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I'm trying to create a feedback loop between tumblr and imgur in the hopes of creating a black hole from the destruction of both.
Come on mad science gods, don't fail me now!
Some people might like to get a train to work, or drive in in a Beemer or a Merc.
Some guys like to take the bus to work, but greedy drivers are still real fucking jerks.
I could take my bike and try my luck, 'cause strikes have left the subway fucked.
The greedy bastards want extra pay, for sitting their arse all day.
Even though they earn 60k…
So I'm standing here in the pouring rain, where the fuck's the uptown train?
Fucking MTA (Fucking MTA)
They're all shiftless whiny union cunts.
Fucking MTA (Fucking MTA)
They're all greedy cunts,
I want to fire them all with no pension.
All they say is, "Please mind the doors", and they learn that on their two-day course.
This job could be done by a four-year-old, they just leave us freezing in the cold.
What you smell is what you get: rotten food and piss and sweat.
You roast to death in the boiling heat, panhandlers make restraint a feat, and bags of shit by every seat,
So don't tell me to mind the gap, I want my fucking money back!
Fucking MTA (Fucking MTA)
They're all shiftless whiny union cunts.
Fucking MTA (Fucking MTA)
They're all greedy cunts,
I want to fire them all with no pension.
La-l-la-la, la-l-la-la
The floors are sticky and the seats are damp, every platform's a busking camp.
But the drivers get the day off and then we're all late for work again!
Fucking MTA (Fucking MTA)
Fu-fu-fuckers, they're all fuckers!
Fucking MTA (Fucking MTA)
Take your MetroCard and shove it up your asshole!
Here are the drawings used in the Light your heart up mashup.
KEI'S VALENTINE'S DAY SOMETHINGORANOTHER!! (aka you get a free pic!)
1. This is random and you only get one shot. Be prepared to be matched with someone you probably don't knooooww.
2. Be prepared to be doing something random, too. >:3 This is all sexual and themes/kinks are randomized just as much as the pairings!
3. Again, you only get one shot. If you are chosen, you are free to refuse and will simply be taken out of rotation for another to be given the chance to be in the piece!
panictherat said: *sqk sqk sqks in the ask box instead~*
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Geomapping Fatality Risk for Seniors during Severe Events by Arcturus Kirwin-Muller, 2014
Population Density in People per Square Kilometer: P.
Statistically average percentage of people aged 65 or over: A.
Number of reported deaths in vulnerable age bracket from tracked event: D.
Geographical size of sample, eg urban area, in square kilometers: K.
Corresponding risk is calculated using R for Risk: R = D / (P * A * K)
For our NYC example, R is 0.00002305361
Then a weighted variable accounting for population density and showing the impact can be calculated thus:
Example: G = 0.03188775335
G is the mortality rate of the elderly group over the tracked event, in Fatality per Square Kilometer, weighted for population density. G or Gran is however a very large unit and 1 Gran would be equivalent to almost eight hundred deaths in a city such as NYC.
Instead, the simple thousandth unit, mG, or milliGran, will be more suitable.
Example: A winter storm which causes 25 elderly deaths in New York City, will have a mortality rate of 31.8877mG. This would represent a per-person risk of 0.0000230536 (or 0.00230536%) risk, or 0.21 days per person if each lost life is assumed to have been a loss of 25 years of life expectancy, when taken as a group.
You can work back to the initial figure, thus:
P * A * K gives the total elderly population of 1084428. That plus the days per person figure gives us the total days lost over the sample population, thusly: 227730 days, or roughly 624 years.
624 / 25 (the lost years per death) gives us approximately 25, the original number.
I have no idea why I made this. Probably because I'm in a snowstorm and it seemed a good use of my time?
Merry Lesbian Christmas! :D
I seem to be drawing more and more lesbeans lately. Staring Moxie and Elsie from my comic Aimless.
Japanese dining etiquette tips for Japan Lover Me's Tabemono Month last July! :3
Cute and helpful Japanese dining tips!
And this is exactly why I don't go to restaurants and other such places where people will give me shit for not following certain rules of etiquette.
I'll be polite, I'll be courteous, but I WILL NOT follow some ARBITRARY AND POINTLESS RULES that will just WORSEN MY DINING EXPERIENCE.


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12 Ways To Keep Both Of You Safe
Trimester 1
1. Enroll your dog in an obedience class so he'll be on his best behavior when the baby comes home.
2. Avoid major renovations if you're living in an older home with layers of paint or varnish that could release harmful lead dust. (This is true throughout your pregnancy.)
3. Nix hot tubs and saunas; high temperatures can affect your baby's development during the early months.
4. Get a dental checkup (gum disease is linked to premature delivery), but skip the X-rays.

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Looks very neat, but I'm having trouble getting it to work. All I want is a gnome dr00d and to two-box my dorf shaman!
So i get that you select the character you're going to log in to - druid - and hover/highlight the model you want - gnome. And then left click and press enter at almost the same time, but clicking just slightly before pressing
Question..when do you let go? Right away? When you zone in? I'm trying different combinations and haven't got it figured out just yet :/
Help me internets, you're my only hope!
Blazenwing said...
Yeah, I'm not having any luck getting it to work either. Am I doing it wrong, or did they already hotfix it? :P


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Hockey Urban Legends Revealed #8
This is the eighth in a series of examinations of legends related to Hockey and whether they are true or false. Today we look at the strange history of how a professional wrestling promoter saved the Montreal Canadiens, learn the bizarre story of how out of hand military hockey got during World War II and discover whether angry Edmonton fans really burned Chris Pronger's furniture.
Let's begin!
HOCKEY LEGEND: A professional wrestling promoter ended up securing the Montreal Canadiens' place in professional hockey history.
STATUS: True
Les Canadiens de Montréal (otherwise known as the Montreal Canadiens) are the most successful team in the history of professional hockey. They have won the Stanley Cup a record twenty-four times (twenty-two since the Cup has been awarded to just the winner of the playoffs of the National Hockey League, before that, multiple leagues would compete for the trophy). They are the only original member of the National Hockey League (NHL) that is still playing today and are also the only team that pre-dated the founding of the NHL.
And yet, if it were not for a professional wrestling promoter, they likely never would have lasted five seasons, and we might never have had an NHL!
Read on to discover the amazing role that former professional wrestler George Kennedy played in the existence of Les Canadiens de Montréal and the formation of the NHL!
The Montreal Canadiens (as I'll be referring to them from here out, just for simplicity's sake) were formed in 1909 as part of political in-fighting in the Eastern Canada Hockey Association (ECHA), a professional hockey league of the time. You see, P. J. Doran, owner of the Jubilee Rink in Montreal, had just purchased the Montreal Wanderers, one of the teams in the ECHA. Doran, naturally, purchased the Wanderers so that they would become the star attraction of his arena. The other ECHA teams hated this idea, since the Jubilee Rink was much smaller than the Wanderers' current home, the Montreal Arena and therefore their cut of the gate receipts would be considerably smaller.
So the other owners voted to dissolve the ECHA and form the Canadian Hockey Association (CHA) with three other Montreal teams (one, the Montreal Shamrocks, already existed, plus two new ones, All-Montreal, formed by Wanderers star Art Ross and Montreal Le National, an all-French speaking team) taking the place of the Wanderers (they actually gave the Wanderers a chance to join the new team, but only if they agreed to go back to the Montreal Arena. Doran, as you might imagine, did not agree to those terms).
Meanwhile, Ambrose O'Brien, a silver mining industrialist from Renfrow, Ontario, was in town to petition the ECHA to allow his hometown team, the Renfrew Creamery Kings, to join the ECHA. They turned him down. At that same meeting, though, O'Brien encountered Doran, and the two men agreed to form their own professional league, the National Hockey Association (NHA)! O'Brien owned two small pro teams in Ontario (in the mining towns of Cobalt and Haileybury, respectively) and with the Creamery Kings (it is unclear to me if O"Brien owned the Creamery Kings before 1909 or if he was just working on their behalf – whichever the case may be, by 1909 he was the owner of the team) and the Wanderers, they made up the new league. Doran, though, suggested that the CHA's idea of a French-speaking team was a good one, and that O'Brien ought to start one so that there could be a strong rivalry in Montreal between the English-speaking Wanderers and the new French-speaking team. O'Brien agreed, and he formed the Montreal Canadiens. Right from the start, O'Brien was not particularly interested in the Canadiens, as he had three other teams to worry about (and he only really cared about the Renfrow team), so after the inaugural NHA season, he wanted to find someone to take the Canadiens off of his hands. He got his wish, but it came under unusual circumstances from a man whose whole life was unusual – George Kennedy.
George Kennedy was born George Washington Kendall in 1881 to an Irish-Catholic mother and a Scottish-Quebec Baptist father. Raised Catholic, Kennedy was also (like many Montreal residents) bi-lingual, speaking English and French. Despite coming from a well to-do family (his father owned a successful manufacturing business), George decided that he was going to be a professional wrestler! Having some sense of how this would look for his family, George took the stage name of George Kennedy, which is the name he would use for the rest of his life.
By the early 20th Century, Kennedy was the top lightweight wrestler in all of Canada. In 1903, he was defeated by Eugène Tremblay. Upon his defeat, he decided to change careers and instead become a wrestling trainer and promoter. His first client? Why, Eugène Tremblay, of course! In 1905, Tremblay won the world lightweight championship over the American George Bothner (naturally, Kennedy made sure that the match was held in Montreal). Using the success he had with Tremblay as a springboard, later in 1905 Kennedy formed (with his good friend, Joseph-Pierre Gadbois, who had been Kennedy's> trainer) Le Club Athletique Canadien (CAC) where amateur wrestlers could train (soon they added amateur boxers, as well). The bi-lingual Kennedy was well acquainted with the fervor of patriotic French Canadian pride that existed in Montreal, and that is where he geared the CAC's efforts (when he incorporated the club, most of its shareholders were French-Canadians).
As Kennedy expanded the CAC, he continually looked for new sports to get involved in. By 1908, he was interested in purchasing a hockey team. He tried to buy the Wanderers, but was rebuffed. At the time, Kennedy spoke of having a team that he could gear toward French-Canadians, so you can just imagine his irritation when not only pro one hockey league in 1909 came up with the same idea, but both pro hockey leagues! So by the end of the 1909-10 season, he was bound and determined that one way or another, he was going to own the Montreal Canadiens.
Meanwhile, the CHA was not doing too well. They ended up having to fold before the 1909-10 season even finished. They unsuccessfully tried to get the NHA to merge with them (as you might imagine, trying to get fans to come to five different pro hockey teams in the same city in the same year was not easy to do). Instead, the NHA absorbed two teams from the CHA (Ottawa's team and the Montreal Shamrocks) into the NHA for the rest of the 1909-10 season, giving the NHA seven teams. O'Brien offered the Canadiens to the CHA's French-speaking team, Montreal Le National. but they refused to play in the Jubilee Rink, so that deal fell through.
During that same 1909-10 seaso, O'Brien was determined to see Renfrew win the Stanley Cup, and even sent the Canadiens' best player, Édouard "Newsy" Lalonde, to the Renfrew team (now referred to as the Renfrew Millionaires, due to the amount of money O'Brien was spending on players) to help them win. Instead, despite owning four of the seven teams in the NHA, none of O'Brien's teams won. Instead, the Montreal Wanderers were the champions of the first NHA season. The Canadiens, by the way, were the worst team in the league, going 2-10. After the 1909-10 season, the Cobalt and Haileybury teams were dropped (even in 1909, cities that small just could not support professional teams).
Here is where things get tricky, and records are disputed. It is agreed that Kennedy, determining that the best way to make sure O'Brien would sell him the Canadiens (with Kennedy not knowing that O'Brien was trying to get rid of the team), sued O'Brien for trademark infringement, claiming that Les Canadiens de Montréal (yes, I know I said I would just call them the Canadiens, but it makes more sense as a possible infringement if I used the official name) infringed on his trademarked Le Club Athletique Canadien.
It is also agreed that Kennedy then did take over as the owner of the Canadiens for the 1910-11 NHA season.
What is disputed is how it happened. History has generally told us that the suit was settled by Kennedy paying O'Brien $7,500 for the rights to the team (O'Brien himself told this version of the story). However, in their brilliant 2002 book, Deceptions and Doublecross: How the NHL Conquered Hockey, Morey Holtzman and Joseph Nieforth argue that O'Brien simply said, "Okay, take it, it is yours" when Kennedy sued him, since the Canadiens were losing money for O'Brien and he never wanted the team in the first place. Their position is that the $7,500 figure came not from Kennedy buying the rights to the team, but from buying the rights to Newsy Lalonde, who was now on the Renfrew team (and O'Brien was not going to give him up so easy). From the circumstances of the times, I tend to believe Holtzman and Nieforth.
In any event, Kennedy was now the owner of the Canadiens (who he re-named Club Athletique Canadien, although everyone kept calling them their old name) and the team began to perform better. O'Brien, meanwhile, could no longer afford to stick around in the pro leagues, and he (and Renfrew) exited the NHA after the next season.
Kennedy continued to vary his sporting enterprises, and had a particularly notable 1915-16 season. In 1915, he purchased the rights to distribute the film of the 1915 World Heavyweight Boxing Championship (where Jack Johnson was dethroned). Kennedy had been trying to get boxing legalized in Montreal for years, and in early 1916, after a complaint from Canadian Vigilance Association led to Kennedy having to appear in municipal court, he finally succeeded in officially legalizing the sport in Montreal. He capped it all of by seeing his Montreal Canadiens win their first Stanley Cup in 1916.
However, his expansions also began to stretch his finances (including a professional baseball team), especially when he tried to start a professional lacrosse league, the Dominion Lacrosse Union, including his Montreal Canadiens lacrosse team. Plus, in 1916 the CAC's home gym burned down. Kennedy regrouped and formed a new streamlined organization, the Canadian Hockey Club Incorporated, which obviously was spotlighting the hockey team, although he continued to promote wrestling and hockey, as well (not so much his other sports – heck, Kennedy once tried to bring bullfighting to Montreal!).
Around this same time, history repeated itself when a bunch of NHA owners had a number of disagreements with the owner of one of the franchises they had added as the league had expanded (in part to replace O'Brien's departure), Eddie Livingstone's Toronto franchise. In 1917, led by Kennedy and the owners of the Ottawa and Quebec franchises, the NHA voted to disband and re-form (without Livingstone) as the National Hockey League. They did not intend for it to be a full-time thing (figuring that they would force Livingstone to sell and then the NHA would reform), but that's exactly what it ended up being, as the NHL is still standing today.
In the second year of the new league, Kennedy's Canadiens won the NHL championship and were in the middle of the Stanley Cup finals (then played between the winner of the NHL championship and the winner of the Pacific Coast Hockey Association (PCHA) championship) against the PCHA champs, the Seattle Metropolitans. The series was headed into its deciding game when the influenza epidemic of 1918-1920 led to the entire Canadiens team coming down with the flu. Health officials canceled the rest of the series. Four days later, Canadiens defenseman Joe Hall died of the disease. Kennedy never fulled recovered from the flu and died in 1921. His widow sold the team to Montreal businessmen Joseph Cattarinich, Leo Dandurand and Louis A. Letourneau. The Canadiens won their first NHL Stanley Cup in 1924.
And then, you know, about a gazillion more Stanley Cups.
And it can all be tracked back to a professional wrestler from Montreal!
BASEBALL LEGEND: A hockey player was arrested by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police for trying to switch to another military hockey team during World War II.
STATUS: I'm Going With True
On October 13, 1943, 29-year-old Walter "Turk" Broda was on board a train headed from Ontario to Quebec, specifically to Montreal. During his career in the National Hockey League (NHL), goaltender Broda only played for one team, the Toronto Maple Leafs. It was for the Maple Leafs that Broda had just recently won the Vezina Tropy (which is given to the goaltender who has been "adjudged to be the best at this position") in 1941 and was a major part of the Maple Leafs' 1942 Stanley Cup championship (Broda would go on to win five Stanley Cups with the Maple Leafs, with a career playoff won-loss record of 60-39 and a stellar average of 1.98 goals allowed per game). He was one of the best players in the NHL (and still holds pretty much all the notable goaltender records for the Maple Leafs).
Traveling with Broda was a Sergeant Major from Montreal. Before the train reached Montreal, it was halted by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP). The RCMP claimed that Broda was trying to breach his draft notice.
The truth behind the matter, however, ultimately led to great public outcry and a dramatic change in how military hockey teams would be treated in Canada during World War II.
On September 1, 1939, German forces invaded Poland, thus effectively starting World War II. Britain and France both declared war on Germany two days later. Now in the past, Canada was beholden to whatever England decided (so they declared war during World War I when England did), as they were a quasi-independent part of the British Empire. By 1939, however, Canada had reached full Sovereign status in the British Commonwealth, so they had control over whether to go to war. They took an extra week, but on September 10, 1939, Canada, too, declared war on Germany (and Italy). At the time of World War II's outbreak, Canada did not really have much of a military. The Permanent Active Militia, Canada's full time army, had a mere 4,261 officers and men. Meanwhile, the the Non-Permanent Active Militia (Canada's reserve force) had 51,000 soldiers (who had received very little training and even less equipment).
In the early days of World War II, Canada did not expand their military in any sizable fashion. They committed just two divisions to the war effort – one for Europe and one for their own defense back home. However, a major event would take place in 1940 that would change things dramatically. You see, before the Canadian division could even reach France to help support the British/French defense of France, the Germans won the Battle of France, successfully invading France. The shocking victory of Germany sent British and French troops scrambling to get out of France so that they could re-group for later battles (this was the famous Operation Dynamo troop evacuation from the shores of Dunkirk, France). This distressing news from May 1940 hit Canada like a ton of bricks. No longer could they run a "Phony War" – they would have to step things up. Canada quickly passed the National Resources Mobilization Act (NRMA), which provided for the registration of all Canadian citizens and conscription, but only for duty in Canada. People could enlist to go overseas, if they so chose, and a great many Canadians did just that – volunteering for overseas service. But the government still remembered the difficulty that they had drafting Canadians for overseas service in 1917 (French-Canadians rioted over the idea of being drafted to fight in a war to support a monarchy that they could care less about), so the Canadian government decided not to make overseas service a requirement. Initially, training as part of the NRMA would just last a month and then citizens could go back to their everyday lives. Most NHL players got their training done right before the 1940-41 season.
Right before the 1941-42 season began, though, a new wrinkle was thrown into the mix. Government boards started to refuse to allow Canadian hockey players to travel to the United States to play for U.S. hockey teams, under the theory that these were able-bodied men and they should not be playing hockey when they could be serving in the military. As you might imagine, this went over very well from a public relations standpoint, with only a few detractors asking, "Why single out hockey players? Why not ask that question to any Canadian citizen that has not enlisted in the army?" A general low turnout of enlistment in late 1941/early 1942 (particularly after the United States entered the War in December 1941 – Canada joined the U.S. in declaring war on Japan) coupled with the reality that they might have to contribute to a two-front war led to the Canadian government drastically changing their standards regarding conscription. They formed the National Selective Service (NSS) which would be in charge of all enlistment issues. They extended the NRMA and began to make various restrictions on the able-bodied men of Canada (making any single men between the ages of 20-29 eligible for call-up and not allowing men aged 17-45 to perform "non-essential" jobs). In addition, Prime Minister Mackensie King received permission from all Canadian provinces besides Quebec to go back on his promise of "no overseas conscription" if need be, stating famously "not necessarily conscription, but conscription if necessary." Overseas enlistment increased dramatically.
Naturally enough, hockey players wished to enlist. However, the owners of the NHL did not wish to see their star players go overseas to actually fight in battles, and indeed, of the many, many NHL stars who enlisted in the military, I do not believe that a single NHL star was killed during military service (heck, I don't believe any NHL regular player period was killed during military service – only young prospects). Instead, they were often given physical instructor jobs at military training camps, or other non-combat jobs like supply truck drivers. As more and more NHL players enlisted, they also began to play hockey for the military teams. It was here that things began to get a bit out of hand. You see, the idea of having teams for military service is to boost morale among the troops. Here, though, the roster of the squads were beginning to fill up almost entirely with professional hockey players. In addition, these teams were then beginning to compete in amateur competitions against each other. The Royal Canadian Air Force Flyers, for instance, had the complete famed "Kraut Line" from the Boston Bruins – Woody Dumart, Bobby Bauer and Milt Schmidt!! Naturally enough, in 1942 the Flyers won the Allan Cup, the award given to the nation's best senior amateur team (it replaced the Stanley Cup when the Stanley Cup began to be awarded to professional teams). The coach of the New York Rangers, Frank Concher, formed the Ottawa Commandoes, a similar all-star hockey team that won the 1943 Allan Cup.
This was becoming a big business – in fact, Conn Smythe's Maple Leaf Gardens was the exclusive home to all senior hockey games played in Toronto, most notably being the Toronto Army Daggers, and the profits were not being donated to the war effort (do note, though, that Smythe himself enlisted very early, even though he was in his mid-40s and he actually served overseas in World War II). These amateur games were being taken so seriously that they even had trades between teams! Trades! You see, the rules of amateur hockey have always allowed for military teams to transfer players between teams because, well, obviously military personnel gets transferred sometimes. So this rule was used to enable trades between squads.
This competitiveness came to a head in October, 1943, with the aforementioned Turk Broda. Broda, you see, had enlisted and was assigned to the Royal Canadian Artillery in Toronto. However, he was given an offer to join a Montreal unit and play for the Montreal Army senior team. In return, Broda would be paid $2,400 on top of his military pay. Broda took them up on the offer and was on his way to Montreal when the Mounties took him into custody. Publicly, the Mounties put it out there that Broda was trying to breach his draft notice. This was untrue, as Broda was not eligible for the draft (he was married with three kids). However, he was technically AWOL (absent without leave). The Montreal newspapers wrote that they felt Broda was being brought back to Toronto so that he could play for the Toronto Army Daggers. It is unclear whether that was the actual reason why the Mounties wanted to bring Broda back to Toronto, but it is clear that that was why he was headed to Montreal (even given a Sergeant Major escort!). As you might imagine, this led to great public outcry over the notion of the military teams being used as sort of a "shadow NHL." The Toronto Army Daggers were ordered to cease competing in amateur competitions, and many other units did the same (and all of them pulled out of the Allan Cup competition – the Allan Cup was actually halted in 1945 period). However, many military units did continue to field hockey teams with professional players, and in 1944 they made the news once again when it was reported that essentially professional hockey players would stay in camp to play on the teams while newly enlisted men would be sent off to fight in Europe.
This was part of the drive to install overseas conscription in Canada that ultimately came to fruition late in 1944 when Prime Minister King sent a one-time levy of 17,000 troops overseas.
Broda, interestingly enough, ended up going overseas himself (although he did not go into combat – he did pretty much the same thing in Europe as he did in Canada, serve as an athletic ringer, playing football and hockey in Canadian military units in Europe) for two years before returning to complete his impressive NHL career (including a second Vezina trophy in 1948).
Thanks to J. Everett Ross' feature "Arenas of Debate: The Continuance of Professional Hockey in the Second World War" within John Chi-Kit Wong's Coast to coast: hockey in Canada to the Second World War for most of the information required for this piece!
HOCKEY LEGEND: Angry Edmonton fans burned Chris Pronger's furniture after he moved away from Edmonton upon being traded.
STATUS: I'm Going with False
Chris Pronger is in his eighteenth season in the National Hockey League, and he is still a very productive player. The six-time All-Star defenseman is such a great player that he actually won the league's Most Valuable Player award (called the Hart Trophy) in 2000, the first defenseman to win it since 1972!!
"Yeah, there's obviously a few things that didn't set well with me, for instance, taking the furniture that I had in my house and burning it, and having a 'Burn Chris Pronger's Furniture Day,' that really did sit well with me very much," Pronger said. "They burned my kid's crib and things like that. When you hear stories like that it doesn't sit well."
A star player for the Hartford Whalers and the St. Louis Blues, Pronger spent the majority of his career as a star in St. Louis. That was where he won his Hart Trophy. However, following the NHL labor dispute in 2005, a new salary cap system was put into place and the Blues could no longer afford Pronger. So they dealt him to the Edmonton Oilers. After signing a five-year contract with the Oilers, Pronger helped lead the Oilers to the Stanley Cup Finals in his first season with the team, where they lost the series in the seventh game.
Pronger caused some controversy, however, when he asked to be traded after the season ended.
As you might imagine, fans in Edmonton were quite stunned. They get this big star, he signs a long-term deal, he helps them get to the seventh game of the finals and then he demands to be traded?
Edmonton agreed to his trade request, and dealt him to the Anaheim Ducks (where he eventually led the Ducks to a Stanley Cup championship in his first season there, further turning the screws in Oiler fans' hearts).
Pronger spoke about the reaction of Oiler fans on Jim Rome's syndicated radio show.
"Yeah, there's obviously a few things that didn't set well with me, for instance, taking the furniture that I had in my house and burning it, and having a 'Burn Chris Pronger's Furniture Day,' that really did sit well with me very much. They burned my kid's crib and things like that. When you hear stories like that it doesn't sit well."
While obviously Oiler fans were quite outraged, it does not appear as though they ever actually did what Pronger suggested they did.
According to the furniture rental company that rented Pronger his furniture while in Edmonton, "It never happened. We got it back in immaculate condition."
There were no reports in Edmonton of any such occurrence. It seems more likely that some local radio host must have made a joke about how they SHOULD do something like that and it made its way back to Pronger as they DID do that.
It does not appear as though it happened, though. It seems clear enough that I'm willing to go with a false here.
Thanks to David Staples of the Edmonton Journal for the information for this piece.
Okay, that's it for this week!
Feel free (heck, I implore you!) to write in with your suggestions for future installments! My e-mail address is email@example.com


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Categories > Games > Tekken
Bryan's Excellent Adventure0 Reviews
Bryan has been sent by Dr. Abel to locate Yoshimitsu, so he sets out on an adventure, encountering various Tekken characters. Read & Review. Or at least just review. I don't care if you read it.
I don't own Namco or Tekken. Just Atari. Worst investment of five dollars ever.
After Kazuya won the last King of Iron Fist Tournament and once again became head of the Mishima Zaibatsu, he fired Abel, who returned to his lab with Bryan and his other creations. Bryan was content, since he never had to win the tournament in order to get Abel back, and under the doctor's care, he was able to maintain a stable condition. Abel, however, still wanted to capture Dr. Boskonovitch, so he ordered Bryan to seek out Yoshimitsu, who had close ties to the doctor. Bryan really didn't care, since he had nothing else to do, being an undead ex-cop with a suspected past in drug deals, and so he set out on his adventure.
"Hey, maybe if I just walk down this street, I'll eventually come upon Yoshimitsu, as well as several other characters who I'll interact with on the way, resulting in a variety of zany and comical situations," Bryan said to himself, noting that he was in a poorly written fanfic.
And so he began, going down the street merrily, or at least as merrily as an undead ex-cop with a suspected past in drug deals could be, until he came to a gas station, where a biker with an unusual hairstyle was sniffing the fumes from one of the gas tanks.
"Man, I love the smell of gasoline!" said Paul, speaking to no one in particular, until he saw Bryan, who simply ignored him and continued on his way.
"Hey, you got a problem with me or something?" said Paul angrily.
"You think you're too good to come up to me and ask me why I'm sniffing gasoline?"
"I don't care," replied Bryan in an annoyed tone.
"Well I like the smell of this stuff!" shouted Paul, "I don't know why, but I do! You got a problem with that?"
"Leave me alone," said Bryan, as he walked past Paul.
"You wanna fight or something?" said Paul angrily.
"...oh. Okay. So where are you going?"
"I'm going to find Yoshimitsu," replied Bryan.
"Well...can I come?" Paul asked, having nothing better to do.
"Whatever. Just stay away from me."
And so Bryan, now accompanied by Paul, proceeded with his search, until he met Lee Chaolan, who appeared to be waiting for someone.
"Hey guys, where are you going?" asked Lee.
"Why the hell do we have to explain ourselves, are you looking for a fight or something?" Paul said threateningly.
"We're looking for Yoshimitsu," Bryan said.
"I'm waiting for Nina right now." Lee explained.
"Aren't you going out with Anna?" Bryan asked.
"Yeah, I've got a date with her tomorrow night," replied Lee, adjusting his suit.
"Don't you think they're going to find out that you're going out with both of them eventually?"
"Oh, they know. In fact, this weekend the three of us are getting together..." Lee trailed off, deciding to end the subject.
"Well, I can't stand around here forever, plus I hate you, as well as everyone else I know, so I'd better be on my way." Bryan said as he bid farewell to Lee.
"Hah, I could take that guy!" Paul bragged as he followed Bryan.
And so they went on, but within a few minutes, they were interrupted once more, this time by Bryan's rival and hated enemy Lei Wulong.
"Hold it right there!" shouted Lei, aiming his gun at Bryan.
"That's not going to work on me, you tried that before, remember?" said Bryan.
"....oh yeah."
Lei began to walk away, before turning around to face Bryan once more.
"But I'll be back! And with something worse! Just you wait!" Lei said menacingly.
Bryan ignored this comment, and began his adventure once again.
"He just ran away because he saw I was here!" Paul pointed out.
Soon, Bryan and Paul came across a Jack-2, which was standing alone in the street for no apparant reason.
"Hey, there's something I've always been wanting to know," said Bryan to the Jack-2. "If you're Jack-2, then who's Jack-1?"
Realizing that there was another Jack model before it, family which it would never know, the Jack-2 was overcome with emotion, something that it was never programmed for, and it blew up.
"...I didn't really care anyway." Bryan said, and he proceeded along the street.
Paul, standing alone next to the remains of the Jack model, looked around to see if anyone was watching, then kicked the robot.
"Yeah, how do you like that, you wimp?"
Soon, Bryan and Paul reached Baek's dojo.
"Hey guys." Baek said to the two.
"What's that supposed to mean, 'hey guys'? If you've got something to say, say it to my face!" said Paul.
"Doesn't look like you have a lot of students," Bryan said, noting the vacant dojo.
"Well, Hwoarang left now that he joined the Korean military." Baek replied in a depressed tone.
"...isn't that because you're supposed to be dead?" asked Bryan.
"Screw plot continuity," Baek said, "when a story sucks, it should be contradicted."
"Well, at least you still have that guy around," Bryan noted, pointing to the lone man who was sweeping Baek's dojo.
"Honestly, I have no idea who that guy is, I don't even pay him," Baek said. "He's been doing that for years now, since the time we held that tag tournament, always sweeping. I've never even seen him eat or sleep."
"But do you know what really pisses me off?" Baek said as Bryan and Paul were about to leave. "It's that everyone uses my dojo for those stupid little embu scenes"
"You mean the ones they have in Tekken 3 and Tag when you don't press anything at the title screen, the scenes where they show various characters training and sparring?" asked Bryan.
"Exactly." Baek replied. "Why did they use my dojo to film those? Why not Law's dojo? I swear to god, if I ever see them filming one of those things here again, I'm going to..."
Baek stopped talking when he noticed Jin and a film crew that was recording him training (probably for Tekken 5).
"That son of a..."
Baek came running over to the film crew, holding a shotgun.
"All of you, get the hell off of my property!" Baek shouted.
"Screw this! That guy's crazy!" said Jin, who ran off as fast he could, followed closely by Baek.
Paul, meanwhile, was in the process of beating up a camera man who was 'looking at him funny'.
Wishing not to waste any more time with stupid little encounters like this, Bryan proceeded on his way, followed closely by Phoenix.
As they walked onward, Bryan and Paul were suddenly interrupted by Lei once more.
"Take this, you undead son of a bitch!" Lei shouted, throwing a grenade right at Fury.
Still, like the gun, the grenade proved ineffective.
"Damn it, Wulong, I got hit by a tank once, do you think a grenade will stop me?" Bryan said.
Lei stood there for a moment, before walking off angrily.
Before long, Bryan and Paul saw Unknown alone on the side of the street, and were surprised to see her without a giant wolf hovering over her back.
"I'm free!" Unknown shouted with excitement. "Finally, I've rid myself of this spirit, and I can now reveal my true identity to the world!"
All 2 Tekken fans that are bothering to read this story are in shock, and listen intently to what Unknown is about to say
"The truth is," Unknown stated, "I am the last person anyone would have expected. I'm really-
"Don't care," said Bryan, who was growing sick of his constant interruptions.
And so they searched further for Yoshimitsu, but instead of the leader of the Manji Clan, they found Heihachi Mishima, owner of the Mishima Corporation.
"Wait a second," said Bryan, "I thought Kazuya was the head of the Zaibatsu now."
"He was," Heihachi explained, "but then I defeated him and threw him off a building. But then Kazuya came back and defeated me, then threw me into the Atlantic Ocean. But I came back and defeated him, then threw him off the roof of my house. But Kazuya came back, and he defeated me, then threw me out of a tree. But, I was able to return and I defeated Kazuya, throwing him out of a window located on the second floor of my office. So now I'm looking for him, since he has somehow managed to return, and I intend to destroy him with my Tekken Force soldiers"
"I'm usually the type of guy who prefers settling things with violence," Bryan said, but this little fight you two are having is even starting to annoy me. Why are you so intent on killing him anyway?"
"Because..." Heihachi began, "when he was young, I tried to raise my son to be a strong boy. You know, the usual stuff most fathers would do with their kids. Leaving them out in the woods for a week to hunt for themselves, making them sleep outside, and throwing them off the occasional cliff. But one day, I threw him off a cliff which had nuclear waste that had been dumped at the bottom. It changed Kazuya, giving him incredible power and the ability to change into an unstoppable beast. Since that day, I have dedicated my life to stopping him and ridding the world of this dangerous threat!"
"If I had known that would be such a long story, I would've left by now, Bryan said, and continued down the street."
"Hi," Anna said, noticing Heihachi's pimp coat, " I didn't know you were in that business too."
"What business?" Heihachi asked.
Soon, Bryan and Paul met Tiger, who was performing an exhibition in front of a crowd...well, not really a crowd, just Eddy, who felt obligated to watch due to their similar style. And after being seen with him in his Tekken Tag Tournament ending.
"Yo, mo'fo, wazzup?" Tiger said.
"How you hangin', dog?"
Bryan stared at Tiger for a moment.
"What the hell are you on, you pothead?"
"You want me to kick his ass?" Paul asked.
"Listen my fly bro," Tiger said, "I been needin' a posse on account dat these foo's jus' won' hang wit it, ya dig?"
At this point, Bryan turned around and kept walking, ignoring the disco reject who was now stalking him.
Bryan, however, failed to notice the approaching car from behind, and finally became aware of it's presance after being run down by it.
"Hah! Take that!" Lei shouted in triumph.
Bryan, after regaining his composure, got up and began dusting off his pants.
"Damn it!" Lei shouted in anger, and drove off.
"That guy is really getting on my nerves," Bryan said to himself.
It wasn't long before they found Kazuya, lurking in the darkness.
"Are you hiding from Heihachi?" Bryan asked.
"No, from Jun, she wants me to pay child support for some kid I had with her."
"You don' need ta be fillin' me in on this crazy gig, man, my own ho been majorly dissin' me with talk 'bout bein' a father, I mean, man, I been wit lots a ladies, you think I gonna raise every foo' dat pops out o' them?" said Tiger, who was completely ignored (which was probably for the best).
"I found you, Kazuya!"
In a few seconds, what had once been an empty street was soon surrounded by an army of Tekken Force soldiers.
"Ha ha ha!" Heihachi laughed, "this time, I'm gonna throw you off a big cliff, a cliff with a cliff in it! Yeah, one with a volcano at the bottom too!"
Heihachi continued to laugh at Kazuya in his doomed situation, seeing no way that he could get out.
"Don't make me angry," Kazuya said, his eye beginning to turn red, "you wouldn't like me angry!"
To everyone's surprise (even Heihachi, who knew he could transform, but had a bad memory) Kazuya changed into the Incredible Devil.
"DEVIL SMASH!" said Devil, who proceeded to smash things.
Bryan knew that he had nothing to do with this, so he continued on his way. Paul, however, began to chase after Devil Kazuya, who had flown off after demolishing the Tekken Force.
"You still owe me a fight, Kazuya, you damn wuss!"
Having lost sight of him, Paul mournfully gave up and ran to catch up with Bryan and Tiger.
The trio then saw Craig and King, who had apparantly forgiven the Vale Tudo fighter and started a friendship with him. The two were in a phone booth, making anonymous calls to other Tekken fighters.
"Hi, is your water running?" King asked.
"Actually," Wang replied, "I've been having some problems lately and I was about to call a plu-
"Then you'd better catch it!" King said before hanging up.
After laughing for a few minutes, Craig took the phone.
"Hello?" answered Julia on the other line.
"....uhhh...take your shirt off!" Craig said, then hung up.
"Heh, that kicked ass!" King said.
Bryan, not being a fan of practical jokes, decided to avoid the two and kept walking down the street.
"Man, dis is gettin' to be one funky story!" Tiger exclaimed.
"Did someone say it's time to turn up the funk?" said Doctor Boskonovitch, who appeared out of nowhere and began to dance the monkey to disco music that seemed to be coming from nowhere.
Bryan and Paul left Tiger, who had joined the doctor in his super funky Tekken dance beat.
Bryan and Paul walked on further, but unknown to them, a nuclear bomb was falling from above.
After the nuclear explosion that generally followed, Bryan continued down the street (or at least the remains of it), curious of what just happened, but not really caring enough to stand around and wonder about it. Paul, however, had managed to survive as well due to the wonders of his invincible hair (the bomb landed on his head).
"Damn you, Fury! I'll get you yet!" shouted Lei.
"Thank goodness the three of us survived," said a man who had apparantly been able to live through the explosion.
"What the hell is that supposed to mean?" Paul asked. "You looking for a fight?"
After beating the man to death ("he asked for it with that smart-ass remark," Paul said) he followed Bryan down the street.
"It's amazing that there are still people who think they can take me after I won the third King of Iron Fist Tournament," Paul said.
"I won the third King of Iron Fist Tournament," Jin said, appearing out of nowhere.
"The hell you did!" yelled Paul, "I beat Ogre!"
"I beat his real form!" Jin replied.
"True Ogre was a wimp, everyone knows that Ogre kicked ass in that game!"
"The hell he did!"
"Yeah, well I got proof right here," Paul said, pulling out a Tekken 3 strategy guide he had. "See, right here it has a graph of all the Tekken characters, and it says that Ogre is a top tier character! But look at True Ogre! He's at the bottom with Gun-Jack and Kuma!"
"I don't care what a crappy strategy guide says, he could breathe fire!" Jin argued.
"Fire, my ass! I'm not afraid of some stupid fire!"
Bryan, however, had left a while ago, leaving the two to their dispute.
"I wonder how long I've been walking," Bryan said, looking down at his watch. "11:30? This has been the craziest hour of my life!"
As he walked along, he passed Yoshimitsu, who was calmly meditating on the ground.
Looking back, Bryan saw he had found what he was looking for.
"Hey, you're Yoshimitsu, right?"
Yoshimitsu, too lost in deep thought, failed to reply.
"Answer me, damn it!" Bryan shouted.
Yoshimitsu continued his silence.
Growing impatient, Bryan grabbed Yoshimitsu, who was still in mediation, and began carrying him back to Abel's lab.
Back at the laboratory, Bryan Fury presented the doctor with Yoshimitsu, who was still meditating.
"Good work," congratulated Abel, who returned to his research.
"That's it?" said Bryan, growing irritated. "All that for a 'good work'? What the hell do you need this guy for anyway?"
"I don't," Abel replied, "I was just using this as an excuse in order to provide you with an opportunity to go on a wacky adventure with hilarious results."
"I maintain your body regularly, and what the hell do you do around here anyway?"
"I threaten to kill you if you don't maintain my body regularly." Bryan reminded him.
"Exactly, so I just thought you could be useful for a change and provide me with something entertaining."
"How could that entertain you when you weren't even there?"
"Actually, I like to read fanfics in my free time."
"Damn. That's sad."
"I know," said Dr. Abel, hanging his head low, "I'm so ashamed."
"Well," said Bryan, "I guess I'll go out and watch Lei Wulong try to kill me for a laugh."
"Hey," said Yoshimitsu, regaining consciousness, "where the hell am I?"
Well, that's it. I might consider writing another story if I get some feedback here, I'd hate to to think that I'd be writing stuff no one would ever read. And yeah, like it says in Paul's bio, he likes the smell of gasoline. I don't get it either. And does anyone know what the hell the word 'embu' means? I'm serious. I'd appreciate it if someone told me.


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Dune Church
Blackest Rainbow
A new duo featuring Steve Gunn, a new record to pluck and strum and gnaw away at your nervous system. This man plays it like a mantra, his fingers constantly asking why, refuting each response with yet another. Why? His cohort in Central Living, one Manuel Padding, is just as relentless with his electronic accompaniment. The two side-long offerings these two have sculpted won't wash over, they will burrow into you. Let the Dune Church in. - Mike Shiflet


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Soaking up the sun on this late January morning. We were being a little too quiet so my mom came looking for us and found us in this sunny spot.
We might need more dog beds around here. This time, I hopped in bed with Joey and we napped together for about 30 minutes. I mean, who wouldn't want to snuggle with a warm puppy?
Well friends, it is official. I am a brother! My parents and I adopted Joey and he's a part of our family now. I have a furever furbrother and I like it. Being in a multi-dog household is loads of fun and it's definitely keeping my parents on their toes. But sometimes being a sibling is hard because you have to steal share bones with one another and since I was an "only dog" for so long, sharing my mom and dad is brand new to me too. I am doing my best.
Even though we're not biological brothers, Joey and I have a few things in common. For example:
We also have a few things that are different too:
Last night Joey and me were taking our parents for our evening walk and as we were crossing the street somebody yelled out their car window, "Cute dogs!". And as if this new adoption wasn't enough excitement for everybody, my mom and dad are getting married! Big things are happening around here.
I spent yesterday relaxing and rooting for the Redskins. What did you do?
An open letter to Louis Vuitton:
Next time you wanna use a black and white dog who looks a little like me in your ad, I'm available! And I'm actually way cuter than those guys. You can pay me in luxury LV goods for my mom (she made me write that).
Well it's been quite the eventful day around here. My mom scheduled me a vet appointment this morning — without my knowledge, I might add — and schlepped me all the way over to the Mission where my vet's office is. I thought we were just going to the park or something then when we got in front of that terribly familiar place, I let out a BIG squeal and tried to get away. It was a noise I didn't even know I knew how to make. You don't even wanna know what they did to me the last time I was at that place!
Anyway, I was supposed to have a test to see if the medicine I've been taking the last few months is working. But the appointment lady forgot to remind my mom to fast me before the test and my mom gave me a couple small treats to calm my nerves on the BART ride over. Imagine my mom's surprise when the check-in lady asked when was the last time I ate. There was a lot of chit chat about whether the treats would throw off my test results and one doc said it was okay so they brought me to the back room and told me my mom to pick me up in two hours. And then she just left me there!
But thankfully a second doc decided not to do the test after all and called my mom to come pick me up so I got outta there before they could so any testing whatsoever. My test has been rescheduled for two weeks from today but now I know about the appointment and you better believe I'm putting my paws down and staying home that day. Thank goodness for those itty bitty treats I ate this morning because it looks like I got out of this one free and clear.
Now, if you'll excuse me, I'll be snuggling up with my stuffed animals for the rest of the day attempting to get over the trauma of being left at the vet's office BY MYSELF for about 10 minutes.
Reunited and it feels sooo good! Finally, finally, finally my mom is back home with me where she belongs. I picked her up from the airport and my dad helped a little. He drove so I could focus on jumping all over her for just about the whole car ride home. While she was waiting for us to scoop her up, she spotted three other excited canines picking up their humans at the airport. We're not the only folks who do this, apparently.
It was a long two weeks without my mom and I experienced a lot more alone time than I'm used to. I think I even lost a little bit of weight; my harness is fitting a little more loosely. My dad took good care of me though and I must admit, we enjoyed our "bachelorhood" while it lasted. One of the first things my mom did when she got back was brush my hair real good and give me a bath. My dad didn't worry so much about that stuff…which I liked! Now I gotta be all clean and well groomed again. Women.
There is a crazy preconceived notion out there that every dog gets excited when he or she sees their leash. I'm here to tell you, this just isn't the case for all dogs. Shocking, I know! I am a part of the small (at least I think it's small) group of canines who do not get overly enthused at walk time. In fact, sometimes I roll over and show my belly at the mere mention of a walk. Most mornings, I need to be carried out of bed to the door for my a.m. walk but that's also in part because I'm a total sleepy head.
My new "try to get outta the walk" routine involves hiding behind my mom's bike. There's just enough space between the bike and wall for me to fit. The photos above are a timeline of my discovery of this hiding spot. First, I stood behind the wheel. Then, I got a little tired and laid down. Finally, I gave up and came out. I do actually like being outside and romping around. It's mostly the collar/leash thing I'm not so crazy about.
Now maybe if the bike hooks had been installed as planned 8 months ago, I wouldn't be able to hide in this manner. Hmmm….glad they're procrastinators around here.


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There is a difference between Grom and Doomhammer. Grom was an unabashed, ambitous, blood-thirsty murdering monster. He killed because he liked it. He killed to test himself and prove that was worthy of accolades. He drank the demon's blood to increase his own power making him an even more unstoppable force. So on top of his already hostile nature, now he has the influence of demon blood in his system. But then one day he looks around himself and realizes that there is more going on than just him being a great warrior that leaves the bodies of hundreds in his wake. He sees what the burning legion has not only done to himself but his people as well. He sees how his people have been reduced to nothing but shells of what used to be an independent and vibrant race. Then a light clicks on in his head and he realizes that he has helped lead everyone down this path of destruction for his own selfish desires. He sees this and takes steps to not only redeem himself from the curse of the demon blood, but his people.
This guys isn't as easy an egg to crack open. He's not as simple minded as Grom is. He can see the man behind the curtain pulling the strings. He too has a need and desire to prove himself. He's the heir to a clan that has a strong history. Whereas Grom was more upfront and honest about wanting to kill anything and taking advantage of Ner'zhul's warnings about the draenai to go to war against them and slay as many as he could, Orgrim told himself that "it was for his people", when it was actually serving his interests as well. He had met with Velen and knew that they posed no threat to the orcs. When Helllscream was the first to take the demon blood from the chalice, Orgrim knew better. He knew that the blood would erode any rational thought that he was capable of making and enslave him to the burning legion. Here is the difference between the two leaders. Orgrim was just as responsible for leading his people and his world to the chaos that followed due to the fact that not only did he suspect vicous intent behind what his people were being ordered to do, but he didn't partake of the same maddening demon blood that would control the minds of the orcs from that day forward. Where the orcs became enslaved to the legion through the blood of Manneroth, everything Orgrim did was of his own free will. But even though he retained his free will, unlike Durotar, he went with the flow of things. He was a coward hiding behind the pretense of "for my people", when he like Durotar realized what was going on but unlike Durotar, didn't take the stand that was needed. Durotar was banished for his trouble.
Grom became known as the redeemer because he overcame the murderous rage pulsating in his blood and his own selfish desires to do what was best for his people. Yes he did backslide at times, but when he came to himself he was even more ashamed of himself and motivated to free his people from the curse he helped bring on them. He is the sinner who found salvation. Orgrim is the guy that was gifted with perception but was unable to take any action when it counted that could've altered the flow of events that transpired. You say they had no choice but to kill the humans when they came to Azeroth? No, he was following orders. They didn't come there to find another home. They were sent there, ordered there, to take over and make it easier for the burning legion to come take Azeroth. The others were subjucated through the demon blood, Orgrim did it out of his own free will.


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ARLINGTON (AP) – The Texas Rangers have released left-hander Brad Mills from his minor league contract so that he could sign to play in Japan.
Texas claimed Mills on waivers from the Los Angeles Angels during spring training and assigned him outright to Triple-A Round Rock.
Mills was 7-5 with a 3.87 ERA in 18 games (17 starts) for Round Rock. He was scheduled to participate in the Triple-A All-Star game Wednesday, but withdrew from that after reaching an agreement with the Orix Buffaloes of Nippon Professional Baseball's Pacific League.
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I was not looking for artsy fartsy love
I wanted someone to love completely
Someone more than weekly
You really have got a lid on it, haven't you? What's your secret? Mellow jazz? Bongo drums? Huge bag of weed?Tony Stark
There was a time when men were kind
When their voices were soft
And their words inviting
There was a time when love was blind
And the world was a song
And the song was exciting
There was a time
Then it all went wrong – Preview it on Path.
Of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these, 'It might have been.John Greenleaf Whittier, Maud Muller - Pamphlet (via cavum)
Sometimes you fall for someone you'd never expect, but it doesn't mean it's wrong.Barney (How I Met Your Mother)
Gonna party on 'til Santa grants my wishesExtraordinary Merry Christmas/Rachel & Blaine
Every beautiful melody is tuned to say "I miss you when you're gone"I Am the DJ/Neon Trees
I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.Winston Churchill (via kari-shma)
I can't believe what you said to me
Last night when we were alone
You threw your hands up
Baby you gave up, you gave up
I can't believe how you looked at me
With your James Dean glossy eyes
In your tight jeans with your long hair
And your cigarette stained lies
Could we fix you if you broke?
And is your punch line just a joke?
I'll never talk again
Oh boy you've left me speechless
You've left me speechless, so speechless
And I'll never love again,
Oh boy you've left me speechless
You've left me speechless, so speechless
I can't believe how you slurred at me
With your half wired broken jaw
You popped my heart seams
On my bubble dreams, bubble dreams
I can't believe how you looked at me
With your Johnnie Walker eyes
He's gonna get you and after he's through
There's gonna be no love left to rye
And I know that it's complicated
But I'm a loser in love
So baby raise a glass to mend
All the broken hearts
Of all my wrecked up friends
I'll never talk again
Oh boy you've left me speechless
You've left me speechless so speechless
I'll never love again,
Oh friend you've left me speechless
You've left me speechless, so speechless
And after all the drinks and bars that we've been to
Would you give it all up?
Could I give it all up for you?
And after all the boys and girls that we've been through
Would you give it all up?
Could you give it all up?
If I promise boy to you
That I'll never talk again
And I'll never love again
I'll never write a song
Won't even sing along
I'll never love again
So speechless
You left me speechless, so speechless
Why you so speechless, so speechless?
Will you ever talk again?
Oh boy, why you so speechless?
You've left me speechless so speechless
Some men may follow me
But you choose "death and company"
Why you so speechless?
You're making a film. You make a film, you get sick. That's what happen.Luisa Contini
it is such a mysterious place, the land of tears.antoine de saint-exupery (the little prince)
Aku ingin mencintaimu dengan sederhana
Dengan isyarat yang tak sempat disampaikan awan
Kepada hujan yang menjadikannya tiada
Sometimes I'm terrified of my heart; of its constant hunger for whatever it is it wants. The way it stops and starts.Edgar Allan Poe (via greedxtheavaricious)
To me, you will be unique in all the worldThe Fox in The Little Prince ~ Antoine de Saint Exupery


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Wolf Hall (Wolf Hall Trilogy, 1)
Hilary Mantel, 2009
Henry Holt & Co.
560 pp.
Winner, 2009 Man Booker Prize
Winner, 2009 National Book Critics Circle Award
England in the 1520s is a heartbeat from disaster. If the king dies without a male heir, the country could be destroyed by civil war. Henry VIII wants to annul his marriage of twenty years, and marry Anne Boleyn. The pope and most of Europe opposes him. The quest for the king's freedom destroys his adviser, the brilliant Cardinal Wolsey, and leaves a power vacuum.
Into this impasse steps Thomas Cromwell. Cromwell is a wholly original man, a charmer and a bully, both idealist and opportunist, astute in reading people and a demon of energy: he is also a consummate politician, hardened by his personal losses, implacable in his ambition. But Henry is volatile: one day tender, one day murderous. Cromwell helps him break the opposition, but what will be the price of his triumph?
In inimitable style, Hilary Mantel presents a picture of a half-made society on the cusp of change, where individuals fight or embrace their fate with passion and courage. With a vast array of characters, overflowing with incident, the novel re-creates an era when the personal and political are separated by a hairbreadth, where success brings unlimited power but a single failure means death. (From the publisher.)
Mantel published the sequel to Wolf Hall, Bring Up the Bodies, in 2012.
Author Bio
• Birth—July 6, 1952
• Where—Glossop, Derbyshire, England, UK
• Education—University of Sheffield
• Awards—Man Booker Prize
• Currently—lives in England
Hilary Mantel is the author of nine previous novels, including A Change of Climate, A Place of Greater Safety, and Eight Months on Ghazzah Street. She has also written a memoir, Giving Up the Ghost. Winner of the Hawthornden Prize, she reviews for the New York Times, New York Review of Books, and London Review of Books. She lives in England. (From the publisher.)
Hilary Mary Mantel CBE* is an English novelist, short story writer and critic. Her work, ranging in subject from personal memoir to historical fiction, has been short-listed for major literary awards. In 2009, she won the Man Booker Prize for her novel Wolf Hall.
She was born in Glossop, Derbyshire, the eldest of three children, and was brought up in the Derbyshire mill village of Hadfield, attending the local Roman Catholic primary school. Her family is of Irish origin but her parents, Margaret and Henry Thompson, were born in England. After losing touch with her father at the age of eleven, she took the name of her stepfather, Jack Mantel. Her family background, the mainspring of much of her fiction, is explained in her memoir, Giving Up the Ghost.
Mantel attended Harrytown Convent in Romiley, Cheshire, and in 1970 went to the London School of Economics to read law. She transferred to the University of Sheffield and graduated as Bachelor of Jurisprudence in 1973. After graduating she worked in the social work department of a geriatric hospital, and then as a saleswoman. In 1974 she began writing a novel about the French Revolution, which was later published as A Place of Greater Safety.
In 1977 she went to live in Botswana with her husband, Gerald McEwen, a geologist, whom she had married in 1972. Later they spent four years in Jeddah in Saudi Arabia—a memoir of this time, Someone to Disturb, has been published in the London Review of Books. During her twenties she suffered from a debilitating and painful illness. This was initially diagnosed as a psychiatric illness for which she was hospitalised and treated with anti-psychotic drugs. These produced a paradoxical reaction of psychotic symptoms and for some years she refrained from seeking help from doctors. Finally, in Africa, and desperate, she consulted a medical text-book and realised she was probably suffering from a severe form of endometriosis, a diagnosis confirmed back in London. The condition and necessary surgery left her unable to have children and continued to disrupt her life, with continued treatment by steroids radically changing her appearance. She is now patron of the Endometriosis SHE Trust.
Her first novel, Every Day is Mother's Day, was published in 1985, and its sequel, Vacant Possession, a year later. Returning to England, she became the film critic of The Spectator and a reviewer for a number of papers and magazines in Britain and the US.
Her novel Eight Months on Ghazzah Street, which drew on her first-hand experience in Saudi Arabia, uses the dangerous clash of values between the neighbours in a stifling city apartment block to illustrate the tensions between Islam and the liberal west. Her Winifred Holtby Memorial Prize winning novel Fludd is set in 1956 in a fictitious northern village called Fetherhoughton, and centres on the convent and Roman Catholic church, where a mysterious stranger brings about alchemical transformation in the lives of the downtrodden, the depressed and the despised.
A Place of Greater Safety, published in 1993, won the Sunday Express Book of the Year award, for which her two previous books had been shortlisted. A long novel written with a close eye on historical accuracy, it traces the career of three revolutionaries, Danton, Robespierre and Camille Desmoulins, from childhood to their early deaths during the Terror of 1794.
A Change of Climate is set in Norfolk in 1980, and concerns Ralph and Anna Eldred, parents of four children, whose family life threatens to disintegrate in the course of one summer, when memories which they have repressed fiercely for twenty years resurface to disrupt the purposive and peaceful lives they have tried to lead since a catastrophic event overtook them early in their married life. The action of the novel moves back to the late 1950s, when they worked for a missionary society in a dangerous and crowded South African township, and then follows the couple to Bechuanaland, where in the loneliness of a remote mission station an unspeakable loss occurs. The novel is about the possibility or impossibility of forgiveness, the clash of ideals and brutality, and the need to acknowledge that lives are broken before they can begin to be mended.
An Experiment in Love, which won the Hawthornden Prize, takes place over two university terms in 1970, and follows the progress of three girls—two friends and one enemy—as they leave home for university in London. Mrs Thatcher makes a cameo appearance in a novel that explores women's appetites and ambitions and suggests how they are often thwarted. Though Mantel has used material from her own life, it is not an autobiographical novel.
Her next book, The Giant, O'Brien, is set in the 1780s and is based on the true story of Charles O'Brien or Byrne, who came to London to exhibit himself as a freak and whose bones hang today in the Museum of the Royal College of Surgeons. The novel treats O'Brien and his antagonist, the Scots surgeon John Hunter, less as characters in history than as mythic protagonists in a dark and violent fairytale, necessary casualties of the Age of Enlightenment. Mantel adapted the book for BBC Radio Four, in a play starring Lloyd Hutchinson as the Giant, Alex Norton as John Hunter, and Frances Tomelty and Deborah Finley as two of the women who cross their path.
In 2003 Mantel published her memoir, Giving Up the Ghost, which won the MIND 'Book of the Year' award, and in the same year brought out a collection of short stories, Learning To Talk. All the stories deal with childhood and, taken together, the books show how the events of a life are mediated into fiction.
Her 2005 novel, Beyond Black, was shortlisted for the Orange Prize. A scathing, very dark comedy, set in the years around the millennium, it features a professional medium, Alison Hart, whose calm and jolly exterior conceals grotesque psychic damage, and who trails around with her a troupe of 'fiends' who are invisible but always on the verge of becoming flesh.
Mantel was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2006 Birthday Honours.
The long novel Wolf Hall, about Henry VIII's minister Thomas Cromwell, was published in 2009 to high critical acclaim. The book went on to win that year's Man Booker Prize and upon winning the award, Mantel stated, "I can tell you at this moment I am happily flying through the air." Judges voted three to two in favour of Wolf Hall for the prize, with Mantel being presented with a trophy and a £50,000 cash prize during an evening ceremony at the London Guildhall. The panel of judges, led by the broadcaster James Naughtie, described Wolf Hall as an "extraordinary piece of storytelling". Leading up to award, the book was backed as the favourite by bookmakers and accounted for 45% of all the nominated books' sales. By winning, it subsequently became the first favourite to win the award since 2002. And sales exploded faster than for any previous winner.
The sequel to Wolf Hall, Bring Up the Bodies, was published in 2012.
Mantel also writes reviews and essays, mainly for the Guardian, London Review of Books and New York Review of Books. (From Wikipedia.)
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Brilliant! How did she do it? Hilary Martel took a figure much maligned in history—and historical fiction—and transformed him into one of literature's most likeable characters.... The fun of this book is in following Cromwell, from abuse at the hand of his drunken father, through his stunning rise in power. It's deliciously satisfying to watch brilliance and cleverness play out to the benefit of our hero.
A LitLovers Litpick (Sept. '10)
In Wolf Hall, Hilary Mantel's arch, elegant, richly detailed biographical novel centered on Cromwell...characters are scorchingly well rendered. And their sharp-clawed machinations are presented with nonstop verve in a book that can compress a wealth of incisiveness into a very few well-chosen words.
Janet Maslin - New York Times
Henry VIII's quest to make Anne Boleyn his queen has inspired reams of historical fiction, much of it trashy and most of it trite. Yet from this seemingly shopworn material, Hilary Mantel has created a novel both fresh and finely wrought: a brilliant portrait of a society in the throes of disorienting change, anchored by a penetrating character study of Henry's formidable adviser, Thomas Cromwell. It's no wonder that her masterful book won the Man Booker Prize.... Wolf Hall is uncompromising and unsentimenta...Mantel's prose is as plain as her protagonist...but also...extraordinarily flexible, subtle and shrewd. Enfolding cogent insights into the human soul within a lucid analysis of the social, economic and personal interactions that drive political developments, Mantel has built on her previous impressive achievements to write her best novel yet.
Wendy Smith - Washington Post
Henry VIII's challenge to the church's power with his desire to divorce his queen and marry Anne Boleyn set off a tidal wave of religious, political and societal turmoil that reverberated throughout 16th-century Europe. Mantel boldly attempts to capture the sweeping internecine machinations of the times from the perspective of Thomas Cromwell, the lowborn man who became one of Henry's closest advisers. Cromwell's actual beginnings are historically ambiguous, and Mantel admirably fills in the blanks, portraying Cromwell as an oft-beaten son who fled his father's home, fought for the French, studied law and was fluent in French, Latin and Italian. Mixing fiction with fact, Mantel captures the atmosphere of the times and brings to life the important players: Henry VIII; his wife, Katherine of Aragon; the bewitching Boleyn sisters; and the difficult Thomas More, who opposes the king. Unfortunately, Mantel also includes a distracting abundance of dizzying detail and Henry's all too voluminous political defeats and triumphs, which overshadows the more winning story of Cromwell and his influence on the events that led to the creation of the Church of England.
Publishers Weekly
As Henry VIII's go-to man for his dirty work, Thomas Cromwell (1485–1540) isn't a likely candidate for a sympathetic portrait. He dirtied his hands too often. In the end, Henry dropped him just as he had Cromwell's mentor, Cardinal Wolsey, who counseled the king before him. But as Mantel (Beyond Black) reminds us, Cromwell was a man of many parts, admirable in many respects though disturbing in others. Above all, he got things done and was deeply loyal to his masters, first Wolsey and then the king. Nor was Henry always bloated and egomaniacal: well into his forties, when in good spirits, the king shone brighter than all those around him. Verdict: This is in all respects a superior work of fiction, peopled with appealing characters living through a period of tense high drama: Henry's abandonment of wife and church to marry Anne Boleyn. It should appeal to many readers, not just history buffs. And Mantel achieves this feat without violating the historical record! There will be few novels this year as good as this one.
Library Journal
Exhaustive examination of the circumstances surrounding Henry VIII's schism-inducing marriage to Anne Boleyn. Versatile British novelist Mantel (Giving Up the Ghost, 2006, etc.) forays into the saturated field of Tudor historicals to cover eight years (1527-35) of Henry's long, tumultuous reign. They're chronicled from the point of view of consummate courtier Thomas Cromwell, whose commentary on the doings of his irascible and inwardly tormented king is impressionistic, idiosyncratic and self-interested. The son of a cruel blacksmith, Cromwell fled his father's beatings to become a soldier of fortune in France and Italy, later a cloth trader and banker. He begins his political career as secretary to Cardinal Wolsey, Lord Chancellor of England. Having failed to secure the Pope's permission for Henry to divorce Queen Katherine, Wolsey falls out of favor with the monarch and is supplanted by Sir Thomas More, portrayed here as a domestic tyrant and enthusiastic torturer of Protestants. Unemployed, Cromwell is soon advising Henry himself and acting as confidante to Anne Boleyn and her sister Mary, former mistress of both Henry and King Francis I of France. When plague takes his wife and children, Cromwell creates a new family by taking in his late siblings' children and mentoring impoverished young men who remind him of his low-born, youthful self. The religious issues of the day swirl around the events at court, including the rise of Luther and the burgeoning movement to translate the Bible into vernacular languages. Anne is cast in an unsympathetic light as a petulant, calculating temptress who withholds her favors until Henry is willing to make her queen. Although Mantel's language is original, evocative and at times wittily anachronistic, this minute exegesis of a relatively brief, albeit momentous, period in English history occasionally grows tedious. The characters, including Cromwell, remain unknowable, their emotions closely guarded; this works well for court intrigues, less so for fiction. Masterfully written and researched but likely to appeal mainly to devotees of all things Tudor.
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1. What does Holbein's portrait capture about Thomas Cromwell's character that even Cromwell, himself, recognizes? What kind of man is Cromwell? In the rapacious world of Wolf Hall, do you find him a sympathetic character, or not?
2. What effect did Cromwell's upbringing have on his character and his later views about the privileged society that permeates the court? How does he feel about the aristocracy and its insistence on ancient rights.
3. What does Cromwell mean when he tells his son that "it's all very well planning what ou will do in six months, what you will do in a year, bjut it's no good at all if you don't have a plan for tomorrow"?
4. Comment on Cromwell's observation regarding an earl that "The world is not run from where he thinks. Not from his border fortresses, not even from Whitehall. The world is run from Antwerp, from Florence, from places he never imagined." What does Cromwell mean...and in what sense is his statement a very modern view of the world?
5. Why does Cromwell dislike the Catholic clergy? What are his motives for helping Henry marry Anne Boleyn and sever ties to the Pope? What larger goals does he hope to achieve in helping ? Are they selfless...or selfish?
6. If you are familiar with Thomas More, especially through A Man for All Seasons, were you surprised by this book's treatment of him?
7. How does Cromwell perceive Anne Boleyn? How does she come across in this book? Consider his observation when she is in the presence of the king's friends: "Anne is brittle in their company, and as ruthless with their compliments as a house-wife snapping the necks of larks for the table." Also talk about the danger he sees for Anne as he thinks, "Any little girl can hold the key to the future."
8. Do you know the fate of Cromwell, some years after the book's ending? If you don't know, can you surmise? If you do, how does it color your reading of Wolf Hall?
9. Mantel is writing a sequel to Wolf Hall—The Mirror and the Light. Do you think you'll want to read it when published?
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The Demand for Imported Apple Juice in the United States
AbstractThis study estimates U.S. demand for imported apple juice by exporting country. Given that China has emerged as the top supplier to the U.S., we focus on the impact of China on competing exporting countries. Results show that U.S. imports from Argentina, Chile, and the rest of the world (ROW) were significantly responsive to apple juice prices in China. U.S. imports from China were significantly responsive to prices in Argentina, Chile and the ROW as well; however, the responsiveness of imports from China to apple juice prices in these countries was relatively smaller than the responsiveness of imports from these countries to China's price.
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Well, after getting swept by KC while the White Sox lost 3 out of 4 to the Orioles certainly has dampened everyone's spirits, there is still a lot of baseball left, and the Tigers could very well find themselves tied for first place on Sunday night. Isn't this why we love baseball? So rather than focus on the negatives, which would be all to easy, let's try to get back into this thing, one game at at time.
We've got our top three starters going for us, we're at home, and we have a guy named Miguel Cabrera. We can do this.
We start tonight with the towering Doug Fister. If you can overlook his last start…Fister has been nothing short of dominant since the All-Star break. Prior to the Orioles outing, Fister had seven consecutive quality starts, and allowed 1 ER or less in 5 of those. He's 6-3 over his last 10 and has reminded all of us of why we came to love him during the 2nd half of 2011.
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A few issues on the ballot for Putnam County voters to decided on, but one county wide issue deals with the increased service for their emergency management services.
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