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Machine setters, operators, and tenders—metal and plastic operate powerful, high-speed machines that can be dangerous if strict safety rules are not observed.
A few weeks of on-the-job training is sufficient for most workers to learn basic machine operations, but several years are required to become a highly skilled operator or setter.
Overall employment growth in the various machine setter, operator, and tender occupations will be slower than average, although employment trends among these occupations will diverge over the 2002–12 period.
Nature of the Work
Consider the parts of a toaster, such as the metal or plastic housing or the lever that lowers the toast. These parts, and many other metal and plastic products, are produced by machine setters, operators, and tenders—metal and plastic. In fact, machine tool operators in the metalworking and plastics industries play a major role in producing most of the consumer products on which we rely daily.
In general, these workers can be separated into two groups—those who set up machines for operation and those who tend the machines during production. Setup workers prepare the machines prior to production and may adjust the machinery during its operation. Operators and tenders primarily monitor the machinery during its operation, sometimes loading or unloading the machine or making minor adjustments to the controls. Many workers both set up and operate equipment. Because the setup process requires an understanding of the entire production process, setters usually have more training and are more highly skilled than those who simply operate or tend machinery. As new automation simplifies the setup process, however, less skilled workers also are increasingly able to set up machines for operation.
Setters, operators, and tenders usually are identified by the type of machine with which they work. Some examples of specific titles are drilling- and boring-machine toolsetters, milling- and planing-machine tenders, and lathe- and turning-machine tool operators. Job duties usually vary with the size of the firm and the type of machine being operated. Although some workers specialize in one or two types of machinery, many are trained to set up or operate a variety of machines. Newer production techniques, such as team-oriented "lean" manufacturing, require machine operators to rotate between different machines. Rotating assignments result in more varied work, but also require workers to have a wider range of skills.
Machine setters, operators, and tenders—metal set up and tend machines that cut and form all types of metal parts. Setup workers plan and set up the sequence of operations according to blueprints, layouts, or other instructions. They adjust the speed, feed, and other controls, choose the proper coolants and lubricants, and select the instruments or tools for each operation. Using micrometers, gauges, and other precision measuring instruments, they also may compare the completed work with the tolerance limits stated in the specifications.
Although there are many different types of metalworking machine tools that require specific knowledge and skills, most operators perform similar tasks. Whether tending grinding machines that remove excess material from the surface of machined products or presses that extrude metal through a die to form wire, operators usually perform simple, repetitive operations that can be learned quickly. Typically, these workers place metal stock in a machine on which the operating specifications have already been set. They may watch one or more machines and make minor adjustments according to their instructions. Regardless of the type of machine they operate, machine tenders usually depend on skilled setup workers for major adjustments when the machines are not functioning properly.
Machine setters, operators, and tenders—plastic set up and tend machines that transform plastic compounds—chemical-based products that can be produced in powder, pellet, or syrup form—into a wide variety of consumer goods such as toys, tubing, and auto parts. These products are manufactured by various methods, of which injection molding is the most common. The injection-molding machine heats and liquefies a plastic compound and forces it into a mold. After the part has cooled and hardened, the mold opens and the part is released. Many common kitchen products are produced with this method. To produce long parts such as pipes or window frames, an extruding machine usually is employed. These machines force a plastic compound through a die that contains an opening with the desired shape of the final product. Blow molding is another common plasticsworking technique. Blow-molding machines force hot air into a mold that contains a plastic tube. As the air moves into the mold, the tube is inflated to the shape of the mold, and a plastic container is formed. The familiar 2-liter soft-drink bottles are produced by this method.
Workers in three distinct specialties–setters, operators, and tenders—operate injection-molding machines. Most other types of plastic machines function in a similar manner. A typical injection-molding machine may have 25 different controls that can be adjusted. Setters or technicians set up the machines prior to their operation. These workers are responsible for repairing any major problem. Operators monitor the many gauges on injection-molding machines, adjusting different inputs, pressures, and speeds to maintain quality. Tenders remove the cooled plastic from the mold, loading the product into boxes.
Working Conditions
Most machine setters, operators, and tenders—metal and plastic work in areas that are clean, well lit, and well ventilated. Nevertheless, many operators require stamina, because they are on their feet much of the day and may do moderately heavy lifting. Also, these workers operate powerful, high-speed machines that can be dangerous if strict safety rules are not observed. Most operators wear protective equipment, such as safety glasses and earplugs, to protect against flying particles of metal or plastic and against noise from the machines. However, many modern machines are enclosed, minimizing the exposure of workers to noise, dust, and lubricants used during machining. Other required safety equipment varies by work setting and machine. For example, those in the plastics industry who work near materials that emit dangerous fumes or dust must wear face masks or self-contained breathing apparatus.
Most workers in the occupation put in a 40-hour week, but overtime is common during periods of increased production. Because many metalworking and plastics working shops operate more than one shift daily, some operators work nights and weekends.
Machine setters, operators, and tenders—metal and plastic held about 1.3 million jobs in 2002. Approximately 9 of 10 jobs were found in manufacturing. About 38 percent of all employment was in these manufacturing industries: transportation equipment manufacturing, plastics and rubber products manufacturing, and machinery manufacturing. The following tabulation shows the distribution of employment of machine setters, operators, and tenders—metal and plastic by detailed occupation.
Cutting, punching, and press machine setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic 283,000
Molding, coremaking, and casting machine setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic 151,000
Grinding, lapping, polishing, and buffing machine tool setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic 104,000
Multiple machine tool setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic 99,000
Extruding and drawing machine setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic 98,000
Lathe and turning machine tool setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic 75,000
Drilling and boring machine tool setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic 53,000
Forging machine setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic 45,000
Rolling machine setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic 44,000
Plating and coating machine setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic 44,000
Milling and planing machine setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic 31,000
Heat treating equipment setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic 29,000
Tool grinders, filers, and sharpeners 26,000
Foundry mold and coremakers 23,000
Metal-refining furnace operators and tenders 18,000
Pourers and casters, metal 13,000
Lay-out workers, metal and plastic 13,000
Model makers, metal and plastic 8,500
Patternmakers, metal and plastic 6,500
All other metal workers and plastic workers 104,000
Machine setters, operators, and tenders—metal and plastic learn their skills on the job. Trainees begin by observing and assisting experienced workers, sometimes in formal training programs. Under supervision, they may start as tenders, supplying materials, starting and stopping the machine, or removing finished products from it. Then they advance to the more difficult tasks performed by operators, such as adjusting feed speeds, changing cutting tools, or inspecting a finished product for defects. Eventually, they become responsible for their own machines.
The complexity of the equipment largely determines the time required to become an operator. Most operators learn the basic machine operations and functions in a few weeks, but they may need a year to become skilled operators or to advance to the more highly skilled job of setter. Although many operators learn on the job, some community colleges and other educational institutions offer courses and certifications in operating metal and plastics machines. In addition to providing on-the-job training, some employers send promising machine tenders to operator classes. Other employers prefer to hire workers who have completed, or currently are enrolled in, a training program.
Setters or technicians normally need a thorough knowledge of the machinery and of the products being manufactured, because they often plan the sequence of work, make the first production run, and determine which adjustments need to be made. Strong analytical abilities are particularly important for this job. Some companies have formal training programs for operators and setters; often, the programs combine classroom instruction with on-the-job training.
Although no special education is required for many jobs in the occupation, employers prefer to hire applicants with good basic skills. Many require employees to have a high school education and to read, write, and speak English. Because machinery is becoming more complex and shop-floor organization is changing, employers increasingly look for persons with good communication and interpersonal skills. Mechanical aptitude, manual dexterity, and experience working with machinery also are helpful. Those interested in becoming machine setters, operators, and tenders can improve their employment opportunities by completing high school courses in shop and blueprint reading and by gaining a working knowledge of the properties of metals and plastics. A solid math background, including courses in algebra, geometry, trigonometry, and basic statistics, also is useful.
Job opportunities and advancement can be enhanced as well by becoming certified in a particular machining skill. The National Institute for Metalworking Skills has developed standards for machine setters, operators, and tenders—metal. After taking a course approved by the organization and passing a written exam and performance requirement, the worker is issued a credential that signifies competence in a specific machining operation. The Society of Plastics Industry, the national trade association representing plastics manufacturers, also certifies workers in that industry. To achieve machine-operator certification, 2 years of experience operating a plastics-processing machine is recommended, and one must pass a computer-based exam.
Advancement for operators usually takes the form of higher pay, although there are some limited opportunities for operators to advance to new positions as well. For example, they can become multiple-machine operators, setup operators, or trainees for the more highly skilled position of machinist, tool and die maker, or computer-control programmer or operator. Some setup workers may advance to supervisory positions. (See the statements on machinists, computer-control programmers and operators, and tool and die makers elsewhere in the Handbook.)
Job Outlook
Overall employment growth in the various machine setter, operator, and tender occupations will be slower than average, although employment trends among these occupations will diverge over the 2002–12 period. In general, employment of workers in the occupation will be affected by the rate of technological implementation, the demand for the goods they produce, the effects of trade, and the reorganization of production processes. Employment of multiple-machine-tool operators; molding, coremaking, and casting-machine operators, metal and plastic; and a number of miscellaneous operating occupations is expected to grow. A decline in employment, however, is projected for some machine tool operators, including metal-refining furnace operators and tenders and pourers and casters, metal. Despite differing rates of employment change, a large number of machine setter, operator, and tender jobs will become available due to an expected surge in retirements as some baby boomers become eligible for retirement by the end of the decade.
One of the most important factors influencing employment change in this occupation is the implementation of labor-saving machinery. In order to remain competitive by improving quality and lowering production costs, many firms are adopting new technologies, such as computer-controlled machine tools and robots. Computer-controlled equipment allows operators to tend a greater number of machines simultaneously and often makes setup easier, thereby reducing the amount of time setup workers spend on each machine. Robots are being used to load and unload parts from machines. The lower skilled manual machine tool operators and tenders are more likely to be eliminated by these new technologies, because the functions they perform are more easily automated.
The demand for machine setters, operators, and tenders—metal and plastic largely mirrors the demand for the parts they produce. The consumption of plastic products has grown as they have been substituted for metal goods in many consumer and manufactured products in recent years. The process is likely to continue and should result in stronger demand for machine operators in plastics than in metal.
Both the plastics and metal industries, however, face stiff foreign competition that is limiting the demand for domestically produced parts. One way in which larger U.S. producers have responded to this competition is by moving production operations to other countries where labor costs are lower. These moves are likely to continue and will further reduce employment opportunities for many machine operators, setters, and tenders—metal and plastic in the United States. Another way domestic manufacturers compete with low-wage foreign competition is by increasing their use of automated systems, which can make manufacturing establishments more competitive by improving their productivity. However, increased automation also limits employment growth.
Workers with a thorough background in machine operations, exposure to a variety of machines, and a good working knowledge of the properties of metals and plastics will be best able to adjust to the changing environment. In addition, new shop-floor arrangements will reward workers with good basic mathematics and reading skills, good communication skills, and the ability and willingness to learn new tasks. As workers adapt to team-oriented production methods and operate more machines, the number of multiple-machine-tool operators, setters, and tenders—metal and plastic will continue to rise.
Earnings for machine operators can vary by size of the company, union or nonunion status, industry, and skill level and experience of the operator. Also, temporary employees, who are being hired in greater numbers, usually get paid less than company-employed workers. The median hourly earnings in 2002 for a variety of machine setters, operators, and tenders—metal and plastic were as follows:
Model makers, metal and plastic $18.27
Patternmakers, metal and plastic 16.09
Metal-refining furnace operators and tenders 14.79
Lay-out workers, metal and plastic 14.79
Lathe and turning machine tool setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic 14.55
Tool grinders, filers, and sharpeners 14.14
Milling and planing machine setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic 14.04
Multiple machine tool setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic 13.79
Rolling machine setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic 13.62
Heat treating equipment setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic 13.56
Pourers and casters, metal 13.40
Drilling and boring machine tool setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic 13.23
Forging machine setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic 12.64
Grinding, lapping, polishing, and buffing machine tool setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic 12.56
Foundry mold and coremakers 12.55
Extruding and drawing machine setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic 12.44
Plating and coating machine setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic 12.22
Cutting, punching, and press machine setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic 11.81
Molding, coremaking, and casting machine setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic 11.17
All other metal workers and plastic workers 13.65
Related Occupations
Workers in occupations closely related to machine setters, operators, and tenders—metal and plastic include machinists; tool and die makers; assemblers and fabricators; computer-control programmers and operators; and welding, soldering, and brazing workers. Often, machine operators are responsible for checking the quality of parts being produced, work similar to that of inspectors, testers, sorters, samplers, and weighers.
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Like any good teacher, David Wadding wrote lesson plans, made up tests and offered seventh, eighth and ninth grade students one-on-one instruction in math and science at Dragonfleye Charter School in northwest Phoenix.
Only problem, David Wadding was an eighth-grader at the school himself.
Wadding says his incredible stint as a teenage teacher began last April, after Dragonfleye's middle school math and science instructor left unexpectedly, with a month to go in the school year. The classes were officially turned over to the school's principal, Joseph Delgardo, who made Wadding his assistant. More often than not, however, Wadding found himself alone with a classroom of students.
Fellow classmates Randall and Matthew Hall and Saudi Ellison back up Wadding's tale that they were frequently without adult supervision, and that Wadding was in essence running the class.
Wadding says his teaching role was created under the auspices of Dragonfleye's work study program -- a much-touted component of the school's curriculum. Normally, Wadding and his classmates say, work study at Dragonfleye means watching the younger kids on the playground or cleaning cages in the science lab. Before the math teacher left, Wadding ran errands and performed other small tasks for Delgardo.
Then, as Wadding explains: "Mr. Delgardo came in to take over and I was his work study [student], so . . . I did the lesson plans, I made up a couple of tests, made up assignments and stuff."
Wadding, who is very large for his age -- 5'9" and more than 200 pounds -- and suffers from a mild case of cerebral palsy, didn't mind teaching. He is, after all, a star student when it comes to math. To him, it was simply no big deal. In fact, Wadding didn't even think to mention it to his mother, Brenda LaCroix.
An incredulous LaCroix says she learned about her son's responsibilities at an end-of-school party last week from Dragonfleye's middle school social studies and English teacher, a woman who goes by the name Miss Jaga.
Wadding's mom did think it was a big deal. "I thought I was sending him there to learn," LaCroix says. "When I was in high school, I worked as a teacher's aide. . . . [But] I never, ever had access to a lesson plan or a grade book. I never saw another student's grade."
And, she adds, "I personally believe that this happened at the expense of David's education."
Delgardo did not return New Times' calls. But LaCroix says she received a call from Delgardo last week, who acknowledged that he'd heard from New Times.
"He said, "Well, you know, I could get in a lot of trouble for this,'" LaCroix says. "I said, "Yeah, well, you shouldn't have been doing it.' He said, "I thought I was helping David.' I said, "Excuse me, but he's 13 years old and he has no business performing the duties of a professional educator.'"
Miss Jaga says she learned of Wadding's role shortly after the math/science teacher left. Delgardo "told me that David was his assistant, that's the way he put it, his assistant, and that he would be doing, quote, peer tutoring," she recalls. "Also, David was checking papers and what have you. Now, as far as standing in front of the class . . . no, but he would answer questions for the students and help them and assist them with their math work."
Miss Jaga says that on about half a dozen occasions, Delgardo asked her to excuse Wadding from her social studies class so he could assist seventh graders with math. She says Delgardo asked her permission a couple of times, but that most times he simply informed her Wadding would have to leave class.
She says she was not aware that Wadding wrote lesson plans and created tests. Her understanding, Miss Jaga says, is that the students worked independently on pre-prepared packets, and that Wadding had finished his and that's why he was asked to teach. She says that on at least two occasions she walked into the math classroom to ask the students to be quiet and saw that no adult was present in the classroom.
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"What are the standards for teaching school in the state of Arizona? As wonderful as my son is, I know that at 13 years old, he doesn't meet even the minimum," she says.
Actually, he might. While Arizona public schools require certification, charter schools don't. Bonnie Barclay, who oversees charter schools for the Arizona Board of Education, says, "For a 13-year-old boy to be a teacher in the class, taking on that kind of responsibility, even under the supervision of another instructor, I don't feel that's appropriate, but that's my personal feeling."
But the only legal question, Barclay believes, is whether Wadding's teaching duties violated child labor laws.
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Title: The consequences of Islamophobic discourse in the European political parties
Convenor: European Muslim Initiative for Social Cohesion - EMISCO
Working language: English
Notes on the presentation of Dr Büllent Şenay, a professor at a Turkish University. He is also the OSCE Chairman on "Intolerance and Discrimination Against Muslims".
The main theme of the Muslim groups was the "dramatic increase in Islamophobia, and laws must be passed in Western nations to fight it"!
He was adroit at casting criticism of Islam or the Shari'a into "hatred against Muslims". He espoused the OIC line that "Islamophobia" is a new form of racism. When asked to define "Islamophobia", he said "I won't define it, because 'everybody knows what it is".
He went on to call it "attacks against adherents of the Islamic faith" and laws were necessary for the protection of people and institutions. He tacitly accepted criticism of Islam but not demonizing Muslims. "We all know that intolerance and distrust of Muslims is a form of racism". He attributed the "rise in Islamophobia" to the influx of immigrants. He had recommendations:
· Make "Islamophobia" a punishable "hate crime"
· Collect "evidence" of hate crimes
· Legislation implemented on the findings
· Eliminate so called Counter Terrorism programs: they violate the Civil Rights of Muslims and "radicalize" the youth
· "De-radicalization" programs where youth are taken from their homes is counterproductive, thus Quixotic, as it causes "radicalization".
· The right wing media has made "Islamophobia" mainstream, breeding racism and intolerance.
· The silence of their friends is an outrage and threatens multiculturalism
· That the separation of church and state is impossible! What is needed is an "even-handed State" that treats all religions appropriately
· Islamophobia must be fought by educational programs in the schools
· These issues must be separated from immigration
· Violence linked to Islam must be rejected
· That Muslims are partners in fighting terrorism, and their critical voices must be heard
· That Europe is a continent of peace, human rights, and the rule of law, and we need to work to keep it that way.
We note that at no time has he mentioned any of the attacks committed by Muslim Jihad groups! They would have you believe that the "rise in Islamophobia" came out of the blue for no reason. Dr. Şenay adheres to the false narrative that violence and Islam are not linked, and that only a small percentage are violent Jihadists. But how can you make that case in light of the Qur'anic passages that say otherwise?[1]
After the attacks in France, there was a demand that Muslim groups denounce them. Such demands were dismissed as irrelevant since Jihadists make such a small percentage of the Muslim population.[2]
Dr. Şenay's proposal to document hate crimes and implement legislation is well underway. There is a proposal in the UK to allow Muslims to report hate crimes directly instead of having to go through the police.[3] This would go a long way to establishing Islamic Supremacy and make Muslims above the law. Looking at a Muslim sideways would generate a "hate crime report"! Such a procedure would codify Muslim victimhood and lead to laws that would make them untouchable.
In absolute terms, the Muslims wish to make "Islamophobia" a punishable crime. And with no definition of the term, they can persecute their enemies by defining Islamophobia in any way that suits their purpose. Don't want Muslims to institute "Islam week" at your local public school? Don't want the Muslims to build a 10,000 square foot Mosque in your neighborhood? Don't like the idea of Muslims butchering live sheep and goats on your neighborhood streets? All severe cases of Islamophobia that will be punishable by law.


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Titanic wreck to gain UNESCO protection
The wreck of the Titanic will this month come under UNESCO protection, as it has now been lying at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean for 100 years.
The British liner sank in international waters and so comes under no state's protection but, after a century, wrecks fall under the jurisdiction of a 2009 UN Convention on the Protection of Underwater Cultural Heritage.
"From now on, state parties to the convention can outlaw the destruction, pillage, sale and dispersal of objects found at the site," UNESCO said, in a statement from its Paris headquarters.
"They can take all possible measures within their power to protect the wreck and ensure that the human remains there are treated with dignity."
The passenger liner hit an iceberg on its maiden voyage across the Atlantic, sinking to almost 4,000 metres in waters off Newfoundland on the night of April 14, 1912, with the loss of 1,514 people on board.
It was and remains one of the worst peacetime shipping disasters in history, and this year's anniversary is being marked by several cultural and historical events in Britain and the United States, its intended destination.
The wreck was rediscovered in 1985 thanks to advances in submarine technology, and historic artefacts have since been recovered.
"The sinking of the Titanic is anchored in the memory of humanity and I am pleased that this site can now be protected by the UNESCO Convention," UNESCO director general Irina Bokova said.
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Episode 2 - What Happens in Vegas, Stays in Vegas
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|"Hands of Time" by Groove Armada
|Closing scenes. The gang hang out at the casino bar. Danny mourns his friend. They all toast to Greg. Danny and Mary drive down the strip and scatter Greg's ashes. /41/
Episode 3 - Donny, We Hardly Knew Ye
Episode 4 - Jokers and Fools
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Episode 5 - Groundhog Summer
Episode 6 - Semper Spy
|Scene Info
|"Ballroom Blitz" by Sweet
|Ed causes problems for Danny with wheelchairs and more. Ed watches. /21/
|"Tiny Bubbles" by Don Ho
|Ed goes to his office to find it decorated in a Hawaii setting. /42/
Episode 7 - Pros and Cons
Episode 8 - Luck Be a Lady
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|"I'm Sitting On Top of the World" by Bobby Darin
|Mr Bronson eats dinner in the restaurant and Danny confronts him. /27/
|"Less Talk, More Action!" by Sheryl Lee Ralph
|Janet performs live on stage. /37/
Episode 9 - Year of the Tiger
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|"Danger! High Voltage" by Electric Six
|Firemen strippers enter the party. Danny talks to the sisters. /20/
Episode 10 - Decks and Violence
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Episode 11 - Blood and Sand
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|"Refuse to Lose" by Black Toast
|Entrance of Mosely into the arena. Ed walks with him. /1/
|"Make it Happen" by Black Toast
|Some girl shows Mary her new bracelet. She tells her she can't be a round card girl. /24/
Episode 12 - Hellraisers and Heartbreakers
Episode 13 - The Night the Lights Went Out in Vegas
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|"Fly Me to the Moon" by Tom Jones
|Opening scenes. It's quiet in the surveillance room. Ed looks bored. /0/
|"Fly Me to the Moon" by Tom Jones
|Closing scenes. /40/
Episode 14 - Things That Go Jump in the Night
Episode 15 - Die Fast, Die Furious
Episode 16 - New Orleans
Episode 17 - You Can't Take It with You
Episode 18 - Nevada State
Episode 19 - Sons and Lovers
Episode 20 - The Strange Life of Bob
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|"Hey Mama" by Black Eyed Peas
|Mike shows Bob how to dance in a shop window. Bob transfers his skills onto the dancefloor with Nessa. /12/
|"Let's Get It On" by Marvin Gaye
|Nessa and Bob talk on the dancefloor. /13/
Episode 21 - Family Jewels
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Episode 22 - The Big Bang
Episode 23 - Always Faithful
Season 2
Episode 1 - Have You Ever Seen The Rain
Episode 2 - The Count of Montecito
Episode 3 - Blood Is Thicker
Episode 4 - Catch of the Day
Episode 5 - Good Run of Bad Luck
Episode 6 - Games People Play
Episode 7 - Montecito Lancers
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|"Let's Get It Started" by Black Eyed Peas
|Final scenes. Black Eyed Peas perform live in the casino with everyone watching. /38/
Episode 8 - Two of a Kind
Episode 9 - Degas Away With It
Episode 10 - Silver Star
Episode 11 - My Beautiful Launderette
Episode 12 - When You Got to Go, You Got To Go
Episode 13 - Sperm Whales And Spearmint Rhinos
Episode 14 - The Lie Is Cast
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|"Having My Burger" by Paul Anka
|Paul Anka performs live in the restaurant for Gunther's new burger. /22/
Episode 15 - Whale of a Time
Episode 16 - Can You See What I See?
Episode 17 - Tainted Love
Episode 18 - To Protect And Serve Manicotti
Episode 19 - One Nation Under Surveillance
Episode 20 - Hit Me!
Episode 21 - Hide & Sneak
Episode 22 - Letters, Lawyers And Loose Women
Season 3
Episode 1 - Viva Las Vegas
Episode 2 - Fake The Money And Run
Episode 3 - Double Down, Triple Threat
Episode 4 - Whatever Happened To Seymour Magoon?
Episode 5 - Big Ed De-cline
|Scene Info
|"I Like The Way" by Bodyrockers
|Shots of Las Vegas. Ed talks to Jillian about his doctors checkup. /4/
Episode 6 - The Real McCoy
Episode 7 - Everything Old is You Again
Episode 8 - Bold, Beautiful And Blue
Episode 9 - Mothwoman
Episode 10 - For Sail by Owner
Episode 11 - Down & Dirty
Episode 12 - Bait and Switch
Episode 13 - The Bitch Is Back
Episode 14 - And Here's Mike With The Weather
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Episode 15 - Urban Legends
Episode 16 - Coyote Ugly
Episode 17 - Lyle & Substance
Episode 18 - Like a Virgin
Episode 19 - Cash Springs Eternal
|Scene Info
|"Wild Thing" by The Troggs
|Sheryl (Brooke Burke) approaches Mike and Danny in the casino to ask if they'll propose for a calendar. Mr Peters stumbles over and tells them he was robbed. /1/
Episode 20 - All Quiet on the Montecito Front
|Scene Info
|"Revolution Get Down" by Bellrays
|Danny and Delinda spend time in bed together doing "stuff". /0/
Episode 21 - Chaos Theory
Episode 22 - Fidelity, Security, Delivery
Episode 23 - Father of the Bride
Season 4
Episode 1 - Father of the Bride Redux
Episode 2 - Died In Plain Sight
Episode 3 - The Story Of Owe
Episode 4 - History of Violins
Episode 5 - Delinda's Box: Part 1
No music added.
Episode 6 - Delinda's Box: Part 2
Episode 7 - Meatball Montecito
Episode 8 - White Christmas
Episode 9 - Wines And Misdemeanors
Episode 10 - Fleeting Cheating Meeting
Episode 11 - Wagers Of Sin
Episode 12 - The Chicken Is Making My Back Hurt
Episode 13 - Pharaoh 'Nuff
|Scene Info
|"Crazy Bitch" by Buckcherry
|Opening scenes. Danny and Mike are acting unusually pleasant which angers Sam. Mary acts the same and asks Sam if she read the memo. /0/
Episode 14 - The Burning Bedouin
Episode 15 - Barechested in the Park
Episode 16 - Junk in the Trunk
Episode 17 - Heroes
|Scene Info
|"Get It On (Bang a Gong)" by London Bus Stop
|Mike talks to a pit boss about Sam. Mike is curious as to why Mary is drinking at the bar. Mike tells Delinda that Danny punched Ed and asks where Sam is. Mary leaves and Danny arrives. /2/
Season 5
Episode 1 - A Hero Ain't Nothing But A Sandwich
Episode 2 - Shrink Rap
|Scene Info
|"Hell Yea" by Montgomery Gentry
|Montgomery Gentry play live in the casino after Danny organises it. Danny explains to Sam the competition he's organised. Mike researches the card counter and makes a breakthrough. /14/
Episode 3 - The Glass Is Always Cleaner
Episode 4 - Head Games
Episode 5 - Run, Cooper, Run!
Episode 6 - When Life Gives You Lemon Bars
Episode 7 - Adventures In The Skin Trade
Episode 8 - It's Not Easy Being Green
Episode 9 - My Uncle's a Gas
Episode 10 - The High Price of Gas
Episode 11 - A Cannon Carol
Episode 12 - I Could Eat a Horse
Episode 13 - 3 Babes, 100 Guns & A Fat Chick
Episode 14 - Secrets, Lies and Lamaze
|Scene Info
|"Her Eyes" by Pat Monahan
|Delinda talks to Danny as she makes the bed. They talk about the baby then Danny gives her a foot rub. Piper enters her flat. /37/
Episode 15 - Guess Who's Coming To Breakfast
Episode 16 - 2 On 2
Episode 17 - Win, Place, Bingo
Episode 18 - Three Weddings and a Funeral (1)
Episode 19 - Three Weddings and a Funeral (2)
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Helen Mirren and Julia Walters star in this British comedy based on a true story. Two middle-aged best friends, Chris Harper (Mirren) and Annie Clarke (Walters), are also members of a North Yorkshire Women's Institute group. When Annie's husband (John Alderton) is diagnosed with leukemia, they decide to try and raise money for a new leukemia unit in the local hospital. But they don't go down the usual W.I. route. Instead they hit on the idea of a calendar with an extra twist and craft a tastefully nude calendar featuring the ladies' usual activities of baking, gardening and flower arranging. The calendar quickly becomes a best-seller and the women then find themselves on their way to Hollywood.


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New Zealand is home to more than just Hobbits. It is also the address of a super helpful dolphin a really tough rugby player and some pretty scary insects.
The longest place name in the world is in New Zealand. With 57 letters it is the name of a hill in Hawkes Bay.
Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateapokaiwhenuakitanatahu. Those who stutter (and those who don't), try this pronunciation behind closed doors.
Regardless of where you are in the country you are never more than 128km from the sea.
Which is why 3 in 5 Kiwi households own a boat I imagine.
In the scene of Star Trek: First Contact, where we see Earth from space, Australia and Papua New Guinea are clearly visible but New Zealand is invisible – completely missing in fact.
5% of New Zealand's population is human while the rest are animals.
Those suffering of Ophidiophobia head on over to New Zealand! There are no land snakes, native or introduced in this country.
Organised commercial bungee jumping first began in New Zealand.
Now this is scary, more people die in New Zealand each year playing lawn bowls than scuba diving. Best you steer clear of those killer bowling greens.
New Zealand is home to the giant weta, the heaviest insect in the world. It is heavier than a sparrow and looks like a giant cockroach.
Regardless of the scary insects and deadly bowling New Zealand was voted the world's best country in 2007 and 2008 by Wanderlust magazine.
Dogs might be man's best friend, but in New Zealand a dolphin named Pelorus Jack was a sailor's best friend. This helpful dolphin guided ships through dangerous and rocky waters around the country in the early 1900s.
The making of the Lord of the Rings trilogy and the Hobbit raked in around $200 million into the country coffers.
The New Zealand government appointed a Minister for Lord of the Rings, to ensure the most money could be made from the films. In 1990, the New Zealand prime minister appointed a National Wizard – every country should have one!
Kiwi's are tough blokes. Really tough! Rugby player Wayne Shelford got his scrotum ripped open mid-game in a tackle. He was taken off the field with one testicle hanging out, got stitched up on the bench and continued the game. Now that's commitment to the game!
There is a giant carnivorous snail living in the South Island. Luckily you should be able to outrun a snail…
Gisborne airport has train tracks running across the middle of the runway. Splendid planning…. Quite often, trains and planes have to stop until one moves out of the way. Which poses the question, which has right of way a plane or train? A question that has always plagued any Kiwi traveller.
New Zealand is the only country in the world where all the highest government positions have been simultaneously held by women. In 2006, the Queen, the Governor-General, the PM, the Speaker of the House of Representatives and the Chief Justice were all women.
The only land mammals native to NZ are bats. The rest were introduced by Maoris and Europeans.
In 2007, the 'square' New Zealand courts banned a couple from naming their child '4Real'. So naturally, instead, the poor tot was named Superman instead. Correct me if I am wrong but this is still better than Apple…
A New Zealand man who lost a poker bet had to legally change his name to Full Metal Havok More Sexy N Intelligent Than Spock And All The Superheroes Combined With Frostnova. The 99-character name was almost denied because the legal limit is 100 characters. Must be a bit of a schlep filling in forms now…


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The School
The school is where many of the events involving Catherine's peers take place. This atmosphere depicts how education was treated in the early nineteenth century and gives a full perspective of Catherine's life.
The Rock
The rock is where Catherine finds her lesson book with a note from Asa telling her to meet him there. It is on this same rock that Catherine leaves a blanket for the fugitive for which she later gets reprimanded.
The Woods
The woods are where Catherine first encounters the fugitive she initially sees as a black phantom. After the fugitive disappears, Catherine cannot walk through the woods without thinking about him and how he may have fared.
The quilt is the blanket Cassie and Catherine leave on the rock for the stranger in reply to his plea. They wrap sausages and apples inside it. Later, the missing quilt is...
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Sit in the base of Rinjani Volcano, Sembalun Village is unequalled, stunning, and incredible part of East Lombok. With the great volcano as the background, exquisite panorama of beautiful valley welcomes every guest accompanied by warm smile of the indigenous Sembalun people. Read more
Ampenan is the suburb of the city of Mataram. It is situated on Lombok Island which is known as the old town. According to historians, the name Ampenan was taken from the local word "Amben" means heaven. Used to be, Ampenan was a city that was used by the Dutch colonial as a port. Because of that, the area was full of various ethnics. Read more
Lombok in West Nusa Tenggara is the perfect destination for you who are looking for relaxation. In this island, a lot of natural wealth can be found ranging from tropical forests, mountains to exotic beaches. Though many beaches in Lombok, but one of the most popular is the Senggigi beach located in West Lombok.
Lombok, which is located in the east of Bali, is known as the island where tourists can find beautiful beaches, great mountains and waterfalls. Senggigi beach has been known among visitors for many years. This beach offers a fascinating view, white sand and calm waves which invite visitors to swim or surf. Can be said, Senggigi is the center of tourism in Lombok where so many things can be found easily.
The beach is located in the western side of the island or about 12 km from the city of Mataram. You do not have to worry about the accommodation and transportation here because the government has provided sufficient accommodation to guarantee the comfort.
Senggigi beach is known for its exoticism. It is fascinating beach with white sand and calm waves become the main attraction. It also has marine activities such as surfing, swimming, snorkeling or even diving. The beach is clean from rubbish and the water is clear, so the underwater life can be seen easily when you snorkeling. Because of that reason, Senggigi is also known for its water activities.
Sunset in Senggigi
Once you reach Senggigi beach, you will find a strong natural atmosphere. The waves and the wind give a great feeling to anyone. In the south, you will see the open sky and the east side brings a set of green trees. From here, you will also see the greatness of mount Agung in Bali. This beach is really perfect for spending time or playing around with your beloved couple or family.
However, the most interesting thing you will find in Senggigi beach is its sun. It sets in a perfect position that is difficult to find in other places. You can enjoy the beautiful view by just sitting on the side of the beach with a drink on hand. Or, you can sit in cafes near the beach where usually tourists spend their time wait for the sunset.
Because of the position of the beach, which is in the opposite side of the Bali Island, the sunset here is one of the most interesting attractions that are waited by most visitors. Different from other beaches in Lombok, Senggigi brings a magnificent view when the sun sets in the west. When the sun goes down, Mount Agung in Bali becomes the background. It creates beautiful scenery that will help calming your stress.
You can enjoy the beautiful sunset by sitting in the cafes near the beach. You can have some drinks and menus for your dinner. You can find local menus to international cuisines that will give a perfect combination to your vacation. So, do not forget to visit Senggigi beach when you visit Lombok.
3 Best Places to Visit in Lombok for Vacation, Lombok is not just offering beaches and mountains but as a popular tourist destination, the island is also offering other attractions. We have to admit that the Gilis or small islands around the main island of Lombok is the most popular destination but we also have to say that Lombok is not just those islands; there are small, traditional villages where you can find various interesting things. Below, you will find three most interesting villages in Lombok.
Sade Village
This village is located in District Pujut in Central Lombok or about 30 km from the city of Mataram. Sade village is one of the tribe villages where Sasak people live. Here, you will how the people live in a traditional manner. Their homes were built from bamboo and wood with thatched roofs. Most people who live there are farmers. But, because the tourism industry has been developed, many of the locals become tour guide.
Another interesting thing you can find here is handicrafts and ikat weaving that are made by hand using traditional techniques. Most houses in Sade village are selling souvenirs, such as necklaces, key chains, bracelets and many more. You can also see how women in the village create ikat weaving.
Sukarara Village
Just like Sade, Sukarara is also a traditional village where you can see the uniqueness of Sasak tribe. The village is located in the district of Sukarara in Central Lombok, West Nusa Tenggara. It is just 25 km from the city of Mataram. Most women who live in Sukarara village worked as weaver. The reason why they work as weaver is not just about money but more than that, they want to preserve and maintain their culture and the existence of traditional weaving. Most women here get their weaving skill since they were just a kid. They also have responsibility to teach the technique to their daughters who will continue it.
Women in Sukarara village weave in front of their houses. This scenery can be found in almost every house along the road village. Songket or woven fabric created by Sukarara weavers has different patterns with other villages.
This traditional village is located in the district of Kediri in West Lombok, Nusa Tenggara. It is just 14 km away from the city of Mataram. Different from Sade and Sukarara, this village is the center of pottery.
Once entering the village, you will see a row of art shops belong to local people. Those shops are selling Kemmek (pot), trash cans. Kekete (Pan), selao (barrel), jars and many more. What makes this pottery interesting is the technique. Local pottery makers who live Banyumulek are still keeping and using the same technique as their ancestors do thousand years ago.
Gili islands are the most popular tourist destination in Lombok, West Nusa Tenggara. The popularity of the Gilis began in the 1980s and 1990s. During the time, the Gilis in Lombok are established and now they provide an array of glamour options. Today, some Gilis, especially the popular ones, are very relaxed and laid-back. They have so many beachside cafes, bars and restaurants with various menus, from local to international. Read more
Wahana Gili Ocean is the brand of a fast boat and is one of the fastest ways to get into Bali, Lombok and Gili Trawangan. Wahana Gili Ocean offers the fastest transfer which will only take 1 hour in journey, with the route from Padangbai to Lombok, Gili Trawangan and tramsfer back. Wahana Gili Ocean is divided into two there are Wahana Gili Ocean I and Wahana Gili Ocean II (primary boat). Usually Wahana Gili Ocean II (60 seats) is more often used as the main ship for daily transfers. While Wahana Gili Ocean I (32 seats boat) is normally operated in a particular season or if the primary boat overloaded. Read more
Eka Jaya Fast Boat serve daily transfer from Padang Bai harbour Bali to Gili Trawangan and Teluk Nara Lombok Island. We have many years of experiences serve travelers to explore paradise island of Lombok, and not only providing fast boat services but also arranging booking accommodation in Gili Trawangan.Eka Jaya Fast Boat Have more than 200 executives, staffs, we are proud to providing the best services. Eka Jaya Fast Boat with 17.5 meters long and powered by Suzuki 5 x 300 HP brand new Engines, capacity 66 passengers and our fast boat speed at 35 knots and with complete safety equipment. Read more
Mount Rinjani or Gunung Rinjani is an active volcano in Indonesia on the island of Lombok. Administratively the mountain is in the Regency of North Lombok, West Nusa Tenggara (Indonesian: Nusa Tenggara Barat, NTB). It rises to 3,726 metres (12,224 ft), making it the second highest volcano in Indonesia.
On the top of the volcano is a 6-by-8.5-kilometre (3.7 by 5.3 mi) caldera, which is filled partially by the crater lakeknown as Segara Anak or Anak Laut (Child of the Sea) due to blue color of water lake as Laut (Sea). This lake is approximately 2,000 metres (6,600 ft) above sea level and estimated to be about 200 metres (660 ft) deep; the caldera also contains hot springs. Sasak tribe and Hindu people assume the lake and the mount are sacred and some religion activities are occasionally done in the two areas.
The volcano and the caldera are protected by the Gunung Rinjani National Park established in 1997. Tourism is increasingly popular with trekkers able to visit the rim, make their way into the caldera or even to make the more arduous climb to the highest point; fatalities, however, are not unheard of. In July 2009 the summit route was closed due to volcanic activity at that time and subsequently reopened when the activity decreased. During early 2010 up to and including May 2010 access to Rinjani was at times again restricted due to volcanic activity.
The park is popular for mountain climbs and trekking and represents an important nature reserve and water catchement area. The park is officially 41,330 hectares (159.6 sq mi) within the park boundaries and includes a further 66,000 hectares (250 sq mi) of protected forest outside. The mountain and its satellites form the Mount Rinjani National Park (Taman Nasional Gunung Rinjani). In 2008, the Indonesian government proposed to UNESCO that Mount Rinjani be one of the world's official geoparks. If this was approved by UNESCO, Mount Rinjani would become the first such geological park in Indonesia.
It has been claimed that the preliminary documentation required for UNESCO registration has not received sufficient support from the Nusa Teggara Barat government offices. Among the requirements to become a geo-park sufficient information must be supplied to show that the location has sufficient and appropriate management, information services, access to educational instruction to facilitate "knowledge-based geotourism", the implementation of a sustainable regional economy, biodiversity conservation, and to have established public access to the park area.
Mount Rinjani has obtained the World Legacy Award from Conservation International and Traveller (2004), and was a finalist for Tourism for Tomorrow Awards (2005 and 2008) from the World Travel Tourism Council (WTTC)..
Gili Islands was very famous for their beautiful scenery and atmosphere, in adition they also well known as the beauty of underwater life which stored the natural view of the coral and any kind of colourfull fish that was so amazing.
As one of Indonesia's top areas for scuba diving and snorkelling, with a reputation for being the 'turtle capital of the world', with year round water temperatures about 28 degrees Celsius, the Gili islands have become popular for beginners and experienced divers alike. There are about 25 dive sitesaround the islands of Trawangan, Meno and Gili Air, with a variety of topography (slopes, walls, ridges and canyons) and an enormous amount of diverse marine life. This includes black – and white tip reef sharks, lots of turtles (hawksbill and olive ridley), lionfish, scorpion fish, cuttle fish and octopus, moray eels, sea snakes, different types of rays (blue – spotted, eagle and, from December to March, manta rays) not to mention schools of bump – head parrot fish every full moon and the occasional whale shark plus countless varieties of hard and soft corals. Read more
South Sea Nomads, is the Gili islands only party boat, it operates Mon, Wed and Fri and more often in high season. Starts at 3PM and goes around the 3 Gili islands. They stop off at Gili Air for a swim and snorkel before watching the sunset over the water toward Bali. A yummy Thai dinner is is served on the way back to Gili Trawangan where the party continues on board. South Sea Nomads also offer budget overnight camping, diving and surf boat trips; Sekotong trip is 2 nights, 3 days island hopping the 14 island off the South West peninsula of Lombok. This trip is great for divers, experienced surfers who want to surf Desert Point and people who just want to island hop and snorkel. Their Moyo and Satonda trip is 5 nights and 6 days and gets off the beaten trail away from other tourists. Over the 6 days they visit waterfalls, a sunken volcano and crater lake, caves, deserted beaches and islands, beautiful reefs and a WW2 wreck. South Sea Nomads are located at both Gili Hostel and Manta Dive.


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Josie Sigler
You stash things up in those woods they might not be there when you come back. All of us who hid things up there we couldn't keep at home lost something, followed our own paths back to find the hollow of an oak empty, rusty bucket overturned. Pack of GPC's missing the lucky. Bottle of Old Crow stolen from somebody's pops stolen again, drank down, black feathers on the label soaked by wet leaves, bird's eye rubbed off by eager fingers. Eager fingers down in those trailers and up in those woods, so what did it matter? Black dirt under the nails. Sour breath, anyway, and pleading.
My best almost-cousin Wanda lost it up there. To Jesse Walburn. Same place her sister lost it. Under the tarp stretched over what was left of the old El Camino, seat cushions long since eaten out by mice and the skinny deer crowded into those woods. A stunted grove of ash saplings pushed through its guts into the rusty hood, small grateful tendrils escaping to make mint green leaves in the spring, the kind that clap in the wind, shimmer.
By the time we were fourteen, fifteen, we were out of questions and made-up answers, too. It was just part of those woods.
Nobody knew how the car got there—how could someone drive it between the trees, whether down from the highway or up from the dirt road behind the trailers? Kids who played chase and hide-and-seek up there asked those kinds of questions. By the time we were fourteen, fifteen, we were out of questions and made-up answers, too. It was just part of those woods. Like the warped blue missile pits, empty red shotgun casings. A shelter that saved us from rain.
Before she left Carleton, up and left Michigan altogether, Wanda's sister warned us about Jesse trying to take our cherries, how good he was at talking a girl into it.
No way I was going to let that happen to me. Or to Wanda, who was nearly blood, whose family had lived in the trailer next to ours since our grandparents' real houses got bought out by the government for the missile site. Our windows faced each other and even without phones Wanda and I could call each other in the night, which we did a lot when our brothers were away. Before they left they were just boys, still kid-skinny, but somehow able to keep our dads and uncles in check just by hanging around.
I wasn't at the party the night Jesse first started fixing to split our lives down the middle like the sweet maple up there'd been struck by lightning and opened. I stayed home on account of my brother being sick enough for the hospital, so I missed seeing exactly how it was Jesse got Wanda all the way to third base on his first try.
I remember watching as Mom put Denny in the car. I knew he couldn't see me because I was on the side where his eye turned up like a birth-clot. My palms were cold as I took my niece, Reba, into my arms.
The doctors never did anything, could never explain why Denny was fine one minute, collapsed and couldn't breathe the next. But when it got that bad we couldn't keep him at home, sit there and watch him die on the linoleum.
Bethany, my brother's girl, looked quick but deep into my eyes, nodded slightly, like she always did when she gave Reba over to me on a hospital run.
I nodded back and gathered Reba close.
Beth came up in those trailers, too, and we didn't need words. I was to keep Reba from my dad, who'd be home with us until his midnight shift at Fermi. I wouldn't go to sleep until he left, then I'd curl up in Beth and Denny's bed with Reba, watch the way her long black lashes fluttered on her cheeks while she dreamed. I'd pretend she was mine, despite the danger in that.
I was probably even glad for the occasional night off the party. You needed a good excuse not to go, something to tell whatever boy.
But because I wasn't there that September night it was Marcy Walters who held Wanda's hair while she threw up, Marcy who said, Jesse, you shit, she's too drunk to choose. Marcy was three years older, was one of Jesse's first, so she could talk at him like that. But she couldn't stop it. Things happened fast up in those woods.
Things happened fast up in those woods.
Marcy came by the next morning and stood on our stoop. Right away I knew why, knew it had started. I didn't need to be told about Wanda on her knees in a thicket, warned about where it was headed and fast: El Camino. Shorthand for rupture, ruin.
All I'm saying's your girl might need an ear this morning, Marcy said.
Soon as mom got home, I gave Reba up and snuck two Stroh's from the lean-to fridge, took Wanda to the woods. Damp Sunday morning, we tucked ourselves in the crotch the storm had given that big old maple. The break was already worn. You couldn't even see the scar anymore, the splinters having tossed themselves down and gotten swallowed by the earth, the bright yellow gone, just sap clinging to the back of our pants as we sucked off the beers, hair of the dog.
I don't even know how it happened, Wanda said. I remember more about puking him up with the whiskey after. She tried to laugh, tucked a piece of loose hair into her long brown braid.
I didn't know what to say. I wanted to make a plan, somehow invent a world where we could erase the night before. I wanted to comfort her, touch her hair, but I didn't know how.
Finally, Wanda said, Jesse's got the magic, though. Does he ever.
She said it to cover up, to make believe one night with Jesse meant she was ahead of me suddenly. Like she actually felt something for him, whatever it was we were supposed to feel for those boys who panted and scraped at us, so close to what happened at home we promised never to say out loud. I knew her well enough to know she was scared, both during and after. It was true we were coming apart, but that wasn't the reason, me not knowing how to want.
Jesse. Tall with a dry voice. The muscle in his cheek that twitched when he was thinking, when he bit his cigarette. My brother's best friend in junior high. They were still friends once in awhile, usually when Jesse wanted to smoke. That's probably half of what saved me. My brother Denny winking with his good eye, standing in the kitchen with his IV pole in one hand and a joint in the other saying, Don't even think about it, buddy.
No way, man. It's cool, Jesse said. His eyes wet and dark and watchful.
It was early summer, then, and I watched from the kitchen window when he left. He stopped at the rose bushes outside our trailer and did like all the boys, laid a petal over his curled hand to pop it with the other hand, leave a slit up its middle. Other boys did it just because. He knew why he did it. He wasn't a boy, neither. He looked up at me through the glass grey with grease and smoke and smiled.
Once, when I was about ten and Denny was fourteen, walking in those woods on the ridge at the far edge near the highway, I spotted a grave marked by a tied-together cross, black shoelaces wrapped around and around. We knew the graves of animals, our pets, those killed on the road, and those hunted, were marked with heavy rocks out there, and we walked a wide swath around them. This was something else. Because we had no secrets from each other—just secrets we were all keeping together—and those woods were ours, we dug up the grave. We cleared the crumbling dirt from the plastic bag to find a rosary and a lock of hair, the newspaper photograph of a woman, es que loca something scrawled across the bottom just before the final word was melted by mud leaking in. It was wet up in those woods.
We got Gracie Alvarado to translate: is it crazy—what? To think he'd find the woman? This man who had her hair? Did she give it? Or did he steal it, the sicko?
That was the first time I saw and really understood, Gracie's belly out front like a basketball. She was fourteen. By the time her son was three everybody knew he was Jesse's—if we'd ever doubted it. Spitting image. Boy even had his swagger.
Jesse denied it, called Gracie a spic and a wetback. He was the same way about America Johnson, said, You think I'd screw a nigger?
He forgot that we were all there, we saw him push America up against a tree because my brother already had Bethany over in the El Camino. Not like Jesse claimed the white babies he made, either. I wanted something to change, especially for America's girl. But in a place like ours, I knew it wouldn't. By the time America's daughter was thirteen, there'd be another guy like Jesse, some kid who was Jesse's, too, to call his own sister more than bitch and slut after. I can't say if it was worse to be America than it was to be any of us because I don't know, but it couldn't have been better.
Gracie and America were thick as blood before all that, but after Jesse moved on from both of them, what was left of their friendship, that sisterhood like Wanda and I had? They stayed in their trailers changing diapers and twisting the phone cord while they waited for welfare to answer.
They stayed in their trailers changing diapers and twisting the phone cord while they waited for welfare to answer.
I didn't want to lose it in those woods. I wanted those woods for myself. When we found old things up there I felt like I lived in a real place. Plenty of arrowheads up there. Coins. And on one of the special walks we took before he left for Kuwait, Denny found a tiny black pair of girl's boots with what seemed a thousand eyelets for the laces. The kind someone might have worn in a covered wagon. Hanging in the crook of a tree for a hundred years, no doubt, and nobody happened to look sooner. You could never see everything about those woods, no matter how much time you spent looking.
Denny was getting worse, couldn't climb up there anymore. Nobody could figure out what was wrong with his brain or his nerves, fix his lungs rattling in the night. I needed those woods, took my time to them the way people take time to church. In the afternoon sunlight, the tarp over the car made a blue world, like breathing in a swimming pool. Then, I could almost forget the boys, Jesse, my brother's endless shakes. Plenty of times cutting school I curled there with a magazine and a candy bar, lost myself without drowning, woke cold but safe. As if I'd been asleep deeper than I slept at home.
I needed those woods so bad I almost lost it in the parking lot of the K-Mart—anywhere but trees—with Randy Vandler that summer but we came up short, him wiping his mouth, saying, I can't do this. I think I still love Allie.
Allie was some girl from Keatington who'd never give it to Randy, I was pretty sure, but I felt relief spill into my chest, cool as the slurpees we bought and drank on the hood of his brother's Camaro, waiting for the stars to come out bright.
I pulled Wanda toward me on that old tree, told her again that we could go anywhere we wanted if we just didn't get knocked up.
What if you just stopped right now? I asked.
Guess I could, she said. But she didn't believe it. Jesse always finished what he started. He got to almost all of us. Letting him was just part of growing up in the trailers near those woods. And if he didn't want you, maybe there was something wrong with you.
After that day in the kitchen when I opened his beer, he watched me whenever we were all in those woods, his smile nothing of the coyotes that wailed up in those woods on autumn nights, tore up the chicken coop we kept out back. But a coyote's just trying to make a living, to eat. A coyote couldn't hide so well, appear so toothless showing his teeth.
You really could, I said to Wanda, trying to make it true. Think about Beth.
But Wanda wasn't there, didn't feel Beth's hands clasping, hear her sudden cry. I was the one who sat with my brother's girl, warming her fingers as they emptied her body. She was I-got-bigger-fish-to-fry-I-got-other-mouths-to-feed brave until the chafe of paper sheets and speculum. Her face drained to white and the dark rings that came under her eyes in that moment never went away.
It was February, frozen, waiting for death to flood from the skin. Sleet blew through the parking lot where I tried to shield her from the posters. Half-formed and bloody babies seemed to dance on their pieces of wood above the hedges covered with slush.
No license, borrowed car, I drove her home to Reba who sat locked and wailing in her playpen, snot dripping to her wormish lip.
Bethany said to me, You know I'd keep it if we could. With the first one you think you can.
I never told Denny about the abortion. Bad enough Reba was born while he was gone. Bad enough he couldn't breathe anymore at night without a vent. The piercing wail of my brother's stopped chest invaded my dreams, left me running and running to find him up in those woods, in the desert of Kuwait, always a figure retreating, blocking out part of the sun.
I did tell Wanda about Beth, though, because we were pinky-swear friends. We told everything. It was because of Bethany we made the pact: we were never gonna, never with the boys around here and never up in those woods. Only if they married us first, liked us for other reasons.
But the way Wanda put on her makeup the night it happened told me that it would happen, anyway, pact or no. We stood in the bathroom before the party, her glopping CoverGirl onto her face, a shade darker than her skin. Extra green liner and shadow. When she turned to look at me I saw that her life was over. In Jesse's wake, there would be the others and soon she'd be the one twirling a phone cord around her finger, begging. Picking up boxes of powdered milk from the food pantry like our own moms had. I saw, too, that she had no choice.
We stood in the bathroom before the party, her glopping CoverGirl onto her face, a shade darker than her skin. Extra green liner and shadow. When she turned to look at me I saw that her life was over.
If Jesse hadn't gotten to Wanda, everybody said later, she might have made it out.
I don't think so. There was something in Wanda, that's for certain. She was the only one in her family took regular classes at school, sat right next to me and endured the taunts of those Keatington girls.
Thing is, though, Wanda's brother didn't make it home.
Died doing a plow of Iraqi soldiers, Denny said. Burying hundreds of 'em alive was Shane's job over there. Never heard exactly, but bet he died on a run. Plenty guys did. Got swallowed up in their own trenches.
I wasn't too sorry. If brothers were no less awful than any other boy sometimes, Shane was worst than most. At least we were as strong as our brothers, had been fighting them long as we could remember, could bite and tear our way to freedom. But Wanda's dad kept hanging in the doorway of her room even after the war was over, six feet tall two-fifty. No one coming to stop it.
So she went up to those woods and I followed, found my hand in the hand of some boy whose name I can't remember now.
I watched as Jesse worked his magic around the fire, got everybody onto shots of nasty Hot Damn. It was November. Time of bittersweet vines, their berries the only red still singing. Even the patches of blood in the grass dried to brown. Those woods were no good for us in deer season until well after dusk when our orange-vested fathers poked around with shotguns, pouring salt on the ground, trying to put something out of its misery. Wanda's face shone as she disappeared into the El Camino with Jesse.
Those bent and gnarled young trees tangled in the guts of the car shuddered with its rocking, threw down their last clinging leaves.
The boy I was with put his hands up my shirt, fumbled under my bra. His cold fingers felt dead to me, like the innards of the deer dad and I'd butchered the day before.
Butchering was Denny's job before Kuwait, but after, it was mine. I held the leg of the doe firm for dad to saw through, his fingers covered in blood, slippery. He sunk them in at the top of her belly to see how fat she was. He cursed. The small pointed bone at the meeting of the ribs, busted by bullet, rested at my toes. I picked it up, felt its sticky warmth that had been so near the beating heart.
I felt the bone in the pocket of my jeans, pressing up against my hip under the boy's pressing. I shoved him away. Before he could reach out for me, cajole me to stay like they always did, I disappeared into those woods the way you could if they were part of you.
I wandered out to the missile pit where I found Marcy Walters sitting on the edge smoking a cigarette, plucking the cotton out of a milkweed, letting it float on the air away. Quiet out there by those pits where for years the government prepared for Russia to bomb us. Scars and concrete in the ground. Now the atomic rot had gone back into the earth that swallowed everything, just like it had gone into my brother.
Marcy was pretty quick and she probably knew why I was crying. She held me until I could breathe and offered me her smoke.
I know, I know, she said, soothing me. You try and try, but in the end, you can't decide the story of someone else's life.
I buried the piece of bone out there near the pit. I didn't want my mark to be as obvious as the cross we found out by the highway that time, me and Denny, or the forget-me-not letters buried by girls with plastic kiddie barrettes to mark them. Plenty of those up there, half of them probably for Jesse. Bright yellow bows or purple birds hard and unrelenting in the black dirt. I dug in, marked the grave of the doe I'd claimed as mine with a simple stone, near a tree I loved and knew well. Some curve in the stone, some pattern, a root breaking from the earth just so—I was sure I would never forget, that the map inside of me was stronger than any I'd ever seen on paper.
That was the last night I spent up in those woods until after I'd left for school, scholarship all the way down to Ohio State. Guidance counselor set it up for me when I told her I wanted out. I spent the last two years of high school studying and watching Reba while Bethany worked at the Super Wal-Mart that went in up on the highway and sitting quietly with Denny, who couldn't talk anymore, not even with his hands. Lou Gehrig's, we knew by then, just like all the other guys got over in the gulf.
I came home for Christmas that first year away at school, mostly to see him.
I saw Wanda, too. The edges of those woods were white, thick black branches poking up through the snowcover. Wanda stood with me there at dusk, snow in her eyelashes. I couldn't bring myself to go in.
I'm pregnant, she said. Just two months.
The baby wasn't Jesse's, she was sure, but the guy's she ended up with after he'd moved on to the next girl.
Get rid of it, I said. You'll ruin your life. Words like armor-piercing bullets covered with uranium Denny said came so hot and fast sand turns to glass when they hit.
Get rid of it, I said. You'll ruin your life.
My love for Wanda turned her into something else. And being away turned me into someone else. I forgot how babies brought hope to a place like ours, right or wrong. I forgot how only birth and death could gather us together. I forgot the way everything dangerous eventually sealed over—the missile pits filled up with so much sand you couldn't dig your way in, the old carpet we dragged up to those woods to make a fort covered with moss, and friendships mended by the pressure of space and just plain tiredness. Growing up in those trailers near those woods leaves you tired, even after you take off from there for good, when you only come back for weddings and funerals.
Beth finally got brave enough to pull the plug the spring I turned twenty-three. In front of the altar of St. Joe's, under the plaster Christ hanging on his cross, they laid my brother out in his full dress uniform, collar pulled up to cover his neck. I could remember the first time he wore it, the way his muscles filled the sleeves when he reached down to hug me. But by the time he died, the jacket was baggy, had to be pinned behind him.
Jesse Walburn stood near my brother's body with a terrible look on his face, deep lines cutting his forehead, a single streak of grey at his temple. He wasn't even thirty. Still lean, long, loping as he walked down the aisle toward the door, his throat bobbing like he'd choke.
Marcy Walters left her kids and husband in back, came and sat right behind me when the priest started talking bullshit. She put her hand on my shoulder and kept it there until my muscles eased up.
Wanda was in back with her kids, too. She waited on the front step in the bright spring sun and hugged me. She felt smaller in my arms than I remembered, more solid. We ate egg salad and pork chops side by side in the rented hall afterwards, just like we did after we looked at her brother's casket—except, that one was empty, no hands crossed over the heart.
At the end of the night, everybody went home except the ones who knew Denny up in those woods. Marcy, always on her game, matriarch of our ragtaggle tribe, put on an old Bruce Springsteen cassette and cranked it up and everybody started to dance.
This is what Denny would have wanted, Marcy said.
I watched as Jesse danced with girls who would have killed him five years back, before they were resigned to their fates, found other daddies for their babies or dropped them off at the church daycare.
He came over to Wanda, asked her to dance.
Sure, she said, grinning and handing me her plate.
Right, I thought, they might not go up into those woods anymore, but they live together in those trailers. They see each other at the Super Wal-Mart and they dig each other's cars out of the snow. They know each other in a way no one will ever know me again.
Wanda laughed and smacked Jesse on the arm over something. They walked over to me together. He took my hand, pulled me in. I let him because I thought I'd fall down if he didn't hold me up. In my mind, I could see him and Denny leaning against the kitchen counter, sipping off their beers, laughing. My brother's head tipped back, neck long and smooth before they punctured it, before the metal clasp, the tube through which he ate.
Jesse took me to the dance floor. He bent down to hold me, his arms like a brief vise around my arms and shoulders. Wiry, nothing like Denny's.
The night was over. The song was over. Denny was dead. It was time to let go and we both knew it. But I did not let go of Jesse. He looked down at me, looked right into my eyes.
So? he asked.
I was tired. I let him lead me to the door where America Johnson and Gracie Alvarado stood watching their kids dance together. Brother and sister.
Where you off to? Gracie said to us.
America just shook her head. Hopeless, her eyes seemed to say.
Wanda stared at me long and hard from across the room. I kept her eyes a few seconds, saw them flash a warning in the old language. I went anyway.
In the parking lot, a light rain fell. I got into Jesse's truck and let him drive me over to those woods. I knew it was where he would go. And how I had craved it all that long time away. We parked his car on the trailer side, behind the pile of unused culverts that had been there so long no one remembered what they meant to drain. In the full moon they were gaping mouths rising from the ground.
I knew it was where he would go. And how I had craved it all that long time away.
Jesse and I went up, in. Soon as I felt the magic there I stripped off my coat, felt the familiar air. My skin prickled with relief, like I was a puzzle piece that finally found its way to the empty spot, my edges soothed by being held in somewhere for a time. Spring in those woods was wild, the new green in the moonlight and drizzle something thick as blood poured all over the night, all over Jesse Walburn as he stood next to that El Camino.
This is what it would have been like, I told myself.
But it wasn't. I wasn't fourteen, fifteen. I was a woman and I knew how to turn my body toward him, relax the small of my back to let him enter. Inside of me he was dull, thudding, an old score settled passionless for everybody, our clothes tangled around our ankles, the ridges of metal pushed into my back. I was cold. There was no magic when he came, no agony of something lost, just Jesse, who was nothing more than a guy from my hometown who didn't know how to do it any better than this, finishing the woods of my girlhood, those woods I'd already lost buried inside my chest so it felt like I would cry, choke up wet branches, leaves, a pair of girl's boots.
We lay for a few minutes, wordless. Then I pulled my jeans back up. I slipped out of the El Camino and began to walk away.
Hey, wait up, he said.
See you around, I said. I needed to look for what I'd buried, touch myself at fifteen.
In the dark I moved from tree to tree, seemingly guided by the moon itself. Jesse held out his lighter so I could examine the bark of a particular tree. I touched stone after stone. But I didn't remember exactly. Nothing was really familiar. It only seemed I knew those woods. I felt something haunting my chest, something breaking.
You need a hand? Jesse said, following me as I thrashed up toward the highway. He was polite, worried, ruined for me.
All along I dreamt of other places, didn't want to stay in those trailers, but in that moment, groping for what I already knew was lost, just another dead thing under a rock, I realized that getting out really was an accident. Luck, if such a thing exists. It could have gone either way. Of course, I was already safe, so it was easy to admit.
In the morning, Wanda came over with the kids, brought me a mug of coffee. She didn't say a thing about it. She was the wise one that morning and I was the stupid girl. We sat on the porch, watching the kids run through the puddles that had formed in the grass, water coming down from those trees in the night. She stroked my hair, the way we had always grieved together, piled into the El Camino with her sister, old magazines and licorice sticks, and always a hand tangled or braiding, saying, You can endure. You can. You will make it through.
How's life? I asked. It was all I could think to say.
It's decent, she said. She tapped two cigarettes out of her pack and offered me one, cupping her hand around mine to light it.
Our eyes talked in the old way, bleeding and accepting apologies in less time than it took to blow clouds of smoke in the air, bite down and clap as Wanda's oldest son, the one I tried to erase, held out his arms to fly.
Josie Sigler's poetry has appeared in Poet Lore, Hayden's Ferry Review, Harpur Palate and others. Her fiction has been published in Water~Stone, Copper Nickel, and Silk Road. Her chapbook, Calamity, was published by Proem Press. Her book of poems, living must bury, was published by Fence Books. She writes a lot about the several stranded Midwestern towns in which she grew, the cities that came after, and the Maine island she calls home.
About "El Camino": Last autumn my brother and I took a walk in the woods near one of the houses we lived in growing up. We found a piece of carpet we'd dragged from the dump to turn our secret place into more of a home. Grass and moss had grown around the carpet so it was barely recognizable, but we both knew instantly what it was. In writing "El Camino," I was trying to capture that moment of recognition, of history rushing up on you and making your skin ache. This story is also a love letter for all the girls I knew back home who never got the chance to dream themselves into being.


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Posted by Bob on December 13, 2006
In Reply to: "Stood up" posted by pamela on December 13, 2006
: : : I've looked, but can't find any source for "stood up" meaning that someone who you have a date with doesn't show. I wondered whether it had something to do with dancing (i.e. the person who is supposed to be dancing with you leaves you standing). Any ideas?
: : I, too, looked, but without success. However, leaving someone standing did not happen only at dance halls. In the U.S., two of the most famous places where people agreed to meet (and sometimes got stood up) were the Hotel Biltmore clock, and the four-faced clock in the Main Concourse of Grand Central Terminal. The Waldorf Hotel also had a notable clock, even more impressive than the Biltmore clock, but the phrase, "Under the clock," always referred to the Biltmore clock. Still, I'd wager that more people met, or were stood up, at the Grand Central clock.
: : From what I've written above, it's obvious that I think being stood up means being left standing somewhere wondering where your date is.
: It was only that I was thinking that many more people must have been stood up while seated - e.g. waiting in a cafe, waiting at home and so on and there doesn't seem to be a phrase for that. Pamela
You might stand up in expectation of meeting someone, then sit down after the no-show. You're waiting for the doorbell to ring, it gets late, you go to the window to peek out ... standing up in anticipation seems normal.