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That was the same question Kevin Burk kept asking his 1-year-old daughter Isabella while she stumbled around the dining room, exploring every potentially dangerous object within an arm's reach. Not sure of what she wanted; he moved to the freezer and pulled out the first of two yogurts he would give her throughout the duration of the interview.
Kevin, a former professional soccer player turned professional family man, is finishing up his fifth year as an assistant coach for the men's NCAA Division I soccer program at Lipscomb University.
After graduating from Belmont Abby College at the end of a successful collegiate soccer career, Burk spent five years playing professional soccer both indoor and outdoor in the Major Indoor Soccer League (MISL) and in Division I-United Soccer League.
Adding to an already impressive professional resume, his contribution as the assistant coach has helped Lipscomb University's men's soccer program earn recognition as a Top 10 Division I Most improved team in 2006 & 2008, as well as qualifying for the conference tournament each year since 2007. Before 2007 the Bisons had never made it to the conference tournament.
Despite all of the awards and accomplishments that Kevin has received for his individual and team efforts, he maintains a humble persona and a servant's heart. While soccer has played a crucial role in his personal and spiritual development, Kevin strongly believes that a person is not defined by how well they perform on the field, but by who they are off the field.
While Kevin once consider himself a long shot, he attributes most of his success to knowing what he wanted to do, staying focused, never giving up, and to a few relationships along the way which helped shape him as a player and a human being. Kevin began playing soccer at an early age, believing much of his success to be unknowingly inspired by family members.
"I have an older brother who is 8 years older than me, and when I was about 6 or 7 he was into soccer pretty hard core," Kevin said. "I was the guy that he played with when his friends weren't around; I was his teammate."
While Kevin and his brother's relationship did not exist entirely around soccer, he simply saw it as an opportunity to be with his brother.
"I remember at an early age saying, 'I want to play soccer' but it was more like I wanted to hang out with Patrick," Kevin said.
Being the smaller little brother wasn't always easy, but Kevin feels that playing with an older crowd helped prepare him for success in the years to come.
"It would just be my brother and his friends playing and I would always ask to play," Kevin said."My brother was a typical older brother when they let me join in. He would get embarrassed by me if I were to start crying or give up."
Those backyard games helped him develop grittiness to his game that served him well in both the college and pro ranks.
"That was good and bad," Burk said. "It was bad because my feelings were hurt, but it was good because I learned quickly to give 100 percent and to play hard. They didn't care if I got hurt or if I got knocked down, they just wanted to keep playing. It helped me be tough.
"One of my main attributes when I got to college was, 'this guy never stops' or 'this guy is a really hard worker'. That is what I was really great at, and I know that it was from when I was a kid and Pat would say, 'If you want to hang out with us Kev, you gotta be a tough guy.''"
Due to the big difference in age, and Pat being in the Marines, Kevin's brother never saw him play in an actual game until after college.
"The first game he saw me play was a professional game in San Diego when I was with the Milwaukee Wave, which was a real treat for him because he hadn't seen me play in 10 or 12 years," Kevin said. "In that game I was fortunate enough to start and score a goal.
"For me it was really cool that I finally got to play in front of my brother, for him it was a lot more emotional. After the game he was like, 'I'm so proud of you'. He knew it meant a lot to me, and I knew it meant a lot to him because I told him that he was the reason that I really started play soccer in the first place. For him to know that he had such a big impact on me was a real treat for him I'm sure."
Kevin's parents, especially his father, were very supportive of him. However, they weren't the type to push Kevin to practice more. They simply wanted Kevin to enjoy what he was doing.
"In some respects I always wanted my dad to outright say "you should try to play professional soccer as a career"," Kevin said. "I wanted him to get excited about it. But I think my dad made me better by making sure I had fun and did my best.
"But he also reminded me that at the end of the day it's just a game, and I can walk away from it. I think that helped me a lot; especially professionally, where you live and die by how you practice and play in games from one day to the next."
Kevin found his father's advice to be very influential later on in his career. It was his father who reminded him that soccer is just a game and how you play has no influence on you as a person. Through his father's encouragement to have fun, Kevin felt that much of his success came from being able to be competitive and grounded at the same time.
"I always want to win," Kevin said, "but I realize that if I lose, it doesn't mean I am a bad person off the field. Or if I win, it doesn't mean I am good person off the field. I think a lot of people tie their success on the field to who they are off the field.
"I think that's really easy to succumb to. For me, I struggled less with that problem growing up. I developed late as a player and growing up wasn't as good as everybody; but because I had people telling me that how I performed didn't define who I was as a person, I felt like I became a better player later in my career."
Making it as a professional athlete was not what motivated Kevin. Through his experiences and relationships growing up, Kevin found more meaning in using his talents to inspire others.
"One of the reasons why I wanted to play professionally was not only because I wanted to prove it to myself but also because I wanted to have a positive influence on people," Kevin said.
While the road to becoming a professional soccer player was emotionally trying for Kevin, he convinced himself that he was going to make it. With all that happened in his favor, and with everything that went just right, he believed that there had to have been a higher power pushing him towards the goal that he worked so hard to achieve.
"God has impacted my life throughout my whole soccer career," Kevin said. "That's why I felt like I was going to make it, and keep making it because too many things happened that God was a part of."
Even for those who question the existence of God, Kevin's story might make one think again. How he became a professional athlete and stayed in the professional ranks is filled with examples of divine intervention, or what others might dare to call incredibly good fortune. Kevin saw it as providence.
After six months of tryouts, sometimes having to drive eight to ten hours for the chance to play in front of coaches, Kevin was ready to give up. He thought his chance to play professionally was over.
In what seemed to be the end of his soccer career, Kevin's college coach made a phone call to the coach of the Carolina Dynamo, a team that had turned Kevin down for a tryout. Five minutes later Kevin jumped in his car and drove to a game in which the Dynamo were playing Wake Forest, and where Kevin would receive his first contract offer in the parking lot after the game.
"Turns out that two of the players who were supposed to play with the professional team couldn't come," Kevin said. "I had called that coach for three months and he never answered or returned my phone calls. He told me that the only reason he answered my coach's phone call was because he misread his phone number and thought it was his buddy calling. Had he not recognized the number he would have never answered the phone call and I wouldn't have gone to the tryout."
Kevin will be the first to tell you that being a professional athlete you have to take advantage of the opportunities that are given to you. When Kevin arrived at the game he quickly changed and met the team on the field. Warm-ups had already started. He wasn't given the option of where he could play; the coach just put him at play left back.
"I was just so ready to play, and ready to make an impact, that I played well," Kevin said. "I don't even play left back; I was just so determined I had one last chance."
Once a professional, Kevin continued to work hard and make the best of his opportunities, never forgetting about his desire to inspire others and to never forget about the people who had influenced him.
"We used to do these school functions for the Harrisburg Heat, and one of the roles as a rookie was that you would go on these appearances," Kevin said. "As a rookie you don't know what you were doing so they pair you up with someone who has done it once or twice before.
"In my first appearance my teammate didn't show up so it was just me. And as luck would have it the principal thought it would be educational if the whole school came instead of just the second grade class. I thought I was just going to show up and sign a couple autographs for the kids; instead they had the entire school in the auditorium waiting to hear about the dangers of drugs and alcohol."
Kevin will admit he was not quite prepared for that day, but he still looks back on that moment with enjoyment.
"Once I survived that, I felt good," Kevin said. "I realized that this was the sort of thing I wanted to do as a pro player. But once you get into that lifestyle you don't have the time unless you make time.
"You are constantly worried about training and resting up, so I would have never taken the time to call a school and set something like this up. But after this opportunity fell in my lap, other schools started calling up and requesting me."
While his days of playing professionally are over, Kevin still continues to inspire players of all ages, something he set out to do in the beginning. Since 2006, Kevin has spoken at more than 25 elementary schools about the dangers of drugs and alcohol and he challenges all of his players to follow their dreams.
"Even now I get a kick out of it," Kevin said. "The kids will see the resume and they'll be amazed that you were a professional player. They'll think you're a millionaire and famous so it's not too hard to get their attention."
Kevin's advice rightfully reflects the experiences and relationships he previously described. To simplify it all, he was kind enough to break it down into three parts.
The first part goes back to the million dollar question, what do you want?
"Figure out what you really want to do," Kevin said. "I mean, figure you out what you really want to do, and try to identify what God wants you to do, and hopefully they will be the same thing.
"Typically, I think what you really desire to do is what God pushes you towards. If you don't figure out what you want to do you just go bouncing around, so decide what it is you want to do, then set a goal and write down exactly how you are going to achieve it."
The second part, stay focused.
"Take away everything that will detract from getting you where you need to be," Kevin said. "People seem to spend more time talking about their dreams than actually pursuing them. If you spend 3-4 hours a day watching TV, stop paying for cable."
For his final piece of advice Kevin said, "Have fun doing it and don't give up… It sounds so cliché but it's true and it works."
Kevin may love soccer and inspiring people towards their goals, but there is one thing that he finds more important in life than any other goals or aspirations.
"Without a doubt, my priority is my family," Kevin said. "Because if I can't take care of my family, if I don't have a good home life, I could never be a good coach.
" Now that I'm married and have a daughter, if I'm not here for her and my wife, then what am I really doing? Would I not be lying to everyone when I tell them to be this type of person, or to be a man of character and do the right things, or to not cut corners?"
Which brings us back to Kevin's little girl Isabella, who has now been moved to her high chair but has never left his sight. She is still asking for who knows what as Kevin throws a combination of strawberries and lunch meat in front of her which quickly find their way to the floor.
Kevin's goals have changed. He finds himself wanting to care for his wife and daughter. His focus is to make sure that he has made adequate time to give them. And if you asked him, I'm sure he would tell you he has fun doing it.
That is Kevin's message. Keep it simple: "Know what you really want to do, stay focused, have fun doing and don't give up." Even after two treats, yogurt, lunch meat, and a handful of strawberries.
This story was written by Cyrus Eaton, a student in a sport journalism class at Belmont University. He requested that it be published on LipscombSports.com.


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I spent Thanksgiving Day blowing leaves so Miz Nancy could mow them into mulch. Then I dismantled the Fuyu Persimmon Tree Squirrel Defense System and harvested fruit the size of baseballs. Thanks to the chicken wire, netting and 7 million safety pins, only one squirrel beat the system this year, ensuring my first harvest since the tree was planted.
I�m of the opinion that farmers are among the wisest of the population. They have plenty of time to think things over as they go about their labors in the field. Luckily, as an editor, I don�t have to think when I work. I�m pretty sure it�s part of the job description, if you listen to some of the complaint calls I get.
There was a ton of neighbors� leaves in my yard, the mischievous wind being the culprit of this deposition. No one has devised any good system to put the wind in a corner for time-out, or make it write 500 times, or go to bed without any supper for spreading this unwished bounty.
I put on the �dust bowl defense� to try and get out of the work. If God put the leaves here, who are we to move them? If we disturb the Almighty�s work, are we not tempting disaster? Miz Nancy then countered with a Proverb about it being better to live in a desert (where there are no fallen leaves or persimmons) than in a house with a quarrelsome and ill-tempered wife, so I put on my work clothes and trudged to the inevitable. I won�t be buying her another Bible any time soon.
As I tackled the harvest, I put on my �Messiah� CD and filled the backyard with Handel�s Hallelujahs. It was an otherwise quiet morning, the wind saw me coming and scooted away. The neighbors were on some sojourn from the hearth, and the music swirled around our little world without disturbing any soul. In this peaceful setting, I pondered drafting some sort of document of truce with the squirrels, but they�d refuse to send over an emissary to sign it. It�s such as this that made the Crusades last so long.
As I plucked the fruit from the tree, I said my thanks for a successful season. I also said thanks for other neighbors and friends over the years.
One neighbor was not around at all this holiday. He was one of the good guys, too. A fellow I�d throw up my hand to when I saw him in his yard, enhancing his environment with plantings and decorations. The last time I spoke with him, he had had taken some scraps of wood and created a stage for my grandkids to put on shows of dancing and funny stories when they come to visit. When I made a video of the entire �cast,� we urged him to get into the picture as a �creative designer.� He was a bit shy, but by acclaim we were able to persuade him to be a part of our family for that brief moment in time.
Brief moment in time, indeed.
Earlier this month, he died. One moment he was alive, the next moment he was gone. Dead before rescue could get him to the hospital. He did not have a local obituary notice. He was a native of another part of the state, so I guess he was taken there for burial. I don�t know any more than that. I said a thanks for having known him.
Another friend who went into the hospital back in the summer is now in a rehab center recovering. It�s been a long slog for him, going from the critical care unit to anticipating his release home before Christmas.
For his first month of hospitalization, I wasn�t sure he would ever recover. I know medical supply manufacturers make miles and miles of tubing and sacks for IVs and sensors and feeding lines and all that sort of thing. What I didn�t know was that they were taking up half their production year making these things for my pal for breathing, eating, everything. He was wrapped in miles of plastic and tape and sophisticated monitors that beeped as they tracked his oxygen levels, blood pressure, blood gases and every function of his frail being.
It�s taken a Herculean effort by the medical geniuses to get him to the point he can move into a wheelchair with some help and can take a few steps with the aid of a walker. His strength is slowly improving. The tubes are gone and I feel like if he could dive into a plate of collard greens, black-eyed peas and pork chops he�d bounce back even quicker.
If he did journey to the River Styx, he must have traveled without a coin to pay Charon the ferryman, because he was rejected as a passenger to continue walking the earth. He has a lot to be thankful for, and I�m thankful I still have him around to talk to.
Just because Thanksgiving is in our rearview mirror, it�s no reason to stop being thankful. All you have to do is see the tough hands others have been dealt to know life can backhand you like a rude, sassy child.
So keep a smile and a thanks, even when someone else�s leaves blow into your yard.
Jay Ashleyis managing editor of the Times-News. He�s thankful at firstname.lastname@example.com

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On February 12, 2006, just a couple of weeks from now, riders and their equipment will be put to the test at the Olympic Winter Games in Torino, Italy-and wax will be one of the deciding factors in a winning halfpipe run.
What about back-to-back 1080s?
The rider who wins the Olympic Halfpipe event will do two tens (and probably two nines)-but only if their board has the right wax.
When the stakes are high, professional riders don't rely on a simple hot-wax once-over. The P-tex base of a snowboard continues to absorb wax every time it's waxed, making it faster and faster.
So here's what's been going on behind the scenes: Top U.S. riders have been waxing their Olympic boards for months now. They have different boards set aside for different conditions-snow temperatures and moisture content-and they'll choose the right board on the day of the event. Each board will have been waxed over and over with the same wax, and it'll probably get a last-minute buffing before each run. If conditions change, the techs won't change the wax, the rider will change boards-you may even see a board change between runs.
Only a handful of pros will be at the Olympics, and most riders don't have a stockpile of identical boards waxed and tuned for different conditions, but the concept of consistent waxing applies to even the working man's P-tex. The more a board is waxed, the faster it will be, and back-to-back 1080s require an awful lot of speed.
Ross Powers. Indy air, 2002 Olympic Halfpipe, Park City, Utah.
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MINNEAPOLIS (AP) With Miguel Cabrera on the bench and Max Scherzer struggling, the Detroit Tigers still found a way to win big.
Victor Martinez homered and had four RBIs, to lead Detroit to a 13-4 victory over the Minnesota Twins on Sunday.
Rajai Davis also connected for the Tigers, who have won two straight to earn a split of this four-game series.
''We were having better at-bats, we weren't chasing as many pitches,'' said Tigers manager Brad Ausmus. ''We've been kind of waiting for this for a while. ... It was nice to have those guys pick Miggy up.''
Detroit trials Kansas City by two games in the AL Central and is one back of Seattle for the second AL wild card.
Minnesota scored 32 runs in winning the first two games of the series and Detroit had 21 in taking the last two.
The Tigers' 60 hits in the four games is their most in a four-game series since having 60 at Chicago from July 6-8, 1956. Minnesota set a franchise record for most hits allowed in a four-game series, surpassing the 59 yielded at Texas July 25-28, 2011.
Cabrera didn't play after aggravating a sore right ankle Saturday. With the Tigers off Monday, Ausmus thought giving the slugger two days to rest was not a bad thing, adding he'd be ''shocked'' if Cabrera does not play Tuesday.
Martinez homered off Brian Duensing in the sixth for a 7-3 lead. His 25th home run of the season ties his career high set in 2007 with Cleveland.
Davis hit his two-run homer in the seventh to make it 9-3. A bases-loaded triple by Hunter made it 13-4 in the eighth.
''Just to bounce back from losing 20-whatever and 12-whatever, to bounce back shows the fight we have,'' Hunter said.
Kennys Vargas had three hits for Minnesota.
''The last two ballgames, their big boys threw and there you have it, it does make a difference,'' said manager Ron Gardenhire.
After Justin Verlander won Saturday night, Scherzer (15-4) lasted just five innings, allowing seven hits and three earned runs, but the Detroit bullpen allowed just one earned run on five hits the rest of the way.
''They fouled off pitches, worked counts, did anything they could to grind me out,'' Scherzer said.
The Twins loaded the bases with one out in the sixth, but Brian Dozier flew out to short left against Al Alburquerque and Phil Coke struck out Joe Mauer.
Minnesota starter Kyle Gibson (11-10) only pitched 4 2-3 innings on a hot and humid afternoon, allowing five earned runs on eight hits. He also walked four, hit a batter and threw a wild pitch. This was the third time in four stars the right-hander allowed five runs.
''It's one of those starts where six innings, seven innings, three runs would've been good for the lack of fastball command I had,'' Gibson said. ''I think the more I pitch, that's the consistency I'm looking for.''
The game took 4 hours, 10 minutes, the longest nine-inning game in Minnesota history, surpassing the 4:05 against Toronto on July 25, 1987.
Tigers: Starting pitcher Anibal Sanchez, on the 15-day DL since Aug. 9 with a right pectoral strain, has not been ruled out to pitch during next Saturday's doubleheader in Chicago. The right-hander is scheduled to throw Monday and, if that goes well, off a mound two days later. ''Just because he gets off the mound Wednesday, he may not quite feel right,'' Ausmus said. ... Reliever Joakim Soria was scheduled to throw again Sunday. He's been on the 15-day DL since Aug. 10 with a left oblique strain. ''In the last three days he's trended upward quite a bit,'' Ausmus said.
Twins: Starting pitcher Yohan Pino will be unable to throw for two to four weeks after an MRI showed a minor elbow strain. Pino was recalled from Triple-A Rochester to start the first game of Saturday's doubleheader and was optioned back after the start. He will be placed on the Triple-A disabled list.
Tigers: Rick Porcello (14-8, 3.10) is to get the ball when the Tigers start a three-game home series with the New York Yankees on Tuesday. Brandon McCarthy (8-12, 4.01) is scheduled to pitch for New York.
Twins: Off Monday before beginning a three-game series in Kansas City. Ricky Nolasco (5-9, 5.96) is scheduled to pitch for Minnesota in Tuesday's opener against Danny Duffy (8-11, 2.53)


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Re: Gaza Attacks
Posted: Tue Nov 20, 2012 9:42 pm
Classic Doc, always skirting and dodging and ducking, just firing away with a constant barrage of antagonist insults. Too afraid to to put himself out there to let us know why he is so passionately defensive over certain subject matters. Is Doc a Jew? A Queen Loving Protestant? A Tea Bagger, Bush lovin' Republican in bed with the Jews? Whats the fucking deal?Strangelove wrote:A good troll is a thing of beauty.
You, on the other hand, can snort my bum dust!


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The two biggest areas of focus for this release are the new Universal ATA driver and improvements in the USB stack. The new Universal ATA driver adds support for Serial ATA disk drives as well as partitions greater than 8GB. The improvements to the USB stack increase the compatibility with USB keyboards and mice.
There are still bugs in these areas, though. "These features are still under heavy development and have several known bugs," the ReactOS team warns, "but their inclusion should allow more people to run ReactOS on real hardware and are part of the extensive work to make ReactOS usable as an every day operating system."
This release is still considered alpha quality, so know what you're getting into. You can grab the new release from the download page.


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Anyone else trying to build their game and looking for someone to rally with?
I have tennis courts in my building in Rosslyn. I only have availability on Saturday afternoons. If that works for you, hit me up.
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Hey, I'm new to these networks. I'm looking for a tennis partner. I don't know my rating - I guess somewhere between 3 and 4.
Let me know if you're interested in playing. Thanks.
hey buddy. i actually play with someone on saturday afternoons, but if you're available on sunday afternoons, let me know. we should hit sometime (weather permitting).
just as a FYI, i'm still just getting back into it, so just looking to rally with folks to build my skills. i'm not super good.
I'm good for Sunday afternoons, at least when football is not in season. Let's try for the next Sunday with decent weather. LMK your email and we can chat further there.
And I really have no idea of my level rating. Just looking to have some steady rallies.
for sure. i'll send a request to add you as a friend so i can send you my email in a private message.
I also live in Rosslyn and would love to get back into hitting way more often - I can be reached at lifesgood5 at gmail if you'd like to get together to hit.
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Eleven years ago, I noticed that inmates hadn't been transferred to the newly constructed prison in Thomson.
I thought it was odd.
Apparently, I was one of the first reporters to notice, because officials at the Illinois Department of Corrections became quite defensive.
Eventually, I received an anxious phone call from then-DOC Director Donald Snyder.
"Scott, the prison isn't done yet. That's why there aren't any inmates there," he said.
Sensing a bit of skepticism on my part, he invited me fly to the prison with him. Upon arriving at the prison, we toured the complex.
Everything not only looked completed but appeared to be state-of-the-art.
A rather frustrated Snyder could see the facts weren't lining up with his narrative. So he took me into the gymnasium and pointed to a roll of carpet that hasn't been glued down yet.
"See, the prison isn't done yet," he said.
That was his excuse for why the $143 million prison hadn't opened – carpet that hadn't been glued down.
The reality was simpler: Illinois lacked the funds to staff the most costly prison it had ever built. That was the case in 2001 and is still the case today.
The prison – located 40 miles north of the Quad-Cities – was built by then-Gov. George Ryan. Both Snyder and Ryan ended up locked up in prisons themselves.
The Thomson prison was briefly used to house a small number of minimum-security prisoners, but essentially it has been unused for more than a decade.
The state has been trying to sell the prison to the federal government since then. And on Tuesday, the feds cut a check to the Land of Lincoln for $165 million, ending one of the most costly white-elephant sagas in the state's history.
Unions vs.
basic services
Imagine a crime-riddled city so desperate to get out from under its union contract and pension obligations that it eliminated its police department.
If you think that is the action of a politician like Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, think again.
It is being done in Camden, N.J., by a city council dominated by political liberals who face few good alternatives. They are shutting down the police department – perhaps the city's most vital service – just to get out from under the union contract.
A new police force for Camden, not covered by a union contract, is being formed by the county sheriff's office, the New York Times reports.
Scenarios like this are playing out across the nation.
For decades, politicians have placated public employee unions by promising more – in the future.
The problem is, the future is here, the bills have come due, and tough choices are being made between honoring old promises made or offering basic services today – like police protection.
Two years ago, Gov. Pat Quinn was the darling of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees. Arguably, he might never have won the governorship without their help.
Today, AFSCME members view him as lower than toe jam.
The problem? Quinn has found that in a time of austerity, the union refuses to be austere in its demands.
The coming decade may well be defined by the struggle of government and its unionized employees.
Note to readers – Scott Reeder's column is underwritten by the Illinois Policy Institute.


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|2006-01-16, 10:50
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Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: 9th Temple
Age: 40
Got to add Dr Jackal on my list..I was just forgetting about him.
|2006-01-16, 15:48
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Kurumada's lost child
Join Date: Nov 2003
My representation of a good villain is someone who can blend in perfectly with the society and is able to make friends and manipulate the hearts of those who love him in order to convey his selfish ideals.
1. Johan from Monster: One would never realize that this guy is a cold blooded killer able to do commit the most atrocious crimes against society unless you follow the anime closely. He has a warm smile, clam eyes, and a soft voice. His father and mother are very proud of him; to them he is just a loving and caring adopted child. He is one the best students at college. He loves children and enjoys their company. Yet, only few know that all his previous parents have been mysteriously murdered in a crime scene so perfect and well planed that nobody has been able to figure out who did such a thing. And, nobody would ever believe he could drive children to suicide. This guy is extremely convincing and manipulative. His physic skills will leave you speechless. The fact that monster is such a realistic anime enhances Johan's extraordinary evil skills. He is by far the most complex and interesting villain I have seen in my entire anime career.
2. Griffith from Berserk: He is your best friend, the helping hand who reaches upon your shoulder when you most need it, an example to all his comrades in battle and source of great pride to the band of hawk, due to the exemplary manner in which he carries himself everyone who "knows" him truly believes he is the perfect human being. Yet, this individual is the purest manifestation of egocentrism and selfishness and he will do anything he can to achieve his dreams.
So please do yoursefl a favor and watch Monster and Bersek to fully enjoy what a real villains are made of
|2006-02-05, 17:42
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Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: Georgia, USA
Right now I have to add Aizen from Bleach.
I mean this guy was the captain of a squad and lot of people looked up to him.
He is very inteligent, mastermind, strong, betrayed everyone including stabbing his vice captain who loved him so much, and potentially very evil.
|2006-03-05, 21:56
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^Wow android...you have two of my all-time favorites on your list in the supreme personality of one Sensui and the brilliantly enigmatic Legato Bluesummers...
Not only is Legato Bluesummers perhaps the greatest and most wasted villian of all-time he also may have the greatest-name in anime history for a villian...
|2006-03-06, 08:33
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Composed Eccentric
Full Metal Panic: the second raid
A intelligent, cunning villain that let's his insanity run free. He is hillarious and shocking the same time.
His performance of "Ave Maria", his treatment of his first commander, getting off to kittens, how he deals with traitors... he isn't some boring madman that is after the hero, not some cruel, ruthless villain that kills off the hero's family and he is definantely not some misunderstood good guy at heart, having fate pitting him against the hero.
This guy's insanity has style.
|2007-04-28, 01:17
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Seriously though I'd have to say Char Aznable. He's not really evil, but makes decisions that can be deemed as such. Plus he has possibly the most genuinely fleshed out character of any villain in anime history.
|2007-04-28, 19:46
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Gundam Boobs and Boom FTW
Join Date: Dec 2005
Rider from Fate/Stay Night--simply for the hotness.
Durandal outta GSD--philosophical and I-don't-need-no-steenkin-gundam-to-kick-yer-ass!
Zechs Merquise outta Gundam Wing--Too bad he doesn't have a 6 foot long katana to complete the badassery =X.
Sephiroth--NUFF SAID.
|2007-04-29, 06:14
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King Hamdo, King Hamdo, KING HAMDO!
To me, a "good villain" is either:
a. A three dimensional character who just has opposing goals to the protagonist
b. A character who actually makes the audience genuinely HATE and DESPISE him/her, and *not* drool at how 'cool' and 'badass' he or she is.
King Hamdo fits in category B. That guy made me go crazy. Literally. Remember that scene where he gets so crazy that he breaks the glass he is holding and cuts himself? His behaviour made ME almost break my glass of coke in the same way. I wanted to jump in to the television and beat the crap out of him. A really detestable person, that King Hamdo was. And his instability made it worse.
Typing about him makes me crazy >_<
|2007-04-30, 20:30
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Join Date: Mar 2004
Vicious from CB - "and you will shed crimson tears..."
spoiler for ending of CB below
Yagami Light - watch Death note. No explanation needed
Kuroro Lucifer - probably the one guy with infinite potential in the Hunter X Hunter universe - Kurapica may fall in this category too. Has specialization nen with no predefined limits in other areas... Unfortunately, HxH has essentially gone down the crapper with this atrocious insect business and indefinite breaks.
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SOUTH BOSTON, VA. — A familiar face in a familiar racecar is hoping to compete in the 150-lap Barkhouser Late Model Stock Car Division race Saturday night at South Boston Speedway.
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JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. (Jan. 9, 2008) -- Fresh off a conference opening victory over USC Upstate, the ETSU men's basketball team will look to keep its perfect 5-0 home record intact as the Buccaneers host Campbell in Atlantic Sun Conference play Thursday evening at 7 p.m. inside the Memorial Center.
The Bucs (7-7, 1-0) are 7-0 all-time against the Camels, but are not overlooking their next opponent, considering Campbell is coming off a win over back-to-back defending A-Sun Tournament Champion Belmont last Saturday.
Fans unable to attend the game can watch it live via video streaming provided at ASun.TV, or can listen to the live broadcast of the MSHA Buccaneer Sports Network by clicking on the link above.
For more on the game, read the game notes below or click on both the ETSU and Campbell game notebooks on the links above.
Buc Shots
A seven-time NCAA Tournament and two-time NIT participant, the ETSU Buccaneers enter the 2007-08 season coming off a regular season Atlantic Sun Conference championship with a 24-10 overall record, and a 16-2 league mark a year ago ... The Bucs return the 2006-07 A-Sun Player of the Year in junior guardCourtney Pigram (Memphis), as well as the A-Sun Coach of the Year Murry Bartow and All A-Sun Freshman team pick Mike Smith (Vandalia, Mo.) ... Along with returning players like Pigram and Smith, the Bucs also return significant contributors to last season's success such as senior post Andrew Reed (Port Richey, Fla.), sophomore point guard Dequan Twilley (Shelbyville), senior forward Kenyona Swader (Smyrna), and senior guard Travis Strong (Memphis) ... Newcomers for the Bucs that are expected to contribute early and often include junior college transfer Kevin Tiggs (Flint, Mich.), who was the JuCo Division II National Player of the Year last season, and lightning quick JuCo point guard Jocolby Davis (Meridian, Miss.) ... Several Bucs are currently leading A-Sun statistical categories, see page 6 of this notebook for more information on those players and their rank ... In addition, see where the Bucs ranks as a team and individually on the national charts on Page 4.
The series against Campbell
The Bucs and Camels have met seven times in their histories, with ETSU holding a perfect 7-0 mark.
Last time against Campbell
JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. (Feb. 5, 2007)- Holding Campbell to just 27 percent shooting and using a 32-7 run midway through the first half, the ETSU men's basketball team pulled away and never looked back in an 87-57 win over its Atlantic Sun Conference opponent in front of 4,357 fans at Memorial Center ... The Buccaneers, who improved to 18-7 overall, 12-1 in A-Sun play, won their 10th straight game and maintain their two-game lead over league rival Belmont with five league games remaining. As for the Fighting Camels, they drop to 10-13, 5-8 ... While the Bucs pulled away for the 30-point win, Campbell actually led 10-6 with 14:55 left in the first half. But from there, 3-pointers by junior forward Kenyona Swader (Smyrna) and freshman guard Mike Smith (Vandalia, Mo.) ignited a 13-0 run by the Bucs. While the Camels managed a free throw to finally answer the offensive surge, the Bucs promptly posted another 19-4 run to basically put the game on cruise control at 38-17 with 3:38 left before the intermission ... In the second half, the Bucs didn't let up, outscoring the Camels 44-34 and holding them to just 31 percent shooting. For the game, ETSU hit on 49 percent of its shots, forced 24 Campbell turnovers, collected 14 steals and rejected 11 shots ... The Bucs were led in scoring by Twilley, who finished with 15 points thanks to a career high five 3-pointers. Meanwhile, sophomore guard Courtney Pigram (Memphis) and senior forward Eryk Thomas (Fremont, Calif.) netted 13 points apiece, while junior forward Andrew Reed (Port Richey, Fla.) picked up 10 points. Senior forward Brad Nuckles (Council, Va.) had a game-high eight rebounds and scored eight points, while sophomore guard Tayloe Taylor had a game-high seven assists ... For Campbell, Kyle Vejraska led the way with 16 points and eight rebounds.
Last time out
JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. (Jan. 5, 2008)- The ETSU men's basketball team may have been facing a first year Division I opponent, but USC Upstate was not interested in making anything easy for the Buccaneers ... In the first meeting ever between the schools, ETSU held just a 3-point lead with 10 minutes left in the game, but the Buccaneers were able to overcome one of their worst offensive games of the year to pick up a win in the Atlantic Sun Conference opener for both teams 67-60 at Memorial Center. With the win, ETSU improves to 7-7 on the year, 1-0 in A-Sun play, while USC Upstate drops to 2-13, 0-1 ... Four Bucs reached double figures, led by a game-high 14 points and team-high seven rebounds from senior forward Andrew Reed (Port Richey, Fla.). Along with Reed, sophomore guard Mike Smith (Vandalia, Mo.) pitched in 13, senior guard Travis Strong (Memphis) added 11, and junior guard Courtney Pigram (Memphis) netted 10 ... For USC Upstate, forward Bobby Davis posted a double-double with 10 points and 11 rebounds, while teammate Jeremy Byrd posted a game-high 14. Luke Payne and Mezie Uzochukwu each added 11 points apiece for the Spartans ... In the first half, ETSU used a 16-4 run from the 16 to 11-minute mark to build a 22-8 lead. From there, the Bucs basically maintained that advantage thanks to 50 percent shooting from the floor, ultimately holding a 39-27 advantage at the intermission ... In the second half, the Bucs just could not get going offensively. In fact, ETSU would hit just five field goals after the break and allowed the Spartans to get within three points on a 3-pointer by Rashawn Brailsford with 10:03 left in the game. Luckily for the Bucs, they managed a 7-0 spurt to make it a 10-point game at the 7:48 mark, and the Spartans were only able to get as close as five points at 55-50 the rest of the game ... For the game, ETSU hit on just 41 percent of its shots, but held the Spartans to 34 percent. The Bucs out-rebounded USC Upstate 36-35, and ETSU was a decisive 25-of-33 from the foul line for a 76 percent clip. The Spartans had 10 steals and forced 23 turnovers by the Bucs.
Bucs' RPI, Strength of Schedule rank among best in nation
Though the Bucs are off to a 7-7 start, it's understandable when considering ETSU has only played four home games so far this season ... More importantly, the Buccaneers' strength of schedule (SOS) currently ranks 27th in the country according to RealtimeRPI.com ... That SOS rank is obvious when looking at the RPI of ETSU's opponents in the early season schedule, which includes St. Mary's (4th), Dayton (7th) and Syracuse (11th) ... As for RPI, the Bucs rank a respectable 134th out of 342 Division I teams.
Home Sweet Dome
Since the 1996-97 season, the Buccaneers are an amazing 112-36 inside Memorial Center, good for a winning percentage of 75 percent ... The Bucs ETSU had won five straight at Memorial Center during the 2006-07 season before a loss to Belmont (1/2) ... The Bucs then rattled off 10 straight at home to stand at 15-1 on the Memorial Center floor that season, but fell to Belmont in the final game of the year in the championship of the A-Sun Tournament ... This year, the Bucs are 5-0 at Memorial Center so far.
The Bucs at the Rainbow Classic
Spending a week in Hawaii during the winter months is always enjoyable, but ETSU's second trip ever to the Rainbow Classic was a bittersweet experience ... While the Bucs picked up their first win over a Southeastern Conference opponent since 1991-92 with a 76-58 victory over Georgia in the first round, the team finished the trip 1-2 after falling in back-to-back games to St. Mary's and Louisiana-Lafayette ... While the St. Mary's game was expected to be difficult -- considering the Gaels were ranked No. 2 in the RPI -- the 82-80 overtime loss to a 3-7 Lafayette team kept the Bucs from evening their season record to 6-6 coming home from the islands ... In two trips to the Rainbow, the Bucs are now 2-4 all time.
Non-conference home win streak at 16
Over the last three seasons, the Bucs have fared well against non-conference opponents within the confines of Memorial Center ... In fact, the Bucs have won 16 straight non-conference homes games since losing a 90-73 contest to Fresno State back on Nov. 27, 2004 ... ETSU has enjoyed wins over teams such as Marshall (2), Chattanooga, Central Michigan, Morehead State, Tennessee Tech, UNC Asheville, Eastern Kentucky, Radford and Appalachian State in that time frame ... Against conference opponents, the Bucs have won nine straight regular season conference games.
Another championship banner
With a win against Stetson (2/22), the Bucs wrapped up an outright 2006-07 A-Sun regular season title and garnered the No. 1 seed in the week's league championship tournament ... For ETSU, it was the continuation of a recent string of success that dates back to the 2000-2001 season ... In all, the Bucs have captured championships in five of the last seven seasons, including back-to-back NCAA Tournament trips in 2002-03 and 2003-04, and a trip to the NIT in 2006-07 ... Here is the championship breakdown:
2000-2001-- Southern Conference North Division Championship
2001-2002 -- SoCon North Division championship
2002-2003 -- SoCon North Division championship; SoCon Tournament Championship
2003-2004 -- SoCon North Division championship, SoCon Regular Season Championship, SoCon Tournament Championship
2006-2007 -- Atlantic Sun Conference Regular Season Championship
New starting five
During the Bucs recent trip to the Rainbow Classic, head coach Murry Bartow used a completely new starting five, with junior guardJocolby Davis (Meridian, Miss.), junior guard Courtney Pigram (Memphis), sophomore guard Mike Smith (Vandalia, Mo.), junior forward Kevin Tiggs (Flint, Mich.) and senior forward Andrew Reed (Port Richey, Fla.) ... While that group went only 1-2 on the trip, they did pick up the win over SEC foe Georgia and lost a close overtime battle with Louisiana-Lafayette ... However, the Bucs reshuffled the lineup again versus Appalachian State, moving Pigram to the point position, and inserting seniors Travis Strong (Memphis) and Kenyona Swader (Smyrna) to go with Tiggs and Reed ... That starting five is now 2-0 on the year.
Davis, Pigram and assist/turnover ratio
One positive to come from the early season schedule as been the play of both junior guardsJocolby Davis (Meridian, Miss.) and Courtney Pigram (Memphis) ... From a distribution of the basketball and offensive production standpoint, both have shown an ability to pick up assists without turning the ball over ... Currently, Davis ranks fourth in the A-Sun with an assist/turnover ratio of 1.5 ... As for assists per game, Pigram ranks 3rd with 4.0 a game.
Pigram eclipses 1,000 points
Beginning just his third season at ETSU, junior guardCourtney Pigram (Memphis) has already eclipsed the 1,000-point mark with a jump shot from the right corner at the 17:52 mark against Chattanooga (11/28) ... That basket gave Pigram 1,000 for his career and following the contest with the Mocs ... The junior now stands at 1,164 for his career and ranks 19th on the all-time program scoring list ... The 6-1 shooting guard scored 325 points as a freshman and then netted a remarkable 614 as a sophomore ... His 614 points a year ago ranks 6th on the single season list.
Swader, Tiggs breaking out
Entering this season, a great deal was expected of both junior transferKevin Tiggs (Flint, Mich.) and senior forward Kenyona Swader (Smyrna) ... Following 13 games, the two are definitely meeting or surpassing those expections ... In the Bucs' win at UNCA, Tiggs scored the game winner with 1.7 seconds left and also picked up 20 points ... In the first Marshall game, Tiggs broke out with a game-high 26 points, and setting career marks in most every statistical category ... In all, Tiggs has scored at least 20 points in five of the Bucs' 14 games, and currently stands tall on the Atlantic Sun stat sheets, ranking second in field goal percentage and sixth in free throw percentage ... Meanwhile, Swader has provided an immediate offensive threat in his first 14 games, currently standing sixth on the team with 7.0 points per game ... Currently, Swader is 10th in the A-Sun with a 39 percent 3-point field goal percentage.
Chilton's No. 42 comes out of retirement
JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. (Aug. 31, 2007)- For many years, Tom Chilton's No. 42 has held a special place in ETSU basketball's history. Next season, fans will see that special number on the floor once again ... Chilton, who ranks first all-time with 26.1 points per game and fifth on the all-time scoring list with 1,801, has agreed to allow junior transfer Kevin Tiggs (Flint, Mich.) to wear his No. 42 jersey for the 2007-08 and 2008-09 season. Chilton, who now makes his home in Madison, Ind., said he was honored a current player would want to wear his number ... "I wish him the best and I'm honored he wants to wear No. 42," said Chilton, whose 42 is the only retired number in ETSU's program history. "I hope he always considers that the number doesn't make the player, but the player makes the number. A lot of hard work and effort went into that number during my time there, but ETSU gave a lot back to me and I wouldn't be where I am today without that university, so I'm happy to allow the number to be worn again." ... ETSU head coach Murry Bartow said he was appreciative Chilton would allow the number to come out of retirement, and he reiterated that the number will go back into retirement two years from now ... "Tom Chilton was one of the finest players to ever wear an ETSU uniform, and his willingness to allow Kevin to wear the number shows he is still proud to be a part of our program's tradition," Bartow said. "It's our expectation that Kevin understand the importance of the number and the responsibility that goes with wearing it." ... Tiggs, the 2007 National Junior College Division II Player of the Year, said he certainly understood the history behind the number ... "Mr. Chilton was and is a legend here, so wearing his number comes with a great deal of responsibility," Tiggs said. "I just want to play in a way that would make him proud."
1,116 wins and counting
With a win Jan. 25 against Belmont, the Bucs collected the program's 1,100th win all-time ... In over 80 years of basketball, the Bucs are 1,116-901-27.
Bucs on the Tube
Along with the new ASun.TV package which will video stream all ETSU men's and women's home games on the Internet, the Bucs will again have a significant presence on the television screen as well this year ... In fact, ETSU's trips to Oklahoma State (Dec. 8) and Syracuse (Dec. 15) both aired live locally, with the Oklahoma State game showing on WKPT (ABC) and the Syracuse contest aired on WJHL (CBS) ... The Bucs will also appear on regional cable through the Friday night CSS Atlantic Sun Game of the Week with the Jan. 25th trip to Jacksonville and the Feb. 1 home game against Mercer scheduled for air on CSS ... In addition, Charter Main Street will air its weekly ETSU replay on Charter 13 and Comcast 14 Tuesday nights at 8 p.m., with the weekly games beginning on Dec. 4th with the Tennessee-Wesleyan game ... For a complete schedule, visit ETSUBucs.com.
Bucs dominate Preseason All A-Sun Picks
Last season, ETSU won its first Atlantic Sun Conference men's basketball title, but Belmont denied the Buccaneers the conference's automatic bid in the final of the General Shale Brick Men's Basketball Championship ... Entering the 2007-08 season, both the coaches and the media predict that the Buccaneers will again be battling the Bruins for conference supremacy ... Both chose ETSU as the favorite to win the conference and defend its regular-season title with Belmont second ... The Bucs were the clear choice by the media to win the tournament ... The Buccaneers, who have gone 28-10 in A-Sun play in their two years in the league, will continue to be led byCourtney Pigram (Memphis). The junior from Memphis, Tenn. was named the preseason Player of the Year following up his Player of the Year award for the 2006-07 season. As a sophomore, Pigram averaged 18.1 points per game, second-best in the conference and also ranked in the top 10 in steals (2nd, 2.62 SPG), 3-point field goals per game (3rd, 2.62 3-pt FG per game) and assists (7th, 3.74 APG). He turned in one the league's virtuoso performances of the season when he dished out a conference-record 18 assists against Mercer on February 24 to go along with 29 points and eight rebounds. The 18 assists set an A-Sun record, were one off the school record and were the second-highest single-game total in Division I in the last two seasons.


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"Mulligan has been closely involved in the entire history of modern jazz orchestration, and younger fans, who know him primarily as a baritone saxophonist, are unaware of it. Yet it was as a writer that he gained his broadest early acceptance, and some of the arrangements he wrote for Gene Krupa— and an original for Stan Kenton called Young Blood — are well-remembered classics."
- Gene Lees, Jazz author, critic and producer of the JazzLetter
"Chet was one of the best intuitive musicians I've ever seen. We used to get some remarkable things going. I remember one night at the Haig in Los Angeles, nobody called a tune all evening. As a tune ended, someone would noodle with another melody, and we would all go into the same thing. We'd play for an hour and a half that way, take a break, and go on and do it again. It never let up. It was one of the most exciting evenings of playing I can remember."
- Gerry Mulligan, baritone saxophonist, composer-arranger, bandleader
"Then, too, to be honest, I find writing very frustrating. I'm a slow writer, because I'm trying always to think what it will feel like to play it in various situations. There's too much in jazz writing that doesn't move well. They haven't learned from the simplifying that we did with that nine-piece band with Miles, when we got it down to the fewest necessary elements."
- Gerry Mulligan, baritone saxophonist, composer-arranger, bandleader
"What I came back to is that jazz is a music to be played and not to be intellectualized on."
- Gerry Mulligan, baritone saxophonist, composer-arranger, bandleader
Who can foretell the future?
When Gene Lees wrote the following about Gerry's lack of composing and arranging, primarily for larger groups, who could know that Gerry had another thirty-three years ahead of him and would spend most of the decades of the 1970s and 1980s writing for various configurations of his "new" Concert Jazz Bands.
Yet, its great to look back to gauge where things were in the Jazz World and Jeru's World fifty years ago and to add this piece to the growing JazzProfiles Mulligan Bibliographic Holdings.
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January 17, 1963
Gene Lees
'"Why aren't you writing more?" a friend asked Gerry Mulligan recently.
A rising young arranger said, "I learned a lot from Gerry. He's such a fine arranger. I wish he'd write more these days."
Another friend buttonholed Mulligan to say, "The only criticism I've ever had of your big band is that there aren't more of your charts in the book."
To all of which Mulligan grins and says, "I feel like asking all of them, Why don't you write something for me?' "
The fact remains that one of the best and most influential of modern arrangers writes remarkably few jazz arrangements nowadays. He does produce spontaneous ones with his quartet, which he plays with as much warmth and amiability as he ever did. But the big-band arranging of which he is one of the leading exponents isn't coming from his pen in any quantity these days.
Mulligan has been closely involved in the entire history of modern jazz orchestration, and younger fans, who know him primarily as a baritone saxophonist, are unaware of it. Yet it was as a writer that he gained his broadest early acceptance, and some of the arrangements he wrote for Gene Krupa— and an original for Stan Kenton called Young Blood — are well-remembered classics.
In the 1940s, Mulligan was writing for the Claude Thornhill Band. The band's chief arranger was Gil Evans. Mulligan and Evans agree that Thornhill never has been given his due as an influence in the evolution of modern jazz writing. It was Thornhill's instrumentation (the use of French horns was among his innovations) that led to the development of Evans' early style.
In 1949 Evans and Mulligan had an idea for an experimental band. Pooling efforts and resources with other searchers, including John Lewis and Miles Davis, they organized a group. When Davis arranged for jobs and recordings, he became leader.
"We kicked the ideas around all that winter," Mulligan said. "We were looking for the smallest ensemble to give the writers the maximum possibilities. We got it down to six men and the rhythm section. You couldn't write for the sections — sax section, trumpet section, trombone section — because there were no sections."
The influence of the Evans-Mulligan-Davis nine-piece band is well known. It played few public engagements, though it made some appearances at the old Royal Roost in New York City. But it did make a series of single records for Capitol, launching the era of so-called cool jazz and shaking up jazz arrangers rather considerably.
Lewis went on to the Modern Jazz Quartet and Third Stream-ism. Evans and Davis were to part company for a few years, to join talents again in the mid-1950s to produce a now-famous series of trumpet-and-orchestra albums for Columbia. And Mulligan went on to form a series of groups, including a sextet and a big band and several editions of a quartet, the latest revision of which includes Mulligan on baritone and occasionally piano; Bob Brookmeyer on trombone and, also occasionally, piano; Bill Crow, bass; and Gus Johnson, drums.
Mulligan remembers with particular affection the version of the quartet that included Chet Baker on trumpet.
"Chet was one of the best intuitive musicians I've ever seen," Mulligan said. "We used to get some remarkable things going. I remember one night at the Haig in Los Angeles, nobody called a tune all evening. As a tune ended, someone would noodle with another melody, and we would all go into the same thing. We'd play for an hour and a half that way, take a break, and go on and do it again. It never let up. It was one of the most exciting evenings of playing I can remember."
Like Gil Evans, Mulligan has debts as an orchestrator to Duke Ellington.
There are, basically, two ways to orchestrate for the large jazz orchestra: the Don Redman-Fletcher Henderson way, which involves voicing saxes with saxes, trumpets with trumpets, trombones with trombones, in blocks; and the Ellington way, which, while recognizing the existence of the sections, doesn't hesitate to voice across the section lines — for example, a trumpet, a clarinet, and bass clarinet in trio in front of the rest of the band.
Evans' approach to the orchestra, while the end result sounds vastly different, is technically similar to Ellington's. So, very often, is Mulligan's.
Mulligan has been writing for big bands since he was 15, which means that although he is only 35, he's had 20 years' experience at it. Besides Thornhill and Krupa, he wrote for the Elliot Lawrence Band and several other groups. His own Tentet records for Capitol, which came after the Miles Davis nine-piece sides, still stand as some of the most delightful writing in jazz.
Why, then, has this long stream of impressive writing stopped — or at least slowed?
"I don't know why I'm not writing, really," Mulligan said during a reflective evening in New York, where he lives. "There are so many reasons that there's no one.
"My approach to the thing was always to simplify rather than to complicate. I've concentrated on the small band lately, but I've used my arranging ability not in written orchestrations but in making spontaneous arrangements and un-writing things we worked out. The main point has been to be able to change our arrangements to suit our whim. This is true of all the groups I've had.
"If I haven't written much for the big band, I've always tried to be clear about what I wanted the writing to be like. I made my taste the criterion in my approach to the band, and usually if I made myself explicit to the arrangers, they were happier, because they knew the restrictions within which they could work.
"But I wanted to keep freedom in it too — to permit the guys to improvise patterns, riffs, and the like, in ensemble behind the soloists. Bob Brookmeyer would wisecrack, 'We're having a rehearsal. Bring your erasers.'"
Mulligan said he spends most his time erasing things. He quotes Dizzy Gillespie as once saying, "It's not what you put in — it's what you leave out." Mulligan said he feels that's very frequently the case—and he would like what is going on in jazz writing better these days if "more guys understood that."
"Whereas everyone's been after me to write," he said, "I've been happy to let it rest. For one thing, I don't have the drive I had when I was experimenting, because I'm no longer experimenting — I know what I want.
"Then, too, to be honest, I find writing very frustrating. I'm a slow writer, because I'm trying always to think what it will feel like to play it in various situations. There's too much in jazz writing that doesn't move well. They haven't learned from the simplifying that we did with that nine-piece band with Miles, when we got it down to the fewest necessary elements.
"They seem to be reverting to writing by section. We should consider the dance-jazz ensemble as an orchestra to write for, not as three sections. But the guys today are writing more vertically than we were doing in the late '40s and early '50s.
"Mind you, it often sounds simpler. But that's because more groups of studio men can make things swing today than the guys would have been able to do 15 years ago."
Did this mean that the level of musicianship today is higher than it was then?
"I suppose," Mulligan said . . . and then added: "No. Let's say that the developments in jazz since that time have demanded more technical fluency. Musicianship is something more than fluency."
Mulligan paused at this point. The location was a musicians' hangout on 48th St. He ordered a beer and then asked the waiter what was on the menu. Hearing, he made a wry face. "I don't like food that much," he said.
"That's why you're so skinny," a musician cracked.
Mulligan's huge Irish grin flashed on, and he said "Yeah? A lot of my fat friends wish they disliked food as much as I do." Finally, though, he ordered and returned to the subject of jazz writing.
"This business of looking for new forms is asinine," he said. "The forms are there. They've got to be used. The problem I ran into, and I suppose all the other guys ran into, was that we tried to expand and disguise the existing forms and find new ones.
"What I came back to is that jazz is a music to be played and not to be intellectualized on.
"We're back to the same forms. With the quartet, we've got to a point where the arrangements are as simple as possible. The function of the arranger is to set up a framework for the players to express themselves — and not only the soloists but the whole ensemble. This is applicable to the big band as well. That's why there are those improvised ensemble passages. I want things to arise as naturally as possible.
"I saw the direction we were all going — getting involved in classical techniques. I find it difficult to concern myself with watered-down versions of what classical composers did 50 years ago.
"From time to time you hear in classical music an idea you can make use of. But just to start using it, to throw it into the music, is no good. You must go through a period of initiation with it, then figure out how to use it."
He said it would be nice to have an experimental orchestra but that he found out the only way he could have one was to pay for it himself.
"It's not enough to write it — it's got to be played and heard," he said. "That's experimentation, and I don't believe that experimental things are meant to be heard by the public. They're for the composers themselves to hear. I don't want everything I write to be heard. I wrote and rehearsed a number of things for the big band that I still haven't used. We should all be not only professionals but also perpetual amateurs."
A classical composer to whose influence Mulligan submitted himself was Paul Hindemith. Yet this was a case of absorption: Mulligan took from Hindemith precisely what he wanted. He explained:
"When I was writing for Gene Krupa and other big bands in the 1940s, I became involved with the problem of naming some of the chords I was writing. And then I came across the Hindemith technical books, not all of which I had the equipment to understand.
"He was criticizing the formal theories of harmony. They make up rules of harmony that are so loaded with exceptions that the rules don't mean anything. Traditional harmony says that a fourth isn't a chord. And that's ridiculous. It is. Hindemith showed that going up the overtone series you cover everything. I was delighted to see this. I voiced chords in fourths—chords for which there was no name, but which implied the sound of some chord for which there was a name.
"A-D-G-C sounds like a C-chord, but it's not. A C-chord is E-G-C. Through that period, when I was reading the Hindemith books, I learned the lack of importance of naming chords."
A musician whose work Mulligan has lately found stimulating and interesting is Ornette Coleman. At first, he said, he was repelled by Coleman's playing.
"But as soon as I forgot about the mechanics of music as I know them, I was very excited by it," he said.
"Ornette is a very talented writer. He writes very clever and nicely constructed pieces for his group. As a matter of fact, I asked him to write a thing for my quartet, which we unfortunately never could play.
"I'm well aware of the pitfalls of extreme freedom in improvisation. Guys can become just as repetitious in their choruses as when they have restrictions.
"In a group, you have to work inside the limitations of the members, and we all have limitations. We tried to play Ornette's piece, but there were too many tempo changes and key changes. So I can't say we gave it a fair try.
"But, on the other hand, I can't say he wrote a piece for my group."
FOR ALL THAT Mulligan may not be actively writing arrangements now, it seems likely that he will resume doing so for his big band. He had planned to take the band out again this spring but has decided to work out the season with the quartet. He has changed booking agencies, and the bookings in the field he wants to work in — the colleges and small campuses — are starting to roll in. The forthcoming tour appeals to him, he said, especially since there's a tour of Japan in the works at the end of it.
"The big band is far from being ancient history," he added. "We have an unreleased album in the can with Verve, and I'm toying with the idea of taking the band out this fall.
"By the way, while we're on the subject, there's a matter I'd like to get straightened out. Martin Williams said in a record review in Down Beat something to the effect that the big band was a financial failure. That is not so. "The band did not lose money. At a time when one bandleader went $60,000 in debt . . . it's quite remarkable that my band didn't lose money. I don't owe a dime because of it, and the arrangements are all paid for when I want to take it out again. But the reasoning seemed to run: I disbanded, didn't I? Why else would I disband?
"I thought by now I'd established a pattern that the critics would understand. My bands last two years, more or less, and then I take time off to digest what I've been doing. Each band is another experience. I may put the same group back together as I've done lately with the quartet, but I like to take those periods off. I've been doing that for 10 years, and as many times as I've said publicly that this is what I do, no one ever seems to believe it.
"You know, there can be a philosophy of bandleading, as there can be a philosophy of anything. But you're accused of being pretentious and conceited if you state a philosophy.
"I've learned from many things. As you know, I did a few acting roles in films, and I learned a great deal from them — from seeing a whole put together.
"But I'm not an actor, and I don't want to be one." This brought him to a peeve:
"It seems that in this country, you're expected to be a specialist. People get used to you in a certain role in life, and they don't like you to step out of it. In other countries, particularly the Latin countries, it doesn't surprise anyone when a man is an attorney and a jazz musician, or a playwright and a painter. People in this country seem to find it hard to understand that a man can have a deep and abiding interest in one art and a lesser, but still real, interest in another."
One of his greatest current pleasures is writing songs to lyrics by actress Judy Holliday for a Broadway show.
"Who knows what I'll eventually be able to do because of this broadening of experience? When, for example, we're doing something with the quartet on television, it helps to understand the production problems and the nature of the work of the people you're dealing with. Some day I'd like to produce such things, not just play in them."
For the moment, though, it's the quartet and probably the big band in the fall. "And I'll probably get around to doing some writing.""


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Rebel dropped the casting spoiler while leaving a West Hollywood salon after our photog asked about Drake's Rolling Stone drama this week.
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After the last Metaday Pavol, one of our friends from Bratislava offered to give a presentation about his research into SMS-ticket sytems that are in use for public transport in many big cities like Vienna.
Here is an abstract of the talk
The primary aim of this presentation is to show a serious inherentvulnerability in the public transport SMS tickets system widely used in many big cities. Firstly, prerequisites for a successful hack are described. Then a proposed SMS ticket hacking network architecture is outlined, including a SMS ticket hack server, SMS ticket mobile hack clients and their encrypted communication protocol. The author describes various partial solutions how to fix this vulnerability including instructions for attackers how to evade them (e.g. by using decentralized private P2P mobile network). Finally, an effective countermeasure is proposed: secure SMS ticket generation methods based on symmetric/asymmetric cryptography and a security improvement of transport inspector's checking process. Despite the fact that public transport companies have already been informed about this serious vulnerability, they ignore this fact and still use the vulnerable systems.
Pavol has offered a few dates where he could take his time to give his talk at the Metalab. If you are interested just mark one of the following dates to vote for your preference. After the last Metaday Pavol expressed some preference for May the 7th (Tuesday before Metaday 21) So if this date is possible for you as well, just vote for it. He will also give this talk at this years Confidence Conference in Krakow on May 15th and wants to give it at the Metalab before that.
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I took my 11 yr old min pin to the vet Tues Aug 17 as she had vomited the day before and twice on the 17th. After running numerous blood tests, xrays, ekg, blood pressures, the diagnosis came back as pancreatitis. Her Amylase was unreadable, (meaning off the chart) and her lipase was 5504. She has been on IV fluid therapy and fentanyl patches for pain control. A recheck on her blood today showed her lipase at 4498, her creatinine at 2.2, and her bun at 46. The vet also ran a Spec CPL and it showed a level over 1,000. He wants to run the test again tomorrow, which is fine but I have 2 questions. He mentioned that her lipase could be elevated due to the pancreatitis and the use of the fentanyl pain patch, but also could indicate a pancreatic tumor. By running the Spec CPL again tomorrow, if the levels drop significantly is this an indication she is improving? My family is trying to decide (with tears from everyone) if we can base a decision on ongoing treatment for her if the numbers on this test are less or should we face the fact that if the numbers are still increased we should end her agony and let her peace at peace? I need some sound advice from anyone who might have dealt with this type of situation or might know anything about the tests and numbers that i have mentioned. Thank you to anyone who can assist me in anyway during this crisis.
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No warnings! Port Arthur Police cracking down on traffic violations
In an effort to combat traffic violations reported by numerous citizens, Port Arthur Police are proclaiming the month of July "Zero Tolerance Month," and no traffic warnings will be issued to drivers disregarding traffic laws - only citations.
In a news release from PAPD Lt. Steve Brinson, he reports that PAPD's Traffic Enforcement Unit has recently been inundated with traffic complaints, and, in spite of "aggressive enforcement" and "educational efforts" toward improving inattentive driving behaviors, the complaints keep rolling in. Not only are they receiving a greater than average number of complaints pertaining to traffic, but officers report that Port Arthur also experienced a higher number of fatalities this year than in previous years, most of which have been the result of auto-pedestrian accidents.
During Zero Tolerance Month, officers will enforce all types of traffic offenses with a "special emphasis on speeding, distracted driving violations and seat belts," the news release reads. "There will be NO WARNINGS, so let this serve as a 'Warning.'"
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Christmas 2012 sees our hero Robin Hood attempting to outwit the evil Sheriff of Nottingham as well as robbing from the rich to give to the poor, and freeing the unfortunate babes in the wood and their hapless nanny - and also trying to romance the beautiful Maid Marion along the way!
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Reed saw limited action in her first season for the Gauchos, competing in two meets...She ran 18:34.21 in the 5000m at the Mt. SAC Relays, and 10:27.25 in the 3000m at the Big West Challenge Cup.
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Are my sons, Jeff in Dacula, Ga., and Scott, in Clarksville, Tenn., and I the only Atlanta Braves followers who are very upset with the Braves organization for their recent trade for the "other" Upton.
The Braves gave away Martin Prado, certainly the most versatile player in all of baseball and perhaps the best No. 2 hitter in any team's lineup. On any given day, Prado could be counted on to perform outstandingly at any position on the field. It must have been a delight to have been the Braves' manager and to know if any player was/got hurt, needed a rest, or was otherwise unable to play, he could automatically turn to Prado to fill-in with no loss in defensive or offensive effectiveness.
Martin demonstrated outstanding versatility and the willingness and selflessness to go anywhere on the field where the manager asked him to play. Hardly any of today's ballplayers are willing, or are that talented, to do what Martin has done for the Braves.
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Spring sports aren't far off, and Hood River's newly named middle school head coach, Shawnie Emmons, is already busy organizing and assembling resources. To ensure a positive experience for young athletes, coaches and volunteers are needed at both Hood River and Wy'east middle schools. The season officially starts March 31 for HRMS and April 1 for Wy'east, with the popular annual HRV Learn-by-Doing Clinic planned for March 8 and a few preseason workouts planned for before spring break.
Anyone willing to volunteer is asked to contact Emmons as soon as possible at firstname.lastname@example.com.
Mark your calendar: Little League sign-ups Feb. 4-6
Hood River Little League will hold sign-ups for the spring/summer season Feb. 4 and 6, from 5:30-7:30 p.m. at Westside, Parkdale and Mid Valley elementary schools. Try-outs are scheduled for March 1 and 3 at Hood River Valley High School. For more information visit:
HR Babe Ruth returning, sign-ups Jan. 29, Feb. 9
After several years' hiatus, the Hood River Babe Ruth youth baseball program will be back this year. Sign-ups for the program are scheduled for Jan. 29 and Feb. 9, 6-9 p.m. at the Hood River Valley High School indoor batting facility. The program is open to players ages 12-15 and costs $90 for the season.
HRVHS baseball fundraiser Feb. 8
Hood River Valley High School varsity baseball is hosting a fundraiser dinner and silent auction Feb. 8 to benefit the program and continued improvements to the team's home field. The event starts at 5:30 p.m. at Springhouse Cellar in downtown Hood River and includes live music by Tony Smiley, dinner and a silent auction, all for $20 per person. Tickets can be purchased at the door or in advance at Windmaster Market, Doug's Sports or the HRVHS main office.
Waterfront Recreation Committee meets Feb. 12
The Port of Hood River Waterfront Recreation Committee will meet Feb. 12, 1-3 p.m. in the commission board room to discuss the port's new Hook launch and waterfront trail projects and the pedestrian bridge bike/pedestrian path connections. The meeting is open to the public and public comment is allowed. Call 541-386-1645 for more information.
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DENVER – The decision to return J.D. Martinez to Class AAA Oklahoma City before spring training was complete looks even stranger nearly two months into the season.
Martinez was a late cut during exhibition play but has recently found a home as the Astros' cleanup hitter. He's held the position 12 times this season and entered Thursday 11-for-31 with three doubles, two home runs and seven RBIs since May 21.
The 25-year-old continues to be inconsistent. Martinez struck out five times in five at-bats Monday and dealt with an in-game benching earlier this year. But on a team lacking proven power hitters and run producers, the third-year player is one of the few game-changing bats on the 25-man roster.
Martinez went 2-for-4 with a go-ahead RBI single Wednesday during the Astros' 6-3 win against the Rockies. He led the Astros in RBIs (55) last season and has displayed a smoother, more confident approach at the plate since rejoining the club May 6.
"It goes back to him using the whole field. Guys that have the ability to drive in runs, when they get in trouble it's because they're basically trying to pull the ball to their pull field," Astros manager Bo Porter said. "J.D. has done a great job of using the whole field, driving the ball the other way and taking what the opposition's been giving him."
Pitching plan being followed
The Rockies entered Thursday ranked fourth out of 30 teams in slugging percentage (.435), sixth in batting average (.267) and eighth in runs (251). Through the initial three games of their series against the Astros, though, Colorado was just 7-for-36 with runners in scoring position and had left 34 men on base while scoring just seven runs.
The Rockies' poor clutch hitting and efficient outings by the Astros' starters contributed to Colorado's offensive slump. But Porter believed the Astros' improved bullpen had played the biggest role. Relievers familiar with Rockies hitters' tendencies had exploited holes by firing their best out pitch in crucial late-game situations.
"Our pitchers have done a great job of understanding the game plan and pitching to the game plan and making quality pitches," Porter said.
He added: "(It's) the catcher and the pitcher understanding the strengths of our guy on the mound and how we want to attack the guy in the batter's box. And then having the wherewithal and the stuff to be able to do it."
On deck: Los Angeles Angels
When/where: 9:05 p.m. Friday, 8:05 p.m. Saturday, 2:35 p.m. Sunday, 9:05 p.m. Monday; Angel Stadium in Anaheim, Calif.
TV/radio: CSN; 790 AM and 1010 AM (Spanish)
Pitchers: Astros (17-37) Angels (25-29)
Friday: L Dallas Keuchel (1-2, 5.09 ERA) R Tommy Hanson (2-1, 3.86)
Saturday: R Bud Norris (4-4, 3.71) R Jerome Williams (4-1, 2.58)
Sunday: R Jordan Lyles (2-1, 4.50) L C.J. Wilson (4-3, 3.95)
Monday: L Erik Bedard (0-2, 5.32) R Joe Blanton (1-8, 5.94)
Astros update: The Astros entered Thursday 6-7 in their last 13 games. . Reliever Edgar Gonzalez was dealing with shoulder soreness. Marwin Gonzalez was still recovering from a strained right hamstring. The Astros are 3-3 against the Angels this season. . The Astros won't face Angels ace Jered Weaver in the series and have yet to this season.
Angels update: Los Angeles had won nine of 11 entering a Thursday contest against the Dodgers. . The Angels were eighth out of 30 teams in slugging percentage (.425) but 25th in ERA (4.42) and opponents' batting average (.265). . Right fielder Josh Hamilton (back) returned to action Wednesday during a 4-3 victory against the Dodgers. He was hitting .237 with an .823 OPS, eight home runs and 18 RBIs.


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Apparently he spent a summer there when in college and that is what they drank.
Maybe they keep the crap for the locals to make them stick to wine? .
Funny you just call it "16". What French beer would you recommend to clone/drink yourself?Or is that why you homebrew!! Dave
LOL! Thanks for the link and best of luck educating our French friends on good beer!Dave
Flanders is the Dutch-speaking (or Flemish, if you will) region of Belgium. Wallonia (or Walloon) is the French-speaking region. French Flanders, oddly, is the northernmost region of France, which borders Belgium. The capitol is Lille, and Lille has some great breweries, including Fantome, which makes some great saisons.
We went with the recipe as is except I subbed in the 2124 for the 2308. It's bubbling away with a nice thick Krausen at 50F. Phil, I'll try to remember to post whether it came out like Kro or the much better Clonenbourg. I have some high hopes for this beer. The Strisselspalt smelled great in the boil!Dave
I agree that Kronenbourg in the bottle is awful, but a bar (in Montana!) had this on tap a while ago and I thought it was quite nice. I could really pick out the Strisselspalt.
There are some very good French Flanders breweries, but Fantome isn't one of them. Fantome is in Belgium and nowhere near Lille.