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It�s going to be finale after finale after finale at Havelock�s Freedom Festival fireworks display this Fourth of July.
It�s going to be finale after finale after finale at Havelock�s Freedom Festival fireworks display this Fourth of July.
"It�s one of the larger displays in Eastern North Carolina," said Chris Moncourtios, owner of Class A Services of Stella. Moncourtois is in his 10th year lighting the sky on the Fourth of July in Havelock.
The 9 p.m. show caps an evening of fun at Havelock City Park and Walter B. Jones Park on Thursday.
Moncourtios said there would be four elements to the Havelock fireworks display.
"One is kind of an oxymoron, but basically it�s a final finale for an opener," he said. "We always start the fireworks display with a miniature final finale that will end with salutes. That�s the thing that goes boom, boom, boom.
"And then from there we go right to the body of the display, which are the individual shells, but we have little miniature finales called cakes that we add along with the body. Cakes are a very rapid firing, normally a 100- to 150-shot finale with certain effects to it. That way you have a display that�s very interesting and very high in the sky, with four-, five- and six-inch shells, and you also have something going on at a lower level as well. The last part is, of course, the final finale."
Moncourtios said about 1,000 shells would be fired up to 700 feet high during the 25-minute show, which is scheduled to lift off in the empty field behind the Havelock Police Department. He said several of the fireworks will be new to the Havelock display this year.
"We have hearts. We have smiley faces with glittering eyes. We have timed rain, where the shell breaks and kind of looks like a snowstorm," he said. "We import from China, and it seems like every year the effects get better and better."
The veteran show producer said fireworks still fascinate him.
"There�s a little bit of a danger element to it and also just a fascination of exactly what you can do with charcoal, potassium nitrate and the different types of metals for different colors," Moncourtios said.
And he and his crew appreciate the feedback.
"In Havelock, you have two things. You have the crowd and you have car horns," he said. "We do hear the crowd, and it�s awful rewarding knowing that you did a good job and everything went off safely."
Dave Smith, Havelock Parks and Recreation Director, said the city spent $11,800 on the fireworks show, which caps the annual Freedom Festival held in Havelock City Park.
The festival is scheduled to start at 5 p.m. and will include a variety of organizations selling hotdogs, funnel cakes, snow cones, cotton candy, nachos, chicken wings, popcorn, and all sorts of beverages.
The old-fashioned celebration includes a variety of games, including three-legged races and egg relay races. Age divisions range from 6 and under, 7 to 12 to 13 and older.
"All the games are very popular," said A.D. Brady, the recreation department�s organizer of the Freedom Festival. "They really have a good time. It�s really in the spirit of the holiday.
"We normally are not lacking for participants. The Hula Hoop contest is the most popular. This is something that the adults can participate in and it�s something that�s from their childhood. They are familiar with it."
Entertainment will be provided by Newport country singer Pauline Smith beginning at 5:30 p.m.
Amber Lewis, who sings modern ballads, is scheduled to take the stage at 6:30 p.m.
The perennially popular pie-eating contest is scheduled for 7:30 p.m. Contestants in 12-and-under and 13-and-above age groups will see who can consume a nine-inch apple pie while seated at a table with their hands tied behind their backs.
"It�s a very popular event. The people are laughing. They�ve got pie all over their face and their ears. It�s comical," Brady said. "It�s competitive and people enjoy it."
At 8 p.m. the Havelock Community Band is scheduled to take the stage, providing music for about 40 minutes.
Brady said families don�t have to wait until 5 p.m. to enjoy the day at the park.
"A lot of people come out and set up picnic areas and grill food and have their own family reunion all over the park before the Freedom Festival even starts. They�re welcome to do that," Brady said. "Everyone in the surrounding areas is more than welcome to join us in our Freedom Festival. All Craven County, Carteret County and the other surrounding counties are more than welcome to participate."
There is no admission cost. Those attending are advised to bring blankets or lawn chairs to enjoy the day in the park as well as the fireworks.
Brady said sparklers are welcome but other fireworks should be left at home. No animals or alcoholic beverages are allowed.
Traffic in the area is expected to be heavy, and Brady advises drivers to use caution.


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DualShockNexus: PAX Prime is over, but that doesn't mean we don't have any news to cover for you all to enjoy. Here at DualShock Nexus, we got an opportunity to check out the Konami party the same day as the Metal Gear Solid Panel and we all made a toast to the legend himself. Gears Of War's Cliff Bleszinski also made an appearance and had a few things to say to the legendary Hideo Kojima as well. We have that information and more from the Konami party.
Turn down your volume. You'll thank me later.
It really does come across in his attention to the human details of his characters and his effective use of exposition and I AM SO DRUNK RIGHT NOW HAHAHA
Ah, so that's why Gears turned out so good/ Best TPS this gen/
Damn..that looks fun
Kojima is my favourite screen writer, director and designer in the gaming industry.
I was there in spirit. Actually I was just downstairs. The difference a wrist band can make.


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The Neuroscience of Calming a Baby
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Every parent and caregiver knows from first hand experience that babies calm down when they are picked up, gently rocked, and carried around the room. New research published in the journal Current Biology on April 18, 2013 shows that this is a universal phenomenon. Infants experience an automatic calming reaction when they are being carried, whether they are mouse pups or human babies.


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Commencement Speaker Michelle Haynes.
PLATTSBURGH — Michelle Haynes stood by her fellow Plattsburgh State graduates as an unfinished person.
Like her peers, she hasn't completed her portrait of herself.
"To be quite honest, I'm not entirely sure that this painting will ever be completed," said the Keeseville native who majored in anthropology, English literature and art history, giving the commencement speech on behalf of the Class of 2012. "I do, however, have certainty that I will continue to try."
Haynes was among the roughly 500 graduates at Plattsburgh State's annual winter commencement ceremony at the Field House.
More than 160 students recently graduated from Clinton Community College.
Class of 2012 Valedictorian Sherrie Harvey of Rouses Point was the speaker at the CCC commencement ceremony. She majored in accounting.
CCC's salutatorian was Around Roach of Mooers, an Industrial Technology major.
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Thomas Corigliano, associate dean, SUNY Plattsburgh at Queensbury, served as faculty marshal.
Graduates, faculty and staff were escorted by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police Bagpipe Band. Plattsburgh State's Gospel Choir performed the "Star Spangled Banner."
Student Association President Charles Sanchez congratulated the graduates, while Alumni Association Director Michael Harrington welcomed the assembled to the association.
"Although each of you arrived on this campus with your own unique history, you leave the college today having a shared history, and you leave as a life-long member of this very special community," he said. "You have an important role to play in the ongoing history of SUNY Plattsburgh and ensuring that the students who follow in your footsteps will enjoy an educational opportunity here that is truly bright with promise."
During her time at Plattsburgh State, Haynes completed three minors in addition to her multiple majors.
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"I challenge you to do more than exist in your own preconceptions of who you are, or who you should be," she said to her fellow students. "I challenge you to live — to adapt — to find your niche and follow a path that is right for you."


text: Sijun Forums :: View topic - Ironman by Joe Quesada Log in to check your private messages Sijun Forums Forum Index >> Work in Progress View previous topic :: View next topic Author Topic : "Ironman by Joe Quesada" ChapelmemberMember #Joined: 18 Mar 2000Posts: 1930 Posted: Sat Jan 06, 2001 1:18 am Here is something I just finished. This pic was a pain. Not the greatest, but I thought it looked neat. By the way, I just colored it I didn't draw it for those of you just tuning in. ------------------ Chapel My Home [This message has been edited by Chapel (edited January 06, 2001).] Back to top Matt EldermemberMember #Joined: 15 Jan 2000Posts: 641Location: Sydney, NSW, Australia Posted: Sat Jan 06, 2001 9:25 am Well that is certainly bizzare to see a chapel post without a comment, what'z happening dude. The colours in the image are good but I think some of your other colour works recently have been good (I've been around a little lately but just haven't had time to comment). Maybe it is the line work that you aluded too... not sure why. I mean, MAD's stuff just seems like it would be easier to do. Some of the lines just seem to black (the art work ones) and doesn't all the colour to get a 'flow'. Some of the sections don't look completely finished and like you've just quickly gone over with an airbrush. In particular the fireball hand and the 'square' firecracker explosion bits. I'm also not sure why but I don't think the green and black background works with the reds and yellows/oranges. Still, having said that I like the job that you've done. ------------------ See ya on da flip side Matt http://www.mattelder.com Back to top Seph|rothmemberMember #Joined: 07 Sep 2000Posts: 261Location: Montreal, Qc, Canada Posted: Sat Jan 06, 2001 11:13 am After all the comments you've been telling everyone and all the help you've given, the least I could do is give you a lil reply. I TOTALLY dig the image. The colors look really good if you ask me. I've seen most of your stuff that you've posted here and its obvious that you're getting better and better with every post. Keep up the nice work ------------------ - Seph - Listen Without Prejudice Back to top ChapelmemberMember #Joined: 18 Mar 2000Posts: 1930 Posted: Sat Jan 06, 2001 11:15 am Something pretty cool.. Joe Quesada gave me a little advice after seeing this pic on his message board. He is my hero. Back to top CuddlymemberMember #Joined: 02 Jan 2001Posts: 161Location: Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Posted: Sun Jan 07, 2001 9:43 pm Chapel, I can easily see how this picture would have been a nightmare to color. Excellent work (as usual) though!! You've proved a constant source of inspiration. I love your style and your work. And I think it's real cool that Joe Quesada himself got in touch with you. Looking forward to more work from you. Back to top edible snowmanmemberMember #Joined: 12 Sep 2000Posts: 998 Posted: Mon Jan 08, 2001 4:34 pm thats pretty cool. nice coloring job, it does look kinda like a pain to do. Is he flying through fireworks or something? Back to top EnaylamemberMember #Joined: 26 Nov 2000Posts: 1217Location: Sweden Posted: Mon Jan 08, 2001 4:47 pm Teehee! I like this! Really good use of colours. You've must've put a lot of time into painting this! I like the Batman colourings you've been doing lately better, though, but that doesn't mean this isn't great ------------------ ··Signature space for rent·· Back to top ChapelmemberMember #Joined: 18 Mar 2000Posts: 1930 Posted: Mon Jan 08, 2001 8:28 pm Thanks for the kind words. Especially you Enayla cause well.. your female.. and this is my post so I can say all the cheesy things I want. I'm scrapping this pic though. I'm going to redo it tomorrow. I'm not happy with it and I know I can do better. And yes.. those were supposed to be fireworks. Back to top CapnPyromemberMember #Joined: 25 Mar 2000Posts: 671Location: Thousand Oaks, CA Posted: Tue Jan 09, 2001 2:30 am that looks really great.. the thing with fireworks is they dont just illuminate the immediate area, they have a huge light... sphere around them... although it does sort of work like this. i like the picture the way it is, only thing i'd suggest changing is getting rid of 2 of the green fireworks and making them different colors. One of the complements of red is green, so that was a good choice, the legs are a yellow/orange, the compliment of orange is blue, and the compliment of yellow is violet.. so those are 2 of the colors I'd consider for the background fireworks. Dont forget, not all fireworks are solid colors great work -cap ------------------ http://home1.gte.net/capnpyro Back to top EnaylamemberMember #Joined: 26 Nov 2000Posts: 1217Location: Sweden Posted: Tue Jan 09, 2001 2:46 am Yippie! 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I felt about Batuman's review much of what I felt about The Program Era itself -- that interesting insights were again and again undercut by something under-analyzed, simplified, or distorted. Mostly, I'm just tired of people complaining about some monolithic thing called "MFA writers" and their boring books/stories. It's a straw man argument, because to be convincing (to me, at least) a critic must show that a giant glob of the fiction being published in the U.S. today is 1.) boring; 2.) boring because of the effect of writing workshops on the writer -- that, in fact, this writer would be less boring had she or he studied investment banking.
Batuman and I agree that much of the fiction published today is uninteresting. We definitely disagree about which kinds of fiction are interesting and which aren't; beyond that, we disagree about whether this is anything to carp about.
Here's the thing that I keep thinking about whenever I hear these "ohhhh, the MFA's are ruining the world of beauty/authenticity/Literature/whatever -- waaaa!" complaints: There is more fiction out there that interests me than I will ever have time to read in my life. Everybody could stop writing and publishing tomorrow and I would still have more books that I would like to read than I will have time for between now and when I die. I don't think the MFAs are ruining everything, but even if I did -- so what? Let them. They're not coming into my house and changing all the words in all the books I own so that those books will now be tales middle-aged hetero white guys feeling guilt while lusting after their undergraduate students.
The problem for any complainant about MFAs goes back to #1 above -- if your thesis is that most of X is Y, then you need to show a familiarity with a majority of X and valid criteria for what constitutes Y. So many of the people who argue that, for instance, "U.S. fiction is boring" mostly seem to have familiarized themselves with high school summer reading lists and the front table at their local chain bookstore, when maybe what would make them happier would be to read some stuff published by, for instance, FC2 or Small Beer or Soft Skull or Coffee House or...
Even then, the complainant might say, "Yes, dozens, even hundreds of books of fiction published each year hold at least some interest for me -- but the majority still sucks!" Welcome to the world of Sturgeon's Law, something we sci-fi geeks believe in as deeply as we believe just about anything else. Crud, crud, crud, crud, crud, crud, crud, crud, crud, not-so-crud; rinse and repeat.
Once again, I ask: So what?
There's an answer to that, and a fairly obvious one -- if students are going to an MFA program with the thought that it will make them into deeply interesting and remarkably well-rounded writers, they're probably spending a lot of money on an illusion. If Sturgeon's Law is true, 90% of them, no matter what, will never be very interesting writers.
This brings up a few more questions. First, are the students of MFA programs laboring under that illusion? (Or do they have other illusions, as students are wont to have -- for instance, that they are already brilliant and idiosyncratic writers and just need a damned degree to get a teaching job with some possible hope of a tenure-track position sometime in the next couple decades, even if in all likelihood they'll spend those decades teaching 100+ students/term for less than they'd make working at Starbucks; or, in the category of less vocational illusions, that their lack of personal hygiene is an expression of their unique genius...) Maybe they just want to learn something about writing, buy the time to focus on doing that, and hope to hang with some interesting people for a little while. People have all sorts of different reasons to choosing the sorts of educations they pursue, and the question of why people go to MFA programs should be linked, it seems to me, to questions about higher education in the U.S. in general, including questions of labor. There are plenty of valid reasons to get an MFA; doing so because you think it will suddenly make you James Joyce is probably not the best one. And I expect many, if not most, of the people who attend MFA programs know this. (If they don't, they probably learn it pretty quickly.)
These are important questions for students and potential students to consider, but I don't see that they're particularly important questions for readers, who are still stuck with the basic fact that most people who write, with or without MFA programs, are not geniuses. (Neither are the teachers -- remember Lynn Freed?) Crud crud crud crud....
My real problems with Batuman's essay, though, lie in how she characterizes contemporary fiction. Alarm bells began jangling in my ears when I read this, the third paragraph of the essay:
I should state up front that I am not a fan of programme fiction. Basically, I feel about it as towards new fiction from a developing nation with no literary tradition: I recognise that it has anthropological interest, and is compelling to those whose experience it describes, but I probably wouldn't read it for fun. Moreover, if I wanted to read literature from the developing world, I would go ahead and read literature from the developing world. At least that way I'd learn something about some less privileged culture – about a less privileged culture that some people were actually born into, as opposed to one that they opted into by enrolling in an MFA programme.Let's take that sentence by sentence.
I should state up front that I am not a fan of programme fiction. Okay, bias noted. But what is this "programme fiction" of which you speak? The fiction written by all students of MFA writing workshops? Why yes, that's exactly what "program fiction" (I'm sticking with American spelling here; it's supposedly an American phenomenon, after all) is said to be in the second paragraph, and more, for it is "defined as the prose work of MFA graduates and/or instructors". Thus, Batuman has said she is not a fan of the prose work of MFA graduates and/or instructors. A list of people associated only with the famous program at Iowa is big enough -- Batuman isn't a fan of anybody who has ever attended or taught at an MFA program anywhere ever! Egads!
Basically, I feel about it as towards new fiction from a developing nation with no literary tradition: I recognise that it has anthropological interest, and is compelling to those whose experience it describes, but I probably wouldn't read it for fun. Whoa, Nelly! Somebody has some unanalyzed assumptions and crazy prejudices going on here! This is one of the snottiest sentences I've read in quite some time. How nice of you to notice that there is "anthropological" interest in the writings of dirty poor people, and that they, like small children writing on walls with their feces, can enjoy what they do. How charitable of you, Ms. Batuman. Such a fine example of a human being you are. (As Andrew Seal points out, "What really bugs me about this comment is that, despite her distaste for the literature of 'developing nations,' she holds up Don Quixote as a great beacon of literature when, if there is any single work of literature which justifies a belief that an extraordinarily talented writer can invent a new fully-fleshed form almost ex nihilo, it is Cervantes's novel.")
Moreover, if I wanted to read literature from the developing world, I would go ahead and read literature from the developing world. This sentence is a strange one on its own, but it makes a certain sort of sense within context. Batuman is trying to make an argument about authenticity and identity, and does so elsewhere in the essay, but it's an interesting sentence here because it moves from disparaging all literatures not from the wealthiest, best-educated nations to saying that MFA students and teachers all want to write like they're from those nations that are not wealthy and don't have deep literary infrastructures (that is, infrastructures that are obvious to people outside of those cultures -- I don't think she's talking about Onitsha Market literature when she talks about "literary culture").
In other words, she seems to think that all MFA writers want to be Dambudzo Marechera. If only we were so lucky...
Finally, At least that way I'd learn something about some less privileged culture – about a less privileged culture that some people were actually born into, as opposed to one that they opted into by enrolling in an MFA programme. Back to that whole, "anthropological" thing -- people from "developing nations" can't write good lit'rature, but they do have truths to tell us about their "less privileged culture", and so we can read their books as specimens and travel guides. MFA students, who just wish they were less privileged so they'd have something to write about, are not in a position to create specimens or travel guides.
I almost stopped reading after that paragraph, because its entire effect was to make me think that Batuman is a nasty, closed-minded person, not somebody whose opinion about, well, anything I would want to give credence to. It would be like going to Newt Gingrich and Dinesh D'Souza for history lessons. I mean, really, why put yourself through the pain?
But I did keep reading, for some reason, and discovered that rich white folks from suburbs are okay, and they shouldn't feel bad about telling their stories. Batuman spends many words on the evils of people being encouraged to write from whatever they conceive as their identity (preferably one that confers on them the privilege to be oppressed), and then she moves on to the evils of people writing about historical disasters without writing about historical non-disasters. All of this seemed to me to miss a giant point: Readers like stories with conflict in them. Sure, there are plenty of books that to some readers might seem like they wallow in the awfulness of one sort of life or another, but to condemn everyone from Sandra Cisneros to Tim O'Brien to Philip Roth for somehow being ashamed of the less conflict-prone parts of their lives and perceptions seems to me bizarre. Of course they're going to write about the stuff that most gnaws at them, that is full of tension and conflict, that is individual and personal and problematic, that intersects with history and society. That's what grabs their imaginations and impells them to write.
Batuman complains about Cisneros's apparent lack of appreciation for the cultural diversity of her rich white peers at Iowa, as if what the workshop instructor should have done was lead everyone in a mantra of, "I'm good enough, I'm smart enough, and doggone it, people like me!" And then they could have all had a nice serious discussion of "Why They Hate Us". Except Cisneros wasn't writing about Iowa today, she was talking about her experience there decades ago, and it's an experience that deserves (and receives, if I remember correctly, from McGurl) some historicizing, some contextualizing within the system of American high education, and especially of Iowa's program, at that particular time.
Batuman spends thousands of words on the topics of identity and authority, arguing that MFA writers learn nothing so much as to celebrate the writerly potential of persecution. But what she says is full of contradictions, and it's impossible to see what sort of writing she's actually advocating for. Writers with a strong sense of ethnicity shouldn't write only from that perspective, she seems to think, but white middle/upper-class writers should write about white middle/upper-class life and not pretend to know anything about anything else -- and, by definition, anything else they write about is just pretending -- and nobody should write about any sort of oppression or disaster without also carefully balancing that with depictions of non-oppression and non-disaster. Right. Sure. I'll get to work on that novel about watching a fly climb up a beige wall right away! (In the hands of somebody like Nicholson Baker, such a novel could be quite interesting. Wait, no -- he was once a visiting writer at an MFA program, so he's not allowed to be interesting.)
Batuman is arguing, it appears, against pluralism and for some sort of vague unified field of Literature. Such an argument seems to me to go against her desire for more interesting fiction -- we are more likely to get an exciting range of fiction from a diversity of styles and approaches than we are from a bunch of "Don't do that!" rules. I want to think that Batuman would agree, but her prescriptions and proscriptions don't lead in that direction. The best argument I know of against MFA-style writing workshops is that, in their generic form, their structure encourages certain types of writing and doesn't allow for others -- encourages writing that is easily critiqued, easily graded, easily subjected to the disciplines of a seminar. Plenty of teachers and writers are aware of this, though, and have developed techniques over the years to combat it and to complexify the workshop experience. But that's not the argument Batuman is making, or not entirely, at least. She is arguing that some things are legimate subjects for writing, and some things aren't; that some kinds of people are legitimate writers and some kinds of people aren't.
The best answer to all of this was given by Chimamanda Adichie in her lecture on "The Danger of a Single Story". Listen to her talk about growing up writing about pleasant white British girls. About the perceptions and prejudices she has had because of the limitations on stories she has heard. About the need for a polyvocal, diverse literary community, a world of infinite threads of stories. "The consequence of the single story is this: It robs people of dignity. It makes our recognition of our equal humanity difficult. It emphasizes how we are different rather than how we are similar."
Batuman would reply, I suppose, that "difference" is exactly what she's against, because she equates it with wallowing in a sense of persecution: "The World Pluribus of Letters has replaced a primary standard of 'universal literary value' with a primary standard of persecutedness, euphemised as 'difference'." But no. Welcoming various types of stories into the world is not about valuing persecutedness over self-reliance or something like that; it is about recognizing that "the novel" isn't any one thing, but a panoply; that the best writers have a multiplicity of reasons to write and the best readers have a multiplicity of reasons to read. "Universal literary value" is a human construct, not a Platonic form, and so it is something that is subject to power. To get all nostalgic for the days when some mythical people of the past could define Good and Bad Literature unproblematically is to get all nostalgic for a time when white guys were the only people with full access to literary accomplishment. It is to yearn for the days of a single story.
I expect Batumin knows this, which is what explains the contradictions filling her essay. The final paragraph is full of vacillations, as if she realized the corner she'd painted herself into. She suddenly wants to portray her essay as one advocating that people should get some life experience before getting MFAs, that they should read widely, that they should work hard to be well-rounded. Sure, who's going to argue with that? (Just the other day, I was complaining to a friend that too many undergraduates who major in acting don't really get much from their college years if they don't seek out stuff that has nothing immediately to do with the theatre.) But in many ways that seems to me to be something that should be addressed particularly in undergraduate education, which returns me to the points above about this being an argument within higher ed...
I expect, too, the various folks who've been celebrating the essay do so not because of its contradictions, but because of various individual insights they agree with ("Yay! I think that one-trick pony Tim O'Brien should write about something other than Vietnam, too!"), or from a knee-jerk anti-MFA sentiment that seems fairly strong on the Internet. There's a lot to be unpacked in that sentiment and its popularity, but that's a task for another time, and perhaps another person...


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HONOLULU, Hawaii – After grabbing the early lead against No. 20 Florida State (16-0), UC Santa Barbara (6-12) was unable to hold on, falling 5-1 in the first game of the Bank of Hawaii Invitational on Friday afternoon.
UCSB got on the scoreboard when senior Lainey DePompa hit her third home run of the season to leadoff for the Gauchos at the top of the second inning. The homer was the first given up by Florida State pitcher Lacey Waldrop this year.
The Seminoles first threatened the Gauchos' lead at the bottom of the same inning. Erika Leonard was hit by a pitch to leadoff the inning and one out later, Courtney Senas hit the ball off of pitcher Shelby Wisdom's right leg for an infield base hit. The Gauchos were able to leave the two base runners stranded, retiring the next pair of batters in order
With two outs in the third, reigning Big West Player of the Week Jessica Soria hit a high bouncing chopper to third base and then advanced to second on a wild pitch during McKnezie Kane's ensuing at-bat. Kane drew a walk to put two runners on, but Waldrop grabbed the third out on a full-count ground out by Kathryn Pilpil.
Florida State was able to tie the game at the bottom of third. With two outs, Shayla Jackson hit a ground ball up the middle. Maddie O'Brien followed with a base hit to right field. Kane was unable to field the ball cleanly and, as it rolled to the fence, O'Brien was able to come home from first base, knotting the game at 1-1.
The Seminoles grabbed the lead in the fourth. With one out, Courtney Senas hit a slow rolling grounder to Gaucho shortstop Keilani Jennings. She was able to beat out the throw to first base and then stole second. Mallory Borden followed with a home run hit over the left center field fence, putting Florida State ahead, 3-1.
At the bottom of the fifth, Andriana Collins came in to relieve Wisdom in the circle and retired the side. Soria led off the next inning with a bunt single, but she was called out on the next play when Kane hit into a fielder's choice. Pilpil was able to reach first when she hit a ground ball to the pitcher that first baseman Kelly Hensley failed to catch. Waldrop retired the next two batters on a pair of fly outs to keep the Gaucho runners stranded. They would prove to be the final UCSB runners of the game.
In the sixth, Erika Leonard led off with a double hit down the right field line. One out later, Senas singled through the left side, driving Leonard home. Mallory Borden followed with a grounder hit to left field to put runners on the corners. The Gauchos were able to get the second out at third base when Evelyn Morgado hit into a fielder's choice. It looked like UCSB was going to shut down the Seminoles' onslaught when Morgan Bullock hit a grounder to third, but third baseman DeJanee Moore overthrew to first, allowing pinch runner Evelyn Hoffner time to score, putting Florida State ahead, 5-1.
Wisdom (4-5) suffered the loss after tossing the first four innings and allowing three runs, two earned, on five hits. She walked two. Collins pitched two innings of relief and allowed two runs, one earned, on three hits. She also tallied a strikeout. Soria led the Gauchos with two of the team's three hits in the game.
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Guillermo del Toro is famous for Pan's Labyrinth and other supernatural and sometimes terrifying fare, but his latest, the new movie Mama, has been terrifying all of us with its previews for months. With good reason.
It's pretty dang terrifying. But it is not JUST terrifying. It is also the story of a mother's love and the twisted, obsessive way it can grow. As a mom, it is easily recognizable. The film tells the story of Victoria and Lily, two little girls lost in the woods after their father murdered their mother and two of his colleagues and then was murdered himself in a strange and unexplained attack in a secluded cabin.
Five years later, the girls are found and taken in by their uncle and his live-in girlfriend (Jessica Chastain). It quickly becomes apparent they did not return alone and that something is "taking care" of them and did the same in the woods. Can't tell any more without spoilers, but trust me. This is a must-see for parents.
It's not even that it is scary. Though it is. It is also just a universal truth of parenthood. We raise our children, love them, give them everything we have. And then they leave us.
Most of us are not vengeful ghosts bent on destroying everyone we see and know. But most of us can at least relate to the overwhelming love a parent has for a child. That is the heart of this film. It all started when Del Toro saw a short made by director Andrés Muschietti. See below:
Creepy, right? It was so creepy, they teamed up to turn it into a feature film. This is the preview below:
Yes. It is every bit as scary as it looks. I must have jumped 15 times in my seat and clutched my husband during our screening. But it also has a message that will ring true to any mom who has felt like she loved her children a bit much. And, be honest, that's all of us sometimes, right?
Shiver. Yes. It still gets to me. Just see it. You won't be sorry.
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Aarhus (Århus) is Denmark's second-largest city and one of Scandinavia's oldest. Aarhus is the principal port of Denmark on the peninsula of Jutland (Jylland) and is at the geographic center of the country.
Aarhus is mostly built out around the harbor though it is flanked on the one side by Risskov Forest. Blending urban life and quaint village charm, Aarhus is the perfect weekend getaway, especially when visiting Copenhagen, and is perfect for exploring on foot.
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The Old Town
The Old Town in Aarhus, known as "Den Gamle By" in Danish, celebrated its 100th anniversary in 2009. Visiting is like taking a long journey back in time to see what it was like to live and work in a Danish market town at the time of Hans Christian Andersen.
The Old Town is an open-air, living-history museum, giving visitors the chance to experience, eat and even shop as people did in the old days. With 75 historical buildings collected from townships all over Denmark, it is one of the country's top-rated museums.
Museums and other attractions
Aarhus also offers visitors a wide range of other museums and attractions. From the Kvindemuseet, a celebration of women's lives and work through the ages (the only museum of its kind in the world), to the ARoS Aarhus Art Museum and Japanese Zen Garden, Aarhus has a lot on offer.
When the kids need a break from the cultural sights, take the family to Tivoli Friheden, a regional amusement park with more than 40 rides, attractions and activities. The park is open April through October every year.
Aarhus music and culture
Aarhus is known beyond Denmark for its lively music, theater and arts scene. Every summer, Aarhus plays host to one of the largest cultural events certainly in Scandinavia, if not Europe. In a showcase of local, national and international artists, the Aarhus Festival involves art forms such as dance, sports, theatre, exhibitions, children's acts and a wide variety of music.
Each year, the Aarhus Festival features a theme which has brought together such diverse acts as Japanese Taiko drummers, Cirque du Soleil, the London Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and Green Day.
What's up in Aarhus
East Jutland Arts
Kunstruten provides with a listing of most galleries, museums and artist-craftsmen around Jutland.
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Åarhus Kunstmuseum
Tel. +45 87 30 66 00
The Aarhus Museum of Arts was opened In 2004. Occupying 17,700 square meters with exhibitions spanning from the 16th century to contemporary, including international artists like Bill Viola and James Turrell. Besides its galleries, ARoS have a section for children and young people where they can experience arts hands-on. / Jane, air purser
Randers Regnskov
Just north of Aarhus, in the town of Randers, you can visit an indoor rainforest. Inside three domes, you can experience the heat, humidity and animal life in African, South American or Asian rainforests - including snakes, frogs, birds, fish and manatees. Great fun! / Christian, ground crew
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Langenæs bakery
Nordborggade 31
Tel. +45 86 14 45 55
If you are in Frederiksbjerg quarter, make a stop at Langenæs bakery. Here you can try out pastries by Scandinavia's top baker Torben Brink Erichsen and Denmark's leading confectioner Palle Sørensen. /Christoffer
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Det Gamle Mejeri
Bedervej 101
Tel. 126.96.36.199
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About New Era Publications International ApS
About New Era Publications International ApS Publisher of New York Times and International Bestselling Author L. Ron Hubbard
Located in Copenhagen, Denmark, New Era Publications International is the publisher of the nonfiction and fiction works of international best-selling author L. Ron Hubbard.
New Era publishes and distributes Mr. Hubbard's hard and soft cover books and other materials for Europe, the United Kingdom, CIS, India and the Middle East. New Era's sister organization—Bridge Publications, Inc., in Los Angeles—is the publisher of his works for North and Latin America, Africa, Asia, Australia, New Zealand and Oceania.
Established in 1969, New Era Publications was located in the heart of Copenhagen for much of its forty-year history, with warehousing in Amager, in the suburbs of Copenhagen. With New Era's market growth into new countries, small print runs were frequently necessitated and so the first digital press was installed in 2003.
In 2006, L. Ron Hubbard was named by Guinness World Records as the world's most published author, with 1,084 titles, as well as the author with the most translated works. Accordingly, and in order to service the exponential increase in the global demand for L. Ron Hubbard's works, New Era has undergone continuous expansion.
Just since 2006, New Era has increased its production by 600%. And since 2007, it has produced 5.2 million books and publications representing 3,246 different titles by Mr. Hubbard.
The executives and staff of New Era accomplished this level of production through unprecedented organizational expansion and technological advance. First, having outgrown its Copenhagen work spaces, in 2007 New Era moved to a new facility in Smedeland, in the suburb of Glostrup.
Then, an intensive staff training and implementation program based on L. Ron Hubbard's administrative principles enabled the establishment of a fully streamlined, efficient operation, driving the production capacity to highest-ever levels. Along with this, New Era's book printing production line was modernized, with state-of-the-art digital presses complemented by forty additional machines.
Moreover, with the historic release in 2009 of L. Ron Hubbard's beginning Dianetics and Scientology books in thirty-six new languages, New Era transformed its operations to raise its production capacity yet again. Since then, it publishes and supplies books to what are considered pioneer countries—places where translated L. Ron Hubbard materials have been long-awaited, such as the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Lithuania, Turkey, Thailand, Korea, Kuwait, Egypt and the Ukraine. The sheer number and range of titles and languages New Era handles necessitated a print-on-demand system, with instant fulfillment of orders, and this was achieved with new book production technologies.
Today, having expanded from a one-room print shop to a full-scale, cutting-edge digital book manufacturing plant, combining printing, finishing, bindery and delivery all under one roof, New Era Publications is internationally known as a leader in the digital printing field.
In the words of an industry professional familiar with New Era's operations and level of production, they are "one of the most modern publishing houses in the world."
Having established itself at the vanguard of the publishing industry for the twenty-first century, New Era continues to meet the ever-increasing global demand for the solutions of Dianetics and Scientology, by producing and distributing L. Ron Hubbard's materials at an unprecedented level across dozens of nations.


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Five Star Equities Provides Stock Research on Intel and Qualcomm
Five Star Equities Provides Stock Research on Intel and Qualcomm
NEW YORK, NY--(Marketwire - Apr 30, 2012) - The bar has been raised for chip makers with the introduction of Intel's Ivy Bridge processors. The new Ivy Bridge chips promises faster processing power and improved graphics, thanks to their integrated graphics system. "This is in some ways an evolution and a game changer," said analyst Jack Gold of J. Gold Associates. Five Star Equities examines the outlook for companies in the Semiconductor Industry and provides equity research on Intel Corporation (NASDAQ: INTC) and Qualcomm, Inc. (NASDAQ: QCOM).
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Ivy Bridge Chip has functionally destroyed any reason to buy a basic video card with its integrated graphics system. There is a very small market of people who seek out high-performance graphics cards, mostly comprised of "hardcore" gamers. The improved graphics provided by the Ivy Bridge chips will likely satisfy the needs of the average consumer.
"Ivy Bridge is continuing a downward spiral for graphics card manufacturers that has been going on for a while now," said analyst Jack Gold of J. Gold Associates. "Extreme gamers who want very powerful graphics cards are in a niche market already, and it's shrinking. That doesn't bode well for Nvidia, because their graphics chip market is falling off faster than their mobile chip market. For 95 percent of the folks out there, integrated graphics will be what they want."
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Intel has recently agreed to a deal with Aware Inc. to buy their portfolio of patents and applications for a sum of $75 million. Aware is a supplier of signal processing and digital communications technology for imaging and telecommunications applications. The Company's business operation focuses on three product lines: biometrics and imaging, digital subscriber line (DSL) service assurance and patent management.
Qualcomm, a leading developer and innovator of advanced wireless technologies, products and services, recently announced results for the second quarter of fiscal 2012 ended March 25, 2012. The company reported revenues of $4.94 billion, up 28 percent year-over-year and 6 percent sequentially. Net Income of $2.23 billion, up 123 percent year-over-year and 59 percent sequentially.
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By Cynthia Price, Director of Communications
I've noticed my paycheck is a bit smaller with the return of the 6.2 percent payroll tax, a 2 percent increase over the 4.2 percent rate we've experienced for the past two years. I'd already identified and committed to my charities this year, so it's not going to change my giving levels, although I may have to see fewer movies or cut back on my coffee shop visits.
At ChildFund, we were curious as to what Americans might say when asked whether the tax increase would impact their giving. Today, we release a survey conducted for ChildFund by Ipsos Public Affairs.
Here's what we found:
- 20 percent will reduce their charitable giving by an average of 29 percent.
- 21 percent will not give at all to charity in the coming year.
- 54 percent will continue to make charitable donations at the same level.
- 6 percent anticipate giving more.
"While there is some good news in these findings, the survey results suggest a challenging year ahead, in what already has been a demanding fundraising climate," says Tereza Byrne, ChildFund's chief development officer.
"Nonprofit organizations like ChildFund can take comfort in the fact that six in 10 Americans will either maintain or increase their charitable giving," she adds. "What is alarming, however, is the anticipated decrease in contributions by as many as one in five givers. If that comes to pass, it will likely have broad-reaching consequences across the nonprofit landscape."


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Enter a magical kingdom where you can sail with pirates, explore exotic jungles, meet fairy-tale princesses, dive under the ocean and rocket through the stars! Disneyland Park is a beloved Southern California destination where generations of families have made their Disney dreams come true. Walt Disney's original Disneyland theme park, which first opened on July 17, 1955, is now divided into 8 extravagantly themed lands: Main Street, U.S.A., Tomorrowland, Fantasyland, Mickey's Toontown, Frontierland, Critter Country, New Orleans Square and Adventureland.
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EPA Welcomes Kenny Family ShopRite Stores and Food Bank of Delaware into the Food Recovery Challenge
Release Date: 11/15/2012
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PHILADELPHIA (November 15, 2012) – Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency officially welcomed new members into its Food Recovery Challenge (FRC). EPA's Food Recovery Challenge encourages organizations to donate and divert as much of their excess food as possible. Organizations that join EPA's challenge find that they not only save money, but they also feed the needy, and help protect the environment at the same time.
The new members include: Five Delaware ShopRite stores owned and operated by the Kenny Family, and the Food Bank of Delaware, the state's largest hunger-relief organization. The official signing ceremony took place at the Food Bank of Delaware's Newark facility.
"The Food Recovery Challenge is truly a win-win situation. It benefits families in need, helps grocers reduce costs, supplies badly needed donations to organizations like the Food Bank of Delaware, and helps to create green jobs," said EPA Regional Administrator Shawn M. Garvin.
"Today is America Recycles Day, and with Thanksgiving just a week away, this is an excellent time to raise awareness of this important issue."
Food is the largest waste category in the U.S. going into landfills. In 2010, 34 million tons of food waste was generated. When excess food, leftover food, and food scraps are disposed of in a landfill, they decompose rapidly and become a significant source of methane, a potent greenhouse gas contributing to climate change.
"Recycling food waste reaps tremendous benefits here in Delaware and is vital to our goal of recycling 50 percent of municipal solid waste by 2015," said Delaware Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control Secretary Collin O'Mara. "Kenny Family ShopRites and the Food Bank of Delaware are leading the way as the first in our state to join the Food Recovery Challenge, helping alleviate hunger through more food donations to our needy citizens, creating local recycling jobs, saving businesses on disposal costs and reducing wastes going into landfills – improving our air and water quality."
The Kenny Family ShopRites became interested in food recovery after attending an EPA workshop presented to the food industry. As a result, the company began a composting pilot earlier this year, working with composting specialists Organic Diversion, of Marton, N.J. As a result of this successful partnership, the Kenny Family is expanding their composting efforts to all of their stores.
As a new participant in the Food Recovery Challenge, Kenny Family ShopRites will continue to increase their composting and their food donations.
"We have been working with the Food Bank of Delaware and other charities to provide food to those in need since we opened in 1995. Through the Food Recovery Challenge we are finding new ways to reduce costs, reduce our environmental footprint, and help those across Delaware through increased food donations" said Melissa Kenny, sustainability manager, for the Kenny Family ShopRites of Delaware.
Founded in 1981, the Food Bank of Delaware provides food for the hungry in the entire state of Delaware. The Food Bank of Delaware provides food to food pantries, emergency shelters, low-income day care centers, after-school programs, senior centers, churches and other feeding programs. Through a network of agencies, food-pantries, etc., the Food Bank serves 241,600 Delawareans each year.
"We are thrilled to partner with ShopRite on this important initiative," said Food Bank of Delaware President and CEO Patricia Beebe. "This partnership is a win-win for both ShopRite and the Food Bank of Delaware – by diverting healthy, fresh foods from the landfill we're able to protect our environment, but most importantly we're able to get good foods into the hands of those who need it most."
For more information on the Food Recovery Challenge go to: www.epa.gov/foodrecovery.
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Continuing with Charlie's Final Report:
Wednesday April 30
Wednesday April 30
It was another cool night but I slept good. We were up a little after seven and after breakfast, breaking camp and on the river a little after 9:00.....another beautiful day. At the Ionia Fair Grounds I realized I did not have my life vest on and thinking I had left it in camp I headed back upstream. Dan and Jim said they would wait for me in Saranac.....and I thought I was done with the upstream paddling part of this trip...after paddling upstream a short ways I thought about it and remembered checking to make sure we had not left anything behind. I pulled off the river and found my life vest up in the front of the boat. I put on my vest and paddled hard to catch up with Dan and Jim.
When we got to Saranac we pulled off the river at the Railroad Museum and walked into town for lunch. After lunch walking back we met and talked to George and Pat Raimer. They had paddled on Grand River Expedition 2000. After talking and buying a book on the history of the Grand River ("The Grand" by Kit Lane, part of her Rivers of Michigan series) Pat told me she had taken kayak lessons and was ready to paddle on Expedition 2010. She took some pictures and sent them to me along with the book. I would like to thank the Raimers for their kind and energetic hospitality. I remember meeting Pat and George on Expedition 2000 and hope we will be able to paddle together again on Grand River Expedition 2010.
We paddled on down the river and camped upstream of the Rogue River. For dinner we had T-bone and Porterhouse steaks, salad and baked potatoes. We sat around the fire and talked and went to bed about 10:30.
Thursday May 1:
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We were up, had breakfast, broke camp and were on the river at 8:30. We paddled past the Rogue River and on to the dam in Grand Rapids (Sixth Street Dam and fish ladder). We portaged on the left and paddled over the coffer dams below on the right side of the river. The first one was the biggest drop....a little scary but the rest of them were fun. Paddling past the Gerald Ford Museum and seeing the dinosaur thru the glass window (My Note: dinosaur???) and the carousel above the river while going over one of the coffers was cool. Stopping downstream by a dinner paddle boat a jogger offered to go and get us water so we would not have to cross the highway or walk so far.
We camped downstream of M-45 a mile or so. In honor of Verlen and the Ultimate Hugh HewardChallenge we had macaroni and cheese with tuna and peas. We toasted the trip and ate dinner by the campfire. It was good. After a few beers to celebrate the occasion I went to bed and slept like a baby.


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MOSCOW — Ukrainian artillery destroyed a large part of a column of Russian armored vehicles that had been seen entering Ukraine from Russia, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko said.
In a statement from his office, Poroshenko said he informed U.K. Prime Minister David Cameron about the development in a telephone conversation Friday.
Russia has denied sending men and weapons into eastern Ukraine.
An expanded version of this report appears at WSJ.com.
Also read: Ukraine begins inspection of Russian convoy
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I was thrilled to get a review copy of Vegan Cookies Invade Your Cookie Jar because I've been a long-time fan of Vegan Cupcakes Take Over the World by Isa Chandra Moskowitz and Terry Hope Romero. In fact, it was Moskowitz's and Romero's fool-proof recipes that helped me convince Desi– who is a bit of a cupcake maniac and not a vegan– that cruelty-free cupcakes are better than their egg-and-dairy counterparts in more ways than one.
With Cookies, Moskowitz and Romero seem all set once again to make not just the vegan die-hards among us but also the omnivorous skeptics sit up and take notice. With 100 cookie recipes, there's something here to appeal to every cookie lover, from exotic Irish Creme Kisses, Tahini Lime Cookies and Mexican Chocolate Snickerdoodles (with an unexpected cayenne pepper kick) to your comforting old Chocolate Chip Cookies and Deluxe Cocoa Brownies.
I tried the sugar cookies because not only do I love their utter simplicity, but they are, of course, a staple for the holidays which are going to be here in no time at all. I prefer eating sugar cookies by themselves, without all the bells, whistles and sprinkles that they typically get prettied up with, but I did sandwich some of my favorite jelly into some of the cookies and then dusted them with powdered sugar for a simple but completely decadent treat. The recipe was super-easy. I had everything I needed on hand and the ingredients made a beautiful dough that was easy to roll out and cut into cookie shapes. I made little holes in the center of some of the cookies using an apple corer so the jelly could squirt through. They tasted divine and looked really cute. A win-win.
I apologize to my readers for my spotty schedule these past couple of weeks but there's been a lot going on in my life that's been keeping me busy. Rest assured, I am around and I am going to keep posting as often as I can.
In the meantime try these cookies from Vegan Cookies Invade Your Cookie Jar. They're amazing!
- 2 1/3 cups all-purpose flour
- 2 tbsp cornstarch
- 1/4 tsp salt
- 1/4 tsp baking powder
- 1/2 cup margarine , slightly softened (like Earth Balance "butter" sticks)
- 1/2 cup nonhydrogenated vegetable shortening
- 1 cup sugar
- 2 tsp pure vanilla extract
- 1/2 tsp lemon extract (you can also use almond, maple or any other flavor)
- 1/4 cup vanilla soymilk (or other non-dairy milk)
- In a bowl, sift together the flour, cornstarch, salt and baking powder and set aside.
- In a larger bowl, cream the shortening, margarine and sugar with electric beaters until the mixture gets all soft and fluffy, for at least 4 minutes.
- Scrape the sides of the bowl with a rubber spatula to ensure everything mixes in. Now beat in the vanilla and lemon extracts and the soymilk until everything is just combined.
- Beat in half the flour and when it is thoroughly moistened, and then mix in the rest to form a soft dough.
- Divide the dough into two and pat each portion into a disc. Wrap each disc in plastic wrap and refrigerate for a few hours or overnight.
- On a lightly floured platform or board, roll each disc to about 3/8ths-inch thickness. Cut it into shapes with a cookie cutter. Place the cookies on a baking sheet lined with parchment paper, about 1-inch apart. Reroll leftover scraps and shape into more cookies.
- In a preheated, 350-degree oven, bake the cookies for about 10 minutes until done.
- Remove the cookies from the oven and allow them to cool for five minutes. Then transfer to a wire rack to cool completely before decorating.
- (Recipe from the book Vegan Cookies Invade Your Cookie Jar by Isa Chandra Moskowitz and Terry Hope Romero, published by Da Capo Lifelong, a member of the Perseus Books Group. Copyright © 2009. www.dacapopresscookbooks.com)
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Former LSU cornerback Tyrann Mathieu says an October arrest for possession of marijuana is what enabled him to finally become honest with himself and turn a corner in his life.
Mathieu, who has been training for the NFL draft at a facility not far from where Monday's Discover BCS National Championship will be played, spoke with ESPN this week about his drug problem, self discovery and hitting rock bottom.
"Sitting in that jail cell, it clicked," an emotional Mathieu said. "Looking at those people, just staring at me. 'You don't belong in here.' They wanted to come through the jail cell and get me. I'm scared now. Because it's reality now. I don't ever want to feel like this again. I'm not going to feel like this again."
One year ago, Mathieu was a Heisman Trophy finalist, preparing for a national championship game. Since then everything has changed. In August he was dismissed from the LSU team for a failed drug test, and an arrest and a missed football season have followed.
Sitting in that jail cell, it clicked. ... I don't ever want to feel like this again. I'm not going to feel like this again.
-- Tyrann Mathieu
Mathieu has many regrets. And he believes his poor performance in last year's BCS Championship Game was a factor in his marijuana issue.
Because last year's title game loss to Alabama was played in New Orleans -- near where he was raised -- Mathieu said he was distracted.
"I remember worrying about me playing in my hometown and showing up and damn, I don't think I'm going to show up," he said. "I hope I show up. I hope I have a game like I did against Georgia or Auburn. And it really took me out of my preparation for the game. I didn't give up a touchdown but I gave up four or five passes. Passes when I knew they were going to run that route. I mean, I knew they were going to run that route. But I didn't prepare myself. I was worried about everything outside the game."
If he had to do it over, Mathieu said, "I would have shut my phone off. I would have stayed in my hotel room."
Not staying at home is a mistake Mathieu, 20, says he's made too often.
It was in August when the immensely popular Mathieu -- nicknamed "The Honey Badger" because of an ultra-aggressive on-field demeanor overshadowing his 5-foot-9 stature -- was dismissed from the Tigers team because of failed drug tests.
"Devastating," Mathieu said, tears flowing. "It's all I had. Football. And to think back on it, as I told you, for the BCS game, I abused myself. I took it out on myself. So many people were trying to help me. Coach Miles, he was basically like my LSU father. And our head trainer, Shelly (Mullenix), was like my mother at LSU. Those people did everything for me. All they wanted was for Tyrann to make a play. They just wanted me to show up. I prepared myself so hard in the spring and summer just to let everyone down."
Mathieu said he used marijuana as a way to deal with problems on and off the field.
"I'd tell the world I abused myself though marijuana," Mathieu said. "I abused myself through marijuana. Was I addicted to it? Maybe. Did I form a habit of it? Yes. When people didn't think I had a good game or I didn't have the greatest practice ever, I didn't go into the office and try to figure out what was going on. I just automatically abused myself."
When Miles informed him in a 5:30 a.m. meeting that "you can't be a part of our family anymore" Mathieu said he began sobbing. He asked a school official to notify his parents because he couldn't bring himself to do it.
I abused myself through marijuana. Was I addicted to it? Maybe. Did I form a habit of it? Yes.
-- Tyrann Mathieu
"There was nothing anybody could do at that point," Mathieu said, crying. "I had to accept the responsibility that I was never going to play for LSU again. The only school that believed in me. And I didn't even believe in them. I felt I was a loyalty person. Looking back, I didn't know anything about loyalty. I could talk it, but you know, walking it, was a whole different thing. And when you realize you're not loyal, that's what hurts the most. When you realize you lied to people, that's what hurts the most."
Some advised Mathieu to play lower-division football for a season before entering the draft. Mathieu considered it, but couldn't. Instead, he re-enrolled at LSU and paid his own way as a student. Mathieu said Miles told him he might be able to return to the Tigers in 2013.
"I had to regain everything that I lost at LSU," Mathieu said. "I didn't want to go to another school and they call me the Honey Badger. They didn't know how hard I worked to become the Honey Badger. They don't know Tyrann. LSU is the only fan base that truly knows Tyrann. I couldn't play for another school. I just couldn't do it. I wouldn't have given my all playing for another school. I was only going to give my all for LSU."
But then in October, Mathieu was arrested, along with several former teammates, for marijuana possession, effectively ending any chance he had to play for LSU again. And sending him to the NFL draft.
He had been through counseling. How could this happen again?
"I fell back into the same trap that got me suspended," Mathieu said. "The entire September even into October, I'd go up the football dorms, to encourage those guys, and I'd go back to my room. Didn't go out. Didn't do anything. But then you just get comfortable. People just talking good about you. 'Oh, Tyrann, he's doing good. He's not missing classes.' And then you start to confuse yourself again. Everything is not good. I'm paying for school. They're not checking my classes, even though I take classes with football players. They're not looking at Tyrann anymore. When you surround yourself with the wrong people it's going to backfire every time."
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Re: Tyrann Mathieu: Pressure led to use
I can't remember the last time someone was suspended from the NFL for smoking weed.... well Rickey Williams did and I don't think he was ever suspended for it.
So this guy should do pretty well in the NFL! lol
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So... college pressure made him smoke weed...
WTF does he think NFL pressure will drive him to?
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Originally Posted by D_it_upYeah, but look what it's done for their teams. They've been outscoring opponents better than 2-1 since that legislation passed, .
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Hard to know for sure but it sounds like he has started to grow up and are learning from his mistakes. Don't know if he'll make it to the NFL but I just hope he makes it in life.
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What's funny is that his problems are not as horrible as our society makes it out to be. If I had to choose, I would rather a kid go out and smoke pot than to go out and get legally ****-faced.
If I had a choice, I would rather the highway, on New Year's Eve, be full of people high on pot than totally wasted on alcohol.
It is almost a tragedy that a person like Mathieu can have his whole world collapse around him because he chose to indulge in pot. It is a tragedy that people consider those who use alcohol "good ol' boys" and those who use pot "ne'er do wells".
It is time to America to come to it's senses. I think it is beginning to happen, and eventually the myth about pot will be exposed, but that isn't going to help the Honey Badger right now. Either make pot totally legal or make alcohol illegal.
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If he gets it together, maybe he can still have a future. This could serve as his wake-up call, but I doubt it.
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Hi Damien,Damien Girardin wrote:Thanks guys for the comments, sorry for the skepticals. I dont know what to ad, I guess we'll get Shawn and Jesse to do more of these jumps to show you guys
Regarding weather it was a "pretty windy day on Maui" so i would say about 25 gusting 30, Shawn was on a 9m.
Looking forward to see some reviews from some of you guys when you get to test this new Draft.
I second a sort of that...yes. you're brave to post your first message about a topic like that !!Diez13 wrote:Hi guys !
So watch the original video.
Looking at the video over and over again, I think I agree with you. Once he was up in the air, he certainly needed to do more bar steering to keep the kite "floating" in the right direction. When the guy was at the top, suddenly the clouds passing by very slowly.BigOne wrote:Naish, post the real raw video!! This one still very slow for sure!!
Look at rider, his harness straps flaps fast in the first 2 seconds of jump, and after third second flaps are realy slow. You can see the real speed of the jump in 1.25-1.27 min of original promo video.
That a shame !!
Overall nice floaty jump, but not 14 sec.
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