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|Synth Site: Miscellaneous: Synergy GDS II: User reviews Add review
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|SynthBaron from Florida writes:
Support is terrible. =/
|Rating: 1 out of 5 posted Thursday-Jun-17-2004 at 03:09
|William a professional user from USA writes:
hey out there. i've recently came across a Digital Keyboards Inc. Synergy. Now I don't know how I can tell if it is the GDS II or not, but its big, black, many dials, sounds like a plane starting when you turn it on (motor is in good shape) lol. At any rate, I'm trying to sell the instrument, anyone know its true market value? It's in good-great condition. Comes with original dual-foot pedal, and dust cover reading "SYNERGY"? Any help would be greatly appreciated..Also, is the slot on the right side of the keyboard for expansion? for saves? thanks...
|Rating: 5 out of 5 posted Wednesday-Jun-16-2004 at 15:04
|posted Monday-Jun-09-2003 at 06:48
|Bob Cowart a hobbyist user from Berkeley, CA, USA writes:
I have the whole setup, was influced by Wendy Carlos who uses the Synergy system. She wrote tons of compositions using it, including Digital Moonscapes, music for Tron and Clockwork Orange, etc. I have the Kaypro 2, software, cable for connecting the synth and computer, all the sound carts, and a library of voices on Kaypro disks.
You can do some serious programming of this board. It's quite a performance instrument, because it has a 4-track sequencer onboard, you can loop each track independently, and you can record tracks while you're performing. Just record a riff then loop it, change patch, and do another one. Easily build up the sounds this way and accompany yourself. Of course, there are only so many oscillators, so you can run out. But it's really quite run.
It also has this amazingly fun random vibrato option. Turn it up deep, and you're getting random notes before you know it. Play a chord in this mode, and it's a truly unheard of sound. Haven't head any other synth do this. Beats fusion and/or Arnold Shoenberg with a stick!
The keyboard is pretty OK. But get this, it has bi-directional velocity sensing! So not only can you control amplitude/timbre by how fast you press, but how fast you release also can have similar (or totally different) effects.
The computer interface lets you store the system state (all the patches and sequences), as well as edit the voices and store them, using graphs on screen, the keyboard, and the knobs on the front of the synth. You could have a completely different setup for different acts, recording projects, etc, and just load them all in from disk.
I also have the MIDI update that is pretty complete, but not totally (sustain isn't implemented), and did replace the fan to quiet it down. It's now very quiet.
The sounds are not that great. Used it in a dance band, and they kept wanting stuff like like Rhodes or B3, or DX7. What can I say? The orchestral sounds are pretty awesome, though, esp. those that Wendy Carlos did. Like trumpets, pipe organs, bassoon, etc. Didn't really cut it for a rock band though.
I'd sell it, if you're interested. For the right price.
|Rating: 3 out of 5 posted Monday-May-22-2000 at 16:35
|Norm Demour a professional user from Northampton, MA writes:
This synth is phenomenal! I have the Synergy II with the kaypro for editing; however, I have a few Wendy Carlos ROMS and they are stunningly beautiful and dark sounding. Very strange futurisic gamelan tones with a new meaning each time a key is struck. Anyone selling Wendy's ROM's please contact me!
|Rating: 5 out of 5 posted Friday-May-12-2000 at 04:35
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A few months ago, Simply Yours and Simply Be launched a 'Get Your Straps Out' competition – you were asked to send in a photo subtly exposing your bra strap in the most imaginative place. After entering the competition, I was really surprised and over the moon to hear I was picked as one of the lucky winners; the prize being 12 sets of Gossard Lingerie (the equivalent of a years supply!)
I was so excited to be chosen, and thought what better way to test out this lovely underwear, than review it on here. It's no secret that I've often struggled with Gossard, and have previously had trouble finding the perfect fit. This is largely because they don't make my regular size of 30GG. It is important to note that their bras go no higher than a G cup, and no lower than a 30 band although I do hope this changes one day.
Having tried only 32Gs in their styles in the past, and knowing that they were too loose all over, I felt confident enough to decide on 30G. It was a risk, but a risk I'm glad I took. All the styles I was sent are 30G, and all the pants are a Large.
When the very large box arrived, I was slightly overwhelmed by what a great gift it was. I opened it feeling like it was Christmas morning, to find an array of beautiful and striking garments. I have since been (not so patiently) waiting for my day off to test them out.
There are a total of 12 sets, and what seem to be 5 different styles.
Three Gossard Superboost Laces
Two Gossard Wild Prints
Two Gossard Superboosts
Two Gossard Fleurs
Two Ooh La La's
And One Gossard Allure
Unfortunately the only full length mirror I have is permanently scuffed, so I've taken some more photos of each set on the hanger to give a better reflection of the colour and material. Please do excuse the shoddy full length photos.
Numbers 1, 2 and 3; the Superboost Lace bras.
I found the Superboost Lace bra very sexy, especially with all that lace, but the cup felt a little more like a 30G than some of the others, which meant it was on the small side. Fortunately it's not so small that I can't wear it, but I definitely could do with wearing a cup size bigger. The back was nice and tight, definitely a firm 30. I preferred the comfort of the briefs compared to the thong, but I did think the thong looked great alongside the lacey suspender belt!
Numbers 4 and 5; the Wild Print Bras:
I very much love the Wild Print bras – I think every woman should own at least one animal print undergarment. I've tried this style of Gossard bra before, but in a 32G, and the fit was just way off. I've discovered it's actually big in the cup, so to downsize to a 30G was actually spot on (phew!). The colours are bold and exciting, and the 30 back was just perfect, not too loose and not too tight, the briefs were comfy too!
Numbers 6 and 7; the Satin Superboost bras:
The Satin superboost bras actually fit surprisingly well. The back was very firm, and the cups were actually quite comfortable. I don't often wear thongs, but these ones were very soft to the touch. The Celebration set has a little champagne bottle detail on the front instead of the classic 'G' detail – a nice added touch!
Numbers 8 and 9; the Fleur bras:
Possibly my favourite sets out of them all. I am a sucker for blues and purples, so the Blueberry really caught my attention. The red with the black lace edges just looks divine – lingerie heaven!
I found again that the cups and the back fit very well – I definitely wouldn't want this one in a GG, the G was actually perfect, the back felt very similar to that of the Wild Prints. This time I actually liked the briefs and thong equally. The thong was cut in such a way as to flatter curves rather than cut into them. A great set all round.
Numbers 10 and 11; the Ooh La La bras:
I got on very well with The Ooh La La plunge bra, the back was tight but not too tight, and the cups just about fit, although I could do with a bigger cup. The strapless, which has some useful removable straps, is a full cup bra – because of this, it meant there was no way I could really fit in to it. It is a lovely garment, but the back was also much tighter compared to the plunge – I think this may be an instance where I could fit into one of their 32G's, possibly! The suspender belt was lovely, but as I was wearing size large pants, the belt was also a large, but my waist isn't. Now I know this, next time I order with them I will pick a different suspender belt size for sure!
And last but not least, number 12; the Allure Plunge bra:
A smouldering and beautiful set, the Allure certainly lives up to its name. There is a sort of nude underlay, which makes it more exciting than being just a simple black bra. I found the cups very small. They were quite stiff which made it less easy to squish myself in, I think even a 30GG would've been just about manageable, and probably even in that size I may have wanted to size up. For those who can fit into it, I would recommend it, it feels great on.
With all of these sets, I felt they were supportive enough for an evening, but perhaps not all day long. They wouldn't be the bras I wear to work, but they would definitely be bras I would wear on a night out…or a night in.
So, after my twelve day rendezvous with Gossard, I am now convinced. They have really won me over…well almost. My few criticisms are purely about size. Why is it that they use a model who is at most a 28 band, or possibly something as small as 26 or 24, yet the smallest band available is a 30? If you compare my underbust to that of their models, it is clear we would not need the same band size. I would love for Gossard to factor in smaller bands and bigger cups, hopefully one day, my wish will come true!
Dear Gossard, thank you for the fabulous lingerie, and dear Simply Yours, thank you for choosing me!
Merry Christmas!

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Well the holiday season is drawing to a close and exhausted parents are looking forward to their little ones returning to school – actually some (most?) have probably been looking forward to the schools reopening since they closed before Christmas!
And that's simply because Christmas, indeed ANY holiday season, is a stressful time.
But why should it be?
Well, ideally, it shouldn't. After all, it is a holiday season when everything is supposed to be jolly, enjoyable, focused on family, sharing and giving. But somehow it never turns out that way.
This year, as with last year, I found that my life was once again overtaken by events. I've spent much of the year lurching from crisis to crisis it seems, and true to form, I catapulted into the Christmas season like a runaway express train.
It didn't help that I was laid low with flu for almost two weeks. And yes it was flu (not "man flu" but the real one!) I had all the aches and total exhaustion – and I also had a really bad head cold too. Not that I got any sympathy! It actually took one of the moms at school to offer to pick my kids up and drop them at school the following morning, because I looked "like death" (thanks!) – before my other half (finally) took me seriously and allowed me to stay home whilst he did the school runs, in what has been bitterly cold weather here.
This left me with very little time to do all the preparations, decorations, cooking etc that I wanted to do for everything to be "perfect". And I guess that is the problem. We all want everything to be perfect! Or maybe not.
This year I was aiming for "getting through it" and there were times when I was sure I'd set the bar too high!
I CAN'T be the only one who gets just a LITTLE bit stressed when faced with Christmas cards for every child in each of the boy's classes, can I? They're 5 now and without a word of a lie, getting them to write cards was worse than having root canal treatment at the dentist. THEY HAVE to write the cards themselves. I couldn't bear the SHAME of facing the parents in the playground when "little Jemima has written and HAND MADE and decorated all hers herself" if my two could only just about manage to sign an "X". But the supervision of the writing… let's just say it's NOT the time to give up your favorite vice!
Four evenings it took. And when they were finished, I was informed that they HAD to put chocolate coins because that was what everyone was doing this year. Anyway, chocolate coins were not to be found, so darling husband came home with some Roses (mixed wrapped, loose chocolates). Great! So then I spent a tense half hour sorting through the chocolate centers to avoid known allergies ("Johnny's allergic to strawberries", "Tariq doesn't like mint") and removing all the nut containing ones and STICKING them ONTO the envelopes, because the boys had enthusiastically stuck them shut some time earlier.
It wasn't much better with the tree decorating. I love doing the Christmas decorations – normally – but because the boys had already finished school, this year they "helped" me. As a result, the decorations took me three times longer than usual, the tree had TWO angels on top of it ("Twins, mummy, like us") and two baubles that have survived years and years of Christmases finally shattered resulting in panic as I shooed children and dogs away from broken glass and pine needles.
Still, at least we all enjoyed the pantomime!
Next year, I'm going to make sure I reduce Christmas stress properly. I will write all the cards early in December, buy everything online in November and have it all wrapped and the house decorated before the boys finish school. Or maybe I'll just get it delivered from Harrods..!
How was your Christmas?


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Posted on April 2, 2010
Friday, April 2, 2010
KLIPSAN – 'Good Ole Days Easter Egg Hunt' and food drive. There will be an outdoor egg hunt for ages nine and under at Golden Sands Assisted Living Center at 21608 'O' Lane, on Friday, April 2 beginning at 3 p.m. There will be candy and prizes. Make sure the kids dress appropriately for the weather. Also, please bring a non-perishable food donation.
Saturday, April 3, 2010
OCEAN PARK – Come on out to the Beach Barons field at 245th and Sandridge Road for the traditional Easter egg hunt at 1 p.m., on April 3. The Beach Barons have had an Easter bunny hiding eggs for a couple of weeks and kids are invited to come and find them. Bring Easter baskets and see how many eggs you can collect. Plus the Beach Barons will have a special prize for everyone who participtes.
NASELLE – The annual Easter egg hunt sponsored by ESA Alpha Theta is set for 11 a.m. sharp on Saturday, April 3 at the Naselle High School football field. Toddlers through grade three are encouraged to come search for hidden eggs. There will be prizes and candy. Please bring a container for eggs.
Sunday, April 4, 2010
Long Beach Elks – Annual Easter Egg Hunt – 1pm ages 12 and under. Come meet the Easter Bunny Elks Lodge 110 N Pacific Hwy Long Beach, 1:00 pm.
Ocean Park Moose Lodge – Annual Easter Party and Egg Hunt -1pm toddlers to 11 years Greet the Easter Bunny followed by surprises and treats. 25915 U Street Ocean Park, 1:00 pm.


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Love blooms, reluctantly, 'Outside Mullingar'
John Patrick Shanley returns to Broadway with a modest, charming romantic comedy.
NEW YORK — The last John Patrick Shanley play to arrive on Broadway was a probing, searing look at faith and uncertainty. Focusing on a popular priest and the nun who questions his actions and intentions, Doubt — the first entry in Shanley's "Church and State" trilogy — earned both the Tony Award for best play and a Pulitzer Prize in 2005.
Shanley's less powerful follow-up efforts, Defiance and Storefront Church, ran off-Broadway to less enthusiastic reviews. So it shouldn't be entirely surprising that the Manhattan Theatre Club production that marks his return to the Main Stem is a relatively unchallenging romantic comedy.
Granted, Shanley has mined similar territory winningly in the past, most famously with his Oscar-winning screenplay for 1987's Moonstruck. And Outside Mullingar (*** out of four stars), which opened Thursday at the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre, has its own modest, tender ambitions and quirky charms.
Set in the Midlands of Ireland, where Shanley's father was born, the new play involves a man and woman whose family farms sit right next to each other. When we meet them, Anthony and Rosemary are unmarried and in early middle age, and each has one surviving parent, both worried about what will become of their unsettled offspring.
Had Shanley made Anthony and Rosemary, say, career-obsessed urbanites still living with their folks in the same apartment building, the story would seem ridiculously contrived. But by placing them in a rural setting where dating options are considerably more limited — not just by a less-dense population, but by cultural and religious mores (it is mentioned more than once that the two see each other in church) — he makes their plight more credible and, despite some hokum, intriguing.
It's a huge plus that Shanley and director Doug Hughes (also his collaborator for Doubt and Defiance) have the immensely talented Brian F. O'Byrne and Debra Messing, in her Broadway debut, playing their will-be couple. O'Byrne's Anthony is an awkward loner for whom any degree of social interaction is a hurdle, but he conveys a sort of blunt integrity and a disarming sweetness that make it plausible a feisty beauty like Rosemary would fall for him.
Rosemary has her own neurotic tics, visible despite the brittle exterior she has developed to ward off various wooers. In Messing's funny, moving performance, we see how Anthony breaks through that armor — even though it's Rosemary who, in an intermittently awkward but endearing climax, determines to force Anthony out of his shell.
Dearbhla Molloy and Peter Maloney lend delightful support as, respectively, Rosemary's dry-witted mother and Anthony's lovably cranky da. Early on, the old man observes to his recently widowed neighbor, "When the husband goes, the wife follows. ...You'll be dead in a year."
Outside Mullingar's account of human connection is generally less provocative, and a lot more comforting. But if Shanley is raising less-complicated questions this time, there are flecks of wisdom in his sweetly diverting study.


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A strapping rugby player, who has beaten cancer at 24, has urged others: You too can do it.
Brave Kris Kirk helped Marr to a vital win and then called stunned team-mates together to tell them he had testicular cancer.
Minutes earlier, second row Kirk scored a try as the all conquering Troon side beat Ardrossan 37-35.
Now after six months out and a gruelling nine week course of chemotherapy, Kris has been given the all clear.
And he hopes to make a stunning comeback before the end of the season.
This week, a relieved Kris said: "I would urge everyone to go and check out straight away if you feel a lump or even if you feel something you are not sure about. And check at least once a month.
"I am really hoping and desperate to get back before the end of the season. But it's going to be hard work so I'll keep training and see if it's possible."
Kris admitted the devastating day when he first found the cancerous lump was a total shock.
And knowing that five days later he was going to have an op to remove a testicle was hard to deal with.
Initially, Kris had no intention of playing against Ardrossan but decided to go ahead because he didn't know what lay in store.
He didn't tell his team-mates beforehand so not to distract their focus from winning an important game.
He said: "Everyone took the news very well and they were with me every step of my fight."
President Kevin Quinn broke the news of Kirk's recovery when he posted on Facebook: "We are delighted to announce that Kris 'Crouchy' Kirk has got the all clear and has officially kicked cancer's butt."
Kevin added: "It's fantastic news. It was a massive game against Ardrossan and although Kris had just been diagnosed, he was determined to play and didn't want to make the rest of the team aware.
"It was typical of Kris that he played his part with a try in a win that was sealed with the last kick. It was only after the game that he made the news public.
"Fortunately, Kris got an early diagnosis. Now he is taking the opportunity to help others to make sure they look for the early signs.
"Marr is very much a family club and the Kirk family is a key part of this.
" Dad Tom is a former player who now acts as touch-judge, brothers Barry and Steven currently play for the 1st XV - with Barry this season returning to answer the call, after a number of years in retirement, at a time when the squad had been depleted through injury and illness, including the loss of Kris.
"The family includes another brother Ryan who still plays senior rugby and has, in the past, turned out got the 1st XV.
"Mum Marie and sister Lee manage to control this group of boys of all ages.
"The club is very close knit and the news about Kris came as a real shock."
A number of club members took part in Movember, a fund raising event that raises money to promote men's health. Proceeds are going towards cancer charities.
Despite the ardours of the treatments he has been receiving, Kris has continued, where possible, to get along to watch the 1st XV play and his strength and support has been recognised by all.


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Romantic Places in Washington State
If you and your special someone are in need of a getaway for some time together, Washington state has more picturesque spots than you may have thought. With many beautiful Select Registry properties in the region, its not difficult to find romantic places in Washington State. Whether you want to take in the majesty of nature, explore a city, or simply luxuriate in fine accommodations, these romantic places in Washington state.
Carson Ridge Luxury Cabins | Carson, WA
Carson is one of the top romantic places in Washington state to visit. Carson Ridge Luxury Cabins are the ideal getaway destination for some relaxation. Each cabin features open beamed ceilings and windows that let in plenty of natural light and provide great views of the Columbia River Gorge. Furnishings and amenities also include hand-carved beds, spa tubs, walk-in shower, and spa toiletries. It's only fitting that it has bee named one of the "Top 10 Most Romantic Hotels in the Country."
Cameo Heights Mansion | Touchet, WA
Set in the heart of Washington wine country, Cameo Heights Mansion is a sweet and serene country getaway. The amenities are ideal for a romantic trip. From well-appointed guest rooms to accommodating hospitality rooms and an onsite pool. Plus, the views of the Walla Walla River are fantastic.
Shelburne Inn & China Beach Retreat | Seaview, WA
The Shelburne Inn & China Beach Retreat is in the small town of Seaview, near Long Beach. The historic inn dates back to 1896 and is the oldest continuously operating hotel in Washington State.
Shafer Baillie Mansion | Seattle, WA
Who says Seattle can't be one of the most romantic places in Washington State? If you stay at Shafer Baillie Mansion then it most certainly can be! Located in the Capitol Hill neighborhood of the city, this 1913 Mansion boasts old-school charm with updated comforts.
Willcox House | Seabeck, WA
The Willcox House is a 1930s mansion surrounded by a lovely forest landscape. It also overlooks the Hood Canal. It's location between Seattle and the Olympic Peninsula make it an ideal getaway spot.
Colette's Bed & Breakfast | Port Angeles, WA
Colette's in Port Angeles is definitely one of the romantic places in Washington state that you should check out. This oceanfront estate is on 10 stunning acres of picturesque land near Olympic National Park, which boasts some of the best views you'll find in the Pacific Northwest. You'll enjoy a multi-course breakfast each morning as well as rooms with romantic fireplaces and spa tubs.
George Washington Inn | Port Angeles, WA
This beautiful inn is an exterior replica of Mount Vernon in Virginia. It's located on a bluff overlooking the Strait of Juan de Fuca to the north and views of the Olympic Mountains to the south. The beautiful scenery is accompanied by modern luxurious rooms. As you can tell, it isn't difficult to find romantic Washington Inns for a getaway. No matter where you plan to visit, choosing a Select Registry Inn will ensure your experience is top notch. So, start planning your trip now and let the romance begin!


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Outlaw Online Betting? Don't Bet On It
Can--or should--Internet gambling be curbed or even controlled? If pending legislation in Congress passes when lawmakers reconvene in January, Internet gambling, like other forms of interstate betting, will become a federal no-no--punishable by a fine of up to $2,500 or six months in prison. Anyone convicted of running a cybercasino would be liable for fines of up to $20,000 and four years in jail. The bill, introduced by Senator Jon L. Kyl (R-Ariz.), has garnered support from an odd coalition that includes Ralph Nader's Public Citizen, the Christian Coalition, the National Association of State Attorneys General, and the FBI.
In Australia, just seconds away in cyberspace, lawmakers are taking the opposite tack. Down under, politicians are trying to put the government's imprimatur on online wagering. They figure that the seal of approval will draw bettors from unregulated cybercasinos and bring new tax revenue to Australia's coffers. "The attitude here is that it's going to happen, so we may as well be in the best position when it does," says Michael Toohey, managing director of Australasian Gaming Specialists in Sydney, an Internet consultant that is pushing cybergambling regulations.
GROWTH BUSINESS. How the cards ultimately fall has ramifications on both continents. The number of virtual bookies taking bets on everything from blackjack to basketball has jumped from 15 to 80 in the past 11 months, according to Sue Schneider, editor of the cyberpublication Rolling Good Times Online. Most sites are based outside the U.S. in such locations as Antigua and Curacao.
In fact, according to analyst Sebastian Sinclair with Christiansen/Cummings Associates Inc., growth in cybergambling has been limited by consumer apprehension about using these no-name offshore casinos. If Australia goes ahead with a system of government-sanctioned sites, he figures, more consumers would be willing to zap bets across the net, figuring that they'd have somewhere to turn if something went awry.
U.S. casino operators are stuck between two impulses: They want to quash the new online competition, but they also want to figure out how to get into the game themselves. "We'd be crazy not to view this as an opportunity for the company," says Phil Cooper, a vice-president with Caesars Palace in Las Vegas. Caesars and Interplay Productions, a software developer, will soon launch a virtual casino that uses play money.
At this point, the industry's trade association is coming out meekly on both sides of the argument. "We're not on record as supporting Senator Kyl's bill; we are on record as not opposing it," says Kathleen J. Schippers, a spokesperson at the American Gaming Assn.
Not surprisingly, gambling-state legislators are among the bill's most vocal proponents. A co-sponsor of Kyl's bill is Democratic Senator Richard H. Bryan from Nevada. GOP Representative Frank A. LoBiondo from the New Jersey district that includes Atlantic City supports a similar House measure.
The legislators insist their motivation isn't simply to protect the gambling industry. Rather, they say, restrictions on online gambling would update existing laws that prohibit interstate wagering and protect minors. "Whatever one's view of gambling," says Bryan, "it ought to be reserved for adults and it ought to be regulated." But would restrictions work? Uncle Sam hasn't exactly impeded illegal sports betting.
Internet service providers oppose the Kyl bill because it would require them to block objectionable gambling sites. The Interactive Services Assn., which represents ISPs, favors regulation of cybercasinos rather than prohibition and is floating such ideas as establishing daily betting limits and requiring any virtual casino to maintain a U.S. office. Casinos that adhere to an industry code of conduct could--once they pay a licensing fee--display an ISA seal of compliance. No doubt, somewhere on the Net, there's a site where somebody will give you odds on how this all will shake out.
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Helena Bonham Carter
Maggie Smith
Denholm Elliot
Julian Sands
Simon Callow
Judi Dench
Daniel Day-Lewis
Rosemary Leach
Rupert Graves
James Ivory
|"It is fate, but call it Italy if it pleases you, Vicar."
|Time: 117 mins.
Rating: PG
Genre: Drama/Romance
Won Academy Award for Best Art Direction, Costume Design and Adapted Screenplay. Nominations for Best Supporting Actress (Smith), Supporting Actor (Elliot), Cinematography, Director and Best Picture.
SYNOPSIS: Lucy Honeychurch, a young Englishwoman, makes her first visit to Florence, Italy in the early 1900's. There, she meets a quiet yet eccentric young man named George Emerson. Upon her return to England, Lucy must decide whether to follow through with her marriage to her stotic fiance, Cecil, or follow her heart and her growing attraction to George.
BOTTOM LINE: This is one of those films where everything comes together to create a magical experience that never grows old. The lushness of the visuals, the beauty of the music and the emotional complexity of the story, make this a romance that engages the viewer on every level. The constrictions of the time period both social and physical only make the unlikely connection between Lucy and George all the more powerful. Of couse, the fact that they meet in Italy doesn't hurt. Carter is perfectly cast as Lucy, giving our herione more than just a pretty face, but intelligence, humor and passion underneath her demure and proper demeanor. Her sense of self is stronger than it first appears, allowing her to make appropriate, if unconventional choices for her life.
Unlike many romances, this one actually gives the two men fighting for her hand somewhat equal treatment. Granted, once we meet Cecil, who's played deliciously priggish by Day-Lewis, the contest, despite his wealth and respect of Lucy, is effectively over. Sure, she'd be comfortable, but there's more to marriage than nice clothes and a big house. If she never saw George again, settling for life with Cecil wouldn't seem so bad. Despite his brooding nature, Sands brings an undeniable energy to the proceedings, making George's quiet intelligence and zeal for life quite irresistable. Both characters are initially surprised by their intense connection and try to deny it, yet both are smart enough to realize a love like theirs doesn't come around everyday, especially in a world of arranged marriages.
It's a long, quirky trip for our lovers filled with some of the best character actors around. Dench, Smith, Elliot and Callow are staples of the British film scene for a very good reason. They amply entertain in between the romance, giving the youths and the audience a moment to catch their breath. They all realize long before Lucy and George what's happening and attempt to help them get together in their own little ways. If the story wasn't so well-composed they would almost steal the show. King of the literary, drawing-room adaptation, James Ivory crafts a flawless piece of cinema without a false note in any frame. It's one of the few films that captures my complete attention and touches my heart no matter how many times I've seen it before. Unlike many of the film's in this genre, the art direction and cinematography open up the story and give it a timeless quality that breaks it out of the usual British mode. A classic and classy film that deserves more than one look.


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Astros' attendance suffers with economy, losses
Better win to draw
In a tight economy, the Astros are among several teams whose attendance is down in 2009
Published 5:30 am, Monday, June 1, 2009
With the economy ailing and the Astros at the bottom of the National League Central standings, there has been more elbow room this season at Minute Maid Park.
Through 25 home games, the Astros are on pace for their lowest attendance mark since 1997, when they were still in the Astrodome.
"Any time you win, fans will come out for sure," said Astros ace Roy Oswalt, who earned just his second victory of the season in Monday's night's 4-1 triumph over the Colorado Rockies. "I think it has a lot to do with everything else going on in the economy. Baseball's not going to be immune.
"Jobs aren't out there like they used to be. Attendance is sure to take a hit. People ain't going to be able to come watch baseball."
Monday's home crowd of 24,106 was the Astros' second-smallest of the season. It probably doesn't help that the team has a better road record than home record. The Astros are 11-13 (.458) away from home but an anemic 10-15 (.400) at Minute Maid Park.
"Like all businesses, I think we are seeing the effects of the economy," said Astros president of business operations Pam Gardner. "Having said that, we have a great responsibility to provide an entertaining environment for our fans with the hope they choose the Astros for family fun. I think it's too early to say it's team performance."
20 teams see decline
Gardner may have a point. Through May 20, only 10 of the 30 teams in the majors were seeing an increase in average attendance over last year. Of the 20 teams experiencing a decline, the Astros — at 13 percent — were one of nine whose average was down more than 10 percent. Among the others are the New York Yankees (14 percent) and New York Mets (22 percent), who not only are winning but would have figured to benefit from the fact they're playing in new parks.
Over the first 25 home games last season, the Astros averaged 34,732 fans. They finished 2008 with an average attendance of 34,744, which might have been higher if they hadn't lost a three-game series against the popular Chicago Cubs because of Hurricane Ike.
Through 25 home games this year, the Astros are averaging 29,932 in attendance, a drop of 4,800 from last year at the same point.
At this pace, they'll draw 2,424,492 fans this season. They hadn't drawn so few fans at home since 1997, when their total attendance was 2,046,781.
A closer look at the Astros' attendance numbers might be more daunting considering the Cubs have already visited twice and come for the last time in a Tuesday-Thursday series next week. And the Texas Rangers, another big draw, have already visited for the Houston portion of the Lone Star Series.
Royals, Tigers lack luster
And unlike last year, when the club was able to pack Minute Maid Park for the first regular-season visits from the Yankees and the Boston Red Sox, those teams aren't visiting in 2009. The Kansas City Royals and Detroit Tigers have replaced them as interleague visitors this year.
Harking to Oswalt's first point, shortstop Miguel Tejada says winning is the best draw.
"We've got to play better baseball," said Tejada, whose .353 batting average leads the National League. "If we don't have as many people attending, that's because we're not playing well."
Entering the season, the Astros had strong hope that veteran stars such as Lance Berkman, Carlos Lee, Oswalt and Tejada and popular young star Hunter Pence would buoy the club along with a veteran bullpen. But the stars haven't all clicked together, and the bullpen has been decimated by injuries.
"Attendance seems to follow the success of the team," Berkman said. "From what I can remember, our attendance hasn't been as good at the beginning of the season as it has later in the seasons the whole time I've been here. A lot of that is because there's school, and it seems like the fans are almost waiting to see how the team's going to shape up.
"I do know that the times we have been in contention, they have supported us wholeheartedly. We've packed them in. I do think that winning drives that a lot, but I can't say that that's the whole motivator. If attendance is down this year, it might have something to do with the economy as well."


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(Sequal to take my hand][ Thanx to tehcutiestEM @ the dark arts ) Harry and Marie part at kings cross station, the feeling of lonelieness starting to brew. Unexpectedley Marie was summond by the elders. Now marie is the new D.A.D.A assistnat at hogwarts. Join harry and marie as they prepare for what will change the world forever.
Genres: Drama, Horror/Dark, Angst Era: Hogwarts Characters: Dumbledore, Harry, Hermione, James, Lily, Lupin, OC, Ron, Sirius, Snape Pairings: Ginny/Dean, Remus/Tonks, Ron/Hermione, Harry/OC, Sirius/OC
Advisory: Strong Language, Strong Violence, Scenes of a Sexual Nature, Substance Use or Abuse, Sensitive Topic/Issue/Theme
Published: 2006.12.18 Latest Chapter: 2007.09.19 Updated: 2007.09.19 Status: WIP (54152 words)
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Have you ever felt like you could do anything but yet there was something holding you back. Holding you back from doing something that felt so rigth but was so wrong. His life was officialy changed forever. Its was over . It was done. But somehow it felt as if his life was just begining.
Genres: Horror/Dark, Angst Era: Other Characters: Harry
Advisory: No Warnings
Published: 2007.08.10 Latest Chapter: 2007.08.11 Updated: 2007.08.11 Status: COMPLETED (703 words)
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Only days ago had harry potter,lost the one who had become a father to him.Sirius black had died.All harry wanted to do was sit in his room and grieve over him. But that changed when a strange new order member comes to join.Here's the thing shes only 16 and doesn't go to hogwarts.why? Marie Carson is your typical teen,who used to be a witch.Used to be a wich? Marie has power like no other magical creature can posess except for harry.
Genres: Drama, Romance, Angst Era: Other Characters: Harry, Hermione, Lupin, OC, Ron, Tonks Pairings: Remus/Tonks, Ron/Hermione, Harry/OC
Advisory: Strong Language, Strong Violence
Published: 2006.04.27 Latest Chapter: 2006.12.18 Updated: 2006.12.18 Status: COMPLETED (28261 words)
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Genres: Crossover, Romance, Angst Era: Other Characters: Arthur, Fred/George, Ginny, Harry, Hermione, Lupin, Molly, OC, Ron, Tonks Pairings: Remus/Tonks, Ron/Hermione, Harry/OC
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Mark Teixeira Signing Shows Major League Baseball Needs a Salary CapDecember 24, 2008
Congratulations to the New York Yankees. No seriously, congratulations.
In Mark Teixeira, the Yankees got their man and they did it within the rules of the game. Whether or not they have an unfair competitive advantage doesn't matter right now. According to the system that we have in place, it's fair.
As the fans of every other team in baseball are focused on holding their lunch today, there is one solution to this problem.
Major League Baseball needs a salary cap.
It's funny actually, because just a couple years ago the baseball world was up-in-arms about a certain other kind of unfair competitive advantage: steroids.
Essentially, the Yankees are Mark McGwire.
Mark McGwire was torn apart and made to look weak back in 2005 for having success with an unfair competitive advantage that was, at the time, within the rules of the game.
So what does that make the Yankees? What does that make the league's premier franchise and poster-child?
This problem may actually be worse than steroids. It affects not just a few at-bats per game, but entire teams. It affects the fans in ways worse than the feelings of dishonesty that came with steroids.
Always, but especially in a time of recession, it affects our wallets.
Hey Yankee fans, how does a ten-dollar beer sound?
We're paying for it all in the end. Not having a salary cap hurts our wallets, it hurts the competitive balance of the game, and it hurts the sport.
It's time for Bud Selig to realize a salary cap would be good for the owners he represents. Not having a salary cap has driven player salaries through the roof.
Albert Pujols, arguably the best player in the game, signed a contract worth an average of $14 million annually over seven years before the 2004 season.
Fans of the Cardinals should be shaking in their boots right now. If Teixeira can command an average of $22.5 million annually over eight years, what will Pujols command in a few years?
Steve Phillips, the former general manager of the New York Mets, was on ESPN's Mike and Mike in the Morning on Wednesday. He was challenged to address the fact that while the Tampa Bay Rays were competitive this year, they will not make the playoffs 14 out of 15 years like the Yankees. His reply was, "Nor should they. If you own a large-market team you get special privileges."
That's right. It's not about the fans, the revenue providers, anymore.
I propose a $110 million cap with a $60 million minimum spending limit.
It's time for Major League Baseball to put the big-boy pants on and get to work. Bud Selig needs to tell Donald Fehr enough is enough.
It's about time the Tampa Bay Rays can keep the fruits of their labor and resign the prospects that they develop.
It's about time the fans of the Kansas City Royals, Washington Nationals, and Pittsburgh Pirates can go into a season feeling good about their team.
It's about time the Yankees, and a handful of other teams, develop their own talent and stop their reckless spending.
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It can take a long time to answer a simple question: What happened? Good memoir writing takes facts and makes sense of them; great memoir writing takes emotions and does the same. This month's memoirs all take a hard look back at events that begged for explanation. Was the process therapeutic for the writers? Perhaps. Will the reading be instructive for us? Most definitely.
Bayley, Robin. The Mango Orchard: The Extraordinary True Story of a Family Lost and Found. Arrow: Random House UK. 2012. 304p. illus. ISBN 9781848092242. pap. $14.95. MEMOIR
The meandering and adventurous path blazed by his British great-grandfather, who traveled throughout Mexico during its revolution, provides writer and actor Bayley with a road map for his own trip through the Americas in search of his family's history. The complexities of genealogy as well as the vagaries of familial mythology are illuminated in this lighthearted but carefully documented saga of a quest that resulted not only in uncovering truths about a beloved relative, but also in discovering multiple previously unknown family members. VERDICT Bayley's excitement about his new, hard-earned knowledge is tempered by worries about the effect of his discoveries on other family members. This sensitively framed tale will appeal to genealogists as well as anyone who has dreamt that his or her family is not quite as mundane as it seems.
Bugan, Carmen. Burying the Typewriter: A Memoir. Graywolf. 2012. 192p. photog. ISBN 9781555976170. pap. $15; eISBN 9781555970574. MEMOIR
The delights of childhood in rural Romania contrast sharply with the miseries poet Bugan (Crossing the Carpathians) and her family later endured when her dissident father was identified as an enemy of the Ceausescu regime. Interrogated, isolated, closely observed, and shunned, Bugan's entire family paid a high price for her jailed father's activism. The effects of the state's brutality are clear, but more subtle damage resulted from life with a father who placed politics at the center of everything. VERDICT While an unflinching look at life in the shadow of a totalitarian regime, this is as much the story of how a family endured the unbearable. This moving memoir illuminates how a brutal dictatorship inflicts the sins of the father on his children.
Fletcher, Harrison Candelaria. Descanso for My Father: Fragments of a Life. Bison: Univ. of Nebraska. (American Lives). 2012. 147p. photog. ISBN 9780803238398. pap. $14.95; eISBN 9780803240162. MEMOIR
The keenly felt absence of a long dead father and the artistic influences of a creative but reserved mother are two of the forces that drove writer Fletcher (founding editor, Shadowbox) to seek out the story of his father's life. Imitating the descansos (or tiny storytelling shrines) his mother fashioned out of found objects in the Southwest, Fletcher recreates the saga of his father's life in short, episodic essays that stand out for their mysticism, grief, and evocative prose. VERDICT Fletcher's mother taught him to look at the details in all things—in nature, in junk, in antiques—believing there is a story in everything. He learned well and has constructed a touching series of verbal shrines to the man he barely knew but sorely misses.
LaCava, Stephanie. An Extraordinary Theory of Objects: A Memoir of an Outsider in Paris. Harper: HarperCollins. 2012. 224p. illus. ISBN 9780061963896. $23.99. MEMOIR
Freelance writer LaCava spent her teen years as an American expat in Paris, and the city acts as a moody backdrop in this catalog of the beautiful and unusual things that absorbed and captivated her during an uneasy adolescence. Now a journalist, LaCava presents a chronology of those years and salts it with footnotes explicating everything from the cult of religious relics to Nirvana CDs to cardigans to mushrooms she collected, researched, or sought out over the course of her teenage years. This quirky inventory provides detailed evidence of a life shaped, and perhaps saved, by the power of observation. VERDICT LaCava creates a self-portrait out of the almost kaleidoscopic collage of objects that caught her fancy over the years. A brooding tone pervades the book, but it is saved from cheerlessness by the whimsical variety of objects she shares with readers.
Nuzum, Eric. Giving up the Ghost: A Story About Friendship, 80s Rock, a Lost Scrap of Paper, and What It Means To Be Haunted. Dial: Random. 2012. 305p. ISBN 9780385342438. pap. $15; eISBN 9780345534682. MEMOIR
Haunted by childhood memories of a little girl's ghost (in a blue dress!) as well as memories of the real teenage girl he once loved, Nuzum confronts the supernatural one step at a time in this quirky recounting of his attempts to put the spirits in their rightful place in his life. NPR's Vice President for Programming, Nuzum (The Dead Travel Fast: Stalking Vampires from Nosferatu to Count Chocula) survived a hazy adolescence in Canton, OH, marked by drug use and mental illness and bolstered by the encouragement and kindness of his enigmatic friend Laura. His attempt to discern what he really experienced results in a trip down a memory lane populated by psychics, ghosts, and psychiatrists, and in hard-won self-awareness. VERDICT Nuzum treats his teenage wasteland with humor and affection. There is no easy ending here, but the knowledge that the author survived it all to write this book may hearten others dealing with lost boys or specters of their own.
Roth, Marco. The Scientists: A Family Romance. Farrar. 2012. 208p. ISBN 9780374210281 $23; eISBN 9781466825840. MEMOIR
Roth's childhood in the intellectual hothouse of the Upper West Side prepared him for study at Columbia under Derrida and for a life of the mind, but not for the illness and death of his father from AIDS and the wall of silence his family erected around that huge truth. Roth (cofounder, n+1) approaches questions of truth, family, and memory with the help of his father's extensive library and eventually arrives at an understanding of his family's past that incorporates not only knowledge but a newfound sense of independence. VERDICT This look back at the life of a family seems very much a part of a specific time and place in New York history until Roth dissects the germinal truths gleaned from his father's collection of classic novels; then, suddenly, the Roth family saga lines right up with Thomas Mann's Tonio Kröger and Ivan Goncharov's Oblomov. Roth weaves elements of memory and lessons from fiction into a memoir that illuminates the truth of it all.
Additional Memoir
Carvajal, Doreen. The Forgetting River: A Modern Tale of Survival, Identity, and Inquisition. Riverhead: Penguin Group (USA). 2012. c.272p. ISBN 9781594487392. $26.95; eISBN 9781101596814. TRAV
Carvajal (senior writer, International Herald Tribune and New York Times), an American expatriate with Spanish roots, sets out to unearth her family's lost crypto-Jewish roots. The book's solid research and evocative descriptions of the town of Arcos de la Frontera will provide readers prepared for a meandering journey with something to enjoy. In particular, Caravajal's interactions with the increasingly popular field of DNA genealogy will make this title of particular interest to many genealogists. Howevever, the story is slow to start, as the first several chapters are dedicated to detailed descriptions of places and family members. Even once her journey hits its stride, the book's many descriptive detours make for a disjointed narrative in which readers will, at times, struggle to maintain interest. Carvajal's own emotional journey as she reevaluates her identity, which could have been the thread to unite these passages, is unfortunately underdeveloped through much of the story. However, the book's final third improves in pace and emotional honesty. VERDICT Because few other recent popular memoirs on this topic are available, those interested in the Inquisition, crypto-Jewish history, and especially Spanish or Sephardic genealogy will appreciate this title.—Audrey Barbakoff, Kitsap Regional Lib., Bainbridge Island, WA
Witchel, Alex. All Gone: A Memoir of My Mother's Dementia. With Refreshments. Riverhead: Penguin Group (USA). Oct. 2012. c.224p. ISBN 9781594487910. $26.95; eISBN 9781101596999. HEALTH
Watching a once bright and organized parent struggle with memory loss takes its toll as child and parent reverse roles, with a daughter becoming her mother's caregiver. As her mother's mental functions deteriorate, novelist and New York Times Magazine staff writer Witchel (The Spare Wife) seeks refuge in reproducing her mother's recipes for childhood comfort foods, such as meatloaf, frankfurter goulash, and noodle kugel. These dishes in turn recall and reinforce her memories of growing up in the 1970s as the child of Jewish working parents in suburban New Jersey, leading to an appreciation of her mother's role in fostering a sense of security, self-confidence, and adventure—essential ingredients to the author's success as a journalist. VERDICT A humorous memoir of a daughter's coming of age interspersed with more recent anecdotes about coping with her mother's dementia—spiced with recipes that will be familiar to many readers. Recommended. [See Prepub Alert, 4/15/12.]—Lucille M. Boone, San Jose P.L., CA


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init sould stop complaining even if you just created a plain file with the name /dev/console, unless I remember wrong... The improtant question is that you create the file node with the right values. Just saying you ran mknod don't give me much confidence. mknod is not really OS specific in that way, but the values you use to mknod are very OS specific, and also differ between the same OS for different architectures.
So, what did you use for values with mknod?Another questions would be about IPL. What do you mean by "correct" IPL? IPL is interrupt priority level, and it tells what other interrupts will be blocked. I don't think much, if any code should be using IPLs directly, but should use the symbolic IPLs such as IPL_TTY for things at the ttl level (unless I remember wrong, or something changed recently).
Someone can surely correct me on this point.
Now I have a question about the loading and initializing of device drivers in the kernel. There are is this static compiled in device list in ka650.c: static const char * const ka650_devs[] = { "cpu", "sgec", "lance", "uba", NULL }; Those drivers are initialized relative early while booting what the console is still running in polled mode. To which time the kernel searches for the other devices that are listed in the kernel config file like dz or my scn?
That is the autoconfig stuff. kern/init.main.c: main -> configure kern/init_main.c: configure -> cpu_configure arch/vax/vax/autoconf.c: cpu_configure -> rootconfand after that, it's driven by data structures created by config. (And, of course, I might remember things wrong, as usual...)
So, for each device that potentially can sit at a point, it will call the match function, and if that succeeds, it will call the attach and the print functions.
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Mahindra and Telephonics Corporation sign final agreement to form JV
Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd., one of India's leading business houses, and Telephonics Corporation (Telephonics), a leading designer, developer, and manufacturer of high-technology integrated information, communication and sensor system solutions to military and commercial markets worldwide and a subsidiary of Griffon Corporation (NYSE: GFF), announced today they signed a definitive agreement to form a Joint Venture (JV). The JV will provide the Indian Ministry of Defence and the Indian Civil sector with radar and surveillance systems, Identification Friend or Foe (IFF) devices, and communication systems. In addition, the JV intends to provide systems for Air Traffic Management Services, Homeland Security, and other emerging surveillance requirements.
The Company will be called Mahindra-Telephonics Integrated Systems (Mahindra-Telephonics), and will be incorporated in the coming months following an amendment to the prior approval granted by the Foreign Investment Promotion Bureau on March 31, 2012.
The project envisages establishing a plant in Bangalore, which will initially manufacture and service airborne radar systems that are already being supplied to Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd and support airborne maritime surveillance systems for the Indian Navy and Coast Guard. Telephonics supplies RDR-1400 weather avoidance radar systems for helicopters being built in Bangalore, India. It is also contracted to supply Boeing with APS-143C(V)3 multi-mode Radar for India's P-8i Maritime Surveillance aircraft, and is responsible for installation of a sophisticated intercommunication system for the C-17 Globemaster contracted by the Indian Air Force.
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2010 NBA playoffs: Cleveland's LeBron James reaches a level no one else can touch
For the first time since his ascension to the top of the basketball pyramid, LeBron James looked vulnerable. Okay, it was for only one game, really, and a loss to the recent champion Celtics, hardly a bunch of stumblebums. The second-round NBA playoff series was tied, 1-1, but a hint of panic was in the air.
Nightmare scenarios were discussed, ones that had the Cavaliers losing here in Boston on Friday night, then again on Sunday, and being forced by the end of the weekend to the brink of not just elimination but the specter of life without LeBron. The immediate and long-range future of not just the Cavaliers but the psyche of the entire city of Cleveland was at stake.
As NBA melodramas go, this one was pretty irresistible for about 10 minutes in Game 3, the one that could visit so much gloom and doom on Cleveland and the Cavaliers. That's about how long it took LeBron to blow the Celtics away with one of the most explosive quarters in recent playoff history. He outscored Boston by himself, 21-17, in the first quarter. LeBron simply made the Celtics submit to him, physically and psychologically.
By the end of the first quarter, with Cleveland leading 36-17, there was no more talk of LeBron's uncooperative elbow, of the Celtics taking control of the series, of LeBron being two games from considering his free agent options and therefore the end of the Cavaliers as we've known them. He wound up with 38 points, 7 assists and 8 rebounds. Cleveland wound up with an unthinkable 29-point victory and LeBron goes into Sunday's Game 4 here never having looked more invincible.
"I think he's healthy," Celtics Coach Doc Rivers said, pausing for dramatic effect. "Enough with the elbow injury. He looked awfully good. He was great."
It was easily the single best performance of these playoffs, one where LeBron James looked like Wilt in 1967 or Michael Jordan in 1991, which is to say physically and psychologically superior to his opponents. Rivers said it was as if LeBron was playing H-O-R-S-E instead of a playoff game on the road against a team just two years removed from an NBA title.
And to think the game had caused so much anxiety. Cleveland Coach Mike Brown had been angry over the Game 2 loss. LeBron had been almost eerily calm, which is to say just the opposite of the city he represents, which hasn't had a professional sports championship of any kind since 1964 when the Browns won the NFL championship. The drought, then, has reached 46 years, and the civic fear is that if the Cavaliers go out early it means LeBron is more certain to leave after this season. LeBron has given no such indication, but when you've had as much sporting heartbreak as Cleveland, doom is only one loss away.
Antawn Jamison, thrilled nonetheless to be in Cleveland after living through Washington Wizards hell the past two seasons, had his own reaction to the loss of Game 2 and the urgent need to rebound here Friday night. "I couldn't sleep," Jamison said. "The last three days, it was like the world coming to an end."
Jamison is the perfect person to capture the largeness of LeBron at the moment because he's still new to it, having been traded to Cleveland in February. "There are two to three thousand people waiting for the team at the hotel when we arrive, like when Michael [Jordan] was playing. LeBron's a straight rock star. How was he the last three days? He was cool. He said: 'Look, we didn't play well in Game 2. We played horrible. Now let's calm down. There's no need to act like we're under a lot of pressure.' He was focused, no-nonsense, serious."
LeBron, afterward, was in a mild "told-you-so" mood without actually saying so. But he had recommended calm over anger. After Game 2, Coach Brown was in a rage over getting blown out at home, over the Cavaliers seeming to sleepwalk through a playoff game.
LeBron went the other way, and it's hard to argue with the results. "After Game 2, if you remember," LeBron said, "I was very calm. You guys were like, 'Why are you so calm?' I knew how important the next game was. I knew how important the whole series is. I didn't see any need, as a leader, to talk about pressure."
And as we know, there's no pressure when you can get into the lane, get all the way to the basket, go around or over anybody on the court, finish at the rim with George Gervin's finesse or Wilt's power. What we were reminded during one breathtaking stretch of Game 3 is that LeBron James is the most powerful force in basketball and if he's healthy he's going to be favored to finish off the Celtics, and even beat undefeated-in-the-playoffs Orlando in the next round. LeBron, with seven fewer years and so many fewer miles than Kobe Bryant, is indisputably the best and most valuable player in the NBA.
That said, in the NBA one player can be and often is responsible for winning the championship, so LeBron is ultimately (and fairly) going to be judged by that standard. What the three days between Games 2 and 3 demonstrated was that he doesn't run from that judgment. "It starts with me," he said after Game 3. "We haven't had consistent play in the playoffs. We've just played well enough to win and we don't want to just play well enough to win. I can play the lay-back role a little more at home, wait to the second half, wait to the fourth quarter to close the games out."
But there's no waiting now, and LeBron is unlikely to make that mistake again. Of course, the issue with Cleveland is still whether LeBron's teammates are good enough, whether they're the stuff of champions. Shaquille O'Neal did hit 5 of 7 shots in Game 3, but 12 points and nine rebounds, which is a good game for him now, isn't going to deliver the Larry O'Brien Trophy. Mo Williams can be spectacular some nights, then have no impact the next two.
The rest of the band doesn't have anybody who could carry one solo number on an album. Probably, it's going to be Jamison (20 points, 12 rebounds, 5 offensive) who can take over the mic occasionally. LeBron still has to do too much, be too many things at the same time, too many nights.
But this is who the Cavaliers are, a still-flawed team built around a basketball marvel, one who can do so many things so well that executives from Los Angeles to New York to Miami go to bed at night envisioning him in their team's jersey. There's no vulnerability going into Game 4, just the possibility once again that the biggest, strongest, best player in the game can do anything to anybody.


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After Obama: GOP apologies, governor races and secular conservatives
Wednesday, October 21, 2009; 12:00 PM
Where should the Republican party go next? Every Wednesday, Reihan Salam examines the ideological struggle for the future of American conservatism and how to revitalize the Republican party.
The transcript follows.
Reihan Salam is a fellow at the New America Foundation, a contributing editor at National Affairs, and a columnist for Forbes.com and The Daily Beast. He writes The Agenda blog for National Review and is the co-author of Grand New Party: How Republicans Can Win the Working Class and Save the American Dream (Doubleday, 2008).
Reihan Salam: Welcome everyone! We're talking about Republican races in 2010 and much else besides. Let's get started.
Tampa, Fla.: To what extent do you see the Crist-Rubio race as representing the debate over the future of the GOP? The Florida GOP can choose between a moderate, inclusive candidate who's willing to work with others (Crist), and a far more conservative candidate who seems to want to appeal to the GOP base of religious, social, and economic conservatives.
Polls show Rubio making a lot of headway in catching up with Crist, but having a much harder time winning the general election.
Reihan Salam: I think there is more to the Crist-Rubio race than a fight between (relative) left and (relative) right.
Though Jeb Bush is neutral in the race, Rubio is positioning himself as his heir. And while Jeb was often characterized as a hard-right ideologue, the truth is more complicated; though Bush and Rubio are both anti-tax -- sometimes stridently so -- they're both very interested in how government works. Bush was praised for his forward-leaning approach to emergency preparedness, and in a recent address to conservatives he praised the Obama administration's approach to education reform.
In a similar vein, Rubio spent much of his career in state politics positioning himself as an innovative conservative problem-solver, who worked closely with Democrats on emergency aid to counties and other issues.
I'm going to quote from Rubio.
"I am not anti-government. I believe that government is an important institution in a successful society—I just do not believe that it is the most important institution. Government's job is to create regulations that protect public safety and the environment. To provide help to parents, families and the civil society in raising children. To provide the rule of law needed to have a robust and competitive economic climate. To provide a safety net to catch people who get lost in economic competition so they can stand up and try again. And to help those who are elderly, disabled or sick and cannot provide for themselves."
On social issues:
"I could care less what people do in the privacy of their home, a long as they are not hurting anyone else. After all, your rights end where mine begin. By the same token however, I do not think you can separate the social and moral well being of your people from their economic and physical well being."
And this is something many independent voters would appreciate:
"I am passionate about my beliefs and the policies I think will help advance those beliefs. But I also recognize that I have been wrong in the past, and I try to always be willing to be proven wrong."
Now, however, the energy in the Republican base is coming from the tea-party movement, which is one reason why Rubio is emphasizing his anti-tax, anti-spending credentials.
And as for Crist, one could describe him as moderate and inclusive -- yet he maintains that the best way to fix the country's economy is to cut taxes. On criminal justice issues, he's best known for taking very draconian stands. A lot of the conservative hostility to Crist comes from his decision to back President Obama's stimulus package -- but consider that Crist brags about cutting state taxes: in a sense, the federal stimulus was a bailout of Crist and other profligate governors who, unlike Mitch Daniels, didn't pare back spending during the boom.
Rubio isn't perfect and neither is Crist. But the idea that conservative opposition to Crist is based solely on intolerance strikes me as incorrect -- it's also based on the fact that Crist does not have an unblemished record.
St. Mary's City, Md.: Since Nixon, the Republican Party has been an alliance of small-government advocates and groups opposed to social change for different reasons, such as the religious right. The first group seems to be motivated by economic philosophy, and I can respect that position.
But the second group seems to have no philosophy other than personal resentment, viewing issues in binary terms. They make big government the scapegoat for all their complaints but they also favor big-government solutions in trying to stop or even reverse social change. The town-hall protesters this past summer didn't have a coherent political philosophy - they just seemed frightened and desperate to blame someone.
That type of unfocused resentment is no basis for a political party, and may end up splitting the GOP. During Obama's presidency the party has acted increasingly as an obstructionist, as opposed to pushing alternatives to the Administration's agenda. I suspect the obstructionism is a desperate tactic to keep the GOP's alliance together.
So which side do you think might leave the party? I can see both sides fielding their own candidates in 2012, with Palin or Huckabee leading a coalition dominated by the religious right, and someone like Pawlenty leading a coalition of moderates and small-government advocates. Which one would likely bear the GOP name?
Reihan Salam: One thing to keep in mind is that the Republican Party doesn't seek the respect of voters -- rather, it seeks to win elections. The same is true of the Democrats. My guess is that many diehard conservatives, like those taking part in the tea-party movement, don't have a huge amount of respect for the motivations of congressional Democrats. Yet I don't think Democrats are losing any sleep over it, for better or for worse.
And as for the tea-party protesters, it is certainly true that they have a complex mix of motivations -- this will be true of any diverse group. But I can promise you that there are at least some consistent libertarians in their ranks, just as there were some consistent pacifists who marched in opposition to the Iraq War, along with thousands of other less consistent, less reflexive, and less ideological citizens.
This idea of GOP politics as resentment-fueled is interesting and I think there is something to it. But of course I think that a lot of our politics, on the left and right, is resentment-fueled. It takes a lot to get people who are financially strapped to write checks -- even small donations -- to politicians. During the Bush years, large numbers of voters who never thought of themselves as very political were motivated to take part in electoral politics and to make donations for the first time. This was driven by real resentment -- a sense that the Bush Administration was egregiously breaking with America's constitutional traditions, and much else. We're seeing that on the other side.
I don't like the rancorous tone. But this is where we are. Political engagement is always most intense when people are angry and afraid, not when people are feeling prosperous and content.
Helena, Mont.: When polling results are reported, they are usually national averages. But regional breakdowns show that the South is out-of-step with the rest of the country in a major way. The GOP is much more popular in the South than it is in the Northeast (where it is in single digits), the West (where it has fewer than 15% favorables), and the Midwest (where it has only 10% favorable). If this regional divide persists, the conclusion that the Republican Party is a regional party will begin to become part of the conventional wisdom and will add to the problems the Republican Party will have in recovering.
Reihan Salam: There were similar anxieties about Democrats in the wake of the 2002 elections, when it seemed as though the party's base of support was overconcentrated in dense coastal regions. It is certainly true that the South is heavily Republican, and that this creates complications -- as a very distinctive region, it's possibly that a GOP identified with South might turn off voters in other regions.
But it's also true that the south is becoming more like the rest of the country and vice versa. President Obama won Virginia and North Carolina and Florida, states that had been staunchly Republican, in part because of large numbers of migrants from the Northeast and Midwest. And so Republicans in those regions, like Bob McDonnell, have had to adapt to the new environment. Similarly, this population shift may make certain parts of the Northeast and Midwest more open to conservatives -- keep an eye on Pennsylvania and New Hampshire and Michigan.
Fort Worth, Tex.: Any chance we can get an apology from the GOP for their massive government increase earlier this decade? You'd think a party so rooted in Christianity would practice a little more humility once in awhile. I left the party recently (or rather, it left me), and frankly I see no reason to come back.
One benefit? Saving a bundle on chair cushions, as I'm just sitting on my hands now.
Reihan Salam: There are certainly some Republicans who will apologize for the increase in government spending, and some conservative candidates already have. But there's something a little strange about this -- it's rare that an incumbent will say, "I'm sorry *I* voted for bills X and Y." Rather, they tend to see, "Boy, those other guys made terrible mistakes. I will never make any mistakes ever!"
But will members of the Bush administration apologize for increasing the budget on defense and homeland security and covering prescription drugs for seniors while also cutting taxes? I doubt it. And when you get down to it, that is where the Bush-era deficits came from. There are, of course, some congressional Republicans who now regret backing the Medicare prescription drug entitlement, but not very many.
That's not to say that conservative candidates won't say that the massive government increase is bad. But it would help if they were more specific. Do you want to intend to roll back prescription drug coverage, for example?
So with regards to the idea of an apology, one answer is that talk is cheap.
NY 23rd Race: Mr. Salam
Can you provide your prospective on the NY 23rd district race? It looks like the 2 GOP candidates are dividing the vote, which may give it to the Dem.
Reihan Salam: Great question! Basically, I think the conservatives backing Doug Hoffman, the Conservative Party candidate, against Republican nominee Dede Scozzafava are calculating that a Democratic victory would be preferable to the election of a Republican who will not vote with the Republican caucus on a variety of key issues, ranging from tax and spending initiatives to labor law. That is, a Scozzafava defeat will "teach Republicans a lesson."
Of course, one can also imagine a scenario in which Hoffman wins the race, just as James Buckley defeated a liberal Democrat and a liberal Republican in his race for the US Senate.
I'm not quite sure what to make of this. I generally think that it's a good thing for the GOP to be a big-tent party, yet I also think that there have to be reasonable limits. Part of the value of having political parties is that they offer a rough guide to voters of what to expect -- sort of a Good Housekeeping Seal of Approval. And I think Scozzafava needs to convince center-right voters that she is with them on the key issues.
But part of why the national party wanted to run a moderate-to-liberal candidate is that they recognize that Upstate New York, a depressed region, is not hostile to federal aid and federal intervention, and national party is not inclined to simply write off such regions.
Freising, Germany: A positive way forward has been shown by people like Newt Gingrich and Joe Scarborough, who would like to usher in a new era of environmental stewardship and advocate a conservative embrace of green politics.
But the pressing issue for many people at the moment is still the recession caused by the Banking Meltdown. In the last election, McCain was hurt more by the financial crisis than Obama. Do you think that the Republican Party could ever embrace the thought of prudent government intervention to prevent a repeat of such a crisis?
Reihan Salam: Let's not go too easy on Gingrich and Scarborough. It's easy to say that you support environmental stewardship; it is quite another to devise workable policies that will have a positive impact. I worry that this is a problem among Democrats and Republicans. Among Democrats, there has been an enthusiastic embrace of cap-and-trade and other carbon-pricing measures. The trouble is that constructing politically attractive legislation, they have also included a variety of subsidies and giveaways that dull the economic signals while creating spending initiatives that will be very difficult to reverse, leaving aside the question of whether they'll help us achieve our environmental goals rather than the narrower goal of winning votes in the short-term.
A small handful of Republicans, like Senators Lamar Alexander and Bob Corker, really have offered smart and attractive proposals on environmental issues, and I applaud them for it.
With regard to the banking meltdown, I'll give you a short and unhappy answer: I think the answer might be no. A number of conservatives, including Nicole Gelinas of the Manhattan Institute, have emphasized the role that unregulated OTC derivatives played in exacerbating the financial crisis. Yet when the Financial Services Committee voted on a fairly moderate -- and indeed fairly weak -- proposal to tighten regulation of derivatives, only one Republican, Walter Jones of North Carolina (who has dissented on a wide variety of issues beyond financial regulation from the Republican mainstream), voted for it. The legislation was not flawless, but this struck me as very discouraging. My sense, and I hasten to add that I'm not an expert, is that some congressional Republicans have lost the distinction between being pro-market/pro-competition and pro-particular firms.
San Diego, Calif.: Is it just me, or is Bob McDonnell currently one of the most impressive politicians in the GOP at the moment? He is conservative without being divisive, and seems to be doing quite well among independents. Could his style of campaigning work in other purple states?
Reihan Salam: I've also been very impressed by McDonnell. He's run a shrewd campaign, one that has reached out to nontraditional constituencies for Republican candidates. His focus on the inner suburbs of northern Virginia accounts for much of his success. And that has meant devising substantive -- if not entirely satisfying -- policies on issues like traffic congestion. I definitely think that his style of campaigning can work in other purple states.
I do worry, however, that McDonnell might be falling prey to easy-answerism. Creigh Deeds has received a lot of flack for his obfuscation on taxes to fund transportation. McDonnell has proposed a variety of nontraditional funding mechanisms that might not prove sufficiently robust to make the necessary investments. In this regard, I still think that Mitch Daniels is the best model for Republican gubernatorial candidates.
Roseland, NJ: What is the takeaway for the party if Chris Christie loses the NJ governor's race?
Reihan Salam: Great question. It is very possible that the 2009 elections will see a kind of split decision, with Corzine barely holding on in New Jersey while Bob McDonnell wins in Virginia. In recent history -- 1993 and 2001 -- the party that lost the White House won both of those races, and this split decision will be seen as a win for the Democrats.
But New Jersey is an unusual case. Chris Daggett was for many years a moderate Republican, and it seems very possible that he's splitting the "change" vote. Also, Christie is in many respects a flawed candidate. Earlier on, he seemed ideal -- he had a sterling reputation as a prosecutor, albeit one that has grown less sterling over time as he's been accused of behaving in highly political fashion.
Corzine is deeply unpopular, yet his enormous financial resources have allowed him to effectively attack Christie and drive up his negatives. New Jersey is between two of the country's most expensive media markets, and self-funding makes a big difference.
Moreover, while Virginia has arguably turned purple, New Jersey is deep blue. There is deep distrust of the Republican brand, and it will take a long time to fix that.
I tend to think that the state and local tax exemption has a big impact on politics in high-tax states. Without it, tax-cutting Republicans might do far better in state and local elections. With it, voters are to some degree insulated.
Rockville, Md.: I just borrowed Charles Murray's latest book "Real Education" from the library yesterday and have read about half of it. Murray's central thesis is that too many people go to college. His figures are that about 50% of today's seniors will start a four-year program and eventually 35% will graduate. He thinks about 10-15% will enter fields that SHOULD require college.
The others will enter fields in which employers often require a college degree as proof of intellectual ability and discipline, even though the particular knowledge gained is not really necessary.
Given the huge drain that college debt is having on today's young adult generation, do you see any possible revolt against the assumption of college getting support from political conservatism and its business allies?
Reihan Salam: Murray's ideas on higher education are controversial, as you can imagine. But I think he makes a number of excellent points, among them that a college degree might represent an inefficient signaling mechanism.
Consider that employers value high school diplomas far more than GEDs. Why? In part because a diploma represents the attainment of noncognitive skills -- the ability to see something through, to wake up and show up to class on time, an ability to take direction, etc. -- that employers value.
Leaving college education aside, the US dropout rate remains distressingly high, particularly among Latino students and male students of all ethnic groups. That should be low-hanging fruit -- regardless of how one feels about college, something has to be done about this, and one strategy is to emphasize apprenticeship and other efforts to incorporate aspects of paid employment into education.
And I definitely think that conservatives are keenly interested in alternatives to the reigning models of higher education. There's a wonderful article in the Washington Monthly on a distance education company called StraighterLine.com that has threatened traditional models -- and that has offered tremendous educational value.
Seattle, Wash.: In the '80s the Democrats had a cluster of Southern and Midwestern officials like Bill Clinton, Al Gore, Sam Nunn, and Dick Gephardt that formed the DLC. Other than Olympia Snowe there just doesn't seem to be anyone willing to embrace an alternative to the current no-new-taxes, no-regulation-of-anything, no-more-government-intervention anywhere mantra. So how does the Republican party move from its current state to whatever alternative you envision?
Reihan Salam: The DLC only emerged after the disastrous defeat of 1984. The 1980 defeat wasn't enough -- many believed that Carter's defeat was a fluke that had more to do with events beyond the control of the Democratic White House than any deeper shift in the electorate. The short answer to your question is that a massive 2012 defeat might be the event that precipitates a shift in Republican strategy, or rather the emergence of a successful wing of reformers.
I should add, however, that I don't think that these reformers will resemble Olympia Snowe.
St. Paul, MN...: I see that Rush is blaming liberals for "ruining his dream of owning the Rams."
It's odd. For a party that preaches responsibility, it is amusing how they fail to practice it themselves. Rush's political discourse is NOT the reason. He has called the President of the United States a "Halfrican." He sung the offensive "Magic Negro" song. He made fun with great malice of Michael J. Fox who has a debilitating illness. Rush needs to look inward and like he himself says stop blaming others for his own failings. But Rush is typical of today's conservatism and that is exactly why it is failing. When conservatism only appeals to racists, it needs to examine itself. Thank you for listening.
Reihan Salam: I recommend sending this question to Rush.
Florida Chick: The theft of my Florida Democratic primary vote by Howard Dean and company at the nefarious Memorial Day meeting was enough to shove me away from my party since my first vote, in 1980, for Jimmy Carter. Palin did not draw me to the GOP but the better treatment of women did. The Dems are a boyz klub. Hillary supporter and donor for - the GOP. Hope you're glad to have me.
Reihan Salam: The key question is about your political priorities -- if you backed Hillary Clinton because you saw her as the champion of an expanded welfare state, my guess is that the Democrats will be a better fit. But if you supported her because, for example, you believe that the U.S. should pursue a counterinsurgency strategy in Afghanistan or that we maintain a skeptical stance towards Iran, the Republicans might be a better fit.
Bowie, Md.: There's a column by Catholic advocate Bill Donohue in OnFaith that has generated quite a lot of responses. The gist of it is that secularism is bankrupting our culture. I agree that something is bankrupting our culture, but I don't think its secularism.
Being one myself, I'm often left feeling empty at how seldom I hear secularists advocating conservatism or vice-versa. Are there any important and explicitly secular opinion pundits?
washingtonpost.com: America's secular saboteurs
Reihan Salam: There are many of them, including Heather MacDonald, John Derbyshire, and Razib Khan, among others. I get the impression that the number is growing over time, and that strikes me as a good thing.
It is also true, however, that secular conservatives have tended to drift away from the Republican Party over the last twenty years as evangelical conservatives have taken on a more prominent and public role. This has to do with very complicated social dynamics -- who we associate with in intimate life, who are our friends and neighbors, etc. One of the most powerful human tendencies is to become more like our friends and co-workers over time -- this is one reason why southern Democrats tend to be more conservative than Democrats living in the District of Columbia.
Boston: Just a quick note of thanks for changing the title. Maybe there is a future for some degree of compromise and bi-partisanship...or at least a little less hostility!
Reihan Salam: Thanks Boston. We do our best.
Arlington, Va.: Not so long ago I was one of the coveted demographic of mid 20s registered independent voters. I am in my 30s now, and still registered independent. I voted for Obama (though I am not overly impressed thus far with the administration).
I have to be honest, my perception of the GOP is not a flattering one. To me, I see it mainly as the party of anger and parochial thought. The recent comments by Merwin and Ulmer, to me, are indicative of the GOP in the South and only strengthen my view of the GOP.
Financially I tend to agree with the GOP, but on account of their social stances and their chosen leaders, I cannot see myself supporting them. And apparently I am not alone, as a recent poll suggests that only 19% of the electorate are self-identified republicans.
How does the GOP move forward without splintering with the hard liners?
Reihan Salam: I think it's important to step back a little -- many people who oppose same-sex marriage don't think of themselves as hard-liners. Rather, they think of themselves as upholding views that were very common as recently as twenty or even ten years ago, and they believe that it is people on the other side who are the hard-liners. This doesn't mean that they are right, but it does account for why we tend to talk past each other on this and other issues.
And as the country grows more favorable towards gay rights, there will still be a minority of voters, concentrated in a few regions, who reject this consensus. In our system of government, they will be entitled to elect legislators who reflect their views. So deep disagreement will be around for many, many years to come, and I can't really see all political elites deciding to write off these voters.
My take is that Republicans would be better-served by taking a page from Bob McDonnell and emphasizing a jobs and growth agenda over contentious social issues. But that doesn't really address the fact that deep disagreement on these issues will persist all the same.
Reihan Salam: Thanks so much for your questions, everyone. I wasn't able to get to everyone, but hopefully next time.
I'll just note that Britain's Centre for Social Justice is doing tremendous work on fighting poverty -- definitely worth a look.
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