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Shining concrete floors, rows of blue lockers and state-of-the-art classrooms will greet ninth-graders who begin school at H.L. Bourgeois High's new freshman center next week.
Shining concrete floors, rows of blue lockers and state-of-the-art classrooms will greet ninth-graders who begin school at H.L. Bourgeois High's new freshman center next week.
The long-awaited building, adjacent to the existing school at 1 Reservation Court in Gray, is ready for students who would have attended Evergreen Junior High.
The 47,000-square-foot center is "second to none," Principal Matthew Hodson said during a ribbon cutting Wednesday that drew more than 100 guests. The center, with 18 classrooms and several science and computer labs, is equipped with the latest education technology, energy-efficient lights and insulation and a modern look.
Superintendent Philip Martin called the completed project "exemplary."
"I've been here many times and watched from the first piling being driven to the completion," Martin said at the ceremony. "I'm a proud papa."
The $10 million project was paid for with bond sale proceeds and money from a 1-cent sales tax. It was designed by Merlin Lirette, a local architect, and built by Troy Thompson Construction Co. of Thibodaux.
"This building will serve generations of students," Martin said. "It's a remarkable accomplishment."
Martin praised individual features of the building, specifically the classroom technology, including white boards that function like giant, interactive tablet computers with specialized software, and the outdoor covered pavilion that will be used as a hang-out space or event area.
The building has motion-censored classroom lights to conserve energy and low-maintenance polished concrete floors.
And it's all visually appealing, added Hayes Badeaux, a School Board member.
"How can you not feel like learning in this?" he said, looking around the space.
All of the School Board members present, including L.P. Bordelon, the first principal of H.L. Bourgeois, spoke at the ceremony, crediting the success of the project to Lirette, Thompson and other community partners.
"The School Board has been talking about a comprehensive high school in the northern part of the parish for years," Bordelon said. "The Terrebonne Parish School Board promised this to the people and delivered."
By keeping freshmen together in one space, the school will be able to help students build a sense of community while adjusting to high school life.
It's a fresh start for the students and the teachers, said Claudette Kelleher, who teaches Algebra I. Kelleher, who taught at Evergreen for seven years, was setting up her new classroom Wednesday.
"I'm excited, the students are excited," she said. "It's all brand new."
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Companies are getting out of cost-cutting mode and shifting into gear for growth in the new year. What does that mean for the job market?
"In 2010, we saw steady, gradual increases in jobs across sectors," said Matt Ferguson, CEO of CareerBuilder.com. "2011 will be a better year for jobs … as business leaders grow more confident in the recovery," he said.
It's not going to be a job boom, but there will be steady growth in hiring. One in four hiring managers said they plan to hire full-time workers in 2010, up sharply from the past two years, according to a recent survey by CareerBuilder.com.
We already know the hot sectors that are hiringbut when it comes to the actual position jobseekers are applying for, the best opportunities will be for sales, information-technology and customer-service jobs as companies shift out of safety and cost-cutting modes and prepare to grow .
Click ahead for the 10 jobs that will be the most in demand in 2011.
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ST. CHARLES – The 30th annual All-Canada Show will take place at the Pheasant Run Mega Center next week, featuring Canada's fishing and hunting destinations. The event includes semiars, maps and travel guides.
The event runs Jan. 10 to 13 at Pheasant Run, 4051 E. Main St., St. Charles. Those interested in traveling to Canada will find a variety of destinations including drive-in resorts, camps, and lodges, remote fly-in outposts, canoe outfitters, five-star fly-in lodges and hunting outfitters.
"The key to a successful Canadian trip is proper planning," Jennifer Young, the show's general manager, said in a news release. "That's the whole premise of the All-Canada Show – we have everything show guests need to plan their trip. The opportunity for show guests to talk, face-to-face, with the owners/operators of these lodges greatly improves their chances of a successful adventure. We work with reputable, well-established camp and lodge owner/operators."
Show staff and featured speaker Norm "the Great" McCreight will head to the show's seminar stage to educate consumers. The presentations offer insight into selecting for the perfect destination, choosing the right lodge plan, crossing the border, plus tips on saving money and wilderness safety.
"Canada is a great destination for these and many more reasons: the nature is amazing, seeing wildlife in their natural habitat is an awesome experience (including bears, moose, eagles, fox, deer, arctic turns, and so much more), it is safe to travel in Canada, it is easy to cross the border (bring your passport), and lastly it is close and accessible," Young said. "Go this year, cross it off of your bucket list, don't wait another year."
For information, visit www.allcanadashow.com.
"If you like Canada, there's plenty to keep you occupied at the show," Young said. "Although the primary purpose of the show is to select the perfect destination for your adventure, we also offer a variety of information, attractions and entertainment to aid in the process and create a real Canadian atmosphere."


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It all came down to one play. One way or the other, one team was going to come out on top; the other leaving with heads hanging low.
By Chuck Nelson
For The Evening News
CARLETON ? It all came down to one play.
One way or the other, one team was going to come out on top; the other leaving with heads hanging low.
Huron kicker Marco Marchionda lined up, made his approach and laid into the ball, making solid contact and sending the ball on its way toward the uprights with his team trailing Airport 14-13 in the waning seconds, needing his kick to sail through to take a late lead.
But Jets senior Jason Brooks had other ideas.
He burst through the Chief offensive line and went airborne, sending Marchionda?s kick and Huron?s hopes into the ground with 52.2 seconds to go in the game, preserving his team?s one-point lead and gaining it a homecoming win despite Huron scoring the game?s final 13 points and outgaining Airport 320 yards to 200.
?We practice it every week,? Brooks said of his block afterward. ?I just went as hard as I could, came free, jumped as high as I could and I got it.?
The win improved the Jets to 4-2 overall and 3-2 in Huron League action. Huron fell to 2-4 overall and 2-3 in league contests.
After a scoreless first quarter, Airport broke the ice with 3:51 to go in the first half. Senior quarterback - and Homecoming king - Brandon Potcova capped a 15-play, 7:20 drive by carrying a two-yard keeper into the end zone. Dylan Raisanen?s extra point made it 7-0 Jets. Potcova also had runs of 14, 10 and 11 yards to key the drive, and gained 42 of his 54 rushing yards on the possession.
?Very exciting, nothing?s better than Homecoming,? Potcova said. ?We have good running backs that set up everything we do. Them running the ball sets me up. Without them, and my offensive line, I can?t run the ball.?
Airport would score again to make it 14-0 when senior Brent Richards found a gap up the middle and raced in for a 21-yard touchdown to cap a steady 8-play drive.
Huron began its comeback bid on the possession, as quarterback Zach Schlarb found tight end Ryan Skura across the middle for a 21-yard scoring strike. Marchionda?s extra point made it 14-7. Schlarb - who finished the game 9-for-18 for 155 yards of passing - also had an 18-yard completion to Demarcus Bunn and another of 10 yards, also to Skura, to spark the 11-play drive. Senior running back Steven Curnett also turned in a solid effort, picking up 94 yards on 21 carries.
Schlarb and Bunn - who finished the game with 109 receiving yards on five catches - hooked up again in the fourth quarter on a corner route for a 37-yard touchdown with Bunn making a leaping grab over the coverage before hitting paydirt. The extra point sailed wide, and Airport kept a 14-13 lead.
Jets coach John VanWashenova liked both teams? effort, and was happy his team followed the defensive game-plan of bend-but-don?t-break.
?We don?t want to give up the big play,? he said. ?They didn?t score in the first half. We were happy to let them move the ball. They got the one pass, and that was how we want to do it. Neither team deserved to lose, both teams played hard.?


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When I was in college, I walked onto the football team. It didn't take long for me to grasp a cold reality: I couldn't just be as good as the scholarship players, who already had the reputation and name recognition. To get the coaches' attention, I had to be better.
That's where Cadillac is today in its quest to play on the same field with the German luxury brands.
And today's March sales report certainly helped: Cadillac's U.S. sales rose 50 percent last month compared with the same month last year.
"We know we need to sort of over-achieve on the performance side to break through the imagery, the false image of Cadillac that still lingers in the minds of some consumers," Hampden Tener, Cadillac's product director, said on the sidelines of the New York auto show last week.
Opinions may vary on the wisdom of Cadillac's beat-the-Germans strategy. But it's hard to accuse General Motors of not trying.
The redesigned 2014 CTS, unveiled last week, appears to be a leap forward on the performance scale. It's longer and lower to enhance handling. It sheds weight from the current model -- GM claims it'll be the lightest mid-sized luxury sedan, about 200 pounds lighter than a comparably equipped BMW 528i.
GM is dropping a new, 420 horsepower 3.6-liter twin turbo engine into a performance CTS, Vsport, that it claims will cover 0 to 60 mph in 4.6 seconds.
The next-gen CTS rollout in late fall will follow last year's debut of the ATS compact, built from scratch on a lightweight platform that now underpins the redesigned CTS. Plenty of reviewers have concluded that the ATS rivals the BMW 3 series -- not just a scholarship player, but the MVP of the compact luxury segment.
And Tener says Cadillac remains as committed as ever to its V-Series, the high performance line that played a big role in getting people to take the brand seriously again after debuting nearly a decade ago.
For Cadillac's sake, I hope its quest to beat BMW, Mercedes and Audi goes better than my college football career. I never sniffed the field.


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The Portland State University Institute for Asian Studies is pleased to partner with the First Saturday East Asia Program Committee to host
First Saturday: an East Asian Program Series
A monthly program featuring lectures on art, architecture, gardens and historical culture of China and East Asia, highlighting connections with the Pacific NW.
This year's theme is The Fragrance of Discovery.
DATE: Every first Saturday of the month. | TIME: 9:30 - 11:00am
Lectures are free and open to public.
Saturday, September 14, 9:30-11:00am | Location: PSU College of Urban Affairs Bldg, Rm 250
Presenter: Lu Kesi
Topic: The Art of Chinese Seals: Carving Aurhority & Creating History
Chinese seals or chops, though relatively unknown in the West, have been in continuous use for over 3000 years in China. Chops are used in lieu of signatures on documents, paperwork, contract, and art for acknowledgement or authorship. The earliest known seals date from the Shang Dynasty and by the Han Dynasty they were an essential part of Chinese culture and eventually spread to Korea and Japan. Seals are carved from various materials and used with red cinnabar paste. The carving and collecting of chops was a part of the Chinese literati milieu. today this ancient art is kep alive mostly by calligraphers and artists. Join us for a brief history of the art, learn how seals are made and used and look at various examples.
Saturday, October 5, 9:30-11:00am | Location: TBA
Presenter: Dan Huynh
Zhu Zaiyu, A Ming Music Sage and Mathematics Genius
Saturday, November 2, 9:30-11:00am | Location: TBA
Presenter: Mark Vossbrink
Topic: The Art of Chinese Floral Arrangements: History and Heritage
Saturday, December 7, 9:30-11:00am | Location: TBA
Presenter: Dr. Juwen Zhang, Willamette University
Topic: Xun: An Ancient Dtragon Egg-like Wind Instrument
The PSU College of Urban Affairs is located at between 5th & 6th Avenues, Portland (on the Streetcar and Yellow and Green MAX lines.
To sign up to be on the First Saturday e-mail list and receive announcements about the up-coming presentations, sent a request to: firstsaturday 'at' gmail.com
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2013-04-24 / Opinion
The insanity of the Boston bombings shakes our senses but not our faith
It is difficult to fathom the depth of hatred and the darkness of human spirit of two young men who decided to place a bomb in the midst of a crowd of men, women and children in Boston in what appears to be an attempt to make some political point. We just don't get it.
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We have been trying to print collected Monsieur Chat strips into mini comics. There are 4 issues so far, each with 20 strips a piece. Would you, our fans, be interested in buying printed copies? Is it worth my time, organizing the strips into book form, adding a cover image, back cover, inside cover notes, etc? Is it worth my time and money printing these up? If a few people want to buy them, that is enough for me.
We also have The Origin of Captain Cat that I need to really work on. That is material that is NOT on the web. I intend for it to be only in print if there is interest in people buying it.


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BP announced this week that is cancelling plans to build a commercial-scale cellulosic ethanol plant in Florida. BP had announced plans in 2008 to build the Florida facility. It had expected to use energy crops to produce 36 million gallons per year of cellulosic ethanol.
The company, however, will keep its biofuels research facility in San Diego, Calif., and its demonstration plant in Jennings, La., to further develop cellulosic biofuel technologies and license them for commercial use in the U.S. and internationally.
The company has completed construction of its joint venture 110 million gallon per year ethanol plant in Hull, England, which is expected to come online later this year. BP also owns three sugarcane ethanol mills in Brazil and is expanding production there. In addition, BP is developing advanced biofuel technology via its biobutanol joint venture Butamax.


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A blogger who goes by the name "Daisy" on the internet recently wrote about having a "black" name. She's white, but her mom named her a black-sounding name she thought she had made up. Her whole sad tale of misapplied racism and misinformed job discrimination and shocking amounts of casual N-wordery is hilarious and amazing and delightful and terrible all at once and I can't really do it justice because it's Friday, but it's the best thing I've read all week. Just go, read it. And tell me: is there anything you wouldn't name your kids? Daisy seems to suggest that her mom, a chainsmoking civil rights activist, subliminally named her daughter Rashida or Shaniqua or whatever so she could get a little taste of How Race Is Lived In America. I always figured I would do like my own parents and raise my kids in a shit-poor country for a few years to try and instill in them a suitable amount of white guilt at an early age, but now I see that I could achieve the same result simply by naming my offspring Tawana or Condoleezza or whatever.
(I guess it would help if I married someone with the last name "White" or something "typically black" like that and didn't fuck it up by doing the hyphen thing.)
Seriously though, I'm mostly kidding, but I'm also serious, perhaps because Sean Bell's cop/killers were just acquitted on all charges, which reminds me of another unarmed young black victim of racial profiling and police brutality whose death at the hands of a bunch of overzealous cops I covered in my past as an actual journalist. His name was Donta Dawson, pronounced like "Dante" as in the Inferno, which is to say Hell, by which I guess I mean "other people," or anyway, the notion that we can really ever understand what it's like to be one...so I guess I should just stick with the former game plan, which is to say, marrying a guy with a really outlandishly Jewish last name so I can name him something funny like "Mohammed," that he can safely shorten to something safe and uncontroversial like "Moe."
On Having A Black Name [Daisy's Dead Air]
Related: Are Distinctly Black Names A Thing Of The Past? [NYT]


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Take a Seat was inspired by the Greater Canyonlands Campaign, an effort "to protect the fragile and wild borderlands surrounding Canyonlands National Park," organizers said. The event is sponsored by Grand Canyon Trust and the Women's Congress for Future Generations.
Utah artists have designed chairs around the theme "Protecting Our Beautiful Canyon Country Homeland for Future Generations." Moab artists donating their creative talents to the event include Celia Alario, Cynthia Aldrich, Adele Alsop, Pete Apicella, Katy Brandenburg, Cris Coffey, Carolyn Dailey, Carol Delaney, Dave Evans, Kathy Grossman, Laurel Hagen, Kris Kelley, Tricia Ogilvy, Kristi Peterson, Jan Smith and Yrma van der Steenstraeten. Chris Peterson, Cody Chamberlain and KaLee Kilgrow are participating artists from Salt Lake City and Tim Peterson hails from Durango, Colorado.
During the month of September, art chairs can be found at the following shops, galleries and restaurants around Moab: Savage Spirit!, Canyon Voyages, Tom Till Gallery, Love Muffin Café, Wake and Bake Café, Sgt. Peppers Music and Video, Desert Thread, Overlook Gallery, Miguel's Baja Grill, Eklecticafe, Red Rock Bakery, Eddie McStiff's, Sabaku Sushi, Peace Tree Restaurant, Wild Rose's, Back of Beyond Books and Spa Moab. Visit any location for a full list of artists and venues.
"Grand Canyon Trust is thrilled to team up with the Women's Congress for Future Generations because we share the same ideals, a livable future, clean air and water and healthy bodies for all inhabitants, human and wild, of our beautiful home planet," said Laura Kamala, who is producing the Take a Seat event with Celia Alario.
The Women's Congress for Future Generations, the first event of its kind, will convene in Moab Sept. 27-30.
"The Congress will amplify an emerging movement that seeks to establish the rights of future generations and the responsibilities of the present generation to help articulate, codify, uphold and defend these rights," Alario said in a news release. "More than 100 women and men from around the world are participating with the hope of transforming public dialogue about the collective future of humanity and will express through word, art, song and performance their vision of the rights of future generations, human and other life forms."
Those who bid on and purchase art chairs through the auction will be supporting working artists as well as the Women's Congress since event producers will be returning 30 to 50 percent of purchase value back to the artists. The last day to bid on art chairs will coincide with the Moab Art Walk on Saturday, Oct. 13.
For more information about the Women's Congress for Future Generations visit www.wcffg.org. For information about the Greater Canyonlands Campaign visit http://www.grandcanyontrust.org/utah/canyonlands_issues.php.


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Random Dent
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Posted: Mon Sep 15, 2003 3:36 pm
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Aww, don't be so hard on poor Mr. McCloud. This is his what, 21st morning improve? Cut him a bit of slack. And he did apologize, in a way.
In responce to the comment about the titles stiffling his creativity, does he pick the ten himself? Or is it an entirely random process?
"One can not be a good dicator and design women's underclothings."
-Jeeves, The Code of the Woosters
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Location: Northern CA
Posted: Mon Sep 15, 2003 3:49 pm
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I don't have any complaints about MI except for this story. This one, IMHO, stands as the weakest of them all. Looking back on all the panels, one gets the feeling that Scott really
have no clue whatsoever on what he was going to draw next (surely this isn't true for most of the improvs?), and was hoping something would pop up as he made it more silly and fantastic. But then everything really started to stray from the title and he found himself stuck.
I think it would have made for a good story if it had gone in a different direction after Kirk burst out of the outhouse. The introduction of demon-posession was what knocked it off-track.
Sometimes the ol' Muse just doesn't put out. That's understandable. Looking foward to the neglected walrus...
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Posts: 54
Posted: Mon Sep 15, 2003 4:03 pm
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The Evil That Scott Didn't Forgot to Do?
DecafSilicon wrote:
Did Scott forget to do some evil?
Scott, for shame! Always remember your evil!
Perhaps Scott McCloud didn't forget his evil after all. Perhaps he realized that his "cop out" ending for "The Evil that Men Forget to Do" would be regarded as "evil" by some on the list who like to find fault with his
Morning Improv
I am not saying that criticism of the
Morning Improv
comics is out of place on this discussion board; of course it isn't. But a statement to the effect that "the later comics aren't as good as the first ones were" is really nothing more than a statement of opinion. And it is an opinon I don't share. I liked "Somnivore" as much as any of the
comics so far. Perhaps I am alone in this opinion, but I really enjoyed "Monkey Town."
I think "The Evil that Men Forget to Do" is one of the weaker comics so far, but, as always, I am amazed by what Scott McCloud can accomplish in an hour a day. I once read that Fidel Castro claimed that he grew his famous beard because he could put the 15 minutes a day he would otherwise spend shaving to better use. I waste so much of my time (this message being a case on point) that the idea that I could could accomplish something significant with an extra 15 minutes a day is ludicrous, when applied to me. But apparenly Scott McCloud's time management skills are more in the Fidel Castro class and I am grateful that he is willing to spend an hour a day, five days a week producing comics that he is willing to share with us.
But I do wish he'd hurry up and finish the second part of
The Right Number.
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Posted: Mon Sep 15, 2003 7:11 pm
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Drop The Cow
Somewhere in the receses of my mind I remember a comedy troupe talking about having to "drop the cow". I can't recall if it was SNL's Not Ready for Prime Time Players, or Monty Python, and Google isn't helping.
Anyway the idea was that when they had a skit that didn't have an ending, and things were just going on and on or just getting out of hand, they would drop a plastic cow onto the set, and that would signal the end of the sketch.
I think Scott needed to Drop the Cow on Hortance.
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Location: Grove City College, PA, USA
Posted: Mon Sep 15, 2003 8:07 pm
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You all make good points, and I concede that I can't find gross fault with any other Improv. I guess I'm waiting for more genius like "Uninformed Bob," which hid its beautiful structure under a seeming bore until halfway through.
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Location: Switzerland
Posted: Tue Sep 16, 2003 5:08 am
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...i don't really get, why everyone is so excited about men eating shoes. in my personal opinion the best three MI's are somnivore, parallelograms revenge and zen dating, so we're talking about MI 20, 14 and 16. don't get me wrong, i like the early work like brad's somber mood, but the late work is really genious.
now to the point, that the other new MI's could have ended the same... now, i agree with one of the earlier posters, that this ending is exactly what the title says and in a certain irony it is evil at the same time. besides i don't know why somnivore could have ended the same, for m the ending is perfect as it is. there is nothing more to say.
looking forward to walrus...
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Greg Stephens
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Posted: Tue Sep 16, 2003 11:14 am
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I thought "Man-Eating Shoes" was just the point where DecafSilicon had suggested (and since retracted) that the MI had jumped the shark. Nothing more special to it than that.
As to the walrus, we all know that the walrus was Paul.
Good morning! That's a nice tnetennba.
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At least we finally have a realistic image of Scott McCloud.
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Location: Grove City College, PA, USA
Posted: Tue Sep 16, 2003 12:56 pm
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I wouldn't at all say that MI went downhill from Man-Eating Shoes. Upon reflection, I think I mentally moved some of the weaker-structured comics to later dates. Should've done my homework before criticizing Scott.
For what it matters (veritably nothing), the first MI I enjoyed was "Brad's Somber Mood" -- "So, live while we may, laugh while we may, let us all grab our
warm woolen coats,
step into the
merrily roll along
to our doom.
My other favorites were "I am the Most Beautiful Dog in the World," "Man-Eating Shoes," "Meadow of the Damned," "Uninformed Bob," "Zen Dating," and "Scott McCloud -- I know you are reading this." I suppose I'm a meat-and-potatoes narrative fan rather than an enjoyer of the more free-flowing poetic pieces.
Maybe this all springs from my object-oriented typically masculine mind, and by reading Scott's other work, I can overcome my psychological limitation.
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Scott McCloud
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Joined: 23 May 2001
Posts: 299
Posted: Tue Sep 16, 2003 5:39 pm
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Thanks for sticking with me through "Evil", Guys. I did kind of slide off the rails that time.
A few notes:
Please don't ever hesitate to tell me when an Improv blows. Ivy and I enjoy reading the brickbats every bit as much as the bouquets.
"Dropping the Cow" is pretty much what I did. Good term for it.
The Right Number 2, sadly, has been slow in coming due to repetitive strain problems in my right hand. It'll be a few more weeks at least, I'm afraid.
The Ten candidates are picked randomly, but the 600 or so that they're picked *from* were chosen from the 3000+ that we've received over the years.
Greg is right that some Improvs come to me more fully formed than others.
I'm pretty confident that the better Improvs are scattered about, some recent, some not. I particularly liked Somnivore and MonkeyTown, for example. Of course, that's all subjective.
And finally, just in case there was any confusion on this point:
*I* am Sparticus.
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Random Dent
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Posted: Tue Sep 16, 2003 8:12 pm
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DecafSilicon wrote:
For what it matters (veritably nothing), the first MI I enjoyed was "Brad's Somber Mood" -- "So, live while we may, laugh while we may, let us all grab our
warm woolen coats,
step into the
merrily roll along
to our doom.
Well, Brad's somber mood has always been one of my favorites, and possibly, favorite, and was made more so when my high school did "Merrily We Roll Along" which is a very, very depressing play (well, we did the muscial version, but it's even more depressing, perhaps, the ending scene being about as inspirational and uplifting as possible), for those who didn't know otherwise, and that fact made me appreciate it even more.
"One can not be a good dicator and design women's underclothings."
-Jeeves, The Code of the Woosters
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Alex Duncan
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Posted: Sun Sep 21, 2003 4:21 am
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Source of the Title
I'm pretty sure I submitted this one. I shotgunned in a bunch of titles around the end of 2001, IIRC, and this one feels pretty familiar.
I used to follow the morning improv every day until it went on hiatus-- I only just this week saw that it was back. Sorry the title sort of thwarted you there at the end, Scott!
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Scott McCloud
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Posted: Sun Sep 21, 2003 1:03 pm
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Oh, I think we can all agree that I thwarted *myself* with that one, Alex. The title was great.
Anyway, welcome back!
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Posted: Tue Oct 14, 2003 5:36 pm
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This is semi-old, but . . .
Is there a professor of Helenic Mythology in the house?
Nope, but I can tell you that Cronus, told his son would overthrow him, tried to avert destiny by swallowing all his kids as soon as they were born, without even checking for gender differences! His wife Rhea, understandably distressed, changed a rock for her son Zeus and gave it to Cronus to eat. Then Cronus threw up Hera, Hades, Poseidon, Demeter, and Hestia.
And on the subject of Athena, Zeus was also told his son would overthrow him, and also tried to avert destiny by swallowing something. This time, however, it was his pregnant wife, whose name I cannot remember, only that she was later divorced and Zeus remarried Hera. Somehow he got his then wife to turn into a fly then swallowed her. She went up his nose or something and ended up in his empty head (can we deduce something about Zeus's intelligence?). Zeus's wife knew she was having a girl, and set about beating out some armor to protect her daughter. Zeus suffered evil headaches, and got his son, Hephaestus, god of smiths, to split open his head (Zeus's, not Hephaestus's). Athena sprung, full grown and wearing her armor, from her father's head. My book doesn't say anything about Zeus's wife. Did she die in there, I wonder?
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Yeah, Scott should have picked up Kirk Douglas' tommy-gun, and filled that demon full of hot, merciless lead, and then made off with the girl, and taught her to understand comics.
Not altogether a bad idea.
Hortense needs to get together with Brad from "Brad's Somber Mood." They would make a great couple.
But this is a much better idea.
Also, to the person who posted:
And I am Miles Gloriousus. Actually, I'm not, but my friend is.
Zeus is Philia. Same empty head. And I'm Pseudalus, only female and under 18. Back, back I say! *holds up chair*
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Ick! Sorry! I screwed up the quotes bad! Everything in that last post that's quoted is me, and everything not quoted, should be.
Edit: Greg edits to say that I think I made it better.
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Yes, Greg made it better. Thanks Greg!
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Why do bad girls make me feel so good?
Mmmmyes, Christina Ricci is the kind of woman that makes a man want to strip naked, cover himself in a thin layer of German potato salad, run down the street, and sing, sing, sing!
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Luckily, we almost never see that type of behavior around here.
Good morning! That's a nice tnetennba.
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All I can say is "Thank God I don't live in Lord Morgue's neighborhood!"
Of course if L.M. DID live in MY neighborhood, he'd catch pneumonia pulling a stunt like that...that is if the homies didn't kick the potato salad out of him first.
Though I could see how Christina would have that kind of an effect on a guy. "Hubba, hubba", as they used to say in the old country.
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Edith and Maud Barnes of Ashbourne, c.1883-1885
Cabinet card portrait by Alfred Cox & Co., Nottingham
Image © and courtesy of Nigel Aspdin
This is a standard cabinet portrait, showing Edith and Maud Barnes dressed for a stroll in the noon day sun, complete with fake boulders and a landscape backdrop to complete the outdoors scene. Although they lived in Ashbourne, Derbyshire, where their father William Barnes was an ironmonger, it appears the family visited Nottingham frequently, because several of their photographic portraits were taken at the studio of Alfred W. Cox & Co. Edith was born in mid-1877, Maud roughly two years later, which places this portrait sitting around 1883-1885.
"Bamboo and Fan" card design by Trapp & Münch, Berlin
Cabinet card by Alfred Cox & Co., Tavistock Chambers, Market Place, Nottingham
Turning over the cabinet card reveals a design printed on the reverse which is very similar to "Bamboo and Fan" from Marion of Paris, described by Vaughan (2003) as introduced in 1884, although this particular example is by Trapp & Münch of Berlin.
The card stock used is of a medium intensity grey colour and has the appearance of having been made from recycled pulp in which the darker fibres are still visible, as shown above, of a type which became more commonly used in the mid-to late 1880s.
Edith and Maud Barnes of Ashbourne, c.1883-1885
Colourised cabinet card portrait by Alfred Cox & Co., Nottingham
Image © and courtesy of Nigel Aspdin
A second cabinet portrait, taken from the same negative, is likely to have been produced on the same occasion. The card mount is identical - albeit this one has not been trimmed at the base - but it shows signs of having been hand coloured. Although somewhat faded, the yellow in the hair, pink cheeks and dresses, brownish fur and red hat bands and cloth are still visible. The studio did, after all, bill themselves as "Photographers Miniature & Portrait Painters," and had offered "portraits in oil or crayon" from at least the early 1870s.
Edith and Maud Barnes of Ashbourne, c.1883-1885
Crystoleum portrait on glass
Photograph by Alfred Cox & Co., Nottingham
Image © and courtesy of Nigel Aspdin
The third in this series of similar portraits, while appearing in this image to be somewhat similar, bar the different colouring, is quite another format altogether. Closer examination of the original shows it to have been printed on the back of a slightly convex rectangular piece of fully translucent glass, roughly the same size as the original cabinet card.
Recycled carboard backing of crystoleum portrait
This is backed with a piece of card, apparently reused from an unwanted cardboard-backed print of an engraving, possibly of some European city. (Full marks to the first reader who can tell me what city it is, although it's not likely to have much relevance to this post).
Colourised back of crystoleum portrait
Carefully separating the cardboard from the glass, the owner (not myself) revealed a rather surprising picture, appearing similar to the efforts of a young child in a "paint-by-numbers" book. It was obvious, though, that the colours of this crude picture on the concave side of the glass matched perfectly those visible through the convex side and were, in fact, directly responsible for the not altogether displeasing colourised portrait.
Section of Crystoleum (Jones, 1911)
This portrait is a crystoleum, a format distinct from the crystalotype, an albumen-on-glass process patented by the American John Adams Whipple in 1850, used first for negatives and later for positives. The clearest description I have found of the process involved in producing a crystoleum portrait is by "P.R.S." in Cassell's Cyclopedia of Photography (Jones, 1911), which includes the following brief summary:
A is the front glass, on which a photograph B is pasted face downwards. When dry the photograph is made transparent, and delicate details coloured with ordinary oil colours, but the broad masses of colour are not put on. Another glass D, of the same size and shape as A, as put at the back, but is prevented from touching the photograph by means of strips of paper H, which leave a small space at C. On the back E of the second glass are painted the broad masses of colour. The whole is backed up with a piece of flat cardboard or other backing G, leaving a space F. When viewed from the front the coloyrs are seen through the transparent photograph and the whole has the appearance of a delicately painted picture on glass.
Disassembled crystoleum portrait (Whitman et al, 2007)
Whitman et al (2007) show a disassembled crystoleum portrait (above) and describe the process:
The Crystoleum process was popular from the 1880's until the 1910's, and was usually a albumen print face-mounted to convex glass with gum or paste. The paper is then rubbed away with sandpaper until the emulsion layer is exposed. What was left of the paper was made translucent, if needed, with a dry oil, wax or varnish. The fine details were then painted on the back of the photograph, a second piece of convex glass that has been broadly coloured is layered behind the image glass, and the package is bound with a paper backing.
Crystoleum portrait of unidentified young girl, undated
Chromo-Photographie, Jules Delarue, Genève
Image © and courtesy of Nordiska museet/The Nordic Museum
This crystoleum portrait of a young Swiss girl from the Nordic Museum, also usefully disassembled, has the same components, and the web site provides an image showing the back of the front glass with the "fine details" (below).
Crystoleum portrait, back of front glass and front of second glass
The first mention of the crystoleum that I have been able to find in the British newspapers is an advertisement in The Morning Post in June 1882 offering "Lessons given in this new and easily acquired Art of Painting in Oils. Proficiency guaranteed or money will be returned," in Oxford Street, London. This suggests to me that, provided one had an albumen print with which to work and the materials, which could readily be had at the local chemist, no great artistic skills were required to transform the photograph into a work of art.
Crystoleum portrait, back of second glass and front of backing card
Indeed by July 1885 the process was being described in full for readers of The Observer (Anon, 1885). It took another decade for it to reach such far flung parts of the Empire as New Zealand, but in August 1896 residents of Dunedin were regaled with details of how to participate in the delights of the "crystoleum craze" by an enthusiastic contributer to the Otago Witness (Anon, 1896).
Crystoleum portrait, unidentified place and photographer, undated
Image © and courtesy of Länsmuseet Gävleborg/Gävleborg County Museum
As shown by this scene of a country estate, perhaps somewhere in Sweden, the crystoleum process was not limited to portraits, and could be used to very good effect on landscape photographs.
The portrait of Edith and Maud Barnes was taken in the early to mid-1880s, which roughly equates to the period when the crystoleum started to become popular, transforming into something of a do-it-yourself style process. The Barnes crystoleum may of course have been created some time after the original cabinet cards, but it is interesting to speculate whether it was done by the Nottingham studio of Alfred Cox, or perhaps by a member of the Barnes family. Either is conceivable, and we are unlikely to ever know for sure, unless the reused engraving print can be identified as coming from the Barnes household.
If you have a crystoleum in your own collection, I'd be interested in hearing from you and seeing some images, particularly if the subjects are members your own family. Although it appears to have been very popular in late Victorian and Edwardian times, many examples won't have survived and they may not be very common.
Anon (1885) All About Crystoleum Painting, Observer, Volume 7, Issue 345, 18 July 1885, Page 4, Courtesy of Early Canterbury Photographers.
Anon (1896) A Lesson in Crystoleum Painting (by Cigarette), Otago Witness, 27 August 1896, p.42, Courtesy of Papers Past.
Anon (2009) Victorian Crystoleums - How they were made, Arthaul.com
Jones, B.E. (1974) Crystoleums, in Cassell's Cyclopedia of Photography, Ayer Publishing (Reprint of the 1911 Edition by Cassell, London), p. 154-155.
Vaughan, Roger (2003) Dating CDV photographs from the designs on the back: The 1880s Page Two, Victorian and Edwardian Photographs - Roger Vaughan Personal Collection.
Whitman, K., Osterman, M. & Chen, J.-J. (2007) The History and Conservation of Glass Supported Photographs, George Eastman House, Advanced Residency Program in Photograph Conservation, p. 36.


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This, of course, would essentially reform Guns N' Roses: Axl Rose, guitarist Slash, bassist Duff McKagan and drummer Matt Sorum would all be in the band - the four core members that recorded Guns N' Roses Use Your Illusion I and II albums in 1991.
Over 2000 voters in the MusicRadar poll chose between four suggestions for the next frontman of Velvet Revolver and the results are as follows:
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Perry Farrell (ex-Jane's Addiction) 7%
Sammy Hagar (ex-Van Halen) 9%
Axl Rose (still clinging on to Guns N' Roses) 46%
Velvet Revolver have been without a singer since Scott Weiland left in April 2008, and a search for a replacement has been dogged by confusion. Spacehog's Royston Langdon and Lenny Kravitz have both been rumoured, incorrectly, to be joining and bassist McKagan has admitted the recruitment process is proving "tough".
With Guns N' Roses' Chinese Democracy album (featuring only Axl Rose from the original line-up) still yet to be released after nearly 15 years of recording, it's clear that a lot of fans want both bands to cut their losses and reunite.
Have Guns N' Roses lost all credibility?
MusicRadar Editor Michael Leonard comments: "We didn't ask whether Guns N' Roses should reform the classic line-up, as most fans would most likely say yes. What's astonishing is that so many fans want Axl to actually join Velvet Revolver. Whether it would ever happen, I don't know, but maybe Velvet Revolver now have more credibility than Axl's 'who-the-hell-are-they?' version of Guns N' Roses.
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One of the world's expert wreck hunters believes searchers for the missing Malaysia Airlines plane have pinpointed the crash site and that the recovery of the black boxes is inevitable.
David Mearns, director of Blue Water Recoveries told the ABC's 7.30 program on Tuesday that he was confident that, because of their strength, the four "pings" detected were emitted from the black boxes.
"I think essentially they have found the wreckage site," he said.
"While the government hasn't announced that yet, if somebody asked me 'technically do they have enough information to say that?', my answer is unequivocally, yes.
"They have got four very, very good detections with the right spectrum of noise coming from them and it can't be from anything else."
Mr Mearns, an American, was awarded a Medal of the Order of Australia for his work after he found the wreckage of HMAS Sydney in 2008, 66 years after it had been lost in the Indian Ocean during World War II.
He also helped find the wreckage of Air France flight 447 deep in the Atlantic Ocean in 2011.
Mr Mearns believes search officials are being cautious for the sake of the families of the passengers and crew who were on board, while they wait for the Bluefin-21 autonomous underwater vehicle to bring back photographic proof of the plane wreckage.
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Kaichou wa Maid-sama [Manga]
I just recently picked up this series from the bookstore... has anyone heard of it? I haven't translated very much yet (there's a TON of text on each page) but I'm very enthusiastic about it. It's romance/comedy.
Misaki, the overbearing, extremely aggressive, quick-to-snap class president is always cracking down on guys. She attends what used to be an all-boys high school and the guys still have a slight mindset that they can do whatever they want and terrorize the girls at the school. Misaki's always there to defend the girls but often times, she can actually be a little unfair to the guys... she treats them like baboons, really. :P
That's all swell until the most popular guy at school, Takumi, finds out that Misaki works part-time at a café... as a maid.
Misaki realizes that her reputation at school could be ruined at any moment, or that Takumi might want to blackmail her, but he doesn't... however, that doesn't mean he can't tease her now. The relationship between the two is a bit like Kona+Kagami, or even Sumomo+Kotoko - Misaki is serious and hard-working, and laid-back Takumi likes nothing more than to ruffle her feathers.
It's got some sweet moments in it, too, but I won't spoil those..
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Yup, I read this one too. It's drawn pretty well, but sometimes it makes me wonder when the main characters will actually develop their relationships. But I guess you can say that the series is still in its early stages, with only 17 chapters released.
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Waa, I never expected posts here! I agree that the relationship-building is going kind of slow, but Misaki's not one to go down easily. Meanwhile it's been very nice to look at and the story's been pretty entertaining.
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I do. It's just...what is there to say?
Besides, mangafox ratings don't always "make sense." I mean, shitty low-brow smut gets massive views there while practically literary works always get few readers and fewer comments. Lame. And shoujo manga is usually less commented on for this site anyway.
Mind, I'm not saying that this manga is on the same league as said unnamed smuts. I like it a lot in fact, Usui is full of awesome and not abusive even if he's rather possessive (kind of like Takishima), while the President is of course a very likable heroine.
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This type of manga don't have that much discussion in this forum.
Special A threads has 14 posts and the series has received an anime adaptation and the manga is officially available in the US, Australia, New Zealand, Germany, Italy, Indonesia, Singapore and France
IMHO Kaichou wa Meido-sama is a fun read but I don't see what to discuss about Now I will "forget" about this manga until the next chapter
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THE designer Pudsey Bear collection raised over £150,000 for Children in Need at a Christie's auction last night in London. A host of models - including Cara Delevingne, Liberty Ross and Kristen McMenamy - turned out to help sell the bears and raise money for the cause.
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According to our friends's over at bigbrotherklub.com, one of their members was suppose attend the live taping today and was turned away along with at least 100 other audience members...that would be almost, if not, the entire audience.If this is turns out to be true, it makes one wonder what BB is up to? Did they not want what really went down to be told, or did they not want the results of tonights live "taped" show to sneak out.In any case...I guess we will have to wait and see.Source: http://bigbrotherklub.com/blog/
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SOCHI, Russia (Reuters) - Canada and the United States were preparing to take centre stage at the Sochi Winter Games in a mouth-watering men's ice hockey grudge match on Friday with the winners earning a shot at Olympic gold.
Thousands of miles and nine times zones away, hockey-mad Canadians - still buzzing from a stunning 3-2 overtime win over the United States in the women's final on Thursday - were waking up to another day of compelling action on the ice.
"You don't give in, you do not give in," Canada coach Mike Babcock told reporters following a pre-game skate when asked if his team would take anything from the women's comeback victory over the Americans.
"You just keep on keeping on," he said. "Is it going to go your way every time? No, but you choose your attitude, how hard you are going to perform and you dig in.
"I am pumped."
And so is the entire country.
Businesses across the Great White North are expected to empty and bars will fill to capacity as millions of hockey fans tune in to watch the first meeting between the North American rivals since Canada claimed the Olympic title four years ago in Vancouver with a golden goal from Sidney Crosby.
The stakes will be nearly as high on Friday at the futuristic Bolshoy Ice Dome with the winners advancing to Sunday's final against Finland or Sweden, who face off in the other semi.
Both teams enter the do-or-die contest unbeaten but arrived in the final four in contrasting fashions, the Americans blasting to a comfortable 5-2 win over the Czech Republic and Canada surviving a scare from tiny Latvia before edging through 2-1.
Canada and the United States have clashed 17 times on Olympic ice with Canada winning 11.
When the Americans beat Canada 5-3 in the preliminary round at the Vancouver Games it marked their first Olympic victory over their northern neighbors in 50 years.
The United States are led by the tournament's leading scorer Phil Kessel, who has five goals and three assists in four games, while Canada have leaned heavily on a defense anchored by Drew Doughty and Shea Weber.
Canada are trying to win their first Olympic gold medal outside North America in 62 years and become the first country since the 1988 Soviets to defend their crown.
Editing by Ed Osmond


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The European Challenge Tour reaches its annual, nerve-shredding climax at the Apulia San Domenico Grand Final this week, a golf tournament that regularly taps into the complete spectrum of human emotions – from unbridled ecstasy, to overwhelming relief, to absolute dream-shattering agony.
Europeantour.com caught up with four players who have shared a mixture all of the above emotions ahead of one of the most exciting, nerve-wracking tournaments in golf.
The Grand Final sees the culmination of a full year's hard labour come down to four rounds of golf, after which the top 20 players on the Rankings will be handed a potential golden ticket to golfing stardom and riches beyond their wildest dreams.......
Michael Lorenzo-Vera will not feature at this year's Apulia San Domenico Grand Final but three years ago the young Frenchman from Biarritz produced one of the performances of the year at San Domenico Golf to win the Grand Final and pip Ross McGowan to the Number One spot in the end of season Rankings. Lorenzo-Vera needed to get up and down from a greenside bunker on the 72nd hole to win the tournament and the Rankings.
"I can still feel my heart beating the way it did that day when I think about it," recalls Lorenzo-Vera. "I remember had a great first round that week. I went into the week seventh in the Rankings having not won a tournament. I hadn't really thought about winning the Rankings because I needed a lot of the variables to happen to win the Order of Merit. For example Ross (McGowan) needed to be outside the top 30 at the Grand Final for me to get past him. I had to be lucky and good. Well, Ross finished 34th and then I was told that if Jamie Donaldson had made his birdie putt in the last round then he would have been the Number One but he missed the putt and I had a chance to win the Rankings if I won the tournament.
"It was just one of those great weeks for me. Sometimes it all goes your way. I shot 63 in the first round and played great and I managed to win the tournament. I hit some great shots on the last few hole in the last round and then I needed to make the up and down from the bunker on the 18th. Looking back on it, it was, technically, a pretty easy up and down. I had a nice uphill lie but when you add the pressure that I felt then I am surprised that I got the ball out of the bunker. I remember standing over the ball and feeling that my arms were really weak. Then my heart started beating so hard. It was booming. But I managed to go through it and through the routine and play the shot. The Grand Final is a great week but very nervous and with a lot of pressure. Everyone can win a card, even the player in 45th place, so everyone has a lot to play for. There is a lot of tension but that's because the stakes are so high. It was a great feeling to win in those circumstances."
Stuart Davis was the man who held on for the last available card in 2008 but had to go through the agony of hoping a fellow professional would miss a five foot putt in order to keep him in the all-important top 20. He needs a big result at San Domenico this week to get back into the top 20 from his current position of 34th in the Rankings.
"I went into the week in 19th spot in 2008," said Davis. "I played with John Morgan that week and he shot 61 on the third day to get right up on the leaderboard and I knew that he was going to overtake me on the Rankings. But then I couldn't see anyone else on the leaderboard who could go past me as long as I didn't have a nightmare in the final round. I played pretty well on the last day and made a 30 foot birdie putt on the 17th and then parred the last. It was looking good and then Marco Ruiz birdied the 16th and then someone else dropped a shot and all of a sudden Marco was going to knock me out if he birdied 17 or 18 which were both downwind and good chances. He didn't birdie the 17th so then I am watching him coming down the last and he hits it into to five feet for birdie.
"There was nothing I could do if Marco holed this putt. I was watching it through my fingers, it was horrible. He missed the putt. That meant that I had my card by €250. It was unbelievable. The tension was horrible and you also feel terrible for a fellow pro just missing out but it happens to someone every year. It has happened to me enough times on the others side and I was relieved to have done it. It is a horrendous experience sometimes but the reward is worth going through it."
Peter Gustafsson has twice missed his European Tour card by a single place on the Challenge Tour Rankings, finishing the year in 16th place in 2004, and then 21st at San Domenico Golf 12 months ago. The Swede is back in Italy this week Ranked 35th going into Wednesday's first round hoping that this year is his turn to knock someone out of the top 20.
"The Grand Final hasn't been too good to me, but the worst one was 2004 in Golf du Medoc," Gustaffsson remembers. "I finished my round and the Tour told me that I had to stay until the end if the tournament but I had to leave to make my flight home. The week had worked out that if Mattias Eliasson, who was leading by two shots with two holes to play in the final round at the Grand Final, won the tournament then I was in the top 15. If he lost to David Drysdale, who was the clubhouse leader as I left for the airport, then Drysdale went past me and knocked me out of the top 15. Eliasson went bogey-bogey and then lost the play-off to Drysdale.
"I couldn't afford to miss my flight so I had to leave the course before I knew any of this. I was driving to the airport not knowing what was happening when I got a phone call from a friend saying that the Swedish commentators had announced that Eliasson had won the Grand Final during their European Tour broadcast. That meant I was in but after a while I got suspicious because no-one was calling me and no text messages were coming in. It was a bit too quiet and then another friend called me and said he was sorry and that I had missed it by one place. It wasn't the best phone call I had ever had.
"Then I finally got to Bilbao airport and they cancelled my flight. That kind of summed up the day as you can imagine – it wasn't one of my best. I finished 21st in the Rankings to miss by card by one place again last year. I was 19th going into the week and finished 11th at the Grand Final and still two people went past me. Again, not one of my happiest memories. You have to try and work your mind around the Grand Final but it is difficult because you are playing for the chance to join the Tour where you will play for about 15 times the money you can make on the Challenge Tour. It means a lot but you have to treat it like any other week – whatever happens, happens. I believe everything happens for a reason and that I am stronger from all of these experiences. Hopefully I can knock someone out of the top 20 this week. It is what it is."
Lee Slattery exploded onto the Challenge Tour in 2004, joining the tour halfway through the season but winning the Rankings following an amazing run of form that saw him win at the Telia Grand Prix, as well as register a further six top five finishes in the space of three months to accumulate €95,979 and be crowned Challenge Tour Number One. Slattery is back at the Grand Final looking to improve his Ranking of 14th and rejoin The European Tour.
"My Grand Final experience was a pretty happy one in 2004," said Slattery. "I was pretty much going head to head with Alessandro Tadini going into the last event of the year. I was about €2000 behind Alessandro on the Rankings but I have to be honest and say that I was probably the most relaxed man at that event because I was such a late starter to that season that I had no expectations and didn't really feel any pressure. It basically came down to the last day and we were on the same score but he was a couple of groups ahead of me. I got off to a great start and was about four under and Alessandro had gone the other way to about four over so I just really had to get in safely from that point and managed to do it. But as I said I was under no pressure that week.
"I only played 11 events that season, I just came from nowhere and that made the difference from me because there was nothing on the line for me. I just went there full of confidence and ended up finishing third in the tournament and winning the Rankings. It's a different story for me this week. I'll be one of the guys looking over my shoulder this time and there will be a lot more tension for me because I need to play well to make sure I get back on the Tour. I have managed to have a couple of decent years on tour since I won the Rankings and when you know you can do that you just want to be back out there playing in the big events. The pressure will be on me this week but it is a great tournament with great memories for me."
|Player Name
|HAINES, Matt
|GAUNT, Daniel
|GAGLI, Lorenzo
|SLATTERY, Lee
|EDBERG, Pelle
|GUSTAFSSON, Peter