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September 29, 2010
Gearing up for the Whole9 Thirty Day Challenge - The Web
Starting Monday, I'm embarking on the Whole9, Whole30 Thirty Day Challenge with many of the others at the gym where I train. In preparation, I thought I would put together in one place a bunch of the resources that I use to share with the other folks.
I've been living part Paleo, part Neo for the last year or so, and I'm feeling like it's time to give up the grain for good and truly practice what I preach. So here's to it:
Paleo specific sites I read:
Krist Amory (of Feasting on Fitness) also has a Resources link that is useful
I'm a fan of The Food Renegade, (which, while not 'Paleo' per se, has a load of useful links and recipes that qualify as Paleo) and Mark's Daily Apple, also not precisely Paleo, but has a LARGE number of recipes that, if not Paleo, can be easily modified.
I'm also looking at flexing my Amazon Prime muscle a bit and getting some shipments of coconut products (milk and shredded) if I can find the appropriate quality, otherwise, it will be down to the co-op with me.
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August 3, 2010
This week in Health News - How are our Kids?
Over the last week, a few articles have hit the news wires that have left me in a seething, ranting fit, culminating today in a discussion sparked by an "article" on FoxNews (of course).
A Weighty Issue: Mass. Schools' 'Fat' Report Cards Crossing the Line?
So, first of all, the school district shouldn't be allowed to classify a child as obese until they can prove that it's not their deadly food and lack of physical education that are the main contributors.
In it's current accept usage, BMI is improperly referenced as a measure of obesity rather than an observational starting point for individual data collection and analysis. To suggest that BMI is the MEASURE by which a child is called "fat" is scientifically improper as it describes a scale along a statistical norm and NOT the basis of individual measure. The only way I would accept BMI as a data point is if it was corroborated with correlating individual data, eg. Body Fat % and Lean Body Mass. "Because Shelby's BMI was observed to be on the high side of normal for her age group, we tested her body composition (caliper method) and determined that she was 23% body fat, which is high for a child her age[...]"
Personally, I would argue to tell the school nurse (who should know this already) that BMI is irrelevant and useless without corroborating, individually unique data. The only body composition numbers that are important for measuring health and fitness for an INDIVIDUAL are Body Fat Percentage and Lean Muscle Mass.
While everyone SHOULD be upset with this gross misconduct, the story is pomp and bluster, and I believe that they are 'angry' for the wrong reasons. While the patterns for healthy eating habits and fitness start at home, our children spend 80% of their time at school, and the environment is toxic and sedentary. IF FoxNews and the parents were REALLY upset there would be a LARGE outcry against the irrelevance of the measurement and the environment that put them all in this situation, instead of politically charged BS about 'who's invading/violating whose rights.'
I would say that a healthy country (in just about any sense of the word) starts with a healthy family. Our schools should not be the enforcers regarding our kids health, but they should definitely be the primary benefactor. Childhood obesity has more than tripled in the past 30 years. The prevalence of obesity among children aged 6 to 11 years increased from 6.5% in 1980 to 19.6% in 2008. The prevalence of obesity among adolescents aged 12 to 19 years increased from 5.0% to 18.1%. [1]
What's the financial impact on our Health Care Industry when there is a pediatric load on the system with adult issues (High blood sugar, type II diabetes, high cholesterol, and all the other hyperinsulinemia induced diseases)? When the cost of a patient over a lifetime can almost TRIPLE because of the childhood onset of obesity related diseases (which doesn't even CONSIDER the rise of 'elective' treatments related to obesity on the rise with teens) , I think this is actually one of the easiest to solve issues taxing the entire system, and America is to much a coward to fix it.
Americans dig their own graves with their teeth.
Consider it's national security impact. ABC news carried a story about an opinion from Mission: Readiness (a think tank of retired military officers)called "Too Fat To Fight" (check out the Counter Think Comic) detailing a new report that says that more than 9 million young adults, or 27 percent of all Americans ages 17 to 24, are too overweight to join the military. Now, the officers are advocating for passage of a wide-ranging nutrition bill that aims to make the nation's school lunches healthier.
All this to say that while I don't think a school should be testing kids for obesity without being a MAJOR contributor to the solution, I also think we all need to take responsibility for the health and wellness of our children, lead by example and stop killing our kids with bad information, poisonous food and no motivation.
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July 26, 2010
My daughter
She is a blazing ball of energy, constantly in motion and at odds. She is the pool, the swing set, the slide, the way-way far down park.
She needs a hug, needs a favor, needs to go to the bathroom, absolutely needs to go nudie-feet. She's finicky, strong willed, strong tempered and strong headed, and when she falls, she's "all right!"
She loves her bobby (her silky blanket), her buddy (her eeyore doll), her sister, her momma, her daddy, and the neighbor, Tyler, who just moved in. She puts EVERYTHING in her mouth, but won't eat her lunch, she'll run to her bedroom because she needs to go pee and will pop into a headstand on a whim. She's all butter fly wings and lightning bolts
She call's the song "She was the prize" "Daddy's Girl" because I changed the words to describe her. She's pink, powerful, blue eyed, brown haired and mine.
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July 15, 2010
Happy Birthday, Sara
It's Sara's birthday, and boy does she deserve a party. I love that she works as hard as she does, every day, to be a better parent to our beautiful daughters. I love that she continues to support me and my goals. I love her playfulness, her smile, her honesty and her love for her family. I love her wisdom, her knowledge and her utter inability to let me get away with any bullshit.
You've made it through another year successfully, Sara. I love you, I miss you more every day, and I'm honored that you choose to spend your years with me.
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June 22, 2010
Oly Cert - A retrospective
This was a dense weekend to put it mildly. My body was sore by Saturday night and my brain reached the full tipping point by 11:00 am Sunday morning. I could try and recap everything we did; the Burgener warm-up, both lifts, all of the skill transfer exercises for each and the plentitude of coaching cues…but I won't. There's a cert for that, and if you want to really understand the snatch and the clean/jerk, the only way to do it is to learn it as if you had to teach it.
What I will do is thank everyone appropriately. First, a huge thank you to Kate (and Paul) and The Athlete Lab for being such fine hosts. The little things were all taken care of, which helped to make the big things go smoothly. I felt welcome and included, and their passion for CrossFit was evident in the beauty of their space and their attention to detail. They even provided a great list of places to find food in the area for those of us from out of town.
Next, thanks to all the attendees. The cert wouldn't have been a CrossFit cert without the great people from our region, with athletes and trainers from as far away as Sioux Falls, SD making the trip to learn from the best. Everyone that I had a chance to talk to and train with was helpful and a testament to pursuing virtuosity. It was also great to meet more CrossFit athletes from closer to home, and I hope to spend a little more time with them in the future. My CrossFit home will always be CrossFitMN, but one thing that I have learned from trying to train Aikido, Jodo and CrossFit on the road (both while in Japan and back here in the states as a consultant) is that visiting other schools expands your horizons, offers new challenges and allows you to meet some of the best people in the world; and who wouldn't want to do that?
Next up, the coaches. A huge "Thank You" to all of them. They were all top notch, and their passion was evident from the moment we started with the introductions.
Amie Taylor isn't just a CrossFitter and Oly Cert wise-woman, she's also a 9th grade algebra teacher, and her passion for CrossFit and education collided with the creation of CrossFit Algebra. Truly inspiring, and something that any educator should read.
Debbie Hudson is a competitive Olympic Lifter from Oakland County, MI (my home town) and is opening a CrossFit affiliate in the YMCA near Oakland University (where I will now need to visit while I'm home to get a tune up for my clean). She was always right there with succinct advice and positive feedback; and Lord knows, I needed some of both this weekend. If you are interested in seeing what this CrossFit thing is all about and you are in the Oakland County area, I highly suggest you look her up.
Cody Burgener, CrossFit Sioux Falls coach and son of the coach, Mike Burgener, was an interesting reflection of his father. He has as critical an eye as does Coach, but a completely different coaching style. Though different, he was as direct and specific and each one of his cues moved me closer to success. He also hit a 315# PR Clean and Jerk over lunch on Sunday while wearing street shoes, which is nothing to be scoffed at.
Erin was a phenomenal coach and offered me several words of wisdom that I will keep with me as I start to coach others in these lifts. My favorite moment of hers for the weekend, though, was actually at dinner on Saturday night. Someone mentioned that the plate of Cody's Chili cheese fries she was amount to NOM from might not be Paleo, and she responded "Do I look like a person that eats Paleo?" I looked at her and and said "Um, yes, Erin, you do." She actually looked down at herself briefly and said, "Yeah, I guess I do...", and proceeded to help herself.
I should also mention that she and Amie did "Bear" for a workout on Sunday, and she maxed at 145#, which is staggering.
Of course, the cert wouldn't be complete without Coach B from Mike's Gym. Coach was everything I expected and more. He was direct, stated his expectations clearly and concisely and there was never any doubt that he was going to push us toward not just lifting with excellence, but with teaching it as well. From the intro to the wrap up, everything was organized, well thought out, excellently presented and worth every minute of agony. As my good friend Kevin Oie put it, "Best. Weekend. Ever." And I wholeheartedly agree. Coach cares about Olympic Lifting. It's his passion, and that passion bleeds through with every contagious word.
Before the start of the weekend, I knew that I loved CrossFit and thought that I wanted to be good at the lifts because I didn't see MetCon excellence in my immediate future, but now, I know it. I practiced skill transfers with a broom today while sweeping and stole ten minutes to head out to the garage to go through the warm up. After the kids are in bed tonight, I have a Clean workout and a Kettlebell, pull up sit up cookie to attend to.
Thank you, Coach, for your time, your passion, your knowledge, the burpees and the Jodi. What a package deal. Please come back to Minnesota soon… and next time, bring the Harley. When there aren't tornadoes, it's quite the rider's paradise.
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November 7, 2010
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November 5, 2010
Magoo turned 4
Okay, I'm a bit behind in posting this. Her birithday was really three weeks ago.
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September 24, 2010
Thank you.
Thanks to my parents for all their help and support. Thanks for dinner and coming over to read bedtime stories to the girls. Thank for goodies from your CSA box. Thanks for babysitting when I need it. Thanks for picking things up from the store, bringing things up from downstairs, helping install a new light, and taking the garbage out. Thank you for everything you do. I love you.
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September 19, 2010
Happy Birthday Grandpa
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Carlota de limón is an excellent, easy dessert served during Easter and Christmas holidays, as well as during the spring and summer. A Carlota, also known as a Charlotte in English, is an ice-box cake.
That is, it includes a filling layered with cookies that needs to be frozen in order to get the right consistency–almost ice cream-like. I consulted my cuñada as to what she knew about carlotas, but apparently not everyone calls them by that name. She told me she often sees the dessert simply called postre de limón in Mexico City. No matter what it's called, though, we decided it was delicious and the perfect dessert to share with family and friends.
This past weekend, I was trying to decide what I should bring for dessert to my family's Easter fiesta. I was considering taking either flan or capirotada, but couldn't decide so I asked Twitter what to do. I got just about equal votes for each, including one really funny comment after I referred to our gathering as "Mexi-Rican Easter" since we've got some Puerto Rican cousins in my extended family on my stepmother's side.
Eventually, my friend Nelda suggested I bring a carlota. We debated a bit about the method and the kind of cookie to be used (ladyfingers versus galletas María), but ultimately we decided the best version would include cream cheese. I can't remember the last time I had a carlota, but I'll tell you what: It's making a comeback in my kitchen this spring and summer.
In fact, my carlota de limón was such a hit that my diabetic abuelita gobbled up two servings and begged for a third. Sadly, we had to tell her no so she wouldn't get sick. But she wasn't the only one in love–the whole thing was devoured in about five minutes flat.
Carlotas can be made with all different kinds of fruits. My favorite kind uses lime juice, but feel free to try other fruit juices or purees. I will say, though, that citrus juices will thicken the filling slightly better than other fruit juices or purees.
Carlota de limón (Postre de limón, Lime Charlotte, or Lime Ice Box Cake)
Yield 10-12 servings
How to make a Carlota de limón (postre de limón). This Mexican icebox cake is also known as a Charlotte in English.
- 1 can (14 ounces) sweetened condensed milk, also known as leche condensada (La Lechera)
- 1 can (12 ounces) evaporated milk, also known as leche evaporada
- 1 to 1 ¼ cup fresh-squeezed lime juice
- zest of 1 lime
- 8 ounces whipped cream cheese
- 1 sleeve of galletas María
Glaze for the galletas María:
- ½ cup granulated cane sugar
- ¼ cup water
- glass trifle dish or casserole dish (you can also use small, footed ice cream or trifle dishes for individual servings)
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- wax paper or parchment paper
- spatula
- First, juice enough limes to yield 1 to 1 ¼ cup juice–about 10 to 12 limes (more if you use smaller key limes). Set juice aside.
- In the stand mixer bowl (or a glass bowl if using a handheld mixer), add the sweetened condensed milk, evaporated milk and whipped cream cheese until smooth. Mixture will be somewhat soupy because of the liquid evaporated milk.
- Slowly add the lime juice while stirring. Mixture will begin to thicken. Add the lime zest. Blend until lime juice and zest are completely incorporated. Cover and refrigerate.
- In a small saucepan, heat the granulated cane sugar and water until it becomes a light amber syrup. Remove from heat and let cool slightly.
- Line a cookie sheet with wax or parchment paper and place the galletas María in rows on the sheet. Using a pastry brush or the back of a spoon, lightly coat the tops of the cookies with the syrup. This will seal them a little and prevent them from getting too soggy before the filling gets cold enough in the freezer. When the cookie tops have dried, flip them over and brush the other side. You'll have a little bit of glaze left over, which you can use for something else or discard.
- When the cookies have dried completely, line the bottom and sides of your trifle or casserole dish with whole cookies. Remove the filling from the refrigerator and pour some over the bottom layer of cookies, being careful not to drown the cookies on the sides. Use a spatula to even out the filling if necessary. You'll layer cookies & filling until you reach the top of your dish. You can either use whole cookies or, as I sometimes like to do, coarsely crush the cookies for the middle layers. For the top layer, I like to use crushed cookies with one whole cookie placed in the center.
- Carefully place your dish into the freezer and allow it to set for at least two hours. If you use individual-sized dishes, you may need less time in the freezer, and if you use a deep dish like a trifle dish (as shown above), you may need more than two hours. It's also fine to leave in the freezer overnight if you want to make it the day before you plan to serve the dessert. The ideal consistency will be like an ice cream cake.
- Remove the dish from the freezer about five to 10 minutes to soften slightly before serving.
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Subject description: A development environment written in Gtkdialog of course!
When trying to do a GUI in Gtkdialog, I found that "the faster I could produce an error, the quicker I found the working solution". This led to pasting code into terminals which is ok, but has many limitations and led me to put together the following environment.
Here's Gtkdialog IDE. It's created in Gtkdialog3 and consists of two panes - on the left is where you put basic gtkdialog xml code without the header and footer lines (GUI=' and gtkdialog -p GUI). You can choose starter code from a library (I use the Gtkdialog examples directory, filtering out comments,single quotes, head & foot GUI lines) and then enhance these by picking items under Signals, Properties or Tags on the menubar and pasting (CTRL+V). NOTE: if you have xdotool you can uncomment the xdotool parts in the "clipon" and "tagclipon" functions and get instant paste. You can get xdotool by installing Pastelist.pet found here
You can use comments in the XML code and escaping isn't necessary (Yes!). Three data files- "signals" "properties" and "tagsfile"- hold the xml choices and should be installed in the same directory as Gtkdialog IDE.
On the right is the Function Code pane. You can try out code to run with the GUI by clicking "Test Function" and it'll run in a terminal - variables and functions do not need to be exported here.
When you've completed the GUI XML code, you can immediately run it by clicking on "Run GUI" and it'll run in a terminal so you can see errors. When "Run GUI" is clicked, both the XML Code and the Function Code are merged before running.Also, the variable "CHOICES" is set for evaluation.
If you have text markup to add, you can click on "Markup Editor" to try out and add text markup.
When both testing of the GUI XML and Function codes are working as expected, then the complete GUI program can be saved by clicking on "Save GUI".
If you have unresolved errors stemming from incomplete tags, you can click on "Tag Tester" which requires Sunburnt's program "gtkdialog.tester" which can be found here -
There may be some missing or little used tags,properties, or signals and it's easy enough to add or subtract items by
editing the corresponding files to suit.
A Gtkdialog-IDE pet follows and installs to /root/my-applications and appears in the menu under utilities.
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Hi seaside; Very nice! It`s much like the gtkdialog GUI builder that I started way back.
Except mine didn`t bother to show the tags ( unneeded ). Also I had it running the code active.
So as you made changes, the GUI being built would restart showing the change ( like V.B. ).
If the new code errored it would undo to the last step, pretty simple stuff really...
My right pane was functions also, but the left pane code looked like this ( much thinner ):
var TABLE
in /tmp/input.file
lbl Do it or not
act refresh TABLE
lbl Click Me
act ckBTN
You can see how much easier this code is to read and deal with than XML.
Also no closing tags for the controls, they`re not needed, just hbox (/hb) and vbox (/vb).
The only one that does need a closing tag that I can remember is the NoteBook.
That`s XML...
All the other tags don`t need closing counter parts ( what a waste...).
The builder accepted full names for the tags as well as the shortened ones.
A library converted this short hand script into fully tagged gtkdialog code.
It`d be interesting to get yours running the GUI actively ( and maybe some pane options ).
I haven`t been up to par recently, so I haven`t had the chance to try your creation yet...
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Thanks, and I agree with you that staring at XML code tends to create brain scrambling. (Although, not as bad as trying to decipher Sed random criss-crossing and escaping pickets
What would really be great is perhaps a 5 X 10 matrix panel consisting of widget placements corresponding to boxes on the GUI screen. (Not sure that's descriptive enough, but perhaps you get the idea)
In this way you could get the placement of widgets (buttons, tables, combobox, etc. ) in the appropriate screen location and just have a name (like combobox) for a particular grid screen box. e.g screenbox col, row
box (1,1) =table+signals+properties+tags
box (1,5)=button+signals+properties+tags
Widget placement and code by simple name.
All your good stuff like backup to last run on error, libraries, incremental build.
Great stuff.
(Don't like to hear that you've been sub-par lately and hope you'll be shooting "Par" very shortly)
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SPITFIRESpecial thanks to 2-bad for the original character and the awesome artworkSorry it took so long to post him since the GCFC for original characters came out..
Please let me know what ya think!!!!!
SPITFIRESpecial thanks to 2-bad for the original character and the awesome artworkSorry it took so long to post him since the GCFC for original characters came out..
Please let me know what ya think!!!!!
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sorry about the back to back post
awesome custom
Wow, somehow I don't think this custom is safe for children, what with its "flame-on" action feature.
Great character, and great custom!
WOW TRAPPER!!!! Finally, I get to see new pics of Spitfire! The fire background is perfect!! There is so much detail on this guy and these pictures really do him the justice he deserves. Those legs are Awesome, I never asked you if they are articulated. You really have captured every detail, the face, the colors, the legs, AWESOME!
Oh Ya.....
He doesn't need to join Man o War!!!!
OH no!!!! he will not end up like Man O War although he has been dug out of the fodder bucket and is now on the operating table againOriginally Posted by blako
Yes his legs are articulated even at the knee and the feet!!
Thanks for the comments!! Glad you think he turned out WELL get it
Thank you and yes kids don't try this at homeOriginally Posted by Red Trinity
Again welcome to the org and thanks glad you liked himOriginally Posted by cressy
Hell Yea Trapper!
It's been a while since we saw one from you and now I know why. That is an awesome detailed custom.
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WOW Trapper!
This guy came out looking Incredible!!!
You really went to town bringing 2-bads creation to life!
I love all of the incredible details you have worked into this figure - WOW!
I can really imagine him as another great addition to the Horde!
Well Done!!!
That is a very cool custom and character nice work! Anybody else using War machines armor for a custom this is TOO FUNNY! or weird...
You have a real knack for making these customs look nearly identical to the pics! Great job.... I especially like the face.
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Well thank you very much!! I am still learning and making attempts to improve!!! I hope 2-Bad agrees with yaOriginally Posted by Tallstar
Yeah I have 3 more customs using that armor that I will post next weekOriginally Posted by smanomega
just kiddin
Thanks for the compliments
Details yes I had to do something to elevate my game to that of you and many others on this board!! thanks for kind wordsOriginally Posted by J-Sun
somebody had to win the Horde challenge
Thanks BrianOriginally Posted by brianatarms
it has been crazy in my house between moving, starting two buisness, then coaching my son's football team and helping my brother's company
crazy crazy but things have settled down now so I can crank out a few more soon. Thanks as always for the comments and glad to finally see your work also!!!!!
AMAZING work here T!
I've seen this guy in person, and he defintely belongs in the line, he's just too cool for words. I'm so glad you got a picture in of the detail on the legs, that was by far one of my favorite accents, so cool!
Oh, and the effects in the pics are awesome, very appropo!!!!
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Thanks Hefty,Originally Posted by heftysmurf76
although you did try to kidnapp him in the parking lot didnt you
I think my next custom might have to travel to see ya and take some pics with your girls before we post him
thanks again
Like I said before , he's too damn FRIGGIN' AWESOME. Details & Everything is spot on & I admit it looks much better than my design. Thanks for making him a figure, Trapper.
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Thanks 2-badOriginally Posted by 2-bad
I do not know about the custom being better than the artwork though...
Although I am flattered you said so
Glad you liked him!!!
My pleasure on turning him into a figure!!!
great job, man!
your spitfire is awsome. i like his boots, the paintjob makes them look like cold magma, same as his armor.
Originally Posted by grindcore
Thanks grindcore. That was exactly what I was going for. I envision him as being the Blacksmith for the Horde in creating all the weapons and vehicles. Although 2-bad might have a different background for him
Thanks again
I saw the base figure you used for this guy again in Kmart last week. Can't decide if I could do him justice if I attempted him...may have to get you to do another...some day
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Wicked custom!!!!!!!!!!
I love it.
this guy actually looks really evil
Originally Posted by NORCAL MASTER
Yeah! Indeed this guy looks extremely wicked!
There goes Whispering Woods....
He who dies with the most MOTUC wins!
Every time i see this tread for spitfire i think of a caterpillar
Funniest custom response..........EVER!Originally Posted by Killian
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Originally Posted by KillianThat is one of the funniest responses ever THANKS FOR THE LAUGH!!Originally Posted by heftysmurf76
Originally Posted by NORCAL MASTERThanks you two!! YES HE IS EVIL!!!!Originally Posted by J-Sun
Originally Posted by Hemat
Got me stumped on that post
Originally Posted by heftysmurf76
Well, I try lol
Really, Hordak should have found some flammable chemical or something that could penetrate the magic of the woods... Snout Spout could have had more of a role to put the fire out or something....
P.S. Spitfire rocks!!!!!
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There Will Be Brawl: Episode Five
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Guarding Kirby!
He was in Episode 4, as another one of the "immigrants", with Snake. He was the one in the wheelchair.
What makes this series so amazing is the way they insert references to the games without making them cheezy. It's what made the simpsons awesome in their heyday.
To put it simply,THE BEST EPISODE YET!!!This serise is most definatly in my top 5 favrite web shows!!
that was awesome
keep it up i guess
I've watched this episode multiple times to try and catch all the little things. I got most of the girls the first time, but did anyone else notice Issac from Golden Sun making the arrest when the police came in? He had the blonde hair and orange scarf.
Was i the only one that got the Pulp Fiction Reference at 9:50?
A sexy one at that. She should be in again :D
Holy shat!!! between the sexy Samus and the epic fight I don't now how much sweeter this series is going to get.
You know, I was watching this zelda animation which I could not stand, it was so inacurate and had the characters fall from their roles and had some stupid twists. This however I can watch it and enjoy it even though Link is an asshole and zelda seems to be a stuck up bitch. Bowser and Ganondorf are 2 of my 3 favorite villians, (the other being megatron from transformers) I love Ganondorf in this series I have high hopes for bowser.
Ganandorf... is actually the greatest character in this series...
His out fit looks so awesome.. (not to say the others looks bad, I just like his the most) And he gets some of the best lines.
Also the evil bad guy is totally Ness.
Damn, Awesome Ending. I didn't see that Coming.
I think the murderer is an once popular character that has been excluded from the Smash Bro.s series (as far as I know).
It must be... Captain N. Though I don't think a Nintendo Blaster could do that, but you never know.
Hrmm. or maybe its the dog from Duck Hunt.
I hope that they release this on DvD and redo that fight scene from the last episode to be as good as this one.
It amazes me that they nailed the fight scene so well this time around, they must have really done their research and got a perfect idea on how to do it.
Please redo that episode 4 fight scene some day and release it on DvD!!
been thinking bout it too o.o not sure...i found it a little weird at that last fight scene with Mario and DK...Luigi leaves that room to watch the fight, why it seem Samus hung back in that room o.O wonder if they did that on purpose or they just lazy and she didn't step out...technically she would've heard the disembowlment xD
forgot, Love Ganondorf xD kinda funny how he also is the director :P
What do you think Malon does with Epona? Last time I remembered, Epona was a female horse... but still.
DeeDeeDee was absolutely perfect, exactly as I expected him to be.
I always expected there to be some animosity between Mario and DK, and the thing with Pauline reinforced that.
Was that person in the orange scarf the Rival from Diamond/Pearl/Platinum? It looked like him.
Samus... *droll*
What? who are you people?
Love the series keep up the good work!
monkey bar fight that was hilarious
also any one notice his eye popped out during the fight
I have been watching this series from the very beginning but I'm now commenting. The extra long wait was totally worth the epicness of the video. The series is kicking off with a bang.
Also, I've been thinking about who the killer might be. Maybe the darkness that Olimar mentioned and the killer are one and the same, which would (in my opinion) make it Master Hand, Tabuu, or Crazy Hand. However, another Nintendo character might be at play here.
Also, Samus as a stripper is hot.
Lmao I was eating while Olimar cut the lil buggers up :P
I loled..but I find it weird (and politically incorrect) that all the female characters are portrayed as whores...come on guys seriously lol
It seems like they save all the good lines for Ganondorf!
(what's with so many people having the word 'kitsune' in their handle??)
The fight scenes are a bit corny but the story is incredible! I can't wait for the next one
This is the single greatest thing ever. Anyone that disagrees deserves nothing less than disembowlment by rusty spoon.
Nothing we can do about that! He's the director after all!
That was awesome! This show is so worth the wait per episode! such a big production! Just awesome. I love how many characters and stuff make small cameos, like Malon and Saria. Keep up the good work!
I think all the women are portrayed that way (save Zelda) because this is a really dark, crime infested world and that is the feel they are going for. As "the Penguin" (LOL!) said, everything is about sex and money.
How else are they supposed to make a living in the Brawl world?
Well, I think you need to really look into the women a bit more. I feel like Peach is looking for love, Samus KNOWS what she is doing, Zelda isn't all about sex, more about power, and the only other time you've really SEEN girls is in the brothel so, I'm not sure that it's all about being whores. It's a gritty time in the Brawl world... I think that when you look at the 7 deadly sins, you will notice a lot of those popping up in the storyline ... yes, lust is one of them.
As Samus says: "It's just business, sugar"
I must say the Dedede is AWESOME!! I must say it cuz I am married to him but I think it too!! And I of course think Thelma needs to come back. She MUST know something!!!!
Fantastic work guys. This was the best Episode yet!! I am so proud of all my Brawl boys!! You all rock!
OLIMAR'S A FUCKING PSYCHO! Wow, more people from Cosplay.com are in this episode. DDD is THE Don of Don's...he will be missed.
1 minute of silence for DDD....
Looking forward to Episode ...Editt :6...sorry,was completely awesome-shocked...won't happen again.
One question about the accents:
I understand how neccesary it is to give all the characters accents from different parts of the world. Some are well done, some are well done for charicatures, some slip a bit, and some slip almost all the time (Samus lol). Gannondorf however is a mystery to me, it sounds more like he's slightly hiding a real bx accent than trying to contrive one. Could it be that he's actually from my hometown? Or has it just been too long since I've been there?
this is one of the best shows out on the net i only found it last nite.
I'm honestly not doing an accent so, whatever you hear slipping is possibly a made up accent that you THINK I'm trying to do. ha ha.
Yea when I read that post I was thinking "I dont even remember samus doing an accent". Maybe the chap who posted it is foreign and doesnt understand American accents?
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Gift offers the "buyer" no protection. "BUT", I have heard of people having luck pleading ignorance after using gift and getting screwed.
Still not worth the hassle.
Postal Money Orders are the safest bet, Signature confirmation I do on items above $50.00. And I believe if you use USPS "click n ship" it is included. When insurance is purchased.
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Puppet: Keeping the discipline
For the last 5 weeks or so I've been working with puppet every day to automate the configuration of various nodes in our stack and my most interesting observation so far is that you really need to keep your discipline when doing this type of work.
We can keep that discipline in three main ways when developing modules.
Running from scratchConfiguring various bits of software seems to follow the 80⁄20 rule and we get very close to having each thing working quite quickly but then end up spending a disproportionate amount of time tweaking the last little bits.
When it's 'just little bits' there is a massive temptation to make changes manually and then retrospectively put it into a puppet module and assume that it will work if we run from scratch.
From doing that a few times and seeing a module fail when run at a later stage we've realised it isn't a very good approach and we're started to get into the discipline of starting from scratch each time.
Ideally that would mean creating snapshots of a Virtual Machine instance and rolling back after each run but that ends up taking quite a bit of time so more often we're removing everything that a module installs and then running that module again.
Running as part of environmentWe tend to run the modules individually when we start writing them but it's also important to run them as part of an environment definition as well to make sure modules play nicely with each other.
This is particularly useful if there are dependencies between our module and another one - perhaps our module will be notified if there's a configuration file change in another module for example.
Running on different machinesEven if we do the above two things we've still found that we catch problems with our modules when we try them out on other machines.
Machines which have been in use for a longer period of time will have earlier versions of a module which aren't easy to upgrade and we'll need to remove the old version and install the new one.
We've also come across occasions where other machines have left over files from modules that have since been removed and although the files seem harmless they can interfere with new modules that we're writing.


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Why the Civil Rights Act couldn't pass today
It was a painful tableau: The bipartisan leaders of Congress linking hands in the Capitol Rotunda and swaying to the strains of "We Shall Overcome" as they commemorated the 50th anniversary of the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi sang along with the crowd, but Mitch McConnell and John Boehner's lips were frozen in silent, self-conscious smiles.
The climate in today's Washington is so different from the one that produced what many scholars view as the most important law of the 20th century that celebrating the law's legacy is awkward for Republicans and Democrats alike. Neither party bears much resemblance to its past counterpart, and the bipartisanship that carried the day then is now all but dead.
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Congress is deadlocked on every big question, from immigration reform to a grand bargain on taxes and spending, so it's hard to believe the two parties once cooperated to address the single most controversial domestic issue of the day — legal equality for the races — or that Lyndon B. Johnson signed the bill 50 years ago Wednesday, in the middle of a presidential election year. Now Boehner is suing President Barack Obama for failing to faithfully execute the laws, and Reid inveighs daily about the Koch brothers' contributions to GOP causes.
( PHOTOS: Civil Rights Act turns 50)
The current congressional leaders gathered last week not to honor Johnson — or any of the legislative leaders who actually passed the landmark law — but to award a posthumous Congressional Gold Medal to The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and his wife, Coretta Scott King, whose crusade helped create the climate that made the bill possible. In his life, racial tensions helped make King such a polarizing figure that both Johnson and John F. Kennedy worried about seeming too close to him, but in martyrdom and myth, he is the only politically safe ground on which present day leaders could unite.
Yes, Reid paid tribute to the bill's Republican floor leader, Thomas Kuchel of California (though he mispronounced his name as KEE-chul, not KEE-kul). And Boehner invoked the crucial role played by his fellow Ohio Republican, Rep. William McCulloch, in helping Kennedy and Johnson pass the bill, but the very next day, Boehner betrayed McCulloch's bipartisan legacy by announcing his intention to sue Obama for usurping congressional powers.
"The Republican Party today doesn't really honor its past," said Geoffrey Kabaservice, author of "Rule and Ruin: The Downfall of Moderation and the Destruction of the Republican Party from Eisenhower to the Tea Party." "The Republican Party that had been ceased to be sometime in the 1980s, and the modern party — the radical conservative party — not only has little or no interest in honoring its history, it is actively hostile to it."
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Part of the problem is this: Although the Civil Rights Act passed the Senate by 73-27, with 27 out of 33 Republican votes, one of the six Republicans who voted against it was Barry Goldwater of Arizona, who weeks later became the GOP's presidential standard-bearer and started the long process by which the Party of Lincoln became the party of white backlash, especially in the South. Today, Republicans hold complete legislative control in all 11 states of the Old Confederacy for only the second time since Reconstruction.
Current GOP Chairman Reince Priebus has hired dozens of black and Latino field organizers, and he himself has made the rounds to historically black colleges and universities in an effort to launch College Republican chapters there. "Having bipartisanship on campus and giving our students options is really important," he told a gathering at Central State University near Dayton, Ohio, in May.
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But the position of the GOP's congressional wing on issues from immigration, to voting rights, to the minimum wage (while helping to rack up Republican victories in individual districts) is broadly alienating to most African-American voters. So are efforts at the state level to impose new voter identification laws or other limits on access to the ballot box that disproportionately affect black voters. All that makes it hard for today's GOP to lay plausible claim to its undisputed legacy on civil rights.


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Prince Harry and his team of injured soldiers from the U.K. are in the lead of a "Walking with the Wounded" trek across the South Pole.
The fourth in line to the British Throne, along with a team comprised of British soldiers who were wounded in the line of duty, is currently beating both the American and Commonwealth teams in a race to raise funds for injured servicemen and women.
Alexander Skarsgard of "True Blood" is racing with the Americans and actor Dominic West is racing with the Commonwealth (Canada and Australia) team.
Originally, the race was scheduled to begin last week but severe arctic conditions and high winds left the teams waiting until weather bettered. The race is expected to cover 174 miles and span 15 days, according to the "Today" Show.
While the Brits are in the lead, the race only kicked off two days ago. The American team is currently in a close second and the Commonwealth team is in third.
A former solider himself, Prince Harry has worked with "Walking with the Wounded" before. In 2011, he joined another group of soldiers for part of a trek across the North Pole.
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I only live one time, I'm trying to keep my head right
Niggas doing fed time, that's similar to me
I be going hard, so I'm facing like 55
Niggas don't want that, I be selling dope sacks
Niggas want me dead cos I'm still in the states
I be at Fort Knox; nigga, I am a cop
Ride with intel on ya, my life full of pain
Niggas don't understand, niggas don't even care
Man, I'm just on my dick, niggas didn't give me cash
How I'm gonna move? (Stick up that) Don't know how I'm gonna move (where that nigga at? Where he at?)
Come with that chopper, then I'm gonna act a fool
My niggas wanted trophies, but I wanted cases
Niggas heard my rap, then they said I'm going places
Kept me off the street, all them boys living dead
Niggas eating fast food, niggas serving fast dope
Niggas catching hot bullets, you ain't going to war
Niggas lost the streets, niggas want to keep the peace
Niggas act out of pocket, niggas get dealt with
Straight top shelf shit, make a nigga melt quick
Ain't no rumors, them boys on repeat
All the shit that I did, some days I couldn't
I couldn't go to sleep
Traumatized, chasing me down
They had that shit, but I still live
Don't respect me, niggas ain't checked me
I had real beef and I didn't let it stress me
Real 05, I'm really 05
Fuckers hate, I was based in 05
2013, niggas mad I'm still grinding
I'm still alive and they hate that
Niggas gonna hate that, I paint the Maybach
You feel me, and I'm not from the hood, what?
That's okay, but them choppers gonna spray
How you a vet if you ain't in the Oak?
Say you a dope dealer but you got a Purple Heart
Robbed them meth labs and I burnt them bitches
Never crossed real niggas, I've burnt no bridges
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Shelley was helping out her friend Pam. Pam had her own cleaning business, but her employees were so unreliable that she ended up doing half the work herself. She'd been hired to do a scrub-off, meaning a thorough cleaning, right down to basics, at an industrial warehouse somewhere at the edge of the city. Shelley had agreed to go along; it was a few weeks before Christmas, and she could do with the extra money. When she went outside to wait for Pam, it was still night, the stars in the sky showing like flecks of broken glass. Pam was late, as usual, but Shelley hadn't wanted to wait inside in case the doorbell woke the others: her daughter and baby granddaughter were asleep upstairs. She felt herself growing heavy and thick with cold. You forgot about the cold—the house had central heating, and winters weren't like they used to be. When Shelley was a child, she'd wrapped her scarf around her head and mouth on the way to school, trying to trap the warmth of her breath inside; these days, you hardly needed a scarf. The phase of life Shelley was in now, anyway, the heat of her body came and went in blasts, and she had a horror of being caught out in tight clothes.
She could have stamped her feet or flung her arms around, but it was too early in the morning; instead, she let the cold creep into her as if she were made of stone. When the car pulled up at last, she could barely even move toward it, though she could see Pam lit up inside, peering out through the window, looking for her. Pam always drove with the interior light on. She treated her car like just another room in her house—while she was driving, she'd fiddle around with piles of paper and bits of crocheted blanket and boxes of tissues on the passenger seat, hanging on to the steering wheel with her other hand. She was a danger on the road, but Shelley didn't drive. For a moment, before she headed over to the car, Shelley imagined herself as Pam was seeing her—just another pillar of dark, like the hedge and the phone box and the pebble-dashed end wall of the kitchen extension. She and her husband, Roy, lived on what had been a council estate, although they had been buying their house for years now.
Pam was fat like a limp saggy cushion, very short, with permed yellow curls that were growing out gray; her face was crumpled, like an ancient baby's. Roy always said that Pam and Shelley, side by side, looked like Little and Large, because Shelley was tall and thin. Shelley had never been one to eat too much. Her only weakness was tea with sugar; she drank a lot of that—she couldn't give it up. Her daughter, Kerry, said that her insides must be black.
"Hiya, Shell." Pam leaned over to open the door, then began throwing stuff into the back seat. "I've had a letter off the hospital about my gallstones."
All Pam's conversations began as if you hadn't stopped talking since you last saw her; they were as cluttered as her car. The heater was on high, belting out a stinging warmth that smelled of the little cardboard pine-tree air freshener dangling from the rearview mirror.
"What gallstones?"
"Well, they may not be. I've got to go in on the fifteenth. Typical—that's the day John wants the car to go and see his sister in Tamworth. I said to him, 'You'll have to fix another day.' He says he doesn't want to mess her around. Don't get me wrong—I've got a lot of time for his sister."
Pam's husband, John, was meant to do the books for the cleaning business, but as far as Shelley could see he sat in front of the telly and did nothing, while Pam went driving about all over the place like a mad thing, and the car was forever breaking down. John used to be a plasterer. He was supposed to have damaged his leg years ago, falling from a scaffold, but Shelley had seen him limp with a different leg on different days. Pam was a good worker, though. Once she got into a job, she stuck at it until the sweat was running off her; she wouldn't give up. Shelley was like that, too. They didn't make a bad team.
They crossed the river. It was at low tide, sunk to a twisting channel between flanks of mud glinting with moonlight. A notice outside the red brick warehouse, which was not much more than a two-story shed, warned that it was patrolled by security dogs, but there was no sign of them. Pam parked in the empty lot, and they got out some of their kit from the boot; the employers were supposed to provide equipment, but sometimes they left out broken old mops or brooms so heavy you could hardly lift them.
Shelley switched her mobile off before she started working; otherwise, she couldn't concentrate. Her son, Anthony, was in Afghanistan. Roy said that statistically Anthony would be in more danger if he were still playing with his rugby club, but Shelley was always waiting for some dreadful kind of message. There was a big operation under way. Anthony had told them that he'd had his leave cancelled, but Roy was sure that he'd volunteered to stay. It wasn't only that her son might be killed or injured—Shelley pushed those possibilities right down in her mind until they weren't any more than shapes in the dark. She never watched the news; she only listened in from the kitchen while the others watched it. But when there was that fuss about the friendly-fire incident with the Danish soldiers, she fixated on the idea that Anthony had been involved in it, even though Roy insisted that he'd been nowhere near where it had happened. "Why d'you have to make up trouble," he said, "as if there wasn't enough of the real thing?"
Inside, the warehouse was a big open hall, divided into metal cages piled high with different grades of insulating material. Yellow forklifts were parked, as if resting, in the aisles between them. Fibrous orange dust was everywhere, but Shelley and Pam weren't contracted to clean the warehouse itself—the men were supposed to do that. The canteen and toilets were along one wall, the offices upstairs on a sort of mezzanine. You could see why they needed the scrub-off: the regular cleaners hadn't been doing much of a job. All the pipes in the canteen were thick with dust. Under the plate rack on the draining board and at the bottom of the plastic pot for the cutlery was a murky gray sludge. The toilets stank; the cleaners had actually mopped around a roll of toilet paper that had fallen onto the floor, not bothering to pick it up. One of the sinks was blocked and full of scummy water.
To be fair, Pam said, the boss had only been paying the regulars for two hours a day, which wasn't enough: there was a kitchenette and a separate toilet upstairs with the offices, too. Two hours would be just enough time to wash the cups and plates and put them away, and give the toilets a quick once-over; to do the place properly you'd need four hours at least. Shelley knew what it was like if you had a job like this: you got your regular routine going, and then that was all you saw; you played your music and went into a kind of dream, wiping and sweeping, until you hardly knew what you were doing, just going through the motions. But she wasn't the sort of person who took on this kind of work as a regular thing. She had a job at a school as a lunchtime supervisor. She wasn't such a fool, either—she knew that, somewhere like this, if they saw that you were keeping it clean in two hours they'd cut you down to an hour and a half. Why should you care whether the place was as filthy as hell?
By the time the men came in at eight, Shelley and Pam had finished the kitchen and Shelley had just got going on the toilets. One man barged in, despite the notice she'd put on the door, and then looked surprised to see her scrubbing on her knees with her backside in the air.
"What d'you need to go for already?" she said, pulling out one earphone from her music player. "You only just got here!"
He was sheepish. "Two cups of tea for breakfast. Bladder control's not what it used to be."
"Use the one upstairs."
"Don't tell me they piss the same stuff as we do?"
"You're not coming near my toilets until they're spotless."
It was better when the men were in. There was always the opportunity for a bit of a joke. He probably liked the sight of my backside better than my face, she thought when she got up to refill her bucket and caught sight of herself in the mirror above one of the sinks, a square of polished tin screwed onto the wall. Once upon a time, the idea of the man enjoying looking at her would have started something, one of those games, looking out for him among the others, bantering with him. She used to make herself dizzy, imagining other men, though it hadn't gone further in reality, or not very often. She could remember once, not all that long ago, when she would have fallen to the bedroom floor if Roy hadn't held her up while they were kissing—she'd been dragged down so powerfully by her own sensations. If it wasn't the thought of Roy that had started her off that night, he hadn't known it—he'd got lucky anyway. In the last year or so, those dizzy fantasies and their sensations had stopped, cut off as abruptly as if someone had pulled a switch, only the memory of them left like markers on the surface above deep water. She supposed that it was her time of life, though it felt more as if she were holding herself apart from her own body, afraid to leave off being vigilant for a moment.
There were worse things than going to fat like Pam, Shelley thought. In the mirror, she looked sharp enough to cut something, hard fixed lines beside her mouth, her eyes too big, her cheekbones jutting like knuckles under her skin, up to her elbows in dirty work, cleaning toilets. The wall behind the urinals was tiled to about halfway up: at first it didn't look too bad, and she thought she wouldn't need to wash it all. But once she began to scrub, the contrast between the cleaned area and the rest was just too obvious; she saw that she'd have to go over the whole lot. She squatted to get at the run of tiles between the urinals and a little gutter along the floor. The caustic fumes caught in her throat, and she pressed her nose into the sleeve of her old tracksuit top. Pam, meanwhile, was covering the rooms upstairs. The office workers were no cleaner: where they'd warmed up soup in the microwave, Pam reported, the dirty bowls were left out on the desks.
There were nine or ten men at work on the warehouse floor, mostly middle-aged, all wearing blue overalls with the company logo; the forklifts trundled up and down with armfuls of the insulation wadding packed in plastic wrap for dispatch, beeping when they reversed. The younger men listened to music through headphones as they worked, which was what Shelley did, too. Her MP3 player had been a Christmas present from Kerry the year before. She'd wanted at the time to give it back; she'd never have an occasion to use it, she said, and Kerry shouldn't have been spending her money on presents, anyway—she'd have enough to spend it on when the baby came.
"You're such an ungrateful cow," Kerry had said cheerfully. "Just wait and see."
Roy hadn't seemed to mind the sight of his seventeen-year-old daughter with her pregnant belly swollen out like a football. Like a bomb, Kerry put it.
"She was so clever at school. I wanted her to do something better," Shelley had said. "Not just what the rest of them around here do—shelling out more kids."
"Not so clever at biology," Roy said.
"I will do something better," Kerry reassured her. "Later."
"Don't think you're going to be leaving it for me to look after. Just when I've got my own life back."
But the baby—Morgan—was so alert, twisting her head in her pushchair to follow where the conversation went, her eyes drinking everything in. She'd walked at only nine months, right from the kitchen into the living room the very first time; you had to watch her every minute.
When Shelley went for a fag break in the parking lot, she switched her phone back on for a few minutes. There was only a text from Roy, who drove a courier van—something stupid. He was always on the lookout for the funny names they gave to hairdressers and fishmongers and so on: A Cut Above, The Plaice to Go, that sort of thing. She supposed it passed the time.
"Anyway, I took my net curtains down," Pam said, when Shelley went through the side door into the canteen. Tea bags were bobbing, leaking color, in two mugs of milky water. "I don't know when I'll get them back up again."
"Why's that then?"
"Didn't I tell you my washing machine's bust? The whole kitchen was flooded. John sent me a picture of it on my mobile while I was at the back of the queue in the post office—it was the last day for mail-order returns. Now I've got this pair of trousers I can't get into."
"I can't believe he just sent you the picture."
"He claimed he didn't know where I kept the mop."
Roy said that Pam had to be getting something out of her relationship with John or else she wouldn't keep on with it. Is that how it is? Shelley wondered. What we get is what we really want?
Back in the bathroom, she started on the sinks. The fibrous wadding the men worked with got everywhere; it had stained the enamel orange-pink. She had to use a toothbrush to scrub where it had mixed with green soap from the dispenser, then caked in mineral crusts around the base of the taps, around the plughole and the overflow. One of the young ones hurrying in the door, hanging onto himself through his overalls, stopped short at the sight of her; she told him to use a cubicle.
"Don't get dripping on my floor," she said, "or there'll be trouble. I know what boys are like."
When Anthony was a teen-ager, he'd been as tense as a whiplash, swaggering around with his shirt half unbuttoned, his eyebrows pierced, stinking to heaven of Lynx aftershave, hanging out with all the worst types on the estate. Even when he was a tiny boy and really did look like an angel, he'd always given her trouble. She'd had to wrestle with him just to get his clothes on in the mornings. She'd been called in to school by his teacher time and again because he was fighting or disrespectful. But sometimes when Shelley had dropped him off in the junior playground he'd put his finger on his cheek to show her the exact spot where he wanted her to kiss him goodbye—their little joke from when he was a baby. She and Roy had split up for a while when Anthony was eighteen months, and after they'd got back together she'd had Kerry. Anthony was the one who looked like Shelley, not how she looked now but how she used to: skinny and fair, with big hungry eyes. She hadn't been able to believe it when he'd got into the Army. She couldn't understand why they'd want a boy like him.
"They'll soon have him sorted out," she said, but actually she'd been so angry that she couldn't forgive him—or anyone else, either. She'd blamed Roy for reading war books and leaving them lying round the house. Or it was Anthony's girlfriend's fault: Leanne only wanted the money for those two kids who weren't Anthony's. She didn't care what he had to do to get it.
"He's going to make a proper career for himself," Roy had said. "You ought to be proud of him, working so hard to pass his qualifications."
It wasn't that she wasn't proud of Anthony. The Army really had sorted him out: the first time he came home on leave, he was tanned from training outdoors, his neck had thickened and his shoulders bulked out. He'd had his hair cropped short, and he seemed calmer and more deliberate. "I didn't do too bad," he said, his glance slipping away from his mother, toward the others. He'd never done a day's hard work in his life, and now suddenly he seemed weighed down with sense and responsibility.
At first, whenever he was on leave he was keen to hang about with his old no-good friends, but eventually he lost interest in them. He said they were going nowhere, smoking themselves silly, which was just what Shelley had always told him. His officers thought he was dedicated, a good soldier.
Since Anthony had been posted to Afghanistan, Roy had gone on the Internet and found out everything about what was going on there. He followed it on the blogs and on YouTube. He talked about "the lines" and "advance to contact" and "hearts and minds." Shelley thought this talk made Anthony uncomfortable, because it was impossible for him to share with them what really happened out there. He'd told them once about clearing out Taliban compounds after an attack and finding the bloody clothes they'd left behind when they retreated with their dead and wounded; it had occurred to Shelley that he must have seen much worse than bloody clothes, and then she guessed that he was describing the clothes because he couldn't talk about the other things. Whenever they parted now, he kissed her as if he were putting her aside, kindly but firmly.
She felt around in the blocked sink with her rubber gloves, poking into the plughole with the toothbrush, pulling at the ends of the fibres caught in the trap, tugging and coaxing until she began to deliver up out of the drain a nasty mass, a thick rope of hair and soap and matted insulation, in a gulp of bad drain smell. Triumphant, she flopped it out onto the enamel, black-green and slimed. The foul water, released, went gurgling down the pipe, and at that moment Shelley was washed through with one of her hot flashes. She had to stop to tear her gloves off inside out, flap her T-shirt, lift her hair away from her blazing neck. She leaned forward over the sink, unexpectedly dizzy, taking her weight on her arms, and staring down into the dark passage of the drain, understanding it for a few seconds as if it opened a way out of the world, or into it. Then, hearing the boy flush the toilet in the cubicle behind her, she scooped up the nasty mess with some paper towels and dropped it into the black bag she had with her for rubbish, so that he would not have to see it.
When the job was finished, they packed away their gear; the parking lot was full now, but there was no one about outside. Pam struggled to start the car: she always gave it too much choke, Roy said. Shelley, in the passenger seat, turned on her mobile. There was a bad moment every time, while the logo appeared and the music chimed. She expected the worst then; she seemed to be staring out for it greedily, her heart straining.
"All right?" Pam asked her.
The little car, after its hacking convulsions, rocked into silence, resigned.
"All right," Shelley said. "Nothing."
They sat there for a few minutes, too tired to move, giving the car time to recover, talking about their Christmas shopping, who they'd bought for, what they still had to get. More than half the short winter's day had passed while they were in the warehouse. The sky was a blue so pale that it was almost no color; wooded bluffs loomed above them, beyond the industrial estate, marking the edge of the city. The sun had dropped behind the bluffs already, so that the tops of the bare trees showed up finely spiky, like hair or fur, against a yellow glow of light from somewhere out of sight. While they waited, their breath began to fog up the car windows. ♦


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The East Central University baseball team lost a close game, 6-7, in the first of three games at Harding in Great American Conference action.
The Tigers (5-15, 1-9 GAC) recorded 10 hits as a team, with junior Josh Lavender earning three and senior Justin Sutherland adding two. Senior Gabriel Martinez suffered the loss on the mound, moving to 1-2 on the season.
The Bisons got on the scoreboard early, with three runs in the bottom of the first and one in the second for a 0-4 lead.
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The Tigers added a second run in the top of the fourth on back-to-back singles from Lavender and Sutherland. Lavender was on third after Sutherland's single, which allowed freshman Brandon Maggia to hit a sacrifice fly to center to score the run.
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ECU's offense came to life in the ninth. Maggia, senior Benny Woodard and Mariano all singled to load the bases. Guardado then drew a walk to send the first run of the inning across the plate. Junior Jake Caton then hit a sacrifice fly to left for a second run. Junior Ethan Gold reached on an error to cut the deficit to one (5-6) and Grace hit a single to short that allowed the fourth run of the inning to score and tie the game at six.
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I don't like Bobby Simmons much more either. The only time the guy ever showed up on anyone's radar was when he was in the final year of his contract with the Clippers. After that, dude's stock dropped like Apple after Steve Jobs took vaca.
However, with Bobby Simmons, the Bulls have Luol Deng, Andres Nocioni and Bobby Simmons at the 3. Major log-jam and since everyone just knows it's only a matter of time before they deal Andres…
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AA7Dragoon wrote:I know a lot of these tropes have been used before in many stories, but Blizzard still does a good job of rehashing popular themes. The Archangel of Wisdom has become the Angel of Death.
No they haven't. They copy plot devices and bad executions 1:1 from other games (or their own games, re: Kerrigan vs. Arthas), they have terrible presentation with their graphics and audio, and the elements within their stories are just as flat and gimmicky as their gameplay often is. Blizzard has never been good at writing, they simply used to be good at presenting poor and generic writing. They now lack those skills.
AA7Dragoon wrote:Even if you hate the games, Blizzard Entertainment is still the undisputed king of cinematics. There's no other company that can bring pause to the Internet than a Blizzard cinematic announcement to a new title.
When amateurs can spend less time on a cinematic and get the same visual fidelity, and the audio and writing behind Blizzard cinematics is garbage, the statement you made is incredibly nonsensical. If anything brings pause to the intern-net, it should be how terrible they are as a company. The fact that casuals dive dick-first into their wallets for casual games doesn't make the games or their hype machines any higher quality. Have you no standards?


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October 24, 2017
From Michael DeSanto of Phoenix Books:
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