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NEW YORK - The Columbia softball team will conclude the 2013 campaign with a four-game set against Penn. The series will begin on Friday, April 26, with a pair of games at the Columbia Softball Stadium, beginning at 2 p.m. On Saturday, April 26, the clubs will play another double-dip in Philadelphia set to start at 12:30 p.m.
Prior to game one on Friday, the Lions will recognize the efforts of senior Alison Lam, playing in the final home game of her career.
The Lions will look to finish the season strong after dropping five of their last six contests. Columbia fell twice at Lehigh on April 23 to wrap up non-conference play. Alix Cook notched three hits on the day, extending her hitting streak to nine games. Sophomore Kalli Schultea pitched four shutout innings in game one.
The Quakers have won seven of their last eight contests, and have a magic number of one to clinch the South Division. Their most recent game was an 11-3 triumph over Temple on April 24. Brooke Coloma is hitting .364 with team-highs of 27 runs, 33 RBI and 13 steals. Alexis Borden is the Quakers' ace, posting a 14-8 record with a 2.30 ERA and 141 strikeouts.
Record: 12-29
Last Meeting(s): April 23-24, 2012
(Penn won season series, 4-0)
Junior Emily Caruthers is having an outstanding year has set new program marks for stolen bases in a single-season and career. She currenly has 28 steals, which passes the old mark of 27 held by Jennifer Bergeron. Caruthers' 14 steals in 2013 broke the old mark of 12 that she previously set in 2010. Caruthers is second on the team, hitting at .336 and is second on the team with 25 runs scored.
First-year Nicole Borchard was named Ivy League Rookie of the Week on April 8 after hitting .450 with six RBI in six games against FDU, Brown and Yale. Borchard is tied for ninth in the Ivy League with 24 RBI. The second baseman is the third player to earn a major conference award this season.
With Columbia's 5-4 win in game one against FDU on Apr. 2, head coach Kayla Noonan earned her 200th career victory. Noonan is in her 11th season at the helm of the Lions and is already the program's leader in wins.
Sophomore Alix Cook has reached base safely in 41-of-44 games this season. She has struck out just four times in 146 at bats to rank as the nation's 10th toughest batter to fan. In 2012, she was 14th in that category.
The Lions pitching staff has been a huge strength early this season. Columbia currently leads the Ivy League with a 2.56 ERA collectively.
First-year Emily Kenyon has made an immediate impact for the Columbia this season, posting a 2.72 ERA with nine wins and 134 strikeouts, the most of any first-year in program history and the third highest single-season total. She has earned a spot on the Ivy League Weekly Honor Roll three times for her efforts.
Sophomore starting hurler Brooke Darling has had a strong year in the circle, earning 10 victories with a 2.28 ERA in 119.2 innings of work. She opened the year pitching a pair of complete-games that went extra innings.
Sophomore Kayla Shimoda homered in back-to-back games, serving a grand slam in the nightcap of Columbia's series with Dartmouth on March 29 and hitting an inside the park home run in the first game against Harvard on March 30. The standout utility is one of the Ivy League leaders with nine doubles.
Junior Emily Snodgrass became the second Lion to earn Ivy League Player of the Week status on March 19 after hitting .412 with three home runs and six RBI. She finished the Rebel Games with a scorching .438 batting average, four dingers, 12 RBI and 10 runs. She has been one of the Lions' top offensive threat this year, hitting .303 with five homers and 24 RBI and ranks among the league leaders in most batting categories.
First-year Nicole Borchard's first career home run was one to remember, a grand slam in a 6-0 victory over Rider on March 19. Borchard, who has started all 44 games for Columbia at second base, finished the game with a career-best five RBI.
First-year pitcher Tessa Kroll posted a complete-game shutout to pick up her fist career win against Rider on March 19. The tall right-hander struck out five batters and allowed just five hits in the victory. Additionally, she picked up her first collegiate save on April 16, recording the final two outs in a win over Marist.
Sopohomore utility player Kayla Shimoda was named Ivy League Player of the Week on March 12 after going 5-for-5 in two games at Rider on March 9. The Aiea, Hawai'i native, was the first Lion to earn the honor since current assistant coach Maggie Johnson took the distinction on Apr. 6, 2010.


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The 'Orthodox Christian Information Center' may have information on a wide range of topics, but it too often represents the fringe of Orthodoxy.
I've had big beef with that website, ever since someone referred me to an article from there, in which it dared to compare St Mary's apparition in Zeitun - one of the greatest events in Coptic Orthodox history where St Mary appeared on the church of Zeitun in front of millions of Christians, Muslims, and Jews (see: http://www.zeitun-eg.org/) - to the various alleged apparitions of aliens/Ufo's. It disgusted me to say the least.
So out of pure curiosity, would you greekischristian, or any other EO believer here, slot the following statements that I have randomly picked out from various articles on this website, as representative of the "fringe of Orthodoxy" as you say, or would it be considered "mainstream" thought?
1) http://orthodoxinfo.com/ecumenism/copts_orth.aspxThe Copts are Monophysites and thus heretics. Their Mysteries are invalid and, should they join the Orthodox Church, they must be received as non-Orthodox.
2) http://orthodoxinfo.com/ecumenism/east_orth.aspxThe designation "Oriental Orthodox" itself clearly illustrates the ecumenistic tendency to obfuscate essential theological differences with euphemisms. This deceptive appellation, popularized by the defective world view of Western Christian thought
3) http://orthodoxinfo.com/ecumenism/mono_share.aspxIsn't it possible, some say, that the Chalcedonians are using the word physis in one way, and the non-Chalcedonians in another way — that they are simply using different language to express the incomprehensible mystery of the union of human and divine in the Incarnate Christ? If this is so, then we all believe the same thing but we are simply expressing it in different ways. This is the line of reasoning followed by the Chalcedonian/non-Chalcedonian dialogues of recent years. It seems convincing, but it is false
4) And everything in this article: http://orthodoxinfo.com/ecumenism/mono_athos.aspx
Btw, speaking of Chalcedon (if I'm not violating any forum rules by asking this question), how do you Eastern Orthodox handle the quesiton of Papal Supremecy and Infallibillity as a heresy, in light of Pope Leo of Rome's teaching about the power of his papal office (who, of course, is a canonized saint on your calendar)?Exempli gratia:http://www.globalserve.net/~bumblebee/ecclesia/leo.htm
I admit that if I was Oriental Orthodox and thought that I believed the same as the Eastern Orthodox or that I was Orthodox and maybe the EO were not then I might have a problem with the site.
GiC,goarch.org seems to have been broken for months now, as I haven't been able to access for a while (your link as well).
Greekischristian,If you don't mind, I want to continue this dialogue (without it regressing into a "debate" - i'm sick of debates) with you at much more in-depth level, if its not too much trouble. Before we progress however, I would like to do my own sufficient research on this issue - it should save us both some time.Peace.
Elisha,That's strange, I have no problem accessing it, I was even just able to access it using Lynx and rejecting cookies, thus the site is quite accessable. There could be a problem with loading timeouts, how fast is your connection? what browser are you using? and which error message do you get?
I have SBCYahoo DSL. It works neither from work (T-1, but horribly slow for that - half the speed of my home DSL connection) using IE or from home using Mozilla Firefox. Times out and doesn't recognize the site. I search from google and click on the GOA link and get nada as well. This has never happened in the past.
Dear GreekisChristian,Thanks for fielding my question on Pope Leo. Leaving the question of Chalcedon asisde, I guess I am asking, if the doctrine of Papal Supremacy is regarded as heresy by Eastern Orthodox, how can Pope Leo who is a great defender of Papal Supremacy be considered a Saint? Perhaps some will think that because I am not a part of your Communion, I just can't understand. But I certainly am willing to give it a try. Surely I'm not be the first to recognize this seeming contradiction. If anyone knows of any articles or websites which speak to this question, please point me to them.
After years of foolish words and rash posts on my part, I've decided to simplify my stance on the issue. When the OO and EO have worked out a compromise that brings us to official agreement regarding the status of the Fourth through Seventh Ecumenical Councils, St. Leo, etc., then I'll never speak on the matter again. Until then, I will only say, as St. Gregory the Theologian said, that " admire your life, but do not altogether approve your doctrine." (Oration 41, 8 ).
Just because someone does not agree with you does not mean they are attacking you.
Again I disagree with the claims that OO are Orthodox but that does not mean I am against you personally.
I didn't do it but it is within the pervue of the moderators to split topics. It probably would have been better had the moderator mentioned that is what he or she was doing.
Do I have a problem?
I for one, can not but hold ALL seven councils as Orthodox.
I for one, can not but hold ALL Oriental Orthodox as brothers and sister...
Sabbas,To deny one of the most important events in Coptic Church history (one which strengthened the faith and re-enforced the hope of a persecuted and minority people in a land dominated by pagans, and which also lead to many conversions), and to try to implicitly attribute it's origin or inspiration to Satan himself, is one of the most insulting things I've ever heard in my life, and you're attempt to water it down is pathetic - but I on behalf of the Coptic Church thank them (and their supporters) for the false charges nonetheless, because it is nothing short of a blessing to be counted along with Christ who Himself was accused of performing miracles by the power of the enemy. This isn't a matter of agreeing or disagreeing, it's a matter of prideful EO's who think they're God's special gift such that only they can receive divine revelation, and such that only they are worthy of an apparition from the Theotokos (Oh by the way, every time you say Theotokos please remember St Cyril, our blessed Patriarch, the champion of Christology - the one we maintained the strongest of allegiance to, even to the point of suffering persecution and discrimination).May the Lord have mercy on the authors of that article, and all who promote it, who will surely be held accountable for their deceit, ignorance and negligence, in insulting Him and His Mother. May the Lord continue to shine through the Coptic Church, the church of the land which was prophesied in the Holy Bible according to the blessing it would give to the world, as well as the land which was blessed by the visit of the Holy Family, in whose footsteps lay the Holy Altars of the Coptic Church. From the moving of Al-Mokattam mountain, to the blood of the martyrs, and to the Apparition in Zeitoun; the Lord and the Theotokos and all the saints will continue to bless and strengthen the Coptic church, no matter how many vein things the enemy wishes to conspire against her.From St Basil's Liturgy:"All offenses and their instigators, abolish. May all dissension of corrupt heresies cease. The enemies of Your Holy Church, O Lord, as at all times, now also humiliate. Strip their vanity, show them their weakness speedily. Bring to naught their envy, their intrigues, their madness, their wickedness and their slander which they commit against us, O Lord, bring them all to avail; disperse their counsel, O God, who dispersed the counsel of Ahithopel." Amen, Kyrie Eleison.Insha'allah, I hope to expose the inconsistencies and double standards of that article, by doing a little ufo fantasizing of my own. Do you have any personal favourite apparations or miracles you would like me to shoot down? I have a brilliant account of a hindu miracle that im just dying to strenuously compare to something.To disagree is one thing, to arrogantly and condescendingly assert it as a self-evident fact without any substance is another (as you did on the other thread). This is the line of thought I get with most of the EO's ive spoken to so far: "You aren't Orthodox because we say so" - "Orthodoxy is an adherence to the 7 councils as ecumenical because we say so". Please learn to validate your claim with reason, and then maybe I won't sound so pi**ed off, even if you arrive at the same conclusion.Peace.
Insha'allah, I hope to expose the inconsistencies and double standards of that article, by doing a little ufo fantasizing of my own. Do you have any personal favourite apparations or miracles you would like me to shoot down? I have a brilliant account of a hindu miracle that im just dying to strenuously compare to something.
To disagree is one thing, to arrogantly and condescendingly assert it as a self-evident fact without any substance is another (as you did on the other thread). This is the line of thought I get with most of the EO's ive spoken to so far: "You aren't Orthodox because we say so" - "Orthodoxy is an adherence to the 7 councils as ecumenical because we say so". Please learn to validate your claim with reason, and then maybe I won't sound so pi**ed off, even if you arrive at the same conclusion.
If this apparition is denied, the miracles of the saints of Egypt are numerous and cannot be denied, latest of which are the miracles of H.H. the Pope St.Kyrillos the 6th, (1959-1971).
But one thing to be noticed is that the OO follow their hierarchs more than EO. For example, there has been a christological agreement on the faith from both side, yet many EO do not adhere to it and still label OO with misconeptions that have been cleared long time ago. It is either that the EO hierarchs were wrong to sign this christological agreement, which is an internal problem for the EO, or they were right, and you would have to stop using the term monophysites.
The christology of the Oriental Orthodox Churches is the exact same christology as expounded by St. Cyril of Alexandria and accepted by the Council of Ephesus. In Chalcedon, the Latin and Byzantine Churches decided to overturn a previous council with a new christology. Given that the Oriental Orthodox Churches hold to the pre-Chalcedonian christology, the "heretical" group would be the one which rejected a previous council with a new (perhaps Nestorian-influenced) christology. The fact that certain Eastern Christians are so defensive of Chalcedon and denounce any Oriental Christian as a heretic is a defense mechanism to mask their own neglect of history. It's like the pot calling the kettle black.
The christology of the Oriental Orthodox Churches is the christology of Ephesus, what St. Cyril defined as "the one incarnate nature of God the Word".
But do you consider Chalcedon, and especially the Tome, to be heretical?
However, Matthew, also an OO, seems to be saying the opposite, that there in fact IS a difference in faith, and that it is significant and not just semantical, cultural, political or whatever.
However I can see why some would question it and I do not think we should attack people for being skeptical.
Also consider the Fatima visions.
But if you want to take a shot at Orthodox miracles try the bleeding Icons of Belarus http://www.visionsofjesuschrist.com/weeping623.htm
QuoteTo disagree is one thing, to arrogantly and condescendingly assert it as a self-evident fact without any substance is another (as you did on the other thread). This is the line of thought I get with most of the EO's ive spoken to so far: "You aren't Orthodox because we say so" - "Orthodoxy is an adherence to the 7 councils as ecumenical because we say so". Please learn to validate your claim with reason, and then maybe I won't sound so pi**ed off, even if you arrive at the same conclusion.
Actually I think that there are 9 Ecumenical Councils. The 8th during 879-880 and the 9th being during 1341. In fact until recently many Orthodox did consider the 8th and 9th to be Ecumenical and the Encyclical of the Eastern Patriarchs (1848) repeatedly references the 8th Council for obvious reasons.
Also I am sorry if I sounded arrogant. I said that I am not going to debate the Council of Chalcedon which includes believing that the Oriental churches are not part of the Church.
The conclusion of my research was that the Council of Chalcedon was legit and a lot of the arguments by Oriental churches revolve around semantics and defending men condemned as heretics by the Chalcedon.
Please respect my right to believe what the Orthodox Church teaches
I currently hold the opinion that the dialogue between the Oriental churches and the Orthodox Church have been fruitless.
I believe the tome of Leo if understood in its appropriate context, can be interpreted as Orthodox, but I do not want to be bound by such a weak Christology, nor do I accept that it is an infallible, close to infallible, or even a reasonable explication of Orthodox Christology - OO is more than content with the Christology that was affirmed by 433 A.D. Nor do I believe that the council of Chalcedon achieved anything productive; as I said before it was tainted by overzealous polemics, and it merely used a double condemnation (i.e. that of Nestorius and Eutyches) as it's positive affirmation of Orthodox doctrine, and as such, failed to provide any clarity or focal point for Orthodox Christology, but rather left open a vast spectrum in between two extremes.
Though some extreme OO's would mistakingly consider Chalcedon a Nestorian council (just as some extreme EO's would mistakingly consider those OO who reject Chalcedon as "monophysites" in the Eutychian sense of the word), my belief is that it certainly cannot be Nestorian since it officially condemned Nestorianism, however it is a "bow to Nestorianism" in the sense that it left many gaps and loopholes for Nestorianism to creep in via some backdoor - which is why Nestorians were generally content with the tome of Leo in the first place, and why it took the later councils to patch up the gaps.
In Chalcedon, the Byzantine and Latin Churches accepted a conflicting christology in which Christ exists in two natures.
What would the "heretical" group be, the one which held to the Council of Ephesus or the one which rejected it with a new christology?
We believe a balance in Christology was already resolved by A.D. 433, and that Chalcedon did nothing but shake that balance due to it's being tainted by overzealous polemics, the Roman legate's insistence on the tome of Leo being accepted in toto without its Orthodoxy being questioned (probably because of the Roman idea of papal supremacy, of which Leo was of course a major proponent), and other political factors. While I would not label Leo's tome as heterodox, I still believe it to be weak and full of holes, and would prefer to accept it merely as a theologoumenon, in contrast to the Alexandrian Christology of St Cyril that was explicated in his 12 chapters, and which was further refined in his clarification and elaboration of the reunion formula between himself and John of Antioch, which I would consider doctrinally binding.
The problem we do have, is speaking of the distinction of the two natures of Christ after the union, as pertaining to His reality. We, as St Cyril did, maintain that any distinction between the two natures of Christ AFTER the union is to be spoken of in thought alone. This qualification is challenged for example, when Leo speaks about one nature of Christ acting out certain things pertaining to the properties of that individual nature, whilst the other nature acts out other things pertaining to the properties of it's nature - for such talk pertains to the reality of Christ i.e. concrete actions, which should not be attributed exclusively to either the divinity or humanity of Christ, but rather to Christ the God-Man. More serious however, is the fact he distinguishes the human nature from the The Word, as opposed to distinguishing the human nature from the divine nature - in this sense Leonian Christology line of thought would for example, express the nature of the sufferings of Christ by stating that "the humanity of Christ suffered as opposed to The Word" whereas we would prefer to say "The Word suffered according to His humanity" for the latter clearly stresses the unity of Christ, without dividing The Word from His humanity; a humanity which became intrinsic to the Logos after the hypostatic union. Furthermore, It was not the divinity of Christ that healed the leper, it was the God-man Christ who healed the leper according to His divinity (which was united with His humanity without mingling, without confusion, and without alteration, to ultimately constitute the One Nature of God the Logos Incarnate - the God-Man). So what we have here is not a doctrinal conflict - but rather conflicting methods of expressing or conveying that very doctrine, in manners which may over-emphasize one aspect over and above the other.
I agree with the assessment of the Tome as stated in the first paragraph, but I do not see how it could be concluded that the conflict in Chalcedon was not a doctrinal one
Also, the relation of Leo of Rome to Theodret, a confirmed heretic and Nestorian and a blasphemer aganist the divinity fo the Lord, casts serious doubts over his christological convictions.
The Tome is Nestorian in language. Writings of Ibas, Theodret and Theodore which were exonerated under the pressure of the Roman delegation, are blasphemy in its pure sense.
"To conclude, our Oriental Orthodox people should realise that the Orthodox can never be Nestorians since they have condemned the Nestorian teaching of the union of two persons in an external union in Jesus Christ and confessed that the Word of God came in His Own person."
What the EO are asking for in confessing councils 4 and 5 (among other councils) is to confess that one thing and its oppoiste, a statment and its abrogation, an argument and a counter argument are all the same.
We, as St Cyril did, maintain that any distinction between the two natures of Christ AFTER the union is to be spoken of in thought alone.
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TUSCALOOSA | It may not yet feel like spring in Tuscaloosa, but the season will soon be in full bloom.
TUSCALOOSA | It may not yet feel like spring in Tuscaloosa, but the season will soon be in full bloom.
Alabama gardeners know that now is the time to plant watermelons, squash, corn and cucumbers for a good summer harvest. An event scheduled for Sunday is timed for those seeking guidance to make their gardens greener.
"It's Easy to Be Green" is the theme of the second Earth Day Garden Show hosted by the Tuscaloosa County Preservation Society.
"We have lot more green space in Tuscaloosa now than we did two years ago," said event coordinator Lucy Murphy. "We want to show people what they can do with what they have. We can use those spaces to our benefit and to the environment's benefit."
The free, family-friendly event will be from 1:30-3:30 p.m. at the Battle-Friedman House and Gardens on Greensboro Avenue.
"Kids will be planting seeds that they can take home, watch grow and then transplant," Murphy said. "We will have all kinds of printed material for people to pick up about how to make their green spaces better and work for them."
Children will have the opportunity to venture into the garden's fern pit, which Murphy said is the oldest in the state, and pick out a free tomato plant to take home.
Representatives from Tuscaloosa County Master Gardeners, the Tuscaloosa County Extension Service, the city of Tuscaloosa's Environmental Services Department, the environmental education program Legacy, the Alabama Environmental Council and many other groups will answer questions and provide demonstrations about green gardening practices. People can learn about layering soil and how to use recyclable materials like newspapers in flower and vegetable beds.
The Tuscaloosa County High School's Velvet Blue band will provide entertainment on the lawn. Everyone will receive a free tote bag filled with items including a rain gauge and free yogurt coupon. Door prizes will be provided by the event's 35 sponsors. Alabama One Credit Union mascot Moola Moola, the magical money monster from the make-believe land of Lotta Loot, and Tuscaloosa Environmental Services' Ricky the Recycling Raccoon will hand out balloons to children.
"This is a great family event," Murphy said. "One of the missions we have at the Preservation Society is educating the public in terms of preservation, and using green spaces and introducing people to facilities like the Battle-Friedman House is part of that."
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Thursday, September 02, 2010
72 comments:
- Rumple said...
I cannot even begin to comment on how wrong this is. Haven't we had enough tragedy? I wanted to end my 25 year relationship with ATWT on a happy hopeful note. Instead I get to have my heart ripped out and Dr. Dixon won't be around to fix it. You can jump forward in time all you want but I only get a few days to come to terms with this before everything is gone for good. There are so many paths that the story could have gone down this one is was unnecessary and just plain cruel.
- CAS said...
I think this is the worst possible way for this show to end. After 54 years the only character left with a sad ending is Luke Snyder? The boy has already been through so much. He is the only gay character and the only one to have a sad future? And to kill Reid Oliver...a character who has revitalized the show during the last nine months? It makes no sense! Chris Hughes is a selfish character who has let his health spiral out of control and he deserves Reid's heart? Worst way to end the show! I will not watch it and I will not support the companies who have decided that it is ok to have a sad ending, as long as it is the gay character who is having it!
- Jennifer said...
Boy, I really, really didn't need to see that! I hate, hate, hate you writers at ATWT! You just had to take the strong gay character and kill him off in this way didn't you????
- Kat said...
I love Reid! He is my most favorite character ever and I love him with Luke. I don't understand why you are doing this to Reid. It's so obvious that Luke and Reid are in love. It's wrong that people like Chris and Noah get to live while somebody so good like Reid will die. Chris and Noah will always have to live with the fact that they were the second choice for chief of staff and Luke's heart and never the first choice. This is so sad!
- alice said...
What the hell is wrong with the powers that be to think Luke deserves such a tragic ending. Luke/Reid are a brilliant couple and should have had a happy ending. Instead, a brilliant neurosurgeon who would have saved countless lives dies, leaving his lover devastated.
Luke finally had a respectful relationship after the dysfunction that was Nuke, and Reid is the best character I've ever seen on daytime.
Shame on you ATWT.
- jakelover said...
I can't stand Reid and even I think this is just stupid and wrong. ATWT, you can do so much better than this.
- Richard said...
The person just outside the frame is about to make Luke leave, right? Patients aren't supposed to have support from "loved ones"--that's just sound medicine, according to Dr. Oliver.
Sorry to all the new fans who fell in love with Reid, but he's a gay character on ATWT--did you really think it would end well for him?
- Loo said...
The cancellation and end of ATWT was terrible, then Helens death which of course had to be addressed on the show, now this. That the powers that be CHOSE to lump even more tragedy on an already sad and grief stricken viewship is too much. I will NEVER forget how TPTB chose to end this show- with enough misery to choke all the viewers. Why?
- jakelover said...
@ Richard, you're so right. ATWT has never cared about the gay characters and I don't see why anyone thought they would change. And did Reid really say that?
- Isabel said...
There were so many more dramatic stories that could've been told with Luke, Reid and Noah. But to make them the victims so everyone else can have happy endings is wrong. I'd like to see other explanations from the producer and writers than the ones we've been given that it's all about Luke maturing. Luke has been maturing in his relationship with Reid and even in his quest to at least maintain a friendship with Noah.
I'll never understand why the gay characters and the loyal viewers who passionately loved this s/l had to suffer in the end.
- disgusted said...
How Reid's death is heroic!! yes he is socially inept and can be cold sometimes but he dedicated his life to save lives. He's a doctor. he's already a hero! and what about luke didn't he go through enough in his life! why he is the only one to be unhappy! what did he do wrong! all he wanted is to love and be loved!
and to add sault to injury, selfish chris hughes gets reid's heart in the end!???
all of this sends only negative messages and has HOMOPHOBIA written all over it! Lure didn't even get the chance to make love!! LAUGHABLE..
Real life is cruel enough . I don't need to see it also on TV.. I'm done
- Suz said...
@ jakelover, no, Reid didn't say that. He said that if loved ones couldn't be in the hospital room without freaking out and making things worse for the patient, then they shouldn't go in until they were ready.
- Suz said...
Completely ridiculous, unnecessary and insulting. Much like most of ATWT for the last few years.
- MOUNA said...
Aw my poor Luke. I love him so much and he is about to suffer something horrible. Van makes me so emotional in that photo!
- Melitha said...
This ending is so weak, not that it's surprising given the shoddy track record of ATWT. Who would think that it is sweet or a good idea to sacrifice a three dimensional and well developed character for one as weak as the character of Chris Hughes? This storyline has no point. If they were going to do this they could have at least made Chris useful and rootable, but instead they just threw him together with Katie at the last minute, and have shown that he is just a bland pointless character, who is in need of a brain transplant. There is no reason for this death other than shock value, and even that doesn't mean a heck of a lot, when the result is Chris and Katie ending up together, while Luke is alone and unhappy, and Reid is dead.
This show had very little going for it this year, except Reid and Luke, and this death shows why the show was canceled.
- Robert said...
Luke: Reid, can you hear me? If so, wake up! Haha, deja vu.
Reid: *mumbles*
Luke: What? Oh, I think he said "Shut up, idiot!" Oh, my little Reidykins!!
Reid: I can't see.
Luke: Oh god, I'm not going through this again. *smothers*
Reid, pushing pillow away: I just meant everything's a little blurry! But I will need you to be my right-hand man if I recover.
Luke: Well, who better than me? I've already transformed you from an emotionally-stunted 12 year old who has no concept of people, love, or relationships into a....well, the important thing is that I'm trying.
Reid: *grunts*
Luke: Oh, you always know just what to say. *tousles hair*
Okay, so NOW do the Reid-loving, Noah-hating faithful realize the show itself is to blame, not one of its characters, for constantly desexualizing and censoring the gay characters to make sure they're never happy? Or are you all too busy wishing you had your own doctor boyfriend to insult and ignore you?
- Kat said...
I'm not a new viewer. I've been watching for 20 years. I know very well how ATWT has treated the gay characters. It's too bad that Reid had to be sacrificed. I never bought into the idea that Reid was a bad person. He was always a good person who dedicated his life to helping others and saving lives, then he just so happened to fall in love with his patients ex boyfriend.
- CAS said...
All Reid lovers do not hate Noah. That being said, we do realize the show is to blame. The way this s/l has been handled is horrific. From the Executive Producer giving an interview six weeks before the end laying out all of the s/l's to the writers thinking that killing off Reid and shipping Noah of to California is the best way to help Luke grow up. It is truly sad that the gay characters are the one's with the tragic endings. Not just sad, but shameful!
- Jennifer said...
Robert, Reid did not ignore or insult Luke all the time - no idea where you are getting that. He was definitely on the acerbic end of things but then Luke has that side to him too, and they both seemed to like that about each other.
Reid was constantly coming over to Luke's house and hanging out, so for you to say that he ignored him is bizarre.
But I do agree with you that it is the show and the writers that are to blame for making the gay characters have so much dumb shit happen to them in the name of not offending middle America.
- Loo said...
I don't think I have ever read ANYONE blame Noah for "constantly desexualizing and censoring the gay characters to make sure they're never happy?" LOL. Everyone knows why homosexuals are treated the way they are on this show. Noah was disliked because, well, he is Noah. He appealed to his fans no matter but the show was quite clear about who Noah was- they decided to play him (when they DID play him) for well over a year now in an unfavorable light. That is another fault of the writers if it was not intentional and to some extent the actor.
- Kat said...
I get what you're trying to say Robert, but Luke and Reid are happy. Yes they took away the sex, but they have shown Luke and Reid to be happy and in love. Reid never treated Luke as horridly as Noah did. At least we never got the chance to and that's something I'm grateful for.
- Kat said...
So true Loo! Noah was disliked for how he treated Luke. Noah said yesterday that he wanted Luke to pay for his pain. Reid never ignored Luke or treated him half as bad as Noah did. Thank gawd we will never see that either.
- dkellergrl said...
Robert, please try to keep your bitterness in check. Also, for your diminishing sanity, I suggest that you don't read any of Van's most recent SOD/SOW interviews, because yet again, "He doesn't know how to give good interview." according to your pals SarahC and Epstein.
- Andy said...
How ironic that Luke gets to be next to Reid while he's in a hospital bed when Reid wouldn't even let Luke come for hosptial visits to support Noah while he was blind.
If there were any justice in this world, Reid would get a doctor who wouldn't let Luke visit with him in his hour of need. On top of that, the doctor should constantly tell Reid that he's not going to do surgery to save his life so he will know how it feels to hear a doctor say those crushing words over and over while you're most vulnerable.
Oh, and let's have Reid's doctor try to get a devastated Luke into bed. If he can dish it out, he should be able to take it, right?
Maybe Luke can feed Reid his last meal with that silver spoon Reid told Luke to choke on. And his pet name for Luke, "idiot" can be tattooed on his chest to honor his memory.
Lastly, bring back all those nurses Reid made cry and that poor woman who was suffering from a brain tumor that Reid mocked to see what's become of him. It would be good to see the shoes on the other foot for once.
Adios Reid. You treated people like something a person would scrape off the bottom of their shoe, yet you are the hero. You're not going to be missed at all by me.
- Jennifer said...
andy, you're delusional. Wonder if it's the same guy as Lukevanfan?
- Dee Ann said...
Oh Luke...Reid...I knew this was coming, but to see this just breaks my heart. How is it fair that the only ones to not get a happy ending are the gay couple that was the most stable and sane and made sense? I've watched the show for all my life, ever since I was a wee little thing. Some storylines I didn't like, sure, but the show never pulled something this lame. Instead of something hopeful, we've got death in a beautiful, meaningful relationship while all the straight couples get happiness? Yeah, totally fair. Ugh. You can hate Reid or love him--personally, I think he's the most refreshing character I've seen in a long time, and I adore him--but this storyline...just sucks all around. Luke gets a shoddy storyline and to lose the man he's fallen head over heels for, Reid gets to die, and Noah gets sloppy seconds? Even Nuke fans can't be happy about that. I'm disappointed to see my favorite show end this way, when there could've been so many other alternatives that didn't involve running over characters we've come to love. It leaves me with a bitter taste, which already was there with the cancellation of the soap I've grown up with. It's a shame to go out this way.
- nufka said...
FAIL! I can't believe i watch this shit! So stupid ending! Writers you are HOMOPHOBIC COWARDS! Hope you will never work again...
- traci said...
@Jennifer - Oh yes, Andy is the same as LukeVanFan. Only he could be that hateful and nasty about a fictional character. Everyone is entitled to their opinion but only the self-righteous lay out hateful diatribes like this.
- Scarlett Echo said...
This knocks the wind out of me. How the show could do this to all the Reid and Luke fans. This is cruel and painful to us. I have watched this show for 4 decades. Since infancy I have watched this show and I have loved the cast and characters forever. This show has the best cast in the business, the most beautiful fans and we all don't deserve this cruelty. And to know this is really a lame attack on the gay characters and fans - well, this is sickening.
Luke Snyder is the soft, warm, loving and realistic heart of this show. Reid Oliver is the most dear character to grace our screens in decades. To slaughter Reid to prop a useless character and appease a fraction of the audience is nasty as hell. To write a tragedy for the most realistic, open and proud gay men is homophobia hiding behind "melodrama..........."
My eternal gratitude to Van Hansis and Eric Sheffer Stevens for their perfect portrayal of our beloved Luke and Reid. Their talent is unsurpassed.
But shame on the producers and writers of ATWT for undoing all the progress they had achieved and ending this beloved show on a cruel, cowardly and bitter note.
We gave PGP a good chunk of our lives and to be treated like this is shameful.
- Kay said...
@traci - LukeVanFan has been uploading your precious Luke and Reid story to YouTube so I don't see what the problem is.
@Dee Ann - Noah won't be getting "sloppy seconds" because Luke and Reid don't have sex.
This just in--ATWT treats gay characters like crap! Film at 11. Meanwhile, the Luke and Noah fans have known this for years.
- a7c7c7 said...
That's a heck of a lot of drama to avoid showing two gay men having sex. Really sad that my 20+ year relationship with this show ends on such a sour note. Doug Marland is probably turning in his grave, God rest his soul.
- VanFan said...
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- limeybird2 (Karen) said...
@Andy(LukeVanFan)it makes me wonder if you are really a Luke Snyder/Van Hansis fan? You take being an asshat to a whole new level.
To write what you write about a fictional character is so telling about what kind of person you really are, & you even had to disable your comments on your YT channel because of your rants. It shows you the levels of class between the hardcore Nuke & Lure fans, every Lure fan wants all 3 to be happy & ALIVE.
- HansisFan said...
Luke has already suffered enough in his young life. There is no reason to kill Reid and leave Luke heartbroken. For Luke, a young gay man, to not get his happy ending is an insult to the character and to Luke's fans. Nancy's death was enough sadness for the end of the show. No wonder it was cancelled. The powers that be have no clue what the fans want.
@Jennifer...what part is delusional...seems spot on to me.
- Jennifer said...
limeybird2 - so true! I would never, ever wish death on Noah and if he did die, I would not come over to a page showing him dying and bloodied to gloat. Andy and his minions are truly the slime of the earth!
- Pin said...
How can you give your loyal fans this sad - and totally unnecessary ending? Reid is the most interesting character atwt has ever had - and I've been watching since 1958! Luke and Reid have a love story of epic proportions - and not only did they not get to live happily ever after - but they never had time (due to this awful script) to share their love! You can at least fix that mistake before sending him off to die a senseless and tragic death. You have nothing to lose at this point ! So PLEASE at the very least, give them some quality alone time before the end
- Anne-Marie said...
I will never understand why it was decided to kill Reid.
The show is coming to an end after 54 years and it ends with a ton of OTT drama. Anguish over Chris, Nancy's funeral and Luke losing Reid, right after he's finally managed to bid Noah farewell and realise his love for Reid. The show doesn't even have the decency to give Luke and Reid a moment of true happiness. What message are you giving here? Reid, ESS, Luke, Van Hansis, and the Luke/Reid love story have won the hearts of SO many, why can't you give us LOVE? Is that a way to thank your audience? Because this sure doesn't show any understanding of or respect for your audience and your most loved characters.
- Anne-Marie said...
I will never understand why it was decided to kill Reid.
The show is coming to an end after 54 years and it ends with a ton of OTT drama. Anguish over Chris, Nancy's funeral and Luke losing Reid, right after he's finally managed to bid Noah farewell and realise his love for Reid. The show doesn't even have the decency to give Luke and Reid a moment of true happiness. What message are you giving here? Reid, ESS, Luke, Van Hansis, and the Luke/Reid love story have won the hearts of SO many, why can't you give us LOVE? Is that a way to thank your audience? Because this sure doesn't show any understanding of or respect for your audience and your most loved characters.
- Anthony D. Langford said...
So.. Andy and Robert and his crew have to spread their bitterness and hate around? They have to come here to gloat about Reid's death? That's not just pathetic, it is truly, truly sad. And yet, I expect no less from them.
That said, it is too bad the show chose to end it like this, even if it might make compelling drama.
- limeybird2 (Karen) said...
@Kay nobody that's a fan of Luke & Reid would go to lukevanfan's yt channel to read the venom "it" spews & to disable the comments so they don't have to read what people have to say about it is a coward who only want to say what they want to say & not anybody else has to say
& no Noah won't be "sloppy seconds", he won't even be that. if you have watched the character of Luke even for a couple of months, which i watched being born on this show, then you know he has the biggest heart & he will NEVER forget how much he loved Reid.
- Jennifer said...
Thanks Anthony, for the kind words. You are a voice of reason amidst the madness, as always!
You know, I really don't like the way the show is trying to make Reid a saint towards the end, I like him better as the complex, imperfect, yet highly lovable character he has been for quite some time. But obviously when the writers decided to crucify him they needed to go in that direction (puke). But since we are now seeing him in this rather Christ-like positioning, it seems somehow fitting that scumbags like Andy will scurry out from under their rocks to sling a little shit before it's all over.
- Loo said...
I am not sure what show Andy has been watching because one thing has been made crystal clear since Reid appeared on the show- he may have a mean mouth- but he is a competent and involved doctor and a decent man. The show has done almost everything it can to spell that out- and ultimately this character will go out a martyr. He is not nor was he ever a villain- if you have been watching the show the last 9 months and have come away with that belief.. well its sorta like insisting that Janet is not Italian. Go on and insist, but its pointless and kind of funny.
- Suz said...
I find it extremely interesting that the Reid fans posting here only attacked the show or the writing, with the occasional rant about a fictional character. Then we get some non-Reid fans turning up, who immediately begin attacking Reid fans.
I know that not all Nuke fans are the same, just as all Lure fans are not the same. But you're really, really not helping yourselves.
We should all be ranting about the show. Not about each other.
- bellvue said...
So funny, Anthony, that you are calling Andy and Robert out for spreading around hate when you've been bad-mouthing Jake every chance you get for years, all the while stealing spoilers for your pathetic column and pretending like they are your own. Bottom line is, the show chose to kill Reid off, not Noah. There is no epic love with Luke/Red--they've been dating two weeks and no sex. Luke and Reid are a plot point to Reid's Redemption story. Luke and Noah are a love story tht played out over three years, and guess what, they'll be the couple left at the end. I don't feel sorry for the LuRers---your guy, a newbie, got his own s/l in the last hours of this show. So what if he's dead---so is the show!
- ampersand said...
ATWT shows once again why they were cancelled. So, sadly no surprises here- just silent disappointment.
ETA: Sad that the J-S crew have come here to spread the bitterness that they are famous for with their ring-leader Andy aka NoahJakeFan at the helm. One wonders what happened in your individual personal lives to make you so angry and bitter. Sad to see 20, 30 and over 40 year olds acting like immature brats. Stay classy J-S crew.
- jakelover said...
@ampersand Do you really think it's fair to lump all of Jake Silbermann fans together and call them "classy"? I've always been respectful when it comes to Reid even if I don't like him. You shouldn't lump us all in one category.
- ampersand said...
I should be clearer. When I say 'J-S crew', by no means am I referring to all Jake Silbermann fans. I am also a Jake Silbermann fan and I have friends who are Nuke fans. My J-S statement to the good folks at J-S.com who on a daily basis post the most bitter and evil things. They know who they are.
So apologies if my statement was misunderstood.
- phin said...
It's a shame that the few Noah fans who have posted have shown themselves to be hateful & bitter & have aligned themselves with the homophobic elements still out there. They actually celebrate the fact that the couple doesn't get to have sex, when really that has everything to do with ATWT catering to bigotry & very little to do with this fictional couple. Luke & Reid are a couple in love & ATWT rather than have them express that love, have chosen to block them with ridiculous items like baby rattles & ultimately a train crash. It's telling that none of the 3 gay characters gets a happy ending. The anger should be directed at the writers who catered to the lowest elements in their audiences & who also didn't even bother to try to write a cohesive storyline at the end. It's a soap, not a greek tragedy. I'm shocked these people, like Jean Passanante & Chris Goutman actually have gotten jobs after presenting this travesty. Now that's a reason to hate.
- Confessions and Critiques from a TV fanatic. said...
Look everyone
The show was never invested in Noah and thas Sad
I never became a fan of Nuke and loved Luke with Reid
To Kill Reid Sucks and didnt need to happen
Chris Hughes should either of dropped dead or got a heart from someone else like Damien
- jakelover said...
@ ampersand, thanks for clearing that up.
- Jolie said...
I'm trying to make sense out of something that can't ever make any sense. There was already so much sadness with the ending of the show and the passing of Nancy. Was it necessary to add more? Why devestate one group of fans?
I know Eric and Van are going to give stellar performances but sadly all the LuRe/Reid fans are seeing is that our couple is the only one that didn't get a happy ending.
- Kat said...
Geeze Andy have you not been watching your own videos? No offense, but really? How has Reid treated anyone like crap? Reid has done nothing but try to help Noah. Now he's done nothing but help Chris at his own personal and professional expense. Now is getting nothing but crapped on by Katie, Bob, Kim, John, and Luke. Reid's worst sin is that he fell in love with Luke. I really wish you Noah and Nuke fans would be more objective. Just because one can be a bit obnoxious doesn't make one a bad person.
- Kat said...
Bellvue I believe you have got Luke and Reid mixed up with Katie and Chris. Luke and Reid started a relationship in June. Katie and Chris are the ones who have been together for 2 weeks. Reid did not need to be redeemed as he was never anything but a little rude. The rest of the town are complete hypocrites. Luke and Noah will not be a couple when all is said and done. Luke will be too busy mourning for the man he loves. When all is said and done, Noah is not anything but Luke's second choice. There is nothing romantic about that.
Those of you that worship Reid and look up to him as some kind of great man? Well, I'm really glad I don't know you in real life.
I will say, I think the show's writing sucks and that this ending is a total cop-out.
- Loo said...
That hurts red. Truly. :-)
Oh well. Lets see. Dude A- snarky jerk on the surface- but has devoted his very existence to helping people and saving lives.. to the point that it costs him his own. Dude B- college kid who is apparently spending all his time brooding over being an ass and his ex moving on with his life.
Yeah, I can definitely see how my preference for Dude A says something damning and dark about my personal character. LOL. Seriously, is there a reason certain Noah fans simply cannot keep their hatred for what the show did to Noah from bleeding over and becoming hatred for other fans of the show? Please grow up.
I don't recall saying I was a Noah fan. So GTFO yourself. I think Reid is crass, rude and a terrible doctor. Period.
- Loo said...
You have crass and rude covered red. Not a fan of Noah? LOL. Certainly I apologize if that assumption offended. I know if I were a Noah fan I would be happy that you don't claim that association.
- ld152 said...
Love Reid so much, I'm sad to see him killed and sad to see how devastating this will be to Luke. They were ATWT's perfect couple. Perfect for each other in every way. P&G should be ashamed about the way they treated this couple and ended their story.
P.S. Sad to see that all the bitter Noah fans can't let Reid fans mourn for the loss of our favorite character.
- kcwin said...
What an insanely bad last-minute plot twist from the ATWT writers! When Luke has found new happiness in his relationship with Reid, the writers had to do a sharp U-turn just to open up the possibility of a Nuke rehash. If it didn't work after three years, it ain't gonna work in the ever after... unless Noah gets a personality transplant. But of course, the writers are saved from dealing with that after cancellation. Fade to black, indeed, to mourn the mess made of 3 pioneering characters: Luke, Noah and Reid.
- jshr0584 said...
SHAME on you incompetent ATWT writers!! This is totally unecessary to sacrifice a highly popular and well rooted character of Dr. Reid Oliver. It is very pathetic and its not even worth watching the ending now.
Oh, my poor Luke why does your character have to endure the most tragedies throughout your life!
Even a Nuke ending would not satisfy me now!
- Ron said...
Thank you for posting the picture I hope to get one from 9/16 with Luke and Noah.
Thank you again from
NUKE fans forever...
- katidc said...
Utterly, utterly disappointed in this ending to the storyline and the show. Rather than focusing on Nancy's death as the sad end of ATWT, balanced with hopeful endings for the other legacy characters, the powers that be have chosen to pile on tragedy, senseless waste of potential, and frankly irrational story choices.
No transplant organ would be handed over in a coleman cooler to someone just because he's got MD after his name. Beyond that, gay men aren't allowed to be organ donors in the US! (Which I think is wrong, but that's beside the point when it comes to the storyline.)
Chris's insistence on ignoring his health issues and hiding the truth from his family has caused the situation to be as dire as it is, and made him a truly unlikeable character.
Spending so much focus on TALKING about sex but never following through breaks the first rule of screenwriting - if you show a gun in the first act, you'd d**n well better use it by the last act.
And last but not least, this ending leaves the viewers with a horrible message to carry with them: if you're straight, no matter how underhanded/deceitful/nasty, you'll get your happy ending - but if you're gay, you'll end up dead or alone.
Lovely message, PGP and ATWT. Way to undo everything good you've ever accomplished by establishing the "groundbreaking" gay legacy character of Luke Snyder. You've made it impossible for many, many viewers to properly grieve the ending of this long-running show because of the bitterness and anger over this horrible ending to a beloved storyline.
- VintageLamb said...
May I please just address one piece of misinformation that has been making its way across the internet as it relates to this story? In the US, gay men absolutely CAN donate their organs...it is up to the transplant hospital to define who is too high risk. Gay men CANNOT donate tissue or blood.
That being said...this story is breaking my heart. I fail to see any reason why it was necessary to end this show on such a note. Aside from the obvious homophobia that has been running rampant throughout this storyline, it is just plain cruel to string the viewers along, coaxing them into believing in this wonderful love story, only to have the characters become collateral damage for another couple with no chemistry or long-term believability.
I've watched this show since I was small enough to sit in my grandmother's lap and having it go out like this is such a colossal disappointment.
- teresa said...
seeing this pic totally devastated me. i knew this was coming, have known for weeks,thanks to mr. goutman, but to see it here and then to see the preview clip has pretty much broken me. reid and luke do not deserve this. we do not deserve this. they are the best couple to hit daytime,not just atwt,in years. it is so unnecessary. with the show ending everyone should get their hea, and everyone does,except for the gay characters. that is a great message the show is putting out there. the only reason i can see for this is for emmy consideration for van and eric. we know they will hit it out of the park. it is small consolation tho. also by doing this they take something away from the death of nancy hughes as played by helen wagner. she was the matriarch of the show and she deserved to be the only character mourned at the end. what the writers have done is just horrible. as we all know they really don't give a damn
about the fans and what we want. this is a really terrible way to go out after 54 years.
- teresa said...
seeing this pic totally devastated me. i knew this was coming, have known for weeks,thanks to mr. goutman, but to see it here and then to see the preview clip has pretty much broken me. reid and luke do not deserve this. we do not deserve this. they are the best couple to hit daytime,not just atwt,in years. it is so unnecessary. with the show ending everyone should get their hea, and everyone does,except for the gay characters. that is a great message the show is putting out there. the only reason i can see for this is for emmy consideration for van and eric. we know they will hit it out of the park. it is small consolation tho. also by doing this they take something away from the death of nancy hughes as played by helen wagner. she was the matriarch of the show and she deserved to be the only character mourned at the end of the show. what the writers have done is just horrible. as we all know they really don't give a damn
about the fans and what we want.
- Kay said...
Thanks for the picture. I hope you'll have a new Luke and Noah picture up soon!
- Greeneb2 said...
OMG! I'm going to cry all next week. This is too much to take!
- Matt G said...
Cmon its great drama and Reids death is classic ATWT! Frankly I dont know how you can say ATWT is homophobic. As a gay man I think its done a great job portraying realistic gay characters.. granted they could kiss a lot more on screen but cmon.. its daytime. Step by step. What a great way to end the show!!
- Jake said...
The only thing that comes through my mind after seeing this preview THE WRITERS OF ATWT SUCKS!!!No wonder it ends after 54 years. I have NO COMPASSION AT ALL. The message that they are sending to the viewer is that having a gay relationship is a bad thing so what they do they kill the gay guy (REID) at the end and leave one gay guy (LUKE) miserable. HOMOPHOBIC writers!!!
- laura said...
For the record I'm Nuke fans, and I'm GLAD that this show was cancelled, Luke & Noah fans that fight against Luke & Ried fans make no sense at all, at this point.
Writers/production treat Ried bad, Like FOR YEARS write Noah senseless.
For this reason make me "hate" Ried because was always on while the Noah's character was like always missing.
Jake is a wonderful actor and simply they put him on a corner, and this is a shame.
And now they write this just because, they haven't the bravery to make a choice.
Easy and simple
All we deserve better
- linus van pelt said...
As many of you have said, this is a HORRIBLE ending and it all goes back to Goutman and Passanante.
My theory is that they just couldn't stand it that a character that Kreizman created was getting all the press and love from the fans. Their creation, Janet, was not a fan favorite and sucked up all the airtime. So to get their revenge, they kill Reid and give Janet her happy ending.
Someone should start a campaign to stop other soaps from hiring these two. Passanate is already at OLTL, right? Rumor has it that is the next soap to go.....
I've already created my own happy ending - Luke wakes up next to Reid telling him about a train wreck...
Luke and Reid - the gay Kim and Bob!!


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Peter O'Dowd of member station KJZZ sends this postcard of one family that's been making the night trek for years.
PETER O'DOWD, BYLINE: The granite boulders of Piestewa Peak erupted from the desert floor 14 million years ago, giving Blair Cook(ph) something to climb tonight.
BLAIR COOK: I don't like going to the gym, so this is my gym. With the kids, we're probably looking at 45 minutes to an hour to get to the top.
O'DOWD: It's just more than a mile up, but it's almost straight up. Blair hikes three times a week and he brings his boys to the trail as often as they'll tolerate it. Dalton is a lanky 13.
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COOK: I'm gonna carry you most of the way, but...
DALTON: Like a really long time.
O'DOWD: By now, the sun is almost a memory as it sinks below the horizon, but the day's heat still clings to the mountain as we get started.
COOK: Well, it turns into a giant oven, really, because these rocks - the rocks are way hotter than the air temperature. I've gone up in the afternoon in the summer, 113 degrees, and I was in really good shape and I was almost heaving.
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KEAGAN: Monkey boy returns.
COOK: No, Keagan.
O'DOWD: Keagan calls himself monkey boy because up here there are boulders to climb and the one he likes the best are off the trail, hidden in the shadows. Now, he's scampered up an outcropping and can't get down. It's completely dark. His brother, Dalton, reaches up to help.
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O'DOWD: When Keagan's safely down, Blair unzips a bag and gives his son a headlamp. It seems best if monkey boy has a light to guide him the rest of the way.
COOK: It's a little bit farther, we'll be at the top of these stairs and that's it.
O'DOWD: This high up, it's easy to see why a father would take his boys up a mountain on a summer night. It's given them time to talk about the next school year, about the physical challenge of the trail. Blair draws 10-year-old Keagan's attention to the city below. He crouches down and gets quiet.
KEAGAN: I'm just seeing the reflection. Dad told me there's a reflection that comes from the city lights.
O'DOWD: What are you thinking when you see something so cool as that?
KEAGAN: I just think I'm in some big city.
O'DOWD: A moment later, we'll crawl over one final boulder and the wind will rip into us. Recording sound at the top is useless. Besides, it's the way up that matters. For NPR News, I'm Peter O'Dowd in Phoenix. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.


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The Camdenton Lakers traveled to Joplin on Tuesday night and after trailing 3-0 through the first four innings, the Lakers found themselves on the board with two runs after they got things going offensively in the top of the 5th.
Still trailing 3-2, Camdenton held Joplin to no runs in the bottom of the fifth. Needing a run to tie the game, Camdenton once again found runners on base, before Tristan Starkey came to bat. Starkey hit a double, batting in two runs to take the lead, which would prove to be the game-winning hit.
Brett Lange pitched the win with five strikeouts, while Cory Simpson picked up the save. Starkey led the team with two RBI, while Simpson finished with one. Both Starkey and Jake Voorhees hit a double in the game, while Tyler Cunningham had a triple.
The JV squad fell in a 2-0 loss to the Eagles.
Camdenton is 8-8 on the season, and now prepares for a Thursday night game against Hillcrest at home.
The Mustangs traveled north on Tuesday night to Fulton, taking part in the 19th annual Fulton Tournament. Facing Fatima early in the afternoon, the Mustangs struggled to get things going against a tough Comets' team, who defeated the Mustangs in a 11-1 win.
Jesse Carman had the only RBI for the Mustangs in the game. Wyatt Suling pitched the loss.
The Mustangs bounced back in their next game, though, picking up a 10-7 win over Fulton in nine innings. Chris Hulsey started off the game for the Mustangs, throwing a whopping 123 pitches and eight strikeouts, but Dylan Wood's heroics saved the game for the Mustangs. The Mustangs had six different players finish with and RBI each in the win.
The Indians hosted the Salem Tigers on Tuesday afternoon. After singles play, the
dual was tied at 3-3. Osage's Thomas Uhl, Adam Keith, and Ryan Curran won for Osage. Osage swept the doubles, making the final score 6-3. The best match of the day was at one doubles, in which Keith and Curran played a strong Salem team. By taking control of the net, Osage's duo prevailed to win 10-8.
1. Keith / Curran vs Sirois Plank 10-8
2. Uhl / Wison vs Holmes / Keene 10-1
3. Grasshoff / Schoening vs Enloe / Moser 10-7
1. Thomas Uhl vs Matt Sirois 10-3
2. Adam Keith vs Josh / Plank 10-1
3. Ryan Curran / Jennifer Holmes 10-1
4. Garrett Grasshoff vs Jackson Keene 7-10
5. Jordan Wilson vs Dylon Enlow 7-10
6. Dam Schoening vs Casey Davison 1-10
Prep Roundup: Lakers squeeze past Joplin, Osage tennis defeats Salem


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HTML5 maverick outfit Ludei has introduced an update to its CocoonJS platform, which claims to deliver 10 times the speed and performance of Adobe's PhoneGap. Positioned as "the first true PhoneGap alternative" for the developer marketplace, the company is bullish enough to suggest that the HTML5 versus Native debate is over.
The company says it has helped more than 20,000 game developers publish HTML5 on iOS, Android, and Amazon (and other platforms), with "native-like" performance and features.
"Performance in HTML5 is no longer a problem for developers," said Eneko Knorr, founder and CEO, Ludei. "Ludei's proprietary acceleration technology enables HTML5 apps and games to run at 60 frames per second on every mobile device. Now, finally, HTML5 is ready for cross platform app development."
Knorr aggressively asserts that thousands of HTML5 app developers have been using Adobe's PhoneGap and (as he puts it) have been "locked into a system" that requires considerable developer compromises in performance.
Ludei says that it also solves the challenge to run WebGL content on iOS devices. It does this by allowing WebGL developers to publish apps and games featuring the 3D content demanded by consumers, using WebGL.


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Tuffy Gessling, the rodeo clown at the center of the controversy over the skit at the Missouri State Fair in which a man wearing a President Obama mask was mocked, says "nothing racist was ever implied."
"Comedians all over the country have used political figures to make fun of current events, it's nothing new," Gessling has told digitalBURG, a student-run news service from the University of Central Missouri. "I never tried to be a racist or anything like that. I love all people no matter their background. I live to make people laugh. When TV comedians are doing it every day, Rush Limbaugh is doing it every day, people on Facebook are doing it every day 10 times more than me. I was just trying to make light of the situation, that's it."
As we've been reporting, many others — including Republican and Democratic politicians — have condemned the act as being both disrespectful and racist.
Gessling and Kansas City Star reporter Dave Helling (during a conversation the journalist had Wednesday with All Things Considered host Audie Cornish) have now added some details to the story.
It had been known that it was Gessling's voice that could be heard telling "Obama" that a bull was "gonna getcha, getcha, getcha, getcha!" and saying that it's the president who acts like a clown. It also had been known that another voice briefly heard during Saturday's performance was that of then-Missouri Rodeo Cowboys Association President Mark Ficken.
Now, thanks to Gessling and Helling, it's become known that it was a third man in the Obama mask. Previously, the speculation had been that it was Gessling in the mask and that he had been wearing a wireless microphone.
Gessling, according to digitalBURG, "refused to disclose the identity of his colleague behind the mask because he said the prank was his idea and because of the negative attention he's received." He's been banned from performing again at the state fair.
Helling, from the Star, says he's been hearing from many in Missouri who have strong feelings about what happened and how Gessling's now being treated. The clown's supporters, Helling says, believe he was just having fun and exercising his right to free speech. Some also claim that clowns performing at the fair have lampooned other politicians, including President George W. Bush, and not faced such a backlash. Helling says he hasn't turned up evidence of that happening before at Missouri's fair.
Critics of the act, Helling says, believe there's no room for what they see as such offensive conduct.
"There are fairly passionate views on both sides," Helling says. "Both sides sort of see it through their own prism of politics and race."
We'll add the as-broadcast version of his conversation with All Things Considered to the top of this post later.
This is ALL THINGS CONSIDERED from NPR News. I'm Robert Siegel.
And I'm Audie Cornish. Controversy at the Missouri State Fair. Last Saturday, a rodeo clown donned a mask of President Barack Obama during a bull-riding competition. The crowd cheered and applauded. Video of the event was posted to a local political website and has since gone viral. The event's sponsors and organizers have been fielding criticism ever since.
For the latest on this story, we're joined now by Dave Helling. He's been covering this for the Kansas City Star. Dave, welcome to the program.
DAVE HELLING: Good afternoon.
CORNISH: So we just heard a bit of tape from the event, from the announcer there, but describe the scene. What happened that night?
HELLING: Well, you heard the voice of a rodeo clown named Tuffy Gessling, who was sort of the informal MC of this rodeo event. And what actually happened is that a so-far-unidentified rodeo clown put on a Barack Obama mask, a cowboy hat, and went to the center of the rodeo ring. And then the announcer made some comments about President Obama and suggested that maybe one of the bulls in the rodeo might run at the Obama figure.
And then at some point, a bull came out, ran toward the Obama figure - again, this is according to witnesses, people who were there. He runs away, the crowd applauds, and that was the entertainment at the fair.
CORNISH: And not such a big deal at the time but once the story hits the Internet and goes viral, there's this huge kind of backlash, right, and criticism for the event. What has been the response by the Missouri State Fair?
HELLING: Well, as you suggest, the reaction really from both sides has been extraordinary. Monday morning, the Missouri State Fair board met and ratified a couple of decisions by its director. One of them was to ban the announcer clown, the Tuffy Gessling, from ever participating in any events at the fair ever again. He was permanently banned.
And then, the board also voted to require the sponsoring organization, a group called the Missouri Rodeo Cowboy Association, to provide proof of sensitivity training for its members and for subcontractors before they could hold a rodeo at the fair again.
CORNISH: Tell us more about the reaction from people in Missouri. What are people saying on the street?
HELLING: Well, Audie, as you might imagine, there are fairly passionate views on both sides. There are lots of people in Missouri who found the skit racially offensive. The model was not, you know, in black face or anything but did have an Obama-like mask. And there were lots of voices Sunday and Monday who suggested that the combination of that, you know, fact with the announcer's voice, who continually urged the crowd to sort of get whipped up against the president, that, in their view, was over the top and offensive and potentially a difficulty for the state.
But then, you heard the other side who said, look, this thing happens all the time at state fairs and at rodeos and that there was no racial overtone at all, as far as they could see, from the incident.
CORNISH: When people have defended this saying, essentially, that political figures are obviously the target of ridicule all the time, even at the rodeo, when you actually looked back at past years, did you find that?
HELLING: Not necessarily at the state fair. And in fact, a lot of people who called me said, well, this happens all the time. And I asked them, well, has it ever happened at the Missouri State Fair before? And there were no real examples of that. But I have had people tell me that, yes, there have been George Bush figures and Bill Clinton figures in past years.
But supporters also make a broader point that, you know, making fun of public officials isn't just limited to the rodeo, you know, in movies, in television, in skits and plays and that this was no different from that. Again, I think both sides sort of see this incident through the prism of their own political views and they are strongly held, believe me.
I mean, my email box and phone messages filled up rather quickly after these stories ran.
CORNISH: That's Kansas City Star reporter Dave Helling. He was talking about the controversy at last Saturday's Missouri State Fair when a rodeo clown wore a mask of President Barack Obama. Dave, thank you.
HELLING: Thank you. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.