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Kate Schatz's Rid of Me: A Story
So, Kate Schatz's fictional narrative inspired by PJ Harvey's scorched-earth 1993 breakthrough album is my introduction into the 33 1/3 canon. Perhaps not the typical way to become acquainted with the book series, but it seemed appropriate for me and my interests here because: 1) this is an album fraught with interesting, disturbing, and complex gender politics; 2) the artistic force behind it is a female, but is not always singing as one; 3) the scribe penning the volume for this canon is also a woman; and 4) said scribe is taking a different, distinctly feminist approach to arguing for an artistic work to be in the canon by creating a free-standing story inspired by an album for which there is great personal attachment.
Oh, and did I mention that the main characters are two women who find love and comfort with one another in an abandoned cabin where they fuck and spoon and use one another to escape their male-centered tragic home lives? That helps. The first line is "Tie yourself to me," a line from the album's title track. Hot. Possibly Jane Campion hot.
You can imagine the "awww, man" that leapt from my lips when I found out that Megan Milks and Dave Heaton already wrote pretty much what I was going to say about this book in this entry. Such is the risk of having a blog and covering a book that came out two years ago. But do click on their names to read their reviews. Their insights are spot-on and will inform the remainder of this post.
As an idea, I'm all on board with Schatz's novelization of Harvey's album. I'm really into the idea of an author taking a beloved, influential album and turning the artistic results into something wholly distinct and apart from the source material. While clearly analogous to fanfic, Schatz's approach is somewhat different. While characters and narrative motivation are informed by Harvey's songs, they exist outside of them and outside of the singer as well.
Yet in execution, this book left me cold (and a little dry). There is a danger in adapting any pre-existing text into another medium (see a myriad of bad film remakes of old TV shows for further evidence). When reinterpreting an album in this way, one run the risk of defining for others how they will perceive a text for which they once established in their own ways through their imagination. Thus, novelizing albums might be similar to arguments made against music videos and their ability to redefine the songs in ways that are distracting or misguided to an audience.
Schatz's book suffers a bit from this (though, in fairness, if teenaged me penned a novelization of Harvey's Stories From the City, Stories From the Sea, it probably would've taken a cinematic record about big, declarative romantic feelings and turned it into The Red Shoe Diaries Takes Mass Transit). Overall, Schatz gets the stark, aggressively sexual tone and gothic atmosphere down. And like Milks, I think she's spot-on in her decision to make the relationship at the story's center sexually complex and explicitly Sapphic. I also like that both women suffer through oppressive relationships with men and lift each other toward liberation. Mary is an older woman, troubled to the point of mental distress by her abusive father and husband. Kathleen is young and curious, led to kill Mary's father through psychic forces before being "kidnapped" by her.
While the book has a breathless opener that sets up a heart-racing, kinky abduction and does a good job sketching each woman's home life and need for escape, the book really begins to decline once the ladies take refuge in an abandoned cabin. From here, the once-powerful prose becomes more than a little repetitive. The lyrical references to the album also become increasingly labored, especially on the "Highway 61 Revisited" chapter, which is a helluva cover on record.
Worse, the love story becomes tedious. The two women become almost cosmically attached, an obsession that becomes more than a little problematic if not also empowering to both parties. They also become drawn in almost comically overwrought romantic language. After a while, I got really tired of their writhing bodies, milky eyes, heaving breasts, and parched, opened mouths. While Milks opines that the book could have used more development that a 120-page novella cannot provide, I wondered if the story suffered from having little else go on outside the cabin. Though the book honors the source material by showcasing the claustrophobic dimensions of obsessive love, it left me itchy for Mary and Kathleen to be given more characterization, or at least for them to take their love outside. It also left me wondering briefly if the album was actually as good as I thought it once was.
All this is to say that, despite my criticisms, I value Schatz's entry, look forward to learning more about her work, and will continue to follow the 33 1/3 series. Schatz's Rid of Me: A Story is a great formal exercise, and one that I hope 33 1/3 allows room for in other volumes in the series. It allows music writing to expand outside criticism and historiography and into fiction, perhaps capturing something more immediate and personal to music lovers as a result. It also reminds us that even within music culture's canon formation, there is no such thing as the definitive version.


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It was an awww… moment on the sets of Jhalak when SRK and Madhuri danced together
Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa 6 has created several wow moments, but this weekend was something rather special. Shahrukh Khan made a grand appearance on the dance reality show to promote his latest movie Chennai Express.
Now we all expected the superstar to dance, make a joke or two and praise former co-star Madhuri Dixit Nene, but it came as a pleasant surprise when Shahrukh recreated the magic of Dil Toh Pagal Hai. He spoke his oh-so-famous dialogue, "Kehdo jab main tumse door jaata hoon, tum mujhe palat ke nahi dekhti. Kehdo jab main tumhe choota hoon, tumhe kuch nahi hota. Kehdo tum iss waqt meri bahon mein nahi aana chahti… aur paas…aur paas…" and our hearts melted.
Mads, who was coincidentally wearing an outfit like the one she wore in DTPH reacted to the lines with some of her own. Boy, it was a magical moment indeed!
Shahrukh later uploaded a photograph from the episode and tweeted, "Whole world ek taraf, Madhuri ki one 'Jhalak' ek taraf. Wish could dance a lil more with her on the show, too much fun." We wish the same, SRK!
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In the technology industry, you can be pretty sure you've hit the big time when Microsoft develops a product specifically to compete with you.
That's the position Adobe Systems found itself in this year, when Microsoft developed a new cross-platform browser technology called Silverlight to rival Adobe's Flash, the de facto standard for developing and delivering video and multimedia content on the Web.
Adobe is exiting the year not only as the company of choice for creative professionals everywhere, but as an influential force to be reckoned with and a power player alongside Apple and Google, the companies leading the consumer-savvy, multimedia-friendly Internet wave of Web 2.0.
Over its 25 years, Adobe -- a company known less for its dazzle than its dependability -- has quietly turned itself into a multibillion-dollar software vendor on the strength of technologies that have become essential to computer users. Creative professionals would be lost without the graphic-design tools Photoshop and Illustrator, and Adobe Acrobat and PDF have made it easy for everyone to share documents cross-platform.
But with its acquisition of Macromedia two years ago, Adobe also took on another role -- as pioneer of providing a next-generation platform for developing rich Internet applications. RIAs, as they're called, provide more intuitive and multimedia-rich user experiences on the Web than typical client/server or desktop applications, and are now in high demand as users expect more from their multimedia Web experiences with the rise in popularity of sites like YouTube and Facebook.
Still, though the proud owner of PDF and Flash, two of the most ubiquitous technologies in the history of desktop computers, Adobe has never enjoyed the same powerful brand recognition as contemporaries that have also built widely used technology. While Google's search engine inspired the addition of the word "google" in the Merriam-Webster dictionary, Adobe's technologies have always spoken louder than the company's name itself.
"Adobe is not a real sexy brand," acknowledged Keith Cutcliffe, a professional Web designer and developer who uses the company's software.
Indeed, Anthony Franco, president of Denver-based application design and development firm EffectiveUI, said his company leads customer engagements by talking about the Flash Player, not necessarily Adobe itself, because the technology is so well-known. "It's the brand recognition of the Flash Player first, then we connect the dots," he said.
But that has begun to change. Adobe took charge of the Macromedia acquisition this year, eliminating that company's brand and merging its own long-popular graphics tools with Web-design tools acquired from Macromedia, like Dreamweaver and the aforementioned Flash, into Creative Suite 3.
To Melissa Webster, program vice president at IDC, Adobe's purchase of Macromedia was "more like a merger than an acquisition" due to how gracefully Adobe integrated the technology and former Macromedia executives like Adobe Chief Software Architect Kevin Lynch into the fold. She said the company's skillful execution of the deal also proved it is capable of making significant acquisitions work, which paves the way for more purchases in the future.
Ron Schmelzer, senior analyst and founder of research firm ZapThink, said Adobe handled the Macromedia deal so smoothly and the acquisition merged such complementary technologies, "it's almost hard to believe that Flash and the other [Macromedia products] were ever separate from Adobe products."
This year Adobe also built a connection between the Web and the desktop by introducing the Adobe Integrated Runtime (AIR), a technology that leverages the Flash player to bring Web applications to the desktop using the same developer code. AIR, which is now in beta and will be available in full release early next year, will drive the company's strategy to move RIAs from the Web and bring the same user experience to the desktop.
Microsoft with Silverlight aims, in a sense, to do the opposite. With technology, built on the Windows Presentation Foundation graphics layer of the Vista OS, Microsoft hopes to enable its formidable .NET and Windows developer base to build RIAs. While Adobe has a solid lock on the RIA tools market for now, moving to the desktop and into the domain of Microsoft is a strategy that will pose challenges, said Toby Bell, research vice president at Gartner.
"It hasn't yet been proven that Adobe has the enterprise relationships and ecosystem of partnerships [that Microsoft does]," Bell said. "All the things Microsoft brings to the table, Adobe is still developing."
Adobe also marked a leadership transition in 2007, with longtime Chairman and CEO Bruce Chizen stepping aside in a planned changing of the guard to let technologist Shantanu Narayen take over the company. Analysts said the transition should go smoothly because the two executives had been working so closely together before it happened on Adobe's long-term strategy.
Narayen also brings to the company a "developer/inventor enterprise-focused guy when Adobe is going to need that," Bell said. He added that while Adobe's top executives have never had that star factor of a Larry Ellison or Bill Gates, "we have to expect [Narayen's] going to have enough personality to improve investor confidence and inspire Adobe to continue to innovate."
Through all of these twists and turns, the company continues to thrive financially. Adobe closed out the year with yearly revenue up 23 percent for the year, beating Wall Street estimates and reaching nearly US$1 billion in sales for its fiscal fourth quarter. Its yearly revenue of $3.16 billion and quarterly revenue of $911.2 million were both records for Adobe, which expects another year of double-digit percentage revenue growth in 2008.
While there's no question Adobe made its own smart strategic moves in 2007, the company also benefited during the year from good timing, as RIAs came into their own and opened up a whole new market for any company that can help developers build them.
EffectiveUI's Franco said that RIAs are no longer the realm of early adopters, which tend to be smaller companies that want to be seen as having cutting-edge design for their Web applications. "Where we're seeing our biggest growth is ... large industry players leverage the Flash player to build RIAs," he said. And with Adobe AIR, EffectiveUI is also able to bring those same Web applications to corporate desktops.
Among EffectiveUI's customers are eBay, Dow Jones and Viacom. The company also built a package-shipment and tracking system for United Airlines. Using Flash, the application replaced an old "green screen" terminal user-interface without replacing the back-end mainframe technology powering it, Franco said.
This cross-platform power is another boon for Adobe as it does battle with Microsoft to control the content being delivered on the Web, which Cutcliffe said is key to being a market leader and influencer in the current, Web-driven technology market. Though Microsoft has built Silverlight to be cross-platform and work in all of the common Web browsers, Adobe has been working with Apple for years to optimize its products for the Mac, which is becoming a more popular platform in its own right.
"I still believe the ultimate goal is content control," he said. "If your tool becomes the favorite tool of developers, you're going to control the content in the long run. ...I think Adobe has the advantage if somebody wants to get into developing applications that can be deployed both on Windows and on a Mac, or whatever type of an environment they're running."
As RIAs themselves have more market value, Adobe also is positioning itself to compete in the enterprise with products like Adobe LifeCycle, which allows business customers to automate the business processes and workflow of PDF-based Web transactions, IDC's Webster said.
LiveCycle provides support for asynchronous Web transactions, which is helpful for users who are providing information -- for example, to an insurance company -- online but don't have all the necessary information on hand to fill out the forms. LifeCycle allows users to go offline in the middle of filling out Web-based forms and return at a later time online back to where they left off, she said.
"With [LifeCycle] it's easy to move that form back online and connect that document back up to the point in the transaction where it went asynchronous," Webster said. "It's a win for both sides."
This is another area where Adobe runs into Microsoft, which aims to offer similar workflow automation through products in its 2007 Microsoft Office System, particularly through functionality in its SharePoint Server and InfoPath software. Now that its RIA strategy is sound, proving it's a worthy enterprise player through products like LiveCycle will be a critical area of focus for Adobe in 2008 as it competes in the technology market on a whole new level.


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Welcome to the Flint Hills National Golf Club
Entering Flint Hills National Golf Club means entering a world of exceptional quality, beauty and privacy. A private golf club unlike any other, Flint Hills has been ranked in Golf Digest's America's Top 100 Courses, as well as their Top 50 Golf Retreats.
Take a moment to explore our course page, and see for yourself how Heaven can be both over your head and under your feet. We're sure you'll agree that exceeding your expectations is more than a game to us.
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2017 U.S. Junior Amateur To Be Held At Flint Hills National Golf Club
The 2017 U.S. Junior Amateur will be the third USGA championship staged at Flint Hills National Golf Club, and the 22nd in the state of Kansas. The 2001 U.S. Women's Amateur and 2007 U.S. Senior Amateur were previously held on the Tom Fazio-designed layout.


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ARF-ARF Rewarded For Outstanding Achievement
Local dog group, ARF-ARF (Allied Rockaway Foundation for Animal Recreation and Fitness) was recently invited to accept an award at the Queens Partnerships Award Luncheon. Partnership for Parks selected the group to receive this award for overall outstanding achievement. It were one of five groups in Queens that received this award. ARF-ARF was very honored and excited.
"We are happy to say we have made a lot of nice relationships throughout Partnership for Parks, the NYC Parks, as well as several other volunteer groups throughout the city. Our feedback, as well as our reputation, has been nothing but positive, and we are very proud to represent and serve our community," said a spokesperson.
He added, "Also, our name gets a lot of good attention. NYC Parks Commissioner Adrian Benepe told us we have his second favorite dog group name. A group in Staten Island called 'Reservoir Dogs' wins the prize. However, David Rivel of the City Parks Foundation disagreed and said our name should win first prize."


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Happy Birthday, Michael Fassbender! The Birthday Boy's 11 Hottest Roles
Happy 35th birthday, Michael Fassbender! In honor of the occasions, here are your 11 hottest roles. We thank you for them.
-Lucia Peters
My, but Michael Fassbender has been a busy boy! In between the four major films he released in 2011, he managed to find time to (maybe) get kicked out of his party and make his way onto our list of Hot Irish Actors We'd Like to Share a Drink With. Happily, with films like Prometheus on the horizon, it's looking like 2012 is going to be just as busy for him. And guess what? Today is his 35th birthday! Happy birthday, Michael!
In honor of the occasion, we've rounded up the actor's 11 hottest roles for your viewing (and drooling) pleasure. All together, now: Happy birthday to you! Happy birthday to you! Happy birthday, dear Michael… happy birthday to you!
1. Burton "Pat" Christenson, Band of Brothers
If you haven't seen the epic ten-part, 11-hour World War II miniseries Band of Brothers, you really owe it to yourself to do so. The narrative centers around the "E" (Easy) Company, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment (PIR), 101st Airborne Division; as such, it features a large ensemble cast, though Major Richard Winters, played by Damien Lewis, is probably who you'd consider the main character, insofar as there is one. In his very first role, Michael played Sergeant Burton "Pat" Christenson.
2. Azazeal, Hex
British supernatural shows, even when flawed, are always enormous fun, and Hex is no exception. Strange occurrences begin to happen when Cassie (Christina Cole) arrives at the remote English school Medenham Hall—and they get even stranger when she meets Azazeal, who turns out to be the leader of the fallen angels known as the Nephilim. Azazeal, by the way, has a habit of showing up in students' rooms without permission. Naughty, naughty, Michael Fassbender!
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3. Random bloke, Guiness ad
Bet you didn't know that Michael Fassbender did a Guiness commercial way back in 2004, did you? He stars as a man who swims from Ireland aaaaaaall the way across the ocean to the US, just to tell his brother… well, I'll let you see for yourselves, because it's delightful.
4. Stelios, 300
Let's face it, there are really only two reasons to watch 300: The fight sequences, and the mostly-naked men. Don't get me wrong, I love the original comic; but there's really only so much you can expect from a Zach Snyder film. Anyway, Michael made an appearance as the hot-headed yet highly skilled Spartan warrior, Stelios. Yum.
5. Lt. Archie Hicox, Inglorious Basterds
Michael may have been somewhat ill-fated as the undercover British officer Lt. Archie Hicox in Quentin Tarantino's World War II film, but he's still great fun to watch. Fun fact: Michael does speak conversational German (his father is German and he was born in what was once West Germany), but he had to brush up on it a little for Inglorious Basterds, as he was feeling a little rusty. Michael also seems to have a fondness for Tarantino; he wrote, directed, produced, and starred in a stage version of Reservoir Dogs back in 1995 (he played Mr. Pink).
More of Michael at his hottest, including in Jane Eyre and X-Men: First Class, up next!


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Page 6 Archives for May 2007
Posted by Break.com Staff / May. 27, 2007 This guy misses the rail by so much it almost appears fake. The only thing is its hard to fake bouncing down a 30 foot concrete staircase.
Posted by Break.com Staff / May. 27, 2007 A group of girls fighting over a guy at the beach. Starts off between just two girls fighting and ends up being an all out brawl. Girls fighting like this is equal parts funny and sexy.
Posted by axepoop / May. 27, 2007 A really small rc car beats a supercharged mini cooper on a short track even with taking a pit stop half way through the race.
Posted by cantbeatpete / May. 27, 2007 This is one of those videos where the title alone is sufficient enough in preface of this clip.
Posted by slucide / May. 28, 2007 Speeding as fast as you can on a down hill slope which has a huge ditch at the end of it may not have been the best idea after all.
Posted by OxideFilms / May. 28, 2007 This guy has made a really cool movie in reverse. I like how he gets his dog involved in the act.
Posted by hansaplast / May. 28, 2007 Keep a close eye on the girl on the far left of the bottom canoe. She lets go of the starting rope but it gets wrapped around her waist which ends up pulling her out of the canoe moments after the race starts.
Posted by burker7 / May. 28, 2007 No matter how bad my day is there is something about watching a faceplant that makes me feel a little bit better. This kids front wheel completely misses the table slingshotting him straight into the ground.
Posted by Break.com Staff / May. 29, 2007 Tonight on NBCs Miss Universe pageant Miss USA Rachel Smith fell flat on her butt during the evening gown competition. Probably not the best way to impress the judges.
Posted by Break.com Staff / May. 29, 2007 Pretty funny song this dude wrote begging for Paris Hilton to please go away. He even started an online petition. I wonder how many signatures it takes make someone go away.
Posted by Break.com Staff / May. 29, 2007 This guy catches his buddy passed out in a hammock. He grabs a huge brick of firecrackers and wakes him up.
Posted by Break.com Staff / May. 29, 2007 Well, this is definetly a good way to make sure you spend the rest of the weekend in jail. A kid drives by a group of cops, hangs outside the car door window and flips them off.
Posted by Break.com Staff / May. 29, 2007 Hilarious scene from the upcoming HBO comedy Flight of the Conchords where a guy sings about a party where he meets the prettiest girl in the whole…room. So funny, I was cracking up at the part about being a part time model.
Posted by Break.com Staff / May. 29, 2007 Apparently, when patrol cars are in route in Iraq cars are suppose to pull to the right of the road to let the vehicles through. This dude decided to pull over to the left and gets his car leveled.
Posted by Break.com Staff / May. 29, 2007 A collection of head-over-heels video clips from the 2007 Coopers Hill Cheese Rolling and Wake from www.SoGlos.com. Every year daring competitors throw themselves down an almost vertical hill in Gloucester, UK, chasing an 8lb Double Gloucester Cheese log.
Posted by SkysNet / May. 29, 2007 Nancy Grace gets pranked by her own producer Elizabeth during a segment about Paris Hilton. Elizabeth in the control room, you are my new personal hero.
Posted by Break.com Staff / May. 30, 2007 A couple kids bust into a convenient store a grab 2 cases of beer and attempt to walk right out the door. The owner tells them to stop and when they refuse he pulls out an AK47.
Posted by Break.com Staff / May. 30, 2007 Grabbing breast videos gone bad! This guy tries to surprise his fiance at work and grab her breast while she is at her desk. She was so startled she ended up slamming her chair back which broke her boyfriends nose.
Posted by Break.com Staff / May. 30, 2007 One of the bridesmaids at a wedding swings around a junior bridesmaid on the dance floor and ends up knocking out the flower girl.
Posted by Break.com Staff / May. 30, 2007 A girl passes out at a party and this dude has a unique way of waking her up and telling her its time to go home.
Posted by aoneproductions / May. 30, 2007 This guy was sick of his grandma waking him up at the butt crack of dawn when she went to take her medication. So one early afternoon he waited for her to go to sleep and left her a little surprise, a buttered linoleum floor. Too bad she doesnt have Life Alert.
Posted by BrookeMarks / May. 30, 2007 Ah, webcam dance videos, where would the internet be without them? In this episode of Brooke Marks video blog, she shows us ten things weve never seen in a webcam dance video. Ricky Henderson.
Posted by shyboi / May. 30, 2007 A game show host is very distracted by a contestants humongous chest. I dont know about you but I could watch an entire game show that just showed Elizea standing.
Posted by Break.com Staff / May. 30, 2007 Break Gallery #139! Strap on your safety belts because we have another batch of high quality awesomeness inside. Everything from weird tattoos to weirdos with tattoos. Enjoy!
Posted by Break.com Staff / May. 31, 2007 Pete and Red show you what to do when the ladies get a little handsy around the office.
Posted by Break.com Staff / May. 31, 2007 A couple guys get swung around by the vomitator. This thing slings riders in full circles creating forces over 4-Gs. About half way through they start screaming for it to stop and when it finally does the ride earns its name.
Posted by Break.com Staff / May. 31, 2007 Remember that buggy we posted that attempted to climb a very steep hill and when we he got to the top he started to flip over but the driver saved it and drove back down the hill. Same video but this guy doesnt save it and tumbles end over end.
Posted by Break.com Staff / May. 31, 2007 A bum walks into a quiznos and throws a weak punch at the manager. The manager quickly swings back dropping the dude to the floor.
Posted by Break.com Staff / May. 31, 2007 A crazy lady rams a cop car and then pulls out a knife. A cop blind sides her with a hard tackle and the knife punctures her stomach. She is ok and definetly deserved it but I love how vague the cop is in the end when he radios in.
Posted by VegasAlive / May. 31, 2007 Man beats previous world record of 40 skips with this 50 skip throw. He must get all of the ladies.


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I put this on top of the page since this is how the Legal Dept. must be organised (had a chat with Mordillo), not to confuse members who join later.
- The Legal templates are not maintenance templates, and not even semi-maintenance.
- they are a joke to be used sparingly and only when you can connect them with some joke to the article. My personal preference is not to put them on good articles without asking the author, and never on an article that has been featured on front page. A typo-ridden article with worn-out jokes is fair game in my opinion, but even then the template should have something to connect it to the article.
- The actual content of UnLegal will be a collection of laws, statutes, other legal stuff like that (see under "What to do" -header for possible ideas)
- The templates should be kept fairly small so that they only contain a summons or such, with a link or so to a subpage of Uncyclopedia Legal Department, or why not the Uncyclopedia Legal Department main page if it suits your idea.
- I will also change the templates I already have slapped on articles so that they don't contain as much text, and only serve as summons to a subpage of UnLegal. I will link the articles here, for you to see how this works.
Zana - please change the default template so that it doesn't link articles on the UnLegal page any more. As it is now, it seems as if it's maintenance or semi-maintenance. Leave me a few hours to change my templates before changing the default template - I won't do it right now. In fact I'll leave a note on your talk page when I'm done. OR - and this is probably better - make the templates in the following chapter so that they don't add the article to the Category:UnLegal. Then we can leave the template we now have as it is.
More templates: now there is the default. What if there were templates SUMMONS, NOTICE, something like EVICTION (or how is it done), SUBPOENA, AFFIDAVIT, what else is there. All with a legal header, space for a bit of text. No footnotes needed, I suppose, since the actual legal stuff will be on the subpages of Uncyclopedia Legal Department. The "SUMMONS"-template, for instance, could have a header that cannot be changed, space for a line of text where the link can be added too, and some legal logo - much like the member template is, for instance. -- Style Guide 12:45, December 6, 2009 (UTC)
- Mordillo also has an idea with mock trials which will be good content.
If someone is interested in knowing what the use of the dept. is, it is of course to play a joke on law. The templates on some articles, with taste, connected to the article subject matter in some way, will simply lead the reader to the Legal Dept. That's why the content on the Department pages and subpages needs to be GIANT TITS!!!! as good as possible. Not a good idea to let someone know there's a joke there somewhere and then disappoint them. -- Style Guide 13:23, December 6, 2009 (UTC)
- OK - I'm advancing in spurts here, so please forgive me if it's a bit messy, the whole idea. However, here's what I would like done, in practice: see Accident or Ian Brown for a template that has been put on an article for an added joke. The template then links to a subpage of Uncyclopedia Legal Department. Now then: the initial template the reader sees on an article could be even a bit smaller than what it is now, so as not to clutter the article. The template in the other end of the link could be just like it is now. Zana - if you will make the templates SUMMONS and so forth, you could leave the default template as it is now, since it won't be used on other articles than UnLegal subpages. What would be great though: if there was a button to push in the initial template (the one on the article) saying "details" or so, and the user of the template could link the subpage to the button.
Anyway, now you have the idea:
- template on an article ->
- link ->
- some content (whatever you want to say about the article subject or other thing related to the article) in another template on an Uncyclopedia Legal Department subpage.
-- Style Guide 14:47, December 6, 2009 (UTC)
edit OK I will
Going to be a lot of work with rulings and such - if you know others who like that sort of thing please invite them. I'm not too good with the terminology. What I wrote is just something to keep the subject warm in my mind. -- Style Guide 09:37, December 1, 2009 (UTC)
edit Dump for ideas
I didn't know if you wanted to set this up in your userpage so I did it in mine. Whoremonal helps with this. The dump outlines my original idea and some other things. I think you got the idea of an easily convertible template since it should be more varied than for instance This article needs love etc. Well in fact the main thing is you can write whatever you like into it. Good to be working on this with you. I asked Whoremonal write the intro and stuff since he has an actual degree in law and I've only been stealing carrots. -- Style Guide 10:52, December 1, 2009 (UTC)
The member Template could have space for the title, what whoever come up with - like I thought I would be Chief Advisor in Criminal Activities. -- Style Guide 11:06, December 1, 2009 (UTC)
edit Mordillo's comment on the template usage
"Sounds like fun, but we need to keep that in the joking area rather than change it into a proper maintenance templates that we use already."
I agree with that since another maintenance template would do nothing special - and also I originally thought of it as an additional joke. -- Style Guide 13:56, December 1, 2009 (UTC)
edit Templates are under construction...
- Okay, here's the first draft (actually, this seems to show the current draft WHY???PuppyOnTheRadio):
A Note From the Uncyclopedia Legal Department
- – ...·º•ø®@» LEG CUN GUN DUN 07:58, 2 December 2009
edit About the Potato template
I have an idea on the composition: the potato cuts through the frame, which is good. What if you slighly tilted it so it looks a bit more like it were slipping? I mean so that the scales slants a bit to the left? I don't know how much or if it is a good idea - but try if it seems good to you. -- Style Guide 10:37, December 2, 2009 (UTC)
edit I took the law in my own legal hands...
...and added the template to UN:LEGAL to have something there until the page actually is ready. I'll think of some more text, probably sporkage will help there. I think the member list would look spiffy in a similar box the template has. Oh yes and I keep getting ideas about the Note template. The potato bit is perfect but what do you think if the frame it bursts through were a bit more forceful? I seem to remember official-looking documents have some double frame or so. This is totally nitpicking, ignore this if you think it's good now. -- Style Guide 07:11, December 3, 2009 (UTC)
edit Now what do I do?
I signed up for this illegally because at first I didn't find the sign up page, now signed up legally. I mostly like the text and graphics and stuff. But now that I'm signed up, what the hell do I do? (In other words, is this a joke, another way of doing ICU, or what?) WHY???PuppyOnTheRadio 19:10, December 5, 2009 (UTC)
And if it's serious, I think the template could use details about the author fixing the article. WHY???PuppyOnTheRadio 19:12, December 5, 2009 (UTC)
- Woah. The template changed right as I was making the post below. Scary. WHY???PuppyOnTheRadio 19:16, December 5, 2009 (UTC)
Also I personally would like it better if the potato were inside this box, or it the box were eliminated altogether. I like the legal things looking nearly official, but just slightly off. WHY???PuppyOnTheRadio 19:14, December 5, 2009 (UTC)
- Thank you so much for signing up! As the Department is still in its infancy, we will be adding more bells and whistles soon. Different templates, as in: first draft of templates. The department will be 'official' on January 6, 2010, as said in the proclamation. In the meantime, I appreciate you wanting to contribute to the department. I am taking all the constructive input I am getting from individuals and making the necessary changes to our current set of templates, and once those are final I will start to create new ones.
- Do you have any ideas about something this website is lacking? Want to negotiate or initiate a plan of action as to how to make this website the best (and funniest) it can possibly be? Let us know, this is the place! We take LEGAL ACTION to achieve our goals in a timely fashion. (Writes, rewrites, maitenance, etc.) We abuse our power and make it happen, just like our forefathers! Cheers, and thanks again! – ...·º•ø®@» LEG CUN GUN DUN 20:08, 5 December 2009
- PS: The potato is there to remind you to stay inside the lines (or not).
- I know about the potato--I'm one of her priest-rabbis, you know. WHY???PuppyOnTheRadio 06:00, December 6, 2009 (UTC)
- I liked the version of the template above that specified more what it was for--the one that popped up at about 19:14, December 5, 2009 (UTC). It had information, and even had a seemingly sincere warning about appearing in court, but the link was to the article joke, or something like that. I like that idea of "We are very serious, but not as serious as we sound, but yet we are serious."
- PS: The potato is there to remind you to stay inside the lines (or not).
- Personally, I would like the legal department to be a tongue-in-cheek means of saying articles need rewriting, or of telling someone to knock off what they're doing without actually doing that (I know policy is that obvious vandals such as page blankers need stern measures such as being blocked, but I mean those things that are borderline, things where the editor might genuinely have thought it would be funny only us Unc types wouldn't be amused.) Sometimes I think a little power goes into some editors' heads, and the rudeness that results can mean losing otherwise productive users (I've only been here for three months and I've already seen it more than once). Some people here seem ready to "assume bad faith" instead of "assuming good faith." I think correction that's obviously sincere but also obviously exaggerated, such as a legal department would provide, would work very well. WHY???PuppyOnTheRadio 06:11, December 6, 2009 (UTC)
- I think many would like that. I almost disagree - one of the jokes to me is that while the language looks impressive, there's nothing much behind it. Of course, I'm just an adviser in criminal
activitieslaw and extortion, so my opinion is just an opinion just like mens sana in corpore sano yours et cetera. -- Style Guide 06:26, December 6, 2009 (UTC)- Frankly, I see no problem with that either. I signed up just because I thought it looked cool, and then asked what it was for. That's very rare for me, but I was amused. WHY???PuppyOnTheRadio 06:50, December 6, 2009 (UTC)
- So, I signed up for this illegally because at first
I didn't find the sign up page, now signed up legally.I followed my base directive of "shootdo first and ask questions later." I mostly like the text and graphics and stuff and junk. But now that I'm signed up, what the hell do I do? Should I contribute a bell (or whistle) or chip in $2.95 for someone else to do it? Do I need to order some fancy paper for the legal documents I'll be creating? Can I have a drudge or wench for Pro bono publico work? Does Unpsych provide me with business cards, and do I get to pick out my own stationary? And, um, oh yeah, where is the official sign up page anyway? ~ Avast Matey!!! Happytimes are here!* ~ ~ 08:46, December 6, 2009 (UTC)- Happytimes - here's a trajectory you might want to launch yourself on:
- So, I signed up for this illegally because at first
- Frankly, I see no problem with that either. I signed up just because I thought it looked cool, and then asked what it was for. That's very rare for me, but I was amused. WHY???PuppyOnTheRadio 06:50, December 6, 2009 (UTC)
- I think many would like that. I almost disagree - one of the jokes to me is that while the language looks impressive, there's nothing much behind it. Of course, I'm just an adviser in criminal
- Personally, I would like the legal department to be a tongue-in-cheek means of saying articles need rewriting, or of telling someone to knock off what they're doing without actually doing that (I know policy is that obvious vandals such as page blankers need stern measures such as being blocked, but I mean those things that are borderline, things where the editor might genuinely have thought it would be funny only us Unc types wouldn't be amused.) Sometimes I think a little power goes into some editors' heads, and the rudeness that results can mean losing otherwise productive users (I've only been here for three months and I've already seen it more than once). Some people here seem ready to "assume bad faith" instead of "assuming good faith." I think correction that's obviously sincere but also obviously exaggerated, such as a legal department would provide, would work very well. WHY???PuppyOnTheRadio 06:11, December 6, 2009 (UTC)
- build some pages in your userspace. Contents: legal-looking stuff. You might want to see how the Proclamation has been constructed and go on that to make it look impressive.
- proclaim in the document that by the power vested in you in the funcion of the this-and-that of the Legal Department you have reason to suspect so-and-so on these-and-these grounds, wherefore such-and-such is going to happen (all in complicated legalese). You can link to another page of yours that contains details nobody can really make out. They might even have some content but make sure they are not readily understandable.
- drop a template on a bad article, one that says what the default template says, more or less, and add a comment in its footnote saying: "You must read this if you have complaints (only, in legalese, of course)". Then link the "this" of it to your user page of utterly legal gibberish. Should be loads of fun, and if not that, at least legal!
-- Style Guide 09:00, December 6, 2009 (UTC)
- Ok, I will do that, provided my general laziness and lack of time (and utter lack of legal knowledge) prevent me from doing so. This is a good rough draft I think: User:Happytimes/Legal Department, I may need some help on the mumbo jumbo though. ~ Avast Matey!!! Happytimes are here!* ~ ~ 11:51, December 7, 2009 (UTC)
edit What to do:
OK, Mn-z and Happytimes gave me this idea for how the Legal Dept. could function. And first, thanks Mn-z for forcing me to think a bit further, and sorry for arguing in such a nasty tone. I'm serious too, not being sarcastic. Or gay (well I am but you didn't convert me now, it's an old story).
*keep the templates brief when the article itself doesn't warrant a long version - i.e. if the author of the template can come up with a reasonably good joke to play on that specific article you should do it. See the ones I've dropped (you find the articles on the category page) for possible ideas. there's an update on this.
*use the footnote on the template to link to a subpage (there could and should be several) under the Legal Department main page. Of course, the text in the footnote should be somethig like "The defendant is advised to refer to (legal terms, latin phrases) here", the here being the subpage. Or something to that effect. also been updated
- these subpages contain legalese. Anyone can, and should, create and edit these subpages since if the link always goes to the same subpage it gets old in five minutes.
- there should be a "legal library" of sorts, one that can then be linked to the subpages. Maybe just one opus, maybe several. Probably several since the subject is such a vast one there can be literally thousands of jokes in many different styles. Some of them can be utter nonsense and surrealistic, others more coherent, containing absurd laws, statutes, paragraphs, sub-paragraphs, pieces of literary evidence, anything the hell you can come up with. There is a lot to do there since there is a law on almost everything men can do.
- also, Zana_Dark seems to want to make more templates. The more subpages we have, the more different templates they will support. This is a perfect chance for malicious imagination to take over. Should be ideal to most of Uncyc users - except for those who cannot spel.
- obvsoluly, spleing is an ingretal prat for the jokke to worl. So be crefuk about it. Of course there can be legal jokes that merit bad spelling, for instance a document that deals with it. Badly spelt latin? Mens NASA in cropore sanå?
Ideas, comments? If there are complaints, those will be dealt with severely, to the most excruciating degree of the law on coitus per anum, as you should have guessed.-- Style Guide 09:21, December 6, 2009 (UTC)
edit In practice then...
...the first step, logically is: everyone who wants to participate should start writing legal bullshit in their user spaces. Ideas: well anything, really. It helps if the subject ostensibly has to do with writing or uncyclopedia. Main thing is, as always, that they are funny on some level. You can hide lewd jokes (in latin if possible) and hints at stuff in legalese. You can also just go ahead and blabber your head off in them, as long as it resembles legalese. I wouldn't judge a joke like that on its content but rather more on the execution. If it has both, so much the better.
- another thing to do is start to scribble the laws we "go by". These can be absolutely hilarious, all deadpan, or both at the same time. A good idea (I think) is to give the reader a handle to grasp, then lose him, and give him a cookie once he has plodded to the end of the text. It doesn't matter how those three are achieved - and anyway this is just one idea. You can just as well present him with something he cannot grasp, and include a link to something he can grasp. Like one of the laws. Or you can just as well completely lose him and include a joke on something else. Law is an
- the proclamation is an example of what I mean. It was originally sporked somewhere, and I just smote it with my bollockshammer, and steered a bit closer to Uncyclopedia than it originally was. You see how it says nothing, and just in case it did, there's the footnote claiming no responsibility. This is all pretty legal.
- I would go about this with one "rule" only: it all should
lookbe legal. -- Style Guide 10:24, December 6, 2009 (UTC)
- My only
badsuggestion at this point is that if the Legal templates are not maintenance templates, and not even semi-maintenance, then we may want to consider putting our notice at the bottom of the page.... or not? Hm,m,m,m,m,m. ~ Avast Matey!!! Happytimes are here!* ~ ~ 11:51, December 7, 2009 (UTC)- Depends on the article. If it is really bad and long, people might not notice the template at all before switching to something else. If the article looks really crappy (I mean obviously, not subjectively - like typos etc.) then the reader fairly quickly gets interested in what the template has to offer, compared to the article. My aim is not only to promote our own jokes but also improve the outlook of the site. On a good article - on which I personally won't use the template at all probably, unless a really good joke can be made - it's different. Put it where you like, where it looks appropriate. Mordillo didn't have huge problems with the couple of samples I showed him, only the size was too large, and that has now been solved. -- Style Guide 11:55, December 7, 2009 (UTC)
- My only
edit For those who don't know how to use templates in practice...
...have a look at this: Uncyclopedia_Legal_Department/subpagetest. You see the page header has changed into the header of the second template, although the address stays the same. The first template does nothing to the page besides categorising it. -- Style Guide 07:08, December 7, 2009 (UTC)
- Gotta add that the whole procedure looks like a good bit of fun now that the templates are there. I wish I knew some more legalese but I guess I can always wing it like heretowith. -- Style Guide 07:10, December 7, 2009 (UTC)
edit Link to a list of Latin phrases
This should be a help to all lawyers: [2]. Maybe put a fancier-looking version of it somewhere on the Department main page, for quick sporking? -- Style Guide 12:09, December 7, 2009 (UTC)
- Ah, this should help my position to obtain a level ab absurdo that I would not otherwise been able to reach. Thank you very much! ~ Avast Matey!!! Happytimes are here!* ~ ~ 10:32, December 8, 2009 (UTC)
- Great. Here's another link with lots of Latin phrases and translations and such: http://www.yuni.com/library/latin.html WHY???PuppyOnTheRadio 17:45, December 15, 2009 (UTC)
edit An important further bit about template usage
I thought it would be good to add a link back to the articles as in the case of Accident which I just did over. You'll find the "Back to the article" bit below the template on the Dept. subpage. So if you use the same subpage several times, it's best to do it so: Back to the article: Accident instead of Back to the article. I rest my case. -- Style Guide 12:42, December 7, 2009 (UTC)
- Zana also axed me how we're going to keep track of the template usage. Isn't there a page for that? Also, if everyone will be good and add the "back to article" links on the subpages, it works. Otherwise, it's the old C.P.A. - bit again. -- Style Guide 15:27, December 7, 2009 (UTC)
edit Page move?
Shouldn't this be at Uncyclopedia:Legal Department? Rather than in mainspace? It's not an article if it's a user project type thing. I'll probably move it unless there's some reason it's in mainspace rather than uncyclopedia project space. • Spang • ☃ • talk • 02:37, 08 Dec 2009
- Can we keep the redirect? I had it at UN:LEGAL but RAHB moved it here. – ...·º•ø®@» LEG CUN GUN DUN 03:31, 8 December 2009
edit Laws.
In need of a law? Suggest here.
edit Newb Proposal
I, User:Happytimes, have been giving this new-fangled Unlegal department some of my best thoughts lately. Some things have come to mind... (Lawyers speak in third person right?) Ahem, ~H~ *CA* lack of orginazation, *CA* no legal dictionary set-up yet, *CA* lack of significant pay for ~H~. See summons if it be to please you.
edit I did this
Uncyclopedia_Legal_Department/Cases is there now. I wrote the transcript for multi vs happy and put it in the template, which now seems to turn it into a subpage. It seems to me like a good idea to present the session transcript as the final product and put a link to the list page (above) prominently on the Uncyclopedia Legal Department. My idea with this is: the session transcripts will be written more carefully (more carefully than my version is now, too) and the complaints and affidavits are then linked to it. The complaints and affidavits can be whatever slapstick comes to mind. Everyone feel free to help out with the session transcript, I'll do a bit with it myself when I'm in a more legal mood. -- Style Guide 07:19, December 16, 2009 (UTC)
- Why I think it's better to present the final court session transcript as the final product: ease of editing. This way we can edit the complaints and affidavits in any way we please, and give the lazy readers a good-looking and (if you PLEASE HELP, <sobs>) maybe also well-written product as the result of those. Then they can read the affidavits and complaints if they have time etc. - but we won't have to go about cleaning the preceding stages to give a good impression with the main product. I rest my case. -- Style Guide 07:55, December 16, 2009 (UTC)
- This needs to maybe be more like a Uncyclopedia:Imperial Colonization??? ~ Avast Matey!!! Happytimes are here!* ~ ~ 09:36, December 16, 2009 (UTC)
- Yeah, why not. But however it is formatted, I think the way to write it is like we did:
- This needs to maybe be more like a Uncyclopedia:Imperial Colonization??? ~ Avast Matey!!! Happytimes are here!* ~ ~ 09:36, December 16, 2009 (UTC)
- complaint
- case open, filing of affidavits
- case closed
- write the session transcript
- publish everything, with the session transcript as the main page, or the first to hit the occasional reader's eye anyway.
Maybe there's a better way to order the finished documents than how they are now. I don't know if it matters - other than that the link to the session transcript list should be readily visible on maybe a couple of Department pages, at least when we have a couple of cases more. -- Style Guide 10:53, December 16, 2009 (UTC)
- Well sure we could do it like that if you just want to simplify my proposal and stuff. ~ Avast Matey!!! Happytimes are here!* ~ ~ 04:23, December 17, 2009 (UTC)
- It's more or less the same thing, the way I read it, isn't it? So let's just do it whichever way seems to work. When another complaint comes in - if any ever do - I'll try and remember to check out how you propose to continue and do so. Someone always needs to legalize-looking-make-thingy the documents at some point, but the order isn't that important I suppose. The posting of summons is naturally a good step. In fact all of it is - it just depends on the laziness of the solicitor which way the case proceeds. -- Style Guide 05:57, December 17, 2009 (UTC)
- I agree. People ARE lazy... wait, what?
- Seriously I can format stuff (& junk) if people ask me to. ~ Avast Matey!!! Happytimes are here!* ~ ~ 07:04, December 18, 2009 (UTC)
- It's more or less the same thing, the way I read it, isn't it? So let's just do it whichever way seems to work. When another complaint comes in - if any ever do - I'll try and remember to check out how you propose to continue and do so. Someone always needs to legalize-looking-make-thingy the documents at some point, but the order isn't that important I suppose. The posting of summons is naturally a good step. In fact all of it is - it just depends on the laziness of the solicitor which way the case proceeds. -- Style Guide 05:57, December 17, 2009 (UTC)
- Well sure we could do it like that if you just want to simplify my proposal and stuff. ~ Avast Matey!!! Happytimes are here!* ~ ~ 04:23, December 17, 2009 (UTC)
edit How the fuck do I join
Do I need to sign somewhere and are there requirements?--DirectorWILLYOU 333 10:40, January 2, 2010 (UTC)
- Go here, just create a block for yourself above mine.If you do not know how to add yourself to the list properly, please leave a message here. If you need help with terms search the Interwebs or look here: http://thesaurus.reference.com/browse/lawyer
- Requirements: Check out what other members have to say about UNLEGAL in their talk pages (Multilaterist and I have quite a bit to say on it while we were working on the "1st" case starting here) read this page, read this- paying close attention to the works sited which will link you around the "1st" case as well. Um, then add a {{User LD}} userboxen. (Then be sure to promptly pay the invoice for my legal fees when it arrives.)
- Non-requirements: Take what I just wrote plus other users comments on Unpsyche law and combine it into something of a guide book, or something. Er, some thing.
- P.S. Zana is the one who initiated this project, just to spite Shakespeare, so she may also be a good contact for this, she is the Department Head after all. Cheers. ~ Avast Matey!!! Happytimes are here!* ~ ~ 05 Jan 2010 ~ 05:57 (UTC)
edit Revival of the U.L.G.
We seriously need to revive it.--If you're 555 then I'm 04:55, December 27, 2010 (UTC)


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A Look At The Leader … Wednesday Cup O'Chiefs
Depending on the point of view, Clark Hunt is a miser, a savvy businessman or a young man feeling his way in running the Hunt Family's most visible business.
There's a chance he might be all three. As the Chiefs are about to begin their fifth season under his direction, the picture of Hunt remains a bit fuzzy and out of focus.
There's no question he's a bright young man who was part of the owners' negotiating committee that got an agreement between the league and its players that will bring labor peace for the next 10 years. While he was not a driving force in those negotiations like New England's Robert Kraft or Jerry Richardson of Carolina, he did play a role, especially in piecing together the league's new supplemental revenue plan that will help keep the playing field level for the next decade.
Yet, he's also the business leader who decided the way to handle his franchise during the owners' lockout was to slice the paychecks of the little people working for him. Seemingly oblivious to the PR disaster outside the building and the discontent inside the building until this week, he rode in on a white horse and will return the funds that were cut, while also giving his non-contract employees a 3 percent raise retroactive to March 1. Call it a great decision, one that never should have been made in the first place.
Hunt is the same man who runs an organization that tried to charge firemen who were going to hold the American flag in pre-game ceremonies on September 11. If they wanted to stay and watch the game, pay up. It's the same franchise that wanted to take away the ability to stay and watch the game for the tickets takers and parking lot attendants who have always had that benefit.
As the smoke cleared on those PR disasters, the Chiefs ended up doing the right thing – the employees got their money back plus, the firemen will watch the opener for free and the ticket takers and parking lot attendants will get to stay for the game.
So it would be easy to say, no harm, no foul. But the harm has come to the reputation of Hunt and the Chiefs. Some would say that's unfair; others would say it was right on the mark. Again, the focus is fuzzy on the second of Lamar Hunt's three sons.
It's evidence of the growing pains that come with an inexperienced leader taking over the franchise. It's especially obvious because Hunt cleaned house of the front offices most veteran employees, men and women who had put in decades of dedicated work for the Hunt franchise. Sent packing were employees that would have immediately known the thing not to do was charging firemen to hold a flag on the 10th anniversary of 9-11.
That's what Clark Hunt wanted – his organization. For that, he's had to pay the PR price with internal leaders who lack the experience you would expect to find with a business that's been around as long and as visible as the Chiefs.
Either that, or Clark Hunt doesn't listen to anybody. Somewhere, somebody needed to explain to him that taking 10-15-20 percent of the paychecks of the little people was not a good idea. Hunt explained on Tuesday that the league required all 32 teams to come up with a business plan for the year if there were no games and no revenue.
Only seven of those 32 teams implemented their plan; the others were waiting for a time when they franchise was actually losing money from missed games.
Hunt said Tuesday he decided on the salary cuts rather than furloughs or layoffs, the idea that 90 percent of pay was better than zero percent. It's hard to argue with that approach, but there's no reason it had to come in March. This past spring, the Chiefs crowed that they led the league in new season tickets sales – that's at least some money in the bank that wasn't there before. Bonuses for workouts were not being paid. That's money saved there. If the Chiefs had a cash flow problem then one would really have to question the front office leadership.
The pay cut was the classic case of inexperience. It looked good in theory, but it had a negative effect on the most important part of any business – the people working there. It cost Hunt and the Chiefs respect with some of the fans, the general public and their own employees.
And, it was all necessary because they lost no revenue from games missed at Arrowhead Stadium. An important lesson for the young organization – there's no reason to make a decision until one needs to be made.
Hunt wasn't involved in the fire fighters case and the ticket taker and parking lot attendants black eye. But the people he's put in charge were. Club president Mark Donovan blamed an over-eager sales employee for the fire fighters incident. There really wasn't any reason given for the ticket takers.
Again, the mistakes were corrected. Clark Hunt and his inexperienced group learned the valuable lesson No. 1 on decision making, at least in the eyes of former Chiefs head coach Marty Schottenheimer. It was Marty's father who told him to never be afraid to make a decision because "if you screw it up, you just get to make another decision."
Eventually, they got it right and we can only hope that lessons were learned and valuable experience gained for those without much.
9 Responses to "A Look At The Leader … Wednesday Cup O'Chiefs"
July 27, 2011 - Morten, Denmark says:
Well said Bob…
Leadership comes in many forms; but the most important leadership-skill is to recognize when you are wrong and in the same time fix the mistake and learn from it; he' got that skill. I really believe that Clark Hunt will become one of the best franchise-leaders in the league. Wisely the league took him on board for the labour-negotiations… In 10 years it will probably be him leading these negotiations for the owners.
July 27, 2011 - Tracy says:
Firemen can be a cocky bunch. Occasionally they show up at the grocery store in suspenders and waders and make a nuisance of their presence by tossing packages down the aisle to each other. And in the 1990s one of their union honchos was convicted in Federal court in a corruption case of some kind.
But theirs is a dangerous trade and we are grateful for their skills and bravery. Which makes it all the more baffling why somebody would take the attitude of "If they want to stay, make them pay." It's not quite "Let them eat cake", but it comes pretty close.
Whose PR book do they study at Arrowhead? Eddy Stanky's? Howard Cosell's? Dick Cheney's?
Cripes, what a bunch of ham handed know-nothings.
July 27, 2011 - bhive01 says:
I think a lot of managers come into a situation and want to shake things up, even when perhaps it isn't at all necessary (Bob has suggested many times it wasn't). By doing things differently he clearly stepped over a line that we never saw with his father, but I agree with Morten that he recovered with some grace intact.
July 27, 2011 - txchief says:
Man, there's got to be a million better topics than this, especially since football just got started! Yes, it was an unfortunate decision to cut pay during the lockout, but there was also little for many of the employees to do when there was no football business. The many journalists who write crap like this demostrate that they have no knowledge at all of how to run a business and plan for expected downturns and the long term success of an organization. The Chiefs are a privately held business, not some type of socialist/hippie commune. All losses along with huge financial obligations were going to come directly out of the Hunt's pockets if there was no season. I'd bet it was the accounting department's idea to trim expenses rather than Clark's. The Hunt family has been as honorable as anyone since they became involved in football, and I've never been impressed that they act in a malevolent fashion. Let it go people!
July 27, 2011 - txchief says:
Now how about a little Chiefs football news?
July 27, 2011 - go_saleaumua says:
Valid points on Clark. As someone else as pointed out, new management tends to want to find/hire "their people" and run an organization "their way." There are ups and downs to that strategy, as we've seen…
On a side note, this is the second or third article recently where you've bemoaned the loss of the pre-Clark Hunt management team. Who was worth keeping out of that crew? Denny Thum…and that's about it. Many of those leaders were close to you, Bob, and gave you insider access you don't have anymore. Just because you've lost your free pass doesn't mean the folks who issued it to you receive one.
Other than that small gripe, I love your work and always have. Keep it up and thanks for all you do for Chief fans across the country (world?).
July 27, 2011 - rwh1974 says:
Clark acted the same as all spoiled little rich kids. He screwed up so he threw some money at it to make it all better. I gurantee he lost the loyalty of many of his employees. As far as cleaning house and hiring new people goes he should have taken a lesson from Pioli and Haley. You have to have some veteren leadership on a team to be successful.
July 27, 2011 - Rick says:
This is BS. Look around at the many business' firing and laying people off. A small deduction in pay while the league is in limbo is far better than being laid off. The employee's were reimbursed and even received a raise, bashing Hunt over this is petty.
July 28, 2011 - chewbone says:
Clarks mistake was that he likely listened to the comish and what the NFL headquarters were suggesting. Most other clubs as Bob pointed out pulled together a plan, but didn't implement it. Clark wants to be 100% supportive of the NFL rules and there is nothing wrong with that but he needs to use his own good judgement as Goodell has lots of room for improvement. In my opinion the comish is slowly ruining the NFL.


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Next week is one of the most popular holidays of the year… Valentine's Day! And I wanted to create something super special to celebrate the day! Red Velvet Valentine Brownie Bites is what I made for you!
Two years ago for Valentine's Day, I made chocolate cupcakes filled with cream and topped with a chocolate ganache and buttercream. Last year I made (I was about to have a baby and was nesting!) Dark Chocolate Raspberry Hug Cookies, Sweetheart Sugar Cookie Bars, Baked Sour Cream Donuts, and Frosted Sugar Cookies! This year needed to be different.
Red Velvet. Yes… but I've done Red Velvet cupcakes and brownies before, so I knew I had to mix things up a bit with this recipe. For the brownie, I adapted a recipe from How Sweet It Is and baked them in a larger pan so they'd be a bit thinner. I cut them into heart shapes, and piped white chocolate cream cheese frosting between two hearts to create a sandwich.
These are DEFINITELY a winner! The chocolate is subtle in the brownie but the white chocolate is explosive in the frosting… put the two together and you've got YUM!
- 3 Tbsp dark chocolate cocoa powder
- 1 tsp Wilton Christmas Red food coloring Gel
- 2 tsp vanilla, divided
- ½ cup unsalted butter, room temperature
- 1½ cup sugar
- 2 eggs
- 1¼ cups flour
- ¼ tsp salt
- ½ cup unsalted butter, room temperature
- 2oz cream cheese, room temperature
- ⅔ cup white chocoalte chips, melted
- 2½ cups powdered sugar
- 1 tsp vanilla
- 1 Tbsp milk
- ⅛ tsp salt
- Preheat oven to 350 F degrees. Line a 9x13 cake pan with parchment paper that hangs over the edges and grease with butter or shortening. Flour lightly.
- In a small bowl, combine cocoa powder, red food coloring, and 1 tsp vanilla to create a paste.
- Using your stand mixer, cream butter and sugar until fluffy.
- One at a time, add the eggs and vanilla and mix until incorporated.
- Add the cocoa paste and mix until combined thoroughly. At this point, you can add more coloring if the batter is not red enough for your taste.
- Add flour and salt and mixuntil just combined.
- Spread batter evenly into prepared pan. Ensure batter is level and flat, especially on the sides. Since there is no leavening in this recipe, the brownies won't rise very much.
- Bake 23-25 minutes.
- Let brownies cool in the pan for 5 minutes before removing to a wire rack to cool completely. Use the parchment paper to lift the brownies from the pan.
- Using a small heart shaped cookie cutter, cut brownies into heart shapes.
- Using your stand mixer, cream together the butter and cream cheese until smooth - about 2-3 minutes.
- Add the melted white chocolate and mix until incorporated.
- Add the powdered sugar, vanilla, milk and salt and mix on medium-low until smooth.
- Beat 2-3 minutes on high until light and fluffy.
- Using a small star tip (like Wilton 1M), pipe frosting onto the top of one heart. Make sure to pipe to the edges of the heart.
- Place another heart, face up, on top of the frosting and gently press down.
- Sprinkle with powdered sugar to garnish.


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Awesome post Sean ! I like the 'fail quickly'. In general I try not to fall down, but actually daring to fall, getting up, learn from the experiences and re-attack richer that's the spirit.
Missing ? May-be the idea of "Divine Unity". There's no such thing as Me and Succes. They are one, everything you try to fake in your 53 points, or do without inner conviction will not bring you to the shortcut to succes. It's a process. Of course we have the right to fake a bit before the new habit has installed. But in the end it's our very personal mix of mind and body, heart and soul that brings us there. The more matched, the better.


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Comment Robberies versus assaults? (Score 0) 454
Guns might deter burglars, but when any irresponsible idiot can get a gun you've got a worse situation. Eg, here are two relevent headlines right from the top of today's front page on CNN, regarding idiots with guns intentionally shooting and killing people.
Man shoots four and kills two after breaking up with his girlfriend
Man shoots girl for walking a few steps onto his property
FWIW, I'm not entirely anti-gun, I think there are situations and occupations they're certainly warranted. But I don't buy the whole "2nd amendment is my God-given right, guns solve everything and make the world a perfect place" argument either.


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Shah Rukh Khan and Salman Khan may not see eye to eye after their famous spat in 2008. Anyhow, it appears the women in the Khan household are not impacted by the rivalry. A couple of days ago, Bollywood watchers were surprised to see Shah Rukh's wife Gauri stroll into a party thrown by Salman's family. The ocassion was the birthday of Seema Khan, Salman's brother Sohail's wife. The party was a very private affair where only Salman, Arbaaz, Malaika, Seema, Sohail, Arpita and their parents were present along with a few close friends. Gauri had been invited by Seema who has been a good friend of hers for many years.
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — In a story Jan. 11 about a tornado in Northern California, The Associated Press reported erroneously that the tornado was south of Sacramento. It was actually north of Sacramento.
A corrected version of the story is below:
A tornado in California? Not as rare as you might think
The latest storm to wallop Northern California whipped up a small tornado that downed trees and fences near Sacramento
By CHRISTOPHER WEBER
Associated Press
LOS ANGELES (AP) — The latest storm to wallop Northern California whipped up a small tornado that downed trees and fences near Sacramento.
Here's what you need to know about twisters in California, which occur regularly but in limited numbers and force.
The twister that touched down north of the state capital registered EF0, at the lowest edge of the tornado scale that goes up to EF5. The Enhanced Fujita (EF) scale measures the intensity of tornadoes in the U.S. and Canada based on damage caused.
No injuries were reported from the tornado, which was on the ground for 3/8 of a mile and carved a path of minor damage about 100 yards wide, according to National Weather Service meteorologist David Rowe.
"It came as a little bit of a surprise considering that we're so focused on all the heavy snow and rain," Rowe said.
Most California twisters are in the EF0-EF1 range and are less damaging and deadly than their Midwest counterparts. The strongest ever recorded in California were EF3s — one in Riverside County in Aug. 1973 and another in Orange County in Feb. 1978
Of the 1,000-or-so tornadoes that annually strike the United States, about 11 occur in California, according to the American Meteorological Society.
Thirteen roared through in 2005, more than Oklahoma that year.
In October 2012, five tornadoes touched down in north central California, damaging dozens of homes and a handful of commercial buildings.
That event marked the highest number of tornadoes in one day for California since April Fool's Day in 1996, when five tornadoes flattened trees and barns near the north central city of Stockton.
California tornadoes are most common in wide open spaces in the state's Central Valley, the agricultural heartland where the terrain is similar to that of the Great Plains.
Tuesday's twister accompanied a powerful line of thunderstorms and followed days of volatile weather, said National Weather Service meteorologist Travis Wilson.
They were ideal conditions for creating twisters. When cooler air is forced aloft, wind speeds tend to increase and that can cause tornadoes, Wilson said.


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Any discussion of the economy today has to begin with the most favorable economic event of the last twenty years, the collapse in oil prices. The runaway increase in oil prices in the 1970s was an enormous tax imposed on the industrial world by the oil producers. It created the inflation and the economic crisis that caused political turmoil in the West, and laid the groundwork for the third-world debt crisis with which we are still struggling. The current collapse of oil prices has just the opposite effect. It is the equivalent of having a multi-billion-dollar tax cut without increasing our deficit. It keeps inflation rates down, thus allowing interest rates to come down, along with the dollar, despite large domestic deficits and borrowing requirements.
Just when the economy was beginning to slow down, the fall in oil prices set off a stock market boom which has created, at least on paper, hundreds of billions of new wealth capable of sustaining the economy for some time in the future. Oil prices may not stay down forever. But the fall in oil prices, along with the fall in the price of the dollar and the fall in interest rates, presents an opportunity that should be seized to set the economy on a strong footing for the long run. Important initiatives will be required both domestically and internationally.
On the domestic front, it is obvious that the strong economic stimulus provided by falling oil prices and interest rates, coupled with a stock market boom, allows considerable freedom to cut the budget deficit without an economic slowdown. Despite recent optimistic statements about the deficit, it will not disappear magically; and raising revenues through higher income taxes will be resisted by both parties. We now have, however, an opportunity to combine a gasoline tax of fifty cents a gallon, phased in over two years, with a one-year freeze on all spending, including both on military appropriations and on social security and other entitlements.
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So, will they have belly buttons in this one...hehe
looks like a another 30 min commercial "Fighting for the sake of love." Well at least they have motivation. but of course 10-12 year old girls stateing that they are about to engage in fight with a monkey for the "sake" of love is irrelevant to say the least. At least salior moon declared that in the name of her home planet (the moon) she's pissed and she going to administer punishment on you is more relevant. Of course its all about dramatics here. Like staged role playing. I wish they would "for the sake of love, please die." Last edited by strangeness_dss; 2006-07-10 at 20:30. |
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I was forced to watch the original a few times with my daughter.
This one it just doesn't seem like there is any kind of sense / continuity in the characters and such. For instance in the original the mayor sounds, thinks, and acts like a helpless bumbling fool. In this one, the characters are all the same, but their voices don't distinguish them for what they are. Same can be said for the professor (he sounds too socialized and self-confident), Mojo-Jojo, and the girls for that matter. Also I just don't feel the serie has the same energy as the original; it doesn't seem to know what to do with itself or where it's going. |
2006-07-11, 13:05 | Link #126 |
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gah ... for gawds sake ... take it as an parody on PPG and not a continuation ... thats the problem with hell-of-alot people haves (not only here ... but also when talking about for an example Mai Otome or Soul link) ... people look at what was before and keep watching more links than there is between show A and show B
PPGZ is thought of as a parody of the original, yes ... but it is just as much thought of as a parody on Salior moon and the likewise Mahou Shojou series rumbleing about in Japan ... while i saw the humor in the original as any funny thing, i think that the humor in PPGZ is brilliant ... reason is that its humor on another level than PPG, and prehaps demand a slightly other mindset ... got an idea ... everyone that don't like Demashitaa! PPGZ ... stop wacthing it and let us that like it (eventhrough we might are a minority ... so what ... shoot us) wacth and debate it in peace ... people whined about the 'cartoonish' background ... haven't the thought crossed you that that was the whole point? ... the show does originally come from another show with a less-than-brilliant draw ... |
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The cartoony backgrounds are not something to complain about...I think its great they used a cartoony approach. The only thing about the series so far that dont like is the mayor...Even if he is still stupid he seems too normal instead of....a little "different" |
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Devilen, if you ask me, the original seemed like a parody also, a parody of the superhero genre, of people, jungian archtypes, and life-in-general; of school and growing up, of hapless, dependent adults who cannot help themselves and have to depend on children more able then themselves when anything goes wrong.
One person cannot tell another what to watch, some people enjoy watching things they themselves feel are 'bad', debate by it's very definition has to allow both positive and negative commentary, provided it is non-fallacious. Even reasonable people like to try new things, if you don't risk watching a show b'cos you might later on decide it is bad; with this attitude you will probably miss a lot of good shows. |
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Access > ... the first one was a parody ... reason why i said that about stop wacthin is that you get the impression that people wacth and rewacth just to prove how much it sucks ... people need to learn to put old series behind and don't think about them at all ... then its doomed to suck because it aren't 100% like the old one (and if it is it sucks because there is nothing new)
CrowKenobi > ... give it a chance will ya? ... the bird really got off the ground before you start shooting |
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If the creators didn't want it to be compared to the original series, they should've chosen a different name, used different characters, etc. By using the same name, the same characters (or different version thereof), the same or a similar setting, they are inviting a comparison. It's inevitable. You can't do all that stuff and then cry foul when people compare it to the original you derived the show from. Deviations from the original aren't bad by default, but what people are complaining about here is the lack of depth and 'character', something one watching the original could take for granted.
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Well, im a huge fan of any "Magical Girl" series, and while storywise, its completely random to the point that i find it hilarious, i'd have to say that imo, the art is way cuter than art for any other series ive ever seen. Im gonna keep watching this one, i watched the first ep 3 times, and im still loving it. I dont care that im the minority, but i just really like cute things, and this is overflowing with cuteness to the point that it can make a normal persons head explode.
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The majority opinion in this thread is that this series is crap. How is this immature. There is no name calling or anything. Are you saying that people who posts negative opinions destroy a thread? The lack of fanboy fapage in this thread is a good thing. Enjoy it. Too many threads on asuki are filled with fanboy fapage. Dissenting opinions are trashed upon so people rarely care to give them. Quote:
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Now, regarding PPZ as a parody: I feel that I do have a good sense of satire. When something is intended to satirize or parody another product, I can usually recognize it. I didn't sense that at all in PPZ. It seemed to me that this was being presented as a program complete in itself. It's purpose was not to make fun of the source material.
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That statement isn't necessary aimed at you in particular, but reading through this thread, I'm sure you're aware of which posts I'm referring to. As for whether this series is a parody or not, It's clear that it is not. It's a complete package as a franchise on its own, and was not even intended for the same audience. It's intended as the early morning children's show, as opposed to the witty, dark-humored original PPG. And by children, I mean age group 3-10. Shame on you guys to be watching a kid's show and getting all pumped up! Last edited by aohige; 2006-07-12 at 04:13. |
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"But!" you say, butthurt Auburn fan, "rushing statistics in college are severely skewed because they include yards lost on sacks!" That is extremely true, B.A.F., and an excellent way of putting a positive spin on the fact that the Razorbacks had seven total sacks before this game started and 15 in all once it was over.AdvertisementHaving thrown 10 picks and lost seven fumbles, Auburn currently has been the most generous FBS team to date. That puts the Tigers on pace to finish with 40 turnovers lost, which would be the most by any team since Washington's 42 in 2004. The same Washington team that decided to turn things around by hiring Ty Willingham the next year.Ty Willingham with War Eagle on his arm is going to look like the saddest version of Ghostface Killah ever.AdvertisementN.C. 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This is why Urban Meyer is the most successful Bond villain—he reveals every detail of his plan to kill you and then laughs when you still can't save yourself.Elsewhere in ShameAaron Murray barely managed 109 passing yards against the Gamecocks, the lowest total by any Georgia quarterback with at least 20 attempts since Joe Tereshinski in a 2005 loss to Florida. Fun fact: every time you say Joe Tereshinki's name, 10 points are knocked off every Dawg fan's credit rating. Joe Tereshinski. Joe Tereshinski. Joe Tereshinski.AdvertisementAdvertisementMaryland and Wake Forest each finished with more punt yardage than total yardage. That isn't even a fact I made up, though nobody actually watched this game to call me on it if I had.Kansas's third quarter: 68 yards, two punts, and three turnovers. Kansas State's third quarter: 177 yards, one fumble, and four touchdowns. Charlie Weis gets paid over a million dollars more per year than Bill Snyder, so maybe college football really isn't a giant money-making machine!The Week Ahead in ShameIowa travels to Michigan State for a game that the Spartans will probably win after Kirk Ferentz declines every pass-interference penalty for no reason. Please, don't watch this game. There are so many healthier choices you could make, like eating an entire carton of cigarettes.AdvertisementVirginia has forced only three turnovers all year. Maryland is tied for 118th in FBS with 16 giveaways. Can you have a fumble that neither team recovers? The answer is "yes, after Randy Edsall fills all the balls with helium."At first glance, it's easy to imagine Missouri going 0-17 on third down against Alabama. But there's an offensive wrinkle you're missing that the Tigers would do well to deploy in this game, and it's called punting on second down.Celebrity Hot Tub is a college football fan who lost the ability to truly love thanks to three years of Florida head coach Ron Zook. He writes for Every Day Should Be Saturday. Follow him on Twitter @celebrityhottub.Reply41 repliesLeave a reply