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I DON'T think I like the word Nature, it sounds hard and dry and unfriendly; a chilly abstraction instead of the homely familiar assemblage of green fields and hedges and muddy lanes, and cows and donkeys, and rivers that it is intended to represent. However, I suppose until our language grows richer by a more satisfactory term, I must be content to make use of it. Dear mother Nature, after all is said and done, is far pleasanter than most specimens of Human Nature. She has been bespattered with a great deal of ill‐fitting praise and undeserved abuse, for not sympathizing sufficiently with the howlings and throes and yearnings of aspiring and dyspeptic bards, for not howling and yearning with them, but after all she is quite sympathetic enough. She does not indeed disfigure her pretty face page: 200 with crying for us when we die, why should she? She will die herself some day, she knows; but when our own kind cast us out, she takes us to her motherly breast, and wraps her fresh, sweet‐smelling earth‐cloak about us. And then, while we are yet alive, what a friendly companion she is; not too demonstrative, and such a good listener; lets us say what we please, never contradicts us, nor gives us bits of advice, or pieces of her mind.
I pick up my hat (it cost seven pence half‐penny originally, and has been in wear three summers) from off the settle and pass through the swing door and the offices to the kitchen, with the raftered ceiling and huge broad fireplace. A very thin curl of blue smoke is going up its wide throat now; we need but little fire to do our minute portion of cooking. Times are changed since oxen were roasted whole, and old October brewed at Lestrange. When the last Lestrange came of age, I don't think even a chicken was roasted whole in honour of the event; well! we shall be extinct next generation, and time for us!page: 201
"The old order changeth; giving place to new, And God fulfils himself in many ways."
Mrs. Smith is sitting in one sunny window, a little orange tree in a pot that she has raised from a pip stands on the sill; it has shot up very tall and drawn from the heat of the kitchen. Mrs. Smith is shredding beans into a willow pattern dish. Coming events cast their shadows before, and we are evidently going to have beans and bacon for luncheon. Beans cost nothing and bacon not much, so they are a very favourite and frequently recurring mets in our bills of fare. I stand by her for a minute or two in silence; so, finding that, like a ghost, I require to be spoken to first, she lifts up her kind homely face, and says,
"I'm afraid you're a bit lonesome to‐day, my dear, your pa gone and all; I 'ope 'e's got all right to his journey's hend; I don't put much faith in them ould trains, and Miss Dolly is not much company for you, is she?"
"No," say I, taking up one of the empty pods, and looking at the short white down upon it; "but I don't want page: 202 company," and then I leave her with the warm sun streaming in on her little sickly orange tree, with its dusty dark leaves, on her black net cap and faded purple ribbons, and on her pale smooth beans. I pass through the house‐yard, where a scullion "fat and foolish" as the one that was scouring a fish‐kettle at Shandy Hall when the news of Master Bobby's death arrived, is pumping into a bucket, with her great red arms, and where the old tom‐cat is couching on the top of the wall, with his tail curled round his toes, one eye shut, and the other keeping wily watch upon the movements of a very young, naked, and clumsy bird on the beech bough above him.
There was a little book came out some years ago, which I believe had a great run among the spinsters of Britain, entitled "Work: plenty to do, and how to do it," and with an emblematic beehive blazing on its small blue back. I had no work to do, and should not have done it if I had. How would the ingenious author have dealt with me? The gate into the ten acres stands open, and I enter. page: 203 Our hay is not cut yet, it will be a month yet before the grass and the flowers' sweet death make all the land one nosegay; a month before, from my bed‐room window in the early morning, I see the long row of haymakers bending to their scythes; before I see their ladies wearying their strong horn‐hands with tossing the hay in the warm dry air, and raking it together with their big blunt‐toothed rakes through the long summer days.
I made hay houses up to a very very few years ago, went on making them until my commanding height and Dolly's ridicule compelled me to relinquish my unseemly sport; even now, though I have been to a dinner party, and set up a lover, my soul hankers after the forbidden fruit.
Regardless of the injury I am doing to the crop, I throw myself down full length, shaded by a sycamore, which ought not to be in the hedgerow and is. The grasses are so very tall they stand up inches above my prostrate form; I can see the little summer flies walking up the stalks page: 204 of the ladies' smocks, and into the faint sweet flowers.
I clasp my hands at the back of my head and lie very still, so still that a little blue butterfly settles on my breast, and opens and closes its white‐lined wings slowly in the sun; and green dragon flies go whirring confidently past, almost brushing my nose as they sail gauzily by. There is a path through this field, a right of way; in litigation about which, my worthy grandpapa, whose money always burnt a hole in his pocket, spent hundreds fifty years ago, but very few people ever pass along it. Nobody is passing along it now, this midday is as utterly mute as any midnight.
From my low bed I look straight into the sycamore; I see the coy little shadows playing hide and seek; see wonderful quivering lights; see the leaves in all the bravery of their new attire—some have put it on but this morning, and here and there Heaven's blue eyes looking through the green windows. The yellow light and the staring up make my eyes ache at last, so I turn them away and look through the page: 205 grass forest round me, through "the oat grass and the sword grass" off far away to the horizon. I always fancy that the bridge at the World's End, at which the youngest of the three prince brothers in the fairy tale invariably arrives, must be somewhere over there.
"How you startled me!"
"If you please, ma'am" (for Collins, though of indisputable antiquity and not in the best repair, has sufficient remnant of good feeling and resemblance to a decent servant not to say "if you please, Miss"), "if you please, ma'am, there's a genelman in the library, and Miss Lestrange sent me to look for you to come to him."
"A gentleman!" I cry, with as much animation as if I were a second Miranda, whose acquaintance with gentlemen was confined to her papa and Caliban, "and Miss Lestrange sent for me?"
"Yes, 'm; told me to 'unt heverywhere for you."
(Dick, of course, I say to myself. Well done, Dolly, your bark is worse than your bite.)
"And what is the name of the gentleman?" to make assurance doubly sure.
"Well, 'm, I were hout when he come, so Hann went to the door, and she says page: 207 she could not take her hoath, but if she was to die next minute she should say it was Sir Hugh Lankyster."
"Sir Hugh Lancaster!" with infinite disgust; "then why on earth did you not say so before?"
I throw myself down again in a pet.
"You may go; I shan't come."
"But if you please, 'm, Miss Lestrange—"
"What do I care for Miss Lestrange! Say that you could not find me."
I effect a compromise with my dignity, by walking as slowly as I possibly can to page: 208 the house, and entering the library with an air of ostentatious indifference.
"Here you are! That's all right," says Sir Hugh, jumping up, and in that jolly tone which is peculiar to him.
'Jolly' is Sir Hugh's own epithet, as 'venerable' is Bede's, and 'pious' Eneas's. Other people may be, and no doubt are jolly, venerable, and pious, though perhaps not all three at once; but these three men are the representatives par excellence of these qualities. Hugh reminds one somehow of the tone of Dickens's books; there is a broad, healthy geniality about him; he is like a wood fire on a frosty day.
"Did Collins find you?" asks Dolly.
I say, surlily, "Evidently, or I should not be here."
Dolly never wrangles in public: she remembers to laver her linge sale at home, and not give her acquaintance the benefit of it.
"Where were you?"
"In the Ten Acres. I was asleep, and he woke me, and gave me such a start." (pouting).
"Taking a siesta, were you?" says page: 209 Hugh; "best thing to be done to‐day; melting, isn't it? My bailiff, who is very weather‐wise, says we are to have thunder before many days are over."
"I'm sure I hope so," Dolly says, languidly, "for it would cool the air, and prevent our all being reduced to little spots of grease."
"I'm sure I hope not," growl I, contradictiously.
"Why?" asks Hugh, who, I suppose, thinks that I must resemble the rooks, who say nothing without cause (caws).
"Because it frightens me out of my wits. It is not a pleasant idea that you may be alive and well one minute, and as black as a coal and as dead as a door‐nail the next."
Sir Hugh shows all his front teeth—and they really are his own, I do believe, his own by right of birth and not of purchase—in a laugh; he is as easily moved to mirth as a child at a pantomime.
"It doesn't sound very cheerful, certainly, when you put it so forcibly; but it is such an infinitesimal chance—a million to one. You don't mean to say that you page: 210 do really funk—that you are really frightened at thunder. I should have thought that you were afraid of nothing."
"I am, though. I always tie something over my eyes, and go down into the cellar. Don't I, Dolly?"
"I can't say that you are remarkable for physical courage," replies Dolly, with a slight emphasis on the word; "but it's an unnecessary quality in a woman; only makes Jaels, and Judiths, and Madame Rolands of them, doesn't it, Sir Hugh?"
Sir Hugh says "he supposes so," and the electric topic seems exhausted.
Dolly and I are sitting on the sofa, side by side.
"My dear child," says the former—in that maternal, elder sister, guardian angel strain which makes casual old ladycallers remark that "Miss Lestrange is like a mother to her younger sister"—"what have you been doing with yourself? You are covered with bits of grass, and sticks and stones enough to make a rook's nest. She is a regular Madge Wildfire, isn't she?"page: 211
Sir Hugh thinks it would be rude to me to agree with Dolly, and rude to her to disagree with her; so he holds his tongue and looks wise, as if he could say a great deal, but would not. The window is exactly opposite, and Dolly is looking out of it. Suddenly she rises and walks quickly, but without ungraceful hurry, over to it.
"Don't you think it would be pleasenter to have this blind down a bit? The sun does beat so very powerfully on this side of the house in the forenoon;" and, without waiting to collect our suffrages on the subject, she pulls it down. "Do you know, Nelly, poor Sir Hugh has had such a disappointment this morning. He came over to have a talk with papa about those dwarf espaliers. You won't mind trying to be a bad substitute, will you, and taking him to see them?"
"Why can't you go yourself?" ask I, not too civilly.
"I," (with a laugh and a shrug). "What do I know about dwarf espaliers? I'm a regular cockney in all gardening matters."page: 212
"Never mind, it will do just as well any other day. I don't want to bore Miss Eleanor," says Sir Hugh, good‐naturedly, but looking rather vexed, for he is a great and zealous gardener, and no one likes to feel themselves shirked.
I recollect myself, and call to mind how sharply my father took me up for snubbing Sir Hugh the other day.
"Oh, no; I don't mind much," I say, ungraciously enough. "Come along."
"Go through the garden door, it is open," says Dolly, following us out to see that we take her advice.
"You had better come too, Dolly," I say.
Hugh does not back my invitation.
"No, no," (with a sweet benedictory smile, which seems to say, like the 'heavy father' in the fifth act of a melodrama, 'Bless you, my children.') "Two are company and three are none; and, besides, the sun makes my head ache."
"How much better your rhododendrons do than ours," says Sir Hugh, stopping as we pass a great sloping bank of lilac blossoms; "can't make it out."page: 213
"We got plenty of bog earth for them from Brindley Heath," I say, looking down at my boots, and wondering whether my companion has yet discovered the yawning rift in the side of the left one.
"I see your father has let the land up to the very windows."
"Yes, he had to," I say, with a sigh; somehow, I don't much mind Hugh knowing our poverty.
We walk on silently for a minute or two. I think that Hugh is wishing it was not an insult for a rich gentleman to offer a poor gentleman money.
"What a jolly old place it is. I wish I could pick it up, and pop it down half a score miles nearer Wentworth."
"Do you?" in rather a dissentient tone.
"Yes, I do. Why, you see my mother is getting into years. It's a long way for her to come pounding over here. She is not so active as she was once, and I want you and her to know each other better."
Me and Lady Lancaster! why, on earth?" I should not have been more astonished had he expressed a wish to see me and the Duchess of Cambridge on page: 214 terms of intimacy (bien obligé, but I think that that cast iron old lady would hardly be a meet playfellow for me.) Hugh looks straight before him, I think he thinks me inconveniently innocent.
"I wish you'd let us put you and your sister up at Wentworth, while Sir Adrian is away; you think my mother rather alarming, don't you; and she does cut up rough now and then, certainly, but what old woman doesn't."
"I suppose they mostly are rather cross," I say, sedately, "and old men too!" I add, from a feeling of equity to my own sex.
"If you do come, you must come soon," continues Hugh, as we tramp together over the daisies that flourish unspudded upon our sward, "for in a fortnight or three weeks the old lady is off to town!"
"Are you going with her?"
"Oh yes, of course; though there's nothing in life I hate so much. Swelling about St. James's Street, in one's go‐to‐meeting clothes, and being squashed as flat as a pancake on some old dowager's page: 215 stairs, aren't much in my line; I'd a deal sooner be sowing marigolds or planting potatoes; beastly hole, London!"
Sir Hugh is bucolic, you see; he has not Pope's admiration of "the town."
"Dear me, how odd!" exclaim I, with genuine surprise; my views of the Metropolis are formed on the Whittingtonian and streets‐paved‐with‐gold plan. "I should like to go to London of all things; I want to see the Tower, and the British Museum, and the Wax Works."
Sir Hugh bursts out laughing.
"God bless my soul! what an extraordinary notion; you'd hardly find it pay, I think, travelling a hundred and twenty miles to see Rush and Palmer and Townley, staring at you like stuck pigs."
I never have any great opinion of my own sapience, but I perceive that in my last observation I have considerably exceeded my usual standard of silliness, and so I am relieved in finding that we have reached our goal, the potager. Having called our old gardener, who is involuntarily practising the virtue of tem‐ temperance page: 216 perance over a hunk of cheese and an onion, to my assistance, I stand by for about ten minutes, and listen not without amusement to Sir Hugh and him mangling the French words with their clumsy British tongues, while I entertain myself consuming infantine peas. I have embarked on my seventeenth pod, and the others are deep in Bons Chrétiens and Beurrés d'Alemberg, when the sound of footsteps and voices in a duet, approaching, make me turn my head. Hugh does ditto.
"Halloa! here's your sister come out, after all! And who on earth has she got hold of? a good many yards of him anyhow! Why it's M'Gregor, as I'm alive! I did not know that you knew him." Dolly is holding up a little gray parasol, and has tied a small fichu over her head; she has a white gown on, and her modest eyes are cast down; altogether one would say that she was about to be confirmed. M'Gregor comes mowing along beside her; rarely, rarely can a plunger walk.
"Why, M'Gregor, my dear fellow, how are you? I thought you had mizzled from page: 217 these parts a week ago; why have not you been to look us up?"
Major M'Gregor takes his hat off to me; I am in disgrace apparently; not good enough to be shaken hands with.
"I did say something to Coxe about it, but he did not seem to care about lending me a nag, and I'm not particularly partial to pedestrian exercise in the dog days."
"You are amongst the poultry still?"
"Anything up there? calicoes lively?" asks Hugh with delicate persiflage.
"Bless your heart, my good fellow, the army's nowhere, they won't wont look at a soldier! Bulls are the only admirers of scarlet cloth now‐a‐days!"
Hugh turns to take a last fond look at the pear trees.
"What a sun trap this garden is!" says Dolly; her fichu is not a very efficient turban and she has a righteous horror of freckles; "let us go home again now that we have found you, you were so long over your gardening that we thought we must come to see what you were about, though page: 218 we were not quite sure of our reception, were we?"
"This sort of thing," says Dick, laconically pointing to a gooseberry bush beside him.
"Exactly, very graphically put." I am too indignant to deny.
"What's very graphically put?" asks Hugh, rejoining me at this moment, but nobody answers him, and we all walk back to the house; ego et rex meus, or Hugh and I ahead, and the others following at a little distance.
Sir Hugh's mare, bright bay with white stockings, is being walked up and down the gravelled sweep by Collins, for stablemen have we never a one.
"Poor old girl!" says Hugh, going up and patting her sleek flank, "you're not so young as you were, but no more is your master if it comes to that, but you are as handsome as paint, isn't she?"
"He has a very thin tail," say I, and from this remark the amount of my knowledge of horseflesh may be inferred.
The others come up by and bye, and Dolly exclaims, "Oh, Sir Hugh, you'll page: 219 stay luncheon, won't you? It's very shabby of you running away from us in such a hurry."
I stand aghast, with my mouth open, fly‐catching.
"No, thanks, no," replies Hugh, rather hastily. He remembers the shin of mutton, and does not agree with the proverb that "the nearer the bone the sweeter the flesh." "I never touch luncheon, at least not once in a month; spoils one's dinner. Good‐bye, Miss Lestrange; good‐bye, Miss Eleanor; see you again soon," (how cheering!) "good bye, M'Gregor, give us a call, old boy, some day, when you are short of a job."
Off he rides, and we three stand looking after him, admiring the set of his coat behind and his mare's rat‐tail.


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Yamaha DX9
The DX9 was a not-so-special spin off of the aggressively popular DX7. The DX9 wasn't a great synth, it had all of the headache problems associated with its DX7 relative. Difficult programming and limited MIDI implementation to name a few. Still, it is a 4-operator FM synth like the other DX synths and is capable of interesting sounds.
In the mid eighties when the DX9 appeared it was a welcome cheap alternative to the DX7. But current DX7 prices have nearly hurled the DX9 into obsolescence. Also, unlike the DX100 which is famous now for its gritty house-bass sound, the DX9 doesn't have any particular sounds that set it apart from other synths like it.
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Reality Check: Is Budget Bill Political Payback?
Most Unions Would Lose Ability To Collectively Bargain
MADISON, Wis. - Everyone who works for the state or local governments would lose their right to negotiate everything from vacations to sick leave under Gov. Scott Walker's budget repair bill -- but some unions are exempted.
Walker's bill would strip state and local government employees, including teachers, custodians and game wardens, of their ability to collectively bargain everything except their wages.
But the measure carves out a special exemption for local police officers, firefighters and the Wisconsin State Patrol.
Critics said the move amounts to political payback for unions that support Walker and could create a schism between government workers.
During his campaign for governor, Walker was endorsed by the Wisconsin State Troopers, as well as the Milwaukee Police and Firefighters associations and the West Allis Professional Police.
In all, five public employee unions endorsed Walker, and four of the five are completely unharmed by Walker's budget repair bill, WISC-TV reported.
Walker denied that the unions are getting political payback.
"I think that's utterly ridiculous, because if I was, I'd only carve out those areas. The statewide police union, the statewide firefighter union endorsed my opponent. If was rewarding political allies, it would be ridiculous to exempt them if that was the reason," Walker said.
It's true that the statewide unions did endorse Walker's opponent, Democrat Tom Barrett, and almost all police and firefighters are protected from changes under the bill, not just those in Milwaukee, WISC-TV reported.
Even though some unions are unharmed, some oppose Walker's proposal, calling it union-busting.
Some police would lose union rights under the bill, including Capitol and University of Wisconsin police. Walker said their work can be covered in the event of a slowdown, while local protection can't.
When asked why union rights should be any different for police, fire and state inspectors, Walker said that overall there is a different expectation.
"Currently, we've had a long tradition and when it comes to fire and police service in the state of Wisconsin. Statutes are very different when it comes to whole series of rights and responsibilities," Walker said.
According to the Wisconsin Employment Relations Commission, there is no functional difference in labor law compared to other municipal employees, except that police and fire got the right to interest arbitration sooner than other unions did to help avoid strikes, and they do have slightly better benefits because of a dangerous work environment.
Four of the five unions that endorsed Walker are exempted from the changes, but the fifth one isn't, at least not completely.
The International Union of Operating Engineers Local 139 is based in Pewaukee. While the majority of its 9,000 members are private-sector employees, some work for counties and towns.
All week, WISC-TV's "Reality Check" will be getting answers about the governor's proposal and separating fact from fiction. People who have an idea for a Reality Check can e-mail it to firstname.lastname@example.com.
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Serves 4
You haven't had warm apple cider like this before. It's festive and sweet, and the caramel and warm spices make it the perfect dessert cocktail for Thanksgiving, Christmas, or any winter gathering.
In a medium (3-quart) sauce pan, combine the sugar and 2 Tbs. water over medium heat. Whisk until dissolved, about 2 minutes. Increase heat to high, and cook, without stirring, until golden brown, about 6 minutes. Slowly whisk in the cider, (careful it will spatter and the caramel will seize but then smooth out). Add the cinnamon sticks and bring to a boil and cook for 5 minutes. Remove from the heat and stir in the lemon juice.
Meanwhile, in a medium bowl, whisk the heavy cream until medium peaks form. Add 1/4 fl. oz. of the Drambuie and the confectioners' sugar. Continue to whisk until well combined.
Add 3/4 fl. oz. of the vodka and 3/4 fl. oz. of the Drambuie into each of four 8 to 10 oz. mugs. Divide the hot cider between the mugs, and use the cinnamon sticks to stir. Leave the cinnamon sticks in the mugs and dollop with the whipped cream. Sprinkle with a pinch of nutmeg. Serve hot.
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I know someday you'll have a beautiful life
I know you'll be a star
In somebody else's sky
But why
Why can't it be
Why can't it be mine
There must be something
In the way I feel
That she don't want me to feel
The stare she bares cut me
I don't care
You see so what if I bleed
I could never change
Just what I feel
My face will never show
What is not real
A mountain never seems to have
The need to speak
A look that shares so many seek
The sweetest feeling
I got from you
The things I said to you were true
I could never change
Just what I feel
My face will never show
What is not real
I could have lied I'm such a fool
My eyes could never never never
Keep their cool
Showed her and I told her how
She struck me but I'm fricked up now
But now she's gone yes she's gone away
A soulful song
That would not stay
You see she hides 'cause she is scared
But I don't care
I won't be spared
Well I woke up this mornin with the same frustration from situations like these
Got a call about some work from one of them temporary agencies
No high school diploma or any college degrees
I can't enlist but they'll draft me if there's a war overseas
Oh please
Of course I can slice some OZs
But see I'm one of those aspiring MCs
And uh bills are due so at times I'm doubtful and everyone disagrees
But I'd rather struggle on my feet than to live on my knees
So my uniform tight workin all night at Mickey D's
Got about 90 dollars and some change after the government
get they fees
These minimum wages ain't enough to feed my babies
Purposely these limitations on black folks opportunities
So I quit cuz I'm tired of being one of those overworked
underpaid employees
Stop carin at all went on and did a few small burglaries
It seems like my face done turned into forgotten memories
And I ain't gettin away with nothing because I know He always sees
But see right now I need to see how I can get this here dope sold
I done stuffed in my pocket as many rocks as it can hold
They gon get high so I'ma get my money even though it's freezin cold
Now how many times you done heard this story told?
Believe it or not, it's some very intelligent junkies
But dependencies is eatin away at they souls like disease
Anyone can turn into somebody who covets and envies
Unequal economics can easily make you some enemies
And the crime rate never drops to the cops ride around in threes
I knew he would have killed me if I did anything but freeze
They found the rest of the dope in some nearby shrubberies
In a dimlit room being questioned by these authorities
And they gave me some time in correctional facilities
And now my woman's gotta take on a man's responsibilities
The phone don't ring
And the sun refused to shine
Never thought I'd have to pay so dearly
For what was already mine
For such a long, long time
We made mad love
Shadow love
Random love
And abandoned love
Accidentally like a martyr
Since I was no bigger than a weavil
They've been saying I was evil
That if bad was a boot that I'd fit it
That I'm a wicked young lady, but I've been trying hard lately
O frick it, I'm a monster I admit it
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Londoners can put their questions to Deputy Prime Minister and Leader of the Liberal Democrats Nick Clegg next week, in an hour-long discussion in central London.
Iain Dale will host the event on Monday August 8th at 6pm, which will be broadcast live on LBC 97.3.
To apply for a free ticket, fill in the form at the LBC 97.3 website.
Q&A session for London Liberal Democrat members only
And exclusively for London Liberal Democrat members, Nick's taking part in a Q&A session on Wednesday 10 August.
This is a unique chance for London party members to put their questions, queries, suggestions or frustrations directly to Nick.
The event takes place next Wednesday 10 August from 1pm to 2pm, in the David Lloyd George Room at the National Liberal Club, 1 Whitehall Place, London SW1 Nearest tube: Embankment. [map]
For security reasons, please bring your membership card or renewal slip with you and arrive well before the start of the meeting. There is a very pleasant bar serving drinks and snacks in the Club.
Nick wants to meet members from every corner of London, so do encourage members of your local party to attend, even if you are unable to. It will be a great opportunity to find out more about what Liberal Democrats are doing in Government and to voice any concerns.
There is no charge for the event, which is hosted by London Liberal Democrats (Team London). The Club prefers members and visitors to respect a smart dress code.
Tuesday, 2 August 2011
Two chances to meet Nick Clegg in London next week
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"Nick wants to meet members from every corner of London" I do hope that Nick gives members outside of London the same opportunity to have a Q&A with him. Otherwise it just cements the view many have that the Party is too London-centric.
- 2 August 2011 at 14:32
- Helen Duffett said...
You're right Simon - that's why Nick is visiting all the regions to give members all over the country the same opportunity.
- 2 August 2011 at 14:34
Glad to hear that; I look forward to seeing Nick in Essex soon!
- 2 August 2011 at 14:48
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This was just plain weird. It'll take some time to tell, so ignore the following if you despise long, seemingly-useless stories with several asides.
Okay. This afternoon, I looked out my front window. On the porch are some plants, a windchime, and a glider seat. Well, on this glider is... a small hawk. Really. I saw its head move, its wings lightly flapped. I'd loaned my digital camera to my mom who's on a two-week out-of-state vacation (and ironic, that the Go-Gos song "Vacation" just finished on the Totally Awesome 80s Mix Tape CD I'm listening to), so I was thinking of how I could capture this semi-odd occurance of natural-life-meets-urban-life. A-ha! I still have my 35mm camera (remember those, kiddies? ). I looked through the "technology drawer" and found a camera. Didn't quite look like what I'd remembered, but it's been a few years. Do I actually have any film? Yes! One left. I checked; do I have a backup battery in case this one's dead? Also yes! So, I load the film; it won't take a picture, but shows the "E" on the register (for "error" ). Then, I remembered this is the older camera; the "newer" one's on the CD shelf (where I'd picked up this '80s CD! ). But, you can't just pull out film from a camera and re-use it, right? Heck, nothing to lose. FYI... you still can't do that. Anyhow, the hawk's still there, ignorant of my plight. Then, I thought, I can go to the store, just across the street, maybe a half a mile away. But, if I pull the car out of the driveway, it might scare away the bird. So, I grab my house keys, my wallet, a hat, and jogged over there (it's 90 degrees and humid... stupid?). I buy one of the few rolls still left (yes, there's a dust layer on the box), jog back home. I see the trash truck (Fri. is trash pick up day here), starting up the street. No! Don't freak the bird out! I get home. Is the hawk still there? Yes! I load the film (it actually has the name of the grocery store, Stater Bros., printed on the cannister :highquality: ), with no dreaded "E" showing. Alright. I take a picture from inside the house. The flash goes off, but while the hawk looks around, it does fly off. Good. I walk slowly around the house, turn on the camera before I reach the porch so the whirring doesn't frighten it. I crouch around the bushes, deciding how to take this shot. I saw it, it saw me, then flew off. I did get an "action shot" of it flapping away (wow, that's rare ). I noticed that it left some "waste" on the glider, so I took photographic proof of that, too. The hawk did not return, at least not 20 minutes later. And interestingly, several years ago, a crane stopped off in the backyard, probably because it thought the above-ground pool was a lake and stayed overnight, just walking around the deck. Birds of a feather, flock together?
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Darrin, Thanks for posting that Michael Ellis / Leerberg video again! You're right, it's perfect! What a great explanation and a dynamic speaker. The first time you posted it - in a different thread - I watched the first 3 mins and clients walked in and I forgot about it. It is long, but great. Hopefully the people who have questions about "rewards based" training will take 15 minutes to watch it.
Maybe we can kidnap him and make him create a retriever program.
Besides that, as I mentioned, from what I've seen (I don't know the guy), Ellis has no problem with aversive methods of training. He seems really good at early development and setting dogs up so that pressure down the line is minimized though.
I just like the clarity of his explanations, regardless of topic.
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Some new news about the potential Prequel to the LOTR Trilogy have surfaced. The rights issues that prevented 'The Hobbit' from being made in the first place have been worked out. New Line now owns the rights to produce the film. Now the only question is whether or not P.J. still wants to do it. The info is from 'The Green Dragon: Middle-Earth Collectible Heaven' website.
MTFBWY and HH!!In the News: HUGE Small Little Tidbit of Hobbit News
Today we learned something that should not come to a surprise to anyone who has ever visited this site or any other Lord of the Rings collector /movie site. As most of you know (or don't) Peter Jackson intended to make The Hobbit FIRST, but both he and New Line ran into difficulty with licensing issues. PJ plainly stated this in the most recent Fan Club interview. To avoid dragging it out, they decided to pursue the trilogy instead...and I bet we are all glad they did! Now for the new news...according to sources that I WILL NOT name under penalty of death, New Line has worked out the licensing issues for The Hobbit and now OWNS THE RIGHTS. In other words, they will more than likely be making The Hobbit sometime in the near future. As far as Peter Jackson's being director...unknown at this point, but he definitely wants to be involved (director or producer?). Stay tuned for more details as we learn more.
SPECIAL NOTE: Neither Toybiz, nor any other licenses collectible producer for the New Line Movies has rights to The Hobbit...so it will be ANOTHER bidding war for toys, and collectibles alike if The Hobbit comes to pass. Hope and pray that Toybiz, Sideshow, Play Along, etc. retain the licenses and we get the appropriate scale figures/toys from The Hobbit to go along with their trilogy line. Lets just hope we get a Deluxe SMAUG!
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Any Handler (Pro-Amateur) can Run 5-8 dogs period, it makes those that run in mass, have to pick the best dogs to be that 5-8, any trip divided btw 5-8 owners is completely doable, heck an Amateur does it with no clients for 1-2 dogs. This eliminates the 20-30 dogs handlers, who are often times to busy to help at a stake. Easy quick, less dogs, the Amateur is not affected, there's still a place for the Pro, and for those who want to run more dogs, it brings in other handlers, who can help at the event, air-run dogs on the same truck, and no-one (contestants, judges, setup workers) is waiting for any single handler (pre-line prep. honor situation, retrieving-airing dogs, etc.).
Don't hold back my 2-3 year old MH pocket rocket, she has just as much chance as any, and probably a lot more than some. I run my own dogs & take care of all my own expenses. I don't pony up an entry fee-travel, for a dog without a pretty good shot.


text: blog postsHomecoming Weekend a SuccessOct 10, 2011 2:30 pm by Brian PreciousShare on FacebookTweetEmailImagesOn Friday, September 30th, the MBA alumni committee sponsored a golf tournament and professional development event at Stone Creek Golf Course in Urbana. The winning team consisted of alumni Jasen Schrock (MBA '09) and Matt Arient (MBA '08) along with Associate Director of Admissions Ben Moreland. These golfing gurus ended up with a fantastic score of 5 under par. After the tournament, students, faculty and alumni mingled during a cocktail hour and throughout dinner. According to second-year MBA student Tim Kingery, "This event was a fantastic opportunity to catch up with several of the alumni I met at last year's banquet. Events like these demonstrate the strength and diversity of the Illinois alumni network."After dinner, Professor Greg Northcraft gave an interesting talk on Salary Negotiations in a Tough Economy. Professor Northcraft encouraged attendees to make themselves indispensible, especially in difficult economic times. By taking on difficult or unpopular tasks, employees may find themselves less susceptible to layoffs and having greater leverage in salary and promotion discussions. Many of the students in attendance found Professor Northcraft's advice timely as they seek full-time employment opportunities. Events like this are great reminders of the strength of the Illinois MBA alumni network. Currently, there are about 7,500 Illinois MBA alumni living in 63 countries throughout the world. Speaking of strength, the Fighting Illini rallied to top Northwestern 38-35 in a thrilling game the next day. Go Illini!stats336 Views 0 Comments additional actions Add Comment


text: Speaking as someone who has had a terrible start to MoP raiding forming a new team isnt easy it takes time. You cant expect to perform at a stellar level when you have just made a raid team its like pugging if you arent familiar with each other. My guild formed 25man hc at the start of ToT and i can safely say we have like 8 original raid members left to this day. You cant blame blizzard for nerfing things so far into SoO. While its not great for the guild that kill it post nerf i guar(dam)ntee you that you will find it hard regardless of nerfs. No boss will fall over the second you enter because its been slightly nerfed. Im sure you will still wipe to belt issues on siege like 30-40 times and still lose someone to paragons for a mechanic which hasnt been nerfed. Remember blizzard didnt nerf the fights into the ground they just made it slightly easier, its still the last 3 bosses of lets face it a long raid tier (14 bosses). Since this is the last raid of the expac traditionally it will get nerfed over time so more and more players will see the end game hc fights. Tbh i dont remember a time where gear has been an issue this entire expansion. Not once have we wiped to enrage (well nourshen hc and thats because of the mechanic in itself) and the whole let people get gear to natural nerf argument is redundant because no amount of gear is going to save you from dying to chomp or dying on the belt. Yes its nerfed, yes you cant kill it non nerfed anymore oh well keep playing you will still enjoy it and tbh no one cares if you killed it prenerf unless you are some super high end world 100 guild and even then saying that they wouldnt be caught dead killing a boss post nerf so meh enjoy your new guild and just have fun build a stable team and look to WoD to cement your name in wow history (bla bla inspirational speach crap).


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Day 1 – Warm-up with stretches. Perform unweighted "air" squats and standing dumbbell presses. To do a standing dumbbell press, hold a light dumbbell in each hand at shoulder height, and press both simultaneously straight up overhead. – Do squats. Perform three sets of five repetitions each with a weight that allows you to complete all sets and reps. Start by holding a dumbbell at shoulder height in each hand, held, instead of a barbell, so you can add weight in small increments and learn proper form (the weight of the dumbbell will move naturally in a straight up-and-down path – essential to good squatting technique). Add 2.5 to five pounds each week if you're comfortable and can maintain proper form. – Bench press. Follow the same protocol for squats, with three sets of five reps each. Start by holding a dumbbell in each hand to develop shoulder mobility before progressing to a barbell. Add one to two pounds each week if you're comfortable and can maintain proper form.
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text: I have a john boat at the kennel I found in the junkyard. I use it to teach the dogs about boats. At first I have them just get in with me. Sometimes they are reluctant and I have to toss a bird in the boat. After they are comfortable with getting in and out of the boat, I run a setup from the boat. I keep the marks close at first. These will save you a lot of headaches by trying to get a stubborn dog in the duck boat in the dark and when the boat is bouncing up and down in the water. See video clip of Sam. In his third month of the TRT program.


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My young lab, although healthy, does not heal well from cuts. Cuts don't scab over well and take a very long time to heal leaving her more open to infection and keeping us out of training or hunting for longer periods of time. My experience is based on her spay surgery, some stitches from taking a frozen stick to the chest during training (scared the crap out me) and a couple of small cuts from hunting. Have any of yall found any product or do anything which helps cuts scab over or heal faster?
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What did you think of Attack Of The Clones?
Discuss it here but please refrain from posting spoilers.
Loved it!
Thought it was "ok".
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Discuss it here but please refrain from posting spoilers.
I feel a great disturbance in the Force.
I liked it, it was different...
Everyone Expects ANH replica...
But this is different... I saw it like an Adventure epic combined...
I gave it a 9/10... I'm taking 1 point off cause Anakin whined too match at one stage... brat... but then again sometimes brats do become mass-murderers... just joking...
PS, I loved Empire Strikes Back, Gladiator and Pearl Habour and did'nt like TPM... just an example of my tastes in movies...
I can't say; I haven't had the pleasure of seeing a sneak preview and I refuse to partake in the pirate copies on the internet. A TRUE SW fan would not screw Lucas like that (the pirating part, of course).
And to make a point which some may or may not like... to those who *****ed about EPI and who will be *****ing about EP2... George came up with the idea for SW... if he never made the movies, we would never be here. The story is created by HIM and turned into a movie for US. Not created by US and made into a movie by him.
So stop *****ing about how he 'screwed this and that up'. He never did nor will he screw anything up in the movies since all of it came from him in the first place.
He may have done things that some didn't like and I'm sure he will do things in EP2 that more won't like, but remember... most of us were 5 years old when we saw EP4 - if we saw it for the first time today, I doubt it would have the impact on us as it has having been with us from such a young age - an age where imagination rules and we don't have any inclination of how soem CG looks bad or the acting is bad.
I've used this thread to post my first forum post at SSG. I was very lucky and scored tickets to see AOTC on Saturday the 11th; one day before the official Midwest charity premiere! I want to give hope to the Star Wars fans out there who have read some poo-poo reviews of the new flick. As a fan since I saw the first movie at seven years of age, hopefully you can identify with my opinion better than some of the snob critics out there.
I have to say, this is the most fun I've had at a movie in my recent memory (OK, South Park, Bigger, Longer, and Un-Cut comes close). I dare to say, it is the best of the five movies so far. Empire may have it beat from a dialogue and plot point of view, but for everything we see a Star Wars movie for, this is the best!
The plusses:
1.) Visuals are fantastic from the opening shots on. Its a nice long scene of Padme's ship landing through the clouds of Coruscant, and it's beautiful. The Coruscant chase is breathtaking, and the battle of Geonosis will make you want a cigarette when its over.
2.) Palpatine's manipulations are sooooo evil.
3.) Jar Jar is not the comic relief any longer. He does serve the plot in a very important way, however.
4.) C-3PO and R2-D2 are now the comic relief again, as they should be. I never was a huge fan of threepio, but he had me cracking up in this one. He delivers two of the worst puns in movie history and I loved them! They were so out of place it was great!
5.) Padme is quite hot.
6.) Dexter Jettster is a great new character. Iwhish there was more of him.
7.) The clone factory is quite cool, as are the Kaminoians who run it.
8.) Daniel Logan does a great job as Boba Fett. Way better than any of the child actors in TPM. He has a wonderful blend of mischief and sullennes. I wanted more of him too.
9.) The moment when Anakin steps over that line into the dark side is great! You finally see the Darth in him. And the musicthat accompanies all this is wonderfully foreshadowing.
10.) Speaking of music, the score is way better than TPM (with the exception of "Duel Of The Fates", which rocks!)
11.) The arena battle and the subsequent battle of Geonosis is about the coolest thing ever put on film.
12.) Christopher Lee is great as Count Dooku. Wonderfully decieving and evil.
13.) Yoda Yoda Yoda Yoda Yoda Yoda Yoda. He is the star of this film. You may actually pass out from delight when you see him confront Dooku
14.) Even though I was naughty and read many spoilers, including a full plot synopsis. There were many surprises that we Star Wars fans will go nuts over.
The minusses:
1.) Some of the dialogue is hokey. Who cares?! Let's stop pretending the first trilogy was Shakespeare.
2.) There is one bad CG effect of Anakin falling off the back of a (I think) nuna on Naboo. And it does look bad.
3.) The love affair seems a little forced at times. I'm still not sure when it was that Padme crossed over into falling for Anakin. I guess I'll have to see it again
4.) Anakin is a total brat, but isn't he supposed to be? Some may be bugged by his whining. Again, who cares?!
Overall, I'd give the first half of the film an 8 out of 10 and the second half a 10 out of ten. See this movie! Don't listen to the snobs who are judging this on the same criteria they would judge a Shakespeare In Love or Out Of Africa. This is one fun movie!
I voted loved it. I havn't seen the movie yet but I read the book and saw about ten minutes of it a Celebration II. Even though it's a day too early to make this decision, from what I read and seen from trailers and at Celebration II it is a great movie. In about a week or two people will be saying Spider Who?
But I was going to Tosche Station to pick up some Star Wars figures!!!
Oh you'd probably be surprised by how many people have already seen it. I have to admit I was a somewhat guilty party to the bootleg ( did not belong to me, but watched most of it nonetheless). But, seeing it the way it was intended has since been corrected. The best way I (and everyone else who saw it with me) can describe it is INTENSE. The first 30 minutes of EP2 put ALL of EP1 to shame. It is my second favorite film next to ESB. I do think the situation with C-3PO on Geonosis is a little over the top, however. That's my only complaint though. Go see this movie as soon as you can. You won't regret it.
Crack a Window, will ya?? HaHa!
For the record, I wangled myself into a press viewing for reviewers...
I'm sure this is how some people have seen it early...
I haven't seen it, but still voted " Loved it!" cause I will love it.
I get to see it for free tomorrow! WOOHOO!
I loved it!
I managed to see it 4 times before the premiere (I work for a theater that's getting 6 prints)
and with each time it got better!
Can't saw enough good things about it.
It does raise some interesting plot points for E3.
CRAZY! unfortunately, i don't know how to express how excited I am at the results without resorting to a string of incoherent expletives. i will just say that if you thought Sam Jackson was tough as shaft, you ain't seen a thing!
brilliant return to form after phatom menace. couldn't be happier with it.


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By Tiernan Ray
Re/Code columnist and gadget guru Walt Mossberg took to CNBC's "Squawk Alley" this morning with Carlos Quintanilla and Jon Fortt to discuss a piece he wrote online yesterday defending the tablet market.
In that column, Mossberg referred to skepticism about tablets, writing "The tablet is doomed. It was a fad. Who needs one anyway?"
Mossberg, who interviewed Apple (AAPL) CEO Tim Cook for his column, thinks everyone could use one, telling Quintanilla and Forte that "It's a valuable produt to own for a lot of things, and I find myself using my laptop about half as much since I have an iPad."
As Fortt pressed Mossberg about declining sales of tablets, noting that the iPhone never had the same slump in sales as has the iPad, Mossberg replied that the sales trends may simply mean tablets are settling into a four-year replacement cycle, meaning that the market overall won't grow as fast as some contend.
But Mossberg notes iPad is still a $6 billion business for Apple, and quoted Cook as saying "many people are still buying an iPad."
The discussion comes as Bloomberg yesterday reported Apple is preparing to unveil a larger 12.9-inch iPad early next year.


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Delisi Araceli Duarte
Miss Latina World has full calendar at UTSA
By Lynn Gosnell
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(May 7, 2009)--Actress... Model... UTSA student... Delisi Araceli Duarte, 24, wears many hats, or perhaps more accurately... crowns. Duarte also is the reigning Miss Latina World and former Miss Latina Mexico.
Today's headlines
- La Prensa Foundation is newest member of UTSA Lone Star Society
- UTSA alumna Jordan Kaufmann wins $50K for new stent-graft start-up
- UTSA begins new way-finding sign installation this summer at Main Campus
- USA Today: UTSA long jumper Tyler Williamson rescues three-year-old boy
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And, she is a hometown girl who settled (for now) in San Antonio after pursuing an acting and modeling career in Los Angeles and New York directly after high school. Since January, Duarte has been pursuing another dream -- earning a college degree.
Did we mention that she also works full-time in her father's law firm? The hard-working freshman maintains a full calendar of work, classes and appearances at nonprofits and events as part of her Miss Latina World duties. With her crown and sash, the 5-foot 7-inch beauty queen makes quite a splash, especially with young girls.
"I'm a role model for them," said Duarte, a trained actor and model. "I've known since kindergarten that I wanted to be an actress," said Duarte, who sounds poised and down-to-earth in an interview. She signed with a modeling and acting agency at age 14 and sang and danced in musicals at Sandra Day O'Connor High School in San Antonio. In Duarte's senior year, it was her father who pointed out an ad for the American Academy of Dramatic Arts -- with its illustrious photos of alumni -- in the local paper. Her mother drove her to the audition in Houston.
"One week after I walked the stage for my high school diploma, I packed my bags and moved to Los Angeles," said Duarte. There, she pursued her acting studies while holding down a "regular" job. After graduation in 2004, she remained in L.A., getting small acting gigs in TV ("That's So Raven," for example) and modeling at fashion shows.
In 2006, Duarte moved to New York, where she quickly discovered that her frame ("I'm Hispanic, and I have curves!") would not find a home on a traditional runway with its willowy models. She tried breaking into the "Law and Order" television franchise, but without much luck there or in the theater, she decided to head home."
"I came back to San Antonio to get grounded," Duarte says. "I needed to reestablish who I was and where I was going." Duarte had also called off an engagement, and she longed for her family. But, if she thought moving back home would mean slowing down -- she was wrong.
"I have never been so busy in my life! I am constantly working here," she said. Asked if her fellow students know -- or care -- about her title, Duarte mentions that her beauty queen status was revealed after she wrote a paper for a composition class. But, no one has a clue in her political science class. It will soon be a moot point, as on June 14, 2009, Duarte will pass her crown to another young woman.
Duarte looks forward to being able to take more classes and pursue a major in communications. She already has made numerous appearances on local TV programs as Miss Latina World, getting to know a number of local media professionals.
So, when the news broke recently about Miss California's answer to a question about gay marriage, the media were on the phone to Duarte asking for her reaction. Her answer was tactful. "I just said, 'You have to think about who you represent.'"
Duarte is still in demand for acting and modeling jobs, maintaining an active relationship with talent agencies. She doesn't rule out a future involving acting, citing Selma Hayak and Eva Mendes as idols. In the meantime, Duarte has finals coming up... and a crown and sash to don, for a little while longer.


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Good effort against tough team
Too bad you can't block shots in a Shootout.
The Canadiens set a record with 38 blocks through regulation and five minutes of Overtime. But the Blues won 3-2.
Outhit and outplayed through the first period, the Canadiens fell behind 1-0 on Alexander Steen's 13th goal of the season.
Second period goals by Rene Bourque (his fifth) and rookie Michaël Bournival sent the Canadiens into an unlikely lead.
It lasted 11;31 into the third period. A long shot ticked off a few bodies before Chris Stewart tipped it past Carey Price for his second goal of the season.
The Canadiens had a chance to win late, but Tomas Plekanec missed a penalty shot awarded after David Backes knocked the St. Louis net off its moorings.
Overtime was scoreless, although the visitors had the better chances.
T.J. Oshie scored the only goal St. Louis would need in he Shootout, as Alex Galchenyuk, Brendan Gallagher and Max Pacioretty were stopped by Jaro Halak.
First Shootout of the season
Five minutes of scoreless OT, with St. Louis having most of the possession.
Galchenyuk: Save
Oshie: Shelf goal
Gallagher: Easy save
Steen: Save
Pacioretty: Wide
Blues tie it
A weird shot riccheted off several players before Chris Stewart tipped it behind Carey Price.
With less than a minute left, the Canadiens were awarded a penalty shot ... but Tomas Plekanec shot high. First OT of the season
Canadiens strike back
Outplayed badly in the first period but trailing only 1-0, the Canadiens got goals from Rene Bourque (his fifth) and rookie Michaël Bournival (fourth) to take an unlikely lead.
Shots in the period were 9-9.
The Canadiens hav blocked 24 shots and their penalty-kill is perfect on the night.
Four Blues have blocked shots, 13 Canadiens ... led by Douglas Murray with six.
The Bell Centre held its collective breath when P.K. Subban went to the Canadiens dressing room with what appeared to be a wrist injury.
But he returned shortly after.
Blues strike early
The game was less than three minutes old when St. Louis captain David Backes bodied Douglas Murray off the puck behind the Canadiens net and fed a pass to Alexander Steen, alone in front.
Steen promptly scored his 13th of the young season, and for a while it looked like St. Louis would run the Canadiens out of the Bell Centre.
The home side didn't register a shot on Jaro Halak until the game was almost nine minutes old.
But the Canadiens weathered the early storm, including three penalty kills.
Shot tally was 9-7.
Looking to bounce back
Your Montreal Canadiens ride their two-game losing streak into a tough challenge.
St. Louis has an 8-2-2 record and a plus-15 goal differential. The Blues are 6-2-2 in their last 10 games.
The Canadiens are 8-7 and have scored 10 more goals than they've allowed. They are 5-5 over a 10-game span.
Both teams have shuffled their forward lines.
St. Louis coach Ken Hitchcock has broken up the high-scoring line of Alexander Steen, David Backes and T.J. Oshie. Chris Stewart will join Backes and Steen, while Oshie plays with Derek Roy and Vladimir Sobotka.
With David Desharnais a healthy scratch, Michel Therrien will use Alex Galchenyuk at centre between Max Pacioretty and Brendan Gallagher. Lars Eller – whom the Canadiens obtained in the trade that sent Jaro Halak to St. Louis – will centre Rene Bourque and Louis Leblanc. And Hamilton call-up Martin St. Pierre will play with Ryan White and George Parros. The Tomas Plekanec line, with Brian Gionta and Michaël Bournival, remains intact.
• Pre-game reading: Stephen Harper's hockey book
• Pre-game giggling: MT takes his boys for a spin


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McDonagh's cerebral book is regarded as the cornerstone of all Argento studies, and with the latest edition the writer brings everything bang up to date as she takes a look at Argento's recent output from The Stendhal Syndrome onwards. Ms McDonagh was kind enough to have a quick chat with me about the new edition of Broken Mirrors/Broken Minds, why she admires Argento's work so much and why she believes he has made such an impact in the horror genre...
Why do you admire the films of Dario Argento so much? What is it about his work that speaks to you most?
It was the combination of incredible images and seductive sound that first drew me to Argento's movies. They were so lush and seductive and allusive that most American horror movies of the 1970s paled by comparison.
Once I discovered Argento I began searching out other European thrillers and horror movies, and discovered that they came from a completely different cultural notion of horror: They may have been sensationalistic and shocking, but they were aesthetically rooted in hundreds of years of literature and sculpture and painting… They blew my mind and sent me scurrying to explore the sources.
What made you decide to base your thesis on Argento – and then expand it into a book?
When I started thinking seriously about my masters' thesis, I knew two things: That I wanted to write about a horror film or filmmaker and that I didn't want to be backed into a narrowly defined corner where I'd have to dissect some scrap of minutia missed by earlier generations of writers who took the genre seriously enough to devote serious thought to its history, influences and structure.
A friend suggested Argento and it was a "voila" moment: Although there were lots of interviews, reviews and articles about the filmmaker and his films in genre publications, no one had written a serious, rigorously analytical academic study of his work as a whole. And Argento's movies leant themselves to such scrutiny: They were smart, allusive and informed by centuries of literature, painting, sculpture and movies.
My thesis became a book because an English archivist named Anthony Blampied began writing to me after a chapter was published in an academic journal called Film/Psychology Review. At first he just sent me Argento-related clippings from European magazines, but after about a year he called me and said it had always been his dream to start an independent press and would love to make Broken Mirrors/Broken Minds its first title.
I think I said something like, "Sure… why don't you give me a call when you get that pulled together." And much to my surprise, he did. Thank you Anthony! He went on to publish a number of fine books under the Sun Tavern Fields imprint, including David McGillivray's Doing Rude Things: A History of the British Sex Film and David Greenberger's Tell Me If I've Stopped: Voices from the "Duplex Planet".
Why choose now to publish an updated edition?
The first version of Broken Mirrors/Broken Minds – my Columbia University MFA thesis -- was written in 1985; the first edition of the book published in 1990 and the second came out in 1995, when Argento was 55. No longer a bright young thing, but far from packing in; Argento has since then directed seven features – The Stendhal Syndrome, The Phantom of the Opera, Sleepless, The Card Player, Do You Like Hitchcock?; made for Italian TV, Mother of Tears and Giallo – as well as two episodes of the made-for-cable Masters of Horror series, Jenifer and Pelts. That's a lot of catching up. This new edition also gave me the opportunity to correct errors – some large and some small – that had made it through the first two editions.
As a graduate student you co-founded and edited Columbia Film Review. How did you go about this?
My friend Robert Lang, who had also come to Columbia's Graduate School of the Arts by way of Hunter College (CUNY), and I were shocked that there was no equivalent of Columbia Journalism Review in the film department. So we wrote a proposal to start one and it was accepted; it was even approved as a work-study project, which was no small thing for students paying our own way through graduate school.
When did you decide that you wanted to work in film theory/criticism? Has it been a difficult path for you?
From the time I was a young teenager I loved movies, especially horror movies, and I was fascinated both by the practical history of horror filmmaking and by various theoretical approaches to the cinefantastique. Once I graduated from high school, I always had full time or close-to full time jobs, so I felt entitled to pursue whatever course of study I chose. I began publishing when I was an undergraduate; when I finished graduate school and was only working a 40+ hour a week public relations job and writing movie reviews and articles on the side, I felt as though I was on vacation.
Was it hard? I guess, but I was young. Now, after spending 13 years as TVGuide.com's senior movies editor and chief reviewer, I find myself in an environment in which print outlets are dying daily and online outlets don't see the value in paying an experienced, educated critic when they can syndicate reviews – their thinking is that users don't care and apparently they're right. That's hard.
When you sit down to watch a film, can you choose to 'just watch' it, or are you constantly 'reading', analysing and dissecting?
I never just watch, but I don't see that as a bad thing; to me, part of the pleasure of watching a movie or reading a book is engaging with it.
How do you usually approach a film in order to write about it?
I just watch and respond; at this point I've been seeing movies, reading books, looking at paintings and pieces of sculpture, attending dance pieces, exploring city streets and who knows what else for more than four decades, and I have the kind of mind that thrills to connections. I get a rush like an electric shock when I see what two apparently disparate things have in common.
Its been 25 years since you started the initial research that would become your Columbia University master's thesis – do you think film studies and academic approaches to film criticism have changed much over the years – particularly in relation to horror cinema?
I think academic film writing has fallen down a rabbit hole of self-referential irrelevance.
There's been some debate recently about the 'art' of film criticism. In the days before the internet, film viewers may have relied on a small number of 'established' critics' opinions when deciding what to watch. Now anyone can share their opinions on the latest films through blogging, twitter, Facebook etc. Do you think the 'art' of film criticism – in the traditional sense - is dying out?
I hope traditional film criticism isn't dying, but right now it's seriously undervalued. The fact that movies are a popular medium has led to the fallacious notion that everyone's opinion carries equal weight. But if I want to start exploring, let's say, East German Westerns, I want to read reviews and essays by writers who can put the novels of Karl May and the movies they inspired into a social, political and historical context - I want to learn from someone who knows more than I do.
Was it difficult going back to Broken Mirrors/Broken Minds – did you have to re-watch earlier Argento films and re-visit the last edition to pick up your train of thought – so to speak?
It wasn't hard at all. Argento's best films are as audacious and astonishing as they were thirty plus years ago. Watching Anchor Bay's stunning DVD of Suspiria triggered a positively Proustian flashback to seeing it at the once-grand Victoria Theatre on 46th Street and Broadway.
How did you prepare yourself to tackle Argento's recent material for the new edition of Broken Mirrors/Broken Minds?
I didn't. I just took the DVDs off the shelf and watched them. I hadn't seen most of them since their first theatrical or video/DVD releases, so while they weren't new to me, they also weren't stale. And because some time had passed, I was able to see all of them with fresh eyes.
What do you think of Argento's recent work – the films you've covered in the new edition such as Mother of Tears, The Card Player etc?
Sadly, I feel that my thesis coincided with the last hurrah of Argento's great and innovative work, with the exception of the often underrated The Stendhal Syndrome.
I must confess that I didn't much care for Stendhal when I first saw it - though I was stunned by Asia Argento's performance from the start - but I've come to appreciate the sly, subtle exploration/subversion of Hitchcockian tropes that underlie its superficial coarseness and brutality.
What is your take on the allegations of misogyny so often directed at him?
I'm over it. Many genre conventions are rooted in an atavistic fear of women, but that doesn't make individual filmmakers misogynists.
Why do you think Argento still has such a devoted following – even though many critics and fans have not shown much appreciation for his recent output?
Because Argento's best movies are extraordinary. Orson Welles never made another movie as breathtaking as Citizen Kane, but you know what? One Citizen Kane buys you a lifetime pass to fuss and dither and self-sabotage and not live up to your potential, because you've made a movie that will be knocking people's socks off long after you've crumbled to dust.
And Argento made more than one: For my money, Deep Red, Suspiria, Tenebrae and Opera are all breathtaking.
How do you see Argento fitting in with contemporary thriller/horror filmmakers? Is he still 'relevant'?
Argento is absolutely relevant: I see his influence, and the influence of his influences, everywhere.
What is it about horror cinema that appeals to you so much?
For me, horror movies are like dreams, and dreams tap into a deep, primal part of the mind.
Of all your own writings throughout the years, which has proved most compelling to research?
I couldn't say – it's been my experience that, as soon as I start to really dig into something, it always turns out to be fascinating.
What is next for you – any other forthcoming projects you're working on?
Right now I'm focused on promoting the new edition of Broken Mirrors/Broken Minds. After that, I have two projects I want to pursue, and neither involves horror… More on them as they develop!
The new edition of Broken Mirrors/Broken Minds: The Dark Dreams of Dario Argento is out now!
For more information on the latest edition, go here.
Feel free to visit Maitland's website Flick Chick and indeed, why not drop by and say 'hi' on Facebook.


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Posted October 18, 2004; 05:30 p.m.
"Electronic Election Systems: E-voting Security and Paper Trails" is the title of a presentation set for noon Wednesday, Oct. 27, in Dodds Auditorium, Robertson Hall.
Michelle Mulder, counsel to Congressman Rush Holt, will speak. An expert on voter verification, she helped draft the Voter Confidence and Increased Accessibility Act of 2003. She will address many of the problems and solutions to ensuring that every vote counts.
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In the week from the 25th to the 29th of August the main European stock markets have showed a positive trend (Milan +2.7%, Frankfurt +1.4%, Paris +3.0%, Madrid +2.2%).
Investors reacted positively to the Mario Draghi speech of the 22nd of August about a possible BCE decision of launching a quantitative easing policy, similar to the USA one. The latter is aimed at stimulating the European economy which is currently at risk of stagnation. The second quarter GDP data of the three main countries are not positive, compared to the previous ones, Germany -0.2%, France +0.0% and Italy -0.2% (technically in recession being the second negative quarter consecutive).
Pirelli shares close the week at 11.63 (+1,8%) with average volumes of 1.8 million shares per day (last 3 month average: 2.1) outperforming European peers (Continental -0.5%, Michelin +2.0% and Nokian -3.7%)
Consensus target stands at 12.93 €/share with 86% of analysts advising to Buy or Hold the shares.
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Spent last night messing around with Python distutils on Macintosh. Learned more than I ever wanted to about path name conventions on the Mac, but overcame some of the problems there. Wrote a new version of the path normalisation routines which should return consistent results.
Current state of distutils on the Mac is that, with a bit of tweaking, it can do standard installs. C Compiler support needs serious work, though.


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Added self extraction for the jar file containing BIM Standard Edition. Execute the jar file and the contents will be extracted to the folder that contains the jar.
New jar URL: http://us.f1.yahoofs.com/users/a70fe662/bc/StandardBase.jar? bcEvcV8AjQxAG7uE
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BlueSnags what did they do ? That store is not that far from my house and it used to be OK.
BlueSnags what did they do ? That store is not that far from my house and it used to be OK.
I remember one time, I called Guest Services at that store and asked about the Zev Snowspeeder. They said they had them in the back and would put one at Guest Services for me. So I drove all the way there from downtown LA (where I used to work) and went to Guest Services to get it and what do they say? "Oh, sorry - we can't give you one. They can't be sold until so and so date - two weeks from now." So I go, "Well, I just drove all the way down here after you said you were holding one for me. Isn't there anything you can do?" Hahaa, next thing I know this hideous troll comes out of the back room (I'm guessing one of the Toy guys): "Where did you get that item number? Where did you get it from? You shouldn't be here asking for that item, it's not released yet, blah blah blah." I actually thought this guy was trying to intimidate me, which is pretty funny in and of itself. I ended up just driving to Burbank Target, using the DPCI there and getting one about 20 min later. So, a few days later, I read a report that the Snowspeeders were out on the shelf at Eagle Rock Target and a few Scummers scored them from there.
Another buddy of mine, Turbowars, had a similar situation happen there a few weeks ago. He called about an item, was told they have it, and then when he got there, was told "Oh, sorry - we can't sell it to you."
I have since renamed Eagle Rock Target "Inbreds Rock Target."
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Wow, I see your point, would there lack of intelligence go along with the fact that you see people on ebay with cases of order 66. How do they do it? Are people selling out the back of Target. If the red shirts wont help polite people that are asking them to do there jobs why do they they help money hungry resellers.
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I got a set of Order 66 this morning. Was going to stash another set but someone else showed up after I had an employee pull a case. With the exception of wanting one more Marine and perhaps one more Utapau driver, I'm set. First Target I went to showed they had them, but a manager said they were "in transit" at a nearby warehouse. Maybe it's true, maybe not; he was polite, I wasn't going to call him a liar.
I opened what I got but kept the package intact, which is easy to do. In fact, it's easy to re-display them in the package.
All in all, the actual clones are a little overrated. Only the Galactic Marine stands out to me as outstanding. Tire isn't so hot, and the Kashyyk trooper is pretty damned terrible. Looks like a half-assed custom.
As far as Target customer service, I have to say most of my contact with the "red shirts" is pretty pleasant. I'm rarely straight out shot down. Then again, I don't ask them to pull stuff for me all the time, so maybe that's why my batting average is fairly high.
My impression of Target employees is that they're kind of like collectors or anybody else--some are nice, and some are a-holes. They may not be the highest achievers in society, but that just makes them like most other people.
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There was a time when Smeagol Rock Target was much friendlier...
last year, they pulled 2 Skirmish in the Senate packs for me without any hassle and as recently as January, they pulled out an Ilum pack for me. however, just yesterday when inquiring about Order 66 packs, "none were in stock. no stores in LA have them".
i didn't even want to ask this morning at another store...i would like a few packs but if i don't get 'em i don't get 'em.
I'm selling a few items, and thought I'd offer them up here before they go on the Bay.
Loose Darth Vader Titanium
Loose Boba Fett Titanium
Loose Shocktrooper Unleashed (the big one, not the B.P.)
I'm willing to trade for Appo, Galactic Marine, or a Seleucami BP.
i picked up a Felucia pack on clearance for $13.98. i stashed this set weeks ago but no one ever claimed it so i bought it today.
one more thing about Smeagol Rock Target, never ever ever ask the electronics employees to look up DCPI's for you. there's one dude in particular who's a real jerk
Funny - I just did the same thing today. I had stashed a Felucia BP stashed over at Pasadena Target a few months ago for a SSGer, but they never claimed it. Went back today and it was still there! Unbelievable. The 3 comic packs were stashed as well, so I bought them too (for $7 each).
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