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The Cochran Firm, D.C. today announces that David Haynes, its managing partner, secured a $1.026 million verdict on Oct. 10, 2013, in the case of Michael and Amanda Spence v. Thomas E. Shockley, et al., Case No. 22-C-11-001912 MT, in the Circuit Court for Wicomico County, Maryland. Wicomico County is a venue commonly thought to be an unreceptive jurisdiction where significant verdicts are rare. The jury found that two defendants were negligent when they towed a farm implement that extended far into their adjacent road lane. Because of glare from the light of the vehicle towing the equipment and low visibility during the sunset hours, the plaintiff alleged he was unable to see the equipment infringing into his lane when he tragically collided with the farming equipment. The defense contended they had the right to be in the other lane due to width exemptions for farm equipment.
According to court documents, despite towing wide equipment that occupied space in the lane next to his vehicle, the defendant neglected to use a wide load sign or a lead car to prevent the accident that tragically occurred. In the collision, the court documents state that the injured victim suffered serious injuries, including the permanent loss of an eye. His wife, who was a passenger in the vehicle, suffered a fractured hip.
After the violent crash, the victim and his wife chose The Cochran Firm, D.C. to represent them in filing a claim against the occupants of the vehicle towing the farm equipment and their employers. During the subsequent trial, a Wicomico County jury heard extensive testimony including expert witnesses, police officers, paramedics, and medical doctors, according to court documents. Wicomico County is a rural farming county located on Maryland's Eastern Shore. To provide high-caliber legal representation for the injured victims, The Cochran Firm, D.C. conducted depositions, conducted an extensive discovery process for evidence gathering, analyzed medical records, appeared at multiple court hearings and drafted legal motions vigorously opposing the defendants and their insurance provider who refused to offer the injured victims adequate compensation. The last offer in the case was $200,000 – or less than 20% of the jury verdict.
After weighing the evidence and listening to Haynes' legal arguments, the jury returned a verdict of $1.026 million. According to court documents, the verdict is designed to cover past and future medical expenses, pain and suffering, loss of companionship, physical impairment, inconvenience, and disfigurement.
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A Prayer Before Dawn will put you through the wringer and eventually make you glad you went.
A solid hangout movie as well as a band-of-buddies film.
Roger Ebert on James Ivory's "Howards End".
"The Ballad of Narayama" is a Japanese film of great beauty and elegant artifice, telling a story of startling cruelty. What a space it opens…
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Just yesterday I was cleaning out the office and I threw away a paperback by Syd Field, the famous Hollywood screenplay coach. Field is the man who is largely responsible for that strange feeling you may have had lately, that every movie seems to be about the same. The characters, locations and gimmicks may change - but the story structure is right out of the book.
Field teaches screenwriting workshops. The workshops don't seem able to teach you how to write like yourself, but they sure are able to teach you how to write like everyone else. At a time when Hollywood is bashful about originality, it's a real career asset to be able to write clone screenplays.
Look at "Little Giants," written by James Ferguson, Robert Shallcross, Tommy Swerdlow and Michael Goldberg. What do you mean, it's one of the stupidest movies you've seen? It got sold, didn't it? And it got made, didn't it? So that makes it a success, doesn't it? It's mind-boggling to reflect that this screenplay actually involved work by four writers. It's such a small achievement, their division of labor must have resembled splitting the atom. I don't have any idea if Ferguson, Shallcross, Swerdlow and Goldberg have ever attended one of Field's workshops. Maybe they didn't need to.
Working in two platoons, they have skillfully removed all vestiges of originality from this story, and turned in a perfectly-honed retread of every other movie about how a team of losers wins the big game.
Oops! I gave away the ending! The plot stars Ed O'Neill and Rick Moranis as two brothers in the small town of Urbania, Ohio. O'Neill is a football hero and Heisman Trophy winner. Moranis is a nerd who runs a gas station. His daughter Becky (Shawna Waldron) is one of the best football players in town, but when O'Neill chooses a team for the Pop Warner League, he doesn't choose Becky, 'cause she's a girl.
He also doesn't choose the fat kid, the skinny kid, the kid who drops every pass, etc.
Moranis thinks it's unfair. So he decides to coach his own team - the Little Giants. At first they are utterly incompetent. Then John Madden and a bunch of pro stars (Emmitt Smith, Bruce Smith, Tim Brown and Steve Emtman) turn up in town after their bus gets lost. And they give the kids some quick lessons, turning them into only severely incompetent players.
Comes the day for the big game between O'Neill's jocks and the Little Giants. The O'Neill team includes a mountainous kid named Spike, who speaks of himself in the third person, and whose father has the movie's only funny line: "Every night before he goes to bed I massage his hamstrings with evaporated milk." Spike of course is the instant enemy of Becky, who has despaired of playing football as a girl, and joined the cheerleading squad. But after the first half ends disastrously, she gets steamed, and runs out on the field wearing her helmet, shoulder pads, jersey - and, of course, cheerleader skirt.
Little kids may like this movie, if they've never seen one like it before. Slightly older kids with good memories will notice that this is not even the first movie this year where a character passes gas to knock out the other team. Even older viewers are likely to bitterly resent the fate that drew them into the theater.
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Diversification? You'll have to change your name to MacDonald!ReplyDelete
Growing your own bacon, lamb and wool, now I'm impressed. The only thing left is a cow.ReplyDeleteReplies
I could NEVER do that CJ. Maybe the woolDelete
Ha Ha! There are lambs in the field above us too.. I'm just waiting for them to find the hole in the fence.ReplyDeleteReplies
Are the lambs and mother sheep constantly bleating to one another. I think the pig had a headache. These aren't too close to us so no chance of them visiting,Delete
They let people have animals on the allotment?ReplyDeleteReplies
Awww, so cute. The lambs are lovely but I have a real soft spot for pigs.ReplyDeleteReplies
I have too Jo and they really are intelligent animals.Delete
How cute - not sure if I would enjoy the constant noise, though...I always thought sheep were relatively quite.ReplyDeleteReplies
They are not too close to us Margaret - the noise complaint was from the pigs point of view. When the ewes and lambs are in the field they bleat to one another to maintain contact as the lambs are plating around together away from mum who is usually busy grazing. Apparently they recognise one another's bleat even though to us they sound the same.Delete
Memories of farming days gone by for me. Lovely photos and what a joy to have the animals close by.ReplyDeleteReplies
There are quite a lot of sheep, horses and some pigs in fields around us BrenDelete
I do love these pics....it's lovely to see all the new life isn't it? Kinda mixed bag though as they disappear so quickly.ReplyDelete
P.s....I don't know what's going on at the moment, nut I'm not receiving email subscriptions of your posts and I'm still subscribed as I checked....I don't know if anyone else is having these problems....I am only receiving word press posts so maybe it's a problem with the site?xxxReplies
More new life stories tomorrow, Dina' For some reason Blogger and WordPress fall out from time to time. Do you use FaceBook od Twitter or Bloglovin as some people find that these are a better way to follow, also I sometimes add other little bits and pieces on FBDelete
Sadly, I'm a technophobe, so don't use facebook, etc, but do have twitter....but I only use that for petitions and rarely look at it. I'll just keep checking in ....loved the nest box ...looking forward to seeing the developments.xxxDelete
This post should come with a warning - I go all gooey over pigs and lambs. We still have about 6 or 8 empty piggeries.... if only....ReplyDeleteReplies
I do too Sarah, I love it when all the little piglets are lined up suckling and their little curly tails are wagging.Delete
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Awww lovely photos.. those lambs are so sweet :o)ReplyDeleteReplies
Very sweet Julie although maybe their mums wouldn't agree when they are pestering them. One was pawing at mum ti stand up so it could have lunch.Delete
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Once the app is installed, you need to add each of the chat accounts you plan to use. It supports just about every chat protocol you can think of except Apple's iMessage. Even the venerable ICQ is covered.
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I find myself in reverse diurnal, another way of saying that I am a relapsed nocturnal. My circadian rhythm working against presence of sun, or biomagnetic field it creates as earth revolves and rotates in its orbit around it. My melatonin was triggered on daytime, by the first chirping of bird I am dozed up unconscious. I like to think I am a modern day vampire, sans good look or charming points. As créature nocturne, we are in this world that never sleep, the fall of Berlin wall of communication barrier, rise of the social network Jedi and shit like that, as we communicate more, we sleep less. We talk more, we listen less.
My personal side-table fan acted up. I think I broke it from years of forcing air current through its blade towards me. I am a lazy breather, I have a lung of 35 year old man, when I was 25. At least that was what IPR technician told me on my spirometry. Might as well saving up for LTOT later. These intercostals and those accessory muscles were here just because it is God given anatomy. I find it hard to hold my breath under cold shower for less than 10 seconds, you can kill me drowning in bathtub for less than 20 seconds, as panic takes away the rest of typical human oxygen deprivation capacity. So no sexual asphyxiation sadomasochism for me for sure. No choking, no smothering please. Sigh.
Now I am typing this entry under scorching warm night, to chuckles of those people of African tribes who sleep under the star and grow phototrophic towards the sun, instead of green they are melanin-rich. First world problem. Yes.
I think my thyroids were fucked up. From years of consuming caffeine. It got confused and decided to work as it please. T4 here, T3 there, TSH everywhere *sing to the tune of Old Mac Donald Has a Farm*. I can't tolerate heat. Static air makes me sweat. I got palpitation at dawn. Thought it might be Somogyi in response to dawn surge of insulin. Then again I am a delusional diabetic. Not on paper, never in real life. At least not yet in near future.
Oh yes, my back pain is here. Hoorah on that. My old friend who stick with me through hard times. Never have I own a friend who actually there, come bearing pain and suffering like my favorite backpain. Stocked up on analgesic patch though we know it did nothing to it but I'd like to cheat my body to think that I am doing something to treat it, maybe placebo effect can cure it, as its existence is a somatization, so will the treatment. Like cures like. The pseudoscience of homeopathy adage.
I was asked many times about my list of hospitals for housemen-ship, to my surprise were their expression of regret that I decided to return to my place; my center of gravity, my motherland. I could have been sure that I am the most hated person in my batch. I'll bet my toes on that. Like if I were to give them free pass to stab me with no legal consequences, I am pretty sure I will ended up like that poor man on Tarascon cover, only worse; decapitated, amputated and all. I am not a people pleaser, I act on whim and talk on impulse if I think something is intolerably stupid. Or maybe their response just to be polite. You know pretense polite, because it is socially awarded to be one. Though dumbfounded by this current reaction I remain unmoved. Give me one reason to stay, I'll unpacked. So far, zilch, nada. So leaving is anything but arbitrary.
As much as I am deep-wrecked to leave. I also feel slight percentage of liberation. New people, new possibilities, new relationship, this one to bury.
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You Want Carnegie Hall, You'll Take Seoul ....
You Get A Pepper Festival
Taleena: From the heights of high school girl superfans to the depths of high school girl contempt and all Min Ki, played by Lee Hong Ki, gets for his trouble is a ginormous bag of peppers. We drama fans know that those peppers could be turned into cash by a down on her luck, virtuous waif; but a whiny, down on his luck rocker has been? Nope. The sneer around a lolly pop, the baffled gaze of the on looking seniors, and the sad, sad young men in pepper costumes made me laugh so hard.
Aunnie: It's only the first episode and already I can feel all my Jeremy (You're Beautiful) feels come right back to the surface when I see Lee Hong Ki acting. He has a dream to live and he wants to live it to the fullest . . . it's just too bad the world doesn't want him too. High Five for his tenacity though! However, bad form for these girls . . . if you liked EXO then you should know who the leader is.
You Want a Decent Life, You'll Take a Crappy Part Time Job . . .
You Get Cancer
Taleena: Wow! I really thought they were going to say "ulcer" not cancer. I guess they are setting up for the epic feels around episode 10. You know your life is pretty dismal when you are wearing dried pepper sideburns to emulate the King. Here's hoping that the Kdrama gods revoke your cancer in a mid series twist. Also, you look 1000% better without that weird Rasta wig.
Aunnie: Well . . . the life of an average person is less than dazzling but it pays the bills. His character had a rough introduction however, I'm glad we weren't given a lot of time to get attached to him before the cancer card was played--speaking of, I demand there be at least one nose bleed before the cancer card is played in all Kdramas. That being said, Ahh . . . Ms. Kdrama Book of Theories [Taleena] what's the likelihood that it's actually cancer?
Taleena: Aunnie I peg him at 80% likely that it is really cancer at this point. For the mid show weepies. You can't cast Hong Ki and then rob us of his crying - Jeremy has a Bus of Sadness and he will ride it.
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Taleena: That is the exact look I get when I do not have coffee in the morning. You get the feeling that Ki Joon just had no idea what to do with his life outside of drumming, and has zero passion to become a civil servant. I knew he would be the one to fall in with Min Ki's plans without a fuss.
Aunnie: Their civil exams are no joke, if Unemployed Romance is anything to go by. But then again, this is a country where students actually leave one school in the afternoon only to go to another school where they study well into the night.
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You Get A Weird Flashback
Taleena: Is it a rule that all Korean gangsters are snappy dressers? Also, you all agree with me that Sartorial Gangster has a connection to the man on the mountain who gave away the guitar? Perhaps he is the man from the mountain - gangster hike too. If Kdramas have taught me anything it's that everyone in Korea: 1) hikes, 2) has a giant smart phone, 3) drinks like fish.
Aunnie: See, if Kdramas have taught me anything its that: 1) Koreans get sick when rained on (Rain notwithstanding), 2) Nosebleeds mean cancer . . . or overworked students, and 3) they drink like fish. I have to give this gangster kudos for actually being believably scary. The last gangster I saw had strands of blond colored streaks that I can only describe as looking like antennae (yes . . . I'm talking about Triangle). He's also creative, it's not the standard threaten→beat up→threaten some more we see from Korean gangsters.
You Want A Nice Funeral, You'll Take Some Extra Flowers...
You Get A Run In With an Entitled Punk
Taleena: I learned a lot about Yoon Hee in this scene. She's thrifty, real thrifty. She doesn't take garbage off of anyone. She is happy to be a bumpkin, in direct proportion to Min Ki's desire to NOT be a bumpkin. Her feet are amazingly funny. Breaking 2 million won sunglasses -I'm surprised Min Ki didn't name drop a brand here- will come back to haunt her.
Aunnie: I love this girl. She's incredibly beautiful in and outside of this Kdrama but while in character, she is obviously a girl who does not care what she looks like, how she sounds or what others may think about her and I love it. She's the polar opposite of what any Hallyu star can respectively date and she's an ex-girlfriend (kinda) of our Wannabe Hallyu Min Ki! Not to mention,she's tough, smart and has attitude. Ladies and Gentileman, this is a bada$$ female lead!
You Want To Sell Real Estate, You'll Take Selling Cabbages...
You'll Get Any Help You Can
Taleena: Min Ki's not exactly the genius type is he? Hiding out from gangsters in the apartment next door was just the beginning. Googling on a topic does not an expert make you, and I doubt he has any real idea how much hard work and planning farming takes. That he is under a gangster's deadline will not help things grow faster either. His plan seems to be Cabbage + Time = Profit$$$$
Aunnie: I could not stop laughing through this entire scene as he's planning his cabbage-growing scheme because I knew there was no way he understood what kind of work he was undertaking. I couldn't stand working in my mother's garden, whether it was planting or pulling weeds, for even thirty minutes. No less having to plant, weed and harvest what is at least 5-city blocks worth of land!!
You Want A Good Time, You'll Take Working In Your Dad's Hospital...
You'll Get a Chance to Harass Your Friends.
Taleena - I really thought that Kang Hyuk sold out his friends, took the band name, and was still performing under it with a new crew. I wonder what exactly happened that broke them up. Of all of them he seems like he isn't really taking anything seriously and is even more stuck in adolescence than the rest of them.
Aunnie: Bring on the Park Min Woo feels. I fell instantly in love with Min Woo after his role in Flower Boy Ramen Shop and he just keeps getting more and more handsome. I was a little disappointed we didn't get to see him in a lab coat but maybe the Drama Gods will cast him in a medical drama soon (those seem to be in nowadays). I was extremely glad when they showed the scene where Min Ki collapses on the convenient store table with the other two members but it immediately caught my attention that there were only three in the scene. I'm trying really hard not to like his character but seeing him flash those dimples in almost every scene is something I can't fight against.
Well drama fans are you as pleased with Modern Farmer as we are? Is it cancer or a big old fake out? Do Min Woo's dimples stop you from being suspicious of his character's motives? Let us know in the comments!


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Author: Nemo
OCC's mega Christmas giveaway Contest is now concluded. This year we had 60 prizes to award to our forum members as a way of saying thanks to all who made 2008 such a great year. So, without further ado, here is the complete list of winners:
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The Cove
Dolphins are still being slaughtered in Taiji, Japan but they are feeling the pressure and we are the ones applying it. I am a cyber activist and I am a part of a network of thousands of others who are making a difference via our calls, faxes and emails. Join with me today and add to our numbers. Below, you will find the tools you need to join us in our crusade. The Japanese Prime Minister, Japanese consulates and embassies throughout the world are receiving thousands of emails, faxes and phone calls every day. The fishermen devils of Taiji have received the brunt of our blows by having to take special measures to do their sinister jobs. We are at the dawn of a new age of change and hope for Mother Earth and dolphinkind, but we need your help. With eleven of you, I make a dozen. With ninety-nine of you, I make a hundred. But I cannot do it without each and every one of you. You matter! Never give up! For the Dolphins!
Here are the tools you will need to email, fax and call the appropriate parties.
How to Call Taiji, Japan from the United States
Dial 011 (the international access code)
Dial 81 (the country code for Japan)
Dial 73 (the city code for the city you wish to call)
Dial the rest of the telephone number
Tip on sending e-mails – one way to avoid having emails "bounce back" is to use multiple email accounts when sending mail.
Dolphin Base Resort – where Misty & the other captives are being held. Dolphin Base exports captive dolphins all over the world & keeps many there in overcrowded, inhumane conditions. Their trainers are brought to the Cove during hunts. They select their captives & leave the rest for slaughter. Dolphin Base trainers have been witness to the slaughter.
note: Dolphin Base & Dolphin Resort are in one complex. Dolphin Base is where the dolphins are held. Dolphin Resort is the name for the hotel.
website: http://www.dolphinresort.jp/
Email: email@example.com
Email: email@example.com
Phone 81-73-559-3514
Fax: 81-73-559-2810
Fisherman's Union – This is the headquarters of the brutal fishermen of Taiji including the notorious "Private Space"
The name of the leader is Hirofumi Seko
The name of the sales manager is Yoshifumi Kai
Phone: 81-73-559-2340
Fax: 81-559-3018 ***NEW FAX NUMBER*** Thank you Ronda Carter!
Taiji Mayor Kazutaka Sangen @ City Hall
As reported by the Associated Press on 8/23/2010 -"We will pass down the history of our ancestors to the next generation, preserve it. We have a strong sense of pride about this," Mayor Kazutaka Sangen told The Associated Press in an exclusive interview. "So we are not going to change our plans for the town based on the criticism of foreigners."
Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
Phone: 81-73-559-2335
Fax: 81-73-559-2801
Mr. Yoshiki Kimura, Governor of Wakayama prefecture
(issues the drive fishery permit)
E-mail: email@example.com or firstname.lastname@example.com
Phone: 81-73-441-2034
Fax: 81-73-423-9500
Taiji Whale Museum – Keeps live dolphin & whales in isolation & inhumane conditions
Phone: 81-73-559-2400 or 81-73-559-2487
Fax: 81-73-559-3823
Tourism Bureau, Wakayama Prefecture
Phone 81-73-441-2789
E-Mail : email@example.com
URL : http://kanko.wiwi.co.jp/world/english/index.html
Links to Japanese Embassies Worldwide
To send communications in Japanese, use Google Translator
Google Translator can also be used when you call Taiji. When you hit "listen" on the left hand side, the Google lady says whatever you typed. Just hold the phone up to the speaker.
Thank you for taking the time to speak out on behalf of the vulnerable dolphins of Taiji. If you note any errors or updates in the contact information we have provided, please notify the "Save Misty the Dolphin Facebook" Community Page Administrators.
- Support Save Japan Dolphins
- Read Weekly Sea Shepherd Cove Guardian Reports from those on the ground in Taiji, Japan
- Visit Save Japan Dolphins on Facebook
- Follow Save Japan Dolphins on Twitter
- Visit Save Misty the Dolphin on Facebook
- Visit Save Misty the Dolphin on Blogspot
- Also read how you can Share The Cove DVD!
"To me, you're either an activist or an inactivist." – Louie Psihoyos | quote from The Cove
"A time comes when silence is betrayal." – Martin Luther King
Related articles
- Share #TheCove DVD (holisecleveland.wordpress.com)
- Urgent Call to Action – Another Sick #dolphin at #taiji Dolphin Base (holisecleveland.wordpress.com)
- The #Taiji Dolphin Killing Drives and "Countdown to #TheCove" (holisecleveland.wordpress.com)
- Countdown to #TheCove Telephone Protest (holisecleveland.wordpress.com)
- Did You Miss the Show? #TheCove (holisecleveland.wordpress.com)
- Taiji Japan Doesn't Just Slaughter Dolphins (championsforcetaceans.com)
- Taiji, Japan Holds Security Drill To Prep For Dolphin Hunt Activists (treehugger.com)
- 'The Cove' star praises dolphin-watching in Japan (ctv.ca)
- #Seattle, Washington Stands Up for the Dolphins of #Taiji #Wakayama (holisecleveland.wordpress.com)
- 'Cove' star urges dolphin-watching, not killing (sfgate.com)
- 'The Cove' by Ariana Gillis (holisecleveland.wordpress.com)
- Where Will You Be Next Week? (climateofourfuture.wordpress.com)


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Originally posted by Phantom traveller
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When i was younger i tried a few things that included a mirror and athough the old "Bloody Mary" never worked there is a technic that allows you to see things in the mirror.I'll tell you one thing.Since i tried it ,i never keep a mirror in my bedroom,not even a small one.
This morning i woke up,from a strange dream that has stuck in my head.I already started a research,but since it includes physics,it's gonna take me some time.
The main idea of the dream is that there are no parallell dimensions or alternate realities or different timelines but we all live in the same plain only in different frequencies.The human brain has a certain spectrum that can recognise and the machines allows us to "see" only a certain range of what is invisible to the naked eye.
So in the dream it was that machine that went beyond and below those frequencies and could make visible to the human eye the dwellers of those other frequencies(the person who was with me there didn't call them dimensions).The machine was like an electromagnetic field amplifier(or at least this is the term i have stuck with)
What i'm thinking since is that some experiences can be explained, if somehow we tune in our body to certain frequencies or the ability of some entities to tune in to ours.
I don't know how possible this is,but it has given me a huge headache.I'll get back with this if i make any progress.Your thoughts and help are highly appreciated.
I was almost hit by a truck but something told me to look up in the mirror.... it was weird because that is how my dad died.
Time Slip and Watermelon Men
by Brandie
One afternoon I was coming home from work. As I was coming over a hill, I noticed several men in a field on the left. They were sitting around eating watermelons out of the field. About 20 or so melons were busted up and scattered over the ground. As I approached them, the men all looked toward my car. One man looked me right in the eye and started running right in my path. I was going pretty fast and when I noticed that this man was going to run right in front of me, I slammed on brakes as hard as I could. The man kept going and I missed hitting him by less than a foot.
I was so angry that the man would pull a stunt like this, I turned and looked at him. He was on my passenger side just at the rear of my car at this time. I flipped him off while expressing my anger pretty loud. My windows were down and I could hear all of his friends laughing at me. Then I noticed that they were all dressed funny – like clothing from the 1920s with hats on and some had scarves tied around there necks.
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Originally posted by mikepopy
Hello to everyone,
This is the second time I am replying to this thread.
I dont know what I can call this that I am expieriencing the past 3 or 4 months,
but 99% of the time when I look at the time, its 12:12, 17:17, 20:20, 13:13 and so on.
In this time period a lot of things have been happening to me a short time after this time thing began.
I dont know what to think of it, but from when I noticed it, I have the notion of a warning.
Any thoughts are welcome...edit on 29/1/2012 by mikepopy because: (no reason given)


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Alex Chiasson set his own lofty expectations by being just the seventh player in the NHL's modern era to score nine or more goals in his first 10 games.
Getting traded to the Ottawa Senators from the Dallas Stars for star centre Jason Spezza and being counted on to produce in a top-six role only raised them even further.
Chiasson welcomes the challenge.
"It's pretty neat when a team goes and trades a big name and the big player like he is to a different team and they're looking for you. It definitely means a lot," he said on a conference call Wednesday. "As for pressure, I'm not too worried about that. … I know what kind of player I am, and I'm going to be the same player that I was when I was successful in Dallas and I'm going to try to bring it to Ottawa."
Chiasson was the only roster player the Senators received in Tuesday's Spezza deal, along with forward prospects Nicholas Paul and Alex Guptill and a 2015 second-round pick.
"Chiasson is a young, big strong guy that has big potential, we think," general manager Bryan Murray told reporters Tuesday. "It looks like he has an ability to score points and goals, and he's a hard-working kid."
Murray likes how Chiasson fits in with the rest of the group currently assembled in Ottawa, which will have to work for points rather than rely on one or two players to produce them.
The 23-year-old right-winger could slide in on the second line, just behind Bobby Ryan on Ottawa's depth chart. A conversation with Murray encouraged Chiasson about what his role will be with the Senators.
"I think the opportunity is there for me to jump in," Chiasson said. "But at the same I've never taken anything for granted, I think I've always worked for the things that I've gotten so far. But it's really exciting. I think you look at the players and they have a really good group of guys on board, a lot of talent, a lot of speed."
After losing Spezza and Daniel Alfredsson within the past year, there's also less high-end talent. Chiasson showed in one brief flash that he has the ability to provide that.
Chiasson scored seven goals in his first six games with the Stars in the 2013 season, then scored in each of his first three this past season. In doing so, he joined the likes of Teemu Selanne and Pat LaFontaine among players with nine-plus goals in their first 10 NHL games.
"The way I started and the way things were going, it was fantastic," the Montreal native said. "Every kid dreams to play in the NHL, and I feel like the way that I started really boosted me to reach a different potential and to try to get better. I know there's expectations that come with that."
Chiasson only had two goals in his next 17 games, and he went into a worse slump around Christmas after getting what he called a really bad flu bug. He lost 10 to 15 pounds in the process.
"With the schedule last year with all the games, we had a lot of back-to-backs, a lot of travelling, so it was hard for me to put the weight back on," Chiasson said. "I think also it was really my first year in the NHL and there was a lot of learning and things that I didn't know."
One lesson came from his year-end meeting with Stars coach Lindy Ruff, who told him he needed to try to be more consistent.
"Sometimes you'll have downs and things won't go your way," Chiasson said. "You have to understand that every day you have to bring it. … I'm not going to be here setting up expectations for goals and points, but I know what kind of player I want to be and that's for me to show up and prove it to people."
Note—The Senators announced they signed forward Carter Camper to a one-year, two-way contract and re-signed forward Cole Schneider, defenceman Michael Sdao and defenceman Chris Wideman, who agreed to terms over the weekend.
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2004 Sealine F42/5
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A flybridge motor yacht that means less really can be more.
- Year:
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The new F42-5 flybridge motor yacht features an electronically extending cockpit by almost 1m giving a huge entertaining area. The spacious 4-6 berth accommodation has 2m (6' 6") headroom throughout the saloon, forward master cabin and double/twin mid cabin which converts to a single cabin and office.
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Hull Shape: Deep Vee
LOA: 43 ft 12 in
Beam: 13 ft 8 in
Dry Weight: 23589 lbs
Engine Options
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Fresh Water Tanks: (171 Gallons)
Fuel Tanks: (384 Gallons)
Additional Description
• Saloon fully lined throughout • Carpet and blinds • Fully upholstered 'U' shaped seating with storage under • Adjustable table • Fold out double bed with sprung mattress • Club chair • Storage cupboards with provision for saloon fridge and TV/VCR • Floor hatches for access to engine room • Electrical control panel for 220v circuit • Electrical control panel for 12v DC circuit • Overhead lighting • 220v sockets • Opening windows • Fuel shut off valves • Electrically operated drop down windows
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• 70/30 deep stainless steel sinks • Mixer tap with pressurised hot and cold water • Three burner gas hob • Gas oven and grill • Fridge 90 ltr • Overhead storage lockers • Storage cupboards • Opening window • Overhead lighting • Fire extinguishers • Teak and holly finish floor • Goppian® tops to surfaces
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• 3 x 165 AH engine and domestic batteries with link switch • Engine room fans • Automatic bilge pumps • Manual bilge pumps • Automatic fire extinguisher system • Engine room lights • Full engine room sound proofing
Additional Description
• Moulded non-slip deck • Sealine concealed anchor stowage system • Eight deck cleats • Full stainless steel pulpit with guardwire • Large self-draining chain locker with fender storage • Opening forward hatch • Stainless steel framed toughened glass curved windscreen with side windows • Full set of navigation lights • Teak laid self-draining cockpit • Stainless steel cockpit handrails • Stainless steel ensign socket and staff • Integral teak laid bathing platform with storage locker and fender storage • Stainless steel ladder to water • Hot and cold transom shower • Cockpit access door in transom • Stainless steel fendering strip • Sliding full width seat with storage under • Cockpit table • Curved toughened glass sliding door to saloon • Integral moulded stairway to flybridge with teak laid steps • Full cockpit canopy stowing in dedicated flybridge locker • Large lazarette below cockpit • Storage of cockpit table in flybridge locker
Standard Equipment
• Sprint 1000 reversible windlass • 16kg Delta anchor • 40m chain • Hot water calorifier system • Immersion heater • Full 220v shore support system • Battery charger • Adjustable trim tabs with indicator • Hydraulic steering • Speed and depth indicators • Two compasses • Horn • Helm indicator • Fuel gauges • Water contents gauge • Radio/CD player with four speakers • Antifoul • Six Sealine fenders • Boat hook • Clock and barometer • Two windscreen wipers • Mooring and fender ropes • Sealine Owner's manual
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Harold Rubin, the eccentric collector once dubbed the "king of Chicago pornography," or John Dillinger, the notorious 1930s gangster?
Leslie Hindman Auctioneers are hoping a little of both.
This month, part of Rubin's collection will go on the block at the Chicago auction house. Among the most gripping items are a bulletproof vest that reportedly was worn or stolen by Dillinger and a plaster mold of his death mask. Prohibition documents, room keys, poker chips, all said to have belonged to Al Capone, as well as gruesome photographs of dead criminals and their families, also will be for sale.


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The New Orleans newspaper war centers these days on the sleazy antics of St. Tammany Parish DA Walter Reed.
Fortunately, there are plenty to go round. That other rag will report some glaringly unethical stunt, and The Advocate an entirely different one. There is fresh dirt almost daily. Sometimes it seems we need a third paper if we are to gauge the full extent of Reed's greed and treachery.
Surely, the voters now know quite enough, however, to run him out of office at the first opportunity. Not having faced opposition for re-election since 1996, he has evidently felt free to neglect his official duties and concentrate on stuffing his pockets with illicit cash.
When a trucker is booked in a crash that killed two women in St. Tammany Parish, Reed recuses his office and represents the victims' relatives in a civil suit. The attorney general handles the criminal case, while Reed picks up a hefty fee. Reed pays himself nearly $200,000 a year, more than any other district attorney in Louisiana, and styles himself full-time, which is clearly implausible. He is too busy maintaining a fat practice on the side.
He picks up $30,000 a year from the public hospital in St. Tammany Parish under what he has described as a personal contract. He has not explained how come an assistant district attorney sometimes attends meetings in his stead.
Certainly Reed has a sufficient income to pay his own bills, but he prefers not to. He has continued raising money for election campaigns that never happen and has lived large on the proceeds. The $2.6 million he has splurged since 1996 has included meals at fancy restaurants, unexplained credit card charges and various other evidently personal expenses. And when Reed has staged fundraisers, companies owned by his son Steven have been hired on insanely generous terms.
It may be that donors don't care what politicians do with their money, provided they remember to be grateful, but the law specifies that contributions "may not be used for any personal use unrelated to a political campaign or the holding of public office." If the law allowed candidates to regard campaign contributions as their private spending money, the corruption of the system would be complete.
Because Reed's backers have been confident for years that he would remain in office without the inconvenience of an election, perhaps it occurred to some of them they were just handing over cash to be spent on his whim. In such circumstances, the difference between a contribution and a payoff may not always be easy to discern. The concern for an "appearance of impropriety" that Reed cited in recusing himself from the trucker case does not apply to his financial affairs.
But then he never has hesitated to stoop low for a dollar. He avoided four years of Tulane tuition by mooching a legislative scholarship for another son, Reagan. Family values are important to Reed, as we saw some years ago when his stepson got drunk, crashing a speedboat and killing his passenger. Justice was served, according to Reed, with probation and no jail time.
Reed is never so forgiving with other people's children, reveling in St. Tammany Parish's reputation for savage sentences and warning south shore riff-raff not to invade his turf if they want to avoid a long stretch in Angola.
Indeed, when the press asks for comment on the latest of his dubious stunts, Reed will issue a statement scrupulously avoiding the issue and boasting about what a bang-up job your hard-nosed DA has done to keep St. Tammany safe.
Well, if the DA is too busy lining his pockets to do his job when fatalities occur on his roads, he can hardly claim a significant role in maintaining public safety. The only cause to which Reed is unquestionably devoted is his own material well-being.
But that's OK because so long as he is DA, there'll be plenty of action on the St. Tammany Parish front to keep the newspaper war humming.
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Beyonce definitely dressed appropriately for the launch of her fragrance, Heat, in NYC on Feb. 2 in a flirty flamenco style Spring 2010 Marc Bouwer frock — and that wasn't the only sexy red dress Beyonce wore for the occasion! Before the starlet slipped into her show stopping look, she greeted press in yet another red dress! Her first choice was a straight look paired with matching ankle strap sandals, but what dress did you think was best? Whether you like her looking fun and flirty or sleek and chic, Beyonce was the lady in red all night!
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Matt Lauer's tenure at NBC's Today show seems destined to end on the most sour note possible. Not only is he finding himself increasingly unhappy on the job, he's also now being slammed by fans on the street whenever he and his morning show co-hosts try to do on location segments.
In fact, the hate has become so thick from fans that Lauer is reported to be "freaked out" by fans slamming him as the man who axed Ann Curry. And on the set he is "miserable" and feels "abused."
The fans are just as "miserable" as Lauer.
Network sources tell the website Lauer has been getting constant verbal abuse by total strangers screaming things like "You're a bad guy" and "You got Ann fired. Does that make you happy?"
It's become a hostile work place on the set of Today as staffers and stage workers have found themselves divided up into warring camps over the firing of Ann Curry. Apparently it has become "team Matt" versus "team Ann" at NBC.
Lauer can't make anyone happy these days, either. Apparently some Today staffers have secretly criticized how the long-time, $25 million-a-year host treated actress Ann Hathaway. Hathaway was caught sans undergarments in paparazzi photos recently and Lauer's opening remark when she came to visit the set was, "We've seen a lot of you lately."
Gauche, Matt, gauche.
One staffer who wanted to remain unnamed criticized no class Matt for how he treated Hathaway saying, "Who treats Anne Hathaway like that??? She's a lady. She [should have] slapped Matt Lauer."
How long NBC will put up with this downward spiral before handing Lauer his walking papers remains to be seen. Already Today has slipped all too often to second place in the ratings game where once it was king of the morning.


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Brayden Bozak has done more than you. And he's only 8 years old.
He has been called a prodigy. He has been called the next Tiger Woods. In 2006, Bozak was on "Good Morning America" and was more fascinated with himself on the television than he was with Diane Sawyer.
Brayden Bozak is a name golf fans, and not only in Colorado, seem likely to become familiar with. Drop his name into a YouTube search, and a chronicle of his very early years comes up.
On his website (braydenbozak.com), there is advertising from EA Sports for the "Tiger Woods PGA Tour 2013" video game.
"It's an unbelievable God-given talent for someone that young to be able to concentrate and just have a passion for hitting golf balls," said Brayden's coach, Steve Beach. "And just stripe it every single time."
Along with the guidance of his father, Reid, and mother, Shelli, Brayden Bozak has been "striping" golf balls since he was 2½ when he started hitting balls in the backyard with the plastic set that Mom and Dad bought on a whim.
"He just started walking, and he just started hitting the plastic sticks around," said Reid, who has drawn the obvious comparisons to Tiger's late father, Earl Woods. "He was a big toddler and he was swinging them and breaking them. We were watching his swing and thinking, 'This is interesting.' "
The rather fluid swing prompted the Bozaks to get him a real set. He was 3.
A litany of trophies, ribbons and other accolades — including a victory to cap his 6-year career in Port St. Lucie, Fla., at a U.S. Kids Golf regional golf event that Brayden calls the highlight of his young career — adorn the Bozaks' Littleton home.
"Being out there and having fun and just kicking some butt," said Brayden Bozak, who got his athletic ability from Shelli, a former Division I volleyball player at Butler, about his favorite parts of being on the golf course. "Being with my dad and talking to him is just so much fun."
In that Port St. Lucie tournament, Brayden was tied with Wisconsin's Logan Zurn after firing a 2-under-par 70 in the two-day event. On the first playoff hole, Brayden rolled in a 15-foot downhill birdie putt to win the tournament and gave a fist pump that would have made Tiger proud.
Reid Bozak, who wears the dad-caddie-coach-motivator-psychologist hat when he's on the course with Brayden, has learned the perfect balance and keeps Brayden level-headed when he is traveling to national tournaments all over the United States.
"There was no book ever written for those out there with kids that are somewhat prodigies that says this is exactly how you do it and these are the results you will see," Reid Bozak said. "The challenge is to figure out which one of those five to utilize at which point in time during a tournament."
Said Shelli, who goes to almost all of Brayden's tournaments along with their daughter, Reese, 6: "It's definitely a father-son thing, but it became a family thing. There is never an occasion when we go to a tournament out of state that the whole family isn't there. It's just something we are all involved in."
The courses Brayden plays aren't your common 6,500- to 7,200-yard layouts. They are a more modified version that usually stretch to the neighborhood of 3,500 to 4,000 yards. Brayden is routinely more than 200 yards off the tee with his new RBZ TaylorMade driver. But the key for Brayden — and every golfer, for that matter — is around the greens. Beach and Reid Bozak, whose main emphasis is to keep the game fun, emphasize the short game.
"My chipping and putting still need a little work, but I'm getting better by the day," said Brayden, who recorded his first hole-in-one when he was 7 at Littleton Golf Club. "I just love the game. Sometimes I hit a couple of bad shot in a row and I have to stop and think about it. I just have to calm down, figure it out, and once I figure it out, I start hitting my normal shots and all the worry is gone."
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Justin Bieber leaving BBC Radio on June 6 in London.
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We have to give it up for Justin Bieber, y'all. First off, dude has more than 22 MILLION Twitter followers (wut) so we can only imagine what his life is like when he graces the public with his pretty presence. Basically, it's insane. By now, he's probably tired of the whole hand-in-the-camera-hiding-from-paparazzi thing, so he's resorted to cooler, more fashionable options to conceal that Cutie McCuterson face away from any teenage girl's wandering eye. Ladies and gentlemen, let us introduce to you Justin's embellished skull mask. This 3D neoprene face cover has a screenprinted skull on the front complete with a little nose hole. (Aww.) This mask ACTUALLY only costs $14 and can be purchased at sketchy online shops (like this one), but in pure Biebs style, he upped the ante by embellishing the crapola out of it. AMAZING. According to the product description, this mask ALSO glows in the dark. Killer! (Heh.)
But, hey, is anyone else thinking what we're thinking? He's TOTALLY copping Michael Jackson's face-mask-in-public style, right? We know Justin looks to MJ as inspiration but is this taking his love for the pop icon a little too far? Welp, we may never know the reason behind the mask, but if he's going to hide his precious little face from us, he at least did it in the coolest way possible.
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It's the elderly, stupid
If leadership is the capacity to take people where they need to go whether or not they realize it or want it -- then we've had almost no leadership in these weeks of frustrating and maddening debate over the budget and debt ceiling. There's been an unspoken consensus among President Obama, congressional Democrats and Republicans not to discuss the main problem that makes the budget so intractable.
It's the elderly, stupid.
By now, it's obvious that we need to rewrite the social contract that, over the past half-century, has transformed the federal government's main task into transferring income from workers to retirees. In 1960, national defense was the government's main job; it constituted 52 percent of federal outlays. In 2011 -- even with two wars -- it is 20 percent and falling. Meanwhile, Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid and other retiree programs constitute roughly half of non-interest federal spending.
These transfers have become so huge that, unless checked, they will sabotage America's future. The facts are known: By 2035, the 65-and-over population will nearly double, and health costs remain uncontrolled; the combination automatically expands federal spending (as a share of the economy) by about one-third from 2005 levels.
Older Americans do not intend to ruin America, but as a group, that's what they're about. On average, the federal government supports each American 65 and over by about $26,000 a year (about $14,000 through Social Security, $12,000 through Medicare). At 65, the average American will live almost 20 more years. Should these sizable annual subsidies begin later and be less for some? It's hard to discuss the budget realistically if you ignore most of what the budget does.
That's been our course. Obama poses as one brave guy for even broaching "entitlement reform" with fellow Democrats. What he hasn't done is to ask -- in language that is clear and comprehensible to ordinary people -- whether many healthy, reasonably well-off seniors deserve all the subsidies they receive. That would be leadership. Obama is having none of it. But the shunning is bipartisan. Tea party advocates broadly deplore government spending without acknowledging that most of it goes for popular Social Security and Medicare.
I have written about these issues for years. But facts are no match for the self-interest of about 50 million Social Security and Medicare recipients and a natural sympathy for older people and for people who eagerly look forward to retirement. Public opinion becomes contradictory. While 70 percent of respondents in a Pew Research Center poll judged budget deficits a "major problem," 64 percent rejected higher Medicare premiums and 58 percent opposed gradual increases in Social Security's retirement age.
The essential budget question is how much we allow federal spending on the elderly to crowd out other national priorities. All else is subordinate. Yet, our "leaders" don't debate this question with candor or intelligence. We have a generation of politicians cowed and controlled by AARP. We need to ask how much today's programs constitute a genuine "safety net" to protect the vulnerable (which is good) and how much they simply subsidize retirees' private pleasures.
Our politicians make perfunctory bows to entitlement reform and consider that they've discharged their duty, even if nothing changes. We need to recognize that federal retiree programs often represent middle-class welfare. Past taxes were never "saved" to pay future benefits. We need to ask the hard questions: Who deserves help and who doesn't? Because Social Security and Medicare are so intertwined in our social fabric, changing them could never be easy. But the fact that we've evaded the choices for so long is why the present budget struggle has been so tortuous and why, if we continue our avoidance, there will be others.


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- Phase Two selects the winners in each category as well as the supreme Halberg Award winner. In this phase the Academy are given one list (in random order) containing the finalists for the Sportsman, Sportswoman, Disabled Sportsperson & Team categories (ie the four categories which are eligible for the supreme Halberg Award, with four finalists each). They then rank these. When these votes are tallied it provides both the category winners & supreme Halberg Award winner.
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The Embattled Man In Blue
March 12, 2009
By Kevin Scheitrum
He prefers it loud. There's something about the rolling boil of Orange all around him, the shredding white noise that, despite the cries for blood and bruise and violence, soothes Michael Gvozden.
"I like it when it's louder, with more people, because then you can't focus on any one individual calling you out," he said with a laugh. "You can't hear the 'you suck' from the top of the stands."
It's rare he hears them anymore – the You-Suck's. But for a long time, he did. He acknowledged them and, in the worst conclusion that a goalie can come to, he believed them.
But the continued maturation of Gvozden is one of the biggest reasons to believe that a Johns Hopkins team doubted by many in the beginning of the season – doubts reassured by a 14-8 loss to Princeton at the Face-Off Classic in Baltimore – will make a return trip to Gillette Stadium on Memorial Day Weekend. And, after two wins over top-10 teams last week, Gvozden and the Jays face their toughest test yet, in a showdown with No. 2 Syracuse at the Carrier Dome Saturday.
"[The Dome]'s certainly a challenging place to play," said Johns Hopkins head coach Dave Pietramala, who goes for his 100th win at Hopkins this weekend. "It's an exciting place to play. And it's one where, if we hope to be successful, Mike Gvozden's gonna have to play well."
The position of goaltender for Johns Hopkins comes with a great deal of benefits – the two primary being the right to stand in front of organ-crushing rubber balls whipped from the nation's most fatal pockets and the other being the privilege of taking blame from the bulk of the Chesapeake Bay Watershed Area when things go wrong.
He's gotten good at it. At both things, that is to say. There was a time less than a year ago when he wasn't very good. At either.
"Michael's greatest struggle last year was just being himself, and I think occasionally he still fights that," Pietramala said. "He's such a good young man and a fine person, he just wants to do whatever he can for the team. Mike's a happy-go-lucky guy. He smiles. He laughs. He enjoys life. He enjoys getting into goal and seeing shots – I'm not sure why he enjoys that, but he does."
There was a time when those screams from the crowd, on campus, in papers, on the radio and in message boards – modern life's answer to the public stoning – would get to him. He'd start believing them. Then the weak goals would follow. And the screams would get louder. And he'd break down.
"The 14 goals [against Princeton] – it was pretty tough to take, but I've done it a few times," Gvozden said said. "I'm not playing to suffice the record books at Hopkins – but it's tough because when it happened a couple times last year I felt like I was letting the whole world down."
That feeling dates back to early April of last year. Hopkins had lost five straight games for the first time in program history. The Blue Jays had let up 58 goals in the final four games of that stretch, including 17 to Duke on April 5, among the worst defensive stretches ever seen in the 125 years of Johns Hopkins lacrosse.
The losses weren't just Gvozden's fault, certainly. But he was as responsible as any, he'll admit. In the beginning of the five-game stretch, which saw Hopkins go from 3-0 to 3-5, he played reasonably well, saving more shots than he allowed in two of the first three games, with the only exception coming in a 14-13 overtime loss to eventual champ Syracuse.
But then things started to fall apart. Fast.
In Hopkins' 13-8 loss to North Carolina on March 29, Gvozen gave up 12 of those goals, stopping only seven shots. Next week, against Duke, he stopped only eight shots, giving up 16.
"I was taking the brunt of [the losing streak] and I really doubted myself," he said. "I went into the Duke game thinking I was horrible, and look, we turned around and gave up 17 goals. I didn't necessarily play poorly in those games, but we were losing and in OT. I was a first-time starting goalie and everybody was like 'he's awful.'"
"The greatest thing Mike needs to do and continue to do is grow in terms of consistency," Pietramala said. "That was his greatest weakness a year ago. And from the second half of the season to the end, he became a much more consistent goalie."
For Gvozden, it was the first time he'd fallen this short of expectations on the field. Over four years of prep lacrosse at Severna Park (Md.), he tallied a save percentage above .700, ending his career as one of the top goalies in the country. And as things went bad, he couldn't hide. Not on campus. Not at home.
"Coming from an environment where lacrosse is huge, I don't think when I get home that I can ever have a conversation with somebody without bringing up lax," he said. "It can be frustrating but it's also cool at the same time. I guarantee when I go home over the summer, no matter how well I do or bad I do, I'm gonna hear about the Princeton game. It's whether or not you buy into it. So I've stopped playing into what other people say."
So, he just stopped hiding.
The next nine games, Gvozden tried something. He told himself that he was "a star." And it'd be easy to say that, Voila, so he was. But there's not a much more accurate way of putting it.
Over those final nine, of which Hopkins lost only one game, he allowed only 51 goals and stopped 118 shots to post a .736 save percentage. He finished the year with a school-record 1,007.01 minutes in goal, and saved 202 shots, fifth-best in Hopkins history.
"The greatest thing Mike needs to do and continue to do is grow in terms of consistency," Pietramala said. "That was his greatest weakness a year ago. And from the second half of the season to the end, he became a much more consistent goalie."
So the reason to believe that the 2009 Hopkins team might catch fire after suffering a jilting loss – Pietramala said he saw a great deal of similarities between Duke in '08 and Princeton in '09 – is that as Gvozden starts to warm up in goal, so does the rest of the field.
"He's one of the most important people on the team and when he gets hot," said attackman Kyle Wharton, who scored seven goals in the Blue Jay's two wins last week. "When he gets hot, it motivates our team – motivates our whole defense. We can settle down on offense. He's one of the best out there – he's a real fire-starter."
"He's grown as a leader and that's a place where I've appreciated his growth," Pietramala said. "Occasionally a shot goes in and he'll say, 'You know what, that's my fault – I'll take the blame. … He'll keep the guys focused and on-task to find out what happened, why it happened and figure out how it doesn't happen again."
In Hopkins' only loss this year, to the Tigers Feb. 28, Gvozden said he lost his own focus. Three days later, against then-No. 6 UMBC, the Blue Jays rallied for a 14-11 win – "we needed to redeem ourselves after that."
Then, last week, in a game against a top-10 Hofstra team, he made 12 saves and let up only seven. On the other side of the field, Andrew Gvozden, a freshman for the Pride and Mike's little brother, took the loss.
"I wrote him a letter a while ago," Gvozden said. "I hit rock bottom and I hit the top last year. I explained to him how to approach it mentally. There are certain things you have to blank out. … It's like a musician who's not gonna read what the critics have to say. If you're not playing well, you might think you're worse than you are. You have to go into it thinking you're gonna do an awesome job."