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The piano is a source of light. It is a tool to produce emotion. It speaks through the human, for the human. The piano creates conversation and assists communication when the mind cannot figure how. What a beautiful instrument.
Taking me back down the vista of years, till I see
A child sitting under the piano, in the boom of the tingling strings
And pressing the small, poised feet of a mother who smiles as she sings.
In spite of myself, the insidious mastery of song
Betrays me back, till the heart of me weeps to belong
To the old Sunday evenings at home, with winter outside
And hymns in the cosy parlour, the tinkling piano our guide
So now it is vain for the singer to burst into clamour
With the great black piano appassionato. The glamour
Of childish days is upon me, my manhood is cast
Down in the flood of remembrance, I weep like a child for the past.
-D.H. Lawrence 1918
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Cherry 2000 (1986)
A pretty poster does not a good movie make. (Even if it looks like Bob Peak painted it.)
In the future, a yuppie's pretty blond sexbot, the titular Cherry 2000, blows a gasket or v-chip or whatever after said yuppie is stupid enough to get down with the thing while pretending his kitchen floor is a bubble bath (the dishwasher overflowed, hence the suds). After somehow not getting electrocuted, he decides he can't live without his Latex-covered Lovebot so he hires a "tracker" to take him into the only place left on Earth where he can get a new 'bot: the Zone.
This is a terrible movie on about 57 different levels. First off, there was NO REASON for this to be science fiction, even the extremely weak sci-fi that it tries to pass itself off as. The Zone in the wasteland is inhabited by clean white jeans-wearing preppies, led by Tim Thomerson, who look like they walked off the Miami Vice tv show set, especially the ones wearing pastel shirts. This movie could serve as a time capsule to all of the ugliest fashion trends of the 1980s. The costumes are that bad.
There was one funny line of dialogue concerning life in the future, something about "unemployment going down to 40% for the first time in several years." That was about the extent of the satire. Again, I could see no real reason WHY this had to be set in the future. Our yuppie hero Sam could simply have been in love with a call girl who provided him with a certain fantasy and now she's been kidnapped by a gangster who hides out in the Nevada desert, so he teams with a tough local girl to get her back.
They didn't go all "Mad Max" on the 'Zone vehicle designs; they didn't even try: Tim Thomerson rode in a nice clean mid-80s Jeep and his nicely dressed thugs rode 4-wheel ATVs in the climactic final battle. And instead of Mad Max football pads and leather they just wore tennis shows and shopped at the 80s version of Old Navy. The costumers barely even tried.
Cherry 2000 as played by Pamela Gidley is mighty pretty, but she's too "Donna Reedish" (holla, my 2.3 Gilmore Girls fans!). But Melanie Griffith as tracker E. Johnson is only slightly better, and one assumes, a little more closer to yuppie David Andrews' body temperature. Griffith is cute with her Dorothy Hamill goes punk red hairdo/wig, but her acting in the movie is practically non-existent. At this point in her training she had two acting modes: smiling and non-smiling. Her voice is flat, even when her car is dangling from a crane over the Hoover Dam and she's out on the hood firing rockets at the bad guys! It all was looped afterward, but she read her lines as if they were simply stuck in traffic on the freeway. She often showed LESS emotion in her voice than the robot Cherry. How's that for irony, folks?
Tim Thomerson wasn't as good as he is in the Trancers movies. I think he just did this one for the paycheck. Same with Brion James, who barely registers. The only bright spot in this movie was the late, great Ben Johnson (Oscar winner for The Last Picture Show). Watching him work his magic here reminded me of Alec Guinness in the original Star Wars. Both actors had such a weight and gravitas about them that elevated whatever project on which they worked. Johnson's voice alone is amazing, with its smoothness, warmth and depth, and it baffles me that he never worked in animation.
The action scenes are dull, dull, dull. Even the big sequence where E.'s Mustang is snagged by a big crane magnet and hauled over the Hoover Dam. Instead of simply dropping the car, the nameless goons fire loads of machine guns and even Rocket Propelled Grenades, all missing their target of course. E. pulls out HER bazooka and evidently has the only aim in the future as she hits her targets. The big action scene at the end is even worse. They seemed to be aiming for The A-Team meets Saturday morning kid's fare, with tons of bullets whizzing by, but mostly bloodless kills. Beyond boring.
Oh, and I won't even mention this goofy movie's Hokey Pokey dance sequence. Yeah, you read that right, they do the Hokey Pokey. (However, those 'Zone wasteland wackos don't hold a candle to Jim Breuer's AC/DC version of the Hokey Pokey.)
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Sunday, March 21, 2010
Cherry Bomb
Labels: Bad Movies, Cult Movies, DVD, Movies
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There were a lot of bad Sci-Fi films involving android in the '80s following the cult status gained by Blade Runner and this wasn't the worst of them.ReplyDelete
Well, at least those other movies "involved" androids in their stories. Cherry 2000 could have been about a suitcase (like they had in Pulp Fiction) instead of a love-bot - she was simply a MacGuffin to get the David Andrews' and Melanie Griffith's characters together.ReplyDelete
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The Performance of Govia Thameslink rail service
Nick's Speech in the Westminster Hall Debate
Nick Herbert (Arundel and South Downs) (Con)
We have been here before. There have been at least two debates in this Chamber, one secured by me and one by my hon. Friend the Member for Croydon South (Chris Philp), in which we heavily criticised Southern and also Network Rail for failing to deliver a satisfactory performance for their customers. We welcomed the introduction of a performance improvement plan, then a year later got very annoyed that the self-set targets, already low in that performance improvement plan, had not been adhered to; and before Christmas I said that unless there was a significant and rapid improvement in the performance of the company, removal of the franchise should certainly be considered.
Let us be clear. The current performance, which is measurably worse than it was a year ago and has deteriorated rapidly, is due to new and different reasons, and we have to understand what they are. Before the strikes that were called by the rail unions, 26 train cancellations a day were due to train crew unavailability. Clearly, it is a major failure on the part of GTR Southern not to have recruited sufficient staff to be able to run the service. Nobody should resile from criticising the company for that.
After the strikes began, in the period 29 March to 25 June, 148 trains were cancelled a day—a remarkable increase. The figures produced by GTR tell us, assuming that they are reliable, that driver sickness since the start of the strikes has increased by about a third and the illingness to work overtime has reduced by about a third. It is that remarkable loss of labour that is causing the real disruption that so annoys our constituents at the moment.
The dispute turns on whether it is safe to introduce trains with driver-operated doors. The question for hon. Members of all parties, including all of us who rail about the performance of the franchise holder, is whether it is safe to introduce such trains. Do we think the unions have a case in mounting their industrial action or not? It is hard to argue that there is a safety issue when 60% of the trains currently operated by GTR already have driver-only operation of doors, 40% of them Southern trains. Are we all saying that those trains are unsafe? Are the unions saying that those trains are unsafe? That is the kernel of the issue at the moment, so let us confront it.
We have to decide whether the unions have a point. If we do not think they have a point—I do not think they do, because there will be no job losses, no reductions in pay, and there will still be staff on almost all the trains, including the drivers that currently have guards who operate the doors—why are we blaming Southern entirely for this dispute?
I have absolutely no compunction about criticising Southern. No hon. Member has criticised Southern more firmly than I have over the past year. I have been very clear about the failings of the company and its management. No hon. Member has criticised Southern more firmly—the record shows that—but I am sure that the current disruption is being caused by the industrial action. What I question is why we collectively—hon. Members of all parties—have been so reticent to attribute proper blame to the unions for what is happening. In my judgment, the unions are being very clever. They know that this dispute is effectively a work to rule.
Lilian Greenwood
I thank the right hon. Gentleman for giving way and congratulate all those who have taken part in the debate. Does the right hon. Gentleman think it helped or hindered when Peter Wilkinson, the managing director of passenger services, said earlier this year:
"We have got to break them...They can't afford to spend too long on strike and I will push them into that place...They will have to decide if they want to give a good service or get the hell out of my industry"?
I agree about the need for good industrial relations, but does the right hon. Gentleman think that that was constructive?
Nick Herbert
I am not defending Southern's industrial relations. The question for the hon. Lady is whether she thinks the dispute is justified. If she would like to tell me that, I will sit down and give way to her now. Is the dispute justified or not?
Lilian Greenwood
Clearly, there has been a breakdown in communication between staff and management.
Nick Herbert
Answer the question.
Lilian Greenwood
The only way in which a dispute will be resolved is by people sitting round the table to discuss concerns about safety, and there are concerns across the network, across the country, about safety issues on platforms and about the control of doors.
Nick Herbert
We did not get an answer to the question, and therein lies the problem: the current disruption that is causing massive inconvenience to our constituents is principally—not entirely—caused by the industrial action, which is official on strike days but unofficial when it clearly amounts to a work to rule. The problem is being caused by the unions, but hon. Members are not willing to criticise the unions for that. Undoubtedly, all sections of the rail industry have a case to answer for the poor performance in the franchise. Some 60% of the delays up until we had the strike were caused by the failures of infrastructure of Network Rail, not Southern, although that is partly being caused by the upgrade at London Bridge.
There is a real question about whether the franchise should have been awarded and about the scale of it. The franchise is too big. All parties have a case to answer; I am sure there is a case to answer on the part of GTR and Southern's management, too. For a start, they kicked off with insufficient drivers and staff. That is poor planning, but I go back to the central point that I was seeking to make: I have found it surprising in this debate that so little attention has focused on what the unions are doing.
Before the hon. Lady intervened, I was making the point that the unions have been very clever, because all the blame has been attributed to Southern, and what happens? We now have a pantomime villain to whom it is very easy for us all to say, "Boo! Take the franchise away." I joined in on this pantomime cry: "Take the franchise away and all the problems will be over." That is the easy thing for us all to say, but the question will remain: is it safe to have these new trains with driver-only operation of doors? The new franchisee will have to answer that question, and hon. Members are doing themselves no service at all by failing to address the key reason why the dispute arose in the first place.
The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Transport (Claire Perry)
I appreciate the opportunity to serve under your chairmanship, Ms Ryan. I thank right hon. and on. Members on both sides for their contributions to this important debate. Before I look forwards, I want to take a couple of minutes to look back.
One of my first jobs on becoming rail Minister in 2014 was to go up the Shard and welcome this new franchise, and to celebrate the fact that the franchise had been awarded to an operator who, by all accounts, was well qualified to take it on. It had operated trains during the Olympics, when everything ran swimmingly, and it was appraised of the extent of the Thameslink disruption. It had an investment plan and a plan to redress the shortage of drivers—an issue that had bedevilled the previous franchise. Things seemed to be set fair.
In the summer of that year we saw the major blockades at London Bridge which caused massive disruption for people—not during the blockade but at points afterwards. Afterwards, we ran into weeks and weeks of problems. I got involved and we had a weekly quadrant meeting. My friend the hon. Member for Hove (Peter Kyle) said that we all now know far more about trains and franchising than we ever thought we would have to know.
In fairness, things were starting to work. Despite the lack of joined-up thinking about the impact of the London Bridge works on existing commuters, the major problems with Network Rail's infrastructure reliability, which were not being addressed properly, and the series of changes, including Sir Peter Hendy coming in from TfL and taking direct control of all the infrastructure work in that area, everyone was pulling together, with the massive involvement of my officials, and in April the public performance measure got back to 83.6%.
Chris Philp
That is rubbish.
Mr Umunna
It is still terrible.
Claire Perry
It was not nearly good enough, but that was 10 percentage points up over the last six months. There was every view that performance was returning to the place where we needed it to be.
Since then—I will come to the issue of the industrial action—all bets are off. When people simply do not know how many staff are rostering in a particular depot, particularly the Brighton depot, where so many trains start and finish, it is impossible to run a reliable service. I have been to London Bridge and Victoria stations many times and travelled on the trains and I have been ashamed to be the rail Minister. I suggest that successive rail Ministers over many years in many Governments should share that sense of shame.
There seem to have been four fundamental failures in the industry that mean that when things go wrong, it is really hard to recover. It is the customers—the passengers who rely on the train services—who suffer. First, I submit to the House that there has been a disdain for people—for passengers—at the heart of the railway for decades. I have shared this anecdote with the House previously: a former very senior member of Network Rail said to me that the problem with the timetable is that the customers mess it up. Think about what that implies about what that person's view of their job was: to run a system, not to move people.
Crowding is not really costed in any of the economic measures that successive Governments have used. There has just been an assumption that people will continue to cram on. It is more valuable to put a train on a long-distance ervice, where there is a discretionary choice of travel, than to relieve crowding on an overground service around London. That seems to me to be perverse.
Investment has been entirely focused on engineering improvements and almost never on reduction in delay. Why do we still have this "leaves on the line" problem every year? By the way, no one has ever calculated the economic consequences of leaves on the line. Surely it is not beyond the wit of our finest metallurgists to solve that problem, yet we just accept it. We plough on and look to shave five minutes off long-distance journeys.
Thameslink will deliver some significant benefits for people travelling through London. There are brand new trains and wonderful new stations such as Blackfriars, which nobody ever talks about. It is a wonderful station delivered without a trace. Nevertheless, the human cost of the Thameslink work on the travelling public was almost forgotten. I was not the Minister at the time and I do not even know under which Government it was planned, but a man came up to me at London Bridge station in tears and said, "You're doing this so people can get from Cambridge to Brighton without disruption. That's great, but I just want to get home to see my kids." There is something flawed with the industry, because it does not value those people's experiences.
The second failure is that, as Members know, the industry has a highly complicated structure. We have Network Rail, which is in a much better place now, post the Hendy review and Shaw changes. It has made some amazing hires. We have a franchising system that in some cases delivers huge benefits but in other cases does not. The problem with franchising is that if it is a very short-term franchise, nobody has an incentive to invest in industrial or passenger relations. Why would the staff care when the name on the nameplate changes every seven years?
Andy McDonald
They do care.
Claire Perry
They do care, but why would they feel an allegiance to a company the name of which changes every few years? The staff on the frontline care in extreme amounts, and we are all very grateful for that.
Andy McDonald
Will the Minister give way?
Claire Perry
No, I am going to continue.
Thirdly, we have an investment structure that is broken. The Government step in over and over again to fill the gaps and to buy rolling stock. By the way, the profits in the rail industry mostly accrue to the rolling stock leasing companies—the ROSCOs. If Members look at the shareholder structures to see where the profits are, they will see that they are with the rolling stock companies, not the franchise operators. GTR's margin this year is going to be around 1.5% on this franchise. There is something structurally wrong with the financial structure of the industry.
The fourth and final problem is that the contractual levers are really poor. I have been asked repeatedly, "Why don't you just take the franchise back?" The reason is that I cannot. GTR is not in breach of its franchise contract right now.
Mr Umunna
indicated dissent.
Claire Perry
The hon. Gentleman knows—he has been involved in contracting—that we have a contractual structure and there are a series of inputs and outputs. The company is not in breach of them. People ask what happened with Directly Operated Railways. The franchise was handed back to the Government by East Coast. In such circumstances we can take it back in-house and do something with it, but at the moment I do not have the levers to pull to take the franchise back.
Chris Philp
Will the Minister give way?
Claire Perry
No. If I may, I will continue, because I want to try to address some action points. I will try to finish quickly.
If I thought it would help by me falling on my sword, I would. I have thought about it repeatedly. I do not like failure. I do not fail at stuff in my life. This feels like a failure. Could I do something contractually to force the franchise to end early? Would the problems actually go away? Would the industrial action and staffing problems stop? No. Would the investment programme create anything more certain for passengers? No. In my view, it would do almost nothing. It feels like that scene in Tom Wolfe's "The Right Stuff", when the test pilot is "augering in"—into the ground—shouting:
"I've tried A! I've tried B! I've tried C! I've tried D! Tell me what else I can try!"
I take issue with the view that nobody cares. Charles Horton and Dyan Crowther really care. They have done so much work. They have been out there, briefing and working tirelessly. The emergency timetable was not just some fantasy; it was an attempt to try to deliver a reliable service that would actually work, by compressing staff and trains into the areas of greatest need and making sure that the services that were withdrawn were ones for which there were alternative routes. The front-line staff really care. Day after day, they are there, holding the line, dealing with angry customers and trying to cheer up passengers. Right hon. and hon. Members really care. We have all been on this journey for many years now. My Department cares passionately. Nobody is enjoying this process.
On industrial relations, it is true that doors operated by drivers are safe—61% of GTR trains are already operated using the technology. It is incredible what can be done through industrial action. Is it politically motivated? I do not know. Yesterday, the 8.36 service from London Victoria to Sutton was cancelled because an unknown person had been smoking in the driver's cab and the driver was not happy to drive the train. The driver's cab had to be aired and cleaned before it could be utilised, so the service was cancelled, causing knock-on delays throughout the day. To me, that does not feel like everybody pulling together to deliver a battle plan for customers who want to get home, which is what I think they should be doing.
What are we going to do? The one-month emergency timetable was today—at least as of 12 noon—delivering a 90.3% PPM on Southern. Everything could go wrong later in the day, but it looks like it is starting to work. That timetable will be in place for one month, and we need to monitor it closely. I want to bring forward compensation plans. That will involve negotiation with other parts of the Government, given that we are talking bout revenue that is coming into the Government coffers, but I am very keen to deliver compensation. I have written to the next Prime Minister about this. She has a proposal to get customers and unions more closely involved in the management structure of companies, and GTR would be a perfect example of involving them. I do want to meet the unions and the management. I have been advised repeatedly to stay out of it—hell no! I want to sit people around the table and say, "What the hell is going on? Let's try to sort this out."
Over the medium term, I want to accelerate the plan for the devolution of rail services to London. It is absolutely right to do that and it will deliver capacity on inner-London and suburban routes. I do not care about the politics and I do not care that there is a Labour Mayor; I just want the trains to run better. I also want to look at a new structure. In the Shaw report, we gave ourselves permission to look at new ways of running the railway. Could we put rolling stock and infrastructure together in a way that delivers a better service for passengers?
Although GTR is a highly complicated franchise—it is the busiest, most complicated thing in the country—it could be the perfect way to try to get everyone to focus on delivering a service. Would it not be great to be proud of the services that were bringing people into the greatest city in the UK, rather than ashamed? That is what I want, and I know it is what we all want. I may not be the Minister to deliver it, but as sure as hell I will keep trying until I am kicked out.
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Dir. Federico Fellini, 1965, Digital presentation, Soundtrack by Nino Rota
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"Fellini's odd love poem to his wife." -- Michael Wilmington
Believing her husband to be unfaithful, Giulietta is advised by a mystic to "trust in the spirits." Before long, she is conjuring up the ghosts of past friends, who advise her to cut her matrimonial strings.
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INDIE BOOKSHOP WEEK – Day 4
Time for something slightly different: for our day 4 we visited London indie comic book Gosh! London.
Fede reports:
I didn't really know I was a fan of graphic novels until I published The Arab of the Future by Riad Sattouf earlier this year (find out more here) and I was introduced to this incredible world. The brilliant people at Gosh! London were very supportive of Riad's book, and I decided to repay the favour by paying them a visit and celebrate them as part of this year's Independent Bookshop Week. After all they have a pretty impressive pedigree:
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And it's so true. The shop is divided over two floors: the lower ground space mostly holds the kind of comic the uninitiated would classify as 'geeky' (think superheroes and manga, including some real gems like a Japanese adaptation of the popular TV series Sherlock). The ground floor has got an incredible range of graphic novels and memoirs, ranging from the classics (Art Spiegelman's Maus, Marjane Satrapi's Persepolis to name but two), to independently-printed anthologies.
Nora, one of the shop's booksellers, was literally bubbling with excitement when I told her I wanted to buy a couple of books and needed her help. After a quick test to see what I like reading ('quirky literary' was the diagnosis) she suggested the following:
– ASTERIOS POLYP by David Mazzucchelli, a tale of an architect fleeing New York after a fire destroys his apartment.
– FOR AS LONG AS IT RAINS by Zviane, the story of two lovers and their last night together.
– DEAD SINGERS SOCIETY (vol 1), an anthology edited by Paddy Johnston (who is actually one of our colleagues here at Hachette UK!)
The shop also runs a series of events (check their blog here: http://www.goshlondon.com/blog/) and is very active in the graphic community.
So next time you're looking for something a bit off the beaten track, give Gosh! a go: you will be pleasantly surprised.'
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Mom's Thank You Letter
Mom was so appreciative in regards to the support we received when my dad passed away. She wrote a thank-you in the Marengo paper shortly after the funeral. I think it's very beautiful so that is why I would like to share it with everyone.
Corey and I would like to thank each and every one of you for all of the thoughts and prayers during the most trying time in our lives. Our faith in God will pull us through
The memorials, food, flowers, and hugs were overwhelming in the most beautiful way. Every card received opens my heart a little more. You all have given so much. You will never know how much it means.
Chad was loved more than he will ever know. We all have to remember how much he loved us. His memory will never die. I will think of him every day of my life- especially when I look into Corey's beautiful blue eyes.
When asked if, "I ever need anything," my answer will always be… I need you to:
Always stay in touch,
Always talk of Chad,
Always remind me of what he lived for.. You- Me- Us- Friends- Good Times- and Life
Wendy and Corey
Quotes I've Written
A compilation of some of the quotes I've written this year. Please copy and paste your favorite quote and put it as your facebook status along with the link to my blog! (Just copy and paste or type this in after your quote- https://coreyyardley.wordpress.com). I'm anxious to see what everyone's favorite quote is, thanks!
"You may encounter obstacles through your journey to success. Go in, out, around, or through that obstacle. Keep your focus on the prize and block anything trying to hold you down. It's never going to be easy, but show your strength and do whatever it takes to succeed."
-Corey Yardley
"Never worry about trying to look or act perfect, because you might miss the person who loves you for you."
-Corey Yardley
"Failure isn't the worst outcome, the worst is not making the attempt or giving up. You never really get last place as long as you cross the finish line."
-Corey Yardley
"The only thing that you should carry with you from a bad experience from the past is what you learned. Rid the negativity and bring forward only the knowledge gained in doing so."
-Corey Yardley
"Love is real. It's not a game, or a choice, or just a word. It is an element of life, like birth, death, the sun and the moon. Fear it, but don't run from it. Keep it, but don't break it.
Find it, and never lose it."
-Corey Yardley
"We all get cut; some deeper, and some more often than others, but the beauty is the scar that's left behind and how you heal."
-Corey Yardley
"Everything happens for a reason. Even the worst things that have happened in my life have supplied lifelong gifts. God has a plan for everything big or small, good or bad."
-Corey Yardley
"You can say what you want about me, I won't let it get to me. I'm going to keep living my life and continue to push forward and pursue my dreams. If I wasn't hated I wouldn't matter, so, thank you haters."
-Corey Yardley
"When life hands you lemons, eat them and take pictures of the funny faces you make with your friends"
-Corey Yardley
"Life isn't about how empty or full a glass of water is. Life is all about you and what you do with it. I don't care how empty you think your cup is, there's always a way to fill it up."
-Corey Yardley
"A step backward can be made into a step forward as long as you learn from your mistake that pushed you back."
-Corey Yardley
" Actions speak louder than words. But my words will live forever because I write them down."
-Corey Yardley
"If you say you can't, you probably won't. If you say you can, your odds certainly won't decrease."
-Corey Yardley
"Believe in yourself, you can. Learn to do this and the rest is easy."
-Corey Yardley
"A boy can admit that he was wrong, but it takes a man to change his wrongdoings."
-Corey Yardley
"Do not measure self-success by the progress of your journey, success should be measured by what you learn along the way no matter the distance traveled."
-Corey Yardley
"I've always been told that one person can't change the world. Fortunately I never listened."
-Corey Yardley
"I don't have all of the answers but I can play out the options." -Corey Yardley
"When life gets tough, just make like a vacuum and suck it up!"
-Corey Yardley
"I'm not normal, I'm perfectly happy that I'm abnormal. Normal means you're average, typical, and you blend in. There's nothing wrong with being normal, but I will not be forgotten."
-Corey Yardley
"Today I doubted myself. I said, 'I can't'. Always have faith in yourself, let anyone else in the world tell you that you can't, but never yourself. I can, tell me I can't, and I will."
-Corey Yardley
"Hatred is unknowingly caused by jealousy and an inevitable aspect of life. Don't let those who dislike you bring you down because its just not worth it. Those who love and care for you are far more important and worthwhile."
-Corey Yardley
"Don't waste your time and energy bitching about what you don't have, instead take a look around and use what you have to get it."
-Corey Yardley
"You know times are bad when Larry the Cableguy has his own TV show on the History channel."
-Corey Yardley
"You either love me or you hate me.. And anyone in between is a waste of time."
-Corey Yardley
Inspirational Quotes Written by Others
"Don't be afraid of the space between your dreams and reality. If you can dream it, you can make it so."
–Belva Davis
"An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind."
-Mohandas Gandhi
"Our anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow, but only empties today of its strength."
-Charles Haddon Spurgeon
"Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power."
-Abraham Lincoln
"Men's best successes come after their disappointments."
-Henry Ward Beecher
"The person who says something is impossible should not interrupt the person who is doing it."
-Chinese Proverb
"Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery. And today? Today is a gift. That's why we call it the present."
–B. Olatunji
"You miss 100% of the shots you don't take."
-Wayne Gretzky
"Positive attitudes create a chain reaction of positive thoughts."
"The future is not something we enter. The future is something we create."
-Leonard I. Sweet
"Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless."
-Mother Teresa
"My life is my message."
"Don't aim for success if you want it; just do what you love and believe in, and it will come naturally."
-David Frost
"One who makes no mistakes, never makes anything."
-English Proverb
"To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often."
-Winston Churchill
"Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power."
"Losers live in the past, winners learn from the past and enjoy working in the present towards the future."
-Denis Waitley
"A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials."
-Chinese Proverb
"Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred to talk."
-Doug Larson
"The tragedy of life doesn't lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach."
-Benjamin Mays
"Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony."
-Mahatma Gandhi
"Every great achievement was once considered impossible."
"Coming together is a beginning, staying together is progress, and working together is success."
-Henry Ford
"To be a great champion you must believe you are the best. If you're not, pretend you are."
-Muhammad Ali
"It's easier to go down a hill than up it but the view's much better from the top."
-Arnold Bennett
"Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment."
-Jim Rohn
"Here is the test to find whether your mission on earth is finished. If you're alive, it isn't."
-Richard Bach
"Failure defeats losers, failure inspires winners."
-Robert Kiyosaki
"Build a dream and the dream will build you."
-Robert H. Schuller
Thank you to all of the author's above for sharing your knowledge and inspiring us with your words!
Intro and First 3 chapters!
This shouldn't belong in anyone's baby book, especially yours Corey. Your
daddy died June 20th, 1992, 5 days after his 23rd birthday. You two just adjusted living together for your first year. Chadand I had a lot of ups and downs, but we finally had it together. It took awhile for you guys to get used to sharing me, but you did.
You guys were more buddies than anything. When he got home you always wanted
to go outside and help unload his truck. Your favorite was to take the dogs swimming.
Chadhad high expectations of you, he wanted you to be tough, just like him.
You are so much like him. I knew your daddy for 7 years, you could say that I raised him. He was such a softy underneath.
He really had to grow up quick he wasn't going to let you go through the
same thing that he did. I know when most people think of your dad they think of a wrestler. When I think ofChad I think of him being a daddy. He taught me so much, he was a natural.
I hope you always remember your daddy. If you ever have any questions just ask me.
Unfortunately it wasn't until a few weeks ago when I found this note that Mom wrote me in my baby book. I have been working on this memoir for a little over a year and have learned so much about how the world turns, about my dad, and most importantly, I've learned a lot about my own self.
Chapter 1.
My mom was nineteen years-old, and my dad was eighteen when they found out that they were having me. My parents had no intention of having a baby and like most young couples they weren't ready to care for a child. Mom initially viewed me as a punishment from God rather than a gift.
My mother's name is Wendy Yardley, and my dad's is Chad Dietze. They were high school sweet hearts and continued their love into their early adult life. They both went toIowaValleyHigh Schoolin the small town of Marengo, Iowa. He was a two-time state wrestling champion atIowaValley, which is a big deal inIowa. Mom was a cheerleader and she told me that before every match my dad would go and give her a kiss on the cheek for good luck. He wrestled atDrakeUniversity, but just couldn't cut it at the next level. Mom went toMountMercycollege for education but her plans changed when she found out that she was having a baby.
I was born September 18, 1988 at St. Luke's Hospital in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Our first home was a small apartment in Marengo. Mom told me the other day very bluntly, "Your dad wasn't a very good father until you turned three years-old". He loved you very much, but he just wasn't ready to grow up yet. After I read the note again it made sense, "You guys just got used to sharing me".
They even started to see other people at one point, but my dad hated the idea of Mom being with someone else. "He finally got his shit together and moved in with us when you were three", she said.
He started his own concrete business and we were a family. Unfortunately when Mom wrote, "I hope you always remember your daddy", I don't. I don't have one single memory of him. His life ended tragically when I was four years-old.
Mom started dating a guy named Joel a year or two after my dad's death. This is kind of messed up but Mom told me the other day that she actually went on a date with Joel before my dad moved in with us. I do have memories of Joel however; I actually thought that he was my dad. He moved in with us and again we had a happy family of three.
Mom found out that she was pregnant again when I was six years-old. I was so excited to have a younger sibling. Joel on the other hand wasn't so thrilled about it because he left us too, only this time he left voluntarily. Mom told me that he just went on vacation.
My baby brother and my best friend Cullen Yardley was born October 23, 1994. This family of three is still a happy family to this day and will be for life. Of course I was still too young to realize that the hand we were dealt wasn't exactly in our favor, but Mom had one Hell of a poker face. I never recall her showing any signs of struggle even though she was a single mom with two kids, no college degree, and no secondary income. She doesn't look like much- a little over 5 feet tall, 100 pounds soaking wet, and a total blonde, but she is by far the strongest man or woman that I know.
Growing up without a father wasn't that bad. My mom did such a great job of playing both roles of parenting that I never really noticed. My childhood was never limited or handicapped; I never missed out on anything by not having a dad. I was perfectly content growing up without one.
There are thousands of dad's like my brother's that just bail out once they get a girl pregnant. Then I think about the dad's that do stick around, how many of those don't take the time out of their day to spend time with their kid.
My mom was the best mom in the world, and she was a better dad than most of the dad's that I knew too. As long as she was home, she was down to play catch, whiffle-ball, football, anything just to spend time with me. We mostly played baseball though, and even though she wasn't very athletic she managed to do it all; squat like a catcher as I pitched to her, hit grounders, and even throw me batting practice.
We would play baseball from when the snow melted in March until the snow started to fall in December. Anytime after supper, up until we couldn't see the ball anymore because it was so dark. I don't know a lot of father's that are that dedicated to their son, let alone mothers. My mom's the sweetest woman in the world, but don't ever tell her she throws like a girl.
Of course it wasn't fun and games all the time. As I got older, my responsibilities around the house increased. I stopped going to daycare at the tender age of 7, and often stayed home alone without any supervision. My grandparent'sNeenahand Papa (Mom's parents) have always been there for us, they have always been in my corner ever since I can remember. Once I was old enough to be the man of the house, Mom went back to school and got her degree in nursing.
Chapter 2.
Growing up I heard different theories of how my dad died. I remember being told by one of my friends in second grade that he wrestled so much that he broke all of his bones and died. I didn't disagree with the kid because I really didn't know.
As I got older I became more curious, but was still reluctant to ask Mom about my dad. One day when I was about 10 years old I decided to do some snooping around Mom's room while she was at work. I dug out her journal in her closet and sat on the edge of her bed as I held it in my hands. I felt guilty, but curiosity was definitely winning the battle of my conscience.
I remember the first sentence- "I ripped out the first page of this and hope God can forgive me for what I wrote". I noticed that the first page was indeed torn out of the journal and I wanted to know what that first page said so badly. She then continued with, "Chadwas killed last Friday night."
Mom had no intention of anyone else reading what she wrote. This made it difficult for me to follow along and fully understand what was going on. Nonetheless, I read every word that she had written.
I never read it again and did a good job of blocking that image out of my head. I definitely couldn't run away from what happened to my dad forever because: 1. We grew up in the same small town of about 2,500 people. 2. We attended the same small high school in that same small town. 3. He was a two-time state wrestling champion in a state that cherishes its wrestlers.
Chadand his younger brother Tracy Dietze are legends atIowaValley. Tracydied of brain cancer a few years after my dad's accident. Both of their names are honored on the Iowa Valley wrestling mats, they both have large plaques in the trophy case outside the main entrance of the gymnasium, even the annual grade school wrestling tournament is named, "The Chad and Tracy Dietze Youth Wrestling Tournament".
So this is the part of the story where I wish I could tell you that I won state four times and carried on my dad's name, but I played basketball in high school. I did try wrestling in second grade and even at that young of an age I could feel the pressure.
I agreed to try wrestling for a year as long as I didn't have to compete. Some youth tournaments were non-competitive at the kindergarten-second grade division and didn't keep score, both of the kid's hands were raised, and everyone got the same trophy. No tears, no losers, all fun. These were the only tournaments that I would enter.
We went to North English for a tournament with my uncle and cousin; I agreed to wrestle because Mom assured me that they wouldn't be keeping score.
Luckily, I found out the fun way that my own mother lied to me and entered me into a competitive tournament after the referee raised only my hand. I won my second and third matches too and placed first that night. I stood on top of the podium with my trophy as the others stood below me with their dinky medals. Wrestling was fun there for a while. I gained quite a bit of confidence from winning and Mom signed me up for the annualChadand Tracy Dietze Wrestling Tournament in Marengo.
During one of our wrestling practices that week one of my coaches told my friend and wrestling buddy Nick to come with him. We were led through the hallway and into another room where a group of adults were congregating. Nothing unusual, but I didn't know what was going on either.
One of the adults told me to show them my favorite wrestling maneuver on Nick. This confused me because they told Nick to let me put my favorite move on him, and he was told not to wrestle back.
They told me to look up and the camera's flashed. Even at that point I had no idea that I was the "poster boy" for theChadand Tracy Dietze Wrestling Tournament. A large picture that portrayed me locking Nick up in a cradle covered up half of the sport's page in our county newspaper advertising the tournament.
I was confident from the night of my first place finish in North English, up until the Dietze wrestling tournament in Marengo. There were 4 times as many kids here, and the gymnasium was packed. I was nervous as I walked onto the mat for my first match, thinking that everyone's eyes were on me.
The match didn't last very long and I was pinned within seconds. I cried as a walked off the mat, thinking everyone in the gym was watching me and there weren't 8 other matches going on at the same time. Afterwards Mom gave me a speech and told me about a time that my dad lost a match and instead of getting mad he walked right off the mat and just shrugged his shoulders. I lost again and fought back the tears and shrugged my shoulders. I got third place out of four and this was the last time I ever wrestled.
I started to play basketball in 3rd grade and enjoyed it. All of my friends played and it was fun so I stuck with it every year until graduation. I was always the smallest athlete in every sport I played football, basketball, track, and baseball. Every year the kids around me got bigger, harrier, and more masculine. I didn't hit my growth spurt until my freshman year of college. What I lacked in physical development, I made up for in heart, effort, and knowledge of each sport that I played. This allowed me to be competitive, nothing came easy for me, but that's life.
There was one week out of the school year that I hated from 7th grade up until graduation: Wrestling sign-ups. Coaches, upperclassmen, girls, even my friends would say, "Come on Corey you're too small to play basketball."
Or, "Come on Corey it's in your blood!"
My favorite was definitely when some old guy said this to my grandma at one of my junior high basketball games, "Corey has no business on the basketball court he's too small."
I never let it get to me though. I simply didn't value their opinion. Even as a 7th grader and having high school upperclassmen try and pressure me, making fun of my height and basketball abilities, and bringing up the blood of my dead father I would say I handled the situation very well.
Chapter 3.
Like most people, I only saw my dad as a wrestler, not as a father. I always had the opportunity to ask Mom more, but I just simply chose to avoid the subject. It was only a matter of time before it was going to be forced upon me to know. I remember that day of my junior year of high school like it was yesterday.
It started like any other day P.E. first hour and then criminal justice followed. I always made the three minutes given in between classes count. I would exchange smiles and flirt with the girls, and give all my boys high-fives. My famous entrance to each class was to slip through the doorway in midst of the "tardy bell".
I was hot as hell from gym class, and our criminal justice teacher had the
heat cranked all the way up. I could see the waves of heat coming off of the rusted gray heaters and feel them engulf my already hot skin.
I took my sweatshirt off not only because I was hot, but because it was lecture day and I needed a pillow. He took attendance as we chatted and paid absolutely no attention to him until he raised his voice, "Alright settle down now". It sounded like he had a clothespin sealing his nostrils shut.
"Today we'll be going over self defense", he screeched. I buried my head into my sweatshirt and somehow managed to tune his voice out entirely. His lectures were always the same. He would begin by reading the notes straight out of our textbook, then end with a personal story of some sort until the end of class. I have to give Mr. Templeton credit; most of his stories were entertaining and humorous, but mostly because the guy was just a complete dumbass.
I lifted my head for story time and joined class for the second half of the hour. "I can give you an example of self-defense and it happened right around this area. I
even taught this student for a few years, most of you have probably heard this."
I looked through the lenses of his spectacles and into his beady little eyes as he carried on. "This boy and a group of his buddies had been bullying this kid at school
throughout the entire day. He was really picking on the kid, and his posse of bullies always had his back."
Mr. Templeton made it sound like he himself had been beaten up a few times in school.
"They were your typical jocks in high school, and they just bullied this kid throughout the entire school day."
He continued to build up the story as I looked at the clock and noticed we still had
10 minutes left of class. This was brewing up to be a good one.
"These guys wouldn't leave the poor kid alone, and followed him to his trailer-home once school was over with. The kid was scared to death of these guys. He feared for his life, so he waited at his front door with a shotgun. The bully stepped out of the driver's seat and BAM! He was shot dead right there. The kid's life was in danger and he was protecting his own life, that's self-defense."
It couldn't have been that long ago if Mr. Templeton was still teaching, and if it was a murder within the last 100 years the entire town would know about it.
"You guys have heard this story, right?" "I mean, I'm sure you all know who got shot?" he asked.
We all looked around the classroom with the same puzzled look on our faces. A girl spoke for the entire class and said, "I've never heard of this before".
I thought to myself, "Well if they were going to gang beat him to death at his house then yeah the guy probably deserved it". We all waited for Mr. Templeton to tell us who was killed. He finally dropped the bomb and knew what he had done once he said, "Chad Dietze."
My heart plummeted and my body felt frozen, but my skin still felt hot at the same time. I couldn't move or breathe and I stared at my shoes beneath my desk. Never in my life have I been in such shock. No one moved, no one said anything; the silence of that classroom seemed so loud. I heard Mr. Templeton mutter, "sorry" and watched him depart towards the back of the classroom to his desk. All I could think about was me thinking that my dad deserved to get shot, or that I had been lied to my entire life, or that the murderer was actually the victim all along.
There was still five minutes remaining of class. If people were visiting I didn't hear them, I just remember staring blankly at the ground and wishing that every other second that went by the bell would just ring. It finally rang and I could tell everyone wanted to get the Hell out of there, but none wanted to leave as badly as I did.
This definitely put a dent in my day. I wasn't expecting to talk about my dad's murder in criminal justice class when I woke up this morning. I didn't know much about my dad, but I never heard anything about him being a bad guy. But why would they tell me that my dead father was a bad guy?
I tried to play it off like nothing happened. I'd done it my entire life why couldn't I just do it for the rest of the day? Conveniently my 3rd period chemistry class was in my homeroom, and on any other day I'd roam the halls and chat for a few minutes before returning to the classroom. Instead I moved up two rows to the desk that I sat in for chemistry and barely moved. My homeroom/chemistry teacher sensed something was wrong with me right away.
My classmates weren't in my second period class so to them it was just another day. I don't remember anyone trying to joke around with me or even attempting to converse with me, and if they did I wouldn't have known it. I think I was still in shock at the beginning of 3rd period.
My former sweatshirt and pillow was now being used as a tissue and I cried quietly into it. I wiped the tears from my face and asked my teacher if I could see the guidance counselor. He didn't even bother writing me a hall pass, and I didn't care for one either, so I grabbed my books and walked briskly out the door.
All of the kids loved our guidance counselor Mr. Samuelson. It was impossible not to, he was like a teddy bear and Santa Clause all wrapped in one. I rushed into his office with urgency; I usually always had a smile on my face so it was probably odd for many of my peers and teachers to see me this way.
I plopped onto the seat that he offered me and hunched over. My elbows were digging into the top of my kneecaps and I ran my fingers through my hair as I stared at my shoes. He asked me what was wrong and I remember just sitting there and sobbing.
I relived second period as the tears flowed constantly down my cheeks and into my mouth. I didn't bother wiping them from my face because I could feel them continually flowing out of my eyes and there were no signs of them stopping.
Mr. Sam only had one suggestion and that was to call my mom in to the school to talk to me. I put my head down into my lap and listened to Mr. Sam talk to my mom. I couldn't get the image out of my head, I didn't know whether I was mad, sad, or embarrassed. All that I knew is that after all of these years of avoiding the subject of my dad, it finally bit me in the ass.
I peeled my teary eyes from the palms of my hands and saw the only person I wanted to see at that very moment: Mom. She was sporting her usual Monday-Friday attire, wearing her nursing scrubs and white Nikes. Our eyes met and she was in Superwoman mode, ready to save the day.
All of those years that I avoided the subject of my dad came down to this. I was kicking myself for never stepping up and knowing the real truth about my dad, because I always had the opportunity. I Mom rubbed my back and calmly asked what was wrong. I sputtered out the story as I helplessly tried fighting the tears. When I was finished she told me exactly what I wanted to hear.
"Your dad was not a bad guy and he was definitely not a bully." Her opening
statement already made me feel better.
"Sure he and his friends were a little rowdy but they weren't out there to kill anybody. It was a different time back then, fighting was how things were settled." I wiped my eyes and blew my nose when the telephone started to ring. It was the principal and he wanted to meet with Mom, me, and Mr. Templeton.
We walked through the halls not saying a word, I was still a little nervous.
I just wanted to go home and shut my brain off. We entered the room and Mr. Templeton was sitting by the principal across from two empty chairs. Mom and I took our seats and let him make the first move. "I'm terribly sorry I brought it up, I never should have. Bringing up your dad in class was wrong and I never should have done it." "I will apologize in front of the class tomorrow."
I knew that he was sorry, but he was apologizing for the wrong reason. "It isn't that you talked about my dad in front of the class, that isn't the problem. I don't want you to apologize for bringing him up; I want you to apologize for lying. I want you to apologize for spreading things that aren't true about my dad who can't even defend himself because he is dead!"
He nodded his head as if he understood me, but the next day he didn't clear
things up with the class. Mr. Templeton apologized solely for bringing up the subject of my dad, not for lying and spreading gossip. I never confronted him and I just sat there. I wanted to jump right out of my desk and punch his face in, but I didn't. I should have done that the day before, but looking back on the incident I'm glad that it happened.
This brought Mom and I even closer than what we already were. I still didn't know everything, but I wasn't afraid to ask questions about him once in awhile.
Denise Frei Trial
Denise Frei, 45, from Marengo, Iowa is on trial this week in Scott County for the brutal murder of her boyfriend Curtis Bailey, 33. Her son, Jacob Hilgendorf, 21, and his girlfriend, Jessica Dayton, also 21, were involved and both were convicted of 1st degree murder.
According to Frei, Bailey had abused her sexually, physically, and verbally. She told authorities that he threatened to kill her entire family, including burning Hilgendorf and killing her 4 year old grandson if she tried to leave him.
Frei felt like she had no control over the situation and felt as though not even the authorities could protect her and her family, so she took matters into her own hands. She mentioned unsuccessfully trying to kill him with insulin a couple weeks before she got the job done.
Although she got the job done, things didn't go as smooth as she planned. The plan was to drug up Bailey with prescription medications and liquor. Bailey even bragged to co-workers earlier in the day that he was going to have a three-some with Denise and another girl. That other girl was Hilgendorf's girlfriend Jessica Dayton. Frei and Dayton agreed to do a sex act for every shot of whiskey that Curtis did. Once Bailey was passed out Frei and Dayton were going to wrap him up with plastic wrap to suffocate him.
Curtis wakes up however, and realizes what they are trying to do to him so he fights back. He was a big guy, and could easily handle the two girls on his own which is why Denise asked her son Jacob to help, too.
Between the three of them they could have delivered up to 30 blows to his head with a landscaping rock, he also suffered multiple and deep lacerations from a glass candy dish. They attempted to clean everything up but there was too much blood, it was everywhere.
Jacob and Jessica grabbed as much evidence from the scene as they could and threw it in Hilgendorf's Ford Explorer and headed off to a friends house to stay the night. They burned their clothes and some of the evidence from the scene. Obviously we know that it didn't end well for any of them.
I don't know very much about the law so if someone out there that is more knowledgable could please help me out with this I'd greatly appreciate it-
What is Hilgendorf's lawyer doing? Is he waiting for Frei's trial before he make's his move and appeals Hilgendorf's sentencing? He didn't even try to defend Hilgendorf during his trial, I hope that this is strategy.
How many mothers ask their son and his girlfriend to help kill the man that tore up their mother/son relationship? It's obvious Hilgendorf's father wasn't around, so when your one and only parent, the woman who gave you birth asks for a favor and promises that it will bring you two closer together. That it will end the abuse and end their fears, and promises a new beginning.. What would you do?
Jacob should be in prison for knowing that a plan was in tact and for trying to help clean up with things got messy. But there is no physical evidence proving he killed Curtis Bailey in the 1st degree.
I would like to know what you guys think-
My book in a Nutshell.
Take a walk in the shoes of Corey Yardley as he takes you through his life journey of 22 years. He finally copes with the death of his father after dodging the tragedy for almost 15 years. Who knows how long he would have just pretended like nothing happened if it weren't for the death of one of Corey's best friends, Caleb Cronbaugh. Caleb's death fell on the same day that his dad died, June 20th. What's even more strange is that his dad's best friend, John Smith, who witnessed his dad's murder was also the first person to arrive on the scene following Caleb's fatal accident.
This was when Corey started writing down his life. He started to find reasoning behind some unfortunate events that took place his entire life. He takes you on a journey and shares life experiences that many people face today. He's only 22 but he truly believes that every door in life serves a purpose. Even if it seems like the wrong door at the time, all of it's contents still serves a purpose.
Corey's story is moving and motivating. These aren't the typical memoirs of a 22 year old boy/man.
Red Hot Chili Peppers. Peanut Butter Jelly Time. Paradise Pit. Maroon Tycoons. Liar Liar. Back in 1965 Sports Illustrated said I was going to be the next Arnold Palmer.. GPC. Roxy. Shooting fireworks out of the Turcel at the kids sitting uptown in Burg. BK lounge. me,you, and Chad going to a Cubs game on the bus. raiding coolers from every idiot who left theirs out at the adventureland campground. you driving the Coug and taking out mailboxes on gravel. Drama class. Dierks Bentley. Throwing grapes. Brendas tits. Red trucks. 51. Tantrums. Flipping the canoe in March. You not climbing the grain bins. Harmless and seemingly pointless theft. Apple Pie. Detailed lifting and diet plans that lasted a week. South Amana. July 20th. Curty. Throwing apple pies out the window in Grinnell. Seeing you that last time at Ampride.
Just a few things that remind me of you each day. Miss you buddy.


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I read something funny about my generation the other day. Apparently, us 20-somethings believe we're entitled to choose when we want to be uncomfortable.
As I sit down to write these words each week, I've started to realize that good writing requires good living. And good living requires the decision to be uncomfortable. And being uncomfortable is the result of participation. Viktor Frankl says the only way we find meaning in life is when we choose to respond to every minute of the day.
But participating is difficult and inconvenient. Despite our knowledge that the formula works, we're still hesitant. We retreat into ourselves, we decide to be comfortable.
As I've started showing up to write again, it's clear I've been missing a big component of inspiration: participation. I'll go through a rut every few months where I start to doubt my credibility; I'll shy away from conversations and quietly exit the circle. I've got plenty of theories, but I've yet to put them into practice because I'm afraid they might not be right. I don't know why we do this to ourselves - we've got more talent and intuition than we realize. Our bodies and brains are trained to adapt and perform.
If we're to become who we want to become, we must begin acting that way and the mindset will follow. The confidence will follow. I love the scene from Into the Wild where he says, "It's not always necessary to be strong, but to feel strong." I think that's what we're after. And the way to feel strong - regardless of if it's true or not - is to put ourselves into situations where we're forced to act in such a way.
Close to 250 years ago, some regular folks decided to participate in their own destiny instead of letting others create it for them. We were born with the freedom to do and act and feel however we want.
I wonder what we'll decide do.


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Search more than 3,000 biographies of contemporary and classic poets.
Yevgeny Yevtushenko was born on July 18, 1933, in the Irkutsk region of Siberia, and he grew up there and in Moscow. He first received acclaim for his poetry as a teenager, when he began publishing in magazines and was admitted to the Gorky Literary Institute and the Soviet Writers' Union.
In 1956 Yevtushenko published a long poem, "Zima Junction," about his hometown in Siberia; this poem was criticized by the press for its portrayal of the post-Stalin Soviet Union. In 1961 he published his best-known poem, "Babi Yar," which famously denounced Russian anti-Semitism and inspired Dimitri Shostakovich's Symphony No. 13.
Yevtushenko published numerous poetry collections, including The Collected Poems: 1952–1990 (Henry Holt, 1991), Almost at the End (Henry Holt, 1987), From Desire to Desire (Doubleday, 1976), and The Poetry of Yevgeny Yevtushenko, 1953–1965 (October House, 1965). He was also the author of several works of prose, including the novel Wild Berries (W. Morrow, 1984) and the autobiography A Precocious Autobiography (Dutton, 1963).
Yevtushenko was a prominent member of the Sixties movement in the Soviet Union, a group of poets, writers, and artists who came to prominence during the "Khrushchev Thaw." He was known for his poems of protest, and his hopeful and defiant verse inspired future generations of Russian writers.
Yevtushenko was an honorary member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and was awarded the American Liberties Medallion of the American Jewish Committee. He divided his time between Russia and the United States, where he taught at the University of Tulsa, the City University of New York, and New York University, among others. He died in Tulsa, Oklahoma, on April 1, 2017.
Selected Bibliography
The Collected Poems: 1952–1990 (Henry Holt, 1991)
Early Poems (Marion Boyars, 1989)
Almost at the End (Henry Holt, 1987)
Invisible Threads (Macmillan, 1981)
Ivan the Terrible and Ivan the Fool (Richard Marek, 1979)
The Face Behind the Face (Marek Publishers, 1979)
From Desire to Desire (Doubleday, 1976)
Stolen Apples (Doubleday, 1971)
The Poetry of Yevgeny Yevtushenko, 1953–1965 (October House, 1965)
Selected Poems (Penguin, 1962)
Don't Die Before You're Dead (Random House, 1995)
Fatal Half Measures: The Culture of Democracy in the Soviet Union (Little, Brown, 1991)
Divided Twins: Alaska and Siberia (Viking Studio Books, 1988)
Ardabiola: A Fantasy (St. Martin's Press, 1984)
Wild Berries (W. Morrow, 1984)
A Precocious Autobiography (Dutton, 1963)


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StoryToolz - Chuck Heintzelman
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StoryToolz offers many different tools for authors: story generators, word count meters, a readability analysis, a random conflict generator, a title generator, a cliche buster, and...more
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StoryToolz offers many different tools for authors: story generators, word count meters, a readability analysis, a random conflict generator, a title generator, a cliche buster, and more. Choose any of the topics to begin. Story generators offer suggestions for conflict within a story or half a title. Choose from random title beginnings and endings to generate your title. Don't miss the Readability area: paste up to 5K of text in the box to check the readability of any source. Registration isn't required; however, it offers the opportunity for additional resources within the word count meter section and a larger portion of text for analyzing in the readability section.
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In the ClassroomEnhance and modify student writing by having them use StoryToolz. First, share it with students with a projector in your writing class to generate ideas for stories, possible centers of conflict to map out the new tale, and show them how to use the tool. Use the readability section with any writing to determine appropriateness for use with students. Have students paste their writing in the readability section to determine if their writing is at an appropriate grade level or to note information such as words per sentence or use of various parts of speech. Paste into the cliche buster to point out ho-hum wording and overused expressions. Suddenly, students may begin to write more complex sentences or use more vivid language. Be sure to include a link to this site on your class webpage and classroom computers for use throughout the year. The readability portion of the site is a great resource for ESL/ELL and Special Education teachers to help determine the appropriateness of reading materials.
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Maple and beer pork: the recipe
Did you think I was kidding when proposing you a pineapple brasato? ;)
Surely, I won't call this a traditional brasato, but rather a sophisticated stew. As discussed in the former post, pineapple contains an enzyme that degrades proteins. That helps with tenderizing the meat prior to cooking. Actually, the pineapple pulp was just part of the marinade, while the rest of the recipe was developed with maple syrup and beer.
The idea of using maple syrup came from my friend Erica who prepares an excellent slow-cooked stew with honey. So, I thought, why not trying maple syrup, instead?
I understand this recipe is not very summery, but rain and cold are back to Ottawa, so a stew is not a bad idea at all! If you are experiencing higher temperatures, you can still keep this recipe for an autumnal rainy Sunday.
BTW, Patrizia, here a recipe for you who were wondering where to put maple syrup, besides pancakes! :)
Maple and beer pork stew
(Doses for 2 persons)
- 300 g of pork tenderloin
- The pulp of 1/2 pineapple
- 340 mL of beer
- 180 mL of water
- 1 table spoon of maple syrup
- 3-4 table spoons of extra virgin olive oil
- 2 table spoons of flour
- Salt to taste
Blend the pineapple pulp and leave it aside. Chop the pork into thick chunks and place them into a large bowl. Pour the strained pineapple on the top of the meat, so that it will be completely soaked into the juice. Seal the container with a piece of film paper and transfer the meat into the fridge. Let it marinate for about 10h.
After that time, remove the meat from the fridge and wash the marinade away with some running water. Preheat the oven at 180 ˚C.
Flour the pork chunk and leave them aside. Pour the oil in a cast iron pot and warm it up under medium flame. Add the pork chunks and let them fry on both sides, until they turn golden-brown. Add the beer, the syrup, the water and the salt. Bring everything to boil. Cover with the cast iron lid and bake in the oven for about 1h and 30 min.


text: Chapter 10 • • • • • Intersections Railroad Crossings Roundabouts Complex Intersections Interchanges • Responsible Driving - Notes and Study Guide Controlled intersections • Controlled intersections have traffic lights, uses a roundabout, yield signs or stop signs to control traffic. • If you have a green light, drive carefully through the intersection at a steady speed. If the light has been green for quite some time, you should get prepared to stop if the light turns yellow. If you have crossed the stop line when the light gets yellow, drive through the intersection with caution. When your light turns red, bring your vehicle to a complete stop. • Slow down or stop at a yield sign and wait for the traffic to clear before you drive through the intersection. • Bring the vehicle to a complete stop if you face a stop sign. Drive through the intersection only when the way is clear. 4 Way Stop – Controlled Intersection T- Intersection Uncontrolled intersections Uncontrolled intersections have no signs or traffic lights. They are usually found in areas where there is less traffic. Be cautious while going through intersections. Complex Intersection - Controlled A car will never beat a train!!! They take too long to stop. Railroad Warning Sign Warning Sign that the tracks cross the road Railroad Cross buck means to stop before crossing the tracks Never stop on the railroad track!! Roundabout – enter counterclockwise at 20 MPH Complex Intersections Complex Intersection Cloverleaf Interchange – cars change directions via "loops" in the roadway. Diamond Interchange –often for lowertraffic interchanges without special constraints. Trumpet Interchange – a simple way to end one freeway at another. Roundabout Interchange


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No, I didn't know the technology existed either!
For those who didn't know, DAB stands for 'Digital Audio Broadcasting'. It was designed to enable higher fidelity transmissions with improved noise immunity and greater mobility; it was not designed to send TV. At least that's what I thought…
Virgin's 'Lobster 700 TV' handset is about to change all that. Debuting next month the mobile phone previously known as the 'HTC Trilogy' has kept a curiously low profile yet does something rather remarkable. Sidestepping 3G entirely it instead hops on the back of DAB data streams which are capable of running at speeds up to 256kbps.
Of course, this being the UK, most DAB broadcasts are actually sent at just 128kbps (I'm really hijacking Benny's rant here) and we don't know whether Virgin will be using this or pushing the standard to its full potential. It is an important decision too because, even on the model's 2.2in screen, I don't really fancy the lower bit rate.
Still, the 700 is far from a one trick pony (even if its one trick is rather neat) since it also runs Windows Mobile 5.0, supports push email, has an integrated 1.3MP camera and sports a microSD slot. At this stage we're still lacking some important details like what the dimensions are or how much Virgin intends to flog it for but we do know a September release is in the offing.
Ultimately I've never been tempted to join the Virgin network and – in all honesty – I'm still not, but I'd love to see this thing in action on "someone else's" contract…
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March 11 2019, Paul Jobson
Hockey Families
Bruce Hyundai wants to recognize the unsung heroes who get up early weekdays and weekends to get their children to the hockey arena. We like this video from Hyundai. We hope your season is coming to a successful conclusion and that you can sleep in a little later...at least until soccer season starts. Interesting story here about a family whose hockey dreams were realized when their son was called up to the big leagues.Read more


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With September just 2 weeks away (I know right?) we here at Panopticon Imaging have decided to celebrate the end of Summer and Back to School !
How you ask? Well we have a sweet Diana F Camera with all the trimmings we are giving away ON INSTAGRAM, along with 2 rolls of film (Ilford HP5 120) with Developing and Contacts included. Plus a Sticker pack! The Diana F has been customized in Panopti Red because we can't have anything stock. It comes with a flash and the adapters so that the flash can be used on other cameras along with a pretty cool book on the history of the Diana camera.
Don't know what a Diana is?
Here's a link to the Lomography site about the newer ones
And the Wikipedia link has some more info on the camera and it's history.
Armed with that knowledge and still willing to take the plunge?
Embrace the imperfection of analog and happy accidents! Remember it's not the camera it's the artist wielding it. Don't worry about the cost of processing because the first 2 rolls are on us! Shoot the first roll, send it to us we will develop and contact free of charge. Like what you see? Want to change something? Explore an idea that came to you? Load that second roll and have at it! Send it back to us we will develop and contact free of charge as well.
Open to currently enrolled undergraduate Students.
Like and tag a friend plus your school on the official contest post on instagram to enter.
Winner will need to provide a copy of current class schedule to collect the loot.
We will most likely post some of your images at a future date.


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Around the corner of place Luxembourg
This residence offers a range of spacious, unfurnished serviced apartments. This residence is located in the European Quarter, just around the corner from Place du Luxemburg. Also the nearest metro station (about 10 minutes' walk), will connect you to all of Brussels' points of interest. The Place du Luxembourg train station is approximately 5 minutes' walk and will connect you to the loveliest corners. So this is a very popular area with locals and internationals alike. It's brimming with trendy hangouts, a variety of international cafés and bistros, grocery stores, and other conveniences. Porte de Namur and Place Stephanie, just one stop away from the Troon metro station, are home to many luxurious fashion boutiques and galleries. Furthermore this building also features a car park and easy access to Brussels' inner ring road (R21). The network of motorway tunnels provide direct access out of the city.
Contact: Hamza Bellal
Avenue de Roodebeek, 78 box 9 - 1030 Brussels
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Rue du Trône 118-120, 1000 Bruxelles
Apartments:1 Bedroom Apartment 2 Bedroom Apartment
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New Jersey is the first state to take action on a fiduciary rule after the DOL rule's death, but experts think other states will likely jump on board.
George Michael Gerstein advises financial institutions on the fiduciary and prohibited transaction provisions of ERISA. As co-chair of the fiduciary governance group, he assists clients with tracking, and understanding, the numerous fiduciary developments at the federal and state levels, including the rules and regulations of governmental plans. He also advises clients with respect to the fiduciary duty implications of ESG investing.


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At the Degree Show this year at Manchester School of Art I was presented with two awards! One of which was the honour of being selected to have a personal profile on the MMU Originals website.
"The concept behind the MMU Originals online shop is to promote the talent and skills of our alumni (and thereby the Manchester School of Art) to the outside world – while also giving some added publicity on the MMU website to selected alumni."
And the page is now live!!
Take a look… (Click the image below)
P.S – I'll leave the information of my second prize for another blog entry.. (or you could check my previous blog entries if you're curious)