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Brandon Ellis, Jaime Cepero and More Sing David Davila's 52 SONGS Tonight at Stage 72
Lone Star Theatre Company presents a night of original music by playwright/songwriter, David Davila, tonight, Feb 17th at Stage 72 at the Triad Theatre.
Entitled David Davila's 52 SONGS: MAKE IT HAPPEN, the 9:15pm concert is billed as an inspirational night of music to empower you to take your future into your own hands. The concert features a mix of Davila's popular songs, plus new material from his musicals in progress, CORNER GIRL, and F*CKING BEAUTIFUL.
Performers include Brandon Ellis (Once), Jaime Cepero (Smash), Desi Oakley (Annie), Gabrielle Ruiz (Evita), Brian Charles Rooney (Three Penny Opera), Trevon Davis (Book of Mormon), Margot B (Rent), Manuel Stark (West Side Story), Carmen Ruby Floyd (Porgy & Bess), Daniel Quadrino (Bye Bye Birdie), Lacey Angerosa (Frenemies), Eric Restivo (Naked Boys Singing), Brittany Kiernan (...Spelling Bee), Geoffrey Kidwell (Rated RSO), Hayley Anna Norris (Hatched), Jose Sepulveda (Adan y Julio), Jillian Cox (High Hair & Jalepeños), Stephanie Nash (Unfinished), Katie Hotz (Legends of Rock), Michelle Caniglia (Diva Battle), Zach Blane, and Sean Havrilla.
Produced by Vanessa Garcia, the evening will feature direction by Jay Levy, with musical direction by Max Mamon.
Stage 72 is located within the Triad Theater on 72nd st and Broadway. There is a $15 cover charge and a $15 food/drink minimum. For tickets visit www.brownpapertickets.com/event/324671. For more information about Lone Star, visit www.lonestartheatre.com.

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The undefeated Black Eagles secured three points away from home to head the Süleyman Seba Super League.
Slaven Bilic's men returned to domestic action in upbeat mood after Demba Ba's late penalty had earned them a point in a 1-1 UEFA Europa League draw with Tottenham in midweek.
Demba Ba started upfront while Kerim Frei replaced Olcay Şahan on the wing while Gökhan Töre started on the other flank.
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OAKLAND -- The Rangers have finally set their rotation for the upcoming three-game series with the Mariners, and it is predicated on keeping Matt Harrison and Colby Lewis swinging a bat in Colorado on their next road trip.
So Robbie Ross will pitch on Friday, and Lewis will start on Saturday. Harrison's debut, originally scheduled for Friday, will be pushed back to Sunday. He will be making his first start since April 6, 2013. That leaves Yu Darvish, Martin Perez and Ross to pitch the three-game series against the Athletics next week in Arlington.
Lewis, Harrison and Darvish would pitch against the Angels the following weekend in Anaheim. That would also mean Lewis and Harrison do not pitch in Colorado during a two-game series on May 5-6. That turned out to be the deciding factor in the Rangers setting up their rotation.
"We don't want them on the basepaths and we don't want them swinging the bat, so we had to adjust it," manager Ron Washington said. "We don't need Harrison swinging and missing and we don't need Colby running the bases, because we know he can hit."
Harrison understands the Rangers' concerns after missing almost all of last season because of a herniated disk in his lower back. He already had one setback early in Spring Training, and he doesn't need another one.
"I haven't swung the bat in a long time," Harrison said. "This gives me time to see how I recover from pitching every five days. I'm just glad to get back. The way I felt last year, I didn't know if I would ever pitch again."


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A week into the lockout and about a dozen players have already ditched the United Statesfor Europe. None bigger than Deron Williams, who agreed in principle to play with Besiktas in Turkey. As the same team also wooed Zaza Pachulia, it looks like we have a genuine European Dream Team on our hands. Some other sites are overhyping this move a little. The contract Williams negotiated stipulates that whenever the NBA ends its lockout, Williams is allowed to return. Honestly, I think Williams just wanted to get a little more practice playing in the swamps of Jersey. Loud, odoriferous gents with entirely too much chest hair? If it ain't Jersey, it must be Turkey! The real news here is how dire the NBA lockout appears – especially to players. Chris Paul said the Players Association is committed to fighting. The league is bickering with Forbes over how much money they are or are not making. Kobe's open to playing overseas – possibly China. Serge Ibaka and Pau are circling a Spain exodus. Armani Jeans Milano wants Carl Landry and Pops Mensah-Bonsu. POPS! DaJuan Summers is off to Italy. Nicolas Batum talks as if he's overseas already (literally). Sonny Weems and Darius Songaila are off toLithuania. It's only the second week of July. Imagine what it will be like three months from now if this lockout is still on?
Anyway, here's equally depressing fantasy basketball news from the week:
Stephen Curry – Might re-enroll at Davidson to continue on with his education if the lockout continues. I want NBA TV to have cameras ready all over the world when the lockout ends so it can have a massive montage like a movie sequel in qhich the first 10 minutes of the movie shows what wacky shizz all our favorite characters have gotten themselves into since last we saw them. Curry's improving his 3.1 GPA! Boozer's bartending! Kaman is teaching an unpopular course on etiquette! Billups owns his own driving school! Lockout's over! We're gettin' the band back together!
Andrei Kirilenko – After hearing that Rudy Fernandez turned down a $4.3 million-per-year offer from Real Madrid, Kirilenko offered his services for about $5.8 million. For the record, I also offered my services to Real Madrid and they were less interested in my offer. But only slightly. If I had to place money on which fantasy-relevant player was most likely done in the NBA, it's Kirilenko. There's a very real (or "Ray-Al" if you're Spanish) possibility that AK-47 won't be the only player to hop the ocean and never come back.
Michael Beasley – Busted for pot possession, but might not face a penalty from the NBA because the NBA doesn't care what players do right now. He could incite a riot by throwing a trash can through the window of Sal's pizza for all Stern cares. Speaking of which – or 'wiches if you're a hipster working in a Jimmy John's – I'm interested in which players do any volunteering during the lockout. Sure, every last player is all about reading Goodnight Moon to the kiddies when the cameras are rolling. Turn the cameras off, we'll see how many of 'em care.
Roy Hibbert – The H.I.B. Virus tweeted happy thoughts on Frank Vogel's promotion to head coach: "Even with a lockout going on I wanna congratulate frank on being hired. U deserve it." A happy Hibbert should advance him about two rounds in your fantasy draft. No foolin'.
Brandon Roy – Former Blazers GM Kevin Pritchard said the team knew about Roy's fluky knee when they handed him an extra $80 million. If you're Greg Oden, are you hoping the Blazers extend your contract now?
Brian Scalabrine – said that he will play in Europe if the lockout negotiations don't improve in two weeks. "No he won't." -Europe.


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Nashville, Tenn. – Following a 10-4 season, the Tennessee State football team finished second in the final Boxtorow coaches' poll by one single point.
The Tigers accrued 158 points to finish 22 above 9-4 South Carolina State. Bethune-Cookman, which beat TSU 12-9 in this season's opening game for both teams, took home the 2013 HBCU National Football Championship with 159 points.
Big Blue made the Division I Football Playoffs for the first time since 1999 and beat Butler, 31-0, for the school's first opening-round victory in 27 years.
TSU also had a record, 12 players selected to all-conference teams, as the Tigers finished second in the Ohio Valley Conference with a 6-2 mark in league games.
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First, if you haven't seen it yet, check out this post over at BuzzFeed where people attempt to draw the United States from memory. It's pretty funny. No seriously, check it out 'cause it'll make my attempt look a little better.
I decided to give it a try and this is what I came up with:
So I started with what I know: the South East. However, when I started to draw North Carolina, it turned into Virginia and NC got left out. That's really the only thing that I'm confused about why I got it wrong. From there, I moved west, where I ran out of paper. Then did the North East and Mid-West separately, but wasn't quite able to connect them to the rest of the country (which lead to a couple of "states" named "oops." I completely forgot Wyoming, Nebraska and Wisconsin. I couldn't figure out where Indiana went and I knew I was putting Iowa in the wrong place, but couldn't figure out where it actually went. I got some other stuff in the wrong places, but in their general vicinity. Honestly though, I'm kinda happy with how well I did and that I didn't cheat!
So my challenge to you is to try this on your own. How well can you do?
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Can You Draw the US?
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Valerie, I'm so glad you posted your map. I think I know where all my missing ancestors are ... they moved to the state of "oops" and were never heard from again.
Seriously though ... your attempt is WAY better than anything I could do. First, I cannot draw. Second, the NE and the square-ish states in the middle always confuse me. And for some reason, I always reverse New Mexico and Arizona.
You should be proud of your attempt. Me? I'm glad I can buy printed maps. It's the only option I have.
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Making tracks is something pro snowboarder Jonaven Moore knows all about, so it's fitting that the cabin in the woods he recently completed is on tracks.
Train tracks.
Moore has spent the past decade building his caboose house on a five-acre property in the Squamish Valley he bought with his mother when his snowboarding film career was just taking off.
His original plan when he bought the property from an old logger in 2002 was to put a trailer on it, but his mother suggested a caboose, recalling one a friend of hers had in Aspen, Colo. Sort of like a trailer, but with more character. What Moore didn't know at the time was that very caboose figured prominently in Aspen Extreme, that cheesy 1993 movie starring Paul Gross about two friends from Detroit who quit their jobs and become ski instructors in Aspen.
So there was a bit of serendipity, to be sure, with the idea.
Of course, once he'd settled on the idea, he had to find a caboose. No easy task.
"I approached BC Rail and was told that cabooses were pretty hard to come by as many small towns wanted them for tourist attractions," Moore says.
"Then he called me a week later and asked me how serious I was."
Turned out that a BC Rail caboose on active tracks in Prince George had caught fire and was going to be melted for scrap metal.
"So you're going to have to move quickly if you want it," Moore's BC Rail contact said, adding that he'd email over three photos of the burnt-out caboose.
"They were pretty dark and you could see all the windows were melted out," recalls Moore. "But it was a steel structure so it was still solid."
Optimistic by nature, Moore looked at the caboose as half full, figuring "the fire sort of helped me because I was going to have to gut the thing anyway."
So he bought the caboose for its weight in scrap steel, in addition to the trucks it would sit on and two lengths of train track to rest the steel wheels on.
"That was 70,000 pounds of steel in total, and back then it cost about $5,000 for everything," he says. "And I paid that again to move it here."
Which proved no easy task.
As the burnt-out caboose was on active tracks, BC Rail brought it to the Squamish yard for Moore for free.
But he had to move it from there, and with the help of a huge crane, some big trucks and some experienced movers, the tracks were laid and the caboose placed on them atop an elevated bed Moore built from rip rock to support the heavy steel structure.
And that's when the real work began.
"Being pretty young and naive - I was 22 at the time - I never really knew how much work it was going to be," he admits today. "The better part of the first two months were spent getting all the burnt stuff out of it. Then I sandblasted the entire shell and painted that."
As there were no services on property at the time, Moore had to put in a well and a septic field. He'd never done either before, but as he would soon discover, this project was to be all about doing and learning things he didn't know.
With no final architectural plan, the caboose house and massive deck structure sort of just grew organically, spurned on by Moore's unique imagination.
"It sort of just spoke to me in subtle little ways along the way. It would just make sense and grow in little ways."
He also enjoyed the kind assistance of many talented tradespeople.
"I was working for a builder in town at the time, and asking lots of questions, just learning as I went, really," Moore explains. "When I needed an electrician, I'd ask one of the electricians I was working with and they'd help me."
Apart from that outside advice and assistance, Moore designed and built almost every aspect of the unique home, including the wonderful interior of the caboose.
What was always part of his plan, which began with reclaiming a caboose that was destined for the scrap heap, was to use recycled materials whenever and wherever possible.
Much of the oak detailing inside came from the original floors from the caboose that survived the fire; the stained glass, bathroom slate and many other fixtures came from a large used building supply in Burnaby; and the cedar for wainscotting and cabinet door/drawer fronts came from an old cedar stump that was on the property when Moore bought it.
"Much of the deck is cedar that I took to a friend's mill when the trees where felled building the roads in my subdivision," Moore continues. "All the stone in the outdoor wood-fired oven was collected off the sides of logging roads in the local area, the main dining table is maple from a large branch that came down in the front yard, and the glass in the floor was all collected from the local bottle depot."
Other unique features Moore incorporated and built into the home design include: radiant heating run off a waterjacket in the wood stove; an on-demand gas-fired boiler; the entire caboose is insulated with spray foam making it an incredibly efficient space to heat free from the standard condensation problems inherent in a steel structure; and the entire deck area collects rainwater to be used in the garden areas. There are also both indoor and outdoor cooking facilities that both run off wood and gas.
In addition, the well pump on the property runs off solar power directly without batteries. The reservoir of water is held in a large cistern at the top of the property at elevation that allows gravity-fed water pressure to the caboose, and removes the need for batteries, as enough water is stored to last long periods until the sun returns to recharge it.
In terms of the design inside the caboose and on the outside deck, Moore was influenced by Japanese architecture.
"I've always liked that style and incorporation of indoor and outdoor living spaces," he notes. "I didn't mind having a small house - less to heat in the wintertime - but I wanted a big deck. So when it's nice out, you turn the deck into your living space."
Now that's it's completed, would he do it again?
"It took an extraordinary amount of work, and I'm not sure I would tackle it again," he admits. "I was lucky to have started it so young because I had a lot of energy. It could take up all my time."
And after all that time building it, he's not even living there now.
"I'm renting it out to great tenants who seem to really love it," he says. "It doesn't have to be me living here, as long as some is enjoying it. That's all that really matters."
So what's up next for Moore?
"I've got a job with two very old world craftsmen, each of whom have sailed across the Pacific in boats they have built by themselves," he explains.
The "job" is, in fact, one of the men's retirement project: Building a 58-foot double mast wooden sail boat based on the designs of famed navel architect John G. Alden.
"Over the years, he's bought up a lot of old shipwrights tools at auctions, including a band saw from the San Francisco shipyards that was in service before the Second World War," Moore says enthusiastically. "He's been collecting driftwood logs off the beach forever and they've built their own sawmill, so we'll mill every board for the ship.
"Man, it's really cool."
Moore expects this job to take up the next five years.
"This [caboose] has been really fun for me, I've learned so much along the way. I think I'm more capable than I was.
"And my new job is really fun because I walk in there each day and I feel like an absolute total novice. And I like that. I like learning new things."
Jonaven Moore is one of the most accomplished snowboarders in Canada, if not the world.
Only instead of standing on World Cup and Olympic podiums, the 32-year old carved out his reputation by standing on some of the biggest mountains in the world. Then shredding them.
As such, he's not a household name, but Google "Jonaven Moore" and you'll find out how famous he is within the snowboarding world.
Born in Colorado, he moved to Banff when he was 12 and connected with Team Core, a crew of snowboarders who influenced a generation of riders.
In 1999, Moore moved to the West Coast to begin a wildly successful film career as a professional snowboarder. He quickly made a name for himself as the first rider to hit "Poppa Jordan" in the Whistler backcountry, a supersized version of the famed "Air Jordan" above Whistler's Peak Chair.
Many other firsts followed, particularly in Alaska, and he figured prominently in Absinthe Films' movie Lines, a documentary about big mountain snowboarding.
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Q: Linguistically speaking, who are the true "citizens of the world"? J. Piaget
A: They are newborns, whose ears take in the sounds of life, including the phonemic building blocks of English, Spanish, Estonian, Zulu. You name it, they're all there, hundreds of distinct sounds of all the world's tongues (about 40 in English). But before long they won't be heard, just as somewhere between six and 12 months Japanese infants stop distinguishing between English "r" and "l."
Even before speech begins, an infant's brain is being "sculpted" by talk, the pre-wired neural machinery pruning itself until what isn't reinforced by words heard or lips read starts to fade, as shown by brain wave monitorings and linguistic responses, says Richard Restak, M.D., in The Secret Life of the Brain.
Cross-cultural generalists at the get-go, their minds multidextrous, infants "by the time they reach one year of age become language specialists," said University of Washington speech and hearing scientist Patricia Kuhl. "Babies born in Brooklyn start speaking Brooklynese."
Q: What if King Kong materialized at a baseball stadium for an at-bat? How far might he drive the "pill"? J. Palmer
A: Lacking verifiable data, best bet is to go with Yale physicist Robert K. Adair's expert estimate in The Physics of Baseball on how far an Olympic-level human male, ox-strong, quick as a cat, carrying nearly 300 pounds on a near-seven-foot frame, might unload the orb.
Assume further a friendly pitcher feeding fat fast balls over the center of the plate to this King (Kong) of Clout, who swings a 42-inch-long 4-pound bat by taking a couple of young Babe Ruth-like steps into the ball– a batter's windup, so to say.
"I estimate he could hit the ball well over 500 feet under standard conditions at sea level," says Adair. This compares to about 450 feet for a major league power hitter, unless the pitch is super fast, pulled down the line, on a 100-degree day, with a tailwind, in mile-high thin-air Denver. Give King Clout all these extra edges, plus a ball wound exceptionally tight, and 600 feet or more becomes possible, a beast of a homer, something to roar about.
Q: What's the cause of water mirages lying up ahead on hot asphalt roadways? Can the same principle crash-dive a pelican (no) or send a castle skyward (yes)? P. Fonda
A: Just about everybody's seen them, where the very hot air near the road surface and cooler layers above form a temperature gradient that bends light from the sky up to the viewer's eyes. The observer then mentally extrapolates straight back along the rays to believe there is a body of blue water up ahead, says Jearl Walker in Flying Circus of Physics, With Answers. Hot air fluctuations will add a shimmer, as if the water were flowing.
Delightful mirage, but not much fun for the pelican supposedly flying for hours over dry wheat fields, then spotting what looks to be a long black river in the midst of the prairie. When the bird puts down for a cooling swim, it knocks itself unconscious on a road (The New Yorker). Couldn't have happened that way, though, says Walker, because "Light rays from the sky could never be so refracted as to return at such a large angle to the ground."
A more believable– and beautiful– mirage is "Fata Morgana," oft-seen in the Strait of Messina between Italy and Sicily. For this one, says the Alaska Science Forum, alternating layers of hot and cold air above the ground or water surface can create several images of the same distant object, some upright and some inverted, seemingly stacked up to look like "a castle half in the air and half in the sea."
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"That's a typical political question."
Such was the response Sunday to Fox News anchor Chris Wallace when the candidate for United States Senate was asked to specify one department or program in the federal government that she would cut.
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A political question? Sounded more like a policy probe to me. It wasn't a great moment for the Republican candidate (on a network that is supposed to be more sympathetic to her party than that of her opponent). If you argue that there is terrible waste and fraud on the federal level than I would think it would make sense that at some point somebody is going to ask you to be specific. The federal government is a huge target.... there must be something that would come to mind
But getting pinned on Fox isn't Fiorina's biggest problem. While the rest of the nation appears ready to turn the House of Representatives over to the GOP and the Democrats are still in a fight to keep the majority in the Senate, Fiorina is still trailing incumbent Democrat Barbara Boxer. And part of the problem may be that Boxer, who has long been adept at political campaigns, is getting a message across that Fiorina has yet to answer. It is tough to be in favor of job creation when you were responsible for sending them overseas.
That of course is what Fiorina did while head of high tech giant Hewlett Packard. Boxer has taken full advantage of that with a hard hitting attack ad which continues to run statewide. Boxer uses Fiorina's own words to point to the former CEO's decision to move work overseas. Boxer's tag line... as it has been throughout the campaign... has been "I want to see 'made in America' stamped on our products".
For some reason Fiorina has not been very good at responding to that attack. During their lone face-to-face debate she seemed to semi apologize for having to make the "very difficult move" of outsourcing some of HP's work. She has yet to address that attack ad head-on with one of her own.
Fiorina now says that anti-business policies at the federal level were in large part responsible for her action to send jobs overseas, policies she argues Boxer helped put in place. But we haven't heard anything like that in her commercials. Nor does she make the argument that as head of a huge company she had a responsibility to keep it healthy so that thousands of other HP workers would keep their jobs.... and survive the downturn in hi-tech so that more could be hired later. Remember that in the private sector a firm must provide a good or a service that the public willingly buys... while government simply takes money in taxes. Such might make for a compelling counter punch to her rival but thus far we haven't seen it.
The race is sort of tight...anywhere between 1 and 8 percentage point lead for Boxer. If Fiorina is to have a chance she is going to need to be more up front on what she's done.... and what she'll do. Otherwise she will become another notch in Barbara Boxer's political belt.


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The Deepwater Horizon site. Photo source: NOAA
With no assurances it will be allowed to join the Gulf of Mexico oil spill cleanup, a Taiwanese-owned ship billed as the world's largest skimming vessel was preparing to sail Friday evening to the scene of the Deepwater Horizon disaster.
The ship, the length of 3 1/2 football fields and 10 stories high, is designed to collect up to 500,000 barrels of oily water a day through 12 vents on either side of its bow. It docked in Norfolk en route to the Gulf from Portugal, where it was retrofitted to skim the seas. The ship and its crew of 32 were to leave Virginia waters Friday evening.
The owners of the "A Whale" said the ship features a new skimming approach that has never been attempted on such a large scale. They are anxious to put it to its first test in the Gulf…


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In the mission Citadel: Volus Ambassador the outcome depends, in part, on whether Zaeed Massani survived the events of ME2 and if he was loyal.
It's not entirely clear from this answer whether he will be present or not as I don't know if his missions were from DLC or N7 missions, having not played the other titles.
Did he survive and was he loyal if I don't import a saved game?


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During the debut this week of Larry King's new talk show on Hulu, his conversation with "Family Guy" and "Ted" creator Seth MacFarlane swerved from cryonics to the existence of God to bestiality (don't ask).
"I knew this was different than 'Larry King Live,'" the host giggled at one point.
He can be forgiven for allowing himself a joyful laugh celebrating his comeback – and perhaps a chuckle at the expense of CNN, where ratings recently hit a two-decade low, nearly a year and a half after the end of the quarter-century run of "Larry King Live."
The new show, "Larry King Now," marks the welcome return of a talk show king who lives to ask questions – even if they don't always hold up as well as his invariably suspenders-secured pants.
MacFarlane, one of our strongest sardonic wits, seemed to play straight man at times to King, whose queries included:
•"Ever think you're weird?" (MacFarlane answered in the affirmative.)
•"Why do we love someone who is ... a weird bear?" (King noted his religious father-in-law cried at the sweet ending of the unabashedly raunchy "Ted.")
•"Do you know that you offend people?" (Another affirmative from MacFarlane.)
King also cited the bong-puffing teddy bear star of "Ted" and Lenny Bruce in making a case for legalization of marijuana. He learned how to draw Stewie from "Family Guy" and sang, unprompted, a bar of "Edelweiss."
For all the goofiness, the opening installment made us realize how much we've missed King, whose stream-of-consciousness, curiosity-driven questioning style and general lack of overt partisanship, makes him both a throwback and a breath of fresh air at a time when too many talk shows are clouded by rancor.
King clearly is beyond his prime as the go-to host for coverage of major breaking news. The new show's personality-driven format plays to his strengths, and its length – a half-hour – is a smart less-is-more move.
Not that King is lacking for energy or ambition – he's a co-founder of Ora TV, the new digital outfit behind "Larry King Now," which could just as well be called "Larry King Alive."
The show will stream four nights a week, beginning Monday. In the meantime, check out a clip from his rollicking chat with MacFarlane:
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Dear Em,
I am doing very good in the writing line aint I? But as long as I feel like it and have the time I cant help keeping in touch with you and the folks as much as possible. I received a paper by mail yesterday and I supose it was you who sent it. If so I thank you and so do the rest of the boys. We are doing guard duty for twenty four hours, and then we go on outpost for twenty four more. Although the papers say every thing is fixed up between the two governments, we have heard firing all morning over in Mexico. It seems as though some of Villa's men are closing in on Carranza's outpost and the firing we hear are the "Mexican battles" we used to hear so much about. Our duty for the next twenty four hours will be to patrol the line which is only about one hundred yards from our last tent and warn against any attack that the Mexican would be foolish enough to attempt. They are giving us enough to eat and plenty of rest so we are not kicking any in that line, but when we get the hikes, and sham battles, which is bound to come before long, then, life will not be so sweet.
Now I know you like to hear from me as often as possible, so you can imagine how I must feel when I get a word from you. There is a fine breeze blowing today which makes it very comfortable. I wish you could hear the singing that goes on hear nights.
The regiment composed a song on the train which runs,
We'll hit the trail for Villa
We're Yankees through and through
We'll show the sons of Mexico,
What the U.S.A. can do.
We come from Massachusetts,
Victory or die,
So give a grand old cheer boys
As the Eight goes marching by. Ra. Ra. Ra.
This is sung to the tune of "We'll hit the line for Harvard." Then the two Somerville companies follow it up with,
Soma, Soma, Somervilla
Panka, Panka, Panko Villa
Spanka, Spanka, Spanka Villa
We'll beat him black and blue. Ra. Ra. Ra.
The whole battalion made a hit all the way down here with this song and I guess it is going to stick through out the regiment.
Inclosed you will find a card of a part of the company lined up for mess. If you notice you will find how clean I washed my socks, for I haven't got my leggings on in this picture. You can also see Corporal Marks who is giving a good account of himself.
They say it is very hot up there. Well it is hoter down here but I bet we don't feel it as bad as you do. It was 119 in the shade the Fourth. I don't know where they got the shade unless they went down to El Paso for it.
We had a rain storm again yesterday and although it made the ground a mass of thick clay (of which you carry a ton of it on your shoes,) we were all satisfied, yes thankful.
I am feeling as good, if not better than any time in my life. Pa will probably remember that the last thing I said in regard to my going was the condition of my health. There are three men in the company that are in a bad way. But I guess they will come around all right.
Well give my regards and best wishes to all you come in contacked with, and don't forget Maggie, and Napoleon. But above all don't forget to write and I will still remain the same
P.S. We had some more pictures taken of the noncomps, so expect to hear from me again very soon.
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CONCORD — B.J. Gagnon didn't exactly have an epiphany in the middle of Monday's Senior American Legion baseball tournament game. But his brainstorm helped keep Rochester Post 7 alive in the tournament for one more day.
Leading Lebanon Post 22, 4-3, in the top of the eighth, Gagnon went to Ricky Kramer, who started and won Friday's opener over Laconia, with two out and a runner on first. Kramer enticed Nick Bouley to foul out to end the inning and then mowed down the top of the Post 22 order in the top of the ninth to secure the 4-3 win.
Good thinkin', Lincoln.
"It kind of hit me during the game, Kramer could use a bullpen," Gagnon said. "You have a plan going in, but you're in a 4-3 game and everything changes. It worked out well for us today."
Rochester (3-1) will play today at 4 p.m. against Laconia, which beat Nashua in Monday's late game, 10-5. The winner will play Nashua immediately afterward for the championship. Lebanon, which lost back-to-back games Monday after a 2-0 start, ended at 2-2.
Kramer, who will start today's first game, made quick work of Post 22 in the ninth. He struck out lead-off batter Cyrus Rothwell-Ferraris looking, one of six backwards Ks for Lebanon. Next up was Cam Blewitt, the losing pitcher, who had tripled in two runs in the seventh to tie the game up, and then doubled in the fifth. Kramer got him to line out softly to first base.
"That was offspeed," Kramer said of the pitch that got Blewitt out. "I don't think he thought it was coming. I figured it was a good time to throw one."
No. 3 hitter Joe Cravero went down on strikes swinging.
"Our main goal was to get the first person out, so there wasn't a runner on base for (Blewitt) to hit in," said catcher Alex Gray, who had the game-winning RBI. "We shut down the first batter and kept going from there."
"That's why (Kramer) had the ball," Gagnon added. "You live and die with your best."
Lebanon coach Rob Woodward felt his team was feeling the effects of a long day at that point. "I figured we were going to do something there," he said. "But I think we were a little bit tired coming into the last inning."
Rochester scored the winning run in the bottom of the seventh after Lebanon had tied the game in the top of the inning.
Andrew Langdon walked on a 3-2 pitch to start things and Michael Bellio laid down a sacrifice bunt, but all hands were safe when no one covered first for Lebanon. Zach Miller walked on another 3-2 pitch to load the bases.
"It's all about putting pressure on the defense at this point," Gagnon said. "We've executed bunts these last couple games that have really helped us out."
"You can't make that mistake on the bunt," Lebanon's Woodward said. "That's the whole difference right there. It shifts the whole game."
After Luke Roberts flied out to shallow right — too shallow for Langdon to score — Gray stepped up and singled back up the middle to plate Langdon with the go-ahead run.
"I wasn't thinking of doing anything big," Gray said. "The way the runners got on base really wasn't a momentum changer. I knew if I got a base hit that we were going to go up and switch the momentum. It did, definitely."
Post 7 took a 1-0 lead in the first when Gray doubled to left with two outs and scored on Justin Jewell's double to left-center.
Post 22 tied it up in the third. Blewitt reached second with one out on an infield throwing error and scored on Cravero's double to right center.
Rochester scored twice in the fourth to go ahead, 3-1. Jewell walked, moved to second on a wild pitch and scored on Anthony DiPrizio's double to left. Mark Leahy's bloop single that dropped near the line in right chased DiPrizio home.
It stayed that way until Blewitt's two-run triple in the seventh that tied the game up at 3-3.
With one out, Nick Bouley reached on an error and Rothwell-Ferraris singled. Blewitt tripled to right center to tie the game up off Rochester starter Josh Gagne.
Gagne was lifted in favor of Zach Poisson, who somehow stopped Cravero's hard grounder back to the box, holding Blewitt at third and getting the out at first. Poisson walked Dalton Campbell, but struck out Liam Gantrish to end the inning.
Gray led Rochester's nine-hit attack, going 2 for 4 with an RBI and a run. Bellio was 2 for 3.
Gray also made two difficult catches of foul balls near the backstop and also threw out a runner stealing. Jewell in right field made two great catches, one a dead sprint to right center in which he made the catch and then doubled off the runner at second in the third inning.
Blewitt had two of Lebanon's five hits, a double and triple.
"We've got a lot of momentum," Kramer said. "Those are two very good teams we just beat right there — Londonderry and Lebanon. We've got a lot of momentum going into (today)."
Rochester, 4-3
Lebanon (2-2) 001 000 200 — 3 5 0
Rochester (3-1) 100 200 10x — 4 9 3
Batteries: L-Blewitt and Campbell; R-Gagne, Poisson (7), Kramer (8) and Gray. WP-Poisson, LP-Blewitt. HRs: None. LOB: L-9, R-6.


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Thanks to all who came out for out winter hike.
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Our winter hike in the Albany Pine Bush has been rescheduled for Saturday, March 9, 2013 at 1pm.
We will meet at 1pm at the Albany Pine Bush Preserve Discover Center and plan to hike the Yellow Loop (about 2.5 miles). This trail is gently rolling sand dunes. If there is snow on the ground feel free to bring your snowshoes. Please RSVP to Sara Poggi so that we know how many to expect (firstname.lastname@example.com).


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Big Screen, High Stakes
A new film by Curtis Hanson strives to meticulously re-create the halcyon days of poker in 2003 and present a character study on human relationships By Michael Kaplan
Squint a little bit, and you'll think you're in the Bellagio's high-limit poker room, circa 2003. The carpeting, wallpaper and artwork all check out. Even the tissue dispensers are the same. Doyle Brunson riffles chips, Daniel Negreanu banters with opponents and high-stakes regulars Sammy Farha and Barry Greenstein coolly gamble with thousands of dollars as if they're playing for quarters.
Kyle Morris, a poker consultant and former dealer, looks familiar because he's worked the Bellagio's biggest games. By rote, he burns and turns cards that will decide the fate of a hand. For a moment you might be engaged in watching the big-money outcome. But then you notice something more intriguing: Robert Duvall sits alongside Negreanu as Eric Bana—star of such films as Troy and The Incredible Hulk—approaches the table, looking hungry for action. Later on, Drew Barrymore will join Bana at a tournament.
Pull back a notch or two and you realize that you are not in a casino at all. You are on a Warner Bros. soundstage in Hollywood. But the room so authentically replicates the Bellagio high-limit area that it gives the poker pros in attendance goose bumps. Some of them get up to hit the restroom and instinctively turn a corner, thinking they're heading for the adjacent sports-book bathroom, only to confront a brick wall.
Obviously, this is not the Bellagio at all. It is the set for Lucky You, a film due out September 8 that Negreanu predicts will be "the best poker movie since The Cincinnati Kid" and is perfectly timed to attract a nation of poker fanatics who can't get enough of Texas Hold'em. Directed by Curtis Hanson, whose previous films include critical favorites L.A. Confidential and 8 Mile, and written by Eric Roth, who's most famous for having scripted Forrest Gump, the film strives to meticulously create a bygone time and place in the world of poker. It harks back to the halcyon days of 2003, just before the game blossomed into a cultural and financial phenomenon.
Hanson became so focused on getting everything right that when he heard the Bellagio would be renovating its poker room, his production company bought all the fixtures and painstakingly rebuilt the room on a Los Angeles soundstage. "Walking onto that movie set was the weirdest moment I've ever had," remembers Negreanu, who spent a couple of days portraying a poker player in the Big Game. "We even played with actual Bellagio chips—hundreds, five-hundreds and thousands. Then I walked into the next room and was in a perfect facsimile of Benny's Bullpen [the room at Binion's Horseshoe where the finals of the 2003 World Series championship were held]. Amazing!" Negreanu is one of many poker pros who were recruited to provide authenticity and lend technical advice. Others included John "World" Hennigan, Mike "The Mouth" Matusow and Chau Giang.
Magician-turned-poker-pro Antonio Esfandiari was recruited to teach Bana the fine points of chip handling; riffling proved impossible to learn in a couple days, so instead, Esfandiari showed the Aussie actor how to roll a chip across the bottoms of his fingers. During breaks in filming, on a vacant poker table behind the set, fact and fiction merged as pros whipped out their big wads of cash, bet sports and played Chinese poker for dizzying stakes. Meanwhile, Matusow killed time between takes by playing poker online. "He borrowed my laptop and got into a heads-up match with Lyle Berman," recalls dealer Morris, whose on-set responsibilities included making sure that the chips were always perfectly stacked, take after take. "He was up about $20,000 and said, 'OK. I made my wage for the day.'" When an actor asked Matusow how so much money can change hands so quickly, Matusow shrugged and owned up to having lost $100,000 in a single day.
Right from the start, Hanson, Roth and producer Carol Fenelon all agreed that real poker players needed to be part of the game plan. "It started in a small, bifurcated way," says Hanson, speaking from an L.A. editing room as he shepherds his film through post-production. "I wanted the poker to be as true and interesting as possible. So we solicited Doyle Brunson to be our poker consultant. Then we enlisted people from the 2003 World Series to be advisers for us. We solicited people to play themselves and ended up with a veritable who's who of poker players."
By juxtaposing poker pros with actors and augmenting meticulous research with a well-defined story arc, Hanson is aiming to create a poker film with parallels to The Hustler (without being too much like the great Jackie Gleason vehicle). But there's just one catch: as Hanson and Fenelon take pains to point out, this is not a poker film per se. "Curtis and I are lifelong players of poker," says Fenelon, sitting in a corner of the Venetian poker room, eyeing a Hold'em game that she might jump into (her preference is No-Limit Hold'em with a $200 buy-in and $2/$4 blinds). "We had been looking for a poker script for the last 10 years. But we wanted a story about human relationships based in the world of poker. We wanted to provide an authentic glimpse of what real-life poker players do on a day-to-day basis and how they go about earning their living and what the pitfalls and upsides are of their career choice."
When Hanson and Fenelon first saw Roth's script, it was 2002, prior to the poker boom, but they were suitably sold on the story that they quickly contracted to make the movie. However, as is invariably the case, the script (which initially focused more heavily on the world of gambling) got tweaked along the way. Rather than zeroing in on the game's underbelly, à la Rounders, Hanson wanted to take a higher road. "We look at poker as a metaphor for human relationships, for business, for a lot of things; we don't think of it as a casino game so much as we think of it as a competition that pits people against one another," says Fenelon, who's quick to point out that Hanson's and her company is called Deuce Three Productions. "Curtis wanted to emphasize the strong skill set required for people who play poker well. He wanted to explore why people play, what it is that excites them, how the skills you develop at the table help your skill sets for personal relationships." Fenelon lets this hang in the air for a beat before providing a piece of the human story within the Lucky You script: "Or, in fact, is it the opposite skill set [that you develop as a poker player], and is that the reason why a lot of poker players tend to be recluses or loners?"
The Lucky You story centers on the tense relationship between Huck Cheever (Bana) and his estranged father L. C. Cheever (Duvall). L. C. is a former college professor who left the family when Huck was young to pursue a career in poker. Over the years L. C. evolves into a very successful player, loosely modeled on Doyle Brunson. By 2003, Huck is also in the poker world, and he's clearly talented, but also highly self-destructive and on a financial roller coaster. (Some insiders snicker that screenwriter Roth clearly knew his subject matter when he came up with his lead character's name; a deal was struck with poker legend Huck Seed and the producers received clearance to use his distinctive moniker.) Barrymore plays Huck's girlfriend and Jean Smart is the game's top female player—the character is based in part on Jennifer Harman—who happens to be close with L. C.
Getting players aligned with the movie was a snap for Hanson and Fenelon. When they first researched the high-stakes scene, they already had their sights set on Brunson. "We vibed on him in a good way," says Fenelon. "And he agreed to do what he could to help us."
Brunson gave them access to the Big Game and to heads-up matches being held between various pros and billionaire banker Andy Beal. Once the director and producer had Brunson's seal of approval, other players stepped up to help. For many it was a relief to be working on a poker-related project that portrays the game in a positive light. After all, the two most prominent card-playing dramas—Rounders and the short-lived ESPN show "Tilt"—both focused heavily on cheating and the game's underbelly. But for some players the allure was less defined and less rational. Jennifer Harman, for example, was drawn by the potential to make cinematic history, capture an era and get a moment or two in the spotlight. "This is the sort of thing you put in your scrapbook," she says, sitting in Bobby's Room at the Bellagio, waiting for the arrival of fellow Big Game denizens. "The money we were paid for being in the movie isn't even close to what we can make playing poker, but opportunities like this one are what make the poker boom fun."
For Negreanu, who had a cameo on the first episode of "Tilt," the integrity of Lucky You was critical. "I had been told that there would be an element of cheating in 'Tilt,' and I was comfortable with that," remembers Negreanu. "But every character in that show turned out to be a scumbag and it was embarrassing to be a part of something that was so bad for poker. In this case, though, many other players were involved, Curtis Hanson has a lot of credibility, and Eric Bana seemed intrigued by the psychology of what makes poker players tick. I had dinner with him and his wife one night, and I can tell you that he was taking his research seriously."
Bana's desire to get it right pays off in at least one scene that rang very true to Negreanu. It depicts Bana's character turning up at the Bellagio poker room, palming a ring and offering it as collateral to secure a loan from his father. "The way he walked in was good," reports Negreanu, who appears in the scene. "He didn't look at the other players and was very discreet. That's how you do it [when you need to borrow money], even though everyone knows what you're there for. He sold me that he's a great poker player but is also a screw-up." In another nod to the realities of the life, Huck attempts an audacious proposition bet that gives him three hours to run five miles and shoot 18 holes of golf at 78 or better. The bet is inspired by one that Huck Seed accepted and won in glorious fashion.
Regardless of how factually correct Hanson wants his movie to be—the desired effect is something he refers to as "real in a dramatic way"—the rigors of filmmaking quickly became clear to the poker players. Shooting a single hand of poker from multiple angles and perspectives can take hours of tedious work and repetition. Some found it arduous, but cash-game specialist John Hennigan, a lover of gambling movies, embraced the process. Jason Lester, a veteran poker pro who came up through the New York scene in the 1980s and made the World Series' final table in 2003, flew into L.A. for one week (to play himself) and stayed for five weeks as a consultant.
Along with the rest of the cast and crew, he put in 12- and 14-hour days (this is the only real job he's ever had in his life), making sure that the hands played out properly, that the chip counts made sense, that actors were responding to situations in the way that bona fide poker pros would. "I'd hate for this movie to become a cult hit and to have kids tearing it apart five years from now—which they won't," says Lester, who tutored Duvall and Bana on how to be convincing pros. "Eric was terrific and caught on right away. Duvall was harder. You needed to treat him gingerly. He's not someone you can tell what to do. You have to suggest things. I saw right away how other people dealt with him."
How was that? "For the most part, they really weren't able to deal with him," says Lester. "He's a movie star and there is a certain deference that you pay in this setting."
Ironically, for someone who's not only consulting on a Hollywood movie but also appearing in it as himself, Lester has devoted most of his gambling life to shunning publicity. These days, though, poker is so mainstream that it's become as exotic as an eggroll, and Lester now sees value in having a public persona. "I stayed at the Four Seasons in Beverly Hills every day for a month, they picked me up each day in a limousine, flew me first-class and obviously paid me," says Lester. "They took care of me very nicely. I stayed on so long that I actually missed some of the preliminary World Series events. So you know they had to take care of me and that I had to enjoy it."
For others, however, the thought of missing even one day of Series play was just too dreary to contemplate. Harman had been offered a meaty role in the movie, one that she later found out was modeled after her. But she turned it down due to the scheduling conflict and took a much smaller part, which was shot in Vegas at Binion's Gambling Hall and Hotel (formerly Binion's Horseshoe, original home of the World Series). In retrospect, she admits, "Of course I regret not taking the larger role. But if I won a bracelet, I wouldn't [be regretting it]." The part went to Smart, and Brunson, for one, isn't complaining: "His biggest moment was being hugged by Jean Smart," says Fenelon. "He told me that he'd shoot that scene over and over again if he could continue hugging her. Doyle is a fan of Jean's. He and his wife loved to watch 'Designing Women.'"
In the end, Curtis Hanson has directed a poker movie that attempts to tell a human, emotional story while capturing a transformative moment in the game. If early reports, hard work and good intentions are worth anything, this will be a genre-defining movie that depicts the poker world from a fresh angle and is entertaining to watch. The project has certainly impacted a number of people involved in its production: at the completion of filming, crew members were playing poker games of their own and buying into low-stakes tournaments.
Lucky You is the talk of Vegas's high-stakes poker circles, and cash-game pro Hennigan seems fascinated with the potential prospect of a new sideline. "I actually might take acting lessons," he says, smiling tightly. "Just in case."
Michael Kaplan is a contributing editor to Cigar Aficionado.


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In a report that has gone virtually unnoticed in the mainstream press, D.C. police and firefighters who first arrived to assist at the Washington Navy Yard earlier this week say they were frustrated when their radios failed during inspection of the building, adding yet another strange development to the already questionable set of circumstances that took place that day.
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Meely said he was disgusted by news that the team had to use cell phones, but that faulty radios were "a known issue" on the base, and that they were notorious for not being able to function properly within buildings, in addition to having batteries that could never sustain charge.
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If we're lucky, we'll get about 5 minutes of Cubs Fabulousness this season, and that was about 6 seconds of it.
Even the most jaded and sarcastic of us had to find some serious joy in Darwin Barney's fantastic walk-off homer yesterday.
Roll around in it.
Feel it with your fingers.
Get it in your hair.
That's joy.
I wasn't there and I saw none of the game, but I heard it was blowing straight in.
And Darwin Barney hits one out?
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Cubs 8 Padres 6.
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Ryan Dempster got a hit and an RBI, but goes only 13 outs and gives up all 6 of the Padres' runs.
And remains winless.
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Slovan Bratislava 0-0 Paris Saint-Germain (20:10:11)
Stuart Fuller kicks off a week long look back at the third annual European Football Weekends Oktoberfest.....
Life sometimes just isn't fair. Like the fact that I missed out on the lottery jackpot once because the winning numbers were exactly the same as I had picked in my head but couldn't find a lottery machine nearby, or when you just go past an exit on the motorway to be hit with the traffic jam from hell around the next corner. Alanis Morrissette called it "Ironic" but to me being in a plane crash is not ironic, it is just bad luck. Oh, and Ms Morrissette, when you do "meet the man of your dreams" you could just offer him a threesome with his "beautiful wife". Just saying.
No, for me life wasn't fair because I had to spend 10 days travelling. From one side of Europe to the next and I would only get to see ten football matches in that period. Just ten. I can see you crying on my behalf now.I would be taking in five countries on my travels, meeting up with numerous old friends and drinking pints (and litres) of beer ranking from €1 Pilsen's in Prague to €8 Amstel's in Zurich.
The reason for such gallivanting? Well it was the start of the Oktoberfest season. Now in its third year you can read all about it here. After our successful jaunts in Holland, Germany, Hungary (well apart from the dysentery I picked up last year) and Slovakia in our previous trips, it was the turn of the Czech Republic this year. That was until fate dealt us a lucky card, an Ace in the hole. Europa League football just over the border in Slovakia. Our EFW/TBIR charter says in paragraph 3, section 2:-
"If a game in a city/stadium is being played whereby transport is freely available and journey time is less than 4 hours and there are no alternative destinations, you have to at least spend an hour finding mitigating reasons not to go".
So that is why at 6.30am I was on board Ryanair 385 to Bratislava. Or actually, to Vienna (Bratislava). Why let hundreds of years of diplomacy get in the way of border agreements eh Ryanair?
She's electric
Known as Pressburg until 1919, Bratislava today is home to hundreds of stag/hen weekends every week. As I decamped from the plane and waited for the bus into town I was handed a leaflet offering me "Pussy Galore" at a club in town, that was apparently open at 10am. I asked the spotty youth whether it was the name of a person, since the capitalisation of the words suggested otherwise, but he simply said "girls, boobs, fanny, sexy time". He failed as a sales person trying to win me as a customer so I declined to visit, although I kept the leaflet for "research purposes".
I travelled into the city with the Barnet boys, finding our hotel with ease and then looking with curiousity at the hulking floodlights in the distance.
An hour later I was standing in what can only be described as a war zone. Around me was the rubble from what looked like a bomb attack, furniture smashed, weeds growing where once there was concrete and finally silence. Silence as if the whole city was in mourning. I was standing on the sweeping terraces of the Tehelne Pole, once one of the biggest stadiums in Czechoslovakia and preferred home of the national team.
Here was a ground steeped in history which now had been pillaged. What could have been broken up had been, and the sad netting still hanging down from the goal posts, the huge weeds growing from the terraces and the remnants of the light blue seats just made you shake your head. I felt a bit wary walking around too much, remembering the "Charlie says" videos of my youth, and seeing the electric cables and holes in the floor around the ground. Game a day John found a ball and took it on the pitch. He became the last person to take a penalty in the stadium (for now), and mirroring his hero, Chris Waddle, he ballooned it over the bar.
Nostalgia over we headed into the old town and sampled some local cuisine before meeting up with the rest of the advanced party who had arrived by train from Prague. Our first home for the evening was the Arena Bar, next to the hotel which had the cheek to try to diddle us by serving pints (well, half a litre) of fine Slovakian beer for €1.50! It got worse as we moved to a pub round the corner that had the cheek to want €1 a beer. Our host for the evening was Dan Richardson, a west country lad, who lived in Bratislava, supported Slovan and ADO Den Haag and worked on a rig in the North Sea. He is a season ticket holder at Slovan and proudly showed us the ticket which cost him just €41. The tickets for this game? €20. And who says clubs try to rip off fans these days?
But for our €20 we also got a Slovan t-shirt and a nice shiny flag to wave, which is more than the travelling PSG fans got. As they (apparently) approached the gates of the stadium en-masse, they were told they weren't welcome and the police moved them into a local pub.
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Despite a major renovation of the Pasiensky in recent years to bring it up to UEFA 3 star standards so it can host games like this, it is still basically an open air athletics stadium with the biggest scoreboard known to man. That didn't stop the home fans whipping up an excellent atmosphere to try to spur on their team against their big spending opponents. Without a point from their opening two games in the Europa League few gave them a chance against the French side.
It wasn't a surprise to see the French do all the early running, with the Slovan keeper Lukáš Hroššo the busier of the two keepers. However, the home side seemed content to try to frustrate the French whenever they could and the first half ended with few chances and certainly no goals. Still, we found amusement at the littlest things, as we always do. An old fashion fire-engine, ready to douse the fires of Slovan ambition? Check. A mascot dressed up as a Slovan badge with white tights on high fiving us? Check. Big Deaks falling off the seat and tumbling down the terraces? Check.
Danny Last and Kenny Legg give the emergency services the thumbs up.
Pass us that bucket will ya, la.
It was much of the same in the opening exchanges of the half. But the first talking point came on the hour mark as PSG's Chantôme was sent off for a second yellow. That sparked Slovan into life and Vladimir Weiss's team started finding a bit more space and created their best chance soon after.
The night got even worse for the visitors in the 80th minute when Siaka Tiéné was sent off for a late challenge. We were standing in the "Ultra" section and sections of fans around us broke out into choruses of monkey chanting as the full back walked off. It was a shock to hear it to be truthful and Andy Hudson walked out. Slovakia had had its problems with this before, famously when England visited back in 2002 and Dan Richardson has written at length about the situation here. Having now read the UEFA match report is it surprising to see it wasn't mentioned at all? Not really. And if they did what would they do? Fine them another couple of thousand Euros? I will get the broom if you want to lift the carpet Michel.
Or are they? Let's see what action they take...
With PSG down to nine men, Slovan smelt victory. Only the timely intervention of Zoumana Camara prevented Karim Guédé slotting the ball into the net. However, they couldn't find a way through and had to settle for a nil-nil draw.
It would have been rude to simply ignore the hospitality on offer in the fine city, so we went back to the Arena bar and contributed significantly to Slovakian economy. Despite a 4am start we carried on until the wee small hours, donning our Slovan t-shirts and re-enacting various tactical subtleties of the game using shot glasses.
8am and we were all (well mostly all) up and trying to find something edible at Bratislava train station for the four hour ride through Hostel country to Prague. Oktoberfest had started with a bang, and with six games due in the next sixty hours was going to continue to just get better and better.
Must I paint you a picture?
A photo montage of the EFW Oktoberfest set to music can be found right here, right now. Ooh, and here's another.
More photos you say? Righty-o, click here or there.
More photos you say? Righty-o, click here or there.
Stuart Fuller is the Editor of The Ball is Round. Follow Fuller and European Football Weekends on Twitter.
Next up on this trip: Slovan Liberec v FC Banik Ostrava