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Jonah Shacknai started a memorial foundation in 2012, to celebrate and honor his 6 yo son, Max, who was an enthusiastic and talented young soccer player. The Foundation provides sports equipment to needy kids, and sports equipment for people with disabilities. The Foundation, IMO, is very well structured, and appears to be financially healthy. The Max in Motion Foundation is now 4 years old, and thriving. Truly a respectful, honest, and worthy remembrance for Max, and centered around what Max loved. Success we can all celebrate!
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MaxInMotion® Scholarships Benefitted 7,085 Young Athletes During First Four Years.
The recipients of MaxInMotion® sports scholarships hail from Arizona and southern California, and participate in competitive soccer, basketball, hockey, and wheelchair basketball and wheelchair power soccer.
During its first four years, MaxInMotion® has:
Awarded 7,085 scholarships to young athletes, enabling them to participate in competitive sports.
Established, with Ability 360, the first wheel chair basketball and soccer clinics which will lead to the formation of MaxInMotion® competitive leagues for disabled youth.
June 7, 2016 - MaxInMotion Celebrates Fourth Anniversary by Expanding to Southern California.
Today, on the fourth anniversary of the MaxInMotion Foundation, I am delighted to announce our expansion to Southern California. Using specially earmarked funds to establish unique programs integrating soccer, academics and upward economic opportunity, MaxInMotion is working with soccer leagues to identify promising players, and provide them and their families with academic counseling as well as exposure to college soccer programs where scholarships and other opportunities may be available. For the vast majority of these young athletes, college would not be attainable without our program, and all will be first generation college students.
Since launching MaxInMotion, we have created life-advancing opportunities for 7,085 young athletes in Arizona, by providing athletic participation scholarships in soccer, hockey, basketball and several wheelchair sports. Today, we are the largest single source of support in Arizona for these comprehensive sports programs, and thanks to our volunteer staff over 99% of our funds directly benefit the kids.
We need your help to do even more. As MaxInMotion presently serves the needs of thousands of young athletes, we know there are far more requiring our help. I ask you to continue your generosity and make a tax deductible contribution to MaxInMotion, either on our secure website donation page, or by sending a check to our offices at 3333 East Camelback Road, Suite 200, Phoenix, AZ 85018.
The need is great to help kids in our community advance life skills, fitness and talents through professionally directed and motivating sports programs. Without our help, these financially or physically challenged youth would lose this opportunity. We cannot let that happen. Please do what you are able to support us. You are helping us improve thousands of lives each year.
With gratitude,
Jonah Shacknai
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Let's Watch All the Teenagers Get Killed, or The Hunger Games vs. The Cabin in the Woods (SPOILERS!)
I just got back from watching The Cabin in the Woods. It's the kind of film where while you're watching it, you're just having fun, but then afterwards when you start thinking about it you start to realize just how clever it really was (needless to say, I liked it). So I'm going to ramble a bit.
[you are now entering into spoiler territory]
Now, if you've seen the trailers you've probably already noticed the similarities to The Hunger Games, and having seen the film the similarities are actually even stronger. You've got a bunch of teens sent to an "arena" as a "tribute" to be killed off where a bunch of guys in suits manipulate their surroundings until there is only one survivor. These proceedings are captured on camera and are a source of entertainment for the viewers. Please note, I'm not saying that Cabin copied The Hunger Games, especially since the film has been completed since 2009. It's just coincidence that the two films came out so close to one another. What I find interesting is that I think Cabin in the Woods succeeded where Hunger Games failed.
Let me just put it out there that I am a huge fan of Joss Whedon, and not a particularly big fan of Suzanne Collins, so this could all just be a personal prejudice on my part. I'm not so much trying to say that one story is better than the other as much as I'm trying to articulate why one story worked better for me.
Now, I liked The Hunger Games. I read the book and enjoyed it enough to complete the series (which is rare for me nowadays), and I thought that the film did an excellent job of adapting the book for the screen. However, I've never thought it was good enough to deserve all the hype. Maybe if I read it again I'll think differently, but I just found it a very difficult story to connect to. I couldn't really relate to the characters, I had this weird problem of never being able to tell where the characters were in space, I never got a good feel for the history, geography, or technological capabilities of the world, and I felt like the very concept of having an annual Hunger Games needed a lot more backstory to justify it, which we never got. I've never been able to articulate this until after seeing Cabin, but I think it also bugged me that while Hunger Games is a smart story, it isn't a particularly clever story. So, basically, I thought The Hunger Games was a compelling story with an interesting premise that should have come through a lot more clearly than it did.
That is perhaps one advantage that Cabin in the Woods has over The Hunger Games right away: it knows exactly what it wants to be. It is a horror film about horror films. It is working with specific genre conventions, not just because it is a part of the genre, but because that's what the story is about. Contrast that to Hunger Games which is… what? Science fiction? Futuristic fiction? Fantasy? I don't really know how to define it, and because of that I always felt a bit lost in the story. I have no problem with stories that combine or transcend genres– in fact I rather like stories that do that—but I think that genres are necessary because the audience needs to be able to situate themselves within the story, and I don't feel like the Hunger Games' genre came through clearly enough.
For example, if I had known earlier on that The Hunger Games was science fiction (ish) then I wouldn't have had my big WTF moment when the muttations showed up. That didn't surprise me, it made me angry because I felt like Collins was changing the rules on me. I should have known earlier on that the Capitol had the technology capable of doing that (I had the same frustration through most of Mockingjay). Contrast that with Cabin in the Woods, which establishes that it's a horror film pretty much from the title, and establishes that it's a fantasy as early as the bird flying into the gridding. Thus when the insanity is unleashed at the end I can be surprised by it without being angered by it.
I could talk a bit about the two stories' characters and why I thought the characters in Cabin were done better than in Hunger Games, but I almost feel as if that's not really fair, since I don't think anybody does characters as well as Joss Whedon (yeah, yeah, I'm a fangirl, get over it). So I'll move on to comparing the stories' premises, and how they function as a metaphor.
The Hunger Games, as I understand it, is a commentary on social dominance and power structures and a critique of the crassness of our entertainment. It does a pretty good job of making these points (probably even better than I realize. I haven't looked at very much commentary), but I think it stumbles a bit in some areas. First, I have a hard time wrapping my mind around the idea that even the more wealthy and powerful districts have to provide tributes. Even if Districts 1 and 2 benefit from being part of Panem, and even if tributes from those districts almost always win, they're still sending at least one child off to die per year. I can't believe that they waited for Katniss to become a figurehead before rebelling. Maybe there's a justification for this in the story that I just don't remember, but I feel like the messages about power get muddied by it.
Cabin in the Woods makes a similar point. You have the bureaucracy controlling and oppressing the kids because they are young and because an even higher power demands it. Their morality is put on the shelf out of fear. And unlike The Hunger Games, once I got to the end of the film, it totally made sense why they would do such a thing—why they felt like they had to keep this oppressive system in place, and also why they were desensitized to its cruelty.
Second, maybe I'm imagining it, but I think Collins is trying to do a meta commentary accusing the audience of being just as crass as those in the Capitol for enjoying a story about kids being murdered. She might have a point, but it doesn't come through very clearly because I don't like stories about kids being murdered, I like stories about oppressed people overcoming their oppressors. I was probably least entertained by the story when it was just straight up kids killing each other.
And this is where Cabin really shines. It does the same thing of pointing out how weird and sick it is for people to enjoy watching carnage, but this time the audience can't argue with it because they're watching a horror movie. The characters, because they are in a horror film, are being ritually sacrificed to us. Here's two quotes from Joss Whedon and Drew Goddard:
Whedon: "There's some part of us, some deep, dark, primitive part of us that wants to sacrifice these people onscreen. I wanted to make a movie that explained why. And so it's been a strange experience because on the one hand, we do straight up horror. We definitely love the genre and the tropes of the genre but at the same time we have a lot of questions about why and where it's going."
Goddard: "The horror movie is merely the jumping-off point for the inherent questions about humanity that the genre suggests. Why, as a people, do we feel the need to marginalize, objectify, and destroy youth? And this is not specific to the genre, or movies in general, or our present-day culture. We've been doing this to youth since we first began as a people and this question—the question of why—is very much at the heart of Cabin."
That last comment by Drew Goddard—that this desire for a human sacrifice is a human issue, not just a horror film issue—gets at the heart of my criticism of The Hunger Games. There is so much more that could have or should have been said in the books about why we put up with and even enjoy carnage, but the books (in my reading of them at any rate) only dance around the issue. The Cabin in the Woods takes the issue head on, and I was much more satisfied with the answers it gave.
~ by ntertanedangel on April 15, 2012.
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Tags: Cabin in the Woods, Drew Goddard, horror, Hunger Games, joss whedon, meta, Suzanne Collins
6 Responses to "Let's Watch All the Teenagers Get Killed, or The Hunger Games vs. The Cabin in the Woods (SPOILERS!)"
Hmm… i guess to each their own liking and preferences.
Jeyna Grace said this on April 15, 2012 at 11:24 am | Reply
Care to offer a counterpoint? 🙂
ntertanedangel said this on April 15, 2012 at 8:07 pm | Reply
Haha, nah, it really is a personal taste thing. I like gory, thriller films and computer games. I also fancy dark fantasy. So… yea, its a personal liking.
Jeyna Grace said this on April 16, 2012 at 2:57 am
I never saw any similarity between the films. In my mind, Hunger Games is about children having immense pressures put on them (eg Katniss supporting her family) and being forced to fight (child soldiers). There is also a secondary commentary on reality tv though that was my least liked part of the trilogy and yes, it probably does muddy the primary issue.
bob said this on May 5, 2012 at 10:34 pm | Reply
Your argument makes no sense to me. In fact, I don't see how one can compare "The Hunger Games" to "Cabin in the Woods". Suzanne Collins' tale is basically a political/social saga. "The Cabin in the Woods" is obviously a humorous take on horror films.
Why would you even bother comparing the two?
ladylavinia1932 said this on December 11, 2014 at 12:15 am | Reply
I admit that they are very different stories, but I think that they are doing enough similar things with enough similar goals that comparing them is justified. As I said, they both feature teenagers being put in an area which is observed and controlled by adults until all but 1 are killed off, which is done for entertainment purposes. That seems pretty similar to me.
I would also say that I think that Cabin in the Woods is a political/social saga as well as being a humorous take on horror films. You could also say that Hunger Games is a political/social saga with elements of horror. It's not necessarily an either/or.
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The Twilight of the Old West is a trope invoked by stories depicting the changes that took place in Western North America and Mexico during the closing days of the Wild West and the beginning days of the New Old West. This is roughly the period between 1890 (the year the U.S. Census Bureau announced the closing of the frontier and the Wounded Knee Massacre occurred thereby marking the end of the Indian Wars) and 1920 (which marked the official end of The Mexican Revolution when guerrilla/bandit forces operated along the US/Mexican border and the beginning of Prohibition in the U.S. which closed the last of the old West saloons).
In stories set during the Twilight of the Old West, there will still be many elements of the Wild West present like cowboys, gunfighters, outlaws, bank and train robberies, saloons, and cattle drives but, as you get deeper into the 20th century, they'll gradually become less common. Injun Country will not be seen at all, as the last spasmodic resistance by Native Americans ended with Geronimo's surrender in 1886. Probably the most noticeable change is the shift away from horses as a mode of transportation in favor of trains and—especially—automobiles. The replacement of gas and oil lights in favor of electricity follows close behind as an indication of progress as do the appearances of new inventions like telephones, motion pictures, phonographs, and airplanes.
While technological changes play a major role, the Twilight of the Old West mainly deals with changes in society and how they affect those who still feel tied to the "old ways" of the Wild West. For example, bringing justice to an area now means criminals are dealt with by sheriffs, police, judges, and jails rather than vigilante justice. Also, Cattle Drives become more infrequent and smaller with the end of the open range and the spread of the railroad system beyond the hub cities that were usually the destination of such drives.
Compare Riding into the Sunset. The Magic Goes Away can be considered the corresponding fantasy trope.
Sub-trope of The Western and End of an Age that overlaps with the latter stage of the Wild West and the beginning of the New Old West. Opposite of Dawn of the Wild West. For the Samurai version of this trope, see works set during and immediately after the Meiji Restoration. Also compare to works set in The Soviet Twenties, which often had this feel out in the Soviet East.
Has nothing to do with cowboy vampire romance or a certain purple unicorn ruling the outback.
- Part of American Vampire is set in this timeframe. Skinner Sweet attends a Wild West Show, and is highly offended at how he and his Worthy Opponent are portrayed.
- Originally, the adventures of Cinnamon in The DCU were set in this period (although later stories moved her back to the more typical Wild West period). The narration in her first appearance mentions the frontier being strangled by railroad lines and telegraph wires.
- Jonah Hex's Deadly Distant Finale.
- This trope is a theme in Don Rosa's story The Vigilante of Pizen Bluff, a part of the The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck series taking place in the 1890s, and involves Wild West legends such as the Dalton Gang, Anney Oakley, Buffalo Bill and Geronimo. PT Barnum himself sums it up at the end how the West has ended for all of them. Buffalo Bill and Anney Oakley reduced to performing tricks in a traveling show, Angus Pothole leaving the riverboat business as they have been made obsolete by the intercontinental railroads, and the great Indian tribes all but wiped out or stuck on reservations. As the story wraps up, Scrooge, himself a symbol of the dawning 20th century, thinks to himself as he watches the others leave that the West "is riding off into its last sunset".
- Hergé completely failed to understand this trope when making Tintin In America, and as such features cowboys and gangsters in the same story and sometimes in the exact same location.
- Parodied in the final story of a Lobo Elseworld that reimagined the Main Man as various Western characters. "The Last Despera-bo" is a wistful page of the character reflecting on how times are changing and there doesn't seem to be much place for him any more. Then he gets hit by a truck.
- A Man Called Frank was a western themed take on The Punisher. Frank Castle is a cowboy (and veteran of the Spanish-American War) during this time who is out for revenge to the criminals who killed his family.
- An American Tail: Fievel Goes West takes place around 1890 or so, implied to be the tail-end of the Wild West era because the boom town the Mousekewitz family expects to move to is now run-down and dying, and the Sheriff and folk hero Wylie Burp is now old, frail and past his prime.
- Much of the first half of Missing Link has a setting whose architecture and culture is highly evocative of the Wild West. However, there is no frontier left—Lionel and Mr. Link travel between a logging town near present-day Seattle, Washington, and Santa Ana, California, two places on the Pacific Coast. The main characters also make extensive use of a comprehensive railway network in the United States stretching from coast to coast, as well as a stagecoach traveling a well-worn path through the desert. A background detail in the closing credits shows the movie is set in 1909, right in the date range specified in this trope's description.
- The Ballad of Cable Hogue depicts a failed prospector during the closing of the frontier. Cable Hogue discovers a well in the desert and founds a town at the site. When an automobile appears on the road and drives past without stopping, Cable recognizes that as a sign that the frontier is closing, so he decides to pack up and move to civilization.
- Big Jake takes place in 1909. It featured a posse of Texas Rangers chasing outlaws in automobiles but ultimately the bad guys are defeated using old school gunfighting.
- Bite The Bullet takes place in 1908 and features a 700 mile horse race. The reporter for the newspaper sponsoring the race drives in an automobile, which the heroes borrow to pursue escaped convicts who stole their horses. It's clear that the old west is seen more as a the stuff of novels than a way of life for most outside of the cowboy protagonist.
- Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid is set between the years 1898 and 1908—a time when such "new" inventions like motion pictures are present. The abrupt transition from the Wild West to the Modern Age is illustrated in a cut scene from the movie when Butch and Sundance visit a nickelodeon and see a filmed dramatization of one of their train robberies ... in which they're shot to death.
- Sergio Leone's last Spaghetti Western Duck, You Sucker! is set during The Mexican Revolution, making full use of the Western landscapes that had been used his previous films, but now with 20th century weapons and transportation. In fact it all looks as if the Old West had already ended before the film began - especially after the first hour.
- Although Forty Guns is set squarely in the Wild West (a comment from the telegraph operator indicates the date is around 1882), several characters can already see their time is ending. Griff foresees a time when gunfighters will be as anachronistic as Roman gladiators, and Jessica knows that Arizona becoming a state will spell an end to the way she does business and her use of a private army.
- Hidalgo; protagonist Frank Hopkins delivered the orders that resulted in the Wounded Knee Massacre, and he becomes a headliner in Buffalo Bill's show before being asked to participate in a race across the Arabian desert.
- The prologue of Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade depicts a young Indiana Jones in Utah during this period.
- Though still set squarely in the Old West, The Last Samurai shows a time when - for some people, at least - that time was already starting to die out. The hero, no longer needed as an Indian fighter in his own land, is offered employment oversees fighting a different kind of "savage". This also mirrors the fact that Japan, at the same time, is facing its own End of an Age, with the decline of the samurai and feudal era.
- Legends of the Fall starts off around this era, before moving into World War 1 and the Prohibition Era.
- The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean partially takes place during the first decades of the 20th century.
- Lonely Are the Brave is set in the early 1960s. The protagonist, Jack Burns (Kirk Douglas), is an itinerant ranch hand who still rides everywhere on horseback and sleeps wherever he ends up in the evening; he refuses to join modern society, claiming that he resents its emphasis on telling people where they can or can't go and what they can or can't do. He is finding maintaining his Old West lifestyle increasingly difficult, however; the film is bookended by two attempts to ride his horse across Highway 66, only for the horse to be spooked by the noise of the cars. The second time, it is both dark and rainy, and the horse's panic leaves Burns in the path of an oncoming 18-wheeler.
- The Magnificent Seven (1960) has a constant undertone of the Seven dealing with a world that has little need for their profession anymore. They accept the low-rate job south of the border because it's better than any other prospects.
- The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance has this dramatized by the tragic Character Arc of John Wayne's character, as he sees his way of life fading away with Jimmy Stewart's character taking the reins (so to speak).
- McCabe & Mrs. Miller may, upon first glance, appear to take place early in the era of the Wild West. However, the appearance of a vacuum cleaner and William McKinley presidential campaign posters indicate it's actually around 1900 and times are changing.
- Both versions of Monte Walsh (the 1970 version starring Lee Marvin and the 2003 version starring Tom Selleck) address the plight of aging cowboys in an era where the frontier is vanishing.
- The spaghetti western My Name Is Nobody takes place in 1899 and the trope is part of the plot. Jack Beauregard, an old and, by then, famous gunslinger in the Wild West decides to call it quits and retire to Europe. However, he meets 'Nobody', a young enthusiastic gunfighter whose idol is exactly Beauregard. Nobody wants Beauregard to definitely end in a blaze of glory in the history books by facing the Wild Bunch (a horse-riding gang of 150 bandits) alone.
- Sergio Leone's penultimate Western, Once Upon a Time in the West, uses the railroad as an analogy for the dying Wild West, with Frank and Harmonica exchanging these lines:
Harmonica: So you found out you're not a businessman after all?Frank: Just a man.Harmonica: An ancient race. [looks to the approaching railroad] Other Mortons will be along and they'll kill it off.
- The Professionals is set during the later years of The Mexican Revolution.
- Ride the High Country involves two aging ex-lawman hired to guard a shipment of gold being transported out of the Sierras in early 20th century California. The opening scene, especially, captures the flavor of this trope; director Sam Peckinpah revisits the same themes in The Wild Bunch.
- Shane hints at this, with an exchange between Shane and one of the villains near the end, about how both their ways are coming to an end.
- In The Shootist, John Wayne plays a dying gunfighter in the fast-changing West of 1901.
- In Sky Bandits, Barney and Luke are a pair of old school bank robbers trying to ply their trade in the dying days of the wild west. New forms of transport and communications spell an end to their crime wave. At the end of the film, they return to their bank robbing ways, only now they are using a plane to make their getaway.
- In Sunset, which is set in 1920s Hollywood, Wyatt Earp is watching his life being mythologised while he is still alive.
- Terror in a Texas Town: No specific date is given for the movie, but the importance of oil indicates it is probably the early 20th century. The Wild West is coming to an end and multiple characters remark that a gunslinger like Johnny Crale is an anachronism. One man with a gun cannot wander into a town and dominate it anymore, and developments like an organized state police make it harder for outlaws to hide.
- Most of There Will Be Blood takes place in this period during the great oil rush. The rural ranchers of the fading Old West are represented by the young preacher Eli Sunday, while the hard-bitten oil men of the new, more industrialized West are represented by Daniel Plainview.
- ¡Three Amigos! lampshades and parodies Wild Western tropes...even though the plot takes place in the Mexican frontiers around World War I, with the protagonists washed-up silent film stars pretending to be cowboys. At one point, German military pilots show up to train the main villain's banditos in more "modern" weapons.
- The Wild Bunch is set in 1913 when the film's characters, a gang of aging outlaws, have clearly lived past their time. Electricity and automobiles are present as are such "modern" weapons like Colt M1911 handguns, M1903 Springfield rifles and Winchester Model 1897 shotguns and an M1917 machine gun which underscore the mechanized brutality of the modern era.
- The story "The Long High Noon" in the anthology Law of the Gun is about two Gunslingers trying to have a decisive shootout over several decades as the Old West fades around them. By the end of the story, they're both playing aged extras in cowboy movies. One of them finally decisively plugs the other, then walks in front of an automobile.
- O. Henry has several stories about the West set in this era.
- Monte Walsh, Jack Schaefer's 1963 novel about a group of aging cowboys coming to terms with the end of the era. Later adapted as a movie twice: in 1970, starring Lee Marvin and Jack Palance; and in 2003, starring Tom Selleck and Keith Carradine.
- The Continental Op short story "Corkscrew" by Dashiell Hammett (written in 1925) takes a big city private eye to a small western town. Part of the story involves the Op telling the people of Corkscrew that frontier justice isn't gonna cut it anymore.
- Though most of Blood Meridian takes place in the 1840s and '50s (in other words, closer to the beginning of the classic "Old West" era), the final section jumps forward to 1878 and engages in some reflection on the end of an age. However, given the utter bleakness and brutality of the earlier parts, the effect is less elegiac than wearily nihilistic.
- The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr. takes place in 1893, as the old ways are changing, although unlike most versions of this trope, it's mostly played for laughs. The titular protagonist, however, is actually optimistic about the scientific advancements that are being made, calling them "the coming thing." He's also a lawyer in addition to being a bounty hunter and still trusts his horse Comet over a a motorcycle because Comet has brains and loyalty to him, making Brisco an interesting contrast to the regular Western hero's reaction to the new age. Considering that the Orbs come from the future and are capable of healing people and invoking conversions in hardened criminals, Brisco's optimism may be warranted.
- The short-lived 1971 Western series Bearcats! is set in 1914 and has the main characters traveling from one adventure to another in a Stutz Bearcat automobile rather than on horses. In a couple of episodes they faced off against airplanes and a (slightly anachronistic) tank.
- Nichols, a 1970s Western Dramedy starring James Garner, took place in 1914 Arizona and had the title character, a pacifistic sheriff, using cars and motorcycles rather than a horse.
- The series Outlaws starts in 1899 where an outlaw has become a sheriff sent to bring in his old gang. The sheriff tells the gang that the old ways aren't going to work any more. Then a freak lightning storm sends them all through time to 1986, where they set up a detective agency and have to adapt to the modern world.
- The Kraft Suspense Theatre episode "Threepersons" is set on the Texas/Mexico border circa 1923, with horses and automobiles sharing the streets. The heroes go after a gang who's smuggling booze across the border.
- Hec Ramsey starred Richard Boone as Hector "Hec" Ramsey, who had been a gunfighter/lawman in the Wild West, but the heydays of the cowboy are coming to an end, and the 20th century is just beginning, and Ramsey is keeping up with the times. He has developed a strong interest in the then-emerging field of forensics.
- Murdoch Mysteries
- The Season 2 episode "Mild, Mild West", in which a murder is committed at Buffalo Bill's Roadshow, and Murdoch's brand of by-the-book law and order is contrasted with the sort of lawman who gets involved in shootouts on Main Street.
- The Season 8 episode "Glory Days" has legendary lawman Bat Masterson arrive in Toronto on the trail of two bank robbers he alleges are Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. The bank robbers turn out to just be local crooks, and Masterson knew it all along. He wanted to go on one last adventure to liven up his life as a humble journalist. Butch and Sundance had fled to South America the previous year, themselves without a place to fit in after the end of the Old West.
- Red Dead Redemption takes place in 1911, with this trope in full effect. Federal agents have shown up to tame the Wild West, and they've brought an automobile with them. They repeatedly refer to the hero, Retired Outlaw John Marston, as a remnant of a bygone age, even as they use him to track down his former gang mates. Indeed, one of the game's major themes is the incompatibility of the old west with "civilized" people, who are ever encroaching upon it.
- Dutch van der Linde saw himself not as a criminal, but a man fighting back against a corrupt system to liberate the Old West. He has a dream in his mind - to be an outlaw to the very end, and to force civilization back from the "purity" of the West. By 1911, he is a man clinging to false hope and belief as the West has been settled. When John finally confronts him, he simply accepts that the Wild West era is over and he commits suicide.
- Red Dead Redemption II emphasizes this point even more so, despite being set several years earlier. Much of the plot revolves around Marston's former gang and its leader, whose ideals of the West are heavily contested when the gang is forced to relocate to the almost entirely "civilized" East. The epilogue revolves around Marston himself attempting to establish himself as a peaceful ranch owner, rather than another gunslinger.
- Call of Juarez: Gunslinger actually starts off in 1910. Most of the story however is told via flashback during the heyday of the Wild West.
- Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show, which toured from 1883 to 1913, was a result of the closing of the West. There were all of these people still alive who had lived through the wildest days of the West, which had finally been tamed and fenced in. So the only way left to experience the Wild West was The Theme Park Version, and William F. Cody brought some of the best to his show, like Annie Oakley and Sitting Bull.
- The hunt for Pancho Villa had both the primitive setting of the borderlands and the high-tech for their time gasoline-powered trucks, airplanes, radios and automatic weapons.


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Motor City Out Of Bankruptcy By Rick Pluta • Dec 10, 2014 Michigan Public Radio Network Detroit officially exits bankruptcy At the stroke of midnight, the city of Detroit officially exits of bankruptcy. Governor Rick Snyder has signed the order terminating the city's emergency manager, and officially transferring control to the mayor and the city council. The action is something of a formality since Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan has had control over most day-to-day operations for months now. Fate Of Film Credits In Michigan Governor's Hands By Jake Neher • Dec 9, 2014 wikimedia commons Film credit extension heads to Gov. Snyder's desk Listen Listening... / 0:32 Jake Neher reports. Gov. Rick Snyder will decide whether to extend Michigan's film credit program through 2021. The incentives are currently set to expire in 2017. The state Senate gave final legislative approval to the extension Tuesday morning with bipartisan support. 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Welfare Recipient Drug Testing Bill Clears Michigan House By Jake Neher • Dec 3, 2014 wikimedia commons State House approves suspicion-based drug testing for welfare recipients The state House has approved a bill that would revoke welfare payments from people who fail drug tests. The state would implement the one-year pilot program in three counties that have not yet been selected. The drug testing will be conducted based on "reasonable suspicion," unlike previous programs in Michigan that made testing mandatory. State Lawmakers Reject Heavy Truck Rules Changes By Jake Neher • Dec 2, 2014 wikimedia commons State Senate rejects bill to reduce truck weight limits The state Senate has rejected a bill that would reduce the amount of weight trucks are allowed to carry on Michigan's roads. The state has the highest truck weight limits in the country. Democrats say reducing the limits will help keep the roads from crumbling. State Wants Out From Under Foster Care Settlement Agreement By Rick Pluta • Dec 2, 2014 wikimedia commons MI asks federal judge to end oversight of child foster care Michigan wants out from under court-ordered oversight of the state's child foster care system. The state filed a motion Tuesday with the US District Court in Detroit to bring an end to the protracted litigation. The class action lawsuit was filed in 2006 by the advocacy group Children's Rights. The court found high caseloads and too many kids who weren't finding permanent homes. Governor Pushes Gas Tax Hike By Jake Neher • Dec 1, 2014 wikimedia commons Gov. Snyder urges state House to pass gas tax increase for roads State lawmakers have just nine or ten more session days in 2014, and still no consensus on how to raise money to help fix Michigan's roads. With the Legislature's "lame duck" session about to start up in earnest on Tuesday, Gov. 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Emergency Manager Law Challenge Moving Forward By Rick Pluta • Nov 19, 2014 wikimedia commons Judge allows legal challenge to emergency manager law to move ahead A federal judge in Detroit has refused to toss out a legal challenge to Michigan's emergency manager law. Judge Joseph Caram Steeh will allow a trial on the claim the law violates equal protection rights in the US Constitution. Same-Sex Marriage Advocates Blast Governor For Comments By Bob Eccles • Nov 17, 2014 wikimedia commons Governor Rick Snyder has said that the 300 or so same-sex marriages performed in Michigan back in March are void. Local marriage equality supporters are not happy. Sandi Smith is President of the Jim Toy Community Center. She says they held a community meeting Sunday night where about 50 people gathered to talk about the situation. "It really throws them into chaos," Smith says, "and I think that the Governor ought to consider that before making sweeping statements." 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Creativity Unlimited is regrouping and moving on after a hectic 2013 that saw the completion of many great projects. We have left our temporary premises in Götaplatsen, Gothenburg, and are currently working exclusively on the internet. Please find us here for updates and information on upcoming projects. In the meantime, please take the time to read about our previous projects.
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(December 2013)
In connection with Julstaden Göteborg 2013 (the City of Gothenburg's official Christmas celebrations), Creativity Unlimited produced an installation in the cityscape based on Canadian artist Max Streicher's famous inflatables – in this case, suspended inflatable shapes and figures that hover in the air above people in streets and open spaces. Using Streicher's ideas, CU in cooperation with the artist Pecka Söderberg and students at Chalmers University of Technology, created a number of inflatable clouds that were suspended between the roof tops in Harry Hjörnes plats in the heart of historic Gothenburg. During a few weeks before Christmas, they hung there, unconcered about the busy Christmas shoppers below.
The purpose of the installation was to give the cityscape a unique aesthetic form and feel, while also raising questions about the cityscape itself. Clouds aimed at visualising the interstitial space between bulidings and other structures that is often forgotten in the day to day discussions about urban design. The clouds with which we, for a short moment, filled a small part of the cityscape, depended on these empty spaces – the empty spaces that make room for thought and creativity. Similar empty spaces occur in all forms of art: between the various objects of a picture, you find the intermediate space; in books and poems, much is said between the lines; silence gives life to music. The interstitial space is where people can meet, talk to each other, and make new aquaintances as well as experiences. It is where the unexpected can happen. The space beween buildings and structures is what gives life to a city. Clouds created a space for tranquillity and contemplation during what is arguably the most hectic, and possibly stressful, time of the year. Furthermore, they moved heaven a bit closer to earth. Or was it the other way around?
Clouds was produced in cooperation with:
Chalmers University of Technology
Pecka Söderberg
Göteborg & Co
Johnny Boy Eriksson: Boy Waz Here!
(October – December 2013)
In cooperation with Wetterling Gallery, Creativity Unlimited produced the first public exhibition in Gothenburg featuring the works and spectacular installations of Johnny Boy Eriksson. It took place in an abandoned cinema in the city center, where parts of the huge room was turned into an equally fantastic and fascinating jungle of thorns, vines, trees, roses and monumental sculptures, some of them more than three meters high. This fantasy world – that brought to life visions of voodoo, the temples of Abu Simbel, and the unpenatrable jungles of an Indiana Jones film – was created on site by Johnny Boy Eriksson. The only material used to construct the installation was brown packing tape. The popular exhibition also included a video work and a number of additional sculptures made from the same material.
Boy waz here was produced in cooperation with:
Wetterling Gallery
With the support of Wallenstam Fastigheter
About the artists in the group HypeCycle
Frieder Weiss calls himself 'engineer in the arts' and interactive video designer. He travels the world to apply his motion sensing software to a variety of happenings and performances. He also teaches at the universities of Nürnberg and Doncaster, and at Karlsruhe college. Over the years, Frieder Weiss has become interested in the limitations of the two dimensional video projection. This have lead him to work out of sculptural perspectives, not least by using dance and dancers to create three dimensional pictures of 'frozen moments'.
Emily Fernandez is a dancer and choreographer, born in Melbourne but now living in Berlin. She started choreographing her own pieces while employed as a ballerina at the Mecklenburg state theater. She soon became interested in the interaction between dance and modern technology. She's been collaborating with Frieder Weiss for a number of years, for example resulting in the joint installation work Schlamp! Emily Fernandez teaches dance and new media art for stage all over the world.
Mattias Härtig has worked with Frieder Weiss for well over a decade. He is an engineer in media technology, and technical director at the TransMedia-Akademie Hellerau outside Dresden, a center for interdisciplinary arts.
Frieder Weiss plays TecArt
(August 31 – September 21 2013)
Frieder Weiss is one of the world's foremost designers of motion sensing software for interactive light installations used in music videos as well as dance, theater and artistic performances. He works with world famous artists like Madonna, Lady Gaga and Kylie Minogue, and with performance companies and institutions such as Chunky Moves, Sydney Opera House, the Shanghai opera and the London Royal Ballet. In the summer of 2013, Creativity Unlimited brought together Frieder Weiss with students at the Department of engineering physics, Chalmers University of Technology, in a project which aimed to combine teaching and tutoring with exchange of knowledge and artistic work. Working together with Frieder Weiss, the students were given the opportunity to design new software for an innovative, interactive artistic work – Flow – where sound, light, music and movement would mix to form an integrated perfomance. This digital performance would then be triggered and directed by people – on a few occasions professional dancers from the Gothenburg Opera Ballet, but more often through the interactions of the audience. The installation took place in an abandoned cinema in the center of Gothenburg. Whereas Flow was created on site, the interactive work Schlamp! (Slut!) had previously been shown in a few cities around Europe. In Schlamp!, a picture of a young girl in a tight, short red dress is projected onto the floor, allowing the audience to tread, stamp, jump or just walk over her. The girl then reacts to this 'abuse' in different ways. Schlamp! is a work by dancer/coreographer Emily Fernandez and Frieder Weiss. Together with Mattias Härtig, they form the group HypeCycle. The whole group was involved in both installations. Frieder Weiss Plays TecArt was part of a satellite project of the Gothenburg International Biennal for Contemporary Art 2013. The project continued and developed further after the exhibition, resulting in several fruitful collaborations between Frieder Weiss and Chalmers University of Technology. In connection to the installations, artist and lyricist Ralph Holmström presented his thoughts and reflections on relating subjects in a separate part of the exhibition room.
Frieder Weiss Plays TecArt was produced in cooperation with:
Chalmers University of Technology
GIBCA – Göteborg Interbational Biennal for Contemporary Art
Åke Parmerud (composer, new media artist)
With the support of:
Wallestam Fastigheter
The Children's Festival, Trädgårdsföreningen
(August 2013)
The Children's Festival is part of Gothenburg's Culture Festival in August every year. It takes place in a popular botanical garden in the center of the city, and focuses on events and attractions for children and teenagers. In 2013, Creativity Unlimited participated with a program where we invited both young an old to learn more about basic technology in playful ways. In our tent, children could, among other things, construct their own 'smoke cannons', using a plastic glass with a hole in the bottom, a balloon, and smoke from a smoke machine. Soon enough, hundreds of children lined up to build their own 'cannons'. We also demonstrated 3Dprinting – something that attracted many both children and adults, whose eyes grew wider as they watched the printers produce a number of basic objects.
CU:s program during The Children's festival was produced in cooperation with:
Chalmers University of Technology
Creative Tools AB
Göteborgs Kulturkalas (The Gothenburg Culture Festival)
The Light and the Fog
(March – June 2013)
The installation The Light and the Fog took place in what used to be a glazed-in bar in the heart of Gothenburg. It was developed from a concept by Olafur Eliasson, and had the joint purpose of calling attention to questions regarding artificial light, not least from environmental and equality points of view. The actual installation took place in a specially constructed room within the room where the audience were only allowed inside in small groups. In this approximately 5 x 2,5 meter room, smoke from dry ice mixed with tiny drops of water spread from devices in the ceiling to produce a thick, moist fog that, when carefully illuminated, assumed almost ghostlike shapes and forms. The idea was to use technology to create the illusion that the audience, in March in Gothenburg, would suddenly find themselves transfered to the rainforests of Borneo or Brazil. The cramped room, where the fog sometimes got so thick that the hand was hardly visible only a few centimeters away from the face, created mixed emotions among the audience. Some were enthusiastic and felt aroused, revived; others felt discomfort and wanted to get out of the room right away.
The Light and the Fog turned into a work in progress that stirred different emotions, while also focusing on light in a broader socio-economic context. In another part of this provisional venue, people were introduced to Little Sun – a solar LED lamp designed and constructed by artist Olafur Eliasson and engineer Frederik Ottesen. Little Sun is also a project aiming at spreading clean, reliable and cheap lighting to the more than one billion people lacking access to electricity.
The Light and the Fog is a good example of Creativity Unlimited's ambition to let technology interact with artistic visions and ideas to create innovative and alternative experiences. In this case with the joint purpose of calling attention to an important humanitarian issue.
The Light and the Fog was produced in cooperation with:
Chalmers University of Technology
Ahlsell Sverige
Sibe International
With the support of Wallenstam Fastigheter
To learn more about Olafur Eliasson, visit his page on Artsy.net
Out of Shadows
(November 22 – December 21 2012)
The exhibition Out of Shadows took place in Vasa Konsthall, Gothenburg, and included painting and sculpture by local artists Ralph Holmström and Georg Möller. It also included a digital installation by the Japanese new media artist Teruaki Tsubokura.
Out of Shadows was partly produced in cooperation with Chalmers University of Technology.
About the exhibition and the artists
Ralph Holmström is a painter and sculptor; he is also a lyricist. His works generally deal with the essential conditions that mark the life of every human being: life and death, God and chance, love and indifference, light and darkness, and possibly light at the other side of darkness.
Georg Möller calls himself image creator and lyrics engineer. In the works exhibited at Vasa konsthall, he playfully evoked memories of Kazimir Malevich and the Russian suprematists in the early 20th century.
Teruaki Tsubokura is an upcoming new media artist from Japan that chose Creativity Unlimited as collaborator for his first performance in Europe. During the exhibition, Tsubokura presented the work Shadow Touch, where he uses interactive technology to produce illusions that soon turn into something different from what you would expect. Like so many illusionist before him, he thereby raises the eternal questions: What is true, what is false? What is reality? The interactive work requires the audience to use flashlights to look for shadows on an otherwise empty surface. Inside the flashlight is a remote control wirelessly connected to a computer generating everything that takes place. The technology enables the person holding the flashlight to find shadows and play with them by touching, holding and throwing them around. In Teruaki Tsubokuras own words: "We wanted to remove the difference between real and digital objects, and thought it would be interesting to use shadows, which are very well known phenomena."
Pontus Carle
(September 22 – October 14 2012)
The exhibition took place in Vasa Konsthall, Gothenburg, and included paintings, etchings and scuptures by contemporary artist Pontus Carle.
Pontus Carle was born in Lund, Sweden, but grew up in Paris. After spending the 1980's in New York, he returned to Europe, where he now divides his time between studios in Paris and Berlin.


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Can you imagine how you would feel if you were a turkey and Thanksgiving was quickly approaching? I have several students who put themselves in the shoes of a turkey...wait a minute, do turkeys wear shoes? Anyway, this is what they had to say:
Hey you! Yes, you! I know I'm a turkey. Okay, I know what you're saying, turkeys can't talk! But this is important. If you come in with an axe, I will chase you out of town! If you will try, I may get an axe and eat you! How would you like that? I khnow what you can eat instead....chicken! Eat chicken and that red sauce! It will taste better than me anyhow! ~Donald
I am a poor Thanksgiving turkey and many want to eat me? I should put some other turkey guards around me so that they couldn't get to me! I could pretend that I had the bird flu so that they would not eat me. Or that I was so big that your little mouth couldn't eat me. I could tell them that I'm not fresh to eat. I could also put a sign that says, Do NOT eat me!. I could hide or escape sot that could not find me. If they do get me, I will just bite them on their hand so that I could escape. ~Everardo
I will survive! You should not eat this turkey because I live in a garbage can. IF you try I'll slap you with a banana peel from my garbage can! You could eat fish instead. Put some vinegar on your fish. You could also eat deer. Deer have more meat inside of them than turkey, and you can use their skin. I only have feathers! You could also hang their horns on your wall! I'm just skin and bones! You could try to eat a fox or something like that! Besides, if everyone keeps eating the turkeys, I could become extinct! Yikes! ~Dylan
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Gale Well Group made a few key decisions that helped the Hong Kong-based property investment firm grow its once-small portfolio to its current size of HK$35-40 billion.
In interviews with the media, founder Jacinto Tong Man-leung recalled how they made some huge investments more than a decade ago.
"My sister decided to invest only in parking space," said Tong, noting that car parks were in excess supply and numerous developers were eager to sell, offering an opportunity for buyers to snap up assets on the cheap.
Gale Well secured 604 parking spaces in such buyer's market between 1998 and 2001.
Then came a brief economic crisis triggered by the SARS outbreak. Property prices plummeted and the market was flooded with foreclosure homes offered by banks.
Gale Well seized the opportunity and moved into commercial properties.
Not many people predicted then that the city's economy and property market will stage a powerful rebound afterwards, or the huge asset price jump following quantitative easing moves by the US.
The Gale Well story reminds me of similar stunts pulled off by Asia's richest man, Li Ka-shing.
"One of the reasons that Mr. Li is very successful, one is timing. He buys when the markets are flat, because he has a good balance sheet. And second, speed. Good deals do not stay around for long time, everybody wants them. So a man who acts quickly, and makes the decision quickly, he can get the good deals. And his story is about a series of good deals," according to Simon Murray, who helped Hutchison expand its businesses.
Amid uncertainties from talks between China and Britain during 1982 and 1983, Li bought four berths at Terminal 6 for just around HK$100-200 million, when other investors stayed away.
By the time when Hong Kong's handover negotiation was done and confidence largely restored, the price of Terminal 7 had soared to HK$4 billion.
These are all great examples that show the importance of being greedy when others are fearful.
This article appeared in the Hong Kong Economic Journal on Feb. 22
Translation by Julie Zhu
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I know this is crazy talk but sometimes it feels like there is precious little time to focus on doing the things, like baking, that we love. Especially on the weekends when there is so much going on to distract us from our ovens, recipe books, kitchens and our love of baking, I know I already said that but just really want to make that point.
I had this idea for an upside-down strawberry muffin which could be served as an individual sized upside-down cake for breakfast. I sprinkled the lavender sugar, which is easy to make at home, on the chopped strawberries and over the top of the muffins before baking. The lavender sugar topping comes out crunchy on the bottom and serves as a good contrast to the soft baked fruit on top of the upside-down muffins. I also like my addition of lime zest in the muffin batter which adds a brightness to the baked sweet strawberries on top.
I like taking photos of my baking projects, especially when they include strawberries! So, I think the fourth thing for strawberry fun 101 is to find a sunny corner in your house and snap a few pics, if for no other reason than to remind yourself of an afternoon well spent in the quiet of your own kitchen.
- 2 cups all purpose flour
- 2 teaspoons baking powder
- 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/4 teaspoon sea salt
- 2 large eggs
- 2/3 cup organic cane sugar
- 1 cup milk
- 6 tablespoons unsalted butter, melted and cooled
- 1 tablespoon lime zest
- 1 cup strawberries chopped into small pieces
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- 4 tablespoons organic cane sugar
- Preheat the oven to 425F.
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- Make the lavender sugar by pulverizing the lavender and sugar in a food processor, sift to remove pieces of lavender buds, set aside.
- Sprinkle the strawberries with about 1 tablespoon lavender sugar, reserve the rest for the topping.
- Stir together the flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt in a large bowl.
- In a small bowl, whisk together the eggs, sugar and lime zest.
- Whisk in the milk and butter.
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- Divide the strawberries into the baking cups, making sure they cover the bottom of each cup.
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- Sprinkle the tops with the rest of the lavender sugar.
- Place in the oven and bake until lightly browned and firm to the touch.
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"Both parties, HMSHost and Unite Here Local 355, worked very hard together to create a deal that will benefit all involved," Sarah Cody, the company's senior director for communications and public relations, said in an email. "We're continuing a positive relationship with the union and our associates at MIA."
Neither side spelled out the details of the agreement. The major sticking point had been HMSHost's proposal to begin charging some employees for insurance coverage, a move the union said would be unaffordable for most of its low-wage members. A contract-ratification vote has been scheduled for next Tuesday at the airport.
"I can confidently walk into the airport tomorrow with my head held high and say that we have reached an agreement that protects our benefits and the standards we have set in the airport," union negotiator Caleb St. Louis said in a prepared statement.
Union members staged a rally at the airport 10 days before the bargaining session to draw public attention to the standoff and vote to authorize a strike. HMSHost had vowed to keep its MIA eateries open in the event of a walkout, though it was unclear how the company would accomplish that and whether passengers might still have noticed a disruption.
HMSHost, a subsidiary of Milan, Italy-based Autogrill S.p.A., operates 35 of the airport's 78 concessions, according to MIA, including California Pizza Kitchen, Sbarro's and Burger King.


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Here's a free excerpt from Silicon Valley Sex Scandal from my own files that hasn't been pubbed on any retail web sites where the book is being sold.
This is the raw version, and the way it goes to final edits when I submit it to the publisher. This particular scene is when Shannon starts to worry about being stalked by a lunatic. One or two lines had to be edited out because this is a pg rated blog. But only a few.
By one in the afternoon, he came out of his office and noticed the blank brick wall in the reception area. As he passed by Karla's desk, he said, "I'll be out for the rest of the day. If you need me for anything important call my cell." He didn't wait for her to respond. He walked out to his car, climbed inside, and pulled out of the parking lot so fast the back tires screeched.
At first he thought he might drive over to Justin's, but he decided that would have made him look too needy and desperate, which were two things he'd never been in his life. And yet he couldn't stop thinking about never seeing Justin again, or Justin working for someone else. If he'd known who had offered Justin the job he could have put an end to that right away and then Justin would have had to come crawling back to him. Of all the things Shannon could have predicted that would happen, this outrageous outburst from Justin would have been the last. He never would have guessed Justin would abandon him in such a cold and heartless way. He'd come to trust and depend on him for everything. The world felt so large and he felt so alone he didn't know what to do, so he drove up to San Francisco and decided to forget about everything for a few hours.
He parked a few blocks away from the small bar he'd gone to the previous weekend. It wasn't his favorite bar nor was he all that familiar with it. He only went that bar because he knew it was easy to park across the street and he didn't feel like driving around anymore. He also knew he might find a man looking for a little fun and games in the middle of the afternoon. Bars like this were notorious for the closeted married types. The closet married types were notorious for no strings attached sex.
The sun burned brightly that day. When he entered the bar he had to blink a few times so his eyes would adjust to the darkness. He heard disco music playing in the background, and it smelled of stale whiskey and cigarettes. Although smoking had been banned in places like this, he knew those rules were not followed as strictly as they should have been. He pulled out a bar stool near the front door and sat down three seats away from a man with dark hair in a gray business suit.
A short chubby bartender walked over and set a paper napkin in front of Shannon. He asked, "What can I get you?" and stood there waiting for Shannon to answer.
"I'll have a white wine," Shannon said. He didn't drink often and it was too early for hard liquor anyway. Besides, he didn't like to drink and drive. The last thing he needed was to get pulled over for driving while intoxicated. That was the sort of thing that would have made all the headlines for someone with the kind of fame and notoriety Shannon had. They didn't stalk him like a celebrity, but they would have found it more than entertaining if he'd done something wrong.
When the bartender turned to get his wine, the man with dark hair three seats away turned to Shannon and said, "It's quiet in here today."
Shannon nodded. "I don't usually come here this time of day. I wouldn't know." There couldn't have been more than ten other people in the bar…older men in bad clothes. But Shannon didn't feel like making light conversation. He still couldn't figure out why Justin had been so dramatic.
The guy laughed. "I don't come here often myself, at any time of day."
Shannon noticed a wedding band on his finger. This didn't surprise him, not even in San Francisco. "I see."
The guy took a sip of his martini and smiled again. "You mind if I move closer. I feel like I'm shouting at you." He reminded Shannon of a guy who had just graduated from college and didn't wear suits often. He would have looked more comfortable in jeans and a T-shirt. And the suit hadn't been tailored well. It hung on his thin lanky frame and sagged in all the wrong places.
"Whatever makes you happy, dude," Shannon said.
The bartender set a glass of white wine in front of Shannon and the guy sat down on the bar stool next to him. Shannon handed the bartender a twenty dollar bill, told him to keep the change, and then he reached for the glass of wine.
While Shannon took a sip of wine, the guy said, "I didn't think I'd meet anyone like you in here today. Most of the time they are so much older and not in the best shape."
"I thought you didn't come here often," Shannon said. He didn't feel like playing stupid games. And he'd heard that line more than once from slick guys in cheap suits.
"I really don't," the guy said. "I was just talking about what I've seen the few times I have been here." He moved closer and put his hand on Shannon's knee. He squeezed it and said, "And I truly don't see guys like you often. You're so sweet and adorable."
With that remark, Shannon set the wine glass on the table. He smiled, reached down, and removed the guy's hand from his knee. "I'm not all that sweet and adorable, trust me, pal."
"I find that hard to believe," the guy said. He laughed and leaned forward, resting his elbow on the back of Shannon's bar stool.
Before Shannon had a chance to say anything, he felt his phone vibrate and he pulled it out of his back pocket. He thought it might be Justin calling to apologize for making such a ridiculous scene that morning. But when he looked down at the caller ID he saw Terry's name instead. He almost put the phone back in his pocket without answering it. But he felt like being nasty to someone and Terry had showed up at the right time and place.
"Hello," he said, noticing from the corner of his eye the guy next to him was moving closer.
"Hey, cutie," Terry said. "Where are you?" His tone sounded upbeat…all giggles and smiles.
"I'm at work," Shannon said. He smiled and shrugged at the guy next to him. "I'm really busy now."
"I just called to see if you want to have dinner tonight," Terry said. His voice rose with a lilt and he sounded excited and happy about something.
Shannon figured this was as good a time as any to set this guy straight. In this mood, he figured he could do it the way he should have done it long ago. While the guy next to Shannon reached down and grabbed his upper thigh, Shannon turned sideways and spoke into the phone with a firmer tone. "I think it's time you stopped calling me. I've tried to be nice and I've tried to be polite and you just don't seem to get the hint that I'm not interested in getting to know you better."
"But you said you'd call me," Terry said.
"I said I would call you sometime." Shannon rolled his eyes. "When a guy says he'll call you sometime that means the odds of him actually calling are pretty slim, dude. You're old enough to know this."
"But what about what we have together," Terry said.
"What do we have together? That's not anything significant. That's called a trick."
The guy sitting next to Shannon blinked.
Terry laughed. "Oh, you know you don't mean that, silly. You're just upset about what happened with Justin this morning."
Shannon's eyes opened wider. The guy next to him tried to grab his ass and he smacked his hand. "How to you know about what happened with Justin?"
"I was on my way to bring you breakfast this morning and I overheard the whole thing," Terry said. "And I don't blame you for being upset with him. I don't think he treated you well at all. You should have fired him on the spot."
This conversation was beginning to make the short hairs on the back of Shannon's neck stand up. And Shannon was not about to discuss Justin with him or anyone else. "You need to stop calling me, dude. I'm not going to dinner with you, I don't want you coming around my office with breakfast or lunch, and I don't want to see you again. Leave me alone." Then he hung up without saying good-bye or waiting for Terry to respond.
The phone vibrated again and he put it in his pocket. By that time the guy next to him was squeezing his upper thigh and looking at him with a naughty grin. If he hadn't been so cute Shannon would have smacked him in the face and left the bar. But he smelled like spicy aftershave and reminded Shannon of Keanu Reeves in the wrong clothes. He had those dark gypsy eyes that penetrated without trying too hard.
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Larissa Williams (Photo by Tom Campbell)
Larissa Williams of Huntington, Indiana, was in a canoe without a paddle when she showed up to the first day of a Getting Ahead class led by Purdue Extension.
A college-educated wife and mother of two, Williams was struggling to get back on her feet after a disability had kept her out of the workplace for several years. She wanted to become a certified nurse assistant, but life below the poverty line had bankrupted her self-esteem.
She expected the program, billed as a workshop to help those in poverty build resources, to offer tips for fine-tuning her résumé and building a budget, but the class surprised her.
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The class helped her regain a sense of self-worth, and she successfully completed her nursing assistant certification. She now works in home health care and is financially stable.
Leading the Getting Ahead program in Huntington County is Karen Hinshaw, a Purdue Extension Health and Human Sciences educator. A native of Huntington, she has watched the needs of her home county swell as local factories and companies close.
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To read the full story, visit https://ag.purdue.edu/Pages/Poverty.html