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Here comes the big battle!!! Ash versus Trip!
Now Pikachu vs. Serperior.
Pikachu gets hit with Dragon Tail.
To Be Continued.
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Iris: Are you sure the recipe calls for this many Minccino?
Cilan:*Sighs* Hang on, I'll check.
Ash: What's happening?
Cheren: Yeah...he does that sometimes.
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Iris says Satoshi should use Chaobo, well how did tht go last time Belle? and is suprised he uses PEKECHEW.
I'm actually really glad Ash is reverting back to his more tactical style of battling, not relying on type advantages. His best shot at winning against Trip is likely going to think outside the box.
Ugh, the Meleotta ending, she's gone, time for new relevant ending. Yes I know, not relating to the episode, and it hasn't been around that long, but still.
I agree, I'm wonder what will turn the tide of the battle for Ash and Pikachu.
I will not say I'm the best. But by Ash's standards, I'm pretty good.
Some of you need to look at this before you comment on what a Pokemon should learn. Some of you are okay but some of you need to look at this: http://www.serebii.net/attackdex-bw/ This is the attackdex, it is your friend.
Oh man...so satisfying to beat this thing after it took out the other 5 Pokemon of my team.
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I was so moved when Satoshi told Pika that the first battle in the league will go to him! Gosh if only Satoshi can win the league!!!!! and damn next eppi preview is awesome! minus the obligatory Virgil scene ofc -__- they are really trying hard to shove Virgil down our throats, aren't they?
-Kurumayu-tachi " we can't wait to become sweeping samurai Hahakomories
Minna no pokemon getto da ze~
Me to, pleasantly surprised.. I was horridly expecting something along the lines of the second round of the Junior Cup.. Even Kotetsu is having his own moments in these battles.. I laughed! :P
Doesn't matter, the pokemon show that by themselves:
- Eelektross: Owned by the likes of the Subway Masters.
- Crustle: Owned by Cilan, which was proven to be godly.
- Braviary: Shown to be quite furious in attacking in its debut, and gameplayers know how strong it is.
- Watchog: The only one in this list that doesn't immediately spark fear.
However, the fact that Stephan had to scream for Zebstrika to stay in the game had me surprised, I actually expected this to be a 'dodge, dodge, Giga Impact' battle, but it lasted longer then that and I was pleasantly surprised. And apparently, even Vaporeon vs. Crustle spans two episodes as well.. :P
To be fair, he's had less feature frames in the magazines lately.
RANK UP: I'm Brycen. Imma be, Imma be, Imma Imma Imma be going Cung Le!
Answer to all the bad things in the world: Give up on trying to make everything better. Hence, accepting it for what it is.YOLO!
Spoiler:- League battle that I wanted:
Oh well, at least five of those appeared in the league.. -.-
RANK UP: I'm Brycen. Imma be, Imma be, Imma Imma Imma be going Cung Le!
Answer to all the bad things in the world: Give up on trying to make everything better. Hence, accepting it for what it is.YOLO!
Spoiler:- League battle that I wanted:
Oh well, at least five of those appeared in the league.. -.-
Great episode, but now I'm excited to see the next, for few seconds I was thinking that Ash's going to lose, but I remember his fight agaisnt Georgia with Pawniard, so I'm okay now !
Why Trip didn't send out another Pokémon, god ? 8@
Oh and a little bit sad that the Eelektross isn't Bianca's.
I was hoping he would too, oh well, he's still not a jerk anymore from the looks of it, so that's nice at least. Plus the other rivals had interactions with each other so yay for that, hoping for more though.
Stephan's running gag is done now? I read on bulbapedia that the characters start getting his name right in this episode. I was hoping for Kotetsu to just get the name right of all people while everyone else still gets it wrong but oh well.
It's nice that the rival battles are more focused on, although I hope that doesn't get in the way of Ash's battle with whatever "COTD" he's facing. Are all these battles going on at once too since it seems like a few of the rival aren't finished yet.
Did they show anyone's badges other then Ash and Kotetsu?
I like the look of the episode.

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Milestone Birthday Cards
Just turned 40? You're not old yet! I know a guy twice your age who just ran a marathon!
'Course, it was the last thing he did.
So you're turning 50. Boo hoo.
You can still walk, can't you?
So you need glasses and you're losing your hearing.
There's nothing good on tv anyway and today's music sucks.
Happy 60th!
So you're not interested in those sweet young things anymore.
Just as well. Those sweet young things aren't interested in you anymore.
Happy 70th!
So you don't know where you are and you can't remember your name.
Used to have to pay good money to get that way.
Happy 80th!
Yeah, yeah, all your friends are dead.
You never like 'em anyway.
Happy 90th!
Miscellaneous Cards
You light up my life.
Like an oncoming train.
I'm sorry we fought last night.
I'm much more vicious during the day.
Heard you were ill, injured, whatever –
Can I borrow your car this weekend?
Sorry to hear about your loss –
But hey, people die.
I did so remember your birthday
I just can't remember your name
A night like last night can only happen once
I mean it — get lost.
Sorry you're sick
no, really –
Sorry to hear about your car accident
Thanks for increasing our GNP.
funny bits – that keep on coming – one a day – sort of – (many of which are on tshirts, mugs, fridge magnets, etc in my cafepress shop)
Pitch for a sci-fi movie: A plague kills all the women on Earth except five, who manage to escape infection. On these five depend the continuation of the human species.
And when the men find them, it takes all of fifteen minutes to rape them to death.
(A very short sci-fi movie.)6/3/2013
What's scary about the development of intelligent computers or biochemical roots is not that they might some day pass whatever test we come up with to determine if they meet the criteria for being a conscious human being.
What's scary is that on that day, a good number of the rest of us might not.5/24/2013
I guess there's nothing wrong with believing there's life after death.
Unless, of course, you're my surgeon!5/20/2013
Chapter 2 of Kings says that God arranged to have 42 children killed by bears because they teased a bald guy.
I betcha God's bald.5/16/2013
Research continues to show that the older you get, the less likely you are to get married.
Well yeah. Because the older you get, the less likely you are to be deluded.5/13/2013
I once saw three big fish in a teeny little front yard pond.
Must've taken a whole two seconds for Bob to swim from one end to the other, passing Harry, and back, passing Joe.
I sure hope all three have that short-term memory thing where you can't remember what you just did.5/9/2013
One of the biggest problems facing humanity today is how to get rid of the men. I have the solution. We turn them into women.
Most of them will then kill themselves, unable to deal with their new subordinate status.5/3/2013
I read the other day about the new proposed crime, "negligent rape", in which a man fails to notice a woman's lack of consent.
Guys. How can you fail to notice "GET THE FUCK OFF ME!"?4/26/2013
It's always pissed me off how men seem to make every little thing they do so important. They put on such a serious face. Even if they're just tying their shoelaces.
Turns out I've been giving them way too much credit. They're not conveying importance. They're just concentrating really really hard.4/19/2013
I was reading the other day about cave art, how there are a lot more pictures of animals drawn in profile and than in frontal view. Apparently because the frontal view is a sophisticated perspective requiring cognitive skills present only in more evolved brains.
There's a simpler explanation. The guys who actually saw a woolly mammoth head-on? They died.4/13/2013
According to Biblical accounts, God's commanded the deaths of 185,000 Assyrians, 120,000 Midianites, 120,000 Judeans, 100,000 Syrians, 24,000 Israelites, and 10,000 Moabites.
Now, he's obviously rounding off to the nearest thousand, and I have to tell you, that lack of attention to detail bothers me.4/7/2013
"Y'know why women can't play poker?" this guy asked me once.
"'Cuz they're no good at bluffing."
Well, I guess you've never had sex with a woman then, eh?4/3/2013
George Carlin with Tourette's Syndrome:
"Republican! Priest!"3/26/2013
The Bible continues to appear on bestseller lists even though the plot is repetitious, the characters are unlikeable, the dialogue, unrealistic, and the tone, juvenile.
And much of it just fucking doesn't make sense: "Wherefore my sentence is, that we trouble not them, which from among the Gentiles are turned to God" (Acts 15:19). What?3/21/2013
All those women in tv ads that are so happy that their eyelashes can now be ultra-curled, ultra-lengthened, and ultra-thickened — if my eyes were that vacant, I sure wouldn't want to draw attention to them.
No wait a minute. If I were that vacant — I guess I would.3/14/2013
Have you seen those extra large chocolate bars with the re-sealable packages?
Why would you need a re-sealable package on a chocolate bar?3/9/2013
Who came up with the name 'Viagra'?
I guess it's supposed to sound like 'Niagara'.
But it's 'Niagara Falls'.
Better to have chosen 'Geyser'.
'Course that sounds too much like 'Geezer'.
They should've just gone with 'Hamburger Helper'.3/4/2013
Have you seen that show "Dogs with Jobs"?
I've got a companion show to pitch. "Cats on Unemployment."3/1/2013
At every age over fifteen, more women than men receive treatment for mental health problems.
Scarey, eh? All those men walking around out there – untreated.2/18/2013
High school sucked, didn't it.
And those were the best years of our lives.2/14/2013
They say curiosity killed the cat.
Maybe the first eight times.
The ninth time? That had to've been stupidity.2/10/2013
Got a donation request the other day from the Alzheimers' Society.
And I was actually gonna write out a cheque.
But then I – forgot.2/6/2013
The companies putting CFCs into the atmosphere, wrecking the ozone, and giving us all skin cancer?
Serve us right if they were all owned by rich black people.2/1/2013
Someone once told me that the virus is the only life form that requires a higher life form in order to replicate.
They obviously forgot about men.1/25/2013
A group of hunters is protesting elk farms.
Because they're unethical.
They're just pissed because the farmers are taking away their fun.
Well, fair's fair.
I say let the cows loose.1/20/2013
The word 'wife' first referred to those women who were captured, after the invasion and conquest of a neighbouring tribe, and brought home to be slaves. 'To have and to hold' is in fact a legal expression used to transfer possession of a piece of property.
In Canada, one in four wives is severely beaten during the course of the marriage; half of all wife assault victims are kicked in the abdomen when pregnant; and almost sixty percent of the women who are murdered are murdered by their husbands. And yet, get this: ninety-four percent of all women consent to get married.1/15/2013
Ya gotta love automated answering systems.
Press 1 for sales, 2 for service, and 3 if you have no short-term memory whatsoever.1/11/2013
Heard this guy say the other day that women can't do jobs that involve heavy machinery.
What do you guys do with it all day – carry it?
Got one word for you: forklift.1/8/2013
That 'don't-ask-don't-tell' thing the military has going?
How can they face the enemy if they can't even face homosexuality?1/4/2013
Ever see two snails chasing each other?12/30/2012
I heard someone say the other day say "Wouldn't it be great if we could travel through time?"
Hello. We travel from yesterday to today – every day.12/26/2012
So my Christmas gift for my nephew was apparently "inappropriate".
Explain to me why toy guns are okay, but toy thumbscrews are considered sick?12/19/2012
Have you heard –- armies use radioactive bullets.
Guess when you get hit, you glow in the dark.
So much for that brand new camouflage outfit.12/13/2012
So deer season was a couple weeks ago. I saw some guy standing in the bush a few metres off the road, waiting, rifle ready.
"You're not gonna kill the mom and two little fawns we see around here, are you?" I asked.
"Oh, we'll try not to!" he smiled.
What's to try? Unload the gun.
If that's too tricky, just put it down.
Each year, 100 men kill their female partners, but only 3 women kill their male partners.
I figure hey – there's a market potential for assertiveness training seminars.11/26/2012
How many philosophers does it take to change a light bulb?
Define 'light bulb'.11/22/2012
How do you turn a rainforest into a desert?
Eat a hamburger.11/19/2012
What's another word for unannounced nuclear test?
Why is Aunt Jemima a maid and Uncle Ben a chef?
And Mr. Clean – yeah right.11/6/2012
Speaking of washrooms, I was in one the other day. A women's washroom. In one of the government buildings.
And as I was in one of the stalls, I happened to read the little sign on that little box. It said "For your convenience, a sanitary receptacle is provided in this cubicle. You are requested to co-operate and use it for the purpose intended."
I'm still coming up with alternate uses for those things.11/3/2012
Why did the paranoic cross the road?
Why do you ask?10/30/2012
Why did the multiple personality cross the road?
Are you asking me?10/29/2012
Why did the hallucinating person cross the road?
To follow the chicken.10/27/2012
Why did the masochist cross the road?
He didn't. Because the grass was greener.10/25/2012
Why did the delusional person cross the road?
Because he thought the grass was greener on the other side.10/22/2012
Why did the passive personality cross the road?
Because I told him to.10/12/2012
Did you know there's an international law that says you can't use weapons that cause "unnecessary suffering"?
Blowing your right leg off, that was necessary.
But the left leg, gee, I'm sorry about that, that was unnecessary, wasn't it.10/9/2012
According to Manly Palmer Hall, "We are all healthy when we are not thinking about ourselves."
Speak for yourself.
I'm not such a basket case that I can't bear the thought of me.10/4/2012
Isn't it amazing what biological research is doing for agriculture?
We have nectarines – a peach without the fuzz.
And seedless grapes – that must have been a trick.
And now "boneless chicken".
Wouldn't that make life in the barnyard a little difficult?10/1/2012
Women, don't you just hate having PMS? Being all irritable and angry for a few days each month.
But hey, at least we're not men.
They have PMS all month long.
It's called testosterone.
The guy on the freeway leaning on his horn and slamming into you? That's not road rage, that's a man with PMS.
And football and hockey, all those guys smashing into each other? Guys with PMS.
And war?! They're killing each other. I wish they'd just take their Midol already.9/28/2012
Jack and Jill went up the hill
To fetch a pail of water
Jack fell down and broke his crown
And Jill said, "Clumsy!"9/22/2012
I was reading the other day about this guy, Daniel Maston, an assistant operator at the Point Lepreau Nuclear Generating Station. He was sentenced to four months for spiking the cafeteria's juice cooler with tritiated heavy water from the reactor.
Apparently he said –- and I quote –- "I don't have a good reason. I just did it. Maybe it was a joke."
And we worry about terrorists stealing plutonium.9/17/2012
How many students does it take to change a light bulb?
'That's the janitor's job, let him do it, he's getting paid.'9/14/2012
Speaking of perpetual hard-ons, you know how they're always saying they can't control it?
Yeah right. They control 94% of the planet's property, 96% of its politics, and 98% of its money.
But they just cannot control their own penises.9/12/2012
I saw a book the other day titled Sex Can Make You Stupid.
I laughed, but you know it's true, isn't it? Whenever I get really horny, I do stupid things. Really stupid things.
And then I thought, you know how men are always telling us they've got this perpetual hard-on? Well.9/6/2012
For most of us, loss is the difference between what you have at Time 1 and what you have at Time 2: yesterday, I had ten marbles; today, I have seven; so I lost a few – three, to be exact.
However, those in business define loss as the difference between what you get and what you might've gotten. So if they get ten marbles and they think they could've gotten a hundred, they 'suffer a loss' of ninety marbles.
Which means, by their own reckoning, they've lost quite a few more marbles than the rest of us.8/31/2012
Saw another ad, for a food demonstrator.
"Ladies and gentlemen, may I have your attention please? This – is food."8/30/2012
"Heard you were ill, injured, whatever –- Can I borrow your car this weekend?"8/27/2012
"I'm sorry we fought last night. I'm much more vicious during the day."8/21/2012
Saw an ad for a poet for a greeting card company. Even submitted a portfolio.
"You light up my life. Like an oncoming train."8/13/2012
Now that the Olympics are over, I'd like to point out that there are several sports in which we haven't yet reached our full potential.
In water polo, as in regular polo, there should be horses involved.
In the sculls, they should narrow the lanes and let the competitors whack their opponents out of their boats.
In the steeplechase, in that pool of water at that last hurdle? We should put a crocodile in there.
The flimsy crossbar of the pole vault should be replaced with a sturdy two-by-four. Nailed in place.
And in the relay, instead of a baton, the runners should have to pass off a chicken.8/12/2012
It occurs to me that there are a few sports we just haven't named very well.
Squash is not played with a squash.
There are no fences in fencing, no rugs in rugby.
And 'the butterfly' – have you ever seen what happens to a butterfly in water?8/11/2012
And you know, I don't think the Olympic marathoners are all that impressive. You'll notice that most of them are done in two, two-and-a-half hours.
I've run a marathon and I can tell you for a fact that I can keep going for another two hours. At least.8/11/2012
Have you noticed that the distance running events are almost always won by someone from Kenya, Ethiopia, or some other starving country?
See what you can do when all you've got to carry around is skin-and-bones?8/10/2012
Did you know they once tried a men's synchronized swimming team?
One guy got pissed off at another guy, and then another guy got involved, next thing you know, half the team's dead in the water.
Guess they couldn't handle that hold-hands-and-coordinate thing.8/9/2012
You know how there are different weight classes in wrestling?
I think other sports should do that too.
For example, in the high jump, there should be a separate competitive class for short people.8/8/2012
I don't really understand weight lifting.
People lift heavy stuff.
They don't take it anywhere.
They don't do anything with it.
They just pick it up — and then put it back down.8/7/2012
Know why it took a hundred years for there to be a women's triple jump?
Because hopscotch isn't really a challenge for us anymore.
Know what event I'd like to see?
Men's double-dutch.8/7/2012
And she can do it with a tennis ball in her mouth.8/6/2012
So Usain Bolt won the hundred in 9.63 seconds.
My dog can do better than that.
And she's only six years old.
'Course, she's black too.8/5/2012
I heard one athlete emphasize the need to stay focused and keep his objective in mind.
How hard can that be for a sprinter?8/4/2012
How many swimmers does it take to change a light bulb?
Don't know yet. They keep getting electrocuted.8/3/2012
Olympic athletes are especially driven.
Imagine spending years trying to throw a really heavy ball a few centimetres further than the next guy.
Now there's a candidate for the Lifetime Achievement Award.8/2/2012
Most athletes are driven by the desire to win.
Not to win anything in particular, anything of significance, just – to win.7/29/2012
We pray to this god.
But he's omniscient – he already knows what we're going to say.
And it's not like we're going to change his mind: hey, Supreme Being and Ruler of the Universe – this is what I think should happen here.7/25/2012
Some people believe that when we die, we're reincarnated.
But if that were true, the human population shouldn't be increasing.
Unless there's been a lot of pigs and cows who've been promoted – actually, I think I know some of them.7/21/2012
A recent poll found that almost 80% of North Americans are Christian.
They say they were born that way.7/18/2012
President Bush kept talking about his "personal relationship with Jesus."
Which is odd, because the last time I talked to Jesus, he said he didn't know him.7/14/2012
I don't think they should give driver's licences to people who believe in life after death.7/9/2012
People give $80 million a day to God. $80 million! A day!
Just what the fuck has he been doing with all that money?
And when do you think he'll start paying taxes for roads, schools, hospitals, and stuff?7/3/2012
The state motto of Ohio is "With God, all things are possible."
Oh yeah? Is it possible for him to create a rock so heavy he can't lift it?6/29/2012
They say God works in mysterious ways.
Why is that again?6/27/2012
And about this so-called 'intelligent design'.
Tornadoes don't have guidance systems, we don't have earlids, and pain hurts.6/23/2012
Ever wonder why God doesn't just once and for all provide conclusive evidence that he exists? Something simple and yet – godly.
Nothing like throwing chunks of bread at us.6/20/2012
What if there is a God – and heaven is only for those bright enough to recognize there's no proof that he exists?6/16/2012
Or maybe he exists, but he went on holiday and got lost because, like one of his favourite sons who took the forty-year desert tour, he doesn't know how to stop and ask for directions.
(Thanks to Julian Barnes.)6/15/2012
Or maybe he does exist, but he's abandoned us. We may have been a disappointment. Or an infectious disease.
Maybe he inherited us. Or got us for Christmas. And he's still trying to exchange us.6/14/2012
Most people figure either God exists or he doesn't. There are other possibilities.
Maybe he used to exist, but he doesn't anymore. Maybe he got run over by a truck.6/5/2012
The men in Sweden don't wear ties.
I don't know about you, but any country in which the men don't walk around wearing little nooses gets my vote.
Then again, given that most countries are nowhere near Sweden with regard to women in government (43%), the noose thing does provide a certain – convenience.5/29/2012
When I was at a seaside restaurant, a waiter took three dead fish on a plate to some people at one of his tables – I guess so they could choose which one they wanted.
At first I thought "Ugh!" But then I thought, well, people choose which lobster they want from a bunch swimming around in a tank.
So okay, let's at least be consistent then. Next time someone orders weiner schnitzel, let's bring out all the little baby calves to frolic around the table.
'Course if they're gonna be weiner schnitzel, they've been kept too weak to frolic…5/24/2012
You know how some men used to jingle coins in their pocket? "Look at me! I'm rich! I have a bunch of nickels and dimes in my pocket!"
And then it became cool to carry around a lot of jangling keys. "Look at me! I'm important! I can open lots of doors!"
Now, men – at least Greek men who've seen Lethal Weapon III – click two tied-together marbles. Over and over. Click-click. Click-click. "Look at me! I'm dangerous! I can strangle you!"
I don't know if they're supposed to be worry beads or prayer beads or – I just call them balls-on-a-string. Teeny little itsy bitsy balls-on-a-string.5/17/2012
In Italy, the street people don't ask you for money exactly – they pray for it. Literally. They kneel on the sidewalk with their little cup in front of them and pray. Hands pressed together, eyes closed, the whole bit.
So when you give them money, you're validating their belief in – no, wait a minute, that was me who put the dollar in your cup, not God! Thanks be to me! I'm God!5/13/2012
What is this obsession with taking pictures of everything?
If you want pictures of these places, why not just buy the book?
I swear some people took pictures of the postcards.
'Course why not – the postcards always looked better than the real thing.5/7/2012
As a species, we are so in love with ourselves, aren't we? Almost every painting and certainly every sculpture I saw featured human subjects.
I saw a few horses, a rabbit or two, and an antelope. But they were usually dead.
Or dying a very horrible death.
'Course it could just be that animals won't sit still long enough.
That could also explain why they were usually dead.5/1/2012
I don't think I was in the right mood for the Louvre. I saw this one really famous painting of a shipwreck, the main figure is on the beach, dramatically draped over crates and sails, in a pose of utter exhaustion.
And all I thought was "Oh get a grip!"4/25/2012
I got lost a lot. Even before I got to Amsterdam, I mean.
I got lost getting from the train stations to the hotels. I got lost getting from the hotels to the museums. Then I started getting lost in the museums.
It's true. You can spend days in the Louvre.4/17/2012
I noticed there were no garbage cans along the Champs D'Elysees – anywhere.
And I thought "That's wishful thinking." It's nonstop tourists.
A block later I realized they'd just said "The hell with it," given a woman a go-cart, put a vacuum cleaner on it, and made it a full-time job.4/10/2012
Copenhagen is made for pedestrians. It has lots of pedestrian-only spaces, the streets have these really wide sidewalks, and in Copenhagen, pedestrians always have the right of way. You can be crossing the street anywhere and the cars will stop for you.
They'll do that in Amsterdam too. Though that could be because you're apt to be crossing the street backwards. And giggling.
But in Paris, cars always have the right of way. Even if the little green man says it's okay to cross. Actually, in Paris, the little green man says "Okay – you can try – but –"
Florence is rather like Paris in its attitude toward pedestrians, because in Italy there are no sidewalks at all. Well, there are – but apparently they're for cars.4/2/2012
Europe doesn't have the junk food we do. I had a heck of a time finding Doritos.
Especially in, of all places, Amsterdam.3/25/2012
One of the shops on the Champs D'Elysees is a travel agency for Iran Air – "The Airline of the Islamic Republic of Iran".
I'll bet they're not doing much business these days.
Given the tendency of Islamic pilots to fly into buildings.3/22/2012
Remember Jules Verne? The guy who went around the world in 80 days?
He didn't have to deal with airports and train stations and ferries.3/14/2012
People in business class and first class need to feel important and special.
So they get to board planes ahead of the rest of us.
Along with the other infants and small children.3/9/2012
Half the world's population is under twenty-five. The ones who aren't undernourished are crack babies or fetal alcohol syndrome babies or AIDS babies or babies who for no good reason reached adolescence and graduated from high school but can't spell 'graduated'.
Makes you want to go right out and buy one of those 'Children are Our Future' posters.3/1/2012
A site chosen for a nuclear power plant is two miles from an active fault line, and the blueprints for the reactors got mixed up, so the earthquake fault supports were installed backwards.
Oh yeah-–we're definitely ready for that anti-matter stuff.2/19/2012
If you're so proud to be American, why do you wear a Canadian flag when you travel?2/11/2012
Many men express surprise and puzzlement upon hearing the words "I'm pregnant."
Apparently many of us still haven't connected having sex with having babies.2/5/2012
There have been over 1900 tests of nuclear weapons since World War II. You'd think we'd get it right after, say, the first couple hundred.
And we haven't figured out yet what to do with the leftover stuff. We have enough radioactive waste to contaminate all of the Earth's lakes and rivers – twice. Canada alone has enough to stack a six foot high pile along the TransCanada Highway from coast to coast. We don't know what to do with the stuff. But we keep making it.
We tossed some of it into the ocean. But apparently it doesn't just dissolve. We launched some of it into outer space. But now the insurance companies won't cover our space shuttles for collision. We buried some of it in containers–that clearly won't last as long as the stuff itself. And we used some of it to build schools and kitchen tables. Call it recycling. Our favourite way to get rid of it, however, seems to be sneaking into some other country's back yard late at night, dumping it, and then running away.1/26/2012
We do heroic things to save whales caught in the ice with insufficient oxygen.
Otherwise, they would never get the chance to experience a long, slow death from PCB poisoning.1/18/2012
I used to run a support group for people in denial.
But no one ever came.1/12/2012
The team of genetic researchers that successfully cloned a sheep from a single adult cell named the sheep "Dolly", after a certain large-breasted country singer, because the cell had come from a mammary gland.
Grown men, brilliant men, men on the cutting edge of science, men who become headline news, are quite likely still forcing farts at the dinner table and snickering about it.1/5/2012
In the spring of 1991, Fred Turner set out from Beaufort, South Carolina, to walk across America in order to prove that most people are good.
He got as far as the state line before he was robbed and pushed off a bridge.12/31/2011
Another reason we're too stupid to visit…
We make toy guns, encouraging our kids to play at killing each other.12/24/2011
I don't do Christmas.
As Zoe Fairburns points out, "The birth of a male who thinks he's god isn't such a rare event."12/15/2011
The Training Center for Subversive Warfare teaches that "Torture must be kept clean, it must not be carried out in the presence of those with sadistic tendencies, it must be carried out by some responsible person, and above all, it must be humane."
Otherwise, it would be, what, wrong?12/7/2011
The economic system used for decision-making by the United Nations, the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund, and national governments considers only cash-generating activities to be productive.
So Tendai, who lives in Zimbabwe and spends eighteen hours a day providing food, clothing, and shelter for herself and her children, is unproductive.
But Bubba, who sits on a nuclear missile for eight hours a day waiting for an order to push a button and destroy the planet – he's productive.11/27/2011
Lieutenant General Daniel Graham once said 'If a one megaton bomb was about to explode over this building and you had the good sense to start walking and get behind a lilac bush, that bomb would not hurt you.'He was later chosen to be the Senior Military Advisor to the President.
Women, as a matter of routine, redden their lips, ornament their ears, push up their breasts, display their legs, and arch their feet.
Then they get pissed off if you see them as sex objects.
And they get really pissed off if you then tell they're being irrational.11/14/2011
North Americans spend five billion dollars each year on special diets.
When it would be far cheaper to just move to Africa.11/2/2011
When AIDS became an epidemic, a certain company recalled the condoms not up to their new standards, claiming 'a certain social responsibility'.
Apparently they were unaware that people had been using their condoms not only to prevent the transmission of disease, but also to prevent the transmission of sperm.10/28/2011
Being male is very much about being in control.
One has to wonder, therefore, why they hang their entire 'manhood' on some one thing over which they biologically have no voluntary control whatsoever.
(And they say they're the logical ones.)10/19/2011
In Saudi Arabia, a woman must be accompanied by a man whenever she appears in public; otherwise, she is subject to torture.
In our species, sexual desire seems to induce a state of temporary idiocy. Which is why it is not particularly encouraging that the male half of the species actually brags about being in a constant state of sexual readiness.10/7/2011
The U.S. continues to puzzle over the persistence of racism.
It also continues to call the official residence of the President "The White House."10/5/2011
Some of our best and brightest philosophers have spent years trying to convince us that time doesn't exist.10/1/2011
A sign on a community bulletin board saying "Learn to read English–Classes held Monday nights!" was posted by the Board of Education.9/26/2011
The Annual Turing Test Competition is an event in which a panel of experts asks questions from a remote location of a bunch of computers and a bunch of people. If they can't tell that a computer is a computer, it passes the Turing Test – it is deemed able to think.
In a recent competition, some of the people failed the test.9/22/2011
A worker, no doubt somebody's kid, accidentally dropped a socket wrench down a silo – it hit a missile causing an explosion that launched a nine megaton hydrogen bomb into a field several hundred yards away. Oops.
Because of naval mishaps, there are now nine nuclear reactors and fifty nuclear warheads on the ocean floor. Mishaps.
A nuclear bomb fell out of a U.S. bomber and landed in a Carolina swamp. It has not yet been found. Perhaps the localized proliferation of two-headed alligators should be considered a clue.
The U.S. dropped four plutonium bombs on Spain by mistake. I have to ask: four at once or on four separate occasions?9/18/2011
Many of us are too unimaginative–or too lazy–or both–to make our lives worthwhile. So we have kids. That's our contribution to society. Genetic replications of our deficiency.
This inability to find fulfillment in the here and now is shared by those who set their sights instead on some heaven. No surprise, they're the ones with the most kids.9/16/2011
In a recent experiment involving monkeys, 13% pulled a chain electroshocking an unrelated monkey whose agony was in plain view. In a similar experiment conducted with humans, 65% administered the shock, to the point of fatality.
Much to do was subsequently made about the ethics – of the experimenters.9/12/2011
We came up with the concept of 'garbage': stuff we don't want here – so we put it there. All gone!9/10/2011
McMaster University initiated a research project to study the health effects of war.
Perhaps some genius hypothesized that it causes death.9/6/2011
Two bombs in a building were set to go off an hour apart, and the Mayor of the City said, "The second bomb was clearly designed to hurt the rescue workers coming to assist, so we're dealing with a warped mind here."
Um, wouldn't the first bomb kind of establish that?8/31/2011
It costs more than $115,000 to create a job in crude oil production. It costs only $20,000 to create a job in solar energy production. We have an unemployment problem. We have an energy problem.
And we have a math problem.8/25/2011
Over half of our planet's scientists and engineers work for the military.
The other half work for Pizza Pizza.8/21/2011
Men pride themselves on being objective, they champion the impersonal.
And yet they'll do anything to win. To be, personally, number one.8/20/2011
Most men generally don't think much of most women.
And yet, they continue to prohibit them from joining the military, where they could easily get killed.8/14/2011
We distinguish males from females. Before we do anything else. And before we do everything else. For example, 'Mr. Smith' really means 'Penis-Person Smith'. The use of such sex-identifying prefixes is considered polite.
The use of 'Penis-Person' – or 'Dickhead' – is not. Apparently.8/9/2011
We're still trying to get our whites whiter.8/4/2011
We sentenced Socrates to death and let a number of serial killers live.8/1/2011
We put tons of carcinogens into our food, water, and air.
And then spend millions of dollars looking for the cure for cancer.
Oh where oh where could it be.7/27/2011
If the history of the Earth were a year, life would not appear until March, multi-cellular organisms not until November. Dinosaurs would show up on December 13, and mammals on December 15. On December 31, we'd show up. By late evening, we'd have well-developed brains.
And then it'd take us 60 seconds to thoroughly trash the place.7/23/2011
Most of us still think there's a god.
Well, okay, maybe that's not really a problem.
We still think it's an all-wise and all-good god.7/20/2011
Are there intelligent life forms out there in the universe?
Well yeah. No one's visited us yet.7/16/2011
Have you noticed that more and more athletes are saying a quick prayer at the starting line?
A clear admission that you can't possibly win without divine intervention, yeah, that'll really psych out your opponents.7/4/2011
A contraceptive pill designed for men was rejected because of the negative side-effect of reducing their sex drive.
Given the reason for taking the pill, wouldn't that have been a positive side-effect?


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WELLSBURG - Efforts to address feral cats in Wellsburg and cuts to a program aimed at putting youth to work during the summer were discussed Tuesday by the Brooke County Commission.
Commission President Marty Bartz said the commission met with Wellsburg officials to discuss how they may work together to address a feral cat problem on the city's north end.
Wellsburg Council recently heard from Barbara Parrish, a resident of 22nd Street who complained of the wild felines defecating in her yard and under her porch.
Concerns voiced earlier about the cats led Webark Estates Animal Shelter of Moundsville to assist local residents in trapping and having the cats spayed or neutered and vaccinated against rabies at that group's expense.
The felines were re-released into the same area, with the idea being the colony eventually would die out. Residents were encouraged to use citrus spray or powder to deter the cats, but Parrish believes some residents are encouraging the cats to gather in the area by feeding them.
The commissioners acknowledged preventing the cats from reproducing doesn't stop them from creating a nuisance.
"If they don't have a home or owner, they shouldn't be brought back," said county Commissioner Norma Tarr.
Bartz said Wellsburg officials have suggested they might rent traps to residents if the county dog warden and animal shelter will handle them afterwards.
Asked what will be done with the cats after they are trapped, Donna DeJaro, the shelter's director, said feral cats can't be domesticated so they normally are euthanized.
Tarr asked about the cost involved, and DeJaro said she will have to investigate that.
Chuck Shreve, the county's dog warden, said he would be willing to collect the traps. But the commissioners said they need to work out the details.
The commissioners said if they proceeds with such plans, they should advise residents to put the cages away from the hot sun and to avoid contact with the cats, which may carry diseases.
In other business, Rosemary Guida, executive director of the Northern Panhandle Workforce Investment Board, said federal funding for the summer youth work program has been cut but the board is working with Youth Services Systems Inc. of Wheeling to conduct a scaled-down version of it.
Guida said she hopes to place 70 to 80 teens and young adults, ages 14-24, at work sites with government entities in six Northern Panhandle counties between July 9 and Aug. 9.
She said in previous years the program put about 300 teens to work painting, cleaning and doing general maintenance work at government buildings and parks.
She said the agency continues to offer the Individual Training Account program, through which eligible adults, ages 19-21, may receive up to $4,750 per year to undergo training for in-demand occupations; and the Training 4 Our Future program, which trains residents with disabilities, ages 14-24, in computer and other work-related skills.
Those who successfully complete the latter course receive a laptop computer.
For information about those programs and other services, call (304) 231-1170.
The commission also:
Heard from Ruby Greathouse, volunteer curator of the Brooke County Museum, who said the museum board and many volunteers continue to work to transfer materials from the museum to its new site at the former G.C. Murphy building on Charles Street.
Greathouse said the board is working to complete its collection of graduating class photos from local high schools and is missing Wellsburg High School's Class of 1968.
The framed photos once were displayed at their respective schools, and the museum has acquired many over the years.
Janet Buxton, a member of the Wellsburg High School Alumni Association, said the group is attempting to recreate the photo using yearbook photos of the class members.
Greathouse said that approach has been taken for other class photos at the museum.
Anyone with information about the missing photo should call Greathouse at (304) 737-0506.
In related business, the commission reappointed Greathouse, Phil Greathouse, Tammy Withers, Leonard Ginier and Frank Agosh to the museum board.
Approved an application for a $5,000 grant from the West Virginia Development Office by Brooke Hills Park to purchase a tractor.
Reviewed proposed designs for a logo for the animal shelter submitted by Karyn DeBrasky, a State College, Pa., artist, but took no action.


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CHAPEL HILL — There were very little surprises for the six Southeastern Conference schools when the North Carolina High School Athletic Association released this year's Average Daily Membership numbers earlier this week.
The NCHSAA will select the 64 4A teams to receive postseason berths, then divide those into the 32 biggest and the 32 smallest based on ADM numbers. Then it will place the 32 4A and 32 4AA teams into four pods based on geography.
Richmond Senior is the 29th largest school with an enrollment of 2,018, one behind West Mecklenburg. The Raiders' ADM number means it will once again be placed in the larger 4AA bracket when the football playoff pairings are announced Saturday.
The rest of the SEC members rankings are: Lumberton 18th, Pinecrest 23rd, Hoke County 44th, Scotland 50th and Purnell Swett 54th.
The conference will receive four automatic bids into the postseason and those have been secured by the Bucks, the Fighting Scots, the Patriots and the Raiders. None of the seedings have been decided at this time. Richmond and Scotland will battle for the league championship Friday, while Hoke and Pinecrest will fight it out for the SEC's No. 3 seed.
In the Heartland Publications postseason projection released last week has the Patriots and the Bucks joining the Raiders in the 4AA playoff brackets. Pinecrest is expected to be placed in the Midwest pod along with Richmond, while Hoke is expected to play in the Mideast pod.
There appears to be 31 teams which have secured a spot into the playoffs and 10 schools on the bubble ahead of Scotland in enrollment. Because of this, it appears just like last year, the Fighting Scots should be placed in the 4A playoffs and in the Mideast pod.
One of those bubble teams ahead of Scotland is Lumberton. Earlier in the season, the Pirates appeared set to lock themselves into the playoffs with a 4-1 record going into their open date. Since then, Lumberton has dropped four straight and are on the verge of missing the postseason in Mike Brill's final year as coach.
The only SEC school eliminated from postseason consideration is Purnell Swett. The Rams are 2-7 on the season and are winless in league play.
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By: Tina Redwine
Investigators say B68 driver Mark Anthony Salandy, 30, was at Greenwood Avenue and Prospect Park Southwest in Windsor Terrace around 11 a.m. when he felt a pain and called 911.
The alleged stabber is seen above in a police sketch.
Police say Salandy did not bleed, but he was taken to Methodist Hospital for observation.
He left without talking to reporters, but his mother did. She did not want to be identified but said the attack was unprovoked.
"You don't know what's going to happen, now he's got to through this for the next six months," she said. "He has to be on medication, he has to get blood tests and stuff. I mean, it's really upsetting."
Salandy's mother fears the syringe might have been infected with HIV or hepatitis.
The bus driver had just gotten engaged and his fiancee also rushed to the hospital.
"He was just doing his job and now our whole lives are upside down," said Salandy's fiancee.
Just last Friday, a bus driver in the Bronx was punched in the face.
The Metropolitan Transportation Authority says through the end of August there were 61 assaults against bus drivers, not including spitting. That is 3 percent more than last August.
Salandy's bus had neither cameras nor partitions.
Transport Workers Union Local 100 President John Samuelsen says only 650 of the 5,900 buses in the fleet have been retro-fitted with partitions, nearly three years after the program started.
"Bus operators refusing to call board buses because they're too dangerous would be a legitimate expression of our outrage. It's getting to that point," said Transport Workers Union Local 100 President John Samuelsen.
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Arenaeological & liisiorical Mus- N. High St. at 15th—1 ^WROMCLE S[\V/^ Serving Columbus and Central Ohio Jewish Comnmnity yJP^ Vol. 25, No. 33 COLUMBUS, OHIO, FRIDAY, AUGUST 22, 1947 Devoted to American and Jewish Ideals Strictly Confidential Tidbits From Everywhere By ihtineas J. Blron UNFOiu;iirrABLE shame... the Embassy of the Federal People's Republic of Yugoslavia at Wa.lhlngton has Just issued a slender, paper-covereti white book under the title '"The Case of Archbishop Stepinac"...lt tells the story of the 80,000 Jews in Yugoslayla, of whom 60,000 were killed, the gi'eat majority in Croatia.. .The' Yugoslavian Government officially charges that these Incredible atrocities were "committed with the full knowledge and active support of one part of the Roman hierarchy in Croatia. Archbishop Steplnac was the respon.<;lbIe head of that hierarchy"... .Th e elaboratley documented book quotes ex¬ cerpts fi'om Steplnac's official newspaper approving Hitler's atrocities against the Jews and inciting the Croatlons to exter¬ minate the Jews in their land.. These are facts, and should make certain American gentlemen of the Jewish faith shudder...'We refer to the gentlemen who ap¬ pealed to the United Nations in behalf of Steplnac... WATCH STOCKHOLM. .. The intensified anti-Semitic campaigns In Argentina, Mexi CO, South Africa, not to speak of England, lead experts to be¬ lieve th^t a group of Naziis has escaped to Sweden and estat)- lished an international anti-Se¬ mitic bureau in Stockholm... This Swedish headquarters of anti-Semitism seems to be in possession of a substantial por¬ tion of Julius Strelcher's artjh- (Continued on Page 8) Hadassah Launches Membership Drive According to the meml)ershlp committee, the local chapter of Hadassah Is going to enjoy another iranner year. Headed by Mi's. David Goldsmith, the mem¬ bership group, which al.'^o In¬ cludes Mrs. Jerome Fisher and Mrs. Maurice Levine, co-chair¬ men, and it.'; entire list of work¬ er;!, is going all out In an effort to sign up a record number of new members. New members will be honored at a membership dinner. Wed¬ nesday, Sept. 10, at Rroatl St. Temple. Pald-Up membei's will ;ilso be guesls at this affair, which will start at 0:30 p. m. In addition to the committee heads, the following are mem¬ bers of the membership- com¬ mittee: Me.sdamcs 1. M. Brenner. Louis Gertner, Abe Seff, Mailln i'olster, Sol Shaman, Sam 'Val¬ cov, Morrey Hleich, 'Willard Brenner, William Broner, San- fortl Llpson, Joiieph Plotnick, S. Myron Gurevitz, Maurice Sher, Louis Robins, Sam Gurevitz, Edward Emmerman, Jack Bra- hams, Abe Levln.son, Bernai'd Ruben, Max Kanter, Martin .SQijecter, Gus Reich, Burton Le¬ vitt, Moe Hirsch and Sam 'Was¬ serstrom. Memt)ershlp applications are available from any of the above Hadassah members. CHRONICLE READERS INVITED TO AlVnOUE E.XHIBITION Gold, silver, copper, glassware. Jewelry and furniture of antique record,, comprising heirlooms of much worth will be exhibited In the Southern I-Iotei trallroom on .Sept. •!. 5 and (i. H. 0. Wlnter- muth will be in charge Qf the display. Antique experts from a dozen KttUes and many citle« have al¬ ready sccuretl t»oths for the event which is alway.s attended b.y thousands of Columinis men and women. Collectors will have three field days, buylpg, selling and exchanging works of beauty. Chronicle readers are invited to atteijd nnd participate. Plan To Bring 25,000 DP Families. To U. S. For Industrial Training Under Discussion B'nai B'rith Women Show Producer Here Sunday Leo Romberg, of Toronto. Can¬ ada, who has been producing and tiirccting hit musical produc¬ tions in that city for many years NEVV VORK (JTA) —Details of a plan to bring to the United Stalas Ihou.sands of di.s-placed persons from iSurnpe and train (hem a.s IndustrhTl workers in Quoddy Village, Maine, for later Immigration to permanent homes in Latin American coun¬ tries, were revealed at a press mforencc here this week by and who last yc.-ir brought to j (.-.-nnk Cohen, New York ,lewlsh NAMED SHMOOS CHIEF Lou Berliner has been named Director of Publlchy tor tho National B'nal B'ritb Bowling Congress for llM7-4a Thla announcement came trom national B. B. headquar¬ ters. B.B.Y.M. SPONSOR LABOR DAY CONVENTION Columbus EMwln J. Schanfar¬ ber Chapter No. 74 B'nal B'rith Young Men Invitational Labor Day Conventlon-Tournament will take place on Saturday, Sun¬ day and Monday, August 30, 31, and Sept. 1, it was .announced this week. Included in the socjal program for the tournanient are an Ice¬ breaker-mixer at the Hotel Fort Hayes on Saturday nite, a moon¬ light Hayrlde-Barn Dance at Oak Grqvp Park on Sunday nite, aofl on konday nite a huge Con¬ vention Banquet with guest speakers at which time new chapter officers will be installed. This is to be followed by a big Convention Dance with Earl Hood and his Orchestra in the Gold- Boom of the. Hotel Ft. Hayes. Athletic events will consist of elimination toumamenta in soft- bail, track ahd tennis to be run off Sunday and Monday morn¬ ings and afternoons at the Bex¬ ley School Fields. BBYM teams and representa¬ tives are expected to attend from Dayton, Cincinnati, Den¬ ver, St. Louis, Indianapolis, Louisville, South Bend, Cleve¬ land, Lorain, Youngstown and Akron. .Pictured aboye are the chair- ¦Vnen for the convention. They include left to right seated; Sam Komessar, Athletic; Kenny Solo¬ mon, Dating; Si Sokol, General Chairman; Bob Rosenthal, Pub¬ licity; Marvin Franklin, Trans¬ portation. Left to rlgnt standing Bob Bender, Housing; Philip Beckman, Transportation; and Charley Young, Athletic. Not shown are Gil Zlsenwine, So¬ cial and Arnold Levinstein, Athletic. Bryden Rd. Temple In Membership Campaign Al a meoling of the Memlwr- ship Committee of Templo Is; rael, held Tue.sday evening, Aug¬ ust 12, at the.Temple, a member¬ ship campaign was Inaugurated. Rudolph Stern, Chairman, pi-o- posed that a record number of new inembers be brought into the Temple as the "Rabbi Folk- man Class", in making his pro- po.sal, he said."i ciin think of no finer tribute to our new Rabbi than to present him with a large group of new members who enter the 'Temple at the same time that his ministry l5e- glns. 1 would like to see a 'Rabbi Foikman Class' of record propor¬ tions. It would be a fine thing if a picture of this Clasp together with the picture of Rabbi Folk- man could be presented to him on the occasion of his formal in¬ stallation as our Rabbi on Sept. 26. This would be a con.stant re¬ minder to him of an eloquent tribute to the leadership h e brings to our community." The proposal was enthusiastically and unanimously adopted by the Membership Committee. Rabbi Foikman responded briefly. Mr. Stern announced the ap¬ pointment of the following ad¬ ditional members to augment the committee:" Leonard Kohn, Herbert Wise, Sid Levoff, Morton Gumble and Ben Neustadt. Dr. William Engeiman, Co- chairman of the Membership Committee, stated, "I hope that all parties Interested in either joining or getting information with regard to Tempie Israel will feel free to call Rabbi Folkman." At the close of the meeting the Chairman was host at a so¬ cial period during which re¬ freshments were servfed. Coiumhus. through Ihe medium of tho B'nal Brith Women, hi,- spectacular musical show, "Pack Up Your Trebles", will arrive In Colnmbu.s this Sunday. The H'nai Hrilh Women will proscnt, early In November .innthor Rtnn- licrg production. "Aw;iko and Swing", and Mr. Romberg will rom.-iin in Ihc clly for the ondic week, beginning tomorrow, to consult and advise .lorry Gro¬ din. dlroctor of the new show, as to f.-isting anil direction. Final casting for solo ,nnd fea¬ tured musical and comedy rolo.s will take place while Mr. Rom¬ berg is horo, ami all tho.se in- torestc^l in being a part of this entertaining vcntui'e Into show ¦business are urged to attend the Sunday rehear.sal, which Is to begin at 2 p. m. lis not too late to Join the choi-us, or to .sign up for the man.v dancing special¬ ties which will be required in the show, and to date no final casting has been made of solo musical or comedy parts. Those desiring to be in an outstand¬ ing amateur musical pi^oductlon are asked to come out Sunday for the rehearsal. While Mr. Romberg Is In Columbus, re¬ hearsals will be held dally, and the cast is asked to try to take in as many of the rehearsals ar possible, in order to tienefit from the presence in our midst of the producer. NEW DEPT. HEAD NAMED POR TEMPLE ISRAEli RELIGIOUS SCHOOL FINAL NOTICK ON NBW YEAR GREETINGS Next Friday, Augui^t 2»th, win be the .last day we will accept personal New Yoar greetings which are to appear | tn the Chronicle's 25th Anni¬ versary niagoxlne edition tori the High Holidays. The cost Is small — $2.00; and It Is convenient, digni¬ fied, modern and elfeoUve. Tho Chronicle New Year! Issne will reach the Jewish homes of Columbpa and Cen¬ tral Olila on Monday, Sept. Wtb. Mrs. M. J. Papurt, Principal of the Temple Israel Religious School, has announced the ap¬ pointment of Mr. Ezra 'Vogel as Director of Audlo-'Visual Educa¬ tion for the Religious School. Mrs. Papurt said, "There are many splendid materials avail¬ able in motion picture and trans¬ cription form. It is the policy of the Temple Israel Religious School to use these modern aids to education as fully as ¦possible. We f«el that the ap¬ pointment ot Mr. 'Vogel as our Director of Audlo-'Visual Educa¬ tion is a historli; step In the his¬ tory of Jewish education." ' The newly appointed direc¬ tor will be charged with the responsibility of coordinating audio-visual aids to jewdsh edu¬ cation in the class-room and as¬ sembly activity at Tempie Israel. SWEDEN CONSIDERING LAW WHICH COULD CURB ANTI-SteMITISM STOCKHOLM (JTA) — T h e Minister of Justice this week told the Swedish -Parliament that the government Is consid¬ ering a law which would be ap¬ plicable to anti-Semitic propa¬ ganda. The government will not pro¬ pose that Parllment pass a spec¬ ial law against group hatred, He said, adding that "you have to fight anti-Semitism chiefly by the use of widespread, sei^ lous information. industrialist, who is the promo¬ ter of the plan. The plan, Mr. Cohen said, pro¬ vides for ftocurlng temporary U. .S. vi.sas for 2!),0(I0 DP families, of whom eighty-five percent will he .lew.s and fifteen percent Crooks and Czechs, it is planned to bring in S.OOO familioK this year at the rate of 1,000 per month and later accelerate the rate nf immigration to bring in Ihe remaining 20,000 families by June, Ifl-lS. Family unlls will consist of hu.sliands, wives and tholr children only. The displaced persons are to be selected on the basis of their willingness to settle in Argen¬ tina, Uruguay and Brazil, where thoy will obtain permanent resi¬ dence anti work in loCal indus¬ tries under an arrangement reached by Mr. Cohen with the respective governments of these countries. Thoy will enter the United States for a period of six to nine jnpnths, after Which they will leave for South Amer-' lea. - "The criteria for selection of DP's shall be their desire and aptitude, their physical and mental fitness for a vocation in the South American countries, either as farmer, dairyman or cattle raiser, a.s mechanic, car¬ penter plumber or printer, as nurse, doctor, pharmacist, as chemical, electrical or mechani¬ cal engineer, as worker in shoe, clothing, shirts, sweaters, hosi¬ ery and leather Industries or as worker In fish and meat can¬ nery, Jam and candy Industry," Mr. Cohen said, adding: "A task force of 500 families shall be admitted at once to prepare Quoddy for the first 1,000 fam¬ ilies, it shall be set up as a skeleton unit which the future arrivals shall fill in." Tromnn Offers His Support; State Department WUI Grant VIsoH A special meeting of President Truman and the Senators from Maine, who are sponsoring the project, wae held in the White House and the President gave his approval and offered his sup¬ port, Mr. Cohen reported. "The Preaident agreed to issue a di¬ rective to urge and hasten the cooperation of all govertunent departments and has designated an administrative secretary tor this purpose," he said. Mr. Cohen emphasized that "the State Department wlU furn¬ ish the visas for entrance either as transit, qr for trainees" and will also giv? its active support before all other government de¬ partments. It haa appointed a special deputy for this purpose, Mr. Cohen revealed. Meetings have also been held with high officel's of the Army which Is to be responsible for the transferring of the displaced families. According to Mri Co¬ hen, arrangements are being- made for the Secretary of War to Instruct the occupation au¬ thorities to push the project, 'Continued on Page S) 1' M ' ff/..]
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The West Island Printers site in Freshwater, Isle of Wight. Picture by Jennifer Burton.
THE CO-OPERATIVE supermarket hopes to open a new, larger store on the Isle of Wight.
Southern Co-operative plans to move its Freshwater store from its current location, at Hooke Hill, across the road to Hocknull's Yard and the former West Island Printers site.
Store manager Tony McGuinness said: "We simply don't have enough space in our current store to meet local demand.
"A new store will give us more space so we can offer a bigger range of products, especially fresh and local food.
"It will ensure we can offer a much better service, including improved parking facilities."
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by Warren Copland
10th October 2012, at 21:31:59
http://www.asdanewportiow.co.uk/ if you go on this website it says a decision should be made by the end of the year. It would be good to see someone giving Tesco a run for their money.
by John Martin
10th October 2012, at 18:56:59
Presumably, the Co-operative will not want the tip to be adjacent to their new supermarket. So, presumably, some sort of deal will be (has been?) done between them and the Isle of Wight Council! So, where, will the tip be moved to? Up on to Golden Hill Park - as mooted way back in 2005 ? The owners of new luxury properties at Golden Hill Fort won't like that! More planning application problems for some residents? Is this something that the proposed Freshwater Neighbourhood Plan would be able to consider?
by Lee Majors
10th October 2012, at 17:43:57
This is a no brainer. Firstly the junction in the photo FLOODS almost knee deep at times. Secondly at the weekend the local civic amenity (tip) just up the dead end road from here is packed with cars queued down to this junction so how will shoppers get in and out too? Thirdly, Co-op in Freshwater has recently been upgraded fitting new entrances and exits, 3 times since it originally opened IIRC? Money wasted which is recouped from the shopper through inflated prices. I have used the tip here several times and it is a nightmare to get in and out sometimes on to the Afton road? One thing which annoys me about the current co-op is the morons in cars who pull in to the car park and stop near the entrance to let the wife out as she is clearly too lazy to walk an extra 15 feet from a parking space and this causes traffic congestion all the time as it makes cars stop out on the road, then the next car comes in & does exactly the same thing, so I never bother shopping here.
by Keith McNallyohanly
10th October 2012, at 17:23:45
Yeah, forget co-op, bring ASDA in, rumours are that there was too much litigation hat they withdrew their plans
by John Lennon
10th October 2012, at 14:54:21
What happened to the planned building of the ASDA store that we were supposed to be seeing in Newport? Still waiting!
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I'm researching the spread of diarrhoea due to lack of hand washing and wonder how fast contamination can spread. I imagine its quite quickly but its hard to find the data.
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The Tears of a Clown
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The Tears of a Clown is a feature length script that I wrote about ten years ago. (Read it here or here.) I had liked Burton's Batman, but felt it lacked something, mainly thematic ideas. So as part of my second semester writing class in Film School, I began a re-write or re-visioning of that film's story, using my own characters. It was also partly based on my own experience around the age of 12 trying to be popular by memorizing and telling jokes.
Here's the initial proposal as written in that class:
A couple of semesters later, in November of 1991, I attempted to do a scene based on the characters. Unsurprisingly, the production was rushed and the result was not entirely satisfactory largely because there was no real script. We had developed a routine during the rehearsal, but one or two weeks later when we shot it, no one remembered what the routine was. The "actress" who played Stoneface was not an actress, but one of my housemates who I somehow convinced to play the part. She usually wore a cape and I had hoped she would wear it in the role, but she refused, saying that it was part of her true identity or something like that. She arrived dead tired because she had had a test that day for which she had done an all-nighter. (She had not told me about the test until it was too late to reschedule.) She was so tired that she was sleeping on the hard floor of the hallway outside the classroom where we were shooting. I was lucky that she kept her commitment, but she did not speak to me again.
Here is the scene:
( I was intrigued to learn that there's a scene based on a similar setup in the 1995 made-for-TV version of Bye, Bye Birdie which can be viewed here. In a way, Tears is a feature-length version of this scene.)
A few years later, there was a script. I had a devil of a time getting agents to read it. I even went so far as to stand in line for three to four hours to meet Tim Burton, who, after me, I figured would be likely to like it.
I asked him if he would be interested in a script about a land of clowns and, while he fiddled with his pen, I handed him this:
With the help of a friend, I even made a T-Shirt (you can buy one here):
Here's what he signed (or scribbled on). Henry Selick and two other crew members added their signatures a few years later:
Of course, Burton told me to contact his agent. (A few years later my wife and I tried this longshot tactic again at another signing. When she asked Burton if he would be interested in a script about clowns, he said, "wa-wa-wa wow!!!" Nothing came of that, either.)
Probably the best shot for the script came thanks to the help of Barry Purves. I had been impressed by his films, especially Achilles, and had contacted him in the hope that he would be interested in making the film. (Tim Burton was apparently also similarly impressed. The Martians in Mars Attacks! were originally meant to be created using stop-motion and Barry was doing just that until a decision was made to go with CGI. Read more here.) I was pleasantly surprised when Barry liked the script and his recommendation led to someone at Fox taking a look.
Someone else who was very helpful was Larry Stuckey who had been in the class at Film School in which I had made Shadows on the Wall. He liked that film a lot. He was kind enough to provide detailed comments on Tears, some of which can be read here.
It's not the fact that some of my ideas may have been borrowed that bugged me the most. What bugged me the most was that ideas that I came up with ended up, one way or the other, in a Pixar film, yet I couldn't even get an agent to look at the script.
My script features several supporting characters played by classic comedians such as Buster Keaton and Charlie Chaplin. Arnold Burovs, a Latvian filmmaker, made several short films with these "characters." Although too dark for ClownWorld, the image below may be the closest we'll get to what Tears could have been.
You can view the script for Tears here.
So what does it mean? What do all these clowns running around add up to? Or, as my friend Andrew would say, "Explain it in a nutshell." Directors tend to be coy when asked that question. I heard a woman ask Wim Wenders to explain The American Friend. He said something like, "If I could explain it, I wouldn't have made the film." He has a point. If a film can be reduced to a few words, or a "meaning," why make it in the first place? But at this point in time I do not have the luxury of being coy.
So what is Tears about?
Let's call these signposts pointing the general way, rather than a detailed map.
- It's about a bunch of clowns running around.
- It's about ClownWorld, a world of clowns that's more exciting than our own.
- It's about a Utopian world.
- It's not about a land of clowns, it's about our own world.
- It's about us when we act like clowns.
- It's about being a misfit.
- It's about feeling you are alone because while everyone around you acts happy, you feel sad and think, "What's wrong with me?"
- It's about finding a community to belong to.
- It's about politicians because politicians act like clowns. (Yes, I had in mind one politician in particular. Hint: he was an actor.)
- It's about being upstaged.
- It's about losing your job.
- It's about acting older than your years.
- It's about acting younger than your years.
- It's about how The Joker with his happy face and Batman with his solemn, serious face, are really the same person.
- It's Jekyll and Hyde played by a whole society.
- It's about how I wanted to be a clown.
Who would be the best actor to play The Clown? Krusty the Clown, of course. I actually sent a fax to The Simpsons production office saying that I had a script for Krusty in which he would be the President of a land of clowns. A few years later they made "Mr. Spritz Goes to Washington." Coincidence?
Update: 11/19/11
Someone over at Flickr has been kind enough to take the time to put clownfaces on a large group of contemporary American politicians, calling the set a Clown College. Despite being unfortunately limited to politicians from just one side of the aisle in Washington, this group would fit right in among the clowns of ClownWorld.
If you are interested in a script based (partly) on the notion that politicians are clowns, The Tears of a Clown is waiting for you.


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to receive one of two 2013 Jack Pope Professionalism Awards, which annually recognize one lawyer and one judge who personify the highest standards of professionalism and integrity in the field of law. The judicial recipient of this year's Jack Pope Award is Judge Patrick E. Higginbotham of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit.
TCLE Executive Director Jonathan Smaby says that "Judge Higginbotham and Ms. Cortell are exemplars of professionalism and integrity who – like Chief Justice Pope – have made immense contributions to the legal profession. The Pope Awards highlight the good works that lawyers do, and this year's recipients are particularly deserving." >>
Dallas Business Journal Selects Jan Sharry as a 2013 Women in Business Honoree
– Haynes and Boone, LLP Partner
Jan Sharry
has been chosen as a 2013 Women in Business Honoree by the Dallas Business Journal in its sixth annual listing of top women in business.
"Jan's leadership goes beyond the firm and into the community where she serves on the board of directors for numerous organizations focused on elevating women in business," said
Terry Conner
, Haynes and Boone managing partner. "Her contributions have helped transform the firm's corporate practice into one of the most respected in Texas. We are very proud that she is a part of the Haynes and Boone family and congratulate her on this honor." >>
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1. | Hull | ||
A city in the North East of England consisting of 10 per cent students and 90 per cent chavs(also see chav). "Damn, that's the biggest gathering of chavs I've ever seen!"
"What do you expect in Hull?" |
2. | hull | ||
sh*thole...a very cold grubby city that despite seeing roadseepers everywhere... never seems to look any cleaner, full of insolent pricks who can not seem to grasp the idea of people being different. see also hell-hole look also under hell-hole
3. | hull | ||
Hull = Scum
The worst city i have ever been to in mu life. Can't go 10 seconds without seeing townie scum, drug addicts and the homeless, all asking you to spare change. I once was asked for change from a guy because "just got out of prison mate and need some money". Need i say more. Oh yeah, the girls are all minging slags. " voted officially the worst city in the north of England for the 3rd time in the last 5 years..."
The Independent 12th December 2003 |
4. | hull | ||
a place in the north of england and when u go there u have to ask ur self one question "when traverlers were on there way to a better place the stopped and said hey lets build a city here?" people from this so called hidden land do not prononce h's eg ome=home otel=hotel ouse=house even ull=hull ull is a fucking shit hole
5. | Hull | ||
Hull is a glorious city in the north east of England overlooking the beatiful river Humber.
This of course is probably the biggest outright lie I have ever told in my life. Hull is infact the epicenter of hate and stupidity. The Humber bridge is considered as a marvellous feat of engineering by some. But by most it is either the "Road to Hell", or the "Gateway to Hell". Hull is a disgustingly dirty grey city. The buildings are ugly, old, and probably made in the 50's and were designed to last 20 years. There is not a single spark of artistic styling to Hull. There are no shops of merit, no restaurants to speak of, and the best place to stay is the no-star Hotel Campanile on the side of a busy A-Road. But theres a reason to why this city is so ugly and desolate. Theres a reason why the place is such a dump, such a putrid pit of filth. And that's because the inhabitants get what they deserve, they inhabitants of Hull deserve what they get. Hull is ugly, because if it wasn't, no one there would notice it. There is no artisitic or architectural beauty in the city, because the inhabitants of Hull are so brain numbeningly stupid, they couldn't recognise the Mona Lisa or the Great Pyramids. The Education System in Hull is the worst in the whole of Britain. This is a fact, every league table says so. The schools may as well be labeled "Degenerate Factory" and sponsored by McDonald's. But who's fault is this? The governments? The teachers? The kids? It's not, the fau... |
6. | Hull | ||
Where naughty Ulster Unionists go. Ian Paisley: Don't fuck the pope, or you'll go to Hull.
7. | Hull | ||
like hell, but not quite as warm you sick fucker, you're going to hull. via croydon.