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The Characters:
Jim Starbuck - Young leader of the Gemini Force. Why a brilliant scientist would choose a rash youth over an experienced and trusted man of thirty is beyond me. Maybe bionics are not capable of surviving a midlife crisis.
Gem Starbuck - This would be Jim's sister. Oh good, a fiery redhead to compliment the young man's seasoned decision making.
Jerry - Every crack team needs a clumsy goofball to be complete. One wonders how he survives (more on that later).
Wally - The team's science officer. He looks like an old geek and has all sorts of pets. We can safely assume that Wally does not date much.
Dr. Kharmady - The brilliant scientist who looks like a chubby version of Hitler.
Lord Tyrannus - The ruthless ruler of the dinosaurs. He took leadership lessons from Count Zartharn. "Kill! Destroy!"
The Super Monsters - Dinosaurs did not die out. They moved underground and developed lethal halitosis.
The Plot:
I hope you are ready for this movie. If you are not, it is going to hit you out of nowhere like a truck. The really dangerous issue is the "seamless integration" of suitmation, super-marionation, and animation.
Before I get rolling and hurt someone, let me explain. The narration (lots of ations in this movie) informs us that dinosaurs did not die off as previously believed. The huge reptiles burrowed deep into the Earth and evolved into super monsters. Under the direction of their emperor, Tyrannus, the creatures now seek to destroy mankind. The dinosaurs are almost always realized by placing some poor actor in a rubber suit. The Gemini Force is a group of four individuals who are pledged to protect humanity. For the most part, the "movie's" (I suspect this was a failed kids' show) human characters are animated. Change their uniforms and they could be dropped into "Starblazers" or "Battle of the Planets." Last, but not least, the Gemini Force uses a giant transport aircraft and an armored train/tank hybrid. The vehicles would be right at home in Gerry Anderson's "Thunderbirds" series.
Are you okay? Are you still with me?
Lord Tyrannus sends a Tyrannosaurus to destroy mankind. The super monster surfaces near a pair of cartoon hunters who are out with their cartoon dogs. It blasts the Dalmations with a red ray that turns them into like colored killer canines. The two men are ripped to pieces and the red dogs begin biting other dogs. The bites create even more red dogs. Pretty soon a plague of vicious red pooches is tearing up the countryside. Team Gemini is sent to stop the beasts from entering the city.
The horde of killer canines is stopped at the bridge, though it takes lasers fired at full power to stun them. Also, and sorry for not mentioning this before, the back half of the train/tank splits off and starts flying around. Jim and Gem remain in the command module, but their companions use the rear section to provide air cover (it has other uses too). The vehicle assigned to Jerry and Wally looks like a large, flying dumpster. By now you should understand why my wife spent the first thirty minutes of the movie giggling uncontrollably.
Just when they thought the situation was under control, the Tyrannosaurus controlling the dogs rears his ugly head. The weapons systems are ineffective against the monster, so Jim and Gem decide to change into Gemini. By touching wrists and engaging their bionics, the two siblings are merged into a superhuman being. Gem's soul (or something) is left bereft of a body, speaking in echoing tones from a web of energy, while Jim develops some feminine features and prominent ears. The vehicle also undergoes a complete metamorphosis, gaining a drill bit nose, spikes, and wings with circular saw blades on the tips.
The downside to the Gemini transfer is that the brother and sister team can only remain merged for three and a half minutes. Would carbo-loading extend that time limit? I do not know, but they handily defeat the Tyrannosaurus with only seconds to spare. They saw its head off! The super monster falls over, subsequently exploding in a hail of sparks. Jerry and Wally use the dumpster to put out stray fires before joining the others.
I swear on my mother's grave that this is all true. No way could I be making it up.
A couple of things happen in almost every battle. The dinosaur controls a type of creature, two hapless pieces of human meat get munched, Jim and Gem are forced to merge when normal weapons fail to stop the monster, and a fire is extinguished by the flying dumpster. If the different fights were the same duration you could probably set your watch by the events.
The next attack is a pterosaur (not a dinosaur, but close enough) controlling a colony of giant bats. Two cartoon hikers stumble into the cave and immediately get et, then the bat swarm takes out a helicopter (crewed by two people). Following that, the pterosaur leads his bat army in an attack against the city. The Gemini Force is in trouble, because Gem is trapped inside a building that the bats are attacking, while the rest of the team is outside in the vehicles. The rubber bats bounce off the outside of the building before finding an open door. Once inside, they bounce off doors and walls.
My description of the special effects used here is dead accurate. The bats are rubber and suspended on fishing line. Somebody jiggles the props up and down, then abruptly smacks them into stuff. Egad, I thought myself too jaded to stare slack-jawed at a movie. I was wrong.
The bats are dispersed with anti-bat ordinance, but that only makes the super monster enter the fray. Jim tells Jerry and Wally to take the flying dumpster and distract the monster; they immediately comply. (How many Jerry and Wallys does the team go through in a month?) With the pterosaur's attention elsewhere, Jim is able to rescue his sister from the damaged building. They immediately transform into Gemini and the super monster's life expectancy drops dramatically.
Okay, next monster. A stegosaurus commands a huge army of red rats to destroy an oil refinery. There are two subplots in this segment, one about a little girl who apparently hates rats and the second a fight between Jim and Gem -
over a blouse!
Dude, you have been spending too much time merged with your sister!
The red rat army does severe damage to the refinery by chewing through pipes and storage tanks (wow, just plain wow). To stop the super monster and his minions, Jim and Gem must become Gemini, but Dr. Kharmady warns that they cannot until their personal problems are resolved. Jim smacks his sister before climbing
out of the armored vehicle
to save the little girl's male guardian (brother, father, I do not know). The male part of Gemini
blasts away at the stegosaurus with a pistol
and is about to get mashed when his sister saves the day
with her pistol.
I imagine that Dr. Kharmady was watching all this, shaking his head sadly. Billions spent on research and equipment, but his commanders resort to handguns. The two idiots eventually climb back into the vehicle and transform into Gemini. End of stegosaurus.
The last battle was fun since I got to say, "Red rat! Red rat!" over and over.
A rampaging styracosaurus, terribly misidentified as a triceratops, is the next attacker. For some odd reason it does not control any animals, plus the Gemini Force kicks its butt without transforming. This flies in the face of Gem observing that the super monster was very strong. Maybe it was opposite day and her saying that actually meant the styracosaurus was a wuss.
The bleeding super monster burrows to safely, leaving Jim troubled. Why did it attack a humble suburb? What was the true intent of the assault? Jerry wants to rescue some people who are trapped in a damaged tower, but the commander insists on staying alert and together. Watching helpless civilians die does not bode well with the junior team member; he mutinies. The flying dumpster detaching is just what Tyrannus wanted. The wounded super monster resurfaces and attacks, inflicting a concussion on Jim before retreating. The king dinosaur's true intent is revealed when a Tyrannosaurus emerges and begins spraying radioactive dust everywhere.
Can the heroes stop the pair of super monsters? Jim's head wound means that the Gemini transfer is potentially fatal, but without the extraordinary powers of Gemini and his (er, her, its, their...aw, forget it) drill ship, all may be lost.
Things I Learned From This Movie:
The Japanese version of the Pentagon is much smaller. In fact, it is a table.
There is a reason that CNN, not Cartoon Network, covers disaster stories.
The last hope of all mankind is a cybernetic hermaphrodite suffering from split personality disorder.
Earthquakes cause airplanes to shake too.
Hikers should always carry a portable radio in case the dinosaurs unexpectedly return.
Japanese building codes require that any skyscraper be able to support a main battle tank landing on the roof.
Exposing your soft underbelly is not the best way to win a battle.
Even superhuman heroes should wear seat belts and helmets.
Disobeying a direct order is hilarious.
Sloths are the result of breeding raccoons with monkeys.
Stuff To Watch For:
1 min - This looks like footage from "Ultraman," but, for the love of peace, it is too low budget, even for "Ultraman."
5 mins - Girdler would have put this scene closer to the end of the film.
13 mins - Oooof! That car was hating it.
22 mins - The pterosaur is hanging upside down, from the cave ceiling. Right.
30 mins - What in the world possessed these people to develop anti-bat weapons?
36 mins - The physics of this scene give me a headache.
62 mins - I bet that either Jan Michael Vincent or George Peppard could drive that thing.
71 mins - Holy unexplained telescoping shaft Batman!
79 mins - Ah, a seamless integration of animation and live action special effects.
Dr. Kharmady: "This is a real emergency! The super monsters have sent a triceratops to the outer suburbs of the city."
Jim: "Don't tell me my duty!"
Jerry: "Tell me Jim, there's a rumor going around the base that when the professor installed your Gemini circuitry he also took out your heart."
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The narrator lays down the plot. I urge you to listen.
Dr. Kharmady: "We've received strange reports from Alpha Sector Three. Reliable witnesses there tell of monstrous red dogs ravaging the countryside, as well as earthquakes and fires."
Wally: "Did you say these were reliable witnesses?"
Jim: "The super monster is attacking the school! Those kids are in danger!"
Pterosaur: "I am here, oh great and mighty Tyrannus. What is your will?"
Tyrannus: "I have used my power to infect the bats with a thirst for blood and destruction. Lead them against the humans!"
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Reply #1.
Posted on March 17, 2003, 05:53:21 PM by Launcelot Rolaids
This is one hilarious cartoon. The dinosaurs are men in rubber suits and the people are cartoons.
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Reply #2.
Posted on November 25, 2006, 04:10:12 PM by Andrew
The following information was submitted by John Cassidy.
The show was produced by Tsuburaya Productions (famous as the makers of ULTRAMAN), and aired on TV Tokyo from 10/7/1977 to 6/30/1978, with a total of 39 episodes.
The stock footage you saw in the beginning . . . FEW scenes are from ULTRAMAN, but others are from ULTRA SEVEN and the TV series MIGHTY JACK (which Sandy Frank ravaged into a feature-length film), and most of the monster footage is from other Tsuburaya superhero shows such as FIREMAN from 1973 and the first episode of ULTRAMAN LEO from 1974.
The brother and sister who combine into the Aizenborg pilot are named Zen Tachibana (Jim Starbuck) and Ai Tachibana (Gem Starbuck). BTW, Ai and Zen are Japanese for "love" and "truth," respectively. The Aizenborg-Go is the name of the ship they pilot. In Episode 20, the ship is replaced by the Ultra-guy you see in the big picture named Aizenbo. Tyrannus is originally called Ururu, and as you guessed, he is a fugitive from Tsuburaya's older production THE LAST DINOSAUR. He too was phased out in # 20 by that alien guy at the bottom named Space Demon King Gottes.
Here's the main index from where the image came from (this is based on a whole encyclopedia of 70s Japanese superheroes)!
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Reply #3.
Posted on November 25, 2006, 04:10:12 PM by Brother Ragnarok
Just finished watching a copy of this I found for two bucks at a pawn shop, and holy crap. I read the review and discovered many of our jokes (Hitler and "red rat") were the same. Great minds and all.
If anyone knows how I can find the rest of the series, please get ahold of me. I love you long time.
Brother R
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Reply #4.
Posted on November 25, 2006, 04:09:49 PM by Lee
Yes, a very funny series...believe it or not, it was a big hit in the middle east(particularly in saudi arabia) and in Italy around the mid 80's
Very appealing series for kids...when my dad worked in Riyaad, i was raised on it.
Now its great for a laugh...theres more tho...it series 5 onwards, jim and gem can combine (in the flying supermachine thing) to become this huge robot thing the size of the dinosaurs...so he can take them on single handedly...looks a bit like ultraman but better.
There are actually 10 series episodes with 4 parts in each
for a 70's kids show, i reckon it aint all that bad - a lot better than the s**t we see today. If anyone wants pics, feel free to email me.
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Reply #5.
Posted on November 25, 2006, 04:10:12 PM by Steve Bentley
I own this thing! I bought it several years ago from a video store for my wifes little brother, and watching it with him, found I couldn't part with it! There is another movie made from this same series called "Return of the Dinosaurs", but the dub and edit seem to have changed the entire concept. Search for it! I urge you! It is as bad and even funnier!
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Reply #6.
Posted on December 23, 2002, 11:40:09 AM by Josie
I must see this...
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Reply #7.
Posted on December 21, 2002, 09:19:59 PM by Eric
My friends and I (who are seasoned bad movie watchers) were absolutely stunned by the total ineptitude of this movie. It still makes us laugh uncontrolably. This is a MUST. Trust me on this one.
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Reply #8.
Posted on November 25, 2006, 04:10:12 PM by Mark
Oh my... I bought this movie on half.com this past week, it showed up the other day, and my friend and I (he's got three... count em THREE Turkish movies) watched in utter disbelief last night. It looks like 4 TV shows smacked together, they reused so much footage, we were quoting dialogue before it happened. It really is worth $10 to buy and keep. Seemless? I don't know... Funny? Oh my, yes. The "dumpster" also has a plow on the front, perhaps for when the team needs to do emergency snow removal.
So much of this is just bizarre, what's up with the sloth? And the amazing telescoping cylinder is really great. Enjoy this movie!!
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Do you like TEA ?
Ok.. I drink tea everyday, in very large quantity... the reason why i drink it is because it keeps me awake all night more then coffee and more healthy then coffee. I know that japanese peoples drink alot of tea cause its part of ther culture, especialy green tea. Everytime an anime character drink tea it makes me wanna drink tea even more. Maybe im addicted i donno what to say, i love tea.
Enhancing immune function
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My favorite tea is the Chai Tea (Black Tea), what's your favorite tea ?
|2004-11-07, 21:31
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Join Date: Sep 2004
Location: Canuck
My favorite Tea is Stevia, MUCH MORE SWEET THEN SUGAR OR HONEY ! And do Prevent cavities and sugar level ! Its just a leaf. not like sugar
Sugar is BADDDDDDD
1 drop of stevia = 3 spoon of sugar
stevia is primarily used as a sweetener in Japan.
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|2004-11-07, 21:43
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wow, I am a HUGE tea fan.
Im not too fond of the spice flavor most Indian teas have, but Chai is indeed exceptional and I like it's darker character. Myself, I tend to favor green teas..my favorite being toasted green tea (Hoji-cha) and brown rice tea is up there too (Genmai-cha). Jasmine tea is another one I like a lot, but more for the aroma than the taste because it gets bitter easily. I recently picked up Pekoe tea and I'd recommend that if you like Oolong.
What do you think of red tea? I really want to like it because of all it's health benefits, but honestly...it tastes like cough medicine.
|2004-11-07, 22:05
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Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: Badside
I hate tea. It's aweful.
I don't like flavored water unless it's really strong. Coffee for example. I can't drink something that tastes watered down. Nothing like Fruit 2O or just a twist of lemon in a glass of water. Nasty.
Tea strong enough to not taste watered down tastes pretty bad, too.
|2004-11-07, 22:15
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|2004-11-07, 22:27
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Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: Sidewalk
I love tea. One can say I'm addicted to it. But then again...I like anything that can keep you awake...like coffee.
*coughs* Anyways, I probably prefer jasmine tea over anything else but I'm willing to drink all sorts of flavour, sometimes I put honey in my tea. Yum.
|2004-11-07, 22:28
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Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: 加拿大
Age: 32
I think there could be more options in this poll than just YES or NO (eg. "I like tea plain", "I like tea with sugar & cream"...). Anyways, I used drink tea, so I voted yes. My favorite kind of tea is red tea. More specifically, I like Oolong tea [鳥龍茶], and I used to drink it straight up, nearly everyday in the afternoon. But now I have to wake up at 6:30 AM, so I drink coffee in the morning. I find the one-two punch of caffeine and glucose gives me the energy I need to stay awake in my (very dull) bio 101 class at 8 AM. ZZZ.
|2004-11-07, 22:38
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Join Date: Sep 2004
Location: Canuck
I recomment it to diabetes and dental care. After sleep i brush my teeth and then i take a drop of stevia to keep the sweet taste inside of my mouth
Sugar cause 100% cavities as for Stevia it kills germs and prevent cavities.
No maltose, no dextrose, no fructose, no FOS, or other carbohydrates like maltodextrin, NO Aspartame.
And taste the same as white sugar.
|2004-11-07, 23:02
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Age: 32
What a peculiar thread.. ^^;
Well, yes, I drink tea. I like to have at least a cup or two everyday. Unless I'm completely drained, i always have a cup of tea with me on my drive to school/work instead of coffee.
Granted, I love coffee (and it's various cousins) as well. Seeing as I live in souther california, it's not too hard to come by seeing as there's a starbucks or/and coffee bean on every other corner. It's usually a life saver for me on some of the more sluggish days in my 3 hour classes..
But tea is stil my one true love -- simply the perfect way to start/end a day.
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Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: The dog gossips too much.
Earl Grey > all of you, mmkay? I like plain old tea in a teabag or tea leaves. None of those fancy herbal teas and weird thingies for me. Green tea isn't bad, but it's just funny-tasting hot water. Tea has to be TEA!! And don't forget the cream and sugar!!
|2004-11-07, 23:16
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Join Date: Jun 2003
edit: I'll have to try Chai Tea
|2004-11-07, 23:26
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Join Date: Nov 2003
I guess I will keep my eyes peeled and look for a place where it's available.
By the way, do I have to learn how to make tea with this? My idea of tea is just hot water plus tea leaves. Is there anything I should know before I do this to Stevia?
|2004-11-07, 23:33
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Senior Member
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But alas, not all apps are created equal; some are way, way better than others. Which leads me to today's Ask DLS question: What is your favorite mobile app at the moment?
We don't necessarily mean the latest craze; we'd like to hear about apps that have stood the test of time on your device, apps that are among the first you install on a new smartphones, apps that have earned their place on your home screen and in your heart.
So, what are some of these apps? Bonus points for links to screenshots in the comments!
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BRIDGEPORT -- While commuters celebrated Tuesday's reopening of the Metro-North tracks, James RePass couldn't help but express disappointment at a return to an antiquated status quo.
"I see wooden ties. They're putting them back," said RePass, a Boston resident who since the late 1980s has fought to modernize Northeast train travel.
RePass is chairman of the National Corridors Initiative, Inc., which has offices in Mystic. Tuesday he traveled to Bridgeport to see where the two Metro-North trains crashed during Friday's rush hour, sending dozens to local hospitals and disrupting service for nearly four days.
The investigation into the cause is ongoing, but has focused on a section of track. RePass, in an interview, said the crash should force state and federal officials to expedite upgrades to bring the long-neglected New Haven-New York corridor up to par with the high-speed New Haven-Boston route.
While east of New Haven trains speed along on modern overhead electric catenaries, welded tracks and concrete ties, commuters to New York ride on catenaries installed in 1907, jointed rails and wooden ties.
"You can never say a crash wouldn't have happened," RePass said. "What you can do is reduce the probability. Using 19th century technology for 21st century trains is asinine."
He wasn't the only voice out of Boston lamenting southwestern Connecticut's aged train line.
The Boston Globe, in an editorial Tuesday, declared, "Connecticut's poor stewardship of its rail system slows travel throughout New England every day -- and now has thrown it into chaos."
The Connecticut Department of Transportation, which pays 65 percent of the costs to run the commuter rail line with the Metropolitan Transit Authority footing the balance, has since 1991 been slowly upgrading the catenary lines. That project is expected to finish in 2017.
The DOT blames the delay on having to juggle the work with keeping the trains running.
The Globe described the schedule as "limping along," and noted the catenary project had closed the two other tracks through Bridgeport which were needed following Friday's crash.
Metro-North President Howard Permut, in Bridgeport Tuesday inspecting the repairs, lamented Connecticut's lack of investment in rail prior to the mid-2000s. He said the federal government was no better.
"I happen to agree with Jim (RePass)," he said. "This is the busiest rail line in the United States. It's the lifeblood of Connecticut. It's critical to New York state. And its been grossly under invested in."
But, Permut said, he is not convinced concrete ties are better than wooden.
"For speeds we run, either works," he said.
U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., said Friday's crash should be a "teaching moment" he hopes will result in heightened efforts to modernize rail in Connecticut. Blumenthal noted the state has in recent years invested heavily in new rail cars that likely prevented Friday's crash from being worse.
"The new cars probably saved lives and prevented injuries," Blumenthal said.
Asked if the state should have instead focused on the tracks, RePass said, "They need both."
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After Bedard exits, bullpen struggles in sixth inning
BOSTON -- As any team mired in a tailspin knows, the suspense is not a matter of if misfortune is going to happen, but when. On Tuesday night at Fenway Park, the answer came in the sixth for the slumping Rays when the Red Sox pushed across five runs en route to a 7-4 win.
"I look up at the scoreboard and see too many threes, fours and fives in specific innings, and that's something that we normally don't do," manager Joe Maddon said. "You have to minimize damage."View Full Game Coverage
BOSTON -- As any team mired in a tailspin knows, the suspense is not a matter of if misfortune is going to happen, but when. On Tuesday night at Fenway Park, the answer came in the sixth for the slumping Rays when the Red Sox pushed across five runs en route to a 7-4 win.
"I look up at the scoreboard and see too many threes, fours and fives in specific innings, and that's something that we normally don't do," manager Joe Maddon said. "You have to minimize damage."View Full Game Coverage
The Rays (11-16) are 1-4 on their current 10-game road trip and they have lost six of seven to remain in last place in the American League East.
Like the games in a four-game series against the White Sox that kicked off the road trip in Chicago, cold weather continued to follow the Rays as the temperature stood at 43 degrees when Red Sox starter John Lackey threw the first pitch of the game.
Mirroring most of the games from the trip, the Rays were in the game early before falling through the baseball equivalent of a trap door.
That trap door began to squeak when Brandon Gomes took over for Rays starter Erik Bedard with the score tied at 1 after five innings.
Maddon liked the matchups with Gomes against Mike Napoli and Jonny Gomes, but the right-hander got behind 2-0 to Napoli and then walked him on a 3-2 count before he issued a free pass to Gomes. He then retired Xander Bogaerts on a flyout to left before giving way to Juan Carlos Oviedo.
"I felt good down in the 'pen," Gomes said. "Then going out there, Napoli had a good at-bat. Fell behind, which you can't do to him. Threw some quality pitches late and he laid off a good one 3-2, and then Jonny Gomes, I was just non-competitive. I need to do a better job there attacking him. That was pretty much it."
Making Gomes' outing more disappointing was the fact that he entered Tuesday night's game on the heels of a perfect three innings against the White Sox on Saturday night.
"Last outing doesn't mean anything," said Gomes, who took the loss to move to 1-1 on the season. "It's about consistency and trying to make adjustments you need to as soon as possible. So I'll get right back at it and hopefully tomorrow I'll get that opportunity again and do it right this time."
While Gomes struggled, he did not get any help from Oviedo.
A.J. Pierzynski greeted Oviedo with an RBI single to center off a changeup. Will Middlebrooks followed with an RBI double, Jackie Bradley Jr. doubled home two more and Shane Victorino capped the inning with an RBI double to right to put the Red Sox up 6-1.
"The changeup, Pierzynski's changeup was up," Maddon said. "Bradley's changeup was up, Middlebrooks hit a fastball middle in. You look at the gun with him tonight, he had his best velocity fastball by far. Stuff-wise good. Good changeup. Good, except location was not there."
Boston's big inning came after Bedard made a nice accounting for himself in his third start of the season. The veteran left-hander pitched four scoreless innings before the Red Sox finally got something going in the fifth.
Middlebrooks walked to start the inning before Bradley doubled to center, putting runners at second and third. One out later, Victorino's sacrifice fly to center field scored Middlebrooks to put the Red Sox up 1-0.
That turned out to be the only run Bedard would surrender in five innings, for which he received a no-decision as the Rays answered in the top of the sixth with Evan Longoria's sacrifice fly that tied the score at 1.
If anything good came out of Tuesday night's game, Bedard's performance would be it.
"I'm feeling better," said Bedard, who is just now getting stretched out to 100-plus pitches. "Getting the pitch count up, getting the arm strength back. We'll go from there and hopefully it gets better."
Meanwhile, Lackey worked eight innings, matching his longest outing this season, to pick up his fourth win after allowing two runs on six hits.
"[Lackey] was outstanding once again," Red Sox manager John Farrell said. "He gave us a chance for the offense to get on track. … They answered back with [one run] to tie it in the sixth, and then because we were in a low-run game, we were able to get to their bullpen, put up five in the sixth and once again he goes eight strong innings tonight. A very solid outing once again by John."
The Rays are now a season-low five games under .500, but Maddon remains optimistic.
"It's not our time right now," Maddon said. "It's not our moment, but it will come back to us. I really believe that, so we just keep pushing and it's going to be fine. It's always difficult, but every team goes through this. We're going through a little taste of it right now."
Bill Chastain is a reporter for MLB.com.


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|2008-03-15, 20:49
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Which is how I felt about Aiko most of the time. She is a nice character, but for the most part, she was a red herring — added to provide more "drama" to an already complicated situation. An unnecessary (and overused) plot device.
After the climax we've experienced in Episode 10, this episode felt a bit anti-climatic in comparison, despite that all-important kiss. For now, it seems that the show peaked a bit too early and it's now suffering the consequence — waffling.
That said, it might be a too soon to tell. Taken as a whole, it also seems that they're building up towards the festival finale. It's probably going to be a "happily ever after" scenario, for all the couples involved. With so many feelings still unresolved, I guess they do need the next two episodes to tie all the loose ends. Will have to wait and see.
|2008-03-16, 02:06
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I think there have been a lot more harem than non-harem shows or is it just me somehow ending up watching more of the harem variety? I actually appreciate that this is not a harem show. The whole theme allows for more depth of feeling and the music just enhances everything. This one will stay with me for a long time whereas most of the others have already been mostly forgotten.
|2008-03-16, 02:27
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That was one wierd song Noe was singing:
"There are cockroaches under Shin's feet..."
"There are cockroaches inside Shin's hat..."
"There are cockroaches inside Shin's butt..."
And I keep thinking if she's going to jump off...
|2008-03-16, 07:54
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really this ep cliffhanger is the worst(in a positive way)... since ep 8 with Hiromi running away with Jun...god i can't wait for the next ep to come out... i will even willing to watch the raw for it just to know about the outcome a little sooner.
|2008-03-16, 08:23
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I never liked girls in glasses </3
Noe sleeping in the chicken's pen is more proof of her weirdness. I can understand all her good points and agree with most of them, but shes just so weirddddd xD
Ai x Nobuse! Happy for them.
Girls in basketball being btches :angry:
Jun coming in and scolding them :happy:
Jun having so much influence over girls :jealous:
Oh well, one more week!
|2008-03-16, 08:45
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-Shin likes Hiromi initially.
-Shin "likes" Noe because he likes Hiromi so he made the deal.
-Noe treats Shin real nice.
-Shin likes Hiromi and forgets Noe, since he never liked Noe anyways.
-Noe is super sad.
-Shin realizes Noe's feelings, and realizes all that Noe has done for him, and realizes he has been an idiot.
-Shin likes Noe in the end.
-Jun likes Noe initially.
-Jun "likes" Hiromi because he likes Noe so he made the deal.
-Jun treats Hiromi real nice. But Hiromi treats Jun real cold.
-Hiromi tells Jun that he doesnt like her anyway.
-Jun realizes that he has grown to like Hiromi, even though he didnt before, and does something to change her view of him, and she gives him a chance.
-They like each other in the end.
-Hiromi likes Shin initially.
-Hiromi fights for Shin.
-Hiromi finally loses to Noe.
-Hiromi decides to move on, and maybe give Jun a chance.
I think this is possible.
|2008-03-16, 08:55
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If that happened, that would be a pretty weak ending. I'm not a fan of the "liking a girl because she likes you" scenario. It's been pretty clear that Shin has always been aiming for Hiromi, so seeing him not accomplish his goal would be a disappointment.
|2008-03-16, 09:18
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One thing is for sure, Aiko's feelings for nobuse were the same type of feelings that Shin has for Aiko. Now with their friendship renewed maybe Aiko can see Nobuse's good points and if they can't get pass that limitation, having a cute girl as a friend is not that bad as Aiko said. This time Nobuse won't be hunted by Shin's ghost.
Did anyone notice that during the dance practice, how the camera focus in the table with refreshement. Aiko's absence was highlighted as she moving on.
|2008-03-16, 09:19
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Be careful, or some people would accuse us of being biased against Noe.
I suppose anything is possible and a lot can happen in just two episodes, but I agree that it would take a lot to create a plausible Shin x Noe within this time frame. I leaning more towards a "happily ever after" ending for everyone by the time the final episode comes around.
|2008-03-16, 09:23
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If Hiromi x Shin is true, it practically condemns Noe to be unhappy, with no one (but her brother ) to give her comfort. At least Ai had Nobuse...
|2008-03-16, 10:01
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Noe and Jun besides having each other seem to have at least their mother and a stepfather. Jun told Hiromi in episode 6 that their mother worked a lot so that's why we don't see her although he said that they lost their father and grandmother. In episode 10 Jun said that his father gave him an old bike that he was planning to fix up, so I guess they have a stepfather now. The loss that we see that seems to have affected Noe the most was her grandmother which she took hard and caused her to literally believe that her grandmother took her tears away.
They don't reveal anything about Aiko's family. It does seem strange that Aiko is the only one working at her shop and they never mention her family but they also have not revealed that she has reason to be sad about her family situation.
Anyway, Shin took his picture book when he went looking for Noe. Noe already knows what the picture book is about and who Shin likes. Shin realizes that he has hurt others with his indecisiveness and is trying but struggling in his attempts to "do everything properly". Shin knows now that Noe saw right through him to see his inner feelings because this episode showed him reflecting on Noe's words and finally understanding what Noe meant when she said those things to him before. Noe sings at the end of this episode "The one in Shinichiro's heart is...Yuasa Hiromi" while actually seeming to smile a little. She seems ready to accept it after avoiding that subject the last couple of episodes. The episode ending looks a perfect setup for them to get it out in the open and over with. Noe took Jibeta because she wanted to let Jibeta fly but it is Shin that she will release in order to allow him to fly. As she said in episode 9 to Shin which he reflects upon while searching for Noe, "The place where you fly is'nt here". I just hope it does'nt drag on throughout the next episode and beyond.
The writers have spent so much effort in making the central themes connect with the overall story that it would be unlikely that they would abandon it.
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|2008-03-16, 10:15
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While I'm a bit relieved to hear the words of the title towards Jun, I can't help but feel a bit sad that it wasn't towards Shin. I mean, I'm as big a HiromiXShin shipper as you can get, but I was half hoping Hiromi said that to Shin to get a bigger drama out of this show. While sure it would've been totally out of left field (and not to mention they have very few episodes left to work with), but a bit more drama in the show won't hurt anyone, no? Then again, not like TT needs more drama anyways, as it already has a lot of it.
That said, probably the wtf moment of this show was when Hiromi told Shin to lock the door. I was going, 'Wtf? I understand Shin's parents, but Shin has the keys to her apartment as well?' Late night incursions, anyone?
And meganekko Hiromi = <3. Honami took the moe girl of the year award for me last year, and with that I think Hiromi all but took it this year lol.
Do wonder why she doesn't need glasses when playing b-ball, because as in any sport, near perfect vision is a must to be at the top of your game. Maybe she's far-sighted?
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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - Sophomore Jimmy Bartolotta connected on two high-pressure free-throws in the waning seconds to lift MIT (3-2) from one-back to one-ahead as the Engineers defeated Lesley College, 80-79, Tuesday night. Sophomore Bradley Gampel stole the ball on the ensuing play as time expired to seal Tech's second straight win.
MIT comfortably led most of the first half, leading by as many as 13 with three minutes to go. Despite trailing most of the frame, the Lynx (2-2) never lost their composure and repeatedly climbed within six of seven before the Engineers would push the advantage back to double figures. Freshman Erich Bracht continued his incredible play after a strong showing at Suffolk, leading the Engineers with 17 points and 12 boards in the first half as Tech entered the break with a 47-41 edge.
The Cardinal and Gray maintained a steady command in the first five minutes of the second half in building a 55-45 lead. Lesley would answer behind the strong play of Joseph Chatman and Mark Stevens. A seven-point run closed the gap to three, but after Patrick Sissman converted a three-point play, the Engineers lead swelled back to 10 midway through the period.
After keeping the Lynx at bay all evening, Lesley made a push for the win with just over a minute left in regulation. Trailing 77-71, LU's James Parker hit a free throw after which the ball was stolen on the in-bounds and Francis Cusick drained a three. The quick flurry brought Lesley within two and set the stage for a free-throw battle down the stretch.
Joseph Chatman made four consecutive free throws, including a pair with less than 10 seconds on the clock to give the Lynx a 79-78 lead, their first since the opening minutes of the game. On MIT's final possession, Bartolotta drew a whistle on a strong move to the basket that enabled the second-year standout to once again showcase his game-time heroics.
Bartolotta, who entered Tuesday's tilt as the leading scorer in the NEWMAC, finished with a team-high 26 points in addition to 10 boards and four assists. One of the key reasons for Bartolotta's consistent offensive production has been his ability to get to the free-throw line. On Tuesday, he closed 10-of-12 at the stripe.
Bartolotta's strong effort was slightly overshadowed by one of the most dominating rookie efforts in MIT lore. Bracht didn't let up after a strong first half, finishing the game with 25 points on 11-of-16 shooting and 22 caroms off the glass - tying the highest single-game rebounding total since Bill Eagleson set the Institute record in 1963.
Although the Engineers received most of their offensive spark from Bartolotta and Bracht, MIT continued to display balance and its great team chemistry. All nine players appearing against Lesley scored, while seven of the nine were credited with a steal or a rebound.
Chatman led Lesley with a game-high 32 points, while James Parker and Mark Stevens added 16 and 15, respectively. Paced by its double-double duo, MIT finished the night with a 52-36 rebounding edge.


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(Saint) Apostle (November 30) (1st century) A native of Bethsaida in Galilee, elder brother of Saint Peter, by profession a fisherman. He was a disciple of Saint John the Baptist, and was the first of the Apostles to be called by Christ. There is no certainty as to the sphere of his missionary labours after the Ascension. It is, however, generally agreed that he laboured chiefly in Greece and in the Balkan countries. The Russians, who have taken him for one of their Patron Saints, assert that in his travels he penetrated at least as far as Poland. Tradition has it that he was crucified (on a cross of the shape of the letter X) at Patras in Achaia (Greece) (A.D. 60) during the reign of Nero. His relics were enshrined at Constantinople, whence Saint Gregory the Great (A.D. 590) obtained an arm for his monastery of Saint Andrew in Rome. Thither, later, the Apostle's head was also carried, and is venerated in Saint Peter's. The emblem of Saint Andrew usual in art is his cross (saltire).


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Ride the Love Train With New 'Singles-Only' Subway Car
Tired of looking for love at the local singles bar or Match.com? Soon you may have a new option—the subway.
The company that operates the subway system in the Czech capital of Prague is considering offering singles-only subway cars that would give single commuters the chance to mingle while they make their way around the city.
A company spokesperson said they would start surveying passengers about the idea of singles-only cars and, if it proves popular, they could be rolling down the tracks as soon as the end of the year. "We want to emphasize that public transport is not only a means of travel," he said, "but that you can do things there that you cannot do in your car."
Prague is home to approximately 1.2 million people and attracts more than 5 million foreign visitors annually, making the subway system one of Europe's most frequently used with more than 580 million passengers annually. It features 57 stations and runs 20 hours per day. Forty percent of Prague residents use it as their primary means of transportation, but the city is hoping to increase that figure by offering new incentives to lure people out of their cars.
So if you're ever in Prague, the city subway system could help you find the love of your life. But you're on your own for learning how to translate your cheesy pickup lines into Czech.


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text: On September 15, 1944, U.S. Marines fighting in World War II (1939-45) landed on Peleliu, one of the Palau Islands of the western Pacific. Over the next several weeks, ferocious Japanese resistance inflicted heavy casualties on U.S. troops before the Americans were finally able to secure the island. Though the controversial attack on Peleliu resulted in a higher death toll than any other amphibious assault in U.S. military history, Allied commanders and troops learned important lessons that would benefit them during the invasion of the Philippines and the Japanese home islands.


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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - After the first day of the 2013 New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference (NEWMAC) Swimming and Diving Championships that took place on Friday night, the MIT men's team won four of five swimming events and earned 323 points, placing them in first place going into tomorrow. Coast Guard is in second place with 158 points.
In the consolation heat of the 200-yard freestyle relay, the MIT B relay came in first with a time of 1:22.39, finishing well under the NCAA B cut of 1:23.51. The relay, that consisted of sophomore Brendon Chiu (Monterey Park, Calif.), senior Tony Chen (Clemons, N.C.), freshman Langston Fitts (Buffalo Grove, Ill.) and senior Brendan Deveney (Newtown, Conn.) finished in seventh place overall.
The Engineers took first through third place in the 500-yard freestyle, with junior Remy Mock (Victoria, British Columbia) winning with a time of 4:33.66, classmate Max Pruner (Sioux Falls, S.D.) coming in second with a 4:36.03 and freshman Michael Lu (Scarsdale, N.Y.) touching third in 4:38.35. In the 200-yard individual medley, Deveney defended his title from the previous year with his time of 1:49.08, defeating the NEWMAC record and MIT school record that was set in the preliminary session this morning by freshman Alex Lednev (Glenmont, N.Y.). Deveney also finished well under the NCAA A cut of 1:50.61. Lednev touched second with a time of 1:51.39.
Senior Wyatt Ubellacker (Georgetown, Ky.) also defended his title from 2012 when he swam a 20.01 in the 50-yard freestyle, crushing the NEWMAC record of 20.27 that he had set this morning and his own MIT record of 20.09. Chiu touched in third with a time of 20.69, junior Craig Cheney (Sherwood, Ore.) came fourth in 20.91 and sophomore Austin Fathman (Hamilton, Mich.) was fifth with a time of 20.93, all three of them earning B cuts. Chen came in sixth and Fitts was seventh with times of 21.09 and 21.21 respectively.
In the final event of the evening, the 400-yard medley relay, the B relay touched first in the consolation heat with a time of 3:26.81. The A relay also picked up a win in the championship final, as well as a new NEWMAC meet and NEWMAC open record, with their time of 3:19.79.
At the end of the meet, freshman Sean Corcoran (Huntersville, N.C.) time trialed the 100-yard butterfly, touching in 49.17, earning the NCAA A cut.
Day two will commence tomorrow at 10:00 a.m. with the preliminary heats of the women's 200-yard medley relay. That will be followed by the 400-yard individual medley, 100-yard butterfly, 200-yard freestyle, 100-yard breaststroke and the 100-yard backstroke. The consolation and championship finals will be swam tomorrow night, starting at 6:00 p.m.
Men's Scores Day One
2. Coast Guard 158
3. Springfield 153
4. Babson 118
6. Wheaton 88
7. Clark 62


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With different modes of transportation, cardinals from around the world arrived for a meeting with Pope Benedict on Friday, the day before a consistory to create 23 new cardinals.
A pool of journalists watched as cardinals entered the Synod Hall building one by one. Some came by foot, some were chauffeured and one — 75-year-old Dutch Cardinal Adrianus Simonis — rode a bicycle to the meeting hall.
Cardinal-designate John P. Foley stepped out of his car and began chatting with reporters on the other side of the press pen. Within seconds he looked up, a bit surprised, to see a cluster of fuzzy boom mikes overhead. "I guess my every word is being recorded," he remarked.
The Philadelphia native had been feeling under the weather all week, but he wasn't about to miss this meeting. Like the others being made a cardinal Saturday, he wore his bishop's purple today.
"The red goes on tomorrow," he said.
Near the building's entrance, a vehicle dropped off Cardinal Bernard Law, the former archbishop of Boston, who went directly inside. Cardinal Angelo Scola of Venice, energetic as always, jumped out of his car before it even stopped moving and began conferring with fellow Italians in the parking lot.
Those who walked were sometimes intercepted. Down near St. Peter's Square, Portuguese Cardinal Jose Saraiva Martins, head of the Vatican's saintmaking office, was sidelined by a stamp collector who asked him to autograph a recent commemorative series.
Inside the atrium of the hall, each cardinal was handed a red folder, which presumably contained a program and the text of the day's main address on ecumenism by Cardinal Walter Kasper.
Old friends and colleagues greeted each other: Cardinal William J. Levada, the Vatican's doctrinal chief and the former archbishop of San Francisco, conversed with Cardinal Roger Mahony of Los Angeles.
Polish Cardinal Stanislaw Dziwisz of Krakow was warmly welcomed by everyone in his path. I asked Cardinal Dziwisz how it felt to come back to the Vatican, where he had spent more than 26 years as secretary to Pope John Paul II. He paused a moment and said, "So many memories," and then moved into the Synod Hall.
We counted 143 cardinals in the hall at the opening bell. Pope Benedict entered the room to applause and bowed his head for morning prayer. When it was over, Cardinal Angelo Sodano, the dean of the College of Cardinals, read a greeting to the pontiff and our reporting pool was ushered out. The business part of this assembly was closed-door.
Before leaving I took a last glance at the room. The pope sat in the center of the dais, at a place that was furnished with a microphone, three monitors, a telephone, a water bottle and his own red folder.
Up against one wall, the translators were already working in their booths.
To the pope's left, the cardinals-to-be were seated in a group. I noticed that Cardinal-designate Foley was in the front row.


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Assemblyman John Ceretto, R-I-C-Lewiston, sent a letter Friday to Gov. Andrew Cuomo asking him to use the lion's share of the $50 million "Open for Business" fund to promote tourism and businesses in Niagara and Erie counties. Ceretto is also asking for $20 million from the venture capital fund to be put toward the redesign of the Robert Moses Parkway in order to open up the waterfront for commercial development. This money is a part of a $70 million economic development sweep in the state budget from the New York Power Authority.
"Albany has long used NYPA as an ATM for funding projects across the state. Since 2002, $1.4 billion has been swept from NYPA and taken away from the Western New York economy," Ceretto said. "Some of this money needs to be invested back into Western New York. An investment in Niagara and Erie counties from the 'Open for Business' fund would help the families and communities of our region."
Ceretto has long been calling for the redesign of the Robert Moses Parkway in order to open up the commercial development of the waterfront. He has given his support to the "Alternative 3" redesign plan and is now asking for $20 million from the venture capital fund created by the NYPA sweep to be put toward a project that has great potential for Niagara Falls.
"Securing funding to redesign the Robert Moses Parkway is essential to developing the waterfront and unlocking the economic potential of Niagara Falls. The waterfront, with a proper investment, could become a great tourist attraction that generates jobs for our region," Ceretto said. "I will continue to fight to bring jobs and economic prosperity for all Western New York families."


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So, my boyfriend says that when I decide that I like something I don't like it I love it. It's true. I love Yarn Bombing. My second installment in my experiment was put up today. So far I have only received positive reactions but, we'll see if they're still up tomorrow. I intend to continue tagging my campus until I receive a real reaction, maybe that will never happen. I think I'll be doing surveys soon to see how aware students are of Yarn Bombing now and after I start bombing more often. I hope that my work will have a warm welcome and that people will enjoy the color I'm putting on campus. If I get in trouble I'll know to stop. In the mean time I think that this Yarn Bombing is catching on, some people are starting to get interested.


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Daniel Slater directs Mozart at Garsington
Affable, relaxed and knowledgeable, Daniel Slater may seem easy-going but his mind races when he waxes lirico about opera. Those synapses crackle with creative enthusiasm – which is just as well, given his prodigious work rate. It's mere weeks till he unveils his new production of André Messager's rarely-heard Fortunio at Grange Park Opera, yet before that there's the little matter of Mozart's Die Entführung aus dem Serail to be despatched. It's a new production that will open this year's Garsington Opera Festival on 15 June. Daniel Slater spoke to Whatsonstage during rehearsals.
"Die Entführung is not often done. It's a piece that needs help, I think it's fair to say, because structurally it's a bit of a mess. The libretto isn't brilliant either in its composition or its tone: the clunky old dialogue means the opera lurches from seria to buffa with no middle ground, and if you're not careful it becomes a lame show about Turks and Muslims. I had to remould it.
"William Lacey, our conductor, came to see my production of Don Giovanni at Garsington Opera last summer, and we spent a day working on how to tell the story of Die Entführung. By the time I went to Francis O'Connor, our designer, I had a pretty clear idea of what we'd be doing.
"Musically we've cut Belmonte's third aria – it interrupts the narrative at a bad point – and we've moved Blonde's second aria to a bit later in Act Two so it's now a response to her seeing Osmin tied up. We've added a Mozart Contredanse to start part two and we've moved Konstanze's third aria into Act Three. The opera's balance is improved as we've taken ten minutes out of the long first half and put it in an otherwise short second half.
"As it's a Singspiel we had to decide whether or not to do the dialogue in the original language. I toyed with the idea of mixing German and English but we've ended up with something completely different – a kind of melting-pot world. Our characters aren't necessarily German: Pedrillo is English, for example, while Belmonte is American, Blonde is Swedish and Selim is Russian, with only Konstanze remaining Spanish as in the original. So while none of them have German as their first language they use it as a common channel of communication. That means we're also having dialogue in Swedish, Spanish, Italian and English.
"In our version of Die Entführung, Selim is a Russian oligarch who owns a Serie A football team and has a habit of sacking his managers. They're in the Champions League final that night; Pedrillo is a sports journalist and the current manager is on the way out. Belmonte is presented to Selim not as an architect but as an Italian Serie A football coach. We've tried to undercut his heroic status so he's certainly not conventionally brave; indeed he spends most of the opera being terrified. So he pretends to be the new manager, Roberto Belmonte from Italy, and he has to make up some Italian on the spot.
"I certainly hope it's funny and that people will see that we haven't made the changes gratuitously. I spent the best part of a month last autumn drafting these scenes, although before I got down to doing that I had strong sense of where I wanted to story to go and how the characters should be. For instance, I liked the idea of Blonde being someone who doesn't quite get the joke."
Most of Daniel Slater's work is done in the major foreign opera houses as, mystifyingly, his original and arresting visual style has not yet attracted the attention of either the Royal Opera or ENO – "although I've worked for all the regional UK companies over the years. I'm always happy to work on my own doorstep – who wouldn't be? – and next year I'll be back at Garsington for The Cunning Little Vixen while Opera North will be reviving a production of The Bartered Bride I first did for them sixteen years ago.
"This Autumn I'm directing a semi-staged production of Peter Grimes at the Royal Festival Hall with Vladimir Jurowski and the London Philharmonic Orchestra (28 September, with Stuart Skelton as Grimes) and for that the whole cast will be 'off the book'. Sometimes when you have just the singers and no set it can be the most visceral experience. There's nothing else to worry about – it's in your face and you're free to invest it with all your own imagination."
But first, Die Entführung aus dem Serail. "I had to get Garsington on board with my idea from the outset . I'm sure it helped that my take on Don Giovanni was well received last year, and anyway they are enlightened enough to accept that you sometimes have to try new things. That's a relief, because without their support we'd be scuppered."
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Inevitable Follow-Up On the Obesity MythComments
Murc Marc makes an argument that was inevitable in any thread about the obesity myth:
And then he claims (in other contexts) that it's impossible to lose weight – ignoring things like the fact that we used to weigh a lot less than we did, or the fact that people in different countries with different diets have very different mean weights and distributions of weight.
As I noted, this is just a non-sequitur; nobody's arguing that individual weight loss is literally impossible, but it is in fact highly unlikely. The cultural conditions that led to people weighing less on average can't easily be replicated. Nor, to put it mildly, is it obvious that people were healthier when they were thinner on average.
Murc Marc then responds:
But the difference is very relevant in deciding, say, whether or not we should serve soda pop in schools. Or whether we should promote exercise, or whether we should subsidize vegetables and tax soda.
Not only is it not in fact relevant to these decisions, focusing on weight is transparently counterproductive. Increased exercise and more balanced diets will not, in most cases, make fat people thin. The way
Murc Marc posits the question strongly implies that because of this, we should in fact forget trying to make it easier for people to exercise and eat balanced diets, because in the vast majority of cases it won't "work." But this is completely wrong, because in fact exercise and eating balanced diets are inherently good things, regardless of whether they transform the look of one's body or not. (For that matter, having a sedentary lifestyle that involves a lot of bad food isn't good for you even if your metabolism allows you to remain thin.) Framing the question this way, with weight loss rather than health being the assumed goal, does helpfully illustrate Paul's point that the obesity myth is about class-related aesthetic preferences in search of a scientific rationalization. Believing that regular exercise is worth doing only if it leads to substantial permanent weight loss doesn't make any sense if you care about health, but it certainly makes sense if you don't particularly care about marginal differences in health outcomes for complete strangers but have a strong conviction that fat people are icky. (My favorite recent example of this would have to remain Michael Kinsley and Eugene Robinson arguing that Chris Christie is unqualified to be president, while Paul Ryan apparently is.)
…Atrios puts the point about the perverse incentives here perfectly: "People should eat well and get regular exercise, but actually losing weight and keeping it off is very difficult. If people are focused on that, they're likely to get discouraged and give up on the exercise and healthy eating."


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Harlem Renaissance
|• Introduction
|• Visual Art
|• A Cultural Awakening
|• Literature
|• Leadership
Nella Larsen
Nella Larsen, a woman of mixed-race background who had trained as both a librarian and a nurse before turning to writing, was one of the most sophisticated novelists of the Harlem Renaissance. Her marriage to a prominent black physicist provided her entry into the Harlem literary circles that she was eager to join.
Her ironic turn of mind is evident in her first novel, Quicksand, an autobiographical work in which she portrays the foibles of people in the many communities in which she had lived: students in an all-black college, bigoted white relatives, Harlem literary types, overly religious poor black southerners, etc.
In Passing, Larsen explores life on either side of the color line by creating two light-skinned female characters—one who passes for white and one who fights for black equality—each bound up psychologically with the other's life. Larsen expressed a desire to show the "mixedness of things" in her work, and was influenced by thinkers and writers as varied as Sigmund Freud, William James, James Joyce, and Sinclair Lewis. Larsen won a Guggenheim award to research her third novel but was devastated by a false accusation of plagiarism and stopped writing by the end of the 1930s.
Langston Hughes
Langston Hughes was pre-eminent among the poets of Harlem. Having come from a nationally prominent family with roots in abolitionism and traveled widely by the age of twenty-three, Hughes confidently took up Du Bois's call to create an uplifting, race-conscious literature. In his poems Hughes both affirmed the beauty and decried the injustice in black people's struggle to survive, often infusing his optimism with a detached bitterness. In The Weary Blues, a poetry collection published in 1926, Hughes uses the rhythms and improvisational flourishes of blues and jazz in poems that capture glimpses of life in Harlem.
Read more about Langston Hughes and the Harlem Hellfighters in Big Debates - After the War.
Countee Cullen
Countee Cullen was a more classically-inclined poet whose powerful lyricism was influenced by Keats, Tennyson, and Edna St. Vincent Millay. Though he wrote poems that addressed racial prejudice and injustice, he saw himself as a poet who wrote about his experience-one that happened to be black. Known for the precision of his form and for his ability to speak volumes in a few words, Cullen's poems in Color convey feelings ranging from rage to admiration to wonder and awe.


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I was standing on a mound of debris more than a dozen stories high. Behind me was half a mountain, its face brown because a landslide slivered off the other half. In front of me was the ruined town of Beichuan, China, where not a single building remained standing. And under my feet was a mixture of dirt from the landslide, stones from the buildings, and dead bodies.
It had been several days after the earthquake that I arrived in Beichuan, but the scene was like nothing that I've seen before. In Aceh, Indonesia, and Sri Lanka, I saw absolute destruction after the tsunami. And there were plenty of dead bodies littering the ground of Iraq during the invasion. What made this story different was the access we had, not only to the ravaged areas like Beichuan, but to the agony of the survivors.
I used "The Agony of Surviving" as the title of my video from Beichuan that day. It seemed like an apt description of the women that I ran into on top of the mound of debris. It was a frightening scene. She was digging with her bare hands, trying to find the remains of her daughter. Her screams echoed across the flattened town. At the time, I was too preoccupied with making sure my camera was functioning properly to fully grasp what was unfolding in front of me. Only later, translating the footage and watching it over and over, trying to transcribe quotes like "Mommy is here to pick you up," did the pain fully hit me.
I was surprised at how articulate the Sichuanese were in describing their pain. Many of the victims were poor, some illiterate, but nearly everyone I spoke with was able to express himself or herself well. Believe it or not, this is one of the most difficult parts of being a videojournalist. Often people just don't have anything to say. I remember riding in a rickety bus with a group of Afghans who were returning home to their village after a 20-year exile in Pakistan. When we arrived, I asked… What else?.. "How do you feel." No matter how many different ways I phrased it, the answer was always, "We are fine."
Li Shan Fu's expressions were almost poetic. He lost his only daughter when her school collapsed in the town of Juyuan. Li's wife saw their daughter pulled from the rubble, but since then theye weren't able to locate her. Li spoke about being so sad that his legs barely functioned during his 10 day-long search for his daughter. He allowed us to be there when he reviewed pictures of dead children. His expressions told us everything about what he was going through. His legs no longer supported him.
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That's precisely what the $108 billion President Obama is demanding for the International Monetary Fund should be seen as: leveraged seed money aimed at growing the IMF into its new envisioned role as the World Federal Reserve. That objective was the primary agenda item at the much-ballyhooed G20 Summit in London at the beginning of April. A major part of that objective was obtaining pledges for $500 billion in new funding, supposedly targeted for helping developing countries hard hit by the economic crisis. One hundred billion of the requested $108 billion is our pledged "obligation" to meet that $500 billion target set by the compassionate high rollers at the G20 affair. The other $8 billion is an increase in our normal IMF "subscription quota."
You see, the Wall Street financial elites and their global brethren, together with their kept politicians, intend to do on a global scale with their new "supersized" IMF what the Fed and the U.S. Treasury Department are already doing to the American economy: i.e., completely looting and socializing it. The IMF as Global Fed, however, would operate with virtual impunity, facing no constitutional constraints and lacking even the feeble "oversight" now exercised (theoretically) by Congress over the Fed and Treasury.
President Obama has slipped the IMF funding into the supplemental budget request submitted to Congress in April for the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. The $108 billion for the IMF dwarfs the $83.4 billion in military supplemental spending for the two wars, the ostensible main purpose of the bill. The administration hopes to pass the IMF funding in the war supplemental bill to avoid the scrutiny and debate about IMF policies, its supposed "reforms," and its proposed new powers.
On May 14, the Bretton Woods Committee, a high-powered private group of former government officials and Wall Street-Goldman Sachs operatives, sent a letter to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid urging "prompt enactment" of President Obama's IMF funding request. The letter was signed by 14 former officials, including five former Treasury secretaries and four former secretaries of state, as well as a former chairman of the Federal Reserve. The bipartisan lineup of heavyweight signatories included Henry Kissinger, Condoleezza Rice, Henry Paulson, Robert Rubin, James A. Baker, Nicholas F. Brady, Colin Powell, Paul A. Volcker, Paul H. O'Neil, Robert McFarlane, Brent Scowcroft, Anthony Lake, Frank Carlucci, and Lee Hamilton.
On May 18, the Obama Treasury Department publicly released the Bretton Woods Committee letter to bolster support for the funding in Congress. In a press release accompanying the letter, the Treasury propagandists assert that the new IMF funding is in our country's "national interest" and that the IMF is the "first line of defense" in the global financial crisis.
"A well-equipped IMF is in the national interest," the press release insists. "The recovery of the global economy is critical to restoring US exports and jobs." Will Congress buy that argument? They've already poured more than a trillion dollars into the U.S. economy and failed businesses — and we're still waiting for the promised stimulus. According to the IMF boosters, we need to do something commensurate on the global level, and the IMF is the chosen institution for the job. All told, the G20 summiteers pledged $1.1 trillion to the IMF and its sister institution, the World Bank, and other multilateral development banks (MDBs).
On April 25, following the IMF's annual spring meeting in Washington, D.C., IMF Managing Director Dominique Strauss-Kahn announced the IMF would begin selling bonds as a way to raise additional funds, ostensibly to lend to struggling nations. Although issuing bonds has been discussed previously, the IMF has never before taken such a step. According to Strauss-Kahn, Communist China and other nations have expressed the desire to purchase IMF bonds. This is a major move in the direction proposed by China and Russia (and American and European globalists) to replace the dollar with a new global currency, with the IMF's Special Drawing Rights, or SDRs, being the apparent candidate for that role. The London G20 started that ball rolling.
"A single clause in Point 19 of the communiqué issued by the G20 leaders amounts to revolution in the global financial order," noted Ambrose Evans-Pritchard in Britain's Telegraph. "In effect, the G20 leaders have activated the IMF's power to create money and begin global 'quantitative easing.' In doing so, they are putting a de facto world currency into play. It is outside the control of any sovereign body."
President Obama's non-stop spending, which will hasten the implosion of the dollar, and his funding proposal for the IMF's new powers are undoubtedly aimed at consolidating this profound revolution.