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Town of Tonawanda native Jeff Glor was at 716 Food and Sport almost two weeks ago discussing some of the possible changes at "The CBS Evening News" when his voice suddenly lowered.
"They are redoing the open with my name and everything," he said quietly.
It was evidence of his modesty and how humbled he feels.
When I mentioned his voice lowering, Glor remembered a conversation he had that morning with WIVB-TV co-anchor Jacquie Walker earlier in the day about taking over the legendary position once held by such broadcasting giants as Walter Cronkite, Dan Rather, Katie Couric and Bob Schieffer.
"Jacquie, said 'It is a humbling experience,' " he recalled. "And I said, 'Yeah, it is.' "
Jeff Glor reaches for the sky, lands in anchor chair at 'CBS Evening News'
Glor, who begins his new job at 6:30 p.m. Monday, was in Buffalo as part of what he referred to as a three-stop "Hometown Tour" that started in Syracuse and ended in Boston.
A Syracuse University graduate, he started his TV career at a Syracuse station, grew up in the Town of Tonawanda and worked in Boston before joining CBS.
CBS started running some brief promos highlighting Glor's Emmy-winning work a week ago, but "The CBS Evening News with Jeff Glor" is having what restaurants refer to as a soft opening.
Starting in December, when the holidays approach and viewing habits are different, doesn't exactly shout pay attention to me.
CBS apparently has learned from the overhyped start of Couric that quiet is better.
During a 25-minute interview before Glor attended a Buffalo Sabres game, the 42-year-old news veteran discussed the planning and his goals for a broadcast that has long been No. 3 nationally and No. 2 locally.
After being named to the job a few weeks ago, he reached out to several former nightly news anchors at all networks.
"I've been able to speak to, I believe, everybody who has this job at different networks who is still with us and they've all had advice that means a lot to me and has been very important to me," he said.
At that point, he said it was his fault that he hadn't talked to NBC's current anchor, Lester Holt. But he had talked with NBC's Tom Brokaw, former CBS anchors Dan Rather, Couric, Schieffer, Scott Pelley and ABC's anchor, David Muir.
"I've tried to reach out to all of them and all of them have been extremely responsive and extremely helpful," Glor said. "It has been pretty serious advice. It has meant everything to me to hear from them because hopefully it can help guide me and try to do this job as best as I can."
Muir, 44, is a Syracuse native who also worked at a Syracuse station before hitting the big time. Some analysts believe Muir's success in making ABC the most-watched nightly newscast nationally may have even helped CBS decide to put the youthful-looking Glor in the same evening news position at CBS.
After Glor got the job, Muir sent something from Syracuse — Dinosaur Bar-B-Que sauce — to him with a congratulatory note.
"I want to keep that between us," said Glor of the note. "It was very nice. I suggested we have lunch together at the Dinosaur Bar-B-Que in Harlem."
It was a wise gift choice by Muir.
Glor and several members of the CBS staff that came with him to Buffalo were eating takeout from Dinosaur Bar-B-Que in the car on the way from Syracuse to Buffalo.
In Syracuse, Glor stopped at WSTM, where he worked. He said many people who worked with him in Syracuse remain there, including the main male anchor, Matt Mulcahy.
At Channel 4, the CBS affiliate in Buffalo, Glor did some promos with Walker and Don Postles, learned some people at the station have bowled with his mother and addressed the newsroom.
He could use the newsroom's help.
During the just-concluded November sweeps, ABC's "World News Tonight with David Muir" leads nationally in total viewers with 8,956,000 to 8,364,000 for "The NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt." "The CBS Evening News" is more than two million behind both with 6,632,000 viewers. NBC has a slight lead over ABC in the key 25-54 and 18-49 demographics, with CBS deep in third place.
Locally, Holt's newscast on NBC was a big November winner on Channel 2 with a 9.8 household rating to a 7.8 rating for CBS on Channel 4 and a 5.8 rating for Muir's ABC newscast on Channel 7.
"The CBS Evening News" is the only national newscast that loses audience locally from its lead-in. The 6 p.m. Channel 4 newscast is No. 1 with a 10.2 rating and drops to a 7.8 for "The CBS Evening News," which means CBS loses about 25 percent of that local rating.
Glor doesn't expect to be nervous on opening night.
"I think a little bit of nerves is always a good thing," said Glor. "It keeps you sharp."
He said he plans to be out of the studio as much as possible, as the married father of two has been recently.
"In the past two months, I've been at the scene of a natural disaster (Hurricane Irma in Florida), a terrorist attack (in New York City) and a mass shooting (in Texas)," he said.
"I would love to do the newscast on location of breaking news as much as possible," he added. "I would love to do the newscast show from Los Angeles, Dallas, Miami, as many places as we can. Buffalo. I would like to travel as much as it is possible while also being there for my kids."
He doesn't expect to be a miracle worker.
"I think we all … understand these builds take time," said Glor. "I think everybody does. And none of this happens overnight. I hope everyone has patience."
His plans for his first night almost two weeks ago were sketchy. He said he didn't know what he planned to say at the beginning or the end of his opening newscast.
"I would go for understatement if anything," said Glor. "It will probably be relatively simple and clean."
He also had something relatively simple to say to Buffalo viewers: "You're the best. I hope they give me a shot. I will try and work hard every single day and I hope in the long run that builds to something positive."

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He can call pay rises 'selfish' all he wants: austerity hasn't worked.
On Monday, teachers became the latest to be offered another insulting 1% pay rise – continuing seven years of real-terms pay cuts amid austerity. Here, Kevin Gulliver takes down David Cameron's intervention in the pay rise debate.
For a Prime Minister who set the wheels in motion for the UK to pulled out of the biggest trading bloc in the world, David Cameron's intervention last week in the debate about 'economic credibility' raises eyebrows.
But his comments also have pointed out the central economic dilemma for Theresa May's Government.
It's this: should the Tories admit that the pain inflicted on the poor, the vulnerable and public sector workers since 2010 has failed, or continue with the austerity which helped deprive them of a majority in June's General Election?
Cameron accuses the present Government of being "selfish" with the public finances in even considering lifting the public sector pay cap, while from his pulpit at the Evening Standard, former Chancellor George Osborne has said that an end to austerity will lead to a "loss of economic credibility" – even as his former colleagues scrambled to be first in line to call for a public sector pay rise.
The Tories are in such a mess on this issue that some claim that there has been no austerity at all while others parrot the slogan from 2010 that the UK remains close to bankruptcy. Never mind that the bankruptcy claim was always vacuous – how could the UK have been on the brink in 2010 and then be 'recovering' seven years later with the national debt having doubled? In any case, a country with its own currency cannot go bankrupt since it can never run out of money.
Then there is the 'intergenerational' argument put forward for continuing austerity – "It's unfair to saddle the next generation with debt" by "living beyond our means" in the present. The chart shows how ludicrous this argument is – the reality is that the UK's national debt goes back to 1692 and has never been paid back in its entirety.
The intergenerational argument is equivalent to saying that the Victorians had to pay for the Napoleonic wars, or that the Edwardians carried the costs of the Boer war, or that 1960s taxpayers paid down debt built-up in the 1930s Great Depression. Debt is always passed on between generations. For example, a World War I loan was only paid back in 2015.
The national debt today stands at £1.7tr, or about 89 per cent of GDP – although some have argued that around £435bn of this is now owned by the UK government as a result of its quantitative easing programme, so should not be included in the national debt total at all.
A public sector pay rise is predicted to cost £9bn per year, which could be borrowed or raised in taxes on the better-off. Yet what is often left out of such scaremongering is that HM Treasuring gets back at least 40 per cent of any rise through income tax, national insurance and VAT – while the economy receives significantly beneficial effects from public workers spending their extra pay.
Austerity, which has not worked in its intention of returning the UK's national accounts to surplus, has had disproportionate and damaging effects on the nation's most disadvantaged communities. Women, the unemployed, disabled people and low paid workers have borne the brunt of austerity, even as Osborne's quantitative easing has boosted share value and the wealth of the rich.
Local government, social housing and welfare, upon which those at the bottom of the income spectrum most rely, have experienced the largest percentage cuts in spending. The rise in homelessness and rough sleeping, the steep climb in food bank usage, social cleansing in London, and perhaps even the Grenfell Tower fire, are all indicators of how spending cuts have adversely affected the disadvantaged.
What's clear is that today's national debt is nothing unusual when looking back at the last three centuries. Equally true is that paying down the public debt to lower levels following a spike usually takes at least a generation and should be achieved through long-term economic growth and improvements in productivity and exports – not by short-term attacks on public services.
Kevin Gulliver is Director of Birmingham-based research charity the Human City Institute, is former Chair of the Centre for Community Research, and part of the SHOUT save social housing campaign, but writes in a personal capacity.
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One Response to "David Cameron should pipe down on 'credibility': the UK has always been in debt"
Very funny.
In summary, the estimates in the new supplementary table indicate a total Government pension
obligation, at the end of December 2010, of £5.01 trillion,
Labour's little legacy sanitised away.
Your claiming the debt is 40% of GDP and there in black and white, on the ONS website, just one of the debts is 342% of GDP.
But its all OK, its just the plebs and public sector workers.
No need to pay public sector workers what they are owed in their old age.
Sorry Kevin, you're a numpty if you think that the only debt is the borrowing.
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Last week a massive 10 year, $38 billion military aid package to Israel was agreed between the US Administration and Israel:
WASHINGTON (JTA) – President Barack Obama's near parting gift to Israel, a guarantee of $38 billion in defense assistance over a decade, distills into a single document what he's been saying throughout eight fraught years: I have your back, but on my terms.
The agreement signed Wednesday in the State Department's Treaty Room here increases assistance for Israel over the prior Memorandum of Understanding signed in 2007 under the George W. Bush administration and guaranteeing Israel $31 billion over 10 years.
But it also substantially shrinks the role Congress plays in a critical forum shaping U.S.-Israel relations, defense assistance, and in so doing diminishes the influence of the mainstream pro-Israel community, a sector that at times has been an irritant to Obama.
Wrapped into the $38 billion memorandum is $5 billion in missile defense funding, with clauses placing tough restrictions on Israel's ability to ask for supplements from Congress.
Under Obama and Bush, that's been an arena where the pro-Israel lobby has flexed its muscle over the last decade or so, consistently asking Congress for multiples of the missile defense appropriations requested by each president – and getting it.
"The MOU as it's constructed seems to obviate the need for Congress' traditional role in recent years," said Jonathan Schanzer, the vice president of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies. "What this means is that the relationship between Congress and Israel will have to evolve. Members of Congress feel they are being pushed out of a role that they relish."
Democrats in Congress praised the deal unequivocally, but Republicans had caveats.
Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, R-Fla., the chairwoman of the U.S. House of Representatives subcommittee for the Middle East, led passage of a congressional resolution urging an extension of the defense assistance – coincidentally, just hours after the sides announced a deal was in the offing on Monday. Ros-Lehtinen said she intended to subject the agreement to congressional scrutiny.
Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., the chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee's subcommittee dispensing foreign aid, was infuriated by the arrangement.
"We can't have the executive branch dictating what the legislative branch will do for a decade based on an agreement we are not a party to," he told The Washington Post this week, and pledged to push more funds for Israel through Congress.
Jacob Nagel, the acting Israeli national security adviser who led talks ahead of the agreement, told reporters on Wednesday, before the formal signing, that the Israelis had asked Graham to back off.
"Senator Graham is one of the greatest supporters of Israel in Congress," he said. "But everyone who spoke with him" on Israel's team in the talks "said it was not a good idea – Israel is a country that honors its agreements."
Indeed, written into the agreement is Israel's pledge to return to the U.S. government any extra monies that Congress approves on top of the memorandum before it kicks in, October 2018. There is an exception for requests for emergency assistance in the event of "major conflicts," and Nagel noted that the Obama administration has provided such additional assistance quickly.
There are other rollbacks in the deal demanded by Obama and his team, headed by Susan Rice, the national security adviser. Israel is currently the only country allowed to spend some of its defense assistance – up to 26 percent – on its own defense industries. That will be phased to zero by the end of the agreement, and all funding will be spent on U.S. suppliers and contractors.
The deal is being hailed and condemned in equal measure on both sides of the ocean. As mentioned above, Republican senators are pushing the Administration to expand the military aid deal to Israel:
Four Republican lawmakers in the United States said on Tuesday they would seek to overturn parts of a $38 billion military aid agreement with Israel, Reuters reported.
Senators Lindsey Graham, Kelly Ayotte, John McCain and Ted Cruz told a news conference they wanted to add a measure giving Israel an additional $1.5 billion in military aid to a bill expected later this year to renew U.S. sanctions on Iran.
Arguing that Congress, not the administration, sets spending policy under U.S. law, they objected to a provision in the agreement preventing Israel from asking for additional funds from Congress after the new Memorandum of Understanding (MOU), begins at the end of fiscal 2018.
The four senators also object to Israel's agreement to return any money if Congress tries to send it more than $3.8 billion per year before then.
Graham told the news conference he would introduce legislation to overturn a provision in the agreement that phased out a special arrangement that has allowed Israel for decades to use 26.3 percent of the U.S. aid on its own defense industry instead of on U.S. weapons.
Graham has been at the forefront of the efforts to ensure Israel receives more funding. Reports last week indicated that he was responsible for the delay in signing the MOU concerning the security aid to Israel, due to the fact that he believed Israel deserved more funding.
After the agreement was signed last Wednesday, Graham opined that Israel made a mistake by signing a new $38 billion security agreement with the Obama administration, saying Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu could have gotten a better deal if he had waited until President Barack Obama left office.
The senators insisted that Netanyahu had been forced into signing because Iran is growing stronger as it obtains billions of dollars unfrozen under a nuclear agreement reached last year.
"Now is not the time to say that we're going to nickel and dime Israel," Graham said, according to Reuters.
In Israel too, as expected, there have been many kibbitzers on the side arguing that Israel could have gotten a better deal. Putting paid to those negative voices, the former National Security Advisor to Netanyahu, General Yaakov Amidror, says that the aid package reveals a wealth of friendship:
There were those in Israel who thought it wise to ask for even more, given the threats Israel faces, and to give Israel a better jumping off point for negotiations. Those familiar with the state of the US economy, and aware of the discord between the Democratic administration and the Republican Congress over the need to introduce cuts to the US budget, foresaw a huge decrease in aid. The realists, however, understood that the aid package would end up around these figures.
Washington never tried to "extort" anything from Israel, such as making Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu renounce his March 2015 speech warning Congress of the dangers of the nuclear deal with Iran.
… The value of the defense aid package extends beyond the unprecedented amount of money it guarantees. The entire budget for active defense, which is usually decided after discussions between the White House and Congress (which traditionally gives Israel more than the White House wants to sign off on), is now guaranteed for years.
As a result, there will be no need to renegotiate the aid package every year. Israel will not have to explain its defense requirements and get caught up in the perennial friction between the White House and Congress.
With such recurring clashes in mind, the administration asked Israel to pledge that it would not ask Congress for additional funds beyond the $3.8 billion. Israel agreed, although the deal leaves room for additional aid in the event that war breaks out.
Amidror relates to the one major flaw with the deal: the fact that Israel cannot use any of the money within Israel:
The Americans did request a fundamental change in the agreement. Up to now, about 24% of American defense aid was spent in Israel. Now, all the money the US gives Israel will go toward US defense companies. This represents a transfer of a total of about $800 million of the defense budget to the US instead of to Israel. This figure will come at the expense of Israeli defense companies, and will not be an easy transition.
Israel's acting National Security Council head, Brig. Gen. (res.) Jacob Nagel, was responsible for the majority of negotiations over the past four years, and he succeeded in ensuring that the change will be gradual and will not come into effect immediately. If Israel's defense industry makes a genuine effort to save money and prioritize, it can make the best of a difficult situation.
David Horovitz of the Times of Israel rebukes ungrateful Israel who owes the US a simple thank you: (although the headline should rather read "ungrateful opposition MKs").
Most of the complaining, it's true, has not been directed at the Obama administration. Led by former prime minister Ehud Barak, it has, rather, been a case of utilizing the deal to score political points against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Barak ("believe me, I know what I'm talking about") has been writing op-eds and giving interviews declaring that Israel could have secured billions more if only Netanyahu had handled the negotiations better — and specifically if Netanyahu had eschewed his anti-Obama lobbying speech in Congress in March 2015 against the Iran nuclear deal. Others, including disgruntled ex-defense minister Moshe Ya'alon, and the Zionist Union's failed candidate for defense minister Amos Yadlin, have also weighed in to say, albeit more politely, that the package is inadequate.
… Now, maybe Israel could have gotten a better deal, and maybe it really does need more US military assistance than will be forthcoming. (Extra funds can be sought, it should be noted, in times of conflict.) Maybe the P5+1's effort to thwart Iran's rogue nuclear program is so weak, hole-filled and dangerous that Israel's defense challenges have indeed grown dramatically, or will do soon.
… Maybe Netanyahu could have negotiated some of the key clauses more effectively, rather than, say, agreeing to the condition that will gradually require Israel to spend all of that military aid inside the United States, rather than allowing a substantial proportion to be spent in Israel as has been the case to date. And maybe he need not have accepted the provision that will prevent Congress from securing or seeking to secure additional funding.
But the bottom line is that Israel, not notably naive under Netanyahu's leadership, chose to agree to this deal. Israel, doubtless after a great deal of consideration and after many months of negotiation, opted not to hold out for the possibility of more, evidently concluding that the risk of better terms under a different president somewhere down the line was outweighed by the danger of worse ones. Nobody put a US-funded gun to our head.
I found the following interesting in a depressing kind of way: The blogger Abu Yehuda weighs up the good and the bad and concludes that the deal is bad for both countries.
The Israeli official responsible for the deal, Acting National Security Adviser Yaakov (Jacob) Nagel himself blasted critics for their "detachment from reality":
Israel's acting national security adviser, who led the negotiations over the 10-year $38-billion military aid agreement signed last with with the US, hit back at domestic critics of the agreement on Saturday, calling the critics "detached from reality."
In unusually strong language for the usually quiet official, Yaakov Nagel lashed out at "massive disinformation in the media from irresponsible critics, most of whom don't know the negotiations process we've been through for the past three and a half years, or the details of the agreement."
Nagel rejected the assertion that Iran deal fallout had hurt the negotiations, which he has led on the Israeli side since 2013.
"A large part of the talks" hammering out the deal were begun in 2013, during President Barack Obama's visit to Israel that year, and so "were carried out before the Iran deal was even on the table."
Amos Yadlin, the former head of IDF military intelligence and more recently a center-left Zionist Union candidate for defense minister, argued on Friday that Netanyahu could have pressed for additional funding had he not angered the White House with his March 2015 address to Congress.
But according to Nagel's statement to the media late Saturday, these calculations are "detached from reality."
The army's current multi-year funding plan, called "Gideon" by military planners, assumes an annual contributed of $3.1 billion from the US, Nagel said, "so two of the years [covered by] the current plan" – likely a reference to fiscal years 2018 and 2019 – "will already see a boost of $400 million" to the budget the army expected to receive.
Nagel added: "The claim that we could have gotten $7 billion more [over ten years]…lacks all basis in fact and is unprofessional. The American defense budget has legal constraints and is being cut. The offer from certain quarters in Congress, who want to offer as much aid as they can to Israel, came to $3.4 billion in 2017 due to the constraints of the American [federal] budget," less than the final figure agreed to in the agreement.
I'm not enough of a military or diplomatic expert to assess whether this deal is good or bad for Israel. Abu Yehuda weighs up the good and the bad and concludes that the deal is bad for both countries. Certainly in the short term it sounds good. Politically it is excellent for Israel's reputation. It puts paid to all the Jeremiads about Israel's isolation and the dire warnings that Netanyahu's fervent objections to the Iran deal will derail Israel's relationship with the United States. This deal proves the precise opposite.
I'm dubious and concerned about the clause regarding Israel's inability to spend at least some of the money within Israel. But maybe the Republican senators will be able to overturn or adjust some of these clauses.
I suppose we'll just have to wait and see.


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Folk art is a wide-ranging term which often includes objects made by untrained artists, or made by people trained as sign-painters who were able to use their painting skills to make their own artworks. Terms such as 'people's art' or 'popular art' are also widely used.
Works in Compton Verney's collection are extremely diverse, and include weathervanes, shop signs, paintings of prize animals, street scenes, furniture, agricultural implements and collage pictures. The collection also includes a work by highly regarded folk artist Alfred Wallis.
We were delighted to work with artist and designer Mark Hearld to redisplay the British Folk Art collection in March 2018. Hearld curated the new display and produced new works in response to the collection, including a wallpaper design, collage pieces and metalwork silhouettes. Mark takes his inspiration from flora and fauna of the British countryside and is known for working across a variety of media.
Watch the video below to see the Potter's Workshop automata in action.
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I lie on the gurney,
The doctor looks at me with disgust and annoyance;
And don't you agree?
That I'm shameful and dirty?
In every degree?
Drawing out my blood.
The doctor starts filtering but there's a problem!
Out pours a filthy flood!
A murky mess of disgrace.
A door opens. A thud.
A shrink walks inside.
Revulsion and repugnance were worn on his face.
He diagnosed, "MAD!",
That my blood's too infected,
Slutty, black, and bad.
No filter could clean,
All the filth of my past and my mind; a disease.
The infection's obscene!
Poisoning my plasma with offense.
It's too late to convene!!
"Your life it's a shame,
You will always be seen as damaged and decrepit."
"Never be seen the same;
As the culprit is not here,
Only you're left to blame."
"Your blood is a stain,
On our entire way of living and society."
"We'll have to detain;
Lock you away where none see,
That 'they' made you insane."
K. Aldaya, 06/21/13
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LOS ANGELES — Mayor Eric Garcetti and Los Angeles City Librarian John F. Szabo joined leaders of major immigration service agencies Jan. 18 to launch the New Americans Initiative, which makes the Los Angeles Public Library a gateway to citizenship for the area's more than 700,000 legal permanent residents and the city's most prominent destination for immigration resources.
"Our libraries belong to every Angeleno, and the New Americans Initiative will help bring our immigrant neighbors closer to the dream of citizenship," Garcetti said. "We're expanding access to information, services and resources — so that no one in Los Angeles feels alone in taking an extraordinary step to build a more secure and prosperous future for themselves and their families."
During the event, Garcetti introduced Sergio Sanchez, who used the library's program to become a U.S. citizen.
"I saw a sign for a citizenship class at the library and thought my dream could come true. It is a place I have been visiting since my son was a toddler and I went to the library in my free time," Sanchez said.
He added that his son Bryan is now a chemical engineer.
"A librarian helped me enroll in citizenship classes, and I was there every Saturday for three months. I also studied there three times a week because the library had citizenship books, flashcards, CDs, computers and other things to help me."
The expanded New Americans Initiative features New Americans Centers in six libraries staffed with immigration-trained and Department of Justice-certified library staff and featuring multimedia resources as well as workshops and classes led by community partners.
Centers are currently open at Central Library and Junipero Serra, Pacoima, and Wilmington branch libraries. Centers at Benjamin Franklin and Pio Pico-Koreatown branches are scheduled to open by summer.
New Americans Welcome Stations are in all 73 libraries with citizenship, English as a second language resources, literacy learning and family services, Know Your Rights cards, financial coaching, tenant and worker rights information, workshops on entrepreneurship and career opportunities and others.
City Librarian Szabo said, "As always, the Los Angeles Public Library is at the forefront of providing equitable access to all Angelenos. We have long been a prominent destination for immigrant integration services, and the launch of the New Americans Initiative is a bold next step in expanding these resources.
"At the library, we are proud to welcome everyone, and this initiative reaffirms our commitment to supporting New Americans."
All of the New Americans Initiative's programs, resources and services are free to the public. Appointments with immigration experts in New Americans Centers must be made online.
For appointments and more information about the New Americans Initiative visit lapl.org/newamericans or call (213) 228-7390.


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Das Bekenntnis der Ina Kahr (1954) Georg Wilhelm Pabst, Curd Jürgens, Elisabeth Müller, Albert Lieven
Told in flashback, the film recounts the events leading up to the killing of good-for-nothing Curt Jurgens. Read More »
Chasing Rainbows (1930) Charles Reisner, Bessie Love, Charles King, Jack Benny
The road-show troupe of a top Broadway show go cross-country while taking the audience along on the on-stage scenes as well as what happens and is happening back stage of the production. Read More »
Stroszek (1977) Werner Herzog, Bruno S., Eva Mattes, Clemens Scheitz
Bruno Stroszek is released from prison and warned to stop drinking. He has few skills and fewer expectations: with a glockenspiel and an accordion Read More »
A Lady Takes a Chance (1943) William A. Seiter, Jean Arthur, John Wayne, Charles Winninger
A New York bank clerk,Mollie Truesdale (Jean Arthur), in the late 1930s, finds that her cherished dream of making a 17-day all-expenses-paid bus trip to the Pacific Coast and back Read More »
Footsteps in the Fog (1955) Arthur Lubin, Stewart Granger, Jean Simmons, Bill Travers
To his Victorian London friends, Stephen Lowry is a heartbroken widower. Read More »
Scaramouche (1923) Rex Ingram, Lloyd Ingraham, Alice Terry, Ramon Novarro
A law student becomes an outlaw French revolutionary when he decides to avenge the unjust killing of his friend. Read More »
The Human Condition III: A Soldiers Prayer (1961) Masaki Kobayashi, Tatsuya Nakadai, Michiyo Aratama, Tamao Nakamura
Part three of a trilogy. After the Japanese defeat to the Russians in the last episode, Kaji, the Japanese soldier and humanistic protagonist Read More »
The Way Out (1955) Montgomery Tully, Mona Freeman, Gene Nelson, John Bentley
A man tells his wife that the police are after him for having killed a bookie during an alcoholic binge Read More »
The Human Condition II: Road to Eternity (1959) Masaki Kobayashi, Tatsuya Nakadai, Michiyo Aratama, Kokinji Katsura
Kaji is sent to the Japanese army labeled Red and is mistreated by the vets. Along his assignment, Kaji witnesses cruelties in the army Read More »


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Acclaimed author Lindsey Leavitt brings her trademark heart, humor, and romance to her hometown--Vegas
Sixteen-year-old Holly wants to remember her Grandpa forever, but she'd rather forget what he left her in his will: his wedding chapel on the Las Vegas strip. Whatever happened to gold watches, savings bonds, or some normal inheritance?
And then there's Grandpa's letter. Not only is she running the business with her recently divorced parents, but she needs to make some serious money--fast. Grandpa also insists Holly reach out to Dax, the grandson of her family's mortal enemy and owner of the cheesy chapel next door. No matter how cute Dax is, Holly needs to stay focused: on her group of guy friends, her disjointed family, work, school and... Dax. No wait, not Dax.
Holly's chapel represents everything she's ever loved in her past. Dax might be everything she could ever love in the future. But as for right now, there's a wedding chapel to save.
An intensely addictive romance novel about girls, ghosts, and forbidden love, ideal for fans of Stephenie Meyer Fate has brought them together. But will it also keep them apart? Having moved to a strange town, 17-year-old Joey Gray is feeling a little lost, until she meets a cute, mysterious boy near her new home. But there's a very good reason why Tristan Halloway is always to be found roaming in the local graveyard. Perfect for fans of Stephenie Meyer and Lauren Kate, The Lost Boys is a magical, romantic tale of girl meets ghost.
Dark Days by Kate Ormand
The future world has been divided into sectors--each the same as the other. Surrounded by thick steel fences, there is no way in and no way out. Yet a cyborg army penetrates each sector, picking off its citizens one by one, until no one is left. Behind the sectors' thick walls, the citizens wait to die. Few will be chosen to survive what's coming; the rest will be left behind to suffer. A new world has been created, and its rulers are incredibly selective on who will become a citizen. They want only those with important roles in society to help create a more perfect future.
Sixteen-year-old Sia lives in one of the sectors as part of a family that is far too ordinary to be picked to live. According to the digital clock that towers high above her sector, she has only fifteen days to live. Sia has seen the reports and knows a horrific death is in store for her, but she is determined to make the most of her final days. Sia refuses to mourn her short life, instead promising herself that she'll stay strong, despite being suffocated by her depressed mother and her frightened best friend. Just when Sia feels more alone than ever, she meets Mace, a mysterious boy. There is something that draws Sia to him, despite his dangerousness, and together, they join a group of rebels and embark on an epic journey to destroy the new world and its machines, and to put an end to the slaughter of innocent people.


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The sunshine has been poking its head out again these past few days, so I decided to head out on a wine adventure. Interestingly enough, many wineries aren't open in the middle of the week – but I did find a spot that had a fantastic wine list: Le Bar at Marché. This restaurant has some of my favorite food in town and their wine list does far from disappoint. So, on a Wednesday afternoon I ordered myself a glass of the 2014 Montinore Estate Pinot Gris.
I've seen the Montinore Estate label many times and it was definitely on my list of "to try" wines. After trying this varietal, I can't wait to make a trip up north to Forest Hills to try the rest of their selections. This was one of those wines that was pleasant from the moment it hit my senses. The nose was crisp and had hints of tangy, yet sweet grapefruit. I was expecting this to be more on the tart side throughout, but it was definitely not. Flavors of tangy key lime first hit my palette, then it changed into more toasted and tropical fruit flavors. It was light bodied and incredibly smooth, especially on the finish. My goodness, this wine was just plain delicious.
What really drew me to this wine was not only that it was from 2014, a vintage I have not tried much of (since many of the white wines produced this past fall are just being bottled – or are still aging), but that it was made from certified organic and biodynamic vineyards. These two topics are an article in themselves, but I hadn't actually tried a wine that was certified in both organic and biodynamics. This wine had some very interesting (and delicious!) characteristics though. It was a very distinct Pinot gris. Growing grapes, and making fantastic wine out of those grapes is a form of art. Montinore Estates have created a masterpiece with this 2014 Pinot Gris, that's for sure.
The 2014 Pinot gris was just recently released, and they sell it for $16 a bottle. What a great deal! I paired this wine with a simple salad made with meyer lemon vinaigrette, but as we know Pinot gris pairs well with so many things. Pick this bottle up and open it on a beautiful sunny day, it is just dying to be drank.


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Venus Williams rolled back the years to reach her first grand slam semi-final since 2010 as the American beat Kazakhstan's Yaroslava Shvedova at Wimbledon.
Williams, who turned 36 last month, is the oldest woman competing at the All England Club but her recent resurgence continued on Centre Court with a 7-6 (7/5) 6-2 victory.
The five-time Wimbledon champion has not made the last four at a major tournament since the US Open six years ago and she will now face Germany's Australian Open champion Angelique Kerber for a place in the final.
Williams is the oldest grand slam semi-finalist since Martina Navratilova's run here in 1994 and victory over Kerber would potentially set up a mouthwatering reunion with sister Serena in the weekend showpiece.
Venus Williams is through to her first Grand Slam semi-final since 2010.
Not bad for a 36-year-old. pic.twitter.com/gdVbA06RCu— bet365 (@bet365) July 5, 2016
"I love playing the game. I always have of course and when you're winning matches it makes it that much sweeter," Venus told the BBC after the match.
"The wins and the losses, they all lead to these big moments. You can't always have these big moments. If you're Serena Williams, I guess that happens a lot, but as Venus Williams this is an awesome day."
The siblings last met in a Wimbledon final in 2009 but, unlike Serena, Venus' success has dwindled in recent years, in part due to her battle with Sjogren's syndrome, a condition that can cause tiredness and pain in the joints.
It makes her revival all the more impressive, this victory over Shvedova coming after she ended last year in the world's top 10 for the first time in five years.
An eighth major triumph now stands just two victories away and would surely represent the most impressive of her glittering career.
Shvedova, ranked 96th in the world, is the sixth-lowest ranked woman ever to make the Wimbledon last eight but she had momentum, having already knocked out Lucie Safarova, Sabine Lisicki and Elina Svitolina.
Venus looked in trouble at 5-2 down in the opening tie-break but dug deep, winning five points in a row to take the set.
Shvedova continued to blast her forehand into the corners but she never fully recovered as Venus was left skipping in delight when the Kazakh's final forehand missed its mark.
"What a day it was against an opponent who was just on fire," Venus said.
"When you walk to the net as the winner that's the goal, that's the dream, and for her in her first quarter-final to play so well, so much credit to her."
Venus has played Kerber five times before, winning twice, including their most recent meeting at the Canadian Masters in 2014.
Kerber, however, stunned Serena earlier this year to win her first major title in Melbourne and she is in good form again, after beating Romania's Simona Halep 7-5 7-6 (7/2).
"We've had a lot of great matches, she and I," Venus said of Kerber.
"We haven't played in a while and clearly she's had a great year with a great result in a slam but I'd love to be walking towards the final and it's progress made today."


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This is not a challenge most of us understand, I'm afraid.
Sunday, September 27, 2009
Misery of a Different Kind
This is not a challenge most of us understand, I'm afraid.
26 comments:
- TheChicGeek said...
So true! It's really unfortunate for both the rich who are missing out on the everyday joys of raising their children and the poor who have a hard life.
Thanks for the thought-provoking post.
Hugs to You, Nancy!
- September 27, 2009 at 10:52 PM
How strange!!!
- September 28, 2009 at 12:18 AM
- Natalie said...
My bro and sister in law (overseas) have always had 'help'. It annoys the living daylights out of me.However, the 'help' have done wonderful things for my neice and nephew....they are beautifully behaved children.xx♥
- September 28, 2009 at 12:47 AM
- Lydia said...
"...probably count the hours until Ramadan, don't you think?" is one of the funniest lines I've ever read, when in context of this interesting post! You're good, darned good!
- September 28, 2009 at 3:08 AM
- Sylvia said...
Well, I must say that this situation is NOT an exclusive of the Muslims. I lived in a rich zone in Portugal and everybody had servants and the children didn't make any effort to get what they wanted too. As to me, I never had servants nor wanted to.
- September 28, 2009 at 5:03 AM
- ellen abbott said...
Oh those poor dears, having to get their own glass of water, having to look after their own children and fix their own meals.
We always had a maid/cook when I was growing up but she certainly wasn't a servant and my parents made sure us kids knew that.
It's a shame when the rich take advantage of the poor.
- September 28, 2009 at 6:36 AM
- Hilary said...
Wow.. heaven help these families if they ever fell out of riches. How would they cope with real life?
- September 28, 2009 at 6:37 AM
- luksky said...
Wow! I live in the wrong country. :-)
- September 28, 2009 at 6:49 AM
- DJan said...
When I was a teenager and we lived in Georgia, we had a maid who lived in Americus (where the first race riots of the 60's occurred). My dad let me ride along once when he took her home, and I was appalled at the living conditions I could see around me. But she was dependent on the job, and I began to think about all this...
- September 28, 2009 at 6:56 AM
- Brian Miller said...
how odd. and sad. what they must miss out on during the day to day.
- September 28, 2009 at 6:59 AM
- The Good Cook said...
I bet there is hell to pay when the servants get back from their vacation....
- September 28, 2009 at 7:16 AM
- wendyytb said...
Well... It seems that slavery is not dead.
How unfortunate for those servants and nannies. I am sure that they appreciate their meagre wages, but I have to wonder about the effect on those children they are raising. Chances are...even though their parents have not raised them...they will grow up to be just like mom and dad.
- September 28, 2009 at 8:11 AM
- Swetha said...
you are right!!
- September 28, 2009 at 8:47 AM
- CrazyCris said...
ummm... not to sound like an over-priviledged child or anything, but my family also had live-in help when I was a child. For 8 years in Mexico we had a live-in maid, but that was pretty much the norm there for a middle-class family (at least having someone come clean several times a week), and so even more so for a fmaily living on a US income...
But she wasn't a "servant" per-se, she took care of the cleaning and laundry and some of the cooking (my dad did most of that), we were always in charge of our own rooms, making our beds etc. And she was gone every Friday evening to Sunday evening and then we were the dishwashers. I remember as a child being upset that my parents always programmed big dinner parties on the weekend and then we'd get stuck with all those dishes!!! :p Fortunately being 3 (or often 4 when a friend stayed over) it was frequently a goofy/fun task.
As for "getting a glass of water" not only were we more than capable of doing that for ourselves, we were always running around doing it for my mom who had this lousy habit of yelling out from her office "can someone bring me a glass of water?!" :p
But I do "blame" this "fortunate" period of my life for current extreme distaste of housework... as soon as I can afford to have someone come once a week to clean my place you bet I'll hire them!
- September 28, 2009 at 9:18 AM
Geez....reminds me a bit of the novel/movie "The Secret Garden"...that came to mind when I read this!!! Maybe I'm tired, but here's another tangent, lol...your post made me think of a documentary about a man who survived Rwanda. When he first arrived in Canada, he was surprised by the automatic doors, he said the first thing that came to mind was "Canadians don't like to open their own doors?" I guess the cultural "misery" is different everywhere.
- September 28, 2009 at 2:24 PM
- Rosaria Williams said...
Interesting, unusual perspective.
- September 28, 2009 at 3:17 PM
- Lillian Robinson said...
We look at it as pitiful because of the culture we grew up in; but is it really any different than a two or three car family when others have to walk?
As long as the person is treated well in their job, they probably don't see it as slavery. They probably see it as a good job. There are worse things than watching kids and doing housework.
It's sad though that they miss out on so much of their children's lives.
- September 28, 2009 at 3:24 PM
- Trish and Rob MacGregor said...
A different slice of life, for sure.
- September 28, 2009 at 9:35 PM
- Midlife Roadtripper said...
A college friend's family lived in Malaysia. I recall him saying one day how when he visited, the maid had cooked something special for him. "You have a maid?" I asked. "Everyone has a maid," he answered rather flippantly.
My other friend shrugged his shoulders and said, "Even the maid has a maid."
Thought of that when I read this.
- September 28, 2009 at 9:36 PM
- Alicia @ boylerpf said...
Amazing how parents can't cope with their own children's needs. And here I thought this was a problem that only existed here in the states!
- September 29, 2009 at 9:37 AM
- Whitney Lee said...
You know, I wouldn't say no if someone else wanted to mop or clean my windows and baseboards...However, I consider that a small price to pay when I am able to stay home and raise my daughter myself.
It's actually a shame that these people are missing out on the joy and wonder that go hand in hand with spending time with children.
- September 29, 2009 at 2:23 PM
- Elizabeth Bradley said...
Have you read the bestseller, "The Help", what a great book.
The rich live in a different world.
- September 29, 2009 at 2:48 PM
- Marguerite said...
The rich every where have always had servants and nannies. I personally don't understand it, either, but if I were wealthy, I might hire someone to do the house cleaning! :)
- September 29, 2009 at 9:20 PM
- susan said...
I guess those rich people must not be Muslims since Ramadan started this year on the 21st of August and ended on September 19th. Do you suppose the servants are pulling a fast one to get another month?
- September 29, 2009 at 9:55 PM
- ♥ Braja said...
I have "hired help," as they say, but most people I know around here treat them real well; it's part of the culture. I don't know why one would be "annoyed" at someone having help, it sounds like envy to me...but I'd definitely be annoyed at bad treatment....and it's not because they have servants that children become rude and lazy----it's because of their parents....
- September 30, 2009 at 4:50 AM
What a stretch! Their own glass of water! They might even have to tie their own shoes, heaven forbid. ;)
- September 30, 2009 at 1:22 PM


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Parents Don't Want Their Child To Participate In Medical Research
Advances in medicine - new treatments, cures, vaccines and medicines - are driven by research involving humans. But when it comes to medical research that requires children to be involved, researchers often struggle to find participants.
The reason? Many parents are often unwilling to allow their children to take part in medical research, fearing that they may be harmed or used as "guinea pigs," according to a report released today by the University of Michigan C.S. Mott Children's Hospital National Poll on Children's Health.
In fact, the report finds that only 30 percent of parents are willing to allow their children to participate in research involving a new medication. In contrast, 77 percent of parents want only FDA-approved medicines for their children. This finding reveals a large gap between the proportion of parents who want safe medicines for their children, and those who are willing to have their children take part in research that could ultimately produce information about medicine safety.
"We know that parents, quite reasonably, may be concerned about having their children participate in medical research," says Matthew M. Davis, M.D., M.A.P.P., director of the National Poll on Children's Health. "Parents, however, may not realize how pediatric research has saved lives and helped lives. Research has led to the creation of vaccines, many of which have helped eradicate diseases like diphtheria, polio and small pox within the borders of our country. That's all thanks to vaccines that have been tested in clinical studies in which children have played a major role."
Clinical trials during the past 30 years are also responsible for improved survival rates for many common childhood cancers, says Valerie Castle, M.D., chair of the Department of Pediatrics and the Ravitz Foundation Professor of Pediatrics and Communicable Diseases at the U-M Health System.
"Parents, physicians and other advocates in the community must encourage a national discourse on the importance of research on child health, and improved funding for pediatric research, to ensure more progress can be made in treating and preventing childhood diseases," she says.
The National Poll on Children's Health finds:
* 77 percent of parents want only FDA-approved medicines for their children, but only 30 percent say they will allow their children to participate in research.
* Many parents are willing to consider children's participation in research if the risk of harm is small.
* 92 percent of parents have never been asked to have their children participate in research.
The report, however, does reveal some very promising results for researchers: Twenty-five percent of parents polled indicated that they would consider allowing their child to participate in research as a healthy volunteer and another 36 percent would consider it if their child had a particular disease being studied.
Most notably, the majority of parents say that the reason their child has never participated in a research study is simply because they've never been asked.
"There's great potential to have even more children participate in research in the future, but we're not yet reaching a lot of families who would be comfortable with having their children participate in research," explains Davis, associate professor of general pediatrics and internal medicine at the U-M Medical School, and associate professor of public policy at the U-M Gerald R. Ford School of Public Health.
To capitalize on that potential, Davis says researchers need to involve a broader group of doctors in recruiting and advising children and their parents about research to increase participation. The National Poll on Children's Health found parents are more willing to have their children participate in research when it is encouraged by their children's doctor.
C.S. Mott Children's Hospital is working to improve children's research
Beyond recruiting more participants, pediatric research faces another challenge: funding. While children make up 20 percent of the U.S. population, only 5 percent of the funding from the National Institutes of Health is allocated for research on pediatric diseases.
In an effort to increase government funding of children's research, C.S. Mott Children's Hospital recently joined a coalition made up of the nation's leading pediatric medical research institutions to support a new approach to the address the continued under-funding of federal support for pediatric research.
The coalition - which has the support of all the major pediatric research societies - recently lined up behind a bill called the Pediatric Research Establishment Act. Introduced by Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH) and Sen. Christopher "Kit" Bond (R-MO), the bill is designed to not only authorize increased funding for cutting-edge pediatric reserach, but also create a new structure to maximize the efficiency and effectiveness of pediatric disease research.
"Through this legislation, our hope is to define the resources that would allow us to build an infrastructure to support pediatric research," says Castle. "Without increased funding, we'll limit our opportunities for important breakthroughs in medical research and therapies. Ultimately, it will impair the overall health of our communities, especially since many childhood diseases, including certain cancers and obesity, can have serious implications well into adulthood." Castle also notes that without increased funding, promising young researchers may be deterred from entering the field.
For its report, the National Poll on Children's Health used data from a national online survey conducted in December 2007 and January 2008 in collaboration with Knowledge Networks Inc. The survey was administered to a random sample of 2,131 adults, ages 18 and older, who are a part of Knowledge Network's online KnowledgePanelSM. The sample was subsequently weighted to reflect U.S. population figures from the U.S. Census Bureau. About three-fourths of the sample were households with children.


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Family violence survivor Stacey speaks to shine light on dark shadows
STACEY constantly feels like she is walking on egg shells. Free for years now, the family violence survivor says the experience still impacts her life. Stacey speaks out in the hope to change community perceptions – family violence is not always black eyes or body bruises.
"It's easy to live in shadows and let domestic violence control my life," Stacey said. "I want to shine a light on my life. Society needs to change to remove the stigma.
People think victims are weak, but some women in a family violence situation are often strong and very good and hiding what's happening.
"We've got to change the language for more respect in general."
Stacey shared her story at Women's Health Grampians' Leading Change lunch for Ballarat business leaders on Tuesday. The event, in partnership with Committee for Ballarat and Leadership Ballarat and Western Region, aimed to spark cultural change in the region.
Our Watch new chief executive officer Patty Kinnersly said change needed regional leadership, across businesses, community organisations and sporting club.
The event encouraged leaders to look more closely at how we wanted to build this community: the language we use; recruitment; unconscious biases; looking differently at inequality and disrespect – and how workplaces held levers to control accepted standards. This included family violence leave.
Medibank well-being general manager Karen Oldaker said hearing stories like Stacey's were crucial in making the right changes.
Ms Oldaker said Medibank had initially introduced 10 days' paid leave for family violence but listening to women in such situations, the health insurance giant changed to uncapped paid leave to better support employees dealing with challenges of family violence.
Ms Oldaker said it was more than meeting prolonged court demands, it was moving houses and changing schools – all the extra things.
"Workplaces need to acknowledge women in this situation are not okay and need to know (employers) are here for them to do whatever they need to do to escape that," Ms Oldaker said.
"Workplaces have a huge role to play in diversity and conversations which include gender."
Ms Oldaker said the #MeToo movement, sparked in Hollywood, created a 68 per cent spike in calls to the Medibank 1800RESPECT hotline in the past year for help with sexual assault and family violence.
Medibank delivers the service on behalf of the Australian government as part of the national plan to reduce violence against women and their children.
All three women reiterate family violence does not discriminate.
They join the call for more Ballarat businesses to join the Gramoians-wide Communities of Respect and Equality (CoRE) plan.
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OK, so I need to find the DMARC point and buy some CAT5e cable (without plugs on the ends) and join that onto onto the CAT5e cable with the gel joiners. On the other end of the CAT5e I need to put an RJ11 plug (using the same 2 wires as I joined onto the two wires at the DMARC), so that can plug directly into the router?
1.) Have I got the right idea above?
2.) Where do I get gel filled joiners from?
3.) The router is safe to be plugged into the raw lines from the demarc point, no filters or anything else (there is a yellow cylinder thing on the back of some of my jack boxes - are they not important?)
4.) which two "pins" on the RJ11 do I use to join the two wires on the CAT5e cable?
I take it we want to eliminate as many plugs/joins/cables etc between the DMARC and the router, and thats why we are not putting a BT plug on the end of the CAT5e and plugging that into the DMARC box?
I hope you don't mind all these questions!!!!
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Get a CAT5e socket, hook other end of cable up to this, again on the blue pair - socket will be colour coded.
Get a RJ11/12 - RJ45 lead.
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Francis Perron didn't wait for a team vote or a coach's confidence.
Last summer, the high-scoring Rouyn-Noranda player went into boss Gilles Bouchard's office and asked to be named Huskies captain.
"It was my fourth year and I knew I was kind of the leader in the room and knew it was supposed to be me," the 20-year-old Senators prospect said. "I said to the coach, 'I will show you'. I knew I could do it because I love to talk and pump up the boys in the room.
"Gilles wanted me to improve my work ethic on the ice and attitude. I told him again, 'I will show you and that's what I did'."
For Bouchard, no player had been so bold — but he liked Perron's moxie. He waited a few weeks, then granted his wish. Perron racked up 108 points for the top-ranked team in the country and was named the Quebec league's regular-season and playoff MVP.
"It (the captaincy) helped me a lot," he said. "I came back from Ottawa after playing an exhibition game that went really well. I knew we had a good team and the 'C' was motivation for me."
His team will face Red Deer in the Memorial Cup semifinal Friday. The Rebels have gone through three captains this season alone while the London Knights currently boast two (Mitch Marner and Christian Dvorak).
The Red Deer situation is unique. Not many Cup hosts change leadership so often in their big season.
Fifth-year Rebel Conner Bleackley started the year with the 'C' but he struggled with injury and then the former Avalanche first rounder's rights were moved to the Coyotes.
GM/coach Brent Sutter didn't want to put another burden on his shoulders, so he handed the role to Wyatt Johnson, who was subsequently dealt to Spokane.
Overager Luke Philp, acquired from the Kootenay Ice, quickly became Rebels current captain.
"There's a lot more made of (three captains) than needs to be," Sutter said. "We had three because we made a trade. It was hard trading Wyatt. I was going to give it to Dec. 1-10 to see where our team was at and I did.
"There weren't a lot of available '96s so we went after 20-year-olds (Philp and high-scoring Adam Helewka)."
It's an unconventional path to leadership, but the team is still kicking. Bleackley set up Evan Polei's overtime winner to eliminate Brandon.
There were a couple of times this year the Rebels didn't know who would be their captain. Now, they face a team whose leader Perron seized that role for himself.


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Best of the Best: A Baseball Great Novel
Best of the Best: A Baseball Great Novel
Are you a winner even if you lose the game? That's the question explored in Tim Green's BEST OF THE BEST. The third in a series of stories surrounding the fledgling career of 12-year-old Josh LeBlanc, this book is another home run for Green. Previous novels have been about winning in the face of mystery and adversity, but his latest delves into the emotional life of a young athlete experiencing a tough personal time.
Going through a slump is part of the game regardless of the sport. All teams and players have ups and downs for whatever reasons. Little leaguer Josh has been riding high on his abilities to pitch and bat, and his teams are the proud owners of some trophies to prove how good they are as a group. But Josh discovers a disturbing situation at home that threatens to challenge his ability to concentrate on the game: His parents are splitting up.
Josh's mom and dad are upset about the turn of events, but their adult pride makes it difficult to patch things up quickly. The issue surrounding their break-up involves another woman, and Josh's mom is reluctant to look the other way. When his dad moves out of the house, Josh is determined to do something, anything, to get them back together. But he has an important game to play on the team possibly headed to the Little League World Series in Williamsport, Pennsylvania, and keeping his focus on the game is questionable.
Josh again gets the help of his best pals, Jaden Neidermeyer and Benji Lido, in playing baseball and finding a way to bring his dad home. They discover the "other woman" still involved with her ex-husband and wonder if proof of that will stop the downward spiral of the LeBlanc family. But they have to get on the bus for the prelims and win some baseball games first. Are the personal distractions too much for Josh to put aside and just play ball?
BEST OF THE BEST is well-designed around the age-old questions of dedication and teamwork. Both are required for the success of a team or a family. Tim Green handles the emotional edge of a family in crisis alongside the tensions of winning to craft a powerful book with a strong message. What's really important in life?
Reviewed by Joy Held on March 22, 2011
Best of the Best: A Baseball Great Novel
(Baseball Great #3)
- Publication Date: February 21, 2012
- Genres: Fiction, Young Adult 9+
- Paperback: 288 pages
- Publisher: HarperCollins


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Aussies hoping for something Super in 2018
It's been a long offseason for Australian rugby and Rugby Australia CEO Raelene Castle hopes the start of a new season can change the conversation.
Last year's season was one all teams and officials have been quick to try and move on from, and Castle said the mark of a new season was a return to focus on what happens on the field.
"That's the bit that's been difficult, it's been a tumultuous 12 months and I think all rugby fans recognise that there was some challenges in that process but what they want to talk about is rugby," she said, at Sunday's Super Rugby launch.
"They don't want to talk about administrative off-field issues, they want to talk about good quality rugby and we've certainly got some great combinations and new stories to start those conversations."The Wallabies' series against Ireland is less than four months away and Castle emphasised the importance of the provincial competition in that process.
"For our high-profile international rugby, Super Rugby's where it starts," she said.
"That's where people get excited, where we unlock new stars, that's where we start to see the debates, the controversies and all of the things that drive that really positive media and I think there's new stars that pop out every year that create that uncertainty around Wallabies selection time because they're going, 'Is it going to be the same team or has someone held their hand up enough?'.
"If you can get that public momentum through, where everyone's been behind their Super teams, it's just such a much stronger building block as you move into the Wallabies season."
Super Rugby returns to 15 teams in 2018, with three conferences and a tweaked finals system.
The winners of each conference will automatically qualify for the quarter-finals, with the next five teams across all conferences also through, as wildcards.Wallabies and Waratahs skipper Michael Hooper welcomed the return of more local derbies, with teams guaranteed home and away matches against Aussie teams, something lacking in recent years, though their first derby doesn't come until round four against the Rebels.
"It's great that we get to play the Aussie teams again, interesting to see how it's received by the public," he said.
"It's a bit of a shame that we go straight overseas and can't give the fans other than that Stormers game a real nice introduction but we'll be home for the back end and a lot of it."
The Australian Super Rugby season kicks off on Friday February 23 with the Rebels hosting the Reds.


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Friday, 4 March 2011
Springing up again
My car's battery was flat again yesterday and the Sage gave me a lift. Today, it has a new battery. And we've reattached the bicycle brake - a cable had come apart. I've phoned and paid for my car insurance, and told the man on the end of the phone (who answered at once, there wasn't even time for the announcement to say that my call would be taken shortly) that I was pleased with the reasonable quote and hadn't looked any further. The excess has gone up, but I've never actually had a claim and, although it can happen at any time of course, I'd probably rather have a lower premium rather than a lower excess that I may never use. Um, and I've made an appointment at the bank to put the vast (modest) sums of money that have accrued in my current account somewhere. I've defrosted a fridge. I've filled in a form that's been glaring malevolently at me for the last few days and I signed a letter to go out to school parents on Monday. I didn't write it on this occasion, though. So I've got the day-to-day admin out of the way before the weekend. Jolly good.
The other thing that I just remembered was that there were new levels due out this evening on iAssociate and I've just downloaded them. So that will entertain me for the rest of the evening.
9 comments:
- Roses said...
As always you impress me.
Filling out forms is my least favourite occupation and I procrastinate until the nth hour.
Good to know Rog is more than a good pun guy, with his sensible suggestion about pod casts.
- 8:33 am
- Dave said...
Although I think 'sound sense' was a pun too.
- 8:52 am
- Christopher said...
More than happy to oblige. Any time. Any thing else I can do for you? Gentle zephyrs? O wild west wind? Cool gales fanning the glade? You've only to say.
- 12:21 pm
- sablonneuse said...
Lots of interesting posts to catch up on. You lead a much busier life than i do and yet I can't even find time for a daily read, let alone a daily 'write'.
I gather you're not 'for' Academy status then. I suppose 'if it ain't broke, don't fix it' comes to mind.
Hope the computer is behaving. It's amazing how much we rely on them nowadays. The local chemist was completely lost when hers went down last week. She couldn't issue any prescriptions!
- 12:24 pm
- Z said...
'Sound sense' was one of those happy accidents, written first and then the apposite pun observed.
The sunshine only lasted for a day, Chris, but it had its effect of making the birds sing and my mood lighten. And the daffodils on the drive are out. I'm not sure about the gales, but a zephyr might be welcome, as it's one of the blog names I'm considering for one of the expected grandbabies. Or possibly an actual name for a dog, if Huck doesn't suit it.
- 12:29 pm
- Z said...
I'm absolutely in favour of Academy status, both with head and heart, Sandy.
At least we have two computers and an iPhone - and will have an iPad before too long - all we need is the internet!
- 12:42 pm
- Ros said...
Still regularly reading you, Z, but having had difficulty commenting, so trying something new.
- 3:47 pm
I noticed many more birds singing while I was outside yesterday morning. Made me feel like that scene in Snow White where she has birds chirping and flying around her. This has been some winter, really looking forward to spring.
- 4:45 pm
- Z said...
Hello Ros, glad to hear from you. You're one of my real friends, although we've not yet met. I have my settings for everyone to be able to comment, so I'm sorry you've had problems.
We had a startlingly early beginning to the winter, but no snow since Christmas, Martina. I hope we don't get another cold snap, we're all ready for spring now.
- 10:14 pm