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Project Super Equator - 2009 Suzuki Equator 4x4
Building A Winning Trail Truck
It's no secret that we like the Suzuki Equator. After all, it just won the 2009 4x4 of the Year (Feb. '09). You're probably still scratching your head and wondering how this mild-mannered, midsized truck bested the competition. We're still a little amazed ourselves. The turning point in the contest was watching Editor-in-Chief Rick Pw fly up a challenging hillclimb in the Equator with three other editors along for the ride. The little truck didn't spin a tire on its way to the top. The Equator is comfortable on the highway and has good payload and towing capacity, and the 4.0L with 261 hp and 281 lb-ft of torque has plenty of power and gets up and goes when asked. We relish the fact that we can stuff an amazing amount of junk into the four-door crew cab and fill the longbed with a pile of 4x4 parts. As even-keeled as this truck is in factory form, we need to keep in step with the tradition of Petersen's 4-Wheel & Off-Road and take a perfectly good truck and church it up.
We've already driven our Project Super Equator thousands of miles, which includes a good amount of rocky trails, sand dunes, steep inclines, and a few river crossings. But as we would do with any factory truck, we need to modify the Equator so we can push it in the extremes we like to four-wheel. We want to add a quality suspension lift and larger, more-aggressive tires for additional traction and ground clearance. Sometimes building a fresh-off-the-assembly-line truck is difficult due to the dearth of aftermarket parts. But the Equator is essentially a Nissan Frontier, so there's a bevy of suspension systems and an ample amount of body armor, racks, and accessories available for it. Over the next few issues, we'll focus on what it takes to turn this all-around good truck into an even better trail machine.
Statistics show that the majority of people purchasing a new 4x4 will only use them on mild trails like this. That's great for the weekend warriors, but the staff and our readers have a tendency to migrate to much tougher terrain. Total Chaos and Icon Vehicle Dynamics will be building a suspension for the front of the Equator, which will use the companies' high-end Nissan Frontier components. The suspension will include rear remote-reservoir shocks and front coilover shocks from Icon. The shocks have a ride height adjustable from zero to 3 inches and a digressive piston, which will eliminate cavitation-meaning they will perform exceptionally well on and off the highway. Total Chaos will provide the bolt-on upper control arms, and Deaver Spring will build a set of custom rear leaf springs.
The RMZ-4 Off-Road edition of the Equator already comes with undercarriage skidplates. The truck was designed so that no low-hanging components would be knocked off and damaged. However, we'll be armoring the exterior of the truck with front and rear bumpers, and rocker guards from Shrockworks. The front bumper includes a spot for a winch and auxiliary lighting. The build of the truck will include numerous accessories, including engine performance mods like headers and exhaust from Doug Thorley. We are told the new exhaust system will give the truck an estimated additional 18 hp and 25 lb-ft of torque at 3,700 rpm, significantly improving the 4.0L midrange performance. This installation will also include before-and-after dyno testing so you can see just how well the system works.
The Equator is a nice-looking truck and fairly capable off-road, but the factory suspension, tire size, and bumper fascia detract from the ground clearance we are looking for. We're going to solve these issues with a precision-engineered aftermarket suspension, high-clearance bumpers, and taller tires.


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Bob Walsh (walshb at beep.roadrunner.com) wrote: : ... do the follicle cells for a grey hair have the : same DNA as the follicle cells for a normally pigmented hair taken : from the same individual on the same day? Following up on my own question: "Hair pigment is made by melanocytes at the base of the hair follicle .... Gray or white hair results from a decrease in melanin production (mediated by delayed-action genes) and the replacement of melanin by air bubbles in the hair shaft." Elaine N. Marieb, Human Anatomy and Physiology, 1992. No futher discussion or references given there on "delayed-action genes." Bob Walsh (walshb at alumni.caltech.edu) Santa Fe, NM, USA (505) 263-1875 FAX: (505) 983-5868

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These snowflake rolls are the perfect addition to your holiday dinner table. I made each roll have a snowflake design, but you can pipe anything you want on the rolls; swirls, letters, Christmas trees – the possibilities are endless!
These rolls make a great presentation, and they are super easy to make. There is very little hands on time. It just takes a few hours to let the frozen bread dough rise. I really think you use any type of roll for this recipe since the festive part of the dish is the butter mixture that is piped on top.
Snowflake Dinner Rolls
(Printable Recipe)
12 Rhodes frozen bread roll dough
4 Tbsp flour
4 Tbsp butter, softened
1 tsp hot water
1/4 tsp garlic powder (optional)
Lightly spray a 9-inch cake pan with cooking spray. Arrange 12 rolls in the pan. Cover and let rise in a warm place until double in size.
Once rolls have risen, preheat oven to 350.
Combine flour, butter, hot water and garlic powder. Transfer to piping bag fitted with #4 tip. Pipe snowflake design on top of each roll. Place the rolls in the refrigerator for about 5 minutes to let the butter mixture cool off. (I thought my butter got too warm in my hand when I was piping the design on)
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High school student Claudia Rueda, 17, center, is arrested by Los Angeles Police officers for failing to disperse, as protesters blocked the intersection of the Los Angeles Sheriff's Department Twin Tower Correctional Facility in Los Angeles Thursday, Sept. 6, 2012. Students demanded the passage of Assembly Bill 1081, also known as the Trust Act.
California's governor has vetoed a bill that would have allowed police and sheriffs to free undocumented immigrants from custody once they became eligible for release even if federal immigration authorities had asked to hold them for possible deportation proceedings.
Immigration advocates say the federal requests, known as detainers or holds, cast a wide dragnet that has ensnared even those who had committed minor crimes or no offenses at all. But Immigration and Customs Enforcement had said the program was instrumental in helping enforce immigration laws and in getting violent offenders off the streets.
In his veto message late Sunday, Gov. Edmund G. Brown Jr. said he could not sign the bill because under it, "local officers would be prohibited from complying with an immigration detainer unless the person arrested was charged with, or has been previously convicted of, a serious or violent felony.
"Unfortunately, the list of offenses codified in the bill is fatally flawed because it omits many serious crimes," he said. "For example, the bill would bar local cooperation even when the person arrested has been convicted of certain crimes involving child abuse, drug trafficking, selling weapons, using children to sell drugs, or gangs. I believe it's unwise to interfere with a sheriffs discretion to comply with a detainer issued for people with these kinds of troubling criminal records."
Brown noted he would work with lawmakers to improve the legislation and said undocumented immigrants "play a major role in California's economy, with many performing low-wage jobs that others don't want.
"Comprehensive immigration reform -- including a path to citizenship -- would provide tremendous economic benefits and is long overdue," he wrote. "Until we have immigration reform, federal agents shouldn't try to coerce local law enforcement officers into detaining people who've been picked up for minor offenses and pose no reasonable threat to their community."
Immigration activists denounced Brown's veto, comparing it to Arizona's controversial immigration law that includes a provision forcing those stopped by police to show their immigration papers.
"By vetoing the Trust Act Governor Brown has failed California's immigrant communities, imperiling civil rights and leaving us all less safe. The President's disastrous Secure Communities program is replicating Arizona's model of immigration enforcement nationally, causing a human rights crisis. Immigration and Customs Enforcement strong-armed the Governor to defend its deportation quota instead of defending Californian's rights," Pablo Alvarado, executive director of the National Day Laborer Organizing Network, said in a statement. "On this sad day, we renew our commitment to fight to keep our families together despite the Governor and the President's insistence on seeing them torn apart."
Alvarado was referring to ICE's "Secure Communities" program, under which the FBI shares fingerprints of those arrested with federal immigration authorities who check to see if the person is not legally in the U.S. or if they can be deported due to a criminal conviction.
ICE says it prioritizes the deportation of those who present the most significant threats to public safety, and that it has deported more than 147,400 convicted criminal undocumented immigrants, including more than 54,200 individuals convicted of violent offenses such as murder, rape and the sexual abuse of children, under the program.
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"The identification and removal of criminal offenders is ICE's highest priority and over the past three and half years, ICE has been dedicated to implementing smart, effective reforms to the immigration system that allow it to focus its resources on priority individuals," she wrote in a statement, noting that the Department of Homeland Security would continue to exercise prosecutorial discretion for certain people who came to the U.S. as children and other individuals who were "low priorities."
"The federal government alone sets these priorities and places detainers on individuals arrested on criminal charges to ensure that dangerous criminal aliens and other priority individuals are not released from prisons and jails into our communities," she added.
Several counties and cities have enacted ordinances that limit police cooperation with federal immigration authorities, The New York Times has reported.
Assemblymember Tom Ammiano, a San Francisco Democrat who sponsored the legislation, said late Monday that the California State Sheriff's Association, which had opposed the bill, called his office on Monday to negotiate on the issue, which he took as a "good sign."
"Governors come and go, you know, but this issue is more than a political issue, it is a movement," he said.
Some immigration rights' activists took Brown to task for also vetoing a bill requiring the creation of state regulations governing the working conditions of domestic workers but instead signing off on legislation that would allow some undocumented youth to get a driver's license.
It is intended for those who qualify for the federal government's deferred action policy, which provides a two-year work permit and a reprieve from deportation for those who were brought to the U.S. as children. There are some 300,000 youth in California who are currently eligible for the policy, according to the Immigration Policy Center.
"Brown waited until the 11th hour of his legislative cycle to … veto the most important and impactful bills that would have (brought) tremendous relief for the immigrant community in California and instead decided to sign a very symbolic and hollow bill," Carlos Amador, of immigrant rights' group Dream Team Los Angeles, told NBC News by phone.
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So I obtained that illusive beta code, and have been putzing around a bit on the beta. I haven't done a lot, and I don't know how much I'll do until the pre-made 90s become available in the later stages of testing. I have this whole thing about not wanting to spoil the new content for myself before release, but it is conflicted with my desire to try and do my part to make sure that druids are in a good place at launch. Anyhow, in the time I've spent in the beta, I have decided that mushrooms have an even bigger problem than their clunky drop 3 and detonate mechanic.
Six Yards
If mushrooms are (unfortunately) supposed to be our magic "fix" for this expansion, we have a very serious problem. Have you ever wondered exactly how big six yards is? The runes in the picture above illustrate it pretty clearly. That is me standing in the middle of my mushrooms detonating them. That is also me starting to panic slightly.
Why? Well, six yards is an absolutely miniscule space. People will literally have to be in each other's models to receive a heal from mushrooms. And there is no chance in hell that any encounter with a "spread out" mechanic is going to have a viable use for this ability. In my opinion, the range is now our number one concern with this terrible "new" spell. It's worse than the placement and detonate problems (which are still awkward and cumbersome). It's worse than the targeting problems (which are still clunky). The six yard range pretty much makes this ability next to worthless in most situations.
In all of my optimism, I just do not see a way that this is going to be practical or competitive when we look at what our counterparts on the healing team are going to be able to do. If the devs want mushrooms to be any sort of "fix" or expect them to provide any sort of "competitive" healing, this must change. There is no "but" or "what if" – if this is our fix to burst healing, it must do better than this.
Our "Fix"
I will admit that I've been growing increasingly disappointed as I've watched more and more news release surrounding the other healing classes and some of the new abilities and tweaks they are receiving, yet continue to see nothing "new" or "exciting" for druids. Not to mention that Monks at the moment look like they are going to be the healer to end all other healers – but that is a conversation for another day. As I see other healers start to flourish in the beta with their new toys, I can't help but wonder "what about me?" as I watch druids continue to stagnate. I mean surely Blizzard can't leave druids out in the cold for another expansion, can they? Surely they have some nifty new thing up their sleeve that they just haven't released yet, right?
Please, Blizzard, I have faith in you. Do not disappoint me by telling me that all I get are these shitty mushrooms and "symbiosis". Please don't make me go through another expansion where I go from "undesirable" to "overpowered" back to "undesirable". I'm tired of fighting to prove I'm just as viable and versatile as any other healer (hint: I'm not). I'm tired of working twice as hard to get the same results. Please do not leave us with this lackluster "fix" and call it a day.
If you are dead set on these mushrooms, please at least make them viable and competitive. They are going to need a lot of work, and some significant changes to get there. Let's start with increasing the range to make them useful if your raid isn't piled on top of each other in the tiny confines of six yards. Once we've fixed that, we can talk about ways to make them more desirable. But before we can get to that step, this must be resolved.


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The "images" that you and the replica-maker saw were delivered by your TVs, at a rate of 24 images per second.
Your reasoning would seem to suggest that someone who'd only ever seen people in Spider-Man costumes (including in copyrighted movies and TV shows), would be allowed to replicate that look in any format, because "costumes are not protected", and the replicator (a bit like an engineer doing a clean-room reimplementation) has only seen the costumes.
Good luck with that interpretation! Copyright is acquired by creative effort and fixation in a medium, and not waived by happenstance of particular-revelation-to-others. And by legal precedents cited in sibling threads, even the story on *costumes* is more complicated than simply "not protected" – creative design elements other than the utilitarian function are protectable. The mere fact that a figurine is instantly recognizable by shape and coloring as "Left Shark" kind of proves there are character design elements separable from the costume, doesn't it?
This obsessions with the 'costume' aspect is a distraction, not the reason I see a reasonable claim of IP.
The original cease & desist says "intellectual property depicted or embodied in connection with the shark images and costumes portrayed and used in Katy Perry's Super Bowl 2015 half-time performance". Images, not just costumes. And as a reflection of underlying IP, not necessarily the IP itself.
Most of the public discussion is of the *look* and *personality* of the shark *character*, which appeared in a televised concert performance. (While many may want a "left shark costume", a lot more cultural significance has been associated with "left shark" as a character.) A costume is just one incarnation, as is a figurine, or a doll, or an animated-cartoon.
And how did the replica-figurine-seller even know what Left Shark looked like? He did not have direct access to any costumes. He didn't implement the generic idea of "man-wearable shark costume". He didn't market it as "figurine of man in shark costume".
He worked from a fixed, tangible medium – an entertainment telecast concert performance – which is undoubtedly both copyrightable and copyrighted. He made a version that's instantly recognizable as one of the Perry Concert Sharks.
Additionally, in the process of designing the show, surely a series of fixed-medium scripts and concept drawings existed first, and guided the creation of the costumes and the performance choices of the actors/dancers.
Go ahead, try a search. Find a preceding shark cartoon character that would be easily confused with the Perry Concert Sharks among the public. (And, happy to see you're acknowledging the issue is a *character* not merely a *costume*. Can't characters like Spider-Man or Barney-the-Dinosaur be protected even though they often instantiate as people-in-costumes?)
Doesn't matter if 'Left Shark' is a trademarked term – that's not the case. Rather, everyone knows it designates one of the Perry Concert Sharks, so it establishes the origin of the interest and commercial value for the knockoff replica.
They're similar, as any shark costume would be. (They're also very evocative of Sanrio characters. If 'Hello, Kitty' had a shark friend, it'd look like Left Shark. A Sanrio v. Perry dispute might be fun!)
But if "almost identical", it should be easy to find earlier images of cartoonish/costumish sharks with similar proportions, eyes, coloring. Will those turn up? I don't know; there's lots of room to make distinctive personality-indicating variations in stylized animals.
At the moment, a Google Image search for [costume shark] turns up hundreds of variants... but not a single one could be confused with the Left Shark. (A search for [disney shark costume], to see if perhaps some professional-grade theme-park costume is similar, also comes up with nothing confusable in look until row 17, after about 150 other variants, where a makezine image of the disputed figurine appears.)
And in this case, the commercial offering wasn't promoted as a "classic American costume-shark" or "anime-inspired cute shark". It was, "Left Shark".
Notably, the C&D recipient wasn't offering a costume (or costume pattern), but a figurine (or its schematics).
They were only working from a costume as a model... because they'd observed it in a copyrighted concert/dance telecast featuring the character. The interest in "left shark" has not been strictly costume-focused, but more character-centric: the personality conveyed by its look and dancing.
If by outside chance the official direction to the dancer – a veteran of Perry's tours, apparently – was to be "adorably clumsy and out of sync", that would strengthen the case it's a creatively-authored character, wouldn't it?
If it's a new character for the Prismatic tour, it almost certainly existed in concept art before realized costume. Does revealing a distinctive character-look in costume inherently abandon all rights to it, whereas a single published comic/drawing beforehand would've protected it? That wouldn't make much sense...
As of late last year, the NFL actually wanted to be paid *by* the halftime performer, but by January Katy Perry flatly denied paying anything. Still, who knows how, for example, the production costs were divvied up?
I suspect the Perry-NFL contracts are quite complicated – no simple 'work-for-hire' or 'pay-to-play' either way – but still probably expertly clear about who retains rights in all elements of the performance. I'd also bet the sharks appear in Perry's North American tour, starting this summer. (I suppose it's even possible they've appeared in some form in her current world tour, even before the Superbowl. If this dispute lingers we may find out.)
The sharks are not primarily costumes, but characters with a distinctive, recognizable look who appeared in a designed, televised, copyrighted performance.
It's possible they've appeared in earlier Perry concerts, and it may even be part of the creative-direction that one is sloppy/goofy.
I'd be interested to learn the exact web of contractual relationships between Perry, her stage-show designers, the NFL, and others. But the idea that *someone* has rights to these characters seems no more radical to me than the idea that some entity has the exclusive right to license Spider-Man dolls and costumes.
It's very suspicious that Golden Frog is not naming this "one mobile wireless company's data service". Other than the context that this is a filing to the FCC, can we even be sure it's in the US?
Such in-flight data-tampering is a very different animal than traffic prioritization, and shouldn't be lumped together other. As a rare and egregious practice, it could be solved via name-and-shame in the market, or even basic laws against fraud. It doesn't need a federal 'neutrality' bureacracy.
(It'd also be relatively easy to work-around via self-help... such as VPN-like tunnelling.)
Um, just listing bad things since NAFTA doesn't show causality. Some other bigger things happened to the economy, too � the rise of competitive industries worldwide, the dotcom bust and multiple wars, the housing bust and financial crisis.
Mexico has become more economically stable and competitive in recent decades � it's grown a little faster than the US since the start of NAFTA � so the in-migration and pressure on wages (from migrants or imports) could easily have been worse.
The reliability of the anti-trade Public Citizen research is revealed by goofball spin like "the average nominal price of food in the United States has jumped 65 percent". Nominal? Only economic policy shysters will pick nominal prices over a long period to try to scare people. The rise in CPI since 1993? 63%. So in real terms, food has gone up by maybe 2%. And is it really likely NAFTA has made that worse - compared to fuel costs, 1.5B more people on the planet, 700 million moved out of poverty (more than halving the global poverty rate)? If NAFTA has led to more people and products moving over borders � as Public Citizen fears � it's almost certainly made food prices (and those of lots of other goods) lower than they would have been otherwise.
Another possibility: the DoD thinks the post is 'dangerous viewing' for troops. So, as when they blocked access to the entire Guardian website (http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130627/22485123649/defense-department-blocks-all-web-access-to-g uardian-response-to-nsa-leaks.shtml), they will be blocking any *.jhu.edu domains that host it.
But, those same domains may include other information that the DoD/troops need (and have "paid for" in research grants and joint programs). Hence, because (like early versions of China's firewall) their censoring tech is crude and whole domain/IP-address oriented, they pressure JHU to segregate content for troop-friendliness.
...integrate this into an episode next season. Like, the new neighbors are corporal-punishment fire-and-brimstone types... and while visiting their house, Phil notices this book on their bookshelf, with his family on the cover, and is perplexed. Then the dad's family and in-laws get involved somehow, the original picture (where the other spokes of the family were cropped out) is found online, misunderstandings and hilarity ensue.
While less common, Americans do sometimes treat "United States" as plural, and there's even some evidence the usage is making a comeback. See for example this about Obama saying "These United States..." recently:
http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2013/05/these-united-states-how-obamas-vocal-tic-rev eals-a-polarized-america/275739/
I think it's most common if wanting to emphasize states' rights or distinct characters... so you also see it sometimes in the rhetoric of some right-wing/originalist groups. (["these united states" "ron paul"] = 744K hits; ["these united states" "barack obama"] = 244K hits)
So it *could have been* a consciously chosen affectation of Snowden's... though Wikileaks' editing makes it seem like their own error of clumsy group-composition.
Why isn't the statement signed with a PGP key, such as the one Wired thought could be Snowden's? Quite possibly, where Snowden currently is, he doesn't have confidence he could unlock his key for signing without compromising it to nearby minders.
People, [SHIFT]-[DELETE] is the key sequence for launching drone strikes!
The EFF notes the intelligence community also uses a peculiar definition of 'collect'...
...such that it only applies to data that's been processed into a reviewable form and delivered to an intelligence employee end-user.
I suppose if Google used the same definition, they could crawl web pages, use them to build indexes and train algorithms, but deny that any particular page has been 'collected' unless and until they show up in a user's search results.
Note also that Wyden used the qualifying phrase "on millions or hundreds of millions of Americans". Using this peculiar meaning of 'collect' Clapper could have given a fully-forthcoming, peculiar, but still self-consistent answer like: "No, even though we have received and indexed data records on hundreds of millions of Americans, each of our searches are configured to return only the top 10 results, thus our intelligence officers only ever 'collect' data on 10 people at a time. And we try really really hard to craft our queries so that most of those 10 results are foreigners, but you know how hard crafting precise queries can be!"
...from Derek Powazek:
Another embellishment that could work really well for a twisty time-travel film like Looper: have slightly-alternate versions of the movie replace it during its run, ideally in secret.
The post-viewing discussions would then be delightfully confusing, and perhaps only by seeing them all would you get the full, full story.
(The 'Clue' movie way-back-when had three alternate endings in theaters.)
Even if not for narrative innovation, can we be very far from A/B Tested movie cuts, where on opening night every theater has a unique variant and after audience reactions some cuts are discarded while others proliferate?
I think it could be so bad.
Asshole geniuses may bruise a few people's feelings, but leave enduring work that stands alone, without regard to their personality. The asshole damage they can do is capped by their lifetime and personal interactions; the genius good they can do is unbounded by infinite reproduction.
But, given the observation leading this article, the incentives for creation and the personality are now more linked than before. We've actually *lost* one of the benefits of mass-reproduction -- detaching the work from the personality-outside-the-work -- when we go to voluntary payments. Some asshole geniuses will, at the margin, go into other fields (like banking or law) rather than creating great works. Not a win for the culture.
Not that I think this jusitifes (or that it would even be possible) trying to go back to the old system of copy-tolls. It's just an observation about the texture of the new deal. Maybe culturally we'll adapt, when we get bored with all the nice-guys, by adopting an ethic of even paying those we don't 'like' when they make us think.
...this insight also has a dark side. A lot of great creators were assholes. A world where you don't just have to be creative, but also likable, could miss out on some prolific careers.
So censorship by the government is wrong, but censorship by 'Anonymous' is teaching a valuable moral lesson?
I prefer: all censorship is wrong.
When the assassination drones home onto their targets by facial recognition, then he'll have a good case. Of course, then it may be too late (for him).


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'Smash' review: Back in tune with Broadway
Smash: Dramatic series. Second season premiere. 9 p.m. Tuesday on NBC.
"Smash" had a great start on NBC in the 2012 mid-season, but then all but fell apart under the weight of an unfocused plot and a head-spinning population explosion in the cast. For many viewers, the extended Uma Thurman story arc was a final first-season straw.
It's rare for shows this broken to get fixed - even the first season of "Parks & Recreation" wasn't as screwed up as "Smash" became - but thanks to some tough decision-making and the arrival of a new executive producer, TV's backstage musical "Smash" is back and again ready to become the hit it deserves to be.
The second season kicks off with a terrific two-hour show Tuesday night that should be a textbook example to other show runners on how to bring the audience along as you make significant changes to a troubled show.
And in case we don't get that there's a new game afoot, co-star Katharine McPhee starts the show with a number from the in-development musical "Bombshell" called "Moving On."
That new game is overseen by Joshua Safran ("Gossip Girl"), the new executive producer, who is jettisoning several characters in the story about the creation of a Broadway musical about Marilyn Monroe.
Heading for the exit are Julia Houston's (Debra Messing) husband and teenage son, Leo; the viperous Ellis Boyd, blessedly fired last season as personal assistant to producer Eileen Rand (Angelica Huston); and Karen's cheating ex-boyfriend, Dev, among others.
The primary focus remains on the musical written by Julia and Tom Levitt (Christian Borle), and on whether Eileen can get it onto a Broadway stage with Karen Cartwright (McPhee) winning the lead role over archrival, and Broadway veteran, Ivy Lynn (Megan Hilty), who'd been sleeping with the brilliant but insensitive director Derek Wills (Jack Davenport).
In the first season, the Karen-Ivy rivalry should have worked as the central plot line, but over time, it became tiresome.
Meanwhile, Julia's extramarital affair, not to mention Karen's boyfriend cheating on her with Ivy, became little more than ugly distractions. Maybe we could believe Julia cheating on her husband once, but a second time? It just felt like a far too convenient plot mechanism with little grounding in Julia's character.
Some of the musical numbers still worked, but then there was that over-the-top Bollywood production number that was so giddily ridiculous, it almost felt like a classic jumping-the-shark moment. If it was, the shark was picking its teeth afterward.
The second-season premiere and subsequent episode re-chart the overall course for the show, giving us a somewhat more credible sense of how a Broadway show gets made and bringing the process into modern times with the introduction of two new characters.
Don't worry: The young songwriting team of Jimmy Collins (Jeremy Jordan, "Newsies" on Broadway) and Kyle Bishop (Andy Mientus, "Carrie," off-Broadway) are much more than just two other guys you have to keep track of.
While Tom, Julia and Derek work in Manhattan and Eileen does business at fancy lunches, Jimmy and Kyle support themselves as bartender and waiter while toiling away on their own rock musical in their cramped Brooklyn apartment.
Their world seems more than a couple of miles away from that of the "Bombshell" team, but the inevitable and believable intersection of "old" and "new" musical theater adds real life and renewed potential to "Smash."
There are other changes as well. Karen and Ivy aren't at each other's throats all the time but, instead, focused more on moving on, as the song says, one way or the other.
Karen, for one, is no longer the wide-eyed Midwesterner in the big city but instead is developing that all important thicker skin as a theater pro.
Also undergoing renovation, and none too soon, is Julia's wardrobe: At last, with Tom's urging, she'll ditch the scarves and stop resembling a mobile Bedouin tent whenever she enters a room.
The show also makes a much smarter use of music in the first two episodes than it had as its first season wore on. Instead of a heavy focus on production numbers from "Bombshell," there's more variety in the new songs, thanks largely to the young Brooklyn songwriters who craft tunes in a more contemporary Broadway style.
It doesn't hurt to have Oscar winner Jennifer Hudson on hand in a multi-episode guest starring role as singer Veronica Moore, a Tony winner with a controlling "mom-ager" played by Sheryl Lee Ralph.
Her musical numbers, including a red-hot blues production number, as well as "I Got Love" and the original song, "I Can't Let Go" in the second episode, are not only terrific by themselves, they announce loud and clear that "Smash" is back on track. Let's hope it stays that way.
David Wiegand is The San Francisco Chronicle's executive features editor and TV critic. E-mail: email@example.com Twitter: @WaitWhat_TV


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This past week, we marked the passing of Dr. Bernard Nathanson. His funeral Mass was held at St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York City.
Though at one time he was a self-professed Jewish atheist and one of the architects of legalized abortion in the United States, by the end of his life he had become a Catholic and a great apostle for the Gospel of Life.
I first met him in 1979, when he had just written "Aborting America" that discussed what he called "the dishonest beginnings of the abortion movement." At that point, he had already turned from his support of abortion and had come to a pro-life position.
However, my first real contact with him came in about 1985 when friends of mine from Honduras had called to tell me there was legislation to de-penalize abortion in their country.
I asked them when the new law was to go into effect, and they said it would be within a few months. My advice to them was to gather as many Catholic professionals as they could and begin to put ads on the television and radio, and write columns for the newspaper to raise awareness among the people. It was my conviction that once a law goes into effect it becomes much more difficult to change it — as we have seen in the United States.
Then I called Bernard Nathanson, who was in New York at the time, and asked him to accompany me to Honduras. I explained that I was going there because my friends in the country asked if I could be of any help to them. He told me he had just had his documentary film "The Silent Scream" translated into Spanish and that he would be happy to go.
We traveled to the capital, Tegucigalpa, where he addressed physicians at the university medical school and the country's legislators. We also had him make appearances on television, and speak at rallies. I served as his translator throughout the trip.
The happy ending to the story is that, ultimately, the law was repealed.
Before we left Tegucigalpa, a close friend of mine who had been a parishioner of mine in Washington gave him a little crucifix.
A couple of years later, I saw Bernard at pro-life meeting in Venezuela and he came over to say hello to me. The first thing he did was reach in his pocket and pull out the crucifix. He then told me that he was so grateful for that trip to Honduras, and that his only regret was that he didn't take his wife along with him.
At the time, I thought "This man is on a journey of faith." Sure enough, a few years later, in 1996, Cardinal John O'Connor received him into the Church in New York.
When he was later asked why he converted to Catholicism, he said "No religion matches the special role for forgiveness that is afforded by the Catholic Church."
This man who had aborted so many children and fought to legalize abortion was completely converted into a pro-life Catholic.
I think there is a great lesson in that for all of us. Sometimes people in the pro-life movement lose sight of the fact that one of our goals has to be to try to lead people to the light of Christ and out of darkness. Even though some of these people may evoke such anger or disgust in us because of their positions on abortion, we must never stop praying for them, loving them and hoping they will receive the graces Bernard Nathanson received, which helped him to find the truth and discover in Christ the answer to all of the questions of his life.
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Also this week, I was visited at the Cathedral by relatives of Bishop Adalberto Martinez, of Guatemala.
Bishop Adalberto's sister-in-law, Alicia de Martinez, was here in the States for a visit and she came by with her daughter, son-in-law and their new baby who live here in Boston.
It was wonderful to be able to see them.
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Then, last Monday I went to Ohio to bury my Uncle Ed, who was very close to all of us. He was my father's brother and my last living uncle.
He was a brilliant doctor, a very dedicated Catholic and a wonderful father to his family. When we were children, he was a very important part of our lives. I last talked to him on January 1st, which was his birthday.
I was so happy that I was able to be there to celebrate Mass with my aunt and so many members of our family.
We were so amazed at how many people came to the wake and the funeral. (Usually by the time someone is 90 they have buried most of their friends!)
Uncle Ed was part of what they call the "Greatest Generation", those who came through the Great Depression and World War II.
I want to share the homily I gave during the Mass with you:
Homily for Funeral Mass of
Dr. Edward J. O'Malley
1921 — 2011
Four score year and ten is a long life, but in the case of my Uncle Ed, it was a good life. And as sad as we are to say farewell, we are filled with gratitude for the many years that we had him with us.
My first memories of Uncle Eddie go back to my earliest years. Even as a child I was struck by how much Ed loved my Dad. The sense of closeness among Uncle Ed and his siblings was remarkable and something I was very aware of even as a child. I was also struck by the deep love and devotion that Uncle Ed, Bob, Marie and my Dad had towards their parents, my grandparents.
For all of them Family was of paramount importance, a life-giving and joyful relationship. They enjoyed each other's company and found strength and meaning in their close knit family.
Uncle Ed was our bachelor uncle and spent a lot of quality time with us as children. He would come on Christmas Eve and put up our tree and assemble the electric train with my Dad. The only problem was, he liked the train so much, we had to fight with him to get to play with it ourselves.
Uncle Ed would take us to so many interesting places. And he had a convertible. For little kids, it doesn't get any better. We loved to listen to his stories about his time in China during the war. Ed was part of Tom Brokaw's "Greatest Generation." He completed medical school in 1943 at St. Louis University and served in the U.S. Army Medical Corps on the U.S.S. Comfort in the Pacific.
Quite frankly, we were all very alarmed when we learned that Ed was going to get married. Our fears were allayed when the beautiful Therese McCrone became our new aunt. And Ed still took us to the movies and we loved to stay over at their house.
For Uncle Ed, family was so important. And he loved traveling around the country with Therese and the kids in their big trailer.
For Ed, being a Catholic was also about being part of a family, Christ's family, the Church. The Mass was the center of his spiritual life, and he helped in the parish as a teacher of religious education and extraordinary minister of the Eucharist. He found meaning and purpose in the teachings of the Catholic Faith. His faith life was a journey that began on the day of his baptism and culminates in this liturgy that uses the same symbols of candle, water and the white garment.
Uncle Ed lived his medical profession as a vocation of service. He was not impressed by money or prestige. He was impressed by competence and hard work. Talking with my cousins about their father, they recounted their memories of their dad always being called out in the middle of the night or on a holiday. Ed responded without delay and without complaint. He had a sense of mission and a deep concern for the people he served, and especially those who were poor or elderly.
And Uncle Ed loved to debate and ruffle feathers. The last time I was with him a few months ago, for Mass at the Poor Clares on Rocky River Drive, after the Mass we gathered in the parlor of the Monastery to visit with the nuns.
Uncle Ed said to the Mother Abbess, "Mother, these nuns are very happy, you can take this grill down, they are not going to escape".
She replied, "No, Dr. O'Malley, the grill is not to keep them in, but to keep you out."
That was the kind of repartee that Ed enjoyed.
I have chosen this Gospel because it describes Jesus, the Divine Physician, doing house calls. His life and ministry, like our own humble lives, are full of interruptions. Jesus is on the way to cure the daughter of Jairus and he is waylaid by the old lady with the twelve year hemorrhage. According to the Mosaic law, her bleeding rendered her virtually impure and therefore she could not even go to the temple or the synagogue and left her an outcast in the community. In 12 years she spent all her money on doctors. (She did not go to Uncle Ed).
What only Jesus could see was the faith of this woman. She had said to herself, "If I but touch the hem of his garment, I shall be cured." She was hanging on to the hem. That is a good place to be. And Jesus says to her, "Daughter, your faith has saved you. Go in peace."
Having handled the interruption, Jesus continues on His way to Jairus' house. They told Jesus the girl had died so there was no need to come.
Jesus goes anyway. He says to Jairus, "Do not be afraid, just have faith." Jesus' message is the same to us in our loss. We must have faith like the bleeding woman, hold onto the hem.
When they arrive at the house, Jesus says, "Why are you weeping? The child is not dead, she is asleep." It was an obvious misdiagnosis and the people laughed Jesus to scorn.
In our world, they are still laughing at Jesus and his teachings. We must not be afraid, we must have faith. Jesus takes the little girl's parents and enters the room. He takes the girl's cold, lifeless hand and says, "Talitha koum". These are "ipsissima verba," as the scholars call these Aramaic phrases that pop up every once in a while, the very words and in the very language that Jesus spoke. The literal translation is, "Little lamb arise." I am very touched by the bedside manner of Jesus. He does not say, "you guys." The elderly lady, Jesus calls "daughter"; and the girl he calls "little lamb."
Jesus cared about the people he cured, they were not just clients, or statistics, or cases, they were people…objects of Jesus' love and mercy.
The twelve year old girl who was born the same year the old woman's hemorrhaging started. After raising the girl, Jesus then prescribed food, "Give her something to eat."
Jesus prescribes food for us: the bread of life, the Eucharist. I cannot imagine my 90 year old Uncle missing Mass. He knew that whoever eats the body and blood of Christ will live forever.
In today's culture of death, ironically enough, people deny death, try to sanitize it.
Jesus speaks about death as being like asleep or like a grain of wheat that falls into the ground and dies so that it can become a beautiful plant and produce much fruit. Jesus tells us that death is an invitation to live in our father's house where there are many mansions and He says that He will come for us and carry us home.
We gather here to bid farewell to someone we all loved and respected. He will be sorely missed and fondly remembered, defined by his loves. Edward O'Malley was a man who was dedicated to his Catholic Faith, his Family and his vocation to be a healer and physician. He practiced medicine everyday of his life. He was born to serve the sick, to bring them comfort and consolation.
We gather here as well to pray for Ed, our faith teaches us that we must pray for the faithful departed and in every Mass we offer prayers for all of those who have gone before us marked with sign of faith, so that they be prepared to enter into God's presence and live in His light forever.
One of Mary's titles is "the Gate of Heaven". She stood next to the cross and there on Calvary Jesus gives her to us: "Behold thy Mother." Mary is close to all her children as life's journey draws to a close. How many times did Uncle Ed say, "Holy Mary Mother of God, pray for us sinners, now and at the hour of our death."
On the wall of the Irish Chapel at the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington, there is an ancient Irish Prayer:
Holy Mary, if thou wilt,
hear Thy supplicant;
I put myself under the
shelter of Thy shield.
When falling on
the slippery path
Thou art my smooth
supporting hand staff.
There is no hound in fleetness or in chase,
north wind or rapid river;
as quick as the Mother of Christ
to the death bed of
those who are entitled
to her kindly protection.
Uncle Ed, we entrust you to Mary's kindly protection until we meet again.
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This Wednesday, I attended the episcopal ordination of Bishop Christopher Coyne as auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of Indianapolis. There had not been an auxiliary bishop there in 77 years.
I was also so pleased that many parishioners from his former parish, St. Margaret Mary in Westwood, joined us for the Mass. In addition, about 60 Boston priests and Bishop Dooher went out for it.
Archbishop Buechlein celebrated the Mass. He has had some health problems and I'm sure is very happy for the assistance an auxiliary bishop will provide him.
The ordination took place at St. John the Evangelist Church in Indianapolis. It was once the Pro-Cathedral. It was billed as the most beautiful church in the diocese and it really is a magnificent structure. That's where Bishop Coyne is going to live.
Bishop Coyne is the second Bostonian in the state because Bishop John D'Arcy was bishop up north, in Fort Wayne-South Bend.
The ordination celebration was very beautiful. The singing was done by St. Meinrad's Seminary, which also has a very large Benedictine abbey where Archbishop Buechlein had been the abbot and rector of that seminary before he became the bishop.
They're getting ready for the Super Bowl there next year, so I told Bishop Coyne the Patriots would be coming!
My only previous visit there had been when I was a visitator to that seminary many years ago.
They gave us very interesting little mementos of our visit, but one I particularly latched onto was a biography Archbishop Buechlein wrote about Simon Bruté de Rémur, the pioneer scholar Bishop of Vincennes. Vincennes was the original diocese before it became Indianapolis.
I saw so many parallels between his life and that of Archbishop Cheverus, who became our first bishop here. In many dioceses in the United States, the founding bishops were those priests who had come through the French Revolution and had come here as missionaries. This particular bishop's cause has been introduced for canonization.
We pray that Bishop Chris Coyne will follow in that path of sanctity and wonderful service to the people of Indianapolis!
Until next week,
Cardinal Seán


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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (Feb. 5, 2014) – We interviewed U.S. opposite Murphy Troy during the 2013 FIVB World League to talk about his progression from a club player and member of the U.S. Youth National Team to the senior national team.
Also, find out how Troy (St. Louis, Mo.) got his unusual name and whether he was destined to play for the University of Southern California.
Troy is playing for St-Nazaire in France this winter.
Middle blocker David Smith (Saugus, Calif.) sent us an update from France where he is playing for Tours, which is leading the French league.
|David Smith and son Cohen admire the view from the Chateau d'Amboise.
As you probably know, I am playing in Tours, France this season. It is my third year with the club and we are pretty much smack in the middle of France (a couple hours south of Paris). This region is pretty well known for its multitude of chateaus that spread across the Loire. This picture is from the Chateau d'Amboise, which is about a half hour away from Tours and it is the resting place of Leonardo DaVinci (the building behind Cohen and me contains his tomb). Places like this are great for day trips when we get those rare free days in our training schedule.
On Feb. 1, David Smith, outside hitter Jayson Jablonsky (Yorba Linda, Calif.) and Tours defeated Beauvais, 25-20, 25-18, 25-22. Jablonsky scored 10 points on eight kills and two blocks and also had 18 receptions, 50 percent positive. Smith added seven points on five attacks and two blocks.
Middle blocker Futi Tavana (Kalaheo, Hawaii) and Toulouse beat Montpellier on Feb. 1, 21-25, 25-23, 24-26, 27-25, 20-18. Tavana finished with 12 points on eight kills and four blocks.
Murphy Troy and St-Nazaire fell to Sete on Feb. 2, 25-29, 25-27, 25-21, 25-17. Troy led his team with 19 points on 17 attacks and two blocks.
Outside hitter Matt Anderson (West Seneca, N.Y.) played in the Russian Super League all-star game on Feb. 1 in Belgorod in which his team defeated the other team, 26-28, 26-24, 25-23, 25-23. To view a photo gallery, click here.
In the quarterfinals of the CEV Challenge Cup, Belgium's Euphony Asse-Lennik, which includes U.S. middle blocker Jacek Ratajczak (Warsaw, Poland) defeated U.S. middle blocker Russell Holmes (Fountain Valley, Calif.) and Turkey's Istabul BBSK, 20-25, 25-21, 21-25, 25-17, 15-13 on Feb. 5 in Belgium. Ratajczak scored six points on six kills while Holmes totaled eight points on five attacks, two blocks and one ace. The two teams will play again on Feb. 13 in Istanbul.
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In the six-team playoff of the CEV Champions League, setter Donald Suxho and his Italian team Diatec Trentino fell to Russia's Belogorie Belgorod, 25-20, 25-20, 25-18 on Feb. 5 in Russia. Suxho scored four points on two kills and two aces and set his team to a 51.4 kill percent. The two teams will play again on Feb. 13 in Italy.
Matt Anderson and Zenit Kazan will face Italy's Copra Elior Piacenza in their first playoff match on Feb. 6 in Italy.
Opposite Carson Clark (Santa Barbara, Calif.), outside hitter Garrett Muagututia (Oceanside, Calif.) and their Polish team Transfer Bydgoszcz fell to PGE Skra Bełchatów, 25-23, 25-19, 25-18 on Feb. 1. Clark led his team with eight points on seven attacks and one block. Muagututia added seven points on five kills, one block and one ace.
Outside hitter Jeff Menzel (Santa Barbara, Calif.) led his Belgium team Noliko Masseik to a 30-32, 23-25, 25-19, 25-13, 15-12 victory over VBC Waremme on Feb. 2. Menzel led all scorers with 21 points on 20 kills and one block. Masseik is in fourth place in the league.
Libero Erik Shoji (Honolulu, Hawaii), middle blocker Andy Hein (Carol Stream, Ill.) and their Austrian team Hypo Tirol lead the league and defeated SK Posojilnica Aich/Dob on Feb. 5, 25-12, 25-22, 23-25, 27-25. Shoji was credited with 12 receptions, 67 percent positive. Hein scored four points on three kills and four blocks.
Kawika Shoji (Honolulu, Hawaii), Scott Touzinsky (St. Louis, Mo.) and the Berlin Recycling Volleys are in second place in the league and defeated VFB Friedrichshafen, 25-18, 25-19, 23-25, 20-25, 15-13 on Feb. 2. Touzinsky scored eight points on five kills, two blocks and one ace. He was also credited with 32 receptions, 56 percent positive. Shoji scored four points on two kills and two blocks and set his team to a 47.5 kill percent.


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A New Newton
Isaac Newton
It was a strange juxtaposition. A big metal box filled with the manuscripts of Isaac Newton, hidden by Newton during his lifetime and unread for two hundred years afterward, and a fat young man with red hair and khaki shorts, strutting on the stage at meetings of the British Union of Fascists. The big metal box was packed up by Newton in 1696, when he left Cambridge and moved to London. He was leaving forever the life of intense and solitary study that he had pursued in Cambridge for thirty-five years, and entering the role of public figure and patron saint of the Age of Enlightenment that he pursued in London for thirty years more. The fat young man was Lord Lymington, Earl of Portsmouth. He was a direct descendant of Catherine Barton, the niece of Newton's who kept house for him in London and inherited his papers when he died. Catherine Barton's daughter Kitty married an Earl of Portsmouth and became an ancestor of the fat young man. And so the fat young man came into possession of the big metal box. When he came into possession of the box, the papers inside were still intact.
When I was a boy in high school during World War II, I met the fat young man and disliked him intensely. I was helping England to survive by bringing in the harvest, at a time when the grown-ups who normally worked on the farms had been called up to serve in the army. The high school kids worked hard in the fields and enjoyed taking a holiday from Latin and mathematics. But the fat young man owned the land where we were working, and he came and lectured us about blood and soil and the mystical virtues of the open-air life. He had visited Germany, where his friend Adolf Hitler had organized the schoolkids to work on the land in a movement that he called Kraft durch Freude, in English "Strength through Joy." In Germany the kids had an accordionneuse, a woman with an accordion who played music to them all day long and kept them working in the right rhythm. The fat young man said he would find an accordionneuse for us too. Then we would have strength through joy and we would be able to work much better. Fortunately the accordionneuse never showed up, and we continued to work in our own rhythm. We knew that the fat young man was second in command to Sir Oswald Moseley in the British Union of Fascists, and if his friend Adolf had successfully invaded England he would probably have been our Gauleiter. Being well-brought-up English children, we listened to the fat young man politely and never showed him our contempt.
When I was bringing in the harvest and listening to the fat young man, I did not know that he had been the owner of the Newton papers. I learned this two years later from the economist John Maynard Keynes. I…
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Kafka: Translators on Trial
The Castle
In 1921 the Scottish poet Edwin Muir and his wife Willa gave up their jobs in London and went to live on the Continent. The dollar was strong; they hoped to make ends meet by reviewing books for the American periodical The Freeman.
After a nine-month spell in Prague, the Muirs moved to Dresden and began to learn German. Willa did some schoolteaching while Edwin stayed at home reading the latest German-language writers. When hyperinflation struck Germany, they moved to Austria, then to Italy, then back to England. There they put their newly acquired German to use and became professional translators. For the next fifteen years, until the outbreak of war, they were, in Edwin's words, "a sort of translation factory." Together they translated over thirty books; Willa did a further half-dozen by herself. "Too much of our lives was wasted…in turning German into English," wrote Edwin afterward, ruefully.
With one of their first projects, a translation of Lion Feuchtwanger's Jud Süss, they struck it lucky: the book became a best seller, and their London publisher asked what other writers they could recommend. Edwin had been reading Franz Kafka's posthumously published Das Schloss. "It is a purely metaphysical and mystical dramatic novel,…quite unique," he wrote in a letter. His and Willa's translation was published in 1930. Despite selling only 500 copies, it was followed by further Kafka translations: The Great Wall of China (1933), a collection of shorter pieces; The Trial (1937); America (1938); and, after the war years, In the Penal Colony (1948). These translations, despite their many defects, have dominated the English-language market since then. Now we have a new version of The Castle by Mark Harman of the University of Pennsylvania, standard-bearer for a retranslation of the entire Kafka corpus commissioned by Schocken Books from respected individual translators. (Breon Mitchell's version of The Trial will be issued later this year.)
Edwin Muir saw his task as not only translating Kafka but also guiding English readers through these new and difficult texts. The Muir translations therefore came armed with forewords in which Edwin, relying heavily on Kafka's friend and editor Max Brod, explained what Kafka was all about. His forewords proved highly influential. They proposed Kafka as "a religious genius…in an age of scepticism," a writer of "religious allegory" preoccupied with the incommensurability of the human and the divine.
Inevitably the conception of Kafka as a religious writer influenced the choices the Muirs made as they translated his words. The English versions they produced conformed to the interpretation supplied in the forewords. So it is not surprising that Kafka's first English-speaking readers accepted without demurral the Muirs' version of him.
The interpretations embedded in the Muir translations—particularly of The Castle and The Trial—have long been a source of concern to Kafka scholars. In the United States in particular, the Muirs' 1930 translation of The Castle, implicitly packaged with the Muirs' 1930 reading and reprinted time and again, has seemed to hold an unfair monopoly (in Britain…
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This is undoubtedly Liverpool's poorest season in the Premier League era. Prior to a ball kicked in earnest the ingredients seemed well balanced: a Kop hero at the helm, significant investment in on-field talent and a promising blend of youth and experience. How things have changed…
At FFTD we have certainly shared in the tribulations of Andy Carroll as he has stumbled through his first Premier League campaign on Merseyside as if being led by Jose Enrique's daughter while blindfolded and on stilts. The sympathetic view regards England's most expensive player as a work in progress and a scapegoat for a typically scathing media. Others have pointed to his exorbitant price tag as a negligible factor; something uncontrolled by Carroll creating unrealistic and impossible to fulfill expectations. Whatever the paradigm, A. Carroll is the laughing stock of the world wide web and the emblem of anti-Liverpool sentiment (accompanied by Suarez) much to the chagrin of reds across the planet.
Big Andy was snatched in a desperate last ditch deadline day scramble for a ready made Fernando replacement. While 35 large was excessive even for a league spiralling out of financial rationality, many pundits listed his arrival from Newcastle as a favourable dealing: strong, pacey, good feet and a devastating left peg – Peter Crouch times 5. What was to ensue is common knowledge, but we feel critiques have been continuously amplified out of proportion. Commentators should disregard his price tag for now, as that figure will be amortised over the entirety of his Liverpool career, and instead focus on the deeper-seeded problems at Anfield.
Compared to the good ol' days on Tyneside, Liverpool's number 9 has faced worse service than at a Fawlty Towers inspired B & B. Persistent injury complaints to Stevie G and the disappointingly ineffective Charlie Adam have curbed the stem of incisive delivery into forward lying positions. Indeed, the return of Gerrard has afforded Carroll with his best opportunities in a red shirt, and therefore his most promising displays – using deft touches to release the ever-dangerous Suarez. The Carroll/Suarez partnership has been a rarity across the season in a bane for supporters. The pairing is certainly still in its infancy, but has shown fleeting moments of endeavour and adroitness. The flourishing Rooney/Welbeck attack should be an archetypal blueprint. Most tellingly, Suarez, seemingly not someone to give plaudits lightly, is on record with:
'I hope Andy plays with me all matches, he helps me in game'
In their pairing up front, King Kenny has a platform on which to build a more telling challenge next year. This year's missing piece, rather than efficiency in front of goal, has been creativity in the middle together with the absence of Lucas to provide some solidity in front of a struggling back four (but that's for another inquiry). Forthright transfer dealings could arrest their worrying slump towards mid table and replace the substandard, such as Downing, with genuine European talent. An attacking marshal in a central role as well as a crafty winger with trickery and a turn of pace are on top of the Anfield shopping list. To give them a hand, because we know they're reading this, we've selected an eclectic mix of some realistic options for the Reds. If this doesn't propel us into the upper echelons of footballing analysis…
Gaston Ramirez
It is surprising that more gossip fails to circulate one of Europe's finest prospects in the 21 year old Bologna midfielder. Ramirez may be suited to the English brand with his powerful 6 foot frame and ability to legitimately fulfill a role without the ball. Gaston has continuously been compared to Kaka since bursting onto the scene, in terms of his graceful flair on the ball and his reportedly unflappable temperament. This trait would be a welcome asset to a growing collective of ill-disciplined players led by the pest that is Suarez. A number of other factors point to this deal being successful: Ramirez continues the Uruguayan flavour and should connect with Suarez and Coates, something that should not be understated, at just 21 he fits with Dalglish's commitment to youth in his recruitment ideology and finally, a bid of £16.3 million is rumoured to be in the bolognaise stained hands of Bologna already.
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Sinclair has been at the fulcrum of an eye-catching season from the Welsh Premier League newcomers this season. 7 goals in 22 appearances is noteworthy enough, but he is ensconced in the top 10 for chance creation and assists across the league. While new arrival, Sigurdsson, may be a more convincing option, we think the Icelandic starlet will go to a bigger club with Champions League action, leaving Sinclair as a realistic investment. There are a number of drawbacks however. First, Sinclair's strength is his penetrating runs from the left towards goal, more so than his delivery from wider areas, something Liverpool could use more desperately. Second, he has flourished in a 4-3-3 abundant with crisp passing and committed movement, two things that do not necessarily fit Liverpool's attacking idiosyncrasies. Worth a look though.
Estimated Price: £6m Rating: 6/10
Younes Belhanda
This Moroccan midfield maestro is a genuine contender as a long-term replacement for the ageing Gerrard. England's biggest clubs have been lining up for Belhanda's autograph for some time now, with the Montpellier man seen as a long term replacement for Scholes at United and previously Fabregas at Arsenal. But apparently, Liverpool are finally beating these clubs to something. Younes knows his way to the back of the net too, with 12 goals to accompany his 6 assists in his 30 games in Ligue 1. Newcastle have shown the worth of French imports in their midfield and if John Henry is to break the bank this year, it would be difficult to move past Belhanda. Prepare to see this name in your gossip columns over the months to come.
Estimated Price: circa £20m Rating: 9/10
Matt Jarvis
Some of my Liverpool supporting friends have bemoaned that Jarvis is just the sort of player their club will sign – and we tend to agree. 2012's Charlie Adam, Jarvis is too good for the championship, but too expensive for the mid table club he deserves. Instead, Kenny will come to the rescue, signing another overrated Englishman without any considerable raison d'être. Jarvis is the definition of the word "useful", but offers little more, and his signing would mark a step sideways at best. While he has been more prolific than Downing, with 7 goals for the debacle that is Wolves, this prospect would be scant improvement to the squad. This will happen – just you wait.
Estimated Price: £4m Rating: 4/10
Royston Drenthe
England's visiting Real Madrid player, adorned with a simply stunning given name, has shown glimpses that would fulfill Liverpool's lacking. Drenthe is a consistent nightmare for defenders, something that Anton Ferdinand, most particularly, would substantiate. While not necessarily a weakness on the red half of Merseyside, Drenthe adds a set piece menace to accompany his attacking repertoire. On the negative, Royston saves us from a half-hearted attempt at defending by keeping this element completely absent from his game. Additionally, he seems easily flustered on the pitch, a quality that in tandem with the child-like Suarez could be too much to bear for a restless fan base. If the Everton loanee is considered as a replacement for the departing Kuyt, then two more opposite propositions would be difficult to find – something that, along with his lackadaisical attitude, could seriously hamper any efforts to endear himself to a Kop favouring hard-working and dogged performers. Off-field issues may be noteworthy.
Estimated Price: Free Rating: 6/10
Junior Hoilett
If the PFA's prize for young player of the season was a genuine accolade (maybe youth was determined by years playing professionally, rather than years of age) then Blackburn's biggest weapon would head the list. Without even a mirage of attacking support from his contemporaries, save the Yak's three game mid season rich vein of form (HAH!), the Canadian has been a clear standout amongst the shambolic on and off field season served up by Venkys and Steve Kean. Liverpool seem an appropriate destination for the championship-bound Hoilett, but several clubs will be throwing their cheque book at the out of contract winger. With his 3rd season of English football under his belt, Mr Hoilett could be the best possible option to Liverpool's woes.
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The Tampa Port Authority and the Liberty Channelside LLC ownership group are divided over the port's demand that Liberty put up $8 million in escrow before moving the deal forward.
The port owns the land under Channelside, and its governing board must approve the sale.
But the dispute took an unfortunate turn Wednesday morning, according to port counsel Charles Klug, during a conference call with Liberty members.
The port ended the call after Klug said Liberty made "unprofessional comments."
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The Port of Tampa "remains willing to continue with negotiations; provided, however, that certain rules of decorum are followed."
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What was said to port staff and who said it? Klug declined to be specific on Thursday.
"I would say the conversation was less than civil and unprofessional," he said.
He did say, however, that he has had many cordial meetings with Liberty, and none of their statements Wednesday led him to call the police or worry about the safety of port staff.
The Liberty Channelside partnership of real estate entrepreneurs Santosh Govindaraju and Punit Shah released a statement from Shah on Thursday to the Tampa Bay Times apologizing for the harsh language used.
"It was not our finest moment but we are committed to a civil and professional negotiation," said Shah in the statement.
They denied a report made by an anonymous source to the political website saintpetersblog.com that said Govindaraju "accused one of the Port's representatives of overreaching and said that if they were in his country, they would cut off the liar's hands for such an offense."
Liberty Channelside said Govindaraju used the hand metaphor to make a point about "overreaching," but that no threat was made or implied. They apologized for using the metaphor but said the anonymous source mischaracterized those comments:
"We do want to be clear that we never referred to any country and we never called anyone a liar as we have seen reported."
Liberty Channelside's statement also expressed dismay with the $8 million request.
"We were frustrated and rather shocked because we have never been asked for such an escrow and the amount of money requested seemed to us to be overreaching," said Shah.
The Tampa Port Authority said the $8 million escrow is necessary to prove that Liberty is financially committed to making the substantial physical, cosmetic and tenant improvements needed to turn around the dilapidated Channelside complex.
Liberty is also asking the port to give up its ability to enforce the lease's penalties and to dismiss the port's lawsuit to evict the bank that owns Channelside so the port can take ownership.
"They've been saying a lot of good things which we like," Klug said. "But we need this commitment before we waive our rights to enforce."
Liberty Channelside has offered to pay $2 million up front, but nothing more.
"We believe our track record illustrates our commitment to our projects, and we were surprised to be asked for additional financial proof," Shah said.
Patrick Berman, senior director for retail brokerage at the real estate firm of Cushman & Wakefield, said the port's escrow request is very unusual. Berman, who is a friend of Shah, said few developers are asked to pay so much money in advance.
"In my opinion the Tampa Port Authority is penalizing the new buyer because of the mistakes and omissions of the previous owners," he said. "They're saying this is a mess, and we're going to make you, the new buyer, pay by putting up a huge deposit.
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With the draw, the Timbers and Sounders (1-2-2, 5pts) are tied for the lead in the chase for the 2007 Cascadia Cup. The Timbers have an early season record of 1-0-1 at PGE Park this season.
Jordan created both scoring chances for the Timbers in the second half. Jordan thought he had netted his first regular-season goal, but his well placed shot was waived due to a handball call in the box. The Oregon State University product would eventually put the Timbers on the board in the 78th minute finishing a deflected ball in the box.
Late in the match, Jordan received the ball just inside the box and was taken down by Sounder defender Adam West setting up the penalty kick. Gregor, who missed two penalty kicks in the match against Puerto Rico on April 21, sent a low shot inside the right post past Sounders goalkeeper Chris Eylander.
Midfielder Sabastien Le Toux and forward Roger Levesque teamed up for both Seattle goals. In the 7th minute, Levesque set up Le Toux with a ball over the top. Le Toux chipped a shot over the head of Timbers' goalkeeper Josh Wicks for a 1-0 lead.
Levesque then doubled the Sounders lead in the 78th minute on a ball served by Le Toux.
Friday's match was the first of four matches for the Timbers in the 2007 Cascadia Cup. The 2-2 draw gave each team a point in the Cascadia Cup standings. The Cascadia Cup is a three-team derby between the Timbers, Sounders and Vancouver Whitecaps honoring the strong Northwest rivalries between each side.
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