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Individually or in teams, participants can walk or run up 21 floors of the building at 1201 N. Market St., to benefit the fight against lung diseases. Also offered will be a "kilo climb" -- two times up the building, about 1,000 steps -- and a "first responders challenge" for first responder teams in full gear.
The next local fundraiser for the American Lung Association will be the Fight for Air Climb on Saturday, Nov. 9 in Wilmington.
Individually or in teams, participants can walk or run up 21 floors of the building at 1201 N. Market St., to benefit the fight against lung diseases.
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It is not really my business to worry about what people think of me. My job is pushing books, not polishing my public image. Still, there is loose talk going around that may damage my image, and since I do, after all, represent the Newberry Book fair, not to say the Newberry itself, I suppose I must protest against what amounts to outright slander.
People are saying I'm not cranky.
If you listen to the epic phone message at the Book Fair Hotline (and some people do call just to listen to my dulcet voice) you will be told that if you drop off books, you can knock on the door and eventually a cranky man will come out to unload the books. This refers to me, peach popover.
Yet all this week, I have had to face insult after insult. "You're not as cranky as you make out." "You're so nice." "I don't believe you've ever been cranky." Do these people have no respect for my feelings whatsoever?
I never promised I'd come out and kick your dog, or start biting your car. (I've been warned against that anyway: there's a chance my teeth will get stuck in the tires.) And sometimes, let's face it, one isn't at the top of one's game. Being cranky isn't as easy as people think.
Take yesterday, say. A volunteer starts the day by dropping off ten boxes of books which have all been in the basement so long that the cobwebs on them are a little moldy. These boxes turned out to contain a couple thousand dollars' worth of art books, which, however, need to be checked to make sure nothing crawls out of them. (Prompting a philosophical discussion: when opening a box of books would you rather have something fly out, or crawl out? We're still working on that one.)
But before I can finish that, a nice lady drops by with six boxes of cookbooks. I am puzzled by the Liberace Cookbook, and inspired by one apparently called Eat Smurfs for a Healthy Heart. I knew blueberries were full of anti-oxidants, but I never made the connection.
I have just enough time to realize I have misread Eat Smart for a Healthy Heart when there's a knock on the door. Somebody has a load of hardcover mysteries that didn't sell at his garage sale. He has put the books in the boxes spine up, and is actually setting one boot up on the first box so he can make out a receipt on his knee when a station wagon and a pick-up truck pull into the lot. Ladies step from the driver's seats. I know what this means: two sisters have so many books they didn't all fit into one vehicle.
But no, no: this time it's mere coincidence. One lady has two bags of books for me, and another has three. So I make out their receipts, and bring in the boxes of mysteries, which can't be stacked on each other because the books are sticking out of the tops of the boxes. The phone rings. The caller has two thousand books she needs to have me pick up, but don't worry: she already has a thousand of them packed in shopping bags. I duly note her information and realize it is lunch time.
This time, the phone rings BEFORE I take the first bite. Someone has a bag of books. Is it alright if he brings it around next Wednesday around 1:15? "Maybe as late as 1:20." I tell him that's fine. It takes three more phone calls before I can finish my sandwich: two people want to know when the Book Fair is, so they can get their books packed for me, and another wants to know if it's true I don't accept donations after Memorial Day. (It is not.)
The afternoon is very much like the morning, except that at 4:30, I hear the gate of a truck being opened. Knowing that this must be the UPS man, I open the door to find a rental truck and two men I've never seen before.
"Hi!" says one of them. "We've got these books."
"Are they for anybody in particular?" I inquire, knowing in my heart what the answer will be. See, the lady meant to give all these books to somebody else, but the somebody else doesn't have room for them all. So the 57 boxes the other person wouldn't take are all for me.
Remember all this, next time you start to complain that Uncle Blogsy is being nice again. Maybe I'm just too tired to scowl.


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Though the secret may still be contained within its borders, this city has been able to tout itself as the birthplace of one of the most innovative contemporary dance companies to come about in recent years. And on March 8 and 9, John Malashock, the creative mind behind Point Loma-based Malashock Dance, will kick off the company's 25th anniversary season with a celebration showing just how far the company has come over the last two and a half decades.
"There have been some great things about developing in San Diego," Malashock said. "We were starting at a point when there was a limited number of people working here. It really allowed me to find my own style, my own voice, without feeling like I was in one of those place like New York or San Francisco, where there's so much cross-influence that it almost tends to become a little homogeneous in terms of trends."
Malashock — who grew up in La Jolla and attended La Jolla High School before moving to New York and cultivating an enviable career with the acclaimed Twyla Tharp Dance company — said he has always relied on his own "inner vision," as opposed to the influences of popular choreographers or companies.
"And to be honest," he said, "it has worked for me and in some ways, it has worked against me. People tend to go for the very recognizable."
At next month's 25th anniversary celebration, audience members will get a taste of what Malashock has developed since he came back to his home town in 1988. Though the performance won't necessarily reflect on the company's past — though half of the show will revisit an earlier work — it will show the innovation Malashock brings to the stage. Showing his penchant for blending different art forms, Malashock will collaborate with a locally grown musician, the internationally acclaimed pianist Gustavo Romero. Titled "A Man Found Wanting," the work will blend Romero's live interpretation of Leos Janecek's piano suites with a series of solos, duets, trios and quartets danced by his company members. Malashock calls the work "intimate and emotional," in line with Janecek's haunting musical score.
The other half of the show will see a resurrection of "Fathom: The Body as Universe," originally staged in 2006 in collaboration with Japanese artist Junko Chodos. Though he didn't want to parade only works that he had created in the past for the anniversary show, Malashock said he couldn't pass up the opportunity to revive "Fathom."
"['Fathom'] was one of the most memorable works we've done," he said. "I wasn't interested in a retrospective. I tend to be more forward looking, always looking at the next project rather than looking back, and I was certainly not going to pull out something I had done 15 or 25 years ago. But 'Fathom' was really a thrilling production, and I felt like people would appreciate seeing that again."
As for his tendency to blur the lines between music, dance and visual art (he has collaborated with the Old Globe Theatre, La Jolla Playhouse, San Diego Opera and the San Diego Museum of Art, to name a few), Malashock said that, apart from creating an experience unique to anything else, it also pulls together audiences who may appreciate only one of the different forms in one universal event.
"Part of it is that I like mixing my style of work with something else's. It makes for a different animal entirely," he said. "I love making my own productions as well, but I like the expanded vision sometimes, where it's more than just me and my choreography. I also like drawing on the energy of other artists, brainstorming and inspiring each other. And on a more practical level, I like reaching audiences other than our regular dance audience."
So how has a quarter-century of developing his vision in San Diego shaped him, especially considering the tendency of the art and dance world to overlook anything south of LA?
"I'll admit it places some limitations," he said. "I'm aware of not having the caché of being a New York-based dance company, especially since most of my career was in New York. But like anything, there are pluses and minuses. [Being located in San Diego] also creates an element of surprise. When work comes out of here that's of a certain caliber, it gets noticed."
Malashock Dance will present its first 25th anniversary performance on March 8 and 9 at the Birch North Park Theatre, 2891 University Ave. Proceeds from the show will benefit the organization as a whole, including its educational programs like Academics in Motion, Math in Motion and Dance with thisABILITY!, which partners with St. Madeleine Sophie's Center to introduce people with disabilities to dance. For tickets or more information, visit www.malashockdance.org.


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Julie Elizabeth Scheef and David Cody Dick were united in marriage Oct. 20, 2012, at St. Elizabeth Ann Seton in Salina. The ceremony was officiated by Father Frank Coady.
Parents of the couple are Bill and Deb Scheef, Salina, and Roger and Fran Dick, St. John. The bride is the granddaughter of Beverly Ziegenbein and the late Neal Smith of Ashland, Neb., and the late Mary Kay and Wally Scheef of Gretna, Neb. The groom is the grandson of Loretta Billinger and the late Edwin Billinger of WaKeeney, and the late David and Evelyn Dick of Burrton.
The maid of honor was Katie Whelchel, sister of the bride. Bridal attendants were Jen Carlson, cousin of the bride, Molly Kennedy, Kaely Jackson and Andrew Scheef, brother of the bride. The flower girl was Aubree Whelchel, niece of the bride.
The best man was Travis Litton. Groomsmen were Shayne Aldridge, Vance Fisher, Shane Stimatze and Jason Taylor. Ring bearer was Weston Peterson, nephew of the groom.
Ushers were Tyler Alpers, Jeremy Dick and Lucas Dick, cousins of the groom and Brent Peterson, brother in-law of groom. Candle lighters were Emilee Whelchel, niece of bride, and Rylee Whelchel, nephew of the bride. Ceremony musicians were Perfect Fifth Quartet. Vocalists were Valerie Sullivan, aunt of the bride, and Jason Taylor.
A dinner and reception followed the ceremony at the Masonic Center in Salina.
The bride graduated from Jewell High School and McPherson College with a Bachelor of Science degree in elementary education. She earned a master's degree from Emporia State University in instructional design and technology and is currently a middle school math teacher in Pratt.
The groom graduated from St. John High School and Kansas State University with a Bachelor of Science degree in agricultural technology management. He is the corporate sales manager for BTI's 4-store John Deere dealership.
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The National Council of Teachers of English wishes to recognize and foster excellence in children's poetry by encouraging its publication and by exploring ways to acquaint teachers and children with poetry through such means as publications, programs, and displays. As one means of accomplishing this goal, NCTE established its Award for Excellence in Poetry for Children in 1977 to honor a living American poet for his or her aggregate work for children ages 3–13.
The NCTE Poetry Committee gave the award annually until 1982 and every three years until 2009. In 2008 the Poetry Committee updated the criteria and changed the time frame to every other year. The next award will be given in 2011.
The award is presented by the Poetry Committee Chair during the Books for Children Luncheon at the NCTE Annual Convention in November every two years. The winner receives a plaque and an invitation to be the featured speaker at a special Poetry Award session.
2009 Poetry Award WinnerrLee Bennett Hopkins has been awarded the 2009 NCTE Award for Excellence in Poetry for Children. A distinguished poet, writer, and anthologist, Lee has created numerous books for children and adults. Read more about Lee today!
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SkekTek wrote:get it for free!
killingtime wrote:I worked in a slide library in college...the head librarian was in her late 40s unmarried & her assistant was a lesbian who wrote me a song. Lovely...
mwiseman wrote:
That is one weird conversation you have tapped, Mr. Wiseman.
dontwantaname wrote:btw, my daughter would kill for a ebullient guy like that.
no1 wrote:That is one weird conversation you have tapped, Mr. Wiseman.
Yeah, but it's always nicer when you don't have to manipulate the words.
dontwantaname wrote:I got murdered by a ninja vampire.
"Mary Poppins is peeing in the next stall!"
joelterrific wrote:I have to say I have no idea what exactly is going on
dontwantaname wrote:How many hours do you want?
dontwantaname wrote:I ... not ... figured ... how ... think.
bfassburg wrote:
I just realized the rules said no neckties. Would this get rejected just because it contains a necktie?
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Josephus wrote:
Take the tie out and put in the buttons.
Who is on the ID?
dontwantaname wrote:Take the tie out and put in the buttons.
Who is on the ID?
my hunch is that it is the guy who submitted it bfbassburg or something.
BrotherD wrote:Beer was the only word I saw, something else?
Uncorked wrote:It's a family secret!!! ;)
dontwantaname wrote:Yeah, I do that too.
AZGman wrote:I dunno . . .
dontwantaname wrote:Well, it isn't suppose to be that huge ...
Or at least it is suppose to be only one, not two at a time.
no1 wrote:
Where have you been?
Going to card club tonight. Most of us, when it's at our house, have hot and cold snacks, more than just chips and dip, and a lot of it. Where we're going tonight, it can range from a dab of cream cheese and a slice of cucumber on a piece of party rye to a complete dinner. You never know whether to eat first or not.
Edit: Oops. Lately I've been posting wherever I am when a thought strikes me. May be getting "dotty."
KtCallista wrote:I am enjoying watching.
Josephus wrote:I will be continually disappointed as I try to put my hands in ... and push them ... down into my pants. those are some cold hands!
dontwantaname wrote:There must be some way to "do it" without knocking out anything!
gwp wrote:There's just something about Terri...
It's like a little Tourettes recital, right here in this thread.
krapposelli wrote: Found one that's a possibility, now just have to see if I think I can swing
dontwantaname wrote:I bet the supermarket is a zoo...because you never know if you will ever get out of the house again and you better have anything you have ever eaten in you life on hand!
I might go and buy more birdfood.
daj59 wrote:I have a deep husky voice
bfassburg wrote:I think I drank some of that and my veins started hurting from the lightning.
Josephus wrote:high ...!
YES!!!! I got quoted! Another little mini goal accomplished! Thanks No1!
one of my favs
gwp wrote:Wow. You just get right to the point, don't you Fen. No mention of the sweater -- right for the puppies. (Psst: duck!)
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For you Kneny:
kenney9226 wrote:well, yes, but if I may be so bold, your lips could be fuller.
kenney9226 wrote:I'll do whatever it takes to get in your random quotes page.
And remember, it's Kneny in real life...
KtCallista wrote:YES!!!! I got quoted! Another little mini goal accomplished! Thanks No1!
cool, so how many more mini-goals do you need to accomplish before you can take on the boss?
SkekTek wrote:I think I passed a ... stone last night, and noone noticed
kenney9226 wrote:If you stay up late enough for enough days, you'll eventually have one glorious night.
pooflady wrote:
You whore, you.
superspryte wrote:And that's silly. Why should it get shorter?
no1 wrote: I like crayons better, they give me more lovin'.
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A discussion between 5 posters isn't the most accurate way to measure Goat Man's demand.
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I will not stand for this Goat-Man bashing any longer!!! You spiteful people that want a geriatric smurfette with a Seigfried and Roy tiger over a cool man goat. MOTUC needs more goat. That is the missing link. More goat lets start a Facebook petition we can beat 250. It's good to see that Scott has Goat-Man on his mind. Good indeed.
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Oh my. That pretty much sums up my feelings on the back and forths.
Anyway, I just wanted to say I would like Goat-Man and have nothing against him. To me, he looks like the Devil...and that must mean he's pretty bad ass. I know Busta Toons famously hates Goat-Man though.
As for Illumina and her cat...say you don't car for Illumina...well...you also get her white cat! That white cat is the same as Catra's Magicat from the Golden Books (except saddle) and VERY similar looking to Gleedil's cat (Filmation). That episode is actually on qubo right now (VERY excited qubo is working for me again. ). As for Illumina, repaint her neck and pop Catra's head on her and have winter attire Catra...or Teela's head and have winter attire Teela, etc.
Making Illumina and cat = not much tooling being used, which saves up tooling money so we can get things LIKE Ram-Man...not INSTEAD of Ram-Man. That's how I see it. So...a vote for Illumina is a vote for Ram-Man, pretty much.
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Illumina has 333 fans
Illumina w/ Cat would have to be an SDCC exclusive so that means the $25 price point
333 fans x $25 = a guarenteed $8325 for Mattel
I think, TG done a good job with MOTUC, but he gets paid for it!
I also think, that some answers are not the best way to communicate with customers.
If I would do that in my job, my boss would already fired me!
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At the end of the day we can proclaim our importance, which I do not deny, but Mattel can do whatever they want with the brand, including refusing to make Illumina. Scott is constrained by higher-ups who seem afraid of their own shadow when it comes to MOTU. And I have no doubt that Matty is upset at the Green Lantern line, although to be fair, that is not really Scott's fault. If WB is going to make an unpopular film with questionable designs and mandate that a toyline tie directly into the movie, there is not much Scott can do if the movie flops (for the record, I haven't seen the movie, but that appears to be the consensus).
And... I think this community is way too sensitive at times (not talking about you BCR Duke ). Case in point are the so-called "Cherry Pickers" who are apparently feeling alienated. Now, if I were not a subscriber, I'd be a bit upset too if Matty were raising prices. But Matty, in fact, should have had prices higher for non-subscribers from the get go, just like a magazine sub. But the company is not out to get "selective buyers." Scott is trying to make a comprehensive line and, no doubt, preserve ownership of certain trademarks, etc., which means that they have to make many figures that some people will not want. Charging more for day of sale is not a ploy to destroy cherry pickers but to maintain the profitability of the line and the longevity of the brand and its trademarks. If Matty believes giving subscribers a benefit of lower prices is the best the way to do it, and if research proves it, which it no doubt does, then that is the way they should go. The response that Matty cannot cater its selling practices to each fan's preferences is a bit snarky at times (have you seen how often it has recently appeared?), but it is nonetheless true. Mattel has to look out for all its characters and not just cater to those who thought the line ended with the release of Ram Man in 1983.
Just my two cents...
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There have been times in the past where I've defended Mattel when it wasn't really popular to do so, but the tide has now shifted and I have to call it like I see it...
I think fans sometimes give Mattel too much power and entitlement, and this is a big reason why they now feel comfortable enough to occasionally speak to us like a parent scolding their children, instead of the customers that we are.
Over the years, I've noticed that some folks keep saying (or making it seem like) Mattel doesn't owe the fans anything. I 100% disagree with that notion. As I said in another thread, Mattel included us from the start of the line and the employees have an obligation to uphold the image of the company they're working for. They're the ones who consistently ask for our input and make numerous statements along the lines of: 'if fans ask for it, we'll make it'. They also said that everyone at Mattel feels like the line belongs to the fans.
Those are the facts straight from the horse's mouth.
Moreover, while I don't have a problem with seeing characters such as The Mighty Spector, Illumina, Draego-Man etc. in this line, it kind of leaves a bad taste in my mouth when the contributions of the creators of those characters are held above everyone else on these forums.
I mean, I always thought Illumina was deserving of a figure for simple fact that she's a legitimate fan-demanded character. Nothing more, nothing less. Same goes with the toy-based Star Sisters. They were the most demanded, and there was only the one campaign on the forums, therefore it was only fair to make those versions.
However, after reading many of the comments on these forums, I'm beginning to think that I should try to cash in too, which is why I brought up the Christina Aguilera thing earlier.
So someone please let me know when it's my turn to cash in my 'contribution chips'.
I'll take my payment in the form of Mattel making toy-based Star Sisters to honor the top vote.
All because Zodak wanted to murder King Hsss for killing his brother.
MYP Zodak was selfish and evil and came closer to wiping out the Power of Grayskull than Skeletor did. Twice.
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I mean Goat Man.
I'm not the first person to point out that the reason the subscription exists is so that Mattel can have guaranteed sales of whatever character they choose, without having to worry about whether it's a popular character or a concept that's never even been seen by the general public. Which just makes the demands placed on Illumina seem all the more petty.
Honestly, all it would take is just switching to the standard "____ is available to us, but I can't comment on unreleased figures/but isn't currently being developed/etc." but, for whatever reason, this particular character is always singled out, and it makes no sense.
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Two things.
First, I only know who Illumina is because of threads on here complaining about how Scott "doesn't want" Illumina to be made. I imagine there are more than a few people like me in that regard. Maybe she was a cool idea to add to the 200X stuff, I don't really know.
I'm not a huge fan from what I've since learned, she looks like a pretty generic D&D character to me. The difference between her and Vikor in that regard is that Vikor at least has some pretty deep history in MOTU (at least in the history of the line's formation to begin with).
So if they made her she would probably be a back of the shelfer for me. I never want to fight against characters that people want made, but I'd pretty much rather every option from the 80's toy line, unmade concepts from that era, box and poster characters, filmation characters, and even some more of the NA and 200x cartoon characters come out before Illumina does.
Second, you could probably make a facebook support page for almost anything and get 5,000 people to "like" it.
Want to trade for Battle Beasts. Show me what you've got!!!!
Zodak was tasked with a duty to perform. He shirks that when King Hsss was involved. He intentionally let King Hsss out so he could murder him. King Hsss had already been imprisoned by the Elders with the aid of Zodak.
Zodak had murderous intentions and was responsible for the needless death of lots of Eternians.
Those were evil acts and motivations though Zodak himself might not have been Skeletor or Hordak.
Between King Hsss nearly wiping out the Elder's power twice (once in the Rise of the Snakemen story arc and once by him freeing Serpos) all because of Zodak, one wonders why the Elders punished Marzo and turned him into a little deformed creature at the end of the Council of Evil story arc, but then didn't retaliate in kind against Zodak.
Zodak with a K was a badly written character in MYP in my opinion. The worst written motu character I've ever seen as a matter of fact.
Zodac put the Star Seed as risk in order to test He-Man. He-Man was given access to the greatest power in the universe so it made sense that they wanted to test his worthiness.You might as well call Filmation Zodac evil for giving Skeletor a chance at becoming omnipotent with the Star Seed, and for letting it tempt He-Man with corruption.
Zodac even makes it clear it was a test. So how much of a risk was there of Skeletor actually getting the Star Seed is interesting but questionable.
However the comparison between Filmation Zodac and MYP Zodak is flawed in my opinion since they had different duties. Zodak in MYP was all over the place. It was just terrible writing in my opinion. He was turned in to a God Mode Mary Sue. Worst part of that show in my opinion. I love his classics figure though.
I'd rather not get this thread off topic, so if you want to continue this discussion I'd be fine doing so by pm or in another thread if you wish Met-Hild.
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Freeing King Hsss to kill him and all the craziness that happened was a selfish action, but afterward is when Zodak became an ally of the Masters, helping the Sorceress shield Grayskull from the Council of Evil and taking on King Hsss during the Serpos rampage.
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In {{SA|2280|n}} Umbar was strengthened with increased numbers of colonists and from there they began to dominate [[Harad]]. Even [[Sauron]] was afraid of them and retreated from these lands.
A few of them, the [[Faithful]], remained loyal to the Valar and friendly to the Elves. The Valar displayed warnings to the Men of Westernesse in the form of huge eagles, but they paid no heed to these manifestations. The Faithful were persecuted by the majority of the population, which they called [[King's Men]], who decided to abandon the Elven customs and languages. [[Ar-Adûnakhôr]] took his regal name in [[Adûnaic]] and not in [[Quenya]].
A few of them, the [[Faithful]], remained loyal to the Valar and friendly to the Elves. The Valar displayed warnings to the Men of Westernesse in the form of huge eagles, but they paid no heed to these manifestations. The Faithful were persecuted by the majority of the population, which they called [[King's Men]], who decided to abandon the Elven customs and languages. [[Ar-Adûnakhôr]] took his regal name in [[Adûnaic]] and not in [[Quenya]].
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Númenor (Q: "westland", pron. [ˈnuːmenor]) or Númenórë (pron. [ˌnuːmeˈnoːre]), known in the Common Speech as Westernesse, was one of the names of the isle of Elenna, which was raised from the Great Sea by the Valar in the beginning of the Second Age. While strictly speaking the term Númenor referred to the realm established on the island, it was more often used as a synonym of the land itself. Númenor was one of the most powerful realms of the Second Age, and its people, called Númenóreans, as well as their descendants, had considerable influence on the events of the Third Age.
The island of Númenor was about 167,961 square miles, [1] It was located in the Belegaer closer to Valinor (about 39 days) than Middle-earth.
Its shape was of a 5-point star, each point having its own unique geological and physical features, therefore considered a separate region of Númenor and had separate names:
- Forostar (Northlands)
- Andustar (Westlands)
- Hyarnustar (Southwestlands)
- Hyarrostar (Southeastlands)
- Orrostar (Eastlands)
- Mittalmar (Inlands)
The island had a mountain in its center known as the Meneltarma, which was the highest location on the entire island and considered sacred by the Númenóreans as a holy place devoted to Eru Ilúvatar. Only the Kings of Númenor were allowed to speak on the Meneltarma's summit. It was said that on a clear day the 'far-sighted' might see Tol Eressëa, the island east of Valinor proper which along with it comprised the Undying Lands.
Meneltarma itself was a tall mountain in the center of the island placed in the region Mittalmar that, when translated, means "Pillar of the Heavens". The lower slopes of the mountain were gentle grass-covered, however, near the summit the slopes became more vertical and could not be ascended easily. The kings later built a spiral road to the peak, beginning at the southern tip of the mountain and winding up to the lip of the summit in the north. The summit, however, was unique in that it was flattened and somewhat depressed, and was said to be able to "contain a great multitude". It was considered the most sacred spot of Númenor, and nothing was ever built there throughout the entire history of the island.
Númenor had only two rivers: Siril which began at Meneltarma and ended in a small delta near the city of Nindamos, and the Nunduinë, which reached the sea in the Bay of Eldanna near the haven Eldalondë.
The island itself was tilted southward and a little westward; the northern coasts were all steep sea cliffs.
Númenor was the kingdom of the Dúnedain, located on an island in the Great Sea, between Middle-earth and Aman. The land was brought up from the sea as a gift to Men. It was also called Elenna ("Starwards") because the Dúnedain were led to it by the Star of Eärendil, and because the island was in the shape of a five-pointed star.
Elros son of Eärendil was the first King of Númenor, taking the name of Tar-Minyatur ("First King"). Under his rule, which took place between S.A. 32 and S.A. 442 and those of his descendants, Men rose to become a powerful race.
The Númenóreans were forbidden by the Valar from sailing so far westward that Númenor was no longer visible, for fear that they would come upon the Undying Lands, to which Men were barred. Over time the Númenóreans came to resent the Ban of the Valar and to rebel against their authority, seeking the everlasting life that they believed was begrudged them. They tried to compensate this by going eastward and colonizing large parts of Middle-earth, first in a friendly way, beginning with Tar-Aldarion. The first ships sailed from Númenor to Middle-earth in the year 600.
The Númenóreans established several settlements in Middle-earth, such as Lond Daer. They contacted the indigenous people, teaching them several crafts, instructed them and helped them free from the Shadow. About SA 1200 they established permanent settlements like Pelargir and Umbar.
In 1700 Tar-Minastir sent a fleet to help Gil-galad and together they drove Sauron back, who had dominated almost all Eriador after the War of the Elves and Sauron.
The darkness comes
Soon the Númenóreans came to become proud and discontented, irritated by the Ban of the Valar. Starting to lose the meaning of the Gift of Men and of immortality they longed for Eldamar which they saw only from distance.
About 1800 they started to dominated the shores of Middle-earth and demand tribute from the lesser peoples which they had liberated and taught, and became a massive brutal maritime empire that had no rival. Fearing death, they tried to gain some immortality in riches and ornate tombs. Tar-Atanamir started to speak openly against the Valar.
In 2280 Umbar was strengthened with increased numbers of colonists and from there they began to dominate Harad. Even Sauron was afraid of them and retreated from these lands.
A few of them, the Faithful, remained loyal to the Valar and friendly to the Elves. The Valar displayed warnings to the Men of Westernesse in the form of huge eagles, but they paid no heed to these manifestations. The Faithful were persecuted by the majority of the population, which they called King's Men, who decided to abandon the Elven customs and languages. Ar-Adûnakhôr took his regal name in Adûnaic and not in Quenya.
The Faithful remained in Andúnië and the Faithful Lords of Andúnië, because of their noble heritage still had some gravity in the meetings of nobles. However Ar-Gimilzôr in about 2950 forced them to remove to Rómenna and the haven was closed to the Elven visitors. Tar-Palantir briefly attempted to cast the Shadow back and reunite the people with the Elves and the Valar, but did not make it to be. He was succeeded by his nephew, a sea captain who warred against the coastal people.
That nephew was the twenty-fifth king, Ar-Pharazôn, who in the year 3255, he sailed to Middle-earth. Seeing the might of Númenor, Sauron submitted to the king's authority, and he was brought back to Númenor as a hostage. By that time, however, the Drúedain of Númenor had sensed a coming darkness and all of them had abandoned the island for Middle-earth[2] Sauron soon became an adviser to the King as Tar-Mairon, and promised the Númenóreans eternal life if they worshiped Melkor. With Sauron as his advisor, Ar-Pharazôn had a 500-foot temple to Melkor erected, in which he offered human sacrifices to him.
During this time, the white tree Nimloth the Fair, whose fate was said to be tied to the line of kings, was chopped down and burned as a sacrifice to Melkor. Risking his life, Isildur rescued a fruit of the tree, preserving the ancient line of trees.
Prompted by Sauron and fearing death and old age, Ar-Pharazôn built a great armada and set sail into the west to make war upon the Valar and seize the Undying Lands. Sauron remained behind. In the year 3319, Ar-Pharazôn landed on Aman and marched to the city of Valimar.
- Main article: Downfall of Númenor
Manwë, chief of the Valar, called upon Ilúvatar, who broke and changed the world, taking Aman and Tol Eressëa from the world forever, changing the world's shape from flat to round. Númenor was covered by great waves and sank into the abyss, killing its inhabitants, including the body of Sauron, who was thereby robbed of his ability to assume fair and charming forms.
Elendil, son of the leader of the Faithful during the reign of Ar-Pharazôn, his sons and his followers had foreseen the disaster that was to befall Númenor, and they had set sail in nine ships before the island fell. They landed in Middle-earth, and gathered the Númenorian and indigenous peoples living there, uniting them under them, as the kingdoms of Arnor and Gondor.
After its fall Númenor was called Atalantë, meaning "the Downfallen", in the Quenya language. Other names after the Downfall include Mar-nu-Falmar ("Land under the Waves") and Akallabêth ("the Downfallen" in Adûnaic).
The story of the rise and downfall of Númenor is told in The Akallabêth.
The population of Númenor chiefly consisted of Edain, mostly descendants from the House of Hador; although before the Shadow fell on the island the westernmost cities such as Andúnië contained a small population of Elves because of the frequent visits from Tol Eressëa. They were known as the Númenóreans, or rather, Kings among Men.
The Númenóreans were extremely skilled in arts and craft, with the forging of weapons and armour; but the Númenóreans were not warmongers, hence the chief art on the island became that of ship-building and sea-craft. The Númenóreans became great mariners, exploring the world in all directions save for the westward, where the Ban of the Valar was in force. They often traveled to the shores of Middle-earth, teaching the men there the art and craft, and introduced farming as to improve their everyday lives.
The Númenóreans, too, became skilled in the art of husbandry, breeding great horses that roamed across the open plains in Mittalmar. Although they were a peaceful people, their weapons, armour, and horse-riding skills could not be contested anywhere else in Arda, save for the Valar.
There also was a small number of Drúedain living in Númenor, who, considered as Edain, accompanied their friends of the House of Haleth to Númenor. They were only few in number and dreaded the sea. They became uneasy when Tar-Aldarion started his great travels and urged him not to go, seeing the mischief to come. They did not succeed and one after another they took ships towards Middle-earth, saying, that "the Great Isle no longer feels sure under our feet, and we wish to return tho the lands whence we came". The last of them left when Sauron was brought to Númenor.
Plant life
Númenor contained many species of plants that could be found nowhere else in Middle-earth, for many of them were given to the Númenóreans from the Valar in Aman. Most important of these was the White Tree that dwelt in the King's Palace at Armenelos. A seedling from it was later planted in in the Court of the Fountain in Minas Tirith, Gondor.
The other parts of Númenor contained many types of plants, many unique to each of the promontories of the island. Andustar contained great forests of beech and birch at the higher ground, and oak and elm forests are lower altitudes.
The greatest delight of the Númenóreans, however, were the trees given to them by the Eldar. They grew mostly in the Western portion, Andustar. They are often remembered in song and lore, and few have flowered east of Númenor.
Because of the diversity of wildlife in Andustar, that region was soon called Nisimaldar, or the Fragrant Trees. Also only in Andustar could the Golden Tree be found, Malinornë.
In Hyarrostar grew the tree Laurinquë, which the Númenóreans loved because of their flowers. They believed that it came from the Great Tree of Valinor,
Tolkien never drew a map of Arda showing where exactly in Belegaer, or relative to Middle-earth the island of Númenor stood. While sailing for Lindon, Vëantur had to fight the north and east winds[3] suggesting the the island was south of the latitude of Lindon. It is also mentioned that Veantur was accompanied by (apparently migratory) birds in autumn and spring whose presence suggests that the island was found south of the Tropic of Arda.[4]
As for the distances, we are told simply that the island was closer to Valinor than Endor[5]. It was said that from Meneltarma, the keen-eyed Númenóreans could sometimes get a glimpse of Avallónë;[5] the Fall of Númenor came 39 days Ar-Pharazôn after left,[5] but his actual voyage could be shorter.
Didier Willis estimates that as Vëantur could sail directly from Numenor to Lindon - not needing to find a closer coast and follow it up to his destination - the island was close enough to Lindon, with a realistic distance between 2000 to 3000 km.[4]
Karen Wynn Fonstad placed the island in her Second Age maps around the latitude of the Bay of Belfalas, but without giving any reasoning or calculations. It approximates the Númenórean ports of Vinyalondë, Pelargir and Umbar on Middle-earth. Her map shows the distance between the Island and Eressea approximately 1700 km.[6]
Númenor is the retelling of the Atlantis mythos in Tolkien's legendarium. Notably, he referred to a recurring "Atlantis dream" he had. The connection is more evident in the name Atalantë, another epithet of the Island which in Quenya means "the downfallen" (note that in Greek, Atlantis is related to Atlas; therefore Atalantë has no direct connection).
Plato, the ancient Greek philosopher, recounted the myth of Atlantis. According to him, Atlantis was in the middle of the ocean in the West (cf. Great Sea), its people were more advanced than those of the known world (cf. Kings of Men) but were corrupted by arrogance; the continent was destroyed by the gods and survivors created colonies, as in Egypt (cf. Realms in Exile). Also according to Plato the center of Atlantis was occupied by a high mountain-palace (cf. Meneltarma) around which a city of three circles was build, quite different from the star-shaped island of Númenor. Another element with both common and different points between the two stories, is that Númenor sunk when the fleet was attacking the West, while Atlantis sunk during a sea-battle with the Athenians, in the east.
Some parts of Númenor's history seem to have been inspired not only from Plato but also from researchers and occultists whose theories were widespread during Tolkien's time.
Ignatius Loyola Donnelly and Edgar Cayce were the most famous authors regarding Atlantis and mentioned events and concepts that Plato never did. One of those "original" elements told by modern authors and mystics was a civil war between two factions of Atlanteans (good and evil)[7] which reminds of the persecution of the Elf-friends by the King's Men.
According to those theories, remnants of Atlantean civilization survived by colonists or survivors in Egypt (and in Pre-Columbian America), which mirrors the Realms in Exile founded by the Faithful; furthermore Tolkien once equated the Gondorians with the Egyptian civilization.[8]
Uses outside the legendarium
- The cartoon series Ulysses 31 includes a character called Numinor, whose name may be derivative of Númenor.
- C.S. Lewis' novel That Hideous Strength makes reference to "Numinor [sic] and the True West", which Lewis credits as a then-unpublished creation of J.R.R. Tolkien. This is one of many examples of cross-overs between the novels of Lewis and Tolkien, both of whom were members of the Inklings, a literary discussion group at Oxford University.
- ↑ Calculation by Karen Wynn Fonstad in the The Atlas of Middle-earth
- ↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien (ed.), Unfinished Tales, "The Drúedain"
- ↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien (ed.), Unfinished Tales, "Aldarion and Erendis: The Mariner's Wife"
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Mystères géographiques n°2 : La position de Númenor, Du kirinki au puffin cendré
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 J.R.R. Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien (ed.), The Silmarillion, "Akallabêth: The Downfall of Númenor"
- ↑ Karen Wynn Fonstad The Atlas of Middle-earth
- ↑ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Root_race#The_civilization_of_Atlantis
- ↑ J.R.R. Tolkien; Humphrey Carpenter, Christopher Tolkien (eds.), The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien, Letter 211, (dated 14 October 1958)
- The Lord of the Rings, Appendix A
- The Silmarillion, Akallabêth
- Unfinished Tales, A Description of the Island of Númenor
- Unfinished Tales, The Line of Elros: Kings of Númenor
- Unfinished Tales, Aldarion and Erendis: The Mariner's Wife
- The Peoples of Middle-earth, The Tale of Years of the Second Age
See also
External links
- A History and Complete Chronology of Númenor - A detailed chronology of Númenor, its successor states and their rulers.
- Article concerning the position of Numenor.


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If anyone wondered if living in 24 Sussex Drive has softened up Laureen Harper, they should have seen her go Wednesday.
The prime minister's wife — along with a whole bunch of Calgary MPs, friends and assistants — cleaned out literally tonnes of garbage from flood-damaged Calgary-area homes, helped deliver tonnes of food at the Morley reserve and then — after putting in a solid eight hours of work and travel, continued on to Exshaw, where she helped clean out a couple more damaged homes.
In other words, this was no political photo op. This was hard, hard work.
The day started down in the Mission neighbourhood at 24th Avenue and 1st Street S.W. right near the old Holy Cross hospital. An entire driveway was piled high with rubble — including mud-soaked drywall, plywood, carpeting and the like.
Harper, who just turned 50 on Sunday, stepped right to the head of the pile and started hauling heavy, dangerous items full of rusty nails into the backs of waiting garbage trucks.
"It's amazing what you can do with a long line of people who are willing to get a little dirty," said Harper as the crew — which included Calgary MPs Rob Anders, Deepak Obhrai and Joan Crockatt, PMO staffer Veronica Gerson, Edmonton MP Rona Ambrose and her partner, former rodeo bull rider J.P. Veitch, and Harper's friend and neighbour from the northwest neighbourhood of Tuscany, Kelli Taylor — made short work of that pile and moved onto another amid the din of rumbling generators.
Even City of Calgary sanitation worker Keith Field, who was operating the crushing mechanism of the garbage truck, was impressed.
"They're good workers, that's for sure," said Field, adding that each truck holds 10,500 kilos of trash.
In no time that truck was full.
Calgary Centre MP Crockatt — who can't weigh more than 105 pounds covered in mud — helped a resident carry an old washing machine to the roadside and then helped him carry the dryer. The curbsides looked like appliance graveyards. And that was some of the easy stuff to clear. Much of the debris had protruding nails and jagged edges. Forming an assembly line, the work crew, led by Harper, moved from property to property unannounced and just started helping out.
"Isn't that the prime minister's wife?" asked Rick Lauzon, 48, as he took a break from shovelling the basement apartment he owns by the river.
"It's pretty incredible that she's here, and look at her work," he marvelled. "Actually, I can't believe the volunteers. Every day, complete strangers have helped us out."
People like Neveen Aboushaaban, 33, who lives in untouched Garrison Green.
"I just have to do something to help these people who have lost so much," says the self-employed real-estate investor. After not finding any rubber boots and work gloves in Calgary, she drove to Red Deer, bought boxes of both and gave many of them to Calgary Ward 8 Alderman John Mar, and kept a few more to distribute to friends who wanted to help.
After filling another garbage truck, the troop moved on to 4th Street and 30th Avenue.
Margaret and Michael Best's home of 22 years had floodwater's seven feet deep in their basement.
That's where three teenage girls from the northeast community of Taradale — strangers just hours earlier — were tearing out drywall in the darkness and handing it up to Harper, who passed it along the assembly line to yet another garbage truck.
Rebecca Hamilton, 18, her sister Jennifer, 14 and their friend Sania Kelly, 17, were even dirtier than Harper, who insisted that they get a photo together.
Margaret Best, a talented artist who has designed coins for the Canadian Mint, said she was overwhelmed with the kindness and help her family was receiving.
"I'm a fan of the Harpers anyway and now this," she said. "It's incredible."
Less impressed was Steve Forrest, who lived on the same block and scoffed at Harper when she disassembled one of Best's framed watercolours to preserve it while photographers snapped away.
"I don't need the prime minister's wife to take apart a framed painting. Right now I need to be able to move into my house."
But Harper understood his anger and frustration and went back later to comfort the man, whose father is flooded out in High River and whose other family members also suffered damage in the Rideau Park neighbourhood.
"I actually do understand what these people are going through," said Harper. When she was 17, on Christmas Day 1980, a windstorm destroyed her house in Turner Valley. "The roof weighed seven tonnes and was blown away. Peoples' barbecues were found a mile away from their home. The next day it rained. We lost everything, so I understand how upsetting and unsettling it is. Your home is your safe place and when it's torn from you, it's devastating."
Later, Harper moved on to Elbow Park to thank volunteers at the Anglican Christ Church, which has been providing free dinners every night for flooded homeowners and volunteers.
Deedee Pritchard, an opera singer, said the whole scene on the street was reminiscent of an opera — full of tragedy but also amazing humanity, colour and ambience.
Across the street, Tom and Debra Mauro, owners of Albi Homes, had set up large tents and doled out hamburgers, chips, drinks and cookies to help the weary residents.
After that, it was off to Wildrose MLA Rob Anderson's constituency office, where 20 trucks filled with food, water, cleaning supplies, diapers, blankets, pet food, toys, cribs and other essentials drove in a convoy to the Morley reserve west of Calgary.
Once there, another assembly line formed and the more than $50,000 worth of stuff, mostly from Airdrie residents, was unloaded in about two hours of hard slogging into the Morley Community School.
"This is a lot easier to unload," said Harper as she handed a flat of Mr. Clean to Rona Ambrose. "There's no mud or nails in this."
Belinda Left hand wept when she saw the incredible amounts of food being unloaded.
"We had just run out of food — it was all gone so this came just in the nick of time," said Left hand, 44, who was co-ordinating the hampers for flooded-out families. About 200 homes in Morley were flooded and 60 are unlivable.
"I can really feel the love here," she added, giving Harper a hug. "We're all overwhelmed with the generosity."
Bearspaw First Nations Chief Darcy Dixon, who grew up with Harper in Eden Valley, said: "Having my old friend come out to help has encouraged us all. Laureen knows our people and this donation and help means so much."


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Honestly, I wasn't impressed with CGM winning the CAC contest. But the creator (Daniel) has won me with his AWESOME commercials ! Now I love CGM so much !!
Honestly, I wasn't impressed with CGM winning the CAC contest. But the creator (Daniel) has won me with his AWESOME commercials ! Now I love CGM so much !!
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Yep if I'd have won you would have got a minotur or a horse head guy or a demon guy and all were kinda cool,.........but I'd have put up a few pics and then carried on my merry way,.
So glad Dan won this for the ads alone, not to mention the great figure!
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Thx, man for putting my fun-art in your commercial
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love this one, too, daniel!
dude... you really are too much! (so, this was somewhat of an amalgam of your ideas with what to do with all those figs, huh?)
the kids are again hilarious, and raven looks great with the perfect expression in the snuggie bit!
great job all around, again.
truly was a highlight of power-con meeting you, and raven.
as you know i LOVE the figure, and i truly LOVE how you're making the most of it. good for you. and, i am so happy so many other people are loving what you're doing. you deserve it!
Daniel, you just had me on the floor laughing
Press down on dragon's head. It sprays enemies with a jet of water!
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Ha! I'm so glad someone with a sense of humor won this contest! Thank you sir; you're only making this awesome figure better and better. I can only hope to even come up with even a fraction of the laughs with my comics that you do with these hilarious videos.
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I'm not sure if there's a link to this earlier in the thread (if there is, I couldn't find it). Just in case there isn't (or if, like me, this somehow slipped by you), this is the possibly the single funniest MOTU thing I've ever seen. I could watch Hssss deliver that line all day.
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I CANT wait to get this!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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So, I just got my CG Man today and I can honestly say I like him LESS now that I see him in person. Not sure if this is how he is supposed to look, but mine look's like his jaw is broken. Looks crooked and skewed to the right (his left). I'm one of those crazy MOC collectors so I took a couple pics the best I could. To me, he looks really goofy and looks like his jaw was broken and now hangs to the right.
So, is this how it is supposed to look, or did mine come off the mold funny? The left side of his cheek is definately indented WAY more than the other side.
Here's the two I have
Uh-oh... Yes, your Castle Grayskullman looks bad, unfortunately. I hope I won't have to regret buying him... He didn't seem to be like that in Pixel Dan's video or in other people's pictures. I hope this is an isolated case...
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In other news, I really love Filmation Randor. And I thought I would hate Dekker, but I actually like him. I think I would like CG Man too, but I just can't get over that crooked, gaping maw of his.
Yours does look a little off, but I don't know if it really is or it's because you said it is and it's what I'm seeing.
However, if I do that on mine, more than half the mouth is on one side of the line. So mine really is very crooked. Again, the one side of his mouth is super indented, and is almost looks to me like it got warped in the mold, or came out of the mold wrong.
And it looks like with the misnamed Black Friday sale they are selling through their CS stock now versus letting subscribers QC their toys first.
Way to go, Mattel!
I can't actually tell if the mouth is crooked or not. I mean, maybe it was meant to be asymmetrical? I am trying to compare those pics with the proto shots of Grayskullman... and I can't quite see the difference. But it might just be the angle of your pic isn't making it as plain as it is in real life.
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Not too late, I'll send you an invoice. Thanks.
Not too late, I'll send you an invoice. Thanks.
Luke my payment will be mailed out this evening. Thanks!
I'll take 1 single trigger frame with plain grips, please.
I believe I'm caught up on invoices, if I missed anyone LMK, thanks.
Luke - Is this going to be a limited time offer on this frame or are you going to add this to your product line permanently?
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Then again on second thought, one sure fire way to keep the parts in stock is not to buy any at all.
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Hey luke, if its not to much trouble could you please post pic of the different pattern grips your offer?
Looking forward to the quote from BE's anno guy if something gets worked out. If not, how much do folks look at for getting something like this anno'd a simple gloss black?
Are the grip panels going to be flat or rounded?
look at the picture
Not flat, tapering from front to back in a convex shape. Pretty cool panels.
but youre biased...
they look awesome thou
Fuzzy and a tad arrogant at the same time, but so far I'm real happy with the frame(s) and various parts design, and very happy with the machining as a whole.
There is one very small area that is still bugging me, but I'm spent many hours trying various tooling and tool paths (Not to mention $ for tooling) trying to perfect it and I can only get as close to 90% satisfied. It's not a function issue, I just know it's there.
I'll never tell.
BTW, the 90% comment has to do with a single tool path NOT the entire frame.
I'm 99.999% happy with the frame as a whole.
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when I get mine I'll find it
PS, sometimes I'm not thrilled with something I machine out and then a customer looks at it and they are jaw dropped happy. machinists are just too picky with stuff because in our world, .001" is a big deal
PPS, one of my cylinder heads was used in a magazine advertisement and I spent almost 2 hours setting up the head where it would look awesome but incomplete. turned out pretty good.
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Project is done, see first post for shipping updates.
Thanks guys.
A few extras in stock...
I can't wait to get home on Sunday to open a box from Luke!
I might be interested in this, but a couple of questions:
1. how compatible is this with a sleaper pneumag mod
room for a lpr inside?
room for the 3 way?
would the ram mount in easily?
I'm sorry if the answers to question 1 are obvious, but I'm new at this
2. does this fit standard angel grips?
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Friday, January 16, 2009
Who says the Blue Jays don't have a Price?
Prospect A: 109.2 IP, 109 K, 1.13 WHIP
Prospect B: 168.1 IP, 185 K, 1.12 WHIP
Now let's assume I told you that both were left handed, and Prospect B was actually a full year younger than Prospect A. Both were highly touted draft picks, with Prospect A going first overall in the 2007 player draft, and Prospect B arriving just 37 picks later.
If you were a fan of either prospect's team, it's safe to say you would (and should) be excited about the thought of either player in a big league uni, correct? And if you were basing a decision on the raw data (as presented above) alone, you'd probably even take Prospect B over Prospect A, no?
So humor me this: why is it that Tampa fans, and the baseball world in general, are sprouting a massive crop of boners for Prospect A (David Price), while Prospect B (Brett Cecil) receives middling "he looks like he can be a nice little player" buzz?
Now, I'm not a complete imbecile, and I know you need to look beyond minor league stats to predict future success. I know that David Price does have ridiculous stuff - though our guy Cecil is said to have a plus fastball, a NAILS slider, and a workable change (ie: he's no shitballer getting by on deception). I also know that Price has arrived, so to speak, by staring down the opposition in last year's postseason, while Cecil has yet to toe the rubber beyond AAA. But am I the only one out there who thinks that we might be, just maaaaybe, overlooking what Cecil can bring to this ballclub - either later this season or in 2010?
(....and yes, readers, I know that I covered this ground in the comments section a few posts ago, but the more I looked at it, the more confused I became regarding the disparity of attention given to these two. That, and it's mid-January with not a whole lot of earth shattering Jays news out there.)
Ricciardi vs Rogers
Lots of talk in the blogosphere these days regarding the team's lack of spending, and who's to blame for the do-nothing offseason strategy for the boys in blue, err....black, pewter, and blue, err....the Blue Jays. Let's set the record straight, once and for all:
You might hate JP Ricciardi for any number of reasons, be it his trading success, his minor league building, his handling of the media, the fact that he makes more money than you while you remain convinced you could do his job much more effectively.....whatever. The simple truth is that it's not JP's call to not spend any money this winter - so if this is colouring your judgement of the GM, well, quite frankly, you're shitting down the wrong tree (yes, I did that intentionally).
You honestly think that he enjoys sitting out the offseason and watching coveted veterans sign at reduced prices?
Memo to the Beest
Get on with it already, man!
31 comments:
- eyebleaf said...
Your consistent use of "nails" is nothing short of tremendous.
- January 16, 2009 at 10:52 PM
- Tao of Stieb said...
Somehow, describing a slider as NAILS makes it seem so nasty.
Our knees buckle just reading it that way.
(And talking nasty sliders is oh-so-appropriate for a blog named after a Dave we know who threw them like nobody's business.)
- January 17, 2009 at 12:45 AM
- The Southpaw said...
I've been beating the drum on the Price/Cecil comparison since at least August but no one seems to be listening to me.
I hope you have better luck.
- January 17, 2009 at 2:37 AM
- The Ack said...
eyebleaf - fantastic use of "tremendous". I'm a fan.
subconscious hat tip to the Southpaw....
Tao, I was a ha-uge Stieb guy from the beginning, and was hypnotized watching his magical slider fall off the table to the chagrin of hapless foes. The name is probably what drew me to this blog in the first place.
- January 17, 2009 at 12:12 PM
- Lloyd the Barber said...
Will was the man that first turned me on to the Price/Cecil comparison, full credit and fair play to you.
- January 17, 2009 at 1:06 PM
JP is almost definitely a lame duck GM, so there's not much point bitching about him.
But still . . . can't the guy hire a good manager ?
It makes sense that he hired a someone he knew since it was his first time as a GM, but did he have to hire a streetbrawling redneck ? (Although streetbrawling rednecks are pretty fucking awesome in different contexts). That's the kind of guy who alienates and makes bad vibes for the players. By mid-2008 Rios was so depressed that all he wanted to do was go home, play bongo drums, and wear tie-dyed t-shirts. If it wasn't for the Gibbons fiasco they wouldn't have had to dig up Cito who knows his hitting, but can't seem to manage handling the bullpen
- January 17, 2009 at 1:47 PM
- Ian H. said...
I think that since Price saved game 7 of the ALCS, a lot of people took notice. Since he pitched in front of the entire baseball world, he received a lot of attention. But you're right, compared to Cecil they're pretty much the same!
- January 17, 2009 at 4:02 PM
Have u guys heard anything lately of movin Downs 2 the rotation?
- January 17, 2009 at 4:20 PM
God bless you tao for trying to cheer us up in this jeer worthy winter.
- January 17, 2009 at 4:31 PM
It's the story. People have been looking at the Rays' prospect lists for forever because they have so many high draft picks. The American media will only look at the Jays or prospects when they grudgingly have to because something happened.
-brent in Korea
- January 17, 2009 at 6:12 PM
- Andy Mc said...
Just another example of our deep pitching. I think this is why Wilner keeps mentioning 2010:
- January 18, 2009 at 1:14 PM
- Andy Mc said...
*Litsch, oops.
- January 18, 2009 at 1:15 PM
There's also the fact that Cecil is seeing a huge increase in innings since being a cloesr in college, so like Marcum his pitching arm is probably going to shatter into a million different pieces.
- January 18, 2009 at 4:37 PM
- Tao of Stieb said...
If there's one thing that you can count on from an anonymous commenter, it's hyperbole.
- January 18, 2009 at 8:10 PM
- Andy Mc said...
- January 18, 2009 at 9:14 PM
They needed Johnny Mac out there to catch all the pieces ?!?!!
- January 18, 2009 at 10:43 PM
If there's one thing that you can count on from an anonymous commenter, it's hyperbole.
idk, have you seen Marcum's arm recently?
- January 19, 2009 at 12:07 AM
Hyperbole yes but does anyone really doubt that Cecil is going to need Tommy John within 5 years?
- January 19, 2009 at 11:47 AM
- Torgen said...
5 years is an eternity. What is it in Cecil's mechanics that makes you think he's an injury risk?
- January 19, 2009 at 3:41 PM
Comparing Cecil to Price might be hyperbole
- January 19, 2009 at 4:41 PM
- Torgen said...
Comparing Cecil's stats to Price's isn't hyberbole, and if dominating minor league hitters was so easy that Cecil could do it, then why didn't Price bother?
- January 20, 2009 at 5:06 PM
"So humor me this: why is it that Tampa fans, and the baseball world in general, are sprouting a massive crop of boners for Prospect A (David Price), while Prospect B (Brett Cecil) receives middling "he looks like he can be a nice little player" buzz?"
Cecil might be a solid MLB pitcher down the road, I have no idea, but why would anyone outside of the Big Smoke be "hyping" this guy? I'll admit I've never seen him pitch, but from looking at his stats, Cecil accumulated most of his numbers at A & AA. Looks like he didn't fare so well in AAA.
David Price, in very very limited action albeit, has shown he can be a solid pitcher in the big leagues (in big games). Simple as that.
- January 21, 2009 at 8:38 AM
- The Ack said...
Price did look great in the playoffs, though a little wild, but how did his AAA numbers look? I'd hardly call a few playoff games enough of a sample size to anoint him a big-time, big-game pitcher......yet.
I've no doubt Price will be a star....but the point of the post was, hey - maybe we have something here in Cecil.
Why hype Cecil? Why hype Jeff Samrdzidjzdjadja? He gets way more pub than a guy like Cecil does (for example).
....and the Price hype started way before the playoff appearance. He's been touted as the next big thing since before his first professional appearance.
- January 21, 2009 at 9:49 AM
Point taken. I agree you probably have something in Cecil. Price was the #1 overall pick - thus, he's going to generate hype. It goes with the territory, whether it's warranted or not. I didn't check Price's stats - I guess they are as unimpressive as Cecil's AAA stats. And I didn't mean to imply that Price was now a "big game" pitcher because of what he did in the '08 playoffs. Pitched well though.
As far as Samrdidiadfajzadfasdja, he gets lots of pub 'cause he played Irish football...I think it's stupid - big deal. Pretty silly reason if you ask me.
- January 21, 2009 at 10:13 AM
- The Ack said...
I'm just looking for something beyond our collective Blue Jay doom and gloom.
- January 21, 2009 at 10:16 AM
5 years is an eternity. What is it in Cecil's mechanics that makes you think he's an injury risk?
if you want to preserve a young pitcher's arm you want an inning increase of no more than 25-35 innings per year. last year he saw an innings increase of almost 70.
idk who the jays training staff are but they really blow at handling young pitchers
- January 21, 2009 at 10:39 AM
Anonymous, how do you account for guys like Greg Maddux, Nolan Ryan, Roger Clemens, and countless other "old time" pitchers who threw way too many pitches and innings and should be armless by now?
- January 21, 2009 at 12:06 PM
- halejon said...
I think the answer is that minor league stats are a good guide, but you have to read between the lines more than you do for a finished, polished major league pitcher.
E.g: if you've got nothing but a good high fastball, you can get away for years with just pumping it past hitters up in the zone in the lower levels. Big league hitters will just let it go and if that's all you've got, you're screwed.
In Cecil's case, it was said when he was drafted that he had pretty much a major league ready slider. That is going to completely destroy A/AA guys who have never seen anything like it before, but when he gets to the bigs he'd better have a deeper repertoire or something else to rely on or else it's going to be just another MLB slider with nothing to back it up.
Despite similar numbers so far, Price is a much more complete pitcher at this point which is why scouts and not just fans are going ape over him.
One more sketchy example is the Chip Cannons of the world, who can only hit mistake fastballs. Looks amazing in A ball and the winter leagues, but any talent evaluator worth his salt knows that it's not going to translate in the same way as more well-rounded hitters with similar numbers as he moves up.
- January 22, 2009 at 12:53 AM
- The Ack said...
Some redemption - Keith Law was kind in his Top 100 prospects list released today - Cecil checks in at #43 and is billed as a potential #2 if his arm holds up.
Price was #1, but I'm good with that.
- January 22, 2009 at 12:23 PM
- The Ack said...
correction, Price was #2....
- January 22, 2009 at 1:35 PM
Anonymous, how do you account for guys like Greg Maddux, Nolan Ryan, Roger Clemens, and countless other "old time" pitchers who threw way too many pitches and innings and should be armless by now?
idk i am not familiar with their minor league stats and the innings increases they saw from 18-25 when they were going through the minors.
of course i am familiar with the relevant research (i did not pull the 25-35 number out my ass), as well i am familiar with no just the handling of Marcum ("what you are fatigued? GET BACK OUT THERE SISSY") but also the idiotic handling of McGowan ("torn rotator cuff? KEEP PITCHING")
otoh if cecil turns out to be maddux that would be pfuckin awesome
- January 22, 2009 at 3:23 PM


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Gov. Jack Markell and Lt. Gov. Matt Denn emphasized the need to look back at the accomplishments of America's heroes from the Founding Fathers to today's military heroes as inspiration to move forward to greatness in the state of Delaware during their inauguration exercises held Tuesday morning.
That included examining the Founding Fathers, the blood shed during the Civil War on through the Civil Rights, Markell said at the inauguration held at Central Middle School in Dover.
"Now it's our generation's turn," Markell said. "Let's continue to come together as the neighbors we are. Let's continue to put our common aspirations for our children first.
"When we do these things, not only will we keep faith with the solemn and sacred compact that has kept Delaware and America moving forward throughout our history; by our actions, we in the First State will show our country the way and give it reason to believe once again in its unique, historic and hopeful promise," he said.
Denn focused the beginning of his inaugural address on the squadron of 53 soldiers that were vastly outnumbered when they were attacked by the Taliban on the Afghanistan/Pakistan border in 2009, Denn said. They lost eight of their men, but they held off the enemy and carried away their dead for a proper burial, he said.
"Being the greatest nation on earth is not an inheritance or a guarantee," Denn said. "It must be earned over and over by each generation. Here in Delaware, we do our part by recognizing that greatness comes when we help individuals fulfill their God-given potential."
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The First State's inauguration ceremony was moved to Central Middle School from the Legislative Mall because of the rain. There, Delaware State University President Dr. Harry Williams served as M.C., and the Newark High School National Guard marching band (Markell's alma mater) provided the prelude while the Delaware National Guard's 287th Army Band performed the postlude.
University of Delaware student Elizabeth Rivera sang the national anthem while Cab Calloway School of the Arts student Chad Jervis sang "This is America."
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Stephen W. Fisher, 53, of Bel Aire, passed away March 4, 2013, at Via Christi – St. Joseph, Wichita. He was born April 30, 1959, in Big Spring, Texas, the son of Monte and Carolyn (Cave) Fisher. He was a computer scientist at Boeing for nearly 29 years. He was a graduate of Remington High School and Wichita State University. On June 19, 1999, he was united in marriage to Magda Colón. He is lovingly survived by his wife, Madga Fisher of Bel Aire; children, Christina Montoya of Chandler, Ariz., and Jason Rodriguez of Ft. Campbell, Ky.; his parents, Monte and Carolyn Fisher of Whitewater; sisters, Deanna and Chuck Miller of Valley Center and Deborah and Jerry Buttĕl of Whitewater; and six grandchildren. Visitation with family will be from 6 to 8 p.m. Monday at Lamb Funeral Home, Whitewater. Funeral Service will be at 2 p.m. Tuesday at Federated Church, Whitewater. Interment in the Whitewater Cemetery. Memorial Funds established for the ASPCA or Federated Church in care of Lamb Funeral Home, Whitewater.


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Orange Bowl Honors 50th Anniversary Team
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Saturday was a sauna inside Memorial Stadium, but 30 minutes before kickoff, fans were able to see the Orange Bowl Committee honor one of Nebraska's most storied football teams. It's the 50th Anniversary of the first Nebraska team to win a major bowl game – the 1963 Huskers that jolted Auburn on the game's second play, then held on to beat the Tigers, 13-7, in the 1964 Orange Bowl in Miami. Nearly a dozen players from that 10-1 team, which lost only to Air Force (17-13), stood in the stadium's northwest corner of Tom Osborne Field to accept a commemorative game ball from Orange Bowl Committee member Darryl Robinson.
I was in the ninth grade and living in Alliance, Neb., and still remember almost missing the game's biggest highlight – Dennis Claridge's 68-yard touchdown burst one minute into the game out of the Winged T. I have a friend who's a doctor and can do the play-by-play of Claridge's fabled run … Willie Ross goes in motion … Claridge takes the snap, fakes the handoff to Kent McCloughan, finds a hole …he's near the right sideline with one man left to beat … he's gone! Touchdown!!
With the benefit of a half-century old video, my friend and I can identify the two Husker linemen who cleared a huge hole to spring Claridge loose – unanimous All-America guard Bob Brown and tackle Lloyd Voss – two veterans with a combined 19 years of NFL experience. Nebraska football historian Mike Babcock can go one better than that, recalling how 40 yards into his record Orange Bowl run, Claridge had to out-wrestle Billy Edge, who tried to pull down Nebraska's senior quarterback from Robbinsdale, Minn., to no avail. Babcock points out that Claridge, listed at 6-foot-4 and 222 pounds in the 30th anniversary Orange Bowl program, was going one-on-one against Auburn's lightest player at 5-11 and 175 pounds.
Claridge Led Huskers to Two Historic Bowl Wins
Claridge owns a unique place in Nebraska football. He not only led Nebraska to its first ever bowl win (36-34 in the 1962 Gotham Bowl in New York City) but also to the Huskers' first major bowl win. The Orange Bowl run has to be his career highlight because that's the play everyone remembers. But here's the interesting part: His proudest moment was being named an Academic All-American, and I encourage you to read our Q&A in a related link above. That will enable you to get the full measure of Claridge's genuine humility and sharp wit. Surprisingly, Nebraska's 1963 co-captain didn't see his famous Orange Bowl run on film until last summer when his son coerced him to watch it three or four times at home. His one-word description of that experience? "Wow," he told me.
Joining Claridge on the field Saturday were the following players from that 1963 team – James Brown, a 6-2, 230-pound sophomore right tackle from Omaha; Fred Duda, a 5-10, 183-pound sophomore quarterback from Chicago; Ron Griesse, a 5-11, 220-pound senior right guard from Kearney, Neb.; Tony Jeter, a 6-3, 210-pound sophomore end from Weirton, W. Va.; Bill Johnson, a 5-11, 195-pound junior fullback from Stanton, Neb.; John Kirby, a 6-3, 209-pound senior left guard from David City, Neb.; Preston Love, a 6-2, 180-pound junior end from Omaha; Willie Paschell, a 5-10, 185-pound junior from San Antonio; Lyle Sittler, a 6-0, 203-pound junior center from Crete, Neb.; and Larry Tomlinson, a 6-1, 204-pound senior from O'Neill, Neb.
Three players who helped accept the game ball Saturday played in the NFL. Kirby, a co-captain with Claridge in '63, played five years with Minnesota and three years with the New York Giants. Jeter played three years with Pittsburgh, and Claridge played two years with Green Bay and one with Atlanta. Interestingly, six players on Nebraska's 1963 team earned first-team All-America status at least once in their Husker careers – Brown, Jeter, then sophomore left guard LaVerne Allers from Davenport, Iowa; sophomore center Walt Barnes from Chicago; junior left tackle Larry Kramer from Austin, Minn., and sophomore end Freeman White from Detroit. Claridge said three starters from that '63 team are deceased – Voss, center Ron Michka from Omaha and halfback/defensive back Bob Hohn from Beatrice, Neb. Hohn and Sittler were co-captains of Nebraska's '64 team that finished 9-2 and lost to Arkansas, 10-7, in the Cotton Bowl.
Shortly after the 50th anniversary acknowledgement of Nebraska's Orange Bowl win over Auburn, George Sullivan and his wife, Jeannie, along with son Greg and his wife Linda, presented Jake Long with the George Finley Sullivan Scholarship, awarded annually to a football student-athlete. A walk-on who is now a senior starter at tight end, Jake will use the fully endowed scholarship from the Touchdown Club to pursue a medical degree.
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According to police, Geers was driving her 1998 Toyota 4Runner west on Colorado Avenue around noon on Oct. 3 when she turned into the parking lot of St. Aidan's Episcopal Church, 2425 Colorado Ave.
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I am surprised to note that it's now been eight years now that I've been on the hardware accelerated bandwagon (I guess it's safe to assume the trend is here to stay). It was right about now in 1996 that I got my Vérité-based Rendition Reactor with which to play Quake. In these days when my current video card has more RAM than NASA did back then, it's fun to recall the joys of first pounding out the polygons with that sort of horsepower... I have to confess I still check out my framerates in Quake II after big upgrades to recreate those moments. Yeah, I'm a geek.
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I just want to here from you what will qualify as a good year from Smith for you. This mainly goes out to my good buddy MY MAN HALI. Put out there on the table what you will say will be a good year form Smith before the season starts. Lay out what you want to see so we know and can come back at the end of the season and see how he did.
Do try to be fair. Keep in mind that this was a 2 win team a year ago so super bowl or bust might just be a tad unrealistic.


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Deeg Captures Big Ten Honor
Lincoln - Nebraska's Cassie Deeg captured her second Big Ten Golfer-of-the-Week award, the conference office announced on Wednesday, Oct. 30.
Deeg, a sophomore for Hugo, Minn., tied for fifth at the 17-team team Las Vegas Collegiate Showdown, Oct. 27-29. In a tournament shortened to just 36 holes by high winds on Monday, Deeg fired a one-under-par two-round total of 143 (71-72) on the 6,162-yard layout of the Stallion Mountain Golf Club.
Deeg's performance marked her second top-five finish of the fall season, joining her individual title at Nebraska's season-opening Chip-N Club Invitational, Sept. 9-10, at Wilderness Ridge. Her effort at the Chip-N Club Invitational also claimed her Big Ten Golfer-of-the-Week honors on Sept. 11.
Deeg finished Nebraska's fall campaign with a 76.21 stroke average over 14 rounds.