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Castle Review: Life Changes and Sad FacesCourtney Morrison at .
Castle Season 5 came to a close with "Watershed," a finale centered around opportunities and big life changes. Changes big enough to make your jaw drop. So let's get to it...
Caskett... Forever or No More? Beckett went ahead and interviewed for the amazing opportunity in DC, but felt the need to hide it from everyone. It may make sense to keep it a secret at work until you have a decision, but not from the man with whom you are in a relationship.
After Castle found out, he made an excellent point: She didn't care enough to include him in the decision of interviewing for this job. That stings worse than anything else. But on the other hand, Beckett has to think of her career, especially when she isn't sure where her personal life is going.
Beckett nailed her interview and received a glowing recommendation from Gates. She met with her father, who asked her what she really wants and she admitted: the new job.
At the same time, Castle shared a touching scene with Mama Martha where she let her son know Beckett deserves this, but she needs to know where things are going. So what should Castle do next?
After being offered the job, Kate and Rick met on the swings, an important place in their relationship. Castle admitted that he wants more and they both deserve more. So, does that mean breakup? NOPE!! It means our very own Rick Castle down on one knee proposing marriage. I never thought I'd see the day!
Big kudos to the writers on pulling this off. Long time viewers had to know that this would come at some point... but at the swings? Seriously, how romantic.
It didn't feel forced. This next step felt extremely natural, which is something the writers have been able to pull off all season.
So, now what? We didn't get to see an answer from Beckett and we know she wants the job. There's no way she can leave NYC... it's just not practical for the show. But will she stick around and end up resenting Castle? Looks like we have to wait until next season to find out. One thing is for sure, I'm definitely on team Mr. & Mrs. Caskett.
Side Notes.
- Gotta love the close friendship between Espo and Beckett. He's always had her back and he was able to recognize something is up. How will he take it if Beckett decides to leave?
- Alexis is heading to Costa Rica for six weeks for a school trip. I'm pretty sure everyone can relate to Castle not wanting to have his daughter out of the country again. Paris anyone?
- Girl time!! Lanie and Beckett finally had some necessary BFF time. Can we make a deal that this happens more next season?
- Daddy to be!! Ryan dropped the bomb on his best bud that him and the Mrs. are finally expecting a baby. Anyone else agree that Ryan will be one amazing father?
So, what did you think? Did the finale live up to the expectations of the season or did it fall flat? The hour was pretty slow until those last few minutes, right? Will Beckett go to DC or stay in NYC? Will she accept Castle's proposal? So many questions and no answers for a few months!
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LOS ANGELES – A day before Andrew Bynum produced one of the most eye-popping defensive performances in NBA playoff history, he spoke up to his Lakers teammates about the importance of getting off to a good start in their championship quest.
With an NBA record-tying 10 blocked shots, the 7-foot All-Star center put the Lakers on the good foot — and the Denver Nuggets on their heels.
Kobe Bryant scored 31 points, Bynum posted the Lakers' first playoff triple-double in 21 years, and Los Angeles thoroughly controlled the tempo in a playoff-opening 103-88 victory Sunday.
Despite a few well-chronicled fluctuations in his motivation and discipline this year, the seventh-year pro had perfect focus in Game 1, capping his utter dominance in the paint with his record-tying block of Timofey Mozgov with 3:02 to play. Bynum also had 10 points and 13 rebounds before checking out to an ovation.
"It's the only way really possible for me to get a triple-double — through blocked shots," Bynum said of his first career triple-double. "If I play good D, we'll win games. I think I'm just going to be as aggressively as I can defensively to contest their shots. ... You've got to win Game 1. Statistics are against the teams that lose Game 1, especially on the home court."
Game 2 is Tuesday night.
Just how dominant were Bynum and his tall teammates against the NBA's highest-scoring team? Bynum blocked 11 percent of the Nuggets' 90 shots, and with 15 total blocks, Lakers swatted one of every six Denver shots, separating the Nuggets from any hope of a late rally.
"His timing was impeccable today," Bryant said of Bynum. "He really understood the rhythm of their offensive players. He was just there at the exact moment, either to change or block the shot."
While Bynum had the Lakers' first playoff triple-double since Magic Johnson in the 1991 NBA finals, fellow 7-footer Pau Gasol added 13 points, eight rebounds and eight assists for the playoff-tested Lakers, who never trailed while forcing Denver to play Los Angeles' preferred half-court style.
Bynum blocked eight shots in the first three quarters before surpassing Kareem Abdul-Jabbar's franchise-record nine blocks in the fourth. He eventually equaled the NBA record set by Utah's Mark Eaton on April 26, 1985, and matched by Hall of Famer Hakeem Olajuwon on April 29, 1990.
"We've got to find a way to score before he gets in the paint, because he's impressive," said Danilo Gallinari, who led Denver with 19 points.
For coach Mike Brown, who has mostly enjoyed his first year riding the roller coaster of Bynum's emotions and motivation, the game showed why these Lakers could go deep into June.
"He can control a game without shooting a single shot," Brown said. "He has 10 blocks, but I'd be curious to know how many (shots) he changed. He changed a gazillion shots in the paint, and that's what Denver is very good at. He was phenomenal tonight, and if he continues to play like he did, being the type of monster he was tonight patrolling that paint, we'll be playing a long time."
But Denver coach George Karl got a jump start on lobbying the officials for help against Bynum in Game 2.
"(Bynum) was playing a nice illegal defense," Karl said. "He was zoned up good. I think we got one illegal defense (call against Los Angeles). I saw about 30 of them. ... The shot-blocker probably beat us."
The sixth-seeded Nuggets won eight of 10 to reach the postseason, but most of their fears about this playoff matchup were realized. Andre Miller had 12 points, eight rebounds and seven assists while helping out Ty Lawson, Denver's leading scorer, who managed just seven points while failing to make a shot in the first three quarters for the NBA's second-youngest playoff roster.
Ramon Sessions had 14 points and five assists in his first career playoff game for the third-seeded Lakers, who lost last year's postseason opener to New Orleans.
Devin Ebanks even scored 12 points in the first half while starting his first career playoff game in place of suspended Metta World Peace. The Lakers didn't miss their defensive stopper while forcing most of Denver's key contributors into poor games.
"I don't think we were intimidated," Gallinari said. "They played their game plan better than we played our game plan. ... This first game, we were overthinking too much. One of the best things we do is just be aggressive and don't think too much."
Bryant scored 23 points in the second half to open the 15th playoff campaign of his 16-year career. The third-leading scorer in NBA playoff history hadn't played in a week, sitting out the Lakers' last game alongside Gasol and Bynum to keep his high-mileage legs fresh.
Sessions and Ebanks both made their playoff debuts, while Brown coached the Lakers in their first playoff game at Staples Center, which opened in 1999, without Phil Jackson commanding their bench from his oversized chair.
NOTES: Jordan Hill had another surprisingly strong game off the bench, contributing 10 points and 10 rebounds to the Lakers. ... Bynum blocked seven shots on June 6, 2010, in Game 2 of the NBA finals against Boston in his previous playoff high. ... The Lakers handed out white T-shirts reading "One at a Time," but in a Staples Center tradition, most of the crowd declined to wear them. ... Fans in attendance included Megan Fox, David Beckham, Meagan Good and Brian Austin Green.


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Technically, the former "Gister en Vandag/Yesterday and Today" journal will enter its 30th year of existence in 2011. However, officially the publication ceased to exist in 1997 as a result of insufficient funding. After a decade under the auspices of the "South African Society for History Teaching", the "old" Journal was revived into a modern-day look, and renamed as Yesterday&Today. Whereas the content of the previous publication was mainly developed from the needs within the fields of General Education and Training and Further Education and Training, the 2010 and beyond publications of Yesterday&Today has gradually shaken off its "infancy" to include articles applicable to the teaching and learning of history at all educational levels.
The main focus of Yesterday&Today's Editorial Board and Editors is to publish articles that will promote and improve the teaching of history (this includes knowledge of history and the methodology of history teaching). Although the Editorial Board will from time to time publishes articles with a contemporary or/and controversial theme, the Board's intentions are mainly to stimulate a variety of teaching approaches or/and perspectives on the past, and not to take part in or promote debates favouring any group or individual in South Africa's history. Yesterday&Today is only published in English, and all articles are subjected to a rigorously peer review process.
To acknowledge the large number of GET and FET educators, the Editorial Board has further decided to also include a small percentage of praxis articles in the journal, demonstrating not only an acceptable backing of knowledge but also based on ample teaching experience. These articles will be known as "Hands-on" articles. It is hoped that these articles, as well as those based on substantial research, will each in its own right equip and provide history educators with subject/discipline knowledge, the "know-how" and current research that will increase their levels of competence. Such as the efforts of the pioneers and founders of the Yesterday&Today journal, (from 1981 known as "Gister en Vandag/Yesterday and Today" and preceded by "Historia Junior" up to 1980) the 2011 Editorial Board would like to see its efforts as a team effort. Indeed a team effort to support creative and scientific research and activities pertaining to the teaching of History.
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There's a tired stereotype that Japan looks like Blade Runner. Sure, some parts do, but the vast majority of the country doesn't. While most of Japan isn't terribly exciting (not necessarily a bad thing!), it sure is pretty.
This is a picture about three minutes from my house. I live in a modern and, for Japan, largish abode. (It, however, is nowhere as large as former Capcom producer Ben Judd's place—that guy lives in a castle!)
For a long, long time, I lived in the middle of Osaka. Like smack dab in the middle. It was very exciting. Going out and shopping were a snap. Since my family and I moved out of the city (we are still only a short train ride away), I've really come to enjoy the rural part of Japan.
I love taking walks and do so every day. The above photo is earlier today, and it's a side of the country you don't see nearly enough in video games; though, it does get a fair representation in anime and manga.
For those readers who follow me on Instagram, I'll probably be posting this photo later night, with some horribly hip filter—or maybe no filter at all. Apologies for showing it twice.
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West Virginia Governor Jim Justice switching from Democrat to Republican
West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice announced Thursday he's switching parties to join Republicans as President Donald Trump visited the increasingly conservative state.
Justice told about 9,000 Trump supporters at a rally in Huntington that he will be changing his registration Friday. He recently visited the White House twice with proposals on manufacturing and coal, neither he nor Trump are politicians and they both ran to get something done, he said.
"This man is a good man. He's got a backbone. He's got real ideas," Justice said. "He cares about America. He cares about us in West Virginia."
Trump said they spoke a few weeks ago about working together to open coal mines and create jobs in furniture manufacturing and other forms of manufacturing. "But Gov. Justice did something else very important tonight. He showed the country that our agenda rises above left or right," he said.
Justice was elected in November with just 49 percent of the vote, 20 percentage points behind Trump's total in the presidential contest in the state. Trump won 77 percent of West Virginia's Republican primary voters in May.
The president promised throughout the campaign to resurrect the lagging coal industry that has declined amid changing energy markets, leaving many West Virginia communities devastated. The industry and many of its workers have blamed the decline mostly on former President Barack Obama and his environmental policies.
Justice's defection leaves Democrats with just 15 governors among 50 states.
In West Virginia, his jump is another blow for Democrats in a state they once ran without opposition. U.S. Sen. Joe Manchin and state Treasurer John Perdue will be the remaining statewide elected Democrats. Manchin is up for re-election in 2018, one of 10 Democratic senators running in states Trump won, a dynamic that gives Democrats an uphill path to reclaiming a Senate majority.
Manchin said he'll always be a West Virginia Democrat and was disappointed by Justice's decision but said he'll work with anyone regardless of party affiliation to benefit West Virginians.
Elected in his first run for statewide office, Justice is a 66-year-old businessman whose family owns farms and coal mines who largely funded his own campaign against then West Virginia Republican Senate President Bill Cole. He has spoken often during the campaign and since publicly about his friendship with the Trump family and hosted Donald Trump Jr. turkey hunting and trout fishing earlier this year.
Justice has turned the daily business operations over to his children while governor. He battled the Republican-controlled Legislature in his first year to limit budget cuts to Medicaid and to state colleges and universities, sometimes with public theatrics like bringing cow manure to a press conference.
He said Thursday that it was the defection from his positions by minority Democrats that resulted in outcomes that hurt people. He said both his parents were staunch Republicans. "Today I tell you as West Virginians I can't help you any more being a Democrat governor," he said.
Republican House Speaker Tim Armstead said the increases in Republican registration and elected officials show people in the state want change. "We welcome all West Virginians to the Republican ranks," he said.
"We're eager to work with Gov. Justice to apply our team's conservative principles to the executive branch and make a clean break from the status quo that has dominated the previous two administrations," Senate President Mitch Carmichael said.
West Virginia Democratic Party Chairwoman Belinda Biafore said Justice became a Democrat because they care about people and then took advantage of them by taking their money and votes. "I think we can all guess just who he cares about by his decision today and it's not the people of West Virginia," she said.
Republican U.S. Sen. Shelley Moore Capito said Republicans represent the state's future and she's ready to work with Justice to grow the economy and fight for energy jobs.
In the national debate over health care, Justice expressed worries about future health coverage for 175,000 West Virginians in the expanded Medicaid program under the Affordable Care Act, but declined to push to repeal and replace "Obamacare." He said he believes Republicans and Democrats will "get it right" when they work together to overhaul the law.
Rep. Evan Jenkins, who switched from Democrat to Republican and won a U.S. House seat in 2014, said at a meet-and-greet in Huntington before the rally that "so many people in recent years have switched from Democrat to Republican, and if Jim Justice is making the switch, I welcome him to the Republican Party."
Jenkins is now running for Manchin's seat.
In May 2015, when he announced his candidacy, Justice said he wanted to put aside partisan politics and that he had changed his party registration multiple times. "I am much more suited to be a Democrat because I truly want to be the person who is trying to take up for the little guy," he said.


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AngryTaco wrote:Thats an excellent idea Tim. When I go to pick up my inventory this week from the manufacturer, I'll run that by them and see what they say. The straight one like in the picture is good for up to a 10-degree offset
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THE MAKING OF A NATION -- a program in Special English.
The storm of battle spread across the United States in the summer of eighteen-sixty-one. For several months, small fights had flashed like lightning around the edge of this great storm.
Soldiers fought pro-southern rioters in the streets of Baltimore and Saint Louis. A Confederate supporter shot and killed a famous young officer from the north. Untrained soldiers of both sides fought in the mountains of western Virginia.
So far, the fighting had not claimed many lives. But very soon, the storm would break in all its fury.
The old general who commanded the Union forces, Winfield Scott, did not want to rush his men into battle.
Scott believed it would be a long war. He planned to spend the first year of it getting ready to fight. He had an army of thousands of men, and it would get much larger in coming months. But this army was not trained. His soldiers were civilians who knew nothing about fighting a war. General Scott needed time to make soldiers of these men.
He also needed time to organize a supply system to get to his forces the guns, bullets, food, and clothing they would need. Without supplies, his army could not fight very long.
There were many in the north, however, who thought Scott was too careful. It was true, they said, that Union forces were untrained. But so were those of the south. And the Confederacy's supply problems were even greater than those of the Union. The south had much less industry and fewer railroads. It could not produce as much military equipment, and it could not transport supplies as easily as the north could.
In the early months of the war, Jefferson Davis, the Confederate President, did not even have guns enough for the men in his army.
Those who demanded immediate action expected a short war. They said Scott should take the army and March to Richmond. They were sure that if Union forces seized the Confederate capital, the southern rebellion would end.
Northern newspapers took up the cry, "On to Richmond!" Political leaders began pressing for a quick northern victory. Public pressure forced the army to act.
For more than a month, General Irvin NcDowell had been building a Union army in northern Virginia, just across the Potomac River from Washington. He had more than thirty-thousand men at bases in Arlington and Alexandria. Late in June, McSowell received orders: "March against the Confederate Army of General Pierre Beauregard. "
Beauregard had twenty-thousand soldiers at Manassas Junction, a railroad village in Virginia less than fifty kilometers from Washington. McDowell planned to move on Manassas Junction July ninth, but was delayed for more than a week.
He planned the attack carefully. McDowell was worried that another large Confederate force west of Manassas Junction might join Beauregard's army.
This force, led by General Joe Johnston, was in the Shenandoah Valley near Harpers Ferry, Virginia. Across from Harpers Ferry, in Maryland, was a Union army almost twice the size of Johnston's. It was ordered to put pressure on Johnston's force to prevent it from helping Beauregard.
General Beauregard received early warning from Confederate spies that McDowell would attack. Much of his information came from a woman, Misses Rose O'Neal Greenhow. Misses Greenhow, a widow, was an important woman in Washington. She knew almost all the top government officials. And she had friends in almost every department of the government.
The beautiful Misses Greenhow also had some very special friends. One was Senator Henry Wilson of Massachusetts. He was chairman of the Senate Committee on Military Affairs. Another special friend was Thomas Jordan, a Confederate colonel in Beauregard's army.
Jordan asked Misses Greenhow, soon after the war started, to be a spy for the south. She agreed and sent much valuable information about Union military plans.
Early in July, she sent word to Beauregard that he would be attacked soon. She also sent a map used by the Senate Military Affairs Committee showing how the Union army would reach Manassas Junction.
Then, on the morning of July sixteenth, Misses Greenhow wrote a nine-word message. She gave it to a man to carry to Beauregard. The Confederate General received it that evening. It said: "Order given for McDowell to march upon Manassas tonight."
Beauregard sent a telegram to Richmond. He told the Confederate government that McDowell was on the way. He asked that Johnston's ten thousand-man force in the Shenandoah Valley join him for battle. He was told to expect Johnston's help.
But Johnston's army was threatened by a large Union force that entered Virginia from Maryland. Led by General Robert Patterson, the Union troops moved toward the smaller Confederate force. They were not really interested in fighting Johnston. But they did want to prevent him from reaching Beauregard.
Johnston knew he could not defeat Patterson. So he decided to trick him.
While most of his army withdrew and prepared to join Beauregard, Johnston sent a small force to attack Patterson's army. Patterson believed Johnston was attacking with all his troops. He stopped moving forward and prepared to defend against what seemed to be a strong Confederate attack.
By the time the trick was discovered, Johnston and most of his troops were at Manassas.
General McDowell's huge Union army left Arlington on the afternoon of July sixteenth. It was a hot day, and the road was dusty. The march was not well organized, and the men traveled slowly. They stopped at every stream to drink and wash the dust from their faces. Some of the soldiers left the road to pick fruits and berries from bushes along the way.
To some of those who watched this army pass, the lines of soldiers in bright clothes looked like a long circus parade.
Most of these men had not been soldiers long. Their bodies were soft, and they tired quickly. It took them four days to travel the forty-five kilometers to Centreville, the final town before Bull Run. The battle would start the next morning -- Sunday, July twenty-first.
The road from Washington was crowded early Sunday morning with horses and wagons bringing people to watch the great battle.
Hundreds of men and women watched the fight from a hill near Centreville. Below them was Bull Run. But the battleground was covered so thickly with trees that the crowds saw little of the fighting. They could, however, see the smoke of battle. And they could hear the sounds of shots and exploding shells.
From time to time, Union officers would ride up the hill to report what a great victory their troops were winning.
In the first few hours of the battle, Union forces were winning. McDowell had moved most of his men to the left side of Beauregard's army. They attacked with artillery and pushed the Confederate forces back. It seemed that the Confederate defense would break. Some of the southern soldiers began to run. But others stood and fought.
One Confederate officer, trying to prevent his troops from moving back, pointed to a group led by General T. J. Jackson of Virginia. "Look!" He shouted. "There is Jackson...standing like a stone wall! Fight like the Virginians!"
The Confederate troops refused to break.
The fighting was fierce. The air was full of flying bullets. A newsman wrote that the whole valley was boiling with dust and smoke. A Confederate soldier told his friend, "Them Yankees are just marching up and being shot to hell."
Neither side would give up. Then, a large group of Johnston's troops arrived by train and joined in the fight. Suddenly, Union soldiers stopped fighting and began pulling back. General McDowell and his officers tried to stop the retreat, but failed. Their men wanted no more fighting.
The fleeing Union soldiers threw down their guns and equipment, thinking only of escape. Many did not stop until they reached Washington.
It was a bitter defeat. But it made the north recognize the need for a real army -- one trained and equipped for war. President Abraham Lincoln gave the job of building such an army to General George McClellan.
You have been listening to the Special English program, THE MAKING OF A NATION. Your narrators were Jack Weitzel and Frank Oliver. Our program was written by Frank Beardsley. THE MAKING OF A NATION can be heard Thursdays.


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New Swine Disease Outbreak Affects U.S.
Porcine epidemic diarrhea, or PED, has been identified in several outbreaks in swine facilities across the U.S. this year, starting in April. Caused by a coronavirus, this disease causes watery diarrhea and subsequent dehydration in pigs. The disease is worst in young piglets under the age of three weeks, with mortality sometimes reaching 100 percent. This mortality rate decreases as the age of the pig increases.
Although never before seen in the U.S., this is not a new virus. It is common in Asia and parts of Europe. It has been in the U.K. since 1971. As of this writing, investigators are still unsure how the disease spread to North America. Contaminated pig feed shipped from Asia or Europe is under suspicion, although this hasn't been confirmed.
Spread via the fecal-oral route, PED can easily be transmitted by people and vehicles across different farms. While humans are not susceptible to the virus, they can carry it primarily on their boots. Researchers and members of the American Association of Swine Veterinarians are stressing the importance of strict biosecurity measures for hog farms. Many farms are closed to all non-essential personnel that work solely on that particular farm and shower-in/shower-out practices help curtail the spread of infectious disease from outside.
The impact of this disease in the U.S. will likely not be seen until several months from now, when the young pigs affected would have been entering slaughter facilities. PED is not a food safety concern but it appears that once it is in a country, PED becomes endemic, so it is likely here to stay in the U.S.
There is no vaccine currently available for this virus and no definitive cure other than supportive care in the form of fluids and electrolytes. However, the University of Minnesota Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory has developed a rapid diagnostic test that produces results in 24 hours. This is an extremely useful tool for swine producers who need to identify an outbreak immediately in order to institute proper quarantine procedures to prevent further disease transmission if possible.
As of this writing, Iowa has been the hardest hit with PED, although cases have been confirmed from Colorado to New York. Researchers speculate that the virus may actually be more stable in colder temperatures, suggesting continual spread of the disease as winter comes. For now, vigilance for swine producers and veterinarians is key.
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"Answered prayers," Saint Teresa of Avila is supposed to have said, "cause more tears than those that go unanswered." Especially, I fear, the answered prayers of political scientists.
These days, you hear academics and pundits bemoaning hyperpartisanship of our politics. It has never been worse, some say.
This shows a certain ignorance about history. Go back and read the things that John Adams' and Thomas Jefferson's partisans were saying about each other in 1800.
Or reflect on the fact that Aaron Burr, Jefferson's first vice president, and Andrew Jackson, the first president to call himself a Democrat, both killed men in duels.
And when you go back in history, searching for that golden moment when politicians of both parties spoke warmly of each other, you only find some glimmers here and there.
Some eminent political scientists today argue that we would have less virulent partisanship if we entrusted the drawing of congressional and legislative districts to nonpartisan commissions.
Maybe that would have some marginal effect. But in California and Arizona, which recently set up such panels, Democrats have cleverly gamed the system to get favorable district lines. Republicans will presumably try to do the same next time. In any case, there will still be many one-party districts.
I ascribe much of the partisan tone of today's politics to two changes urged by the political scientists I studied in college nearly half a century ago.
One was the idea that we should have one clearly liberal and one clearly conservative party. This was a popular enough argument in the 1940s and 1950s that Gallup used to test it in polls.
Political scientists and sympathetic journalists were annoyed that there were lots of Southern (and some non-Southern) conservatives in the Democratic Party and that there were a fair number of pretty liberal Republicans in big states like New York and California.
Wouldn't it make more sense, they asked, to have all the liberals in one party and all the conservatives in the other? That way, they said, voters would have a clear choice, and the winning party (the liberals, most of them hoped) would be able to enact its programs into law.
There are indeed rational arguments for this. For years, Southern whites clung to the Democratic label because of memories of the Civil War, while many liberal Northerners supported Republicans because they disliked big city Democratic political machines. Neither party was ideologically coherent.
Today, it's clear that the prayers of the midcentury reformers have been answered. The Republican Party is a clearly and nearly unanimously a conservative party, while the Democratic Party is the natural home for liberals.
As a result, there are more party-line votes in Congress than there were half a century ago. There are fewer friendships and alliances across party lines. Parties with supermajorities can enact their programs (e.g., Obamacare) even in the face of hostile public opinion.
Another idea peddled by political scientists and some thoughtful liberal politicians half a century ago was that there should be more party discipline in Congress.
Rep. Richard Bolling, frustrated that Democratic House speakers didn't force Southern conservatives to vote the liberal line, wrote two books in the 1960s advocating this. Liberal political scientists and columnists liked the idea.
So when Democrats won big majorities in the Watergate year of 1974, San Francisco Rep. Phillip Burton in a typical backroom maneuver, engineered the election of Democratic committee chairmen and important subcommittee chairmen by secret ballot.
House Republicans adopted a similar rule, providing for election by an elected steering committee, after their big win in 1994.
There's a certain logic to this, and I believe the results on balance have been positive. You don't see senile chairmen frozen in office by the seniority system (a progressive reform in 1911) anymore, and both parties have generally chosen competent chairmen.
But -- and here's the answered prayers department -- you also get more partisan politics. Anyone wanting a chairmanship someday had better not dissent from party orthodoxy very often.
A reputation for bipartisanship doesn't help you get ahead when members of the other party don't get a vote.
The fact is that in a free electoral system, politics will always be adversarial. And in a two-party system, it will often be bitterly partisan in tone.
You can pray that things will be different. But you may not like how your prayers are answered.


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You can get dizzy trying to keep track of the comings and goings in "Escape," Susan Mosakowski's comedy about three troubled couples. Performed in separate, distinct areas of the tiny La MaMa stage, each representing an apartment, it's like an intricate, downtown theater version of "Desperate Housewives."
The first pair we meet are Harry Houdini III (Carlo Alban) and his wife, Bess (Samantha Soule). Harry, who longs to follow in his famous grandfather's footsteps, hopes to audition for the Ringling Brothers circus, but can't extricate himself from anything. It's up to Bess to pay the bills with her job at an S&M club.
In the adjoining apartment is Marilyn (Lauren Fortgang), an actress taken prisoner by a self-styled terrorist (John Sharian) whose accent keeps changing.
When he's not watching action movies — "I like Hans Gruber. I want to look like him," he says of the villain from "Die Hard" — he tries to figure out what Marilyn's life is worth based on actuarial tables.
Finally, there's unemployed elevator repairman Gus (Ted Schneider) and his wife, Lily (Susan Louise O'Connor), whose desperate financial straits have prompted an increasingly paranoid Gus to arm himself with automatic weapons.
The characters' fates become entangled when Harry's neighbors find the straitjacket and coffin that he's thrown out in fits of disgust.
This daffy absurdist comedy has its moments, especially when the hapless Harry is rescued time and again by his patient wife. Gaye Taylor Upchurch's clever staging keeps the complicated action flowing smoothly, and the ensemble delivers expert comic turns. But the three story lines in "Escape" don't add up to a compelling whole.


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Jesus' Parable of the Good Samaritan is a brilliant gut-punch. At least, it was to its original audience. It could be a gut-punch for us again, if we can set aside our familiarity with the story.
We know some of the parable's influence in our collective imagination. We name hospitals and classify laws in honor of the story's protagonist, testaments to the story's enduring nature. Unfortunately, that very popularity may inhibit our ability to allow the tale to challenge us. We've heard it so many times we no longer see the scandal in it. In this case, familiarity doesn't breed contempt, but indifference.
Throughout history, interpreters have read the Parable of the Good Samaritan as an exhortation to limitless compassion. This valid analysis continues to push us to greater and broader love, but such a reading alone does not appreciate the full challenge Jesus presents us in the story. He also confronts our presumptions of who God can use. Jesus shows us that anyone is capable of exhibiting neighborly love. Jesus' original audience would have seen the story's hero, the Samaritan, as sub-human or as an enemy. Yet it is the Samaritan alone who extends God-like compassion, and acts as a neighbor to the hurting man. The reprobate, the sinner, the enemy; that is, one of "those people," becomes a conduit of God's mercy in this world.
We've heard the story so many times we no longer see the scandal in it.
Jesus displays his storytelling genius in the details he gives. With a little translating, these details ensure this story will remain provocative no matter the context of the audience. To begin, it's worth reading the story again. I recommend going slowly.
Just then a lawyer stood up to test Jesus. "Teacher," he said, "what must I do to inherit eternal life?" He said to him, "What is written in the law? What do you read there?" He answered, "You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your strength, and with all your mind; and your neighbor as yourself." And he said to him, "You have given the right answer; do this, and you will live."
But wanting to justify himself, he asked Jesus, "And who is my neighbor?" Jesus replied, "A man was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho, and fell into the hands of robbers, who stripped him, beat him, and went away, leaving him half dead. Now by chance a priest was going down that road; and when he saw him, he passed by on the other side. So likewise a Levite, when he came to the place and saw him, passed by on the other side. But a Samaritan while traveling came near him; and when he saw him, he was moved with pity. He went to him and bandaged his wounds, having poured oil and wine on them. Then he put him on his own animal, brought him to an inn, and took care of him. The next day he took out two denarii, gave them to the innkeeper, and said, 'Take care of him; and when I come back, I will repay you whatever more you spend.' Which of these three, do you think, was a neighbor to the man who fell into the hands of the robbers?" He said, "The one who showed him mercy." Jesus said to him, "Go and do likewise." (Luke 10:25–37, NRSV)
The historical background of this parable is generally well-known. The Jewish people of Jesus' day looked with disdain upon Samaritans, whom they considered heretics and half-breeds, the products of remnant Israelites commingling with Assyrian invaders centuries earlier. (It should be noted, Samaritans similarly despised the Jews.) To Jesus' original audience, a Samaritan was the absolute "other," against whom any smear could be said because everyone just knew it was true.
In casting a Samaritan as the hero of this story and portraying the priest and the Levite critically, Jesus is guaranteed to offend those listening to the story, especially folks like the legal expert who originally questioned Jesus. Jesus deftly upends his audience's prejudices, in order to evoke a response. To the legal expert's credit, his biases and shock don't keep him from understanding Jesus's point.
Let's place ourselves in the role of that lawyer. He essentially asks, "Whom am I required to love, and whom am I not required to love?" As humans, we tend to shrink our circles of welcome, and then make those boundaries impermeable. We want to love only people we perceive as being like us. The lawyer's question is often our question. Are we required to love people of other ethnicities, nationalities, or religions? Are we required to love people who cannot reciprocate, or who might squander our charity? Are we required to love people whose words and actions we find repugnant? Are we required to love people of other political parties? Are we required to love people who want to harm us?
The Samaritan can probably discern the beaten man on the roadside is Jewish. He would be safe in assuming the victim likely views Samaritans poorly. Yet he helps anyway. Therefore, we see the lawyer's question, "Who is my neighbor?" and after reading the parable, we see that the answer is, "Everyone!" Unsurprisingly, this parable is often used to illustrate how we are to help our fellow humans, no matter where they live or how they suffer. Our neighbor is every person, not merely someone who shares our ethnicity, nationality, religion, or other affinities. This sort of reading has motivated many excellent acts of compassion throughout history, and we still need to hear this message.
We could arrive at a similar interpretation, though—that everyone is our neighbor—even if the roles were reversed and the hero were an average Jewish person who crossed the social barriers of his day to help a victimized Samaritan. Jesus' original audience does not come to a mawkish change of heart regarding the Samaritan's humanity. The love Jesus describes is more than a disposition or a perspective. In this parable, Jesus shows us that the Samaritan loves by acting to the point of accepting the cost of that love.
Making the Samaritan the hero is not an incidental detail—it is central to understanding the scandal and the power of the parable. Jesus challenges his audience to see that the presumed reprobate has the capacity for God-like altruism. In fact, he is the only person in the story who extends it. The Samaritan does what we would expect of a person who keeps the Torah's teachings. If we were to draw a picture of a citizen of God's kingdom, we would probably come up with someone a lot like the Good Samaritan. In answer to the lawyer's original question, Jesus shows the Samaritan, the dehumanized other, is capable of inheriting eternal life. The Samaritan becomes an agent of God.
Making the Samaritan the hero is not an incidental detail.
Jesus pushes the audience by flipping the lawyer's self-justifying question back on him. After the parable, Jesus asks his own question: "Which of these three, do you think, was a neighbor to the man who fell into the hands of the robbers?" He presents readers with the same challenge. "Who is my neighbor?" becomes a question we ought never ask. Instead, we should examine ourselves with the question, "Am I being a neighbor to others?" Jesus eliminates any definition of "neighbor" that has anything to do with shared attributes. "Neighbor" is now a moral designation to which we aspire—we hope we can be neighbors to others. And becoming a neighbor is contingent upon our showing mercy in tangible ways. Remember, Jesus's conclusion is not, "Now think differently;" his exhortation is, "Go and do likewise."
Perhaps the most brilliant aspect of the parable is just how eminently translatable it is in any cultural context. For those of us living in America today, we have to peel away the layers of our cultural familiarity to recapture how a Samaritan hero would be controversial to Jesus's audience. This parable has become so well-known that in our context the term Samaritan is now synonymous with a charitable person. To call someone a Samaritan today is a compliment of a high order.
Merely change the characters to modern equivalents and the power of the parable immediately returns. Cast in the role of the Samaritan a person you could never imagine being a part of your faith community. Make them someone from a people group who scares or angers you, a group whom you cannot envision God ever using to establish justice and mercy. Then, change the Levite and priest to respected members of your community.
After the attacks on 9/11, I heard preachers tell the Parable of the Good Taliban Fighter, or the Parable of the Good Muslim. Thanks to our propensity to tighten the circle of people we think God should love and use, the possibilities for new Samaritans are nearly endless.
The Parable of the Good Gang Member. The Parable of the Good Atheist. The Parable of the Good Religious Right Christian. The Parable of the Good Progressive Christian. The Parable of the Good Syrian Refugee. The Parable of the Good Drug Addict. The Parable of the Good Oil Tycoon. The Parable of the Good Traditional Marriage Proponent. The Parable of the Good Homeless Man. The Parable of the Good NRA Member. The Parable of the Good Transgendered Woman. The Parable of the Good Black Lives Matter Activist. The Parable of the Good Communist. The Parable of the Good Capitalist. The Parable of the Good Environmentalist. The Parable of the Good Blue Lives Matter Advocate. The Parable of the Good Undocumented Immigrant. The Parable of the Good Hillary Clinton Voter. The Parable of the Good Donald Trump Supporter.
However you recast the roles of the parable, just be sure the new players make you feel uncomfortable. Then you'll know you're on the right track.
Tyler Watson is a stay-at-home dad living in the Bay Area of northern California with his wife and three children. Prior to his current vocation he served as a pastor in congregations of the Evangelical Covenant Church. He received his MDiv from Fuller Theological Seminary. He has written devotionals on the Psalms and blogs at The Space Between My Ears.


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We continue to celebrate the launch of our 2013 Edition of the The DFB Guide to Walt Disney World Dining e-Book with one of my favorite restaurant tips from the DFB Guide!
There are lots of unique reasons to dine in certain Disney World restaurants, and one of the most interesting is the view you'll have from your table.
At many Disney World restaurants, you'll have the chance to glimpse fireworks shows, parades, animals, and more, but only if you ask for the right tables!
For example, at Epcot's Bistro de Paris you'll have a wonderful view of the Epcot fireworks, but to get it you'll have to score a window-side table. The key? Make sure your reservation is for about an hour before the fireworks begin, and be sure to request a fireworks-view table — a seat in the middle of the row of tables next to the window — when you check in for your reservation!
While nothing is ever guaranteed, if you let the host know you're willing to wait a bit longer for a great table, chances are good you'll have a wonderful dining experience with a fantastic view of the show!
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Producing An Album On The iPad? Yup, There's An Artist For That!
On her blog, NYC-based producer & DJ Rana June Sobhany asks:
Can the iPad revolutionize music creation? Is it possible to rock the house for an hour using only two iPads and an iPhone using only apps downloaded from the App Store? One girl ventures to find out.
Destroy The Silence is Rana's experiment to produce and mix an entire album without using any synths or laptops. She just released Volume One of her experiment and since she made SoundCloud an integral part of her project, we were intrigued by all this iPad craze (we're big fans too!) and needed to know more.
Rana! This is exciting, tell us about the project: what's the idea and why the iPad?
I am experimenting with an idea I had 3 weeks ago where I am doing live music production and DJing using nothing more than two iPads and a simple DJ mixer. I am a believer in the power and opportunities that come from touch screen computing and mobile applications and this project is the culmination of all of my experiences in music and in working on the mobile side combined into one concept.
I come from the technology side in terms of my career but music has always been a very important part of my life. From making it, listening to it, appreciating it, studying it, I have always found solace in music. Some of the most incredible musicians I've ever met write code for a living. I think that there's something to that. Before this, I build an analytics company for iPhone apps and I spent day and night knee-deep in data. I absolutely love looking for patterns and structure in data. Music is mathematics, so it wasn't a big jump to try to find interesting patterns in music as well, and the iPad represents something much bigger than a tablet computer to me. The future is going to based on portable computing platforms that are completely integrated into our lives. This is just the beginning of that.
Why is the iPad an interesting platform for music making and what apps have you used for this mix?
The iPad bridges the gap between real instruments and computers. When you introduce a tactile component such as throwing a loop into the mix or triggering a sound sample, it feels more like playing music than using a computer. I think that this is where the benefits lie to musicians looking to incorporate touch screen computers into their set-ups. There's sort of this perfect storm in terms of touch interfaces right now due to the movie Minority Report, the iPhone and now the iPad. The mouse will soon become obsolete and there will be some huge strides made with regard to haptic feedback on these multi-touch surfaces. Even now, when I use some of the drum machines apps, you can actually feel the bass when you touch the pad on screen, and I would love to see this extend to feedback from touching keys on a keyboard and the feeling of changing a setting on a knob. I bring this up because I think that the better and more intuitive the iPad and other tablet interfaces become, the more likely it is that regular consumers will see the value and opportunity in transitioning to these platforms.
The apps:
Looptastic HD
IK Multimedia Groovemaker Series – House, Hip Hop
Pianist Pro
Korg iElectribe
Easy Beats LRG
Which is currently the best music app for the iPad and what features would an app need to make it *the* music production app on the iPad?
The iPad does not allow for sound libraries to be shared between apps, so I really do end up using all of the apps I have. It's very hard to pick a favorite. But for what I'm doing, Looptastic HD has been absolutely inspiring. I am currently recording a lot of my own samples and loops to be able to truly create the music I want to be making using the iPads, and now that the Camera Kit has been released, I can plug in USB devices to my iPad. This will really open up opportunities for music making. The new iPhone OS 4.0 will make a lot of the apps I use a lot more usable for music production and DJing because of the multitasking feature that is being introduced. Being able to quickly switch between apps will hopefully eliminate my need for a hardware mixer, which is what I'm really looking forward to.
What's the main difference between making music on an iPad and on a laptop/desktop?
It's hard enough to mix beats together when dealing with laptops. Now imagine that with two independent computing platforms with no ability to sync. The lack of multitasking in the OS makes it really hard to transition quickly between apps. There really is no room for error. There are so many things happening at once that it can be dizzying when you consider the timing and rhythmic elements to making music on iPad. That being said, the iPad handles a lot of the grunt work when it comes to aligning rhythms and matching tempos. Having the ability to monitor sounds through the mixer I'm using also makes it easy to experiment with sonic ideas on the fly and iterate as needed. I haven't stopped playing music on the iPad since I got it, so I think that's a testament to the fun-factor of it. Again, this is a brand new platform and there is so much innovation that's going to happen here within the next 6 months. That being said, I am doing this using only "stock" applications and I'm able to get some pretty good musical ideas across to listeners so I am very excited about the potential here.
In your opinion, will the iPad change music making and if so, how? Will more people use the iPad for music creation?
I think that people often lose sight of the fact that the iPad has only been available for 3 weeks. Most of the developers who have released the applications I use in this set-up didn't have an iPad to work with when they built their apps. Now that the iPad has been in the wild, developers are going to be able to custom tailor their apps to work with the modality of using an iPad, and I believe that the next few revisions of apps like IK Multimedia's Groovemaker Series and Looptastic HD are going to become powerhouses as a result. I am trying to demonstrate the power and capabilities of the iPad, and I hope that it will inspire people to think outside the box as it relates to tablet computing and music.
With SoundCloud, we're trying to get developers to connect their applications with our platform to enable simply sharing to the web. What role does music sharing means for you with this project and what's your take on sharing music via the web?
It's vital! I really rely on the feedback of musicians I respect in helping me shape the next generation of music I'm making using my setup, and SoundCloud has been an integral part of that. I know that many in the music community are scared by the notion of sharing music or giving it away for free. I think that this industry really needs to evolve and understand the power in introducing music to new listeners. Those worried about lost monetary opportunities are being short sighted. I am very fortunate to be able to have access to a platform like SoundCloud for this experiment and I am so appreciative of the tools SoundCloud provides me in measuring my audience and understanding what's working and what's not with the new music I'm releasing.
Great stuff, Rana! Thanks a lot for taking the time to answer these questions for us!
Everyone, check out Destroy The Silence | Volume One below and watch Robert Scoble interview her in this 17-minute video over on Gizmodo.
If you're developing a music creation app for the iPad, we'd love to speak with you about integrating SoundCloud for an easy-export to the web to host and share the music produced with the app. Email us at api [at ]soundcloud [dot] com


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In the Spring a young man's fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love, as Alfred Lord Tennyson wrote. Or airport layovers. "My heart is like a baggage carousel, let me roll it to you," Paul McCartney didn't write. Let's screen the headlines:
•"This dating site livens up airport layovers": Gee, exactly when people are looking and feeling their best. Is the idea to get that first argument out of the way? No, say the creators of ETurbulence Dating at The Airport, which announced the upcoming inaugural activities: Shoe-Removal-Get-to-Know-You Square Dance; Security Line Fandango; Body Scanner Image Swap; and a "Let's Carry-On" cocktail hour at the TSA Patdown Lounge.
"Virgin America Airline wants to help passengers hook up": Won't they have to change the name of the airline then?
"Wanna see 'Man of Steel' early? Go to Walmart": Where he works as a mild-mannered greeter, due to his inability to find a phone booth in which to change out of the blue vest and into his other uniform.
"Duluth named a 'Cleanest City' in annual air quality report card": Yes, the daily average 80 mph winds off Lake Superior indeed do a great job of sweeping the air clean.
"The Prodigal Tweeter returns: Weiner back online": Just to note — great headline. (About the politician returning to the scene of the crime.)
"Kan. woman meets circus tiger in bathroom": They swapped talk about the effect of the humidity on their hair/fur, compared lipsticks, and made plans for lunch the following day.
"Kids more likely to pick up warts at home, not public spaces": "Tommy, how many times do I have to tell you to put that wart down!"
"College binge drinking raises heart disease risk": Ditto non-college binge drinking.
"'Newspaper Reporter' ranks as nation's worst job, says CareerCast's 2013 jobs rated report": Oh, really? They are certainly harder to come by, but remain among the most important jobs in the world if people believe news coverage and a free press are important. At CareerCast,com however, it appears the substance of a job is immaterial to its desirability. ("Actor" is also on the worst jobs list.)
Rather than a list of the "best" and "worst" jobs, CareerCast is enumerating the "most" and "fewest" jobs available. It's a big difference for people who think of a job as more than a way to make money.
"People who love to write can consider working for online publications or transition to advertising or public relations," says Tony Lee, publisher, CareerCast.com. "Many jobs in communications offer better hours, greater stability, a work/life balance and a healthier hiring outlook than being a newspaper reporter."
Because certain jobs are really a passion-fueled vocation, (artists, designers, actors, etc.) it's doubtful that people who really "love to write" will find any satisfaction "working for online publications or transitioning to advertising or public relations."
In fact, sentences like that can make people vow to never transition to advertising or public relations.
On the other side of the jobs coin, CareerCast writes, "High pay, low stress, a robust hiring outlook, a healthy work environment and minimal physical exertion combine to make actuary the top job for 2013. Biomedical engineer, software engineer, audiologist and financial planner round out the top five."
According to Purdue University, (yes, I had to look it up): "An actuary is a business professional who analyzes the financial consequences of risk. Actuaries use mathematics, statistics, and financial theory to study uncertain future events, especially those of concern to insurance and pension programs."
With all due respect to actual actuaries, really, that's the best job in the nation?
•"Students at UC Irvine approve $3 fee to save paper": Hmm. Sometimes the financial consequences of risk are beyond analysis or prediction. Or something.
"Woman, 80, swallows diamond at Fla. charity event": Hopefully this will put an end to the "diamond in a glass of champagne" trend for engagements and charity events. (In this case, $20, would buy you a flute of champagne and a chance to win a one-carat, $5,000 diamond.)
Coincidentally, the winner and swallower of the diamond, Miriam Tucker, already had a colonoscopy scheduled for Monday, and the gem was retrieved. (That's the most sparkly, clean colon I've ever seen," Tucker's gastroenterologist didn't say.) All's well that ends well. (And hey, CareerCast, some people were meant to retrieve the diamond, and some were meant to write about it … no ifs, ands, or buts.)
•"Rare blue diamond fetches record $9.6 million": It's so rare it wasn't even put in a flute of Blue Hawaiian Punch for someone to mistakenly drink.
Don't transition to public relations this week.
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After LeBron James announced that he was returning to Cleveland, The New York Times ran one of the coolest covers we've ever seen on its Saturday sports section. It turns out that the idea behind the cover was indirectly inspired by Kanye West and Kim Kardashian, because of course it was.
Co.Design got in touch with NYT deputy sports editor Jason Stallman, who explained how the cover came together:
"The New York Post covered Kim Kardashian and Kanye West's wedding in very unlikely un-tabloid fashion," Stallman tells Co.Design. "You think they'd go wild, but instead they did a small, brief very mean-spirited and snarky announcement."
[Graphics editor Kevin] Quealy had the idea to cover Lebron's huge announcement in a similarly understated style. "By the end of the day, against all the hype about the Lebron decision, we wanted to go in the totally opposite direction. Most publications had big displays about Lebron, with huge photographs and headlines. We wanted the simplest, crudest possible representation of what happened." Designer Ben Hoffman toyed around with various layouts, and the team fell in love with the idea of using a clipping of the transaction section against a large white space.
So maybe Kanye West isn't full of shit when he talks about how our entire culture revolves around him.


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STOCKHOLM — Newly crowned Norwegian world chess champion Magnus Carlsen took just nine moves to checkmate Bill Gates in a speed game to be aired later on Friday.
Challenged to a game in a chat show hosted by well-known Norwegian television presenter Fredrik Skavlan and due to be shown in Norway, Denmark and Sweden, Microsoft founder Gates said before the game that the challenge had "a predetermined outcome."
Gates, 58, who was ranked by Forbes magazine this year as the world's second-richest person behind Mexico's Carlos Slim, had 2 minutes to make his moves against just 30 seconds for Carlsen. He lost to the 23-year-old in around 1 minute 20 seconds.
"Wow, that was fast," he said to Carlsen, whose rockstar appeal has won him the moniker the "Justin Bieber of chess."
The program was recorded on Wednesday in London, Norwegian TV NRK said.
Asked by Skavlan under what circumstances he felt intellectually inadequate, Gates answered: "When I play chess with him (Carlsen)."
Carlsen, a grandmaster since he was 13, received non-stop television coverage in Norway when he beat defending champion Viswanathan Anand of India last November to take his first world title.


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Monday, November 26, 2007
Tagruato Website Restored
The Tagruato website was fully restored, and it appears that it is identical to what it was before it was hacked.
I'm sure whoever hacked the website will be back, sooner than later.
*Thanks to Michael for emailing me about this first!
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Hey Dennis any idea of who hacked the Tagruato site? I find it unusual that Tagruato didn't release any "press release" or message about terrorists hacking their webpage. Perhaps the hack was OOG out of game and had nothing to do with Cloverfield's marketing plan? I also find it silly that the message was "TIDOO" which is a doll. Now if Jamie's gift turns out to be a Tidoo, well then that would confirm it.
as a matter of fact...they all doReplyDelete
yoshida medical research
bold futura
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those are all fake...i could make those...and that's not saying much... hell, the MONSTER could have a myspaceReplyDelete
the monster DOES have a myspace. and how are you so sure they are fake? do you work for paramount? if it's one thing i've learned when it comes to this movie...don't count ANYTHING out right away.ReplyDelete
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Ok guys let get something straight THIS WASNT A REAL HACKER, IT NEVER WAS. The only reason someone would hack Tagruato is if it was a real ocean digging company, and really destroying our oceans. But i ask you where would you find out about tagruato if you didnt know about this movie?ReplyDelete
i believe he is suggesting a game hack dudeReplyDelete
I haven;t seen anyone else post this, sorry if this is a repeat. Why is Tagruato so concerned about animals?
Because they want to use them as test subjects for the effects of Slusho. That's probably why they're 'renovating' these places. "These centers will undergo a full renovation in the next three years, making way for modern facilities with up-to-date research, technology, and rehabilitation equipment."ReplyDelete
"It's a kitten, it's HUGE!"
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Bold Futura hired the Atlanta Thrashers goalie Johan Hedberg? Interesting...ReplyDelete
the main reason i believe those are fake myspace acconts is because they provide nothing different from the tagruato.jp site.. they also don't have links to the tagruato site. they gotta be fan made.ReplyDelete
and to steve-o..yeah they got a goalie! who would no more about keeping slusho cold than a guy who practically lives on ice! :P


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