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Monday, October 20, 2008
Everything in my life, every aspect of my life, is going through some sort of adjustment right now. My job isn't so secure anymore. My marriage is kaput, and I've recognized it and am making the proper adjustments (with a little nudging from my cheerleaders). My oldest is in her senior year of high school and getting ready to do the college education thing. My youngest has started junior high - ack the tween thing. Let it be done! - and adjusting just fine. I'm looking for a new place, and starting everything over.
The crazy thing is that the longer I'm involved in this change thing, the better things become. I'm excited about having my own place, where I can walk around scratchin myself. I'm excited about going through all of our mountains of crap and getting rid of useless junk. I'm excited about where my oldest is going and all the things she'll get to do and see. I'm excited (and scared!) for my youngest, but its so awesome watching her grow and learn.
I've mourned the loss of what we had here in worksville, and I'm ready to see what's around the corner. I hope to Elvis I get to stay here. I love it here and I love what I do and I love the people I work with. But, I might not get to stay here, and ... know what? That's just fine too. I've done graduated and I've got years of experience behind me and letters behind my name. I've got friends and colleagues and I know how to network. I will have the opportunity to teach others how to do what I do. I'll be fine. We'll be fine.
I've mourned the death of my marriage as well. 13 years is a long damn time to be together. As 0ur family physician put it so delicately... "Kris, there's a fine line between loyalty and stupidity. You're a saint." Yanno, not so much. I've got so much life to live and so much love to give. I grew tired of my relationship checkbook always being overdrawn. I'm just tired. The only thing worse than being lied to (more times than I care to think about or remember) is the knowledge that you were never (in that person's eyes) worth the truth. Enough said. I will always and forever love him, as he's the father of my baby and been a father to my other baby, but I'm tired of living a lie. I'm no saint. I'm no angel. I'm not perfect. I'm not a lot of things. I tried for almost 20 years to be someone I'm not, and its destroying me. Its time to be me. Take it or leave it. I'm through making apologies for who I am.
Fate, as accidental as it was, has led me to happiness. I can see it. Its within my reach. In this case, the grass really is greener. This is what I've been waiting for. Its as if I'm sitting here, fascinated, watching the pieces of the puzzle that's my life fall into place. I don't even really have to do very much. The Master Plan is coming to fruition, and I just have to make sure I'm listening and paying attention. If I get the cues right, everything will be as it should be.
My mom once told me that her 30's were the best time of her life. That's when you start making decisions for yourself without trying to please everyone else in the process. That's when your confidence kicks in and gives you the gumption you lacked before. I'm finally doing things that are best for me, and it feels freakin wonderful. I'm not scared as much of what others will think or what's best for them. Its about my kids (first, always, no matter what) and me. What's best for us right now? What will bring us joy and happiness?
Sometimes this means separating from poisonous people, even if we still love them very much. Sometimes this means ignoring what's best for others and doing what's best for us. Its doing the little things that bring smiles and positivity. We don't have to go anywhere or do anything. We can be us, and that's okay.
I watched The Holiday this weekend. Chick flick, I know, shaddap. There's a scene in the movie where one of the characters is describing this horrible heartbreak she's suffering, and the man she's eating dinner with says something to the effect of...Iris, in the movies, we have leading ladies and we have the best friend. You, I can tell, are a leading lady, but for some reason, you're behaving like the best friend.
From now on, I'm the leading lady in my own life. Holy crap this feels awesome.
5 comments:
- Martha said...
Sounds like wonderful times ahead, and sure sounds like you're more than ready for the changes! Congrats and good luck! :-)
- October 21, 2008 at 1:39 PM
- Unhinged said...
Hey, stranger.
Kind of funny how the end of one thing brings us back to the sorta-kinda-beginning of a thing...
You seem like you're in a much better place than I was when my life changed (divorce, change of jobs, new state/city).
Attitude is everything, aye-yep. Hugs, big hugs.
You can do it, whatever comes.
- October 21, 2008 at 7:23 PM
- Judith HeartSong said...
You hang in there Kristeena... it gets better and easier and making the choices YOU want to make for a change is awesome.
- October 23, 2008 at 4:35 PM
- Indigo said...
I came alive, truly alive at 38. I awoke up stopped the abusive relationships and found the high in life. I called it taking my life off autopilot and having a hand in my own destination. Sounds like your handling the changes with class and courage. (Hugs)Indigo
- October 24, 2008 at 2:24 PM
- cw2smom said...
Great post Kris! I especially love the Leading Lady part!! I too am becoming the the Leading Lady in my life's script and I am enjoying the changes! Taking care of Numero Uno is AWESOME! What a concept! Continued good luck!! Blessings! Lisa
- October 24, 2008 at 3:57 PM


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A Video Clip That Caught My Attention
Hello! Today I found this video which caught my attention. The title of the video is called "How to Memorize Fast and Easily". This video teaches me how to remember things easily and quickly. From this clip, I also learnt:
- The secret how top mental athletes remember things so quickly
- The things we see is what we remember most clearly
- Anyone can be a mental athlete
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Hello! My name is Kan Onn Kit (pronunced as 'Kan On Kit'), but my closest friends call me Onn Kit. I like to draw pictures of trees, animals and buildings, just to name a few. I am usually a very cheerful student who has a desire to learn!
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"Winning will make you famous.
Losing means certain death.
In a dark vision of the near future, a terrifying reality TV show is taking place. Twelve boys and twelve girls are forced to appear in a live event called the Hunger Games. There is only one rule: kill or be killed.
When sixteen-year-old Katniss Everdeen steps forward to take her sister's place in the games, she see it as a death sentence. But Katniss has been close to death before. For her, survival is second nature."
I honestly cannot find anything bad or wrong with this story! Everything was awesome!
I seriously understand Katniss's dilemma once the Games are done. Collins made the reader experience Katniss's feelings so well, that by the end of the story it felt as if I were sharing my thoughts with Katniss!
I love how realistic this story was too! Collins didn't for once hesitate to put in reality to this book. It was absolutely amazing how she made everything so simple and all about survival during the Games, and just seamlessly drifted to complicated with the Games ending. Amazing!
This book was so good, that I'm still trying to extricate myself from Katniss! Amazing!
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- The Manager, in accordance with Tao of Stieb editorial policy, either not remembering or exercising/feigning selective amnesia.
He tried to get away with not knowing which relievers he had used prior to Kevin Gregg's ninth-inning meltdown on Wednesday: "I think (Shawn) Camp finished the inning, didn't he?"
Wilner pointed out Scott Downs had come in to retire Reid Brignac to end the Tampa Bay Rays eighth. Downs was thus unavailable when Gregg walked the universe in the ninth and the Jays lost 7-6.
Call this a value judgment, but sportspeople usually have good recall.
Put it this way: Hockey Night in Canada's Mike Milbury was a failure as a NHL general manager. Yet, when Milbury was playing for the Boston Bruins in the 1970s, he said he could describe in detail every goal the Bruins allowed that season. Honestly, Cito Gaston couldn't remember which pitcher he used in a game the previous evening?
(As an epilogue, the Jays went 3-3 on their homestand against the Rays and Yankees. The thread in all three losses was they had a lead entering the late innings.)
- William Houston positing there is such a creature as "a radio executive with backbone."
That deserves the Stinsonian "please." In fairness to Houston and others who pointed it out, this likely plays out differently if Nelson Millman was still FAN 590's program director instead of Don Kollins.
The rub is professional teams have rode herd on their quote, unquote radio partners for a dog's years. It's the spoken-word medium where there's still an expectation of independent sports commentary, largely by default.
The TV side is often left alone. People forget what was said by the next commercial break (or at least did prior to viral video). People have come to terms with team-employed TV voices overemphasizing the positive. Cheerleader isn't even an insult anymore.
The rule of thumb with the written word always was anything negative in the newspaper had a short shelf life. The way it translates to today is no one can read, let alone bookmark, everything written on the Internet. That leaves radio is in no-person's land.
(P.S. to the Toronto Sun: the Spanish word for testicles is spelled cojones.)
- Wilner being almost as much of a Teflon man in Toronto on par with yesterday's men, Cito Gaston and Jays president Paul Beeston.
It's not a shock the reaction is nearly 100 per cent pro-Wilner. Tyler King did a definitive takedown times two of that during 2008's Tothilnergate.
Jeff Blair did tweet Wilner's line of questioning was better suited to a one-on-one situation, where The Manager would be less likely to get defensive. Wilner's ensuing blog posting was the real smoking gun.
For the behind-the-curvers and/or control freaks at Rogers Media, saying, "I don't need to be belittled by the skipper in front of the entire assemblage when I'm asking legitimate, rational questions about a situation that he brought up earlier in a conversation," might come off like airing dirty laundry in public.
Wilner's wordage, belittled, doesn't sit well. Belittled is a victim's word, and like what was said about NFL owner Al Davis in the Straight Outta L.A. 30-for-30 documentary, if you play the victim long enough, you'll become a victim.
In a sports journalism context, it hints at hell having no fury like a sports nerd scorned (we can smell our own). Being condescended to by a coach or manager is the What Is, slings and arrows of the outrageous fortune of getting paid to take a world of games so seriously.
The give-and-take between jocks and journos and is a clash of multiple intelligences that can never be decided. The athletes' intelligence -- the very term dumb jock should rate a smack in the head -- is focused on surviving and thriving in their sport. Their minds are hyper-disciplined, from necessity.
It is like what David Foster Wallace said, they have to accept living in a child's world. Peter Gent had a great line in North Dallas Forty: "Football players aren't people who leave home and try to play football. They are football players, who come home and try to play people."
A journalist can have a more encyclopedic knowledge of Super Bowl and World Series winners, more formal education and a greater ease with using $50 words in casual conversation. Most of us could not abide the trade-off Gent and Wallace outlined.
That has to be considered when you are on the jocks' turf. As a sports mediaite, you have to like it and lump it by definition. We're there since we fell in thrall with sports, but couldn't play them.
No doubt Wilner's blog posting cheesed off old media types more than those who have grown up digital. He could claim he's there to inform and entertain, so people should know that someone who critiques Cito clashed with Cito. He didn't even play it up, putting it well down in his posting.
It fit with how a Maple Leafs blog (it might have been Pension Plan Puppets) once admonished beat reporters who kvetch about being inconvenienced on the job or feeling insulted by a source. The audience only cares about what comes out of journalism, not what goes into journalism.
Saying Gaston could not recall if Scott Downs was available and offered a weak "you need to look at some stats" defence, then pointing out said stats or lack thereof, would have sufficed. Or he could have set up a FakeCitoGaston Twitter.
It would have affirmed that what happened was an instance of Classic Cito, painting his team into a corner and setting it up for failure while the media put it on the player(s).
Framing it in personal terms did cross a line, just not necessarily one that warranted Wilner having his wrist slapped or worse. He got a raw deal from his Rogers overlords. Please do not overlook that he flew a little too close to the sun on the wings of Seamheaditude. Belittled? It comes with the territory.
(Also, there is total awareness of the irony this post might prevent this writer ever appearing on a Rogers-owned radio station, so don't bother pointing it out.)
Sunday, June 06, 2010
Standing to the side of the Mike Wilner controversy
4 comments:
- Sarah said...
Nice points, especially the third one which is where I've been leaning for this whole "scandal" (waiting for the Wilner-gate label to start now).
I think what may have pushed it all over the edge is that it was airing dirty laundry on a company blog that got Wilner in trouble. Though, I guess if that were the case, the posting in question would have been deleted by now.
Still it gave the blogosphere and Twitterverse something to talk about this weekend.
- June 06, 2010 4:22 PM
- PPP said...
We've definitely noted on more than one occassion that it would be good of journalists to note that we don't care to hear about the trials and tribulations of dealing with your subjects.
The biggest example I can remember, which might parallel Wilner's at least a bit, was when Howard Berger got torn a new one by Ron Wilson. He proceeded to whine about Wilson despite the fact that anyone that heard the exchange knew that it was warranted because Howard asked and pursued a demonstrably stupid line of questioning.
- June 06, 2010 4:31 PM
- Tao of Stieb said...
It's kind of a weird thing, this Wilner "suspension" or whatever it is.
I can see how Wilner might carry on the argument a step farther than some might feel comfortable with, but if you've listened to him at all, you know that THAT is precisely who Wilner is. He doesn't make nicey nice, and he doesn't back down from an argument that he disagrees with.
I don't know...having been in the sausage factory and at the sausage cart, I think I can say this: I'm really sick of sausages.
- June 07, 2010 2:34 PM
- TheGuysmily said...
Being that the commentary in question was created on a blog, and blogs being inherently personal in their musings, I don't have a problem with Wilner's expression of frustration. I have often wondered how locker room and beat writers/reporters can stomach the single mindedness of most pre and post-contest drivel. We need another Charlie Stiner to right this sinking ship; the media need to get their asses into the gym and "start building some hurt'n bombs."
- June 17, 2010 1:04 PM


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Peak oil thriller hits German best-seller list
A peak oil thriller from a popular German novelist has hit the best-seller lists. The 750-page novel is written in a style like that of Michael Crichton's techno-thrillers, and covers many of the themes discussed in the peak oil community.
Ausgebrannt ("Burned Out" in English) was published in February and reached #7 on the Spiegel best-seller list (it's now #10).
German author Andreas Eschbach has written over a dozen novels, including several best-sellers. He is widely known as a German science fiction writer. Several of his books have been translated into English.
There is almost nothing written about Ausgrebrannt in English, and I've seen no mention of an English translation.
The Story
Ausgebrannt Imagine if a litre of premium fuel were to cost over 4 Euros. A nightmare? Yes, but it would only be the beginning. Because the Age of Oil won't end with the last barrel. It will end as soon as more oil is used than can be produced. And this moment is closer than most suspect. The problem: Nobody has a plan for what happens next.
Like everyone else, Markus Westermann knows nothing of all this when he finally makes it to the USA, hoping for a career that will fulfill all his dreams.
When he becomes acquainted with Karl Walter Block, Markus sees his chance. The petroleum engineer tells him that there's enough oil for a thousand years lying dormant in the depths of the earth - and that only he knows how to find it. Block only needs a competent business partner. Someone like Markus.
Only too readily the world believes the promises of the two. After the first successes, the talk is of a Renaissance of the Oil Age. But the promise is deceptive.
When in Saudi Arabia the largest oil field of the world runs dry and the Saudis risk everything to hush up the frightening truth, unrest comes -- and not only to the Mideast.
Mankind suddenly confronts its greatest challenge. The beginning of the end of the world as we know it. Only Markus is convinced that he is able to turn the situation around.
Translation of a summary from Der Spiegel's page on the book (where you can buy the book for 19.95 Euros).
Also on the page is a review by Sven Trautwein, which gives more details of the plot. Trautwein compares Ausgrebrannt to a Michael Crichton techno-thriller but complains that the suspense isn't maintained in the last 2/3 of the book.
Interview with the Author
Recently the German site, Das Peak Oil Portal and Forum published a long interview with Andreas Eschbach, conducted by Arvid Doerwad und Stefan Krüßmann. Below are translations of some excerpts.
…Do you expect Peak Oil soon?
We'll only know that we've reached maximum production in retrospect. "In the rearview mirror," as M. King Hubbert put it. At the moment it looks as if we are at least in a plateau, so that it could be that we have just passed the peak. ...
…Did this realization [of Peak Oil] change the life of you and your family? If so, how?
The answer to this question is no, since we always try not to waste resources as a matter of principle. What has changed after this book is that I have a different feeling when I step into the car, and when I get a delivery of heating oil I feel relieved rather than frightened by the bill. As a writer I work at home and am seldom on the road with the car.
...Are you making appropriate preparations? If so, which?
I warn against the notion that there are individual solutions. Civilization is by definition a communal endeavor. If large numbers of people were to try to make themselves self-sufficient in energy, the result would be as devastating as Peak Oil itself.
In the power supply, it is easy to see the physical reasons for having a network. Just as one cannot make a mobile telephone call by oneself unless everyone else can; in the same way one cannot solve the energy problem for oneself alone.
Which is not to say that one shouldn't prepare for emergencies. ...
...Do you think that Europe will have a "soft landing" or -- independently of what happens in your novel -- is a hard landing more likely?
The kind of landing depends more than anything on the pilot, doesn't it? In energy issues, just as in political affairs.
... When I came to understand the consequences of Peak Oil, I felt the need to tell friends and acquaintences about it; however, I encountered only lack of understanding. Do you think that putting this topic into a thriller will lead to better acceptance?
In any case, it should be helpful to put a gripping book into someone's hand and be able to say to them, "Here. Read it. It explains it better than I can in three boring sentences." Many people have done the same thing with my novel, Eine Billion Dollar that dealt with a similarly explosive topic.
...[Do any of the responses that involve dropping out from society (German: Aussteiger)] represent a solution for you?
No, I don't think that is the right path. Dropping out -- that's the emergency brake. With it, one is saying, "I don't care what happens with the rest of the world." If we want to solve the problems of the future, MORE community is needed, not less.
...Again, to compare the USA and Europe. In the USA, the consequences [in the novel] are marked by chaos, scarcity, violence and religious sectarianism; one could speak of collapse. In Europe, the consequences are drastic -- naturally -- but the approach is "more civilized". Is this something to make European readers feel good or do you really see the cultural situations as so different?
It is less a question of cultural differences -- which doubtless exist -- than of the pressures at work. The USA is far more dependent on energy than Europe. We must keep in mind that the population density of the USA is approximately 10% that of Germany. It is also a large, spread-out country -- which means that commerce and transport are much greater factors. In addition, the USA has made some basic decisions [about infrastructure] differently than we have. There doesn't exist any railway system worthy of the name, and most cities are built so that one needs a car. In this comparison, Europe is in a better position.
The American mentality, however, recognizes problems faster and tackles them more decisively, while we Europeans are inclined to close our eyes and think that if we don't see an evil, it won't affect us. This characterstic could become a calamity for us in this case.


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Nearly one million people aged over 75 live in poverty and need more help from the government, a report suggests. The charity Independent Age says ministers should do more to make older pensioners aware they can top up their pensions with other benefits. http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-36297605
The income of those aged over 75 is, on average, £3,000 a year less than younger pensioners. Independent Age's chief executive Janet Morrison said the UK's 11.8m pensioners could not be considered as "one group". She added: "It would be foolish to assume that inequality simply ceases to exist at retirement age, but that is exactly what some of the recent rhetoric around 'intergenerational unfairness' does. The 'silent generation' of older pensioners, renters and single women have missed out on many of the gains of recent years." These, the charity says, include pension credit, a benefit that tops up low income.
An estimated 750,000 over-75s are entitled to pension credit but are failing to claim. According to the charity's report, an estimated 950,000 pensioners in this older age bracket live in poverty. The current poverty threshold for a single pensioner is an income of £182 a week.


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The realities of current living make me want to hide in a deep cave but that isn't what I was sent here on the planet to do.
In March 2012 I attended the Media Makers for the 99% Summit. Robert Scheer was one of the speakers. He has a lot of things to say and I got about 40 some minutes of him saying it.
In this video clip, he is talking about how he got started, his liberalism and working for the Los Angeles Times.
Objectivity is subjective. Pick the subject and we may or may not have a bias but we are self centered about how we see the world. We all are. You don't have to pick a side, this is human nature.
But it does help to explain how we got into this mess we find ourselves. It is one thing to be sitting in a bar talking trash. Is is another to legislate with trash biased thinking.


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ALSO: Ben Sasse or Ben's Ass? Name of Tea Party candidate in Nebr. Senate race mocked in in hysterical YouTube video with a slew of double-entendre butt jokes.
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Now that the Tropicana has a new LGBToriented dayclub, and Luxor's gay dayclub is reopening for the season, the Las Vegas Review/Journal reports that Caesar's Palace/Bally's Vegas will open a new Victor Drai-created nightclub inside its Strip casino.
The format, according to the club's announcement: "hip-hop, rap, top 40 and a drag night."
Currently the only LGBT club on the Strip is Krave, across from Monte Carlo.


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Early last year, I remember someone on Twitter asking "does anyone have contact details for Markus Popp"?" I can't remember my exact reaction, but it was probably along the lines of "yeah, good luck with THAT one". It had been almost 10 years since the excellent Ovalprocess (and over 15 since the breakthrough Systemisch), and in the intervening period, Popp had been nigh-on invisible. There was no Oval website, or Myspace, or Facebook, never mind Twitter. I might have suggested that the person in question tried getting gold of Popp via Thrill Jockey, given that was his last known label residence, but I had no confidence that Popp still had any connection with the Chicago label. Anyway, somehow (via psychics, or dowsing or something), Popp was tracked down, and a gig happened in Amsterdam's Bimhuis. A very good, and most surprising gig. Surprising not just because of the infrequent nature of Popp's appearances, but because of the content. The trademark electronic glitches were gone, replaced by something more obviously acoustic in terms of their source, and much more fragmented. "You could tell that these pieces hadn't quite been finished", I said, "being short and fading out after little more than a minute into silence". I concluded "Let us hope that Popp knits this material together into an album some time soon". Well, here it is.
It seems that the material Popp was debuting was in a much more developed state than I had thought it was. For the tracks on O, the new album, are pretty similar to what I heard during that Bimhuis performance, with tiny slices of acoustic instruments finessed into short tracks. It is markedly different in style from those earlier glitchy electronics, although Popp's fascination with the precise (and more unusual) qualities of sound is still very definitely there. The first disc, which features a mere 20 tracks, is the more expansive of the two, with segments of (mainly) guitar ripped into threads and knotted with some fragmentary drum lines. At their more complex, they sound like they are on the verge of becoming something from Autechre's Oversteps ("Cottage") or, appropriately enough given the label, something from Tortoise's debut ("Ah"), before the tracks simply melt away once more. The second disc (50 tracks! 50 tracks!) feels more like raw source material, snatches of instruments, fleeting textures, at times measuring no more than 30 seconds in length, no more than mere ringtones. No, hang on, there is actually another free-to-download companion EP which is actually called Ringtones.
So, 70 tracks. It sounds ridiculous, it should be far too bitty to work as an album. Yet somehow Popp pulls it off. It is all held together by that fastidious attention to detail: the sounds on this album are absolutely magnificent, as good as anything I've heard. It is so pure, so pretty, and and yet so fragmented; it is like a hall of smashed mirrors. As good as the first disc is, I actually prefer the stripped back nature of the second, which really lets the myriad of samples sing. The recurrent texture is of those beyond-the-bridge guitar strings, but there is plenty of variety in their treatment – sometimes clipped and crackling, sometimes with buzz and echo (not for the first time I find myself wondering if Popp is a fan of Derek Bailey). Trying to describe any of them in detail is a futile task. Like spiders, these little pieces appear very quickly, are strangely beautiful from a distance, but as soon as you try to examine them, their spindly little limbs come off in your hands and you are left with nothing.


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Title: Shark Drunk
Author: Morten Stroksnes
Information on series: Not in a series
Audience: Adult
Rating (scale of 1-10): 9
TL;DR: Two Norwegian friends decide to fish for a 2000 pound shark from their tiny rubber boat.
Appeals: Amusing, Engaging, Richly-detailed
Longer Review: In the deep, cold waters of the North Atlantic lives the Greenland shark, a twenty-foot, one-ton, meat-eater that may live to more than 500 years of age. Oh, and its body is so laced with poisons that eating the meat causes a hallucinatory state that the locals term "shark drunk." Author Morten Stroksnes, a Norwegian journalist, has an artist friend with an interesting idea - take a small boat out onto the ocean to try to catch one. Hugo, the artist, is descended from a long line of Northern Norwegian fisherman and steeped in the lore of the sea and his island home, with a strong streak of self-sufficiency and the eye of an abstract artist. The author is an avid reader of history, natural history and poetry and provides keen descriptions of the scenery of Northern Norway and colorful locals. As their crazy idea develops into a bit of an obsession, this fish story expands through endless digressions into an endlessly amusing and interesting read.
Curse of the Labrador Duck, by Glen Chilton: The author becomes a bit obsessed with the extinct Labrador duck and embarks on a journey to see all of the world's remaining stuffed specimens. Plenty of humor and local color combined with a wealth of information about an ultimately sobering topic - extinction.
Tony Horowitz books: Horowitz takes a singular premise (Captain Cook's last voyage, the legacy of the Confederacy, etc.) and follows it through innumerable digressions as his modern travels trace the footsteps of his historical subjects. Humorous and engaging, Horowitz never misses the opportunity to get off-topic, but still manages to convey quite a bit of information about topics which are quite serious.
~ Seth from Ames


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Time to reminisce about 2013.
For my family, it's been a year of growth, challenge, and hope for recovery. After over 2 years, my husband was finally able to find work!
As far as my blog goes, I've slowed down in posting because of additional responsibilities at church. Hopefully, you've enjoyed the lite version!
Here are my Top 13 posts for 2013.
13. Unbelievable! I'm nominated for Funniest Homeschool Blog again!
Nope, I didn't win. Should find out in a month or two if I made the top 10.
12. Friday Funny--Public School, Ritalin, Television, Oh, my!
Great practice for little hands.
10. S*x in the Sanctuary
It's only a matter of time in a family-integrated church!
9. The Well-Planned Day Planner----GIVEAWAY
It was really cool when a friend from church ended up winning!
8. For Women Only--review and GIVEAWAY!!!
Yup, another giveaway in the top ten.
7. Math Game--Multiplying by 10, 100, and 1000
It was so cool to actually have Laurette Willis comment on my post!
Woody Allen got one thing right when he said, "If you want to make God laugh, tell him about your plans."
Get the printable while I still have it available!
The prices are still good from this post!
1. Swagbucks--join the party
The birthday celebration is over, but you can still earn free things!
The birthday celebration is over, but you can still earn free things!


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I have a weakness for interesting, romantic tales written during 19th Century England ... whether in England or out of it. Crocodile on the Sandbank by Elizabeth Peters is a wonderful tale in this style and a mystery to boot! The characters are interesting, the setting of Egypt is intriguing, the plot is well played out, and the writing style is really quite excellent.
Miss Amelia Peabody is left half a fortune (enough to be comfortably independent) by her father. She has a strongly capable character and sound reasoning. She has Christian charity. Her studies have led her to an interest in Egypt and so she decides to travel there. Along the way she meets Evelyn Barton-Forbes and employs her as a companion. Evelyn and Amelia meet the Emerson brothers and adventure ensues.
I'm looking forward to borrowing the next book from the library.


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Today, the controversial Strawberry Fair began setting up on the Common in earnest. So we decided to up sticks this evening and head out to Clayhithe for the weekend. It was a glorious evening and now we are moored up, relaxing and reading.
Lyra went out for a bit of an explore but soon decided that there was more fun to be had coming and in and out of the side hatch, making circuits of the boat and wathcing the ducks and rowers (yes we get them even out here!
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i used to carry around this used up old bunny by the ears at all times. once, i am sure, bunbun was fluffy and new but in my memory bunbun is already broken down and broken in. she is a dusty brown animal who sits on her stomach and has two small front feet. deep in her belly is a music box that must have worked when she was new. her head is round with an eye on each side and her two long ears are narrow and stand up on their own. there is a once pink now faded brown, threadbare, satin ribbon tied around her neck that i wrap around my pointer and middle fingers and rub against my upper lip as i suck my thumb to fall asleep.
truthfully her appearance is fuzzy in my mind but even as i try to recall what she looks like i can smell her already. the scent of bunbun is so deeply ingrained in me that as i am typing out her description i smell her as though she is here in my arms. i can feel the soft swish swish of that old ribbon on my lip and i can sense the heady calm brought on by her musky old scent filling me up as i close my eyes in the darkness at night.
somehow, the scent of bun bun was enough to make me feel lovehome.
now bunbun is long ago parked on the shelf in my old room at my parents house. now when i have my face pressed into something in the darkest part of the night it would tend to be the pea who is still a tight knit cosleeper. by two in the morning she has called for me and i have slipped into her mattress bed on the floor of their shared room. for the rest of the night i waver between wishing for my own space and drowning myself in the overwhelmingly comforting scent of my daughter. her head, her messy hair, her fleecey pajama's, her arm draped over my face. she smells now like bun bun did then – part overly loved and dirty part undistilled memory. each cell that splits off her seems recognizable to my soul.
it is not the same as sleeping, this middle of the night olfactory blanket, but i know it shifts and slips away. presently, there is maybe a slim moment or two during the day when i might get a chance to bury my nose in the beans forest of hair to smell my way back through our long nights together when he was my only child. a split second of a hug when i am transported by his specific scent back through time to a moment when i was his entire world. soon i know the pea will also have grown up and out of her night time needs. she will stop nursing, she will stop laying herself across me, she will stop needing her mama so much.
then i will close my eyes barely able to remember exactly what her pajama's looked like, or just how old she was, but instantly surrounded by the memory of her scent. lovehome.


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It was a beautiful day so I guess flowers were on my mind!
Even Vanessa was enjoying herself as her mommy put the car seat in the back. She was practicing her diva skills!
Saturday night John and I ended up at Dave and Buster's with some friends. We had a great time! John is going to kill me for this, but here it is anyway!
Since the video took all day to finally load up I can share all the things I made today!
I have Spring Fever, I really do! And here to help me prove that is:
The King of Spring!!
Yes! Those are toothpick legs! Just cracks me up!
And....Spring is the time to get your garden back in shape.
We've got ourselves a mushroom farmer here.
Ahhh! what a fun day! More to come tomorrow!
Have a great night ~


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"Apparently consumers are attempting to dial a particular number and are accidentally off by a digit or two," says Logan Marshall, Founder of tollfreenumber.org. "They are then asked to push a specific key by an automated prompt.
Irvine, CA (PRWEB) April 10, 2013
Tollfreenumber.ORG, a California based company, has learned of a new scam that is posing a danger to Americans who have the misfortune of misdialing toll free numbers. While misdialing a number is something that many of us have done on occasion, fraudulent entities are now using that to their advantage and making money off of this common mistake.
"Apparently consumers are attempting to dial a particular number and are accidentally off by a digit or two," says Logan Marshall, Founder of tollfreenumber.org. "They are then asked to push a specific key by an automated prompt. Once they do this, a charge may appear on their next phone bill, which is a result of the misdial. There are scam artists who are making a good profit off of this sort of thing."
The fraudulent parties typically choose numbers that are very close to other popular or well used toll free numbers and only need to alter them by a digit to achieve their desired result. Though these scams have been going on for several years, it appears as though they are growing ever more popular. Americans are being advised to be extremely cautious when dialing numbers in general, and to listen very carefully to the prompts. "Even though the scam artists won't come out and say that pushing a particular button on your phone will lead to a charge, any legitimate number that you call should state their business name. Consumers should be weary of numbers that are not recognized names," states Marshall.
Tollfreenumber.ORG provides low-cost toll-free numbers to thousands of private individuals nationwide, as well as to business clients. The company serves parents seeking to keep in touch with children away at college; adoptive parents seeking to provide birth mothers with easy access to them; and families seeking to stay connected with relatives living across the country. The company, based in Irvine, Calif., allows clients to obtain toll-free numbers that can be routed to their home phones or cellular phones without the need for additional hardware. Tollfreenumber.ORG offers numbers in the 800, 888, 877, 866 or 855 area codes, and clients also can choose customized, vanity phone numbers for ease of use. The company, which serves more than 100,000 clients, was founded in 1999. For more information, see the website http://www.tollfreenumber.org, or call 1-800-951-9411.


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Networking may get your foot in the door in the United States, but networking is the door when you're in Brazil. What do I mean by this? Brazilians almost always prefer to conduct business with someone that is familiar with or knows a native. This embodies one main principle about Brazilian business practices: the reputation of the business doesn't matter – only that of the person.
Therefore, bragging about your company will not get you very far in cementing a business proposition. In fact, appearing more likeable to your Brazilian counterparts will help you go far. Also, since the person matters more when doing business in Brazil, be sure to keep the same personnel working on the same project for the entire duration to establish rapport with your Brazilian co-workers.
Nevertheless, if a deal has been made (due to your likeability!), don't count on a contract being drawn up immediately afterward. A handshake may suffice, but be wary of some areas in Brazil since they do not necessarily consider signed agreements as binding.


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Dwight, Nate....And Lebron?
Saturday, February 14, 2009
Way for Lebron to go ahead and make everything about him. Nate Robinson and Dwight Howard put on a heck of a show for everyone, with Robinson winning, but Lebron's announcement might have been the biggest highlight....
Dwight Howard was much more impressive overall, and I think the markets their respective teams play in came into play, but not a bad show. In fact, outside of everything that Vince Carter, Dominique and MJ have done, I think that Howard dunk from the side was one of the more impressive dunks I've seen.
But Lebron in a dunk contest? Yeahhhh....sorry Nate "Kryptonite" Robinson.
Labels: Dunks, Dwight Howard, LeBron James, NBA All Star Weekend, Slam Dunk Contest, YouTube Video
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As usual, James is only doing something when it directly benefits him. He'll be a free agent after next season, so why wouldn't he want to be in the dunk contest now instead of a few years earlier.
He's just trying to cash in and better his own cause. Figures.
I'm excited to see him participate, I just wish he wasn't always blindingly focused on his own image and everything else.
Lebron was put on the spot. He used the wrong words too and now he won't be able to back out.
It was a close contest, but we know what happens when fans are left to vote on their own. Nothing good.
Sadly th 12ft backboard dunk looked less impressive than it really was. It was the big dunk of the night. It was a show stopper, when that thing was driven on a forklift out onto the court.
Pau Gasol ruined it.
Lebron's cances of competiing in the dunk contest next year are slim and none. Unless, the NBA gives him a boatload of money Okay. And by the way, the dunk contest has past its relevance.
I can't believe Robinson won again. That's some shit. He did the exact same dunks he won with last time, but this time we had one I could have done where he used a human-stool (which they gave him like a 45 for).
The judges suck. The fans suck. It all sucks. Good dunks sometimes don't get recognized, mediocre dunks get over-emphasized, and everything seems to impress Kenny Smith. At one point Kenny said that Dwight Howard would be the only one to dunk on a 12-ft hoop. Ok, Kenny. As much as it was a LeBron love-fest the first two nights, that man can fly over a lot of people.
Kenny said around the 2:16 mark, "Are you shitting me?"
AA Hates the Cavs because they put the Wiz out of the playoffs 3 straight years. Thus AA hates LeBron, just come out and say it.
twtitleist is right, I dunno how I missed that. He then corrects himself to say "Are you kidding me?"
I sure hope LeBron isn't hoping to dunk in the Dallas Cowboys' stadium...
"The 2010 All-Star weekend is being hyped as a collaboration between teams and cities. Some events will be held at the Dallas Convention Center, with the Mavericks' arena hosting the rookie game on Friday night and the Saturday night festivities, which include the 3-point and dunk contests."
The only thing the "Dallas stadium" (as LeBron called it) is actually hosting is the All-Star game. And it's in Arlington, Texas...not Dallas.
AA Hates the Cavs because they put the Wiz out of the playoffs 3 straight years. Thus AA hates LeBron, just come out and say it.
Don't forget AA Hates ESPN. We've all gotten a little more misogynistic & intellectually lazy since he stopped commenting here.
/pours out a little liquor for the rest of the annoying Anons
Dwight was a good sport to help Nate out.
Jameer Nelson should have pass the ball of the side of the backboard for dwight to dunk.
Then in the finals bring out the 12 footer and then it's a wrap for
Go Magic!
Off-topic from the dunk contest, but after Boston College secured the win over Duke, we got this gem from Tim Brando"
"Let the tea party begin!"
I'm officially pumped for March Madness. This ain't no Carmen San Diego!
Fernandez had the coolest and classiest performance but the announcers dumped on him because they are idiots and didn't pay attention to their producers. Yeah a nearly seven foot guy dunking on a twelve foot net easily is great and all, but since when was the dunk contest about ease? Terrible terrible show.
No chance Lebron competes, frankly I don't think he will even play the Allstar game next year so that nothing free jeopardizes the NYC move.
12 feet. WOW. He did it with such ease too. Next year a 14 foot dunk off with Superman and The King. AMAZING.


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Happy Christmas Eve everyone!!
So while Pete is out doing some last minute Christmas shopping I thought I would put up the photos form my recent Christmas Cookie Decorating class at the Make Lounge.
I've never been good at decorating, writing or any kind of art that needs an eye for detail and I thought this might be the perfect way to learn a few simple skills. As it turns out though you don't really need to be good at any of these things to make some very cute decorated cookies.
I went along with a few of my baking buddies. We had a relaxing saturday morning learning and testing out our skills... and eating the disasters.
First we learnt the basics, making a piping bag out of parchment, which of course I struggled with being left handed, making me the only one who had to be handed a pre-made bag by the teacher. I later Googled how to make them, practiced at work with some scrap paper and (which I later realised were my boss' notes... oops!) and got the hang of it.
Next we were let loose on decorating the real cookies, outlining and filling
Miss Kate proud of her cookies
Next we learnt about covering the cookies in ready rolled icing, which is so simple I don't know how I didn't think of it.
With all the trimmings
Miss Kate & Miss Katie pleased with their snowmen.
This one was one of my favourite, simple but so effective.
Then we finished off the holy with some glitter, everything needs glitter at Christmas time.
My other favourite was the snowflake, I was attempting a pattern with the dots and got sidetracked. It doesn't quite show in the picture but it has a simple shimmering glitter.
The girls show off their take home box of treats.
And my box of creations... no photo of me as I had biked it and definitely wasn't getting in front of the camera, plus these are much cuter to look at.
Merry Christmas, happy baking and bring on 2013 x


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The Super Eagles Coach, Stephen Keshi has revealed why the team, yesterday, June 17 ended up with a goalless draw with Iran in their first match at the on-going FIFA World Cup in Brazil.
Stephen Keshi told FIFA.COM that he blamed their performance on lack of inspiration.
He said: "We played very well in the first half. The forwards were very active and they had a couple of chances to score, though we couldn't put them away. We lost our shape in the second half," he said. "I felt we could have won the game but we were lacking a bit of inspiration on the pitch."
Keshi who is still hopeful that his team will perform better also said: "We saw what happened with Costa Rica and with Holland and Spain, so in football you can never tell. Sometimes it goes your way, sometimes it doesn't.
"Just because we didn't win people think we played badly. I don't think we played badly, it was just that we didn't score the goals we needed."
It was earlier reported that the Super Eagles captain, Austin Okocha blamed Stephen Keshi for the team's failure to score during the match.
Keshi, apart from criticising his team's second half performance, however, commended the Iranians saying: "All credit to Iran,". "They stuck to their game plan and were able to put it into practice from start to finish."
The Nigerian Super Eagles have now gone nine FIFA World Cup games without a single win, with their last victory coming in France 98.
Although some Nigerians have criticized the super eagles, losing hope in the team. Others, however, are optimistic they could perform better in their next match with Bosnia on Saturday in Group F before a final group game against one of the tournament favourites, Argentina.


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I was recently in the Scripting Guy 2011 game advanced group and placed 32nd overall. Not too bad :-) considering I didn't have enough time to finish all scripts (I've done 8 out of 10), neither did I have time to polish my scripts which costed quite a few points :-(. Nevertheless it's a great experience. I learned a lot new PowerShell techniques along the way!
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text: This is a personal favorite because since I've been young, my two favorite colors have been blue and red. Using the two colors together always seems to work so well and this outfit demonstrates that notion. Nothing special about these skinny denim pants but that is why they're so great, they're easy. Some blue and red flannel for a bit of warmth on an overcast day goes well with the jeans. To even out the color balance, an oversized red bag for the essentials. So here's to blue tomatoes, a never fail palette.


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Holy Crap it's Friggin February Already!
Well, I can say that my head is spinning more than ever and I still can't get settled in a job where I can be earning a steady income so that I can pay monthly fees for simple things like an Autoresponder and Hosting.
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ECAL 2017 - the 14th European Conference on Artificial Life
The LIRIS laboratory is organizing ECAL 2017, the 14th European Conference on Artificial Life (https://project.inria.fr/ecal2017/), in collaboration with the ISAL society (http://alife.org/), MIT Press and Inria. This exciting event will take place on the LyonTech Campus in Lyon, France, 4-8 September 2017. ECAL 2017 will showcase a wide range of topics in Artificial Life, bringing together world-leading researchers to discuss the latest advances in the synthesis and simulation of living systems.
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We are happy to announce that the keynote speakers of ECAL 2017 cover a wide variety of topics and include:
- Bill Sellers (University of Manchester, UK): Reconstructing Ancient Life using Virtual Robots
- Csaba Pál (Biological Research Centre, Szeged, Hungary): Complex adaptations in evolution
- Frances Westall (CNRS, Orléans, France) and Thomas Georgelin (Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, France): Rocks and the origin of life
- Viola Schiaffonati (Politecnico di Milano, Italy): Experimenting with computing and in computing: Stretching the traditional notion of experimentation
- Philippe Faure (Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, France): Drug addiction and alteration of decision making process
- Sabine Hauert (University of Bristol, UK): Swarming nanomedicine
- Andreas Wessel-Therhorn (animator and film director) and Laurent Pujo-Menjouet (Université Lyon 1, France): The illusion of life
For this edition the special theme is "Artificial life and the scientific method: Create, play, experiment, discover". We are especially expecting contributions that investigate the use of computer simulations in the scientific method, and/or the interactions between in silico, in vitro and in vivo experiments. Other topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following aspects of Artificial Life:
- Evolutionary dynamics
- Ecological and social dynamics
- Artificial chemistry, origins of life
- Computational cellular biology/physiology/systems biology
- Self-replication, self-repair and morphogenesis
- Bio-inspired, cognitive and evolutionary robotics
- Perception, cognition and behavior
- Evolution of language, computational linguistics
- Embodied, interactive systems
- Collective dynamics of swarms
- Complex dynamical systems and networks
- Cellular automata and discrete dynamical systems
- Economy/society/social media as living systems
- Computational humanities/anthropology/archeology
- Methodologies and tools for artificial life
- Interactions between in silico/in vitro/in vivo experiments
- Philosophical, epistemological and ethical issues
- Artificial life and education
- Artificial life-based art
- Applications of artificial life
- Living technologies
The submission deadline is April 9th, 2017. Guidelines for submission and template files can be found here:
Accepted papers will be published by MIT Press as open-access electronic proceedings.
Dr Carole Knibbe (Scientific Chair, Université Lyon 1, LIRIS)
Prof Guillaume Beslon (Local Chair, INSA Lyon, LIRIS)
Dr David P. Parsons (Technical Chair, Inria Rhône-Alpes)
Prof Salima Hassas (Université Lyon 1, LIRIS)
Dr Dusan Misevic (Workshop Chair, University René Descartes, Paris)
Prof Nicolas Bredèche (Tutorial Chair, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris)
Prof Olivier Simonin (Sponsor Chair, Insa de Lyon, CITI)
Prof Hédi Soula (Social Networks Chair, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris)
Dr Jonathan Rouzaud-Cornabas (INSA Lyon, LIRIS)
Vincent Liard (INSA Lyon, LIRIS)
Caroline Lothe (Local support, Inria Rhône-Alpes)
Sophie Azzaro (Local support, Inria Rhône-Alpes)
We look forward to seeing you in Lyon in September!


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"I have come to believe that, while the case is not an unproblematic certainty, there is … evidence from the Gospels, Acts, and especially Paul's letters that indicate that Paul may well have met Jesus during their common time together in Palestine, so that, when Paul encountered the risen Jesus on the way to Damascus, he recognized the person and voice and knew who was calling him… I have also come to believe that the encounter or encounters with Jesus that Paul had before the Damascus road experience had a positive formative influence upon Paul and his thinking… I believe and will argue that the influence was significant enough so that when Paul embarked upon his own Christian missionary and teaching ventures, there was a much stronger line of continuity between the teaching of Jesus and that of Paul than many, especially highly critical, scholars wish to admit."
Monday, December 14, 2015
Stanley Porter: Did Paul Meet the "Earthly" Jesus?
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Now would this be NPP friendly where people like Wright believe Paul wasn't converted at that moment but merely turned into a gentile missionary? An Implicit premise is that Paul didn't disagree with Jesus just that Gentiles must be circumcised and thus become JewReplyDeleteReplies
In his "Paul in Acts", Porter clearly states that he believes "the tradition view of Paul and the law is correct, "contrary to much recent discussion led by Sanders, Dunn, and others, regarding the so-called New Perspective on Paul" (pg 190).Delete
From the book's description: "After examining the positive arguments raised, it considers the negative influence of Ferdinand Christian Baur, William Wrede, and Rudolf Bultmann on such an idea, as they drove a growing wedge between Jesus and Paul. In response, Stanley E. Porter analyzes three passages in the New Testament - Acts 9:1-9 and its parallels, 1 Corinthians 9:1, and 2 Corinthians 5:16 - to confirm that there is New Testament evidence that Paul encountered Jesus."
Thank you! I hope and pray you are doing well Mr. Bugay!Delete
Thanks Trent, I'm continuing to work hard at work and to take care of my daughters. Those are my first priorities. I'm also trying to stay focused on Roman Catholic issues, and I hope to be able to start contributing here more in the near future.Delete


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Happy Wednesday Twineaholics!
It's Kathy, from Kathy and Kids, to share with you a card I made featuring the Kraft/White twine.
Is everyone enjoying their summer? Summer is over for us, but one thing we enjoyed was a trip to the beach. My youngest loved walk along and looking for shells. I love hanging out with my kids while they make new discoveries.
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Shell is from the Pink By Design "Just Beachy" set
Sentiment is from the Pink By Design "Sandy Toes" set
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Stalking and violence - legal for labor unions
It's well-known that labor disputes can result in violence against persons and property in workplaces in the United States. But what isn't as well known is that in some cases, the courts and the laws are giving labor unions license to harm and harass companies and workers, according to a report issued by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce's Workforce Freedom Initiative.
Entitled "Sabotage, Stalking and Stealth Exemptions: Special State Laws for Labor Unions", the report looks at how both courts and some states have turned a blind eye to threatening and dangerous behaviors, going against the growing concerns over combating violence and threatening behaviors in the American workplace.
The report begins by tracing the history of state exemptions to a 1973 ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court (United States v. Enmons, 410 U.S. 396) which held that ruled that violence in pursuit of union demands cannot be prosecuted under federal law, arguing that violent activities, when used during a strike by workers of the Gulf States Utilities Company, did not meet the standard of "wrongful" conduct needed to convict in a federal extortion case. From there, a number of states are called out for giving unions a pass on threatening and violent conduct in workplaces.Click here to read more ...


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So we all know that the Endless Eight arc sucked. If you liked it, well then good for you you're special, but for most of us anime watchers, it sucked. You know what? I'm going to make a graph….no wait…..two graphs, you'll see why as the post moves on:
As you can see, this graph does not cover the second arc of the series. That's because I don't want you to know how I feel about it yet. Did I like it? Did I hate it? You'll have to read before you find out. Let me describe this graph first.
The first episode was, in my opinion, one of the best episodes in the history of the Haruhi anime series franchise. It had everything I could ask for:
- Time travel (something that actually follows the laws of time travel, if it were possible)
- Relation to previous promos (you know, those security video things? That really made this an awesome episode for me).
- Two different Mikurus (to be honest, the normal Mikuru is one of the most annoying characters ever in history, but the older one is actually cool)
- Awesome shit.
I kind of just threw that last one in there, but I'm sure there was more awesome shit I forgot, so there you go. Next came the Endless Eight:
The Endless Eight arc started off with what seemed to me like a filler episode. I watched. I thought, "What the fuck is this. This is stupid." Then came the second episode, and it was almost the same one. I thought, "Hmmm." Then came the third episode (or was it the second), and the whole idea of time recursion came up, and I thought, "Fuuckkkkkk yeaaaaa." Then they never fucking ended it, and the whole arc became very easy to write about, thanks to the wonders of copy and paste. Then that ended, which yielded to happiness of me, Glo the president of the world. Then came the next arc, The Sigh of Haruhi Suzumiya. This of course, means, I have to update the graph (which already may contain one mistake):
So from the graph, you can tell that with the *Sigh* arc, came a steady yet gradual rise in my liking of this season of Haruhi. Of course, after the shitty Endless Eight arc, it couldn't really get worse. Unless I'm a retard, this arc is about the movie that was shown in episode 1 (or 11) of the first season of Haruhi, but it contained a lot more coolness, and a LOT more awesomeness, and as it progressed, I slowly saw the Haruhi of old. Then, in episode 24, the cat talked, and that made the show fucking awesome (as you could tell from the graph). Actually, can we get a shot of that cat? What's his name, Shamisen?
The cat then goes on to challenge the entire concept of human language with the group, and sounds like a philosopher, which just makes it that much better. However, no matter what arguments Kyon seemed to make, the cat persisted with it's own ideas, because, as you know, cats don't care about anything you have to say. I especially liked the end where Kyon told Haruhi about how Yuki, Miuru, and Koizumi were each an alien, time traveler, and esper respectively, and she didn't believe him at all. Awesome ending. I now want more. Oh! The season is apparently over! Looks like no more Haruhi for another 2 years or something like that! Blllleeeeeeecchhhhhh. Either way, I felt like the show rebounded greatly after what I thought was a pretty poorly converted arc (the Endless Eight arc should have been four or five episodes in length, then it would have been perfect). That's all eye really have to say. Thank you for your patronage!


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The milder temperatures have reached above the long-term average, nearing or hitting 50° by mid afternoon throughout the area with westerly and southwesterly breezes. Despite the 17° departure below "normal" on Sunday, we are still nearly 2° above average for the month so far. A weak disturbance moving eastward south of the area will bring the threat of light precipitation tomorrow afternoon, mainly rain through central Virginia and some mixed rain and snow to the north.
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Tonight and TomorrowClouds will increase tonight with lows near 32 in the city and upper 20s in the colder 'burbs. Tomorrow will be cloudy with a 40% chance of light precipitation by late morning or early afternoon, mainly rain with some snow possibly mixed in to the north and highs in the mid 40s.
"In Life, Accuracy Counts"It's not really about weather, but the "Weather Man" movie (2 Thumbs Up®) is out on DVD today. The movie, which is rated "R", stars Nicolas Cage as Chicago weatherman David Spritz, whose "professional successes are overshadowed by his personal failures." The DVD bonus features include:
- Extended Outlook: The Script
- Forecast: Becoming a Weatherman
- Atmospheric Pressure: The Style and Palette
- Relative Humidity: The Characters
- Trade Winds: The Collaboration


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Our First Grade classes took a field trip to the Laurel Arts Center on May 9. The students had a wonderful experience. The "Bring the Arts Alive Day" field trip included classes in art, dance and singing. The culminating activity was a puppet show.
We would like to thank Dody-Jane Svetahor, all the artists, and the staff at Laurel Arts for their hard work. We would recommend this field trip to any elementary class looking for an enjoyable educational experience.
First Grade Teachers of North Star Central
Dona Reynolds
Metta Darr
Diane Stiffler
Linda Prozialeck
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We had a wonderful field trip to Laurel Arts. We had lots and lots of fun. We liked the field trip a lot. We painted flower pots. We made banks too.


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Waiting For the Mail!
My Patterns have yet to arrive from the States so while I wait....patiently or not, I am trying to clear out my "what do I do with this" fabric stash. When my oldest son was small I got rather carried away buying suitable fabric for overalls and shorts. At 12, I can't see him wearing bold stripes or checks in cotton drill, so it is time to think out of the box...or pack the fabric away for one day in the distant future when I can sew for grandchildren! Not being that much of a hoarder or very patient, I need a use for those fabrics now. I have a rather shabby pile of eco shopping bags in the back of my car that I have collected from the supermarket and other freebe places and they are neither stylish and some not even practical. I decided that my expensive groceries and other shopping needed something a little more stylish to be carried around in. I now have a stylish shopping tote and a gap in my cupboard...bonus!


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My research work advanced significantly during my sabbatical. I learned a great deal about friction, especially the interaction between rubber treads and hard courts. Teaming up with colleagues in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Sheffield gave me the opportunity to further my understanding of friction and publish our novel studies. We still have more work to do! Working with Matt Carré during my two sabbatical years has been a joy. I can't recommend highly enough collaborating with someone outside your area of expertise. My approach is that of a physicist; Matt's is that of an engineer. Our different ways of seeing problems and tackling solutions led to very fruitful research efforts. Working with his students and postdocs was rewarding, too. Young and fresh eyes view problems in interesting ways, and I don't mind learning from someone half my age. Advancing scientific understanding isn't about ego; it's about pursuing what is true about the universe.
I also enjoyed new collaborations with a couple of engineers at Sheffield Hallam University. Simon Choppin and John Kelley gave me new ways of looking at trajectory analysis when studying the flight of soccer balls. I again benefited from engineering eyes looking at a problem I was used to seeing with a physicist's eyes. And of course I continued working with my Japanese colleagues, Takeshi Asai and Sungchan Hong, at the University of Tsukuba. We continued to combine my trajectory analysis and computational skills with their engineering and wind-tunnel skills to further what we know about soccer ball aerodynamics. Working with engineers has helped my career more than I can describe here.
Equally important to me are my collaborations with Lynchburg College physics students. Chad Hobson has made significant contributions to my soccer aerodynamics and Tour de France research. Chad and I presented some of our work at ISEA 2016 in Delft, the Netherlands. I am always looking for good physics students to research with me. If you are a prospective student looking to contribute to sports physics, come to Lynchburg College and work with me!
There are many things I will miss about living in Sheffield. I'll miss not having a car and using public transportation to get everywhere. I'll miss my gym at Ponds Forge, which I hit six days in a row before we left Sheffield. My family will miss the cute neighborhood we lived in where every kind of shop one could want was in short walking distance. We'll all miss Endcliffe Park and the walking trails, playground, and ducks there. I'll miss the chance to walk across the street to the Lescar for a pint. I'll miss living in a place where guns aren't allowed -- for sure. And of course I'll miss the Peak District, which is one of my favorite places on Earth. We made one last visit to the Peak District the day before we left England and had to stop at the Fox House, one of our favorite Peak District pubs.
Before touching down in the US, we stopped for a few days in Iceland. We stayed in Keflavík, which is a lovely little town on the water in the southwestern part of the country. Visiting the Blue Lagoon was a must, and we thoroughly enjoyed ourselves there. I had never been to a geothermal spa before and that one will be tough to beat! The day after we were at the Blue Lagoon, we rented a car and explored the southwestern part of Iceland. It was like driving on the set of a science fiction movie. That is one interesting country to look at! We stopped first at Gullfoss, a truly beautiful waterfall (click on the image for a larger view).
I took that photo on Wednesday, 27 July 2016. Was that just two days ago?!? Our second stop was to see Strokkur. I shot a movie of the geyser doing a double belch (as I called it!).
Our third and final stop was Þingvellir, a meeting place for the North American and Eurasian tectonic plates. Two plates are separating, but I thought I would help (click on the image for a larger view).
My arms might need to be a little longer! We certainly enjoyed ourselves in Iceland and we want to go back so that we can explore some more. But when?
As I wrote to start this post, my sabbatical journal writing ends now with the end of my sabbatical. I can't emphasize strongly enough how important it is to interact with people from different countries, cultures, and backgrounds. My wonderful wife introduced me to that concept on a trip to Japan we took in the summer of 2001. She has been helping me appreciate that concept ever since. And she makes all of our travel seem effortless and smooth. I'll be back at work in my Lynchburg College office on Monday, 1 August 2016. Waiting for me is research work from Sheffield and a pile of work related to the upcoming fall semester. But I've got another year of wonderful memories dancing around in my head!


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"Your name will be called tonight, but this is not the last time your name will be called," were the auspicious words of VP for Student Affairs Marva Craig to BMCC's most high-achieving students, as they gathered for the 2014 Honors Convocation in Theatre 2.
Sixty-five students received Department and Special Awards in over 30 academic areas, applauded by their professors, classmates, parents, siblings and friends.
Acting Provost & Senior VP for Academic Affairs Robert Messina congratulated the awardees, as well their faculty and "significant others," and reminded them that "titles are thrust upon us, but excellence must be earned."
BMCC President Antonio Pérez urged those receiving honors "to set standards for yourself … The greatest milestones are with those you touch; your children classmates, family members … Reach out to those who need your help, who might be considering college. At the end of the day, that will be the measure of your success."
Reaching for the stars
The program began with a performance by the BMCC Select Chorus directed by Professor Eugenia Oi Yan Yau and accompanied by pianist Eun Ho (Jeremy) Kim.
A chorus of a dozen student singers in elegant black attire inspired the full audience in Theatre 2 to clap along as they sang, "Reaching for the Stars," a popular inspirational song with music and lyrics by Sally Albrecht and Jay Althouse.
Things quieted down as BMCC Foundation Board Member Elizabeth Butson took the stage and presented the first award of the evening, the Katy Halepi Graduating Scholarship for Women—named in honor of her mother—to nursing graduate Maria M. Horsford.
"Well, Maria, what haven't you done," joked Butson. "You have so many achievements: You are a BMCC Ambassador, a member of Phi Theta Kappa, a Peer Achievement Leader, a President of the BMCC Scholarship Society, on the Dean's List, a CUNY Academic Excellence Award … you are awesome."
The next two Special Awards were presented by Accounting Chairperson Josh Wolfson.
The Josh Wolfson Accounting Scholarship Fund award went to Joshua Ketchum. "He was homeless for six months, but pulled himself up by his bootstraps and is now headed toward a career in forensic accounting," said Wolfson.
Next, he presented the Louis Horowitz Award to accounting major Wanika Deane. "She worked full time and went to school full time," he said. "She challenged me in class, and raised the level of discourse for other students."
Department superstars
Before continuing with the presentation of special awards, department awards were presented by faculty to their students.
Coming up to the stage to be honored were the following students:
Allied Health Sciences—Monee Jordan and Isla Quanmontano, Academic Excellence in Health Information Technology; Marian Bekhet, Jin Seuk and Emily Butcher, Academic Excellence in Respiratory Therapy Technology; Ali Coutard and Mariela Flores, Academic Excellence in Paramedic.
Business Management—Jonathan Duran and Qinzeng Zheng, Academic Excellence in Business Administration; Nga Yuen, Academic Excellence in Business Management; Lilian Ortega, Academic Excellence in Small Business/Entrepreneurship.
Center for Ethnic Studies—Johanna Rhyins, Academic Excellence in Asian Studies; Yuki Tsukui, Academic Excellence in Africa/African American Studies; Angela Maltese, Academic Excellence in Latino Studies.
Computer Information Systems—Thierno Bah and Jun Wang, Academic Excellence in Computer Science; Maryna Asipchuk and Zouhaier Yahiaoui, Academic Excellence in Computer Information Systems; Petr Pasek and Nadia Khettane, Academic Excellence in Computer Network Technology.
English—Jessica Li and Katie Wright, Academic Excellence in English.
Mathematics—Joseph Bak and Jianxin Zhang, Academic Excellence in Mathematics.
Media Arts & Technology—James Williams, Academic Excellence in Video Arts & Technology; Tatiana Sheptalova and Matthew Broadfoot, Academic Excellence in Multimedia Programming & Design.
Modern Languages—Joshua O'Sullivan and Jasmine Caamano, Academic Excellence in French Non-Native Speaker; Ian Halliwell, Academic Excellence in Italian Non-Native Speaker; Eunhae Choi, Academic Excellence in Chinese Non-Native Speaker; Geyser Rodriguez, Academic Excellence in Spanish Native Speaker; Ekaterina Chernyavskaya, Academic Excellence in Spanish Non-Native Speaker.
Nursing—Zarina Kopb and Vanessa Maisonave, Academic Excellence in Nursing.
Science—Leon Flores, Academic Excellence in Biotechnology Science; Patrycja Lai, Academic Excellence in Science; Anna Smith, Academic Excellence in Engineering Science; Kathleen Lopez, Academic Excellence in Forensic Science.
Social Sciences and Human Services—Agnieszka Jankowski and Rachael Peters, Academic Excellence in Criminal Justice; Uyanga Tugso, Anggie Pareja and Anika Dottin, Academic Excellence in Human Services.
Speech, Communication and Theatre Arts—Jennifer Cachola and Anastasia Sidorenkova, Academic Excellence in Communication Studies; Kimberly Flores and Craig Watson, Academic Excellence in Theatre.
Teacher Education—Luk Cheung, Academic Excellence in Early Childhood Education (Infant/Toddler); Gilbertha Ferdinand, Academic Excellence in Early Childhood Education (Preschool); Edel Oliveira, Academic Excellence in Childhood Education (Bilingual); Sara Marr, Academic Excellence in Childhood Education.
Closing with Special Awards
The 2014 Valedictorian, Cindy Salazar, was introduced by Sr. VP Robert Messina.
Qinzeng Zheng was awarded the Senior Vice President / Dean of Academic Affairs Award, and Cyprien Kodjo received the Vice President for Student Affairs Award.
Carlos Olivares received the Orville N. Hill College Discovery Award.
Thathsara Palliyaguru and Rada-Mayya Kostadinova received the Abner B. Rosenfield Award.
Mathematics Professor Fred Peskoff, in honor of his parents, presented the Leila & Simon Peskoff Memorial Scholarship Award in memory of Professor Aaron Paukler of the mathematics department, to nursing major Brocha Schwartz.
He also presented the Leila & Simon Peskoff Memorial Scholarship Award in memory of Professor Yibao Xu of the mathematics department, to mathematics major Gregory Rodriguez.
The Icarus Prize for Mathematics was awarded to Konstantin Itskov, Noelle Belhumeur and Joseph Bak.
The 'After Party'
A lavish buffet banquet was served in Richard Harris Terrace for the scholars and their professors, families and friends.
Music by Cookies 'n' Cream presented Kellie Nicole on vocals, Frankie DiDonato on guitar, Keiji Yoshino on bass guitar and Eemon Irishman on drums and ocarina.
The Honors Convocation Committee included Natasha Apanah, Nicole Leach, Harry Mars, Mary Marsh, Sandra Rumayor and Tanoai Williams.


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My Earth, your fire,
planting seeds, reaping fruit,
igniting dreams, moving mountains.
I can nurture your goals,
you can melt away the obstacles in the way of mine,
with your fire, with your lava, you incinerate my fears,
help me overcome every challenge that's placed in my way.
Your fire can start a fire in my belly,
igniting the flames of passion I need to achieve my dreams.
Your confidence, my compassion,
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In July 1977 the United National Party (UNP) swept to power in a landslide electoral victory, securing a five-sixths majority in Parliament. JR Jayewardene promptly used this majority to enact a new constitution which not only created an executive presidency but vested it with unprecedented power.
There was a safeguard to ensure that parliamentary representation would reflect the preferences of the electorate better. Proportional Representation (PR) would do the trick. Indeed, it seemed logical. After all, in 1977 the UNP did not secure five-sixths of the vote and yet that was the strength it enjoyed in parliament. A PR system would correct this, it was argued. This was long before the evils of 'preferential voting' or the manaapa-kramaya became apparent.
In 1982 JR Jayewardene came up with a move that was antithetical to the democratizing sentiments embedded in introducing the PR system. He wanted the people to vote on a strange and patently anti-democratic referendum: should the life of the then parliament be extended by a further six years or not?
In effect, a simple majority (50% + 1 vote) would allow the UNP to retain its considerable sway in parliament for another six years. In other words 50%+1 would translate into more than 80% power in parliament or rather the retention of that proportion. All in the name of democracy!
That and other measures which further limited the democratic space is in part responsible for the anarchic situation that developed towards the end of that decade, resulting in the loss of 60,000 lives in just two years.
Thirty seven years have passed since we got the PR system. It's many ills became apparent many years ago. However, and ironically, it was the PR system itself that made it next to impossible to do away with it: it was very difficult to obtain the two-thirds majority necessary to amend the constitution. Also, while the PR system was a curse for the voter since it effectively gave an unfair as well as significant edge to candidates with lots of money. It is these very individuals now further empowered by the benefits of being parliamentarians who have to vote on measures that would be detrimental to their own interests.
While JR was in power and until the UNP lost its two-thirds majority in 1989, all amendments passed essentially promoted the parochial interests of the party. In any case, at the time, JR had in his hand undated letters of resignation signed by all UNP members. In 2001, MPs did act against their interest to pass the 17th Amendment, but this was done in a hurry and perhaps they did not notice or understand its limiting effects.
Mahinda Rajapaksa found ways of securing a two-thirds majority and used it to further 'distance' the presidency from the people. He was popular and his MPs were too dependent on him for them to object.
Today, we have a unique situation. The President is the leader of the Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) and the Prime Minister is from the UNP. The latter helped the former become President and the former appointed the latter as Prime Minister. The deal was to see constitutional reform through, especially the pruning of presidential powers (done) and changing the electoral system. The manaapa kramaya would go, they pledged.
President Maithripala Sirisena acknowledged that no one wants the manaapa kramaya: 'The people have wanted it changed, all 225 MPs are in agreement.' He is against it. And so, an election promise was reiterated this week at a meeting with heads of media institutions. The 20th Amendment (on electoral reform) would be enacted, he pledged.
Then, strangely, the President interjected a caveat: 'the MPs want the next election held under the same system.' The obvious question was asked: 'If the people think it is flawed, if you think it is flawed, if the entire Parliament thinks it is flawed, if everyone votes to amend the constitution to correct the flaw, what is the logic of holding an election under the previous system, i.e. whose flaws are universally acknowledged? The President tried to pass the ball: 'let the Parliament decide on it'.
Some balls, however, don't pass. President Sirisena is the Leader of the SLFP. He is the Executive President. He won a mandate from the people. He made pledges. He can do it or rather get it done. He cannot hide behind the weak, silly and ultimately scandalous excuse 'it's up to the MPs'.
There is absolutely no logic in changing a system to correct flaws and then using the flawed system even one single time. If that is the case then the flawed system will produce a flawed result and we will not get the kind of representation that makes it possible to claim we are a 'representative democracy'. We will be saddled by the flawed products of a flawed process for a further five years.
It is not the same thing that JR did in 1982 of course because theoretically it is a new set of parliamentarians that such an election would produce. However, we will get the same type of MPs. JR went against the logic of introducing the PR system. This parliament, if we are to believe the President's virtual vote of no-confidence on the MPs, would go against the logic that is expressed or to be expressed through the 20th Amendment.
When the UNP tried to get a UNP-helping version of the 19th Amendment passed, the courts barred the way. Whether the courts would stand in the way of the gross violation of the democratizing spirit of the proposed 20th Amendment, we do no know.
JR's machinations, as mentioned, helped produce a bloodbath down the line. We don't need a repeat. What is planned (as per the President's 'revelation') will certain help the country walk towards that bloody destination. That plan must be scuttled.


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family is a major key in my life. i wouldn't be where i am without them. they made me into the human i am today. i am i forever grateful for the amazing family i have and the connection we share.
in march 2016 our family expanded. my sister Andrea and her husband Dustin gave birth to a BEAUTiFUL baby girl, Aurora.
it's been an amazing 8 months watching Aurora grow & learn. And even cooler to see my sister and brother in law GROW (morph) into parents. and my parents are more then happy to become grandparents. and i couldn't be prouder to be Aurora's only blood related aunt. it's been such a cool experience!! I am so grateful for it all, its changed my world & perspective.
but you know ... i'm not gonna lie it sure makes me wanna get on that reproduction game. but i being an aunt is the next best thing because being around a young developing human is SO cool! You can see the world through brand new eyes when a baby is experiencing the same world you exist in.
For thanksgiving my mom, sister, brother in law & niece all went to Hawaii to celebrate all that we are thankful for and it was such radical trip!! Aurora loved the water and the sand. She a beach baby for sure. Plus her happy smile and laughter brings so much joy to the world. She inspires me to be happy all the time!! I am SO grateful to have spent the week in hawaii with Aurora.
I am also beyond grateful for my family and i can't wait for the future and see my family expand even more! and i can't wait to watch Aurora grow into the human she becomes! The future looks pretty bright !! & looking ahead to where you wanna be and who you want to grow into is always KEY. like major.


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Vladimir Hnizdo has now posted a pre-print of a paper that finds, as I did, that angular momentum is not conserved in the spin-orbit interaction:
I'm very happy with this outcome. Not only does it agree with my results, and using an entirely different approach (Lagrangian and Hamiltonian mechanics, which will probably be more convincing to physicists than my cruder methods), and cite my work, but it also shows how the result can be reconciled with the result from quantum theory that angular momentum is conserved in spin-orbit interaction. It turns out, the angular momentum that is constructed using the generalized momentum of Hamiltonian mechanics is conserved. Since quantum mechanics is constructed using the Hamiltonian description, it naturally arrives at the same result of angular momentum conservation. However I think it is nonetheless very important and remarkable that the ordinary angular momentum is not conserved in the spin-orbit interaction.
From a practical standpoint, this should remove a problem I've had in getting published, that no reviewer or journal editor seemingly can get past a statement that angular momentum conservation is violated. I expect that Hnizdo's paper will pass peer review and find publication in a mainstream journal, and at least at that point anyone who disagrees with the angular momentum nonconservation statement can take it up with that journal. I expect that won't happen though because Hnizdo's explanation is very elegant and straightforward and convincing.
In my positronium paper I put on arxiv last December, I lamented explicitly that the problem of angular momentum nonconservation exhibited would cause my entire analysis, which has many other interesting findings, to be disregarded. Now I can thank Vladimir Hnizdo for making it possible for these findings to be fairly examined.
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Friday, March 11, 2011
Bravo's 100 Scariest Movie Moments:#94-Child's Play (1988)
By 1988, the golden age of the slasher was on the wan. Oh sure, Freddy, Jason, and Michael were still alive on the screen but the studios were getting diminshing returns on their investments(Exception was NOES 4). People were growing tired of hack-slash-nudity-hack-slash-nudity. Enter Chucky, the final 80's horror beachhead.
Child's Play is about a notorious serial killer who transfers his soul to a Good Guy doll just as he's about to die. Later that morning, 6-year-old Andy Barclay (Alex Vincent) tells his widowed mother Karen Barclay (Catherine Hicks) that he wants a Good Guy doll for his birthday. Unable to afford the full price, Karen buys a stolen doll from a street peddler, which is the same doll into which Chucky had earlier transferred his soul.
Chucky then begins his killing spree anew, taking out Andy's Aunt Maggie.The next day, Andy visits the house of Eddie Caputo (Neil Giuntoli), Charles Lee Ray's accomplice, who had betrayed him. Chucky sneaks into Eddie's house and blows out the pilot light on the stove and turns up the gas; Eddie discovers Chucky is alive and, in panicked self-defense, fires his gun and the house explodes, killing him.
While Andy is placed in a psychiatric ward at the request of Mr.Mcgee...
Karen believes the doll to be the culprit after she realizes that his batteries had never been put in and she threatens to throw him into the fireplace unless he reveals himself to her. Chucky comes alive in her hands, bites her and runs out of the apartment. She contacts Detective Norris, who is now investigating Maggie's death. Although he initially doubts her story, the homeless man who sold Karen the doll confirms that he retrieved it from the burnt down toy store where Charles Lee Ray was killed. Norris becomes a believer after he is attacked by Chucky in his car and survives only by shooting the doll.
Chucky meets with John Simonsen, his voodoo instructor from years past, and asks why his gunshot wound bled. John, under torture via voodoo doll, informs him that his body is slowly conforming to that of a human's and that he will soon be trapped in the body if he does not transfer his soul into the body of the first person he revealed himself to, which is Andy. Offhandedly remarking that he will "get to be six years old again," Chucky stabs the voodoo doll and leaves John to die. Karen and Detective Norris, following leads from Charles Lee Ray's case file, find John as he lays dying and receive instructions on how to kill Chucky; although Chucky is a doll, his heart is fully human and vulnerable to fatal injury.
Andy escapes from the psychiatric unit and Chucky brutally kills the head doctor (Jack Colvin) in the process. The authorities believe Andy killed the doctor while escaping. Mike and Karen rush back to the apartment hoping that Andy is there. Chucky reaches the apartment where Andy is and knocks him unconscious with a baseball bat to steal his soul. After a prolonged struggle, Chucky is thrown into the fireplace by Karen and is lit on fire by Andy after he throws the match in the fireplace.
Andy and Karen, thinking Chucky is dead, go to help the injured Mike Norris. After Andy gets the first aid kit from under the sink, he discovers Chucky is gone.
I find this film very entertaining. Oh sure, it's not scary once you've made it past your seventh birthday, but who doesn't like Brad Douriff's performance as the killer doll? I also enjoyed the subtext of child consumerism and the cat and mouse between Chucky and Andy. You had to feel for the poor kid, being terrorized by someone he thought was his friend 'till the end.
One thing I've also noticed is the fact that many folks who don't like horror films love this movie. Maybe, unlike Freddy, Michael, and Jason, Chucky can't be taken too seriously.
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