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Category Archives: 3DS
Metroid: Samus Returns Review
September 27, 2017 3DS, Nintendo, Reviews No comments
Anyone who knows me knows that I am a huge fan of the Metroid series. Ever since I played Super Metroid as a young lad, I have always had a strong fondness for the series. But since the release of Metroid: Other M on the Wii, we have been in the midst of a Metroid drought. And Other M wasn’t exactly the best note to leave the franchise in limbo on. But maybe that’s a story for another time. After this extended period without Metroid, many of us started to wonder when we would ever see another entry in the series again. Then in comes E3 2017. Not only do we get the announcement of a new entry in the Metroid Prime series, but also a remake of the classic Gameboy title, Metroid: The Return of Samus, and it was just months away.
The day is here. After years of waiting we finally have in our hands a new Metroid, and it is an adventure that proves to have been worth waiting for. The game, though being a remake, has introduced many new ideas and revamped many aspects of the original. Was it worth the wait?
Yes, yes it was. The game is jam packed with hidden areas and collectables to find, so it’s Metroid. The new features like the ability to counter enemies attacks, the 360 degree free aiming and the new “Aeion” abilities are all a great addition that add a certain level of excitement throughout the game. From beginning to end the game is a rather exciting troll through Planet SR388 and a great remake of the classic it is based off of.
Playing as Samus in a return to the 2D play style just feels right again. Controls are smooth and responsive.
They did a great job giving Samus personality through the small, voiceless cutscenes. One scene in-particular proved she is still a certified badass.
First game in a long time where I actually enjoyed having the 3D on. All the background activity was a nice touch to bring life to the planet.
The soundtrack is wonderful. Has that epic spacey Metroid vibe we’ve grown to love.
THE BABY METROID. I want one.
The Not as Good
The diversity in enemies is a bit slim for a Metroid entry. Especially with regards to the bosses.
Some content, whereas not necessary to the game, is locked behind the purchase of the Samus Returns Amiibo’s. Which is only made worse by their short supply at the time of this writing,
If you are a fan of Metroid, you should absolutely buy this game. Honestly if you are a fan and haven’t bought it already go out and do it! We have been begging the Big N to revisit the franchise and they finally have. And it is a very worthy trip back to the galaxy.
Pokémon Sun/Moon Review
January 4, 2017 3DS, Featured, Nintendo, Reviews No comments
The night Pokemon Sun and Moon was being released I worked a midnight launch for it to help out a friend at his store. As I’m selling a copy to a younger guy, prolly around 16, I mention to him how I remembered how excited I was for the original Pokemon games and how excited I am for this new entry with its new features and Pokemon. I’ll never forget this next part, he looked at me and said, “Man I wish I was old enough to have been able to play the originals when they came out! My first games in the series were Black and White.” As I handed him his copy it clicked. Black and White. BLACK AND WHITE!! This kid most likely wasn’t even born yet when the originals came out! Now whereas this moment did succeed in making me feel old it did something bigger, it helped me realize just how much staying power Pokemon has. How many series can you say haven’t just survived 20 years in the video game industry, but flourished and grown? Not many, but Pokemon is one that can, and Sun and Moon is the perfect tribute to what the series was, and has become.
I couldn’t think of a better way to celebrate their twentieth anniversary then what they did with Pokemon Sun and Moon. There are so many beautiful throwbacks to the earlier entries in the series and so many steps forward in making this a unique entry in the series, and possibly, steps forward to changing up the basic formula that has been in the series for so long.
You start off the game arriving to your new house in the Alola region, which is made up by a series of islands, having just moved here from the good ole Kanto region. From the Ditto pillow in your room to your families pet Meowth, you can get a sense of the throwback love right from the beginning. The game kicks off pretty quick and shows glimpses of what turns out to be a pretty decent story for a Pokemon game, since their stories are usually minimal, and introduces you to some of the games main characters. The games rather bro-like Professor, Professor Kukui, your “rival” Hau and Professor Kukui’s assistant Lillie. All of whom play a rather big part throughout the story. I will say that this game takes the longest of all the games to get you to where you pick your starter Pokemon. But that is a small thing because it all moves very fast. From that point on the game seems to flow in a very well paced manor. Never feeling like its going by to fast or taking to long.
You’ll quickly notice as you progress through the game that Gyms and Gym Leaders are no more. You now instead complete various trials, led by Trial Captains. Trials may have their own unique gimmicks usually ending with you fighting a trial Pokemon, a stronger version of a certain Pokemon surrounded by an aura that strengthens it. After you fight all of the Trial Captains on a certain island, you then fight the island Kahuna. These battles are pleasantly tough and I felt rather accomplished as I finished them. This whole experience is not necessarily better then the Gyms we are so used to fighting in, but it is a welcome change for now nonetheless. It’s just nice to see how Gamefreak is willing to try new things, even when what they had, was established and loved. It shows that they know their games well enough to change the formula up a bit and still create a compelling experience. Each game in the series has always had its gimmicks of sorts, but this was a big change. And it doesn’t disappoint.
In my opinion the area that this game flourishes the most is it’s new Pokemon. Not since the Gold/Silver/Crystal generation of games have I personally had so much trouble deciding what to raise. Not because I wasn’t a fan of the new entries, because I was SUCH a huge fan of so many of the new entries. I know many had their complaints about some of the starters, but I actually liked all three of them and struggled with who to choose. As I usually play through a new Pokemon I will cycle Pokemon in and out has they evolve to fill up my Dex. All the while only having about 2, maybe 3 Pokemon being used in battles. This time It was so much harder. I kept wanting to keep everything in my lineup because I enjoyed using them. Pikipek, Crabrawler, Rockruff, Mudbray and Salandit just to name a few. I thought they looked cool and unique. I liked their attacks and typing. I was just happy with the outcome of this Dex. Not to mention the Alolan forms of some of the original 150! This is one of those things I think Gamefreak did beautifully. Making alternate forms of some of these classics was incredibly cool. It added to my plight of what to raise and it was just unique. This forms to range from the awesome (Marowak) to the strange (Dugtrio) to the downright bizarre (Exeggutor, grass dragon typing??) It was nice seeing some of my old favorites get a nice breath of fresh air. Honestly I hope to see more of this in the future.
Another big new addition are the Z moves. The last gen brought us Mega forms, which were cool enough but I wasn’t a huge fan of. I found Z move sot be more appealing because they can give you a huge advantage, but you can’t spam them. It’s one and done. Teaching your Charizard Solar Beam and then giving it the Grass Z crystal so it can use Bloom Doom is pretty darn cool. Maybe not the most effective use of a once a battle move, but cool! These moves are cool looking (See Snorlax Pulverizing Pancake) and were a very welcome addition to the series. I’m sure that they will have a nice impact on competitive play as well.
After almost 20 years with the series, it amazes me that I always get so excited for the new entry in the series. When Pokemon Blue came out I remember thinking I would never get sick of playing Pokemon. But I also said the same thing about Pog’s and Tamagatchi’s and I have long sense lot, gotten rid of, or thrown those in storage. Yet Pokemon stays strong. I look forward to new releases and think about going back and replaying old entries. That speaks wonders of a games staying power. Pokemon Sun and Moon may not have been my favorite entries in the series, but they are my favorite in a long time. That alone is saying something for a series with nothing but strong entires. This is the game in the series that should appeal to all. Long time players, new comers and those who have been away but want to feel like a kid again. This game is worth owning a 3ds for in of itself. So do yourself a favor, get a copy. Sit there and play it while watching some Saturday morning cartoons. Just enjoy, let go of the stresses of every day life and go back to being a kid with the series we’ve almost all grown up with.
Win a Copy of Gurumin 3D!
December 12, 2016 3DS, Contests, Extras, News, Uncategorized No comments
UPDATE: This contest has now concluded. Thank you to all for your entries! Look forward to more contests like this in the coming future!
2016 was a whirlwind of great titles. We hope you had a chance to enjoy some new and some retro. We feel that if we helped you to find something to play, then our year was successful. With that in mind we have partnered with Mastiff to offer you a copy of Gurumin 3D! You could rush to the Nintendo eStore to buy it (We thought it was worth it), or follow the rules below:
Contest is open starting 12/12/2017 until 12:00am PST 1/1/2017
No purchase is necessary, and will not increase your chances of winning.
Open to all US residents, because I’m not sure this code will work for anyone else.
Grand prize is one (1) copy of Gurumin 3D for the Nintendo 3DS, redeemable thru the Nintendo eShop. Total value of the prize is $14.99.
Odds are determined by number of entries. Maybe it’ll be 1:1000000, maybe it’ll be 1:10.
Winner will be selected by random drawing on Jan 1, 2017, and will be contacted by whatever method the winning entry was made. Winner will be posted on this post and our Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook feeds.
Selected winner will be disqualified if they are not found to be following AlmostPerfectGamer when announcement is made, at which time another winner will be selected.
Follow us on Twitter at AlmostPerfectG1 and retweet the announcement along with a comment of what your favorite game of 2016 was for 1 entry
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Tag a friend! If you tag a friend and they enter, you’ll get another entry and of course they get an entry too. Don’t be taggin’ fake accounts!
Read the review! We enjoyed playing it and want to tell you why. Go to our site, read the review, and then look for the animated gif of in-game screenshots near the bottom. Use our site’s contact page to tell us the last item in Parin’s inventory. You’ll get 1 entry for this.
Gurumin 3D
October 20, 2016 3DS, Nintendo, Reviews 2 Comments
Everyone has heard the phrase, “Don’t judge a book by it’s cover.” It’s a phrase that tends to ring true in many aspects of our lives, and especially video games. Gurumin 3D falls right into that category. On the outside it looks like nothing more then a cutesy game for a younger audience. But once you actually start playing it, you’ll find a deep adventure, filled with exploration, a good sense of humor, and a rather steep difficulty.
Two of my favorite games on the original PlayStation were Threads of Fate and Brave Fencer Musashi. Two Square Enix games that have been almost lost in time. Gurumin feels like a beautiful throwback to those games and other games in its style.
In Gurumin you play as Parin, a young girl with a strong sense of adventure. You start the game off coming to stay with your Grandpa while your parents go out and do their adventuring/treasure hunting. Before long you hear of strange happenings around town and find a small hole that leads you out to Monster Village where you discover the adorable group of monsters. Before long the village is destroyed and the monsters kidnapped, and it’s your job to save them.
This is when the game really starts to thrive. I would be lying if I said that when I finished the first level, a tutorial of sorts, I wasn’t thinking to myself, “This game is going to be too easy.” That thought was quickly dismissed. Every level has a rating system, the better you do, the better your grade and reward. Part of that grade is based off the amount of Game Overs you get. I scoffed at the thought of getting a game over the first few levels. By about level 5 I was trying everything I could to not die so I could get the highest score possible. Then the completionist in me would make me keep playing the levels again until I got an S rank. The better you rank, the better medal you get. Those medals can then be exchanged for rewards. Each level you play has a unique feeling with plenty of hidden areas and goodies to find and difficult baddies to go up against.
The game plays exceptionally well with a decent amount of special moves and weapon upgrades to unlock. The controls all feel very fluid and responsive as you play through the different dungeons and challenges Gurumin has to offer. The characters you interact with are surprisingly compelling and interesting, partially due to the stellar voice acting cast which included Tara Strong and Dee Bradley Baker amongst its ranks.
Now this isn’t to say that Gurumin is without its flaws. The graphics seem a bit dated at times and the camera was less then agreeable at times, occasionally being the reason why I would die.. But the excellent game play, fun storytelling, humor, depth to each level and surprisingly compelling character made those few small hiccups easy to completely ignore for this gamer.
Gurumin may not be a game for everyone, but if you enjoy light hearted adventure with plenty of things to do all set in an Action/RPG type game play, you’ll find a lot to like about Gurumin. The attention to detail is obvious. One thing I really appreciated was that if you jumped and were pressed up against a wall, Parin would run across it matrix style. A relatively small thing sure, but still that kind of attention to detail is rare. Plus the different endings can keep you coming back for more. Not to mention you can easily see that the developers really enjoyed what they were doing with this Gurumin and that alone made the game even more enjoyable.
So if you want a fun game to play on your 3DS, pick up Gurumin. I think you’ll enjoy what it brings to the table.
As an added bonus, if you order this month (October 2016) they’ll throw in a Gurumin Party Time Theme so you can show some Gurumin-love every time you open your 3DS
Shovel Knight 3DS Review
Everyone has some amount of nostalgia for gaming. Your first console, first game you played, first great story telling experience. Those are things you never forget. Shovel Knight plays off of that level of nostalgia and it does so splendiferously.
Shovel Knight is a shout out to the platfomers of the days of yore. It takes its inspiration from the likes of Mega Man, Ducktales, and Ghosts & Goblins, all the while feeling like a completely unique experience. If you were ever a fan of games in this style you'll most likely end up loving your experience with Shovel Knight. Honestly even if you didn't go up on those games and this is your first foray into this style I would be surprised if you didn't find something to enjoy.
I found quite a lot to love about Shovel Knight as I played through it. The music was fantastic. It had all the goodness of an 8 bit soundtrack. There are many songs on this game that I could have on a play list of video game music that I would listen to over and over again.
The graphics in Shovel Knight exactly what they are supposed to be. Nostalgic. The game looks just like an 8 bit NES game, only with more polish on every pixel, and more detail in each sprite. If you take the time to look at your surroundings you can just see how much time they put into each level, each NPC and each enemy. Each of the members of the Order of No Quarter have their own look that is just on point for each of their levels (Ala Mega Man). My personal favorite was probably Tinker Knight. Not to mention the overhead map. One of my first gaming experiences was playing Super Mario Bros. 3 on the NES with my mom. All these years later I still love that style open world map when its presented in a platformer, and Shovel Knight's doesn't disappoint and looks fantastic.
The story, the simple, is very well articulated. With little story telling you know exactly why you are doing what you are doing. The game has that sense of self awareness that keeps it feeling lively as you continue to play through. I also found it enjoyable to hear the different comments from each of the villagers as you went in to the different towns. Each level is very unique in style with its own set of challenges and hidden areas to explore. I looked forward to going to the new level just to see the level design and the challenges of that level.
Shovel Knight may not be the longest of games, but if you're a completion-ist you will find a lot to do. There are hidden music sheets and other items to find. You will find yourself trying to do the best you can on each level to finish with as much money as you can to be able to unlock more gear or other upgrades. Oh and one of the things in the game I found to be a cool addition was the ability to destroy your checkpoint for an extra dose of cash. A risky move? Sure. But if you want an extra challenge it can add a nice twist to the level you are on.
If you are a fan of old school gaming at it's finest Shovel Knight is easily a game you should dig in to. It has plenty to offer with its main campaign, the option of New Game + and some super tough challenges once you finish the game. Honestly, even if you didn't grow up playing games from the NES, Genesis and SNES era it's a game that you could still easily find much to enjoy in due to its easily accessible yet hard to master style. Shovel Knight is the kind of game that shows just how much talent is in the Indie studios these days and is definitely worth a play.
Animal Crossing: New Leaf is an ambitious 3DS game with a ton to do. But does it have enough long lasting appeal for you to keep you coming back? Check out our Almost Perfect review.
Animal Crossing is just one of those games that when you try to explain it, it just doesn't sound that fun. But if you've ever sat down and given any of the Animal Crossing games a go, you've most likely seen that the game doesn't need to necessarily make sense to be a ton of fun. New Leaf stays very true to that level of fun.
If you've never played an Animal Crossing game before, the premise is rather simple. You are venturing out on your own for the first time. You start by heading to the town of "enter clever city name here," of which you can pick the layout from some randomly generated maps and then start a new adventure.
When you arrive at the town it doesn't take long for the town's entrepreneur to see a wide-eyed inexperienced youngster to swindle. Before you know it you are forever paying off debts to Tom Nook. But you're going to need a house anyways, so why not do it the easiest way you can with no mon... Err bells!
Once you get past the intro, Animal Crossing truly shines! The game all plays in real time, according to what you have your 3DS clock set to. It's Monday July 7th at 4:52 PM? Then it is in the game as well. Each month and season offer their own activities to look forward to taking part in that help keep the game fun to play for a long period of time.
The amount of things you can do in this game seem endless. There are so many different furniture styles to collect and decorate with. The amount of options to add liveliness to your town are plentiful. Collecting fish, bugs, fossils and art add quite a bit of fun for completionists. The townsfolk can change regularly and prove rather entertaining. Not to mention the multiplayer adds so much to do.
Venturing into a friend's town and trying to sweet talk their favorite townsperson in to moving into your town never gets old! Plus there is the option of going to Tortimer's island with your friends to play mini games, which proves to be a nice distraction.
Animal Crossing truly thrives in its customization. You want your house to look like a dilapidated shack? Go ahead! How about a feudal Japan style home? Be my guest! Those are just a few examples. You can take your town from a quiet village to a bustling city with coffee shops and clubs if you so choose. There truly is a lot of options if you just let your mind and creative abilities go wild!
I've been playing Animal Crossing since it's first North American release on the GameCube and, in my opinion, New Leaf is the current Pinnacle in the series. It's a game that has as much playability as you want it to. It's not your common action-y, shooter type of game. Nor is it a puzzler, platformer or most other things you can think of. It's just Animal Crossing. That fact alone gives it more than enough depth to be worth a go for any 3DS owner.
Bigfoot - I'd almost throw this under sandbox games; So much to do! The best thing is waiting to see what tomorrow brings.
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Faster Than Light? (I).
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'If you believe you can, you probably can. If you believe you won't, you most assuredly won't. Belief is the ignition switch that gets you off the launching pad.'
- Denis Waitley.
Just when we started to get comfortably numb with the notion that light is the fastest thing around in the universe, we began to wonder about the idea.
I am not an astronaut or rocket engineer but a systems analyst with a penchant for outer space; I will not pretend to write a scientific paper on Warp speed travel but would like to point out that when we programmers and analysts work on computers and software, assume that despite all our best efforts, things are never as we think they are.
Thus, I wonder: Can it really be the case that nothing is faster than light?
Really? What if we think of our universe as - say - a six-dimensional body and start looking at different 'perspectives' the whole thing.
What if we are blinding ourselves by looking just in one direction? What if light speed is not really the most important factor in the equation? What if we could conceivably think about probability as a fifth dimension and gravity as a sixth?
Wouldn't geometrical translations and rotations over different planes of our hexa-space produce changes in 'perspective' leading to changes in projections over the planes of our traditional three dimensions plus time?
Saying that time lapses differently as you approach light speed could be understood as saying that your point of perspective within such a model has changed; and what if you could move along the remaining axis? Einstein's equation would not be contradicted, but...
If you know something about physics or mathematics, just try it. Think laterally for a moment, and your intuition may start telling you that black holes are really like quantuum ghosts in our 'real and normal' universe, singularities connecting the two physical worlds of macro and micro cosmos.
Speculation indeed, at least at this point, but educated minds should be capable of entertaining ideas unacceptable to them in order to investigate.
At the time of Christopher Columbus, the common sense of the epoch told everyone that the notion of a spherical Earth was nonsensical because they could not understand things like the play of perspective in our two-eyed vision, the existence of gravity, etc. yet, even the Greeks of Alexandria, many centuries before, already deduced that the place where we all live should be somewhat round.
So, if we assume that light 'is the fastest thing around', we may be wrong. It is indeed the fastest thing that we are relatively sure about, but we cannot - and I mean, scientifically - assume, or conclude from that fact, that there is no other thing faster.
You can't logically prove that something does not exist just because you have not seen it yet. You can only prove that you don't know it.
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Why Larry Summers Is the Wrong Man for Fed Job
By Liz Peek
President Obama’s backflip on Syria is a rare political misstep, but it’s not the only recent goof. The Obama White House, lauded for its crafty politics, has bungled big time the selection of the next Federal Reserve Chairman.
Once again speculation is rife that Larry Summers is the favored pick for the job; once again the blowback is intense. There is widespread (and reasonable) concern about Mr. Summers’ personality and policies. Most important, it is clear that Mr. Summers favors fiscal over monetary policy. In today’s world, relying on increased government spending to boost the economy is a non-starter.
This distraction comes at a terrible time. Focus on Fed policy is intense, with a prospective slowdown in the quantitative easing program already being felt across the globe, and with the re-regulation of our financial industry far from complete. We need a sober, respected leader who is able to corral the disparate members of the Fed Board into supporting a coherent monetary policy--Larry Summers is not that person.
Earlier this summer, the White House leaked that the former Treasury Secretary was the frontrunner to replace Ben Bernanke when the latter retires early next year. That trial balloon loudly fizzled. The resulting sniping severely damaged the two leading candidates for the job – Summers and Fed Vice Chair Janet Yellen -- and made the White House look amateurish.
Critics on the left and the right have been quick to pounce on a litany of past missteps from Summers, including most notably his musing over why women may be intellectually ill suited to pursue the sciences. Really, a four-year old would know better. Opponents to Summers portray him as outspoken, shooting from the hip, and not a consensus-builder. It seems exceedingly stupid to put a cowboy behind the wheel when the Federal Reserve has taken on an almost unprecedented role in driving our economy.
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Meanwhile, Janet Yellen, long considered the most likely successor to Bernanke, has now come in for her share of slings and arrows. Given Mr. Summer’s former misadventures with gender generalizations, the choice inevitably morphed into a women’s issue.
Hints of why Yellen might not “fit in” with the Obama financial team hark back to whisper campaigns about why a woman should not advance to the C-suite: she isn’t one of the team, she has her own opinions, she’s too professional in a setting where others, notably Tim Geithner, tend to fly by the seat of their pants. As Neil Irwin put it in The Washington Post, “She is methodical, not manic.” Seriously, that’s the kind of nonsense that’s out there.
Yellen may lean too far in support of boosting the economy and worry too little about creating bubbles, but her forecasting record has been better than most, and she was earlier than many of her colleagues in foreseeing the financial crisis. Notwithstanding widespread support for Yellen and Obama’s pro-women politics, however, new soundings give Summers the nod.
Unhappily, this sideshow is overshadowing the debate that should be taking place. Our financial brainiacs should be focused on whether this is the right time to withdraw the giant prop known as quantitative easing, and on completing our financial regulatory overhaul. A just-released report from the international Financial Stability Board (FSB) cites ongoing problems with U.S. oversight of systemic risk, gaps in how our insurance industry is regulated, and suggests “better supervision of financial market infrastructures” as well.
The report describes our oversight system as “complex and fragmented.” No kidding. The bureaucratic horror known as Dodd-Frank, responsible for reengineering our regulatory framework, is still evolving. So complex and poorly devised is that bill that three years in, it is nowhere near completion.
As of July 15, according to law firm Davis Polk, “a total of 279 Dodd-Frank rulemaking requirement deadlines have passed….[of which] 172 (61.6 percent) have been missed and 107 (38.4 percent) have been met with finalized rules.” The new Fed Chair will have to move this process along-- he or she will have to be a master politician to do so. As little as bankers want tough new regulations, they (and those needing credit) want continued uncertainty even less.
One notable feature of Dodd-Frank is the teamwork approach to monitoring market excesses, an activity assigned to the hydra-headed Financial Stability Oversight Council. Under Dodd-Frank, the FSOC was given “collective accountability for identifying risks and responding to emerging threats to financial stability.”
Imagine – a committee composed of the (often warring) heads of the 10 agencies that meets monthly for a couple of hours, is now responsible for spotting bubbles. Now imagine Larry Summers at the table. Improved collaboration is not the first thing that comes to mind.
Meanwhile, the Fed’s bond-buying program continues to dominate markets here and abroad. Market vulnerability to changing Fed maneuvers is real. The annual report from the Financial Stability Oversight Committee, released in April, explained that the market’s extra-low yields provide “incentives for market participants to “reach for yield” by increasing leverage, by engaging in maturity transformation, or by investing in less creditworthy assets, thus potentially increasing exposure to risks of sudden spikes in yields.”
In recent weeks, we have seen emerging markets pummeled by Bernanke’s proposed pullback from QE3. In a recent Financial Times piece, James Crabtree wrote, “fears of reduced US Federal Reserve quantitative easing have sent the rupee plunging, raising worries that Asia’s third-largest economy could be on the cusp of a genuine financial calamity.” India is not alone.
We need a Fed Chair that in the midst of this turmoil will command confidence and widespread support--Mr. Summers is just too risky.
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Liz Peek
After more than two decades on Wall Street as a top-ranked research analyst, Liz Peek became a columnist and political analyst. Aside from The Fiscal Times, she writes for FoxNews.com, The New York Sun and Women on the Web.
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Back Into the Fold
by Conleth on Thu Jul 13, 2017 8:56 am
Nauriel tried to be hard, she did but when Ariana began to weep she came out of her chair to kneel before her and hugged her tightly. “All will pass, in time Ariana,” Nauriel said in a soft, consoling tone. She rocked her daughter as she tried to quiet her sobs…
The next day Elessar himself spent time with her and the baby after they broke their fast. It was a treat to hold a baby again though he and Nauriel had adopted a son he was not so small as Meliara. He was dressed in his green and gray suit but didn't wear his sword, cloak or crown today. Today he was just a father who had just gotten his daughter back. He sat in the large chair near the fireplace and held her child easily crooked cozily in his right arm.
“Have you thought about returning to court? Alot has happened since you’ve been...away,” he said uneasily but his expression changed again when he looked down at Meliara. Elessar was a large, powerful man with his beard and wavy, shoulder length hair peppered with gray. He had an inner presence that affected those nearby and a voice that influenced people when they listened to him.
Re: Back Into the Fold
by XslvrstarX on Thu Jul 13, 2017 11:14 am
That night, Ariana was given something to help her sleep by the Healers and she slept soundly through the night. The next morning she rose, bathed and dressed. She was still quite thin, but thankfully the dresses covered that fairly well. She bathed and fed Meliara while eating breakfast herself. After breakfast her father came to see her and she smiled as she saw him with Meliara. Meliara smiled up at him and reacted to whatever he did. Meliara had always been a happy baby and she was pleased that she would grow up knowing her grandparents. When he asked her about if she was going to return to court she sighed a little.
"I don't think I'm ready yet Father. I'm still grieving Lucas' death and taking care of Meliara is rather a full time job. I know since I am back that it is apart of my duties, but may I please wait a few more weeks? At least until the talk about me has died down a bit."
by Conleth on Thu Jul 13, 2017 11:55 am
For himself if he never heard that man’s name again it would be too soon. Lucas had been a deserter and had relations with a woman far beyond his station or right and that point would never change in Elessar’s mind. “We could give you a nanny if you’d like?” he said softly as the momentary flash of anger and hatred for that man died away in his mind. “I think it is important that you try to bring yourself back into the fold Ariana...but take all the time you need,” he added belatedly but he didn’t really mean that. He had let the hurt he felt from her go and instead has decided to focus on what is happening now.
“And you need to eat Ariana,” he said again as his eyes drew across her slight form. He said that whenever he saw her and sometimes more than once. Food was just about everywhere in her rooms and the cooks have been ordered to get her whatever she wants whenever she wanted it no matter the hour.
by XslvrstarX on Thu Jul 13, 2017 12:29 pm
Ariana thought momentarily about having a nanny but she shook her head after a moment. "I would rather not have a nanny...at least not at this point. I am used to taking care of Meliara myself and I'd rather continue to do so." She became quiet for a moment before she looked at her father again. "I know I need a husband Father and I just wanted to say that I will marry whoever you and Mother choose without any argument."
"You know full well that will not be how it is Ariana...and you wound me to think it so. The only thing I require of you is that you regain your health and find happiness again in your life. That was all I ever wanted but your impatience and your need to rebel caused you to make poor decisions. You are the daughter of King...my daughter Ariana and a disappointment. I deserved better than what you did and how you did it. Laws exist for a reason and you know that. I know you loved...him but your encouragement, your willingness to allow him to break those laws was your worst mistake. You had a responsibility to him just as you do for Meliara here, and it is no different for anyone of us," he said but never took his eyes away of hers. He had a crook in his brow which meant he was indeed cross with her but his voice never wavered or changed in tone.
Ariana sighed a little and looked at her father. "I'm not sure I can love again though. I loved Lucas more than I could ever express. Do you think you could love again if Mother were to die?"
He was about to say that it was hardly the same thing, she had only been married for a year but stopped himself short. "Well...I loved an Elven princess once...before I knew your mother. We were...in love actually," he said and his eyes took on that distant look as if he were remembering it all. "I thought I'd never love another when I met her but then I saw your mother," he said and smiled warmly at Ariana. "So strong and beautiful...I saw her with your grandmother...on the street in Gehenna," he said and smiled. "They almost ran me over," he added. "I could have walked away then...and never saw her again but I returned later when she practiced her archery...to talk to her. I don't know why I asked her to leave with me...maybe apart of me knew that I'd fall in love with her and so I just did," Elessar said and chuckled.
Ariana was surprised to learn that her father had been in love with someone else before her mother. He had never heard him mention anyone else before. It was amazing to think that she and her sisters and brother might not exist right now if he had not ended up in Gehenna that day.
"When did you first realize you were in love with Mother?"
Elessar didn't respond immediately because he wasn't exactly certain. He smiled when he thought about the different moments that they shared though and it was unclear if if was him first or Nauriel that made the first move. "Danger has a way of making you realize what is really important. When we visited Imladris...I knew then that I did not love Arwen or maybe I still did but not in the way that was important to me. Your mother was a tigress," he said then smiled brightly as his eyes took on a very warm light. "Is a tigress...and she saved my life," he said as his face changed quickly into a frown and his gaze took her in again. "When I told Arwen how I felt she released me from my oaths and I was free to marry your mother. But know this...if she hadn't I would have married her instead and eventually the love I once felt for her would have returned...in time," he said honestly. "When we as a people ignore our duty, ignore our oaths and ignore our families...we help promote all that is evil in this world. Even now men and women plot for personal advantage and the values we hold so dearly are sold cheaply...nowadays. All we really have is each other in this world Ariana and the love and respect we have for one another. That matters more than gold or even a Crown. It is the faith that we share in one another that defeated the darkness long ago," he said as his face took on a troubled look. "Not a man or even an army," he said as he handed over her babe back to her then went onto his knees. "My children are the light that shines in my heart Ariana...you...broke my heart when you left," he said as he leaned in and kissed her cheek.
(ooc-i dont know why but this post makes me sad)
Ariana knew in that moment that she wanted to make her father proud of her again. She would never regret her actions because, despite what anyone else believed, she had truly loved Lucas and it had brought her Meliara and she would never regret having her. Meliara was the light of Ariana's life. But she could now truly understand what her mother and father had probably felt when she had left. She promised herself that she would do whatever needed to be done. She would return to court and she would find a new husband...one that would love Meliara like his own.
ooc-Time to move on?
OOC-Sure. I am thinking that when Ariana does re-marry that she will probably need someone older than her who is able to not only help her take care of Meliara, but also handle Ariana's ways. She is already starting to mature more because she's a mother, but I just see her with someone older. She's 17 and I'm thinking someone in their early to mid 30s. What do you think?
Ooc- holy cow...well maybe...why not
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Football to host Panther Football Academy
The football program will host a one-day Panther Football Academy on Friday, June 7, at Francis Field
Football receives all-conference honors
The football team had six players honored as UMAC all-conference team members. Five Panthers were named to the second team and GU had one member of the All-Sportsmanship team.
Football finishes season with 21-13 loss at Minnesota-Morris
The football team concluded their 2018 season with a 20-13 loss to Minnesota-Morris on the road Saturday.
Football collects 30-20 UMAC win at Iowa Wesleyan
The football team secured their second win in the last three games with a 30-20 victory at Iowa Wesleyan on Saturday.
Gavin Jordan picks up UMAC football defensive player of the week award
Gavin Jordan received his first UMAC defensive player of the week award after a 95-yard touchdown interception return.
Football falls short in upset effort
The football team had the undefeated UMAC leader MacMurray on the ropes on Saturday, but they fell short with a 27-20 loss.
Eric Kranh recognized as UMAC offensive player of the week
Eric Kranh received his first UMAC offensive player of the week award after recording four touchdowns against Crown.
Football runs past Crown 41-14
The football team collected a 41-14 win over Crown during its Homecoming game on Saturday afternoon at Francis Field.
Football rushes for 273 yards but falls to St. Scholastica
The football team traveled to St. Scholastica where they fell 47-13 to the Saints in a game on Saturday night.
Michael Carie tabbed as UMAC special teams player of the week
Michael Carie was selected for his first UMAC special teams player of the week award after his punts averaged 43.7 yards against Westminster, including a long of 73 yards.
Football captures UMAC victory at Westminster
The football team received a six yard rushing touchdown from George Harris in the final minute of the game to take a 24-20 victory over Westminster on Saturday.
Myles Kanipes selected as UMAC special teams player of the week
Myles Kanipes received his first UMAC special teams player of the week award after his kickoff return touchdown against Martin Luther.
Football offense produces four touchdowns in loss
The football team managed to score a season-high 28 points, but it was not enough to combat a record-setting performance from Martin Luther as the Panthers lost 63-28 on Saturday afternoon.
Football drops opening UMAC contest
The football team lost a 24-7 decision to Northwestern-St. Paul on Saturday in their opening UMAC game of the season.
Football falls 42-7 at Kalamazoo
The football team held Kalamazoo scoreless over the final 30 minutes of the game, but it was not enough to overcome a 42-7 halftime deficit in a loss on Saturday.
Football drops opening game at Wartburg
The football team traveled to Iowa to face the nation's No. 13 ranked Wartburg team and was defeated 73-13 after Wartburg raced out to a 30 point lead in the first quarter and a 47-3 lead at halftime.
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Kool Kat of the Week: Drinking In The Graveyard: Lauren Staley Morrow of Whiskey Gentry Talks About Playing Tunes From the Tombs
Posted on: May 17th, 2012 By: Anya99
By James Kelly
Contributing Music Editor
For the last couple of years Cabbagetown’s Whiskey Gentry has been blazing a trail across the Deep South, gathering a massive number of rabid fans wherever they play. Their cranked up “Pogues go to old time Nashville” style is addicting and infectious, and their live shows are memorable parties. With one excellent album under their belts, the band is currently planning a three-night stint at Smith’s Olde Bar on July 12, 13 and 14 to record a live album. But before that we get the chance to hear them a few blocks from home at the second annual Tunes From The Tombs festival this weekend. The two-day event (Sat. May 19 and Sun. May 20) is a benefit for the Oakland Cemetery and features a ton of great local, regional and national acts on several stages throughout the amazing and historic cemetery. The music starts around 11 a.m. and lasts until dusk. Tickets are $10 each day, or $15 for both days.
With the Whiskey Gentry closing out the event Sunday night at 6 p.m., ATLRetro.com decided that lovely and talented lead singer Lauren Staley Morrow would be a mighty swell Kool Kat Of The Week! Following a busy weekend on the road, Miss Lauren was kind enough to answer a few questions for us.
ATLRetro: How did you first get involved in music, and when did you ultimately consider yourself a professional singer?
Music was always a big deal in my household as a child. None of my immediate family are musicians, but they are all avid fans. I got my first guitar for Christmas when I was 14 and started officially writing songs then. Unfortunately, I spent the next six years trying to hide the fact that I could sing from everyone. I was always so nervous that I would only play my music to a very select group of friends in my bedroom closet so my parents wouldn’t hear. I moved to England to study abroad when I was 20 years old and played my first open mic there. After that, I was hooked to performing live. I don’t do drugs or jump out of planes or anything like that, so I get my adrenaline rush from performing in front of people. Despite all that, I don’t know if I consider myself a professional singer just yet! I’ve always thought that once I was able to make a full-time living from music, then I would consider myself a professional. I’m not there just yet – but soon!
Photo courtesy of The Whiskey Gentry.
Who are some of your most important musical influences, and why do you consider them so essential?
Gosh, my musical influences are all over the place and keep evolving through the years. U2 is my favorite band of all time, and I loved Britpop when I was in high school. When I moved to England, I was so homesick for the South that I started listening to a lot of alt-country, Americana, and old country. I also started reading a lot of Southern folk literature and listening to Child Ballads (written tunes that influenced old-time and Appalachian music). That was really when I felt my Southern roots started working their way into my songwriting.
What do you think brought about the vast difference between the type of country music you play, and what is heard on commercial radio?
Currently, I think there is a great divide between those of us who want to honor a more traditional type of country music versus the amount of that which is played on commercial radio. Thankfully, I feel like people are ready to embrace country acts that aren’t so commercial but have the ability to cross over into the mainstream without losing their integrity. I was very encouraged to see acts like The Civil Wars, Avett Brothers, Mumford & Sons rise to success this past year. Even the Zac Brown Band, who is very successful in commercial country markets, stay true their sound without writing about “honky-tonk badonkadonks” and “red solo cups.” I think that’s an encouraging sign for those of us who want to honor the country genre that’s inspired us without looking like a bunch of hacks trying to make a dollar on CMT.
Please tell us a bit about the members of the Whiskey Gentry, and how you found them. Why do you think this lineup “clicks” so well?
The Whiskey Gentry really began when I met my husband, Jason. We knew we both wanted to play music together, and we assembled the rest of the players in the group. Jason was in punk bands with Price Cannon (drums) and Sammy Griffin (bass), and we found Chesley Lowe (banjo) through a good friend. The five of us were the core band for a long time aside from a few hired guns along the way. Last year, we were introduced to Michael Smith who plays mandolin, and we finally met a fiddle player, Rurik Nunan. We also met Waylon Elsberry who plays harmonica and lap steel and can write one hell of a tune. Having spent the last few months on the road every weekend, I feel like we’ve finally found the band line-up we want forever – all of these guys are like my extended family. Like any family, we have our issues and disagreements. But at the end of the day, we all understand, respect and love each other immensely.
How did the Whiskey Gentry develop such a rabid and large fan base? What do you think is the most interesting aspect of your audience?
Initially, I think it helped that we all played in relatively successful local bands before forming The Whiskey Gentry, and we all had large social networks who, through word of mouth, told friends about our band. Over the years, I think we have made a name for ourselves through our live shows. I’ll meet people who will say, “I saw you guys last month and now I’ve brought 10 friends!” It’s a loyalty that has carried us from show to show and town to town. I think the most interesting aspect of our audience is how diverse it is – I don’t feel like there is any certain group that responds better to us than others. We have fun when we play, and I think people like to see that energy, regardless of background and musical tastes.
What do you see as the greatest attribute of the Atlanta music scene? What do you think is the greatest need in the local music scene?
I think one of the best things about the Atlanta music scene is that we have a lot of really great venues run by really great people who are willing to help up-and-coming acts get gigs in the city. We would have never been able to get a start in this town if it weren’t for a few concert promoters and venue booking agents who took a chance on us, and now, we have great relationships with those people and they continue to help us to this day. As for a need, I’ve been really excited to see Music Midtown making its comeback the past two years. Other cities around us have huge music festivals that not only draw in loads of revenue for their respective cities, but the festivals also help people pay attention to that town for music. Atlanta has a lot to offer musically that’s not just hip-hop or rap, and I just hope the city continues to show that.
The Whiskey Gentry put out a great debut album, so why record a live album at this point, instead of a second studio album?
I’m very proud of PLEASE MAKE WELCOME, and I think it does a great job of capturing our live sound. Having said that, however, I do feel like there is something undeniable about coming to one of our shows. It’s a party. People are screaming and dancing and singing the words, and we want to display that through a live recording. Also, as musicians, I think the live shows really showcase the musical abilities of the people in the band. We feed off of the energy from the crowds, and it just makes everyone play so well. Also, the live record will not take the place of a second album – we plan on releasing our second record next year, and the live album will be sold in coordination with that.
Do you have anything special planned for the upcoming Tunes From the Tombs show that you are willing to share with us? We know y’all love to whip out the odd cover tunes…
Ha! Who knows what we’ll come up with – we learned “Sabotage” in the van home from Virginia two days after MCA died and played it at show that evening. We love a good cover tune.
If you could book a “dream gig” who would you have on the bill with the Whiskey Gentry, and why?
This is tough. We all come from so many different musicial influences that I would want to honor all of them at our dream gig. Here’s the line-up: U2, Loretta Lynn and Dolly Parton and Gillian Welch all signing three-part harmony to every song, Social Distortion, Flatt & Scruggs (you said dream gig!), Gram Parsons (dreaming…again), Weird Al Yankovic, a comedy hour with Louis CK, Madonna, Bob Dylan, Ryan Adams, Wilco, Bad Religion and OutKast.
Category: Kool Kat of the Week | Tags: Avett Brothers, Chesley Lowe, Child Ballads, Civil Wars, country music, honkytonk, James Kelly, Jason Morrow, Kool Kat of the Week, Lauren Staley Morrow, Michael Smith, Mumford & Sons, Music Midtown, Oakland Cemetery, Please make welcome, Price Cannon, Rurik Nunan, Sabotage, Sammy Griffin, Slim Chance, Smith's Olde Bar, Tunes from the Tombs, U2, Waylon Elsberry, Whiskey Gentry, Zac Brown Band
‘Tis the Season To Be Merry: Hark the Honkytonk Devils Sing! Whiskey Gentry Throws a Merry Y’All Tide Celebration at Variety Playhouse.
Posted on: Nov 28th, 2011 By: Anya99
When a band named The Whiskey Gentry throws a Merry Y’All Tide Celebration for the holidays, you might be expecting the same old twangy country renditions of favorite carols. But this spirited band loves to defy expectations, and their seasonal shindig at the Variety Playhouse this Friday Dec. 2 is no exception to that raucous rule. It’s not that The Whiskey Gentry aren’t influenced by the kind of ballads that came down from the hills of Appalachia, but like a certain rebellious red-nosed reindeer, they’re bound and determined to be musical misfits with a diverse list of influences that spans from Patsy Cline to Bela Fleck to Social Distortion. Yeah, that Social Distortion. The accent is on the Whiskey in this Gentry who speed things up with some fiery, high-energy licks that suggest punk and old-time rock ‘n’ roll and even a touch of vaudeville in their stage shows.
The Whiskey Gentry’s 3rd annual Merry Y’All Tide also features The Packway Handle Band, Shovels and Rope and My Three Keanes, an act made up of veteran producer John Keane, who has produced CDs for R.E.M., the Indigo Girls and The Whiskey Gentry’s 2011 CD, PLEASE MAKE WELCOME, and his two daughters. All proceeds from the $15 in-advance/$17.50–at-the-door benefit the Atlanta Community Food Bank, and fans are encouraged to bring at least three cans for donation. As an extra incentive, the band will be giving our a specially designed poster to everyone who participates.
While The Whiskey Gentry prefer not to nail down their sound into any one genre, ATLRetro managed to corral lead singer Lauren Staley and guitarist Jason Morrow—a couple both musically and in real life—into a sneak preview of Merry Y’All Tide. While sitting an spell, they also opened up more than a bit about the band’s origins, why they love the holidays and their favorite whiskey. And when you’re done reading, check out this this nifty little video they made about this Friday’s show.
ATLRetro: How did Whiskey Gentry get started?
Lauren: Jason and I met around Christmas 2007, and we were both in separate bands at the time. Once we started dating, we decided to join forces and begin writing tunes together. We both came from different musical backgrounds, but we immediately found a niche together with this style of music.
For those who haven’t heard the band before, how do you describe your sound, how did it come about and how does it relate to what’s come before musically?
Jason: Describing our sound is probably the hardest thing we have to do in this band. We’re not country. We’re not bluegrass. We’re not punk or rock or old-timey. Yet we ARE all of these things at the same time. I think we take the formula of an old country tune, turn it up to 11, give it some punch, add pretty vocals, and top it off with a few of the best pickers in the southeast. This came about from all of our shared love for country and bluegrass, but we wanted to really dig in and add the fire behind it.
The Whiskey Gentry. Photo courtesy of The Whiskey Gentry.
Many contemporary bands couldn’t rush further away from the sentimentality of Christmas, but you’ve become known for an annual live holiday show, which is even bigger this year. What’s the origin story behind the Merry Y’All Tide Celebration?
Jason: We love everything about the holiday season – anything from cinnamon broomsticks to watching our nephews and nieces open gifts. It’s a festive time of year, and we’re a festive type of band. We love this season whether it’s “cool” or not.
Lauren: I think people love to get in the holiday spirit in general. People go bananas over it. Did you see the Black Friday riots? I mean, come on.
At Merry Y’All Tide, will you be playing your own takes on traditional carols or original songs? Is it all Christmas music or will you be playing non-holiday fare, too?
Lauren: Back in the day, any artist who was somebody cut a Christmas record. Those tunes are classics, and we like to do our own takes on those as well as newer Christmas tunes. The majority of our set will be non-holiday fare, but we’ve got some awesome holiday songs picked out to cover. But we can’t tell you which ones they are – it’s a surprise. 🙂
What other shenangans are planned? Is Santa gonna be there, tapping his feet, clapping his hands and swigging a PBR?
Jason: We hired the crappyist Santa we could fine, and he’s going to be there chugging whiskey and PBR and trying to get pretty girls to sit on his lap.
Much merriment was had at last year's Merry Y'All. Photo Courtesy of The Whiskey Gentry.
Why We Three Keanes, Packway Handle Band and Shovels and Rope?
Jason: Shovels and Rope because they are our new favorite band, also a husband and wife duo. Packway Handle Band because Josh and the boys are some of our good friends and were part of our Christmas show last year. We Three Keanes because John Keane helped us make the best record of our career thus far, and he and his twin daughters will be doing a 20-minute, all-holiday song set promoting their Christmas record. He will also be sitting in on pedal steel with us.
Why did you want to partner with the Atlanta Community Food Bank and the Georgia Conservancy?
Lauren: We think the holidays are about giving, and we wanted to do our part to help out.
Why does your CD, PLEASE MAKE WELCOME, make the perfect Christmas present, and will there ever be a MERRY Y’ALL TIDE CD?
Lauren: Because it fits easily into a stocking and is also super easy to wrap—if you suck at wrapping like I do. And who knows—maybe we will have a Merry Y’all Tide CD for next year’s show!
What’s next for the Whiskey Gentry? You’re about to embark on a Southeast tour, right?
Jason: We are basically on tour every weekend, Thursday to Sunday. We already have 36 dates booked in 2012, so yes, we will be busy.
Finally, got to ask, what’s the band’s favorite whiskey, why and how do you drink it- straight up or with ice?
Lauren: Ironically, I hate whiskey, so I’m a terrible person to answer this question.
Jason: If I had to speak for everyone, probably Jameson. In shots!
Category: Uncategorized | Tags: Atlanta Community Food Bank, Bela Fleck, bluegrass, Christmas, Christmas albums, country, holidays, indigo girls, Jameson, Jason Morrow, john keane, Lauren Staley, Merry Y'All Tide, My Three Keanes, Packway Handle Band, Patsy Cline, PBR, Please make welcome, punk, REM, Santa, Shovels and Rope, Social Distortion, Variety Playhouse, Whiskey Gentry
Weekend Update, Aug. 12-14, 2011
Hear some great garage rock and rockabilly, pose with a pin-up girl, see burlesque acts, win raffle prizes and support a great animal charity at Little Darling’s Pinups for Pitbulls Presents: Dog Days of Summer! starting at 8 p.m. at The Basement beneath Graveyard Tavern. Check out our first-ever Kool Kitten interview with April 2001 Pinups for Pitbulls Calendar model Brook Bolen here. Performers include ’60s girl group revivalists The F’n Heartbreaks (of which Brook is a bandmember) and The Hot Rod Walt Trio (read our Kool Kat interview with Hot Rod Walt here); local burlesque stars Talloolah Love, Barbalicious and Sadie Hawkins of Blast-Off Burlesque, and Pinups for Pitbulls charity-founder Little Darling herself!
It’s another honky tonk rockabilly Friday at Star Bar with Caroline & the Ramblers, Villain Family and The Serenaders. It’s also always good news to hear about a too-rare Subsonics show, so we’re happy to report Buffi Aguero & Co. will be garage-rockin’ it out at The Earl tonight with Carnivores and Howlies. Bela Fleck & the Flecktones and Bruce Hornsby & the Noisemakers are at Classic Chastain. Swing to jazz, earthy blues and a little rock n roll by vocalist Gwen Hughes and her band The Retro Jazz Kats at Callanwolde Jazz on the Lawn tonight. Catch an IMAX movie and dance to blues, jazz and a slight bit of funk courtesy of Derryl Rivers & the Flying Circus at Fernbank Museum of Natural History’s Martinis and IMAX. Recent Kool Kat Julea Thomerson and the BareKnuckle Betties plays The Five Spot with Midnight Revival and Silent Coyote. And CineProv pokes good-natured fun at THE ROCKETEER at Relapse Theatre.
Yet another clone-worthy day and night in Retro Atlanta. It’s almost impossible to pick just one of the vintage wonderland of activities tonight. First, the good news is a couple of things are in the afternoon. Kids and their parents are in for tricks and treats as the Silver Scream Spookshow‘s Professor Morte teaches a Monster Make-Up Class at Main Street School of Art at 1 p.m. Learn how to turn your kid and you into a werewolf or zombie using classic monster movie make-up techniques from realistic bruises and oozing wounds to deathly ghoulish faces and how to apply latex and hair.
Meanwhile over at The Plaza Theatre, see Sergio Leone/Clint Eastwood classic Western THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE UGLY at 3 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. as it was meant to be seen in glorious widescreen 35 mm. The movie is the last and best part of Leone’s “Man With No Name” trilogy, which the Plaza has been screening throughout the summer. Hurray for AM1690 for sponsoring! Be sure to hang around, come early or just stop by The Plaza at 6:35 p.m., too, for COMING SOON TO A THEATRE NEAR YOU!, 35 min. of rare 35 mm trailers from Plaza Manager Ben Ruder‘s private collection. Admission for the latter is free, but donations to support the nonprofit theatre are encouraged.
The Derby Strikes Back as the Atlanta Rollergirls‘ four teams face-off in their annual play-offs. The Apocalypstix battle the Toxic Shocks at 5 p.m. while theDenim Demons get one more shot against the undefeated Sake Tukas at 7:30 p.m. Both bouts, as always, are at the Yaarab Shrine Center on Ponce, and advance tickets are recommended for these sure-to-sell-out matches. Arrive early to browse the cool vendors.
The King may have passed away from this earth on Aug. 16, 1977, but oh, does his spirit live on in ELVIS ROYALE, an annual Vegas-style multimedia extravaganza staged by KingSized and the Dames Aflame at Variety Playhouse. Hear the one-and-only Big Mike Geier sing songs from every point in Elvis’s career and experience the glittery Cavalcade of Elvis during the fabulous finale. Read our Kool Kat exclusive interview with Big Mike here.
BURLESQUE WITH A HITCH, the latest in Mon Cherie‘s Va-Va-Voom series at Masquerade, celebrates the genius of film director Alfred Hitchcock with each act based on a different film by the master. Alabaster JuJu stars, with master of suspense and mystery Miss Mason hosting, and the all-star line-up of performers includes Sadie Hawkins, Rebecca DeShon (Hoop Essence), Stormy Knight, Fonda Lingue, Evil Sarah, The Chameleon Queen, magician Chad Sanborn, Katarina Laveaux (Birmingham, AL), Nicolette Tesla (Charlotte, NC), and Peachz de Vine (Greensboro, NC). Before and after, DJ 313 spins alternative dance, Allison Kellar offers body-painting, and there’s also a RAWKIN’ RAFFLE with lots of vintage-inspired vendors donating prizes. Cover is a bargain 5 bucks, and doors open at 9 p.m. In suspense about what’s happening? Click here for a sneak preview of this Spellbound affair from Chad Sanborn.
It’s Man Day at Twain’s starting with first-come-first-serve manly tattoos at noon, but the main event gets rolling at 5 p.m. with a night of live music, manly competitions (examples include Handyman Challenge and Best Beer Gut), aerial dance performances by Blast-Off Burlesque‘s Sadie Hawkins, boob cupcakes by Sugar Dolls, the Wheel of Destiny and much more.
And that’s not to mention Big Bad Voodoo Daddy swinging with theAtlanta Symphony Orchestra at Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre. Psycho
Big Bad Voodoo Daddy.
DeVilles rockabilly it up at the world-famous Dixie Tavern in Marietta. Little Joey’s Big Band is at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack. Blues pianist extraordinaire Ike Stubblefield plays Northside Tavern. And of course, DJ Romeo Cologne transforms the sensationally seedy Clermont Lounge into a ’70s disco/funk inferno late into the wee hours.
Sunday August 14
Chickens and Pigs plays blues “dunch” between 1 and 4 PM at The Earl. The Whiskey Gentry bring their misfit country-to-punk twang to the Park Tavern Unplugged in the Park series at Piedmont Park. Tony Bryant reps four generations of Georgia blues at Fat Matt’s. And the Michael Hutchence-less INXS brings back the ’80s at Chastain Park Amphitheatre.
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So this is me, my friends, closing down the computer and signing off for 2013.
See you through ON the other side...
Review: The Story Of The World Cup
The Story Of The World Cup by Brian Glanville
I desperately wanted to love this book: it was given to me by my wife as part of a Christmas tradition where we buy each other a second-hand book that we might not have bought ourselves, but which we think "Of course!" once we open the wrapping. I'm a football fan, a lover of the World Cup (one of our favourite shared memories is of me utterly failing to remain quiet whilst watching Australia v Japan in a hotel room during WC2006 whilst she unsuccessfully tried to get some sleep next to me), an utter football tragic in as many ways as time and money let me be. This looked like a good fit. I really, really wish it had been.
Sadly, the book turns out to be a depressingly mundane read from an author who seems to have been given a word-a-day calendar for Christmas and grown bored with it by about January 5th: every winger in the history of the sport is 'insidious' (and half of them 'little'); every right foot that scores a goal a hammer; every left likewise; and while 'fulminating' may be a cool word to pull out and use when you want to impress a girl you like, I hadn't read it in a text in something like 20 years, which makes the sixteen times it appears in this book so laughable it verges on a drinking game.
More disturbingly is Glanville's preoccupation with describing players via their skin or hair colour. Three types of players exist in Glanville's world: those with a mane of blond hair, like Gabriel Batistuta or Luis Hernandez; those who are 'dark', like Gerd Muller or Franz Beckenbauer; or most worryingly, those he simply describes as 'black'. In the early pages, in those first few tournaments where it is quickly apparent that Glanville has no direct experience and is pulling together reports from the time, such a description can be accepted as a yardstick of the modernising effect that black footballers were having on the national aspirations of countries like Brazil and Uruguay. It serves to highlight the special attributes certain players brought to their tournaments, and what they overcame to get there. By the time we get to 1994, an he still insists on singling out players like Aron Winter for this description, there's only one conclusion that can be reluctantly drawn. There is simply no need for the description anymore. It is Glanville, not the circumstance, who accords importance to the colour of a player's skin.
It leaves a lingering taste in the mouth, but it's not the only problem.
Glanville can't decide whether the book is to be a Wisdenish collation of facts or a more personal, opinionated series of recollections by a man who performed journalistic duties at a long series of the World Cup events, and has been able to extend his research back to cover those that occurred before his time. It leads to a schism of approach between pre- and post-1966 reportage: dry as dust to begin with, and lapsing increasingly into irrelevant asides that do nothing to advance the narrative of each tournament (his constant niggling at, and denigration of, for example, both Kevin Keegan and Bobby Robson, is never at any stage backed up with a reason why he feels this way towards an admired player and manager). Ultimately he tries to cover both styles, and falls between them both, coming across like nothing more or less than the boring nerk at the end of the bar who thrusts himself into a passionate fan argument without being asked, and proceeds to bleed it dry by acting like an utter anorak: lacking humour, original insight, or anything approaching an understanding of the passions that drive the argument in the first place.
Labels: football, reviews
2012. BEEN THERE, DONE THAT
And so we come to the end of 2012, a year named after a shitty movie that replicated it in as much as it was overbudget, filled with bad science, was downright made of stupid, and made me want to stab John Cusack in the eye. Thus it is in a somewhat reflective and grown-up mood that I contemplate this year's annual review. Some mighty highs, some pretty deep lows, some jelly beans found down the back of the coach that tasted okay once you got the fluff off, a dead guy in the boot that's beginning to smell. And chips.
1. What did you do in 2012 that you'd never done before?
Saw my novel in print, achieved promotion to co-ordinator level at work.
2. Did you achieve your goals for the year, and will you make more for next year?
I've changed this question slightly, from 'resolutions' to 'goals', as I think it's a more positive approach, and there's one change for me for a start-- I'm going to try to be a little more positive this year. My general sense of humour has slipped alarmingly from 'wry' through 'dark' to 'gallows': I need to rein it back a bit.
Other than that, I actually did not bad this year. Most of my goals were writing-related, and despite problems with me weight (more on that later) and a promotion at work which has resulted in longer days, I still managed to successfully navigate the publication of my first novel and the completion of two more, which was pretty decent going under the circumstance.
So what's on the cards for 2013? I've a list of 8 goals this year, covering professional, personal, and hobby. This is what I'm aiming for:
Lose 12 kilograms. My weight ballooned in 2012, to the point where, if I was getting on a plane with Jabba the Hutt and Colleen McCullough they'd probably ask one of us to take a later flight. To a certain extent I've been time-poor, but the greater truth is that I've been a fat lazy bastard with no willpower. 12 kilograms will take me back to 100 kilos, which would mean I only needed to repeat the feat in 2014 to be back where I belong.
Send the Father Muerte & The Divine chapter package and synopsis to SuperAgent Rich. Winning my first novel contract was wonderful, but the bigger trick is doing it again. Now that I've fulfilled the 2 novels of that first contract I'm in a position to aim for a new one, and with the Father Muerte novel first draft finished, it's time to get it in the hands of the man who can get it for me.
Pitch the 3rd Corpse-Rat King novel. Angry Robot have made encouraging noises. Nothing worse that a robot that gets cold feet. I'll have this in their hands in a couple of weeks.
Write a new novel. All part of the career arc. Write, write, and write again. I'm up to 'again'.
Write a kids' book. At the particular behest of Miss 11 and Master 8, kidlings about town. And why not? Strings, bow, career. And it might be fun.
Turn Napoleone's Land into a fantasy novel. Way back in the dim, dark past, I wrote an alternative history that utterly failed to do anything worthwhile. But the armature is good, and I'm a better write now, and when you read a novel like Joe Abercrombie's Red Country and see what can be said whilst not being said, it sets a mind to wondering. This is a very do-able task, and there's a good story there, just waiting to find its best format.
Enter Nnovvember. Every year the Lego community on Flickr produce a poster in memory of Nate 'nnenn' Neilson, a much-loved member of the community who specialised in building twin-pronged spacecraft called Vic Vipers. I had my first crack at it this year, and while I didn't make the poster, loved the craft I created and really enjoyed the feeling of being part of a hobby community. So I'm going to have another crack this year.
Design a Cuusoo kit. Lyn's challenged me to build a 'substantial', well-realised MOC, and somehow I've escalated that into putting it up on Cuusoo, the Lego/AFOL collaboration site. Once a set reaches 10 000 votes, Lego commit to reviewing it with the possibility of releasing it as an official Lego kit. It's been done several times already, and for those who have read The Corpse-Rat King, Lyn has requested a 'wreck of the Nancy Tulip' set complete with Nandus/Littleboots and Marius. Maybe. Maaaaaaaaaaaaaaaybe.
So. Tune in same Bat-time, same Bat-channel, to see how I get along.
3. Did anyone close to you give birth?
My step-daughter Cassandra gave birth to a gorgeous little girl, Aisla.
G'wan, isn't she gorgeous?
With our own gorgeous two. Already giving Master 8 'the look'.
4. Did anyone close to you die?
Not close, after 5 years of estrangement between them, but Lyn's mother Pat died late upon this year. Thankfully, they managed a small reconciliation in her final days, but really, no good came of it
5. What countries did you visit?
I tried to visit a country for old men, but there wasn't one.
6. What would you like to have in 2013 that you lacked in 2012?
A Happy wife. 2012 was rough on my beautiful darling, from her Mother's illness, to a demoralising work situation, to serious health issues of her own that are likely to result in surgery some time in 2013. we sat down the other day and decided that, as of the 1st, all is tabula rasa: 2013 starts with a blank slate on all fronts, and the past can fucking well stay where it's put. If we get to this time next year, and this one thing is achieved, the year will be worth it.
7. What dates from 2012 will remain etched upon your memory, and why?
28 August. Call me Captain Self-Obsessed, but the publication of my first novel was the highlight of the year.
8. What was your biggest achievement of the year?
Seeing The Corpse-Rat King hit print. It's been a long time coming-- too long-- but becoming a published novelist, in the way I wanted to become one, was a big turning point in my life, one of those turning points I hope to look back on in many years' time and say "Yeah, there. That's when I started out on the path that got me here."
Honourable mention to outmanoeuvring several more-qualified applicants to gain a promotion at work and become co-ordinator of my department after my old co-ordinator suddenly upped and left after 8 years. My manager cheerfully admits (too cheerfully?) that mine was the weakest application on paper, but my interview blew them away, and after 8-odd months in the job I feel like I might just be coming towards making the position my own.
9. What was your biggest failure?
The upkeep of this enormous white elephant of a house in which we live. I've lost 900 grams in the last 5 days sanding, patching, painting, and basically working like a reno-wallah trying to get the big bastard up to a condition where we can think about selling. a house this size was appropriate when we bought it three years ago, back when we had a small army and a trail of camp followers to house. But it's now too big, too expensive, and too much like constantly painting the Sydney Harbour Bridge to keep it maintained for the remaining 5 of us.
A smaller house, with a garden I can enjoy, rather than constantly service, will be the aim.
10. Did you suffer illness or injury?
We have 5 people living in our house, and every single one of us has seen the inside of a hospital in the last 18 months. even now, I'm hobbling about on one foot after an accident playing basketball with Master 8 a couple of days ago. Health has not been good for either Lyn or myself.
11. What was the best thing you bought?
I'm tempted to say our new car, a nice downsize from our enormous gas-guzzling 6-seater Falcon with its myriad of mechanical issues to a neat, compact 2012 Hyundai i30 with its parsimonious appetite and nice level of comfort and space. But I'm going to plump for the $700 we spent on our space-age Dyson Transformer vacuum cleaner. It's the first decent vacuum we've had, and came at a point where we could afford to buy from the top shelf, and in this instance, we got exactly what we paid for. Just one of those pleasing moments where we could indulge on a necessity, and have been well rewarded.
12. Whose behaviour merited celebration?
Each of the members of my family, who pulled together to make a year in which both parents had full time jobs with long hours as painless as it could be, and as usual, my darling Lyn, who puts everybody before herself, and whose sacrifices this year really were sacrificial. The burden shall not be so great in 2013, I promise.
13. Whose behaviour made you appalled and depressed?
In the wider world, the National Rifle Association in the USA, whose response to the latest gunning down of innocent schoolchildren showed a vile and reprehensible lack of basic humanity and love for the very citizens their existence is not only predicated upon but, in its purest form, happens only in order to serve in times of national emergency. They skirt perilously close to advocating the armed assassination of their own country's citizens, and egregiously close to the behaviour of a terrorist organisation. It's time they were disbanded, burned to the ground, and a new, saner organisation erected on their bones.
On a level much closer to home, the grandfather who lives less than fifty kilometres away and simply sent his grandchildren envelopes with money in them for birthdays and Christmas, and who left one of his grandchildrens' names off the Christmas card, hardly covered himself in glory. That's one slow decline in relationships that's about to slip right underneath the radar.
14. Where did most of your money go?
Restoring some lifestyle we'd been missing, and more recently, paint.
Oh, and Lyn and the kids finally badgered me once to often about getting a dog, and now they've got one. As far as I can tell he eats money and shits happiness for my kids, so he gets to stay another year.
15. What did you get really, really, really excited about?
The Hobbit movie, especially as I am father to an 8 year old who decided to read the book for himself this year and then totally lost his shit when he started watching the trailers. I've been an uncritical Tolkein fan since I was his age: Sue me.
16. What song will always remind you of 2012?
No one song, really. Musically I had a rather disappointing year. I always try to discover one new band that excites me, but this year I couldn't find one. The closest I got was a song by Gotye and a couple of distracted listens to Florence & The Machine: amazing voice, but I lacked the time to really explore it.
17. Compared to this time last year, are you: i. happier or sadder? ii. thinner or fatter? iii. richer or poorer?
Even-keeled, muuuuuuuch fatter, slightly richer in material goods but battening down for a period of proper, grown-up belt-tightening. And, I should mention, fucking exhausted! I can't remember ever feeling so tired, so often for so long.
18. What do you wish you'd done more of?
Achieving a decent work-life balance. It tilted a bit too much this year.
19. What do you wish you'd done less of?
Working Saturdays, missing my kids' assemblies, flaking out exhausted in front of Foxtel of an evening and letting it all wash over me and my beer/cider/moscato.
20. How did you spend Christmas?
Cooked the family a slap-up breakfast, did the presents thang, then lay on the bed with my Christmas books and my winter cider and me beloved wife while the Bigguns went off to their dad's for lunch and sleeping over and the littlies went to their grandparents for lunch and more presents and sleeping over.
21. Who did you meet for the first time?
My new offsider at work, the lovely Donna, and quite a few Facebook friends and Goodreads buddies, most notably the esteemed Brian M. Logan, who I'm counselling through a sad, tragic addiction to a plastic football club. I also met, for the first time in the flesh, those splendid fellows Daniel Simpson and Anthony Panegyres at the KSP SF Mini-con (well, okay, I'd met Daniel before, but this was a proper, full-on, hail-fellow kinda meeting)
22. Did you fall in love in 2012?
I did, with the T-Rex Master 8 got in his giant Lego kit for Christmas. But the little bugger won't share.
As always, of course, I am gushingly and diabetes-inducingly in love with my beautiful and wonderful wife, the Luscious Lyn.
23. What was your favourite TV program?
Again, nothing really jumps out, and this is probably a reflection of the year as a whole: a lot of stuff was absorbed/watched/listened to, but very little made any sort of lasting impression. Recently, the kids have discovered Monty Python's Flying Circus, especially Miss 11, so I'm getting great enjoyment watching it with them, but largely because I'm watching them watching it.
Mock the Week and Russell Howard's Good Week were the two comedy panel/variety style shows that had me rocking back in my chair roaring every week. They'll be the ones I'll be scrabbling to pick up in iView or similar now we've finally cut the Foxtel umbilical.
24. Do you hate anyone now that you didn't hate this time last year?
No, not at all. I had a largely hate-free year.
25. What was the best book you read?
Red Country by Joe Abercrombie. Demoralisingly, Abercrombie does an enormous amount of what I'd like to do as a writer, only better, deeper, and at a level I not only can't match but at a level I don't think I'm capable of matching.
Honourable mention to the Book of the New Sun quadrology by Gene Wolfe, which remains as utterly superb as it always has been, but is beaten back into second place by being a re-read rather than a new one; Pyrotechnicon by Adam Browne, which is a wonderful confection of a novel that lifts and gladdens the heart; and Shriek: An Afterword by Jeff Vandermeer, which is soaringly intelligent, literary, convoluted and decayed all at the same time. I gave all of them 5 star ratings on Goodreads, and if you haven't read any of them, I lend you my heartiest recommendation.
Golden Turds for Wolfskin Volume 2 by Warren Ellis, a pointless and boringly stupid thud and blunder graphic novel whose shiny paperstock meant it wasn't even good enough for wiping my arse on, and Tales from the Vulgar Unicorn, a Thieves' World collection edited by Robert Lynn Asprin, although in the latter case the fault was undoubtedly mine for revisiting teenage reading, rather than the book: it is what it is, unashamedly and unapologetically pulpy and slapdash, and it's me that has moved on to more sophisticated fare, not it.
If you'd like to read my reviews of these books, some of them are here on the blog (try the 'reviews' link in the cloud) or you can see them on my Goodreads profile.
26. What was your greatest musical discovery?
As mentioned above, I bummed out this year. No new music that really gripped me and turned my head. I spent more time in my iPod playlists than in listening to the radio. so I'll go left-field and nominate This Is My Jam, a music-based social media site that I signed up to a couple of months ago, and which I'm hoping will lead me to discover new sounds next year.
27. What was your favourite film of this year?
Yeah, it was The Avengers. Loved it. Loved it with a giggling, bouncing fanboy love. Loved it with my kids next to me loving it, loved it again with just my wife, loved it all over again on DVD. Love love love.
Yes, I'm a big stupid superhero spectacle loving fanboy. Bite me.
Honourable mentions to Seven Psychopaths, the downright funniest and don't-give-a-shittingnest movie of the year, with Christopher Walken delivering the single best one word line in all of cinema. And a telemovie called Holy Flying Circus, about the reception given to Monty Python's Life of Brian and the stitching up of the Pythons by the talk show Friday Night, Saturday Morning, which managed to be affectionate, dispassionate, intelligent and fantastical in turn, as well as damned funny in its own right, and was an exceptional piece of small screen film-making.
The Polar Express Award for Making Me Want to Stab My Own Eyes Out went to Prometheus, a film so god-awful bad I actually had blocked it when I wrote the first draft of this review and only remembered it when I took Lyn to the DVd store this evening to find something to watch, a film so bad it could only make Grant Watson happy because now Alien 3 is nowhere near the worst Alien movie ever made: Prometheus is so bad it's the three worst Alien movies ever made.
Dishonourary stabs in the eye to Dark Shadows, the first movie ever to make me wish Johnny Depp would just stop, take a deep breath, and stop (thankfully, if he really is playing Tonto in a new Lone Ranger movie, my practice at wishing he would just stop should not go to waste), and reinforced my wish that Tim Burton would Just. Fucking. Stop! and Total Recall, a movie in which Colin Farrell-- an actor I have a bit of time for-- acted like a man possessed, but couldn't stop this most idiotic of remakes putting the 'stupid' in What The Fuck Did I Shell Out Good Australian Dollars for This Stupid Piece of Shit?
28. What did you do on your birthday, and how old were you?
I turned 42, and spent the day at home with my family constantly telling me I wasn't allowed to do anything, just sit back and enjoy my day. So I did :)
29. What one thing would have made your year immeasurably more satisfying?
Greater satisfaction.
30. How would you describe your personal fashion concept in 2012?
Falling-to-bits because I'd rather make sure the kids had decent kit.
31. What kept you sane?
Lyn, the kids, writing, cider.
32. What political issue stirred you the most?
The Newtown school shooting.
33. Tell us a valuable life lesson you learned in 2012.
Many years ago I set myself the goal of being a full-time writer by the time I was 45. I might not reach it by that age, but it remains a goal most devoutly wished.
34. Quote a song lyric that sums up your year.
Dear sir or Madam, will you read my book?
It took me years to write, will you take a look?
Paperback Writer, the Beatles.
Labels: year in review
Review: Red Country
Red Country by Joe Abercrombie
A stunning novel, deceptive in its slow pace as it is that very pace which builds and builds and builds tension and danger in every-thickening layers. It's a frontier western story dressed as a fantasy: thick with dust, shit, sweat and spit, populated by characters at once familiar to both genres but, again, accreted with such deep personalities over the passage of the book that they lodge under the reader's skin and stick there. I was utterly absorbed from beginning to end. Easily my book of 2012.
THUMBNAIL THURSDAY IS ALIVE, I TELL YOU, ALIVE!
I don't have anything profound to say about this one. Indeed, I don't think it's terribly profound itself. But anyone who's ever been in the garage, or kitchen, or garden, while a parent works away, seemingly oblivious to their presence, may recognise something in it.
I'm watching you, Igor.
Labels: Thumbnail Thursday
THUMBNAIL THURSDAY GETS ALL FESTIVE ON YOUR ARSE
Christmas is one of those subjects that makes ripe pickings for a cartoonist. So to say Happy Robanukah to y'all, and because I plan to spend actual Presentapalooza Day liying under the table half-cut singing rude songs about your Nanna, here's a couple from the vaults, a day early:
...and a bicycle and an Action Man Mountain Ranger and a Godzilla Rampage game... you know, you're a lot easier to talk to than Santa... and a bow and arrow set and a swimming pool and...
Labels: christmas, Thumbnail Thursday
THUMBNAIL THURSDAY HAS SYMPATHY FOR THE DEVIL
I'm not sure what disturbs me more about this one: that Satan, the Lord of Flies, Master of Lies, the Great Enemy, the anti-Christ himself, is afraid of a couple of drunk bikers with baseball bats, or the fact that he appears to have a Prince Valiant hairdo.
Review: Ancient Gonzo Wisdom: Interviews with Hunter S. Thompson
Ancient Gonzo Wisdom: Interviews with Hunter S. Thompson by Hunter S. Thompson
I've never been drawn into the cult of Hunter Thompson: I've been aware of him, in a rough "he wrote that and that" kind of way, without being intimately familiar with the building blocks of his reputation. From that point of view, this chronologically-arranged collection of interviews certainly helped me to pin down the significant events in the creation of the myth surrounding him. However, the more I read, the more I felt seeds of suspicion begin to burrow: those famous incidents-- his time with the Hell's Angels, talking football with Nixon, on the trail with successive Presidential candidates in the 70s-- get trotted out again, and again, and again, at every opportunity, and each time they sound a little more misty-eyed, a little more lacking in centrality: despite himself, Thompson ends up sounding like one of those old-time war veterans who reveal just how peripheral they were to the main thrust of events-- the stores clerk whose anecdotes place him on the shores at Omaha Beach, but show that he arrived long after the fighting had moved on.
And there's another accidental revelation in placing so much of Thompson's direct interactions with interviewers in so enclosed a space: the sudden understanding, halfway through, that the man himself is something of an intellectual coward. Time and again he launches into an outrageous exclamation, only to duck and weave away from it when challenged in any sort of meaningful way. This is especially apparent in transcripts of talks he gives to gatherings of students, which more often than not degenerate into pantomime performances where he pretends not to hear questions, accuses his inquisitor of stupidity or misunderstanding, and otherwise bends himself in knots trying to avoid justifying his statements. Not, perhaps, quite so noticeable at the live event, but clear as crystal when laid out in type.
None of it makes Thompson any less fascinating a study: if anything, this lifelong adherence to weasel logic and continued refusal to accept responsibility for his statements enhances the interest in his character, because it quickly becomes apparent that Thompson has a couple of golden moments early in his career and is able to parlay them into a long, slow, gently declining reputation that sustains him far longer than it might otherwise have done. And the ways in which he manages to sustain his time in the limelight through increasingly shrill and desperate proclamations makes for compulsive reading, until the inevitable relief when reaching the end of the book and having it, finally, all end.
THE ROAD TO THUMBNAIL THURSDAY
Influences shine through: looking at this one I can see how much I was hoping to emulate Crum's classic hippo cartoon. But the whole thing ends up feeling like a 'The Road to...' movie.
Or maybe that's just me.
Either way, penguins on a camel? Comedy gold.
THE NEXT BIG NEXT BIG THING COMING UP NEXT. AND IT'S BIG. AND NEXT. AND A THING...
So, having been tagged for the last Next Big Thing and duly completing ten questions about Marching Dead, I was tagged by the deeply sexy Jason Nahrung, and declined him, because I had nothing else to talk about. Then I finished Father Muerte & The Divine, just before I was tagged by the equally sexy Rowena Cory Daniells.
So here I am, talking about that book, too:
What is the working title of your next book?
Father Muerte and the Divine.
Where did the idea of your book come from?
I've explored the character of Father Muerte in four previous short stories: Father Muerte & The Theft (Aurealis 29); Father Muerte & The Rain (Aurealis 33/34/35 triple issue); Father Muerte & the Flesh (Aurealis 36) and Father Muerte & The Joy of Warfare (Aurealis 37). I've received a lot of feedback from readers wanting to know more about the character's background, and wanting to see him interact with a larger story, so it was a good chance to go back into his past and expand upon the scope of his mystery, especially as I had a couple of breaks in my writing calendar where I could spend a goodly amount of time working on the story.
Definitely fantasy, but more towards the Urban end of the spectrum rather than the epic. Except it takes place in a seaside town that may or may not exist. Is there such a thing as Holiday Village Fantasy?
If you found yourself in a lift with a movie director you admire and you had the chance to pitch your book to them, what would you say?
Now you've finished the Corpse-Rat King movie, Mister Gilliam, do you fancy a read of this one?
Every writer dreams of their book being turned into a movie or TV series like Game of Thrones: if this happened to your work, which actors would you choose to play your characters?
Like Game of Thrones? Do I have to? Sorry fans, but I couldn't get past episode three. I don't care how much you gussy it up, I can spot a soap opera when I see one.
However, when it comes to characters, I rarely picture a known face upon them. Occasionally, if I want a characters to continue to act in a certain way I'll try it out-- Captain Bomthe from the Corpse-Rat King was lightly modelled on Bill Nighy's 'uptight' character. But not with these charatcers: I've been working with them, on and off, for a decade now. They have their own faces.
Love. I love Muerte, Henri and Benito. There's a small core of readers who love the stories and keep nagging me for another one. And I loved the idea of doing something really spectacular with what had come before: this is the fifth instalment of the narrative, so I had some history to play with.
How long did it take you to write the first draft of the manuscript?
It was written in two bursts of about a month each, a year apart. the first half was written whilst I was waiting for the Angry Robot Open Submission period was grinding its way to a conclusion, and then I had to drop it when they picked up CRK. Once I'd delivered Marching Dead it was just about time to start this year's nanowrimo, and there I was with a novel needing roughly 50 000 words to finish it...
What other books would you compare this book to within your genre?
I'm not sure. If anything, it probably sits-- in my mental image of it, at least-- closest to those convoluted Grant Morrison 'everything's an illusion and a conspiracy and all your paranoias are just silly. And correct.' comic book series, with a faint hint of Gaiman's 'Seasons of Mist'. But that's not really it, either.
It's just, I dunno, weird. And cool. And there's sort of a Keith Laumer oddness to it, and a China Meiville Gothic urban-ness, and a rollicking Bester tongue-in-cheekness, and half the documentaries I've watched in the last six years contributed, and then there's some stuff that's probably just me having a mental seizure.... maybe I'm not the best person to answer this question.
When will your book be available?
I expect to deliver the synopses and 5 chapter package to SuperAgent Rich in the next couple of weeks, and then the rest is up to him.
What else about your book might pique the reader's interest?
Time-travelling Benito Mussolinis, a colony of hyper-intelligent dinosaur ghosts, live human skinning, the fall of Satan, Maxwell's Demon, the Red Baron's fetish for post-World War I biplanes, coelacanths, pareidolia, bit-culling souls, molybdomancy... what's not to love?
Keen-eyed readers will note that I haven't tagged five authors to continue the meme onwards. That's because every author I know has done the damn thing and it's all getting rather circular and incestuous. Consider me your cul-de-sac for the day.
Labels: Father Muerte, Next Big Thing
SEXY, DEAD, AND RATHER ORANGE
Fiends, ravens, condiments, let me humbly unveil what is, in my utterly objective and unbiased opinion, simply the goddamn prettiest book cover in the history of the entire Universe.
The Marching Dead will be out in March 2013 from Angry Robot Books, and features the return of Marius dos Hellespont and Gerd, reluctant heroes of The Corpse-Rat King, as well as Granny, Keth, an undead dominatrix, psycho-killer warrior nun skeletons, smugglers, naked troglodyte cannibals, an underground nunnery, and the word 'fuck' 71 times.
Can't wait now, can you?
Labels: Marching Dead
THUMBNAIL THURSDAY
So here we are, at the second Thumbnail Thursday, and this time on a Thursday!
I've flirted with being a cartoonist several times over the years, and even placed a few here and there, but it's slowly become apparent to me that I lack the drawing skill to make any kind of ongoing income from it, and the time it would take me to learn those skills is better put towards advancing my writing career, as I at least have some sort of foothold on the lower slopes of that particular mountain.
However, i still have a couple of hundred thumbnails that I've scribbled down over the years, some of them in rather nice notebooks indeed as I've taken the hobby more or less seriously at that particular moment. Some may be funny only to me. Some may need a little bit of explanation. But what the heck: you;d rather I was a complex, multi-layered fellow than one who simply trots out a never-ending succession of innuendos and nob gags, wouldn't you?
You wouldn't? Shut up and have a cartoon....
Cavemen and cave art seem to crop up regularly, along with a couple of other themes (You should see how many times I riff on 'we should see other people'). Either I'm harking back to a simpler, happier time, or people crouched in caves chewing on bones is inherently funny. Or I'm lazy.
And I should probably gloat slightly:
95 676 words later, Father Muerte & The Divine is finished.
December will be spent editing, polishing, writing the synopsis and sending the sales package to SuperAgent Rich. But it is, in all intents and purposes, finished.
Two novels written this year. That's what I'd call a decent start.
Labels: Father Muerte
Review: Batman: The Dark Knight Strikes Again
Batman: The Dark Knight Strikes Again by Frank Miller
A helter-skelter follow up to the seminal Batman revival 'The dark Knight Returns' that places much more accent on colour and spectacle and gives air-time to updated supporting characters, most notably a brilliantly effective Ray Palmer and Barry Allen, not to mention arguably the best portrayal of Plastic Man committed to ink in, well, just about ever. There's a lot of cynical, self-aware fun in this volume, although Miller packs too much in to satisfy three issues-- I would have liked to have seen some of the supporting threads teased out into fuller narratives, particularly the 'Joker hero-killer' subplot that is resolved far too easily after the main action ceases. And, of course, Miller's jail-bait fantasies are never too far away, and surface ickily right at the end, but that's what you get with Miller these days, so it's not unexpected.
It's messy, chaotic, and doesn't, in the end, fulfil its potential, but I still come back to this every now and again just for the sheer, anarchic fun of it all. And Plas.
N-OVER-EMBER
Agh, finally.
Yes, today is officially the second day of the following month, but for us, with the last of Erin's friends having just left from her birthday sleepover, November is finally, finally over.
November means:
Nanowrimo. I acted as ML for my region for the third year, as well as working on Father Muerte & the Divine, for which I wrote a shade over 43 000 words, and completed. I topped up the other 6 000 and a bit words by beginning The Sin-Eater's Lonely Children, working on the Muerte synopses, and various associated fiction tasks.
The Day Job's Literary Month, involving organising and running a five hour writing marathon on a Saturday night complete with guest speakers and a metric fuckload of giveways; the awards presentation for the City's short story competition on a Tuesday night; and a two hour seminar by Dr Helen Merrick on the following evening. All within a week of each other.
Three birthdays: mine, Connor's, and Erin's. Connor and Erin had a birthday party each. On the same day. At two different locations. Never. Bloody. Again.
Nnovvember. My first attempt at contributing to this mass Lego community initiative, to build a Vic Viper model to help commemorate the passing of popular builder and AFOL Nate 'nnenn' Neilson.
All this on top of the usual writing work, day job work, family commitments, swimming lessons, preparing the house for sale, blah blah etcetera and so forth.
I'm buggered.
BUT: I have a completed novel, two happy kids, new Lego for myself, no more work events for the rest of the year, and the first Lego MOC I've built that I think matches up to the rest of the Flickr stream, so we'll call it a draw and now I'm going back to bed.
And because I promised, here are the pictures of the finished Viper.
From the rear, showing greebles and biplane wings
Side view, showing twin forward pods, and the connection between hull and engine, which...
...rotates.
And the underside, with all the transparent goodness and weapony-looking bits.
Comin' atcha!
Labels: birthday, Father Muerte, Lego, nanowrimo, nnovvember
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alexander miller / movies / reviews / Theatrical Review
by · June 15, 2019
The major draw of Hampstead is its stars, Diane Keaton and Brendon Gleeson. The rest of the cast is added incentive, seeing as it’s a rounded collective of British actors. There’s Lesley Manville, James Norton, Phil Davis and none other than Simon Callow. The trailers and promotional material peripheral to the film sell it as a meet-cute rom-com with a slight fish-out-of-water angle with Keaton’s American character being in an English setting. Hampstead is based on the true story of Harry Hallowes, an Irish native who found his way to living in a makeshift squat in London’s Hampstead Heath area and who came into legal trouble when property developers tried to evict him. This story gained some traction in the press, and Hallowes became “Britain’s Richest Tramp,” also known as “Harry the Hermit.”
This story is shaped into a limp screenplay by Robert Festinger brought in to motion by director Joel Hopkins. From the outset, Hampstead seems like a harmless bit of tripe, a trifle of a rom-com that is neither bad nor good, it just is. But after so many predictable segues, tiresome quips and familiar narrative beats, the film’s cumulative effect devolves from tolerable to grating.
Starting off, we get the rigamarole with Keaton’s Emily Walters, a widow living a seemingly happy life in the gorgeous, titular London village. Despite the nice apartment, gaggle of friends, handsome, well adjusted grown son, she’s miserable and, thanks to her late husband, is deeply in debt. It’s almost like Emily is in a rut and needs a spark of inspiration to stimulate her from this unfulfilled juncture in life. Who or what could that be? Maybe the rugged, self-styled loner who lives on the outskirts of town? The proverbial writing is on the wall here. Conventions exist for a reason but Hampstead takes the inevitable meet-cute scenario of the seemingly mismatched duo and drags it (and us) through a seemingly never-ending slew of red herrings and false starts furnished with yawn-inducing dialogue that’s monotonous at best. Keaton’s ample screen time feels like script padding. While she’s naturally charismatic, her character is thoroughly uninteresting. It’s as if the creators didn’t have much interest in her to begin with. She’s a faux bourgeois and the story isn’t much more than the worn trope of the “bored wealthy white person looking for more” narrative. Despite being a little sexist, it’s also thoroughly dull and entitled. So her interest in the grizzled Gleeson and her taking up his cause feel like nothing more than slumming it up for lack of having anything better to do. Meanwhile, Gleeson’s Donald Horner is just as droopy. The character is a cipher of one-dimensional sarcasm and comes off as nothing more than a glorified tramp. Horner doesn’t stand for anything. He’s not suffering from an affliction or anything along those lines so, at the end of the of the experience, the film isn’t saying much of anything. The David and Goliath variation is abandoned for a snooze-inducing ferry into a world that is better left undiscovered.
Hampstead could be an exciting movie but it defaults to transparent tropes and one-dimensional methods of delivery that will leave you wondering why you didn’t invest your time more wisely.
From the outset, Hampstead is advertised as a superfluous offering but the truth is it sells its territory as this faux utopian vision that is dopey and finally disrespectful if you consider the current population of people who do live on the outskirts of urban development, punished by the ramifications of progress. Instead of an object lesson, Donald is a mere vehicle for cookie cutter liberal rhetoric, as if that compensates for the lack of impact and circumstance that the film openly ignores in favor of a transparent love story that is practically nonexistent.
Before diving into the middling affair that was Hampstead, I couldn’t help but wonder why this title has such an odd timeline in terms of production and release. It wouldn’t be such a shock if yet another banal romantic comedy sat on the shelves for some time but it went into production in 2016 and, by June 23rd, 2017, was released in the UK. This might be speculation but one of the film’s producers, Harvey Weinstein, was very publicly attached to Hampstead and, four months after its UK release, was levied with a notorious number of sexual assault allegations.
Or is Hampstead just so uninspired that the public is blind to the fact that a movie is attached to one of Hollywood’s most infamous perverts two years removed from the inception of the scandal?
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What the Bears Draft Picks Tell Us about the 2014 Defense and Other Points of View
Brad Biggs at the Chicago Tribune interviews current LSU and former Bears defensive line coach Brick Haley about second round pick Ego Ferguson:
“Q: Does he project as a nose tackle in this defense in your opinion?
“BH: “I would think so. I am not sure what they are going to do. I think he can be a three-technique. He can do them both, and that is one of the good things about him.”
The key word used to describe almost every Bears pick in this draft was “versatility”. When describing Bears first round pick Kyle Fuller general manager Phil Emery used the word at least three times in less than 20 minutes. Area scout Jay Muraco emphasized it. As if it was all part of a script, even Fuller’s college coach, Torrian Gray, used it and Fuller himself used the term at least twice in describing himself.
The choice of Ferguson has important implications in terms of what kind of defense we can expect to see from the Bears this year. Most people understand how versatility would be important when choosing a defensive back. But it isn’t as obvious when considering a defensive lineman. The fact that Ferguson can play both inside and outside is important. Ferguson himself said that the Bears asked him if he could play a two technique tackle, where he would line up directly over a guard rather than in a gap, leading to the idea that the Bears will play some two gap fronts.
When examined within the context of what the Bears may have planned for this year, the Ferguson pick makes a lot of sense. In fact, in contrast to what most members of the media seem to think, the real surprise came when the Bears took defensive tackle Will Sutton in the next round. Sutton is a tad undersized and promises to be a bit more of a one trick pony as strictly a three technique tackle, though I could even see him as an end in a three man front if it came down to it.
In any case, its now evident that the Bears aren’t kidding around when they say they want to show a variety of defensive looks this year from game to game and from series to series. Its not just words now. Their actions via their draft picks back them up every step of the way.
The description of seventh round pick Dan Leno from the Chicago Sun-Times goes a long way towards explaining why the Bears valued him:
“Long-armed, athletic project for Aaron Kromer projected as a versatile backup — at tackle, guard or center — but also has the ability to be more than that in the right situation. Started at RT as a sophomore and LT as a junior and senior. Blocked a FG last season.”
Once again, that word “versatile” is used. Dan Wiederer at the Chicago Tribune had this to say:
“As for Leno, he may face an uphill climb to make the roster. Both of the Bears starting offensive tackles Jermon Bushrod and Jordan Mills figure to be longer-term answers. Other tackles currently under contract include Eben Britton, Joe Long, Rogers Gaines and James Brown.”
I’m not entirely sure Wiederer is correct here. Jordan Mills was at best an adequate right tackle. Its true, you don’t draft a guy in the seventh round expecting him to start. But I, personally, wouldn’t be surprised to see Mills challenged and there’s nothing that I can see that says this guy can’t do it.
I thought the interview the Tribune’s Rich Campbell did with Ka’Deem Carey’s college coach, Calvin Magee, was insightful:
“Q: Why is he so hard to tackle?
“CM: First of all, he runs with a passion. He runs hungry. He runs like he’s angry. He don’t like being tackled. (Laughs) He’s a studier of the game. He understands angles, and he uses that. His preparation is just top notch.”
Carey isn’t fast but he looks to me like the kind of guy who has a lot of potential to succeed in the NFL. I strongly suspect that the reason he’s so tough to bring down is his low center of gravity. Shorter, stronger running backs like him are like bowling balls. Its going to be fun to watch him play.
Campbell and Wiederer also addressed sixth round pick, quarterback David Fales:
“Phil Emery on May 1 said he didn’t believe in drafting a late-round quarterback with the intent to eventually plan for him to be a starter. But Emery also has said he doesn’t like drafting players with a ceiling. Time will tell which applies best to Fales.“
I would say it’s almost certainly both. The Bears probably had a much higher grade on Fales than the sixth round. They, of course, have no intention of having Fales or anyone else supplant starter Jay Cutler but that doesn’t mean Fales couldn’t develop into a starter quality quarterback. As long as there are bad NFL teams, there will always be quarterback hungry NFL teams. The Bears could develop Fales, have him shine in the back up role, then trade him for value later as the Packers have been known to do for years..
And finally, scouting punters doesn’t sound like rocket science. Emery via Wiederer and Campbell:
“When you first start scouting, all you’re told is look for the big leg, look for the tall guys, look for the guys where the ball really comes off the foot. And that’s what Patrick [O’Donnell is] all about. “
Maybe people like you and I could do it after all…
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Bhagat Singh birth anniversary celebration in Lahore-Greetings
http://criticalppp.com/archives/229053
Message to the Participants of the Birthday Celebration of Shaheed Bhagat Singh
Dear Comrades and Friends,
On the 105th Birthday of Shaheed Bhagat Singh, revolutionary greetings to all workers, peasants, women, youth and progressive intelligentsia of Pakistan. Our heartiest congratulations, to all the delegates and members of the Bhagat Singh Memorial Committee for organizing this important event to commemorate the Birthday of Shaheed-e-Azam Bhagat Singh, a great visionary and practioner of revolutionary struggle against British imperialism during our common freedom struggle.
Bhagat Singh was born at village Banga, District Layallpur ( Presently Faislabad in Pakistan) in the year 1907. He studied at Lahore and started his political struggle from the very soil of the city of Lahore. His martyrdom was also in Lahore on 23rd March 1931. Lahore remained an important centre for his revolutionary activities. So today’s celebration in Lahore is an appropriate historical event.
The organizers and the members present in the celebration are creating a milestone for the continuing anti-imperialist struggle in the South Asian region. This initiative, which has been conceived jointly by Pakistani and Indian comrades, who are working for the rights and dignity of the most marginalized sections, in this poorest region of the World. We strongly believe that today’s event will usher in a new political era in our common struggle against international capital and its agents operating in the region. Unfortunately the Indian delegation could not be physically present due to non clearance of visa formalities by the Pakistan Government. But we are very much present there with you in mind and spirit. We are committed to continue this process of uniting the radical and progressive forces of South Asian region against the onslaught of international capitalism and their illegal occupation in our space with all sincerity and vigor.
Let us celebrate this glorious day with the hope to build up new South Asian People’s democratic nations by driving out the imperialist forces. Bhagat Singh, Faiz Ahmed Faiz, Habib Jalib, Hali Panipati, Sohan Singh Josh, Sukhdev, Rajguru, Asfaqulla, Bismil, Bhagawati Charan Vohra, Batukeshwar Dutt, Jatin Das, Kartar Singh Sarabha are our common heritage. They are still living in the memory of our common struggle for independence from British Colonialism and native reactionary forces. They are the symbols of our common struggle and heritage. Thus the celebration of the lives of our heroes is very much a part of our political and cultural struggle for emancipation of the toiling masses of the region.
A detailed article on the Bhagat Singh political struggle has already been sent to you all. We would again like to congratulate you all for taking this historic initiative to build up a strong worker, peasant movement against imperialist and feudal forces in South Asia.
Inquilab Zindabad
Roma, Ashok Choudhoury, Sanjay Garg and Kiranjeet Sandhu (Nephew of Bhagat Singh)
(On behalf of Indian Delegation)
On 28 September 2012 09:58, Labour Party Pakistan wrote:
Dear Prof. Chaman Lal,
The whole episode is very frustrating, we all spent a lot of time in the hope that we will get together, However, the colonial bureaucratic set up and prejudice political atmosphere made sure that we are separated from each other on this great occasion.
Baghat Singh Memorial Committee is going to protest the government against this non issuance of so-called clearance certificate. The host organisation, Labour Education Foundation on behalf of BSMC received three visits of intelligence agencies to receive information about LEF and those coming to Lahore after we formally launched a letter for all of you to come to Lahore. We even gave profile of each of the 32 Indian friends who were coming for this historic visit.
The time and money spent by these intelligence agencies to scrutinise the names of our respected Indian delegates would have better spent on other matters. The thinking of the intelligence agencies about those coming from Pakistan or India that there must be some spies within them had to be condemned in strongest terms. This so called "clearance regime" must come to an end.
Each one of the intelligence agency assured us that they are sending the clearance certificate. Apart from one, the two intelligence agencies failed to respond in time as we were told yesterday by a deputy secretary at Ministry of interior in Islamabad.
Some of the officers at the ministry suggested that you need a powerful "Safarish" (favours). I am personally totally against such safarishes, We do not want our Indian friends coming to Pakistan to join us on Baghat Singh birthday celebration as a result of "kind heart" of a rich politician. This will be against the message of Baghat Singh in any case.
I believe that a political decision has been taken to stop our Indian friends meeting their Left wing brothers and sisters. This expose the so-called new opening of the Pakistan Indian friendship era. The free hand is only for those who are from capitalist class or from Rich newspapers like Jang and Times Of India who have launched Amn Key Ashah. The Amn Key Asha seems to be an elitist club who have no priority of ordinary Indians and Pakistanis.
We will do our best to expose this attitude towards us by the government of Pakistan. We condemn this action in strongest terms.
We are going ahead with Baghat Singh birthday celebrations in Lahore today as planned with a heavy heart that you are not with us.
Hope we meet some day on this day, next year, a year after, and this will be tradition in Pakistan from now on. Baghat Singh is from all of us, he is our hero and his days will be celebrated as our Indian progressive radical friends do with full zeal.
Farooq Tariq
Labour Party Pakistan
1/7 Street 7, Mohammed Nagar, Allama Iqbal Road, Lahore, Pakistan
tel: 00 92 42 36315162www.laborpakistan.org
From: Chaman Lal To: farooq tariq ; Farooq Tariq Socialist Pakistan News (SPN) Cc: Ashok Chowdhury ; Roma Sent: Thursday, September 27, 2012 8:27 PMSubject: Greetings on Bhagat Singh birth anniversary
Dear Comrade Farooq,
We waited till 5.30 pm at Pakistan High Commission with officials, which otherwise were very courteous to get visa.Their regret was relating to non receipt of clearance from interior ministry of Pakistan. Though it has been frustrating for all of us, who were having high hopes to attend this historic event in Lahore, yet we wish to greet all the participants of this event. Bhagat Singh, in words of famous Pakistani Urdu writer-'is the biggest martyr of Pakistan'! And we share this sentiment and accept that he belongs to not only India and Pakistan, but whole of South Asia and also to all the oppressed and struggling masses of the world. He is as inspiring as Che Guevara from South America. Both Bhagat Singh and Che Guevara represent the strongest anti colonial anti imperialist struggle of the world working classes and other toiling masses. Born in chak no. 105, Lyallpur Bange, now Faislabad, studied in Lahore and martyred in Lahore, Pakistan can and should take genuine pride in honoring son of its own soil! And I greet all the participants and share their pride.Bhagat Singh was the first South Asian to popularize the slogan-Inqlab Zindabad-Long live revolution and Down with Imperialism-samrajyavad ka naash ho..I hope these slogans will reverberate the 28th September event!
I had collected ten copies of documentary -'Inqlab', made on the life of Bhagat Singh by Gauhar Raza and also 50 copies of Bhagat Singh ke Syasi Dastavez- book in Urdu, but these like us could not make to Lahore! But I wish and hope at this moment organizers and activists can distribute following material in Urdu-
1. Bhagat Singh di Ghori-published in 1932 from Lahore in Persian script Punjabi
2.Bhagat Singh ka Inqlabi samar-my article in Urdu translation, published by Irtqa-44 from Karachi
3.Bhagat Singh-Pakistan ke sabse bade Shaheed-Zahida Hina-irtqa-same
4. Main Nastik Kyon han-published in Punjabi-Persian script by Pancham -Lahore
5. Bhagat Singh aur unke comrade-Sibte Rizvi reprinted in Pakistan recently
6. Some books by Ahmad Salim-Kehdi Man ne Bhagat Singh Jammia-Punjabi poems
Links to some articles:
http://bhagatsinghstudy.blogspot.in/2011/01/hindu-article-on-my-new-book-on-bhagat.html
http://bhagatsinghstudy.blogspot.in/2010/12/visit-to-bhagat-singh-birth-place-by.html
http://bhagatsinghstudy.blogspot.in/2010/02/bhagat-singh-special-irtaqa-44-karachi.html
http://bhagatsinghstudy.blogspot.in/2010/01/urdu-translation-of-my-article-on.html
http://bhagatsinghstudy.blogspot.in/2010/01/ghori-shaheed-bhagat-singh-sung-in.html
http://blogs.tribune.com.pk/story/10833/bhagat-singh-the-intellectual/
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HomeDFW Pro TeamsDallas StarsDallas Stars Preview: Is it Still Safe to Drink the Kool-Aid?
Dallas Stars Preview: Is it Still Safe to Drink the Kool-Aid?
October 4, 2018 Dallas Stars, Featured, NHL Hockey, Sports
Successful preseason, now we are burning to know how this Stars team will do over a full season. A preview and my feelings going into the season. Photo Courtesy: Michael Kolch
By Stephen Elliott
Smell that hope and optimism in that pitcher of flavory sugary drink? The bulk of the ingredients still coming from the top consisting of Benn and Seguin. Add a new coach with a new order of business mixed in with some new faces and you have something stirring. You know you have something, but how good can it be?
You can go in circles until you are dizzy trying to predict Dallas Stars’ seasons in recent years. You thought adding a Stanley Cup winning coach, another electric offensive player and a consistent goaltender would extend the 2017-2018 team past the regular season. You thought when that team had 76 points with a little more than a month left that summer hockey in Texas was inevitable. But after 82 games, general manager Jim Nill was left trying to answer a familiar question: What does this team need to do to be a playoff team?
It starts with Jim Montgomery. The head man at the University of Denver gets his chance to bring his high octane offensive attack to the NHL. We have already seen flashes of how successful it can be in the preseason. Nill and the Stars are hoping this will free up the young legs on this team that will help contribute to much needed secondary scoring suspect from last season.
What we saw from last season
Alexander Radulov is awesome. The former KHL star worked seamlessly with Seguin and Benn as the first line and top power-play unit. While his 72 points were impressive, it does not paint the full picture of his game. His speed, aggressiveness and puck control suffocated opponents and freed up teammates around him. You feel his impact as soon as he steps onto the ice. Here’s just some of his many great moments from last season.
Bringing Ben Bishop to the team added consistency between the pipes. He allowed just under two and half goals per game and a .912 save percentage, which meant most nights he gave the Stars offense a chance. Bishop presence never felt more prominent when he was removed from the lineup. Bishop missed most of last year’s record losing streak due to injury and the Stars felt the absence of their big goaltender.
What we will see this season
We should expect better things from Jason Spezza. It is safe to say he did not jell with Ken Hitchcock. The 35-year-old veteran saw possibly his worst season as a professional hockey player. In 78 games he managed to tally just eight goals and a grand total of 26 points. Compare that to his 50-point season in ten fewer games the year before and you have to expect an improvement. Surely father time has not caught up that quick, right?
Well we did not get Erik Karlsson so expect a heavy dose of the kid Miro Heiskanen on the blue line. The 19-year-old from Finland knew the call up would come when the Stars selected him third overall in 2017’s draft. He is being praised as one of the next best two-way defensemen and a perfect fit for Montgomery’s up-tempo system. But the biggest test will be how the legs last over the course of an entire season.
The biggest sigh of relief from the offseason has to be the contract extension of Tyler Seguin. You can still count on the rare chance of seeing him in the Dallas night life until at least eight more years as Seguin’s $78.8 million contract runs through the 2026-2027 season. The biggest thing it avoids is having this hang over the team throughout the season. Seguin can now focus on attributing to wins and Jim Nill can dodge lingering questions about his star centerman’s future status.
Let the games play out
I have never gone into a Stars season so indecisive about how this team could end up. There are questions that will not get answered until games unfold. How’s the Montgomery system going to look over an 82 game season? What contribution are we getting from secondary guys? Is goaltender depth solved? What are we getting from Val Nichushkin? Maybe it is the homer fan in me or my optimistic personality, but I still expect a Seguin-Benn led team to make the playoffs. However it would not be inconceivable to find out that this team is still a season away.
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A decade of Dockett
Posted by Darren Urban on March 5, 2015 – 9:15 am
I guess March 5th is a day that will live in Cardinals’ infamy, huh? At least when it comes to two of the bigger names on the Super Bowl team. It was on March 5 that Anquan Boldin was traded to the Ravens in 2010. And it was on March 5 — today — that Darnell Dockett chose to sign with the 49ers (and coincidentally, current 49ers Boldin) and not return to the Cards.
The emotions are pouring out as I write this, my Twitter feed blowing up with fans angry at the team for letting Dockett get away (not as many) or at Dockett for signing with an NFC West rival (the vast majority). They are mad he seemed to make a decision based on money after chiding Karlos Dansby for doing the same last offseason.
(Later Thursday, Dockett said the two situations between he and Dansby were “night and day.”)
I’ll say this on the latter — Darnell said many, many things in his decade-plus with the Cards. Heck, he tweeted in 2010 (from his old Twitter account) that he’d play for less money to go to the Seahawks than play for the 49ers should the Cardinals let him go. Obviously, things have changed. From my perspective, you cannot blame Dockett. He wanted the most money with his career coming to an end and him turning 34 in May. That’s the direction he decided to go. Perhaps getting cut stung Dockett enough, but in the end, this just feels like it was about cold, hard cash, and when you are still young in life terms, it’s hard to blame a guy for that. It’s why the Dansby criticism didn’t make much sense — I remember at the time thinking it could come back to haunt Dockett this offseason, because of exactly this. Jim Trotter of ESPN, who texted with Dockett, also said it was about “disrespect” of the Cards’ contract offer. Knowing how Dockett reacts to many things, that kind of blowback isn’t surprising either.
But we can parse this forever. Bottom line, Dockett is not coming back to the Cardinals. The Cardinals knew this could happen. Multiple reports say Dockett gave the Cards a chance to match the offer, but it doesn’t surprise me the Cards didn’t. They had the number at which they valued Dockett for 2015 given his age and knee injury.
None of this, however, should impact how Dockett’s career in Arizona is viewed. By any measure Dockett was an excellent draft pick and when you point out he was a third-round pick, it makes it an even better selection. So many guys talk about making teams regret passing them in the draft when they go in later rounds. Dockett said that, and he backed it up.
He was an emotional tornado. Sure, that got him into hot water at times on the field, and when mixed with social media and Twitter, it caused a headache or two within the Cardinals’ facility. In his heyday, he could be dominant. His performance in the Super Bowl was MVP-worthy, getting after Ben Roethlisberger as few have. There was little measured about him in the heat of battle, but he was the passion bellwether for the defense. And he was always there. He missed just two games before last season and, more impressively, just 13 practices in 10 years. Dockett was always there, an anchor.
But this is what happens with older players in this league. The happy ending is the outlier, like what the Cards are trying to have with Larry Fitzgerald. In this case, Dockett gets his money, and gets his chance to play the Cardinals twice a season. That’ll be interesting, right?
Tags: 49ers, Anquan Boldin, Darnell Dockett, Karlos Dansby
67 Responses to “A decade of Dockett”
By b on Mar 5, 2015 | Reply
Enjoy your new team and your fellow team mate (Boldin)…no love loss here! If you were a dedicated Cardinal you would have taken the cut…money doesn’t mean everything. Players like Larry can do it over and over..those are dedicated players to the team. Adios Dockett don’t let the door hit ya!!
By Whitey on Mar 5, 2015 | Reply
I think it’s incredible that he was able to stay healthy and play at a high level for a decade. As Keim says availability is just as important as ability – just ask Jonathan Cooper, Ryan Williams or Beanie Wells how hard it is to stay healthy in the NFL.
He was an intense competitor and learned to be a great emotional leader for this team. He’ll be missed, but I think the team made the right decision and he made the right decision for himself. I don’t fault either and wish him well except when he plays the Cards.
By Red C Rider on Mar 5, 2015 | Reply
Bad Move Nine-O, but I understand. You will be missed, but as much as you can move on without the Red C, the Red C can move on without you. I wish you luck but can’t wish you any team victories. #BIRDGANGFORLIFE.
By Patrick Hoog aka Don't Take Losses on Mar 5, 2015 | Reply
DD’s reported new SF deal for about same money in AZ (incentives included) but he was unwilling to take performance, health risk and took SF guarantee … that’s a tell. With SF in transition and some turmoil, clearly AZ has better SB shot rhrn, so DD may think he might not be right physically. Maybe DD feels SF grass is greener for SB run, $$ aside, if so, good to have him go. Either way, in the end, maybe its best as much as I would have preferred to see him stay.
By Roland on Mar 5, 2015 | Reply
As a nineteen year season ticket holder i can understand why 90 is pissed off at the Cards,but as a i bleed red Cards fan i am pissed off 90 is a 9er. Bring it on and crush the 9ers. Go Cards
By LadyBird04 on Mar 5, 2015 | Reply
First – wish Dockett the best and hope he will be happy. I don’t think he will really be happy there – I think he let his hurt feelings rule his head.
Wait until he sees his paycheck after California takes their big cut of it. Also, housing costs in the Bay Area are WAY higher than in the Phoenix area. Don’t know if he’ll actually see more money up there.
Will miss seeing him in Cardinal Red and laughing at his antics. Wonder if he’ll bring the gator with him. Ha! Ha!
By Andy Kw on Mar 5, 2015 | Reply
I think Ed Stinson is ready. If we can sign Vince Wilfork and bring back Tommy Kelly, we will be more than ready.
By Eric G on Mar 5, 2015 | Reply
You had 28 teams outside the NFC West Dockett, why the whiners? Ugh. Thanks for your years of service to the organization. Check whether those wild animals are legal in SF.
By Rich on Mar 5, 2015 | Reply
What a big mouth, no integrity having chump! After all the trash he talked about Dansby last year (Chasing the money instead of a ring)… then he does the same but WORSE! At least Dansby didn’t sign with a division rival. No team loyalty whatsoever! Why should a superstar like Fitz restructure his contract for the good of the team and not Dockett? Fitz isn’t the one coming off an entire missed season from a major injury.
By Darren Urban on Mar 5, 2015 | Reply
RE: Fitz/Dockett
Let’s make this clear: If the Cardinals had offered Dockett $22M guaranteed like they did Fitz, he would have been back here in a second. If they had offered him $4M guaranteed he’d have been back.
Apples and oranges, and Dockett did what was best for him, as did Fitz.
By Lg on Mar 5, 2015 | Reply
Was mad at KD for going to the browns. He said KD choose money over loyalty but guess what you did the same dam thing. But good luck to you hope it works out for you it’s BIRDGANG FOR LIFE AND WE THE BEST B***H
I bleed Cardinal Red, so I “hate” every other team. 🙂
That being said, I wouldn’t be so offended had Dockett not trash talked Dansby for this last year. What a hypocrite!
By Scott H on Mar 5, 2015 | Reply
Hey, I love me some Darnell Dockett for all he has done for the Cardinals as an all-out warrior for the last 10 years. That does not change.
And I understand a player at the point in their career where DD is in now in his wanting to do the best thing for themselves, financially, when they are near the end of that career. Could be his last contract. And if it is, you can’t be-grudge him wanting to get the best deal he can.
And THAT is exactly the reason why he should have kept his mouth shut about Dansby when HE left last off-season. DD just looks like a TOTAL hypocrite – and a bit of an idiot – now that he is doing the very same thing barely one year later. Whatever. As Darren points out, this has been Double D his whole career – saying what he feels, whether he should or not.
I am not really gonna fault the Cardinals here. They made the offer they thought he was worth and they stuck to it. I’ll go with them on their judgement here. But now THEY have to back it up by making sure the void left by Dockett is adequately filled. The scrutiny will be on-going here, based on what the Cardinals do to replace him in their defense AND what DD is able to do for the 49ers. And it ain’t gonna play well with Cardinals fans if DD returns to be a force for an NFC West foe for few years, maybe even having some real nice games against us.
But getting back to DD…..I think if he had any real integrity, he would make some kind of statement recognizing that his words about Dansby one year ago were judgemental, they were wrong, and he should apologize for them. You don’t get to blast someone for doing what they do and then do the same thing yourself without getting called on it. He could at least show some accountability for that.
If he hasn’t already, I almost wish Karlos Dansby would blast him right back. He has every right and THAT would serve notice to DD that we remember what he said and that he DOES need to be accountable.
By Steve . on Mar 5, 2015 | Reply
This was the right move by Keim and the Cardinals. Dockett though a leader is not the same player he once was and is not getting any younger. Some of you “nostalgic fans” who keep clamoring for the Cards to hold onto all their aging stars seem to forget that the good teams who win cut their losses and move on quickly. This is the cold hard reality of being a successful football team in that you constantly have to refurbish your squad. I am grateful for Docketts career here and wish him the best(except when the 49ers play us).
By Dynosoar on Mar 5, 2015 | Reply
So he’s going from being nine-O to being nine-er. (I know I can’t be the first to see this)
Will miss having him on our side and am looking forward to who Keim has in mind to replace him with. We know Steve has a plan or the offer would’ve been matched.
And the offseason has begun. Enjoy my friends, enjoy.
By Manny on Mar 5, 2015 | Reply
The sense of betrayal these players must feel is unbelievable. For him to go to the team he always hated so vocally. What a HUGE mistake letting Bowles go. This team is falling apart because of it. Stupid stupid stupid. It all started with the stupidity of giving Peterson that huge contract. They could have spread that money out like in this case. I predict a 7-9 season ahead.
Manny —
RE: “Letting Bowles go”
Letting him go? You do know he was offered a head coaching job and the Cardinals could not prevent him from taking it, right?
By Sackman on Mar 5, 2015 | Reply
So “SAD” to see him go. No hard feelings, we are all just numbers. Remember everyone is replaceable.
Lets talk about the free agent Running Back’s that are out there. Adrian Peterson’s dad said Arizona Cardinals is one of his preferred teams he would consider to go to. Just think Palmer, Fitz, and AP have at least 2 more good years left in them, what a ride that would be!
Darren-Would it be wise for us to try to get him? Or would it cost us too much?
Sackman —
RE: Peterson
http://blog.azcardinals.com/2015/02/27/the-notion-of-adrian-peterson/
Darren its not apples and oranges Fitz is younger and is not coming back from a major knee surgery . I would like to think a player like 90 would have more respect for the fans . he knows how much we hate the 9ers and he said he hated them also? ( cheep 90 jersey for sale on ebay) Go Cards
By Steve P on Mar 5, 2015 | Reply
All I have to say is let’s hope he gets injured before he plays us. He will unleash a fury of hell on us if he doesn’t and you can count on that.
By krehbieo14 on Mar 5, 2015 | Reply
The Cardinals are committed to moving forward without Dockett. They will continue to try and open up as much cap space as possible. Dockett was a hard worker and good player for years. I wish him all the best and his situation is not comparable to Danby’s at all. The Cards have plans in FA moving forward and I’m excited to see them!
All they had to do was offer him more money then the Jets so yes let him go. The Jets suck and will continue to suck. You aren’t going to tell me he would rather be the head coach of a suck team over the defensive coordinator of a great team if money is no issue.
RE: Bowles
You are going to pay your defensive coordinator $5 million a season?
By Warbird on Mar 5, 2015 | Reply
I say we sign Iupati. You know Dockett is going to bring it against us, might as well sign the guy who owns him.
By BFarrell on Mar 5, 2015 | Reply
Darren, don’t even waste your time responding to someone who is displays ZERO knowledge. AP or bust!
By Brad oneill on Mar 5, 2015 | Reply
Good luck 9-oh. You will always be birdgang and say hello to that angry man boldin for me, i love what you did for this team and no matter who you play for you will always get a standing ovation from me when you come to the stadium you helped build.
By Jacob Hewitt on Mar 5, 2015 | Reply
iIwas right yall are wrong i was right about Docket
IN yalls face
By rod (Eddie Goldman RD1) on Mar 5, 2015 | Reply
I’m glad Keim didn’t budge, or budge much because I imagine Dockey came back with a number.
Thanks for the years…keep your new locker clean and tidy for us come SB this year baby!
By grabling on Mar 5, 2015 | Reply
He was paid for a full year without playing a single game. Lack of loyalty to a great institution.
By vegas4u2012. on Mar 5, 2015 | Reply
The ultimate Hypocrite…he will fit in just fine w/the Whiners!!..More $$ freed up for us to bring in younger talent that’s not a headcase…GO CARDS!!!
By georgiebird on Mar 5, 2015 | Reply
DD got a nice deal from SF. Can’t blame him.
That said, DD doesn’t fit the 3-4 defense that AZ and SF have.
SF is looking for an edge. The edge will be gone when AZ picks up a SF cut.
I love the way the Cardinals handled the DD situation.
p.s.- If DD had gone to a 4-3 team like the Cowboys or Rams, he would have had a better shot to succeed.
By D on Mar 5, 2015 | Reply
C. Campbell’s defense now….time to step up as a Leader!. I have confidence in S. Keim…this free agency starting Saturday should be fun to watch..
By Bruce on Mar 5, 2015 | Reply
Well, there goes your ring buddy! Definetly had a better shot with us, but maybe you would have had to pawn it if you didn’t do this. Gonna miss you Dock, but you are now our enemy. We can have a mutual respect, but believe, you will be getting whooped twice a year by your former team now. Put his foot in his mouth with the whole Dansby thing.lol
Hey Darren,
Any specifics on Carson Palmer’s restructured contract? What would the current cap be like now?
How come the restructure didn’t hit the news sooner if it happened a month ago?
Andy Kw —
RE: Contract restructure
Palmer did announce he restructured, but no specifics. And unless someone announces it, no way to really know, although Mike Jurecki had reported it could happen: http://blog.azcardinals.com/2015/02/25/possible-palmer-restructure-as-cards-cut-cap/
By Smack28 on Mar 5, 2015 | Reply
DD this is for you… You were one heck of a player most of the time. I’d even say my favorite defensive player during some sub-par seasons. You stuck it out and gave it your all with an organization that grew leaps and bounds during your career here, and you definitely helped this team become competitive. The funny thing is, you decided a few extra dollars was more important than a possible induction to the “Ring of Honor”. Hell, you may have even wrote off a possible 2016 Super Bowl!!! Wow, you came into this with nothing and ended up making money more important than your team, life-long fans, and city that supported you even with your bone-headed penalties on crucial plays that cost the team possible wins. Thank you for the memories. Now, I will delete you from my Twitter because you have nothing good or relevant to say these days any way! Good luck with your new dysfunctional team. You’ll fit right in.
By Richard S on Mar 5, 2015 | Reply
Niner’s I think offered like $7 mil for 2 yrs. and Cards offered $4 mil for one. Oh well, I still like Dockett. He’ll always be my hero.
By joe67 on Mar 5, 2015 | Reply
Lady Bird, TWO VERY GOOD POINTS many people (fans and players) don’t think about. The difference in state taxes and property value (prices) can eat up a huge piece of any raise in pay you may get.
Another reason players from the northeast and even Chicago and yes S.F. should look hard at a market like the Phoenix area. They can live SOO much better.
By Steve Weston on Mar 5, 2015 | Reply
Good article, D. I had some major mixed feelings about seeing Dockett go, but your words cleared things up a bit for me. I do fault him for going after Dansby like he did, and then quite obviously followed that same promise of more money to turn his back on his teammates. But bottom line, the game of football is a business. Dockett wanted more than the Cards were willing to pay, given his age and that injury that sidelined him for a year. I really can’t say anything negative about either side for that aspect of all this all played out.
Good luck Dockett, I do hope you have some gas left in your tank to perform this year. Just… not against the Cards. I hope your tank runs dry on those particular gamedays. 🙂
Damn, man, tune into the real world! First, the Cardinals gave Bowles a pretty good raise during the season as a way of letting him know how much he meant to them AND to make it a more difficult decision to leave and take a HC job after the season. That is pretty much the extent of what the team COULD do to try to keep Bowles here.
Just as in every other profession, assistant coaches and coordinators in the NFL want to move up. They want to be head coaches. There are only 32 of these jobs on the planet. And when you get a chance to take one, you take it. Never mind the Cardinals end of this for a minute and let’s consider what BOWLES wanted. And if Todd Bowles wanted to be a head coach, he was going to be one. Period.
And, NO, NFL teams cannot stop their coordinators from taking head coach jobs. The Cardinals could say no to him going somewhere else to take the SAME position. They could NOT stop him from taking a HC job.
C’mon, man. There is NO DOUBT the Cardinals wanted Bowles to stay. But they knew he was going to get offers from other teams and there is nothing they can do to stop that, End of story. You don’t have to like that it happened. But to criticize the Cardinals for being at fault for letting him leave is ridiculous.
By Jon on Mar 5, 2015 | Reply
Here is the big difference for fans crying about Dockett leaving while citing Dansby –
1. Dansby was a free agent and the Cards did not want to pay him and the Cards were definitely worst at defense without him.
2. Dockett was not a free agent. He had a big contract already in place with a he Cards who chose not to honor it. Instead, the Cards tore it Dockett’s existing contract and threatened him with being cut if he did not take a huge pay cut.
Dockett refused to take a huge paycut and the Cards cut him. Even after Dockett got a bigger offer, he gave the Carss a chance to match it, but the Cards refused.
If you want to hate and grumble about anyone, direct it towards the Carss, since they are the ones who tore up an existing contract and cut Dockett who did not want to leave.
Unfortunatele, this post will most likely be deleted since it points out that the Cards were the ones to instigate cutting Dockett. I am afraid free speech does not apply here.
By Peterincanada on Mar 5, 2015 | Reply
I will always have happy memories of Dockett because of the Super Bowl. He was an absolute beast that day in what was undoubtedly the high point of his career. I wish him well but Georgiebird is spot on. Advancing years and a 3-4 defence at SF will nelikely negate his effectiveness.
By Coach K on Mar 5, 2015 | Reply
I agree with Warbird.. Let’s sign Iupati.
Kiper has us taking a running back in round one. No way!
I believe there will be several trades on top this draft. Philly is definitely making a move for Mariotta. The receivers are getting hot and this will push the pass rushers down to us.
Give me Bud Dupree in round one. We can get a good back like Cobb in round three, maybe a good one in round six who is a good inside runner. No way in round one. Get the pass rusher, then get the inside backer or cornerback in round two.
By William Barry on Mar 5, 2015 | Reply
Dockett disses Dansby going to Cleveland….then does the same thing, but what is even worse, he goes to division rival. I just love how Ed Stinson played, and if we can get a great DL in the draft, we will be all set. Good luck Dockett, but the other side of the fence isn’t always greener.
By Cactus jeff on Mar 5, 2015 | Reply
I think this was a locker room decision. BA is the man not DD. DD is No longer talented enough for BA to tolerate the wrong kind of attitude/distraction. He still could be good but not that good.
By Dr. G. on Mar 5, 2015 | Reply
Jon – – It needs to be clarified that the Cardinals acted in good faith by their actions. You state that the Cardinals “DID NOT HONOR” Dockett’s contract. Not so….. Too many fans just don’t get it.
Well, a contract is a document approved by both parties. Part of the language is that the team may, at its option, cancel any remaining payments that are not “guaranteed” barring contrary terms. Dockett knew these terms. You also know that the League Office may intervene in certain circumstances, as we have seen with DWash…etc…
Any player agrees to these terms, so after making mega bucks, the business side must do what is best for the team. Dockett refused the offer; that is his choice.
One of my jerseys has a #90 on it. I hate to see him sign with the 9ers, but now I will don another jersey on game day. Some parts of the business are unpleasant, but on game day, you gotta love the action….be well…
Jon –
Dude….you heard about this thing called the salary cap? Well, ya might want to take a minute or two to get a clue about it. Because it tends to be a a factor in situations like Dockett’s as well as the MANY other veteran players that are being released by MANY other teams these days.
Yeah, it would be real easy to just keep all your players every year and just pay them whatever their contracts say they are due to get. Thing is, the salary cap – a concept that somehow has eluded you – DOES NOT ALLOW TEAMS TO DO THAT!
And BTW, while you are raking the Cardinals organization over the coals for letting Dockett go, did you bother giving them any credit for KEEPING Larry Fitzgerald here???
Yeah, they really are just s bunch of non-caring cheapskates, aren’t they?
And, what are you gonna say if it becomes apparent during training camp or the pre-season or early in the regular season if / when it becomes apparent that Double D just doesn’t really have it anymore? You gonna give the Cardinals the credit they will deserve then? Or, will you be too busy becoming a 49ers fan?
Dockett had a just as much of a role in his departure as the Cardinals did. Fitz was facing the same situation Dockett was. He realized the reality of how teams are limited by the salary cap ( damn….there it is again! ) and he stayed here when HE might have been able to get a better deal from another team, too. THAT’s loyalty. Fitz has it. Turns out, DD did not and he took the Karlos Dansby route outta town.
On a side note:
Darren, Just wondering if the Cards FO is making nice with the Niners in anticipation of pursuing a trade for ILB M. Wilhoite?
Krehbieo –
RE: trade
I’d really be surprised if they traded. If he is cut, maybe they’d consider. But they won’t be trading.
By Aaron Baugh on Mar 5, 2015 | Reply
Reading all the posts.. I am just sad as a fan because you know how much he has meant to the team. He will always be one of my favorites not matter what.
By Robbird on Mar 5, 2015 | Reply
As Mr. wonderful would say, You’re dead to me DD!
The 49ers are willing to trade ILB Michael Wilhoite for a 7th RD draft pick? We got ourselves a deal. He is a solid run stuffer and pretty decent as a coverage guy. His pass rush questionable but he is an upgrade over Kevin Minter, Glenn Carson and Kenny Demens. His experience as a starter is valuable
By Jaystorm on Mar 5, 2015 | Reply
Football is not a contact sport. It’s a collision sport. Many of these guys wreck their bodies, their brains, and deserve every penny they get paid in the process. Many don’t have long careers and retire swimming in a stack of cash. The average football career is less than 5 years. For every Carson Palmer or John Abraham, you have a hundred guys who destroy their bodies in the first 2-3 years and have nothing more than shattered dreams, a broken career, and only league minimum to show for it. A working stiff like me, 40k combined income household with 2 kids. I still empathize cause I don’t have to ruin my body to make ends meet.
That being said, screw Darnell Dockett. There are 32 teams to choose from. Cardinals don’t want to pay you what you think you’re worth. That’s fine, move on. But moving to a division rival as hated by us as the niners are, is a huge spit in the face to the fan base that has helped afford his salary for his long career here. His jersey is in my garbage. Right next to his hypocritical integrity.
By TED on Mar 5, 2015 | Reply
before getting hurt late in the season and even Dockett had said on a couple of occasions Stinson reminded Dockett of him in his younger days if what Dockett said is true no big loss
I could see S. Wisnieski being signed and brought in for a year to play RG then take over Center when Lyle’s contract is up after this year…
D —
RE: Sendlein
I think, with Sendlein’s cap number, any major FA signing could mean the end of Sendlein in Az.
Please tell Bruce Arians Get TODD GURLY PLEASE!!!!!!!!!!
AndyKw – – Where did you learn the 9ers will trade Wilhoite for a 7th round pick?
Robbird – – DD had lots of fans…a bit harsh. Just as PP has lots of fans and detractors. That contract will bleed some toxins for a while.
WBarry – – Yeah, going to a rival seems a bit contrived. DD’s has been paid about $52,000,000 by the Cards..!! …still his choice… I was worried about the knee…
Jaystorm – – Indeed, DD has a tendency to make haste in his decisions. Wait till he tries to take on JVeldheer or one of our younger guys!
Fans – – we just need to put this behind as we did Carlos…all will be good to go…
On pins and needles just a bit for March 10 and on…a good day Cards’ Fans…
By Birdwatcher on Mar 6, 2015 | Reply
Dockett showed his true colors..argue the point all you want but actions speak much louder than words. If P. Peterson and others were so concerned about keeping him why did they not go to Keim and restructure their deals to help keep Dockett. In the end its all about the money and the Cards are making sound business decisions. There are few Warner type players who have a bit of character and integrity. Warner did walk away from alot of money if I remember correctly. All others are just talk and talk is cheap. Dock did not have to go to the Niners. That C on our next defensive captain should stand for character and not Cash! Some things money simply cannot buy.
By clssylssy on Mar 8, 2015 | Reply
What I hear from the birdgang is a lot of sour grapes and classless whining because Doc made a business decision that was what was in his best interest. This isn’t high school but a business and Dockett was effectively pushed into a corner as he still had time on his current contract, so isn’t the bad guy here.
The 9ers gave him a better contract (longer and guaranteed), his coach left and the 9er head coach is a defensive guy, and looking at the 9er history they are a team with better odds at a SB than the Cards, having more Division and Conference championships as well as a healthy franchise QB. While the taxes in California MAY be higher, the education system is better and Arizona’s taxes are going up, so who knows how that will shake out…
Comparing Dansby and Dockett is rediculous and anyone who has been a Cards fan very long knows the difference. Dockett gave the Cards ten long years, sticking through tough times while Dansby left twice, riding the wave of the team’s success. Dockett was still under contract but was squeezed, while Dansby was a FA both times, ending a one year contract the last time. Yes, there are gray areas in contracts but in most professions there has to be “just cause” for termination other than, “we can’t manage to live within our budgeted commitments so we need you to take less money”. I have to wonder why the NFL even bothers with contracts since they are rarely, if ever, honored, and seem to just create ill will and discord among players and fans alike. I believe we are going to see more and more players wanting more guaranteed money up front in the future because younger players are witnessing what’s happening to these veterans.
I too have a Dockett jersey…and a Wilson, Plummer, Tillman, Boldin, six Fitzgeralds… and will continue to honor these special players for their contributions which is not diminished by them putting on a different uniform! They’ve all done it, except for Tillman and Fitz, it’s the nature of the business!
clssylssy –
SIX Fitzgerald jerseys??? WOW!!! I have 3 ( red, white black ) and that is all I need. He is a player you WANT to wear in every color possible! I’m assuming you might have a women’s jersey or maybe even a pro bowl jersey in there somewhere?? Maybe in pink as well?? Dudes aren’t gonna wear pink, so the ladies have more options with the jerseys!
Scott H-
My jersey collection represents twenty years of being a Card fan. My first two Fitz jerseys (red and white) were only available in Men’s and were a little on the big side so have been replaced with the newer looking Women’s that are better fitting and the older ones “retired” to cases hung in my office. My favorite Fitz is his MVP ProBowl (dark blue and white with stars on the sleeves–red, white & blue)
Through the years, I’ve been easy to shop for for special occasions, a Cards jersey can’t miss!
By Saul J Sanchez on Mar 9, 2015 | Reply
I too was upset that Dockett left , and to the 49ers no less ! I deleted all his pictures from my collection ( season ticket holder , directly and through friends accounts since Cards got here in 1988 , so I have tons of on field photos ). I even thought of shredding my Dockett jersey . But after reading all these comments , I came to realize that with his age he needs to get max dollars now because NOTHING is guaranteed in this league . I take everything back and wish him all the best and thank him for all these glorious years , I will still proudly wear his jersey on game days .
By TED on Mar 10, 2015 | Reply
enjoy a losing season DD
By cards62 on Mar 11, 2015 | Reply
Iupati is my favorite addition of the off season so far and I like the other pieces we are adding. I am still a big fan of Steve K.
Losing Dockett is our worse move in my opinion. I know 10 years is a lot of time,and it was a risk to keep him, but he is not that expensive and it was reported all 3 teams in our division went after DD. That speaks volumes to me. You want a Fitz to be the face of your organization and not a weird dude like Dockett, but I liked having both in Cardinal Red and Dockett was our dude and he went to battle for us in Cardinal Red for many seasons. DD thanks for the memories and I hope you have a lot more great memories in your career, and PS big fella take it easy on Palmer as we really need him in 2015 and 2016.
Go Cards
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INDIANAPOLIS, JUNE 27, 2018 -PERQ took home a Gold Stevie® Award for “Entrepreneur: Founding Team of the Year” category in the 2018 American Business Awards. The company won for its proven innovation and growth in 2017, including a 300% increase in annual recurring revenues and expanding its Indianapolis-based team by 25%.
PERQ impressed judges with its successful expansion and roll-out of its AI-driven software that enables any website to offer personalized, guided research/shopping experiences. Originally introduced to automotive retailers in 2016 as a way to create better, more friendly online engagement with car buyers, the platform has been successfully rolled out to two other high-ticket verticals: home furnishings and multifamily.
"We share this recognition with our entire team – smart, talented, like-minded individuals that are focused on delivering innovative technology that helps our clients close more deals,” said Andy Medley, CEO and president. “PERQ has come this far because we’ve been fortunate enough to have brought together a group of people who enjoy daily challenges and understand that driving change means rolling up your sleeves and working hard."
PERQ’s platform is driven by extensive consumer behavior data, and enables high-ticket retailers and businesses a way to bridge the online/offline gap as more consumers seek self-service options. This means, much like an Amazon.com experience, a consumer’s online journey is completely personalized and guided by their individual needs. In addition, websites know and remember who they are, including name, what they are interested in, and offer personalized options each and every time they return to the website to help move them toward a decision and, ultimately, lead them to an in-person visit.
"Today’s consumers are tech-savvy and like to be in control – they want to do most of their research online regardless of what they are shopping for – that means they expect more than an online brochure, and are put off by too many irrelevant banners and calls to action,” said Stephanie Ragozzino, PERQ’s Executive Vice President of Product. “With our online guided shopping solution, websites dynamically adjust to be relevant to the specific needs and interests of each consumer."
“The nominations submitted for The 2018 American Business Awards were outstanding. The competition was intense, and those recognized as Stevie Award winners should be immensely proud of this accomplishment,” said Michael Gallagher, president and founder of the Stevie Awards.
The American Business Awards are the nation’s premier business awards program. This year, more than 3,700 nominations from organizations of all sizes and in virtually every industry were submitted for consideration in a wide range of categories. More than 200 professionals worldwide participated in the judging process to select this year’s Stevie Award winners.
About PERQ
PERQ (http://www.perq.com) boosts website conversion through its online guided shopping solution which leverages artificial intelligence to dynamically change existing websites to deliver the next best step in each buyer’s shopping journey. As experts in online consumer engagement and behavior, PERQ leverages over 10 million consumer data points, along with real-time visitor behavior.
Founded in 2001, PERQ solutions are successfully used by more than 1,000 businesses in the home furnishings, auto retailing and multifamily industries. Its brands have been named to the Inc. “500 Fastest Growing Companies in America” list on three separate occasions. In 2017, PERQ won the Gold Stevie® Award for lead generation software and Product of the Year in the Big Business Awards.
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Bimrose, J., Hughes, D. & Barnes, S-A (2011) ‘Integrating new technologies into careers practice: Extending the knowledge base’, London: UK Commission for Employment and Skills, [Report] [view]
Bimrose, J., Brown, A., Barnes, S-A. and Hughes, D.(2011) The role of career adaptability in skills supply, Evidence report 35. Main Report . Wath-upon-Dearne: UKCES.
Brown, A., Bimrose, J., Barnes, S-A, Kirpal, S., Grønning, T. & Dæhlen M. (2010) Changing patterns of working, learning and career development across Europe , Coventry: IER, University of Warwick.
Bimrose, J. and Barnes, S. -A. (2010) ‘Labour market information (LMI), information communications and technologies (ICT) and information, advice and guidance (IAG): the way forward?’, 1 – 57, London: UK Commission for Employment and Skills, [Report to Government] [view]
Bimrose, J., Barnes, S. -A. and Attwell, G. (2010) ‘An investigation into the skills needed by Connexions personal advisers to develop internet-based guidance: full report’, 1 – 65, Reading: CfBT Education Trust, Report of an empirical investigation into the demand from young people for internet-based guidance, together with the readiness of connexions services to deliver. (Full & Executive Reports are available online.) [Research Paper] [view]
Bimrose, J. and Brown, A.(2010) ‘Older workers’ transitions in work-related learning, careers and identities’ in Transitions and learning through the lifecourse, Editors: Ecclestone, K., Biesta, G. and Highes, M. (9780415481731), London ; New York: Routledge
On Career Adaptability:
Bimrose, J., Brown, A., Barnes, S-A. and Hughes, D.(2011) The role of career adaptability in skills supply, Evidence report 35. Main Report. Wath-upon-Dearne: UKCES.
Bimrose, J., Barnes, S-A., Brown, A. and Hughes, D.(2011) The role of career adaptability in skills supply, Evidence Report 35. Technical Report. Wath-upon-Dearne: UKCES.
Brown, A. & Bimrose, J. (2011) Developmental tasks,vocational development and career adaptability. In Z. Zhao, F. Rauner and U. Hauschildt (eds) Assuring the acquisition of expertise: apprenticeship in the modern economy, Beijing: Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press. [ISBN: 978-7-5135-0815-5], pp 255-258.
On Career Development:
Brown, A., Bimrose, J., Barnes, S-A, Kirpal, S., Grønning, T. & Dæhlen M. (2010) Changing patterns of working, learning and career development across Europe, Coventry: IER, University of Warwick.
Bimrose, J., Brown, A., & Barnes, S-A. (2008). Researching careers, learning and identities: Career attachments as anchors or chains?, Perspectives in Education, 26, 3, pp. 71-81. [ISSN 0258-2236]
Brown, A. (1999). Career Pathways for Industrial Supervisors in the United Kingdom. SKOPE Research Papers No. 3. Oxford/Coventry: University of Oxford /University of Warwick/ESRC, 28pp.
Brown, A., Moerkamp, T. and Voncken, E. (1999). Facilitating progression to higher education from vocational paths. European Journal of Education. 34, no.2, 219-235.
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Bimrose, J. & Brown, A. (2010). ‘Older workers’ transitions in work-related learning, careers and identities.’ In K. Ecclestone, G. Biesta & M. Hughes (eds) Transitions and Learning Through the Lifecourse,Routledge: Abingdon. [ISBN: 978-0-415-48174-8]
On skills development:
Brown, A. (2009). Higher skills development at work: A Commentary by the Teaching and Learning Research Programme London: ESRC,TLRP. [ISBN: 978-0-85473-893-9].
Brown, A. (2009). Developing expertise – moving beyond a focus on workplace competence, assessment and qualifications – Beyond Current Horizons report. London: DCSF/Futurelab.
Brown, A. (Ed) (2005). Learning while working in small companies: comparative analysis of experiences drawn from England, Germany, Greece, Italy, Portugal and Spain, SKOPE Monograph No 7., ESRC funded Centre on Skills, Knowledge and Organisational Performance, Oxford and Warwick Universities.
Brown, A., Grollmann, P., Tutschner, R. & PARTICIPA Project Consortium (2005). Participation in Continuing Vocational Education and Training: Results from the case studies and qualitative investigations, ITB Working Paper Nr. 54, Institut Technik und Bildung Universität Bremen.
Brown, A. (2004). Professionals under pressure: contextual influences on learning and development of radiographers in England, Learning in Health and Social Care, 3, 4, 213-222.
Brown, A. (2004). Engineering identities, Career Development International, 9, 3, 245 – 273.
Brown, A. and Kirpal, S. (2004). ‘Old nurses with new qualifications are best': Competing ideas about the skills that matter in nursing in Estonia, France, Germany and the United Kingdom. In Warhurst, C., Grugulis, I., and Keep, E. The skills that matter, Basingstoke: Palgrave MacMillan (pp 225 -241). [Note the above chapter was drawn from a broader project paper ‘Old Nurses with New Qualifications are Best': Managers’ Attitudes towards Recruitment for Occupations in Health Care in Estonia, France, Germany, Spain and the United Kingdom: by A. Brown, M. Dif, S. Koniordos, G. Laske, K. Loogma, F. Marhuenda, A. Navas, O. Stryjecka-llina & R. Vilu which is downloadable from the FAME project website.]
Brown, A., Rhodes, E. and Carter, R. (2004). Supporting learning in advanced supply systems in the automotive and aerospace industries. In H. Rainbird, A. Fuller and A. Munro (Eds.) Workplace Learning in Context. London: Routledge (pp 166 – 182).
Brown, A. (2004). United Kingdom. In Brown, A. (Ed.) and Participa project consortium, Participation in Continuing Vocational and Training (VET): a need for a sustainable employability. A state of the art report for six European countries, Bremen: University of Bremen ITB Working Paper 38 (pp 79 -103).
Brown, A. and Laske, G. (2003). Employers views on graduate career paths in Germany and the United Kingdom. In FAME project consortium, How personnel management and human resources policies shape workers’ identities, Bremen: University of Bremen ITB Working Paper 46 (pp 5 – 19).
Drexel, I., Möbus, M., Gérardin, F. Grasser B., Lhotel, H., Brown, A., Maguire, M. and Baldauf, B. (2003). Cross-national Comparisons of New Career Pathways for Industrial Supervisors in France, Germany and the United Kingdom, SKOPE Monograph No 6., ESRC funded Centre on Skills, Knowledge and Organisational Performance, Oxford and Warwick Universities.
Brown, A. (2002). Challenges of supporting learning of newly qualified professionals in health care. In Nijhof, Wim J.; Heikkinen, Anja; Nieuwenhuis, Loek (eds.) Shaping flexibility in vocational education and training. Dordrecht/Boston: Kluwer Academic Publishers.
Brown, A. (1997). A dynamic model of occupational identity formation, in A. Brown (Ed) Promoting Vocational Education and training: European perspectives, Tampere, Univeristy of Tampere, (pp 59-67). (Out of print: above link is to a pre-print version available from the British Education Index as a Symposium paper presented at the Journal of Vocational Education and Training Second International Conference “Policy and Practice in Vocational Education and Training”, University of Huddersfield, 16-18 July 1997).
On qualifications:
Brown, A. (2008). Limitations of levels, learning outcomes and qualifications as drivers towards a more knowledge-based society?, US-China Education Review, 5, 1, 9-17.
Brown, A. (1999). A comparative study of additional qualifications at the interface of initial and continuing education: findings from the United Kingdom. SKOPE Research Papers No. 4. Oxford/Coventry: University of Oxford /University of Warwick/ESRC, 30pp.
On Career Guidance
Hughes, D., Bimrose, J. & Brown, A. (2006). Putting research at the centre of the design, development and operation of higher education careers services: A comparative study from the UK and Finland, in R. Vuorinen & S. Saukkonen Guidance Services in Higher Education: Strategies, Design & Implementation, Institute for Educational Research, University of Jyväskylä, Finland. [ISBN 951-39-2675-3]
Brown, A., Bimrose, J. and Hughes, D. (2005). Bringing Guidance Research and Practice Closer Together: The UK National Guidance Research Forum Website, International Journal for Educational and Vocational Guidance, 5, 2, 229 – 240.
Attwell, G., Ravenscroft, A., Blagbrough, D., and Stieglitz, D. (2011). ‘Jam Hot!’ Personalised radio ciphers through augmented social media for the transformational learning of disadvantaged young people. pp. 1-10. In: Proceedings of the The PLE Conference 2011, 10th – 12th July 2011, Southampton, UK.
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Mourinho is easy target but Man Utd players must stand up – Rooney
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Manchester United manager Jose Mourinho is an “easy target” and the players “have to do better”, says former Old Trafford striker Wayne Rooney.
Mourinho has come under pressure after United made their worst start to a league campaign for 29 years.
“The players, the manager, it has been a tough start to the season,” ex-England forward Rooney said.
“I know Jose is getting a load of stick but I said a few weeks ago, the players have to stand up.”
Man Utd boss Mourinho’s comments to TV camera investigated
United fought back from two goals down to beat Newcastle 3-2 on Saturday, after reports by one newspaper he was to be sacked regardless of the result.
Mourinho retained the support of the club’s board before the Newcastle game, and following the win said he can “cope with the manhunt” against him.
The 55-year-old added that if it “rains in London” or there are “difficulties with the agreements of Brexit” it will be his fault.
“The manager can do so much but then it is down to the players on the pitch to produce and probably collectively,” Rooney added in the Telegraph.
“It [the form] is a bit of everything coming together but Jose is an easy target. Some of the players have to be better.”
Rooney, 32, left United in 2017 to join Everton before signing for MLS side DC United in the summer.
He played under Mourinho’s predecessor Louis van Gaal at Old Trafford before the Dutchman, who was in charge for two seasons, was sacked after winning the FA Cup in May 2016.
“I said the same thing when Louis van Gaal was there,” Rooney said.
“He took a lot of stick but behind closed doors I said to the players, ‘we have to be doing better’.
“Personally I think he set us up brilliantly but we didn’t produce on the pitch so I am sure that is getting said behind the scenes.”
Is Mourinho a victim?
Meanwhile, Mourinho is not the right man to take Manchester United forward, says ex-Premier League striker Chris Sutton.
“It’s been a disastrous season for United,” Sutton told BBC Radio 5 live’s Monday Night Club.
“What is Mourinho doing to help the situation? All he does is play the victim. All the nonsense after the game – the Brexit, he gets blamed for everything – I don’t get it.
“Every press conference he goes in and is negative, negative, negative – obstinate, awkward. He should have drawn a line under things.”
United are eighth in the Premier League, seven points behind Manchester City, Chelsea and Liverpool, and went out of the Carabao Cup on penalties to Championship side Derby last month.
Sutton says they have “been rotten all season” and “got away” with a result on Saturday by scoring three times in the final 20 minutes to beat Newcastle.
“There has to come a time where there is a line drawn in the sand and he has to stand up and say ‘enough is enough’,” added the former England international, who won the Premier League with Blackburn in 1994-95.
“All this ‘I’m being persecuted’ all the time – he’s not doing himself any favours.
“Mourinho isn’t the right man to take United forward and 15 minutes shouldn’t paper over the cracks and the way he has behaved this season.
“It has been appalling.”
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1:5 and from Jesus Christ – the faithful 1 witness, 2 the firstborn from among the dead, the ruler over the kings of the earth. To the one who loves us and has set us free 3 from our sins at the cost of 4 his own blood
1:18 and the one who lives! I 5 was dead, but look, now I am alive – forever and ever – and I hold the keys of death and of Hades! 6
1 tn Or “Jesus Christ – the faithful one, the witness…” Some take ὁ πιστός (Jo pistos) as a second substantive in relation to ὁ μάρτυς (Jo martus). In the present translation, however, ὁ πιστός was taken as an adjective in attributive position to ὁ μάρτυς. The idea of martyrdom and faithfulness are intimately connected. See BDAG 820 s.v. πιστός 1.a.α: “ὁ μάρτυς μου ὁ πιστός μου Rv 2:13 (μάρτυς 3); in this ‘book of martyrs’ Christ is ὁ μάρτυς ὁ πιστὸς (καὶ ὁ ἀληθινός) 1:5; 3:14; cp. 19:11 (the combination of ἀληθινός and πιστός in the last two passages is like 3 Macc 2:11). Cp. Rv 17:14.”
2 sn The Greek term translated witness can mean both “witness” and “martyr.”
3 tc The reading “set free” (λύσαντι, lusanti) has better ms support (Ì18 א A C 1611 2050 2329 2351 ÏA sy) than its rival, λούσαντι (lousanti, “washed”; found in P 1006 1841 1854 2053 2062 ÏK lat bo). Internally, it seems that the reading “washed” could have arisen in at least one of three ways: (1) as an error of hearing (both “released” and “washed” are pronounced similarly in Greek); (2) an error of sight (both “released” and “washed” look very similar – a difference of only one letter – which could have resulted in a simple error during the copying of a ms); (3) through scribal inability to appreciate that the Hebrew preposition ב can be used with a noun to indicate the price paid for something. Since the author of Revelation is influenced significantly by a Semitic form of Greek (e.g., 13:10), and since the Hebrew preposition “in” (ב) can indicate the price paid for something, and is often translated with the preposition “in” (ἐν, en) in the LXX, the author may have tried to communicate by the use of ἐν the idea of a price paid for something. That is, John was trying to say that Christ delivered us at the price of his own blood. This whole process, however, may have been lost on a later scribe, who being unfamiliar with Hebrew, found the expression “delivered in his blood” too difficult, and noticing the obvious similarities between λύσαντι and λούσαντι, assumed an error and then proceeded to change the text to “washed in his blood” – a thought more tolerable in his mind. Both readings, of course, are true to scripture; the current question is what the author wrote in this verse.
tn Or “and released us” (L&N 37.127).
4 tn The style here is somewhat Semitic, with the use of the ἐν (en) + the dative to mean “at the price of.” The addition of “own” in the English is stylistic and is an attempt to bring out the personal nature of the statement and the sacrificial aspect of Jesus’ death – a frequent refrain in the Apocalypse.
5 tn Here καί (kai) has not been translated because of differences between Greek and English style.
6 tn Concerning “Hades” BDAG 19 s.v. ᾅδης 1 and 2 states: “Orig. proper noun, god of the nether world, ‘Hades’, then the nether world, Hades as place of the dead, Ac 2:27, 31 (Ps 15:10; Eccl 9:10; PGM 1, 179; 16, 8; Philo, Mos. 1, 195; Jos., Bell. 1, 596, Ant. 6, 332). Of Jonah’s fish ἐκ τοῦ κατωτάτου ᾅδου. In the depths, contrasted w. heaven ἕως (τοῦ) ᾅδου Mt 11:23; Lk 10:15 (PsSol 15:10; cp.; Is 14:11, 15); ἐν τῷ ᾅδῃ 16:23; ἐν ῝Αιδου ApcPt Rainer. Accessible by gates (but the pl. is also used [e.g. Hom., X., Ael. Aristid. 47, 20 K.=23 p. 450 D.] when only one gate is meant), hence πύλαι ᾅδου (Il. 5, 646; Is 38:10; Wsd 16:13; 3 Macc 5:51; Pss. Sol. 16:2. – Lucian, Menipp. 6 the magicians can open τοῦ ῝Αιδου τὰς πύλας and conduct people in and out safely) Mt 16:18…locked ἔχω τὰς κλεῖς τοῦ θανάτου καὶ τοῦ ᾅδου Rv 1:18 (the genitives are either obj. [Ps.-Apollod. 3, 12, 6, 10 Aeacus, the son of Zeus holds the κλεῖς τοῦ ῝Αιδου; SEG VIII, 574, 3 (III ad) τῷ τὰς κλεῖδας ἔχοντι τῶν καθ᾿ ῝Αιδου (restored)] or possess.; in the latter case death and Hades are personif.; s. 2)…Hades personif.…w. θάνατος (cp. Is 28:15; Job 38:17…) Rv 6:8; 20:13f.”
sn In the OT, Hades was known as Sheol. It is the place where the unrighteous will reside (Matt 11:23; Luke 16:23; Rev 20:13-14).
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The current Tony goes over more Hot Muscle Cars for the year to come.
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Tony just came back from a major show that had over 3000 car in attendance. He will talk about muscle car prices--where they are at now and where they are going for the rest of the year. Broadband | Dialup
Third Annual Cruise for Feed the Children
We will be broadcasting Live on location for the Third Annual Cruise for Feed the Children.
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