text: Korean Job Discussion Forums :: View topic - WHATS THE SCOOP? DING DING DANG-SUSUNG-DAEGU. MUCH THANKS!!! Speak Korean Now! Korean Job Discussion Forums"The Internet's Meeting Place for ESL/EFL Teachers from Around the World!" FAQ Search Memberlist Usergroups Register Profile Log in to check your private messages Log in WHATS THE SCOOP? DING DING DANG-SUSUNG-DAEGU. MUCH THANKS!!! Korean Job Discussion Forums Forum Index -> Job-related Discussion Forum View previous topic :: View next topic Author Message ragin cajunJoined: 29 Jul 2003 Posted: Wed Jul 30, 2003 7:25 am Post subject: WHATS THE SCOOP? DING DING DANG-SUSUNG-DAEGU. MUCH THANKS!!! HELLO FOLKS, I KNOW YA'LL SEE THIS ALL THE TIME. HOWEVER IF YOU WOULD BE SO KIND TO GIVE ME THE LOW DOWN ON DING DING DING SUSUNG BRANCH IN DAEGU. ITS JUST KIND OF HAIRY AND A BIT SCARY BEING THAT MY GIRLFRIEND AND I ARE DROPPING EVERYTHING AND HEADED TO THE FAR EAST. A LITTLE BLIND AT THAT. I REALLY APPRECIATE AND WELCOME ALL FEEDBACK. IF YOUR REALLY BORED AND WANT TO HELP A BROTHER OUT, BELOW IS THE CONTRACT. MUCH THANKS AND PEACE, THE RAGIN CAJUN DING DING DANG CHILDREN'S ENGLISH SCHOOL EMPLOYMENT AGREEMENT FOR INSTRUCTOR ONE-YEAR CONTRACT This EMPLOYMENT AGREEMENT has been made this _____________________ by and between Ding Ding Dang English Inc.; organized and existing under the laws of the Republic of Korea, and having its principal office at 119/201 1090-6 Susung -4ga Daegu city, R.O. Korea 706-777 (hereinafter referred to as "Employer"); and ________a citizen of ____________, whose domicile is at _______________________________________; (hereinafter referred to as "Employee"). WITNESS WHEREAS Employee has been selected and approved by Employer to teach the English language, Employer and Employee, in consideration of the mutual promises and covenants contained herein, agree as follows: 1. EMPLOYMENT OF EMPLOYEE 1.1 Employer hereby employs Employee to teach the English language in the form and manner and under the terms and conditions set forth here in this Agreement. 1.2 Employee hereby accepts employment from Employer to teach the English language in the form and manner and under the term and conditions set forth here in this Agreement. 2. PLACE OF EMPLOYMENT 2.1 Employee shall be employed to teach the English language at ______ Ding Ding Dang, Inc. (Hereinafter referred to as "Place of Employment"). 3. DUTIES OF EMPLOYEE 3.1 During the term of this Agreement, Employee shall accept, follow, and strictly comply with the instructions, supervision, training, and discipline of the Academic Director and shall carry out such assignments as the Academic Director directs. These duties shall include instruction in any and all phases of the instructional program, administrative duties related to Employee's classroom duties, attendance at scheduled staff meetings and workshops, and any other relevant duties as may be assigned by the Academic Director. The Academic Director is responsible for establishing standards of performance relative to the Employee and is empowered to take all reasonable steps necessary to ensure those standards are met. 3.2 Unless otherwise approved by the Academic Director, normal work duties during the term of this Agreement shall refer to the following: 3.2.1. The standard monthly working hours during this period will consist of up to 110 hours of classroom contact except the remaining required hours consisting of in-office duties including basic preparation of teaching. The in-office hour during the employment may vary with discretion of academic director for orientation, training and adaptation to the new working environment purposes without overtime pay paid to the employee. Normal work duties shall include 110 hours(40 mins or 50 mins each class) per month and one and half hours of in-office working each day. (*1hr=60min) 3.2.2. In the event Employee's classroom contact is less than 110 hours in a month, the Academic Director may extend Employee's in-office time. 3.2.3. Overtime pay is granted at the rate of 21,000~23,000 won per hour only when classroom teaching time exceed 110 hours per month. 4. COMPENSATION AND OTHER TREATMENT OF EMPLOYEE 4.1 SALARY: Employer shall pay Employee as compensation for all services a total aggregate monthly of salary 2,000,000won for each month of the contract period with Employer. This salary will be paid on the 10th day of each month, beginning one month (30-31 days) after Employee begins normal work duties. The Korean income tax will be deducted monthly from the gross salary. The total monthly deduction will be 44,730won. These amounts are subject to change in accordance with changes to Korean government tax policy.. 4.2.1 PAID VACATION AND PAID SICK LEAVE: Employee will receive ten(10)days paid off in total :six (6) paid vacation days during the contract year and four(4) paid school vacation(summer and winter, fixed). Unused vacation days will not be bought from Employee. Employee must have approval from Academic Director before vacation days can be taken. In addition, Employee may take up to three (3) days of paid sick leave. Unused sick leave may not be taken as vacation leave, but will be bought from Employee. If more than three (3) days of sick leave is taken by Employee, pay will be deducted from salary per number of excess sick leave days taken. 4.2.2 SEVERANCE PAYMENT: Upon successful completion of the one-year contract, one-month�s salary will be paid to Employee. 4.3 EMERGENCY LEAVE: Employee shall be eligible to receive a maximum of fourteen (14) days of unpaid emergency leave to be taken only in the event of death or serious illness in Employee's Immediate Family. The Employee�s Immediate Family, for the purpose of this contract, includes only parents, siblings, a spouse, and children. Such emergency leave shall be granted at the sole discretion of Employer after close consultation with the Academic Director. Employee shall bear the cost of transportation in the event of the need for emergency leave. Any request by Employee for an extension of the 14 days provided by Employer will be subject to an individual review and approval by the Academic Director. 4.4 HOUSING: Employer shall select and provide either a single furnished efficiency house or a double furnished house to be shared by two employees. Each employee will have a private bedroom. Furnishings will include a TV, VCR, air conditioning, a kitchen table and chairs, a two-burner gas range, a refrigerator, dinner placements, cooking and eating utensils, a bed, a wardrobe and drawers, a sofa, a telephone, curtains for the living room, a washing machine, western toilet and a shower. Employer shall make selection of the apartment in consultation with the Academic Director. Employee shall pay the cost of utilities and telephone charges for the accommodation provided. In the cases of shared apartments, both Employees shall equally share these expenses. Employee shall pay the cost for repairs and/or damages of provided furnishings. At the time of leaving, employee should keep ₩300,000won as a deposit for the cost of utilities and telephone charges remained. After 2 month, the rest of money will be reimbursed to the employee�s account. 4.5.1 TRANSPORTATION: Employee shall purchase an economy class round-trip ticket from the point of hire for passage on a regularly scheduled airline to Korea. The maximum cost will be $1,000(₩1,300,000). Employer will reimburse Employee for the airplane ticket within one (1) month of the termination of the contract period. 4.5.2 Employer can, at the director's discretion, purchase an economy class round-trip ticket for the employee. If the employer purchases the airfare for the employee, the airfare total will be deducted from the first three months of the employee's salary. This is institute security and the total airfare will be reimbursed to the employee before departing Korea. 4.6 VOLUNTARY RESIGNATION: In the event that Employee voluntarily resigns prior to the termination of the term of this Agreement, Employee shall not receive reimbursement for purchase of the round-trip airline ticket purchased by Employee from point of hire. The Academic Supervisor must be notified ninety (90) days prior to Employee's last working day at Place of Employment. If Employee fails to give a ninety (90) day notice of intent to voluntarily resign, he/she will forfeit the equivalent of ten (10) days salary to Employer. 4.7 HEALTH INSURANCE: Employee shall be covered by medical benefits under the Medical Insurance Company. The costs(about 220,000 won) of this coverage shall be paid half by Employer and half by Employee. Payment will be deducted from Employee's initial salary. 4.8 ORIENTATION TIME: Computation of Employee's initial pay period shall commence on the first day of training in Korea. The paid orientation days will be spent at the institute preparing for classes and learning the instructional system. 5. TERMS AND RENEWAL 5.1 The term of this Agreement shall be twelve full and consecutive teaching sessions (approximately one year) from to in Korea inclusive of the orientation, vacation leave, emergency leave, and sick leave times specified in Section 4 of this contract. 5.2 Not later than four full sessions prior to the date of termination of this Agreement, Employer and Employee shall consult together and shall agree either to an extension or termination thereof. In the event the parties agree upon a termination, this Agreement shall end as of the date of termination set forth hereinabove. 6. DISMISSAL BY EMPLOYER 6.1 Employer shall have the right to dismiss Employee for clear and frequent neglect of duties under this Agreement including, but not limited to, frequent absences from the Place of Employment without approval of the Academic Director or good reason therefore or for manifest inability to perform duties under this Agreement. However, prior to any such dismissal, Employee shall be afforded at least twenty (20) working days in which to remedy the same. 6.2 Criminal or other conduct inside or outside Place of Employment that would, in the opinion of the Academic and Managing Directors, seriously jeopardize any student, staff person, or the reputation of Employer and will be cause for immediate dismissal. No warning time for remedy will be allotted in such cases. 6.3 In the event Employee is dismissed for any of the reasons set forth hereinabove or for any of the reasons set forth hereinafter, Employer shall not be obligated to pay reimbursement costs for the round trip ticket purchased by Employee from point of hire. 7. COVENANTS 7.1 Employee hereby agrees and covenants that he/she shall not undertake any teaching duties or employment with any persons or organizations other than Employer without prior written approval from Employer and the employer of the specific employment contemplated by Employee. Failure to comply with this article is cause for immediate dismissal. 7.2 Employee hereby agrees, covenants, and undertakes that at all times during the term of this Agreement and at all times subsequent to the termination of the Agreement, Employee shall not use the name of employer for personal business purposes. 7.3 Unless otherwise agreed to in writing, Employee understands and accepts that the rights to use, to sale, to distribution, or to publication of all original material produced by Employee during the course of Employee's employment, and for which the Employee is compensated as either regular pay, as overtime, or in an agree upon lump sum, remain the sole property of Employer. 8. ASSIGNMENT Any assignment, attempted assignment, transfer, or attempted transfer of this Agreement or of the performance of duties and obligations hereunder shall immediately terminate this Agreement, unless the parties hereto expressly agree in writing otherwise. 9. NOTICES All notices to be given under this Agreement shall be given in writing by serving the same upon the person to whom the notice is addressed personally, by registered mail at the address of such party given in this Agreement, or, for Employee once in Korea, at the residence in Korea, as notified to Employer. 10. MERGER CLAUSE This Agreement constitutes the entire understanding between the parties hereto with respect to the subject matter hereof and supersedes all previous negotiations, commitments, and writings with respect hereto. Furthermore, this contract nullifies and voids any previous contract between the two parties. 11. INDEMNIFICATION CLAUSE Employee shall indemnify and hold harmless Employer for any damages, which Employee may sustain, in any manner, through the misconduct or negligence of Employee. 12. WAIVER The failure of either party hereto at any time to enforce the terms, provisions, or conditions of this Agreement shall not be construed as a waiver of the same or of the right of such party to enforce the same. 13. GOVERNING LANGUAGE This Agreement has been drawn up and has been executed in the English language. The English language text of this Agreement shall govern and prevail over any translation thereof. 14. GOVERNING LAW This Agreement shall be interpreted according to the internal (domestic) laws of the Republic of Korea. 15. JURISDICTION A competent court in the Republic of Korea shall have jurisdiction in regard to any dispute or claim arising out of, or in connection with, this Agreement. IN WITNESS THEREOF, Ding Ding Dang Children's English and Employee, intending to be legally bound hereto have executed this Agreement of the date first hereinabove indicated. ___________________________________________________________________________ Director Date ___________________________________________________________________________ Employee Back to top Alex BuffaJoined: 31 Jan 2003Location: South Korea Posted: Wed Jul 30, 2003 8:21 am Post subject: Garbage Contract 1 hour of teaching does NOT equal 60 minutes. What this means is your 45 or 50 min class isn't 30 classes, it's between 38-42 classes a week. VERY stressful. Other clauses are obviously stacked against your for future dismissal in your 11th month to avoid paying bonus or airfare. I'd never sign this peice of crap. Alex Back to top Lost SeoulJoined: 10 Jan 2003 Posted: Thu Jul 31, 2003 12:26 am Post subject: Re: WHATS THE SCOOP? DING DING DANG-SUSUNG-DAEGU. MUCH THANK contract wrote: 13. GOVERNING LANGUAGE This Agreement has been drawn up and has been executed in the English language. The English language text of this Agreement shall govern and prevail over any translation thereof. Bolderdash!!! ===================================== http://englishschoolwatch.org/contract.shtml "A duplicate contract written in Korean is required by the Korean court to prosecute commercial disputes between the employee and employer. The U.S. Embassy in Seoul cautions: "...remember that only the Korean-language version of the contract is legally binding in Korea." ===================================== Back to top GordJoined: 25 Feb 2003 Posted: Thu Jul 31, 2003 2:04 am Post subject: Re: Garbage Contract Alex Buffa wrote: 1 hour of teaching does NOT equal 60 minutes. What this means is your 45 or 50 min class isn't 30 classes, it's between 38-42 classes a week. VERY stressful. Might want to check the math again on that one. That, and teaching 110 hours a month (assuming that all 110 hours are used) should not fall under "stressful". If it does, one might wish to consider a change of employment to another field. Quote: Other clauses are obviously stacked against your for future dismissal in your 11th month to avoid paying bonus or airfare. I'd never sign this peice of crap. Just exactly what reaches out and screams "Oh, we're going to get you on day 335!"? It looks generally like a standard contract for a person with no experience. It looks fine. The only thing really different is that they won't pay back for the airline ticket until the contact is complete. Hardly a surprise that some schools do that. At least they offer to pay the airfare back. Japan, it's you pay your own way there and they'll buy you a ticket home for most places. Plus the teacher gets to choose the apartment. A fine idea. All while paying 2M and having a lighter schedule than most starting contracts. While we're on the subject of math, let's pretend that they do screw the guy over at the end of month eleven. Person A works at another school for 12 months, 2M for 120 hours, and gets his bonus. (18,055 an hour overall including a bonus per teaching hour) Person B works here for 11 months, 2M for 110 hours, and gets screwed over on month 11. (18,181 an hour per teaching hour) Assuming he does get screwed over, he's already making per hour what he would get at another job where he didn't get screwed over. He's already a winner before the game even starts. Back to top some waygug-inJoined: 25 Jan 2003 Posted: Fri Aug 01, 2003 6:17 pm Post subject: Gord's right. I wish I had the same things in my contract that this one offers, and I've been here 2 years. But you might want to check out the Job Information Journal as well as the black and greylists for past refernces to the school. I think I recall that name being mentioned in a less than favorable light on numerous occasions. cheers OOOPPP SSS!!!! On second thought, 1 hour = 60 minutes (class time) = beware If you are teaching 40 min classes, this could mean that you would end up teaching 3 classes for every 2 hours of paid class time. Let's compare: I teach 6 - 50 min classes a day and get paid for 6 hours. You would possibly teach 8 or 9 - 40 min classes a day? Yikes Just say no. Yes 110 hours a month sounds easy, but when you figure in all the unpaid time and the "partial hours", it doesn't look so good. I would advise that you keep looking. There are much better jobs out there. CheersLast edited by some waygug-in on Fri Aug 01, 2003 7:00 pm; edited 1 time in total Back to top justagirlJoined: 17 Jan 2003Location: Cheonan/Portland Posted: Fri Aug 01, 2003 6:50 pm Post subject: dang. I had a huge post with comments and went to post it and it vanished. I'll have to do it again some other time, but the general idea was that I wouldn't sign this contract. Sorry--no time to re-write, but don't jump into this quite yet! justagirl Back to top Display posts from previous: All Posts1 Day7 Days2 Weeks1 Month3 Months6 Months1 Year Oldest FirstNewest First Korean Job Discussion Forums Forum Index -> Job-related Discussion Forum All times are GMT - 8 Hours Page 1 of 1 Jump to: Select a forum Forums:----------------FAQJob-related Discussion ForumGeneral Discussion ForumOff-Topic ForumTravel ForumCurrent Events ForumTechnology ForumBuy/Sell/Trade Forum You cannot post new topics in this forumYou cannot reply to topics in this forumYou cannot edit your posts in this forumYou cannot delete your posts in this forumYou cannot vote in polls in this forum This page is maintained by the one and only Dave Sperling. Contact Dave's ESL Cafe Copyright © 2018 Dave Sperling. All Rights Reserved. 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Inglourious Basterds
Inglourious Basterds is a 2009 film about a team of Jewish-American commandos operating in Nazi-occupied France during World War II.
- Written and directed by Quentin Tarantino.
Lt. Aldo Raine[edit]
- Ten-hut! My name is Lt. Aldo Raine and I'm puttin' together a special team; and I need me eight soldiers. Eight Jewish-American soldiers. Now, y'all might heard rumors about the armada happening soon. Well, we'll be leaving a little earlier. We're gonna be dropped into France, dressed as civilians. And once we're in enemy territory, as a bushwackin' guerrilla army, we're gonna be doing one thang and one thang only … killing Nazis. Now, I don't know about y'all, but I sure as hell didn't come down from the goddamn Smoky Mountains, cross five thousand miles of water, fight my way through half of Sicily and jump out of a fuckin' aeroplane to teach the Nazis lessons in humanity. Nazi ain't got no humanity. They're the foot soldiers of a Jew-hatin', mass murderin' maniac, and they need to be dee-stroyed. That's why any and every sumbitch we find wearin' a Nazi uniform, they're gonna die.
Now, I am the direct descendant of the mountain man Jim Bridger, and that means I got a little Injun in me. And our battle plan will be that of an Apache resistance. We will be cruel to the Germans, and through our cruelty they will know who we are. And they will find the evidence of our cruelty in the disemboweled, dismembered and disfigured bodies of their brothers we leave behind us, and the Germans won't be able to help themselves but to imagine the cruelty their brothers endured at our hands, and our boot heels, and the edge of our knives. And the Germans will be sickened by us, and the Germans will talk about us, and the Germans will fear us. And when the Germans close their eyes at night and they're tortured by their subconscious for the evil that they've done, it will be with thoughts of us that they are tortured with. Sound good? [Soldiers yell, "Yes, sir!"]
That's what I like to hear. But I got a word of warning for all you would-be-warriors: when you join my command, you take on debt, a debt you owe me personally. Each and every man under my command owes me one hundred Nazi scalps. And I want my scalps! And all y'all will get me one hundred Nazi scalps taken from the heads of one hundred dead Nazis, or you will die tryin'!
- Well, you don't gotta be Stonewall Jackson to know you don't wanna fight in a basement.
Col. Hans Landa[edit]
- Tell me, Aldo- if I were sitting where you're sitting, would you show me mercy?
- Au revoir, Shoshanna!
Shosanna Dreyfus[edit]
- I have a message for Germany. That you are all going to die. And I want you to look deep into the face of the Jew who's going to do it! Marcel. Burn. It. Down. My name is Shosanna Dreyfus, and this is the face, of Jewish vengeance!
- Col. Hans Landa: Now, according to these papers, all the Jewish families in this area have been accounted for, except the Dreyfuses. Somewhere in the last year it would appear they've vanished, which leads me to the conclusion that they've either made good their escape, or someone is very successfully hiding them. What have you heard about the Dreyfuses, Monsieur LaPadite?
- Perrier LaPadite: [filling his pipe] Only rumors.
- Landa: I love rumors! Facts can be so misleading, but rumors, true or false, are often revealing.
- Col. Hans Landa: The feature that makes me such an effective hunter of the Jews is, as opposed to most German soldiers, I can think like a Jew, where they can only think like a German — more precisely: German soldier. Now, if one were to determine what attribute the German people share with a beast, it would be the cunning and the predatory instinct of a hawk. But if one were to determine what attributes the Jews share with a beast, it would be that of the rat. The Führer and Goebbels's propaganda have said pretty much the same thing, but where our conclusions differ is: I don't consider the comparison an insult. Consider, for a moment, the world a rat lives in. It's a hostile world, indeed. If a rat were to scamper through your front door right now, would you greet it with hostility?
- Perrier LaPadite: I suppose I would.
- Landa: Has a rat ever done anything to you to create this animosity you feel towards them?
- LaPadite: Rats spread diseases. They bite people.
- Landa: Rats were the cause of the bubonic plague, but that's some time ago. I propose to you, any disease a rat could spread, a squirrel could equally carry. Would you agree?
- LaPadite: Oui.
- Landa: Yet I assume you don't share the same animosity with squirrels that you do with rats, do you?
- LaPadite: No.
- Landa: But they're both rodents, are they not? And except for the tail, they even rather look alike, don't they?
- LaPadite: It's an interesting thought, Herr Colonel.
- Landa: Ha! However interesting as the thought may be, it makes not one bit of difference to how you feel. If a rat were to walk in here right now, as I'm talking, would you greet it with a saucer of your delicious milk?
- LaPadite: Probably not.
- Landa: I didn't think so. You don't like them. You don't really know why you don't like them. All you know is you find them repulsive. Consequently, a German soldier conducts a search of a house suspected of hiding Jews: where does the hawk look? He looks in the barn. He looks in the attic. He looks in the cellar. He looks everywhere he would hide, but there's so many places it would never occur to a hawk to hide. However, the reason the Führer has brought me off my Alps in Austria and placed me in French cow country today is because it does occur to me, because I'm aware what tremendous feats human beings are capable of once they abandon dignity.
- Col. Hans Landa: Now, my job dictates that I must have my men enter your home and conduct a thorough search before I can officially cross your family's name off my list, and if there are any irregularities to be found, rest assured they will be — that is, unless you have something to tell me that makes the conducting of a search unnecessary. I might add, also, that any information that makes the performance of my duties easier will not be met with punishment. Actually, quite the contrary, it will be met with reward, and that reward will be your family will cease to be harassed in any way by the German military during the rest of our occupation of your country. [stares hard at LaPadite] You are sheltering enemies of the state, are you not?
- Perrier LaPadite: [softly] Yes.
- Landa: You're sheltering them underneath your floorboards, aren't you?
- LaPadite: [tears forming in his eyes] Yes.
- Landa: Point out to me the areas where they are hiding. [LaPadite points with his pipe; Landa walks over and stands on top of that area, gesturing with his own pipe for confirmation; silence] Since I haven't heard any disturbance, I assume that while they're listening, they don't speak English.
- LaPadite: Yes.
- Landa: I'm going to switch back to French now. I want you to follow my masquerade. Is that clear?
- LaPadite: Yes.
- Landa: [in French] Monsieur LaPadite, I thank you for the milk and your hospitality. I do believe our business here is done. [gathers up his belongings, walks over and opens the door] Ah, ladies. I thank you for your time. [booted SS soldiers walk inside with MP-40s; Landa gestures them over to the spot on the floor, where they take up positions] We shan't be bothering your family any longer. So, Monsieur, Mademoiselle, I bid farewell to you and say: adieu! [The soldiers shoot up the floorboards]
- [Hellstrom is trying to guess the famous person written on the card on his forehead, who is King Kong]
- Major Dieter Hellstrom: Now, gentlemen, around this time you could ask whether you're real or fictitious. I, however, think that's too easy, so I won't ask that yet. Okay, my native land is the jungle. I visited America, but the visit was not fortuitous to me, but the implication is that it was to somebody else. When I went from the jungle to America, did I go by boat?
- Bridget von Hammersmark: Yes.
- Hellstrom: Did I go against my will?
- Von Hammersmark: Yes.
- Hellstrom: On this boat ride, was I in chains?
- Von Hammersmark: Yes.
- Hellstrom: When I arrived in America, was I displayed in chains?
- Von Hammersmark: Yes!
- Hellstrom: Am I the story of the negro in America?
- Cpl. Wilhelm Wicki: No.
- Hellstrom: Well, then, I must be King Kong.
- [Aldo is faking Italian with a Southern US accent]
- Lt. Aldo Raine: Buongiorno.
- Col. Hans Landa: [in flawless Italian] Gentlemen, it's a pleasure; the friends of our cherished star, admired by all of us – this outright jewel of our culture – are naturally going to be under my personal protection for the duration of their stay.
- Raine: Grazie.
- Landa: [in Italian] Please, am I pronouncing it correctly?
- Raine: Sì – er, corretto.
- Col. Hans Landa: As of this moment, both Omar and Donowitz should be sitting in the very seats we left them in – 0023 and 0024, if my memory serves – explosives still around their ankle, still ready to explode, and your mission, some would call it terrorist plot, as of this moment is still a go.
- Lt. Aldo Raine: That's a pretty exciting story. What's next, Eliza on Ice?
- Landa: However, all I have to do is pick up this phone right there, inform the cinema, and your plan's kaput.
- Raine: If they're still there, and if they're still alive – and that's one big if – there ain't no way you gonna take them boys without setting off them bombs.
- Landa: I have no doubt. Yes, some Germans will die, and yes, it will ruin the evening, and yes, Goebbels will be very, very, very mad at you for what you've done to his big night. But you won't get Hitler, you won't get Goebbels, you won't get Göring, and you won't get Bormann. And you need all four to end the war. But if I don't pick up this phone right here, you may very well get all four. And if you get all four, you end the war … tonight. [lifts up the Chianti and fills their glasses] So, gentlemen, let's discuss the prospect of ending the war tonight.
- Colonel Hans Landa: Gentlemen, I have no intention of killing Hitler and killing Goebbels and killing Göring and killing Bormann, not to mention winning the war single-handedly for the Allies, only later to find myself standing before a Jewish tribunal. If you want to win the war tonight, we have to make a deal.
- Lieutenant Aldo Raine: What kind o' deal?
- Landa: The kind you wouldn't have the authority to make. However, I'm sure this mission of yours has a commanding officer — a general, I'm betting — for OSS would be my guess. [Raine is speechless] Oooh, that's a bingo! Is that the way you say it, "That's a bingo"?
- Raine: You just say "bingo."
- Landa: Bingo! How fun.
- Lt. Aldo Raine: You know, where I'm from—
- Col. Hans Landa: Yeah, where is that, exactly?
- Raine: Maynardville, Tennessee — I done my share of bootleggin'. Up there, if you engage in what the federal government calls illegal activity, but what we call a man just trying to earn a living for his family selling moonshine liquor, it behooves oneself to keep his wits. Long story short: we hear a story too good to be true – it ain't.
- Landa: Sitting in your chair, I would probably say the same thing. And 999.999 times out of a million you would be correct. But in the pages of history, every once in a while, fate reaches out and extends its hand. What shall the history books read?
- Col. Hans Landa: I'm officially surrendering myself over to you, Lieutenant Raine. We're your prisoners.
- Lt. Aldo Raine: How 'bout my knife? [Landa chuckles, then gives Raine his Bowie knife] Thank you very much, Colonel. Utivich, cuff the Colonel's hands behind his back.
- Landa: Oh, is that really necessary?
- Raine: I'm a slave to appearances. [shoots Hermann with Landa's Walther] [to Utivich] Scalp Hermann.
- Landa: Are you mad? What have you done? I made a deal with your generals for that man's life!
- Raine: Yeah, they made that deal. but they don't give a fuck about him. They need you.
- Landa: You'll be shot for this!
- Raine: Nah, I don't think so. More like chewed out. I've been chewed out before.
- Once upon a time in Nazi occupied France…
- You haven't seen war until you've seen it through the eyes of Quentin Tarantino.
- If You Need Heroes, Send In The Basterds
- A basterd's work is never done.
- Brad Pitt – Lieutenant Aldo "The Apache" Raine
- Christoph Waltz – Standartenführer Hans "The Jew Hunter" Landa
- Mélanie Laurent – Shosanna Dreyfus aka Emmanuelle Mimieux
- Eli Roth – Staff Sergeant Donny "The Bear Jew" Donowitz
- Til Schweiger – Oberfeldwebel Hugo Stiglitz
- Michael Fassbender – Lieutenant Archie Hicox
- Daniel Brühl – Oberschütze Frederick Zoller
- Diane Krüger – Bridget von Hammersmark
- B.J. Novak – Private First Class Smithson "The Little Man" Utivich
- Gedeon Burkhard – Corporal Wilhelm Wicki
- Jacky Ido – Marcel
- August Diehl – Sturmbannführer Dieter Hellstrom
- Sylvester Groth – Joseph Goebbels
- Martin Wuttke – Adolf Hitler
- Mike Myers – General Ed Fenech
- Omar Doom – Private First Class Omar Ulmer
- Samm Levine – Private First Class Gerold Hirschberg
- Paul Rust – Private First Class Andy Kagan
- Michael Bacall – Private First Class Michael Zimmerman
- Carlos Fidel – Private First Class Simon Sakowitz
- Julie Dreyfus – Francesca Mondino
- Rod Taylor – Winston Churchill (final film role)
- Samuel L. Jackson – Narrator

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Reading 1: Ohio's Shot in the Arm
It was not long after Ohio became a state in 1803 that the need for an adequate transportation system became apparent. The economy in the interior of the state was based on a barter system in which farmers grew and raised what they needed for their families, and exchanged any surplus goods for other needed supplies and staples. There were very few roads, and those that did exist were often nothing but muddy ruts. The state's rivers provided for local transportation only and many rivers were not even navigable. Therefore farmers wishing to take their goods to market had a long and difficult journey. The easiest way to transport grain crops was in the form of whiskey, which could easily be carried on horseback. Paper money was scarce. Poverty characterized life in early Ohio.
The nation's first canals were established along the eastern seaboard. Of these, New York's Erie Canal most influenced plans for Ohio's canal system. New York Governor DeWitt Clinton, realizing how the completion of the Erie Canal would benefit Ohio, asked that state for financial assistance. Although Ohio's state senate declined to provide financial aid to the project, it did agree to assist in other ways, such as promoting trade on the canal. Governor Clinton later helped Ohio Governor Allen Brown obtain funds for the construction of the Ohio & Erie Canal.
Although the idea of creating a canal system in Ohio was on the minds of many politicians during the late 1810s and early 1820s, it took several years of surveying and planning before this project actually started. The construction of the canal, which began in 1825, brought a quick change to the economy. Because canal contractors earned cash and passed it on to workers and suppliers, cash soon replaced the barter system. Industries such as quarrying and lumbering developed to provide the needed supplies for the work. Skilled workers included stone masons, carpenters, shipwrights, and blacksmiths.
This was just the beginning of Ohio's economic boost. With the opening of the canal's first 38-mile stretch between Cleveland and Akron in 1827, farmers in that area were able to command higher prices for their crops. The price of wheat near Akron, which had been 20-30 cents a bushel before the canal's opening, escalated to 75 cents by 1833. Goods from the eastern ports such as nails, glass, cloth, salt, coffee, and tea now were available in the wilderness. Settlers also could purchase sugar and flour at a lower price. Property values increased, and the state's population rose from 580,000 in the 1820s to over two million by 1850. When the extension of the canal from Akron to Portsmouth on the Ohio River was completed in 1832, markets in New York and New Orleans were opened to farmers and traders in central Ohio.
The canal also promoted the development of industry along its banks. The reason for this was that the operation of the canal depended on locks. Each lock served as a water elevator, capable of raising and lowering boats heavily laden with cargo. Because of the elevation change, usually eight feet, areas near locks became a great source of waterpower for industry. Saw mills, grist mills, and woolen mills sprang up at locks and other areas of the canal where the water could power their machinery.
Locks also caused traffic jams. The canal was wide enough for two-way traffic, but since locks could only handle one boat at a time, traffic was bound to back up, just as it does on modern freeways. People did not like having to sit around and wait to "lock through," so many stores and taverns began to develop near the canal. Simon Perkins realized the potential for business near the canal. In 1825, as construction of the canal was beginning, he founded the city of Akron. He knew that with 16 locks placed in close proximity there would be plenty of opportunity for development. Akron would evolve into a major city in northeast Ohio. Other canal towns were not so lucky, however. Towns such as Boston and Botzum began and grew during the canal period, but when the canal declined so did they. Today, there is no visible evidence that some towns ever existed.
The canal also created new industry and technology. Iron ore from the upper Great Lakes region and coal from Appalachia came together in Cleveland, launching Ohio's steel industry. When steel production became an integral part of Ohio's economy, other related industries soon developed. By 1840 Ohio had grown from one of the poorest states in the Union to the third most prosperous. The growth and development spurred by the construction of the canal system is the foundation of Ohio's economy today.
Questions for Reading 1
1. What was Ohio's economy like both before and after the canal was constructed?
2. What products did the canal bring to Ohio?
3. How did the extension of the canal from Akron to Portsmouth help trade?
4. How did Simon Perkins contribute to the development of Ohio?
5. What new industries resulted, either directly or indirectly, from the canal in Ohio?
Reading 1 was compiled from Harlan Unrau and Nick Scrattish, "Historic Structures Report, Cuyahoga Valley: Ohio and Erie Canal," U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service, 1984; and James S. and Margot Jackson, The Colorful Era of the Ohio Canal (Peninsula, Ohio: Cuyahoga Valley Association, 1988).


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That Mayonnaise Has Attitude!
Miracle Whip's hipster ad campaign is risible—and oddly effective.
The Spot:A low, ominous note sounds. Driving drums kick in. "Don't go unnoticed," says a voice-over announcer. "Don't blend in." We see a group of young people dancing on a rooftop. A woman saunters toward the camera with a rock-star pout. "We are Miracle Whip," declares the announcer, "and we will not tone it down."
Look at those saturated colors, at the jittery scrawl of that superimposed text. Listen to the flat, aggressive voice of the announcer, whose vocal cords sound as though they're encrusted in two days of stubble and a pair of Ray-Ban Wayfarers. The evil, bending buzz that opens the ad—the song is "High School Hoodlum," by the New Zealand band The Datsuns—makes it clear from the get-go that this product is launching an angry assault on our attentions.
Which seems out of character for a sandwich spread. Or, for that matter, a salad dressing. (It's my vague understanding that Miracle Whip is both.) In fact, I'm not sure we've ever seen a condiment ad with quite this much 'tude.
Previous mayonnaise commercials (yes, I know, the unclassifiable Whip isn't technically mayo) often centered on the image of a knife spreading dollops of off-white goop across an expectant slice of bread. The setting is typically the family kitchen. We see dad reach into the fridge for turkey-club fixin's or mom lovingly prepare BLTs for the kids. In the 1980s, Miracle Whip ads always seemed to involve a middle-aged man's thwarted late-night sandwich craving.
This new campaign, according to brand manager Justin Parnell, is an effort to reintroduce Miracle Whip to the 18-34 year-old demographic. "Our research showed that younger consumers had grown up with Miracle Whip, but that it had fallen off their radar," says Parnell. "Our buyers were tending to skew older. This is an opportunity to reinvent the brand."
How is Miracle Whip positioning itself to appeal to this younger generation? Plenty of aesthetic nuances—the rooftop context, the music—signal that this isn't some plain old fuddy-duddy sandwich lubricant. There are no grandparents in sight, and almost no children. The copy—in another of the campaign's spots—doesn't mention turkey clubs but does refer to "paninis" and "crostinis."
But beyond the hip signifiers, the overarching message here is that a condiment can be a means of self-expression. "Don't be ordinary, boring, or bland," the roguish announcer commands us. He's dissing the allegedly tamer taste of competing products. But he's also flattering the ego of the Miracle Whip consumer.
Is there really anyone out there who feels she's saying something vital about herself—what kind of person she is, her hopes and dreams—by choosing Miracle Whip over Hellman's? I suspect we mostly buy staples like this based on taste, price, and nutritional information. Perhaps we feel nostalgia for what Mom used to put on the potato salad. But this campaign is playing on the opposite of nostalgia.
Interestingly, Miracle Whip has plenty of ammunition to run a more traditional, nuts-and-bolts campaign. According to Parnell, it has half the fat and calories of a regular mayonnaise. Given the calorie-obsessed era we live in, I was surprised these attributes didn't warrant a single mention in the TV ads. Maybe the younger audience targeted here doesn't care as much about fat content. (Or maybe it's a regional thing: Parnell says the ads are broadcast more often in the Midwest, which is Miracle Whip's key market. Could it be that flyover country isn't as concerned with calorie counts as it is with tangy deliciousness?)
I'm not entirely convinced that Miracle Whip's gambit—egg-based dressing as emblem of badass individualism—will win over the Millennials the campaign is trying to reach. But if the goal is simply to get the brand back on younger people's "radar," as Parnell claims, I think it's probably a mild success. The combination of an edgier soundtrack, some eye-grabbing visuals, and an attractive cast of actors will probably hold younger viewers' attention long enough that they'll take note of the product on offer. The fact that some have been mocking the campaign—as evidenced in YouTube comments—suggests it's at least registering with them instead of just floating by as previous mayo ads might have. When these folks arrive at the supermarket aisle, picking up a few items for a picnic or a brown-bag lunch, a fleeting memory of that rooftop dancing scene could well make the difference—nudging their hands from a bottle of mayo over to that nearby jar of Miracle Whip.
Grade: B. Admittedly, the ads are silly. That doesn't mean they're ineffective. By the way, Miracle Whip (along with Rice Krispies and the iPod) always gets mentioned when people talk about products that were launched during economic downturns, as the Whip was introduced at the Chicago World's Fair of 1933. I asked Parnell whether it was mere coincidence that this major relaunch was also happening during a recession. He said it wasn't. Tighter times generally herald a return to making cheaper food at home—including, especially, sandwiches.


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6Q: Robert Irvine
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Robert Irvine – Food Network Chef
If you ever checked out the show Dinner Impossible, then you have seen Chef Irvine working hard to complete each food mission. Robert has more than 25 years in the culinary profession, cooking his way through Europe, the Far East, the Caribbean and the Americas, in hotels and on the high seas. His other shows on the Food Network as host are Worst Cooks in America and Restaurant: Impossible. We chat with Chef Irvine about his shows on the latest episode of The Gunaxin Show and of course we ask him the Gunaxin 6Q!
Chef Robert Irvine has teamed up with Subway Restaurants, and this past week was at the location in Times Square and hosted the Build Your Better Breakfast Battle. It was a contest that invited consumers to try and make a more flavorsome breakfast sandwich than him. Fans competed against Irvine in 60 second sandwich making competitions. At the Subway Facebook page, fans can create their own flavorful breakfast sandwich through The Flavorizer tab. Subway will randomly select 10-winners who will receive Subway Breakfast for a year! Here is a picture of Emeril, Jared, and Robert at the Subway competition.
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Two days, one big win
Pats finish off suspended game for spot in semis
Each of the past two seasons, the Pilgrim girls' soccer team saw its high expectations turn into bitter disappointment when the playoffs began.
On Monday – and part of Tuesday – the Pats reversed course, and picked up the biggest win for the resurgent program in over a decade.
After being upset in the Division II quarterfinals in 2010 and 2011 as the No. 3 seed, the second-seeded Pats defeated Westerly 4-1 this week to advance to the semifinals and finally put to bed their first-round postseason demons. It was the Pats' first postseason victory since 2000.
Nearly the entire game was played on Monday, but play was suspended due to darkness with 4:37 left and Pilgrim leading 3-1. The teams returned the field on Tuesday afternoon to wrap it up, and the Pats finished it out in style, adding another goal to finalize the victory.
"It's been demoralizing the past two years," said senior defender Heather Wolfenden. "We finished in the top three seeds and this year we were second. It was really good to actually win a game and to know we're going to go on to the next round."
Wolfenden is one of 11 seniors on Pilgrim's roster, almost all of whom were on the team for the early postseason exits.
Knowing that this was their last chance to get over the hump was all the motivation Pilgrim's senior-laden group needed.
"Before this, we always had the mentality that there's always next year," Wolfenden said. "For most of the team, this is our senior year, and we couldn't have that mentality this year. This is it. This is all we had."
The urgency showed.
The Pats dictated play right from the opening whistle, not wanting to give No. 7 Westerly any chance to spring the upset. When the teams had met during the regular season, Pilgrim won only 1-0.
As Monday's game progressed, it looked like it would only be a matter of time before the Pats got on the scoreboard. Wolfenden fired a shot that was barely saved in the 10th minute. A Pilgrim corner just trickled past the far post in the 16th. In the 20th, Cara Beneduce fired a shot that sailed inches over the crossbar.
Finally, in the 25th, Pilgrim's persistence paid off. Talia D'Ambruoso sent the ball into the box from about 40 yards out, and a Westerly defender got a foot on it in an attempt to send it backwards. But Megan Sullivan was there to trap it as she entered the box, and she took a hard, low shot to the left that skipped into the net for a 1-0 lead.
"It's nice," Pilgrim head coach Mike Weber said. "These girls have worked hard for the last four years. They just kept falling a little bit short."
The Pats continued to control the field, as goal-keeper Hannah Page had to touch the ball only twice in the first half.
Still, with only a one-goal lead, Weber knew his team needed to keep the pressure on. Given how the last two seasons had ended, he didn't want to leave anything to chance.
"I told them at halftime that we needed at least another goal," Weber said. "Westerly is a tough team. They're a good team. We were able to put a couple of runs together."
In the opening minute of the second half, Sullivan just missed wide on a volley from in front of the net. In the 49th minute, Talia Geremia headed a ball to the right of the goal off a cross.
Again, the urgency was there, and the Pats looked like they would extend their lead in the 54th minute when they received a penalty kick on a hand ball in the box. But D'Ambruoso missed the shot wide, keeping it a one-goal game.
Undeterred, however, the Pats finally got a little breathing room four minutes later. In the 58th minute, freshman Kendra Tantimonico got the ball in the left side of the box, made a move to create some space and lofted a shot toward the net. It sailed into the back right corner, over the head of keeper Sarah Jacques to give Pilgrim a 2-0 lead.
"I think we controlled most of the play for this game," Weber said. "I think that overall, we played pretty solid and we just have to continue to build on that."
With the victory seemingly on the horizon, the Pats tried to play a defensive-oriented game to keep Westerly from narrowing the gap, but the Bulldogs finally got on the board in the 69th minute.
After a foul on Pilgrim, Patricia Gagnon took a free kick from 30 yards away on the right and the ball floated perfectly to the back post. MacKenzie Donnelly was there to knee the ball in, cutting Pilgrim's lead in half.
All of a sudden, a win wasn't in the books just yet.
"We just needed to lock it down," Wolfenden said. "That was our thought."
With darkness setting in on the field and time winding down, Westerly pushed forward in search of the equalizer. That left the Bulldogs vulnerable in the defensive zone, though, and Pilgrim's Katie Viera took advantage.
She stole a ball near midfield, pushed it ahead and then beat the charging Jacques for possession. Viera continued on toward the goal, easily tapping it across the line for a 3-1 lead. That set off a huge celebration, but the game wasn't over.
Jacques was injured, and while she was being tended to on the field it was determined that it was too dark to continue.
There was only 4:37 left, and both teams were unsure if the game was technically over or if it would be resumed the next day.
As it turned out, Westerly came back to Pilgrim on Tuesday to play out the final 4:37. Weber made sure his team was ready.
"I approached this like we were going to play a full game," Weber said. "We went through our normal warm-ups, we got here early enough. Obviously there's a tendency to think that it's only four minutes and we're up 3-1. I said, 'You can't go into it with that thought process.'"
It showed, as Pilgrim held the ball for most of the first two minutes before Viera clinched the win with a goal on a pass from Nicole Starkey in the final minute.
For the first time in a three-year stretch of regular season success that has seen the Pats rise up the D-II ranks, they were moving on in the playoffs.
"I said to them that they really deserved to win," Weber said. "They worked extremely hard. They're great kids. We've had a lot of fun together. I thought they were on the cusp."
Pilgrim will now play No. 6 Tiverton in the semifinals, which are scheduled for this Saturday at 2 p.m. at Cranston Stadium.
Tiverton upset third-seeded Lincoln 1-0 in the quarterfinals. During the regular season, the Pats defeated Tiverton 4-3.
In the other semifinal, two-time defending champion Exeter-West Greenwich is playing North Smithfield.
The D-II championship game will be played Monday at 2 p.m. at Rhode Island College.
If Pilgrim can get there, it will be seeking the third championship in program history. It won the D-II title in 1989, and won the D-I title in 2000.
"It doesn't get any easier from here," Weber said. "We want to get past this next game and we want to get to the finals."


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PHILADELPHIA— The Wing Bowl ended for me at 9 a.m., three hours after the early morning competitive-eating contest began. But Takeru Kobayashi would not be finished with the event for three more days.
After eating 337 wings in 30 minutes on Friday, the champion eater took home $20,000, a golden scepter, and a crown decorated with rubber chickens. He inhaled so many wings, he could have sat out the final round of the competition and still won. But he ate on and won with a 66-wing margin.
Crouched on a confetti-strewn stage in Philadelphia's Wells Fargo Center, Kobayashi cradled his distended belly and predicted his wing shits would last for the next 72 hours. Then he averted eye contact and giggled.
In the three hours I spent following the world's most famous competitive eater around the massive arena, I had been pelted with garbage, felt up by a porn star, shouted down by racists, splashed with beer, and asked to show my tits. All before most Americans started their workdays.
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A 20-year Philadelphia tradition for "the men who get kicked out of sporting events—the boorish, drunken slobs who curse too loudly, start fights too easily, [and] harass women too aggressively," the Philadelphia Wing Bowl has grown from a morning radio contest held in a hotel lobby to a large-scale festival of gluttony held at an indoor arena that seats 20,000 and is home to Philadelphia's professional basketball and hockey teams. Think of it as the Coney Island hotdog eating contest as produced by Joe Francis.
The result was a loosely organized inferno. On the outer ring, thousands of men and a handful of women sat in stadium seats, swigging beer and watching mechanical bull and mud wrestling contests. Every time the Jumbotron focused on a woman, it began with a close-up of her breasts. A chorus of men would immediately chant, "TAKE IT OFF." Busty women hoisted their boobs to their chins and made kissy faces. Friendly women rubbed their boobs against their friends. Exhibitionist women pulled their boobs out of their bras, allowing their nipples to swing free. The "kiss cam," typically used to highlight cute couples at sporting events, was exclusively for girl-on-girl action today.
On the floor of the stadium—the second ring of Wing Bowl Hell, dedicated to lust—strippers posed for pictures and gyrated.
"It's fun," a bottle-blonde stripper told me through a yawn. She wore a fresh set of acrylic nails and panties with her employer's logo stamped on the butt. "The club pays us to be here, and then guys come to the club after, so we make money there, too." (Wing Bowl, keep in mind, is more or less over by 9 a.m.)
Porn star Mary Carey was in attendance, but I never saw her. I did, however, manage a photo op with Ron Jeremy. When he put his arm around me, his hand mysteriously ended up halfway up my shirt. Given the amount of female flesh he likely encountered that day, I didn't take it personally.
The innermost ring of Wing Bowl hell is reserved for two-dozen semi-professional gluttons. Together, they would consume thousands of sauce-slathered wings. Their seats were arranged in four-foot increments on a raised stage. OINK OINK, one name card read. FREAK OF NATURE, read another.
The event's top-ranked competitors would sit side-by-side. Takeru Kobayashi, the 5-foot-8 Japanese waif who revolutionized competitive eating with six Nathan's Famous International Hot Dog Championship wins (not to mention a contract dispute, one arrest and one cheating accusation) would sit beside Super Squibb, Philadelphia's 6-foot-4 hometown hero and three-time undefeated Wing Bowl champ. Compared to Squibb, Kobayashi was an outsider: This was his first Wing Bowl ever.
Tradition holds that eaters enter the arena on homemade floats and with entourages composed of local dignitaries and "Wingettes," the scantily-clad women in charge of delivering plates of wings to the eaters, cheering the eaters on when they grow fatigued, and wiping the tables clean between rounds. If Wing Bowl were a boxing match, Wingettes would be ring girls. Around 7 a.m., I joined their ranks. Kind of.
Team Kobayashi had gamely played into the boxing motif. His float was decorated to look like a boxing ring; backstage, he donned a grey warm-up suit and red boxing gloves, performing stretches and shadow boxing. His Wingettes wore red booty shorts, striped athletic socks, and KOBAYASHI belly tees. I wore a regular KOBAYASHI tee, slashed at the neck, with jeans. My job was to strut in front of Kobi's float holding a TAKERU KOBAYASHI sign over my head.
My Wingette disguise worked perhaps too well. One of the dignitaries in our group was Bernie Parent, the 66-year-old former NHL goalkeeper who won the Stanley Cup with the Flyers in 1974 and '75. A white-haired man with a tan face and squashed nose, Bernie walked up to me before our entrance, chuckled, and wordlessly began to rub me like a shiny trinket.
"You see this ring?" he said, waving a Flyer's ring before my face and applying friction to my torso. "I got it for winning the Stanley Cup." He rubbed me from my ears to my elbows. "What, not a hockey fan?"
He pulled out his phone and showed me a picture of his boat.
I led our group into the arena, KOBAYASHI sign aloft. The crowd broke into a chorus of boos and pelted our float with empty beer cups and wadded-up garbage. Between 4 a.m. Wing Bowl tailgates and beer-soaked all-nighters, some of the attendants had been drinking for hours on end.
I initially mistook a heated chant of "U-S-A!" for standard-issue sports arena chanting. (Kobayashi, who moved from Nagano to New York City in 2010 to optimize his ability to eat hotdogs, is something of an American dream.) Turns out it was a taunt. In 2004, Wing Bowl attendants jeered Korean-born champion Sonya "The Black Widow" Thomas with the same chant. Josiah Schlatter, an Asian-American reporter for Off the Bench, said afterwards that one drunk attendee shoved him into a lamp post outside the stadium and shouted, "Get the fuck out, Asians! U-S-A!"
"I felt like a Japanese dude in the 1940s," Schlatter said. He'd also been called a "chink" and "Kobayashi's boyfriend" while wandering the mostly white Wing Bowl crowd. People made slanty eyes at him and waved their middle fingers.
Though half Asian, I didn't weather any direct racist confrontations. Apparently my second X chromosome deflected racism; most guys just wanted to see my tits.
As Kobi's detractors assaulted us with half-eaten pretzels and dirty napkins, the procession devolved into mayhem. "Move! Move! Move!" a security guard shouted, yanking Kobayashi off the float. Another guard materialized, and together they covered the miniscule eater's head and shuttled him to the relative safety of the stage.
Within the hour, Kobayashi would shatter the Wing Bowl record and strike valiant poses for reverent articles in the local papers. For now, though, he was most hated man in the city of Brotherly Love.
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The eating was disgusting.
For half an hour, orange-skinned Wingettes carried orange chickens wings to the eaters. The competitors would rend the meat apart with orange-coated hands, cramming it into mouths ringed with orange, chins glistening with orange-tinted drool. As a member of both the press and Kobi's entourage, I was free to wander the stage for the duration of the contest. I wandered back and forth, alternately peering into the churning mouths of the contestants and fighting the urge to vomit.
In 2002, Kobayashi introduced a style of competitive hotdog eating that involved breaking the dogs in half and dipping the buns in water. For the wings, he scrunched the wing meat at the top of the bone, then ripped the flesh off with his teeth and swallowed. He barely seemed to chew. Super Squibb's method involved sticking the wings into his mouth and twisting, as though sharpening chicken-limb pencils. Several contestants wore snore strips over the bridges of their noses to facilitate breathing.
Wing Bowl's sole female contestant, the 5-foot, 100-pound Chillita, ate with her face centimeters from the plate, barely looking up as she tossed the cleaned bones aside. Chillita wore sweatpants and an oversized men's t-shirt. Her Wingettes, among the competition's most glamorous, were voluptuous women with wavy hair and rhinestone push-up bras. One had a rhinestone cell phone tucked snugly into her cleavage.
At the end of the first four-minute round, Kobayashi had downed 165 wings to Super Squibb's 144. When the emcee announced his score, Kobi lifted his shirt and pulsed his belly in and out, and the crowd roared. In the second round, he recovered from a brief gagging incident with a broad smile and a tap of the throat for a two-round total of 317 wings. Super Squibb, alternating between stuffing his face and staring in awe at Kobayashi, had mustered only 252 wings by the end of the second round.
I leaned over to Kobayashi's manager-translator-girlfriend Maggie James. She had spent the contest crouched beside him. Was she happy with her boyfriend's performance?
"We were hoping for 400," she sighed. "You can see he's struggling. He's really pulling the meat." With clenched teeth, she pantomimed wrenching meat from a bone.
It should be noted that any eater who vomits during Wing Bowl is disqualified. When a competitor gags, the Jumbotron zooms in first on his sickened face, and then switches to vintage footage of contestants projectile vomiting to encourage mass nausea. Despite the Jumbotron's efforts, no competitors vomited this year.
Watching people eat for thirty minutes gets boring. Standing at the edge of the stage awaiting the final speed-eating round at 8:30, I entertained myself by trying to visualize 400 wings. I ended up with an image of 200 disfigured chickens, stripped of their wings, clucking and pecking at the ground instead. My mind wandered to a scene from dystopic Margaret Atwood novel Oryx and Crake, in which geneticists engineer a species of extra-edible chickens. The characters observe a "large bulblike" modified chicken with 20 "thick fleshy tubes" emerging from it:
"That's the head in the middle," said the woman. "There's a mouth opening at the top, they dump the nutrients in there. No eyes or beak or anything, they don't need those."
"This is horrible," said Jimmy. The thing was a nightmare. It was like an animal-protein tuber.
Later, as I used the bathroom in Kobayashi's locker room, I looked at a row of urinals and toilets and thought about tubes. How the wing-eaters tilted back their heads to ease their gag reflexes, turning the top halves of their bodies into funnels. And how, a few hours of digestion later, they would plug their butts into these white porcelain tubes and release the remnants into a network of water-filled tubes called plumbing.
Everything everywhere resembled a tube. People were tubes. Throats were tubes. Beer bottles, toilets, sinks, the fountain-tip pen I used to take notes. Photographers used glass tubes to take pictures of human tubes swallowing flesh stripped from chicken tubes. The boob-jigglers on the Jumbotron were flashing their milk tubes. I turned on the faucet tube, pumped the soap tube, and washed my hands in cold water.
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For all the spectacle competitive eating makes about how the food goes in, competitive eaters are surprisingly shy about how it comes out. I approached Super Squibb minutes after his 271-wing second-place finish. As the best-performing Philadelphian, he had won a new car. A ring of reporters pointed eight microphones at his sauce-smeared face, murmuring questions about personal bests and whether he'd need a new garage.
"What's your shit going to be like after this?" I called out.
"Are you serious?" an indignant Squibb snapped, turning to walk away. Notebook in hand, I ran after the formerly undefeated three-time Wing Bowl champ.
"But you're going to digest it, right? What's that like?"
Without breaking stride, Squibb looked over his shoulder. "Just like you'd imagine shitting 271 wings would be," he said. He strode away with purpose, in the direction of his locker room.
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Gerard Pique is remaining defiant in the wake of Spain's chaotic World Cup build-up, drawing on Michigan's 1989 NCAA Championship-winning side as proof La Roja can prosper in Russia.
The 2010 champions were rocked on Tuesday when it was announced head coach Julen Lopetegui would join Real Madrid after the finals.
Unwilling to let Lopetegui stay on for the tournament, the Royal Spanish Football Federation sacked the 51-year-old on Wednesday and placed former captain Fernando Hierro in temporary charge.
And Pique, a world and European champion with Spain, is taking inspiration from Michigan's title 29 years ago, when the Wolverines sacked Bill Frieder - who had announced he would take up another coaching position after the Finals - before his replacement Steve Fisher guided the team to glory.
"University of Michigan. Basketball. 1989. NCAA Champion. It wouldn't be the first time it happened," Pique posted on Twitter.
"All together, now more than ever."
Spain get their campaign under way with a tough Group B test against Portugal on Friday, before clashes with Iran and Morocco.
Universidad de Michigan. Baloncesto. 1989. Campeón de la NCAA. No sería la primera vez que ocurre. Todos unidos, ahora más que nunca.— Gerard Piqué (@3gerardpique) June 13, 2018
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Dell has completed the acquisition of Quest, an award-winning IT management software provider offering a broad selection of solutions that solve the most common and most challenging IT problems.
Why Quest Software
Quest's family of software solutions and key technologies are strongly aligned with Dell's software strategy. The acquisition provides critical components to expand Dell's software capabilities in systems management, security and business intelligence. In addition, Quest's software portfolio is highly complementary to Dell's scalable design approach to develop solutions that scale with customer needs.
Dell recently announced the formation of its Software Group to build upon its existing software expertise. The Dell Software Group will add to Dell's enterprise solutions capability, accelerate strategic growth and further differentiate the company from competitors by increasing its solutions portfolio with Dell-owned intellectual property.
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The acquisition of Quest strengthens Dell's software capabilities to bring to market industry leading, differentiated, and easy to manage solutions for customers worldwide.
Quest's software portfolio is highly complementary to Dell's scalable design approach to develop solutions that scale with customer needs.
Dell is invested in preserving and growing Quest's current channel relationships. Like we have with other acquisitions, we will offer Quest's existing partners globally an opportunity to join our current PartnerDirect program, which will enable them to preserve the investments made with Quest.
"The close of the Quest acquisition is a tremendous milestone in Dell's journey to strengthen our end-to-end IT capabilities, empowering our customers to unlock greater value in their Dell technology investments, as well as their overall IT environments. We are addressing key needs for our customers, helping them leverage the cloud, support 'bring your own device' in their enterprise, and deploy mobile applications and virtualization to drive improved business results. The addition of Quest Software into Dell's software portfolio will extend our industry-leading suite of solutions to a broader range of customers and partners, while simplifying operations, maximizing workforce productivity and delivering faster results."
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Mushkin Chronos 60GB Review
Due to semi-recent flooding, HDD prices have gone, and are still, through the roof! While this makes adding some more storage, or replacing a bad drive, a kick in the nuts, it still does some good. That is, it makes the price of SSDs look just a bit friendlier. Sure the prices haven't gone down, but let's say you want to pick up a 1TB drive. These drives are still double the price that they used to be, with enterprise drives being even more expensive. The cheapest 7200RPM SATA 6Gb/s drive is $150, but this price will inevitably drop down to what it used to be. Instead of giving in to the increased cost of the mechanical HDD, you could put your money toward an SSD, wait for your next pay check, and then, hopefully, pick up a drive for some extra storage. Of course, for this path to make sense, you'll have to jump on it before HDD's drop in price.
Today we will be looking at a 60GB SSD, the Mushkin Chronos. This drive is priced at a modest $120. This means you could easily pick it up as opposed to that 1TB drive, and then put the $30 you saved toward a larger HDD once the prices become more reasonable. Just like the other SSD's we've looked at, the Mushkin Chronos 60GB is a SATA 3 6Gb/s drive. It is also looking at sequential read and write speeds of 525MB/s and 495MB/s respectively. The SandForce 2281 controller should also give the drive a 4KB random write of 85,000 IOPS. For those of you that worry about an SSD's life span, the Chronos 60GB has a two million hour MTBF (Mean Time Between Failures). So is the Mushkin Chronos 60GB worth the cost? Probably, I mean it's an SSD, if you want your computer to boot up fast, an SSD is the easiest way to do it! However, let's put this drive through the OCC benchmark suite to find out for sure!
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By: Marc Livitz at ringside in Dallas, TX: The crowd inside the American Airlines Center in Dallas was treated to a fine display of boxing brilliance this evening. Although his WBO featherweight title was no longer his, Mikey Garcia silenced the doubters who branded him as unprofessional and undisciplined with a resounding fourth round knockout of Juan Manuel "JuanMa" Lopez.
Garcia decided on Friday afternoon that he would not attempt to skim away the two extra pounds which caused him to weigh in at 128 pounds as opposed to the featherweight limit of 126. The twenty five years young fighter from Oxnard, California may have realized that the next division upward would suit him to a nicer extent. The WBO Featherweight title was therefore vacated and only Lopez could win it.
As a result, the main event of this evening's telecast of HBO's "Boxing After Dark" would either end with the featherweight championship landing in the hands of challenger Juan Manuel Lopez or float freely on its own until a new champion surfaced.
Much of the opening period saw the two combatants pawing a bit at the other. The occasional jab would slip through on either side. Lopez got Mikey's attention towards the end of round one with a nice combination to the head. Garcia caught JuanMa with a snapping jab of his own before the bell sounded. Mikey's jab was finding its way past Lopez's right glove once the second round commenced. The classic "orthodox versus southpaw" battle at times meant each fighter needed to reach a bit to land a cross punch. Mikey was patient and sent Lopez to the mat by the seat of his pants. Garcia timed his jab and made Juan run directly into a straight right with about a minute to go in the stanza. Lopez quickly rose to his feet.
Mikey caught Lopez once again inside the first sixty seconds of round three. His right cross connected to the side of the head. Garcia doubled up on his left jab and turned them into hooks whenever he could. Lopez knew what he was walking into and was warned by referee Rafael Ramos to not push Garcia's head downward. With one quarter of the fight in the books, the California fighter was in clear control. Another right from Garcia sent Lopez's vision skyward about a minute into round four. Halfway into the period, a right hook from Garcia tagged JuanMa Lopez flush on his ear and the rout was on.
The Caguas, Puerto Rico boxer looked bewildered and lost. One spot-on left cross later and Lopez was on the canvas once again. He bravely regained his footing, however his eyes appeared glassy and his legs were far beyond the wobbly stage. He faintly raised his gloves for referee Ramos to inspect, but shortly thereafter the bout was halted at 1:35 of round four. Miguel Angel "Mikey" Garcia remans an undefeated fighter, yet one without a title..for now. His unblemished record now stands at (32(26)-0), while former world titleholder Juan Manuel "JuanMa" Lopez suffered his third loss, all of which have been knockouts and fell to (33(30)-2). The attendance this evening was 5,605.
Mikey's older brother and trainer, Danny Garcia revealed the fight camp's strategy once the bout had ended. "We practiced jab, step back and the straight right. We waited for JuanMa to come in", he said.
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