Web Services to describe an architecture where applications act as services in the cloud and serve other applications in the cloud environment. An architecture for IT infrastructure and software applications that is optimized for use in cloud computing environments. The term is not yet in wide use, and as is the case for the term "cloud computing" itself, there is no common or generally accepted definition or specific description of a cloud-oriented architecture.
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what happens when your cloud has an outage or security breach and your data is unavailable. The term cloudburst is being use in two meanings, negative and positive: NEGATIVE: The failure of a cloud computing environment due to the inability to handle a spike in demand. POSITIVE: The dynamic deployment of a software application that runs on internal organizational compute resources to a public cloud to address a spike in demand.
CLOUDBURST (NEGATIVE) look up translate image
The failure of a cloud computing environment due to the inability to handle a spike in demand.
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The dynamic deployment of a software application that runs on internal organizational compute resources to a public cloud to address a spike in demand.
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A datacenter in the "cloud" utilizing standards-based virtualized components as a datacenter-like infrastructure; example: a large company, such as Amazon, that rents its infrastructure.
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Zen is an author, coach, educator, facilitator aka 'possibilities coagulator' with an MBA and MA in Organizational Management. Curator for UfologyPRSS and blogger for UfologyPress he has a penchant for asking questions and presenting poignant points to ponder.
Ufology Conundrums – UAP/UFO and Multidimensional Mayhem
State of Affairs or Affectation in Ufology Updates
We’ve all been aware of the recent advances in some areas of Ufology updates. Some embrace it and some are still suspicious. As much as we may not like to admit it, To The Stars Academy is raising the bar or at worst raising awareness in the public view. As with any newly formed group with suspicious characters there are naysayers and supporters by the score. The battle to bring information to the public has taken on a new look on and off stage.
The one thing that TTSA has done, though, it generated an explosion of interest in the UFO phenomena in the main stream news and public eye. Ufology updates continue to develop. Proof and truth will come out eventually, or not, yet the boost in exposure could bode well for the Ufology community IF there is a meeting of minds and some sort of demonstrable collaboration beyond TTSA. One of their first publications sets the stage for their dive into disclosure.
Hard and soft approaches are both necessary in the adjudication of experience and material evidence. The hard side is the nuts and bolts approach driven by evidence and ‘proof’ that seems to pass all the usual tests. The soft side is more delicate as it is subjective, with little evidence other than the ability to articulate effectively, driven by the desire to share for multiple reasons. The former sits well with materialists and the latter, not so much.
Ufology is known for its mysteries and mysterious characters, some with better reputations than others, yet they all play the game of notoriety and temptation. Everyone wants you to believe their story and many seem to be in conflict. They sometimes proffer data, details or disclosure as ‘exclusive’ in an attempt to get folks on the edge of their seats waiting for more.
Social Media has become a place of open denial and deep discussion. The marketing gurus have a field day with the unsuspecting public. It still seems like a contest for who can build the biggest fan base. This one or that one is always posting something to demonstrate their knowledge and research capability, though many assumptions and conjecture takes place as well. Sometimes posts prove noteworthy.
The reports of secret space programs and interaction with ‘alien’ races is another aspect that appears to be producing more incredulity than believe-ability in the field. The reports have provided certain folks great notoriety and a huge fan base of would-be believers. The stories certain garnered attention from event promoters as major attractions for the unsuspecting public. Only time will prove the reality.
Some Ufologists and experiencers that have been around long before the term are puzzled by the ‘new’ information shared through various channels on social media as much of it has been ‘revealed’ through many presenters and vendors at UFO expos for decades. The numbers in those groups are obviously small in comparison, so with recent main stream media sources picking up the ball our hopes for better coverage are at least partially fulfilled.
The nuts and bolts side of Ufology has to do, for the most part, with historical events, documents, meetings, photos, videos and evidence of extraterrestrial craft or technology. Those elements are a critical part of ufology in bringing the information to the public. Why? Hopefully for the public good. What would the optimal results be if there were full or even partial disclosure? What would desired Ufology updates look like?
There is still another aspect of within the field, non-competitive in perspective, that has evolved over time and with progression of extended contact of a largely non-physical variety.
Experiencer-Driven Data
There is another side to the story that is both ambiguous and incommensurate; the subjective experiences of folks claiming contact or engagement by non-human or extraterrestrial intelligence. It is a grey area for sure. Depending on the lens we view it through, it can be seen as incredulous or incredible. We need data, right? Studies have been made. Both FREE and MUFON have engaged the inquiry of experiencers.
Data from experiencers is different than the nuts and bolts side of Ufology. It’s the soft side mentioned previously, full of subjective accounts. Those accounts range from emotionally-laden fear-based descriptions of encounters to the more objective and fearless descriptions of self-aware and perhaps even participatory engagement. Discernment is important.
Some of the more hard approach public figures who’ve been steeped in conspiracy, government disclosure, exploration of evidence and material sciences have a real challenge with the soft approach. They are hard pressed to acknowledge the experiential side as there is no knowledge base or direct experience for them to relate. A recent interview and honest response regarding a very prominent figure who has emerged in the experiencer field.
The historical perspective of experiencers and their accounts goes back decades in present times and perhaps millennia in regards to ancient texts. The latter offers descriptions based on the common language and philosophies of the time. Today we can review many of these accounts and find incredible similarities across the centuries. Proof of dominance and control is sorely lacking, yet fear-based thinking still keeps many in the dark.
Most recently, the cross-referencing of experiential information and the notion of the evolution of consciousness have become more interesting to Ufologists. The notion of applied quantum physics in relation to the aspect of awareness and, in a large sense, creating reality unconsciously seems to be of great concern. Nearly every aspect of communication from non-human or extraterrestrial intelligence (for lack of better descriptors) leans toward a rise of consciousness.
What does that rise of consciousness mean? Perhaps it is as simple as becoming self-aware, managing our thoughts and feelings in positive ways. Perhaps it is the notion that all things are connected and we affect reality by our baseline energy, the attitude we carry with us. Perhaps it extends to our community and world in respect to the environment and effective planetary administration, managing resources so the all people can be cared for and nurtured.
There are still concerns among experiencers, though. Not everyone perceives their experiences as benign or benevolent. Extended play, the long-term experiencers, do tend to change their point of view over time, from a less than desirable experience to one of understanding a larger picture and the overcoming of their fears was more important. Confronting incongruous notions might be the next phase of creating better baseline knowledge.
Ufology Updates – 2019 Year in Review
We participated in a large panel discussion recently, embedded below, that reviewed the year’s greatest changes and/or events in Ufology, a kind of Ufology update. Certainly the ‘leaked’ released Navy videos of Unidentified Arial Phenomena (UAP) brought the light of day into a dark room. Michio Kaku’s interview with Jaime Maussan included the considerations of advanced civilizations beyond the burden of proof now being on the governments, to prove the UAPs aren’t extraterrestrial.
Spyros brings up his video (alien autopsy) and the massive hoax created by it, noting how gullible the public is still, and how falsified information is so easily introduced and accepted by the public (even some Ufologists) as being true. We’ve got a long way to go to find ways of vetting information that are consistent and uniform. It may take quite some time for that to happen, but it would be a necessary component of establishing some kind of unified front in Ufology.
We all want Disclosure, right? How do we want it? Our governments, military and leaders are tasked with keeping us safe. NOTHING that even comes close to threatening our safety will ever be fully revealed to the public. The public’s opinion may vary as to how disclosure is best, through intelligent conversation regarding it doesn’t seem to be consistent. The reality is the public is, at best, squeamish when it comes to the appearance of the unknown let alone engaging it. We’re thinking in human and mostly fear-based terms.
Storming Area 51 became a fad overnight, with thousands of people showing up for the event. Did they really expect to storm Area 51? It seems doubtful, but it did give folks a chance to party in the desert. We all need a good party to move things forward. The number of foreign press that covered the event also brought the topic to the world, not just the US. We might anticipate a broader range of coverage as the events develop, though it still seems to be largely focused on the nuts and bolts side of Ufology.
Our concern here at UfologyPRSS is that by all indications and protocols for establishing movements, it starts with a unified front with individuals and organizations aligning with basic components or elements of a theme or even manifesto. There are a number of documents and organizations, but they largely seem autonomous and unwilling to collaborate, though some do.
What will it take for Ufologists to find common ground? Will the field be able to have some kind of harmonic convergence between the hard and soft components of the phenomena and, if so, how will it occur? Something to begin considering, in our opinion. Stay tuned for more Ufology Updates…
A person is smart. People are dumb, panicky, dangerous animals, and you know it! 1,500 years ago, everybody knew that the Earth was the center of the universe. 500 years ago, everybody knew that the Earth was flat. And 15 minutes ago, you knew that humans were alone on this planet. Imagine what you’ll know tomorrow. ~ Agent K
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Vast Active Living Intelligence System
Sci-Fi or Potential Reality
VALIS (Vast Active Living Intelligence System) was introduced by Philip K. Dick as a science fiction novel. VALIS was a satellite that was part of a network across the galaxy interacting with other intelligent life. It was literally a Vast Active Living Intelligence System designed to target and communicate with certain people. The interaction, much like contact experiences and ETI communications, caused an evolution of consciousness which threatened the status quo. Sounds familiar, huh?
Published in 1981, its affects can be seen throughout the consciousness movement and ufology as well. Dick was known for Blade Runner, Total Recall and The Minority Report among others. His insight and inspiration, much like The Exegesis of Philip K. Dick, provides things all to close to the theme today; aspiring experiencers desiring to learn how to work as one. It makes one wonder just how connected Dick was, so parallel to what many are experiencing as real.
Perhaps the Black Knight might have been his inspiration as well. What is absolutely true is this vast active living intelligence system is a reality within humans and other species. It is another description of the ‘cosmic’ consciousness paradoxically self-directed yet so intricately symbiotic with people, planet and posterity. As we increase the knowledge base, internal and external, the capacity for cognition and collaboration in concert rises.
Vast Active Living Intelligence System of Earth
What ever the communication device, religion or revelation, the consistency across fields of study could be leading us toward an increased capacity for planetary management, too. Why does that make a difference or should we care? What does that have to do with UFOs or their inhabitants; visitors from afar with confusing methods of communication toward humans? They don’t appear to communicate in ways we are accustomed, yet there are volumes of material, direct experiences, where messages are shared an no regression necessary to retrieve.
The excitement over the recent disclosure and discovery being shared with the general public seems anti-climatic, though. It’s a new news cycle for many that haven’t been following the fray and are aware of the dichotomy of experiencer vs researcher in the Ufology community. In the Tao of Ufology, if there were one, the two have distinct yet equal value in moving us all forward. The challenge comes in sifting through the onslaught of information and finding consistent value, something that leads us toward making our own world better and receptive to future engagement of Extraterrestrials in whatever style we can collectively perceive.
Individuals and entities, organizations and others, are often obfuscated by the marauders in the media and within the fray, perhaps well-intentioned at times yet certainly adding to the frustration within the Ufology community and beyond. The added complexity of current environmental and political world affairs not only increases the importance of communication, it requires us to rethink our methodology and purpose for it. We know ‘they’ (various races in yet undetermined alliances and numbers) are indeed here and actively engaging many.
Human Intelligence Systems
The types and styles of engagement vary as well, leaving a certain nebulous notion that we are somehow vulnerable to outside influences or unintended engagement; victims of circumstance. Attempts are being made to access, organize and sift through similarities of experiencers that hopefully will offer some consistent experiences, themes and/or vulnerabilities within our individual and collective belief systems. The information age is leading us toward practical and pragmatic concerns beyond religious or superstitious separative tendencies.
What are we really looking for in our quest? What do we want to understand? The list is large and all-consuming to many explorers, researchers and those deemed ‘experts’ in the field. The amount of activity and interest is growing, but who or what leads the way? The ‘field’ is certainly not unified as major divisions seem to be present between materialists and contact activists. Admittedly, the challenge of bridging that divide seems endless with science and speculation vying for attention.
Let’s step in the way-back machine for just a moment, shall we? What did we have or know early on that has been lost or ignored, rejected or unimportant in view of today’s technology? Below is some old footage of George Adamski’s from the early 1960s. Obviously in poor shape, it still offers evidence of how craft movements defy known physics then. The craft looks very similar to Billy Meier’s photos and video. Disclosure and discrediting seem inextricably linked.
Future Foundations for ETI Interaction
Fast forward to today, some 60 years later, and the expansion of the parameters of ufology to now include matters of consciousness, not just craft or physical evidence. Certainly, those behind the scenes and beyond public purview have information, volumes of it no doubt. Just what that information is may or may not be as detailed or expansive as many believe. It is conceivable that experiencers might have more information pertinent to the future of the field or even add to the information already gathered, if we only knew what it is.
The Edgar Mitchell Foundation for Extraterrestrial Encounters (FREE’s near-original name) began public surveys of ‘contactees’ or ‘experiencers’ as they are now being called. It’s hard to say just how valid the information will be determined to be, yet thousands have taken the surveys. The results are contained in the book Beyond UFOs, along with several papers written by Board Members. FREE’s co-founder, Rey Hernandez, has embarked on a next-level exploration of non-human intelligence with noted PhDs and others in the field of consciousness.
In the face of advancing interest and organizations vying for attention and money for research, it might be prudent to consider how we choose to view appropriate development. How humanity is served is as important as any technological advancements. Arguments over this or that evidence seems counterproductive to the larger picture of engagement and the future of Earth and humanity.
So far, for whatever reason, the level of engagement has been cursory at best when it comes to interaction with non-human races. We really don’t know where they are from or when, according to the lack of evidence and information to date, let alone who and why. Their choice, not ours. Why? How can we adjust? What do we need to do to prepare the way for open communication at least? These seem to be more important questions. How would a vast active living intelligence system answer them? How might we discern?
The safety and security of Earth is surely a concern, just as each nation has security issues with foreigners from other nations or worlds. A good look at the past might indicate what we can expect in the future. Beyond the anomalous stories of malevolent intent, there are no obvious signs of danger from other worlds. Suspicions are like superstitions that knowledge and wisdom eliminate over time. It is nearly impossible for a race that is suspicious toward one another to pause for unknown, apparently benign or beneficent, races to emerge safely.
Considering the nature of most contact experiences being telepathic, listening to more than an individual is not beyond the scope of possibility. What would our collective ‘thoughtmosphere’ offer to a race or races of highly advanced beings? After so many re-runs, somebody needs to turn off the TV. Our collective image via our own transmissions of radio, TV and thought is less than hospitable at present. We’re obsessed with violence throughout our passive entertainment choices, whether sports, movies, television shows or video games.
The scope of available opportunities for communication seems endless when we consider the non-linear and non-local nature of such, not to mention telepathic, yet the percentile of folks that can even think about or are engaged by off-planet races is minuscule at best. Common sense would offer that such folk would become objects of scrutiny with a loss of freedom to boot. That would be an inappropriate response, yet still too real at this time. Where will it go?
Perhaps there is a Giver of Data, like VALIS, or some other prevailing consciousness that is always ON and delivering messages as recipients become available. There is a growing number of ufologists that are exploring how frequency comes into play with ‘downloads’ or other kinds of communication. We don’t really have the material technology to determine that at present. However, the notion of frequency and/or frequency response does warrant consideration.
It’s conceivable that our rise to the level of a Type I civilization on the Kardashev scale would include certain advances in both brain and consciousness integration as well as material sciences and technology. Dr. Kaku seems to agree with those notions and more. The similarities between code-driven virtual environments, brain-mind capability and binary systems is incredible and the impetus of ZERO to ONE – Making Our Way Toward a Conscious Civilization, accessing that vast active living intelligence system of our own. The book started as a chapter for FREE’s next volume, requested by Rey Hernandez, and answering three questions and prompted more consideration beyond the page limitation for the chapter.
The author demonstrates that there is a huge space for our civilization and human intelligence to evolve by showing his personal experiences of interacting with advanced intelligence and his lifetime exploration of human nature, cosmology, UFOlogy, and the modalities of experiencing the paranormal powers with like-minded people.
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Ufology Presents Troublesome Times in the Search for Truth
An Inconvenient Truth in Ufology
As an author and experiencer with some intelligence in the field of Ufology, I’ve been able to peer into the depths of my own experience and reflect a kind of ‘compare and contrast’ perspective. I am fairly free of the need to be right and am willing to put everything on the line for review. There is a certain freedom in the willingness to be tested or vetted as prudence is precious, though truth is tantamount. The latter is troublesome for the ufology community, .
Lately the story-line has been expanding to discuss more than materials, photos and videos of sightings, even though the promoting of ‘meta-materials’ and deals with government factions are attempting to garner public attention instead. The field is full of authorities and researchers with little experiential background, if any, and the public seems oblivious to the dichotomy.
The experience of contact with ETI, most often, appears to be more about energy and sensations… we can’t rise to the level of other intelligences, so we automatically fear them because of the intensity of their energy. I describe my encounter with a Draconian as intensely confrontational initially, but only because there was some initial resistance. Most folks describe a fight or flight response as a result. I’ve written more on the event here.
Moving One’s Perspective
Personally, once I let go of the fear the opposite effect was true, a most intense communion, like my friend Tom talks about in his interview. (https://youtu.be/VVA_JwqkKcw) It’s our own fears, wherever they come from, that get in the way. Our patterns of behavior are such that what we do anywhere, we do everywhere even though we may not realize it. We have deeply embedded belief systems and even genetically passed creodes and memes that inhibit exploration, let alone acceptance of a different reality.
Long before my engagement in ufology I was chronicling events, without the use of hypnosis, for decades and offer a different perspective that comes from direct experience. Of course it is mostly subjective, though I’ve been encouraged by reflections from others whom I hold great respect. It’s immensely challenging to take one’s own experiences and become an observer without attachment in order to explore other possibilities or potentials of meaning and understanding.
Most of the time our experiences are momentary; non-linear, non-local and sporadic in nature. Occasionally there are extended periods and streams of consciousness that are connected to a series of events. I’ve had a few, and one specifically that generated a high degree of truth over time, a gathering that become known as the Council of 300 back in 2001, which outlined the process of First Contact and efforts of a multi-race/system organization. I kept quiet for some time, though I noticed others were referencing this gathering in channeled pieces from several sources over the next few months. I wish I could have kept them, but that was a few hard drives ago.
Now I have no way of proving things or knowing how those in the ufology community will perceive those things, so it could be fictitious and just an effort to get attention. I’m not going to stomp and shout, but I will continue to share and, in time, things will prove themselves. Of that I have no doubt. Until then, this particular experience and the resulting material is consistent with what Grant Cameron has been sharing… over a decade later. Anywho… it may be of interest… downloadable pdf ‘Council of 300’
Is Ufology Going Somewhere?
So much has been written about various experiences and their impact on individuals, from frightening to transcendent. It appears the majority of them report a sense of freedom and even unity from prolonged contact and the rise from fear to fearlessness is replete. Some even report that the realizations are synonymous with the spiritual teachings of a progressive awareness toward harmony with self and others, including ETI, as a process of evolutionary unification.
Hence, the long-running presentation and promotion of the idea of ‘harmony among people and planet.’ It is shared through my wanting of nothing and willingness to die for what I believed in – cosmic consciousness – so many years ago. Those words usually fall on deaf ears, especially the idea that I actually died and had a ‘session’ with an advanced intelligence I could have easily called ‘God,’ though it felt more familial in nature. Perhaps it was.
This sense of moving toward harmony, as a planetary civilization, has been a constant desire/theme in my life and the lack of attachment to outcome (no drive for dinero beyond needs for sustenance) has severely pissed off a number of so-called friends and lovers, not to mention family members, over the years. How can we espouse such things if we don’t live them? Faith, love and trust are key factors – we will be afforded opportunities to manage our lives in good stead.
What I’ve learned from the contacts/events and the ‘compare and contrast’ perspective over the decades is that control is illusory, progress toward harmony is ubiquitous (universally) and letting go of belief systems that have obvious contradictory components is essential. We gain freedom in that rather than lose individuality, which is the fear most have, imho. The process invites the furthering development of individuality instead, with attending features we might call our ‘perfected’ form, fit and function in the tapestry of life.
Relationships on the Ocean of Emotion
I can relate to this on a very deep level, probably more than most from my own experiences. I can also relate to the resistance of sharing, having done so for some time and noting the responses I’ve gotten from doing so. I’ve felt like a foreigner even in the places that ought to be welcoming, perhaps even inquisitive. The pensiveness many experience is proportional to the willingness to stretch one’s neck out in sharing such personal details, sometimes lasting for decades and in some cases a lifetime – death bed confessions some have made recently.
I’ve never felt like their engagement was an kind of experiment, though. It’s a shared process of evolution we are only barely understanding so far, even though there is a common thread of unity expressed. I suppose it’s easier to perceive having felt the unity of one with all through the NDE I had as a teen. So many events followed, sporadically to me, with a consistent theme revealing the path to harmony.
Alas, the initial sharings as a teen surely put me in a place not of my liking as my parents thought I needed some psychiatric help and chose to place me in the care of a ‘clinical’ environment without the comprehension of the subtle worlds all around us that some are profoundly sensitive toward and willing to explore. The events provide an opportunity to develop a soft heart and open mind, compassionate and willing to be fearless instead of fearful.
The breadth and dynamic of our consciousness, as we explore it, is yielding an awareness of the expansiveness of our life stream and its capacity for collaborating with a vast array of intelligences we are now capable of perceiving without religious or superstitious notions, imho. The deep impact moves us toward the sense of awe, humility and respect of life in all its myriad forms.
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Mysterious Etherians Echo Quantum Theory – Wave to Form Action
While doing some research, this article came across the screen. No claims to authenticity are made here, discernment is key. The material presents interesting perspectives being discussed among present-day ufologists… nearly 70 years later.
ETHERIC NOTES — III
by GERALD LIGHT* (http://bit.ly/2ogv1pC)
I have been asked almost every possible question the human mind could devise or imagine concerning The Etherian Peoples. In the beginning of my attempts to share with my friends and their friends something of the experiences I had with these Beings I went into great detail and used every means at my disposal to try and answer questions. Before long I realized that no matter how long I talked, what I said and what I implied, my listeners were obtaining very little information. At first I attributed this to my own lack of descriptive powers; and I lay awake nights trying to think up ways and means to more clearly and accurately explain the many remarkable situations which are so unfamiliar to the people of our planet. Eventually I came to the paramount reason why I was having so little success in passing my knowledge on to my friends. I isolated, so to speak, the major impasse over which I seemed unable to take anyone.
Stripped of endlessly related modifications, comparatives and conditions I saw, at last, that the one reason why I could not sensibly explain Etheria to my earthly friends lay in a strange and completely absurd distinction which we all make concerning the very fundamentals of our material existence. For various reasons we, as earth people, have built up a system of religious, philosophical or meta-physical barriers which actually have no existence, or validity, except in our own minds. We make a very peculiar distinction between what we call “outer” and “inner”, or “material” and “spiritual”, “human” and “divine”.
The Etherians make no distinction between the different rates of “consciousness” between the “visible” and the “invisible”, as do we. To Them, the idea of “Man” being human or earthly and “God” being divine or spiritual is a ludicrous bit of infantile nonsense. The Etherians have absolutely no comprehension of an “inner world” and an “outer plane”. They know nothing of an earth and its related heaven (which forms the basis of all our world religions.)
Our habit of making, or trying to make, an impassable boundary between two or more vibratory levels of energy and substance seems totally insane to Them. To these Peoples of “Inner and Outer Space” we are the veriest idiots in that we attempt to regard one vibration or level of substance as mortal, physical and essentially evil; and another level of the same substance as divine, exalted immortal and it celestial in its basic qualities.
The Etherians are unable to make any distinctions (save possibly a hypothetical premise in order to understand our lopsided attitudes between those elements of being which we call variously mind, will, energy, substance, matter and spirit. Perhaps I should condition that statement slightly since They are brilliantly able to discuss these various elements as such. But They do not make, nor do They see the slightest necessity to make, a distinction between will, energy, mind and so on as these elements operate in different levels and with different speeds or vibrations. In other words, our “human” will is as valid to Them as is that will which we assign to our deity. The energy and substance of our physical or “earthly” plane is as divine, as heavenly, as cosmic as the energy and matter of the “inner planes” or our “heaven”. “God’s will”, as opposed to or superior to “man’s will”, is an absurdity to the Etherians. They do not understand how we can be so ridiculous as to make such distinctions in our religions and philosophies. It is the same, to Them, as considering ice an earthly, mortal substance; water an astral or psychic material; and vapor as heavenly and divine!
The apologists for our human whimsicalities may proffer the excuse that we do not know and see these “inner planes” and should therefore be forgiven our intellectual inconsistencies in this matter of the so-called human and divine.
However, neither do the people of Etheria “see” the various planes or know them as precisely as They understand the one in which They happen to be functioning at any given moment. We are surrounded constantly by forces which are not visible, not material in any tangible or substantial sense — yet we do not hesitate to use them and to regard them as normal, earthly, “human” and a part of our contemporary consciousness. The currents in our electrical machines are certainly of a magical, psychic and occult nature. We never “see” them. We see only the reactions of them, the result of harnessing them to our needs and requirements. Still We do not deify electricity, label it astral and fence it in with philosophical premises.
The Etherian has no consciousness of anything until he or she uses it through one or more of his senses. Then he “knows” it, understands something of its nature, and endeavors to make it a part of himself. And in this last endeavor lies, probably if not certainly, the crux of the entire difference between ourselves and the selves of these remarkable people.
The mental processes of the Etherians are brilliantly contrived to enable the Ego, or if you like, the Spirit, to contact endless aspects of substance and force in whatever natural element, or plane, he may find himself. This utilitarian capacity produces a pantheistic philosophy that is intensely practical and of immediate purpose to him. [3]In our philosophy we speculate — while these strange Etherian people operate. Their metaphysical systems are extraordinary simple and direct, and instantly applicable to their normal and essential needs. The huge volumes of theoretical speculation and guess-work with which our own philosophers have occupied themselves over the centuries might interest the Etherians as so much theosophical curiosa; but They dismiss our topheavy philosophies as indifferently as we dismiss the efforts of certain oriental pundits to prove how long is forever, how high is up.
In our present earthly, human instruments is to be found the basic element or aspect of every force and power which moves through our own planet, and the other globes which make up our system. But of this we know, and have known, precious little. The Etherians believe that we, of earth, should give our first attention to a discovery and recognition of the forces and elements which compose our instrument — and stop speculating what kind of a heaven or paradise we will inherit when we die.
The ability of the Etherian peoples to use the forces of life and energy within their bodies is achieved, so They say (and They should surely know), by Their becoming conscious of these forces through the application and control of Their senses. My last letter went into this far enough to present the idea at least as a theoretical proposition, (a proposition which our earthly occult “leaders” have choked upon and promptly spit out — for the simple reason that such a theory demands a personal application of its students. Horrible thought!)
The philosophy of Etheria, on this point is wonderfully simple and direct: The more one uses of God, the more one understands or knows God. And the more one knows God the more one becomes — God. Take it or leave it; you cannot contrive a more sensible and practical attitude. In Etheria, the first law of life is — use. What you have in Etheria — you use; and what you use, you become, CONSCIOUSLY BECOME. Automatic living, so popular in our world, is regarded with horrified distaste and revulsion in Etheria. Hence, through the simple process of using, consciously, a part of God, Etherians become God. And they produce scientific wonders which make us the equal of nothing, in comparison.
The beings of Etheria are unable to experience death as do the beings of earth. Etherians do not go to “Paradise” simply because they do not know anything about such a “heavenly” state — and do not seem at all distressed by such a fate.
However, there is a state which might be likened, slightly, to that which we of this earthly world experience. An Etherian may “die” several times during a hundred years or so. But it is a death in the same sense that we all die to our childhood state and go on into what we call maturity.
Death, in our understanding, is impossible to an Etherian because he is not imprisoned in his body by the absurd notions which we insist upon believing to be part of a “divine” plan. His body is an instrument in the most literal and exact sense of the word. The Etherian takes on, and leaves off, a body as easily and consistently as the radio-wave flows through a small, simple instrument of a single tube — or through the highly complex set packed with tubes and magical equipment. He will no more identify himself with a body (in the sense of ownership, or egoic imprisonment) than does the free-flowing radio-wave.
The people of Etheria are totally free from the endless distinctions, reservations, and conditions of substance with which we surround ourselves, and with which, sooner or later, we destroy these selves. Not only do we establish immutable standards of mind and emotion that distinguish us from what we term “animals”. We also regard the body of these animals as of a substance less “divine”, less “Spiritual” and “holy” than our own. And we do not even consider the plant and mineral forms as having any possible relation or similarity to our own forms.
In this pitifully primitive world of earth we manage to achieve rather sublime heights in the creative arts, through the development of superlative faculties of rhythm, harmony, coordination and comparison. Yet we are hopelessly doomed by our apparent inability to use these same creative faculties to pierce the tragically artificial dimension we impose in terms of religion and philosophy.
Now and then I have ventured to make a statement which is based in absolute reality, and which holds the solution to most of the questions troubling those few earthly minds who seriously, and urgently, seek to grasp the meaning and message of Etheria and its races. I will make it here — without the slightest anticipation of anyone accepting, or considering it:
The Flying Saucers, Discs and other Aeroforms (their number is legion) are, in many instances the actual bodies of the Etherian creatures. (And here we shall all-bow our venerable heads in a moment of silence to mark the point at which Gerald’s Light went out, or off the well-known beam.)
It is possible that this latest deduction of my deluded brain may evoke a bit more response, from that pontifical hierarchy of “authorities” which suggests extreme caution in these matters, than did my last letters. I shall, however, not wait for that august assembly to bestir itself from its complacent slumber upon the pinnacles of the philosophical mountain (which they regard as their private property), and give me the nod to go ahead. It is to these self same authorities that mankind owes its present condition of pitiful ignorance and intellectual poverty.
— Gerald Light – 10545 Scenario Lane, Los Angeles 24, California. —
*Håkan Blomqvist had done some extensive research on Gerald Light that can be found here.
This entry was posted in Disclosure, exoconsciousness, Extraterrestrials, Non-Human Intelligence, UFOs and tagged abductees and contactees, extraterrestrial messengers, scientists and ufos, UFO questions, Ufology, unidentified flying objects on October 9, 2019 by Zen Benefiel.
Becoming Fearless to Bridge Worlds
Fearlessness – Overcoming Dystopian Thoughts
I’ve been involved in overcoming fears and transcending them to be fearless, dealing with ‘others’ in various scenarios, for most of my life. I’ve had three decades of considerable engagement in Ufology, learning to be fearless, long before most of the folks today even had a clue of what was going on. I love the newcomers who’ve had an experience or even a few and want to beat people up sharing them.
Generally early experiencers, and even a lot of materialist/scientist types in the field, have no idea about the depths of consciousness and focus on the details of the events instead. Decades later they’ll have a different perspective for sure. It’s possible I’m stuck inside a paradigm, too, though my profession as a partnering facilitator calls me to always engage multiple POVs simultaneously, aligning them toward meeting project milestones in multi-million dollar contracts.
Continuing to think in the paradigm that creates an ‘us vs. them’ is a choice, right? That makes it subjective. When are we going to pull out heads out of our assess and realize it is our choice to continue to create the paradigm. The thing is that disclosure doesn’t mean a damn thing when it comes to addressing the bigger issues of our planetary civilization.
Considering Our Focus
We are so focused outside that we turn on ourselves and forget the inner needs and requests of our ‘mentors’ to learn how to get along. Claiming the elites want to thwart disclosure seems counter-intuitive, really. They face the same challenges we do as a planetary civilization. They don’t have ways for achieving an exodus to the Moon or Mars.
Here’s a question, though. Are we one? If we are then we can view things from that place of oneness and inquire as to what we might be able to observe as indicators, right? Is that being stuck inside one paradigm? All things considered, it seems to be a quantum view from a unified field perspective. Isn’t that where we’re headed?
There’s a guy that once said, “The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new.”If you believe I have experience and knowledge, then maybe there is a different reason for my comments than you assumed. To launch into citing global warming, nuclear proliferation and wealth disparities had nothing to do with the comment. It was solely about how we think in fear-based terms and don’t realize it until someone comments on the obvious.
My point was that we need to eliminate the projections of the elites being afraid, or anyone being afraid for that matter. That’s a subjective perspective. If we are going to acknowledge that consciousness has a part in this and that quantum applications apply, then attention, intention and action is absolutely critical – where we put our thoughts is imperative to creating a movement. Starting out with an us vs. them attitude is so last century.
People rise to meet your view of them. Students thought to be gifted (even when they weren’t) performed at gifted levels because the teacher was told they were gifted students. I taught a class of exceptional students (low end of the spectrum) and they performed better than they imagined they could when given a research project. Why can’t we do that with cohorts, peers and others?
Is There a Consistent Message?
Most of the folks in Ufology are still stuck in a fear-based paradigm and tend to war with each other instead of trying to understand each other and grow together. Experiencers are telling others to shift their thinking to fearlessness, even harmony, and offering ways to do so. We’re being nurtured into a new living awareness but assumptions and projections certainly diminish that capacity for change.
Many if not most still point at the old paradigm. Things have changed. Today, or just recently, we’ve had more open talk about the reality than ever before, like Michio Kaku’s statements, let alone his attendance, at the World UFO Congress. Pilots aren’t threatened anymore. Even government officials are speaking up, so why continue to live in the past?
A friend offered this in response to a statement I made, though from the tone of the post this response was an inadvertent truth. “Expanding human consciousness in order to embrace a sense of oneness, a sense of unity between all life in the cosmos, is one a major theme that contact experiencers describe emerging from their interactions with UAP intelligences.” That is my point. I’ve stated that, but apparently that was missed.
Thoughts Regarding Disclosure
Many are pushing an agenda for governmental disclosure that they’ve known of our visitors for some time, and perhaps their purpose. Disclosure, imho, doesn’t have anything to do with the underlying activity or learning how to get along and work together toward collaborative solutions for our People and Planet. Please tell me how it does. I’m certainly open to consideration. Do UAP intelligences seem all that interested in Disclosure? It doesn’t seem so to me.
They continue to interact with those able and willing, right? What’s changed? There has been an ongoing process. It seems that UAPs or UFOs or whatever term we choose to label them with are flying about, attracting attention and having at least some communication with earthlings regarding their purpose here. The overwhelming majority of experiencers state it is a beneficent objective. Help is offered, only if we turn our attention on helping each other.
Is it possible that the elites don’t know anything more than the majority of the experiencers who have regular contact and conversations? Is it possible there are many experiencers who are working on solutions and don’t care to share they are experiencers? Choosing to confront or even discredit my assertions don’t make them false. Most folks are just so uncomfortable that instead of consideration there is immediate denial.
The reason I say disclosure doesn’t mean a damn thing is because the planetary civilization is responsible for their own changes and admitting we’re being visited doesn’t have anything to do with addressing the real issues. It should, in fact, get us to look at how our guests see us. What kind of house are we keeping? Who in Ufology are working with organizations or scientists looking for solutions to global problems? Those are our true compatriots.
In my entire history in this field, and others professionally, I’ve stressed the ‘message’ of needing to learn to work together, even provided platforms for folks to example it. I’ve personally invited dozens to do so on UfologyPress, even set them up with author accounts. Has anyone participated, even if only to show their desire for solidarity? NO. My intent is simply to offer help, to actualize what others are only talking about; the collaboration of cohorts.
It’s possible the I’m not a ‘valued’ figure in Ufology or part of the ‘in’ crowd that has everyone’s attention. I’ve attempted to garner some attention, proposed presentations, and even with personal relationship there has been no acceptance or invitation to be part of the speaker cohort. I do have some tested methods for creating contact without having to find secluded areas to do CE-5 events. A serendipitous event, a request to meditated to some music I helped produce, brought that into reality and further trials demonstrated its validity.
That being said it is still an intended hopeful to bridge fields, to cross-reference similar understandings and to make sense common to the point of actual collaborative efforts toward harmony among people and planet, a sustainability we can only reach through cooperation. We first need to take a good hard look at our behavior and intentions.
I’m reminded of the Wall coming down and one of my favorite bands of all time celebrating its anniversary with a tribute to both David Bowie and our ability to remove the walls across the gamut of national or international boundaries. It needs fearlessness in doing so, regardless of who is leading the way. Are our intentions to create a new world order of harmony among people and planet? What are we allowing to be distractions to that end?
This entry was posted in consciousness, Disclosure, exoconsciousness, Missions & Purpose and tagged et messengers, ET questions, extraterrestrial contact, extraterrestrial messengers, extraterrestrials, ufo contactees on October 2, 2019 by Zen Benefiel.
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Protests over Milstein's Seaport development Downtown
Thread: Protests over Milstein's Seaport development Downtown
October 23rd, 2002, 09:42 AM #1
Daily News...
Milsteins face community protests
By ERIC HERMAN
As Howard Milstein broke ground yesterday on a 35-story office building in Times Square, a downtown coalition was gearing up to fight a future Milstein project at the South Street Seaport.
Downtown groups including Community Board 1 are pushing to restrict development in the Seaport neighborhood. Proponents of the zoning change talk about preserving the area's historic character but admit they have one overriding goal: Stop the Milsteins, one of New York's best-known real estate families.
"There's been a history of one particular site - the Milstein site - making effort after effort for the last several years to build large-scale buildings," said Paul Goldstein, the community board's district manager. "We have a real opportunity to recapture this area and make it into something special."
The controversy centers on a parking lot at 250 Water St. that the Milsteins bought in 1979. Bounded also by Beekman Street, Pearl Street and Peck Slip, the lot's zoning permits a building of 480,000 square feet - half the size of the Woolworth Building.
Neighbors have battled development of the site for years. The Milsteins have proposed at least six different plans, ranging from office buildings to apartments. Because their lot sits in the Seaport Historic District, any designs must be approved by the Landmarks Preservation Commission.
After seeing several plans rejected, the Milsteins finally won approval for an 11-story office building in 1991. But they cancelled the project. More recently, the family has reportedly proposed a twin-towered apartment complex of 14 and 30 stories.
The proposed zoning change would stop that, reducing the maximum building size to 289,000 square feet and setting a 120-foot height limit - about ten stories for an apartment building.
The borough president and city planning commission must review and approve the change. Meanwhile, the Milsteins have been meeting with city officials and hired well-connected lawyers Ross Moskowitz and Steve Lefkowitz to help press their case.
Howard Milstein declined to comment on the zoning dispute, preferring to focus attention on his new Times Square building, going up at Eighth Avenue and 42nd Street.
Milstein, his father and brother won control of that site after a protracted legal battle with other family members. Though the Times Square building could become apartments, Milstein said yesterday he did not fear building a speculative office building in an environment of low demand for office space.
"Our family knows the pioneering spirit always pays off," Howard Milstein said.
NYC - Hoboken
Protests over Millstein's Seaport development Downtown
Maybe Millstein should wait a few more years until some of these fossils move or die. *All of those open parking lots in that area are ripe for some great projects. *But I almost think it would be better to keep them as parking lots for another 10 years than waste this valueble land on stupid 10 story buildings. *Give me a break, that whole area down there I think sucks. *The neighbors should be happy for anyone to finally build something there. *Unless they enjoy living in a ocean of concrete parking lots...
October 23rd, 2002, 04:03 PM #3
NoyokA
Seriously, who lives there anyways?
October 24th, 2002, 09:37 AM #4
http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?n...2709&rfi=6
250 Water Street Tower I
30/32-->24 stories
Platt, Byard, Dovell, White Architects
250 Water Street Tower II
14-->13 stories--> <120 feet
Rendering of the old proposal from Platt, Byard, Dovell, White Architects' site \http://www.pbdw.com/ *
A picture of the site.
From Platt, Byard, Dovell, White Architects' site:
\http://www.pbdw.com/
For a full block site in the South Street Seaport Historic District, we have designed a 372,000 sf residential complex. A base, at the same scale as the historic row houses and warehouses, fills the site. Above this rise two taller forms, one of 24 stories and the other of 13, shaped to work with each other and with the base to create an integrated composition. The expression is deliberately contemporary, with the towers growing out of the architecture of the base and the District. This expression derives principally from the play of transparency, light, and shadow on metal and glass surfaces. The horizontal emphasis of the base reflects its program of retail and service spaces and mediates with the overall height of the complex. Its glass and terra cotta complement the patinated masonry of the older buildings in the District.
Here's a timeline in articles about the eventual downsizing of the development.
\http://www.tribecatrib.com/newssept02/seaport.html
\http://www.tribecatrib.com/newsnov02/water-st.html
\http://www.tribecatrib.com/newsdec02/250waterst.html
\http://www.tribecatrib.com/newsfeb03/high_noon.htm
\http://www.tribecatrib.com/newsmar03/seaport_zoning.htm
\http://www.tribecatrib.com/newsapr03...ns-seaport.htm
\http://www.tribecatrib.com/newsapr03/seaport_zoning.htm
From The Tribeca Trib
\http://www.tribecatrib.com/newsmay03/long_battle.htm
Long Battle Ends as Council Approves Seaport Rezoning
By Ronald Drengerr
A 20-year struggle is over.
The City Council on April 30 unanimously approved Community Board 1’s plan to change zoning in the South Street Seaport historic district, significantly limiting the size of any future development there.
The changes include CB1’s desired height cap of 120 feet, which was opposed by two city agencies.
“We’re thrilled,” said Paul Goldstein, CB1’s district manager, who worked extensively on crafting the rezoning plan. “I think we made a compelling argument that this is the best plan for the future of the seaport.”
For two decades, the community board and a coalition of residents and business groups have fought to prevent large-scale development in the area, where most buildings, many from the 19th century, are four or five stories.
Many times, they helped to block a powerful developer, Milstein Properties, from putting up a tall building at 250 Water Street, the site most affected by the rezoning.
Barring a mayoral veto, which is not expected, they can now rest easier.
“We have been able to preserve the historical waterfront that is a treasure to all of New York,” said Councilman Alan Gerson, who lobbied his colleagues to support the rezoning. “We support development, but we cannot allow new development to destroy our history. There’s ample room in our great city for both.”
In following the lead of its Land Use Committee, which had unanimously approved the rezoning plan earlier in the month, the City Council took the unusual step of overriding both the City Planning Commission and the Landmarks Preservation Commission.
In March, City Planning had approved most of CB1’s proposal, but with Landmarks’ support, it raised the height limit from 120 to 170 feet. The commissions said the height would give developers more flexibility, particularly at 250 Water Street, while keeping the area’s historic character.
But CB1 argued that a 170-foot building would be inappropriate in the 10-block historic district, bounded by Fulton, Pearl, Dover and South streets, where the tallest existing building is 96 feet high.
The debates over the “downzoning” proposal focused on 250 Water Street. Milstein lobbied against the downzoning, which prohibits the developer’s latest plan for the site, a residential complex with 13- and 24-story towers.
Milstein said that under the proposed restrictions, whether the height limit was 120 or 170 feet, it would be impossible to develop a profitable or attractive building, and that the firm would leave the site a parking lot.
The city wants to see 250 Water Street developed, to help revitalize Downtown, and Deputy Mayor Daniel Doctoroff’s office has been negotiating with Milstein to make that possible, even under the new zoning.
They are believed to be discussing a deal in which the city would acquire the site in exchange for giving Milstein development rights elsewhere, possibly also in Lower Manhattan. The city could then seek a developer willing to build at 250 Water Street.
In addition to the height cap, the rezoning limits the size of a building on the site to roughly 290,000 square feet, a drastic reduction from the 480,000 square feet permitted under existing rules.
CB1 and its supporters emphasized that they were not trying to block development at the Seaport, but to ensure that the development is appropriate.
“Our plan is one that has worked over and over, in city after city, to restore and rebuild historic waterfront districts and turn them into popular destinations,” Goldstein said.
The rezoning was supported by Downtown’s elected officials and many civic organizations, including the Downtown Alliance, the Municipal Art Society and the Landmarks Conservancy.
The changes resolve a conflict between landmarks rules and zoning regulations that has existed since the area was designated a historic district in 1977: The Landmarks Commission had to approve development in the area as appropriate to the historical context, but the zoning allowed big buildings.
Each time Milstein presented a new plan, the community board had to rally troops to persuade the Landmarks Commission to turn it down.t
(Edited by Derek2k3 at 11:55 am on July 10, 2003)
Great info guys, thanks!
Ahhh, South Street Seaport. A failed Mall, Abercrombie and Fitch, a couple very substandard tourist restaurants and an ignored museum with great potential. I think they recently have sold one of the old wooden ships to another city and of course Fulton Fish Market is no more.
What to do, what to do.
I don't know about the rest of you NY'ers but I never go there. The whole place seems staged albeit not to any exciting effect. In reality it is one of the last pieces of old, maritime NY left standing, at the same time it is the realm of the tourist and offers little to no value for a city dweller. I too am suprised to hear there is a NIMBY element down there given I don't recall seeing much housing adjacent other than some dreary 1970's concrete highrises a few blocks away.
It's just one of those places that ironically to me is not really NYC despite the historic architecture and vast history. I think the powers that be tried too hard to Bostonize the area forgetting that NYC isn't Boston and SSSP lacks the access and draw power when compared to so many more exciting areas of our city.
So really there are two general paths from here IMO; either slicken the place up as a respectable dollar machine for the tourist trade ala Quincy Market/Fisherman's Wharf and provide the public access- that means trolleys, hotels, better retail and more quality entertainment or let the real city back in to reclaim it with new residential, an ampitheater or park and the type of quirky restaurants and retail that are beloved up in the Village.
The half-hearted approach clearly isn't working. Beside the fantastic views of Brooklyn Bridge I'm frankly embarrased to take visitors there.
BrooklynRider
Park Slope, Brooklyn, NY
I think part of the problem is the lack of a larger residential community. *Here they are trying to move forward on plans to develop and increase residential units and we have a small population of people wielding a disproportinate amount of power. *Are CB1's votes binding? Can they be overruled? *A large parcel will never see anything developed in Manhattan at 120 feet. *Their vote is definitely anti-development.
Ramble, Ramble, Ramble...
TonyO
It's not as if they're tearing down a historic building, it's a parking lot!
July 10th, 2003, 12:09 PM #9
Within the arbitrary district limits everything must conform to the cliché. Tourists want to discover what they expect and residents want peace and quiet.
lizbeth li
Southbridge Seaport
is a middle-income Mitchell-Lama co-op housing development and has been there for about 35-years (how long have any of you been in the area? an afternoon). Some 1,000 plus apartments are in the complex, and the rather senior tenants tend to VOTE, which is why the Milsteins have been stopped so often. There are many issues. The height of the Seaport area, since the lot is part of it. The air and sunlight (there are even sun cells on the roofs of the buildings) of Southbridge. There is the perenial fight for water views, since Southbridge might go condo. I don't think another monster nothing building would serve any purpose and the city now has ambitious plans for Peck Slip, which could be dwarfed. The parking lot sucks, certainly, but the Milsteins greed would also not do anyone much good. I also agree that the area is weird, but not really a tourist trap anymore, it is too downscale. Things have though suddenly heated up very fast with the fish smell and noise gone.
There are actually very ambitious plans for the South Street Seaport that would transform the area in a way more aligned with the overall development of Downtown.
maybe gentrification, but not very fast
The gentrification of the Seaport will happen over time if the economy holds up, but is not something that is coming so fast. Right now the Seaport is a total failure as an upscale place (Yankee yachts were the Rockefeller dream) and is all fast food and completely unappealing stuff for European and Japanese tourists, who used to come here. Ditto for Fulton and Nassau and Broadway near Nassau -- and there is a great deal of schlock, a great deal. If the West Side and Batttery Park consists of white upper-class anorexics jogging forever, the East Side and Seaport is all about people of color about to pass out overweight and diabetic, TOTALLY different cultures. And there are real problems. Pace is not NYU, for instance, even as NYU bought the old Coffee Exchange. Southbridge itself is key but the condo conversion seems many years away if it is ever going to happen. Actually there is more of a sense of a neighborhood under siege -- given the police headquarter blockades -- than anything on the West Side.
Development on the South Side of the Seaport
I noticed they are quickly demolishing the two piers between the NY Waterway Ferry landing (pier 11) and the Seaport (pier 17). Anyone know what is going on there? Update: The piers are now gone, it took just over a week to remove them.
Apologies for cross posting - but the other thread I posted this on isn't active.
All threads with recent posts are active.
Your question wasn't answered because no one who read it knows the answer.
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Hypermasculinised facial morphology in boys and girls with Autism Spectrum Disorder and its association with symptomatology. DW Tan, SZ Gilani, MT Maybery, A Mian, A Hunt, M Walters, AJO Whitehouse.
Home / Application / Morphometrics / Hypermasculinised facial morphology in boys and girls with Autism Spectrum Disorder and its association with symptomatology. DW Tan, SZ Gilani, MT Maybery, A Mian, A Hunt, M Walters, AJO Whitehouse.
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Elevated prenatal testosterone exposure has been associated with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) and facial masculinity. By employing three-dimensional (3D) photogrammetry, the current study investigated whether prepubescent boys and girls with ASD present increased facial masculinity compared to typically-developing controls. There were two phases to this research. 3D facial images were obtained from a normative sample of 48 boys and 53 girls (3.01–12.44 years old) to determine typical facial masculinity/femininity. The sexually dimorphic features were used to create a continuous ‘gender score’, indexing degree of facial masculinity. Gender scores based on 3D facial images were then compared for 54 autistic and 54 control boys (3.01–12.52 years old), and also for 20 autistic and 60 control girls (4.24–11.78 years). For each sex, increased facial masculinity was observed in the ASD group relative to control group. Further analyses revealed that increased facial masculinity in the ASD group correlated with more social-communication difficulties based on the Social Affect score derived from the Autism Diagnostic Observation Scale-Generic (ADOS-G). There was no association between facial masculinity and the derived Restricted and Repetitive Behaviours score. This is the first study demonstrating facial hypermasculinisation in ASD and its relationship to social-communication difficulties in prepubescent children.
Article: Hypermasculinised facial morphology in boys and girls with Autism Spectrum Disorder and its association with symptomatology.
Authors: Diana Weiting Tan, Syed Zulqarnain Gilani, Murray T Maybery, Ajmal Mian, Anna Hunt, Mark Walters, Andrew J O Whitehouse. Neurocognitive Developmental Unit, School of Psychological Science, University of Western Australia; Telethon Kids Institute, University of Western Australia; School of Computer Science and Software Engineering, University of Western Australia; and Craniomaxillofacial Department, Princess Margaret Hospital for Children, Perth, Western Australia, Australia.
autism spectrum disorder, Hypermasculinised facial morphology, symptomatology
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Great Game!
I am really enjoying this game, already, right out of the box. I have bought and played every Ageod game, and every even somewhat historical game about the Napoleonic wars. Without a doubt, this is the best.
The graphics have been updated and improved, to create a very immersive feel for the period. The map is one of the most beautiful ever done, and vast. Even the uniforms and leader portraits look better than ever.
But the real test is the game play, which is outstanding. As you would expect in an Ageod game, you cannot win just by making a monster stack and marching it all over the map. You must take into consideration many of the concerns that a real general of the time would think about, such as logistics, the fatigue of the troops, the terrain, the quality of your troops, the abilities of a particular leader, and many other things, and try to anticipate the moves of a very good AI. In other words, what you would expect from any Ageod wargame, but done extremely well, with some innovative changes that really bring the period to life. It helps that the Ageod system is ideal for this kind of warfare, and I already feel like a general of the period, making decisions that such a general would make, and felling a real hatred of Wellington in the 1815 scenario.
The video tutorials are well done and helpful, and a great way for newbies to get into the game. Even I, who have been playing Ageod games so much since BOA was published, have found them helpful.
I must admit that many times we Ageod faithful tend to concentrate on relatively minor issues, and forget to mention the big picture. I am as guilty of this as anyone. But the big picture of this game is superb.
Pocus is already planning to improve the game even more with a patch. Yet, as it stands, it is the best recreation of Napoleonic warfare I have ever played.
I give this game my highest recommendation.
Just a simply fantastic game! Bravo Ageod!! I am recommending it to everybody I know.
ajarnlance
A fantastic achievement!! This is the game I have been waiting for all year! Thanks to everyone in the ageod team for making the BEST Napoleonic war game ever!!
Tres formidable!!
"I can anticipate no greater calamity for the country than the dissolution of the Union... and I am willing to sacrifice everything but honor for its preservation." Robert E. Lee (1807-1870)
Check out my 'To End All Wars' AAR: http://www.ageod-forum.com/showthread.php?38262-The-Kaiser-report-the-CP-side-of-the-war-against-Jinx-and-PJL
Suvorov928
So far, this is easily my favorite PC war game of all time. AGEOD needs to get this game on Steam and get some press on it. They deserve every penny they can get for this gem.
Just started playing my first grand campaign as Spain. Initial impressions are really good. Map is beautiful. UI has been tweaked, unit and map clicking seems faster and more responsive. Everything looks like this is a finely tuned and deep Ageod game. Very impressed so far.
Do some of you mind if you get cited somewhere, probably without your nickname rest assured!
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RUNOUT 5.13 IN MOROCCO
Arnaud Petit / October 30, 2007
TAGOUIMMT N'TSOUIANNT, FANTASIA
David Kaszlikowski
Eliza Kubarska on Fantasia (7b+/c, 700m) on the northeast face of Tagouimmt N�Tsouiannt, High Atlas Mountains, Morocco. With help from Przemek Klimek, Kubarska and David Kaszlikowski established the route ground up, then returned to free it in two days in late May. Kubarska and Kaszlikowski report that the limestone walls of Taghia are growing increasingly popular with European climbers. [Photo] David Kaszlikowski
Hidden in Morocco's High Atlas Mountains, the massive limestone walls and deep canyons of Taghia form a labyrinth of crags. Upon entering Taghia, you become fascinated by two great walls. The first is a 700-meter "tooth," Oujdad; the other, Tagouimmt N'Tsouiannt, is, at 800 meters high, one of the largest walls of the Atlas. In 2004 Borek Szybinski, Eliza Kubarska and I opened Barracuda (7c+, 590m) on Oujdad. This year, the northeast face of Tagouimmt N'Tsouiannt—the smoothest part of which resembles the rock of the Verdon Gorge—became our project.
On April 21 Eliza Kubarska and I started work on our new route. Przemek Klimek helped us open the upper section. We led the line from the bottom up, drilling while hanging from sky hooks, via a combination of free and aid, with the assumption that it would eventually be free climbed.
Most of the wall is slabby, without protection other than bolts, up until Pitch 13. There—on easy terrain—we installed only a single bolt at the stances. We didn't use a portaledge; instead, we fixed about 400 meters of rope and rapped down to sleep in the village every night. On May 23 and 24 (with one bivouac) Eliza Kubarska and I made the redpoint ascent.
Because of our exhaustion, the ascent took us two days. A few days before the ascent, my inner ear became inflamed and I had trouble walking and keeping my balance. After four days I felt well enough to try the climb. Not long into the route, though, I realized that I was still having trouble with my balance. The first few pitches I fought to overcome the feeling of dizziness. At that time I was still uncertain whether I would even be able to lead the more difficult pitches. Fortunately, after a couple of hours, the malady passed, and the sixth pitch—the first crux—went smoothly.
Although we had a very comfortable bivouac (a 1.2-meter-wide ledge), we were out of water by morning. Dry wind and the effort we put into the climb tired us out completely. By evening we were seriously exhausted, tasting thick saliva and seeing black spots.
Fantasia (7b+/c, 700m) is one of the most diverse routes in Taghia, and one of the longest free climbs in the Atlas Mountains, comprised of chimneys and dihedrals mixed with slabs. The magnificent canyons of Taghia in the background just sweeten the ambience.
David Kaszlikowski, Warsaw, Poland
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John S Saunders
Shot down 8 November 1942 in B-17 41-24472 while serving as Ball Turret Gunner. POW but Died in Captivity (DIC) at the German Army Hospital at Lille, France.
306th Bomb Group The Reich Wreckers
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369th Bomb Squadron
B-17F 41-24472 was assigned 369BS/306BG Westover 19-August-1942; Thurleigh 2-October-1942. The aircraft was shot down 8-Nov-42 by enemy fighters and AA fire while on a mission to bomb the Actlier d' Hellemmes locomotive factory at Lille, France. The...
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Two Primary (P) targets are the objects of this mission: the German airfield of Drucat at Abbeville, France and the Atclier d'Hellemmes locomotive works at Lille, France. 91BG despatches 15 B-17s to Abbeville and 301BG and 306BG despatch a combined...
Thurleigh
Military site : airfield
Built for RAF use in 1941-42, Thurleigh was initially used by RAF Bomber Command before being handed over to the Eighth Air Force. Its runways and hardstandings were improved, and the B-17s of the 306th Bomb Group began using the base. It was their...
Born Bloomfield Hills, MI, USA
Died Lille, France 8 November 1942
Taken prisoner and died in a German Field Hospital at Lille, France.
Buried Netherlands American Cemetery, 6269 NA Migraten, Netherlands 1945
Remains were recovered and buried in a temporary grave Plot NN, Row 12, Grave 276, Netherlands American Cemetery. The American Battle Monuments Commission (ABMC) has no current burial location for this airman, which is a fairly good indication that his remains were repatriated to the United States after the war.
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22 November 2014 23:09:11 Lee8thbuff Changes to events and aircraft associations
Lee Cunningham 21-Nov-2014. Added Died and Buried events per MACT 16133 and American Battle Monuments Commission (ABMC) record and "Lossed of the 8th & 9th Air Forces" Stan Bishop and John A. Hey MBE
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Lee Cunningham 29-Oct-2014. Missing Air Crew Report (MACR) 16133; "Losses of the 8th & 9th Air Forces" Stan Bishop & John E Hey MBE.
Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / Roll of Honor, Losses of the 8th and 9th AFs Vol. 1 by Bishop and Hey p. 44 , MACR 16133
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Home汪峰Voice of China Season 4 Episode 11: Cross Battles Between Wang Feng & Harlem Yu
Voice of China Season 4 Episode 11: Cross Battles Between Wang Feng & Harlem Yu
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All you eager eyes and keen ears out there must have heard about the little clash between Wang Feng and the media, and here we are, watching the episode itself this week! We can finally be the judges to see for ourselves if the media had indeed been biased against Wang Feng or it's all in his mind. Here's my summary and take on it:
>>> Spoilers present in this article <<<
Wang Feng picked the song that is always associated with Harlem as the opening song - 让我一次爱个够, which was appropriately tuned to become Wang-Feng-ized! Pretty satisfying to watch for sure, and Harlem, too chose a popular Wang Feng's song 春天里 (shameless plug for my favourite rendition of this song - Geng Si Han & Chen Zhi's performance) which was very adorably changed to Harlem's style. It's a soul swapping experience that is worth replaying again and again. But the night is long and so, let's begin the games! As a quick refresher, here are the contestants that will be fighting it out in this episode:
Wang Feng's team
Huang Xiao Yun
Zhang Xinxin
Huang Yong
Harlem Yu's team
Zhao Da Ge
Tan Xuan Yuan
Zhang Shu
Ma Yin Yin
Cross Battle I: Huang Xiao Yun vs. Zhao Da Ge
This is the 'youngest' cross battle in the history of Voice of China, with 16-year old Huang Xiao Yun performs All by Myself and 19-year old Zhao Da Ge singing Ain't No Mountain High Enough. Zhao Da Ge does her signature snazzy singing, giving this classic song a new modern feel. I like how she has her own personality when she sings, which is quite rare in this season. That's a characteristic of the members in Harlem's team. However, Huang Xiao Yun totally nailed it with her stunning All by Myself, which is an extremely difficult song to sing, let alone re-organizing and having so much emotions in it at such a young age.
Zhao Da Ge (28 votes) emerges as the winner, while the younger Huang Xiao Yun (23 votes) fail to proceed in the competition. This is a blasphemy. I have nothing against Zhao Da Ge and find that she is really good too, but in this cross battle, Huang Xiao Yun should have won for sure. Wang Feng apologizes repeatedly to Xiao Yun as she leaves. As he goes to the backstage, he has a very strange, cryptic conversation with the remaining three - 'Don't be so solemn. I know it clearly.' Then, Huang Yong added, 'Xiao Yun was really good there.' To which, Wang Feng agrees, 'Yes, she was really good. It's very obvious, but let's not talk about that.' (They had a time limit of 3 minutes to decide the next contestant) On the other end, Harlem recognizes it too - Zhao Da Ge, his very own disciple, didn't display a lot of 'fancy tricks' and attribute her win to her 'charm'. He doesn't sound very convinced himself because as of this point, he knew what Wang Feng was thinking too.
Cross Battle II: Bei Bei vs. Zhang Shu
Zhang Shu picked a cutesy song that is very unlike her previous styles. It must have been Harlem's idea, I mean, Zhang Shu singing 你的甜蜜?! Are you see-ree-ious? I would have preferred her to sing heavier, emo songs but anyway, it might be to show her versatility. She does pull it off nicely, though it's a visual and audio mismatch. Bei Bei performs an extremely soulful 大桥上, does not exceed her previous stellar performances, does not break out of her female Wang Feng character, but touches me deeply as usual. The crowd is undoubtedly wow-ed by Bei Bei and entertained by Zhang Shu. Both Jay Chou and Na Ying holds Bei Bei to high regard and compliment - Na Ying even comments she has the flair of a champion (I agree).
Zhang Shu wins (26 votes) and Bei Bei (25 votes) surprisingly loses by a close shave. Honestly, I am more surprised by how Wang Feng hasn't lost his cool yet. As individuals, each of them are wonderful singers, but Bei Bei definitely deserved to win, and by a huge margin in this cross battle. There's no way she could have lost, and now I finally understand that the media representatives indeed must have been biased. Wang Feng looks like he is about to punch someone, Harlem does not look happy, tries to make a joke but fails miserably, and the situation is so highly strung, you can literally see it in everyone's faces. Post-results, Wang Feng practically runs up the stage, brimming with angst - but says simply, 'Bei Bei, you speak too much. If she leaves the competition now, I don't agree. Do you agree?' Wow. Voice of China has never been more romantic dramatic than that. Wang Feng grabs Bei Bei's hand, marches off the stage, the camera zooms into her bewildered, confused and saucer-wide eyes... and he arrives at his seat, saying, 'Sometimes, we can exercise our right, we don't have to hide,' Still holding her hand, he leads her to slam the 'SAVE' button. The stage explodes in golden and yellow, with Momo Wu singing 'I believe'. Bei Bei stays.
Before going into the next round, host Hua Shao asks Wang Feng to comment, and he says, 'The previous two contestants from my team have exceeded my expectations so much. Our team currently faces a treacherous situation, but I think I don't have to use the immunity privilege anymore, given the ability of the remaining two contestants.' Na Ying and Jay Chou both looked highly uncomfortable and solemn. I have never seen Harlem look so uneasy before either. Ho-hum. Okay, next round.
Loved this post? Read Episode 13 Finale Prelude - best of Season 4, finale song lists, and predictions!
Cross Battle III: Tan Xuan Yuan vs. Zhang Xinxin
Tan Xuan Yuan is currently my favourite contestant and in my opinion, the best contestant in Harlem's team. He sings a really beautiful 欲水, the sort that I would replay in the darkest of nights for respite... he draws the audience in to his world as he sings. His voice is very suitable to sing theme songs for period dramas too. Zhang Xinxin is strangely flat when he sings a solo - I remembered him being really good in the previous PK battles. It remains comfortably relaxing to listen to, but at this point, it is a dangerous move. It could be a wrong song choice as it didn't reflect how good he is. It is also difficult to surpass Zhang Lei in the department of minyao, so... yeah.
Tan Xuan Yuan (26 votes) wins by a slim margin and Zhang Xinxin (25 votes) leaves since there is no more SAVE option. Harlem still doesn't look happy at all for a winning team, Wang Feng nods and beckons that he wants to say something. Host Hua Shao strangely and awkwardly advised everyone not to clap at this point.
'I've been thinking of something from the first song. I wanted to wait until the final song before saying it. I need to express some nagging feelings that I have. The next few lines might not be broadcast on the official show, but I will definitely be responsible for my words. First, I want to express that what I am about to say has nothing to do with my losses on this episode. As the opponent to Harlem, I have told my assistant and my family that my favourite part of this season's Voice of China is the attitude of Harlem's team and the songs he picked. My interactions with Harlem have also been pleasant. I have no issues with Harlem. What I am about to say has nothing to do with Harlem and his team.
To all my students that have failed to go through, I am extremely apologetic to all of you, please pardon me for my frankness. You did not lose in music, you did not lose in Harlem's point of view, you did not lose to your opponent's spectacular performances, you lost to the materialistic and crude world of gossip and bias, to which it is aimed at your mentor (himself). Please do not cry, I am grateful for The Voice's band, director, music producers, music critics and DJs. I've said this long ago - your journey in The Voice can end any time, it is unpredictable. But your performances will surely be broadcast, the memories of every one here will never be gone.'
It is so awkward. But Na Ying and Jay Chou tries their hardest to lighten things up... to some degree of success...
Cross Battle IV: Huang Yong vs. Ma Yin Yin
Ma Yin Yin sings a quiet, romantic version of 三天三夜. If you haven't heard the original before, you will never imagine how it sounds like. I recommend this version from the super-awesome Season 1 contestants here. I really like how she plays with the song into this jazzy, bar-music, country, drunk sort of version, it is really so creative that has got me captivated all the way. But... Huang Yong has found a new fan in me. This is the best performance of the whole episode, and boy am I glad that Wang Feng saved the best at the last, it's really icing on the cake. In fact, I secretly wish that Huang Yong would win the entire competition. I never noticed him... and guess this is what we call a black horse, eh? I really liked how he smiles while singing such a crazily motivating song 流浪, he revved up the entire crowd. Haven't seen this Wang Feng spirit since Geng Si Han. Tears in my eyes as he finished up the last line, and longing for more.
Huang Yong (31 votes) wins, understandably. I like Ma Yin Yin (20 votes) too, and she is also a gorgeous lady so it's a waste to let her go. I think this episode has created this rare uncomfortably awkward situation made the last cross battle between Huang Yong and Ma Yin Yin unprecedentedly relaxed as it has dissolved the original stress from the competition. Ma Yin Yin simply says, 'Save me'! Harlem saves her, and then it is the cross battle between the saved ones:
Cross Battle V: Ma Yin Yin vs. Bei Bei
It is true that Ma Yin Yin has already developed her own distinctive singing style, a lazy sophisticated way reminiscent of Shanghai in the 1930s. She sings 在水一方, reminding me of a scene with whiskey and soft bokeh lights. I would love for her to star in a coming-of-age movie, and/or sing the theme song of that movie. Bei Bei does a powerful, effortless 蓝莲花 by 许巍 (performed during PK battles of Season 2 by Zhao Han and Zhang Heng Yuan) as usual.
Bei Bei (30 votes) wins after a harsh grueling night. Sadly, Ma Yin Yin (21 votes) has to leave. In the ideal world, I would prefer Ma Yin Yin to Zhao Da Ge, but everything's already officially locked in place. Unconfirmed sources mentioned that there was a re-recording done for the voting for this final cross-battle. Initially, Ma Yin Yin had won, but due to some reasons unexplained, they had to redo the voting such that Bei Bei wins. If you'd turned up the volume enough, you'll hear Bei Bei say to Harlem, "I'm sorry, this position is supposed to be Ma Yin Yin's", and Harlem replies, "Don't worry about it, it's just singing."
Final line-up: Zhao Da Ge, Zhang Shu, Bei Bei, Tan Xuan Yuan, Huang Yong, Li Xin Ni, Zhang Lei, Chen Zi Tong, Sun Bo Lun, Li An
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Mo 27 September 2015 at 16:04
I wish I could rage in as calm and restrained a manner as Wang Feng does.
He's still in the game as long as he's got Bei Bei. That girl's crazy good.
Amie 27 September 2015 at 17:10
As celebrities, they must have met with all kinds of injustice... I am glad he handled it this way, it could have easily gotten much uglier than this.
You are welcome, Anon. :)
lly_amanda 28 September 2015 at 23:34
For Wang feng's speech, I think they cut out the first few lines about him saying it may not be broadcasted and also they cut out the most important and controversial line about the world of materialism and gossip aimed at him. Haix, all that subtle editing by the show :/
Amazing controversy. Just when i thought this season didnt have the punch like previous seasons from the contestants. Guess what, the punch came from the judge this season. Cool. Thanks for sharing, i was still wondering what happen when i chance upon the actual recording version and the aired version. With your detailed analysis, i got to know why. Im still wondering why the media dont like wang feng. U know why? Whats it got to do with the documentary aired in april?
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I enjoy reading your blog! Please never stop writing! :)
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Match Day: QPR vs. Aston Villa
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So, third game in less than a week, and there’ve been lots of talking points as Dean Smith’s Villa have gone 1-1 since his arrival. It’s been fun stuff. Now we travel to Loftus Road to take on Queens Park Rangers looking to rebound from the 2-1 setback against Norwich. After that, Smith has a full week to rest, recover, and work with the squad before welcoming Bolton to Villa Park.
Not much from me today as I’m hurrying out the door for a couple of vacation days. And really, I think everyone’s covered most everything in the comments. Naturally we’ll be looking to see whether Smith rotates players for evaluation or tactical reasons. Calls for Grealish to have a sit down are growing, who knows if Smith will feel the same. Fortunately, John McGinn is back, Bjarnason should be rested, and Bolasie has had some time in the gym. Which means, along with Lansbury, there are lots of central midfield options.
Looks like Uncle Albert is out, so we’ll see what the wide answer is there. From Deano regarding Albert’s absence: “That gives Yannick the chance to come back into the squad. I didn’t think he made enough of an impact and I told him that on Saturday.” I think everyone would agree.
Tammy Abraham will return from the knock to his noggin. So, pretty much a full-strength squad. Are they knackered? Thinking too much? Trying too hard to impress? Just getting used to things? Could be any and or all of these.
From Smith:
“For me, it’s always about ourselves—our attitude, enthusiasm, desire —because we have a talented squad. What we have brought into training is encouraging them to be more tactically astute when they’re playing and they have certainly taken more responsibility with that. Tonight I think it will be two teams trying to win the game. I think when both of us get the ball the other team will try and stop them. I know that seems funny but sometimes teams will just drop deep and perform a low block—I don’t expect that. We certainly have the capabilities in our squad to create chances and score goals. But they’re certainly a threat too. So defensively we will have to be at our best.”
So there you go. As ever, we’ll look for signs of progress, and three points would be nice since we’ve now fallen eight points off the pace at the top.
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Match Day: Aston Villa vs. Bolton Wanderers
So, third game in less than a week, and there've been lots of talking points as Dean Smith's Villa have gone 1-1 since his arrival. It's been fun stuff. Now we travel to Loftus Road to take on Queens Park Rangers looking to rebound from the 2-1 setback against Norwich.
Match Day: Norwich City vs. Aston Villa
Following Villa’s 1-0 win over visiting Swansea Saturday, there was much talk from Dean Smith about tactics, training, game plans, and what he was trying to do. Most everyone found the insights refreshing and indicative of a new approach at Villa that’s been long overdue. Will we see any progression against Norwich on the quick turn, or is that asking too much?
Mark King October 26, 2018 at 4:56 pm
Thanks JC have a nice break mate
IanG- On Hutton or any fullback currently, This season we are worse at defending overall, we have an under performing Chester and a youngster trying to do it all in Tuenzabe. Add to that DS is asking the FB’s to get forward a lot then I’m not surprised at whats happening. Two old FB’s one that works hard but is less than clever at times and one better on the ball but slower, then two ageing wingers in front of them.
I don’t think its a case of Hutton got his contract or reverted to type (other than being asked to pass) nor that Taylor is any worse than he’s been he actually looks a bit better (not hard) Hutton hasn’t been good left or right this season though.
I’m with you on Clark another dismal decision along with Delaet
IanG October 26, 2018 at 5:57 pm
Ta JC
I’ll be able to post again after the match.
James Gill October 26, 2018 at 6:32 pm
Players of today have nowhere to hide ,if Hutton,Taylor had been playing 20/30 years there poor play would not have been so noticeable, anyone watching last match can’t have missed how bad they where unless they themselves are only trolling
John Lerwill October 26, 2018 at 6:43 pm
What DS has said (in your quote) seems to confirm that the players have been asked to think more which probably has extended their poor selves mentally – and led to additional tiredness?
But replacing Abraham and Albert with something of a different kind was not an easy thing and it left Villa with a lack of outlet, hence them looking more like perplexed chickens rather than finding the science you’d expect from professor einsteins.
That was against Norwich, though, and with the double whammy of experiencing a pink dressing room.
Tonight is another step – as you rightly say – and each match should become more interesting to see what evolves.
Interesting theory on the dressing room does it only work after half time? 😉
r0bb0 October 26, 2018 at 7:20 pm
I’m still more than puzzled at the criticism of Hutton. I have to say i am also surprised that according to the Birmingham Mail player ratings he is the highest rated of all our players in games played so far this season.
He is a very popular player at Villa Park but I’d have had him top half rather than number1.
I think Mark had it right that his ‘thinking’ is not always the best but let’s not forget that he made our goal on Saturday with good energy and an astute and accurate pull back pass.
JC suggested in an earlier posting that he sometimes gets caught out defending but because he is our fastest player (and was even when Gabby was in the club) he’s often able to recover from those mistakes.
I also remember that when he was in the bomb squad he didn’t complain, but just carried on training and keeping fit for when the manager wind next changed direction. . . . this is probably part of the reason he’s so popular . . . . except on blogs for some reason.
Eze went down from a slight pull from Bjarnason and a foul was given.
McGinn was pulled back in the penalty area but stayed on his feet. . . no penalty.
Referees judge outcomes rather than incidents so players cheat.
QPR are a bit agricultural in this first half aren’t they
But it’s goals that count
1-0 shitttt
Dean Smith doesn’t need long to see how much work he has got to do after Bruce disaster spell
It’s not a bit wonder Chester is playing poorly when he looks left right and behind him it’s disaster all the way
Just one more vignette mate
2nd half should tell us a lot about the team
We could do with some shots from anywhere.
The pull back from mcginn to that hogan sized whole in the box? Forwards not gambling
Was that first time in first half that jodja really put an effort into
Much possession, but no incision.
But Hutton played well! 🙂
Yes, well said r0bb0 … I can’t understand the sniping at Hutton either.
r0bb0 October 26, 2018 at 10:10 pm
JL. Yes he did play well again but I thought that Jack was excellent
Not happy with Kodjia casually strolling back and being caught offside right at the end
Iana McFadyen October 26, 2018 at 11:23 pm
Well, that’s that for the week that was. Thanks for the leader, JC.
Hutton doesn’t have to do much wrong before some jump on him. Yet, he’s been one of the best players for Villa over the last 18 months.
IanG
Vignette-bet you’re wicked at crosswords.
Heroes-and-Villans October 27, 2018 at 6:11 am
That was harsh last night.
Bossed it in every department except the score line!
Re Hutton. The truth is he is not as bad as some make out but imo especially under Deano he ain’t good enough. The modern full back is crucial in teams now days. And Hutton just doesn’t do enough. We need 2 new fullbacks and I’d play Elmore rub for now all day long. Not sure why we don’t now with the wingers we have
Elmo tunzba Chester Taylor
Bb. Mcguinn
Bolasie. Grealish. El shwa
Tam my
Need 2 new Fb. A CB. And a cm
Plug October 27, 2018 at 7:53 am
The result didn’t reflect the performance. Thought QPR were running on empty. But we have some homes games coming up so hopefully we can get some time on the training ground and turn it into some results.
Can’t do much about the defensive problems (other than coach them better) until Jan, unless DS brings in Bree. O’Hare would be a useful addition too.
James Gill October 27, 2018 at 8:30 am
On Hutton he is worse than most say ,goal again last night came from his side ,missed swipe for a tackle,as for Elmo cannot cross the ball 1 good 1 in 10 attempts,last night we had lovely build up think it was grealish played lovely ball to Elmo plenty time to put in decent cross but found row z in crowd
Mark King October 27, 2018 at 9:29 am
Thought overall we played ok for 90 mins. Still lots of misplaced passes which you don’t seem to see from the opposition. Still lots of work to be done on creating clear chances.
Robbo/JL – Hutton got sat on his backside again in our area and he has moments in every game despite his better work and effort, how is that sniping ? Robbo you mentioned ofjias offside, I agree it showed a lack of awareness just like Hutton and Jl you do like a snipe at Hogan, so how are you two any better than those you accuse of being unfair? Just saying.
* kodjia bloody iPhone
r0bb0 October 27, 2018 at 9:43 am
James. . . no insults or jibes here, just a genuine observation which you can feel free to ignore.
you say that the goal came from Hutton’s side and that he missed a swipe for a tackle, but McGinn completely missed a tackle and took the player out, and then Chester was completely at fault for letting the player through (can’t blame Nyland). It really is stretching a point to lay the blame on Hutton.
He made one poor pass last night as far as I could see and played a couple of excellent ones that put us on the attack in their penalty area. In fact I think he’s playing his best football in a Villa shirt.
He’s cutting in and actually making a real nuisance of himself in the opposition half, works hard, is always available as support down the right hand side and even looking to score goals.
Against that he does sometimes leave defensive gaps, which is inevitable when he’s been asked to push forward so much , but his pace means that he usually manages to get back and fill those gaps.
There’s also the point that he has the highest average player rating of any Villa player so far this season.
Last night you could have picked on a number of players who made far more mistakes. Bjarnason made 3 wayward passes before he was taken off, Taylor reverted to making mistakes, Elmo, you’ve picked out, Abrahams should have scored, I thought even McGinn was quiet in the second half and should have been substituted.
What is it about Hutton that really gets your goat?
I don’t remember me taking swipes at Hogan. . . mixing me up with someone else?
I like Hogan . . . I like his attitude and what he is tying to do. I was delighted when he started scoring and hoped it would continue. I also have big hopes for him once DS gets the whole team training together as he will know best how to use him.
He didn’t really fit into our previous style of play where we (in my opinion) wouldnhave been better off with a big centre forward type who could take advantage of high crosses.
If I have been critical of him then I would hope it was because of those reasons, but as I say . . . I just don’t remember me having a go at Hogan.
Mark. . . one other thing. I know you’ve been a big advocate of O’Hare and I’m with you on that too. I can see DS marrying him and Hogan up in the middle.
Mark, it wasn’t Kodjia’s ‘lack of awareness’ that annoyed me so much (although I agree with you), it was more his completely casual attitude. . . . I can’t see Smith standing for that.
Clive Evans October 27, 2018 at 11:14 am
My impression was that Villa was QPR’s 12th man in the first half judging by the number of passes that went astray. I was surpised that we were not punished more than 1-0. 2 CBs not talking -be JT had a word- or several!!
In the second half things were better and we should have at least equalised if not won, from the number of chances. I still think we build up too slowly at times with a lot of cross-field passing due to lack of movement up front.
I cannot understand the slagging off of Hutton – if you want you RB to attack and support Elmo then someone from midfield has to cover the counter-attack. When he has played LB Adomah has been to the rescue on a regular basis.
One player in my opinion who is not worth inclusion is Taylor, he gets caught out more often than Hutton but nobody complains. I bet if an analysis was carried out we lose more goals from attacks down our left than we do from the right. I can stand correction on that as it is only a preception.
So further away from the play-off position and 6 points of relegation – not an ideal position one third of the way throught the season but we have hope 🙂
James Gill October 27, 2018 at 11:49 am
Where did I blame Hutton for defeat,just pointed out his missed swipe yes Chester Taylor where more at fault for that goal,Tuesday night 2 goals came from his side as per usual,as for his attacking play how many assists or goals scored from him, go back to Tuesday game Elmo was in great position(No doubt he would messed it up) Hutton cut inside lost it and immediately Norwich attacked down Hutton side as every club knows is our major weakness
http://c.newsnow.co.uk/A/960226670?-11177:843:3
More that want Hutton dropped
And more ,think I seen a familiar name of this blog The droyd
http://c.newsnow.co.uk/A/960257187?-11177:843
And more http://c.newsnow.co.uk/A/960257187?-11177:843
James Gill October 27, 2018 at 12:08 pm
Comparing Hutton and Taylor is like sitting in a boat wondering which hole is going to sink it first
I don’t want my wide men having to spend their time covering for weak full back as in Albert case(his brother said it)our wide men need to be hemming opposition full back in not letting him attack,we should be set up on front foot not defending as main game plan
Clive Evans October 27, 2018 at 12:55 pm
Derby are all over Boro – 0-1 but could be more. 2 sides a class apart from Villa
Robbo- if you look closer you’ll see I put Robbo/JL , Jl doesn’t rate Hogan and you didn’t like kodjias attitude . I was just trying highlight that different players and traits catch peoples eye and so they come in for criticism. It’s no more than that and shouldn’t be labelled as a witch hunt.
The passing or maybe the players movement to receive is poor atm. I do think they have been asked to pass out from the back but are taking it a bit too literally.
I think poyet was quoted as saying he wanted players to pass out from the back and accepted there would be mistakes made. Ultimately he believed they would win more games that way. It’s gonna take time and patience but for some players it may never sink in.
One thing that struck too from the game, jack is the only player we have that is truly comfortable on the ball. Doesn’t matter what position he finds himself in nor how tight he is relaxed. I think a major factor of our inability to break teams down and keep the ball is that inability to relax on the ball.
I think Chester is suffering on the left of the CB pairing, from experience of playing there I know some just cannot do it. First thing I’d ask if I played there is which side do you prefer if I didn’t know them well and I’d let them play there. Don’t ask me why but it matters to some players. He also seems to have lost some pace?
I was encouraged that Bolasie might prove useful as he’s I afraid to shoot, looked better out left.
*unafraid obviously 🙂
Paul Pears October 27, 2018 at 4:34 pm
On the whole a much better performance, and I am with Clive and R0bb0 on Hutton, but would prefer to see him on the right as he also has had a good understanding with Chester. Taylor to me, is the weakest link and he and Chester struggle, with too many silly little passes, instead of clearing the ball.
Nyland is improving too, and good to have Mcginn back in, and Grealish was better, but there is still a lot of work to do, as we are so far behind in our team building.
After watching the QPR goal I came to these conclusions, bearing in mind goals start somewhere and are not always the defenders fault. But the defenders job is to read the situation in real time and react accordingly, CB is not an easy position and not just about heading.
John Mcginn fouls his man and the ref plays on, at that point all eyes are on the player with the ball and I mean all, the eventual goal scorer is being marked by Taylor. Taylor see’s Kodjia’s man heading for the space on the left and gestures to Chester to pass the goal scorer on, Kodjia is running back centrally watching the ball.
Meanwhile Thor has his hands up to come off, Mcginn is remonstrating with the ref after committing the foul, both could have tried to close with the player about to make the telling pass, Mcginn more than Thor as Thors injured.
Chester I assume thinks Taylors still got the man, or is caught flat footed or tries to play him offside? to late, the scorers through the middle and onto a great pass (similar to Mcginns style of service at Hibs).
So the goal is riddled with errors and right and wrong decisions, an injury and a foul, all in a few seconds. The ref could of give the foul and we’d have point, bloody refs 🙂
Spot on MK.
Ian October 27, 2018 at 6:40 pm
I agree too,mark
When space becomes a premium, mistakes become exponential, time becomes a rare commodity. It’s a rare footballer who can think fast enough and position himself when the team is truly on the back foot. So Hutton makes mistakes? Perhaps he’s just been put in a position where a successful outcome is truly rare. Most spot kicks come from this type of problem. Like the keeper who sets the world alight only to miss a shot at the end of the game becomes the goat. It all depends where and how a mistake is made.
IanG October 28, 2018 at 12:14 am
Bad scene at Filbert St with the Helicopter crash.
Hope the people survived
John Lerwill October 28, 2018 at 8:42 am
Did anyone notice that this match was the first league match this season where we’ve failed to score?
And (says quietly) this is 3 out of 4 matches lost since Bruce went…
… I’ll get my coat.
Leicester helicopter crash
I’ve not heard the latest but the Beeb pic last night made it look as though there was a complete burnout and the impression given that no-one got out.
The goal conceded
Again, I don’t know why all the analysis … the defence was caught a bit flat-footed and they took advantage. A goal was scored. Ce’est la vie … it happens.
What is of far more concern to me is we had at time 70% possession but rarely looked as though we were going to use it to good advantage. And their defence was solid, blocking at least 3 efforts from which we surely would have scored otherwise.
I think what I’m really saying is that we rarely seem to be cute enough to create a chance that bamboozles the o[pposing defence. Where is this brilliance of Jack when it comes to goals creation? It’s not really there as I see it.
JL- And that has been the problem for to long and why smith is here. 10 goals from set pieces this season and rescued games it’s not as clear cut as Bruce vs Smith. Smiths here to fix it don’t forget. Also let’s not forget the easy run of games we had to start the season, last four millwall away a tough game, Swansea, and the last two the top form teams both away from home the Norwich game we lost 3-1 last season and QPR ended our auto hopes last season.
Add to that we haven’t won in 7 away from home this season and neither has Smith.
Depends how you want to paint it ?
I would like to see ohare at 10
John Lerwill October 28, 2018 at 10:16 am
MK<
We always have a different view as we look at the issue in different ways, so you cannot say that one perspective is correct.
You say: "Smiths here to fix it don’t forget" but what happens if he doesn't? I emphaise it's an 'if', and don't necessarily think he won't. But…
The only thing that went really against Bruce was that we drew too many matches. If the shooters had put more on target (of many chances they had) then we'd have had more points and Bruce wouldn't have gone … "Don't forget" 🙂
Mark King October 28, 2018 at 11:06 am
Jl- at one point we were second only to Man City in goals scored, we also had conceded the same number of goals and only had one team in our league with a worse record and jedinak as CB. Could of scored in the recent games too but the overwhelming concern is conceding. Throw in the many very late comebacks we could of easily lost more and conceded more as well as scoring more.
Smiths working with players Bruce left it will take time and I am not worried about a three game period in quick succession with less than 9 days with the squad on the training ground , they’ll get better or they won’t but at least they have a chance with coaching now that they did not seem to have under Bruce. and we will get new players if needed in time. I don’t see this as just another manager it’s a paradigm shift for the club whether Smith is successful on the pitch in the short term or not.
I’d take promotion purely for the funds it would bring even with another relegation as long as we stay on this course.
I liked smiths comments about the u23’s. He said when they conceded they reacted emotionally and quickly conceded more. They need the mental strength to stick to the plan wether 10 up or 10 down. As we have seen with the 1st team after a big win or loss it’s detrimental if your attention is lessened.
John Lerwill October 28, 2018 at 12:58 pm
MK: “Smiths working with players Bruce left”
Come orf it! Smith himself has said that the squad is of a high quality.
Apart from defensive slots, I doubt Smith will bring in more players in January.
In any case, you’re reading into what I said a bit too much. I was just winding you up a bit as you wind up others! 😉
Of course it’s gotta take time. I doubt any sensible person would think otherwise. But Bruce’s sacking was a mite too hasty.
JL- I don’t disagree by the way that but for the missed chances Bruce could still be here, just glad he’s not as it was papering over the cracks.
After all I’ve argued the same for RDM who had far more chances created, For instants against Forest we had 26 chances, 10 corners, hit the woodwork twice, two world class saves! forest had 3 shots in a 2-2 draw. We hit the woodwork 6 other times while conceding 12 goals in 11 games too, that was unlucky, and indeed we could of never seen Bruce.
I do however think there is more at play than the results in both cases with DOF’s and CEO’s coming in and whats at stake.
JL- Come off it? 🙂 Do you really think he’s going to say otherwise? He’s come in and they are all he has, he’s not going to destroy Moral. He has inherited a very lopsided Squad that he has already said.
JL- If I wind them up then they have to look to themselves I really don’t set out to.
If anyone listens to MOMs podcast they’ll know that they ask there computer who is the Manager of Aston Villa? it has replied Roberto Di Matteo up until recently until now when it replied Dean Smith, spooky, has Steve Bruce actually been a figment of our collective minds? 🙂
Well JL, let’s see how he gets on at Reading assuming he gets the job.
Hopefuly Bruce does get a new job ,how else are we going to be able to get rid of Hutton Taylor Elmo etc in January
And can’t help but notice that all the players he sent out on loan are shining for their loan club.
And then there is gabby ,Bruce liked him yet free signing and not 1 clubs has snapped him up,then again not much call for 1 goalayear
Iana McFadyen October 29, 2018 at 7:53 am
Bruce may have fell victim to the bookies and this was his only way out.
MK,
Do Villa have talented players? Yes, of course -we’ve all been saying that the players are *at least* good enough in skill terms.
Are Villa lopsided? Perhaps you can say that, but the main deficiency is in the defence i.m.o. – plus not scoring enough.
But it will come right – and mostly with the same players I think.
JL- I hope so,
A quick break down shows we have 6 central mid-fielders for 2 spots with two more out on loan. 4 centre forwards for one spot one on loan plus RHM, one left back one on loan, two CB’s two on loan, 3 keepers ( none outstanding) 3 RB’s one on loan.
Wingers is a strange one as we have 3 really (four with Jack) but two are less than stellar so far with one on loan. No 10? Jack? I’d throw O’hare in that to.
We do have good players just to much competition in some positions none in others. I can’t see a balanced team appearing without some of the Loanee’s returning or Youth stepping up though. And it will depend on who gets the No9 spot as to how we operate.
Ian- Gary Gardner is playing the DM position very well for monk. Clark getting great reviews and Tishbola and Clarke our ex coach are second in the scottish prem. Tishbola is up for a Jan return and wants to sort his future but hopes dean will give him a chance.
https://www.thescottishsun.co.uk/sport/football/3398633/aaron-tshibola-kilmarnock-aston-villa-loan-return/
Interesting interview with Tuanzebe that gives some insight into what Smith is trying to and indeed is doing at Villa. Whilst not wanting to draw comparisons with The former managers methods its hard not when I have never heard one of our players express what we are trying to do before in other than rudimentary terms.
“It suits my style of play. It’s the one I’m used to back at Manchester United and it benefits me to be playing that way here.
“You can see already that we’re dominating games. We just need that final touch, pass – whatever it might be.
“Hopefully the extended time on the training pitch now can help us achieve that.
“We’re playing much better football and it’s a style I enjoy – keeping the ball and trying to create something by playing from the back. We’ve adapted well so far.”
Thats just a snippet its well worth a listen
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=316&v=CZNVnGEmlMw
Paul Pears October 30, 2018 at 11:09 am
Thanks MK,
Good to see the positives coming out from the players, and those on loan hoping they can be part of the future.
Mark King October 30, 2018 at 12:40 pm
PP- Makes you wonder what that will be with so many previously out of favour players and the potential for promotion this season. We of course don’t know what Dean Smiths preference will be when he gets to bring some in either.
I see Callum O’Hare, Blackett Taylor and Jacob Beddau didn’t play for the stiffs, a no10 a winger and a CB?
The plot thickens mate
Came across this thought I’d share it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4FQU4_N4dTE&list=PLWYJXDKS21OEBUcsEkXKIjVMRIdttT_qt&index=21
Very good on Grealish, but this season, a different Grealish so far, and the set-up has been different, which explains why we have made such a poor start.
Latest news is Veretout is about to be named in the French Squad because of his great form, and Dean Smith’s first signing will be bringing Barry Bannan back for around £8 million, as he is perfect for his system that he wants to use.
PP- I liked Bannan but £8m sounds like baloney but you never know. We need a LB and a CB over more mid-fielders but I agree that we don’t have a play-maker like him as such. Would rather see, O’hare and Doyle hayes but if DS thinks its necessary might just be the key.
Yes very different but Grealish has played on the right of midfield and the wing and no10 with McGinn playing his favoured central left position. Still don’t understand why he doesn’t take the ball into the box more often considering the fouls committed against him.
I see the west Brom fans were moaning that their U23’s with lots of 1st teamers in it couldn’t beat our U23’s who had regulars missing and U18’s in 🙂
PP- Grealish, Enda Stevens and Elphick in the team of the week, Gary Gardner in the team of the month for October and we want Bannan back 🙂 , maybe we needed someone who could spot talent years ago.
Funny MK,
The fans could see it, but not the coaches and mangers…..!!!!
Another prime example was Albrighton, and more recently, Johnson and Robinson, and Graham Burke is no mug.
See O’Hare, Blackett-Taylor and another youngster, could be on stand by for Friday night..!!
Bannan could be an astute buy, and capable of playing in the Premier league, but we do have O’Hare.
PP- Bannan is 28 now? seems a lot as Sheff weds got him on a free. Seems to me we have always been in to much of a hurry to develop players properly, and lacked the know how.
Totally agree MK,
O’Hare should have started already, as he is now 20yrs old and should be looking at a regular spot, as should have happened with Jack, and Doyle-Hayes should be getting at least time on the bench.
Bannon/
The boat already sailed I think, & we can do better.
As PP said, he’s 28 & £8 mil is a lot for a championship player with no sell on value or premiership experience..
The mail is babbling a lot, now going on about a loan for Laurent Koscielny. would be nice, but unlikely.
Sorry I meant you not PP that posted about Bannon
Iang- seems we are getting the usual click bait stuff. I wonder how much influence DS will have over transfers? I think he’ll get the final word but what he’s presented with who knows. I hope he goes along with his Brentford idea of attitude 1st.
Plug October 31, 2018 at 2:41 pm
I wouldn’t be in the least bit surprised if DS picks up a couple of defenders in Jan for next to nothing from the lower leagues. I’m sure he already has some positions and their replacements earmarked.
Here’s hoping we get to see O’Hare on the pitch soon, if only for a cameo to give him exposure and see how he goes.
Tomorrow nights game should be revealing. I’m expecting to see the opposition park the bus. Let’s see if we’ve learnt any new moves to unpick the lock.
Yes I agree about attitude.
I’ve a feeling sourcing players will be a team effort, with the football director in the loop as to the football reasons.
In his interview he seemed very knowledgable & seemed to understand the dynamics of working in a team.
Also as he was brought in by compass, I think that they are unlikely to interfere without good reason.
To see DS introducing the U23s in a controlled way, & actually bring them through, would be great, & would perk up a lot of fans.
O’Hare needs to be included as from now, & there are a handful that would qualify already, with more good young players coming through, but I fear for Doyle-Hayes’s chances with so many mids in the squad.
As for picking locks, if the energy is higher gaps will appear in their bus schedule..
DarrenO October 31, 2018 at 3:39 pm
Need Lifers help
As part of a cost control exercise in the O’Rourke household, we got rid of Sky and replaced it with a local TV/broadband provider, as a result of this I need a viable way to watch Friday’s game (albeit I can make a trip to my local and get a few pints in)
So not being too technically minded and fearful of things like VPNs and other acronyms and wanting to avoid spending unnecessarily, can anyone recommend a decent way to watch Villa games via iphone or laptop
Plug,
Yet apart from O’Hare, DS has already mentioned that he had cause to notice Doyle-Hayes and was impressed with him.
IanG,
Splitting hairs perhaps, but Banna of course had PL experience with us and CP.
But he would surely only be a short term solution as you suggest, unless he’s a late developer!
It’s a mess to get into (though there is a way!) but there’s the free streaming service called VIPBox:
https://xn--vipbx-p29a.tv/soccer
DOR- My brother uses an App on his samsung tele called IPTV, Think Haggis uses it too. He signed up to it for £20 and you get all of Sky Sport. Unfortunately if your not very techy or know someone your end probably won’t help.
JL- late developer? he’s not getting any taller thats for sure 😉
Can’t see him leaving Sheffield Wednesday as they have vertical stripes on their kit and everyone knows that makes you look taller
Ha! I knew that one would come
get yourself a Firestick and look up prism ,good service
I haven’t even got a TV & use this:
http://www.time4tv.net/categories/
It can vary in quality & sometimes freezes, but it’s not as complicated asJL’s, but you have that to fall back on if it’s too cold to go to the pub
Yes I have one also, but am going to go the IPTV route on my firestick, which with the new version is a much better picture.
Ian g
Have it on both Firestick and a smart tv ,prefer Firestick easier to use,prism reborn is name of provider they have 3/4 guys on most time for any problems
Ian- Sheff weds let the grass grow long for that element of surprise when the opposition think they’ve fielded ten men
Is prism a pay app?
Found them on fb 10 pound per month or pay yearly which is lot cheaper,to many sellers want you to sign up for a year and bugger off after couple months
Pretty disgusted to read Steve Mcclaren admitting that he’d told his players to be physical and foul our players, particularly Jack, to in order to disturb his rhythm.
I wouldn’t want to see football become a non contact sport, but when managers are coaching their players to cheat, they are destroying the game as a spectacle and it may be the only answer.
IanG October 31, 2018 at 10:58 pm
r0bb0
Yes but it is fun to play if not watch.
Keeps em on their toes, definitely a contact sport
Mark King November 1, 2018 at 7:14 am
Robbo- cheating has been in the game forever unfortunately as has intimidation.
IanG November 1, 2018 at 9:20 am
They do say that football is the game of life, so not surprised.
The problem for me is more when it gets to be a lack of respect, as getting one over the opposition is the name of the game [in this case scoring goals & winning], but if it’s serious then it’s abuse.
I suppose it’s my age, but in my formative sports years we had to stand up for ourselves & give as good as we got [as defenders].
But when we got a really dirty team we had the honour of our team to consider, & the only way to stop them was to do it worse to them.
My opinion of the brolly man went down considerably when he was saying that they had to find a way to stop Grealish playing [illegally], as it was by constant fouling.
The rules need to be enforced with Jack, as he will be ruined if this carries on, but him being better means he will always get this unless the rules of the game are enforced in a proper common sense way, & all players protected.
Somehow I don’t think O’Hare will get the same attention, because his attitude & posture is different when he plays.
He needs to be in the first team squad.
Clive Evans November 1, 2018 at 10:07 am
and on the physical topic – I watched Derby v Chelsea in the Carabao Cup and the blatant push in the back on the Derby left back went unpnished even thought it was right in front of the linesman ( to call him an assitant refereee would be degrading to the refereeing profession). From that throw in to Chelsea arose the winning goal on a 3-2 classic. Derby are a team to be afraid of.
I will say adieu as I am off to Malacca on Sunday and will miss a coupl eo f crucial games – but back in time for thrashing the Blues!!!
Maybe I will bump into Mrs Lerwill in Melaka
John Lerwill November 1, 2018 at 10:53 am
Clive,
Plenty of rain over there now! Well, it is Monsoon time.
Apparently there was a very violent thunderstorm on Monday with lightning that was a mite disturbing I’m told.
Mark King November 1, 2018 at 10:55 am
I think it’s pretty obvious most teams are targeting jack which is why I think when his team mates give him some options to pass to that will lessen, he needs to learn to give and go a bit more to mix it up.
JL – the thunderstorms are forecast to die out by the time we get there but will play the second half the following week! Small price to pay for 32 degrees and if you wear £2 T-shirts they dry out in a few minutes.
John Lerwill November 1, 2018 at 12:49 pm
Cliive,
I wish you well and have a good trip.
Sounds a cheap trip wearing £2 shirts! 😀
IanG November 1, 2018 at 1:03 pm
Yes that would help, but it would be interesting to see Jack & O’Hare in the same team, as it might take the pressure off Jack.
John Lerwill November 1, 2018 at 1:57 pm
IanG/Mark,
Doesn’t McGinn “take the pressure off Jack”?
Similarly we had a midfield of Hourihan, McGinn and Jack a few games ago … how much pressure does Jack need taken off him?
I just don’t think that Jack is as good as the hype says. Nice player, no doubt, but he lacks steel and he’s far too easily knocked off the ball for me.
Now Phil Woosnam, Brian Little and Gordon Cowans… they were my creative type of player.
Heroes-and-Villans November 1, 2018 at 3:09 pm
John its very interssting you say that…is he overhyped?
I think seeing as he has been playing in the championship and is meant to be amazing his assists and goals is not up to scratch.
I think he is very talented and I love him but there is massive improvement needed to warrant the hype around him.
Mark King November 1, 2018 at 4:40 pm
JL/Andrew – The most fouled player in the leagues? last season 11 fouls against in 1 match when we played Cardiff, this season he is way more than double being fouled in the Champs than anyone. His lack of product might be because whenever he gets near the oppositions area he gets hacked down, And lacks steel? his shins must be titanium 😉
I’d be first to admit he’s not the finished article but there is nobody with his dribbling ability that I can think of in the modern game.
I was thinking of O’Hare as a 10, so with Jack as attacking midfielder, along with McGinn, it would be a very attacking team.
But then again we would need a defence… & Jack still needs to track back better, & improve his tackling, as he does seem lost when what he’s doing doesn’t work, but he .
Brian Little had other player’s respect, but in the beginning he used to get pushed off the ball a fair bit.
With the modern times along with modern media where they are all in each other’s pockets, I’ve a feeling that there is a lot of pre-meditation when Jack get’s fouled, in the sense that he is always high profile due to others, & that influences some players.
Then with managers telling their players to stop him at all costs [or they lose their place] instead of playing their own game [brolly man – I cant spell his name], then he attracts fouls.
His style of getting people to commit themselves/selling them a dummy etc, stationary almost daring them to make a move, will p*ss some players off.
I think the refs are part of the problem, as they make decisions based on their prejudices also, & some like to try to influence proceedings as if they are a player, which gives other players leeway to target Jack in particular.
Norman Hunter et al, would do the same to everyone, not just pick on one or two, which was more honest.
But as Mark said Jack needs to speed his play up, pass quicker, then they will be too busy to bother.
He is getting harder to knock off the ball without fouling, but he needs to toughen up a bit more I agree, but he is getting there.
O’Hare is like a live eel, never stops, quicker than a thug can think, so not so much premeditated fouling.
But if he becomes the next big thing that may change unfortunately.
JL- No I don’t think they take pressure off him particularly as they all want to be in the same areas and tend to stand back when he gets the ball and watch him, its like the entire team is waiting for him to do it all at times. If anything I think Jack needs to pass and go more, but players need to be available to do that and they are not at the moment at the right times, I hope it can be ironed out in training.
Dean Smiths pre-match talked about technical work this week and plenty of rest. No Birker but Adomah back. They had a game midweek to give the likes of Lansbury game time and to access the U23’s. Hopefully we will see the results in the next few weeks.
Live U23 match on the 4th on youtube too.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vvzu6NPKCdk
IanG- I remember watching O’hare the end of last season when they were up to win promotion and the cup and he got kicked a fair bit one particularly put him out for the summer and pre-season. Your right he’s very quick thinking and when I have seen Jack play with the stiffs he’s more at home which may be down to McDonald and how he has them play (except when he’s 1st team manager 🙂 )
All the fouling against Jack is mostly down to the fact that he doesn’t have the steel to avoid it. His style is too touchy touchy for the Championship. He may – or he may not – succeed in the Premiership.
He certainly doesn’t produce the goods that you’d expect from him at this league level. Perhaps Smith can get him to do better.
As for Jack being “more at home in the stiffs”, that may say it all. He hasn’t graduated.
Brian Little was several years younger than Jack when he started to overcome the physicality from his opponents. Jack is now 24 I think … it’s getting a bit late for him to move up a notch. All the great players before him were doing their stuff by the age of 21 or before without a sweat.
JL – In the stiffs? with some of the players from the stiffs, as in when they have played for the 1st team.
And really can’t understand what he is supposed to do when he has his legs kicked out because players are to slow? I would guess you have to be finely balance to play the way he does and you may be surprised how hard he’s actually being kicked. He’s just turned 23.
James Gill November 1, 2018 at 7:40 pm
Grealish getting kicked,maybe it’s because last 2 years under Bruce bar jodja it didn’t need any bully boy tactics with any other villa player,
As for a
To be fair to Jack I don’t think we would of made the play off finals without him, and he was our best player on the day.
John Clark November 1, 2018 at 9:37 pm
Back from some days off. Catching up on the conversation.
With all due respect, I have to say I think it’s a bit silly to say Jack isn’t tough enough. He’s taken a beating my modern standards and I’m surprised he hasn’t been hurt more than once.
Couple of points:
1) There are times when Jack will look for and/or take the foul. “Go over easily.” By and large it’s smart because these are generally the sorts that don’t pose an injury threat, and they provide set-piece opportunities. As someone mentioned further up, would be nice to see him drive into the box more and either pick up penalties, or have room to create if they’re going to stay away from him. If we simply convert on more of the set-piece chances, opponents will be more hesitant to give away fouls near the area.
2) Many times, though, the fouls can’t be avoided and they would bring most anyone down. We’ve seen it’s a deliberate ‘tactic’, it’s cynical, and it robs the game of flair. He’s targeted and often double-teamed.
Now, do I think Jack’s the finished article? No. I agree that he needs to look for passes (particularly through balls) more quickly. I was going to say he should be shooting more, but he actually leads the team in shot attempts. As well as shots blocked. So he should just keep shooting. And the stats say that he’s created the most chances. Doesn’t have the assists to go with, but they’ll come.
This sort of stuff is what a coach and staff can sort out to polish the player. He’s by far the most skillful player on the ball we have, the one most likely to retain possession and carry it.
Pochettino wasn’t in for him because he’s overhyped. The natural talent is obvious. It’s helping him take the next step in terms of coaching and system that’s needed.
Its interesting but slightly slanted what you said about Brian Little, as the young players got a chance early if they were good enough because their squads were much smaller, & I loved Brian Little as you did.
Jack got injured as he was coming through into the 1st team, which along with a succession of managers & being a media darling that went to his head slightly for a while stymied his progress.
Then it happened again in the preseason before last season, which stunted his growth.
So the circumstances are not very comparable, especially with the state of the club to boot.
As I said, if he stops doing the stop then dribble then stop again routine quite so much, he possibly won’t get kicked so much, but sometimes he’s breathtaking.
There’s no saying that it wouldn’t work out better if he passed it quicker, & stopped indulging in that, as it’s supposed to be a team game [I used to love doing the hiding the ball when I was young, but I was rugby trained to use my body to stop what’s happening to him, he hasn’t quite got that yet & keeps slowing the game down sometimes to the team’s detriment, but he is still improving].
I still think that he has a great future if the stars align as it were.
He has won us matches a few times with brilliance.
With more training as a group, the other players might create the space for him to grow more, as we actually have some talented players.
To use buying fouls as a tactic can be overdone, & the way the refs treat him shows that.
Plus, it’s a cul de sac to keep habitually buying fouls, cos he gets enough real ones without that, as Mark said
I’m optimistic that the coaching will help the team, which in turn will help Jack, as there will probably be more on when he has the ball.
What you said about poch is fair comment, but knowing their miser of an owner, he probably had to get a bargain or not bother.
John Clark November 1, 2018 at 10:14 pm
It can be overdone, and Jack does have to be careful about that. At the same time, I see so many ridiculous acts like big beefy CBs going over when someone breathes on them. If those are fouls, then Jack deserves every one he buys. Me, I think more than anything he’s simply drawing attention to the degree to which he’s interfered with. But it can backfire.
The coaching will help the team and Jack, yes. I’m imagining they’ll help him get rid sooner, so he doesn’t take on two or three, and get players positioned to take advantage of those overloads. They’ll also be looking to have Jack take the ball to places where he can connect with others.
Levy is cheap, Villa looked like they’d have to sell. But given that Levy’s cheap, it simply means that Pochettino’s got a lower cap to work with than some others. So, you look for a Grealish, and figure you can take him to the next level. That’s the way he has to work the market.
And agreed, we do have some talented players, IanG. In the right hands, McGinn and Jack should complement each other very nicely.
And I should add that it is always possible that Jack doesn’t have the innate vision necessary. I don’t think that’s the case, because I’ve seen some clever passes from him. But, overall, it could be.
The negatives I can see when I watch him is a) trying to do too much, and b) being a bit hesitant to try that killer ball. Can’t say I know what’s causing that (ie, doesn’t want to turn it over, thinks he has to carry a bigger load than he does, etc.). Lots of possible reasons.
IanG November 1, 2018 at 10:19 pm
And O’Hare, I’d love to see him on the bench
O’Hare deserves to get his chances, yes, and should be on the bench. If we didn’t have such a glut and were a more ‘bare-bones’ side, he’d be involved already. And would probably start for more than a handful of sides in the league.
John Lerwill November 2, 2018 at 5:17 am
OanG: “Its interesting but slightly slanted what you said about Brian Little, as the young players got a chance early if they were good enough…”
But wasn’t Grealish brought in early also? Not quite as early as Little, perhaps, but Jack was in the 2015 Cup Final team, wasn’t he? And was playing in the Premiership at that time. Little started in tier 3, not tier 1.
So I definitely refute that I am “slanting” my view. Jack was in the team at age 19 and in the top tier at that.
JC: “Pochettino wasn’t in for him because he’s overhyped. The natural talent is obvious. It’s helping him take the next step in terms of coaching and system that’s needed.”
I’m quite aware that’s a way of looking at it, John, but I’m going by what I see not what others might do in the market. There are so many cases of big money being spent for what looks like great potential yet fails down when the test comes.
I clearly also have a different view to you about football. You seem to speak easily of “looking for fouls” whereas I see that mentality as being part of the reason why everyone is cynical – players and supporters alike.
The “Beautiful Game” isn’t if we all support that approach.
This sport used to be a case of honest endeavour with the odd player who would spoil that approach. Gone now are such exceptions – now rampant so-called professionalism is the case and young players are clearly taught to go with the flow.
I take the view that I have stated before – if this attitude in the sport perpetuates then it won’t be that long before the crowd starts baying for blood in true Roman Collisseum style!
You may think it’s reality. I think it’s an insult to the greats of the sport who maintained the sport as near as possible to a clean on-the-field entertainment. There were always the dirty type but the high standard prevailed until about the last 20 years.
I see that Grealish actually made his debut in the season before he became 19 (therefore aged 18), though his appearances were more cameo-like early on.
JL- The very fact Jack made his debut at the top level and not div3 tells a lot about the expectancy placed on his and most Villa youth, sink or swim and please save the team. I’d wager if you played Jack in the 70’s side you would see more from him to.
Maybe things were gentlemanly at the top level in your time and maybe the wages played a part too as They got payed well compared to the average man, who would want to get injured or miss a match as that was the end of that.
My father played through the 50′ 60’s and 70’s and all his stories are of some very brutal fouling , fights, etc and my own playing time tells a very different story. The higher up the standard the cuter the fouling was.
And if Jacks not worth the money then why all the attention and praise from so many professionals? I would not be surprised if Bruce encouraged him to go over with Snodgrass taking the kicks last season (Snodgrass wasn’t adverse to falling over in the breeze either nor Kodjia )
JC- He definitely does have the vision and passing ability usually down the wings but I hope Smith can guide him a little better than he has been so far.
I did say “the high standard prevailed until about the last 20 years” – not “my time”, though of course that is included.
Did your father play in the top flight? It’s that I was alluding to – not your leagues outside the top two tiers.
Though I agree with you about “the very fact Jack made his debut at the top level and not div3 tells a lot about the expectancy placed on his and most Villa youth” I don’t agree about him necessarily showing any better in the third tier when he started. For me there’s a fundamental flaw in his style that you did not see in our Brian, who, for my money, was way above the talent that Jack shows.
As for Jack being sought for and people praising him, I think that’s just because he looks different – whether or not he will achieve what he threatens to accomplish is another thing. Let’s face it, overtures appear to have only come from Spurs, I believe.
As I said, he’s a nice player and I do hope that he makes the grade. Only time will tell. But up until now he’s not shown to me at least that he is truly capable of the top grade. Just my opinion.
As for Snodgrass and Kodjia, they’re old players – we’re talking about a still-young local talent here who I don’t want to be remembered mainly for his ability to draw free-kicks around the penalty area.
Football more than 20 years ago – and more so before 1970 or thereabouts – was *generally* played to a much higher standard of sportsmanship than today. I keep on saying that of course there were exceptions, but to compare today’s game with that of more than 30 years ago is like chalk and cheese to me. To me it’s generally devolved into a lesser entity, though it still has its attractions and today you can still watch the occasional fine match (sportsmanship-wise).
What I particularly remember before many foreign players came over (i.e. before the 1990s) was that we used to laugh at players in foreign teams who used to roll over, when nudged, as though there had been an attempted assassination. Little did we realise that kind of tactic (and worse) would become part and parcel of our own game, in time.
Slanted because you conveniently left out that Jack had injuries that stopped him playing at crucial times when he was coming through, & along with a quick succession of managers, it stymied his progression, & changed his trajectory.
So now he’s catching up, it just goes to prove that you can’t compare players too much really, just appreciate their talent, & the standard of the team they are in does affect them.
IF! he works hard with a good manager, he will get much better.
Anyway you just love going on about your favourite players.
I agree with your post about how things were years ago, as few of us liked the continental tendency to ‘roll over with a gust of wind’ & the egotism it brought with it into the game.
Dirty play was always there, but it stood out more.
The refereeing is so finicky now, that they’re part of the problem.
In the day, the higher the standard the fitter they were, so you had to foul them to slow them down & distract them, if you could catch them.
It was the same with rugby
Mark King November 2, 2018 at 12:31 pm
JL- I too remember the horror of the foreign player tactics, but we were definitely more physical and less canny than the European and south American sides. still if we will go joining the EU what do you expect? definite erosion of standards 😉
Theres only one player I put above Brian Little and thats Best so Jacks got some catching up there. Hopefully he will get to where he should be at least.
I’m with you on the cheating but I think its moved more to holding pulling etc, never cheated myself and didn’t like it in others, I remember having my toes and my head stood on with the culprits saying you’d have done the same, I wouldn’t, I was firm but fair though 🙂
Its laughable when you think of the rules introduced to reduce cheating, Throw ins to be taken where the ball went out , keeper having 6 seconds and I think its 6 steps, all seemingly ignored for the latest in vogue rule bending.
I don’t think football has ever been Gentlemanly in my view but the pressures to win today are massive in monetary terms. I certainly don’t think football in general is a sign of the times morally though throughout the leagues the big difference is most lads cannot be bothered to turn up if their teams on the tele or its cold, I couldn’t wait to play.
IanG- I was one of the fit buggers 🙂
Fit for what?
IanG – that is a very good question
Yes, British football was more physical – but that’s because we made use of the laws that allowed *fair* (but hard) tackles and a *fair* shoulder challenge which the foreign players didn’t like. That’s nothing to do with being dirty. British player back then knew how to do it (the shoulder charge) – do they know now? Do they heck, with very few exceptions.
But the business of Jack’s being injured/unfit is not a lot to do with my argument i.m.o.
The fact is he’s had 126 appearances in the first team, now past 23 and yet to show his apparent potential. They’ve mostly got wise to him.
… and (as I said before) players like Brian Little were showing great stuff after a dozen appearances. According to today’s lot Grealish is supposed to be of ‘great’ ability. That seems to imply that he should be on the same pedestal as Little.
MK: “I don’t think football has ever been Gentlemanly in my view “
Probably because you were not there to see it! 😀
I can remember some great sportsmanship, particularly in the 50s.
And all you have to do is read about Villa’s matches of the 1930s all the way back to the 1890s to realise that there was a great sportsmanship ethos in the Villa team. Not every team mind you. It’s one of the reasons why the Villa were so popular, even amongst non-Villa fans – they were more concerned back then about the quality of the play and their attitude to it.
I’ve done the research … that’s how I come to know.
Jl- quite true I wasn’t there but you’ve just let slip it was a mostly a villa thing so not football in general 🙂
The very fact we pushed the physical side allowed the cheating to occur.
I have seen several shoulder barges in recent years and the ref gave a foul in every case, I think it’s seen as not being in possession of the ball these days, more reffing foibles.
No, it was not just Villa – but, yes, because of the ilk of members like William McGregor and Fred Rinder and because of the club’s trophy successes it did try to raise the tenor of the game more than most.
But you can also name teams in the 1890-1940 period like Everton, Newcastle, Sunderland and even (later) Arsenal whose on-the-pitch play was of such a standard. Other teams too.
There’s a marvellous report of a Villa match vs Arsenal in 1931 (Villa won 5-3) which gives a vivid account of the quality of the teams’ play and sportsmanship. Eric Houghton (Villa) and Cliff Bastin (Arsenal) couldn’t hold back their feelings after playing in that game, such a great match that it was. It was known as Jimmy Gibson’s match on account of how the Villa centre-half-back dominated the midfield play in the days when centre-halves attacked as well as defended. What a match to have seen – and many were close to that standard in the 1890s-1930s time.
BTW, Eric Houghton much later claimed that Jimmy Gibson was the Franz Beckenbauer of his day.
MK: “I have seen several shoulder barges in recent years and the ref gave a foul in every case”
Perhaps, but I see a lot of so-call shoulder charges that are more to do with elbows in the ribs or the stomach, and they get away with it. More bad refereeing. And some say that the quality of refereeing is better?! Like heck.
Bring back Clive Thomas I say!
DarrenO November 2, 2018 at 3:22 pm
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Would the rapid rise of Brian Little have much to do with men becoming men in line with their age as opposed to now where being a cossetted football doesn’t require footballers to grow up as quickly mentally.
Such that footballing intelligence played a greater part in Brian Little’s ability and most of our issues with Jack is not around ability but seeing passes more quickly, seeing opportunities, keeping in mind that sportsmanship no longer exists and players are sent out to stop the likes of Grealish at all costs.
Oh and thanks for the above suggestions, proof will be found out tonight as I hide myself from parental responsibilities in the name of AVFC
I would like to concur, particularly your opening para.
On the second para, perhaps our use of the word ‘ability’ is being understood in too limited a way. But it’s not easy to define what I mean by that word in this case. Perhaps I’m seeing his lack of ability in terms of the style that (presumably) he’s been encouraged to keep to. His style is not (for me) in keeping with the reality of the football you describe. His style invites the kind of attention he receives and that, I feel, limits his effectiveness.
Why by thinking “he can win free kicks around the area” instead of thinking that perhaps he should be a more direct player who can make the incisive pass to an attacker or score more himself? For me, Jack’s style of football is pretty but brings about tunnel vision as he gets closed down.
So I guess I’m saying that I see Jack’s ability to be more constructive being weighed down by his style. I don’t think I’ve ever seen a great playmaker who gives much time for the defence to think and, unfortunately, I think Jack dwells too much on the options. When it comes down to it that’s probably what you’re saying.
For me, however, ‘football intelligence’ is a lot to do with playing ability, or at least it’s effectiveness. And, therefore, I still would put Little at a higher level of ability.
According to today’s lot Grealish is supposed to be of ‘great’ ability. That seems to imply that he should be on the same pedestal as Little
I never said that or implied it.You must be looking for criticism.
Of course getting injured for months at a young age then ignored can be detrimental to progress, so comparisons tend to support one’s prejudice.
As for Brian Little, he was also a different kind of player, & to repeat, I don’t think Jack is a true No 10.
JL- I would put Little among the very best Jack is not that, although he has rare dribbling ability. Please bare in mind the teams on a new journey and style he’s spent the majority of his career under is not about pass and move nor playing through the centre. Bruces team played very direct and from the wings a lot, Hogans frustrations illustrate that as do the many players comments that we are playing better despite results.
I concur with DOR Jack is not exactly worldly wise.
Saw an article earlier where Smith talked about the type of work place he wants Villa to become and how he wants visitors to see it. I think you’d like the general ideas. wish I could find it again but had no luck.
Absolutely what I’ve been saying, & shoulder charges are not the only thing they have foibles about.
They probably think a shoulder charge is violent conduct.
Interesting that reffing sounds like a swear word
Clive Thomas probably hasn’t got enough breath to blow a whistle at his age
Totally agree, & good luck with the match, post if you have a problem
His style is not (for me) in keeping with the reality of the football you describe. His style invites the kind of attention he receives and that, I feel, limits his effectiveness’
That’s a little more accurate John, & the differences in the teams as well as the current culture plus question marks about being grown up or whether some even have the intelligence to start with, let alone playing intelligence.
Too many variables for such a strong statement for me.
James Chester comments below, I Can’t see the best start bit other than the two early wins But hey. Seems pretty unanimous we are improving in more subtle ways than results at present.
“We started the season really well, definitely the best since I’ve been here. But then the odd decision or result didn’t quite go our way and the atmosphere around the club changed a little bit. It was probably too far for Steve to turn it around.
“When he [Smith] came in he just told us he believed in us as a group of players.
“We have had three games already but he’s only been in charge for two weeks and I think you’ve seen, even with the results, that the style and performances have definitely improved.”
see you all in while off to the Gym and sauna.
Was this the one?
https://www.expressandstar.com/sport/football/aston-villa/2018/11/02/short-term-pain-wont-put-dean-smith-off-long-term-vision-for-aston-villa/
OV went for a walk & hasn’t been back on the site I don’t think.
Hope he didn’t get lost amongst the cuckoo clocks
New goalkeeper coach, Neil Cutler back at the Villa from the Baggies
IanG: “I never said that or implied it. You must be looking for criticism.”
What are you talking about Ian? Where did I refer to the name “Ian” in that text?
It was not meant against you consciously or unconsciously – I was speaking generally…
Bloomin ‘eck’ you have to be cautious on what’s said on here! 🙂
But I disagree to a large extent with what you say about Grealish’s absences through whatever. If that had given rise to very few appearances then you would have a point, but after 126 I tend not to go with your argument. I could go into it a lot more but it’s not such a huge issue for me.
Brian was simply better i.m.o. – not just a different player! 🙂
Grealish has got a good shot on him, but doesn’t score many (unlike Brian) … Grealish is supposed to be a playmaker … and that’s what Brian could do also without too much thought.
Style is fine … but we do need the substance, do we not?
If Villa were in the current position with Bruce i.c. there’d be calls for the manager’s head!
But tonight Villa have chance to start a proper recovery…
Alright…fresh sheet up for the match.
Little was a better player & I didn’t say he wasn’t, but that doesn’t mean a lot in context as you can’t really compare because of different positions & the fact that Jack seems to be a late developer & really needs to be in the premiership [as do the Villa], & also the times are different with the facility of high tech to analyse the minutia, which would impact on how players play against him, & also the team itself isn’t organised/ good enough at present to support him.
I remember the Liverpool game in the context of how good he was when he was younger.
He even isn’t my favourite current player, so why you think I disagree with all the time I don’t know, it was just a discussion.
Maybe I just respond to the tone more.
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Wael Ghonim's Message of Solidarity for Iran's Green Movement
With this one message of solidarity by Wael Ghonim, all efforts by the Islamic Republic regime, Press TV, Stop the War Coalition etc. who were trying to get a free ride on the back of the Egyptian protesters fighting for democracy in Egypt has been wasted.
With this one message of solidarity, an enormous moral boost has been given to the people of Iran and the Green Movement. Solidarity is important and solidarity works. Just hope the UK trade unions will now see the light and express solidarity with the jailed transport union leaders in Iran and remove the latest Press TV posters from London underground and buses.
Wael Ghonim, the Egyptian activist hailed by observers worldwide as a hero and one of the leaders of the Egyptian uprising, appeared with a green wristband during his public speeches and interviews. As the peaceful protests after the disputed 2009 presidential election in Iran were named the “Green Movement,” Ghonim’s green wristband has become a source of interest for Iranians.
Ghonim played a major role in organizing the protests that have shaken Egypt for the past two weeks. His Facebook page is widely credited with inviting Egyptians to their first public protest on 25 January. In an interview with the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran, Ghonim thanked the people of Iran for organizing a demonstration on 14 February, in solidarity with the people of Egypt and Tunisia, and thanked the Iranian civil rights movement.
Wael Ghonim, a Google executive who took time off from his job to be in Cairo during the protests, was freed last Monday after being held by Egyptian authorities for 10 days. He is one of the best known speakers for the Egyptian people’s movement.
When asked by the Campaign whether the motivation behind his green wristband is Iran’s Green Movement, he said: “That was just a coincidence, but I’m happy you guys made the connection!”
“I would tell Iranians to learn from the Egyptians, and we have learned from you guys that at the end of the day with the power of people, we can do whatever we want to do. If we unite our goals, if we believe, then all our dreams can come true,” is the prominent Egyptian activist’s message to Iranians on the threshold of the 14 February demonstrations.
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Waybec said...
Well let's hope the dominoes continue to fall and remove ALL tyrants! It is indeed a higher ethical imperitive which are currently motivating the current wave of protesters. Not religion. Not some idealogy. Not some political view. It is purely the call of the youth striving for a proper democracy and justice free from corrupt despotic oppression. Yes, the U.S. must learn to start practising what it's constitution preaches. It's no good being a cowboy with a calalier attitude anymore. Securing short term selfish greed by sowing the future wars and conflicts. Israeli policy has also tragically risen from the Nazi holocaust to be become Zionist xenophopes, which do no favours to the region at all except constantly anger it. Their shadey and sinister lobbyists shouldn't have any say in dictating and effectively gagging Western democracy! Likewise, Hezbolluh acting like spiteful brat children destroyed the government in Lebanon simply to stop some of it's murdering members being indicted! And then of course we come to good ol' Khamenei - who finally made that fatal mistake of cheating Iranians in 2009 just to keep his obscene wealth, power and gunning running hatred going against those who threaten him! The fact is, I'm just a simple average Joe. But if I can see it, then millions of others out there can see it too! It's only those with too much power. Too much money. And too much arrogant ego who try to spin things in the hope that we're all blind! Well, through the people power of cyberspace, it looks as though those who try patronize us with their twisted pride and blinkered power are fast becoming the dinosaurs! And so I don't think it'll be long now before the Devil's alliance of Khamanei's and Ahmadinejad's Gestapo party will soon be extinct as well! Non-violent protest on mass is all that it takes. Remember, NON-VIOLENT! Don't give the thugs the excuse to make it a bloody valentine. So good luck and success to all those who come out with the courage to stand up for those higher set of ethical imperitives. And finally be free of the cancerous black that overshadows you. AZADI IRANI!
Jared Israel said...
In December 2008, the Bush (i.e., so-called 'neocon') State Department set up a group called "Alliance of Youth Movements" to facilitate State Department guidance of US-groomed so-called democracy groups. Here’s a pdf announcing the meeting and giving some info about who would attend:
http://snipurl.com/20unqa
(There was nobody there from Iran or Syria apparently, countries whose regimes the U.S. was trying to empower, not harass. Given what happened in 2009 in Iran, I imagine Iranian groups are now necessarily included, in order to influence the politics of the Iranian movement.)
Such groups are very useful for presenting a false face of spontaneous youth to externally manipulated subversion, a traditional imperialist tactic.
One of the main organizations that the State Department invited: Google. Most disturbing given Google's importance in the flow of information.
According to Wikileaks, at least one leader of Egypt's Facebook 'revolutionaries' attended, and was then taken around to meet with US Congressmen and intelligence people.
Although Bush organized the meeting, several leading Obama people were invited -- another indication that the supposed split between neocon and liberal US leaders is circus to give the masses someone to cheer for (and to promote antisemitism, since neocon is a code word for Jews). But deep foreign policy differences? Not likely.
This Google guy is not giving honest support to the Iranian democracy movement. He is:
A) trying to lessen the body blow Khamenei delivered when he praised the so-called protesters as heralding the Islamic age and, he implied, being directly linked to the IRI, a statement which made it harder for Obama to pressure Mubarak (an effect that lasted a few days) and which horrified most Egyptians (an effect not eliminated by the Muslim Brotherhood's necessary disavowal of their intimate ally, Khamenei.)
B) And he is trying to get naïve Iranians and Westerners to support the Egyptian protesters, and assist those who want to promote such support. In fact, the so-called protesters – who have burned down many government buildings and busted thousands of dangerous criminals including terrorists from jail, in what can only be described as military actions – are dominated by the Muslim Brotherhood, vastly empowered by the ultimatum-level pressure coming from conservative (e.g., UK) and liberal (e.g., US) Western government leaders, not to mention what Western military and intelligence people are doing behind the scenes.
The crucial thing for the IRI is *NOT* that the Iranian protest movement be destroyed.
Destroying the protest movement is a practical impossibility short of genocide. Rather, what is crucial is that Iranians be gotten to view so-called "good" Islamism as their ally and political goal. And that alas is what the West is pushing among Iranians, and worldwide as well.
Hence all this baloney about a selfless Google executive heroically mobilizing a revolution out of the Internet. Sure he did, and I have a bridge you might want to buy in Brooklyn. Exquisitely complements any democratic decor.
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Ultimate Cliffhanger Ending Sours Me On Traitor
As many times as I've confessed this on my blog, I can still hardly stand to type these words: I enjoy reading books about World War II and the Holocaust. Enjoy. What kind of monster does that make me? It's not that I enjoy reading about other people's suffering or delight in tales of hate and violence - for me, it's about the triumph. That human beings could endure the kind of horror Hitler brought on the world and not only survive, but actually possess enough resilience to continue living, is what draws me to these stories. Survival, sacrifice, stoutheartedness in the face of crippling fear ... it's depictions of those victories that fuel my addiction to this genre. I seriously cannot get enough. So, when the very generous folks at Carol Rhoda LAB offered me a copy of Traitor by award-winning German author Gudrun Pausewang (translated by Rachel Ward), I really couldn't resist.
The novel begins with 15-year-old Anna trudging through the forest to her family's farm in tiny Stiegnitz, Germany. She's arrived home for the weekend, leaving behind the larger city of Schonberg, where she attends school and lives in the attic room of a local widow. Although her hometown is a miserable bore of a place, it offers a nice reprieve from the incessant talk of war that permeates the larger town. Here, in her little village, politics are less important than the weather, the abundance of the harvest, and the fact that pickles are available, without a coupon, over the border in Czechoslavakia. The dreary war has left no place untainted, but at least here, life goes on in nearly the same manner as it always has.
Anna is thinking of her grandmother's cooking, the possibility of a letter from her soldier brother, and the warmth of the indoors, when she spies peculiar tracks in the snow. The impressions appear to have been made by men's boots, but none that look familiar to her. So, why do they lead straight to her family's barn? When Anna discovers their owner - a gaunt, frightened man who refuses to speak - she assumes he's a lunatic who's slipped away from the nearby asylum. It's only when she hears that a group of Russian prisoners of war have escaped, intent on sneaking across the border, that she realizes the man's true identity. The war's gone on long enough for Anna to have grown disillusioned with the Fuhrer, but that doesn't mean she wants to risk the Nazis' wrath by aiding the enemy. Still, the man is obviously ill. If she doesn't help him, he'll die. If she does, she risks being shot as a traitor to her country.
Gossip in the village says the war will soon be over. Germany will surrender and the Russian's presence in Stiegnitz will no longer matter. Surely, Anna can keep him safe for that long. An abandoned bunker in the woods seems the perfect place to hide the escapee, but for how long can she keep up the charade? How will she sneak him the things he needs, especially when she spends her weeks at school? What if someone finds the Russian? What if they recognize the stranger's clothes as belonging to Anna's brother? What if someone like Anna's overzealous younger brother finds the prisoner? What will happen to him then? What will happen to her? As she juggles all these worries in her head, Anna considers the even bigger questions: Are the Russians as evil as the propaganda films make them out to be? Are the Germans as good? Are the rumors of Jewish death camps true? How can human beings inflict those kinds of horrors on one another? Is there any good left in the world, anywhere? What will become of a human race capable of doing such things?
Although Traitor has all the drama and intensity inherent in a WWII novel, it's more contemplative than edge-of-your-seat compelling. Still, it's a decent enough story and would have been perfectly satisfactory if it wasn't for one thing: it has the worst ending I've ever read. Why? Because right when the story is finally climaxing, it stops. And I mean, stops. Like right-in-the-middle-of-the-action stops. Not in an artfully ambiguous way either. It just halts without finishing the scene, without resolving any of the story conflicts, without coming to any kind of finale. I was seriously combing through the book trying to find the rest of the chapter. Never in my life have I been so aggravated by the end of a novel. Just thinking about it makes me grind my teeth. So, not only do I not know what happened to Anna and her Russian, but now I'm totally soured on a book that I liked right up until its last page. Grrr.
If you think this ultimate cliffhanger of a crap ending might turn you off as well, I recommend not even starting this book. Or at least not reading the last page. You can just imagine a happy ending and be done with it. Which is exactly what I should have done. Double grrrrrr.
(Readalikes: Although I haven't read it (what is wrong with me?), I'm guessing Summer of My German Soldier by Bette Greene is similar.)
Grade: C
If this were a movie, it would be rated: PG-13 for mild language (no F-bombs), intense scenes and some sexual innuendo
To the FTC, with love: I received a finished copy of Traitor from the generous folks at Carol Rhoda LAB. Thank you!
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An Officer and a General
Retirement is supposed to be for the elderly who have paid their dues. In the world of boxing, Bernard "The Executioner" Hopkins has paid his dues. No, he has never been beaten ala Arturo Gatti or knocked senseless ala Bob Satterfield. He has, however, executed brutal victories from Philly to Vegas. He often looks the winner even when pronounced the loser.
For the current middleweight king, Kelly "The Ghost" Pavlik, all his victories have been emphatic; even if he has taken some nasty bumps along the way.
At a prep rally in Youngstown, Ohio, a horde of 600 fans of the hometown hero, Pavlik, showed their support. Hopkins did not repeat the "whiteboy will never beat" phrase that endeared him to many US and UK fans when he met his last conqueror, Joe Calzaghe. In fact, he was rather complimentary of his future adversary.
“A good general always respects his enemies,” said Hopkins.
But the young commander-in-charge was eager to remind everyone why he's the best middleweight around.
“For me to go in there and not only beat him, but do it convincingly with maybe even a late round stoppage, it’s probably the biggest accomplishment you can get in your career,” Pavlik said, matter of fact.
But Hopkins' trainer, Nazim Richardson said that while Pavlik is a champion, Hopkins is a legend.
While it's hard envisioning the ageless Hopkins mauling the younger Pavlik, stranger things have happened. Let's just hope the winner of this fight allows for only one king and fight Arthur Abraham, possibly the most dangerous middleweight after Winky Wright.
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Grassroots bowls drive
Volunteers from Brentwood Bowling Club have been supporting an inititive to encourage more people to take up the sport.
They helped to run a bowls roadshow which was part of a family fun day at King George’s Playing Fields on Friday 30th August.
The roadshow was hosted by the Lottery-backed Bowls Development Alliance (BDA) which is rolling out an intensive bowls recruitment and investment programme from 2013 to 2015 in five key areas including Essex.
BOWLS BOOST: Brentwood Bowling Club captains Richard Rose and Margaret Rayment try their hand at short-mat bowls in the park.
Essex has been chosen because the BDA has identified strong potential demand for bowls in the county which has a high population in the 55-plus target age group.
Brentwood captains Richard Rose and Margaret Rayment led a band of club volunteers including Colin Peak, Brian Martin, Ron Jolly, Ann Betts and Les Powell who assisted BDA staff as visitors of all ages had a go on a short-mat rink.
Lots of youngsters queued to try their hand and Mums, Dads and grandparents were also keen to get a piece of the action. Several adults accepted an invitation to visit Brentwood Bowling Club to view the facilities, learn the basics and and have a roll-up. They also enjoyed tea and biscuits in the clubhouse.
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Five or So Questions on Piece of Work
I interviewed John LeBoeuf-Little, Kit La Touche, and Austin Bookheimer from Transneptune Games about their current project, Piece of Work. Piece of Work is a cybernoir game, blending the grit and grim of noir themes with the high-tech punch of cyberpunk.
Tell me a little bit about your current project. What should I be excited about?
(JOHN) So, Piece of Work is set in the near future dystopia, with cyberware and megacorporations. You've been pushed out of society by an unjust system where citizenship is predicated on having a job. Now you have a grab-bag of personal problems and almost certainly a grudge against the people who've done you wrong. It's quiet tension punctuated by staccato action. We call it cybernoir.
But enough with the pitch. The game has a ton of things I'm really excited about. We've spent an amazing amount of time trying to get the tone just right - cybernoir is surprisingly fragile to maintain, so every mechanic we have is tuned to keep attention on the parts that matter. It's a pretty sweet mix.
I love the die mechanic particularly. We ask questions at the table about why your character is doing whatever they're doing. Based on how you're doing it, for whom you're doing it, and why you're doing it, you get better or worse dice. Each game I've played, there's been this wonderful moment when someone picks up the dice and thinks about what's about to happen and you can basically eat it with a fork because they say "No, damnit, this is about revenge" and everyone gasps. It happens all the time and I love it.
Give me a little more about cybernoir. What kind of play will I find in this genre?
(KIT) So, we start with the familiar near-future dystopia: corporations have become the de-facto powers of the world, everything and everyone is ground under them and their profit motive. (Of course, "near-future" is perhaps a bit optimistic; we keep coming across things we thought we made up for this in the news.) But instead of the usual "they supplant governments", we decided that governments are a useful tool for them—privatize profit, socialize loss, right? So, that's where the System comes in: citizenship, and all the benefits and rights that comes with, is contingent on employment, but there's a cost to having non-citizens around, so a system alarmingly like debt-bondage comes up, where the unemployed are given employment and limited citizenship benefits, but without real choice in what they do.
So that's the world, right? You are people who've fallen off the corporate ladder, and are dangling above the precipice of the System. You're probably doomed, like Deckard in Blade Runner, to be unable to make the world you want, but maybe you can help get someone else to safety, to salvation, to justice, and in the process, get yourself part-way to redemption.
There's a kind of beautiful hopelessness baked in—I've mentioned Blade Runner, but perhaps it's worth also comparing it to neo-noir cinema like Chinatown or Romeo is Bleeding. Everyone knows the end of Chinatown, right? "Forget it Jake, it's Chinatown." You're almost certainly gonna be dragged down into the mud and gutter, but you stand a chance of doing something selfless and good before that. You're in too deep to save yourself.
(JOHN) So all the things Kit mentioned are completely correct, but I thought I’d add that cybernoir is a complex of two other genres - noir and cyberpunk.
Much of old film noir is about proper ‘society’ and with the protagonists not really fitting that mold. Often, something has changed them to make them outsiders - they were falsely accused of a crime, or got mixed up with the wrong crowd, or they couldn’t let something go. They’re filled with iconic personalities, and everything is connected somehow.
In cyberpunk, there’s the disaffected oppressed, striving in spite of a massive, uncaring, inhuman world that sees humanity as a product to be commoditized.
In cybernoir, you get an interesting blend of these two - the characters are people who no longer fit into society because of these very noir reasons who are then exploited by the system for the benefit of those in power. They have very noir sensibilities - for them, everything is personal. But they also have very futuristic abilities - cybernetics and other advanced technologies.
What went into designing the die mechanic? How does it work?
(JOHN) Oi. We’ve been tweaking the die mechanic for a long time. It started out as a cool mechanical toy - roll three dice and take the best two. Each die was always intended to be scaled up or down independently, using any of the standard sizes (up to d12). Each of the dice represents a different thing - your character’s motive, what gear you’re using, and for whom you’re acting. But it didn’t used to be so cleanly delineated.
I forget who first suggested that there be a die for your character’s Motive, but it fit perfectly. You get a better die for motives that are more noir. If you’re doing it for money, you only get a d4. If you’re just in a hard spot and you have to roll anyway, that’s a d6. If you’re acting to get respect, that’s a d8. If you’re doing it out of passion - love or hate - you get a d10. And finally, there’s a motive that particularly drives your character based on its perspective, so you might get d12 when you’re trying to find out The Truth or you might get it when you’re trying to Clear Your Name.
In our earlier playtests, the other two dice were Gear and Cyberware. But it was pretty clunky. We tried a bunch of things - rules for gear breaking, ways of making cyberware more distinct from gear… what we finally came up with was that two dice dedicated to Things was a die too many. This was kind of a frustrating time for PoW; I’m pretty sure this was after Kit had returned from Metatopia, and at the time, the game kind of looked like a cyberpunk heartbreaker with a vaguely interesting die-mechanic. It was a misguided mess.
We had one of our famous kitchen conversations where it came out that I really wanted three specific stories for Piece of Work - noir and cyberpunk, but with an undercurrent of hope. I wanted players to eventually get charged about the world and to at least try to do something to make it better. And that wasn’t being reflected at all in the dice. That galvanized the third die as a kind of activism die - we call it Scope in the game. You get better dice for acting on a bigger scale - if you’re acting just for yourself that’s just a d6, but if you’re helping a friend that’s a d8. If you’re helping someone who’s innocent, that’s a d10. If you’re trying to save the downtrodden in general, that’s a d12.
Oh, and I guess I should talk about the other side of the roll - where you compare your result to something. We’ve had a few false starts with that as well; originally it was entirely set by the GM, then it was set by the GM but depending on circumstances might be increased or decreased, and sometimes if you had gear it might go up or down… anyway. What we have now is that you ask yourself questions about the situation and based on the answers, the target goes up or down in fixed amounts. Questions are a design theme that permeate through most of the game. In this case, it’s questions like “Is it dangerous?” or “Do you have back-up?”
The result of all this is when you want to break into a file cabinet for records about where the corporation moved your family after they fired you and you have a kick-ass lock pick set you scored while growing up, you get to roll better dice than if you just want to boost some intel in order to sell it for cash. And if it’s immediately dangerous or requires a light touch, then you need those better dice.
What's your favorite scene you've played out in playtest, and how do you think it's unique to Piece of Work?
(JOHN) There’s a bunch of really good ones. I think there was a great moment where our ex-assassin clone ended up wanting to get some information out of her friend’s father, but her Professions were shaped pretty narrowly - she was mostly a killer. So to get the information required her to beat up this old man, because she didn’t know how to be any other way. It was a very emotionally charged scene.
Another one that was really good was a scene at the end of a session mid-way through one of our playtests. The previous session the heroes had done a raid on a corporate research facility. They’d found out some uncomfortable truths and spent the whole session trying to damage control fallout from crises, but it didn’t really work out. The last scene was them in a safe house, staring at a pile of cash they’d ‘liberated', drinking scotch, and saying nothing to each other, because things had just gotten that messy.
What's up next after Piece of Work?
(KIT) OK, so I am really excited here. First, "Transneptune Games" is really a loose collective, so we're all working on things at the same time—John's spearheading Piece of Work, while Austin's working on a few different things, including his own take on cybernoir, where everyone plays facets of the main character's memory of an event, and you reconstruct things, in a world where memory is editable and pluggable.
But what I'm working on is maybe our next most far along thing. It's called Et in Aradia Ego, and it's a game about young people carving a space for themselves in the manner-bound world of Jane Austen, in a game of manners, madness, and magic. You're not perfect demur well-mannered people, and you've caught the attention of a fairy who wants to help you get what it thinks you want, all to its own ends.
This time period and topic are really interesting to me. It's easy and tempting and wrong for modern readers to see it as a very proper and laced-up period, but it was in so many ways acutely modern: you've got Romanticism and Byron, proto-free-love utopians like William Blake seeing ecstatic visions of magical beings, awesome feminists like Mary Wollstonecraft, and the birth of modern scifi from her daughter, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley. On top of this, the King is mad (and, worse, German!), and mumblings about Republicanism rear their head. That's without even getting into the fact that the country is at war with Bonaparte, but, just like recent US wars, doing its utmost to ignore that on the homefront.
So, there are a number of things I like about this period—it's really unstable, uncertain which way to grow, torn between the poles of the Enlightenment and Romanticism—and adding in a "helpful" fairy who's really trying to abduct you for its own amusement just heightens it.
The game focuses heavily on relationships, and asks you to make a lot of judgment calls about how interactions went, while building up dice from every interaction towards a moment-of-truth roll. At least, that's how it is now—it's been through many incarnations, and might take some more before it's ready.
Thanks to John, Kit, and Austin for a great interview!
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A well-dressed man came out the stage door. A few people called "Sylvester! Sylvester!" and I began shooting. But no -- it wasn't Sylvester Stallone. I'd been Pemlich'ed!
Meet Chuck Pemlich, legendary gum photo-bomber. He travels around the country, turning up at gum-related events and weaseling his way into the photos.
You see him leaning in and smiling at Wrigley press conferences. Crashing the annual Dentyne Ball and posing with puzzled gum VIP's. His face was all over the recent Bazooka rebranding coverage.
It occurred to me that Pemlich might target CelebriGum next, and I resolved to be vigilant. But I wasn't vigilant enough.
There's Sylvester Stallone, just a few feet away from every gum photographer's nemesis.
Well played, Pemlich. You win... this time.
Posted by Steve Young at 7:13 PM 7 comments:
My friend David Schatsky recently asked me if I'd "considered the challenges of licensing CelebriGum in Singapore."
Singapore, as you may know, is a strict society. The import and sale of chewing gum is illegal. The ban, enacted in 1992 and modified in 2004 and 2010, came in response to used gum being inconsiderately disposed of on floors, stairways, and pavements, not to mention in mailboxes, keyholes, and on elevator buttons.
Under pressure from the U.S. government and lobbyists working for the Wrigley company, Singapore eventually allowed the sale of sugar free gum of a sort that strengthens tooth enamel, but it must be sold by a dentist or pharmacist who records the names of buyers.
All this leads to my answer to David's question: yes, for over two years CelebriGum has been in negotiations with the government of Singapore, which outlawed viewing this website shortly after it launched in 2010. CelebriGum's lawyers have pointed out that simply looking at the site does not constitute gum sale or possession, but the government takes the position that the photos are inflammatory and may inspire law-breaking. For example: this Dustin Hoffman photo, which depicts a considerable amount of gum on the sidewalk as well as the gum on the ledge.
I hate to admit it, but I kind of see their point.
Anyway, the negotiations have concluded. If you are a resident of Singapore, stop looking at that photograph.
Also do not look at this photograph:
Instead, navigate your browser to my new, Singapore government-approved site, celebriledge.com, which features sanitized photos such as this:
I'm sorry, Singapore CelebriGum fans. I really tried. But I don't want you to be subject to fines, imprisonment, or caning on my account.
Posted by Steve Young at 6:33 PM 10 comments:
In an era when many celebrities are famous merely for being famous, and have accomplished about as much as a piece of gum stuck to a window ledge, it's instructive to consider the life and career of 86 year old Tony Bennett.
He grew up in the Depression, the child of poor immigrant parents. He saw combat in World War II. He marched for civil rights with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. He's an accomplished painter, with works on display in several museums.
His musical career spans over 60 years. His awards include 17 Grammys, two Emmys, and a Kennedy Center Honor, just to name a few. His music continues to find new audiences with each succeeding generation. Just days ago he performed at one of President Obama's inaugural events.
In 1991, he set the world record for the long jump. He received the 2006 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his studies of the molecular basis of eukaryotic transcription. His Magic Marshmallow Crescent Puffs won the 1969 Pillsbury Bake-Off. In his effort to rid the Florida Everglades of invasive species, to date he has killed 30 Burmese pythons, in most cases using nothing more than a rake. A YouTube video shows him nonchalantly swallowing a tablespoon of cinnamon, then swallowing the spoon.
Tony Bennett doesn't always drink beer, but when he does, he prefers Dos Equis.
(Note: Tony Bennett also created Dos Equis's "The Most Interesting Man In The World" ad campaign. Damn, he's impressive.)
Guest Photographer Todd
Late Show cue card guy and occasional on-air personality Todd Seda has been a valuable CelebriGum ally since the early days. Here are some of the recent shots he's grabbed when I couldn't be at the window.
Carly Rae Jepsen.
A cool one of Steven Tyler.
Naomi Watts. "I see why you got the little nighttime clip-on gum light," Todd said.
Brian Williams, partial, freaky.
Brian Williams, complete, conventional.
Josh Brolin.
Here's Todd:
This photo is part of my Googly Eyes series, which you can see more of here. Yeah, I have too many projects. Thank God Todd is around to help.
Charlie's in a strange business if he doesn't like having his picture taken.
Well, I'm sure he knows what he's doing. He always displays excellent judgement.
Always good to have Michael stop by for a visit.
Michael will be starring in a new NBC comedy in which he plays a -- wait, what's that at the top left?
Holy crap, is that a Doosan Daewoo G32P?
Yes! I knew it!
I owned a G32P back in high school. I bought it right after I got my forklift license, and it had seen better days, but man, I loved that thing. Cruisin' on a Friday night, stacking pallets in the warehouse, going to the drive-in, unloading bales of pulp at the paper mill, and of course taking my date to the prom… she balanced on the forks while I drove… this was in the days before anyone worried about "safety." Yes, it was a sweet industrial truck, but I used it less and less once I went off to college, and it needed more and more expensive repairs, so eventually I sold it… now, of course, I wish I'd kept it. Once fairly common, G32P's are rare these days. You occasionally see one at a vintage forklift show, or you might spot a rich Wall Street guy zipping around the city on a meticulously restored example.
I know Dave's got an old Clark C500-45, a Hyster H50XM, and a Crown CG30E, so I'm sure this beauty is his too. I wonder if for old time's sake he'd let me take it for a spin around the block and move some bags of cement.
Kim and/or Kourtney Kardashian
That day I happened to forget my "good" camera, and ended up using my little old Canon point-and-shoot.
Things got weird.
This one of Kim or Kourtney looks almost normal. But wait -- is that a bit of double exposure?
Then the poor little Canon, or Kanon, really became confused.
I have to admit, I like those just fine. I think from now on I'll "forget" my "good" camera every time the Kardashians are on.
I got some dramatic shots of Jennifer as she was leaving.
But the real star of this entry is…
Late Show security chief Bill Delace, keeping the peace as Jennifer arrived.
Look at that dramatic stance, that balletic grace as he verbally slaps down some out-of-bounds paparazzo or over-eager Jennifer Lawrence fan.
Bill's been a constant presence in CelebriGum since the beginning. One of his greatest moments was with George Clooney, featuring his magnificent tie work:
And I like this solo shot:
Jennifer is great, but Bill, you're the silver lining in today's CelebriGum playbook.
The affable co-host of "Live! with Kelly and Michael" encounters some sort of problem as he steps onto the sidewalk.
Please, people, don't throw your used gum on the sidewalk. Stick it on a window ledge where it belongs.
That guy is so close to wearing the orange cone as a hat.
Ahhh.
Hold still, Billy, this won't hurt a bit.
Yes. So stupid, yet so satisfying.
Snubbed!
Nominations for the 85th Academy Awards were announced Thursday morning, and while many excellent films and performances were recognized, there were also many inexplicable omissions.
CelebriGum is proud to salute these outstanding actors for their overlooked work:
Artie Lange, for his portrayal of Monseigneur Flambeau, the singing and tap-dancing bishop in "Les Miserables."
Dr. Phil, for his portrayal of Professor Shrink, Batman's terrifying nemesis in "The Dark Knight Rises."
Bill O'Reilly, for his portrayal of Nate, the talented but past-his-prime stripper fired from the club in "Magic Mike."
So sorry, guys! Good luck at the Snubbie Awards, airing February 27th on CBS!
We haven't heard from CelebriGum's favorite made-up gasbag art critic, J. Arlen Parkwood, in quite a while. I bet he'll like this photo. J. Arlen?
"Devastating. The axis captured by the CelebriGum camera delineates a modern trinity: the bold-faced name behind the fortification of official enthrallment, balanced by the excluded "average Joe" and the piece of discarded gum -- equally inconsequential, in the eyes of our celebrity-mad culture. Meanwhile, the opposing diagonals of the ledge and sidewalk suggest a subtle rebellion, a nascent nay-saying as yet unrealized except through the other-directed gaze of the actress -- but is she gazing as herself, or as one of her fictional constructs? Are we seeing two roads diverge in a concrete jungle, with an invitation to take the one less traveled by? But should we take that road if the movie star goes coatless in January, impervious to "Frost"? What, if anything, will make all the difference? If one poses enough rhetorical questions, will one eventually be able to stop writing?"
Thank you, J. Arlen. You've given us a lot to pretend to think about.
Where's the rock star?
Maybe this will help:
There he is!
This one's a little easier…
But just in case…
It's a good look for you, Steven. Consider adding it to your rotation.
Here's a new theory about Kathy Griffin's notorious behavior with Anderson Cooper on New Year's Eve.
Kathy Griffin on January 2nd, 2013:
Kathy Griffin on January 19th, 2012:
The chronic lameness in Kathy's left leg obviously makes her very unsteady; she may have simply been trying to brace her head against Anderson's crotch while falling.
Kathy, you don't have to keep suffering! Make orthopedic surgery one of your 2013 New Year's Resolutions. Your left leg, and Anderson, will thank you!
Let's start off 2013 with an unusual, kind of eerie photo.
Here we see Carrie, one of the stars of the acclaimed IFC show "Pointlandia," in character as Pointin' Betty.
Season 3 of "Pointlandia" premieres January 4th! Tune in as Pointin' Betty points at people, cars, buildings, trees, and more!
(Please excuse any factual errors in this post. I'm still hung over from New Year's Eve.)
(New Year's Eve 2011.)
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[Watch] Jessica Sanchez And Ne-Yo Perform "Tonight" @ American Idol. (Mariah Remains Seated)
Last year's American idol runner-up (some would argue its robbed, "real" winner), Jessica Sanchez returned to the stage which birthed her celebrity to perform her first single, the Ne-Yo assisted Tonight.
Despite having a voice on her, I'm surprised to see that Sanchez went for an upbeat number that isn't particularly challenging on the ol' chords as a first single choice. But I can see why she chose to do that. Not only are our big voiced Divas not really selling at the moment (bar Adele), but in going upbeat it allows the teenager to embrace her youth, remain relevant, all while showing everyone that she isn't only a ballad singer. All in all, an accomplished performance that showed just how at home Jessica Sanchez is on a big stage.
As for the song, I'm with Mariah (who is looking stunning, FYI): it's okay, but nothing worth getting up for.
arthur 22 March 2013 at 21:27
Mariah never stands up on idol xD
Reiko Kanaki 22 March 2013 at 22:47
Maybe Mariah remembers Jessica's karaoke rendition of 'My All' lol.
lewnatic 23 March 2013 at 00:05
Mariah has such a girly clap, it's hilarious. God, I love her to death but I can't help but laugh at her sometimes, she's like a parody of herself. But she does look stunning these days. It's like a mixture of the Emancipation/Butterfly era.
Opie Ever 23 March 2013 at 05:26
So, I gather she won a new version of American Idol concentrating looking for new models? Because mostly she seems to be talking about model jobs.
Of course she isn'tt challenging herself vocally.Singing clearly isn't her priority...modelling and ''representing'' are.
Mel R 23 March 2013 at 06:22
Bahaha My All exposed Jessica last season. She does not have the range to tackle a song like My All, and her lower register is shit. Also, it was funny hearing her say "I can't way to pretend to be somebody else" because if her singing is anything to go by she has already perfected that skill.
Song sounds extremely generic, and she can't dance. I will commend her on elevating her stage presence from that of a house plant though. I'm going to borrow Henrique's favorite word and say: NEXT!
Lol indeed. What's with that hipmovement? You need actual hips for that move to work.
Girl looks anorexic to me to boot! Hope that's just her age but I fear it's not.
Black Robin 23 March 2013 at 10:29
Mrs. Sanchez...I've been a huge fan of you since you we were both 14 years old.....I like your tone. its nice, thick and has a smoky texture to it. My issue though, is your weight control and your head voice. You are a very pushy mezzo which I love but lightening your tone for certain songs is crucial to versatility. And you gotta learn to support those low notes a bit more. I know you can get into the upper 2nd octave, probably down to an A2. As for your head voice, the little snippets you used it shows that your tone is thick and very bugal like up there, but it is very thick...again you'll need to lighten your tone up there. When i first heard your C6, I thought it was a F5 because of how weighty it sounded, and boy was it pushed. I know for a fact you can take some weight off and sing probably to a Eb6 maybe even higher. There is nothing wrong with your C#3-C#6 vocal range...you know how to use it fairly well. I must say I love your mid belts too....all the way up to F5.....just amazingly strong vocals and a mature tone from such a youngster.
Brian 23 March 2013 at 16:48
I was never a Sanchez fan. Her voice isn't suited for the "Push" that she puts into her singing. Its like she tries too hard to sound big. There's a difference between having a naturally thick voice and having a mid weight voice that your trying to make sound thicker. I'm not going to comment on her dancing- because I literally know nothing about dance. I think that she has potential...but I won't be buying an album of hers anytime soon. Teaming up with Neyo didnt help me either lol. Im not a fan of his either.
Luiz Henrique Oliveira 23 March 2013 at 22:05
First of all: "Not only are our big voiced Divas not really selling at the moment (bar Adele)"
Who said Adele is a big voiced diva? She's a good singer - that's all.
About Jessica: I felt ashamed. She looked like a child trying to cover one of Rihana's awful songs. uhg!
ANTHONYSAVAGE 24 March 2013 at 00:13
I actually went to the toilet when her performance came on........mmmm
Idk Isn't she like 17 or 18? She should definitely be filling out already. BoA can show Jessica a thing or two when it comes to working a waist when you have a pancake booty: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mR8i0fRVmSA
She's 19 I think. It's not so much her being skinny as it being a certain kind of skinny which looks unhealthy to me.
Now this BoA...also skinny but proportunately so. And definitely a way better shaker. Obviously all around a way better dancer.
Wow she's 19? She has the body of a 13 year old. Yes, BoA is definitely a better dancer without a doubt. I'm not a fan of most of her music, but I do enjoy watching her dance.
LMAO no. She has the body of a prepubescent boy and the face of an aardvark.
Like all filipino singing girls, she's forcing her voice. When she finally matures and sings normal, I bet she'll sound thin and whiny like Charice and Regine, her long lost sisters.
ruru 24 March 2013 at 15:25
meh, very bland ....personality,voice and um "outfit"choice were all very bland. i exspected this big voice to come flying out but it didn't ,she just sounded like she was pushing her voice to much.
Buahahaha... That is mean but stereotypcially true in a somewhat....well its just mean... lol
Omg Reiko! :o
Harsh truths must be acknowledged hehe
Popie Never 20 September 2013 at 08:11
shes 17 in that. Get your facts right. And she looks great
And you just proved your own idiocy. I feel pity for you
Seems that all the haters have gathered around here. Shes a great singer and song is catchy. Altough i prefer her singing soul and rnb
Reiko Kanaki 9 October 2013 at 18:19
And here is a specimen without a sense of humor.
Opie Ever 8 November 2013 at 14:16
Same difference. And seriously??? "popie never" That's just really really sad troll.
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Europium Element Facts / Chemistry
The chemical element europium is classed as a lanthanide and rare earth metal. It was discovered in 1901 by Eugène-Antole Demarçay.
Classification: Europium is a lanthanide and rare earth metal
Melting point: 822 oC, 1095 K
Electron configuration: [Xe] 4f7 6s2
Hardness:
Heat of fusion 9.210 kJ mol-1
Reaction with air vigorous, ⇒ Eu2O3
Reaction with 15 M HNO3 mild, ⇒ Eu(NO3)3
Reaction with 6 M HCl mild, ⇒ H2, EuCl3
Oxide(s) Eu2O3 (Europia)
Hydride(s) EuH2
Chloride(s) EuCl3
Freezing/Melting point: 822 oC, 1095 K
Fittingly, europium is used in the euro currency as an anti-forgery measure. Shining UV light on a euro results in red fluorescence from europium Eu3+, blue from thulium Tm3+ and green from terbium Tb3+.
Discovery of Europium
The story of Europium’s discovery begins with the discovery of another element – samarium.
French chemist Paul-Émile Lecoq de Boisbaudran claimed to have isolated samarium in 1879; others believed that one or more other new rare earth elements were present in Boisbaudran’s sample.
In 1886, French chemist Eugène-Antole Demarçay identified spectroscopic lines in ‘samarium’ caused by the element we now know as europium. (1)
He achieved this using a new spectroscope he had developed to study the rare earths.
Demarçay’s spectroscope had a special induction coil which produced a very high spark temperature and used platinum electrodes to remove all other spectral lines. (2)
Demarçay’s spectral results were disputed and he realized that he needed further proof.
He obtained this in 1901, when he successfully isolated europium using repeated crystallizations of samarium magnesium nitrate. (1),(3)
He named the new element after the continent of Europe.
In 1904 europium was separated from impure gadolinium by French chemist Georges Urbain using bismuth magnesium nitrate. Urbain discovered that bismuth nitrate will often crystallize between two fractions of rare earth elements making it easier to separate them. (1)
Europium is used to produce blue, red and white radiances in computer monitors and television screens. It is also used in energy efficient light bulbs.
Europium is considered to be mildly toxic. The metal dust is considered to be a fire and explosion hazard.
Europium is a soft, ductile, silvery-white metal that instantly oxidizes in air.
It is the most reactive of the rare earth metals and ignites in air at temperatures in excess of 150 oC to 180 oC.
In water it reacts in a similar way to calcium, producing europium hydroxide and hydrogen gas.
Unlike most other rare earth metals, europium can form stable compounds in the divalent state, Eu2+ (europous) as well as the usual trivalent state, Eu3+ (europic).
Uses of Europium
Europium oxide (europia) is widely used as a doping agent in phosphors in television sets and computer monitors: valency three europium produces a red radiance and valency two europium produces a blue radiance. When both valencies are combined a white light is produced which is used in compact fluorescent bulbs.
Europium is also used in phosphors in anti-forgery marks on Euro bank notes.
Europium isotopes are good neutron absorbers and are used in nuclear reactor control rods.
Abundance earth’s crust: 1.8 parts per million by weight, 0.2 parts per million by moles
Abundance solar system: 0.5 part per billion by weight, 4 parts per trillion by moles
Cost, pure: $1350 per g
Cost, bulk: $20,000 per 100g
Source: Europium is not found free in nature but is found in a number of minerals mainly monazite, bastnaesite and xenotime. Commercially, europium is isolated by ion exchange and solvent extraction. The pure metal can be produced by the electrolysis of the molten chloride with sodium chloride.
Isotopes: Europium has 30 isotopes whose half-lives are known, with mass numbers 131 to 162. Naturally occurring europium is a mixture of its two stable isotopes, 151Eu and 153Eu with natural abundances of 47.8% and 52.2% respectively.
Per Enghag, Encyclopedia of the elements: technical data, history, processing, applications., John Wiley and Sons, 2004, page 450.
John Emsley, Nature’s building blocks: an A-Z guide to the elements., Oxford University Press, 2003, p140.
<a href="https://www.chemicool.com/elements/europium.html">Europium</a>
<a href="https://www.chemicool.com/elements/europium.html">Europium Element Facts</a>
"Europium." Chemicool Periodic Table. Chemicool.com. 16 Oct. 2012. Web.
<https://www.chemicool.com/elements/europium.html>.
great website for school projects
moose says
amen brother!
Quincy says
This is great website for a Europium project
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Thomas & Friends:... ...Big World! Big Adventures! Animation. In Australia, Thomas tries to become an Outback tour guide - with disastrous consequences. (S22 Ep 10)[S] Fri, Oct 5, 7:00 AM Channel 5 10 mins
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North East Motorway Link
EDM number 79 in 2006-07, proposed by David Clelland on 15/11/2006.
That this House welcomes the call from the Northern Way initiative for the North East of England to be fully linked to the UK motorway system as a step in the right direction and a major contribution to the aims and objectives of the Go for Jobs campaign in the region; and recognises that, while it is true to argue that congestion cannot be resolved by simply building more roads, a fully integrated motorway system throughout the nation is nevertheless an essential part of promoting economic growth in the regions and reducing regional disparities and that the current isolation of the North East from the rest of the motorway network unfairly and unreasonably discriminates against the North East.
This motion has been signed by a total of 18 MPs, 1 of these signatures have been withdrawn.
David Clelland 15/11/2006 Tyne Bridge Labour Proposed
Bob Spink 16/11/2006 Castle Point Conservative Seconded
Sharon Hodgson 20/11/2006 Gateshead East and Washington West Labour Seconded
Derek Conway 21/11/2006 Old Bexley & Sidcup Conservative Seconded
Greg Pope 21/11/2006 Hyndburn Labour Seconded
Iris Robinson 22/11/2006 Strangford DUP Signed
Graham Stringer 22/11/2006 Manchester, Blackley Labour Signed
Jeff Ennis 23/11/2006 Barnsley East and Mexborough Labour Signed
Peter Atkinson 23/11/2006 Hexham Conservative Signed
Ann Cryer 23/11/2006 Keighley Labour Signed
Ian Lucas 23/11/2006 Wrexham Labour Signed
Rudi Vis 29/11/2006 Finchley and Golders Green Labour Signed
Roberta Blackman-Woods 30/11/2006 City of Durham Labour Signed
Bill Etherington 04/12/2006 Sunderland North Labour Signed
Tony Lloyd 05/12/2006 Manchester Central Labour Signed
Stephen Hepburn 01/02/2007 Jarrow Labour Signed
Helen Goodman Unknown Withdrawn
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Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill
EDM number 68 in 2014-15, proposed by John Leech on 10/06/2014.
Categorised under the topics of Legislative process, Northern Ireland Assembly and Roads.
That this House welcomes the Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill introduced to the Northern Ireland Assembly, which would amend drink-drive and driver training laws for Northern Ireland; further welcomes that the Bill introduces new lower blood alcohol content limits of 50mg/100ml for most drivers and 20mg/100ml for learner drivers and novice drivers in their first two years after their test and for professional drivers and significant changes to driver training and testing; notes that only the UK and Malta currently have a blood alcohol content limit for drivers that exceeds 50mg/100ml; further welcomes the substantial reductions in road casualties achieved in Northern Ireland in recent years; and believes that, if implemented, these amendments will help to further reduce the number of people deaths and injuries on roads in Northern Ireland.
John Leech 10/06/2014 Manchester, Withington Liberal Democrat Proposed
Gordon Birtwistle 10/06/2014 Burnley Liberal Democrat Seconded
Mark Durkan 10/06/2014 Foyle Social Democratic and Labour Party Seconded
Jonathan Edwards 11/06/2014 Carmarthen East and Dinefwr Plaid Cymru Seconded
Margaret Ritchie 11/06/2014 South Down Social Democratic and Labour Party Seconded
Jim Shannon 11/06/2014 Strangford DUP Seconded
Alasdair McDonnell 11/06/2014 Belfast South Social Democratic and Labour Party Signed
Martin Caton 12/06/2014 Gower Labour Signed
Kelvin Hopkins 12/06/2014 Luton North Labour Signed
Mark Williams 16/06/2014 Ceredigion Liberal Democrat Signed
Rosie Cooper 16/06/2014 West Lancashire Labour Signed
Andrew Stunell 16/06/2014 Hazel Grove Liberal Democrat Signed
David Simpson 17/06/2014 Upper Bann DUP Signed
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Beijing Olympics and the fear of bad air quality 2
After the algae bloom come the worries on Beijing’s air quality. To improve this, the local government took a drastic measure : cars will be allowed to drive on alternate days.
This measure is due to decrease by up to 60 percent the pollution of the 3.3 million cars of the city. Meanwhile, new subway and bus lines were opened.
Will all these measures be enough for athletes to have a good air quality ? It is to be hoped as many eyes worldwide will look at China’s efforts on pollution.
As the AFP notes :
Traffic in China’s capital was lighter Monday but hazy skies still hovered over the Olympic host city 18 days before the Beijing Games despite factory closures and a ban on more than a million cars.
The city’s last-ditch bid to shift pollution was launched Sunday and includes the car ban, shutting down 150 polluting factories and ordering building sites to stop work that could cause pollution.
Vehicles with odd- and even-numbered licence plates are banned from Beijing’s roads on alternate days.
(…) In effect until September 20, the ban will force an additional four million commuters a day to use public transport, according to city officials.
To prepare for that, Beijing has opened three new metro lines and plans an additional 34 new bus routes while introducing staggered working hours at state enterprises. More than 65,000 taxis are also in service.
The car ban is part of a wider effort ahead of the August 8-24 Games to free-up traffic and clear the air in Beijing, which is one of the world’s most polluted cities and is typically wrapped in a blanket of industrial haze.
To ensure that traffic deadlock will not affect the Games, Olympic traffic lanes running for 286 kilometres (180 miles) on key roads have been set aside for athletes and officials.
But pollution appears more difficult to deal with.
Skies above the city of more than 17 million were still hazy Monday, although the thick smog that has covered the city in recent months had lifted in the days before the car ban began.
Emissions from the city’s 3.3 million vehicles — a number increasing by 1,200 new cars a day — remain the chief source of Beijing’s pollution.
International Olympic Committee chief Jacques Rogge warned last year that poor air quality during the Games could result in the suspension of some events, particularly endurance races such as the marathon.
Beijing has already spent 20 billion dollars over the past 10 years in an environmental clean-up, but concern about poor air quality persists.
Experts quoted in state media said they expected to reduce vehicle emissions by more than 60 percent, eliminating 118,000 tonnes of pollutants during the two-month vehicle ban.
Last year, Beijing conducted an experimental ban over fours days which officials said was a success, although it failed to shift the haze over the capital.
“We believe that these additional measures will ensure good air for the Olympics and athletes have nothing to worry about,” said Sun Weide, spokesman for the Olympic organising committee.
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