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When the 2011 Western Buckeye League football schedule was released, eyes were instantly drawn to Week 10.
Kenton vs. Wapakoneta.
The buzz was immediate.
All the two teams had to do was survive the toughest WBL gauntlet in recent memory.
Each had their too-close-for-comfort moment — the Redskins' 14-13 win over Bath in Week 3 and the Wildcats' 30-28 win over Elida in Week 6.
But they came out on top. And now, here it is, Week 10.
9-0 vs. 9-0.
Wapak is ranked seventh in Division II in the latest AP state poll. The Wildcats are No. 1 in Division IV.
On the line, a WBL title. It would be Kenton's fourth in a row and the first for Wapak since 2006.
The percentage of high school football players who get a chance to play in a game of this magnitude is minute.
They write movie scripts about games like this.
The Wildcats bring in the No. 1 offense in the league. Wapak, the No. 1 defense.
"They're the king of the Western Buckeye League until they're dethroned," Wapak coach Doug Frye said. "You'd have to call us the underdog going into this game."
Kenton, behind Missouri-bound quarterback Maty Mauk, is averaging 524.3 yards — 406 of that passing — and 46.4 points per game.
The Wildcats have obliterated opponents, winning by more than three touchdowns on six different occasions.
Along the way, Mauk has rewritten the record books once penned by older brother Ben, who now serves as the quarterback coach under Kenton head coach Mike Mauk, their father.
The youngest Mauk has thrown for 3,403 yards and 43 touchdowns this season alone.
Those numbers are a career for most high school quarterbacks.
He has completed nearly 70 percent of his passes this season (246-of-361) with just eight picks.
"We're going to have to take care of the football. That's the No. 1 thing," Frye said. "We're going to have to make sure we don't give them big plays. They're going to get their yardage. They're going to move the chains. ...
"We have to make sure that after their initial catch or once Maty breaks into the open, we don't give them big, big runs. We have to make them earn their drives."
Maty Mauk also leads the team in rushing — Kenton rarely lines up with a running back in the backfield. He is sixth in the WBL in rushing with 1,037 yards and 14 touchdowns. His 7.9 yards-per-carry average is the best in the league.
"His scrambling ability is the X-factor," Frye said. "Obviously you know he has a great arm and he has very good receivers and they're going to make plays."
Kenton pulls out all the stops — going for the two-point conversion on every score and routinely employing the on-side kickoff.
Teams have used different game plans in trying to counter the Wildcats' aggressive attack.
Elida put its faith in the ever-reliable leg of kicker Nathan Jenkins, only to lose by two points.
"You have to be able to match their points," Frye said.
Defiance saw this and tried to go for two on every score, only to find the end zone just twice in a 54-15 defeat.
A year ago, Ottawa-Glandorf handed Kenton its only defeat by dropping virtually its entire defense back into pass coverage.
The Redskins defense comes in limiting opponents to a league-best 268.6 yards and 12.4 points per game.
Wapak has held opponents to two touchdowns or fewer six times this season.
Frye has something up his sleeve.
But he's not talking.
"We'll have multiple strategies on defense," Frye said.
Off the record?
"We'll have multiple strategies."
Frye has faced Mike Mauk's all-out spread attack 12 times in his head-coaching career, both at St. Marys and Wapak, and will draw on that experience Friday night.
"There are things we've done right and things we've done wrong," Frye said. "And there are things we've done right and still haven't been successful."
Wapak is second in the league in scoring (39.3) and third in yardage (387.3).
The Wildcats, defensively, are third in yards allowed (294.4 per game) and fourth in scoring (20.2 per game).
"Every year their defense is scrappy, up-tempo, gets after you, tries to create turnovers," Frye said. "It's a very, very solid defense."
If there is an area Kenton is vulnerable, it's against the run.
Bath's Aaron Smith bashed his way to 242 yards against the Wildcats. And Defiance's Nick Lopez rushed for 187 yards last week.
"A lot of emphasis is put on defending Mauk and the spread offense," Frye said. "The best way any team can defend that is to run time off the clock. ... The better we do at that, the better chance we have for success."
This much is for sure, this game will be one for the ages.
"I don't believe either team will keep anything in the barn for the playoffs," Frye said.


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The Harvard wrestling team opens its Ivy League season Saturday against Penn and Princeton at the Malkin Athletic Center. The Crimson wrestles Princeton at 10 a.m., before taking on Penn at 3 p.m.
Scouting the Crimson
Harvard heads into the weekend with a 2-8-1 dual record. The Crimson is led by senior co-captains J.P. O'Connor and Louis Caputo. O'Connor is ranked No. 1 at 157 pounds and sports a 20-0 record, while Caputo is sixth at 184 pounds with a 13-2 mark. Harvard has wins over Sacred Heart and Franklin & Marshall and a tie with Hofstra.
Scouting the Tigers
Princeton heads into the weekend with a 4-8 overall record. The Tigers have wins over Franklin & Marshall, VMI, Merchant Marines and Duquesne. The team will face Boston University Friday night and Brown Saturday afternoon.
Freshman Garrett Frey leads the team with 19 wins at 125 pounds. Kurt Brendel (184), Michael Erdman (174), Andrew Lowy (165) and Luis Ramos (141) all have 10 or more victories this season.
The Series
Princeton leads the all-time series with the Crimson, 44-32-3, but Harvard has had the upper hand, winning 13 of the last 14 matches. The only time the Crimson was not victorious during that stretch was in 2003 when the teams tied. The last time Princeton beat Crimson was on Feb. 4, 1995.
Scouting the Quakers
Penn comes into the weekend with a 6-4 overall record. The Quakers have won two straight including a 32-12 win over Hofstra in its last outing. Penn faces Brown Saturday morning before traveling to Cambridge.
Junior Stephen Burak paces the team with 27 wins and is ranked 18th at 165 pounds. Juniors Zack Kemmerer (141) and Bryan Ortenzio also have 20 or more wins on the season. Senior Cesar Grajales is 6-1 on the season and ranked ninth in the nation at 149 pounds. Classmate Matt Dragon, who has also seen limited action, is 3-2 on the season and ranked 15th at 157 pounds. Junior Scott Griffin, who is ranked 19th at 174 pounds, sports a 15-3 record. Freshman Micah Burak is ranked 20th in the nation at 197 pounds and owns a 16-5 mark.
The Series
Penn has won the last 19 duals against the Crimson and leads the all-time series 36-30-2. Harvard's last win against the Quakers came in 1990, when the Crimson defeated Penn, 27-9 at home.
Team Leaders
J.P O'Connor leads the Crimson with an 12-0 record this season. Louis Caputo, who only started competing in January, is not far off with his 13-2 record. O'Connor has nine bonus point wins, while freshman Steven Keith has eight.
The Harvard Victory Club
J.P. O'Connor moved into second on Harvard's all-time wins list with 117 career victories. Louis Caputo closed in on third with 116 wins. Jesse Jantzen '04 holds the program record for wins with 132.
Wrestling and Volunteering
During preseason the Harvard wrestling spent several weekends volunteering in the community and bonding with each other. J.P O'Connor spearheaded the team to help out with a Habitat for Humanity project in Dorchester. The team worked together off the mat to help out a community by hanging sheet rock and painting. The team helped out the Harvard Student-Athlete Advisory Committee (SAAC) in a three-mile walk as a tribute to Myles Brand, the former NCAA President who passed away in September. During the January break from classes, members of the team volunteered at the Lutheran Church Homeless Shelter in Cambridge. The wrestlers worked four shifts several times a week.
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The little one that you see stuck was drilling in progress when the slide began. The ground started moving and the people disconnected the auger and ran like hell. Joking aside, I think the large rig was brought up after the slide. My recollection is that they were drilling the big hole intending to actually put a geologist down into it, to survey the layers and test the moisture levels and shear characteristics of the soil. Because Mount Soledad is known to be so active (and the residents so wealthy and litigious), the city wants to more thoroughly characterize the area. There are several known faults running directly beneath the mountain. They may also have intended to drop I-beams to help stabilize the area. Mostly, this is undertaken privately by the homeowners (to the tune of $200,000+), but in this case, with a fairly major through-road at stake, they might have already been starting to prepare for rebuilding. Also, of course, many of the neighbors were probably considering doing some support work themselves and doubtless the city would want to conduct some sort of examination of the area before approving and permitting those plans.
Everybody loves that in-situ information. Yeah, I'm pretty sure they were going to drop a PG down the hole to directly examine the layers and fault lines. I'm not confined-space certified, so it ain't gonna be me (not that I know enough geology to do anything anyway).Yeah, we use the little ones too. 10-inch mostly, I think, to get 2-inch and 4-inch diameter wells. I'm not involved much on the drilling side.
Yeah, I bet.I went on a trip at the beginning of the year to Sharktooth Hill in Kern County. It's been a dream of mine to go since I was a little kid, but it's private property and has been closed to the public for a number of years now. Didn't take a lot of pictures of the geology of the site, but I think my friend took some pictures of the haul. In all, ~100 shark teeth up to about an inch and a half long, two whale and one dolphin vertebrae, a couple of gastroliths, plus an ambiguous fossil-like thing. As sure as I bring a girl, though, she pulls the prize fossil of the whole trip - a beautiful seal canine tooth with a complete root maybe 3 1/2 inches long. Just gorgeous. Two people, five hours of digging each, not too bad. It's all Miocene stuff. It's an extensive bed with a ton of whale bones. The mammalian bones were pretty beat up, only the ribs and the vertebrae were still easily identifiable, but the shark teeth are in perfect condition. Very soft matrix made the fossils easy to remove, plus it eroded far faster than the fossils themselves, so everything was sticking out. It was like picking fruit. Now, I've just got to ID them...


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Effects of Doxycycline on Persistent Symptoms Post-neuroborreliosis
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|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT01205464
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First Posted : September 20, 2010
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|Condition or disease
|Fatigue Radicular Pain Cognitive Dysfunction Paresthesia Paresis
|Drug: Doxycycline Drug: Placebo
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Persistent symptoms after treatment of neuroborreliosis (NB) are not uncommon. There is currently no evidence for improvement of symptoms after repeated or prolonged antibiotic treatment. However, clinical observations have indicated that some patients improve during treatment with doxycycline (DOX), but regain the symptoms some time after completed treatment. This may be due to an immunomodulatory effect of the drug. The aim of this randomised, double-blind crossover study was to determine whether DOX has an impact on the persistent symptoms through alterations in the immune response and whether such an effect can influence the clinical outcome.
A total of 15 patients from South-East Sweden with previously adequately diagnosed NB with diverse persistent symptoms ≥6months after antibiotic treatment were randomised in a double-blind, crossover fashion to receive either DOX 200 mg or placebo (PBO) once daily for three weeks, followed by a wash-out period of six weeks and a further three-weeks treatment with either DOX 200 mg or PBO once daily for three weeks. The primary outcome measures were improvement of the persistent symptoms and physical and mental health, evaluated using the visual analogue scale (VAS), the 36-item Short-Form General Health Survey (SF-36) and through physical examination with special emphasis on neurologic status at the follow-up visits. Secondary outcome measures were changes in drug-induced antigen-stimulated and unstimulated cytokine responses.
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|Immunomodulatory and Clinical Effects of Doxycycline on Persistent Symptoms After Treatment of Neuroborreliosis: A Double-blind, Randomised, Crossover Study
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|February 2005
|Actual Primary Completion Date :
|February 2008
|Actual Study Completion Date :
|February 2008
Active Comparator: Doxycycline
Treatment with Capsule Doxycycline 200 mg, once daily, for 21 days.
Drug: Doxycycline
Doxycycline, 100 mg, 2 capsules once daily, 24 hour time interval, 21 days.
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Placebo Comparator: Sugar pill
Capsule Placebo, 200 mg, once daily, for 21 days.
Drug: Placebo
Placebo, 100 mg, 2 capsules once daily, 24 hour dosage interval, 21 days.
Other Name: Sugar pill
- Improvement in persistent symptoms [ Time Frame: 12 weeks ]
- Changes in cytokine levels in plasma/serum in patients during treatment with DOX/PBO [ Time Frame: 12 weeks ]
Choosing to participate in a study is an important personal decision. Talk with your doctor and family members or friends about deciding to join a study. To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the contacts provided below. For general information, Learn About Clinical Studies.
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|18 Years to 85 Years (Adult, Older Adult)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
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Inclusion Criteria:
- a history of adequately diagnosed and treated neuroborreliosis (presence of intrathecal borrelia-antibody production)
- persistence of symptoms (with debut in conjunction with neuroborreliosis) of typical character, such as headache, radiculitis, cognitive dysfunction, fatigue, mood disorders, paresthesia or paresis > 6 months post-treatment of neuroborreliosis
Exclusion Criteria:
- systemic immunosuppression (treatment with corticosteroids, cytostatics etc)
- ongoing infection at inclusion
- allergy against doxycycline
- pregnancy
- breast feeding
- psychiatric disease
- multiple sclerosis
- rheumatoid arthritis
- diabetes mellitus type 1 or II
- inflammatory systemic diseases
- liver ohc kidney dysfunction
- treatment with didanosine, quinapril, antacids
- malignancy
To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the contact information provided by the sponsor.
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier (NCT number): NCT01205464
|Clinic for Infectious Diseases, University Hospital
|Linköping, Östergötland, Sweden, 58185
|Principal Investigator:
|Pia Forsberg, MD
|Department of Infectious Diseases, Faculty of Health Sciences, Linköping university, Sweden
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she is a cutie... but what ever... so i have a question do atheist have guilt?? god she is a hottie
I once noted to the rather Christian husband that the main difference between our belief systems is the fact that he can pray his sins away while I have to make daily sacrifices to ensure I can go to bed with a clean conscience. First of all, not the right thing to say the first month of your marriage, definitely not the right thing to say while said Christian husband is still sulking over the fact that he couldn't have a religious ceremony (Not because of me, mind you, I agreed to live a lie for a day to make him happy but his religion wouldn't allow me. Related advice, telling your spouse you'll "live a lie and follow your delusions while wearing a pretty dress that will get shoved into a closet and forgotten" isn't the best way to have the marriage ceremony talk).
Lastly, it was, and still is, the only thing I've said about religion that he couldn't debate.
Wow.... what is she doing that makes her feel so guilty? I can only imagine. hmmmm
There is so much I still can't fix or solve. My ignorance is sometimes glaring, but I rail against my limits. I see cruelity and ugliness, but sometimes I am impetent to change it. I sometimes suffer under the yoke of BS, and I am bound by practicalities.
You hit the nail on the head, Keira. It's why I assiduously avoid committing any kind of crime.
Aren't we all just forgiving ourselves at some point? The only difference is that some say it's a god or a higher power who as granted them forgiveness. Even with a belief in god, some people punish themselves for years or more before they're able to move on.


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John Portman & Associates (JPA) has recently seen its stunning design for the Park Hyatt Hyderabad realised in one of India's most rapidly developing cities. The team worked in collaboration with HBA on the scheme. WAN quizzed Walt Miller, Senior Vice President at JPA about the design:
What were the defining inspirations for the Park Hyatt Hyderabad?
Hyderabad, the capital of Andhra Pradesh in south central India, has always been a bustling city and, with its recent emergence as a hub for the information technology industry, the rapidly growing metropolis has begun to expand across the area's arid terrain. The hot environment, coupled with the fast pace of India's fourth most populous city, led us to design the Park Hyatt Hyderabad as a place of cool, calm serenity and tranquility - a refuge from the intense traffic, harsh climate, and parched landscape.
We believe that a design should take its cues from historic elements of the surrounding architecture to create a modern yet sensitive response. We examine the overall and immediate context of a project to create a design vocabulary attuned to its community, yet not an imitation, to ensure that the new design becomes an integral component of the existing environment and that it responds the physical opportunities and constraints of the site. This strategy not only benefits the project, but also increases the aesthetic appeal of the neighborhood and provides a catalyst for the growth of the surrounding area.
Drawing inspiration from traditional Indian architecture, the design was conceived as a microcosm focused around an interior courtyard with terraced gardens, descending into a reflecting pool highlighted by a monumental sculpture that soars two stories high. Abundant interior plant life, the large reflecting pool, the openness of the atrium space, natural light, the color palette, the spa spaces, and air conditioning all contribute to the creation of an indoor oasis.
The main goal of the design is to provide a place where guests and residents can stay, enjoy and relax. During the day, guests can appreciate the gardens with natural light penetrating through the vast skylights. At night, they can delight in restaurant and bar activities around the sparkling waters of the reflecting pool.
The large interior space was designed, in part, to accommodate the pageantry of grand Indian weddings, which were targeted as an important source of business for the hotel. Interior design by HBA accents the strong architectural detailing. Drawing inspiration from the local culture, the carpets feature Indian motifs inspired by henna patterns, while sumptuous fabrics, such as silk, in vibrant colors add a sari-inspired element.
What were the design challenges faced and how were these overcome?
Probably the biggest challenge was mitigating the hot and arid climate in a sustainable and operationally efficient manner. In order to temper the intense sunlight typical of this part of the world, the east and west façade provide sun shade screens. The atrium features several long span skylights with the use of Kalwall (instead of glass), a material that takes full advantage of the day lighting benefits of the harsh sunlight while rejecting most of the thermal heat gain.
Natural boulders are a protected part of the landscape in the Banjara Hills region, so the building had to be designed so as not to disturb these naturally occurring boulders - making a 'tight' site even tighter. But our design was able to successfully overcome this challenge by embracing the natural beauty of the boulders, which is evident in the large one found to the left of the front entrance.
How does the design blend elements of traditional Indian architecture and modern technology/building processes?
A Vastu Master was consulted and Vastu principles influenced how the space was organized. The site is naturally sloped towards the North and Northeast, which is considered excellent per Vastu principles. Vastu considerations which were incorporated into the Park Hyatt Hyderabad include:
1. The Northeast and Northwest angle of the plots were each aligned to be at a perfect 90 degree angle. A Northwest triangle subplot was used for ancillary building services and the boundary wall between the two sub-divided plots was camouflaged by landscaping.
2. The Main Entrance for the hotel was positioned to be from the Southeast sector of the plot. Once inside, the primary entrance into the hotel faced East. No entrances or exits were allowed in the Southwest or South sections.
3. The Southwest corner of the plot was heavily built with minimum open space, in contrast to the Northeast, North and East sectors which were designed to have maximum open spaces.
4. The Southeast corner of the plot was reserved for 'fire elements' such as generators, etc.
5. An underground Sump (Water Tank) was located in the Northeast sector of the plot. 6.
The pool in the center of the atrium and the way the atrium steps inward also acknowledges traditional Indian architecture. For centuries, water has been featured throughout traditional Indian structures to take advantage of its cooling properties. Baoli - the Hindi word for stepwell - are bodies of water encased by a descending set of steps. As a building heats up, evaporating water cools the air. Of course, in the case of the Park Hyatt, air conditioning actually cools the building, but the stepwell look of the atrium lends a comfortable familiarity to underscore the tranquility offered by the space.
The façade, designed specifically for the region's harsh climate, combined modern extruded aluminum sunscreens and low E insulated glass with a rain screen design featuring natural Madurai granite from South India in the cladding. The façade further gives a modern interpretation to traditional Indian architecture in the east and west elevations. In traditional Indian architecture, windows are often divided into 3 fields: A larger, almost square, center and two vertical panels at the sides. In addition, the top part of each window is usually divided again into elements that break the sunrays: latticed screens or 'jaali' to filter direct sunlight. The effect is not just decorative; it also helps reduce the heat and provide internal shade. The bottom part is often solid or semisolid so that the only part left for vision is the very center part of the windows.
The spa, while featuring the latest equipment and a cosmopolitan menu of treatment offerings, is inspired by the wellness practices of Hyderabadi Nizams.
Has John Portman & Associates benefited from the industry boom in India?
We've been involved with projects in India since the mid-1990s. In addition to the Park Hyatt Hyderabad, our portfolio of completed projects includes projects such as Taj Wellington Mews in Mumbai and the Indian School of Business also in Hyderabad. We enjoy working in India and actively seek new opportunities there.


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I am not going with the mass.. This is my opinion. Through my own usage of it, and my own experience I have determined MYSELF that in my opinion it is not ready, and shows no signs of ever being ready. For reasons of usability, design, bloat.
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#1 NADER TO LIMBAUGH, GET OFF WELFARE (oh this is good)07-11-2008, 04:16 PMMugu (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Fri Jul-11-08 01:23 PM
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Dear Mr. Limbaugh,
The Associated Press reports your new contract with Premiere Radio Networks will enrich you with at least $38 million a year over the next eight years. You are making this money on the public property of the American people for which you pay no rent.
You, Rush Limbaugh, are on welfare.
As you know, the public airwaves belong to the American people. The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is supposed to be our trustee in managing this property. The people are the landlords and the radio and TV stations and affiliated companies are the tenants.
The problem is that since the Radio Act of 1927 these corporate tenants have been massively more powerful in Washington, DC than the tens of millions of listeners and viewers. The result has been no payment of rent by the stations for the value of their license to broadcast. You and your company are using the public's valuable property for free. This freeloading on the backs of the American people is called corporate welfare.
It is way past due for the super-rich capitalist--Rush Limbaugh from Cape Girardeau, Missouri--to get himself off big time welfare. It is way past due for Rush Limbaugh as the Kingboy of corporatist radio to set a capitalist example for his peers and pay rent to the American people for the very lucrative use of their property.
You need not wait for the broadcast industry-indentured FCC and Congress to do the right thing. You can lead by paying a voluntary rent--determined by a reputable appraisal organization--for the time you use on the hundreds of stations that carry your words each weekday.
Payment of rent for the use of public airwaves owned by the American people is the conservative position. Real conservatives oppose corporate welfare. Real corporatists feed voraciously from hundreds of billions of dollars in corporate welfare gushing out of Washington, DC yearly.
Whose side are you on? Freeloading? Or paying rent for the public property you have been using free for many years?
I look forward to your response.
Sincerely yours,
Ralph Nader
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It's a pretty damning indictment of Nader's political thought process when he stoops to lecturing entertainers on their use of the "public airwaves".
Want to get attn: attack the #1 talk show host in the nation who, by the way, has done more for the American people than Nader has ever done. #2 make sure he's on air,and not a Friday when he's at the dentist getting surgery.#3 try not to look like your the next star of weekend at Bernies 5.
OK asshats, here is your recipie for competing against rush:
Of course they are the public airwaves, you just need a million bucks, a whole team of lawyers, about 5 years of your time and you too can own a radio station. THen with YOUR transmitting equipment, you can broadcast what the hell you want as long as the money lasts.
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Oh brother...Good going there Ralph. That had to be one of the most stupid little
screeds I've read in a while. Worthy of Will Pitt!!! :DMay the FORCE be with you!
What Ralph is really pissed at is ,of course the free market.
He wants the government to force radio stations to pay them money when they are successful ( even thou the government is getting money from annual licencing fees).
Fore Rush to get " welfare " he'd have to be getting money from the government ( shades of NPR).
Instead Ralph wants the governemt to come in, in the name of " THE PEOPLE " and start shutting people down who can get more listeners in a fifteen minute segment then Ralph can gather at any of his $ 50,000 speeches. In other words, most people ( not including the Moombats who've seem to have forgiven him for the 2000 election) Don't care to listen to Ralph and his neo-communist rantings.
But like every left wing goof, Ralph just wants to silence all other voices but his own; Moonbats do love censorship, don't they.
So until the Moonbats shove through The renewed Fairness Doctrine, Americans at the moment can listen to anyone they choose, not just the ones the government tell you you can.
And fore the moment, I can still tell the Moonbats who want to censor everyone in site to collectivly pound sand up their ass and stay the f*ck out of my life.
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LAST Saturday, Oxford United unveiled Gary Waddock as their new head coach and he took charge of his first game away to Southend on Monday evening.
I can see why United chief Ian Lenagan appointed him as the man to succeed Chris Wilder because he knows how to lead a team to success.
Getting Aldershot back into the Football League 2007-8 and Wycombe Wanderers up into League One in 2010-11 are both on his managerial CV.
As there is no guarantee of success in football, to Lenagan this appointment would seem less of a gamble and more of a calculated risk.
Back in January when Wilder and United parted company, I spoke of wanting to see the U's go for a hungry young manager on the rise, not someone who was established or had been there and done it.
So that's why the appointment of Gary Waddock doesn't excite me.
I have worked under Waddock during my time at Wycombe and that's part of the reason I'm not excited.
On my 34th birthday on October 14, 2009, Wycombe appointed Waddock as the new manager, replacing Peter Taylor, and it didn't turn out to be the best birthday present I had ever received.
Just like most new managers when they take over, individual meetings with players take place almost immediately and as team captain at the time, I was the first of them to meet with the new gaffer.
In that meeting, he asked for my opinion of the team and where I felt we needed improving. I gave him my honest opinion and truthful answers.
He spoke to me about his ideas, plans and the way he wanted to go forward. He also asked for my help as a senior player and team captain in getting players to believe in him and his methods.
I thought it was a positive meeting at the time, but soon realised it wasn't – and it proved the theme of our short working relationship.
When Waddock did not pick me it obviously hurt and dented my professional pride, just like it would any player.
I can handle that and never took it personally because he wasn't the first manager to ever overlook me in their starting XI.
My biggest disappointment was that I felt I should have been treated better than I was, handled differently and given more respect by Waddock and his staff.
I was banished from training with the first team, was made to train with the kids and had to do running sessions on my own on a Saturday morning. That was some of what I thought was unnecessary treatment handed out to me.
They were very 'old school', pretty prehistoric methods of excluding someone from your plans, when really all it takes is just a simple conversation between manager and player.
It all boils down to man management and that's a skill you must have in the modern era of football.
If I saw Gary Waddock tomorrow I would shake his hand, as I bare no grudge against him. In fact as I see it, Wycombe's loss was St Johnstone's and Oxford United's gain.
I hope United also gain from the new appointment, as I would love our handshake to be congratulating him on promotion to League One.


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I agree. Steve's music has gotten more abstract, formless over the years. I'm sure it's intentional, as he seems to be about impressionism and sound painting than structured melodic pieces like his older work.
As much as one part of me enjoys the minimalism and focus of these pieces and other newer Steve Roach releases (like 'Spiral Meditations'), I do miss the days where individual tracks would have more distinct developments and contrasting sections within them. I remember often loving the majestic gear shifts throughout some tracks on The Magnificent Void, Mystic Chords and Sacred Spaces, that album The Dream Circle, the Vir Unis and Vidna Obmana collaborations, and many others. But this isn't specific to Steve's output; I've noticed that a number of ambient artists I like tend to focus on one main 'idea' per track these days, whereas their past works often had more surprises and definite shifts within individual tracks.
I only recently got into Steve's music thanks to the 30 years Structures From Silence release, so there is much to still discover.I am listening to The Magnificent Void which is on spotify , deep dark and magnificent !! Unfortunately Mystic Chords and Sacred Spaces is not on Spotify, so it sounds as if it is one to order urgently, thanks for the tip.


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Oprainfall writes:
"If the Wii U cannot keep up with the current-generation technology, what hope could it possibly have once the next-generation consoles become available? Has Nintendo lost the "console wars" already?"
I dont how Nintendo fans continue to cling to hope of seeing some truly next-gen looking game on Wii U. Right now there isnt a single game on Wii U that can prove that it is a significantly more powerful console than PS360. Moreover, the hardware specs arent very "next gen" either. Just look at the specs of PS4/Orbis and Durango. Now those are REAL next-gen consoles which will able to run games like Watchdogs and Star Wars 1313.
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Your typically graphics fanboy, like Watchdogs and Star Wars 1313, one TPS one GTA clone. This is awesome games? You knows? Why? Buy yet and testing the game? No, only you see graphics and say this is awesome games. Typically.
I think the GPU from reading the article was a great choice if it keeps the cost of games down. Sure programmers prefer the CPU(going from the article) but if he next box and ps4 both do a GPU, that would become the new standard would it not? Also on a side note I didn't know the USB ports were 2.0, I honest thought they were 3.0 ones, not like I would notice a difference. Anyways reading the article I thought was well wrote.
I really don't get what's so hard to understand. Nintendo is in a class of their own. The Wii u will provide games that a lot of us grew up with in HD! As a gamer why should you care that the next Mario won't look better than the next Nathan or master chief? I never bought a console for its power I bought consoles because of the gamer in me. We all no that the Wii u most likely won't be as powerful as the next ms or Sony consoles, but do you really think I will enjoy Zelda hd any less? Nope...
What the WiiU desperately needs is advertising. Look at the Wii campaign, it was everywhere and you knew exactly what the Wii was about. It's like Nintendo isn't even excited about what they've released (Gamepad controller, TVii, interaction through Miiverse).
WiiU also need games, which is a shame they haven't been on top of releases the past month. They need a game like "X" to show the wide capabilities of the WiiU, as well as more 3rd party support. Also, why hasn't a game like Watch Dogs been announced for the WiiU yet? It fits the Gamepad perfectly and should be a part of the partnership Ubisoft said they were crafting.
Anyway, the WiiU needs to step it up into high gear, they can't let it sit on shelves and hope people "get it". You walk into the store, see a sign for the WiiU, and yet have no idea what it is all about. They can't expect the casual to understand what it can do or the Hardcore to pick it up on a whim. We are looking for the best console with the best games, if Sony and MS release a system Nintendo can't compete with (in games and features, not power), then don't expect WiiU to take off (Gamecube at best)


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"The chance to give back to the community through the 'Team Up to Fight Cancer' initiative has been very rewarding", said head volleyball coach Erin Appleman, who organized the event alongside head field hockey coach Pam Stuper and head women's soccer coach Rudy Meredith.
"The amazing support of our fans and the Yale community has shown us that 'Team Up to the Fight Cancer' can be a much larger and even more successful event in the future", added Appleman.
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1. Re: AS 6 support / compatibility?Ales Justin Sep 25, 2010 4:52 AM (in response to Scott W. Ruch)1 of 1 people found this helpful
Is Spring integration usable / supported in AS 6?
Afaik, there should be no difference between AS5 and AS6.
Or perhaps you're seeing some issue / difference?
2. Re: AS 6 support / compatibility?Scott W. Ruch Sep 25, 2010 10:51 AM (in response to Ales Justin)
No issue - just looking for confirmation. The documenation references AS 5.
3. Re: AS 6 support / compatibility?Marius Bogoevici Sep 25, 2010 2:30 PM (in response to Scott W. Ruch)1 of 1 people found this helpful
Actually, the 1.0 and 1.1 builds of Snowdrop are not compatible with JBAS6, because of an internal change (migration from VFS2 to VFS3). Compatibility with JBAS6 is the goal of Snowdrop 2.
1) If you are using Spring 3, then you can run your application as-is (i.e. without the VFS application contexts), but make sure that you use 3.0.3 or later because of https://jira.springframework.org/browse/SPR-7197
2) For the Spring deployer, there is a JBAS 6 version which is also Spring 3.0 based, that can be found here for now [1]. A release for this is forthcoming, before JBAS 6 CR1 comes out.
This works with JBAS 6.0.0-M3, but there shouldn't be any issue with it running against a later version of JBAS. Please let me know if this doesn't work.
Hope this helps,
4. Re: AS 6 support / compatibility?Gerald Quintana Jan 25, 2011 6:10 AM (in response to Marius Bogoevici)
This comment is very valuable (in particulier Snowdrop 1.x incompatible with JBoss 6 and useless with Spring 3.0.3) and a compatibility/choice matrix (JBoss vs Spring) on Snowdrop main page is a must have. If I understand:
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- JBoss 6.0 --> Not compatible until SnowDrop 2.x
- Spring 3.0
- JBoss 5.x --> SnowDrop 1.1
- JBoss 6.0 --> Not required (except for Deployer) and not compatible until SnowDrop 2.x
- Spring 2.5
5. Re: AS 6 support / compatibility?Marius Bogoevici Jan 25, 2011 8:58 AM (in response to Gerald Quintana)
Yes, this needs to be more visible. I'll move this at the top level.


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A plan proposed by Missouri superintendents could possibly end the potential transfer of unaccredited Kansas City Public Schools students to local, accredited districts such as Blue Springs, Independence and Lee's Summit.
Putting focus on improving individual schools that are underperforming rather than transferring students out of unaccredited school districts is the proposal devised by Missouri educational leaders, including superintendents from Blue Springs and Independence districts.
Superintendents from all over the state convened in Jefferson City earlier in November to discuss an alternative in state law which allows students to transfer from unaccredited schools to neighboring, accredited school districts. "New Path to Excellence" is a plan the 16 Missouri superintendents in attendance agreed upon that would place a priority on fixing individual schools that are not meeting expectations on both a district and state level.
"Transferring students out of unaccredited districts is not in the best interest of students," said Independence School District Superintendent Dale Herl. "We agree that pulling students out of their neighborhoods and transporting out of their support groups - including their parents, extended families and faith-based communities - will not lead to student success."
According to Herl's explanation of the New Path to Excellence proposal, the focus will be fixing individual school buildings where students are struggling academically rather than on entire school districts.
"The New Path to Excellence would change the way schools are accredited," said Herl.
Herl said the proposal would establish levels of accreditation: fully accredited (where Independence and all other Eastern Jackson County school districts currently stand), provisionally accredited (districts scoring between 50 and 69 percent on their annual performance report), academically stressed (districts performing less than 50 percent on their annual performance report) and lapsed (when a district cannot demonstrate improvement within five years of their unaccredited status).
The Missouri schools annual performance report grades districts on expectations of the Missouri School Improvement Program – known as MSIP5. The program is the state's accreditation reviewing process that is mandated by law. According to Herl, there are five main categories schools are reviewed on for the annual performance report that include academic performance, student attendance, ACT and SAT exams district performance and college readiness.
"There are 140 forms of criteria possible for a district to be measured within the MSIP5 model," said Herl.
"In the Kansas City public school district, 19 of their schools are actually provisionally accredited or fully accredited," said Cooperating School Districts of Greater Kansas City executive director Gayden Carruth. "The remaining 13 schools of the district are unaccredited and the entire school district is being branded as unaccredited when a significant portion is performing."
Carruth said "it does not mean they (the 19 provisionally and/or accredited Kansas City public schools) are in need of intervention or help, but this plan can target and work with those specific schools who are unaccredited."
Carruth elaborated on how the New Path to Excellence plan compares to the current model implemented by the Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education:
"Basically nothing happens until a school district becomes unaccredited. To use a medical analogy, a school district has to bleed to death - in this case unaccredited status - until it receives attention. (With this New Path to Excellence proposal) schools who show indication of struggling or actually are underperforming will receive a review team of education personnel appointed by DESE that will examine particular schools and see what needs to be done (to improve) early on."
A number of strategies would be recommended by the review team, says Carruth. "Many things such as more teaching time can be suggested," she said. "Schools would have about five years to improve. The plan is saying, 'let's prescribe this and see how it works from there.' You look at how things are going, and it's best to have another set of eyes to get better."
Previously there were review teams evaluating school district performance, said Carruth. But with the lack of funding from DESE and districts relying on their own funds to visit neighboring districts for recommendations on improving, the review teams were no more.
In the meantime, Carruth said, the Missouri education commissioner is refining the proposal to present to the state board of education which will ultimately decide on whether to implement it.
"This plan addresses the issues and concerns of the transfer situation," states Carruth. "Everything is not spelled out yet. Some things (in the plan) need to be tweaked and modified."
As for Kansas City School District's thoughts on the proposal, they are supporting the plan, according to Carruth. "They (Kansas City schools) want to make things less punitive."
Although Carruth says Kansas City superintendent R. Stephen Green did not attend the meeting with Missouri school leaders in Jefferson County earlier in the year, he has reviewed the plan and according to him, "it's a plan that can be lived with."
Asked whether the plan will have an impact on the impending lawsuit.
"This plan will change how state student transfers are viewed," said Herl. "It will have impact on a statewide level."


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The family became interested in obtaining a dog after learning the potential impact a furry friend could have on their son.
"Early in 2008, we visited a friend who had a dog from 4 Paws. We were amazed when soon after arriving, Luke started to interact with the dog by snuggling into it—a reaction we had never seen before," reflects Maria Burr, the boy's mother. 4 Paws for Ability is a nonprofit organization dedicated to connecting children with a variety of disabilities with service animals.
"We made contact with 4 Paws in America and found out that the only way we could obtain a dog for Luke was to fundraise," Burr says.
Luckily, the community was behind them.
"I think the fact that autism had been in the news quite a bit at the time and also that Kiwanis (clubs) are there to support children, we felt it an ideal cause to pursue," says Diane Hodgson, secretary of the Morrinsville, New Zealand, Kiwanis Club.
Funds from the club's Easter Raffle combined with those from the local Lions, Rotary, Fitness Centre and other organizations helped the family obtain a dog in two years.
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It seems like people like to judge sources on their service but I will tell you first hand, fast service does not mean the gear is good! I know it sucks having to wait for packs! But sometimes the gear is well worth the wait. people want reliable fast shipping service and I have lately seen some sources who sell shitty gear get thumbs up ratings.
I also notice people like to post feedback on a source without even trying the gear. alot of praises for how easy and fast the service was. What good is fast service if the gear is crap?
One source in particular has a huge clientelle and I cannot figure out why, (is it because GH15 said the guy had great gear)? his products are all hype and there have been no tests to show it is any good or bad. But I can tell by having used it and talking to more advanced users who have used this sources gear it sucks! The only thing that is good is the super fast service and prompt replys. I have seen this way too many times with sources. just a warning to some folks out there sometimes having to wait a week or two is actually worth it in the long run. just my honest opinion. don't believe the hype. also I would always start small when using a new source.
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November 15, 2012, 08:02:22 AM »
From my own experience there are different grades of gear too.
Some gear gives huge PIP, some gear causes bad acne, some gear causes either.
Even though my free test levels are the same, within 10-15 points on the blood scale we use.
The same goes for HGH, HCG, Slin etc.
Those who are impatient enough to think that 10-15 days to wait obviously think that bodybuilding is overnight sport
Nice post WW its so very true.
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November 15, 2012, 07:03:20 PM »
so you are stating that private mans gear is shit ?
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November 15, 2012, 11:21:37 PM »
Quote from: prophecy on November 15, 2012, 07:03:20 PM
so you are stating that strangers gear is shit ?
Yeah this is what I got out of this post as well, lol. Is that who you're referring to WW?
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November 16, 2012, 06:29:54 AM »
I am not saying who it is-you might be wrong prophecy. Gh15 has made alot of referrals even approved kami at one point wich was a shitty referral. All I am saying is it is not just one source!
this is a huge problem that goes down on every board!Sometimes a source will have a good batch or batches and get alot of clientelle then start underdosing or taking shortcutts leading to a subpar product, or sometimes they just get bad raws by their supplier!
I personally think the best gear is over-seas but alot of people hate the cuctoms scare and are more comfortable ordering within the states wich is fine but just be careful and start out small and build up. We do not have those SRCS Testing rights anymore!
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November 16, 2012, 09:39:38 AM »
look bro there no point of bringing up kami and all that kigs bullcrap that came with it,,,you just said its one source in particular then in your second post you say its not just one source....if you are not going to state which " ONE SOURCE IN PARTICULAR" that your talking about whose gear "SUCKS" then your post is useless
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November 16, 2012, 09:51:49 AM »
I have to side with WW, I dont know the guy from a hole in the ground and am fairly new on the board (perhaps i should shut the fuck up)
but even in my own experience, in my own back yard buying local 90% of the time.
Guys talk bro science, guys buy what they think is good, guys buy what the dealer tells them to, when you find a good batch and think you have a good source you get fucked.
Its not one guy, its not one source, its not one batch.
Shit happens.
Just know who your buying from, know what your getting. I love buying local so that when my bloods come back bad, I can go smack them in the face.
I think the simple fact is you can hit the mcdonadls and get fast food in about 5 minutes, but it does not mean that its good for you.
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November 16, 2012, 09:56:25 AM »
yes, you should take your own advice and stfu because if it is who i believe he is trying to point the finger at then it is a big deal
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Gotta agree with prophecy that this post isnt helpful without specifics. Of course fast service =/= good product just like slow service =/= good product. If you base the legitimacy of a product off shipping speed you probably shouldn't be ordering anything to begin with. So without specifics here I feel like there is no take home point to be had besides what should already be common sense for ordering anything online, not just gear.
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Quote from: prophecy on November 16, 2012, 09:56:25 AM
then it is a big deal
No it's not.
Just because he is private and backed by a few people doesn't make him any better than any other private source. There are a bunch of private sources out there that are not giving you anything special and i think that's WW's point.
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Quote from: prophecy on November 16, 2012, 09:39:38 AM
look bro there no point of bringing up kami and all that kigs bullcrap that came with it,,,you just said its one source in particular then in your second post you say its not just one source....if you are not going to state which " ONE SOURCE IN PARTICULAR" that your talking about whose gear "SUCKS" then your post is useless
What I am talking about is people jumping on bandwagons just because somebody else says the product is good, GH15 did start a big bandwagon with the Kigtropins! He approved both DL's and Kamis and several people got ripped off for jumping on the band wagon. The same things happen with UGL gear! A few people who have inside connections with a source or are referring their gear for free product it happens all the time!I have seen it happen for years!
We can not speak on sourcs handles so you have no idea who I am talking about! It is way more then just one person! I have also seen it go on for years with sources and clients! I cannot count the times I have seen a source get a bump and they have not even tried the gear! They will post something like "just got my pack in 3 days, great service" Then they never post their feedback using the actual product!
For Years I have seen HUGE private sources get over 100 pages of feedback and they would sometimes sell shit gear! could of been the raws. I don't think they had bad intentions but they sold the gear even though it was semi crashed. at least this sources cyp turned out semi crashed and some turned out ok. But I notcie people get scared to post something negative because they are worried about getting slammed by other customers or even worse banned. I never care if I get a bad product I will post it up. I don't care what anybody else thinks even if I get slammed by other members but some members are not as bold or are scarred of being banned or not liked.
anyway one of these private sources with a 100 page thread who personally sold my crashed cyp also sold others crashed gear at diffrent points and also sold batches of painfull sust. It might not been every batch but what some of us got was just wrong! Yet this guy was the top source! amateur bodybuilders had to go to the hospital! despite all this he still was the most popular source. his sales did go down but not much as some people wouldn't believe it all they did was rag on some of us who got crap gear! some of the gear I got was good but some of it was pure shit!
I think alot of people are attracted to high dose domestic gear that is cheap. If I cannot buy human grade gear locally wich is what I try to do, no matter if the 10ml vial of watson Test depot is 100$,I will usually buy overseas. I believe you caan find cheaper higher quality gear overseas but sometimes I have had to buy domestic and take a gamble usually products I need in a hurry.
The whole point of my thread is be careful who you by from ! Try not to jump on these UGL bandwagons becauise the sources thread is 100 pages. start small and test th quality! Bodybuilders do not have san rafael chemical Services anymore! We cannot get our gear tested! Our sources also cannot get their raws tested! They can take the word of a COA coming from their source but IMO no COA is trustworthy unless it is a 3rd party COA. When it comes down to it seems like some people these days are easily pleased!
It is only when they have to wait a few weeks they get bitchy. Obviously I cannot name any names but start small and maybe try a few sources and then find a source that has the best gear. Alot of sampling is what it takes. No matter what always buy human grade gear even though some faceless person online says somebodys UGL gear is better then watsons Test Depot. I love when I hear that one.
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William Wellman, in full William Augustus Wellman, (born February 29, 1896, Brookline, Massachusetts, U.S.—died December 9, 1975, Los Angeles, California), American film director whose more than 80 movies include Hollywood classics of documentary-like realism and who has been ranked as an action director alongside Howard Hawks and John Ford.
Early life and work
Wellman's stockbroker father came from a family of means; his mother, an Irish immigrant, was a well-respected probation officer who testified before Congress about juvenile delinquency and whose charges included her son when Wellman was kicked out of high school in Newton, Massachusetts. After trying his hand at a number of jobs, Wellman became a professional ice hockey player in Boston, where actor Douglas Fairbanks, Sr., saw him play, took a liking to him, and offered to find him a job in Hollywood. In 1917, before the United States had entered World War I, Wellman volunteered for ambulance duty in France, then joined the French Foreign Legion, and finally became a fighter pilot in the Lafayette Escadrille, a French air corps unit made up of American flyers. In the process he earned the nickname "Wild Bill," was shot down, and won the Croix de Guerre for gallantry under fire. Before the war ended, Wellman joined the U.S. Army Air Corps and served as a flight instructor in San Diego. Following the war, Wellman took up Fairbanks's longstanding offer and went to Hollywood but, after appearing in a small role in the silent film The Knickerbocker Buckaroo (1919), found that he did not like acting. With Fairbanks's help, he then got a job at Goldwyn Pictures as a messenger and worked his way up through the ranks of the new industry.
Films of the 1920s
By 1923 Wellman was directing B-film westerns for the Fox Film Corporation (later Twentieth Century-Fox), and in 1926 he signed with Paramount. His third picture for that studio was Wings (1927), a World War I aviation drama written by former pilot John Monk Saunders and starring Clara Bow, Richard Arlen, and Charles ("Buddy") Rogers (Gary Cooper also had a small part). It shared what was in effect the first Academy Award for best picture with F.W. Murnau's Sunrise. Wings reflected Wellman's lifelong interest in aviation and his war experience while setting standards for documentary-like realism with its remarkable aerial camerawork and spectacular staging of airborne combat. Wellman and Saunders collaborated again on The Legion of the Condemned (1928), a tale about the Lafayette Escadrille that featured Cooper. For most of his career Wellman would work often and fast; as a result, many of his films were workmanlike and unremarkable, including his first partial sound film, Beggars of Life (1928), and the succession of underworld dramas and romances that followed during the late 1920s.
Films of the early to mid-1930s
In 1931 Wellman moved to Warner Brothers, where he directed 15 motion pictures over the next three years, including his next significant effort, The Public Enemy (1931), a genre-defining gangster saga that became one of the year's biggest hits and launched James Cagney on the road to stardom. The Public Enemy had much to do with the establishment of the film Production Code in response to its realistic depiction of disreputable characters and callous violence, not least when Cagney's cocky tough guy famously smashes a grapefruit into the face of a woman, played by Mae Clarke. Wellman's next two films starred his favourite actress, Barbara Stanwyck, who played a fearless nurse who stands up to a gangster (Clark Gable) in Night Nurse (1931) and then played the lead in So Big (1932), a truncated version of Edna Ferber's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of the same name. For the remainder of the early 1930s, Wellman made a series of melodramas—with some aerial adventure mixed in—before turning to the pre-Code gem Wild Boys of the Road (1933), a message film in the best Warner Brothers tradition about three Great Depression-ravaged kids who take to the road in search of a better life.
Having made seven films for Warner Brothers in 1933, Wellman ended his association with the studio and began a very successful period as a freelancer. Among his films from the mid-1930s were The Call of the Wild (1935), a major box-office success that starred Gable as the Yukon-conquering hero of Jack London's novel of the same name; The President Vanishes (1934), a cautionary political tale that is memorable chiefly for providing Rosalind Russell's first screen appearance; and the love story Small Town Girl (1936), which teamed Robert Taylor and Janet Gaynor.
Films of the late 1930s
Wellman embarked on his most creative period with A Star Is Born (1937), producer David O. Selznick's remake of the George Cukor-directed What Price Hollywood? (1932). Wellman collaborated with Robert Carson and Alan Campbell on the story, which won an Academy Award for best original story. Wellman also received a nomination for best director; stars Gaynor and Fredric March were nominated for the best acting awards; and the screenplay and film also received nominations. Just as outstanding in its own right was Nothing Sacred (1937), a scathing screwball comedy that featured what some believe to be Carole Lombard's best performance and a surprisingly modern screenplay by Ben Hecht about media manipulation. Wellman returned to the skies with Men with Wings (1938), a Technicolor account of the early days of aviation, written by Wellman and Carson.
Beau Geste (1939) was a spectacular remake of the 1926 silent film based on the novel of the same name by Percival C. Wren. Cooper, Ray Milland, and Robert Preston starred as brothers who stake their honour against the cruelty of their Foreign Legion commander (Brian Donlevy, in a performance that earned him an Academy Award nomination for best supporting actor). Wellman's follow-up was The Light That Failed (1939), a sensitive adaptation of a Rudyard Kipling story that starred Ronald Colman and Ida Lupino.
Films of the 1940s
After stumbling with the whimsical Reaching for the Sun (1941), Wellman had greater success with the comedy Roxie Hart (1942), which many decades later would be the basis for the Broadway musical and film (2002) Chicago. A string of largely unexceptional motion pictures preceded the next entry in Wellman's film canon, the Academy Award-nominated The Ox-Bow Incident (1943; known as Strange Incident in Britain), a powerful indictment of mob rule based on Walter van Tilburg Clark's 1940 novel of the same name. Henry Fonda, Dana Andrews, Anthony Quinn, and Harry Morgan starred in that dark, claustrophobic western about the lynching of innocent men that follows a rush to judgment. The murder mystery Lady of Burlesque (1943), Buffalo Bill (1944), which featured Joel McCrea as the Wild West's most flamboyant showman, and the action film This Man's Navy (1945) followed.
Wellman then directed The Story of G.I. Joe (1945), which is regarded by many critics as one of the best motion pictures about World War II. Robert Mitchum earned an Academy Award nomination for best actor for his portrayal of a battle-weary infantry captain, and Burgess Meredith gave a memorable performance as war correspondent Ernie Pyle, on whose coverage of the U.S. Army's Italian campaign the film is based. Gallant Journey (1946) permitted Wellman another foray into the roots of aviation; Magic Town (1947), a satire of Middle America written by longtime Frank Capra collaborator Robert Riskin, featured James Stewart as a pollster who locates the average American town; and The Iron Curtain (1948) was a Cold War drama about Russian espionage in Canada. Arguably more accomplished than all three of those films was Yellow Sky (1948), an exciting western in which Gregory Peck and Richard Widmark faced off.
Wellman next moved to Metro Goldwyn Mayer. Despite the fact that he and the studio proved to be an awkward pairing, Wellman still managed to make several notable films under its aegis, not least Battleground (1949), an account of the Battle of the Bulge during World War II that was a major box-office hit. The film brought Wellman an Academy Award nomination for best director.
Films of the 1950s
The Happy Years (1950) was turn-of-the-20th-century Americana about a boy's prep school, and in The Next Voice You Hear (1950), God decides to talk to the United States over the radio. Across the Wide Missouri (1951), an expensive Technicolor western with Gable, was a more-typical Wellman undertaking. Wellman then directed a segment of It's a Big Country: An American Anthology (1951) and made Westward the Women (1951) from a story written by Capra. My Man and I (1952), a melodramatic romance, and Island in the Sky (1953), a World War II aviation drama that starred John Wayne, set the stage for Wellman's next big hit, The High and the Mighty (1954). That prototypical airplane disaster movie featured a cast that included Wayne, Robert Stack, Claire Trevor, and Jan Sterling. Academy Award nominations went to Sterling and Trevor (both for best supporting actress) as well as to Wellman (best director).
The ambitious, arty Track of the Cat (1954), starring Mitchum, was a moody psychological western in which Wellman used colour cinematography but limited his palette almost exclusively to black, white, gray, and brown. Blood Alley (1955) pitted Wayne and Lauren Bacall against Chinese communists, and Good-bye, My Lady (1956) was a sentimental film about a young boy and his dog set in the American South.
As his career wound to a close, Wellman returned to his roots with the combat films Darby's Rangers, which was set during World War II, and Lafayette Escadrille (both 1958), the latter his most-autobiographical film, dealing with his own flying unit during World War I. Over his prolific career Wellman put his name on scores of films, many of which were unmemorable; however, when he was at his best, his films were regarded as highly as those of any of his famous contemporaries.Michael Barson The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica


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Writing a 'History of the ….war' is always an ambitious idea, and one that is very rarely pulled off. There's just so much to cover, it can only ever really be a framework at best. Not since Basil Liddell Hart's History of the Second World War has a historian really gone close to covering this vast conflict in one volume. In any case, it's all been so well written about, what is there that we can add anyway?
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