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Wendy is mom to Veda (9 months) and Felix (6). Felix was at school during our interview.
What did you love most about being a kid?
I loved the play aspect of being a kid, and I definitely played for a really long time. I played dolls and we played outside a lot. My brother and I did tons of fort building and imaginative play—I remember my mom [always] saying, "go outside and play!" and that was just our cue and we knew exactly what to do. We had really deep imaginations and we were always building forts and bark huts...and putting safety pins through flowers and then selling them as earrings…we were really creative together.
What is your mom like?
She's really loving and playful. She's really good with children. She was a second grade teacher for about 25 years and now she's an amazing grandmother. She actually spends a lot of time with Felix and is always doing things like stopping at the fire station with him and being like, let's learn about firemen! She'll just show up and meet the fire chief and somehow get them an amazing private tour of the fire station and fire engine.
What did you think of your mom when you were little?
I thought she was super fun and easygoing…she was never uptight about the house being messy, or how we were in the space…she created a really kid-friendly environment that promoted childhood.
Tell me about your path to motherhood.
I always knew I wanted to be a mom, for sure. That was absolutely part of my life's plan, since I was a little girl. I definitely played with dolls a lot longer than a lot of my peers. Everyone was eleven or twelve and transitioning to pop music and movie stars and sleepovers and I played with dolls for kind of an exceptional, embarrassing amount of time.
What was it about dolls?
It was the nurturing element and the imagination that went along with putting different outfits together. It was funny, today Felix said to me, "for her first birthday maybe we should get [Veda] a doll." I said, "yeah, maybe we can get her one of those really soft Waldorf dolls"—he goes to the Waldorf school—and he said, "no, I want to get her one of those plastic ones, because, you know, girls love changing their dolls' outfits and it will be a lot easier with one of those plastic dolls." I was like, you're right, that's what I liked doing!
But my path to motherhood…it was never a question to me, do I want to be a mom or not? I knew that would be part of my life. When I moved back here I met my husband and I pretty much instantaneously knew that he would be the father of my children.
How did you know you guys were ready to have kids?
We were together for about a year and I would say we just opened ourselves up to that coming into our lives. Pretty shortly after that I became pregnant and we were both so excited and also scared at the same time—I imagine most people feel that way when they realize they're pregnant. Even if it's something you've wanted for a long time…that moment you realize that it's happening is…it's unnerving. I remember immediately looking at the pregnancy test and I was like well do I need to go to the doctor tomorrow? Isn't that what people do the moment they find out they're pregnant? We ended up having a home birth and working with a midwife. We went and found the midwife we were going to have, and after our first appointment I was like, so do I need to go to the doctor? And she asked, "well, why?" And I was like, "I don't know why! Isn't that just what people do?" And she said, "no, that's why you're seeing us."
So I simultaneously realized how little I knew about pregnancy and childbirth and this alternative path that I was seeking. Even though I was committed to that [alternative path], so much of my background and personal foundation was [rooted] in such a traditional path as well. I didn't really have any family members who had had home births, so I still saw it as, but you also go the doctor, right? I didn't realize that it could be so comprehensive. For me, that was the beginning of really learning about the details of childbirth and pregnancy—even though you think you know a lot, just because it's something you're interested in—all of a sudden when you're in it there are all of these questions that come up, for me at least, that I'd never considered just as a "fangirl" of pregnancy and childbirth [Laughs]. There's really so much to know about it, and once you find yourself in that situation, it's on such a deeper level that it just becomes wonderfully all-consuming. Especially the first time around. This time was very different. [Laughs]
What are some of your favorite things about being a mom?
I love the connection of being on the same wavelength with [my children]. That does not happen constantly throughout the day for me, honestly. It's that moment when I really drop in and am present and connecting, and eye contact and skin contact, both with the baby and with my older son as well. It's a really heart-connected, magical time when I don't feel like I'm being pulled on by other tasks around the house or work-related [obligations], it's just connected, centered, connecting time. And there is such a deep connection that exists between mother and child, but as we're living day to day and doing all the things that need to happen throughout the day—getting children ready, cooking, working, having conversations, arranging things—there are so many distractions that can take you away from being present. I find my favorite thing is when I'm conscientious of those moments, when we are looking at each other and I feel them in my brain and in my body, and that is just an energetic exchange back and forth. It's electrifying. I want to make a bigger effort to experience that more throughout the day.
What is one part of motherhood you struggle with?
Just one?! It's a cliché, of course, but for me it's totally the balance. The balance of how to be all things for everyone. And I'm not under any illusion that the world will collapse if I can't do everything—that's not where I'm coming from. It's just how to create space for all of the pieces that make up motherhood and womanhood and personhood. For me those are: time with my children, time with my friends, time with my husband, time alone—which basically never happens, and I could spend 80% of my time alone. If I could, I would probably choose that, and then pepper it with time with friends and family. For me one of the hardest things is completely losing that really important equilibrium which involves time with myself. At this moment when [Veda] is needing so much attention and care, I really only have a couple hours during the day when she's asleep, and I have a whole list of things to do during that time. So I really don't allow that time to be that quiet alone time that I crave.
One thing we're doing differently this time around, as opposed to with Felix, is we have a babysitter a couple days a week and that's a big change. As a first time mom I didn't get that that was okay to do, especially when he was a baby, and now I feel like I know better. I know that receiving support, asking for support, and knowing where to look for it when you need it is the thing that can really keep the harmony happening in the family. The thing about babies and children is that they change so quickly, so everything is a stage. You can find yourself in the thick of a really difficult stage and then all of sudden it changes, and you didn't even quite adjust to that first one, but now you're in a new stage. Having to adjust after not even getting up to speed with the first change—it's exhausting. But if I had to condense it down in a nutshell it would be about maintaining that balance and I think that that balance is always changing. So learning to be flexible is really crucial. I always think of that Rudyard Kipling story, and I can't remember the story exactly, but the moral is "it's better to bend than to break." I wouldn't have always thought about it that way. [In the past] I would have thought, I need to be really rigid and structured in order to keep the balance. I need to hold the boundaries, and be strict with what it is that I need and what our family needs. The times that I've done that I've worn myself out and basically broken, and this time around I just know that you have to be flexible and you have to be willing to bend even deeper than what you think is good. You learn when to bend and when to hold, I guess.
What have you learned about yourself since becoming a mother?
I'm kind of reflecting on this time around, but in general I've learned I'm a really Type A person, and I never would have acknowledged that before, but I am and I think it serves me really well, but it also has the tendency to make me a little crazy if I can't let go of that from time to time. And hands down, having the second child has forced me into epically mellow proportions for me. It's been surprising how easy it's been to just let go of a lot.
In what ways are you Type A?
I've mentioned my mom would sort of let us do whatever we wanted around the house. Our house wasn't at all a pit or anything, but my mom was just much more willing to let the house be messy for the benefit of us. If I'm not careful I'll just be running around the house tidying it up all day, and with two kids that's insane because you're literally doing that all day and they're just following you around making messes. Someone told me once, "trying to clean a house with little kids is like trying to brush your teeth while you eat Oreos"—it's impossible. My tendency would be to try and do that anyways, but now I just clean the house once a week. I know that usually come Friday or Saturday it's borderline disgusting, but I know that Sunday I'll be cleaning it, and it's fine. So just letting go of things that actually really matter to me. If I remain rigid about those the overall joy and health of our family will go down...knowing that certain things have to be let go of.
I can be Type A about housekeeping and also about keeping a schedule, because I tend to have a lot going on and I work part time. My to-do list is really important to me and gives me a lot of satisfaction [knowing] that I've done everything that I needed to do, but also there are days when I realize I'm not going to get that satisfaction of getting everything done, and I'm a little more able to accept that now than previously. Sometimes I would wrestle myself into this ball of anxiety trying to accommodate everything and do everything, and all I was left with was a feeling of anxiety and not really that much satisfaction from the day—not to mention joy. Now I have learned to either put way less on the to-do list or know that some days it's going to get completely derailed.
What has surprised you about motherhood?
The truth is, how much work it is. I feel like my life skill set has expanded tenfold just learning how to manage so many different energies and needs. And it's like a muscle in the sense that when you first start out it's unbelievably crazy how much it consumes your life. When you realize for the first few months (if you choose to breastfeed) you're literally nursing for about eight hours a day. Not straight, but when you add them all up it's about 8-10 hours. You wonder, how am I going to get anything else done, if I'm nursing for eight to ten hours a day? And you really do build up a muscle that only keeps growing to allow you to take on the things that keep coming into your life. It's so true, with a second child it's exponentially more work. I feel like my muscle was pretty strongly developed with one [child] and right now it's at an incredibly intense building stage again.
It will get easier!
[Laughs] Yeah, and it already is easier than a couple months ago. I am more used to the demands at this point.
Are there any societal pressures that you feel more than others?
The career/motherhood conversation is incredibly confusing and contradictory. I personally feel like I have a pretty good balance of career and family, but I certainly thought I would have more of a career at this point in my life. But simultaneously I have no idea how I would be the type of mother I want to be if I was working full time. I don't know what society wants, and that's the confusing part. Do they want present mothers or do they want hard core worker-bee women? I guess I haven't figured out how to have both at the level it seems society wants us to. It's crazy.
But in the last two years I have had some really great personal breakthroughs with realizing my path to inner happiness is definitely going to be letting go of a perceived expectation I have. Trying to do it the way that society is indicating is the best way just isn't possible for me. I think so much of it has to do with where you live too. I think there's less pressure to have a career here [in Nevada County] during motherhood, but I see friends in the Bay Area and it seems like the pressure must be insane to do both, and the necessity for many people is to do both.
I want to have more of a career and eventually I know I will, but I just had to let go of it being right now. After raising Felix I realized that baby time is so short, and this is our last child and I really don't want her to be starting kindergarten and feel like I missed all of this baby time or I was stressing and really trying to do too much. Having that perspective of already having raised one child all the way through kindergarten has allowed me to slow down and enjoy this time quite a bit.
What are some of the biggest differences between your childhood and the one you're creating for your children?
I think one of the biggest differences is our kids are being raised in a more close-knit community—based on my husband and my involvement in our community as well as the school that [Felix] goes to—where there are a lot of families that know each other very well and the children are growing up as members of the community as opposed to how my brother and I grew up, which was more like members of a neighborhood. We didn't go into town much—and we just lived on Banner Mountain—but it was just the way that my parents were. They worked really hard and on the weekends we just played a lot at home. That was wonderful, it was just different. Town and the greater community was not something I remember being a part of until I was much, much older, like in high school. It's not that my parents weren't community minded, they just had less time to devote to nurturing those relationships. I think it was because they both worked full time and that was just what had to give in their life. My husband and I have more flexible schedules, and with that extra time we choose to be more involved with our community. It'll be really interesting because there are a lot of adults and families that are literally seeing our children every day and will watch them grow up over the next ten and fifteen years, and have a really intimate look at what their lives are like, and visa versa.
How has your relationship with your parents changed since becoming a mother?
It's so much better. It's so much more wonderful and I feel like I am more able to express gratitude to my parents now, having walked in their shoes, essentially. That's actually a huge relief, being able to understand all that they gave to us and to me. The sweetness of seeing that grandparent relationship develop is really incredible. Seeing how Felix has such a close relationship with my mom and also seeing [Veda] start to develop this awareness of this other adult in her life who is a total touchstone and part of that village.
How has your relationship with your partner changed since becoming parents?
It's definitely deepened. It's often hard to maintain that romantic love that I think we're so attracted to when we choose our partners, [but] in a sense it gives way to a much deeper love, absolutely. In a day to day sense it sometimes can become very logistical oriented, and that can make things a little dry. But knowing that what you share with this person is a love that you two share more than anyone in the world for these people [motions to Veda] is something that keeps you trying really hard to keep the spark alive as well as just continuing to create a better life for your crew, that you are now a part of.
How have you seen technology impact motherhood?
For those eight hour nursing sessions it's been a really wonderful way to tap into the rest of the world and feel connected to friends and things going on in the world, but at the same time it's definitely an intrusion into family life. We've had to be really mindful with creating boundaries around when it is and isn't okay to have technology. For the first year that we lived in this house we decided not to even have the internet here, and it was a wonderful year. And then I started a Master's program and I needed the internet for that, so we got it here and that was also really nice, but it very much changed the ways we interacted as a family. And even though our son doesn't use technology or media very often, except for once a week, there are still those moments where we check our phones, and it feels like we're only looking at it for a minute but really ten minutes have passed, and the last thing I want is my kids to be competing with technology for my attention. It definitely influences and impacts the rhythm of our lives and our family and so being conscientious of when we use it is something we really strive for.
What are your hopes for your children?
I hope for happiness for them and I hope that they have other relationships in their lives that are fulfilling and connected. I hope that they allow themselves to have dreams that they can strive for. And I hope that they want to stay connected to us as they grow older, which, I'm sure they will. I don't know…those are—I was going to say that those are pretty simple hopes, but actually those aren't simple, those are really wonderful things to accomplish in someone's life. I just truly want them to feel fulfilled as people and have an inner strength.
Where do you see yourself in 10 years?
That will make me 45. Felix will be 16, and she'll be 10. Wow. I really have no idea. I can't even fathom that. But I know ten years is going to go by in a blink of an eye. In ten years I want to be in a similar place to I am now, but maybe starting to focus more on my career. I think about my kids at that age also and it's not like they'll need me any less, it will just be in a different way, and I still want to be able to be driving them to and from events and activities and [be] really involved in their lives. It brings me back to that societal question of career and family and when is ever really possible to do all of it?
One of our family goals has always been to travel with our children, so hopefully in ten years time we'll have started doing that and maybe taken some interesting family trips. One of the places we would really like to go in the next year is Mexico City. My husband and I have both been there and I know our son would really love it. He's like a city boy trapped in a country boy's life. I would say one of the goals we have as a family is to incorporate travel into our lives more. I hope in ten years that we've made that a reality.
Thank you Wendy! ♥
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Grants Awarded1970 | Arts, General | United States
For participation in a project undertaken by WGBH, Lowell Institute of Cooperative Broadcasting Council1965 | Visual Art | United States
to pursue composing activities and to observe contemporary music developments in the United States.
Rewind: Selections from the Harold and Ruth Newman New Media Collection
Rewind: Selections from the Harold and Ruth Newman New Media Collection comprises a selection of new media works from the Museum's collection; Asian contemporary art.
Grantees: Le Dinh Q., Yang Fudong, Tanaka Koki, Aida Makoto, Paik Nam June, Patty Chang
Nam June Paik | Who Will be Laughing in 2020 ?+?=??
Marking a decade on since the death of the "Father of Video Art", Nam June Paik, this exhibition gathers together an impressive collection of 230 pieces of installation, video, painting and drawing works of the moving image master, bringing to light the concepts behind them and the life of the artist himself. Also included in the show is a special feature of Paik's collaboration with Joseph Beuys.
Grantee: Paik Nam June
Sonata: Print Series by Nam June Paik
Sonata: Print Series by Nam June Paik offers a series of prints, including Paik's musical compositions, drawings, photographs, performances, events and video sculptures. Nam June Paik, the Korean-American artist who died in 2006 at age 73, is widely known as the father of video art. He produced a large body of work while exploring the influence of electronic media on the arts.
Nam June Paik received ACC Fellowships in 1965 and 1970 for research in the United States.
Grantee: Paik Nam June
What's Technology Got to Do With It?
Nam June Paik is known as the father of video art. We celebrate this innovative visionary, on what would have been his eighty-fifth birthday, with Barbara London, Yale University's media arts critic and MoMA's former associate curator in the department of media and performance art. London established MoMA's video collection, and was the editor of Soundings: A Contemporary Score, their first major exhibition of sound art. She gives a talk entitled "What's Technology Got to Do With It?"

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Tor Bay Harbour Authority part of Torbay Council has commissioned Unit Seven to produce its latest Tor Bay Maritime Guide. The Maritime Guide is designed to be of particular interest to locals, visitors and especially boat owners and contains general information about Tor Bay Harbour.
This was the creative bureau's first collaborative project with members Fruition Creative Services and Silver Foxes Publishing who worked closely together to develop a more engaging guide for the people of Torbay, with skillfully crafted editorial content. Unit Seven were also responsible for selling the advertising space within the guide.
Mark Green, partner of Unit Seven and Creative Director of Unit Seven said "Tor Bay Harbour Master Kevin Mowat asked us for some ideas on how to rejuvenate the format of the Tor Bay Harbour Guide. Our first suggestion was that we make the publication more in keeping with a magazine format with increased editorial content. As a result of the change in format, advertising space was quickly snapped up and we were able to quickly raise the income required to implement the second part of our recommendation – the development of a Tor Bay Harbour maritime mobile app."
Kevin Mowat, Executive Head of Tor Bay Harbour Authority said: "The design team have been really creative and they have successfully transformed our Harbour Guide into a new product. We now have a fresh looking publication but with all the essential information that our users will need to enjoy the use of Tor Bay, it's coastline and the three enclosed harbours of Brixham, Torquay and Paignton. It has been a collaborative approach from the beginning and we are looking forward to the delivery of the new mobile app."
The Guide reveals the available facilities, local clubs and opportunities for all, the beaches and coves and useful safety advice for maritime users. It contains detailed maps of the three harbours, safety information, useful contacts and where you can enjoy the watersports the area is known for.
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for piano, for myself and eric wubbels. [synthetics d]
perimeter, for teodora stepancic/piano+; wind instruments and keyboards.
for saxophones, for patrick stadler.
new multimedia performance piece with Retro Disco + RAGE Thormbones.
for trombones (selected tracings), for RAGE, physically modeled brass instruments, with analog & digital synthesis. [synthetics e]
[past work - email me for scores]
chime array [2019], performance installation for human bodies, digital synthesis, computer-controlled lighting, and capacitive wind chimes. for ensemble pamplemousse & festival musica. 13'.
untitled, for prepared euphonium and cymbals.
sound::light, A/V installation created with Michelle Lou. > 4hr.
portrait :: self/portrait (with still life) [2018-19] for the Wet Ink Ensemble. violin, flutes, tenor sax, piano, percussion, with field recordings & digital synthesis. 17'. [synthetics c]
contours of inefficient slag distribution [2018-19], co-written/performed/recorded with dominic coles. modular synthesizers and post-production synthesis. 22'.
capacity [2018] for solo trombone. 24'.
pressure wave [2018] for solo trumpet. 5'.
pulse train [2018] for modified euphonium. 11'.
seven stones [2018] for modified bass trumpet with snare drum. 8'.
tunnels. improvised structures for low reeds and analog synthesis. with John McCowen, Madison Greenstone, Carlos Cordeiro - contrabass clarinets. [2018-ongoing] 1a, 1b; 2a, 2b; 3a, 3b
for xylophone [2018], for solo xylophone with analog & digital synthesis. written for Adam Bedell. 12'. [synthetics b]
skeuomorphs [2018], for percussion/voice trio and electronics - written for line upon line percussion. 13'.
wavelet raster [2018], string trio, piano, percussion & digital synthesis - written for sam yulsman & co. 10'.
shuttlecraft [2018], solo project for electronics, synths, low brass, feedback, 45'.
for melodicas [2017-18], for any number of melodicas with analog & digital synthesis. written for ensemble pamplemousse. 13'.
pylon [2017], for feedback euphonium, modular synth, live video. 12'. (integrated into shuttlecraft)
browser [2017], for sixteen players & electronics - written for the talea ensemble. 12'.
bent [2017], for amplified piccolo, cello, drums, sampler, live electronics & video - written for pamplemousse. 11'. alternate version for wildUp [2018].
scrim [2016-17], for solo Bb clarinet - commissioned by erin cameron. 14'.
TROMBONE [2016-17], for solo trombone, electronic sound and video - written for matt barbier. 15'.
stanchions [2016], for two five-string electric basses, pedals, objects, interactive noise floor - written for michelle lou + scott worthington [bass2bass]. 25'.
recasting [2016-17] - two performers, prepared piano, transducers, pedals, materials, objects - written for myself and eric wubbels. 25'.
TRANSISTOR [2016] - two performers, objects, and electronic sound, written for People Making Sounds. 11'.
casting [2015-16] - prepared piano, transducers, pedals. 15'.
tridecimal [2015, rev.2016] - two trombones + electronic sound, written for RAGE THORMBONES. 8'.
1296-unit square on floor; 216 plates of each metal, single units 1cm x 10.9m x 10.9m: aluminum, copper, steel, magnesium, lead, zinc [2015] - solo soprano saxophone - written for david wegehaupt. 13'.
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cache - multi-channel algorithmic installation [performed alongside browser, for large ensemble]
f̸,a̵c̸e̸t̵i*m̶!e̴ - A/V app
PARASITE [2016] - two images (1,2) and txt file
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empty_set [2016] - website/soundcloud account
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Los Angeles World Airports (LAWA) staff today briefed its Board of Airport Commissioners on its plans to deliver and finance the estimated $5 billion Landside Access Modernization Program (LAMP) at Los Angeles International Airport (LAX). LAMP includes several elements, including an elevated 2.25-mile automated people mover (APM), a consolidated rent-a-car facility (ConRAC), parking garages, pedestrian bridges to airport terminals and roadway improvements. The APM will have several stops between LAX's Central Terminal Area and the new ConRAC, including a stop at a station connecting to LA Metro's regional transit system.
As part of the briefing, LAWA announced its decision to deliver the APM and ConRAC through Design-Build-Finance-Operate-Maintain (DBFOM) contracts. Sean Burton, President of the Board of Airport Commissioners, stated that "This approach, unique to U.S. airports, will create an exceptional guest experience, and cement LAX's competitiveness in the global aviation marketplace." The Board will determine the delivery methods for other elements of LAMP at a later date.
LAWA will hold an Industry Forum and related outreach activities on February 4, 2016. Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti is scheduled to host the forum. LAWA expects to release the Request for Qualifications (RFQ) for the APM DBFOM contract by the second quarter of 2016, followed by the RFQ for the ConRAC DBFOM contract.
LAWA's press release regarding LAMP can be found here. A copy of LAWA staff's presentation to the Board regarding LAMP can be found here.
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What can I do?/
I came out to my mother two years before immigrating to the U.S. but I still remember her asking me on the phone, years after the fact, "But, do you think it's safe?"
Back then, my answer was some platitude to calm down mothers that lived half a world away. But we both knew I was lying.
Of course it's not safe.
I knew as much the moment I first came out to my 12th grade English teacher after reading Moises Kaufman's The Laramie Project, which taught me the meaning of the phrase "hate crime" while putting words to how I felt about my own sexuality.
Sure, things are getting better. In May of last year, I have been able to marry my wife in the pouring rain, in a state that had us all convinced that pigs would fly before same-sex marriage would be the law of the land here. We had been wrong and we celebrated how wrong we were amidst many queer and straight friends, rainbow umbrellas, and quite possibly the nerdiest wedding ceremony ever.
I have a career I love where I get to be around some incredibly bright minds in an effort to make them shine even brighter every day. I am part of a writing community of diverse thinkers and people whose wonderfulness defies mere description.
I am incredibly grateful for the friends and community I have been lucky enough to find willing to put up with my loud, crazy, rainbow-tinted weirdness and most of the time I feel very comfortable being as me as I can possibly be.
And yet.
And yet I don't feel safe being out to everyone at my school, in fact I worry about every student, every colleague I let in on what still feels like a secret. As if who I love and who I am is something to keep hidden under too baggy clothes.
I encounter people every day, many of them students of mine who feel so fundamentally unsafe that I'm wondering what I'm even complaining about.
There's a huge part of me who wants to be braver than I am, who wants to see the phrase "coming out" erased from our collective dictionary and replace the words tolerance and acceptance with celebration and community.
That part wants to shout my truths from the rooftops, be the queer role model so many of my students and anyone who's ever asked me how to appropriately address LGBTQ issues need.
The cautious realist in me stands ready with the duct tape of conformity far more frequently than I care to admit. Because yes, like so many times, my mother may be right. Staying quiet might be playing it safer. Authenticity may be the holy grail of idealists. That part feels a little queasy even now as I am writing this post.
I woke up with the news of the mass shooting in Orlando on all of my news feeds. I still don't have the words to express a response that reaches beyond shock and heartbreak.
The thing that gets me is how numb we have become to the word shooting appearing in our news feeds and how we as a nation still refuse to do anything about this. How can we let this happen? How can we accept that anyone can just decide they don't like two people kissing and pick up a gun? How can people exploit what is happening for cheap talking points and expect things to blow over until we can safely freak out again about who gets to pee in whose bathrooms?
I also see the Tweets of people mentioning how this is why we should all move away from the U.S. and yes, I sometimes question my sanity when I think about how I just barely sent off my application for citizenship and all that it implies.
But that's the thing. I believe we can do better. We have shown that we can. We just need to keep at it. That's what I'm currently trying to convince myself of as I'm trying to get past the stage of angry crying and feeling shocked and powerless.
Because the thing is we aren't powerless. We have shown this when a country exploded in rainbows and pride when same-sex marriage was legalized last year and we will continue what so many started before us.
In all of this, I ask myself what I can do to even make a wink of a difference in all of this.
I am a teacher and a writer.
I will continue putting diverse books in the hands of teens. I will continue reading and writing books with LGBTQIA characters. I will continue teaching diversity and multiple perspectives.
I will refuse to let fear and the feeling of not being safe silence me.
That's what.
I hope that one day it will be enough.


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Aldnoah.Zero 2 episode 11
Bah. I just had the worst day. Almost everything went wrong from the moment I woke up. Even writing this post has gone wrong. Normally I'd have plenty of time to write up a post, but now I only have about twenty minutes to finish this up.
Anyway, keeping it all short; I knew it would go down this way. Slaine is your typical good guy turned bad guy character. He wants the one thing that he cannot have and it is killing him. He thought he could control the princess by keeping her imprisoned in his little base. Now he lost the one thing that mattered most and it is starting to show.
Slaine finally lost it. He ordered an all-out attack on earth at the time where the princess announced to her people that she was still alive and that she doesn't want war. We now Slaine will just use her sister to control the damage, but he will ultimately lose this. People will eventually think there's something wrong and figure out what Slaine's been up to. Just a matter of time…


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Midseason stars and surprises
My apologies to everyone who was enjoying and getting accustomed to the flybys and were expecting to find this week's report by now. The flybys will likely return intermittently in some form or another throughout the rest of the season, but not as extensive in their coverage as over the past two weeks. Other types of columns will also get my attention starting with this admittedly risky stab at a midseason All-American team. As always, I'd love to hear what you think.
I was going to do a Player of the Year watch, but opted to give it a different slant by naming a full team. I know this may be considered premature and may stir some controversy because of who doesn't get named, but I hope that it can be taken in the right spirit and not too seriously.
D3soccer.com didn't do any preseason All-American teams like is done for the major Division I sports. However, if I had been asked to put together a single pre-season team, it probably would have been something like this: forwards Travis Wall (Sr., Ohio Wesleyan) and Rob Santaniello (Jr., Ramapo), midfielders Brian Lybert (Sr., Christopher Newport), Zachary Garcia (Sr., Trinity, Texas), Kristoffer Grahn (Sr., North Park) and Sam DeMello (Jr., St. Lawrence), defenders Dennis Mask (Jr., Trinity, Texas), Jake Urbaniak (Sr., UT-Tyler), Sean Bishop (Sr., Bowdoin), and Chad Gilmer (Jr., Augsburg), and goalkeeper Trenton Spindler (Sr., Emory). Of course, I didn't know that Spindler would only last two games into the season or that Urbaniak would be converted into a forward (and not a bad one at that: 7g, 4a).
Now we have six weeks of play in the books, with another six weeks to go for the most successful teams. Who would be on my All-American team now? I humbly offer the following starting eleven as worthy candidates for All-American honors if the season were to end today.
F - Travis Wall, Sr., Ohio
Wesleyan (10g, 9a / 2 GWG / 2.23 ppg)
It was arguable which of the two All-American Wall brothers, Tyler or Travis, was better last year, but with the graduated Tyler out of the picture, Travis is the focal point of the Battling Bishops' high-powered attack and among the favorites for Player of the Year honors.
F - Eros Olazabal, Jr.,
Manhattanville (21g 3a / GWG / 3.46 ppg)
It's not the flashy 21 goals that was most persuasive in a strong field of candidates, but Olazabal scored crucial goals in three of the Valiants' toughest games. While Manhattanville had most of their top midfielders and defenders back from last year, they had nothing more than this 4-goal reserve returning at forward. But he has more than risen to the challenge and is leading the Valiants to their best season since 1999.
M - Brian Lybert, Sr.,
Chris. Newport (9g, 9a / 3 GWG / 2.80 ppg | Team* +2.89
Team leader, midfield general, provider and scorer—Lybert was a Player of the Year candidate coming into the season and he has not disappointed at all and is the biggest reason the Captains are national title contenders.
M - Sam DeMello, Jr., St.
Lawrence (8g, 6a / 3 GWG / 2.00 ppg | Team +2.28
Another midfield playmaker, the resurgent Saints have become his team as they have developed into a true national title contender for the first time in almost a decade even without the service of All-American forward Brad Gorman lost to injury prior to the season.
M - Josh Adams, Trinity
(Tx.) (12g , 3a / 6 GWG / 2.45 ppg | Team +2.96
So far is shinning bright in a star-studded line-up full of All-American and All-Region players. Destined for honors himself this season, his break-out performance compensates for the loss of All-American forward Yuri Rieiro to injury.
M - Brad Joiner, Jr.,
Loras (7g, 5a / 2 GWG / 1.27 ppg | Team +2.83
In a rather stocked and potent squad, has made as many crucial contributions as anyone, especially important in the absence of injured midfield star Malcolm Calbert.
D - Chad Gilmer, Jr.,
Augsburg (2g, 0a | Team* 0.40 GAA / 7.6 OppShots/gm)
Dangerous on setpieces and a key member of the Auggie backline that had the fifth best GAA in the nation before this week's loss to St. Olaf in which the injured Gilmer did not play. Likely lost until the playoffs, his importance may unfortunately be measured by how the Auggies struggle without him.
D - Lucas Thompson, Jr.,
Gustavus Adolphus (1g, 1a | Team 0.36 GAA / 8.6
Is helping to anchor a backline that has recorded a nation-leading 10 shutouts with a freshman goalkeeper between the pipes. He's a big factor in the Gusties being nationally ranked and looking good to make the MIAC playoffs after a two-year absence.
D - Corey Adams, Sr., Johns
Hopkins (1 GWPK, 1a | Team 0.58 GAA / 8.2 OppShots/gm)
Senior leader holding together a backline that Hopkins is depending on more than ever with their lowest scoring attack since 2004 and uncertainty in goal as an inexperienced sophomore was replaced by a freshman five games into the season.
D - Mike Manfredi, Sr., St.
Lawrence (0g, 5a | Team 0.36 GAA / 6.9 OppShots/gm)
Part of one of the nation's stingiest defenses that has 9 shutouts in 11 games and allows very few shots, but also gets up into the attack where he knows how to set-up teammates.
GK - Adam Purdy, Jr.,
Wesleyan (0.26 GAA / 0.936 Sv.Pct. / 9 shutouts)
After Purdy and the Cardinals struggled through a disappointing and under-achieving 2010 campaign, he is back to and even better than his 2009 All-American form which has contributed to Wesleyan's undefeated season with 9 shutouts in 11 games.
* - team statistics for only the games in which the player appeared
Now I know quite well that almost all of these selections can be second guessed and that there are many other worthy candidates out there. Wall, DeMello, and Lybert were my only sure picks and they comprise my short-list of front-runners for Player of the Year. I labored over all the other picks with no shortage of options. If I tried to run down all the considerations and close-calls, I'd have a column longer than The Sports Guy (and probably much less interesting than his). For that reason I opted to not even produce an "honorable mention" list: how would I have known where to stop?
I have highlighted eleven talented and successful players having excellent seasons—nothing more, nothing less. There were many players that just missed my cut and probably countless others who undeservedly never got a strong look from me. Who did I miss? Who was I wrong to pass over? I encourage you to let me know. Send me an e-mail.
1. Eros Olazabal – Manhattanville's 5'-6" junior has come out of virtually nowhere to top the scoring charts this year with 21 goals scored in 13 games. While the seemingly undersized forward from Milton, Ontario was making just two starts last year and was an unused substitute in six games, his twin brother Erick established himself as a midfield starter and one of Manhattanville's top players with a team-leading seven assists. A mere four goals in four easy wins in 2010 didn't hint in the least that this would be a break-out season for Eros. Sure, anyone with such a haul will invariably have some 4- and 5-goal games against push-overs (he has two), but he has also scored in all but one of their toughest games: two tallies in a 3-goal comeback against Stevens, both goals in the 2-1 defeat of 2010 NCAA participant Merchant Marine, and the game-winner that handed conference rival and previously undefeated Misericordia a 2-0 loss. He is on pace to eclipse 30 goals which would place him top 10 all-time in men's Division III history.
2. Oglethorpe – At 10-2-0, the Stormy Petrels have gotten off to their best start in program history and passed their 2010 win total the first week of October. Granted, their schedule has been far from demanding, but the onus is on their SCAC's rivals to knock them off after a 4-0-0 start in conference play, good enough for a first place tie with powerhouse Trinity. No one would confuse the two front-runners, but given that the unbalanced SCAC schedule has excused Oglethorpe from playing the 14-time conference champions, a couple gutsy home wins against Centre and Birmingham-Southern could see them finish in a first place tie with Trinity.
3. Rutgers-Camden – Having missed the NJAC playoffs for the second straight year in 2010, one could have wondered where the Scarlet Raptors where heading under Coach Tim Oswald. Had an end come to his winning touch that once promised to not only continue the new-found success of the program he inherited in 2006 but to build upon it? 2004 and 2005 had set new program highs for total wins and conference finish (15 wins and 2nd place each year), and the only improvement on those marks under the young coach was the 16 wins in 2008 that was good for a first-ever NCAA at-large berth. There's no doubt, he has annually put together one of the nation's toughest non-conference schedules on top of a very competitive and demanding NJAC slate, but that approach needs to bear fruit at some point or give way to a re-think. In the topsy-turvy NJAC, only a little improvement over last year was required to return to the playoffs, but the consensus of the coaches was that a third straight seventh place finish was on the cards. How sweet it must therefore be for Oswald and the Raptors (12-2-1) to be atop the conference standings and the highest nationally ranked Jersey school above favored Montclair St. (who they beat 3-1 last week), TCNJ, and William Paterson. (Editing note: the original text erroneously ignored Rutgers-Camden's successful 2008 season of 16 wins and an NCAA berth and has been re-written. My apologies to the Rutgers-Camden program, coach, and staff for the oversight and my appreciation to the reader who brought the error to my attention.)
4. Baldwin-Wallace – Who would have imagined that 14 games into the season that only 3 minutes would separate the Yellow Jackets from a perfect season? A 2-1 lead in the season opener was cancelled with just 3 minutes remaining and the host, Elizabethtown, went on to win in overtime. 10 years ago Baldwin-Wallace decided to hire their first full-time head soccer coach, a move that paid dividends when Coach Reid Ayers won a program record 14 games in both 2004 and 2005. But in the five seasons that followed that total has not been matched or exceeded and Ayer's goals of bringing the program its first conference title and NCAA berth on the way to becoming a national title contender didn't seem any closer to becoming reality. Eight returning starters from a sixth-place finisher in the OAC didn't have anyone predicting a 13-1-0 start and a realistic shot at achieving some of those program goals.
5. Alvernia – If you don't follow the MAC Commonwealth Conference and never followed the now-renamed Pennsylvania Athletic Conference, you would be forgiven for not having a clue who Alvernia is. Even if 2010 represented just the program's second winning season ever, a 9-7-2 record wasn't exactly attention-getting or predictive of this season's 10-2-1 start. They failed to make the Commonwealth playoffs in their two seasons since moving in, and the conference coachers saw no reason to expect that to change as they predicted a sixth place finish for the Crusaders. In what has virtually become an annual fight for second place and home-field in the semifinals, Elizabethtown, Arcadia, and Lebanon Valley were seen as much more likely to play second fiddle to Messiah's lead. However, a second-ever win over Lebanon Valley followed by a first-ever win over Elizabethtown, has Alvernia poised to be level with the national champions at 5-0-0 when they meet two Saturdays from now.
6. Josh Adams – As one of the least heralded of last year's starters for Trinity (Tx.) and with three All-Americans and another All-Region first-teamer returning for the Tigers, Adams would not have been expected to shine brightest in this year's star-studded line-up. His 13 points (5g, 3a) in 2010 were hardly critical for a squad averaging 3.74 goals per game, but through six weeks this campaign, his 12 goals, six game-winners, and three assists has him leading the charge of one of the nation's highest powered offenses (3.82 gpg) and has helped compensate for the loss of All-American forward Yuri Ribeiro for most of the season. His is one of just eight players in the nation averaging over a goal per game coming into this week and isn't being overshadowed by any teammates any more.
7. Wesleyan – The team that finished top of a seven-team NESCAC logjam in 2009 fell hard in 2010 and the only consolation following a .500 regular season and 3-6-0 seventh place conference finish was an overtime upset of Williams in the NESCAC quarterfinals. Bowdoin's Final Four run last year seemed to establish them as one of a big four along with Amherst, Middlebury, and Williams, that no one, including Wesleyan, was expected to crack in 2011. But there the Cardinals sit, undefeated in and out of conference, having already played three of the big four. They've registered nine shutouts in eleven games as goalkeeper Adam Purdy has returned to his 2009 All-American form.
8. Olivet and Trine – I should have done this column over a week ago, because recent results have taken some of the shine off both these school's seasons. And as such I present them as a package deal. These two relatively unknown MIAA schools, normally in the shadows of conference powers Calvin and Hope, jumped out to 8-1-1 and 7-0-2 records in September before playing each other the first of October. But it's much more than the win-loss records which made this such a story. The two schools were leading the nation with 8 shutouts each and were first and third in GAA (Trine: 0.11; Olivet: 0.29) as the calendar was flipped to October. Trine lost to Olivet, Olivet got wacked by Calvin, and both were upset by Adrian since then, but they remain among the nation's top defenses and will both make the first-ever MIAA playoffs along with Calvin and Hope.
9. Nick Thon – Two years ago the Trine sophomore was platooned at goalkeeper; last year as the full-time starter he posted an unimpressive 0.771 save percentage and a 1.23 GAA resulting in just four shutouts. Fast forward to October 11, 2011 and the senior has a nation-leading 0.951 save percentage, a second best 0.23 GAA, and 9 shutouts. Together with a backline consisting of two senior returning starters and two new starters, he has helped trim a full goal off the team GAA of 1.23 registered in both the last two seasons.
10. Final Four Fall-offs – I wanted to keep this list positive in nature, and you could easily make a whole separate list of disappointments, but there is no avoiding how stunning it is that three of last year's Final Four participants are hovering around .500 and could all fail to make this year's tournament. 2010 runner-up Lynchburg and semifinalists Bowdoin and UW-Oshkosh are a combined 16-15-6 so far this year which most certainly must be an unprecedented drop-off.
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Review: The Refugee Hotel/
Written and directed by Carmen Aguirre and based upon her own experiences as a child, the West Coast premier of The Refugee Hotel is presented by Langara's Studio 58. It follows a family of four who, five months after the 1974 coup in Chile, find themselves hustled into a hotel in the West End of Vancouver by a frazzled social worker, who tries in vain to communicate with them (hilariously depicted by Emily Doreen Wilson). The father, Fat Jorge (Logan Fenske), the mother, Flaca (Elizabeth Barrett), and their two children Manuelita (Krista Skwarok) and Joselito (Teo Saefkow) are given a room in the run-down hotel, with a gruff and confused receptionist at the helm (a stellar performance by Julien Galipeau). They are joined by others, also refugees from Chile: Juan (Joshua Chambers), Manuel (Mason Temple), Isabel (Lisa Baran), and Cristina (Alina Blackett). Eventually, they also meet Bill O'Neill (David Johnston), a hippie "gringo" who believes in the resistance in Chile and helps them find housing and employment.
Throughout their first week in Canada together, they struggle with differences, but they also struggle together through the commonality of their experience: of loss, of displacement, of resistance, of what they left behind and of what they have gained. Everywhere they go, they are followed by the cueca dancer (Matthias Falvai), the personification of the pull back to Chile that they feel. There is trauma and pain, there are memories of imprisonment and unimaginable torture; but there is laughter and dancing, there is family and love. The characters cope in whichever ways they can. The Refugee Hotel is poignant, heavy with pain and history, but it is at many times expertly funny and captures the dark humour that resonates best in the hardest of times. It is important to note that due to the fact that this is a student production, none of the actors portraying Chilean and Mapuche characters are Latinx or indigenous, a fact that is acknowledged by everyone involved in the making of the play.
Although Carmen Aguirre wrote The Refugee Hotel seventeen years ago, after Augusto Pinochet (the leader of a military dictatorship that spanned across the 1970s and '80s in Chile) was arrested, the essence of the play remains as timely as ever. It occurs in one hotel with one group of people coming from one country, fleeing from one dictator; but the trauma, the displacement, the yearning for a homeland that is up in flames is universal: that is Vietnam, Afghanistan, Iraq, Yugoslavia, Syria. It speaks to Canada's role as a new home to refugees from around the world, fleeing war, poverty, dictatorships, crumbling buildings, missing and dead family members––a role that has been challenged over and over again by xenophobes and racists. Some of the characters rise with incredible resilience, while others can never deal with all of the pain they feel; The Refugee Hotel is not easy to watch, but that doesn't make it any less important.
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Top 10 unrestricted free agents, from a fantasy hockey standpoint
With the free agent frenzy starting tomorrow, it's an important time for fantasy owners in salary cap leagues.
In a couple of weeks, those owners will know how much they are over the cap thanks to ridiculous deals signed in the next couple of weeks. Or hopefully, how much under the cap they are so they can make some sort of move to make their team better.
So here are the top 10 unrestricted free agents from a fantasy point of view.
10. Matt Niskanen
There's a lot of red flag with Niskanen, and fantasy owners would be wise to not fall into the trap of expecting big things from free agent signings. Sure, Niskanen had a great year in Pittsburgh, as he posted 10 goals and 46 points in 81 games. But there are plenty of factors to consider: He received a lot of ice time thanks to injuries to Kris Letang and Paul Martin. Only once before has he ever been higher than 26 points in a season (what are the odds that he can post his best two seasons back-to-back in his seventh and eighth years in the league?). And of course, it wouldn't be the first time a UFA had a career year.
9. Ryan Miller
Miller should probably be higher on this list, but there's really no market right now for goalies. How many teams need a #1 goalie? Maybe the Canucks, Wild and Jets. And that's about it. And those three teams are big maybes as they have potential number one goalies already. It doesn't matter how Miller played on a bad Buffalo team or a good Blues team. There's no market, and he may have to take a lesser contract to try and battle for the #1 spot somewhere. But if he does get onto one of those teams cheap, he'd be a smart pickup.
8. Ales Hemsky
Hemsky is one of the most interesting free agents on the market. Do teams treat him like a guy who used to be a point-per-game player, or do they look at his last three years in Edmonton and think that's pretty much all he is? His points-per-game over the last three seasons is just 0.54 (or 44 points over a full 82-game season). His last 20 games with Ottawa will certainly help his paycheck.
7. Matt Moulson
Moulson's stock has dropped further than probably any other free agent in the league this past year. After a couple of pretty good seasons playing alongside John Tavares in New York, Moulson started off the season on a hot streak, with nine points in 11 games. And although he played well in Buffalo (0.66 points per game) and Minnesota (0.65 points per game), he doesn't seem to have the same level of interest as other free agents.
There are a lot of Richards' owners in salary cap leagues that are about to become pretty happy owners. What was the point in having a 34-year-old guy on the downside of his career making so much money? But in the next few weeks, there could be a lot of rejoicing. If he signs anywhere less than $5 million, his cap hit becomes a lot more reasonable, and 50 points is more acceptable at that price range.
Cammalleri is still a decent option for most teams out there, and it's really surprising a contender hasn't made a move for him the last few years. While his point-per-game days may be behind him, Cammy can still be a 30-goal threat in healthy (34-goal pace this past year), and is proven playoff performer. In 2010, his 13 goals lead all players after three rounds, and in 2011, his 10 points in the first round led all players.
Although he wants to stay in Boston and the Bruins want him to stay in Boston, there may not be the cap space to do so. If Iggy tests the free agent market, he immediately moves up to one of the most desirable UFAs out there. Although with him only wanting to go to a cup contender, there's not a lot of landing spots. But for a cup contender, he instantly adds some much needed depth. For example, if you're the Ducks, wouldn't you be going after Iginla? They still have $18 million, and only a couple of RFAs to sign. Couldn't they offer $5-$6 million for the next three years and have some depth on their second line?
3. Radim Vrbata
Criminally underrated, especially in points-only pools, Vrbata will end up with a great cap hit but will still be overlooked in a lot of leagues. In the last three seasons, Vrbata has averaged 0.74 points-per-game, which puts him in the same group as Patrice Bergeron, Patrick Marleau, Rick Nash and Paul Stastny. Yet, he won't get anywhere close to the same salary these guys command. But he will be able to help a team out on offence next year.
2. Paul Stastny
At this stage of the game, you pretty much know what you're getting with Stastny: a pretty consistent 55- to 60-point guy, who brings one great intangible: faceoffs. In his last four seasons, he's never had a faceoff winning percentage less than 52.4 per cent. He's shown that he can be a good centre to young guys (in the last few years, he's centred MacKinnon and Landeskog) and that he can step it up in the playoffs (15 points in his last 13 playoff games).
1. Thomas Vanek
While it's easier to label Vanek as an underachiever for what he did in the playoffs (10 points in 17 games and a demotion to the fourth line), it's important to remember how great he was in the regular season the last few years (which is important for us fantasy guys). He had nine points in 13 games for a bad Buffalo team, 44 points in 47 games for the Islanders, and then 15 points in 18 games with Montreal. Those are still decent numbers. Put in the right situation and the right players, there's no reason to think the 30-year-old can't reach a point-per-game pace again.
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Graham, Taylor earn pre-season NAIA All-American honors
By Bob Elliott
Two Canucks earned berths on the annual 2016 NAIA Baseball Preseason All-America Team.
UBC Thunderbirds RP Curtis Taylor (Port Coquitlam, BC) and RHP Phillipe Graham (St. Chrysostome, Que.) of the MidAmerica Nazerene Pioneers were selected to the 17-man squad as chosen by the NAIA-Baseball Coaches Association (NAIA-BCA) All-America Committee .
Taylor is entering his draft year as a third-year T-Bird and wowed evaluators on UBC scout day hitting 94 mph with his fastball. He's coming off an NAIA Honourable Mention All-American season when he went 4-2 last spring.
He ranked fifth overall in the NAIA with 12 saves, and had a team-best ERA of 1.02. The 6-foot-5, 210 pounder pitched 53 innings, striking out 51 and walking 13. He allowed 27 hits and six earned runs, holding opponents batted to a .153.
Graham was 7-2 with a 2.13 ERA and two in 16 games, making 10 starts. He walked 37 and struck out 79 in 72 innings, holding opponents to a .176 average. Graham allowed 42 hits and 17 earned runs He earned Heartland of America Player of the Week and First Team honors. .
He defeated Park, Evangel, Central Methodist, Avila, Baker, Graceland and Benedictine.
Headlining the team are returning 2015 First Team All-America selections Keivan Berges of Keiser (Fla.) and Adam Hines of LSU Alexandria (La.). Berges, a DH hitter from Wellington, Fla., ended last season ranked among the top 12 nationally in RBIs (73) and home runs (15). He tallied 24 multi-hit games en route to a .333 batting average, while also leading the team in doubles (20), total bases (173) and slugging percentage (.652).
Hines was dominant on the mound last season for the Generals. The Bunkie, La., native ranked in the top-five nationally in hits allowed per nine innings (4.7), opponent batting average (.155) and earned run average (0.96).
2016 NAIA Baseball Preseason All-America Team
Pos. Name Institution Class Hometown
C Ryan Crowe Westmont (Calif.) Sr. Ladera Ranch, Calif.
C Scott Morton Briar Cliff (Iowa) Sr. Ventura, Calif.
1B Alex Bush Westmont (Calif.) Sr. Menifee, Calif.
2B Houston Looser Freed-Hardeman (Tenn.) Jr. Muscle Shoals, Ala.
3B Alex Couch Tabor (Kan.) Sr. Castlewood, Va.
SS Cabe Reiten Lewis-Clark State (Idaho) Sr. Spanaway, Wash.
UT Wardy Polanco Tennessee Wesleyan Sr. Haverstraw, N.Y.
DH Keivan Berges Keiser (Fla.) Jr. Wellington, Fla.
OF Logan Coughlin IU Southeast (Ind.) Sr. Brownsburg, Ind.
OF Jordan Espino Sterling (Kan.) Sr. Buena Park, Calif.
OF Preston King Bryan (Tenn.) Sr. Kingston, Tenn.
OF Colton Nash Bellevue (Neb.) Sr. Bonney Lake, Wash.
SP Adam Hines LSU Alexandria (La.) Sr. Bunkie, La.
SP Victor Arche Faulkner (Ala.) Sr. Miami, Fla.
SP Brandon Guske Freed-Hardeman (Tenn.) Jr. Spring Hill, Tenn.
SP Phillipe Graham MidAmerica Nazarene (Kan.) Jr. St. Chrysostome, Que.
RP Curtis Taylor British Columbia Jr. Port Coquitlam, B.C.


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Frontier vs Ranger - II
This topic is a continuation of Topic 853....
Frontier vs Ranger. Please continue these
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cncman Posts: 487Yea, I am the first one here!!!!0
Right behind you.Maybe vince will not find his way here.0
Alright, alright, alright...I'm number 3 but i'm here too! Gooba, unfortunately the 'Skim Reader' will find this page, the instructions were short enough to skim and comprehend. LOL0
And what grade are you in? It sounds like 2nd or 3rd. Mommy wrote you a template and told you to fill in the blanks with Ranger and Frontier. Good job!0
vince,I guess you are as big an idiot as you come across as.
The safety issue has not been swept under the carpet.They tested a 2000 Ranger and a 1999 Frontier.Also,they did not test the CC.
As far as the normally aspirated engine question,you are asking the wrong people.I do not believe anybody on this board works in the upper levels of Nissan's engineering department who would be the people to answer that question.Besides,WHO CARES.
The JD Powers results show that BOTH Nissan and Ford has some improving to do.Sure,the Ranger fared a little better than the Frontier.Just remember where ir finished and the Ranger numbers.You can't be proud of that.0
Boy! Vince is bit peeved. I would be too if I owned a Ranger that was in the shop every weekend getting the tranny fixed. Anyway, Vince, why is Ford "band-aiding" the 3.9 V8 with a supercharger? Huh? Heh!
And remember back a few months ago - I posted the survey results where Ranger owners ranked their own trucks quote "WORSE THAN AVERAGE" Yikes! Can you believe it? The only two trucks that ranked "ABOVE AVERAGE" were Toyota and yup, Nissan. Can you imagine ranking your own truck WORSE THAN AVERAGE on a survey? LoL. That's a Ranger owner for ya!0
Obviously by Vince's logic, we are just plain stupid for buying a Frontier.
Makes me wonder about how I don't seem to have any complaints about my truck, but Vince has to tell me how bad my truck is even though he doesn't own one. If I wanted a ranger I would have bought one. I'm glad that you don't work for Ford's marketing, because you would be one big insult to Ford. (Ex. Ford is better than Nissan, buy Ford Today!)
Oh, and it is typical that we sweep the safety issues under the carpet, which did not even occur. You can't even address one issue we bring up to you. You just respond with....
"Ford has more torque than nissan, look at this site to see the specs. LOL. I am cool, look at me, I am the only Ranger owner who rates his truck perfect above everything else."
How about answering the supercharge question for the ford V8. Is it a bandaid? I'm sure you will answer no. Everytime the blueoval news site is brought up, you just ignore it, because it shows all the crap that goes on at Ford. Show a site that does the same for Nissan in a 5th of the volume in one place! I'm sure if we had a Ranger vs F150, you would do just the same that you did here. I guess we should just give up, you are just so big bad and powerful and always have to be the arrogant Mr Right.0
vince,this is an excerpt from an article about Ford sales and the Rangepart I put here.You will notice 2 things here.1)The 3.0L V6 is the POPULAR powerplant.In your words the consumer rules.They want the 3.0L.2)You should pay attention to the savings discount packages.The financing of a Ford vehicle has more bearing then the quality of the vehicle.I personally know of 10 people over the past year who filed bankruptcy and this year and wanted to buy a new car.Four of them went car hunting within 60 days of their final ruling ALL of the dealerships could not get them financed except for Ford.Ford financed the vehicles and gave them the low rate.It was not so much the vehicle that drew them it was the financing.
Ranger – Popular four wheel drive supercab model with the 3.0L V6, accompanied with huge package savings discounts and terrific Ford Credit – Red Carpet Lease programs, have left many dealers bone dry. The Ranger has been America's top selling compact truck for 13 years in a row.0
I just thought of something vince.Are you stuck on this hp/torque issue because YOUR PERSONAL Ranger has less hp then the Frontier even though it is a bigger engine?0
Hey Sport,
Why don't you look at Edmunds used truck values and see how the two trucks(Frontier and Ranger)compare in value. I know, I know... don't tell us if equiped the same...the frontier is HIGHER in value, Now who's laughing! hahaha. Oh one more thing I called my insurance agent and you're right there is a difference...the ranger was higher $15 more for every six months! You should do better research. Here let me put in "skim read" form:
Vince, compare ranger(XLT 1999)to lowest xe 1987 Nissan Hardbody compare values, brag to everyone ranger values, insurance rates higher for ranger because they must be worth more-higher theft because everybody wants one, don't read posted sources all the way through but, use them as proof or evedience to show unclear point. Ford rules and so does the comsumer even if they hate their ranger.0
If you consider the 3.9L V8 to be "weak", then why is does it produce more power than ANY of Nissan's powerplant offerings?
Ford 3.9L V8 252hp 267ft/lbs
Nissan 3.5 V6 250hp 240ft/lbs
Just wondering...
The 3.5L V6 offered in the Pathfinder is the most powerful of Nissan's engines here in North America. And, I don't see other countries getting beefier pushers with us power hungries here in the states.0
I'll tell you exactly why Nissan is putting a supercharger on the 3.3L V6.
(1) They've fallen far behind their competitors in power.
(2) They need a competitive offering even if most people buy less powerful offerings anyways. Your flagship can't be a dingy.
(3) They're too strapped for cash to put the 3.5L V6 in the Frontier with all of the additional R&D, production capacity, and higher costs.
(4) The [temporary] solution is to slap on a supercharger. Much less R&D. No worries about production capacity. They can now keep up with the bunch.0
scape2 Posts: 4,124Anyone who has had Psych 101 knows people name call when they have been proven WRONG!! I have shown you the Ranger rates higher at JD Powers, The RAnger rates better in crash tests, The RAnger rates better on performance!! LOL.
I got hammered for bringing in other engines, I wonder why noone is saying anyting to cygnusx??
I am staying with Ranger vs Frontier, not Pathfinder or Maxima, or .....
Sorry folks your bubble has been officially burst. Enjoy your underpowered, severly under torqued, high tech 3.3! LOL..... Ranger stomps Frontier!!0
Let's talk about behind the competition: Where's the four door ranger? Current 4.0L putting out 160hp? Ranger frame construction/design? You're right nissan is far, far behind the competition when it comes to consumer complaints! If anything, I think that the supercharger(temporary as it may be) is a fad item just like that useless step-side bed that ford and chevy put on their compacts. And as for the competition I've owned a '94 s-10 and had to replace that auto that was mated to the awe mighty of small truck engines and I can't tell you how many times I've been stranded in the woods in friends rangers & bronco II's- mostly due to tranny failures. But anyway, the comp. can have all the power they want but if it isn't dependable it ain't worth a @#*& ! But not to worry since you work for Nissan(R&D dept. I'm sure, since you drive the competition's product)you guys already know that many of us are ecstatic with what you guys have built and we thank you .
I didn't want to bring this up but I feel I must. This Sunday my joke of an engine with it's meager little 170hp and sputtering, struggling 200ft lbs. of torque coincidentally had to hook to a 1998 Ranger with a.... that's right a 4.0L! He needed help pulling his boat out of the water. I hooked to his boat and pulled his boat out. I won't go into long boring details here but my point is...awe I don't have to spell it out I'm sure you get it.
Ok, I'm sure by now you think that things weren't equal as to why he couldn't pull it out but, I could right?0
It didn't stomp my crew cab this weekend...but that's ok the owner was cool and we shared our own war stories after I got HIS boat out! I actually told him about this particular web page and he laughed. I told him that the guys on this page weren't going to believe this! But I didn't rag on him because as he knows(because I told him) I'd been there with a S-10. As you might think i didn't do it because it was a ranger and I could come on here and boast or because it was a Ranger...I did it because there was a fellow truck owner, a person in need of help who was with his two little girls.0
I think you misunderstood the question.vince asked:
Why can't Nissan make a normally aspirated 3.3 to
compete with Ford/Toyota/Chevy?
That is a different qestion then why are they putting a supercharger their engine.Did it ever occur that maybe it might have something to do with marketing the vehicle?Offering a factory supercharger rings of days gone by.The Gt350 Shelby's and more recently the Thunderbird Supercoupe on their 3.8L V6.It may not be ALL power related.The T bird is a good example of that.
vince I say again YOUR PERSONAL Ranger is underpowered.You have less hp than my Frontier.
AGAIN YOU CHOOSE TO IGNORE THE QUESTIONS ASKED.Why is that.Are they too difficult for you to understand?
You said that JD powers rated the Ranger higher.That is correct,but it was not that much higher and again you can't be that proud of the rating.The performance aspect you got from Edmunds.If you read a little further in their site,those ratings are SUBJECTIVE,not OBJECTIVE.It is based on the opinions of people who have no stake in the ratings.They have a base criteria,and we do not know their motivations for their ratings.
This last post from you vince shows that you are all mouth with no substance nor idea on what you are talking about.By ignoring the questions and comments you just show your ignorance on the subject or that your position is indefensible when confronted with contradicting facts or substance on the other side of the debate.0
Sorry, I have to write something else here. Back in 1994 I owned a 1981 Toyota 4X4 long bed SR5 that I had restored and added a 3" suspension kit and 33" super swampers. Until this vehicle my favorite vehicle good truck certainly not the most powerful thing ever but, nonetheless a good truck. Anyway my boss at the time leased a brand new 1995 xe 4x4 patfinder. Totally stock he wanted to go through some of the places that my friends and I used to go when we went off roading(mudding... in Fl. it's the only offroad we have). I thought this pittiful excuse for a 4-wheel vehicle won't last 60 ft where we go, he doesn't have the clearance, the tread, for that matter he doesn't have a real truck or even any real offroad driving experience. So one day I agreed to take him, I thought it would be funny to watch him sink his truck and make him get out in the mud to hook the two trucks together. He was to follow me, deep rutts, edge of swamps and mud pits. I know its hard to understand especially without being there but, it was some bad stuff trust me. Still to this day I can't believe the stuff we went through and that damn little gold pathfinder right behind me the whole 7 hrs we were out there. I even went through the holes first and spun my tires in the middle trying to make it harder for him. Never one stick, unbelievable. So when somebody says this "truck stomps that truck" I always remember the little no ground clearance gold pathfinder that followed me that day.0
Vince doesn't care, he still has more torque0
Sthompson, why does the weak Ford V8 produce only a measley 2 more HP than the Nissan 3.3 V6? Shouldn't a V8 with a supercharger have *a lot* more kick-in-the-pants than that??? That's why it is a weak engine. And why is Fordb bandaiding it with a supercharger????? I thought superchargers were only for weak Nissans? Basically what I'm pointing out in all of this nonsense is that Ford seems to need this "bandaid" just as badly as anybody. They're no better than anybody else is they have to resort to "bandaiding" the weak 3.9 V8.0
The 4 door ranger is a Sport Trac. Ford can sell a Sport Trac at a higher price than a club cab Ranger. Aside from some styling cues, they are essentially the same vehicle. (Ford did build a prototype 4dr Ranger if you're wondering). Simple mathematics, higher selling price = more profit. BTW, I wouldn't want either.
The current 4.0 is better suited to truck applications than the 3.3 currently offered from Nissan. The cammer 4L will be the same when you compare it to SC 3.3 when they both arrive this summer. Plus, you won't have to worry about the added stress of a forced induction system accelerating engine wear and tear. Has Nissan used a supercharger in a truck application before?
Frame/construction design? Hmmm... I'm not quite sure what you mean. Body on frame construction is a necessity for ANY truck. Unit-body construction is not strong enough in truck applications and will bend and flex like Jell-O when used to haul, tow, and off-road.
If I had a nickel for all of the posts that sound like "my friend's so and so is always in the shop and breaking down, but my so and so has had no problems for the last 625,000 miles and will last forever"... I see them on every board for every make.
Also, I don't work for Nissan R&D. But, it doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out Nissan's motives. All you need is a little bit of common sense.
As for your friend with the boat, he either
(1) has a huge boat and needs a bigger truck with V8 power
(2) needs 4wd or a LSD as he isn't getting the traction he needs on a slippery boat ramp
Why didn't you just offer to pull it out for him?
As for step/flare-sides, they're styling cues like the fins of the '50s and the spoilers seen today. If you like them, you buy them. If you don't like them, you don't buy them. I don't quite see what's your beef here. Are you upset that Ford (and Chevy) are offering their prospective buyers different choices?0
Please read more carefully.
The 3.9L V8 is NOT supercharged. In naturally aspirated form, it produces more power than Nissan's most powerful engine offering, which is the 3.5L V6 in the Pathfinder.
You consider an engine that produces more power than ANY current engine offering from Nissan to be "weak"?
Ford is also adding the supercharger to keep up with the competition, which is the likes of the 5-Series BMW, GS 300/400, A6, S-Type, etc... All of the competitors to the LS (the home of the 3.9L V8) have 300hp V8 offerings.
Why incur added expenses in R&D, production, and EPA certification to put one of Ford's more powerful V8s in the LS, when you can just pull the supercharger out of the Jaguar parts bin? The 3.9L V8 is closely related to the V8s offered in the Jags.0
I did pull his boat out, because he couldn't. Let me explain. On some ramps they have a lip at the end so you don't back down too far. Well this guy backed over that lip and he has a tandem axle trailer so this lip of concrete got wedged between the axles. His 4-wheel drive would not work for whatever reason it wasn't engaging. So we unhooked his truck and hooked mine to the trailer and I pulled it out no problem in two wheel drive!
As for my friend's rangers I only brought those up because I was THERE this wasn't hearsay.
Talking about design, I believe it was cncman that brought it up, look under truck. C-channel or tube frame? I never mentioned uni-body.
That's right the step-side is styling... a fad. Something for appeal to set the trucks apart from the norm. Here I was relating the supercharger in that I see it for those guys that add performance stuff to their trucks like k&n air filters, exhausts, manifolds and so on kind of a fad or trend. In my opinion, I like the supercharger better than turbo no matter who makes it, instant power, no lag. I don't think that Nissan or anybody else for that matter has ever put a supercharger in their compact trucks, but then again Nissan is kind of known for doing 'firsts' in the compact truck arena.0
please read more carefully:
Ford Motor Company IS ADDING A SUPERCHARGER TO THE 3.9 V8.
Why can't Ford build a normally aspirated V8? Why are they going to "bandaid" it with a supercharger?0
OK. Listen very carefully.
In NATURALLY ASPIRATED form (this means no supercharger or turbo), Ford's 3.9L V8 produces more power, both in torque and horsepower, than ANY single engine that Nissan currently produces.
You consider this to be a "weak" engine.
Assuming that you drive a 3.3L Frontier. Exactly how "weak" would you consider your engine with 82 less horsepower and 67ft/lbs of torque?
To answer your question, Ford can and does build many naturally aspirated V8's. How about the just the 3 different naturally aspirated V8s offered in the Mustang alone? What about the F-Series trucks or Lincoln's?
If you're wondering why they're supercharging the 3.9L V8 offered in the LS, check out post #23. It seems that you've skipped right over it as you keep asking the same questions.
BTW, it seems that you can't/won't answer questions posed to you. I wonder why...0
First does not always mean best. Just first.
It sounds more as if the guy didn't know how to operate his truck & trailer. It's a good thing you happened along or else his truck would probably be in the drink.
I'm not sure what type of frame construction my truck has. It sounded as if you were talking about frame vs. unibody. I'm not really sure of the merits of c-channel vs tube frame construction.
Yes, yes, we've all heard the break-down stories. Most of my friends and family drive "domestic" vehicles. There have been a couple that had some problems, but the vast majority have been extremely reliable. My own personal experience shows quite a different tale than all of the stories posted to these boards by "import" owners.
BTW, I'm not knocking "imports" or any other vehicle. I buy whatever gives me the best value. Well, at least until I can save up for that M5 :oD0
Oh, I see. So your reasoning in post #23 is ok for Ford, but not applicable to Nissan?
In it's "naturally aspirated form" the 3.9 V8 produces more hp tourque than the Nissan 3.3 V6. Ok. So then WHY is it being bandaided? No one can answer this? So I'll go ahead and answer it and say maybe it's because it's a weak engine and Ford feels in needs more ooomph. I mean, why else? After all that's why Nissan is "bandaiding" their 3.3, right?
Also, the main reason you give seems highly subjective to me. "To compete with..." is a stab in the dark. I think it has more to do with meeting green standards than anything else. But never the less, what you're saying is that it's ok for Ford to add a supercharger (just because they're Ford), but all of a sudden when Nissan adds one it's a "bandaid" fix to a weak engine? Please.
And yes, if a 3.9 V8 can only slightly out perform a 3.3 V6 - I'd say it's a weak engine. Just my .02.0
If my numbers are right you're saying that the 3.9L naturally puts out 252hp and 267 ft/lbs of torque right? If so, how can you possibly make the statement:
"Ford's 3.9L V8 produces more power, both in torque and horsepower, than ANY single engine that Nissan currently produces."?
Because the 4.1L V-8 that Nissan produces for the Infinity Q 45 produces 266hp and 278 ft/lbs of torque. This engine is currently produced, so I don't know how you can say this.0
You're right first doesn't mean the best, but that was my rebuttal to Nissan catching up to the competition. This brings me to a point, think about all of the body styles or changes that Toyota and Nissan have made through the years, just in their trucks alone. And think of the body changes that the big three have made Dodge 2, Chevy 2, ford 3(if you include the flush mounting of the headlights in was it '87 or '88). What's my point? That the Japanese constantly change their style to appeal to different times, give a fresh look...I know this is more prevalent in their cars and the big three are now starting to do the same. I like some of the innovative features that Ford has come up with their sport-trac like the waterproof seats power rear window and if memory serves me they came up with the second power port in their f-150's. I'm like you I'm not loyal to any one brand or knocking ford, I just don't agree that putting a supercharger in a truck engine is bad. Just to let you know the Sport trac is not a Ranger it's the suspension, frame design and body of the Explorer hence the name.
I don't know what the guys story was..just that the hubs weren't engaging eventhough his 4 wheel light was on, whatever.
I've always heard that the tube frame construction is stronger, but I didn't buy the Nissan for that reason. In fact, it wasn't even part of my buying decision. I'm with you on the uni-body, I think it has no place in truck design.0
Are you actually taking the time to read my posts?
First, I was talking about the 3.5L V6 offered in the Pathfinder. This engine is DIFFERENT than the 3.3L V6 offered in the Frontier.
Second, you seem to be the one absolutely obsessed about bandaids. I never said it was a bad thing for Nissan to add a supercharger (or Ford for that matter either). I said that the 3.5L V6 out of the Pathfinder would be more desireable.
Third, with 82 more hp and 67 more ft/lbs of torque, the 3.9L V8 will not only "slightly" outperform the 3.3L V6. It will massively outperform it. If you consider this to be a "weak" engine, then you must feel like you've got a hamster on a wheel under your hood.
Fourth, refer to all of my prior posts for the same questions you keep asking again and again.0
Okay, ya got me.
I didn't even think to look at Infiniti. I about forgot they were still making cars. I never see them around these parts.
Alright, Ford's bottom of the barrel V8 is bested by the Q's V8.
Is that the only Nissan/Infiniti V8 available?0
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- 1 teaspoon vanilla¼ teaspoon ground cinnamon
In 1-quart saucepan, melt 2 tablespoons butter over medium heat. Stir in all remaining ingredients until smooth. Spread Chai Glaze over top of cooled cake, allowing some to drizzle down side. Sprinkle with additional cinnamon.
NOTE: all of the spices are to taste. I was a little cautious on the amounts, but I like to spice mine like crazy so if you do, too, go for it! If not, these measurements are all conservative. Have fun in the kitchen!