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Remember when Indie pop was made by indie kids trying to be pop, rather than pop kids trying to be indie?...
REMEMBER WHEN INDIE POP WAS MADE BY indie kids trying to be pop, rather than pop kids trying to be indie? When instead of attractive, fresh-faced sorts like Robbie Williams and Natalie Imbruglia, it was made by college graduates who looked like they'd had sex as infrequently as you had? Well Theaudience are those people. Only, with the exception of Sophie, they're old enough to remember when they were fashionable. And just like their predecessors, they're considerably better at the idea of pop music than the reality of it.
Therefore we have an impeccably conceived band, where even the blokes manage to look adequate, and Sophie has more charisma than should strictly be expected. You sense they have bigger ambitions than that, though, to make cerebral, wry, witty, but elegant and stylish guitar pop. They almost succeed on several occasions here, but ultimately you can't help feeling that, to paraphrase the single, they know enough but they can't do enough to make us really care.
And yet, they set themselves up to be loved or hated in a number of ways, starting with the pretentious name, Sophie's over-sultry vocal style, and the fact that Clever Titles Don't Necessarily Make Clever Music.
The frustrating thing is that you keep hearing fleeting hooks and snippets of touching tunes, but then they meander and mooch away from it, pondering and posing and twisting in the wind.
Singles like 'A Pessimist Is Never Disappointed' and 'I Know Enough (I Don't Get Enough)' are half-decent jangle pop songs, but they're so fucking [I]polite[/I]. They shimmy around but never really shake, like on 'Now That You Are 18'.
They fare better with slower, more melancholy emotional territory like 'Keep In Touch' and 'Mr Doasyouwouldbedoneby', because even on the most upbeat stuff, like 'Running Out Of Space', they are simply too effete to really put any heart into it. If ever a band were afraid to rock, it's this one.
Maybe they're just too tasteful and intelligent for such base instincts. Which is fair enough when they string the odd decent line together – 'If You Can't Do It When You're Young' and 'I Know Enough…' are engagingly smart. But when they start listing the marking system of monthly magazines on 'I Got The Wherewithal' – to wit, [I]"Three stars is undulating, two stars is uninspiring, one star is unpalatable"[/I] – Oscar Wilde's arse looms large on the horizon.
Finally, on the six-minute 'How's That', they abandon the song to disappear into would-be space-rock territory. Good attitude, possibly, but it's so half-arsed it's like Sunday school teachers getting carried away after taking a tenth of an E.
Alas, ultimately Theaudience appear to be far more important people to entertain and amuse than their audience. These sound like songs about songwriters and songwriting, full of wit and winsomeness, signifying very little beyond clever wording. Cheers.


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JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. (Nov. 22, 2004) - East Tennessee State head baseball coach Tony Skole announced Monday that that four student-athletes have signed National Letters of Intent to play for the Buccaneers beginning in the 2006 season.
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"Justin was a pleasant surprise in our recruiting efforts this fall," said Skole. "He is considered one of the best junior college catchers in the state of
"We are very fortunate that Ryan chose ETSU as the place where he will continue his education and baseball career," commented Skole. "He was being recruited by many Division I programs and we are glad he decided to come to
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"Jacob is going to be an exciting player for our fans to watch," said Skole. "He is an outstanding student-athlete, a high school quarterback, and has a ton of potential to be an impact player in college baseball. He is an outstanding competitor and tremendous young man. He is one of the fastest high school baseball players in the entire state of
"Michael is the top senior left-handed pitcher in
"I am very excited about the future of this group of Buccaneers," said Skole. "Coach Goulet, Coach McClarrinon and our players are to be commended for their hard work in attracting such quality ball players and young men. These four young men are all outstanding young people who come from outstanding families. This group will be a nice compliment to the young talent we already have in our program. We have set very high goals for ETSU Baseball and I believe this group will help make a difference in accomplishing those goals."
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Data Going Up, Data Going Down? Engineers and IT Shake Hands in the Middle as OPC Gives Way to XML, Web Services
By Bob Sperber
About a decade ago, Kris Zywicki began studying ways to make Dow Cornings information technology (IT) infrastructure as high-performance as the silicones it produces. Starting at the companys hometown plant in Midland, Mich., he zeroed in on calculating the costs and risks of manual data entry on both sides of the production process, from enterprise resource planning (ERP) to the plants distributed control system (DCS).
By 2002, integrated data between the two platforms was saving the plant $650,000 a year. Today, Zywicki says, just by doing automated data transfer, were looking at $4 million in cost avoidance. And Zywicki, Dow Cornings enterprise integration architect, continues standardizing and streamlining systems across more than 15 plants in the Americas, Europe and Asia.
So far, the company has implemented a single, global instance of SAP business software serving 9,000 users. Operational systems in various stages of implementation include laboratory, maintenance and historian/data-manager systems. Control platforms have been whittled from just about every system you can name to four.
Manufacturing and software standards are converging to produce a fundamental flattening of the DCS architecture. Today, instead of proprietary interfaces and custom programming, engineers and IT management can find common connections in standards that grew from Windows and the Web.
Today, penetrating a firewall is getting as easy as Web browsing. But before going Pavlovian at the prospect, and leaving the security issues inherent in this arrangement aside for the moment, engineers have to ask questions of such Zen-like simplicity, the answers arent always obvious.
- What data do I need from the business system to run my process better?
- What data does the business need from me to run the plant better?
Data Down, Data Up
Most plants arent very integrated; reports circulating in the process industries indicate that fewer than 10% of plants have actually achieved a data path from the DCS up through the plant and into the ERP system.
Most orders and reports are still shared using email, phone calls, whiteboards and spreadsheets, but we are seeing more and more requests from our DCS users to automatically receive schedules, says Dave Emerson, director of Yokogawas U.S. development center. Likewise, he says, production, compliance and quality reports coming up from the DCS should be automated at any reasonable cost. At the top of the ERP-to-plant data pipe, a single human error can foul up inventories and schedules for days or weeks, and be discovered only when when trailers and tankers pull up or away.
The data an ERP system sends down to the plant depends on the bill of material. At Dow Corning, data import/export varies with batch, semi-batch and continuous processes. In addition to tracing and tracing material inputs betweeen the DCS and SAP, production reporting up from the DCS is typically every four hours for, say, a week-long production run; batch reports are sent at the close of each batch.
The whole business workflow is affected by these reports, so we cant allow plants to under-produce or over produce or run out of raw material, Zywicki says. Before his SAP-to-DCS integration project, he says process schedulers would create process orders in SAP, then go back to the batch execution system and retype the whole production scheduledate, time, materials to be made, resources to be used... it was a lot of work, and mistakes happened.
Typically the first data DCS users start integrating are final production outputsnumber or barrels of oil filled, gallons of gas, liters of material. But getting to and making use of even this low-hanging fruit has its challenges. Integrator Dennis Brandl, president of BR&L Consulting, says, the hardest thing is to figure out what that data actually means, to understand the production context.
Single-value data transmissions are obsolete; todays plants and businesses require much bigger data containers and manufacturing-specific software interfaces that can handle full, complex pieces of information; were talking about whole histograms of data, Brandl says. That kind of integration requires you to build processes on your shop floor or into your DCS system to keep collecting data and making calculations on it. Thats when integration gets harder.
Use the App Map
Brandls into building processes; hes chair of the ISA committee behind the ISA88 batch standard and editor of the ANSI/ISA95 family of control-to-enterprise integration standards. With roots in Ted Williams early-1980s Purdue Reference Model, 95 provides a model that end users, integrators and vendors can share in integrating applications at key layers in the enterprise. (For details on this model go to www.controlglobal.com/0810_Integration.html.)
Figure 1. Service-oriented architecture simplifies the links between upstairs and downstairs.
Only a fraction of production data need ever reach the business office in any direct fashion. Only about 10% of management data is exchanged with operations management applications; and only about 10% of operations management data is exchanged with the business side, says Dave Woll, consulting vice president with ARC Advisory Group. Every step up represents less information by an order of magnitude.
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Jóhann Jacobs said his decision not to renew his contract as Ballet West's executive director had been known to company artistic director Adam Sklute and board members for "some time." A press release early Friday made it official.
"This is something I've been toying with, on and off, for a long time. It's not a decision I've reached easily," Jacobs said in a telephone interview after the announcement. "I'm up there in age, and it seemed time to make a change. The ballet is in a great place, artistically, and we've made good progress toward financial stability."
Jacobs said that after fulfilling the last six months of his contract, ending June of 2013, he will pursue other professional opportunities such as consulting. There's still much work to be done, he noted, including the company's capital campaign and raising more money for Ballet West's $33.4 million Jessie Eccles Quinney Center for Dance, to be located next door to the company's Capitol Theatre headquarters.
"We love having the guy," said Victor Rickman, senior vice president of UBS Financial Services and member of Ballet West's board. "He's been instrumental in keeping the company alive, and he'll keep working with the company through the end of his contract."
The 62-year-old native of Johannesburg, South Africa, said he was proud to leave Utah's premier professional ballet company on a strong note. Jacobs first visited Salt Lake City in his early 30s, moving here permanently in 1979. Jacobs worked as assistant director of the Salt Lake Arts Council and financial controller for the Sundance Institute before moving to Portland, Ore., where he worked 12 years as managing director of Oregon Ballet Theatre.
Jacobs returned to Salt Lake City in 1998 when he replaced Susan Barrell as the company's executive director. He saw Ballet West through some of its most turbulent years, including a highly publicized disagreement with artistic director Jonas Kåge that led to Kåge's departure in 2006. The company struggled through financial difficulties two years later. According to 990 form tax filings, Ballet West's expenses exceeded its revenues in 2008, leaving it $2.1 million in the red.
Jacobs worked with the company's board, staff and dance members to wrestle Ballet West free from the grips of the Great Recession, cutting its 2009-10 operating budget. The company cut four administrative positions, froze salaries and secured concessions from three unions it operated with. Jacobs himself was not immune; according to the nonprofit's tax records, his compensation was reduced from $169,650 in 2008 to $137,155 in 2010.
Harry Rosenthal, treasurer of Ballet West's board of directors, told The Salt Lake Tribune in October that financial prospects for the company were slowly, but steadily, improving. The company's latest available tax records, from 2010, show revenues exceeded expenses by $416,000.
Jacobs said monetary concerns had no bearing on the decision not to renew his contract. Cuts in his own compensation were all part of making sure "the pain was shared" at a time when everyone was making sacrifices, he said. "It's really a case of timing, and meeting new challenges for myself," he said. "I'm very proud that Ballet West survived through those difficult times. The company has never looked better, with an exceptional corps of artists and educational programs. There's a lot we can celebrate, not just me personally, but our dancers and the board as well."
Jacobs added: "It's an exciting and also scary time. I've identified with this company, both personally and professionally, for so long."
Ballet West said in a statement released Friday that it would undertake a national search for Jacobs' replacement in the next few months to ensure a smooth transition into new leadership.


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What is diphtheria?
Diphtheria is an acute bacterial disease that can infect the body in two areas: the throat (respiratory diphtheria) and the skin (skin or cutaneous diphtheria). A common childhood disease in the 1930s, a vaccine against diphtheria has made it very rare in the US and other developing countries today.
How is diphtheria transmitted?
The diphtheria bacterium can enter the body through the nose and mouth. However, it can also enter through a break in the skin. It is transmitted from person to person by respiratory secretions or droplets in the air. After being exposed to the bacterium, it usually takes 2 to 4 days for symptoms to develop.
What are the symptoms of diphtheria?
The following are the most common symptoms of diphtheria. However, each individual may experience symptoms differently. Symptoms may include:
- respiratory diphtheria
When a person is infected with diphtheria, the bacterium usually multiplies in the throat, leading to the respiratory version of diphtheria. A membrane may form over the throat and tonsils, causing a sore throat. Other common symptoms of respiratory diphtheria may include:
- breathing difficulty
- husky voice
- enlarged lymph glands
- increased heart rate
- stridor (a shrill breathing sound heard on inspiration)
- nasal drainage
- swelling of the palate (roof of the mouth)
- sore throat
- low-grade fever
- malaise
Persons may die from asphyxiation when the membrane obstructs breathing. Other complications of respiratory diphtheria are caused by the diphtheria toxin released in the blood, leading to heart failure.
- skin (cutaneous) diphtheria
With this type of diphtheria, the symptoms are usually milder and may include yellow spots or sores (similar to impetigo) on the skin.
The symptoms of diphtheria may resemble other medical conditions. Always consult your physician for a diagnosis.
Treatment of diphtheria:
Specific treatment for diphtheria will be determined by your physician based on:
- your overall health and medical history
- extent of the condition
- your tolerance for specific medications, procedures, or therapies
- expectations for the course of the condition
- your opinion or preference
Penicillin is usually effective in treating respiratory diphtheria before it releases toxins in the blood. An antitoxin can be given in combination with the penicillin, if diphtheria is suspected. Sometimes a tracheostomy (a breathing tube surgically inserted in the windpipe) is necessary if the patient has severe breathing difficulties.
Prevention of diphtheria:
Children in the US are routinely given a triple vaccine that includes diphtheria in their first year. Because diphtheria still prevails in underdeveloped countries, the vaccine remains necessary in case of exposure to a carrier visiting from abroad.


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Every couple wants their wedding to be memorable. The goal of planning a wedding is to create an experience that everyone will remember for years to come. For some couples, a theme wedding is the best way to accomplish just that.
When it comes time to select a theme, the day the wedding takes place may dictate the theme. For example, if the wedding takes place on Halloween, the ideas for the theme are easy. Many other couples choose a theme that highlights a specific interest or hobby or something that is dear to them. Here are some popular wedding themes.
* Holiday: The Christmas season lends itself well to wedding planning. The colors (red, green, gold) are already established, and most churches and buildings are already decked out in holiday finery, cutting down on the amount of flowers and embellishments couples need. Because the holiday season is so busy and a popular time for socializing, couples who want to tie the knot during this time of year should send save-the-date cards well in advance. Another option is to have a "Christmas in July" wedding, featuring the same holiday themes but without the hectic nature of the holiday season.
* Vegas: Couples who want to tie the knot in Las Vegas but want to ensure all their loved ones can attend can recreate the magic of Vegas wherever they may be. Casino-inspired games and big buffet meals can make guests feel like they have stepped into a casino on the famed Vegas strip. In addition, an Elvis impersonator is essential to a Vegas wedding.
* TV show: Some couples elevate certain television shows to cult status. Whether it's "Friends" or "Star Trek," popular television shows have been transformed into festive wedding themes. Whether the idea is to go daring and exchange vows in costume or simply name reception tables according to characters or show locations, couples can include a little television fun into the event.
* Fairytale: Many men and women envision a fairytale wedding complete with horse-drawn carriage and the "happily ever after." This is what makes Disney properties as well as the various castles around the world popular backdrops for wedding events. Those planning a fairytale wedding need only look to favorite stories or movies for their inspiration.
* Interest or passion: Love to climb mountains? Avid about scuba diving? Couples who share a particular interest can include elements of this sport or hobby into their wedding. Invitations and decor can hint at the theme, and then special activities can further enhance it. Fish bowls as centerpieces may call to mind underwater adventures, while surfboard-shaped invites may set the scene for a beachside party.
Theme weddings can add an extra spice to the festivities and incorporate couples' interests into the event — making it even more special.


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March: The Atonement of Jesus Christ
"Behold I say unto you that ye shall have hope through the atonement of Christ" (Moroni 7:41).
The outlines in this unit will help the young men "come unto Christ … and partake of his salvation, and the power of his redemption" (Omni 1:26). In this unit you can help them understand how, through repentance and the Atonement, they can remain clean and worthy to fulfill their priesthood duties. You can also help them recognize that as Aaronic Priesthood holders, they have a sacred role in helping others receive the blessings of the Atonement as they administer the ordinances of the sacrament and baptism.
To make Duty to God part of the Sunday quorum meeting, you may consider teaching the Duty to God outline below during this unit.
Outlines to choose from this month:
- How do I help others receive the blessings of the Savior's Atonement? (Duty to God)
- What is the Atonement of Jesus Christ?
- What does it mean to have faith in Jesus Christ?
- What does it mean to repent?
- What is grace?
- Why do I need to forgive others?
- What is the resurrection?
- How can the Savior help me during my trials?
Consider how you can plan activities that connect with what the youth are learning. A youth activities site is available to assist you. Many of the learning activities in these outlines could also serve as effective Mutual activities. Work with quorum presidencies to select and plan appropriate activities that reinforce what the young men learn on Sunday.
Duty to God
The following sections from the Duty to God book relate to the lessons in this unit:
"Administer Priesthood Ordinances," pages 24–25, 48–49, 72–73


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I enjoyed reading "Girl Reporter Blows Lid Off Town." First, it is about a girl who likes to write. Her name is Casey. Next, this book hangs you in suspense. For example, when the narrator says, "was Ringo looking for the same flyer as Casey?" Lastly, this book has some good characters. In conclusion, I enjoyed reading this book because it is about a girl who likes to write, it hangs you in suspense and it has good characters.
I recommend this book to people who like to write. The first reason is this book is about two girls that like to write. The second reason is Casey and Megan are competing against each other to see who writes better stories. Lastly, you would be interested in this book. I recommend this book to people who like to write because it is about girls that like to write. If you like writing and girls competing against each other, you would be interested in this book.


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3/4-Ton Turtle ToyotaPosted in Project Vehicles on December 1, 2001
When your hometown is Moab, Utah, arguably the largest off-road Mecca in the world, you are bound to drive a 4x4 with a few unique features. It never fails. Every time we wheel there we see trucks with new ideas from all over the country. We see what works, what breaks, whats scary, and what people just plain like to drive.
Like us, Joe West has been studying the scene in Moab for years. He runs his own repair shop there and has firsthand knowledge of what it takes to wheel Moab and how to do it as cheaply as possible. The secret to Joes 84 Toyota has been to collect cheap parts and then find a way to make them work on his truck. Joe did the entire buildup himself and must have begged, borrowed, or stolen some of the parts on his rig, as he said he only laid out about a grand to build what you see here.
The buildup goals were simple: Build something fun that looks good, runs good, and climbs like hell. Joe went with the fat and low stance, keeping lift to a minimum and moving and cutting off anything that got in the way of the 35s. The factory bed lost out to a custom flatbed that mounts a nonmatching spare and all the trail tools Joe could ever need. An exo-cage was built to protect the Toy if it ever turned turtle, and the paint of choice was simple, flat black everything. Hey, turtles aint flashy.


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ClientGrange Road Kindergarten Association and Bayside City Council
Project Year2012
Text description provided by the architects. This project was part of the Victoria state government's 2010-11 early childhood development initiative, and was completed in March 2012. The approach to learning at the Grange Road Kindergarten is one of discovery through play. The educational environment utilizes internal and external spaces, so the design created unrestricted connection between the playground and the classroom. This sentiment continues throughout the new design enabling physical and visual connection to the external spaces.
The design encompasses transitional decking and ramp, a more pronounced entry and lobby, an increase in square meterage through the re-working of an existing classroom, and utilization of interstitial spaces. On approach to the kindergarten children are invited and excited by the gradient of vibrant colours upon the low-height pailingfence which hovers over the blue gum timber ramp. Upon arriving at the kinder each day the design attempts to incite happiness and inspiration to the child's day.
These elements, incorporating tiered timber seating at the site's approach, now provides a fun, light filled, transitional space, wide enough for times of heavy pedestrian traffic and informal conversations, along with the storage of bicycles and prams. Entry into the new light filled room gives direct views into the playground and the chance to look back towards the site's access from Grange Road.
The new front classroom is flooded with northern and eastern light. The northern elevation contains a pop-out plywood window seat offering a place for the children to sit in the morning and afternoon sun. The new ceiling line is raked, increasing both the sight connection with the surrounding tree tops, and enabling eastern light which contributes to the depth of space.
The external canopy colour mimics the sun-dappled leaves, enhancing the connection with the natural environment, whilst offering shelter above theatrette style timber seating. These alterations and additions enhance the values and atmosphere the kinder community has worked to create. Interconnecting and transitional spaces remove boundaries, and create a sense of unity throughout the project and building's entirety.


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Breasts Like Martinis
The bartender at Caesar's tells jokes we've heard a hundred times.
A shoelace walks into a bar, for example. I whisper
Sarah Evers told me that joke in sixth grade and Josey says
My brother Steve, 1982. A whore, a midget, a Chinaman,
nothing we haven't heard. Then a customer asks
Why are breasts like martinis? and they both start laughing.
They know this one, everybody knows this one, except
us. They don't even bother with the punch line. The bartender just says
Yeah, but I always said there should be a third one, on the back,
for dancing, dancing with the woman-shaped air behind the bar, his hand
on the breast on her back. So we figure three is too many,
one's not enough. Okay; we can do better than that. I like my breasts
like I like my martinis, we say: Small and bruised or big and dry. Perfect.
Overflowing. Reeking of juniper, spilling all over the bar.
When I have a migraine and she reaches for me, I say
Josey, my breasts are like martinis. She nods, solemn:
People should keep their goddamn hands off yours. How
could we tell these jokes to the bartender? We can't. He'll never know.
I say it after scrubbing the kitchen cabinets, and she gets it:
dirty and wet. Walking in the wind, Josey says My breasts
are like martinis and I hail a cab, know she means shaking, ice cold.
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Have you ever gone out to dinner and expected more out of your prime cut of steak, only to enjoy your baked potato better? That's what watching The True Story of WrestleMania feels like.
The three-DVD set released prior to WrestleMania 27 quickly becomes more of a "Best of...", which is not what I hoped for prior to viewing it. The question then becomes, is there enough quality in the side dishes to recommend the compilation?
Despite being titled The True Story of WrestleMania it feels like the viewer never really gets the "true" story. Sure, we are privy to the challenges and successes of what came to be known as the Super Bowl of professional wrestling, but very few failures are included in the telling of the story.
The few incidents of trouble that are highlighted, such as the WrestleMania 2 closed-circuit TV feed cutting out on some viewers and the disappointment in WrestleMania 8's build and execution, were surely not the only incidents in the entire history of the event where things didn't go according to plan.
Many tales of struggle from WrestleMania folklore are glossed over in this set. How about discussing the problems Mr. T presented leading up to WrestleMania 1? Or what about Shawn Michaels "losing his smile" and changing the plans for WrestleMania 13? Then there's also the issues WWE had to deal with for WrestleMania 20 when both Goldberg and Brock Lesnar would likely be leaving the promotion after their match together at the event.
Instead, WWE wanted to spend more time patting themselves on the back for being able to book and attract certain celebrities to WrestleMania with feature segments on Mr. T, Lawrence Taylor -- despite his recent legal troubles -- Mike Tyson and Floyd Mayweather Jr.
My favourite segment of the DVD, albeit a short and sweet chapter, is the behind-the-scenes footage from WrestleMania 9. I could enjoy an entire DVD dedicated to this video, which includes scenes such as Hulk Hogan greeting Giant Gonzales, Yokozuna walking his kid around the backstage area and the set-up of the elaborate entrance set for the event.
Other gems include Gene Okerlund interviewing William "Refrigerator" Perry prior to the WrestleMania 2 battle royal and Okerlund cracking up after one of Perry's lines. The simple fact that so much of this special footage from the past exists is amazing foresight on WWE's part.
The DVD's problem is that it fails to incorporate even more of these hidden gems and instead opts for visuals that any wrestling fan has seen over and over and stories they already know by heart.
On the subject of the stories, I'm not sure how old the footage is, but it's nice to have comments from Hulk Hogan included on the set, despite his TNA involvement. The DVD would not be the same without his contributions. Same goes for Gene Okerlund, Howard Finkel, Steve Austin and The Rock.
Noticeably missing from the set, however, are comments from Randy Savage and even the Undertaker, among others. Savage could have been a possible commentator given the Legends contract he recently signed and the fact the Undertaker does not make a single comment on the DVD, despite an entire chapter being devoted to his streak and two decades of WrestleMania experiences under his belt, is absolutely mindboggling.
There are a few other choices the team working on the DVD made that don't make much sense, particularly with the WrestleMania 19 segment. The focus of the chapter is the match between Shawn Michaels and Chris Jericho, but the match doesn't even appear as one of the bonus features.
Another great opportunity is missed with this chapter when it fails to discuss Steve Austin's health issues leading up to the event, issues that landed him in hospital with worries that he had suffered a heart attack. The DVD does feature a segment about Austin knowing it was his last match, but it could have gone deeper about his stressful WrestleMania weekend.
At the same show, Kurt Angle wrestled Brock Lesnar with a broken neck and all the talk going into the show was whether or not Angle would be able to compete and if he did, would it be his last contest as well. This is not even mentioned at all.
Another disappointment is with WrestleMania 8 and WrestleMania 9, when the makers chalk up the change in main events -- Hogan vs. Sid Justice instead of Ric Flair and Hogan challenging Yokozuna after he defeated Bret Hart -- to politics. That isn't good enough, when the DVD is purporting to tell the "true" story behind WrestleMania. Give us the details ...
Ironically, WrestleMania 15 gets about 15 seconds of air time and events 22 and 26 are largely glossed over without any focus. There are just too many events for one DVD, despite a fair running time of nearly two hours.
The first three WrestleManias get a fair amount of time dedicated to each, then the chapters are cut shorter and shorter from WrestleMania 4 onwards. The pace of events is accelerated further around WrestleMania 12 and 13, slowing briefly to do a larger package on Mike Tyson's involvement with WrestleMania 14.
There's also some jumping around between events that takes away from the linear timeline approach. WrestleMania 3 jumps to 23 because both events were in Michigan. Same goes for WrestleMania 6 to 18 because of their Toronto SkyDome connection and WrestleMania 10 to 20 because Madison Square Garden was host to both extravaganzas.
The images are amazing and it's a wonderful trip down memory lane to see all the events again, in their condensed form. The problem with the set is that it does not live up to its title and to quote a line from The Simpsons, seems a little like "flagrant false advertising" to this writer.
Perhaps a more accurate telling of the history of WrestleMania -- although the WWE bias is also prevalent here -- would be WrestleMania: The Official Insider's Story (2001) in which a number of behind-the-scenes nightmares are discussed leading up to the Granddaddy of them all. Another great source is the bonus feature The Mania of WrestleMania on the WrestleMania 20 DVD set that documents the aforementioned WrestleMania 19 issues.
The bonus matches with this set are your usual WrestleMania fare, with classics such as Randy Savage vs. Ricky Steamboat, Hulk Hogan vs. Andre the Giant, Shawn Michaels vs. Razor Ramon and The Rock vs. Hogan.
I would have enjoyed a few underrated matches like the brother vs. brother classic as Bret and Owen Hart battled at WrestleMania 10 and the chaotic Kane vs. Big Show vs. Raven for the Hardcore Title from WrestleMania 17. The DVD does include the Ultimate Warrior vs. Savage retirement match from WrestleMania 7, which isn't usually featured in WrestleMania packages, but I would have enjoyed a few other undercard highlights.
There are three extra matches on the Blu-ray set and both Blu-ray and DVD editions include some enjoyable extra features, such as Rey Mysterio discussing his WrestleMania costumes and Bret Hart talking about his return to WrestleMania.
In the end, we may never get the "true" story of WrestleMania, but there's still enough content on this DVD that it's recommendable, as long as you completely ignore the title and are in the mood for a WrestleMania on-screen recap rather than an off-screen one.
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Friday, April 23, 2010
Benjamin Gone From WWE
After digesting this news and many of the fans' comments posted at various Internet outlets, I truly feel some fans really tend to overestimate Shelton Benjamin.
I appreciate his wrestling ability, I acknowledge his amateur background, and I'll even admit that WWE probably didn't use his talents fully. However, I can only assume that there were legitimate reasons for Shelton's lack of a push. Having no so-called insider information, I can only opine that it was Benjamin's rather bland personality and shaky mike skills that got in his way.
It has become something of a cliche to say that in today's industry, wrestlers must be more than sound technicians, they have to be entertainers as well, especially in WWE, where Vince McMahon is attempting to sell his superstars, not competitive wrestling. Clearly, Benjamin lacked charisma, despite several attempts by WWE to "get him over." Granted, the "Mama" and "Gold Standard" programs were not among WWE's strongest, but they do indicate that Creative had at least tried.
So far, I've seen fans use terms such as "big mistake" and "regret" and "screwed" when writing about Benjamin's firing. To that I respond, "Not really." Benjamin had what looked like tons of potential, but facts are facts, and the fact is that in the eight years he wrestled as part of the main WWE roster, WWE was unable to elevate him to the main-event level.
Having said all that, I still feel it is worth TNA's while to consider adding Benjamin to the roster at some point. What do you think?
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It WOULD be worth it if there were an outside chance that fans might actually see him but the way the same individuals DOMINATE Impact each week, that's not likely. Not that Benjamin should get any kind of push but he could certainly be used as enhancement talent and make a very tough opponent even for TNA`s top stars ESPECIALLY if he were given a manager to do his talking for him. But like I said, there doesn't seem to be much interest at TNA of intelligently building stars for the future but rather a desperate scrambling for quick fixes by pushing young greenhorns simply because they have "The Look" or stars of the past getting by on little more than name recognition.
- April 23, 2010 at 11:47 AM
- Chris Slater said...
Mr. Krewda,
I agree with you 100 percent. I never understood the IWC's love of Benjamin. He had a lot of potential for a few months back in 2004, but since then he's proven that he lacks that "if factor" to be a top player.
I honestly thought Charlie Haas was the more complete package than his World's Greatest Tag Team partner.
- April 25, 2010 at 8:51 PM
Steve Williams
Dean Malenko
Tito Santana
Greg Valentine
Lou Thesz
Danny Hodge
Want do all these legendary wrestlers have in common? Even though they were all great wrestlers, their charisma was as exciting as watching paint dry. Nowadays it seems like character is more important than ability. Great wrestlers of the past wouldn't stand a chance in today's wresting scene unless they are in the indies or overseas. Shelton might had the charisma of a loaf of bread, but his talent was off the charts.
Also the IWC doesn't exist. It's a myth.
- May 1, 2010 at 8:37 PM


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BEIJING, China—For China's 31st annual National College Entrance Exam, which takes place on the first Thursday and Friday of June, at least 10 million Chinese high-school students have registered to sit the gaokao, as it is colloquially known. They are competing for an estimated 5.7 million university spots.
Kao means test, and gao, which means high, indicates the test's perceived level of difficulty—and its ability to intimidate. It is China's SAT—if the SAT lasted two days, covered everything learned since kindergarten, and had the power to determine one's entire professional trajectory.
As economic development in China careens forward, interest in and the ability to pay for a college education swell. So does competition. Getting into a top-tier university such as Beijing's Tsinghua or Peking University—the former the alma mater of four of the nine members of China's current Politburo, the latter China's oldest university—might lead to an interview with a major multinational or an elite political gig. At the least, a college education can circumvent a blue-collar job with a slow journey up a long, bureaucratic ladder. (Manual labor is generally reserved for poor farmers left with no recourse other than migrant work.)
Students become aware of the gaokao, the sole criterion for university admission, at an early age. Pressures and preparations begin accordingly. All schooling, especially middle- and high-school curricula, is oriented toward gaokao readiness. Students often joke that it takes 12 years to study for the test. Angel, a freshman studying at the China Foreign Affairs University, where I currently teach, remembers walking out after the first day of testing and hearing her best friend remark, "Well, there goes six years."
Essentially, Chinese universities accept those students who are good at taking tests. This makes sense for an educational system historically oriented toward rote learning, where students are tested on how well they've memorized their teachers' lectures. Mary, who is about to graduate from the Beijing Foreign Languages University, admitted she had many brilliant friends who simply didn't test well. They retook the test after another year of studying (the gaokao is offered just once a year) and enrolled wherever their scores permitted.
This style of learning might not encourage creativity or individuality, but for the world's most populous country, the gaokao provides an objective yardstick by which to measure academic success. In theory at least, students' social and economic statuses don't matter: The gaokao "allows someone very poor the opportunity to rise out of poverty," explained Mary.
Take Michael Yu, founder and CEO of New Oriental, an extremely successful provider of educational services, including gaokao prep. The son of illiterate farmers, Yu took the test three times before he got into Peking U's English-language program. He is now a model Chinese citizen, known for heading a NYSE-listed company with $2.28 billion market capitalization.
The test is supposed to be uniform nationally, but in reality, the gaokao is modified by each province to accommodate the quality of local education. Among students, it is widely held that Tibet and Xinjiang have the easiest versions, Beijing and Shanghai the most difficult. Each university also sets provincial quotas to guarantee minimum enrollment by minorities and students from poorer provinces and to ensure a lopsided number of local entrants (this is the Chinese strategy for maintaining amicable town-gown relations).
Students are essentially competing against others in their province. Shandong, Anhui, and Sichuan provinces are known for disproportionately high averages not just because of large populations but because bad local economies dissuade young people from staying home to find work. In Shanghai, on the other hand, if a student doesn't test well, there is no end of work opportunities available.
Scores determine one's major as much as alma mater. Tsinghua, "the MIT of China," has an internationally renowned engineering program, so gaokao minimums are out of this world. To enter Tsinghua's software engineering department in 2007, students needed a score of at least 680, out of top scores in the low 700s, depending on the province. (Consider that in Shandong Province, the highest 2007 score was 675.) The software engineering program at Xibei Sciences University, in Xi'an Province, demanded just 442.
Some provinces, including Beijing, permit students to see their gaokao scores before they apply; others, like Shandong and Anhui, require them to indicate preferences before the results are released. Students are left to guess the best school and department they can get into, which often results in unhappy matches. Mike is about to complete his studies in diplomacy at CFAU. Had he seen his gaokao scores before applying, however, he would have known that he had qualified for his first choice: environmental protection at Peking U. In other cases, students overestimate their scores and are left with no option at the end of the summer but to study another year.
Later this week, China will accommodate millions of nervous gaokao-takers. Traffic cops will redirect vehicles away from test centers, and construction sites will pause their incessant drilling. Even in Sichuan, tents have been erected in case aftershocks require students to be moved from testing centers. Many Chinese citizens find the system painful, inflexible, and ineffective. But even more side with Mary, who told me, "It's not perfect, but it's the fairest system."


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This post is the 42nd in a series on the Booby Traps, made possible by the generous support of Motherlove Herbal Company.
While things have come a long way since the days when mothers were routinely given injections to "dry up" their milk, there are still a number of breastfeeding issues which are often overlooked during our hospital stay.
How do I know? Because when I see moms in the community and notice these issues, they report that no one did in the hospital. Or if they did, it was often either ignored or mismanaged.
This is my short list of issues, but there are certainly more. Please tell me what would be at the top of your list in the comments!
The "impostor baby" (late preterm/near term). Those of you who had babies born at 35, 36, 37 and even 38 weeks gestation may recognize this description: A sleepy baby, who konks out a few minutes or seconds into a feeding, even if (maddeningly) there's plenty of milk there. Because he's so sleepy and can't really finish a feeding, he doesn't gain well at first. And because he doesn't gain well he gets more sleepy. Maybe he gets jaundiced and needs phototherapy. Maybe formula is recommended to get him gaining. Suddenly you find yourself in a downward spiral leading to the end of breastfeeding.
This is the classic pattern of the baby who might go by the name "late preterm," "near term," or "early term." They're called "impostor" babies because in most other respects they look just like a baby born at 40 weeks. They might be normal weight, and they just look like a term babies. But when it comes to feeding they are just not the same.
With pregnancy getting shorter and shorter, and the rate of elective inductions before 39 weeks remaining high (such a significant Booby Trap that the March of Dimes has launched a campaign against it), this "impostor" scenario is frighteningly common. The Booby Trap here is that hospitals usually respond to these babies as if they were no different than the 40-weekers. The story I shared above represents a real threat to breastfeeding, and deserves far greater attention than it gets. The Academy of Breastfeeding Medicine has a special protocol just for these babies, and you can listen to a podcast interview I did on the topic as well.
Water, water everywhere: Breast edema and "excessive" weight loss in babies. A while back I wrote about "What your cankles want you to know about breastfeeding." The problem is this: When you've had a lot of IV fluids in labor, the fluid can collect in certain areas, including your breasts. This fluid retention is called edema, and while it may be mistaken for engorgement, it's quite different. It can be very painful, and make it quite difficult for your baby to latch on and remove milk. This inadequate milk removal can cause you to not develop a milk supply adequate for your baby.
This could be resolved, and breastfeeding saved, with a technique called reverse pressure softening, but I don't think it's going out on a limb to say that it rarely is.
Another effect of a lot of IV fluids in labor is that babies are born with extra fluid on board. These babies appear to have lost an excessive amount of weight, when judging by her 'un-waterlogged' birth weight she might appear to have weight loss that is within normal limits. Of course, the larger a baby's weight loss the greater the chances that a mom will be told to supplement with formula, possibly starting the downward cycle which leads to early weaning. Two recent studies, from 2010 and 2011, have pointed to this problem, but I haven't heard any rush to change policies as a result.
Tongue tie. You'd think by this point that all hospitals would be routinely identifying tight frenula, counseling parents, and offering a quick "snip" of the frenulum if parents chose it. But that unfortunately isn't yet the case.
For the 3-4% of babies born with a tight frenulum, and the mothers who can experience wrenching pain with feedings if it isn't addressed, lack of evidence-based practice can amount to a breastfeeding disaster. There are problems with providers recognizing that a tight frenulum is causing breastfeeding problems. One, admittedly older, study found that "Sixty-nine percent of LCs, but a minority of physician respondents, believe tongue-tie is frequently associated with feeding problems." Some parents face an additional hurdle trying to find a provider who can (quickly!) address it if they so choose.
While there may have been progress made on the more common "simple" or "classic" tongue ties, fewer providers know of the "posterior tongue tie," and very few are able to treat it. Until recently parents in my area would drive for over an hour, crossing into another state, in order to see the lone doctor in our region who could help.
Insufficient glandular tissue/breast hypoplasia. Women with insufficient glandular tissue (also known as breast hypoplasia) often suffer at home when "the booby fairy doesn't arrive," but few providers recognize or counsel mothers about this in the hospital. It's a tricky subject, because some moms with what look like hypoplastic breasts go on to nurse normally. But I believe that better support could and should be offered to these moms in the hospital, and I think it's possible to do it without dealing a blow to their confidence. That could start with something simple: If a provider recognizes that a mother's breasts have the hallmark signs of low glandular tissue, they should receive increased follow up and support after leaving the hospital. Only time will tell if a mother will produce enough milk, but providers should be ready to discuss the issue of glandular tissue if a problem develops.
Nipple shield information. I won't discuss the hot button issue of nipple shields here. But whether you think nipple shields are a godsend or a patch covering poor breastfeeding support skills, there's one "fixable" thing I hear all the time: Moms are sent home with little or no advice about how to stop using them. This is a shame, as many mothers become engaged in a protracted struggle with their babies to kick the nipple shield habit, while good information, such as this page on kellymom or this list I wrote a few years ago could have been provided when the shield was dispensed.
Did you get snared by any of these Booby Traps? How did it effect your breastfeeding experience?


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LINCOLN — Once again, the Chase Purinton Monument on Quaker Street in Lincoln looks picture-perfect for all of its leaf-peeping admirers.
The foundation of the 107-year-old monument was crumbling and in need of repair earlier this year when Pete Mikkelsen, the owner of the former Chase Purinton farmstead, decided it was time to take action. The two old millstones inscribed with words commemorating the first Lincoln town meeting held on the spot, were lifted and a new concrete base was created for them.


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By Steve Moreland, January 2, 2018
For the past several years we have done all of our hay feeding using pickups with Hydra-Bed bale handlers. A caker is mounted on the front of the Hydra-Bed, allowing protein cubes (cake) to be hauled and fed with the same vehicle. This seems to be satisfactorily efficient, because one person driving one vehicle can make one pass through a bunch of cattle and deliver both cake and hay.
Several years ago I had bought hay from the Quible Ranch, and was feeding our cows on Quibles' meadow. On a blustery cold windy day with snow accumulating rapidly, I had finished feeding one group of cows and had thrown open a gate while driving the pickup into a hay yard to get two more bales loaded. All went well, and I stepped out of the pickup to close the bale yard gate. In doing so, I slipped on a frozen cow chip while shutting the door of the pickup. After closing the gate, I went to open the pickup door to continue on my way. Imagine my chagrin to realize I had inadvertently locked myself out of the pickup. The automatic lock that I had accidentally bumped took care of both doors, and both doors were locked.
Fortunately a few things were in my favor. I was dressed warm, and was wearing heavy gloves. The highway was less than a quarter mile away. My cell phone was in my shirt pocket, and my son answered my call of distress on the first ring. I called my oldest son, Will Moreland, who has a welding shop in Merriman. He is usually quite ingenious and I had faith he could figure out a way to unlock the door. He was also located only six miles from where I was standing out in the frosty air.
While waiting to be rescued, I walked to a windbreak near the highway seeking shelter from the cold and blowing snow. By the time Will and a friend Wade Burress arrived, I was getting quite chilled. An area the size of a kitchen table was tromped down in the snow, from dancing around to keep my feet warm. I clambered into Will's pickup, and we drove to mine. Will had a straightened out coat hanger along, and he got into that pickup just as quickly as if we'd had a spare key. Speaking of spare keys, I tied one onto the outside of the pickup at the earliest possible opportunity.
The northern Nebraska Sandhills experienced quite a week of snowstorms and blizzards in late March of 1975. I was helping my dad on his ranch in those days, and we were inundated with the hard work of calving, besides the additional problems caused by the weather. Palm Sunday was March 23rd of that year, and a snowstorm prevented us from getting to the Methodist Church in Merriman. Actually church was called off that day. My sister Sandra was attending Chadron State College, as was her friend Rhonda Radcliff. The two girls came to the ranch on the following Tuesday night, with plans to both go on to Valentine the next day to spend time with their friend Myki Beel during Easter vacation. These plans changed when a raging blizzard was in full progress the next morning. They decided to hunker down and stay put in the cozy comfort of our house, and spend their time visiting with our mother and my younger sisters, Sybil and Nancy.
Dad and I were calving, and were keeping quite busy feeding hay and taking care of the cattle. The storm hadn't let up by the middle of the afternoon, so we decided we needed to check on a bunch of yearlings that were a mile north of the buildings. Dad and I saddled our horses, and he was riding his big paint J.R. It was whiteout conditions as we rode north over the hills, and we had a hard time navigating our route. There was no fence to follow, so we tried to keep the road in sight. Finally we arrived at the windmill, and Dad jumped off his horse to open the barbed wired gate into the meadow. The wind was howling and snow was blowing as he hurriedly led his horse by the H-brace fence corner. Alas, the gate lever had settled in just the right position to catch the stirrup of Dad's saddle as J.R. went by. J.R. didn't take kindly to being pulled to a stop on his right side, and the wreck was on! The horse pulled and the corner post held tight. The stirrup leather was the weakest link, and it popped as it broke.
We were in kind of a mess. I got out my fence pliers and cut off some of the top wire of the fence. The two strands were parted, so that the smooth strand was available to make the fix. Within a few minutes of jerry-rigging, the saddle was once again rideable. We rode east to a grove of trees where we thought the cattle would be bunched up. They were not there. We continued riding east to the fence corner, but had no luck in finding the yearlings. We then went north and west and south, making a full circumference of the meadow. No cattle. We rode east again being more observant, and discovered where the cattle had gone through a fence near the tree grove. We then tracked them to where they were all crammed together in an unprotected fence corner. By this time the white-out was turning into a black-out because darkness was setting in. We cut the fence and persuaded the yearlings to go through. They were drifting into the hills and we left them to be on their own, knowing we would be doing good just to try to find our own way home. This was becoming increasingly difficult because visibility was next to nil. Dad was in the lead. His paint horse fell over the edge into a gully that was filled with drifted snow as high as his saddle-horn. Dad floundered around and got back to the top. He walked along the edge with his feet higher than the head of the horse he was leading. He had to lead J.R. for about a hundred feet before the horse was once again able to scramble out of the gully. We rode carefully but steadily as we kept the wind to our backs. Eventually we got down off of the high hills and saw the phone line, which was above the meadow fence. We followed the fence on home, and were quite delighted to see the dusk-to-dawn light above the barn.
Dad started doing our evening chores. Knowing that Mom and the girls would be worried sick about us, I rode up to the house to report to Mom that we were back. She said, "Oh, where have you been?" She thought we'd just been around the barn and corrals since we had left the house a couple hours earlier. Oh well, it's hard to be a hero.
The storm lasted for a couple more days. Church was called off again on Easter Sunday. Finally on Monday Dad and the girls were able to get a four-wheel-drive pickup through the drifts into town. His main mission on that trip was to get a barrel full of diesel for our feed tractor. Since the highways were still not cleared off, the girls came back home, and Dad had to get them to town again the next day.
We are thankful in these modern times that preliminary weather reports give more accurate warnings of impending bad weather. With earlier notification, better preparedness can be planned. Cold weather can sure cause complications.


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BREWSTER Nearly 60 ranchers and hunters turned out Thursday night to voice concerns over wolf management rules during a roundtable discussion with state Department of Fish and Wildlife officials.
But state officials downplayed their concerns.
Saying the last legislative session was full of "lots of really intense conversation," agency Director Phil Anderson said he was presenting new rules governing when it's OK to kill a wolf to the state Fish and Wildlife Commission for approval.
"We're in the process of developing a permanent rule," he said, noting that he has the authority to write and extend an emergency rule.
During last spring's legislative session, the Legislature approved an additional funding measure for the agency in exchange for developing rules that allowed rural residents to defend their families and property from wolf predation.
Generally speaking, the rule allows for residents to kill wolves "caught in the act," Anderson said. "It happens very, very rarely that anyone gets an opportunity like that."
Under the proposed new rule, rural residents would have more red tape to get through in order to kill a wolf.
Okanogan County Commissioner Ray Campbell took issue with Anderson's position, saying he believes residents have the right to kill wolves.
"We do have a document, in my mind, that says we can," he said. "It's called the U.S. Constitution."
Anderson shrugged off Campbell's statement, only to be met with comments from ranchers and residents questioning the agency director's authority over "migrating" wolves.
Fish and Wildlife Commissioner Jay Kehne came to Anderson's rescue.
"The rule applies for wolves in the delisted area," Kehne said, noting wolves "caught in the act" could only be killed east of U.S. Highway 97.
But in Okanogan County, wolves have attacked livestock and pets in the Methow Valley, well west of the highway which divides the wolf population into protected and non-protected categories.
"You can't do that west of that line," Kehne said of questions by ranchers wanting to protect livestock west of the highway.
Residents also questioned at what point the agency would step in to cull wolf populations to protect deer and elk.
"If we fall below a threshold of our herd objective," Anderson said, noting he would like to see wolves delisted statewide to give his agency more management opportunities.
In other topics during the meeting:
• Anderson said he opposes efforts to expand or create a national park in the Methow Valley and other areas west of the Okanogan River.
• The agency announced a Fish and Wildlife Commission seat for Eastern Washington remains open and needs to be filled.
• Officials said fishing licenses are projected to bring in $6.4 million this year and $7.4 million next year.
• Local county officials complained the agency isn't paying its fair share in payment in lieu of taxes to Okanogan County.
• Area residents objected to the agency's continued acquisition of land and conservation easements in the county.
• Discussed the possibility of rescinding rules that mandate barbless hooks for salmon and steelhead fishing.
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4-6 medium potatoes
6 tablespoons olive oil
1 tablespoon salt
1 tablespoon rosemary
pepper to taste
Preheat oven to 400. Spread half of the olive oil over the bottom of an oven-safe dish. With a sharp knife, slice each potato into approximately 1/8 inch slices WITHOUT cutting all the way through the potato*, leave about a 1/8-1/4 inch thick bit of intact potato along the bottom. Arrange on the dish, sliced side up. Brush with remaining oil and sprinkle with rosemary, pepper and salt. Bake 45-50 minutes or until cooked through and the sections are starting to separate. Remove from pan and serve.
*I have heard of placing the potato on the indent of a wooden spoon and then slicing until you hit wood but a steady hand works just as well.


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Well, here's a pair of sentences that I did not expect to write anytime soon. Amidst the barrage of Tim Tebow goes to the New York Jets coverage, The New York Times turned out a very interesting news feature on the controversial quarterback that actually broke new ground (at least in the national press, as opposed to coverage years ago in Florida) and offered some unconventional insights. That's sentence No. 1.
The key is that this story focused on Tebow's roots -- especially his play at Nease High School -- and the patterns that can easily be seen throughout the different stages of his amazing football career.
The second sentence that I didn't expect to write goes like this: The Times story includes key religious themes (imagine writing about Tebow while ignoring faith issues), but did not pound them into the ground in a hostile manner. Amazing! Miraculous!
Here's the thesis statement in this article, which has a Jacksonville, Fla., dateline:
Perhaps that is why few here seem to doubt what will happen to Tebow with the Jets. For all the breathless predictions from fans and analysts about Tebow's future in New York, those who watched him from the beginning -- before the narrative was honed with the Gators and the Broncos -- already know the three key points that inevitably surface whenever Tebow moves to a new locale. To them, this is just Tebowmania IV.
How sure are they? On Monday night, as replays of Tebow's first news conference with the Jets played on screens throughout a restaurant, Ryan Ellis, one of Tebow's top wide receivers at Nease, laughed as he dug into a basket of chicken tenders.
"Everyone on TV keeps talking about: 'Is it going to work with Tebow? What's going to happen?' " Ellis said. "All I keep thinking is, How do they not already know?"
With Tebow, the beginning is always the same. At Florida, Tebow spent a season as a backup quarterback (to Chris Leak), then became a starter and a star. In Denver, he spent a season as a backup quarterback (to Kyle Orton), then became a starter and a star.
In high school Tebow was never a backup quarterback, but initially he might have been even more invisible: he spent his freshman season as a defensive lineman at Trinity Christian, a private school in Jacksonville where his older brothers played linebacker. Trinity Christian had a quarterback, so Tebow played tight end and nose guard. It was, in many ways, his last season in relative anonymity.
That winter, Tebow's father, Bob, began looking for a school where Tebow could play quarterback.
This leads readers into the matrix of the "Tim Tebow" law controversies, which pivoted on whether homeschoolers must be allowed to take part in public-school athletics programs. Ironically, Tebow was rejected by one famous private school.
The key question: Would this guy fit in? Would he be TOO different from the crowd? Then there was the whole missionary-kid thing, which centers on the fact that preachers' kids can face rough sledding in any high school. In the end, I was impressed that the faith element in the story was handled calmly, with lots of factual detail and human voices.
This is a modest, low-key story. That's a compliment.
In the fall of 2003 ... when he was starting his first season with Nease, there were the murmurs about the intensity of the Tebows' faith. Bob Tebow made no secret of his family's belief that educating the children at home was an important part of giving them a Christian upbringing, and that prompted mixed reactions.
To the Tebows, this was nothing new. At the family's home, there are Bible verses on the doors to rooms. Ken Murrah, who spent significant time with the family while producing an ESPN documentary on Tebow's senior season in high school, said the house was warm but purposely modest. Bob Tebow always had his children do significant work on the farm, whether it was building fences or baling hay, to instill dedication and humility.
"He was direct about what he believed in and did not hide it," Murrah said. "Bob was never trying to win any popularity contests with how he raised his kids, I can tell you that. But the whole family lived that way. It was genuine."
Still, though home schooling is not as rare in Florida as it is in other states, even Tebow's teammates were initially wary.
"I remember some guys being like, 'Will he know a lot of words? Will he speak like us?' " Ellis said. "It was different."
In high school, Tebow was not overtly vocal about his Christianity to other players, Ellis said, but he did kneel and pray before games -- though no one called it Tebowing then.
Yes, this feature story touches on earlier controversies about Tebow's virginity. Yes, it describes the quarterback's skills as a designated driver for teammates who tipped back a few too many drinks -- while Tebow abstained.
It's a fine piece. Let's hope that reporters at the New York tabloids read it. It touches the familiar bases, but does not stomp on them. That's another compliment.
Meanwhile, op-ed columnist Ross Douthat of the Times recently offered a precise description of the logic that is at the heart of the media phenomenon that could be called Hurricane Tebow. Check it out, especially this part:
... (L)et's be unsophisticated for a moment. Why is Tim Tebow such a fascinating and polarizing figure? Not just because he claims to be religious; that claim is commonplace among football stars and ordinary Americans alike. Rather, it's because his conduct -- kind, charitable, chaste, guileless -- seems to actually vindicate his claim to be in possession of a life-altering truth.
Nothing discredits religion quite like the gap that often yawns between what believers profess and how they live. With Tebow, that gap seems so narrow as to be invisible. ("There's not an ounce of artifice or phoniness or Hollywood in this kid Tebow," ESPN's Rick Reilly wrote last year of the quarterback's charitable works, "and I've looked everywhere for it.") He fascinates, in part, because he behaves -- at least in public, and at least for now -- the way one would expect more Christians to behave if their faith were really true.
Stay tuned. I predict that Tebow's life in New York City will draw a modest amount of coverage. Will he lay hands on Jeremy Lin's knee and pray for healing?