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The Eagles showed crazy looks at a breakneck pace in their opener, and it sure was fun. Plus, the Tuesday Mailbag
Note from the editor-in-chief: Each Tuesday during the season, I'll write a column about some element of the weekend's games that has major significance for the rest of the NFL season—this column, called "On Further Review." Accompanying the column will be an embedded video featuring other impact events of the weekend. The first column centers on Philadelphia coach Chip Kelly's uptempo offense in the wake of the Eagles' 33-27 win at Washington Monday night.
What a fun night Monday was for the future of football. Unless, of course, you're a fan of Washington, and/or its star quarterback, Robert Griffin III. Fun is more plays, more chances for scoring explosions. And in the first quarter, playing at breakneck pace, Philadelphia quarterback Mike Vick ran 30 snaps and put Chip Kelly in the forefront of American football innovation.
Will he stay there? Time will tell. Maybe an enterprising defensive coordinator will find holes in the Eagles' offense, and find a way to break through the zone-blocking scheme protecting Vick to disrupt his play-managing and -making. Defensive coordinators always figure things out—just look how first-year Eagles coordinator Billy Davis frustrated Griffin Monday night.
Not to take a hard left turn in this story, but after one week of the season, I can tell you the most-anticipated game on the 2013 schedule, at least as of this morning, is Chip Kelly at Peyton Manning in 19 days. In altitude. Bring your oxygen masks for that one.
"I've never been a part of anything like this," said Vick, the 33-year-old quarterback who took a beating Monday night. He'll never last 16 games getting hit as much as he did in game one. "When the first quarter was over, I thought we were about to go into halftime. Unreal. The only thing I could tell myself was, 'It's going to be a long season.' "
A fun one, if this night is any indicator. Two favorite plays, both from the same series in the second quarter, from the Philadelphia's win over rusty Washington at FedEx Field, in the first game of the Kelly Era:
• Split out on either side in two I-formations, with one receiver behind another. Jason Avant is in front of Riley Cooper on the left, DeSean Jackson behind Brent Celek on the right. At the snap of the ball, Cooper and Jackson turn to Vick and stare in anticipation for him to throw the ball. He doesn't. Rather, he rides LeSean McCoy in a read-option play, handing it to him, and McCoy gains eight.
• Three plays later Kelly shifts the two tackles out wide, into the bunch formations on either side of the line. Now, instead of a five-man blocking line, there are only three linemen—the center and two guards—remaining to block the confused five-man Washington front. And Jason Peters (left) and Lane Johnson (right) are in three-man bunch sets to throw off Washington. It works. McCoy runs past the strangest formation he's ever run behind for 10 yards.
In football, creating confusion can be a very good thing.
"This is stunning, Mike," ESPN's Jon Gruden said to play-by-play man Mike Tirico not long after that play, with tackles as receivers split wide, forced much finger-pointing and shifting and confusion by Washington.
Wish I'd said that.
I spent time with Kelly in training camp a month ago, and I found him surprisingly open-minded. "I've always been a 'why' guy," Kelly told me that day. "The only thing I won't accept is because that's the way we've always done it. I think the one thing we're very conscious of is, we don't have an ego in our program. So it's not: We are gonna do it our way no matter what and I don't care what anyone else thinks. If it makes sense, and the science is behind it, we'll do it."
That's how the team looked Monday night. In the first half, with Vick never huddling except at the start of drives or during penalties, the Eagles averaged 17 seconds left on the play clock when they snapped the ball. Only twice did the clock get inside 10 seconds. With McCoy eating up big chunks of yards—he had 115 rushing yards as the Eagles built a 26-7 halftime lead that could have been much worse—Philadelphia didn't need Vick to be a bombs-away player. Don't try to do too much is the mantra in the Philly offense. In fact, the Eagles were a 64 percent run team on the night. Not surprising if you've studied Kelly. His Oregon teams in 2011 and 2012 ran the ball on a combined 63 percent of their offensive snaps. This is not going to be a pass-happy offense, and Vick's fine with that.
Kelly let his foot off the pedal in the third quarter when the Eagles had a 33-7 lead, and it sounds like he thinks he might have been too quick to go from attack mode. Asked if he eased up too soon, he said, "We may have eased. The clock's always running at this level. It's a different game than in college. We have a lot to learn." That's what I mean about being open to ideas; Kelly understands that any team that can play fast (and Washington can) is a threat even down 26 midway through the third quarter.
But when it was over, Jackson chest-bumped Kelly like he was one of the players. Owner Jeffrey Lurie gave the new coach a game ball. It was a good night, and Kelly remembered why he was there.
"It's still a game," he said. "We love playing football. We had fun out there tonight." We saw.
Tuesday Mailbag
WHY NO WEEKLY PICKS? Will Peter be having his weekly picks put up on this site? I liked looking last year at who he predicted would win the weekend games.
In the past few years, my picks have grown to an 800-1200 word column, where I try to be part informant and part wise guy in previewing the games of the weekend. I have some new duties with the new website. For instance, I have to do three videos per week that were not on my schedule a year ago. I have to edit stories, which was not part of my job a year ago. And I have to write an additional Tuesday column, which is different from the column I had to write a year ago and requires more reporting. So, at some point, I had to make choices. Originally I wasn't going to do my mailbag each week, but because so many people wanted me to do that, we decided that I would do that as the second part of my Tuesday column. I've had a few people tell me in the last few days that they really miss my picks. I don't know why—I stunk at it. Maybe that's why. Maybe its fun to see how bad I am at predicting the outcomes in the sport that I cover.
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DON'T JUDGE THE BOLDIN DEAL YET. Don't you think the title of Monday's MMQB column, "Anquan Boldin has the Last Laugh," is extremely premature? It was you who wrote about the defensive players the Ravens were able to add in the offseason solely because of the money they saved by dealing Boldin. I don't think Ozzie Newsome was sitting at The Castle watching Boldin have a monster game against a very suspect Green Bay defense thinking "Man, I wish we had him for the final year of his contract and not Elvis Dumervil for the next five years." Especially considering Terrell Suggs' contract expires soon, and he's the Ravens only other proven pass rusher. Boldin had a great game, and the receivers for Baltimore had the complete opposite, but it was one game. Let's see who benefits most from that transaction in a few years from now, not after one game.
I don't write the headlines to the column, and I didn't write this one. I will say that the intent of my item was not to tweak the Ravens, but simply to say that it has been my contention all along that Boldin certainly was worth $6 million a year, and he began to prove that on Sunday.
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WEEK 1 WAS SLOPPY. During the Sunday night game yesterday, Al Michaels and Cris Collinsworth made reference to something about the CBA requiring either less intense or less frequent practices, which could account for a lot of the sloppy play we all saw in the Week 1 games. Is there any truth to this, and do you think it had an impact? Or do you think we just saw a lot of cobwebs being cleared out in the first games of the season? Obviously player health is a critically important part of the game, but does the new CBA go so far as to dilute the game by making it harder for coaches to prepare their players?
I definitely think there is something to it. I think more important than new practice schedules is the fact that so few teams practice tackling or play physically during training camp. That means that for many players on Sunday, they may have only had 15 to 20 plays all summer—meaning plays during preseason games—where there was actually tackling. I think the poor play in Week 1 was more related to the lack of tackling and physical practices than the fact that teams can practice less now than they could before the 2011 CBA.
QUESTIONING MIKE MCCARTHY. Before the penalty-enforcement debacle in the Green Bay-San Francisco game, Mike McCarthy accepted a five-yard illegal motion penalty instead of declining and having San Francisco face a 4th-and-1 from inside its 10-yard line. I also believe it was a full yard that needed to be gained, not a short yard. If he thought it was very close, why not ask for a measurement to take some time? To me that was a critical mistake. He wasn't going to push the 49ers out of field goal range—it was a chip shot even if Kaepernick takes a sack on the 3rd-and-6. He gives a mobile quarterback, who is also hot, another chance at the TD/first down without facing a fourth-down conversion. I believe Jim Harbaugh takes the field goal there (though I could be wrong; he is very aggressive). If he doesn't, you have a shot to stop them on 4th-and-1. I don't think I'd take a 10- or 15-yard penalty in those circumstances, but definitely not a five-yarder. Thoughts?
I agree. I do think that was a mistake by McCarthy, and if he had to do it over again he would have made a different call. Good catch.
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THE SAINTS RECEIVERS JUST GET IT DONE. After watching the antics and listening to the nonsense of diva wide receivers all these years, I take a look at the Saints wide receivers and see Marques Colston (seventh-round pick), Kenny Stills (fifth round) and Lance Moore (undrafted) as the starters for an attack that rolls up passing yards at a near-record pace year in and year out. It seems the lesson for wide receivers should be: Unless you're Calvin Johnson or Randy Moss, keep your mouth shut and find a good quarterback.
Part of that, I think, is that Sean Payton is not going to stand for a bunch of nonsense from any player mouthing off on his team if it interferes with how the player plays. But you're right. I think most people in America are tired of diva antics, and want to see guys behave like professionals.
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JUSTIFYING TEBOW. You mentioned in your column, "Tebow can have a role as a changeup quarterback on a winning team." Why would any winning team want to take a winning quarterback off the field and put someone like Tebow in? He's not an everyday quarterback; he's a circus, period. Would you take out Tom Brady for a series for Tebow? Would you take out Drew Brees for a series for Tebow? Would you take out Matt Ryan for a series for Tebow? Would you take out Aaron Rogers for a series for Tebow? I think you get my point. What are your thoughts?
Simple. Say you have a pocket quarterback. You decide as a coach that you want to work on the two-point conversion play, when the ball is snapped from the two-yard line. You have a spread offense in the game, with four receivers. You put Tebow in the shotgun. You have a running back, and Tebow thus has six possibilities when he gets the ball at the six-yard line. He has the four receivers, the running back, and himself. This is a guy who is a 245-pound battering ram right now. If you don't think that in short yardage or on a two-point conversion play Tebow would be a good weapon, I would respectfully disagree with you. That's where I think Tebow would help a winning team win more.
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FOULED UP ON THE FALCONS. The Cardinals lose to the Rams and you have them ranked in your Fine Fifteen. Baltimore gets steamrolled on national television and they are ranked as well. Atlanta loses a nail-biter on the road to a motivated and rejuvenated Saints team and they don't make the cut? What have you done for me lately indeed, Mr. King…


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Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has hit the ground running after being re-elected, tackling Japan's economic problems head on by asking the Bank of Japan (BOJ) to set an inflation target of 2 percent.
An editorial in the Asahi Shimbun said that when the bank agreed to comply with Abe's policy, the central bank had essentially surrendered to the new administration. However, even if Abe has got the central bank to do his bidding, it will not necessarily benefit the economy unless he can deal with the public's "bean sprouts economics."
Anyone who watches Japanese television will know that shows about cooking on a budget have recently become popular. Bean sprouts are frequently featured on these shows, where they are touted as an inexpensive yet nutritious ingredient that make an excellent meat substitute.
Pound for pound, bean sprouts cost one-tenth as much as meat, and contain carotene, protein and vitamin C, as well as being low in calories.
Interestingly, the rate of bean sprouts consumption can tell us a lot about deflation in Japan. Statistics show that the consumption of bean sprouts by Japanese households increased two-fold in the period from 2005 to 2009, with the fastest increase being seen between 2008 and 2009 — when the financial crisis bit.
Bean sprouts economics describes how people respond to tough financial times, how when incomes fall they tend to consume less expensive products to save on costs. The trouble with this is that consumers tightening their belts under these conditions contributes to deflation.
When Abe says he wants to achieve 2 percent inflation, he is talking about the central bank printing more money and buying back national debt from other banks to circulate more currency in the market, reducing the value of money in people's pockets. According to Abe's economics, when consumers who are inclined to save money understand that the yen is losing value over time, they will be more likely to spend, and this will stimulate the economy.
Abe's economic policy fits perfectly with what one would find in economics textbooks. When there is deflation, consumers expect prices to fall and are consequently more reluctant to purchase goods in the short term. In addition, in a country where housing prices are declining year after year, nobody wants to invest in property.
However, Japanese consumers' tendency to tighten their belts is caused by a set of structural factors: the poor global economy; declining domestic demand due to an aging population and falling birthrate; and the continued fall in value of salaries in real terms.
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I have had a few inquiries as to the subject matter of the purple statues in my first posting from the library. Well amidst the 7.4 million items in the collection here are two statues of the ingenious composer Richard Wagner. Seeing the sheet music he wrote was quite extraordinaire. Now for another extraordinaire task. Getting me to sleep! Good night 🙂
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I have had a few inquiries as to the subject matter of the purple statues in my first posting from the library. Well amidst the 7.4 million items in the collection here are two statues of the ingenious composer Richard Wagner. Seeing the sheet music he wrote was quite extraordinaire. Now for another extraordinaire task. Getting me to sleep! Good night 🙂
After paying your patriotic fee of 10 Euro to enter the Royal Palace so you can mainly see a courtyard, gift shop, and stairwell with some baroque painting on the ceiling you will notice the Almudena Cathedral beyond the previously mentioned courtyards gates. While I was too late in the day to be graced with the inner divinities of this opulent structure I did in fact, get into its reticent crypt. You can find a panorama of its intial walkway inside in a post of mine two days ago.
This Church intially desired by King Philips II in 1561, didn't not receive approval for building until 1868. Yes, obviously King Philips never saw his desires actuated but I am almost positive he would have been happy with the outcome.
You may have noticed I wrote church but this is obviously a cathedral. In 1883 construction for the church had finally began but one year later Madrid becomes a diocese thanks to Pope Leo XIII and a not so simple church was transformed into a cathedral.
Construction still staggering in its progress came to a halt in the 30's during Spain's civil war. Then in 1944 they had to stop construction altogether as the cathedral's neo-gothic style clashed with its neighbor, the royal palace's soon to be neo-classical design. Only 383 years in the making at this point anyhow. Consecrated by John-Paul II in 1993 the cathedral was finally considered complete after its redesign. Its crypt however still displays unearthed Moorish and medieval city walls.
Did I mention that this was built on the site of a medieval mosque that was destroyed in 1083? How foolish of me. 🙂
Stumbling around Madrid I came about this crypt down from the Royal Palace. I kept running into the Dropkick Murphy's Financial Assistant who was on tour with them and finally exchanged cards as I decided to check out this exemplary architecture haven amidst the jamon and shoe shops surrounding its vicinity. This Neo-Romanesque Crypt bears the remains of many. They are on the floor, in the walls, and if you gander at the image, beneath the floor as well. You will notice two elongated rectangles which hold two bodies of Catholic descent. I can't verify who is buried here but it is also 4am and jet lag seems to be grabbing me by the balls. One antiquity and/or relic this somewhat eerie chapel boasting organ music in a minor chord is the 16th century portrait of the Virgin of Almudena. I have an image of this as well if there is interest. This is one destination I recommend putting on your bucket list for Madrid. Entry being one Euro you can't really even call it splurging into a Byzantine influenced abyss.
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Entering the Austrian National Library is a jaw dropping moment in ones life. After buying my ticket, then having it scanned, then looking up I was drooling with delight. This place looks like something out of Harry Potter but its here and in front of me! I wasn't allowed to use my tripod inside for this triple exposure 4 shot panorama but it obviously didn't matter. What pushed me over the edge is that there was a Wagner exhibit as well. Some of his original music written by him was on display. The pages looked almost fresh they were preserved so well. I have a few different shots from in here that will be seeping into your feed eventually but I had to share this one as soon as I could!
Some of these book located in the Baroque surrounding of the Palais Mollard-Clary date back between 1349–1395. You can see feel and breath the history in here. I will be editing this post with more history soon as I have to run to the theater now but please view full frame and feel free to share! Prost!
Walking in Madrid last week we came upon this adorable gypsy couple serenading the world through their talented sonatas. As she sings I can only imagine her having thoughts of the csárdás with the slow and fast tempos that create the dance. This photo shows a vision of lifelong love and friendship. Through times both tough and easy they continue on, together.
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Island nations face some pressing challenges in the 21st century which heighten the importance and imperative of moving to more sustainable and secure energy futures. IUCN, with the Austria Development Cooperation, organised a parallel session at the Vienna Energy Conference 22-24 June 2009.
This session asked an expert panel and the audience to explore the challenges facing island nations including the challenges of:
- achieving a low carbon energy future and influencing the climate change discussions
- stimulating the financial investments needed to get to a more sustainable energy mix;
- creating the regulatory and legal frameworks to move beyond a dependence onfossil fuels; and
- safeguarding ecosystems and livelihoods in the context of any energy future pursued.
The panel and participants agreed that there is an urgency felt in island nations like nowhere else in the world. Islands are on the front line when it comes to suffering the impacts of climate change, and those impacts are being felt by island peoples today. Increased incidents of king tides, hurricanes and cyclones are all part of the island reality of today. There is no time or room for complacency or delayed action. Nor is there acceptance among islanders that a world with 450 parts per million concentrations of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere (the level expected to bring 2 degrees warming to the world) is acceptable. 350 is the most island nations can bear. Islanders do not want to become refugees.
Island nations can and must take immediate action to move away from petroleum products that are expensive, take foreign reserves out of government coffers, and are going to be harder to deliver and transport. Even a world with less than 2 degrees warming will bring impacts on the infrastructure of oil based economies which predominate in island nations. Ports will disappear, roads will be submerged, airport runways will need to be barricaded.
Islands are rich in renewable resources that can provide clean and reliable energy. Donors have been generously investing in pilot renewable projects throughout the Pacific and Caribbean for years, but grants are limited in their scope and can be difficult to secure. Ongoing running and maintenance costs are not usually covered, and scaling pilot projects up to nation wide penetration remains a challenge. The irony is that islanders spend a disproportionate amount of their income on energy (more than housing costs in some countries when oil prices peaked at USD$150 / barrel in 2008). Alleviating strains of payments for fossil fuels and debt would enable investments in the infrastructure of a more sustainable energy future based on indigenous renewable resources.
Developing appropriate technologies (or adapting technologies to island conditions) would also help. Island conditions can be harsh on hardware. Storms, sun, sand, saline conditions are all part of that harsh environment. Technologies should also be simple to use and to repair, and users should have the training and capacity to maintain the technology. The panel members also recommended further work on establishing policy frameworks which encourage and enable expansion of renewable technologies on both the demand and supply sides (such as tax rebates for consumers switching to efficient and renewable technologies, and tax free imports of materials needed to produce efficient and renewable technologies). The panel also recommended removing environmental barriers to renewable energy technologies, by establishing robust but "light" assessment procedures for renewables, and mapping ecosystem goods and services that underpin energy options in island nations.
The panel made a plea for those at the conference to take note of the urgent need to transform our global energy systems now to avert further disaster in islands and other vulnerable places around the world.


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"I asked her to marry me and a truck came out of nowhere."
These are the words Dr. Arizona Robbins speaks during this very special Grey's Anatomy Music Event. Songs punctuate the story as one of Seattle Grace's own fights for her life as her friends do whatever it takes to save her and her unborn baby.
The driver's side airbag has been deployed. Arizona looks to be okay after a horrifying car crash. Callie, however, has been launched through the windshield. Only her feet remain inside the car. The rest of her cut and bloodied body rests atop the hood of the car.
Every Seattle Grace surgeon awaits the incoming ambulance. Mark wants in on the trauma. That's not gonna happen. The Chief convinces him to stand down while everyone else works to save his best friend's life. There's a fetal heartbeat, but Callie is crashing. There are bleeders everywhere inside her body. The team tries to get them under control as Derek works to repair the severe brain injuries.
Callie stabilizes, but things still look grim. Lexie is told to keep an eye on Mark. Alex hangs with Arizona. They may have to deliver the baby sooner rather than later. This is a little more than Lucy Fields can handle. The Chief calls in his best option—Dr. Addison Montgomery.
Owen is the calm amidst a storm of anxious surgeons. Emotions are very high. Everyone needs to take a breath. Callie has a hole in her heart. The massive head trauma she suffered could cause permanent brain damage. Mark and Arizona verbally attack each other while trying to decide what's best for the woman they both love. Venomous things are said. Nothing is resolved.
We flashback to just prior to the accident. This is Callie's dream. She wonders if this is what love feels like as Arizona pleads with her to put on her seatbelt. We segue into the musical portion of the dream sequence. All of our favorite Seattle Grace Mercy West couples sing, dance and do all sorts of lovey-dovey things to each other. It's interesting to note that Lexie is with Mark, not Jackson, during this particular number.
Cristina wants to perform a dicey procedure she learned from Burke. Teddy thinks it's too risky. Owen backs her call. It's all hands on deck when Callie starts bleeding out. She's rushed into the OR where things go south fast. It's obvious to everyone but Teddy that the only way to save the patient is to let Cristina do her thing. Dr. Altman steps back. Dr. Yang steps up.
Derek works the brain while Cristina works the heart. Callie is crashing again. Addison has to get the baby out now. The extremely premature little girl isn't breathing. All attempts to save her seem to be failing. Mark knows there's one person in the room who can help. He gives a slight, confident nod to Arizona. She's ready. Moments later, the baby miraculously takes her first breath. A few feet away, her mother's heart is getting stronger with each beat.
Only time will tell how Callie will recover from her significant injuries. As for her friends, they'll also try to bounce back from all that's happened. Jackson doesn't want to wait for Lexie if she's still in love with Mark. She takes him by the hand, asking if they could just go home. Derek promises Meredith that somehow, someway, they WILL have a baby. And Teddy tells Cristina that she can no longer be her teacher.
Mark apologizes to Arizona for his outburst. Many hurtful things were said in the heat of the moment. Callie's still not out of the woods. Arizona waits by her side, hoping the woman she loves will come back to her. Callie does just that. She opens her eyes, struggling to speak. Arizona finally understands what she's trying to say. The answer is yes. Yes, she'll marry her.


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SANTA FE, N.M. -- A New Mexico state police officer used his Taser to stun a 10-year-old schoolboy who refused to clean his patrol car, according to a lawsuit filed in Santa Fe County Court by the boy's family.
During a career day program at Tularosa Intermediate School in May, Officer Christopher Webb of the state Department of Public Safety pointed the stun gun at the boy and said, "Let me show you what happens to people who do not listen to the police," according to the lawsuit filed last week.
Webb said his stun gun went off by accident, sending two barbs carrying 50,000 volts of electricity for five seconds through the boy's clothing and piercing his chest, the Albuquerque Journal reported, quoting court documents. The jolt caused the boy to black out, the suit said.
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Rachel Higgins, attorney for the boy who weighs less than 100 pounds and is referred to in the lawsuit by only his initials, told the court he has been suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder, waking in the middle of the night clutching his chest in fear since the incident. He has scars the size of cigarette burns, she said in court papers.
The boy was only joking about not wanting to clean the patrol car when Webb asked a group of boys if they would, according to court documents.
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Webb, named in the suit along with the Department of Public Safety, received a three-day, unpaid suspension after the incident, the Journal reported.
Webb said in court documents he took the boy to the school nurse's office and waited with him there until the student's mother arrived.
The boy's family is seeking compensation and punitive damages, the Journal reported.
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Getting paid to be funny is great work if you can get it. And comedian Patti Vasquez knows she's fortunate to be busy.
"I'm in Iowa next week and then South Carolina after that," Vasquez said recently. "I mean, it took us two weeks just to coordinate this lunch. How nuts is that?!"
Vasquez grew up on the Northwest Side, the working-class daughter of an Irish dad and Mexican mother (Vasquez is the surname of her mom, Dora). She says she has been "obsessed" with stand-up comedy since her teen years.
"I'd always been addicted to comics," she said. "If you got in my car in high school, I didn't have music, I'd have George Carlin playing."
Vasquez, with her husband and their two children, calls Jefferson Park home when she's not performing across the country.
For a peek at Vasquez's style of comedy, visit her website, pattivasquez.com. Here's an edited version of our conversation.
Q: When did you know you wanted to be a comic?
A: I loved stand-up comedy, but it never occurred to me that I could do that for a living until I saw Margaret Cho on VH1. I'd never seen anybody who was like me: Her mom had a heavy accent and disdain for what her daughter did, and I thought, "That's my mom!" Then I started writing down things in journals. I went to my first open mic … I packed the room with friends and I did OK.
But a friend of mine had gotten killed in a bar fight right after my open mic night, and that really shook me up. I remember being at the funeral and thinking, "We don't know what's going to happen, so why not do what I want to do?" And I dropped out of graduate school within four months. I was getting my Ph.D. in history at Northwestern. I had a full ride and everything. But I didn't fit in there.
Q: Why didn't you fit in?
A: U. of I. (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) was a great equalizer when I went there for undergrad. People came from every background. But at Northwestern, in this program, there wasn't as much diversity. I had no peers. I didn't know how to talk to these people.
Q: How did your parents, Dora and Larry, meet?
A: My dad grew up in Lincoln Park. He was second-generation Irish, one of eight kids. He was a cabdriver for 50 years. My mom is from Mexico, and she came to the U.S. to learn English. She got in my dad's cab the first day she came here, and they went out for drinks. They started dating and they got married a year later.
Q: Did you ever feel pressure to move to Los Angeles?
A: My husband (Steve Jones) and I got married in 2000, and we were planning to move to LA in January of 2001. We had an apartment picked out, I had a manager, and we were going to move. Then my dad got diagnosed with lung cancer in December 2000. He smoked nonfiltered Camels for 56 years. He died seven months after he was diagnosed, in June 2001. When you lose somebody, it's weird, because I could still smell his cigarettes sometimes around the house. … And one night I had this dream that I sat on the front porch with my dad, and he said, "Stop worrying about me, kid, I'm OK. It's all right up here. Babe Ruth is up here too." And I said, "Really? Have you met him?" And he goes, "Nah, I don't want to bother the guy." And that's so my dad. Would I have been a star if I'd moved? There are no guarantees, and I got that seven months with my dad, and you can't buy that. I needed to be here.
Q: What did you want to be when you were 13?
A: A fighter pilot. I loved the movie "Top Gun." But I also wanted to be a marine biologist because I wanted to save the environment.
Q: Who are your role models?
A: I go in and out of loving Joan Rivers. I'm not crazy about mean comedy, but she's carved that out. That's who she is, and we all know that's who she is. I love Lewis Black. So genuinely nice. Remembers people's names. Will return a phone call. I was doing a show in Louisville, Ky., and when I was done with the show, they said, "Someone is here to see you." Lewis had done a show at another place down the street, and he came back to see my set. That was incredible.
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A: Larry Miller, he's a character actor, said, "Don't take anybody else's advice." He also told me, "There's room for everybody. Don't let anybody tell you that you can't do this."
Q: How old are your sons?
A: Griffin is 9 and Declan is 7. Declan has special needs. He has hypoplasia of the corpus callosum. He is missing fibers in the frontal lobe of his brain. They detected an irregular heartbeat in the second trimester, but otherwise everything seemed normal. I went into labor with Declan on Labor Day in 2005 — I drove myself to the hospital actually. We were very excited. Then it all came crashing down. They held him up, and he looked different. Something was wrong. He was purple and not breathing. His brain responses weren't good. He couldn't breathe on his own. I didn't know what was going on, but I'd seen so many episodes of "ER," I thought, "Well, this happens!"
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Q: Do you have a mantra that keeps you going?
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Q: You were part of the new show that aired on the Oprah Winfrey Network called "My Life is a Joke." Where do things stand with that series?
A: They haven't put it in the schedule yet. We filmed enough for two or three episodes, so we are waiting to hear.
Q: What are you writing now?
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Alduesa and Aldueso
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Caution: this exercise is based only on records that I've managed to take notes of. Thus, it's entirely possible that there are (were) other records out there that I missed which might have straightened this out right from the start. Turned out more interesting this way, though. So, as things stand, here:
Is the Alduesa and Aldueso families actually the same family? My hunch right now: yes.
Alduesos were all around me as I grew up in Carcar. Our next-door neighbors were Juan Aldueso and his wife Susana ('Nang Sana) Alcos and their son Teofilo ('Noy Pilo) and wife Juana Alfafara, who was a high school classmate of my father. And a couple, three houses on the other side was Fermin Aldueso, actually a nephew of Juan, and Fermin's wife Jesusa ('Nang Susa) Ramos. Their daughter, Soledad ('Nang Edad), got married to 'Noy Mario Aleonar of our family. And a first cousin of my father, Peter Aleonar, was married to Maria ('Nang Marining) Aldueso Alcorcon.
Long story short, I started with a world-view that there was only an Aldueso family in Carcar.
My first Alduesa record was a Catalina Aleonar, a first cousin of my great-grandfather, Pedro, having married Salvador Barcelo in 1861. The record said Salvador's parents were Antonio Barcelo and Ana Alduesa.
I thought the "Alduesa" was a clerical error, being familiar only with Aldueso and it was even my first inkling of Alduesa. However, subsequent records did point to the actual existence of a family of this spelling. I even asked 'Noy Pilo (now deceased) if he'd heard of this Alduesa family and he said he had, and that he had to often explain to other Aldueso relatives that, yes, there's an Alduesa, too.
However, as the Alduesa file grew, with it also grew my amazement that it had gone even farther back than the Aldueso starting person himself. Suspicion 1) Alduesos were newer arrivals to Carcar, or — this — 2) the Aldueso may have been part of the Alduesa family, too.
There are 30 Aldueso (and 7 Alduezo) and 23 Alduesa (plus 2 Aldohesa, 2 Aldojesa, 3 Alduhesa, 1 Alduheza. 3 Alduiza)–total of 34– voters in the 2010 Comelec voters list for Carcar. Both Alduesa and Alduezo can be found in the Clavería Catálogo de apellidos.
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Florida Rep. Proposes LGBT Discrimination Law
A Florida state representative is trying to introduce a law that would allow for businesses to discriminate against LGBT people.
NM Transgender Woman Alleges Discrimination at State Congresswoman's Office
A former worker for Democratic Representative Michelle Lujan Grisham is suing her office for allegedly firing her because she is transgender.
Advocates Say FBI Hate Crime Statistics Lower Due To Underreporting
Minority advocacy groups claim newly released hate crime statistics are not telling the full scale of the issue.
Palm Beach County The First in Florida to Ban 'Conversion Therapy'
A 5-2 vote from Palm Beach County made history today by becoming the first county in Florida - as well as the largest county in the United States - to ban the practice of conversion therapy for minors.
Survey Shows Majority of Soccer Fans Would Support An LGBT Player
A majority of soccer fans would not mind having an LGBT player on their national soccer team.
First Middle Eastern LGBT Radio Station Begins in Tunisia
Tunisia is now the first country in the Middle East to have a radio station devoted to LGBT issues.
AK Dept. of Health Ordered to List Same-Sex Parents on Birth Certificates
Arkansas Governor Asa Hutchinson directed state officials to allow for same-sex parents to receive birth certificates with both of their names listed.
Man Gets Death Penalty After He Tortured, Killed Boy He Thought Was Gay
A jury voted a Los Angeles man to get the death penalty after he was convicted of the first-degree murder of a child he thought was gay.
Children in Quebec Schools to Learn About Same-Sex Relationships in 2018
Quebec will soon teach kids about same-sex relationships and sex education.
President of Ghana: Legalisation of Homosexuality 'Bound to Happen'
In certain terms, Ghana's president Nana Akufo-Addo said that while same-sex marriage is not on the country's agenda as of yet, the issue is sure to be addressed in the near future.


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Randall Monroe, author of my favorite web comic XKCD, gave a great TEDTalk about answering science and math questions with his comics. One of the best parts of this video, and the web comic series in general, is that he uses hand-drawn data visualizations and illustrations to answer them, which makes them easier to understand.
Web cartoonist Randall Munroe answers simple what-if questions ("what if you hit a baseball moving at the speed of light?") using math, physics, logic and deadpan humor. In this charming talk, a reader's question about Google's data warehouse leads Munroe down a circuitous path to a hilariously over-detailed answer — in which, shhh, you might actually learn something.
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LUBBOCK, TX -- A man was sentenced last week to 18 months in federal prison for embezzling money from a fitness club chain.
Chad W. Read of Lubbock, TX, had pleaded guilty in August to bilking more than $100,000 from Reaction Fitness Clubs, which operates clubs in Texas and Oklahoma. Read was ordered to pay $15,000 in restitution to the clubs, according to published reports.
Read's former wife, Emily Joe Khalilli Read, had pleaded guilty to her role in the money laundering and was sentenced in August to 41 months in prison. She was ordered to pay more than $600,000 in restitution.
Prosecutors say the embezzlement occurred from June 2004 to December 2006. Emily Read was a bookkeeper for clubs in Lubbock, TX, Corpus Christi, TX, Lawton, OK, and Tulsa, OK. She used her position to sign checks payable to cash and to herself and her then-husband, according to reports.
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In addition to the works of Joyce, I teach classes in the literature of the English Renaissance, particularly Shakespeare (most of the plays and poems, at different times) and the "metaphysical" poets (John Donne, George Herbert, Andrew Marvell, and others). I teach some medieval literature, including Dante's works in English translation (but with regular attention to the Italian originals). I also have taught several classes studying the influences on later writers of the Roman poet Ovid. Many of my classes provide optional, out-of-class opportunities for reading texts aloud and discussing them further.
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M.A. in English, Stanford University, 1977.
Ph.D. in English, Stanford University, 1984.
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HARRISBURG - Leaders of Pennsylvania's two largest public employee unions on Friday vowed a court fight if Gov. Tom Corbett and lawmakers approve reductions in future benefits for current state workers and school employees.
The officials from the Pennsylvania State Education Association and Council 13 of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees said case law makes it clear that any benefit rollbacks for active employees would violate the state constitution.
They said they hope to avoid a legal showdown by convincing legislators that neither benefit changes nor the creation of a defined-contribution option, as an alternative to the current defined-benefit plan, is likely to have much effect on the $41 billion unfunded liability of the State Employees' Retirement System and the Public School Employees' Retirement System.
The taxpayer tab for the fiscal year that starts July 1 is expected to total $2.2 billion.
Pension reform is among the major themes that Corbett is expected to cover in his budget address to the Legislature on Tuesday.
The Republican, who made a 2010 campaign pledge not to increase taxes, has expressed concern about ballooning pension costs squeezing funding for other important programs in a state budget of less than $28 million this year. He has said he may seek to reduce benefits not yet earned by employees and to overhaul benefits for future hires.
'Whatever he comes out with Tuesday is not necessarily what's going to occur,' said David Fillman of the AFSCME council, which represents 65,000 employees of state, county and municipal governments in Pennsylvania.
The unions, however, are willing to work with Corbett to find sources of revenue to help the state with the cost, PSEA President Mike Crossey said at a news briefing in Harrisburg organized by the unions. The PSEA's 187,000 members include about 120,000 teachers.
Pennsylvania's pension woes began with passage of a 2001 law that granted retroactive rate increases to state workers and teachers, and even larger increases for lawmakers. A subsequent restructuring of taxpayers' contributions delayed the true cost for another decade while the funds' investments were hammered by the last recession.
In 2010, lawmakers passed a law that reined in benefits for new hires and extended the unfunded accrued liability further into the future to ease the increase in the taxpayers' cost.
Steve Nickol, a former Republican legislator who now works for the PSEA, said teachers nearing retirement are disturbed by the speculation about benefits being scaled back.
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St. Basil the Great
Commemorated January 1
Troparion of St. Basil the Great, Tone 1
Thy fame has gone forth into all the earth, which has received thy word. Thereby thou hast taught the Faith; thou hast revealed the nature of created things; thou hast made a royal priesthood of the ordered life of men. Righteous Father Basil, intercede with Christ our God that our souls may be saved.
Kontakion of St. Basil the Great, Tone 4
Thou wast an unshaken foundation of the Church and didst give to all mortals an inviolate lordship which thou didst seal with thy doctrine, O righteous Basil, revealer of the mysteries of heaven.


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Please welcome Fay Lam to Musings! I'm thrilled to turn my blog over to her and listen to her story. Her journey to publication. Take it away Fay!
Writing has always been my stress release. I started this form of therapy as a child, and it wasn't until my early twenties that I began to realize that God had given me a gift, and that the gifts He provides are not to be squandered on self. They are meant to be given to Him and to others. That's when I seriously began to ponder what I could do with this gift.
Fast forward some multitude of years,. I traversed various hills and valleys learning the writing craft, studying punctuation and grammar, soaking up wisdom from those who write the books I love to read, and attempting to write the books I want others to love to read. Through those years, I'd written quite a few novels.
In the midst of my several books comes a character named Michael Hayes. He was weary, worried, and worn out. He tells me that he knows a little boy named Cole Putnam. He's his fiancèe's seven-year-old boy. Time has separated him from the woman he loves, and Cole isn't his child. However, Cole is definitely on this earth because of the mistakes Michael made, the danger he allowed to overtake both he and Issie.
That story captivated my attention and became Because of Me. The story was so clearly embedded in my mind that I wrote it fairly quickly then sent it through several rounds of critique.
When I thought it was ready, I entered it in the American Christian Fiction Writer's Contest, and I reached the finals that year. At the ACFW National Conference I brought everything with me that I needed to pitch to an agent and editor. I sat confidently across the table from an editor in a well-known publishing house who took a look at my one-sheet and told me that my work was too complex for Christian fiction.
First of all, it was a one-sheet. There's not a lot of room for complex on a one-sheet. Secondly, I wasn't going to argue. I smiled and listened to the suggestions, and decided that I had been handed a challenge. My next appointment was with an agent who promptly went about telling me how to rewrite the story for a serial romance publisher.
No offense to serial romance publishers, because I write those types of stories, too, but the editor and agent I had the appointments with missed the point, or I wasn't driving my point home loud and clear. Because of Me wasn't written as a serial romance for a reason. There are issues, deep issues meant to get both Christians and non-Christians to think about the fact that God is in the details of our lives. This story could not be written within the confines of a serial, formulaic romantic suspense.
I do want to clearly say that this wasn't the editor or agent's problem. I just hadn't found the right outlet for my story. I came home, and I set Because of Me on the shelf while working on some formulaic contemporary romances, hoping that my complex stories would sell once I'd proven myself with less issue-driven fiction.
But apparently the Lord had other plans.
Not long after the conference, my friend and critique partner, Kathryn Bain, invited me to lunch with Treble Heart Books editor-in-chief, Lee Emory. Lee sat with us for three hours explaining her idea of Christian publishing.
Not to sound a little too formulaic romance, but my heart beat rapidly, my breath caught, and I nearly swooned. Okay, I wasn't that bad, but I was excited. Lee seemed to like my pitch as well. She told me exactly how to format the story and asked me to send it to her.
You'd think that was the end of my journey, but there were a few catch-your-breath moments. The first response I received from Lee was the best rejection letter anyone will ever find. Her reviewer said things like, "I couldn't put down the story. Well edited." But the reviewer had trouble with Christ-like forgiveness and, well, the violence.
The rejection letter didn't end there, though. Lee asked me my opinion on the review.
So, you can imagine my response.
My reply netted me another review. This one was returned with similar comments: "I couldn't put down the story. Well edited." The only difference? This reviewer added, "Write the contract."
And that's how Because of Me and this author found a publisher that trusted its reader to get the complexities of the story and the message that God is always working in our lives.
Because of Me by Fay Lam
Not your typical Christian fiction.
Michael's fiancée, Issie Putnam, was brutally attacked and Michael was imprisoned for a crime he didn't commit. Now he's home to set things right.
Two people stand in his way: Issie's son, Cole, and a madman.
Can Michael learn to love the child Issie holds so close to her heart and protect him from the man who took everything from Michael so long ago?
Available through all fine book retailers, Amazon.com, and Mountainview Publishing, a division of Treble Heart Books.
Purchase the book at Amazon at: http://www.amazon.com/Because-of-Me-ebook/dp/B00722KIME/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1327670357&sr=8-1
Or at Treble Heart Books at: www.trebleheartbooks.com/MVLamb.html
Purchase the book at: http://www.amazon.com/Because-of-Me-ebook/dp/B00722KIME/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1327670357&sr=8-1
About Fay :
Fay Lamb works as an acquisition/copyeditor for Pelican Book Group (White Rose Publishing and Harbourlight Books), offers her services as a freelance editor, and is an author of Christian romance and romantic suspense. Her emotionally charged stories remind the reader that God is always in the details. Because of Me, her debut romantic suspense novel is soon to be released by Treble Heart Books/Mountainview Publishing.
Fay has a passion for working with and encouraging fellow writers. As a member of American Christian Fiction Writers (ACFW), she co-moderates the large Scribes' Critique Group and manages the smaller Scribes' critique groups. For her efforts, she was the recipient of the ACFW Members Service Award in 2010.
In 2012, Fay was also elected to serve as secretary on ACFW's Operating Board.
Fay and her husband, Marc, reside in Titusville, Florida, where multi-generations of their families have lived. The legacy continues with their two married sons and five grandchildren.
Leave a comment for Fay! She'll be keeping an eye here today. Or tell us about your journey to publication


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Using queries in genealogy and family history research goes way back, but how they're published has changed dramatically. All for the better!
In the past, queries were mailed to genealogy newsletters and magazines, waited in line for space, and eventually went out the subcribers of the particular periodical. They must have worked as the query method remained popular.
Today, queries go via emails to genealogy discussion groups or onto Web pages tailored for queries. They're organized by surname or geographical area or unique topic of interest. And the posting is either instantaneous or as soon as a moderator reviews and approves the query.
And many query sites allow the search engines to spider their content, so a surname search in Google or Bing can turn up queries your cousins have posted on your own family. How exciting is that!
Here are some good places to post queries online, for free:
GenForums – This is a very large collection of forums for surnames, countries, regions of countries and special topics. Post a query both in a surname forum and location forum. These work!
Message Boards – an integrated system for RootsWeb.com and Ancestry.com, free for all to use whether you access them from RootsWeb or Ancestry. See article about them.
CousinConnect – This site lets you post queries as well as browse and search them.
Progenealogists Free Queries – Post and search queries.
For many more resources about on this topic, visit the Queries page at Cyndi's List here.
As you work on a surname or ancestor, post queries on all of the places relevant to that person or family. You may strike the proverbial pay dirt. I have so I know these work. Happy searching!
This is one in a series of genealogy and family history research articles with ideas to help you find your family and ancestors at little or no cost. Please follow me on Twitter: http://twitter.com/BBPetura


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Learning at the Aurora Colony Museum
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The Aurora Colony Historical Society provides many varied opportunities for learning about the Aurora Colony through exhibits and events each year at it's museum complex.
School Field Trips
The Old Aurora Colony Museum is an excellent choice for your classroom trip. Your students will learn about life in the Aurora Colony and it's unique role in Oregon history.
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Bear-vehicle collisions a growing problem in Vermont
July 08, 2013 at 05:47 PM
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MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) — Wildlife officials say they are trying to figure out how to cope with a growing problem in the state: black bears wandering into roadways and being struck by vehicles.
Game Warden Sean Fowler, who responded to such an accident this past week on U.S. Route 2 in Marshfield, said the crashes are becoming more common. In that case, the 120-pound male bear died and the vehicle that hit it had left the scene by the time the officer arrived.
"It's going to happen with more regularity because the bear population is higher than it's ever been," Fowler said.
Mark Scott, director of wildlife for the Vermont Fish & Wildlife Department, said Vermont's black bear population has roughly doubled since the 1980s, to more than 6,000 today.
Figures kept by the department's law enforcement division show collisions between bears and vehicles are on the rise. From 2005 to 2007, an average of 42 bears a year were struck and killed by vehicles. From 2010 to 2012, the average was 60 each year.
Scott and Fowler say there's also a growing problem of bears approaching roadsides and human settlements in search of food. Items including backyard bird feeders and trash cans present a rich opportunity for hungry bears.
Bears will stay in deep woods and at higher elevations if ample food supply is in those areas, Scott said. The number of bears struck by vehicles dropped from 80 in 2010 to 43 in 2011. The latter year was unusually strong in its availability of beechnuts and various berries in the woods, he said.
Scott said Vermont is on the verge of exceeding its optimally sized bear population and is taking steps to slow both its growth and bears' encounters with humans.
To slow growth, the state is expanding its bear-hunting season.
Vermont hunters traditionally were permitted to shoot one bear during part of the state's 16-day season for hunting deer bucks in November. Under rules recently issued by the department, one bear will still be the limit, but the time period they may be hunted broadens — it will run from Sept. 1 through Nov. 24.
A new law passed this year also bans the intentional feeding of bears. A key goal is keeping bears in the wild and away from people's homes, Scott said.
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