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[WARNING: The following story reveals major plot details from the Season 3 premiere of Hawaii Five-0. Read at your own risk.]Last season's finale of Hawaii Five-0 presented Daniel Dae Kim's Chin Ho Kelly with an impossible choice: save his wife Malia or save his drowning cousin and team member, Kono (Grace Park).Fall Preview: Get scoop on all your favorite returning showsAlthough Chin rushed to the aid of Malia (guest star Reiko Aylesworth), Monday's Season 3 premiere revealed...
[WARNING: The following story reveals major plot details from the Season 3 premiere of Hawaii Five-0. Read at your own risk.]
Last season's finale of Hawaii Five-0presented Daniel Dae Kim's Chin Ho Kelly with an impossible choice: save his wife Malia or save his drowning cousin and team member, Kono (Grace Park).
Fall Preview: Get scoop on all your favorite returning showsAlthough Chin rushed to the aid of Malia (guest star Reiko Aylesworth), Monday's Season 3 premiere revealed that he also dispatched Kono's Yakuza-affiliated boyfriend Adam (Ian Anthony Dale) to help her avoid a watery grave. Unfortunately for Chin, his quick thinking could not save Malia, who died despite the paramedics' best attempts to revive her.Hungry for revenge, Chin set his sights on Frank Delano (guest star William Baldwin), the ex-cop that masterminded Chin Ho's Sophie's choice in the first place. After a massive gun battle, Chin was faced with the opportunity to arrest Delano for stealing a truckload of meth, but he shot him at point-blank range instead.So, how will Malia's death affect Chin Ho this season? And is Chin's cold-blooded vengeance a sign of even darker days to come? We chatted with Kim to find out:
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Going back to the choice Chin Ho made in the finale, do you think there was a moment where he thought seriously about trying to save Kono instead of Malia?
Daniel Dae Kim: I actually had to do a lot of thinking about what I would do and what the character's priorities were. I think many people, if faced with that same choice, would choose their spouses over a cousin. But the relationship between Chin and Kono has been so much more developed than the one between Chin and Malia. So, from an audience perspective, it would be a choice that might not be so obvious. I think they might have preferred Chin to save Kono only because of the investment they have in her character
I heard many fans asking, "Is Kono going to be angry with Chin for not saving her?" Were you glad to learn that he did send Adam to the rescue at least?
Kim: It would be an interesting dynamic if Kono and Chin started to kind of be at odds as a result of the choice that he made. It might be a nice change of pace for them to have a little bit of resentment toward one another. But he did have a plan to try and save Kono. It was a big step for him to reach out to someone that he doesn't respect, but who he knows cares about Kono almost as much as he does. Chin really did try to do the best he could for both people. He wouldn't just abandon Kono.
Sadly, even though Chin rushed to Malia, she didn't make it. What was your reaction when you saw the script?
Kim: It's not very often in a crime procedural you get to do a lot of deep character work. To me, the strongest elements of Hawaii Five-0 are when you are able to develop an investment in the characters because you know their personal stakes. I think it makes for more riveting drama. I was happy to have the opportunity. And the consequences and the ramifications of his choice are going to stick with him for a while.
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Chin obviously sought vengeance against Delano. Were you surprised that he actually pulled the trigger and killed him?
Kim: It's great stuff for an actor. They say drama is conflict. He already has enough conflict about the choice he had to make. But now, once he crosses that line between an officer of the law and a vigilante, it raises a whole different set of questions as far as how he feels about his own character.
It's pretty cold-blooded. Do you think Chin is acting on raw emotion at that point, or is there a darker side to him we just haven't seen before?
Kim: I actually do think it's about something deeper. It's not just about the choice he was forced to make because of Delano. It speaks to a lot of his own issues about being called a dirty cop and his own history of having to take the blame for something he never did. It becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy — he does become a dirty cop.
Clearly, Chin doesn't feel better after he kills Delano. How much will all of this pain eat away at him this season?
Kim: His journey is to become whole again. But how far off the path has he gotten? Is it possible for redemption? We're not going to see a happy-go-lucky Chin the way that we did in Season 2. I think the last scene where he comes home and sees the chicken in the oven and breaks down is not just about Malia. It's about the man that he's become, the choice that he's made and who he is now.
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Do you think there will be legal ramifications for Chin killing Delano later this season?
Kim: That's a really good question. We were in a parking lot, and there were witnesses. He pretty much admits to McGarrett that he did something that was not by the book. So, that may come into play.
How much will Steve and the team be there for Chin during his struggle?
Kim: One of the biggest themes of this series is family. In almost any episode you watch there's a reinforcement of that. We'll see how strong that bond really is. I think part of what Chin's been doing in the series is just trying to rebuild a family. I think that's why the Five-0 team means so much to him. Hopefully he hasn't jeopardized that by the choices he made.
Kono obviously forgave Chin for choosing Malia. But is Kono now a living reminder of what Chin lost?
Kim: Yes. And I think there are going to be other times where Kono is in jeopardy. What feelings will Chin have when those situations arise? Is he going to be gun shy about it? Any time she's put into a
situation where her life could be in jeopardy, I think it should resonate.
All of this sounds like a lot for one man to carry.
Kim: He's got to try and find a new start in a way. He thought he had his life complete and it's no longer complete. So, he's got to make himself whole or embark on a different path and just try to find peace.
Hawaii Five-0 airs Mondays at 10/9c on CBS. What did you think of the premiere?


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UT welcomes fans to campus this Saturday for the year's final home football game.
Kickoff is set for 12:21 p.m. EST for the Volunteers game against the Wildcats of the University of Kentucky. Neyland Stadium gates open at 10:15 a.m. SEC Sports Network will televise the game.
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Saturday is also Senior Day, when seniors on the football team will be honored for their contributions as student-athletes. The seniors will run through the "T" and join their families on the field for a special recognition prior to kickoff.
The traditional Vol Walk will start at 10:00 a.m. on Volunteer Boulevard in front of the Torchbearer statue. Members of the football team will proceed down Volunteer Boulevard and then continue down Peyton Manning Pass to the stadium.
The Pride of the Southland Marching Band will begin marching at 10:35 a.m. at the intersection of Pat Head Summitt Street and Volunteer Boulevard and will then follow the same path as the Vol Walk.
Fans also can attend the College of Arts and Sciences Pregame Showcase. Held two hours before each home game kickoff in the University Center Ballroom, the showcase is a free thirty-minute presentation by a UT faculty member. This week, at 10:21 a.m., history professor Jay Rubenstein will present a short summary of his recent book, Armies of Heaven: The First Crusade and the Quest for Apocalypse.
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Limited public accessible parking spaces and fully accessible shuttle buses to the stadium are available on the UT Agriculture Campus off Neyland Drive.
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Olongapo(Philippine): In a bar along the Philippines' Subic Bay owned by an American military veteran, the main topic of conversation is not the upcoming US election despite the Donald Trump coffee mugs, photographs and caps on display.
The talk is of Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte's tensions with Washington and his courting of China, which is worrying the bar's mostly American clients who have settled in the vicinity of the huge Subic Bay base, a former US navy installation.
"The biggest fear is that one day he's going to wake up and say 'everybody from the US, get out of town' and we'd have to leave our loved ones behind," said Jack Walker, a retired Marine sergeant who has lived in Olongapo, the town around the base, for five years.
For more than a century the Philippines and the United States have had a shared history of colonialism, wars, rebellion, aid and deep economic ties.
That could change as Duterte's three-month-old administration re-examines the relationship.
In a series of conflicting statements, Duterte has insulted US President Barack Obama and the US ambassador in Manila for questioning his war on drugs, which has led to the deaths of more than 2,000 suspected users and pushers. He hurled abuses to Obama and alluded to severing ties with Washington.
Then, after weeks of anti-American rhetoric, Duterte said the Philippines would maintain its existing defence treaties and its military alliances.
The comments have left Americans and US businesses in the Philippines jittery about their future, said Ebb Hinchliffe, executive director of the American Chamber of Commerce.
"Every time he opens his mouth and says something negative about America, that hurts me personally... and from a business standpoint, it's not helping," he said.
He said three trade delegations representing American technology, financial services and manufacturing companies had cancelled trips to the Philippines in recent weeks.
At least two American companies have opted to do business in Vietnam instead "because of the president's anti-American sentiment".
Hinchliffe declined to name the companies or give further details.
The United States effectively ruled the Philippines from 1898, when it acquired the country from Spain, until recognising its independence in 1946.
About four million people of Philippine ancestry live in the United States, one of its largest minorities, and about 220,000 Americans, many of them military veterans, live in the Philippines.
An additional 650,000 visit each year, according to US State Department figures. According to a Pew Research Centre study last year, the Philippines is the most pro-US country in the world.
Despite the shared history, though, the Philippines has a strong nationalistic movement that has questioned the US alliance. In 1991, the government asked Washington to vacate the Subic Bay naval facility and the nearby Clark Air Base.
But as tensions increased with China over the territorial dispute in the South China Sea, the Philippines signed an Enhanced Defence Cooperation Agreement (EDCA) with the United States in 2014 that grants Washington increased military presence through rotation of ships and aircraft for humanitarian and maritime security operations.
However, Duterte has said that agreement will be reviewed and he insists that the Philippines, the third-largest Asian recipient of American military aid after Pakistan and Afghanistan, can do without assistance.
He was to leave for China on Tuesday on a state visit that could shift alliances in the region. Philippine government officials have sought to play down Duterte's comments.
"Where the president is coming from is that he wants to encourage the Filipino people to be more independent," said government spokesman Ernesto Abella. "It's not so much an anti-American relationship as a pro-Philippine sentiment."
Still, the mood was sombre at Dynamite Dick's bar in Olongapo when a Reuters reporter dropped in recently.
Edward Pooley, a former Marine colonel who has lived in the Philippines for nearly 30 years, said Duterte's words were "heartbreaking" but he remained optimistic about the bilateral relationship in the long term.
"We've always done a lot of charitable activities and... we feel the appreciation. Don't give up on us," he said.
The mayor of the city of 220,000, Rolen Paulino, said his people were "pro-American" but that he supports Duterte's shift in foreign policy.
"If the president wants to invite Russia and China...I will teach my people Russian and Chinese because we have to adapt," Paulino said.
But many in the business community have labelled Duterte's rhetoric as largely bluster and take comfort in the fact that he has yet to translate it into action.The business process outsourcing (BPO) sector - expected to account for 9 per cent of GDP this year - remains largely optimistic about growth in the Philippines.
"Suffice to say, there are questions that are being asked because of (Duterte's) statements," said Danilo Reyes, country manager of Genpact, one of the biggest American BPO companies in the country."But it does not really translate to actions, we continue to expand."


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Yume Wo Katare in Porter Square is not a ramen shop. Chef and owner Tsuyoshi Nishioka wants to make that very clear. Never mind that ramen is the only thing on the menu. He says it is a place to talk about your dreams and scheme up ways to achieve them.
To that end, Yume Wo Katare means "tell your dreams," and the tiny blue room is covered in frames holding the dreams of customers. You can pay $10 to have yours displayed for a month, up to $10,000 to have it up on the walls for 10 years. The logic behind this pricing structure is unclear. I learn this through translator Hinoki Kobayashi, a Harvard student who talked his way into a job after falling in love with the ramen. By writing down your dreams, says Nishioka, you become more accountable to them. If you achieve them, Nishioka will reward you with free ramen, and maybe a T-shirt.
Students like Kobayashi are exactly who Nishioka is making his ramen for. When he worked as a comedian in Japan, Nishioka never liked ramen much, until he got a day job working at a shop serving Jiro-style ramen, which is what he sells here. These are enormous bowls teeming with hearty wheat noodles, about half as thick as udon and wavy with a toothsome bite, thicker and chewier than at any ramen shops I've tried in New York and LA. The broth is incredibly rich and savory with a slick of oil, studded with bits of creamy pork fat. On top are deliciously fatty slices of roasted pork. Strips of cabbage and bean sprouts add crunch and just barely cut through some of the richness.
This is Nishioka's sixth restaurant. With two in Kyoto, two in Osaka, and one in Hyogo, he was looking to bring his amped-up ramen style to the US. He was specifically looking for a place with a student population, people without much money, and heads full of big dreams.
First he headed to Hawaii and decided there were not enough American students, too many Japanese-American adults. He continued to New York, which still didn't feel right. At his hotel there, he struck up a conversation about his plans with another guest, who suggested that Boston might be the place he was looking for. The next day he flew into town and found this Porter Square location.
When you sit down to eat at Yume Wo Katare, Nishioka shouts a question at you in Japanese. He's asking if you want raw garlic. You should say "yes," (hai in Japanese, pronounced hi) and you should not plan to smooch anyone that evening who hasn't joined you for dinner. You can also get extra pork fat (more fat!) or extra veggie toppings. There is a sign reminding you to only order what you can eat. If you can finish it all, more power to you.
There is a communal table for maybe 10 (elbow to elbow; you lose your inhibitions eating ramen properly, slurping it up) and several more seats at a counter that overlooks the kitchen. When you enter, you pay in advance and then sit against the wall and wait some more until you're told to sit at the counter or the table. Once you're done eating, you leave. No loitering.
There is only one enormous bowl of ramen on the menu ($12), about the size of a honeydew melon. There is no chili sauce or sriracha. Extra veggie toppings are free; three extra pieces of the meltingly tender, scrumptious fatty pork turn the bowl into buta ramen ($14). Good luck finishing that one.
There is no takeout, except for a pound-size piece of roast pork ($15), and no, they will not wrap up your leftovers. Tables have plastic pitchers of water; Poland Spring ($1) or Red Bull ($3) are also available. Or you can get a can of green tea ($2), served cold, or screaming hot with a few paper napkins wrapped around the aluminum. Here's another challenge: opening your can of tea, let alone drinking it, without scorching your fingertips and mouth.
Happily, the ramen is so deliciously savory, and warming — especially after you spend an hour shivering in the line outside, and you will have to do that in order to get in — that I'm unaffected by the disapproving looks from the kitchen when I push back from the table with half the bowl still full of soup. I waddle out smiling, in a pork-fat-induced stupor.
Days later, I return to Yume Wo Katare, and tell Nishioka how much I like his ramen, how I've been waiting for a place like this to come to Boston for years. He laughs; he's skeptical.
Says translator Kobayashi: Nishioka remembers my visits, and how I never finished a bowl. He remembers everyone who doesn't make it to the bottom, he says.
It's only then — when you take the last slurp of soup — that you can get the full view of your dreams.
I'll give it another shot, shivering wait and all.
Catherine Smart can be reached at cathjsmart


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Lily is such an incredible, amazing artist. I am constantly in awe of how she draws characters and expresses things through pictures/comics.
This comic is the only time I've ever really liked Tess.
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But now that I have, I love it~ Roger was a jerk
I've caught bits and pieces of this it's nice all in one place.
*Stands and claps with a single tear welling up in my eye*
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Elliot: It's Lily, not Lisa.
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Georges BIZET (1838-1875)
Le docteur Miracle (1857)
Laurette - Marie-Bénédicte Souquet (soprano); Le Podestat (Mayor) - Pierre-Yves Pruvot (baritone); Silvio/Pasquin/Docteur Miracle - Jérôme Billy (tenor); Véronique - Isabelle Druet (mezzo)
Orchestre Lyrique Région Avignon Provence/Samuel Jean
rec. September, 2012, Le Pontet, Auditorium du Grand-Avignon, France. DDD
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In 1856 Offenbach set up a competition to discover potential new composers of operette. Six finalists were chosen and given a libretto by Leon Battu and Ludovic Halévy for a one act work. The joint winners were Bizet and Lecocq and each of their efforts was given eleven performances in 1857at the Bouffes-Parisiens, Offenbach's theatre. Little more was heard of Bizet's work, and even after it was at last published some fifty years ago performances have been rare. This recording is a welcome chance to enjoy more of the composer's early works. Given the deserved popularity of the earlier Symphony in C of 1855 expectations are likely to be high.
In the event it must be conceded that Le Docteur Miracle is not really of comparable quality although it does have substantial merits. The very slight plot concerns the eventually successful attempts of Silvio to marry the daughter of the Podestat. He succeeds by disguising himself as a servant who cooks an omelette which is eaten by the Podestat. Silvio then claims (falsely) that it has been poisoned and disguises himself again, this time as a quack doctor who offers to cure the Podestat in exchange for the hand of Laurette. The offer is accepted.
The music consists of an Overture and seven vocal numbers separated by lengthy dialogue. Although the latter is presented with considerable dramatic flair it is hardly of such interest or amusement that most listeners would be likely to want to repeat the experience very often. The music, although amazingly professional and effective for a young and inexperienced composer, does tend at times to be generic in character.
The Overture, taken a fraction too fast here, is attractive and delightfully scored, as is the whole work. The vocal numbers are uniformly elegant and deftly written but do tend to outstay their undoubted initial welcome. This applies to even the best known number - the "omelette" quartet - for all its ingenuity and humour.
This is certainly a work which any admirer of the composer will want to get to know, but it would be best not to build hopes of its merits too high. It is nonetheless a thoroughly well-written piece that prefigures many characteristics of the composer's later masterworks.
The best thing about this performance is the clear dramatic involvement of both singers and orchestra. Even if none of them are outstanding the four singers all make the most of the opportunities presented, especially in the more lyrical moments. The orchestra similarly relish the ingenious scoring, although, as I have mentioned, at times a less hectic approach might pay greater dividends.
Timpani have provided a libretto in English and French which is helpful given the very speedy delivery of much of the dialogue where the two female voices sound disconcertingly similar.
Overall this is a disc that will give pleasure even if it does not reveal an undiscovered masterpiece.
John Sheppard
and the earlier review by Ralph Moore ...
When only eighteen years old, Bizet won jointly with Charles Lecocq, a competition to write an operetta. The contest was organised by Offenbach and entries were to be based on a libretto which was a French adaptation of Sheridan's "St Patrick's Day".
The result was "Le docteur Miracle", a charming, fizzing piece containing echoes of Rossini and passages anticipatory of "Carmen"; the greatest pleasure it affords to the listener is in the lively ensembles, but there are arias such as the Mayor's "J'ai déjà compté dans ma vie" which sound like pure Don Magnifico, as in Rossini's "La cenerentola". The plot is simplicity itself, with elements familiar from more celebrated operas such "The Barber of Seville" concerning the efforts of young lovers to circumvent their elders' attempts to keep them apart. It alludes also to other operas such as "L'elisir d'amore" and "Così fan tutte" in which "medical miracles" feature prominently for comic effect.
There appear to be only four other extant recordings: one a provincial performance in English from 1959, two French radio broadcasts from the early 1970s, both featuring the tenor Rémy Corazza, and another French-language version recorded in Lublin, Poland, in 2002, in which the "Podestat" is Pierre-Yves Pruvot, the same baritone we hear on this new recording. I have heard and reviewed only the 1975 off-air recording conducted by Bruno Amaducci and available on Opera d'Oro. This recording from Timpani instantly presents several important advantages over that Radio France disc, the first being modern sound without the sudden muffled bouts in an otherwise very listenable stereo broadcast. Secondly, the overture is here complete at 5:35; the Opera d'Oro disc fades it in, as the first thirty bars are missing on the original tape. Thirdly, we are given a complete French-English libretto whereas Opera d'Oro (in its de luxe "Grand Tier" edition; not the standard bargain issue) provides only the sung text and not the spoken dialogue. Finally, this recording, made in Avignon, asks the singers deliver their own dialogue instead of importing actors whose voices are almost invariably mismatched with those of the singers; that trap is triumphantly avoided here.
All of this should predispose me to recommend Timpani unhesitatingly over Opera d'Oro - but it's not quite that simple. While there is nothing wrong with Samuel Jean's direction, Amaducci is a more lively and idiomatic conductor; furthermore he has a quartet of star-singers from the 1970s, especially that most elegant of French baritones, Robert Massard and the lovely, creamy, plaintive soprano of Christiane Eda-Pierre. She occasionally skirts a certain under-the-note quality but she is an accomplished and touching singer with an excellent trill; her aria "Ne me grondez pas" is reminiscent of Teresa's aria "Je vais le voir" from Berlioz's "Benvenuto Cellini" which Eda-Pierre recorded under Colin Davis. Lyliane Guitton is excellent as Véronique and although the tenor of Rémy Corazza - whose voice reminds me very much of Welsh tenor Ryland Davies - is a bit bleaty, he is wholly in genre.
With the exception of Pruvot's attractive baritone - he is also amusing and adept in his dialogue - none of Jean's singers is the equal of those for Amaducci, although they are extremely competent and work very well as an ensemble. However, having nearly gone under, l'Orchestre Lyrique Région Avignon-Provence, here confirms its resurgence and proves its worth with some excellent playing.
The production values for this CD issue are ambitious and it is very attractively presented with a booklet, neat artwork and a slip-case. The usual problems with clumsy translation and sloppy proofing apply: "Podestat" should clearly be translated as "Mayor", not "Counsellor" given that the libretto is set in Padua, which has a "podestà. The translation of the libretto is far too free and loses nuances in the original French libretto. Thus, for example, "Ces chants à lui sont bien plus doux" becomes "Because I know that's not his voice" when it should be, ""His songs are much sweeter"; there are numerous typos in the English: "garnison" for "garrison", "teh" for "the"; "mit-wit" for "nit-wit"; "maid" for "made" and so on. The translation of the booklet essay is a gem of obfuscation; perhaps attributable to the rather pretentious French original. Thus we get sentences such as "The final quartet is highly evolutional" and "The archaic introduction installs an atmosphere of religiosity." Finally, and inexplicably, the translator chooses to give Silvio (or "Sivio" as the booklet first calls him) an assumed "cockney" accent whereas the Podestat specifically refers to "La rusticité de son langage". I know translators are often poorly paid, but please.
The cumulative effect of these admittedly nit-picking flaws is one of irritation but in the end it's the music which counts and this rare work is given a spirited and entertaining airing.
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Bold flavors. Power moves. Chest beefers. A thousand beers, you guys. If any of those references are familiar to you, then you're probably one of the over 52,000 people who follow the DadBoner Twitter feed, which is probably the best Twitter feed ever written by an imaginary middle-aged Michigan man who is separated from his wife and loves Bob Seger. The identity of DadBoner, aka Karl Welzein, is one of the best-kept secrets on the Internet, and for the past few weeks, we've been trying to crack it.
DadBoner usually goes online sometime in the late afternoon. And once he gets rolling, there's nothing stopping him. He's not afraid to use multiple tweets to tell a single story, like so:
Went into Mickey D's last night for a showdown with the manager over my Van Halen cd reimbursement. Had to get it on.
The manager said, "I'm sorry, but my hands are tied. My super said spills on your stuff aren't our responsibility." Tried to play hardball
Told the manager, "I'm your huckleberry, and that's just my game." Acted like he didn't know what I meant. Went in the john to regroup.
Called the Mickey D's from the john. Asked to speak to the manager as, "Mr. Welzein's attorney." They said he was "busy." He was not!
Dropped a massive BM of frustration (NO flush) & came out to give the manager a real smack down. Guess he went on break, so I left a note...
...on a Mickey D's napkin: "Watch your back, kimosabe." Power. Move.
Now that's just fucking awesome. It's a pristine Twitter feed. DadBoner never replies to other people. DadBoner never posts links. DadBoner never does Follow Friday or deviates from the story. He's a little island that exists on your feed, totally separate from the day's conversation. DadBoner is such a fully realized comedic character that it already feels as if he has his own FX show (I'm sure he will soon). Most everyone I talked to for this post agreed that the feed must be written by a seasoned comedy writer—someone who writes for Conan or something like that. But I asked a handful of people in the TV writing world, including Parks and Recreation's Mike Schur, if they knew anything about DadBoner. All of them pleaded ignorance.
Then I had a small breakthrough. A literary agent sent DadBoner a tweet asking about a potential book deal, and he got a DM back saying he was already represented by the folks at Creative Artists Agency. The book agent told me that the CAA agent handling DadBoner was named C.C. Hirsch, so I sent C.C. an email asking if I could arrange an interview with Karl Welzein. C.C. sent an enthusiastic reply: "Thank you for this. Would love to discuss via phone. You avail today at 4 pm or tomorrow?"
My hope was to interview the real guy behind the feed and ask him about how he started the feed, how he developed the character, if it was based on someone he knew, etc. Failing that, I thought maybe I could talk to him anonymously, or maybe even do a podcast with him in character. I was ready to present all those options when the agent postponed the call and then never followed up. Nine days later, after pestering her, I was told through a second party that, "Karl isn't planning on doing any interviews at this time." SHIT! Not cool, you guys.
Then I got this tidbit, thanks to friend of the blog Luke Cunningham:
At the Comedy Store last week, an agent from William Morris said they just signed him. He's a guy in his late 20s from Michigan who works as a retail manager in West Hollywood.
This agent was almost certainly lying, because DadBoner is signed with CAA. Still, I desperately WANT to believe that Karl is a retail manager. At the end of my rope, I finally broke down the other day and tried to tweet at DadBoner directly:
Dear @DadBoner, I would like to interview you for Deadspin/Gawker. I'm offering fresh 'ritas and a case of BL Plats. Hit me up.
A zillion people on Twitter then instantly corrected me on my DadBoner catchphrases. It's "BL 'Nums" and "top shelf margs." I felt like such a moron. Karl never replied. Of course he didn't. Silence is the ultimate power move.
Anonymity is one of greatest assets of being online. Plenty of people use it as a shield to say whatever they want about anyone else without repercussions (I know that's why I wrote under a stupid pseudonym for three years or so). But others use it in a more constructive fashion. The man behind DadBoner has cultivated this fictional character that's so funny, and so hilariously real, that he prefers to keep everything else a mystery. For now, at least. At some point, there will be a DadBoner book and probably a DadBoner TV show. And then, the real Karl may decide it's a sound idea to come out to the world (NOTE: I tried looking up "Karl Welzein" and "Carl Welzein" in California, just in case he was hiding his real name in plain sight. No dice.).
Or perhaps he'll just keep on operating in the shadows. Plenty of people online use a screen name even well after they've been firmly established (Gawker's own Mobute is one of them). For most people, it's really hard to keep it all under wraps, to not jump out and scream IT WAS ME ALL ALONG! Those who manage to resist are possessed of a willpower that I'll never have. It's kind of admirable, really. Then again, COME ON DADBONER! SHOW YOURSELF! WE'LL MAKE IT A HUGE CELEBRAISH! Seriously, if you know the man behind DadBoner, give us a ring. We'll give you five bucks and some cold ones, kimosabe.
Update, March 12: Found him.


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Over the last few weeks we've been hearing a lot of buzz about ArtPrize, billed as part arts festival, part social experiment. It's giving away the world's largest art prize—$250,000—and a 1995 Cedar Springs High School grad has the chance to win it.
Lisa Spielmaker, now of Lakeview, is a bookkeeper by day at White Creek Lumber in Cedar Springs, but she loves art and paints in her spare time. She took her first art class between 5th and 6th grade, and while in high school, two of her pieces were chosen for a show at Calvin College, for which she received an award. She earned a degree in 1998 from Grand Rapids Community College, where she focused on art and art history. Two of her pieces are still in GRCC's collection.
When she heard about ArtPrize, she was intrigued.
"It's exciting. I think it's cool to be part of something that brings people together," said Lisa.
ArtPrize is a radical new art contest based in Grand Rapids. Over 1,260 artists will display their work in 159 different venues in Grand Rapids. The boundaries are Leonard to the north, Wealthy to the south, College Ave. to the east, and Straight/Alpine Ave. to the west. The international contest will be decided solely on a public vote.
For her entry, Lisa created a piece of art titled "Essence" that is being displayed at the Ledyard building, 125 Ottawa, in Grand Rapids. According to her work statement about the painting, ESSENCE is "the inward nature, the true substance, or constitution of anything, as opposed to what is accidental, phenomenal, illusory. To me nature is one of the greatest inspirations. It brings us an inner peace. It is the essence of everything."
Lisa said that to her, the greatest pleasure in being an artist is to have a meaningful effect on other people. "Art is something that should inspire others. Art is the perfect way to communicate with people. I want people to see my work and take it for what it is. I don't create to be picked apart or critiqued. I create to create. I believe that is what art is, the love of creating something and no matter what it is, it is beautiful. Out of that blank white canvas, or board, or paper was nothing, and it became something."
Voting began yesterday for artist's works. Those who want to vote can pre-register online at www.artprize.org, then go to one of the various locations in Grand Rapids to register in person, and then start to vote. During the first week, artists will check out and vote on individual works of art, giving them a thumbs up or thumbs down. Voting can be done online at home, through texting on your cell phone, through your mobile browser, or iPhone app. Live results can be viewed online, and the first week of voting ends September 30. The top ten finalists will be announced the evening of October 1, and then you can only vote once, for one of the top ten pieces of art. Voting then ends Oct. 7. Winners will be announced in a celebration at Rosa Parks Circle, October 8, at 7 p.m.
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The Artist in Residence Program at Recology San Francisco is a unique art and education program that provides Bay Area artists with access to discarded materials, a stipend, and a large studio space at the Recology San Francisco Transfer Station. By supporting artists who work with recycled materials, Recology hopes to encourage people to conserve natural resources and promote new ways of thinking about art and the environment.
Since 1990, over 145 professional artists and 40 university student artists have completed residencies, making art from discarded materials. The studio is located at the San Francisco Transfer and Recycling Center (Recology San Francisco), a 46-acre facility that includes the Transfer Station (where trash goes before being sent to landfill), the Household Hazardous Waste Facility, the Organics Wing, the Public Disposal and Recycling Area ("the dump"), and other recycling areas. The facility, which is located west of Highway 101 near the former site of Candlestick Park, is also home to a three-acre sculpture garden containing work by former artists-in-residence.
During their four-month residencies, artists have scavenging privileges and 24-hour access to the company's well-equipped art studio. Artists speak to elementary school classes and adult tour groups about the experience of working with recycled materials. At the conclusion of their residency, Recology hosts a three-day, public exhibition and reception of their completed artwork. Artists contribute pieces to the program's permanent collection, and these artworks continue to be shown in off-site exhibitions that promote recycling and reuse.
Program Mission
- To encourage the reuse of materials
- To support Bay Area artists by providing access to the wealth of materials available at the public dump
- To prompt children and adults to think about their own consumption practices
- To teach the public how to recycle and compost in San Francisco through classroom lessons that explain the City's three-bin (recycling, composting, trash) system
Learn more about the program and its history:
Art at the Dump: The Artist in Residence Program and Environmental Learning Center at Recology is a 122-page book published in 2015 in honor of the twentieth-fifth anniversary of the program. It features the work of the 106 artists who participated from 1990 to 2015. This is the second edition of the book, which was originally published in 2010.
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Micah Gibson: (415) 330-1414
Sharon Spain: (415) 330-0747
Felisia Castaneda: (415) 330-9943
|Artist in Residence Program
501 Tunnel Avenue
San Francisco, CA 94134
Photo left: Jo Hanson, founder of the Artist in Residence Program at her home on Buchanan Street in San Francisco, 1989 (photo by Lori Eanes).
Listen to Richard Kamler's radio interview with Jo Hanson at ArtTalk.
The Artist in Residence Program at Recology was established in 1990 at the same time that recycling was being implemented in the city and county of San Francisco as a result of 1989 state law AB 939. This law required all jurisdictions in California to divert at least fifty-percent of their waste from landfills by the year 2000. Counties were required to have a County Solid Waste Management Plan to achieve this state-mandated goal, and as a result, the Solid Waste Management Program (SWMP) was formed in San Francisco.
Part of San Francisco's plan was to design an education program to promote recycling and resource conservation. The SWMP and Recology San Francisco (then known as San Francisco Sanitary Fill Company) worked together to create informational ads and brochures about recycling, develop classroom presentations, and organize tours of recycling plants. The goal was to teach people how to use curbside recycling bins and to encourage source reduction in order to promote a general awareness of how recycling helps protect the environment. Conceived by Jo Hanson, the Artist in Residence Program was the most innovative element of the education plan and the first program of its kind in the United States. Jo was a guiding force for the program and served as a member of the program's board from 1990 until she passed away in March, 2007.
Jo Hanson came to prominence in the early 1970s in San Francisco as an artist and activist and was a pioneering spirit in both the environmental and feminist art movements. After moving into a dilapidated Victorian house on Buchanan Street which she restored to landmark status, Hanson turned her efforts toward cleaning up her litter-strewn streets. Her personal act of sweeping one sidewalk turned into a celebrated public art practice and city-wide anti-liter campaign, Over time Hanson expanded her work beyond her neighborhood, and organized community street sweepings, a children's anti-litter art campaign for City Hall, and led a famous bus tour of San Francisco street dumping sites. Hanson's community-inclusive strategies set precedents in public "ecoart," created models for younger artists, and provided a representational voice in City Hall for those living in disenfranchised neighborhoods.
As a San Francisco Arts Commissioner for six years, Hanson championed the inclusion of underrepresented women and artists of color in the City's art collections. She was instrumental in the Arts Commission's restoration of the Coit Tower murals and the acquisition of artwork for the San Francisco International Airport. Hanson was also a driving force behind the preservation and restoration of Lucien Labaudt's WPA-era murals at the Beach Chalet.
In the late 1980s Hanson suggested to Recology and the City of San Francisco that they develop an artist-in-residence program at the city dump which would offer studio space and stipends for emerging and established artists to create artwork from the waste stream and raise public awareness about environmental issues. Now more than twenty years later, the Artist in Residence Program has been nationally recognized and awarded, and countless artists, children, and adults have benefited from Jo Hanson's vision.


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Microsoft next week will ship a beta release of Silverlight 5, the next generation of the company's proprietary multimedia plug-in platform, Microsoft officials blogged this week.
Silverlight 5 will be available at the Mix conference in Las Vegas, Microsoft officials said in a blog post about the role of plug-ins in the context of the rival HTML5 Internet multimedia specification and the future of the Web. The post was co-signed by Walid Abu-Hadba, corporate vice president of Developer Platform & Evangelism; Scott Guthrie, vice president of the .Net Developer Platform; and S. Somasegar, senior vice president of the company's Developer Division.
[ Also on InfoWorld: HTML5: Could it kill Flash and Silverlight? | Get your websites up to speed with HTML5 today using the techniques in InfoWorld's HTML5 Deep Dive PDF how-to report. ]
"As part of the continued support for scenarios that require plug-in based capabilities, we will ship a beta of Silverlight 5 at Mix, with some great demos for compelling scenarios," the post said.
Microsoft casts Silverlight as a development platform for building interactive user experiences for Web, desktop, and mobile applications either online or offline. Version 5 is set to highlight 64-bit capabilities, H.264 video, remote control support, improved power awareness, and digital rights management. Silverlight is positioned as a core fundamental building block for building rich experiences for Windows Phone.
Microsoft also views Silverlight as the best option for plug-in experiences. HTML5, meanwhile is billed by Microsoft as a solution for "many scenarios." Additionally, HTML5 is positioned as the foundation for the Internet Explorer 9 browser.
Since the introduction of Silverlight 1.0 in March 2007, two significant industry dynamics have changed, the officials said. Users have switched from using primarily PCs to using many devices, and HTML5 has emerged to support many scenarios that previously required plug-ins. "Neither plug-ins nor standards-based approaches, however, represent the single answer to client development. In general, we know developers always want the best of everything in a single tool, but at the same time recognize that is not a practical way to approach development. Developers need to make choices and tools will continue to evolve," according to the post
The officials said they probably have not done enough to emphasize tooling for HTML5. "We're going to emphasize that much more going forward as the clarity of feedback and the emphasis our customers want us to place on these tools for the professional toolbox is clear."
In 2010, Microsoft caused some confusion when it appeared the company would be relegating Silverlight to only Windows Phone because of remarks by executive Bob Muglia. He later clarified his remarks, saying Silverlight was geared to tasks not done in HTML.
Also at Mix, Microsoft plans to talk about Windows Phone, XNA, and Visual Studio.
This article, "Microsoft readies Silverlight 5 beta," was originally published at InfoWorld.com. Follow the latest developments in business technology news and get a digest of the key stories each day in the InfoWorld Daily newsletter. For the latest business technology news, follow InfoWorld.com on Twitter.


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The 2013 MacBook Air Review (13-inch)by Anand Lal Shimpi on June 24, 2013 12:01 AM EST
The GPU: Intel HD 5000 (Haswell GT3)
Hire enough ex-ATIers and you'll end up really caring about GPU performance apparently. It's good to see that Apple still views increasing GPU performance as non-negotiable, even at the MacBook Air level. Discrete GPUs are out of the question in the MacBook Air, so all models ship with Intel's on-die processor graphics. More importantly, all CPU choices integrate the largest GPU offering: Intel's HD 5000 (aka GT3).
Clock speeds alone prevent the 40 EU GPU implementation from being called an Iris 5100. Given the 15W TDP limit, Intel wouldn't be able to do the Iris name justice even if it tried.
It's hilarious that Intel refused to give out die photos for anything other than quad-core Haswell GT2, citing competitive concerns, yet at Apple's WWDC launch of the new MacBook Airs we got to see the first die shot of a dual-core Haswell GT3. Update: I stand corrected. Intel posted its own shot here.
From the die photo it's very obvious that like the quad-core Haswells with Iris Pro, the dual-core GT3 parts are over half GPU. Here's the only Haswell die shot Intel PR officially released by comparison, a quad-core GT2 part that's mostly made up of CPU cores:
Similar to the CPU discussion, on the GPU front Haswell has to operate under more serious thermal limits than with Ivy Bridge. Previously the GPU could take the lion's share of a 17W TDP with 16 EUs, now it has 15W to share with the PCH as well as the CPU and 2.5x the number of EUs to boot. As both chips are built on the same 22nm (P1270) process, power either has to go up or clocks have to come down. Intel rationally chose the latter. What you get from all of this is a much larger GPU, that can deliver similar performance at much lower frequencies. Lower frequencies require lower voltage, which in turn has a dramatic impact on power consumption.
Take the power savings you get from all of this machine width, frequency and voltage tuning and you can actually end up with a GPU that uses less power than before, while still delivering incrementally higher performance. It's a pretty neat idea. Lower cost GPUs tend to be smaller, but here Intel is trading off die area for power - building a larger GPU so it can be lower power, instead of just being higher performance.
|A Historical Look at MacBook Air GPU Performance
|Intel HD 3000
|Intel HD 4000
|Intel HD 5000
|Manufacturing Process
|Peak GFLOPS
This is an even bigger deal because few of the other OEMs seem interested in paying for the larger die. Acer's S7 uses Intel's HD 4400 (Haswell GT2, 20 EUs), as do most of the other Haswell Ultrabooks that have been announced thus far. Armed with a 2011, 2012 and 2013 MacBook Air as well as Acer's 2nd generation S7, we now have the ability to compare everything from Intel's HD 3000 (Sandy Bridge) all the way up to HD 5000. It's important to keep in mind that with the exception of HD 3000, everything here is built on the same 22nm process, and with HD 4400/5000 TDPs actually went down. In other words, post Ivy Bridge, any GPU performance gains were very hard to come by.
I'm splitting up the GPU performance data into three sections. The first is a look at some games/settings that are actually playable on processor graphics. The second is comparison data for laptop Bench. The deltas here are academic at best since nothing slower than Iris Pro can really deliver playable frame rates in our high-end notebook GPU tests. The final section focuses on synthetic performance, which should help characterize the peak theoretical gains you can expect from HD 5000.
All of the gaming tests were run under Boot Camp/Windows 8. I think it's time to retire the HL2/Portal testing under OS X.
Playable Gaming Performance
There's a surprising number of games that are actually playable on Intel's HD 5000 in the MacBook Air. You have to be ok with the fan spinning quite loudly, but it's possible to get some ultra portable gaming in if you're up for it.
For all of these tests I stuck with 1366 x 768 so I could run comparable data on the only HD 3000 equipped MBA I had, an 11-inch model. I also threw in data from Inte's HD 4400 using the new Haswell equipped Acer S7. I'll start with GRID 2, a brand new racer, running at relatively low quality settings.
GRID 2 is absolutely playable on the new MacBook Air. At 43.1 fps it's 16% faster than last year's HD 4000 model. A 16% gain without increasing TDP on the same manufacturing process is pretty impressive. The gains over the 2011 MBA are substantial. GRID 2 goes from almost playable to fast enough where you can actually turn up some of the quality settings if you wanted to.
Next up is Borderlands 2. Again, a fairly modern title, but one that's really optimized for current generation consoles - making high-end processor graphics more than up for the task. While a higher TDP implementation of Haswell's integrated graphics wouldn't have an issue here, things are a little more difficult with a 15W TDP.
We see a marginal improvement over the HD 4000, we're clearly thermally bound at this point. What's interesting is the HD 4400 on the S7 is actually quicker here. The difference could be cooling or how Apple decides to scale back on GPU frequency when faced with thermal limits. A quick look at Haswell's power reporting confirms that while running my Borderlands 2 test the GPU was already exceeding the PL1 (Power Limit 1) of 15W:
Remember, with Sandy Bridge Intel introduced Turbo Boost 2.0 that effectively allowed for two separate power limits - one equal to the processor's TDP (PL1) and one higher than the processor's TDP (PL2) that could be hit as long as the die temperature doesn't get too high.
Despite the sub 30fps frame rate in this benchmark, Borderlands 2 was definitely playable on the HD 5000. It wasn't always smooth but if you need your single player fix, it'll suffice.
I've had a few requests to bring back our Minecraft benchmark. We ditched it from our higher end GPU reviews since it's no longer stressful enough, but for 15W TDP iGPUs it's perfect.
Once again we see almost a 17% increase over Intel's HD 4000. The HD 4400 comparison is also very impressive with a 12% increase in performance vs. what most MBA competitors will be using.
When I was a kid all I wanted was a console that could play arcade quality ports of Street Fighter II and Mortal Kombat II. These days, even the latest Street Fighter title has no issue playing on free graphics:
16% seems to be the magic number as that's exactly how much faster HD 5000 is compared to HD 4000. Given the lower TDP this year, that's a pretty reasonable gain. Looking at the sheer number of transistors that had to be used to get there however gives you good insight into just how hard it is to improve performance without a corresponding process node shrink.
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Skolde - Monday, June 24, 2013 - linkI find the current display resolutions on these "premium" products to be very lacking for me to actually seriously consider a purchase. At least stick something in there like 1600x900.
....1366 x 768? Come on!
Also - bumping the memory up to 8GB would be nice. I know it isn't build to be a workhorse, but still.
The XPS13 from Dell seems to be a much nicer option currently.
rangerdavid - Monday, June 24, 2013 - link1440 x 900 on this 13".
ddriver - Monday, June 24, 2013 - linkWhy not, they put higher resolution on 5 inch phones...
darwinosx - Monday, June 24, 2013 - linkThey put higher resolution screens on their retina laptops. The Air focus on battery life and performance above all.
designerfx - Monday, June 24, 2013 - linkexcept that's a problem. You can't take advantage of certain basic parts of *performance* if you have a terrible display.
dsumanik - Tuesday, June 25, 2013 - linkHere is the non TLDR version of this review:
"intel came out with a new CPU, samsung made a new SSD and apple slapped it together last minute in an existing design. Ultimately, You get a slower, longer lasting air for a 100 bucks less that carries over all the little annoyances from last year."
whoop dee f*ckin do……..This is apple innovation?
"the m.2 spec wasnt far enough along to be used in this generation"
Oh please, What a load of horse ****. I think anand, like many other review sites invested heavily in apple stock and are now trying to stop the bleeding. Apple has been deliberately stifling user upgrades for years….That is why they have proprietary connectors…ON EVERYTHING...your readers, and your reviewer knows this.
"The only thing that hasn't changed, that perhaps should have is the display. "
ya think? My phone has better rez. You've been criticizing PC makers for 2 years about the 1366x768 resolution, and here we have apple in 2013 and you say they "perhaps should have changed"
Here are some "cheap" things they could have done to actually make this product an upgrade:
-move the thunderbolt port beside the power connector (no more stethoscope when plugged in driving a display)
-second thunderbolt port (now you can have 2 displays native and not be down a precious USB3)
-16gb ram availability (now I can run several VM's comfortably when developing)
-performance on par with last years MBA?
-nfc support
-4G support
here is some mild innovation they could have done:
-detachable screen (tablet notebook hybrid)
-retina display
-wireless desktop charger
3rd tier PC makers are coming out with better hardware than apple now, this year was critical and they've dropped the ball…with the exception of the Mac pro.
a smartwatch *could* be cool if it comes out totally water proof for active users…jogging swimming etc, if not i don't see the incentive to purchase unless it is super low cost.
what they need to "fix" the situation
-low cost iPhone (incoming 2013)
-large screen iPhone (2014)
-retina display across the board on all products (2015)
-updated thunderbolt display, USB3 and 4k Rez for under 2000 bucks.
-apple branded TV and home theatre system
-thunderbolt or USB3 sync speeds on all iDevices
Dump your apple stock now, it will bounce back but never to the highs it was previously.
Glindon - Wednesday, June 26, 2013 - linkBored much?
abazigal - Wednesday, June 26, 2013 - linkCan you name me all the other manufacturers who are implementing these features, much less doing them properly?
You want retina, there's the 13" retina MBP. And I think he was criticising manufacturers for using 1366x768 res on a 13" laptop screen. Apple uses that for their 11" MBA line, which I find is still acceptable.
Apple decided that a slight decrease in performance was an acceptable tradeoff for longer battery life. And I am inclined to agree with them. The new processor speed still more than suffices for what typical consumers use it for anyways.
What am I supposed to do with NFC on a laptop? You want the power source to be beside the thunderbolt port. I don't think there is quite sufficient space for 2 USB ports on one side, and so long as it hooks up to your thunderbolt display just fine, does it really irritate you so that the two cables split up?
Personally, I feel there is nothing Apple "needs" to do. I am perfectly fine with their products. I like them, I buy them.
ysaykin - Saturday, July 13, 2013 - linkI think that in a way the comments are right. 11 inch laptops for $1000 should have some luxury features. One of those is amazing battery life, good keyboard, nice display, and good performance. The macbook air has some bases covered, but lacks the display. The resolution is fine for a sub $600 notebook but not at $1000, also a TN panel on a $1000 notebook sounds like a rip off. It should have been at least an ips panel. The longer battery life is only achievable because Mac OSx has been optimized for battery life, but if you use windows on the machine your battery takes a huge dip. So is it a good laptop, definitely, but is it worth the $1000 price? I think it's def a mac tax. Look at the Lenovo yoga which if updated to haswell would have awesome battery life, touchscreen, ips 1600x900 resolution, and convertible to tablet mode.
rudolphbyers - Thursday, October 9, 2014 - linkThere's nothing that could replace my MacBook Air! /Rudolph from http://www.consumertop.com/best-laptop-guide/


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