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what is everyone using to color the area around the blast marks and scratches on the armor. It looks kind of tan or almond color to me?
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what is everyone using to color the area around the blast marks and scratches on the armor. It looks kind of tan or almond color to me?
Fettpride wrote:Yep, the lighter yellow is a custom. But it's a real easy one. It's Testor Acryl, Flat Tan, with Testors Acryl Flat White, and a touch of Testors Acryl Flat Yellow. Don't remember the EXACT ratio unfortuntaley, I'm bad about that. But I'm sure you can match it from the pics.
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This place is so cool!!!
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I took some black acrylic paint, put it on my finger and rubbed it into the blast areas. I didn't make it too dark, just enough to look chared.
On the MOM costume, you can see a sort of tan/yellow outline on the blast marks. Do you know what color was used?
Fettpride used Testor's Zinc Chromate Enamel (the small glass bottles that you get at model shops). His looked so good that I went out and bought some myself. I'm just waiting on my armor to arrive so I can get to work.
::Edit:: While you're there, pick up a can or two of the Testor's Dull Cote spray paint/sealer to knock the shine off your armor and protect that finish.
I used Testor's Yellow Zinc Chromate for the primer color on the chest pieces and the codpiece. The primer color on the shoulders and knees (since they're already yellow) is more of a light tan color. The Yellow Zinc Chromate really doesn't stand out against the yellow of the armor. I used Krylon "Almond" on my shoulders, and will use it again when I get the knees. It's darn close. You can also custom-mix yellow, tan, and white to get the desired look. :)
As far as "carbon scoring" marks go, I used Mars Black acrylic paint, airbrushed, on most everything. I then go over it with charcoal from... MY BBQ GRILL!!! Hey! It's realistic-looking (charcoal is mostly carbon), and you just can't beat the smell of hickory! ;)


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The Stringers Spotlight recently got a few sticks strung by Andrew Duffy, who plays high school lacrosse in New York's Hudson Valley at John Jay-Cross River. Andrew is also the guy behind Top Knotch Lacrosse, a startup company offering stringing services and its own brand of waxed mesh, some of which you'll see in the Stringers Spotlight.
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The Wayne State University Law School has received a $175,000 grant from Comerica Bank in support of the planned Damon J. Keith Classroom Building and Center for Civil Rights. The building and center are being named in honor of the distinguished federal judge, and the gift was presented officially to the university on April 10 at a gathering in Keith's chambers at the federal courthouse in Detroit.
Comerica has committed $125,000 for the building and an additional $50,000 for future programming at the Damon J. Keith Center for Civil Rights.
"Comerica is proud to support this important project that means so much to the Wayne State University Law School and our entire community," said Caroline Chambers, Comerica Bank corporate contributions manager. "A man of purpose, Judge Keith's long-demonstrated commitment to equal opportunity for all people and his love for Detroit are uplifting sources. This project ensures future generations will benefit from Judge Keith's vast contributions to society and the noble principles he has stood for."
Law School Dean Frank H. Wu noted, "This gift is another testament to Judge Keith's standing within the community and his civic contributions over an impressive career. It is an honor to work with him. Comerica has long been known as a corporate leader in diversity, just as Judge Keith has been known for standing up on behalf of civil rights. It is a fitting match."
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The Turkish invasion of Iraq is now in its fifth day with no sign soldiers will soon be leaving the territory of their neighbor. Yesterday, Iraq condemned Turkey's incursion of their land in search of Kurdish rebels and demanded an immediate withdrawal. The Iraq government statement said: "The cabinet expressed its rejection and condemnation of the Turkish military interference, which is considered a violation of Iraq's sovereignty." Prime Minister Erdogan immediately responded claiming "Turkey's cross-border operation is the result of its legitimate right to self-defense." Ironically, the Turkish argument is close to that of the Bush administration which claimed the right to invade Iraq due to alleged threats from Saddam Hussein's infamous weapons of mass destruction.
Deputy Prime Minister Cemil Cicek responded to criticism by American Secretary of Defense Robert Gates who advised Turkey to deal with terrorism not soley through military means by arguing his nation had a right of self defense. President Bush, and other Republican leaders like John McCain, simply do not grasp how the invasion of Iraq has destabilized the entire region. The United States used the argument it was responding to terrorism by launching an invasion. Why should Bush now be surprised if other nations use his "right of defense" in order to pursue their own anti-terrorism pursuits? It is somewhat ironic that Gates is suggesting avoiding military action and use of other means to fight terrorism. Perhaps, he should reprimand Bush and the Republican party which continues supporting war instead of peaceful means of resolving issues.


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Each year, the Trustees calculate a measure of Social Security's long-term fiscal health called its "actuarial balance." In 1996, this balance was determined to be minus 2.2 percent of taxable payroll. In theory, this is the total amount by which we would have to raise taxes or cut benefits, starting today, to keep the Social Security trust funds solvent over the next seventy-five years.
Those who would minimize Social Security's troubles regularly trot out this measure (and this figure) as evidence of how small the problem is. How can anyone seriously talk about a crisis, they say, when that crisis could be solved by a "mere" 2.2 percent of payroll tax hike? The press, assuming that because this number is official it must be meaningful, routinely repeats it.
There's just one catch: Actuarial balance greatly understates Social Security's true burden on our future. Unfortunately, the recent report of the Social Security Advisory Council gives new ammunition to defenders of the status quo. While the council was divided about reform options, all members lined up behind actuarial balance as the basic measure of Social Security's long-term health. Such unanimity is puzzling. This indicator not only misleads the public about the magnitude of the future fiscal burden posed by Social Security, it says nothing about the program's impact on national savings and generational equity, the concerns that led five of the council's thirteen members to advocate that we transition to a funded system of personally owned accounts.
In the framework of actuarial balance, Social Security will be solvent until the year 2029 -- meaning that, until then, its trust funds are projected to possess sufficient assets to cover current-law benefit promises. If we were to enact the 2.2 percent s olution, the trust funds would be solvent for the next seventy-five years.
The problem is that this solvency is an accounting fiction. Actuarial balance assumes that trust-fund surpluses accumulated in prior years constitute genuine economic savings that can be drawn down to cover trust-fund deficits incurred in future years. Th ey don't. Since the assets held by Social Security consist of nothing but Treasury IOUs, when it's time for the trust funds to redeem them Congress must raise taxes, cut other spending, or borrow more from the public to raise the cash.
What really matters is Social Security's operating balance -- that is, the annual difference between its outlays and its earmarked tax revenues. Under current law, this balance is due to turn negative in 2012 and widen to an annual deficit of $650 billion , or 3.8 percent of payroll, by 2029, the last year the trust funds are technically "solvent." Even if the 2.2 percent solution were enacted, Social Security would still face large and steadily growing operating deficits starting in 2021.
Status quoists will counter that trust-fund assets do indeed constitute genuine savings because, if Social Security had not run surpluses, the federal government would have run larger deficits. This is an interesting argument -- but there's little evidenc e to support it.
Behaviorally, the argument implies that our political system tracks and targets some desired balance in the rest-of-government, rather than in the unified budget. This isn't so. Over the past dozen years (the era in which we built up today's trust-fund as sets), there have been many plans and processes aimed at balancing the unified budget, but none aimed at balancing the budget excluding Social Security. Remarking on Washington's failure even to attempt this, Senator Moynihan notes that Social Security's surpluses have simply allowed Congress to tax less and spend more than it otherwise would, and so denounces them as a "fraud." As for the future, no one, least of all the status quoists, is insisting that we run a $104 billion unified budget surplus in 20 02 -- which is what will then be required to balance the budget excluding Social Security.
This budget reality explains an apparent paradox that the status quoists often pose: If individuals and private pension funds are engaged in genuine savings when they invest in Treasury bonds (and they are), why then is such investment by the trust funds fundamentally different? The reason is that when a private citizen decides to buy a Treasury bond, it doesn't induce Congress to incur a larger debt than it otherwise would.
Admittedly, the whole question of how Social Security surpluses do or do not change the overall budget balance (and national savings) will strike many Americans as quite abstract. A more vital question is whether what the status quoists are advocating for future fiscal policy makes any sense given where our economy and society find themselves today. The logic of actuarial balance rests on a fantastic proposition -- namely, that America's lofty savings rate in the 1990s, due to the thriftiness of governmen t, is paying in advance for a sumptuous deficit banquet twenty years from now. In other words, it's OK to save less than we ought tomorrow because we're saving more than we ought today.
In the end, there's only one possible defense of trust-fund accounting, and that is to insist that Social Security is an entirely separate realm of government -- not just another federal agency, but a kind of independent republic exempt from the sovereign ty of Congress. Thus, if we didn't save enough publicly in the 1980s and 1990s, it's the fault of the rest of government. And if we will need to undertake some draconian belt-tightening in the 2020s and 2030s, that too is the fault of the rest of governme nt. But why should we think of Social Security this way? Not because the contributions are owned or managed by the workers who make them and not because the benefits are economically funded or legally guaranteed. None of this is true. As it turns out, the most often-cited reason for why Social Security should be considered a self-contained deal is that it's a trust fund. Thus does the logic become a perfect and empty circle.
Entirely apart from the savings fallacy, there are several other misconceptions about actuarial balance, and in particular the 2.2 percent solution, that need correcting.
In the end, trust-fund accounting sidesteps the real issue, which is not how to meet some official solvency test, but how to ensure Social Security's economic sustainability and generational equity. It is these concerns that have led a growing number of v oices, including the five Advisory Council members, to advocate transitioning to a funded system of personally owned accounts. By linking benefits to genuine economic savings, such a reform not only addresses the fiscal challenge. It would generate much h igher returns on contributions for future retirees, and hence would redress the cascading pattern of generational inequity that now destines each new birth cohort of Social Security participants to receive a worse deal than the last. It deserves a serious hearing.
As for the 2.2 percent apologists, one gets the impression that they don't much care about these broader questions, and that their only real purpose is to minimize changes for current and soon-to-retire beneficiaries by making Social Security look solvent on paper. Let's not be fooled by the trust-fund shell game.
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Every season a number of Arsenal players go out on loan to gain valuable first-team experience. With the 2011/12 campaign over, only three on-loan Gunners are still in action.
Arsenal.com tracks their progress throughout the season. Our Arsenal's Loanees page offers an overview of all the players and below is the latest instalment of our Loan Watch feature, with reports from their latest matches.
Sao Paulo 1-0 Bahia
Sunday, May 27
Denilson played the full 90 minutes as Sao Paulo grabbed their first win of the season with a narrow 1-0 victory over Bahia on Sunday.
Alcoyano 4-0 Elche
Sunday, May 27
Relegated Alcoyano recorded a 4-0 win over Elche on Sunday, although Wellington did not feature due to an ankle injury.
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Sunday, May 27
Samuel Galindo was an unused substitute in Gimnastic Tarragona's 2-1 defeat to high-flying Celta Vigo on Sunday.


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Newtols Trades Bat and Cleats For Rifle and Combat Boots
By Justin Grones (@JustinGrones)
GREEN BAY, Wis. (GreenBayPhoenix.com) – For a college senior, the month of May is an exciting yet hectic time—between studying for finals, trying to enjoy the weather, planning for graduation and searching for that first full-time job, there isn't a lot of free time left over. For Green Bay softball senior Paige Newtols (Green Bay, Wis.), the item at the top of her to-do list in the month of May has been preparing for the tough and demanding challenge she'll face just two weeks after graduation—basic training for the U.S. Army at Fort Sill, Oklahoma.
Newtols will spend nine weeks at the southwestern Oklahoma base nestled in the Wichita Mountains where average temperatures for the summer months range from the low- to mid-90s and can achieve readings of 110 degrees or higher. She'll be pushed to the limit both physically and mentally while learning important tasks such as rifle marksmanship, squad movements, Army history and courtesies and countless others all while working as a member of a team.
She'll wake up well before the sun rises each day and run hundreds of miles during her time there with a few thousand pushups mixed in. She'll throw live hand grenades, receive hands-on training with a variety of machine guns, learn hand-to-hand combat skills and even experience CS gas as part of gas mask training. With cell phones confiscated upon arrival, her only means of communication with the outside world will be through writing letters and the occasional brief phone call home. She'll receive three meals per day, but meals you wouldn't exactly find in mom's kitchen.
Before Newtols knows it, however, the nine-week journey will come to a close as she proudly marches across a parade field as a basic training graduate.
"Since coming to college I've been more appreciative of the things I have in my life and the people that have made sacrifices for me to have these things," Newtols said. "I wanted to do something that really meant something and allowed me to make a difference, so this seemed like the right choice."
Following nine weeks of basic training at Fort Sill, Newtols will travel to Fort Sam Houston in Texas where she'll receive job-specific training. With a bachelor's of science degree in biology from UW-Green Bay, she'll put her education to use as she receives a few months of training to become a combat medic.
"The choice to be a medic was pretty easy because it relates to my degree and it's something I can use in the civilian world after my military career, too," Newtols said. "Since I have a degree it would be pretty easy for me to become an officer after a few years of service, and officers in the medical field of the Army are always in demand."
Other than a grandfather who served in the Korean War, Newtols is the first in two generations of her family to join the military. Shortly after she joined, one of her cousins also decided to enlist.
"I guess it's kind of becoming a family thing for us," Newtols joked. "I'm definitely going to miss my family while I'm there, and my mom gets worried at times. I have great parents so I always try to make them proud, and I think they're happy for me and really proud of my decision to enlist."
Newtols recently wrapped up her career with the Green Bay softball team and finished in the top 10 in multiple categories of the program's career record list. A career .276 hitter, she finished 10th in batting average and ninth with five career home runs. She also tied for the fifth-most walks after tying the program's single-season record with 26 in the 2012 season.
She appeared in 14 games with 12 starts during the 2013 campaign, driving in four runs with a perfect fielding percentage. As the team played its home opener on May 4 in honor of those fighting breast cancer, she had the honor of catching the ceremonial first pitch. Newtols believes her time with the program and working with her teammates will set her up for success in her military career.
"Being a member of the softball team for four years will help because it's taught me how to work with all types of people and be successful, and the training I did with the team will put me ahead of my peers in my career," Newtols said. "Everyone on the team has been very supportive of my decision and thinks it's a really cool idea."
Although she's only in the beginning stages of her military career, she would like to remain in the Army for at least 20 years before retiring and pursuing civilian opportunities in the medical field. As she makes her way through basic training and her career, she'll hold close the memories she made and experiences she had with her teammates of the Green Bay softball program.
"For me this season was about having fun, trying to battle the weather and still win a few games. At the same time it was by far the most fun I've ever had with my teammates," Newtols said. "I'm so greatful I was able to be a student-athlete at this level, but I'm excited to take this next step and can't wait to get down to Oklahoma and start my military career."
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I wouldn't be able to bring myself to do that. Nothing against either brand, just couldn't do it.
Unless you can't wait for the right grips, hold out.
OR, this could be an excuse to buy a Kimber.. If I keep picking up .380 brass, I'm gonna need dies. Then I will be FORCED to buy a gun to shoot it through.... See how this works?


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The Fighter
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One tick.
Dicky Eklund of Lowell, Mass., lived a life in one tick—one solitary moment when the boxer stood toe-to-toe with the great Sugar Ray Leonard … and knocked the man down.
His whole life before led to that tick. His whole life after has been in tragic decline. So he relives that moment, again and again. In it, he is the man he wants to be, the man he could've been. He has nothing else.
But now, HBO's come to town. They're here because I knocked down Sugar Ray, he thinks. They're here to tell the story of "The Pride of Lowell." They're here to film my comeback.
And so the tape rolls as Dicky showboats for the camera, as he spars with his brother (a struggling fighter named Micky Ward), as he preens and prances down the street like a bell-capped fool. They capture his skeletal face, his decaying teeth, his fraying mind as he leads them to the upper floor of a crack house. The lens never wavers as he sucks chemicals into his lungs.
The camera crew did come for Dicky Eklund. They came to film his fall.
But there's someone else the crew captures: patient, quiet Micky, the boy who idolized the Pride of Lowell, the man who followed him into the ring.
There's no real flash about Micky, no sense of style or self-promotion. Their mother and manager, Alice, heaps praise on Dicky and pays little mind to his younger brother. No matter that Micky's fights are keeping the family afloat now. No matter that he, not Dicky, is the only one with enough on the ball to find his way to the gym.
HBO leaves without paying Micky much mind. They've got their story. But perhaps there's another to be told. Perhaps someone else is building to a moment of his own—a moment not to be squandered, but savored. Not a tick, but a brick to build on. Perhaps there's someone who can make Lowell truly proud.
Positive Elements
Outside the ring, Micky doesn't like to fight. Compared to off-the-wall Dicky and off-the-handle Alice, he comes across as practically pacifistic, quietly trying to keep the peace among the members of his circle. It's a tall order, given how fractious it is: Dicky, Alice and a cavalcade of nameless sisters fall into one camp, while his father (George), girlfriend (Charlene) and current trainer (Mickey O'Keefe) land in another. But he finally succeeds in nudging them all into an uneasy truce.
Micky's family is a top-to-bottom mess, but its members manage to project a little love, too. Alice wants to believe the best of Dicky, and seems nearly inconsolable when he disappoints her. Charlene may be foul-mouthed and combative, but she gives Micky some much-needed stability and good, grounded advice. Micky's been pulled away from his daughter by her mother, but he's not giving up, and he's trying to connect more.
Dicky undergoes the biggest transformation of all. Arrested and thrown in prison for numerous sundry activities, he's practically a rock star behind bars, and when the HBO documentary on him airs, the telecast becomes a whole-prison party with Dicky as its guest of honor. But when he sees the show, particularly his own son onscreen, he realizes the wasteland his life's become. He flips off the television, saying, "He [my son] needs me, and I'm f‑‑‑ing stuck in here!"
[Spoiler Warning] Dicky begins exercising again, and when he's finally released from prison, he appears to be a new man. He heads over to Micky's gym, telling him that the idea of helping him train was the only thing that kept him going. When Micky tells him he's not wanted … that Charlene and his current manager made Micky promise to keep Dicky away from training, Dicky's crestfallen. Eventually, he knocks on Charlene's door to plead his case. "I will quit if you want me to quit," Dicky says, telling her that Micky needs her more than he needs him. But he'd dearly love to stay. And when Charlene says that Micky and she are trying to make something of themselves—Dicky tells her, "I am too." And it's true. He stays clean, and when Micky wins a title fight, Dicky celebrates as if it was his own triumph.
Spiritual Content
Shortly after Dicky watches himself on HBO, we see him bow his head, apparently in prayer, while kneeling on the floor. Then, just before he's released from prison, we see him pray again. Both Micky and Dicky appear to bow in prayer after the climactic title fight. Micky has a cross hanging in his apartment, and Dicky wears one around his neck. When Charlene and Micky's trainer storm out of the gym, Alice tells Micky, "Maybe it's for the best. God has a plan."
Sexual Content
Bikini-clad women carry the round numbers in the boxing ring. Charlene wears revealing shirts and short, tight shorts at the bar where she works, which encourages folks to leer. In fact, the first time she meets Micky, she asks him if he's just going to stare at her rear all day. Charlene says George stares too.
We see Micky and Charlene in the mid-stages of foreplay: She's in thin bra and panties, he's shirtless, and he runs her hands over her body as they lie in bed together. They share several passionate kisses.
Dicky, meanwhile, has a girlfriend whom he essentially sells into prostitution. We see her standing in the street, stroking her breasts through a bikini top, enticing drivers to stop. Then, as she performs sex acts with them in the front seat of their cars, Dicky pretends to be a police officer busting them: She steals the guys' money while they're distracted.
Alice and Micky's sisters can't stand Charlene, referring to her as an "MTV girl" and whispering that they've heard she's into "threesomes." They repeatedly call her a "skank" to her face. Others make crass sexual allusions and double entendres.
For their first date, Micky takes Charlene to a French film that, in her words, didn't even have "any good sex in it."
Violent Content
Boxing has been around since biblical times, and over the centuries it's developed a great deal of strategy and subtlety. Matches can be almost as complex as chess and as graceful as a ballet. But none of that alters the fact that, at its core, boxing is about beating the living tar out of someone.
Never mind that Micky and Dicky are on friendly terms with many of their opponents. Since a good chunk of The Fighter takes place inside the ring, we see them deliver and receive countless blows to heads and bodies, some of which look like they hurt tremendously. When Micky takes on a man 20 pounds heavier than he is, blood spatters the mat (one of the bikini girls slips in it), and Micky's face ends up looking like a grated potato. Bandages are a regular part of his post-fight attire.
Outside the ring, things don't get much better. Dicky is arrested for assaulting a number of people in a crowded street, including a pair of police officers. When Micky tries to intervene, policemen pin him down on the hood of a cruiser and hammer his hand with a baton, shattering it. Alice hits George with dishes and pans when she learns he helped set up a deal with a new trainer, which essentially cut her out of her son's career. Charlene and one of Micky's sisters get into a brawl on Charlene's front porch. Micky roughs up a guy in a bar for disrespecting Charlene.
Tired of hearing his mother coo over Dicky's skill and talent while the two spar, Micky gets angry and strikes Dicky hard in the kidney, then hammers his head as his brother crouches on the canvas. Dicky hits the side of a gym locker—an act imitated by his young son.
Crude or Profane Language
Close to 150 f-words are interlaced with nearly 30 s-words and a bevy of other crudities, ranging from "a‑‑" and "d‑‑k" to "d‑‑n" and "h‑‑‑." Jesus' and God's names are each abused about 10 times. Obscene gestures are made.
Drug and Alcohol Content
Dicky and many of his buddies are crack addicts, and we see them using. We also see what it does to them. Dicky is little more than a shell of his former self. And he goes through horrible withdrawal symptoms when he lands in jail. So there's no glamorization going on here.
Alice chain-smokes. Charlene admits that she had to leave college because she was drinking and partying too much. Now she says that if she couldn't drink on the job, she might not make it through the day. She's not alone. Nearly everyone drinks in her world—beer, wine, shots, mixed drinks.
Other Negative Elements
We learn that Dicky has been arrested 27 times. He begs Micky to lie for him (again) to keep him out of prison. (Micky refuses this time.) Dicky and Alice tell Micky that he shouldn't trust anyone but them: After all (they say), who could care for you better than family? But that doesn't stop them from setting up fights Micky has no business fighting … just for a paycheck. Dicky tries to get some of his Cambodian girlfriend's relatives involved in a pyramid scheme.
You've just read about The Fighter's sex, violence and 150 f-words. So I don't have to spend much time driving home the point that this is a hard-R movie—two hours of crude content that knocks moviegoers down for the count. Yet I saw kids 8-10 years old at the screening I attended, and had I more Alice or Charlene in me, I would've accused their parents of child abuse.
Those kids probably didn't learn much from The Fighter—except how to string together swear words and land a hard right hook. But in the midst of all the content, there is still a story to be told, and it even has a moral in the middle of the mess.
"I'm not going to let you or your family take me down," Charlene tells Micky. So the tension found here is whether Micky—good, quiet Micky—has the wherewithal to keep his own family from pulling him down too.
Plugged In belongs to an organization called Focus on the Family, which believes that the family can be a wonderful, beautiful thing—a foundation on which to build, a nest from which to soar. We believe the family is an integral part of God's plan. But we also know that no family is perfect, and some are incredibly, perhaps irrevocably, fractured. Homes can be unhealthy, soul-sapping places … and yet we're called to still love the flawed people who surround us with our hearts and our souls.
The Fighter is about a family full of hurt and harm. A mother loves her children, yet uses them too. A brother lives in a haze of drugs and old dreams. A girlfriend lives without compromise, without accommodation to anything or anyone. And at the center of it all, Micky lives as a man who has a chance to find his own special moment, if only he could get a little help.
Plugged In can't help but root for him to get it.
The Fighter is based on a true story, and like most true stories that make their way to the screen, this one has an ending that's not all tied up in a bow. I didn't get a sense that the two factions in Micky's life ever became truly one. And the coda hints that Dicky doesn't stay off drugs forever. Truth, after all, tends to be more bittersweet than fiction, more "yes, but" than "happily ever after."
Micky's family members may not like each other very much. But they love Micky, and they care enough for him and each other to, for a tick, set aside their own issues and help him reach a special moment of his own. And when he claims that moment, they share it with him.
You could say Micky's moment is smothered—and by more things than just The Fighter's extreme content. You'd probably be right. But it is still at least a tick of redemption.
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Mark Wahlberg as Micky Ward; Christian Bale as Dicky Eklund; Amy Adams as Charlene Fleming; Melissa Leo as Alice Ward; Jack McGee as George Ward; Mickey O'Keefe as Himself
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Strawberry-Rhubarb Sundaes
It takes only 10 minutes to create a colorful ice cream topping that makes the most of a well-loved just-before-summer combo: sweet strawberries and tart rhubarb.
- Prep:
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- Servings: 8
Source: Everyday Food, May 2008
- 1 pound strawberries, hulled and quartered
- 2 rhubarb stalks, cut into 1/2-inch pieces (2 cups)
- 1/2 cup sugar
- 2 pints vanilla ice cream
- Store-bought shortbread cookies, for serving (optional)
In a large saucepan, place strawberries, rhubarb, sugar, and 1/4 cup water; bring to a simmer over high heat. Cook, stirring occasionally, until rhubarb begins to break down, 6 to 8 minutes.
Refrigerate until cool, at least 1 hour and up to 1 week. Spoon strawberry-rhubarb sauce over scoops of ice cream; serve with shortbread, if desired.


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Alamosa man, 49, accused of getting 16-year-old pregnant
LA JARA, Colo. - The Conejos County Sheriff's Office says it has arrested a man for allegedly having an inappropriate relationship with a 16-year-old girl.
Danny Manzanares, 49, of Alamosa is facing charges for sexual assault on a child by one in a position of trust.
The sheriff's office says that it began investigating Manzanares on September 9, 2013, when it received a tip from the Conejos County Department of Social Services.
The tip indicated that Manzanares was having an inappropriate relationship with a 16-year-old girl at an apartment complex in La Jara.
Police say that during the course of the investigation, the teen had a baby and a paternity test showed Manzanares is the father.
Manzanares was arrested in Alamosa on April 24, 2014.
He is being held at the Conejos County Jail on $40,000 bond.


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I would not carry - worrying about someone in body armor. None of the handgun rounds will penetrate higher levels of body armor anyway. Carry the gun and round you are comfortable with.
Here is a very good thread I posted before... Its got good info:
Recent events and rethinking CCW caliber... - M4Carbine.net Forums


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Degree Options
Chinese Minor: The minor in Chinese is for students who want to attain a solid foundation in the Chinese language and to be able to thrive in a Chinese language environment. This goal is achieved through study at Wittenberg supported when possible by study abroad in China.
Requirements: Completion of Chinese 112 (Elementary Chinese II), or placement, is a prerequesite for entering the minor. A total of at least 22 additional semester hours is required for completion of the minor, 18 of them from Chinese language study and 4 of them from other areas of Chinese studies.
- Language Study (18 hours): Two full years of Chinese language study beyond Chinese 112 (Elementary Chinese II). Students are encouraged to study abroad in China, and up to two language classes taken in China may be accepted for the minor. Eighteen semester hours of Chinese language courses can be obtained by taking Chinese 211 (Intermediate Chinese I; 5 semester hours), Chinese 212 (Intermediate Chinese II; 5 semester hours), Chinese 311 (Directed Readings: Newspapers; 4 semester hours), Chinese 312 (Directed Readings: Literature; 4 semester hours).
- Chinese Area Studies (4 hours): In addition to language study, students are required to take one 4-semester hour course from the disciplinary areas of Literature, Theatre and Dance, History, Political Science, Religion or Sociology that is solely focused on the study of China. East Asian Studies courses in another discipline may be substituted upon consultation with the Chinese minor faculty.
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Hello all.
Is this forum still alive? Are roleplays still a thing?
I've been gone for a while, but I've recently gotten back into the swing of things and wanted to start up again.
Is this forum still alive? Would anyone be interested in a new RPG?
Are any of the old crew still hanging around?
I would love to breathe some life back into this place if possible.


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PM9 has a way smoother trigger
Which of these is better for CCW? Please provide me insight as to why in addition to voting. Thanks!
How are you going to carry it?
If I was looking to pocket or ankle carry, I'd go with the PM9 because of its smaller size & weight.
If I was looking to carry IWB or OWB, I'd go with the PPS, as its larger size & weight should improve shootability.
But why compare the PM9 to the PPS? They are in different size categories. A more valid comparison would be between the P9 and the PPS. And even then, the P9 is smaller and lighter than the PPS, even though the P9 still has a longer barrel.
I believe the PM9 to be better suited for deep concealment, while the P9 and/or the PPS are better suited for traditional CC.
Cannot vote since I have both. PPS for owb carry and PM9 for pocket carry in hot weather. I like them both for their separate purposes.
You really think the difference in size is that significant between the PPS and PM9? I know there is a difference but I never found it to be THAT significant.
But for my personal use, I would likely choose the Walther, simply because of the ability to change the grip size, and therefore lengthen the trigger reach. The reach on a Kahr is very short, which makes it ideal for people with medium or smaller hands.
However, I have largish hands with long fingers, and all of the Kahrs require me to adjust my grip and shooting technique to accommodate that. I have never had the opportunity to try the PPS with the large size grip insert, but I think it would work because my P-22 with similar setup works.
As for quality, I would rate the Kahr slightly higher...just my personal opinion.
I voted Walther, for similar reasons as Bisley. I prefer the feel of the Walther over the Kahr, although both are good guns.
Had a Kahr PM9 and had feeding problems and a peening issue. Sent it back to the factory and they replaced the barrel, but never seemed right.
Walther no feeding problems at all. The Kahr has been sold, still have the Walther.
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I considered and handled both. I went with the PM9. No regrets. Very smooth trigger, as accurate at 7 yards (considered max confrontational distance) as my 4" FNP9. Out of the box a champ. 700 rounds not a FTF, or any other problem. Low recoil for it's weight and size. I just plain love this gun
The PPS hands down for me. I've got a PPS in .40 s&w, and I've shot a PM9. PPS has better ergos IMO, shoots more accurate for me. And I just prefer the Walther name over Kahr TBH.
This is tough, both guns are very reliable and excellent shooters, I am not sure
I had a PPS and it was a good gun, but the grip was not right for my hand. It also had a good bit of recoil that I did not like. I have since purchased a Kahr CW9 and it is an easier gun to shoot, better trigger and that equals better groups. Both guns are very good, the Kahr just works better for me.
I went with the PPS, very pleased with it and no regrets.
I love my Walther PPK/S
It's a dream to shoot and I've carried it concealed a lot.
I've never carried the Kahr - I've heard good things about it (light / smaller, etc,)
This is the first time I've ever heard anyone say the recoil on the PPS was bad. I dont own one, but shot 100 rounds through a range rental and was very surprised at the low recoil for a small and light gun. If you shoot a PPS compared to a PM9, recoil should be noticeably snappier with PM9. I own a PM9 because Walther wasn't out yet when I bought it.
Only problem I see with PPS is lack of choices for night sights. Only one source that I know of.
I picked the Kahr....for CCW it is small light and accurate. Conceals easy and still feels like a gun in your hand. I am a big fan of Kahr so this is not an unbiased opinion.


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My shop heater. It uses waste motor oil.
The heater housing is an inverted propane tank. I cut a door in the side and mounted a small cast iron frying pan approximately in the center, sitting on 1x1/8" steel fingers. I can remove the pan through the door to clean it.
Two turns of copper tubing wrap the top of the tank, then a "stinger" down to the inside to drip oil onto the pan. There is a piece of rubber fuel line running to a 5 gallon can of filtered waste engine oil. The metering valve is at the stinger, the hottest section of the pipe, where the temperature stays most constant and there's less fiddling to do.
Incoming air goes through the jacket on the flue; it gets plenty hot. It goes down the small pipe and into the side of the tank. After I made it, I added a piece of metal inside the tank to turn the incoming air 90 degrees so it swirls around inside; it helped keep incoming air from going up the flue without shedding some heat.
I was worried about the thing going out if left unattended, or flooding the floor with flaming oil. In the shop, it sits in a 6-gallon metal pan, so if the flame goes out and the frying pan overflows, oil will drop down through the hole in the propane valve and into the pan.
A 3/8" hole near the top lets me look directly at the fire without opening the door. This is about the minimum flue length you can use, but even so it runs at a net negative pressure, so no fumes escape from any joints, around the the door, or the peephole. With 10' of flue it draws so hard it makes sighing noises.
This was is the prototype. I picked 6" pipe because it was cheap and available. It's way too big, unless you're heating a barn. You have to have it burning high and hot to get a clean, smoke-free burn - and it *will* run smoke-free - but it won't do it below a certain point, far too high to be comfortable in my small shop. I recommend 3" black-painted vent pipe. If you use galvanized, you need to fire it up outside and burn the zinc off before bringing it inside. The zinc plate smells bad and will give you a nasty headache.
I don't think the combustion chamber size is of any real importance, at least compared to the flue size. I had several old-style propane tanks that cost more for new valves than just buying a whole new tank; they're thick steel and a convenient size. You could probably build one out of a coffee can and some muffler pipe.
I started off using a 5" muffin fan for forced ventilation, but it didn't need it. The internal 45-degree fins are to keep swirl going in the flue, the externals help radiate heat. You could probably skip them, but I had 40 feet of .020x1" angle I had no other use for, and some tin snips...
Ignition is easy - slide the pan out, put a wad of crumpled newspaper in, light it, slide it in, close the door, turn on the oil flow. You'll have to adjust the needle valve after a few minutes, when the copper coil gets good and warm. After a few hours when the oil tank warms up, you might need to adjust it again.
Like I said, it burns smoke-free if you keep the temp up. Turn the oil flow down and it doesn't burn hot enough to get rid of the smoke, and you'll be sending smoke signals to Mars. It's running about half wide open in the top picture.
I tried finding the upper heat limit and chickened out once parts started to glow red hot. I could turn the oil valve full-on, and it made a sound light a freight train, with shimmering exhaust going straight up in a twenty-foot column. I


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Very fitting design for Spiritgreen.
Congrats :D Can't wait to get mine ;)
Those little ghosties are so cute...
I would count it a BOOOOOOooooOOOOooOOON to own a shirt as cute as this.
Love it! Please make it glow in the dark!
I wonder if that's Luigi's Mansion they're haunting...
Where's the mean ghost of this house of nice ghosts? Kinda like Casper but switched. Where's mean Casper?
Looks like the Casper Cleaning Crew is at it again.
They make houses so clean, it's scary!
Awesome first place win - big congrats on a cute and charming design Spiritgreen!
It doesn't look like they're doing anything useful to people...just making the house a little creepier.
Fantastic design! Congratulations Spiritgreen!
This is so perfect, and perfectly timed! Halloween soonish
I really love this one. The ghosts are adorable.
Why is one ghost prying up the floor?
Hey, ramyb was the first sucker! First time I've seen an artist get that slot. Neat
That moon is huge! If anyone is curious, there is an interesting article about the "moon illusion" on Wikipedia.
Congrats Spiritgreen!!!!!
Those ghosts are just sooooo cute and adorable. If I ever become a ghost, I want to look like one of those ghosts!!!!! <3
It appears to me those cute little ghosts are putting up the cobwebs and tearing the wallpaper.
These seem like the opposite of poltergeists. Maybe...polterguests?
It's cute and well done and seasonal and not quite as scary as my drakxxx scarecrow. No crying trick or treaters. Congrats, SG!
I knew it! A little housework has killed people.
So great! A big congrats for a well-deserved win.
zekecatz wrote:Why is one ghost prying up the floor?
So the floorboards will creak and squeak.
Those guys are just too happy to be scared of!
The one with the pipe is my favorite! Now, is the feral beast in the dog house a ghost too?
These little guys sure cleaned up the competition... spooked everyone away from first. Scared up the votes. Frightened up a victory. A little pre-Halloween dance is in order. Make it spooky, guys.
Where can I hire them?
woot saved the best for last:
We call this color: BOOooOoOoOOOooOOOOOooOoOoOoooOOOOooOOOOOoOoOOoOOoOOOoooslate
Still has me laughing.
Congrats, spirit! :-)
I'm pretty sure those ghosts used up more than their allotted share of adorableness. Poor Casper's going to have to be mean and grumpy for a while to make up for it.
And the cobwebs were hung from the ceiling with care....
Repeat... BEST SG DESIGN EVER!!! Great work, dude! So glad you took first.
Is that a ghost spider?? Soooo cuuuuute! O.O
Great use of monochrome. A well deserved win !
But there's no cute little ghost doggie in the dog house...
I'm a little confused on how a chimney that is not connected to any fireplace became filled with soot.
Wow, it looks like the Hallowoot Derby got kicked off a little early this year
But all in all, good design
Awesome work, SpiritGreen! Absolutely outstanding attention to detail.
Very curious to see how it prints.
awesome piece, will wear it wrapped around myself proudly.
And with Smartpost, it should get here just about in time for Halloween...hopefully!
godmadesky wrote:I'm a little confused on how a chimney that is not connected to any fireplace became filled with soot.
I figured the ghosts put the soot there while they were hanging cobwebs, tearing wallpaper, etc.
jcflman wrote:woot saved the best for last:
We call this color: BOOooOoOoOOOooOOOOOooOoOoOoooOOOOooOOOOOoOoOOoOOoOOOoooslate
Still has me laughing.
I came in here to post something similar. XD
I wasn't daring hope this would place, let alone show up today. Thanks so, so much everyone who checked this out!
As you've no doubt worked out, ghost chores are mostly the opposite of regular chores; hanging up cobwebs, making the floorboards nice n' creaky, stinking up the place, putting bats in the attic, watering the black roses, tearing the wallpaper and lighting the spooky candles.
The chimney: I drew the house as a cross-section and you only see the backs of the rooms, so the chimney is actually coming down at the front. (picture the armchair ghost facing a fireplace)
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Stockholm is experiencing an unusual explosion in the life of inner city people– a rise in the number of children, but, those children come from native born Swedes rather than those from immigrant backgrounds. The number of inner city children under the age of five has risen about 154% over the past thirty years and during the past ten years the number has risen by 4,000 of the current 19,000. Swedes apparently enjoy the cultural aspects of inner city life, and prefer living where it is easier to access a good restaurant or go to a museum or visit cultural events. In Sweden, it is more likely that immigrants will be living in the suburbs rather than the inner city.
The attraction of being close to work is most probably one of the lures of inner city living. We should expect with the rise in oil prices that more and more people will opt for inner city life in order to avoid high expenses associated with commuting by car. There are already signs people in America are beginning to consider the attraction of the inner city world with its urban transit.


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Through 12 weeks of the college football season it has become pretty clear which underclassman are elite NFL prospects. While there are still some uncertainties as to who will declare or not, ten were selected for the list, including another ten honorable mention. These players were compiled based on not only their impact on the college level, but an equal amount of weight was placed on their NFL potential. There are some big-name and some lesser known players who made the cut, ranging from the all-important quarterback position to the undervalued safety position. The criteria for each selection is based off of the value of the respective player's position on the next level with respect to how important the passing game is in today's game. While the quarterback position is obviously the most valuable position in football period, tight ends and those who typically guard them (safeties) are two of the most sought after positions come draft time. Those who catch the ball (receivers) and protect those who throw the ball (offensive linemen) also bring tremendous value as evident by last year's draft class; the No. 1, No. 2, and No. 4 overall picks were all offensive tackles. The ten honorable mentions are: CB Ifo Ekpre-Olomu – Oregon; CB Bradley Roby – Ohio State; DT Louis Nix – Notre Dame; DE Stephon Tuitt – Notre Dame; DE Vic Beasley – Clemson; TE Jace Amaro – Texas Tech; OG David Yankey Stanford; OLB Ryan Shazier – Ohio State; OT Cameron Erving – Florida State; OT Antonio Richardson – Tennessee.
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text: After this season the Nets will have 7 players under contract, using only $23 mil of cap space: Devin Harris, Brook Lopez, Courtney Lee, Yi Jianlin, and 3 others. Building around a terrific PG, promising young C, defensive SG and hit or miss SF prospect, + $30mil cap space. Wow, that's a pretty damn nice blue-print for the future. Hats off to the Nets. Took a couple years but they're doing a great job rebuilding from that aging, overpaid, go-nowhere previous cast. Sooo, Brook, Courtney, Devin, Yi, here's wishing you fine ladies all the best for the future! By the way- doesn't this situation look about 10x more appealing than CLE if you're Lebron? By the way 2- clevelands roster is freaking gross. How many games would they have won last year without LBJ, 25? By the way, I hate LBJ.


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Hi everyone.
Can anyone help please?
My dream is to teach English in Thailand.
The concern I have is that I do not have a degree. Therefore do you think I would be better to complete a recognised CELTA/DELTA/TESOL course in Thailand as opposed to an "equivalent" TEFL course in order to increase my job prospects?
There is so much "hype" on the net, especially from many of the TEFL Schools, stating that their "equivalent" course is "all you need to start a career"
Many thanks in anticipation if anyone has any advice?


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Well after having a Boggle game laying around, I thought I could make a 4 word, 4 letters per word sentence using the Boggle board... guess what I came up with? No trickery, these are the letter cubes that came with the game... no photoshop.
So I was thinking, anyone else completely gone wacko?


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32 Minutes At A Time: Iona Women's Water Polo Blog
Amy Olsen, sophomore member of the Iona College women's water polo team, will chronicle this season on ICGaels.com as the Gaels look to repeat as MAAC Champions and return to the NCAA Championships. A season ago, Olsen was named MAAC Rookie of the Year and a Second Team All-MAAC Selection after scoring 95 points on 75 goals and 20 assists. Outside the pool, Olsen is a double major in English and Mass Communication with a concentration in Television and Video and writer for the school newspaper, The Ionian.
MAAC PLAYMAAC play has begun. Our first conference game was against Marist last Friday, and despite our 4-0 lead in the first quarter, we lost in overtime. This was extremely frustrating for my teammates and coaches for several reasons, one being that we felt we had just gotten to get into the groove of things out in California where we played six games over spring break. Out of those six games we lost three and won three, so it may not be the record we anticipated, but the team definitely began to get a better feel for the plays and working as a unit. We were encouraged by the team dynamic and excited for the MAAC games, which only made that first loss more upsetting.
Fortunately, we won our next two games that were on Saturday against St. Francis and Siena. By looking at the scoreboard of those games, we played well, and for the most part we did. There are however, some troubles areas that we need to work on, and have already gone over in practice this week.
After the weekend though, I realized that surprisingly the best thing that happened to us was not winning two games, but losing one game. Now don't get me wrong. I hate losing. I hate losing more than I love winning, and I will speak for the team and say that we do not intend to lose again during the rest of the MAAC play. But the loss to Marist was a blessing in disguise. We needed a wakeup call that a win will not be handed over to us.
Throughout the season, we have had a few games that we have walked away with a "could have, would have, should have" attitude. MAAC play will be the perfect time to start fresh and go in knowing we will beat our opponents. Even though we lost one game, we have nine more before we need to win in the game that matters – the MAAC Championship game.
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JenMalone will be a guest DJ for the legendary Hunnypot Radio Show; a bi-weekly, internet-based radio experience on Monday, October 8th!
Launched in November 2005, Hunnypot Radio is pure, unencumbered, freeform "edutainment" at its finest. Hunnypot Radio DJ/hosts are joined by music and entertainment industry professionals, artists and songwriters and the creative community at large to celebrate our favorite music (old and new), discuss current cultural and musical trends and share opinions on the state of the industry. Hunnypot Radio features live in-studio performances by some of the most exciting and diverse artists in music today.
The show is currently broadcast "live" every other Monday night from 7 – 10PM (PST) at The Central: S.A.P.C. in Santa Monica, then re-broadcast 24/7 throughout the week on the Hunnypot Unlimited website.
Jen will be DJ'ing alongside the one and only Hot Tub Johnnie, DJ Boom Shack, fellow guest DJ Kii Arens from La La Land and performances by New Beat Fund, Vim Furor, Dr Awkward & Barbi Crash.
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On January 26, 2013 at approx. 4:30pm, a retired Florida Department of Law Enforcement Agents badge and Glock 9mm handgun was stolen from his vehicle. The vehicle burglary occurred in the parking lot of Tucker's Southside Package and Lounge, 1122 S. Florida Avenue. Entry was gained by smashing out the rear window of the vehicle. Also stolen in the vehicle was a black canvas briefcase, money, personal checks and a driver's license.
A witness observed a navy blue, possibly Chevy Impala, mid 80's with a quarter vinyl top in the area driven by a black male, 20 to 30 years of age. Anyone with information in reference to this case, please contact Det. Alton Masters at 834-8976.
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Wittenberg Professor Collaborates With Symphony To Present "Musical Journey Through The Solar System"
Published Feb. 14, 2012
Springfield, Ohio – Wittenberg University Professor of Physics and 2010-11 State of Ohio Professor of the Year Dan Fleisch will share his expertise in electromagnetics and space physics during a pre-concert presentation as well as a narration during the Springfield Symphony Orchestra's performance of The Planets by Gustav Holst on Saturday, Feb. 25, at the Clark State Performing Arts Center, 300 S. Fountain Ave.
The preconcert presentation begins at 7:15 p.m. in the Turner Studio, and the concert begins at 8 p.m. in Kuss Auditorium. Fleisch worked with David Detrick, executive director of the Springfield Symphony, to plan a "musical journey through the solar system" titled "Out of this World," which includes spectacular images and videos. The images, illustrated with multimedia pictures, will be projected on three screens by The Now Device.
Called a "master scientific communicator" by Electronic Design Magazine, Fleisch daily inspires his own students. Thanks to this program, everyone else in the community will have the opportunity to learn from him.
"I'm a person for whom the life of the mind is such a driving force," Fleisch said. "Helping others have those 'wow' moments is most rewarding."
A regular contributor of science commentary to the PBS station WYSO 91.3-FM in Yellow Springs, Ohio, Fleisch has also published technical articles in numerous academic journals and presented more than a dozen professional papers related to high-speed microwave instrumentation and radar cross-section measurement.
In 2006, he appeared in the documentary The Dayton Codebreakers, and three years later, he became the first United States citizen to receive an Arthur Award from Stuart McLean of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Recipient of the highest teaching award at Wittenberg, Fleisch received his B.S. in physics from Georgetown University in 1974 and his M.S. and Ph.D. in space physics and astronomy from Rice University in 1976 and 1980, respectively. He joined the Wittenberg faculty in 1998.
Tickets must be purchased through the Clark State Performing Arts Center Box Office at 937-328-3874, and discounted tickets will be available to Wittenberg faculty, staff and alumni for $30 in Section 1 and $25 in Section 2.
Following the concert, gather with other alumni and friends of Wittenberg at Mela Urban Bistro located in the Courtyard by Marriott.
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Another fantastic job. Just one question. How long did you stop air traffic for?Sincerely,Brendhan
JP!!!! You ARE the KING!!!!! I mean, to me, you really seem to "Have it Going on!" You're doing someting that I (and i bet alot of other people here) would love to get into! I've caught a few wild bees and swarms before and I'm content with this. But You are really a "Pro" it seems to me! You're the kind of person that when people talk about you they say"Hey, I know that guy!...he's the bee catcher! He's like, One real cool Cat!". Well,...Its my pleasure to read your writings and be able to talk back and forth with you in the forums!your friend,john
The wife is needed to bring you down from your high horse. Ever hear that one???Annette
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In anti-gay attack, AIM falsely asserts "pedophile" Jennings was "teaching 14-year-old boys" about sexual practices
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In attacking the media for allegedly insufficient coverage of Obama administration official Kevin Jennings, a blogger for Accuracy in Media, which purports to "set the record straight on important issues that have received slanted coverage" -- and which has a record of antagonism toward gays -- smeared Jennings as a "pedophile" and falsely claimed that "[v]ideos have surfaced of Jennings teaching 14-year-old boys the dangerous sexual practice of 'fisting,' and discussing with them the particulars of oral sex." In fact, Jennings did not conduct that seminar and, in fact, reportedly criticized it when he became aware of its content.
Blogger: Jennings is "President Obama's favorite pedophile," was "teaching 14-year-old boys the dangerous sexual practice of 'fisting,' " "particulars of oral sex"
From a December 10 AIM blog post by Allie Duzett, "an intern at the American Journalism Center, a training program run by Accuracy in Media and Accuracy in Academia":
While CBSNews.com has 108 stories on the Salahis, the site only features one story on the "Safe Schools Czar" of the Obama administration, Kevin Jennings. The article on Jennings, entitled "Kevin Jennings Gets Boost from White House," was written on October 1, 2009. The article defends Jennings, who was selected for the position largely because of his work founding and directing the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network (GLSEN), a radical gay promotion group.
However, since October 2009, a lot has happened with President Obama's favorite pedophile. Videos have surfaced of Jennings teaching 14-year-old boys the dangerous sexual practice of "fisting," and discussing with them the particulars of oral sex.
Jennings did not conduct, nor did he support, seminar
Seminar conducted by non-GLSEN personnel at GLSEN-sponsored conference. As Media Matters for America has detailed, the controversial session -- one of "over 50 sessions" at the 2000 conference sponsored by the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network (GLSEN), according to Jennings, founder of the group -- was run "by two [Massachusetts] Department of Education AIDS-HIV education specialists and a consultant to the department," as reported in a May 18, 2000, Boston Herald article retrieved from the Nexis database.
Jennings reportedly "surprised and troubled" by accounts of the session. The May 18 Herald article reported that GLSEN "agreed yesterday that three workshop leaders crossed a line with raunchy content directed at students as young as 14 years old." In the article, Jennings, who was the executive director of GLSEN at the time, was quoted saying, "We need to make our expectations and guidelines to outside facilitators much more clear because we are surprised and troubled by some of the accounts we've heard." In a May 18, 2000, Boston Globe article (from Nexis), Jennings criticized the contents of the seminar, saying that "from what I've heard, I have concerns as well" and that sex-education programs "need to be delivered in an age appropriate and sensitive manner."
Even Gateway Pundit admitted Jennings himself did not conduct the seminar. In support of her claims that Jennings is on tape "teaching 14-year-old boys the dangerous sexual practice of 'fisting,' and discussing with them the particulars of oral sex," Duzett linked to two Gateway Pundit blog posts on the seminar. But while their headlines suggest that Jennings himself is on tape conducting the seminar, Gateway Pundit has noted that the Department of Education staffers, not Jennings himself, are the ones on tape.
AIM's claim that Jennings is a "pedophile" is false
The only purported evidence Duzett cites to support her assertion that Jennings is a "pedophile" is her claim that Jennings was "teaching 14-year-old boys" sexual practices -- as detailed above, a false claim. Further, no allegations of pedophilia have been made against Jennings.
AIM rehashes other discredited smears of Jennings
Duzett repeats attack on GLSEN "reading list for schoolchildren" without noting GLSEN's call for adult guidance. Joining other right-wing figures, Duzett wrote that "a team of 'independent researchers' came forth with a report on a reading list for schoolchildren that Jennings was involved in creating, as the founder and executive director of GLSEN," stating that "[t]hese researchers randomly selected 11 books off Jennings' GLSEN reading list, and what they found left them 'speechless.' " Duzett added, "It should frighten parents in this country to have the man behind this reading list functioning as the nation's 'Safe Schools Czar.' "
But Duzett failed to note that GLSEN's list of recommended books is accompanied by the following notice in red type: "All BookLink items are reviewed by GLSEN staff for quality and appropriateness of content. However, some titles for adolescent readers contain mature themes. We recommend that adults selecting books for youth review content for suitability. The editorial and customer reviews listed at Amazon.com often provide information on mature content."
Duzett: Wash. Times "merits recognition" for smear-laden attack on Jennings. Duzett wrote: "In the midst of so much willful ignorance on the part of the media, the Washington Times merits recognition: they recently published an op-ed discussing Jennings and his exploits in sex 'education.' " But as Media Matters has detailed, the Washington Times editorial Duzett cites falsely claimed that Jennings encouraged a sexual relationship between a student and adult, attempted to tie Jennings to the North American Man-Boy Love Association (NAMBLA), and falsely suggested that Jennings supported a controversial workshop at the 2000 GLSEN-sponsored event.
AIM has history of antagonism toward gays
Writers for Accuracy in Media have a record of attacks on gays and gay rights:
- AIM chairman Don Irvine wrote of "the first ever Pride month celebration at the White House": "Maybe next [President Obama] can repaint the White House a nice shade of pink and hang the rainbow flag in front to show his commitment to the gay cause." [6/30/09]
- AIM editor Cliff Kincaid asserted that news organizations should engage in a "Quit Gay Sex" campaign against "the dangerous and addictive homosexual lifestyle," using as justification for his argument the November "Quit to Live" anti-smoking campaign launched by ABC News after veteran journalist Peter Jennings died of lung cancer. Kincaid argued that news organizations should take up similar campaigns against homosexuality, given that "[l]ife-threatening sexually transmitted diseases among homosexuals are on the increase." [12/14/05]
- Kincaid claimed that the lagging ratings for the now-defunct MSNBC show The Situation with Tucker Carlson could be blamed on panelist Rachel Maddow, whom he described as "a lesbian with hair so short that she looks like a man." [8/1/05]
- Kincaid wrote that Howard Dean's "success" as a 2004 presidential candidate "will depend on concealing the facts about Dean's homosexual experiment -- and how he has used young people as sexual guinea pigs." Kincaid repeated a claim that "Dean was a key member of a sophisticated campaign that implemented the homosexual agenda in the state over a period of many years." [12/10/03]
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Frank Bidart's first books, Golden State and The Book of the Body, both published in the 1970s, gained critical attention and praise, but his reputation as a poet of uncompromising originality was made with The Sacrifice, published in 1983. All three books are collected In the Western Night: Collected Poems 1965-1990. His position in American letters has been solidified through his later works, including Desire, Star Dust, and Watching the Spring Festival. Much of Bidart's early work focuses on the origins and consequences of guilt. Among his most notable pieces are dramatic monologues presented through such characters as Herbert White, a child-murderer, and Ellen West, an anorexic woman. "Part of his effectiveness comes simply from his ability as a storyteller," commented Michael Dirda in Washington Post Book World. "You long to discover what happens to his poor, doomed people."
Bidart grew up in California and entertained thoughts of becoming an actor or director when he was young. His plans changed, however, when he was introduced to literature at the University of California-Riverside. While an undergraduate, he became familiar with the work of T.S. Eliot and Ezra Pound. In a 1983 interview with Mark Halliday, included in In the Western Night, the poet spoke of how reading Pound's Cantos introduced him to the potential of poetry to encompass a wide range of subjects: "They were tremendously liberating in the way that they say that anything can be gotten into a poem, that it doesn't have to change its essential identity to enter the poem—if you can create a structure that is large enough or strong enough, anything can retain its own identity and find its place there."
After graduating from the University of California—Riverside, Bidart continued his education at Harvard University. He was not, however, certain of where his course of study would lead him. Bidart related in his interview with Halliday: "I took classes with half my will—often finishing the work for them months after they were over; and was scared, miserable, hopeful. I wrote a great deal. I wrote lugubrious plays that I couldn't see had characters with no character. More and more, I wrote poems." Bidart's first attempts at poetry were, by his own admission, failures. "They were terrible; no good at all," he continued in his interview. "I was doing what many people start out by doing, trying to be 'universal' by making the entire poem out of assertions and generalization about the world—with a very thin sense of a complicated, surprising, opaque world outside myself that resisted the patterns I was asserting. These generalizations, shorn of much experience, were pretty simple-minded and banal."
Bidart submitted his work to Richard Howard, who was then editor of a poetry series at Braziller. Golden State was released in 1973. The book's most famous poem is "Herbert White," which is told through the voice of a psychopathic child-murderer and necrophiliac. In his interview with Halliday, Bidart stated that his intent in writing the piece was to present "someone who was 'all that I was not,' whose way of 'solving problems' was the opposite of that of the son in the middle of the book. The son's way . . . involves trying to 'analyze' and 'order' the past, in order to reach 'insight'; Herbert White's is to give himself a violent pattern growing out of the dramas of his past, a pattern that consoles him as long as he can feel that someone else has acted within it." In a review for Parnassus, Sharon Mayer Libera wrote that "Bidart's achievement, even a tour de force, is to have made [Herbert White] human. The narrator's gruesome adventures become the least important aspect of the monologue—what is significant is his reaching out, in a language both awkward and alive, for the reasons he seeks power over his experience in peculiar and violent ways."
Bidart's second collection, The Book of the Body, includes several poems featuring characters struggling to overcome both physical and emotional adversity. The book opens with "The Arc," a series of musings by an amputee, and includes the dramatic monologue "Ellen West," spoken by a woman with anorexia. Based on a case study by noted psychiatrist Ludwig Binswanger, Edmund White regarded the poem as "a work that displays Bidart's talents at their most exacting, their most insistent."
Bidart's early work often disregarded the conventions of poetry. In an appraisal of The Book of the Body, Helen Vendler stated that "Bidart's method is not narrative; unlike the seamless dramatic monologues we are used to, his are spliced together, as harrowing bits of speech, an anecdote, a reminiscence, a doctor's journal notes, a letter, an analogy, follow each other in a cinematic progression." Reviewers have also often drawn attention to Bidart's unusual typography, and to the liberties he takes with punctuation and capitalization. In his interview with Halliday, Bidart explained that "the only way I can sufficiently . . . express the relative weight and importance of the parts of a sentence—so that the reader knows where he or she is and the 'weight' the speaker is placing on the various elements that are being laid out—is [through] punctuation. . . Punctuation allows me to 'lay out' the bones of a sentence visually, spatially, so that the reader can see the pauses, emphases, urgencies and languors in the voice."
The Sacrifice, released in 1983, received widespread praise. Central to the volume is a thirty-page work titled "The War of Vaslav Nijinsky," As with most of his poetry, "The War of Vaslav Nijinsky" went through a series of revisions as Bidart experimented with language and punctuation. "The Nijinsky poem was a nightmare," he remarked in his interview. "There is a passage early in it that I got stuck on, and didn't solve for two years." David Lehman praised Bidart's technique of alternating portions of the dancer's monologue with prose sections on Nijinsky's life. According to Lehman, "the result combines a documentary effect with an intensity rare in contemporary poetry."
Although he has written in a variety of forms, Bidart's first books are best known for their dramatic monologues of troubled characters like Herbert White, Ellen West, and Vaslav Nijinsky. In his interview Bidart discussed how he is able to write in voices so different from his own: "Once I finally get the typed page to the point where it does seem 'right'—where it does seem to reproduce the voice I hear—something very odd happens: the ' being' of the poem suddenly becomes the poem on paper, and no longer the 'voice' in my head. The poem on paper suddenly seems a truer embodiment of the poem's voice than what I still hear in my head. I've learned to trust this when it happens—at that point, the entire process is finished."
Bidart's book Desire was nominated for the triple crown of awards—the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and the National Book Critics Circle Award—and received the 1998 Rebekka Bobbitt Prize from the Library of Congress for the best book of poetry published during the previous two years.
Desire begins with thirteen short poems, including a memorial to artist Joe Brainard, who died of AIDS. William Logan said in New Criterion that these poems "prepare the psychology of 'The Second Hour of the Night,' a masterwork whose first part is as good as anything Bidart has done" The book's second half, "The Second Hour of the Night," is a recounting of Ovid's tale of Myrrha's incestuous love for her father, Cinyrus. Nation reviewer Langdon Hammer wrote that the poem "is, in a sense, the worst case that could be made against desire: Sex makes people miserable; it leads them to destroy others and themselves. Yet Bidart converts his poem into an affirmation of embodied love." Hammer noted that the "pre-existing forms" in Desire include writing by Dante, Marcus Aurelius, and Catullus. "Bidart's mind," continued Hammer, "like Ezra Pound's, is full of writing. The experience he records is first of all the experience of a compassionate, intensive reader. What he cares about most is not the content of prior texts but what it feels like to enter them, and then to carry them inside you."
Bidart told Lambda Book Report interviewer Timothy Liu, "I think 'The Second Hour of the Night' is a poem I've been trying to write all my life. . . . I wanted to write a poem that questioned love, and in some sense, to punish love as far as one could—and see what remained. Not out of the illusion that one could destroy the desire for love, but to devour as many sentimentalities and delusional aspects as possible, certainly to question the traditional assumptions about love."
Bidart's sixth book, Star Dust, was published in 2005. Like Desire, it is divided in two parts. The first section is composed of the short poems published as the Pulitzer-prize nominated chapbook "Music like Dirt," and the second of eight short lyrics and a long narrative poem that continues the series Bidart began in Into the Western Night. Like the rest of the collection, "The Third Hour of the Night" focuses on the human urge to make or create, but does so by subverting the process described in the first half. Jacob Edmund, the Boston Review, wrote that "the failure to realize 'the human need to make' in the first section becomes an effort to make by unmaking the self in the second. The two sections interpenetrate, mirror, and modify one another, creating a dynamic and impressively realized whole." "The Third Hour of the Night" tells the story of Benvenuto Cellini, a contemporary of Michelangelo—and a sorcerer—who struggles to complete a bronze statue of Perseus holding Medusa's head. The intense drive towards creation, the way we shape and give form to experience, is the central theme of Star Dust. Reviewing the book for the New York Times, Langdon Hammer noted that Bidart's emphasis was both on the way we shape "or mis-shape" our lives: "The qualification is important. Making is our best chance for meaning, he [Bidart] insists. ''Without clarity about what we make,'' however, it becomes ''a curse, a misfortune'; and what each of us must make, let alone how to make it, is never clear." The book, which was nominated for a National Book award, employed familiar Bidart typography—block capital, italics, blank space—and techniques such as dramatic monologue, quotation, and paraphrase.
Bidart's recent books include Watching the Spring Festival (2008), his first book of lyric poems; and Metaphysical Dog (2013), which won the National Books Critics Circle Award and was a finalist for the National Book Award.
- Golden State, Braziller (New York, NY), 1973.
- The Book of the Body, Farrar, Straus & Giroux (New York, NY), 1977.
- The Sacrifice, Random House (New York, NY), 1983.
- In the Western Night: Collected Poems, 1965-90, Farrar, Straus & Giroux (New York, NY), 1990.
- Desire, Farrar, Straus & Giroux (New York, NY), 1997.
- Music Like Dirt, Sarabande Books (Louisville, KY), 2002.
- Star Dust (poems), Farrar, Straus & Giroux (New York, NY), 2005.
- Watching the Spring Festival, Farrar, Straus & Giroux (New York, NY), 2008.
- Metaphysical Dog, Farrar, Straus & Giroux (New York, NY), 2013.
- (Editor, with David Gewanter) The Collected Poems of Robert Lowell, Farrar, Straus & Giroux (New York, NY), 2003.
Further Readings
- Bidart, Frank, In the Western Night: Collected Poems, 1965-90, Farrar, Straus & Giroux (New York, NY), 1990.
- Contemporary Literary Criticism, Volume 33, Gale (Detroit, MI), 1985.
- Contemporary Poets, 6th edition, St. James Press (Detroit, MI), 1996.
- American Poetry Review, September, 1985, p. 14.
- Antioch Review, summer, 1998, Molly Bendall, review of Desire, p. 380.
- Bloomsbury Review, May, 1998, review of Desire, p. 7.
- Booklist, October 1, 1997, Ray Olson, review of Desire, p. 301; January 1, 1998, review of Desire.
- Chicago Review, fall, 1997, Andrew Rathmann, review of Desire, p. 148; fall, 2001, Andrew Rathmann and Danielle Allen, interview with Frank Bidart, p. 21.
- Lambda Book Report, December, 1997, Jim Marks, "Editor's Corner," p. 4; April, 1998, Timothy Liu, "Punishing love: Tim Liu interviews Frank Bidart," p. 1, Daphne Kutzer, review of Desire, p. 9.
- Library Journal, September 15, 1997, Graham Christian, review of Desire, p. 77.
- Los Angeles Times, March 10, 1997, Mark Arax, "Coming Home, Coming Out" p. A3.
- Nation, December 10, 1983, pp. 610-611; August 13, 1990, pp. 170-173; November 24, 1997, Langdon Hammer, review of Desire, p. 32.
- New Criterion, June, 1998, William Logan, "Soiled Desires," p. 61.
- New Leader, October 6, 1997, Stephen Burt, review of Desire, p. 16.
- New Republic, October 27, 1997, pp. 38-41; October 27, 1997, Adam Kirsch, review of Desire, p. 38.
- Newsweek, January 30, 1984, David Lehman, review of The Sacrifice, pp. 71-72.
- New York Times Book Review, November 27, 1983, p. 13.
- Parnassus, spring-summer, 1975, Sharon Mayer Libera, review of Golden State, pp. 259-269; February, 1993, review of In the Western Night: Collected Poems, 1965-90, p. 423.
- Poetry, August, 1998, David Yezzi, review of Desire, p. 287.
- Publishers Weekly, August 25, 1997, p. 66; August 25, 1997, review of Desire, p. 66.
- Salmagundi, spring-summer, 1998, Cal Bedient, "Frank Bidart, Tragedian," p. 328.
- Threepenny Review, summer, 1993, review of In the Western Night, p. 20; fall, 1999, review of Desire, p. 12.
- Tribune Books (Chicago, IL), August 5, 1990, p. 3.
- Virginia Quarterly Review, spring, 1998, review of Desire, p. 65.
- Washington Post Book World, November 20, 1977, p. E5; October 9, 1983, p. 8; March 3, 1991, p. 6; January 25, 1998, Robert Hass, "Poet's Choice," p. 2; September 27, 1998, David Streitfeld, "Book Report," p. 15.
- World Literature Today, summer, 1998, review of Desire, p. 628.
- Yale Review, autumn, 1977, Helen Vendler, review of The Book of the Body, pp. 78-79; April, 1998, Stephen Yenser, review of Desire, p. 153.
- Boston Phoenix, http: / /www.bostonphoenix.com/ (October 27, 1997), Elizabeth Schmidt, "Frank Bidart: Mourning Glory."
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Frank Bidart's first books, Golden State and The Book of the Body, both published in the 1970s, gained critical attention and praise, but his reputation as a poet of uncompromising originality was made with The Sacrifice, published in 1983. All three books are collected In the Western Night: Collected Poems 1965-1990. His position in American letters has been solidified through his later works, including Desire, Star Dust, and Watching the Spring Festival. Much of Bidart's early work focuses on the origins and consequences of guilt. Among his most notable pieces are dramatic monologues presented through such characters as Herbert White, a child-murderer, and Ellen West, an anorexic woman. "Part of his effectiveness comes simply from his ability as a storyteller," commented Michael Dirda in Washington Post Book World. "You long to discover what happens to his poor, doomed people."
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