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Good headline, TNT April 15, 2009Posted by Brad in news.
Tags: carlos garcia, endy chavez, miguel cairo
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Possible police-blotter headline if things go south: Killer bat-work from Betancourt.
He does make good contact. Selected highlights:
Yuniesky Betancourt knew what he needed to do… Kill the ball.
Yeah, Betancourt killed the ball. He killed it to perfection.
Kill the ball?… Kill it.
"That was a fantastic bunt."
Yep, it was pretty great. Also in the article: apparently Endy Chavez is taking the place of Miguel Cairo and Carlos Garcia as the Yuni-whisperer, which translates into ball-killing.
More lies! April 15, 2009Posted by Brad in commentary, news, video.
Tags: kentucky, scot shields, wikipedia
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Another recent Yuniesky Betancourt wikipedia update:
Yuniesky Betancourt is generally overrated on both sides of the ball. He is also fat and lazy.
Hey, anonymous vandal from Portland, first off, you're city has nice transit, bridges and (I'm told) doughnuts. Second, watch this. Yuni is apparently trying to bunt. Sure, he took a double take, needing to make sure he actually did what Wakamatsu wanted, but he got the bunt down. On that one play, he did not have the poorest execution of all; Scot(t) Shields did. Yuni's off to a good start–he'll keep his spot in the lineup (last!) for a while.
To celebrate Yuni's positive contribution, another wiki-vandal:
When he was only 7 years old he entered a pig into the Kentucky Derby and got first place.
I like the creativity–though it feels like a tired meme–but it's entirely misplaced. Besides the complete geographic inaccuracy (horses can't get to islands like Cuba, Cubans can get to places like Kentucky), it just doesn't seem like something Yuni would even like doing.
Today's depressing assessment… August 13, 2008Posted by Brad in news.
Tags: jim riggleman, ozzie smith, yuniesky betancourt
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…comes from Geoff Baker of the Seattle Times:
When an error by the shortstop costs your team three runs and a win, it gets to the point where you wonder how much longer that team can continue to play said infielder. Yes, Yuniesky Betancourt did look like Ozzie Smith on that groundout in the seventh inning. But what can I say?
For those of you keeping track (including manager Jim Riggleman), that's Yuni's second game-losing error (or GaLE) this week.
This isn't much fun anymore.
Yuni single-armedly threw away Friday's game August 10, 2008Posted by Brad in news.
Tags: Carlos Silva, willie bloomquist, yuniesky betancourt
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Watch the grisly highlight here.
Not even the not-missed Riche Sexson could've caught Yuniesky Betancourt's ridiculously high throw to first base. The ball ended up out of play, and let two runs score. Since Carlos Silva was on the mound, that wasn't the end of the damage, as the Rays added another run that sealed off their 5-3 victory on Friday.
In his post-game press interviews, it sounded like Silva wanted to destroy Yuni. From the P-I:
"Maybe Chief (Silva's nickname) has to come and grab somebody in his neck and pin them to the wall," Silva said to reporters. "I'm very close to doing that, so write that down."
I'd be scared if I was Yuni. Carlos Silva's got approximately 6 inches and 500 pounds on Yuni (at least by the look of him.) Plus, referring to yourself in the third person (albeit, in a nickname) is merely aggravating if you're a designer on Project Runway, but fairly menacing if you're a large, depressed Venezuelan man. Yuni should watch his neck.
The second-most depressing part of Friday's game was at its conclusion. Down by two runs with two out in the bottom of the ninth, Yuni's ninth spot in the line up was due up. But who stepped up to the plate? Willie Bloomquist. I got out of my bleacher seat and left. I did see Willie's swinging strikeout, but I watched it from the first-floor concourse at Safeco Field. That way, I had a head start on the rest of the crowd filing out after the M's loss.
This season's been one disaster after another, for Yuni and his team.
Yuni's play in July? Sigh… August 7, 2008Posted by Brad in news, stats.
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Here's what I said about Yuniesky Betancourt's play in June.
[He was] just awful. Yuni didn't hit, didn't walk, and didn't help his team at all. He didn't even play that much.
Aside from "didn't walk," those grievances apply to Yuni's play in july, only moreso. Here are the grisly stats:
.207/.233/.244 (slash stats-AVG/OBP/SLG), 3 2B, 5 RBI, 2 walks, 3 strikeouts, 1 SB, .213 BABIP, -1 WPA, -0.05 Clutch
Ouch. It's hard to even write about how bad Yuni's been. He was even benched in favor of Willie Bloomquist toward the end of the month. I thought Yuni would hit close to .300 this season, but instead he can't even keep his job. Newspaper writers and the Mariners' broadcast announcers have started pointing out Yuni's terrible plate discipline and inability to hit this season. As I point out every month, Yuni's offense is completely driven by his batting average on balls in play. In July, it was .213. That's awful.
Here are his defensive stats (which do include some of August):
17 errors, .965 fielding percentage, .823 RZR, 18 OOZ
That's a lot of errors (9 in the past 5 weeks), yet according to The Hardball Times, Yuni's having his best defensive season since his rookie year. That's something I guess.
Aside from his slight uptick in walks and apparently decent defense, the only good news from July is that Yuni wasn't traded by the Mariners. (The way he played, no one would give up anything for him.) At least he'll still have his bobblehead giveaway tomorrow night. My apologies in advance to anyone in the left field bleachers that wants to enjoy the game peacefully.
Happy anniversary, Yuni July 28, 2008Posted by Brad in news.
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Tonight's game against the Rangers marks the third anniversary of Yuniesky Betancourt's debut with the Mariners. On July 28th, 2005, Yuni tripled against the Indians. Since then, Yuni's scored 200 runs for the M's, walked 49 times, earned three intentional walks, and provided countless exciting moments for me and other fans. He's also committed 62 errors, grounded into 34 double plays (a third of those are from 2008 alone), and had his range shrink like a violet (violets, being stationary, have absolutely no range).
He's been a bit too frustrating this year (his OPS+ is a career low), but Yuni's still an exciting young player, that I usually enjoy watching. I hope he lasts at least another three years with the M's.
Go get 'em, Rikimbili!
What goes around, comes around July 19, 2008Posted by Brad in news, photos.
Tags: aaron laffey, cleveland indians, ichiro, jhonny peralta, shin soo choo, yuniesky betancourt
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Top of the second inning last night, Indians shortstop Jhonny Peralta hits a ball to Mariners shortstop Yuniesky Betancourt. Here's what happens:
That play didn't work out so well for Yuni. Peralta was safe at first. Yuni quickly rebounded, and made an awesome throw to ensure Peralta and Shin Soo Choo were doubled up on Choo's weak grounder. That double play means Yuni's error didn't really happen and doesn't count.
Except in statistics.
In the bottom of the second, right after Yuni gets on base without the benefit of swinging (Aaron Laffey hit his foot), Ichiro hits a ground ball to Peralta. Here's what happens:
Jhonny Peralta let that ball pass right by him, too. The Mariners went onto score 5 runs that inning, and are now PERFECT (for at least the next two hours) after the All-Star break.
If Yuni can keep making errors that inspire other shortstops to goof, I think the M's can sustain some success.
July's been good for the Betancourts July 3, 2008Posted by Brad in news.
Tags: colombia, detroit tigers, ingrid betancourt, miguel cairo, nate robertson, willie bloomquist, yuniesky betancourt
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Two games is too small to draw a conclusion, but Yuniesky Betancourt is starting July off right. Here are his lines:
You read that correct: Yuni got a 4-pitch walk last night. Astounding. That's as unlikely as Miguel Cairo getting two doubles in a game or Willie Bloomquist getting an extra base hit. Yuni's last walk was on May 30, against the Tigers' Nate Roberton (who faces the M's on Sunday). So Yuni's already bested his walk total from June (0), and has one third his RBI count (6). I'll take it.
One Betancourt's having a better July than Yuniesky, though. Former Colombian presidential candidate Ingrid Betancourt was freed yesterday after being held hostage in the Colombian jungle for six years by the FARC revoluntionary militant group. She promptly embraced her children:
"Nirvana, paradise — that must be very similar to what I feel at this moment," Betancourt said, fighting back tears as her son reached over to kiss her. "It was because of them that I kept up my will to get out of that jungle."
Ingrid's June was probably a bit rougher than Yuni's, and her July's already a bit better.
Yuni's pal Maykel Galindo June 30, 2008Posted by Brad in commentary, news.
Tags: chivas usa, cuba, maykel galindo, new york yankees, nomar garciaparra, seattle sounders, yuniesky betancourt
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Yuniesky Betancourt is good friends with Cuban defector soccer player Maykel Galindo. This is a story that's been widely reported, but I was completely unaware of until the Mariners' website posted a story on the two reconnecting in Los Angeles. Here now, is a timeline of Yuni and Maykel:
January 28, 1981: Maykel Galindo is born , one year and three days before Yuni. Both are born and grow up in Villa Clara.
1991-1992: Yuni and Maykel allegedly first meet and become friends.
1994: Maykel leaves Villa Clara to train for soccer in Havana.
2003: Yuni defects on a speedboat (or so the story goes).
July 9, 2005: After scoring his country's lone goal in a 3-1 CONCACAF Gold Cup loss against Costa Rica in Seattle, Galindo defects from Cuba. ESPN's Andrew Winner tells the story best:
He found himself alone in the team hotel. The otherwise omnipresent team chaperones were nowhere in sight. Galindo looked left and right and saw space.
At that moment, Galindo made the snap decision to leave his team and try to defect.
He pressed a button for a random floor of the hotel, made his way out of the hotel through the parking garage and jumped onto a Metro bus outside the hotel.
Frantically trying to communicate in Spanish, he used the driver's cell phone to dial the only local phone number he had — to one of the team's Seattle-based liaisons, a high school Spanish teacher named Alex Zahajko. Zahajko picked Galindo up and, not long after, helped him contact U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services. Galindo then announced his intention to defect.
Wow. That's probably a bit less daring than a speedboat, but relying on the kindness of a Metro bus driver AND a high school Spanish teacher takes a bit of guile and charm. Zahajko just so happened to play in a rec soccer league with Adrian Hanauer, one of the owners of the Seattle Sounders, and helped get Galindo a tryout with the team.
July 28th, 2005: Yuni makes his debut with the Seattle Mariners. Shortly thereafter, Yuni and Galindo reconnect. Here's a quote from Yuni on that meeting:
"It was just like always, especially when you first come here, you don't know anybody and you don't have your family… You stick with each other, and give each other a hug, and start reminiscing about old times."
September 9, 2005: Galindo makes his debut with the Seattle Sounders in a game against the Montreal Impact. Two weeks later, he'd score his first goal for the Sounders, also against the Impact
October 1, 2005: In the USL Championship, Galindo scores an equalizer goal that helps send the game into penalty kicks. The Sounders win on PKs, 4-3. Maykel fist pounds Roger Levesque at some point. Fans wave their signs. Yuni attends the game. Maykel says, "He attended that game, and it was very beautiful for me to have this guy [there] that I spent my childhood with."
May 7, 2006: The awesomely-named goalie Preston Burpo, Galindo's once-and-future teammate, knees Galindo in the face. Burpo get a yellow card, but Galindo gets a cheekbone fracture and can't play again until July.
August 23, 2006: Galindo throws out the first pitch at a Mariners game. Yuni catches it. That had to be a nice moment. The Mariners are then crushed by the Yankees, 9-2. Yuni does get an RBI single, though.
September 9, 2006: Galindo finishes his injury-shortened season with 4 goals and four assists in 9 games. That's a lot of scoring for soccer.
February 17, 2007: Galindo moves up to Major League Soccer's Chivas USA. Playing in Southern California opens up new opportunities for Galindo, like living in Torrance and getting to do photo-ops with Nomar Garciaparra.
April 7, 2007: After just a few games in the MLS, The Offside declares Galindo "the fastest man in the MLS." I'm not sure if Yuni is the ______est anything in baseball. Maybe the Awesomest Shortstop Nicknamed Rikimbilli. Yuni wins that contest hands down.
July 19, 2007: Galindo's Chivas USA gets spanked by the (lower league) Sounders 3-1 in the US Open Cup.
October 2007: Galindo leads Chivas USA with 12 goals in the regular season, and wins the team's Golden Boot, which sounds kind of harsh, but is actually soccer-speak for MVP or best scorer.
June 11, 2008: Galindo has a second hernia surgery (his right groin's been hurting), and is not likely to suit up again until August. (Does the MLS have disabled/inactive list?)
June 27, 2008: Galindo last logs onto his ridiculous, flash-filled MySpace page. His current mood is "stressed." Hernia surgeries will do that to you.
In summation, Maykel Galindo's been profiled on ESPN, USA Today, Sports Illustrated, and The Beautiful Game. He's a legit (North American) pro soccer player, and occasionally hangs out with Yuniesky Betancourt. I wish him all the best.
Cuba, revisited June 19, 2008Posted by Brad in news.
Tags: cuba, dayan viciendo, gus dominguez, jaime torres, michael lewis, yuniesky betancourt
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I've written about Yuniesky Betancourt's defection from Cuba before, and was left with a dim view and lots of unanswered questions surrounding Gus Dominguez, who orchestrated Yuni's flight, and Jaime Torres, Yuni's agent once he was legal to play in the States. Torres was in the news earlier this month for representing a shiny new Cuban defector, Dayan Viciendo. Coincidentally, Viciendo played for Yuni's old Cuban team, Villa Clara and has a funny name (go on, say it out loud). But Dominguez has gotten some better press.
Michael Lewis, the greatest sportswriter out there, wrote a story for the July issue of Vanity Fair profiling Dominguez' relationship with Cuban baseball. Where I was only left to wonder, Lewis interviewed guys like Dominguez, Rene Arocha and Henry Blanco, and traveled to Cuba (through Canada). He spent a lot of time around the Villa Clara team, especially their manager, Victor Mesa. That's where Yuni's name first pops up:
Mesa's Villa Clara team vies for the lead in an important stat: player defections. Live through a season with Víctor Mesa and a few days on a raft surrounded by sharks doesn't seem so terrifying. Mesa's shortstop and catcher were banned from baseball for speaking on the phone with Cuban defectors. His shortstop Yuniesky Betancourt hopped a boat to Florida one night in 2003. Established as Seattle's starting shortstop two seasons ago, Betancourt was asked if he had problems adjusting to big-league managers. "We have a manager in Cuba, and that manager is worse than anything you have in the major leagues," Betancourt replied. "His name is Víctor Mesa."
An invisible line runs from Víctor Mesa, yelling from his dugout, to Gus Dominguez, in his cell inside a California prison. For the one thing that the U.S. attorney general and the jailed sports agent agree upon is that all the trouble began when Yuniesky Betancourt fled Víctor Mesa's ball club.
That's a intriguing set up. Lewis quickly jumps to Dominguez's trial, when the government relied on the word of drug dealer Ysbel Medina-Santos to convict Dominguez:
Medina-Santos told Dominguez that Betancourt had promised to pay his smugglers 5 percent of his first major-league contract. They heard he had a deal with the Mariners, and they wanted their money. Now. The contract was unenforceable, but the smugglers were prepared to collect on their own. If Dominguez didn't pay them, Medina-Santos threatened, they'd break Betancourt's legs and end his career. What point would there be in that? Dominguez asked. Break his legs and you'll never get your money.
Sheesh. I'm glad Yuni's legs are fine. Maybe people should stop pressuring him to leg out more stolen bases.
As I hypothesized before, Yuni may have not been an angel in these dealings. At the very least, he lied unnecessarily, and he probably didn't do right by Dominguez, who, as you just read, helped saved Yuni's legs from massive breakage. Lewis, who like the court in Dominguez' case, didn't hear directly from Yuni, says the same, more plainly:
Betancourt then stiffed the agent who had fed and housed him for six months. He signed the contract with the Mariners that Dominguez had negotiated on his behalf, but paid whatever commission he paid to someone else…. The Dominguez side never called him as a witness, mainly because they had no idea what he might say. He'd already told three different stories, two of them to immigration agents, about how and when he'd come to the United States. He declined to return phone calls, and slammed the door in the face of the private eye they'd hired to track him down.
Yuni blowing off reporters and being silent about his trip from Cuba is one thing, but staying mute when the guy who helped him earn boatloads of cash (and protected his legs) is facing hard time? That's rude, Yuni.
Yuni doesn't come off as completely heartless. During one of Lewis' conversations with Mesa (who's general craziness adds another funny layer to The Onion story), he shows some affection for Yuni:
Even now in Cuba, ballplayers who defect are officially forgotten. Their stats are stricken from the record books, and their names aren't meant to be spoken. And yet here stands Víctor Mesa with his arm draped over the shoulders of the kid who is now the Seattle Mariners' shortstop. "He was like my son," says Mesa. "My very, very difficult son."
So even that's a bit of a dig. Side note: the whole "he who shall not be named" thing in Cuba may partly explain why people call Yuni "Rikimbilli."
I've excerpted almost every substantial reference to Yuni (you should go read the whole thing, though; it's awesome), and Yuni comes off as the most misguided guy in the story; even the drug dealer doesn't seem so bad. Clearly, Yuni's first few months in the U.S. weren't his finest moments. I hope he can find a way to atone for any mistakes he's made.
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Monday, September 20, 2010
Tim Curran's album "Versus"
As I'm off games again, with yet another spasmed back (cricket) I've been going a little bit mental, climbing the walls etc. Watching perfect Trestles on the web cast didn't help much, neither did checking out Dane Reynold's blog, where he surfs fairly ordinary waves, one's I can expect to come across and yet the outcome is rather different.
Picture: Tim Curran is also an accomplished surfer who was responsible for the surfing in "Sipping Jet Streams" on the Italian segment, a great surfing flick meets art house travel film.
But Tim Curran's album did strike a certain chord with me. An eclectic mix of folk, rock and jazz keeps you guessing what's coming next and my spirits lifted like a sun rise...you can't ask for more from an album, so I thought I'd pass on his good vibes.
Of course my rehab program on my back consists of a lot of swimming. Tim's song "Swim" featuring the somewhat dreamy chorus "I'd rather swim home", seemed such a benevolent call to front crawl, that my mind swam in it.
My mind roamed back to Byron Bay on those beautiful Aurelic evenings, when the sun burns the sky as Helios transports it to its daily resting point. Every evening a lone figure would paddle his Kayak across from Watergos in the south to nearly Ocean Shores to the north. He transported me back there and I actually touched a memory and smelt it again as if for the first time.....wonderful. Thank you.
So buy it, listen to it, whatever...good stuff.
Next on my experimental list to try are Herb Alpert and his then band "Tijuana Brass", I'm thinking of taking a punt on "South of the Border" as an album and I'm getting pretty excited about what I imagine Sergio Mendes will unearth. Inshallah.
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- AnonymousSeptember 20, 2010 at 12:20 PM
Oh good.....Another "I'm a failed / retired surfer who's gonna flog shit music to surfers to fund surf trips" Bring back vanilla ice i say.ReplyDelete
I hear you on the bringing back "Ice"...all time tune...could he produce another that's the biggy on that front.ReplyDelete
Personally I'd rather buy his music than buy a plain T shirt with a corporate name on it for 25 smackers to allow some of the pro surfers whose values I'm not really onboard with to live 5 star in the Mentawais. Not that it's an either or choice but...I liked the album so I'm glad I bought it.
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As a supermodel, cookbook author, and mother, and the wife of singer/songwriter John Legend, Chrissy Teigen seems to have it all — as well as a terrific sense of humor.
But the 31-year-old host of Lip Sync Battle recently revealed she has been struggling with a serious health issue. "I'll just say it: I have postpartum depression," she wrote in a recent Instagram post. She shared more details about her experience in a personal essay for Glamour magazine's April issue.
She opens up about going back to work following the birth of her daughter, Luna, in April 2016. "I was different than before. Getting out of bed to get to set on time was painful," she writes. "My lower back throbbed; my shoulders — even my wrists — hurt. I didn't have an appetite."
Teigen also recalls she was short with people, never left the house when she wasn't working, and would start crying spontaneously. "Most days were spent on the exact same spot on the couch and rarely would I muster up the energy to make it upstairs for bed," she told Glamour.
Teigen finally received a diagnosis last December when she saw her doctor for a physical. He listed the signs of postpartum depression and she checked off every single one.
"The signs and symptoms for postpartum depression are similar to signs of depression," explains Traci Johnson, MD, an OB/GYN. These can include feelings of inadequacy, isolation, flat emotions, sadness or tears for no reason, trouble sleeping or too much sleep, or changes in appetite. Postpartum depression can also show itself in physical ways, such as stomachaches, headaches, and general achiness.
One reason Teigen wanted to talk about her struggle now is because she wanted people to know it can happen to anybody — "and I don't want people who have it to feel embarrassed or to feel alone."
Up to 1 in 7 new mothers will have the mood disorder, says the American Psychological Association, and it can last for weeks or months if not treated.
Sometimes, new mothers will brush it off as the "baby blues," but postpartum depression is different, says Joseph Goldberg, MD, a psychiatrist. The baby blues, which affects 80% of new moms, involve passing feelings of sadness or tearfulness. In contrast, postpartum depression is a type of major depression that lasts much longer and develops in women who are vulnerable to it, he says.
Fortunately, there are effective ways to treat postpartum depression, such as talk therapy and antidepressant medicines. Both are part of Teigen's treatment plan, and now, while there are still tough days, "all of the really bad days are gone," she told Glamour. There are also medicines that are safe for breastfeeding moms to take, Johnson says.
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Adolph Zukor
BiographyRicse, Austria-Hungary [now Hungary]
Adolph Zukor's success began with penny arcades, offering moving peepshows that evolved into nickelodeon theaters that offered longer, larger moving pictures. On July 12, 1912, he premiered the first feature-length film, Les amours de la reine Élisabeth (1912), featuring French actress Sarah Bernhardt that ran for 40 minutes. From exhibition, Zukor moved into production, and eventually consolidated several smaller companies into what we know today as Paramount Pictures Corporation. Read more... The Sheik (1922) and The Covered Wagon (1923). He was also credited with personally bringing to the screen some of the industry's great stars. Adolph Zukor retired from Paramount Pictures in 1959 and thereafter assumed as Chairman Emeritus until his death at age 103 on June 10, 1976.


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The Cornucopia Cruise Lines received a $1,250,000 loan through the NJRA's Environmental Equity Program. Cornucopia Cruise Line, Inc was designated by the City of Perth Amboy as the redeveloper for the IGI Petroleum Specialties Brownfield's site. Cornucopia remediated and redeveloped a 15-acre site in to a new cruise facility that which allowed for the addition of a ticket office, parking area, storage facility, dock and berthing pier. This project also enabled Cornucopia to maintain 22 jobs and add 11 new employment opportunities.


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Gilmore Scott distinguishes himself from other artists by his bold application of bright contemporary colors, "I'm not shy with my use of colors," admitted Scott, a member of the Navajo Nation. "I like to use bright oranges and blues that add a different twist." His work is also very geometrical and graphical in nature.
Scott attended the College of Eastern Utah and Utah State University. For nine years, he also worked as a wild-lands firefighter for the U.S. Forest Service. But eventually Scott decided to become a full-time artist.
He works with watercolors, acrylics, and colored pencils, sometimes mixing the three mediums. And his work is inspired by a variety images:
- Four corners' desert landscapes,
- traditional Navajo homes, called hogans,
- maternal figures cradling the Earth, and
- geometric designs taken from Navajo rug weavers.
His works come in a variety of sizes.
He likes sealing pieces in resin rather than varnish. That way his works have an enhanced glossy finish, which further brings out the vibrant colors. He has also had one of works made into a Pendleton blanket.
Scott makes his home in the Navajo oil town of Montezuma Creek, located in the extreme southeastern corner of Utah.


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It's been a good mix on the iTunes tonight: Replacements, Radiohead, PJ Harvey, Tom Waits, Old 97s, Aimee Mann, the National, and so on. It always feels like a good sign when you let the shuffle take over and it pulls up tracks you weren't thinking of but are glad for the surprise. Decades ago I can remember having the same experience listening to something called "radio." Here in central Maine we've never had great radio. These days we have the exact opposite of great radio: it's either dumbfuck country or establishment pop, neither of which is any more distinctive than a department store mannequin, and both of which are hosted by DJs whose high-strung enthusiasm is so obviously fake I find myself wondering how they keep from killing themselves. They must be very well-paid. Thirty, thirty-five years ago, though, I was young enough not to have heard everything several hundred times, and so it was kind of special to tune the radio to WBLM (the Rock & Roll Blimp! My first girlfriend gave me one of the original tees for Valentine's Day, 1982!) and hear AC/DC's "For Those About to Rock," or to stumble upon WTOS (the Mountain of Rock . . .), which might have been the area's first alternative station (that wasn't affiliated with a college) -- it was the place I first heard REM and Elvis Costello. Of course, now WTOS is just another schlock-jock commercial rock station, with the personality and integrity of a snake-oil salesman. Steve Jobs, thank you so much for making the iPod possible. For those of us residing in America's radio-culture wastelands, it has been a tremendous blessing.
The great mass of people ask for so little and get so much of it. I said that. Actually, I've been saying it for years. Of the many quips that have crossed my lips, I think I'm most proud of that one (although I'm also rather fond of the response I gave to a woman who demanded to know how I could despise Eric Clapton: "Well, I was recently diagnosed with good taste." Not the point, though. I was mostly just distressed that she was showing no respect to the late JJ Cale.). I know it sounds like a shitty thing to say, but I believe the evidence supports my hypothesis: most people have lousy taste, and the mid-level executives whose responsibility it is to turn a profit for their shareholders make sure the bar goes no higher than those standards demand. In Cameron Crowe's Singles, maybe Matt Dillon's character Cliff Poncier said it best: "Most of these bands are like well-designed bottles of bleach." Indeed, Cliff. Indeed. "Touch me, I'm Dick" deserved some love. And I'm giving it to you right now, man. Right now, Cliff.
Taste, of course, is the most subjective of the several senses. Why in the world would anyone collect Hummel figurines? Or the artistic renderings of Thomas Kinkade? Why would anyone, without irony, decorate his lawn with plastic pink flamingoes? Or read, with absolute earnestness, Khalil Gibran? What does she see in that guy? Why does he stay with a woman who makes him crazy? How can you put hunk after hunk of pickled herring in your mouth like that? The answer to all of these questions, the only answer, is taste. As the French say, to each his own (they say it in French, but it sounds tres ludicrous). But like so many things French -- the Maginot Line, the Third Republic, the Renault le Car -- I find this less than satisfying. I think we owe it to each other and ourselves to do more than just live and let live.
And so, since we started out talking about music, I'm going to offer you all a little dose of good taste, in the form of a playlist I whipped up, just for fun. I'd love to be able to just post the actual music here, but our budget doesn't allow for that sort of high-tech know-how, so I'll give you the analog version, and you can run with it. If you're truly enamored, drop me a line and maybe I'll burn you a CD.
1. "Little Wing," Jimi Hendrix. Stevie Ray Vaughn did this song as an instrumental. The original is better.
2. "Secret Girl," Brad. Most of these guys were in Cliff Poncier's band in Singles. No well-designed bottle of bleach here. No well-designed bottle of bleach at all.
3. "Rattlesnakes," Tori Amos. This is actually a Lloyd Cole tune, but I like Tori's sultry take better. Plus, there's a line that says "Jodi wears a hat," and I have a friend named Jodi, and I've always wanted to see her in a hat.
4. "Exploding Boy," Alkaline Trio. This is a Cure song. If you don't know Alkaline Trio, you should, particularly their early stuff. The first time I heard it, this song was -- no hyperbole -- an awesome surprise.
5. "Thursday," Morphine. I don't know. Illicit sex. Give it a listen.
6. "So Nice So Smart," Kimya Dawson. This is a Juno soundtrack tune, I know nothing about the artist. But it's also about illicit sex. And there's some mention of lice.
7. "Half Dead," the Mountain Goats. These guys actually sort of annoy me, but a few of their songs crack me up. This is one of them.
8. "Shampoo," Elvis Perkins. Elvis Perkins is the son of Anthony Perkins (of Psycho fame). Nice recovery, Elvis. Well done. Seriously, this is an outstanding song.
9. "Exit Music (For a Film)," Radiohead. This is a pointedly bitter song, and I dig the underlying tension and pathos.
10. "Wide Eyes," Local Natives. I don't remember why I put this on here, but I like it. Actually, yes I do: it's the opening riff. I don't even care what follows. Great opening.
11. "The Hardest Part," Ryan Adams & the Cardinals. You wanna know what the hardest part is? Ryan Adams will tell you what the hardest part is. Just . . . shhhh. Shhhhhhh.
12. "I Will Dare," the Replacements. Once upon a time I knew a girl who was getting banged by one of her high school teachers. He put this son on a mix for her. He was classy.
13. "Left of the Dial," also the Replacements. Just a great fucking song. And this is the song I would put on the mix for the aforementioned girl, as well as a small handful of others. "If I don't see you there, I'll know why."
14. "I Never Cared for You," Willie Nelson. One of the best oblique love songs ever.
15. "Nowhere Is My Home," The Tim Version. Another Replacements song, a B-side, covered here by a band I'd never heard of, on a tribute album I stumbled across one day at Bull Moose Music. This is a quality cover, and it's my second favorite song in this mix.
16. "Cath..." Death Cab for Cutie. The album from which this song comes, Narrow Stairs, is my least favorite DCFC album, but this song is amazing. Benjamin Gibbard is a master songwriter, and when he's at his best, as he is here, there's absolutely nobody better. Best song on the mix.
17. "Light of Day," Tommy Stinson. Tommy was the bass player for the Replacements, and I loved him with the Mats but haven't much cared for his solo stuff. This song appeared on one of the soundtracks to the Showtime series Californication, and it speaks very much to the ethos of that show and its main character, which is why it caught my ear. Well done, Tommy. I'll never forget the night you spit a mouthful of . . . whatever on me and a dozen other people pressed against the stage at Colby College in 1989. Those were the days, huh, Tommy?
18. "Pieholden Suite," Wilco. This song breaks my heart. Every single time. I hope it breaks your heart too.
So that's it, that's the list. I hope you have taste enough to love it as much as I do. But if not, don't despair. We are, each one of us, imperfect creatures. Sometimes when I'm listening to my iTunes on shuffle, something entirely unexpected like, say, Maroon 5 will pop up, and my immediate response will be, "What the fuck?!" And then I remember: oh yeah, I want my daughter to love me. In the end, what does good taste matter if you have no one with whom to share it?


text: It's an ongoing thing! You'll always struggle with composition. I used to finish a part before I moved to the next part. I've found that if you finish one part and move on to the next, it's harder to change the entire image. I now work on the whole painting at the same time. I don't finish anything until I know I like what I see. My wife is a big part in what I do. I'll call her in to get her opinion. If she gives me the same idea that I'm thinking is a problem, then I usually know I have to change it. I'll say that too for anyone looking at art. Somebody may not be able to paint something, but they can tell you when something is wrong.


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The Find Your Fade pattern is currently one of the most active on Ravelry. Choosing the yearn is fun and one of those things that if I allow myself to keep pulling and re-arranging yarns, I'll never get started knitting. With all the single skeins of sock yarn in my stash, I can see several of these in my future knitting plans.
Yesterday evening I went back over to the sewing room and told myself I wasn't leaving til I chose the yarns for Find Your Fade.
I was pretty certain this was it but then made one last minute change and decided on this:
I'm still not 100% sure of those three on the left. I think there needs to be something between the dark green and the aqua. I have a dark brown but I want to use it for something else and I have some blues that might go better with the dark green. See . . I'm second guessing myself again!
Thinking that maybe if I'd wind it all up I'd stop re-thinking the process so I wound it all up and am even more convinced that dark green on the left doesn't go. I'll start with the yarn on the right and maybe by the time I get to the yarn on the left, the perfect choice will have jumped out and said "Pick Me!" or by that time, I will be so ready to be finished, I won't care.


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By VERNON CLEMENT JONES, Senior Business Reporter
Tourists and Bahamians can legally dine on fresh grouper and crawfish 365 days a year - strong evidence of holes in the net protecting that economic resource, said the director of fisheries.
"Currently during our closed season you can still sell (grouper and spiny lobster)," said Michael Braynen, head of that government department. "That is a problem because it does provide an opportunity for unscrupulous persons to fish for it."
And they do.
So much so, in fact, hotels across the country offer fresh grouper - baked, stewed, fried, and even curried - during the closed season. That spans from December 1 to the end of February. Fishing for lobster, another staple on local menus, is prohibited from March 31 to July 31, an effort to allow young animals to breed and replenish a dwindling resource.
"We have never had an absolutely closed season for fishing," said Braynen Thursday. "That's what we are striving for - an absolutely closed season."
Falling short of that goal threatens to cut into an increasingly lucrative foreign market for local companies.
All toll, the export of fish, in particular crawfish, accounts for some $180 million a year, or three percent of Bahamian gross domestic product.
That revenue comes largely on the strength of European sales of the country's two largest wholesalers, Paradise Fisheries and Tropic Seafood.
Expectations were that their bottom-lines were set to rise after a new treaty with the EU and the Caribbean negotiators guaranteed unfettered access to markets.
However, illegal fishing out of season to feed domestic appetite effectively steals from the longevity of the export market.
Visitor expectation may be the driving force behind poaching and subsequent sale of the catch.
"We are The Bahamas," said one restaurant manager Chris Adderley. "When tourist come here they expect to get their boiled grouper or their lobster.
"We have no choice but to buy wherever we can get our hands on it."
It's an argument that could undermine Bahamian fish stocks.
According to Braynen, the government will eventually move to mend all holes in its fish protection policy. But for now the open sale of fish - whether in or out of season - will continue.
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Aaron Spelling, 83, passed away on Friday, after suffering a stroke on June 18. Throughout his illustrious career, Spelling was best known for producing sexy, glamourous and escapist entertainment. In fact, through the 60's, he produced so many hits for ABC, the press dubbed it 'Aaron's Broadcasting Company.'
Sure his shows weren't critically praised, in fact a Washington Post columnist once wrote, "There is good and there is bad Spelling, but there is never great Spelling, only degrees of terribleness."
The truth is, when it came to Spelling, critical acclaim never mattered. His shows were pure escapism. In my 'younger days', I used to sit on the phone with a friend, watching 90210, discussing major 'Oh My God' moments only during commercials. Donna Martin Graduate, Kimberly taking off her wig, Tony being shot – lying in Dylan's arms. With a Spelling show you never knew what would happen next. The only thing you could count on was major plot twists, beautiful people, fun locales, and entertaining stories. In his own words, Spelling put it best:
"We often have to make the choice between 150 critics and 150 million Americans out there, and I have always felt that my job was to please [the viewers]. To entertain them."
Aaron, thanks for the entertainment. You'll be sorely missed.


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I brought a new battery for my 2001 buick park avenue, as suggested to bring back the digital reading for mileage, and the mileage info has not returned.
It was suggested that I purchase a new battery to get the mileage info to work on my 2002 buick park auenue. I have a new battery in place and the reading has not returned.
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A new battery won't help in this instance, but a least you have a new one you don't have to worry about for some time...It's a common problem with these cars, It's caused by a faulty instrument gauge cluster electrical board. Either you can repair it or replace it. Here is a video describing the issue and fix. HTH's.....http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_yZl_QoLdtw
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The Tides of Time 37, November 2013
Time to mention the Doctor Who fanzine with which I've been associated most consistently over the past two decades and more, The Tides of Time, published by the Oxford [University] Doctor Who Society and edited by a succession of people since 1990. I've uploaded a selection of articles to tidesoftime.wordpress.com over the last few years, as well as several entire issues. Readers can follow the evolution of the largely student membership's tastes, from the discovery of previously inaccessible old episodes of the programme, through some intense and verbose literary and sociological analysis, to today's smaller zines with their computer game reviews and personal reflections on experiences of the Who phenomenon (which, it strikes me, is a very 1970s phrase. Didn't TARDIS once call itself 'The Doctor Who phenomenon newsletter'? But I digress).
I've uploaded issue 37 today, and (if you passed earlier and were put off by the large file size) resized it to 5Mb. Read and enjoy. Contents include:
- Editorial by John Salway
- Crossword – Fifty Years of Villains
- Return to Earth. Review of the Wii video game, by Adam Kendrick
- The Eternity Clock. Review of the game for PC, PS3 and PSVita, by Graham Cooper
- Rusling the Isis. The second part of a look at Russell T Davies's Oxford University media career in the 1980s, by Matthew Kilburn
- Fifty Years, Fifty Moments. The scenes which encapsulate Doctor Who's Doctor Who-ness, compiled and written by Graham Cooper and Sara James, with Thomas Keyton, Matthew Kilburn, and Jonathan Martindale
- Doctor Who and Philosophy. Jonathan Martindale reviews the 55th volume in the Open Court Press series 'Pop Culture and Philosophy', which turns its attention to Doctor Who.
- Lost in Translation? Sara James reports on the status of Doctor Who in Germany with particular regard to pronouns!
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Pure Dork Week
I was searching for a new focus for this upcoming week, something to provide the structure of these posts. It seeemed futile until a wonderful man by the name of Anonymous, the greatest of the Internet cowards, stopped by and put me in my place. He called me out as a "pure dork," which caused some real soul-searching. Was I a dork? Was I such a dork that this person felt that I was 100%, uncut dork?
The answer is a simple yes. I checked with MC and she concurred, noting my penchant for reading academic journals and underlining important passages, my excitement over nice leather on a pair of old Air Force 1s and my addiction to sudoku. My first reaction was denial, as I refused to admit that I was no better than, say, Louis Skolnick and Gilbert Lowell. I mentioned my love of boxing and my past sports-playing days, even making up some shit about how into cars and fishing I am.
However, when I got home and found myself watching Charlie Rose and reading Dissent magazine for fun, I moved beyond denial into acceptance. This week is dedicated to furthering that acceptance, to coming to terms with my nerdiness, my wackness, my pure dorkness if you will. We shall focus on various parts of my dork character this week, starting with books, touching on comic books, urban theory, architecture, graphic design, chess, and ending up on the cinema. I'm not going to hide anymore, I'm gonna let my geek flag fly this week. Yeah!
-Before we get into all of this nerdology, I do want to comment on the Mosley-Vargas fight from this past weekend. I am very happy to see Sugar Shane put a great fight together finally, after a few disappointing years. He has always been one of my favorite fighters to watch, an at- times breathtaking combination of speed and power. More importantly, he has always been a good citizen, a good guy who works hard and treats the sport with respect, a rare commodity indeed. I am looking forward to seeing Mosley get a shot at some of the big names out there, a last chance to claim the glory that so many predicted for him after he defeated Oscar de la Hoya. I wish him the best as he is one of the good guys in sport.
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Monday, February 8, 2010
Leighton's Nursery
I love going into Leighton's room. It is by far the cleanest and most uncluttered room in the house and when the rest of the place feels like a bomb went off, I come here and pretend I have a totally clutter free, organized, simplified house. The bedding was made by a very talented friend (thanks Amber) with Heather Bailey fabric- which I love. I bought the little table at a yard sale-$10 and refinished it and added the Anthropologie knob- Sale $2.95. The matryoshka dolls are from Russia, thanks to my world traveling brother. Now if we can only convince Leighton she loves her room more than our bed, we'll be doing fine.
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Warts, L's nursury looks like it's out of a magazine. Love the bright, non-pink, non-pastel colors and the name banner. For what it's worth, I love the name Reagan, too, but seeing pictures of L makes it clear that she's a Leighton. Your OR staff did good.ReplyDelete
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March 20, 2012
EDWARD SISTRUNK, APPELLANTv.GERALD ROZUM; THE DISTRICT ATTORNEY OF THE COUNTY OF PHILADELPHIA; THE ATTORNEY GENERAL OF THE STATE OF PENNSYLVANIA
On Appeal from the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania (D.C. No. 2:06-cv-05630) District Judge: Hon. John R. Padova
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Submitted under Third Circuit LAR 34.1(a) October 28, 2011
Before: SLOVITER, GREENAWAY, JR. and ALDISERT, Circuit Judges.
This appeal seeks review of a denial of a petition for habeas corpus by Edward Sistrunk, an inmate in Respondents' custody. After pursuing and exhausting his state court avenues for appeal, Sistrunk sought habeas relief from the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania on the basis of newly discovered evidence of his "actual innocence." The District Court concluded that the Pennsylvania state courts' disposition of Sistrunk's appeal was not contrary to, nor an unreasonable application of, clearly established federal law, and denied his petition. We will affirm.
The certificate of appealability ("COA") limits our review to a single issue: whether Sistrunk's habeas petition was timely filed according to 28 U.S.C. § 2244(d)(1)(D). By sheer counting of calendar days, it is undisputed that Sistrunk's petition was filed long after his one-year timeliness period expired. But because the Anti-Terrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act ("AEDPA") provides several avenues for petitioners to satisfy timeliness, Sistrunk's argument requires us to determine whether he is entitled to statutory tolling or different types of equitable tolling that might save his claim. Specifically, Sistrunk contends that he is entitled to: (1) statutory tolling on the basis of uncovering new, exculpatory evidence; (2) equitable tolling due to government witness tampering; or (3) equitable tolling because he is actually innocent.
We conclude that Sistrunk does not qualify for these tolling exceptions. Sistrunk's delays are inexcusable, his evidence is not "new," and even if we permitted equitable tolling for actual innocence, Sistrunk's proofs of "actual innocence" fall short. We will, therefore, affirm the District Court's judgment.
In the early morning hours of July 23, 1993, Edward Sistrunk used his automobile horn and headlamps to harass a car driven by Julmaine Moody on a residential road in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.*fn1 Both cars pulled over. An altercation between the cars' occupants broke out, but ceased abruptly when a passenger in Moody's car recognized a passenger in Sistrunk's car as an acquaintance. All reentered their respective vehicles, and the cars returned to the roadway. Sistrunk then positioned his moving car alongside Moody's, drew a revolver, aimed at a passenger in Moody's car with whom he had had a heated exchange, and fired. Missing its intended mark, the bullet struck the unarmed and pregnant Moody in the head, killing her.
Sistrunk evaded capture for three months until his arrest in North Carolina. Multiple witnesses identified Sistrunk as the shooter, including Sistrunk's intended victim, David Snyder. Out of the many people who implicated Sistrunk in the murder, one witness of particular significance here, Gregory Anderson, gave a statement to police and testified at a preliminary hearing on January 6, 1994, that he was in Sistrunk's car at the time of the murder and that Sistrunk was the murderer. Anderson disappeared before trial and therefore did not testify, but Sistrunk's defense counsel successfully argued to admit Anderson's hearing testimony at trial. The trial court found as a fact that all witnesses agreed Sistrunk was the shooter.
On May 18, 1995, the court sentenced Sistrunk to life imprisonment for murdering Moody. In addition, the court sentenced Sistrunk to concurrent imprisonment terms for possession of an instrument of crime, reckless endangerment, and simple assault. The Pennsylvania Superior Court affirmed Sistrunk's sentence on July 19, 1996. The Pennsylvania Supreme Court then denied Sistrunk's petition for allowance of appeal on December 11, 1996. His conviction became final on March 11, 1997, when Sistrunk's deadline for filing a petition for certiorari in the United States Supreme Court passed. See 28 U.S.C. § 2101(c); Kapral v. United States, 166 F.3d 565, 575 (3d Cir. 1999).
Sistrunk filed a petition for relief under the Pennsylvania Post Conviction Relief Act ("PCRA"), 42 Pa. Cons. Stat. Ann. §§ 9541-9546, on December 11, 1997, contending that his appellate counsel was ineffective for failing to challenge the effectiveness of his trial counsel. The PCRA court dismissed Sistrunk's petition because Sistrunk had already litigated the issues ...
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I have been a severe brittle asthmatic for 20years after contracting chicken pox, which gave me my first case of pluresy.
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When I came back from vacation I found my house looking better than I had left it. My house-sitting friend had done an unbelievably remarkable job of taking care of my home. The inside and outside were cleaner than I had ever seen them, the whole garden was weeded, tomato branches all tied up on their trellises, yard mowed perfectly, and on and on and on…
The fungus, however, was not so kind. The same blight (probably septoria leaf spot) that usually begins killing my lower branches in June and eventually kills the whole tomato plant in early October was RAMPANT. My 24 tomatoes, in 4 varieties, were knocking loudly on death's door…in JUNE!
The bigger, faster growing plants have tried to compensate for their foliage loss by growing more leaves at the top…and not setting any fruit. The smaller, more compact plants had already set a bunch of green tomatoes, but didn't have the strength in them to grow new leaves and branches fast enough to keep ahead of the rising blight.
I broke my rule and sprayed everything with a non-organic fungus spray. I also ordered an organic copper based solution that has since arrived in the mail. The spray won't heal damage that had already begun, but it promises to help slow the upward spread of the disease.
All plants in the main garden under 3 feet tall are either dead already or will be by mid-month. I can only hope and pray that the taller plants will actually begin setting fruit at some point, but I have become depressed about the whole situation. Tomatoes were my real reason for gardening. Last year I bet I had over 100 pounds. This year I feel I'll be lucky to eventually get 10 pounds of tomatoes, and not close enough together in time that I can make any canned products.
I can see that in my near future I'll be leaving the farmer's market with box upon box of expensive local tomatoes, but I'll just have to hope I can find ones that I trust to be any better for my family than store-bought.
This year, it seems, my garden will produce no ketchup, no pizza sauce, no pasta sauce, no salsa…the list goes on. And now I don't even feel the motivation to go out there. I know it needs to be fertilized with compost. I know it needs to be weeded again. I know my cucumbers could use a trellis at this point. I know it could use a nice deep watering. I'm so frustrated at this point that I am to the point of avoidance. Logically I know that staying in my air conditioned house is not going to teach me to deal with this minor disaster and recover from it, but I'm a spoiled kid of modern society who knows that there is always another source for anything my heart desires. Aren't we lucky to live in an age where we can entertain our tantrums and still eat all winter? What are we going to do when those store shelves sit empty?
P.S. It doesn't seem to be "just me." I went to the farmer's market about a week ago hoping to buy the last few potted tomato starts that might still be available at this late date. There were several beefsteak plants there, probably 14 inches tall in their 3 inch pots. Every one already had the same leaf spots on their lower branches as I have in my garden. It was no use trying with them.


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As any artist, of any discipline, will tell you that in order to really excel, you have to take the craft seriously. Pride in their work is what makes the greats great. And yet, there's a group who still believe that because perfection can't be reached, we should just accept it.
Why do we allow ourselves to settle for imperfection?
Learning writing is a long road. I set out long before I understood what it meant to become a professional. It's good I did! If we understood the road before us before we had the passion for it, most of us would have given up.
After we have that passion, we need to take it seriously. We need to learn what it is that makes us the best we can be. That takes study and vision. We need to know we want to be the best we can be. We have to take the steps to get us there.
For writers, the editing and rewriting process is part and parcel of the task. Nothing goes without some form of tweaking. If you can rewrite it one hundred times and keep improving it, do it.
With that understood we have to remember: we're business people, too. Eventually, we have to push the product. We have to give up and let it stand. At that point, and only then, we can settle for imperfection. We have to settle or we'll drive ourselves crazy with the mistakes!
After that, though, we need to move on. We need to be better the next time.
We're consumers, too, though. As consumers we shouldn't settle either. We need to hold those we give our patronage to as high a standard as possible. Tell them where they can improve. We can encourage our craftsman to better heights merely by demanding they hold themselves to a higher standard. The adage is true. Nothing is ever perfect. That shouldn't stop us from giving it our best.


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Decided: July 20, 1977.
UNITED RENTAL EQUIPMENT CO., INC., A NEW JERSEY CORPORATION, PLAINTIFF-APPELLANT,v.AETNA LIFE AND CASUALTY INS., CO., AN INSURANCE CORPORATION AUTHORIZED TO TRANSACT BUSINESS IN NEW JERSEY, DEFENDANT-RESPONDENT, AND FULCRUM CORPORATION, A NEW JERSEY CORPORATION, DEFENDANT. UNITED RENTAL EQUIPMENT CO., INC., A NEW JERSEY CORPORATION, PLAINTIFF-APPELLANT, V. ST. PAUL FIRE AND MARINE INS., CO., AN INSURANCE CORPORATION AUTHORIZED TO TRANSACT BUSINESS IN THE STATE OF NEW JERSEY, DEFENDANT-RESPONDENT
For affirmance -- Chief Justice Hughes, Justices Mountain, Sullivan, Pashman, Clifford and Schreiber and Judge Conford. For reversal -- None.
Per Curiam
[74 NJ Page 94] These cases resulted in the same judge rendering summary judgments for defendants. The judgment in favor of defendant Aetna Life and Casualty Insurance Company (Aetna) was affirmed in an unreported opinion by the Appellate Division and we granted certification, 68 N.J. 169 (1975). We certified on our own motion the case in which St. Paul Fire and Marine Insurance Company is the defendant while the matter was pending unheard in the Appellate Division, 69 N.J. 399 (1976). The cases are virtual twins, the essential issue being whether under the circumstance summary judgments were properly entered on the basis of substantially identical exclusionary clauses in the respective policies of insurance issued by defendants. We affirm in both cases.
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In May 1968 plaintiff United Rental Equipment Co., Inc. (United Rental) leased an industrial crane to defendant Fulcrum Company (Fulcrum). In order to protect its interest United Rental had secured a policy of insurance from respondent Aetna which generally covered any damage or loss to its machines. Fulcrum also secured a policy on the machine from respondent St. Paul, but that policy provided that United Rental was the designated payee for any losses covered by the policy. Although there were minor differences in the language of the two policies, both excluded from coverage under the contract those losses occasioned by the lifting of any load which exceeded the registered lifting or supporting capacity of any machine otherwise within the scope of coverage.*fn1
Neither policy specifically defines the term "registered capacity." However, we assume, consistent with the trial judge's finding and in the absence of any proof or substantial argument to the contrary, that the phrase refers to the manufacturer's suggested capability as indicated on a chart posted in the cab of the crane to guide the operator.
Fulcrum used the rented crane to pour cement on the dome of a storage tank which it was building on Staten Island. On June 5, 1968, while being utilized in this manner, the crane's boom suddenly buckled and collapsed. In
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addition to the damage to the tank and serious injury to several workmen at the site, there was irreparable damage to the crane's boom and jib assembly.
Following the accident United Rental sought recovery from Aetna for the damage to the crane. Aetna resisted the claim, contending that the accident resulted from an overloading of the crane's capacity, thus falling within the coverage exclusion described above. United Rental's suit followed, with Aetna accompanying its answer with an affidavit of its engineering expert, one George W. Mackay. This affidavit contained Mackay's opinion of the reasons for the crane's failure and was based on a number of factors including personal observations and inspections of the accident site and the depositions of a number of parties in various personal injury actions, commenced in New York, resulting from the same accident.*fn2
One deposition relied on by Mackay was that of Fred Speranza, operator of the crane at the time of its collapse, who was fully aware of the machine's capabilities and limitations. After describing some of the preliminary operations of the crane by which he undertook to deliver concrete to the tank's dome, Speranza gave this account of the accident:
Well, after I swung the machine around, the boom was in position. I was waiting for the signal to boom down. All of a sudden the boom went on me, collapsed. It's as simple as that. That's all I can tell you.
Several days after the accident Speranza learned that at the time of the occurrence and contrary to normal practice, the crane's bucket was filled to capacity. He further testified that he was present when the bucket was weighed
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after it was recovered from the dome and he recalled the bucket's weight to be approximately 7800 pounds.
In addition to the Speranza deposition Mackay resorted to several other elements to formulate the opinion contained in his affidavit. He also utilized the previous testimony of Joseph Medler, a deputy chief engineer with the New York Department of Port and Terminals, who had been assigned by his department to investigate the damage done to the tank. In the course of this investigation he participated in the weigh-in of the bucket after it had been recovered. He testified that the bucket's weight was in the neighborhood of 7600 pounds. Mackay also had an affidavit of Edward P. O'Neill, a New York City detective, who investigated the accident on behalf of the New York City District Attorney's office. This document included measurements which were of assistance in making critical calculations. Finally, Mackay had the benefit of the chart setting forth the maximum lifting capacities of the crane, indicating a maximum capacity of 3400 pounds for the equipment rigged as it was when the accident occurred.
On the basis of these materials MacKay gave this as his opinion:
Assuming all of the aforesaid facts [as revealed by his inspection, the depositions, the affidavit and the capacity chart] to be true, it must be concluded that at the time of the accident, the crane was overloaded by more than 100 per cent and it is my opinion that the overload of the crane caused it to collapse and ...
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The Ballad of Lefty Brown
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The Roxy Theater Screen 1
Thursday, Oct 5, 2017 8:00 PM
In 1880s Montana, an old rancher embarks on a journey to avenge his oldest friend.
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Lefty Brown is a 63 year old sidekick. Loyal, crotchety and rarely taken seriously, he's ridden with Western legend Eddie Johnson for his entire adult life. Now Johnson has been appointed Senator of Montana, and despite the objections of his spirited wife Laura, he plans to leave Lefty in charge of his ranch. But when a rustler kills Johnson, Lefty is forced from his partner's shadow. Devastated by guilt, he sets out on a journey that will reunite him with old friends US Marshall Tom Harrah and Governor James Bierce as he confronts the ugly realities of frontier justice.
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Friday, April 8, 2011
Spring break starts as soon as I pick the girls up from school today. And that can only mean one thing. . . we girls head to Nana and Papa's for the week and Razor undertakes a gargantuan home improvement task that no mere mortal should be able to complete in one week. This year it will be priming and painting the new ceiling that he installed in the bathroom and bedroom. And installing the wood flooring in each. And staining it. And sealing it. And trimming it all out.
Oh. And painting all the walls in said bathroom and bedroom.
All while working his normal day job.
Speaking of slackers, I'm checking out of this space for the next week. Gonna enjoy spring break and actually take a break. I'm feeling run down from all the travels lately and I just want to rest up. Well, rest up, eat well, play board games, look for shells at the beach, and hang with some of my favorite people on the planet. All while my most favorite person sits at home eating bon-bons.
We'll catch up again soon.
P.S. Isn't that scotch bottle the cutest thing ever? The plastic "roof" comes off to reveal the bottle spout. Any info on it? Or suggestions what I should do with it?
12 comments:
- Amber said...
Have a great time...as I'm sure Razor will as well :-)
- April 8, 2011 at 1:41 PM
- Kimberly said...
Have a great SB with your family, Dana! My girls went back to school this week so we're back to normal... and in the home stretch for summer.
And good luck to your hubby... sounds like he might need it!
Blessings, Kimberly
- April 8, 2011 at 2:10 PM
- DeeRoo said...
Shells, boardgames, food...perfect!:)
Marbles...put marbles in the bottle!:)
- April 8, 2011 at 3:39 PM
- DebbyMc said...
Yeah, it's the old while the cat's away the mice will play thing...I have the same problem with DH when I am away for the summer! haha! =-) Have a BLAST on your Spring Break!!
- April 8, 2011 at 4:55 PM
- Jacque. said...
Have a great time away from it all, Dana!
- April 8, 2011 at 5:27 PM
- Trudi said...
Sounds just perfect! Spring break started here too! I'm so ready for it! Have a restful one!
- April 8, 2011 at 6:19 PM
- April said...
Scotchy, scotch, scotch! Don't know anything about your Scotch house but it's really cool.
Enjoy the break!!
- April 9, 2011 at 3:56 PM
- Elissa said...
uh. drink it. ;-)
hope you are enjoying your down time.... be safe and enjoy the beach for me too wouldja?
- April 10, 2011 at 3:20 PM
- Kim said...
WooHoo you shouldna told me Razor was gonna be home alone!
Just kidding :0)
Have a terrific time....I'm sure your folks can not wait for all that time with their special grands....
hey do you lock them out of the car and make them dance to get back in?
Love a video of that :0)
Happy Sewing, Happy Spring
- April 10, 2011 at 7:14 PM
- Itchin' Stitchin' said...
Oh I love the little gnome - as for the bottle - could you turn it into a bird feeder someway?
- April 12, 2011 at 7:18 PM
- upvc windows northern ireland said...
good luck on your spring break with the kids!! and i'm sure razor will need a lot of good luck as well.. :D
- April 12, 2011 at 11:11 PM
- Jessica Christensen said...
I hope you're enjoying spring break, slacker. You deserve it.
- April 13, 2011 at 2:46 PM


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We have started a new tradition, sort of. Trav and I have decided Seven Peaks is a blessing! We all have summer passes and we were finally able to pull 'em out and use them! THE KIDS HAVE BEEN DYING TO GO!
We had them sleep over Friday night and that's all they could talk about. "What time are we going to Seven Peaks tomorrow?" or "How long will we be able to stay at Seven Peaks tomorrow?" or "How long will it TAKE to get to Seven Peaks...how far away do you live?"
No, no...I don't think they were excited at all.
My favorite line of the night was said by my sweet niece, Marin, shortly after midnight went something like this, "I feel so alive!". We had just told her it was time for bed. Yeah...adrenaline rush for ALL involved. All I was thinking was YOU'VE GOT TO BE KIDDING ME!
Trav nearly lost it. He turned off all the lights and made it known it didn't matter how alive one felt, they were closing their eyes for the next 6-8 hours. He makes me laugh!
We had a great time. We were able to get a good three to four hours of swim time in before leaving. It was great! Marin had a friend, MacKenzie (Nic's niece) who is the same age as Marin. They were buddies the whole time. Trav, me, Nic, Ash, and Crystal stuck with Grayson. We relaxed at the kiddie pool, just enjoying one another's company. Ahh...I told Trav I'm fine stickin' with Grayson this summer. The kiddie pool is my idea of fun. Weird, huh?! It was funny though. Trav would randomly disappear. All I'd have to do is find the nearest chunk of shade and there he'd be' My little vampire! Kacey's started calling him Edward (from Twilight) because he hates the sun so much.
The poopy part of going is no matter how much sunblock we smeared on those kids they still got sunburned. I don't think they even noticed. They were having too much fun!
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Around our house, there is no lack of imagination. I'm not sure how it started or exactly how we fostered it in our children, but our kids do a lot of playing "in their heads". Don't get me wrong, we still have probably too much t.v., video game, computer, and ds time, but there's also a good bit of time where good old fashioned sticks or light sabers are utilized. Climbing out back, playing with the dog, running around doing who knows what are all common sights to see.
When our oldest son, Alex was little, he would go off to his room and pretend. His speech was barely discernible at the time, but his sound affects came out loud and clear. BAM! SWISH! PSHAW! When the bad guys took a hit, everyone in a 3 room radius knew it. My mother in law started calling it "swishing" because he would literally SWISH by you. He didn't care if you saw it or heard it as long as you stayed out of his way and let him play. All of the boys do it in their own way, a couple of them now do it more than the others. If you ask them what they're doing they'll just say, "Oh I'm making up a story." or something like that.
The other night I looked around and realized 3 of the boys were "swishing" all totally independent of the others. Oliver is only 2 and yet he gets up and goes and swishes because the bigger boys are doing it too. It was kind of loud, actually, the whole scene. At the same time, it was cozy. I liked that they were right in front of me doing it. I didn't mind that whatever they were imagining cut a path right in front of what I was watching on t.v. I realized one day they'll be too old for it or they'll be moved out. There won't be any swishing in the other room or down the hall. The house will be quiet.
I think I'd rather not think about when the swishing stops. It's one of my very favorite things.


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