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You have arrived at the front door of Palinode's palace. Some of you have an overnight bag slung over your shoulder. A few of you have brought nothing but a toothbrush sticking out the back pocket of your jeans. That's sweet, but I'm a happily married man. Please make your way through the atrium to the gallery, where a tour is currently in progress.
My name is Aidan. My surname is also a nice trochee, which makes people enjoy saying my full name. For some reason I tend to mumble when I introduce myself, so whenever possible I prompt others to introduce me. I was born in Halifax in 1971. The day was warm and humid, but in the room where I was born, fluorescents gave off a cool and arid light. My father was in the cafeteria at the time, having been told by a nurse that my birth was still several hours off. It turned out that she had lied to him, that she anticipated my arrival but disapproved of the father's presence in the room. Those were distinctly old-fashioned times: the Vietnam War was still on, Halifax was a small and slightly skeevy port city with slum neighbourhoods clustered around the harbour, and I was very very small. We lived on the top floor of a house on Vernon Street near the university campus. A rose bush climbed up to the second story. My biggest fear at the time was the moon, which gazed down through the window with a mournful look that to me somehow signigified ill-will. I also found frightening a small framed picture of a sparrow on a branch that shared my bedroom with me. I'm not sure that I could form the words at the time to tell my parents about the picture and the fear its innocousness raised in me, because it stayed up night after night with me. I had trouble falling asleep in my crib.
My parents had a print of Guernica, but this picture, which should by rights have scared the living shit out of me, I found fascinating. I particulary liked the agonized punch-drunk bull's head that seemed to be struggling out of a press of contorted bodies. Why a picture of a sparrow freaked me out but a print of Guernica aroused my sympathy (I think I felt a bit sorry for the bull), I can't say. Kitsch just gives me the heebie-jeebies.
My first word was 'button'. My second word was 'ball'. Me and the spherical have a long cozy history.
Here you would see a picture of my toddler self if it weren't stuffed in a blue naugahyde photo album in a hutch in my parents' house. I'm in a red bathing suit, sitting in a plastic wading pool. My normal haystack of hair has been dragged into a queer downward wedge by a stream of water tilting down the side of my head. I could also show a black and white photo of myself in mid-air, an infant being tossed to the ceiling by my father. I must have liked it, because I'm grinning like an idiot and holding my hand up to my mouth. Thirty plus years later I look at the photo and I recognize the shape of the grin and the hand-to-mouth gesture. I do it now and it seems that I was doing it then. Unrefined, sure, but I was just getting started.
Between the ages of three and thirty I poked around, moving here, moving there, smoking a lot of cigarettes and basically being very lazy. I exhibited promise for years. I still exhibit promise. At some point in my teens I may have tried to believe in God, but if I did, the attempt didn't take. I had a bad experience with the Columbia Record and Tape Club when I was fourteen, but in my dealings with them I learned that if you ignore a debt long enough, they will eventually wipe the slate clean and send you a letter praising you for your excellent standing with the company. I understood this to be an earthly manifestation of Grace. Based purely on a hunch, I ordered The Smith'sMeat Is Murderon cassette, which my parents found pretty excrutiating but I adored. A couple of years later I managed to snag my first serious relationship with a girl by lending her my copy ofThe Queen is Dead. A couple of months after she returned the tape I slept with her, which I understood was another and purer manifestation of Grace, even though the forgiveness of debts is probably a better thing overall.
At eighteen I moved out to the prairie provinces, which unsettled me. I had never seen a 7-11, never eaten nachos, never walked into a convenience store and seen drinks measured out in ounces. I didn't grow up with cable television, so regular access to American channels was also a new thing for me. The commercials and shows were filled with primary colours and loud happy voices, which brought me to the conclusion that 99% of televsion shows were targeted at children. I made a lot of friends who thought I was eccentric. Every one of my new friends seem to have gone to Bible camp when they were kids, and they all knew a bunch of cheesy campfire songs that praised the lord. In my new city there were no hills, no oceans, and almost no pedestrians - everyone drove from their house to the convenience store and down to the Blockbuster. At my new school there were hazing rituals for frosh, which I had thought was a cliche from American movies. Nope. I was given a frosh but didn't have the slightest idea what to do with him, so I allowed two particularly cruel fifteen year old girls to abuse the guy for a week. People here cruised, hung around in parking lots, smoked pot behind the Burger King, got in fights with guys from the north end of the city, and lived from party to party in various people's basements. I couldn't figure out whether I'd entered the cultural mainstream or been diverted into some cul de sac universe in which all participants were forced to live outAmerican Graffitievery weekend.
In 1993 I metSchmutziein a coffee shop. She had long red hair with bangs, wore round glasses and heavy long-sleeved shirts that covered her wrists and left her fingers poking out. Chiefly I remember her eyes, which seemed somehow to be open wider than other people's and coloured a curious grey-green. Whenever she had a point to bring up she would crank her eyes even wider, which gave her a perpetual look of urgency, as if she had just returned from abroad with vital information. For some reason she reminded me of Bailey fromWKRP in Cincinatti.We held off dating for seven years - a complicated tale of moving away, chance meetings, shaved heads and nights listening to Dar Williams - but once we started dating we decided we may as well go whole hog and get married.
From 1999-2006 I was involved in the dynamic world of independent television production. I ended up producing a television show that somehow shows in sixty different countries around the world. How this has happened, I cannot say. People will watch anything.
I left television in mid-2006 and went to work for the provincial government. I work in Communications,because producing a television show proved insufficiently weaselly.
2010 UPDATE: I'm unemployed.
2011-PRESENT UPDATE: Oh that's nice, I have a job again. Things are looking up for Aidan.
In Palinode's Palace is a continuation of my first weblog,The Palinode, which was hosted by the good folks atDiaryland.I started The Palinode at the height of my fascination with Richard Nixon, although you probably wouldn't know it from reading my entries. After a year I began to feel that I had run out of things to say on that site, so I went and built In Palinode's Palace, which for whatever reason seemed to suit my temperament better. At the time I envisioned the site as a repository for brief observations, epigrams, quotes, links - basically one of those weblogs that looks a bit like a lumber room or a trash heap, fun to pick through briefly but not something to return to. After a while I found that I couldn't jot down a sentence or two and leave it at that, having been cursed with a need to clarify everything, and after a month or so my entries began to resemble the pieces I put up on my first site.
The wordpalinoderefers to a specific mode of classical poetry in which statements or themes from an earlier poem are retracted or clarified. It has come to mean, loosely, any formal retraction or recantation. I first ran across the word in Matei Calinescu'sFive Faces of Modernity, in which Calinescu characterizes the palinode as a dominant strategy of postmodernism. Correction and retraction have moved from the margins to the foreground, as we assume authority and question it all at once. Or maybe it's a means of slyly asserting power? You heard it here first: You have come to the front door of Palinode's Palace and it turns out you've been living here all along. And that is the third and final manifestation of earthly Grace.


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As I write, I am currently missing all 8 pairs of tweezers I own. One weekend away and they have all disappeared into cat toy land (ie. under the fridge).
Missing is also my newest addition to the family – a cute MAD Plucker – there are a few different designs to pick from:
It comes in this tube – quite nice as a gift really, especially or teens:
I got skater girl. Now – these tweezers look very cute and are decent enough. I did my brows with them and they dealt the best with longer hairs, such as above the brow and also the hairs just under.
The tips were a little rounder than I like – therefore found it a bit hard to pluck the finer hairs and the ones just under the surface I normally tease out. In a sense these tweezers are quite safe and idiot proof, but I'd like mine with a sharper edge.
I think these actually are quite good for teenagers who are starting to tweeze – no nasty pinches with these.
You can buy the tweezers here for £7.99.

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Trending: Where the Fireworks Boom
Many area towns turn to private funding to maintain Fourth of July fireworks tradition
There's just something about the loud boom and shower of glittery lights that fill the air around the Fourth of July -- the chorus of oohs and aahs, and the night music of sizzles sweeping through the sky.
Fireworks shows -- expensive as they may be -- are a big tradition for many towns throughout Southwestern Connecticut, and even when money is tight, a good portion of towns and cities in our area find a way to fund the patriotic practice.
"Times are very tough right now," said Bill Coffey, chairman of the fireworks committee for the spectacular that launched through the Danbury skies Friday at Candlewood Lake.
"For the dollars they spend, for the amount of people to get out and watch them, it's minor and it's something patriotic," he said. "We probably have 10,000 people in the town park that night and a sea of boats. It's just astronomical."
The city of Danbury finances its fireworks showcase through a mix of public and private funds, with the city paying a grant of more than $20,000 to the Danbury Volunteer Fire Association to help pay for the event and the firefighters picking up the tab for items such as the barges from which the fireworks are launched.
In other towns, the funding structure may be different. In Greenwich, Recreations Supervisor Don Mohr said the two fireworks shows put on back-to-back at Binney Park and Greenwich Point Park are completely funded by the town. Stamford hosted fireworks this year after a three-year gap due to budget constraints.
In New Canaan, residents are asked to pay a $30 parking fee to get into the fireworks show on the holiday, while non-residents are charged $60. "The parking fees cover the cost," said Steve Benko, director of recreation for the town. "It's about $25,000 for the fireworks, and then there's the cost of the setup and take-down, the police department for security and traffic, all those things."
This is the 33rd year fireworks have blossomed over the trees in New Canaan's Waveny Park. Every one of those shows have been funded without town money, Benko said.
"Back in 1980, when we first started with our Family Fourth, the first selectman came to us and said, `There's no town money. You guys run it,'" Benko explained. "And we raised money every year to cover it."
While there are no corporate sponsorships for the event, Benko said there are several "generous residents who make significant financial contributions" every year to make sure the show goes on.
Across the country, more and more towns and cities are becoming reliant on local businesses to help make dreams of fireworks a reality, according to Julie Heckman, executive director of the American Pyrotechnics Association.
"We're really seeing a shift in who's paying for the fireworks," she said. "While we still have this down economy and municipalities are pretty cash-strapped, we're seeing more private funding through either corporate or private donors to save those shows. That's definitely the trend."
The cost of the actual fireworks is one of the least expensive line items of most fireworks shows, she said, noting that police overtime and other items such as portable toilets can add up quickly.
"A small town could spend $10,000 to $20,000, and the really large cities are well over six figures, and that depends on where the show is. If they're shooting on water, barges can be expensive to rent and that can add $30,000 to $40,000 to a show," she said.
In Stamford, nestled along Connecticut's waterfront, the skies have remained dark for the past three Independence Day holidays, for that very reason: There has not been enough money in the budget. With the cost of the actual fireworks and the need for a barge to launch them from so residents can enjoy the scenery along the Sound, the city decided to go without the annual show until this year. Thanks to private funding, Stamford's skies saw a shower of sparkles again Wednesday night as the fireworks launched over Cummings Beach.
"I think it's a fantastic community event and a great opportunity to celebrate Stamford," said Lynn Arnow, executive aide to Stamford Mayor Michael Pavia. "I think Stamford has done very well through tough economic times, and we're growing and thriving and happy to have an opportunity to celebrate."
The extravaganza was funded by several corporate sponsors who united to cover the cost of the show, which will feature what account executive Charlie DeSalvo described as "close to six-figures worth" of a display from Fireworks by Grucci, the Long Island Company that has put on shows at the Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City and President George W. Bush's inauguration, among scores of other high-profile events.
Over the years, Grucci has seen corporate partnerships boom when it comes to footing the bill for fireworks displays, according to DeSalvo.
"I've seen a significant increase," he said Tuesday. "The municipalities don't have the powers they used to and the corporations, which have a lot of money, spend it to sponsor a lot of programs."
In Stamford's case, DeSalvo said the fireworks blowout will be a "world-class" affair, lasting between 24 and 26 minutes. But while cities such as Stamford and Bridgeport put on big shows this year, there's something to be said about the smaller towns launching rockets.
"Everybody enjoys our show, and we don't spend anywhere near the amount of money that Bridgeport spends on theirs," said Gary Hylinski, carnival chairman in Oxford, where volunteer firefighters are to shoot fireworks on Wednesday, July 10, and Friday, July 12, to raise money for their department. The cost of the fireworks presentation is split roughly in half between the town of Oxford and its volunteer firefighters, according to Hylinski.
"For the first show, it's around $5,000 and the second show costs around $7,500, because we up the ante a little bit on the Friday night show," he said. Both nights will treat spectators to about 20 minutes worth of explosions, which Hylinski said he hopes can be heard all the way in Bridgeport.
"It's a small show, but everyone seems to enjoy it every year, and that makes it worth it," he said.
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- Page 1 Advent 4211 Netbook Review
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- Page 3 Feature Table Review
Key Specifications
- Review Price: £279.00
This review might as well be called MSI Wind: a Second Look, because that is basically what the Advent 4211 netbook is, as we mentioned before. I know that's kind of spoiling the present a bit before it's opened, but thankfully the Advent does come with other software, a different finish and a more attractive price.
So basically, if you want the full lowdown and all the details of the hardware, head over to Andy's review of the MSI Wind. If you don't, here's a quick run-down. This netbook comes with a fairly good 10.1in screen with 1,024 x 600 resolution, an Intel Atom N270 processor running at 1.6GHz, 1GB of RAM (plenty for the included Windows XP, though more is always better) and, like the Eee Box I looked at recently, 80GB of hard drive space (obviously not solid state). It weighs 1.15kg with the provided three-cell battery.
The keyboard is also unchanged from the Wind, meaning it is a heck of a lot better than on any of the Eees – even the Eee PC 1000 (especially if, like me, you are a right-shifter) – but not as good as the superb example on the HP 2133 Mini Note. It does have the Fn key on the outside of Ctrl, but gives you reasonably-sized keys and an enlarged Enter key to make up for it. And unlike the Mini Note, the touchpad has its buttons underneath, rather than at its sides.
In terms of connectivity, it's nothing remarkable. Three USB 2.0 ports, one mini memory card reader that annoyingly doesn't support SDHC, 3.5mm audio in and out jacks, a network port and VGA out are joined by standard wireless.
But let's talk about the differences between it and the Wind, and how those differences position it compared to the competition. The most obvious one is price, but because it's so influential we'll leave that until last.
We'll start with what many will consider the least interesting side then; the software. Apart from the Windows XP operating system, productivity software is actually rather different. You see, while MSI gives you a 60-day trial version of Microsoft Office 2007, the Advent has the arguably less useful Microsoft Works 9 SE as its standard productivity suite. Those last two letters after the nine are significant, as they mean that this is a free, ad-sponsored version of Works, and that no matter what you're doing, a portion of the screen will be taken up by ads (they run from a cache when you're not online).
This might not be as much of a problem when working on a Word document on a 20in monitor with a standard 1,680 x 1,050 resolution, but on the Advent's small display where desktop real estate is already at a premium, it can be an issue. Frankly, you're far better off getting rid of Works SE and downloading the latest version of OpenOffice, which will give you a more flexible, comprehensive and less cluttered working environment.
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Friday, March 9, 2012
Same Ol' Pelfrey!
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- AnonymousMarch 9, 2012 at 10:21 AM
How the HECK is he still with the Mets?! He has one AWESOME game a year, and the rest of the time he tanks. I want to cry.ReplyDelete
Great to see the cartoons coming on a regular basis now...it's been a long offseason.ReplyDelete
PLEASE make your 50th Anniversary (2 great years) design available as a T shirt. It really sums up the experience of being a Mets fan!!!
I didn't expect you to have so much up relating to the offseason - but it's the typical nature of the mets fan... no matter how much agony the team puts us through in the previous year, we are inexplicably excited for opening day.ReplyDelete
I completely agree with Diane - I know you aren't in the business of selling shirts, but have the guys from the7line contacted you yet? This season's logo is the best yet - and to echo Diane - represents the plight of being a fan.


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Whoa! The Blossom Cast Reunites! Check Out Our Behind-the-Scenes Video
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The '90s NBC sitcom Blossom may have seemed like a blip on the TV radar, but the show was responsible for launching a few major careers, is remembered for being way ahead of its time, coining a few catchphrases and singlehandedly putting th… Read more


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Obama Salutes US Olympic and Paralympic Teams at White House
(WASHINGTON) -- President Obama welcomed the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic teams to the White House Friday, telling them they are "a portrait of what this country is all about."
"You guys all find the strength to keep pushing on good days and bad days, because you believe that no matter where we come from, or no matter what hand we've been dealt in life, with enough effort, there is no limit to how far we can go," the president told the large crowd of athletes gathered on the White House South Lawn.
"That's what sets all of you apart. That's what sets America apart. We celebrate individual effort, but we also know that, together, we can do incredible things that we couldn't accomplish on our own," he said.
The president was joined by Vice President Joe Biden and first lady Michelle Obama, who led the U.S. delegation to the Summer Games in London, in saluting the nation's finest athletes.
"I had so much fun with everyone over in London that when I got home, I told Barack that we had to invite everybody over to the house," Michelle Obama said.
The president admitted he was "pretty jealous" that his wife got to go to the games, "but like millions of Americans, I had almost as much fun just following you guys from here."
"I usually work pretty late, but I've mastered the DVR," he quipped. "It was a great way to end the day, watching you guys do things that I did not think were humanly possible."
After his wife returned to Washington, the president, an avid sports fan and exercise enthusiast, said he and the first lady would talk about the games while they worked out in the morning.
"We'd talk about, did you see that thing?" he recounted. "That was unbelievable. … And then I'd jog on the treadmill," he said, making fun of his own athletic prowess.
The president said that he was not supposed to shake everyone's hands because of his tight schedule but vowed to "break the rule" and do it anyway, which he did.
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World Event: Children's Week
"A clever tactician, Whiskers will feign death to fool predators and bill collectors."
The pet can be caged and sold to other players. Since the item which teaches a player how to summon the pet is a soulbound quest reward from Children's Week, this means the pet can command a nice gold price.
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Cute Pet Faceoff Game
It's Up to You to Pick the Cuter Pet!
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Iran's reformist legislators said Sunday that they intend to live up to their pledges they made to voters who are anxious for greater social freedoms and economic stability, reported Associated Press (AP).
"We were elected because we promised to pursue reforms. So, we are intent on delivering the promises we have made," legislator Soheila Jelowdarzadeh told AP.
However, Jelowdarzadeh, who won a Tehran seat in February's legislative elections, conceded that reformists face an uphill road.
"To meet popular demands, we need time to succeed. Opponents of reforms will continue to resist and therefore we should still expect political tension to continue in the future," she said.
This is the first time since the 1979 Islamic revolution that the legislature has slipped out of the control of hard-liners, who want no dilution of the clerical government's laws, many of them unpopular due to their restrictions on personal freedoms, the agency added.
For some, the state of Iran's ailing economy is a more pressing matter than social freedoms.
In a nation of 62 million, half of whom are under the age of 25, Iranians are struggling with more than 20 percent unemployment and high inflation, AP added.
"I want a job. I need money to live. I expect the new Majlis to help create jobs for the unemployed," said Mahmoud Lotfi, a young man waiting with more than a hundred others for daily construction jobs at a Tehran square, a sight repeated in many cities across Iran.
AP said that despite the victory of the reformists, who won about three-fourths of the 290 seats in the Majlis in the Feb 18th polls, their power struggle against the hard-liners is far from over.
The Guardian Council, a supervisory body controlled by conservatives, must approve new legislation before it becomes a law.
The hard-liners also control the judiciary, the broadcast network and the security forces, and their chiefs are appointed by Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who has the final say in all matters, according to the agency - Albawaba.com
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One of the TNA's biggest pay-per-views of the year is here in front of a company-record crowd in San Antonio with Aces & Eights threatening to take over the company. But despite falling in their Lethal Lockdown match, the group had something else in store, as Bully Ray turned on the Hogans to join the group and win the TNA World Heavyweight Championship.
Lockdown featured four title matches, but none bigger than the main event, a steel cage match for the TNA World Heavyweight Championship between Jeff Hardy and Bully Ray, which could be won by pinfall, submission or escaping the cage.
Hardy hits the Whisper in the Wind very early in the match, then a splash from the top rope. He goes to climb, but Ray pulls him back to standing on the ropes and then delivers a big boot which drops Hardy and crotches him.
Ray now goes to work on Hardy and is working on his lower back in an effort to slow him down and make him pay if he does try for those high risk maneuvers. Hardy tries to fire back but Ray sends him flying with a big back drop. Ray goes for a Vader Bomb but Hardy moves. Hardy hits the Twist of Fate and as he goes to the top, Wes Brisco and Garett Bischoff hit the ring and enter the cage. Hardy takes care of them and Ray tops it off with a double clothesline. He stacks them in the corner and Ray drops down and asks Hardy to hit Poetry in Motion, which he does. They dispatch of them through the cage door.
Now we go back and they are slugging it out and Hardy gets the best of it. He hits the leg drop to the gut and follows with a dropkick. Hardy tries to climb but Ray cuts him off again and chops him brutally. Hardy fires back but Ray drills him down. Hardy down and Ray comes off the top with a splash for two.
Hardy again tries to climb, but Ray again follows up. Hardy near the top and Ray gets under him and absolutely destroys Hardy with a Bubba Bomb off the top rope and to the canvas. How here comes Hulk Hogan and Brooke Hogan to ringside. Hulk is on crutches.
But now here comes all of Aces & Eights. They all start entering the cage and Hardy and Ray go back to back with chains. Devon, though, pulls a hammer out of his pocket and tosses it to Ray. Ray points at Hogan and then wallops Hardy right in the back with it. He and Devon embrace, Ray covers Hardy and referee Earl Hebner reluctantly counts three. We have a new World Heavyweight Champion!
The Hogans are in disbelief on the outside. Ray screams at them, telling Brooke she was nothing to him, calling Hulk names. Hulk says Ray is a dead man.
They get Ray a mic as Aces & Eights taunt the Hogans. Ray tells Devon to "let that stupid (expletive) cry." He says he used Hulk and screwed Brooke as the fans litter the ring with garbage. Ray declares himself as the president of Aces & Eights and the TNA World Heavyweight Champion.
The next TNA pay-per-view is Slammiversary on June 2.
Following a video package, Todd Keneley, Mike Tenay and Taz welcome us to tonight's show, a eight-match affair from the AlamoDome in San Antonio, Texas.
Match #1 - TNA X Division Championship - (c) Kenny King (Las Vegas, Nev.) vs. Zema Ion (The Philippines) vs. Christian York (Culpeper, Va.)
As expected, fast and furious action. King tries to springboard off Ion onto York but ends up just putting himself onto the guard rail, back of the head first. It appears he's OK, as Ion goes up to the top rope and hits a corkscrew moonsault onto the floor onto both men.
DDT connects for Ion onto York, but then King suplexes Ion on the ramp and then hits a slingshot leg drop. In the ring and we get a Tower of Doom spot with York on the good end of it. This allows him to get rolling. He hits King with a bulldog and then a clothesline for Ion. King gets a back suplex and York hits the Mood Swing on Ion but Ion kicks out at the last second.
All three men in the mix now and this one is wild. Ion goes to the turnbuckle but York cracks him with a big kick and hits him with a double stomp and then a barrel roll for King. York wants the Mood Swing again but King breaks it up with a big kick on Ion. King loads up York, but York turns it into a small package for two. King, though, is not deterred, and hits the Royal Flush and that does it.
Winner via pinfall and STILL TNA X Division Champion: Kenny King
Match Rating: 7/10
Match #2 - Joey Ryan (Los Angeles, Calif.) vs. Joseph Park (Chicago, Ill.)
Ryan uses some sleazy tactics to get an edge. Park uses some arm drags, surprising Ryan, but Ryan retakes the edge. Ryan goes to the top rope and hits a missile dropkick. Park, though, gets going and gives Ryan a wedgie. He follows with a big avalanche that has Ryan reeling. Now Park hoists himself up to the second turnbuckle but misses a splash. Ryan to the second turnbuckle and flies for a sunset flip, but Park sits down and squishes Ryan and gets the win.
Winner via pinfall: Joseph Park
Match #3 - TNA Knockouts Championship - (c) Velvet Sky (The Big Apple) vs. Gail Kim (Toronto, Ontario)
Kim in charge and she hits the corner cross body block. She follows by slamming Sky to the canvas. Now Kim and Taryn Terrell having some issues. Kim hits Eat Defeat and gets in Terrell's face, including shoving and slapping her, after she thinks the count is slow. Kim asks Terrell to disqualify her, but instead, Terrell spears her and goes to town on Kim. Kim gets back up and starts to go after Terrell, but Sky grabs her and hits In Yo Face and that does it.
Winner via pinfall and STILL TNA Knockouts Champion: Velvet Sky
Match Rating: 4/10
Match #4 - Robbie E (Seaside Heights, NJ) vs. Rob Terry (Swansea, Wales)
This is all comedy. But Robbie is able to cheap shot Terry and chop block him. Robbie locks in a sleeper and Terry is reeling. Naturally, that doesn't last long, though, as Terry hits a big slam and then plants Robbie to finish it.
Winner via pinfall: Rob Terry
Match #5 - TNA World Tag Team Championship - (c) Austin Aries (Minneapolis, Minn.) & Bobby Roode (Toronto, Ontario) vs. Chavo Guerrero (El Paso, Texas) & Hernandez (Houston, Texas) vs. Christopher Daniels (Los Angeles, Calif.) & Kazarian (Anaheim, Calif.)
Bad Influence uses some double teams on Hernandez, but go to the well one too many times, as he suplexes them both and makes the tag to Guerrero, who hits portions of the Three Amigos on Daniels, Kazarian, Roode and Aries. But Guerrero's momentum is stymied by Bad Influence.
Roode tags himself in and he and Aries go to work on Guerrero. Aries with a dropkick to the back of Guerrero's head. Guerrero stuck in a bad corner here. Guerrero, though, is able to work out of it, but he and Roode clothesline each other. Roode tags Aries, who comes flying in and takes out Hernandez before Guerrero can make the tag. Now it breaks down between the champs and Bad Influence and they start brawling.
As Aries and Kazarian go after it, Guerrero goes up top and hits a double crossbody and then Hernandez slingshots his way in with a shoulder tackle. He sends Aries into orbit and throws him up in the air and to the canvas, then he dispatches of Roode and Daniels. Hernandez puts Aries and Kazarian up and hits a double backbreaker. Referee Earl Henber is slow to make the cover and Aries kicks out.
It's all breaking down here. Roode and Kazarian in. Roode counters the Fade to Black and Aries hits Kazarian with the corner dropkick. Aries goes to the top but Daniels crotches him. As Roode and Daniels trade, they turn around into Air Mexico from Hernandez. Daniels to the second turnbuckle but Hernandez kills him with a sitout power bomb. Guerrero goes to the top but Kazarian cuts him off. Aries shoves him to the floor. Before he can take advantage on Guerrero, Hernandez comes in and takes Aries, but Aries takes him to the floor.
Guerrero wipes out Daniels and goes for the Frog Splash, but as he goes up, Roode tags Guerrero. Guerrero goes for the cover but isn't legal. Aries comes in and throws Guerrero to the floor and Roode slips in and makes the cover for the win.
Winners via pinfall and STILL TNA World Tag Team Champions: Bobby Roode & Austin Aries
Match Rating: 9/10
Match #6 - Steel Cage Match - Wes Brisco (Tampa, Fla.) vs. Kurt Angle (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
Angle is rolling until he misses a charge and goes shoulder-first into the turnbuckle with his head also hitting the cage. Brisco, though, can't hold the advantage long, and Angle sends him into orbit with the belly-to-belly.
Brisco, though, hits a low blow and starts crawling toward the door, but Angle grabs his ankle and you know what's happening now. But Brisco counters and sends Angle flying into the cage. Now Brisco starts to climb but Angle catches him and they start slugging it out on the top rope. Angle starts bashing Brisco's head into the cage and then gets behind him and hits a German suplex from a standing position on the top rope to the canvas.
Angle is up but Brisco ducks a clothesline and Angle wipes out referee Brian Hebner. Angle locks in the ankle lock and Brisco taps, but the referee is out. Angle hits an Angle Slam, flips Brisco off and walks out the cage, but Hebner is still down. D-Lo Brown comes down the ramp and throws Angle into the cage and back in while pulling Brisco out. Hebner wakes up, sees Brisco outside and calls for the bell.
Winner via escape: Wes Brisco
Match Rating: 6/10
Match #7 - Lethal Lockdown - Mr. Anderson (Green Bay, Wis.), Knox (Atlanta, Ga.), Garett Bischoff (Clearwater Beach, Fla.), Devon (New York City) & Doc (Parts Unknown) vs. Magnus (England), Samoa Joe (Isle of Samoa), Eric Young (Nashville, Tenn.), James Storm (Leiper's Fork, Tenn.) & Sting (Venice Beach, Calif.)
Anderson first in for the Aces & Eights while Magnus is in for Team TNA. Pretty even start for the first three minutes when Knox enters the match. They take advantage on Magnus, but nothing huge, before Samoa Joe enters for Team TNA. Joe on fire, naturally, and he and Magnus, given their prior tag team history, gain an edge. Next in for Aces & Eights is Garett Bischoff. He goes right to Magnus, then Joe.
The crowd immediately chants "You can't wrestle" at Bischoff and Magnus and Joe are able to get some offense in. That edge doesn't last long, though, as Aces & Eights take over. In comes Eric Young. He hits a drop kick on Bischoff as he enters and Team TNA takes over. The edge goes back to Aces & Eights as the Television Champion is next, that's right, it's Devon. He comes in and helps his squad regain the edge until James Storm comes in. He hits the Codebreaker on Knox and cranks him with the Last Call Superkick.
Doc is the last man in the ring for Aces & Eights. He gives the group a big advantage and they take a moment to celebrate their decimation of Team TNA. As the clock winds down, the crowd gets on its feet for Sting, who is coming with two garbage cans full of weapons.
Team TNA gets the weapons and its head shots for all Aces & Eights members. This is just a beatdown right now. Team TNA going to town on Aces & Eights with the weapons. Bischoff getting taken behind the woodshed. Aces & Eights, though, take advantage of a near miscommunication between Young and Sting and use some low blows to take control and take it to Team TNA.
Then we get quite possibly the biggest Tower of Doom spot ever, with six men involved. Sting hits Knox with the Scorpion Death Drop and tells Young to go to the top rope. Instead, Sting steps in the way and tells Young to go all the way to the top of the cage. The crowd growing with anticipation and Young rises and hits a giant elbow drop. Into the cover, 1, 2, 3!
Winners via pinfall: Team TNA
Match #8 - Steel Cage Match for the TNA World Heavyweight Championship - (c) Jeff Hardy (Cameron, NC) vs. Bully Ray (New York City)
Winner via pinfall and NEW TNA World Heavyweight Champion: Bully Ray
Event Rating: 7/10
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Little Giants Beat DePauw 68-57 at Chadwickby Brent Harris • November 30, 2005 Share:
"Just like football"
The cheer rang out from the crowd of Wabash students just before the final horn sounded and the Little Giant basketball team had secured a 68-57 victory over the DePauw Tigers at Chadwick Court Wednesday night. The victory ended a seven-game winning streak by DePauw and gave Wabash a victory in both football and basketball in the same season for the first time since 1993. The Little Giants brought the Monon Bell, heard ringing in the background throughout the basketball game, with a 17-14 victory back on November 12.
Click here to see photos from Wabash's victory over DePauw.
Wabash had to battle back from an eight-point deficit with six minutes left in the first half. Back-to-back baskets by Adonis Joseph, including a three-pointer with 4:54 showing on the first half game clock, trimmed the lead to three points. A driving layup by Michael Woods made it a 23-22 Tiger lead before free throws by Reid Sakel put DePauw back in front by three. Andrew Zimmer made it a one-point contest with his jumper in the lane. Then freshman Brian Maloney brought the crowd to its feet with his layup with 2:20 left in the half to put Wabash up by one for the first time in the contest. The Tigers would draw even at halftime, hitting one of two free throws to knot the score at 28-28 at the break.
After struggling in the shooting department in the early going, the Little Giants managed to get hot in the final minutes of the first half, eventually hitting 12-of-27 for 44.4 percent from the field. DePauw found it tough to get off good shots against the Wabash defense, connecting on only 10-of-30 attempts for 30 percent. The Tigers also struggled from the free throw line, hitting 6-of-11 from the charity stripe in the opening period.
Wabash jumped out to a five-point lead in the first minute of the second half, only to see DePauw eventually tie the score at 35-35 with 15:40 left in the contest. After trading baskets, Kyle Medeiros drilled a jumper, then Maloney stole the ball at midcourt and found Woods all alone at the three-point arc. The long-range basket by Woods made it a 42-37 contest in favor of Wabash.
The Little Giants pushed the advantage to eight points with 9:19 left before DePauw would cut it to three points just two minutes later. Free throws again became the difference in the contest. Wabash hit 4-of-4 from the stripe over the next three minutes, while the Tigers were just 1-of-4 along with a missed three-pointer to give the Little Giants a 57-51 lead. DePauw's Matt McDonald ended the scoring drought for the Tigers with a layup to cut the lead to four.
It would be Medeiros who would come up with the first of two back-breakers for Wabash. After Medeiros missed a jumper in the lane, DePauw's Michael Moore had the rebound knocked out of his hands underneath the Wabash basket. On the ensuing inbound play, Medeiros stole the entry pass and scored an easy layup to give Wabash a 59-53 lead with 2:16 left. It proved to be a key basket when Alex Stewart answered for the Tigers with a three-pointer five seconds later to cut the lead to three.
After free throws by Kyle Coffey and Woods, it would be Joseph's turn to provide the final big play. Leading by five points after DePauw once again hit only one out of two free throw attempts, Joseph drilled a three with the shot clock winding down to put Wabash up 65-57. Caleb Lyttle added a layup with 19 seconds left then hit one of two final free throws to give Wabash its first victory over the Tigers since an 87-81 win by the Little Giants in 1998 in Greencastle. It was the first time Wabash had claimed a victory at Chadwick Court since defeating DePauw 82-65 earlier in the 1998 season when the two teams played twice a year as part of the Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference.
Medeiros finished with a season-high 19 points on 7-of-15 shooting. Coffey recorded his first double-double of the season and fourth of his career with 10 points and 12 rebounds after going scoreless with only two rebounds in the first half. Joseph also had 10 points in the game. Wabash finished 25-of-61 from the field in the contest while holding the Tigers to just 19-of-55 shooting (34.5 percent).
Wabash (3-3) will open North Coast Athletic Conference action Saturday afternoon against the Oberlin College Yeomen (0-6). Oberlin lost 82-51 to Defiance Wednesday evening. Tipoff for Saturday's game is at 2 p.m. at Chadwick Court.
Top left - Adonis Joseph's three-pointer with 32 seconds left in the game gave Wabash an eight-point lead.
Bottom right - Kyle Medeiros hits one of his seven baskets in the game. The senior guard led Wabash with 19 points.
Sports home page - Senior Caleb Lyttle drives for two of his seven points in the Wabash victory.


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BIRMINGHAM, Ala.—Freshman McHale Schneider scored six goals Tuesday evening as the Birmingham-Southern men's lacrosse team defeated La Roche College 17-11 on Battle Field at Panther Stadium. The Panthers move to 2-2 while the Redhawks fall to 0-1.
With the exception of the first two minutes of the game, when La Roche scored the first goal, BSC never trailed, tying things up less than a minute later on Schneider's first goal (assisted by freshman Thomas Grove), and then pulling ahead at the 9:21 mark on a score by freshman Matt Musser. The Panthers led 5-3 at the end of the first quarter, and used six straight goals to go up 10-3 by the 6:22 mark of the second quarter. Each team scored twice after that and BSC led 12-5 at the half.
The Redhawks led 3-2 in the third quarter, cutting the lead to 14-8, and then cut it to 14-9 at the 7:37 mark of the fourth quarter on a man-up goal by Jonathan Monahan. The teams traded goals after that, with BSC scoring three times (two from Schneider and one from Musser) to clinch the eight-goal victory.
Schneider had six goals on eight shots (seven on-goal), and Grove led with 13 face-off wins and eight ground balls. Junior goalkeeper Conor Perine recorded seven saves while facing 18 shots from La Roche.
Jean Thouin led La Roche with four goals and five ground balls, and Eugene LaBorde made nine saves in goal.
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Edit: I'm not sure why I'm fed up with people shitting on someone who has done more with their life than they will ever do with theirs but I am. Sorry.
That's a personal attack. Feel better?
It would only be a personal attack if you were the only one guilty of exhibiting such rank insecurity, but even here in this thread, there are multiple people who can't stand the idea of someone actually taking action towards goals they consider important, instead of sitting at their computer and bitching on the internet.
The fact that you perceived it as a personal attack tells me that on some subconscious level, you understand how pathetic such behavior is.
You don't think I'm an individual human. That explains it.
The best I can do is apologize for upsetting you.
I'd much rather find a way to insult you because, whether you intended to or not, you hurt me.
I made my comment in good faith expressing honest sentiment (nor did I "shit" on anyone).
I've been irrationally angry at times so I know where it comes from.


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Our last Jay Cutler cat pic we revealed to the world went over so well that at the time, we immediately sent our team of interns in search for another. It took over two years of exhaustive searching, but I'm ecstatic to report that one of our Midwest interns, Lenny, unearthed this beauty at a Goodwill near Naperville.
Congratulations to Lenny, who will receive a personal tour of Robert's GOIBER, a ½ pound of Franklin's homemade cheese curds, 10% of our ad revenue generated this month, as well as bragging rights at the Packer Ranter, Inc. annual holiday party in December.
Say what you want about Cutler, folks, but he's quite the animal lover.
Any comments or captions are welcome below.
Wednesday, October 31, 2012
2nd Jay Cutler Cat Picture - Found!!
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What's the cat looking at?ReplyDelete
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Cutler reminds me a lot of Rodgers. They are very similar, except for Jay's cat-loving ways. Rodgers is more of a designer-dog type of guy.ReplyDelete
I found here, the delineation of what we call wonderful.ReplyDelete
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The Fifth Element #8
This is too bad—not your state of shock, but my not interviewing Rebecca. Too bad, because one little-known fun fact about Ms. RR-S is that when she was discovered as a model, she was studying music at the college level. (I delight in envisioning Birkenstock-clad Becca towering over preschoolers as she student-teaches pentatonic recorder, or Orff's Schulwerk.) I suspect that she has retained some of her interest in music, and that it would be diverting to find out what she listens to, and through what components.
Had the interview eventuated, and had Ms. RR-S wanted my advice about buying stereo equipment, I was (of course) prepared to make recommendations. Now I might as well share those recommendations with you, though I imagine your eyebrows and cheekbones have launched far fewer ships.
Absent that interview, I know nothing of Ms. Romijn-Stamos' tastes in music or what her listening room is like, and these are obviously important considerations in selecting a system. So I'll fudge a bit and assume that her tastes are both catholic and eclectic, and that her room is "average" (footnote 1). We will also take a great leap of faith and assume that Ms. R-S is sane, and further that she just wants to listen to music, and does not want to own her own soldering iron.
On to the list. These recommended systems, ranging in approximate cost from $2500 to $90,000, consist of components I have heard at length, in most cases in the recommended combinations. In almost every case, careful setup will be necessary if the components are to sound their best as a system. I recommend vibration control by Symposium Acoustics, Room Optimizer software and acoustical treatments by RPG, power conditioning by Marigo, and power cords by Custom Power Cord Company (or similar items of equivalent quality).
I'm sure that if Ms. Romijn-Stamos wanted to lay out very long green for a stereo system, she could. But I will keep you in suspense by starting at the bottom of the price ladder. (Ms. R-S is not in suspense. She is not reading this.)
System 1: A Good Beginning: $2500
Opera Prima 1.5 loudspeaker: $995/pair
Audio Analogue Puccini integrated amplifier: $695
Marantz 4000 OSE CD changer: $450
van den Hul D-102 III Hybrid interconnect: $155/1m pair
van den Hul CS-122 Hybrid speaker cable: $93/3m pair
Show it off with: Geirr Tveitt's One Hundred Folk Songs from Hardanger orchestrations
Within its limitations in bass extension and volume, this system can provide an emotionally involving window into a musical performance. Audio Analogue keeps the price down by making remote control an option. The Puccini SE is also available, with more power. (But opting for more power and remote control almost doubles the price.) The Puccini's essential geniality meshes well with the articulate, extended sound of Opera's ported two-way loudspeaker. The Prima 1.5 features solid hardwood construction and a level of overall craftsmanship rare at this price. Marantz has discontinued its one-disc Original Special Edition CD player, but the remaining 5-disc carousel sounds nearly as good. Van den Hul's carbon-shielded cables are grain-free and unfussily relaxing to listen to.
System 2: Little Jewels: $5600
Diapason Karis loudspeaker: $1995/pair (stands: $299)
Plinius 8100 integrated amplifier: $2000
Marantz Professional PMD 340 CD player: $789
Nordost Solar Wind interconnect: $110/1m pair
Nordost Solar Wind speaker cables: $400/3m pair
Show it off with: Milladoiro: Castellum Honesti
At this price point we begin to close in on what I think of as real high-end sound. Naturally, this system is going to give up bushels of bass extension, dynamic range, and soundstage finesse compared to a cost-no-object rig, but its reproduction of smaller-scaled music is at least on the threshold of why we all don't buy a nationally advertised one-box solution and have done with it.
Diapason's Karis has a driver complement eerily reminiscent of the celebrated BBC LS3/5A's, but the design similarities end just about there. A rear-ported design with a simple crossover, the Karis is quick and lively, with dynamics and frequency extension quite surprising for its size. No veneered shoebox, the Karis is a smaller version of the famous Adamante, with the same solid Caneletto walnut construction and elegantly faceted front panel.
Footnote 1: There exists an Audio Engineering Society (AES) standards publication, "Recommended Practice for Professional Audio, AES20-1996, on the Subjective Evaluation of Loudspeakers," which includes listening-room criteria. Single copies are available for free download. To me, it looks like the product of a diligent committee that valued consensus over individuality. Dr. Peter D'Antonio, of RPG Inc., has covered critical-listening rooms in several articles for Surround Professional magazine, and I find his approach intriguing. The fly in that ointment is that D'Antonio posits room dimensions unlikely to be found in any but a purpose-built room.


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