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Ned Flanders
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- "Okilly-dokilly!"
- ―Ned Flanders' catchphrase
- "Hey-Diddly-Ho!"
- ―Ned's other catchphrase
- "Neighbor-eeno!"
- ―Ned's other other catchphrase
- "Godspeed lil' doodle!"
- ―Ned[src]
- "Milk Me!"
- ―Ned's quote in THOH XIII
- "Feels like I'm wearing nothing at all!"
- ―Stupid Sexy Flanders catchphrase
Nedward "Ned" Flanders is the Simpson family's extremely religious next "diddly-door" neighbor. He is a genuinely well-meaning good-natured person, and is one of the few in Springfield to whom that description applies. Though firmly religious, he can be timid and something of an easy pushover. He thoroughly worships God and strictly follows the Bible as literally as possible and is easily shocked when challenged on any point of dogma. He also owns the Leftorium and a home business, Flancrest Enterprises, which makes religious hook rugs. He also works as a member of the Springfield Volunteer Fire Department.
Ned Flanders grew up in New York and was the son of "Freaky Beatniks" who did not discipline Ned and let him run wild. Eventually they took him to Dr. Foster, a psychiatrist, who put the young Ned through the University of Minnesota Spankalogical Protocol, which involved eight months of continuous spanking. The treatment worked so well that it rendered Ned unable to express any anger at all and resulted in his trademark nonsensical jabbering at moments when he was particularly close to losing his temper, causing Ned to unknowingly repress his anger. Flanders got his diploma from Oral Roberts University. Flanders worked as a salesman in the pharmaceuticals industry for the bulk of his adult life. Having saved much of his earnings, Flanders decided to quit his job and invested his family's life savings into a store in the Springfield mall called "The Leftorium" specializing in products for left-handed people. He lives at 744 Evergreen Terrace.
Ned's age is uncertain. In "Hurricane Neddy" he is shown as a child in a flashback 30 years earlier, but later, in "Viva Ned Flanders", he states that he is 60 years old. (He attributes his youthful appearance to "clean living, chewing thoroughly, and a daily dose of vitamin church.") Later still, in "Walking Big & Tall", he is once again shown as a child 30 years ago. In the latter appearance, he is shown to be around the same age as Homer and Marge, who are in the same scene as children.
Ned is very honest and sincere in carrying out the Christian doctrines of charity, kindness and compassion to an extent unseen within the rest of the Springfield community. He is frequently shown doing volunteer work, and is rigorously honest and upright, even going so far as to spend an entire day tracking down a Leftorium customer in order to give him the extra change that he had forgotten to hand over. He once donated a kidney and a lung out of the goodness of his heart to whoever needs them first.[2] He is also a good neighbor to the Simpsons, regularly offering his assistance. Ned's dogged friendship inspires the loyalty of others; when his Leftorium appeared on the verge of bankruptcy shortly after it opened, Homer arranged a George Bailey-esque bailout with the help of many people in Springfield. Upon discovering that Bart and Lisa Simpson were not baptized he immediately took it upon himself to (unsuccessfully) conduct the ceremony without their parents' consent. He also was one of the organizers of a mob to remove the La Maison Derrière due to the amoral exploitation of the sexual desires in males (although he notably had to ask for permission to commence a mob to Belle, the owner of the place they were attempting to tear down in a mob frenzy, indicating that he either wasn't completely aware of how a mob was supposed to work or was unwilling to go to the extreme of inciting a mob riot to get rid of the house). In more recent episodes he seems to have gained more tolerance to other religions and homosexuality, as long as the people in question are good-natured. However, his bias and perspective still makes him think that they will have a harder time getting to heaven.
Ned was married to the equally religious Maude Flanders (after whose death he married Edna Krabappel). Ned and Maude had two children together; the sheltered and naive Rod and Todd. While still married to Maude, Ned married Ginger, a waitress, while on a drunken bender in Las Vegas. Ginger came to live with Ned and his sons for a brief period following Maude's death, but she quickly grew tired of the Ned's sickly-sweet personalities and fled. Flanders has also been connected romantically with a beautiful Christian-rock singer, Rachel Jordan, and Tiffany Sloane, a movie star. He also makes absolute certain every year to pay and file his tax returns at the start of the new year, especially when considering how the vast majority of Springfield usually waited until April 15 to file their tax returns.[3]Homer generally loathes Ned, because his family, job, health and self-discipline are of higher quality than he could ever hope to attain himself. Homer has since come to have a love-hate relationship with Ned, sometimes being his best friend, partly due to Ned's selfless tolerance of him, and other times treating Ned with complete disregard. Homer seems to genuinely care for Ned, despite still expressing and often acting on feelings of loathing. Nowadays Homer seems to regard Ned as more of a nuisance. Sometimes, Marge considers Ned to be a perfect neighbor and usually sides with him instead of her husband, which always enrages Homer. When Marge lends her voice on these matters they usually end with Homer angrily calling her "The President of The I Love Ned Flanders Fan Club" or with Homer furiously and sarcastically admitting that Ned is "perfect in every way" and that he himself is not perfect like Ned Flanders.
Ned is not without facing life's challenges, but has been shown to frequently call Reverend Lovejoy for advice often, even over minuscule and petty things ("I... I think I'm coveting my own wife!"), to the point that Lovejoy has stopped caring and has even suggested that Flanders try a different religion. Reverend Lovejoy used to care for Ned's problems, but over the years Lovejoy became increasingly uninterested and annoyed when he would always turn to him for help[4], and even to frustration, as many of their talks have lead his enjoyment of life's simple pleasures go spoiled awry, and even to acts of passive-aggressive vengeance, in one instance of himself encouraging his Old English Sheepdog to defecate on Ned's lawn in return for many instances of the former. Ned is shown to have a room in his house filled with memorabilia of the Beatles. He claims that this is because they were "bigger than Jesus". He also even owns a small home business called Flancrest Enterprises. In addition, his modesty was such that he even goes as far as to bathe in swimming trunks specifically to avoid having to avoid anyone, even himself, see his privates, as he admits when Marge and Homer have him babysit Maggie once when they talk to him as he's bathing.
Ned is also against drugs. When Ned, Homer and Apu go on road trip to Canada for cheap prescription drugs, they meet a man who looks and acts just like Ned, the man then offers Ned marijuana ("Hey, would you like to puff on a reeferino? It's legal here.") but he promptly turns down ("They warned me Satan would be attractive. Let's go").[5] He did, however, briefly smoke a cigarette when playing the role of Mad Dog during his fire safety skit with some disgust.[6] He also once suffered hallucinogenic experiences of the Dancing Bears and Skeletons of the Grateful Dead crossing the road, as well as witnessing an entity resembling a fusion between the hammers from Pink Floyd's The Wall and the Rolling Stones' lips & tongue attempting to kiss him after drinking groovy grove juice that unknown to him, was spiked with Peyote thanks to Homer Simpson.[7]
His sons Rod and Todd are very sheltered and raised in an extremely strict climate of Christian morality, causing them to be unable to behave like all the other children in Springfield ("They're going to be eaten alive, in Middle School" Lisa once observed). For instance, the family has at least five different Trivial Pursuit sets relating to different versions of the Bible. "He is a real Christian. He stinks!" said Homer. Also, all of the family's board games contain no dice, as Ned believes that dice are "wicked". Rod says that they just move one space at a time, as it is "less fun that way". His pet peeve was Maude underlining passages in his Bible.
Because of his childhood and the therapy he was given, he learned to repress his anger by a significant amount, which also resulted in the creation of his odd choice of words. However, his anger eventually was unable to be suppressed anymore after his house, which was demolished by a hurricane despite several protective efforts such as placing a tarp over the house, and the house being rebuilt in a very shoddy fashion and eventually collapsing, at which point he lashed out at his friends and neighbors, even shocking and appalling Bart when he, in his anger, lashed out at Bart attempting to defend Marge from his anger and hinted that Bart will end up a street beggar when he grows up.
However, in some early episodes Ned is occasionally shown when he's angry. The first episode to ever show Ned's rage was the episode "Dead Putting Society". The episode starts-off with Ned inviting Homer in for a beer after an unsuccessful attempt at mowing the lawn. While visiting with Ned, Homer sees that Ned has a much better life-style than he does and gets into a fight with Ned. Homer leaves Ned's house in a very mad manner. Eventually the episode boils up to the point of Homer and Ned both losing their tempers and making a bet and entering their sons in a mini golf tournament. The bet said that "The father of the boy who didn't win had to mow his neighbor's lawn in his wife's best Sunday dress". The episode ends with both fathers having to wear the dresses as both Bart and Todd decide that they are equally good. The next episode to showcase Ned's wrath was "Homer vs. Lisa and the 8th Commandment" where at the start of the episode Ned is seen and loudly heard throwing a man out of his home for trying to sell him stolen cable. Ned even threatens to box the guys ears in which results in the man becoming terrified of Ned. The third early instance of Ned's rage was the episode "Homer Loves Flanders" where it begins with Ned and Homer going to a football game and enjoying each other's company. Homer and Ned then become really good friends, but it soon becomes apparent that Homer is obsessed with Ned and his family. Both Homer's obsession and extreme stupidity drive Ned into hating Homer and finally becoming so annoyed with him that Ned's rage causes him to snap very loudly at Homer. The fourth and last early reference came in "Bart The Lover" where Todd picks-up on Homer's potty-mouthed language and Todd says, "I don't want any of your damn vegetables," at the dinner table. Todd's newly discovered bad word sets-off Ned's temper and Todd gets punished by Ned right away for saying the nasty word. While trying to discover where Todd learned the nasty word he hears Homer swearing angrily and asks him to try and cut back on his "foul lingo" which ends with Homer having a talk with Marge and him actually trying to be a good neighbor by reducing his swearing.
In the eighth season of the show, the issue of why Ned very seldom ever shows his anger was greatly explored in the episode "Hurricane Neddy". In the episode, a very powerful hurricane hits Springfield and among the buildings that are destroyed is Ned's house. Ned's neighbors and friends all try to rebuild his home (led by Homer), but fail miserably. The sudden destruction of his home and the horribly failed attempt to rebuild it are what finally drive Ned to really lose it. He snaps at almost everyone in Springfield and goes on a long, mean, spiteful, and extremely loud rant about how horrible and annoying he thinks that everyone in Springfield is and why he thinks so. Homer is the last person that Ned comes to and when he does, instead of shouting at Homer like how he did to everyone else, Ned just in a calm voice tells Homer that he's the worst person that he has ever met. Homer, however due to his low IQ is not offended or even hurt by the remark. After the long, tiresome rant, Ned sees that he really needs help and drives himself to The Calmwood Mental Hospital. The episode ends with Ned's former childhood doctor, Doctor Foster, coming to see him and explain that as a child Ned was an uncontrollable hellion due to his parents being beatniks who never punished him when he was bad. Seeking help for their son's destructive behavior, they had Doctor Foster distribute a treatment known as the University of Minnesota Spankalogical Protocol. The treatment was a non-stop eight month spanking technique that was supposed to stop a child's bad behavior permanently. However, according to Doctor Foster, the treatment later proved to have worked too well and in many cases it caused severe repressed anger management issues in mid to late adulthood. To administer an outlet for this repressed rage, Doctor Foster has Ned think of somebody who really annoys him. At first Ned can't come up with anybody, so the doctor tries a list of names of the town residents. Most of which Ned happily responds to. That is, until they come to Homer. Homer is then brought in as a way to get Ned to admit that he does not always like everyone he meets. At first, the treatment doesn't seem to work until Homer tells Ned that he's too happy a person and always likes everyone. Ned gets really angry and says that it isn't true because he hates the people who work at the post office due to them being so slow and having to wait in long lines, he loathes beatniks and hates his parents who are beatniks. Ned is then cured and he learns that when he's seething with rage then he should let the others know.
In recent seasons following after Maude's death, Ned's demeanor has grown somewhat stern and hostile as opposed to his original jolly neighbor demeanor shown in earlier seasons. Some occasions to support this include mainly revolve around his "Flanderization" where he has become so Christianity-obsessed, that he would belittle other religious. One example would be in "The Monkey Suit", where Ned's fundamentalist intentions in enforcing creationism became so overzealous that it got Lisa thrown in jail when she went against it by teaching the theory of evolution in secrecy, after it was outlawed[8]. In a lampshade to that episode in "Judge Me Tender", Ned deliberately stopped a fish from walking on land when it grew feet. Homer even goes to the point of saying, "You used to be nicer"[9].
Despite his attempts at being a good Christian, as well as a good neighbor, most of his good deeds nevertheless end up exploited by the various Springfielders, and are often mocked by the townspeople behind his back for his naivety, zealousness, strict beliefs, and intolerance. This ultimately reached its breaking point when, after allowing two female college students to rent one of the rooms of his house for studying, they took advantage of his trusting nature and filmed a soft-core webcam site called "sexyslumberparty.com" without his knowledge. As soon as he learned of this from Homer, he angrily evicted them from his house, although the damage was already done when, thanks to Homer leaking the videos to the entire town, the townspeople arrive at his house around the time he evicted them to cheer on the girls, causing him to realize that the entire town actually mocked him behind his back, and he was even more shocked when he learned that Homer was the one who leaked the videos. He then entered a very deep depression due to this, and decided to have his family move temporarily to Humbleton, Pennsylvania where the Humbleton figurines that he collected were being made, and also posting a note stating that he left town.
Despite a meek outward appearance, Ned hides an exceptionally well-built physique under his pink shirt and green sweater combination. When he is revealed to be in his early 60s, Ned claims his deceptively youthful appearance is due to his conformity to the "three Cs" - "clean living, chewing thoroughly, and a daily dose of vitamin Church".[10]
Both Ned and his family rarely refer to his mustache as such, preferring nicknames such as "Nose Neighbor," "Mr. Tickles," "The Soup Strainer," "The Cookie Duster," "The Pushbroom," and "Dr. Fuzzenstein." He once shaved it off, after Homer implied that people were mocking Ned's facial hair behind his back. He also once had it pulled off with a vacuum cleaner by Maude after Homer, who was thought to have leprosy, kissed Ned in gratitude for sending them to be treated. Ned's mustache would also affect his decision to move to the Humbleton, PA. After being hired at the town's Humble figurine manufacturing factory,[11] Ned was ordered to shave his mustache, due to an unofficial ban on facial hair. Ned defiantly refused to shave his mustache for which he was labeled as a troublemaker. Interestingly, in one of the earliest references to Ned's facial hair, he shaved off his mustache without concern after Homer commented he should, and to strike a deal with Homer to please control his use of vulgarity as that was a bad influence on Todd. Homer is once again annoyed when he later sees a clean-shaven Flanders commenting that everyone likes his new appearance and he got the chance to star in a TV commercial.
Ned is a devout Christian. Ned's sons have been raised in a strict climate of Christian morality, to which they willingly conform. It is revealed that they "don't believe in flu shots",[12] much as their father considers insurance to be a "form of gambling" and dice games to be "wicked." Rod and Todd go to bed several hours before sunset and are not allowed to consume sugar, (which is ironic because in the movie he gives them hot chocolate. Which you see through the window and then he makes one for Bart). But this could be to the fact only Maude imposed the no-sugar rule. Since her death, it is possible Ned has not seen an issue with sugar.
Most of the entertainment enjoyed by the family involves religion in some way. The family uses at least five different versions of the Bible to play "Bombardment...of Bible Questions!" ("The bridal feast of Beth Chadruharazzeb!?"), and are part of a competitive bowling team called the Holy Rollers (their uniform consisting of a Franciscan Friar's robes). Ned seems to sense that he cannot completely shield his family from the vagaries of popular culture, but does his best to mitigate the effects; one of his children's stories concludes "...and Harry Potter and all his wizard friends went straight to Hell for practicing witchcraft." Though they have satellite TV, nearly all of the 230 channels are blocked out — likely for the best, as one episode of Itchy & Scratchy was enough to more or less permanently scar Rod and Todd. Rod used to watch "Davey and Goliath", but finding the idea of talking dogs to be "blasphemous", he has since stopped.
Ned is willing to fight for what he believes in. For example, he once attempted to forcibly baptize the Simpson children, using his portable baptism kit, after finding out that they had never undergone the ritual. Ned once reminded himself to get his hand "re-blessed" after shaking a Catholic priest's hand (odd, considering he keeps a Latin Vulgate Bible in his home).[13]
Despite occasional antipathy toward Catholicism, Judaism and Hinduism (he once compared worshipping Shiva to asking for help from Hawkman, and he fears that his children will grow up to become Jewish Hollywood producers), Ned is honest and sincere in carrying out the Christian doctrines of charity, kindness and compassion. He even admits (after a hurricane destroyed his home) that he has kept kosher just in case. He is frequently shown doing volunteer work, and is rigorously honest and upright, even going so far as to spend an entire day tracking down a Leftorium customer in order to give him the extra change that he had forgotten to hand over (à la Abraham Lincoln). Similarly, after winning football tickets by answering a radio trivia question, he immediately asked for the cash value so he could report it on his income taxes. He also is a good neighbor to the Simpsons, regularly offering his assistance — and then suffering the consequences often paid to those with misguided and shortsighted good intentions.
The Flanders Clan has members around the globe, who convened at the Flanders Family Reunion bible bashing BBQ. Relatives included Mexican José Flanders ("Buenos ding-dong-diddly días, señor") and English Lord Thistlewick Flanders ("Charmed... [he is prompted by Ned] ...a-googily-doogily"). There was a relative of Flanders who served in World War II. He was a superior to Sgt. Abe Simpson. Abe called him Commander Flanders when yelling at Burns for stealing paintings.
Flanders is believed to have 3 younger sisters.[14][15] Ned and family planned on moving in with one of them who lived in Capital City after the loss of their home and business in Springfield.[16] He might also have a possible unnamed brother or stepbrother.
Speech patterns
Ned has the odd habit of attaching "diddly," "doodly" and other nonsensical phrases to his sentences. "Hi-diddly-ho, neighborino," is a common example.[17] This is the result of sublimated anger caused by his upbringing, anger which has no other outlet. This trait is, strangely, demonstrated by his relatives from around the world. However, one of his relatives; Lord Thistlewick Flanders, does not have this trait other than when pressured by Ned Flanders, which may imply that his relatives might just attach the trait when with Flanders. He also has the habit of saying "Okally-Dokally", when replying to someone - meaning OK. He might also occasionally add a "doo" on the end, for example... "Okally Dokally-Doo". This is more often than not repeated, when Homer tells him to "Shut up" or "Get lost and we don't need your help". He said "Son of a diddly!" in the episode Trilogy of Error.
His extreme prudishness makes him averse to saying "sex" aloud, even when there are no children in sight — he either spells it out or sheepishly calls it "doodily". Ned also uses the word "doodle", "Flander-doodle" or "shrinky-dink" when referring to his penis (ironically, he actually shouts "penis" while praying with his kids before eating at Krusty Burger after Bart lands on a window naked in front of him[18]). He wears a bathing suit in the shower or when he takes a bath. He also uses annotated words, when referring to words that could slightly have a bad, injury related, or slightly offensive meaning. An example is when Bart and Homer are on the roof, and Bart is dangling from the guttering. He says the word "parapleig-orino" referring to parapleigic (a person paralyzed from the waist down). Nevertheless, Bart and Homer both reply "Shut up, Flanders..." His speech pattern once got him into trouble with Rex Banner, because the latter thought he was drunk during a time when prohibition was revived.[19]
The Leftorium
Ned worked as a salesperson in the pharmaceuticals industry for the bulk of his adult life. Having saved much of his earnings, Flanders announced during a barbecue he was throwing for his family and friends that he had quit his job and planned to invest the family's life savings into a new business. After burning his necktie, he proclaimed his intent to open a store in the Springfield Mall called The Leftorium, specializing in products for left-handed people including everything from left-handed can openers to an entirely left-handed car, of which only three were ever made. Many of the Leftorium's products are merely labeled as "left-handed," such as pens and nunchucks. He does not sell, however, left-handed eyelash curlers.[20]
The Leftorium faces stiff competition from Leftopolis and Left-Mart. However, an unusually large proportion of Springfield's citizens are left-handed, including Bart Simpson, Mr. Burns, and Moe Szyslak.
Other jobs
Ned began an Internet company called Flancrest Enterprises (which deals in religious hook-rugs) and founded a Bible-themed amusement park called Praiseland, in honor of his late wife (that he would go to such lengths to fulfill her last wish is unsurprising, as Ned had previously exerted himself a great deal in order to avoid disappointing Maude — after accidentally killing Maude's prized ficus plant, he attempted to bury and secretly replace it rather than explain the situation). Ned also spent a stint as principal of Springfield Elementary School, replacing Seymour Skinner (Armin Tamzarian).
He, along with his late wife, also worked as a member of the Springfield Volunteer Fire Department, once saving Homer from his burning house.[21] Because of his membership status, he also participates in Fire Safety Day at Springfield Elementary School, once doing an act trying to display the dangers of not taking care of Fire Safety where he acted completely different from himself for the role. He portrayed a pot-smoking, chain smoking, hog-riding hippie party-goer named MadDog whom, after arriving back home with his girlfriend (played by Maude Flanders), who is also a pot-smoking hippie party-goer, they smoked a cigarette to "make the night complete." His girlfriend suggests that they get another smoke alarm in case their current one "tricks out on them" but MadDog refused as one was good enough for him before telling her that they should "hit the sack." While sleeping, MadDog accidentally drops his cigarette on his pants thus burning them. His girlfriend tries to warn him to stop, drop and roll, but he ignores it as he felt it was for clydes and that "a little fire won't hurt him." The performance turned out awry because Ned Flanders was forced to break character due to the fire spreading fast, and the usual method of stop drop and roll was not successful at all in putting out the fire, and had it not been for Bart Simpson's latest hijinx involving a hose and the gymnasium, he would have been burned alive.
Romantic relationships
Ned had a relationship with Sara Sloane for the craic. They later broke up and she married Bob Ballaban.
Friendship with Homer Simpson
Flanders personality makes him think of Homer as good and friendly, but although they are friends, Homer doesn't like Flanders that much even at times has envied Flanders for having a better life style than him for example before Maude's death homer openly made flirtatious comments about Maude in front of Marge and that in The first three seasons that were focused on how Ned was doing well financially since he was a devout Christian ,how his family are well behaved, and how they are more respected than the simpsons whilest Homer was angry with that on account of the Simpsons being a struggling family, constantly getting in trouble with the law and are mocked by the public of Springfield. The financial issue was largely resolved in When Flanders Failed. Homer has often borrowed many of Ned's possessions, none of which he ever had any intention of returning in the first place. Homer tells Ned to "shut his stupid face" on a regular basis, and has even prayed for his ruin and death — "I've learned that life is one crushing defeat after another, until you just wish Flanders was dead." Ironically, at one time, Homer becomes Flanders' best friend, but becomes so annoying that Flanders starts to hate him, but eventually things go back to the way they were with no explanation as to why.[22] Homer and Ned's relationship has been good on occasions, in which Homer seems to genuinely care for Ned, despite still expressing (and often acting on) feelings of loathing and envy. Examples of this include Homer comforting Ned following Maude's death (seconds after preparing to bash Ned's head in with a rock) largely due to Marge's insistence that the Simpson family must now be supportive of the Flanders family in wake of the tragic loss of Maude, and helping Ned build Praiseland Amusement Park. Despite their friendship, Homer wrote the song "Everybody Hates Ned Flanders," and even sang and produced it with David Byrnes. When Ned was embarrassed in front of the entire community after two young women who rented his house were found to be using it to film a racy website (which Homer helped spread), Ned moves away in shame. Homer genuinely misses Ned's absence, especially when a gruff, unneighborly man buys the house, and is overjoyed when Ned returns to Springfield. Homer and Ned became friends again when they got jobs as bounty hunters. In the recent episode I won't be home for christmas, Homer sees Flanders selling things for his leftoriom. Homer asks Ned how he stays so happy and Ned says that God and his family is all he has left since Edna died. Ned starts crying after all the misfortune he suffered and because his business is failing. Homer then buys something from his store to make him feel better, showing the true friendship between Homer and Flanders.
Friendship with Bart Simpson
His friendship with Bart began in The Simpsons Movie. When Bart becomes a camper, he would seem to have taken a liking to his head camper, Ned Flanders. During a time when Homer was being an exceptionally bad father, Ned was his surrogate. This is shown by Bart talking in Flanders normal diddly-doodily fashion. However, Ned reassures Bart that Homer is his true father, and that Bart must be a receptive son in order to help Homer be a concerned father during Springfield's darkest hour.
Website Biography
Ned Flanders is irratatingly optimistic and cheerful. Religion has removed all gray areas in life for him, so he and his family live secure, knowing that the ultimate safety net that is Heaven awaits for them. Ned believes the Bible has all the answers. Sometimes as many as two or three very different ones for the same question. His constant fretting over every rule Biblical rule exasperates even the bland Rev. Lovejoy. Ned keeps kosher "just on the safe side." This Starkly contrasts to his upbringing as Ned's parents lived like freaky beatniks without believing in any rules. As a result, Ned learn to repress all his anger and learned turn the other cheek. And, with Homer Simpson as a neighbor. Ned has had to turn every cheek on his body.
Ned's special calling is to make the world a better place for the left-handed. To this end, he owns and operates The Leftorium down at the Springfield Mall. His volunteerism extends into the community, where as a member of the junior campers, sponsored a Spongebath the Old Folks Day. Before she fell to her death at the race track, Ned's relationship with his wife Maude had been unabashedly corny and romantic-he once serenaded her dressed as a ornate heart-shaped box of candy. The one fracture in their practically perfect union occurred when Maude underlined passages in Ned's Bible.
In spite of Maude's untimely demise, Ned, Rod, and Todd are a model family in nearly every way. Consequently, they are regarded as an unsettling curiosity by nearly everyone, and as a very personal annoyance by Homer. Everything the Simpsons have or do, the Flanders have a little more or do a little better. In "Land Behemoth", for instance, Flanders motor home is bigger than Homer's motor home, and in "Propane Elaine," Ned's grill is more expensive than Homer's grill. The exceptions to this rule are the things in the Simpson household that Homer has "borrowed" from Flanders, more or less permanently. But don't think that the relationship between the families is one sided. There is some give with all the take. Through Homer's example, Todd Flanders has learned to curse.
The Flanders family members constantly help each other out as study-buddies, pray-partners, and stratego-amigos. Together, they enjoy bible stories, taffy pull, flag ceremonies, and cable TV, though they've locked out all the channels, except the religious ones. Their home is tailored to reflect their religious beliefs with such items as Shroud of Turin beach towels, Lot's Wife salt shakers, and a doorbell that rings "Kumbaya". In short, the Flanders family strive to do everything the Bible says, even the stuff that contradicts the other stuff.
Non Canon Appearance
Treehouse of Horror
In the Treehouse of Horror IV segment "The Devil and Homer Simpson", Flanders appeared as the devil in front of Homer Simpson (quoted by Flanders, "It's always the one you least expect!") and when he comes to claim Homer's soul, he and Bart exchange casual greetings. He acts as the "unquestioned Lord and Master of the world" (in a parallel universe) in a segment in Treehouse of Horror V, he instituted Orwellian "Re-Neducation" facilities for those with impure thoughts culminating in frontal lobotomies. In other Halloween episodes, he proclaimed his preference for "wanton carnality" as an early Pilgrim immigrant to the New World, only to be vetoed by Maude; been transformed into a werewolf; been murdered by Homer Simpson (who used the rise of a zombie horde as an excuse for killing him) (Homer Simpson: "He was a zombie?"— Homer didn't care if Ned was actually zombie or not), a clone of Homer Simpson, and an evil bus-gremlin whom he attempted to adopt.
In "Bart to the Future", Bart sees his own future. Ned is seen blind, revealing that he received laser eye surgery, which was great at the beginning, but after the 10-year-point, your eyes fall out. He often bails Bart out with money as a way of thanking him for not "outing" Rod and Todd.
In "Holidays of Future Passed", Ned is shown to have his eyes and is shown to still be Homer's happy neighbor. He also stated that Edna was killed by Homer and Ned is shown to be married with Maude's ghost.
Video Games
The Simpsons Road Rage
In The Simpsons Road Rage, Ned Flanders is a driver that you can unlock. While not being played, he is a passenger.
The Simpsons Game
In The Simpsons Game, Ned is carjacked by Martin Prince in the level "Mob Rules", so he joins Marge's mob to stop the game Grand Theft Scratchy to be sold to kids.
Simpsons Wrestling
Ned was an unlockable character in Simpsons Wrestling. His special moves are summoning lightning and he can get up once after being pinned.
Behind the Laughter
The writers found Harry Shearer's voice for Flanders so sweet that they decided to make the character a Christian.Ned Flanders, who was designed by Rich Moore, first appeared in the season one episode "Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire". The episode was the series premiere, but not the first episode produced. The first episode in which Flanders and his family were prominent is season two's "Dead Putting Society", which also contained the first appearance of Maude and Rod Flanders. Flanders was named after Flanders St. in Portland, Oregon, the hometown of Simpsons creator Matt Groening. Groening described the inspiration for Flanders as "just a guy who was truly nice, that Homer had no justifiable reason to loathe, but then did". It was not until after the first few episodes that it was decided Flanders would be a faithful Christian. Mike Scully noted that Flanders is "everything Homer would love to be, although he'll never admit it". Flanders had been meant to be just a neighbor that Homer was jealous of, but Harry Shearer used "such a sweet voice" and Flanders was broadened to become a Christian and a sweet guy that someone would prefer to live next to Homer. Flanders is known for his nonsensical jabbering, and his first use of the word "diddly" was in "The Call of the Simpsons".
Ned Flanders was not religious in his first few appearances and in the first few seasons he was only mildly religious and his primary role was to be so "cloyingly perfect as to annoy and shame the Simpsons", whereas Homer Simpson has always hated Ned Flanders and always tries to undermine him. There has been a consistent effort among the show's writers to make him not just "goody good and an unsympathetic person". In the later seasons, Flanders has become more of a caricature of the Christian right, and his role as an irritating "perfect neighbor" has been lessened.
Ned's store "The Leftorium" first appeared in "When Flanders Failed". It was suggested by George Meyer, who had had a friend who had owned a left-handed specialty store which failed. The episode "Hurricane Neddy" shows Ned's faith being tested and the writers also used the episode as a chance to examine what makes him tick.
There have been two occasions where Flanders was not voiced by Harry Shearer. In "Bart of Darkness", Flanders's high pitched scream was performed by Tress MacNeille and in "Homer to the Max", Flanders comments about cartoons being easily able to change voice actors and on that occasion he was voiced by Karl Wiedergott.
The Adventures of Ned Flanders
"The Adventures of Ned Flanders" was a short that appeared at the end of the episode "The Front". Entitled Love that God, it highlights the Flanderses' dedication to religion and perfect family niceness, yet again. Ned nearly scolds Rod and Todd, who are busy praying, after they refuse to get ready for church — only to be told that it is, in fact, a Saturday. Ned laughs at his mistake with a trademark "Okally-dokally!" According to commentary on 22 Short Films About Springfield, The Simpsons team wanted to do more "Adventures of Ned Flanders" shorts. Time limitations have prevented them from producing more. Ironically, the reason why "The Adventures of Ned Flanders" was first conceived was because they couldn't expand the episode to fill up the remaining time gap.
- A self-referenced joke in the episode "Homer to the Max" he was voiced by Karl Wiedergott, at the time where the voice actors for the Simpsons got low salaries from FOX, and FOX threatened to replace them with new voice actors.
- Montreal Canadiens goalie Peter Budaj has a picture of Ned Flanders on his mask.
- Ned's ATM number is 5316.
- Ned is often compared to Job (of the Bible) as he is a devoted Christian, and has his faith tested, multiple times, like his house getting destroyed[23], and his wife's untimely death[24], but he still ultimately believes in God.
- Ned is usually portrayed as the Devil in Halloween episodes because one of the Devil's names is 'Old Ned'.
- A running gag in the series is Homer telling Flanders to shut up.
- His favorite popsicle flavor is plain.
- He resembles the Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band version of Beatle John Lennon.
- Ned and Edna's relationship was determined by the viewers of The Simpsons.
- He is the only resident in Springfield who has not seen Meet the Parents.
- He believes people should face the worst punishment in Hell for thinking women are beautiful.
- In treehouse of horror XIV (frinkenstein) he states "I'm running to find a cure for homosexuality" stating that he believes homosexuality is a mental disorder rather then choice.
Everybody Loves Ned Flanders
Everyone Loves Ned Flanders is a song in the episodes "The Front" and "Ned 'N Edna's Blend". Its also the theme for The Adventures of Ned Flanders.
- Lyrics
From "The Front":
Hens love roosters.
Geese love ganders.
Everyone else loves Ned Flanders!
Homer: Not me.
Chorus: Everyone who counts loves Ned Flanders!
- organ plays*
Flanders: Knock that off you two its time for church.
Todd: We're not going to church today.
Flanders: (gasps) What? You give me one good reason!
Rod: It's Saturday
Flanders: (chuckles) Okely-dokely-do!
Hens love roosters.
Geese love ganders.
Everyone else loves Ned Flanders!
From "Ned 'N Edna's Blend":
Hens love roosters.
Geese love ganders.
Everyone else loves Ned Flanders!
Ned: My moustache is grizzly,
My letters are dissly,
And I don't wanna missly you,
I'd like to hug and kissly.
Edna: Ha!
Ned: First base, yo.
I like Christian rap
A bible on my lap
Homer: Will you stop this stupid crap?
I want to take a nap!
Ned: Okely-dokely!
- ↑ Viva Ned Flanders
- ↑ Homer's Triple Bypass
- ↑ The Trouble with Trillions
- ↑ In Marge We Trust
- ↑ Midnight Rx
- ↑ Brother's Little Helper
- ↑ D'oh-in' in the Wind
- ↑ The Monkey Suit
- ↑ The Squirt and the Whale
- ↑ Viva Ned Flanders
- ↑ Home Away from Homer
- ↑ The Computer Wore Menace Shoes
- ↑ The Father, the Son and the Holy Guest Star
- ↑ Burns, Baby Burns
- ↑ Das Bus
- ↑ When Flanders Failed
- ↑ It reflects the greeting of the Gordon Hathaway recurring character on the Steve Allen Show, with his arch "Hi-ho, Steverino!"
- ↑ The Simpsons Movie
- ↑ Homer vs. the Eighteenth Amendment
- ↑ When Flanders Failed
- ↑ Homer the Heretic
- ↑ Homer Loves Flanders
- ↑ Hurricane Neddy
- ↑ Alone Again, Natura-Diddily
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Ned Flanders ● Maude Flanders ● Rod Flanders ● Todd Flanders ● Agnes Flanders ● Nedsel Flanders ● Grandma Flanders ● Lord Thistlewick Flanders ● José Flanders ● Ginger Flanders ● Commander Flanders ● Ted Flanders ● Bonnie Flanders ● Connie Flanders ● Edna Krabappel ● Maude Flanders' grandmother ● Neduchadnezzar Flanders ● Winifred Trout ● Sir Nederick Flanders ● Augusta Flanders ● Bart Simpson ● Commander Flanders |
The Simpsons Characters
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The Simpsons and relatives | |||
Homer Simpson • Marge Simpson • Bart Simpson • Lisa Simpson • Maggie Simpson Santa's Little Helper • Snowball II • Abraham Simpson • Patty Bouvier • Selma Bouvier • Mona Simpson • Jacqueline Bouvier • Ling Bouvier • Herb Powell | |||
Around Springfield | |||
Jasper Beardly • Comic Book Guy • Barney Gumble • Maude Flanders • Ned Flanders • Professor Frink • Gil Gunderson • Julius Hibbert • Lionel Hutz • Helen Lovejoy • Reverend Timothy Lovejoy • Captain Horatio McCallister • Akira • Hans Moleman • Marvin Monroe • Bleeding Gums Murphy • Apu Nahasapeemapetilon • Mayor Joe Quimby • Dr. Nick Riviera • Agnes Skinner • Cletus Spuckler • Disco Stu • Squeaky-Voiced Teen • Moe Szyslak • Sam and Larry • Kirk Van Houten • Luann Van Houten • Clancy Wiggum • Eddie • Lou • Crazy Cat Lady • Lindsey Naegle • Cookie Kwan • Wiseguy • Brandine Spuckler • The Yes Guy • Sanjay Nahasapeemapetilon • Blue-haired Lawyer • Judge Roy Snyder • Rich Texan • Luigi Risotto • Old Jewish Man • Mrs. Glick | |||
Media Personalities | |||
Itchy & Scratchy • Kent Brockman • Krusty the Clown • Troy McClure • Sideshow Mel • Rainier Wolfcastle | Arnie Pye • Radioactive Man • Duffman • Bumblebee Man • Bill and Marty • Drederick Tatum • Mr. Teeny • Scott Christian • Booberella • Gabbo • Lurleen Lumpkin • Celebrities | |||
Springfield Elementary School faculty and students | |||
Superintendant Chalmers • Seymour Skinner • Edna Krabappel • Elizabeth Hoover • Groundskeeper Willie • Otto Mann • Lunchlady Doris • Dewey Largo • Dr. J. Loren Pyror • Milhouse Van Houten • Ralph Wiggum • Nelson Muntz • Martin Prince • Rod Flanders • Todd Flanders • Sherri and Terri • Wendell Borton • Database • Jimbo Jones • Kearney Zzyzwicz • Dolph Starbeam • Üter Zörker • Janey Powell • Lewis • Richard • Bashir bin Laden | |||
Springfield Nuclear Power Plant | |||
Charles Montgomery Burns • Waylon Smithers • Carl Carlson • Lenny Leonard • Charlie • Blinky | |||
Villains | |||
Snake Jailbird • Kang & Kodos • Herman • Sideshow Bob • Fat Tony • Frankie the Squealer • Johnny Tightlips • Legs and Louie | |||
Families | |||
The Simpsons • The Bouviers • The Flanders • The Van Houtens • The Wiggums | |||
Miscellaneous | |||
Fictional characters • One-Time Characters • LGBT characters • Parodied celebrities • Animals |


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After re-reading the guidelines for the Build My Lab and the Workshop Contest, I'm not sure how this project fits into those criteria... but here it is anyways.
This project is the result a fourth-grade science project, a broken food processor, and a couple nights worth of work. My younger sister was in a group of students, and as their project, they chose to examine the strength of bridges in earthquakes.
Originally, my sister asked me to do this. Now, of course, when my mom started talking about duct-taping a motor to a desk to shake the desk back and forth, I had to get involved before something bad happened. And I wanted to totally make this one of the best, cleanest-designed things I've ever made.
So without further ado, I present the Miniature Earthquake Simulator.
Safety Precautions:
- Insulated Gloves
- Safety Glasses
- Common Sense
If you undertake this project, you will be working with 120V AC mains power. I assume you know not to do stuff like connect the two ends of the wires when they are plugged into the wall socket - with your body or just by themselves.
The motor also goes really fast and spins stuff around even faster. That's what makes the thing work. It can also destroy your hand, or the wires, or the container, etc. etc.
ALWAYS wear GOGGLES and GLOVES when working with the electrics. Make sure stuff isn't plugged in when you're wiring stuff up. PLEASE be careful! I am not responsible for any and all injuries, damages, or accidents caused by this project.
- Plywood Sheet
- Heavy-Duty Plastic Tub
- Bike Tubes
- Screws (Various Sizes)
- Washers
- Insulated Wire Nuts
- Food Processor (or other electric motor)
- Insulated Plastic Electrical Staple (Optional)
- Mains power cord
- Nuts + Bolts (Alternative)
- Counterweight (I used a block of wood with a screw into a PVC pipe.)
- Switches (mainly covered by the food processor - however, the safety switch is an important piece to consider making pretty.)
- Drill
- Drill Bits (Various Sizes)
- Scissors
- Vise Grips or Pliers
- Screwdriver(s)
- Saw (I used a plastic pipe saw)
- File
- Jigsaw (or other power saw - suggested)
- Square and Measuring Tape
- Workbench (Vise suggested)
I'm sure I've forgotten something. With reusing projects like this one, the more tools and materials at your disposal, the better. You'll know what tools you need to use as you go, or how to improvise with another tool. But at all times, please be careful, and have fun!
Update: The earthquake simulator will be used in a few weeks to test structures at our middle school! Good luck, Earth Science classes!

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I have a pair of sz 9.5W Alden + Context Roy Boot in Chromexcel Leather for sale. These are in perfect condition as they were only worn once outside for about three hours. I literally walked from my house, to my car, into a restaurant with them (and of course back the same way I came). The only tell tale sign that they have any wear is in the leather toe patch on the bottom of the shoe, and it is very minimal....very minimal. They were a little too large for me, and I thought I could pull them off. Not the case. Once again these are very much like new condition, all original packaging and Alden shoe trees included. I can let them go for $425 shipping included. Hit me up if anyone is interested.
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How To Change A Rule
Greetings, I'm quite newby to Mathematica programming and will thank you if you could help me solve the following: I have a list of rules of the form: {s1->-11, s2->12} And would like to change every rule in the list that it's RHS is negative to 0 so that I will get: {s1->0, s2->12} I tried to find an access function to manipulate rules but could not. Any help ? TIA, Ariel. Thanks, Ariel Fligler


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Loading... Magnetic Field(s) (edition 1983)by Ron Loewinsohn (Author)
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. Takonator: "fuck I need to go home I need to take a shit" Magnetic Field: "Just 10 more pages" 10 pages later.... Takonator: "ok" Takonator: "fuck man I need to take a shit" Magnetic Field: "READ ME!!!" Takonator: "look man I really need to go home, I've been here since 3:30 and is almost 9 and I need to take a shit" Magnetic Field: "I COMMAND YOU TO READ ME!!!" Takonator: "OMG please let me go there is no way I'm using a public bath room just to keep reading you!! Culo save me!!" Takonator's Culo: "listen man I need to go! If you don't let the poor guy go and do his busyness there is going to an "accident" here and after that I'ma need to be clean and you the closest piece of paper that I can see…" Magnetic Field: "wait man calm down there is no need to go crazy, go home but come back next week and READ ME" Takonator: "aight" Takonator's Culo: "Deal" This book starts off like a crime novel with a couple of brutal scenes and some really screwed up characters. Then it's not. Being violated... being the violator... If this book is like a house and you just walked through the front door you would expect to be in the foyer or living room. You know that the door to the right will be a kitchen but when you look inside it's a porch. What you thought would be the bathroom turns out to be the garage... this book kind of does that to you. Nothing is quite what you expect but it's exactly what you thought it would be. The story appears to shift directions but then you realize that it really didn't. It's not a philosophical book but it does make you think about 'where' you are and 'who' you are (sorry for the apostrophes... and now the parenthesizes). Think a bit Calvino but not as meta. Loewinsohn uses repetition and coincidence beautifully. Walls and mirrors will never be the same... I think I might prefer a room in the deserts of the West where the horizon is out of reach and there are no surfaces to hang a Dick Tracy print. My house no longer feels right. Kind of hard for me to articulate my feelings about this book. Just read it. It is good. 'Lots of beautiful things,' he went on, 'are filled with pain and darkness. This house, next door.' I was lucky enough to have Loewinsohn as a professor at Berkeley, and so tracked down this book, which really deserves to get more attention. It's a twisty combination of narratives whose atmosphere reminds me a bit of the best parts of "House of Leaves." Unsettling and fascinating. no reviews | add a review
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Porcello's mission today is to pitch to contact, in such a way that nothing goes to RF.
Tigers finished the second inning yesterday (if you break the season down into 9 innings, there are 18 games per inning) at 10-8. This inning saw three 3 game win streaks, and a 7 game losing streak. Tigers enter the third inning at .500, and in third place in the Central. They are 5.5 games behind Cleveland, but 4 games ahead of Chicago and 4.5 ahead of the Twins.
The Bizarro Twins take the field against the Tigers tonight. They have had injury problems, Carl Pavano leads your rotation problems, and even Justin Morneau isn't hitting, as John Lowe points out in today's column. Even so, the organization knows how to win, so we need to take our swings while they are down.
Liriano climbs the hill for the Twins after throwing an excuse me no-hitter last time out against the meager White Sox. He managed to walk 6 and strike out two on his way to throwing 47% balls over 123 pitches, yet did not allow a hit. A no-no is always great, but I don't think he necessarily had great stuff. Had last week not gone so well, Liriano might find himself out of the rotation, as he's putting up a 1.56 WHIP and 24 BBs against only 20 Ks…with the complete game last week. His 9.13 ERA dropped to 6.61 after the outing.
Today's Playgglio of the Gamegglio is Magglio. Ordonez is a career .327 hitter against the Twinkies and leads all active players with 230 hits, 45 doubles and 145 RBI against them.
– Cabrera (7/20), Ordonez (10/26) and VMart (8/18) all hit Liriano well.
– VMart is on a nine game hitting streak, batting .438 during that time.
– In his last 11 games, Austin Jackson is hitting .341 with three doubles, a triple, a homer and seven RBIs.
Today's DTW Player of the Game Friendly Lineup is:
1. Jackson – CF
2. Sizemore – 2B
3. Ordonez – RF
4. Cabrera – 1B
5. Martinez – DH
6. Peralta – SS
7. Boesch – LF
8. Inge – 3B
9. Avila – C
Today's senseless DTW feedback question of the game is: why in the world are airplane seats shaped such that your head is in front of your body?
Porcello's mission today is to pitch to contact, in such a way that nothing goes to RF.
Hmm….Boesch back in the seventh slot; it was fun while it lasted. However Mags has made it a career hitting against Liriano.
Well, off to watch Wings/Sharks, and no iPhone at the moment, so I won't be able to follow this one much. The last time that happened, it was a no-hitter. So if it happens a 2nd time, I'm thinking a steak dinner invitation is in order, do you hear me Mr. Porcello?
Was that first pitch to AJax really as far outside as it looks on Gameday?
Maggs has to be taken out of the lineup and sent to the minors to get his swing back.
6 strikes to 12 balls. What would you do on the first pitch?
I blame Vince in MN.
Any update on the rain?
I don't need that update anymore.
This is making the whole 1st pitch GIDP event even worse.
What the heck is Magglio doing batting 3rd again? I thought it was decided that was a bad idea. And Sizemore really isn't doing himself any favors. Right now he is looking like a flash in the pan. Soon there will be calls to bring Rhymes back.
LH pitcher. I'm pretty sure Boesch will be 3rd tomorrow. Doesn't excuse it, just an explanation.
At this point, I'm thinking Boesch stands a better chance….
It's only against the Twins, they'll change it when the real season resumes.
Candidate for Post of the Game
Holy crap….I just noticed that Matt Joyce is hitting .356 and is leading the AL. Who did we get for him and why did we do it?
There are several ex-tigers on the leader boards with Joyce.
Granderson – Leading the AL with 11 HR's
Jurrjens – Leading the NL with a 1.50 ERA
Polanco – 4th in the NL with a.353 Avg
Hope that makes you feel better.
brenden, we got edwin jackson who we parlayed into max scherzer etc
Yeah, forgot about that deal. I just can't believe he is hitting that well this year. Good for him. Of course, Jackson was great the year we had him, but man, Joyce has turned into a hitter. Of course, Max Scherzer is pretty bad ass as well.
Chalk that one up as a good deal for us, Brenden. You just can't complain when a deal nets you a quasi-ace still under club control.
On the other hand, if we don't make that deal, and keep Joyce, it's an easy guess that Ordonez and/or Raburn would have been cut loose by now.
Cle has won 14 straight at home…
Just got back home from the game after leaving in the 8th inning. Some quick notes:
1. VMart is ripping everything.
2. Cabby is in a slump
3. Even Maggs fouls are ground balls.
4. Brad Thomas sucks
5. Jackson is coming around
6. Lamont really is a horrible 3rd base coach
7. Most of the lineup hit the ball hard tonight (not Inge or Maggs)
8. Porcello struggled a bit with his control, but worked through it
9. Liriano was awful. I think the no-no was a fluke
10. The Twins are fielding a minor league team right now
11. Beautiful ballpark, but the seats are a bit pricey and the concessions are exhorbitantly priced


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ZABUL PROVINCE, Afghanistan - Members of the 223rd Engineer Bn. lend a helping hand to the Afghan National Army, 2/205th Route Clearance Company to correct deficiencies in vehicles, March 13.
The members of 2/205th RCC struggle on several levels as they prepare to transition from being integrated into Route Clearance Patrols to taking the lead; however, maintenance and logistical support seem to be their biggest hurdle.
Commander of the 883rd Sapper Company, 223rd Eng. Bn., U.S. Army Capt. James McVeigh, realized the ANA need as much assistance as his unit and the battalion can provide.
"Our predecessor, 59th MAC [Mobile Augmentation Company], established a partnering relationship with the 2/205th," said McVeigh. "When we arrived, I noticed the ANA were struggling at the company level with operations, training, and logistics."
In order to increase the ANA's maintenance proficiency, the 883rd Sapper Company reached out to the Forward Support Company, also with the 223rd Eng. Bn., to help support training in maintenance operations. U.S. Army Capt. Joshua Ulrich, commander of the FSC was present during the visit.
"Along with the ANA unit executive officer, we developed and assisted in executing a plan to reorganize the ANA motor pool, by placing deadline vehicles together and operational vehicles together, to assist the tracking and repair process," said Ulrich.
One of the biggest issues plaguing the 2/205th RCC the company is the flow of paperwork. Vehicle's papers were neither matched nor were they tracked properly. However, the 883rd Sapper Company soldiers have been working full-time to get the issues resolved and emplace a system that makes tracking paperwork easier for both ANA and U.S. forces.
All in all, the visit helped to further cultivate the relationship between the ANA 2/205th RCC and the 883rd Sapper Company by showing the ANA how much the 223rd Eng. Bn. is dedicated to helping them succeed as their own entity.
Date Taken: | 03.13.2012 |
Date Posted: | 03.30.2012 02:18 |
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Location: | ZABUL PROVINCE, AF |
Hometown: | ABERDEEN, MS, US |
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Mercy Sponsors Free Medicare Options Event in October
Canton, Ohio: Mercy Medical Center Senior Friends is sponsoring a free Medicare Options Event on Tues., Oct. 6, and Tues., Oct. 27, at 9 a.m. in the Mercy Medical Office Building Auditorium.
This marketing event will begin with a Medicare overview by Mercy's Medicare counselor Terri Gursky. Guests may also compare the cost, coverage and convenience of several Medicare Advantage Plans in one location. No reservations are required.
Representatives from the following Medicare Advantage Plans will be on site: AARP/Medicare Complete/SecureHorizons by United Healthcare, Anthem,
The Health Plan, Humana and SummaCare.
Additional Medicare Options Events are slated for November 3 and 17 and December 1 and 14.
Medicare's annual coordination election period runs from Nov. 15 through Dec. 31. During that time, individuals can select a Medicare Advantage Plan, which provides "one-stop shopping" for all Medicare benefits.
"In Stark County alone, there are 49 different Medicare Part D plans to pick from," says Gursky, who also offers one-on-one Medicare discussions by appointment. "Mercy's Medicare Options Event allows individuals to explore their choices and ask questions before making a selection."
For more information about the Mercy Medicare Options Event – or to set up a one-on-one session with the hospital's Medicare counselor – call the Mercy Healthcare Connection at 330-489-1333 or 1-800-223-8662.
Mercy Medical Center, a nonprofit corporation of the Sisters of Charity Health System and University Hospitals Health System, operates a 476-bed hospital serving Stark, Carroll, Wayne, Holmes and Tuscarawas Counties and parts of Southeastern Ohio. It has 550 physicians on its Medical Staff and employs 2,500 people. Mercy operates outpatient health centers in Carrollton, Jackson Township, Lake Township, Louisville, North Canton, Plain Township and Tuscarawas County. A Catholic hospital, Mercy Medical Center upholds the mission and philosophy of the Sisters of Charity of St. Augustine and continues to be responsive to the needs of the community, including the provision of care to all, regardless of their ability to pay. For more information, see www.cantonmercy.com.


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East Asia, Exposed
"Why are you filming so much of me?" a woman in a Nepalese leper colony asks of documentarian Ellen Bruno. That question, and all the ethical implications it carries, should be posed to anyone who trains a camera on himself or anyone else in the guise of seeking truth. On that score, Bruno's conscience ought to be cleancleaner than most, anyway. A humanitarian relief worker for more than 25 years, the San Francisco filmmaker has spent much of the past two decades exploring and documenting social and political conditions in East Asia, often at great personal risk.
Yet it's the depth of Bruno's commitmentnot to abstract principles of liberal idealism, but to flesh-and-blood peoplethat creates tension within her films. By nature, a documentarian's job is to not look away. Yet there's something fundamentally intrusive about making art of people's livesstarting with the decisions of what to include or omit, whether to shape a narrative or satisfy an agenda. In three short films playing at Film Forum through January 9, Bruno wrestles with contradictory impulses: to expose or to protect, to report or to shelter.
These aims are most strikingly at odds in Bruno's 1998 film Sacrifice, which seeks to shed light on the ugliness of Bangkok's seamy sex- trafficking industry without adding to it. The structure alternates talking-head testimony from underage Burmese sex workers with impressionistic visuals accompanied by a girl's dispassionate, poetic first-person narration of slavery. The effect is not unlike a Terrence Malick Real Sex episodeonly Bruno thwarts any viewer who craves titillation in a plain brown wrapper of moral outrage.
3 films by Ellen Bruno
Film Forum
January 3 through 9
Bruno shields the subjects of Leper (2005) in plain sight, introducing them matter-of-factly as workers in a Nepalese colony before the title can summon its centuries of fear and repulsion. Finding a range of attitudes from acceptance to anger, Bruno lets the villagers clear the air about their misunderstood condition with often shocking candor. At the same time, she understands that she's a vessel for the viewer's timid curiosity. In one brief but telling shot, the camera catches a woman rubbing her deformed hand. The filmmaker watches so intently that the suddenly self-conscious woman tucks it away.
Bruno's films can seem tedious without the narrative beats that propel most docs in commercial release these days. They raise more questions than the filmmaker intends to answer, either about their methodswas the narration of Sacrifice scripted? Were the artier shots staged?or factual matters as simple as the subjects' names. But they're not intended as cinematic encyclopedia entries. They're windows that open outward, not cases slamming shut.
The same holds true for the third film, Sky Burial (2005), which records a Tibetan ritual in which monks flay the flesh from dead bodies and offer it to flocks of collie-sized vultures, which carry the carrion into the heavens. Bruno doesn't allow Western sentimentality or squeamishness to intrude; she doesn't even show the lift-off of the giant birds to signify transcendence. Instead, she ends with the scavengers in a ravenous pack, moving in for the feast. They're still on earthand in the films of Ellen Bruno, heaven can wait, indefinitely.
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Turnbull pledges no challenge to Abbott
This video is quite amusing. Polls in Australia show that voters wants Kevin Rudd and Malcolm Turnbull to lead their respective parties. An audience member notes that both are successful, very wealthy, and popular (except with their colleagues) and urges them to set up their own political party. Turnbull says he is committed to the Liberals. Rudd jokes that he and Malcolm could never agree on the leadership 🙂
The Australian reports:
The former Liberal leader is making it clear there will be no challenge for the leadership before the next election and that his aim is to be a senior, influential member of the Coalition cabinet should Tony Abbott win government, The Australian reports.
After months of co-operation between the former opposition leader and the man who replaced him after the party division over the carbon emissions trading scheme in 2009, a new stability and certainty is emerging within the senior Coalition ranks.
As Labor uses Mr Turnbull's standing with voters to try to drive a wedge into the Liberals, Mr Abbott and Mr Turnbull have been in "close and regular personal contact" co-ordinating how to handle the prickly political issues of Mr Abbott's defeat of Mr Turnbull as Liberal leader, Mr Turnbull's continuing popular appeal, policy differences over carbon pricing and Julia Gillard's campaign against Mr Abbott. …
There's a lesson here for some parties in NZ. Abbott did not get spooked by Tunrbull's popularity and authorise a whispering campaign against him. He talked to him on a regular basis to make sure he was confident he had a key role to play going forward.


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Just wanted to let other Ravens Fans I booked my whole trip to Green Bay already, Flying in Saturday and leaving Tuesday. We are in Section 105. Got 8 of us going. Hope to meet up with other Ravens fans in Sat and Sun night in the bars. See ya there!
p.s. if you are coming on your own and are looking for a tailgate, http://www.packerfantours.com/tailgate/ has an all you can eat and drink for $27. Thats where we will be!Season ticket holder since 1996 Section 148 Tailgate Lot H
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On 'Game of Thrones,' Shocking Carnage Proves the Internet Has Manners
byAs the wedding band played, Sunday night's Game of Thrones audience was neatly divided into two groups: readers of the original novels who knew exactly what was about to happen and those who only know the battles of Westeros through TV—which is to say, they had no idea. With the runaway popularity of the TV series (the premiere of its third season set an online-piracy record earlier this year), the most surprising plot twist of all may be the fact that the second group was so large. In the history of the internet, has a larger population of rabid know-it-alls ever been so good at keeping a secret?
Here comes the spoiler. There's still time to turn away.
The famous scene from last night's episode, known as The Red Wedding, ends with the death of the boy-king Robb Stark—one of the few sympathetic characters in a series lousy with antiheroes and villains—along with his mother, pregnant wife, pet direwolf, and most of his loyal comrades in arms. In one fell swoop, a hero, his mother, his true love, his dog, and his friends are all savagely murdered. It's the kind of moment that actually seems to punish viewers' enthusiasm for the show itself.
And there was plenty of outrage on Sunday night, proof that the secret had been kept for more than a dozen years. (The third novel, on which this season of the TV show is based, was first published in 2000.) A Twitter account, @RedWeddingTears, popped up to aggregate the anguish and vows of vengeance against a story and its creators for upsetting their expectations:
Having a deep Game of Thrones-related depression and psychological distress.
— Angeline Fuentes (@AngelineFuentes) June 3, 2013
For a medium that does little more than encourage its users to tell everyone, everything, all the time, the Internet has actually gotten remarkably good at dealing with spoilers; the big SPOILER ALERT all-caps warning is fairly ubiquitous. Even so, it's remarkable to consider the restraint required to create Sunday's moment of collective shock. Nearly two decades after the publication of the first book, there are more than 8.5 million print and digital copies of Martin's fantasy series in the hands of readers. Taking steps to preserve the plot has become a staple of the fan culture since the debut of the HBO version of the series three years ago. Websites that post recaps or traffic in discussion of Game of Thrones typically offer safe spaces for first timers and separate venues for a more experienced audience. Even on Reddit, not generally known for genteel manners, the administrators of the forum on the series offer no fewer than 12 filters and settings to help readers guard against unwanted spoilers.
It's hard to feel good about the world after emerging from an hour of slit necks and puncture wounds at a wedding. Odd, then, to think that Games of Thrones could at the same time help restore the sense that common decency, consideration, and, well, politeness is possible—even on the Internet.


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Nearly six months after The Memorial Hospital moved out of its old facility at 745 Russell St., the future of the old building remains under discussion.
The Moffat County Human Services Partnership, a group of representatives from 12 local nonprofits interested in finding the best use for the old hospital building, is now looking for public input on the future of the county-owned Russell Street building.
An online survey is available to gauge community interest in use of the facility by local nonprofit organizations.
A five-question online survey is available at http://surveymonkey.com/s/R6QM6YL.
Partnership director Mary Brown said public involvement in the process is vital to finding the best and most-needed use for the location.
"It's important we get some community perspective on what they believe their public hospital should do," Brown said. " It's a significant block, right in the middle of Craig. If the entire community were clamoring for it to be torn down and have condos built, well, that wouldn't bode well for getting financing to renovate it."
Currently, the TMH Medical Clinic and several TMH specialists utilize space in the building.
The Northwest Colorado Visiting Nurse Association, which leases the south end of the building, also is part of the partnership.
"I think I can fairly say that the VNA would like to own their portion of that building and that a couple other not-for-profits are interested in being co-located in that space," Brown said, citing agencies such as the Northwest Colorado Dental Coalition and Northwest Colorado
Mental Health.
A year ago, the partnership received an $85,000 grant from the state Office of Rural Health to examine the possibilities for the Russell Street building.
Brown said the idea was to first evaluate interest among local nonprofits in the community to occupy the building in some capacity.
The second step was to evaluate the condition of the building and determine what the space is suitable for.
That phase was completed in mid-March when two engineering firms — one structural and one mechanical — submitted a completed evaluation of the building.
"They basically said that the hospital did a great job of maintaining aging equipment and that in its current state and configuration, it's all usable," Brown said. "They said it'd be well-served to update mechanics of the building, but that the building is structurally fine."
The next few steps will be time-consuming, Brown said.
"Well, clearly there will be some need for financing of some kind," she said. "At a minimum it would mean applying for grant funds, for which community support is a compelling issue."
The future of nonprofits in the Russell Street campus is also dependent on the ability of TMH clinic and specialists to find a new space — or build one — which could be years away, Brown said.
"It is very, very conceptual," she said. " No one is signing on a dotted line. The partnership remains interested in exploring possibilities."


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4.08 / 5.00 6,846 ViewsWell here I am with my first submission in the past year!
Tales from Camp Lock Lake, or TCLL, is a collection of shorts that are based on things that happen at my summer camp. Needless to say this is my second in the series, about time after a year and a half when I submitted the first one!
This submission is for the Lock Legion's second annual Ban Day. That is, if we don't make a passing flash on today, we are banned until we do so. Keeps productivity going. So I shat this out in a week!
In any case, I hope everybody enjoys my flash, votes 5, and goes to join the Lock Legion at www.locklegion.com!
Nice improvements
I'm glad to see the series picked up where it left off with all it's crazy scenes but this set of scenes was a lot funnier than the last and the animation looked better in detail than the last time as well so overall i'm glad to see you still making Lock flashes and hope to see more from you in the future or an episode 3 of this series even. =)
Thanks! I love to hear that I've improved! And I don't intend to stop making flash anytime soon.
A very nice piece
Ah, it just goes to show that you really can have a lot of fun with some friends down by the lake. Not quite American Pie 2, but some of the humour seems to be heading that way.
The animation is smooth and well paced. I like the way that you deal with the issues like WineLock flying through the air like it did.
Perhaps you could have had that as a all back joke, like he was pissing off SharkLock and to get rid of him, Shark decides to just say Rape, which causes the same reaction.
I'm looking forward to what you can offer us for TCLL 3, as we really do need more tales per episode. Either that, or make them longer, as tale 3 might just have been a pre-episode gag that you throw in for shits and giggles.
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Detailed review. Wow.
Yeah I do need more content per episode but since I base this off of real life I can only conjure up so many funny stories at a time.
And I have no idea what you mean by an all back joke.
Awesome job sharkie. It was funny as hell. Also it looks like everyone likes it as you got your self as pretty nice score there.
Ironic as this is my lowest score out of all of my flashes for some reason.


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Futoshi Ld set out all alone for the frozen lands north of Mount Glatz
to master his smashes and slaps in more testing climatic conditions.
Then, half dead in the snow, his heart faltered and he felt rise up from
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Futoshi Ld is a legendary character who is only available by carrying out missions connected with him.
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..or you could always cred reactivate ld missions o.0
I Experienced a bug with the 4th mission as i it did not count the rounds that i won sometimes.
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The Piano Trios, written between 1784 and 1797, represent Haydn's art at its most enjoyable and fresh. Three of the trios in this recording were dedicated to Rebecca Schroeter, who lived in London and was a close friend of the composer. Trio No. 26 includes a version of the Adagio of Symphony No. 102, which it has been suggested was a favourite of hers. And the G major sports the famous 'Gypsy Rondo' finale (Rondo all'ongarese), one of the most ebullient and best loved movements in the entire repertoire. The Kungsbacka is one of the world's finest trios, and their Mozart trio set (Naxos 8.570519) received outstanding reviews; "authentically felt and absorbingly communicated." (Gramophone).
The Kungsbacka Trio takes its name from the Swedish town in which it gave its first performance and where it has established an annual festival. Winner of First Prize in the Melbourne International Chamber Music Competition, it has since appeared at numerous festivals and venues throughout Europe, North and South America, Australia and New Zealand.
An integral new piano trios by Haydn. We chose to begin with a set winning fairly and Haydn presents a sleek, transparent, classic and deep. full of ideas and adorned with dazzling virtuosity. The whole album is heard with infinite pleasure. And they know nobly phrased, no shield against one another, draw all their original beauty with amazing ease and agitated and angry, just enough and the few moments when they claim. Everything flows with a natural dynamism. By the way Mozart and Schubert his have been highly rated by critics. And rightly so.
..it's clear that there are riches indeed among the trios.Andrew Keener's sound... gives each musician plenty of space, allowing a fine balance between the instruments of this notoriously tricky combination. But what matters is the music; and any group that is willing to take it seriously is guaranteed to reap the dividends. Personal favourites in the Gypsy Rondo include Trio Fontenay and the Vienna Piano Trio... The Kungsbackas need fear nothing in comparison.
MusicWeb International
The musicians of the Kungsbacka piano trio exhibit excellent, deep understanding of the music of Joseph Haydn, the music that above all requires not the virtuosity, not the emotionality, but understanding. The recording is very clear, with a good special definition. The sound is not flat. The three instruments blend perfectly. The selection of the trios on this disc provides enough diversity, so the listening never becomes boring. ... this set by the Kungbacka is an excellent and easily affordable entry point.
MusicWeb International
KPT's consistently pacy approach is only sometimes successful yet they give always good and sometimes very good performances recorded with vivid immediacy.
Sweden's Kungsbacka Piano Trio has made solid recordings of Mozart's chamber music, and they clearly have a feel for how to bring out the unusual qualities of a Classical-era composition without going beyond the boundaries of the style. There's the right level of mystery in the Kungsbacka's playing here, and the right level of lyricism in the very Schubertian opening melody of the Piano Trio in F sharp minor, Hob. 25/26. There's a lot to like in their playing here...
Svenska Dagbladet (Sweden)
After Kungsbacka trio recordings of Schubert and Mozart on Naxos is a Haydn disc, then a Chopin CD. Of the four selected trioma completed numbers 24, 25 and 26, London 1795, and dedicated to the Op 73 Haydn close friend Rebecca Schroeter. Best known is No. 25 in G minor, with zigenarrondot. The Adagio of the Symphony 102, a favorite of the widow Schroeter, form my batch of 26. Included is also No. 31 in E flat major. Intimate, enjoyable performances in which the humanity of Haydn appears in Simon Crawford Phillips performing the central piano kit, and even more in Malin Broman's violin, which tenderly lifts the adagio of No 25.
Recording information: Potton Hall, Westleton, Suffolk, UK (04/06/2008-04/08/2008).
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Vitali: Sonatas, Op. 11 for Violin / Luigi Cozzolino, violin
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Jean Xavier Lefèvre: Clarinet Quartets and Sonatas
Loeillet: Recorder Sonatas Op. 1-4 / Rothert, recorder; Haugsand, harpsichord; Young, cello
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Fauré: Piano Quartet No. 1; Piano Trio; Pavane; Pièce; Sicilienne / Philip Dukes, viola
Works Details
Haydn, Franz Joseph : Keyboard Trio in F sharp minor, H. 15/26- Ensemble: Kungsbacka Piano Trio
- Notes: Potton Hall, Westleton, Suffolk, UK (04/06/2008-04/08/2008)
- Running Time: 13 min. 10 sec.
- Period Time: Classical
- Written: ?1794
Haydn, Franz Joseph : Keyboard Trio in D major, H. 15/24
- Ensemble: Kungsbacka Piano Trio
- Notes: Potton Hall, Westleton, Suffolk, UK (04/06/2008-04/08/2008)
- Running Time: 12 min. 19 sec.
- Period Time: Classical
- Written: 1795
Haydn, Franz Joseph : Keyboard Trio in G major ("Gypsy Trio") H. 15/25
- Ensemble: Kungsbacka Piano Trio
- Notes: Potton Hall, Westleton, Suffolk, UK (04/06/2008-04/08/2008)
- Running Time: 14 min. 45 sec.
- Period Time: Classical
- Written: 1795
Haydn, Franz Joseph : Keyboard Trio in E flat major, H. 15/31
- Ensemble: Kungsbacka Piano Trio
- Notes: Potton Hall, Westleton, Suffolk, UK (04/06/2008-04/08/2008)
- Running Time: 11 min. 32 sec.
- Period Time: Classical
- Written: 1795


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Retail was founded on a very simple principle: to acquire and make available for people that which they could not easily or affordably obtain on their own. Thus, buying wholesale and selling retail was – and is today – a service to the community. Whether the true need of the consumer was convenience or access to something that made life better in some way, the retail business was never about the item for sale. In fact, I maintain that with just one exception, the real product in retail was, and always will be, one of two things: convenience or happiness. The exception, of course, is when it is both.
If you can make life for easier or more pleasant for your customers than your competition can, you will always win. If you doubt this for one second, look at the rise of smartphones. These are items that we clearly cannot live without, except that for thousands of years we did. The price, relatively speaking, is astronomical, and yet there is no market segment that they have failed to penetrate.
Lessons from Zappos and the New Jersey Nets
Not buying it? Consider these examples from three of my favorite business books:
In Delivering Happiness: A Path to Profits, Passion, and Purpose, Tony Hsieh describes the realization that Zappos was not in the shoe business, or even in the online retail business. Once they realized that they were in fact in the customer service business — and made the somewhat frightening decision to be entirely in the customer service business — the purpose, principles and process quickly outpaced the commodity (shoes). As a result, the company hit the magical billion-dollar sales mark three years ahead of anyone's best projections. And while to many the idea of buying shoes online may still seem absurd, happiness and convenience are clearly a powerful combination.
In The E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Businesses Don't Work and What to Do About It, Michael Gerber uses his conversations with fictitious entrepreneur Sarah about her business All About Pies to illustrate the idea that Sarah was never in the pie business. Rather, she realizes, over the course of many conversations, that she is in the business of caring about the pies she makes, and delivering that care to her customers. That is to say, it is the process, not the pie that matters, because while you can buy a pie just about anywhere, happiness is much harder to find.
In Marketing Outrageously: How to Increase Revenue by Staggering Amounts, Jon Spoelstra describes being hired as a consultant to save the failing NBA franchise the New Jersey Nets. Not only did Jon turn the team around, he took a team that had never sold out a game and sold out an entire season, without a good team. How did he do that? He did it by announcing unrepentantly (despite nearly being fired on the spot) that the Nets were not in the basketball business. Not even in the sports business, he said. Their entire turnaround hinged on the singular idea that the New Jersey Nets were in the family entertainment business — in other words, happiness.
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So, if you're one of the many people considering the important role of technology in the future of retail, ask yourself a simple question: Does this technology make it easier, or somehow more pleasant, for your customers to do business with you? After all, you are in the service business, and the only two products you have to sell are recession-proof. So, if people aren't buying — or buying like they used to — maybe it's the service that's waning. Or maybe, just maybe, you're trying to sell the wrong product.
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Teams that participate in any 3v3 Live Local event qualify for the OPEN division at the Disney 3v3 Soccer Championships at the ESPN Wide World of Sports Complex near Orlando FL Jan 16-19, 2017 -- Teams must play and finish in the top 6 in your age group at a 3v3 LIVE Regional Championship to qualify for the ELITE division at the Disney 3v3 Soccer World Championships