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Page 11, 30 January 1926 — SAVING THE GARDEN OF ENGLAND
30 JANUARY 1926, Page 11
SAVING THE GARDEN OF ENGLAND
AT the very core of the Garden of England a battle of permanent historical importance is being engaged on behalf both of the beauty of the country and the health conditions of the coming industrial worker. No one is More closely and personally concerned than the Londoner, whose favourite seaside places are threat- ened by the opening of coal nits, that will find their market almost exclusively in London. Unless thoughtful care. is taken the whole of one of the loveliest and most historic closes . of England may, become a dirty and unlovely smudge, worthy of the name of the maimed of 'murdered forms that we have been forced to christen "the Black Country." Twenty-six coal pits and a multi- tude' Of iron Or steel mines are about to be " developed " within a small area rimmed by places familiar to the affections of all of us: Here are a few of the' names, in geographical order :. Canterbury, Whitstable, Herne Bay, Margate, Broadstairs, Ramsgate, Sandwich, , Deal, Walmer, Dover, Folkestone, Elliarn, Midge. In 4 the local authorities of forty-five districts have put then'. heads together to devise a_ means Of harnessing new ue and old beauty to the service of :social and industrial progress.... Aftei, all, the industrial revolution was Calamity On'becithse 'no' One had 'foresight enough to lino:gine: the effects of al huge new population or unselfishness enough to prepare_ for the social welfare of posterity: The co-operative endeavour of these forty- five districts,. aided by a group of noted archaeologists, arehiteeti, 'artists,' geologists; and industrialists, is the most Vital reformation ir. what may be called our home history that has been recorded for' half a century. milijOI-hugger.-Mugger --development of urban areas were not formally and officially recognized by Parliament until 1923, when an amendment was passed to the vaguer town-planning Acts dating from 1909. The Minister of Health was then given power to authorize a town-planning scheme for a built-up area, "where it appears . . . that on account of the special archi- tectural, historic or artistic interest attaching to a locality it is expedient to do so with a view to preserving the existing character and to protecting the existing features of the locality." This may be said to have consummated the permission to recognize the value of beauty.
Every detail in the prospective management of this new area touches the imagination of those who have any wish to build a new "Jerusalem in England's green and pleasant land." The very first step is to estimate the probable growth of population and housing needs. A rough calculation for East Kent is as follows :— 20 coal pits at 10,000 workers per pit . .
.. 200,000 Steel and kindred mining . . . . 28,000 "Consequential population" . . . . 72,000 Total . . . . .. 290,000 persons
The scheme for what is now generally known as "regional development" should therefore allow for nearly 100,000 houses plus parks and playing-grounds for the whole population. We may take it that merely in terms of hard cash the value of these old towns and popular seaside places exceeds by a good many million of pounds the value of the coal ; and therefore, even setting aside their incalculable artistic and historic value, it would be bad business, as well as bad morality, to blacken the reputation of Canterbury or Sandwich, of Margate or Folkestone. There is an entry in an existing guide- book, which records that the Keep of the Norman Castle at Canterbury "forms an admirable coal cellar for the gas works " ! We cannot, even for our pockets' sake, allow the face of the country to suffer the indignity of the interior of this old Keep. East Kent is not an admirable place for the deposit of coal dust or the crowding of miners' shacks.
The" blessed word," which more than any other proclaims the new science, is "zoning." The place of the pit mouths is known; as in other new towns, such as the Welwyn Garden City, the site of the factories is fixed. It is clear that within a near radius of that black centre only the most necessary buildings must be permitted. The workers must not be very far distant, but we can to some extent annihilate distance ; and the laying out of the workers' houses will depend very greatly on the regional ,survey, on the contour, the subsoil, even the view and the oppor- tunity for "gardens. An agricultural belt is desirable; and there should be capacious open spaces, laid out for recreation. East Kent is peculiarly important, because apart from the planning of the new town itself, it is necessary to consider the preservation of towns and villages planned a thousand years ago. Some of these are already grievously threatened by the builders of what Carlyle used to call "concrete mendacities " ; and since he wrote, his adjective has acquired an ominous double meaning. It is perhaps not too much to hope that the survey, already considerably advanced, for the regional planning scheme for East Kent, will bring into the open the crimes of the speculative jobbing builder. Town. planning is, of course, especially necessary where an indus- trial call summons a large new population ; but regional planning, if not strictly town -planning, is -a duty laid upon local authorities in a hundred districts. Hertfordshire has taken a certain lead in this respect. The object is first to protect the charm of the rural and suburban aren_q from those who erect what are called Dormitories for London, partly to encourage the decentralization of factories into pi actv-whe're-the workman may enjoy the health and charm of a country neighbourhood. Mafia& is faced by the proximity of a new town of 30,000 people, just as Canterbury by an industrial centre of 200,000 or more. But the importance of the East Kent scheme is pre-eminent, and has many features peculiar to itself. What happened, most grimly, by Durham or Birmingham- or Stoke, is happening along either side a line from Canterbury to Deal. Our task is to make sure that the. blessing of the discovery of wealth shall not be converted' into a social curse, that new history shall not wipe out old history, that industrial wealth shall not entail aesthetic poverty.
What has been done so far in East Kent is wholly admir- able. A thorough survey, based on real imaginative perception, has been carried through and published since the Kentish -local authorities met the Minister of Health in the Guild Hall at Canterbury, two and a-half years ago. That meeting may one 'day be taken as an historical crisis in the second phase of the English indus- trial revolution. We should perhaps be a little ashamed that our town-planning adventures have, hitherto, stirred much more enthusiasm in the United States than in Britain. Let us appreciate our own virtues, to the end of practising them more widely and more consciously.
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Browse > Home / Financial, News, Search / SLI Share Price: Headwinds for Search Evident
SLI Share Price: Headwinds for Search Evident
I read “SLI CEO Ryan Bemoans Low Share price, Says It Should Be $2-Plus.” This is a woulda, coulda, shoulda write up. Reality seems to ignore this somewhat lame mantra.
The write up says:
SLI Systems chief executive Shaun Ryan says the company’s share price is “significantly underpriced” and could be at least four times higher based on other public software-as-a-service valuations.
The write up included this bit of information:
The company today reported a loss of $7.1 million in the year ended June 30, widening from a loss of $5.7 million a year earlier. Operating revenue increased 27 percent to $28.1 million, in line with the $28 million guidance given in April, when it flagged that second-half sales would be lower than expected. Annualized recurring revenue (ARR), its preferred financial measure based on forward subscription revenue, rose 39 percent to $34.6 million.
SLI says its system
… helps you increase e-commerce revenue by connecting your online and mobile shoppers with the products they’re most likely to buy. SLI solutions include SaaS-based learning search, navigation, merchandising, mobile, recommendations and user-generated SEO.
Other publicly trade search vendors are struggling with their financial performance too. For example, Sprylogics, a Canadian vendor, sees it shares trading at $0.33. Lexmark shares are at $28 and change.
Search is a tough niche as Hewlett Packard and IBM are learning.
Stephen E Arnold, August 29, 2015
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Great Strides Made Yet Still Needed at Pulse
by Paddy Johnson on December 5, 2015
How do you infuse life into a zombie art fair? Ask Pulse Director Helen Toomer. She’s been in the unenviable position of having to clean up years of poor leadership at Pulse, and has miraculously achieved some success during her two-year tenure. The fair’s put together PERSPECTIVES, an impressive discussion series put together in partnership with Hyperallergic and has slowly but slowly pushing some of the long time, weaker exhibitors out of the fair. Meanwhile, Pulse has succeeded in bringing strong exhibitors into the fold like Monya Rowe, Yancey Richardson and Transfer. Great strides have been made.
But let’s be clear: the fair still has a lot of work to do.
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The Dangerous Cargoes Act, 1953
( ACT NO. V OF 1953 )
[ 15th April, 1953 ]
An Act to make further provision for the safety of ports in respect of the transit, working and storage of dangerous cargoes and matters incidental thereto. ♣
WHEREAS it is expedient to make further provision for the safety of ports in respect of the transit, working and storage of dangerous cargoes and matters incidental thereto;
It is hereby enacted as follows:-
1. Short title, extent and commencement
3. Measures for the safety of ports
4. Power to make rules
5. Declaration of emergency
6. Powers of the Chief of Naval Staff of the Bangladesh Navy
7. Delegation of powers by Chief of Naval Staff of the Bangladesh Navy
8. Powers of Deputy Conservator of a port
9. Contravention of this Act
10. Power to arrest without warrant
11. Savings as to order
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Thesis abstract ‘A Technological Analysis of Stone Artefacts from Big Foot Art Site, Cania Gorge, Central Queensland’
Home ⟩ Blog ⟩ Thesis abstract ‘A Technological Analysis of Stone Artefacts from Big Foot Art Site, Cania Gorge, Central Queensland’
Catherine Westcott
BA(Hons), Department of Anthropology and Sociology, The University of Queensland, October 1997
This thesis presents a technological analysis of the stone assemblage from one excavated square at Big Foot Art Site, a rockshelter in Cania Gorge, eastern central Queensland. The study was undertaken as part of the Gooreng Gooreng Cultural Heritage Project, a multidisciplinary study of the Burnett-Curtis region. Big Foot Art Site dates from 7923 cal. BP to 474 cal. BP and contains a variety of organic remains and stone artefacts of diverse lithologies. The aim of the analysis described here is to determine whether there is a change in the assemblage through time and, if so, to explain that change. Findings from sites to the north, south and west of Cania Gorge at Cape York Peninsula, southeast Queensland and the Carnarvon Ranges, respectively, suggest that changes could be expected during the mid- to late Holocene. The results from Big Foot Art Site indicate that there is a period of significantly increased artefact discard between 4400 cal. BP and 3200 cal. BP. Various artefact attributes are recorded and analysed in order to detect chronological changes in technology, including artefact size, raw material procurement, methods of core reduction, stages of reduction, use of excessive force and thermal treatment of stone. The change in the artefact discard rate cannot be accounted for by a corresponding change in technology. Nor does the evidence from the analysis support any other hypotheses considered in explanation of the change. Further study is needed to explain the processes resulting in the stone remains at this site and to place Big Foot Art Site in its regional context.
Authors: Westcott, C.
Title: Thesis abstract 'A Technological Analysis of Stone Artefacts from Big Foot Art Site, Cania Gorge, Central Queensland'
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Ottawa Trainyards – Buildings A B C & GOttawa, Ontario
Trinity Commons CenterCumberland, Ontario
The Athletic ClubKanata, Ontario
Mountain Equipment Co-Op Retail OutletOttawa, Ontario
Ottawa Trainyards – Buildings A B C & G
A retail complex composed of multiple buildings, CJE was involved in the design and construction review of approximately 230,000 ft2 of retail space located in the east end of Ottawa. The single storey retail center buildings were constructed to house multiple commercial tenants including retail stores and restaurants.
Trinity Commons Center
An 80,000 ft2, single storey retail center constructed to house multiple commercial tenants including retail stores and restaurants. Design accommodated for future mezzanine framing in multiple areas throughout the building.
The Athletic Club
An approximately 70,000 ft2, 2-storey commercial building located in the west end of Ottawa, Ontario, the Athletic Club building was composed of structural steel framing supporting hollow core precast slabs. The building was designed to house one gymnasium, 2 interior lap swimming pools, workout rooms, cardio rooms, and silent meditation/yoga rooms. Key design elements included long span framing which was required to control the vibrations of the end-users rhythmic activities.
Mountain Equipment Co-Op Retail Outlet
The 24,000 ft2, 2-storey store incorporated an extensive range of “green building” elements, including recycled structural materials (reused structural steel beams, joists and columns, salvaged boom logs, masonry and stone), locally sourced low-embodied energy materials, fly ash concrete, rainwater retention for grey water and irrigation purposes. It was the first commercial retail building in Canada to satisfy C-2000 energy requirements.
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Board index World of Blue Twin Peaks Movie, TV, Books Season 2 (1990-1991)
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Re: Episode 29
Postby mtwentz » Wed Mar 22, 2017 5:42 pm
Twin Peaks Podcast wrote: Hey all. Just released a audio commentary for this episode featuring 3 Twin Peaks experts. (Josh Eisenstadt, Brad Dukes and Scott Ryan) Previously we've done audio commentaries for every Lynch directed episode.
http://twinpeakspodcast.blogspot.ca/201 ... ntary.html
I'd say if you've seen the episode enough times, you can listen to this without watching along to the episode of the show.
Great podcast! I may be wrong but I always thought 'It's a boy' meant Dell Mibbler was going to be a father, (not the security guard). That's why Dell walks away from Andrew and Pete with a befuddled look on his face, as if to go to the phone to hear the news for himself.
"Dougie is COOPER? How the Hell is this!?"
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Postby Twin Peaks Podcast » Fri Mar 24, 2017 5:29 am
mtwentz wrote:
Wow, that would certainly be interesting! Probably his first great-great grandchild or something. Haha.
Postby mtwentz » Fri Mar 24, 2017 5:48 am
Twin Peaks Podcast wrote:
Well, when you think about it, not so unusual for Twin Peaks after Mayor Milford and Lana apparently got it on .
I do think it is ambiguous and open to interpretation, but I prefer old Dell was a lady's man right to the end.
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Postby Gabriel » Tue May 02, 2017 5:34 pm
LostInTheMovies wrote: Hm - I remembered there was a thread a while back and was able to dig this up: http://www.dugpa.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=2720. But I don't think anyone got too heavily into the question of why she disappears...
I assumed it was a different corridor and that the Lodge isn't internally consistent.
Postby Gabriel » Wed May 03, 2017 3:18 am
So, I've hit the grand finale in my pre-Showtime rewatch. It's still a tremendous episode – one that feels like it belongs in a different universe from what came recently before. The unsettling pulsating underscore runs along with what seems to be a dialled down colour scheme in the town, looking a little closer to the pilot. Kyle MacLachlan's Cooper is toned down a great deal compared with the previous episode where he was bordering on doing a Colin Clive impression at some points.
More than anything, this feels like an angry Lynch making the best, most surreal, deranged, terrifying 45 minutes of TV the network had ever seen. This feels one step off Wild at Heart, complete with fiery explosions, putting Cooper through an experience that, even if he had escaped, might have left his sanity shredded.
This is Cooper walking into the Cave of the Sibyl. Even if he leaves, who knows where he'll end up? It seems that time runs differently in the lodge too. Cooper seems to have been in there relatively briefly and yet 24 hours pass outside.
And, of course, we see the return of the Palmers and we get the curious repetition of the Heidi scene from the pilot, which, along with Norma's disinterest in Annie, implies something stranger is happening in the town; almost like a reset button is being hit.
Lynch also pulls real strong emotion out of the actors. His talent of pitching emotion just shy of comic melodrama cuts through once more. Donna's 'You're my daddy!' is the first time I've cared about the character in a long time. Doc Haywood losing his temper after Sylvia's arrival and becoming violent is shocking. Nadine's despairing wail of 'Why is she here?' and the defensive 'Where are my drape runners?! almost make the viewer feel ashamed for laughing at her stunts over the last 20-odd episodes. It cuts deeply.
Also, the direction and lighting in both the town and the Lodge is on a different level from previous episodes. You can see this is the work of someone who is a level above all the other directors.
It's a tremendous end to the network incarnation of the show. Only Lynch, back then, could have put something that wild on to a mainstream network. It's a hell of a fiery way to go out.
I remember the frustration of watching the episode for the first time. I kept on looking at the clock on the VHS machine thinking 'Come on! There isn't much time left!' I didn't want to leave the show on that note.
Obviously FWWM came out subsequently and only increased my frustration. I love that film. I saw it on day one of release and while there are many surface differences, its beating heart is unquestionably Twin Peaks. I wanted more and I've never understood the hostile reactions to it. I can understand someone might not enjoy it, but to see reviews comparing it to Plan 9 from Outer Space... there was some sort of agenda there.
This is the first time I've seen the episode in the knowledge that there's definitely more to come; that we're going to see many of these characters again; that Cooper's head hitting the mirror isn't the end. For all the knowledge that the new show is less than three weeks away (I move home three days before) there's still the anticipation of finding out how things will come out in the wash.
Crazy as it sounds, aged 16, this episode threw me into a funk and, 26 years later, I still feel that unscratchable itch. Whatever happens next, I'll be there waiting with the utmost anticipation.
It's strange to be able to say 'What a great end to the season!' instead of 'What a great end to Twin Peaks!'
Postby morgue » Tue May 09, 2017 7:33 pm
Hello hello, long time lurker, first time poster. I've been curating (& contributing to) a series of essays about Twin Peaks in advance of the new series, for New Zealand culture website The Ruminator. We've just hit the article for episode 29, which I cowrote with a friend, and as we talked about it I had a thought that felt like it might be worth sharing here. (Relevant link: http://ruminator.co.nz/peak-peak-rumination-17-wow-bob-wow/)
In the Red Room sequence, we see Bob take Windom Earle's soul in a flash of fire. Then, almost immediately after, we see the evil Cooper appear behind the curtain and come into the room.
It suddenly seems clear to me that this timing is not coincidental. Bob took Windom's soul and used it to make the evil Cooper.
Windom is already a "shadow self" of Cooper, as another mystically-inclined FBI agent, so this transfiguration feels very much in tune with the Lynchian dream logic at work. Having Bob take Earle's soul and put it to use removes the sense of anticlimax that hangs over the Earle storyline, by subsuming the Cooper vs. Earle dynamic into the greater Cooper vs. Bob/Red Room structure that is at the heart of the TV series.
I know this doesn't really explain much about what's happening in the Red Room - what difference does it make to what happens to Cooper? What would that imply about the other doppelgangers? - but thematically it seems very satisfying to me...
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Postby Wonderful & Strange » Fri May 12, 2017 10:58 pm
I notice people sometimes ask why does Cooper/Bob smash his head into the bathroom window at the end?
It appears to be an allusion to his last action inside of Leland, banging his head against the prison wall to murder him.
The suggestion is that Bob plans to put Cooper through the wringer while he has control of him. He's going to damage him mentally and physically as much as possible.
This implies to me that if Bob has possession of Cooper for 25 years, by the time the new show opens, Cooper is going to be a mess.
A major ambiguity of course is whether Cooper is actually possessed, or if the Coop we see here at the end is a doppleganger. Is Coop's soul trapped in the Black Lodge or is his body trapped too?
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Postby TwinPeaksFanatic » Sat May 20, 2017 1:58 pm
Who do you think is channeling through Sarah Palmer when she tells Major Briggs, "I"m waiting for you,"? It sort of feels like those who are "gifted", meaning they have certain abilities to "see" the true faces of the doppelgangers or into the future, are being collected by the spirits of The Black Lodge, thus also making them the, "damned." I wrote a recap for this episode here --- > http://twinpeaksfanatic.blogspot.com/20 ... de-29.html
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Postby Endangered_Wulf » Sun Jul 16, 2017 2:02 pm
This may have been covered previously on this Twin Peaks forum but what is general consensus on Donna Hayward actually being Donna Horne ?
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Postby Mr. Reindeer » Sat Apr 21, 2018 9:51 am
One of the funniest things in this episode, that I don’t believe I’ve ever seen someone mention, is that Audrey and Andrew have a very polite, sweet interaction and she then lets him pass — neither one realizing that she is in fact protesting HIS development! It’s a nice bit of subtle irony that I didn’t catch for a long time.
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Postby mtwentz » Sun Apr 22, 2018 7:39 am
Mr. Reindeer wrote: One of the funniest things in this episode, that I don’t believe I’ve ever seen someone mention, is that Audrey and Andrew have a very polite, sweet interaction and she then lets him pass — neither one realizing that she is in fact protesting HIS development! It’s a nice bit of subtle irony that I didn’t catch for a long time.
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Postby meadowlark » Sun Jun 10, 2018 1:28 pm
TwinPeaksFanatic wrote: Who do you think is channeling through Sarah Palmer when she tells Major Briggs, "I"m waiting for you,"? It sort of feels like those who are "gifted", meaning they have certain abilities to "see" the true faces of the doppelgangers or into the future, are being collected by the spirits of The Black Lodge, thus also making them the, "damned." I wrote a recap for this episode here --- > http://twinpeaksfanatic.blogspot.com/20 ... de-29.html
In light of Season 3, it may well be Judy who is speaking through Sarah Palmer! An evil creature entered into Sarah as a girl, but lay dormant for many years. After Leland has died, the evil force seems to wake up, and use Sarah to speak through. The voice says:
"I am in the Black Lodge with Dale Cooper. I am waiting for you."
It seems that Judy is a demon, hence a creature of the Black Lodge. Why speak to Maj Briggs? Well, as part of his work for the government, he has been searching for Judy. She seems to want to lure Briggs into the Lodge, to bring about his demise. Instead, he goes into hiding in another dimension! It makes sense to me. Do other people find this convincing?
Postby baxter » Sun Jun 10, 2018 2:47 pm
Yes! I rewatched E29 the other night and, funnily enough, the same thought occurred. I can't think of anyone else who would be speaking.
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Postby kitty666cats » Wed Aug 08, 2018 7:12 pm
I figured it's Earle speaking through Sarah. Sarah was a beacon for Judy because of the frogbug, but I don't think she became possessed until the creature (Judy, probably) escaped from the glass box
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Postby marchug » Mon Mar 23, 2020 7:47 am
Does anyone have any thoughts of the section from the Missing Pieces that directly ties in with episode 29? I am curious about a few things. I am assuming that they reshot the DoppleCoop+Bob in the bathroom scene, right? Any thoughts on the LMFAP and RegularCooper's scene together back in the Red Room talking about the ring? I like that it is sandwiched between Annie arriving at the hospital and the DoppleCoop+Bob mirror smashing scene. It gives just a little more oomph to episode 29. For me anyways.
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Book vs Movie “The Color Purple”
Podcast February 21, 2020 by Margo Donohue
Book Vs Movie (Replay)
The Alice Walker Pulitzer-Prize Winning Novel Vs the Steven Spielberg Multi-Academy Award Nominated Film
The Margos finally take on the Alice Walker classic The Color Purple which won both the Pulitzer Prize for fiction and the National Book Award in 1983. It went on to be adapted into a film by none of than Steven Spielberg who has appeared on this show several times so we may just have to change our name to the “Steven Spielberg Presents” show soon! (Kidding!)
Celie Harris is our lead character who is African American, poor, uneducated and being raised in America’s south in the early part of the 20th century. Her entire life she is abused by men including her stepfather (from whom she has two children) and then eventually her husband who is only referred to as “Mr” in the book and leaves his three wild children for her to raise.
Celie’s sister Nettie is sent away with a religious couple to a mission in Africa after almost being raped by Mr and the letters they exchange to make up the telling of the rest of the novel.
Spielberg’s movie is sort of the PG-version of what happens in the book with major subplots about lesbianism and the colonialism in Africa barely being hinted or discussed. However, the performances are next-level amazing which counts for its multiple Academy Award nominations.
So what are those changes? Which version did the Margos like better? Check out the link below to hear for yourself!
The interesting history of the author Alice Walker including years of feminist activism and her controversial political views these days.
How the novel is told in an epistolary form and how it makes it challenging to read at times
The road to the adaptation by Steven Spielberg and his rather restrained choices about racism, sexism, child molestation, and adult sexuality
The cast of the movie including Whoopi Goldberg (Celie Johnson,) Danny Glover (Albery “Mr” Johnson,) Margaret Avery (Shug Avery,) Oprah Winfrey (Sofia,) and William E. Pugh (Harpo Johnson)
The controversy over how the African American male characters are depicted
Clips Featured:
The Color Purple (original trailer)
Whoopi Goldberg wins the 1986 Best Actress Golden Globe Award
Alice Walker gives her opinion on the film adaptation BBC Desert Island Discs May 19, 2013
Sofia confronts Celie
Celie meets her children for the first time as adults
Outro music Miss Celie’s Blues vocals by Tata Vega
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Tags: "Steven Spielberg", Book Vs Movie The Color Purple, Book vs. Movie, Book Vs. Movie podcast, Oprah Winfrey, Whoopi Goldberg
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PhD Position @UF: Experimental Landscape Ecology
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NB: position filled, but leaving up for the lab archive.
We are seeking a highly motivated Ph.D. student to start at the University of Florida in Fall 2017. This student will work as part of a
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collaborative research group on a project investigating the role of on habitat loss, habitat fragmentation, and matrix quality on the population and community dynamics of insect herbivores. The project includes field work at the nearby Ordway-Swisher Biological Station, including experiments manipulating habitatand matrix types, using prickly-pear cactus and their associated species as a model system (see, e.g., Fletcher et al. 2011, 2013, 2014). The
project includes four years of full support for the student (approximately $22,500/year, plus health benefits; pending final
approval), funds for field work, and support for some travel to meetings. An additional year of support may be available to outstanding
candidates from the graduate program via which the student matriculates (see below).
The student will be co-advised by Dr. Robert Fletcher and Dr. Emilio Bruna. Other collaborators on the project include Dr. Bob Holt and Dr. Brian Reichert. Preferred applicants will be highly motivated and have a background in ecology, entomology, or other relevant field, field experience, strong quantitative skills (preferably in population or spatial ecology), and an ability to work well both independently and with as part of a diverse team. Interested students should send a (1) a letter of interest describing your educational background, research experience, and career goals, (2) a Curriculum Vitae that includes GRE and TOEFL/TSE scores (if relevant) and GPA (3) an unofficial copy of transcripts and (4) contact information for three references by email to Dr. Robert Fletcher (email: robert.fletcher@ufl.edu). The deadline for submitting materials for review is February 1, 2017. Interested applicants should also apply to the Graduate Programs in Wildlife Ecology and Conservation and the School of Natural Resources and the Environment, both of which accommodate students studying a broad diversity of topics in ecology and conservation. Students to these programs may also apply for an additional year of stipend and tuition support. More information is here.
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Situated in the rolling countryside of north central Florida, Gainesville is much more than a stereotypical college town. Home of the University of Florida, seat of Alachua County’s government and the region’s commercial hub, it is progressive, environmentally conscious and culturally diverse. The presence of many students and faculty from abroad among its 99,000-plus population adds a strong cross-cultural flavor to its historic small-town Southern roots. Its natural environment, temperate climate and civic amenities make Gainesville a beautiful, pleasant and interesting place in which to learn and to live. Gainesville has been ranked as one of the best cities to live in the United States.
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Summer Transfer Window
Author Topic: Summer Transfer Window (Read 187899 times)
Re: Summer Transfer Window
Quote from: Juan on July 07, 2012, 01:52:17 PM
The Telegraph are reporting we are close to signing Fabio Borini. Dont know anything about this guy either. You would question though why either of the two italian teams who co own the guy would let him go for 7 million if he was any use.
The Telegraph are way behind events on this. Parma and Roma did have joint ownership but they had a blind auction each for the remaining 50% they didn't own. Roma won it bidding €4.9M to Parma's €4.26M. The result was announced on June 23rd.
Roma have no intention of selling whereas Parma would have sold to us after letting Borini go out on loan to Roma last season.
been watching that Telegraph article since it was published last night.
The comments below must have the writer and the Telegraph staff and owners totally embarrassed and soiling their trousers.
The comment writers (i.e. Liverpool fans) clearly know far more than the Telegraph journalist, about the Borini story. Cringeworthy.
The type of lazy rubbish *journalism* that newspapers got away with for decades is now gone. There are too many specific forums out there now, not to mention twitter and facebook, that quickly allow fans to be kept well ahead of the papers on stories.
The story wasn't written by the usual journo who covers LFC - Chris Bascombe. He's probably on holiday. It's like stories in the Mirror. Unless they're written by David Maddocks I pay no attention.
totally agree, Ray.
Bascombe and Maddock are journalists with sources, thus one always takes their stories as near gospel.
Bascombe and Maddock are the two worst Liverpool news journos in the media. Bascombe is an idiot who sold his soul to News of the World and hated Rafa and Maddock continually gets things wrong and basically has no clue.
Only LFC journos I trust and so should you are Tony Barrett and Rory Smith from the Times and Ben Smith from BBC.
Interesting to hear opinions from the inside. It was a pity Rory Smith jumped ship from the Telegraph and of course now that The Times is behind a paywall very few get to read their stories.
Of course we have our own source within the club. Got anything to tell us Edward?
The lad Borini...c'mon 21 hardly someone to wet the knickers over! Granted
he appears in the poacher mould, something it could be argued we need a bit of
but ffs it's not like we're being linked with Fernando Torres here.
Dunno if the brief is, sign cheap (gems depending on your opinion) talent to plug gaps
in the squad. Bit risky imo 'cos it kindof ties these signings to the managers' vision of
things which leaves us a bit high and dry (or on the pig's back) depending. We all
remember Hodgson's gap fillers...
Anyway, s'pose we should give the gaffer his head and wait for him to be proved wise
after the fact. My worry is that if you stock the squad with mediocrity, then you end up
with mediocre results, what i expected was a 2nd wave of investment to complement
last Summers work, somewhere along the line it appears i missed a memo or two...
Quote from: Ed on July 08, 2012, 03:22:02 AM
Likewise Ed I expected another wave of investment. It still might come this summer but as I said in another post I get a different vibe from the owners this summer. I dont think there will be anymore splash outs. I was never expecting Man City or Chelsea style transfer fees being paid but quality costs. If the club are not willing to follow up signings like Suarez with players of the same type of quality I dont know how we will compete long term. The owners have spent 40 million net over 3 transfer windows and we are now into transfer window 4. The top clubs are paying that for one player in every transfer window.
Dalglish was very unlucky losing Lucas last season. Suarezgate didnt help either but if we lose that bit of top quality we have for any length of time during the year our squad is no better than the also rans.
We are being linked with a 6 million pound move for Clint Dempsey. Im yet to see much evidence of Henrys vision of buying top young talent. I wonder if he realised when buying the club that top young players command heavy transfer fees too.
Chelsea seem to have done some great business already 32 million for hazzard, I accept we could never pay that but they also bought Marin for 7 million from Bremen.
Agree. There doesn't appear to be a coherent vision (is it any wonder with baseball owners
& Ian Ayre in charge).
Worst case scenario, we bring in (for arguments sake call them) mediocre-ish players on
4 year contracts, fail to qualify for the Champions league and then tbh i'd begin to wonder
about the ambition of our senior/star players if they weren't hightailing it out of the club
next Summer leaving us with the mediocre players...
I've said it several times in the past that my worry was that there would be that initial investment that was supposed to see us qualify for the CL, then the extra money from that would see us cement our place there by adding one or two quality signings each year.
But my worry after last Summer was that Dalglish had spent that initial investment, it hadn't worked out and there'd be no more this Summer.
I am starting to be concerned that either that is the case or that Rodgers will have to 'prove himself' in the transfer market this Summer before being 'trusted' with more money next Summer, as the owners have been 'spooked' by Dalglish and Commoli's lavish spending on mediocrity.
The thing the owners really need to understand is that there is no cheap option in football. In American sport things are arranged in such a way as to try and even things out as much as possible and if the owners aren't bothered about winning in a sporting sense, they can at least win in a financial sense.
Quote from: Tes on July 08, 2012, 10:26:00 PM
Agree Tes.
Rafa insisted on quality (expensive signings) got some bargains Arbeloa (£2 million) and signed some dross.
I would be wary of moving too far from that formula if the idea is to compete in the upper echelons of the league.
Certainly the policy of signing young (early 20s) talent for relatively inexpensive sums is a sound policy but requires a
seriously kick ass scouting set up. Again the academy should be contributing to this model going back even
further to the development of 14/16 year olds. My point is that it takes years to implement these ideas and
wonder whether they sit comfortably with the short term goal of CL qualification. The likes of Reina, Skrtel, Agger,
Johnson, Lucas and more recently Suarez are perhaps entitled to feel (if we don't get CL) heading into a WC
year that the project at LFC doesn't fit their career ambitions and because Ayre, Werner are such idiots it's
basically down to the cult of personality of the manager to avoid a mass exodus. Basically Rodgers has to hit
the ground running and take a team that finished 8th and break into the top 4 in his first season in charge.
My fear is we could end up like O'Neill (another energetic Northern Irishman) under Lerner at Villa and hit a perennial
glass ceiling of 6th
If the American owners felt a 40 million investment in transfers would guarantee a return to the Champions League then they must have been very badly advised by someone before they bought the club.
The scary thing about it is I dont think theres a figure anymore that can be thrown at a squad that will guarantee anything in this league or Europe for that matter. Look at how long and how much it took Chelsea to win the Champions League. Likewise look how much it cost Man City just to get into the Champions League places.
I suppose we'll just have to wait and see if your concerns over this summers transfer kity will come to fruition Tes or whether the owners will make good on their promise that there is always money available for top young talent. In fairness Spurs looked to be having an awful time last summer and at the very end of the window they signed Parker and Adeybeyor.
I think what the likes of O'Neil and even Wenger prove is that a manager can only take a team so far, as you say Ed a glass ceiling of 6th for Villa under O'Neil and at the moment 3rd/4th for Arsenal under Wenger. Its very hard to break that plateau without the addition of some real quality after that. Even a team like Barcelona who have produced so many top talents at their academy have consistently needed to add real quality to the team from outside the club season after season.
« Last Edit: July 09, 2012, 11:12:09 AM by Juan »
The Ramirez deal seems to be very much agent driven. There doesnt seem to be any real interest anymore from our side.
Clint Dempsey is not apparently a target either.
Aquillani could be on his way to Turkey too.
http://www.liverpooldailypost.co.uk/sport/liverpool-fc/liverpool-fc-news/2012/07/09/99623-31353811/
Interesting press conference with Rodgers today. We look to be signing an "exciting" young player in the next few days. Theres even the possibility of a second signing this week. I wonder if it will be Ramirez, Borini, Granero or any of the other players recently linked.
Dont get too carried away with the possibility of any world class talent going through the doors of Melwood in the next few days though because Rodgers also confirmed what we have being suggesting that there is not much money available in this transfer window so it seems the owners are letting Rodgers make do with whats available to him in the squad already.
Rodgers also seems to be coy over Andy Carroll, theres been no bids for him but hes not saying one way or the other whether the player is going to be an integral part of his set up. It sounds a possible case of watch this space.....
http://www.standard.co.uk/sport/football/liverpool-near-to-exciting-new-signing-7924663.html
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Land Degradation / Land Rehabilitation / Natural Resource Management / Rural People / Small Farmers / Solutions / Sustainable development Goals SDG / Trees
Pause, reflect, learn, adapt
by May Muthuri · July 4, 2019
A landscape view of Asgede Tsimbla Woreda in Tigray region. Photo: World Agroforestry/ May Muthuri
Land restoration targets and commitments have been set at global, regional, national and local levels. The UN General Assembly in New York declared on 1 March 2019 that 2021–2030 is to be the decade of land restoration. Funds have been disbursed to major restoration initiatives in Africa and other parts of the developing world. There are reports of billions of trees being planted by hands and drones. But for whom and why?
We need to take a step back and reflect on the land-restoration technologies and approaches we are promoting and for whom we are promoting them. Great ideas are in place, yes, but are these what farmers want and need? Will these help us realize multiple objectives that help us heal degraded lands, sequester carbon and bring benefits to millions of poor farmers who are largely dependent on such natural resources? Or are we too focused on the end game of meeting donors’ expectations and targets, offsetting the carbon footprint from industrialized countries, while forgetting that it’s as much about these issues as it is about farmers’ livelihoods, social justice and equity today and years to come? Being complacent should never be an option as long as a majority of farmers in developing countries are still battling food insecurity and inadequate nutrition, lack of access to water, clean and sustainable energy and inadequate incomes to meet their needs.
The Regreening Africa programme, funded by the European Union, has ambitious targets yet is determined to circumvent the cycle of past interventions in a bid to ensure the envisioned impacts are realized, equitable and sustainable.
Dr. Chomba encouraging farmers to keep up the good work. Photo: World Agroforestry/ May Muthuri
‘Someone once said you cannot do the same thing over and over again and expect different results’, said Susan Chomba, Regreening Africa’s manager. ‘It is time to do research and development differently. Research needs to be informed by real development needs and development interventions need to be informed by evidence. We are not doing our communities, who are the subjects of research and development, any justice by operating in silos’.
With just a year and half gone by, the Regreening Africa team decided to pause and assess what the project had achieved in Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Mali, Niger, Rwanda and Senegal, and provide coordinated technical support to implementing partners through a joint reflection and learning process. These visits formed part of a five-day learning and sharing event intended to ensure effective expansion of the scale of regreening practices at both community and individual levels.
‘A main feature was to identify interventions that work to promote contextually relevant regreening practices and once evidenced, encourage others to take those up’, said Karl Hughes, head of the programme’s Monitoring Evaluation and Learning component. ‘Regreening Africa should be supporting the implementing partners to develop, refine and evidence these interventions, which are as much, if not more, social and institutional as they are biophysical’.
So, what still works? For whom? Where? When? And how? What about that which doesn’t work? Is it too late to propose alternative pathways? These and more difficult questions guided interactions with leading farmers, community members and district officials, spearheaded by World Agroforestry (ICRAF) and implementing partners World Vision, Catholic Relief Services, Care, Oxfam and Sahel Eco.
Prof. Mitiku Haille of Mekelle University, Ethiopia, explaining to farmers the ideal tree species to retain near bee hives for maximum results. Photo: World Agroforestry/ May Muthuri
Different settings, coupled with rough or smooth terrain, scorching sun or blessings from above in the form of rain, shade under the trees or in offices, provided opportunities to gain different perspectives to successes, barriers, gaps and opportunities, from the old and young, educated or not, that will fuel regreening.
Throughout the process, an ‘options by context’ approach has been applied to ensure proposed changes and solutions suit the intended beneficiaries and were fit for the social and ecological contexts within which they were being applied. Across seven countries, it was evident that farmers knew the benefits and importance of trees, but they still cut them down for household use and commercial purposes.
A farmer watering tree seedlings at World Vision Niger Nursery. Photo: World Agroforestry/Gilberte Koffi
‘The practice has always been to cut down trees to have a farm’, said Mohamed Haji, European Union Delegate to Somalia. ‘This is what we need to undo if we are to achieve restoration targets. There is an urgent need to create awareness for a change in mindsets.’
It was palpable that sustainable value chains needed to be integrated and strengthened if the efforts to expand the scale of restoration were to bear fruit. Value chains offered economic incentives by matching farmers’ needs to markets for fruitful outcomes in years to come. Moreover, short-term interventions by diversifying household income generation would help address the need for firewood and charcoal and bridge the void created when the gospel of delayed gratification is spread, as trees may take long to mature before benefits are enjoyed.
‘Value chains based on regreening activities must include farmers as partners so as to promote re-investment and wealth creation for land restoration’, said Sammy Carsan, head of the programme’s Value Chains component.
Farmers were extremely keen to integrate diverse tree species on their farms especially those that bear real as well as economic fruit.
‘Interactions with the Regreening Africa team and World Agroforestry as a whole has inspired us as an organisation to expand our interventions to include fruit trees, indigenous tree species, as well as agroforestry species such as Faidherbia through on-farm tree planting or enrichment planting under farmer-managed natural regeneration’, said Raphael Kinoti of Farming Systems Kenya.
Community members in Garu Tempane District, Ghana, having discussions under a majestic tree. Photo: World Agroforestry/ May Muthuri.jpg
Gender intergradation at all levels of the project was discussed at length as issues pertaining to land and tree tenure and value chains will have an overall differentiated effect on men, women and youth and therefore affect equity outcomes in the ambitions to restore degraded landscapes.
‘For women to have a voice, they need to seat at discussion tables’, said Ibrahim Warab of Care Somalia. ‘Money has a role in this, and through village savings and loans associations, women can easily be empowered. This way, gender equity can be enhanced at the local level. Gender integration must start at project level. If recruited staff are mainly male, it will be difficult to get female farmers on board for discussions and implementation processes. Gender balance must start with us to ensure regreening impacts across the board’.
Robert Kipyego of World Vision Kenya taking lead farmer Mr. Olimo and two young farmers through the Regreening Africa App. Photo: World Agroforestry/ Leigh Winowiecki.jpg
The need to strengthen co-learning between partners and other stakeholders, and taking up indigenous knowledge by farmers, will help expand the scale of regreening interventions beyond the project’s sites and influence changes in policies and governments’ budgetary allocations.
‘Working across sectors, organisations and people and incorporating evidence both into planning and the way we communicate will support massive and sustainable scaling’, said Mieke Bourne of World Agroforestry.
‘Land restoration is not going to happen in conferences and workshops’, said Alexander Mueller, managing director of Think Thank for Sustainability. ‘It is going to happen on smallholders’ farms and other degraded land’.
Chomba concluded by stating that Regreening Africa is part of a movement to restore degraded land and should be mainstreamed into other projects on crops and livestock. She encouraged county governments to channel resources towards tree nurseries, farmer-managed natural restoration and other restoration activities.
About Regreening Africa
Regreening Africa is an ambitious five-year project funded by the European Union that seeks to reverse land degradation among 500,000 households, and across 1 million hectares in eight countries in Sub-Saharan Africa. By incorporating trees into croplands, communal lands and pastoral areas, regreening efforts make it possible to reclaim Africa’s degraded landscapes.
World Agroforestry (ICRAF) is a centre of science and development excellence that harnesses the benefits of trees for people and the environment. Leveraging the world’s largest repository of agroforestry science and information, we develop knowledge practices, from farmers’ fields to the global sphere, to ensure food security and environmental sustainability.ICRAF is one of the 15 members of the CGIAR, a global research partnership for a food-secure future. We thank all donors who support research in development through their contributions to the CGIAR Fund.
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Ask The Champ Mailbag Vivian Harris
By Vivian Harris
How stupid do you feel now for not taking the Hatton fight for the biggest purse of your career?-Lefthook
The Champ's Response: I don't feel stupid at all for it. I do not regret not taking the fight. I don't even want to hear about the Ricky Hatton fight, it's not possible now so let's move on. I don't think it would've happened anyway and the money wasn't coming to me. How stupid do you feel for wasting your question with a world champion with that nonsense?
Has Bob Arum finally made you an offer to fight Miguel Cotto? What did you think about Morales-Pacquiao? And who are you planning on fighting next and when? Peace, -Capone
The Champ's Response: That was a wonderful fight, Pacquiao has a lot of heart. Both he and Morales are willing to fight the best out there they're both two great champions. Bob Arum never made an offer to me at all. We're still waiting for Arum to make his first offer to me.
Congrats on two SOLID wins over a tough hombre in Oktay Urkal. I do think however that you made a huge mistake not taking the fight with Hatton, who I think Is tailor made for you to easily defeat. I think you would have made easy work work of him and done it on a big stage. Where else are you going to fight in front of 20,000 people and showtime at the same time? None of the money fighters have anything to gain by fighting a dangerous guy who could easily be a welterweight. Fight Junior Witter, and hold on to your title, right now it's bigger than you are (but that will chnge in the long run if you just keep winning.)
The Champ's Response: Definitely. Thank you. I don't have no regrets by not taking the fight. I think it was a business move. I would love to fight Witter and if that fight could be made I'll definitely do it. I'm only interested in fighting the best out there. I'm coming back to fight on TV America and pretty soon I'm going to be the one filling up the arena with 20,000 people.
Vivian, I was there live in Houston's Reliant Area when you TKO'ed Diosbelys, before that the beef started at the weigh in when you got in his face and punched him in the mouth. I was right next to ya when chair's started to fly! LOL...Anyhow I was there to see the local cats (Rocky & Juan) but came out wanting to see you fight more! You made me a believer then BUT would like to see you lace them up more often, three times since 10/02 Houston you've fought but with no T.V. shows in U.S. Seems like your starting to fade away in the public's eye kid! Punch your way back to the seen soon!
The Champ's Response: I'm definitely working on that. That's what I'm taking really short money to fight on the co-feature to Gatti-Mayweather. I'm taking the short money so my fans like you have the opportunity to see me fight on national TV in America.
Whassup Vivian, If you're in need of a fight why don't you call out Junior Witter cos like you he's calling everyone out but nobody wants to fight him. Trust me, this is want fight fans want so forget Mayweather, Hatton and Tszyu and take on Witter. He's now promoted by Golden Boy and I think there would be plenty of interest in the fight so there would be $$$ incentive too. You know these other guys don't want any part of you so why not fight Witter? Good luck.-Tim Austen UK
The Champ's Response: You're right the other guys don't want no parts of me. I'm definitely going to start calling him out but Witter is not a name like that sticks out in my mind. He's not a guy that I see on TV either and I'm not trying to disrespect him but his name doesn't ring bells like the other cats. But since the fans want to see that I'll definitely look forward to fighting him. If they came with better money for the June 25 date I'd definitely fight Witter on the undercard of Mayweather and Gatti.
I am a very big fan of yours, and I am from Georgetown Guyana! I was just wondering where you were from in Guyana? And do you plan on moving up in weight if you cant get one of these scared asses to fight you? You look too big for them anyway! I think that's why they are scared! Vivienne Galasso-Alexander
The Champ's Response: That's why they don't want to fight me to. They're trying to get me to move up but I could make my weight easily. I'm from Georgetown, Guyana the south. I'm going to be staying right here at 140 because at some time they're going to have to fight me. Guys like Cotto will be forced to move up before I am.
Ihave 2 questions for Vivian: 1. When and where will he fight next on cable for everyone to see 2. If he cant get anyone to fight him at 140 would he consider moving to 147 and get in the Zab sweepstakes or against Mosely, DLH etc.
The Champ's Response: On June 25 I'll be fighting as the co-main to Gatti and Floyd and I'm hoping to get the winner of that. I would definitely consider it but right now I'm not a welterweight so I'm thinking about controlling 140. I'm only 26 years old and I see myself being able to rule this division for a long time. Viv,
How does it feel to be sooooo good that fighters that claim to be pound for pound the best wont fight you even though you have a belt. I seriously believe that Floyd Mayweather sleeps well at night because he can use that lame excuse about not knowing who you are.
The Champ's Response: Hahaha, that's what I think too. I always knew I was going to be the world champion but I never knew the top of the division would be scared of me. It's a good feeling but it's a bad thing because I'm not making as much as I want to take care of my family. I'm just praying everyday that one day you the fans and the media make these guys have to fight me.
viv, why did you look so scared when you challenged Tszyu on national TV at the Tszyu vs Mitchell 2 fight???? Or were you just camera shy???
The Champ's Response: I think I was camera shy, because I'm never scared. You must be a Kostya Tszyu fan, I'm calling everyone out to fight me, I'm never scared I'm from Georgetown, Guyana and then coming to Brooklyn, NY just made me more ruthless. Why would I be scared, when I got gun-shots flying behind my head everyday.
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Casino Royale (PG-13)
Reviewed by Timothy Lawrence on June 30, 2019
“Bond, James Bond” is one of the most ubiquitous names in modern western culture – a name that has become synonymous with a particular brand of lightweight sensuality. The last fifty years have seen the release of over twenty James Bond movies, and even those who have never seen one know exactly what they are all like. The British gentleman spy’s perennial attempts to save the world from some mad scheme or other are tacitly accepted as a thin justification – a license, if you will – for adventures redolent with sex and violence, those two most reliable of box office draws, typically delivered with superficial variation under a veneer of droll quips, exotic locales, and (swiftly outdated) gadgets. While undeniably shallow, the formula has proved enduring, though I would wager the average viewer cannot recall more than a few particulars about any of the films.
Given the open arms with which the franchise has been accepted as a harmless staple of popular culture, a serious critique of James Bond is doomed to seem silly at best and puritanical at worst. Even so, allow me to voice a little ambivalence. In Sexual Desire: A Philosophical Investigation, Roger Scruton distinguishes pornography from erotic art thus:
Serious erotic art, which moves by suggestion, and by the interposition of thought between audience and object, is hostile to surrogates. It is concerned to excite an imaginative involvement in a genuinely erotic predicament, but not to present fantasy objects for sexual gratification. The response to erotic art is an imaginative identification with the sexual activity of another. Hence although, in a sense, it involves the invocation of fantasy, the fantasy is controlled by the artistic medium and made continuous with, and an example of, genuine sexual feeling.
For Scruton, the distinction between erotic art and pornography is staked in the presence, or absence, of “interpersonal intentionality.” Genuinely erotic desire is other-directed, pursuing a paradoxical union with the perspective of a person who is radically different from oneself. When it strays from this end, failing to dignify the personhood of the other, becoming self-gratifying fantasy, eroticism is rightly described as perverse.
Though every Bond film includes a(t least one) heroine for the hero to bed, very few Bond films could reasonably be described as love stories, for they rarely evince more than a token interest in the interiority, the personhood, of the characters who populate them. Put another way, the people in Bond films almost never feel like real people, and this suggests a strain of something inhuman (or at least materialist) in the very fabric of the franchise. The violent and sexual spectacle that Bond films characteristically indulge in tends to reduce humans to bodies, or at least to identify humans principally with their bodies. As a general rule, Bond films paper over this vacancy (emotional, moral, or spiritual) with a wink. James Bond kills scores of indistinguishable villains and sleeps with scores of similarly indistinguishable women, but this is all make-believe, and can be accepted and enjoyed as such. Yet one wonders if implicit acknowledgement of the films’ fantastical nature is truly better; it may, in fact, be worse. To refer again to Scruton:
The genuinely erotic work is one which invites the reader to re-create in imagination the first-person point of view of someone party to an erotic encounter. The pornographic work retains as a rule the third-person perspective of the voyeuristic observer.
Scruton’s observations are couched in the medium of literature and cannot be precisely applied to film, which is characteristically (even necessarily) less concerned with a character’s internal perspective. I am not making any claim so audacious and sweeping as, “James Bond movies are no better than pornography.” Nevertheless, no one ever emotionally identifies with James Bond or any of his bedmates. The result is that one is removed to the outside perspective of a voyeur, not privy to the inner lives of those he is watching. Lust dehumanizes both subject and object, reducing persons to recipients or purveyors or sensual pleasure, and because they emphasize the bodily nature of human beings while correspondingly deemphasizing their moral or spiritual nature, James Bond films often resemble pornography more nearly than erotic art even though they contain no overt nudity and never explicitly depict sexual acts.
These, at least, are the general observations that must preface my take on 2006’s Casino Royale, the rare James Bond movie that takes seriously what others wink at. It sacrifices few of the thrills that characterize the franchise – even if considered simply as an action movie, it would still be a remarkable effort – but understands and commits to one crucial fact: Any James Bond film that attempts an authentic moral interrogation of its hero must inevitably become a tragedy.
Casino Royale’s cross-examination of its hero’s emotional callousness returns to the distinctions discussed above. For someone in James Bond’s line of work, of course it is “considerably” easier to view the world through materialist eyes, to see human beings as merely bodies in motion, but this understanding necessarily entails reduction and loss. Accordingly, Casino Royale is the story of how James Bond loses his soul. More precisely, it is the story of how James Bond chooses not to have a soul because having one hurts too much.
This is all staked in the destructive disuniting of sex and intimacy, the unexamined lynchpin of the entire Bond series. James Bond can have sex with any woman he meets, but he cannot trust any of them. He can unite with them bodily, but must always remain isolated from them emotionally. In a very real sense, he cannot love any of them. Casino Royale is constructed around this perversity and the anxiety that accompanies it.
In Casino Royale, Bond, who must always withhold his true self from women, falls in love with a woman who withholds her true self from him. He gives himself to Vesper Lynd (Eva Green), to be possessed by her, but fails to possess her in return. Bond and Vesper’s love is frustrated, denied its proper end; they are physically united, but cannot overcome their spiritual separateness. What makes Casino Royale erotic art, rather than pornography, is its attention to Bond’s emotional interiority; what makes it great erotic art is Bond’s preoccupation with (and anguished inability to grasp) Vesper’s emotional interiority. It is a real love story, and a tragic one – nearly a Hitchcock-level treatise on the sad fate of eros in the modern world, where all relationships are haunted by the absence of a stable framework in which trust might flourish. To refer again to Scruton’s distinction, Casino Royale is by no means concerned with evoking a fantastic gratification; instead, it is a persuasive depiction of a genuine erotic dilemma.
Intimacy is vulnerability; the one who desires another is necessarily compromised by that desire. Much of the film takes place in a casino, and the prominence of gambling and gaming expands on the theme. Poker – like espionage, and like adultery – hinges on concealing one’s true self from others in order to win. Vesper, who has no tell, is cheating on Bond the whole time, in multiple senses of the word.
Moreover, lust implies exposure – a shameful unveiling of what should be hidden, dangerous to both the looker and the looked-upon. The scene in which a woman emerges from the water in a bathing suit is a James Bond staple, dating all the way back to 1962’s Dr. No. Casino Royale returns to this familiar scenario early. When Le Chiffre (Mads Mikkelsen) looks at the woman with lust, his eyes start to bleed. Le Chiffre does not believe in God, and he waves away his sin with a material explanation: a deformation of the tear ducts, “Nothing sinister.” (Le Chiffre’s bleeding eyes also twitch, a tell that seems to give him away to Bond at the poker table, but Bond is himself blinded by love for Vesper, who betrays him for a one-eyed man.)
When Bond seduces the wife of a man he is trailing, the information she gives him leads him to “Body Worlds,” an anatomically themed museum exhibit where the human body is displayed in various states of carnal nakedness. Clothes are stripped away to reveal skin, skin is stripped away to reveal muscles, and muscles are ripped away to reveal skeletons. To further drive the point home, when Bond returns, the woman is dead because she slept with him. In other words, she is mere body, sans spirit. Thus begins the film’s association of sex with death. One hardly needs crack open a volume of Freud to understand why the film’s climactic torture scene, in which Bond is threatened with genital mutilation, is so terrifying, but the horror is not merely or simply sexual in nature.
“If you do not yield soon enough,” Le Chiffre tells Bond, “There will be little left to identify you as a man.” The torture hinges on the fact that Bond’s identity is bound up in his embodiment as a sexual being, but sexual horror is a doorway to deeper horror, for sex uniquely reminds us that we are bodies, which will inevitably die. “You’ve taken good care of your body. Such a waste,” taunts Le Chiffre. If man is body, life is waste; that much is mathematically certain. Per Scruton, the sensation of obscenity is derived from this abysmal knowledge, for obscenity “divorce[s] the sexual act from its interpersonal intentionality… In the experience of the obscene the person is, as it were, eclipsed by his body… I no longer find the person whose embodiment enticed me: only the body which, in its frightful dissolution, its character as melting flesh, fascinates and also repels me.”
When Casino Royale returns, in its coda, to the image of the woman emerging from the water, it is no longer titillating, only sorrowful and empty. Bond is carrying Vesper out of the water; more precisely, he is carrying her body out of the water, because she has drowned. When he performs CPR on her unresponsive corpse, it is a sad parody of a lover’s embrace. The death of Vesper’s body corresponds to a deeper bereavement, for Bond has just discovered her infidelity. (Paul tells us that he who joins to a harlot is one body with her; it is no accident that Vesper wears a scarlet dress when her infidelity is revealed.) In one sense, the real Vesper is now absent; in another sense, she was absent all along. Bond’s physical union with Vesper is sundered and revealed to be a sham that never truly resulted in spiritual union – and insofar as Bond united his soul to Vesper’s, it is gone along with hers. Given the opportunity to confront his grief, Bond refuses. Instead, he chooses to repudiate his love for her: “Why should I need more time? The job is done and the bitch is dead.”
None of this is to imply that Casino Royale is straightforwardly didactic; it is a great and challenging film precisely because it is both convincingly tragic and genuinely exciting, torn between critique and celebration. It captures the deepest heartbreak and then smoothes it over with a catchphrase and a theme song. By the film’s end, James Bond is only a shell of his former self, but it is precisely this shell that moviegoers know and love – if “love” is not too strong a word.
Timothy Lawrence
A graduate of the Torrey Honors Institute at BIOLA University, Timothy Lawrence teaches great books through Emmaus Classical Academy in Southern California. He writes essays and fiction and counts the Coen Brothers and George Lucas among his personal heroes.
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The shifting global economic and political landscape
Simon Wait
Understanding the current environment is one thing; understanding how it happened is something else.
Delegates at IBIS USA were exposed to a thought-provoking history lesson by Professor Michael Cox, director of LSE Ideas and Emeritus professor of international relations at London School of Economics, who helped shed a light on the major socio-economic events of recent times that have helped shaped global industry.
He began his session, titled ‘The shifting political and economic landscape,’ by looking at globalisation. He said that while immigration was not new, the scale of it now was accelerating and posed a genuine challenge.
Its benefits include wealth creation in some of the poorer parts of the world, he said, saying it was the only way to provide governments with the means to combat poverty: money for schools, hospitals and welfare.
However, he said support of globalisation was decreasing in the west, with some saying it imported competition, increased inequality and had no impact on purchasing power, despite pay checks increasing.
The professor then discussed the financial crash of 2008 as a cause for turning opinion against globalisation. Since then wages have been depressed for 85% of the workforce, leading to a rise in income inequality in the USA.
Apart from the financial fall-out, there has been moral outrage as the ‘financial overclass responsible for the crisis not only got off scot-free but was also getting richer in the bargain.’
That fury, argues Professor Cox, is partly what carried President Trump to the White House.
‘It’s a global power structure that is responsible for the economic decisions that have robbed our working class, stripped our country of its wealth, and put that money into the pockets of a handful of large corporations and political entities,’ the President claimed, attacking what he called ‘the false song of globalism. Globalisation has made the financial elite who donate to politicians very wealthy. But it has left millions of our workers with nothing but poverty and heartache.’
Professor Cox also suggested China’s unprecedented rise has raised questions in America over which country will dominate the 21st century.
In terms of numbers, he said that global migration was 173 million in 2000, 220 million in 2010, and 258 million in 2017. Of the 85 million extra migrants since 2000, 64 million have moved to high income countries.
An unintended consequence has been a rise in populism, but while it appeals to many people it does not, Professor Cox says, have any economic solutions.
He said, ‘What might we expect from a world economy run by populists? How might markets react? One way of looking at this is to think of populism as a reversal of globalisation. Envisage a world economy with far more restrictions on trade and labour mobility.
‘In such a world, we would expect global trade and growth to be weaker as barriers cut off opportunities. Rather than reaping the benefits brought by specialisation and economies of scale, industries would shrink back to their domestic economies. Productivity, which has benefited from the opening up of competition, would slow even further.
‘The corporate sector would be at the sharp end of this, facing greater challenges in sourcing labour and importing inputs. Wage growth would likely be stronger, putting pressure on company margins.’
Should this result in a trade war between USA and China, the IMF found that global GDP output would fall by 0.8% in 2020 and ‘inflict significant costs to the global economy, especially through its impact on confidence and financial conditions.’
For America specifically, a weakening of its global leadership position would invite other countries to push their own policy priorities more confidently. It could be argued this is already happening.
The US National Security Strategy, 2017, said, ‘China and Russia challenge American power, influence, and interests, attempting to erode American security and prosperity. They are determined to make economies less free and less fair, to grow their militaries, and to control information and data to repress their societies and expand their influence.’
Globalisation, Professor Cox said, was on a ‘shaky path’.
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Ewigkeit – DISclose (D.T.M. Productions)
Sunday, 3rd March 2019 By David E. Gehlke
The increasing ubiquity of British multi-instrumentalist/vocalist James Fogarty is certainly not a bad thing. He’s in Norwegian avant-garde progenitors In the Woods for a reason — he’s an excellent singer with a wide, if not uncanny range, not to mention the understanding and grip on odd, weird metal, which is where his one-man Ewigkeit project comes into focus. It’s not metal for everyone, but it can appeal to almost anyone if that makes sense. Such is the manner in which he tackles the band’s ninth studio album, the conspiracy-laden DISclose.
One can still somewhat remember when Fogarty (who goes by Mr. Fog here) was tinkering with black metal in Ewigkeit’s early days, something that occasionally pops up across the album’s seven songs, but by and large, this is more of a boulder-sized glob of mutating metal than any one singular style. Fogarty treks all over the place, from soaring epochs “1947,” anthemic sprawls “Disclosure,” to cloaked-in-eeriness jaunts “Oppenheimer’s Lament.” These cuts comprise the first half of the album, which, frankly, is good enough to bring the whole thing home, especially “Disclosure.” But, easy, but effective riffing comes to the fore on “Guardians of the High Frontier,” where Fogarty’s clean vocals let ‘er rip among a bevy melodies, while the twisting, turning “KRLLL” goes at it with BM gusto.
Fogarty throws a lot out here, sort of like he’s rapidly emptying a bag of tricks in the manner of a magician. There’s no trickery or tomfoolery here; DISclose is a highly engaging, sometimes caustic, but always memorable listen, straight from the mind (and heart) of a man whose creativity is strong enough for two of the underground’s most uncanny bands.
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Review: Strong Bad’s Cool Game For Attractive People: Episode Two: Strongbadia the Free (PC)
Alex Lucard | September 17, 2008 | Archive, PC Games, Video Game Reviews | No Comments
Strong Bad’s Cool Game For Attractive People: Episode Two: Strongbadia the Free
Publisher: Telltale Games
Last month, Telltale Games debuted the first in its series of stand alone episodic adventure games featuring the cast and crew of Homestar Runner. The first game, Homestar Ruiner, was a lot of fun and was a perfect blend between the cartoon characters, the world they live in, and point & click fun. Strongbadia the Free is a very similar game and clocks in at only two and a half hours, compared to the four or so of Episode One. Does Episode Two manage to start a streak of quality for the series, or does the Homestar Runner cast experience a sophomore slump?
Let’s Review
1. Story
In this month’s episode, the King of Town implements a tax on emails. One delicious snack cake per email. Strong Bad, whose entire schtick at this point revolves around reading emails ends up missing this proclamation as it went into his idiot filter, ends up being placed under house arrest for ignoring the law. After escaping the device around his head that will blow him up if he tries leaving the house (which is your first big puzzle), Strong Bad declares war on the King of Town and secedes into his own independent nation of Strongbadia. Of course, everyone in town does the same thing and so now the game is a mini cluster of territories which Strong Bad spends the rest of the game uniting under his rule, either through diplomacy or burnination. At the end, you get not one, but two Machiavellian plot twists, and everything is returned to the status quo.
I have to admit, the story here suffered from a drastic drop in quality from Episode One. There I was laughing out loud constantly. Here is was merely a chuckle or two. The situations are forced, the dialogue is nowhere as witty, and the game plays more like a straightforward generic Adventure game with a half-hearted Homestar Runner feel. I was glad to seel Strong Mad and The Cheat receive more of a presence in the game, but everything felt forced and well, not funny.
Strongbadia lacked the out and out surreality of the previous installment and although there were a few comedic moments like the subquest to set everything you can on fire, Episode Two was a pale mockery of Episode One.
Story Rating: Decent
2. Graphics
As with the last episode, the graphics are ripped straight out of the Brothers Chap’s cartoons. Everyone looks exactly like they would in a normal Homestar Runner episode, and the background are bright and detailed, fitting the mood of the game perfectly. However, the graphics are by no means up to the level of this generation of games, and especially those generally found in Adventure games.
There is an improvement over the last episodes visuals however, as the jaggies I encountered last time are nonexistent in this go-around. Movements are a bit more fluid and cartoon like rather than bad video game rendering, so this is one area that has improved since last time.
For the most part, Strongbadia the Free looks and feels the same as Homestar Ruiner, but with a noticeable (albeit slight) upgrade.
Graphics Rating: Above Average
This is easily Episode Two’s strongest area. All of the actual Homestar Runner characters are back, all voiced by the same people that do them for the cartoon. Although the script is decidedly off, the actors have brought their A game and it’s a lot of fun to hear all the lines of dialogue being acted out rather than just read.
The music is the game is highly enjoyable. From the music you encounter during a lightswitch rave to the end credit song about the King of Town, the score fits the game perfectly and really adds to the overall mood of the game.
You can’t ask for better in this category for this particular game, and you certainly wouldn’t be able to achieve it.
Sound Rating: Unparalleled
4. Control and Gameplay
Like all adventure games, Strongbadia the Free involves using your mouse to move around, pick up and use items, and enter into conversation with other characters. Like the last game, the controls for moving aren’t the best as sometimes the game interprets your click to go right as “go as far left as you possibly can,” but thankfully this time this control error appears limited to Strong’s bad house, which you are rarely in. So the issue persists and Telltale REALLY needs to fix this, but it’s less apparent and thus less annoying is this game over the last one.
Much like the plot of this game, the puzzles have dropped in quality this time around. This time they are hand-holdingly easy and far less bizarre then in the last game. Many of them feel like they could be puzzles in ANY adventure game rather than Strong Bad specific. I just really wasn’t impressed by any of them. I mean giving The Cheat a set of pilot wings to get him to join your country? Moving items around on the model UN so as to affect the draft wheel? Picking the correct drink and adding a glowstick to get Pom Pom to join you? None of it was anywhere as amusing as say, Making Pom Pom fail a drug test so he couldn’t compete against you in a race, or outright destroying Homestar Runner’s life in the last one. Even the end game puzzle which was an Axis and Allies-like boardgame bored the tears out of me. All that innovation, humour and flavour from the Homestar Runner universe was missing.
Even the extras were of a much weaker quality. Last time we got the hilarious Snake Boxer V. This time? Math Fighter featuring the Alge-bros. It was a distinctly lamer game, especially when Trogdor is out there for the playing! Even the “Make your own Teen Girl Squad” bit was nowhere as amusing as last time.
Pretty underwhelming for an Adventure game this time around. Some of the control and gameplay issues of actually playing the game were fixed (or hidden) but the puzzles and overall funny atmosphere took a hit making episode two feel like a mediocre generic adventure game instead of journey into the outright weird and retarded world of Homestar Runner
Control and Gameplay Rating: Poor
Most Adventure games are a one shot. Thankfully, each of the Homestar Runner games so far have included an extended play mode allowing you to finish the subquests that you may not have completed in the main story runthrough. Here you can dress up Strong Bad in stupid outfits, collect flags from all the new nations, replay the awful and boring board game from the endgame, playing more of the boring retro-esque Math Fighter, make new Teen Girl Squad comics, and improve your overall score/ranking in the episode. So although the extended play options are there for you this go around, it is a weaker overall affair then last time.
Also, as a hint, if you don’t get all but one of the Strong Sad insults in the main mode of the game, you won’t be able to 100% it in extended play. Sorry.
Better than the average adventure game in this area, but not by much, and nowhere as well done as Episode One.
Replayability Rating: Poor
6. Balance
Often a complaint about adventure games is that the puzzles can be quite hard and somewhat lacking in obviousness about what to do. Not so with Strongbadia the Free. This game plays like “Baby’s First Point and Click” with every puzzle being amazingly easy and blatant in regards with what to do next. If, by some strange occurrence, you find yourself stuck, you can just change the frequency with which the game gives you hints and Strong bad will outright tell you what you have to do next. I found this to be a bit sad as Episode One could be a bit on the tough side as the solutions and extras were pretty wacky. Probably the most out there solutions to the game involved the locations of the hidden Teen Girl Squad cards.
Episode Two was just a bit too simplistic and far too easy for my tastes. As Telltale is trying to bring new fans into this genre of gaming, this utter lack of difficulty will help people discover adventure gaming, but that should have been done with Episode One, instead of making the second one a lot easier. It’s just…common sense.
Balance Rating- Above Average
As stated earlier, a lot of Episode Two feels generic and nowhere as imaginative as the previous installment. There’s a degree of charm and weirdness to the game, but the game lacks the it factor the previous one had. All of the puzzles are ones you encounter in practically every other adventure game ever released and the running time was nearly half that of the previous game, giving you less madcap antics and crazy schemes.
I enjoyed the new subquests, like flag collecting, burninating, and the insulting Strong Sad, but there just wasn’t enough here to keep the game from feeling like a fan fic adventure game made my some kids in college rather than a product I paid money for.
Originality Rating: Bad
8. Addictiveness
The game was shorter than a Lord of the Rings movie, so it’s no surprise it held my attention from beginning to end. It was enjoyable for what it was, but if a game had similar puzzles and lacked the Homestar Runner characters, I’d have probably bashed it something fierce for being boring and predictable. I guess this shows the power of using a license properly.
It was a lot of fun finding all the items, collecting all the bits and trying every possible dialogue combination. When it was all over I was shocked at the shortness and suffered from disappointed as it was a distinct drop in quality from the first game, but I still whipped through the game without the slightest pause whereas the first one was longer and thus I took a break for food and making with the bowel movements, so it will hold your attention proving even a lesser game starring Strong Bad is better than one without him.
Addictiveness Rating: Good
9. Appeal Factor
From my previous review:
Homestar Runner has a huge fan population. Sales will surely reflect that and fan boys with a less critical eye will rave about the game, ignoring the many obvious glitches in the game because, hey, you can play as Strong Bad!
Even with the glitches though, gamers will enjoy the game because of the ease of controls and the hilarious antics of these weird ass characters. This is probably going to be the best selling Adventure game of the year when all is said and done, which says more about how gamers have chosen to be ignorant about the genre, then the quality of the game.
I’ll knock the score down a little here due to the drop in quality and comedy, but it’s still going to delight the majority of Homestar fans who pick it up. It’s not as accessible to newcomers as the first game, which is odd considering it is shorter and easier.
Appeal Factor: Good
Strongbadia the Free proves my worries about episodic content to be valid. This was shorter, weaker, and nowhere as funny as the first. It felt more like a bad sitcom than an episode of Homestar Runner and it worries me that each episode will simply be trying to squeeze blood from a stone instead of giving a quality product the Homestarmy deserves.
Episode Two is by no means a bad game. In fact it’s an above average one, but two and a half hours for nine bucks (Thankfully I picked up the season pass so it was more like $7.50 for me) is about what one would expect to pay for a ticket at your local movie theatre. That sounds pretty good, right? Well considering most adventure games released in 2008 are about ten hours long and go for $19.99, and the actual content for your dollar is less than a quality product like The Lost Crown from Got Game or Dracula: Origin from The Adventure Company.
In the end, the first episode of Strong Bad’s Cool Game For Attractive People, with all its extras, plot, and zany case was well worth my money. Episode Two however, left me unimpressed and feeling a little ripped off. It’s a better adventure game then Dracula 3 or Murder in the Abbey, but it’s not a title I’d recommend picking up as a stand alone.
Miscellaneous Rating: Decent
Story: Decent
Graphics: Above Average
Sound: Unparalleled
Control and Gameplay: Poor
Replayability: Poor
Balance: Above Average
Originality: Bad
Addictiveness: Good
FINAL SCORE: Above Average Game
Short Attention Span Summary
While Strongbadia the Free is nowhere as good as Homestar Ruiner, this second episode in the Strong Bad’s Cool Game For Attractive People line will no doubt make fans of the Homestar Runner series happy. If you’re going to play it, I suggest picking up the season pass so you can get all five games and thus will get to play the first game, which uses the characters better and is hilarious where this is merely cute. Next month comes Baddest of the Bands whose preview teaser alone had me laughing out loud, so let’s hope Episode Two is merely the slump for the series.
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Alexander Lucard
Alexander Lucard was the Editor-in-Chief of Diehard GameFAN and Director of Operations for the InsidePulse network. He has since retired from writing, but clearly shows up now and again. He has worked in video game journalism since 2002 and was also a paid consultant for Konami and The Pokemon Company. Alex has previously written for Tips N Tricks, Gamespot, White Wolf, TSR, Wizards of the Coast, Eden Studios, 411mania, Not a True Ending and more. His writing could also be found in the monthly periodicals Massive Online Gamer and Pokemon Collector Magazine.
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Integral Post-Metaphysical Spirituality
Participatory Spirituality for the 21st Century
Horror, Spirituality, and the Integral Suburbs
Posted by Balder on January 3, 2011 at 3:20pm in Open Forum
On David Marshall's Integral Archipelago forum, a member there named Shashank recently posted a blog (and initiated a discussion) on the relationship between horror and fantasy literature and spirituality that I am quite enjoying. I invite
you to read it, if you're interested. Here, I wanted to open a related
discussion, based on some of my comments to Shashank, particularly if
any of you enjoy the horror or fantasy genres. (I wish I had time to
compose something nice, but I don't, so here are a few jotted notes).
I no longer read fantasy or horror, but I used to read and write quite a lot of both, and I still enjoy an occasional horror or fantasy film. In my conversation with Shashank, we were discussing the respective approaches of Clive Barker and H.P. Lovecraft. I was noting that Barker tends to see "order" behind the terror and horror, and redemptive or transformative potential in the encounter with darkness and evil, whereas Lovecraft attempts to present a vision of reality as ultimately alien, containing dimensions which are wholly other -- realms and beings that are wholly unassimilable, human contact with which can only result in madness or destruction. In other words, absolute limit conditions.
In my reading, Lovecraft's Otherness is an Otherness that must remain Other for the human center to hold, and for our higher ideals to flourish (though those who encounter it now come to see those ideals largely as flimsy defenses in the face of a vast, menacing, terrifyingly alien realm). If I had to place Lovecraft along the values line, I'd say he was a Modernist -- writing for a genteel Modern audience, many of whom were likely in hard flight from "animal nature." This is revealed, I think, in his preference for pre-human, visceral images to represent the Other: slime, gelatinous substances, crustacean or invertebrate anatomy, etc.
But while Lovecraft is primarily a modernist (as opposed to Barker's more postmodern approach, where otherness is a functional limit condition of particular stages of development or perspectival frames rather than a concretely identified, metaphysical "thing" or "realm"), I still find his work offers something interesting to consider, particularly in the context of Integral spirituality: he presents a powerful challenge to complacency and a "comfortable" anthropocentric view of the universe, a view that honestly I sometimes feel marks much New Age and even Integral discourse and thought. I don't think Lovecraft is an Integral thinker (as I said, I view him as essentially a Modernist, though some post-metaphysical materialist writers find kinship with him as well), but I think he makes a kind of move -- a firm presentation of That which intractably challenges and disturbs present boundaries and narratives -- that we could use more of in Integral circles, in my opinion. With talk about "making sense of everything" in Integral marketing, and even in the popularized use of phrases like "swallowing the whole universe in one gulp" (assimilating it in its entirety to the "known"?), I feel there is a move towards what we might call the suburbanization (or urbanization) of the Kosmos. No spooky corners left, no pesky unknowns, no threatening or destabilizing shadows. (This is why King, Barker, Lovecraft, etc, are so powerful: they bring the 'unknown,' the terrifyingly alien and powerfully Other, back into our comfortable suburban back yards).
So, I guess what I'm groping toward is the question, What is an Integral nightmare? What, in its appearance or irruption, would deeply disturb, even terrify, Integral consciousness? What are the boundaries of our (often comfortable, suburban) narratives, and what has the potential to shred them?
I enjoy and appreciate this topic because I think wrestling with, encountering this sort of "dark" or Otherness, is both humbling and chastening (something Lovecraft cultivates through his shocking, chthonic vistas) and potentially transformative (a la Barker). I am thinking here of several things: Rilke's terrible angels, which perhaps show up in modern popular form in something like Strieber's Communion series (where the Other is a vastly more evolved and powerful entity, an entity that has a disturbing, inscrutable agenda for us); and which showed up for me, in a wilderness visionary experience many years ago, as powerfully disturbing -- even terrifying -- entities who I associated with Krishnamurti and who put me through a mind-blowing (and humbling) ordeal. And I think also of the "darker" aspects of Tibetan practice, which I explored when studying with Dzogchen teachers: practicing ch'od, for instance, or purposefully going to graveyards or other frightening places in order to practice. But even doing that, I also was aware of bumping up against worldview differences: not all of the images cultivated in traditional Tibetan practice were really terribly disturbing for me, and I recall wondering at the time what a modern equivalent could be -- how could the practices be made more challenging and relevant for our time?
What would scare the bejeesus out of the Integral community? :-)
Permalink Reply by Edward theurj Berge on January 5, 2011 at 12:11pm
Timothy Leary was infamous for his communications with super-evolved beings from Sirius (I think?), which led him to his formulation of the 8 circuits of consciousness, the last 4 being extraterrestrial and implanted by said ETs when they seeded earth. Our ultimate goal is to realize these circuits in preparation for our space journey home to Sirius. This link explores these themes in Leary's book Exo-Psychology, as well as many of other themes relevant to consciousness studies. I had opportunity to hear Leary speak on this at ASU many years ago and this, with RA Wilson's writings, "converted" me and led to my eventual induction in the Golden Dawn and personal experience with the "ancient ones."
Permalink Reply by andrew on January 5, 2011 at 11:50pm
a little off genre but i went to see the black swan with one of my daughters over the holidays, and i'll be damned if i didn't walk out of there feeling dissociated and in a somewhat diffused state of consciousness. damn aronofsky! it took me about 15 minutes of concentrated breathing, a couple of clove ciggie's, and a matcha latte and nanaimo bar to feel grounded again...i asked my eldest if she'd had any feelings after watching it previously and she said she had similar feelings walking out......on a more positive note: i recently went to a viol concerto with my honeygurl and had a marvelous transcendent peak experience.......
um, my vote would be for sheldon from the big bang theory tv show as being an all time nightmare:)
happy roman new year to ya'all..........
Permalink Reply by Edward theurj Berge on January 6, 2011 at 6:39am
Actually Black Swan is right on topic, being a horror story of transcendence which includes madness and dark shadow. Excellent film, deeply disturbing and most illuninating of that deep, dark passion that looms forever below the surface, and what happens when it's brought to the surface. The choreographer brings the black swan out of her and it is truly transformative on so many levels. And while beautiful it is also oh so ugly.* This genre calls into question religious (and spiritual) notions that transformation is all about sweetness and light, love and compassion. Well worth a second and third viewing.
* I want your ugly, I want your disease, I want your love. --Lady Gaga
Permalink Reply by Mary W. on January 6, 2011 at 11:41am
Black Swan is truly an incredible movie, powerfully drawn and acted -- and downright difficult to watch at points. (Those fingernail clippers!!!) I'm not sure it's a story of transcendence, however. Repressed (sub/un)-conscious material bursting into awareness is not necessarily "transformative;" it might instead lead to de-formation or disintegration -- even if such aspects perform "transcendently." This movie reminded me somewhat of Polanski's Repulsion -- a (mostly) first-person p.o.v. depiction of obsession and madness.
My own religious heritage has never taught me that transformation is "all about" sweetness and light -- unless one considers dark nights, suffering, rejection, and crucifixion (now there's a horror story!) as pleasant walks in the park.
Speaking of crucifixion, I presume Jesus knew what would happen with his acts of defiance, that it would lead to this end, and that such suffering was required to ascend into heaven? (I wonder if Jesus had self-cutting behavior as a child?) Metaphor or otherwise I see this same process with the heroine of Black Swan; through her self-destruction she experienced the creation of "perfection." I see it no more or less de-formulating or disintegrating than the crucifixion but rather a contemporary tale of it. Except perhaps that religious ascension is reserved for only "the one" in some stories, not the gifted but earthly person that makes herculean sacrifices? The latter can only disintegrate, not being divine by birth?
Permalink Reply by Mary W. on January 6, 2011 at 7:46pm
Another possibility: Jesus (both "earthly" and "divine") has a hunch but does not fully know what end will occur, and his suffering is not a set-in-stone requirement but a self-emptying choice made in/for other-directed love & reconciliation/union, the "kingdom of heaven."
Any "earthly person's" transformation could be toward either disintegration or wholeness. It depends on context and on circumstance. I do think Black Swan's crucifixion could be seen as a dark version of some kind of sacrificial "salvation." But I'm looking at it on a more mundane level, I guess. The main character cannot distinguish her inner monsters from outer reality. Despite her brilliant performance, she remains at the mercy of her imaginings. Her transformation, IMO, is into something fragmented and split-off, not toward kenosis and union.
Permalink Reply by Edward theurj Berge on January 6, 2011 at 7:57pm
I guess I don't see that we can cleanly differentiate fragmentation from kenosis, disintegration from wholeness. C'mon, even Jesus went nuts, talking to God, thinking he could literally raise from the dead, live without a physical body...
Aronofsky said in this review:
"When I started thinking about Swan Lake a dancer, I think Julie Kent, said to me that the story is really about a girl who gets caught by an evil magician who turns her into a swan during the day and a half-swan, half-human at night. It popped into my head, 'Oh, a were-swan.' And I realized I was making a werewolf movie ."
Permalink Reply by Mary W. on January 6, 2011 at 10:06pm
Yes, it might be difficult to differentiate while in the midst of the process of changing. The movie's ending is ambiguous; we as viewers are not sure ourselves . . . Liminality, bright and dark.
In this interview Portman says of her character:
"But it was absolutely a case of obsessive compulsive behavior. The scratching. The bulimia, obviously. Anorexia and bulimia are forms of OCD and ballet really lends itself to that because there’s such a sense of ritual — the wrapping of the shoes everyday and the preparing of new shoes for every performance. It’s such a process. It’s almost religious in nature. It’s almost like Jews putting on their tefillin or Catholics with their rosary beads and then they have this sort of godlike character in their director. It really is a devotional, ritualistic, religious art which you can relate to as an actor, too, because when you do a film you submit to your director in that way. Your director is your everything and you devote yourself to them and you want to help create their vision. So all of that, I think the sort of religious obsession compulsion would be my professional diagnosis."
Permalink Reply by Balder on January 8, 2011 at 12:56pm
Shashank, on the blog that inspired this thread, has just posted an excellent interview with Clive Barker that is worth checking out. Here's a link to Shashank's blog comment, which contains the video.
Permalink Reply by Edward theurj Berge on January 10, 2011 at 7:36pm
I found William James' The Varieties of Religious Experience online at this link. The following excerpt from Lectures VI and VII, "The sick soul," is relevant here:
"At our last meeting, we considered the healthy-minded temperament, the temperament which has a constitutional incapacity for prolonged suffering, and in which the tendency tosee things optimistically is like a water of crystallization inwhich the individual's character is set. We saw how this temperament may become the basis for a peculiar type of religion, a religion in which good, even the good of this world's life, is regarded as the essential thing for a rational being to attend to. This religion directs him to settle his scores with the more evil aspects of the universe by systematically declining to lay them to heart or make much of them by ignoring them in his reflective calculations, or even, on occasion, by denying outright that they exist. Evil is a disease; and worry overdisease is itself an additional form of disease, which only adds to the original complaint. Even repentance and remorse,affections which come in the character of ministers of good, maybe but sickly and relaxing impulses, The best repentance is to upand act for righteousness, and forget that you ever had relations with sin.
"Now in contrast with such healthy-minded views as these, if we treat them as a way of deliberately minimizing evil, stands a radically opposite view, a way of maximizing evil, if you please so to call it, based on the persuasion that the evil aspects ofour life are of its very essence, and that the world's meaning most comes home to us when we lay them most to heart. We have now to address ourselves to this more morbid way of looking at the situation.
"This question, of the relativity of different types of religion to different types of need, arises naturally at this point, and will become a serious problem ere we have done. But before we confront it in general terms, we must address ourselves to the unpleasant task of hearing what the sick souls, as we may call them incontrast to the healthy-minded, have to say of the secrets of their prison-house, their own peculiar form of consciousness. Let us then resolutely turn our backs on the once-born and their sky-blue optimistic gospel;... Let us see rather whether pity, pain, and fear, and the sentiment of human helplessness may not open a profounder view and put into our hands a more complicated key to the meaning of the situation."
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Yesterday I came down with what was probably Swine Flu and shortly began thinking and speaking almost entirely in Korean, which did not help me a great deal when I happened to find myself listening to the pronouncements of a Korean doctor late that afternoon, hiding my gaping mouth (through which I was gasping, slack-jawed, like an inbred country boy) behind a hospital-provided medical mask; lucky for me this doctor spoke flawless English, which she revealed by translating my high temperature from Celsius to Fahrenheit without being asked. I was running a fever of about a hundred and one.
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H1N1 one year on
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It’s almost a year since the H1N1 virus, widely known as swine flu, was the feared pandemic that swept across the world. In North Korea the estimated death rate per infection is estimated as hundreds of times greater than those for South Korea. This glaring example of two extremes owes much to the medical advantage that the south has over the north. What is perhaps even more interesting is that South Korea has been able to gain a measure of infection control better than the UK. (information extrapolated from http://www.flucount.org/ ).
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Question from a reader: your rights and the swine flu
Wed, 11/04/2009 - 10:52 - oneweirdglobe
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A reader writes in with a question many teachers have been wondering about: the swine flu and our rights.
Do you have any idea about what are our rights when it comes to swine flu? Like for example, my friend got sick, and her school made her go to the hospital, where they injected her with multiple things--she has no idea what--and then gave her several unknown drugs to take. A week or so later, she still had a cough, so they made her go back to the hospital, where they gave her Tamiflu, and her school ordered her to take it. I'm not sure how much you know about influenza or Tamiflu.....but that was the most illogical move imaginable. She even got tested for swine flu, and the test says she doesn't have it!
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Daily dose of Korean news
Tue, 09/22/2009 - 09:07 - oneweirdglobe
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From across the K-blogosphere comes news, views, and other information you might wish to intake.
The Joongang Daily (HT to ROKDrop for first post) tells us about how much police time is spent on drunk people:
According to the Busan Metropolitan Police Agency, officers at the city’s
58 police precincts handled 54,925 cases of drunk pedestrians between January
and May, or some 364 cases per day. Handling drunks can take up a third of the
task of an average officer. Police precincts that handle Busan’s most crowded
and busy areas - Seomyeon, Yeonil, Jeonpo - complain that there are so many
drunks that they completely clog up their daily tasks.
The Busan police department estimates that the nation’s police spends at
Kimchi's not working - 10,000 plus Koreans have the swine flu
Thu, 09/17/2009 - 09:05 - oneweirdglobe
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Out of the estimated 50,000,000, at least 10,000 Koreans have the swine flu, according to one recent estimate (HT to gangwonnotes for beating me to the story on the Chosun Ilbo):
With the eighth death linked to H1N1 flu reported on Tuesday, the number of
patients infected with the H1N1 virus exceeded 10,000 in Korea about four months
after the first case of the infection occurred here.
The Ministry for Health, Welfare and Family Affairs on Tuesday said a
64-year-old woman in Gangwon Province was hospitalized with pneumonia on Aug.
27. She tested positive for the H1N1 flu virus and died early Tuesday morning.
As of Sunday, the number of patients infected with the H1N1 virus was
9,968, with 3,765 new cases of infection confirmed over the last week, the
French kisses out?
Mon, 09/14/2009 - 11:38 - oneweirdglobe
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It's one thing to cancel a festival - even a kimchi festival! - but it's not nearly as drastic-sounding as this move from France:
Hands get shaken; hands get kissed. And the light cheek-to-cheek peck, known as "la bise," is a social greeting, woven in at the very youngest age.
Some observes joke that before the French could ever give up such social graces, pigs would fly.
But then ... swine flu.
With official publicity campaigns about the H1N1 virus, to directives on avoiding practically any close encounter of the corporal kind, the country has been put on alert as the flu season gets under way.
Korean government issues new swine flu rules
Earlier today, the Korean government issued a number of new directives aimed at making people aware of the swine flu. Despite many recent stories in the Korean media about the swine flu outbreak, some people are apparently still unaware of what to do. Now translated into English, the first few regulations for Koreans have been summarized as such:
Avoid foreigners as much as possible, since they don't eat kimchi, and all Koreans know kimchi cures the swine flu.
Be sure to read the 'washing hands' chart - just before you check your hair and leave the bathroom. If you do wash your hands, be sure to use as little water as possible - and never use soap. Most bathrooms don't have soap anyway.
If your employer requests it, submit to a health check. Have your temperature taken by the same thermometer as everyone else in your office.
Be sure to cover your cough. Cover your mouth with your hands, then shake the hands of your boss.
Teacher fired after getting the swine flu
Sat, 08/29/2009 - 14:21 - oneweirdglobe
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Now here's a story that makes us scratch our heads. Brian in Jeollanam-do broke the story, and the Midnight Runner has done an excellent podcast with the teacher supposedly affected.
The Canadian teacher, only identified as 'Mark' had been on vacation in Thailand, then returned to Korea. He began feeling sick about 4-5 days after returning to Korea (though 'Mark' never mentions having a week of quarantine, which has quickly become standard procedure for most schools too worried about foreign teachers getting sick). From the podcast, his hagwon asked him to come into work even though they knew he was sick.
"Seoul to Vaccinate 10 Mil. Against Influenza A"
Fri, 08/28/2009 - 17:11 - oneweirdglobe
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So says the Korea Times:
South Korea plans to vaccinate 10 million people against influenza A by the end of this year to stem the rapid spread of the disease that has so far claimed three lives in the country.
Health and Welfare Minister Jeon Jae-hee said of the 13.3 million people, including young children and pregnant women, who are most at risk, about 75 percent will be vaccinated by December.
She said Seoul has contacted Britain's GlaxoSmithKline and secured an order for 10 million doses of an anti-viral vaccine, with more to be bought next year.
Jeon said full-scale vaccinations will begin in November with 27 percent of the country's 48 million population to receive protection by February 2010.
I don't have the Swine Flu. Leave me alone
Mon, 06/01/2009 - 08:18 - Bobby from Busa...
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BLOODY HAMMERS Unleash First Track & Music Video Off Of Upcoming Album
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BLOODY HAMMERS unleashed the exclusive music video premiere for their new song “The Reaper Comes”. The black and white video embraces minimalism and an old-school horror aesthetic to create something haunting.
BLOODY HAMMERS are a duo who hail from the mountains of Transylvania County, NC. The project and first self-titled release was originally formed as a studio only project with vocalist/songwriter, Anders Manga producing and recording all instruments. Soon Anders decided to take the project from the studio to a real band by recruiting his wife Devallia to play keyboards and other local musicians for live shows.
“This album is certainly the darkest album I’ve ever recorded”, states BLOODY HAMMERS mastermind Anders Manga, who stays on the dark path of the nether worlds and opens the gates to a Lovely Sort Of Death.
The brand new album “Lovely Sort Of Death” by Dark Occult Rockers BLOODY HAMMERS, will see the light of day on August 5th via Napalm Records.
The music video for the track “The Reaper Comes” can be seen below.
Read what the band has to say about their new video:
Anders Manga:
“Many times a band will release the fastest, most in-your-face track they have as a first single. “Lovely Sort of Death” has some fast tracks, but it is also more versatile than that. I decided to do something different and go with ‘The Reaper Comes’ because it accurately portrays how I was feeling at the time the album was written, while snowed in at the top of a mountain.”
Devallia:
“The video was shot along the Blue Ridge Parkway near Asheville. People kept stopping by while we were shooting, only to be horrified. Eventually we were tired of trying to hide the scythe. We would just smile and wave, and tell them don’t fear the reaper.”
BLOODY HAMMERS fourth effort haunts the listeners with heavy guitar fuzz tones and dark occult heavy tuning in these days. This is the perfect soundtrack for your next favorite horror movie ouija session! Till death do us part!
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Steve Jobs’ 313 Apple Patents
Steve Jobs, Apple’s hands on CEO known for his attention to detail, is credited as inventor in 313 USPTO patents. Includes Apple Store glass stair case!
Steve Jobs, Hands On CEO, Inventor
On Apple co-founder’s legendary hands on approach, New York Times:
Mr. Jobs’s say over the minute details of Apple’s products is legendary in Silicon Valley. A look at the patents that carry his name, for these products and others, offers a glimpse into the range of his influence at Apple. And it paints a picture of a roll-up-your-sleeves chief executive whose design choices reached into every corner of the company…
Mr. Jobs appears as the principal inventor or as one inventor among several on 313 Apple patents. Most are design patents that cover the look and feel of a product, rather than utility patents, which may cover a technical innovation like a software algorithm or computer chip.
The patents range from 1980s to present, including early Macintosh design, iPod, iOS devices (iPhone, iPod touch, iPad), laptops, iMac, product packaging, Apple Store glass stair case, keyboards and mice, monitors, Macintosh operating system (user interface elements in Mac OS), NeXT, power adapter, and Apple TV.
In contrast to founders of other large tech companies, Steve Jobs’ 313 patents beat them hands down:
Just nine Microsoft patents carry the name of Bill Gates, who was a co-founder of the company and its chief executive for more than two decades before stepping down in 2000. And little more than a dozen Google patents carry the names of co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin, according to a search of the United States Patent and Trademark Office Web site.
On Steve’s collaboration with Jony Ive, head of Apple industrial design, Macrumors reports:
More than 200 of the patents attributed to Jobs also list Apple design guru Jonathan Ive, indicating the close collaboration between the two in creating the vision for Apple’s products.
Illustration with ObamaPacman selection of some of the Steve Jobs patents: original Mac, current Apple MacBook Pro laptop, iPod, iPhone, Apple packaging, iTunes, and touchscreen user interface.
Collection of the Steve Jobs patents can be viewed on an NYT interactive feature.
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iET launches video for new single 'Hold On Tight'
Debut album 'So Unreal' released 16th June
by Chris Bound: June 9, 2014
Music Feed, TV
iET Says, "Hold on Tight is about pursuing your dreams but also about letting go. Sometimes in life we pursue things to obsessive lengths instead of enjoying the process and journey and being in the moment. It's good for an artist to remember that when you make music you are living your dream, doing what you love the most instead of focussing on achieving major success with it. The song is very much about a personal feeling but it is a common feeling for everybody that has a dream. Holding on Tight is also about visualizing your dream... dreaming about what you want to accomplish and then going for it and not giving up."
She goes on to add, "The sound of the track is very much inspired by the dance music of the 70s and 80s: Funk, Soul, Disco and a little Breakbeat and Reggae-Dub. A soulful funky disco riff, some dub effects and a breakbeat give drive and an uplifting feeling that enhance the uplifting character of the song. The breakdown is more psychedelic and symbolizes the moments of doubt and confusion along the way."
Watch the new video in the player below.
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Posted on 29th September 2016 by Tim Cundle
Doctor Who: Doom Coalition 3
Doctor Who: Doom Coalition 3 – Starring Paul McGann, Nicola Walker, Hattie Morahan, Alex Kingston, Jeremy Clyde, Ian Puleston-Davies, Richard Hope, Anna Acton, John Shrapnel, Kasia Koleczek, Glen McCready, Emma D’Inverno, Tin McMullan, Janie Dee, Robert Bathurst, John Heffernan, Nicholas Woodeson & Written by John Dorney & Matt Fitton – 5xCD/Download (Big Finish)
Well, where shall I start with the latest chapter of the Doom Coalition saga? Let’s dive straight in and talk about River! She’s back! And here she plays a much bigger part than she did in her appearance toward the end of Doom Coalition 2. Alex Kingston has settled into the world of Big Finish fantastically and is just as good on audio as she is on television. River works very well alongside The Doctor, Liv and Helen and creates an incredible sense of fun as she finds interesting ways to hide her true identity from her future husband and then there’s the nun with a big gun thing which…Wait, I’ve said too much. Forget the last bit, it’s time to move on to the story…
Split into four parts Doom Coalition 3 is a wild ride that takes its audience through the fifteenth, twentieth and twenty first centuries by way of a Time Lord super weapon. The first part Absent Friends is a haunting story centred around a barrage of mysterious phone calls and Helen’s experiences, in particular, during this story are deeply moving. The Eighth Piece splits up the TARDIS team and it’s in this part of the adventure that the Doctor comes face to face with one of the most fanatical extremist’s in British History; Thomas Cromwell. Liv meanwhile investigates the strange Clockmaker in fifteenth century Prague and Helen seeks the Eighth Piece in present day Rome. The Doomsday Chronometer follows seamlessly, as each member of the crew discover more about who, and what, is behind the events taking place when the enigmatic Clocksmith shows his hand. Finally in The Crucible of Souls the Doctor and River set out to save the universe while Liv and Helen are left to deal with an imposter. All the players are eventually reunited aboard the aforementioned Time Lord super weapon as the Eleven once again rears his noisy, over crowded head. Can The Doctor and company save the universe, and the future, before it’s too late?
Doom Coalition 3 is a more than worthy entry in this ongoing series. It starts off well with the atmospheric and emotional Absent Friends, but lags slightly in the middle before picking up again in The Crucible of Souls. As always the main cast are superb, with Paul McGann leading the way effortlessly, and both the Clocksmith and the Eleven, the villains of the piece, are suitably manic and bonkers. It’s a dark, tense, set of adventures with one hell of a cliff-hanger that’ll leave you screaming at your PC / Stereo / Ipad etc. for Doom Coalition 4 to hurry up and arrive! Nath Rixon
Tagged Alex Kingston, Big Finish, Doctor Who, Doom Coalition, Doom Coalition 3, John Dorney, Matt Fitton, Nicola Walker, Paul McGann, River Song, Tardis, The Eighth Doctor, The Eleven
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Eve of Tomorrow
Posted on Jan 21, 2021 Jan 21, 2021 by Michelle Lynn
Eve of Tomorrow The British are coming Eve of Tomorrow brings to a conclusion the story of Gabby and Dawn two English sisters thrust into the forefront of rebellion in the new world Set in a distant future laid wast
The British are coming.Eve of Tomorrow brings to a conclusion the story of Gabby and Dawn, two English sisters thrust into the forefront of rebellion in the new world Set in a distant future laid waste by change and conflict, Gabby and Dawn discover their parents among the Americans and pledge to fight alongside their countrymen seeking safety and freedom.The Republic ofThe British are coming.Eve of Tomorrow brings to a conclusion the story of Gabby and Dawn, two English sisters thrust into the forefront of rebellion in the new world Set in a distant future laid waste by change and conflict, Gabby and Dawn discover their parents among the Americans and pledge to fight alongside their countrymen seeking safety and freedom.The Republic of Texas has been defeated, but its doomsday weaponhas fallen into the wrong hands At first, warriors by circumstance, but now warriors by choice, Gabby and Dawn have a new mission to destroy the weapon before it can destroy their future.
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Michelle Lynn says:
Happiness is simple just decide to enjoy life no matter what it throws at you I m a pretty simple person I like to write, I spend way too much time reading, and I love hockey I tend to laugh at inappropriate times and talk than anyone should I ve been given a lot of challenges in my life I have a disabling illness that leaves me unable to do most thing But through books, I can do everything I m a sucker for romance and get a little bored if the book doesn t have even just a little bit of it I love YA fiction because the style is so completely cinematic and exciting I review most everything I read, unless I can t justify giving a book at least 3 stars Some may call me a softy, but as an author myself, I know how that feels I just can t do it to someone I love the author community and can t imagine myself without it I ve made so many good friends who are brilliant writers It s truly a joy
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Patrick Hodges
You know that feeling you get after you ve ridden a particularly vigorous roller coaster five times in a row That s how I felt after finishing Eve of Tomorrow.This book, and indeed the entire Dawn of Rebellion series, was a non stop thrill ride, filled with action, drama, action, adventure, action, action, and action And at the center of it was Dawn and Gabby, two teenage sisters thrown headlong into a world of chaos, a world that they will ultimately reshape for the better, growing as characte [...]
Kayla Howarth
Okay, wow.So much action This book has so much action I was starting to feel exhausted for poor Dawn and her sister Gabby for what they were going through In a good way, I should add I was glued to this, just as I was to the first two books in this series.The main focus of the story is to prevent a biological weapon from being released, killing everyone in its way But so many obstacles occur in Dawn and Gabby s way Dawn has grown significantly since the last book and has become brave, strong, an [...]
Source I received a free copy of this book from the author, thank you Michelle Lynn Cost Free Title Eve of Tomorrow Series Dawn of Rebellion 3 Author Michelle Lynn Overall Rating 5 starsThe term, Saving the best for last, comes to mind with this book It picks up where the second leaves off and immediately, your heart in pounding with the action that consumes Gabby and Dawn s life as the try their best to protect their people from a bio weapon that could destroy everything But the cost that this [...]
G.K. DeRosa
Wow what an ending to a phenomenal series Eve of Tomorrow is a super action packed end of the gut wrenching story of Dawn and Gabby, two sisters caught up in the middle of a rebellion and forced to become unlikely heroes This last book had of everything I ve come to love from author Michelle Lynn The story was non stop and kept me at the edge of my seat, turning page after page and never wanting to put the book down It really seemed like the sisters came full circle in their character developme [...]
John Hennessy
Now let s get something out there For me, dystopian novels meant George Orwell s Nineteen Eighty Four There probably won t be a better novel released in that genre in my lifetime or ever , and I was as surprised as anyone when I picked up a YA dystopian novel a few years ago, starring someone from District 12.So with Michelle Lynn s series, it would be easy to be dismissive, to say this is a fluffy YA dystopian, no one will care what happens Not true And with each book, the story has evolved int [...]
Lauren Mayhew
It took me a lot longer to read this than I wanted I would happily have read this in one day, it was that good This one didn t have a cliffhanger ending which I m grateful for and Michelle Lynn did a great job of finishing this book I have read so many books where the minor characters are forgotten about in the conclusion of the story, but in Eve of Tomorrow, we get to learn what happened to them all If they survived til the end, that is War is evil There is no other way to put it and although I [...]
Michelle Bryan
Just finished Eve of Tomorrow, book 3 of the Dawn Of Rebellion Trilogy Man, what an adventure The story of the two sisters, Dawn and Gabby, pick up right where the second book leaves off and it is just as spellbinding as the first two They are no longer the innocent, na ve teenagers we meet in book one however They are now bad ass rebel soldiers on a mission to stop a terrible weapon from wiping out what is left of humanity Michelle Lynn creates her characters with such depth and range of emotio [...]
Wow What a sequel There was so much going on in this book, I m not even sure where to begin It was action packed, it was heartbreaking, and it was suspenseful The transition into Eve of Tomorrow was flawless, and once again, I was pulled into the story from the beginning What I loved about this series was how much the characters grew And not just the sisters, but all of them They suffered so much and to see how they persevered through each tribulation was exciting to read But then the dose of re [...]
I feel save the best for last really fits this trilogy Just like the first two books the action amazed me, to be honest I began to feel quite exhausted keeping up, which is a good thing.There are always so many twists and turns, unlike most stories, you really don t know what s going to happen next Then, of course, the family dynamic and all the character development which has continued throughout the book makes everything all the believable.I m trying to be as conserved as I can here, be ause [...]
OMG The author has saved the best for last with this third and final book in the Dawn of Rebellion series.I found all three books easy to read with each chapter titled with the name of the character who is telling the story Drew was my favorite but I think Lee has now surpassed him Ms Lynn has done a wonderful job of bringing these young brave characters to life.So much happens in this one It carried me along throughout the emotional ride and I m not ashamed to admit it had me in tears near the [...]
Angela Lockwood
Eve of Tomorrow is the third and last book in the Dawn of Rebellion series And what a cracking end to the series it is Quite a number of surprises and I dare you not to shed a tear What I liked most about the series is seeing the two girls Dawn and Gabby grow from London street urgings into not to be messed with strong woman, without losing their core characters Gabby remains mouthy and defiant, while Dawn keeps her softer caring side.Book 2 was rather dark and serious, and while things are grim [...]
What a book, brilliant ending This has to have been the best series I ve ever read The power in the words were so emotional and I cried so much through it feeling what they were all going through As with the other books each chapter is a different character, the main ones Gabby, Dawn, Drew and Lee are the main ones throughout the book and series, but you do get the view from others too which only adds to it.I never thought I would get drawn into a series as I was with this one All along you are [...]
Eve of Tomorrow is by Michelle Lynn It is book three of her series It is a science fiction which is set in the future The setting is what used to be the United States It is now divided into sections controlled by various groups The characters are realistic and you get attached to them The plot is one which unfortunately could be plausible in the future, although I certainly hope it will never be The book is gripping and I found I could not put it down Luckily it reads quickly so it didn t take m [...]
Tito Barberi
Eve of Tomorrow is a sobering and sometimes cruel reminder that war can be just as devastating when fought by experienced, highly trained soldiers or a young, ragtag collection of freedom fighters.When we first met the sister duo of Dawn and Gabby in book one Dawn of Rebellion , Dawn was a shy, insecure, but likable girl living under the large shadow that her popular, pretty sister casts upon her For her part, Gabby was a mischievous, shallow, self conceited girl that I honestly found hard to li [...]
Mike Billington
Eve of Tomorrow is the final chapter in author Michelle Lynn s excellent Dawn of Rebellion trilogy and, as she did in her first two books, she has crafted a wonderful novel that is so very much than a simple dystopian adventure story.Writing in her trademark style of short, punchy chapters, Lynn skillfully uses her characters to examine just what it means to be truly human in the context of an exciting adventure novel that has enough great fight scenes to keep even the most jaded readers on the [...]
L.J. Higgins
Wow I couldn t put this book down I ve been so excited to finally read the final installment of the Dawn of Rebellion series, Eve of Tomorrow, and I was not disappointed I really enjoyed watching Dawn grow into a strong, independent, young woman, while I felt Gabby softened throughout the book with the help of her new love interest, which was a welcome change from her harsh attitude in Book two Eve of Tomorrow is packed full of action which makes it hard to stop reading, and it was easy to get s [...]
I m heart broken This wonderful amazing trilogy has come to an end, and what an ending it is Action, explosions, torture, love, conspiracy and friendship all aplenty to make this a truly fitting finale to this trilogy Michelle has a real gift for character creation, she brings them to life in such an amazing way I loved our little band of warriors and heroes, I cried when they fell, hurt when they suffered and rejoiced in their victories Michelle has written a powerful dystopian trilogy and I ca [...]
Lena Belle
Eve of Tomorrow is the third and final installment in the Dawn of Rebellion trilogy Sisters Dawn, and Gabby find themselves in a race against the clock to find and destroy, a doomsday weapon fallen into the wrong hands This book is action packed dystopian adventure The author is master at character development, as well as making the words come to life I hope to see from Michelle Lynn.I very much enjoyed this book and this series and would recommend it to anybody.
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Hipster Archaeology
Curator's Note
The Atari video game burial is a central urban legend of video gaming culture. Popular belief has it that in September 1983, faced with the resounding failure of their adaptation of the blockbuster film E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial, the Atari corporation drove somewhere between 10 and 20 truckloads of merchandise, including but not limited to a massive collection of unsold and returned E.T. cartridges, to a landfill in Alamogordo, New Mexico, buried this material, and paved over it with concrete.
The burial strikes me as a useful ground zero, both literally and figuratively, for a media archaeology of digital culture. Jussi Parikka and Erkki Huhtamo describe media archaeology as concerned with recovering “alternate histories of suppressed, neglected, and forgotten media that do not point teleologically to the present media-cultural condition as their ‘perfection.’” In the case of the burial, the usually metaphorical valence of media archaeology as a critical rubric is tantalizingly literal: what remains to be unearthed here is not merely a lost history of digital things, but indeed the lost things themselves—not only the economic and cultural failure of the E.T. game, but also its material detritus.
What might this sedimentary burial in the desert have to tell us about materiality, capital, circulation, labor, play, and waste within digital culture? How might we recover the history of a media object that seems to refuse physical recovery? What might it mean to construct history, memory, and/or nostalgia around an object that may not even exist to begin with? In their video for “When I Wake Up,” the band Wintergreen addresses these questions, yet their narrative of retrieval and recovery domesticates the uneasy materiality of the Atari burial, playing upon hipster nostalgia for the 8-bit culture of early video gaming. Bored with playing E.T. in their living room, the band drives out to the middle of the desert and uncovers a trove of E.T. cartridges, claiming the past on behalf of the present in a directly material fashion. Yet in remaining out of sight, the Atari landfill poses a relation between technological materiality and temporality that complicates the retro chic of Wintergreen’s archaeological expedition. Present through its absence—nothing more and nothing less—the burial’s Borgesian lost library of trash is an archive that is itself a gap in the archive, a phantom memory produced through secrecy, sedimentation, and the fluctuations of the technological market.
Media Nostalgia
media archeology
media archaeology
An underexplored topic
By Andrew Seroff
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Monday, August 27, 2012 — 7:05 pm
Thanks for this piece, it really made me think about video game nostalgia in a more structured way. Tacking on to your specific example, the Atari burial - it makes a great appearance in 'Lucky Wander Boy' - an essential read for the genre/topic. I'd also bring in 'Ready Player One' as a popular take, yet constructive form of video game nostalgia - that addresses the possibility of near-physical recovery of intangible media. In it, classic nostalgia 8-bit titles are reborn as minigames in a virtual reality world. Video game hipsters (the usage here meaning more "otaku" than "fashionable") receive rewards for comprehensive knowledge of retro games that exist outside of those games - like X-Box's "Achievements" or PS3's "Trophies," but of actual significance and meaningful clout instead of in frivolous title alone. To consider a serial connection that exists beyond game series alone implies a textual meaningfulness that otherwise escapes video games beyond Nintendo titles and the Konami code. But I digress. ET may exist as a relic and a myth, but long gone are the days where video game development can fall through the cracks. The digitality of our current culture, combined with the rise of the industry's popularity means the era of lost video games are over. But the new area in danger of being lost to insufficient archiving is the current trend of 'timeline' media applications. Realtime distribution like Twitter and its many imitators have countless exceptional applications, but we lack the digital infastructure to sort through the noise or to take accurate snapshots. I've actually faced this problem professionally - the last part of development of any product is the ability understand it. Tools are being made for digital media that are a step in the right direction, but the macro scope and independently curated content make a comprehensive record near impossible. The sand is piling up in the social media desert, and it won't be nearly as easy to dig through.
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Scale of Archive, Scale of Access
By Paul Benzon
Tuesday, August 28, 2012 — 2:12 am
Thanks for this response, Andrew -- you're right that Lucky Wander Boy and Ready Player One are both key intertexts for this project, and ones that I'll definitely have to think about more as I continue working on it. And I'm intrigued by the parallel you draw between something like the lost materiality of the Atari burial and the timeline applications that play such a powerful role in so many people's daily technological experience. There's a strange irony in that those applications are in many ways self-archiving tools, yet the archives they produce are often out of reach, perhaps both to the layperson enduser and to the scholar who might seek to trace or study them. But I think that those issues play out in the earlier digital moment of the burial as well. Like the social sand you invoke at the end of your comment, those cartridges in the desert are there, but out of reach, finite in number but massive enough to dwarf (or at least be daunting to) human comprehension -- how much easier is a stockpile of five million identical cartridges to count, catalog, and comprehend than the content of a given hashtag or timespan on Twitter?
That's the kind of question I had in mind in invoking Borges in my post. There's a multilayered forensic problem present in those cartridges that very quickly descends down a kind of rabbit hole of materiality: which of them have been played? How many, and for how long? To what stage of completion in the game? How many were never shipped to retailers, how many returned from retailers unsold, how many returned from buyers unopened, how many opened but unplayed? What techniques and techologies of retrieval, restoration, and emulation would it take to find out? Obviously there's a certain kind of absurdity to questions along those lines, but I think there's also validity to the fact that past a certain point, both of the archives you've mentioned become equally difficult to comprehend.
History Still Exists
By Mark Sample
I'm very skeptical of the notion that "long gone are the days where video game development can fall through the cracks." The Preserving Virtual Worlds reports are full of concrete and anecdotal evidence that retro and contemporary videogames alike are every bit as likely to disappear as an Atari cartridge buried in the desert--though perhaps not as dramatically. I also recommend James Newman's new book Best Before, about videogames and obsolescence.
Tuesday, August 28, 2012 — 5:32 pm
After posting my comment, I regretted that particular dramatic word choice - for one, I thought of indie & small-scale games that never break into the spotlight, and are accordingly more vulnerable to be lost into obscurity. I guess I was just thinking about a large-scale, high-profile publisher deal like "E.T." somehow falling through the cracks - the video game audience is one of the most industry-aware consumer bases. The other reason for regret being that such a blanket statement has no place in academic thinking. Thanks for the book rec.
folk historiography?
By Michael D Dwyer
Thanks Paul, both for your post and for kicking this week's entries off.
One of the things that caught my attention in your post is the persistence of the urban legend. What is it about this story that makes it so appealing to gamers? Does circulating the story display cultural capital? Is it a reflection on the state of contemporary gaming? Does it reflect a desire for alternative histories that don't lead us teleologically to Sony, Starcraft and Steam? To put it in a different way, if the band is so bored with playing the game, why are they so visibly stoked to find 500 copies of it in the desert?
You raise a great tension in your last question about the band here, Michael. Their excitement at finding a mass grave of copies of a game they're already bored with echoes the way the myth of the burial circulates in culture at large. While whatever is buried has never been found or uncovered, the game itself is far from lost: it's readily available on eBay, and you can play it on a computer emulator (a different platform, admittedly, but still a point of access to the game). So I think the allure of the myth comes from the aura of the burial itself in particular, both in the Benjaminian sense of such a unique accumulation of media objects (so much reproduction that it becomes effectively unreproducible, as it were) and in the more general sense of the secreted, clandestine events surrounding it. But there's still a question of motivation there -- where and how do we distinguish among the "desire for alternative histories" you mention, a more reactionary nostalgia, and a kind of "so-bad-it's-good" kitsch fixation with a game that's infamously bad by conventional standards?
Thanks for your response -- I'm looking forward to your post later this week!
so bad it's bad, maybe?
Yeah, well one of the things that's interesting about the video is that by the time the video's narrative begins the "so bad it's good" factor is failing to pay off for them. So why go through the trouble of finding more? It seems like one of the things the legend suggests is that the gaming industry has tried to obscure (literally "bury") the history of their failures, and one of the way gamers can assert control over gaming culture is to circulate different stories than the industry does. Hence all the Virtual Boy emulators, even though very few actually liked Virtual Boy. So one of the reasons to search for that archive is not because it's so bad it's good, but rather because it's so bad it's bad! I'm sort of thinking of Rob Craig's idea that emulators are important to preserve the history of games that have no commercial or aesthetic value for their producers.
To chime in here - I think
To chime in here - I think the video game culture has a built-in predisposition to what you call the "unique accumulation of media objects". Ever since the first Easter Egg in 1980's 'Adventure', the accumulation of secret cheat codes, mystery unlockables, and other hidden rewards have pulsed through video game audiences. A unique characteristic of the medium - the endless possibility of sidetracking for a secret experience around every corner, in a way that print or A/V media can hardly utilize. I feel you can attribute a lot of the obsessive accumulation and the devouring of mythology and lore to that obsessive pulse for the extra tier of experience, and status as well - to say your cartridge was buried by Atari in the desert is a supplementary paratextual reward, but a reward nonetheless.
Why E.T.?
What always strikes me most about this urban legend is the detail that the game ROMs buried in the desert were unsold cartridges of E.T.
The 9/25/83 newspaper article in the Alamogordo Daily News that inspired the urban legend makes no mention of specific games. But somehow E.T. is always mentioned as the game being dumped into the landfill. I don't think this is an insignificant detail. But what does it mean?
Is the insistence upon E.T. a reaction somehow to the schmaltz of the movie? Is it a reaction of gamers, desperate to separate their emerging medium from the predominant medium of film? Is it wish fulfillment about the future of franchises and marketing tie-ins? Is there a bit a schadenfreude to the urban legend? And would the urban legend be so persistent if it were another Atari VCS game from 1982--say, Berzerk--that was the central detail of the story?
et game -> sign of changes in 1980s entertainment industries?
I wonder if it's less about the schmaltz of the movie and more about E.T. being one of the early super-merchandized products of synergy-obsessed 1980s Hollywood. As a kid I definitely had an ET bike, an ET storybook record (with a weird poster of ET with Michael Jackson), an ET halloween costume, ET dolls (ugliest things of all time)...
E.T. Historiography
I think one thing worth underscoring about all of these explanations for "why E.T.?" is that they're all post facto -- as with the Daily News article Mark cites, The New York Times is equally nonspecific, and I haven't seen any material from the time of the burial that mentions E.T. as directly and specifically as the recent recountings do. So I think to really understand how the game got attached to the event, we'd have to know the history of the myth's circulation more thoroughly. Most recent accounts (on retro gaming sites, for example) tie the burial very closely to the video game industry crash of 1983 -- so does the NYT, but I tend to doubt that that kind of industry awareness was widespread in the gaming population in the early 80s. I'd be interested to see when and how all these threads (the failure of E.T., the industry crash, the burial) got tied together in the public imagination.
If we take that retrospective explanation into account, then, I think there's an element of industry critique (the schadenfreude Mark mentions) in the myth's focus on E.T. as the sole content of the landfill -- while it wasn't the first film tie-in (Montfort and Bogost note a copyright infringement on Jaws and a highly playable adaptation of Raiders of the Lost Ark as predecessors), it was perhaps the first time a game was part of a larger Hollywood synergy, as Michael's list of E.T. merchandising suggests. There's also the factor that tying the myth to a blockbuster film makes it accessible to people outside of gaming culture in a way that something like Berzerk wouldn't. In that sense, then, perhaps the myth fixates on the failure of E.T. in order to register a larger shift in productization and media markets rather than just reflecting on the gaming industry.
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Toddlers activate lexical semantic knowledge in the absence of visual referents: evidence from auditory priming
Infancy, 1–23, 2013Copyright International Society on Infant Studies (ISIS)ISSN: 1525-0008 print / 1532-7078 onlineDOI: 10.1111/infa.12026 Toddlers Activate Lexical Semantic Knowledge in the Absence of Visual Referents: Evidence from Auditory Jon A. Willits, Erica H. Wojcik, Mark S. Seidenberg, and Jenny R. Saffran Department of Psychology University of Wisconsin-Madison Language learners rapidly acquire extensive semantic knowledge, but thedevelopment of this knowledge is difficult to study, in part because it isdifficult to assess young children's lexical semantic representations. In ourstudies, we solved this problem by investigating lexical semantic knowledgein 24-month-olds using the Head-turn Preference Procedure. In Experiment1, looking times to a repeating spoken word stimulus (e.g., kitty-kitty-kitty)were shorter for trials preceded by a semantically related word (e.g., dog-dog-dog) than trials preceded by an unrelated word (e.g., juice-juice-juice).
Experiment 2 yielded similar results using a method in which pairs of wordswere presented on the same trial. The studies provide evidence that youngchildren activate of lexical semantic knowledge, and critically, that they doso in the absence of visual referents or sentence contexts. Auditory lexicalpriming is a promising technique for studying the development and structureof semantic knowledge in young children.
Understanding the structure and origins of semantic knowledge is one ofthe central problems in the study of cognition. Researchers have madeconsiderable progress toward characterizing semantic knowledge structure Correspondence should be sent to Jon A. Willits, Department of Psychology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1202 W. Johnson St., Madison, WI 53706. E-mail: [email protected] WILLITS ET AL.
and its brain bases (see, e.g., Bloom, 2000; Jackendoff, 2010; Mandler,2000; Martin, 2007; Rogers & McClelland, 2004). However, the origins ofthis knowledge and how it develops remain controversial. Early investiga-tions used methods that involved explicitly querying children about theirknowledge of word meanings (e.g., Gelman & Wellman, 1991; Keil, 1983),and these methods have been useful in understanding young children'sexplicit semantic knowledge. Only recently, however, have researchersbegun to use implicit methods to examine early lexical semantic knowledgein younger children (e.g., Meints, Plunkett, & Harris, 1999; Styles &Plunkett, 2009). In this article, we report two studies using an auditoryparadigm adapted from adult lexical priming studies (e.g., Meyer &Schvaneveldt, 1971; Moss, Ostrin, Tyler, & Marslen-Wilson, 1995) toexamine the semantic knowledge of very young children, in the absence ofimages of the named referents or useful sentence contexts. Together, thesestudies test whether early lexical knowledge includes an understanding ofthe relationship between the meanings of various words, and whether by2 years of age, this knowledge is activated in the absence of visual refer-ents and even when single words are uttered in isolation.
Our research built on a recent study using implicit measures to explore infants' sensitivity to lexical semantic information. Arias-Trejo and Plunk-ett (2009) used an intermodal preferential looking paradigm (IPL) toexamine 18- and 21-month-olds' responses to related prime–target pairssuch as cat-dog, compared with unrelated pairs such as plate-dog. Arias-Trejo and Plunkett chose their related pairs to be both strongly associated(according to adult associative norms) and highly imageable. Infants firstheard a phrase such as "I saw a cat," followed by a target word ("dog").
They then concurrently saw two images, one related (e.g., a dog) and oneunrelated (e.g., a door). The dependent measure was looking time to thepictures. Their primary manipulation was whether the initial phrase con-tained a prime word related to the target word and picture (e.g., "I saw acat…dog") or an unrelated word (e.g., "I saw a plate…dog"). Eighteen-month-olds looked significantly longer to the picture named by the targetword (dog), regardless of whether it had followed a related or an unrelatedprime phrase. In contrast, 21-month-olds looked significantly longer to thenamed picture in the related prime–target condition ("I saw a cat…dog")but not in the neutral prime–target condition ("I saw a plate….dog").
Styles and Plunkett (2009) used the same paradigm, again with word pairsthat were highly associated based on adult norms, and found a primingeffect in 24-month-olds, but not 18-month-olds. The older children's sensi-tivity to the semantic relatedness of the previous sentence providesevidence for lexical semantic organization in infants, and the age-relateddifferences suggest that semantic relationships between words are learned TODDLERS ACTIVATE LEXICAL SEMANTIC KNOWLEDGE between 18 and 21 months of age (see Mani & Plunkett, 2010, for relatedevidence concerning phonological priming). The studies by Arias-Trejo,Plunkett, and colleagues demonstrate that by 2 years of age, children areacquiring semantic knowledge that involves similarity structure and thatthis similarity structure leads to behavioral consequences, such as affectingeye movements to related visual images.
However, these studies also leave open a number of interesting questions.
How strong, rich, and accessible are children's semantic similarity represen-tations, and how much context do children need to retrieve and use theserepresentations? It is well established that the richer the cue, the easier it isto activate a representation (Craik & Lockhart, 1972; Fernald & Hurado,2006). In Arias-Trejo and Plunkett's study, the words' retrieval cues werequite rich, including an enriching sentence context for the prime and a visualimage of the target. How critical were the visual images to the activation ofthat target word? Because the IPL method involves hearing language,attending to a visual stimulus, and responding to the visual stimulus as aresult of the linguistic input, the results from this paradigm do not mediatebetween a number of different theories that underlie semantic memory andsemantic priming (see Hutchison, 2003; for a review). For example, the chil-dren could have been demonstrating word–word semantic priming; alterna-tively, children could also have been making a similarity judgment betweenthe auditory prime and a combined cue of the auditory target and the visualimage of the target. In a follow-up experiment, Arias-Trejo and Plunkettshowed that there is no priming effect if there is no auditory presentation ofthe target word. For example, if children heard the sentence, "I saw a cat…look!", they did not show a difference in looking time between a subse-quently presented related picture (a dog) and an unrelated picture (a plate).
This suggests that hearing the target word was necessary for activating thesemantic relationship between the prime word's concept and the visual tar-get's concept. However, they did not test a condition where children heardthe target word but did not see the picture (as this would be impossible inthe IPL paradigm, which relies on children's looks to visual targets). Thus, itis unclear whether 21-month-olds only need to hear the target word to deter-mine its similarity to the prime, or if they need a richer, audiovisual cue.
Equally of interest, how important was the prime's sentence context for activating a complete representation of the prime? Some of the verbs inArias-Trejo and Plunkett's carrier phrases included a considerable amountof semantic information; some trials presented primes like "I ate abiscuit", followed by the targets "cheese" and "chair". Even the more neu-tral verbs from the study, like buy and see, are probably not truly neutral,as the affordances of those verbs to different nouns will vary. Someobjects are more likely to be bought than others, a fact that children may WILLITS ET AL.
know conceptually or linguistically (due to word cooccurrence statistics ormore complex lexical semantic knowledge). We know that 2-year-olds acti-vate semantically related nouns when processing verbs (Fernald, 2004). Asa consequence, the exact locus of the semantic facilitation effects in Arias-Trejo and Plunkett's study is ambiguous. The effect could have been dueto semantic relationships between the prime and target nouns that wereeasily accessible regardless of sentence context. But, the effects could alsohave been dependent on the infant having the full sentence and using it toactivate a richer representation of the noun's semantics.
The goal of our studies was to ask whether children's knowledge of the meaningful relationships between words is accessible and usable in theabsence of any additional context, including visual images and sententialcontextual support. Specifically, we were interested developing a paradigmthat more similar to adult semantic priming methodologies, to investigatewhether this semantic knowledge can be activated in the absence ofpictures of the named referents. In contrast to the previous IPL studies,the stimuli in our current experiments were decontextualized single words.
Thus, with our auditory paradigm, we can directly ask whether toddler'slexical knowledge, in the absence of other contextual cues, includes thesemantic relationships between words.
There is previous work that has examined the semantic relationships that young children activate when they hear auditory words in isolation.
Torkildsen, Syversen, Simonsen, Moen and Lindgren (2007) used evokedpotentials to examine the processing differences between semanticallyrelated and unrelated pairs of auditorily presented words to 24-month-olds(see also Friedrich & Friederici, 2005). They defined relatedness in termsof membership to the same superordinate category. Torkildsen et al.
found a broadly distributed N400 effect for semantically unrelated wordpairs, similar to effects in adults (see Kutas & Federmeier, 2011 for areview). Unfortunately, the basis of the effect is again somewhat uncleardue to the nature of their experimental design. Semantic priming experi-ments with adults use counterbalanced designs in which the same stimuluswords appear in both related and unrelated conditions, to control forother lexical factors that affect performance, such as word frequency,familiarity, and imageablity (McNamara, 2005). Torkildsen et al. did notfollow this procedure and used different words for related and unrelatedtrials (e.g., they compared the results of trials like dog-horse to trials likecar-apple, rather than comparing trials like dog-horse to trials likecar-horse). Hence, the observed effects could be due to the relatednessmanipulation, but they could also be due to other properties of the stimulinested within condition (i.e., differences in the frequency or imageablity ofthe target words that happened to be in the two conditions). We chose TODDLERS ACTIVATE LEXICAL SEMANTIC KNOWLEDGE our stimuli such that each word served as its own control, participating inboth a related and unrelated pair, to address this methodological issue.
The present studies used a simple auditory paradigm, inspired by semantic priming studies, to examine semantic knowledge in 24-month-olds in the absence of related visual stimuli. The two experimentsemployed a modified version of the Head-turn Preference Procedure(HPP; Kemler Nelson et al., 1995). In Experiment 1, each trial consistedof repetitions of a single word (e.g., kitty-kitty-kitty). The word presentedon the preceding trial was either semantically related (e.g., dog-dog-dog) orunrelated (e.g., shoe-shoe-shoe). In Experiment 2, each trial consisted ofrepetitions of a pair of words that were either semantically related (dog-kitty) or unrelated (shoe-kitty). The principal question in both studies waswhether responses to the words would be modulated by the semantic relat-edness of other words, either across trials (Experiment 1) or within trials(Experiment 2). Together, the two studies allow us to perform two differ-ent tests of the important theoretical question of whether there is behav-ioral evidence that toddlers activate lexical semantic knowledge in theabsence of visual referents or sentence contexts.
The studies also make an important methodological contribution by showing that the HPP can be used to adapt auditory semantic primingprocedures for use with young children. Hundreds of studies have usedHPP to test infants' and toddlers' ability to discriminate between stimulibased on both preexisting knowledge as well as what they can learn duringan experimental session. While HPP is typically used with younger infants(between 6 months and 18 months), this is largely due to the fact that ithas been employed most often to test hypotheses involving perceptualdiscrimination at those ages. Indeed, HPP has also been used with olderchildren in the 20–36 month age range to investigate toddlers' knowledgeof meaning, syntax, and the relationship between the two (H€ & Santelmann, 2006; Nazzi, Barriere, Goyet, Kresh, & Legendre, 2011;Santelmann & Jusczyk, 1998; Soderstrom & Morgan, 2007; Willits, J. A.,Lany, J., & Saffran, J. R., 2012, in review). HPP, unlike the IPL proce-dure, allows us to present purely auditory stimuli without relying on tod-dlers' looks to specific images as a dependent measure. Moreover, HPP isconsiderably less expensive and easier to run with young children thanEEG and other methodologies that rely on neurophysiological responses.
In Experiment 1, we adapted a classic priming method used with adultsfor use with young children. In the simplest priming procedures (such as WILLITS ET AL.
in Meyer & Schvaneveldt, 1971), participants are presented with a primeword followed by a target word and are asked to make a behavioralresponse to the target word, such as reading the word aloud or making alexical (word/nonword) decision. Other research has employed a continu-ous variant of this task in which participants make a response to eachstimulus, with semantic relatedness varied across trials (McRae & Bois-vert, 1998; Moss et al., 1995; Nation & Snowling, 1999; Shelton & Martin,1992). The semantic priming effect refers to faster responses when theprime and target are semantically related (e.g., bread-cake) compared withunrelated controls (e.g., chair-cake). Priming methods have been used toinvestigate questions about the structure and processes of semantic mem-ory in adults (Ferretti, McRae, & Hatherell, 2001; McNamara, 1992;Moss et al., 1995; Neely, 1991) and older children (Nation & Snowling,1999; Plaut & Booth, 2000).
Extending this approach to toddlers and infants has clear benefits for understanding the early development of semantic knowledge. Experiment1 used the HPP, and on each trial, the child listened to repetitions of ahighly familiar word. Starting with trial 2, the word the child heard on thepreceding trial was either meaningfully related (e.g., "kitty") or unrelated(e.g., "shoe") to the word on the current trial (e.g., "dog"). If by24 months, toddlers have begun to develop representations of word mean-ing that are sufficiently specific to encode relatedness, listening timesshould differ for trials on which a word was preceded by a related word,compared with trials on which the same word was preceded by an unre-lated word.
One important issue surrounding any study testing for knowledge of semantic relationships is how one defines a semantic relationship. In theadult priming literature, there is considerable debate about the differentways in which words can be related and which types of relatedness lead topriming. The types of relationships explored have typically been brokendown along two dimensions. The first is when words' referents are similarin some way (i.e., share semantic features or belong to the same taxo-nomic category). When words that are related in these ways prime eachother, this is typically referred to as "semantic" priming (McRae & Bois-vert, 1998; Neely, 1977).1 Semantic relationships also encompass situationswhere words or their referents cooccur with high frequency, participate inthe same thematic relations, or elicit each other in word association 1This label is perhaps unfortunate, given the more general and precedential usage of "semantic" to refer to meaningful relations more broadly, or to distinguish knowledge aboutwords' meanings from knowledge about words' referential concepts (Bloomfield, 1933;Osgood, 1952).
TODDLERS ACTIVATE LEXICAL SEMANTIC KNOWLEDGE norms. When words related in these ways prime each other, this is typi-cally referred to as "associative" priming (for reviews of the differencesbetween these types of priming in the adult literature, see Hutchison,2003; Lucas, 2000; and McNamara, 2005). The infant study by Arias-Trejo & Plunkett (2009) chose their pairs based on adult word associationnorms, and thus can be thought of as a study of "associative" priming,whereas the study by Torkildsen et al. chose words from the same cate-gory, and thus would be considered an example of semantic priming.
Our goal in these initial studies with 2-year-olds is not to address the differences between types of semantic relationships. Instead, we were inter-ested in determining whether young children show priming effects at all, inpurely auditory single-word contexts. As such, we chose our related pairsso that they were highly related along multiple dimensions (e.g., taxo-nomic overlap, thematic relatedness, shared semantic features, high asso-ciativity) to maximize the potential for observing priming effects in thisage range. The primary goal of these studies was to test for semanticeffects in the absence of visual imagery or sentence contexts and to estab-lish the viability of the Head-turn methodology for testing these questions.
We chose to study 24-month-olds in light of previous studies examining knowledge of relations between word meanings in young children. In theirstudies using the IPL method, Styles and Plunkett (2009) found a primingeffect in 24-month-olds but not 18-month-olds, and Arias-Trejo andPlunkett (2009) found a priming effect in 21-month-olds but not in18-month-olds. Other research has found that 24-month-olds activateproperties (such as color) or a word's meaning when they hear that word(Johnson, McQueen, & Huettig, 2011; Swingley & Fernald, 2002). Becauseof the novelty of our method, and especially due to the removal of all con-textual cues to a word's meaning, we studied 24-month-olds in order toensure that participants had the requisite knowledge for the task.
Using the HPP methodology offers one further potential advantage.
The extensive body of work using the procedure may allow us to makedirectional hypotheses about toddlers' looking behavior. Infants couldshow a familiarity bias (longer looking to familiar or related stimuli) or anovelty bias (longer looking to unfamiliar or unrelated stimuli). Hunterand Ames (1988, see also Houston-Price & Nakai, 2004) have argued thatinfants' novelty and familiarity biases in HPP will follow a predictabletrajectory as a function of their familiarity with the stimuli. If infants areextremely familiar with the stimulus (either due to long exposure times orstrong preexisting knowledge of the stimuli) they tend to show a noveltybias in the experiment. In contrast, if infants have low familiarity, theytend to show a familiarity bias. In our experiments, as we used highfrequency words that children of this age were likely to know very well WILLITS ET AL.
Stimulus characteristics for individual words in Experiments 1 and 2 (see Table 1), then under Hunter and Ames hypothesis we would predictto find novelty effects; if infants are sensitive to the semantic relationshipsbetween the words, they ought to listen longer to unexpected stimuli (e.g.,have longer listening times on unrelated trials).
Participants were 32 monolingual English-learning toddlers (16 male) witha mean age of 24 months (M = 24.3, range = 22.5–25.4). All participantswere full-term, were reported to have normal vision and hearing, and werefrom households with a minimum amount of exposure to non-Englishlanguages (<4 h/week of exposure to another language). One additionaltoddler was unable to sit through the task and was excluded from theanalyses.
Stimuli and design While adult priming studies benefit from the use of word associationnorms in choosing appropriate stimuli, there is no equivalent database foryoung children. Thus, we relied on Dale and Fenson's (1996) MCDIlexical development norms to choose words that at least 75% of 24-month-olds are reported to understand. We further constrained our choiceof stimuli such that the words could be arranged into highly related wordpairs. Within each pair, the words were related along a number of differ-ent dimensions, including shared taxonomic category membership; similarthematic relations; high semantic feature overlap in normative evaluations TODDLERS ACTIVATE LEXICAL SEMANTIC KNOWLEDGE of semantic features (McRae, de Sa, & Seidenberg, 1997); and often highassociativity in normative measures of word association in adults (Nelson,McEvoy, & Schreiber, 1999).
The stimuli, spoken by an adult female in an infant-directed register, consisted of eight words: dog, kitty, shoe, sock, juice, milk, mouth, andnose. We limited our study to these eight words to reduce the amount ofinteritem variance. The stimuli were also equated for volume, pitch, andthe length of trials such that these factors were not confounded with relat-edness condition. In addition, we also calculated the frequency of thewords in a corpus of child-directed speech, created by combining all sam-ples of child-directed speech from the CHILDES database (MacWhinney,2000) for children up to 24 months of age. We converted these frequenciesto percentiles, finding that all of our words were in at least the 94th per-centile (e.g., of all the words in the CHILDES corpus database, our wordswere in the top 6% in terms of word frequency). The eight items and theirstimulus properties are shown in Table 1.
The words were then organized into lists consisting of 16 trials. On each trial, one word was repeated with a 750 ms pause between repeti-tions. Half the trials were preceded by a trial containing repetitions of therelated word (e.g., dog on trial n, kitty on trial n 1), and half were preceded by repetitions of an unrelated word (e.g., dog on trial n, shoe ontrial n 1). As described above, we chose the related pairs in order to maximize relatedness among many dimensions, maximizing the chance offinding an effect, resulting in the related pairs "dog-kitty," "shoe-sock,""mouth-nose," and "milk-juice." The pairings and their word associationstrengths from adult behavioral norms (in both directions, e.g. dog-kittyand kitty-dog) are shown in Table 2.
The unrelated pairs were created by pseudorandomly repairing the items for each participant, with the constraint that pairings that wouldhave resulted in thematic relationships (such as mouth-juice or kitty-nose)were not allowed as unrelated items. In addition, the word associationstrength in adult norms for unrelated pairings was always zero. Thus, forsome participants, the unrelated trial that preceded the shoe trial may havebeen dog, and for others, it may have been juice. Importantly, within eachparticipant's stimulus list, they heard each word exactly twice, once as arelated trial and once as an unrelated trial. This technique of randomlyrepairing unrelated items across different participants is common in theadult semantic priming literature (McNamara, 2005), as it leads to a betterestimate of the actual unrelated average response time, rather than reflect-ing idiosyncratic relationships that may exist for particular unrelated pair-ings if the same unrelated pairing is used for every participant in theexperiment. The set of related stimulus pairings, as well as their word WILLITS ET AL.
Association strength of related pairings in Experiments 1 and 2 Association strength Note. aThe association strength is the proportion of adult participants who, when given the first word as a cue, generated the second word as an association (Nelson et al., 1999).
The table shows the association strength for the related pairings used in the experiment. Theassociation strength of all unrelated pairings used in both experiments (e.g. dog-juice) wasalways zero. The listed association strengths for dog and kitty are actually those for dog andcat (dog and kitty were not normed in the Nelson et al. study).
association strengths in the related and unrelated conditions, are shown inTable 2.
We created different pseudorandomized experimental lists for the 32 participants, counterbalancing three factors: (1) each participant heardeach word in both a related and unrelated context, with the order ofwhich condition they heard first counterbalanced across participants; (2)to control for asymmetric association effects (e.g., shoe given sock has ahigher association strength than sock given shoe), half the participantsheard the pairs in one order (e.g., sock-shoe) and the other half heardthe reverse order (shoe-sock); (3) all pairs' side of presentation was coun-terbalanced; for example, one participant's shoe and sock trials wereboth presented from the left side, a second heard both from the right, athird participant heard shoe from the left and sock from the right, and afourth heard shoe from the right and sock from the left. An examplestimulus list for the experiment is shown in the Appendix, but it isimportant to note that this is a single example stimulus list, and manyothers lists were used to pseudorandomize the presentation order of theitems.
Toddlers were seated on a caregiver's lap in a sound-attenuated booth;the caregiver wore blacked-out sunglasses and listened to music overheadphones. The neutral visual stimuli were presented on three computer TODDLERS ACTIVATE LEXICAL SEMANTIC KNOWLEDGE monitors positioned at the infant's head-level approximately three feetaway. One monitor was placed directly in front of the infant, and theother two were placed 90º to the infant's left and right. The auditory stim-uli were presented on wall-mounted speakers directly below the threemonitors. Presentation of stimuli and collection of the experimenter'sbutton presses were controlled by HABIT software (Cohen, Atkinson, &Chaput, 2000).
Each trial began with a central attention-getting stimulus (a scene of a balloon and clouds) paired with music playing from the center speaker.
Once the infant oriented to the center, the experimental stimulus began toplay on either the left or right side. This stimulus consisted of a neutralvisual stimulus (a spinning pinwheel, used on every trial) and one of theeight spoken target words repeated with 750 ms of silence between repeti-tions. The word was repeated until the infant looked away for more than2-sec, or for a total of 15 sec, whichever came first. The experimenter out-side the booth, who was blind to the stimulus presented on each trial, usedbutton presses to keep track of the infant's looking behavior. The depen-dent measure on each trial was the total time the infant spent looking atthe monitor on the side from which the experimental auditory stimuluswas presented.
After the experiment, the child's caregiver was debriefed and given a questionnaire containing the eight target words and four filler words thatwere not used in the study. They were instructed to provide a 1–7 confi-dence rating for whether their child did (rating 7) or did not (rating 1)know the meaning of the words. All but two infants were at ceiling (7) forall 16 words. Nearly identical results were obtained in analyses (notreported here) that excluded data from the trials for the words that thetwo infants were reported not to know.
RESULTS AND DISCUSSION The principal data consist of mean looking times for each participanton related and unrelated trials, collapsing across items. We also com-puted mean looking times for each item for related and unrelated trials,collapsing across participants. The first trial for each participant wasdiscarded because it was not preceded by another stimulus. Ten addi-tional trials (across seven participants) out of a total of 480 trials (15trials 9 32 participants) were excluded due to participant inattention(e.g., crying, or never looking to the stimulus side during the trial).
The results for all of the included trials are presented in Figure 1. Inline with our directional hypothesis, infants looked longer on unrelated WILLITS ET AL.
Looking Time to Related or Unrelated Words
Relationship of Trial to Previous Trial Figure 1 Mean looking times for trials that followed a related word and trials thatfollowed an unrelated word.
trials (M = 9.18 sec, SE = 0.54 sec) than on related trials (M = 8.04 sec,SE = 0.44 sec.). This effect was significant both by participants [F1(1,31) = 9.69, p < 0.01, g2 = 0.24] and by items [F2(1, 7) = 6.56, p < 0.05, g2 = 0.48]. The size of this effect, both in terms of the difference scorebetween conditions (approximately 1.5 sec) as well as the statisticaleffect size (0.24/0.48) are in line with typical effect sizes using HPP totest for infants' abilities to discriminate familiar from novel stimuli(Houston-Price & Nakai, 2004).
To completely rule out the possibility that the differences were due to acoustic factors or other factors unrelated to meaningful differencesbetween the words, a mixed-effects model was used to analyze the data(Baayen, Davidson, & Bates, 2008). In this model, we used participantand target as random factors; the fixed factors were relatedness, durationof the current target (in milliseconds), difference between duration of thecurrent and previous trials, side of presentation, and whether the previous TODDLERS ACTIVATE LEXICAL SEMANTIC KNOWLEDGE trial was on the same side. In this analysis, only relatedness was a signifi-cant predictor of looking time (t = 2.11, p < 0.05).2 To summarize, in Experiment 1, we show that 24-month-olds exhibit a relatedness effect, similar to the priming effects found in adults forspoken words: looking times were shorter on trials for which the preced-ing trial contained a semantically related word, just as reaction times foradults are faster after a semantic prime in lexical decision tasks. Ourresults are also consistent with those of Arias-Trejo and Plunkett (2009)and Styles and Plunkett (2009), who found evidence for semantic organi-zation of the infant lexicon toward the end of the second year. Ourexperiments expand upon their results by showing that by 24 months,toddlers' representations of words and the similarity structure betweenthose representations (at least for highly frequent words) are easilyretrievable. The effects of semantic similarity exist even when the stimuliare purely auditory words presented in isolation, without any enrichingvisual or sentential context. These results are also consistent with Tor-kildsen et al.'s (2007) EEG results, which also found that by 24 monthsof age, toddlers show differential brain activation as a function of words'semantic relatedness. Our findings further demonstrate that semanticrelationships between words have behavioral consequences in the form ofinfants' listening times to words, and thus can be measured withoutmore expensive and difficult to employ methodologies such as measuringEEGs.
A question that emerges from the results of Experiment 1 is whether the semantic relatedness effect is contingent on the specific experimentalparadigm that was used. The method used in Experiment 1, in which werepeated a single word on each trial and manipulated the similaritybetween words across trials, is useful for gaining evidence concerning thedevelopment of semantic representations. However, most language inputthat infants receive does not consist of repetitions of individual words(e.g., "dog, dog, dog"), although it should not be discounted that infantsdo often hear words in isolation paired with the same words in fluentspeech (e.g., "Giraffe! Look at the Giraffe!", Aslin, Woodward, LaMendo-la, & Bever, 1996; Brent & Suskind, 2001; Lew-Williams, Pelucchi, &Saffran, 2011). In order for the results of Experiment 1 to be generaliz-able, then, it is important to determine whether semantic relatedness 2Because mixed-effects models use both the number of participants and the number of items as random factors, the degrees of freedom in these tests are not straightforward as theyare in typical significance tests, and thus, it is not standard to report them in the samemanner (see Baayen et al., 2008 for details).
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effects will emerge under other stimulus conditions. This issue is addressedin our second experiment.
In Experiment 2, we examined lexical knowledge using a variation on thetask used in Experiment 1. Rather than presenting a single word on eachtrial and testing the effects of relatedness across trials, we repeated wordpairs on each trial and manipulated the relatedness within each trial.
Observing effects of semantic relatedness within rather than across trialsallows comparisons that may constrain inferences about the cognitive pro-cesses underlying the effects. Presenting two words on each trial reducesworking memory load compared with Experiment 1, in which relatedstimuli occurred several seconds apart and were separated by an atten-tion-getting stimulus. Although working memory demands did notpreclude finding an effect in Experiment 1, this potential alternate expla-nation of null results could complicate the interpretation of future studiesemploying this methodology. It was therefore important to determinewhether the priming effect also occurs when memory demands are mini-mized.
Additionally, for Experiment 2 we collected data concerning the partici- pants' vocabularies. There has been much discussion in the literature con-cerning the relationship between overall vocabulary level and toddlers'performance in online tasks assessing familiar word recognition (Fernald,Zangl, Portillo, & Marchman, 2008; Swingley, Pinto, & Fernald, 1999)and novel word learning (e.g., Graf Estes, Edwards, & Saffran, 2011;Havy & Nazzi, 2009; Lany & Saffran, 2011; Nazzi, 2005; Werker, Fennell,Corcoran, & Stager, 2002). Parent report measures of toddlers' vocabularylevels were therefore used to assess whether semantic relatedness effectswere correlated with vocabulary development.
The participants were 32 monolingual English-learning toddlers (16 male)who had not participated in Experiment 1, with a mean age of 24 months(M = 24.5, range = 22.7–25.8). The participants were full term, werereported to have normal vision and hearing and had had a minimalamount of exposure to non-English languages (<4 h/week of exposure toanother language). Three additional toddlers were tested but excluded TODDLERS ACTIVATE LEXICAL SEMANTIC KNOWLEDGE from the analyses due to fussiness or crying during more than half of thetrials during the experiment.
Stimuli and design Each trial consisted of a word pair, repeated with a 750 ms pause betweenwords (e.g., "kitty…dog…kitty…dog…"). The words were the same asthose used in Experiment 1 (dog, kitty, shoe, sock, juice, milk, mouth, andnose), again paired to create a set of unrelated pairs (e.g., dog-shoe, juice-kitty) and a set of related pairs (e.g., dog-kitty, juice-milk). These pairswere used to create a different counterbalanced list for each participant.
Each counterbalanced list contained 16 trials; half unrelated and halfrelated. Within each list, the items were counterbalanced such that eachparticipant heard each word twice in a related pair and twice as an unre-lated pair and heard an equal number of related and unrelated trials onthe left and right side. Between lists, the items were constructed such thatthe order of the pairs was pseudorandomized, each pair was played oneach side for an equal number of participants, each pair occurred an equalproportion of times following a related and an unrelated trial, and theorder within the pair (i.e., which word was said first) was balanced acrossparticipants. As in Experiment 1, the stimuli were also equated forvolume, pitch, and the length of trials such that these factors were notconfounded with relatedness condition. The stimulus characteristics forthe items in Experiment 2 are shown in Tables 1 and 2, and a samplestimulus list is shown in the Appendix.
The procedure in Experiment 2 was identical to the procedure in Experi-ment 1, with the exception that word pairs rather than individual wordswere repeated on each trial. After the experiment, the caregiver wasdebriefed and given the questionnaire used in Experiment 1. All childrenbut two were at ceiling for all of the words used in the study; near identi-cal results were obtained when trials for words that children were reportedto not know were excluded. In addition, caregivers filled out a productivevocabulary checklist (MCDI; Dale & Fenson, 1996).
RESULTS AND DISCUSSION The mean looking times for each participant on related and unrelatedtrials collapsed across items are presented in Figure 2. Again in line with
Figure 2 Mean looking times for trials containing related and unrelated word pairs.
our directional predictions, looking times were longer on unrelated trials(M = 10.3 sec, SE = 0.6 sec.) than on related trials (M = 9.0 sec,SE = 0.4 sec.), an effect that was significant when analyzed by partici-pants, F1(1, 31) = 6.60, p < 0.05, g2 = 0.18, and was marginally significantwhen analyzed by items F2(1, 15) = 4.52. p = 0.052, g2 = 0.23. The resultsreplicate the effect we observed in Experiment 1: looking times wereshorter when a word was paired with a related word. Thus, relatednessaffects the processing of words presented together, as well as on successivetrials. As in Experiment 1, we conducted a mixed-effects model to rule outnonmeaningful effects on looking time, such as duration and amplitude.
Again, only relatedness was a significant predictor of looking time(t = 2.12, p < 0.05).
We then examined correlations between a child's vocabulary size and the size of that child's semantic relatedness effect. For each participant, arelatedness effect was calculated by subtracting their mean on related trialsfrom their mean on unrelated trials. In this analysis, there was a weak,nonsignificant correlation between vocabulary size and priming effect TODDLERS ACTIVATE LEXICAL SEMANTIC KNOWLEDGE (r = 0.18, p = 0.16). The failure to find a significant correlation betweenvocabulary (MCDI) and the semantic relatedness is consistent with Arias-Trejo and Plunkett (2009), Styles and Plunkett (2009), and Torkildsenet al. (2007) who also failed to find a relationship between vocabulary andtime spent looking to a semantically primed target. An ERP study byFriedrich and Friederici (2004) did find that high vocabulary 19-month-olds showed stronger, more adult-like effects of semantic relatedness. It isthus possible that 24-month-olds perform at ceiling in our task; youngerchildren (or an experiment using lower frequency words) may show differ-ences in semantic relatedness effects based on vocabulary size. Futureexperiments can explore this possibility.
GENERAL DISCUSSION Our knowledge of words includes extensive information about their mean-ings and how they relate to other words. These word meanings are part ofa semantic system that also represents information about objects, individu-als, and events. This knowledge is central to language, thinking, reasoning,and other cognitive functions. Many controversies in the study of psycho-logical semantics turn on questions about the origins of this knowledgeand how it develops. However, obtaining reliable information about earlysemantic knowledge is difficult. Our studies show that 24-month-olds'knowledge of word meanings is sufficient to produce relatedness effectsboth across events (words presented on successive trials) and within anevent (word pairs presented within trials) in a purely auditory paradigmand without enriching sentential contextual information. By 24-months ofage, toddlers' representation of word meaning, as well as the associativeand similarity structures of words, are already quite rich, robust, andeasily accessible. Our studies provide convergent evidence, along withstudies by Arias-Trejo and Plunkett (2009) and by Torkildsen et al.
(2007), that by this age, children are successfully representing the semanticrelations between words when processing language.
Our findings also demonstrate that the extension of the HPP to the semantic realm has considerable promise. However, this work should notbe taken as an argument that HPP is always the best method for investi-gating semantic development. Different methods have different advantagesdepending upon the questions being asked (as well as the resources thatare available, in the case of studying ERPs). In principle, one importantadvantage of the IPL paradigm used by Plunkett and colleagues (as wellas EEG studies like Torkildsen et al.'s) is that it tracks behavior overtime, and thus, it provides a window into the time course of young WILLITS ET AL.
children's online processing of primed words. The IPL priming paperspublished thus far, however, have not reported time-course analyses, mak-ing it difficult to ascertain whether or not the IPL procedure providesinterpretable reaction time data in practice. Additional work is needed toexplore this possible IPL advantage.
A clear benefit of the HPP method, on the other hand, is that it allows for the exploration of lexical knowledge without the presence of relatedvisual stimuli, providing a more direct test of purely auditory lexicalknowledge. The IPL priming methodology, along with other IPL designs,is limited to stimuli that are highly concrete and imageable, and in factArias-Trejo and Plunkett (2009) used imagability measures to choose theirstimuli. Because HPP does not require visual representations of the stim-uli, future studies can examine nonimageable, nonconcrete words that arenot well suited to eye-tracking methods.
In addition to the IPL and HPP methods, the ERP paradigm used by Torkildsen et al. (2007) is also applicable to the study of the developmentof semantic relationships. Corroborating behavioral data are often usefulto confirm that neurological activity translates to expected behavioral out-comes (Picton & Taylor, 2007), and thus, the HPP provides a nice compli-ment to ERP findings. It should also not be discounted that the HPPdesign is considerably cheaper to implement and thus is accessible to moreresearchers. The greater sensitivity of infant ERP methods is important,though, and therefore the continuation of both neurological and behav-ioral research programs, and the integration of their respective findings,will lead to a deeper understanding of early semantic representations.
This extension of the priming methodology to young children has considerable potential as a tool for investigating semantic development.
Lexical priming has been widely used in studies of the organization ofsemantic information in adults (McNamara, 1992; McRae et al., 1997;Moss et al., 1995) and its breakdown in cases of brain injury or disease(Chertkow, Bub, & Seidenberg, 1989). The modified HPP used in the pres-ent studies can be extended to shed light on many other aspects of youngchildren's word and conceptual knowledge, allowing us to understand thedevelopment of the lexical system.
Future work can look at a number of different issues alluded to above, such as how word frequency, age of acquisition, and children's vocabularysize influence semantic priming effects. Future work can also explore thedevelopmental underpinnings of issues that have been explored in theadult research, such as what types of semantic relationships yield an effect.
The difference between the methodologies of Experiment 1 and Experi-ment 2, which manipulates the amount of time between the prime and thetarget, may also be useful for exploring issues related to retrieval TODDLERS ACTIVATE LEXICAL SEMANTIC KNOWLEDGE mechanisms. In the adult literature, the duration between the prime andtarget has been found to affect whether one finds priming between wordsthat are associatively related versus "semantically" related (see Hutchison,2003; for a review). Likewise, this method may be useful for investigatingthe developmental underpinnings of other major debates, such as whethersemantic priming effects are more likely due to a mechanism like "spread-ing activation" between related words in a semantic network (Collins &Loftus, 1975; McNamara, 1992) or due to related words forming better"compound cues" to memory (McKoon & Ratcliff, 1992; Ratcliff & McK-oon, 1988).
In addition to issues concerning the processes and types of relations represented in toddlers' semantic memory, there are still outstanding ques-tions about how this knowledge is used. One might describe our findingsas a "purely lexical" semantic priming effect, in the sense that the childrenin our study activated and made use of knowledge of word meaning in theabsence of nonlinguistic or referential information during the experiment,as well as in the absence of sentential contexts or other supportive linguis-tic information. However, this does not distinguish between differenthypotheses about the locus of these effects. These priming effects could bedue to knowledge about the relationships between words. Alternatively,these effects could be due to conceptual knowledge about the words' refer-ents. Distinguishing between these two hypotheses is very difficult, andthese two effects are almost always confounded in the adult literature(Willits, J. A., Amato, M. S., & MacDonald, M. C., 2012, in review).
A final outstanding question is the developmental trajectory of these effects. We have provided evidence that children's word knowledge is quiterobust by 24 months of age and that it includes the relations betweenwords. Figuring out exactly when these abilities emerge, and how thatmight differ as a function of the type of relationship (semantic versus asso-ciated) or the locus of the knowledge (word knowledge versus worldknowledge) will be an important question to pursue in future work.
With basic relatedness effects in hand, future research can focus on further exploring these issues in the development of lexical semanticknowledge. Because of this methodology's simplicity and flexibility, it canbe used to investigate many questions about semantic knowledge thatcould not otherwise be easily addressed.
We would like to thank the participating families and the members of theInfant Learning Laboratory. We would also like to thank Thierry Nazzi WILLITS ET AL.
and three anonymous reviewers for useful input on the study. This materialwas based on work funded in part by the National Science FoundationGraduate Research Fellowship under Grant No. DGE-0718123 to EHW.
Any opinions, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in thismaterial are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views ofthe National Science Foundation. Additional funding was provided by theNICHD to JRS (R01HD037466) and the Waisman Center (P30HD03352);and by a grant from the James F. McDonnell Foundation to JRS.
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Example stimulus lists for Experiment 1 and Experiment 2 Note. In Experiment 1, one particular toddler heard the words in the exact order shown above,and the other 31 heard pseudorandomized lists fulfilling the same properties (always havingeach set of two trials contain related words, with the result being that trials alternated in therelatedness of the previous trial (trial 2 was related, trial 3 unrelated, trial 4 related, etc.). InExperiment 2, all toddlers heard the items shown, and the trial order was randomized acrossparticipants.
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An apology for absence was received from Cllr Louie O'Leary.
To receive any declarations of interest
Cllr John Worth declared that he had predetermined application WD/D/20/001703 - Land Adjacent to Buckland House, Buckland House Lane, Buckland Ripers, DT3 4FT. He would speak as the Ward Member and not take part in the debate or vote on this application.
Cllr Jean Dunseith declared that she had predetermined application WD/D/20/001703 - Land Adjacent to Buckland House, Buckland House Lane, Buckland Ripers, DT3 4FT. She would speak as the Ward Member and not take part in the debate or vote on this application.
To confirm the minutes of the meeting held on 3 December 2020.
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The minutes of the meeting held on 3 December 2020 were confirmed and would be signed at a future date.
Public speaking has been suspended for virtual committee meetings during the Covid-19 crisis and public participation will be dealt with through written submissions only.
Members of the public who live, work or represent an organisation within the Dorset Council area, may submit up to two questions or a statement of up to a maximum of 450 words. All submissions must be sent electronically to denise.hunt@dorsetcouncil.gov.uk by the deadline set out below. When submitting a question please indicate who the question is for and include your name, address and contact details. Questions and statements received in line with the council’s rules for public participation will be published as a supplement to the agenda.
Questions will be read out by an officer of the council and a response given by the appropriate Portfolio Holder or officer at the meeting. All questions, statements and responses will be published in full within the minutes of the meeting. The deadline for submission of the full text of a question or statement is 8.30am on 5 January 2021.
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Representations by the public to the Committee on individual planning applications are detailed below. There were no questions, petitions or deputations received on other items on this occasion.
To consider the applications listed below for planning permission
Members considered written reports submitted on planning applications as set out below.
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Use of land to site toilet/shower block and erection of decking and steps (retrospective).
Cllr Jean Dunseith and Cllr John Worth did not take part in the debate or vote on this application.
The Committee considered a retrospective application for use of land to site a a toilet/shower block and erection of decking and steps.
The Senior Planning officer presented the proposal for a permanent toilet and shower block. A temporary block had been a condition of an original planning permission granted under officer delegation in 2019 in connection with use of the field for camping between 23 June - 8 September each year.
The Committee was advised that this was a new planning application for a permanent structure that needed to be considered on its own merits and was not a variation of conditions approved as part of the previous permission in 2019.
Plans and photographs showed the location and appearance of the toilet/shower block and its visual impact on the rural area, in particular, from different points along Nottington Lane drawing nearer to the site.
The key planning issues were outlined including principle of development, visual amenity and biodiversity, as well as a summary of the conditions in connection with the application, if approved.
Public written representations received, some of which were also read out at the meeting, are attached to these minutes.
Cllr John Worth, speaking as the Ward Member - Chickerell, highlighted the lack of regard for the planning process or adherence to the original permission by the applicant; the permanency and increased size of the structure, impact on visual amenity and the weakness of the Covid pandemic as a reason for its size given its presence on the site since September 2019.
Cllr Jean Dunseith, also speaking as the Ward Member - Chickerell, highlighted that conditions existed to put a boundary around the planning permission and those attached to the original permission had been disregarded. In her view this would be a judgement on the importance of conditions.
Whilst appreciating the desire to achieve an award winning camping site, the Committee expressed concerns relating to a lack of respect for the planning process in the way the development had been carried out; the need for a Biodiversity Plan including impact of lighting on wildlife ; the adequacy of the soakaway and septic tank to support a larger block and the need for disabled access.
Members requested additional conditions including the requirement for a Biodiversity Plan and disabled access.
The Committee was advised that the lighting associated with the block was switched off during periods when not in use and that the efficacy of the soakaway / septic tank would be a private matter for the applicant and that any complaints was a separate issue to be dealt with by the Environmental Health department.
Subject to the inclusion of the suggested additional conditions, it was proposed by Cllr Kate Wheller, seconded by Cllr Nick Ireland
Decision: That authority be delegated to the Head of Planning to approve subject to the planning conditions as set out in the officer’s report ... view the full minutes text for item 58.
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Breach of Planning: Demolition of original farmhouse and Erection of a dwelling not in accordance with planning approval WD/D/17/002888 as amended via the approved non material amendment approvals WD/D/19/000355/NMA & WD/D/19/000624/NMA.
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The Committee considered an update on enforcement action in respect of a breach of planning - demolition of the original farmhouse and erection of a dwelling not in accordance with planning approval WD/D/17/002888 as
amended via the approved non material amendment (NMA) approvals
WD/D/19/000355/NMA & WD/D/19/000624/NMA.
The Senior Enforcement Officer confirmed that a Section 78 appeal had been submitted by the applicants that would be dealt with by a planning inquiry. If this appeal was dismissed, the Planning Inspector would provide a view on the harm created by the development that could underpin any future enforcement action. He therefore advised that enforcement action should not be undertaken before the appeal decision was known.
The public written representations were read out at the meeting and are attached to these minutes. The Senior Enforcement Officer responded to the points raised during public participation.
The Committee expressed concern regarding the measurements contained in the various plans and were assured that the "as built" measurements were correct and that plans submitted as a result of the various NMAs and as part of the appeal documentation would be vigorously checked by officers over the coming weeks.
A request was made to not lose sight of the fact that the building footprint had altered meaning that it was closer to Main Street and higher up the slope.
Proposed by Cllr Jean Dunseith, seconded by Cllr Bill Pipe.
Decision: That committee agrees that no formal enforcement action be taken at this time pending the determination of the appeal lodged by the owner, which if refused gives the Council support in taking formal enforcement action and being able to successfully defend that decision at any subsequent challenge.
Should the appeal be dismissed and the Council’s refusal of planning permission be upheld, then a further report will be presented to the next available committee seeking authority to enforce against those elements refused consent, and/or, those elements identified by the Inspector’s decision letter as being harmful to amenity.
To consider any items of business which the Chairman has had prior notification and considers to be urgent pursuant to section 100B (4) b) of the Local Government Act 1972
The reason for the urgency shall be recorded in the minutes.
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Saw VI: This Time It’s Political
At this point, we must concede that the Jigsaw Killer, Jonathan Kramer, must certainly have spent more of his life setting up his murderous little games than any other activity. And that the amounts of money involved to play them are staggering.
Which makes one wonder if he might have done something more productive with his time and money.
Anyway, we have here the sixth entry in the notorious movie franchise.
And while I defend these movies as not being torture porn, I have to admit, when this one started I thought, “Well, that’s a bit much.”
Now, Saw suffers from the the same problem every successful horror movie does: The demand for sequels far exceeds the planning of the people who wrote the original. Sort of queerly in the case of the Saw series—which uniquely (I think) has had one release every year for six years—each entry has to do some retconning. I say “queer” because I think movies 2-5 were a done deal after the first one, and #7 seems to be guaranteed. In other words, you could do some planning.
And, in fairness, the Saws’ retconning has been rather mild up till this movie.
In case you’re not familiar with the premise, John Kramer is an engineer who entraps people he feels are wasting their lives by constructing elaborate and horrific traps they must escape, in an attempt to give them a new appreciation for life. (Oh, and he’s been dead for half the series, and lives only through the elaborate plans he set up in advance.)
Well, that’s the original premise. Jigsaw’s mission has drifted away from that pure idea to where he’s been trying to teach forgiveness, cooperation, anger management, and so on.
The other drift that has occurred is that the original motivation for Jigsaw was anger over his own life. He had been diagnosed with terminal cancer, and so felt it unfair that others didn’t appreciate what they had—what had been taken from him.
Now, to me, the thing that sets the series apart from the typical slashers (besides the generally above par suspense and plotting), is empathy. The characterizations in most slashers are weak: They’re just fodder. Their personalities are largely irrelevant.
In this series, the victims’ personalities are the killer’s prime motivation. (And not stupid things like having premarital sex and smoking pot.) Infidelity, violence, depression, selfishness and so on, are the flaws that Jigsaw tries to correct with his unique brand of therapy.
In the third installment, for example, the morose father gets the option of killing or saving the people he holds responsible for the death of his child and the subsequent injustices. To add injury to insult, he can only save them by enduring considerable duress. It’s a sort of high drama, compressed into a very determinate, short time period.
This is a huge part (in my mind) as to why the movies work, when they do work.
Saw VI has the unfortunate added burden of a political message. And this message completely struggles against the established precedent of the previous movies.
You see, in Saw VI, John Kramer targets insurance company employees!
Even if you accept the premise (which cheerfully skips around the general success of the insurance industry by noting offhand the millions of people insurance works for) that these guys (and everyone who works for them) are pure evil, the movie undermines itself and the entire series in two big ways.
First of all, there’s a scene where John goes to Insurance Guy because he’s found an exotic treatment for his cancer. Naturally, he’s refused, and on top of that threatened with having his coverage dropped if he goes and does it himself.
Well, on the one hand, how would they know? But more importantly, we know John has tons of money. In fact, they even point that out, by saying the treatment he’s getting now could wipe him out financially, to which he says “Money is not the issue.”
Y’see, it’s a matter of principle. So the guy who’s gone around for five movies putting people in horrendous situations to gauge their love of life doesn’t bother to take a mild risk to save his own life? Really?
Second of all, there is a “test” in this movie completely different from every other in the series’ history: An innocent character is given the chance to kill someone.
In every previous case where someone playing a game has had the opportunity to kill, doing so meant their own death. (Y’see, Jigsaw teaches tolerance and forgiveness with all his hacksaws and barbed wires.) But in this movie, it’s fairly clear that killing is just peachy! One presumes that not-killing would be okay, too, but it’s not entirely clear.
Worst of all, this otherwise well plotted movie struggles because you’re obviously meant to hate the insurance exec, but the formula requires us to empathize with the victims at some level. As a result, the exec comes off very human and really, very decent. (His employees, to a man, are completely one dimensional monsters, which is rather weak, too.) Actor Peter Outerbridge, while capable of seeming like an unctuous sleaze, is a little too deep and human to make us feel like he deserves his torture.
So, the whole thing ends up ass-over-tea cart.
There was much swearing from The Boy who liked the movie except for the weird imposition of politics onto it.
And it’s a shame, because it’s otherwise the strongest entry since #3. Good pacing, good characterization (with the noted exceptions), clever and interesting “games"—notably bad lighting, however, and maybe a slightly cheaper feel over all.
Costas Mandylor (of the perpetual trout pout) is back in this movie, doing Jigsaw’s dirty work, with an especially brutal flair, and providing one of the movie’s two big twists (setting up the sequel).
Shawnee Smith (who died several movies back) re-appears in flashbacks, as of course does the Jigsaw himself, Tobin Bell. Weirdly, Athena Karkaris, who took a face full of death a movie or two ago ends up having gotten better, though not for any reason I can figure out. (The series’ tendency to kill everyone makes it hard to establish much continuity, so they keep resurrecting minor characters.)
Happily, the wonderful Betsy Russell is back. Though it seems to me her character has drifted over the movies, again I think due to the fact that not many characters survive from one film to the next. She seemed to be pretty appalled by her ex-husband’s behavior when we first met her, but gradually seems to have warmed to the whole serial murder thing.
I’m not sure if this soured us to the next one. This one we waited till it was only $3/ticket. I’m guessing the next one won’t have any political agenda, however.
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Opening & Closing Films
Films In Competition
Narrative Features
Indian Narrative Shorts
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Documentary Features
Documentary Shorts
Student Shorts
Riyad Wadia Award
FESTIVAL CATALOG
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India”s biggest queer film fest
Written by admin on December 2, 2019 . Posted in 2012.
KASHISH Mumbai International Queer Film Festival, India”s Biggest Queer Film Festival, returns for its third year from May 23-27, 2012 at Cinemax Versova and Alliance Francaise de Bombay.
The film festival will be held at Cinemax Versova (Infinity Mall, Andheri West) from May 23-27, 2012 and Alliance Francaise (Marine Lines) from May 24-26, 2012.
Entry to the festival is FREE OF COST. But everyone who wishes to attend the film festival HAS to be a Registered Delegate. (Online registrations are now closed).
The Delegate Badges have to be picked up at the venue that you indicate in the form. However, the badge would be valid for both venues on all days of the festival EXCEPT the Opening Night on May 23, 2012 at Cinemax Versova, which is ONLY by invitation.
KASHISH Mumbai International Queer Film Festival is the first and only gay & lesbian film festival in India to be held in a mainstream theater and the only queer festival to receive clearance from the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting. The festival is organized by Solaris Pictures and Bombay Dost in association with The Humsafar Trust.
KASHISH 2012’s theme is ‘FOR EVERYONE’ and the festival will make a special effort to program films and have panel discussions that not only deal with gay, lesbian, transgender themes, but also those that relate to families and friends of LGBT people.
KASHISH 2012 is proud, privileged and delighted to bring together up and panel of eminent and acclaimed film and theatre professionals as Jury Members to judge the competitive categories. The jury this year comprises of actors/directors Renuka Shahane and Parvin Dabas, theatre actor/producer Mahabanoo Mody-Kotwal, television/theatre actor Mona Ambegaonkar and film critic/author Mayank Shekhar. Click here for the Jury.
Key Highlights for this year will be:
120 films from 30 countries. Click here for the schedule Click here for online catalogue
India Focus – Regional Films: Four queer feature films from India in four regional languages – Marathi, Punjabi, Tamil/Kannada and Hindi.
Country Focus – France: A special package of two feature length and six short films showcasing the best of contemporary French queer cinema. Click here for details
Filmmaker in Focus – Rob Williams: US filmmaker Rob Williams, who has made popular gay romantic comedies and dramas is traveling to India to present his films at KASHISH. Click here for details
Special package of sensitive, dramatic and touching features and shorts on HIV/AIDS is introduced under ‘Red Ribbon Films’ package.
Short film packages like Rainbow Warriors (about queer people who have made a difference), Indian Masala Mix (exciting shorts by young Indian filmmakers) and UnFair Games about homophobia in sports.
Q-Toons – A special package of gay animation films.
Kashish Coffee Break Online Film Competition. Click here for details
Panel discussions, book readings, interactions with filmmakers and even an Art Corner. Click here for details
The “competition section’’ will showcase films which will be judged by an eminent panel of Jury members. Click here for details
• The Best Indian queer short film at KASHISH gets to compete for the Iris Prize in UK which carries a cash prize of 25,000 pounds.
• ‘Riyad Wadia award for Indian emerging filmmaker’ with a cash award of Rs.10,000.
• Best Feature Film will win a cash award of Rs 15,000 sponsored by Time Out.
About Kashish
Filmmakers and delegate
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Stream Map USA Expands to Nine Southeast States
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Gogal Publishing announces the release of Stream Map USA – Southeast Edition expanding Gogal’s signature brand with complete stream map coverage of Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia and Florida.
Stream Map USA is a searchable, color coded river, lake and stream map displayed over GPS-enabled roadmaps, satellite images, and topographic maps. Each edition features a built-in search function allowing users to easily find even the most obscure lakes and streams. Users can search across the entire region or limit their search to a specific state or even an individual county. Once a stream is located, a simple touch of the map adds a destination waypoint providing users with turn-by-turn driving directions right to that stream.
In the field, Stream Map USA is a complete handheld GPS with maps stored locally for use without phone service. The user’s location is displayed on the map and the map tracks them as they travel. Along the way, users can capture additional waypoints with GPS accuracy to save any special locations they find. Each waypoint can then be named and notes can be added. Switching to the field compass displays the user’s GPS coordinates, heading, altitude and speed of travel. When a waypoint is selected as the “Target” destination, the compass even adds a direction of travel arrow pointing the way to that waypoint and counting down the distance. This is ideal for storing fishing holes, campsites, tree stands, scenic locations, and just about anywhere a user may want to find again.
Traditional maps have always treated flowing water as simple blue lines making it difficult to quickly identify streams and almost impossible to follow their flow without careful study of the map’s labels. Stream Map USA takes a novel approach mapping each river, lake and stream in a unique color allowing users to quickly differentiate any water from its tributaries and follow any stream from headwaters to mouth.
As a planning and safety tool, Stream Map USA also includes access to current water conditions through the USGS. Each stream gage is mapped and users simply tap the map gage to get reports on stream height, water flow, and other important factors updated every 15 minutes by USGS.
“We wanted to step away from traditional mapping and create a 21st century map of America’s streams harnessing the power of digital mapping, GPS technology, and the smartphone,” said author and company president, Mike Gogal. “With the release of Stream Map USA, we think we’ve done just that!”
Three editions of Stream Map USA covering the Northeast, West Coast and Southeast are now available on the AppStore for the introductory price of $8.99 each. A fourth edition, Great Lakes is slated for release in late November and Android versions of the entire catalogue should be available on the Google Play Store in early 2016.
Visit www.StreamMapUSA.com for more information.
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VC Minute: Finding Investors to Target
By Rich Everything
The VC Minute is my segment on the Startup of the Year podcast where I share a quick snippet of advice related to startup fundraising.
Let’s talk about finding investors to target.
Fundraising needs to be treated like a sales process. You need to know who you’re going after, why them, and how to approach them. But it starts with knowing who you’re targeting.
Generally speaking, you want to cast a wide net and start with the lesser known investors first. If you’re going to go after a big name investor, it’s best to wait until you’ve honed your pitch on others. So let’s build that list!
Signal.NFX.com is where I send most startups. It’s a free online platform for VCs to list themselves and for startups to find them. While you’re at it, you should visit another NFX site, The Company Brief and make a company brief that you can forward along.
Visible.vc is an investor relationship hub, so it’s only fitting they have a searchable database Head over to connect.visible.vc to search for free.
OmniValley.co is a great resource with a searchable database focused on investors outside of the Bay Area, but they have some Bay Area VCs as well.
If you’d like access to our network of investors, then apply to Startup of the Year. We hold weekly office hours that are only open to applicants. There’s no cost and no catch, except to be part of the Startup of the Year program.
Listen to the whole episode here:
Startup of the Year Podcast Episode #0034 – Cooper Harris of Klickly
On this episode of the Startup of the Year Podcast, we catch up with Cooper Harris, the founder, and CEO of Klickly, an A.I. impulse-payments platform. Cooper invented a payment layer that leverages machine-learning to make purchasing directly within digital UIs possible. This significant innovation creates a huge efficiency in the market – the platform’s machine-learning identifies payment situations and uses sophisticated cross-origin calls to facilitate the transaction.
VC Minute: Asking for Referrals to Investors
Let’s talk about asking for referrals to investors. The wrong way is to say, “please introduce me to investors.” There’s not a lot I can do with that. Which ones? Why would I intro you? What do I send them?
Make it easy for your network to make referrals for you.
First, You should have a target list of introductions you would like—researched in advance of course.
Next, Forward along your list of prospective investors, attach an investor deck, and finally include an intro paragraph someone can copy/paste into their own email.
I call this, “don’t make me think, don’t make me work.” When you make it as easy as possible for people to make connections for you, they will.
Startup of the Year Podcast episode #0033 – Honoring U.S. Veteran Founders
On this episode of the Startup of the Year podcast we are featuring our virtual event that we hosted, Honoring U.S. Veteran Founders.
We had a great group of veteran-led companies presenting their pitches. The STARTUPS included: Govlia (Fort Lauderdale, FL); Milk Money Kitchens (New York, NY); Target Arm (Ridgefield, CT); TCare (St. Louis, MO); and TruGenomix (Rockville, MD).
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Evangelist Rick Davis
I choose that honorific today, not because it is appropriate, but because it is among the most benighted of the modern religious titles. The evangelist is the fellow who speaks aloud the unvarnished truth of the Ideal Faith, displacing nuance and forsaking the least side glance at his own personal shortcomings. He owns a message but is no part of the message itself, in that he completely depends on the truth of the object of his devotion. He must be less than what he speaks for if he can be the equal of his Adored, he risks becoming the Adored of other men.
Three men kissed me this weekend, while I lay in my hospital bed. One was my oldest friend, come from Michigan to see if I yet lived, one was my son-in-law and the other my son. I took their kisses, against which I was most helpless in every way, as love/fear and not as adoration, but I understood in their intimate (lip to forehead) touches the sensuality that is the final end of a life spent in spiritual service, however flawed.
Consider, if you will, the problem of our religious music, and where it fits in our evangelism (telling the good news, not raising piles of money for the advantage of evil men). We have the stately hymns, the gospel songs and the contemporary tunes, some of fine depth, others so attuned to the day it is impossible to tell them from the secular tunes they ape.
The gospel songs and the contemporary are the agnostic twins of the faith. Gospel songs basically point to heavenly imagery of lavish reward for minimal faithfulness in apposition to the earthly reality out of which most of them are penned. The contemporary songs, earnest, hard working, searching for what is next here, reflect the image of a generation guilty in its plenty, and so working hard to prove worthy in worship of the heaven in which the writers already exist.
Consider, then, the unbelief of all but the stately hymns; detached, ritualistic, beautifully written, solemnly sung, and so as unpalatable to the gospel song singers as to the contemporary. The worth of the stately hymns is the rough equivalent of their detachment from impossible hope, their reach to that majestic sweetness that sits enthroned with their clear supplication to the sinners who must come poor and needy, sick and sore.
The gospel songs appeal to a seemingly impossible hope; a venue of release from sweated labor, unrelieved boredom, work without reward, the logical (consistent) result of Adam's punishment. In the simple campfire revival songs, the poor laborer imports sense into his mundane routine. He is right, as much as he can possibly know right, but wrong when he judges the end of his work to be great reward, for in that moment he both adores his labor above the object of his intended Adoration and simultaneously elevates his earthly need into the heavens.
He is afraid. He writes of what he knows. The fear in his music is palpable but it is not the sudden fear of the startled deer. His fear is the long-term, ground-in, durable kind of fear, the fear to remind him he is the loser in this life. He must have some hope that there is help for him when he becomes his most helpless; someone to speak for him when he cannot scream.
He is a practicing agnostic. He longs for heaven and at that precise moment loses sight of God.
The contemporary fellow is so wired he may never lift anything heavier than an IPod. He loses himself in his feelings of unworthiness but communicates this uneasy feeling; that his sympathy is mostly for himself, so that he must demand equality with older men before he ever demonstrates sufficiency in any meaningful life task. He is an agnostic simply because he makes his unworthiness, loudly sung and superficially felt, the tempo of his tune. He repeats the lines in a futile search for meaning in them.
Can an evangelist be an evangelist and at the same time a practicing agnostic? If he concentrates on other than his own character, he is a cad. If he gives himself over to impotence until he approaches some untouched worthiness, he becomes the Adored. His detachment from pettiness makes him a Truth-Teller, which, in turn, destroys all but his temporary effectiveness. His worth is in his Adoration of the Adored. He must strive to perfect his relations with the Adored so that his natural unbelief can be stripped from him.
The opinions expressed here are my own, not those of any other individual, organization or institution.
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You have never penned more truer comments. Amen.
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Heineken Cup Preview: Why it’s all about Leicester v Ulster
January 17, 2014 James Harrington James Harrington 3
Leicester’s clash with Ulster promises to be the Heineken Cup match of the weekend
CASTRES, FRANCE – Leicester’s Heineken Cup match against Ulster is not quite winner-takes-all – after all, both sides are already assured of a place in the quarter-finals – but it’s as near as dammit is to swearing. And it is the tie of the final round of the pool stages.
Whoever wins will top Pool 5, and bag a home berth in the last eight, while the loser will have to be content with a best runner-up slot – and a road trip for their quarter-final. History is with the Tigers. They haven’t lost a Heineken Cup match at Welford Road since 2006. But Ulster have a record of their own to maintain. They are unbeaten in the competition this season.
Unstoppable forces and immovable objects spring to mind ahead of a game that promises to be the clash of the weekend – and one that would most likely grace the final at Cardiff.
Three-time winners Leinster kick off the Heineken Cup weekend at home to Ospreys on Friday night. After their comeback victory at Castres last week, Brian O’Driscoll and company need just a point from this game to make sure of a quarter-final berth. That should be a simple job at the RDS.
Northampton are the only side in Pool One that can – theoretically at least – overtake Leinster. But they need Ospreys to spring a shock in Dublin. They face Castres at the same time as the Irish and Welsh clubs meet. It will make for an odd evening at Franklin’s Gardens as Saints fans try to keep up with events in Dublin while watching another game unfold before their eyes.
A win for the home side could see them reach the knockout phase of the competition, if other results go their way. Even then, they need a bonus point, so it’s more likely that they’d drop down into the Amlin Cup. Defeat, however, would mean that the Top 14 champions jump into second in Pool One, with a shot at a place in the Amlin Cup.
Saracens should book their place in the Heineken Cup quarter-finals with victory over Connacht
Expect Aviva Premiership leaders Saracens to pick up the win they need to make sure of a quarter-final berth. They’re at home to Connacht, who have done coach Pat Lam proud with their Heineken Cup performances this season – notably that win at Toulouse. The Londoners were unable to replicate their opponents’ heroics at Ernest Wallon, which means – even with a win at the weekend – they’re looking forward to an away quarter final.
Sarries’ hopes of finishing at the top of the pool rest with Pro12 side Zebre. The Italians entertain four-time Heineken Cup champions Toulouse, who are notoriously bad travellers. Guy Noves’ side haven’t won away from Ernest Wallon in the Top 14 since last May. That said, they have won their two games on the road in this competition. Expect them to make it three this weekend, and force Saracens into a best runner-up slot.
Toulon head to Scotland to face Glasgow
Defending Heineken Cup champions Toulon qualified for the knockout phase of the competition with last weekend’s dominant display over Cardiff Blues, so – if you haven’t been following Rugby Wrap Up’s Top 14 coverage – it may be something of a surprise to hear about talk of a turnaround emanating from Stade Mayol.
But the richer-than-Croesus side have been struggling on and off the pitch. Bernard Laporte is in a spot of bother for comments made after a shock home defeat against Grenoble; and the Var side’s Top 14 record has been nothing to shout about, with five defeats in their last nine games.
The Heineken Cup has brought blessed relief from their Top 14 troubles. But a trip to cold and miserable Glasgow in January is far from anyone’s idea of a fun time. Expect an away win, but not a command performance at the tiny and hostile Scotstoun.
Anyone who thinks the match between Cardiff Blues and Exeter Chiefs is a dead rubber is dead wrong. If things go their way, the winners could win a shot at the Amlin Cup. Which means this match – between two attacking sides – could turn into a high-scoring thriller.
Montpellier’s home match against Benetton Treviso is a dead rubber – but not without interest. Fabien Galthie’s side reached the last eight last season, so will be disappointed not to make it to the knockout phase this time. They did, however, score four tries at Leicester and came within a whisker of beating the Tigers at home. They will be out to finish their Heineken Cup campaign on a high with a big win over the Italians.
Can Edinburgh spoil Munster’s party at Thomond Park?
Munster have already qualified as Pool Six winners, but with a home quarter final up for grabs, they’ll be out to end the group stage with a big win. Their opponents at Thomond Park this weekend are Edinburgh, whose Heineken Cup campaign will finish when the final whistle blows. Just don’t expect them not to try to spoil the Munster party.
There’s also little more than pride to play for at Stade Aime Giral, where Top 14 side Perpignan entertain Aviva Premiership outfit Gloucester. Whoever loses will finish at the bottom of Pool Six – which is something both sides will want to avoid. Though, with nothing to play for it’s likely there will be a number of changes to the line-ups.
Clermont welcome Racing to Marcel Michelin in the all-Top 14 Heineken Cup match
Harlequins were within eight minutes of continuing their remarkable Heineken Cup turnaround against Clermont at The Stoop last weekend. But they let the Top 14 leaders and last season’s losing finalists back into the game. And they lost, which leaves them needing to win at Scarlets if they are to book a place in the Amlin Cup. No pressure, then.
There’s definitely no pressure on Clermont. That win in London last weekend made certain of a place in the quarter finals. They’re playing bottom-of-Pool Four Racing Metro. And they’re at home. Where they have won every game since November 2009. There’s no reason to think they won’t win again.
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McMillen and Wife Steelers Message Board > Classic Steelers Game Broadcasts > 1979 Steelers Season Game Threads > Super Bowl XIV Steelers 31 vs Rams 19
Full Version: Super Bowl XIV Steelers 31 vs Rams 19
Super Bowl XIV Steelers 31 vs Rams 19 - w/Summerall & Brookshire
Super Bowl XIV Steelers 31 vs Rams 19 - w/Flemming & Cope
Note: There are two different versions of this game, both have outstanding video quality.
The first is the complete NBC broadcast with Pat Summerall and Tom Brookshire calling the game.
The second is the complete NBC broadcast of the game with the radio call from Jack Flemming and Myron Cope dubbed in (graciously provided by tm101956).
MVP Terry Bradshaw combines with Swann and Stallworth to bring the Steelers back to win in a close, competitive game versus a tenacious Rams team! Los Angeles didn't figure to put a dent in the Steel Curtain, but as a wise man once said... that's why they play the games. After sleepwalking through a somewhat lackluster first half (and consequently trailing 13-10), the Steelers open the 2nd half with a picture perfect 47-yard Bradshaw bomb to Swann, who makes a breathtaking leaping grab over double-coverage for the TD. Pittsburgh's lead is short-lived, however, as the Rams score quickly on a stunning halfback option pass to sieze the momentum right back. A game-ending injury to Swann and two Bradshaw INT's send the Steelers into the 4th quarter trailing 19-17. But Bradshaw, as always, is resilient. On 3rd and 8 from the Steelers 27, Bradshaw lets loose a rocket to Stallworth deep down the middle for a 73-yard TD. Terry's pass proves to be the winning score in a game which saw the lead change hands six times. The Rams threaten to once again take the lead late in the 4th when Jack Lambert steps in front of a Ferragamo pass for an interception to ensure a Pittsburgh victory. Terry follows up with a 50-yard bomb to Stallworth to set up an insurance TD and bring Art Rooney a fourth Lombardi Trophy. Some pre-game and lots of post-game interviews with Noll, Bradshaw, Swann, Stallworth and more.
Interesting decision by Chuck to have an onside kick following the FG in the first quarter. He was gambling with the idea that the Steelers could blow the game open early. Unfortunately, it backfired. The Rams went on and scored a TD to take the lead and make a game of it. But that's what I love about this game. It was the first SB I watched, and it was full of back-and-forth excitement, lead changes and drama. Have been a Steeler fan ever since.
(05-19-2017, 09:06 PM)Guest Wrote: [ -> ] Interesting decision by Chuck to have an onside kick following the FG in the first quarter. He was gambling with the idea that the Steelers could blow the game open early. Unfortunately, it backfired. The Rams went on and scored a TD to take the lead and make a game of it. But that's what I love about this game. It was the first SB I watched, and it was full of back-and-forth excitement, lead changes and drama. Have been a Steeler fan ever since.
Yeah, I thought the onside kick was a great call. Didn't work, but I like the call. I do think that if we had gotten up on them by a couple of scores early, they might've folded. But we let 'em hang around and it made for a really exciting game. Six lead changes, I think?
Terry had Swann WIDE open for a TD on that first drive, too. He just missed him... threw it too far inside and a little high. But Swann had faked the defender out of his jock and was SO wide open.
Jack Ham was sorely missed in this game as well. It's a testament to the Steelers' depth that that the defense played as well as it did in the '79 postseason without Ham in the lineup. That said, I do think it had an impact, particularly in the Super Bowl.
Of all the Super Bowls, this one stressed me out the most. I was 11 years old at the time and really expected the Steelers to blow the Rams out. Was on the edge of my seat with my stomach in knots the whole time.
Joe Greene said this game was the Steeler's golden invitation to ... golden invitation to what? Immortality? Precisely. That is what Sports Illustrated declared in their classic write-up of this, Super Bowl XIV, the lynch-pin in the Steelers' dynasty. Read the story here. https://www.si.com/vault/issue/70869/13/1
"There are not many ways a human being can throw a football better than Bradshaw did to Stallworth on that third-and-eight play. Stallworth got inside Rod Perry, the cornerback, and behind Elmendorf, the strong safety, and took it 73 yards for a 24-19 Pittsburgh lead." Sports Illustrated, Jan. 28, 1980
(06-16-2017, 12:09 AM)Guest Wrote: [ -> ] "There are not many ways a human being can throw a football better than Bradshaw did to Stallworth on that third-and-eight play. Stallworth got inside Rod Perry, the cornerback, and behind Elmendorf, the strong safety, and took it 73 yards for a 24-19 Pittsburgh lead." Sports Illustrated, Jan. 28, 1980
No doubt about it... that was about as pretty of a deep ball as you'll ever see. Perfect spiral without a hint of wobble, perfect arc and dead on the money.
thespiritof1976
Dumb what if here.
What if the Bucs had been able to muster up 10 points and beat the Rams ?
Well, for one, Doug Williams would not have been able to play so it would have been former Raider Mike Rae starting for the Bucs.
My prediction if the Bucs-Steelers played for the SB that year ?
A slow, low scoring game. Something like 17-6 Steelers. Noll probably would have wanted to run it a lot and not take any chances since the Bucs offense would have been largely non-existent.
John McKay would have run Ricky Bell 50 times (at least). Bucs probably would have run some trick plays and maybe even a little bit of wing T.
(06-27-2017, 06:16 AM)thespiritof1976 Wrote: [ -> ] Dumb what if here.
I dunno. The Rams were one of the few teams that kinda had Pittsburgh's number in the '70s... and we still put up 31 on 'em. The Steelers were scoring machines in the '78 and '79 post-seasons. I kinda think they might've put up a 50-burger on the Bucs without Williams.
I was happy the Bucs did as well as they did and I think the whole country kinda rooted for them a little in '79 just because they had come SO far from 0-26. But the Rams were due. They had been a bridesmaid and never a bride so many times to Dallas and Minnesota in the NFC Championship. It was finally their turn.
Just to add to Tim's comment about the Steelers being a scoring machine during that time, they put up 31 points against Bud Carson (ex-Steelers defensive coordinator '72-'77) whom knew the team pretty well.
(06-28-2017, 02:48 PM)mcmillenandwife Wrote: [ -> ]
Yes, you very well might be right.
However, I will say with some certainty that if Doug Williams had stayed in Tampa the history of the NFC throughout the rest of the 80's would have been different.
If Williams stayed the Bucs wouldn't have gone 2-14 every year. Sure, they probably weren't good enough to go to the Super Bowl but they would have been a Wild Card contender every year.
Hugh Green, their All-Pro linebacker, wouldn't have demanded a trade, James Wilder wouldn't have been run into the ground, Jimmie Giles and Kevin House wouldn't have had their talents wasted, the Bo Jackson debacle would never have happened (b/c the Bucs wouldn't have received the first pick of the 1986 draft since they wouldn't have been 2-14 in 1985), Leeman Bennett would still be selling RV's and that idiot Ray Perkins would have stayed at Alabama.
Till this day I hate Hugh Culverhouse for what he did.
(06-29-2017, 01:52 AM)thespiritof1976 Wrote: [ -> ] However, I will say with some certainty that if Doug Williams had stayed in Tampa the history of the NFC throughout the rest of the 80's would have been different.
I agree 100%. Tampa Bay had a pretty solid core and an excellent defense. Ownership should've worked it out with Williams instead of low-balling him. The whole situation was awful, so who could blame him for leaving?
In the end, Williams got the last laugh. But what a horrible domino effect it had on the Bucs.
Culverhouse was an idiot. He ruined the Bucs for YEARS on numerous occasions.
I think if the Steelers played the Bucs though they beat them soundly, especially without Williams.
The Rams always played the Steelers tough. They beat them the year before in 1978. They were also a battle-tested playoff team.
The Bucs inexperience may have hurt them on the NFL's biggest stage playing with their backup QB.
Also it is worth noting that Pittsburgh traveled to Tampa Bay the following year, and even though the Steelers were aging and banged up (missing Franco, Stallworth and a number of other starters) managed to win 24-21. So I imagine that Steelers would have had an easier time with the Bucs, maybe winning it 31-7.
Boy was I scared. This was a more competitive Super Bowl then 13. Rams were underrated due to their record of 9-7. What people forget is, the Rams were injured earlier in the season and struggled. They got healthy and back to form. Franco had a great game when you consider how important he was for the passing game 3 rec for 66 yds and they were big play's. Thankful that Dave Elmendorf dropped a sure interception. A little luck helps.
(08-13-2017, 12:32 AM)Bobcat29 Wrote: [ -> ] Thankful that Dave Elmendorf dropped a sure interception. A little luck helps.
Oh, man. One of the biggest plays of the game, and largely overlooked. My heart goes to my throat just thinking about it. Had he held onto that ball, I think the Rams win, because he was taking it to the house and it would've put L.A. up 26-17.
(08-13-2017, 12:32 AM)Bobcat29 Wrote: [ -> ] Franco had a great game when you consider how important he was for the passing game 3 rec for 66 yds and they were big play's.
Agreed, Franco was huge in the passing game. He doesn't get enough credit for his receiving because he really wasn't utilized in the passing game until late in his career, but Franco had really good hands.
(08-13-2017, 12:32 AM)Bobcat29 Wrote: [ -> ] Boy was I scared. This was a more competitive Super Bowl then 13. Rams were underrated due to their record of 9-7. What people forget is, the Rams were injured earlier in the season and struggled. They got healthy and back to form.
People also forget that Bud Carson (one of the architects of the Steel Curtain) was their defensive coordinator. He knew Pittsburgh intimately on both sides of the ball. It's pretty amazing, you go back and read accounts from the game, the Rams actually knew a lot of our audibles and calls. It blows my mind that we didn't change things up (things like "brown" being a hot color for a audible play call, for example), but supposedly, we didn't.
In any case, I agree... this was definitely the "scariest" of the 4 '70s Super Bowls.
Pregame, we see all the ceremonies and pageantry, including the individual introduction of the defenses (which we'll probably never see again, since the Patriots like to come out as a team and everyone just HAS to copy them) and Art Rooney riding out to midfield to present the coin for the coin toss. Cheryl Ladd sings the National Anthem.
Postgame, there are plenty of Steeler interviews, plus the trophy presentation and a brief interview with Rams QB Vince Ferragamo. We close with a commentary from Jack Whittaker.
Jerseyfla
Here is a newscast from Channel 11 from the night before the game.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c19RgvuyEiw&t=24s
And the commercials from during the game from KDKA.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZWI0b9fvyuM
KDKA had the newscast from after 60 Minutes which followed the game on their website 9 years ago but they have since deleted it. :(
Thanks for the great links, Jersey!
Now with two versions! Original broadcast with Summerall and Brookshire, and version with Flemming and Cope dubbed in.
Cheryl Tiegs at 33 minutes selling camera's. Meeeeeeow!
The Fleming and Cope version ends with forty-five seconds left. No scoring is missed, of course.
Thank you for the Steelers broadcasting team! Jack Fleming and yes Myron Cope. You betcha!!!
(01-25-2019, 10:58 AM)Luther Wrote: [ -> ] Thank you for the Steelers broadcasting team! Jack Fleming and yes Myron Cope. You betcha!!!
Fleming and Cope put a whole new twist on these games, don't they? Their commentary has brought new life to games I've watched countless times.
In my opinion, the most exciting of the 4 Super Bowls played by the Steelers in the 70s.
(12-23-2019, 01:30 AM)NFL2000 Wrote: [ -> ] In my opinion, the most exciting of the 4 Super Bowls played by the Steelers in the 70s.
Yes, it was nerve-racking. To fans without a horse in the race, you're probably right; it was exciting. But to me, as a Steelers fan, it was flippin' stressful. I felt relief when the Steelers won, but I didn't really experience any of the "joy" I had after SB XIII or even SB X.
It was "Whew!" instead of "Woo!"
Honestly, watching it still makes me feel a little uneasy. The 3rd quarter was torture. When Swann scored on the bomb, I figured, "We've got 'em!" Then they struck right back, Swann went down and Terry seemed a little lost without him, throwing a pair of picks -- the second of which ended a promising drive -- and Elmendorf almost had a 3rd INT for a pick 6.
The 4th quarter feels more like Steeler football. We kinda won that way all year in '79... LATE.
Jbsptfn
You are right. It was their turn. However, if they did lose at Tampa, I wonder if the 1980 Rams are even more motivated. They had a better team than the 1979 version. If they are more driven, do we see them in NO against the Raiders the next year instead of Philly? That would have been a better game.
(12-25-2019, 03:50 PM)Jbsptfn Wrote: [ -> ]
Well, I tend to agree the Rams were better in '80 than in '79. In particular, Ferragamo had a pretty good year. But I felt like Philly was probably the best team in the league all year long, with Dallas being #2. The Falcons had a really good year, too, but they were a fluke IMO. Oakland wasn't even the best team in the AFC; I thought both San Diego and Cleveland were better. I was shocked when Oakland made it to the Super Bowl, and even more shocked when they beat Philly as soundly as they did. Jaworski had a horrific day (3 INTs and a fumble) and dug too deep a hole, and Philly's defense -- which is why I thought they had the edge going in -- gave up the kind of big plays they hadn't allowed all year.
I think Philly beats Oakland 4 out of 5 times in 1980. They had a better team. But that day... Oakland was definitely better. They got hot in the playoffs and I think kinda snuck up on everyone they played in the post-season.
Fun to talk about, although 1980 was a nightmare season for me with the Steelers dynasty finally coming to an end.
Quote: But I felt like Philly was probably the best team in the league all year long, with Dallas being #2. The Falcons had a really good year, too, but they were a fluke IMO. Oakland wasn't even the best team in the AFC; I thought both San Diego and Cleveland were better. I was shocked when Oakland made it to the Super Bowl, and even more shocked when they beat Philly as soundly as they did. Jaworski had a horrific day (3 INTs and a fumble) and dug too deep a hole, and Philly's defense -- which is why I thought they had the edge going in -- gave up the kind of big plays they hadn't allowed all year.
I guess that I don't have that good of an impression of those Eagle teams after the officials gave them the 1979 WC Game over the Bears (the Bears were screwed out of a victory, plain and simple). Atlanta did prove to be somewhat of a fluke, but I just don't see the Eagles as being that great. Neither were the Raiders, though. They got lucky against the Browns and Chargers in the playoffs, and they went up against an Eagle team that was so scared, they looked like they were going off to Vietnam (I think Matuszak said that).
There just wasn't a super team that year after the Steelers had a rash of injuries. A healthy Steeler team may have gotten one for the thumb that year. However, I don't think that was the end of the dynasty. They should have won in 82 (if they get out of that SD game alive, they would have). That would have been five SB titles in nine years.
The real end was two-fold: When they didn't take Marino, and when he beat them in the 1984 AFC Title Game. That was the officlal end to the Steeler dynasty. They passed on the guy that may have kept them at the top, and he came back and beat them the first four times he played against them (the Steelers didn't beat Marino until 1988).
It's kind of like when the Cowboys passed on Moss in 1998. Their dynasty was starting to die, but they still had some good players. Moss was the guy that may have been able to keep it going, and they passed on him. Three years later, Irvin and Aikman were out of football, and Emmitt was on the decline (and would be in the desert a few years later to finish his career. I am a Cowboy hater, but I have to admit that Emmitt in red wasn't right).
(12-28-2019, 02:29 AM)Jbsptfn Wrote: [ -> ] I guess that I don't have that good of an impression of those Eagle teams after the officials gave them the 1979 WC Game over the Bears (the Bears were screwed out of a victory, plain and simple). Atlanta did prove to be somewhat of a fluke, but I just don't see the Eagles as being that great. Neither were the Raiders, though. They got lucky against the Browns and Chargers in the playoffs, and they went up against an Eagle team that was so scared, they looked like they were going off to Vietnam (I think Matuszak said that).
I agree with you, the Eagles of the era weren't "that" great. I do, however, still think they were the best overall team in 1980, even though they ultimately fell short. There was a definite power vacuum in 1980 with the Steelers succumbing to age and injuries, the Cowboys swapping Staubach for Danny White. The Raiders filling that void -- behind Plunkett, of all people -- was a surprise to me.
I also agree that '82 was a real missed opportunity for the Steelers. They could've done it. It was another year with no real juggernauts, and Miami definitely didn't deserve to be there. David Woodley and Strock, seriously? The Redskins were formidable, but they had they faced a team like Pittsburgh with an actual offense... they lose. They barely beat Miami with their stellar 4 of 17 for 97 yds passing performance (76 yds of which came on 1 play). What a joke.
(12-28-2019, 02:29 AM)Jbsptfn Wrote: [ -> ] The real end was two-fold: When they didn't take Marino, and when he beat them in the 1984 AFC Title Game. That was the officlal end to the Steeler dynasty. They passed on the guy that may have kept them at the top, and he came back and beat them the first four times he played against them (the Steelers didn't beat Marino until 1988).
I can roll with that, I guess... but by '84, the team of the '70s had been gutted. Who was left... Stallworth, Webster and Shell? Lambert was still there, but he missed half the season and was on his way out.
Bradshaw, gone. Harris, gone. Swann, gone. Mean Joe, gone. Greenwood, gone. Rocky, gone. Blount, gone. Wagner, gone. Sam Davis, Jon Kolb, Dwight White, Steve Furness, Ernie Holmes, Andy Russell, Randy Grossman, John Banaszak, Dirt Winston, JT Thomas, Sidney Thornton, all gone.
IMO, '84 was a radically different team from the true dynasty years, top to bottom.
(12-28-2019, 02:29 AM)Jbsptfn Wrote: [ -> ] It's kind of like when the Cowboys passed on Moss in 1998. Their dynasty was starting to die, but they still had some good players. Moss was the guy that may have been able to keep it going, and they passed on him. Three years later, Irvin and Aikman were out of football, and Emmitt was on the decline (and would be in the desert a few years later to finish his career. I am a Cowboy hater, but I have to admit that Emmitt in red wasn't right).
Yeah, I understand your point. I think Marino could've won Super Bowls in Pittsburgh... although honestly, I still think he should've been able to do it with Miami. He played on some pretty decent teams and Shula allowed everything to be built around Marino. It's kinda shocking that he only got there once.
That said, I tend to think Noll would've kept the focus on running and ball control had Pittsburgh drafted him, despite Marino's passing ability, and it would've served him better. Elway didn't get a Lombardi until he had a great running game to help him. I think it would've been the same with Marino; Noll would've maintained an element of power football, giving Marino the help he needed to get over the hump.
But... all speculation. It's a shame we can't get a do-over.
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McGrory beats McColl, Brown, Gilmour and McBain
Post by bonxie » Sun Nov 23, 2008 7:44 pm
In one of the match reports for the Celtic v Dunfermline game in 1928 when Jimmy McGrory scored eight, it states that in doing so, he beat the previous record of six jointly held by R S McColl, David Brown, Jimmy Gilmour and Laurie McBain. The career of "toffee" Bob is well documented, but what about the other 3?
Post by Scottish » Mon Nov 24, 2008 10:35 am
Jimmy Gilmour scored six for Queen of the South v Arbroath in a 7-4 home win on October 2nd 1926. He finished with 31 league goals that season. What happened to him after that I have no idea. John Litster's disk has him as being at Palmerston from February 1926 until the end of 1927-1928 with no record of where he went to after that.
Davie Brown was a prolific goalscorer for Dundee who hit all six in their 6-2 win over Raith Rovers on December 9th 1916. He hit 31 in total and was top scorer at Dens Park for the third successive season, having scored 79 times in 103 league matches. He moved to Rangers when Dundee resigned from the league. In twenty league matches over two seasons he scored fourteen times before returning to Dundee in 1919 where he scored another eleven in just thirteen games up to the end of October when he moved south to join Stoke City in the Second Division (Championship today). He scored 17 times in 50 league matches before joining Notts County at the same level in January 1921. There he scored seven times in fourteen games then returned north to Kilmarnock in the close season 1922.
At Rugby Park he scored just four times in 19 appearances and left for Darlington in the Third Division North in January 1923. He rediscovered his old form at Feethams, scoring 27 times in 40 matches in 1923-24 then an amazing 39 from the same number of games in 1924-25 - the last season of the old offside law - to create a new Football League record and at the same time win his only major honour in the game - the Third North title.
He hit eight in 18 at Darlington in 1925-26 then rejoined the Third North at Crewe Alexandra where he scored 21 times in 37 matches before finally ending up at Barrow where he scored seven goals in 23 games in 1927-28.
All told he scored 126 times in English league games and 108 in Scotland. His career largely missed the Scottish Cup because of wartime but he scored three times in both the Glasgow Cup and Charity Cup while with Rangers and was on the winning team in both competitions. He also scored once in the Victory Cup of 1918-19. In England he scored just three times in the FA Cup, all for Darlington.
All in all a very impressive record, especially as most of his career was played under the old three-man offside law.
Since 1888 gives his full name as David Carre Brown, born Broughty Ferry, November 26th 1887. If they are correct that means he played until he was 40 but it also means he wasn't signed by a league club until he was 25 (Dundee, February 1913). There is some confusion as to whether these details are mixed up with another player as Since 1888 also has him as spending time with Dundee St Josephs, Peebles Rovers & Morton. Litster has ANOTHER David C Brown who joined Morton from Tottenham Hotspur in 1911 and who moved to Northampton Town in 1913,
This player was also a centre-forward and even more confusingly born in Broughty Ferry as David Crichton Brown on July 26th 1889.
I can't trace a Laurie McBain. Perhaps this was a middle name or a typo and could be a McBlane or McBean?
Post by LEATHERSTOCKING » Mon Nov 24, 2008 12:04 pm
Laurie McBain played for the Queen`s Park 1st Xl from 13th September 1924 to 3rd May 1927. He played 50 games for the Spiders & scored 20 goals (43league/20g), didn`t do much after he left Hampden & died @ the age of 31. His double hat-trick came @ Firhill in a 7-1 win on 8th February 1927.
Post by LEATHERSTOCKING » Mon Nov 24, 2008 2:28 pm
Regarding names of other big scorers, can anyone supply the 1st name or even initial of the following:
Robertson & Munro of Arbroath in the famous 36-0 win over Bon Accord in 1885 & McGirl of Dundee Harp in the 35-0 win over Aberdeen Rovers the same day. BTW, it`s now 35 years since the last double hat-trick - Dixie Deans vs. the Jags 17/11/1973. C`mon someone - ANYONE! Funnily enough, of the 65 instances I have of players known to have scored 6 or more in the Cup, league & League Cup only 5 are from the Glasgow Giants - Fleming, Smith(twice), & Wilson of Rangers and McGrory & Deans of Celtic. There must be many more instances in the 19thC when reporters got bored after the 11th or 12th goal went in in a Cup tie & didn`t record them all.
Further to Laurie(Lawrence) McBain, he went to Raith Rovers from Hampden then to St.Johnstone, back to Raith & finished with Dundee Utd. & died in 1937 (not 1931) AGED 31.
Post by Scottish » Mon Nov 24, 2008 3:03 pm
When was McColl's double hat-trick then? Presumably he was playing for Queen's Park at the time?
Post by bonxie » Mon Nov 24, 2008 8:40 pm
Yes, McColl scored his 6 goals in April 1910 for Queen's Park against Port Glasgow Athletic.
Re: the comment about the Glasgow giants only contributing 5 double hat-tricks, I think that maybe the best individual tally for a club (albeit on league goals only) is Dundee with 4 - Brown, Juliussen (twice) and Gilzean.
Leatherstocking - Out of interest, could you supply a list of the 65 instances you refer to?
Did Jim Forrest not score 5 for Rangers in the League Cup?
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Post by cowdenbeather » Mon Nov 24, 2008 9:26 pm
David Brown was the first player to score 100 league goals in both the Scottish and English Leagues. This was later emulated by Jimmy McConnell, Neil Martin, Joe Baker and Kenny Dalglish.
Here are the details of all the players I have identified as scoring 6 or more goals in a Scottish League game.
26/04/10 R S McColl QUEEN’S PARK v Port Glasgow Athletic 6
09/12/16 David Brown DUNDEE v Raith Rovers 6
22/03/24 Andrew Cant EAST FIFE v Forfar 6
02/10/26 Jimmy Gilmour QOS v Arbroath 6
08/02/27 Laurie McBain QUEEN’S PARK v Partick Thistle 6
01/10/27 Owen McNally ARTHURLIE v Armadale 8
14/01/28 Jimmy McGrory CELTIC v Dunfermline 8
27/10/28 George Watson MOTHERWELL v Falkirk 6
02/01/30 Jim Dyet KING’S PARK v Forfar 8
15/11/30 Alex Merrie ABERDEEN v Hibs 6
14/09/32 Paddy Moore ABERDEEN v Falkirk 6
12/11/32 Dave McCrae ST MIRREN v Cowdenbeath 6
24/12/32 Alex Haddow KING’S PARK v Raith Rovers 6
15/08/33 Jimmy Smith RANGERS v Ayr United 6
22/08/33 Terry McGibbons AYR UNITED v Third Lanark 6
11/08/34 Jimmy Smith RANGERS v Dunfermline 6
25/08/34 Bob Keyes MORTON v East Stirling 6
29/09/34 Joe Cowan EAST FIFE v Dumbarton 7
20/10/34 Jimmy Bartram FALKIRK v Ayr United 6
14/03/36 Joe Cowan EAST FIFE v King’s Park 6
18/04/36 John Calder MORTON v Raith Rovers 8
09/01/37 Allan Bryce ALLOA v Edinburgh City 6
30/04/37 Alex Stewart MOTHERWELL v Celtic 6
18/02/39 Jimmy Johnston ST BERNARDS v Forfar 6
25/02/39 Rab Walls COWDENBEATH v Stenhousemuir 6
08/03/47 Albert Juliussen DUNDEE v Alloa 6
22/03/47 Albert Juliussen DUNDEE v Dunfermline 7
03/01/49 Archie Aikman FALKIRK v Albion Rovers 6
21/04/51 John McKeown COWDENBEATH v Forfar 6
23/01/54 Wilson Humphries MOTHERWELL v Dundee Utd 6
21/12/57 Eddie Beaton MORTON v Berwick Rangers 6
21/02/59 Eric Addison BERWICK RANGERS v Dundee Utd 6
18/04/59 Harry Melrose DUNFERMLINE v Partick Thistle 6
16/12/61 Jim Patterson QOS v Cowdenbeath 6
30/12/61 Charlie Dickson DUNFERMLINE v St Mirren 6
16/03/62 Davie Wilson RANGERS v Falkirk 6
01/12/62 Alan Gilzean DUNDEE v QOS 7
08/12/62 Hugh Maxwell FALKIRK v Clyde 7
02/11/63 George Dewar EAST FIFE v Alloa 6
23/09/72 Brian Third MONTROSE v Stranraer 6
17/11/73 John Deans CELTIC v Partick Thistle 6
Crilly (Alloa) & Armstrong (Aberdeen) are often credited with 6 but only scored 5s. Scoular (Stenhousemuir) with 6 and Haywood (Raith Rovers) with 8 are both common errors.
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Post by Gunboat Briggs » Mon Nov 24, 2008 11:26 pm
Regarding Laurie McBain, Pat Kelly's Dundee United Who's Who has a few contrary details to those provided by Leatherstocking above, although it's not the most reliable book so this could well be wrong! Kelly says McBain was with St Johnstone from 1927-33 and played for Raith on loan in 1929. He joined United in September 1933 but a broken leg against Arbroath that December finished his career. He died in September 1937 and, according to this source, was only 29.
Post by Scottish » Tue Nov 25, 2008 12:31 am
cowdenbeather wrote: David Brown was the first player to score 100 league goals in both the Scottish and English Leagues.
I think Davie McLean was the first to do so. He had accumulated over 100 goals in England by the outbreak of the first world war (25 Preston, 88 Sheffield Wednesday) and hit the 100 mark in Scotland in 1918-19 while with Rangers, having previously scored 19 for Celtic and 76 for Third Lanark. At this stage all his goals had been in the top division.
To add to the information in the link I have him as scoring 405 league goals - 162 in England and 243 in Scotland.
There are a few near misses for the 'double ton.' Players like Davie Halliday and Hughie Gallacher easily scored over 100 in England but left Scotland when stuck in the 90s. More recently Alan Gilzean finished his career in England on 93, having scored over 100 for Dundee and Brian McClair with well over 100 in Scotland scored 88 league goals at Man Utd.
LEATHERSTOCKING wrote: BTW, it`s now 35 years since the last double hat-trick - Dixie Deans vs. the Jags 17/11/1973. C`mon someone - ANYONE!.
Willie Watters gave it a right good try on May 13th 1989 when he put the ball in the QoS net six times. Alas, one was chalked off for offside and Kilmarnock were relegated as a consequence. Then on September 25th 2004 Kris Boyd netted six times for Killie v Dundee United with one being rather dodgily ruled out.
LEATHERSTOCKING wrote: There must be many more instances in the 19thC when reporters got bored after the 11th or 12th goal went in in a Cup tie & didn`t record them all.
Indeed, when Killie beat Saltcoats Vics 13-2 in the Qualifying Cup in 1896 even the local paper said it would be a 'waste of time' to record all the goals. Eleven were recorded with 'Bummer' Campbell scoring at least eight. Officially, Campbell scored 48 league goals, 24 Scottish Cup and 18 in the one season he played in the Qualifying Cup for a total of 90. In reality he scored well over 200 in his career
Post by Scottish » Tue Nov 25, 2008 1:18 am
Gunboat Briggs wrote: Kelly says McBain was with St Johnstone from 1927-33 and played for Raith on loan in 1929.
There were two McBains around at the same time, the other being Neil McBain, famous as the oldest player in English league football, turning out in goal for New Brighton at the age of 52.
Even more confusing both McBains were with St Johnstone in 1927-28 before Neil signed for Liverpool.
There was certainly a McBain playing for St Johnstone during the seasons mentioned and it wasn't Neil as he remained in English football as a player until 1931 and as a manager from 1929 onwards. But if it was Laurie McBain then he must have changed positions as from towards the end of the 1929-30 season he appears as a half-back not a forward.
Frustratingly, Laurie McBain is missing from John Litster's disk.
Hopefully this should clear up the Laurie McBain queries. Or maybe murky the waters a bit more.
According to the Emms & Wells book on pre-war appearances, he was with Queen's Park 1924-1927, St Johnstone 1927-1933 (loan to Raith in 1928-29) and Dundee United 1933-34. They gave a birth year as 1907 and date of death as September 20th 1937, meaning he was aged either 29 or 30. He was born in - and died in - Dundee.
Post by LEATHERSTOCKING » Tue Nov 25, 2008 11:37 am
According to Bob Crampsey`s centenary history of Queen`s McBain was 31 when he died. If he was born in 1907 then he made his 1st Xl debut as a 17 year old which isn`t a novelty but if Pat Kelly is right & he was only 29 at the time of his death in September 1937 then he could have been only 16 on his 13/9/1924 debut. A birth date would clear it up. Also, what was his middle name & his surname spelling? I only have "L.D.McBain" in true Queen`s Park fashion. He only made 2 appearances in 1924-25 his debut season, 20 the following year & 28 in his last before moving to Perth.
Post by Scottish » Tue Nov 25, 2008 1:43 pm
Emms/Wells has it as Laurence Durkie McBain.
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What Every Yogi Needs to Know About Flexibility
While yoga isn’t actually about becoming more flexible, having a good understanding of what flexibility is, and why it’s important, can help you take your yoga practice to the next level.
If you're already practicing yoga, you don't need exercise scientists and physiologists to convince you of the benefits of stretching. Instead, you'd probably like them to tell you if there's anything in their flexibility research that can help you go deeper in your asanas. For example, when you fold into a forward bend and are brought up short by the tightness in the back of your legs, can science tell you what's going on? And can that knowledge help you go deeper?
The answer to both questions is "Yes." A knowledge of physiology can help you visualize the inner workings of your body and focus on the specific mechanisms that help you stretch. You can optimize your efforts if you know whether the tightness in your legs is due to poor skeletal alignment, stiff connective tissues, or nerve reflexes designed to keep you from hurting yourself. And if you know whether any uncomfortable sensations you feel are warnings that you're about to do damage, or whether they're just notices that you're entering exciting new territory, you can make an intelligent choice between pushing on or backing off—and avoid injuries.
In addition, new scientific research may even have the potential to extend the wisdom of yoga. If we understand more clearly the complex physiology involved in yogic practices, we may be able refine our techniques for opening our bodies.
Understanding Flexibility
Of course, yoga does far more than keep us limber. It releases tensions from our bodies and minds, allowing us to drop more deeply into meditation. In yoga, "flexibility" is an attitude that invests and transforms the mind as well as the body.
But in Western, physiological terms, "flexibility" is just the ability to move muscles and joints through their complete range. It's an ability we're born with, but that most of us lose. "Our lives are restricted and sedentary," explains Dr. Thomas Green, a chiropractor in Lincoln, Nebraska, "so our bodies get lazy, muscles atrophy, and our joints settle into a limited range."
Back when we were hunter-gatherers, we got the daily exercise we needed to keep our bodies flexible and healthy. But modern, sedentary life is not the only culprit that constricts muscles and joints. Even if you're active, your body will dehydrate and stiffen with age. By the time you become an adult, your tissues have lost about 15 percent of their moisture content, becoming less supple and more prone to injury. Your muscle fibers have begun to adhere to each other, developing cellular cross-links that prevent parallel fibers from moving independently. Slowly our elastic fibers get bound up with collagenous connective tissue and become more and more unyielding. This normal aging of tissues is distressingly similar to the process that turns animal hides into leather. Unless we stretch, we dry up and tan! Stretching slows this process of dehydration by stimulating the production of tissue lubricants. It pulls the interwoven cellular cross-links apart and helps muscles rebuild with healthy parallel cellular structure.
Remember the cheesy '70s sci-fi flick in which Raquel Welch and her miniaturized submarine crew get injected into someone's bloodstream? To really grasp how Western physiology can benefit asana practice, we need to go on our own internal odyssey, diving deep into the body to examine how muscles work.
Flexibility and Muscles
Muscles are organs—biological units built from various specialized tissues that are integrated to perform a single function. (Physiologists divide muscles into three types: the smooth muscles of the viscera; the specialized cardiac muscles of the heart; and the striated muscles of the skeleton—but in this article we'll focus only on skeletal muscles, those familiar pulleys that move the bony levers of our bodies.)
The specific function of muscles, of course, is movement that is produced by muscle fibers, bundles of specialized cells that change shape by contracting or relaxing. Muscle groups operate in concert, alternately contracting and stretching in precise, coordinated sequences to produce the wide range of movements of which our bodies are capable.
In skeletal movements, the working muscles—the ones that contract to move your bones—are called the "agonists." The opposing groups of muscles—the ones that must release and elongate to allow movement—are called the "antagonists." Almost every movement of the skeleton involves the coordinated action of agonist and antagonist muscle groups: They're the yang and yin of our movement anatomy.
But although stretching—the lengthening of antagonist muscles—is half the equation in skeletal movement, most exercise physiologists believe that increasing the elasticity of healthy muscle fiber is not an important factor in improving flexibility. According to Michael Alter, author of Science of Flexibility (Human Kinetics, 1998), current research demonstrates that individual muscle fibers can be stretched to approximately 150 percent of their resting length before tearing. This extendibility enables muscles to move through a wide range of motion, sufficient for most stretches—even the most difficult asanas.
What Limits Flexibility?
f your muscle fibers don't limit your ability to stretch, what does? There are two major schools of scientific thought on what actually most limits flexibility and what should be done to improve it. The first school focuses not on stretching muscle fiber itself but on increasing the elasticity of connective tissues, the cells that bind muscle fibers together, encapsulate them, and network them with other organs; the second addresses the "stretch reflex" and other functions of the autonomic (involuntary) nervous system. Yoga works on both. That's why it's such an effective method for increasing flexibility.
Connective tissues include a variety of cell groups that specialize in binding our anatomy into a cohesive whole. It is the most abundant tissue in the body, forming an intricate mesh that connects all our body parts and compartmentalizes them into discrete bundles of anatomical structure—bones, muscles, organs, etc. Almost every yoga asana exercises and improves the cellular quality of this varied and vital tissue, which transmits movement and provides our muscles with lubricants and healing agents. But in the study of flexibility we are concerned with only three types of connective tissue: tendons, ligaments, and muscle fascia. Let's explore each of them briefly.
Tendons transmit force by connecting bones to muscle. They are relatively stiff. If they weren't, fine motor coordination like playing piano or performing eye surgery would be impossible. While tendons have enormous tensile strength, they have very little tolerance to stretching. Beyond a 4 percent stretch, tendons can tear or lengthen beyond their ability to recoil, leaving us with lax and less responsive muscle-to-bone connections.
Ligaments can safely stretch a bit more than tendons—but not much. Ligaments bind bone to bone inside joint capsules. They play a useful role in limiting flexibility, and it is generally recommended that you avoid stretching them. Stretching ligaments can destabilize joints, compromising their efficiency and increasing your likelihood of injury. That's why you should flex your knees slightly—rather than hyperextending them—in Paschimottanasana (Seated Forward Bend), releasing tension on posterior knee ligaments (and also on the ligaments of the lower spine).
Muscle fascia is the third connective tissue that affects flexibility, and by far the most important. Fascia makes up as much as 30 percent of a muscle's total mass, and, according to studies cited in Science of Flexibility, it accounts for approximately 41 percent of a muscle's total resistance to movement. Fascia is the stuff that separates individual muscle fibers and bundles them into working units, providing structure and transmitting force.
Many of the benefits derived from stretching—joint lubrication, improved healing, better circulation, and enhanced mobility—are related to the healthy stimulation of fascia. Of all the structural components of your body which limit your flexibility, it is the only one that you can stretch safely. Anatomist David Coulter, author of Anatomy of Hatha Yoga, reflects this in his description of the asanas as "a careful tending to your internal knitting."
Flexibility 101: Paschimottanasana
Now let's apply this physiology lesson to a basic but very powerful posture: Paschimottanasana. We'll begin with the anatomy of the asana.
The name of this pose combines three words: "Paschima," the Sanskrit word for "west"; "uttana," which means "intense stretch"; and "asana," or "posture." Since yogis traditionally practiced facing east toward the sun, "west" refers to the entire back of the human body.
This seated forward bend stretches a muscle chain that begins at the Achilles tendon, extends up the back of the legs and pelvis, then continues up along the spine to end at the base of your head. According to yoga lore, this asana rejuvenates the vertebral column and tones the internal organs, massaging the heart, kidneys, and abdomen.
Imagine you're lying on your back in yoga class, getting ready to fold up and over into Paschimottanasana. Your arms are relatively relaxed, palms on your thighs. Your head is resting comfortably on the floor; your cervical spine is soft, but awake. The instructor asks you to lift your trunk slowly, reaching out through your tailbone and up through the crown of your head, being careful not to overarch and strain your lower back as you move up and forward. She suggests that you picture an imaginary string attached to your chest, gently pulling you out and up—opening anahata chakra, the heart center—as you rotate through the hips into a seated position.
The image your teacher is using is not just poetic, it's also anatomically accurate. The primary muscles at work during this first phase of a forward bend are the rectus abdominis that run along the front of your trunk. Attached to your ribs just below your heart and anchored to your pubic bone, these muscles are the anatomical string that literally pulls you forward from the heart chakra.
The secondary muscles working to pull your torso up run through your pelvis and along the front of your legs: the psoas, linking torso and legs, the quadriceps on the front of your thighs, and the muscles adjacent to your shin bones.
In Paschimottanasana, the muscles running from heart to toe along the front of your body are the agonists. They're the muscles that contract to pull you forward. Along the back of your torso and legs are the opposing, or complementary, groups of muscles, which must elongate and release before you can move forward.
By now, you've stretched forward and settled into the pose completely, backing off slightly from your maximum stretch and breathing deeply and steadily. Your mind focuses on the subtle (or perhaps not so subtle) messages from your body. You feel a pleasant pull along the full length of your hamstrings. Your pelvis is tilted forward, your spinal column is lengthening, and you perceive a gentle increase in the spaces between each of your vertebrae.
Your instructor is quiet now, not pushing you to stretch further but allowing you to go deeper into the posture at your own pace. You're getting to know the posture and getting comfortable with it. Perhaps you even feel like a timelessly serene statue as you hold Paschimottanasana for several minutes.
How Long to Hold Stretches to Increase Flexibility
In this kind of practice, you're maintaining the posture long enough to affect the plastic quality of your connective tissues. Prolonged stretches like this can produce healthful, permanent changes in the quality of the fascia that binds your muscles. Julie Gudmestad, a physical therapist and certified Iyengar instructor, uses prolonged asanas with patients at her clinic in Portland, Oregon. "If they hold the poses for shorter periods, people get a nice sense of release," Gudmestad explains, "but they aren't necessarily going to get the structural changes that add up to a permanent increase in flexibility."
According to Gudmestad, stretches should be held 90 to 120 seconds to change the "ground substance" of connective tissue. Ground substance is the nonfibrous, gel-like binding agent in which fibrous connective tissues like collagen and elastin are embedded. Ground substance stabilizes and lubricates connective tissue. And it is commonly believed that restrictions in this substance can limit flexibility, especially as we age.
By combining precise postural alignment with the use of props, Gudmestad positions her patients to relax into asanas so they can remain long enough to make lasting change. "We make sure people aren't in pain," Gudmestad says, "so they can breathe and hold a stretch longer."
The Stretch Reflex: Key to Increasing Flexibility?
ccording to physiologists who view the nervous system as the major obstacle to increased flexibility, the key to overcoming one's limitations lies in another built-in feature of our neurology: the stretch reflex. Scientists who study flexibility think that the small, progressive steps that allow us to go a little deeper during the course of one session—and that dramatically improve our flexibility over a life of yoga practice—are in large part the result of retraining this reflex.
To get an understanding of the stretch reflex, picture yourself walking in a winter landscape. Suddenly you step on a patch of ice, and your feet start to splay apart. Immediately your muscles fire into action, tensing to draw your legs back together and regain control. What just happened in your nerves and muscles?
Every muscle fiber has a network of sensors called muscle spindles. They run perpendicular to the muscle fibers, sensing how far and fast the fibers are elongating. As muscle fibers extend, stress on these muscle spindles increases.
When this stress comes too fast, or goes too far, muscle spindles fire an urgent neurological "SOS," activating a reflex loop that triggers an immediate, protective contraction.
That's what happens when the doctor thumps with a small rubber mallet on the tendon just below your kneecap, stretching your quadriceps abruptly. This rapid stretch stimulates the muscle spindles in your quadriceps, signaling the spinal cord. An instant later the neurological loop ends with a brief contraction of your quadriceps, producing the well known "knee jerk reaction."
That's how the stretch reflex protects your muscles. And that's why most experts caution against bouncing while stretching. Bouncing in and out of a stretch causes the rapid stimulation of muscle spindles that triggers reflexive tightening, and can increase your chances of injury.
Slow, static stretching also triggers the stretch reflex, but not as abruptly. When you fold forward into Paschimottanasana, the muscle spindles in your hamstrings begin to call for resistance, producing tension in the very muscles you're trying to extend. That's why improving flexibility through static stretching takes a long time. The improvement comes through slow conditioning of your muscle spindles, training them to tolerate more tension before applying the neuro-brakes.
How Breathing Helps Increase Flexibility
Kraftsow also emphasizes the importance of the breath in any kind of neurological work, pointing out that breathing is a link between our consciousness and our autonomic nervous system. "It's this quality of breathing," Kraftsow says, "that qualifies it as a primary tool in any science of self development."
Pranayama, or breath control, is the fourth limb in a yogi's path toward samadhi
. One of the most important yogic practices, it helps the yogi gain control over the movement of prana (life energy) throughout the body. But whether viewed through esoteric yoga physiology or the scientific physiology of the West, the connection between relaxation, stretching, and breathing is well established. Physiologists describe this mechanical and neurological correlation of movement and breath as an instance of synkinesis, the involuntary movement of one part of the body that occurs with the movement of another part.
While you are holding Paschimottanasana, breathing deeply and steadily, you may notice an ebb and flow to your stretching that mirrors the tide of your breath. As you inhale, your muscles tighten slightly, reducing the stretch. As you exhale, slowly and completely, your abdomen moves back toward your spine, the muscles in your lower back seem to grow longer, and you can drop your chest toward your thighs.
It's obvious that exhalation deflates the lungs and lifts your diaphragm into the chest, thereby creating space in the abdominal cavity and making it easier to bend the lumbar spine forward. (Inhalation does the opposite, filling the abdominal cavity like an inflating balloon, making it difficult to fold your spine forward completely.) But you may not realize that exhalation also actually relaxes the muscles of your back and tilts your pelvis forward.
In Paschimottanasana, the musculature of the lower back is in passive tension. According to research cited in Science of Flexibility, every inhalation is accompanied by an active contraction of the lower back—a contraction in direct opposition to the desired forward bend. Then exhalation releases the lower back muscles, facilitating the stretch. If you place your palms on your back, just above the hips, and breathe deeply, you can feel the erector spinae on either side of your spinal column engage as you inhale and release as you exhale. If you pay close attention, you'll also notice that each inhalation engages the muscles around the coccyx, at the very tip of your spine, drawing the pelvis back slightly. Each exhalation relaxes these muscles and frees your pelvis, allowing it to rotate around the hip joints.
As your lungs empty and the diaphragm lifts into your chest, your back muscles release and you are able to fold into your ultimate stretch. Once there, you may experience a pleasant, seemingly eternal moment of inner peace, the pacifying of the nervous system traditionally considered one of the benefits of forward bends.
At this point, you may feel especially in touch with the spiritual element of yoga. But Western science also offers a material explanation for this experience. According to Alter's Science of Flexibility, during an exhalation the diaphragm pushes up against the heart, slowing down the heart rate. Blood pressure decreases, as does stress on the rib cage, abdominal walls, and intercostal muscles. Relaxation ensues, and your tolerance to stretching is enhanced—as well as your sense of well-being.
Flexibility and Yoga Philosophy
By now you may be asking yourself, "What do these Western stretching techniques have to do with yoga?"
On the one hand, of course, stretching is an important component of building the yoga-deha, the yogic body that allows the practitioner to channel ever more prana. That's one reason why the major hatha yoga schools base their practice on the classic asanas, a series of postures that illustrate and encourage the ideal range of human movement.
But any good teacher will also tell you that yoga isn't just about stretching. "Yoga is a discipline that teaches us new ways of experiencing the world," Judith Lasater, Ph.D. and physical therapist, explains, "so that we can give up the attachments to our suffering." According to Lasater, there are only two asanas: conscious or unconscious. In other words, what distinguishes a particular position as an asana is our focus, not simply the outer conformation of the body.
It's certainly possible to get so caught up in pursuit of physical perfection that we lose sight of the "goal" of asana practice—the state of samadhi. At the same time, though, exploring the limits of the body's flexibility can be a perfect vehicle for developing the one-pointed concentration needed for the "inner limbs" of classical yoga.
And there is certainly nothing inherently contradictory about using the analytical insights of Western science to inform and enhance the empirical insights of millennia of asana practice. In fact, yoga teacher B.K.S. Iyengar, perhaps the most influential figure in the Western assimilation of hatha yoga, has always encouraged scientific inquiry, advocating the application of strict physiological principles to the cultivation of a refined asana practice.
Some yogis are already embracing this synthesis enthusiastically. At the Meridian Stretching Center in Boston, Massachusetts, Bob Cooley is developing and testing a computer program that can diagnose flexibility deficiencies and prescribe asanas. New clients at Cooley's stretching center are asked to assume 16 different yoga postures as Cooley records specific anatomical landmarks on their bodies with a digitizing wand, similar to the ones used in computer-aided drafting. These body-point readings are computed to make comparisons between the client and models of both maximum and average human flexibility. The computer program generates a report that benchmarks and guides the client's progress, spelling out any areas needing improvement and recommending specific asanas.
Cooley uses an amalgamation of what he sees as the best points of Eastern and Western knowledge, combining the classic yoga asana with techniques similar to PNF. (An eclectic experimenter, Cooley incorporates Western psychotherapeutic insights, the Enneagram, and Chinese meridian theory in his approach to yoga.).
If you're a yoga purist, you may not like the idea of a yoga potpourri that mixes new-fangled scientific insights with time-honed yoga practices. But "new and improved" has always been one of America's national mantras, and blending the best from Eastern experience-based wisdom and Western analytical science may be a principal contribution our country makes to the evolution of yoga.
Source: https://www.yogajournal.com/practice/what-science-can-teach-us-about-flexibility?utm_campaign=YOG%20-%20NL%20-%20Practice%20Life%20&utm_source=hs_email&utm_medium=email&utm_content=80713645&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-_h1-NyXz2qGUxC4KpXGeordFgGbb59lEuwceTSJJ-sb6Jg764qZEUKkwsJf43bJVy0jk5hXDzjl738AfxbmuUbuE3YCQ&_hsmi=80713645
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CLASSROOM YOGA FOR KIDS MAY RELIEVE ANXIETY
Participating in yoga and mindfulness activities at school may help anxious third-graders improve their well-being and emotional health, according to a small study.
Researchers worked with a public school in New Orleans to add mindfulness and yoga to the school’s existing empathy-based programming for students needing extra support. Researchers randomly assigned third graders screened for symptoms of anxiety at the beginning of the school year to two groups. A control group of 32 students received care as usual, which included counseling and other activities led by a school social worker.
The intervention group of 20 students participated in small group yoga/mindfulness activities for eight weeks using a Yoga Ed curriculum. Students attended the small group activities at the beginning of the school day. The sessions included breathing exercises, guided relaxation, and several traditional yoga poses appropriate for children.
Researchers evaluated each group’s health-related quality of life before and after the intervention, using two widely recognized research tools. They used the Brief Multidimensional Students’ Life Satisfaction Scale-Peabody Treatment Progress Battery version to assess life satisfaction, and the Pediatric Quality of Life Inventory to assess psychosocial conditions and emotional well-being at the beginning, middle, and end of the study.
“The intervention improved psychosocial and emotional quality of life scores for students, as compared to their peers who received standard care,” says principal author Alessandra Bazzano, associate professor of Global Community Health and Behavioral Sciences at Tulane University School of Public Health.
“We also heard from teachers about the benefits of using yoga in the classroom, and they reported using yoga more often each week, and throughout each day in class, following the professional development component of intervention.”
Researchers targeted third grade because it is a crucial time of transition for elementary students when academic expectations increase.
“Our initial work found that many kids expressed anxious feelings in third grade as the classroom work becomes more developmentally complex,” Bazzano says. “Even younger children are experiencing a lot of stress and anxiety, especially around test time.”
The researchers report their findings in the journal Psychology Research and Behavior Management.
Additional coauthors of the study are from Tulane and Project Peaceful Warriors. The Phyllis M. Taylor Center for Social Innovation and Design Thinking and the Center for Public Service at Tulane University funded the work.
Source: Tulane University
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Your Body Stores Stress In These 2 Areas
We all know that stress starts in the mind and can affect the body. When we get stressed, we tend to tense up, causing our muscles to contract and develop tension. There are two areas of the body where stress has a more serious impact than others: your traps and shoulders, and your hips. Fortunately, there are several things you can do to combat and release the tension. Here's what I recommend.
How to release stress in your traps and shoulders.
Our traps and shoulders can carry some serious stress—stress that's most commonly caused by thoughts of the future (e.g., stressing about something that hasn't happened or worrying about something that will happen). Usually, it's something that's lingering or building over time. This stress can result in headaches, poor posture, and fatigue. Also, from a physical aspect, the way we look at our phones, carry bags, or even sleep can cause tension in our traps and shoulders, which puts stress on your body overall.
Ways to combat stress in your traps and shoulders:
1. Massage
Massage is great for relieving stress, decreasing lactic acid buildup (soreness), and decrease pain.
2. Stretch
Doing slow side-to-side neck stretches and slow head circles can help. Also remember to pull your shoulders back during these. You want to have good posture while doing these.
3. Ice and heat
Alternating ice pack and a heating pad can help relax the muscles around the neck and shoulders.
How to release stress in your hips.
Finally, the hips can carry stress. It's one of the areas where most people don't realize stress resides. The hips do so much work, both directly and indirectly. By standing and sitting for too long, the hips can become tight. Mental stress can also manifest in the hips. Even more than that, tight hips can lead to back pain and minimize performance.
Ways to combat stress in the hips:
Taking the time to stretch every day—even 10 or 15 minutes—can make a huge difference in the amount of tension your muscles carry. To release tension in your hips, pay special attention to your hip flexors, quads, and hamstrings.
2. Using a foam roller
Foam rollers are one of the most undervalued pieces of fitness/recovery equipment out there. Using a roller on your hip flexors and glutes can help release any built-up tension living in your hips.
3. Leg inversion
Lastly, lying on your back with your legs up against the wall is an effective tension-releasing strategy. This allows gravity to pull the blood back to the hip and causes some relief in the legs and hips.
Aside from these techniques, there are things we can do in general to lower our stress and, by proxy, our muscle tension. Meditation, for example, can help relax your mind and body to release mental worry. Also, eating a healthy diet can help decrease inflammation (which goes hand-in-hand with stress) and hydrate your muscles. Lastly, integrating foam rolling and stretching into your daily routine can help relieve muscle tension, which can allow you to move well.
Author: Jason Williams, NASM-CPT
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3/4/2008 John Casey 3 Comments
Maybe you’re not like me, but I open the op-ed page for directives from the liberal media. Most of the time, however, the liberal media disappoints. I get instead a kind of post game breakdown of the sort you’d find in the most technical of sports sections. There’s an election going on, as some of you may know, and the candidates (in particular the Democrats) are out there making their case–"vote for me because of I am a better fit for the job–my judgment, record, etc., make me so." So, liberal media, who is better? Let’s ask E.J.Dionne:
To be sure, just about everyone anticipated that when the field
narrowed, Clinton would be one of the contenders left standing. She had
won allies from her work for her husband and in the Senate, was helped
by the residual affection for Bill Clinton in many parts of the party, and created a support base among women.
But the scenario-builders pondering this contest two years ago imagined
a showdown between Clinton and — let’s be honest — a white guy. It
was thought that a moderate Democrat (popular choices included Mark Warner of Virginia and Evan Bayh of Indiana) would cast himself as the "electable" alternative to the "divisive" Clinton.
Alternatively, John Edwards
had the chance to go at Clinton from her left (he’d run against
"Clintonomics" as the pro-labor, mill-town-born populist) and from her
right (he was, after all, a Southern white man).
Obama upended all these calculations. Warner and Bayh understood how
much the race had changed and decided not to run. Obama bested Edwards
in Iowa, effectively blocking Edwards’s only path to contention.
He doesn’t care. While his conservative colleagues stake out clear positions and defend them–urging others to believe as they do–Dionne can’t bother do anything other than, er, color commentary:
Against anyone but Obama, Clinton could have counted on strong support from African Americans. Against an Adlai Stevenson–Gary Hart–Paul Tsongas–Bill Bradley
sort of reformer, she would have assembled the "regular" Democratic
coalition: blue-collar whites allied with black voters. This is, more
or less, how Walter Mondale, Bill Clinton and Al Gore
prevailed in the primaries. Against a centrist, Clinton would have won
the liberals. Her strength among women would have provided her with
additional ballast.
Obama not only created an alliance between African Americans and
upscale reform voters, but he also changed the composition of the
Democratic electorate by drawing in hundreds of thousands of voters
under age 30.
To me this is just baffling. I can see how this would be interesting from the perspective of political operatives or political scientists. But most of us are rather interested in who is a better fit for the job. Dionne assumes however we are like him. We’re interested in who runs the better campaign organization rather than who, for Pete’s sake, is better for the job. It’s a little early, in other words, for an explanation.
Because the Clinton campaign failed to anticipate the imperatives of a
race against Obama, it was only in the past two weeks that she managed
to move to offense. Her campaign has gone back to its basic argument
that, love her or not, Clinton is the experienced fighter who can be
trusted to deal with a nasty world and a decaying economy. She’s trying
to turn Obama’s newness into inexperience, his eloquence into slickness
and his conciliatory nature into a form of softness. It is no accident
that her "red phone" ad about her readiness to be president was created
by a veteran of Mondale’s campaign who made a similar ad against Gary
Hart in 1984.
And to conclude:
This is not the campaign Clinton had hoped to run, but it’s the one
approach she has left, and it’s had the effect of forcing Obama to
respond to her. You wonder what would have happened if she had adjusted
earlier.
That’s not really what I’m wondering. I wonder if anyone can explain what this article was about.
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He’s writing a serial history of the Democratic campaign for president. All he has to do is collate them at the end, and he has a book ready to go. It will be titled Musings on Counterfactuals Without Any Evidence.
When I read things like this, I picture a hung-over columnist realizing that his or her deadline is in 45 minutes and nothing has been written. They crank out some John Madden-esque color commentary and Telestrator scrawlings consisting largely of armchair public psychology, "conventional wisdom," sweeping generalizations, and flimsy assertions. The editor politiely accepts it, realizing that the columnist is Very Serious and Well-Known. More importantly, the editor knows that slop like this is exactly what most readers already believe and therefore they will thoroughly enjoy the read. It will make readers feel very smart to see that someone as exalted as EJ Dionne has the same Reader’s Digest-like view of history.
pmayo says:
Musings on Counterfactuals Without Any Evidence.Obviously, you’ve read my work.
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BDS in Hebrew
June 22nd, 2010 | Add a Comment
Ofer Neiman (a regular contributor to The Only Democracy?) and Ayala Shani published this article in Hebrew in Haaretz. As is often the case, the most interesting, and cutting-edge discussions, don’t get translated into the English version of the paper, perhaps in fear of offending sensitive Jewish American sensibilities? In any case, the article has been translated by Dena Bugel-Shunra, of Shunra Media. It was originally published in English in Jews Sans Frontieres.
Only a boycott will persuade Israel
by Ayala Shani & Ofer Neiman
“Israel won’t change unless the status quo has a downside” – these words were written by journalist Tony Karon, a Jew from South Africa. This sentence reflects the rationale behind the broad BDS campaign – which includes sanctions, institutional boycott, and divestment – which has begun trickling down into public consciousness in Israel. Instead of a defensive, self-righteous response along the general lines of “the whole world is against us”, it would be best to learn the facts about the campaign and peer into the collective mirror, which reflects grievous and systematic violations of human rights and international law.
The current movement originally started with a call to action issued in 2005, signed by more than 170 organizations from Palestinian society: citizens of Israel, refugees in exile, and Palestinians living under occupation in the West Bank and in Gaza. The call to action was published in Hebrew, too, and citizens of Israel are requested to express their support of it. It is for this purpose that the Israeli group “Boycott! Supporting the Palestinian BDS Call from within” was founded.
The BDS movement that has developed in response to the Palestinian call to action does not have any formal, focal leadership. Regular citizens around the world, including many Jews, initiate activities and take part in them. The goal of the movement is to demonstrate to Israel the international community’s disgust and rejection of its actions, so that Israel will act for the immediate termination of the occupation, for the end of discrimination against the Arab citizens of Israel, and for recognition of the refugees’ right of return, as phrased in United Nations Decision 194. Elements of the oppression which the movement wishes to put an end to match the legal definition of the crime of apartheid – systematic and institutionalized racial separation, as practiced in old South Africa.
The movement does not promote any specific political solution (one state or two, the return of any particular number of refugees), but rather, strives to change in a nonviolent way the balance of power that makes it possible for Israel’s governments to violently withhold the basic rights of millions of people, and to renounce their accountability with unfounded statements (“the Arabs are to blame for the refugee problem”, “the settlements are legal”, “there is no siege upon Gaza”.)
It will be stressed here that the boycott is not a personal boycott on Israelis but rather, a boycott of official Israeli institutions and of events taking place under their auspices. Thus, for example, there is no call to deny an Israeli researcher her right to lecture abroad. There is a call to avoid holding international conferences in universities in Israel which proudly proclaim their contacts with the military establishment.
Is Israel being singled out? As was true about white South Africa, the world is justly sensitive to situations where a population that has civil rights determines the fate of a population which has neither civil rights nor the right to vote. Fairness is not always a feature of international relations, but Israel enjoys many international privileges, such as membership in the OECD. The citizens of China, where grievous human rights abuses take place, have never been given the opportunity to express a lack of confidence in the government that forcibly suppressed the student demonstrations in 1989. In contrast, the citizens of Israel cast their votes again and again for parties (including Kadima and the Labor Party) and governments under whose administration settlements are built, people are tortured and arrested for years with no trial, unarmed citizens are shot, and land and water resources are plundered.
Many people around the world ask, therefore, whether there is good reason for a normalization with Israel. Port workers in Sweden and Norway, countries which have historically been very sympathetic to Israel, refuse to unload Israeli container ships. Artists wonder why they must perform here and enhance the sense of “business as usual” when the very fact of their performance will be portrayed as support of Israel’s policy.
A deep-reaching public discussion is needed at this time, not only about the question of whether the boycott is or is not justified but about Israel’s policy. Many Israelis acknowledge the heinous acts being done in our name, under our very noses. It is appropriate for an effective and nonviolent campaign against these actions should have their support.
The authors are active in the Israeli group: “Boycott! Supporting the Palestinian BDS Call from within.”
This article was originally published in Hebrew in Haaretz Online, June 22 2010.
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Mojo - The 50 greatest Led Zeppelin tracks of all-time
Post by RB » Thu May 29, 2014 11:56 am
Just out in new issue, 20 page Zep feature to celebrate next weeks first 3 album re-issues.
http://www.mojo4music.com/14749/50-grea ... lin-songs/
50. In The Evening (In through the out Door, 1979)
49. Gallows Pole (III, 1970)
48. For Your Life (Presence, 1976)
47. That's The Way (III, 1979)
46. Thank You (II, 1969)
45. Dancing Days (Houses of the Holy, 1973)
44. How Many More Times (I, 1969)
43. Celebration Day (III, 1970)
42. Black Mountain Side (I, 1969)
41. The Wanton Song (Physical Graffiti, 1975)
40. I can't quit you Babe (I, 1969)
39. The song remains the Same (Houses of the Holy, 1973)
38. Living loving Maid (She's only a Woman) (II, 1969)
37. In the Light (Physical Graffiti, 1975)
36. Moby Dick (II, 1969)
35. Bring it on Home (II, 1969)
34. Bron Y-Aur Stomp (III, 1970)
33. Trampled Underfoot (Physical Graffiti, 1975)
32. Custard Pie (Physical Graffiti, 1975)
31. Sick Again (Physical Graffiti, 1975)
30. Houes of the Holy (Physical Graffiti, 1975)
29. Four Sticks (IV, 1971)
28. The lemon Song (II, 1969)
27. The Ocean (Houses of the Holy, 1973)
26. What is & what should never Be (II, 1969)
25. Babe i'm gonna leave You (I, 1969)
24. The Battle of Evermore (IV, 1971)
23. Communication Breakdown (I, 1969)
22. Misty Mountain Hop (IV, 1971)
21. Tangerine (III, 1970)
20. Friends (III, 1970)
19. In my time of Dying (Physical Graffiti, 1975)
18. Heartbreaker (II, 1968)
17. Going to California (IV, 1971)
16. Ten years Gone (Physical Graffiti, 1975)
15. Over the hills & far Away (Houses of the Holy, 1973)
14. Good Times Bad Times (I, 1969)
13. No Quarter (Houses of the Holy, 1973)
12. Immigrant Song (III, 1970)
11. The rain Song (Houses of the Holy, 1973)
10. Rock & Roll (IV, 1971)
9. Ramble On (II, 1969)
8. Achilles last Stand (Physical Graffiti, 1975)
7. Dazed & Confused (I, 1969)
6. Since i've been loving You (III, 1970)
5. Black Dog (IV, 1971)
4. Stairway to Heaven (IV, 1971)
3. Whole Lotta Love (II, 1969)
2. When the levee Breaks (IV, 1971)
1. Kashmir (Physical Graffiti, 1975)
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Re: Mojo - The 50 greatest Led Zeppelin tracks of all-time
Post by jimmyj » Fri May 30, 2014 11:27 am
Good call putting Kashmir on top. That is my favorite Zep track. A little surprised Stairway is as low as 4!
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Ästhetik und Kulturtheorie
Charles S. Pierce: Abbildung 23 © Ders., Semiotische Schriften. Band 3 / Suhrkamp Verlag 2000
Sémiologie à venir
Symbolon and Gift: A Structuralist Déjà-vu with Ethics
Understanding aesthetics primarily in the sense of aísthēsis, as the theory of perception, my research interest focuses on the aesthetic fundamentals of modern semiotics. These fundamentals are neither to be found in what is usually deemed to be among the origins of Saussure’s linguistics, namely a history of concepts or ideas, nor in the (transcendental) foundation of Peirce’s semiotics. In accordance with Apel’s reception of Peirce, the latter is time and again considered a transformation of Kant’s Transcendental Logic and Transcendental Aesthetics in the German-speaking world. In contrast to this, my research turns to the question as to which aspects of perception are being excluded during the constitution of modern semiotics as a science, and during its process of institutionalization on the level of its sign-theoretical foundation. What I consider central is the problem of reference, which, by way of how it is being conceived as such (meaning as a semiotic problem), already becomes the shibboleth of two theories of signs––the individual semiotician announces him- or herself either as an adherent of a semiotic tradition that connects back to Charles Sanders Peirce, or as an adherent of a semiologic tradition that connects back to Ferdinand de Saussure.
Picking up on Foucault’s differentiation between the foundation of a (positive) science and the foundation of discursivity, I consult the history of modern semiotics under the aesthetical aspect of its production as a science. What comes into focus is thus, for one, the aesthetics of individual semiotic theories that transport a certain image of scientificity by way of their diagrammatical and formula-like exposition that is always oriented towards other sciences to some extent. On the other hand, it is about the recurring motive of a recourse and return to a kind of founding myth (the Paris conference from 1969) that idealizes semiotics as a merging of two sign-theoretical traditions. This merging does not only come with the »risks of annoying ambiguities« (Jakobson) of, for example, the term »symbol«. It also means, as it were, the end of semiology––semiology is then simply wrapped up in semiotics, however, since at the same time the question of reference is eliminated or marginalized, it loses connection with any sort of extralinguistic reality.
The goal of my research is to follow up the contradictory and resistant elements of modern semiotics in precisely those (post-) structuralist theories in the broader sense that were excluded with regard to the constitution of semiotics as a science. My work can thus itself be understood as aestheticizing, in so far as it doesn’t repeat the gesture of a return-to in a neutral way, but rather reminds of semiology’s claim to be a future science that »studies the life of signs within society« (Saussure). As a future science ––or rather a science to come (à venir), as one would have to say with Derrida––, semiology is to be confronted with the task of grasping aspects of perception that essentially belong to the (social) life of man.
Charles S. Pierce: Abbildung 23 © Charles S. Peirce, Semiotische Schriften. Band 3: 1906–1913 / Suhrkamp Verlag 2000.
Moritz Zangerl
Seminar für Ästhetik (bis 2009)
Institut für Kulturwissenschaft
Prof. Dr. Iris Därmann
Professorin für Kulturtheorie und Kulturwissenschaftliche Ästhetik
Yvonne Kult
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Mass Effect 3 Gameplay Trailer
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Kelly Teng June 7, 2011 No Comments
Following the unveiling of the Mass Effect 3 release date and official trailer, EA and Bioware also took the liberty to provide us gamers around the world with a sneak peek at the action behind the final instalment of the trilogy.
There’s only one word…epic.
The gameplay video showcases Commander Shepard and Mordin having a quick conversation, but really it’s all about shooting, running, and action. It is epic, to say the least, and the video really is demonstrating just how much more movement will be in the title. While Mass Effect 3 has always been known more for its role playing aspect, this preview seems to be shutting up all the gamers who complained about the lack of action. Of course, the story will be as epic as the action – the game was written to span across three games – but hopefully this last title will satisfy both gamers who appreciate story and gamers who love to shoot things.
For the official trailer, check out our post and video here.
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Hindus seek Diwali holiday in Texas’ Coppell School District
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Hindus are urging Coppell Independent School District (CISD) in suburban Dallas, with 47.4% students Asian, to proclaim official holiday on Diwali, most popular of Hindu festivals.
Distinguished Hindu statesman Rajan Zed, in a statement in Nevada said that Diwali holiday in CISD would be a step in the positive direction in view of presence of a substantial number of Hindu students in the District; as it was important to meet the religious and spiritual needs of these pupils.
Zed, who is President of Universal Society of Hinduism, stressed that CISD should seriously and speedily work towards declaring Diwali (which falls on November seven in 2018) as a holiday, thus recognizing the intersection of spirituality and education. Zed noted that awareness about other religions thus created by such holidays like Diwali would make CISD students well-nurtured, well-balanced, and enlightened citizens of tomorrow.
Diwali fell on October 19 in 2017 and six New York school districts declared holiday for students on October 19, which included: East Meadow School District, East Williston Union Free School District, Half Hollow Hills Central School District, Herricks Union Free School District, Hicksville Union Free School District and Syosset Central School District. Mineola Union Free School District announced that no home work or examinations would be given on Diwali, reports suggest.
For 2017 in New Jersey; Glen Rock Public Schools announced closure of schools and offices on Diwali; in West Windsor-Plainsboro Regional School District, schools were closed on October 19; and in Piscataway Township Schools, there was “No School for Students” on Diwali. And recently Millburn Township Public Schools announced Diwali day off for students for the next three years, reports add.
In 2017 Unionville-Chadds Ford School District headquartered in Kennett Square in Pennsylvania approved closure of schools on Diwali; while Harvard Public Schools in Massachusetts declared October 19 as “early release day”, reports note.
Rajan Zed further said that since it was important for Hindu families to celebrate Diwali day together at home with their children, we did not want our children to be deprived of any privileges at the school because of thus resulting absences on this day. Closing schools on Diwali would ensure that and would also display how respectful and accommodating CISD was to their faith.
Zed indicates that Hinduism is rich in festivals and religious festivals are very dear and sacred to Hindus. Diwali, the festival of lights, aims at dispelling the darkness and lighting up the lives and symbolizes the victory of good over evil.
Hinduism is oldest and third largest religion of the world with about 1.1 billion adherents and moksh (liberation) is its ultimate goal. There are about three million Hindus in USA.
“High-performing and innovative” CISD, whose tagline is “Empowering Educational Excellence”, serves 12635 students in 16 schools in 23 square miles area covering Coppell, Valley Ranch, Grapevine, North Irving, and Dallas (Cypress Waters). Tracy Fisher and Brad Hunt are Board President and Superintendent respectively of CISD, whose Mission includes “develop strong moral character”. There was a school in the Coppell area as early as the 1870s.
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Canopy Growth dominates world market — Expands into UK and Poland
By Karen Graham Jan 21, 2019 in Business
Canopy Growth Corporation announced on Monday the expansion of their global reach into the United Kingdom and Poland through its medically-focused business, Spectrum Cannabis.
Spectrum Cannabis, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Canopy Growth, and an international medical brand is dedicated to simplifying how medical cannabis patients can get the drug from their prescribing physicians. Spectrum Cannabis operates in Australia, South America, Africa and across Europe. Spectrum Cannabis products are available in a wide range of potency's and formats.
The UK government approved legalized medical cannabis for a select group of illnesses last November, making it available through prescription. Medical cannabis in the UK gained national attention after the story of Alfie Dingley, a child who suffers from epilepsy whose family fought for the right to use cannabis oil to help with his seizures gained the public's attention.
Spectrum Biomedical UK
Canopy Growth, along with U.K. cannabis researcher and Oxford-based research-company Beckley Canopy Therapeutics, formed Spectrum Biomedical UK with the intent of creating a supply-line of standardized medical cannabis therapies for the entire continent.
"There is significant real-world and clinical evidence supporting the safety and effectiveness of cannabis-based medicinal products,” said Dr. Mark Ware, Chief Medical Officer, Canopy Growth, according to Pot Network. “However, due to the current regulations and lack of education about medicinal cannabis among clinicians in the U.K., there remain considerable obstacles to patient access.”
Marijuana being grown in a greenhouse for Canopy Growth Corp in Smith Falls, Ontario.
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He continued: “Spectrum UK has the expertise and ambition to simplify the UK medicinal cannabis landscape and ensure access to cannabis-based medicinal products for patients with great clinical unmet need."
Spectrum Cannabis Polska
Canopy Growth has also made progress with the company's Toruń-based team, Spectrum Cannabis Polska. The Polish company imported medical cannabis for the first time last week after finishing a rigorous regulatory approval process.
"This shipment is an important first step in a new European market towards building our pan-European operations," said Dr. Pierre Debs, Managing Director, Canopy Growth Europe in a statement. "We continue to follow our overall plan of self-sufficiency in Europe to be able to best provide individuals with high-quality medical cannabis."
Analysts continue to be bullish on Canopy, both on Bay Street and Wall Street, as the company remains the number one pick among investors.
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The hills of Brimstone have long been an important part of Scott County. The area’s coal mines and timber operations have employed Scott Countians for decades. On weekends, the area served as a source of recreation. Long a favorite destination for all-terrain vehicles, Brimstone is also recognizes as one of the best hunting destinations in the region.
As the sounds of heavy equipment and chainsaws have slowly faded in the hills of Brimstone, recreation has played an advanced role. Brimstone Recreation, LLC, manages 20,000 acres of the Brimstone property and has constructed hundreds of miles of ATV trails ranging from routes suitable for beginners to advanced trails. Guided rides and equipment rentals are also offered.
But there’s more to Brimstone than ATV riding. Hunters have the opportunity to manage their own hunting lease for whitetail deer, wild turkey and other game. There’s fishing available in the streams (including New River, which runs along the periphery of the property). And camping is available as well.
Brimstone Recreation hosts several major festivals each year — WinterFest welcomes spring, the White Knuckle Event mixes trail-riding and country music concerts each Memorial Day weekend, and Brimstone Paragon does the same each September.
Supplies: Permits, maps and other supplies are available from the Brimstone Recreation office.
Camping: Brimstone Campground offers full hookup sites overlooking New River with direct access to Brimstone Recreation. Rustic camping is also available on the property. (Main article.)
Lodging: Several cabin rentals and a motel are close to the Brimstone property. (Main article.)
Resort bands are required on the properties managed by Brimstone Recreation.
Daily — $28 | $15 for ages 17 & under
2 Day — $42 | $20 for ages 17 & under
Weekly — $70 | $35 for ages 17 & under
Annual — $95 | $48 for ages 17 & under
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Ipcress File (The) (Blu-ray) (1965)
Spy man, spy man, what do you see? "One murder! Two murders! And mine makes three!"
Director: Sidney J, Furie
Blu-ray A America - Kino Lorber
Blu-ray ALL United Kingdom - ITV
Blu-ray B Australia - Beyond Home Entertainment
Blu-ray B United Kingdom - Network - 2014 Release
(1.) Audio Commentary with director Sidney J. Furie and editor Peter Hunt (1999)
(2.) Audio Commentary with film historian Troy Howarth and film historian/filmmaker Daniel Kremer (2020)
2006 interview with actor Sir Michael Caine (19:19)
2006 interview with production designer Sir Ken Adam (11:00)
Trailers From Hell with Howard Rodman (1:21)
Poster and Image Gallery
Theatrical Trailer 1 (HD, 3:07)
Theatrical Trailer 2 (1:08)
4 US Radio Spots (2:49)
Bonus Trailers: "for: "Billion Dollar Brain", "The Black Windmill", "The Destructors", "The Wilby Conspiracy", "The Holocroft Covenant", and "The Whistle Blower"
English DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0 Mono
Features a 2K restoration.
Comes with a reversible cover.
Theatrical Trailer (1:05)
English Dolby Digital 5.1
English Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono
Extras are in HD.
Blu-ray B United Kingdom - Network
The British Film
Audio Commentary with director Sidney J. Furie and editor Peter Hunt (1999)
"The IPCRESS File: Michael Caine Goes Stella" 2006 comedy sketch (5:01)
"Candid Caine: A Self Portrait of Michael Caine" 1969 documentary (44:19)
Original Theatrical Trailer (1:04)
Original US Radio Commercials (2:44)
Galleries (HD)
- "Production" image gallery (2:24)
- "Behind the Scenes" image gallery (2:57)
- "Portrait" image gallery (1:17)
- "Promotional" image gallery (2:56)
Textless Material (opening titles sans credits and music) (4:13)
English LPCM 2.0 Mono
Extras are in SD unless otherwise stated.
The US Kino and UK Network release, for the lossless audio and both containing differing contextual material.
- Germany by Koch Media
- France by Elephant Films
Blu-ray A America- Kino Lorber - No cuts (107:59).
Blu-ray ALL United Kingdom- ITV - No cuts (107:39).
Blu-ray B Australia- Beyond Home Entertainment - No cuts (107:39).
Blu-ray B 2014 Release United Kingdom- Network - No cuts (107:40).
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Review and Test Drive: 2020 Toyota 4Runner TRD Pro and Nightshade Edition
2020 Toyota 4Runner TRD Pro in Army Green
By Jonathan Spira on 3 April 2020
If you want a bit of fun, park your Army Green Toyota 4Runner TRD Pro somewhat adjacent to an off-road trail or gravel road. For even more fun, wear a safety vest and hold a large walkie-talkie in your hand. For no good reason whatsoever, almost every car turning off will stop in your vicinity and the driver will ask if he may proceed.
For one week, I felt as if I had enlisted in the army as I drove around town with this mid-size sport utility vehicle, even though, just a few weeks earlier, I had spent a week with the 2020 Toyota 4Runner Pro Nightshade Edition. While the TRD Pro truly does look like it belongs at a military base or fort, the Nightshade Edition is far more understated and uses darkened elements throughout the vehicle, starting with the front and rear bumper fascias and continuing with the outside mirrors and door handles, window moldings, and rocker panels.
The current generation 4Runner is the fifth in a line that started in 1984 and it was introduced in 2009 at the State Fair of Texas, received a facelift for the 2014 model year, and received significant tech upgrades for 2020. As a result of its age, it still uses a truck-like body-on-frame chassis unlike the more car-like anybody design favored today.
2020 Toyota 4Runner NightShade Edition
Design wise, aside from a new grille that accommodates the front radar sensor for the Safety Sense package, little has changed visually.
INSIDE THE 2020 TOYOTA 4RUNNER
Climb into the 4Runner of your choice and you’ll find a nicely executed if slightly aging interior. The cabin offers more than enough space for driver and four passengers, and can seat a driver and six passengers with the optional third-row seat, but the limited legroom makes it the kiddie section without a doubt. The third row cuts cargo space down to nine cubic feet (0.8 cubic meters), versus 47.2 cubic feet (4.39 cubic meters) of cargo behind its second row and 89.7 cubic feet (8.3 cubic meters) behind its first row.
The dash gets a new instrument panel with a 4.2” display with far better graphics than prior versions, and the entire cluster has been given a fresh, more modern look. The SR5 Premium, TRD Off-Road Premium, and TRD Pro variants also lost their ignition keys in favor of push-button start.
This is in addition to the new Entune 3.0 infotainment system with Apple CarPlay and Android Auto support, a larger touchscreen display (8”), Amazon Alexa integration, a 4G LTE hotspot, SiriusXM satellite radio, and two additional rear USB ports.
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Coronavirus News: July 8, 2020 – Brix Says Limit Gatherings to 10 in Many States, Fauci Cautions of Misreading Drop in Death Rate
JFK Airport Consolidates Operations During Coronavirus Crisis
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Kreek - Kreek
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Durbin - The Beast Awakens
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WIG WAM - Never Say Die
Arc Of Life - Arc Of Life
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MAGIC DANCE - Remnants
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Jason Bieler is prepared to release his new solo album, “Songs For The Apocalypse” this coming January. The album, aptly being released under the monkier JASON BIELER AND THE BARON VON BIELSKI ORCHESTRA, sees Bieler working with a diverse array of musical friends including: Todd LaTorre (Queensryche), Dave Ellefson (Megadeth), Devin Townsend, Pat Badger (Extreme), Butch Walker (ex-Marvelous 3), Bumblefoot (Sons of Apollo), Clint Lowery (Sevendust), Benji Webbe (Skindred), Kyle Sanders (Hellyeah) and more!
Italian power/progressive metallers are back with a new studio album, “Lifeblood” on March 12, 2021. Now approaching nearly 25 years of existence, Secret Sphere has been steadily and reliably crafting epic, melodic European metal of the power and progressive variety for their entire careers.
Frontiers Music Srl is pleased to announce the signing of Danish vocalist Ronnie Atkins to a solo deal. The acclaimed Pretty Maids and Nordic Union vocalist will release his new solo album, "One Shot," on March 12, 2021.
Swedish rockers Creye will return with their second studio album, “II” on January 22, 2021. The album sees the band’s songwriting and playing jumping by leaps and bounds to put them at the forefront of the Swedish melodic rock scene.
ARC OF LIFE is a new progressive rock supergroup which features three members of the current YES line-up, vocalist Jon Davison, bassist/vocalist Billy Sherwood, and drummer Jay Schellen.
Robert Berry will return with a second 3.2 album, “Third Impression” on February 12, 2021. The band/project is a continuation of the band 3, which a band Berry was in with Carl Palmer and the late great Keith Emerson.
Simulacrum is an exciting progressive metal band hailing from one of most fruitful countries for exciting music in the world, Finland.
Frontiers Music Srl is proud to announce the signing of British rock singer Chez Kane to the label
Turbulence is a new progressive rock/metal band from Lebanon founded in 2013 by two extremely gifted composers, guitarist Alain Ibrahim and keyboardist Mood Yassin. Omar El Hage (vocals), Sayed Gereige (drums) and Anthony Atwe (bass) round out the band's line-up. Coming from a region not exactly famous for prog music, Turbulence has emerged and is ready to compete on a world stage. The band is preparing to unleash their sophomore album, “Frontal,” a concept album which showcases Turbulence's ability to combine compelling musical storytelling with modern sounds and production.
Frontiers Music Srl is pleased to announce the signing of singer James Durbin to the label for a multi-album deal under the moniker 'Durbin'. James will release his aptly title label debut, “The Beast Awakens” on February 12, 2021.
Italian metallers Labyrinth will return with another great album in 2021, “Welcome to the Absurd Circus”.
Norway’s WIG WAM are reunited and back in the ring with an exciting new album, aptly titled “Never Say Die”.
Phantom Elite is a relatively new metal band fronted by singer Marina La Torraca (Exit Eden, live vocalist for Avantasia) and features songwriting and production from former After Forever guitarist and producer Sander Gommans.
Gary Hughes, the British melodic hard rock singer known for his vocals, songwriting, and production, has announced the release of a best of collection, "Decades" encompassing his over three decades of work.
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Sora no Method Anime Review
By Guest Writer on July 23, 2015 in Anime
This post is by guest writer Sarah Minazzo.
Unfulfilling Wish
I had no expectations of what Sora no Method (Celestial Method) was or would become, but was curious about its looming mystery. This mystery hangs in the air literally over Lake Kiriya, in the form of a sparkly saucer. It’s clear early on that the saucer doesn’t have Independence Day intentions, but still, no evidence of any aliens disembarking? Or is there? Why is it here? This in itself made it an uncommon premise to the usual apocalyptic invasion. In addition, the anime’s opening could almost make you mistake it for being in the magical girl genre, but it’s more slice of life with a strong focus on relationships and character development. Unfortunately, the series doesn’t live up to its potential. Sora no Method feeds tiny breadcrumbs to its audience and does so sparingly, making the story rather thin across its 13 episodes.
Episodes 1-3 Review
Sora no Method begins with Nonoka and her father moving to Lake Kiriya City. It turns out that the town’s main tourist attraction — the saucer — has been in the sky above since seven years ago. Coincidently at the same time, Nonoka and her father had originally moved away from the town. Soon after moving back to Lake Kiriya City, Nonoka comes across a little blue-haired girl, Noel, who claims to know her. Nonoka has no memory of Noel and accuses her of breaking a photo frame containing a photo of her deceased mother. It turns out her father broke it, which triggers Nonoka’s memory of Noel as she searches for her to apologize. Noel, happy that Nonoka remembers her, informs her that she will grant her wishes now as she promised, seven years ago.
In the episodes that follow, Nonoka starts at her new school, meeting the other main characters — Shione, Koharu, Yuzuki and Souta. Shione is completely cold towards Nonoka and gives no reason for her behavior. Yuzuki hates the saucer and often does solo protests to get rid of it, also roping in Nonoka to help out. Koharu’s family runs a tourism store based on the saucer, so Koharu bears no ill will towards it. Souta (Yuzuki’s brother) is somewhat neutral about the whole matter, and would like to see his sister calm down over it.
Sora no Method’s attempt to build mystique falls flat and leaves you confused.
Characters are introduced well in terms of their personality and their views on the saucer. However, when reaching our first big turning point in the third episode, explanations are vague. Memories come flooding back supposedly, but this isn’t depicted well. The flashbacks are incredibly brief and I felt as though something was lost in translation — the characters were talking about things that weren’t even remotely related to the past that was shown. It turns out they were all friends (you guessed it) seven years ago, and Shione has some kind of misgiving with Nonoka. Somehow the saucer is Nonoka’s fault and it’s not made clear why. I would suggest that this is the anime’s attempt to build mystique around the subject; unfortunately the execution falls flat and leaves you confused.
These episodes are mostly mini-stories that deviate from the main story arc and focus on the character development of the main cast. After their memories are uncovered, Yuzuki has taken a strong disliking to Nonoka to the point of physical abuse, with Shione doing the same. Along with this treatment, you end up feeling sorry for Nonoka as she struggles with her blocked childhood memories, from the time when her mother died. Her mother had suffered an undisclosed terminal illness and it’s part of the reason why Nonoka and her dad made the move to Tokyo.
In her childhood memories, despite her tragic family situation, Nonoka is seen as the cheerful girl who glues the friend circle together and befriends the otherwise soft-spoken Shione. This makes you begin to wonder if the negativity aimed at her is valid. Even so, Nonoka feels horrible for not remembering her past, and it’s on that emotion she acts upon to try to set things right.
Nonoka eventually finds out from Souta that Yuzuki’s anti-saucer sentiment roots from the continued cancellation of fireworks over the lake. In a flashback, we finally understand Yuzuki’s hate for the saucer, as it took anyway something she loved to see during her childhood — fireworks over the lake at festival time. Knowing this, Nonoka becomes determined to put on fireworks to make up with Yuzuki with Noel’s help. Noel uses the saucer to project fireworks upon it.
At this point, it’s clear that Noel has a connection to the saucer and to be completely frank, I already knew that from the very first episode! She says on multiple occasions to Nonoka and later to Shione, “I am the saucer!”. Noel’s statements of relation to the saucer are said right to their faces. Tragically, all of them are too oblivious to the obvious. This drove me insane! Were they even listening to Noel? There is no explanation for the characters’ earlier ignorance of Noel’s statements, nor is there any explanation for their finally taking notice now. This became annoying and my interest waned from here on.
Noel’s powers are hit-or-miss.
As for Noel, episode six is one of the few moments where we see her powers and, like most of these moments, it’s underwhelming. She rigs a raffle draw to win the prize she wants and even then, she doesn’t win it! To be fair, she rigged the draw for herself and not to grant anyone’s wish, which is what her magic is intended for. The previous fireworks effect on the saucer was at least magical, but this raffle scene is a stark contrast of disappointment, making her powers hit-or-miss. If she really is meant to be magical, there should be consistency in her capabilities. It ruins believability in the character and the mysterious saucer she represents.
By the end of these events, Yuzuki and Nonoka make amends. Nonoka then finds out through Noel about a promise that she made to Shione long ago. Through this we see flashbacks from Shione’s childhood and can understand where her cold shoulder has come from — Nonoka moving away and breaking this promise. It’s clear that Shione doesn’t know how to let go and move on. Nonoka had no choice in moving away because she was just a kid! It’s her parents’ choice. She can’t be blamed for not being able to keep her promise. From that, I felt Shione was rather immature for holding such a grudge.
Episodes 8-10 Review
The highlight here is clarification on what actually happened seven years ago. We get the full details on the real backstory and Noel’s claim to grant wishes. Honestly, what gets my goat is I wouldn’t blame Nonoka for the saucer’s appearance. Without giving away too much, she cannot be held solely responsible for it and it isn’t her idea in the first place. With this revelation, you feel little love for the other characters that are supposedly Nonoka and Noel’s best friends. Nonoka is the only character one can empathize with. She’s an all-around fun, good-natured girl, who’s slapped by two girls that she’s meant to be friends with and is blamed by everyone for the saucer. Yet she cares greatly for them and wants to make amends for things that are simply not her fault. My advice to her — drop them all and find new friends.
In these episodes, some revelations about Noel finally establish her character far better — but it’s left to much too late in the series. Just as unfortunate, there’s still little evidence of her powers. Frankly, Nonoka has done more to grant wishes by trying to make the others happy with her. Noel is more the glue that holds the group together; it’s her childish innocence and her bliss in learning the ways of the world that keep everyone involved.
Episodes 11-13 Review
The series picks up the pace a bit in its finale and resolution, though I’m not entirely pleased with the outcome. The whole friendship circle constantly debates on everyone’s feelings towards one another. What’s irritating is they’ve all covered these points and problems a number of times previously. I mean seriously, broken record much? This starts to come to an end, thankfully, as we reach the closing chapters. The focus instead is on Noel for a change. Aware that they are about to lose her, they discuss how to keep her. This goes to the extreme of sacrificing their friendships as a means of allowing Noel to stay. This act is completely contradictive to the wishes Noel is meant to have granted. Again, this makes me call Noel’s magic into question as well as the group’s intelligence. There’s a far better and easier answer to this problem, but it’s like the writers were trying to fill time before getting to the finale.
Ultimately, the ending is obvious and unsatisfactory. Yes, there’s a big magical moment finally, but it’s an old trick and doesn’t save the poor writing and the mystery’s thin quality. It’s a pale imitation of happy Ghibli style endings. There’s a lot of waiting around for that final scene and the final episode is more of a pointless series’ highlight reel. It was more of a recap episode with characters discussing their resolutions with one another and how they hope to get Noel back. This in turn makes the happy ending hollow and rather short. Which is a real shame, as the animation and special effects are beautiful and well-sequenced.
Sora no Method had a different premise that intrigued me, but I was disappointed to say the least. There was little mystery. Noel’s origin was obvious, and the saucer was obviously not malevolent; all you had to do was look at its sparkly shape with flower, star, and heart designs on it. There could also have been better build up to the climax. The story unravels itself and falls apart to be really nothing more than a story of a girl surrounded by the wrong friends, doing everything she can to make them like her. Though the characters do become better as the series progresses, it’s still not the best message to put out there.
Nonoka proves that you don’t need magic — if you could call what Noel does that — or a close encounter to make dreams come true. Perhaps that is the lesson I should take from this anime, and gladly will. I’m sorry to say Sora no Method won’t be getting a rewatch anytime soon, or even in seven years’ time. The method was there, it just didn’t have the right follow-through.
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Hopetoun to St Andrews
Hopetoun House is Scotland’s, if not Britain’s, grandest stately home.
We have had one after another amazing experience during this trip, based on the fantastic good fortune of having locals who have been kind enough to show us around.
Kerry took us for a private tour of Hopetoun House and its gardens.
Hopetoun and its inhabitants are a case of ‘google please’. I can’t possibly describe the ins and out of this 300-odd-year-old mansion sitting on a huge estate beside the Firth of Forth, within sight of Edinburgh’s famous suspension bridge.
Hopetoun features breathtaking proportions in sheer size; unsurpassed carved wooden panels and cornices. Priceless furniture and tapestry hangings and art; huge and lovely Persian rugs, one custom-made with a previous Marquis’s name written in Persian script into the actual weave; gorgeous Georgian ceilings.
Grand sweeps of lawns fore and aft, with black St Kilda sheep grazing thereon! Only-in-Britain walled gardens which Bris & Kerry’s daughter Skye, Lady Hopetoun, is re-establishing with astonishing skill (perhaps not quite so astonishing, considering the family penchant for magnificent gardens).
One of the previous Earls was the first Governor General of Australia; one was Viceroy of India for 7 years. Theirs was the first Scottish family to introduce life-long housing for former employees; their legacy of public service is huge.
It was great to have the opportunity of an insight into the workings of the family who actually live there, and the complexities of the peerage. And we left Edinburgh and Hopetoun later than we had anticipated, Kerry and Bris having been so kind and welcoming and full of fascinating chat. I can’t believe the generosity of spirit of our friends on this side of the world.
So then we travelled to St Andrews, Fife, which is Mecca for Robert the Golfer and where we are staying tonight – much contrary to our tiny itinerary for seeing the Highlands. A lot to do now in 2 days. But we will sleep in a gorgeous hotel overlooking the sea and St Andrews golf links. And it’s a case of every moment counting, and every moment’s being very, very worthwhile no matter how far we get or how much we end up seeing.
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China’s number one beggar village
Key | January 12th, 2010
Xiaozhai Village in Min County, Gansu Province is well-known throughout the country because media call it “China’s number one beggar village”. According to the numerous media coverage over the years, most of the farmers in this village are like migratory birds, migrating and begging through the developed coastal cities like Jinan, Qingdao, Shenyang, Nanjing etc. “going north in the summer and south in the winter”. Today this village strives to change its embarrassing image; among the 12 communities in Xiaozhai village, only two of them are still living with the old ways. However the bad reputation does not just go away in one day. Xiaozhai village has a long way to go to in order to clear its bad name. Recently China Youth Daily reporter visited the village to see how much it has changed; and whether this infamous village still carries on its humiliating tradition.
The biggest difference between Li’s family and the other villagers is that Li’s family had the first college graduate of the entire village. But, now Li’s family is one of the poorest in the village. The reason was simple, according to Li Gahou, he was the first to start begging for living, but did not continue.
Li Gahou’s son Li Yuping was the first college graduate of this village. Years ago when he was just seven years old, he was begging with his father on the city streets. He asked the people for money while his father played Erhu. Li’s family stopped begging. When Li Yuping was accepted into college, Li Gahou went out begging again in order to make hi son’s tuition but was soon stopped by his son.
In 2005, Li Yuping published an article titled “A letter to village students – stop kneeling, People of Xiaozhai, Stand up” on the school newspaper.
“At that time, the begging trend was stronger than ever, becoming more and more serious. I really could not stand it anymore” Li Yuping recalled when he first exposed the “family scandal” to the outside world. It was precisely because of this young man’s action which triggered the national media coverage of Xiaozhai village. Names like “Beggar Village” and “China’s number one beggar village” appeared in many reports. This was the history of how this village became infamous. Since 2007 (editor’s note: original article has 2001 which does not make sense, I think it should have been 2007) onwards, almost every year, journalists have come to the village, the heat had never died down.
In 2009 the media reports on the village reached to a peak. In cities like Jinan, there was even a policy targeting baggers from this village on the streets. Many “beggars” were forcefully sent home.
5 years later, thinking about what he did, 24-year-old Li Yuping does not regret even one bit, “The media exposed Xiaozhai village, the more people are concerned, the sooner the village will change.”
Many farmers who went out to beg brought back fortunes. They started to use the money they got from begging to build new shinny houses.
“The first group of people in the village became rich by begging.” village party secretary Jin Zhongyang confirmed this.
“It is not because the lives are too hard; it is because begging is easier, and more profitable.” said Yang Weike, he served as a long-term village cadre. According to his observation, starting in 1999 Xiaozhai village started to beg for rice, steamed buns to fight hunger at first, then it turned into begging for money for profits. Going into the 21 century, many farmers viewed begging as a short-cut to “get rich quick”, thought it was not “honorable”. The advantage of being wealthy soon got the best of people’s dignity. On one end it is the torture of poverty, on the other end it is the temptation of begging, which makes more money than farming or manual labor. Many farmers who got rich by begging, kept their begging experience in the city as secrets. Most of them claimed to be migrant workers.
Min County Deputy Secretary of Civil Affairs Li Kangping said “Beggars from a village are usually not the poorest. The beggars that really were forced to beg because of their life do not exist anymore.”
“This is a shame.” Yang Jingzhong said. Facing the reality, this official was helpless in terms of trying to completely take off this village’s “disgraceful hat”.
In a report provided by the Civil Affairs Bureau, an analysis of Xiaozhai village’s reality writes as the following, “Because of the huge gap between the rich and the poor, between the developed areas and the underdeveloped areas, plus compare to working begging earns money faster and with less efforts, resulting in people having the indolent thinking and started begging for living. As time goes by, some people’s concept of making wealth was twisted, they used begging as a way to get rich quick. Furthermore some even exploit people’s sympathy as a weakness and use women and children in begging in order to gain more profits”
However, the village is changing, for the better. The number of beggars in Xiaozhai was decreasing over the years. Each community used to have 20 people begging outside at one time, now decreased to only a few families. Each year, there used to be fifty to sixty “beggars” sent home from other cities, now the number is down to single digit.
A while back there were also media reports on how some family were making money by renting their children out (for begging). ‘”Children renting” (for begging) became a “booming industry” in this area. According to the reporter, these acts have already disappeared.
Walking into the village, you can see many efforts have been made to change the villagers’ mentalities; to restore the village’s dignity and reputation.
Pictures from Netease:
December 26, 2009, on the entrance of the village, a slogan printed on the wall “Stand up and live with dignity!”
December 25, 2009, a woman carrying a child in Xiaozhai village
December 25, 2009, Primary School students were embarrassed when facing the reporter’s interview. They covered their faces and ran home quickly.
December 26, 2009, Chuandu village, Gansu, Hou Dong showed the reporter a picture of his family. Hou Dong is 10 years old, and started begging with his parents since when he was five. In these five years, his parents used his brother and him in turns for begging.
“Stop kneeling! stand up!”
December 25, 2009, Shuiping village primary school, students covered their faces when in an interview with the reporter. All of their reactions were the same. One boy said “Uncle, I don’t want to be on the newspaper, I already stopped begging for long time. I promised my teacher I will never go begging again, I want to do well in school.”
Villagers are drying their Chinese angelica. This area is also the home of “Chinese angelica”, which proves they can get rich in ways other than begging…
December 25, 2009, in Xiaozhai primary school, many kids must ride a bike over 1o miles of dirt road to go to school. A student is riding in the dirt road on his way home from school. In order to prevent parents taking their kids begging during the summer and winter breaks, the school requires the students to go back to school in every 10 days.
December 25, 2009, one kid from Dazhai community, Gansu province
The overwhelming concerns and the humiliating names from the outside world cased a shadow on Xiaozhai village. Yet the real reasons behind the “beggar village” are the gaps between different geographical regions, between the rich and the poor, between the city and the rural area. In order for Xiaozhai village to clear its name, it still got a long way to go to.
Tags: Beggar, Beggar Village, Contryside, Gansu, Poverty, Xiaozhai Village
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Dr. Jones Jr. says:
Beautiful pictures. Interesting story.
I’ve often wondered about the various types of beggars in China, especially since my Chinese friends tell me about various ‘beggar kings’ who build palaces on their fields with the money they make from panhandling. It was this village’s fortune or misfortune to attract the national spotlight due to a college student’s essay; there must be quite a few other villages that have had the same idea and haven’t yet been outed by one of their own.
rawwwwwwwwwwww says:
when i was in shanghai, i have witnessed the most ugly deformed human beings panhandling, whatever they went through, they know where to situate themselves to panhandle, becaues i gave them 100’s of rmb some of them have no limbs, yikes
be thankful for what you have or not have
xiaoma says:
I like the busking element in the college student’s begging that at least his father was playing the erhu. That’s a lot better than taking a kid, or renting a kid for that matter, and pestering pedestrians. I probably would have given them some money.
Yes, as others have mentioned, great pics.
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Biki says:
Certainly this post will discourage people from begging and will ecourage them towards the matter of self esteem. Search around you there is certainly a way out, for every situation.
The most efficient way to solve this problem is to make them understand themselves and self reliant, it will certainly take time.
It’s the first step, thanks for one who posted this article.
Are there laws for children committing murders at the behest of adults in China?
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I don’t just mean baby murlocs who were scared because mommy told them Chinese people are scary.
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Australia’s peak greyhound racing body, Greyhounds Australasia, will no longer issue passports for greyhounds to be exported to Macau and Vietnam following continued pressure from animal welfare groups, including the RSPCA, amid extensive animal welfare concerns. The decision comes following an internal Industry review and the release of Greyhounds Australasia’s Review of Greyhound Export Welfare Standards.
RSPCA Australia has welcomed the voluntary suspension but is calling for the industry to further strengthen its standards.
“It’s encouraging to see Greyhounds Australasia acknowledging some of the serious animal welfare issues associated with export, however, the new industry export standards are not stringent enough to adequately protect exported greyhounds,” said Dr Jade Norris, RSPCA Australia, Scientific Officer.
“The RSPCA is also concerned that industry will continue to issue passports allowing greyhounds to be exported to countries that are not fully compliant with industry’s own standards – including Ireland, the US and New Zealand.
“For real improvements to occur there needs to be stronger, government regulations urgently implemented and enforced.
“While it’s encouraging that Greyhounds Australasia is embarking on improving standards for exported animals the RSPCA would like to see improvements to standards domestically as well, including the provision of adequate socialisation and environmental enrichment,” said Dr Norris.
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Accession no: 2005.2.4 Type of work: drawing on paper
Artist/creator: Margaret Adele Stites
Variant forms of names: Margaret Stites
Born: November 8, 1910 Died: October 2, 2003
Title of work: Bonny I
Artist biography: Margaret Adele Stites was born in San Angelo, TX in 1910. Stites’ interest in art was evident from ayoung age and after graduating high school in 1928, the promising artist went on to complete herstudies at the University of Texas in Austin. While attending the university, Stites was accepted tostudy under teacher and mentor Charles Umlauf, whose influence is evident in her subsequent work.After receiving her Bachelor of Art in 1944, Stites moved back to her hometown of San Angelo,where she launched a new art program at San Angelo College, later named Angelo State University.Stites taught life-drawing and basic design classes at San Angelo College, eventually promoted to theHead of the Art department. In 1952, the artist left San Angelo to continue her education, studyingsculpture at the Art Institute of Chicago and then at Cranbrook Academy of Art in Bloomfield Hills,Michigan, receiving her Master of Fine Art in sculpture and ceramics in 1954. Following another 2-year tenure at San Angelo College, Stites took a teaching position at Ohio State University, where shestayed until 1958, leaving to study in the Mediterranean and Europe after receiving the Louis K. Tiffany Grant in sculptureStites returned from her sojourn abroad deeply moved by the works she saw in places such as theSistine Chapel and the Louvre. The artist’s inspiration for her colors, lines, and shapes are derivedfrom both her experiences away and her childhood memories of her uncle’s ranch in Texas. From1968-1969, Stites taught at Huston Tillotson College in Austin, TX while working on additionalgraduate work in painting at the University of Texas.Coming full circle, Stites returned to San Angelo to take care of her agingparents. After their deaths, she stayed, living in her childhood home andcontinuing to produce artwork. Stites’ first exhibition of her extensivebody of work was not until September of 2003 at the San Angelo Museum of Fine Arts. The 92-year-old artist passed away one month later on October 2, 2003.
Date of item: 1960
Signed: Pencil signature along left edge, “Margaret Stites 1960”
Dimensions: 16 3/8”x 13 5/8” (40.64 x 35.66 cm)
Description: Outline drawing in charcoal of a woman’s head and shoulders, ¾ view.
Medium: Painting
Country of origin: U.S.
Condition: Overall good condition; dirty, needs cleaning
Conservation future: Needs cleaning.
Provenance: Donated by Claude Stites, Executor of the estate of Margaret Stites as a gift from the family of Margaret Stites, August 27, 2004.
Donor information: Claude Stites
History of object: Donated by Claude Stites to SAMFA August 27, 2004. Accepted by SAMFA May 19, 2005
Credit line: Gift of the Family of Margaret Stites
Cataloger name: Karen Zimmerly
Sources used: Museum file
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Immoral Tales
September 24, 2014 Pam Jahn
Camera Obscura: The Walerian Borowczyk Collection
Release date: 8 September 2014
Distributor: Arrow Academy
Director: Walerian Borowczyk
Writer: André Pieyre de Mandiargues
Cast: Fabrice Luchini, Lise Danvers, Charlotte Alexandra, Paloma Picasso, Florence Bellamy
Original title: Contes immoraux
Walerian Borowczyk’s art/filth portmanteau film consists of four stories. Set in the modern world, on a barren pebble beach ‘La Marée’ (‘The Tide’) has Fabrice Luchini as a 20-year-old boy using his seniority to impose his desires on his 16-year-old cousin (Lise Danvers).
Set in 1890, ‘Thérèse Philosophe’ has Charlotte Alexandra as a pious girl, locked in her room, who gets all hot and bothered by the stations of the cross (and a mucky illustrated tract), before falling victim to a malicious vagrant.
The third episode is a staging of the Erzsebet Bathory legend, as Paloma Picasso rides into a Hungarian village and rounds up all the suitably pulchritudinous females for a ritualised sequence of bathing, frock ripping and eventual slaughter. She bathes in their blood before making love to her female squire, who then betrays her to the King’s men.
‘Lucrezia Borgia’ is a carnival of power, corruption and hypocrisy as Lucrezia (Florence Bellamy), the Pope, and various holy lackeys indulge in cackling murder and blasphemous three-way fornication, while a preacher who denounces their regime is burnt at the stake for his troubles.
Plotwise, we are in a brutal and troubling world here, where the urge to power and the sexual drive are hopelessly entwined; where authority is corrupt and murderous and innocence or righteousness are doomed. There’s a Sadean delight in perversity, an emphasis on anti-clericalism and a delight in the blasphemous. This being a Borowczyk film, though, it’s all incredibly seductive, a sensual world of white lace, creamy marble and peachy flesh where everything is sexualised. The carefully chosen objects decorating his sets and locations are there to be stroked, fondled and played with; the elaborate costumes are there to be elaborately removed. Dialogue is sparse, the visual takes precedence. It’s gorgeous, feeling at times like we’ve wandered into a Brueghel, or Dutch master painting.
Immoral Tales brings Pasolini’s Salò (1975) to mind on more than one occasion, but while that film is hellish, cold and ultimately depressing, Borowczyk’s is just that bit more playful – you can sense a knowing smile playing around his lips as the outrage hits home. Sexuality in his films is overwhelming and dangerous and often twisted, but it’s also natural and human and obviously a source of immense pleasure. He often intercuts his scenes of carnality with on-looking animals and uncaring nature, as if they are sitting in judgement, wondering how we let something so simple get so fucked up.
Immoral Tales had a convoluted release history. The episodes were made over 1973-4, and an unfinished version played at the London Film festival in 1974. This disc includes the longer French edit, including another episode, ‘ La Bête’ (‘The Beast’). This was the version that won the L’Age d’Or award (as judged by Max Ernst, among others) and became a box office hit, before it was removed and expanded to become its own feature film La Bête in 1976. I’m grateful for the episodes’s inclusion here because it’s probably my favourite of the Tales: a virginal 18th-century French woman breaks off from playing the harpsichord to follow a straying lamb into the woods, whereupon she is chased and ravaged by a beast, a huge brown-eyed bear-like creature with a seemingly permanent, jism-dripping erection*. Her sexuality awakened, she throws off her corset and proceeds to hump the exhausted creature to death. She then tenderly covers its body with dry leaves, grabs what remains of her clothing and returns to civilisation. This is, I realise, pretty much indefensible from any sexual/political point of view, but as a piece of uninhibited Freudian fantasy cinema it takes some beating. Borowczyk’s Tales all work on this level, troubling wet dreams emerging from his id.
I’m not sure how well they would function as straight pornography, how much use the raincoat brigade would have for cutaways of a snail crawling over a silk shoe, or all that choral and keyboard music. And while the tales are clearly meant to provoke, they simply don’t follow the exploitation playbook. The Bathory and Borgia episodes are notably coy about onscreen violence considering their blood-soaked possibilities. An animator and a supremely visual stylist, the Borowczyk of Immoral Tales is akin to a sensationalist Buñuel , an old-school surrealist with a one-track mind.
Special features include Private Collection, an odd, amusing short in which a man, his head never in shot, displays to us his extensive collection of historical smut: prints, projections, dildos and mechanical toys. There are a couple of informative featurettes, the aforementioned L’Age d’Or award cut of the film, and a trailer. All in all, a fine package for an essential piece of weird cinema.
Mark Stafford
*As arthouse lust monsters go, it’s up there with Isabelle Adjani’s tentacled lover in Zulawski’s Possession (1981). Incidentally, a young Adjani was to be cast in ‘La Marée’, which would have been her first film, before she got cold feet.
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July 22, 2014 Pam Jahn
Format: Dual Format (DVD + Blu-ray)
Writer: Walerian Borowczyk
Cast: Sirpa Lane, Lisbeth Hummel, Elisabeth Kaza
Original title: La Bête
Part fairy tale, part sex romp, part Buñuelian satire, Walerian Borowczyk’s The Beast is as much of a quirky oddity now as it was upon its original release in 1973. Disparaged by Borowczyk purists and mainstream reviewers both (the New York Times called it ‘unfit for man or beast’), the film was originally rejected for UK certification by the BBFC and not seen here in its uncut form until 2001, when it finally underwent something of a critical reappraisal.
So how does the once controversial film look now, nearly 40 years on from its production? Certainly still transgressive; perhaps less so for its over the top scenes of prosthetic bestiality than its cheerful disavowal of current social mores (it’s hard to imagine the character of the priapic black servant passing muster these days, for one). The sexual liaison between woman and beast (King Kong with bodily fluids!) that so outraged reviewers at the time seems largely comic now; not simply because of the relatively primitive make-up effects, but mainly due to the fact that Borowczyk seems to be in on the joke, even if most of the critics of the period weren’t.
But beyond the more censor-baiting material, The Beast is still a barbed, funny satire on sex, hypocrisy and repression. Certainly its jabs at the aristocracy and the priesthood, although perhaps less daring with age, are still relevant several decades on. And the director’s visual command and deft pacing keep the bawdy hijinks from ever descending into complete silliness, even if he never seems to be taking any of it particularly seriously. It’s impossible to claim The Beast as a particularly poetic or meaningful film; without a doubt there are Borowczyk works that go deeper. But it nevertheless remains a defiantly entertaining one, political correctness be damned.
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Les Astronautes
June 28, 2014 Pam Jahn
As part of our exploration of ground-breaking Polish director Walerian Borowczyk, our comic strip review looks at the wonderful animation short Les Astronautes, made by Borowczyk in 1959 in collaboration with Chris Marker.
As part of Kinoteka, ‘Walerian Borowczyk: The Listening Eye’, an exhibition of preliminary studies for his animated shorts Les Jeux des Anges (1964), Le dictionnaire de Joachim (1965) and The Theatre of Mr and Mrs Kabal (1967) as well as his unique wooden sound sculptures is on at the ICA’s Fox Reading Room from 20 May – 6 July 2014.
Camera Obscura: The Walerian Borowczyk Collection is released by Arrow Academy on 8 September 2014. This unique limited edition box set (Dual Format DVD + Blu-ray) includes the short films, The Theatre of Mr and Mrs Kabal, Goto, l’île d’amour, Blanche, The Beast and Immoral Tales.
Comic Strip Review by Lord Hurk
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The Story of Sin
Format: Dual Format (Blu-ray + DVD)
Release date: 13 March 2017
Distributor: Arrow Video
Based on the novel by: Stefan Zeromski
Cast: Grazyna Dlugolecka, Jerzy Zelnik, Olgierd Łukaszewicz
Original title: Dzieje grzechu
Eve is traditionally the temptress, but in The Story of Sin, it is Ewa who is tempted when a handsome anthropologist, Lukasz, comes to stay as a lodger in her parents’ house. Already married, Lukasz is in the process of seeking a divorce – no easy task for a Catholic. In the meantime, a relationship begins between him and Ewa with, on her side, all the passion of first love… and all its obsessed desperation when Lukasz suddenly departs. Ewa leaves her job and family to go in search of him, a bold decision for a woman living around the turn of the century. As she and Lukasz are successively reunited and separated by a series of melodramatic events, Ewa’s downfall is assured by the predatory men she encounters on her travels.
Made the same year as The Beast (La Bête), with its fantasy sequences of bestiality, The Story of Sin has been subject to critical debate about whether it is art or soft-core pornography – the same debate that has surrounded the majority of director Walerian Borowczyk‘s features. Adapted from a novel by Stefan ?eromski, it has a period setting, complete with its costumes and manners. When the film departs from the expected tropes of the period piece, the effect is startling. Ewa and Lukasz meet each other with all the expected formality, so buttoned-up that a corset left carelessly on a bedpost intrigues Lukasz and mortifies Ewa. Just a couple of scenes later, Lukasz is groping Ewa in a public park. They begin writing ardent letters to each other, Ewa slipping her billets doux discreetly into Lukasz’s mailbox, only to lie stark naked in bed as she reads his replies. The film’s artistic credentials are boosted by Borowczyk’s virtuoso use of close-ups and point-of-view shots, which lend something of the unexpected to an otherwise slavish blow-by-blow, over-long enactment of the novel.
Most scenes in the film are permeated with sexual threat, from the lascivious artist (another lodger), to the priapic villain who propositions Ewa in a village tavern and, when she refuses, improbably pursues her across Europe. If every man lusts after Ewa (apart from her father and one homosexual character), it is not that she is irresistible: it is that they see Ewa, like all women, as nothing more than prey, which they have a god-given right, as men, to use for their pleasure. Even Lukasz may be a fly-by-night – it is Ewa who makes all the effort to find him, while he never seems to be around when she needs him most. There is just one scene in the film where male and female bodies, in lovemaking, appear equally vulnerable and desirable beneath the camera’s gaze. Yet even this image is severely compromised by the fact that Ewa is being forced: her partner, completely in love with her, doesn’t realise that another man has orchestrated the encounter against her will. All in all, The Story of Sin makes for uncomfortable viewing.
Alison Frank
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Who Is Walerian Borowczyk?
May 22, 2014 VirginieSelavy
As part of our exploration of ground-breaking Polish director Walerian Borowczyk, we look at his career as a board game in our comic strip review.
Two programmes of Borowczyk’s short films will screen at the ICA on 24 and 25 May 2014.
The Walerian Borowczyk retrospective runs at BFI Southbank until the end of May 2014.
Camera Obscura: The Walerian Borowczyk Collection is released by Arrow Academy on 8 September 2014. This unique limited edition box set (Dual Format DVD + Blu-ray) includes the short films, The Theatre of Mr and Mrs Kabal, Goto, l’île d’amour, Blanche, The Beast and Immoral Tales – it does not contain The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Miss Osbourne.
Comic Strip Review by Tony Hitchman
Tony Hitchman is the co-author of Using Comic Art to Improve Speaking, Reading and Writing.
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Based on the poem by: Juliusz S?;owacki
Cast: Ligia Branice, Michel Simon, Georges Wilson
Walerian Borowczyk’s medieval tragedy fools audiences into expecting one of the erotic films for which the director later became infamous. In the opening sequence of Blanche, the title character is seen emerging, completely naked, from her bath. The camera’s lascivious eye sets the scene for a tale of forbidden desire, but Blanche herself is as pure as her name (French for ‘white’). For the rest of the film she always appears, nun-like, in long gowns and modest caps that hide all but her hands and face. Young, beautiful, and married to an elderly baron, Blanche must flee the attentions of other men, starting with Bartolomeo, the notorious young page of a visiting king.
With its elegant costumes and set design, Blanche could be described as a historical drama, but the film’s sophistication exceeds conventional models. Borowczyk’s background in fine arts allows him to bring an additional layer of authenticity to the film by drawing on the representational style of the Middle Ages. Shots, composition and framing pay homage to medieval landscape and religious painting. Windows, doors and alcoves dramatically divide interior shots. Exterior long shots emphasise the harmonious juxtaposition of hilltop, pasture and road, with grazing animals and passing cavalcades reduced to minute decorative detail. The film also employs an animal symbolism characteristic of the period. The king arrives with a monkey on his shoulder, a disquieting emblem of insinuating, irrepressible sexuality that has free run of the castle, hiding away only to pop up unexpectedly throughout the film. In contrast, Blanche’s gentle, vulnerable innocence is mirrored by the caged white dove in her bedroom. Tempering the film’s loyalty to a medieval aesthetic, Borowczyk introduces self-reflexive techniques, such as disorientating point-of-view shots, which situate the film within a current of modern cinematic experimentation.
Daniel Bird, who is responsible for the restoration of Borowczyk’s films, says that Blanche (1972) inspired Terry Gilliam’s vision of the Middle Ages in Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975). I would suggest that Blanche itself appears to have been inspired by Jacques Demy’s Peau d’â;ne (Donkey Skin, 1970), a camp fairy tale about a princess (Catherine Deneuve) who must run away from home when her father decides he wants to marry her. The baron in Blanche is played by Michel Simon, who made his name in 1930s French poetic realist films like Boudu sauvé; des eaux (Boudu Saved from Drowning), L’Atalante and Le quai des brumes (Port of Shadows). He was in his late seventies when he appeared in Blanche opposite Ligia Branice, Borowczyk’s wife; as the baron is old enough to be her father, an early shot of him kissing Blanche on the mouth appears incestuous, echoing the theme of Demy’s film. Jacques Perrin, the young actor who played Prince Charming in Peau d’â;ne, reappears in Blanche as Bartolomeo, another role in which he ultimately defends the heroine’s honour.
The baron justly describes his wife as ‘a saintly woman, above all suspicion’, but halfway through the film he suddenly loses his trust in her. As he becomes irrationally hostile towards Blanche, we may assume that the old man is suffering from dementia. His condition seems to infect the film’s narrative, which loses its grip on the thread of logical coherence. Still, Borowczyk has woven such a mesmerising tapestry that the audience can’t help but continue to watch as it slowly, senselessly unravels.
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The Streetwalker
May 10, 2014 Pam Jahn
Based on the novel by: André Pieyre de Mandiargues
Cast: Sylvia Kristel, Joe Dallesandro
Original title: La marge
Alternative title: The Margin
I think it was Lacan who asked the question: if we’re always thinking about sex when we’re doing other things – eating bananas, driving fast cars, learning French – what are we thinking about when we’re actually having sex? When Sylvia Kristel’s streetwalker Diana has sex in Walerian Borowczyk’s 1976 film The Streetwalker (La marge), it’s so obvious as to almost be ludicrous. She stares at the money that she has clutched in her hand with such intensity as to leave no doubt, even as her John, Sigimond (the iconic Joe Dallesandro) thrusts intently away. Sex is a transaction, a way of earning money. Sigimond is a rich vineyard owner with a young family visiting Paris for business. He is a romantic. He is not lonely and Borowczyk shows his home life to be sexually satisfying, idyllic even. He’s prone to mutter mid-coital silliness such as ‘You are the gift and the giver’. And so his dalliance and experimentation while away on his ‘business trip’ has nothing to do with filling a vacuum. He just wants to have some sex. When he is having sex – to answer Lacan’s question and in opposition to Diana – he is thinking about the sex he is having. The film will trace his increasing distraction and the tragic price to be paid for such guileless romance, even as Diana becomes more aware of sex as something other than a way of earning money, which in itself proves a painful reawakening.
Released two years after Kristel achieved notoriety and worldwide fame as Emmanuelle, the film stands as a testament to her genuine ability as an actress, and it is cited by the actress as her favourite role. Her fragility – the gnawing anxiety that she is already being superseded by younger models of her former self – and her growing yearning for something other than monetary gain is played out in a brilliant and nuanced performance. With the shifting of porn into the mainstream via the internet and the proliferation of sexposition in TV drama, the film doesn’t even seem particularly pornographic today, but on release it was received as another attempt to gain art-house respectability for sex films. Kristel’s fame possibly damaged the film as it was remarketed in some regions as Emmanuelle ’77. However, despite the movie star beauty of the prostitutes, Borowczyk never celebrates sex unambiguously, juxtaposing it with the banal. A beautifully shot strip show takes place as a crate of booze is delivered to the bar by a working stiff – sign here, keep a copy – and Diana will retire to the same backroom for a quick delivery of her own. The prostitutes are bitchy and Diana herself is dishonest and angry. Her pimp is a lazy dressing-gown-clad psychopath who does target practice with his pistol in his hotel room. But it is not just the sex that has to contend with the banal, but tragedy too when Sigimond reads a terrible letter from home while gazing over the most unromantic Parisian view of a huge building site.
Camera Obscura: The Walerian Borowczyk Collection is released by Arrow Academy on 8 September 2014. This unique limited edition box set (Dual Format DVD + Blu-ray) includes the short films, The Theatre of Mr and Mrs Kabal, Goto, l’île d’amour, Blanche, The Beast and Immoral Tales – it does not contain The Streetwalker.
With a score from some giants of 1970s music, a stunning extended use of Pink Floyd’s ‘Shine on You Crazy Diamond’ and some fantastic cinematography by long-time collaborator Bernard Daillencourt, the film is a beautiful melancholic meditation on sex in a dirty, dirty world.
John Bleasdale
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Goto, Island of Love
June 4, 2009 VirginieSelavy 1 Comment
Cast: Pierre Brasseur, Ligia Branice, Jean-Pierre Andréani, Guy Saint-Jean
Original title: Goto, l’île d’amour
It is Walerian Borowczyk’s peculiar misfortune to have produced in The Beast (La Bête, 1975) one of the masterpieces of artful, twisted, preposterous erotica. Its success not only led him to making incompetent slop like Behind Convent Walls (Interno di un convento, 1978) and Emmanuelle V (1987): worse, it skewed his whole profile as a filmmaker, and many will view the meretricious tack available on DVD unaware, or at least disbelieving, that this was once one of the most inventive of animators.
This review was first published in 2009 for the first UK release of Goto, Island of Love on DVD release by Nouveaux Pictures in 2009.
This release of Goto, Island of Love fills in a vital, pre-erotic step in Borowczyk’s work, revealing a highly individual approach to live action as seen through the eyes of an animator. A largely immobile camera fixed head-on to flat but grimy monochrome backdrops produces boxes within which actors are pinned with absurd symmetry like displays in the cabinets, or flies in the fly-traps, that litter the ritualistic world of Goto. The cells of this world also contain, and are seen from, improbable vantage points suggestive of optical devices. Binoculars are given thematic prominence throughout, but the whole mise en scéne implies peephole and camera obscura. In the opening credits we seem to peer into the workings of a giant live-action zoetrope. The rough planks of a riding school wall fill the screen as two horses periodically circle into view. Any idea of freedom or escape is produced and framed within a space of repetitive, mechanical illusion.
As we quickly learn via a school lesson, the island itself has been closed off from the outside world since the remarkable catastrophe of 1887, which wiped out most of the population and locked the survivors into the preservation of arcane tradition, like Gormenghast rewritten by Gombrowicz. Although suitably catechistic, the lesson is illustrated by an anamorphic image of the three governors to date - Gotos I, II & III. The attic of the riding school similarly offers three disjointed and illusory views: from one side, a grassy hill sloping down into woodland; from the next, a stark quarry; from the third, the rolling waves on a rocky shore. But these vistas prove deceptive in a world that offers no escape, no distance to run into. Imagine Father Ted‘s Craggy Island as a benevolent dictatorship: Goto III frolicking on the beach in full uniform is oddly reminiscent of Bishop Len Brennan’s holiday video. His adulterous wife Glossia, a mix of Garbo gloom and Buster Keaton stiffness throughout, is more the hapless marionette than ever in rugged nature. Clearly she will never make it out to sea, and escape from the island.
Meanwhile, we follow arriviste crim Grozo’s ruthless ascent from dog-minder and fly-catcher. Scenting success, he lets out the dogs and we see them bounding through a tiny door into the light, down to the sea. The camera follows them a little way in a rare moment of exuberance, but finally leaves them in the inconsequential distance, bounded by the sea, framed by the viewfinder of the door. Grozo’s ambition has never risen higher than to be a hound with its muzzle in Glossia’s lap. Even his treason is subservient, obeisant to the machine, and his moment of success brings not even the limited freedom of a dog. He, more than anyone, is caught up in the ‘manège’; that is to say ‘riding school’, but also ‘machination’, and ‘merry-go-round’. Through the objective lens of the wryly named animator, it’s just a complicated game. Where a dictator is chosen by a round of spin-the-shoe-last, the only revolution is the turning of the machine.
Stephen Thomson
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Congress members ask for neutrality and one idiot does the opposite
Thirty-three members of Congress signed a letter last week asking the Obama administration to make it clear that the US will be neutral and respect the outcome of the presidential election. In part, the letter states:
As Members of Congress, we reject the threats of 2004 and any effort to instigate another US intervention in Salvadoran politics. We feel that U.S. immigration policy should not be made into a political instrument used to influence foreign elections. Similarly, we reject the suggestion that the US government would seek to financially punish Salvadorans, in this country or in El Salvador, for exercising their right to elect a government of their choosing. As members of Congress, we will not support any such measure.
We believe that the proper position of the U.S. Congress and government is one of neutrality and respect for El Salvador’s independent democratic process, thus allowing the Salvadoran people to make a free choice of personal conscience, a choice which can only be done in the absence of coercion and threats.
You can read the full text of the letter here and you can also watch a video interview of Congressman Paul Grijalva of Arizona who was one of the prime backers of the letter.
I completely agree with the sentiments in this letter. And so it was with complete disgust that I read remarks submitted today to the House Foreign Affairs Committee by Rep. Dana Rohrabacher, a Republican representing Orange County, California, which calls on the US to end Temporary Protected Status for Salvadorans and to control the flow of remittances back to El Salvador if Mauricio Funes wins this Sunday's election. These remarks, submitted to the public record, can be seen as nothing but a cynical ploy to influence the election and to help ARENA campaign on the basis of fear, just as it did in 2004.
To those readers of this blog who are Salvadoran, please realize that Rohrabacher's letter does not reflect in any way the policy of the US government. A Congress member can say anything he wants in any forum -- but it doesn't make it true or right. The real question I have -- who is the source who wrote these remarks and gave them to Congressman Rohrabacher to put in the record, three days before the election?
2009 Elections US relations
as a salvadoran american i will write a letter to my senator and house representative condemning this illegitimate and irresponsible act by that congress person. it is obviously a paid favor to arena which shows the lack of tact, respect, ethic and reason for that congress woman to do that. tim, i ask you and all those american citizens who read this blog to go ahead and write to our representatives and senators to bring attention to this case. we cannot continue to allow letting these things happen.
FEAR is what ARENA does...they keep the people of El Salvador in FEAR. Their campaigning has been so similar to the REPUBLICANS in the US. That it might look like McCain's campaigning in El Salvador.
They had associeted Hugo Chavez with Funes, or like I associate Roberto D'Abuisson with the Antichrist....
An idiot? Perhaps it is time to let passions cool a little bit. :-) With occasional outbursts of violence and wild claims and accusations flying about, we ought to encourage everyone to use the reflective period between now and Sunday to dedicate themselves to the civic business of getting out the vote, facilitating access, and ensuring a tranquil and orderly process on Sunday.
I too disapprove of Congressman Rohrabacher's silly attempt to meddle, but let's be clear: the heavy handed letter made public last week was the same thing on the other side. Your characterization of that letter as an effort to be "neutral" is naive. The letter was signed by all Democrats, and read like a who's who of the far left wing of that party, including Charlie Rangel, Jesse Jackson, Jr., Linda and Loretta Sanchez, Maxine Waters, and Dennis Kucinich. Most of the letter (which you thankfully posted) was designed to bash the ARENA party. When it declared that, "This is an invaluable, historic opportunity to make a clean break with the past," it was easy to forget that they meant an opportunity to change U.S. foreign policy, and not what one suspects is the true aim of the letter -- to help change the Salvadoran government. This, they sought to bolster by taking away the stigma of voting for the FMLN party. Now, Rohrabacher sought to put it back. A pox on both their houses!
I guess the silly dude doesn't realize the world has changed. Most of Latin America has decided to get along with their neighbors despite big differences in their political beliefs.
Its almost like a certain segment of the US Govt is terrified that Latin America may become something better than 3rd World.
Dude must own or be heavily invested in one of those sweat shops down there.
Bosque said…
What Salvadoran in their right mind would believe that written trash from a guy who was a Special Assistant to Ronald Reagan?
Ay!
The Salvadoran Civil war began when the right-wing nuts (backed by the US) killed the Arcbishop 'cause he had the nerve to ask the US to stop arming the death squads. Then the nuts bomb his funeral, blow up hotels and whatnot.
Talk about terrorism. Go figure.
A peace agreement was signed back in the 1990s ... its over foreigners.
One tiny question - are any of the charges that Rohrabacher makes true? Did the FMLN participate in a celebration of 9-11? Did Ceren lead such a march? I ask this because I do completely agree with free elections and I also agree with many of the ideals that I believed the FMLN to stand for, but I also would like to know if there truly is ANY degree of truth to the statements made by Rohrabacher. I haven't seen any comments directly adressing her charges.
It's actually two despicable beings now, Dana Rohrabacher and Connie Mack. Its in the front page of El Diario de Hoy, They warn against a FMLN win because their protected status(TPS) and remittances WILL be affected...and many wonder why the oppressed take to arms and put their lives on the line...Life is worth risking when there is no free will...
Stupidity is all what ARENA has been doing ALL this time at first place in their campaign, more an more salvadorian are tired to this kind of way to gain voters, from the smear ads to the unprofessional interviews and would say lack of oratory to address his projects party confidence to the salvadorian ppl
David said…
Congratulations Tim, for telling us the truth, that all media want use for its interests (I read in elsalvador.com this notice)
LShave said…
Someone asked this same question before, but is there any truth to Rohrabacher's claims that the FMLN celebrated 9-11 in a march led by Sanchez-Ceren? A quick google research revealed little.
URGENT ACTION: Republicans threaten Salvadoran voters from floor of House of Representatives.
Yesterday, two Republicans gave speeches on the floor of the House of Representatives threatening that Salvadorans living in the U.S. will lose their immigration status and be outlawed from sending money home to their families if voters in El Salvador exercise their right to elect the opposition FMLN party's candidate.
Rep. Trent Franks (R-AZ) said, “Should the pro-terrorist FMLN party replace the current government in El Salvador, the United States, in the interests of national security, would be required to reevaluate our policy toward El Salvador, including cash remittance and immigration policies to compensate for the fact there will no longer be a reliable counterpart in the Salvadoran government.”
These open, blatant threats have been plastered across the front pages of newspapers across El Salvador today. These threats endanger the sovereign right of the Salvadoran people to elect their own government, free from outside manipulation.
1. PLEASE CONTACT THE US EMBASSY IN EL SALVADOR to demand a public declaration of U.S. neutrality toward the Salvadoran election immediately!
Call: Public Relations office of the U.S. Embassy
“I am calling to urge the embassy to immediately make a public statement of neutrality and respect for the results of Sunday's presidential election in El Salvador.”
“On Wednesday, Members of Congress publicly threatened to revoke the immigration status of Salvadorans living here in the U.S., and outlaw the remittances they send back to their families. These threats have been extensively covered by the media in El Salvador. Without a statement from the State Department refuting these threats, the integrity and fairness of the Salvadoran election will be severely endangered.”
2. PLEASE EMAIL EMBASSY AND STATE DEPARTMENT OFFICIALS:
Copy this email and send it to:
laidlawpg@state.gov, thompsonjj2@state.gov, wolfedc@state.gov, Steinbergjb@state.gov, acssansal@state.gov, congensansal@state.gov, propstse@state.gov, Noonanhm@state.gov, Cockburncs@state.gov, ShannonTa@state.gov, webstercw@state.gov, joseph_4567@hotmail.com,
I am a U.S. Citizen concerned with democracy and free and fair elections in El Salvador. I am writing to urge the U.S. Embassy to immediately make a public statement of neutrality and respect for the results of Sunday's presidential election in El Salvador.”
On Wednesday, Members of Congress publicly threatened to revoke the immigration status of Salvadorans living here in the U.S., and outlaw the remittances they send back to their families. These threats have been extensively covered by the media in El Salvador. Without a statement from the U.S. Embassy refuting these threats, the integrity and fairness of the Salvadoran election will be severely endangered.”
3. IF YOU CAN DO THREE THINGS, ALSO PLEASE CALL YOUR LOCAL CONGRESSPERSON:
Call the congressional switchboard and ask to be connected to your representative:
- “On Wednesday, Members of Congress publicly threatened to revoke the immigration status of Salvadorans living here in the U.S., and outlaw the remittances they send back to their families. These threats have been extensively covered by the media in El Salvador.
- ¨Please respond immediately, formally, and publicly to the statements of Representatives Frank (R-AZ) and Burton (R-IN) that were made on the floor of the House of Representatives. ¨
- The U.S. government is, as it should be, according to statements from the U.S. Embassy, committed to working collaboratively with whichever candidate is elected to the presidency in El Salvador.
- Both presidential candidates in El Salvador plan to maintain relations with the United States, considering how closely the two economies are tied and how many Salvadorans live in the U.S.
THANK YOU FOR TAKING ACTION.
PLEASE KEEP CHECKING ELSALVADORSOLIDARITY.ORG FOR MORE INFORMATION
Tim said…
To the question of whether the FMLN celebrated 9-11, I believe the answer, pathetically, is "yes." See the picture on the front page of El Diario del Hoy today at www.elsalvador.com. That doesn't disqualify Funes, but it's also a reason why the question -- who will control - Funes or the hard line leadership -- is an important one. It's also not going to lead the US government to deport Salvadorans or cut off remittances.
Tim, you are wrong about the FMLN celebrating the 9-11 attacks . There was an official statement by the FMLN expressing sorrow for victims of the attacks. There was a Sept 15th march by the FMLB for independence day at which some participants burnt a U.S. flag. To link these actions of individuals to the FMLN as a whole and to connect Salvador Sanchez Ceren is inappropriate.
This article by Robert Canas puts the events of Sept 15th into perspective.
For you to say the FMLN as an organization officially celebrated the attacks of 9-11 is not true and would give me pause to wonder why you would say that.
Article by Robert Canas.
http://www.envio.org.ni/articulo/1538
Proceso 969
http://www.uca.edu.sv/publica/proceso/proci969.html#edi
THE IRRESPONSIBLE ONES FROM THE LEFT AND THE RIGHT-WING
Irresponsibility is not the exclusive property of anyone in particular. Anybody can commit a serious mistake in front of everyone's eyes, and still seem as fresh as if nothing is actually happening. Certainly, much of this has occurred in El Salvador during the last days, after the terrorist attacks against the United States. Because of the dimensions of the events, the FMLN's left-wing had to say and do something about the drama that the United States was living. On the other hand, the right- wing, specially the one closer to El Diario de Hoy, was going to pay close attention to what the left-wing party would do (or not do).
Four days after the attack to the United States, the FMLN served a "scrumptious" dish to the right-wing on a silver platter. During a demonstration convoked by different social organizations because of the independence day celebrations, some of the participants not only burned flags from El Salvador and the United States —something that is already traditional in this type of protests—, but they also celebrated with screams and graffiti the destruction caused by the terrorist attacks against the United States. Several personalities of the FMLN accompanied the demonstration that, obviously, was not intended to support the terrorist who perpetrated this tragedy, but that was the chance for ignorant individuals —their social and politic roots are unknown— to display their most primitive instincts.
A terrible mistake of the ones who do not seem to realize the human, economic and political consequences that would follow after a war declared by the United States against one or several Arabian nations. The only aspect that can be on their side is that their ignorance is of such proportions that things like that do not even cross their minds, just as they cannot even think about the consequences that can affect Latin America if a green light was given —in the context of an offensive from United States and its alliance against the world's terrorism— to the reinforcement of both the defense and the security apparatus. The FMLN leaders deserve to be judged even more severely, because although they were present at the demonstration, they were not even capable to separate themselves immediately from it nor to condemn the actions perpetrated by ignorant ones, fanatics or the people with negative intentions who joined them.
For ethical reasons it was necessary to take distance and to protest against those who think that the suffering and the death of the innocent are a mechanism for the redemption of humanity. The leaders of the FMLN gave signs of a lack of human sensibility, without which their moral authority to judge others and to judge itself breaks in pieces. Political reasons oblige to an unrestricted rejection to the attack, specially because of the importance that the cooperation relations with the United States government might have in order to complete a political, economic and social reform project as an alternative to the already established one. Giving signs of an unforgivable lack of political sense, the FMLN leaders -the ones who stood by the demonstration, the ones who did not, and the ones who did not even realize what was happening- have been just one step away from becoming enemies of the United States government, and not precisely for defending a fair cause.
These political and ethic mistakes of the FMLN have become the main course of the right-wing press, who has not only exposed the FMLN's errors —or by emphasizing on the disagreements between orthodox, renovators or institutional ones—, but has also, with immoral journalistic actions, distorted some of the declarations officially made by the left-wing party. The guinea pig was the press release "The world peace is in danger", delivered by the legislative sector of the FMLN (dated September 11th), in which first section the following is mentioned: the legislative sector of the FMLN "condemns and is awfully sorry for the terrorist acts the city of New York suffered this morning, these acts prove the grotesque use of violence of the states and the anarchy groups. It also condemns any kind of terrorism, the one that attacks the civilians and promotes economic policies that affect humanity and subject people to hunger".
Making a display of the lowest kind of journalism, in El Diario de Hoy (September 18th, page 12) a part of the text formerly described is quoted a couple of times in the following way: "the authorities of the FMLN connected the attack 'with the grotesque use of violence of the United States and that one of the anarchy groups'". One thing is to condemn the grotesque use of violence of the states —as it is written in the FMLN's document, displayed for more information in the El Diario de Hoy— and another thing is to say that the violence is exerted by the United Sates, which is not said in the FMLN's press release. The reporter who wrote the story -or the person who edited it- added the word "United" to the word "States", clumsily distorting the original text. It can be read again in the same page that "in the first part of the press release, the FMLN expresses that the terrorist attacks against New York and Washington prove 'the grotesque use of violence of the United States and the one of the anarchy groups'".
The first time it could have been considered a mistake, but not for a second time, no matter if on September 21st (page 24) the mistake is accepted. This is one of the traditional practices of a manipulative and irresponsible journalism, that invents accusations against those who do not share their same ideas and options. In El Diario de Hoy, therefore they do not go around the bushes to distort reality. In this particular case, the irresponsibility of this newspaper is not something to joke about, since it is accusing the FMLN of calling terrorist a State that besides suffering a terrorist attack, is preparing itself militarily to fight a war against terrorism in a world level. It seems that there are people in the right-wing who, just like in the left-wing, do not realize what is at risk in he present context. Their selfish rivalry and their personal interests do not allow them to see beyond the tip of their noses.
This does not sound like the FMLN celebrating the 9-11 attacks. It does sound like them reflecting on why the attacks occurred and what might have motivated those who carried out the attacks, i.e. U.S. military intervention in the Middle East.
http://www.changeforchildren.org/pdfs/bridges_01_dec.pdf.
In El Salvador, the Right has
acted quickly to initiate the roll back of the democratic gains established in the Peace Accords. On September 18,a newspaper article was published
based on a speech given by President Flores in which he claims that the OIE, Salvadoran intelligence, is not
enough to fight “terrorism”. Many
government officials believe Flores
wants to return to the old OIE structure in which the military operated the organism.
Since September 11th there has
also been an incessant attack on the opposition FMLN. At a meeting of Central American presidents, Flores alleged that the FMLN had terrorist links. Another member of the governing ARENA party stated “It is necessary to legislate to punish political terrorism.”
The U.S. embassy has joined in
as well. In response to the press statement given by the FMLN after the September 11th attacks, U.S.
Ambassador Likins wrote a letter of
protest stating that the press release was “offensive in content and tone”. The ambassador wrote that the offensive letter could only “satisfy the enemies of the United States and El
Salvador.”
The FMLN statement actually
condemned the attacks and all types
of terrorism, and expressed solidarity with the pain of the families. The “offensive” statement: “The FMLN,
once again, exhorts to the states, principally the government of the United States of America, to resolve conflict through dialogue and negotiation, respecting the sovereignty and independence of other nations as a sign of
political willingness which will
assure peace and the social, political,and economic stability of all people.
Now, more than ever, we need Pres. Obama to issue a statement leaving no doubt USA's neutrality in the elections, respecting the sovereign will of foreign nations.
If he doesn't do this, then his talks of renewing diplomacy around the world will be hollow.
I stand corrected on what the FMLN did and did not do in the week following 9-11.
Tim, your citation of Diario de Hoy as a reference point makes me wonder of your familiarity with El Salvador's media. If I didn't know better, I would've gone as far as stating that you aren't a regular of El Salvador, just a blognaut doing the good fight from abroad.
Clearly, the photo-op that you mention is nothing more than a montage made to be the perfect complement to the infamous "letter" Rohrabacher wrote, with the only purpose to cash in on it and amplify its terror inducing effects.
While it is understandable that as humans we all have our times of bad judgement, I urge you to please be more careful on such matters, and as a tip to keep in mind, I remind you that El Diario de Hoy (www.elsalvador.com) is owned by Enrique Altamirano, a death squad apologist, prime supporter of ARENA, and one of the most poison ridden editor to have ever graced a newspaper-- to verify this, all you have to do is pick up EDH on any given day and read the editorials, and you'll see pages of commentary instaging violence, hatred, reminisce of past glories (when the oligarchy and army's authority was unquestioned).
So, please, keep in mind that as you become intimate with the nature of EDH, it shouldn't surprise you that they would go to great lengths of making short-work of FMLN's name, and anyone related to them, while protecting zealously the reputation of ARENA, even if it takes distorting history and withholding information. The bias of thew newspaper is in now way attempting to be a secret to anyone. It is right in plain view.
If you wish a news source that provides you with the most neutral, and thorough news of El Salvador, please visit www.elfaro.net. I would also recommend www.diariocolatino.com, which even though has a leftist bias, due to not being from the mass-media that have greatly cashed from the culture of impunity that the ARENA government has fostered (nor receive the millions in gov. propaganda that the other media outlets receive) dares to say things that the others would rather keep quiet.
Thank you for reading, and for the otherwise great-job you do covering El Salvador and giving it international exposure.
Bex said…
Rep. Rohrabacher's comments show a serious lack of understanding of both the current political and economic reality in El Salvador AND a serious lack of historical knowledge about the Salvadoran Civil War. It is a shame that someone so poorly informed would feel the need to interfere with the Salvadoran elections.
Proof of the fraud we have been warning against:
go to the Tribunal Supremo Electoral website here:
http://www.tse.gob.sv/
and check for yourself this two DUIs or IDs with different names and places to vote
I'm well aware of the far-right leanings of EDH. Forgive my momentary lapse.
Last anonymous:
Are you saying the people pictured for those 2 DUIs are the same person? Even if it is the same person, when you vote the first time your finger is dipped in indelible ink and then your finger is checked if you try to vote again.
As a Salvadorean American, I think it was a wise decision to try and scare the people away from the communist party! I applaude Rohrabacher!
I see you run a leftist/communist blog here....I wish my poor people in El Salvador good luck if in fact FMLN wins. Wow, what a sad story it would be to see El Salvador become the next Nicaragua and have the JackAss of Chavez become its ally.
Don't you idiots realize that if FMLN wins we are headed toward that direction. Nicaragua is a shithole and is no longer receiving any aid from the EU and the US, who's going to help them, Chavez? With oil prices as they are, Chavez can't even help his own people. Private company's will take flight and no foreign investments will come to the country.
yes it's the same person, this was leaked by an employee of TSE. We can sit here and wonder how they intend to vote more than once but as you can see they have the means of obtaining multiple IDs so they can try and commit fraud...
To Eddy
If that is true than why are some of the richest people from El Salvador still investing in Nicaragua and plan to invest millions more? Most of the Super markets,malls and Dealerships belong to wealthy Salvadorans like the Poma family and he plans to acquire the rights to Volkswagen IN Nicaragua...also the TACA group has for the last 14 years invested in Cuba and has done business with both Castro brothers...You are the idiot for not realizing you have been duped
RE: to Eddy
Hahaha that was the dumbest reply I could've expected. I have Poma family members and they are NOT investing MORE money into Nicaragua, more than to merely keep their business afloat but not for future projects. Pomas have even stopped projects in El Salvador due to likeliness of an FMLN victory. Both the owner of Taca and the Poma's have come out publicly in newspapers and tv to announce the negative impact the country and the private sector would have if indeed, FMLN won. Who's the dupe now?
Why don't you do a little more research and read the news for a change before you come out sounding like a jackass online. Go take a look at Nicaragua and see how many people are happy with their dictator. Check out the great relationship Nicaragua has with the U.S. and European countries. FMLN will doom El Salvador and everyone and their capital are going to leave and invest elsewhere. Who are going to run the private sector then, FMLN? hahaha
I am sure, Eddie, that just like you, there are millions of "Salvadoran-Americans" or Salvadoran's living in migration limbo, as El Salvador stands, 40% of the population wants to leave the country.
This makes one wonder: what were the causes that lead to the vast majority of Salvadorans to so desperately flee the country? Why do they persist on leaving the country?
Certainly, if El Salvador cannot be nominated as a paradise, nor separated by a large margin from Nicaragua (your alleged shit-hole), because as we stand, the living conditions of El Salvador, including the incredibly high murder rate (one of the highest murder rates in the world) are the ones responsible for maintaining the population in a perpetual state of fuge.
Not only this, but a large percentage of the population are not employed by Triple A technology firms, investment banks, or anything that requires a high-quality working force, but rather venture into the "unskilled" labor department, with specialization in "ventas callejeras". As of right now, El Salvador is the country with the least foreign private investment because of our poor working force, social instability, and unclear (corrupt) rules of the game. This even though we have been under the wing of ARENA.
Even the sweat-shops which ARENA promised to make El Salvador's forte, have hemorrhaged away from the country and switching to places LIKE NICARAGUA and China, where they can obtain an even lower cheaper workforce.
It is because this reality, the unjust accumulation of wealth by a very, very small percentage of the population, and exclusive policies fostered by ARENA to sustain this inequality, that El Salvador stands at the brink.
Whoever wins in this elections, I guarantee you that they will have a terrible task at hand. And we do not count with the resources that USA does to face them. With the simple fact that remittances (by-product of our MAIN EXPORT: PEOPLE) are poised to diminish, less people are eager to emigrate due to stricter immigration laws and fewer opportunities of finding a job, the country will eliminate the simple elements that prevented great manifestations of social unrest from materializing.
Lucky us that we've been under ARENA's good grace that has served us so well, huh?
Please do keep your ages old McCarthyism to yourself. We do not need that, because if we as human beings can't call wrong what is wrong, and understand that the success of a society is through the respect and upholding of its laws then we have no right to call ourselves civil.
Because the state of this nation is so very much plagued by acts of corruption, with the perpetrators escaping persecution shielding themselves with the vestments of law-making that the people of El Salvador can no longer have the privilege of thinking between left-right, red-blue, up-down, if we ever want to bring forth the changes necessary that will ensure that the gears of democracy will turn anew. And voting against ARENA, and not necessary in-favor of FMLN, is precisely the greasing that we need to rescue our fledgling and imperfect democracy. How else can we make right by the law which has thus far and for long escaped us?
A Jackass is the source for Congressperson Rohrbacher's jackass remarks.
The question is simple: do we cease with the culture of impunity that wrongdoers perpetuate, and finally uphold the laws of a society; or we once and for all end this charade of being "civil" and get done with it and dwell into anarchy?
With the uncertainty, and climate of terror, multitude of Salvadorans are forced to live each day, I would say we are a step closer to the latter than the former.
Let us not forget that we did not need foreign interventions to escalate the tensions that we live here, we could do that perfectly well, with "businesses" (that haven't been rightfully audited since ARENA-PCN took control of supervision entities) instilling fear on employees, not only with propaganda, but with threats of cessation of employment if they don't follow through the party-lines they have adopted.
You are right, El Salvador is no paradise and we have had corruption and injustice as much as any other country, including the U.S. but are we willing to throw away our freedom and hand our people's future to a communist party? Are you willing to live off food stamps like Venezuela is and loose our freedom? Hell NO! Nicaragua, the "shit-hole", is exactly our fate if Funes and his delinquents win. Look at the people he has supporting him, a bunch of uneducated thugs that roam around the streets producing terror just like our neighbors in Nicaragua. Is that the people we want running our country?
You are also right about the majority of people living of "ventas callejeras", with minimum paying jobs as gardners, maids, and labor workers but at least they have jobs and are able to maintain their families. What is going to happen when all these millionaire families which control most of private sector decide to bail and take their business elsewhere and all those who had plans in coming, don't? My family owns a business in El Salvador which has over 3,000 employees and if FMLN wins we, along with others will liquidate our business and run, leaving 3,000 people unemployed. Will they be happier then? I don't think so.
Foreigners will not invest in a country ran by communists. Look at Funes, he is already at war with the private sector, making all these false accusations without any proof to back it up. Who in their right mind would come and invest in a country ran by a party that does not believe in the free market. How then, will the poor people who at least live off "ventas callejeras" now, survive? Property values are bound to drop and the wealthy are bound to leave. Who will then boom the Salvadorean economy, the FMLN thugs? I don't think so. Look at the countries that have embraced communism and tell me how well they are doing.
Tell me of one successful company in El Salvador who is backing Funes. If FMLN wins, the Salvadorean economy which is solid compared to our neighbors will collapse. There is no way of sugar coating it.
I beg someone to please tell me what Funes and the FMLN will do to help this country and its economy with no one from the private sector backing them up. PLEASE ENLIGHTEN ME!
All these leftist clowns are all big talk, but when it comes down to it all they want is power, and once they get it they all become like the people they overthrew but without the brains. Look at the thugs, like Eddie claims, ruling Venezuela, Nicaragua, Cuba. Who has it all now? They do! How much of it has been given back to the people? None of it. Castro, Ortega, and now Funes moving to his new mansions are living large but has the people gotten anything back? hahaha NO! Communism does not work, and I can't believe that some of you who seem to have half a brain think it might be the change El Salvador needs. PLEASE!!! Would you like to live like a Cuban, Venezuelan, or Nicaraguan? Then vote ARENA.
Look at the statistics, people from Venezuela, Cuba, and Nicaragua are not fleeing to the states for the American dream, they are leaving cuz their freedoms have been taken away from them!
I cannot believe my eyes. Americans like Tim defending FMLN. If you guys think it is such a great political philosophy, why don't you all get off your leather chairs and off your pricey laptops and go try living in Cuba for a couple of years? As a resident not as tourist. Lets see how quick all of you come back crying and thanking God how lucky you are to not have to live under those circumstances.
In a place where maintaining a blog where you get a chance to express yourself, the way you do, would be immediately shut down and your head found in some gutter. How can you praise a political view that does not grant you freedom? I would love to see how an "idealist" like yourself would find yourself living under those circumstances.
Arena is full of corruption but I insist you tell me which government isn't. Yeah, Arena has made its mistakes but right now it is the best choice El Salvador has. FMLN would destroy the country and its freedom.
I don't know whether it's a great day on Tim's El Salvador Blog because 34 people have commented, or whether it's a sad day because an article that called a congressman an "idiot" devolved into threads where posters (mostly anonymous) called a sister Central American nation a "s***hole" and largely attacked one another, their intelligence, and intentions.
We now know Rorbacher wants ARENA to win. If we're honest, we know that Hugo Chávez wants the FMLN to win. My guess is that Charlie Rangel, Jesse Jackson, Jr., Linda and Loretta Sanchez, Maxine Waters, and Dennis Kucinich weren't just trying to be "neutral" with their letter paving the way for "an invaluable, historic opportunity to make a clean break with the past." Let's just get over it. We'll all know who won sometime next week, and we'll all (the Chavezes and the Rorbachers of the world) still have to share the planet. Tranquilisense hombre.
TO: THOSE WHO INSIST ARENA IS THE ONLY OPTION TO EL SALVADOR
I REFUSE THE IDEA AND/OR THE EXCUSE THAT ONLY BECAUSE THERE ARE NO OPTIONS BUT ARENA; ALL SALVADOREAN SHOULD VOTE FOR THEM, AND ONE MORE HUGE THING, RESPECT THE SALVADOREAN'S WILL, SOONER OR LATER ARENA HAS TO HAND OVER THE POWER
So what is the alternative? Is either Arena or FMLN (communism). No other choice now that the other parties have backed down. I don't see any other choice my friend!
Dear Eddy and Fear mongers anonymous:
What Rep. Rowhorebacher is doing it's influencing the outcome of the elections in El Salvador through FEAR, and it's an intervention in the political freedom of El Salvador.
That's when you know that ARENA is full of shit...when they cry out that Hugo Chevez is trying to influence El Salvador through the left and they put their propaganda in El Miedo (Diario) De Hoy that if the people freely elect Fuenes as their President, their families in the US will be sent home...FEAR MONGERS as EDDY, that claims that businessman and millionairs will leave El Salvador, and that El Salvador will be another Nicaragua...
Eddy, monopolies in El Salvador are the problems, not free market economies like you claim you had...I am pro business,a free market economy guy, but in El Salvador you have Capitalism going bad, more like Feudalism...not free market economy.Just remember how corrupted the system is, that the cousin of the Salvadorean Attorney General was let go when he stold millions of US bank money, something that now we as Americans have to pay...Thank you!!!
Now, back to the Nicaragua questions? How violent is Nicaragua? Do people live in the slumms like El Salvador?? Soyapango? Cuscatancingo? Ilopango?
Do they have somthing to eat???
Eddy you and Rep. Rowhorebacher are just full of FEAR!!!
Eddy you probably don't
ARENA+PCN+PDC= CORRUPTION!!!
The other parties didnt back down, they were paid off by ARENA look it up
hahaha...so what are you saying, that FMLN=Freedom+Opportunity? You say you are pro-business, is communism the right environment?
By the way, I am not debating that Arena is God's gift to El Salvador but they are pro-business, which is where my interests lie. All I have read thus far from all of you since I last wrote are people trashing Arena, which I am ok with but I have yet to hear how FMLN will make a better choice. Please, ENLIGHTEN ME! How are they and the Chavez's of the world going to make El Salvador and its economy better.
For the record, Nicaragua is the poorest country in Latin America and people do live in slums and most don't have anything to eat. I know, cuz I lived there 5 years. As soon as Nicaragua's reserves are spent because they are no longer receiving aid from the U.S. and EU (which accounts for a big portion of their economy)then it is going to be even worse. Who's going to help? Chavez? Like I said before, he can't even help his own country with oil's current price in the market.
Oh, and damn right I am scared. I am scared of having these FMLN thugs try and nationalize a business that has been in my family for 4 generations like Chavez has done in Venezuela and how Ortega has tried to do in Nicaragua. I am also scared of them taxing us to the point of not being profitable. Before they get the chance we would liquidate the company and take our business elsewhere and leave 3,000 + Salvadoreans without jobs.
What an ironic scenario, YOU ARE SCARE ABOUT LEAVIN' EL SALVADOR BECAUSE THE LACK OF OPPORTUNITY, REFORMING THE TAXATION POLICIES, NOW YOU ARE UNDERSTANDING THE SALVADOREAN POPULATION IN USA WHICH AROUND 3 MILLION WITHOUT COUNTING OTHER PLACES, THAT WERE DENIED THE OPPORTUNITY TO MAKE A LIFE IN THEIR ORIGINAL COUNTRY, WHAT AN IRONIC FEELING HU?
but you know what, that wont happened, because that is not the FMLN plan, but i am not here to persuade you, inform more yourself, hopefully you will open not only your eyes but your mind
I am not scared of leving..who said that? There are plenty of opportunity out there...In fact we have already established communication with other partners in other countries. If FMLN wins my family's business is out the door in search for new pastures.
Again...and I find this hillarious, "That is not the FMLN plan", what is the FMLN plan and how is this going to help bring El Salvador out of woods, provide more opportunity for the people, better on business etc etc? No one seems to know the answer as no one has a frickin idea. Enlighten me people! Everyone seems to be able to bash Arena but cannot defend FMLN. How is FMLN going to be better and what will its strategy be.
They are a bunch of ignorant fools! There is no economic plan, other than to tax businesses to death and keep all the money to themselves and try to eliminate elections in the future just like Chavez and now Ortega is trying to do. Any one beg to differ? Didn't think so...
For a momment I thought you were talking about ARENA party, PLZ, 2O year as more than enough the inefficient work with migration, which still grows, poverty, marginalization, corruption, shed a thousand of jobs, lack of opportunity in the bracket PEA.."poblacion ECNOMICAMENTE Activa" so don't come here and rip off your clothe saying there are a bunch of ignorant fools cause i assure you YOU ARE THE FIRST IN THE LINE!
Carlos X. said…
Both sides are engaging in some questionable practices, beginning with making irresponsible accusations. Both sides is claiming a pristine distinction with the other side with respect to random violence. This is probably adding fuel to the fire, and no such distinction exists. The ARENA/USA Republican Axis of Fear Tactics is reprehensible and they should stop. The FMLN is going around planting seeds of doubt by making all these claims of fraud. This could come back and bite them in the event they win by a very narrow margin, which is likely what's going to happen. Each side is saying the other has engaged in dirty tricks. I agree with both sides: Funes claiming Avila was linked to the murders of the deputies made me wince, Avila and Saca's red baiting is gross and unstatesman like to say the least. Well, it will soon be over, but whoever wins is going to be left with polarization as far as the eye can see. Good luck to us all!
Again, another bash at Arena but no justification as to why FMLN is better. It is hillarious! Besides, El Salvador has one of the best, if not the best economy in Central America, so progress there is. Thanks to having a democratic government that allows businesses to do business.
PLLLLEEEASE, and I emphasize on the PLLLEASSE, tell me what the HELL is FMLN going to do let El Salvador grow and improve. Just cuz you all love to hate the hand that feeds you, you are not going to slap it on the wrist and praise the party that will take your food, home, rights, and freedom away. Stop being ignorant FOOLS and stop supporting a bunch of thugs!
BEST ECONOMY IN CENTRAL..??...base on what?? pardon me, is something wrong with you??? or you are not familiar with numbers or/and figures, trends.. Oh i forgot you are based on Government'statistic YOU ARE RIGHT!, moron.
Before answer your FMLN question, ask yourself how within 20 years SALVADOREAN STILL WANTS TO LEAVE THE COUNTRY, WHY THE POVERTY IS GROWING, WHY THERE AREN'T ENOUGH JOBS, AND THE ONES THAT ALREADY EXIST ARE PAYING A MISSERABLE WAGES! 150$ LESS THAN MONTH, AND ON TOP OF THAT, THE HIGHEST RATES OF WORLD VIOLENCE EVER!
APPARENTLY YOU KNOW HOW TO READ BUT INTERPRETED MY GODNESS!!!
IN REGARD TO "will take your food, home, rights, and freedom away"
MY KUDOS to the smear ARENA propaganda, cause there is one idiot that actually beleive on that.
hahaha...so again no answer! And yes, El Salvador has the best economy in Central America..better than Guatemala and better than Costa Rica, do the research dumbass..I have.
For sake of argument, why does everyone from Mexico, India, El Salvador, Saudi Arabia, and every other country for that matter want to leave their country to go to the U.S.? For better paying jobs, to improve their education, and prosper in life. This is not only Salvadoreans doing it! And what type of political sysyem is it that everyone craves and want to be a part of?? Democracy NOT Communism. You don't see all these people heading to Cuba, Nicaragua, Venezuela, etc..or do you? hahaha My point exactly!
Now please, one of you leftist thugs enlighten me once and for all the greatness FMLN will bring to El Salvador...PLEEEEASE!
Since no one was able to answer me, I am sure everyone will make the right choice and vote for ARENA! FMLN and its gang of thugs does not stand a chance!
All of you, sing along with me:
"ALIANZA REPUBLICANA NACIONALISTA DE EL SALVADOR"!!
I am out :)
If ARENA founder Roberto D'Aubuisson wasn't a thug, the word has not meaning. Of course he was the "hijo predilecto" of Chele Medrano, who in turn "siguio la corriente" of "el general Osorio", who of course "fue el nino bonito" of "el brujo Martinez." What more of a chain of thugs would you want?
D'Aubuisson no doubt is the most well-known thug in modern Salvadoran history, having organized the killing of Archbishop Oscar Romero, among the many others he had a hand in murdering. Chele Medrano regarded D'Aubuisson as his "murderer." Chele met his end in an FMLN ambush, and D'Aubuisson was lucky he didn't go the same way.
More bashing..blah, blah, blah..and still NO DEFENSE FOR FMLN! Don't you see you pack of retards, as much as we all hate politics and the corrupted fucks we have had all over the world, we are still all WAAAAY better off with corruption than communism. THAT is my point ladies! Now take that with a grain of salt.
I thought you were out.hahahah lol
Go on singing... that is the best here you can do and least you are busy doing something else than arguing a lost cause... how was it?
NACIO LA ESPERANZA ..VIENE EL CAMBIO...LOL
Eddie my god next to you most of this retards are as plain as vegetables. Dude you hit it right in the nail. I just don't get it. How is it that the first wave of immigrants that migrated to the US during the initiation of the civil war are the one's that make much more sense at least a great portion of them that is. Don't know if you migrated during that phase, but there's this belief in my mind that the first wave of immigrants did not left the country becuase of poverty, but because of all the threats that the FMLN was placing on it's business minded individuals. Unfortunately the second wave at least a great majority did leave the country because of poverty not fear of dying of the war, these were mostly supporters of the FMLN. It irritates me that this FMLN in the US criticize the US for their ills and they are feeding from it's hand. When they were the ones that cause all this mess in the first place. Believe me I have cousins that where as brain washed by cuba and nicargua as this morons, but hey they are family regardless whether they hit a tree or were drop as a baby during their younger years. I hope what your saying does not come to pass or else El Salvador will go back another 30 years thanks to the FMLN.
Eddy and Cousin Vinny:
I am glad that you guys are pretty articulated in your arguments as pro ARENA, even when they are totally full of it...the truth is that El Salvador as much as you want to say it, it's not 20 years behind the world, but probably 75 years...we can see that through your inadaptability to change...and your God given right to govern El Salvador.
First of all, Democracy hasn't reach El Salvador and you still hold unto the power like a kid holding his most precious toy, through corruption, FEAR, chicanery or manipulation. You don't give the people of El Salvador a true freedom...freedom to choose your own destiny.
Secondly, you wanted an argument about the FMLN and I know that I am not speaking for them, but I am speaking as objective observer and I am speaking for myself...middle ground of the political spectrum.I know that El Salvador wouldn't have changed, if it wasn't force to...
Have you consider that maybe is not Nicaragua, Cuba or Venezuela's destiny that the FMLN wants for El Salvador? Maybe Brazil's democracy or Chile? Maybe Argentina? but a Republic that you can advance with free enterprise and still help people get on thei own their feet???
ARENA is blindsided with power, that has forgatten the people...I know that you are eating from the better tortilla dear Eddy and cousin Vinny.
But, do you not know that in EL Salvador most of the people are really poor??...they don't have food to eat?? they make less than 150 dollars a month?? 80-90 % not like Eddy that comes to shop in Miami for new jeans.
But, do you not know that in El Salvador, in the classifies of El Diario de Hoy openly discriminate against your age...that if you are 18-30 years old you can get a job, otherwise Eddy will look the other way??? And his palestinian brother in law will get top mananger post making 1000 dollars a week.
so, tell me Eddy how will you help the people???
Last I saw, there were hundreds of businessmen, from USA and Europe, salivating at the prospect of Fidel Castro dying to move in and make a bona fide killing out of Cuba's expertise in biotechnology, and the region's most apt and capable working force (with the highest doctor to patient ratio in the world-- can we say the same of El Salvador with hospitals constantly being bereft of medicines and top health officials with no way of explaining where the bulk of a 142 million dollars loan went to).
In fact, even chief officials in the USA --the same country that espoused tactics akin to besieging a city for days (in Cuba's case: decades) waiting for it to deplete all its resources, and either expect patiently for the denizens to deliver the head of the king in a silver platter as an act of surrender, or invade on the time where the greatest you have to worry about is the foul stench of rotting corpses and the swarms of flees that cavort around them-- have openly admitted that the "embargo/blockade" has failed miserable to fulfill its purpose. Not only that, but they argue that failing to normalize relationships with Cuba, removes the opportunity to "bring democracy" to the island, as well prevents American businesses to take advantage of what the island has to offer.
Even today, millions do go to Cuba to undergo different medical procedures. Even Salvadoran companies like "Laboratorios Lopez" happily operate in that God-forsaken, commie-haven (some McCarthyism for you, bucko), with foreign invest from places from the likes of China and Britain lining-up to have diverse dealing with Cuba.
Sure, I won't deny that Cuba did not escape the burnt of being treated like an international pariah for decades. The ease of procuring daily-living stuff (like shampoo) has affected their livelihood greatly), but the times have changed. The USSR is no more, the island adapted as much as it could considering the circumstances (as in acts of sabotage), and has had a greater degree of aperture over the years, and Cuba's gamble on education (people DO travel to Cuba for an education, even people from USA) and health care will prove to be a winning bet.
Can we say the same about El Salvador? Again, as you so kindly conceded, El Salvador's bulk "industry" comes from the unskilled sector, to be more precise the so-dubbed "informal sector", meaning: self-employed street vendors, small business owners, etc.
Many of which don't even have a high-school diploma. So very far from being a country with its own developed industries, not even agriculture was sustained under ARENA (such judgment-slip paving the way for the migration boon to urban areas, saturating them, eliminating the livelihoods of multitudes of farmers, increasing crime, etc.). So to say that a small cabal of "empresarios" is the hand that feeds the multitudes underscores the situations on the ground: that the multitudes don't have the "empresarios" for making their living.
On the contrary, the unsavory "empresarios" adopt labor practices that sometimes border into the inhumane, giving a pittance of the employee's just rewards for hours of arduous toil, with wages beginning as small as $150 dollars a month or less--which thanks to El Salvador having, if not the, one of the most expensive costs for medicine and "canasta basica" simply makes living increasingly difficult. Such is the treatment that thousands of employees are submitted to by employers that fail to see the mutual need of each other (business are definitely not a charity-- workers do EARN the wages, the employee simply chooses to omit this fact) and simply devise ways to not fulfill their obligations to their workers (like withholding wage money for ISSS quotas without ever pulling through, or the many sweat-shops that over-night close down leaving without paying wages owned to employees).
ARENA is nowhere pro-business. It is, as someone mentioned, pro-monopoly, pro-oligopoly. A feudalism. It is pro-Dueñas, pro-Regalado, pro-Siman, pro-Poma, and whoever desires to enter into the fray and make business, bewarn if either of the "oligarchs" find out that the venture you delve into proves to be profitable, because suddenly you'll find yourself with your permits revoked and rescinded. That is the kind of "warranty" you obtain doing business here, unless of course you give a cut to third parties for your labor.
What ARENA has done well, is perpetuating the sense of entitlement that the ruling elite have about the direction the country has to go (usually one that safe-guards their myopic interests at the expense of real nation-building), and over the control of the resources/population. Something that goes way-back when communal lands/small-owners were abolished, because they were an obstacle to "progress" (and the lands absorbed by large fincas) and anti-vagrancy laws were created to make sure said fincas had an ample array of "colonatos" (peasants) to service them fostering the paternalisitic societies of today: obedience and gratitude for allowing you to service me.
ARENA has been an obstacle to progress, and 20 years of ruler ship prove this, even more if we take into account that the oligarchies that formed ARENA ruled by proxy through the military juntas and pseudo-presidents.
The nincompoops at the helm of ARENA were forewarned of the possibilities of war, unless there was an improvement in the livelihoods of the population, warnings ignored, with those who issued them outcast or dead. Now, after 20 years since the civil war, with the conditions that lead to it remaining, El Salvador has surely accumulated some freedoms (earned through the blood of many, not a bone thrown to placate some mutt), some of which are listed bellow:
*Be afraid of riding a bus, with gangs raiding said buses demanding payment.
*The freedom of going on with your daily lives with the threat of being dead or robbed, with more than 10 deaths a day: considered an epidemic.
*The freedom to continuously flee your country, with entire families fragmenting, with 2 million already gone, and 45% of those remaining wanting to leave. Despite the "entrepreneurship" of the oligarchy (please note a degree of sarcasm in here), the huge millionaire life-line of loans, and international donations.
*The freedom to be demonized, by media loyal to the ruling elites, if you dare protest and manifest your discontent with your present situation.
*The freedom to be coerced and threatened into relinquishing your personal political thought if it is not the same as those of your employee.
Those are many of the freedoms we have. Suffice to say that this kind of climate is the one that fosters the immigration and lack of foreign investment in the country, even potential tourist find themselves repeatedly barraged by warnings of high crime and violence. The only ones that are really afraid of FMLN coming to power are those that have to fear the rule of law, and that thanks to their irresponsibility El Salvador is nearing unviability when it comes to sustaining itself. It is not that only El Salvador has corruption, it is that we are immersed in it, and what is worse, those responsible for it wallow in it shamelessly because right now, thanks to controlling the gov., they are untouchable. It is those same people that threat leaving the country if FMLN wins, and to those, I say "good riddance".
I sincerely hope that if FMLN wins and does the job Corte de Cuentas and Ministerio de Hacienda should be doing, and the Madoffs of El Salvador flee, that they are savvy enough to persecute them through international agencies. We can only hope that by ending 20 years of irresponsible government a society that respect the laws greatly is created and attracts the investments that so far avoid us, and manages to retain its own citizens because they finally consider it a viable option. Of course, this won't be able to be achieved from dusk to dawn, but with only the simple fact that FMLN will cease the cronyism that ARENA has created is enough to give them my vote, and consider it a turn for the best for the future of this country.
*The freedom of having to religiously pay taxes, whilst oligarchy controlled businesses are exempted to pay taxes, or simply evade their obligations to do so (just ask former Ministro de Haciendo Lopez Suarez about it).
*The freedom of having yourself and family be the victims of death threats if you are among those who demand accountability from government institutions and private allies (like the recent case of Dr. Roberto Tobar, one of the main critics demanding to know where a 142 million dollars-loan was invested by the Health Minister).
http://www.elfaro.net/secciones/Noticias/20080714/noticias2_20080714.asp
Funes looking to have a left like Chile, Brazil, and Argentina??? Please! The biggest financier of his campaign has been Chavez. His party respects and ADMIRES Chavez. Not to mention the last person running for president on behalf of FMLN. He was one of the biggest and proudest communist sympathizers I have seen. All FMLN representatives are masked communists and everyone who has lived in El Salvador knows that. Funes has been a puppet used by the party to present a different, less radical view and gain more acceptance from the people. It is all a facade.
As to not having monopolies, to be honest I can't think of one. Give me an example of a monopoly here in El Salvador. We have international companies as well as local companies competing in almost every industry which has created hundreds of thousands of jobs. From maquilas to call centers. Compared to the rest of Latin America, El Salvador has improved immensely mostly due to the fact that we have maintained a democracy.
And to all those countries and companies wanting to invest in Cuba and Venezuela, of course they want too. I would too. They have great resources to exploit, but do you see many businesses running to those countries investing large sums of money? Not often because of the government in power. Sure, sometimes businesses measure risk and make a gamble knowing that if the risk pays off they would gain over 1000% of their investment. So sometimes, not often, will businesses enter these markets and deal with political shenanigans in order to profit and gain a competitive advantage over others.
The fact remains that FMLN is a communist party and if they win, you will no longer see people making $150 a month but have people loose their jobs, businesses liquidate and go elsewhere, keep foreign investments away, risk the aid US gives us and then start depending on Chavez and have El Salvador become his "finca". Not long from then will the country start with food coupons and start subsidizing everything leaving El Salvador with an even huger deficit then the one gained by the last FMLN dictator.
Last FMLN dictator??? Maybe I should read El Diario de Hoy in order to confuse facts with fiction??? Ho Eddy, Santa is real too!!!
TO: the last 2 anonymous
For the concrete comment, I've couldn't say it better, I think when it comes to politics some ppl get fanatic, and no matter how bad could be they are still trying to hold on to the old, washed-up ideologies that the history has proved hasnt worked at all.
I HOPE AS WELL FMLN WINS!
Well then, if the doom and gloom you foretell becomes true (conveniently ignoring points you yourself mentioned such as oil dwindling prices cutting short Chavez's "world conquest" schemes), El Salvador has no one to thank for this other than ARENA. Guess we will have nothing more than suck it up, as we've been doing for the past 20 years, this time only under NEW MANAGEMENT.
And I believe I did cite a business that as we speak is DOING BUSINESS with Cuba and PROFITING from it. Laboratorios Lopez, we also have TACA, and there are a multitude of European and Asian companies willing to make business who may find the government an ally, not an intrusion. Hell, the simple fact that 80% of the work force either has an engineering or medical degree is enough help already-- it opens up the opportunity to receive the kind of investment WE COULD NOT HOPE TO ATTRACT. And must I cite to you references to my claims of Republican and Democratic officials from USA stating that the embargo was a failure and prevents AMERICAN BUSINESSES from taking advantage from Cuba? Not only because of their natural resources, but human resources and the strategic placement within the Caribbean.
Furthermore, your claims of Funes being a puppet of FMLN simply ignores the evident lack of SPINE that ARENA designee Rodrigo Avila suffers of and that Funes does not. You speak of repackaging... Well, it is ARENA that has squandered four times more in propaganda than the FMLN to make us believe that THIS time, after 20 years, they are a DIFFERENT ARENA-- unfortunately, without ever forsaking the terror-mongering tactics of old. In fact, ARENA's zealous embrace of terrorizing the population into VOTING FOR THEM and fearing any other alternative (or suffer the consequences!), in my opinion, could fit the classical definition of what terrorism is. Dare I say that ARENA is nothing more than a terrorist organization playing politics?
Also, I am forced to remind you, that in El Salvador, the armed forces are strictly adherents to their "oligarch" patrons, successfully becoming an obstacle to any drastic and sudden change that you so candidly profess. Unlike Venezuela and Russia, where starving, discontent populations won said sympathy. It is the ignorance of this facts that makes me wonder if your mind is not stuck somewhere in a vacuum between the 70s-80s.
Now, about them jobs and industries. The Regalados, Safies, Siman, Dueñas, Poma, Siman, Wrights, Salume, Garcia Prieto, Hill, Mathis, etc., control the vast majority of those businesses, through ARENA successfully curtailing the entrance to international competitors that could destroy them. You mention maquilas, as an example of investment attracted. Have you ever gone to a maquila? Have you ever been witness to the working conditions that workers are submitted to on maquilas (sweat-shops)? The degradation they suffer, the harassment, the withholding of payment, the failing to reimburse extra working hours? To this day more and more maquilas HAVE ACTUALLY CLOSED TO MOVE ELSEWHERE--just as I had previously mentioned. Must I go and cite examples? And when they close, the workers are left without pay.
The day that DELL chooses to open a chip manufacturing plant in El Salvador, like Intel did in Costa Rica, will be the day that you can argue that the "regime" that ARENA has settled has been successful in attracting and retaining any foreign investment that is truly, truly worth-a-while and a positive force in changing societies for the better.
As we stand, we currently have no capacity to do such thing, because of the societal unrest we live, the corruption-impunity society ARENA built and poor, uneducated working force. Again, you speak nonsense of Cuba, but if 1-5 years from now USA decided to at the very least remove the Helms-Burton Act from obstructing businesses to operate freely in Cuba, you'd see foreign investment in that island multiply rendering your points mute. They have the capacity, we don't. We will never have it with ARENA at the helm. 20 years has proved them to be a FAILURE.
By the way, last I saw, Costa Rica was the oldest country to create and sustain a viable democracy, not the charade we have here. Not only that, but as we are, every single country in Central America adopted something akin to a democracy after shedding the vestiges of years of oligarchy-controlled dictatorships. So, El Salvador has no exclusive rights to call itself a "democracy" in C.A., of course, the way we do politics clearly leaves much to be desired...
I almost forgot, you wanted me to cite an example of an oligopoly in El Salvador? Take the example of MOLSA and HARISA and their dominance of the flour market, and how they can basically fix the price.
WELL SAID,!
DEFINITELY I AGREE
ARENA IS A FAILURE!
EDDIE STOP WATCHING 9210 ON 2.4.6 CHANNELS AND READING EL DIARIO DE HOY COMBINED WITH LA PRENSA GRAFICA "THE CARTOON SECTION"
I don't know what a dogmatic is, but I can smell one when I see him...and you smell like one...joking aside Eddy this is 2009, and I know that you were frozeen through time.
so, let me give you an updated of the years that you have missed...
The is not more USSR, they are gone...the Berlin Wall was taken apart and Germany became unified...yes Eddy unified, the West and the East...the Capitalist and Communist.
Oh Eddy, black is not bad anymore...it has become cool, so cool that the US elected an African American President.
Roberto D'Abuisson die as well as Ray Prendez, Duarte and Shafick. The country is new, but we still have Tios in every part of the government...
I know that you didn't like it when the campesinos wanted to be with their families for the weekend, that you wanted them to work in la finca from dusk to dawn.That has change now, there is new laws against that...I know you hated liberals helping the poor people, people that wanted to be with their families....I always asked why???
Eddy, I know that you are stuck in the past Eddy, but look at the best in life.I got to go Eddy, hopefully you understand.
Last comment...
made me laugh!
"I know that you didn't like it when the campesinos wanted to be with their families for the weekend, that you wanted them to work in la finca from dusk to dawn"
Boy you are hilarious!!
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7: Reunion Special (2003)
6: The E! True Hollywood Story (2001)
Documentary about the television series, "Beverly Hills, 90210," which premiered October 4, 1990. During the show's ten-year run, the teenaged characters dealt with many issues, including drug abuse, AIDS, pre-marital sex and teenage pregnancy. The show's success transformed the cast into instant teen idols, but it also made them prime targets for tabloids and the paparazzi who eagerly passed on rumors of behind-the-scenes conflicts. Actress Shannen Doherty often found herself immersed in controversy, and the casting of producer Aaron Spelling's daughter, Tori, caused speculation of favoritism on the set.
11: A Christmas Special
Cast members shares their plans for their Christmas holiday.
1: The Best Moments of 90210
Tori Spelling hosts a look at some of the more memorable scenes and events from the series' first five and a half seasons. Music: ""Don't Dream It's Over"" by Crowded House (#2, 1987)
3: Our Favourite Moments - Part 1
Cast members select their favorite episodes from the past eight seasons. Many of the series' ""issue-oriented"" shows are recalled, while Tori Spelling discusses her fondness for comedic moments.
12: The Final Goodbye
Cast members reminisce about favorite moments from the show; share memories of the cast and crew; and discuss their feelings about the end of the series. Clips from past episodes and behind-the-scenes footage are included. Music: ""Things That Make You Go Hmmmm..."" by C&C Music Factory (#4, 1991); ""No Scrubs"" by TLC (#1, 1999); ""Perfect Memory"" by Remy Zero
2: 10-Year High School Reunion
Cast members from the series' high school years (1990-93) gather to reminisce about the show and reflect on its impact on their lives and popular culture. Among the topics discussed are the tight friendships between cast members; the fashions sported on the series (some of which didn't exactly stand the test of time); the show's isolated warehouse set (which was adjacent to a porn shop frequented by some of the cast members); and the fan frenzy that erupted for their public appearances--both in the U.S. and abroad--at the height of the show's popularity. The cast also names favorite episodes and debates the show's most romantic moment. In some of the more interesting revelations, Shannen Doherty talks about the difficulty in hiding her attraction to TV brother Jason Priestley in several scenes; Luke Perry discusses a number of times in which he, Shannen and Jennie Garth were inadvertently injured during romantic scenes; Luke mentions his habit of getting too carried away during make
1: Class of Beverly Hills
Twins Brandon and Brenda begin school at trendy West Beverly High after moving from Minnesota. Brandon joins the newspaper staff and meets Andrea Zuckerman, the intelligent and devoted editor. Brenda is befriended by snobbish Kelly, who picks her as a chemistry lab partner to avoid being paired with a fat girl. Brenda discovers that she doesn't have the right look to fit in at this new school, and starts to plan a drastic change. Marianne, a rich but reclusive girl uses skywriting to invite the entire school (minus freshmen, of course) to a party at her mansion, complete with a live rock band. Freshmen David and Scott crash the party, and drunken Steve insists that David drive him home. After delivering Steve to his door, the unlicensed David accidentally damages the car, prompting a now sober Steve to begin a frantic search for the culprit. Meanwhile, Brandon connects with the withdrawn but beautiful hostess, Marianne, and asks her for a date. Used to wealthy rich brats, she is struck by his boyish good looks and undemanding nature. Brandon breaks through her jaded exterior, and they share a lovely evening riding her father's motorcycle and hot-tubbing under the stars. The romance quickly fades however, when Brandon accidentally insinuates that they slept together. Rumors fly through the halls of West Beverly like wildfire and Marianna is devastated that her "nice" guy was no different than any of the other social climbers that used her to gain status. Andrea is disappointed in him too and gives him the cold shoulder. In a move that shocks the guys and charms the girls, Brandon confesses on the school radio station that he lied about his night with Marianne. His sincere and public apology stuns the jaded girl, and she finally decides to forgive him. Their romance however, is not meant to be, and they part as friends. Later, he follows Andrea home to explain himself and discovers that she lives out of district. Brandon promises to keep quiet about her residence,
2: The Green Room
Brandon meets Dylan McKay, a mysterious loner who stops some jocks from harassing Scott in tech class. Dylan takes Brandon surfing and introduces him to his friends, including a troubled young woman named Sarah. Brandon becomes disturbed by the behavior of Dylan's friends, who treat Sarah like a possession. Brandon grows tired of Dylan's bad boy act after he raids a hotel room. Dylan reveals that he lives in the hotel, and only pretended to break in to preserve his reputation. Sarah nearly drowns while surfing drunk, but Brandon and Brenda save her life. Sarah seeks help for her drinking problem, and thanks Brandon for convincing her to believe in herself. Brenda is miffed at Kelly after she leaves Brandon and her stranded at the beach. Steve's actress mother encourages him to be nice to David because she mistakenly believes that David's father is a producer. Music: 'Surf City' by Jan and Dean, 'Word to the Mutha!' by Bell Biv DeVoe, 'Monday, Monday' by The Mamas and the Papas.
3: Every Dream Has Its Price (Tag)
Brenda goes on several shopping trips with Kelly and Tiffany, Kelly's best friend from junior high school. Brenda cannot afford the merchandise, and considers stealing because she is envious of her classmates' wardrobes. She does not realize that Tiffany is a shoplifter. Tiffany stashes clothes in Brenda's bedroom, and the two are later arrested. Cindy begins to lose faith in her daughter until Tiffany clears Brenda's name. Brandon begins work at a trendy restaurant, where his boss treats him shabbily. He quits after learning that she also pays the minority employees less than minimum wage. He gets a waiter job at a diner called the Peach Pit, as Dylan is friends with the owner. The Walshes hire a maid. Music: 'Town Without Pity' by Gene Pitney, 'Money Talks (Dirty Cash)' by the Adventures of Stevie V, 'MT' by the 77s, 'Let the Good Times Roll' by Louis Jordan.
4: The First Time
Sheryl, Brandon's old girlfriend from Minneapolis, stays with the Walshes for the weekend. A concerned Cindy asks Jim to have a talk with Brandon. Before he gets around to it, Sheryl spends the night in Brandon's room. Sheryl seems obsessed with wealth and fame, and takes a liking to Dylan and his Porsche. Brandon believes that Dylan is hitting on Sheryl and punches him. Brandon is stunned to learn that he was not the first guy to sleep with Sheryl. Sheryl's mother calls Cindy and reveals that her daughter ran away following a fight with her stepfather. Brenda babysits for her handsome algebra teacher, with 'help' from Kelly and Donna. She no longer finds him appealing after watching his wife push him around. Music: 'In the Mood' by Glenn Miller, 'I Wanna Be Rich' by Calloway, 'Hippychick' by Soho, 'Dreamlike State' by Erasure.
Thursday, November 1st, 1990
5: One on One
Jim encourages Brandon to try out for the basketball team. Steve, unaware that he is terrible, is bitter about being cut from the team. He tells Brandon that several of the players are ringers brought in from out of district to help the team win a championship. Andrea, whom Brandon had asked to investigate, discovers that the player competing against Brandon for the last spot on the roster is from another district. Brandon is ashamed of himself when he learns that the player came to West Beverly to get a good education; his father is a city employee, making him eligible for admission. Brenda enrolls in driver's education, despite the fact that she failed three times in Minneapolis. Kelly is stranded after a concert and begs for a ride, so Brenda takes Brandon's car without permission. She runs out of gas and manages to lose the car. Music: 'Oops Up' by Snap, 'The Way You Do the Things You Do' by the Temptations, 'That's Just the Way It Is, Baby' by the Rembrandts.
6: Higher Education
Brandon is getting a C in American History because of the teacher's unreasonable grade curve, in which 80 percent of the students receive C's regardless of their marks. Steve scores an A on every test because he obtains copies of the exams beforehand. Feeling pressure from Jim about his grades, Brandon cheats on a quiz. Andrea is furious, particularly when her grades slip as a result. Brandon is faced with a moral dilemma when Steve offers him a copy of the midterm. Brenda tries to dye her hair blonde in the hopes of impressing Dylan, but winds up looking like a clown. Dylan flirts with Brenda and takes her to a stylist to repair the damage. Music: 'Policy of Truth' by Depeche Mode.
Thursday, November 22nd, 1990
7: Perfect Mom
Brenda is mesmerized by Kelly's hip and glamorous mother Jackie, a former model. Kelly insists that her mother is not all that she appears to be. Jackie is a recovering addict, and begins hitting the bottle again after her boyfriend dumps her. Cindy is hurt when Brenda initially fails to ask her to be in a mother-daughter fashion show. They eventually agree to appear, and are joined by Andrea, who draws raves. Jackie attempts to emcee the show while high on cocaine. She becomes disoriented and disrupts the show with a rambling tirade. Kelly convinces her to check into rehab. Kelly gains new respect for David when he gives her the fashion show tape to save Jackie from embarrassment. Jim becomes addicted to his new keyboard. Music: 'Stars' by Erasure.
8: The 17-Year Itch
At home, Cindy takes off her wedding rings and looks at her wedding anniversary while they talk about having their first anniversary away from their old home. Jim tries to get frisky, but Cindy wants to talk, but when Jim tells her to talk, she tells him that she just doesn't want to be intimate. Jim gets up and walks downstairs to do his work. Brandon and Brenda talk about how their parents are acting on their way out of the house to go to school. Brandon thinks that she is overreacting and tells her that they have been married for a long time and that is just what happens. At school, DJ Mike is giving his good-bye over the air waves and David gets an idea about trying out for the job. Steve stops and tells David that he is trying out. Brandon and Brenda talk to Ms. Rye who tells them about a twin study that she would like them to take part in. Cindy is at a nursery looking at plants when she notices that someone is taking pictures of her. When she starts to walk away, telling the maid, Anna Rodriguez, that there are crazy people around the area, she stops and notices that the guy is Glen, her old boyfriend. They start reminiscing about old times and why he is in Los Angeles. She tells him that she has noticed his pictures in National Geographic and then she tells him that she is still married and has twins. At home, Cindy makes Glen tell the family about different stories and how he introduced Cindy and Jim while they were dating. Jim gets up to go do some work and then Brandon and Brenda tell Glen that they are about to become the subjects of a study and Glen wants to take some pictures of them. When they get up to leave, Brenda tells Brandon that she thinks that Glen likes their mom, but Brandon thinks that she is crazy. Cindy and Glen talk in front of the fire in the living room and Glen tells Cindy that he has just ended a long-term relationship. Jim wakes up from his sleep to find that Cindy has still not gone to bed. He gets up to go downstairs and sees them
9: The Gentle Art of Listening
Brenda becomes a trainee for a teen crisis hotline, although Andrea questions her devotion. Brenda violates the rules by taking a call after hours. The caller is a date rape victim, who suffers the same fate on three consecutive nights. Brenda is desperate to learn the girl's identity and help her. Brandon believes that a masseuse has a romantic interest in him. He also dodges a freshman admirer, who similarly gives the cold shoulder to Scott. Music: 'Get Up! (Before the Night Is Over)' by Technotronic, 'Since I Met You Baby' by Ivory Joe Hunter, 'Devil or Angel' by the Clovers, 'Chocolate' by the Time.
Thursday, January 3rd, 1991
10: Isn't It Romantic?
Brenda and Dylan continue their flirtation, and she accidentally catches him in the shower. They go out alone when Brandon has to stay home sick. Dylan loses his cool after a confrontation with his father. Brenda consoles him, and they end up kissing. Jim objects to the relationship because Dylan's father is considered ruthless and crooked. Brenda is prepared to go all the way, and is crushed when Dylan stands her up. He later explains that he had to move because his father skipped the country to avoid an indictment. Steve tries to make a pass at the speaker for a sex education assembly. She reveals that she has AIDS. Her speech prompts Brenda to slow things down with Dylan. Music: 'Lily Was Here' by Candy Dulfer and Dave Stewart, 'Doing the Do' by Betty Boo; 'She's Like the Wind' by Patrick Swayze.
11: B.Y.O.B.
Brenda goads Brandon into taking her to a party at Donna's house. He voices his objections to alcohol, but Steve spikes his drink. He decides to go along with it so that he won't appear ""uncool."" Kelly gets drunk and sleeps with Steve. Cindy catches Brenda with alcohol on her breath, but Brandon gets by unscathed. Jim and Cindy attend a weekend retreat, where they are forced to spend all their time with an overly friendly couple. Brenda convinces Brandon to throw a party, but they agree not to drink. Word of the party spreads, and it quickly gets out of hand. Brandon drinks heavily and kisses a stunned Andrea. Kelly dances with the lovestruck David to avoid Steve's advances. Brandon tries to drive to the store and smashes his car. He is arrested for drunk driving. Dylan takes him to an AA meeting and reveals that he is an alcoholic. Music: 'So Hard' by Pet Shop Boys, 'Don't You Love Me' by the 49ers.
12: One Man and a Baby
Brandon meets senior Melissa Coolidge on the school lawn during lunch. He makes a date with her, and learns that she is the mother of an infant son, Joey. Brandon is forced into emergency babysitting duty while Melissa has an interview with Harvard. Jim and Cindy are unavailable, but Steve helps Brandon through the afternoon. Melissa's interview does not go well, and she becomes frustrated with her life. She fears that she may have to give up her son, but Cindy calms her with a heart-to-heart talk. Brenda and Kelly win skydiving lessons from a radio contest. Music: 'Baby Love' by the Supremes, 'Joey' by Concrete Blonde, 'Wicked Game' by Chris Isaak.
13: Slumber Party
Brenda invites Kelly, Donna and Andrea over for a 'night of female bonding.' They are having a good time until Kelly's bitchy friend Amanda shows up. She insults everyone and decides to turn the girls against each other. As part of a 'game' about secrets, Amanda bullies Kelly into describing her first sexual encounter, in which she was humiliated by the football captain. After Brenda recalls stealing a Minnesota friend's boyfriend, Kelly admits that she tried to hit on Dylan. The girls eventually make up, and Brenda and Kelly vow to never let a man come between them. Amanda's behavior is attributed to a diet pill addiction. The girls catch David and Scott lurking outside the window and taking pictures of them. Brandon and Steve are denied entry to a club, but hook up with two girls. They steal Steve's Corvette, but he doesn't press charges (and pays their traffic ticket) because he foolishly thinks that he and Brandon still have a chance with them. Music: 'Mony, Mony' by Tommy James and the Shondells, 'Streets In Paradise' by Vixen.
14: East Side Story
The Walshes agree to let their maid's extremely intelligent "niece," Carla, use their address to enroll at West Beverly. Brandon falls hard for her, but doesn't understand why everyone seems opposed to their relationship. Carla reveals that she witnessed a drive-by shooting that claimed the life of a four-year-old; she had moved in with Anna while waiting to testify, with protection from the D.A. Carla returns to her family after one of the killers confesses. Jim and Cindy organize a soiree for his new client, a sportswear designer. Dylan, Steve and the girls receive free clothing. David wants MC Hammer to perform at the school dance. Music: 'Let's Go Deeper' by MC Hammer; 'Finger Poppin' Time' by Hank Ballard and the Midnighters, 'Deep Down' by Debbie Gibson, 'I Like You' by Culture Beat.
Thursday, February 21st, 1991
15: A Fling in Palm Springs (a.k.a. Palm Springs Weekend)
David invites Steve, Kelly and Donna to his grandparents' luxurious Palm Springs home for President's Day weekend. He is embarrassed to find that his grandparents, who he believed were on a cruise, are actually at home. David meets a strange girl at a gas station and asks her over to the house. She brings friends for Steve, who is still trying to win back Kelly. Brenda plans to spend the weekend with Dylan, but cannot remember the name of his hotel. She loses her wallet and spends the night in a linen closet. She finally makes it to the hotel, only to find Dylan hanging out with another girl. David's grandparents give the teens advice about romance, and help Brenda and Dylan. Brandon befriends a young customer at the Peach Pit, but later catches him trying to steal cash. The boy reveals that his family is homeless. Music: 'Apples, Peaches, Pumpkin Pie' by Jay and the Techniques, 'La Bamba' by Ritchie Valens, 'Tequila' by The Champs.
16: Fame Is Where You Find It
Brandon is rollerblading in the park while the television show Keep It Together is filming an episode. The producers seek him out as an emergency replacement for one of the extras. He hits it off with the star, Lydia Leeds, and is considered for a recurring role. However, Lydia is only using him to make her leading man/boyfriend jealous so that he will end his holdout. Brenda fills in for Brandon at the Peach Pit. She is in over her head until she adopts the persona of Laverne, a sassy, gum-chomping waitress. She quickly charms all of the customers with her wisecracks and lip-synch routines. Music: 'Hooray for Hollywood' by Johnnie Davis and Frances Langford, 'Sally Go 'Round the Roses' by the Jaynetts, 'Finger Poppin' Time' by Hank Ballard and the Midnighters, 'It's My Party' by Lesley Gore.
17: Stand (Up) and Deliver
Andrea persuades Brandon to run for class president. Kelly seizes control of the campaign and encourages Brandon to capitalize on his looks and image. She even agrees to a date with David in exchange for his help producing a campaign video. Brandon decides that he isn't the best man for the job after talking with his bright and dedicated opponent. Brenda, feeling neglected by family and friends, begins hanging out at a coffeehouse. Sky, a performance artist, convinces Brenda to drop out of high school and get her GED so that she can "experience life." Brenda moves out of the Walsh house to apartment-sit for Sky. She learns that life as an artist is not as romantic as it seems, as Sky's utilities are turned off and her furniture is repossessed. Music: 'Merry Go Round' by the Replacements, 'Hippy Chick' by Soho.
18: It's Only a Test
Everyone but Dylan is driven into a frenzy by the upcoming SATs. A completely panicked Andrea seeks help from Steve, who attended an expensive SAT prep course. During their study session, they end up kissing, and avoid each other for days. Kelly reads an article about breast health, so the girls take time out from studying for a self-exam. Brenda discovers a lump in her breast and must undergo a biopsy. Cindy and Brenda are haunted by memories of Cindy's sister Sheila, who died of breast cancer. Brandon cannot concentrate during his SAT, so he leaves during the exam to go to the hospital. (He and Brenda are to take a make-up test at a later date.) Brenda is relieved when she receives a clean bill of health. Music: 'That's Just the Way It Is, Baby' by the Rembrandts.
19: April Is the Cruelest Month
Brandon interviews Roger Azarian for a senior profile in the Blaze. Roger is an outstanding student and athlete, but is overwhelmed by the legacy of his father; a self-made millionaire. Roger asks Brandon to read a screenplay that he has written. Brandon is disturbed by the autobiographical aspects of the script, especially since it ends with the lead character murdering his father. Brandon finds a gun in Roger's car and fears that he is going to kill his father. He tracks down the missing Roger in his pool house, where he is actually contemplating suicide. After receiving terrible SAT scores Donna decides to become a bad girl, skipping classes and taking up smoking. After the guidance office intervenes she is tested for and diagnosed with a learning disability that inhibits her test-taking skills. She is given another chance on the test and presumably scores much higher the second time. Ironically, Brenda and Brandon receive identical scores on the SAT (1190). Music: 'Would I Lie to You?' by Eurythmics, 'Doing the Do' by Betty Boo.
20: Spring Training
A dog follows Brenda home from a jog. She tries desperately to find the animal a home so that she won't have to take it to a shelter. Brandon and Steve must take over Jim's little league team after he injures his back during infield practice. Brandon is disgusted with the whole experience, particularly the undue influence of the league president (father of the star pitcher) and the players' attitudes. He arranges a practice game with Nat's team of underprivileged kids, where one of his players taunts the hapless second baseman. Brandon stomps off when Steve won't let him remove the boy from the lineup. He stays with the team out of loyalty to his father, but also helps Nat's squad. The fortunes of Nat's team begin to turn around when Andrea brings in a female superstar.
Thursday, May 2nd, 1991
21: Spring Dance
Brenda tries to convince Andrea to ask Brandon to the spring dance, but Kelly beats her to it. Steve reluctantly takes Donna, who wears an elaborate gown that impedes sitting or dancing. He ignores her, gets drunk, and lashes out at Brandon and Kelly. Kelly admits her crush on Brandon, and they kiss. However, he nixes a relationship because he thinks of her as a sister. Steve reveals that it is his birthday, and that he is especially sensitive about this after recently learning that he is adopted. He had confided in Kelly, but she forgot because she was caught up in her quest to become spring queen. Brenda and Dylan check into a hotel room upstairs, and she loses her virginity. While watching a horror movie, Andrea daydreams about chasing Kelly with a chainsaw. She decides to go to the dance alone. David wins a dance contest, and receives the right to dance with spring queen Kelly. Music: 'You Can't Hurry Love' by the Supremes, 'She Says (Come Around)' / 'The Best I Can't' / 'Respectfully King of Rain' / 'Smile' performed by the Rave-Ups.
22: Home Again
Jim is offered a promotion that requires a move back to Minneapolis. He initially decides to respect his family's wishes and decline the job, but changes his mind when the boss offers to double his salary. Steve pushes Brandon away, and Brenda feels that Kelly and Donna are ignoring her. Dylan wishes to try a long-distance relationship, but Brenda breaks up with him. Andrea wants to sleep with Brandon before he leaves, and he agrees. Their rendezvous is cancelled when Kelly organizes a going-away party at the Peach Pit. Jim, swamped at his new job and touched by the outpouring of affection by his children's friends, decides to turn down the promotion. Brenda tells Dylan that she may be pregnant. Music: 'Deep Down' by Debbie Gibson, 'Celebrate Me Home' by Kenny Loggins.
1: Beach Blanket Brandon
After a home pregnancy test is inconclusive, Dylan and Kelly take Brenda to a gynecologist. The pregnancy scare turns out to be a false alarm, but Brenda is badly shaken by the experience. Cindy and Jim confront her after finding the pregnancy test box in the trash. Brenda breaks it off with Dylan because she is overwhelmed by the issues that their relationship has forced her to confront. Hoping to earn extra cash during the Peach Pit's summer lull, Brandon tries out for lifeguard at the Beverly Hills Beach Club. He fails, but is offered a cabana boy position. He feels guilty when he must quit the Peach Pit without leaving notice. Brenda, Donna, Andrea and David enroll in a summer school acting class. Music: 'Rockin' Robin' by Bobby Day, 'Tell It Like It Is' by Aaron Neville; 'Wake Up Little Susie' by the Everly Brothers; 'Losing My Religion by R.E.M.
2: The Party Fish
Brandon befriends Jerry Rattinger, an influential sports promoter and member of the beach club. At the same time, he looks to romance Sandy, a beleaguered co-worker who is many years his senior. Dylan warns Brandon that Sandy is not the right woman for him. Jerry wishes to hire Brandon as his gopher and loan him money for a new car. Brandon does not understand why Jim disapproves. Jerry asks Brandon to drive his wife home; Mrs. Rattinger reveals that her husband wanted her out of the way so that he could spend time with his mistress, Sandy. Brandon severs all ties with Jerry, who tries to have him fired from the club. Sandy decides to leave town in the hopes of getting her life in order. As an acting class assignment, Brenda tries to recreate the experience of being lost in a mall as a child. Music: 'The Goodbye Look' / 'Maxine' by Donald Fagen, 'The Other Side of Summer' by Elvis Costello.
3: Summer Storm
Dylan's father is taken into custody, and all his assets are frozen. Dylan refuses to spend the summer in Hawaii with his flaky mother. He is injured in a surfing accident, and Cindy agrees to take care of him during his recovery. Jim and Brenda are unhappy with this arrangement. Jim catches Brenda and Dylan kissing, and orders Dylan to leave in two days. He sneaks out in the middle of the night and sleeps in a cabana at the beach club. Brandon finds him and convinces him to return to the Walsh house, where Jim helps him deal with his feelings about his father. Kelly gets a date with an attractive classmate, but is stung when he won't make a move on her. He admits that he is confused about his sexuality. Donna and David must perform a scene from Romeo and Juliet for their acting class. Music: 'You Are the Everything' by R.E.M., 'My Body Says Yes' by Titiyo, 'I Don't Get Much Sleep Anymore' by Chris Luke.
Thursday, August 1st, 1991
4: Anaconda
Jim encourages Dylan to get in touch with his mother, but Dylan is too proud to ask her for financial help. Brandon, David, Steve and some friends hold an after-hours poker game at the beach club. Dylan joins them, and is furious when he loses a lot of money. The club suffers a break-in, and Brandon's boss is questioned because of a past (unjust) robbery conviction. In spite of Steve's objections, Brandon comes to Henry's defense by telling the police about the poker game. Dylan becomes the prime suspect after electronic equipment is found in his car. Brenda and her parents stand behind him, but Brandon becomes suspicious after finding pawn shop tickets. He wonders how cash-poor Dylan was able to afford a plane ticket to Hawaii. Dylan reveals that he has been forced to pawn his belongings from the family storage locker. He had finally called his mother, who paid for his ticket. The laundry service turns out to be the culprit. Dylan flies to Hawaii to visit his mother. Brenda suffers a severe sunburn when she falls asleep while trying to get a tan. Music: 'What I Like About You' by the Romantics.
5: Play It Again, David
Jackie breaks her tooth during lunch at the beach club, but a nearby dentist comes to her rescue. He asks her out, then reveals that he is Mel Silver--David's father. Kelly is mortified when the pair hits it off, and imagines life as David's step-sister. She determines that she must break up the couple, and behaves rudely during a dinner. Kelly breaks down in tears and explains that she is afraid of losing her mother. She apologizes to Mel and helps David deal with the realization that his parents won't reunite. Andrea goads Brandon into spending time with a fatherless boy from the youth center. Brandon develops a friendship with the boy, then discovers that his mother is beating him. He grapples over whether to report the abuse. Brenda cannot stop thinking about Dylan while he is away in Hawaii. Music: 'Summertime' by the Troggs.
6: Pass/Not Pass
Chris, the acting teacher, asks Brenda to perform a scene with Andrea to bring her out of her shell. Brenda admits her crush on Chris to Andrea, who soon develops her own interest in him. The girls take Chris on a tour of the city, and Brenda is devastated when he seems more impressed with Andrea. Chris and Andrea share a good-night kiss. A jealous Brenda slaps Andrea hard during their scene. She forgets about Chris when Dylan returns home from Hawaii. Chris decides to move to Los Angeles permanently, but reveals that he has a girlfriend. Brandon refuses Jim's help as he purchases his dream car. He ends up blowing all of his summer earnings on a lemon. Jim takes pity on him and pays for the necessary repairs. Kelly and Steve lament the imminent end of summer vacation. Music: 'Little Bitty Pretty One' by Thurston Harris, 'Joyride' by Roxette; 'Gone Ridin'' by Chris Isaak, 'Sweet Talkin' Guy' by the Chiffons, 'A Summer Song' by Chad and Jeremy.
7: Camping Trip
The gang takes off with plans to spend the weekend camping at Yosemite Park. A sudden monsoon forces the teens to seek refuge in a cramped one-bedroom cabin. Everyone quickly begins to get on each other's nerves. Steve and David go out for beer, but an elderly couple takes Steve's money and splits without buying him anything. The honeymooning couple in the next cabin supplies the kids with food and firewood, but gets into a huge argument. The gang tries to provide counsel, and learns that the husband had commented on waiting to have kids, but the wife is already pregnant. Dylan storms out following a fight with Brenda and has a drink. Dylan and Brandon go for a hike, but Brandon slips on the rocks. Dylan saves him from falling off the cliff, and they decide to keep the incident to themselves.
8: Wildfire
On the first day of school Dylan makes a date with Emily Valentine, a new student who plays guitar and rides a motorcycle. She also makes a date with Brandon, and all of the guys seem quite taken with her. Emily offers to help Brenda, Kelly and Donna put together an act for the school's welcome assembly. Dylan and Emily park at a spot overlooking the bluff and share a kiss. Brandon takes her to the same place the next night, and they also kiss. Brenda becomes extremely jealous and possessive after learning of Emily's involvement with Dylan. She accuses her of being a tramp and treats her terribly at a Walsh family barbecue. Later, Brenda apologizes to Emily and pleads with her to stay in the act, so that they have someone with talent. Brenda realizes that she still loves Dylan, and they get back together. Scott returns from his summer vacation in Oklahoma sporting a cowboy hat, with sudden interests in country music, fireworks and guns. David freaks out and decides to distance himself from Scott, warning his old friend to "cool it with the guns." Music: 'Addicted to Love' by Robert Palmer, 'Teenage Mutant Kung Fu Chicken' by Ray Stevens. 'Leader of the Pack' by the Shangri-Las, 'Wicked Game' by Chris Isaak.
9: Ashes to Ashes
The Walshes sign up for a neighborhood security patrol, but can't figure out how to work the alarm system. A wealthy African American family moves into the neighborhood. Brandon befriends freshman Robbie (who tries out for Blaze staff photographer), but gets into a car accident with his sister Charise. Charise commutes to her old school because she thinks that West Beverly is full of snobs. While Charise is having dinner with Brandon, her boyfriend Devo tries to visit her house and bring her flowers. He is harassed and beaten by the security patrol for no reason. Brandon wants to write a story about the incident, but initially receives little cooperation from Devo, Robbie and Charise.
10: Necessity Is a Mother
Dylan cannot stand the fact that his free-spirited mother, Iris, has moved in with him. He begins drinking, skips school, and spends all of his time at a pool hall. Brenda resents Iris for abandoning Dylan as a child, and for trying to step in and control his every move. Cindy, however, forms a bond with Iris and joins her for a number of new-age experiences. Brandon tries to watch over Dylan, who loses a lot of money in a pool game and is beaten when he can't pay off the debt. Although she wants to be a part of her son's life, Iris realizes that her presence is only hurting Dylan. She decides to return to Hawaii, and sets up a trust fund for Dylan with money Jack had once paid her to stay away. Brandon takes Dylan to an AA meeting. After Donna displays a knack for picking stocks in an economics assignment, Steve talks her into investing in the market with him. Music: 'Mother-in-Law' by Ernie K-Doe, 'Born Under a Bad Sign' by Albert King, 'The Forecast (Calls For Pain)' by Robert Cray.
11: Leading From the Heart
Brandon and Brenda's cousin Bobby visits, as he is considering transferring to UCLA. He is a paraplegic, the result of a skiing accident three years earlier. Bobby and Kelly develop a mutual interest, but Brenda fears that Kelly will break her cousin's heart. Although Bobby is extremely well-adjusted, he feels uncomfortable when he attends a party with the gang. After seeing Kelly dance with another guy, Bobby becomes depressed and asks to leave. He squelches his relationship with Kelly because he believes that she would lose interest in him. Brandon confesses his guilt about the accident to Bobby, who insists that Brandon should not blame himself for daring him to take the fateful ski jump. Brenda finally passes her driver's test, but is afraid to get behind the wheel. Emily joins the school paper. David asks Donna for a date. Music: 'Romantic' by Karyn White, 'Crazy' by Seal.
12: Down and Out of District in Beverly Hills
Brandon submits one of Andrea's articles to a high school journalism contest. She wins the contest, but panics because a school district representative wants to conduct a home interview. Andrea asks her grandmother to say that she lives with her, but Rose does not want to play along. The school district initiates an investigation because they suspect that Andrea lives out of district. Andrea moves in with Rose, but decides to give up her fight because she cannot stand to be in the middle of the long-running feud between her parents and grandmother. Rose decides to let Andrea stay and agrees to talk to her daughter-in-law. Steve gets a girlfriend through a ""chance encounter"" at the Peach Pit, but Kelly suspects that the girl is only interested in his bank account. Music: 'Radio Song' / 'Shiny Happy People' / 'Losing My Religion' by R.E.M., 'I'll Turn to Stone' by The Four Tops, 'Build Me Up Buttercup' by The Foundations, 'Over and Over' by Dave Clark Five.
Thursday, October 31st, 1991
Brenda, Dylan, Steve, Donna and Kelly attend a Halloween party. Donna dresses as a mermaid; but her fins inhibit dancing, walking, and trips to the bathroom. Kelly's seductive costume catches the eye of a college student. She goes upstairs to talk with him, then becomes uncomfortable. The guy accuses her of leading him on and tries to rape her. Brenda and Donna enter in the nick of time, and Steve punches out the guy. Brandon stays home to hand out candy (actually raisins), but Emily comes to the door with her niece and nephew. Brandon joins them for trick-or-treating, but he and Emily get caught up in their conversation and temporarily lose the kids. David blows off the party and finds Scott hiding out in the bushes. They reminisce about the old days while waiting for an egg fight that never materializes. Music: 'Romantic' by Karyn White; 'Lily Was Here' by Candy Dulfer and Dave Stewart; 'The Monster Mash' by Bobby 'Boris' Pickett, 'Sweet, Sweet Baby' by Erasure, '24/7' by Dino.
14: The Next 50 Years
The students of West Beverly unearth a time capsule from 1941 and put together a capsule of their own. Mrs. Scanlon organizes a surprise party for Scott's birthday and pushes David to round up the guests. Donna is the only person who wants to attend. Kelly, Steve, Brenda, Brandon and Emily reluctantly come to the party, but act like jerks and refuse to participate in the activities. David tries to save the party by getting everyone to dance, but Brandon and Emily sneak upstairs to make out in the bedroom of Scott's little brother. Mrs. Scanlon throws them out, and the others act really indignant and walk out on the party. Scott goes to his father's den to get matches for the cake and finds a gun in a locked desk drawer. He tries to twirl it for David, but accidentally shoots himself in the stomach and dies. David's friends and teachers annoy him by constantly asking about his well-being, while Mrs. Scanlon keeps trying to give him Scott's belongings. Donna takes offense when David continually snaps at her. When Brandon tries to interview him about Scott, David erupts (with the microphone in the radio booth on). He expresses his anger at those who pretend to care about Scott after his death and his guilt over breaking off their friendship. The gang dedicates the time capsule to Scott, and David donates Scott's cowboy hat to ensure that he won't be forgotten. Music: 'Friends in Low Places' by Garth Brooks, 'Work It Out' by Monie Love, 'In Your Room' by the Bangles, 'Knockin' on Heaven's Door' by BOOTLEG.
15: U4EA
Emily invites everyone to join her at an underground club. The location is a secret; the gang must exchange an egg at a convenience store for this information. The others leave without Steve and Andrea, who end up going to the wrong store and embarrassing themselves. Kelly is mortified when David drinks an entire bottle of whiskey, but Donna dances with him and has a good time. Emily slips a drug called U4EA into Brandon's drink to get him to loosen up. He is too wasted to drive, and vandals trash his car when he leaves it at the club overnight. Brandon does not expose Emily's deed to his parents, but breaks up with her because he no longer trusts her. Music: 'Come Inside' by The Thompson Twins, 'Dominion' by the Sisters of Mercy, 'The Beginning' by Seal, 'Go!' by Tones on Tail.
Thursday, November 21st, 1991
16: My Desperate Valentine
Emily refuses to accept the fact that Brandon no longer wants to see her. She slashes her own tires and pretends that her parents are out of town so that Brandon will invite her to stay over. She sneaks into his bedroom and tries to seduce him. After he makes it clear that he is not interested, she begins to make crank phone calls. Andrea discovers that Emily is the person who has been sending menacing letters to the school paper. Emily shows up at Brandon's house and douses the gang's homecoming float with gasoline. Brenda and Dylan find her sitting on the float with a lighter, but Brenda is able to calm her. Emily agrees to seek help. Brenda and Dylan attend cultural events because she fears they spend too much time making out. Music: 'Baby I'm Yours' by Barbara Lewis.
17: Chuckie's Back
Chuck Wilson, Samantha Sanders' old sitcom co-star and Steve's childhood nemesis, transfers to West Beverly after being kicked out of private school. Steve is depressed when Kelly agrees to go to a dance with Chuck. Samantha orders Steve to be nice to Chuck in the hopes of persuading him to appear in a reunion movie. Chuck taunts Steve about being adopted, and reveals that he knew about the adoption nine years before Steve. Steve punches him, but takes all the blame for the fight so that Chuck will sign the movie deal. He is hurt that once again his mother has put her career ahead of him, and decides to search for his biological parents. Samantha backs out on the film after learning that her agent told Chuck about the adoption. Kelly stands up to Chuck and brings Steve to the dance, but a teacher kicks him out because he is suspended. Steve's friends see him off as he catches a bus to Albuquerque to search for his mother, Karen Brown. Everyone teases Donna about going to the dance with David, so she claims they are only friends. However, she kisses him in the middle of the dance floor and announces to everyone that she likes him. Music: 'Donna' by Ritchie Valens, 'Jingle Bell Rock' by Bobby Helms, 'Hey Donna' by Rhythm Syndicate, 'I Adore Mi Amor' by Color Me Badd, '2000 Miles' by the Pretenders.
18: A Walsh Family Christmas
Steve arrives in Albuquerque and tracks down his grandfather, a diner owner. Al explains that his daughter gave up Steve because she was very young and wanted him to have a good home. He sadly reveals that Karen died in a car accident. Steve leaves flowers at her grave and convinces an eccentric Santa-like charter pilot to fly him home for Christmas. Cindy is depressed about her first Christmas in Beverly Hills. She invites the kids' friends and their families for Christmas Eve dinner, but everyone has other plans. Brandon visits Emily in a psychiatric hospital, where she is doing very well. Brenda begins work at an upscale clothing boutique. She feels bad when her boss throws out a cheerful old man dressed as Santa Claus. She stops the police from harassing him and invites him over for dinner. Dylan goes to see his father in prison and talks with the same Santa. Jackie is furious when Mel backs out of Christmas Eve plans because his estranged wife asked him to come over with David. Samantha, Kelly, Jackie, Andrea, David, Mel, Donna, Dylan and Steve all show up at the Walsh house for dinner and caroling. The old man gives everyone presents and describes his lonely life; his children are grown and his wife died a year earlier. He thanks Brenda for her kindness and generosity and then mysteriously disappears as footsteps are heard on the roof. Music: 'White Christmas' by Bing Crosby, 'Christmas Is the Time To Say I Love You' By Billy Squier, 'Blue Christmas' by Elvis Presley.
19: Fire and Ice
Jim coaches a hockey team that includes Brandon, Steve and Dylan. After a practice, Brandon meets aspiring figure skater Trisha Kinney. They take a liking to each other, and Brandon gets up at 5:00 every morning to come to her practices. Trisha considers giving up the sport after a poor showing in her sectional meet. Her coach shows up during her date with Brandon and announces that she was given an exemption to compete at nationals. She bars Brandon from practice because he was affecting her concentration. Brenda's boss, Deidre, encourages her to become a more persuasive salesperson. Brenda convinces David to buy Donna $190 perfume as a belated birthday present (her birthday was Christmas day). Deidre steals a large commission from Brenda, but Cindy helps Brenda plot revenge. Music: '(I've Had) The Time of My Life' by Bill Medley and Jennifer Warnes, 'Judy in Disguise (With Glasses)' by John Fred & His Playboy Band.
Thursday, January 23rd, 1992
20: A Competitive Edge
Brandon joins the track team, bumping Steve from the sprint relay. Many of his teammates dislike Brandon because he wrote negative articles about the football team. Brandon considers quitting the paper because he is tired of tearing people apart. Several of the athletes are taking steroids to improve their performance. They ask Steve to participate in their 'program,' which causes him to develop mood swings. Brandon and Andrea decide to conduct an investigation, and Kelly's friend Kyle provides them with details. The track coach cancels all practices until the steroid users come forward. The other guys suspect that Steve was Brandon's source, and threaten to beat him up unless he takes the rap. Brandon allows Brenda to drive his car, but she gets into an accident. The other driver claims to have developed whiplash, and files a lawsuit. Brenda foils her plans when she catches her dancing in her living room. Music: 'Games People Play' by Joe South, 'Backfield in Motion' by Mel and Tim.
21: Everybody's Talkin' `Bout It
Andrea is outraged when the school refuses to allow students to take part in a health survey that includes questions about sex. She goes before the school board and introduces a proposal to distribute condoms at West Beverly. The Walshes host a heated parents association meeting where Donna debates her mother about the issue. Andrea launches a crusade to create awareness about AIDS and other sexually transmitted diseases. She loses her enthusiasm after Brandon suggests that she shouldn't preach about safe sex because she is a virgin. The school board defeats the motion; the woman casting the tie-breaking vote goes against her conscience out of loyalty to Felice Martin. Kelly eases Andrea's embarrassment about being a virgin by pointing out that having a "reputation" can also bring its share of pain. Andrea decides to go out with John, a newspaper colleague whom she had ignored because of Brandon. Dylan forbids Brenda from writing an article about her pregnancy scare because he considers it an invasion of his privacy. David misreads Donna's stance on the condom issue as a sign that she will sleep with him. She explains that she does not plan to have pre-marital sex. Jackie tells Kelly that she is pregnant. Music: 'I Want You' by Jody Watley, 'The Birds and the Bees' by Jewel Akens.
22: And A Baby Makes Five
Kelly confides in Brenda and Donna about her mother's pregnancy, but they can't keep a secret. David tells Donna that Mel is planning to propose, then learns about the pregnancy. He doesn't share the news with his father, who is clueless about Jackie's condition. Jackie assumes that Mel only wants to marry her to fulfill his obligation, so she dumps him. Everyone is miserable, but David manages to clear things up and get the couple back together. Andrea shows an amazing capacity for picking winning race horses, to Nat's benefit. Nat takes Brandon, Andrea and Steve to the track so that they can all reap the rewards of her gift. Dylan refuses to reveal his Valentine's Day plans to Brenda. They attend a play, but he first takes her to donate blood. He was involved in a serious car accident as a child (on February 14), and donated blood saved his life. He vowed that he would return the favor by becoming a donor when he reached the legal age. Music: 'All 4 Love' by Color Me Badd, 'Do You Believe in Magic' by The Lovin' Spoonful.
23: Cardio Funk
Dylan's friend Sarah comes to an AA meeting. He offers his support, and she begins to rely on him. She seeks his help in throwing her abusive boyfriend out of the apartment. She kisses Dylan, but he points out that romances between addicts can be dangerous. Dylan's decision to help Sarah puts a strain on his relationship with Brenda. She flirts with Tim, a college guy from her aerobics class. They kiss in the Walsh driveway after he gives her a ride home. Dylan finds Sarah drinking with her boyfriend. She refuses his help and claims that he is to blame for her relapse because he rejected her. Dylan and Brenda reaffirm their relationship. Nat installs a karaoke machine in the hopes of increasing business. The machine is a big hit with Jim and the kids, but the novelty quickly wears off. Music: 'We Want the Funk' by Gerardo.
24: The Pit and the Pendulum
Brandon participates in a teen review committee that provides input to one of Jim's clients, who is building a gigantic new mall. Marcie, the developer's college-age daughter, aggressively pursues Brandon. Brandon is incensed to learn that the project would require the demolition of the Peach Pit. He squares off with Jim, who promises to stand up for Nat's interests. Brandon takes Marcie to the Peach Pit in the hopes of gaining her support, but realizes that she only cares about her father and his business. The gang (except Brenda) tries to stage a rally, but Nat has already agreed to sell. Brandon becomes jaded, and refuses to listen when Jim explains the financial realities associated with adulthood. The deal eventually falls through, allowing Nat to keep the Peach Pit. Music: 'Blue Suede Shoes' by Carl Perkins, 'Don't Get Around Much Anymore' by Nat King Cole.
25: Meeting Mr. Pony
The gang stays at the Peach Pit after hours to study for midterms. Brenda is left alone while Brandon and Dylan take out the recycling. A gunman enters through the unlocked door, holds a rifle to her head, and forces her to empty the cash register. Brenda puts on a brave front for family and friends, but suffers nightmares and behaves erratically. She has a flashback during a midterm, screams, and runs out of the classroom. A psychiatrist helps her begin to deal with her fears. Brenda reluctantly views a police line-up, resulting in the arrest of the 17-year-old gunman. Music: 'Let the Good Times Roll' by Shirley and Lee, 'Mountain of Love' by Johnny Rivers.
26: Things to Do on a Rainy Day
On a rainy Saturday afternoon Brenda, Kelly, Donna and David head to the Bel Age Hotel to meet Donna's favorite group, Color Me Badd. David rents a room so that the foursome can get into the hotel. Donna sees her mother, supposedly at the hotel for a conference, and fears that she will get in trouble. Kelly lifts a key to the penthouse and gets to hang out with the group. Donna, fearing reprisal, jumps out of the elevator on an earlier floor. She sees her mother come out of a room and kiss a man in the hallway. When Felice later confronts Donna about being at the hotel, Donna forces her to admit that she is having an affair. Donna is devastated, but Cindy explains that her parents' marital problems do not have anything to do with her. Kelly attends the Color Me Badd concert with a free pass, and brings the group to the Peach Pit to serenade the forlorn Donna. Steve, Brandon and Dylan hire a stripper, but their plans are complicated when Andrea shows up at the house. The stripper turns out to be an engaging young woman (a grad student and mother), and Brandon and Dylan won't let her perform because they now consider her a friend. Music: 'I Adore Mi Amor' / 'I Wanna Sex You Up' / 'All 4 Love' by Color Me Badd.
27: Mexican Standoff
Brenda upsets her father by consistently violating her curfew. She promises to demonstrate more mature behavior. Jim and Cindy agree to let Brenda join Dylan for a weekend in Mexico. Brenda falls asleep while watching a movie at Dylan's, and doesn't come home until 4 a.m. Her parents forbid her from taking the trip. Dylan encourages Brenda to stand up for herself, but she instead tells Jim and Cindy that she is spending the weekend at Kelly's house. Brenda pushes Dylan away when she discovers that he took a girl to Baja during their summer separation. They soon make up but run into problems with customs. Brenda does not have any identification because she has yet to replace her stolen license. In order to re-enter her country, she must call Jim and have him come vouch for her. Dylan's older friend, the handsome Jake Hanson, is hired to build a wedding canopy for Jackie. His presence cheers Kelly, who had been in a funk about the wedding and her new family. Jake and Kelly have dinner together and share a kiss. Kelly's involvement with Jake forces Steve to realize that he must move on. Music: 'Runaway' by by Del Shannon.
28: Wedding Bell Blues
A furious Jim goes to the Mexican border to retrieve Brenda. Jim bans Dylan from the Walsh house. Jackie learns that Kelly covered for Brenda, and embarrasses her by yelling at her in front of Jake. Brenda and Kelly get into a shouting match at the wedding rehearsal because they are tired of listening to each other whine about their love lives. A pipe bursts in Jackie's house two days before the wedding. The Walshes agree to host the ceremony. Andrea believes she has been snubbed, but her mother eventually gives her the lost wedding invitation. Cindy tries to facilitate a truce between Dylan and Jim. They argue, and a hurt Dylan later rebuffs Jim's olive branch and drives off angrily. Jim orders Brenda to stay away from Dylan. Kelly and Steve agree that they should only be friends. Jake finishes his job and walks out of Kelly's life, but shows up at the wedding and admits his feelings for her. Music: 'Wedding Bell Blues' by The Fifth Dimension, 'Bye Bye Love' by the Everly Brothers.
1: Misery Loves Company
Brenda drives her parents crazy with her constant sulking, and sneaks around with Dylan behind their backs. Dylan wants someone other than Jim to handle his trust, but Jim refuses to break his deal with Iris. Jim and Cindy join the beach club and catch Brenda making out with Dylan. Jim screams at Brenda and makes a scene. She packs up her belongings and moves in with Dylan. Brandon bets Steve that he cannot hold down a job for a week. Steve takes Brandon's position at the Peach Pit, as Brandon has left for his summer job at the club. Nat fires Steve because he is completely incompetent. Brandon is wary of Andrea's new job as a children's camp counselor at the beach club. However, she has gotten over her crush on him and is seeing a successful West Beverly alum. Donna's parents get back together. Jackie goes into labor. Music: Summertime Blues by Eddie Cochran (#8, 1958); Working in a Coal Mine by Lee Dorsey (#8, 1966), '98.6' by Keith.
2: The Twins, the Trustee, and the Very Big Trip
Kelly bonds with her baby sister, Erin. She bows out of a six-week trip to study in Paris with Donna because she wants to spend time with her family. Brenda and Dylan clash over their new living arrangements. Cindy and Brandon realize that Brenda is unhappy, but she is too stubborn to give in. Jim threatens to freeze Dylan's account unless he helps convince Brenda to accept a trip to Paris. Dylan persuades Brenda to go because he believes it is a great opportunity for her. Jim makes amends with Brenda before she and Donna leave for Paris. Steve and Brandon get dates with visiting identical twins. Steve's date experiences a series of health problems (food poisoning, allergies), so he tries to dump her for her sister. The girls switch places to get revenge on him.
3: Too Little, Too Late/Paris 75001
Brenda and Donna have difficulty adjusting to life in France. Donna constantly complains about missing David, and Brenda soon begins to long for Dylan. They accidentally order brains at a restaurant, and Donna later spends an entire party eating pastries because she can't carry on a conversation in French. Andrea's boyfriend invites her to join him at the Republican Convention in Houston, where he is working for CNN. Brandon becomes jealous and kisses Andrea in an attempt to dissuade her from leaving. An outraged Andrea observes that Brandon is only interested in her because she has a boyfriend. Andrea decides to skip the convention because she is enjoying her work at the camp--especially with Cameron, a deaf boy whom she helped bring out of his shell. Jack goes up for parole, and asks Dylan to write a letter on his behalf. He reluctantly does this, but Jack's parole request is denied. Dylan and Kelly begin to flirt rather obviously.
4: Sex, Lies and Volleyball/Photo Fini
Donna is struggling in the French immersion program, and feels left out because Brenda and her classmates can speak fluent French. Donna catches the eye of a photographer, who offers her a modeling job. A man tries to entice Donna into signing a two-year modeling contract, but he's just trying to get her into bed. Steve finds the perfect partner for the mixed doubles volleyball tournament. He is hurt when she rejects his romantic advances and pursues Brandon. Kelly and Dylan team up for the volleyball tournament, and also babysit Erin together. A visiting girl expresses an interest in David and his music. Kelly catches them making out, and tries to talk some sense into David. Kelly finds Dylan waiting in her cabin. Music: 'Hot Little Summer Girl' by Enuff Z' Nuff; 'Gimme Little Sign' by Brenton Wood (#9, 1967); 'In the Summertime' by Mungo Jerry (#3, 1970).
5: Shooting Star/American in Paris
Kelly feels guilty about kissing Dylan and tries to avoid him. She goes to his house to admit her feelings, and they share a passionate kiss. They spend a lot of time together, but reconsider their actions when David catches them kissing. Kelly turns down Dylan's offer to camp out on the beach (the night before Brenda is to return), but eventually joins him for a romantic evening. Brenda meets Rick, a hunky college student from Wisconsin who believes that she is French. She takes him on a tour of Paris, and kisses him during a dinner date. Rick asks Brenda to join him on a backpacking trip across Europe. She risks missing her plane to see him one last time, but he gets in a cab before she can catch him. Brandon tries to help a homeless Gulf War veteran who is living on the beach. He arranges a job interview with Henry, but the man doesn't show up. Steve wants to manage David's music career. Music: 'Precious' by Brian Austin Green; 'Damn I Wish I Was Your Lover' by Sophie B. Hawkins, 'Forbidden Places' by Meat Puppets, 'Funny How Time Slips Away' by Willie Nelson.
6: Castles in the Sand
Andrea and the children nearly catch Dylan and Kelly sleeping on the beach. Kelly tells Dylan that they must forget their summer romance, but he doesn't want to do this. Brenda and Donna come home from Paris and are greeted with a party. Jim and Cindy agree to let Brenda resume her relationship with Dylan. Kelly tries to avoid Brenda and Dylan, and is annoyed when he continually inquires about her well-being. Brenda suspects that Dylan cheated on her. She confesses her fling with Rick, but they decide to move forward with their relationship. Brandon dumps Brooke because of her constant stereotypical comments about other races and religions. In danger of being fired as David's manager, Steve engages in bribery to get him a gig at the beach club's end-of-season dance. Music: 'Dancin'' by Chris Isaak; 'Be My Love' performed by Brian Austin Green.
7: A Song of Myself
Brandon wants to quit the paper so that he can enjoy his senior year. Andrea enlists the help of new advisor and English teacher Gil Meyers to change his mind. Gil decides to have Brandon replace Andrea as editor. She accuses him of sexism and wants to resign. Gil resolves the dispute by making Andrea and Brandon co-editors. A depressed Kelly changes her entire schedule to avoid Brenda and Dylan. Brenda, Steve and Donna sign up to be ""senior buddies"" for freshmen and transfer students. Donna is paired with David's summer fling Nikki, who has moved from San Francisco. David is afraid to confess to Donna, but Nikki inadvertently breaks the news. Donna tests David's love by having Nikki pretend to come on to him. Nikki expresses an interest in Brandon. Steve winds up with geeky freshman Herbert, while Brenda tries to help Scott's troubled sister Sue. Music: 'Live and Learn' by Joe Public (#4, 1992); 'Wishing on a Star' by the Cover Girls (#9, 1992).
8: The Back Story
Brenda, Donna, Kelly, Steve and David prepare to take the SAT. Brenda constantly argues with Kelly and also gets into hot water with her parents when they learn that she has been smoking since the Paris trip. Beth Nielson, a young producer from the tabloid show Back Story, seeks Brenda's help in putting together a story about Beverly Hills teens. The piece is intended to correct misconceptions, but Beth's boss deems it boring. She re-edits the story in a way that makes it seem that Brenda insulted and spilled dirt about all her friends. Everyone stops talking to Brenda, but Beth (who quit her job in a crisis of conscience) comes to her defense. Brandon is hesitant to ask out Nikki because she is just a sophomore. She gets on his nerves by following him everywhere, but they eventually kiss. Dylan decides to bypass the SAT to visit his father in prison. Jack warns Dylan to make provisions for his future, and convinces him to take the test at a nearby high school. A West Beverly graduate offers Steve a master key to the school. Music: 'Baby, Baby, Baby' by TLC, 'Why Do Fools Fall in Love?' by Frankie Lymon and the Teenagers, 'Like to Get to Know You' by Spanky and Our Gang.
9: Highwire
Brandon and Brenda are at each other's throats after their parents reveal that they can only send one child to an out-of-state college. Jim and Cindy decide to take a second mortgage so that they won't have to play favorites, but Brandon and Brenda each decide to apply to local California University. Brenda fears that she and Dylan are growing apart, while he and Kelly bond over their mutual ambivalence toward college. Andrea believes that Gil is discouraging her from applying to his alma mater (and her dream school), Yale. She has nightmares about Gil trying to knock her off a tightrope. Mrs. Teasley tells Steve that he doesn't have the grades to attend USC. He accepts the legacy key, but finds that it does not work. The janitor catches Steve trying to steal a master key, then sells it to him. Donna's art teacher raves about her talent and encourages her to apply to art school. David accidentally sees Kelly naked, and can't get the image out of his mind. Music: 'Venus' by Shocking Shocking Blue, 'The Oogum Boogum Song' by Brenton Wood.
10: Home and Away
West Beverly's undefeated football team prepares for a showdown with powerhouse Shaw High. The school decides to forfeit after two Shaw students are shot to death by gang members during a game. Brandon is furious because the West Beverly student body cares more about the homecoming dance (coordinated by Brenda) than the shootings. He and Jordan Bonner, editor of the Shaw paper, run each other's editorials in their papers without school permission. Brandon invites the Shaw students to the dance, drawing the wrath of his friends and the administration. A fight nearly breaks out--partially due to the overzealous security guards--but Nikki and Donna defuse the situation by asking the Shaw guys to dance. Dylan cheers up Kelly after her irresponsible father fails to show for dinner. David plays the school dance, but Donna fears that Sue has become his groupie. David rejects Sue's advances out of loyalty to Scott and Donna. Music: 'Switch It Up' performed by Brian Austin Green; 'Let Me Be Your Baby' by Geoffrey Williams.
11: A Presumption of Innocence
Gil is relieved of his duties after Sue charges him with sexual harassment. Andrea offers her friendship to Sue, while Brandon stands behind Gil. Gil quits without fighting the charges; he confesses to Andrea that a former student committed suicide when he rejected her advances, and he does not want to drive Sue over the edge. During a dinner with Andrea, Sue's Uncle Henry badgers her into admitting that the allegations are fake; she tried to kiss Gil, and he rejected her. David and Donna visit Sue and find the eerily cheerful family holding a barbecue, with plans to move to Oklahoma. Fearing that Henry is becoming too close to her little sister, Sue reveals that her uncle molested her. Dylan picks up a bacterial infection from surfing in polluted waters. He wishes to support a clean water initiative but finds he can't vote because he failed to register before the deadline. Brandon seeks David's help in learning to dance, but cancels the lesson. He refuses to dance with Nikki at a club, then gets jealous when she dances with other guys. Music: 'Dance' Ruffneck featuring Yvonne, 'You Really Got Me' by the Kinks, 'Why' by Cathy Dennis, 'Saving Forever for You' by Shanice, 'Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology)' by Marvin Gaye.
12: Destiny Rides Again
Brenda runs into Rick at a video store, as he has transferred to UCLA. She goes out with him and continues to pretend that she is French. He is understanding when she finally reveals the truth. The SAT review board accuses Dylan of paying someone to take his test. He annoys Brenda by refusing to re-take the test. After Dylan confesses that he had a summer fling, Brenda suggests that they take a break from their relationship. He immediately visits Kelly to ask her out, and they kiss passionately. Steve learns that he tanked his SAT, and convinces computer expert Herbert to help him access the school's grade bank. They use the legacy key to break in, but have to flee when the security breach is detected. Brandon, Nikki, Donna and David are interviewed by Rosie O'Donnell at a televised AIDS benefit. Donna seeks her priest's advice about pre-marital sex. She tells David that she wants to wait at least another year. Andrea suffers two broken legs when she is struck by a hit-and-run driver. Music: 'I Wanna Love You' by Jade, 'Time to Be Lovers' by Michael McDonald and Chaka Khan, 'Needles and Pins' by the Searchers.
13: Rebel With a Cause
Kelly and Dylan go on a date, as Brenda insists that Dylan is free to see whomever he wishes. Brenda explodes when she and Rick run into Kelly and Dylan at a restaurant. Kelly denies that she is a bimbo and Brenda responds, ""I was always told that if it looks like a duck and walks like a duck…."" Kelly believes that Dylan is on the rebound, so she pushes him away. Brenda breaks up with Rick because they have little in common beyond their initial attraction. After the SAT board denies his appeal, a frustrated Dylan decides to leave town. Steve provides assistance to the wheelchair-bound Andrea in the hopes of curtailing her investigation of the computer break-in. Cindy suspects that Jim's beautiful new secretary is attracted to him, and Jim finds himself fantasizing about the woman. Music: 'The Shoop Shoop Song (It's in His Kiss)' by Betty Everett, 'You Were on My Mind' by We Five.
14: Wild Horses
Dylan's Porsche breaks down near a secluded ranch. The wealthy owner takes him in and wants him to stay permanently (as her boy toy). Dylan is disappointed when she sells her favorite horse, and decides not to live in an environment where everything is for sale. Brenda and Kelly make up. David fires Steve as manager after he is humiliated at a showcase because he had to go on without a sound check. Nikki is stunned when her ex-boyfriend Diesel's band performs a song he had written for her. Brandon cannot understand why Nikki is so taken with an abusive, boozing jerk. Nikki tries to leave when Diesel brings home another woman, so he hits her. Brandon punches out Diesel and takes Nikki home. The janitor warns Steve that he may have to turn him in to save himself. After getting an earful from Herbert, Steve decides to make amends with his friends and confess to Mrs. Teasley. He refuses to name his accomplice, and is expelled from school. Music: 'Switch It Up' performed by Brian Austin Green, 'The Right Kind of Love' by Jeremy Jordan, 'Different Eyes' by Treason, 'I Just Wanna Be Your Friend' by Puck and Natty.
15: The Kindness of Strangers
Brandon finds Jack Canner (the homeless vet he met at the beach club) rummaging through the dumpster behind the Peach Pit. He takes him home for Thanksgiving dinner, but Canner runs afoul of Jim, who accuses him of shirking his family responsibilities and hiding behind the flag. Brandon explains to Canner that Jim's father was a Marine, and the two never spoke again after Jim refused to go to Vietnam. Canner helps repair a leaky roof, and Jim apologizes and urges him to reach out to his son. Jack McKay gets a furlough and spends Thanksgiving with Dylan. Jack insists on spending time with his girlfriend and gets on Dylan's case about dropping out. Jack's girlfriend, Christine, convinces Dylan to give his father another chance. Dylan returns to West Beverly and greets a surprised Brenda and Kelly with kisses. Steve and Samantha appear on a television show about celebrities, and Steve tells her on-camera that he has been expelled. Samantha stands up for Steve and gets his punishment reduced to probation.
16: It's a Totally Happening Life
Two talking stars narrate an account of the gang's events during the week before Christmas. Brenda, Kelly and Dylan decide to be friends, but the arrangement falls apart after both girls make out with Dylan. Andrea is accepted to Yale, but gets dumped by her boyfriend. Nikki tells Brandon that she is moving back to San Francisco. Brandon and Andrea share a kiss while watching ""It's a Wonderful Life,"" but accuse each other of thinking about their exes. David is depressed about his mother's move to Portland and the fact that he will be left behind when everyone graduates. Everyone tries to back out of a trip to distribute gifts at an elementary school, but Donna and Mrs. Teasley force them to attend. Steve, who is forbidden from extracurricular activities as part of his probation, drives to the school on his own. The talking stars must prevent a fatal accident involving the school bus and a drunken garbage man, but divine intervention seems their only hope. Music: 'Time to Be Lovers' by Michael McDonald and Chaka Khan, 'Little St. Nick' by the Beach Boys, 'Different Eyes' by Treason.
17: The Game Is Chicken
Steve becomes friends with a guy in detention through their interest in cars. Steve and Brandon win a lot of money betting on Joe in a car race, but Dylan warns that the whole thing may be a scam. Steve and Brandon agree to bankroll Joe in a high-stakes race against drug dealer Frank Padilla. Brandon realizes that their opponent may be the guy who ran over Andrea. While Brandon contacts the police, Steve tries to stall by insisting that he be allowed to race Padilla. The two get into an argument and agree to a deadly game of 'chicken,' but Dylan comes between them. Andrea identifies Padilla as the hit-and-run driver. Brenda and Kelly agree to a double-date with two guys from Princeton, only to find that they are geeks from the Princeton School in Encino. Donna takes over David's radio show while he tries to catch up on his studies in the hopes of graduating early. David is initially critical of her performance, but acknowledges that she did well and asks her to become his permanent co-host. Music: 'Bend Time Back Around' by Paula Abdul, 'Got 2 Have U' by Color Me Badd, 'All the Way to Heaven' by Jody Watley, 'Let Me Be Your Baby' by Geoffrey Williams, 'Crystal Blue Persuasion' by Tommy James and the Shondells, 'She's Not There' by the Zombies, 'Walk on the Wild Side' by Lou Reed, 'Stand by Me' by Ben E. King.
18: Midlife...Now What?
Cindy, Jackie and the girls spend the weekend at a health spa. Kelly is wary because Babette, a friend of Jackie's from her drug-using days, works at the facility. Brenda overhears a gossipy masseuse discussing a friend's affair with Mel. Kelly calls home and learns from David that Mel has been gone for several days. Babette tries to comfort Jackie by offering her drugs, but she resists temptation and vows to face her problems head-on. Cindy fears that Jim may get involved with his secretary. Jim continues to fantasize about the woman, but she quits her job to get married. Brandon bets heavily on sporting events. Dylan agonizes over his decision of whether to date Brenda or Kelly. Jack is granted parole after serving just two years of a ten-year sentence. Music: 'Have You Ever Had to Make Up Your Mind' by The Lovin' Spoonful, 'Rhythm Is a Dancer' by Snap.
19: Back in the High Life Again
Jack is released from prison. He encourages Dylan to invite all his friends to a party, but only Kelly shows up. Dylan tells Kelly that he has chosen her over Brenda, and they kiss in the hotel pool. Dylan and Kelly take Brenda for a walk to inform her of Dylan's decision, and reveal their summer fling. She screams that she will never speak to them again. The financially destitute Jack wants to dissolve Dylan's trust so that he can have access to the money. Dylan goes along with it to show faith in his father. Jim fears that Jack is taking advantage of Dylan. Mel moves out of the Taylor house. David fears that he will no longer be a part of Erin's life, but Jackie invites him to stay with Kelly and her. Nat forgets to place a winning bet for Brandon; in lieu of cash, Brandon asks for his bookie's phone number. Inspired by her trip to the spa, Andrea decides to change her look, but no one can really tell the difference. Music: 'Come Go With Me' by the Dell-Vikings, 'The Right Kind of Love' by Jeremy Jordan, 'All the Way to Heaven' by Jody Watley.
Wednesday, February 3rd, 1993
20: Parental Guidance Recommended
Iris flies in from Hawaii, and Dylan and Jack try to soften her up to convince her to approve the dissolution of the trust. She is leery of Jack's motives, but elects not to stand in their way. Jack makes a clandestine phone call and promises someone that he will get the money. Brenda mopes around in her room and discards all mementos of Dylan. A visit from Iris convinces her to get past her pain, and she talks to Kelly at school. Steve helps David get a meeting with a record company. The record company executive threatens to call off the deal unless David fires Steve, and he agrees. Andrea is hesitant to attend a tea for future Yale students. She is pleasantly surprised to run into Jordan Bonner, and the two become friends. Brandon goes on a spending spree with his gambling winnings. Music: 'Losing My Religion' by R.E.M., 'Kansas City' by Wilbert Harrison, 'Action Speaks Louder Than Words' by Tara Kemp, 'So You Want to Be a Rock 'N' Roll Star' by the Byrds.
21: Dead End
Jack and Dylan begin living on a yacht, where they are constantly kept under surveillance. Jim does not want to dissolve the trust, but finally gives his approval so that Dylan can have a new life with his father. Christine accepts Jack's marriage proposal. Dylan and Kelly sleep together. Jack tries to confess something to Dylan, but a man interrupts them and warns Jack that he is breaking their deal. A bomb is attached to Jack's car during the night. Dylan receives a phone call from Kelly just as he is about to move the car, so Jack agrees to do it. As Dylan hangs up, he turns to see the car explode. Jackie tells Kelly and David that she has to sell the house. She receives an offer, but decides to hold out for a while. Brandon accumulates a large gambling debt and receives an unpleasant visit from Duke. Andrea begins dating Jordan. Steve forgives David for firing him. Music: 'All the Way to Heaven' by Jody Watley; 'Tutti Frutti' by Little Richard.
22: The Child Is Father to the Man
In the wake of his father's death, Dylan grapples with his personal demons while trying to elude the reporters camping out on his lawn. The media speculates that Jack was killed because of his mob ties--and that Dylan is the next target. Kelly feels uncomfortable when Brenda invites Dylan to stay with the Walshes. David has to miss the post-funeral reception because of a recording session. He postpones the session and arrives at the Walsh house just in time to stop Dylan from drinking. Dylan receives a phone call advising him to come to a secret meeting. He learns that his father was released from prison because he agreed to participate in a sting on a mob boss. Jack had asked that Dylan be told the truth if anything happened to him. Christine was also an FBI agent, but planned to resign to marry Jack. Music: 'Can't Cry Hard Enough' by the Williams Brothers.
Wednesday, March 3rd, 1993
23: Duke's Bad Boy
Duke warns Brandon that he must pay off a $1500 debt by the end of the week. Brandon places a bet with a high school bookie and wins, but the guy cannot cover his bet. A desperate Brandon tries to rough him up. Nat realizes that Brandon is in trouble and pays Duke, but forces Brandon to promise that he will never place another bet. Kelly fears that she is losing her connection with Dylan. She becomes obsessed with her weight and starts taking diet pills. Dylan is hurt when Andrea requests an interview for the Blaze, but decides to write about his father to help deal with his pain. Andrea encourages Dylan's interest in writing and convinces Gil to let him enroll in AP English. David's producer ignores his hip-hop material and forces him to record a repetitive, syrupy ballad. David goes along with the producer's wishes, and gets dropped from his contract. Music: 'Jimmy Olsen's Blues' by the Spin Doctors; 'Midnight Rider' by The Allman Brothers Band, 'Shake Me, Wake Me' by The Four Tops.
24: Perfectly Perfect
Kelly continues to starve herself and abuse diet pills, and becomes extremely irritable. She freaks out and screams at a potential buyer for the house. Kelly believes that her friends are talking behind her back, until Steve explains that they are planning a surprise party for her eighteenth birthday. Brenda finds Kelly passed out in the Peach Pit's bathroom during the party. Kelly ignores the doctor's advice and refuses to admit that she has a problem. Steve and Brandon tape an appearance on the game show Love at First Sight; and end up vying for the same girl, Celeste. Celeste chooses Steve, who is disheartened to learn that he must go on their date immediately and miss Kelly's party. Celeste suggests cutting the date short after hearing Steve's dilemma, and asks to see him again. Brenda decides to re-establish ties with her friends back in Minnesota. Music: 'Land of 1000 Dances' by Wilson Pickett, 'Let Me Be Your Baby' by Geoffrey Williams.
25: Senior Poll
Kelly stops attending her eating disorder group because the girls with more severe cases unnerve her. Kelly wins 'Most Beautiful' in the senior poll, while Dylan is ""Most Handsome."" Kelly suspects that everyone judges her entirely on her looks, and blows up at Dylan and Jackie. Dylan lets her read a section from his manuscript in which he describes his feelings for her. Brenda feels isolated from her classmates when she fails to win anything in the poll. She decides to apply to the University of Minnesota. Brandon and Steve take Jim and Cindy to a Lakers game because they can't get dates. They do not arrive until nearly halftime because of Brenda's big news and a traffic jam. Steve wins the chance to take a half court shot for $10,000, and makes the shot. He anonymously donates the money to the school to revive a summer camp for elementary school students. Music: 'Man on the Moon' by R.E.M., 'Humpin' Around' by Bobby Brown.
Wednesday, April 21st, 1993
26: She Came in Through the Bathroom Window
Brenda, Kelly, Donna, Andrea and David go to Magic Mountain for Senior Ditch Day (an event organized by the school). A classmate steals Kelly's wallet, but Donna beats him up when he tries to snatch her purse. Andrea struggles to overcome her fear of roller coasters, and she and Donna have a talk about being virgins. Brandon misses out on the trip to fill in for an ailing Nat at the Peach Pit. A tour guide brings the Burt Reynolds Fan Club to the Pit, but cannot pay the bill because she has supposedly been scammed by her boss. She jumps out the bathroom window and steals Brandon's car. Steve and Dylan catch up to her and spend the day trying to track down Burt Reynolds and convince him to meet the fan club. Burt shows up as a favor to Steve's mother, but the tour guide turns out to be the actual con artist. Music: 'Dream Baby (How Long Must I Dream)' by Roy Orbison, 'Walk Right In' by the Rooftop Singers, 'Take Five' by The Dave Brubeck Quartet, 'Dirty Water' by the Standells.
27: A Night to Remember
Brandon and Andrea discover that the school board has quietly passed a measure in which any senior found drunk at the prom will be barred from graduation. Jackie tells David and Kelly that she has sold the house. Brandon and Brenda do not plan to attend the prom. Brenda accepts an invitation from football star Tony Miller, and Andrea calls Brandon at the last minute after Jordan gets the flu. Donna is surprised when her mother gives her permission to stay out all night. David rents a hotel room for the night. Mel serves champagne at a pre-prom party, and everyone except Dylan and Andrea drinks. Donna gets drunk (partially because she also hadn't eaten all day) and becomes very ill. The gang tries to sneak her out of the hotel, but she faints right in front of Mrs. Teasley. Brandon and Andrea check out a hotel room that Tony had presumptuously reserved, and Andrea gets a little carried away. Music: 'Time to Be Lovers' by Michael McDonald and Chaka Khan; 'Action Speaks Louder Than Words' by Tara Kemp, 'Why' / 'Moments of Love' / 'Touch Me (All Night Long)' performed by Cathy Dennis.
28: Something in the Air
Donna is suspended, and must enroll in summer school before she can graduate. Felice refuses to appeal the ruling because she is worried about her own reputation. Donna changes her mind by reminding her that her husband and Donna forgave Felice for her past mistakes. Brandon is disgusted by the students' apathy, and Gil encourages him to take action on Donna's behalf. Brandon convinces the entire senior class to walk out on finals as a show of solidarity. Dylan doesn't want to participate because he has set his sights on making it into the University of California-Berkeley. The juniors join the protest after Brandon agrees to add the elimination of a proposed dress code to the demands. Everyone (including Dylan) walks out on finals and marches to Donna's hearing. They stand outside shouting, 'Donna Martin graduates!' Despite a plea from Felice and threats from the superintendent, hundreds of students enter the building. At the urging of a surprisingly reasonable board member, the school board votes to let Donna off with a minor penalty, allowing her to attend commencement and graduate with her friends. Music: 'Be-Bop-A-Lula' by Gene Vincent, 'Saturday in the Park' by Chicago.
29: Commencement (Part 1)
The gang reminisces about the good times while preparing to graduate. Steve convinces his friends to take part in a special event to ensure their legacy. He is surprised when Mrs. Teasley congratulates him on getting his act together and offers to write him a letter of recommendation. She had discovered his donation to the elementary school's summer camp. Steve wishes to attend California University with Brandon, Kelly, David and Donna. David fears that he won't graduate because he misnumbered his chemistry final. Brenda is accepted to the University of Minnesota; Brandon tries to discourage her from leaving. Iris arrives in L.A., but Dylan is angry at her because he couldn't reach her after Jack's death. Dylan receives the check from his trust fund. Brandon learns from Jordan that Andrea may not go to Yale. Brandon fears that Andrea is giving up her future for him, but she is actually worried about paying her tuition. David and Donna emcee the senior breakfast where everyone continues to reminisce. Brenda, Kelly and Donna take part in a musical number about Brandon and his numerous girlfriends. Music: 'School's Out' by Alice Cooper, 'Louie, Louie' by The Kingsmen, 'Overture' performed by the Wildcat Singers.
Steve confesses to Brandon that he made sure that Mrs. Teasley could trace his ""anonymous"" donation, but Brandon tells him that his deed still helped many children. David learns that he earned a high grade on his chemistry final and can graduate early. Brenda and Dylan reflect on their relationship as she seeks his advice about college. Valedictorian Andrea panics and forgets her speech, but quickly regains her composure. Kelly is thrilled when her father makes a surprise appearance at the ceremony. Dylan asks Jim to re-establish the trust because he does not want his money to consume him. The gang spends the night on a hill overlooking the city. Andrea confirms that she is going to Yale, while Brenda announces her decision to attend Minnesota. Dylan is undecided about college, but asks Kelly to join him in Europe for the summer. The next morning, everyone descends the hill to view their legacy; they have covered the Hollywood sign with the message 'W Bev Hi 93'. Music: 'Blood Is Thicker Than Water' by the Triplets.
1: So Long, Farewell, Auf Wiedersehen, Goodbye
Steve is accepted to California University. A producer hoping to entice Samantha to star in a sitcom allows Steve, Brandon and Celeste to use his beach house for a few weeks. The gang throws a blow-out bash the night before Brenda is to leave for Minnesota. Kelly comes home early from Europe... without Dylan. She claims that all is well but later confesses to Donna that the couple broke up. The next morning, Jill, the producer's daughter, finds Brandon in her father's trashed house and believes that he is a burglar. She's about to attack him with mace but Brandon talks her down. It turns out that Steve has had a crush on Jill for years and annoys Celeste by falling all over her. But Jill only has eyes for Brandon. Brenda's friends and roommates in Minnesota constantly pepper her with questions about Beverly Hills. Not only that, but they talk behind her back and leave her out of activities. She fears she has made a terrible mistake, but Cindy insists that the situation will improve. Dylan tries to call Brenda from Europe, but she is not in her room and misses his call. David has difficulty finding an apartment after he fails to get into a dormitory. Kelly and Donna decide to give up their dorm room to share a beautiful beach-front apartment with David. Andrea, concerned by her grandmother's poor health, passes on Yale to attend California University. She is hurt when Gil not-so-nicely teases her about her decision and is disappointed to learn that he is engaged. Music: 'Summer Means Fun' by Bruce and Terry, 'Summertime Blues' by Eddie Cochran, 'Tip of My Tongue' by Diesel, 'Surfer Gir'l by Beach Boys.
2: The Girl From New York City
Brandon and Steve become very competitive over a tennis match, and nearly come to blows when Steve purposely hits Jill with the ball. During a makeout session Jill pushes Brandon away. She confesses that she was recently raped and isn't quite over it. Brandon agrees to sleep beside her because she is not ready for sex, but cannot talk her out of returning to New York. Dylan returns from Europe and Kelly avoids him. She explains to Donna that Dylan became extremely moody after U.C. Berkeley rejected him. Kelly returned from a shopping trip to find him flirting with a girl, and responded by going out with a bartender before leaving for the States. Kelly finally goes to see Dylan and they quickly make up. Donna's parents are moving to Houston for a year. Kelly and Donna struggle to prevent Felice from finding out that they are living with David. David believes that Donna will now sleep with him, but she has other ideas. Brenda cannot get into any of her desired classes. Darla (her roommate and best friend from junior high) monopolizes the room for liaisons with her boyfriend, and Brenda's "friends" talk about her behind her back. Brenda drops out of school and heads back to Los Angeles.
Wednesday, September 22nd, 1993
3: The Little Fish
Jim and Cindy are shocked when Brenda returns from Minnesota. Brandon considers moving out because he can no longer use Brenda's bedroom as a rec room. Brenda announces that she is not interested in returning to college. Dylan grows tired of waiting to register and also chooses to forego college, much to Kelly's chagrin. Brenda and Dylan spend a relaxing day fishing, and elect to enroll in California University after all. Andrea tries out for the college paper and must review the Peach Pit. She catches Nat on a very bad day and writes a scathing review. Andrea decides to pass on the paper and enroll in pre-med courses. Josh Richland, editor of the Condor, asks Brandon to run for Student Senate for the Progressive party. David and Donna interview for the campus radio station, and he is furious when she lets their aircheck tape melt in the car. The station manager enjoys their banter and gives them the overnight show. Steve cheats on his math placement exam, but it nearly backfires. Music: 'Feel Like a Number' by Bob Seger and the Silver Bullet Band, 'Earth Angel' by the Penguins.
4: Greek to Me
Steve badgers Brandon into pledging the Kappa Epsilon Gamma fraternity. The frat brothers disapprove of Brandon's involvement with Josh and the Progressives. Brandon disassociates himself from the party when it proposes the elimination of all fraternities and sororities. He disappoints Steve by not joining the KEG house, but is made an honorary member. Kelly, Donna, Brenda and Andrea pledge the Alpha Omega sorority. Kelly runs into John Sears, a guy who spread rumors about her after they dated in high school. He insists that he has changed, and Kelly stays out late talking with him after a party (which Dylan refused to attend). Dan Rubin, Andrea's resident advisor, warns her of possible discrimination. Andrea wears a necklace of the Star of David to a ceremony, and the sorority president chastises her for "making an issue" of being Jewish. Leslie later explains that she is Jewish, but not very religious; she apologizes for projecting her personal issues onto the house. Only Kelly and Donna elect to join a sorority. Donna livens up the late night radio show when she compares David to a dog. Music: 'Disco Inferno' by the Trammps, 'Get Down Tonight' by KC and the Sunshine Band, 'Boogie Oogie Oogie' by A Taste of Honey.
5: Radio Daze
Donna quits the radio show because she can no longer take the demanding schedule. When she goes to tell Howard, he asks her to fill in for a missing DJ. He offers her the afternoon show, which angers David, but recants after reconciling with his girlfriend (the previous afternoon DJ). John continues to pursue Kelly. Dylan and Kelly argue because he does not wish to attend the freshman pool party. He does show up, but Kelly later kisses John outside her apartment. Dan is Andrea and Donna's English teacher. He encourages Andrea to expose more of herself in her writing, and asks her on a date. Brenda takes a job at Jim's office. She gets in hot water when she forgets to deliver some important contracts. Steve plans to break up with Celeste so that he can play the field. He realizes his true feelings for her, but has to beg for forgiveness after ignoring her at the pool party. Music: 'Under Pressure' by Sunscreem, 'Sleeping Satellite' by Tasmin Archer, 'Live and Learn' by Joe Public.
6: Strangers in the Night
Dylan's Porsche is experiencing severe wear and tear, so he must buy a new car. He plans to just get a working vehicle, but instead splurges on a new Porsche. Kelly realizes that she and Dylan have vastly different interests, and recommends that they see other people. As Dylan drives home after the break-up, he is carjacked. Andrea loses her virginity to Dan. She feels uncomfortable in English class and decides to transfer to another section. Jim sets up Brenda on a blind date with Stuart Carson, the son of a client. He is handsome and dashing, and the two stay out until 2 AM. Exhausted from his overnight radio show, David skips classes and lies around the apartment all day. Kelly and Donna complain that he has become a pig, and he makes an on-air apology. Howard offers David caffeine pills, and suggests that he could get him "something stronger." Music: 'Crossfire' by Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble; 'Man on the Moon' by R.E.M.; 'Fire and Rain' / 'Something in the Way She Moves' by James Taylor.
7: Moving Targets
In the wake of the carjacking, Dylan becomes obsessed with self-defense. He frightens Kelly by constantly going to the shooting range. Jim and Cindy believe that Brenda and Stuart are spending too much time together. Mr. and Mrs. Carson wholeheartedly approve of the relationship. They invite the Walshes to their mansion for brunch. Brandon's sociology professor is impressed by his work and asks him to tutor a basketball star. Jackie is furious when Mel brings his girlfriend along on his weekend with Erin. Kelly and David take sides in their parents' dispute. Dan is afraid to see Andrea in public because he fears his colleagues' reaction. Andrea finally takes the initiative and kisses him in the middle of the student union. Music: 'You Can't Hurry Love' by the Supremes.
8: Twenty Years Ago Today
The Walshes host a party to celebrate their twentieth anniversary. An unstable Dylan buys a gun from a private dealer and waves it around like a toy. Brandon breaks into Dylan's house to retrieve his parents' anniversary gift, and Dylan nearly shoots him. He promises to dispose of the weapon. Dylan warns Brandon that Stuart has an unsavory past. Stuart proposes to Brenda during the party. Everyone (except Jim's mother) is stunned when they announce their engagement. Mel dumps Erin off on David so that he can spend the weekend in Mexico with his girlfriend. Jackie is enraged when Erin becomes ill. Andrea reconsiders her relationship with Dan. She flirts with the handsome bartender at the Walshes' party. Brandon meets an attractive doctoral student at the campus gym. Music: 'What the World Needs Now Is Love' by Jackie DeShannon.
Wednesday, November 3rd, 1993
9: Otherwise Engaged
Stuart rents a luxurious hotel room for Brenda and himself. Brenda is furious to discover a prenuptial agreement in his briefcase. Dylan makes a play for Brenda in the hopes of persuading her to break the engagement. Brenda learns that her father encouraged Dylan and storms out. She seeks refuge at the hotel and decides to sign the prenup because she doesn't want Stuart's money. One of Steve's frat brothers pressures him into a double date. John admits that he is seeing other girls, since Kelly hasn't committed to him. Steve sleeps with his date and is overcome with guilt for cheating on Celeste. Brandon becomes frustrated with D'Shawn, who only cares about basketball and cartoons. Brandon has a romantic dinner with Lucinda. She reveals that she is married, but he doesn't back off until he learns that Professor Randall is her husband. Jackie sues Mel for full custody of Erin. David's testimony at a deposition hearing is extremely damaging to his father's case. David takes out his anger on Kelly, who goes to stay at her mother's house. Music: 'The Power of Love' by Huey Lewis and the News, 'How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved by You)' by Marvin Gaye.
10: And Did It...My Way
Professor Randall and Lucinda invite Brandon and D'Shawn over for dinner. Steve tries to avoid the smitten Laura. Mr. and Mrs. Carson plan to turn Brenda and Stuart's wedding into a major social event. The couple decides to sneak off to Las Vegas and elope. Brandon and the gang follow them in the hopes of changing their minds. They pretend to be supportive, but play on the couple's insecurities by constantly dropping hints about the difficulties of marriage. Jim and Cindy dash off to Las Vegas to stop the wedding, but Brenda and Stuart have already called it off. Donna arranges a truce between David and Kelly. Music: 'You Keep Me Hangin' On' by the Supremes, 'It's Not Unusual' by Tom Jones, 'Let's Get It On' by Marvin Gaye.
11: Take Back the Night
Steve tells Laura that he cannot see her again because he has a girlfriend. During the activities for "Take Back the Night" week, she concludes that she was a victim of date-rape and plans to identify Steve at a campus rally. Kelly warns Steve, who adamantly proclaims his innocence. Steve confesses his indiscretion to Celeste, who promptly breaks up with him. Before Laura can speak at the rally, Kelly steps up to the microphone. She shares that she was nearly a victim of rape, then pointedly adds that there were other times when she regretted sleeping with a guy but had consented at the time. She identifies Steve as a hero for saving her from the rapist at the Halloween party. Steve apologizes for using Laura, who admits that she had done nothing to discourage him. Lucinda insists on openly flirting with Brandon, who wants nothing to do with her. D'Shawn threatens to tell Professor Randall that Brandon is sleeping with his wife unless he takes his midterm for him. Lucinda encourages Brandon to take the test, so he leaves town in frustration, hoping to connect with his ex-girlfriend, Emily Valentine. Dylan helps Brenda get caught up in their poetry class. John lashes out at Kelly when she refuses to sleep with him. Dylan throws a pie in John's face after the rally. Dan and Andrea debate feminist issues. Music: 'Heard It Through the Grapevine' by Marvin Gaye, 'Only You' by The Platters.
12: Radar Love
After mistaking a woman at a gas station for Emily, Brandon decides to visit Emily's home in Marin County. He learns that the family has moved to Greece, but runs into Emily by chance on a cable car in San Francisco. They rekindle their romance and decide to spend Thanksgiving together. Emily does not reveal that she must move away in a week. The KEG house and Alpha sorority serve Thanksgiving dinner at a halfway house, and John tries to take advantage of a 15-year-old girl. Steve intervenes and has the fraternity president distract John. Dylan declines Kelly's Thanksgiving invitation because he plans to go surfing, but later agrees to dine with the Walshes. When Kelly comes over with her family, she snaps at Dylan and makes a scene. Andrea is hesitant to attend a Thanksgiving soiree at the home of Dan's parents. Jesse, the bartender from the Walshes' anniversary party, works at the affair. He asks Andrea out, and she willingly gives him her address. Music: 'Radar Love' by Golden Earring.
Wednesday, December 1st, 1993
13: Emily (a.k.a. The Pink Pearl)
Emily has been accepted to the prestigious Cousteau Institute in France, but does not want to attend because she and Brandon are in love. Brandon observes her passion for marine biology and encourages her to pursue her dream. Brenda balks when she is asked to appear nude in an experimental campus play. The frat and sorority pledges must endure a series of humiliating experiences during ""Hell Week."" The upperclassmen order Steve to steal a prize autographed baseball from Professor Randall for a scavenger hunt, but he gets caught. Andrea breaks up with Dan and begins dating Jesse. She learns that he is a UCLA law student who attended undergraduate courses at Yale. Music: 'San Francisco Days' by Chris Isaak.
14: Windstruck
Donna and David celebrate their second anniversary as a couple. She finally agrees to sleep with him, but their romantic evening is interrupted by a surprise visit from her parents. Donna dodges suspicion by admitting that David lives in the apartment. Felice is angry at the deception, but Dr. Martin encourages her to let Donna live her own life. Donna puts David on hold because she does not want to betray her parents' trust. The KEG house distances itself from Steve to avoid the penalties for hazing. Lucinda tells Brandon that someone tipped off campus security about Steve's break-in. Professor Randall accuses Brandon of sleeping with Lucinda and plans to take out his anger on Steve. He drops the charges after Brandon threatens to report him for giving D'Shawn undeserved grades. Kelly and Dylan get back together. Andrea and Jesse fall for each other. Dan angers Andrea with his racial slurs about Jesse. Music: 'Hey Jealousy' by Gin Blossoms, 'I Fought the Law' by The Bobby Fuller Four, 'Midnight Train to Georgia' by Gladys Knight and the Pips, 'For the Cool in You' by Babyface.
Wednesday, December 22nd, 1993
15: Somewhere in the World It's Christmas
The Walshes plan to spend the holidays in Hawaii, but their plane experiences mechanical problems. They are forced to fly back to Los Angeles and make an emergency landing. Dylan receives a surprise visit from Suzanne Steele, his father's former lover, and her 12-year-old daughter. The duo recently lost its home in Iowa to a flood, and decided to take a road trip as a distraction. Suzanne reveals that Erica is Dylan's half-sister. He is initially skeptical, but decides to give them the benefit of the doubt. Kelly boycotts Mel's Christmas party, but he comes through for her when she has a dental emergency. David gives Donna the cold shoulder for refusing to sleep with him. He breaks up with her on Christmas Eve. Andrea worries about proper protocol as she prepares to attend Midnight Mass with Jesse's family. Music: 'The Christmas Song' by Aaron Neville.
16: Crunch Time
The fraternity ostracizes Steve because many people believe that he escaped punishment for the break-in by squealing on others. John refuses to allow Steve any playing time on the intramural volleyball team. Steve becomes fed up and accuses John of tipping off the cops. The KEG house holds a ceremony to decide which of the two should be ousted from the house. John arrogantly confesses to his friend Keith, who sides with Steve. This gives the remaining members the courage to vote against John. Dylan bonds with Erica during a trip to Magic Mountain and offers to loan Suzanne money to get her back on her feet. He offends Suzanne when he follows Jim's advice and asks for her social security number. They apologize for the misunderstanding, and Erica secretly gets Dylan the information. D'Shawn begins to pay attention to his studies after a lecture from his sister. He tears up his knee in his first game, but passes his sociology final without assistance. David acts like a jerk around Donna and Kelly, and begins taking crystal meth to get through his finals and radio show. Andrea gets a new resident advisor after Dan moves out. Donna tries to get David back, even going so far as to offer to sleep with him, but he refuses her. Music: 'Can We Talk' by Tevin Campbell, 'Living in a Fantasy' by the Rainbow Band.
17: Thicker Than Water
David is unable to eat or sleep because of his drug addiction. He steals codeine from his father's office in the hopes of calming his nerves. He falls asleep in the park while babysitting Erin, and she disappears. She is found hiding in a nearby house, and a guilt-ridden David confesses his drug problem to Kelly. Dylan takes care of Erica while Suzanne is out of town. He turns to Cindy for help when Erica experiences a major life event. Jim tells Dylan that Suzanne, who had claimed to be broke, has $25,000 in her account. Suzanne explains that she has just received the insurance settlement for her trailer. Donna meets a handsome ski instructor during a weekend in the mountains with Brenda, Steve and Brandon. Andrea learns that she is pregnant.
18: Heartbreaker
David begins seeing a psychiatrist and tries to make amends with Donna. He tries to take time off from his radio show, but Steve proves to be completely incompetent as a fill-in. David steals drugs from Howard's desk and returns to the airwaves high. Andrea confesses her pregnancy to Brandon and Kelly; but has difficulty telling Jesse, who has just been offered a clerkship in San Francisco. The university names Brandon as its representative on a national task force. Suzanne takes a waitress job at the Peach Pit. Nat collapses with a heart attack, and Dylan and Brandon save his life with CPR. Nat's cousin Joey, an equal partner, wants to sell the Peach Pit. Brandon fears that Nat will have nothing to live for without the Peach Pit. He ignores his father's advice and decides to run the diner in Nat's absence. Cindy enrolls in California University to pursue her master's degree. Music: 'Then Came You' by Dionne Warwick and The Spinners, 'This Old Heart of Mine' by the Isley Brothers, 'Let's Hang On!' by The 4 Seasons, 'Everything Louder Than Everything Else' by Meat Loaf.
Wednesday, February 2nd, 1994
19: The Labors of Love
Kelly finds drugs in David's bedroom. She moves in with Dylan and takes Donna with her. Howard fires David from the radio show and orders him to find a new supplier. Donna goes against Kelly's wishes by covering the rent for David, who cashes the check and uses it for drugs. Jesse breaks up with Andrea after she shares her plans to have an abortion. He later reconsiders, and Andrea reveals that she has decided to have the baby. They announce their engagement, much to the surprise of their friends. The girls enroll in one of Lucinda's anthropology classes. Dylan buys out Joey so that the Peach Pit can stay in business. Brandon pouts because he did not get to be the hero. He provides comfort to the divorcing Lucinda. Music: 'What a Wonderful World' by Louis Armstrong, 'Get Off This' by Cracker, 'Expressway To Your Heart' by the Soul Survivors.
20: Scared Very Straight
Despite an appeal from Rose, Andrea's parents refuse to support her decision to marry. Jesse makes one final plea, and the Zuckermans arrive at the civil ceremony at the last moment. David claims that he has cleaned up his act, but brings a junkie friend along on a Valentine's date with Donna. Dylan reminds David that he saved him from hitting the bottle after his father's funeral, and offers to help him in an emergency. David turns to Dylan after his dealer asks him to stash his drug supply from the cops. Dylan talks him into flushing the drugs just minutes before the police arrive. Steve hopes to move into Andrea's old room to escape the constant drinking binges at the KEG house. Brenda writes a scathing letter to Stuart when he fails to call her for a month. He surprises her on Valentine's Day, and explains that he had a project in South America. Jim admits that he purposely withheld this information to get back at Brenda. Brandon and Lucinda begin a secret romance. Music: 'Hit by Love' by CeCe Peniston, 'For the Cool in You' by Babyface, 'Can We Talk' by Tevin Campbell.
21: Addicted to Love
Josh Richland tries to dig up dirt on Brandon for a newspaper article. Lucinda suggests that Brandon bring a date to task force functions to throw Josh off their trail. Brandon asks Kelly to accompany him to a party, with Dylan's permission. Kelly learns that Lucinda is struggling to obtain financing for her film, and introduces her to Dylan. Brenda joins Stuart for a weekend in Palm Springs, where he is to make a presentation to his father. They stop in the desert, but Brenda accidentally locks the keys in the car. Stuart continually lashes out at Brenda, especially after vandals break into his car when it is left overnight. Brenda finally becomes fed up and dumps Stuart. She calls Dylan for a ride home; during the drive, she confesses that she is still in love with him. David convinces Kelly to move back into the beach apartment. Andrea lets Steve move into her old room, but warns him not to alienate her R.A. Music: 'Me and Mrs. Jones' by Billy Paul, 'Into Your Arms' by the Lemonheads.
22: Change Partners
Brandon and Kelly attend a weekend retreat. The chancellor's teenage daughter Clare develops a crush on Brandon. Brandon confesses his affair with Lucinda to Kelly. Brandon and Kelly realize they must discontinue the charade after they share a passionate kiss. Lucinda invites Dylan to her house to view her film, and makes a pass at him. Donna and Brenda befriend a stray dog, which they name Rocky. They learn that the animal escaped from the university's research lab, and are afraid to return him. Brenda takes an interest in an animal rights group that is protesting the lab. Andrea, who works at the facility, argues that the lab is researching potential medical breakthroughs. She returns the dog safely to Donna. Andrea is furious when Steve lets Muntz use her room for a rendezvous with his girlfriend. She fears that the resident adviser will kick her out, but Steve makes amends by sleeping with the woman. Music: 'Get Closer' by Seals and Crofts, 'All The Way' by Hoodoo Gurus.
Wednesday, March 2nd, 1994
23: A Pig Is a Boy Is a Dog
Brenda and Donna attend an animal rights rally and are crestfallen when the university refuses to suspend animal testing. After Rocky dies of cancer, Brenda becomes involved with a small group of radicals. She serves as lookout when the group breaks into the university research building, and tries in vain to save Andrea's lab (which does not harm animals in its testing). Brenda is arrested. Kelly and Brandon are furious when Dylan refuses to fund Lucinda's film. He finally tells Kelly that Lucinda came on to him. Brandon breaks up with Lucinda, and Kelly confesses her kiss with Brandon. Dylan races over to the Walsh house to fight Brandon, but the tension is defused when he accidentally punches Steve. (At the end of this episode, Tori Spelling thanks the audience and 90210 crew for the making of this 100th episode) . Music: 'Trans-Island Skyway' by Donald Fagen.
24: Cuffs and Links
Brenda calls Dylan from jail in the hopes of keeping her arrest a secret, but he is forced to tell her parents. Brenda's friends avoid her out of fear of being accessories after the fact, and Kelly acts especially bitchy because she is tired of Dylan coming to Brenda's rescue. Brenda faces felony charges, as her crime was a federal offense. An FBI agent who had gone undercover with the activists offers her immunity in exchange for her testimony. Kelly apologizes for shunning Brenda. Andrea gives Donna a healthy puppy (Rocky II) to take her mind off Rocky's death. Steve and his overbearing father, Rush, take on a baseball star and his dad in a father/son golf tournament. Steve catches his father cheating and forces him to complete the game honestly.
Wednesday, March 23rd, 1994
25: The Time Has Come Today
It's Spring Break and the gang wants to go to Mammoth but instead decides on Palm Springs... all go, except Brenda who finds a diary in her window seat, which belonged to a girl names Wendy Edwards back in 1968. As she reads it, she inserts her friends as characters in the diary. She imagines Andrea as a hippy, Steve as Ronnie, and Dylan as Peter Brinkley, who is against the war. David is Seth who wants sex from Mary Anne Bailey, played by Donna, and he gets it. Brandon plays Wendy's brother, Will, who dies in the Vietnam War, and Kelly plays Michelle who overdoses on LSD in 1971. The diary includes the numbers 134, 10, 66, and 72 which Brenda finds out to be the roads to Woodstock after she tracks down and meets the real Wendy. Music: 'Monday, Monday' by the Mamas and the Papas, 'These Boots Are Made for Walkin'' by Nancy Sinatra, 'For What It's Worth' by Buffalo Springfield, 'Let's Get Together' by The Youngbloods, 'Time Has Come Today' by Chambers Brothers, 'Reach Out of the Darkness' by Friend and Lover, 'The Times They Are a-Changin'' by Bob Dylan, 'Wear Your Love Like Heaven' by Donovan, 'Woodstock' by Joni Mitchell.
26: Blind Spot
Brandon's car breaks down, and he and Steve step into a gay coffeehouse to call a tow truck. Mike Ryan, the president of Steve's fraternity, mistakenly believes that the duo is gay. He comes out to Steve, who feels uncomfortable with the situation. When some guys jokingly accuse Steve of being gay, he outs Mike. Mike decides to leave the house rather than face the homophobic members who want to oust him, but Steve encourages him to stand up for himself. David falls for his talented piano teacher, who is blind. Donna goes on a date with D'Shawn to make him jealous. David's teacher helps him learn to appreciate his relationship with Donna. Donna and Kelly convince the guys to appear in a beefcake calendar for charity. Music: 'Ain't That Peculiar?' by Marvin Gaye, 'I Can't Fight This Feeling' by REO Speedwagon.
27: Divas
Acclaimed director Roy Randolph comes to C.U. to work on the campus production of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. Brenda plans to try out for the lead role, and Kelly helps her rehearse. Brenda encourages Kelly to audition for a small part, but Roy asks her to read for the lead. Steve coaches Laura for her audition in the hopes that she can finally catch a break. Clare aggressively pursues Brandon. She shows up at his house while his parents are out of town and handcuffs herself to his bed. Dylan tries to convince Erica to be more receptive to her mother's new boyfriend, Kevin. Dylan saves Kevin from being struck by a bus. Andrea receives a clean bill of health, but still fears that something is wrong with her pregnancy. David chastises Donna for refusing to discipline her puppy. Music: 'On Broadway' by George Benson, 'Sweet Funky Thing' by Eternal, 'Family Affair' by Sly and The Family Stone.
28: Acting Out
Brenda accuses Kelly of betraying her and refuses to speak to her. Kelly's relationship with Dylan is strained by the situation with Brenda, and Kelly's disdain for Suzanne and Erica. Kelly drops out of the auditions because she does not want to be an actress. She and Brenda make up and admit their mutual jealousy. After witnessing Laura's brilliant performance, a nervous Brenda tanks her audition. She shows up at Roy Randolph's house that night in search of another chance. Clare tricks Brandon into taking her to the senior prom. At the after-party, she flashes and dumps beer on some guys before giving them the room number. Brandon winds up getting into a fight, and helps Clare clean up the trashed hotel room. Andrea continues to worry about the baby as Jesse leaves for an out-of-town trip. She collapses in pain, and Donna rushes her to the hospital. The doctor orders Andrea to stay in bed for the remainder of the pregnancy. Dylan becomes interested in environmental chemist Kevin's plan to clean the beaches. Music: 'Gimme Little Sign' by Brenton Wood, 'The Sign' by Ace of Base.
29: Truth and Consequences
Brenda wins the lead, much to the amazement of those who saw her audition. Steve starts a rumor that Brenda slept with Roy. Dylan is the only person who completely believes Brenda's denial. Laura causes Brenda to miss a rehearsal in an attempt to get her fired. When this fails, she asks Steve to injure Brenda. Roy kicks Laura out of the play. Steve and Brenda race to stop Laura from killing herself in the auditorium. Suzanne and Kevin get engaged, and Dylan learns more about Kevin's research. Kevin quits his job and decides to pitch the project to independent investors. Clare tries to tag along on Brandon's trip to Berkeley. Brandon tells the chancellor the truth about his daughter's behavior. Music: 'Free Ride' by The Edgar Winter Group, 'Lightning Strikes' by Lou Christie.
30: Vital Signs
Brenda receives rave reviews for her performance in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. Dylan gives her a special present on opening night, and the two seem to have lingering feelings. Steve is reluctant to attend the play because of his rift with Brenda. Andrea learns that her baby may be born prematurely, and is forced to check into the hospital. She goes into labor. Donna tries to book singer Babyface for the campus Mardi Gras festival. David meets a record company employee who introduces him to a talented band. David declines an offer to join because the band members are drug users. Erica overhears Suzanne and Kevin discussing a move to South America, but they claim that she misunderstood. Dylan considers becoming Kevin's business partner. Kelly grows tired of Dylan's involvement with Suzanne, Erica and Kevin. She and Dylan decide to break up. Brandon fears that Clare could cost him a chance to travel to Washington with the task force and meet the president. Music: 'Cantaloop (Flip Fantasia)' by Us3, 'I'll Always Love You' by Babyface.
31: Mr. Walsh Goes to Washington (Part 1)
Brandon travels to Washington, D.C. to make a presentation for the task force. He considers giving in to the persistent Clare. Lucinda, in town for a meeting, shows up at the hotel; both women grope Brandon under the table during an important dinner. Kelly confesses her feelings for Brandon to Andrea and decides to surprise him. Roy offers Brenda the opportunity to spend the summer studying theater at the Royal Academy in London. Kevin and Suzanne get married. He and Dylan consider producing his project without outside assistance. Andrea gives birth to a 2 pound, 6 ounce daughter, Hannah. She and Jesse struggle to remain positive as Hannah fights to survive. Steve has a run-in with John Sears at the university carnival, and is hurt to learn that he is dating Celeste. Donna is jealous of the amount of attention Ariel devotes to David.
Brandon and Kelly spend the day together and decide to become a couple. Brandon meets President Clinton, and everyone watches the moment on television. Dylan, Brenda and Erica have a great time hanging out at the carnival. Brenda feels overshadowed by Brandon's success; she realizes that her true calling is the theater. Before leaving for London, Brenda stops by Dylan's house to thank him for his support and profess her love. They spend one last night together. Kevin convinces Dylan to back out of the deal with Jim's investors. Jim angrily resigns as Dylan's business manager and gives him control of the money. Kevin and Suzanne steal all of Dylan's money and flee to Brazil. Erica pretends to be oblivious but leaves a pleading note for help (with Dylan's address) in an airport bathroom. Andrea heads for home, while Hannah remains hospitalized. David receives the chance to play keyboards during a Babyface performance. Donna catches him having sex with Ariel in the back of a limousine. He later admits that it wasn't their first time, and she throws him out of the apartment. John continues to torment Steve at the carnival. Steve challenges John to a joust above the mud pit and will leave the KEG house if he loses. Brenda and Donna describe John's sordid past to Celeste, and the three ladies help Steve win by flashing John. Celeste and Steve agree to spend the summer together. Music: 'For the Cool in You' / 'When Can I See You?' by Babyface.
1: What I Did on My Summer Vacation and Other Stories
Brenda decides to stay in London for the entire year. Valerie Malone, the daughter of the Walshes good friends, comes to live with them. Her father has just committed suicide. Steve reveals that Celeste dumped him during their Hawaiian vacation when she ran into her high school boyfriend. He settles on Kelly as his true love and is shocked to learn that she is with Brandon. Steve gets over his broken heart by spending time with Valerie. Valerie seems to be a nice girl but secretly smokes pot and insults everyone during a phone conversation with a friend. Dylan returns to Los Angeles after a two-month-long drinking binge in Mexico. David fills Kelly in on his summer, which found him receiving--then losing--a chance to tour with Babyface, and getting a venereal disease from Ariel. Donna tries to avoid David. Andrea and Jesse finally bring Hannah home from the hospital, after a nearly tragic mishap. Jesse moonlights as a bartender to bring in extra cash. Music: 'Night In My Veins' by the Pretenders, 'Regular Thing' by Ovis, 'Back & Forth' by Aaliyah.
2: Under the Influence
Donna plans to take a semester off to become a debutante in Houston. Kelly realizes that Donna is hiding behind her mother to shield herself from David. Brandon tries to tell the drunken Dylan about Kelly and him but chickens out. Nat inadvertently reveals the truth to Dylan. He shows up at an affair organized by Felice and gets into a scuffle with Brandon. Kelly goes to Dylan's house to talk with him, but she finds him with a bimbo. Donna reconsiders becoming a debutante after her mother makes a big deal about her dancing with D'Shawn. Dylan apologizes to Donna and agrees to join her at registration, but never shows up. Andrea balks at entrusting Hannah to the campus day care center. Clare enrolls at California University (as a sophomore because of AP credit). Josh talks Brandon into being his running mate in the student body elections. Music: 'Donna' by Richie Valens, 'Make It Right' by Lisa Stansfield.
Wednesday, September 21st, 1994
3: A Clean Slate
Brandon must make a speech at the campus debates when Josh fails to show because of car trouble. He is such a success that the duo's campaign takes off. Alex Diaz, a student senator and manager of another campaign, tries to force them out of the race by threatening to expose an unpublished article in which Josh accused Brandon of taking tests for D'Shawn. Andrea fears that Brandon no longer values her opinion, but her advice proves crucial. D'Shawn defends Brandon's character at a Senate meeting. As they await the results from the Peach Pit, a nervous Josh decides to go for a ride. He crashes his car into a delivery truck and dies, as Brandon looks on in horror. Kelly tells Brandon that they won the election. Valerie digs for info on Dylan and begins hanging around the pool hall. After sleeping with Val, Dylan is stunned to learn that she lives at the Walsh house. Clare moves in with Kelly and Donna, who must find a way to curb her snoring. Music: 'Baby What You Want Me to Do' by Jimmy Reed, 'Low Rider' by War, 'I Just Want To Celebrate' by Rare Earth, 'Sleepwalk' by Santo and Johnny.
4: Life After Death
Brandon has difficulty coming to grips with Josh's death. Kelly tries to support him, but fears that they are drifting apart. Alex tells Brandon that he is contesting his presidency. Brandon doesn't even want the job, but decides to fight for it after Josh's sister shows him a letter in which Josh spoke highly of Brandon and his ideals. Brandon gets Steve out of a jam when the cops break up a party at the KEG house. Clare takes a liking to David, unaware of his history with Donna. Donna objects when Felice sets her up with a friend's son, until he turns out to be the handsome and charming guy she had just met at a party. Donna declares that she is over David and agrees to help Clare and him with a video project. Valerie continues to spend her days with Steve and her nights with Dylan. Music: 'All I Wanna Do' by Sheryl Crow (#2, 1994), 'Anything' by Culture Beat.
5: Rave On
Kelly smells marijuana in Valerie's room, but Brandon asks her to give Val the benefit of the doubt. Steve convinces Nat and Dylan to let him organize a two-night rave at the Peach Pit. Valerie catches Dylan pocketing some of the evening's proceeds. Kelly finds Valerie making out with Dylan in a back room. When she tries to tell Steve, a halo wearing Valerie claims that Dylan came on to her. Dylan confesses to Val that his money was stolen. While making a video wth Clare, Donna meets Ray Pruitt, a construction worker with musical aspirations. She invites him to the Peach Pit and dances with him, much to Griffin's chagrin. The Walshes babysit Hannah so that Andrea can attend the rave. She tries to surprise Jesse at work, and finds him flirting with female bar patrons. Disgruntled, and unsure of her marriage, Andrea flees. Music: 'Pretend We're Dead' by L7, 'All I Have to Do Is Dream' by the Everly Brothers, 'What Can You Do for Me?' by Utah Saints, 'Hold On' performed by Jamie Walters, 'Give it Up' by the Goodmen, 'Make It Right' by Lisa Stansfield.
6: Homecoming
Ferdinand Quintero, the president of Selanesia and a close friend of Clare's family, visits the campus to receive treatment for cancer. A student human rights group objects to his presence, and tells Brandon that Quintero has ordered the murders of thousands of citizens. After meeting a gardener who was tortured by the regime, Brandon agrees to serve Quintero with a subpeona. Steve, Kelly, Donna, Valerie, Griffin and Muntz plan to steal the mascot of rival Southern California University before the homecoming game. Donna does not show up, as she instead spends the day with Ray at his family pumpkin patch. Dylan fears that he and Valerie are becoming too close, so he cheats on her. Andrea meets a UCLA medical student at the laundromat. He believes that she is babysitting Hannah, and she doesn't tell him that she is married. Music: 'I Want Candy' by the Strangeloves (#11, 1965); 'My Light' by Big Mountain, 'Drive Me' by Jamie Walters, 'Willie and the Hand Jive' by Johnny Otis.
7: Who's Zoomin' Who?
The fire marshal shuts down the Peach Pit After Dark for violating capacity. Steve tries to talk Dylan and Nat into buying out the carpet store next door and converting it into a club. Valerie tells the Walshes about Dylan's financial problems, but he angrily refuses Jim's assistance. Steve and David go to Dylan's house in the morning to discuss business, and find a half-naked Valerie. Steve punches Dylan in the face. Kelly objects when Jackie signs up Erin and herself for a mother-daughter photo shoot. Cindy reminds Kelly that her mother is much more responsible than she was during her modeling days. Kelly admits that she is hurt that she wasn't asked to join them, and Jackie confesses that she feared being mistaken for a grandmother. David handcuffs himself to Clare's bed, unaware that she does not have the key. They must think fast when Clare's father pays a surprise visit. Griffin surprises Donna by whisking her away to Catalina, but she is offended when he assumes she will stay the night. Donna tries to make amends with Ray, who was hurt when she broke their date. Music: 'Movin' on Up' by M People, 'And the Beat Goes On' by Sonny and Cher, 'Hold On' by Jamie Walters, 'Rainy Night in Georgia' by Ray Charles.
8: Things That Go Bang in the Night
Val wants to move back to Buffalo, but her mother has checked into a mental facility and cannot care for her. Brandon explains Valerie's situation to Steve and asks him to give her another chance. A pool hall acquaintance supplies Dylan with drugs. Brandon behaves coldly toward Valerie after she skips a party to go to Dylan's house. She reveals the gravity of Dylan's situation and pleads with Brandon for help. Dylan finds his gun and points it at brats who vandalize his house on Halloween. He shoots up his living room. Brandon confiscates Dylan's gun, ignoring his threats of legal action. After Dylan passes out, he stays to watch over him. Ray reacts angrily after seeing Griffin kiss Donna at a Halloween party. Donna finally tells Griffin about Ray; he responds rudely and gets slapped. Ray agrees to respect Donna's decision to remain a virgin. Andrea hesitates to take Hannah to a Día de los Muertos ceremony. She enjoys the experience, but expresses reservations when Jesse's catholic aunt gives Hannah a necklace of the cross. David and Clare camp out in the desert to look for aliens. Music: 'Dream Baby (How Long Must I Dream)' by Roy Orbison, 'Papa Was a Rolling Stone' by the Temptations, 'Twilight Zone' by Golden Earring.
Wednesday, November 2nd, 1994
9: Intervention
Cindy convinces Dylan to come over to the Walsh house, where he is confronted by an intervention. Valerie and Clare run into each other during a shopping excursion and discuss their exclusion from the event. Dylan reluctantly checks into a rehab clinic. He checks out during his first day and forces Valerie to drive him home. She walks out after he gets blitzed and contacts his dealer. Dylan begins shooting heroin. He rolls his car while trying to elude the police. Ray endures an uncomfortable dinner with Donna and her parents. Ray's mother, LuAnn, encourages him to capitalize on Donna's wealth. David and Clare make an X-rated video of themselves. The tape accidentally ends up in the hands of Dr. and Mrs. Martin. Kelly is invited to appear on the cover of Seventeen Magazine, but isn't very excited by the opportunity. Music: 'Every Day of the Week' by Jade (#20, 1995; from the 90210: The College Years soundtrack); 'Walk Like a Man' by the Four Seasons (#1, 1963); 'It Keeps You Runnin''' by the Doobie Brothers.
10: The Dreams of Dylan McKay
Dylan experiences a number of bizarre dreams as he fights for his life. He has recurring nightmares about trying to save Erica from a speeding train as Suzanne, Kevin and his dealer attempt to kill him. A medical student takes a special interest in Dylan's condition; she describes the nightmares as a battle for his soul. Dylan takes a turn for the worse but recovers following an inspiring conversation with his father. He awakens with his mother at his bedside. Steve and Brandon lead the KEG house team in a flag football tournament. They are distracted by news of Dylan's accident, and Steve bristles when his father appoints himself the unofficial coach. Steve makes a bid to take over the Peach Pit: After Dark. Music: 'Doctor My Eyes' by Jackson Browne (#8, 1972); 'Spirits in the Material World' by The Police (#11, 1982).
11: Hate Is Just a Four-Letter Word
Controversy erupts when the university's Black Student Union arranges a speaking engagement for Roland Turner, a respected leader who has made anti-Semitic remarks. Jewish student leaders do not want to allow him to speak, as they believe this will encourage hatred and intolerance. Student senator Janice Williams insists that Turner's message actually centers on unity. Brandon endures criticism when he postpones the vote on the issue. Andrea joins the protest and accuses Brandon of selling out to salvage his political career. Jesse tells Andrea that he respects her passion for the cause, but accuses her of being narrow-minded. A bomb threat is called in to the school, and someone paints swastikas on the outside of the Jewish student union. Andrea's grandmother encourages her to listen to what Turner has to say, and they sit with Janice at the speech. A conversation with Andrea prompts David to reflect on his faith. He attends the candlelight protest outside the auditorium. Kelly's magazine shoot is postponed by the chaos, but she learns that she may make the cover. Val disposes of Dylan's drug stash, then inadvertently tells his dealer that he is in the hospital. The man warns Dylan not to mention his name to the cops. Donna's plans to throw a party for Ray's 25th birthday fall apart, but he prefers the intimate dinner they spend together. Music: 'Saturday' by Omar.
Wednesday, November 23rd, 1994
12: Rock of Ages (a.k.a. The Voodoo That You Do So Well)
Jim gets Brandon tickets to the Rolling Stones' Rose Bowl concert, but a hearing to determine the legality of his presidency is moved to the night of the concert. Jesse argues that Brandon is already the legitimate president, as he has been calling Senate meetings to order; the challenge to the presidency is denied. Brandon takes Andrea to the concert. Kelly gets backstage access through the magazine, while braggart Steve has trouble getting in at all after a hippie steals his wallet. Ray and Donna work as vendors and see the show free of charge. David and Clare go to the concert even though they claim to hate the group, but have to turn to a scalper when Mel lets them down. Steve and his father force Dylan out of the Peach Pit After Dark. He agrees to sell his shares when Steve, Nat and Willie (the cook) visit him in rehab. Dylan and Valerie agree to stop seeing each other, as he doesn't want to involve her in his problems. During group therapy, Dylan has a confrontation with Charley, an older man who likes to bully other patients instead of dealing with his own problems. Charley seeks Dylan's help to finally overcome his addiction. Music: 'You Got Me Rocking' / 'It's Only Rock N' Roll' / 'Not Fade Away,' / 'Love Is Strong' / 'Start Me Up' by the Rolling Stones, 'Money (That's What I Want)' by Barrett Strong, 'Green Onions' by Booker T. & the MG's, 'Hold On' by Jamie Walters.
13: Up in Flames
Emily flies back from Paris to attend a seminar at La Jolla. She asks Brandon to meet her at the airport, claiming to have just a four-hour layover. She actually has a week until the beginning of her seminar, but Brandon breaks her heart by revealing that he is dating Kelly. When he sees her back to her hotel room, they share a passionate kiss. Steve and Griffin organize a holiday rave at an abandoned house. Valerie helps them out in the hopes of getting back in Steve's good graces. David and Clare accidentally post the notice about the event on a computer bulletin board for lesbians, who constitute most of the guests. The house has very poor wiring and continually blows fuses. Griffin uses too much electricity, and the house catches on fire. Ray rescues Steve and Valerie, who were fooling around in one of the bedrooms. Kelly and a girl named Allison are trapped in a downstairs bathroom with no means of escape. The fire fighters try to reach them as they are engulfed by flames. Music: 'I'm Gonna Get You' by Bizarre Inc., 'Every Day of the Week' by Jade, 'The Comfort of Strangers' by Jamie Walters, 'Incense and Peppermints' by Strawberry Alarm Clock, 'What Your Love Means to Me' by Hi-Five.
14: Injustice for All
Kelly suffers burns on her wrist, ear, and the side of her neck. Allison's injuries are much more severe, but she maintains a positive attitude. Brandon is wracked with guilt because of his feelings for Emily. Kelly does not react well when she learns that Emily is still in town. She calls Dylan to discuss her insecurities, and Brandon visits him in search of advice. Kelly believes that Brandon is only staying with her out of guilt, but Emily eases her mind when she reveals that he expressed his love for Kelly before the fire. Griffin's father hires an accomplished attorney to keep Steve and Griffin out of jail. They receive probation and community service, and are forbidden from operating dance clubs or parties for two years. Steve is furious to learn of this provision, especially after he discovers that Griffin stole the keys to the house, rather than obtaining permission to use it for the rave. He physically attacks Griffin and orders him to leave the fraternity. Ray's perpetual bad mood confuses Donna. He explains that his mother always begins drinking around the holidays, as his father left her on Christmas--after pushing her down the stairs and causing her to have a miscarriage. Andrea and Jesse throw a party for Hannah's first Hanukkah. Jesse obtains work as an attorney for those who cannot afford representation. He is frustrated by the treatment of a single father, whose kids are taken away when a babysitter neglects them. Dylan comes home from rehab and is greeted by a letter from a stranger who found Erica's bathroom note pleading for his help. Music: 'You Gotta Be' by Des'ree, 'People Got to Be Free' by the Rascals.
Wednesday, December 21st, 1994
15: Christmas Comes This Time Each Year
Jim and Cindy fly to London to spend Christmas with Brenda. Brandon stays in town with Kelly, who is reluctant to reveal her scars to him. Felice offers Ray $10,000 to stay away from Donna forever. Donna is mortified when Felice reveals that he accepted the check, but it turns out he only took it as evidence of her mother's scheming. Ray and Donna use the money to send LuAnn on a cruise, as this has always been her dream. Dylan seeks the FBI's help in tracking down Kevin and Suzanne in Brazil. Christine tells him that the agency is too busy to assist him. She puts him in touch with a strange man named Jonesy, who will help him out in exchange for half of the money. Andrea and Jesse quarrel when Hannah does not enjoy her first Christmas. He claims that Andrea is to blame for her crying, ignoring the fact that Hannah is six months old and teething. The gang saves the day when it arrives dressed as Santa's and elves, and Dylan meets Hannah for the first time. David feels slighted when Clare fails to tell her father the truth about their relationship. Music: 'Please Come Home for Christmas' by Jon Bon Jovi, 'Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree' by Brenda Lee.
16: Sentenced to Life
Steve succeeds in eluding his community service assignment at a retirement home but reconsiders after encountering Saul Howard, a famous actor who worked on Samantha's sitcom. Saul is a vibrant and funny man who suffers from Alzheimer's Disease. Steve's friendship with Saul causes him to appreciate what he has and stop whining about his legal difficulties. Saul also encourages Steve to let go of his anger against Rush, as he relates his rocky relationship with the daughter he tragically lost. Dylan does not wish to contest the drunken driving charge against him, but Jesse urges him to plea bargain. He receives probation and a suspended license. Andrea has another meeting with Peter at the laundromat. They learn each other's marital status when Peter is on-call during Hannah's medical emergency, yet still seem attracted to one another. David and Clare take over as organizers of the Peach Pit: After Dark. Ray balks at an opening night gig; he confesses to Donna that he has stage fright. Kelly continues to mistrust Valerie, whose phone call later saves her from sleeping through their psychology final. Music: 'There Goes My Baby' by the Drifters, 'Drive Me' / 'I Know the Game* by Jamie Walters.
17: Sweating It Out
Dylan asks Brandon to join him on a motorcycle road trip before he begins his probation and loses his driver's license. They constantly argue about Kelly and nearly call off the trip. They are caught going to the bathroom on a Native American burial ground, and must make amends by digging a hole for a special ceremony. The Native American sheriff invites Brandon and Dylan to join him in a sweat lodge, where they learn valuable lessons. Jonesy calls Dylan and tells him that he has found Kevin and Suzanne. Kelly and Valerie attend a psychology seminar conducted by Professor Patrick Finley. Val laughs off the philosophies and decides to leave. Kelly takes the professor's words to heart because of her experience with the fire. Steve is still bitter about being cut out of the Peach Pit After Dark. Rush apologizes for being insensitive to his feelings. Donna turns to Vince Lombardi for inspiration to help Ray overcome his stage fright. Valerie develops an interest in Ray. Music: 'Runaway' by Del Shannon, 'Turn the Beat Around' by Gloria Estefan, 'I Know the Game' by Jamie Walters.
18: Hazardous to Your Health
Dylan flies to Mexico, where Kevin and Suzanne have recently re-located their smuggling business. Jonesy's female partner has abandoned him, so Dylan enlists Valerie's help. She flirts with Kevin and tricks him into revealing the location of the couple's bank account. Jonesy wires the money into an FBI account. He wants to leave, and is furious when Dylan insists on rescuing Erica. He and Val are caught in the act, but Jonesy returns with the cops and saves them. The university denies tenure to Professor Finley, sending his followers into an uproar. Brandon tries to defuse the situation, and learns from Dean Whitmore that parents have accused Finley of trying to ""convert"" students. Finley lashes out at Brandon, creating a rift between Kelly and him. Music: 'Sherry' by the Four Seasons (#1, 1962); 'I Know the Game' by Jamie Walters.
Wednesday, February 1st, 1995
19: Little Monsters
Kelly alienates her friends as she becomes more deeply involved with Finley's cause. Brandon writes an editorial supporting Finley in the hopes of getting back into Kelly's good graces. The university elects to oust Finley, who vows to continue his teachings elsewhere. He urges Kelly to break it off with Brandon, as he feels that Brandon distracts her from the "evolution." A record company pursues Ray, and Ariel is the A&R representative who must seal the deal. Donna and David warn Ray to stay away from Ariel, but he insists that their relationship will remain strictly business. Ray rejects the contract because it would require him to surrender his publishing rights. After a visit to Hawaii to ensure that the two get along, Dylan decides to leave Erica with Iris. Valerie demands compensation for her role in retrieving Erica and the money, and finds Dylan's $10,000 offer unsatisfactory. Jonesy agrees to a much larger payoff if she promises to work with him again. Andrea worries about Hannah's health as Jesse prepares to leave town for an interview. He suggests that she call Peter for reassurance. Andrea winds up going on a date with Peter, where they share a public kiss. Music: 'Why' / 'I Know the Game' by Jamie Walters, 'Every Day of the Week by Jade, 'My Guy' by Mary Wells, 'One' by Three Dog Night.
20: You Gotta Have Heart
Finley pushes Kelly to end her relationship with Brandon, but she cannot go through with it. She later dumps him during a confrontation at Finley's new headquarters, and Brandon reluctantly turns to Dylan for help. Valerie uses her new windfall to move out of the Walsh house and into a luxurious hotel. She ignores Dylan's warnings about the loneliness associated with life at a hotel. Donna goes to bed with Ray but then cuts things off, leaving him very frustrated. Val pops the lighter in Ray's truck, draining the battery so that he has to seek a ride. She lures him back to her hotel room. Andrea becomes uncomfortable when she and Jesse run into Peter and his wife at the movies. Everyone pitches in as the After Dark hosts a telethon for pediatric heart patients. Steve struggles to fulfill his promise to get the R&B group Jade for the event. Music: 'Hold On' performed by Jamie Walters, 'Mind, Body & Soul' / 'Every Day of the Week' performed by Jade.
21: Stormy Weather
Dylan feigns an interest in Professor Finley's teachings in order to infiltrate the operation. He and Kelly get carried away and kiss after attending a wedding. Dylan discovers that Finley arranges romantic pairings to secure wealthy benefactors. He promises to donate all of his money if Finley can convince Kelly to take him back. Kelly tries to seduce Dylan, but refuses to believe his allegations about Finley. Brandon brings in one of Finley's former lieutenants to convince Kelly that the evolution is a fraud. Kelly leaves the group and reunites with Brandon, leaving Dylan heartbroken. Ray ends his fling with Valerie, although she doesn't seem to get the message. Andrea takes a researcher position at the hospital and spends most of her time fooling around with Peter. Music: 'Hold On' by Wilson Phillips (#1, 1990); 'House of Love' by Amy Grant and Vince Gill (#37, 1995).
Wednesday, February 22nd, 1995
22: Alone at the Top
Valerie buys the Peach Pit After Dark from Rush. She threatens to fire Ray unless he resumes their relationship. Ray refuses to give in and decides to go on tour. Donna is furious with David for failing to defend Ray. Peter rents a motel room so that he and Andrea can have some privacy for their liaisons. Dylan rebuffs Valerie's advances; she tempts him by leaving a joint at his house. He tries to smoke it, but cannot light it due to heavy wind. The incident prompts Dylan to visit his friend Charley from rehab, who is now managing his family's motel. The student body demands action from Brandon following a rash of thefts on campus. Panic sweeps across the university after a woman is raped in broad daylight. David's roommate Lenny, a loner in his late twenties, is questioned about the crime. Music: 'Why' / 'Hold On' performed by Jamie Walters, 'Little Red Book' by Love, 'In a Broken Dream' by the Faces.
Wednesday, March 1st, 1995
23: Love Hurts
Lenny is released, as he has an alibi and the victim (an acquaintance) clears him. He confesses to David that he served time for sexual assault; he may have taken part in a rape while wandering the streets in a drunken stupor during his tour in the gulf. The outraged students try to run Lenny off campus, and Brandon agrees to help him transfer to another school. Valerie convinces Donna that David is to blame for Ray's departure. David and Donna get into a screaming match. Lenny reveals that Garrett Slan, a CU cafeteria worker, also spent time in a military prison. Brandon warns Clare that Garrett may be fixated on her, but he has moved on to Donna. Garrett breaks into the beach apartment, holds Donna at knifepoint, and tries to rape her. David interrupts as he comes over to apologize to Donna. She lets him know that something is amiss by calling him "Dave," and he bursts in and hits Garrett in the head with a baseball bat. Dylan decides to help Charley turn his screenplay into a motion picture. Dylan sees Andrea with Peter at the motel and offers to serve as her confidante. Tired of bickering with Jesse, Andrea plans to leave him for Peter. He informs her that he is not interested in a commitment. Cindy tries to help Jackie get a date. Sparks fly between Jackie and Mel when they run into each other at the Peach Pit. Music: 'S.O.S.' by Cathy Dennis, 'She Don't Use Jelly' performed by Flaming Lips, 'One Night In Heaven' by M People.
24: Unreal World
As a class project, David and Clare plan to film a documentary about an eclectic group of roommates. When the subjects back out, David and Clare decide to impersonate them, with help from Steve, Donna, Kelly and Brandon. A number of incidents cause the group to break character. Steve becomes depressed after learning that Celeste is engaged (not to the high school sweetheart she chose over Steve, but to an airman she just met). David consoles Donna, who is still traumatized by the rape attempt, and they end up kissing. Clare witnesses this on a monitor and responds by making a pass at Steve. Kelly gets drunk from spiked watermelon. She finds out that Jackie and Mel are moving in together and launches into a tirade about cheating men. This prompts the group to conduct a discussion about lost loves, in which David admits that he still loves Donna. David and Clare get into a spat while editing the video and decide to break up. Andrea and Jesse briefly share bliss. She tries to confess her affair, but he stuns her by admitting to a one-night stand. Valerie runs out of money and moves back in with the Walshes. She and Dylan are reunited after he and Charley see her at a movie premiere at the club. Music: 'Eight Miles High' by the Byrds, 'Dreams' by the Cranberries.
25: Double Jeopardy
Jesse moves in with a reluctant Dylan and gets on his nerves. Valerie, unaware of Jesse's presence, drops by Dylan's house while babysitting Hannah. Jesse jumps to conclusions and assumes that Andrea is with Peter. Brandon and Clare become very competitive as they vie for a spot on College Jeopardy! Kelly invites Andrea to crash the duo's grudge match, and she wins easily. Andrea is shaken when Val tells her that Jesse was discussing the possibility of divorce. Brandon and Clare convince her to take her mind off things by trying out for Jeopardy! Dylan urges Jesse to stop being so defensive, and Jesse goes to the television studio with Hannah to ask Andrea for another chance. Andrea appears on the show and wins, and she and Jesse get back together. Donna has trouble getting in touch with Ray while he is on the road. Mel's reconciliation with Jackie gives David new hope of winning back Donna. When he learns that Donna is going to spend spring break in Portland with Ray, he decides to tag along to visit his mother. Music: 'Tracks of My Tears' by Smokey Robinson and the Miracles.
26: A Song for My Mother
Ray is unhappy that David has come to Portland. David panics when he discovers that his mother was fired, no longer lives at her last known address, and hasn't cashed her alimony checks for months. He turns to Donna for help, and Ray behaves like a total jerk. David and Donna cannot find Sheila at any of her favorite hangouts and learn that she was recently arrested. Donna misses Ray's concert; he explodes and shoves her against a wall in their hotel room. He later feels guilty and loans David his truck. Mel flies in from Los Angeles and tells David that Sheila has a long history of mental illness. They receive a tip that she is living on the streets and take her to the hospital. David realizes that Donna is happy with Ray and decides to back off. Dylan explores hypnotherapy in the hopes of understanding the main character in Charley's script. Valerie gets a tattoo.Music: 'Fever' by Peggy Lee (#8, 1958); 'Why' / 'The Comfort of Strangers' performed by Jamie Walters.
27: Squash It
Steve and David organize a hip-hop night at the club to boost the sagging gate receipts. David asks Willie's nephew Juwan, a talented DJ, to join him onstage. Steve backs out of the event because he is nervous about Juwan's criminal record (as if he should be one to pass judgment). Valerie tries to dodge a grimy Australian metal band that claims to have been booked. Although his tour is ending, Ray is unsure about returning to Los Angeles. Valerie goes to Reno to re-hire him, and claims to have changed her ways. While Val is gone, the Aussies crash the hip-hop night and trash the After Dark. Juwan and his friends are prepared to fight them, but decide to keep their cool. David and Clare get back together. Dylan allows Molly to hypnotize him and regresses to a past life as a hobo. Chancellor Arnold asks Brandon to keep an eye on a bratty 12-year-old genius who may apply to C.U. Music: 'It's Your Thing' by the Isley Brothers (#2, 1969); 'Here and Now' by Letters to Cleo; 'Dirty Water' by the Standells.
28: Girls on the Side
Kelly becomes depressed after making the cover of Seventeen, as she fears that she will never regain her past looks. Steve and Jackie try to convince her to continue her modeling career. Kelly has a chance meeting with Allison's girlfriend Dana, who gives her the brush-off. Kelly tries to visit Allison at the burn center, but she refuses to see her. Kelly talks to Dana's new girlfriend, who reveals that Allison dumped Dana because she is in love with Kelly. Allison calls Kelly and asks to see her after she is released from the hospital. Ray returns to town, and LuAnn gets drunk before his first performance. David and Clare take her home, and she babbles about Ray's affair with Valerie. David and Clare confront them, but decide not to tell Donna. Charley grows tired of seeing Dylan moon over Kelly; he encourages him to make a move. Jesse is offered a clerkship in Boise. Andrea offers her support, although she is less than thrilled by the move. Jesse turns down the offer because he doesn't want to force Andrea to give up her dreams of medical school. Music: 'Six Days on the Road' by Dave Dudley, 'In the Midnight Hour' by Wilson Pickett, 'One Night In Heaven' by M People.
29: The Real McKay
While under hyponsis, Dylan recalls a past life as a gunslinger in the Wild West. He recognizes Kelly as the woman who convinced him to change his ways and become a family man. He later helped rescue a past love from hanging and was gunned down by the son of one of his victims. Dylan concludes that Kelly is his soulmate. He shows up on her doorstep when she returns from a trip to New York, and they share a passionate kiss. Brandon seeks re-election and is virtually unopposed. When the board of education mandates a tuition hike, Brandon is criticized for failing to look out for the students' interests. Alex Diaz runs for president as a write-in candidate and wins easily. Valerie concludes that Brandon is her perfect guy. Jim fears that his job is in jeopardy when his bosses hold meetings behind his back. Jesse is offered a teaching job at the Yale School of Law, but will only accept if Andrea's scholarship is reinstated. The school agrees wholeheartedly. Music: 'I Know' by Dionne Farris.
30: Hello Life, Goodbye Beverly Hills
Dylan asks Kelly to join him on a trip around the world. Valerie sees the tickets in Kelly's room and tells Brandon. Brandon counters with a marriage proposal, and Kelly asks for time to think things over. She eventually rejects both men and proclaims, ""I choose me."" Andrea and Jesse prepare for their move to Connecticut. The gang surprises her by organizing a picnic lunch at West Beverly High (although Brandon and Dylan, still waiting for Kelly's decision, opt not to attend). Everyone meets Andrea and Jesse at the Peach Pit one last time to say goodbye. Ray lashes out at Donna for devoting time to her friends and studying for finals. He drags her away from Andrea's picnic and verbally berates her. Jim considers a possible move to Hong Kong as his company offers a promotion and substantial raise. He and Cindy decide to go through with the move. Music: 'I'll Stand by You' by the Pretenders (#16, 1994); 'Remember' by Harry Nilsson.
31: P.S. I Love You (Part 1)
Jim and Cindy leave for Hong Kong. Kelly wants to continue her relationship with Brandon, but he cannot get over the rejected marriage proposal. Steve and Donna head to Palm Springs for an Alpha/KEG convention. A contrite Ray agrees to accompany Donna, who is making a speech at the event. He quickly becomes angry and possessive. Rush tries to set up Steve with a business associate's daughter. Steve is more interested in the Cadillac-driving "goddess" he keeps encountering. Brandon and Valerie decide to head to Palm Springs to avoid the caravan of potential buyers who have overrun the house. Brandon goes on a drinking binge and finds himself tempted by Valerie. He has a hallucination in which his parents appear and express their disappointment. Kelly postpones her trip to the convention to spend the day with Allison, but is very secretive. David and Clare see them together and get the wrong idea. Allison admits her love for Kelly, who is not interested. Dylan's plans to visit his mother and sister are nixed when Charley finds an investor for the movie. Dylan is wary after learning that the man is a mobster. Music: 'Feel So High' by Des'ree, 'Leaving on a Jet Plane' by Peter, Paul & Mary, 'Fish Taco' by Dick Dale.
David tells Brandon about Kelly and Allison, and Brandon humiliates Kelly with his drunken ramblings. Brandon plans to give in to Valerie. The police pull over Brandon and arrest him when a joint is found in Val's car. He is released, but rejects Valerie. He clears the air with Kelly before heading home, and refuses another reconciliation attempt. After learning that Tom Rose knew his father, Dylan tries to contact Christine. Rose traces the call and takes Dylan up in a tram car, where his goons hold him over the edge. He says that he knows the identity of Jack's killer, but the information would cost Dylan his life. Dylan and Brandon end up sharing a bus ride home. Dylan plots to track down and kill his father's murderer. Brandon learns that the house has been sold, and he must move in two weeks. He and Valerie end up making out. Ray becomes physical with Donna during an argument and knocks her down the stairs. She suffers an arm injury, and is unnerved when her mother suddenly gives Ray her approval. Valerie tells Donna that she saw Ray push her, but Donna denies it and lashes out at Val. Steve discovers that his goddess is a man.
1: Home Is Where the Tart Is
Brandon returns to Beverly Hills from his summer job in Boston and at Steve's advice, he helps set up a destructive rave party in his parents vacant house. Valerie welcomes Ginger LaMonica, a visiting friend of hers from Buffalo who's as wild and devious as she, and has an eye for Brandon. Meanwhile, Kelly returns to Beverly Hills with a new boyfriend named Colin Robins, a young artist whom she met while modeling in New York City. Donna hosts a party on her parents yacht, while trying to hide her doubts about her future relationship with Ray. Also, Dylan becomes more and more obsessed with avenging his father's death when he visits his family's storage locker and talks with his father's former prison cell mate. Music: 'Summer Time" by Shaggy, "Juke Joint Jezebe'l by KMFDM.
2: Buffalo Girls
The house is fixed up, and Steve decides to move in with Brandon. Donna finds Mrs. Korman's ring in Ray's jacket pocket. Everyone believes that he stole it (although he points out that he would have to be an idiot to leave the ring in his pocket for days, then let Donna discover it). The house's petty cash and Steve's gold watch turn up missing, and Steve blames Ray. Steve and Ray nearly get into a fight, and Donna decides to give up on Ray. Valerie exposes Ginger as the actual thief and orders her to leave town. Val pays off Ginger at the airport; they actually staged the entire incident so that Valerie could prove herself to the rest of the gang. Brandon tries to bring Kelly flowers for her birthday, only to find Colin in her bedroom. Colin angers Kelly by refusing to show for her birthday party; he later reveals that he spent the time creating a special painting for her. Donna gets drunk at the party and tries to throw herself at Ray. Brandon gives Dylan information about businessman Tony Marchette, his father's killer. Dylan follows Marchette into an elevator just to see how close he can get to him. Music: 'You Make Me Smile' by Dave Koz.
3: Must Be a Guy Thing
Dylan heads for the C.U. campus in the hopes of striking up a friendship with Marchette's son. Marchette actually has a beautiful daughter, Toni; she agrees to go out with Dylan. Brandon notices that Toni really likes Dylan, and disapproves of his friend's actions. Brandon expresses an interest in a columnist job with the school paper. Editor Susan Keats turns him down and seems to loathe him. Brandon writes a sexist column about women as a counterpoint to Susan's similar column about men. They go to the After Dark to "research" behavior of the opposite sex, and Susan decides to hire him. Steve's advisor finally realizes that he cheated on his math placement test as a freshman. He ruins Steve's cushy schedule by forcing him to enroll in remedial math. Steve cannot find a suitable tutor, so he reluctantly accepts an offer from Clare. Kelly feels uncomfortable when she learns that Colin and Valerie once toured Europe together as part of a teen group. Valerie hires Colin to paint a mural at the club. Val confesses to Colin that she had a crush on him, and he fulfills her longtime dream by kissing her. Valerie lashes out at David for arriving at work late, unaware that he was helping his mother move into her own apartment. She apologizes and offers her support. A friend of the Martins, who is president of a record label, agrees to scout Ray. Ray learns that he cannot land a deal unless he impresses the man's young daughter. Music: 'Sexy Thought' by Paula Abdul, 'Why' performed by Jamie Walters, 'Suspicion' by Terry Stafford.
4: Everything's Coming Up Roses
Donna, Kelly, Clare and Valerie try out for the Tournament of Roses Court. The other girls only wish to secure invitations to a ball, but Donna elects to proceed with the tryouts. Felice does not approve of this decision, leaving Donna confused. Colin opts out of the party to work on his mural, but later shows up with Valerie. Kelly throws a hissy fit before Colin explains that nothing is going on. Brandon and Susan cover the Rose Court tryouts for the newspaper, and attend the party together. When they return to the newsroom, Susan grabs Brandon and kisses him. Steve pretends to be sensitive as he woos a woman in a chat room. Clare asks Steve to escort her to the ball. He cuts the date short to meet with his on-line sweetheart, only to find out that it is Clare! Donna and Ray miss the ball because he has to perform at Jessica's birthday party. Toni surprises Dylan when they go motorcycle riding. Dylan admits to Brandon that he is falling for her. David grows tired of watching after his lonely mother. He and Val stop by Sheila's apartment and find an ambulance; Sheila has attempted suicide. Music: 'Devil With the Blue Dress On/Good Golly Miss Molly' by Mitch Ryder and The Detroit Wheels, 'Hold On' performed by Jamie Walters, 'In the Mood' / 'Moonlight Serenade' by Glenn Miller.
5: Lover's Leap
Valerie is haunted by nightmares about her father's suicide. David learns that his mother requires shock therapy to improve her chances of recovery. He does not support this course of action, and falls into a deep funk. Valerie tells him about her father and offers to help him. She takes David to a cliff overlooking the city and tests his will to live. David convinces his mother to undergo treatment, and Valerie overcomes her nightmares. Toni throws a dinner party while her father is out of town. Bruno catches Dylan snooping around in Marchette's study. He tells Dylan that Marchette is aware that he is Jack's son. Steve and Clare decide to attend the party together, and share a good-night kiss. Brandon convinces Susan to go out with him. Music: 'The Lion Sleeps Tonight' by Robert John.
6: Speechless
Valerie gets herself invited on a road trip with Kelly, Donna and Clare. David thanks Val for helping him through his hard times, and gives her a kiss. During the trip, Donna goads Val into admitting that she slept with Ray. The roommates resolve to stop talking to Valerie. The car breaks down, and the girls spend the night at a convent while awaiting repairs. They cannot speak after sundown. Donna forgives Valerie, who urges her not to forget about Ray's abusive behavior. Donna dumps Ray. Steve convinces Brandon to let a director film a movie at the Walsh house, without revealing that it is a porno. Susan is offended by the fiasco, but sleeps with Brandon anyway. Marchette doesn't show for a dinner engagement with Toni and Dylan. He arrives after Toni leaves the table and warns Dylan to stay away. Dylan and Marchette's bodyguard pull guns on each other. Marchette tells Toni that Dylan is using her. She refuses to believe Dylan's claim that her father killed Jack. Kelly meets Colin's art dealer, who seems to have more than business on her mind.
7: Violated
Valerie accepts her marketing professor's invitation to a seminar. They have a drink afterwards, and the man tries to come on to her. He gives her a D on a midterm essay that he had seemed to like earlier, and Val suspects that he is punishing her. David and Susan encourage Valerie to file a complaint. Val backs down because she fears that the investigation will expose embarrassing information about her personal life. Meanwhile, Susan works on an exposé for the Condor. Several of Professor Haywood's past victims come forward, and he is forced to resign. Bruno delivers a letter from Dylan to Toni, and the couple eventually reunites. Marchette sees Toni and Dylan on campus together and becomes furious. Toni ignores her father's ultimatum and decides to move in with Dylan. Kelly cuts Colin loose after learning that he acts as Claudia's concubine in exchange for financial backing. Steve and Clare quarrel after booking a motel room; he mistakenly assumes that she is responsible for a set of handcuffs. Donna resists Ray's relentless attempts at a reconciliation. Music: 'B-A-B-Y' by Carla Thomas.
8: Gypsies, Cramps and Fleas (a.k.a. Halloween VI)
Colin appeases Kelly by ending his affiliation with Claudia and taking a teaching job. A fortune teller sets up shop at the Peach Pit for Halloween. In spite of her questionable credibility, her presence has an impact on many couples. She forces Susan to come clean with Brandon about a past relationship. David buys a love potion to use on Valerie, and the two become closer. Steve and Clare accidentally drink the potion and have a rendezvous in the club's dressing room. Donna spends time at the Halloween party with Joe Bradley, the university's star quarterback. A jealous Ray accosts her, prompting Joe to back off. Ray lurks at Donna's apartment and becomes physical when she refuses to talk to him. Joe returns and comes to Donna's defense; he had reconsidered his decision and wants to date her. Dylan and Toni take in a stray kitten. Toni finds Dylan's gun in the first aid kit and insists that he get rid of it. Toni's father meets her at the Peach Pit in the hopes of ending their rift. He refuses to give Dylan a chance, and Toni gets him to admit that he had Jack killed. Dylan disposes of his gun and vows to let go of his anger. He and Toni plan to move to Hawaii. Music: 'Love Potion No. 9' by The Searchers, 'Mean Machine' / 'Strange Love' performed by The Cramps, 'I'm a Believer' by The Monkees.
9: Earthquake Weather
Dylan asks Toni to marry him. Kelly is shaken by the news, and angers Dylan with her selfish reaction. She also bristles at David's new relationship with Valerie. Clare comes on strong to Steve. An earthquake rocks the major Los Angeles area, spooking Colin. Brandon and Susan, in Palm Springs for a newspaper conference, get trapped in an elevator with a pregnant woman. They must deliver her child. Donna advances to the finals of the Rose Court selections. She sees her mother in a photograph of the 1969 contestants, but Felice refuses to explain herself. Ray begins seeing a therapist and convinces Donna to come to one of his sessions. The doctor warns Donna to stay away from Ray. Marchette pretends to give Dylan and Toni his blessing, then takes out a hit on Dylan. Music: 'Shakin' All Over' by The Who.
10: One Wedding and a Funeral
The hit on Dylan fails when Brandon, David and Steve "kidnap" him for a rather sedate bachelor party. The girls throw a much livelier affair for Toni. Marchette shows up at the beach apartment and tries to talk Toni out of the marriage. He refuses to attend the wedding, so Bruno gives her away. (Only Bruno and Brandon are allowed at the ceremony, but everyone comes to the reception.) The next day, Marchette asks Dylan to come over to accept a gift for Toni. Bruno finds out that Dylan is to be ambushed and killed, but can't reach him because the phone is off the hook. He turns to Brandon for help. Toni is upset when their cat, Trouble, turns up missing during a driving rainstorm. Dylan agrees to stay home and look for her while Toni meets her father. Because of the rain, the hit men cannot tell that Toni is driving Dylan's car. She is shot to death, as Brandon and Dylan arrive seconds later. After the funeral, Marchette challenges Dylan to gain revenge by killing him. He refuses, and decides to leave town (with the cat). Meanwhile, Ray continues to harass Donna. Music: 'Nobody Knows Me' by Lyle Lovett.
11: Offensive Interference
Ray files battery charges against Joe, who is suspended from the homecoming game when the coach discovers that he missed curfew on Halloween. The football team shuns Donna until she explains that Joe was protecting her. She agrees to testify on Joe's behalf, even though it will publicly expose her abusive relationship with Ray. Donna makes the Rose Court. Felice reveals that she tried out for the court, and had to drop out when she became pregnant. She got married, then suffered a miscarriage. Jonesy recruits Valerie to pose as a prostitute to trap a client's philandering husband. David disapproves of Val's secretive behavior, but bails her out when she is arrested. Val goes to bed with David. Brandon becomes depressed about Dylan's departure as he ties up his affairs. Kelly manages to cheer him up, sparking jealousy in Susan. Steve is assigned to protect the school mascot during homecoming week. Colin helps him pull a prank on rival S.C.U. Music: 'Jenny Takes a Ride!' by Mitch Ryder and the Detroit Wheels.
Wednesday, November 22nd, 1995
12: Breast Side Up
Colin and Susan leave for New York to spend Thanksgiving with their families. The gang decides to spend the holiday together, and David invites his mother to join them. She annoys Valerie with her constant advice about food preparation, but saves the day when Val accidentally sleeps in. Clare takes Steve to a faculty mixer, where he proves to be a big hit because of his ""people skills."" Donna gives a deposition that does not reflect favorably on Joe. As a birthday surprise, she arranges a visit from Steve Young. She also plans to sleep with Joe, but he reveals that he is a virgin and does not believe in pre-marital sex. Kelly hangs out at Brandon's house to watch videos, and spends the night in Steve's vacant room. Valerie jumps to conclusions when she comes home the next morning and sees Brandon and Kelly in an embrace. Music: 'Someone to Love' by Jon B. featuring Babyface (#10, 1995).
13: Courting
Joe rejects a plea bargain and decides to go to trial. Donna testifies that Ray was physically harming her, and Valerie corroborates this with her eyewitness account of the Palm Springs incident. The Associated Press picks up Brandon's story about the trial for nationwide syndication. Brandon tries to convince Ray to stop hurting Donna and reveal the truth about his fight with Joe. The prosecutor portrays Donna as a liar because she covered for Ray on her medical report. Ray feels guilty; he owns up to the abuse and clears Joe during his testimony. Donna agrees not to prosecute Ray if he remains in therapy. Ray thanks Brandon for setting him straight and decides to go out on tour. Donna's friend Lisa is selected as Rose Queen. Colin babysits for Erin while Kelly and David are at the trial, as Mel and Jackie have gone away for the weekend. Valerie tells Colin that Kelly spent the night with Brandon. Colin refuses to believe Kelly's denial, but their argument is interrupted when Erin falls into the bathtub. Colin revives her through CPR. Susan becomes angry after Brandon reveals that he felt tempted by Kelly.
14: Fortunate Son
Donna fills in for Lisa at a convenience store. A young boy is caught stealing a teddy bear for his brother's birthday, but Donna covers for him. Donna and Joe get lost and run out of gas. Isaiah, the boy Donna helped, gets them out of a possibly dangerous confrontation by inviting them to his apartment to call a tow truck. Donna discovers that the eleven year old and his younger siblings are left alone while their mom is at work. She expresses concern, but their mother comes home and tells her to butt out. Donna finds places for the kids in a day care center that works with her sorority. Brandon alienates Nat and Susan as he gets carried away during the After Dark's charity casino night. Valerie infuriates Kelly and David by outbidding Kelly for a portrait sitting with Colin. She explains that the portrait is a Christmas gift for David. Steve's father gets him a job at a talent agency. After Steve's boss is fired, she asks him to use his connections with the agency president to arrange a reinstatement. Music: 'Devil With the Blue Dress On/Good Golly Miss Molly' by Mitch Ryder and the Detroit Wheels, 'Tears on My Pillow' by Little Anthony and the Imperials.
15: Angels We Have Heard on High
Cindy surprises Brandon by coming to visit for Christmas. Her relationship with Jim is on the rocks, and she is unsure about returning to Hong Kong. Brandon feels devastated, as he fears that his family is falling apart. A special Christmas present from Jim squashes Cindy's doubts about his love, so she returns home. Colin begins using cocaine. Kelly is livid, as he had promised to give up the habit for good. Steve delivers Christmas presents to his boss's mistress and young niece. He gets fired when they receive the wrong gifts (the little girl gets a negligée), making the man's wife aware of his affair. Although someone else had switched the address labels, Rush blames Steve and lights into him. Steve angrily replies that Rush shouldn't worry about him, as they are not really father and son. When Steve meets Rush to apologize, his father makes a shocking revelation: he is Steve's biological father. He had an affair with a waitress, and decided to buy his baby to raise as his own. Steve is initially angry, but later expresses happiness and relief at solving the mystery of his parentage. Joe tries to keep an antsy Donna in suspense about her Christmas/birthday present. Music: 'Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree' by Brenda Lee.
Wednesday, January 3rd, 1996
16: Turn Back the Clock
Claire gets back in town, and is met by the gang, who fill her in on what went down. Brandon loses control when he sees a hot moment between Susan and Jonathon, and Donna's Christmas present from Joe, literally flies the coop! Steve is on 'teen patrol' for his father, volunteering to watch his party animal half brothers in his absence. Steve institues his own brand of justice when the boys go wild. Music: Forgiven Not Forgotten' / 'Auld Lang Syne' / 'Runaway' performed by The Corrs.
17: Fade In, Fade Out
Kelly is very excited by a visit from her father, who claims to be planning a permanent move to Los Angeles. Jackie and David warn Kelly not to get her hopes up. Bill urges Kelly to give Colin another chance; they stop by Colin's loft, only to find that he is high. Kelly breaks up with him. Bill fails to show for a meeting with Kelly and a realtor, and leaves town without saying goodbye. He leaves Kelly some flowers and a check. Kelly rolls the check and uses it to snort the cocaine stash that Val had confiscated from Colin. Joe has the team doctor check out his injured ankle. The doctor notices something strange in Joe's breathing and recommends that he see a cardiologist. Dr. Martin diagnoses Joe with a congenital heart defect, but the athletic department arranges for a second opinion. The team-sanctioned doctor insists that he is fine, and Joe chooses to believe him. Steve organizes a Roger Corman film festival at the After Dark. The gang finds out that Nat appeared in one of Corman's movies, but he refuses to participate in the event. Steve learns that Nat's indifference stems from memories of a lost love. Nat's ex-fiancée, Joan Diamond, shows up at the festival and asks about him. Steve leads her to Nat, and the couple shares a wonderful evening. Brandon neglects to deliver Susan a message from Jonathan, who plans to return to town. Music: 'You Really Got Me' by The Kinks, 'Knock on Wood' by Eddie Floyd.
18: Snowbound
Kelly reunites with Colin and spends all her time getting high. The couple becomes consumed by its habit, especially when supplies run low. Valerie realizes that Kelly is using drugs, but has difficulty convincing everyone else. During a jog, Susan breaks down in tears after she and Brandon pass the scene of a hit-and-run. She reveals that her older sister was struck by a car and killed while jogging with Susan. Donna's concern for Joe's health grows when he intensifies his training sessions. Brandon has a talk with Joe, and is angry when Susan wants to run a story about his condition. Susan fears that Joe's life could be in danger, while Brandon doesn't want rumors to affect Joe's chances at a pro career. Joe nearly collapses with an irregular heartbeat while running the stadium steps. Clare challenges Steve to a race after he belittles her new sports car. A cop pulls them over, and they must attend traffic school. A fellow student, impressed by their bickering, asks Steve and Clare to appear on a local talk show. Music: 'What You Won't Do for Love' by Bobby Caldwell.
19: Nancy's Choice
Susan is nominated for a college journalism award for her story about a girl's decision to have an abortion. Brandon does not understand why Jonathan insists on flying in for the awards ceremony. Susan explains that she and Jonathan broke up over a difference of opinion regarding the story; this further confuses Brandon. Susan wins the award and bursts into tears during her speech. She confesses to Brandon that the story was about herself; devastated by her sister's death, she had a drunken encounter with Jonathan and wound up pregnant. Jonathan proposed to her, and was crushed when she chose to terminate the pregnancy. Jonathan offers Susan his forgiveness, although she still has doubts about her decision. Valerie arranges a meeting between Colin and a knowledgeable art buyer in the hopes of encouraging Colin to get clean and focus on his career. Unfortunately, the man purchases two works that Colin had painted while high. Kelly swears off cocaine, but cannot resist temptation for long. Steve runs into Elle, the transvestite he met in Palm Springs, during a shopping excursion with Clare. Clare refuses to believe that Elle is a man. Elle attends the journalism conference and ends up on a date with Clare's father. Steve pleads with Elle to hide the truth from the chancellor, as he hasn't dated for a while and is very fragile. Music: 'Don't Say Nothin' Bad (About My Baby)' by the Cookies, 'Tears on My Pillow' by Little Anthony and the Imperials.
20: Flying
Valerie's really annoying friend Ginger returns to town. She forces Val to put her up at a hotel and pay for room service and new dresses. Ginger blackmails Valerie, threatening to tell everyone about the previous fall's scam unless Val coughs up $50,000. She later changes her mind and demands a night with David instead. Clare and Donna confront Kelly after finding drugs in the apartment. She seeks refuge with Colin, and doesn't show for the girls' rummage sale. Brandon takes Kelly for a ride and refuses to drive her home until she has come to her senses. She steals his car when he pulls over to call Susan, then returns to the apartment and tells Donna that she is moving out. Brandon, Steve and Joe accept Jonathan's invitation to go flying in biplanes. Joe faints after his flight, prompting more concern about his heart. He agrees to another appointment with Dr. Martin.
21: Bleeding Hearts
Kelly and Colin argue because she used their entire coke stash. She goes to see his dealer alone, and a second man nearly rapes her. She hits him in the head with a wine bottle and drives away. Kelly calls Brandon for help; he finds her trembling in her car. Brandon and Jackie get Kelly into a rehab center. She confesses her love for Brandon, who does not reply. David writes Val a special poem for Valentine's Day. Valerie tries to pacifiy Ginger (and help out Susan) by setting her up with Jonathan. They pretend to be a couple in the hopes of making Susan jealous. When Jonathan tries to trick Susan into entering a dance contest with him, she punches him in the face. Valerie tells David about her scam with Ginger, and asks him to save her from humiliation by spending the night with Ginger. Nothing happens between David and Ginger, but he dumps Valerie because he feels betrayed by her request. The football coach kicks Joe off the team and recruits a new quarterback. Donna stops Joe from quitting school and reminds him that his condition has yet to be evaluated. Donna's sorority asks students to go without sex for 24 hours in order to promote abstinence as a means of preventing venereal diseases. Clare bets that Steve cannot make good on his pledge, and does her best to torture him.
Wednesday, February 21st, 1996
22: All This and Mary Too
Colin visits Kelly and announces that he has kicked his cocaine habit. Kelly maintains that they are bad for one another and breaks up with him. Kelly gets a roommate, a troubled teenage runaway named Tara. Valerie has the house to herself as Steve and Brandon leave for a ski weekend with Clare, Susan and David. She hooks up with Colin. Susan challenges Brandon to a ski race, and they leave the designated runs. Susan injures her ankle on a jump, and the duo must fight the elements while awaiting a rescue team. Depressed by his split with Valerie, David mopes around the lodge. Everyone keeps introducing him to blonde girls named Mary. Donna hears news of a medical breakthrough that could save Joe's career. She must convince Joe to pursue the treatment (he doesn't want to get his hopes up), and goad her father into using his connections to Joe's benefit. Music: 'What Now My Love' by Sonny and Cher.
23: Leap of Faith
Brandon and Susan spend the weekend at her parents' house. Susan's mother asks Brandon very intrusive questions during dinner. Mrs. Keats expects Brandon to sleep in the guest room, but Susan sneaks him into her room during the night. Mrs. Keats catches Brandon in bed with Susan the next morning. She expresses her disappointment, and Susan shares her frustration at the expectations placed upon her since her sister's death. Kelly befriends Tara. Colin and Valerie's new relationship upsets David and Kelly. Val orders David to mind his own business. Colin's old dealer, Danny, tempts him with some cocaine. Colin agrees to drive him to a drug house in Torrance. When the police arrive, a panicked Colin drives off and leads them on a high-speed chase. The gang watches the chase unfold on television, and is shocked to see that Colin is the driver. Joe's older brother Hank comes to town and tries to discourage him from undergoing surgery. Donna suspects that Hank is jealous of Joe's potential to make the pros, as his own football career ended early due to injury. Steve tries to get Clare to warm up to his new motorcycle. Music: 'I Fought the Law' by the Bobby Fuller Four, 'A Lover's Concerto' by the Toys.
24: Coming Out, Getting Out, Going Out
Valerie puts the club up as collateral to bail Colin out of jail. She also offers to spring for a high-priced attorney, as the public defender wants to plea bargain. Colin is terrified by the thought of spending time in prison. Kelly comes home from rehab and receives a surprise call from Colin. Donna is put off by the frequent phone calls from a lonely Tara. Tara runs away from the center. Kelly and Donna pick her up and give her refuge for the night. A medical student asks Kelly on a date. Clare and Susan resolve to reunite Nat and Joan, who have broken up because their relationship lacks its past magic. Clare, Susan, Brandon and Steve organize a romantic evening for the couple. They take them to many of the places that were special to them in 1971 and help them recapture their passion. Joe undergoes successful surgery and plans to return to football. Music: 'Time of the Season' by the Zombies (#3, 1969); 'At Last' by Etta James.
25: Smashed
Rush dumps Ryan and Austin off on Steve on the same day that he is hosting a fraternity party. He doesn't keep a close eye on the boys, and they drink everything in sight. Ryan becomes very ill and Greg (Kelly's med student date) diagnoses him with alcohol poisoning. He has to be rushed to the hospital, and his father blames Steve. Kelly invites Tara to stay with her after she finishes her stint in rehab. Tara becomes enraged when Kelly dates Greg, as she wants all of Kelly's attention. Colin's lawyer recommends that he plead guilty in exchange for a short sentence at a minimum security facility. Valerie persuades him to take the deal. Val goads Colin into attending Steve's party, but bristles when he shares a tender moment with Kelly. Donna and David videotape the party for a late-night campus program called C.U. Later. Music: 'Five O'Clock World' by the Vogues.
26: Flirting With Disaster
Brandon, Steve and Joe go on a camping trip with Susan, Clare and Donna. The girls become jealous when the guys repeatedly ignore them to help some damsels in distress. Clare, Donna and Susan offer shelter to the tentless girls, and make their boyfriends sleep in the car. Kelly feels guilty about leaving Tara alone to go bowling with Greg; she convinces David to make it a double date. Tara sabotages Kelly's relationship with Greg. Valerie tries to arrange a truce between Colin and his estranged father, an artist who lost his sight in Vietnam. Colin is afraid to reveal his legal problems, but Mr. Robbins already knows the truth and has come to offer his support.
27: Strike the Match
Kelly tries to coax Tara into moving out, as the hospital has found her a place to live. Tara retrieves some belongings, including her photography equipment, from a friend. Kelly does not realize that Tara has a gun in her suitcase. After Kelly speaks of her hatred for Valerie, Tara sneaks out during the night and keys "Die Val" on the side of Valerie's car. Val believes that Kelly is responsible, while Colin gets into a fight with David (who had earlier given him a lot of attitude). Tara freaks everyone out by copying Kelly's hair style and color. Donna and David film a music video for an up and coming band. Donna must appear in the video after the female star fails to show. Joe is unhappy to see her dancing around in a revealing outfit. The Boston Globe offers Brandon a summer internship and chance at a great post-college job. He rejects the offer because he and Susan had already planned a cross-country trip for the summer. Clare stays with Steve while cramming for the graduate school entry test with Brandon, Susan and Joe. Steve accidentally ruins her beloved shawl--a keepsake of her mother's--in the wash. Music: 'Strike the Match' by Powerman 5000.
28: The Big Hurt
Tara makes a pass at Brandon and purposely overfeeds Kelly's fish. Kelly orders her to move out. Kelly snoops in Tara's suitcase and discovers that she had lied when she claimed not to know her parents' whereabouts. Kelly enrages Tara by calling her parents. Tara holds Kelly at gunpoint and forces her to go for a drive up the coast. Kelly tries to escape when they pull over, but Tara knocks her out. She ties up Kelly, hooks a hose up to the car, and plans to kill Kelly and herself through carbon monoxide poisoning. Kelly tricks Tara into untying her, then gets the gun away. Tara is admitted to a psychiatric hospital, and her mother thanks Kelly for saving her life. The judge nixes the deal between Colin's lawyer and the district attorney. Citing the fact that he endangered lives with his hazardous driving, he sentences Colin to two years in prison. Carl, a prince and longtime friend of Clare's family, comes for a visit. He makes friends with Steve and tries to prove that he is not the brat that Clare remembers. Joe tries to convince Donna to tone down the racy content of the music video. David bows to Donna's wishes and makes the cuts, but they revert to the original version and obtain a contract to direct three more videos. Joe apologizes to Donna and admits that he is jealous of her relationship with David. Music: 'Strike the Match' by Powerman 5000.
29: Ticket to Ride
Colin tries to remain strong as he prepares to turn himself in and begin his prison term. He panics after catching a glimpse of some fellow inmates, and drives away in Val's car. Valerie must track him down or forfeit her $100,000 bond, which she acquired by cashing in the club's equity. Colin stops by Kelly's apartment in search of help, but she turns him away. When Valerie asks Kelly for information about Colin, Kelly acts really bitchy and denies having seen him. Brandon and Susan lose a five-thousand-dollar lottery ticket, leading to a major argument. They find the ticket, but give the money to charity because they feel guilty about fighting over money. Joe expresses disappointment at his slow progress as he returns to training. He realizes that he has lost his passion for football. Clare feels uneasy about Steve's friendship with Carl. Steve falls down the stairs and suffers a broken jaw. Clare is touched when Carl offers to help care for him. Music: 'Be My Lover' by La Bouche.
30: Ray of Hope
Kelly agrees to help with the search for Colin when Brandon reveals that Nat could fall victim to the bail bondsman through his business ties to Valerie. Kelly gets in touch with Colin after obtaining his beeper number from Danny. She arranges a meeting and contacts the cops, but Colin realizes that something is amiss and sends Danny to the rendezvous. Donna balks when she and David are asked to produce a music video for Ray. Ray asks for a chance to prove that he has changed. Donna accepts the project after meeting Ray's fiancée, Wendy. Joe decides to quit football and take over as coach at his high school in Pennsylvania. He asks Donna to marry him. She turns him down because she fears that she would regret sacrificing her dreams. Clare is drawn toward Carl as they share memories of her mother. Mrs. Arnold believed that Carl would one day marry Clare and make her a princess. While Steve recuperates from his injury, he and Brandon sit around watching Vega$, The Love Boat, and other Spelling Productions shows. Music: 'You Send Me' by Brian Green, 'Strange Way' by Firefall, 'Reckless' performed by Jamie Walters.
31: You Say It's Your Birthday (Part 1)
Colin plans to board a ship and sneak out of the country. He convinces Claudia, his former art dealer, to wire him the $10,000 passage fee. Valerie seeks Jonesy's help to track down Colin, and he sends her a handsome FBI agent. Carl throws Steve a huge 21st birthday bash aboard the Queen Mary and invites all his friends. Andrea surprises Steve by flying in for the party. David and Donna put together a video birthday greeting from friends and relatives who couldn't make the party. They send an inquiry to Brenda's address (she is actually on tour in Scotland), but receive a reply from Dylan. David helps Donna fight off the advances of their lecherous boss. She cools him off by revealing that she is a virgin, and he decides to hit on Kelly instead. Susan receives a chance to work on the presidential campaign. Brandon does not want her to go, and reminds her that he turned down his newspaper job in favor of their summer trip. Joan feels under the weather as she and Nat attend Steve's party. Carl tells Steve that he is in love with Clare; he asks him to give Clare the chance to choose between them. Music: 'Jim Dandy' by LaVern Baker, 'Feels So Good' by Lina Santiago.
Carl professes his love for Clare, who is furious that Steve seems willing to let her go. He tries to prove himself by punching Carl, but only angers her further. Susan takes the job in Washington, effectively ending her relationship with Brandon. Brandon and Steve decide to leave the ship and get drunk. Steve argues with a weirdo at the bar, touching off a brawl. During the fracas, Brandon and Steve see Colin running out of the bar. Steve and Brandon are arrested, but the bar owner does not press charges. Colin panics after being recognized and fails to board the freighter. Brandon, Steve, Valerie and Kelly see Colin on the street; the guys chase him and hold him at bay until the cops arrive. Valerie gets a date with the FBI agent, who considers a transfer to Los Angeles. Clare rejects Carl's overtures because she is in love with Steve. Joan and Nat are shocked to learn that she is pregnant. When they try to share the news with Brandon, Nat instead announces their engagement. David and Donna get carried away while drinking on the ship, as she proves that she still cannot handle her champagne. They later decide to give their relationship another try. Inspired by the news that Brenda and Dylan are living together, Kelly asks Brandon for another chance. He suggests that they wait awhile to ensure that they are not on the rebound. Music: 'Long Way Down' / 'Naked' / 'Name' performed by Goo Goo Dolls.
1: Remember the Alamo
Steve attends the Olympics with Brandon, who spent most of the summer travelling alone. Their car breaks down in Hadley City, a small town in Texas. Steve decides to catch a bus to Houston and fly home to surprise Clare. He discovers that Clare has already left for San Antonio to surprise him. He flies back to San Antonio; thanks to a weather delay, they are able to find each other. Brandon meets a young black woman, who quits her job as assistant librarian after her boss hassles her for talking to him. Brandon's friendship with Mariah riles many of the townspeople; they have confrontations with two redneck mechanics, and her ex-boyfriend and a cohort. Mariah decides to move to New York and write a book about angels. She thanks Brandon for encouraging her to change her life. David constantly criticizes Donna as they try to complete a video shoot with a temperamental singer. Their boss is fired, and David panics at the prospect of losing his contract. Donna ends the partnership after learning that David plans to drop out of school to work full-time. Valerie contacts an accountant friend of Jim's for help with the club's finances. Music: 'Don't Be What You Can Be' by Bad Cow (Randall Slavin as Taz Botel), 'Just Because I Love You' by Lina Santiago, 'Southern Women' by Roy Gaines, 'Our Love (Romeo and Juliet Fantasy)' by Tchaikovsky.
2: Here We Go Again
The Beverly Hills Beach Club holds its annual reunion. Steve reminisces about his relationship with Kelly, as he lost his virginity to her on the beach in 9th grade. Clare is disturbed to learn of the couple's history, and comments on the "incestuous" nature of the group. Steve confesses that he spread rumors about Kelly after their break-up, causing her to gain a reputation as a slut. Kelly is hurt, but eventually decides to forgive him. Ryan blows a chance at a date when Austin convinces him to spy on the girl as she undresses. Steve gives the boys a lecture about treating women with respect. David continues to dump all over Donna for quitting the music video business. He harasses her when she talks and dances with another guy, and they decide to break up. Kelly goes to work at an AIDS hospice to complete her summer school credits. Mark Reese, the general manager of the campus television station, recruits Brandon and flirts with Kelly. Valerie finds romance with Kenny, who is married but supposedly separated. Music: 'California Girls' by David Lee Roth, 'Johnny's Noseride', 'Moment of Truth', 'Dawn Patrol', 'Rincon' by The Eliminators
3: A Mate for Life
Joan's daughter Lily comes to town to serve as maid of honor, and seduces best man Brandon. Nat, Brandon and Steve discover that Lily is an exotic dancer. Nat and Joan's wedding comes to a halt when she goes into labor. She refuses to have the baby until she is a married woman, so they tie the knot in the hospital hallway. Joan gives birth to a son, Frankie. Clare insists that she will never get married, as she couldn't bear to walk down the aisle without her mother. Touched by Joan and Nat's romance, she decides to be more receptive to the idea of marriage. Kelly befriends Jimmy, a hospice resident with an upbeat attitude. David moves into Mark's luxurious home. He tries to get another video contract after being dropped by MZA, and refuses to help Donna film the wedding. Valerie sees Kenny having lunch with his family and suspects that he has lied about his marital status. Music: 'Wedding Bell Blues' by The Fifth Dimension.
4: Disappearing Act
Kelly helps Jimmy treat a bleeding cut, and panics after getting some of the blood on her hand. The doctor assures her that she cannot contract HIV this way, but she decides to take an AIDS test because of her history of unprotected sex. The test is negative, and Kelly apologizes for shunning Jimmy. The gang watches Jimmy perform a magic show; later that evening, he tells Kelly that he has just a few days to live. David refuses to tell his father that he has dropped out of school, so Donna breaks the news to Mel. Mel issues David an ultimatum: he must finish college or lose all financial support. Brandon and Mark hire a confident young woman as their news anchor. She suffers a panic attack just before the first broadcast. Mark and Brandon try to calm her with a drink, and she ends up getting plastered. Kenny declares his love for Valerie. Music: 'Strange Way' by Firefall, 'Just Because I Love You' by Lina Santiago.
5: Pledging My Love
Kelly and David take Jimmy to synagogue to celebrate the Jewish New Year. Jimmy becomes very ill the next day and thanks Kelly for her friendship before dying. Donna gives a shy basketball player a makeover to help her get into the Alpha house. She is accepted, but decides to pledge a sorority that is not so elitist. Donna resigns as rush chairperson to protest the behavior of Alpha president Ellen. Steve leads a group of KEG pledges in a Spirit Day prank; they run through Chancellor Arnold's speech wearing nothing but shaving cream, only to have the sprinklers come on. The dean becomes furious when the incident is replayed on the CU News, as she considers it sexual harassment. Chancellor Arnold, with Mark's cooperation, orders Brandon to turn over the tape so that he can identify the offenders. He reluctantly gives the chancellor the tape, which is mysteriously blank. Tracy reveals that she erased the video with a magnet out of loyalty to Steve and Brandon. Kenny rents a love nest for his liaisons with Valerie, then stands her up for a family outing. Brandon becomes suspicious of the duo's relationship. Music: 'Pick Up the Pieces' by Average White Band.
6: Housewarming
David and Mark throw a big party at their house. Clare catches Steve kissing another girl and dumps him; she is tired of constantly fighting and listening to Steve's apologies. A fire sweeps through the hills and threatens the house. Kelly experiences flashbacks about being burned, but decides to stay and help everyone protect the house. The house is spared because of a shift in the winds. David drinks too much and spends the whole day throwing up. Donna slips and injures her knee while trying to save a baby deer. The firefighters--including hunky Cliff Yeager--rescue Donna and the deer. Kelly accepts a date from the persistent Mark. Valerie comes clean with Brandon about her affair with Kenny; he warns her to break things off. Kenny and his wife finally agree to seek a divorce. Kenny tells Val that he cannot see her for the time being because he does not want to give ammunition to his wife's attorney. Valerie storms into Kenny's office and announces that she is pregnant. Music: 'Friday on My Mind' by The Easybeats, 'Devil with the Blue Dress On/Good Golly Miss Molly' by Mitch Ryder and The Detroit Wheels.
7: Fearless
Kenny orders Valerie to terminate her pregnancy. He agrees to pay her $100,000 to have an abortion. When he skips a meeting where he was to make the payment, she delivers diapers to his befuddled wife. Kenny angrily writes Valerie the check. Firefighter Cliff helps out with the Alphas' haunted house, where he encourages a young boy to overcome his fears. Cliff later has a date with Donna at the After Dark. Steve is miffed when Clare chooses to go to the Halloween concert with egotistical Dick Harrison, a Phi Beta Kappa. He uses an escort service in the hopes of making Clare jealous, but she learns that Steve paid the woman and mistakenly assumes that she is a hooker. Steve turns down Clare's proposal of an open relationship. Brandon and Tracy spend time together at the club, although he does not wish to pursue another workplace romance. He gives her a ride home and kisses her. David refuses to spend the weekend at his grandparents' house in Palm Springs. His father calls him to deliver the news that his grandfather died of a heart attack. Music: 'Pick Up the Pieces' by Average White Band, 'Nobody Knows/ 'Leavin'' performed by The Tony Rich Project.
8: The Things We Do for Love
Steve overhears Val discussing her pregnancy on the phone. She begs him to keep her secret, but he shares the news with Kelly. Kelly gives Valerie her full support and offers to drive her to the clinic. Val turns her down, claiming that Kenny will be by her side. Kelly runs into Kenny at a restaurant, and Valerie's conflicting stories prompt Kelly and Steve to suspect that she was never pregnant. David's grandfather leaves him $250,000 and a 1961 Thunderbird. Mel believes that David should keep the money in a trust, and threatens to contest the will. He later backs off, although he and his mother express concern about David's drinking. Steve learns that Clare and Dick are participating in crew. He begins rowing with a group of his frat brothers, and responds to Dick's taunts by challenging his squad to a race. Donna and Cliff become closer. During a day of hiking, he reveals that he is leaving for an out-of-state job. An uncomfortable Tracy decides to quit her TV job after Brandon nixes a relationship. She changes her mind because she is having a good time at the station. Music: 'Johhny Angel' by Shelley Fabares.
9: Loser Takes All
Kelly takes great delight in telling Brandon about Valerie's pregnancy and abortion, and also shares her doubts about Val's story. Brandon goes to see Kenny, who portrays himself as an innocent victim caught in the web of an evil vixen. He tells Brandon that he paid Valerie $100,000 to stay away. Brandon threatens to throw Val out of the house unless she gives the money back. Valerie plans to move out, but returns the money following a talk with Tracy. She confesses to Brandon that she was never pregnant, and insists that she cannot live up to his moral expectations. Mel, worried by David's newfound wealth, asks Donna to keep an eye on him. David goes on a wild spending spree, and later shows up at Donna's apartment in the middle of the night after swimming in the ocean. David offers to help out the financially strapped Valerie by purchasing half of the club. They celebrate their deal by making out. Steve impresses Clare with his dedication as he trains for the crew race. His team barely loses, but Clare decides that she wants him back. Kelly comes clean with Mark about her past drug problem. Music: 'B-A-B-Y' by Carla Thomas.
10: Lost in Las Vegas
David takes Valerie, Steve and Clare to Las Vegas for the weekend. He frightens them with his reckless driving. They see Ray perform in concert, and he comments on David's frenzied behavior. David gets drunk and suffers heavy gambling losses. He invites some girls on the street to join him at another casino. The women take David to their motel, where they drug him and steal his money, credit cards, jewelry and clothes. Ray calls Donna and advises her to fly in from Los Angeles. She yells at her friends for not babysitting David, then comforts him. Brandon meets a troubled woman at the Peach Pit; she was robbed just after arriving in town, and cannot get in touch with her fiancé. Brandon provides her with refuge, and helps her pick up the pieces when she learns that her fiancé has met someone else. Steve steals a term paper from Brandon and turns it in as an independent study project. Mark agrees to be patient with Kelly, who is not ready for an intimate relationship. Music: 'Strange Way' by Firefall, 'The Great Escape' performed by Jamie Walters.
11: If I Had a Hammer
During an argument with Donna in the student union, David throws a tantrum and cuts his hand on a glass. He must see a psychiatrist after displaying hostile behavior toward the ER staff. Mel agrees with the doctor's recommendation that David be held 72 hours for observation. David is diagnosed with a mild form of manic depression. His mother comes to see him and advises him to moderate his behavior; he will not require medication if he seeks therapy and stops drinking. David thanks Donna for her support, and they decide to get back together. Steve faces plagiarism charges; Professor Randall, who assumed control of the independent study course after returning to C.U., recognized Brandon's writing. Randall still holds a vendetta against Brandon, and brings collusion charges against him. Kelly's and Mark's plans for a romantic weekend getaway are foiled by a lost reservation. They finally secure a motel room, only to come down with food poisoning. The gang helps Willie build a house, which his family will receive from Habitat for Humanity. Val displays construction skills as a result of working with her contractor father, but hints to Clare that she has few happy memories of her dad. Everyone eats Thanksgiving dinner inside the unfinished house.
12: Judgment Day
Steve elects to plead guilty, leaving his punishment to the lenient Chancellor Arnold. Brandon refuses to plead guilty to a crime he did not commit, and faces a hearing and possible expulsion. Randall tries to prove that Brandon knew the contents of Steve's paper by pointing out that he handed it to Muntz for delivery. He also claims that Brandon let Steve cheat off his quizzes in freshman sociology. Steve digs through the fraternity files and proves that he flunked every sociology quiz. Brandon is cleared, and Professor Randall faces charges for forging his grade ledger and lying at the hearing. Kelly throws a surprise birthday party for Mark, although he would rather be left alone. He hates the party even more when everyone ignores him and flocks to Brandon. Felice objects to Donna's renewed relationship with David, which she considers unhealthy. Dr. Martin advises Donna to follow her heart. Donna tries to stop David from buying into the Peach Pit After Dark. Music: 'What You Won't Do for Love' by Bobby Caldwell, 'And the Beat Goes On' by Sonny and Cher.
13: Gift Wrapped
David seeks his father's help in winning over Felice. Mel and Jackie invite David, Donna and her parents over for dinner. Felice makes snide remarks about the pre-prom incident from four years earlier, the fact that Jackie and Mel are not married, and David's mental problems. A furious Donna refuses to come to her parents' house for Christmas. Felice apologizes to David and asks him to arrange a truce. Kelly's father fails to show for dinner, but a young woman arrives in his place. She stuns Kelly by revealing that she is her half-sister, Joy Taylor. Kelly is angry to learn that her mother hid the truth, and she and Joy become friends as they compare notes about their absentee father. Chancellor Arnold immediately hits it off with Samantha at his Christmas party, making Steve and Clare uncomfortable. The gang picks names from a hat to decide who will exchange gifts. Brandon and Tracy struggle with their gift selections, as neither wants to send the wrong message. While shopping for Kelly's present, Valerie gets some help from a kindly woman collecting donations at the mall. Val and Kelly wind up exchanging identical journals. Music: 'Little St. Nick' by the Beach Boys.
14: Jobbed
Brandon and Mark vie for the prestigious Dryer scholarship. Mark appeases Kelly by providing Brandon with tips, although he believes that he is a shoo-in because of his wealth and connections. Brandon wins one of the two scholarships, while Mark gets nothing. Mark does not handle the news well. He skips a party for Brandon, then confronts Kelly in the Peach Pit parking lot. He orders her to stay away until she is willing to sleep with him, so she dumps him. Clare gets Steve an interview at the C.U. job fair, but his interviewer propositions him. Clare suspects that Steve invented the story to hide the fact that he blew the interview. The woman again comes on to Steve, unaware that her boss and Clare are listening nearby. Donna fills in for her father's ailing receptionist. Dr. Martin criticizes Donna for humoring talkative patients, but her listening skills later head off a potential disaster. Tom Miller, Valerie's old boyfriend from Buffalo, comes to town. Valerie offers him a job managing the club, despite David's objections. While watching her prom video, Val becomes unnerved by footage of her father. Music: 'Mony Mony' by Tommy James and the Shondells, 'Strange Way' by Firefall.
15: Phantom of C.U.
Donna joins the C.U. News as a weather forecaster, incorporating fashion tips into her reports. She begins receiving anonymous, menacing phone calls. Clare sets up Kelly on a blind date with a guy who turns out to be a pompous windbag. Donna then tries to convince Kelly to go out with Evan Potter, a nice guy who operates the camera for the C.U. News. Kelly reluctantly agrees to a double date. Evan comforts Donna when her stalker leaves a threatening message on a videotape. While working late-night security detail as part of his probation, Steve has a run-in with the "Phantom of C.U.," a homeless man who lives on campus and plays pranks on security guards. Steve catches the guy in the act and learns that he is C.U. senior Larry Lincoln. Larry lives in the basement of a school building and eats from the garbage because he cannot afford food or housing. Steve doesn't turn him in, and gives him money to get an apartment for the rest of the year. Val tells Tom that she is only interested in a casual relationship. David refuses to believe that Tom can secure pop singer Donna Lewis (an old friend) for a concert. When the event proves to be a success, David thanks Tom by inviting him to stay at Mark's old house. (Mark was so devastated by his failure to receive the Dryer and break-up with Kelly that he left school just a few months before graduation--likely!). Music: 'Devil with the Blue Dress On/Good Golly Miss Molly' by Mitch Ryder and the Detroit Wheels, 'I Love You Always Forever' / 'Without Love' performed by Donna Lewis.
Wednesday, January 22nd, 1997
16: Unnecessary Roughness
Donna believes she has solved the mystery of her stalker's identity when she sees Garrett Slan, the man who tried to rape her, at the university. Donna's friends insist that she is mistaken, as Slan is in prison. Donna is cheered by a ""girls' night out"" with Kelly and Clare, until someone tries to run over her outside the After Dark. While sorting through her parents' unopened mail, Donna finds a notice that Slan has been released from prison. Brandon and Tracy spend the weekend at her family's ranch. Tracy is distracted by her horse, which has taken ill; and the presence of Sam, an ex-boyfriend who once asked her to marry him. Tracy rejects Sam's advances and has sex with Brandon in the barn. Steve and Dick team up to market T-shirts for sale at the After Dark's Super Bowl party. Steve puts his sewing skills to use after he mistakenly orders shirts adorned with a picture of a soccer ball. Music: 'Knock on Wood' by Eddie Floyd, 'The Authority Song' by John Cougar Mellencamp.
17: Face-Off
Donna's request for a permanent restraining order against Slan is denied. He shows up in a classroom and tries to tell her something, but she runs out. David and Tom confront Slan, who claims that he was trying to warn Donna about her stalker. Donna discovers that someone has left a dead rat in her bedroom. Slan finally picks a fight with David at the Peach Pit After Dark so that the restraining order will be granted. He leaves town, but Donna receives more threatening phone calls. Kelly sets her sights on Tom. Valerie believes that Kelly is dating Tom to hurt her. Tracy accidentally tells Brandon that she loves him; he does not reciprocate. Brandon and Tom participate in a charity hockey game with NHL players. Brandon takes a cheap shot at Tom after watching Kelly kiss him before the game. Steve and Clare consider living together as they spend a weekend house sitting. David takes an interest in a young singer. Music: 'Please Don't Go' by KC and the Sunshine Band, 'B-A-B-Y' by Carla Thomas.
18: We Interrupt This Program
Rusty, a technician at the TV station, quits in anger after the police question him about Donna. Evan admits his feelings for Donna and confesses that he is the stalker. When she tells Brandon and Tracy, he pulls a gun and holds the entire staff hostage. He holds Donna at gunpoint and forces Brandon and Tracy to put him on the air. He eventually lets the others leave, but Brandon refuses to leave Donna. Donna tricks Evan into putting his gun down by feigning an interest in him. She kisses him, then kicks the gun away as the SWAT team moves in to arrest him. Val threatens to fire Tom unless he stops seeing Kelly. She apologizes, but he quits anyway. Kelly claims that she is not acting out of spite. Steve and Clare try to keep their parents from dating, as they are afraid of being left behind. They finally apologize after realizing how selfishly they have acted.
19: My Funny Valentine
Donna is still shaken after being held hostage, and Clare and David struggle to bring her out of her funk. She instantly perks up when Cliff makes a surprise visit. She tells him that she has a boyfriend, but David still feels betrayed. Luther Vandross performs at the After Dark for Valentine's Day. David reacts angrily when Donna decides to leave after the concert instead of going out with Luther, Chloe and him. Donna runs into Cliff at the Peach Pit and agrees to a date. Valerie's mother comes to town and asks her to approve a second mortgage for the family home, as Val is part-owner. Valerie wants nothing to do with the house and orders her mother to sell it, leaving Abby confused. Val is hurt to see Tom with Kelly. Kelly finds her crying in the bathroom. Val admits that she needs Tom and pleads for Kelly to set him free if she doesn't really care for him. The guilt-ridden Kelly breaks up with Tom, who later shares a romantic slow dance with Valerie. Tracy finds the engagement ring that Brandon once offered to Kelly and mistakenly assumes that it is for her. Steve infuriates Clare by smoking pot with Dick. Music: 'Here and Now' / 'Love Don't Love You Anymore' performed by Luther Vandross, 'In from the Cold' by Figures at Dawn.
20: With This Ring
Tracy is in a snit over the fact that Brandon kept the engagement ring. She breaks up with him. Brandon and Kelly each confess their feelings to friends, but expect the other person to make a move. Tracy confronts Kelly, who admits that she still loves Brandon. Kelly tries to stop Brandon from returning the ring. He cannot bring himself to sell it, and runs into Kelly in the street. She believes that he has already sold it and pretends to support this decision. Brandon exchanges the ring to get a bracelet for Tracy, and Kelly buys the ring and sulks. Valerie tells her mother that her father repeatedly molested her. Abby refuses to accept this and slaps Val. Abby comes to grips with the truth and apologizes for not protecting Valerie. Val asks Tom to leave town, as his presence is a painful reminder of the abuse. Donna is torn between David and Cliff. Chloe makes a pass at David and annoys him with her rude remarks about Donna. Donna tries to reconcile with David, but storms out when Chloe emerges in just a bra. Steve and Clare double date with Ryan and his girlfriend. Clare pressures Steve to talk to his brother about sex, but Ryan ultimately decides to remain a virgin for the time being. Music: 'Nothing to Believe In' by Cracker.
21: Straight Shooter
Brandon, Steve and Dick play in a 3-on-3 basketball tournament. Dick's pot smoking concerns Brandon. A wasted Dick buys some heroin at the After Dark, and Steve decides to join him. Steve finds Dick collapsed in the bathroom; he dies of an overdose. Steve makes an angry anti-drug speech after someone leaves a bong at a shrine to Dick. A pretentious magazine editor profiles Valerie, but the article is ruined when the police take David and Val in for questioning. David pressures Donna to end things with Cliff, while her mother invites Cliff to a family brunch. Donna decides to stay with David, and encourages Cliff to take a job as head of security at Disneyworld. Kelly and Clare pose as Ukrainian folk dancers during a weekend getaway. Music: ;Since I Don't Have You' by the Skyliners.
22: A Ripe Young Age
Donna and David visit her grandmother in San Luis Obispo. Noting a striking resemblance between David and her late husband, Mrs. Martin tells the couple about her romance with Donna's grandfather, whom she knew for just a few months before he was killed in World War II. Donna and David are touched as they look through Capt. and Mrs. Martin's old pictures and letters. They decide to have faith in their relationship in spite of obstacles such as Felice's opposition. Kelly finds a young boy sleeping on her porch. She reluctantly breaks a promise to the runaway by turning him in to social services, and is wracked with guilt when he vanishes from the shelter. Valerie begins a romance with a hot new movie star, who looks to her for support because he is uncomfortable with the industry. Steve enlists the help of Clare, Brandon and Tracy to film an infomercial for his marketing class. Music: 'Sing, Sing, Sing' by Benny Goodman, '(There'll Be Bluebirds Over) The White Cliffs of Dover' by Ken Kyser and His Orchestra.
23: Storm Warning
Joey returns to the beach apartment. He tells Kelly that he ran away because he believes that his mother no longer needs him, as she has remarried and is expecting a child. Brandon, Tracy, Clare, Kelly and Joey help Steve lay sandbags in front of his father's Malibu home in anticipation of a possible storm. Kelly contacts Joey's mother, and Joey has a happy reunion with his mother and stepfather. David visits Dr. Martin's office and asks his help in dealing with Felice. Dr. Martin collapses with a stroke, and Donna initially blames David. Rob irritates his manager by seeking Val's advice about whether to sign on for a new movie. Rob's manager pays Valerie $10,000 to convince Rob to do the film. Jim and Cindy invite Brandon to spend spring vacation in Hong Kong. Brandon hesitates to give his second ticket to Tracy, but she whines until he invites her along. Clare plays a practical joke on Steve to teach him a lesson about his insensitive behavior. Music: 'Ready to Go' by Republica.
Wednesday, April 2nd, 1997
24: Spring Breakdown
Brandon and Tracy visit Jim in Hong Kong; Cindy is in London helping Brenda cope with mononucleosis. Jim realizes that Brandon still has feelings for Kelly, but Brandon claims that he is not stringing Tracy along. Clare and Steve encourage Kelly to go out instead of moping around the apartment. She gets drunk, flirts with a stranger, and freaks out when she momentarily loses her ring. Steve convinces Kelly to put the ring away. Felice and Donna argue about the proper approach to Dr. Martin's treatment; Felice wants to put him in a rehab center, while Donna insists that he would be better off at home. Valerie breaks her deal with Alan after he has Rob escort a new actress to a party at the After Dark. Rob is angry with Val for accepting money from Alan, but later asks her to become his manager. Music: 'Brian Wilson', 'Life in a Nutshell', 'The Old Apartment' performed by Barenaked Ladies.
25: Heaven Sent
Mariah, who has gotten her book published, comes to town to give a lecture at the university's new age festival. She develops an instant connection with Kelly, prompting Tracy to bristle. Tracy criticizes Mariah's theories in a news segment, leading to an argument with Brandon. Tracy refuses to attend a harp concert with Brandon. He sits with Kelly, and they share a kiss afterwards. Clare ruins her computer (and loses a term paper) by knocking coffee onto the hard drive while talking on the phone with Steve. She blames Steve, who shuns her after helping her retrieve the file. Clare sends flowers to Steve during the concert and apologizes.
26: The Long Goodbye
Brandon breaks up with Tracy, and he and Kelly decide to go out. Valerie vows to help Tracy win back Brandon. She sends Kelly a phony telegram from Dylan asking her to meet him at the airport. Brandon follows Kelly to the airport and fears that she is still in love with Dylan. Kelly explains that she only cares about Dylan as a friend, and that she wanted to tell him that she loves Brandon. Kelly and Brandon get back together. Steve and Donna perform a comedy skit in a talent show. Donna convinces her mother, who has been running herself ragged caring for Dr. Martin, to get out of the house and come to the show. Donna fears the worst when she sees Felice with the man with whom she once had an affair. Felice explains that the man is a doctor; she was trying to arrange a lecture opportunity for Dr. Martin, as he can no longer perform surgeries. Steve encourages Clare to perform in the talent show, but comes to regret it after hearing her sing. She uses her mother's inspiration to deliver a great performance.
Wednesday, April 23rd, 1997
27: I Only Have Eyes for You
Clare and Donna feel slighted as Kelly spends all her time with Brandon. Val takes her place at the girls' gymnastics viewing party. She spends the night in Kelly's room because they are all too drunk to drive, and reads her diary. Valerie creates a rift between the roommates by telling Donna and Clare that Kelly said bad things about them. Brandon tries to secure a magic wand from a puppet show host that Kelly liked as a child; she had asked her father to send a letter to the man when she was a little girl, but doesn't think he followed through. Brandon, Steve and David get arrested for auto theft when a disgruntled auto show employee lets them take an electric car for a spin. Brandon gets Kelly the wand, and the host also finds her father's letter. Everyone snubs Valerie, so she decides to create friction between Kelly and her dad by investing money with his firm.
28: All That Jazz
Brandon has to take care of Kelly and Valerie, who are both laid up with the flu. The girls discuss the reasons for their feud, which supposedly dates back to a time when Kelly interrupted a make-out session between Valerie and Brandon. Val blames Kelly for costing her the love of her life, while Kelly insists that she gave Brandon her blessing to date Valerie. Valerie is contacted by Derek Driscoll, a representative from Mr. Taylor's firm. Val tells Brandon that Kelly is hiding the fact that she was accepted to Columbia's graduate school. Kelly declares that she is not leaving town, and decides that Brandon should throw Val out of the house. David convinces Donna to join him at his business meeting in New Orleans, even though she has a class presentation the next day. David thinks that he will score, but gets no further than usual. They oversleep, causing Donna to miss her presentation. Samantha ignores Chancellor Arnold during an evening honoring her sitcom, and eventually dumps him, . Steve disagrees with his mom's behavior, but Clare still blames him for everything.
29: Mother's Day
Kelly learns that she is pregnant, and has difficulty breaking the news to her mother. Brandon is thrilled, but Kelly isn't sure that she wants the baby. Driscoll suggests that Valerie sell her shares in the club so that she has more money available for investment. Val makes a pass at David, prompting Donna to order him to end their working relationship. Valerie eagerly accepts David's buy-out offer. Clare is saddened by Mother's Day, so Steve tries to take her mind off things by going for a drive. Clare believes that her father cannot handle discussion of her mother, but Steve discovers that he was trying to spare Clare's feelings. He brings them together to reminisce. Music: 'Don't Take It Personal (Just One of Dem Days)', 'For You I Will' performed by Monica.
30: Senior Week
Kelly suffers a miscarriage, and learns that she may not be able to have children. Donna worries about her finals; David adds to her stress by pressuring her to let him move in. Donna panics during a final and runs out of the classroom, costing her a chance to graduate. Professor Langely gives her a second chance by offering an oral final exam. Donna passes easily, and Professor Langely tells her that she has a future in the fashion industry. Rush refuses to give Steve a post-graduation job at one of his companies. Chancellor Arnold accepts a teaching job in France, and Steve fears that Clare will go with him. She decides to stay in Los Angeles and seek a future with Steve. Valerie angers Kelly by meeting with her father. Bill delivers the shocking news that Driscoll is no longer his employee; he has stolen all of Val's money. Kelly again pressures Brandon to evict Val, as she and Brandon plan to live together. Music: 'Rincon' / 'Johnny's Noseride' performed by The Eliminators.
31: Graduation Day (Part 1)
Valerie becomes depressed when her mom, Jim and Cindy all fail to come to graduation. She tries to make amends with Kelly after overhearing her push Brandon to evict her. Val pleads with Steve to lobby Brandon on her behalf, but he still kicks her out. She checks into a motel across the street from the bluff where she once contemplated suicide. Brandon finds a suicide note and learns Val's probable location from David. Donna ponders taking her relationship with David to the next level. David helps Steve and Muntz with a senior prank. Kelly is furious when her father insists on attending her graduation. The gang receives invitations to a special grad party with a "Roaring '20s" theme. Kelly's sister Joy confesses that Bill is responsible for the event. Music: 'Graduation Day' by Chris Isaak.
Brandon stops Valerie from killing herself and agrees to let her stay at the house. They arrive at the graduation ceremony in time for Brandon to receive an award. Kelly believes that Val was faking her suicide attempt, and gives Brandon a hard time for going after her. Clare decides to move to Paris with her father, as she cannot imagine living a continent away from her only family. She asks Steve to come with her, but he turns her down. At the grad party, Brandon continually hassles Kelly to give her father another chance. She finally offers her forgiveness, only to learn that he is going to jail for embezzlement. Kelly decides to make a fresh start with Val. Steve and Valerie have a drunken fling during the party. Ryan develops a crush on Joy. Donna loses her virginity to David. Music: 'Lovefool' / 'Been It' performed by the Cardigans.
1: Aloha, Beverly Hills (Part 1)
The gang has trouble finding work after graduating from college. Steve accepts a position as alumni representative for his fraternity (for a dollar a year). Valerie runs through a series of odd jobs. She tries to convince David to let her manage the club; although the After Dark is in dire straits, he turns her down. David refuses to move in with Donna until she reveals the true nature of their relationship to her mother. Steve alienates Carly Reynolds, the single mother of one of Erin's soccer teammates. She gets fired from her waitress job after a run-in with Steve and his date. Brandon and Kelly struggle to adjust to their new living arrangement. They decide to relax by taking a Hawaiian vacation, although Kelly doesn't want to postpone her new job. Donna seeks work as a second assistant for a designer, and winds up as the woman's only assistant. She is asked to help with a photo shoot in Hawaii, so everyone decides to take a vacation. Kelly backs out of the trip after catching Bran
Donna's boss becomes ill and asks her to coordinate the photo shoot. The event proves to be an unmitigated disaster, and the photographer berates Donna. Noah Hunter, a male model participating in the shoot, defends Donna; he also responds to an insult by punching the photographer. Donna's boss takes the blame for forcing her to shoulder too much responsibilty. Valerie spends the entire trip trying to get closer to Noah, although she is put off by the fact that he performs boat maintenance for a living. Brandon runs into Tracy and her new fiancé, a grad student at the University of Hawaii. Donna becomes unnerved when Brandon and Tracy frolic and play in the water. She places an emergency call to Kelly, who immediately flies over from L.A. Kelly is embarrassed after learning that Tracy is engaged. During a hike, David slips off some rocks and crashes into the water. Noah and Brandon dive in to rescue him, and David receives treatment for his injuries. Noah decides to return to Los Angele
3: Forgive and Forget
Kelly undergoes successful surgery and begins to recover from her injuries. Brandon picks the shooter out of a police lineup. Kelly suffers complications and must undergo surgery for a blood clot in her lungs. She wakes up with amnesia. Donna gets a job as a personal shopper for a designer. She tells her mother that David is going to move in with her. Naturally, Felice is not thrilled by the news. Noah and Valerie sleep together, but he has second thoughts the following morning. Carly reconsiders her opinion of Steve after he gets her a job at the Peach Pit. He declares himself to be a sports agent and tries to woo the star of the C.U. women's basketball team. Carly sees Steve with his client and gets the wrong idea. Music: ""First Time I Met the Blues"" by Buddy Guy
4: The Way We Weren't
Brandon is heartbroken when Kelly is unable to remember their relationship. Kelly develops a crush on Noah, whose blood donation saved her life. Noah takes Kelly for a stroll on the beach, and she regains some of her memories. Brandon confronts Noah and warns him to stay away from Kelly. The identity of Kelly's shooter comes under scrutiny because the man Brandon picked out did not have gun residue on his hands. Brandon considers a job offer from the Seattle Times. Steve's career as a sports agent comes to an end after he nearly puts Charlotte's career in jeopardy with an illegal gift. Rush gives Steve his own business, a defunct newspaper. Steve wants Brandon to be his editor, but he initially turns him down. Brandon accepts Steve's offer so that he can write, yet remain close to Kelly. Donna panics when she loses her boss's beloved dog en route to the veterinarian. Valerie helps organize Donna when she has trouble keeping track of her clients. Donna decides to make Val her business p
Wednesday, October 1st, 1997
5: Coming Home
Kelly moves back into the beach apartment. Noah advises her to concentrate on her relationship with Brandon. She follows his advice, but becomes frustrated when she still cannot remember her life with Brandon. Her memories finally return as she reads the first issue of Brandon and Steve's newspaper, The Beverly Beat. A designer offers to purchase Donna's work. As she walks out of the interview, she stumbles onto a sweatshop; a young girl has burned her arm while operating a steam press. Donna and Brandon decide to investigate the story. David manages a rock band and allows the lead singer to crash at the apartment. Donna is put off by the man's rude behavior, and overhears him making an anti-Semitic remark. Noah pushes Val away and admits that he is consumed by thoughts of another woman. Valerie follows him to a spot overlooking the city; he shares that his girlfriend died in a car accident at this location after Noah lost control of the vehicle. Wealthy client Cooper Hargrove shows an interest in Valerie. Steve tries to prove that he is responsible by babysitting Zach while Carly has a date
6: The Right Thing
Brandon and Donna discover that Rush owns the building that houses the sweatshop. Although Rush denies any knowledge of illegal activities, Brandon uncovers proof that he owns the clothing factory. Steve accuses Brandon of selling out his father to establish a reputation as an investigative reporter. The woman who spoke with Donna is fired, although she had not revealed anything. She decides to expose the miserable working conditions, prompting Steve to confront his father. Rush admits that he may have known what was going on, and promises to clean up his act. While conducting the investigation, Steve forgets a promise to take Zach to Magic Mountain. David and Donna are kept apart by their busy schedules. David's band, Cain Was Able, continues to behave unprofessionally and make prejudicial remarks. David's credit problems escalate. Kelly fails to identify the shooter from the police lineup. This infuriates Brandon, who is certain that he picked out the right guy. Valerie fills in for Donna while she looks into the sweatshops, and speaks ill of her to the clients. Cooper continues to woo Valerie, who acts against her better judgment and convinces Noah to pass up a job that would take him back to Hawaii.
Wednesday, October 22nd, 1997
7: Pride and Prejudice
Brandon becomes overly protective of Kelly and displays behavior that borders on the sociopathic. When a man accidentally bumps into Kelly at a movie theater, Brandon imagines gun shots and attacks him. Detective Woods tells Brandon that the guy who shot Kelly is in the hospital. Brandon arrives and learns that the shooter is the man that Kelly described; the guy Brandon identified is the driver, who has been arrested. Brandon makes menacing remarks to the shooter's dead body. David negotiates a record deal for Cain Was Able. Donna shows him the band's new song, which includes racial slurs and encourages white supremacy. The record company executive tells David to let it go, but he refuses to allow the band to perform a showcase at the After Dark. David fights with the band when it tries to take the stage anyway. Donna learns that Valerie stole all of her clients. She tries to get revenge by asking Noah to work at a party in the hopes that he will catch Val with Cooper. Valerie manages to squirm out of the situation. Donna slaps Val during an argument at the club. Steve surprises Carly by doing all of her household chores, then takes her out for the evening. She is touched by his gesture and gives him a kiss.
8: Toil and Trouble
An unenthusiastic Noah discusses his investment portfolio with a business manager. He covers by telling Valerie that the man was a boat owner. Val accepts an invitation to a ball from Cooper and tries to keep Noah away. He shows up to surprise her; both men get mad and dump Valerie. The building owner evicts David for failing to pay the club's rent. He steals a check from Donna and forges her name. Donna takes a job for a woman who she believes is the widow of a major fashion designer. The woman seeks her help in retaining a psychic to ask her dead husband about some hidden jewels. David angers Donna by skipping the ball. Steve escorts Carly to the event, although they have to leave early to tend to an ailing Zach. Kelly fears that she and Brandon are in a rut, so they do it at every conceivable opportunity.
9: Friends, Lovers and Children
Brandon and Kelly recognize a hooker on a downtown street as Dylan's sister Erica. They call Brenda and learn that Erica vanished after following a boyfriend from Hawaii to Los Angeles. Brandon pays a male prostitute to lead them to Erica, and he and Kelly move her into the house. After convincing Valerie that she can be trusted alone, Erica disappears with all of the gang's valuables. David turns to a loan shark for help with his money problems. Donna discovers that David forged her name on a check. Torn apart by David's deceitful actions, she dumps him and throws him out of the apartment. Steve feels uncomfortable when Zach tricks him into participating in a father-son soccer game. Steve apologizes to Carly for overreacting, and they spend the night together. A woman whom Steve dated over the summer shows up and claims that she is pregnant with his child. Noah refuses to accept Val's apology and resume their relationship. He gets very drunk and is arrested in a bar fight. Brandon bails him out, and Noah explains that it is the anniversary of the death of his fiancée, Beth. He also reveals that he is a Harvard graduate, and that his family runs a Fortune 500 oil company. He has millions in his trust fund, but wants nothing to do with the money.
10: Child of the Night
Erica is arrested for prostitution and released into Kelly and Brandon's custody. Brandon writes a story about her, but promises to leave her name out of it. The assistant district attorney needs the name of Brandon's source to build a case against Erica's abusive pimp. Despite Kelly's objections, Brandon insists on protecting Erica from possible retribution. Erica stands up to Riggs and helps a friend get off the streets. The assistant district attorney threatens to send Brandon to jail unless he cooperates. Jodi claims that Steve is the only man who could have possibly fathered her child. He tries to convince her to give the baby up for adoption. Carly persuades Steve to take a paternity test. Mel helps David file for bankruptcy and pay back Donna, but he still owes a large debt to the loan shark. Donna spends the day on her parents' boat with Noah while David moves out of the apartment. Valerie catches Donna and Noah kissing and shares the news with David. Sands' thug beats up David for failing to pay back his loan, but Noah protects him from further harm. Noah secretly pays off David's debt.
11: Deadline
Brandon is arrested for obstructing justice. Erica agrees to participate in a sting operation so that Riggs can be arrested on another charge without her testimony. Riggs gets busted for buying drugs from an undercover cop, and the police pretend to arrest Erica so that he will not suspect her involvement. Iris transfers custody of Erica over to Dylan so that she can live with her brother. A dedicated doctor impresses Kelly when she takes Erica to his hectic clinic. Kelly asks for a transfer to the clinic, where she will help with administrative duties. David moves into the office at the After Dark and accidentally starts a fire. He has lost his insurance and cannot pay for repairs, so the landlord terminates his lease. Donna takes pity on David and asks him to move back into the apartment. He takes her up on her offer, only to see her kissing Noah on the porch after a date. Valerie visits Sands and learns that Noah paid off David's debt. She lashes out at Noah for lying to her, and forces him to come clean with Donna. David, already angered by Noah's actions, becomes even more furious when Noah reveals that he bought out the landlord. David refuses to manage the club for him. Steve reluctantly agrees to take responsibility if he is the father of Jodi's child. The paternity test comes back negative; Steve feels that Jodi betrayed him by concealing the fact that there was another possible father, but wishes her luck.
Wednesday, December 3rd, 1997
12: Friends in Deed
Dr. Monahan's behavior unnerves Kelly as he checks out her injured shoulder. Brandon insists that Kelly simply felt strange about being examined by an acquaintance, but she later finds reason to believe that Monahan was hitting on her. Kelly suggests that Brandon seek out talented columnist Emma Bennett for the Beat. The woman immediately begins coming on to him. Valerie warns Noah that he may be in over his head trying to manage the After Dark. He comes to agree with her and offers her a job, despite Donna's objections. Felice expresses her disapproval of Donna's relationship with Noah. Hoping to correct Felice's misconceptions about him, Noah buys the Martins' boat for $325,000 in an auction. David takes a job at a clothing store, but quits after just a few days. Donna sees David and Valerie at the mall and becomes jealous. Val suggests that they pretend to date to drive a wedge between Donna and Noah. Steve and Carly have difficulty finding time alone. Carly's mother stuns her by announcing that she is leaving town with her new boyfriend.
13: Comic Relief
Dr. Monahan makes inappropriate advances toward Kelly. When she confronts him, he claims that he has done nothing wrong and accuses her of immaturity. Brandon lies about his whereabouts to Kelly and spends the day with Emma. They kiss after he drives her home. After discovering Brandon's relationship with Kelly, Emma tries to get to him by writing columns about the situation. David begins working at a car wash and befriends a gay teenage co-worker. He tries to convince the boy's parents to take him back, as he is sleeping at the car wash. David and Valerie proceed with their plan to make their exes jealous. Donna becomes upset and throws David out of the apartment, forcing him to move into Valerie's bedroom. Steve performs at the After Dark's comedy showcase. He initially bombs, but quickly recovers. He confesses to Carly that he stole all of the well-received material from Richard Belzer, and shares his history of stupid behavior. Music: ""Semi-Charmed Life"" by Third Eye Blind (#4, 199
14: Santa Knows
Kelly considers filing sexual harassment charges against Monahan, but does not want to interfere with a fundraiser for the clinic. Monahan makes a pass at her during the event; Kelly talks with a supervisor, who warns that reporting him could cause future employers to label her a troublemaker. Brandon goes to Emma's apartment to pick up a column, and has sex with her. Wracked with guilt, he goes overboard trying to prove himself to Kelly. After Ben's parents reject his Christmas peace offering, he tells David that he plans to move in with an aunt and uncle. David realizes that he is lying and returns to stop him from slashing his wrists. He takes Ben back to the Walsh house, where Valerie convinces him not to give up on life. Ben's parents ask him to come home, and his father vows to try his best to accept him. Val and David realize how much they mean to each other. Noah upsets Donna by pushing her away during the holidays. Steve and a Santa-suit clad Nat help restore Zach's Christmas spirit after a friend tells him that there is no Santa Claus.
15: Ready or Not
Emma is upset to see Kelly wearing a watch that she had given to Brandon. Dr. Monahan forces Kelly out of the clinic. Emma suggests that she expose him, so Kelly turns on the intercom as Monahan makes another pass at her. Brandon barges in, and the foundation immediately fires Monahan, who will be replaced by Donna's father. Brandon asks Emma to leave the newspaper. She records a phone conversation in which he admits to sleeping with her, and uses the tape to blackmail him. Brandon and Steve hire a new assistant, Janet Sosna; and bring David aboard as a music reviewer. Donna is relieved when David reveals that his relationship with Valerie is a sham. David and Val get back together that day, and Donna plans to sleep with Noah as revenge. Noah nixes this idea, but then uses a private concert by Brian McKnight to get her into bed. Valerie cuts a deal with a bookie operating at the After Dark. Carly and Zach move in with Donna while their house undergoes some renovations. Zach inadvertently helps Donna get a job when he colors over her designs the night before her interview.
16: Illegal Tender
Brandon admits his affair to Steve. Steve suggests that they gauge Kelly's reaction by making her the advice columnist and having her respond to a letter about a similar situation. Steve intercepts a call from Emma; Kelly overhears and assumes that he is cheating on Carly. She lectures Steve and advises him to emulate Brandon. Kelly confronts Emma, who stuns her by playing the tape of Brandon's confession. A devastated Kelly breaks up with Brandon and orders him to leave her alone. A young singer accosts David for his scathing review, which resulted in her firing. David realizes that he misjudged her and helps her get a gig at the After Dark. Val buys David a new keyboard after he expresses a desire to return to music. Noah tries in vain to shut down Val's bookmaking operation. Duke sets her up with an undercover cop, and Valerie and Noah get arrested. Carly experiences a nightmarish day as she loses Zach at the mall. A kindly stranger drops off the boy at the security offices. Music:
17: The Elephant's Father
Kelly moves in with Donna and Carly. Brandon expects Kelly to immediately take him back and will not give her any space. He gets plastered, staggers over to the apartment, and yells at Kelly. He refuses to leave until she threatens to call the police. Donna gets upset with Noah when he defends Brandon and claims that Kelly should "get over it." Brandon chases a minivan that cut him off and tries to attack the driver, a woman who has two children in the car. Noah realizes that Brandon has lost it, and apologizes to Donna. Valerie must perform community service at the clinic as punishment for her bookmaking arrest. Kelly smugly orders her around, so Val tries to get revenge by interfering with her relationship with Brandon. She tears up Brandon's messages and plays matchmaker for Kelly and an intern. Brandon shows up at the apartment late at night, but Kelly is not prepared to give him another chance. Carly's father suffers a heart attack and undergoes quadruple bypass surgery. She decides to move to Montana to assist with his recovery. In spite of Steve's pleas, she determines that she must relocate permanently in order to give Zach some stability. David works on a feature about an up and coming band, Jasper's Law. The group buys one of his compositions, a love song he had once written for Donna. Kelly encourages a domestic abuse victim to escape from her husband.
18: Rebound
Valerie completes her community service, but not before arranging for Brandon to run into Kelly and Jeff during a date. A woman considers calling off her wedding to one of Steve's old frat brothers, and seeks refuge at the Walsh house. She bonds with Brandon over their fractured relationships, and decides to get married after all. Steve observes the couple's commitment to each other and realizes that he must get over Carly; he would have followed her to Montana if he had truly loved her. The keyboardist for Jasper's Law gets into a car accident while driving drunk. He claims that Noah is negligent for serving him too many drinks. David is aware that Mark had been smoking marijuana before the crash, but keeps quiet after Mark threatens to squash his songwriting deal. He finally shares the truth with the group leader, who fires Mark and replaces him with David. Donna loses her job when she stands up to a temperamental child model, but gets it back by dressing up like a clown. Brandon again shows up on Kelly's doorstep at night. He explains that he cheated on her because he was frightened by the prospect of commitment, and insists that she "owes" him another chance. She slams the door in his face.
19: Crimes and Misdemeanors
David angers Valerie by moving out of her room and into Carly's old house. She apologizes for her behavior and arranges for a record company executive to watch Jasper's Law perform at the club. The group receives a new record deal, thanks in large part to David's song. Valerie believes that the song is about her, and is hurt to learn that David wrote it for Donna. Donna's grandmother must undergo surgery for an aneurysm. Donna introduces Noah to Mrs. Martin, but she still feels that David is Donna's soulmate. She requests a visit from David and asks him to look out for Donna. Mrs. Martin suffers heart problems after the surgery and soon dies. Val discourages David from attending the funeral, while Noah asks him to spend time with Donna because of their history. Donna and David share a kiss, but decide to remain friends. Kelly meets an ex-convict, who was sentenced to prison at age seventeen for murdering his mother's abusive boyfriend. She asks Brandon to write a story about the man to help him find employment. Steve believes that he has secured a double date for Brandon and him. He fails to realize that the women are a lesbian couple who believe the guys are also gay.
20: Cupid's Arrow
Valerie and Noah are not enthused when David's song receives radio airplay. They express their discontent at the amount of time David and Donna are spending together. David and Donna lie about their whereabouts before embarking on a shopping trip. They get into a car accident; Donna injures her back and begins popping painkillers. Val encourages Noah to reach out to his estranged half-brother, Josh. Valerie and Noah believe that their mates are cheating on them and become depressed. Noah gets very drunk, and Josh furtively slips something into Valerie's drink. After Josh is distracted by a phone call, Noah takes Valerie to the office and has sex with her. Val awakens in a daze and feels extremely ill, despite the fact that she had only one drink. David takes her to a doctor, where test results find Rohypnol (the date-rape drug) in her system. David and Valerie race over to the boat and accuse Noah of rape. Kelly spends a romantic Valentine's Day with Jeff. He expresses a willingness to pass up a job offer and stay in Los Angeles with her, but she dumps him and goes back to Brandon. Steve finds himself juggling three dates, thanks to his friends' insistence on fixing him up. He becomes captivated by a mysterious stranger, but loses track of her. He gets pulled over by the police the next day, and is shocked to find that the cop is his mystery woman.
21: The Girl Who Cried Wolf
Valerie presses rape charges against Noah. Kelly and Steve, citing Val's fake pregnancy and abortion, assume that she is lying in an attempt to extort money from Noah. David fights with Steve over his constant sarcastic remarks, and decides to move Val to his house. Donna believes that Noah is innocent, but pushes him away after learning that he did sleep with Valerie. The district attorney declines to file charges due to insufficient evidence; Val files a $10 million civil suit in the hopes of vindication. Josh proposes a $200,000 settlement without consulting Noah, who angrily withdraws the offer. Donna has difficulty keeping up with her work assignments because of her back pain and the effects of the painkillers. Josh supplies her with amphetamines, and she later steals drugs from her father's clinic. Brandon and Steve go on a ride-along with Steve's friend Tammy and her partner. Brandon believes that Tammy's partner used excessive force on a suspect, but decides not to write about it after the man agrees to counseling. The record company threatens to drop David when he stays away from the studio to spend time with Valerie.
22: Law and Disorder
Noah's civil trial begins. His attorney portrays Valerie as a golddigging tramp, and uses the gang's testimony to place Noah in a favorable light. Josh's testimony reflects very badly on Noah, and Val wins the case. Everyone apologizes to Valerie and turns against Noah. While rummaging through Josh's belongings in search of more pills, Donna discovers a prescription for Rohypnol. Josh admits that he drugged Valerie, and Noah offers to help Val build a case against him. David's record company experiences a shake-up. The new reprensentative forces Jasper out of the band and turns over all creative control to David. Jasper accuses David of treachery. Unable to meet her deadline, the disoriented Donna steals designs from a co-worker. Noah finds Donna passed out on her living room floor. Music: ""This Ain't Going Away,"" performed by Jasper's Law; ""Keep It Together"" by Brian Austin Green
23: Making Amends
The paramedics revive Donna; she returns home from the hospital quickly, but suffers from withdrawal. Donna is fired after confessing that she plagiarized her co-worker's designs. Noah helps her battle her addiction, and she forgives him for sleeping with Valerie. A teenager abandons her baby outside of the clinic. Kelly cares for the child and tries to convince his mother to take him back. When this fails, she turns the baby over to social services. Kelly decides to apply to become the boy's foster mother. Brandon discovers that the record company paid a radio station to put David's song into rotation. A girl is injured at a concert as fans rush the stage. David quits the band and backs out of his record contract. Josh is sentenced to a year in jail for illegal drug possession. Valerie struggles to overcome memories of the rape and move on with her life. She concludes that neither she nor Noah is to blame for the crime. Steve finds love letters that are intended for another man. He m
24: The Nature of Nurture
Kelly is upset when a gay couple receives custody of the baby. The teenage mother decides that she wants her son back, but only because she does not want him raised by gay men. Kyle and Gene give the child up without a fight, as they feel this is in his best interests. Kelly comes to believe that they would make better parents than she or Leann, and lobbies the girl to relinquish custody. She eventually agrees after realizing that she cannot care for the child properly. With the newspaper struggling to stay afloat, Steve accepts advertising from a cigarette manufacturer. Brandon becomes indignant and threatens to quit; Steve changes his mind by pointing out all the people he has helped through his writing. After a few dates, Steve finally tells Jill that he is not Ted (the man to whom she had been writing). She refuses to continue seeing him, and he vows to make her happy by finding Ted. David rediscovers his love of music by jamming with his neighbor, a washed-up guitar player who onc
25: Aunt Bea's Pickles
During Valerie's surprise birthday party, Abby announces that she and Bill are engaged. Val and Kelly join forces in the hopes of getting their parents to call off the wedding. They eventually realize that Bill and Abby are happy and decide to support them. Bill disgusts Kelly by backing out of the wedding and leaving her to break the news to Abby. Valerie gives David further insight into her traumatic family history as she tells him that her father sexually abused her. Brandon receives a job offer from a major newspaper, but faces a dilemma when he learns that he is only being hired as a replacement for striking reporters. He returns to the Beat and suggests implementing a health plan for the overworked and underpaid Janet. Steve hesitates to introduce Jill to Ted; she decides that she really likes Steve and comes back to him. When Donna's dresses fail to sell, Noah tries to give her a confidence boost by buying the entire stock himself. She is angry when she uncovers the truth. Music
26: All That Glitters
Brandon works on a story with a pompous Pulitzer-Prize-winning reporter. Kelly gets a developmentally disabled young man a position at the clinic, where he freaks out after making a minor mistake. Kelly convinces Brandon to let Chris join the reporter and him on the ice at a Los Angeles Kings practice, but Raitt leaves town to work on another story. Brandon helps Chris get a dream job at a friend's ice skating rink. In order to pay his taxes, David takes a job as a jingle writer. A ballad he had written for Valerie ends up in a deodorant commercial. Steve realizes that he and Jill have nothing in common. She dumps him before he has the chance to break things off. Janet has a crush on Steve, but he doesn't seem to get it. Donna discovers that the diamond jewelry that Noah gave her is fake.
27: Reunion
The gang prepares for its five-year high school reunion. Andrea returns for the event; after initially pretending that her life is perfect, she reveals that she is divorcing Jesse. Brandon tries to convince her to work things out; but she has already tried every possible solution, even dropping out of medical school to spend more time with her family. Andrea does not want to speak at the reunion, so Brandon takes her place and delivers a speech with the theme ""it's okay to be yourself."" Kelly becomes disgusted when Ross Webber, the guy who humiliated her after she lost her virginity to him, tries to exchange pleasantries. Valerie gives Ross a dressing-down and helps Kelly eradicate some old graffiti about her. Steve is upset that his classmates expect him to bring a bimbo to the reunion. Janet volunteers to be his date to help him change his image. He completely ignores her to chase after a beautiful classmate. The woman is actually plotting revenge against Steve for mistreating her in
28: Skin Deep
A ""sex shop"" opens in Beverly Hills. Brandon, Steve and David patronize the store, under the guise of covering the controversy for the newspaper. Brandon infuriates Kelly by defending the store and its clientele, and attending a wild bachelor party for Muntz. A misunderstanding causes David and Val to fear that they are having problems with their sex life. Steve decides that he is interested in Janet after she expresses her philosophy on free love. Donna discovers that her assistant, who has very low self-esteem, calms herself by cutting her arms with a razor. She tries to convince her to seek help. Donna asks women of normal measurements to appear in her catalog because she believes that using models would send the wrong message. Kelly is revolted when Jackie opts to get a face lift and Erin frets about calories. Music: ""Jellyhead"" by Crush
29: Ricochet
Kelly finds it impossible to trust Brandon as he works late every night for several weeks. Brandon assures Kelly that he will never leave her and suddenly asks her to marry him. They experience doubts, but decide that they are ready for a lifetime commitment. Noah entertains Gwyneth, a longtime friend. She secretly has a crush on him, and kisses him on a ferris wheel. Noah insists that he is not interested in her. David becomes extremely jumpy after being robbed at an ATM. He gets drunk, steals a gun from the After Dark's cash register, and staggers into the alley behind the club. When Noah and Gwyneth try to stop him, he shoots at a dumpster; a bullet richochets and hits Gwyneth in the arm. Donna asks Gwyneth to stay at her apartment because she doesn't trust her around Noah. Valerie learns that she is a match for a leukemia patient in need of a bone marrow transplant. The man's son urges her not to go through with the operation, as his father molested both of his daughters and may do
30: The Fundamental Things Apply
David dumps Valerie and tells her that the break-up is her fault. Gwyneth admits that she is in love with Noah and seeks Valerie's help to get him away from Donna. Val suggests that she sabotage Donna's fashion show, so Gwyneth spills wine on most of the dresses. Noah orders Gwyneth to leave, but Donna lashes out at him for not ending the friendship. Val has a one-night stand with the fashion show photographer. She soon discovers that he is an intravenous drug user. Brandon and Kelly become overwhelmed by wedding preparations. They try to reunite a refugee with his wife, whom he lost when he was flown from Sarajevo for medical treatment. Sarah tells Steve that she is married, but separated from her husband. She decides to seek marriage counseling while continuing to date Steve. David throws a fit when a clothing store fails to pay him for a jingle.
31: The Wedding (Part 1)
Valerie confronts Johnny, who insists that he does not share needles and is healthy. David pushes Valerie to get tested for HIV, but she is afraid to learn the truth. She spends all of her time partying because she does not want to confront reality. While Val is out at a club with Noah, they climb onto the roof; she risks her life by walking along a ledge. Noah helps her down when she slips, and she drives him away after discovering a bleeding cut. A strung-out Johnny visits Val at the club and reveals that he is HIV positive. Brandon and Kelly quarrel over wedding details. They cannot pick out a ring, relate a memorable story for David's wedding video, or agree on vows. They fear that their disagreements are more than just the result of nerves. Noah upsets Donna by expressing his lack of faith in the institution of marriage. The wedding caterer saves Donna's life by pushing her out of the path of a runaway pickup truck. Sarah breaks Steve's heart and goes back to her husband. Music: ""
As the wedding day arrives, Brandon and Kelly finally seem to have overcome their doubts. However, while preparing for the ceremony, Kelly confesses to her mother that she isn't sure if she wants to go through with the marriage. Brandon expresses similar sentiments to Steve, who believes that he merely has cold feet. Brandon and Kelly mutually agree to call off the ceremony. They announce their decision to the guests and invite everyone to the reception, as they insist that they are happy. Valerie submits to an HIV test and anxiously awaits the results. Before taking Valerie to the clinic, David feels that he has to remind her that they are not a couple. Valerie goes into the doctor's office to learn the outcome of her test. Donna accepts a date with Jacob to thank him for saving her life. Noting her uncertain future with Noah, he makes a play for her. She turns him down and decides she would rather stay with Noah. Steve tries to win Sarah back from her husband. She shows up at the rec
1: The Morning After
Brandon and Kelly sleep together the night of the aborted wedding. Brandon considers their night together a mistake, while Kelly realizes that she wishes they had married after all. A lonely Brandon goes to Kelly's apartment in search of comfort and ends up staying the night. He then rejects Kelly's suggestion that they go on their honeymoon, and declares that he wants to move on. After her HIV test comes back negative, Valerie annoys everyone with her new policy of brutal honesty. David takes her cue and issues an ultimatum to his boss, who cuts him loose. David suspects that Val is pushing everyone away to punish herself for some reason. Valerie makes a stunning confession about her father's death. He did not commit suicide; she murdered him. Donna goes against Noah's wishes by accepting an invitation to have dinner with his parents on Mr. Hunter's birthday. The evening proves to be a disaster, just as Noah had predicted. His father later visits the club and reveals that his company
2: Budget Cuts
After learning that the clinic may lose funding, Kelly asks Brandon to write a story to generate publicity. They try to collaborate on the article, but find that working together is too painful. Kelly organizes an auction to raise money for the clinic. She models her wedding gown in the fashion show portion of the event, and Brandon outbids everyone for a date with her. Brandon and Kelly take a walk on the beach and decide that they are through. The clinic must still cut back its staff (even after the fundraiser), so Kelly resigns. Although David believes that Valerie killed her father in self-defense and should move on, she insists on bringing her mother to town to discuss the situation. When Val tries to confess, she learns that Abby knew of the abuse prior to her husband's death. She did not take any action because she believed that Victor would seek help. Valerie finds a connection with Abby's fiancé, an ex-policeman. He killed an acquaintance in the line of duty, but has come to r
3: Dealer's Choice
Abby announces that she and Carl are planning to elope in Las Vegas, and asks Val to be her maid of honor. Valerie bonds with Carl during an evening at the casino, and sleeps with him the night before the wedding. A depressed Kelly begs Val to let her tag along on the trip because she believes that Brandon is seeing someone else. She has a good time gambling and hanging out with a stranger, until the sight of a woman in a wedding dress brings her back to reality. Noah develops an obsession with his father's gun after the police return it to him. He drinks heavily and causes an embarrassing scene at the Martins' 25th wedding anniversary party. While working on Mr. Hunter's obituary, Brandon begins to fear that he will never have any meaningful accomplishments. He meets with a reporter from a New York paper, who sets up a job interview. A woman helping Donna pursue an account poses as her business partner, then steals her designs to get an in-house position with the client. Steve catches
4: Don't Ask, Don't Tell
Carl decides to annul his marriage to Abby because he believes that he has a future with Valerie. Valerie comes clean with her mother about her night with Carl, and confesses to killing her father. Despite Val's claims of self-defense, Abby plans to turn her in. Kelly stops at a newsstand to ogle a handsome man at a nearby table. Kelly notices that a store is for lease and decides that she and Donna should open a boutique. While looking over the space, she meets attorney Matt Durning (the guy she was checking out). Noah cannot bring himself to deliver his father's eulogy. He is arrested for drunk driving that night, and Kelly suggests that Matt represent him. Noah receives a fine and probation and is ordered to attend alcohol counseling. Kelly learns that Matt is building a child custody case for a wife beater whose spouse she once helped at the clinic. Matt insists that everyone has the right to representation, but Kelly blows him off. Steve gives Sophie a column for the Beat. The pap
5: Brandon Leaves
Brandon announces that he has accepted a job with the Washington bureau of the New York Chronicle. Kelly and Donna prepare to open their store, Now Wear This. Brandon becomes unnerved by the realization that Kelly is getting on with her life, and feels threatened by Matt's presence. Kelly meets with Leah, who explains that she returned to Lenny after learning that she was pregnant, but left again when he threatened her life. Although Kelly insists that she doesn't need his help, Brandon writes a story about the custody case. Brandon decides that he wants to stay in Los Angeles, but Kelly urges him to take the job and pursue his dreams. The gang throws a surprise going-away party for Brandon. Before departing, he convinces his parents to let Steve, Val and Noah stay in the house. Donna turns to Matt for comfort as she and Noah drift further apart. Valerie seeks legal advice from Matt. She explains that the killing was an accident, but Matt warns that a jury may not agree. Abby tells Val
6: Confession
Lenny receives joint custody of his daughter. After he explodes in a rage during his first visit, Kelly decides to help Leah and her daughter skip town and assume a new identity. Lenny follows them, realizes what they are planning, and attacks Leah. Matt, bothered by a guilty conscience, helps Leah obtain the necessary identification to start her new life. Valerie elects to throw a massive rave as a farewell party before turning herself in to the police. David calls Abby to inform her of Val's plans, and she intercepts her daughter at the police station. She pleads with Val not to confess and offers forgiveness, insisting that she is to blame for not intervening on Valerie's behalf. Unable to communicate with Noah, Donna begins dating Matt. She hurts Matt's feelings by ignoring him during Val's party to tend to the inebriated Noah. Noah breaks a promise to Donna by skipping a court-mandated AA meeting and continuing to drink. Sophie tries her hand at waitressing after a disastrous phot
7: You Say Goodbye, I Say Hello
As Kelly and Valerie pack Brandon's belongings for shipment, Kelly discovers a letter in which Val advised Brandon not to marry her. She turns everyone against Val and gets them to boycott her Thanksgiving gathering. Hoping to help Kelly understand Valerie's behavior, David details her troubled childhood. Although Val is not interested in her pity, Kelly insists on helping with Thanksgiving dinner. Kelly and Valerie establish another truce, but Valerie suddenly announces that she is moving back to Buffalo. She apologizes for all the trouble she caused, and thanks everyone for their friendship before leaving. David has a one-night stand with an apparent groupie, unaware that she is just seventeen years old. He faces statutory rape charges after the girl confesses to her parents. Noah blacks out while driving drunk and crashes his car. He fears that he may have been involved with a hit-and-run, and turns himself in. Donna's cousin Gina comes to town with an ice show. She loses her job an
8: I'm Back Because
David is arrested for statutory rape and gets suspended from his radio show. Dylan bails him out of jail, then learns from Mrs. Teasley that Denise is a troubled girl who receives little attention from her parents. Dylan confronts Denise's parents and--speaking from his own experience as a neglected teen--explains that their daughter's actions are a cry for help. Denise drops the charges. David thanks Dylan by offering him a place to stay, as Dylan recently sold his house. Steve bristles at the news that his mother is dating her much younger co-star. Steve sees the man kissing another woman at the After Dark and starts a fight. Samantha reveals that she is not seeing the man; she is actually gay. Matt experiences a lull in his business and cannot pay his rent. Steve offers to let him move into the house in exchange for legal services for the Beat. Kelly's grandfather, who suffers from emphysema, refuses to undergo an operation that could prolong his life. After Kelly tells him that Jac
9: The Following Options
After Kelly's grandfather nearly dies of pneumonia, she reluctantly gives the doctors permission to hook him up to a ventilator. Jackie and Kelly realize that the machines are taking away Ed's dignity without improving his condition. They decide to bring him home to spend his remaining time with his family. Kelly grows angry with Matt when he takes a case defending a tobacco company. He drops the case and quits smoking to impress Kelly, but she kisses Dylan. Donna agrees to let a troubled fifteen-year-old girl buy a dress on layaway. The girl's fellow gang members convince her to slice up the dress and return it as damaged goods. Sonia later apologizes and offers to work off her debt at the store. Dylan takes his bullet-riddled Porsche out of storage. He impresses Gina by coming to her defense when a drunk harasses her at the club. Dylan catches the guy and his friends vandalizing the Porsche; he gets a knife away from one of them and threatens to kill him. Dylan suffers nightmares abo
10: Marathon Man
Dylan whisks Kelly away to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico for the day. He buys her a hollow statue so that he can smuggle drugs back into the U.S. Kelly rejects Dylan and decides to focus on her relationship with Matt. Dylan promptly takes Gina to Mexico, and again smuggles heroin in a statue. When the statue ends up locked inside the boutique after hours, Dylan seduces Gina to get it back. Sonia and her boyfriend spend the night at Donna's store. One of Sonia's friends pulls a knife on her and warns her to stay away from her man. The store is robbed, and everyone believes that Sonia committed the crime to acquire enough money to escape the gang. She later reveals that she endured a beating to keep her friends from robbing the store, and a security guard actually committed the crime. Sonia thanks Donna for helping her get out of the gang. Steve mistakenly pledges $1000 per hour for an AIDS dance-a-thon at the club; he wanted to donate a total of one thousand dollars. He tries to keep his costs
11: How to Be the Jerk Women Love
Gina finds heroin in Dylan's jacket. He throws out his stash to prove himself, but continues to get high. Dylan tries to visit Toni's grave, only to find that it has been moved. He buys a gun and heads for Marchette's house in the hopes of learning the new location. Kelly balks at sleeping with Matt. She helps out with David's radio show and advises listeners to take relationships slowly. She promptly spends the night with Matt. Steve puts on a seminar offering techniques on how to pick up women. His students express dissatisfaction at their results, but David scores with a line about a dead grandmother. Gina stirs up trouble between Donna and her mother. Music: ""One Week"" by Barenaked Ladies (#1, 1998)
12: Trials and Tribulations
Dylan storms into the Marchette mansion and holds a couple at gunpoint. They tell him that they purchased the house from Marchette's estate; he committed suicide a few weeks after Toni's death. Gina pushes Dylan away when he continues to use heroin. The cops pull him over on suspicion of breaking and entering, and find drugs and a gun on his bike. He calls Gina from jail and begs her to bring him drugs, as he cannot handle withdrawal. Steve's students demand a refund and take him to small-claims court. The case is heard on the television show Judge Mary. Although Steve loses, he believes that the publicity will help his business. David's new girlfriend dumps him after hearing him testify about using a pick-up line to seduce her. Donna and Noah house-sit for the Martins in order to gain some privacy. They invite their friends over for a barbecue. Matt brings Dylan to the party and suggests that he admit his drug problem to everyone. Gina reluctantly gives Dylan heroin, then stalks off w
13: Withdrawal
Donna is not seriously injured, and forgives Dylan for the accident. Dylan's friends encourage him to check into rehab. Kelly acts very pushy and suggests that Gina and Matt are responsible for Dylan's problems. Dylan sneaks out the bathroom window and attempts to go through withdrawal on his own. Kelly finds him lying on her doorstep and takes him to the hospital. Matt cuts a deal with the district attorney to keep Dylan out of jail, but isn't sure that he deserves another chance. Dylan goes into cardiac arrest and has to be revived through a defibrillator. Kelly realizes that she must back off and learn to respect Gina's relationship with Dylan. Matt receives a surprising call from a woman in New York. Donna designs a gown for a famous singer to wear to a nationally televised awards show. She fears that she is ruined when the woman looks like a wreck (with uncombed hair and garish accessories). However, the teenagers who emulate the singer soon flock to Donna's store. Steve gets into
14: I'm Married
Matt flies to New York to visit Lauren, who has spent the past three years in a mental institution. She returns to Los Angeles with Matt, but he is reluctant to introduce her to Kelly. David and Gina see the couple kissing on the street. Kelly angrily breaks up with Matt, then decides that she will fight for him. Matt informs Kelly that Lauren is his wife. Dylan performs community service on a road crew. He objects to the tyrannical foreman's treatment of one of the other workers, an upstanding family man. Dylan gets into a fight with the foreman; he must smooth things over to spare his friend from an unfair punishment. Dylan angers Gina by confiding in his sponsor while shutting Gina out. David meets a woman who may be his perfect match, but she seems to have stood him up. Steve and Donna engage in a war of practical jokes with Noah after they catch him cheating at strip poker. Music: ""Jumper"" by Third Eye Blind (#5, 1999)
15: Beheading St. Valentine
Although he loves Lauren and feels obligated to help her readjust to society, Matt expresses a desire to stay with Kelly. Kelly tries to maintain her relationship with Matt, but realizes she must bow out following a plea from Lauren. Donna becomes furious upon discovering old photos of Gina kissing Noah at the amusement park. She agrees to pose as David's girlfriend at a business function, where they keep up appearances by kissing for a photograph. They later kiss in David's truck. Donna feels guilty and forgives Noah; Gina drops hints suggesting that she slept with him. Steve discovers an irregular mole and fears that he may have skin cancer. He vows to turn his life around and apologizes for taking Janet for granted. She sleeps with him, but he returns to his old ways after tests come back negative. Dylan tries to keep his mind off drugs by having sex with Gina in public places. Gina lashes out at Dylan, as she feels that he is using her. Music: ""My Own Worst Enemy"" by Lit; ""Declarat
16: Survival Skills
Lauren suffers a reaction to her medication. She learns that she will die if she continues to take her medication; without the pills, her schizophrenia will resurface. Lauren prepares to return to the institution, but Matt proposes that they illegally obtain more pills and spend their remaining weeks together on a second honeymoon. Kelly stops sulking about Matt long enough to buy Dylan a classic car to lift his spirits. Gina becomes extremely jealous. Donna breaks up with Noah after he confesses to sleeping with Gina. Gina later reveals that they did not have sex. Donna insults her and refuses to forgive Noah. She co-hosts David's radio show for a night and reminisces about the good times. David shows up on Donna's doorstep, and they share a passionate kiss. Steve and Janet take a pair of troubled teens on a camping trip. While trying to counsel the bickering kids, Steve and Janet end up seeking romantic advice. Janet accidentally lets her feelings for Steve slip out. They spend the n
17: Slipping Away
Kelly and Dylan agree to go to Mexico and obtain medication for Lauren. Kelly has second thoughts about their mission. She sleeps with Dylan, then decides that she doesn't want to buy the drugs. Dylan confuses Kelly when he starts babbling about their relationship to the customs official. Dylan explains that he got the medicine, and needed to distract the customs official to keep him from searching the car. Lauren elects not to take the pills, as she would rather return to the institution and hope for a cure. She asks Kelly to watch over Matt and help him get on with his life. Donna agrees to a date with the persistent David. She rejects Noah's pleas for a reconciliation and asks for time to make a decision. Gina discovers that her mother spent most of the money she earned skating as a minor. Donna encourages her to sue the trustee who failed to protect her interests, and is stunned to find that it is Felice. Janet hides her relationship with Steve from her father, who only wants her t
18: Bobbi Dearest
Gina decides to sue Felice for $1.1 million for the money her mother misspent and ""pain and suffering."" Donna, torn apart by her family's bickering, runs crying to Noah. She doesn't believe that David has a right to be angry, but later apologizes and claims that he is just lonely. He follows her advice and uses his radio show to field offers from potential girlfriends. He loses track of the woman who most interests him, and eventually discovers that she works for a cleaning service that cleans the club. Donna convinces her mother to repay Gina the $60,000 she lost. Gina and Bobbi had actually orchestrated a scam to rip off Felice; they celebrate their success. Matt learns that Lauren has filed for divorce. Kelly wants to take things slowly, but cannot stay away from Matt. Dylan nearly dies in a Jet Ski accident. He tries to track down the guy who revived him. He learns that the man, devastated by the death of his little brother, had planned to commit suicide. Dylan funds a new children
19: The Leprechaun
Noah faces foreclosure after failing to make his mortgage payments on the Peach Pit/After Dark building. He accepts an offer from a restaurant owner willing to pay much higher rent, and decides to terminate Nat's lease. Noah ignores a warning from Dylan, who buys the building so that Nat can stay. Claudia reveals that her visa will soon expire; David vows to help her stay in the country. When a job offer falls through, David agrees to marry Claudia. As a promotion, Steve has a man dress up as a leprechaun and promises a ""pot of gold"" to the person who catches him. A butcher takes the offer seriously and demands a reward, then pulls out a knife when Steve is unable to pay. The man breaks down in tears and explains that his son needs heart surgery. The paper helps finance the operation, thanks to donations sent in by readers touched by the man's plight. Kelly and Donna clash when Kelly hires a public relations guru to attract more attention to the store. Kelly fears that Matt's experienc
20: Fortune Cookie
David and Claudia proceed with plans for their wedding, and attempt to document their relationship to avoid suspicion. Claudia realizes that David is having doubts; she elects to return to Venezuela and apply for another visa. Dylan rigs a raffle so that Kelly can have the opportunity to meet her favorite singer. Gina goes to the man's hotel room, claiming to be Kelly. She spends the night at the hotel to make Dylan jealous, although she later insists that nothing happened. Kelly helps Matt film a television commercial to solicit new clients. Matt fears that Kelly does not like him for himself, and suspects that she is hung up on Dylan. Donna designs costumes for a production at West Beverly, where an acquaintance accuses the drama teacher of molesting her during her teen years. Donna does not believe her claims, until the woman explains that she drove Donna away from the drama class to protect her. Donna and Ashley take action after discovering that the teacher made inappropriate adva
21: I Want to Reach Right Out and Grab Ya
Dylan accompanies Matt to a pool hall and helps him hustle a client who refused to pay his bill. The guys return to the pool hall with Gina and Kelly the next day, and get into a brawl. The foursome's newfound friendship comes to an end after a magician hypnotizes Kelly during his act. He asks her with whom she would want to be stranded on a deserted island, and she replies, ""Dylan McKay."" Matt is angry, but decides that it isn't a big deal. Gina slaps Kelly and runs out of the club. A man tries to attack her with a knife; she escapes, but Kelly and Dylan do not believe Gina's story until the police catch her attacker. Kelly apologizes and promises to stay away from Dylan. Gina makes plans to spend time with Olympic gold medallist Oksana Baiul, a friend from her skating days, only to find that she is instead being hired as a housesitter. Donna's parents announce that they are separating. Donna blames her mother until Felice reveals that Dr. Martin is the one who wants the separation. N
22: Local Hero
Kelly and Dylan run into each other at the market and share a cup of coffee. They subdue a man who tries to attack a pregnant woman and her child, and help the woman get to the hospital to have her baby. When the press approaches Kelly, she identifies Steve as the hero because she and Dylan don't want to admit that they were together. Steve initially relishes the attention, but soon suffers from a guilty conscience. He confronts Kelly and Dylan and states that everyone can tell that they want each other. Kelly plans to tell Matt the truth, while Dylan considers breaking up with Gina. Gina receives an offer to become a skating commentator, but loses the job (partially because of Matt's hardball negotiating technique). Matt apologizes and offers Gina work as his assistant. Dylan cannot bring himself to break up with Gina while she is in this vulnerable state. Kelly tells Matt that Dylan was the hero, but stops short of disclosing the fact that she slept with Dylan in Mexico. Noah reveals
23: The End of the World as We Know It
Kelly and Matt babysit Erin, and have sex in the living room after she goes to sleep. They do not realize that Mel and Jackie have set up a video camera to observe prospective nannies with Erin. Erin switches the tape with a copy of ""There's Something About Mary,"" and the illicit video ends up in Dylan and Gina's hands. Dylan becomes furious, prompting Gina to suspect that he still has feelings for Kelly. She believes that Dylan is trying to overcompensate by arranging a private concert by Monica, and tricks him into admitting that he slept with Kelly in Mexico. Matt breaks up with Kelly, who reminds him that he was married at the time. He forgives her after she insists that she never revealed the truth because she did not want to add to his woes. Donna asks Wayne, a good-looking pro beach volleyball player, to model her new line of men's wear. Matt files a lawsuit on behalf of cancer victims against a number of companies that polluted the environment--including Hunter Oil. Noah refuse
24: Dog's Best Friend
David comforts a drunken and depressed Gina outside the After Dark, and she responds with a kiss. David and Dylan spend the weekend in Las Vegas, where Dylan has a one-night stand, but lets the woman believe that he wants to see her again. David, disgusted by Dylan's behavior, gives the woman their address when she inquires about a visit. She shows up just as Dylan and Gina are on the verge of getting back together. Dylan believes that David is in love with Gina and shouts that he can have her, unaware that she is standing outside. Dylan apologizes and tells Gina that she should find a man who is capable of a relationship. Kelly arranges some dental work for Gina; Mel notices decay that indicates that she is bulimic, but Gina denies her problem. Matt shows Noah a report that proves that Mr. Hunter was aware that a new partnership would harm the environment. A devastated Noah decides to help Matt prepare the case. They discover a memo that exonerates Noah's father, as he demanded that t
25: Agony
Kelly receives medical treatment and files a police report. She tells Dylan what has happened, and stays over at his house for several nights. She also confides in Donna, but cannot bring herself to tell Matt. He notices her odd behavior and suspects that she is seeing Dylan. Kelly receives counseling from a rape crisis center, but still feels extremely vulnerable. Dylan gets her a gun. Matt helps a thief gain his release through a technicality. His client is the same man who raped Kelly, and they nearly run into each other. Although Dylan warns that she is still fragile, David asks Gina on a date. He supports her as she tries out for a spot in an ice show. Gina does not emerge for her audition; she has passed out in the bathroom after purging. Wayne asks Donna to accompany him to Acapulco for a volleyball tournament. She turns him down because she does not want to shake up her life. After one of his photographs receives acclaim, Steve tries to impress Janet by becoming a professional
26: That's the Guy
Kelly tells Matt about the rape. Dylan puts up a $100,000 reward for information leading to the capture of the rapist. Some men try to ambush him and take the money, but Matt helps chase them away. Joe asks Matt to help him file a lawsuit charging police brutality. He goes to Now Wear This and finds Kelly working alone. When she recognizes him, he locks the door and brandishes a knife. She pulls her gun out of her purse and fires off a round of shots. Noah breaks up with Donna because he does not trust her. Believing that Donna's behavior stemmed from concern for Kelly, he comes over to apologize. He finds that she has slept with Wayne, and refuses to give her another chance. Wayne leaves for the summer to play in a series of tournaments. However, he then takes a job in Los Angeles and tells Donna that he wants to be with her. Gina confides in David about her bulimia and seeks refuge at his house. David erupts after finding Gina in bed with Dylan. Steve and Janet throw a party to celeb
1: The Phantom Menace
Joe dies of gunshot wounds. Kelly is arrested and held overnight until the shooting is ruled a justifiable homicide. The police consider charging her with possession of an unlicensed firearm, but Matt appeals to the department's sense of decency. David asks Dylan to move out. Dylan takes up residence at a hotel, and Gina joins him after Donna boots her out for talking to reporters about Kelly. Wayne annoys Donna with his cavalier attitude, particularly when he fails to show sensitivity toward Kelly. She realizes that they do not have a future together. Noah ignores Donna and fools around with one of his employees. Janet's erratic behavior confuses Steve. She secretly applies for a job with another newspaper, and tells Steve that she isn't sure if their relationship will work out. Janet confesses to Kelly that she is four months pregnant.
2: Let's Eat Cake
Kelly and Donna invite Janet to move into the apartment. She tries to tell Steve that she is pregnant, but stops when he mistakenly assumes that she has gotten breast implants. When Janet finally reveals the truth, Steve becomes outraged that he had been kept in the dark for so long. He avoids Janet and whines about the situation to the other guys and Gina. Janet tells Steve that he can choose how much involvement he wants with the child; he is unsure of what to do. Kelly and the gang throw a surprise birthday party for David at the After Dark. The uninvited Gina foils their plans by slashing her own tire and calling David for help. After patching things up with David, Gina takes him to the club and drops him off without spoiling the surprise. A young woman whom Dylan knows from his years at the hotel gets busted for drug possession. He pays for her legal services, and encourages her to get clean and find some direction for her life. He agrees to return to college if she also enrolls. Matt helps Kelly cope with her fear of physical contact. Music: 'Genie in a Bottle' and 'I Turn to You' by Cristina Aguilera.
3: You Better Work
Steve tells Janet that he wants to raise the baby with her. He later upsets her by expressing uncertainty. Kelly considers a career change. Matt pays Gina to help out with preparations for the boutique's re-opening. She tries to burn a prominent fashion critic's invitation, and accidentally starts a fire. She ruins Donna's new men's wear line with the fire extinguisher. Although Gina blames faulty lighting, Matt catches her with the burnt invitation. He forces her to bring the critic to the re-opening to make amends, while everyone chips in to help Donna put together new outfits. Cherise breaks up with Noah for postponing their weekend getaway and spending too much time with Donna. Steve suddenly proposes to Janet during the fashion show. She accepts, but then changes her mind because she fears they would be marrying for the wrong reasons. California University denies Dylan's application, citing his brazen essay. They refuse to give him a second chance. David pulls the revised essay out of the garbage, and is so impressed that he successfully lobbies the admissions office on Dylan's behalf. Music: 'Zip-Lock' by Lit and 'Millennium' by Robbie Williams.
4: A Fine Mess
Steve buys an engagement ring and practices proposals, often with Noah assuming the role of Janet. Dylan harasses Janet about her decision. The gang's attempt to arrange a reconciliation backfires. Janet insists that she loves Steve, but believes that his chaotic lifestyle would be harmful to the child. Steve later breaks down in tears and argues that his spontaneity does not mean that he cannot be a responsible husband and father. He surprises Janet with a proposal during her ultrasound, and she accepts. Dylan grows tired of living with Gina and suggests that she find her own place. He offers to spring for a hotel suite, but Gina opts to establish her independence. David's radio show becomes popular due to his abrasive tactics, including talking about Dylan's personal life and asking a woman out while on the air. Dylan goads David into providing details of the date to his listeners, and the woman dumps him. Donna recommends a new act for the club, failing to disclose the fact that the singer is Wayne's cousin. Noah is angry, but he and Donna soon get back together yet again. Kelly pouts about Matt's cynical attitude toward marriage and commitment. Music: 'Close the Door' by Teddy Pendergrass, 'Five Fathom' by Everything But the Girl, 'So Fed Up' by Sling.
5: The Loo-Ouch
Steve and Janet announce the pregnancy and engagement to her parents, who respond by calling Janet a disgrace. Steve's father tries to convince the couple to put off marriage for a while. Janet collapses and has to be taken to the hospital. She is diagnosed with a panic attack and told to avoid unnecessary stress. Mr. and Mrs. Sosna ask Janet to leave Steve and move back into their house. At the couple's engagement party, Steve lies to Janet's parents about the identity of his mom's lover, Karen. He asks his father to play along, unaware that Rush is apparently the only person in Los Angeles who didn't know that Samantha is gay. Steve and Janet stand up to their families. Although they would appreciate some support, they will not tolerate any further efforts to break them up. Matt and Noah each offer to move out so that Steve can move Janet and the baby into the house. Matt asks Kelly to get an apartment with him, but she nixes this idea. Donna decides that she and Noah will live together. Gina and Noah secretly start an after-hours strip club at the Peach Pit After Dark. Dylan helps a hotel maid and her prankster sons. David asks Robyn for a chance to prove that he is not the obnoxious jerk he portrays on the radio. Music: 'Moment of Weakness' by Bif Naked.
6: '80s Night
Joe Patch's parents visit Kelly and ask for her forgiveness. Matt tries to save a convicted rapist and murderer from the death penalty. Kelly is initially supportive, but changes her mind after hearing a description of the man's crimes. A meeting with the client's brother prompts Kelly to realize the anguish experienced by the families of criminals; she forgives Mr. and Mrs. Patch. She strongly objects when Matt appeals the judge's ruling against his client, and decides to stop seeing him for the time being. Donna wanders into the After Dark late at night and discovers the strip club. Gina recognizes David's father as one of the customers. She sneaks him out the back door when the police raid the club. Noah and Donna are among those arrested, as the cops mistake Donna for a prostitute. Dylan realizes that Gina was involved. She promises to stop lying to him, then immediately blackmails Mel. Dylan and Donna question David's on-air antics when he costs a listener his girlfriend. Music: 'C'est la Vie' by Robbie Nevil, 'Take on Me' by A-ha, 'Let It Whip' by the Dazz Band.
7: Laying Pipe
Steve and Janet ask Kelly and Dylan to be their baby's godparents. The foursome heads to Ojai for the weekend to meet with the minister. The minister suspects that Dylan is afraid to commit to a woman because of guilt over Toni's death. Dylan and Kelly plan to watch the sunset together. They learn from the news that Matt saved his client, so Kelly decides to go home and congratulate him. Gina catches Dylan and Kelly hugging and accuses them of fooling around. Dylan goes to Kelly's apartment to share his feelings, but sees her with Matt. Steve backs out of plans to sell the Corvette to help pay for a minivan. An angry Janet lets David sell the car to a woman who seems interested in him. Janet has a change of heart, but David's friend destroys the car in a performance art show about chauvinism (for which she also tape recorded David). Mel pays off Gina. When she demands more money, he stops payment on the check. Gina calls Jackie to share her revelation. A homeless man dies outside of Donna's store. She tries desperately to uncover his identity and contact his family. Music: 'In 2 Deep' by The Kenny Wayne Shepherd Band.
8: Baby You Can Drive My Car
Janet begins to panic about wedding preparations. Steve suggests that they organize a scavenger hunt for their friends, with clues providing the location of a party. Dylan and his friend Andrew are attacked by gay bashers. Andrew does not want to help put away their attackers because he has yet to come out. His boss finds out that he is gay and puts him on leave. Kelly snipes at Noah during the scavenger hunt, as she blames his strip club for Jackie and Mel's break-up. Gina freaks out when Dylan refuses to pull over and help a stray dog. David helps her find the animal and take it to the vet. The gang arrives at a park to discover that Steve and Janet are holding a surprise wedding ceremony. At the reception, Dylan baffles Kelly by commenting on how beautiful she had looked in her wedding dress. Gina leaves abruptly after Dylan admits that they will probably never get married. She sleeps with David. Kelly confronts Dylan about his remark. He confesses that he flew in for her wedding, only to leave immediately because he couldn't watch her marry someone else. Music: 'Mad For It' by Shootyz Groove, 'Spend My Life With You' by Eric Benet featuring Tamia.
9: Family Tree
Steve and Janet endure various calamaties on their honeymoon. Just as they are beginning to have a good time, Janet goes into labor. Although the birth is expected to be routine, the doctors are forced to perform an emergency C-section. Janet and the baby experience life-threatening complications. Jackie seeks full custody of Erin, and David and Kelly try to keep their sister's spirits up. Jackie tells Kelly that Gina blackmailed Mel. David refuses to believe this, and Gina denies the allegations. He learns the truth from his father, but decides to give Gina another chance. Dylan helps Andrew get his job back and fights the prejudice at the community center. Kelly complains about Noah's monopolization of the apartment. Donna buys genealogy software as a wedding gift for Steve and Janet. She accesses Gina's birth certificate and discovers that Donna's dad is listed as the father. Music: 'Mistaken' by Save Ferris.
10: What's in a Name?
Janet pulls through, but the baby suffers from lung problems. Doctors successfully intubate the child, and she is able to breathe on her own. Steve and Janet name their daughter Madeline. Donna confronts her father, who admits that Gina is his daughter. Felice has always known this, as Dr. Martin had a drunken one-night stand with her sister during the 1970s. Donna feels that her parents treated Gina unfairly by hiding the truth and failing to support her financially. She storms out during Thanksgiving dinner. Donna desperately wants to tell Gina that they are sisters. However, she holds off for the time being because she does not want to spoil Gina's memories of her late stepfather. Dylan convinces Kelly and her family to help with the charity Thanksgiving dinner he has organized. Matt accuses him of making a move on Kelly, so Dylan diminishes himself in her eyes by bailing out of his own event. Kelly tries to stop Jackie from trashing Mel in front of Erin.
11: Sibling Revelry
Gina considers leaving Los Angeles. Donna tells Gina the truth about her parentage. An outraged Gina lashes out at Donna. Whereas she had previously believed that her rough childhood was the result of circumstances beyond anyone's control, she now knows that she was rejected. Gina refuses David's help and turns to Dylan for comfort. A jealous David argues with Dylan and pushes him in front of a car. He sustains only a few bruises. David breaks up with Gina because he considers her a bad influence. He patches things up with Dylan. Donna assures Gina that her relationship with her stepfather was not a lie. Gina visits her childhood home, which stirs up happy memories. Matt gets jealous when Dylan buys a $16,000 painting for Kelly. Kelly confronts Dylan and demands that he make a lifetime commitment or leave her alone. He responds with a frightened grunt, so she stays with Matt. She claims that her offer was just a test, but admits to Donna that she doesn't know how she would have reacted if Dylan had accepted. Noah confesses that he never really attended Harvard. His father paid off the cops to keep him from being jailed after his girlfriend's death, and he fled to Hawaii instead of enrolling. Donna considers dumping Noah because of his constant lying. Steve becomes overly protective of Madeline after bringing her home from the hospital. Janet tries to get him to loosen up. Music: 'I Need to Know' by Marc Anthony.
12: Nine Yolks Whipped Lightly
The Martins ask Gina to join them for Christmas. However, they refuse to allow her at their Christmas Eve party because they don't want to explain the situation to friends. Donna initially backs her parents, but skips the party to show Gina her support. Donna continually questions Noah about the car accident that killed his girlfriend. Noah finally breaks up with her, as he cannot bear to relive the tragedy. Donna bonds with Gina. Steve and Janet run into her parents at a tree lot. Janet invites them to dinner, where they behave coldly toward Steve and make a hasty exit. Steve warns the Sosnas to stay away from Madeline unless they are willing to accept her unconditionally. They show up at the house on Christmas night and give Steve and Janet their blessing. Dylan proves to be a bad influence on the children at the community center after he punches an angry neighbor. Matt asks Kelly to marry him. Dylan also expresses a desire to commit to her. Kelly doesn't choose herself this time; she accepts Matt's proposal. Music: 'Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree' by Tammy Graham.
13: Tainted Love
Matt gets into hot water after a client decides to settle; he had already spent the man's retainer on Kelly's engagement ring. Gina tries to help by asking Dylan for $15,000, without telling him who would receive it. Matt turns down the money and has to pawn Kelly's ring. He is suspended from practicing law for 30 days, leaving his practice on the verge of bankruptcy. Dylan acts very aloof around Kelly, and loses interest in his god parenting duties because he doesn't want to spend time with her. A bitter Gina denounces the idea of god parenting, because Dr. Martin had served as her godfather as a means of easing his guilt. She changes her mind and tells Dylan that he could be a positive influence on Madeline. He shows up at Madeline's baptism at the last minute and impresses everyone with his speech. Donna has a disastrous date with the guy who runs the coffee stand next to her store. Noah spends all his time partying with a bunch of weird people. As he moves out, he and Donna act as though they long to get back together for the umpteenth time. Music: 'Don't Say You Love Me' by M2M.
14: I'm Using You 'Cause I Like You
Matt violates his suspension by negotiating a settlement for a worker injured on the job, who would lose his right to file a complaint in two days. Matt sets up David on a date with an attorney friend who is on the ethics committee. David blabs about the case, and the woman warns Matt to cease his involvement or be reported to the bar association. Matt just laughs it off and continues his work, so Chrissy reports him. Matt's suspension is doubled, and David stops seeing Chrissy because he considers her a traitor. Kelly announces that she is quitting the store. Donna gets a date with a handsome man who turns out to be married. She and David decide to hang out together in their own "losers' club." Gina receives a spokesmodel offer after she and Dylan are pictured at a hot club in the society pages. Noah and his entourage leech off of Dylan and his money. Dylan objects when they do drugs in his limousine. Dylan and Gina get pulled over for speeding in the limo. The police find cocaine in the back seat and arrest them. Despite her innocence, Gina loses a chance at the job. Dylan clears them by identifying Noah's friend (and Dylan's one-night stand) Josie as a drug dealer. Josie flushes her supply, but her junkie brother threatens Dylan. Steve and Janet hire a perky young nanny. Noah takes her out and discovers that she is a nymphomaniac. Steve realizes that he slept with her during college. Music: '24/7' by Kevon Edmonds, 'Someday' by Sugar Ray, 'Promise' performed by Nu Flavor.
15: Fertile Ground
Matt's brother and sister-in-law come to town and reveal that they cannot conceive a child on their own. They ask Matt to be their surrogate father. Kelly objects and orders Matt to turn them down, then becomes angry upon learning that he told his brother that he had to bow to her wishes. She later realizes that not everything is about her and gives Matt her blessing. Gina, with Dylan's help, gets a shot at another television job. The man will not hire her unless she helps his teenage son lose weight before the school dance. Gina loses the job (as usual) after she encourages the boy to stand up to his overbearing father. She convinces the man to treat his son with respect by detailing the way that her pushy mother shaped her life. Gina escorts Michael to the dance, where Dylan surprises her by showing up to give her the prom she never had. Donna dates the clothing buyer for a chain of stores. He buys a bunch of her designs, but Donna nixes a relationship because they have nothing in common. She becomes jealous when David gets involved with Camille Desmond, the editor of a fashion magazine. Steve confesses his past fling with Darby to Janet, who fires the woman. Steve suffers a bruised ego because Darby doesn't remember the encounter. Josie fears for her life because she had to flush $90,000 worth of merchandise; she insists that the other dealer will kill her. Josie asks Noah to lobby Dylan on her behalf. He refuses to help. Josie's brother Shane and another man kidnap Noah at gunpoint, as they assume that someone would actually pay to get him back. Music 'Take a Picture' by Filter, 'If You Believe' by Sasha.
16: The Final Proof
Shane demands a one-million-dollar ransom from Dylan. Noah points out that it may have been smarter to kidnap someone whom Dylan actually likes. Dylan agrees to pay the ransom; but Shane kidnaps him with help from Josie, who had claimed to be unaware of her brother's whereabouts. Shane plans to kill Dylan and Noah because it couldn't get him into any more trouble than he already is. They escape while the kidnappers are filling up their van, and scuffle with Shane and his friend. Josie hands over her gun to Dylan because she doesn't want anyone to be murdered. She drops a lit cigarette, which ignites the overflowing gasoline. Although Dylan tells him to forget it, Noah retrieves the ransom money before the van explodes. The kidnappers get arrested. Dr. Martin invites Gina to dinner while Felice is out of town. Gina tries to bond with him, but is angry because he had not called her since Christmas. Dr. Martin visits Gina's hotel room and expresses a willingness to work things out. They embrace, and she agrees to call him "Dad." Gina trains her father in an effort to get him into shape. As Donna arrives for the trio's dinner engagement, Gina finds that Dr. Martin has collapsed. Donna tries desperately to revive him. Kelly becomes ill just before she is to appear on a couples game show with Matt, so Donna takes her place. Matt comes to believe that Kelly shares too many details of their private life. David fears that Camille is going back to her rich ex-boyfriend. Music: 'Breathe' by Faith Hill.
17: Doc Martin
Dr. Martin dies of a stroke. Kelly suggests that Gina is to blame for his death, as does the grief-stricken Felice. David also seems to support this theory. Gina is upset when the obituary states that Dr. Martin has only one child; Felice calls her a mistake. Donna feels that Dr. Martin would still be alive if Gina hadn't discovered he was her father, even though Donna was the one who shared this information. Dylan grows tired of Kelly's whining and moralizing. He and Gina decide to leave town. Gina is not allowed to sit with immediate family at the funeral. However, she goes to the front of the church and finishes the eulogy when Donna is unable to continue. Felice embraces her and accepts her as part of the family. Dylan decides that he shouldn't leave Los Angeles because he has unfinished business with Kelly. Gina says goodbye to Donna and embarks on a cross-country road trip. David comforts Donna throughout her ordeal. Kelly takes a public relations job to ease the financial burden created by Matt's suspension. She is shocked to learn that she must campaign against gay students' right to form high school clubs. In the aftermath of the kidnapping, Noah becomes depressed and drinks a lot. Music: 'LA Song' performed by Beth Hart, 'I Will Remember You' by Sarah McLachlan.
18: Eddie Waitkus
During news coverage of an emergency landing at a Los Angeles airport, Dylan and Steve observe that one of the passengers looks exactly like Dylan's late father. Dylan, with some prompting from conspiracy theorist Steve, becomes convinced that his father is still alive. He grows even more suspicious after discovering that the storage locker with Jack's belongings has been ransacked. He goes to see Christine Pettit at the FBI and demands some answers. She agrees to investigate, but insists that the whole thing is just a coincidence. Although she urges Dylan to let it go, Kelly obtains a passenger list from the airline. Dylan notices that one of the passengers is named Eddie Waitkus. He explains to Steve that Waitkus was the real-life inspiration for "The Natural," a story that was a favorite of baseball fanatics Dylan and Jack. Waitkus disappeared, only to suddenly resurface several years later. Dylan emphatically declares that Jack is alive. Donna gives up a chance at dating a nice guy in order to play nursemaid to the boozing Noah. Donna claims that she is only helping Noah because he doesn't have any friends, while Janet and David insist that he is trying to win her back. Noah breaks into the beach apartment in the middle of the night. Matt doesn't realize that it is Noah; he clobbers him with a baseball bat, leaving him unconscious. Kelly reluctantly writes a speech in favor of the ballot initiative banning gay clubs. She has a crisis of conscience and quits the p.r. firm. Camille becomes a partner in Now Wear This. She and David have a misunderstanding about sex. Music: 'Don't Stop' by Radford.
19: I Will Be Your Father Figure
Kelly and Matt help Dylan search for his father. They learn that Eddie Waitkus lives in Tolleson, Arizona; and Kelly obtains his address. Dylan sees that Jack has a happy life with a wife and young son, and decides not to approach him. Jack shows up at Dylan's hotel room. Donna insists on looking after Noah as he recovers from his injuries. Noah tries to rekindle their relationship, but Donna has moved on. Camille becomes jealous of the closeness between David and Donna. Although David and Donna try to establish some boundaries, neither seems very happy about it. Steve's brother Ryan comes to visit for spring break. He is a pre-med major at Amherst. Ryan goes drinking at clubs with Steve every night, lies around like a pig all day, and mouths off to Janet. Janet opines that Ryan is trying to live up to Steve's reputation. Ryan reveals that he wound up on academic probation because of his constant partying, and dropped out of school. Kelly starts her own public relations firm. Music: 'Father Figure' by George Michael.
20: Ever Hear the One About the Exploding Father?
Dylan orders his father to leave. He is angry with Kelly for going against his wishes by contacting Jack. Dylan storms out of another meeting with his father after learning that Jack told his wife everything else about his past without mentioning Dylan's existence. Jack decides to leave the Witness Protection program and move his family to Los Angeles. They believe that his testimony is long forgotten and that private security can protect them. Christine warns Dylan that two of Jack's enemies have discovered that he is alive and are planning on revenge. Dylan convinces Jack to stay in the program, and cannot bring himself to leave with him. A New York radio station offers David a job. David turns down the offer because he doesn't want to leave Donna. Kelly suspects that Donna is jealous of Camille. Donna denies this, but later confesses to Kelly that she is still in love with David. Steve becomes concerned when Noah gives Ryan a job at the After Dark. Noah warns Ryan not to follow in his footsteps by throwing away his chance at an education. Ryan elects to travel with Rush in Europe for a while, then enroll at California University. Steve and Janet struggle with the task of getting Maddy to sleep on her own. Matt represents a comedian who was fired for not being funny. Music: 'If You Believe' by Sasha.
Wednesday, March 22nd, 2000
21: Spring Fever
Dylan and Matt go dirt biking for the weekend. They find that their campground is the site of a rave. Matt unwittingly drinks fruit juice that contains liquid acid. He gets very wild and winds up sleeping with one of the partygoers. Dylan advises him to keep the encounter a secret. A lonely Donna grows more jealous of David's relationship with Camille. She accidentally walks in on them having sex on the floor of the store. She freaks out and starts disinfecting everything in sight. Camille suspects that Donna wants David back. David tries to broach the subject with Donna; they reminisce, but do not disclose their feelings. Noah recognizes a bar customer as a woman from his A.A. group. He stops her from drinking, and they quickly make a connection. She feels threatened by Donna until Noah helps her obtain a full-time job. Kelly recommends Maddy for a sausage commercial. Janet neglects her work and becomes caught up in the idea of being a show biz parent. A change in the campaign causes Steve to replace Maddy as the focal point of the spots. He quickly lets the success go to his head. Music: 'The Best Things' by Filter, '3 Little Words' by Nu Flavor.
22: The Easter Bunny
Kelly grows suspicious of Matt's distant behavior. She seeks answers from Dylan, who denies that anything unusual happened during their dirt biking weekend. Matt admits to drinking spiked punch. After witnessing Kelly's indignant reaction, he decides not to tell her about his one-night stand. Kelly insists that Matt is still hiding something from her. She later apologizes for failing to trust him. Camille tries to convince Donna to sell her clothing online. Although Donna doesn't support the idea, Camille seeks out Dylan as an investor. Even after Donna agrees to the proposal, David fumes at Camille for going behind her back. He also expresses discontent at the amount of time she is spending with Dylan. Donna agrees to a date with the web page designer. Steve and Janet fear that her parents' dog is to blame for the death of their snooty neighbors' pet rabbit. Steve concocts a scheme to keep the couple from discovering the truth. Ellen objects to Noah's efforts to help her establish a normal life. Donna reminds Noah that he cannot single-handedly save Ellen. Music: 'I'll Be' by Edwin McCain, 'Go Be Young' performed by Edwin McCain.
23: And Don't Forget to Give Me Back My Black T-Shirt
Mitch annoys Donna by trying to plan their entire relationship via an electronic organizer. She suggests that they stop seeing each other outside of the business setting. Mitch responds by freezing her web site until she agrees to another date. Donna tells him off and makes it clear that she will not change her mind. Mitch opens the site, which quickly becomes a major success. David objects when Camille is asked to model for the web site. He admits to Donna that he is purposely trying to sabotage his romance with Camille. David finally breaks up with Camille, telling her that they simply weren't meant to be together. Janet nixes Steve's plans to invest in Donna's site because of their limited finances. Steve infuriates her by investing money left to him by his grandfather. Janet didn't know the account existed, and thinks that Steve kept it as a safety net so that he could leave her. Steve explains that he fears he won't be able to properly support his family; he used the account as insurance against his screw-ups. A man that Matt met during his desert weekend approaches him for legal services. Kelly hears him mention Amy, so Matt covers by claiming that Dylan slept with the woman. Noah bails Ellen out of jail after she is found drinking in her car. He convinces her to return to A.A. Ellen reveals that she has a six-year-old daughter, who lives with her grandmother because Ellen can't take care of her. Music: '3 Little Words' by Nu Flavor, 'Picture Perfect' by Angela Via.
24: Love Is Blind
Donna is upset by her mother's decision to sell the house. David hangs out with her at the apartment, and they both fall asleep on the couch. Donna pulls away from a kiss because she doesn't want to risk their friendship by becoming romantically involved. Felice and the gang grant Donna's wish for one final Christmas at the house. Steve, Janet and Felice set up an unwitting Donna and David on a date. They finally decide to get back together, and share a passionate kiss. Kelly and Matt set an August wedding date. Dylan infuriates Kelly with his wedding gift, a trip around the world for two. Matt considers a job offer in Seattle, and Kelly agrees to go with him. Although he fails to get the job, Matt suggests that they move anyway. Dylan unsuccessfully pleads with Kelly for another chance at their relationship. A man offers to purchase The Beat for $750,000. Janet would continue to work at the paper, while Steve would stay home with Maddy. They decide to give this arrangement a trial run. Steve initially feels emasculated, but comes to enjoy spending time with his daughter. Janet fears that she is missing out on the major events in Maddy's life. Noah helps convince Ellen's mother to let her spend time with her daughter, Caitlin. Ellen tells Noah that she doesn't have time to date him, as she must concentrate on being a good mother. Music: 'Actions Speak Louder Than Words' by Tara Kemp, 'Boom' by Trinket, 'Silent Night' by Kenny G.
25: I'm Happy for You... Really
Camille returns to town after a long vacation with hope of reconciliation with David, unaware of his returning feelings for Donna who finds Camille's presence uncomfortable. Meanwhile, a reported surfing accident in Dylan's area makes Kelly searching for him thinking that he may be dead. When the rumor is false and Dylan turns up alive, Kelly ponders her hidden feelings for him. Janet is offered a better editing job away from the Beverly Beat which makes Steve wary over this turn of events. Also, Noah meets with Ellen again to try to work out their differences and start anew. Music: 'Still After You' by Earth to Andy, 'Time to be Lovers' by Michael McDonald and Chaka Khan.
28: Ode to Joy
The gang helps Donna and David plan their wedding. Gina cannot make it because she has just secured a job as a sports commentator in New York. Donna considers postponing the event so that all friends and loved ones can attend. She and David decide that they can't wait any longer. Donna asks Nat to walk her down the aisle. Steve tells Kelly that Matt is moving to New York before the wedding. Kelly apologizes to Dylan, but asks for time to get over her engagement. Janet wins the editor position for Nouveau. She worries that the job will force her to spend too much time away from Maddy. Steve convinces her to turn down the offer and start a magazine with him. Andrea and Valerie arrive for Donna's bachelorette party, which is also attended by Mrs. Teasley. Val livens up the festivities with an X-rated version of Pin the Tail on the Donkey. At David's bachelor party, Ryan hires a stripper who is actually a transvestite; while Steve contributes a poem about David's many love interests. Brand
26: The Penultimate
In part one of the series finale, David expresses his feelings for Donna by writing her a giant love note in the sand. He is understanding about her reluctance to accept his proposal. He believes that she is having trouble reconciling her dreams of the perfect marriage with reality. A talk with Janet prompts Donna to realize that her expectations have been unreasonable. She tells David that she loves him and wants to spend the rest of her life with him. Dylan graduates from California University. Matt considers moving to New York to help her sister-in-law raise his child (for whom he was the surrogate father). He declares that he will stay in Los Angeles for Kelly. Kelly, unable to fight her feelings for Dylan, calls off the engagement. Matt assumes that Dylan told her about his indiscretion in the desert. Kelly lashes out at Dylan for failing to disclose this information. Janet is distressed to learn that she must compete for the editorship of Nouveau, which Yoffe had led her to believe was already hers. She feels left out as Steve strengthens his bond with Maddy. Ellen asks Noah for a commitment in order to protect Caitlin from potential heartache. He declines because the relationship is moving too quickly for him. Music 'New America' by Bad Religion.
In part two of the series finale, David and Donna announce their engagement in which all of their friends rush to give them the perfect wedding with Donna's mother, Felice, and Kelly's mother, Jackie, taking over the arrangements and Nat catering for the ceremony and agreeing to escort Donna down the church aisle. Meanwhile, Steve asks Janet to help him form their own publishing company so they both can have time for baby Maddie. Noah returns to Ellen and tells her that he has decided to give their relationship a second chance. At Donna's pre-wedding party, Kelly, Janet, Felice and Jackie are in attendance as well as friends from their past who include West Beverly High principal Mrs. Yvonne Teasley, as well as Andrea Zuckerman and even Valerie Malone. At David's bachelor party, Steve, Noah, Dylan, Nat, and David's father Mel attend the gathering as well as Steve's stepbrother Ryan and former KEG fraternity brother Munz, except for Brandon Walsh who sends his regards to everyone via videotape. The day of the wedding goes without a hitch and at the end, Matt shows up briefly to tell Kelly that he has decided to move back to New York, and she goes back to try to renew her relationship with Dylan. Music: 'Out of My Head' and 'Ain't It Funny' by Box, 'Spend My Life With You' performed by Eric Benet and Tamia.
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Social Media Campaign Seeks to Raise Awareness About Coronavirus-Related Anti-Asian Hate Crimes
Posted On March 27, 2020 COVID-19, Film & TV, Life & Arts
Actress Catherine Haena Kim is among the Asian American artists participating in the social media campaign.
With the coronavirus pandemic now declared a national emergency in the U.S., uncertainty and fear are breeding acts of discrimination and violence against individuals of Asian descent.
To help combat the rising tide of hatred, Asian American artists, leaders and influencers — including actor Tzi Ma (“Mulan”), Opening Ceremony founders Carol Lim and Humberto Leon, musician AJ Rafael and actress Celia Au (“Wu Assassins”) — have teamed up with IW Group, an Asian American communications agency, to launch #WashTheHate, a social media campaign designed to raise awareness about anti-Asian bigotry amid the viral outbreak.
The campaign kicked off March 18 with a series of videos posted to various social media platforms including Instagram, Facebook and Twitter. The clips feature participants washing their hands, according to CDC recommendations, while sharing personal stories about how the coronavirus has impacted their lives.
#WashTheHate also invites the public to share their own experiences while promoting proper hand-washing; which experts regard as the first defense against the virus. For more information, visit www.washthehate.com.
A post from Wash the Hate
Below is a partial list of individuals taking part in #WashTheHate, along with links to their videos:
• Actress Celia Au (“Wu Assassins”), who shared the now-viral video of an Asian man being harassed on the NYC subway and sprayed with air freshener
• YouTube personality Marlin Chan (Marlin the MarMAR)
• Boba Guys co-founder Andrew Chau, who recently addressed Congress on the impact of the coronavirus on small businesses
• Actor Osric Chau (“Supernatural”)
• Tik Tok influencers Chris Kerr and Sharla May (OurFire)
• Lifestyle influencer Skyler Lee (Foodieonfleek)
• Opening Ceremony founders Carol Lim and Humberto Leon
• Actor Ludi Lin (“Power Rangers,” “Aquaman”)
• Actor Tzi Ma (“Mulan,” “Rush Hour”)
• Performance artist and LGBTQ activist Alok V Menon
• Musician AJ Rafael
• Artist and music producer Shawn Wasabi
The campaign has been endorsed by the following Asian American community organizations:
Asian Americans Advancing Justice-AAJC
Asian Americans Advancing Justice-Asian Law Caucus
Asian Americans Advancing Justice-Atlanta
Asian Americans Advancing Justice-Chicago
Asian Americans Advancing Justice-Los Angeles
Asian Chamber of Texas (ACT)
Center for Asian Americans United for Self Empowerment (CAUSE)
Chinatown Partnership
Coalition of Asian Pacifics in Entertainment (CAPE)
East West Players
Koreatown Youth + Community Center (KYCC)
OCA-Asian Pacific American Advocates
Pacific Arts Movement
Search to Involve Pilipino Americans (SIPA)
“We’re hoping this campaign sends a message of solidarity and compassion to the world,” said Ma. “Hatred and division aren’t going to prevent this virus from spreading and will only make an already-difficult situation even worse. We’re calling for everyone — regardless of their race or country of origin — to recognize that we’re all in this fight together.”
“There are serious concerns in the Asian American community about scapegoating and becoming the targets of misplaced fear and anger,” said Au. “The mission of this campaign is to get our stories out there and build a constructive dialogue with the public. We can’t be silent.”
“With the increasing rate of hate and biased incidents against Asians as a result of the coronavirus, our organization felt obligated to take action,” said Telly Wong, chief content officer at IW Group. “We tapped into our relationships in the community to bring together some influential voices who not only want to address the problem but also be part of the solution.”
“OCA is proud to support #WashTheHate as part of our organization’s ongoing efforts to dispel myths surrounding COVID-19 and the Asian American and Pacific Islander community,” said Rita Pin Ahrens, executive director of OCA-Asian Pacific American Advocates. “In these unprecedented times, it’s wonderful to see individuals from various industries and backgrounds stand united against xenophobia and misinformation.”
Recently reported incidents of coronavirus-related discrimination and violence against Asian Americans include:
• March 16: A 34-year-old Asian woman was spit in the face and attacked
• March 12: A 47-year-old Asian man and his 10-year-old son were harassed with racial epithets
• March 10: A 23-year-old Korean woman was punched in the face for not wearing a face mask
• March 10: A 59-year-old Asian man was kicked in the back and told to go back to his country
• March 8: A Fresno Asian American family’s car was vandalized with racist graffiti
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Black Youth Knocks on White Man's Door Asking for Help...
Veteran and good samaritan, Thomas Sonnenberg
UPDATE February 3, 2014: According to the latest news story, Parker killed Thomas Sonnenberg with Sonnenberg's own gun.
After her husband called police, she heard Parker ask him for a gun, knife, hat and gloves. She then heard a gunshot.
Parker came out of the kitchen and ordered the woman to the floor. He choked her with his hands and held a gun to her head, according to the complaint. She said the gun belonged to her husband, and that he always carried it on his hip.
Parker had the woman go upstairs to lock them in the bedroom, according to the complaint. When police arrived, they went downstairs.
Officers later recovered Sonnenberg's revolver underneath the bed in the upstairs bedroom.
Devon Derrick Parker pounded frantically on the door of 69 year old Thomas Sonnenberg at 11:45 a.m., exclaiming that men with baseball bats were after him. Mr. Sonnenberg, a Veteran, quickly dialed 911 for the young man...moments later the young man thanked him with a bullet to Mr. Sonnenberg's head. When Devon saw what he had done, he stepped over Mr. Sonnenberg's lifeless body and focused his attention on Mrs. Sonnenberg, known by her grandchildren as "grandma".
Devon Parker
Parker didn't shoot this beloved and unarmed grandmother, no, he had more in store for her. When she wouldn't comply with his demands to give him the keys to her house (the door locked behind Mr. Sonnenberg when he let Parker in), he grabbed her, threw her down, and began choking her while unzipping his pants and ripping at her clothes...his plan was to rape her. Apparently Parker did not realize that Mr. Sonnenberg's call to 911 had gone through because he was in the midst of raping this defenseless, frail, unarmed woman when the police arrived and pulled him off her.
Parker was taken into custody, no shots fired, unfortunately. If Mr. Sonnenberg had only had a handgun at the ready when he opened the door. I opine this and then hesitate putting that sentiment out there when I remember what Theodore Wafer is going through right now. What if he had just opened the door and let Renisha McBride in, called 911, maybe she would be alive...or what if Mr. Sonnenberg had just shot this worthless excuse for a human being dead, rather than let him in his house. Two very different outcomes but still no sense to be made of either scenario, no real lesson to be learned. To help or not to help a person banging at your door, in need of human compassion...that is the question. The answers are confusing. In the Renisha McBride case Theodore Wafer was lambasted for not "helping" a young black woman in distress at 4:30 am who was drunk and trying to kick down the sleeping man's door.
The murder of #RenishaMcBride is another example of the disregard America has for Black lives: http://t.co/mCCpI0ktMU #stayblackanddie
— EBONY (@EBONYMag) November 15, 2013
When Ebony covers the story of Mr. Sonnenberg, I'll post it here as an update.
Police at first tried to connect the shooting to a drug deal gone bad. The family quickly corrected police and reporters saying Parker and Sonnenberg never met. Sonnenberg has never had a record of any kind. Parker on the other hand, is a repeat violent offender who has been repeatedly released by the Minnesota court system. He was on felony probation for violence and has had numerous other felonies including shooting at a public vehicle and throwing bodily fluids or feces. Other charges on his record indicate drug and trespassing convictions. Could this be the reason the police tried to make Mr. Sonnenberg look like a participant rather than a victim? Make them look better, the victim look bad? I can't say either would surprise me in the least in this day and fucked up age.
If only Mr. Sonnenberg had been availed of a weapon.
Facebook comment on Mr. Sonnenberg's daughter's facebook
Rachel also posted a news story about her father's murder, to which one friend responded:
Michelle XXXX: Everything they said is true!A very good man!This family took me in off the streets when I was a teenager.So so sorry!
Here is the 20 year old coward THUG, Devon Parker, who felt it his place to snuff out the life of a 69 year old unarmed Veteran, father, grandfather, and husband. I've included photos of his mother who "liked" several of Devon's gang-related facebook pictures.
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Family portrait, that's mama, Sidney Tate , in the middle
I can't say for sure, but guessing NOT his VISA
Sidney Tate: "look @ momma Man wit his ugly self"
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Ben Glover and Mary Gauthier win at the UK Americana Awards
At a star-studded UK Americana Awards Show last night we were thrilled to watch as both Ben Glover and Mary Gauthier won awards. Ben Glover won the award for UK Album of the Year for Shorebound whilst Mary Gauthier won the International Artist of the Year category.
Following a stunning performance of Kindness, Ben Glover accepted his award from last years winner Robert Vincent who co-wrote and features on one of the tracks on Shorebound.
“I am absolutely honoured and grateful for the award! Shorebound was a very special album for me as it was a collaboration with my closest musical friends from both sides of the Atlantic. Huge thanks to the Americana Music Association UK for this, it is without a doubt one of the proudest moments of my career.” – Ben Glover
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Governor Hope Uzodinma is unknowingly making the opposition popular in Imo State. One of the fastest ways of losing power is by conceding to the antics of the opposition. It is the business of the opposition to distract the ruling party. it is left for the ruling party to decipher when the opposition plants a bobby trap and surmount it.
In 2015, the then opposition, All Progressive Congress, APC constituted itself into a big distraction to the then PDP government of Goodluck Jonathan. And it worked perfectly. The opposition APC succeeded to put the ruling PDP on the defence line. And they succeeded. The rest is history.
What is going in Imo State at the moment is a war of attrition between the Uzodinma administration and the opposition, PDP. It is evidently clear that Uzodinma, wants to cripple the PDP in the State. In other words, he wants to “finish off or decimate” the opposition after he successfully retrieved power from the PDP via Supreme Court judgment which removed Ihedioha from office and installed him. There is nothing wrong with it. You never give your enemy the ladder to rise. One day, he will climb the ladder and meet you, or overtake you. Overtaking is allowed, they say.
In our brand of politics, you “kill” off the opposition and allow the remnants to grope in the dark. This is exactly what Hope Uzodinma wants to achieve in Imo State. He wants no breathing space for the opposition in the state, which will make them weak and weaker for the 2024 elections. He had poached some officials of the party to his APC. There is nothing wrong with such moves. Its all politics.
The truth is, the PDP is the biggest threat to the APC in 2024 in Imo State. The party does have the tentacles to rise from the ashes. They demystified Okorocha’s plan to have a successor in 2019. There is no doubt that the PDP remains a potential threat to Governor Uzodinma and the APC in 2024. But the manner Uzodinma is going about weakening the PDP in the state, may not count in his favour. His approach may backfire. He will rather end up attracting public sympathy of the masses for the opposition.
The Ambrose Nwaogwugwu saga is the biggest mistake of the Uzodinma government. The government played into the hands of the PDP and those backing Nwaogwugwu. The PDP will continue make political capital or gain from this blunder. Already they are twisting the facts of the matter, all to their favour. They have changed the narrative, made people to believe that Nwaogwugwu, was locked up on the orders of Uzodinma, because he criticized him.
That Nwaogwugwu posted inciting statements on facebook against the Governor, which is a crime, is no longer the crux of the matter in public domain. The Uzodinma government has been portrayed by the PDP as “non tolerant” and not pro masses”
This is why it is not everything government or a ruling party reacts or heed to. You ignore some. Though Nwaogwugwu, went overboard by publishing on facebook non- existent facts about the government, getting the DSS to apprehend him, was ill advised. Those in the hinterlands will not understand the gravity of Nwaogwugwu’s offence, all they will believe, is that Uzodinma, is anti people and locked up a young boy. They will not bother to know the details. This can snowball into a big issue that will trail this administration until it leaves office.
The attendant effects of the Nwaogwugwu saga will not surface now. It will when elections come in 2024, and it will be a big negative for the government which the PDP will certainly play up and even add “salt and pepper”, to enliven their chances of winning elections.
Ikedi Ohakim never recovered from the allegation that he flogged a Reverend Father. By the time he could exonerate himself from the lie, the issue had contributed to his non- re- election, which benefited Rochas Okorocha.
Rochas Okorocha was accused of running a family government by the opposition and it was a big campaign issue which he never recovered from, which culminated in the loss of his son in law, Uche Nwosu, at the elections.
When you give the opposition a gun with a trigger, they certainly will not misfire. Uzodinma had succeeded in weakening the opposition PDP after Emeka Ihedioha fell from power. But he has re- congregated and re- energized them, through the Ambrose Nwaogwugwu saga. This can translate to public sympathy for the opposition, and a big negative for the government.
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Gender Impact on Translation of Particular Textual Aspects in Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice based on Robinson’s Model of Criterion-Referenced Rating Scale
Maleki, Sahar, Eslamieh, Razieh
The present paper means to study the impact of gender on specified textual aspects of the translated text limiting to degree of naturalness, explicitation, content, register, vocabulary, terminology, translation brief and orientation to target text type based on Robinson’s model of Criterion-referenced rating scale. Jane Auston’s world famous classic work, Pride and Prejudice along with two Farsi translations rendered by a male and a female translator compose the corpus of this study. Assuming that particular textual aspects are more likely to come under the influence of the translator's gender, the basic assumption was that there is a possibility that the male translator would not transfer the minutes of the narrative of a female writer. The findings revealed that the female translator in terms of Cultural Specific Items and terminology, triumphs on explicitation, in terms of language, style and tone, she triumphs on ethics of formality and totally she has more footnotes and more omissions. The male translator, more informal in tone and style, utilizes more slang equivalents. The male translator has very few number of footnotes and no omissions. However, in terms of transference of meaning there appeared no meaningful difference between the two translators. In other words, the differences were on the level of form and aesthetic aspects rather than meaning and message. The present paper was based on one case study. Doing the same research on more cases, the findings have the potentiality of generalization.
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Has Modern Liberalism Abandoned Individualism and Embraced Collectivism The core of Liberalist thinking is the primacy of the individual and that a political system should always be constructed out of the needs of, and respect for the individual. Liberals have always had an atomistic view of the individual, believing that the individual should have the freedom to pursue their interests as fully as possible. This view has not changed and as such Modern Liberalism has not abandoned individualism in favour of collectivism it has merely changed its views in the way to achieve it. After the Civil War of 1640 with the dissolution of the Divine Right of Kings, Liberalism became to become a more prevalent ideology. One of the first liberal thinkers was Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679), in his work 'Leviathan' he believed the only way with which individuals would be able to achieve their own individual goals would be under a large and imposing government. He felt human nature was 'Solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short.' Hobbes had a very pessimistic view of human nature and believed that rational human beings should respect their government as without it society would descend into a civil war 'Of every man against every man' in the pursuit of their own individualist goals. ...read more.
They felt that by getting no state handouts the poorer individual would be inspired to pull them self's up by the bootstraps to be the best that they could possibly be, and form a true meritocracy. Adam Smith was a critic of the protectionism of the mercantilist system, he believed that by pursuing our own individual ends by you that we achieve broader social goals. He championed the laisse faire economy of the late 19th and 20th Century believing that market competition would act as an invisible hand which would sort out the economic life of the individual with no need for government control. Modern Liberals disagreed with this theory, they felt unbridled Capitalism had prevented many poorer individuals from becoming the best that they could be, they felt to make it a level playing field for all individuals then the government of the day should intervene.T.H Green stated 'The life choices of the many were being sacrificed for the economic liberty of the view.' Modern Liberals felt social reform was needed by the government to enhance the equality of opportunity for the individual. This was termed as 'positive freedoms', freedom from poverty, poor housing, illness and the freedom to achieve. ...read more.
He stated that a modern welfare state should be 'active, not passive , genuinely providing people with a hand up not a handouT.' So as opposed to Modern Liberalism abandoning Individualism and embracing collectivism it could be argued that other parties such as Conservative and Labour have embraced Liberalism with their views on laisse faire economics and the individual being responsible for themselves and not relying on the state. Liberals views on the role of the state have changed , to the point where they believe some government intervention is needed, so as to provide more opportunities for individuals to achieve their potential , though this is not abandonment of the primacy of individualism just a change in the way they believe it can be achieved. Liberalism is still the left/right model of politics that it has always been , as it still contains the commitment to equality by the left and the approval of human effort and freedom by the right. The way to get individualism by liberals may have changed but the overriding ideology of the need to maintain the rights of the individual to have soverierenty over himself has remained the same. Guy Hadden 20/10/05 ?? ?? ?? ?? ...read more.
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Briefs: Nelson’s complaints, New York’s fear of Texas
By Jeff Foust on 2010 November 23 at 7:18 am ET
Sen. Bill Nelson (D-FL) got some attention late last week when he criticized the White House staff on a number of issues, including space. Nelson’s speech came a day after he reportedly “lit into” President Obama in a Senate caucus session. However, Nelson’s NASA-specific complaint, the “misconception that Obama wants to eliminate the manned space program”, as the Gainesville (Fla.) Sun reported, isn’t new: Nelson has made that statement on a number of occasions this year, as far back as mid-February, only a couple weeks after the White House released its FY11 budget proposal.
Members of New York’s congressional delegation are also expressing their concerns about NASA, but on a very different subject: where the shuttle orbiters will go once the fleet is retired next year. According to the New York Daily News, members are concerned that as Texas members of Congress take leadership positions, prospects dim that the Intrepid museum in New York City will get an orbiter. But while the article claims that New York’s odds “got way longer in an uphill fight with Texas”, Congress may not have much influence on the decision, which rests in the hands of NASA as it currently stands. Language inserted into the NASA authorization bill this summer actually improves New York’s chances, since it requests that NASA give preference to awarding orbiters to locations “with an historical relationship with either the launch, flight operations, or processing of the Space Shuttle orbiters or the retrieval of NASA manned space vehicles, or significant contributions to human space flight”; the Intrepid was involved in the recovery of Mercury-Atlas 7 and Gemini 3.
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November 23, 2010 at 7:30 am · Reply
I never thought Obama wanted to end government-funded human spaceflight. But then I actually read newspapers and don’t watch Fox News.
Mark R. Whittington
That last sentence is a very strange one. The Johnson Space Center in Houston fits that criteria for the space shuttle far more than the Intrepid Museum.
The 2012 campaign is underway and Nelson must be looking in horror at the chaos at NASA and the job losses in his state. His defense of Obama is tepid. Why is the common excuse on all unpopular Obama policies is that ‘people misconceptions’? It is a dumb strategy. It got the dems nowhere in the last election. People do do understand, and they don’t like his policies. Nelson is one of 21 democrats who will have to run away from Obama to preserve their careers. Might as well start now. His Senate seat is a juicy target. This creates an opportunity for the GOP to flip some Senators to their side. Nelson would be a good candidate.
As for the souvenir shuttles, one hopes there is a program to strip the orbiters and archive the technology.
Ellegood
Outgoing U.S. Senator George LeMieux and current Florida Senate President Mike Haridopolos, both Republicans, are looking at challenging Sen. Nelson in 2012. Being from the “Space Coast”, Haridopolos is criticizing Nelson’s effectiveness on space issues. This could once again make space a critical campaign issue in Florida.
Florida has gone almost totally “red” with the 2010 elections, and Nelson is the Democrats’ last champion in a state that will be a crucial battleground in the 2012 presidential election. The Obama administration’s support for Nelson on space issues could be key to keeping both incumbents in office.
http://www.floridatoday.com/article/20101123/NEWS02/11230315/1006/news01/Company+plans+flight+from+cape
meanwhile as the technowelfare group argues about their federal handout and the genius at the shuttle ops try and figure out how to “rationalize” flying the vehicle out of specs…
the new space folks just keep on coming. Not only has the FAA given a thumbs up to Dragon but the revolution in reusables just keeps coming on.
What I find amazing about the “we have to go to the Moon” group is that they cannot see the real revolution taking place in front of their eyes. They are stuck in the 60’s fighting enemies that no longer exist and longing for an America that went away a long time ago.
We have to get to a national space effort that produces jobs that are not just government dole…and dont do all that much on the dole for the dollars spent.
Charlie Bolden’s real legacy might be that he was on watch when the tide turned.
November 23, 2010 at 10:36 am · Reply
I think the whole idea about the on pad repairs is to get the vehicle back in spec. It is just a repair. By your logic you would buy a new 747 because of a flat tire. Psychotic.
A small victory (microscopic, really) is a victory. Falcon 9/Dragon continues to slip right and Orbital is on their heels. The vultures in congress are lined up watching.
Sen Nelson is trying to establish some distance between him and President Obama, thinking that if the economy has not seriously rebounded by early 2012 he does not want the President to drag him down. The current Administration has a track record of (during the campaign) proposing to delay all human space exploration for 5 years, of directing money away from “shovel ready” delayed maintenance at KSC (and towards other projects that were demonstrably less ready), and of changing their mind.
So Nelson needs to put some daylight between him and Obama if he hopes to keep his job.
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November 23, 2010 at 12:28 pm · Reply
America can’t afford another failed presidency, but Obama seems to be trying his best!
1. Obama attempted to terminate NASA’s ability to develop and fly its own manned spacecraft into space.
2. Obama clearly wanted to delay the development of an HLV until his buddy Elon or another company was ready to provide such services through the private sector.
3. Then he tried to fool people by proposing a mission to an asteroid and to Mars orbit (not even to the Martian surface) set far into the future with the development of no vehicles to get there.
4. Finally he added insult to injury by going to KSC and saying: “Now, I understand that some believe that we should attempt a return to the surface of the Moon first, as previously planned. But I just have to say pretty bluntly here: We’ve been there before.”
Running against the space legacy of John F. Kennedy is not a good idea for any Democrat. And his arrogance towards NASA completely undermined Democrats running for office in Florida. Appeasing the wing of the Democratic Party that has always been hostile to manned space travel was a very bad idea. And hopping to get some credit from the Republican Party by attempting to privatize the US space program was also a failure.
If Obama seriously wants to be President in 2012, he’s going to have to win Florida. And that means he’s going to have to embrace NASA and see the logic of establishing a permanent human presence at one of the lunar poles. But there are a lot of hurt feelings in Florida and a lot of jobs lost. And most folks seem to blame the President!
“directing money away from ‘shovel ready’ delayed maintenance at KSC”
False. The Administration’s FY11 budget request for NASA included $429 million in FY11 and $1.9 billion over five years to “modernize the Kennedy Space Center to increase the operational efficiency and reduce the launch costs not only for NASA, but for other users.” See slide 12 in this presentation:
nasa.gov/pdf/420990main_FY_201_%20Budget_Overview_1_Feb_2010.pdf
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Obama attempted to terminate NASA’s ability to develop and fly its own manned spacecraft into space.
How could he “terminate” something that clearly didn’t exist?
Obama clearly wanted to delay the development of an HLV until his buddy Elon or another company was ready to provide such services through the private sector.
No, he wanted to delay it long enough for people to finally realize that we didn’t need it. And even if we did, what is so horrible about it being provided by the private sector? Are you a communist?
I mentioned the delayed maintenance at KSC (other Centers have it as well) as a mild criticism of the Obama Feb 2010 budget submission.
Major Tom wrote (though he should have reconsidered): False. The Administration’t FY11 budget request [snip] increase operational efficiency and reduce the launch costs not only for NASA but… . Major Tom has not closely followed the subject – this nebulous budget proposal appears to direct money to support future programs that are yet to be defined.
The Nov 12, 2010 letter from the GAO again refers to the Infrastructure and Facilities Management as a challenge – perhaps the money is being directed inefficiently? The report says that the Agency wide deferred maintenance is about 2.55 billion – which was totally ignored in the “stimulus” bill. Lots of money was directed towards high speed rail, etc.
For this reason, among others, Senator Nelson needs to show his independence from the Obama Administration if he hopes to be in the Senate in 2013.
You didn’t state which budget you were criticizing in your earlier post. Don’t make things up.
Moreover, you’re confused in your latest post. NASA has been operating on its FY10 budget for over a fiscal year now. It’s the FY11 budget that the appropriators are still deliberating on. Learn and think before you post.
“The Nov 12, 2010 letter from the GAO again refers to the Infrastructure and Facilities Management as a challenge – perhaps the money is being directed inefficiently?”
No, Congress hasn’t passed an FY11 appropriations bill yet. The President has proposed to spend $429 million in FY11 and $1.9 billion over five years on KSC facilities. But NASA can’t spend that money until the appropriators pass a bill.
“Major Tom has not closely followed the subject”
Are you kidding? You are _still_ ignorant of proposals in the FY11 budget — whcih became public way _ten_ months ago — to spend hundreds of million and billions of dollars on KSC facilities.
Talk about “not closely following the subject”. Cripes.
” – this nebulous budget proposal appears to direct money to support future programs that are yet to be defined.”
“Appears”? “Nebulous”? “Programs that are yet to be defined”? How can you make these judgements if you havn’t bothered to read NASA’s FY11 budget proposal, especially the entries on the 21st Century Space Launch Complex?
If you had bothered to read the budget proposal, you’d know that “efforts for the 21st Century Space Launch Complex Program are intended to benefit NASA’s CURRENT [emphasis added] and future operations” and that specific projects include “modernization activities to support safer and more efficient launch operations; enhancing payload processing capabilities; relocating the KSC perimeter to facilitate certain private sector activities and operations; environmental remediation; and supporting the modernization of the launch range capabilities.”
Read, learn, and think before you post.
“Agency wide deferred maintenance… was totally ignored in the “stimulus” bill.”
No, it wasn’t. The Recovery Act included $50 million for NASA facilities rehabilitation. Don’t you know anything about the topics you’re posting on?
“Lots of money was directed towards high speed rail”
Your point? Lots of money was directed to lots of stuff in the stimulus bill. What do railroads have to do with NASA? This is a forum about space policy, not Amtrak.
On this “reason”, Nelson would have to be an idiot to separate himself from the Administration. The Administration is proposing to spend hundreds of millions and billions of dollars on KSC facilities. Why would any sane Senator oppose a White House proposal to spend that kind of money on facilities in their state?
Nelson’s complaint is that Obama failed to get the message on his space program out. People will vote on perception, rather than reality.
For example, on the HLV, Direct was blocked, so Obama proposed Star-Chaser, with reusable flyback stages. The problem, of course, is that we can’t get there from here.
This is an ongoing problem that affects not just space, but every other Obama initiative and his successes. A lot of this has to do with press bias, and it is not left wing, as many pretend. In the coverage, you seldom see Obama’s actual statements, or written materials, but rather reactions, speculations, and criticisms.
I think that Gration would have made a fine NASA Administrator, and I’m sure that Sen. Nelson must think about that everyday.
Doug Lassiter
Oops. You meant “Obama attempted to terminate NASA’s inability to develop and fly its own manned spacecraft into space.” Just two letters make a big difference!
An asteroid mission can be done with a couple of Orions and a few ELVs. Lockheed knows that. Lockheed doesn’t believe you need to develop vehicles to get there. I do agree that such a mission is unlikely to happen.
“Finally he added insult to injury by going to KSC and saying: ‘Now, I understand that some believe that we should attempt a return to the surface of the Moon first, as previously planned. But I just have to say pretty bluntly here: We’ve been there before.'”
He got quite a bit of applause for that line. Who would have known they in the audience were injured or insulted! Of course, what he meant is that we should be able to do better than what we did forty years ago.
DCSCA
So the focus of government officials who concern themsleves with the immediate future of our space program are bickering over the parameters of NASA’s garage sale of space shuttle program leftovers.
Swell.
@ Robert G. Oler wrote @ November 23rd, 2010 at 9:49 am
“…the new space folks just keep on coming.” And are going no where fast, save Branson. The world is still awaiting Musk’s first successful Dragon orbital flight… which keeps slipping launch dates. NASA’s very good at that already but nice to see a private sectored organization, which needs NASA contracts to peddle its future, showing the characteristics of the government space agency already.
Marcel F. Williams wrote @ November 23rd, 2010 at 12:28 pm
“If Obama seriously wants to be President in 2012, he’s going to have to win Florida.”
Except, of course, retirees are the key constituents to woo in Florida, not NASA. In the Age of Austerity, as it comes down to saving a few NASA jobs or keeping their old folks’ social security COLAs and medicare flush, it’s faitly obvious which constiuency will be shown favor– and it won’t be NASA.
Vladislaw
Marcel F. Williams wrote:
You say that like it was a bad thing, I have been advocating for NASA to get out of the launch business for years. They should have went commercial a long time ago. Just because you don’t agree does not automatically negate the opposing opinion. There are many Americans that believe as I do.
How did he do this? Ares V was being funded at about 25 million per year and his 2011 budget called for an immediate increase to almost 500 million per year for 5 years. The President was going to spend more on heavy lift in 5 years than all the presidents since LBJ. You are starting to sound nutty when you lie about what was going to be funded.
There was also two EELV’s that would have more than likely going to capture any heavy lift contracts for NASA as they already had previous proposals for upgrading.
How was he fooling anyone? Per Augustine America was not going to be returning to Luna until the 2030’s. If Both destinations were targeted for the 2030’s all he did was change the destination, but the time scale was the same as Constellation.
“4. Finally he added insult to injury by going to KSC and saying: “Now, I understand that some believe that we should attempt a return to the surface of the Moon first, as previously planned. But I just have to say pretty bluntly here: We’ve been there before.” “
If Apollo was the Lewis & Clark mission for exploring Luna, then in that regard we have been there done that. You didn’t see the Federal government fund yearly L&C missions. ( Apollo consumed 4% of the budget, L&C cost 2% )
The failure was not to open Luna up for commercial operations like the Louisana Purchase was.
Visiting an asteroid pushes the envelope and forces a new way of doing space operations. I.E. we would need new technologies like aerocapture, spacebased vehicles, fuel station, closed loop life support, to name just a few. If we are serious about a push outward, lets build the tools we need first and that starts with orbital gas stations.
If Obama seriously wants to be President in 2012, he’s going to have to win Florida. And that means he’s going to have to embrace NASA and see the logic of establishing a permanent human presence at one of the lunar poles.
there is no data which supports that conclusion…it is something you support I know, but there is no data that says such a position on Obama’s part would help him retain the Presidency.
‘amightywind wrote @ November 23rd, 2010 at 10:36 am
Yes watch is all they can do because SpaceX has the jump on all of them. The first commercial reentry licence isn’t a small victory, it’s historic, however your comments are hardly ever accurate so what the heh! Orbital’s slipped recently as well – just to correct any misconceptions.
‘Marcel F. Williams wrote @ November 23rd, 2010 at 12:28 pm
America can’t really afford diddly squat at the present given their deficit.
They’ll eventually have to address it in some fashion similar to Europe but they’re leaving their run late and that deficit is building. Hence eventually even relatively small programs like NASA will feel the bite.
If there ever was a textbook example of cognitive dissonance, it has to be the Republicans claiming to love private enterprise and markets yet trying to cut commercial crew to pay for a government designed rocket.
Trying to hold those two ideas in even my little head makes it explode and spin off its axis..
To those complaining that SpaceX and Orbital are delayed, that’s pretty disingenuous on many levels. Nearly all space program’s public and private are late. nothing new, so no reason to solely pick on private enterprise. Constellation was meant to put people on the Moon in the year 2020, but at the pace it was going would have them arrive some time in 2035-2040. That’s a bit of a slip. NASA has less of an excuse. It has a massively bigger budget than SpaceX and most of the technology used in the Ares vehicles was not new, merely modified shuttle components. SpaceX created two entirely new rockets and a spacecraft from scratch for the cost it took NASA to put Atlas avionics on a 4 Segment booster and launch it into a suborbital trajectory (which wasn’t a perfect flight either) SpaceX have slipped recently a few months, but are likely to have launch pretty soon. Its better they slip and get it right, than rush things and cause an unnecessary failure. Shuttles slip all the time for this reason too, and they’re a pretty well established vehicle after 130+ flights.
Some people want SpaceX to fail out of spite!! Maybe its a partisan thingy. Maybe its a fear of them actually succeeding and being better than the government space program. But its really just cutting your nose off to spite your face. If you’re a fan of space, you should want to see them actually succeed!! We actually need cheaper access to space if we ever want to achieve anything with humans there. We’re just not going to Mars if it takes 10 rockets that cost over a Billion each. Never mind the hardware itself.
I actually want to see human spaceflight be successful so I am hoping both commercial spaceflight and the new HLV succeed!!! I think that’s what the senate resolution tried to achieve, a fair balance between both approaches.
mike shupp
Let’s give retired space shuttle orbiters to JSC and KSC, since the historical links to those locations are clear. If New York wants something with equal relevence for a museum, they can post anti-manned space editorials from the past fifty years from the NY Times — which would also fill up a large room.
Robert G. Oler wrote:
No one in Florida outside of Brevard County gives a hoot what Obama’s position is on NASA, and Brevard County is already one of the most Republican counties in the state. In fact, after the Administration announced its FY11 NASA budget, a statewide poll showed Obama’s popularity had actually gone up.
Vladislaw wrote:
The ‘Plymouth Rock’ mission profile offered by Lockheed Martin calls for none of these things. All we really need are old technologies like large boosters and exploration craft like Orion. The new technologies you list are irrelevant.
The new technologies you list are irrelevant.
No they’re not. They’re not strictly needed, but they are very desirable. Unlike large boosters, which are neither needed nor desirable. We can do asteroid missions (and moon missions) without any new technologies. It would be an excellent place to start, while new technologies were being developed in parallel, safely off the critical path. It could avoid delaying things that various groups hold dear: exploration, an ISRU/science moon base. commercial development of space, RLVs etc without sacrificing fundamental research into new technologies.
“Plymouth Rock” wasn’t about whether the mission was remotely feasable. Rather, it was a demonstration of what could be done with the equipment if crew safety and comfort wasn’t a priority. The actual privations suffered by the maximum of two astronauts on such a mission would make the early Gemini flights seem positively luxurious.
This isn’t an issue of ‘the right stuff’. It is an issue of locking two men into a spacecraft smaller than the shuttle’s flight deck for as long as six months (most of the other Orion would be needed purely for consumables storage). Additionally, there is currently no guarantee if the Orion’s life support system could remain reliable over such a period of time. The ISS’s life support system gets regular maintenance and replacement parts; That wouldn’t be possible on a BEO mission. If there were any problems, rescue or even an abort of some kind would be impossible, so some degree of confidence in the LSS and environmental shielding will be required.
At the very smallest, I envision such a mission with four crew members (2 x flight enginers, 2 x mission specialists) requiring an Orion, a shielded hab module at least as big as the Bigelow Sundancer (180m^3 internal volume) and a powerful enough propulsion system to perform a direct abort at least for the initial few days of the transfer orbit. That means a hydrolox powerplant and multiple-launch, just to get the propulsion modules assembled. For any meaningful activities, let alone science, at the other end of the transfer orbit, you will need an EVA airlock as well as external stowage for surface science packages and MMU jet packs. Depending on the size of the target object, you may even need landing gear. None of these things are simple or cheap.
Whilst I suspect that the preliminary HEFT report represents a pessimistic worst-case scenario, it does accurately portray some of the challenges involved in this endeavour.
‘Plymouth Rock’ shows you how you can do an asteroid mission…..not how you should do one!! Its a tiny cramped capsule approach that has is unsustainable and doesn’t expand our presense in the solar system much.
I can walk across the continent by foot, if i really want to. Thats low tech. Doesn’t make it advisable, esp when I can do it 3 hours on a jumbo jet.
If we’re stuck with the same old expensive technologies forever, we’re going to be doing nothing interesting in space, and at a glacial pace. Extending human life off world should be the point of the exercise. Its definetly not for the science, which is better done by robots.
“All we really need are old technologies like large boosters…”
You don’t even need large boosters for these kinds of missions:
“First, Orion would be launched to low-Earth orbit on a rocket such as a Delta 4 Heavy. Then, a modified Centaur upper stage would launch on a separate rocket. Orion would dock to the Centaur stage in orbit, and the Centaur would boost Orion toward the moon.
Using either launch method, Orion would fly past the moon for a gravity slingshot maneuver toward the L2 point. Orion would use its propulsion system to enter a halo orbit around the L2 point.”
space.com/news/moon-far-side-astronaut-mission-101123.html
We can spend 10+ years and tens of billions of dollars building an HLV. Or we can start exploring now with the launch vehicles we have. It’s a simple choice.
“… and exploration craft like Orion.”
The current Orion design lost too much redundancy and radiation shielding to Ares I underperformance to support an extended BEO mission. She’d have to go through yet another design cycle. When added to her high operational costs, you may be better off with a clean sheet design.
Look like Lockmart has proposed another Constellation mission. This one to L2. All we need is a rocket.
That was an unsolicited approach offered by an aerospace firm for a “how to” mission that indeed was not about technology development but a sales pitch to sell some off their off the shelf products.
You amaze me, you constantly deride SpaceX and it’s “60’s” technology as an approach not to be pursued by America and then turn around and say all we need is old technologies of the 60’s like a heavy booster. Make up your mind.
You Apollo cargo cultists are never bothered by a little thing called logic. I am talking about how to move forward to break that unsustainable “apollo on steriods” mentality you seem to be so in love with.
America doesn’t need to bother with aerocapture? Ya, better to launch your return capsule to LEO, drag it with you to a moon or asteroid and then by pass LEO on your return and do a ballistic drop. Hey, it worked in the 60’s, no need to advance technology. For all your “wind” you are never afraid to show your true colors.
Mike Snyder
Robert G. Oler wrote @ November 23rd, 2010 at 8:09 pm
“there is no data which supports that conclusion…”
That folks is the definition of irony.
Joy K
“Some people want Spacex to fail out of spite!!
And some people want it to fail because they do not want their tax dollars subsidizing millionaire tourist trips.
The sooner that company goes under, the better it will be for man (and woman) in space.
amightywind wrote @ November 23rd, 2010 at 10:36 am
I think the whole idea about the on pad repairs is to get the vehicle back in spec. It is just a repair. By your logic you would buy a new 747 because of a flat tire. Psychotic…
what is psychotic is to compare a flat tire on an airplane with the problems the ET has. they simply dont understand why the cracks occurr.
Who are you? What an idiotic assertion. It would be a tremendous waste of tax dollars to throw away Orion.
Your complete obsession with Commercial space is plain to see.
All we need is a rocket.
We already have rockets. Several rockets in fact. What we need is a spacecraft.
If we’re stuck with the same old expensive technologies forever, we’re going to be doing nothing interesting in space, and at a glacial pace.
It doesn’t have to be either or, we can do both at the same time. Some people are eager to see exploration as soon as possible, others want to see commercial development of space. Both can be served by an exploration program that starts as soon as possible (which implies the use of as much existing technology as possible) and a separate technology development program in parallel. This has the added convenience of giving various field centers something to do instead of taking them all on at once.
Personally I see cheap small lift as the one missing piece that would give us everything else, the one ring to rule them all. For that reason I would like to see commercial propellant markets as soon as possible, as I believe that would be the shortest path to commercial cheap small lift. To further that goal I would remove all unnecessary technology development from the critical path to commercial propellant launches. I believe all technology development can be thus removed. Various people have proposed pet technologies or systems that they want to put on the critical path, but I think none of them hold up to scrutiny, desirable as they may be. It is difficult to see how any of them could trump the importance of cheap small lift.
I would also remove a second source of delays, namely constraints on destinations. I would choose the cheapest one, because even though a propellant transfer based architecture could support any destination, the budget and politics might not. I would even want to remove a strict dependence on manned exploration, though it would be wonderful if we could get that. We can get to cheap small lift through unmanned probes and that may be all the budget allows for.
In short, I agree with your sentiment that we shouldn’t be stuck with existing technologies forever, but I see starting with existing technologies as not only not harmful to the development of new technologies, but as very synergistic, perhaps even as close to the optimal way to get them.
amightywind: “Look like Lockmart has proposed another Constellation mission. This one to L2. All we need is a rocket.”
That’s not a Constellation mission. It’s an E-M L2 mission or missions doing lunar sample return, demonstrating telerobotics in a mode similar to telerobotics on a Mars orbit mission, gingerly trying longer-duration deep space operations, demonstrating technologies like cryo-storage, and radio telescope deployment. It considers international participation with partner surface robotics, science instruments, and/or and L2 habitat.
That’s classic Augustine Flexible Path.
http://www.lockheedmartin.com/data/assets/ssc/Orion/Toolkit/LMFarsideWhitepaperFinal.pdf
From the white paper:
“Since the Altair human lunar lander has been cancelled, a more affordable robotic lander would be developed instead.”
Orion could be “launched to Low Earth Orbit on a rocket such as a Delta IV Heavy …”
Yep, and the rocket we need, they say, can be a Delta IV-H with a Centaur upper stage. They say it.
I’m pleased that Lockheed would stick their neck out and endorse a mission that, in itself, doesn’t presume people being down on the lunar surface. But targeting Earth-Moon L2 is a pretty squishy proposition. If you want to do lunar science, most of the important targets are on the near side. OK, S. Pole Aitken basin is one that’s largely on the far side, but that’s about it. A kilometer-scale telescope? Well, not in my lifetime. If you want to do ISRU, you’ll do that on the near side. Why would we start an ambitious mining and refining operation on the far side? Crazy! If you want to practice telerobotics for Mars, do it at Earth-Moon L1 on the near side. If you want to exercise your abilities to go far and stay there for a while, L1 will do the job nicely as well. There are actually some nice concepts being developed for Earth-Moon L1.
Another Constellation mission? Nah, this one actually might be affordable.
STS-133 was postponed again today, no earlier than December 17, and scuttlebutt is that it may be a lot longer than that. All this suggests they don’t know why these cracks are happening and think it may not be safe to fly.
If they decide it’s a bad tank, there’s only one spare left and that’s the one held in reserve for an emergency flight. It’s been proposed that it be used for a third flight, but if they have to use the spare tank to launch STS-133 then the third flight won’t happen.
And worse is that the tank is supposedly brand spanking new. Who’d accept cracks say in their new car’s sub-frames as an example??!!
As Robert woud say: goofy!
PS Now under 2 weeks to the SpaceX COTS Demo1 launch and no delay announcement. Shuttles shifted to after SpaceX launch date so no issue with recovery ships. Could we be on the real countdown now.
BTW nice tour of the SpaceX engine manufacturing facility by Elon on their website in case, lile me, you haven’t checked it for a while.
By my calcs, SpaceX wil need 46 Merlin C, 5 MVac, 1 Kestral, and up to 18 Draco for their 2011 manifest. Gonna get busy!!
Then if they’re taxpayers, they’re cutting off their noses to spite their faces. It is quite foolish and irrational to oppose reducing launch costs for NASA just because it also reduces launch costs for millionaires as a side effect.
less people in space is not good for space at all. Spite will not be good for man and woman in space. Taxi payers are already paying billions just to put a few government employees in space. You’re never going to be one of them, so I wonder why you would want to subsidize that.
Besides, SpaceX has said nothing about providing trips for millionaires. Its commercial crew service is aimed at NASA, and at reducing costs, which is good for NASA, believe it or not!!!
Joy K wrote @ November 24th, 2010 at 2:49 pm
“And some people want it (SpaceX) to fail because they do not want their tax dollars subsidizing millionaire tourist trips.
Are you a bot, or a troll from ATK? When did SpaceX start doing tourist flights?
You may not know it, but they launch satellites, and are planning to launch US astronauts up to the ISS for less money than we are spending on Russian Soyuz launches for the same transport.
Please learn the basics before posting!
vulture4
This was a deterministic failure, due to exceeding ultimate strength, not a fatigue failure where crack propogation and stochiastic proceses are involved. The stringers and foam cracked when the intertank skin oilcanned. There’s no way for the skin to distort far enough to crack the stringers without cracking the foam as well. They simply need to do a tanking test and then check for cracks. With the doublers in place there probably won’t be any.
“Look like Lockmart has proposed another Constellation mission. This one to L2.”
Constellation was never going to lunar L2. By definition, this is not a Constellation architecture or mission.
Think before you post.
We have one. It’s called the Delta IV. Per the article:
Read, comprehend, and think before you post.
Lawdy…
“It would be a tremendous waste of tax dollars to throw away Orion.”
No, it wouldn’t. Orion is oversized for ETO transport, will have to be redesigned (yet again) for BEO mission redundancy and radiation shielding, and will carry operational costs of at least $1 billion per mission, per the Augustine report. Why spend billions more taxpayer dollars redesigning and redeveloping a vehicle that’s going to cost too much operationally to be used effectively anyway? Put those billions into developing a cost-effective vehicle for BEO missions from the get-go.
Now this is an idiotic assertion.
First, SpaceX has no “millionaire tourist trips” on its manifest.
Second, “millionaire” SpaceX investors are subsidizing, to the tune of something approaching $200 million, the development of a launch vehicle and capsule for NASA needs.
Third, even if taxpayers were footing the entire bill for Falcon 9/Dragon, it’s ~80 times cheaper than the nearly $40 billion development cost for Ares I/Orion. Taxpayers are saving literally billions and billions of dollars going the Falcon 9/Dragon route over Ares I/Orion.
Again, think before you post.
The SpaceX manifest is chock full of commercial payloads out through 2017. NASA could disappear tomorrow and that company would continue on as before.
Stephen C. Smith wrote @ November 24th, 2010 at 8:54 pm
yeah it is pretty clear that this one has got them more rattled then normal. There are some serious problems with the tank and there is no organization in the US that would proceed in the manner that they are to determine a reason for flying…
The clowns running the shuttle program would be laughed at (and are) in another other technical organization…imagine running nuclear reactors like they run the shuttle progrd one understands the problems at Three Mile Island.
Happy Thanks giving
@Stephen C. Smith wrote @ November 24th, 2010 at 8:54 pm
They’ve slipped this launch date so long, the wise move would be to switch out the ET. Of course, the question is, are these cracks unique to this ET or has NASA been flying bad ones in the past as well and never realized it– or just considered it an acceptable flight risk and buried the problem. Quality control slip-ups are very American. It’s a place to cut costs and save money– something commerical firms- engineering or otherwise- have known for decades, sometimes with disasterous results. If the astronaut office has any pull left, they’d demand it be changed out.
@MajorTom “The SpaceX manifest is chock full of commercial payloads out through 2017. NASA could disappear tomorrow and that company would continue on as before…” Through 2017, you mean, however, its future depends on NASA contracting- as does Musk’s plans for ‘retirement’ on Mars.
They’ve slipped this launch date so long, the wise move would be to switch out the ET.
Yes, because they have so many ETs sitting on the shelf.
More ignorance from the usual suspect.
Depending on whether you want to help or hurt SDLV that could be either a bug or a feature. Once they’ve lost the Michoud workforce (and we may already be past the point of no return) every ET that is taken out of the running means another potential Shuttle mission that is eliminated. As I understand it they have three more tanks that do not require modifications, including one SWT (or maybe LWT).
DCSCA wrote:
Or maybe the slips were planned so that it delays the retirement and holds onto employees for a few more months. The more delays on this launch could be used to push that potential last launch out more months. A way of backdoor extending the shuttle program and forstalling that last dying gasp of a program.
@Rand Simberg wrote @ November 25th, 2010 at 3:44 pm
Two to choose from leaving months to rework the flawed one as the reserve. Unless you’re willing to risk crew and vehicle again on a piece of flawed engineering. Speaks volumes about your managment judgment– or maybe you just want NASA’s HSF program to go out w/a bang. Good grief.
@Martijn Meijering wrote @ November 25th, 2010 at 6:08 pm
Yes, scrub a flight as the program is ending- a flight which was penciled in anyway- due to substandard hardware. No more ‘wing and a prayer’ flights. The quicker this program is finally put to bed, the better.
“Through 2017, you mean, however, its future depends on NASA contracting”
No, it doesn’t. No launch company has contracts that go more than a handful of years into the future. Just because a company isn’t reliant on NASA business for the next seven years, doesn’t mean they’re suddenly going to become reliant on NASA business in the eighth year.
Major Tom wrote @ November 26th, 2010 at 11:00 am
Yes it does, particularly as more competitors come online and especially if other firms excel in affordable HSF proposals. SpaceX needs the ISS contracting for cargo and/or HSF flights to ISS through its projected lifetime. If NASA suffers deep cuts or is abosrbed by DoD– or simply is disbanded- it most defintely will affect SpaceX’s future– and its capacity to attract private investors. Indeed, think before you post.
Vladislaw wrote @ November 26th, 2010 at 1:20 am
That may have been a valid suspicion early on, but the hardware flaws are genuine. Once again, though, we see NASA shuttle managment processes at work, which may be as equally sub-standard as the workmanship on the ET in question.
“Yes it does, particularly as more competitors come online and especially if other firms excel in affordable HSF proposals.”
No, if there are lots of effective competitors cutting up the human space flight market into lots of small pieces, then SpaceX needs other lines of business, like unmanned satellites. And those are the payloads that comprise the majority of the SpaceX manifest.
“SpaceX needs the ISS contracting for cargo and/or HSF flights to ISS through its projected lifetime.”
Says who? Reference?
And since when did SpaceX have a “projected lifetime”? How many years? Reference?
Stop making stuff up.
@Major Tom wrote @ November 26th, 2010 at 11:38 pm
http://techcrunch.com/2010/11/09/50-million-spacex/
Key phrase- ‘claims slight profits.’ And it is a limited market. Commercial HSF will finally take root with Branson.
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The New SpyParty Character Art Style
2012/08/27, 14:23 by checker
Update: the second batch of five characters have been revealed.
I am incredibly excited to introduce the new SpyParty character art style!
I am also incredibly excited to introduce the new SpyParty character artist, John Cimino!
John’s the one who has ironed his shirt.
Full disclosure: John has actually been working full time on SpyParty since September of 2011, we’ve just kept it a secret until we could reveal the new art style with a cool selection of characters representing some of the diversity we’re trying to achieve. It’s been hard to keep this quiet over the past year, and when somebody would ask me if I was making the game by myself, I’d answer “yes” and rationalize it on a technicality, since we haven’t actually put anything John’s done into the game itself yet!
So, it’s true, I have doubled the team size. This rate of growth simply cannot be sustained.
John and I worked together on Spore. I would develop some crazy mostly-broken system for skinning or painting or animating the creatures, and John would do amazing and beautiful things with it, and not hate me afterwards. After six years of that, I figured our working relationship had been battle tested, and so when I started working on SpyParty full time, I also started working on John full time, to try to get him to come work on the game.
John’s the perfect artist for SpyParty, because he’s amazing at all the artistic disciplines, from concept through modeling, texturing, and animating. While most of the industry is following movies and specializing roles to the point where an individual artist might only rig, or do textures, or animate, John can do it all. You need someone like that for indie games, and to have somebody this talented in all of those areas is amazing…I am incredibly lucky to have him, and so are you, since he’s going to help make the game the kind of “perfect jewel” that is the reason I’m indie in the first place.
We’ve spent months and months defining the style of the characters, and I’m really happy with the results. We call this style naturalistic and illustrative. With a game like SpyParty, where the design and gameplay aesthetics are all about deep subtlety, it was important that we hit that level of subtlety in the visual aesthetic as well. I want the visual and design aesthetics to work in concert to deepen the game. We also needed to skirt the Scylla of realism and the uncanny valley on one side, and the Charybdis of slapstick cartoon exaggeration on the other side.
We call the result naturalistic and illustrative because it’s based on nature and sound anatomy, but without cleaving too close to realism, using instead the simplifications and stylizations perfected by classic illustrators, people like J.C. Leyendecker, Harry Beckhoff, Robert McGinnis, and Herbert Paus. We’ve spent days deciding exactly which wrinkles to include and which to elide on a just-past-middle-aged eyelid.
I want to explicitly thank my good friend Dan Zimmer, who publishes the incredibly beautiful Illustration Magazine, for introducing us to most of these illustrators.
Talking about these classic illustrators brings me to questions of time period, and namely, “When does SpyParty take place?” The answer is, “yes.”
It’s important to me that the game’s visual design be timeless, not retro, not futuristic, but ambiguous, where it could be happening at any or all time periods. If you look at the collection of spy images I posted way back in September 2009, it’s very easy to visually date some of them, and I want to avoid that. I think 60’s retro spy-fi is as cool as the next guy, but it goes in an out of fashion, and it can be subtly alienating even when it’s in. My biggest inspiration for the timelessness we’re going for is Pixar’s film, The Incredibles.
The art direction of that film is, well, incredible, and they did a great job of keeping the actual time period ambiguous…it could be the 50’s, it could be today, it could be the future. I want a similar vibe for SpyParty. If you follow the game, you’ll know there is gameplay associated with checking your watch. There will be characters who check wrist watches, characters who check pocket watches, and characters who check mobile phones, all integrated visually and mechanically in the same game.
I’m guessing John and I spend more time on the clock than most game developers do discussing hair styles and shoes. Since SpyParty is not your usual orcs and space marines fare, we end up going to fashion magazines and celebrity red carpet blogs for a lot of inspiration and reference. I have a growing pile of tearouts from Vogue, W, In Style, Harper’s Bazaar, and Esquire. Here are a few images I’ve collected to give you a flavor of the kind of things we look to for visual inspiration:
Who are these specific people we’re revealing now? They’re going to have to remain mysterious for a while. Each character in SpyParty will have a dossier that will eventually be important to learn for playing at advanced levels, due to upcoming game mechanics involving individual behaviors and histories. For now, these folks are visual stakes in the ground as we explore the diversity of different races, genders, ages, abilities, sizes, and orientations that we’re going to put in the game.
These characters don’t even have names yet. For a brief while I considered using some of the names from the current beta characters, but I decided that would be disrespectful to the current guys, who have gone above and beyond the call of duty for the game. So, in deference to their service, I plan to “retire the jerseys” of all the current characters when the new art goes in. The new characters will have all new names, and I might crowd-source some of them, so put your central casting hats on.
And with that, we come to the question of when these new characters will go in the game. The short answer is, “not for a while.” These are characters that will eventually go into the game, but they’re currently at the initial stages of the very long production pipeline that comes with doing a high-end 3D game these days. These are high-poly-count models, and these images we’re revealing today are rendered with a non-realtime renderer. They still have to be decimated, and rigged, and textured and normal mapped, and animated, and the game engine needs to be redone to support higher quality characters like these. They are a long way off, sometime next year at least.
Finally, we come to the most important question of all, “What if the new art screws up the game balance?” I will not let that happen, or at least won’t let that happen for long. The deep and balanced game design is the absolute top priority, so if for some crazy reason I simply can’t get the game deep and balanced with different art, I will throw it all away and ship the ugly art that’s in the game now.
But, I don’t think that extreme will be necessary. I think we can make SpyParty a deep and subtle and beautiful game. Even once the game engine is ready to support the new characters, I will introduce them slowly in their own maps alongside the existing art, so we can make sure they don’t mess things up. I’m sure there will be some stumbles along the way, since perception is one of the key mechanics in the game and the new art will clearly impact perception, but we’ll figure it out and keep the game on the path to a competition worthy player-skill game.
What about the environments and objects? Those visual styles are yet to be determined, but they’re going to take a lot of time and thought, the same as the characters. The foreground-background separation is a key part of SpyParty, and the art style of the environments and objects needs to reinforce that.
So, here are the new SpyParty characters. We love them and hope you do too!
Update: Their placeholder names until we name them for real—in order of appearance in the group shot—are Mr. C, Ms. B, Mr. A, Ms. E, and Mr. D.
Here are high-resolution high-quality (read: large file sizes) images rendered out at various aspect ratios, so they should be suitable for even the largest desktop wallpapers, if your computer would like to wear them for a while.
Aspect Resolution Images
4:3 1600×1200
16:9 2560×1440
16:10 2560×1600
And here are the high-resolution high-quality versions of the portraits. They’re 1000×1500 resolution:
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Al. I. Cuza says:
Can’t wait to finally play this game. I love the chosen art style. Fits perfectly!
Absolutely beautiful. Kudos.
Maybe it’s just me, but downloading those wallpapers was a lot harder then i expected. Thanks for the update! Excellent news.
checker says:
Yeah, I need to figure out how to turn off lightbox for some of the images! I’ll fix it!
Edit: Okay, should be fixed. All the wallpaper images should be normal links now, so easy to download.
Fantastic! I love that aesthetic. Totally worth leaving the box hands.
EmotedLlama says:
Do you have any intents on upping the size diversity in your characters? I noticed that your previewed characters are pretty poor in terms of size diversity, given that your only plus-size character is an older man (i.e. the stereotype for larger characters). In addition, both of the women have impossibly-small waists with larger hips, which is deeply problematic. They may not have large breasts, but they very much fall into the norm for portraying women’s bodies in animation, which is impossibly “perfect.”
I’m almost positive with @checker ‘s earlier comments that there is an intent to have a wide cast of characters for variety. I almost laughed when I saw the Taft dead-ringer. However, I think I have to address the comment you had about the women. I work for a clothing company and one of the things you see in a lot of the party dresses is a high waist. This is to provide the illusion of a much small waist and larger hips without having them. Here is two quick examples:
http://i.imgur.com/rU9QU.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/iHSUL.jpg
(although the lady in the jacket is a bit more exaggerated than the older lady)
Now, if we want to talk stereotypes, let’s talk drink choice! :D
JBantha says:
Actually I think both female characters are proportional and different one to the other. while madame leBlanc here is actually quite busty, the younger one gives abetter view of her body build, both of them quite possible. what might be tricking you could be the darker colors around their wasted on their clothing. also, at this early stage variety and such its secondary to colour pallete and texture skins definitions. as they said it’s still a LONG way to implementation.
I just would like to point out the apparent style inconsistent between the boots and the dress on the young lady.
Yeah, there will be way more size diversity than just this. Having this be “the most diverse game evar” has always been at the top of my priority list, because it’s one of the first games where the diversity could be a) represented plausibly, and b) where it would make sense that it wouldn’t be an advantage or disadvantage, just different. The list of “diversity axes” I want to hit looks like this: races, genders, ages, abilities, sizes, orientations (I accidentally left “sizes” out in the original post, but I just added it, it’s always been on the list in my head, and in fact there are multiple plus-sized women and men in the current beta). I want to handle it really respectfully and tastefully, so feedback like this very valuable.
We tried hard to make the body shapes plausible in these characters, with multiple iterations on things like waist size and whatnot, but we’re not done yet, and this stuff with be tuned over time.
Ron: So… since their technical actual bodies might not have larger hips, it’s… what? I don’t quite understand your point. Furthermore, compare the younger woman with the man in the gray suit. Their heads are comparable in size, and yet the thinnest point of the woman’s body is only bit wider than her head, whereas the man’s head is about half the width of the thinnest point of his body. Even without the hips, the waists are still problematic. Heck, just try comparing the images you had with the renders–the real women’s waists aren’t as thin as the renders’.
JBantha: I didn’t say the women were the same. I said they both had thin waists and large hips. As for the rest of your comment, well, I can’t quite understand what you’re trying to say. Sorry.
Checker: Oh, awesome! I’m glad the preview characters aren’t indicative of the rest of them.
(Ugh. I’m trying to think of more to say and utterly failing.)
I just had to delete a rude comment in moderation on this diversity topic. I just want to be clear: if you haven’t posted before and you post something rude, I’ll delete it in moderation. If you have posted before and post something rude, I’ll delete it and set you back to moderated.
@EmotedLlama It’s all good. I think that the exaggerated features are within artistic caricaturization. But yeah, avoiding negative stereotypes (or ones that cause negative impact unintentionally) is something that I hope stays a part of the design process.
I am LOVING these. It’s like I imagined it might be, but with all the details I couldn’t quite picture. I’m looking forward to seeing it in the actual game. I’m also going to try and make some more time to play the beta. I’ve been telling everyone I meet about this game.
dippyT says:
Hey, I noticed that 2 of your male characters are handsome. Could you make them really ugly?
I know! Isn’t Taft so sexy!? The handlebar pulls it all together!
Are you trying to mock me or am I missing something?
This was in reply to dippyT’s comment (if you notice, it indents after dippyT’s comment). I actually replied to your comment too, but since I included a link in it, it’s awaiting approval. And no, I’m not mocking you, even though this comment is pulling the old switch-a-roo on expectations.
I was replying to dippyT, too, hence the identical indentation as your comment.
Okay, sorry, I’m just very paranoid. Very, very paranoid.
Oh, woops, the indentation is the same regardless.
Actually, yes, there will be lots of “ugly” characters too, at least as far as current celebrity/fashion-culture would be concerned! I’m totally serious about making this game incredibly diverse.
Jamin Grey says:
While I definitely appreciate some of the diversity, taking those remarks hand-in-hand with the “custom dossier for each character” worries me.
What’s your general ballpark-figure estimation for the number of separate distinct dossiers I’ll have to memorize at the risk of being handicapped?
Are we talking 100 different dossiers I have to “memorize”, or just 30? It’s hard enough for me to asscosiate real-life names with real-life faces of people I’ve met before! =)
Do you intend to limit certain (or all) characters to specific levels? I.e. will a Veranda-esque map have it’s own potential pool of characters distinct from a, say, Penthouse or Poolside map? Will there be any overlap in character pools between maps?
This is all far in the future, but it would be one dossier per character, and there aren’t going to be more than 30 characters, and probably closer to 20. I think right now the characters will all be available on all maps. Missions will be map-specific sometimes, but not characters.
Collin Hausman says:
Well, if there isn’t going to be more than 20 or so characters, you should definitely invest some time in outfits like you mentioned in a comment reply below. Having a ton of different characters and character appearances would add to the ambiguity of the scene. It wouldn’t feel like “round 2” all the time so much as, “new scenario, new VIP list, new objectives”.
adam alexander says:
Wow! What a treat! These are great!
Look forward to reading about how the introduction of finalised assets affects gameplay and the road of inevitable tweaks ahead.
It’s been a long time since I felt a game took its design of characters and ambience this seriously and with such success.
Congratulations! I feel you pulled off your desired style of classy ambiguity perfectly.
This looks fabulous! Like seriously, I am very excited. I’m so happy that the game is gonna look not ass, and is going to take up an AMAZING art style. There are only a few games that come even close to how awesome these characters look (Team Fortress 2, Dishonored, The Next BIG Thing). And it’s not just the art style that impresses me, it’s the character design itself, and how great each character is going to look, with their own distinctive styles and things (pocket watch, cane, glasses, camera). In the past, one would have to tell someone the premise and maybe explain the game a little for someone to be intrigued, but now, you just look at it, and you’d be like WOW. This game may be my game of the year. Can’t wait!
Awesome, glad you like it! The only question is, “Which year?” ;)
Cross my fingers 2013, but you seem like a perfectionist kinda guy, so possibly 2014, in which case it would be packed with content and levels and levels of complexity.
Do you think you would continue to design new maps and new content for the game past the final release or will you just release it and after fixing bugs and whatnot, leave it as it is and go on to your next awesome project?
How far into pure gameplay development would you say you are? I’m sure you plan on adding a few more maps, but in terms of objectives and things like that, how far along would you say you are, if you had to guess?
I’m terrible at guessing. 25%? Lots of game design things to do, lots of maps, characters, missions, tells, etc. Wheee!
As for post-launch support, I want this to be a competition-level game, so it’s going to have a lot of support after ship.
zompist says:
I mean, I’ve been following SpyParty for awhile, but this moves it from intriguing to must-have.
Zephrynn says:
Just woke up and read this. Thank you Chris, and especially John for this birthday present! It’s the best present I’ve received yet! :P
I’ve always wondered how you were going to approach the art style for this game. But now that I have seen it, it just makes perfect sense! I love it and I can’t wait to see more!
And a big Welcome to John as well! It must have been hard as hell keeping this secret for a whole year. Can we now expect to see blog posts from the two of you?
Yep, although John’s shy, so I’ll have to force him to do it. :)
Varanas says:
Force him to talk to us on the forums too!
Elendira says:
I vote Matilda Bernhardt for the old lady.
The art looks awesome and I can’t wait to see the re-skinned game. That said, I hope we’ll still be able to play the original version somewhere.
What are you going to do about gender-based “banana bread?” Will it give too much away if the gender of the spy is revealed? Could you include an imitation option for saying BB in the opposite gender? There’s a lot of potential for hilarity in mis-telling that, especially if you could make it dependent on whether or not the player messed up too early or too late. I’m thinking something along the lines of screwing up in “Love Rap” in Rhythm Heaven. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l5h3OQDNAZA
I’m still stewing on the gender solution to The Banana Bread Problem, and it’s a topic of conversation in the beta forums, but yeah, it’s going to take some finesse. Not sure what the right answer is yet.
Cleetose says:
Maybe you could have them play a recording of someone saying banana bread. Part of the animation could be the spy pressing a button under his or her clothing. Though I guess that would add another hard tell.
swenson says:
I’m so used to looking at the placeholder art, I’d started to think of it as the finalized stuff. After seeing this, though, I’m glad it isn’t–because that’s some very awesome work! I’ve liked that even the placeholder art had a distinct style, being sort of “spy” but not pinning it down much. This really keeps the same flair, just making the textures more detailed and high-res. If the rest of the game has the same look, it’s going to be a truly beautiful game.
One (very minor) thing I’m wondering about, though, is color. They all look kind of desaturated in the top pic, as opposed to the bright and colorful look of the placeholder art. Will other characters have some more of that brighter flair?
Yeah, there’ll be a variety of colors, and maybe even outfits at some point. The visibility of the characters relative to the background and each other is going to be a big thing to tune when the new art finally goes in.
Bradley (namelesssniper) says:
Thank you Chris!
I love the incredible gameplay that the game has now, the art style is just icing on the cake.
Pretty great art style minus the fact that everyone pretty much has Skeletor hands.
Hands are hard! We’re still working on figuring out the exact style for the hands, how much detail to put in versus simplify, etc. We will probably do a blog post just about hands now that we’ve revealed the art.
Will we rig the models to work Source Filmmaker similar to using Team Fortress 2 characters? I would LOVE to be able to make movies with them!
They’ll all be normal rigged 3d characters, so as long as there’s a way to export from maya, it’d probably work.
Will I have to wait another year for a beta invite before I get some models and playtime?
Lastly, I know you’ve said compatibility takes a back seat to depth and design, but is Mac support planned at some point?
I hate to say it, but the insane awesomeness of Wineskin has made it so I don’t have to worry about a native MacOS support for a while, it already runs perfectly! It even auto-updates!?
Walter Garrett Mitchell says:
This is incredible! So excited to see how it all ends up. And thanks for keeping up the long-form commentary; really a pleasure to read.
I like the idea of the current characters belonging to some distinct game all of their own. You’re right, that is respectful — bonus, it makes beta testers feel lucky to have known them.
I’m sure as soon as you put in the new graphics there will be an petition saying “We want the old graphics back!”
It is the internet, after all.
BlazeShaman says:
I absolutely LOVE the new art! It’s great. It’s amazing. It’s fantastic.
About the dossiers, though. Don’t make it… too revealing, if you know what I mean. It’s is always nice to have to learn about these characters through playing, through observing. Little nuances and such that aren’t explicitly evident on the surface… You can get into the whole psychology angle! :D
Getting more excited by the day.
Yes, and I have to leave room for fanfic too! :)
Andrew Faulds says:
These are absolutely stunning. Excellent work. Can’t wait to see them in action… or perhaps play the game with them :)
However, the simple, light-blue logo doesn’t go well with it. I would suggest stylising it a bit.
Constantine says:
Is it in-game or baked lighting? Looks great.
The post said this was not in-game and not done with a realtime renderer, if you read it.
Very not in-game. They’re rendered with mentalray. It’ll be a while before they’re in-game, but these are the real models that will be put through the pipeline, decimated, normal mapped, rigged, etc etc.
Nope, I’m one of those guys who skip text to just watch pretty images :P Thanks for answer
Yea, I get it. I just thought it may be rendered in game engine, all of it can be achieved in real-time except high resolution soft shadows…
Yeah, it’s going to be a trick to keep the minspec low, but the good news is SpyParty doesn’t have to render an entire city or do any culling, so it’s almost best-case for doing high detail characters.
Ah, I envy you. I’ve tried to make a 3D game before, but I was dumb enough to choose a design requiring a lot of on-the-fly optimisation and culling ;)
I just realized that the cane might be an interesting game mechanic. You have one less hand to use, so you won’t be able to transfer the microfilm and check the time while at the window at once. You can’t transfer the microfilm or bug the ambassador while holding a drink, etc.
Also, if you at some point add a camera that looks at the sniper’s victim from a bird’s eye point of view, civilians should just bleed out, but if you shoot the spy, the spy should drop a statue, microfilm, in addition to bleeding.
Andrew Coggeshall says:
Wow so excited about this! I hope the environments are equally cool! Have you thought about what type of lighting the game will use, toon shading, realistic light mapping, etc?
I’m going to try to get it as close to those renders as I can.
Looking pretty good! The only complaint I have is that the young woman’s knees need some work. They…don’t look anatomically correct.
I hope you do implement that mode that has police showing up to arrest the spy when you pull the trigger. I don’t want to shoot these people.
Yeah, I almost certainly will. They’ll be security guards, not police, though. I want to keep it ambiguous who’s on which side. :)
vyrus0139 says:
This is an interesting idea. I hadn’t thought of anything like this for the game play.
That sound bite of the snipers shot is staple to my previous Spy Party experience. I know the game is going to change and that’s great. I’m not saying It should stay the same, but there is something I like about that silenced shot. Adding a non lethal option may have a return for players like yourself who don’t want to kill their target. If John and Checker haven’t yet started on this idea I would suggest maybe adding a non lethal option through a tranquilizer dart. this option would probably take less time to make and may still provided the desired virtuous option. Just change the death animation to I fall down slowly and add a dart projectile. Just a thought.
I am excited for what is coming next.
vyrus0139
what about a dart? could be simpler to make and still provide the same effect. just a thought.
Also Are the guards going to provided any other function than taking down the spy after he/she is “marked”. Maybe you could add a different gameplay type where this “style” of victory has a more evident reason. And then you can give the user the option to always use this “style” of victory if they want.
So ya either do even more work, or do less Haha.
Loving the work btw.
PS. if you are wondering what I mean by a new game type ask and I’ll further explain. i’ve got some ideas.
I’m hoping to eventually have a mechanic where the Sniper can ask the security guard to go interrogate somebody!
I vote for a “Chris Hecker” character with his own dossier =)
Cat Musgrove says:
Very cool – I love the style! I would suggest doing a pass to make them look less like actual, known people though. It seems like it could be distracting. Also, Taft and Vincent Price are already dead, but there may be issues with your players sniping Morgan Freeman.
We actually de-morganized him twice, but he may need more de-morganifying.
Just click the de-morganify button in Photoshop for goodness sake my good man!!!1!1!!
AVB says:
These character models are better than I ever could have hoped for. Will the maps be as equally stunning?
Also having lots of diversity eases the burden on the sniper. I know countless times (Less than the number of games I have played), I have been confused as to which suited man or which thin women was by the bookshelf acting suspicously and will tend to shoot characters that don’t stick out more often than I should.
Yeah, the maps will be awesome as well. They’ll have to be less attention-grabbing than the characters, obviously, but they will be no less beautiful, hopefully.
Christiaan says:
So I tried to ask before but I think my comment got filtered: How (interactively) detailed are you planning to make the facial expressions and body language? Will guests visibly react to strange behaviour from the spy (eg raised eyebrows, looks of amusement, disapproval etc) or would this make the sniper’s job too easy?
I’d like to have subtle facial animation, so you could tell the difference between a joke that’s funny and one that flopped, for example.
Sweet. Keeping a close eye on this.
Finally had a chance to play the beta. Enjoyed it a lot. Very interested to see how more detailed movement will affect the gameplay in the future.
Well, if you’re shooting for ” not retro, not futuristic,” then I’d say the first image you posted from ‘The Incredibles’ is probably the worst possible inspiration you could have picked. It’s very much both. Furniture from this era is used in The Jetsons, sorta the pinnacle of what we view as futuristic. Plus, it’s super trendy right now.
All of that furniture is mid-century modern, both the chair and sofa look Danish.
Quick and dirty googling found pics of actual pieces these look like;
sofa: http://www.dejavulongbeach.com/sold-items/danish-sofa/8456107
chair: http://furniturebyljindustries.com/seating/#.UMnGM3fULg0
The coffee table a modified Adrian Pearsall 1960’s atomic table, maybe inspired by this one:
http://www.objectculture.com/modhaus-secure/detail.asp?id=13894
He did sectional and platform sofas, too, so the whole room may well have been inspired by him.
So weird that you’d specifically call out the ’60s as an era to avoid, because that is exactly what the picture depicts. It’s ‘Mad Men’ without the suits. Not saying it’s a bad style or you should nix it. It just struck me as funny that you framed it the way you did.
Yeah, their house was totally mid-century modern, but Edna’s place was from a totally different period, the bad guy’s place on the island was different too, etc. The way they mixed the different time periods together was awesome. I mean, it’s not even clear if their house was actually in the mid-century, or they just decorated it that way because danish modern is so trendy, etc.
I don’t want to nix the 60s, I just don’t want to be pigeonholed in the 60s and feel “retro”. I want some retro, some future, some present, and I want the blend to be “timeless”.
Scallii says:
Alright, I’m okay with Snaps not being in the final game’s parties, but some other paparazzi member better show up. Please?
Snaps is really useful for playing spy against Viri.
Or have his style of camera in the background of one of the final design maps and with McGee scribbled on the side. But in a display case. Because Snaps was (is?) that important. And the amount of dust on the camera could specify how long ago the beta parties were. That doesn’t count as dating the game, does it?
That would happify me. And Viri. And Snaps. Ya know, if you have some spare wall space.
There will definitely be paparazzi at the party, with flash bulbs!
Hemlock Drew says:
The guy with the moustache is THE BEST. More of him!
Gurkhas says:
Awesome work, just purchased beta, having shit load of fun.
Wouldn’t the women be holding their glasses by the stem?
Nah, do an image search, there’s a lot of variety in how people hold glasses. For example: martini glass wine glass champagne flute
Assassinninja says:
I accidentally deleted spy party how do I get it back?
No worries, just log in to your beta homepage and reinstall. Mail support at SpyParty dot com if you have problems!
But I don’t see a login button or anything ANYWHERE can you direct me to it
So am I correct in assuming that some of the new designs have a flavor of Archer ? Most specifically the older woman. When I see the artwork I can hear Malory Archer loud and clear :-)
Anyway, superb work. Keep it going.
Yeah, the funny thing is we actually didn’t think about the Archer connection until we released the images and people pointed it out, but in hindsight it’s pretty obvious! The other one like that we missed was the film Red, which has a similar cast! Thanks for the kind words, and we hope to reveal the environment art soon!
Barnabass says:
Hey Checker, how about the new Level-Art i saw on some websites? I would love to hear some stories about those screenshots ;)
Yeah, I need to write up that post…had to go to a wedding this weekend!
Just came back to spy party. It is great to see how the work is going. I Love The New Art! I think this Style meshes very well with your game play. I am A big fan Of your game I hope you are able to succeed in your efforts. great addition to your team! Kudos to you both and may success follow you.
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Valiant – Handan Productions, Edinburgh Fringe 2015
August 20, 2015 by Olivia Coxhead Leave a Comment
Review of: Valiant
Handan Productions
£8.50-£10.50 (£6.50-£8.50 conc)
Reviewed by: Olivia Coxhead
Valiant is an exclusively female driven production; not only are the characters, cast and writer female, but also the production team behind the piece. A strong counter message to the absence of women in leading creative roles within the theatre industry, this play is a visible testament to the vitality and drive of its principle creator, writer and performer Lanna Joffrey.
Valiant is an exclusively female driven production; not only are the characters, cast and writer female, but also the production team behind the piece. A strong counter message to the absence of women in leading creative roles within the theatre industry, this play is a visible testament to the vitality and drive of its principle creator, writer and performer Lanna Joffrey. From developing the script from Valiant Women in War and Exhile (a verbatim book of interviews by historical researcher Sally Hayton-Keeva), to debuting at the New York International Fringe Festival in 2005, Joffrey has brought to life the often hidden and overlooked female experiences of war in the 20th century.
Staged in a black-box studio, this four hander followed the stories of thirteen women across a huge variety of conflicts. Individual focus is directed on each of the stories in turn, explored through monologues, occasionally run in parallel with each other, tying together their narratives to follow similar stories. Typed out narration on a small screen before each character begins places the stories in context and explains, in Hayton Keeva’s words, how she met the women and came to write their stories down. This can occasionally affect the energy of the performance and break the bond built up between the performers and the actors during the emotionally charged scenes, but certainly pays a strong homage to the source of the adaptation.
Running some of the stories of the women concurrently on the stage served to reinforce the universal features across these stories – watching husbands die, or fighting in guerrilla warfare were mirrored in a lot of the stories featured in the play. Through this technique, Joffrey creates a strong sense of an ageless community of women who have an immense shared experience of the horrors of war, and draws powerful bonds between different atrocities to produce a well structured and emotionally charged piece.
With Eimear O’Riordan, Catherine Rees and Diana Bermudez completing the quartet onstage, Valiant showcases an exceptional level of acting talent. Taking characters in turn, each of these women manage to negotiate and pinpoint a huge range of emotions across the course of the show, not to mention a dizzying array of accents that are absolutely faultless. Bringing a diverse background in spoken word, classical acting and stage writing to a powerful pinnacle in Valiant, Joffrey seems to live and breathe her work whilst on stage. Bermudez uses stillness to incredible effect, and connects well with the tragedy of her characters’ stories. Rees has one of the more diverse ranges of stories to express, and brings a sensitivity to each depiction, whilst O’Riordan really connects the audience with the narrative and has a particular talent for heightening the emotions of the audience.
Director Alexandra Renzetti has brilliantly staged this piece, with the space used thoughtfully, displaying a clear knowledge of how to direct attention in a non-physical, monologue driven production. Not only is this show exceptional in the moment, but the memory of the women’s stories will stay with you; Valiant is a powerful response to the male-dominated discussion of war, and knowing the experiences of these incredible women is a privilege.
12.30pm, C Nova Studio
5th-31st August 2015
Pricing: £8.50-£10.50 depending on the date (£6.50-£8.50 concession)
Cast: Eimear O’Riordan, Catherine Rees, Diana Bermudez, Lanna Joffrey
Producer: Hannah Johnson (Handan Production Ltd)
Director: Alexandra Renzetti
Assistant Producer: Kati Donlon
Writer: Lanna Joffrey
Author: Olivia Coxhead
Olivia has worked as a production manager in open air touring theatre, and currently loves being an audience member who doesn't have to bring an umbrella and a plastic poncho to every show
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January 25, 2016: 1:52 am: acedtectExarthy, writing
Exarthy: Morning
Bil left his house to head to the community center and find Erika. It was an unusually bright morning. In any other place on Earth it would have been described as sunny but in Barnitukku, the sun never appeared in the sky. An odd shelf of rock and trees prevented that. But plenty of sunlight made it through anyway and today more than usual.
Lots of people were outside enjoying the light. He knew them all. It was a small place and they all relied on each other. So he smiled genially and hid his worry. Erika had said she would be at he Vistatu, the community center in the middle of town until late but she had never come home.
In most areas on the planet that would have been cause to worry about some kind of accident or crime. Barnitukku was small enough that anything like that would have immediately spread through the town like wildfire. Crimes were not unheard of but they were rare and accidents while less rare were taken very seriously.
So Bil was curious to find out what had kept her. She must have just decided to sleep there rather than walk home. The Vistatu was meant for that. IN fact it had been its originalk and ancient purpose and it still offered beds and comfort to any Barnitukku who needed them.
The Vistatu was very small even by the town’s generally small building standards. It was made of mud bricks that had been replaced many times in its long centuries. In fact it had been patched and repaired so many times none of its walls were made of the original materials, meaning it really wasn’t as ancient as it was regarded. Except for one brick. Legend said it was the first brick put down, but Bil and many others doubted the original builders took the time to commemorate it. Rather it was likely a brick some ancient Barnitukku noticed was one of the few left from the original building and pointed that out. Since it happened to be on the ground the story grew that it could have been the first one, then that it must have been and then that it was.
Whatever the case, Bil gently opened the aluminium screen door attached in blasphemous contrast to its walls of varying antiquity, and entered.
The lights were off and he flicked the switch to turn them on. Some rather old bulbs flickered to life. Erika lay on a couch in the entrance room. That was very odd. The sleeping couches were off towards the back.
“Erika?” Bil asked.
“Vankam,” Erika said greeting him and rubbing the sleep from her eyes, then opening them wide. “Oh my it is morning isn’t it? I meant to just rest before I walked home. So sorry to worry you.”
“No worry,” Bil dismissed the concern. “I’m more curious what kept you,” he lied.
“We have a katarru man from the camanaba,” she said. Erika had a bad habit of speaking in patois. Barnitukku were supposed to speak in English whenever possible in vigilant preparation for any trips outside the country.
“A piece of scrap iron from the outside world?” Bil gently chided.
“Well if you want to be literal about it,” she grumbled. “He’s a systems analyst for one of their intelligence agencies. Was going to pull a Snowden before I found him and convinced him to come with me.”
Bil nodded.
“And he’s awake,” said a voice from behind them both.
Bil turned to see a tall blonde european in modern dress of a t-shirt and jeans.
“And he’s still not sure he’s convinced.”
Bil bowed then quickly realized that was the wrong greeting and stuck out his hand. The other man shook.
Erika had risen and stood between them. “Bil, this is Mattias from the country of Germany. Mattias this is Bil.”
“Nice to meet you Mattias. Welcoem to the hidden kingdom of Barnitukku.”
“So you all call it that. I thought Erika was just the dramatic one,” Mattias said.
“She is,” said Bil. “But not about that. Our Kingdom is hidden.”
“What about the part where she said it runs the world?”
Bil laughed. “A bit dramatic. We guide the Exarthy. But. Maybe it’s a distinction without a difference. Most would say we run the world.”
December 12, 2015: 7:19 pm: acedtectExarthy
Exarthy: Introduction
I write here what no one should write. I affix what is forbidden to set down. I am Exempt. It is my burden, it is my blessing, it is my destiny and it is my choice. It is the only way one becomes Exempt.
With these words I seal the telling so that it shall not be read or if read not believed or if believed not credited beyond the believer.
For here I tell of the hidden kingdom and it’s relations with the Exarthy. You have been warned.
For more than 15,000 years, the exact number is known but not relevant, the Hidden Kingdom has existed as a haven for the Exarthan Governors. They in stealth persist in their Exarthan Courses and retreat here when necessary to rest and recover and sometimes to die.
The Electarch nourishes them, advises them, and appoints them when that time comes.
It is the way that balance and dynamism is maintained in the wider worlds. For the Hidden Kingdom is stagnant. It is safe. It is the heat sink of conflict and the sponge of iniquity.
Only once in its history has an Exarthan breached its secrets and invaded its havens.
This is that story.
August 30, 2015: 11:41 am: acedtectGallian System, writing
Gallian: The Message
Mia gave up. She had reached the bottom of the thing without a trace of what it was. She sat down against a bulkhead to listen to Zay’s response and stare at a glare of light on the opposite wall above a ventilation shaft that sat on what to Mia was the floor.
“You have to keep investigating even if it means bringing in guest salvagers to help. The fact that you haven’t found anything is confirmation that this find is significant beyond its metal value. Who would go to such lengths to remove all identifying marks on a ship unless it was important. There has top be something there,” Zay kept talking.
Mia just kept staring at the glare. She had stopped listening. Then she stood.
“… you have to realize that in the salvager scheme of things, a find like that..” Zay’s message continued.
Why was there a light? It didn’t move when Mia’s light did. What was the source. She leaned over and peered into the end of the ventilation shaft opposite. Was it a ventilation shaft? The metal at it’s end wasn’t a grill but badly folded solid pieces. Through a gap she saw an LED. She pulled out some tools and pried it apart. Below was a control bank. It must be auxilliary control she thought!
“… so don’t give up. Keep moving. Keep pushing….”
Mia resisted the urge to message back right away interrupting Zay before she had finished. Most people might not notice the timing. Zay would.
“..let us know what else we can do. Zay out,” she finally finished.
Mia immediately messaged back. “I found an auxiliary control room. Dropping down to investigate. You were right Zay!” Why not let her feel like she’d had an effect.
The auxilliary control room was a a narrow chamber with a bank of screens and input devices running down the center. That was where the LED had come from. Whatever long-life batteries still existed on the ship still had enough charge to light them.
At one end of the chamber were three dessicated bodies. They were almost skeletons but bits of cloth and tissue clung to them and littered the floor around them. They were all three lying face first into the wall. If Mia had to guess, they must not have been strapped in when the collision happened, which implied an accident of some sort. Or all three bodies restraints had failed.
One screen was still active with a logging program active. She tried to call up previous logs but the screen could not access storage. Likely it was destroyed in the crash. She was about to give up when she noticed that one log entry showed as still in composition. She chose it ad the last log entry, still in the process of being written appeared, stored in the local systems memory for hundreds of years, waiting to be saved to oblivion.
“Gamelt and Stallion have joined me in auxilliary control. The bridge is destroyed in the impact but engines are still active. No idea what caused attitiude to go haywire like that. Suspect foul play. No other explanation. Hold— Stallion reports an incoming airwave. From where? No ship on what scopes we have left but could be missed. Why? Not much time. Trying to fortify shields but little hope. We won’t make it no matter what. This is the ship Gallian signing off. Gallium control—“ And it stopped.
“Leonard you were right,” Mia messaged, sending an image of the screen. “This is the original Gallian Colony Ship. It looks like they were trying to set it down here for some reason and lost attitude control. They suspected sabotage. Poor suckers They had no idea of the early corporate politics. Likely their executive sponsor was just on the wrong side of a dispute. But to wreck the original colony ship because of it. There’s a story there for sure. Mia out.”
August 20, 2015: 7:34 pm: acedtectGallian System
Gallian: The Hatch
Mya sent three survey drones flying on complex flight paths orthogonal to one another. Most salvagers used one drone at a time and just had it cover all the ground. They might have more than one drone in case of large areas or just to have backup in case of damage but they would only use one of them at a time but Mya had discovered over the years that different drones might often report different information about the same area. So she had developed a system— she called it her algorithm, though it was not technically mathematical. The ‘algorithm’ flew the drones in a way designed to bring out those kinds of discrepancies and resolve them. It led to a huge boost in accuracy for her.
The drones reported data back to her but she just let it carry on back to Zactus and SHOE House for Zay to look over. Zay’s report didn’t take long.
“You’ve got a huge amount of metal down there but it’s thinner in the place I marked. That looks very much like a door. Leonard thinks you should try sending a traditional unlock signal to it once you’ve uncovered it. Just in case it has some kind of passive reciever that still works.”
Mya acknowledged and got to work uncovering the metal. It was corroded and dirty but it definitely resembled a hatch of some kind. Faded black and white stripes vaguely suggested a typical hatch warning flag. Mya sent a traditional unlock signal. She cycled through all the major frequencies and then through the rare but known ones. She was about to take the time to have it cycle through all possible frequencies when a mesage from Leonard arrived.
“Try frequency 1120. That’s the one for the Gallian Colonial ship. It won’t prove anything but I have a gut feeling. Zay bet me a sandwich it doesn’t work.”
Mya tried the extremely unlikely frequency. The door made screeching sounds and tried valiantly to open itself. Mya heard gears whining and stripping themselves. She shoved a hand in a small gap that had opened and gave it a push. The hatch slid to the side quickly tearing quite a bit of skin off in the process. Mya knew better but a combination of excitement and impatient had made her risk it.
“The signal worked though the door was so corroded, that it didn’t open. I had to give it a nudge. Don’t know who wins the sandwich.”
Mya was still pulling out light exploratory gear and making the rest of her equipment safe when a message from Leonard came in.
“I win the sandwich.”
It was followed quickly by Zay saying “Belay that sandwich. We need a third party ruling.”
Mya laughed and sighed and sent back, “I vote Leonard. Heading into the structure to explore. May lose messaging.”
Then she walked through the hatch.
July 28, 2015: 11:46 pm: acedtectGallian System
Gallian: The Find
This was when she loved working for SHOE. Away from the drama of headquarters on Zactus but still working remotely with her team there.
Zay was a crack data cruncher. Nobody could match her ability to analyze the stream of information Mya collected for insights and directions nobody else would have thought to even look for.
And Leonard was the hunch master. He took the findings of Zay’s data and pointed Mya in the right direction. Mya’s role was to use their support to dig and make the find. To make the calls that could only be made on the grand when you were looking right at a potential salvage site.
They had done this in the North moons with Zay and Leonard in the ship with Mya. But doing it long distance still felt the same. There was lag to be sure. But the latest reflector technology really helped with that and they had learned to deal.
Mya had been cruising low over an empty plane on the far side of Malaikat. Really just staying close to home because she wanted to knock off early. She was exhausted. The plains had been surveyed a million times but something told her to get a closer look at a set of pipes sticking up out of the ground.
They were noticed on the salvager’s collective maps and unusable, undiggable low value abandoned metal. But Mya decided to see for herself.
The metal was indeed not worth the effort to pull out of the ground. It looked a bit like the remains of some kind of plumbing but there was no record of whatever structure had made use of them.
Mya had made a scan and shot it back to Zactus for Zay’s take.
“I’m seeing slight indications of subsurface metal. Maybe more pipe but it would have to be a lot more to account for this number. Scan more detail about 40 degrees south.”
Mya thought it was awfully close to rescan ut she had learned not to doubt Zay. As she was rescanning she got Leonard’s take.
Pipes don’t come out of nowhere and Zay’s data doesn’t jive well with an abandoned structure. There’s definitely something under there. My guess is a ship. I’m looking for matches. So is Zay.”
A ship? She shot back a message telling them they were crazy along with the rescan. She went back to tlook at the pipes while she waited. It was longer than just the lag time before she got a response. This time from Leonard.
“UH. Zya. That’s a ship. At least that’s what I think. Zay found a match to the pipe configuration. He has his own thoughts though.”
Zay’s message came right after. “The chance of it being a ship are low but it’s still higher than the chances of it being anything else we suppose including wall pipes. Those pipes don’t match any known building code. They’r pretty damn ancient but not older than the common piping codes which haven’t changed in centuries. It matches 14% of ancient long-term voyages.”
A follow up from Leonard came right on its heels. “What she’s too coy to tell you is it matches a colony ship. Specifically the generation ships that settled systems in the era Gallium was founded. Those pipes are ventral exhaust and effluent. They kicked out what little unwanted fumes and liquids the colony ships expelled. Which wasn’t much hence how thin they are. I’m not going to SAY it’s one of the Gallian Arks but only because Zay will punch me if I make such an unfounded assertion. So I Say dig.”
Mya doug.
May 23, 2015: 6:42 pm: acedtectGallian System, writing
Gallian: The Call
The mood in south salvage was different. She knew tat for sure. Put she couldn’t quite put her finger on why. North salvage ops were small but they were identified with the planetary system. They were one of its unexpected success stories, growing out of the older and more respectable resource management companies.
In South system salvagers were less numerous and somewhat ignored but at the same time they weren’t controversial. They weren’t seen as upstarts trying to steal away the culture of the system. In fact, they were cautiously embraced by the resource management firms and existence and the much larger and only tangentially related Energey Harvesting companies that operated acrossSouth’s various satellites.
That’s what she didn’t understand about her boss’s attitude. This was a fertile field in which to operate. her boss should have been overjoyed that she was here. Instead her boss just seemed jealous and looking for excuses for her to fail.
But she wasn’t failing. She knew that. Her salvage was as strong as ever and buyers were snapping it up. She panicked when she thought about the need to maintain the consistency of her discoveries. She was deathly afraid her luck would run out as would her stream of good salvage. But so far it didn’t seem that way.
She hoped that after a long enough track record, she could be established in south and allowed to solidify her contributions. Granted, she did not want to become tied only to her boss. She loved the ability to do side enterprises. It’s why she had left RCON and signed on with such a small operation like SHOE. But she didn’t want it to end. She dreaded the idea that she might be cut free.
That’s when her comm flashed. It was Brittany from the planet Delvalli.
“Hey Brit, what’s up?”
“Are you sitting down?” Brittany said. “I debated with my husband whether I should tell you this, but in the end it would be unfair not to.”
“I just got a call from SHOE.”
Brittany did some freelance work from time to time so that wasn’t that surprising.
“It was from Connor. He offered me your job. They said they weren’t going to keep you on after the next quarter was over.”
“I said I’d think about it. But unless you want me to say yes— I mean— I’m not a salvager really. I just thought you should know.”
She sat down. Now what?
March 21, 2015: 2:06 pm: acedtectGallian System
Gallian: A Guide to the Gallian System
Gallian System
Brief: Settled by Seed ships and pioneers as multi-use system. Early industry primarily mining. Origin system for Gallium Corporation. Site of historical headquarters for Gallium though no longer occupied by the corporation itself. Current primary industries are energy harvesting, resource maximization and salvage.
Inner Planets and moons
Gurun (uninhabited)
Temperatures on the most inner planet make it impractical for habitation though it was extensively mined. It is occasionally used for research or training but no permanent bases exist and all earlier habitation remnants have been salvaged.
Delvalli – Lari
The second planet settled was used as worker habitation and has a strong independent working class tradition. Solar energy harvesting is the main industry.
Gallium – Bask and Provi
The first planet settled and the oldest continuously occupied. The historical headquarters of the Gallium corporation is maintained here by a staff of 6 but is the only presence of the corporation left in its founding system. The planet is the most comfortable for habitation ann the most populous. Salvage operations are protected under local laws but do exist.
Gran Ban asteroids
Settled by pioneers and still occupied mostly by independent resource maximizers raising foodstuffs in hydroponic bays and harvesting energy. However some small-scale salvage operations exist.
Outer Planets
North – Herb, Elektra, Zactus, Verd, Sedang, Friend
The oldest of the outer planet settlements with the first Gallium outpost on Herb, now preserved but not owned by the Gallium corporation. While the Moons and gas giant are mined out, resource maximizers dominate the economy in multiple verticals. Salvage operations thrive here.
South – Malaikat, Naran, Doug, Winter
The more financially successful although younger of the two habitable gas giant systems. Also the cultural center of the system. Energy harvesting and resource maximization dominate the conomy though some salvage operations have taken hold in recent decades.
East – Numerical (uninhabited)
Mined out and all mining operations reclaimed.
West – Numerical (uninhabited)
Gallium Name
The first settled planet was named for its prodiguous amounts of bauxite and zinc which yielded a relatively enormous amount of gallium(III).
Gallium Corporation
Early seed ships brought the founders of mining operations that formalized as the Gallium corporation, named after its home planet and the first principle export. Expansionist in nature, the corporation expanded to a nearby system in the days before generation ships and eventually took to acquiring other struggling mining systems. When the Gallian System was mined out the corporation moved its headquarters to the Allium system, reducing staff to public relations and historical preservation.
Principle Salvage Operations
RCON – Engaging in resource maximization and salvage in the North gas giant region, based in Herb and Gallium
Montrose – Respurce maximization company based in Gallium but with significant slavage operations out of Herb.
SHOE – (Salvage Headquarters Open Everywhere) a small but successful salvage operation that showed salvage-only companies could survive. Based off Zactus.
Menemui – Resource maximization company based on Provi. Got into salvage by acquiring Herb-based salvage company Tiga.
XFCon – Spinoff from Gallium mining ops that baceme an independent resource maximization company out of Bask and Herb and operates some salvage ops.
Suara – Gallium based salvage operation with significant operations in the North gas giant system.
Titor – Founded in Elektra engaging in Resource maximization then expanding to salvage and Energy harvesting now predominantly operating out of Malaikat. One of the largest operations in the Galian system.
December 18, 2014: 1:26 pm: acedtecthumour, internet, Technology
A Generic Internet Argument
A: 132 divided by 26 is about 5.
B: How do you know.
A: Because that’s how division works.
B: Doesn’t make sense that you can just say that. I mean I think we should investigate all sides of the issue. Who benefits from 132 being divided into 26 parts? Why does it have to be 5?
A: But when you divide 132 by 26 that’s the answer you get.
B: OK OK. Explain to me like I’m 5.
A: We don’t teach division to 5-year-olds.
B: So you can’t explain it. :)
A: Fine. So in this case let’s say you want to separate 132 things into 26 groups.
B: What things?
A: Doesn’t matter.
B: I think it could but let’s see where you go with this.
A: The idea is to find out how many things would be in each group.
B: So gather 26 twist ties say. And I spread them out until I have 26 groups. But not every group will have the same number. That doesn’t give you one answer.
A: Well you can keep shifting the groups around until they all have the same amount but there’s an easier way if you know how to multiply. Which as a five year old you would’t.
B: So this is all sounding like a runaround. The simple truth is you don’t know what 132 divided by 26 really is. You can’t prove it to an average person.
A: Multiply 26 times 5. You can teach a five year old to use a calculator.
B: If you trust calculators. But OK, for the sake of argument. Hold on. 26 times 5 is 130 according to my caluclator NOT 132.
A: Right there’s a remainder.
B: WAIT. So you’re trying to convince me that 132 divided by 26 is 5 but when I use MY OWN CALCULATOR It shows that is demonstrabvly NOT the case.
A: I was rounding. It’s actually 5.08
B: (PAUSES) NO! 132.08
A: Well yeah there’s a decimal but we usually round that off.
B: So your “SCIENCE” isn’t so precise after all. If you can just round things off why can’t I round things off. Why can’t I say 132 divided by 26 os 6. I’m just rounding off!
A: You do that.
B: See? You can’t win a fair logical argument can you? WHY CAN”T YOU HANDLE THE SIMPLE TRUTH? Stop trying to ruin this country!
November 19, 2014: 2:38 pm: acedtectTechnology
Apple Watchkit press release rewritten
I re-wrote the Apple WatchKit press release to take out unnecessary adjectives and anything not simply describing the functions and facts. I did this because the number of ‘incredibly easy’ and “most personal device ever” phrases was actually making it hard to read. So I wanted to see what would happen if I took out the puffery.
The original is here.
Apple® today announced the availability of WatchKit, software that gives developers a set of tools for Apple Watch™. Developers can begin developing WatchKit apps before Apple Watch becomes available. Developers can create WatchKit apps, actionable notifications and Glances.
Philip Schiller, Apple’s senior vice president of Worldwide Marketing noted developers can, “work with new technologies such as Force Touch, Digital Crown and Taptic Engine.”
Notifications allow users to take action from their wrist such as turning the lights off after they’ve left the house, accessing flight details at the airport, and rerouting their transit when a train or bus is late. Glances show users information such as the latest news and sports scores, alarm system status or the next step of a favorite recipe.
App features are subject to change and may not be available in all regions or all languages. Apple Watch requires iPhone 5 or later.
The iOS 8.2 SDK beta including WatchKit is available now for iOS Developer Program members at developer.apple.com/watchkit. The WatchKit site includes programming guides, human interface guidelines, templates and more. Starting later next year, developers will be able to create fully native apps for Apple Watch.
“The ESPN app for Apple Watch gives us the ability to deliver live scores and information for their favorite teams,” said John Kosner, executive vice president of Digital and Print Media, ESPN. “Glances provide fans with a snapshot of live games, and if there is no game taking place, they’ll get valuable game-time information or the final box score. With actionable notifications… fans receive alerts on score changes, news and more.”
Kevin Systrom, co-founder and CEO of Instagram said, “With actionable notifications you can see and instantly like a photo or react with an emoji. The Instagram news and watch list allows you to see your friends’ latest photos, follow new accounts and get a real-time view of your likes and comments.”
“The American Airlines app on Apple Watch reminds you when it’s time to head to the airport via pre-trip notifications, and provides updates for gate changes, connecting gate info upon arrival, and will notify you when boarding begins if you’re not at the gate yet,” said John Gustafson, American Airlines vice president of Digital. “Travelers can also ask ‘Where am I?’ in-flight and get real-time location information at 30,000 ft.”
September 20, 2014: 10:53 am: acedtectPilot X
PilotX: Responsibility
The blazing sky burned with millions of lights, all representing attempts at destruction. Pilot X thought about the destroyed children’s home he’d seen on Mersenne. He thought back on his conversation with Captain Alphaea there. How the career yeoman had been thrust into running a planet that could no longer be run due to the destruction raining down.
Mersenne wasn’t even a target. Just collateral damage in this three-way war. He thought about how he’d been tricked into helping cover the war’s existence.
He looked at the three-part device constructed in front of him. “The Instant.” It was ready. The Verity was plugged in providing coordinates. The Progon transmitter was humming. The Sensaurian material presumably awaiting his command.
He made himself think of the people who would never be if he activated The Instant. Of the lives irrevocably changed. They wouldn’t realize it of course. The Instant cut time at the base, causing the timeline to repair itself like a wound. Its inhabitants would assume as they did now that things had always been the way they were. Pilot X wondered how many times this had happened. A useless question “times” given the nature of this.
Only he would remember. He and The Verity sheltered within the bubble of the Instant’s operating field. He alone would carry the memories of a broken universe. He alone would carry the responsibility of wiping out everyone and replacing them. This did not make him a god, he though. It did not make him a devil either. It only made him responsible.
And he feared that. He shied from it. He desperately thought of a way around it. A way to bring the three parties to peace. But he had seen all of this war now. He knew how it ended. With nobody. No system left unscathed. No one left to carry the lesson. That was the biggest crime. The Allendans knew this would not end with a better universe and yet they persisted. His people were the most guilty.
He thought about the destruction of countless systems he had repaired. He thought about the Allendan Council’s arrogance and laughter at how they had manipulated him. He thought about the dead. HE realized the Allendans didn’t care.
He flipped the switch.
The lights disappeared in an instant. Like turning off a lightswitch. For a moment he thought he might have destroyed everything in the universe but himself. But the dim glow from The Verity showed he still had rocks beneath his feet. As his eyes adjusted e could make out stars and even the faint glow Mersenne in the distance.
It had happened so instantaneously. He felt as if he could flick the switch the other way and it would all come back. But of course it wouldn’t. That’s not how it worked. He flicked the switch anyway and nothing happened.
He had done it. He had irrevocably destroyed his own timeline. What had replaced it? Was it something better?
That was his purpose now. To explore this new timeline. To see what had changed. To do his best to make those changes positive.
He would start with Mersenne.
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By Jim Cotton,
WRS Finisher since 1970
WELCOME! A Living History
WAIKIKI ROUGH WATER SWIM HISTORY
WAIKIKI ROUGH WATER
SWIM HISTORY
This history intends to keep growing, just as the Swim is.
e welcome all additions and corrections. Don't hesitate to call/email the editor!
..Click HERE for contact data!
The World-Famous, Iconic, Open-Water Swim!
The quality of this swim is attested to by the number of swimmers of all levels, including world class, that travel from near and far, at no small expense, to swim this
"Swim of All Swims".
This history will attempt to recount how it got that way.
Then, Just How Did It Get This Way?
The Beginning: By The Great Kahuna
He created Waikiki Bay, a swim venue made in his Heaven.
Perfect water, perfect sandy beaches and bottom, perfect waves, perfect winds. He led the Hawaiian people to a perfect homeland for these noble and courageous, long-haul Seafarers.
More Recently: By The Succession of Directors & Helpers
Each year standing on the shoulders of their predecessors
Read On !!
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Early Waikiki and Early Water Sports Pioneers
Not the hotel, but the whole long beach...is reputed to have been reserved for the Alii, the royal nobility of the Hawaiian chiefs and their families. Modern research has the Hawaiians arriving from Tahiti some 1500 years ago.
Capt Cook
Capt Cook, in the late 1700's, and other early explorers left accounts of the Hawaiians "sporting in the surf with boards".
More recent history relates that the coming of the missionaries put a damper on these and other frolicsome activities. By 1890 or so, at the end of the Victorian period, these water sports were no longer a way of life in these then British Sandwich Islands as they had been in previous times. Probably not "nearing extinction" as some have reported, but rare.
1900 Renaissance
Then in the period around 1900, the "Birth of Modern Ocean Water Sports" happened (an expression found in the literature). Among the several major figures whose name and good works have survived into our modern times and who are direct ancestors of and connected spiritually with the Waikiki Roughwater Swim are our three "Patron Saints":
Alexander Hume Ford - Mrs. E. Fullard-Leo - Duke Kahanamoku
Alexander Hume Ford
Alexander Ford - Mrs. Fullard-Leo - Duke Kahanamoku
Founder and First President Outrigger
New York Playwright & Publicist
This man, so fondly remembered by Mrs E. Fullard-Leo, came to Honolulu early in the new 20th century. He was born in South Carolina from a prominent family dating back to the signers of the US Constitution. His parents died at an early age and he was raised by a maiden aunt. Due to the Civil War, his family and its prosperity were declining and there remained not much to keep to keep him in the South. Upon migrating to New York, he took up a career in writing for leading magazines of the day such as Harpers, Engineering and Century which led to playwriting several stage plays.
His writing and personality led him to make various globe-circling trips. On one he crossed the Middle East, Russia, Siberia and ultimately Hawaii which became a life changing event. "Surfboard Riding" was already gaining popularity, as was Waikiki with all of which he fell in love.
Pioneering Promoter with Beach Leaders
By 1907 we find him settling down in his new love, Waikiki, making friends with historic surfers, best-selling authors and leading citizens alike. Noteworthy of the many were George Freeth the very early Austrailian surfer and Jack London the author then world famous for 1903 Call of the Wild etc selling in the millions, in 40 languages all over the world. Freeth taught Ford and London to surf. Both Jack London and Hume Ford then spread the word, world wide about Waikiki. At this time a delegation of 28 US congressmen decended on Hawaii. Ford lobbied them which may have hastened recognition at the Federal level of the Territory of Hawaii.
Ford, writing The first Outrigger Canoe Club
So this mix of writers, politicians and surfers met, talked, swam and surfed, got sun burned and started writing aricles and legislation. First and foremost were Ford's promotional writing of Waikiki and its watersports in the top magazines of the day, Woman's Home Companion, Colliers and the British Pall Mall. London's world fame and Hawaiian publicity added fuel to the fire.
Jack London George Freeth
On to Hawaii Leaders
Ford Finds Formidable Friends
In addition to writing and surfing, Ford was organizing support for a number of worthy causes. Newspapers of the time humorized that "he is forming a club a month". His most famous and successful club was, of course, The Outrigger Canoe and Surfboard Club as it was originally named.
Ford consulted with Burton Holmes, noted film maker and travel writer of the day, explored the beachfront for property, drew up artistic renderings and met with Honolulu "movers" of the day. He finally settled on a piece of property near the 6-year old Moana Hotel owned by the Queen Emma estate. Part of the lease agreement was that the land must always be used for watersports.
A key speech was made to the Commercial Club on March 18, 1908. The Outrigger Canoe Club was then formally organized on May 1st 1908 with 86 adults and 15 junior members. Charter members included of leaders of families still prominent: Lorrin Thurston and Ella Wilcox.
Lorrin Thurston Ella Wilcox
Ford's Outrigger Lives On
The Outrigger was an instant success. By 1915 the Club had 1200 members and 200 on the waiting list. Duke Kahanamoku, joined the Outrigger in 1918. Other watersports clubs in those early days were the Hui Nalu and the Waikiki Swimming Club of which Duke was Captain.
Middle Area Outrigger Canoe Club
Waikiki Roughwater & Club Tie In's:
In 1971 Ford's, by now world famous and even more prestegious Outrigger Canoe Club, anonymously contributed substantial start-up funds to the Waikiki Roughwater Swim for the trophys which were silver in the early days. In addtion, OCC manned a fleet of canoes for life saving and race control, thus keeping true to its pledge to be perpetually dedicated to Waikiki watersports.
Enter, The Duke
Our ultimate patron saint, Duke Kahanamoku, joins the OCC in 1918 while continuing as Captain in his other clubs...Hui Nalu and Waikiki Swimming Club. This later club morphed into the Waikiki Surf Club and finally disappeared in the 1980's.
The Waikiki Swimming Club
The Waikiki Swim Club founder, who on his boat was a neighbor of Duke's boat "Nadu" in the Ala Wai, enjoyed talking to Hawaii's Greatest Swimmer. This led to founding a club to promote ocean swimming and supporting the annual Roughwater. The club was christened the Waikiki Swim Club making a slim link with Duke's historic first Waikiki Swimming Club.
Mrs. E. Fullard-Leo
International Swimming Hall of Fame
Charter Inductee
Hawaii's Swim Matriarch for 60 years
This woman, now barely remembered, but none the less, fully deserving of the great honor of being a charter inductee of the ultimate swimming hall of fame. How short our memory.
Three Generations of Swimmers
Since she did so much for three generations of Hawaiian swimmers and so much for the nacent Waikiki Roughwater Swim, this history will try to perpetuate her memory in gratitude for her many contributions.
Born in South Africa
"Ma Leo" as she was affectionaltely known, organized the first women's swim club in Cape Town, South Africa and Victoria, British Columbia and finally Honolulu. She discovered Hawaii when traveling the Pacific with her husband, fell in love and settled here in the early days of the 20th century. Upon arrival, she began immediately to improve swimming in the Territory.
One of the Founders of US Olympic Committee
Members of the US Olympic Committee Lead the Parade
Leader and Founder of Many Major Swim Organizations
Highlights of Mrs Fullard-Leo's many contributions: first woman on the Executive Committee of the National AAU, Founder of the Royal Life Saving Course in Hawaii, helped launch the US Olympic Committee and the Pan American Games, was manager-chaperone for a multitude of trips to major US, Pan American and Olympic contests as well as 60 years of local Hawaiian swim meets and events.
Ma Leo's Family
With her husband, who was a strong athlete, they bought land from Prince Kuhio in Wakikiki which later became the International Market Place. She reminisced about the street cars that came out to Waikiki near her house and the beach. The Fullard-Leos bought Palmyra Island which was used by the US Government for the prosecution of WW II in the Pacific and later figured in a tragic yachting story.
Three Sons
The Fullard-Leo's raised three sons, one of whom became an actor with the stage name of Leslie Vincent, performing in over 100 movies.
Duke Kahanamoku
One of Ma Leo's major accomplishments was the managing and facilitating of Duke's swimming career...some clippings saying: "Started Duke on his way to world fame". Some of the swimming officials in the then faraway mainland questioned the times she reported with the caustic: "What are they timing with out there? Alarm Clocks? " ! Ma Leo plus Duke himself turned his skeptics to believers.
Alexander Hume Ford Trophy
Bobbie Jennings
Honolulu Publisist
Mrs. E. Fullard-Leo,
Donates Main Trophy
In 1971 Ma Leo contacted the founder of the Roughwater Swim and proposed to donate the main trophy of the Swim. This became the Perpetual Trophy for the First to Finish with each year's winner's name engraved in silver. Mrs Leo was very serious that the name of the trophy should be "Alexander Hume Ford" who was her lifelong serious friend and collaborator in Hawaii's climb to iconic status as a venue for watersports. This trophy on it Koa wood base is a 3-foot high, very photogenic sight when being held by some young champion swimmer with equally photogenic body. It played no small role in the early fast rise to fame of the Waikiki Roughwater Swim.
Director: Kaia 2012 Winner: Founder: Jim
Rhys Mainstone, AUS
Holding the Alexander Hume Ford Perpetual Trophy
For Example: 43rd Annual First-to-Finish Photo Op:
Thank you Mrs Fullard-Leo
For this monumental trophy and all you did for swimming around the world and especially here in Hawaii. The founder's melancholy memory is of her saying so humbly "All I did was a lot of paperwork" !
Duke Kahanamoku, 1890 - 1968
The Young Duke Duke Statue Central Waikiki
The Name "Duke"
Interestingly, even though this great waterman was certainly deserving of the title of duke, this was actually his given name. He was the eldest of six sons, his father also being Duke having been named that in connection with the visit of the Duke of Edinburgh in 1868 to the Sandwich Isles, then a protectorate of Great Britain. Our Duke is the ultimate Patron Saint of this Swim.
Duke's Lifetime Playground
Diamond Head Side of Duke Beach Street Name
EWA-Side of Duke Beach Street Name
Duke Lagoon
Born on "Our" Beach
Our Duke was born in Wakiki on the Paoa family propery next to Fort DeRussey where the Hilton Hawaiian Village now stands and where our Wakikiki Roughwater Swim has always finished. The City of Honolulu has recognized both him and his birthplace by naming the two surrounding streets, Paoa Lane and Duke Kahanamoku Lane and the beautiful newly redone beachfront lagoon, Duke Kahanamoku Lagoon.
Young Duke the Swimmer
Born on Wakiki Beach, young Duke was completely at home in the water. He exceled in swimming at an early age and by the time of his teens was a swim leader in the Islands. When Mrs Fullard-Leo sent his times in to the National AAU, the officials responded with "What are they timing with out there in that distant Pacific Territory, an alarm clock" ? !
Rare Historic Pictures of Duke's Early Record-setting Swim,
Honolulu Harbor, circa 1916
Enter Mrs Fullard-Leo and the King of Sweden
Duke dispelled these doubts thoroughly in person at the Stockhold Olympics in 1912 where he was honored with an Olympic Gold Medal presented by the King of Sweden. In his swimming exploits he was helped in no small way by the unseen efforts of the second of our patron saints, Mrs E. Fullard-Leo, who sponsored him in many ways in the world of sports officialdom. She and Duke are both honored in the Bishop Museum Hall of Fame.
The Hawaii Olympic Team
Sailing Off to the Olympics
King of Sweden awards Duke
Olympic gold medal, 1912
Olympic Stardom
It has been said that Duke revolutionized competitive swimming in the USA when he set three world records early on by large margins with his powerful stroke and his new flutter kick. Onward and upward by the age of 22 he is off to the Stockholm Olympics in 1912 followed by Antwerp in 1920, Paris in 1924 and Los Angeles in 1932 at age 42. In all he garnered three gold medals and two silver medals.
The World's Utmost Iconic Surfer
Over the years when not excelling in swimming, Duke had a separate "career" as a famous surfer. His fame in this area long ago reached iconic levels. His famous 2-mile surf board ride from outer "Castles" to the Natatorium has become a legendary historic feat passed on by generations of impressed Waikiki surfers.
This ride is memorialized in the Hawaii Hall of Fame of Bishop Museum. In addition to endless print acolades, the US Post Office struck a special postage stamp, Austrailia has a double life-size statue of him recognizing his bringing surfing Down Under in the early days and yet another statue of him resides in the dead center of Waikiki on the ocean side of Kalakaua Boulevard. Also, there is an excellent permanent biographical exhibit of Duke on the Ewa side of the Hilton Hotel, ground floor, just in from Kahanamoku Lane.
Sheriff Duke
For many years Duke was the "Sheriff" of Honolulu and the main chief of welcoming dignitaries to Hawaii. In 1940 Duke married Nadine Alexander.
Captain Duke
In the 1960's Duke had their sailboat, NaDu, moored in the Ala Wai Yacht Harbor next to Cotton's Torea, newly arrived from a circumnavigation, on T-Pier.
The founder of the WRS made connections with Duke who was always cordial and "talked story" about boating and his swimming days in the Waikiki Swimming Club before he joined the Outrigger Canoe Club. This contributed to the naming of our club, The Waikiki Swim Club.
Our Ultimate Patron Saint
In summary, an array of circumstances have allied the Waikiki Roughwater Swim to the memory of Duke Kahanamoku. The Swim's basic support organization being named "Wakikik Swim Club" after Duke's original Waikiki Swimming Club;
Duke being born on the WRS finishing line property; the founder's acquaintenceship; the founder's distant in-law relationship via the Cotton, Fletcher and Toberman families. This is why we proclaim Duke the ultimate patron saint of the Waikiki Roughwater Swim.
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MDCs’ Fights over Victims of Political Violence Tragic, Symptomatic of Insensitive Leadership.
by zimsentinel
in Analysis, Blogs, Opinion, Politics
I read with great sadness, a story that appeared in a local daily, The Newsday, about the two MDC factions having a public spat about victims of political violence. The Biti faction, through its spokesperson callously accused the Tsvangirai faction of having abandoned victims of political violence for ‘wives and houses’. In turn, the Tsvangirai faction also through its spokesperson, accused their newfound rivals of not only being elitist but also having abandoned victims of political violence.
While one understands that rivalry in opposition politics has been generally about petty grandstanding and name calling, this particular spat is not only tragic but callous. It points to a political leadership that appears to have no sensitivity to actual victims of political violence. Nor any sense of contrition for their shared failure to assist/rehabilitate the same.
In the process there is a sense of desperation on the part of the factions to want to claim those sizable number of supporters who have long been feeling abandoned after losing relatives, limbs or property through political violence. These supporters are however not naive or simply victims. Given the fact that a number of them are in positions of leadership in either factions, they do not have any intention of leaving their respective placements if their issues are not addressed. Instead, they intend to negotiate for a greater stake in the political processes of their camps. Especially by way of leadership positions based on the recognition of not only their suffering political violence but also their ‘staying the course’ with one faction or the other.
This is all understandable particularly for those members who are finding themselves in a position in which they are now important to their respective national leadership. They have probably found new leases of political relevance due to the infighting, but at least its a recognition that had been missing for some time in the then united MDC T.
The more serious reflections are however the evident intentions of the factional leaders to scramble for this one-time abandoned party constituency. The fact that they have now decided to publicly accuse each other of allegedly abandoning party victims of political violence in favour of opulent lifestyles is not only political opportunism of a dishonest nature. It is also a politics that sacrifices the seriousness of the issue of political violence and its victims at the altar of short term political expediency.
It is most unfortunate that both factions of the MDC-T have embarked on a public blame game on this issue. Thee end effect of such will be in two particular respects. Firstly that the entirety of the issue of victims of political violence will be weakened in national discourse due to its continued politicisation or its being viewed from the accusatory angel of one faction over another. This will undermine its being viewed as a holistic national issue that must transcend factional party politics in order for it to be legally and culturally impermissible in our body politic.
Secondly, the very fact that being close to or being a victim of political violence is now possibly being presented as a legitimating act in the pursuit of leadership, or at least viewed as a demonstration of authenticity, does not bode well for opposition politics in Zimbabwe. It is bad enough to be a victim of political violence, an occurrence that must be taken most seriously particularly in terms of the rule of law than expedient political grandstanding only for the purposes of garnering factional support.
Instead of name calling, it would be democratically preferable if either of the two factions placed generic proposals on transitional justice on the policy table for consideration by the Human Rights or the National Peace and Reconciliation Constitutional Commissions. Or any other legal body they find constitutionally fit to deal much more holistically with the challenge of seeking justice and compensation for victims of political violence.
Finally, one of the key debating points around issues of political violence has been its one-sided nature, particularly where it concerns the ruling party supporters and state structure victimisation of opposition party members. In this debate, it is emerging that a new trend of a shared political traits and characteristic of a culture of violence might be affecting all major political parties. Both internally and in part externally. Especially in cases where there are congresses or general elections to be held. The issue therefore becomes a problem that cuts across the political divide, though at varying scales.
It is therefore a problem that is no longer in need of opportunistic partisanship but a much more concerted and holistic approach. While its effects and structural occurrence will not be solved overnight, it would be a good start if the MDC factions demonstrated good and organised leadership in seeking to address it.*Takura Zhangazha writes here in his personal capacity (takura-zhangazha.blogspot.com)I read with great sadness, a story that appeared in a local daily, The Newsday, about the two MDC factions having a public spat about victims of political violence. The Biti faction, through its spokesperson callously accused the Tsvangirai faction of having abandoned victims of political violence for ‘wives and houses’. In turn, the Tsvangirai faction also through its spokesperson, accused their newfound rivals of not only being elitist but also having abandoned victims of political violence.
In the process there is a sense of desperation on the part of the factions to want to claim those sizable number of supporters who have long been feeling abandoned after losing relatives, limbs or property through political violence. These supporters are however not naive or simply victims. Given the fact that a number of them are in positions of leadership in either factions, they do not have any intention of leaving their respective placements if their issues are not addressed. Instead, they intend to negotiate for a greater stake in the political processes of their camps.
Especially by way of leadership positions based on the recognition of not only their suffering political violence but also their ‘staying the course’ with one faction or the other.
It is therefore a problem that is no longer in need of opportunistic partisanship but a much more concerted and holistic approach. While its effects and structural occurrence will not be solved overnight, it would be a good start if the MDC factions demonstrated good and organised leadership in seeking to address it.
*Takura Zhangazha writes here in his personal capacity (takura-zhangazha.blogspot.com)I read with great sadness, a story that appeared in a local daily, The Newsday, about the two MDC factions having a public spat about victims of political violence. The Biti faction, through its spokesperson callously accused the Tsvangirai faction of having abandoned victims of political violence for ‘wives and houses’. In turn, the Tsvangirai faction also through its spokesperson, accused their newfound rivals of not only being elitist but also having abandoned victims of political violence.
*Takura Zhangazha writes here in his personal capacity (takura-zhangazha.blogspot.com)
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Total Number of Award Nominations: 10
Nebula Awards — for SF/F works, voted by SF & Fantasy Writers of America professional membership
(1 nomination)
“In the Late December ” (Strange Horizons 22 Dec 2003) — short story — nomination
Andre Norton Award — for YA SF/F works, presented by SFWA in parallel with the Nebula Awards
(2 nominations)
Cog (Harper) — finalist
The Boy at the End of the World (Bloomsbury Children's Books) — finalist
— Locus Awards and Poll —
Locus Awards — for SF/F/H works, polled by readers of Locus Magazine
California Bones (Tor) — fantasy novel — 10th place
The Boy at the End of the World (Bloomsbury USA) — young adult book — 16th place
Kid vs. Squid (Bloomsbury USA) — young adult book — 12th place
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Review: Flotsam & Jetsam, "The Cold"
The last Flotsam & Jetsam record to make an impact on me was 1995’s Drift. While I know that some fans of the band will disagree, I consider that record one of their finest moments. I loved the more progressive slant, and as much as I like No Place for Disgrace and Cuatro, it remains my favorite record from the band. In all honesty, with the exception of High, which I found quite disappointing, I haven’t spent much time with the last few Flotsam & Jetsam records, but there was something about their latest effort, The Cold, that grabbed my attention quickly.
Musically, I’d say The Cold falls somewhere between Cuatro and Drift. The progressive leanings from the latter are there, but there’s more of a thrash feel to many of the songs. The dark mood of both albums remains on display in these songs. Though I’m a little reluctant to say a band that’s been around since the early 1980s sounds like a newer band, this record reminds me of Nevermore’s blend of thrash and progressive that kind of blurs the lines between the two, particularly on songs like “Falling Short,” which really wouldn’t be out of place on a recent Nevermore release.
There are a few songs here that will please fans of the band’s past output. “Take” is a fairly typical uptempo Flotsam & Jetsam track, as is “Always.” The latter has a nice groove on the bridge and a mocking chorus with a melody that puts me in mind of Alice Cooper.
Most of the tracks have that blend, though. Album opener “Hypocrite” starts with a brooding piano piece and an almost spoken vocal from Eric A.K. before blowing up into a Cuatro-style thrasher. “Blackened Eyes Staring” is one of my favorite tracks on the record, opening as a furious thrasher and moving into a progressive feel on the chorus reminiscent of Nevermore or Queensryche. The ripping “Falling Short” also draws a natural comparison to Nevermore. The wounded ballad “Better Off Dead” is another favorite. The song really reminds me of something off of Drift, and I love the line, “I can’t only not see light, I can’t find the tunnel,” despite its grammatical challenges.
The lyrics elsewhere bring some of the songs down, though. “Black Cloud” features some pretty bonehead lyrics, and the near-rapped verses may be a love it or hate it proposition, but the thrashing chorus more or less saves the song. “KYA” is a testosterone-loaded thrasher, but the juvenile macho bullshit lyrics ruin it. Eye-rolling turns of phrase like “I will kick your ass you crying pussy, I will kick your ass you silly girl” and “dress up like the girl you are and hide in the ladies stall” come off sounding more like the Internet tough guy on a message board that’s afraid of his own shadow in real life than a true badass. It’s a shame, too, because musically, the song is really solid.
Other tracks fall somewhere in between. The title track is one of the more interesting pieces, alternating between a soft spooky bit, a thumping hard rocker, a dark and moody progressive piece and a chorus that evokes the 1990s alternative hard rock scene. Album closer “Secret Life” I like, despite it being one of the lighter tracks on the record. There’s an interesting vocal melody going on in the song that sticks with me.
I’ve always enjoyed Eric A.K.’s vocals, and I think he’s one of the more underrated vocalists to come out of the 1980s scene, his attempts to sing country notwithstanding. His vocals are forceful and distinctive, and he doesn’t seem to have lost anything over the years. Guitarists Mark Simpson and Mike Gilbert provide some great riffage, and the rhythm section of drummer Craig Nielsen and Jason Ward are locked in tight. From a musical standpoint, it’s hard to find a weak point. It’s just a few of those lyrics that leave me scratching my head.
The Cold puts Flotsam & Jetsam back on my radar for the first time in years and makes me wonder if, perhaps, I might have shortchanged some of the band’s more recent efforts. It’s certainly their best work since Drift, and on par with anything in their catalog.
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Posted by Fred Phillips at 12:19 AM
Labels: Best of 2010 Candidates, Flotsam and Jetsam, Prog metal, Reviews, Thrash
k.eight.a October 29, 2010 at 11:16 AM
Drift is also my favourite. You should check-out at least "My God" I love this one almost as much as Cuatro and Drift. The new album is very solid effort, no doubt about it.
I am pleasently suprised, to read a review that I agree with.. My work has been reviewed many many times, and rarely do I agree with almost everything the reviewer said. With one exception, "Black Cloud", maybe you misunderstood the meaning of the song, but the way you've locked on to evrything else leads me to believe I had better listen to it for the 80,000,000th time again, and listen from that prospective. I love the music on "KYA", but the lyrics make me cringe. I must appoligise to the the flotsam fans for ruining an awesome song.... sorry shit happens.
Including most of the adjectives, your review are my thoaghts exactly on the new flotsam record. I will put this at no. 1 on my fav flots list,just barely in front of drift and quatro. thanx for the honest,inteligent, and very favorable review - Eric A.K. -Flotsam and Jetsam
Fred Phillips November 2, 2010 at 3:42 PM
Glad you enjoyed the review. The record has gotten me listening to some of the old stuff again, and I'd really forgotten how much I liked it. I'll give "Black Cloud" some more listens and see how it grows on me.
I've gotten some recommendations from other fans for both My God and Dreams of Death, so I'm planning to go back and check them both out.
delvalleschool February 11, 2011 at 3:57 PM
Nice review, I think its the best album since Drift, being my favorites:
1 - Dooms day
2 - Drift
3 - THE COLD
4 - No place
5 - Storm
"My God" and "Dreams of Death" did nothing for me... i was loosing hope in F&J. This is a great comeback!!!!
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#FIRSTLOOK: NEW TRAILER FOR ATOM EGOYAN’S “GUEST OF HONOUR”
Canadian cinema visionary Atom Egoyan is back with GUEST OF HONOUR. A new Trailer has surfaced.
JIM (David Thewlis) and his daughter VERONICA (Laysla De Oliveira), a young high-school music teacher, attempt to unravel their complicated histories and intertwined secrets in Guest of Honour, a film that weaves through time exploring perception and penance, memory and forgiveness.
David Thewlis, Laysla De Oliveira, Rossif Sutherland, Luke Wilson and Alexandre Bourgeois star.
See the Trailer:
Elevation Pictures release GUEST OF HONOUR, coming soon.
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#GIVEAWAY: ENTER TO WIN PASSES TO THE TORONTO PREMIERE OF “THE CAPTIVE” WITH ATOM EGOYAN
eOne Films and Mr. Will want to take Readers to the Red Carpet Premiere of THE CAPTIVEon Wednesday, August 27, 2014 at Scotiabank Theatre. Director Atom Egoyan will be in-attendance for a special Q&A!
Official Synopsis
Matthew (Ryan Reynolds) and Tina (Mireille Enos) live in Niagara Falls, Ontario with their nine-year-old daughter Cassandra. When Matthew goes to a store to pick up some food, he leaves Cassandra in the truck. She vanishes without a trace.
Some years later, police officers Nicole (Rosario Dawson) and Jeffrey (Scott Speedman) uncover a lead in the case. After hours spent scanning the internet for photos and video circulated by pedophiles, they come across images of Cassandra, alive in captivity.
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#TIFF13: MAISON BIRKS & TELEFILM CANADA’S DIAMOND TRIBUTE TO THE YEAR’S WOMEN IN FILM
Honouring some of the most significant Females in Canadian Film, Telefilm Canada and Maison Birks honoured ten Women Actors and Directors at their Flagship Toronto Store today at the first ever Diamond Tribute to the Year’s Women in Film. The Event was timed while all eyes are on Toronto during the Toronto International Film Festival.
Selected by a Panel of Journalists who cover the Arts, Cultural and Entertainment fields, an immensely-talented group of Canadian Women were awarded for their achievement and talent, recognition from peers and visibility they have brought Canada. Drawing a huge crowd to Bay x Bloor despite the threat of rain, Fans were ready in a designated FanZone allowing them an opportunity to connect with the Who’s Who of Film and Television in Canada.
This year’s Honourees include:
Directors: Louise Archambault, Deepa Mehta, Alanis Obomsawin, Sarah Polley and Chloé Robichaud
Actresses: Évelyne Brochu, Geneviève Bujold, Sarah Gadon, Jessica Paré and Alison Pill
The Event being fully at capacity, Archambault, Mehta, Obomsawin, Robinchaud and Brochu were all in attendance today. Gadon‘s Mother accepted her Award in her absence.
Among those in attendance this year were several familiar Canadian faces including the likes of Kelly Rowan, Anthony Lemke, Katie Boland, Aaron Abrams, Kristin Booth, Rob Stewart, Cynthia Preston, Atom Egoyan, Paul Haggis, Liane Balaban, Michael Seater and several more. TIFF Rising Stars, Cara Gee and Johnathan Sousa also came out to celebrate.
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#FILMING: RYAN REYNOLDS TORONTO-BOUND FOR ATOM EGOYAN’S “QUEEN OF THE NIGHT”
Although there’s been much talk about it, finally we got a confirmation of filming dates. Chloe Director Atom Egoyan will be filming his new Thriller Queen of the Night – not to be confused as a Whitney Houston Biopic (I wish!!) – here in Toronto. Filming dates have been scheduled and the month-plus-long shoot will take place throughout the City between February 4 through March 18, 2013.
The Film centers around a Man in pursuit of his kidnapped Daughter. Starring a Canadian Duo of Ryan Reynolds and Scott Speedman, Toronto’s Egoyan truly is a Man of his word, talking the talk in keeping it Canadian. Does this perhaps mean we’ll be seeing Blake Lively spend Valentine’s Day here in Toronto next year? We’ll soon see won’t we?…
eOne Films will be distributing Queen of the Night in Canada.
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Paul Douglas Scoopology: CJ vs Paul Schmelzer vs Timestamps
The Paul Douglas fall-out continues. But now it has nothing to do with Douglas and has degraded to public jabbing between local columnists.
Apparently, Paul Schmelzer of the Minnesota Monitor thought it was odd that CJ claimed to have the scoop on the Douglas departure, so he thought he may have been the first to break the news on Douglas’ departure from WCCO, but he thought CJ may have scooped him and sent her an email to confirm:
It turns out that CJ was pretty darn confident that she scooped Schmelzer and took offense at Schmelzer’s email. You can read how that turned out at MinnMonn.
Schmelzer mentions in his email to CJ that he went live with his article at 2:45pm. He thought that was pretty good, but I have news for Paul: I had already edited Douglas’ Wikipedia page by then:
18:55 GMT is 1:55pm, so 50 minutes before Schmelzer’s story was published.
And I Twittered a minute before that:
Sorry, Schmelzer, but you weren’t even close. UPDATE: (But it also doesn’t seem like you particularly care, unlike CJ.)
But while Schmelzer wasn’t sure if he may have been first, CJ seems confident that she was. Unfortunately for her, the facts don’t seem to support her claims.
Below is a screenshot of the edit I made to Wikipedia that went live at 1:50pm:
See the URL in there? That’s a link to Bob Collins’ Newscuts blog on MPR where he went live with the news at 1:12pm.
Sounds like CJ was 18 minutes behind Bob Collins since CJ’s email to Paul Schmelzer says she, “Broke it around 1:30.”
And how did I find out? From Aaron Landry via IM.
Author Ed KohlerPosted on April 10, 2008 September 4, 2018 Categories Media
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Your Twitter finishing move would make Sub-Zero jelous.
…and I heard from Bob Collins’ blog. The post he made was changed though and he didn’t indicate that it was changed (someone should tell him about the strikeout tag). The original post was:
The round of layoffs that struck CBS television stations around the country hit the Twin Cities today. Details are few and so are names. But Paul Douglas’ name no longer appears on the station’s Web site. More to come. Earlier this week, stations in New York, Chicago, Boston and San Francisco announced layoffs, including local big names. In Boston, for example, long-time sports personality Bob Lobel was let go. In analyzing the situation, the Boston Globe said the layoffs mark the “end of the celebrity broadcaster in local television.”
Bob Collins says:
I know you won’t believe this — me being a stupid mainstream guy, dumb as a box of rocks, who doesn’t even Twitter. (g) — but I do know about the “strike” tag. But to be honest with you, I only care about what information is available now and what’s being presented now, not that which is no longer valid. The only purpose the strike tag really serves is — in my opinion, and I realize that gets me tossed out of the “you don’t blog right” club — to acknowledge a change in the facts (i.e. admitting a mistake) or to make a funny joke (i.e. Lileks) or if you’re the Revisor of Statutes for the state of Minnesota.
The rest just fuels debates about who had what first, and really in the big scheme of things, how important is that?
Actually, by the way, the original post ended at “More to come).”
And don’t forget as the world powers come together to discuss this very important issue, that time stamps can be changed. It’s unbelievable that some stupid blogging rube like me would know that, ain’t it?
Ed is scooptastic!!!
kohler says:
Bob, that’s the stupidest thing I’ve ever heard thanks for sharing that’s brilliant.
Shoot. I take from that you’re not going to teach me the bloggers’ handshake.
Aw man, if I had this scoop, I’d put it on my mantle… Yeah, I was way behind the curve on this one, as I too heard about it from Aaron’s tweet. Of course, my intention with the email was to go through non-techy and presumably private channels to figure it out. I figured I didn’t break anything, but didn’t count on CJ’s call announcing she’d out me in her next column. (There was no mention in today’s piece; maybe my preemptive move worked… or maybe she’s saving it for Sunday’s big-circulation day.)
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BACK IN PRINT!!!
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Runner Runner
Director Brad Furman
Starring Justin Timberlake, Ben Affleck, Gemma Arterton, Anthony Mackie, Jean-Ralphio From Parks And Recreation
Release 4 OCT (US) 27 SEP (UK) Certificate 15
I was all ready to kick off my Runner Runner review with some killer gambling analogies: how it had an ace up its sleeve, or how the action left you flushed, or even that it was just a flop. However, to my consternation, I quickly realised there was no gambling analogy than could adequately describe something so utterly ordinary and unremarkable. In poker terms, Runner Runner is the player who wins an average stack of chips, bets moderately, cashes out even and leaves before the game gets interesting. If it were a poker hand, it would be a pair of sixes. Good luck getting excited over a pair of sixes.
Justin Timberlake plays a smug computer genius called Richie who's far too old to be at the college he attends, but nonetheless struggles to pay for his tuition, gainfully pissing away all of his funds via online poker. When he finds an IMPORTANT PLOT POINT that is HIDDEN IN THE CODE of the gambling website, Richie hightails it to Costa Rica to confront filthy rich poker magnate Ivan Block (Ben Affleck), a man even smugger than he. The two hit it off and soon Richie winds up making millions doing Block's dirty laundry (not literally) and burying his bodies (literally literally).
"Why... are we... standing... so close to each other?"
Runner Runner is a movie that looks quite nice, hums along at a fair old clip and doesn't stumble over any idiotic plot points or feature any particularly bad performances. It is also one of the most forgettable movies I have ever seen. I've seen two separate people say that they look forward to watching Runner Runner on a long-haul flight, and they're exactly right. It's not a film I could ever recommend anyone watch unless they were trapped in a highly pressurised metal tube in the sky. Perhaps it's no coincidence the screening I attended had complimentary bags of peanuts.
Aside from the movie's exotic aesthetic - it's shot like a rum advert, or a music video that a certain bringer-back of sexy might star in - everything else about Runner Runner is bland. Timberlake is the straightest of straight guys, eliciting zero sympathy as he charmlessly paws at Gemma Arterton's staggeringly useless love interest. 'I've not known love like this...' swoons Arterton, unaware the only insight we've had their relationship is five lines of dialogue and a bunk-up in a cabana.
Something mildly interesting happens (off screen).
Runner Runner never quite convinces because it doesn't feel finished. "Ivan finds exactly what you want," seethes a vengeful Timberlake, "and gives it to you." That sounds... nice? That's a sentence in desperate need of an extra clause. All of the characters feel like they were written against the clock. Timberlake's moral barometer goes loopy; one minute he's blackmailing a poker affiliate with a sex tape, the next he's throwing in the towel. Anthony Mackie's FBI agent is a bizarre creation who kidnaps Timberlake in an attempt to turn him but ends up yelling at him and threatening him because his character apparently has to be a badass; hardly the best technique to get a guy on side.
Affleck at least looks like he's having fun, finally at a point in his career where little inoffensive movies like this don't matter. I'm not convinced he makes for a particularly scary tough guy (although obviously he makes for a great smarmy douche) but he adds more to Ivan Block than you know was on the page, with plenty of little improvised touches.
Sadly the character is never called on to be anything more than a bit shady and immoral; a proper villain could have been the aforementioned ace up Runner Runner's sleeve. Instead, Affleck is the... I don't know, he's just... like, the... ten of spades. That's it, I'm out, I fold.
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The chance of earthquake damage in Pine Grove is about the same as Louisiana average and is much lower than the national average. The risk of tornado damage in Pine Grove is lower than Louisiana average and is much higher than the national average.
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The earthquake index value is calculated based on historical earthquake events data using USA.com algorithms. It is an indicator of the earthquake level in a region. A higher earthquake index value means a higher chance of an earthquake.
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Other Weather Extremes Events
A total of 1,905 other weather extremes events within 50 miles of Pine Grove, LA were recorded from 1950 to 2010. The following is a break down of these events:
Type Count Type Count Type Count Type Count Type Count
Avalanche: 0 Blizzard: 0 Cold: 4 Dense Fog: 0 Drought: 9
Dust Storm: 0 Flood: 107 Hail: 397 Heat: 1 Heavy Snow: 3
High Surf: 0 Hurricane: 5 Ice Storm: 5 Landslide: 0 Strong Wind: 6
Thunderstorm Winds: 1,204 Tropical Storm: 10 Wildfire: 0 Winter Storm: 4 Winter Weather: 2
Other: 148
Volcanos Nearby
No volcano is found in or near Pine Grove, LA.
Historical Earthquake Events
No historical earthquake events that had recorded magnitudes of 3.5 or above found in or near Pine Grove, LA.
No historical earthquake events found in or near Pine Grove, LA.
Historical Tornado Events
A total of 68 historical tornado events that had recorded magnitude of 2 or above found in or near Pine Grove, LA.
Distance (miles) Date Magnitude Start Lat/Log End Lat/Log Length Width Fatalities Injuries Property Damage Crop Damage Affected County
4.1 1989-06-08 2 30°40'N / 90°51'W 30°38'N / 90°50'W 1.50 Miles 50 Yards 0 0 25K 0 St. Helena
5.0 1975-05-08 2 30°45'N / 90°45'W 0 0 0K 0 St. Helena
5.8 1989-06-08 2 30°38'N / 90°54'W 30°40'N / 90°51'W 2.50 Miles 50 Yards 0 0 25K 0 Livingston
8.5 1973-12-04 2 30°28'N / 91°10'W 30°42'N / 90°34'W 39.10 Miles 80 Yards 0 0 2.5M 0 East Baton Rouge
14.6 1973-12-04 2 30°42'N / 90°34'W 30°43'N / 90°31'W 3.60 Miles 80 Yards 0 3 2.5M 0 Tangipahoa
15.7 1992-02-15 2 30°35'N / 90°33'W 0.80 Mile 527 Yards 0 10 2.5M 0 Tangipahoa
16.4 1953-02-06 3 30°29'N / 90°42'W 30°30'N / 90°33'W 9.10 Miles 400 Yards 2 21 2.5M 0 Livingston
16.5 1989-05-18 2 30°52'N / 91°01'W 30°52'N / 90°55'W 5.00 Miles 50 Yards 0 0 250K 0 East Feliciana
17.0 1971-09-19 2 30°41'N / 90°30'W 0.20 Mile 50 Yards 0 0 3K 0 Tangipahoa
17.5 2006-11-15 2 30°45'N / 90°32'W 30°45'N / 90°28'W 3.00 Miles 100 Yards 1 0 250K 0K St. Helena
Brief Description: EVENT NARRATIVE: A tornado touched down near the intersection of Louisiana Highways 441 and 1046 and moved northeast to Tangipahoa Parish line west of Arcola. One fatality occurred near the initial touchdown when the tornado struck a small frame house and close-by travel trailer. Both house and travel trailer next to the house were destroyed with debris piled about 25 yards to the northeast. A 43 year-old male in the travel trailer was fataly injured. The tornado continued northeast with damage primarily to trees, powerlines and house roofs. EPISODE NARRATIVE: Severe thunderstorms developed in the vicinity of a warm front that moved north across southeast Louisiana during the afternoon and evening of the 14th and in advance and along a cold front that moved through the area during the morning of the 15th.
18.2 1977-11-29 2 30°30'N / 90°34'W 1.00 Mile 50 Yards 0 2 250K 0 Livingston
18.2 1984-10-14 3 30°43'N / 91°06'W 30°52'N / 91°02'W 11.00 Miles 150 Yards 0 0 250K 0 East Feliciana
20.2 1984-10-14 3 30°39'N / 91°09'W 30°43'N / 91°06'W 5.00 Miles 150 Yards 0 3 250K 0 East Baton Rouge
20.2 1971-09-16 3 30°27'N / 91°02'W 30°33'N / 91°04'W 7.30 Miles 83 Yards 0 3 2.5M 0 East Baton Rouge
20.6 1953-02-06 3 30°30'N / 90°33'W 30°32'N / 90°27'W 6.50 Miles 400 Yards 0 0 2.5M 0 Tangipahoa
21.8 1973-04-26 3 30°30'N / 91°05'W 0.30 Mile 70 Yards 0 0 25K 0 East Baton Rouge
21.9 1992-11-21 2 30°50'N / 91°08'W 30°52'N / 91°04'W 9.00 Miles 100 Yards 0 0 250K 0 East Feliciana
21.9 1977-04-20 2 30°25'N / 90°59'W 0.20 Mile 67 Yards 0 1 250K 0 East Baton Rouge
22.4 1972-05-12 2 30°45'N / 90°25'W 2.00 Miles 100 Yards 0 0 250K 0 Tangipahoa
22.6 1987-02-15 2 30°52'N / 90°30'W 30°54'N / 90°28'W 3.50 Miles 150 Yards 0 3 250K 0 Tangipahoa
23.0 1961-11-13 2 30°36'N / 91°10'W 30°39'N / 91°10'W 3.40 Miles 50 Yards 0 1 250K 0 East Baton Rouge
23.6 1989-06-08 2 30°31'N / 91°11'W 30°33'N / 91°06'W 6.00 Miles 60 Yards 0 58 2.5M 0 East Baton Rouge
26.1 1972-05-07 2 30°48'N / 90°22'W 1.00 Mile 100 Yards 0 0 25K 0 Tangipahoa
26.4 1958-11-14 2 30°28'N / 91°09'W 2.00 Miles 17 Yards 0 0 25K 0 East Baton Rouge
27.1 1992-11-21 2 30°52'N / 91°16'W 30°50'N / 91°08'W 4.00 Miles 100 Yards 0 0 250K 0 West Feliciana
28.0 1977-09-05 2 30°25'N / 90°26'W 1.70 Miles 70 Yards 0 1 2.5M 0 Tangipahoa
28.1 1989-06-08 2 30°31'N / 91°15'W 30°31'N / 91°11'W 3.50 Miles 60 Yards 0 2 2.5M 0 West Baton Rouge
28.1 1975-05-08 2 30°25'N / 91°11'W 30°24'N / 91°05'W 6.20 Miles 50 Yards 0 0 0K 0 East Baton Rouge
28.4 1961-04-09 2 30°42'N / 90°30'W 30°50'N / 90°08'W 23.60 Miles 100 Yards 0 0 250K 0 Tangipahoa
28.9 1977-12-13 3 31°02'N / 90°40'W 31°07'N / 90°33'W 9.00 Miles 350 Yards 0 0 25K 0 Amite
30.2 1986-11-20 2 31°01'N / 91°10'W 31°01'N / 91°04'W 5.00 Miles 173 Yards 0 0 250K 0 Wilkinson
30.7 1969-04-12 3 30°12'N / 90°54'W 30°17'N / 90°45'W 10.70 Miles 100 Yards 0 1 250K 0 Ascension
33.8 1983-01-31 2 30°23'N / 91°14'W 0.50 Mile 33 Yards 0 0 25K 0 West Baton Rouge
37.0 1972-02-29 3 30°32'N / 91°23'W 1.00 Mile 200 Yards 0 3 250K 0 West Baton Rouge
38.3 1962-11-11 2 31°10'N / 90°28'W 0 0 250K 0 Pike
38.3 1977-12-13 3 31°07'N / 90°33'W 31°14'N / 90°25'W 11.40 Miles 350 Yards 0 2 2.5M 0 Pike
39.1 1974-11-20 2 30°38'N / 90°11'W 30°35'N / 90°05'W 7.10 Miles 33 Yards 0 0 25K 0 St. Tammany
40.7 1997-11-21 2 30°29'N / 90°13'W 30°29'N / 90°04'W 9.00 Miles 200 Yards 0 43 3.5M 0 St. Tammany
Brief Description: A severe thunderstorm produced a tornado as it moved into St. Tammany Parish. The tornado was first observed by the State Police on Interstate Highway 12 west of Covington. From data collected on a ground, damage survey by the National Weather Service, the tornado moved on a path slightly north of due east. The tornado moved across the downtown area of Covington and continued east for nearly 2 miles before lifting off the ground. Most of the damage along path indicated F1 damage, however, several areas near downtown Covington were classified as F2 damage. Parish officials reported 43 injuries were reported with tornado, though most were relatively minor. Six persons required and overnight stay in a hospital, including three pregnant women. Most of the damage to homes was due to large pine trees which had been toppled onto houses. In downtown Covington, a few large buildings lost roofs, had windows blown out, or suffered substantial damage. A large parish building suffered $500,000 damage. Media reports indicated cleanup would cost several million dollars. Just east of the downtown area, several cars were lifted and moved tens of feet by the tornado, and an empty tractor-trailer truck rig was blown over. Nearly 50 cars in a parking lot had their windows blown out by debris or by rapid pressure drop. The same parent thunderstorm spawned another tornado just south of Talisheek damaging a barn and a house. The damage path length at Talisheek was estimated. American Red Cross reports indicated 69 single family homes were destroyed or had major damage in St. Tammany Parish. Four public buildings were also heavily damaged.
41.0 1968-09-17 2 30°50'N / 90°07'W 1.00 Mile 100 Yards 0 0 3K 0 Washington
41.9 2005-04-06 2 31°03'N / 90°20'W 31°13'N / 90°17'W 9.00 Miles 100 Yards 0 2 200K 0 Pike
Brief Description: A tornado touched down near the community of Progress in Pike County and moved north northeast to the Barto area before crossing Highway 98 and moving out of Pike County and into Walthall County about 2 miles east northeast of Holmesville. Along its path in Pike County, the tornado destroyed a church and a couple of mobile homes, damaged a number of houses and businesses, and knocked down numerous trees. A meso-cyclone thunderstorm produced a tornado as moved on an intermittent path northeastward across eastern Pike County and northwest Walthall County.
42.4 1950-03-19 2 30°06'N / 91°00'W 1.00 Mile 50 Yards 0 0 25K 0 Ascension
42.4 1965-01-22 2 30°06'N / 91°00'W 1.00 Mile 267 Yards 0 0 250K 0 Ascension
42.4 1976-01-25 2 30°06'N / 91°00'W 1.10 Miles 33 Yards 0 7 2.5M 0 Ascension
43.2 1963-06-21 2 31°13'N / 90°27'W 31°15'N / 90°25'W 3.30 Miles 50 Yards 0 0 3K 0 Pike
43.6 1992-08-25 3 30°04'N / 90°27'W 30°07'N / 90°37'W 9.00 Miles 150 Yards 2 32 25.0M 0 St. John The Baptist
44.0 1964-10-04 2 30°23'N / 90°08'W 1.00 Mile 183 Yards 0 0 25K 0 St. Tammany
44.2 1961-11-22 2 30°05'N / 90°32'W 2.00 Miles 50 Yards 0 3 25K 0 St. John The Baptist
44.8 1989-06-08 2 30°21'N / 91°29'W 30°23'N / 91°24'W 5.00 Miles 77 Yards 2 30 2.5M 0 Iberville
44.8 1975-01-10 4 31°11'N / 90°32'W 31°21'N / 90°22'W 15.20 Miles 200 Yards 4 200 25.0M 0 Pike
45.4 1969-12-25 3 30°08'N / 91°21'W 30°11'N / 91°08'W 13.50 Miles 50 Yards 0 1 25K 0 Iberville
46.2 1986-03-12 2 31°19'N / 90°36'W 31°20'N / 90°31'W 3.00 Miles 250 Yards 0 0 250K 0 Amite
46.3 1972-01-04 2 31°21'N / 90°53'W 1.20 Miles 100 Yards 0 0 25K 0 Franklin
46.4 1995-12-17 2 30°33'N / 91°33'W 0.20 Mile 20 Yards 0 1 200K 0 Pointe Coupee
Brief Description: Fifteen mobile homes were destroyed, four sustained major damage and two minor damage. A child was injured when struck by a Christmas tree. A National Weather Service official surveyed the damage area.
47.2 1987-02-15 2 31°04'N / 90°09'W 31°04'N / 90°06'W 3.00 Miles 73 Yards 0 2 250K 0 Walthall
47.6 1958-11-14 2 31°12'N / 90°17'W 31°14'N / 90°16'W 3.00 Miles 30 Yards 0 0 25K 0 Quitman
48.7 1983-03-20 3 30°58'N / 90°02'W 2.00 Miles 200 Yards 0 0 250K 0 Washington
48.8 1965-06-06 2 31°07'N / 90°08'W 0 0 3K 0 Walthall
48.8 1967-05-01 2 30°05'N / 91°13'W 1.00 Mile 50 Yards 0 1 25K 0 Iberville
49.2 1957-10-15 3 30°34'N / 91°44'W 30°39'N / 91°29'W 15.90 Miles 100 Yards 1 19 250K 0 Pointe Coupee
49.4 1990-05-12 2 31°16'N / 91°24'W 31°18'N / 91°05'W 19.00 Miles 100 Yards 0 4 250K 0 Wilkinson
49.6 1954-02-19 2 30°54'N / 91°35'W 0.50 Mile 100 Yards 1 4 3K 0 West Feliciana
49.7 1986-03-12 2 31°21'N / 90°32'W 31°23'N / 90°30'W 3.00 Miles 250 Yards 0 0 250K 0 Lincoln
* The information on this page is based on the global volcano database, the U.S. earthquake database of 1638-1985, and the U.S. Tornado and Weather Extremes database of 1950-2010.
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MULTIPLE RESISTANT HORSEWEED
(Conyza canadensis)
Multiple Resistance: 2 Sites of Action
ALS inhibitors (B/2)
United States, Ohio
INTRODUCTION HORSEWEED
Horseweed (Conyza canadensis) is a dicot weed in the Asteraceae family. In Ohio this weed first evolved multiple resistance (to 2 herbicide sites of action) in 2003 and infests Soybean. Multiple resistance has evolved to herbicides in the Groups B/2, and G/9. These particular biotypes are known to have resistance to chlorimuron-ethyl, cloransulam-methyl, and glyphosate and they may be cross-resistant to other herbicides in the Groups B/2, and G/9.
QUIK STATS (last updated Jan 31, 2005 )
Common Name Horseweed
Species Conyza canadensis
Group ALS inhibitors (B/2)
Herbicides chlorimuron-ethyl, cloransulam-methyl, and glyphosate
Location United States, Ohio
Contributors - (Alphabetically) Mark Loux, and Jeff Stachler
Field, Greenhouse, and Laboratory trials comparing a known susceptible Horseweed biotype with this Horseweed biotype have been used to confirm resistance. For further information on the tests conducted please contact the local weed scientists that provided this information.
Genetic studies on Group B, G/2, 9 resistant Horseweed have not been reported to the site. There may be a note below or an article discussing the genetics of this biotype in the Fact Sheets and Other Literature
There is no record of differences in fitness or competitiveness of these resistant biotypes when compared to that of normal susceptible biotypes. If you have any information pertaining to the fitness of multiple resistant Horseweed from Ohio please update the database.
MARK LOUX
Extension Specialist, Weed Science
222 Kottman Hall 2021 Coffey Rd
Columbus, 43210, Ohio
Email Mark Loux
JEFF STACHLER
Extension Agronomist - Sugarbeet/weed Science
North Dakota State University, University of Minnesota
Loftsgard Hall 474E NDSU Dept #7670
Fargo, 58108-6050, North Dakota
Email Jeff Stachler
The Herbicide Resistance Action Committee, The Weed Science Society of America, and weed scientists in Ohio have been instrumental in providing you this information. Particular thanks is given to Mark Loux, and Jeff Stachler for providing detailed information.
Herbicide Resistant Horseweed Globally
1 Belgium Belgium 1989 Corn (maize), Nurseries, and Roadsides atrazine 3 Photosystem II inhibitors (C1/5)
61 Conyza canadensis Horseweed 35
2 Belgium Belgium 1998 Nurseries paraquat 3 PSI Electron Diverter (D/22)
61 Conyza canadensis Horseweed 1145
3 Brazil Brazil 2005 Fruit, Orchards, and Soybean glyphosate 5 EPSP synthase inhibitors (G/9)
4 Canada (Ontario) Canada Ontario 1993 Peaches paraquat 7 PSI Electron Diverter (D/22)
5 Canada (Ontario) Canada Ontario 2010 Soybean glyphosate 7 EPSP synthase inhibitors (G/9)
6 Canada (Ontario) Canada Ontario 2011 Soybean cloransulam-methyl, and glyphosate 7 Multiple Resistance: 2 Sites of Action
8 Czech Republic Czech Republic 1987 Corn (maize), Nurseries, Orchards, Pastures, Railways, and Roadsides atrazine 12 Photosystem II inhibitors (C1/5)
9 Czech Republic Czech Republic 2007 Railways glyphosate 12 EPSP synthase inhibitors (G/9)
10 France France 1981 Cropland atrazine 17 Photosystem II inhibitors (C1/5)
61 Conyza canadensis Horseweed 460
11 France France 1988 Orchards linuron 17 PSII inhibitor (Ureas and amides) (C2/7)
12 France France 2019 Grapes glyphosate 17 EPSP synthase inhibitors (G/9)
61 Conyza canadensis Horseweed 18198
13 Greece Greece 2012 Grapes, and Orchards glyphosate 19 EPSP synthase inhibitors (G/9)
14 Hungary Hungary 2016 Grapes glyphosate 20 EPSP synthase inhibitors (G/9)
15 Israel Israel 1993 Forests, Industrial sites, and Roadsides atrazine, chlorsulfuron, imazapyr, metribuzin, pyrithiobac-sodium, and sulfometuron-methyl 23 Multiple Resistance: 2 Sites of Action
Photosystem II inhibitors (C1/5)
16 Italy Italy 2011 Orchards glyphosate 24 EPSP synthase inhibitors (G/9)
17 Japan Japan 1980 Grapes, Orchards, Railways, and Roadsides paraquat 25 PSI Electron Diverter (D/22)
18 Japan Japan 2014 Railways glyphosate 25 EPSP synthase inhibitors (G/9)
19 Poland Poland 1983 Orchards simazine 33 Photosystem II inhibitors (C1/5)
20 Poland Poland 2000 Railways imazapyr 33 ALS inhibitors (B/2)
21 Poland Poland 2010 Railways glyphosate 33 EPSP synthase inhibitors (G/9)
22 Portugal Portugal 2011 Olive glyphosate 34 EPSP synthase inhibitors (G/9)
23 South Korea South Korea 2017 Orchards glyphosate 27 EPSP synthase inhibitors (G/9)
24 Spain Spain 1987 Corn (maize), Orchards, and Roadsides atrazine, and simazine 38 Photosystem II inhibitors (C1/5)
25 Spain Spain 2006 Orchards glyphosate 38 EPSP synthase inhibitors (G/9)
26 Switzerland Switzerland 1982 Corn (maize), Nurseries, Orchards, Pastures, Railways, and Roadsides atrazine, and simazine 41 Photosystem II inhibitors (C1/5)
27 United Kingdom United Kingdom 1982 Orchards simazine 44 Photosystem II inhibitors (C1/5)
28 United States (Mississippi) United States Mississippi 1994 Soybean paraquat 45 PSI Electron Diverter (D/22)
29 United States (Delaware) United States Delaware 2000 Soybean glyphosate 45 EPSP synthase inhibitors (G/9)
30 United States (Tennessee) United States Tennessee 2001 Cotton, and Soybean glyphosate 45 EPSP synthase inhibitors (G/9)
31 United States (Ohio) United States Ohio 2001 Soybean chlorimuron-ethyl, and cloransulam-methyl 45 ALS inhibitors (B/2)
32 United States (Kentucky) United States Kentucky 2001 Soybean glyphosate 45 EPSP synthase inhibitors (G/9)
33 United States (Ohio) United States Ohio 2002 Soybean glyphosate 45 EPSP synthase inhibitors (G/9)
34 United States (Indiana) United States Indiana 2002 Soybean glyphosate 45 EPSP synthase inhibitors (G/9)
35 United States (Maryland) United States Maryland 2002 Soybean glyphosate 45 EPSP synthase inhibitors (G/9)
36 United States (New Jersey) United States New Jersey 2002 Soybean glyphosate 45 EPSP synthase inhibitors (G/9)
37 United States (Michigan) United States Michigan 2002 Corn (maize), and Soybean chlorimuron-ethyl, and cloransulam-methyl 45 ALS inhibitors (B/2)
38 United States (Michigan) United States Michigan 2002 Blueberries atrazine, diuron, and simazine 45 Multiple Resistance: 2 Sites of Action
PSII inhibitor (Ureas and amides) (C2/7)
39 United States (Michigan) United States Michigan 2002 Blueberries diuron 45 PSII inhibitor (Ureas and amides) (C2/7)
40 United States (Missouri) United States Missouri 2002 Corn (maize), Cotton, and Soybean glyphosate 45 EPSP synthase inhibitors (G/9)
41 United States (Ohio) United States Ohio 2003 Soybean chlorimuron-ethyl, cloransulam-methyl, and glyphosate 45 Multiple Resistance: 2 Sites of Action
42 United States (Arkansas) United States Arkansas 2003 Cotton glyphosate 45 EPSP synthase inhibitors (G/9)
43 United States (Mississippi) United States Mississippi 2003 Corn (maize), Cotton, Rice, and Soybean glyphosate 45 EPSP synthase inhibitors (G/9)
44 United States (North Carolina) United States North Carolina 2003 Cotton glyphosate 45 EPSP synthase inhibitors (G/9)
45 United States (Delaware) United States Delaware 2003 Soybean paraquat 45 PSI Electron Diverter (D/22)
46 United States (Pennsylvania) United States Pennsylvania 2003 Soybean glyphosate 45 EPSP synthase inhibitors (G/9)
47 United States (California) United States California 2005 Corn (maize), Fencelines, Grapes, Orchards, Roadsides, and Wheat glyphosate 45 EPSP synthase inhibitors (G/9)
48 United States (Illinois) United States Illinois 2005 Soybean glyphosate 45 EPSP synthase inhibitors (G/9)
49 United States (Kansas) United States Kansas 2005 Cotton, and Soybean glyphosate 45 EPSP synthase inhibitors (G/9)
50 United States (Virginia) United States Virginia 2005 Corn (maize), and Soybean glyphosate 45 EPSP synthase inhibitors (G/9)
51 United States (Indiana) United States Indiana 2005 Soybean chlorimuron-ethyl, and cloransulam-methyl 45 ALS inhibitors (B/2)
52 United States (Nebraska) United States Nebraska 2006 Soybean glyphosate 45 EPSP synthase inhibitors (G/9)
53 United States (Michigan) United States Michigan 2007 Nurseries glyphosate 45 EPSP synthase inhibitors (G/9)
54 United States (Mississippi) United States Mississippi 2007 Soybean glyphosate, and paraquat 45 Multiple Resistance: 2 Sites of Action
55 United States (West Virginia) United States West Virginia 2007 Corn (maize), and Soybean glyphosate 45 EPSP synthase inhibitors (G/9)
56 United States (Oklahoma) United States Oklahoma 2009 Soybean glyphosate 45 EPSP synthase inhibitors (G/9)
57 United States (South Dakota) United States South Dakota 2010 Corn (maize), and Soybean glyphosate 45 EPSP synthase inhibitors (G/9)
58 United States (Delaware) United States Delaware 2010 Soybean, and Wheat glyphosate, thifensulfuron-methyl, and tribenuron-methyl 45 Multiple Resistance: 2 Sites of Action
59 United States (Iowa) United States Iowa 2011 Corn (maize), and Soybean glyphosate 45 EPSP synthase inhibitors (G/9)
60 United States (Kansas) United States Kansas 2011 Corn (maize), Cotton, Soybean, and Wheat chlorsulfuron, iodosulfuron-methyl-sodium, metsulfuron-methyl, rimsulfuron, thiencarbazone-methyl, thifensulfuron-methyl, and tribenuron-methyl 45 ALS inhibitors (B/2)
61 United States (Alabama) United States Alabama 2013 Corn (maize), Cotton, and Soybean glyphosate 45 EPSP synthase inhibitors (G/9)
62 United States (Wisconsin) United States Wisconsin 2013 Soybean glyphosate 45 EPSP synthase inhibitors (G/9)
63 United States (Illinois) United States Illinois 2013 Soybean cloransulam-methyl 45 ALS inhibitors (B/2)
64 United States (California) United States California 2014 Almonds glyphosate, and paraquat 45 Multiple Resistance: 2 Sites of Action
65 United States (Montana) United States Montana 2015 Roadsides glyphosate 45 EPSP synthase inhibitors (G/9)
66 United States (Oklahoma) United States Oklahoma 2018 Cotton, Soybean, and Wheat chlorsulfuron, and metsulfuron-methyl 45 ALS inhibitors (B/2)
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Page, E., C. Granger, F. Tardif, I. Rajcan, M. Laforest, and R.E. Nurse. 2017. A chrono-geographical assessment of Canadian populations of Conyza canadensis. WSSA Proceedings 57 : 259 - .
In the decade since the introduction of herbicide tolerant (HT) crops, an increasing number of weed species have been identified with resistance to the widely utilized herbicide, glyphosate. In the USA, there are now 14 weed species with confirmed resistance to the non-selective herbicides utilized in these systems. Similarly in Canada, there are 5 weed species that exhibit glyphosate resistance (GR); two of which were documented in the last year alone. Conyza canadensis has developed GR in both countries and its capacity for long-distance dispersal raises the potential of cross-border movement of herbicide resistant traits. The objective of this research was to examine the origins of GR C. canadensis populations from SW Ontario and explore their mechanism(s) of resistance. New and historic populations of C. canadensis collected throughout the counties comprising the most SW portion of the province of Ontario, as well as from bordering states of the USA. Eight microsatellite markers were used to characterize the relatedness of these populations and the target site gene for glyphosate (EPSPS2) was also sequenced. Dose-response studies were carried out to ascertain or confirm the resistance levels of the various populations. Results from the microsatellite and dose response studies indicate that the majority of Canadian GR populations are distinct from the American populations tested and exhibit notably higher resistance. Sequencing of EPSPS2 confirmed that, while GR in American populations is mediated by non-target site mechanisms, the predominate mechanism of resistance in Canadian populations of C. canadensis is target site mediated. These results represent the first report of target site mediate resistance to glyphosate in C. canadensis and clearly expose geographically distinct mechanisms of resistance to a given active ingredient on a regional scale within a single highly mobile species..
Matzrafi, M., T. W. Lazar, M. Sibony, and B. Rubin. 2015. Conyza species: distribution and evolution of multiple target-site herbicide resistances. Planta 242 : 259 - 267.
Conyza canadensis (CC) and Conyza bonariensis (CB) are troublesome weeds around the world. Extensive use of herbicides has led to the evolution of numerous Conyza spp. herbicide-resistant populations. Seeds of 91 CC and CB populations were collected across Israel. They were mostly found (86 %) in roadsides and urban habitats, two disturbed habitats that had been dramatically impacted by human activities, thus we classify these species as anthropogenic. Although pyrithiobac-sodium was only used in cotton fields, 90 % of Conyza spp. populations were identified as pyrithiobac-sodium resistant, suggesting possible natural resistance to pyrithiobac-sodium. CC21 and CC17 C. canadensis populations were highly resistant to all tested ALS inhibitors due to a substitution in the ALS gene from Trp574 to Leu. They were also atrazine resistant due to a substitution in the psbA gene from Ser264 to Gly. The high level of imazapyr and pyrithiobac-sodium resistance observed in the CC10 population was due to an Ala205 to Val substitution. However, high resistance to sulfometuron methyl and pyrithiobac-sodium in population CC6 was due to a point mutation at Pro197 to Ser. All resistant plants of CC21 population showed both psbA (Ser264 to Gly) and ALS (Trp574 to Leu) substitutions, leading us to the conclusion that the attempt to overcome resistance to one mode of action by overuse of another will most likely lead to multiple herbicide resistance. Furthermore, we concluded that only individuals that carry both mutations could survive the shift between the two modes of action and overcome the fitness cost associated with the PSII resistance..
Ford, L. ; Soltani, N. ; McFadden, A. ; Nurse, R. E. ; Robinson, D. E. ; Sikkema, P. H.. 2014. Control of Canada fleabane (Conyza canadensis) with glyphosate DMA/2,4-D choline applications in corn (Zea mays). Agricultural Sciences 5 : 77 - 83.
Glyphosate resistant (GR) Canada fleabane (horseweed) has quickly spread across southwestern Ontario and is a difficult weed to control in GR crops. Glyphosate dimethylamine (DMA)/2,4-D choline (Enlist Duo®TM Dow AgroSciences LLC), a new herbicide premix developed by Dow Agro Sciences, provides control of GR and other problematic weeds. The objective of this study was to compare single and sequential applications of glyphosate DMA/2,4-D choline for the control of GR Canada fleabane in GR corn. Three single applications of glyphosate (DMA)/2,4-D choline (1720 g.ae.ha-1) were evaluated: (1) preplant (PP) applied to Canada fleabane up to 10 cm diameter/height, (2) postplant 1 (POST 1) applied when Canada fleabane was up to 20 cm tall and (3) postplant 2 (POST 2) applied up to 30 cm tall Canada fleabane. Four sequential applications were also examined:(1) PP followed by (fb) POST 1, (2) PP fb POST 2, (3) POST 1 fb POST 2 and (4) PP fb POST 1 fb POST 2. The single applications provided 69%-86% control of the GR Canada fleabane while the sequential applications increased control to 92%-100%. Three applications did not provide an increase in control over a sequential two-pass application at 8 weeks after the application (WAA). Results from this research indicate that a sequential 2-pass application of glyphosate DMA/2,4-D choline provided acceptable control of GR Canada fleabane in corn..
Fernando Machado dos Santos , Leandro Vargas , Pedro Jacob Christoffoleti , Franciele Mariani. 2013. Evaluation of horseweed (Conyza sumatrensis) resistance to glyphosate in Rio Grande do Sul – Brazil. Abstract from Doctorate Dissertation : .
(Conyza bonariensisandConyza canadensis) recorded in Rio Grande do Sul State, however resistance ofConyza sumatrensisto glyphosate is registered only in Paraná State. This report has the objective of stating the presence ofConyza sumatrensisresistant to glyphosate biotypes in Rio Grande do Sul State Brazil. To support this report, researches to evaluate the occurrence of glyphosate resistance in horseweed biotypes, in Rio Grande do Sul State, and for that, seed samples were collected in soybean areas with unsatisfactory control, 25 biotypes. These biotypes were preliminary evaluated for resistance to glyphosate, applying a dose of 720 g/ha. Seeds from this first test of two selected biotypes of horseweed, which were not controlled in the first trial, with contrasting degree of susceptibility, were chosen to develop the second trial. The selected biotypes were grown after herbicide application (first trial) to seed production. It was also made, from these biotypes, herbarium specimens, which were sent to the Department of Biology of the Federal University of Santa Maria, where it was cataloged and classified by Dr. Thais Scotti Canto Dorow, plant systematic specialist, asConyza sumatrensis(Retz.) E. Walker (TELES; BORGES; HEIDEN, 2013) and subsequently deposited in the herbarium, SMDM under numbers SMDM 13950, 13951, 13952 and 13953. The biotypes selected, derived from seeds produced were evaluated by dose-response curves, using eight herbicide doses (0, 45, 90, 180, 360, 720, 1,440 and 2,880 g/ha) applied at growth stage of 3 to 4 leaves and/or 0.5 to 1.0 inch height. The experiments were conducted in a greenhouse in a completely randomized arrangement of treatments with four replications. The results indicate that the susceptible biotype to glyphosate has reduced 50 % of dry matter when used dose of 34.3 g/ha, compared with the resistant biotype, that requires 143.6 g/ha for the same control. The dose that provides 50% control of the susceptible population was 172 g/ha, compared with the resistant biotype that needs 2,028 g/ha for the same control, showing a resistance factor of 11.8..
Pavlovic, D. ; Reinhardt, C. F. ; Bozic, D. ; Vrbnicanin, S.. 2013. Determination of Conyza canadensis levels of sensitivity to glyphosate trimesium sulphosate. International Journal of Agriculture and Biology 15 : 1091 - 1097.
Changes in leaf anatomy were examined in two S. African populations of Conyza canadensis of which one was presumed to be resistant (CCPR) and the other susceptible (CCS) to glyphosate. Glyphosate was applied to plants, which were grown from seed collected from these populations, at rates of 1, 2 and 4 kg a.e. ha-1 of TOUCHDOWN® [active substance: glyphosate trimesium salt, 500 g L-1] that are equivalent to 2, 4 and 8 L ha-1 of the herbicide Touchdown. Leaf samples for the light microscope (LM) analysis were collected 3, 7 and 24 h after treatment (HAT). Changes in chlorophyll and shikimate content of leaf material were also examined. Changes in the palisade and pith tissue of leaves were not detected in the investigated populations at 3 and 7 HAT. However, at 24 HAT the different herbicide doses caused changes in leaf anatomy. These changes (injuries) were detected in the CCS at all tested doses, but in the CCPR population of C. canadensis the injuries were observed at only the two highest rates, 2 and 4 kg a.e. ha-1. Chlorophyll and shikimate contents indicated significant differences between the treated and untreated plants of susceptible population only. Difference in glyphosate resistance between the CCS and CCPR populations was confirmed with an index of resistance of 1.58. This value of the index of resistance indicates that CCS population is 1.58 times more susceptible to glyphosate compared to CCPR population..
Heap, I. The International Herbicide-Resistant Weed Database. Online. Thursday, January 21, 2021 . Available www.weedscience.org Copyright © 1993- 2021 WeedScience.org All rights reserved. Fair use of this material is encouraged. Proper citation is requested.
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At the entrance to Cork city is the iconic Port of Cork sign which should be retained when the site is redeveloped the Green Party has said.
A planning application, reports EchoLive.ie, has been lodged for Ireland's tallest building located at the Port of Cork buildings at Custom House Quay.
Tower Holdings are proposing a 34-storey skyscraper hotel that would reach approximately 140m in height.
If approved and constructed, it would become Ireland’s tallest building by a significant margin, outstripping the current tallest building, the 79m-high Capital Dock in Dublin.
The €140m project will also include retail units, cultural spaces, food and beverage businesses, office space, recreational areas, and a micro-distillery, which the developer says could create up to 800 jobs.
Below the hotel, the Bonded Warehouses will be occupied by a range of uses to complement the hotel including retail, restaurants, cafes, and gallery and cultural spaces, with a public promenade wrapping around the entire site.
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Home | Commodities | Electric Cars Could Pose a Challenge to Rare Earth Supply in "Nightmare Scenario"
Electric Cars Could Pose a Challenge to Rare Earth Supply in "Nightmare Scenario"
by Stuart Burns on October 23, 2009
Commodities, Product Developments, Supply & Demand
Dr Irving Mintzer principal of MEG LLC, an energy consulting firm, described a “nightmare scenario” at the Critical & Strategic Metals Summit in Washington DC this week. Driven not by cost advantage but by a combination of government incentives, legislation and taxation, Dr Mintzer painted a picture of a world in 2030 in which a third of the probable 72 million vehicles produced each year by that time are either fully electric or hybrid petrol/electric vehicles. Why is that a nightmare scenario you may ask? Surely that would be a quieter, cleaner altogether better world if the role of the internal combustion engine was reduced? Well indeed it would be a quieter, cleaner world, the nightmare element is the demand it would put on electric power generation and on production of certain key metals needed to make such vehicles.
True 2030 is a quite a long way off. Twenty years is probably a reasonable timescale to design and build a smart grid capable of handling the power demands such a switch would make. It is also just about long enough to build the mix of nuclear and renewable energy sources that would be required to meet the power demands without increasing our carbon emission even more than they currently are. It would hopefully be long enough to improve renewable technologies sufficiently that they are economical without the subsidies they need now to achieve project funding. But metal demands look challenging; by Dr Mintzer’s estimations at current Cobalt (Co) and Neodymium (Nd) content levels in a typical Lithium ion battery (everyone agrees there is enough Lithium, it’s the minor metals needed for the cathodes and for the braking regeneration units that will be the challenge) it’s hard to see where the metal will come from. In current cars some 5kgs of Co and 2 kgs of Nd are needed in every car. Even if improved technology reduced this to 0.5kgs of cobalt and 1 kg of Nd the world would need an additional 12,000 tons of cobalt and worse some 24,000 tons of Nd. According to an informative presentation given by David Weight of the Cobalt Development Institute, the world currently produces about 55,000 tons of cobalt and is broadly in supply/demand balance. Some 50% of supply comes from the politically unstable Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), the world’s richest source of cobalt. The rest mostly comes as a by product of nickel and copper production and is hence somewhat price inelastic, meaning the primary economics of the mine are driven by nickel and copper demand not cobalt. Cobalt demand has risen at a steady 5.6% for the last ten years which if extrapolated forward would see demand in the region of 163,500 tons, before we add in additional demands for electric cars. Extrapolating figures back from a separate presentation given at the conference by Dudley Kingsnorth, Neodymium production is currently around 17,000 tons and typically represents about 16.3% of Rare Earth deposits. Pretty much all of it currently comes from China but several new potential mines were promoted at the conference, all looking for funding. In reality no more than two of these are likely to come to fruition with a probable production capacity of less than 30,000 tons, at the above Nd content guide that would yield just 5,000 tons of Nd, somewhat short of the additional 24,000 tons required. As Dudley Kingsnorth explained in a video interview on MetalMiner earlier today these Rare Earth mines and processing facilities take at least 10 years to go through environmental, feasibility and funding stages before a kg of metal is produced. In reality, Dr. Mintzer’s scenario is unlikely to become reality but the above projections illustrate the dramatic effect a new technology can potentially have on metal demand when supply is finite.
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You might be interested in reading our report on the scarcity issues around Rare Earths with respect to electric vehicles and wind turbines. Report was prapared for UK Department for Transport and is available free of charge:
http://www.oakdenehollins.co.uk/pdf/Lanthanide_Resources_and_Alternatives.pdf
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Diamond Doris: The True Story of the World’s Most Notorious Jewel Thief
by Doris Payne and Zelda Lockhart
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In the ebullient spirit of Ocean’s 8, The Heist, and Thelma & Louise, a sensational and entertaining memoir of the world’s most notorious jewel thief—a woman who defied society’s prejudices and norms to carve her own path, stealing from elite jewelers to live her dreams.
Growing up during the Depression in the segregated coal town of Slab Fork, West Virginia, Doris Payne was told her dreams were unattainable for poor black girls like her. Surrounded by people who sought to limit her potential, Doris vowed to turn the tables after the owner of a jewelry store threw her out when a white customer arrived. Neither racism nor poverty would hold her back; she would get what she wanted and help her mother escape an abusive relationship.
Using her southern charm, quick wit, and fascination with magic as her tools, Payne began shoplifting small pieces of jewelry from local stores. Over the course of six decades, her talents grew with each heist. Becoming an expert world-class jewel thief, she daringly pulled off numerous diamond robberies and her Jewish boyfriend fenced the stolen gems to Hollywood celebrities.
Doris’s criminal exploits went unsolved well into the 1970s—partly because the stores did not want to admit that they were duped by a black woman. Eventually realizing Doris was using him, her boyfriend turned her in. She was arrested after stealing a diamond ring in Monte Carlo that was valued at more than half a million dollars. But even prison couldn’t contain this larger-than-life personality who cleverly used nuns as well as various ruses to help her break out. With her arrest in 2013 in San Diego, Doris’s fame skyrocketed when media coverage of her astonishing escapades exploded.
Today, at eighty-seven, Doris, as bold and vibrant as ever, lives in Atlanta, and is celebrated for her glamorous legacy. She sums up her adventurous career best: "It beat being a teacher or a maid." A rip-roaringly fun and exciting story as captivating and audacious as Catch Me if You Can and Can You Ever Forgive Me?—Diamond Doris is the portrait of a captivating anti-hero who refused to be defined by the prejudices and mores of a hypocritical society.
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THERAPEUTIC SCOPE And Research evidence
December 29, 2020 by SA Admin
The main uses of massage are to promote relaxation, treat painful muscle conditions, and reduce anxiety (often described in terms of “stress relief”). Professionals say massage leads to short-term improvements in pain and sleep disorders, conditions known to be exacerbated by anxiety.
Massage professionals and their patients also claim that massage improves self-image in people with physical disabilities and terminal illnesses. This result can be partially explained by the general well-being sensations that are commonly reported after massage. Touch itself is likely therapeutic, especially for patients with limited opportunities for physical contact, such as those without close friends or family, or with painful physical conditions.
Massage is also said to help patients feel healed. Patients may be more prepared to deal with and discuss difficult psychological problems when they are less anxious, feel better about themselves, and trust their caregivers. Professionals say that this sense of caring leading to better communication is one reason why massage can be an important stepping stone to effective counseling, such as when dealing with mental health problems or addictions.
Other situations in which massage is used to foster communication and relationships include working with children with profound disabilities, where touch can be a primary means of communication. Similarly, some midwives organize “baby massage” groups where new mothers learn massage as a way to improve their relationship with their children.
Reflexology practitioners argue that, in addition to relaxation and the non-specific effects of massage, they can cause more specific changes in health. A classic reflexology textbook, for example, includes clinical cases of ataxia, osteoarthritis, and epilepsy. Also, some aromatherapists report benefits for patients with conditions as diverse as infertility, acne, diabetes, and hay fever.
To date, most clinical studies on massage have focused on the psychological outcomes of treatment. Good evidence from randomized controlled trials indicates that massage reduces short-term anxiety scores in settings as diverse as intensive care, psychiatric institutions, hospices, and occupational health. Limited evidence shows that these reductions in anxiety are cumulative over time. Doctors say that offering patients a concrete relaxation experience through massage can facilitate the use of self-help relaxation techniques. The validity of this statement has not yet been evaluated. The evidence that massage can improve sleep and reduce pain remains anecdotal. Anecdotal.
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FORT MYERS, Fla. – A deputy was taken away in an ambulance and a sports car was left abandoned in a ditch after someone crashed it into a ditch.
The Lee County Sheriff’s Office is investigating a crash that happened on Alico Road in Fort Myers early Thursday morning.
A McLaren sports car worth hundreds of thousands of dollars was left abandoned in a ditch.
Nearby construction workers working at a Chick-fil-a location close to the scene saw it all. They said they watched as a deputy injure himself after jumping a fence trying to get to the crash.
One worker said he heard a loud crash and then a splash. When they went to check it out, they found the $200,000 car abandoned in the ditch.
The car has been taken out of the ditch but investigators are still working to find out who is responsible for the crash.
A deputy was loaded into an ambulance to be treated for injuries he sustained at the scene.
The Florida Highway Patrol is not involved in this investigation and ABC7 is still waiting for additional information about this crash and the hurt deputy from LCSO.
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Introspection: In the Wilderness (post #42 of autobiography)
Posted by: adonis49 on: February 10, 2009
In: auto-biography | cities/geography | humor
Something about the period after my PhD in the USA
After I earned my PhD in 1991, I loitered for another 10 years throughout the USA, not working in my field or in any teaching jobs: I was disheartened and frustrated and refused to think about any plans for the future.
It must have been a case of acute depression not recognized by me, and no one to count on for friendship. I just survived and I still didn’t tend efficiently to all these scars.
All in all, I lived and studied and worked in the USA for 20 years and returned definitely to Lebanon without even applying to a residence status though I enjoyed continuous work permits for many years.
After my formal graduation in May 1991 with a PhD in industrial engineering (in the field of Human Factors) I was almost totally broke and the university town of Norman in summer-time was completely boring and I suffocated in this “hole” after over six years and barely leaving it. The University was closed for part of the summer and I had no idea how to spend my time in this town that swallowed the best of my adulthood.
There was just this corner on the north side of campus with a few bars and Walter Mitty, the nude institution; I used occasionally to go there with Boubkeur during happy hours, between 1 to 5 p.m. and order a pitcher of draft beer at the hottest period of the day and when the girls were not asked to get frantic with their boobs and buttocks.
In one of the few bars, a clone singer of Grateful Dead’s Jerry Garcia used to play almost every night; this singer and guitarist was a carbon copy of late Garcia in appearance, attire, and style. There was this coffee shop that served all kinds of Starbucks varieties and we would meet there most of the time and patronize it anywhere it transferred shops around corners.
I met there Suzanne in Starbucks; she was a tall, beautiful girl with long blonde hair. Suzanne was the girlfriend in the last two months of a Lebanese PhD graduate in structural engineering from the University of Stillwater. At my graduation and her graduation in Law, Suzanne invited me to her adoptive parents’ home; her friends took several pictures in my graduation gown.
I had bought my advisor’s old car three months ago; then the cold weather did not help. The car needed tires and I preferred to give it away to my landlord instead of sinking in dear money on a car that I had no confidence in its proper functioning, even in the near term. Kirby, my landlord, could not believe my giving away a car and made me sign a paper to that effect, maybe for tax purposes.
This landlord was a good man, straight and kind to me; I paid around $100 for the whole ground flat. Kirby refurbished the upper floor to accommodate two apartments that rented $200 per month each.
Kirby married Rebecca; a half blooded American Indian, who was my previous landlord from whom I rented a room in the upper floor. Kirby was in the business of purchasing properties on foreclosures and then repaired them with his own hands.
I recall a Christmas Eve when my flat got flooded and the electricity went out and Kirby came and repaired what was needed and then brought the vacuum cleaner the next day to suck out the moisture and dry the shaggy carpet.
I spent a terrible cold night, alone amid the smell of humidity.
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The greatest poet: “The man with the long curly hair”
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The greatest poet: “The man with the long curly hair” (February 6, 2009)
Baghdad in 809 is the largest metropolis in the world; it has over one million inhabitants.
In comparison, Paris has less than 100,000 (the contemporary of Charlemagne reign), Damascus less than 400,000 (the former Capital of the Arab Umayyad dynasty), and Samarkand (in current Turkestan) less than half a million; and most of the cities in North Italy average less than 50, 000 inhabitants.
Baghdad was newly built less than 75 years ago by the Abbasid Dynasty. The new Caliph is Al Amine; he is 23 years of age and the former student of poet Abu Nuwass. Al Amine is a learned man and very conversant in poetry. The poet Abu Nuwass was in exile in Egypt on order of the Caliph Harun Al Rasheed.
Abu Nawass learned that his unique son had died and he hurried his return to Baghdad to join his student Al Amine. Four years of the ultimate in libertine life in the court of Al Amine awaited Abu Nawass. Al Amine had fondness for young eunuch; his mother tried to steer her son toward girls by promoting young girls in boys’ attire (a la garsonne) or whatever it takes.
Before the advent of Islam Iraq had been under the Persian Empire (the Sassanide Dynasty) for over 4 centuries. The Arab tribes of the northern Arab Peninsula were mostly concentrated in the towns of Basra and Kufa in southern Iraq.
The main Capital of the Sassanide Dynasty (Sesiphone) was very close to current Baghdad that did not exist yet, on the other side of the Tiger River. Thus, the Iranians were far more numerous than the original “Arabs” and the culture and civilization of Persia was predominant.
During Abu Nawass time, 150 years after Islam presence, Iraq was still mostly Persian and the most influential personalities had Persian relatives. There was a large minority from the Sind (current south Pakistan) known as “Tuz”; the European would later name them Tzigan.
There were many Christian and Zoroaster Iranians, other Christian sects and Jews. The non-Moslems ran the taverns and produced, imported, and sold alcoholic beverages and wine. The fundamentally Christian sect of Mani (Manichean) spread from Northern Africa to India. The Abbasid Dynasty started the persecution of the Mani followers and then the Pope of Rome followed suit.
Four years later, Al Maamun, the half brother of Al Amine from an Iranian mother, would enter Baghdad and assassinate the Caliph Al Amine. Abu Nawass would be assassinated less than two years later, at the age of 56.
The Shiaa Moslem sect predominated in Iran for political reasons: in order to have the upper hand on the Kuraich tribe of Mecca, from which all the Caliphs claimed their origins, they had to claim a more legitimate descendant to the Prophet Muhammad. They selected Ali, the fourth Caliph and his offspring Hassan, then Hussein and then the others descendants of Ali and Fatima (the Prophet’s daughter).
Abu Nawass was comfortable with all sects and minorities, though he would satirize them in his poems as front for his proper belief system that agreed with them. With the exception of his profound loathing of the Arab tribes originating from the Northern Arabian Peninsula, I think it safe to say that Abu Nawass satires on minorities and Jews are an exit scheme for displaying the “others” point of views.
The German Ewald Wagner published 5 volumes of Abu Nawass poems in the seven major genres of bacchanal (wine and drinking binges), erotic, libertine, hunting, panegyric (praises), satire, saturnine (mourning), and ascetic. . Hamza al Isfahani (946 AD) published 1,500 poems claimed to be of Abu Nawass or a volume of 13,000 lines.
Al Hassan al Hakami, nicknamed Abu Nuwass for his long curly hair), was born in 757 AD in Ahwaz (south east Iran) of an Arab soldier born in Damascus and who was at the sold of the Omayyad Dynasty and a Persian mother Golban (Rose) originating from the Sind (south Pakistan).
Abu Nuwass didn’t get to know his father and was orphaned. He followed his mother to Basra and attended a Koranic school. The pretty boy joined his mature cousin Waliba al Hubab (who loved pretty boys) to Kufa. Back to Basra Abu Nawass becomes the disciple of Khalaf al Ahmar, a “rawi” or transmitter of pre-Islamic poetry.
Abu Nuwass spent an entire year in isolation with bedwins to correctly learn the Arab language. By the age of 30, Abu Nuwass relocates to Baghdad during Caliph Harun Al Rasheed reign. Abu Nawass was the contemporary of the mystic Al Hallaj who was horribly executed and from whom Abu Nawass learned the message.
The power, smoothness, and loveliness of Abu Nawass poems are that they are solely from experience. He self describes his life, feelings, the period, the culture, the social settings, the urban amenities compared to the arid and crude customs of the clans in the desert.
He naturally used Persian words and slang, about 200 words in all, and you could view the kaleidoscope of the period dynamically strolling as you read. Thus, there are no romanticism, sentimentalism, or faked imagination and feelings. In fact, the weakest among his genres are the saturnine (poems of mourning) because he could not force non existing feelings for those who died, even for his closest drinking companions.
For the panegyric genre Abu Nawass was sober in his praises and tributes and would just reserve the last six lines to that purpose after describing hunting adventures or the difficult trips to reaching the influential personality. Most of the people he praised got satirized anyway.
The bacchanal and libertine genres are pervasive in almost all of Abu Nuwass poems and that is why this great poet is not taught in schools and his manuscripts relegated to the inaccessible sections of libraries. The polygraph Al Jaahez (869 AD) wrote “I know of no one who knew the lexical of the Arab language as Abu Nuwass. His expressions were very pure and soft and avoided disagreeable terms“
The other great Arab poet Al Mutanabi (one hundred year later and a master craftsman in coining memorable verses) would say that the other poets toil on their work while his poems come to him easily and naturally; I feel that this statement apply exclusively to Abu Nawass who did not edit and publish his poems. Al Mutanabi managed to gather and edit his complete work before he was assassinated.
Francois Villion (1498) published his “Testament” of forgiveness that is almost a carbon copy of Abu Nawass “God forgive me” piece. No wonder, Medieval Europe and up to the Renaissance had vast knowledge of Arab literature and published works because Arab civilization was the “in thing”.
Abu Nawass clearly proclaimed his preference for pretty boy of 15 year-old with large thighs and oval faces. You may read my article “The Gods of beauty: Before the age of pimples” (February 7, 2009)
I have read Al Moutanaby, Al Maary, Omar Khayyam, Ibn Araby, and Hafez; they emulated Abu Nawass well, each one in his favorite genre; Abu Nawass is the Master; the other poets have did their best.
I have read Rimbaud, Verlaine, and Baudelaire; they are good poets; Abu Nawass is their Master; they have done the best they could
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State Laws on Eugenics (killing): Premises and rationale
In: death/ terminally ill/ massacres, genocide | Essays | health/medicine | lucubration Today | medicine/medical treatment | philosophy | politics/finance Today | religion/history | sciences | women
State Laws on Eugenics (killing): premises (February, 8, 2009)
The West might have been familiar with the Greek manuscript “The Republic” of Plato since it staunchly decided that the genesis of civilization began with the Greeks of Athens. Plato said “Permitting random marriages constitute impiety in a happy City. We will legalize sane unions that are more advantageous to the aristocratic class. We want sane offspring of the elite men and women to render high quality services to the Republic”
Since time immemorial, and mostly during Patriarchal social structures, a female baby life depended on the father’s decision to survive birth. It is argued that this kind of Eugenics was due to lack of resources to feed useless mouths that have no physical capabilities to defend the tribe. That is the rational cause that sociologist and politicians want us to believe, but I strongly doubt that is the main and deeper reason for selective decision on life and death. Under harsh survival conditions, communities much prefer the association and communion with same sex: The same process was applicable during matriarchal institutions when girls were given preferential treatments. We hate to say the truth that genders in mankind, when resources are scarce, select the “undesired sex” for elimination.
Today, millions of female fetuses are aborted each year in China and India. Even after birth, Indian baby girls are left to die of famine and negligence. Minority ethnic groups in China are experiencing State Eugenics Laws since 1995; the Chinese genetic physician has simply to state that the expected baby of the minority parents is found to be physically or mentally handicapped to sterilize the parents; reactions are lukewarm; as they say “it is economics, stupid”.
Mothers in India are cutting stones with stones (no stronger equipment are offered to facilitate their tasks) sitting by the new highways (the babies huddled in a makeshift tent by the roadside), so that cars, and particularly the inexpensive cars that India is ready to flood its market with, would have luxurious infrastructure to drive on.
In the second half of the 19th century, the British scientist Galton, a cousin of Darwin, loathed the charity associations because they cared for the “degenerates” and thus were an obstacle for the normal functioning of “natural selection”. Darwin had stated a fact that “Among the savages sick people, physically or mentally, were quickly eliminated. Civilized nations build sanatorium for these handicapped citizens. In the breeding business of animals they comprehend perfectly the concept of natural selection”
Alexis Carrel, Nobel Prize of medicine in 1912 for organ transplants, and who lived in New York, wrote in 1935 “A Euthanasia institution should use appropriate gas to dispose of assassins in an economical manner. We should not hesitate to organize modern societies around sane individuals.”
Politics have their own agenda to interpret statements delivered my famous scientists. The French author Rabelais in the 16th century said “Science without conscious is the ruin of the soul”. State Eugenics practices, in militaristic and dictatorial States, are rampant in this century. But what about eugenics practiced in civilized and democratic Sweden? Up to 1975, Sweden would not allocate family support for the disadvantaged unless the parents “voluntarily” agreed to be sterilized. Women who wanted permit to abort were asked to sign a form agreeing to be sterilized. The Swedish Alva Myrdal, Nobel Peace Prize of 1982, wrote in 1946 “Sterilization is necessary in order to avoid State aid encouraging births that harm the collective interest”
Modern DNA analysis of potential handicaps of the fetus offers parents preventive choices from a single drop of the mother’s blood. We should know that all these tests for intelligence IQ or SAT or psychological tests abounding in universities are basically eugenics instruments: They were proven to have no validity or power to forecast anything in people’s potentials and capability; still, they are used as a big business and misleading excuses to selecting students and hiring people in companies. In the US, a prisoner with IQ lower than 70 is not sent to death raw: He has to improve his score to be elligible to die!
You may read my article “Free-will Eugenics: Finally you have Choices” and https://adonis49.wordpress.com/2009/02/13/digitizing-human-memory-any-problems/
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Bi-weekly Report (#10) on the Middle East and Lebanon
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Bi-weekly Report (#10) on the Middle East and Lebanon (February 9, 2009)
The new US Administration is serious about diplomatic negotiations with Iran and comprehends clearly that a resolution of Afghanistan’s quagmire is not possible without Iran’s cooperation; it had already sent a positive gesture by closing its airbase in a Central Asia State bordering with Iran. Saudi theocratic and monarchic regime of the Wahhabi sect is frantic and lousing its top; it is in deep trouble and no billions of dollars of briberies are going to be of major impact of the changing winds. This terrorist State and the hotbed for terrorists wants to convince the Arabs, the Moslems, and the West that Iran is the arch enemy for the stability in the region. This obscurantist regime is ready to ally with the devil (Israel) in order to save its rotten political structure. Egypt of Moubarak fell into the trap because it was willing to believe that the enemy of Egypt is its opposition parties and not the Saudi regime that has been financing its “Moslem Brotherhood” opposition party.
The Saudi dark regime has been extremely busy financing and supporting the terrorist Moslem salafist movements, Qaida, and Taliban to proselytize its brand of religious sect, and thus let rooms for Iran to fill in the void left by mindless Arab States. The Saudi regime tried to throw sands in the eyes of the “USA believers” that it wants peace very badly. Consequently, the Saudi “peace plan with Israel is still on the table but not for long” as King Abdullah ejaculated during the Kuwait meeting of the Arab League.
The Saudi regime wants the Arab States to bow their heads and agree that the “shining message” of peace and stability can be emulated by dissecting the benefits of its multitude of reforms, starting by allowing women to drive and assassinating 950 of its “terrorist citizens” that demanded reforms. The people in Gaza are continuing to pay the price of dissentions among the “leaders” of the Arab World and suffering from famine and diseases. Hamas is finding that breaking its isolation is not going to be an easy task. The “Moderate Arab States” want Hamas wings clipped more sharply than even the European or the USA wish and Iran is far away and unable to come to the rescue even if it wanted..
If we have to analyze the consequences of Israel’s genocide in Gaza based on the “Arab Moderate States” reactions and development then might be tempted to agree with Israel that its operation was a success, but it far to be the case. The facts are coming; the citizens in Europe and the USA are now aware of the true nature of the Zionist State and are vocal about it and acting. More importantly, the reverse wave of immigration out of Israel is going strong. It appears that it finally dawned on the Israelites that their successive governments had no foreign policies as Kissinger stated in 1975. The survival of this implanted State is shaky and no longer tenable.
Turkey is tentatively trying to find a role in the Arab regions after over 70 years of dissociating itself from its problems, as if it lived in an island with European blood connections and relationship. It is not going to be easy for Turkey to squeeze in a special role when Egypt and Saudi Arabia have been vying for leadership all these years. Until Syria is convinced that serious pressures on Israel are in the pipeline then Turkey will stay out in the cold and managing second roles at the umbrage of Egypt and Saudi Arabia. Turkey seems to accept this position since it has been softening it language toward more moderation than what the Arab people were expected of Turkey.
What about Lebanon? They used to say that the “World catches cold when the USA sneezes”. Lebanon still suffers everytime the Arab “Leaders” are at dissonance. The Patriarch of the Christian Maronite sect and most of the allies in the so-called March 14 movement would like us to believe than it is Iran and not Israel that is our enemy, and thus having a resistance force is redundant and counter productive. Reforms are hard to come by and the process of change is done by infinitesimal nibbling on the statue quo enforced by the Hariri Clan since 1991.
We have a great political issue on the table for applying the laws related to wire tapping; a lawless trend that has been used for years to harass thousands of families on the ground of security necessities though it was primarily targeting opposition parties; we had two dozens of assassinations and the perpetrators, in not a single case, were made public. The other issue was lowering the communication costs, especially the wireless utilities that are the highest in the world with restricted usability. Half of our mazout consumption is for generating electricity that is not generated; probably there is public electricity when we are asleep at night. The March 14 coalition is gearing up for a mass gathering on February 14 to open up their election campaign.
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The Worst Discriminators
In: Essays | philosophy | politics/finance Today | religion/history | sex/ love/seduction | women
Types of Misogyny in gender preferences (February 10, 2009)
I realized in a few of my articles that I have been stating “maybe societies should start to accept the fact that the majority of people of both genders are unable to taking the drastic decision and making the serious effort to comprehend the other sex: They prefer the community of their own gender”.
I was referring to social preferences of same sex relationship among genders as fundamentally a position or a statement that heterosexuality is temporary in its long term nature. As proof, kids, middle aged, and older people gather around same sex friends and acquaintances for relaxation and for having “good times”. Family seclusions are anathema to the spirit of freedom.
There are many books and movies of the genre “She said, he said” or “Males are from Mars and females from Venus”; they make us laugh simply because they exhibit the foibles and limitations of the other sex. Many authors have claimed that marriage institution was forced upon societies for procreation purposes and caring for offspring. The marriage institution was linked to the benediction of an Almighty in order to sustain the family structure that proved to be the most effective unit for social stability and cohesion.
Many authors tried to explain the “other sex” and Simone de Bauvoir was no exception. Quickly, the story turns to historical accounts on Patriarchal and Matriarchal structures of societies. We learn in no time that the whole exercise is a power struggle between genders. What else it could be? Power offer choices; among the choices is freedom to assemble and associate; among the choices is discovering varieties in pleasure, story telling, and themes for discussions and excuses to fight and shout and form enemies.
In adolescence, curiosity, social restrictions, and natural biological demands steer youth to discovering the “other” unknown. At such an early age, not many of us have the pre-requisite social and conversational skills to communicate with the other sex. It is basically a matter of trial and error techniques, offered opinions of same sex “supposed” comprehension of the psychology and behavior of the other sex.
This period of finding out can lengthen the period of frustration for our lack of comprehension and our obstinacy to discover what we undertook. Quick weddings and close co-habitation present an ideal setting for definite position on social gender preferences. The “heterosexuals” who manage to agree with a family life are mostly those who had frustrating early experience with their same sex companions.
I am still finding my way. One thing I know from experience; women in position of power are the worst and greatest discriminators; women in power are ruthless and unforgiving and their decisions are generally based on “intuition”, hunches, spite, and presumptions. Traditions are founded on harsh experiences.
Tags: adonis, adonis49, community of own gender, discrimination, female, freedom. choices, gender, history, humor, male, Mars, misogeny, politics, religion, social, The Worst Discriminators, Types of Misogyny, Venus, women, writing
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Aleppo Ripping Itself Apart? Or foreign mercenaries destroying what they don’t care about?
Posted by: adonis49 on: August 16, 2016
In: cities/geography | death/ terminally ill/ massacres, genocide | Essays | Events/Cultural/Educational/Arts | social articles
Aleppo Ripping Itself Apart?
By LINA SERGIE ATTAR. August 13, 2016
In June 2011, the last time I was in Aleppo, I visited my grandmother’s home every day. I obsessively photographed the apartment where my father grew up and where I spent much of my youth. I snapped shots of her wooden doors and balcony, our family’s antiques arranged in the glass vitrine, her organized kitchen cabinets and my grandfather’s proud portrait in the dining room.
I took only a few sentimental pieces with me when I left to go back to my home in America. I wish I had taken everything.
My grandmother’s apartment is on a tiny street tucked between parallel one-way boulevards, one traveling southeast toward the heart of old Aleppo, and the other running northwest to the city’s expansive outlying neighborhoods. This diverse part of the city, in the west, has largely avoided the destruction of the war swirling around it — so far.
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Tragic to watch what you love be slowly destroyed
Watching My Beloved Aleppo Ripping Itself Apart?
Dispassionate analysts of Syria’s war discuss maps that rudely impose their lines over the city where I grew up.
nytimes.com|By Lina Sergie Attar
Aleppo, where I spent my adolescent years, where I went to college and became an adult before returning to the United States, where I was born, has been split in two since 2012.
The west side is in the clutches of the government, and the east is held by rebel forces (transformed into terrorist Al Nusra?).
Over the last four years, brutal territorial battles tore through the city, dividing neighborhoods that had been interwoven for centuries. Some two million people (including thousands of displaced Syrians) live in relative safety in the west, while over 250,000 live in the east, which has been subjected to years of indiscriminate aerial bombardment by the government’s barrel bombs and, since last year, Russian airstrikes.
Aleppo is the last major city where the rebels control significant territory, and President Bashar al-Assad thinks that capturing it could bring him close to so-called victory. In July, his forces tightened the noose around eastern Aleppo to wage yet another brutal “kneel or starve” campaign. Supplies of food and medicine were choked off; hundreds of civilians died. (And the USA and Europe were angry that passages were opened for people to flee?)
At the beginning of August, the power struggle on the ground shifted unexpectedly. Activists set thousands of tires alight, creating huge clouds of black smoke, a weak attempt at a homemade no-fly zone to hide the east side from Russian airplanes. (The planes are Not bombing inside Aleppo)
The rebel groups forged a fragile coalition and joined forces with the Levant Conquest Front, an Islamist group that recently was called the Nusra Front and was previously Al Qaeda’s affiliate in Syria.
Together, they battled Mr. Assad’s troops and their Hezbollah militia allies. On Aug. 6, they broke the siege. Trucks from nearby Idlib brought the trapped civilians fresh food for the first time in weeks. (Trucks could not enter since the route is at fire distance from the Syrian troops).
Meanwhile, Russian jets struck nearby towns with incendiary bombs in retaliation. The bodies of fighters piled up in trucks like dead cattle. (What of the chemical gases dispatched by al Zinki terrorists group inside Aleppo?)
As the battle unfolded, analysts on social media discussed events in real time with a zeal that comes only with detachment. Some said this battle would (again) tip the scales of the war. Others claimed that the rebels’ victory meant the bloody end was (again) near.
A favorite tool of the dispassionate Syria analyst is a map: red and green blobs showing a shifting front line, which streets are held by rebels and which by the government. These wretched maps rudely superimpose their lines over the landmarks of my life: On the east are the people I grew to love through the revolution, men, women and children who defied all odds and stood chanting in the face of one of the most ruthless regimes in history. (used as human shields?)
On the west are my streets, my school, my university, my home.
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Peaceful streets in Aleppo in January 2011, before the war.
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I study these maps and calculate how far my home sits from the moving front line. As my neighborhood shifts sides from west to east, from red to green, will it be the next target of Mr. Assad’s barrel bombs?
Or will it be left to the mercy of the rebels, who promised not to loot or destroy private property or kill civilians? Why should my home be spared when millions of others’ weren’t?
This is what it feels like to watch your city rip itself apart: a constant oscillation between guilt and relief, fear and pride.
When I watch footage from Ramouseh, the southwestern district where the siege was broken, I turn my eyes away from the bearded men with guns and instead marvel at the rich red soil, which for centuries has nurtured Aleppo’s famous olives, pistachios and sour cherries.
In videos of people in eastern Aleppo celebrating their relief from the siege, I scan the row of limestone buildings and count the undamaged facades, finding hope in each one.
On the map, the fault line inches toward the Hamdaniyeh, the western gateway into the city, which is the neighborhood of my best friend’s home. I remember standing with her on her on the balcony in 2011, looking over her mother’s meticulous gardens filled with flowering trees, statues and fountains.
The hot afternoon wind from the west was strong that day and carried the scent of jasmine. She said her father had told her to say goodbye to this place. I shielded my tearing eyes from the sun, the wind and my friend. I didn’t believe her. I believed in the revolution that would give everyone a chance to reach their potential — not just those of us who had lived in a bubble of privilege — and for freedom, dignity and a life without fear that Syrians had been denied for decades.
I didn’t photograph our own home the way I did my grandmother’s. Even then, even when the war was still far from Aleppo, I feared that to do so would be to admit the unthinkable: I would never return. Since then, my undocumented home has been ravaged and looted by security forces. Return seems as impossible as rewinding time.
The fighting in Aleppo continues.
The map could shift again if the rebels cut off regime-held parts of the city, the besieged be sieging. As uncertainty looms, our collective memory — the foundation of every Aleppian’s identity — remains.
We are incapable of forgetting the past. We can’t erase the memory of our Umayyad Mosque’s bombed minaret, our Queiq River where bloated, tortured corpses were dumped by security forces and fished out by the victims’ families; our scorched bazaars and ancient buildings reduced to rubble. We will never forget what Aleppo was like before there was a west or east side, before there were sieges and barrel bombs, before there was a single refugee.
Since March 2011, the definition of “victory” has shifted for Syrians. For the forces fighting on the ground, victory is waged in battles for land, inch by inch, checkpoint by checkpoint, constantly drawing new maps, and leaving destruction in their aftermath.
For the world powers, victory is containing and combating the terrorist extremists within Syria’s borders and forsaking everyone else.
For Syrians like me, who believed in a just revolution, who wanted an end to the oppressive Assad dynasty, the meaning of victory has changed. Victory now includes things we had never imagined five years ago: to not mourn the death of yet another friend;
to take a Syrian beggar child off a Turkish, Lebanese or Jordanian street and send her back to school;
to end the forced starvation of Syrians living under siege;
to root for our Olympic swimmer who swam across the Aegean and now competes not as a Syrian but as a refugee. Victory will be when we weld Syria’s broken map together and our country becomes recognizable again.
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Negima! Manga Vol 29 Ch 264 Review
September 18th, 2009 AstroNerdBoy
魔法先生 ネギま！Volume 29 Chapter 264 (manga)
Mahou Sensei Negima! Manga Chapter 264
Eva walks with her Chachamaru-type ‘droid (who’s also carrying Chachazero) and complains about the summer heat as well as having to visit Al when she runs into Eishun, who has also been summoned by Al. Eishun picks up a fruit desert to bring with them and arriving at Al’s residence under the library, Eva wants to know why Al summoned them since it is obviously more than to have a cup of tea. Al states that he has information to pass to both of them as it seems that Negi will be learning the secrets of the Magic World soon enough.
On Mars/Magic World, Gödel’s boy servant tells Negi that the governor will see him and three companions of his choosing. Shiori-Asuna offers to go but Negi has her stay and be guarded by Setsuna. He chooses Nodoka, Asakura (who brings the Sayo-doll with her), and Chisame as his companions. Chisame can’t understand why she would be chosen so Negi tells her it is because she’s given him such good advice. He gives a final word to Kotaro and Ku Fei before going to Gödel’s chamber.
Inside, instead of a room, they find themselves in an illusionary setting of the English village Negi lived in as a child from six years ago when it was attacked. Negi asks how Gödel has such imagery. Gödel’s answer is is a question asking Negi to consider how Gödel could have such a record of the attack. Gödel states that the setting was chosen considering the nature of their discussion. As they witness a four-year old Negi running past them, Gödel challenges Negi on what he wants to hear — the secrets of the Magic World, the goals of an evil society, facts about his mother, or the location of his father.
Chisame realizes that Gödel has control of the situation as Gödel continues to goad Negi by showing the imagery of young Negi reacting to the attack, citing that the one thing that has spurred Negi on from the time he was four until now is to get revenge on the enemy that would do this. Negi remembers what Graf Hermann told him on how Negi learned a very powerful spell in order to get revenge.
Chisame and Nodoka tries to warn Negi not to fall for Gödel’s bait as Gödel continues, stating that Negi’s true enemy could be Fate, demons (mazoku), or even the Mage of the Beginning. Gödel says that it would be simple if one of them were the true enemy but life is not that simple. As such, Gödel reveals that Negi’s true enemy is the Senate of Megalomesembria, which includes Gödel. Gödel continues, stating that Negi must have suspected but is cut off when Negi issues a powerful uppercut punch.
Thoughts/Review: Always place a truth in a lie.
That’s the thought I’ve had ever since Gödel was introduced and that thought rang in my head throughout his exposition to Negi.
Recall, if you will, the Biblical story of the fall of man. God laid down one law to Adam and Eve — do not eat of the fruit from the one tree in the middle of the Garden of Eden. The punishment for even touching said tree was death and implied instant death. The Serpent told Eve that she wouldn’t die because he knew the truth — the “death” spoken of would not be an instant physical death but rather an immediate spiritual death followed by an eventual physical death. The Serpent also knew the results of eating of said fruit. So in that regard, the Serpent planted a truth within the lie he told which Eve then believed.
From the start, Gödel has had an objective when it comes to Negi. The true nature of that objective is not clear to me (though if I’m right about Negi and Nagi being the same person, it could be to force the “sleeping” Nagi personality to awaken so that he can be dealt with once and for all) but in order to get what he wants, Gödel appears to be planting truths within the web of lies he’s weaving for Negi. So I don’t doubt that the Senate might be behind the attack on Negi’s village but the question remains, “Why?”
Also, with Negi punching Gödel (much the same way that Nagi punched the Mage of the Beginning years earlier), will we go into a fight or will Gödel take that because it is leading Negi to “the dark side” (if you will)?
It is interesting that Gödel allowed Negi to bring in three companions. He also let them use their artifacts so Asakura is recording everything. Gödel might well want this all recorded so that his goals are furthered by the others seeing what transpired. Gödel also may well want Nodoka to see the “truth” in his mind so that his overall lie gets missed. Chisame, who’s not using her artifact, is an unknown factor though I suspect that since technology and magic are merged on the Magic World (as they are on Earth), Gödel would have been prepared for her to interface with computers if she decided to do so and again further his objective.
The wild card here is Sayo. It is very possible that Gödel doesn’t know Sayo is a ghost and so doesn’t know that she can go from the golem body Paru made her to the doll Asakura is carrying. I suspect that should things REALLY go south, she would be used to get word to the rest of Ala Alba.
Of note to me is Gödel’s pointing out that simple is not how life often goes. I mention this because it is natural for everyone (myself included) to assume that the simplest explanations must be the correct one — a variation of Occam’s razor. Over time, I began to see that Akamatsu-sensei had his story well planned out, not to the tiniest detail, but in terms of the overall framework. As such, he’s able to drop clues from the first chapter regarding the special nature of Asuna (which is why Del Rey REALLY needs to retranslate volume 1 from scratch and re-release it). Occam’s razor would state that the reason Negi failed to erase Asuna’s memory was because he is a kid and just didn’t have the spell mastered. We know that is not the case now. Occam’s razor would use the same excuse for why Negi’s ability to fly with his staff failed when Asuna got on it.
I mention this because despite everything, I still think Negi and Nagi are the same person. Occam’s razor would say that Negi is the product of a sexual union between Nagi and Arika. Akamatsu-sensei tends to not go the route suggested by Occam’s razor but uses that principle to distract readers for a time from clearly seeing where he’s taking the story. As such, Nagi and Arika can be the “father” and “mother” of Negi and still have Nagi be Negi by being figurative parents instead of literal parents (such as Chao and Hakuse being considered to be the parents of Chachamaru as her creator). We’ll see if I’m right or not. ^_~
Another thing I find interesting is Al summoning Eishun and Eva to tell them information they didn’t know. For some time now, I’ve suspected that Al is under the same curse that Eva is, only Al’s is MUCH more restrictive. I believe that Nagi did this to Al before disappearing in order to protect Al (no one seems to have known that Al was alive and hidden under the library, guarded by a dragon, for the last ten years) and to make sure Al was there to deliver a message to Nagi’s unborn son (in addition to whatever else Al may be needed to do). If Al is privy to Nagi’s plans, then it would be even more paramount to keep Al hidden in order to protect the plan. Al does appear to know something if he’s going to reveal information to Eva and Eishun.
This brings me to a side issue — it is very difficult to place Eva with the Ala Rubra group and I’m wondering why Akamatsu-sensei has done so. We know she was with them for a time and that she loved Nagi, but Eva’s time with them is shrouded in mystery that I would love to get a few more answers about.
With it being summer still in Japan, it appears that Akamatsu-sensei is paving the way for Negi and company to return prior to the start of the next school term. This assumes, of course, that when Al summoned Eva and Eishun, Negi is having his meeting with Gödel.
One other thing — only Chachazero could get away with addressing Eva as “Babaa” — old hag/bitch. *lol*
Well, I ended up talking a lot more than I had intended but this chapter really brought it out of me. *lol* I’m looking forward to seeing where we go from here.
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19 Responses to “Negima! Manga Vol 29 Ch 264 Review”
CR says:
“The punishment for even touching said tree was death and implied instant death.”
Interesting how you’ve made the same mistake Eve did in thinking that there was a problem with touching the tree. The rule was not to eat of it only and Eve somehow added the extra bits ^^;;
In any case, cliffhanger yet again TT
pissedbuddha says:
I really hate this whole Negi being Nagi thing you have going there. That would be the last thing I’d want to see. If Negi was Nagi, how exactly would the story progress once he found out? How would his students react to him being an actual adult?
I think godel is trying to make it so that negi will overthrow the senate himself, as well as take control of mm. sorry for bad english.
@PB — They will react the same way they reacted when (1) they learned he was a mage and (2) they learned that “Nagi-sama” was actually Negi.
@CR — Well, I was looking at the passage with Eve talking with the Serpent so…^_^;
I’m almost certainly in a tiny minority, but I still think Godel is going to wind up being an ally a la Eva, albeit more evil and less trustworthy. He was still talking when Negi hit him, which suggests that things are not as simple as Negi seems to have decided.
When talking about the war America started with Iraq, I don’t say “they” even though I was among the millions of Americans who marched in protest before it started, and would have done almost anything to prevent it. I say that “we” started the war, even though I’m neither George Bush nor an American Senator.
As a Megawhateverthehell Senator, Godel would have no choice but to say that he is part of the group responsible. But if he’s not one of the ones that are truly responsible, he wouldn’t expect Negi to hear that as “Ha ha ha it was me!” and flip out.
Possibilities: He wants to use Negi as part of a plan to overthrow the Senate, paving the way for Godel to take control. He sees Negi/Asuna as the potential future heirs to a throne, and wants to gain their trust. He knows that war is imminent, and wants to use Negi as part of a plan to root out the ones who have been pulling the strings.
All of those are pure conjecture, mind you. But I think they’re just as possible as “Godel is evil incarnate”, maybe moreso.
Anyone else wondering how Rakan’s “massive dump” is going, and whether the conversation will get interrupted by the fight breaking out of the pocket dimension?
fg7dragon says:
And there’s 3) where the girls stop holding back at wining him over, and that includes Asuna, since he’s not a kid anymore. And when I say “stop holding back” I refer to the few that were still doing it (ex: Asuna, Ku Fei, Eva, Takane, Chisame, Emily etc).
Also, by “stop holding back”, this is the kind of thing I had in mind:
http://www.onemanga.com/Mahou_Sensei_Negima!/137/07/
http://www.onemanga.com/Mahou_Sensei_Negima!/9/12/
hehehe.But it may also turn oth like this:
Mister_Random says:
On the time issue, I too am wondering what is going on as going from Asuna’s apparant age (at least 25) if anything time should be slower in the magic world not faster as the case appears to be if the Eva/Eishun/Al scene is not set before current events.
There is also the issue that Eishun looks remarkably laid back for a person whose daughter is missing. This makes me wonder if word has not reached them of events at the Gateport.
If this is the case and the breaking of the connection has caused an acceleration of time in the magic world then it is possible that Mana and Takamichi’s arrival was nothing to do with the attack but rather them arriving from a different gate on Earth with the original aim of meeting up with Negi’s group and Jack Rakan and their late arrival due to the acceleration of time in the magic world.
While a good set up chapter I have a worry that given what happened the last time Godel appeared if Akamatsu will cut back to the fate-Rakan fight for a couple of chapters before moving on with the Negi/Godel confrontation.
outside the meeting, everyone else in AA could be targeted if things do go south.
mastermack0 says:
Interesting. I can’t say I have a theory myself yet.
orion says:
@ANB: I’d have to completely disagree with you on that. Depending on how old Nagi was before he turned himself into Negi, and if he reverts to his original body, it would be like Misa’s reverse hikaru genji plan happening right then. At the very least, the story would go back to being Love Hina-style after the action-dust settled, with a very romantic (or downer, considering Nagi’s idiocy) ending.
Is it just me, or does Godel sound exactly like a game show announcer. HE HAS NO INDOOR VOICE, sums everything up to a, b, c, or d, and never lets anyone speak till he’s done or punched.
Also, Sayo is adorable on the last page.
i just have a few things to say
1. it was kanoko who remenber the thing that Graf Hermann say not negi
2. negi is no nagi, that would ruin the story, if this where true, even dough i love the negima serios i would seriously stop reading it
Good Boy says:
So what your describing is, Godel is like the serpent, trying to lure Negi into doing a sinful action. I have to say, this is really starting to get interesting. This must be what Chao was trying to prevent. I just hope his three friends, including Nodoka, find a way to help Negi, and prevent the future from becoming a living hell.
Oh, dear God. After Good Boy’s post, I got Paula Abdul stuck in my head singing “He’s a cold-hearted snake, don’t look into his eyes… uh-oh, he’s been telling lies.”
So now I have to try to infect other people with this earworm, of course. (^_~)
Zefyris says:
I have the same opinion than Arimareiji.
I don’t know how work the U.S. senate, but like I said on several forum, in Japan (and France and probably a lot of other countries as well) senators are elected for 6 years, and not at the same time, it’s half of the senate every 3 years.
If the MM Senate is the same, then at last half (and probably the whole senate) of the members changed (except those who were elected again of course) since that snowing day.
At the very least, it doesn’t seem like Riccardo know about it.
either Riccardo was elected after this, and the fact that the senate did this wasn’t recorded anywhere or
Riccardo was part of the senate at this time too, but isn’t aware of what happened back then (so it would mean that it wasn’t the whole senate which acted, but only a part of it).
And remember, he started his politician career less than twenty years ago. Before this, he was nothing, no one knew him.
Becoming a MM senator in less than 14 years is not a little feat.
So I really doubt that he managed to do it say… in less than 10 years. Even for someone as good as him. So either he managed to become one a few years before that snowing day, or he managed to become senator only after.
Either way, you can see that the probability that Goedel wasn’t part of this plan is far from being little.
It looks like this guy is really good at getting info (maybe thanks to his “telepathy hijacking” ability?) so he may have discovered it after becoming senator.
Also, I’d like to say something about the way goedel is speaking.
When he’s saying “we” or “us”, he’s not using the ‘normal way” (well, it’s a pretty standard way to say it, but you’ll see what I mean) to say it.
He’s using 我々. Which is a way to say us when you’re talking about a specific group of people who are all part of something (and you’re part of the group, too).
Like, us, as [insert any name of country, village, city here]’s inhabitants, elected this guy to be our leader.
Or us, the japanese, want this or have done that in the past.
This isn’t a “us” which could refer to “you and your friends”.
Organization, city, village, senate, and so on, is OK. So in case such like, this, the probability that “us” could only refer to “the majority of us” (and him not being part of the majority)is also far from little.
(sorry for the double post, just remembered that I wanted to say something else about Goedel :p )
Also, remember the first encounter between Negi and Goedel.
When he wounded asuna, he was really surprised, he didn’t it would wound her, and said something like “since it’s a shallow wound, no worries”
Not only that, but when they escaped, in the mist, Goedel saw clearly Setsuna. But he didn’t do anything to her and let her go.
no matter how I look at it, he doesn’t seem like a bad guy to me.
More like, someone that want negi to think he is a bad guy, because of some unknown reason.
@Zefyris: Please pardon my really bad Japanese, but is it accurate to say it this way?
1) watashi-tachi, one way of saying “we,” takes the word watashi (“me”) and adds the plural counter tachi to mean something like “me and the people associated with me”
2) wareware, the word Godel used, could mean something like “these people, which happens to include me”
Thank you for pointing this out, by the way. (^_^)
thenightsshadow says:
You all have to admit that your opinions are just that: opinions. It’s interesting to see viewpoints et al, but until Ken shows us, it’s just guesswork~
~thenightsshadow
What thenightsshadow said, it was probably the smartest thing anyone has said on the net.
Just noticed that words are missing in my previous posts, like the fact that the sentences “And remember, he started his politician career less than twenty years ago” and after are no longer about Riccardo, but about Goedel -_-“.
@arimareiji: well,
yes for watashitachi (and other like oretachi…)
For wareware, it’s basically either speaking on behalf of a specific group or speaking as part of this specific group.
So a soldier will say “wareware” to talk about his army (including himself and without making any differences between him and the other soldiers).
A president of some company will also say wareware if talking about the company’s employees (including him, again, without any differences between him and the others).
Idem for someone being part of an organization.
This is really a “us” or a “we”. This is just that it isn’t used for every kind of group.
And in the result of this, it is often used for really large group (like the senate here), this will often result in saying “we did this” while in fact, not everyone in the group did it. Just a part of the group, either on behalf of the whole group, or because the majority of the group agreed with it, and so on.
So about something which was decided by the senate (for example with 60% yes and 40% no), if you’re a senator, you will say “we decided this” and will use wareware.
It doesn’t mean you voted yes. it doesn’t mean you voted no either.
Just that you’re part of this specific group, which happen to have decided this.
Sorry, it’s difficult to explain for me, especially in English, I hope this is more understandable now.
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MANILA, Philippines – Budget airline Cebu Pacific has the most aggressive refleeting strategy among all of the low cost carrier (LCCs) in Southeast Asia as it changes its aircraft type, think tank Center for Asia Pacific Aviation (CAPA) said.
Cebu Pacific has ordered 30 twin-engine Airbus A321neos, and the first batch of three would replace the existing A320neos as leases expire in 2017.
“The replacement is an important component of the Cebu Pacific long term strategy to continue expanding at its Manila hub without increasing the number of flights. Manila is currently operating at capacity and very few – if any – additional slots are expected to become available over the next several years,” it said.
Early this year, aircraft manufacturer Airbus announced the A321neo would be able to accommodate up to 240 seats, allowing Cebu Pacific to increase capacity on flights by 33 percent and result in better utilization of its Manila slots.
The airline is also planning to phase out its A319 fleet over the next couple of years with four A319s exiting next year and replacing it with A320.
It also eyes to launch one or two new long-haul routes in 2016 without increasing the size of its A330 fleet but will continue to allocate the equivalent of at least one A330 to the short haul market.
“Cebu Pacific has not yet committed to expanding its wide-body fleet. However, any decision to lease additional A330s would most likely be driven by opportunities to up-gauge more short haul flights rather than expand its long haul network,” CAPA said.
Furthermore, the leading Philippine LCC plans to up-gauge its twin-engine ATR72 turboprop short-haul regional aircraft to A320s. Regional subsidiary Cebgo will redeploy its Manila-based turboprops to point to point regional routes, where the group sees opportunities for expansion.
Cebu Pacific placed orders last June for 16 ATR 72-600s in the new 78-seat high density configuration replacing Cebgo’s current fleet of eight 72-seat ATR 72-500s.
CAPA said LCCs in Southeast Asia are starting to respond to growing infrastructure constraints at several airports in the region by up-gauging aircraft since the use of larger and higher density narrow-body aircraft is logical as it maximizes the use of precious slots.
“The prospect of the fleet more than doubling in size over the next decade plus an increase in average aircraft size will have a significant impact on the capacity balance in the market,” it said.
According to the CAPA Fleet Database, there are 23 LCCs in the region that operate a combined fleet of over 600 aircraft including 49 wide-body aircraft, 477 narrow-body jets and 75 turboprops.
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Strong advocacy in Ukraine leads to inclusion of key populations in the Country Coordinating Mechanism
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On 13 December 2018, the Ukrainian Country Coordinating Mechanism (CCM) has signed critical documents that include key populations and prisoners into regional CCM structures across the country.
In addition, two CCM Decriminalisation working groups are mentioned in the documents. The working groups were formed thanks to the strong advocacy efforts of the leaders of drug users’ and sex workers’ communities. Both working groups will be making decisions on the Cabinet of Ministers’ level and will be developing legal acts to decriminalise sex workers and people who use drugs.
According to Anton Basenko, PITCH Country Focal Person in Ukraine: “The creation of these two working groups is a real New Year’s gift for key populations. The CCM Decriminalisation Working Groups is a preliminary name. In order to ensure continuous participation and commitment of all stakeholders, including law enforcement agencies, and to avoid misleading public discussions around ‘legalisation of drugs’, we would rather name it a Working Group on Legal Barriers for PWUD to Access HIV and TB Treatment. In so doing, we build the foundation for removing other legal barriers as well.”
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