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Democratic Vistas by Walt Whitman. How about reading this during the election returns for measure.
@TempestWilliams "I know nothing grander.. the triumphant result of faith in human kind, than a well-contested American national election."...
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Greetings fellow Cage fans.
So, odds are you're wondering what's been going on around here. How come, you say, there aren't any new posts lately? What happened to the weekly updates? Where in the hell have you been?
All good questions, and deserving of a good answer. Sadly, I don't have one. I wish I could say I got supremely busy and just had to put this by the wayside, but that's only half true. I have been busy at times, but there have been others where I probably should have been writing. Honestly, I just kind of suck at managing my time.
Which brings me to the current state of this project. No, I haven't come to say no more. Just that things are changing a bit.
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Film: Leaving Las Vegas
Demeanor: Academy Award Winning Drunk.
Hair Quality: Frazzled, thinning. A precursor to Adaptation-level hair weirdness.
Performance Quality: 9 Cages Out of 10.
Many of those I've discussed this year-long project with tend to immediately call out a few films in Our Greatest Living Actor's catalog of film. Usually, it's the wackier stuff, of the Con Air, or Vampire's Kiss, or yes, The Wicker Man fame. Strangely, only a handful of people I've talked to even mentioned, or even seemed to recall much about Leaving Las Vegas. Perhaps this is due in no small part to the film not being nearly as ubiquitous in pop culture lore as stuff like The Rock and Deadfall, but still, this bothers me. How can anyone with an affinity for Nicolas Cage not be interested in the role that won the man his only Oscar to date?
Perhaps some are scared off by the notion that Leaving Las Vegas is some kind of prestige picture, a movie weighted down by the kind of emotional seriousness that so often appeals to the aged, seemingly perpetually dour Academy voters. Certainly Leaving Las Vegas has some of the tenets of the kind of ultraserious dramas that typically take home Oscar gold, including: the tortured protagonist, the tragic female lead, a greater focus on characters over plot, and a fair amount of indie cred for its small budget and off-kilter style.
But on the other hand, Leaving Las Vegas is also kind of an insane movie.
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Film: Kiss of Death
Demeanor: Bug-eyed fits of rage broken up by periodic moments of oddball lucidity.
Hair Quality: Largely overshadowed by the quality of Cage's goatee, which is magnificent.
Performance Quality: Seven Cages Out of Ten.
Little Junior Brown is a very strange character.
I mean this both in the colloquial "Man, what a character!" sense, as well as on a conceptual level. As a construct created by a writer to inflict menace and/or comedy relief on a protagonist, Brown is only effective in fits and starts. This is not necessarily the fault of Our Greatest Living Actor, who portrayed brown in the 1995 crime thriller Kiss of Death. However, given the sheer volume of peculiar ticks and inexplicable character traits stuffed into Brown's dialogue, I do have an inkling that he was involved in shaping some of this character's tone and demeanor.
Perhaps it was director Barbet Schroeder's will that Brown, the heir apparent to a New York crime family of indeterminate national origin (I think they might all be Irish?), have an affinity for bench-pressing strippers in his family-owned nightclub. Maybe Cage had nothing to do with Brown's penchant for crafting acronyms, asking tactless philosophical questions, nor his anxiety over the thought of anything metal being in his mouth. Maybe his pile of character quirks came from other sources. But knowing Cage as well as I think I do by this point in our series, I highly doubt it.
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Film: Trapped In Paradise
Demeanor: Perpetually frazzled.
Hair Quality: Often covered by hats.
Performance Quality: Five Cages Out of Ten.
Trapped In Paradise is a horrible movie. Awful. Wretched. Deplorable. Idiotic. Ill-conceived. Functionally retarded. Nothing about it works. It's not especially funny, nor is it especially sweet, or romantic, or thrilling, or any of the other way-too-many things it tries to be. It's a disaster from top to bottom.
And yet, no matter how blisteringly horrendous Trapped In Paradise was during its nearly two-hour runtime (!!!), one thing kept me in the fight. One solitary element of this movie captured my attention and reminded me that there could still be joy to be wrung from even the most atrocious entertainments.
That one thing? A man named Richard Jenkins.
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Film: It Could Happen To You
Demeanor: An almost zen-like calmness, with periodic bouts of foolish idealism.
Hair Quality: Blonde. And brown. Almost as if it can't decide what color it is.
Performance Quality: Three Cages Out of Ten
There is no genre of film more thread-worn than the romantic comedy. You can cite the noisy, predictable rhythms of modern action films or decry the desperate lack of creativity in the current horror genre all you want, but they still pale in comparison to the total lack of creative forward progress made in romantic comedies since the genre's inception.
Presumably, this is because the people going to see romantic comedies don't care. Every one of these plots is purely designed to get a man and a woman who initially aren't supposed to be together to eventually be together by the end of the film. How the screenwriters go about this is entirely irrelevant. The game of Mouse Trap the writers come up with to eventually get these two kids to the cheese is ultimately ancillary to the payoff of this lovely couple coming together in celebrated union. Perhaps that's not the case for those of us who are dragged to these movies and aren't just there to make googly eyes at Ryan Reynolds or James Marsden or whoever the fuck, but we don't really matter in the grand scheme of things.
With this in mind, understand that It Could Happen To You was never going to rank very highly on my list of Nicolas Cage films. I'd seen it many, many years ago, probably not long after it went to the home video market, but what I remembered wasn't terribly positive. Upon re-watching it for this series, I realized that most of the issues I had with it back in the '90s—namely, that it was totally boring and gay and stuff (I was 14, don't judge me)—wasn't really the issue. In truth, the problem is that It Could Happen To You is something close to the most rom-commy rom-com to ever rom-com in the history of rom-coms.
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Film: Guarding Tess
Demeanor: Unusually stiff and stodgy, with just a hint of boiling rage.
Hair Quality: Very professional.
Peformance Quality: Five Cages Out of Ten.
One of the things that's actually helped me quite a bit when working on this Year of the Cage project is the unwavering support I've gotten from my surprisingly game girlfriend. She's sat and watched nearly all of the movies in this series with me, despite the fact that she is nowhere near the Nicolas Cage fan I am, nor is she even especially interested in mainstream film. I'm amazed she's stuck with me since she clearly hasn't liked many of the movies in the series thus far. In fact, for the last ten or so films in a row, she's ended the screening with a now familiar question.
"Why did they make that movie?"
Usually I have some intellectualized answer for her about the meanings of this and that or whatever, or sometimes I just joke that a movie is just a movie, and people who make movies often are crazy people. In the case of Guarding Tess, the same question was posed, and for once, I was a bit at a loss. I didn't have a joke or a quip to explain away its existence. In truth, I couldn't explain the movie away because I barely felt like I'd even watched a movie. It was more like 90 or so minutes of my life had just been redacted, a black line drawn through whatever section of my brain housed whatever it was I was supposed to have seen. A minute after finishing Guarding Tess, I could barely remember what I'd even watched.
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Film: Red Rock West
Demeanor: Surprisingly calm and charming, if a bit egregiously honest.
Hair Quality: It's just…hair.
Performance Quality: Six Cages Out of Ten.
I think I missed the boat on Red Rock West. There was apparently a time when this movie was revered. Judging by its 90+ Rotten Tomatoes rating and insanely enthusiastic written reviews of the time, Red Rock West was something close to the No Country For Old Men of its time, a slick, darkly thrilling noir story set in America's back country. The critics speak of brilliant performances, clever dialogue from writer/director John Dahl, and themes previously unexplored/uncombined in the history of film.
I'd like to actually see that movie, if it existed. Unfortunately, Red Rock West isn't really that movie. At least, not anymore.
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Film: Deadfall
Demeanor: A cross between Tony Montana and Jim Carrey as The Mask.
Hair Quality: Wig-tastic!
Performance Quality: Infinite Cages.
Deadfall has simultaneously been my most looked forward to and dreaded film on this schedule. The reason to look forward to it is perhaps obvious to any serious Cage fan, but for those less well-versed in obscure Cage-ian lore, Deadfall is, without question, the single greatest example of insane overacting ever captured on film. Cage's performance in this movie is the stuff of performance art legend. He's less a character in Deadfall than some demonic presence that wandered in from a completely different movie. His existence is inexplicable and incredible.
The reason I dreaded writing about Deadfall is not because it's a terrible movie (it is, but so are lots of movies in this feature), but rather because I found the idea of trying to dissect what Nicolas Cage is doing in this movie altogether daunting. Trying to in some way analyze, criticize, or even draw base-level conclusions about Cage's performance is, at once, terrifying and seemingly pointless, because straight up, I don't know what he's doing. I don't understand it. I have no idea where these line deliveries, all that hysterical shouting, and that purposely awkward wig-and-sunglasses combo came from. Without a real understanding of how these things came to be, I am simply left to sit in awe of them. There is no wrapping my head around Nicolas Cage in Deadfall in much the way there's no way to really take in the little details of a nuclear explosion. By the time you've realized what's happening in front of you, you're already toast.
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Film/Show: The Best of Times
Demeanor: Surfer jock x 1000
Hair Quality: Surfer jock circa 1981 x 10,000,000,000
Performance Quality: Not Applicable
We're now more than a quarter of the way through Year of the Cage. I said to myself initially that I'd be lucky to make it a month, but here I am, and here you are. As a small thank you to those who actually bother to read these essays, I'm going to do a few Bonus Cage entries on slightly more specific, off-kilter aspects of Our Greatest Living Actor's career.
Through this point in the series, we've learned much about Cage's early career. We know his breakthrough role was in Valley Girl, and we know his first real film role came in a small role in Fast Times at Ridgemont High. But one thing we haven't covered at all is Cage's first appearance in anything filmed. In fact, Cage's first real acting job came a couple of years before either of those films, in a little-seen, barely remembered failed TV pilot called The Best of Times.
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Film: Amos & Andrew
Demeanor: That of a delightfully charming transient.
Hair Quality: If Peter Loew had bitchin' sideburns.
Performance Quality: Six Cages Out of Ten.
The early '90s are like a decade unto themselves. So much happened over the course of the years between 1990 and 1994 that you almost have to split the decade in half due to the wild cultural shifts that took place at the midway point. In the early '90s, there was still something of an '80s hangover permeating every element of popular culture. That specific era of culture can almost be tied beat-for-beat with the first Bush presidency, as the years between his 1988 election win and his exit in 1992 are so culturally hyperspecific that you almost want to blame him outright for the existence of Hammer pants and Spike Lee's career.
Not that Spike Lee's career is entirely worth dismissing, mind you. While I maintain that the director has made exactly one movie worth watching in the last decade and a half (the fantastic 25th Hour), his early works were incredible, searing portraits of race relations in the era. Do the Right Thing and Jungle Fever helped galvanize a new brand of forthright conversation about how different ethnic cultures interact with one another during the post-'80s sorting out period.
If pre-1992 was the time for earnest discussion of race relations via film, then post 1992 is when Hollywood decided it okay to start making fun of it again. How else do you explain the existence of Amos & Andrew, a slapstick buddy comedy that might as well be a giant "But see, black guys are like this! And white dudes, they're like this" joke from some hack comedian's stand-up routine on Evening at the Improv. Amos & Andrew is practically to Spike Lee's filmography what Hot Shots is to Top Gun. It's a movie in which idiotic white people harass a semi-militant, but generally well-meaning black man (Samuel L. Jackson), and no less than two actors, including Nicolas Cage, put on accidental blackface. It's a parody of racial tensions of the era, and the very definition of "too soon."
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Today's post is written by Susan Gilbert, a Professional Organizer in Apex, NC; her business is Horizons Organizing.
For more information about Susan, visit http://metropolitanorganizing.com/bio/susan
Susan recently assisted me on a hoarding (team) job, for an upcoming episode of Hoarders on A & E TV. I asked her to write about her experience; here is what she had to say.
Most of us who work as organizers find our way to this profession because we enjoy helping people. At some point you realize that you've been gifted with (1) the ability to see things as they could/should be, and (2) the focus to make it happen. When you leave a client happier and more relieved than when you found him/her, what's NOT to love about the job? (And is it really a "job" or more of a mission?) You're educated, enthusiastic, and adeptly tackle any organizational challenge that comes your way.
Then you walk into the home of a hoarder. And everything you thought you knew goes right out the window. This is clutter on a whole new level. This is more "stuff" than you've ever seen before. Your mind starts to spin as you wonder where to start.
"Tell me you've seen worse," the hoarder says – half kidding, half serious. (Actually, this is a comment I hear from just about every client, hoarder or not.) You smile and say something positive to ease the embarrassment the hoarder feels…
My first experience working with a hoarder was probably a bit different from other people because I was part of an organizing "team" on the set of a shoot for the A&E Network's show, "Hoarders." Geralin was to be the head organizer, and the team would work as quickly as possible in the background. As I looked around the home, I didn't have to worry about where to start because there were enough of us organizers to divide and conquer, and we had to get right to work. Needless to say, cleaning a hoarder's house in two days is not how it's typically done. But we made progress, and the client seemed happy.
Was it perfect and beautiful? No. A fellow first-timer asked Geralin how to keep from becoming completely frustrated. Her answer: "Make harm reduction your primary goal, because it's never going to look like a home in a magazine." (Keep exits and pathways clear , address fire hazards, discard expired food, etc.) This was my first lesson, and probably the most important. It wasn't so much about lowering expectations as it was making them more realistic and keeping the client safe.
My second lesson came after the shoot on my way home. I felt good about what I'd done, but I couldn't shake the feeling that I'd been too chatty with the client after we were done. Geralin called me and confirmed that fact. In an effort to be friendly, I had forgotten the importance of strict boundaries.
Lesson three wasn't so much a lesson as it was a confirmation of what I knew intellectually but had not experienced directly. Ten days after the filming of "Hoarders," I went back to continue working with the client (a benefit of "aftercare funds" provided by the show). For the first time, I experienced firsthand the concept of how differently a hoarder's brain functions. Oh sure, I knew all about how a hoarder struggles with decisions and sees items in ways that often defy logic. But I'd never actually gone toe-to-toe with someone on the importance of a small plastic spoon. Every item had a purpose, and all my logical arguments were fruitless…
…which leads me to my fourth (and surely not my last) lesson: The typical approaches to organizing don't work with a hoarder.
"You have two of these, which one would you like to keep?"
"This is broken, do you want to pitch it?"
"My brother's going to fix it."
"Why don't we put this in a yard sale?"
"Well, I could probably get more money for it if I took it to a consignment store."
You have to be more patient, more creative, and more flexible than with other organizing clients. You have to be willing to change your plans on the fly. You have to look past the piles and shoot for small victories. And you have to remember that a lot of people have probably given up on this person and you might be the only hope they have.
After my first session with my hoarder client, I came home and plopped down on the couch to catch the end of the local news. A story was running about a small-town pastor who also owns a trendy chocolate shop. She was commenting on her many mission trips to third world countries, and in flash of what I consider divine intervention, she said exactly what I needed to hear: "It's heartbreaking, but you can't be so overwhelmed that you don't try to do something."
GT: Thanks Susan! I'm sure this will be a real eye-opener for many readers. Would you mind telling us a bit about yourself now?
What is your favorite sport?
SG: Professional ice hockey. I grew up in the south so I'm a recent convert. Once you understand the game and get to know the players, it's totally addictive.
GT: Do you have any pets?
SG: I have an old lab and a new lab, both are great dogs. The senior dog has been a great companion and the puppy brings me my paper every morning, which is hilarious to watch (and I didn't teach her to do it).
GT: Do you have any special talents?
SG: I can play any song I hear. I'm pretty sure you're born with that ability. As a child I thought everyone could do it, but I eventually learned that a lot of people are jealous of that gift.
GT: What is your guilty pleasure?
SG: Chocolate – pretty much all kinds of chocolate.
GT: Do you have any personal goals for the next 12 months?
SG: I want to continue to get fit (since exercise is pretty much the answer to every problem). I spent a lot of years taking care of others and neglected myself. Developing the habit of working out was my first hurdle. Now that I go to the gym regularly, I need to work a little harder when I'm there! I'm pondering a sprint triathlon.


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Bluefin Toro Tartare with Dried Shallot Soy Recipe
By Shrine
Difficulty: Medium | Total Time: 30 mins | Makes: about 4 servings
Previously featured at Shrine Asian Kitchen. Recipe by Chef Kevin Long.
- 1 C. soy sauce
- 3 T. dried Chinese shallots
- pinch of sesame seeds
- few drops of sesame oil
- 2 tbsp demerara sugar
- 2 tbsp sherry vinegar
- 1 clove garlic, smashed
- 1 C. soy sauce
- 1 T thinly sliced scallions (soaked in ice water)
- 1 C. soy sauce
- 3 T. dried Chinese shallots
- 2 tbsp sherry vinegar
- For sauce: Mix well the soy sauce, dashi, Chinese shallots, sesame seeds, sesame oil, demerara sugar, sherry vinegar, yuzu juice, and garlic. Keeps for 2 weeks in the fridge, and can be used for dumplings, dressings, and of course the Bluefin Toro Tartare!
- For tartare: Mix together all final ingredients and mold in the small bowls.
- Surround with shallot soy dressing.
- Garnish with crispy wontons, chives, and cilantro, as desired
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People with disabilities, no matter what age or what disability they may have, are people first. They have individual personalities, interests, abilities, and needs. They are our children, sisters, brothers, mothers, and fathers. They are our neighbors, employees, and friends. Please join Children's Care in bringing awareness to People First Language.
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Review of "Floored by Love"
Few films have captured the delicate issue of coming out to one's family with the accuracy and sensitivity of Floored by Love. The intense fear of rejection that makes countless couples introduce their lovers as their "roommates†at family functions is something all LGBT people have known at one time or another, so it is easy to relate to both Cara and Janet's points of view.
The additional element of cultural difference makes the film even more poignant. Cara feels trapped by her parents' expectations, who remark that it's a "disgrace†that her younger brother is getting married before her.
If there is one main problem with the film, it's the fact that it heavy-handedly favors one character's perspective over another's. Janet's desire to be openly lesbian and married to Cara is consistently promoted over Cara's reluctance to marry and her desire to keep her parents in the dark.
While this may be a noble point to make, Janet herself seems a bit too bent on getting married and puts excessive pressure on Cara to make wedding plans. It's perfectly justified for Janet to want her partner to be out to her family, but for her to demand marriage so quickly seems like a contrived plot device and doesn't mesh with the rest of the picture.
In stark contrast to Cara's woes with her family, Jesse's parents are wholeheartedly supportive of his sexuality. His stepfather, Norman (Michael Robinson), even awkwardly offers brochures from the LGBT center, proclaiming, "Here's one with safe sex tips!â€
Jesse's life is stirred up unexpectedly by the return of his gay biological father, Daniel (Andrew McIlroy), a freewheeling though successful actor. This story line is actually much more about Norman's acceptance by his stepson than it is about Jesse being gay, which is sweet and unusual.
Norman is hapless and dedicated, and loves his stepson much more than Daniel ever will. This becomes especially heartbreaking halfway through the film when Jesse states his intentions to move in with Daniel, and Norman goes so far as to get a full makeover in an attempt to improve his image in Jesse's eyes. In these scenes, Norman is the lovable underdog to the flashy and shallow Daniel. Clearly, Norman is a better father, but the impressionable Jesse is easily swayed by Daniel.
As much as Jesse's story is a wonderful departure from the usually bleak gay teenager fare, it takes a bit of a backseat, dramatically, to the Cara/Janet story line. Finding out where Jesse ends up is engrossing, but the situation seems a bit unrealistic. Most parents of 14-year-olds would not let their son or daughter move in with an estranged, irresponsible adult.
Despite its flaws, Floored is an incredible little feel-good film. Both story lines are interesting and relevant, and the characters are realistic, sympathetic and most importantly, likeable. There are some weaker plot points, and the entire affair is over far too quickly, but Floored by Love absolutely delivers.


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Jets chased spaceship flying toward Cashiers
Orange ball of fire floats over Asheville, NC
Pilot plus three saw UFO near Franklin, NC
UFOs seemed to communicate with each other
Glowing sphere seen near Swannanoa, NC
Real UFOs perform for UFO conference
5th year of sky ship "performances" over Cashiers, NC
"Hotdog" UFO seen over Bryson City, North Carolina
Woman "totally freaked" by low-flying UFO
UFO "sucked all the sound" out of the air
Huge donut-shaped UFO over Linville Falls, NC
EDITOR'S NOTE: On November 14, 2013, we received the following brief sighting report from Lee Simmons who lives in the area marked with the red "A" on the map. The star marks the intersection known locally as the "Cashiers Crossroads."
Jets chased spaceship flying toward Cashiers
On November 14, 2013 at 8 p.m., I saw a spaceship about 300 feet from my home through the window. It was flying silently about 50 feet above the ground and going up Cullowhee Mountain Road (in the direction of Cashiers). I live on Coral Bell Lane. I saw it for seven seconds and then one minute later two jets flew over in pursuit of it.
The purple marker on the first map shows the Beaverdam area north of Asheville, NC. The marker on the second map shows the Kenilworth area.
Orange ball of fire floats over Asheville, NC
EDITOR'S NOTE: This sighting report was received on October 26, 2013 from Amanda of Asheville, North Carolina.
Pilot plus three saw UFO near Franklin, NC
EDITOR'S NOTE: We received the following sighting report the evening of September 28, 2013 from Sally Lowdermilk.
Tonight at 7:45 p.m., September 28, 2013, we were driving west on US Highway 64 about 13 miles west of Franklin, North Carolina. There were four adults in the car and we all saw a white or silver fireball traveling west to east. It looked like a giant sparkler as it flew parallel to the horizon, not losing or gaining altitude.
My husband who is a pilot estimated the object was traveling approximately 700 mph at an estimated altitude of 12,000 feet.
UFOs seemed to communicate with each other
EDITOR'S NOTE: We were given this report by Annie of Sylva, NC on September 23, 2013. Since this website began over five years ago, we've received many reports of sightings near the Balsam Mountain Preserve. The first report was in 2008 when D.C. Buchanan, a photographer for The Mountaineer newspaper, shared a photo with us that he snapped of a UFO over the Preserve's golf course during a visit by Arnold Palmer on June 7, 2008. The photo is at the end of this report.
Saturday evening, September 21, 2013, my husband and I spent the evening with friends. The couple lives on the east side of Sylva, NC near Highway 74 and the Balsam Mountain Preserve residential community.
At one point my friend mentioned she'd seen a hexagon-shaped UFO from their yard the week before. She said it was rotating three colors – red, yellow, green. Since it was a clear night, we went outside to look at the sky about 10 p.m. To our surprise, there were two UFOs in the sky.
The larger UFO was north of us. The smaller one - or maybe it was just further away - was to the northeast. Both were rotating the same three colors my friend had seen the week before. The larger UFO was about the width of my thumb.
We were able to watch the larger UFO until the fog rolled in about an hour later. The smaller UFO was only in view for about half that time, but before it disappeared there seemed to be communication between the two UFOs. For 5 to 10 minutes, they would alternately flash brightly. It was like they were signaling each other.
Mountaineer newspaper photo of a UFO over
Balsam Mountain Preserve golf course
Glowing sphere seen near Swannanoa, NC
EDITOR'S NOTE: We received this report on August 31, 2013 from Ellen Stroman of Black Mountain, North Carolina shortly after her sighting at 8:55 p.m.
My husband and I were traveling east from Asheville on Route 70 towards Black Mountain, North Carolina. As we passed the entrance to the Swannanoa KOA Campground on our left, we looked up to our left (southwest) and saw a glowing reddish-orange sphere that seemed to be hovering.
Using a thumb at arm's length, it would have appeared to be the size of a baseball. Not being able to pull over or come to a stop because of traffic, we had to travel 1/4 mile before we could turn around to hopefully see it again.
As we approached where we initially saw it, it had left but we could track it heading towards Asheville at a considerable speed. At that point, it was no more than an orange dot in the sky. We realized there was no way we could have kept up with it. There was no sound whatsoever that would indicate a helicopter or airplane. The entire experience lasted a mere 5 minutes.
Real UFOs perform for UFO conference
By Mary Joyce, website editor
Anyone attending a UFO conference has to be thrilled when actual UFOs make an appearance. It's not common, but that's exactly what happened the night before the StarworksUSA UFO Symposium in Sebring, Florida the weekend of May 10-12, 2013.
One attendee who spoke with two of us from this website on August 2, 2013, told us that the night before the conference a number of people saw large orange lights from the parking lot of the conference hotel.
We also learned that another attendee filed a sighting report which we found on the UFO Stalker website. The person chose not to be identified by name or gender, so for easy reading, we'll refer to the witness as a woman named "Pat."
According to "Pat," she was driving from Tampa to Sebring about 8:45 p.m. on a "dark two-lane Highway 66." About 20 miles west of Sebring, she came around a curve and saw a "large orange light" that seemed to be "just above the tree tops."
Immediately after that, she "noticed one light dropping or separating from the light above it." She said the lights were "roughly 10 times larger than the oncoming traffic headlights" and "larger than the lights of a large commercial aircraft landing headlights."
At about 9 p.m. she once again saw an orange light flare up to a larger size and then dim back down again. "Then all of a sudden there were seven to nine lights coming on in a symphony in front of me," Pat reported. She said they randomly flared into larger sizes and blinked on and off and appeared "to dance with each other . . . I had the feeling that the lights knew I saw them and the lights interacted with each other in an intentional way."
As Pat drove into the parking lot of the Chateau Elan Hotel and Conference Center adjacent to the Sebring Raceway she saw "a group of people standing outside looking up" and suspected they might also have seen the orange lights in the sky.
"As I passed them, I rolled down my window and shouted, 'Did any of you just see a large display of large orange lights?' One woman and her husband saw the same event minutes earlier."
Glynis, Devon and Grace Heenan in 2008 - Devon and Glynis in 2013
5th year of sky ship "performances" over Cashiers, NC
By Mary Joyce, website editor
"We saw our first sky ships in the summer of 2008," says Glynis Heenan, who lives in a remote wooded area of the mountaintop town of Cashiers, North Carolina. "Five years later, we're still seeing ships about twice a week – so frequently that we only report the most unique sightings."
"The newest thing, which we haven't reported before, is our "dance" with the ships. Of course, it's not really a dance, but when we aim a flashlight at a ship and then blink it on and off, the ship responds by blinking back a response."
Glynis says that while the "dance" is fun, it pales in comparison to other past "performances." Looking back, she says there have been some truly jaw-dropping encounters.
"The day after I saw my first UFO – EVER!" Glynis explains, "Devon decided to snap photos of the sky. She took one from the Ingles' parking lot in Cashiers. At the time, she didn't see anything special, but when we looked at her photos at home, we were shocked to see a saucer-shaped UFO in the middle of the Sun."
Devon's photo on the left was taken on June 28, 2008 about 4 p.m. It along with multiple sky ship sightings by Devon, Glynis, and her mother Grace were the inspiration for starting this website.
"We've seen ships in many shapes, sizes and colors," Glynis continues. "Once seven of them formed a circle over our house. Another time when we were watching a meteor shower from a nearby paddock with a friend, a ship flew directly toward us and then abruptly stopped and hovered just above the treetops before disappearing. While any of those sightings is memorable, the most stunning. . . ."
Instead of having Glynis retell her experiences, the links to her original reports are listed below:
(1) "Spaceman materializes three times"
(2) "Sky ship projects giant image of Jesus"
(3) "Sky ship lands in Cashiers, NC"
(1) "Spaceman materializes three times"
(2) "Sky ship projects giant image of Jesus"
(3) "Sky ship lands in Cashiers, NC"
(1) "Spaceman materializes three times"
(2) "Sky ship projects giant image of Jesus"
(3) "Sky ship lands in Cashiers, NC"
(1) "Spaceman materializes three times"
(2) "Sky ship projects giant image of Jesus"
(3) "Sky ship lands in Cashiers, NC"
"Hotdog" UFO seen over Bryson City, North Carolina
EDITOR'S NOTE: We received this report on July 29, 2013 from a woman who lives on the west side of Bryson City, North Carolina.
At 10 a.m. on June 22, 2013, I was out in my yard weed eating. When I stopped to restring the weed eater, I heard a small private plane flying over. It sounded low, so I looked up. As I watched it head toward town, I also noticed something else flying to my right of the plane. It was totally silent and kind of silvery in color. It was shaped almost like a hotdog. It was long, very big and it was moving slowly.
I am sure the pilot of the small plane must have seen the "hotdog" too because in a couple of minutes he circled back toward the object. He flew fairly close to the object before heading back again in the direction of town. My mother came outside and we watched the object for about 10 minutes.
We saw the UFO near the intersection of Grassy Branch and Mineral Springs roads. I would love to talk to anyone else who might have seen it, especially the pilot. Has anyone else reported this?
Woman "totally freaked" by low-flying UFO
EDITOR'S NOTE: We received the above drawing of a spacecraft and the following sighting report on May 9, 2013 from a woman in Durham, North Carolina.
I experienced a sighting in Durham, NC on April 5, 2013. I would like to remain anonymous. My sighting was similar to one posted on your website back in 2010 by Ms. Shirley Lumsden.
I was driving home from my cousin's house around 10 p.m. on Highway 147 heading north. As I was approaching the Elba Street exit, something to the left of me caught my eye. I looked up and saw what I thought was an airplane flying low and thought "Wow, why is that plane flying so low?"
As I looked at this object, my mind was flooded with thoughts. I thought "Oh, it's a helicopter, Duke Med Center life flight or whatever." Then I thought "Wait, it's NOT a helicopter and Duke Med Center doesn't use airplanes to do their medical transport."
This aircraft was shaped sort of oblong, like an airplane without wings, and had different colored lights. It appeared to be descending. I totally freaked but was driving so I had to pay attention so I wouldn't hit a car on the freeway. In my mind I just thought, "No, no, no, no, no, no, I did not see what I thought I saw."
About 30 to 60 seconds later I got to my exit – the Hillandale exit. I decided that since I was at the bottom of the exit ramp that I could look up and back again. Surely something that large would still be there. I wanted to confirm that it was not at all what I thought it was, but it was gone as if it was never there.
Two days later on Sunday morning April 7 between 9:30 and 10 a.m., I had to take the same route to 147 South. I hadn't been in that area since my sighting on Friday and I felt very, very nervous even though it was daylight. I looked up and I saw two chemtrails which I've seen before, but two in the same spot, and the same spot where I saw this aircraft?
I tried to draw a picture the day after I saw the object. I'm not the best artist but I've attached an illustration of what I saw that night. The arrow is pointing to something that looked like a windshield or something to that effect.
UFO "sucked all the sound" out of the air
EDITOR'S NOTE: We're posting this report from the UFO Sightings Report website because it occurred in Marion, North Carolina – a town southeast of Linville Gorge known for the Brown Mountain Lights and a possible secret underground facility. According to the report, a sphere-shaped UFO was seen on January 6, 2013 at 6:20 p.m. We'd like to thank Don Cooper for sending us the information.
I'm an avid sky-watcher, so I am constantly looking towards the heavens for meteors, planets, etc. I happened to be looking south and noticed a bright orange orb. It appeared to be bobbing up and down because I could see it rising and falling behind some tree branches. I then observed it go up vertically and the object then appeared to get larger, so I knew it was coming straight in my direction.
Also, there was absolutely NO noise coming from this craft. Unfortunately, I ran back inside to get my camera (which wasn't any longer than about 10 or 15 seconds) and by the time I got back outside, the craft had completely disappeared.
This is the second time I have observed an orange orb craft at this location. I saw one back in June of 2012 at about 4 a.m. This one I watched for about 10 minutes as it traversed northeast and went directly overhead. It also had no sound. As a matter of fact, it was almost like it sucked all the sound out of the environment. I could hear no crickets, cicadas, or any wind blowing - very eerie.
After this one passed overhead, I observed it wobble; then it shot straight up like a bullet from a gun. It was gone that quickly!
Huge donut-shaped UFO over Linville Falls, NC
EDITOR'S NOTE: We received the following report and sketch from Spuz Schissler of Linville Falls, North Carolina in December 2012.
I'm enclosing a small sketch of what I saw in the morning sky either November 29 or 30, 2012. When I first saw it, I thought "What a strange cloud." Then as I watched it on my drive home, it didn't move like a cloud.
Spuz's sketch is shown between photos of Linville Gorge and Linville Falls.
The "cloud" just seemed to stay in one place. The inside of it was flat and gray. The outside was bright, almost white. The bottom of the white area also was flat and didn't seem curved. In fact, the edge didn't really look like a cloud's edge because it was not irregular. The edges of the gray inside area and the outer light band were both quite crisp.
Also, this thing was HUGE! When I raised my forearm to a right angle in front of my face, the thing was as big as from my elbow to my hand. I don't know what I saw, but there were no other clouds in the sky near it.
These are photos of actual donut-shaped UFOs.


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Tax Freedom Day, the date representing the point each year when Americans have earned enough to pay all their taxes, won't be reached this year until April 17, four days later than last year. In California, it's even later.
A reader recently offered a clever justification for spending mountains of tax money on a government project that probably will never be completed, is almost certain never to operate at a profit if it is completed and definitely will cost considerably more than estimated, completed or not. The reader said, "It will create jobs for taxpayers."
Before we recite just a few of the innumerable reasons against raising taxes, even to create jobs for taxpayers, let's consider recent news on the tax front.
"After eight years of having the second-highest corporate tax rate among industrialized countries, the United States has now assumed the top spot following Japan's scheduled corporate rate cut April 1, 2012," the Tax Foundation announced last week. The U.S. combined corporate federal and state rate is 39.2 percent. Second-place Japan's 38.0-percent includes a temporary 10 percent surtax that will expire after 2014, further widening the gap.
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If you were bothered by reaching the top of that ignoble list, the next news should ratchet up your irk index. Tax Freedom Day, the date representing the point each year when Americans have earned enough to pay all their taxes and begin earning money for themselves, won't be reached this year until April 17, says the Tax Foundation, which calculates the date based on workers' current 29.2-percent federal, state and local taxes. That's four days later than last year.
It's worse in California, where Tax Freedom Day won't arrive until April 20.
In 1900, when Americans paid 5.9 percent of their income in federal, state and local taxes, Tax Freedom Day came on Jan. 22.
But aren't taxes "the price we pay for civilization," as Chief Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes put it a century or so ago? It might be instructive to consider the source. Holmes, a champion of eugenics ("three generations of imbeciles is enough"), also proudly proclaimed, "I always say, as you know, that if my fellow citizens want to go to Hell I will help them. It's my job."
Be careful what bedfellows you politick with. Let's consider instead a contemporary of Justice Holmes.
"Under this republic," said President Calvin Coolidge, "the rewards of industry belong to those who earn them. The only constitutional tax is the tax which ministers to public necessity. The property of the country belongs to the people of the country. Their title is absolute."
Coolidge championed sweeping tax reductions. The nation demanded it when voters gave Republicans control of Congress and the White House, he said. Is there a Coolidge among current candidates? Alas, it doesn't appear so.
"I am opposed to extremely high rates because they produce little or no revenue, because they are bad for the country, and, finally, because they are wrong," said Silent Cal, who didn't speak much but when he did it mattered.
That's a fascinating concept. High taxes are "wrong." Not merely economically counter-productive. Not merely economy-retarding. Not just irritants and obnoxious. High taxes are wrong.
Coolidge, unlike politicians in Sacramento and Washington today, found a moral problem imposing high taxes. What constituted "high" in the mind of the 30th president? "Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery," he famously said.
Despite dramatically rolling back taxes, even morally upright Coolidge couldn't keep tax fiends from the door, prompting another contemporary, Will Rogers, to remark: "The only difference between death and taxes is that death doesn't get worse every time Congress meets."
The top income tax rate increased from 24 percent under Coolidge to 63 percent in the Great Depression, and to 92 percent by 1952. If that wasn't wrong, wrong doesn't exist. Congress didn't follow Coolidge's admonishment, obviously. It made Will Rogers look like a prophet.
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Well, which is it? Are women equals, or not?
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Ask any one of them who have managed to escape from the Democratic plantation.
It's very rare that a "card carrying liberal of the 27th degree" and I agree on anything.
Nice to have found at least a small piece of common philosophic turf!
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So as we all know Apple (AAPL) has been all over the media for both exciting and unfortunate news. Apple has recently released a, well overdue, iPhone 4S. Although we were ALL expecting a newly designed iPhone, the 4S does come with many internal features that we were expecting in the rumored iPhone 5. I won't get into those details, but you can find out most of that info in http://www.apple.com/iphone/features/. The reason I mention Apple is to connect it to a great potential stock choice. I'm looking at Cirrus Logic Inc. (CRUS) Cirrus Logic, in a nutshell, is a company that focus on audio devices to be installed in electronic products. For more info on this company check out http://finance.yahoo.com/q/pr?s=CRUS+Profile. The reason I'm connecting both of these stocks is that Cirrus makes the audio products that are installed in every iPhone now and in the future. They've worked together on previous iPhones and will most likely continue in the future. For every iPhone unit that is produced and sold, Cirrus obtains $3. Let's just put that into perspective. In just 2 fiscal quarters of 2010, Apple has sold about 16 million units. That's about $48 million for Cirrus, not bad huh?
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So, in our forever ongoing cleaning of the station's offices, we found this packet of Mild Picante Sauce from McDonald's, which Tim just ate with student center fries.
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Liz has been a part of the Hommel Lab since January 2008. She received a Master's of Public Health from Ohio State University in June 2012. During her time in the lab, she has coordinated eight studies focusing on treatment adherence, quality of life, and self-management in pediatric chronic conditions. Her role in the Hommel lab includes project management, data management, grant writing, and manuscript development.
Katie received her B.A. in Psychology and a Certificate in Deaf Studies from the University of Cincinnati in June 2010. In March 2012, she also obtained a Certificate in Health Information Technology. Katie has been working in the Hommel Lab since April 2010. During her time at CCHMC, she has managed seven studies, including the TEAM, LEAD and STEP studies. In the future, Katie plans to work with children as a speech-language pathologist.
Dr. McGrady is a postdoctoral fellow in the Center for the Promotion of Treatment Adherence and Self-Management. She completed her Ph.D. at the University of Cincinnati and her residency at CCHMC. She is involved in grant writing, data analysis, manuscript preparation, and the delivery of manualized treatment interventions to promote adherence in adolescents with inflammatory bowel disease. After fellowship, Meghan hopes to continue to pursue her research interests as a clinical researcher in an academic medical center.
Dr. Ryan is a first-year postdoctoral fellow in the Center for Adherence and Self-Management. She completed her Ph.D. at Oklahoma State University and her residency at CCHMC. Her research background is in cognitive variables that influence the transactional relationship between parent and child adjustment outcomes in the context of pediatric chronic illness. Her primary role in the Hommel lab includes serving as an interventionist on the TEAM study, grant writing, manuscript development, and data analysis. After fellowship, Jamie plans to obtain a position at an academic children's hospital where she can continue to work with a pediatric population and focus her research on self-management and improved quality of life for patients and their families.
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The Auburn Hills, MI automaker -- maker of Jeep, Dodge and Chrysler vehicles -- earned $116 million in the quarter, an improvement after losing $197 million in the same period last year. Revenue was up substantially by 35% to $13.1 billion, while sales of vehicles were up 18%.
Cash on hand is a key measure of an automaker's health because of the substantial capital needs of industrial companies. Chrysler said it had $9.9 billion in cash on hand as of March 31, an increase of $2.6 billion in three months, and $13.3 billion in debt.
Chrysler CEO Sergio Marchionne, who also serves as CEO of Italian automaker Fiat, which is allied with Chrysler, has announced the company will shortly refinance its $7.5 billion in outstanding loans with the U.S. and Canadian government with bank debt, paying back taxpayers who bailed out the company years ahead of schedule. Chrysler said it would repay the loans by the end of June by selling $2.5 billion in bonds and borrowing $5 billion at better terms than those dictated with the government loans.
"Chrysler Group's improved sales and financial performance in the first quarter show that our rejuvenated product lineup is gaining momentum in the marketplace and resonating with customers," Marchionne said in a statement. "These results are a testament to the hard work and dedication of our employees, suppliers and dealers, all of whom are helping Chrysler create a new corporate culture built on the quality of our products and processes, and simple, sound management principles."
Chrysler has been crawling back to profitability, but was kept in the red last year by the interest payments on the loans that were critical to its survival in 2009. The company had reported operating profits in each quarter of 2010, but those interest payments, which totaled $1.23 billion for the year, resulted in losses over all. Chrysler lost $652 million last year.
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Looking ahead, the company, which is expected to do an initial public offering of stock by mid 2012, said it expects to earn $200 to $500 million for all of this year, meaning it could post additional money-losing quarters this year as well as profitable ones.
G.M., which went through government-led bankruptcy at the same time as Chrysler, earned $4.7 billion in 2010, and will report first quarter earnings later this week. Chrysler, though, was in worse shape than GM, and its new-product pipeline was impacted more adversely by the ownership of private equity firm Cerberus, and then the bankruptcy.
The company's passenger cars, though much improved under Fiat, are still under-performing its rivals, while pickup trucks and SUVs still account for most of Chrysler's sales--78 percent in the first quarter, compared with about 60 percent for GM and Ford. The all-new Jeep Grand Cherokee has been especially well received.
Chrysler is gearing up for a significant 2012 and 2013, a period in which it planned to introduce several new vehicles developed from scratch by Chrysler and Fiat design and engineering staffs working together. Those new vehicles are being built from Fiat engineering platforms that are being adapted for Chrysler vehicles. The automaker in the last few months has been rolling out numerous updated and improved cars and SUVs, but those have been mostly improved carry-over vehicles from when Chrysler was owned by Cerberus Capital Management and German automaker Daimler before that.
Cerberus was stripped of ownership of Chrysler in 2009 when the company hit the financial wall, and needed government help. To protect jobs in the already hard-hit Midwest, the White House Auto Industry Task Force directed funds from the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) funds. Fiat was the only automaker that stepped up with interest in running Chrysler.
The auto industry bailout kept Chrysler, as well as General Motors, from going out of business or being broken up, as well as hundreds of auto suppliers and thousands of auto dealers that would have gone out of business as a result.
By the end of the year, Fiat expects to exercise an option that will give it 51% of Chrysler. Until the government loans are formally paid back, the U.S and Canada own a combined 10.8 percent of Chrysler. Chrysler is now 30-percent owned by Fiat. Fiat will increase that by 16% after the loans are repaid. Chrysler's majority owner is currently a trust fund set up to cover the cost of health care for hourly retirees.


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Greek fisherman's soup with egg and lemon
The simplest versions of this recipe are made by cooking everything in the one pot - bones and all. Cooking with fish still on the bone imparts more flavour, but it's terribly messy to eat, unless you have very large-boned fish. For this recipe you first make a fish stock from the bones and then make the soup.
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- 1 onion, chopped
- 2 cloves garlic, sliced
- 3 tbsp olive oil
- bones and head from 900g of firm white fish (e.g. flathead), the flesh of which has been filleted, cut into large pieces and set aside for the soup
- 1 carrot, sliced
- 1 stick celery, chopped
- a few stalks of parsley
- 1/2 tsp peppercorns
- 1 litre water
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- reserved fish pieces (see stock recipe above)
- 1 clove garlic, sliced
- 4 tbsp butter
- a pinch of dried oregano
- salt
- fish stock
- 75g short grain rice, rinsed
- 3 whole eggs
- 1-2 lemons
- 2 tbsp parsley, chopped
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In a large pot gently cook the onion and 2 cloves garlic in olive oil until soft.Add all the other ingredients (keeping the fish flesh aside for the soup). Boil, skim any scum and reduce heat. Cook gently for 45 minutes then strain and reserve liquid.
For the soup
In a large, wide, heavy-based pot cook the fish pieces and garlic in the butter over high heat for a few minutes. Don't allow the butter to colour. Add the oregano, salt and stock. Simmer gently for a few minutes or until the fish is just cooked.
Remove the fish to a plate with a slotted spoon and add the rice to the stock. Simmer for 15 minutes, then return the fish and remove from the heat.
Whisk the eggs with the juice of 1 lemon then add a ladleful of hot soup to the eggs, whisking. Stir this into the soup until well combined. Add parsley and season to taste - you may want more lemon juice. Cover with a lid and allow to sit for 10 minutes before serving.
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