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Bonnie and Clyde (1967)
Bonnie and Clyde (1967) is one of the sixties' most talked-about, volatile, controversial crime/gangster films combining comedy, terror, love, and ferocious violence. It was produced by Warner Bros. - the studio responsible for the gangster films of the 1930s, and it seems appropriate that this innovative, revisionist film redefined and romanticized the crime/gangster genre and the depiction of screen violence forever.
Its producer, 28 year-old Warren Beatty, was also its title-role star Clyde Barrow, and his co-star Bonnie Parker, newcomer Faye Dunaway, became a major screen actress as a result of her breakthrough in this influential film. Likewise, unknown Gene Hackman was recognized as a solid actor and went on to star in many substantial roles (his next major role was in The French Connection (1971)).
The story of Clyde's rise and self-destructive fall as an anti-authoritarian criminal gangster is clearly depicted. Both tragic outlaw figures exemplify 'innocents on the run' who cling to each other and try to function as a family. The film, with many opposing moods and shifts in tone (from serious to comical), is a cross between a gangster film, tragic-romantic traditions, a road film and buddy film, and screwball comedy. It exemplified many of the characteristics of experimental film-making from the French New Wave (Nouvelle Vague) movement. [Originally, the film was intended to be directed by Jean-Luc Godard or Francois Truffaut, who opted out and made Fahrenheit 451 (1966) instead.] The film's major poster about the infamous couple romanticized violence and proclaimed: "They're young...they're in love...and they kill people."
[Earlier films that recounted similar adventures of infamous, doomed lovers-on-the-run who are free and accountable to no one include Fritz Lang's You Only Live Once (1937) with Henry Fonda and Sylvia Sidney, Joseph H. Lewis' cult classic Gun Crazy (1949) with John Dall and Peggy Cummins, Nicholas Ray's They Live By Night (1949) (remade by Robert Altman with its original title Thieves Like Us (1974) from Edward Anderson's source novel and starring Shelley Duvall and Keith Carradine), and The Bonnie Parker Story (1958) with Dorothy Provine and Jack Hogan. Later outlaw-couple films include B-movie Killers Three (1968) with Diane Varsi and Robert Walker, Jr., Terrence Malick's Badlands (1973), Ridley Scott's Thelma and Louise (1991), Kalifornia (1993), and Oliver Stone's Natural Born Killers (1994).]
The landmark film by post-WWII director Arthur Penn (who had previously directed The Miracle Worker (1962), The Train (1964) (uncredited and replaced by John Frankenheimer), and Mickey One (1965) - also with Beatty) was ultimately a popular and commercial success, but it was first widely denounced by film reviewers for glamorizing the two killers and only had mediocre box-office results. In the autumn of 1967, it opened and closed quite quickly - enough time for it to be indignantly criticized for its shocking violence, graphic bullet-ridden finale and for its blending of humorous farce with brutal killings. Then, after a period of reassessment, there were glowing reviews, critical acclaim, a Time Magazine cover story on December 8, 1967 (for a feature titled The New Cinema: Violence...Sex...Art...), and the film's re-release (with advertising that stressed its artistic merit) with a huge box-office take - and it was nominated for ten Academy Awards.
The film's screenplay by first-timers David Newman and Robert Benton (both editors at Esquire who had never written a screenplay) - a composite image of many early 20th century outlaws, was loosely based on the historical accounts of two 1930s Depression-era, social misfit bandits who terrorized the Midwest.
In the film, the two young and good-looking gangsters become counter-cultural, romantic fugitives and likable folk heroes with semi-mythic celebrity status, recalling Robin Hood and the outlaws of the West. However, the sordid and bleak reality behind the self-made publicity that the latter-day doomed couple generates (through poetry and photos) is also revealed. The Dust-Bowl period is effectively evoked, although the loose adaptation is also an inaccurate and fictionalized retelling of history. When they first met, the real Bonnie (19 years old) and Clyde (21 years old) weren't glamorous characters, and their romantic involvement was questionable. She was already the wife of an imprisoned murderer, and he was a petty thief and vagrant with numerous misdemeanors.
[The 'white trash' couple (described in the local newspaper as "the Southwest's most notorious bandit and his gun moll") first met in Texas in the early 1930s. Their brief, bloody crime spree (involving kidnapping and murders) ended on May 23, 1934 alongside state Highway 154 near Arcadia, Louisiana (the town nearest to the ambush site in north-central Louisiana), when the desperados were ambushed and killed by four Texas lawmen (led by Texas Ranger Frank Hamer), accompanied by Bienville Parish Sheriff Henderson Jordan and his deputy Prentiss Oakley. Their bullet-ridden vehicle was hit with 187 shots. In actuality, the 25 year-old Barrow and 23-year old Parker were armed and ready for the ambush when they were killed. Currently, Louisiana's largest outdoor flea market (held one weekend a month) originated in 1990 in Arcadia as Bonnie and Clyde Trade Days.]
Cartoon-style slapstick comedy [a tribute to Mack Sennett's silent films and Keystone Kops car chases and getaways] and banjo music (e.g. Foggy Mountain Breakdown from Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs, helped to introduce country music to mainstream films) and ballads accompany many of the film's scenes. The film's overall impact was heightened by its open examination of the gallant Clyde's sexuality-impotence and the link to his gun-toting violence. [To fulfill heartthrob Warren Beatty's image as a sex-symbol, he is finally able to consummate his love for Bonnie by film's end.]
Penn's masterpiece won two Oscars for Best Supporting Actress (Estelle Parsons in an over-the-top performance) and Best Cinematography (Burnett Guffey) for its great evocation of period detail, with eight other nods for Best Picture and Best Actor (producer/actor Warren Beatty), Best Actress (Faye Dunaway), Best Supporting Actor (Gene Hackman), Best Supporting Actor (Michael J. Pollard), Best Director (Arthur Penn), Best Story and Screenplay (Newman and Benton), and Best Costume Design (Theadora Van Runkle, who later worked on The Godfather, Part II (1974)). (Although Robert Towne, who later wrote Chinatown (1974), worked on the final form of the screenplay and served as a special consultant, he took no screen credit.)
In the late 1960s, the film's sympathetic, revolutionary characters and its social criticism appealed to anti-authority American youth who were part of the counter-cultural movement protesting the Vietnam War, the corrupt social order, and the U.S. government's role. [The same could be said for Mike Nichols' The Graduate (1967), another popular film released in the same year.] The restless couple's robberies of banks, viewed somewhat sympathetically by the rural dispossessed, occurred at a time when the institutions were 'robbing' and ruining indebted, Dust Bowl farmers. The robberies of the glamorous, thrill-seeking young couple - mostly innocent and minor at the beginning of their crime spree, unfortunately escalate into more violent and murderous escapades.
The influence of the film extended to commercial merchandise in the form of hairstyles, authentic period music of the 30s, and gangster retro-clothing (such as double-breasted suits, berets, fedoras, and the maxi-skirt). The film also permanently changed the form and substance of popular films - for better or worse.
Lobby cards for the film described its main elements:
Clyde was the leader. Bonnie wrote poetry.
C.W. was a Myrna Loy fan who had a bluebird tattooed on his chest. Buck told corny jokes and carried a Kodak. Blanche was a preacher's daughter who kept her fingers in her ears during the gunfights. They played checkers and photographed each other incessantly. On Sunday nights they listened to Eddie Cantor on the radio. All in all, they killed 18 people.
They were the strangest damned gang you ever heard of.
Another lobby poster described their first auspicious meeting:
The StoryThey met in 1930. She was stark naked, yelling at him out the window while he tried to steal her mother's car. In a matter of minutes they robbed a store, fired a few shots, and then stole somebody else's car. At that point, they had not yet been introduced.
Following a golden, old-style Warner Bros shield, grainy, unglamorous, blurry, sepia-toned snapshots of the Barrow and Parker families (at the time of Bonnie and Clyde's childhood) play on a black background during the film's opening, accompanied by the loud clicking sound of a camera shutter. The credit titles are interspersed with flashes of more semi-documentary, brownish-tinged pictures. The text of the major credits fade from white to blood red on the dark background. 30's hand-cranked phonographic music (Rudy Vallee's popular love song of the period Deep Night) is faintly heard - a haunting omen from another era. The snapshot immediately preceding "DIRECTED BY ARTHUR PENN" is of three gunmen kneeling - making an unconscious connection between camera shots and fatal gunshots. The pictures of the Hollywood stars displace the unglamorous, 1930s pictures of the historic pair - the last two title cards describe the film's major protagonists:
BONNIE PARKER - was born in Rowena, Texas, 1910 and then moved to West Dallas. In 1931 she worked in a cafe before beginning her career in crime.
CLYDE BARROW - was born to a family of sharecroppers. As a young man he became a small-time thief and robbed a gas station. He served two years for armed robbery and was released on good behavior in 1931.
The last title card dissolves into a colorful closeup of red, luscious lips (that are being licked after lipstick has been applied). The immense lips belong to blonde Bonnie Parker (Faye Dunaway) - a bored, beautiful, and sexually-frustrated, Depression-era Texas cafe waitress who is naked and narcissistically primping in front of a mirror. It is a spring day in the early 1930s in Depression-affected West Dallas, Texas.
She is in her low-income frame house, and she is pouting - despairing of her unattractive, narrow existence in a tawdry environment. Aching from the enforced oppression of her confining room (and life), Bonnie flings herself down on her bed - appearing to be trapped behind the bars of the bedframe. Frustrated, she repeatedly strikes the cage surrounding her. In a closeup, her eyes reflect her torment. As she rises and goes behind a dressing screen, the camera reveals the top of her bureau - it is humbly decorated with a small, vulgar collection of porcelain figurines and a rag doll, and a few photographs are tacked on the drab wall.
Then, she looks out the screen of her second floor window and sees a furtive young man casing the area and contemplating hotwiring and stealing her mother's car in front of their yard. When she catches him in the act - she speaks the first line in the film:
Hey boy, what you doin' with my Mama's car?
When he is caught, he spins around in astonishment, looks up toward the window - obviously catching a glimpse of Bonnie's naked body temptingly framed there, and smirks. The camera exchanges shots between them. Drawn to the feeling of intense excitement and his apparent potency, she calls out: "Wait there!," hastily throws on some clothes from her closet, and urgently descends in loud clunky steps down the dark stairs (in a low-angled shot pointing upward) to meet the handsomely-dressed drifter named Clyde Barrow (Warren Beatty) with a white fedora. When she gets down to the outside porch (a sign behind her advertises "WASH TAKEN IN HERE"), she boldly tells him: "Ain't you ashamed? You're tryin' to steal an ol' lady's automobile." Before their posturing, arrogant battle of wits and sarcastic repartee, he proposes to treat her to a Coke in town.
When she flippantly tells him that she is "goin' to work anyway," they both talk with flirtatious tones during their sidewalk stroll (tracked by the camera with multiple stops and starts) and discover each other's "line of work" - she's a cheap cafe waitress and he's an ex-con for armed robbery:
Clyde: What kind of work do ya do?
Bonnie: None of your business.
Clyde (flattering): I'll bet you're a movie star? Huh? A lady mechanic?
Bonnie (amused): No.
Clyde: A maid?
Bonnie: (She halts) What do you think I am?
Clyde (realistically and accurately): A waitress.
Bonnie: (Long silence when she grows sullen, and then begins walking again.) What line of work are you in, when you're not stealin' cars?
Clyde: Well, I'll tell ya, uh, I'm lookin' for suitable employment right at the moment.
Bonnie: Yeah, but what did ya do before?
Clyde: I was, uh, I was in State Prison.
Bonnie: State Prison! (She halts again)
Clyde: Uh-huh.
Bonnie: Well, I guess, uh, some littl' ol' lady wasn't so nice.
Clyde: (expressed as part of a tough guy act) It was armed robbery.
Bonnie: My, my. The things that turn up in the street these days.In the small, rural, Southwest Texas town where they walk along the empty main street (except for one elderly Negro sitting on a bench in front of a barber shop), Clyde asks her about her dull life after passing the closed-down movie theatre and other mostly-deserted shops: "Whatcha all do for a good time around here - listen to the grass grow?" In a display of unconventional, daring bravado, he points down to his right foot and brags to her that he once chopped two toes off with an axe "to get off of work detail" in state prison. [His awkward limp is evident throughout the film.] She declines to look at his dirty feet when he volunteers to demonstrate, but still wonders: "Boy, did you really do that?"
With a matchstick in his mouth, Clyde guzzles from an upturned Coke bottle (shot at an upward angle as a phallic symbol) that he has bought from a run-down gas station's soft drink chest up the street. Both of them drink from their Coke bottles in the next shot - emphasizing their growing intimacy and affinity for each other. And then she asks what "armed robbery" is like, instantly intrigued and charmed by his recklessness, but knowing that he is a liar. To prove that he isn't a "faker," he takes his gun out from inside his jacket in his right hand, while holding his Coke bottle in his left. Clyde shows her his large pistol pointing upwards at hip level, a second phallic symbol of his manhood, as he bounces the wooden match between his teeth. She looks down at the gun - at first repulsed, but then erotically fascinated, hypnotized and aroused by his assertive show of banditry and dangerousness. After tentatively and suggestively touching (fondling and caressing in a masturbatory way) the barrel of the gun, she goads him on to be her liberating hero by daring him with a sexually-loaded line: "But you wouldn't have the gumption to use it." The matchstick stands erect between Clyde's lips. To spontaneously impress her as part of the sexual dare and to prove his courage, he lets her witness his nonchalant, impulsive robbery of Ritts Groceries in the small town ("You keep your eyes open") - his first grocery-store robbery. In a long-shot, he strides across the vacant street - the camera remains with her as Bonnie stays outside and watches him from the middle of the street.
After a long moment of silence during the heist inside the store (off-screen), he emerges with a wad of bills in his left hand and his gun in his right hand. He awakens the unnatural quiet of the tiny town with one sharp crack of his revolver - he announces his own exhilarated manhood by shooting his weapon noisily into the air above the head of the dumbfounded store owner. Bonnie jumps into a car parked on the street, while he hot-wires it for their getaway. They introduce themselves formally to each other:
Bonnie: Hey, what's your name anyhow?
Clyde: Clyde Barrow.
Bonnie: Hi, I'm Bonnie Parker. Pleased to meet ya.During their first escape in the stolen car, without pursuit, she joins him for thrills and excitement - her ticket out of the dull anonymity of the town. Without pre-meditation, she slowly and unwittingly slips into a career in crime with him. During the hurried getaway, banjo music by Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs ("Foggy Mountain Breakdown") plays on the soundtrack - theme music that accompanies their escapes. She is sexually excited and ecstatic, smothering him with hugs and kisses in their first love scene, as they careen down a dusty country road. His hold-up of the store is paralleled by her attempted physical attack on him. When they reach a grassy grove of trees in the shade, Clyde begs the seductive and eagerly aggressive female to "slow down" and "cut it out," pushing her away and getting out of the car. He shamefully and restlessly confesses his latent homosexuality, sexual limitations and impotence, and tells her to put aside her romantic intentions:
Clyde: I might as well tell ya right off. I ain't much of a lover boy. But that don't mean nothin' personal about you. I-I-I never saw no percentage in it. Ain't nothin' wrong with me. I don't like boys. (He bumps his head on the driver's side door.)
Bonnie (frustrated and stunned): ...Your advertisin' is just dandy. Folks would never guess you don't have a thing to sell. You'd better take me home now. Now don't you touch me!As she gets out of the passenger side of the car, he follows after her through the front seat and does a pratfall onto the ground, but quickly uprights himself. Diverting her physical arousal, he entices Bonnie into a glamorous life with his own unrealistic, ignorant and childish fantasies of freedom, wealth and fame. He encourages her to think of him as the answer to her dreams - they could make history together:
Clyde: All right. All right. If all you want's a stud service, you get on back to West Dallas and you stay there the rest of your life. You're worth more than that, a lot more than that and you know it and that's why you're comin' along with me. You could find a lover boy on every damn corner in town. It don't make a damn to them whether you're waitin' on tables or pickin' cotton, but it does make a damn to me!
Bonnie: Why?
Clyde: Why? What's you mean, 'Why?' Because you're different, that's why. You know, you're like me. You want different things. You've got somethin' better than bein' a waitress. You and me travelin' together, we could cut a path clean across this state and Kansas and Missouri and Oklahoma and everybody'd know about it. You listen to me, Miss Bonnie Parker. You listen to me. Now how would you like to go walkin' into the dining room of the Adolphus Hotel in Dallas wearin' a nice silk dress and have everybody waitin' on you? Would you like that? That seem like a lot to ask? That ain't enough for you. You've got a right to that.He claims that the "minute" he saw her, he had figured out all that he had just told her, and then compliments her: "Because you may be the best damn girl in Texas." He takes her to a restaurant and sizes her up. Clyde instinctively appeals to her wanderlust to leave the dead-end cafe waitress job she has and join him for adventure and a career in crime, when he took her to a restaurant and sized her up:
Clyde: You were born somewhere around East Texas, right?...Come from a big ol' family.... You went to school, of course, but you didn't take to it much, because you was a lot smarter than everybody else, so you just up and quit one day. Now, when you was 16, 17, there was a guy who worked in a, in a ...right, cement plant, and you, you liked him, because he thought you were just as nice as you could be. And you almost married that guy, but then you thought no. You didn't think you would. So then you got you your job in a cafe. And now you wake up every mornin' and you hate it. You just hate it. You get on down there and you put on your white uniform...
Bonnie. Pink, it's pink.
Clyde: And them truckdrivers come in there to eat your greasy burgers and they kid ya, and you kid 'em back. But they're stupid and dumb boys with the big ol' tattooes on 'em, and you don't like it. And they ask ya on dates, and sometimes you go but you mostly don't because all they're ever tryin' to do is get in your pants whether you want 'em to or not. So you go on home and you sit in your room and you think, 'Now when and how am I ever gonna get away from this?' And now you know.After stealing a sporty convertible coupe, they hide out that night from the law in a deserted, bank-foreclosed farmhouse, where Bonnie sleeps on automobile seats placed on the floor: "These accommodations ain't particularly deluxe." When she awakens in the morning, she is initially frightened, but Clyde's appearance (on the other side of a broken window) reassures her.
While demonstrating his accurate aim during target practice, he shoots bottles off a wooden fence above a sign reading "Property of MIDLOTHIAN CITIZENS BANK - TRESPASSERS WILL BE PROSECUTED." He immodestly tells Bonnie: "I ain't good. I'm the best." Then, in the sunlight he gives her his gun and offers her to try a few shots, using an old rubber-tire swing as the target, while wind blows ominously through the bushes [a foreshadowing of the film's final scene]. The gunshots during her training session attract the attention of the bank-displaced, evicted farmer Otis Harris and his family (resembling the Joads from The Grapes of Wrath (1940), Penn's homage to John Ford's classic film) who are just driving by for a "last look" at their repossessed farm. With a show of sympathy for the farmer's futile plight ("That's a pitiful shame"), Clyde puts holes through the bank's sign. Then as a symbolic gesture, he lets the farmer and his Negro hired hand/sharecropper Davis shoot more bullets into the abandoned building and the panes of its windows. Ironically, the farmer's young child cowers in terror in his mother's arms at the sound of all the gunfire.
Clyde boastfully (but shyly) introduces them with a disarming smile, accentuating the bond they share with the country folk - while anticipating (almost as an afterthought) the course that they are committed to pursue - bank robbery:
This here's Miss Bonnie Parker. I'm Clyde Barrow...We rob banks.
The farmer turns - with an ambiguous and stoic look on his face - and stares back at them.


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Unfortunately for Waite, the Chicago Blackhawks were deep in goal with Ed Belfour and Dominik Hasek in the late 1980s and early '90s. That left Waite relegated to the minors. In fact, he saw just 16 games of NHL action in his first three seasons. The majority of his time was spent with the Saginaw Hawks and the Indianapolis Ice of the American Hockey League.
Now a member of the Toronto Maple Leafs' farm system, Waite has toiled the past two seasons in goal for the St. John's Maple Leafs, posting a 12-25-4 mark with a 3.24 GAA and a .899 save percentage in 43 games. He has not played an NHL game since the 1998-99 season when he started 16 games for the Phoenix Coyotes.
He considers winning the World Junior Hockey championships in 1988 his greatest hockey accomplishment. His childhood hero growing up was Ken Dryden, so it seems fitting that he is now his boss.


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Providing Oregon High School Sports Coverage
Rachel Garcia is Player of the Year; Coral Springs Charter coach named Coach of the Year; Enka named Team of Year.
Record-setting slugger highlights list of top players; Alaska coach named National Coach of the Year.
We unveil the Top 25 volleyball programs heading into the 2015 season, presented by Asics.
Bishop Carroll dominated in all aspects of the game all season long, and thus is crowned the 2015 national champion.
Bishop Carroll moves atop poll with one week remaining, thanks to 1-0 losses by top two teams.
California team two wins away from perfect season; For second week in a row, No. 2 team loses.
Mission Viejo remains No. 1, and four new teams make entrances.
Mississippi eighth-grader leads team to second-straight state title to headline list of youngsters.
North Carolina team ranked fourth on all-time consecutive win list.
Mission Viejo remains No. 1 as it has since preseason poll.
State titles and playoff glory are at stake in softball, and three new teams enter the rankings.
No. 2 Alexander Central runs win streak to 86. Sherwood, Santiago, Mount St. Dominic and Bald Knob are new this week.
Sixteen seniors highlight midseason list of the best softball players in the nation.
No. 1 Mission Viejo's Palomino nears California home run record; No. 2 Alexander Central nears North Carolina win streak mark.
Fourteen unbeaten teams grace the top 25. Top three teams just keep on rolling.
Mission Viejo stays on top, Alexander Central approaches state win streak record and five new teams enter.
The Top 10 stays the same, but American Heritage, Coronado, Reed and Bald Knob enter.
No. 2 Alexander Central runs win streak to 77.
Mission Viejo wins TOC event, remains No. 1; Alexander Central runs win streak to 74, moves to No. 2.
Mission Viejo remains No. 1 after three shutout victories.
Mission Viejo players Taylor McQuillin, Alyssa Palomino lead the way. Representatives from 18 states dot the team.
Four new teams make their entrances into the Xcellent 25.
Pendleton is our top pick in Oregon this season. Also watch out for South Medford, Marist, Westview and West Linn.
Mission Viejo gets preseason nod as No. 1, California team has 16 D-1 players on roster. Archbishop Mitty and Alexander Central round out top three.
Byrnes gains top spot in the Palmetto State. Also watch out for Union County, Northwestern, Hartsville and Clover.
Alexander Central enters season riding 68-game winning streak. Also watch out for Cape Fear, North Davidson, Middle Creek and Sun Valley.
The best of the Golden State are honored, headlined by players of the year in each division.
Audriana Fitzmorris, Gabby Gray, Haley Warner take top honors in their respective classes.
Elida High of New Mexico named Small Schools Team of the Year; Top coach comes from Gate City High in Virginia.
Michigan's Miss Volleyball, Katherine Carlson, is the Medium Schools Player of the Year. Coach of the Year is Chris Leverenz of Auburn Riverside in Washington and Team of the Year is Helias of Missouri.
Alexa Smith named National Volleyball Player of the Year; Lewis-Palmer also gets Coach of Year, Team of Year honors.
Lewis-Palmer High of Colorado wins our mythical national title after a 29-0 season.
Final poll to be determined after California championships this weekend. Lewis-Palmer stays on top.
Three California teams ranked in Top 10, but Lewis-Palmer holds on to the top spot.
Southlake Carroll volleyball player is rising fast on the national scene shortly after open-heart surgery.
California teams climb in most recent poll, while top five teams stay the same.
Lewis-Palmer of Colorado takes over the top spot in the Xcellent 25 after St. Ursula of Ohio falters.
St. Ursula stays at No. 1, Mount Notre Dame replaces Assumption at No. 24.
Papillion-LaVista makes it into the Top 10, Redondo Union and Novi enter the Top 25.
Coaches praise the 18 standout players who are battling to become the top player in the country.
Louisville's Mercy falls from top spot to No. 5, and St. Ursula Academy takes over at No. 1.
Teams from 10 different states make up the top 10 spots in this week's edition.
Louisville-bound volleyball star does double duty as the kicker for her school's football team.
Mercy stays in the top spot for the fourth-straight week, but losses in the Top 5 elicit a shake-up. Last year's national champ The Woodlands is back in as well.
Four new teams join Top 25, while the top five squads stay in their same spots.
Seven new teams join Top 25, while Mercy and St. Ursula stay in the 1 and 2 spots, respectively.
Another week, another No. 1 falls as Mercy moves into top spot.
St. Francis tops poll as four of top five lose.
St. James, Carroll, Dike-New Hartford remain atop poll; Six teams fall from rankings.
St. James opens season with top ranking; Kansas squad opens season with 56-match winning streak, six-straight state titles and two All-Americans
Katherine Claybaugh and Mikaela Foecke lead the way as volleyball season gets started.
Natalie Calderas of Jurupa Hills is the Small Schools Player of the Year, and Redwood Christian's Jennifer Beck is named Coach of the Year.
Jazmyn Jackson of Archbishop Mitty is the Medium Schools Player of the Year, Red Bluff's AubrieThomas named Coach of the Year
Amador Valley rules, as Johanna Grauer is Player of the Year and Teresa Borchard is named Coach of the Year.
Taylor McQuillin of Mission Viejo is Junior of the Year; Indiana's Elish named Top Sophomore; Alabama freshman honored after record-setting season.
Chase County High of Kansas earns Team and Coach of Year honors.
Indian Hills coach Joe Leicht is Coach of the Year for medium schools; Eastern Tech named Team of the Year.
Johanna Grauer of Amador Valley earns National Softball Player of the Year, Alexander Central's Monte Sherrill named National Softball Coach of the Year.
Amador Valley is mythical national champion; North Carolina's Alexander Central finishes No. 2.
Amador Valley, Alexander Central remain neck and neck atop the Xcellent 25; Aledo reenters.
No. 2 Alexander Central puts pressure on No. 1 Amador Valley as it wins another North Carolina title.
Amador Valley secures its perfect record and stays on top. Nine other unbeatens in Top 25.
Unionville-Sebewaing, Enumclaw and James Logan make their first entrances of the season. Amador Valley still No. 1.
Amador Valley takes over the top spot after Mission Viejo loses to Pacifica.
Watch List of the best softball players in the nation includes 13 seniors, five juniors.
Mission Viejo remains No. 1 as ace throws perfect game, and four new teams enter.
California, Texas, North Carolina and Florida lead the way. Four new teams enter the rankings.
Only one team enters, and it's a familiar one. Undefeated teams still reign at the top.
Mission Viejo stays on top, while Florida and Louisiana teams return to Top 25 as four teams fall out.
Teams from Washington, Tennessee, Kentucky climb into Top 25.
Mission Viejo hangs on to No. 1; Amador Valley moves to No. 2 after winning prestigious California tournament.
Pitcher unbeaten in previous seasons suffers first defeat, allows an earned run and home run, then rebounds with shutout victory.
Pitchers continue to dominate as top teams remain unbeaten.
Northern's 80-game win streak comes to an end; The Woodlands makes an entrance.
Mission Viejo breezes through loaded tournament and takes down the previous No. 1, so now the Diablos are on top.
Pitching rules this week, as top teams prevent opponents from gaining offense. Only new team is part of an Alabama switch.
Six teams fall from the Xcellent 25 already, while California gets going.
Pacifica (Garden Grove, Calif.) lost a lot to graduation, but returnees are impressive enough to earn the top spot.
Pitchers highlight 2014 preseason All-American softball team comprised of 20 seniors, 10 juniors.
Nelson, Hoffman, Depaoli, Dews, Williams named division players of the year.
MaxPreps wraps up its 2013 volleyball coverage with its Junior, Sophomore and Freshman All-American teams.
Unbeaten Goodpasture Christian of Tennessee takes top team and Coach of the Year honors.
Hannah Troutman named Medium Schools Volleyball Player of the Year; East Troy coach honored.
Eighteen MaxPreps All-Americans featured at match in Seattle.
Courtney Eckenrode of national champion The Woodlands named Player of Year; Granite Bay's Tricia Pummer tabbed Coach of the Year.
Eight unbeatens highlight Top 25; final list ranks Top 100.
Los Alamitos to play Granite Bay for D-I title; Mitty, Parker, Branson go for repeats.
Unbeaten California teams move to No. 3, No. 6; The Woodlands, St. James hold top two spots.
Rubber match will determine SoCal champ; defending state champions Mitty, Branson, Parker seek state volleyball repeats.


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Tottenham are expected to remain reluctant to sell Dimitar Berbatov despite the Bulgaria striker submitting a formal transfer request on Friday.
It is understood that Berbatov handed in his request to sporting director Damien Comolli and chairman Daniel Levy the day before he was named on the bench in the 2-1 defeat at Middlesbrough.
Earlier in the summer, Levy feared Berbatov would have a negative influence on the dressing room after making it clear he wanted to leave for Manchester United.
United had a bid of £20.5m rejected last month and have not made another offer, although Spurs have insisted they do not want to sell.
However, the transfer saga has entered a crucial stage following Berbatov's request, followed by comments on his arrival for international duty.
"I'm now in Tottenham but no-one can disagree with me wanting to follow my dream," Berbatov said.
The 27-year-old, who played 25 minutes at the Riverside after coming off the bench, defended his manner on the bench.
He added: "If I had been laughing when I was on the bench, people would say I was an idiot.
"Eric Cantona never smiled, but I don't know if anyone ever asked him why he didn't look happier."
Spurs are continuing to look at forward before the end of the transfer window. At the moment they are concentrating away from Andrei Arshavin, but could return to the Russia forward if other avenues are blocked.


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In Malaysia, the three largest ethnic groups are the Malays, the Chinese and the Indians with each ethnic group having its own language for communication. Based on the official website of Department of Statistics Malaysia, in September 2008, the population of Malaysia is estimated to be 27,728,000, which makes Malaysia to be a country of the 43rd most populated country in the world. Among this population, 5.44 million Malaysians live in East Malaysia and 21.2 million live in Peninsular Malaysia. The population of Malays and other Bumiputera groups make up 65% of the population, Chinese 26%, Indians 8% and other unlisted ethnic groups 1%. In terms of language, many local languages are used in Malaysia including Bahasa Malaysia as the official language, Chinese (Cantonese, Mandarin, Hokkien, Hakka, Hainan, Foochow), Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, Punjabi, and other indigenous languages that include Iban and Kadazan which are most widely spoken. The same diversity also exists in the religions practised by Malaysians, namely, Islam, Christianity, Hinduism, Buddhism, Daoism and Sikhism, among others.
Although ethnic groups tend to maintain their traditions community structures and native languages as their mother tongues, they have together created the contemporary Malaysia which is uniquely diverse in its heritage. According to Gupta (2000), the mixed ethnic communities in Malacca such as the Chitties (Indo-Malay), the Kristang (Lusito-Asian), the Straits Chinese (Sino-Malay) and the Muslim Indian group mixed with Arab or Malay, are indeed diverse in their heritage and cultures. In fact, intermarriages among these groups play a crucial role in diverting its linguistic structures.
In Malaysia, recent studies on language choice, language use, language maintenance and language shift among minority community have been done by researchers such as David (1996) on the Malaysian Sindhi community, Mohamad Subakir Mohd Yasin (1998) on the minority Javanese community, David and Mohd Noor (1999) on the Portuguese community of Malacca, David and Naji (2000) on the Malaysian Tamils, David and Nambiar (2002) on minority Malayalees. From the review of studies conducted on language use among the ethnic minorities in Malaysia, it can be summed up that many factors influence the growth and survival of minority languages. According to David (1999), exogamous marriages are common among the educated ethnic minorities and this has become one of the factors leading to language shifts in Malaysia. Furthermore, in her study of language choice among the Sino-Indian minority group, she found this group tends to be shift in one of their mother tongue, especially on the usage of the Tamil language.
On the other hand, several previous studies by Hoffmann (1985), De Jong (1986), Harding and Riley (1986), Arnberg (1987), S. Barron-Hauwaert (2000) indicate that intermarriage seems to be an ideal background to bring up children bilingually. It is widely believed that children from a mixed parentage grow up to be bilinguals naturally and automatically. However, there is an argument raised among some scholars that many of mixed marriages parentage are actually struggling to raise children in two different languages as well. Scholars conclude that the children are slowly being eroded by the wave of language confusion and may be one of the home languages would emerge as being more dominant. In future it is believed that home languages might lose its significance and may be taken over by a language considered to be a privilege language for them. Arnberg (1991:33) cited that 'there is increasing evidence that raising children bilingually is not as easy as it had earlier been assumed' thus many mixed-language families fall by the wayside, because of their failure to get the child to use or want to use one of the languages actively". Arnberg (1991:91) also mentioned that, "unless parents are highly motivated to raise their child bilingually, they tend to give up over time".
These previous studies intrigue the researcher to study on language choice among mixed-marriage families specifically concentrating on marriages among the Malay and Chinese. Ironically, the research on mixed-marriages in Malaysia is still inadequate and not well documented. Such limitations in the published literature on intercultural marriages among the Malaysian community need to be acknowledged and calls for a step-up in research in the area.
Therefore, the objective of this study is to investigate the pattern of language use and analyze the language choice of Sino-Malay families living in Subang Jaya, Selangor from a range of domains such as the family and school. At the same time, this study would like to discover if there is a possibility of a shift or preference to use languages other than the mother tongues among the members of Sino Malay mixed marriages.
According the information that released by Asia Sentinel online news portal, it is found that about 150,000 mixed marriages occur in Malaysia which number seems not a small statistics in a population of 24 million people of Malaysia. The statistics have shown it is evident that mixed marriages do occur and are increasing in Malaysia. Technically speaking, the partners of mixed marriages have completely different ethnics and different linguistic backgrounds. Hence, several aspects such as socio cultural values and ideologies will have to be negotiated in mixed marriages. However in this study, language is the prime concern among this mixed marriage community.
Due to, children of mixed marriage are exposed to more than one language, therefore the problem arise is "What language should be taught?" (Dugan,1988:84). Children of mixed marriages are exposed to two different mother tongues (s) of parents and also to additional languages that are taught in the education institution for example kindergarten and schools. Thus such children might actively use both of the parental mother tongues, while others use either mother's mother tongue or father's mother tongue. Yet, some may not use any of mother tongues but another language of their preference instead. Hence, what factors may influence such a variation? Under what circumstances do some children choose to use both of their parents' languages while others choose only one or none of them at all? In such a situation, parents may need to make decision on how to balance their mother tongues between the languages that available among them. Therefore, it would be interesting to investigate the efforts that taken by the parents to maintain their native language(s), if any.
In this study, the aim is to investigate the use of mother tongues of the parents (the Malay language and Mandarin and Chinese dialects) and the choice of language in selected domains of both parents and children of mixed marriages. With the exposure to the parents' mother tongues, the medium of instruction at schools, and the exposure to English at schools and their surroundings, this study aims also to find out if there is a preference to use another language instead of their mother tongues. In additionally, the study is interested to document the efforts made by parents, if any, to maintain their mother tongues (Malay or Chinese and its dialects) among family members, and the tendency to shift to another language especially among the children.
In the present study there are three major objectives to elucidate the language environments among the families of Sino-Malay mixed marriages. The objectives of the present study are the following:
To identify the language choice of members of Sino-Malay mixed marriage families in selected social domains.
To study the perception of the children towards the native languages of their parents.
To investigate the parents' attitude towards maintaining their native languages.
Research Questions
Based on the above mentioned objectives, the research questions are framed. The main research questions addressed in this study are;
1. What is the language choice of Sino-Malay mixed marriage families in the
selected domains?
What is the perception of the children of Sino-Malay mixed marriage families towards their parents' native languages?
Is there language maintenance of native languages or a shift among members of Sino-Malay mixed marriage families?
Significance of study
This study aims to shed some light on whether the members of Sino-Malay mixed marriages families is inclined to maintain the use of their mother tongues or to shift to other languages. If there is a shift, what are the factors that may influence it? It is hoped that the findings of this study is able to be channeled back to these families to help them for their awareness and to take stock of their language practice. This present study also hopes to make the elders of the community aware of the significance of native language(s) because language is still considered as an identical recognition of one's ethnic. This documentation not only will be beneficial to these particular Sino-Malay mixed married families but also to benefit the Malaysian scene in general because many other ethnics do intermarry as well.
The present study also creates awareness among parents and children towards their linguistic behaviour especially, in maintaining their mother tongues. The members of mixed marriages should be aware that knowing two or more languages truly gives them many advantages in life. Such children have the advantage of knowing two different cultures, able to communicate with a variety of people, and of possible of economic benefits in their future. Hopefully, the present study also could throw some awareness among various institution to encourage the use of the language of the minority especially in mass media and education sectors.
Limitations of the study
The following are limitation of the present study: firstly this study only focuses on 16 Sino-Malay mixed marriage families. Therefore, it may not be generalizable to the whole Sino-Malay population in Malaysia. Secondly, the study will not carry out any gender comparison. It aims to describe the preference and choice of two generations namely, the parents and their children. Finally the study also uses the term of mother tongue for the language that belongs to the parents which refers to their ethnic languages meanwhile the first language language (L1) will be considered as the language that the participants exposed since young.
The parents of mixed-marriage may wish to see the kind of effects on their children's language preferences. It is hoped that this study will be a well worth reading for the researchers and families alike.


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TIAA-CREF, a financial services company with over $500 billion in assets under management, has made employee engagement a priority. Its Head of Organizational Effectiveness, Josh Greenwald, agreed to share what his company does to create engaged workplace relationships.
JATHAN JANOVE: How do you define "employee engagement"?
JOSH GREENWALD: Engaged employees are motivated, enabled, and energized to deliver their best performance, and they intend to stay with the company.
JJ: What importance does TIAA-CREF place on employee engagement? Why?
JG: "Value our people" is one of our six core values, and fostering employee engagement is fundamental to how we operate at TIAA-CREF. People are our greatest asset, and we know that we need highly engaged people to fully deliver on our mission to our customers.
JJ: How is employee engagement viewed in relation to TIAA-CREF's goals or important business metrics?
JG: Cultivating a high performance culture is one of the company's strategic objectives. One of the key measures on our scorecard is employee engagement as gauged by our annual employee "Culture Survey." Employee engagement is also a key component of our business unit leaders' goals and measures, which are aligned to the company's long-term vision and three-year strategic plan.
JJ: What steps has the company taken to increase employee engagement?
JG: We have taken a number of steps to increase our employees' engagement.
In addition, in 2009 we formed a group of "Culture Liaisons"–a group of business leaders from different sectors within the company—to fulfill two company goals: (1) to share their ideas on engagement and best practices across lines of business; and (2) to promote analysis, communication, and action planning within their units.
These Culture Liaisons focus on impact not just process by:
The Culture Liaisons report regularly to senior leadership on progress and meet weekly. They typically perform these duties in addition to performing their regular work-related functions. It is important to note that Culture Liaisons do not have accountability for taking action across different departments; that remains the focus of employees and leaders within each line of business. However, Culture Liaisons help to keep the organizational process moving and to give it visibility.
JJ: What has been the impact of these efforts?
JG: On average, only one in three employees in a company is engaged (according to standard industry norms). At TIAA-CREF, 75 percent of employees are engaged (based on the results of our annual Culture Survey). The percentage continues to climb year after year.
We have also been able to show links between improved employee engagement and asset growth and talent retention at TIAA-CREF.
JJ: C-level executives are often skeptical of investing in the "soft skills" involved in achieving an engaged workforce. As one executive put it, "the only things 'hard' are program costs and labor hours expended." What would you say to overcome such skepticism?
JG: TIAA-CREF doesn't perform, its people do. We will only achieve our strategic goals if all employees are growing, motivated, excited about our future, and contributing to their full potential. By measuring engagement, we know where to focus our attention to ultimately improve organizational performance
Many people think about culture as soft. They view it separately from performance and results. They see it as a "nice to have," but not essential. But research actually shows the opposite—that a strong culture can impact business performance. Firms in which leaders focus on their cultures outperform firms that don't by a huge margin. Recent studies have shown that,
JJ: For leaders who are serious about improving employee engagement in their organizations, what steps would you recommend they take?
JG: Leaders should find a way to take the following actions:
JJ: Any other advice or suggestions?
JG: Measuring engagement through an employee survey is very informative, but it is only as valuable as what the organization does with it. By acting on employees' survey reports, TIAA-CREF is able to create an empowering workplace that leads to sustainable engagement. By looking at data around diversity and inclusion, client focus, and leadership—just to name a few areas—we create systemic change based on input directly from our employees who are in the best position to provide it.
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I had a really nice weekend. My dad came to CA for a work conference and he got to spend some time with us. It was his first time visiting since I've moved here so I was sort of feeling the pressure in making sure he enjoyed his time in CA.
We decided to bike to show him a nice view of the harbor here. We also went to Laguna Beach so he could feel the sand between his toes.
He stayed for two nights and after he left I got sort of sad. Spending that time with him made me realize how long it had been since we had done that. After my parents divorced (I was 18) I saw my dad very seldom, usually only meeting at a restaurant for a meal on holidays. I honestly can't remember the last time I saw my dad for longer than an hour or so at a time. So it was really special for him to come spend some time with us and see what my life is like here.
I also just wanted to share my new nails! I got some black and white striped vinyl nail shields from Jamberry Nails. They have a ton of patterns to choose from and right now sheets are Buy 3 Get 1 Free! So fun!
What did you do this weekend?
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So cool! Where in Cali are you? I lived there until not too long ago. Not by the beach though, in the desert. About 1 hr north of LA. :) Glad you got that time with your dad. I understand about not being close to family. It's super special he came and hung out with you!
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) says almost half of all pregnancies in the United States are not planned. That's important because unplanned pregnancies can be risky for both mother and child. As a result, CDC has started a nationwide effort to make sure women at risk for unplanned pregnancies know what birth control methods are available - and understand how to use them.
Several things determine what method of birth control, or contraception, is best for you. Important things to consider include how often you have sex, if you plan to have a family later, your age and whether you have any health problems.
Below is a discussion of commonly used forms of contraception. Remember, it's important to talk to your doctor, nurse or other healthcare provider before choosing one that's right for you.
Barrier Methods
Common birth control methods like condoms (both male and female), cervical caps and diaphragms are called "barriers." These contraceptives are either placed in the woman's vagina or over the man's erect penis. They are widely available, non-permanent forms of birth control.
Male Condom - This thin sheath fits over an erect penis and usually is made of latex. It is the only method of contraception that also provides protection from sexually transmitted infections (STIs), including HIV/AIDS. Condoms may provoke latex allergies and require careful, consistent use to be effective.
Female Condom - This thin, polyurethane pouch lines the vagina and has two flexible rings. The inner ring is used to insert the device and hold it in place, and the outer ring covers the external genitalia. They offer greater protection than diaphragms and typically are not made of latex, making them stronger and more likely to stand up to lubricants that are not water-based.
Diaphragm & Cervical Cap - A diaphragm is a soft latex rubber cup inserted into a woman's vagina, fitting over the cervix. It requires fitting by your healthcare provider and may not be appropriate for women until 6 weeks after giving birth, if they are allergic to latex or if they have other physical problems. A diaphragm is normally used along with a spermicidal cream or jelly that stops sperm from moving. A cervical cap is similar to a diaphragm but smaller and held in place by suction.
Remember to always use water-based lubricants with latex condoms and diaphragms, because oil-based lubricants can cause latex to break.
Hormonal Methods
There are several birth control options for women that work by delivering doses of one hormone or a combination of hormones to help prevent pregnancy. While highly effective in preventing pregnancy, none provide protection against STIs, and some may occasionally require use of additional contraceptive methods (for example, use a condom with oral contraception).
Oral Contraception - Commonly called "the pill," oral contraception is taken daily and typically contains two hormones, estrogen and progesterone. Progesterone-only pills also are available and may be better for women who are breast-feeding, women older than 35 and those with certain medical histories. Both types of pills work by inhibiting ovulation (release of an egg by the ovaries) and making it difficult for sperm to penetrate the uterus. Many different kinds of the pill are available, and each has ways it should be used, reasons for when it shouldn't be used and some side effects.
Vaginal Ring - This flexible ring is inserted high in the vagina and releases hormones similar to those in most birth control pills. It can be left in for up to 3 weeks and provide 1 month of protection, making it more convenient than the pill, but it is not recommended for women who smoke.
Injections - These nonpermanent forms of contraception contain hormones administered by deep intramuscular injection. Like the pill, both progesterone-only and combined progesterone/estrogen injectable contraceptives are available. They are administered every 3 months.
Implants - These small tubes are about the size of a matchstick and are placed just under the skin in a woman's upper arm. They release progesterone to prevent pregnancy and are effective for up to 5 years; however, they can be removed at any time. They can alter menstruation and do have some common side effects.
Transdermal Patch - This adhesive patch resembles a small bandage and contains the hormones estrogen and progestogen. It is applied directly to the skin every week for 3 weeks, followed by 7 days off the patch when the user gets a period. Although easy to use, some are concerned the higher dose of hormones delivered by contraceptive patches may lead to a higher risk of blood clots and other serious side effects.
An IUD is a small plastic device that contains either copper or a hormone and is inserted into a woman's uterine cavity. It prevents pregnancy by impairing viability of sperm and interfering with sperm movement.
IUDs are highly effective and last up to 10 years, but they require insertion and removal, have some side effects and offer no protection from STIs. They are not for women who are pregnant, have certain female cancers or who have uterine fibroid or other anatomical abnormalities.
Surgical OptionsContraceptive options exist for both men and women willing to undergo surgery.
For women, tubal ligation is the most common form of surgical birth control. It involves removing, tying off or placing an object in the fallopian tubes so eggs cannot get to the uterus from the ovaries. This amounts to female sterilization and is not reversible, although menstruation does continue normally following the procedure.
For men, vasectomy is the most common permanent birth control. The procedure involves tying or sealing the tubes in the scrotum that carry sperm to the penis, preventing sperm from being included in the man's semen. It does not affect the man's ability to maintain an erection or to ejaculate.
ResourceCDC. (2005, Nov. 18). Contraceptive use: United States and territories, behavioral risk factor surveillance system, 2002. Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, 54(SS06), 1-72. Retrieved Feb. 23, 2005 from the World Wide Web: http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/ss5406a1.htm
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Wednesday, September 12, 2012
On Blogshop and the World of Blogging
As I mentioned on Monday, I attended Blogshop over the weekend. The two-day class is taught by the mega-talented Bri Emery and Angela Kohler (who took the photos below) and is basically Photoshop bootcamp created with bloggers in mind. It was so helpful and fun for someone like me who only knew the teensiest bit about Photoshop. Now I feel pretty comfortable with it and am eager to play around and experiment. My mom is also very excited about my new ability to remove wrinkles in photos.
For some reason, I always feel strange talking about blogging on my blog. I don't know why, but I have this "pay no attention to the man behind the curtain" feeling about it. Whenever I talk about my blog with people, my inclination is to get very shy about it and say it's just a hobby, and while that's true, it's more than that. I love sharing photos and ideas and moments and things I love with you, and I love hearing back from you and seeing glimpses of your life. And while there are times when writer's block, bad lighting and that beast known as comparison creep in, creating this little space brings me a lot of joy as do all of you who take the time to visit it.
So I may spend more time editing photos, I may try to incorporate graphics and gifs and prettier fonts, and I may finally get around to that redesign I've been thinking about for two years, but all of that isn't really the heart of it for me. What I care about is The SoHo adding a little bit of brightness to your day with something that makes you smile or say "ooo" or occasionally makes you hungry, okay more than occasionally. That's the part of this whole blogging thing that keeps me inspired and motivated, and I thank you all for sticking with me. You're as wonderful as a chocolate cookie sandwich!
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December 14, 2013 11:17 am Iran sends second monkey into space Rouhani says ape successfully returns on rocket running on liquid fuel, a first for the Islamic republic By AP
October 13, 2013 6:21 am Iran to send 'second monkey' into space Mission 'a prelude to sending humans on space missions,' report says By Times of Israel staff
February 5, 2013 2:36 am Monkeying around? US unsure of Iran's space claims State Department spokeswoman says wart missing from returning astronaut's photo
February 4, 2013 4:41 pm Ground control to Major Ahmadinejad Iranian leader wants to be the 'first human' sent to space by Iran, thwarting 'devil's hatred' of 'Iranian greatness' By Gabe Fisher
February 2, 2013 5:09 pm No monkey business — Iran space official Mohammad Ebrahimi says Pishgam, 'pioneer' in Persian, really did go into space, though one of the photos released wasn't his By ALI AKBAR DAREINI
February 1, 2013 6:38 pm Is Iran's space monkey a fake? From the web The Telegraph: Photographic evidence of primate launched into space by Tehran raises suspicions that it was a hoax
January 30, 2013 12:57 am Iranian monkey launch 'a publicity stunt,' Israeli space expert says Sending unguided rocket 120 kilometers into suborbit says nothing about Tehran's ballistic missile capabilities, Tal Inbar contends By Mitch Ginsburg and Ilan Ben Zion
January 28, 2013 2:30 pm Iran launches monkey into space Successful flight seen as precursor to manned space exploration by the Islamic Republic
January 15, 2013 8:59 pm Iran to launch a monkey into space Islamic Republic ramps up its space program By Greg Tepper


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Best RZ title post ever?
I struggle with that as you can see.
Anyway, first time in a long, long time I will be attending all the games of a Reds series and I am pretty excited. Thought it would be kind of fun to track my movements (or lack thereof) along with my game and periphery observations over the weekend.
A little background.... I live in OKC. Love, love my city. Was raised mostly in Tulsa, graduated high school in Houston, and returned to OK in college to attend OU--- been in OK ever since. Married, small business owner, 2 kids (4 and 18 months). Lifelong fan of Reds and Redskins (the most sharp among you have probably figured that out by now). Also an OKC Thunder fan/season ticket holder.
My relationship with Dallas and the DFW area is interesting. Loving the Redskins since I could breath, I naturally hate the Cowboys and decided I also hated the city of Dallas long before I ever even visited (I was born in NJ and my family is all from NY area). Little did I know as a kid that so much of my life would wind up running through Dallas.
To get from OK to Houston... Through Dallas
Biggest rival of my alma matter (Texas)..... Played annually in Dallas
Biggest rival of my football team..... In Dallas
Met many friends in college.... From Dallas
At least 50% of friends have settled.... In Dallas
Thunder developed a regional rivalry.....With Dallas
In many ways OKC is really just a small version of Dallas, as there are many similarities. But it's still just kind of fun for me to say I hate Dallas and all it represents. I've never had anything against the Rangers per se, but always rooted against them because.... Dallas. I figured there were likely lots of Cowboys and Longhorns fans rooting for the Rangers so it would be nice to see them fail. And of course the one time I am really rooting for a DFW team, they choke away the WS to St. Louis.
Didn't make it last time the Reds were here, so I'm making it happen this time. Going to each of the games with friends, one of whom is having a little cookout, etc Saturday afternoon. I have not only known these guys since college, but our friendships go back at least to high school and in one instance, elementary school. So I always have a blast down there even if I try not to
My Dad has a bazillion hotel points which he generously offered me. I accepted and declined invitations to stay with said friends. A quiet hotel room sans kiddos for two night sounds pretty damn delightful to be perfectly honest.
I am currently in sunny Ardmore, OK. It is 100 degrees, it is lunchtime and there is some mighty fine people watching outside of the Love's station. For those who don't know, there is very, very little between OKC metro and DFW. Very little. It is actually quite scenic.. Much more so than western OK and TX which is flat and barren. Lots of hills and small mountains/wilderness around here. It levels out once you cross into Texas and you can almost feel yourself get dumber when you cross that Red River. The WinStar Casino (huge, I think the biggest non-Vegas?) is your last gasp before entering TX... I'll be there shortly.
Meeting an old friend from high school (Houston) this evening. Should be fun. Even though its Hell.


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The Moon and Sick-plans = "fuel poverty"
UN calls for doubling renewable energy by 2030 WUWT
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Who Is Barack Hussein Obama, Really?: the Islamic Obaminoes game HSUS "To watch Americans put a known socialist and communist into power only proves that the vote and logic was severely tainted. Obama didn't win by decision, he won by deceit. This monkey wearing a suit hasn't told the truth about anything since he popped into on the political scene out of nowhere."
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'O Glorious St. Joseph, model of all those who are devoted to labor, obtain the grace for me to work conscientiously, putting the call of duty above my natural inclinations; to work with gratitude and joy, in a spirit of penance for the remission of my sins, considering it an honor to develop by means of labor the gifts received from God; to work with order, peace, moderation and patience, without ever shrinking from weariness and difficulties; to work above all with purity of intention and detachment from self,
having always death before my eyes and the account I must render of time lost, of talents wasted, of good omitted, of vain complacency in success, so fatal to the work of God.
All for Jesus, through Mary, all after thine own example, O Patriarch St. Joseph. Such shall be my watchword in life and in death.'
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Thursday, August 26, 2010
Adopting leaves...
As I cut the first quilt I sort the leftover bits into several bags. First I cut the remaining strips into either 2-1/2 or 3 inch squares.Remaining pieces larger than 1 inch square go into the bag for random scrap piecing...and the pieces that are truely "scraps" are used to stuff pillows for the pets. As Macbeth gets older he needs more comfy places to nap...
Goldie just takes over the chairs in the Dining Room (sometimes sewing room since it gets such great light!) So I guess it is safe to say that the scrap bag is sort of like the sourdough bin on my counter...take out some then add a bit and it just seems to keep on growing!
Also finished up a small Amish influenced wall hanging. I have some thin perle cotton that I am going to use to hand quilt it...I need a low vision haul around project....behind the "amish" quilt is the batik scrappy bargello I am making for a local soldier (he likes purple and Hawaiian shirts!)
A lot of time was spent working on a mystery quilt...not a real mystery quilt...just one I can't post on the internet for a few more weeks...
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- Catswhiskers said...
these leaves are beautiful.
I am so happy to know that you too use the "scraps" to stuff bedding for the pets - and of course Goldie can choose first where she'll sit and then good old Macbeth can have any other!
Always nice of you to share this 'bliss' - 11:43 AM
- Mrs. Goodneedle said...
I am especially fond of the Maple Leaf blcok, yours will be stunning! The light in your dining room is glorious, what a lovely work space (cat and all)!
- Tonya R said...
beautiful colors. ooh, a mystery - very intriguing
- dianne said...
i love your leaves and scraps! absolutely love it!
if i could do that with orphan blocks and scraps i would be a much happier quilter... - 10:48 PM
- Luisa said...
So wonderful!!! the Maple leaves..the kitchen and the cat!!
Luisa - 10:01 AM
- *karendianne. said...
Hi Goldie! :) I love to see all this work you've been doing. Yippie!!!
- AnnieO said...
I love decorating for fall but don't have any leaf quilts. Hmm, one more for the list!
Love the Amish inspired quilt. It will be wonderful hand quilted. - 6:19 AM
- Flex said...
What a beautiful site you have. I just love all your wonderful creation. Good job!
-furniture fabrics - 12:37 AM
- Finn said...
It just tickles me pink to see you having "gone(going)to pieces" Sio!
I have a BIG smile on my face as I read your post and love the resulting top or almost tops! I've found so much pleasure over the years while playing with the leftovers. It really is a very carefree way to relax and sew. No expectations..what could be better? Sending hugs, Finn - 7:57 PM


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so we'll never stop wondering.
Been out at Pop-Pop's too much lately, so am just catching up on your Halloween and later ... your daughter is almost as beautiful as you were at the same age, A! And that Caspian - what a bright and jolly little boy! I loved the video clip - almost made me feel I was there (thank you thank you)! Wish I could see them more ... but SOOOO happy with your updates! LOADS of LOVE to ALL!!! - Auntie J


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My that's a Liberals thinking alright. Lets criminalize suicide bombing. Just one question I need answered please...How are you going to prosecute someone who has carried out a suicide bombing? Scoop them up and throw them in the compost pile?
- 7:44 am, June 26, 2008
- greyburr said...
Scoop them up and throw them in the compost pile?
No ,they will become card carrying members of the lpC with the right to contribute $$ & vote at the next 3rd string leadership convention. - 8:57 am, June 26, 2008
- Neo Conservative said...
"crazymamma asks... How are you going to prosecute someone..."
silly you... liberals don't prosecute... they'll simply send a social worker to the bomber's home... to help the family with their grief.
* - 11:30 am, June 26, 2008
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Play D3.Sell items on D3 AH for $With those $ buy Guardian Cub.Sell Guardian Cub on WoW AH for gold.Profit?
I dont have a problem with this being tradeable, what I do have a problem however is that it only affects 1 toon as oposed to all toons past present and future in your account.I certainly hope future mounts they release will not follow this pattern and be available for all toons on one's account.I paid 12k gold for the winged guardian presicely because it would be a good looking mount for every single toon in my account. If it was a 1toon only mount there's no way in hell I'd pay that much for it.
I can see it going for alot of gold on the auction house in the begining but later on being worth very little.
It's worth noting that there are important distinctions between this and other forms of gold-selling.1. The conversion is one-way. You can convert real money to gold, but you can't convert gold to real money. This is important because it means that it doesn't create a financial incentive to hack other players' accounts and steal their gold. It won't facilitate the activities of account-hacking gold sellers, and may actually take the wind out of their sales by creating officially-sanctioned alternatives.2. It doesn't introduce money into the economy, the way it would if Blizzard were to sell gold directly. In fact, if the items are sold on the AH, the AH cut will act as a gold sink.
I never liked the trading card game as I have no interest in the game but still desire the benefits. Sure the mounts and I assume some pets are able to put in AH, but I don't have hundreds of thousands of gold to buy them all up. And the prices on eBay for the real life version to unlock them with can be exorbitant and potential scams. I would particularly love to have a Tyrael pet from some Blizz related thing that happened somewhere once, forget what, but I'm not about to shell out $200 for it.I like the blizzard store because the prices were cheap. Maybe not so much when you think of what you're getting for it, but when you compare it to what ebay would try to sell it for, especially if it was in limited supply, then yes, very much cheap in comparison.But part of the thing that makes the trading card game loot so expensive is because it is a gamble to get it. You can buy packs and packs of cards but never get that loot that's worth 400k in-game.This is similar, yes, but it's just different enough to make me cringe. I expect the first few days the price will be high, much like the elementium geode when Cata first came out... but then the supply will outweigh demand and you'll see people wasting money on the things getting only 100 or 200 gold for them each.And they'll keep buying them until pretty much everyone has them, a few people are a few gold richer, and a few people are several hundred dollars of real life money poorer.And that will be sad.I am a huge pet collector. But for this one, I plan to wait until the price has dropped low and reached a stable point, then I'll buy it in-game. Why waste my real life money?I've bought every other pet and mount on the Blizzard Store, even payed for a virtual blizzcon ticket last year (mostly to actually see blizzcon though, the pet was a bonus.)But this one I'm not going to buy, especially if I have to buy it for each of my pet collecting characters.It's possible for an account to have 50 characters. Previously, $10 got you a potential of 50 pets. More, if you consider that if you delete and make new characters you continue to get the pet for every new character you make.I wouldn't even mind the tradeability if it weren't for the fact that it's still one-character-only. That itself makes it not worth my real life money. At all. Again, I'll just buy it in-game when and if it becomes affordable to do so.All they would have to do would be that the 'on use' item, on use, disappears and is replaced with a BoA item that is what actually teaches the pet. You'd still be limited to your realm unlike with other Blizzard Store pets but hopefully void storage could be used to send it to other characters across realms, along with the blizzard bear and onyxia whelp that I have sitting on only one of my character's banks.
Oh look, another thing for me to not spend my precious money on. Nice try Blizzard.
I have bought vanity pets in the past from the Blizzard Store, especially the charity ones. If this pet is not going to be Bind on Account I will not be paying money for only one of my characters to have it. So once again Blizzard are showing that they are thinking of money first and their customers a very bad second. Apart from giving their gold farmer customers more to play with.
Well I really like the looks of this pet, and maybe, maybe I would even be tempted to buy this little fella (for in game gold of course!) if it weren't for the fact that I would be painfully aware that all this hard-earned gold would go to someone who just basically (and thanks to me nonetheless) bought himself/herself some extra gold with real world cash. But it's ok as long as Blizz can pretend that they did this so that people can give this pet to their friends as a present, and not to laundry some real cash into in-game gold, while using *us* as washing machines.
While the buying gold option is legit, the more annoying one is what if your a pet person who just wants this pet for themselves? Is there an option that just lets you buy your typical BoP item and get it with all your toons like current ones? Having to buy additional pets would be pretty weak.
I'm unimpressed by the winged guardian. I'm unimpressed by the guardian cub.Now, if Blizzard made a sparkly pony pet, I'd be all over it like the rash under Santa's beard.
In regards to the BoE vs. BoA thing, I can't say that I got all that much use out of my BoA pets on any toon other than my main. Sure, I'd put theme appropriate pets on my alts- Lil'KT on the DK, Griffon Hatchling on the Dwarf Pally- but I bought them primarily for my main, who is my pet collector. If they had been just for that toon, I would have still bought them.And while I agree that having a single item from the pet store tradable might not have too much of an effect on the gold-selling market, releasing a new one every couple of weeks would. Some MMO's release new pets, mounts and vanity gear (they might have been paving the way for this with the transmog) every week. It doesn't usually have this rush of "OMG, new pet- everyone get it," that the wow pets do, but there's a lot of variety. I imagine that if WoW started dropping a few items on the store each month, and they were taradable in-game, that would kill the black market gold business.
You know, I have all the other Blizzard Pet store pets...but going to skip this one; if it was a one toon use for BoA, I'd be all over it, but not willing to shell out more then 200 bucks to get them for all my toons.


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Oooooh I love the colors you picked! I'll take it in a large lollipop lol.
Very neat! I've never seen drag-marbling before! I like it!
I love this - I think this looks really pretty and there is so many neat techniques you can do with dragging/swirling.Your vids are great, and you explain things perfectly, looking forward to the next ones
I hope you are feeling better. That is so unusual and awesome! Thanks for the tutorial too, they're very helpful. :)
This is so pretty, it looks like roses! I love it mattified. (formerly "anonymous Michelle, I'm now a follower!)
When I saw this mani I immediately thought of lollipops! I like candy nails. Great tutorial also!
They are absolutely gorg, and I love the bright pink you used :).X
Whoua thank for this tuto :: Your design looks like a rose !!!
Beautiful!! I LOVE it!! I sure must try it these days :)
Hope you get to feeling all better.Those nails ROCK. :)Susie
That's really pretty, it kind of looks like a rose, I'm gonna try this!
That is beautiful!!! I love it. You inspire me to take time to learn how to do that better!I'm having a giveaway if you are interested!http://nailtalez.blogspot.com/2010/04/my-first-giveaway.html
I agree - it looks like roses! You are the swirly water marble queen girlfriend :)
Gasp! These are stunning. They look like roses. You are truly amazing! -JenB
So beautiful! I've just recentley discovered your blog and tutorials, and they're so inspiring! I've learnt so much from you - you're a marbling genius :)
Beautiful mani and hands...you are terrific!! :)http://www.nailsbeautiqued.blogspot.com
It looks like roses ! I love it, sooo gorgeous ! Thanks for the tutorial :)
super! rose:)
Wow, matted marbling is just stunning!!
EVERYONE - Thank you all!
Thanks for commenting! I will read every comment, and try to respond to any questions =)