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Published on August 11th, 2011 | by Philip Bates
Coming Later this Month…
Oh, BBC, you big tease. BBC America's besting our very own Beeb One and has released a preview of the remaining six episodes of the current series:
"The wait is almost over. The second part of the thrilling new series of Doctor Who will soon return. The truth about River Song is out and the time has come for the Doctor to face his greatest demons. Venturing across centuries and galaxies, the Doctor, Amy and Rory will encounter the greatest war criminal in all of history – and Hitler.
Together, they'll discover there's no scarier place in the universe than a child's bedroom and a visit to an alien quarantine facility will reveal to Rory a very different side to his wife. In a hotel where walls move, corridors twist and rooms vanish, death lies waiting. But the Doctor's time has yet to come. He has one last stop to make on his final journey – an old friend needs his help and an old foe must be defeated. But time catches up with us all and the Doctor can delay no more.
By the shores of Lake Silencio, in Utah, all of time and space hang in the balance. And a NASA astronaut is waiting."
Ah. BBC One. You still won't tell us, will you? It's okay; we know already. 27th August. And you know we know, and we know you know that we know and you know that we know that you know that we know. But there are some people out there who don't know yet. So let them know!
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Would someone mind popping their head round the door of the Beeb's press office, please? Just to check they're ok. Seriously, a neighbour went past the other day and said all of their milk bottles are still outside on the step and it's been weeks since they answered the phone. Perhaps they've had a fall? Be a good samaritan and just check, would you?
They're probably off on their hols. I think their neighbours are taking in packages for them.
Oh that's a relief. Well they certainly deserve a break!

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KE$HA has apologized for the "inappropriate" lyrics in her song, "Die Young"—especially in the wake of the recent kindergarten shooting in Connecticut—and admitted that she was "forced to" sing it.
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OK, it's not really a musical. But it is a comedy. I'd feel a lot sadder about it if it didn't perfectly encapsulate the point I made a few weeks back about the ridiculous bubble mentality of Silicon Valley.
When I do write the musical, I'm definitely stealing this line: "Sadly, we live in a world where race still is an issue because some folks haven't made the leap."
PS: the title of this post is actually a link (crazy, right?!) to the post I'm referencing. It's recommended reading, if only to learn how not to talk about race.
Last summer, as my brother and I were driving a UHaul with all my stuff from Austin to Chicago, an Illinois state trooper pulled us over. I was moving from Austin, where I was in grad school, to Chicago to start my job on the Obama campaign. We had just pulled out of our hotel outside Bloomington, it was first thing in the morning. I wanted to make it to Chicago by lunchtime. The state trooper was parked in the highway median a mile or two after we got on the road. I didn't think much of it since I didn't think we could possibly be speeding (the speed limit was 65 and anyone who's driven a fully-packed UHaul knows it's hard to go faster than about 70, especially when you've just gotten going). The trooper pulled out into traffic and was behind us a for a few minutes. I still didn't think anything of it. Then he did something strange—he pulled up in the left lane right next to the truck, peered in to look at my brother, who was driving, and then pulled back into traffic behind us. About two minutes later, he turned his lights on and pulled us over.
He wouldn't tell us why he pulled us over, but he asked my brother to come back to the patrol car with him. My brother went, and I was scared. I took a picture of the cop car and posted it to Twitter just in case I needed my social media army to come to the rescue. About ten minutes later, the trooper came up to my window and, after asking for my ID and a bunch of other documents, said "I thought I smelled marijuana in the truck, am I wrong?"
He let us go, after I informed him he was very wrong about the marijuana. My brother downplayed it but I was furious. Clearly he had looked in to see who was driving the truck and decided us bi-racial kids were the type who fit the drug-smuggler profile. According to my brother, this had happened to him many times before. I didn't know that. He'd never mentioned it.
I was reminded of this story in the aftermath of Aaron Swartz's death (which I wrote about here). Much of the immediate reaction has focused on how unfair Aaron's prosecution was. I agree. But the calls for action have focused on reforming cybercrime law. Which is great and noble, but I can't help but wonder why people recognize the unfairness of Aaron's prosecution not as a flaw in cybercrime legislation but as a flaw in the justice system as a whole? Prosecutors treat people unfairly every day, by the thousands. Proposed sentences are ridiculously out of line with alleged crimes. People who can't afford bail rot in jail for months awaiting trial, and often get shitty legal representation. Prosecutors are gleeful about ruining people's lives. And that doesn't even touch on corruption and abuse during the arrest and questioning process, or police harassment like my brother and I endured.
Bryan Stevenson, the Founder and Executive Director of the Equal Justice Initiative, gave a searing TED talk last year. He received the longest standing ovation of the conference and raised over a million dollars from the TED community in the days after the talk. At the time, TED committed to making criminal justice reform part of its TEDxCity2.0 program. It's not clear from the website that that action happened.
Bryan Stevenson's subtle challenge to the TED audience, to have empathy for those who are the victims of injustice in our legal system, resonates now as we think about how to take action in the wake of Aaron's death. Aaron's prosecution was not really about unfair cybercrime laws, it was about an unfair justice system. One that ruins lives constantly. From what I know of Aaron's work he was a geek with overwhelming empathy. He recognized the need to spread the benefits of democratizing technology beyond members of the tech elite. Might it be a more fitting tribute if Aaron's Law addressed broken sentencing rules for all crimes, not just cybercrime? Do we, in the tech community, have the ability to make our advocacy not just about issues specific to the platform but about making the platform available to address issues of inequality and injustice for everyone affected by it?
It's only fair that I highlight examples of the Silicon Valley tech community actually using its influence in the public interest, for an issue that doesn't directly benefit it. Here's Ron Conway throwing his weight behind gun control.
I'm not really sure I've got any place to be writing this. I didn't know Aaron very well at all—we'd met a couple times at the Berkman Center way back, and at Personal Democracy Forum last summer—so who am I to try and write some sort of remembrance?
So I'll just say why his work inspires me: he was a participant. He's most well-known for being a "hacker" whatever that means these days, but he wasn't cynical like some on the techno-left are. He didn't heckle from the sidelines, he put his money where his mouth was. And that didn't just mean downloading content and making it freely available online. It also meant wanting to work for the Obama campaign even while he was under investigation by the Justice Department; to him, the system wasn't beyond repair. It meant using his tech credentials and skills to raise awareness about issues beyond those that directly affected him. He's exactly the opposite of the self-absorbed Silicon Valley technologists I described in a post a few weeks ago. As the kids would say, he was legit. He lived his beliefs and he was always trying to leave the world better than he found it.
In truth, I found Aaron difficult. I am probably one of those people who made him feel like banging his head against the wall when we talked. But his work is the most honest, and earnest, work anyone in this civic tech world ever did. When I heard the charges against him for breaking into that storage closet at MIT and downloading those journal articles, I rolled my eyes. Turns out it wasn't a stunt, he was living his beliefs. So as people who know Aaron much better than I did reflect on his life, his passing has made me think about what it means to actually be who you say you want to be and have your life's work reflect that. I hope I'll be a little more honest in my work because of him.
I posted something on Twitter the other day that got a bunch of attention, and I realized I wanted to clarify what I meant. Here's what I wrote:
"Silicon Valley's problem in a nutshell: crazed about Instagram's ToS, not a peep about FISA reauthorization."
I meant to capture something I've been thinking about a lot since I moved to the Bay Area in February: the tension between Silicon Valley's impact on democracy and its utter lack of interest in or understanding of the institutions and systems of government its companies do business in. Silicon Valley isn't on a bubble, it's in a bubble.
But as I tried to make that point in my tweet, I realize I conflated both the Silicon Valley-based tech industry folk and the population of Internet-savvy semi-celebrities who have the ability to—for better or worse—push stories and memes onto everyone else's agenda. For the purposes of this blog post, I'm going to separate the two groups because my critique is actually different depending on who "Silicon Valley" refers to.
Let's start with the Bay Area tech community. In addition to living in San Francisco for most of 2012, I've gotten to know the tech start-up communities in Chicago and New York, and to a lesser extent Boston's, and the attitude towards the communities in which Chicago/NYC/Boston companies operate is different from the attitude Bay Area companies have. Maybe because tech is not the dominant industry in those cities like it is in the Bay, but start-ups in those other cities seem much more well integrated into the civic fabric; The founders and employees are living lives that aren't circumscribed by technology in the same way it is in San Francisco. As much as city officials will deny it, San Francisco is very close to becoming a company town; the Valley itself is already far beyond that status. There are a couple consequences of this:
First, Silicon Valley, including San Francisco, becomes a much less interesting place for world-changing ideas. The well-documented lack of diversity in the Valley would be comical if it wasn't so harmful. It feels like, and often is, a bunch of Stanford guys making tools to fix their own problems. Sometimes they stumble into a groundbreaking new app that has a more far-reaching impact (see: Twitter) and sometimes they try and shoehorn a social good mission into their business plan (see: a thousand other companies). Barely any of them start from an entrenched social problem and work backwards from there. Very few of them are really fundamentally improving society. They're making widgets or iterating on things that already exist. Their goal is to make themselves as appealing—or threatening—to a big player as possible so they can get bought out for a few hundred million dollars and then devote the rest of their lives to a) building Burning Man installations, b) investing in other people's widgets, or c) both. They really don't care that much about making the world a better place, mostly because they feel like they don't have to live in it.
This isolation has also deluded them into thinking that they are in fact making the world a better place, simply by building their products and platforms. The Silicon Valley rich are famously stingy philanthropists and a defense I've heard more than once is that the tools they spend their time building are inherently good. "Why donate money when people can just download my app and instantly have a better life?"
Second, the lack of forced interaction with different constituencies and the political influence that the tech industry has over local government here means that these companies—and founders—don't need to reckon with the role of government or governance. Couple this with the libertarian streak of the Valley and you come out with an utter disregard for policymaking and regulatory environments. They should know by now that this is dangerous thinking. Put aside the moral obligation I think they have to be good citizens, they don't fully understand the impact government has on their ability to do business and they desperately lack the political and organizing skills necessary to help governments come around.
But even if they were politically savvy, the issues the technology industry would be pushing are a different set of interests than consumers (and by that I mean citizens) are concerned with. Which brings me to the second part of what I meant: those who have outsized power and influence through network technology to make their voices heard often put it to use in the most inane and self-centered ways. There was lots of talk after the Internet beat back SOPA and PIPA about the potential for networked models of citizen participation that actually WORKED. The so-far failed opportunity to realize that potential has been starkly revealed in the last few weeks: the tech-savvy in an uproar over Instagram's terms of service while at the same time sitting idly by as FISA gets reauthorized, and staring helplessly from the sidelines as Congress bungles the fiscal cliff.
What if these two groups—the tech industry and the denizens of the Net—put its economic, political and media clout behind fixing our broken system so it works for everyone? What if, instead of imploring people to vote on Facebook's privacy policies, we were pushing Florida lawmakers into fixing the state's broken voting system? What if prison reform advocates could speak as loudly as the anti-SOPA activists? Why can't we, the tech community, figure out how to harness our talent and influence to fundamentally change the way our democracy works—not just for us, when it suits our interests, but for everyone?
So that's what I meant: too much focus from the tech community on issues that only matter to us and not enough on issues that affect everyone and that we have the power to address. Before people complain that I'm being way too broad in my characterizations, I'd like to make clear that what I'm describing is the overall culture of what I'm calling Silicon Valley and I don't mean it to describe every single person who falls into these categories. Despite my criticism, there's a reason I'm making my home in the Bay Area and it has a lot to do with a really vibrant and inspiring social innovation sector that's taking root here.
I also realize I'm not offering any solutions. But I really can't think of a better place than right here to start working on some. More to come soon on what shape that actually takes.
In many ways the Obama campaign's Tech Field Office, which I launched and ran with Angus Durocher from February-October 2012, was not a leap of the imagination even if it was the first of its kind. Since 2007, one of the defining characteristics of the Obama organization was the extent to which it devolved authority down the chain empowering volunteers and field organizers to be the drivers of activity. Heavy dependence on and integration of network technology was also a major feature of the campaign, which makes sense when you realize that the structure of our grassroots organization (relatively flat, and decentralized) very closely matches the structure of the Internet itself.
The logical extension of these two defining factors coming together was the establishment of a satellite office focused solely on recruiting technologists who wanted to volunteer their skills to help build the campaign's suite of tools. My understanding is that the genesis of the idea (which predates my arrival on the campaign) came when Michael Slaby (CIIO) and Harper Reed (CTO) traveled to the Bay Area just after the campaign launched to engage tech supporters and recruit engineers to move to Chicago. At some point it occurred: why not bring the campaign to them?
We started talking about a San Francisco office even before I formally started on the campaign in June 2011, but other things in Chicago took precedence at that early stage. I spent the first eight months on the campaign doing product management at headquarters (not a role I was at all qualified for, given that I had very close to zero experience working on software development projects, talk about baptism by fire). Near the end of 2011 as the technology team, and the campaign as a whole, started moving from planning to execution a decision was made that we would go ahead and open the Obama Tech Field Office in San Francisco.
I was to be the non-technical lead and Angus Durocher, a grizzled veteran of the San Francisco start-up scene (he was early at Blogger and served as the first web developer at YouTube) would lead on all the engineering and technical aspects. Angus was one of the very very few members of the Obama 2012 tech team that had any campaign experience. He grew up in New Hampshire working on campaigns and, in 2008, he took five weeks off from working at YouTube to volunteer full time doing digital work in New Mexico for the Obama campaign. In many ways, opening and running this office was a fulfillment of a long-time wish of his—to offer the opportunity for people with tech skills to contribute something they're good at to an effort they believe in. He likes to tell a story about offering his services to the Kerry campaign in 2004 and being told to head to a phone bank instead.
We secured office space (leasing desks at StackMob's offices in SOMA) and opened for business on February 15, 2012. We had a list of initial projects we needed to get built, but we needed some volunteers. My main responsibility those first few weeks was balancing volunteer recruitment with making sure the products were sufficiently well specked out to allow for volunteers (people who mostly had day jobs and would be doing their work remotely/on the weekends) to be productive.
My biggest worry at the start was that we wouldn't be able to get enough people on board. That worry was quickly assuaged. We were pleasantly surprised at the level of interest. Even in famously libertarian Silicon Valley, we got hundreds of sign-ups and conducted scores of interviews with engineers and other tech professionals who were excited to help out. When we asked them why they were interested almost all of them gave some version of the same answer: "I've always wanted to help out but making phone calls and knocking doors wasn't my thing (not to mention I live in California where this thing is in the bag) and I saw an opportunity to lend my skills to re-elect a president I believe in." Only a handful of them had ever volunteered for a campaign before. We got to see, in person, what Nate Silver described in a recent post as the benefit Obama got from his support in Silicon Valley. Let's just say the GOP didn't have a tech field office in the neighborhood.
We had some stressful weeks at the beginning, scared we'd fail, scared this experiment would be a waste of campaign resources, unsure even what success would look like. But when we launched our first tool and pushed through the frustrating final tweaks to make things deployable I had a sense that we were doing something that would really have an impact. We certainly didn't do everything right and I'm not even sure the office itself is something that other campaigns or organizations should try and replicate. For one thing we'd added more lanes to the campaign's development highway without really expanding the capacity of the DevOps team in Chicago to deploy more tools (I'm pretty sure they hated us by the end of it). And campaign's are, in Angus' sage words, "interrupt-driven" organizations. The person that's in your face or the fire that's currently burning the brightest is the thing that gets the most attention. Since we were safely tucked away in San Francisco we didn't have the luxury (such as it was) of going over and tapping someone on the shoulder to make sure our particular issue got addressed. And then there was the frustrating amount of volunteer flakiness. It's something every campaign worker in the field has to deal with, but when your volunteer is doing something like writing code it's a particular pain in the ass when you can't get a hold of them for days.
By October, when we were done building tools for the national campaign and turned our attention to the battleground states, we had recruited well over 100 volunteers who built over a dozen tools (not all of which are public, but I've linked to some examples below). We experienced the fifty-fifty rule of volunteer organizing: fifty percent of the volunteers we signed up actually did some work, and about fifty percent of them were solid, reliable contributors. Another dozen or so were absolute rock stars, a few of whom put their lives on hold for the last weeks of the campaign to travel to battleground states to support our data and digital teams. Kevin Gates, a former Google data whiz, went to Las Vegas to help the data director there. Johnvey Hwang, another start-up vet who built out later versions of Trip Planner essentially full time, went to Florida to build some reporting tools. Lior Abraham took all of his vacation days for the year from his job at Facebook to come to Chicago for five weeks to build voter protection apps. Matt Douglass, who built a really cool donation app that we ran out of time to launch, ended up in one of our small business videos because of his involvement in the tech office.
Angus led a very successful late-summer volunteer recruitment effort to send techies directly to states. The ask he sent out got thousands of responses which were matched up with states who needed on-the-ground tech help in the last weeks of the campaign. If I were smarter and more organized, I'd follow up with all of them on their experience. I really think that model—of sending tech volunteers into the field to support data and analytics teams on the ground—is a much more sustainable model of tech volunteer engagement for the long term and for smaller campaigns.
When I was in Colorado for the last weeks of GOTV it was stark what a disconnect there seemed to be between the tech team and the people who were using the tools. Centralizing the software development in HQ in part to avoid creation of rogue tools in the states, which is completely understandable, might have killed an important ecosystem for bubbling up innovation. You certainly can't run a campaign where each state has their own show technologically, but there's got to be a way to distribute authority at least a little bit down the chain. Much was made about our pod structure: each region had "desks" they reported up to, which had all the main departments of the campaign represented—Digital, Ops, Press, Field, Data, Analytics—but no engineers. Why not add Tech to the pods and then have volunteer technologists on the ground working directly with that regional lead? Putting engineers directly in touch with staff in the states would have gone a long way towards bridging the divide between tech and field.
Now that it's over, my lasting impressions are all about how amazing our volunteers were. I mentioned a few earlier but Roger Hu, Marc Love, Brandon Liu, Eliza Wee, Carrie Crespo, Gunthar Hartwig, Pete Warden, Deron Aucoin, Shannon Chin, Patrick Cullen and a bunch of others I'm forgetting were total champs. I'm immensely proud that I got to be the one to pull them into the campaign, and I can't wait to see what they do now that they've caught the political technology bug.
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Caveat: this post is stream of consciousness, 36 hours after we won the election. There's high likelihood it won't make any sense at all. It is also 100% my personal reaction; I don't claim to speak for anyone else, and others' reactions are likely wildly different from mine.
Whoa, winning an election feels really awesome. It's like I leveled up on life. Everything is just better up here. The coffee tastes better on this level. The sleep is better. Pretty sure that most of the consequences for what just happened have not come close to sinking in yet. But damn, the coffee tastes so good.
Today is the 513th day after I joined the campaign. In that time, I got to do some very awesome things with some very awesome people. I'm immensely proud of the work Angus Durocher and I did with some amazing volunteers (I'll probably write something more about how awesome they are at some point) at the tech field office in San Francisco. I'm so happy to have gotten to work with Jim Green and Rusty Rueff on Tech4Obama. And working in the campaign headquarters of the President of the United States is something I don't think I'll ever top, even if that place did resemble a refugee camp most of the time. Thank you so much, Harper, for giving me the chance.
Maybe because it's so fresh in my mind, but I have a feeling the most lasting thing I'll take from this campaign was the time I got to spend in Colorado these last two weeks working in the field. I've spent most of the last ~15 years of my life tucked away in reliably liberal/cosmopolitan/intellectual corners of the country, which I found seriously warped my understanding of the US. Walking neighborhoods, knocking on doors, and talking to voters in the exurbs was a pretty humbling experience. I'm also humbled by the breathtaking talent and skill of the organizers I met and worked with. You're going to read a lot of stories over the next months about how good our ground game was. Whatever you read, multiply by a factor of three. The kicked ass and they deserve even more credit than they will get.
I'm really looking forward to what's next, in all kinds of ways. First, and most importantly, I'm absolutely giddy about what the President is going to do with the next four years and two months. I predict big things.
Second, I'm in awe of the talent we're about to unleash on the world. There are some superstars coming off this campaign, and I can't wait to see what they do. Aside from the organizers I mentioned, there are some kick-ass engineers and other technologists who are going to change the way we think about democracy. It maybe wasn't as perfect as all these articles that are getting written make it out to seem, but there are now a lot more techies who understand organizing and a lot more organizers who understand tech. I'm looking forward to them coming up with some awesome ideas to improve civic engagement.
Third, I get my own life back. Crazy. Lots of travel over the coming months, and I start a new job pretty soon (more on that to come, but I'm beyond excited about it and hope it's a place where that organizing-meets-tech thing can play out). The plan, such as it is, is to settle in San Francisco in early 2013. In the meantime, I'm looking forward to catching up with friends in Chicago, Michigan, the east coast, and Paris. And I'm taking suggestions for amazing/relaxing New Years destinations.
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Summary: Fledgling, Octavia Butler's first new novel in seven years, is the story of an apparently young, amnesiac girl whose alarmingly un-human needs and abilities lead her to a startling conclusion: she is in fact a genetically modified, 53-year-old vampire. Forced to discover what she can about her stolen former life, she must at the same time learn who wanted--and still wants--to destroy her and those she cares for, and how she can save herself. Fledgling is a captivating novel that tests the limits of "otherness" and questions what it means to be truly human.
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The repetition made me think of the twelve days of Christmas, actually. And I thought it made for a very nice twist on it~
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Tifa OngOct 3 2013: The most precious thing in my life is relationship.
Because a human by nature is a social creature. We create words, communication tools, internet so that we can interact with people and build relationship.
Can you imagine yourself do not have relationship with anyone?
As I started asking myself this question, my main reason why this is the most precious thing is I will die without relationship and I am willing to die for relationship :)
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Wendi Richter's in action and Captain Lou has something to say...
-Originally aired April 28, 1984.
-Your hosts are Vince McMahon & Gene Okerlund.
TITO SANTANA (Intercontinental Champion) vs RENE GOULET
-Rene slaps Tito across the face with the ominous glove to start, and when Tito starts to show a little fire, Goulet backs away and complains about hair-pulling. Just because you're a jobbert doesn't mean you have to be anonymous. You can still do shit like that and look like a star. And an asshole.
-Tito applies an armbar, and follows with a fireman's carry takedown while hanging onto the armbar. Monkeyflip by Goulet is countered by Tito and then Tito shoves Goulet into the corner, where the referee happens to be standing. We have the rarest of rare occurances, a ref bump in a squash match. Crowd screams and stands up, waiting to see a shocking turn of events happen, but the referee fully revives before anything happens. I actually like that; it looks more believable when the referee is bumped and something DOES happen now.
-Goulet applies a headlock, but Tito snapmares out of it. Monkeyflip and an armdrag by Tito, and he goes back to the armbar. Goulet gets free and Tito gets aggressive. Kicks and chops by Goulet. Tito fires back and hits a backdrop. Goulet tries to make a comeback but makes the fatal mistake of sending Tito into the ropes, and the flying forearm connects, giving Tito the three-count. Hell of a match!
-Vince profiles the unusual career of Roddy Piper, the most prolific manager in the WWF and one of the world's top ten wrestlers in his own right. We take a look back at the day that Andre the Giant was a guest on Piper's Pit.
"Mister Wonderful" PAUL ORNDORFF & "Dr. D" DAVID SCHULTZ vs PETE SANCHEZ & SALVATORE BELLOMO
-Orndorff and Schultz are suspiciously Piperless. "Paula" chant thoroughly enrages Orndorff and he meets Bellomo coming off the ropes with a dropkick. Bellomo gets double-teamed and tags in "the veteran Sanchez." It's a miracle that a generation of wrestling fans didn't grow up totally misunderstanding the meaning of the word "veteran," because thinking that it means "cannon fodder" would be understandable.
-Schultz applies a chinlock, turns it into a front facelock, and holds on while Orndorff comes off the second rope with an axehandle. Bellomo tags back in and manages to take control with punches and an Irish whip. He charges, Orndorff raises the knee, and Bellomo comes to a screeching halt and tags Sanchez. The heels are just pissed now, and Schultz slams Sanchez into place and comes off the second rope with the elbow to get the pin.
SGT. SLAUGHTER (with Pvt. Terry Daniels) vs TIGER CHUNG LEE
-Tiger backs Sarge into the ropes, teases a clean break, and then fires a shot right into the throat. That just pisses Slaughter off. Sarge goes to work with elbows and boots. Detail I just noticed: The back of Sarge's singlet is held together by three straps, resembling three stripes for a sargeant. If that's on purpose, that's pretty clever.
-Chunger goes to work with chops and turnbuckle shots. Sarge gets pissed again and rakes his fingers across Lee's back. Stomachbreaker by Slaughter and a double-boot to the abs. Elbow off the ropes as Slaughter keeps targeting the stomach. Lee goes to the eyes to fend off Sarge. Slaughter sees a kick coming and holds onto Lee's foot, and connects with the Slaughter Cannon to get the three-count.
-Piper welcomes Captain Lou Albano, who says that Piper's skills as a manager and a wrestler. Piper says that Cyndi Lauper is an example of what Lou Albano is capable of. Albano says he took her from #100 to #1 with his help in making the music video for "Girls Just Wanna Have Fun." They watch the video, including Captain Lou's cameo.
IRON SHEIK (with Ayatollah Blassie) vs STEVE LOMBARDI
-Massive "Sgt. Slaughter" chant by the crowd, with sloppy execution. The crowd does three-syllable rhythm for the chant because nobody had invented the four syllable/clap-clap-clapclapclap yet.
-Lombardi gets a sunset flip early on for a one-count. Sheik gets pissed and tosses Lombardi out to the floor, where Blassie taunts him by poking his head with the cane. Slam straight down on the concrete by Sheik. Sheik brings him back into the ring and spits on him. Back suplex by the Sheik, and he finally puts Lombardi out of his misery with the camel clutch. Unbelievable heat for the Sheik, who actually managed to become a bigger star AFTER losing the World Title in a virtual squash.
IVAN PUTSKI vs ISRAEL MATIA
-Big slam by Putski. Backdrop and a hiptoss follow, and the bald Matia complains about hair-pulling. Gene Okerlund marvels about the put-together package of Ivan Putski. Matia gets some token offense until Putski finishes very abruptly with the Polish hammer.
-Your hosts are Vince McMahon & Gene Okerlund.
NON-TITLE: TITO SANTANA (Intercontinental Champion) vs. "Dr. D" DAVID SCHULTZ
-Kind of surprising to see this match lead off on the weekend TV show. Tito gets the early advantage with a hammerlock. Schultz makes it to the ropes, which Vince says is not a very sportsmanlike way to break a hold. Seriously?
-Test of strength and Schultz backs into the ropes to force the break, leading Vince to speculate that Schultz backed into the ropes to force the break. Thanks, Vince.
-Armbar by Schultz, who simultaneously drives a knee into Tito's face.Tito manages to get an Irish whip and clubs Schultz down as he bounces off the turnbuckles. Kneedrop by Tito gets two. Shoulderblock by Tito. He goes for another one, but Schultz dodges and sends Tito crashing onto the lethal parquet floor. They brawl on the floor until the referee calls for the bell, and it's a double-countout.
-This week, Vince looks at the Iron Sheik and his vicious camel clutch. He and Freddy Blassie reportedly took a lavish trip to New York City and went on a shopping spree. Vince notes that a flock of pigeons "made a deposit" on Sheik's new Rolls Royce.
PRINCESS VICTORIA vs COWGIRL WENDI RICHTER
-Wendi is still heel and chatters during her match Iron Mike Sharpe-style. Headscissors by Richter; Victoria gets free and they roll around trading chokeholds and steamrolling the referee, which gets a mega-pop from the crowd.
-Referee breaks them up and forces them into their corners to basically restart the match. Clothesline and a splash by Richter. She grabs Victoria's pigtails and uses them to choke her. Victoria fires back with a side headlock, and Richter immediately screams, "Choke! Choke! Choke!" to get the referee's attention. Referee won't break it, so Wendi breaks it with a back suplex. She drops Victoria throat-first across the top rope and surfboards her. Victoria sweeps the leg to get a breather.
-Tombstone piledriver by Richter only gets two, surprisingly. Side headlock by Richter. Victoria dodges a charge and Richter comes to a stop, steps through the ropes, and falls off the apron onto the floor. Yes, it looked as bad as it sounded.
-Back in the ring, Victoria gets a double chop off the ropes. Richter goes to the second rope and tries to connect with an elbow, but Victoria ducks, Richter crashes, and Victoria rolls her up for three. Richter complains post-match about pulling the tights, and the crowd gives her a hilarious sarcastic "Awwwww" as she walks away.
B. BRIAN BLAIR vs ISRAEL MATIA
-Pretty basic mat wrestling to start, and Blair wins that battle with a side headlock. Front facelock by Blair, and that's as much as the fans will put up with because we get a nice, hostile "boring" chant going. Matia backs him into a corner and rams him to break the hold. Blair fights him off with forearms and goes back to the side headlock, getting the "boring" chant revving back up. Addominal stretch roll-up gets the three-count.
-We take a look at Slaughter and Piper's Pit from Championship Wrestling.
"Mister Wonderful" PAUL ORNDORFF vs SALVATORE BELLOMO
-Orndorff gets control early on, but misses a charge and goes elbow-first into the turnbuckles. Dropkick by Bellomo dazes Orndorff, but Orndorff fights back with a forearm and a facelock. Roddy Piper abruptly shows up mid-match to show support. Bellomo mounts a comeback, but runs into a high knee. Orndorff tosses Bellomo to the floor and Piper provides the distraction while Orndorff sneaks up with a boot to the head.
-Back inside, Bellomo targets the stomach and it causes Orndorff to retreat. Bellomo comes off the second rope with a bodypress, but Orndorff rolls through and turns it into a roll-up for three.
IVAN PUTSKI vs TONY COLON
-Putski works the arm. Colon fights him off with punches, but they just piss off Putski, and he throws a shot that sends Colon to the floor. Polish hammer finishes a short time later.
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Marshals are constitutional provisions to maintain orderly conduction of Parliamentary Proceedings. Do you object to use of Marshals for those 7 Unruly MPs of RajyaSabha, who are now crying hoarse over their Suspension.
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No objections at all. in fact, i want to ask the Lok Sabha speaker as to what these marshalls were doing when BJP members were showing currency in parliament hall supposed to have been sent by congress leaders., this situtation at that time was worse than for this incident.,Answered by iqbal seth, 13 Mar '10 08:10 am
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Marshals should be used more often to evict erring MPs.Afterall each MP takes home more than a crore of rupees per year considering free tel calls,free Air tickets etc.Answered by GAUTAM MOOKERJEE, 13 Mar '10 06:54 am
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Apartment | 2 bedrooms | sleeps 8
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Well equipped quirky town-centre flat in Weymouth, Dorset.
Modern, bright and airy top floor flat. Hall, two double bedrooms, spacious lounge/diner with TV/DVD player, well equipped kitchen with full sized oven, dishwasher, fridge, combi microwave, toaster, coffee maker etc. Large modern bathroom with bath/shower. Access to south facing roof terrace. Use of parking permit included.
Beach, marina, harbour, rail/coach station and town centre all within half a mile flat walking distance of the accommodation.
The apartment could sleep 10 people at a pinch as there are 2 double beds 2 double futon bed settees and 2 single foldout beds under double beds. Recently installed 10 Mbps WiFi Broadband.
Well suited to families and couples. Plenty of beach equipment and toys that you are welcome to use if you wish. Storeroom on 1st floor for pushchairs etc.
|Sleeps up to 8, 2 bedrooms
|Nearest beach
|Weymouth 300 m
|Car not necessary
|Nearest travel links
|Nearest airport: Bournmouth 57 km, Nearest railway: Weymouth 400 m
|Family friendly
|Great for children of all ages
|No pets allowed, No smoking at this property
Features and Facilities
|Internet access, DVD player
|Central heating, TV, CD player, Wi-Fi available
|Kettle, Toaster, Iron, Hair dryer
|Clothes dryer, Dishwasher, Cooker, Microwave, Fridge, Freezer
|2 bedrooms, 1 bathrooms of which 1 Family bathrooms, Solarium or roof terrace
|2 Sofa beds, Single beds (2), Double beds (2), Cots (1), Dining seats for 6, Lounge seats for 8
|Linen provided, Towels provided, High chair
|Bicycles available
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Two double bedrooms,each will sleep up to 2 adults and one child. Large lounge diner with 2 double futon sofa beds, satelite TV, DVD player. Modern spacious bathroom with full size bath and over head shower.Well equipped kitchen with full sized oven, ceramic hob, fridge/freezer, dish washer, microwave combi oven etc. All windows/skylights double glazed and child safe. Access to secure indoor storage/drying area.
Accommodation is professionally cleaned between lettings. Towels, tea towels and all bed linen provided with the exception of cot sheets/blankets.
Night storage heaters in all rooms, fan heater in bathroom. Cost of electricity included in rental.
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Parking is away from the property in a permit car park area (subject to availibility). There is a taxi rank bay opposite the property which may be used when unloading/loading luggage. Weymouth Parking Admin state " you may park on a double yellow line in order to load/unload, provided this is seen to be actively taking place, i.e. continuous coming and going, backwards and forwards from the vehicle carrying items to or from a nearby location". The property is reached via a pedestrian street.
Located on a lively street with shops, nightclubs and cinema virtually on the doorstep. Beach and harbour within 5 mins walk.
Please note there is no lift to the apartment which is reached by 57 steps (over 6 small flights!).
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No single groups, families and couples only. No smoking. Please note that there 57 steps to property.
The West Country region
Dorset nestles in rolling countryside between Devon, Somerset, Wiltshire and Hampshire. There are numerous beauty spots in the region - Corfe Castle, Durdle Door, Lulworth Cove, Chesil Beach to name just a few, as well as all manor of family and historical attactions such as Monkey World, the Tank Museum at Bovington and Thomas Hardy's House.
The seaside towns of Swanage, Lyme Regis, Poole and Bournemouth are all close at hand, and being on the Jurassic Coast there is always plenty of exploring to do! The area benefits from one of the sunniest micro climates in the UK, with warm summers and mild winters.
30 miles from the County town of Dorchester, Weymouth is a charming Georgian resort set in beautiful Dorset. Safe and clean sandy beaches, a town with plenty of varied shops and restaurants and a bustling harbour all make for a wonderful traditional family holiday.
There are numerous attractions and events throughout the year that cater for all ages as well as all the entertainments you would expect from a busy seaside town - you will be spoilt for choice!
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22 Aug 2014
"Nice roof top apartment"
Nicely decorated roof top apartment. Has all modern amenities. Keeps you fit as 3 flights of stairs but the rooftop is well worth it. Amazing views of red arrows on carnival day. Near all amenities as… More
18 Aug 2014
"Pros and cons of staying at Skyview."
Excellent for town centre as your in it!! Brilliant to reach from train station and with linen and towels provided, luggage weight is minimised. Parking requires driving round roads for spaces and usi… More
13 Jun 2014
"Hidden gem, great central location with everything you need for a fantastic holiday home"
Brilliant location on the 3rd floor of one of the main shopping streets. Close to the harbour, shops and beach. The apartment has everything you need to make your holiday perfect. Even buckets and sp… More
25 Apr 2014
"Great apartment - highly recommended!"
We spent a week in this lovely apartment in the centre of Weymouth and it was great! It is spacious, had everything we needed and was close to all amenities in the town and only a couple of minutes w… More
15 Apr 2014
"Spacious, well-equipped, light and airy and a very convenient location"
This is a lovely holiday flat in a lively part of Weymouth town centre, convenient for the shops, bars and cinema and 5 minutes walk from the beach and the picturesque quayside. Other attractions are… More
22 Sep 2013
"Absolutely brilliant apartment - highly recommended!"
My partner and I spent a week here in the middle of September, and have to say it was everything we could have wished for.Perfect location to the beach and the harbour, and whilst it's in the mid… More
28 Aug 2013
"What a lovely escape from reality!"
We spent a few days in Weymouth in this lovely flat. Sky lights meant the flat was cool and airy and the terrace meant that we could sit out and enjoy the lovely weather. The flat had everything we ne… More
1 Jan 2013
"A cozy, welcoming enjoyable retreat. A thoroughly enjoyable stay."
Looking at the photos online prior to the holiday the apartment looked welcoming and relaxing with a lovely view. The apartment in person didn't disappoint. The apartment was impeccably clean wi… More
7 Aug 2011
"A very well situated apartment, which is close to all facilities."
The location is perfect for the shops, restaurants, and a lovely sandy beach. There are lots of little shops that sell different things, which is nice. The apartment is spotlessly clean, bright and ai… More
24 May 2011
"Everything you need in a great location"
The apartment is located in the centre of the town in easy reach of everything you could possibly want for a break away in Weymouth. The town has numerous bars and restuarants, all offering fantastic food at great prices -Tescos is right opposite the apartment as well!!
The beach is a leisurely 5 minute stroll away where there are numerous cafes and ice cream parlours. There was a small funfair which I believe is there pretty much all year round and of course donkeys on the beach! We also ventured over to Guernsey for the day - the port was 10 minutes walk away.
At the other end of the bay was the Aquarium, crazy golf and sand sculptures, well worth the entrance fess.
The apartment itself was very clean and everything we needed was at hand from a bottle opener, a spare towel to loads of information leaflets on Weymouth and the surrounding areas .
The bedrooms are light and airy with the lounge nice and spacious. The settees were massive so you can relax in comfort after a long day exploring!
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Thonnance-les-Moulins is situated in the Haute-Marne (Champagne-Ardenne region) in the north-east of France at 35 km from Chaumont, the department capital. (General information: Thonnance-les-Moulins is 222 km from Paris).
Popular places to visit nearby include Bar-le-Duc at 41 km. For more places to visit and local tourist attractions see the map and listings below.
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Below we show places with official tourist classifications and other places of interest to visit nearby that should provide inspiration if you are visiting Thonnance-les-Moulins and wondering what to do next! Positions of each of these attractions is shown on the map below.
Recommended detour towns (fr: plus beau détour) Bar-le-Duc (41km); Commercy (45km); Toul (53km)
Remarkable gardens Le jardin de mon moulin (10km); Le château du grand jardin (12km); Parc de la Varenne (34km); Parc de G. de Tréves (38km); Jardin d'Ode (43km)
Protected historical centre (fr: secteur sauvegardé) (see also historical French towns) Neufchateau (30km)
Sites of natural beauty Cotes de Meuse (30km); Lac du Der-Chantecoq (43km); Foret de la Reine (55km)
Listed as villages d'etape - (recommended place to break a long journey) Ligny-en-Barrois (31km)
Villages in bloom 4* (fr: ville fleurie) Rollainville (33km); Colombe-le-Sec (41km); Haussignemont (52km)
Commune: Thonnance-les-Moulins
Canton: Poissons
Arrondissement: Saint-Dizier
Department: Haute-Marne
Region: Champagne-Ardenne
Postcode: 52230
from Chaumont (prefecture): 35 km
from Paris: 222 km
from Calais: 375 km
from Nice: 545 km
from Bordeaux: 599 km
from Strasbourg: 182 km
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A little girl from West Michigan underwent extensive surgery Wednesday at Beaumont Hospital that she has waited a lifetime for.
This surgery began a painstaking process. One of several procedures, it will take a couple years before the healing is complete, but in the end a little girl will have her face back.
Outwardly her scars tell a painful story of a near deadly attack, but on the inside ten-year-old Charlotte Ponce is full of laughter and life.
At three months old, she was attacked by a pet raccoon inside her West Michigan home leaving her right ear, nose and mouth horribly disfigured. Her parents lost custody, and as Charlotte fought for her life, her great aunt and uncle, who would later adopt Charlotte and her brother, reached out to help the tiny baby covered in bandages.
"I said, I wish she would open her eyes,' and all of a sudden she opened her eyes," said Tim Ponce. "That gave me a feeling that I wanted to take her in."
"I said, 'How do I take care of a child that needs so much special attention,' and she said, 'Treat her like a normal child,'" said Sharon Ponce. "So that's what we've always done."
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Leading from the 2nd Chair
Where the Grass Grows
Where The Grass Grows
I have been a pastor for about 10 years, serving at three churches. If you are doing the quick math, that is an average of three years and four months per church. I do not think I can keep up that pace! I don't think my wife will let me keep up that pace! I really don't want that kind of pace for my family !
On paper, it looks like I have about 10 years of experience, but what I really have is two years of experience four times, give or take a few months. Let me explain: I served at one church for almost 2 years and another church for 2 years and one month. I left ministry completely for three years and then re-entered ministry going back to the same church. After serving for a little over 2 years, I moved again and have been at my current church for 2 years and 3 months.
With that being said, you may not want to read anything else I have to say. However, if you do decide to keep reading maybe you can avoid some of the pitfalls and mistakes that nearly killed me, ended my ministry and destroyed my marriage and family.
When I first entered the ministry, I was fired up that someone would consider me as a person they could call Pastor. I did not feel called to a specific area of ministry, I was just glad to be on God's full-time team and was stoked to get paid for it! I started out as a 25 year old Children's Pastor with no prior experience—hadn't even taught a Sunday School class, no formal Christian education, no kids of my own and it just so happened that I loved it. The church I was working at had no Children's ministry to speak of before me, so there was only one way to go-up. I came out of the sales world from corporate America, soI knew how to beat the bushes and I knew how to work the numbers. And, that's exactly what I did, I worked to increase numbers, improve retention, generate excitement, build momentum—all the things that people look at to measure success. I wasn't doing it for show, it was the only thing I knew to do. According to those things, I was doing a good job. Not that I wasn't otherwise doing a good job, because I believe in my heart that I was. There was a lot of momentum within the children's ministry; there were a lot of kids coming to church and coming to Christ. We had tons of activities, volunteers were coming out of the woodwork, there was money in the bank, and things were going well. I was new to the District, I was young and energetic, and when all those things are the case, happens you get the attention of a lot of people. It wasn't too long before I started getting opportunities to go other places.
Instead of staying in the great situation that I was in, I started to believe that the "success" that was taking place around the Children's ministry was to my credit and I started to feel like the reason I was getting calls to go to other churches, bigger churches, more "prestigious" churches, churches where I would surely make more money and get noticed by even more people, perhaps those people—you know the ones that can really help you climb the secret ladders that go to the top faster—was because I was just a little more special than every one else. Give me a break!
I found myself looking at my ministry as a career rather than a calling. All of a sudden I found myself sucked back into the world that I felt so happy to be escaping when I left corporate America—the grind of the political maneuvering that takes place behind the curtain and the chaos of the climb to the top. All of a sudden ministry became for me just another place to build a career rather than a place to make a life and serve God wherever He wanted to use me.
My next assignment was to a bigger church where I did make more money, and it was a great move for my family. We were close to home, my wife could stay at home with our new baby girl, we had health insurance and got to live in a four bedroom parsonage. I employed all of the same handiwork from my sales background in my new position and pushed even harder to maximize all the natural graces and gifting that God has blessed me with to see increases happen in the ministry. The ministry flourished. Surely this was God's hand at work in our lives. It very well could have been. The problem wasn't with God, or the ministry, or the church, it was with me. We were having a blast and all the outward signs of "success" were there. We did love the church, we did love the ministry, we did love the people, and it was a good move for my family. The bottom line was that I just wasn't ready yet by way of my experience, my spiritual growth, or by maturity. Two years into that move, I self-destructed and ended up making decisions that hurt my family, hurt my ministry, hurt the church, and caused me to be out of ministry all together. I went into a very dark place and stayed there until God pulled me out of the pit. That's another story for another time, though
I'm not saying that will always happen to you if you leave a church before you are ready. However, here is what I am saying…ministry is no place to build your career. There is too much at stake. There is too much on the line. Too many people suffer when pastors see their pulpits and places of ministry as opportunities to get a leg up for the next stop on their way to the top.
In my last assignment, I was a Student Pastor. I currently serve as an Associate Pastor. Last year I was ordained. It was truly one of the greatest days of my life. Before that day, and even more after that day, people have asked me when I'm going to become a Senior. Pastor. Sometimes in conversation they will say things like, "Well I know that the idea is for you to one day have your own church, but we sure are glad you're here right now." Some of these thoughts have been confusing to me as I began to struggle again with the idea of what I'm supposed to be doing and the ministry to which I'm called. I'm 38 years old and not getting any younger. I've had thoughts like, "If I'm going to be a Senior Pastor I'd better hurry it up because I know I'm going to have to start out at a smaller church and work my way up to a larger one…the smaller ones don't pay that well so I need to hold off and choose wisely before I make the leap…" I know, I know, I'm a shallow minded, unspiritual person!
It blows my mind to think that I could even have those types of "career" thoughts even now, after everything God has brought me through. Maybe you're not like me .Maybe you are a staff pastor who knows the exact path that God has for you and you know it so well that you never even think about it or worry. Why would you worry, after all, pastors don't worry! But, I've found myself worrying and being anxious about my future and things that I cannot control. I've found myself feeling frustrated about denominational politics. I've found myself getting caught up playing the leadership game even now, as a grown man and a mature Christian. I tell you this in an effort to be honest with you, but also to encourage you if you have ever found yourself in any of the same places.
Here's where I am today and the most practical thing I can tell you as person who has spent time in several different chairs of leadership, both on the local church level and at the District level - God didn't call you to play political games on your District to get better assignments for yourself so you could make more money, get more prestige, get a cool certificate at District Assembly or get recognized by a General Superintendent. God certainly does call people to do things and results flow out of obedience,. We can spend our whole life in ministry getting 2 years of experience at every stop along the way, chasing down our dreams of being the next great DS, GS or Senior Pastor of a mega church. Or we can bloom where God plants us and stay as long as He'll let us , learning all that He'll teach us and letting our families know what it is to have a home in the process. Long-term leadership affects long-term change and that happens by getting on a team and staying there, not by constantly looking to see where the grass is greener or more plentiful. The grass is greenest where you water it - sometimes that means understanding that the 2nd chair has your name on it.
Nick Peeples serves as the Associate Pastor at Orlando Centerpointe Community Church of the Nazarene in Orlando, FL.


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Downtown Disney spotlight: T-Rex and Characters in Flight
Written by Robert Niles
LAKE BUENA VISTA, Florida - After three intense days at Universal Orlando for the opening of the Wizarding World of Harry Potter, my parents and I drove over to Walt Disney World's Downtown Disney for lunch.Tweet
We ate at T-Rex, one of the few Downtown Disney restaurants none of us had eaten at before.
T-Rex is a Landry restaurant, the same company that owns and operates Rainforest Cafe. Which isn't surprising, given that T-Rex is essentially a carbon copy of Rainforest Cafe, except with dinosaurs rather than jungle animals.
The menu is similarly expansive, heavy on the meat. Nevertheless, I went with a fish dish, the Mesozoic Mahi Mahi: a filet of panko-crusted mahi mahi, served with a sweet and sour sauce, wild rice and roasted vegetables, including green beans, carrots, zucchini and peppers, for $23.99. (Apparently, T-Rex recently dropped the price $1, but replaced a shrimp topping and lemon shallot butter sauce with the sweet and sour sauce. It also changed the breading from a Parmesan crust to the Japanese breadcrumbs.)
Unless you're talking fish n' chips, fish doesn't need breading. Like a good steak, a fish filet's best when prepared simply - just grill or saute it. The sweet and sour sauce didn't add much to the fish, though I wish I saw roasted red peppers offered at restaurants more often. They're a yummy side dish.
My mother selected the Lost World Chicken Salad Sandwich, a pulled rotisserie chicken in mayonnaise with celery, onions, almonds and tarragon. It's served on a croissant, with potato chips for $13.99.
I found the chicken salad to have an off, perfumey flavor that kept me from trying more than one bite. Typically, I love tarragon, but in combination with the other flavors here, well, it just didn't work for me.
Unless you've got a kid who's a dinosaur fan, in which case you're likely to end up here at some point during your Walt Disney World vacation, there's no reason to seek out T-Rex. You can find much better food elsewhere on property, often at less cost.
After lunch, we walked over to West Side for a trip on Characters in Flight, the immense helium (not hot air!) balloon that floats 400 feet over Walt Disney World.
The 10-minute up-and-down trip costs $18 for adults and $12 for kids, ages 3-9. I wouldn't recommend the trip for anyone too short to see over the handrails, so skip it if you've got kids under 8 in your group. Nor will this ride appeal to anyone with a fear of heights, even if it's a mild case. You're in a real balloon here, so don't expect the stability you get riding something such as SeaWorld's observation tower. You feel even the gentlest breezes here.
That's Epcot, above. And here's a shot of Downtown Disney:
On a clear day, the views are lovely. Are they worth the extra cost? I'll leave that to you. But if you've never been up in a balloon before, this is an easy, visually rewarding way to do that.
Readers' Opinions
From Anthony Murphy on June 19, 2010 at 9:52 PM
All I know is every time that I have gone to T Rex, my family loved the food! Then again, it is expensive!
Lucky you getting on Characters in Flight. It always seems to be down due to potental weather!
From James Rao on June 19, 2010 at 10:02 PM
The first T-Rex opened right here in Kansas City (on the Kansas side - not Missouri) a few years back. While I have always loved the exquisite theming, the food is an overly expensive and uninteresting disappointment. I just don't understand why Landry's will invest so much into the dinos, and so little into the food. And I totally agree with you, Robert, about that "off, perfumey flavor", as it seems to permeate most of the entrees I have tasted.
Anyway, whenever we visit now it is just for dessert, which even the weakest of kitchens has a hard time screwing up completely!
From 188.8.131.52 on June 20, 2010 at 3:37 AM
It's interesting to note that (because he was in the neighborhood) Robert (whose prime objective was to see Potter) spent a day down the street at Disney.
It's safe to assume that will happen again and again -- people who travel to Florida to see Potter will no doubt eamark time for Disney as well.
"What's good for tourism and entertainment is goof for Central Florida."
From Thomas Caselli on June 20, 2010 at 7:46 AM
My friend and I went to T-Rex last June. I thought the food was very good. That is the only time that I have been to T-Rex, although I have been to Rainforest Cafe many times. I have never had a problem with the food at Rainforest Cafe, always very good to me. When we were there last June, the balloon wasn't up and running.
From Joshua Counsil on June 20, 2010 at 7:31 PM
I tend to avoid dining establishments that have been poorly reviewed by every single travel book I've read. I never have, and never will, eat at a Rainforest Cafe or T-Rex.
Surprisingly, Downtown Disney and CityWalk have pretty mediocre restaurants with a few exceptions (e.g., Raglan Road, Emeril's). Meanwhile, excellent fare can be found at their resort hotels, but some people don't want to travel out of the way to get to a good restaurant. I really think both resorts' dining/shopping/partying districts could use a high-end dining experience.
From hannah caller on June 21, 2010 at 3:10 AM
Me and my family ate at T-Rex in January, i opted for the colossal Nacho's from the appitizer menu for my meal it was nice but not as nice as any meal i'd had at the Rainforest, the colour of the nachos also put me off a little, as well as the usual colour they were red and black and my brain was telling me there was something sinister about eating nacho's of that colour lol, everyone elses meal was standard but nothing special, the cocktails on the other hand were amazing, as an adult i'd recommend checking out the bar but not the food!
From Nick Dakuginow on June 21, 2010 at 8:16 AM
T-Rex was a nice environment and had pretty good food. I believe I had the Chicken Fried Steak which was phenomenal and I too had those nachos noted before me, which were very good as well. A very crowded place with kids running all around, still an enjoyable experience.
From luis gonzalez on June 21, 2010 at 1:00 PM
T-rex is pretty much overpriced crap. If your going to spend the money, go to maggiano's on I-drive, or fulton's crab house, or wolfgang's. Take it from me, I've eaten everywhere.
WORD to your stomach!!!!!!!!
From 220.127.116.11 on June 21, 2010 at 1:04 PM
My wife and I dined at the T-Rex Cafe in Downtown Disney for our 5th wedding anniversary. We had never eaten there, but had been to the Rainforest Cafe on several occasions, and thought we'd give the T-Rex a shot. We were very happy with our seats, as we were right next to the Triceratops. The food was very good, and the price is not bad considering the theming and the location.
Overall, I would recommend T-Rex for anyone who likes dinosuars, and good food.
From Manny Barron on June 22, 2010 at 12:26 PM
Ate at T-Rex last week. I found the food to be delicious although portions were small. Theming is Rainforest Cafeish with Dino's. Overall i liked it and would visit again.
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Devin Ebanks joins Kevin Jones as the second former Mountaineer to suit up in the NBA Summer League.
Nine West Virginia University men's basketball players are scheduled to compete in the Pittsburgh Basketball Club Pro-Am Summer League. The league runs from June 18 – July 18 and tipped off Monday night.
There are seven teams in the league with six of them slated to play every Monday and Wednesday night for the next month.
Four Mountaineers took the floor in three different games on opening night.
The first game featured walk-on Aaric Dickerson and Pat Forsythe. Forsythe is coming off an ankle injury that cut his freshman season short. He was granted a medical hardship waiver and will still have four years of eligibility for the Mountaineers.
Forsythe looked a little out of shape, which should be expected coming off months of rehab. He also appeared to be favoring his right leg a little.
"There are some points when I jump on it that it gets sore," said Forsythe. "Overall, my strength is getting better and there are not many problems anymore."
Favoring that leg did not stop him from making an impact on the stat sheet. Forsythe managed to score eight points and grabbed six rebounds in his game. He showed the ability to hit a couple of jumpers in the neighborhood of 10-12 feet away from the basket. Forsythe also went up strong with the ball to power in some baskets in the low post.
"Mostly I am trying to run up and down the floor because that is the style of play we are going to have this year," said Forsythe. "I am trying to run, rebound and block shots. The scoring will come with the rebounds."
Sophomore Forward Keaton Miles was the only Mountaineer playing in the second game of the night. Dominique Rutledge is listed on the same team as Miles, but was absent from Monday night's games.
Miles was clearly working on his jump shot. He put up numerous jumpers that rimmed out and would not fall. Miles did not take many shots last year. He took 58 shots in 32 games. Miles wants to be more of an offensive impact this season.
Miles had a mixed stat line scoring five points, grabbing 11 rebounds and also recording five turnovers.
"I really couldn't buy a shot today," Miles joked. "But I have been working on it and it is something I want to add to my game and contribute more on the scoring end as well as defense and rebounding."
Miles is also taking the opportunity in the summer league to work on another aspect of his game. On numerous occasions, he gathered in a rebound and immediately pushed it up the floor.
"He (WVU Head Coach Bob Huggins) wants us to run and get the rebound and who ever gets it is talented enough to dribble," We want to push it and that is something we are working on in open gym or in the practice facility or here."
The last game of the night featured Sophomore Guard Jabarie Hinds. Hinds displayed a slightly thicker upper body and said he has put on 15 pounds since he arrived at WVU last August.
Hinds' play echoed that of what Miles said in the sense that he was pushing the ball up the floor and trying to play the game at a fast pace. That appears to be one of Hinds' strengths. He showed glimpses of the ability to drive the lane and score at times in his freshman season.
Hinds appeared to be more confident on the floor Monday night and that confidence led to several successful drives to the hoop resulting in a basket. Hinds finished his game with 17 points.
"We are just trying to run and go up and down the floor and get used to that because that is what we are going to do this year," said Hinds.
Hinds is not only focused on trying to drive the lane to make things happen for his team. He is working hard this offseason on his jump shot. Hinds says he will spend about an hour and a half every day at the new practice facility putting up jump shots.
"I am working on my jump shot, hitting the three-ball and pulling up," Hinds stated.
Hinds needs to develop a consistent pull-up jumper to keep the defense guessing on a break whether he will drive the lane or choose to stop and take a jumper. Without that, defenders will be better prepared to set up and try to take a charge.
New Mountaineer Matt Humphrey, who just joined the roster after graduating from Boston College, is also on Hinds' team in the Summer League. However, he has not yet arrived in Morgantown and is not expected to play in his first game until July 27.
Freshman Terry Henderson is also on Hinds' Summer League team, but was also absent from Monday night's game.
As many as eight Mountaineers may play in Wednesday night's games. Pat Forsythe and Aaric Dickerson are scheduled to play against Keaton Miles and Dominique Rutledge's team at 7 p.m. That game will be followed by Jabarie Hinds and possibly Terry Henderson playing a team full of Pitt players. The 9 p.m. game will feature Aaron Brown and Freshman Eron Harris.
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